skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Is there a virtual receptionist service for my personal phone?
I would like to pay a human to answer calls to my cell phone and just send me an email of who it was and what they wanted.

I don't need a full blown personal assistant, I just hate answering my phone.

I am aware of several call answering services, but all the ones I have found are set up for customers calling businesses, and tend to glitch out when people who know you personally call expecting to get you directly.

Any solutions or am I just being too autistic/eccentric with this?
Nice try troll
But if you break backwards compatibility, why would such a language be interesting compared to the other languages you mentioned ?
> There's nothing inherent about Rust that makes it unsuitable for high level projects.

I don't agree. A garbage collector is very useful for high level projects. The problem with Rust is that you might run out of options once your project grows bigger. So in fact, choosing Rust is limiting your options. Garbage collected closures are very powerful, and missing in Rust. It's probably one of the reasons why Rust has no stable GUI yet.
How is nuclear a brilliant choice for hydrogen production? Hydrogen provides inherent storage, so energy sources will (aside from cost of electrolysers) be competing based on levelized cost -- and levelized cost of new nuclear sucks. High temperature electrolysis doesn't change this: it reduces the electrical power needed by maybe 25%, at the cost of a nuclear reactor that has to operate at 1000 C with all the material problems that implies (there's a reason LWRs won and HTGC reactors did not.)
For me it's when a library my app uses gets an update then my app fails.
Yes, and the fanciness part is done by another crate actually: https://github.com/zesterer/ariadne.
I don't know how you implemented it, but the big innovation of kubernetes was doing this with declarative inputs and using control loops for reconciliation instead of edge triggered changes.

It might not matter on a small scale, but on a large scale that's what makes it robust. It's also not trivial to implement a distributed version of this in house at scale. At the very least you need something like etcd at the core
Depending on what your language is for you probably want both.

WUFFS type base.u8[0 ..= 42] is a type which fits in one byte but only has values zero through 42 inclusive, and it's a different type from base.u32[0 ..= 42] because that one takes four bytes.

Rust cares about this stuff to some extent but only internally, for types with a "niche" where it can squirrel away the None case of Option in an invalid value without needing more space. e.g. Rust's optional pointer is the same size as a traditional C-style pointer, because NULL isn't a valid pointer value so that means None, and Rust's optional NonZeroU64 is the same size as a u64 (64-bits) because zero isn't valid so that means None.
That is a manager, not a leader. Leaders by definition don't need to be iron fisted, they lead and others follow.
You might be interested in this book [0]. One idea from the author is that in astronomy, you model the behavior of a set of objects, where each individual object or "atom" of your simulation (planets, rocks) has a behavior simple and easy to model. In economics and social science, the "atoms" of your simulation are human beings, and there is no good intrinsic model for the behavior of a single human beeing.

One of the observation of the author is that models work better if the human beings accept to restrict their behavior and follow simple rules. Another observation is that in social science, it is hard to design models that do a prediction significantly better than "tomorrow will behave the same as yesterday".

[0]:
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/en/article/research/your-life-numbers...
Buckminster Fuller, Intellectual Outlaw
No I'm not a troll.
You're just really ignorant.
Did you spend the last 5 years living in a cave?
How can you be totally oblivious to the fact that there is millions of people in concentration camps right now? Working as slaves for multinationals or getting their organs harvested by the Chinese government?
Gabriel Gonzalez on Dhall: A Programmable Configuration Language
It gets worse, just when i thought that 'it couldn't get any worse with covid'. A war in Europe, with some major powers being involved....
HB consumes energy in its compressors, but releases that energy as heat on the catalyst. Hot hydrogen doesn't compress well, so you'd cool it beforehand.
The money for the apartment needs to come from somewhere.
> the fashion industry is responsible for one-tenth of the world’s carbon emissions, according to the U.N. Environment Program — more than international flights and maritime shipping combined

I think we need clothing that lasts longer. If you are clothing shopping for fun, your actions aren't harmless.
> There are 19 stacks in this repository. 19 pieces of software that require their own maintenance, JUST TO RUN YOUR APPLICATIONS!

There's tools like Yunohost [0] that can save a lot of work and are focused on making the subsequent maintenance burden easier too. There's an application catalogue [1] with a lot of popular self-hosted apps to choose from and new ones being packaged all the time. I haven't used it myself yet, but hear very good experiences from people that have. Especially those that lack the more sysadmin tech skills and just wanna click-install & go.

There's also Freedombox [2]. I'd be interested to know about other such tools and your experience with them.

[0] https://yunohost.org

[1] https://yunohost.org/en/apps

[2] https://freedombox.org/
Zombocom is a well of deep wisdom (2021)
Ask HN: German Email Provider for Geeks?
In the light of the recent announcement of Google Apps closing, I started to look for providers.

