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Emacs Lisp comes with a large framework for writing editor extensions/applications.
After years of dithering companies are embracing automation
From a short term business point of view sure.

For a customer heavily invested in this new tech it's not great. Those will complain all over. It will hurt customer confidence in the long term. Meaning your new products have even less chance at mass adoption even if they're really good. Customers appreciate when you stand behind your products.

Consider companies like Google that are well known for shutting down services. And they're usually free, yet still people are now more hesitant to put their stuff in it.
Exclusivity and elitism get a bad rap. The most important ingredient for a high-quality community is high-quality people, and to keep out the lower-quality people you need to have barriers to entry. I suspect that most Gemini users are smart enough to realise that, whether they'd admit it or not.
> The latency is too high for truly real-time communication

If you want real-time communication you really ought to be using VOIP.

> There is no cryptographic verification of the sender's identity (this problem is also shared with telephony). This has lead to really harsh anti-spam measures that make it hard to self-host. Sender verification + client-side sender whitelists would solve spam for good. It also means grouping by sender gives a very false sense of security regarding identity continuity between messages

I agree that the crypto situation in email needs addressed. I don't think that the answer to this problem is "throw it away and start competing standard #1982374" though.

> There is no good support for groups or threads.

Mailing lists are groups. Threading actually works quite well with subject-line threading. Mailing lists have been doing this successfully for decades.

>Clients do not group by sender, group or thread,

Some do. Gmail does, for example.

>Partly for historical reasons (it's just mail on a computer!) and partly for technical reasons (there is no sender, etc.) email is presented as huge letter-like affairs, leading to a felt need for all sorts of formalisms for every single message even if the messages are two minutes apart. Also email signatures (with logos?!) being attached to every message are just so wasteful both in terms of storage and in terms of screen space

The formalisms thing isn't actually true, and all of these are social problems, not technical ones.

It's okay to just admit you don't like email, even if it's for purely subjective reasons.
Testing Hardware Using Rust
I’ve played it on PC. I enjoyed the gameplay, main and bigger side missions a lot.
But I had so many minor, mostly visual, glitches, it really threw me off. Floating everything’s (cigarettes for Johnny, traffic lights, guns), my character T-posing while driving, other characters T-posing, my car randomly exploding when I call it, my motorbike getting stuck in another vehicle when calling it, and so on. In addition a few gamebreaking bugs requiring me to load an earlier save, one even required me to load a save before a specific event. So my attempts to just grab the latest save and try that was not working
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This is indeed frustrating, but there might be a technical explanation behind it: AFAIK message ids on Microsoft Teams are generated by the clients, and one cannot easily jump to a message ID.

Their Teams mobile app does something more stupid, but that kinda works: when you reply to a message, the message is copy-pasted as a quote and you are basically sending back the original message to the user.

I really don't agree with most of their engineering choices and I feel they're focusing on the wrong things (bringing new features instead of trying to get it to be a good software): but this could totally be a decision dictated by business. Their clients are super heavy on CPU and memory and I can barely use the web version.

On a side note, I'm trying to fix part of this mess myself by writing a Microsoft Teams library (and later a / multiple clients) so that I can finally use without complaining about it: https://github.com/fossteams/teams-api
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A Salt lamp really sets the mood for me
Anecdotal but that's exactly what ThoughtWorks did for a company I work for, and then we entered protracted legal battles around Intellectual Property for the work/crap they had produced.
Jung, amongst others, believed that myths are archetypal constructs that underpin the architecture of the mind, and are shared by all, which explains much about the uncanny cultural similarities across time and space.
Big question. Why would I want to pay capital gains taxes on my coffee?
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So are all other viruses. This one happens to be especially interesting as, well, it's screwing us all currently. This was a great read!
If you are in Europe or any other place than the US, you are basically powerless to American big tech.

