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I've got an Onxy BOOX with the optional (and cheap!) Bluetooth keyboard.

As this is an Android device, Termux (a Linux userland for Android) is available (through F-Droid). So yes, both vim and emacs (as well as a slew of other editors).

I've done some light editing on the device, and the display is generally suitable. My main gripe is that there's no way to position the device and keyboard in my lap in a stable format (a kickout selfsupporting folio case, as I have for an earlier Android tablet, would be better).

And: as with all Android devices, the OS chooses to kill what the OS chooses to kill, when it wants, for memory GC purposes. So that shell session may suddenly cease to be at any point (usually when backgrounded and you're tending to other affairs). This is ultimately a dealbreaker. Android is simply not suitable to Real Work.

(You could use Termux + keyboard + ssh + screen/tmux to work on another remote system, of course, but that's not nearly as portable, unless you're carrying that remote system with you at all times as well.)
The more interesting question is if you can have a functioning democracy with only two parties. If you look at the current US situation I see no reason to be optimistic about it.

The problem looks unsolvable. A root cause is the winner-takes-all voting system which makes it almost impossible for new parties to get elected. And none of the two parties has a real incentive to change the voting system.
Apologies, fixed.
Are you saying that you can search for those and that was a typo ("can't" instead of "can")?

I just opened up Google Maps on my Android 10 device with activity tracking off. They've changed the UI, now it's sneakier. I can set them and there's a faint gray text underneath that says, and I quote:

"Personal places will be used across Google products, for personalized recommendations, and for more useful ads."

Dark Pattern to the ten thousandth power.

They're literally turning my input of my home and work address as an implicit consent to enable activity tracking (!!!)

Again, there are absolutely 0 technical reasons why the two have to be related. Software of all kinds from the beginning of time has had "saved"/"favorite"/"starred" functionality, without ad tracking related to it.
The Values of the Carphone Warehouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2firijxQOo
Have you perhaps written a paper or article that highlights the differences? I'd like to learn more and don't know much about diff algorithms.

Also, am sure myself and others would be interested to see your current/old code.
Yeah I can't immediately spot something that would make it easy.

It's much easier to prove that the difference between the integral of log(a^2 - 2 a cos(x) + 1) and 2 pi log(a) goes to 0 when a goes to infinity.
For Pro SKUs on up, group policy isn't exactly obvious but it is more effective. You can disable automatic downloading or installation of updates, and you can disable forced rebooting. You can also disable Cortana, most telemetry, and some other things. I've yet to see it messed with by an upgrade and it applies no matter what network you connect to.
"Feel impossible" is a pretty awkward way to say "experience learned helplessness".
what is the responsibility of a multinational corporation to enforce american cultural norms in other countries with different values?
[dupe]

Previous discussion:

4 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27476032
You are in fact the one choosing to be offended, and responding with personal attacks and vitriol. What's your problem with respecting women?
Sure you can do tricks like this, but at a certain point it just wraps back around and suddenly you find yourself just doing regular CSS anyways.
Your comments are spot on.

I wouldn't say either one is good or bad, I've learnt to appreciate the differences.

Having lived in latin America and the US, US feels more concerned about individualism, achievements and efficiency and it shows in friendships. Outings are organized days in advance, people are expected to show up on time, calendar invites are not unheard of.

In latin America, life is more about family and being happy. You can call a friend the same day and enjoy a cold beer after work (some time after work, punctuality not required). I think people would laugh in my face if I tell them I'll send them a calendar invite.
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Is it finally time to get rid of the SAT and ACT college admissions tests?
YouTube Will No Longer Let Trump or Any Political Fig to Take over Its Homepage
The author touches on this a bit but I want to state this really simply:

Codes needs "why" comments, not "what" comments. The "what" can be done by self-documenting code, _most_ of the time. You still need to write "what" comments sometimes, don't rule it out completely. And you routinely need to write "why" comments, self-documenting code will never provide the context of "why".

Write more "why" comments.
By my calculation, if this person made ~$120k year and lived in a typical $3000/month 1-bed apartment in San Francisco, they should have about $40k/yr left after taxes and housing costs are paid. Out of this $40k they'd need to pay food, transportation, discretionary, and savings. Definitely puts efficiently saving a large downpayment on a home in California out of reach, but I'm surprised OP feels at risk of becoming homeless with that much budget slack. A generous $2000/month budget for non-housing spending (food, transportation, discretionary) would still leave $16k/yr they could save. Not a lot, but a lot better than many. Large debt payments or lifestyle inflation could pretty easily skew this person more toward an experience of paycheck-to-paycheck living.