I had a look at the typical ones (fastmail, zoho, protonmail) and recall that in a comment, some 2-3 years ago, someone mentioned a German provider rather directed to geeks. If I remember correctly it is ran by a team of people passionate about mail.

Does that ring a bell?
Some past threads:

Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17288454 - June 2018 (37 comments)

Show HN: Interactive, Visual Explanation of the GRAIL Handwriting Recognizer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11380711 - March 2016 (18 comments)
Wow. It's amazing that they managed to take a few Arduinos and hobbyist boards, build a 100 kg drone that flew into class A airspace, could easily have destroyed a family home and its occupants, planned effectively an air display with an experimental aircraft never before seen in Europe with no telemetry, no transponder, and dodgy radio, and not even get a visit from the CAA.

I'm not surprised most of the 15 recommendations are aimed at them. This sort of thing should not happen. The photos show loose wires basically on breadboards, not at all vibration proof or indeed capable of surviving inverted flight. Frankly, I half expected this to end with a visit from quick reaction jets.
Not as easily as you think it is:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Convention_on_the_Inte...

Even if you're a billionaire:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/magazine/how-to-hide-400-...
Interesting. I use Dvorak too and find it much easier than qwerty. But I have been wondering about that right pinky. I broke mine when I was much younger (skulls are harder than knuckles, kids). I guess I will try your BEAKL suggestion.
Anecdotally, I am one of the older people in our dev team, and also once of the only people who cares even slightly about big O. I’m talking simple stuff, like knowing whether indexing a given list data type is constant time or O(n). To be fair, it’s not particularly relevant to what we do.
Ask HN: Do you bring your own keyboard/mouse to work?
I think COVID-19 made me germophobe.

Do you bring it and why, or why not?
Why would you think Java is a descendant of C++? There may be overlap in some syntax, mainly from C. C++ is not, and was not, the only OOP language, and I have heard no such that that is should be descendant of C++.
Lots of confounding variables between Mormons and non-Mormons though, yes?
Rust is fairly nice to use for scripting / high level programming tasks. Libraries tend to be of high quality, and typically well (and consistently) documented. Ownership and borrow checking does not tend to cause issues in pipeline-like applications where everything can be basically always moved or cloned.
The energy use of agriculture is overstated. It's a rather minor part of the energy consumption of society overall. In the US we use more energy cooking food than we do growing it (which is about 1% of total energy use). (Note: this ignores the direct use of sunlight falling on fields growing crops.)
He admittedly didn't know about computers. No need to walk in anymore.
The fact that they try to sell you an alternative to Minecraft is a bit ridiculous, who do they think is their target audience? Seems like a scam.
the build process of C is one of its absolute benefits. Each unit compiles on its own, producing an object file. The fact that people have now started to make header-only libraries makes the story even better! Each function gets a name. No namespaces, classes, scopes, modules, w/e. You can even just declare a function as extern at compile time!
The difference vs SSH for me (using plain Wireguard but achieving the same thing) is that I can set up my phone with always-on VPN to home and then wherever I am I'm effectively on my home network. I can access all my home-hosted services in my browser, securely access IOT things that can't talk to the open internet, use my home-hosted DNS rather than my mobile provider's, etc. I do use ssh over that connection (with Termux) to talk to servers, ofc.
Are a large fraction of the population getting amputated against their will?
I guess familiar syntax and a flatter learning curve.

(note: I am not a C++ dev, so this is just my assumption/derivation)
If a user wants to parse integers etc. from a string, the function snprintf and family is often applied. It is a neatly simple function. This article seems to invent a problem rather than an organic one.
This matches my experience. Last time I changed jobs, the questions I asked were all thinly veiled scenarios to draw out whether as a developer I’d have the agency to do things without micromanagement. My now team lead saw through this pretty quickly and said he doesn’t believe in involving anyone in a decision who can’t add value to the discussion. That answer pretty much convinced me to join.
I use trello, I liked it cus it was simple and free and easy to get other people on. But it continually has gotten worse. They are slowly ruining its simplicity, and also adding purposefully annoying bullshit to the free version.

Eg. I had loads of boards on Trello. Then one day they say every board needs to be nested within a new construct they introduced called "workspace" or some shit. but workspaces can only hold a small amount of boards... So almost all my boards got auto archived cus they wouldnt fit into the one auto generated workspace.

