skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a while I've really liked the thought of small little cheap hardened devices that could be surreptitiously dropped to act like wifi extenders as a "guerilla mesh". Of course there'd probably need to be some thought put into making them safe and look harmless enough not to trigger any kind of severe response if found. But imagine taking a bag around town and dropping "disposable" devices with low enough power use to mostly stay online w/solar and form a mesh network all over the place.

I think the biggest challenge to getting somewhere small enough that it can be "dropped anywhere" is definitively the solar panels. If you add the qualifier "where you have permission" it gets a lot easier - I don't think you need a very large panel to be able to power something suitably basic like this.
That can definitely be. We are absolutely dependent on air, so our air quality sensors are likely to be fairly sensitive.
> 3) Electronic music is "done": most interesting permutations of notes, rhythms and timbres have been tried already

Have you heard last week's release 'Promises' by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the LSO? I haven't heard anything like it before (although that might be me), and it completely blew me away.
Warning for anyone browsing: The article is very interesting, but there's no "image", just diagrams. It's not clear if there even is an "image" as such, or if it was some kind of more general experimental confirmation. Maybe there's an image is in the source paper, but I don't have institutional access and the paper by itself is 200 USD.
I've always been wary of custom Roms that didn't come from somewhat reliable sources like the Lineage team.

The response in that Xiaomi.eu thread has seriously damaged the trust I had in the xiaomi.eu ROM. I've heard good stories about the ROM but if the community, even including a developer respond, like that to an issue like that, I don't think I can trust the website anymore, so I've blacklisted it in my pihole.

I believe custom ROMs published by what comes down to "a guy in a forum thread" are nice for proof-of-concept stuff, but should be considered insecure. Many of these ROMs disable security measures like selinux because these measures make it harder to get Android running correctly on proprietary hardware, removing one of the best security mechanisms the Android sandbox has for the developer's convenience.

I'll never recommend anything other than established brands like Lineage, /e/ or one of the security-focused ROMs to anyone. I mistakenly thought xiaomi.eu was one of the good ones, but it clearly isn't.

Do you have any other sources on popular ROMs to avoid?
Which language (s) are used to implement the backend?
Amstrad PC 1512 here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC1512).

I remember they were saving up for many months to get this for me.

When (many years later) I had a P3 (or a P4?), I would switch on my Amstrad and feel warmth in my heart, as if I was hugging an old friend.
Minimum Viable Dice Wars
If you're into most alt styles, /r/indieheads is pretty good too.

I quite like going on rym and playing whatever's on the front page, that's exposed me to many genres I'd have skipped otherwise.
Ironically (perhaps deliberately?) your quote may be misattributed:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
Sounds awful. Table tennis is not collaboration, it’s a recreational activity. It’s also unbelievably disruptive to everyone around you and takes up space that could have been used for a meeting area. Attitudes like this make the office a worse space for collaboration, not better.
Out of curiosity, when did the asteroid extinction theory cement as the scientific consensus?

I seem to recall that in my childhood (1980s, Canadian elementary schools) it was still treated as only one of several competing explanations, but now it’s pretty much an accepted fact.

Which makes sense given all the evidence, but I still have this odd sensation making me feel like I missed the memo! Am I the only one who feels this way?
I almost feel the opposite: drinking every day is too much. One night out once a month is okay. (not drinking 24 bottles a night, though, except when celebrating Russ)
I've been messing with Emacs lately, tab completion in M-x is amazing. The editor is surprisingly discoverable because of its "minibuffer" command window.
It appears to be available in France: https://www.sensodyne.fr/produits/dentifrices/repare-et-prot...

EDIT: BioMin as well: https://biomin.fr/
I imagine that's the idea. Enough for one person with some margins. If you start buying beyond the quota, i.e. presumed to be buying for other people, then you'll have trouble.
Best would be to have a quarterly or so meet up of the team. A lot of teams are geographical distributed anyway.

Fly to a location for a long weekend with activities some team building, get a big hotel block.

