skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So who's the target for this 900 usd device?

The cynic in me says: No one. Or as close to no one as possible: too few people. And too fickle people (enthusiasts are notorious for being fickle and changing their minds about tech every 5 minutes). We just won't notice anything as this product dies a silent death, a few months from now.
Google cancels April Fools the second year in a row
I think we can all agree that the terminology is the truly important thing.
Using SVGs to Create Risograph Prints, Good Graphics Risograph Study
I bought it on IGG because I want to support these guys while getting it early with discount (though less warranty), plus I like the Cosmo, but YMMV. They regularly got deals with discounts, not only limited to something like BF. Just bit of a bummer the downgrade from D1000 to D800, but its still a huge up from Cosmo. Plus, slide is more practical, I believe.

PS: Re, backlight: aye, it does (at least Cosmo/Astro, not sure Gemini), and you can put it lower/higher/off (I pref to have it on as low as possible). Even on Linux (Gemian / Debian for Cosmo). There's some minor bleeding, esp on side, but IMO not annoying.
Was there widespread fraud in the 2020 US election?
Agreed. But there is still an incentive for private insurers to limit future costs.
That combination is good for a lot of things but can it do anything more than create?
That depends on how you define success. If your main measure of success is economy, I wouldn't tag China as an economic failure exactly.
Does not work if I enable javascript, but probably because I have 3rd party scripts blocked in uBlock.

no-scripting: * true
* * 3p-frame block
* * 3p-script block
The PinePhone will be coming out with a keyboard add-on soon
Am I the only one who thinks that "finger model" on the landingpage is a poor choice?
It looks like you couldn't even use the device with those nails.
For me it's about picking and choosing. The value of being able to do the school run, or do some DIY at lunch for 2 hours, and then do a bit of deep work in the quiet of the evening is incredibly valuable.
Apologies for any confusion that this line might have caused.

> Quickly preview your design on real devices or share it with your team by sending it as an email message.

This refers to the ability to send the design you are working on as an email message. When I wrote it I didn't even consider that it might be interpreted to state that we offer device testing. We don't. You can choose to send to a real device, or Litmus, or a colleague. But we don't offer testing on real devices.

Still Mail Studio takes a lot of care to generate code that works cross-device so if you stick to visual editing (without writing custom HTML or CSS), your designs should work well everywhere even if you forgo real device testing.
I'm not a tax professional, but below is the relevant section from the California Franchise Tax Board's Guideline for Determining Resident Status, which can grant nonresident status depending on the particulars of one's employment:

Safe Harbor

Safe harbor is available for certain individuals leaving
California under employment-related contracts. The safe
harbor provides that an individual domiciled in California
who is outside California under an employment-related
contract for an uninterrupted period of at least 546
consecutive days will be considered a nonresident unless
any of the following is met:

• The individual has intangible income exceeding
$200,000 in any taxable year during which the
employment-related contract is in effect.

• The principal purpose of the absence from California is
to avoid personal income tax.

The spouse/RDP of the individual covered by this safe
harbor rule will also be considered a nonresident while
accompanying the individual outside California for at least
546 consecutive days.
Return visits to California that do not exceed a total
of 45 days during any taxable year covered by the
employment contract are considered temporary.
I haven't worked with it, but others on my team have used it to support high-visibility magazine newsletters, etc. Works great.
Or change ONE file that contains the connection string.
We need to talk about UFOs again
Visual studio has c++ symbol rename, including class names. Has had it for a while as well. Fairly reliable, though occasionally it does fail, loudly.
Going to school, age 17, in 1995 gleefully making notes on a Psion Series 3a was brave!

Carrying around a no-name phone in 2021 that your friends take the piss out of, means you just need new friends.
After hearing complaints for years from my mom about how slow her laptops were (with Windows), we bought her a NUC and I put elementary on it. That was about 4 years ago. Since then: not one single complaint.