I clicked the alternative on this site, (kanboard) but it looks like I need to setup my own server for it? I dunno how to do any of that shit, I am not a webdev, I'm a game dev.
I really appreciate this response and will come back to say more when I'm awake, but just want to acknowledge that you have interesting stuff to say and I want to hear more. Thank you.
Vinted
Beats North Korea.
There are some very nazi problems with the whole approach.
Does it need to be free? Posteo is said to be quite good, ad-free, anonymous and cheap at only 1€/month.

https://posteo.de/

I just looked up how they make paid services and anonymity go together and they have a page about it here:

https://posteo.de/en/site/payment
Okay. Your app. I was just explaining to you why the conversion didn't work for me.
> Sound was also a point of contention at Atari. Mr. Bushnell wanted the roar of approval of a crowd of thousands; Mr. Dabney wanted the crowd booing.

> “How do you do that with digital stuff?” Mr. Alcorn asked. “I told them I didn’t have enough parts to do that, so I just poked around inside the vertical sync generator for the appropriate tones and made the cheapest sound possible.”

So the music genre should have been called cheaptune instead of chiptune after all.
While roughly 3/4 of total emissions come from generating energy (electricity, heating, moving things).

https://www.wri.org/data/world-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2018
I don't know which is the one you remember, but check out this list, it may be there:
https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers
It isn't the deciding factor.

We've had employees choose us over other offers with higher salaries.

An unfair offer can make people avoid your company, but a higher salary is rarely the reason why people say yes.

Fwiw, my personal experience as a developer also matches this. Before starting Robusta, I turned down a very high offer from Microsoft to go to a development job at a startup because I preferred a high impact job over better compensation.
I can confirm that moving email is the easiest of all the migration tasks. I connected my Google account and a destination email account to Outlook and moved all my email in less than 5 minutes.
Or Glade replacement efforts, it is hard to consider Gtk 4 a modern toolkit when GtkBuilder requires building its gigantic XML files by hand.
What is CodeMentor like? What kind of level of expertise is expected from a mentor? It seems very tempting, but my impostor syndrome is playing games with me.
That's why I created "Developer search" chrome extension to easily add filters for site and time on your search
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/developer-search/d...
In fact the processing of "natural" fibers is much more harmful to the environment then synthetics.
A Wordle Autosolver
I don't think it's a fully optimal solution yet, but it can guess the correct answer in 3-4 guesses on average.
I think the talk video (last on the linked page) does a really good job of explaining the problems surrounding natural vs digital (RGB) pigments mixing, and how the Mixbox folks overcame them to create good-looking outcomes.
I for one am all for building green energy infrastructure at scale. However, at this point, I believe the push for green energy at the expense of nuclear, and even hydro projects at this point, has retarded the reduction of green house gases. It's a bit ironic that those wholly supporting wind/solar, have at the same time forced increased bureaucracy, and cost in other base load energy sources that could have helped in an overall reduction of emissions. So by fighting against climate change, they may have indeed made it worse.
> Child alimentation stops at certain places after some age threshold is reached

I think they don't have any kids. So the alimony is going fully to his ex? (what he is complaining about).
Lots of very large GUI applications and libraries are written in C++, and do just fine without language-level GC. And Rust gives you tools to manage a lot of the issues you have there.
> You can't effectively ban the collection.

You can, that is what the EU's privacy regulations are all about.
I brought it to jobs where the provided keyboard was a standard membrane. Can't work without a nice mechanical one.
Cheap clothing is just cheap as the hidden cost are... Hidden. Cheap labour, cheap material, low quality combined with high emissions and pesticides/toxins that are released mostly untreated.
i read some research recently that showed that the immune system is reaponsible for the pruning of axonal connections between neurons in the brain. As such Schizophrenia is an genetic abnormality that increases the amount of pruning of axonal connections which diminishes the inhibitory function that some neurons have on others.

Edit: spelling
There was some research that showed people who typed with fewer fingers could be just as fast. However, I am surprised that anyone could achieve 100wpm with no training.
Any ideas of why that is happenning?
> I could post my fully automated self hosting infrastructure, but it would be boring.

Actually, I would find that not boring :)
I don't have the expertise to answer that at a technical level. I think it could be a good choice because it would help balance out intermittent sources like wind and solar. And give alternative revenue streams for nuclear power.
I have heard that chicken necks and feet are exported to China from EU
Same for pig feet.
Scrum Rant
I was under the impression that must of Rust's compile time comes down to LLVM
I think this may be more of a problem for people who are, because of the language(s) they are coming from, used to throwing everything at the garbage collector to sort out.

I've been writing Rust for years now, and the number of times I think "jeez, I wish I had a garbage collector right now" are so very few and far between that I can't come up with a single example right now.

That is to say, I really think it has more to do with what you're familiar with.

> It's probably one of the reasons why Rust has no stable GUI yet.

