skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "We are making some changes to our editorial strategy and leadership and giving a voluntary exit option to employees who would like to take a different path,"

A 'voluntary exit option' Is that sarcasm?
Testing with the database has to be one of the things I love the most about Ecto. No need to mock anything, no need to have special branching logic for test versus prod. Just use the database like you normally do. It gives you a degree of confidence that is on another level. Check out https://hexdocs.pm/ecto_sql/Ecto.Adapters.SQL.Sandbox.html for more info!
Nope, Outlook definitely loads images unless you or your administrator changed the setting.
I already use Linux with my bank and when I'm interacting with my government. And unlike on Android, the barrier of entry for me to write apps and set up quick solutions to problems is much lower. I don't need to run my code on a completely separate environment with no overlap. Emulation is going to be easier. I don't need to install Eclipse or whatever the heck Android devs tolerate now.

That's part of the point of using Linux -- not creating an ecosystem from scratch.

Virtually all of my computing outside of my phone is already done on Linux devices, and the setup works for day-to-day computing. Support is good enough for me. What makes you think Pinephone going to have worse support than my current Linux desktop?

My hope with Pinephone is that a decent influx of Linux phone users will improve the quality of desktop software on Linux as well, since it forces devs to stop ignoring touch screens and to start thinking about responsive design. Ideally, the desktop versions of many apps should scale on interfaces like this without needing to be rewritten. But regardless, I'm still not particularly worried that my bank website is going to stop working.
> Where's a person supposed to lay down roots, without retreating deep into a suburb? I don't need or want a job at FAANG or the next "unicorn"; I'm happy with my normal tech job/income and the life it affords. Why couldn't those things stay confined somewhere else and leave the rest of us in peace?

Pick a city with cold winters and high humidity and not near mountains or ocean.
If I'm part-time in the office I expect nothing from the company and some "shared space" type tables or desks where I can plug in.
Why wouldn't you have notebooks? It worked be easy for the Facilities team to have your box of stuff (or rolling set of drawers) waiting at your assigned desk when you arrive.
Gmail's web interface does load images by default.
I hope the now Democratic controlled congress can pass some new labor laws to combat this sort of thing. If you truly believe in the "free market" you should want strong labor unions, as that is the strongest way to equalize the power between employer and employee. Anything less is not a "free" market, it is necessarily coerced by the threat of losing income since we don't have basic income (another solution to equalize the power between employer and employee). Losing income directly leads to losing food, shelter, healthcare, etc.
Transfer is one issue, processing is another. If you're running an IoT device on an STM32F423ZH (chosen because my employer has a cell-enabled IoT device on that MCU) you've got 320k of total RAM. Considering there's overhead for the rest of the application, there's no way to use such keys on such a device.

A trusted proxy works if ECC is secure (no quantum computers), but if quantum attacks are practical then there would be no way to verify that the trusted proxy is actually what you think it is.
Glad to hear this sentiment. I have a 5U modular system I built long before I had kids. I’ll start a patch, then have my 8-year old start messing with it, enjoy the sound, then talk through what is being changed.
Webpack 5 for example is significantly slower than Webpack4.
There are hacks to speed it up but you need to make workarounds or turn off features to get acceptable speeds.
This makes it needlessly complicated to configure and manage project just to compile JS...
Only if their primary motivation is profit.
All the same can be said for wfh. I can socialize with people I want to socialize with, not those I have to socialize with. I have freedom, no commute, no open office, no manager dropping in on me...

I have extensive experience managing and working remote and non-remote and I've never seen any benefit to non-remote work. Productivity and creativity are higher with wfh and stress and burnout are way lower.
The fact that they have 30 Million finished doses stored means they think they could sell them, there is little reason to store product you can't use and even less reason to put vaccine substance you think is of poor quality trough the bottling and packaging process.

The Halix site could reportedly make 5-6 million doses per month in January, so someone is evidently content with not even trying to get approval for the plant.

https://www.politico.eu/article/breton-no-astrazeneca-jabs-e...
The big news we're looking for from James Webb is the possibility of grabbing evidence of chlorophyll fringes in the IR spectra of other planets.

That is going to be huge news if we find it (I suspect we'll get a lot of other results first though and a ton of new interesting work looking for alternative photosynthetic chemistries).
> We believe Congress should consider making platforms’ intermediary liability protection for certain types of unlawful content conditional on companies’ ability to meet best practices to combat the spread of this content. Instead of being granted immunity, platforms should be required to demonstrate that they have systems in place for identifying unlawful content and removing it.

> Definitions of an adequate system could be proportionate to platform size and set by a third-party.

> Ultimately it is up to Congress and the new Administration to chart the path forward. Facebook stands ready to be a productive partner in the discussion about Section 230 reform
"who either function well with very little guidance"

That's the definition of a senior developer and senior employees.

