skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For embedded and system programming roles, try applying at companies which evaluate you only on generic coding skills, and then learn on the job. Typically these companies use C, C++, or Rust for low-level software and perhaps Golang or Java for middleware. Assuming that you're familiar with one of these languages (or any other statically typed language) and concepts such as multithreading, event multiplexing API (epoll in Linux or libraries such libevent), you can start applying right away.
On the IM side there's also https://delta.chat/en/
If you dont want it to be transparent, you use Monero. Its now even getting atomic swaps with Bitcoin.
>It does come with a catch... Using Aurora Store could be considered a violation of the Google Terms of Service and Google could terminate your account for it.

Aurora has the option of logging in using an anonymous profile instead of your 'true' account. Why not use that and avoid any risk?
Thanks for the response, Peter. I may shoot you an email with some additional questions.
Typed DSL in Go (Or Sum Types and GADTs in Go)
Your not paranoid, it's a thing. Look at company called Polte - they do 'inventory tracking' using 5g. It's far more accurate for geolocation than anything prior.

They can find your cellphone -ane any other 5g device, within meters.

Personally, I think the marketing video here https://www.o-ran.org/
Is one of the creepiest things out there. Yes, it's 'open' - as in the collusion of all relevant companies in the space have agreed on a standard to sell your data faster, and more openly, than ever before. Oran is a specification for building 3rd party apps that sit inside the antennas compute hardware themselves. Not only can your carrier now track the living shit out of you, but so can hundreds of third parties that have 'obtained your permission'.

5g is creepy as fuck, and absolutely promises the cel network will not be usable for a revolution.
Reducing Telecom Customer Churn Rates with Data
Weird...edits did not go through. Some typos / voice typos above. "Car and" -> should be: current. And some more....
"People will get yeast out of the cupboard..."

Yeah, those are the kind of people who need to proof the yeast. What is it doing in the cupboard?

Proofing can't hurt and is good advise, but at some point you learn you can get away without.

I haven't bothered to proof yeast in a decade. I'm no pro, but we do make all of our pizza, bread, buns, rolls, pretzels, etc.

I buy big compressed blocks and store them in the freezer. When one is opened, some goes in a small jar in the refrigerator and the rest in a large jar in the freezer.
Sensors and AI to monitor Dorset social care patients
Virgin Hyperloop unveils new pod concept video
Not really, I just don't have to prove on the court of HN law my personal experience, related to people I have met, or books I longer have access to.

If you feel this is a cop-out, I really don't care.
Can you explain what capabilities it had that were different?
If you have to mask up inside your own household, and you know there are government vaccine enforcement officials (GVEO's) coming to check at random, you are more likely to have one when you pop outside, and later pop into a shop or pub.

/s.

Vehemently disagree with your logic.
> Your posts on other social networking sites google knows about and uses.

Source?

> They probably leveraged access to facebook's data for ads in exchange for shutting it down.

Speculation?
I wouldn't be shocked if a lot of companies spent as much on hotels + airbnb before the pandemic as on office space anyway. Business travel is hella expensive, and salespeople don't stay at Model 8.
>>*Bitcoin. Transactions on Fantom for example take couple seconds and cost less than a USD cent. Similarly Nano, AVAX, Cardano and many others.

Can't reply to your comment for some reason..

I been in Cardano/ADA for years now, and it generally takes about an hour to get the required confirms for moving between exchanges.

Not familiar with Nano, and AVAX...
If he only wanted to avoid being killed by the Taliban but otherwise retain his religious and culturally acquired views and behaviours, Probably the US was never the right place to settle. It's possible Iran, or Pakistan, or Malaysia or something was going to be a better "fit". I doubt they wanted to be the final destination any more than any economy does, but possibly, the outcome would be more congenial for him if they had been the endpoint.

I suppose I mean that if he now has residency, he might have choices. He could (obviously, at some considerable expense) relocate. It is also interesting to wonder what a partner and children might think: His reluctance to acculturate, might be offset by what he sees his family doing. I know of like outcomes although a friend did a PhD on this stuff in cultural linguistics and oftentimes, the men in the family change faster than the women, it depends (this was research in the persian/iranian community. it may differ in the Hazara community. Being Shia reduces options for where to go in the islamic community, Shia being a significant minority religion in most economies. Being relocated from Afghanistan to Syria or Iraq or Lebanon would be pretty bizarre. Being relocated to Iran would probably have worked out ok)

I'm trying to avoid saying what i think about his choices given it's obvious I don't want a world with headscarf laws.

This isn't about if I approve or disapprove of sharia law and imposed norms on women, its about what he wants, wanted. Doing a good thing (helping him not die) has wound up making a range of (lesser?) bad things happen.