Encouraging competition and using software from smaller companies, Chinese or not, is our only chance to level this.
Others strive to have APIs that are either compatible across DEs, or there is a way for a DE-agnostic app to feautre-detect and use it when it's available. GNOME is the only project that simply doesn't care about DE-agnostic apps, and ends up making their life more difficult than anybody else. The app indicator issue is brought up time and again, because the comments on it from the GNOME developers make their attitude crystal clear. That this particular issue has been resolved since then is not important - there have been more since, and there will inevitably be more in the future, since, again - they do not care.

If you sincerely believe that it's okay to have a single DE be a self-contained app platform with no interop, that's up to you - but do understand that this is a very debatable premise, and people who don't agree with it have very good reasons to be annoyed with GNOME.
Right, but that would not explain why they are also similar to the actual facts. As an example, from the Stanford article:

"... debate raged in the nineteenth century over Native American legends that seemed to contain ancestral memories of mastodons hunted until their extinction in the Ice Age 10,000 years ago. The possibility was supported by twentieth-century archaeological discoveries of mammoth kill sites that matched local tribal lore about elephant-like monsters."
It's like wanting to convert a Tesla into a hybrid. Replacing npm with url imports was one of the main motivations to create deno. I don't miss npm at all. I am happy that I don't have to deal with it anymore. But if you want npm you can just continue using node.
I suspect the name is a play on jingoism
These people really didnt think about how people are going to pronounce their pigment? YInMn - what a monster of a name. In the olden days at least people gave colors great names that were easy to prounounce and provided them personality. Ultramarine, prussian blue.. Even vantablack has a nice rhythm.

It's nice as techinical name, I guess, but I'd hope they have some better brand name they are going by.
Got your back:

python 2: print

python 3: print()
I remember using Akka in the domain of IoT. A persistent actor represented a sensor: state and history of readings. There was a great feature in Akka Persistence: if an actor went idle for a while - no new sensor data, it would be offloaded from memory to the storage (Cassandra). As soon as the sensor started to send new signals again or the sensor state was queried by a user the actor got loaded back to memory.
And the makers of JingOS, Jingling, are a China-based company working on the JingPad, an ARM tablet designed to run Linux OOTB. I'm sure we'll see a lot of variants of that quite soon after their release in July, and many people having fun hacking them.
How is he wrong about GIT?

What more general systems of computation are there than Turing? Are any in use? Are they really more general?

The claims of the generality of Actors seem to rely on continuous time and non-determinism. Actors, determinism, non-determinism, concurrency and the completeness axiom are models which we can use to express computation and our surroundings, and nothing more.

One man says lambda, another says actor. Given our models of physics; given Planck and Heisenberg, are they really different? If so, how? Measure theory rests on the completeness axiom, but it is just a very useful axiom.

Am I missing something?
Absolutely agree. From my experience with other distros, navigation is flaky, but usable with some modifications.

Software keyboard is always just terrible to use, making anything other than scrolling social media or reading articles/books a painful experience.
Paying Google is another offline youtube solution.

It's odd, though, I watch much more youtube than Netflix at the moment, but since all the stuff on youtube is available anyway, the monthly subscription still feels too expensive, despite being cheaper than Netflix. I wish they would unbundle their music offering, which I have no interest in, but presumably that's precisely why they won't unbundle.
Same here. I like the touch bar but unless they find a way to make it feasible on a Bluetooth magic keyboard, I’d rather have no touch bar for consistency. If they are going to kill it they should have killed it with the first M1 MacBooks.

I’m also all in on USB-c (even my shaver uses it for charging) and don’t miss MagSafe at all. Charging from either side is surprisingly handy. One charger for everything is a traveling game changer. $50 worth of charger and dongles has a permanent spot in my luggage.

Hopefully MagSafe in this case means wireless iPhone charging. I just don’t need MagSafe power in. I especially don’t need it now that the battery life is so long. I charge at my desk and if I use my MacBook somewhere else I don’t even take a charger with me.