I don't think there's much to this hypothesis. It's more likely that for people who really want something right now, there are plenty of bindings to GTK etc. that work quite well. People who are interested in a novel, idiomatic Rust GUI framework tend to be more interested in thoroughly exploring lots of different ideas than committing to one of them. That is to say, there's not actually any great urgency to slap together something that works that you could call "a Rust GUI", because in practice plenty of those options already exist!
Good thing you're not a young teenager with a eating disorder. Can you imagine the targeted adds?
> i get it but in reality in many families someone is sacrificing their career for the family unit.

Is this some "western developed country" thing that I just don't get?

All throughout my childhood, both of my parents had to work. Otherwise they wouldn't have been able to support me and my sister. But I was growing up in an (post-) communist state and it was quite the norm.

It had nothing to do with ambitions or building your career, just pure economics.
I am all for people taking appropriate steps to improve privacy.

For friends and family who like gmail and Google in general, I recommend going into settings and disallow the data collection that is configurable. I use gmail in addition to ProtonMail and Apple mail. I request that the only history Google keeps on me is 3 months of my YouTube viewing so I can get recommendations.

I also try to get people to make using private browser tabs the default.

For myself, I feel like I walk a thin line between privacy and getting things done easily.
I think it's the best search google has produced. Probably the most extreme example of how good it is: Search for "reebok or the nike" and "Corona - The Rhythm of the Night (Official Music Video)" is the 3rd result :^)

Another suprising example: Search for "ádzseszkó", which is how a hungarian speaker who doesn't speak a lick of english would write "I just called", successfully finds Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You
> Kind of like when women say they want men with a sensitive side, in touch with emotions, but in reality most women want a strong man who doesn't show any emotions.

Frankly, almost no grown adult wants an emotionally stunted partner who got that way because they never came to grips with their emotions; few people want to deal with childish coping mechanisms from a grown adult.
You are missing the tiny detail that browsers are free to clean the cache any time they feel like, you as game developer have nothing to influence this, it is completely out of your hands as security measure not to bomb user's computers.
Covid could do that. But, somehow, people got so afraid on being in the depopulated side that the whole life become fuzzy nowadays. /S
If it balances out renewables, it also then pushes new nuclear entirely out of the picture.
Twitter CEO rejigs security team, CISO Sethi to leave
Free and open source virtual synth Surge XT 1.0 released
With *good* isolation and placed under a good duvet it will be warm until morning.

With bad isolation: uncomfortably hot for 30 mins, ok for 30 mins and ice cold in the morning!
Thank you so much for name-dropping YunoHost! The demo alone sold me on finally going the self-host route for things such as ebooks, music, and photos.
For HB you need pressure of 250-350 bars, while existing PWRs routinely work with 150 bars of coolant pressure. I assume it's possible to produce hydrogen with the necessary pressure using VHTRs, i.e. you would get hydrogen already pressurized and hot. You would still need to run compressors on input water, but it's much easier than working with hydrogen later.
Waiting for the Ammonia Shills to chime in that producing enormous amounts of ammonia that nobody actually needs will drive the development of green energy infrastructure.
That's exactly what I read while traveling there, that this is why there's so many aluminum plants – because aluminium requires a lot of energy that they have for almost free, yet they cannot export (as electricity) due to their distance to potential markets.
I agree that having a good summary on the first line is important, and that the actual wording of the messages shown is a little confusing, but:

- The annotations shown look like a prettier version of the ones done by the Closure Compiler, which I find very helpful.
- Some types can be really long, so putting two of them on the first line may not always be as readable as the TypeError example you gave. Putting them one above the other can make it much easier to spot the difference.
http://box.com

Box’s free tier used to occasionally have 50GB for free offers but file size is limited to 250MB iirc. My family has been using their accounts when this deal was on a few years back and the file history recovery option helped in a pinch where ransomware encrypted both one of their PC + then connected external HDD backup data at once. Also though they have a new sync client “Box Drive” their legacy “Box Sync” client still functions without any major interface or major boot changes one has to learn or get used to (for now).

Update:
Sadly no promos now (https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043694774-Box-P...) but free personal account signups here with 10GB of storage
https://box.com/personal
I don't really care if Exxon is the most valuable company in the world because they discover a way to capture CO2 out of the air and pump it into old wells.

Almost everyone agrees (finally!) global warming is an existential threat for humankind. If you start bringing up other random environmental concerns you lose supporters quickly.
> Drinking alcohol - particularly the potent rice-based spirit bai jiu - plays an important ritualised role in business and government circles in China.

from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8350170.stm
There have been quite a number of stories of death from this. Your assumptions about China are out of sync with reality.