When I lived in San Francisco, it seemed like the hedonic treadmill was in full force. People came to the Bay Area stunned that they could start out making more money than their parents ever dreamed of, then a few years later they feel grumpy because they're ONLY making $300k/yr when their buddy is making $450k/yr at FAANG and driving a new Tesla. It's easy for lifestyle inflation to happen in an environment where people all around you seem to have Scrooge McDuck levels of money and all the lifestyle bloat to go along with it.

My advice is to take your tech skills and leave for greener pastures. I see absolutely no reason to pay all those extra California taxes and housing costs.
in our teams experience NextJS is pretty much a silver bullet for data heavy enterprise apps
Some people are just resistant to change. I've switched to Sway and live the simplicity of a tiling Window manager. If I wasn't open to change I wouldn't have ever tried it out and found a bunch of other awesome stuff in the process.
I'd be more nostalgiac for these if Neocities pages didn't continue the trend of creating and sharing them. The bottom of this page offers a common example:

https://personally-comfy.neocities.org/
Interesting, how you’re so set on the name of a theorem proving software being the barrier to women entering the field and not the people who would actually harass them. Do you not think the same people who would make stupid jokes about a name wouldn’t find some other way to chase women away?
I think this is one of the most important points. Resting = less stress. Additionally, in Europe when you're ill it doesn't count against your holidays.
You "fixed" it to a rape accusation; Assange was also not accused of rape by anyone in Sweden.
And what Svelte Kit is to Svelte. ;)
>Traveling with kids and a babysitter

what? i make what i thought was good money but this is absurd to me
It didn't pretend that at all. At best it suggested it. It is a fantastic, moving film - my top 5 all time.
Thank you netUSB is exactly the type of software I was looking for.
The CIA has literally invaded another country by lying and deceiving the entire executive branch. That's clear cut evidence they aren't practically subordinate to the rest of the government.

Dictatorships might not be elected, they still have structure and procedure. If the Chinese MSS obeys the Politburo and doesn't withhold information from them, then they are subordinate to the government.
Can you imagine coming to a client meeting 30 minutes late and telling him that the bus driver decided on a whim stop halfway through the route to chat up an old friend?
There are no labor shortages in Capitalism. If something is off-balance, it's not Capitalism's fault.
> People aren't stupid. They'll have questions

i interview and i've never looked at the dates of employment on someone's resume. i don't care one whit when you did what in the past, just what you're capable of right now.
if you want the users of the program to know the output, but you want to keep the input a secret, you could use functional encryption (another special case of iO.) users can compute a function of the input without being able to decrypt the input or learn anything else about it.

if you want the output to be encrypted too (even potentially with a different key), you can use vanilla FHE.
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so fucking old

look at all the wikipedia article mentions and additions in this comment thread.

Instead of posting this, how about reference this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_the...
The involvement in fictional media is pretty out in the open at this point.

Here's John Krasinski, star of Amazon's Jack Ryan series, talking about how he was welcomed at the CIA and "we should thank them every day": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Yg6y6bFeM

A good article on how the writers for Homeland closely collaborated with representatives from the US intelligence community: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/home...
Interesting idea here, but will it pass?
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia has a great, exhaustive overview of the earlier iteration of that. Drug money is very attractive for intelligence agencies/militaries- it's free and off the books.
Yes, it is an exaggeration while in the case of Germany it’s literal (though in Spain, a few towns were razed, and many were heavily shelled)

People eating cats and rats off the streets is not an exaggeration however - there is abundant oral testimony to support that.

The point is that the damage hardly justifies talking about economies who live off inherited wealth, in either case.
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Next.js Live will have a completely redesigned open-source dev server, which anyone can use to create collaboration features on top – no lock in.

This server has been overhauled to run entirely in the browser, using technology like ES Modules, Service Workers, and WebAssembly.
It’s part of why capitalism was restored as part of a coup in my country in 89. Millions are far poorer for it.
i never understood the appeal over a hotel in the first place
Code involves names of methods and variables which can greatly aid in understanding as well. I've always maintained that comments should only be in code to explain something that is not obvious.

If you're calling the SaveUser function and passing in a new User object that you had just created, a comment of "Save the new User object" adds nothing but noise.
youtube-dl

https://superuser.com/questions/927523/how-to-download-only-...
> It's a luxury but one that Americans should be able to afford for all.

Agreed, but health care first, no?
If US workers feel stressed now, just wait. Your knowledge and service jobs are next on the chopping block as foreign competition from Rwanda to Rangoon moves up the value ladder; and as automation continues encroaching. We wanted cheap products from overseas, cheap debt, big state/federal spending & billions spent on sustainability boondoggles, D&I initiatives & regulation. Congrats! Mission accomplished and the bill is coming due. Grievance culture is costly as hell for society.
Make your alt keys do control, your win keys do alt, and your control keys do win.