That being said I wouldn’t mind one USB-a and one HDMI port. Since the rumour is for a less rounded design I guess the edge thickness may be enough to easily support those.
No, non-Apple users are complaining, Apple users generally like the experience.
It is not? I had at least 2 years of organic chemistry at high school (Czechia).
The company making JingOS is based in China. Not sure Apple has much legal leverage there.
I'd say it's also fair for me to be able to control the $2000 slab of metal and glass on my desk.
Well it comes from a chineese company, Im sure they're good as long as apple still has critical assets in china.
What issues were npm giving you?
The Kingdom of Princesses
Assuming I'm reading this right, that's

40x i3.metal
70x db.r5.24xlarge
300x m5.2xlarge

Or, assuming my napkin math is right, $900k/mo at list prices, not counting bandwidth costs, things like S3 and EBS.

No one at this scale pays list prices, but still, ouch.
> someone projected her beliefs

You may be right about some projection going on, but your comment ignores the critical fact that she is one of presumably relatively few humans with experience as a composer with significant hearing loss. So her “projection” isn’t based on some random beliefs, but grounded in a relatively rare shared experience with the subject of her study.

In addition, historians and anthropologists routinely project to varying degrees in trying to interpret the “why” of history in addition to the “what”. And the fact that there’s a lot of speculation going on, is my default expectation as reader. No need to write it into every article on historical interpretation.

So I find her observations an interesting avenue of interpreting some aspects of Beethoven’s musical evolution.
Actor model may be a handy tool to build neural networks. I have not tried it yet in Akka or Erlang, but there is a whole book about it: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781461444626
I have no printer at home. Does anyone know how to backup all those QRcodes on paper ?
Open-Source Deep Dive: Hound
Started a new blog series - Open-source Deep Dive - where I dissect an open-source project and try to understand the
project and the underlying technologies that power it!

The project to kick start this series is Hound - an Elixir library for browser automation and integration testing!

For this project, I explored how browser automation works and looked at how Hound takes fundamental principles of Elixir
to build a robust library for writing integration tests with browser automation.
Location: South Korea, Seoul
Remote: Sure!
Willing to relocate: Only to the US!
Technologies: Python, Java
Resume/CV: https://kr.linkedin.com/in/robinrheem
Email: robinrheem@gmail.com
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I’ve been doing software engineering for about 8 years. I love learning anything that’s related to software engineering. I’m learning Haskell and Rust at the moment to expand the way I program and think. I’ve been working with dating services, webtoon services, chat apps, content search engines, and high frequency trading. Most of my skills are used for backend and DevOps related work.
Hope to find a place where the engineers are enthusiastic about engineering and love to talk with users so they can design and implement the software at the same time.
Yeah, my point is that if you start messing with free of speech, I think other EU countries will have a lot less patience.

So far, they've mostly been messing around with environmental rulings, etc. not so much fundamental freedoms.
I disagree. UI/UX designers often make utopic designs that would work great for the user, the engineers don't have the resources (time) or the will to execute it well and halfway through execution of the already dressed down version management pivots the team to their latest whim or fucks it up by adding a bunch of badly designed requirements meant to hack metrics.

We live in a world of Frankenstein UIs and it's not the designer's fault what ends up on your screen.

If you want to make a historical comparison, I'd argue that it's more likely to be in the way of working of today vs back then when UI design would get locked in much more _or_ get truly designed along the way with the product needs.
That was Jobs's error, though, not the parent's. And the fact that Jobs said it is the relevant point.
Putting aside that your post kinda reads as if it were written ten years ago (most bootcamps do not teach Rails and it's vanishingly unlikely it'll reach the position it was ten years ago: cf JavaScript), I take some issue with

> beginners can use it without understanding too deeply...So there’s just going to be too many folks who will choose rails over more suitable languages.