For junior developers I've worked in pre-covid with juniors in wfh environments and success rates are lower. For everyone 1 developer who finds there way you have another who can't setup there environment. If someone held your hand in school or if you relied on working together I could see things falling apart quickly online. I feel like the new grads will have wfh school experience from this year will adapt well.
Yeah, it's great to watch the sunrise, check overnight markets in Euro and Asia, and get ahead of the day. I like the East Coast time zone. And find colleagues on West Coast generally like to hack late into the night their time. "While the rest of the world sleeps". Many don't even saunter into work until past noon. There can be a bit of a disconnect when trying to synchronize. But EST also aligns with Brazil as its same latitude. And Tokyo is exactly 12 hours diff so 8am in Japan is 8pm in New York which makes late night chats fun as well ;)
Now there's an excellent way to make money.

(Value goes up, get refund in bitcoin and buy car in dollars. Value goes down, get refund in dollars.)
Thanks for the correction about the rockets. But I'm not so sure that the laser solves the drone problem. Drones could be launched closer and come from every direction staying close to the ground. You could also spread them out around the laser so the laser spends most of its time transiting between decoy targets
Bitcoin mining is good for the environment, that's why Tesla put $1b BTC on their balance sheet

Edit: fine, downvote me but read this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/axeldelamarre/files/master...
If you are interested in experimenting with modular synthesis, check out VCV Rack. It's an Eurorack simulator with a huge number of modules, many of which are open source.

https://vcvrack.com/

Omri Cohen recently hosted the Mycelium Symposium where many creators showed some interesting possibilities using VCV Rack.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nnipBoTOQ2g
No. http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/happy-10th-anniversary-p...
You can still get updated software for CP/M, BeOS, DOS and OS/2 for crying out loud. Maybe not a lot, but people write / maintain that stuff. A relatively modern phone, running Linux? If it gains any adoption, I expect that the availability of apps won't be a problem. Maybe the ecosystem won't be quite as rich as Android or IOS, but it may well be "pretty good" which will be good enough for a lot of people.
Why, then, would you buy a tesla and not bitcoin? A car only depreciates in value.
I don't think there's anywhere near a consensus that your statement here is true. In fact, I think it would be a surprise to the majority of the tech community if that were the case.
There is no reason it can’t break the ‘duopoly’.

It clearly isn’t going to do so overnight or in a year or two.

But it easily could over the 5-10 year timeline. A distributed App Store plus an experience that is more attuned to the needs of users than iOS or Android can accomplish that.

To solve the ‘bank’ problem all it needs to do is provide a really solid PWA story.

What it shouldn’t do is provide Android compatibility.
I picked it up at a thrift store, and that’s why I started a deep dive into modular synths.

I almost forgot I was reading the article from a hacker news link, and not just from my own searching!
Reportedly that site could make up to 6 million doses per month at the start of March, so they've been chugging for a good while without applying if they aloe supplied those 29 Million doses.

https://www.politico.eu/article/breton-no-astrazeneca-jabs-e...
I’m CTO in a software company but I don’t have a proper home office. I was using a small coworking space a 2 minute walk around the corner instead. During the pandemic i’m working in the kitchen for 4 hours before the kids get up and then in the afternoon when my wife takes the kids out. We were always partially wfh as a company anyways and tbh I get zero work done in the office when I go. I only go for morale and relationships (though I do need to take a 20 hour flight to get there). I couldn’t imagine this working in lab based companies but for a company like ours offices are bad or neutral for productivity but useful for mental health.
Yes, but it is significantly less boilerplate than before.

If you get rid of bless(), you would need to add some equivalent to "package" that is OO specific rather than just namespaces, and/or a magical constructor method name. That (to me) is no less whimsical than bless.
Concrete-ish but still simple simple version: If you visit example.com, close the tab, and then load a page with an ad on it, both parties would love to show you an ad for whatever example.com is selling. If example.com has a tracking pixel for the ad domain, then this is trivial to make happen.
which is equivalent to approaching the kolmogorov complexity of the text, which is deeply interesting research for information theory.
Hahahah - what?!
The ideal AI compressor would encompass all human knowledge.

That's what they're doing (in the constraints of defining all human knowledge ~ English Wikipedia). More refined models of representing all of our knowledge will beat weaker ones in this test.