That would cost less than a seat in many of these nyc offices.
We do use Elasticsearch :) But getting ranking right is extremely custom in any context. If relevance was a webapp, relevance ranking is like building the business logic, whereas Elasticsearch is like MySQL. It's a piece of infra that needs to be customized for the project.
No, humans coordinate. The idea of dropping a tool of coordination because you think it's about the numbers and not the utility is a terrible argument. Yes Mars will not have a 24 hour day. That doesn't have a single thing to do with, "legacy timekeeping". Timekeeping was not built on the idea of a "24 hour day". Timekeeping is built on coordinating humans to accomplish things whether recreational or utilitarian. Right now, our best system is based on the arbitrary divisions of an Earth day cycle. The base features of seconds, minutes and hours work. The day length, which is only about 37 extra minutes, doesn't require a brand new system. Hell, an Earth day isn't a perfect 24 hours either. Drastically altering the system just because you're terrible at showing up on time for meetings is pretty dumb. Since Mars is going to be in tight communications with Earth, especially coordinating resources, why have drastically conflicting systems? People bitch enough if you only give imperial or metric measurements online, "Where's my favored unit of measurement? I can't convert it on my own!" You really think different methods of time keeping are going to work out well?

So no, my take on the argument was appropriate. Their stance was an absurd concept based in teenage destroy-the-system angst rather than taking reality as it is. If there's a truly better way of making sure two parties show up at the same "when", then let's hear it.
Doesn’t it have var now?
I love the pinephone (I own one) but the specs are pretty weak. Is the situation with support forthe SOCs used in the Planet devices as dire as you suggest? I was considering them but being stuck on an archaic kennel is a deal breaker.

I'm more than ready to pay for a premium device with the same level of hardware support the Pinephone has but I guess I'll need to keep waiting.
Exactly because it's fundamentally hard, it must be avoided -- we the humans simply can't be trusted with it (speaking as a former C/C++ dev here).

It should also be hardware-assisted (if it's impossible to stop it at the hardware level). Stuff like atomic counters were a good first step but the state of the art there hasn't moved in a long time (we don't have atomic 512-bit update operations, do we? if we did, a lot of kernel data structures could be atomically updated; this alone would fix a lot of contention problems).

The hardware can also just work in a CRDT/OT-like manner, namely accumulate update requests for a memory location in small queues (that get flushed after 10 nanoseconds or after the mini queue fills up). This could help with a good chunk of the buggy scenarios as well.

Not saying we can make it perfect tomorrow -- of course we can't. What I am saying is that nobody [who can truly make a difference] is even trying.

It gets a bit disappointing and grim after you have been in the profession for a while, you know?
The non-compete specifically is dangerously under-specified. This is close to crayon license issues https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1445/how-can-...
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I preferred it so much that I found myself a new role with a fully remote company. I’ll happily visit the office once lockdown eases, but the ‘forced experiment’ has proved to me that the upsides (live anywhere, zero commute saving time and money, more time with family, etc) vastly outweigh the downsides.
Honestly, I truly don't know and I don't feel qualified to judge the merits of the two approaches. There could be performance or behavior implications that they just prioritized differently from how C# does it. Or maybe something to do with the Java underpinnings. Are C# promises/whatever cancellable?

But, as an "end user", the exception thing drives me absolutely nuts. It wouldn't be nearly as bad if Kotlin either didn't use exceptions for ALL error handling, or even if it had checked exceptions so that "normal" errors would be, mentally, separate from fatal errors and/or coroutine cancellation.
Has Java been declining? It sounds like it’s hitting the niche as the mature and widely accepted serious language for enterprise distributed backend work. Maybe ima. Noob though lol.
Answering my own question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e...

So I guess it was indeed proposed around the time I was born and “proven” by the time I had outgrown dinosaurs as an interest/hobby...
Same here.

Last time I drank alcohol was pre-COVID. I only drank 1-3 a month and only 2-4 beers and 2-4 shots.
I've now accepted that I live in a simulation. The harder reality to swallow is that I'm probably a non-player character.
What were the privacy implications of these tests?

Did your findings that email-savvy users were insignificant account for the fact that this subset of users probably disabled any email tracking in the first place?

I'm finding that technical users are excluded by corporate interests increasingly often. I suppose this might be a good thing, but I still find the underlying attitudes towards them frustrating.
I worked with several enterprise customers through Okta, so I’d bet you’re in good hands.
Executive order 13962 is still in effect.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/11/2020-27...

