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The point isn't to make cops work better by giving them less money, the point is to take that money and spend it on things like affordable housing, vocational programs, cheaper college classes, grief counseling,drug prevention programs, daycare vouchers, etc.

Things that are outside of the purview of police forces.
The network / infrastructure side of Nokia still exists. When the handsets division was split or sold off, the network division continued as Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), and was rebranded to Nokia Networks I think after the merger with Alcatel-Lucent.

So for the big mobile wireless telco's, the big players are basically Nokia, Erricson, and Huawei these days. My experience with Nokia's equipment did reflect the burning platform memo, but all the big players had lots to be desired in my experience with them.

Note: I've been out of the industry for several years, so I'm not totally up to date on the vendors.
Yeah, the only people making money on Android were the ones with great hardware and brand recognition.
> conflicts are a bad thing

What the hell? The literal process of science is conflict. It’s not a bad thing. It’s the sorting out of which ideas are most accurate and most useful for answering questions. Edit: gob help me I’ll just say “dialectic”. I’ll take whatever is incoming for saying it.
Climatology is a hard science yet it is also one of the most politically debated in popular media.

I think the real factor here is whether or not a large cohort of people find inconvenience in what the scientists of a given field are saying
Ah, thanks for the explanation. From an editorial POV, what makes you think it was a mistake?
Yeah, think about the poor investors and VCs. Burn the witch!
Without the politics, would we even have standardization to this degree? Before USB-PD we had barrel jacks with not even polarity fully standardized.

I'm sure the standards could be done better, but it sure beats no standards.
Describe works it’s way backwards to find a tag matching the search pattern. If you are checked out on origin/master and the tags come from the same centralized origin, then you will have a predictable global order.

It’s basically the same thing as rev-list that they do, except more readable, with tighter integration to tags and with the result usable as a commitish.
There are a lot of hard sciences!

Mechanics /
Electromagnetics /
Thermodynamics /
Kinetics /
Inorganic Chemistry /
Electrochemistry /
Analytical Chemistry /
Earth Sciences /
Anatomy /
Botany /
Biology /
Zoology /
Neurobiology /
Marine Biology /
Embryology /
Ecology /
Palaeontology /
Genetics /
Cell Biology /
Ethology /
Astronomy /
Meteorology /
Geology /
Atmospheric Sciences /
Glaciology /
Climatology /
Structural Geology

Most psychology papers are also fairly difficult to politicise. Like, try to politicise this: https://www.pnas.org/eprint/WREBM4QSJCM8MUAMJXEH/full
It’s a cop out to blame “nightly news” or “Facebook news.” They just republish and mock stuff like this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/modern-mathematic...

I don’t disagree that most science is pretty non political. But it’s also true that the contact surface that a large swath of America has with “science” is through publications like Scientific American, scientists who go on TV, social “scientists,” etc.
If we're going to be talking about general consumers, most can't (and righteously shouldn't) handle anything more than one whole incrementing number. WTF is a "gbits", a layman would ask; is it Google Bits?

Car manufacturers have this drilled down: Each new model car gets a new version number based on year of release, nothing more nothing less. 2020 Honda Civic, 1995 Toyota Camry, 2022 Tesla Model S. Newer year? Newer model. Simple. Done.

Likewise, USB should be numbering each and every new different standard revision with a whole number if the goal is to attain general consumer understanding. By my tally, we're up to USB12 with USB4v2120gbps (USB11 for USB4v280gbps).

How fucking simple everything would be if instead of asking if a cable/device is compatible with USB3.2, which can be USB3 or USB3.1 and Gen1x1, Gen2x1, Gen2x1, Gen1x2, or Gen2x2 because nobody knows WTF Gens are, we ask if it's compatible with USB6 (aka USB3.2Gen2x2). It's simple and unambiguous.

USB naming schemes as it stands is pig latin to computer nerds, let alone the layman. If the goal is universal understanding by the public at large, aka the general consumer, it is failing hard.
Learned a new word today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord
Got it. Not sure you’re supposed to write off a business for 100M that you can only shutter for parts for 50M.
As someone who owned a Windows phone around that time, and knew others who did as well, the shared opinion was that it was a pile of crap.

Nokia went for Windows because of the acquisition target, not because of quality of the OS. With that, they prioritized business strategy over product quality, and we all know what happened after.
Yeah it's called proof-of-payment and it's starting to become more common in the US. In San Francisco all of Muni is POP, it speeds up boarding dramatically. As for electronic ticketing, dunno how much it's caught on in Germany but BVG in Berlin has a mobile app that you can buy tickets with. Worked well enough for me.
I'm full of tricks, cxr. You'll get used to it.
Oddly, Windows Phone 8 had the best user experience of any phone I've ever used, by far.

I'd still be on it if it existed and wasn't laden with Windows 10 style telemetry. I don't care about having a wide selection of apps. I care about having a low-distraction, well organized UI that's optimized for specific tasks.

For instance, opening an entry in the address book produced a cross-social-network feed of everything they sent you recently (including call logs, email, SMS, twitter, etc...).