No more Emacs pinky.
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Next excels in frontend grease, a place where the ssr frameworks do not venture.

I so agree that next is not the ultimate answer. Still waiting for the absolute best of both worlds.
We're working on this! https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1402613436081528836
I looked - could not find any examples remotely comparable to those mentioned in the article.
We're using it to build a headless Jamstack (headless CMS backend, React frontend).

Next.js makes the frontend a lot nicer to work with, especially if you want to deploy to a serverless config. Out of the box, it handles things like:

* Data pre-fetching (Next talks to the CMS during build instead of via a clientside request during load), then inlines the JSON response into the page so the React components have access to their initial load data (like the first page in a gallery, or the first set of blog posts) as soon as the page loads. No AJAX required. It's FAST for visitors.

* Handles page routing (like /blog/my-post or /products/24453) by mapping CMS entries into page templates

* Makes the developer experience a lot nicer, with preconfigured but extensible webpack, sass, tailwinds etc. support. Also extends the create-react-app dev server to support all the next features so you can get a good preview of how something works before you build for production

* Adds a bunch of optimizations (CSS, web fonts, tree-shaking) for faster performance

* Has optional modules you can use (authentication, ecommerce, AMP, etc.)

* It renders React + the data into straight HTML+CSS (again, fast) and that means some React components also work without Javascript enabled

Additionally, if you host on Vercel*, you get some additional features:

* Automatic image optimizations (auto-generated srcsets, webp, blurry lazy loads, etc. on the CDN)

* Incremental static regeneration: A backend server monitors the CMS for changes every X seconds, then rebuilds only the affected page (in a few seconds) instead of the whole project

* Complex rewrite rules that would normally be difficult with a static site. Not as powerful as .htaccess or Varnish rules, but good enough for simple cases

In general, the upside is that it turns React from a feature library to a more fully-featured web app framework. Still not as powerful as Angular, but hits that sweet spot where you can easily spin up a website with Next.js in a few minutes, and not have to worry about scaffolding or be overwhelmed by having to get a PhD in Angular before you can start using it.

The downside is that its primary maintainer, Vercel, also runs a hosting service. There is an inherent conflict of interest there because some Next.js are Vercel-only, and these are NOT clearly labeled in the docs. You just have to find out, upon deployment, that some features just invisibly break with no error or warning if you try to self-host or host elsewhere. Everything magically works on Vercel, but it's a crapshoot anywhere else. And it's only getting worse as they keep iterating features like next/image or Next Live but only with Vercel support.

Edit: Sorry about the formatting. I don't know what formatting engine HackerNews uses but it's awkward.
Hm. I never heard anyone explain it so well before, or why, one would "find oneself" (sorry for using this awkward phrase..) in travelling. Thanks. :)
Integral problems is to math as Leetcode is to software engineering.
Is anyone really that surprised? The United States were built exactly by the folks who wanted to opt out of the overbearing, coddling European system, and it shows.
In my experience a lot of the UX Research (separate from UX design) is completely ignored and PM’s / developers / UX Designers do whatever they feel is best anyways. I see this trend increasing more and more in the industry.
...I'm putting myself in the shoes of a person who is in the united states without authorization...and with that in mind, why in the world would I risk exposing myself and my illegal status by participating in something as pointless as voting in US elections...

I just don't see how an average person concerned with being deported is willing to risk exposing themselves by registering with the state government, especially in the last 8 years of ICE really pushing the limits on what they can do.
True crime is pretty popular around the world.
I'm pretty much convinced now that Microsoft will be giving up on desktop soon and we'll just end up with a Microsoft Window Manager for Linux where they'll build some compatibility layer to run Windows apps on Linux. Some people will say it will never happen but it is clear to me that they can no longer build anything original and actual innovative at this point.
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The article says wolfram alpha times out on this problem.
Your "SSID privacy" is at risk regardless of whether Google collects information or not: https://wigle.net/

In the end, asking people to please not snoop on you never has and never will be a security measure that works. You need something tangible to protect your privacy, so as to make it virtually impossible.

We already have this. Every modern mobile OS gates the SSID API behind location permissions.

Given such protections, practically speaking, there isn't any problem with SSID being bound to location information.
> My friend that I was traveling with and I would stare at each other and be like "what the hell is going on?" as we looked around at everyone else on the bus and nobody seems to care at all that their day has this arbitrary delay. I can only imagine if a driver did that here in Seattle with 30+ people all trying to get somewhere.