She’s not a power user. She uses a web browser for Facebook, her bank stuff, and to play silly word games and puzzles. She checks email. But even those two tasks were enough to land her into trouble on seemingly any Windows machine we put in front of her.

I assume she was clicking on questionable ads, accidentally visiting who knows what websites from weird Facebook clicks, etc. but since she’s not on Windows, she’s less of a haphazard target.

Whenever I’m a good son and visit her, I’ll make sure everything’s updated and it usually is. She knows to click the update button when it asks.

I’m sure this could have been ANY Linux that would have fixed this, but Elementary looks the most simple, and that’s what it’s a great fit for her. It’s easy to use, easy to keep updated, and won’t virus itself up when your mom clicks on weird banner ads. All in a cheap little package. (Which I get could have been even cheaper.)
If they're on Macs, Postico might be an option. It's way easier to use than PgAdmin, and while you can't make your own CRUD screens, thoughtful setup of roles and constraints should be able to keep your users out of trouble.
I have ran out of my free copy/pastes for today. Is anyone selling theirs on ebay?
Relatedly https://boakye.yiadom.org/bikeshed/env/

In short, I'm in full agreement with the author on not implicitly using magic variables/values in our programs. Environment variables are fine so long as they're not read from within the depths of a function.
Curious what you think the main differences are.

Never did WFH until the pandemic, and will probably continue working from home for some time after things open back up. I have a hard time seeing how my day-to-day will differ significantly post-pandemic.
Of course, it's even possible to touch type on a Nokia E55.

That was my favorite phone; I wish someone would make a modern version of it.
Yeah, but then I hope their OS is super optimized and runs like a demon on the Snapdragon 662. Most likely, if it's Android, at some point it will lag even while typing using that physical keyboard.
Endgame for End-to-End Encryption
Let me play devil’s advocate here: maybe Clubhouse mirrors real life in that if your friends are all getting together for happy hour at 4:30pm ok a Friday because they work jobs that let them do that or don’t work at all while you took away at your startup, you can’t make this real time event. I have learned over the past several years that making it to a real time event that isn’t recorded does make it significantly more special and memorable. Not every moment is worth having but the impact of it only happening once makes it more memorable.

Having said that, I’m not a user of Clubhouse and have no intention of using it. Discord and Zoom have been plenty good for this kind of communication without any influencers or marketers being involved.
Hilarious: KiddoScout – Make your kid a VC
Hmmh, that's weird. The only 3rd party script on that page is Plausible Analytics, and blocking that doesn't affect the functionality on the page. It is loading one (first party) JS file, maybe your uBlock configuration is somehow blocking that? I'm also using uBlock with the default configuration, and it works on the 2 machines that I tested with.
Everyone who remembers how much better phones with slide-out keyboards were.

Commenters here seem to be focusing on the available OSes, but most flagship phones from a few years ago without a locked bootloader will run Lineage or Uubuntu Touch. FXtec's offering here is just that the bootloader won't be uncooperative.

The real killer feature is the keyboard. Those questioning the utility of a slide-out keyboard on a phone have obviously never used one. The speed and precision possible is miles ahead of an on-screen keyboard, plus there's all the extra screen real estate. While you can't touch type in the classic 4-fingers-on-home-row way, you certainly can learn to 'touch type' with your thumbs. Those who want proper touch typing can sit down in front of a Gemini, a slide-out keyboard excels at blasting out messages while standing on the metro.

There are plenty of us still holding onto our Motorola Photons and Droids (now so old the hardware is beginning to fail), blackberries (permanently locked bootloader) and Geminis (not a real phone, clamshell keyboard). For us, this is as close to the dream phone we've been waiting for as we'll likely ever see.