The Iran thing is so complicated. Probably, he's so tainted by his role with the US it's impossible. (I am making huge inferential leaps that he's Hazara/shia not sunni btw, there's no strong reason for only shia to have opposed the Taliban. If he's sunni, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan would be fine you would think)

You probably feel pretty conflicted about this. What would I know, I've never had to make this kind of least-worst choice for somebody else, at somebody else's behest. I don't envy anyone exposed to this stuff. Nobody feels completely good, when you do a good thing, but the outcome isn't entirely welcome. I know I've done some stupid things from good intent and the outcome is universally bad, and this isn't one of those times I think so, there's that. I think you did a good thing.
And recreating all existing channels
Thoughtful response, and nice to find someone that has a reasonable knowledge on the matter as well.

I do agree with your point about cancel culture and payments, it is rather scary what/who else they could come after. If they want to be a payment platform, they shouldn’t be picking sides and just be enforcing what laws they fall under instead. But the cut off public opinion is a harsh and unpredictable place.
A significant part of the internet’s progress since the 70s is also due to state funding. There are many large companies and universities committing code to your favorite open source projects after being funded by government dollars. There are new technologies being invented because of government grants.
I think focusing on apps alone misses the point. Startups like Uber or Peloton or Affirm are not just apps they all solve business problems like logistics, hardware, or access to financing. Yes they use software, but doesn't everybody?
And the letter dismissing the lab leak theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lancet#February_2020_lette...
BC Canada is at 85% vaxxed age 12+. We just had a mask mandate announced regardless of vax status, as well as a vax 'passport' for access to restaurants, gyms, etc.

(Temporary until Jan 31, 2022 of course with the possibility of extensions.)
Supply side is the first side in what exists
Techsis use a different one?
I tried to untangle all this stuff, but it looked really complicated. Apparently the US encouraged radical Islam as a way of opposing Soviet occupation - resisting state-sponsored atheism and culture and all. But there were a bunch of mujahideen groups, spanning multiple ethnic groups and ideologies.

After the occupation ended, a bunch of the groups signed onto the Peshawar Accord to create a government, but a few of the groups (notably Gulbuddin, who later razed Kabul) didn't, and sparked a civil war. Pakistani intelligence (ISI) backed Gulbuddin, and amidst the bloodshed the Taliban emerged as a force countering all the warlords tearing the place apart. Sensing the winds change, ISI backed the Taliban, who cleaned up the civil war and seized control. I'm not sure what radicalized the Taliban, other than seeing the bloodshed as products of moral failing and not heeding the Qur'an.

From Wikipedia, the early Taliban actually participated in peaceful interfaith debates with Christians and Hindus while it was in Pakistan. I'd like to know how it got so extreme.
The state department knows everything (or they can find out via the NSA) about every human on the face of the Earth.
> Also GC by default and systems programming...

GC is _not_ the default though. Not sure why you brought that up.
Honestly I see no issue with facebook being allowed to do this. If someone pays me to install spyware on my desktop, nobody complains that we should remove the ability to run as root.
My understanding is delta is more contagious, but with the same amount of 'lethality'.
The circumstances which lead to the rise of these forces, is informed by the history, including both Russian and American investment in a 'war by proxy'

I also used to repeat the simplistic trope the US made the taliban de-facto since the US made the Muhahideen to defeat the russian backed puppet government. I think it has elements of truth, but there's obviously a lot more to it.

It's not "there's nothing here" simple either. The Taliban might not have taken root if the whole war-by-proxy hadn't happened. Some stuff I read suggests modern Afghanistan is like Kurdistan: unfathomably hard to make work, against the political realities of the neighbours and the different pressures inside the country.
All I can say is "Tahnk Gawd for the Trans Tasman arrangement". Good to hear Beautiful NZ is faring seemingly better... never been there and I wonder what culturally/politically the difference with AU is...
Job Candidate: So how much vacation time do you offer?

Interviewer: We offer one-month paid vacation with your co-workers at an exotic location of our choosing. Oh, and we decide when you take those vacations
I believe KaiOS is meant to succeed Firefox OS, but admittedly it is aimed at a less-than-smartphone category.
Despite the strict lock-downs, the rate of confirmed new cases has been skyrocketing for the past week in NZ [1] (and many other countries), with no clear end in sight.

Only ~20% of the NZ population has been fully vaccinated [2].

> In the next week our lockdown will be over and we’ll have no cases

> Completely 100% normal prepandemic life all for the easy price of a momentary blip of inconvenience

I honestly can't tell if your comment is satire or propaganda. Assuming you've commented in good faith - why do you believe there will be no cases next week? Don't you think it's likely that the prime minister extends the lock-down orders, again?

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/new-zealand#d...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/new-zealand#w...
Someday you will participate in a legal proceeding, and you will feel silly about writing this. I wish I could have those days back, when I believed that lawyers wouldn't twist words out of context, or construct entire alternate realities from a few found seed words.