Whether this is AI or intelligence or not depends on how you define those terms - but to win this competition your compressor has to be able to anticipate the rest of the human knowledge fairly accurately based on having seen part of it.
This project is awesome. I wont be buying this particular model, but I envision myself picking up a PinePhone once it's a couple generations out of beta.
Show HN: Easy way to make a RASA chatbot into telephone voicebot
There's about a 50% chance I won't even click a link when I see it's to medium.com.
Testing with the database isn't particularly efficient. If you have enough tests, it becomes worth it to mock whatever would touch the database just so the tests pass in a reasonable amount of time.
I think you misunderstood. Based on the wording it would seem that Tesla gets to choose how to refund you. So if BTC goes up your refund will be the dollar value of the car, if it goes down you'll get BTC back.
Replying to myself: TLS 1.0 is now officially deprecated.
lol, what will the permabears come up with next
https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Per transaction, 792.37 kWh and 376 kg (828lbs) of CO2. That's about 27 days of electricity usage for an average US home. Or 62,000 hours of youtube video watching. Or 834,000 VISA transactions.

It's fine. Not a big deal what so ever. Bitcoin is obviously the most efficient means of monetary transaction. No reason to question it.
I think the author's argument wasn't that JS was a 'productive' language but that it was an overall poorly designed and bad language.
Delete Your Staging Environment
i think the choice lies with tesla, not the customer!
The 20th century work model of offices and managers was very much an industrial revolution by-product. People were working together on farms, the battlefield... before that. I don't think there was any consideration to worker health or safety.

I'm saying now that we're in the info age, we can do away with that and for the first time work from home or the environment of our choosing.
I have always despised Medium's attitude with users and even those who appear simply to read an article, just as I do Facebook.
Which is sadly not the case.
Transactions have no marginal affect on energy usage. More mining does not produce more transactions. It's a really common misconception here.
I've often said that the US government can, and will, outlaw crypto if it starts to feel threatened. It may not absolutely stop transactions, but the value of the coin will plummet tremendously if this happens.

However... if a sufficient scale of corporate interests stand to lose billions of dollars from the coin plummeting in value due to legal action I might rethink the viability of doing such a move politically.
Why? Don't true believers believe BTC has use besides being an unregulated speculative vehicle? So they'd love the normalization of buying something as major as a car with it?

Or are we just admitting that pretense is gone with the wind and now "true believer" refers to the HODL crowd?
What software engineers can teach us about API documentation
Yeah with the demand for unpaid overtime I get as a developer its essentially slave labor. Like ask your dentist to work 140 hours a week for a 40 hour check, see what happens lol.
You definitely have a point, and it‘s a pity that (desktop) Firefox recently dropped its haphazard support for Progressive Web Apps making that alternative even more unlikely to happen.

On the other hand, I would not call the App Selection shitty, see https://LINMOBapps.frama.io.
Could this be a mechanism to launder money?

Edit: I'm not saying it is, but, just as an example, someone could buy BTC from an unregulated country, then purchase a Tesla and request a refund in dollars.
Hey. Thanks for that feedback. We're going to look into this and we'll get back to you. Sorry for the inconvenience.
To take one example: the interaction with your bank goes through a web-browser, I suppose? You probably need a special device for 2FA? In most bank apps, you can simply log in using a PIN-code and do things like check your balance, make small wire transfers, and make payments in stores through NFC. Doing these things in a web-browser on a mobile phone with a separate 2FA device is much more cumbersome.

(I use Linux exclusively on the desktop so I know what you are talking about, but it just isn't going to work on a phone in the same way).
EU finds 29M stockpile of Astra Zeneca vaccines in Italy
Coinbase is already running out of bitcoin to sell.
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The FT and Telegraph are reporting from sources in the EU and UK that these doses were due to be sent to European and developing countries under the COVAX programme.
The other option is to borrow USD against BTC to buy a Tesla (I just did that yesterday), but if loan-to-value goes over 80%, the companies will liquidate my BTC automatically. I'm just doing this because I'm speculating that we're just at the start of the next bubble in the cycle.
i guess i will eat my words - i thought that tesla would never actually accept bitcoins directly. I stand corrected.
I get it, I'm all for it. Objectively, it's still a lot of money even for middle class Americans.
I get a sense of schadenfreude when the left and really the corporate “left” destroy each other. For all the progressive ideology they preach they never want to do it themselves. It reminds me of the fake environmentalists in Hollywood that fly to their climate change meetings in private jets or sail on their fully manned yachts. I loathe those people.
Since this article, PA has adopted a way to pay more money to jump the line - join their patreon (Club PA). For $5/month you will get a couple days early access to buy up to 4 sets of tickets.

Also, Robert Khoo left PA the year after this article was published.
Reach to forums on block chain with a proposal for your idea and see if anyone is interested. The quickest way to get interest is to open source your initial implementation. It can be quite difficult to find someone competent to work for free on proprietary code based on just your idea
I expect that a full refund will only be paid out due to circumstances uncontrollable by the customer, haha. Otherwise, as said, this is too simple a scam.
Not shipping to Vienna, Austria, alas.