> swipe typing coupled with autocorrect works astonishingly well
Last I checked, AnySoftKeyboard had the only FOSS implementation of swipe typing, and it wasn't very good. All the providers of decent swiping keyboards have a profit incentive to mine your data, and a keyboard that leaks information makes any other protections redundant.
> But making renewable energy boats is very hard, whereas renewable energy trains is much easier

Nitpicking: the word "boat" is not used for anything big. For small vessels I've seen loads of areas where they need to be electric. So the statement "making renewable energy boats" is inaccurate if you use "boat" instead of "vessel".

The amount of different electrical train systems in Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Europe#/medi...

Not everything is as nicely electrified as above map would suggest. There are tracks that aren't electrified while above map would suggest it is.

Still, this could be assumed to be solvable. You need a significant amount of (additional!) trains vs the amount of container vessels. Which means additional track. After all of that is done the cost of transport will be significantly higher. If there was a renewable solution for container vessels then you'd need to replace way less. I'm not too sure about the "much easier" assumption if you take everything into account.

A lot of container shipping companies are state owned (by e.g. China). Some aren't state-owned, though they've received a significant amount of state help in the past. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freight_ship_companies. France helped CMA CGM various times in the last ~10 years.

So although rail might be the best solution for the environment, I don't see it happening. The cost/price needs to be right, and if the cost is influenced artificially then a business/company might change things in ways that aren't expected, nor good for the environment.

In an ideal world any decision would be taken with the environment in mind. In practice it's quite difficult. Even if you follow this as a country, if you're not big enough other countries might undercut your economy, thereby minimizing the effort of just one country.

Various container shipping companies are ok with stricter regulations. But then they need to be checked and enforced. There's too much potential money to be made to ignore regulations. Note that captains of a vessel can be thrown in jail for various reasons, it's much stricter than financial industry (pay a fine and continue).
IP multicast only works over the broadcast domain, so VLANing off the speakers would work. You’d need multicast routing enabled on your routers to move multicast traffic between VLANs.
If you want to learn more about what is possible the work of Dina Katabi is a good place to start:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C44&q=din...

https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/dina-katabi

Body tracking through walls, monitoring breathing and heart rate, through wall human pose estimation, multiperson localization, virtual touch screen. The latest work of her group is on emotion recognition using WiFi:

https://www.csail.mit.edu/research/eq-radio-emotion-recognit...
As of 2020, Federal transfer payments for healthcare amount to 22%: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/192/45/E1408

That shouldn't come as a surprise considering that just under 80% of all government spending in Canada is driven by the Provinces, and healthcare spending is the single biggest line item for most countries: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/reg_glance-2016-en.p... (Table 3.1: https://i.imgur.com/GDtBaVT.png)
You should look at the stockpile sizes. Unless Russia gets involved it would not be a balanced situation at all.
Share HN: Stack Overflow copy-paste monetization gag
When I went onto Stack Overflow, I copy-and-pasted a snippet of JSX from a thread about in-line styling with z-index.

When I saw the rate-limited copy-paste functionality at the bottom right of the screen, I was already riled up and ready to be upset. I'd completely forgotten what day it was and just how quickly I bought into the fact that the tech industry isn't too far off from pulling something like this—maybe even worse.

Did anyone else fall for it or am I too gullible?
Show HN: Benchmark App – A Better Business Dashboard for Founders and Creators
> The president od my small local hospital is paid $985,000 per year. I looked it up.

The CEO of a small local tech company is paid $10m per year. I looked it up.

> “my local hospital doesn’t allocate resources right”

Not surprising. Resource allocation is a difficult problem. Perhaps the hospital would be better off with limits on what they are allowed to pay people like you seem to be suggesting, but I doubt it.