But they do, and the good ones are really good at it.

Any competent company is going to train its people with some sort of variation on a course named "The Ten Dumbest Things You Can Write In An Email So Don't".
I'm not sure how you can call it worse than the status quo.

Last week my bank informed me that I passed my ATM limit for the year and it's going to give me a small daily allowance for the rest of the year. And then lied me on the phone that it's a requirement from the central bank.
This is neither a joke nor a metaphor - this literally happened to me this month (ING in Romania -they're widely considered the best bank here). Ah, they're an ATM-only bank, they have no tellers, so I can simply not take my money out, unless I make an account with another bank and have it transferred. And this just means I'm going to hit another set of limits.

There is a concerted effort to control the financial movements of the population. If you fit within common patterns you don't see it. I'm probably barely at the edge - I've moved on the order of tens of thousands - and I'm hitting it pretty hard. Revolut had my account completely blocked for a couple of months earlier this year, while completely ignoring my calls. Couldn't even close it, since it was not on zero and couldn't take money out of it. And this was for moving around on the order of thousands over a few months, mostly sending money to a few friends. This is not money laundering, this is simply using the money I make very legitimately and paying taxes for.
The TVs track the content you’re watching by sampling a subset of the pixels. So yes.
FAA Investigating Boeing's Safety Culture Amid Engineers' Complaints
Isn't 650 lbs not that much? It's only a little more than 4 humans.
So is this actually scalable to get to a bigger market?
I had a dell windows mobile device around that time. It had a tiny mechanical keyboard and a stylus. You could copy & paste, but the OS was so underpowered it couldn’t run multiple programs at the same time. You could install software by plugging it into a computer and running an installer that copied files via USB. Programs (and the OS) crashed all the time. It was the sort of device only a gadget fiend could love.

Android at the time was similarly awful. I remember talking to an android engineer at Google a few years later. I was asking him why android’s UI still sucked compared to iPhones. He said android was the only mobile operating system still standing which was invented before the iPhone. They had to essentially piece by piece reinvent the whole core OS to make it relevant after the iPhone came out. That was taking longer than they would like - because of course it was. But to their credit, they got there.

Google at the time was working in the same hardware ecosystem as Apple and they didn’t invent the iPhone. And that’s not criticism - the design of the iPhone is only obvious in hindsight. If Apple didn’t do it, who knows what our phones would look like today. Probably much worse.

The touch screen keyboard, swipe to unlock, rich fonts, full multitasking & app switching. This was all revolutionary at the time. Steve jobs was an arse. But he (and his team) pulled off a revolution with the iPhone. He deserves credit for that.
The U.S. military has a lot of informative publications such as this. They’re usually pretty easy to read once you find the relevant section. Those interested in this one might also like Naval Telecommunications Procedures [1]. It has a lot of administrative and Navy-specific information, but chapter 5 covers radio communication, including satellite communication (unclassified of course).

Edit: The Naval Electricity and Electronics Training Series (NEETS) [2] is good as well.

1. https://info.publicintelligence.net/USNavy-NTP4E.pdf

2. https://www.hnsa.org/manuals-documents/2575-2/
ULPT, but I like it.
CalyxOS doesn't change the default connectivity checks and NTP. GrapheneOS does (NTP isn't used though [1]).

[1] https://grapheneos.org/faq#default-connections
Ask HN: What Happened to the P2P Revolution?
These days, it seems anything of scale (and indeed, just about anything in general) lives in "the cloud".
For commercial and other projects with some incentive for income, this is probable fine(tm).

But for lots of open source things, we couldn't scale even if we wanted to, due to hosting costs.
Imagine an open non-profit version of Instagram as an example, they spent what, $3 billion on AWS.

Peer to peer seems such an obvious solution to this, but somehow, it's failed to materialize as a widely employed technology.
When I first heard of peertube, I thought "Finally! Someone is doing what must be a mix of Kazaa and youtube, where the videos are hosted by all the online computers" and boy was I dissapointed.

So, in short, why do you think we're not seeing p2p being widely deployed as an alternative to traditional hosting?
In what way do you consider F# better than scala? Especially with the recently released, revamped Scala 3?
Its true we could buy new phones yearly if we wanted to, but in my experience Engineering types are far less interested in social signaling / conspicuous consumption and far more likely to buy something based purely on the spec sheet. You have to do more than color your phone pink to convince us to upgrade. We know how that sausage is made.

Both of our narratives are plausible. The only way to settle this is with data.
I try to like it, but I don't. It drags out. I really enjoyed the first two seasons of JoJo, but the others feel like they're stretching a 4 episode story across 40 episodes.

Modern anime feels a little like Clash of Clans. It's highly commercialized. Instead of making you feel good, it gives you just enough of a feel good dose and hides the rest, so you'd face enough withdrawal to consume more.