That was fantastic, but prepared to have your mind blown: Typing an address into the navigation app and hitting enter (or tapping on a destination) immediately started navigating.

8.1 was strictly a UI regression. I heard 8.5 was even worse.
> They thought they couldn't build hardware good enough to compete with other Android makers,

But that is so wrong. Hardware was their strength. They could've sticked to what they knew best and over time do what's necessary.
Nelnet Servicing breach exposes data of 2.5M student loan accounts
Symbian was open sourced at one point and before that, available for others to make phones with, SonyEricsson had a couple, I think there were one or two others as well. The Nokia linux phones were open sourceish as well, in partnership with Intel.

Open or closed source wasn't the problem, really.
Yeah I think this realisation is what sold Terraform to me. You can have your git repos, CI pipelines, opsgenie teams, workspace accounts, cloud infrastructure, etc etc all in one place. Infra is no longer just "where the software runs" but "what the company runs on".
It didn't matter how good or bad it was, Windows was a toxic brand on mobile. A very large segment of potential customers was rejecting it off hand based on their desktop Windows experience. They may have been stuck with it on the desktop but on mobile even if they weren't sure what they wanted they definitely knew that it wasn't THAT.
WP7 was more polished than Android - I went from an HTC Evo to a Lumia - but a lot of that polish was in the same style as early-iOS: fewer features and capabilities, just done well and with better consistency.

I think betting on either (a) MS beating Apple at their own game or (b) there being room in the market for two premium-limited-but-smoother-UX systems was a dicey call.

Nokia's hardware design advantage over that HTC was MUCH larger than WP7's UI advantage over Android, anyway. I would've stuck with Android but moved to Nokia in a heartbeat if that sleek blue slab of plastic phone ran Android.
I'm well aware of why reactions were added, but the way it was done is asinine. Instead of adding two, unambiguous ways to express support or opposition ("+1"/"-1"), GitHub chose to add three or four variations of each ("heart", "hooray", "rocket" etc.).

Now some people, to express support, react with "+1". Others react with "heart" or "rocket". How do you find the issues with the most popular support behind them? Do you sort by "+1" or by "heart"? On some issue trackers, one reaction type is preferred over another. On other trackers, reactions are mixed, and you find issues with 5 "+1" reactions and 40 "heart" reactions, and issues where it's the other way round. This is so hilariously bad that it almost feels like deliberate sabotage for laughs.

Imagine if HN, instead of upvotes and downvotes, had eight different ways to "react" to posts and comments, each with their own subtly different connotations. That's what GitHub implemented. It's something I would expect from a social network where people share photos of their cats, not from a system where software deficiencies are being discussed.
prefixing filenames with a period to hide them from ls
Tangential, but where can I watch the talks from ElixirConf 2022? Youtube channel has not uploaded any yet, and the website doesn't seem to have any recordings either. All I see is 250$ to attend virtually.

Shouldn't their target be to spread word fast and wide? I get paid tickets for in-person attendance, but online talks should ideally be live streamed for free, no?
You have an interesting (and I find pitiable) perspective here. I live in a small town, and brick and mortar stores are how many folks survive here.

I, and many other townfolk go out of our way to expressly shop in town. This helps create an interesting, culturally vibrant downtown, filled with shops and restaurants.

My saturday mornings usually involve me walking the town, poking my head into shops, saying hi to folks I might know along the way, and supporting a local business here or there.

I can't imagine wanting to get rid of all of this, possibly even irreversibly so, for the sake of efficiency.

Who hurt you?
The letter talks about a man standing on a burning platform choosing to jump into the icy waters instead.

In this metaphor, Nokias actions were neither staying on the platform not jumping into the water but shooting itself in the head instead.

If the internally Nokia OSes were not going anywhere, which looked to be the case from the outside, the obvious solution was to go with Android. Something that already had the user base, had the apps, had the platform, was open source so it allowed for innovation and differentiation, and Nokia could tailor it to work well with their hardware.

Instead, he chose to go with Windows Phone which had absolutely no benefits. And had severe restriction the kind of phones Nokia could create and on the modifications they could make (they could barely even reskin it) and did not allow Nokia to leverage any software or hardware prowess they may have had.
> If you have millions you benefit more from spending the time to manage/rebalance everything yourself

Robo-advisors probably also save a ton of time come tax season. I've never used the traditional ones but if you're doing the management yourself I imagine they don't automate it like the robo-advisors do...
Most of the folks have already mentioned on the thread; it's a pretty cool place to find something that one does not know even exists.

Quote from the thread[0]:

'''
Hey folks - Martin from GitHub here.

Thanks for all the feedback on the Trending page. Given the feedback here, it’s clear we need to look again at the plan to deprecate this. The team is going to re-evaluate and see if we can come up with some other options.