To me this is all fundamentally a sign the USA doesn’t spend enough on health care. I don’t have confidence price controls and nationalization will improve matters.
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I., by Anonymous
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34206/34206-h/34206-h.htm
BazarCall malware uses malicious call centers to infect victims
I find answers in this format annoying. Why not? Maybe he's never heard of it. Great answer, but let's not assume he's considered it and decided not to.
Yes, it's really absurd that a niche phone "that gives you control" shuts off most of its potential clients by offering them a phone based on non-free software that they cannot modify.
We dropped whiteboards in favour of collaborative editing of documents. People write their ideas and then comment in realtime. It took some time to get used to, but not many people miss it. Some people got reMarkable if they want to draw something and share - this is a brilliant tool, but unfortunately it doesn't support encryption, so the use is a bit limited, but to draw some flows etc is great.
OpenMP[0] wants to have a chat with you about the usage of environment variables for runtime configuration of applications and dynamic adaptations of software to environment they run in.

[0]: https://www.openmp.org/spec-html/5.0/openmpch6.html
What's new in Svelte: April 2021
Pre-Internet age that would be a ground for some horror movies and creepypastas. Now we are talking about hackers and stuff.

P.S. Will we have horror movies based on Internet and IoTs, that would be very exciting.
Opening scenes - war, realising they were stuck. Then the drama of eight years of hanging about and drinking - there must have been romances, conflicts, gossip, smuggling, fights among the crew. And what's the story of the one female member? Plenty to make a great film out of I bet. And if not someone could always 'base' it on 'real life events'.
Words of advice. Most businesses are using in-browser email composers (eg. Mailchimp) to create content rich messages. As nice as it may be to have the additional feature set, I suspect the push back on your pricing is going to kill your project. Highly recommend you rethink your revenue model. At most I would pay $7/month for this. If you want additional recurring charges you will have to integrate with my sender(s) and fit painlessly into my weekly marketing flow. Great idea, dangerous territory from a business perspective.
Not so much a unification, as the new constructs sort of enhance and retrofit current primitives types. These new primitives are "class instances that lack object identity and can be stored and passed directly, without object headers or indirections".

It will allow (almost) direct control over data layout. At least make it so that it is cache/prefetch/SIMD friendly.

Here is the JEP: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/401
The Big Data Dilemma
Apple Knowingly Sold 2016-17 MacBook Pro with 'Flexgate' Defect, Judge Says
But it seems to me that in the earlier EmDrive experiments, there were forces found that were not explained satisfactorily. Now, through better experimental controls, all of these have been accounted for. That sounds like valuable research to me.
I agree. I also prefer command line arguments (or even config files) instead of environment variables, in all three cases: when developing software that others run, running software that others have developed, and running software I've developed.

In addition to what's said in the post, environment variables have one more significant, practical shortcoming: if an application 'foo' takes a FOO_LOGDIR (which defaults to /var/log/foo if unset) and you accidentally slip it a FOO_LODGIR=/run/log/foo - it will silently accept and ignore it, while you will be scratching your head why is the logging not behaving as expected, until you discover the typo.

Naturally, 'foo' could ensure no FOO_* with unknown names are set. But I've yet to see an application like this in practice, while nearly every single flag parsing library out there immediately errors out on unknown flags.
Does the article show that?

Is there any examples of the quality of the video? If someone's face is a handful of pixels and them presenting their screen is a blur or super laggy, is that good enough?

What happens if one person makes a Google Duo call? That's in HD.

Or if one person turns on their console and starts uploading a save file to the cloud?

5mbps is horrendous.
That's why -- it's a band that's by definition insensitive to noise, so nobody cares if there are a thousand industrial furnaces and a billion RFID readers screeching into it.
Ok - since then it has been brought to my attention that this story is an April's fool joke. Too late to delete, so I'm going to leave this here for all posterity...
Yearly medical checkup? Is that for all ages? I can't remember last time I went to the doctor
Maybe everyone working from home has been even worse for productivity than open offices. I know my own productivity has suffered, and I know I am not an outlier. People with toddlers in their home face constant interruptions (daycare has become unreliable -- one positive COVID test can shut a daycare down for two weeks), many people have limited space for a home office and nowhere to put a proper desk, etc. My own team frequently used whiteboards when we were at the office and touchscreens (of whatever size) really are not the same.