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Author here! Seems to work fine: https://arse.ee/4uQ6R5Ck.png

edit: And yes, the modem has access to the GPS data, which is passed from the modem to the main OS.
Exactly. Granted, I've spent some time on my tmux config, but it is just how I want it, and it's incredibly productive. I can copy to/from the clipboard/selection just fine, between windows and vim and firefox, etc. using the keyboard or mouse. I can go into copy-mode-vi (scrollback buffer) with the PageUp key or mouse wheel from the shell (not from within apps). And the added bonuses of, for example, popping a tmux window of fzf git branch output to choose from for a checkout is nice.
Nearly all of them, at least up through the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

I believe it became less popular with the popular revolutions of 1848 and the advent of universal conscription.
HVAC solves climate control. By that measuring stick, I have been routinely disappointed by indigenous structures that claim to have solved climate control but should more accurately be described as "somewhat mitigating the worst of it at enormous cost to the builder, maintainer, and/or operator." They have a lot more in common with the poorly functioning "thermal battery" than with modern HVAC, which is boring, cheap (by comparison), reliable, flexible, and doesn't even require computers -- a bimetallic strip will do, if you must.
> I sent in my measurements and they sent me a trouser with wrong measurements and a postcard that said that they adjusted my measurements with AI for a better fit

Whoa.

customer: Please, I need a trouser size 34"

AI: Thank you sir, but according to my data, a 33" will better suit you
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it wouldn't be coworkers in a perfect world.

employer rents a desk/office in a larger facility (or multiple) and allows office working staff to travel less.

like a gym membership. sign up to one, use any of the same companies gyms. but with a desk or office, you can book ahead.

no central office with people commuting 40+ mins each way, less need for public transport, could also lower cost of renting an entire building/parking/insurance etc

I can work from home for the most part but would be nice to be able to take 10-15 minutes to walk or ride to an office and use the resources of an office. and play table tennis
How do we know if the file is really encrypted?
How do we really know that the key is not uploaded to the server?
Unless there is ability to view the source code for the client, I don't think it can be trusted.
If you're using Facebook services, you gave your freedom away a long time before this.
The Chicxulub crater off the top of the Yucatan peninsula is attributed for that particular event. It wasn't really known until the early/mid 90s I don't think.
In other words, the software is "free" only if your time has no value. Amazing how long some really smart people took to reach this really obvious conclusion.

This is both asinine and patronizing. People and businesses do, in fact, understand TCO and make decisions based on it.

What's missing with Linux on the desktop is an overriding vision and guiding force to direct the overall effort toward a clear objective.

This is daydreaming. Of course it would be nice if some übermensch stepped in straightened things out. But that's never going to happen for multiple reasons.

Personally, the Linux desktop as it is more than enough for me. It makes no difference whether it's mainstream or not.
Where did $12T of Covid spending go? Part 1: Mortgage backed securities
There are levels of risk I am not prepared to accept. I'll carry an assault shotgun, an assault rifle, and a dedicated ammunition-hauling dog with me if I go outside a town in Svalbard.
But like I said, it would have almost certainly been a cash transaction, right? So yeah, engineers who were retained would have done better with their AAPL stock grants, but that’s not really the measure to compare is it?

By that logic most companies should have dissolved and simply bought AAPL shares with their proceeds (I mean that’s true up to some limit but it falls apart in some macroeconomic sense obviously).
Theoretically these are all problems with Excel, not with spreadsheets in general.

Also Excel does support circular references; I once worked for a guy who used them to iteratively fit a model!

I'm waiting for "the programmer's spreadsheet" where you have functions, clean separation of "data" and "display", proper types, and some kind of sensible version control.
>Why wouldn’t it be likely?

What matters is public perception of if it could happen, not if it can happen.
Same question. It feels very incomplete. It's even missing some of the Fortune 100, and lots of anything past the first 100.
A month? You couldn't keep a Royal Navy seaman in grog for a week on that.
I think once people experience flexible/remote work minus lockdown, there’s no going back. Until then everyone sort of misses the office in a vague sense, because they miss the social aspect.

Some employers are desperate to prevent their employees from seeing this by making sure they go back into the office as quickly as possible, but the secret is out in my opinion.
I want the option without anyone being judged. It’s completely fine and nobody will question where you work as long as your productive. People that love the office want others to do so as well.
Same thing happen here and I like the hybrid model. I really did miss being around my coworkers so this helped but not every function of the office needs to be in person.

Needs a 3rd option on that poll.
Depends on culture, both national and local. In some it's very common (like my dad has a beer every day after work, or France / Italy where a glass of wine at lunch is not uncommon).
Well, I’ve been working from home for the past 5 years, so I’m not sure if my opinion counts.
For sure. This was how we did it at GitLab, and it was the perfect balance.
Well, post lockdown you’ll have a lot more options including nice coworking spaces.
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Iceland has their own breweries and i think you can get very reasonable beer, for example domestic ones
My Athlon in 2003 was partnered with 256MB of RAM and a Geforce 2 MX 200/400.
Still does not invalidate my point that the browser is downright horrible.
I understand that there are performance implications.

But a 20% to 40% slowdown for number crunching in a language that is primarily designed for writing super indirection-heavy, heap-allocation-heavy, application architectures is just nothing.