It works for something to watch during lunch break, when I just want something mindless to clear my brain and not something philosophical like Loki.

Anime movies are good but rare. I really enjoyed Spirited Away and The Wind Rises.
Smart TVs, Smart watches, Smart phones, Smart houses.. how did things become smart? As far as I can determine, the 'smart [thing]' linguistic construct started with 'smart bomb', a propaganda euphemism for guided bombs that emerged in the 70s. Does anybody have an earlier example?

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/26/archives/smart-bombs-and-...
Can you explain what you’re trying to say? I feel like I’m supposed to see something damning in these two paragraphs, but I’m not seeing it. Writing styles seem dissimilar enough that I don’t think they’re the same person, if that’s it.
Play store app able to intercept “clear data” command
Sorry, this was a bit out of context.
As the other commenter assumed, it is for replacing/extending the functionality of the phone.
For example, I wanted to access the heartrate and other mi band data and it's quite easy with gadgetbridge and my own flutter app.

I tried similar apps before with SwiftUI and the Apple Watch and it was pretty much a disaster (although I have working knowledge of objective C ...). Dart came easy and flutter seems super powerful to me ( I just re-implemented my first very simple ios game in just a day. that's the objective c version https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blanks/id286883373 ). Will publish/open-source the other one, when it's polished.
There are tons, they just don't tend to generate controversy, so they aren't talked about as much, or in the same way. But a simple example would be Einstein. Or in the field of CS, Turing was well liked by his collaborators as well, despite having some idiosyncrasies.
Why does Airbnb offer free stays to refugees in Afghanistan, but not homeless in the US?

First, Airbnb is very host-centered. The host can pick their guests, make changes to their reservations, etc. I think if they said “your house will host homeless, but don’t worry we will pay you anyway”, they’d lose 70% of US hosts regardless. The shelter is only part of the problem with homelessness, going hand in hand with at least mental health care.

Second, it may have to do with prices. I imagine a night in Kabul cost $15–25 for an apartment (prior to the withdrawal, at which point they probably lowered further); now compare to prices in say Washington or SF area. Imagine Airbnb declares a plan for fighting homelessness, and has to pay actual market rates to its hosts in major US cities.

All in all it looks like it could be an interesting idea for a non-profit, but it doesn’t seem to make sense as a long-term tactic for a business like Airbnb.

This could be a good question to ask companies like Booking.com though, where hosts are generally not expected to be able to choose whether to accommodate the name on the booking.
Contact tracing is looking for people that came in contact with infected individuals. When a coworker gets covid they investigate where they went and who they came in contact with so that person can get tested. Not sure how that is Orwellian.

What people would consider Orwellian is the app you can use to scan in at places. That's voluntary, but almost everyone uses it and you still have to sign in on paper if you don't.

Personally, I don't mind. We all carry around GPS tracking devices every day, and it's silly to think that governments can't already track those. Even with GPS off you can be tracked if hitting wifi or different cell towers.
Partition Key selection aside, if you want a better Cassandra, look at ScyllaDB. Much, much better engine, imho.

/disclaimer/ I used to work at Scylla.
Man Photographed as Baby on ‘Nevermind’ Cover Sues Nirvana for Child Pornography
Except those american videocameras were probably made in Japan. Sony, Nikon, Ikegami, JVC, ...
"I almost never get useful results out of a web search"

This I find impossible to believe. So you basically don't get any useful results for 80-90% of your searches? I wish you could give some examples.
A positive use case that still matches your criteria:

Used to work with a really nice guy (everyone loved him). Wrote code really fast. It worked. It was scary code though.

When a customer had a crisis we’d send him in. He’d find the 10 holes in the dike and stick his fingers in. As soon as he went to work on something else the water would come rushing back in.

But that was ok. He’d stabilize things while somebody wrote a saner patch. What he did was usually a clue about the underlying problem.

Actually this wasn’t his only mode. You probably are running some of his decades old code right now.

I could use someone like him again.
The books that i have listed fall into this category. They are all foundational. Some more overview/foundational books on aspects of Networking are;

* Foundations of Modern Networking: SDN, NFV, QoE, IoT and Cloud by Stallings.

* Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World by Kaufman et al.

* Web Protocols and Practice: HTTP/1.1, Networking Protocols, Caching, and Traffic Measurement by Krishnamurthy and Rexford.

That should give you an overview of all important aspects of Computer Networking. Each of them is a huge domain on its own and you would need to look up detailed books specific to that domain as needed.
Sounds like you're comfortable with having all of your conversations transcribed directly to twitter! Let us know where we can read that.
Another option is to buy a powerful laptop with thunderbolt, and use an eGPU.
> ...private capital does not want markets. They want markets for other people but not for themselves. For themselves they want a nanny state, a powerful nanny state, that will support them.