It's not about "beginners" or "more suitable languages". You need an ability to build highly specialised software and you need general frameworks that will not be optimised for {specialised thing} but can do most of the things that you need for a certain task without having to hand write everything. Without the latter, all that happens is constant yak shaving and reinventions of the wheel. Rails (for example) is highly suitable for many things, getting clever points for not using it is great, but it's not very practical.
For some large n, integers in the algorithm may be so large that operations on them cease to be constant time.
Assuming we have a miner intelligent enough to detect all arbitrage transactions. What prevents the miner from paying $2000 for the transaction? I'm asking because that would mean "MEV" would always be 100% of the arbitrage opportunity.
Can someone explain Internet’s sudden interest in sea shanties that seems to have exploded in 2020?
Show HN: I built a supportive community for early-stage founders from Europe
A group of people absolutely against hiding their face behind a mask, bragging about storming a government building on a social network that had state ID verification and kept all image metadata. Can't make this stuff up.
Hello HN,

This is a community that actually started as a hobby back in 2018. I was working on a blockchain startup, and found it difficult to meet like-minded people. To solve this, I started hosting offline meetups for startup founders.

Since last year, we moved everything online and I’ve made it my goal to connect as many entrepreneurs as possible. The reason: I find that there’s so much value in accountability and sharing experiences. To this end, I’ve created a member database (WordPress + some custom development), memberships (through Stripe), and Slack community.

We currently provide a variety of tools/services such as mentors, startup deals, weekly Q&As with experts, feedback sessions, mastermind groups, and more. The community consists of about 45 people from the Netherlands, UK, Romania, Czech Republic, etc.

Let me know what you think - I appreciate any questions or feedback!
Hehehe, on average maybe? That said you probably shouldn't live your life by statistics.

Also note: I did advice against going all Ferengi :)
The 'What' and 'Why' of Functional Programming Languages, a Lecture (2019)
I stand by my statements. Is this supposed to be his Github: https://github.com/ElonMusk Is this a joke?

I don't see why anyone should respect his opinions as a software engineer.
:( I'm upset already.
I had to do a bit a of research, but I found an hdmi dongle and charger that work with both my switch and my MacBook and it’s been really nice for travelling.
IIRC it's been trending on TikTok for a couple of weeks
In doom a “source port” means someone has taken the original engine as released by id, made modifications (could involve support for different architectures, or could just be tightening some features up, adding enhancements or cosmetic upgrades or even just making the game buildable on a modern dev environment) and released that modified version. It’s not the same as when we talk about “porting” games originally released on (say) PSX to PC, there’s no from/to to speak of
Being a CTO doesn't mean you have any value as a software engineer. Hell I was offered a role as a CTO. I turned that shit down. Babysitting others is not my forte, nor is spending my time running a business instead of learning more tech.

Am I supposed to be impressed by earning money coding at 12? I'm not. At all.

I assume this is what you are referring to ( Blastar for Spectravideo 318/328 ): https://ia803005.us.archive.org/4/items/blastar-elon-musk-sp...

Link to source code instead of image: https://undone.se/misc/blastar.txt

Some discussion about whether he is good at programming. https://www.quora.com/How-good-is-Elon-Musk-at-programming

It seems to amount to "he wrote some basic and assembly language a long time ago."

I call nonsense. I've written over 3 million lines of code over my career spread across 8 different languages. If what exists of Musk's code publicly means he is a programming genius then I must be a programming god.

By the way: I also wrote code at the age of 9. I was writing assembly language at 10. Despite this, what I did when I was a kid, or even middle age, doesn't mean squat. What matters is consistently writing high quality code over your entire career. Being a manager is not being a coder. They are very different.

Also, he doesn't have knowledge of what Signal services are doing internally so his comment is simply speculation.

You seem to hate my condemnation of his coding skills, but my condemnation of his twitter comment is no worse than his own mockery of Signal; a free service serving the community.