Having some kind of high performance math section of the standard library would be fine. But the default behavior is, frankly, dangerous. And for a 20% speed up on operations that are probably far less than 1% of the typical Java application?
As I understand it, the relevant thing for gravity is energy. Mass is a particular form of energy, which photons do not have. It's energy that causes space to bend, but in most cases energy-in-the-form-of-mass completely dominates.
our office has meals area and a separate rec room with table tennis, pool table and an outdoor basketball half court. who on earth would have a table tennis table set up in an office or within earshot of where the work gets done?
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Those all sound super exciting. I'm in Hungary at the moment and the language here is also pretty agglutinative, so that's not so scary, but the idea of seven modes and twelve aspects is... well, next level.

I revise my 10/10 downwards, based on what you've mentioned here to somewhere around a 6.
I realized that the mouse selection automatic copy is due to the tmux yank plugin.
Basic care and cleaning according to skin type – information drawer
Yes but that long weekend should happen between Monday and Friday.
Not so sure. Even native apps did not look great so not sure what devs can actually deliver with it even if they try.
The Crypto Social Network
A Pentium II was more than enough to decode MP3's in parallel.
Creating a protoc plugin to generate Go code with protogen
Ethereum's proof-of-stake has been running perfectly since it launched on Dec. 1, and has over $6 billion staked.

They launched it as a parallel chain first, but it's going so well they've accelerated the plan to move the rest of the network to it. That's a relatively simple task and should happen in early 2022 at the latest, and possibly this fall. You can judge for yourself how hard it will be: https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/B1mUf6DXO
It usually seems to be stock CMS platforms that melt down. Where generating a page means a bunch of database queries.
If you like this sentiment, read "The Forever Project": https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-forever-p...
Generally, these guidelines do exist, but they're made on a case-by-case basis by individual research groups. So there are parts of medicine where we have great research and other parts where we don't know much. In the US, the USPSTF consolidates the latest research into national recommendations (https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recomme...). There are additional organizations like the American Cancer Society (https://www.cancer.org/healthy/find-cancer-early/american-ca...) that also offer their own recommendations, but these are often contradictory.

> The records of all births, deaths, and surgeries are known.

Actually, this is not known (at least in the US). There is no central medical database or significant communication between hospital systems. As you can imagine, this is problematic for obtaining meaningful data. In order to answer the questions you raise, researchers have to begin collecting new data prospectively or look retrospectively at the incomplete records contained within their hospital system. The retrospective method is easier and probably more common, but there are serious biases with a retrospective approach, including small sample sizes and non-random sampling (many US hospitals serve specific demographics).
Oh you mean they prefetch unconditionally, thereby removing any information about whether the recipient has read the email (it always appears as if they did) - not that they cache it to share between users and make it seem like they didn’t download the image. Agree - they do that.

They can’t make it seem like I didn’t download it but they can remove most of the usefulness of the information (it reveals whether the Gmail address is valid I suppose)
And sometimes they would be right; speaking for myself, I've worn baggy clothes for a long time, but at some point I finally managed to lose some weight and got down below 90 kilos, and was able to go down a size pants and shirts (size L), which fit and looked a lot better. Great confidence boost at the time, didn't change anything for my er, relationship prospects though.

It's WFH time now though, I'm wearing 2/3XL shirts (good cut though, they don't look baggy) and pajama pants and have done so for over a year now. I am here for the comfort.
Maybe, but it’s also not an indentured servant program. Companies with better cultures are already actively recruiting people from the ones that want to force everyone back into the office full time as soon as possible, so they can chain them to their desk and watch them work.

To me it seems like this will result in these places becoming worse and worse until they collapse under their own weight.
Then limit to sensitive information, not every screen.
I suspect it's not uncommon to find people who have wine nearly every day. Someone who is drinking two beers on many days is likely to have six on some days, making up for the odd day that they have zero.

The actual quota is less than one can per day, though, which seem too strict to me (with respect to a government restriction, I mean).
A glass of wine after work to wind down is pretty popular no? (Culture: scandinavia)
I agree logically that discounting dollars will make it a credit system similar to the credit system you already have.

Practically though I think people derive comfort in familiarity, even though dollar credits / cost are unintuitive in mathematical terms, people use dollars daily, even people who don’t use USD daily know the conversion from local cut to USD. And it makes the cost look really small, for example “0.5 cents” per document seems more familiar than “1 credit” per document even though the cost might be the same.
I was going to say this, going to the office on mondays and fridays seems neat