I know WFH has been fine, even positive, for some people. For a lot of us it has been a disaster and it seems that Google determined that it is a net negative.
You're missing two major use-cases.

1) Piracy (the most common, I would imagine)
2) Evading content-blocking. For example, going to Facebook at work.
This specifically requires buy-in from whatever venue you're trying to gain access to with the ticket, which remains an authority. As long as they have some other means of associating an identity with the original purchase, they can deny entrance to anyone else possessing the ticket. In other words, you absolutely need permission from the original ticketing authority.

In practice, this would work for any venue that sells tickets to anonymous buyers, but most sufficiently in-demand events at least pay some lip service to trying not to do that to avoid getting all of their tickets purchased by professional scalping operations using bots.
Google’s AI reservation service Duplex is now available in 49 states
I guess you still aren't getting it yet...
>I think that what's actually going on is that, like The Art Of Computer Programming, the dragon book is widely referenced and rarely read. Now, enter the 21st century meme factory.

In my opinion this book is "hard to read" in the sense it's dense in math formality

There's a lot of good concepts but I bet you could write it times shorter.
I almost never swipe type unless I am in bed with one hand. Otherwise, tap typing is what I prefer. I have sort of a weird grip but can type at about 80-90wpm on my phone with enough accuracy that autocorrect works the majority of the time. I can also type reasonably well under my desk without looking, but that would be much easier with physical buttons.

Does everyone else swipe type now?
I exaggerated with the union comment, but my point was that Google is now having a very divided workforce and having them work remotely is not going to help, especially when the outside world they read (e.g. NYT) is all about blaming Big Tech for everything.
Startups Want EU to Set Up $118B Sovereign Tech Fund
> Now do assets as well

That's not a cost you need to live. You need to pay for food, housing, healthcare, energy. You don't need stocks in amazon.

> [chuckle] Now do assets as well. Do healthcare and school fees and energy for good measure.

Total healthcare spending in the US[0] in 2004 was $6094 per capita. In 2019 it was $11072 -- 4.1% per year increase. By comparison in 1989 it was $2440 per capita, so for 1989-2004 it was 6.3% per year.

Electricity increased 2.75% per year from 2004 to 2019 [1]

Average retail electricity price for industrial consumers in 2005 was 5.73c/kWh, in 2019 it was 6.83c/kWh, 1.3% per year [2]

A gallon of gas in 2004 was $1.85 in 2004, it's $2.60 in 2019, an increase of 2.3% per year [3]

I see little to show that inflation is any different to the official inflation figures. I do see evidence that the wealthiest part of the US is becoming even more wealthy

Cost per pupil increased 2.6% per year [4]

What's your point? Despite M0 goign from 600b to 3500b from 2004-2019 (average 12.5% per year), there was no effect on the cost of things people pay for, which broadly stayed in the 0-5% per year range, as it did before 2004.

[0] https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/190680/us-industrial-con...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/190680/us-industrial-con...

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/204740/retail-price-of-g...

[4] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_236.55.a...
Book review: How pirated records from Taiwan kept Asia rocking
Entrepreneur Raised $165M to Bring Doctors to Your Home
It will be better to reach out to our support so we can better evaluate the case.
touch type is just muscle memory - you absolutely can touch type with physical keyboards once you learn how.

touch typing on a virtual keyboard on a flat glass screen is hard because they keys are less accurate and don't give you feedback to whether you actually hit a key or not. So you CAN touch type on a screen, just with errors. Way too many errors. Which is why autocorrect is aggressive on all phones these days.

Back when we had physical keyboards on every phone, we didn't need autocorrect because the typing was accurate.
It's not "pretty unpopular", a large majority of employees strongly want to come back to the office at least part time. And this headline is ridiculously misleading, they committed to letting people work remotely till September ages ago, and that hasn't changed. The only thing that happened was they finally put a timeline on when people can come back voluntarily.

And there is quite a bit of data on it, most of which is widely shared internally.