Well, I will for sure get one, when I can.
Expanding on your comment, it's analogous to torque vs speed in cars. You wouldn't use a Ferrari to tow just because it has a high top speed and lots of top-end power. You'd use something with high torque down low and good gearing.

Similarly, tugs use different propeller setups (e.g. ducted props for extra power, or vectored systems such as azimuth thrusters or cyclorotors for extra manuverability), which just cause extra drag if all you're doing is cruising at a fixed speed throughout oceans.

A big container ship trying to tow something is not unlike having a high-speed racecar spin its wheels. It's not designed to put that torque down at low speed and lift a big trailing mass.
The industry has gotten so abusive over time its not worth working in it anymore. The amount of discrimination is harrowing. You would think black people cannot code for the level of discrimination in the industry. I know there are black coders but if you went into a typical employer you would be hard pressed to find anyone besides male Asian or European coders.
> plus an experience that is more attuned to the needs of users than iOS or Android can accomplish that.

Why would this project be more effective at doing this than iOS or Android?

I don’t see why people other than ideological technologists would want to use this phone.

To be clear, I think it’d be great if they did, but I think you’re massively understating the difficulty of challenging iOS and Android. Many companies have tried before - Microsoft, Amazon, Canonical, and failed.
This sounds like a very interesting research direction.
Improving on AWS CloudWatch Alerts
That are good project ideas, thanks.
Maybe the problem is that more pedestrians are occupying space in roads intended for large, heavy, dangerous, automobiles than in previous years? I have hundreds of miles of bike trails within minutes of my residence (as do most Americans), yet people continue to ride bikes in the middle of major roads used for mass transit, freight, etc. I just don't understand why people think this is a good idea.
Anti-Analysis Techniques Used in Excel 4.0 Macros
Gmail made changes years ago to proxy images to prevent leaking info like this.

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html
Hard to know for sure, but here's some inaccurate napkin-math:

A single BTC transaction requires ~376kg of CO2. [1]

Driving a Tesla emits ~91g CO2 per km. [2]

Average distance driven in the US per year, per car is 13,476mi (21687.5km). [3]

Driving your Tesla for a year emits ~1,973,562.5g of CO2, or 1,973.6kg.

So, if you buy one with Bitcoin, you're emitting ~19% more CO2 for that year than you would with cash or credit. You could further amortize the amount over the lifetime of the car.

[1] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/

[2] https://www.electrive.com/2020/08/31/study-currently-availab...

[3] https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm
Transportation no, but with large enough reflective surfaces we could redirect comets to impact courses on Venus.

Early stage terraforming need not be too fussed about collateral damage from multiple extinction-events (and the footage I presume would be spectacular).
Back in the 2016 era, my megacorp started building out the tech facilities this way. No assigned seats. There were reservable bullpens for NOC style teams that were persistent. Rest of the floor was divided into quiet and social areas with various seating and work stations.

They already had a heavy work from home presence, but it was typically 2-3 days a week with some scheduled collab time for teams in the office.
A JS library that wants to interop with something outside of its runtime (which is not necessary V8 - it isn't in WinRT, for example) can do so through FFI facilities. So long as said FFI supports all the same things that C does, it supports callbacks via function pointers. And if you can pass a function pointer + data pointer to some API, you have a stateful callback - i.e. a promise/future/task. And you can map any such abstraction to the same in another language.

But the moment you introduce green threads, the caller and the callee both have to be aware of that particular implementation of green threads. So even if you can do C FFI, and whatever you're trying to call can also do C FFI, you can't interop async calls across that boundary without some kind of callback arrangement.
I went through the process before covid.

Your personal desks go away replaced with work stations / long tables where anyone can dock. It become more like a school libruary where everyone is working on different things .

Then you have these community meetings every few months where everyone comes in for a meeting but there are not enough work stations so everyone just hangs around until people trickle home.
Can you please link to instructions on how to do this?
Good catch. Still, I would say that it is the 10 last years that matter, because that's when people started to take it really seriously.

It's also interesting to think that we may have a lot of ideas like that. They are just waiting patiently for compute in some small communities.

And the compute quite consistently grows exponentially. We will make bigger absolute increases in compute in next 5 years than we did ever before.
What's pushing people out is the rising cost of property, caused by more and more money bidding for less space. If the government had done more to create more space, prices would not have risen so dramatically.

What if government policy for the last few decades had been to keep housing as affordable as possible. So if average rent in a city started increasing, the government would make sure new apartments and got built and/or expanded roads and public transit to help people live farther away without a longer commute.
Technically it loads all images through a Google proxy[0] which in theory prevents third parties from using images for tracking. The third parties only get a 'hit' when Google pulls the image into their cache, which is not when you open the mail.

Google can still track you, but if you really care about that then you're probably not using Gmail anyway.

[0]: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html