This does happen on Seattle-area transit, but definitely not on every route. Routes on the south end, both of Seattle and in south King County, are far more likely to have a couple of drivers who will pass each other and briefly pop open the door or slide open the window for a minute of chat. I've seen drivers taking their layover or lunch at Burien TC or TIBS who gab like old friends with any other drivers they encounter. But at Northgate or Aurora Village? Almost never happens.

Back before the big restructure in advance of Capitol Hill and UW stations opening, I rode the 72 virtually every day. If I got a particular driver, I mentally built in a roughly 6-minute wait somewhere in Ravenna because he'd pass a friend out walking or also driving a bus and they'd chat. Same for the 4 through the Central District with a different driver.

I like that transit has improved so much around here that it's easier and faster to get almost everywhere I'm going. But I also remember the quirks of transit past with that fondness of memory.
There is an Android keyboard called Graffiti Pro that does exactly that.

I don't think there is anything equivalent on the Remarkable, I think the idea is handwriting then if you need you can OCR it.
Not sure if the author's edit changed which calculus he's talking about, but at the time of this posting, they say Calculus 2, which meshes with my experience.

Lots of schools break up calculus in different ways, and that's fine. My school (and the schools of lots of people I know) break calculus up into calc 1, which is limits, differentials, and a toe dipping into integrals. Calc 2 is the 8 or so different tools for integrating progressively more difficult integrals. Calc 3 is multivariate calculus.

Lots of people have a very difficult time with calc 2. It feels very plodding- calc 1 and calc 3 (and diff eq and lin alg...) felt like I was learning new insight every week, calc 2 just felt like memorizing new vocabulary words. It wasn't just that it was hard, it was that it was hard and boring.

(obviously if a school breaks calc up differently your experiences will probably be different)
You’re saying he wasn’t accused of rape? Cornell has it wrong ?
The study found that the US and Canada had virtually identical stress levels. Therefore I doubt the healthcare system is the driving factor.

Also considering that the least stressed country was Russia, I don’t think that wealth inequality or the lack of a middle class is a major driver either.
> Updates regularly reset all the power settings so it suspends after 30 minutes.

Until recently, I was having major issues with every update resetting network and sharing settings, which essentially caused shared folders to become invisible to other computers on the network. It was a real pain and I'm glad they seem to have fixed whatever was causing it.
This is not entirely accurate. First, we are working on build-time image optimization, it just wasn't our first priority (https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1402613436081528836). Second, the vast majority of Next.js applications do not need a custom server.

Finally, Next.js Live is two parts – the soon open-source dev engine, and the collaboration features. The first will be open-source, always. The second can be any platform (like Vercel) with the ability to sync and store your code edits.
China brings the labor, Africa brings the materials.
My favorite European tech company is Atmel (Norway), which developed the AVR-8 microcontroller which is in the original Arduino (Italian).

Particularly, Atmel made the last 8-bit microprocessor which was just a bit more carefully thought out than everything else on the market and carefully positioned to give a lot of bang per buck.

Atmel got bought by Microchip (San Jose, USA)

Today when I think of Europe I think of those annoying popups which (I think) were a "normalization of deviance" for annoying and harassing UI elements on web sites... I mean, this one is required, virtuous, etc. so it is OK to nag people to get their email address, open a new window every time you click on a search result (Bing) so you'll accidentally click on an ad when handling way too many tabs

There was something anti-user about the GDPR popup that "broke the dam" for other bad practices, as well meaning as it is. It might pour sand into the wheels of the data economy, but it made it impossible to be an advocate of the user in most organizations. (e.g. if you can't reject that one, what can you reject?)
What is moral about teaching people they dont need to work to survive ?
>Codes needs "why" comments, not "what" comments.

Indeed. While there are exceptions, "what" comments will usually only add noise thus making things more difficult.

This isn't necessary:

// Total count
int total_count = 0;
But what kind of things to you write?
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Mice-based Alzheimer's studies that omit “mice” from title get 31% more press
I seem to recall '90 Stunts (also known as 4D Sports Driving) was somewhat deterministic as it featured replays, with which I recalled abusing the physics engine with carefully laid out tracks, and looping over the replays to much hilarity
Depends on how they do it, that is the point.

If a company chooses to rise its stock price by buybacks, shady business practices (SPACs, ads) and covering with PR, or investing in R&D to create real value.
Olympians are also religious about taking care of themselves. They absolutely will take off as much time as they need to make sure they're performing at their peak.
Yeah this sounds about right. If they were in a fancier place and were hitting $4000 per month in housing costs (parking spots aren't cheap I guess), that'd put them down to $4k savings per year with the rest of the spending held constant.