Elon Musk, afaiac is a rich asshole who doesn't do shit to contribute. If he is so great, where is his free replacement for Signal that is far better hmm? He can certainly afford to hire some people who actually know how to code to write it for him.
Why not have a bump in the MacBook screen with a small penalty in trackpad size?
> > 'tax cut' (which FYI usually are targeted at the rich)

> The top marginal rate has been in the 35-39.6% range since 1993.

In 1993, the top 39.6% rate applied starting at $89,151 ($169,407 in 2020 dollars). In 2020, the top 37% bracket starts at $518,401. So, not only is the top rate lower, you have to be making more than 3× as much, adjusted for inflation, before you start paying it.

> And before then it was lower.

Only from 1987-1992. In 1986, it was 50%, and the top 4 brackets were 42% and up. The 42% rate cut in at $44,781 ($105,746 in 2020 dollars, lower than where the 39.6% in 1993 applied) and even the penultimate 48% rate applied from $59,671 ($140,908 in 2020 dollars, still less than the cutoff for the 1993 39.6% rate.)

At that 50% top rate? It was the result of cuts from Reagan's famous giant tax cuts; prior to that tax cut (which was applied in steps from 1981 on) the top rate was 70%.
Gabe Newell was in a senior role at MS for 13 years before he left to start Valve. That’s a lot of money.
Alan Canfora, Who Carried Wounds from Kent State, Dies at 71
Or not, as long as Apple has critical assets in China?
Puppet made a big deal of adopting Clojure quite a few years ago:

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2687553/puppet-server-drop...
This is it. I'm shocked by the amount of blame designers are getting here while they have a job that gets the most unskilled criticism and feedback (as displayed in many comments here).

Everyone has an opinion on design, including stakeholders and management who their jobs depend on. I think all the engineers here don't realise the privilege of having their own impenetrable domain.
You can. I'm American/Pakistani (dual passport), with significant family who are in India (including my spouse and grandparents who are Indian citizens).

I went with my wife to Pakistan last year. I have plenty of Indian family who visit Pakistan regularly. It can take 6 months-ish to get a visa though and it is very annoying, so I would not blame you for not wanting to go through the process.

By the way, as an American I can't visit India. I used to visit pre-2007, but since the Mumbai attacks (and further strict restrictions imposed in 2011 onwards) they no longer allow me to apply on my American passport and I've been rejected every time I try on a Pakistani passport.

The animosity in that region is so unfortunate and I hope it ends in the future. I've seen countless families kept apart because of it.
This is great work; absolutely something the Linux world needs.

Only I wish they would divert more from MacOS X / iPad OS in terms of colours and loose the reference to iPad in the marketing copy.
The iPad is the only device I own that's not running Linux. It is so damn good for the price, the UI is so smooth, so well designed, there is just so much polish. I bought the 128GB version with a pencil for 350€ used.

I am longing for a Linux alternative, but any Android tablets of similarly high quality are just so much more expensive, and actual Linux is still far away in terms of usability.

What I want is an iPad, but with Linux. I'm sure I'm not the only one, and Jingling knows that.
Install and Run Emacs with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows 10
> But it does not make sense either that a protagonist not answer when he be spoken to.

It may not make sense to you, but when I played through the half life games I found them more immersive than any games I had played.
Like it or not, there is also a huge amount of legitimate interactions on facebook.

My dad didn't use internet forums before.. now he's on facebook groups about wood working -- I doubt the projects and reviews people in those groups share are fake news :)

Fact is: without facebook my dad probably wouldn't participate in any online community.
Yes, my sentiment exactly! My heart starts pumping when I see a new project from spritesmod, and I settle in with a coffee. Spritesmod never disappoints, and I always learn some cool new details!
Both sides sent in tax collectors and debt-collecting sheriffs. The double taxation angered the population, and the Republic was formed to put an end to the issue until such time as the United States and Great Britain could reach a settlement on the boundary line.

A time-honored tradition: forming a new nation state because you don’t want to pay egregious taxes.