'''

[0]:https://github.com/community/community/discussions/31644#dis...
The memo is from 2011, so that hardly matters?
Great game! After playing it for a while and never reaching more than 80, I googled around and I found a solution in this post on Quora:
https://www.quora.com/Can-you-fully-fill-a-10-by-10-grid-wit...
Could it be that the world will be a better place if everyone can express themselves fully in the media of digital art, acting, screenwriting and eventually all creative industries cheaply and easily? Artistic expression won't be gate kept by art school educations, Hollywood connections, and access to the tools of the trade. Every person will be able to bring their inner ideas to life with a flair of expertise. This is not a given, but certainly a possible optimistic one.
Im lost, what unit of measurement would satisfy your doubts about the presence of a lot of glaciers in Pakistan?
A lot of you may not be aware of the deep, seething hatred a large number of Americans have for the educated elite. Not only are they perceived as having money and power now, they are blamed for the developments that take away people's jobs in the future. This hatred is so widespread that it was no trouble to convince people, used to flu shots and polio vaccines, that the COVID vaccines were dangerous or a hoax. You usually don't run into these attitudes in Silicon Valley, in college towns, in academia, and in the "better sections" of large cities, so many successful technologists are unaware of how deep-seated and widespread this attitude is. So politicizing climate change, COVID, etc. was very easy, there was a built-in audience.
I helped build this system for a major ticketing company. We used a database, that was it - because its pretty simple overall when you're taking a cut. Confirm original barcode, mark transaction, issue a new barcode.

At performance time only the new barcodes work, and if you didn't get it through the ticketing company then you were just out of luck.
"Semantics" is an extremely lazy way to dismiss an argument. Semantics is all that really matters in communication: what is the meaning of what is said?

There is more than a trivial semantic difference between "identity theft" and "bank fraud". The former very clearly identifies the victim as being the individual whose data was used, while the latter makes the victim the bank. There's a compelling argument to be made that it's unreasonable to expect any of the information that we have come to associate with "identity theft" to actually be private any more after repeated data leaks by Equifax et al. And if we cannot expect it to be private, is it fair to drag individuals through hell and back when someone successfully defrauds a bank using their details? That's the question being posed by OP, and the semantics of the terms we use are central to resolving it.
<<A lot of people loved their handsets.

That included me. I had fond memories of an near indestructible 3310 and I genuinely wish I did not miss the boat on N900 ( I just landed in US and phone was the least of my concerns then ).

<<Just not enough in any single market to make up for some bad decisions.

Sadly, clearly there are decisions that can sink even a dominant power in the market. He is not HP's Fiorina. He did have some wins in previous positions, which makes a person like me question whether the failures at Nokia was little more than a sabotage. Obviously, we will likely never really know.
If he’s the one who gets pizzas delivered at the party, then yeah!
Just seeing several “she”, with direct references to the interviewee, and one “they” that felt really out of place and didn’t feel like a fully formed section of the article.
I owned a WP7 and an Android around that time.

Any WP7 polish advantage was skin deep at best. It took approximately 3-5 interactions for something to break in 3rd party apps and maybe twice that in first party apps.
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One thing that's interesting is that the author doesn't really disagree about the political nature of science but rather looks for degrees of objectivity within what he acknowledges to be an already political field. This sets up a pretty big strawman because everyone agrees that, to pick his example, Lysenkoism is hogwash but that does little to address the contentious and serious political issues we grapple with, or the larger question of the proper nature of science.

I'd rather take up the second point, namely that the author almost takes it as a given that politicized science is bad. He puts forward this idea that science ought to be bureaucratic, ideally all scientists ought to be disinterested, universalist, apolitical monks who try to improve reproducibility, and so on.

To chain science to objectivity or to any kind of formulaic process may help everyone to agree on results, but it impedes the evolution of the scientific process (or better, processes) itself. There's nothing wrong with methods that in different places drift into different directions, because overall this makes for a more competitive field of methodologies. in fact something even as stupid as Lysenkoism serves a purpose, it's in itself part of the scientific map of ideas that need to be discovered before they could be disregarded.

So if you want to do insular corporate science, and someone wants to do militaristic science, and someone else wants to do cooperative 'objective science', all of this is valid and in fact useful, not despite, but because it creates conflict. To do ideological science is simply to run an experiment on the scientific method itself, it's what Feyerabend called 'epistemic anarchism' which he identified as the only thing that avoids limiting the potential of science.
Nokia N9 was the best phone I have ever owned.

To these days their gesture navigation implementation is the best. And they had Swype keyboard preinstalled.

Speaking of apps: Here maps, SoundHound, amazing mail client and calendar...

Gosh I miss that phone.

I used mine for about 3 years, I think, and sold it for more than a half of its original price in literally a couple of hours (which means my price was too low).

By the time the software started showing its age: no banking apps, browser failing to display more and more modern sites...

I believe, they should have pushed with Meego. With vendor support their OS could've been a hit.
So a company like Nokia then?
I think it was only if you were interacting with the Windows host FS, operations within the Linux fs were fine with performance. I would be surprised if there wasn't a solution to that they could have worked towards.

Anyway, doesn't WSL2 mount Windows volumes over Samba?
I doubt anyone on HN would argue for making AI generated CSAM lawful. At the same time attempts to add unenforceable limitations into ML technology like ClosedAI trying to do is worse than useless.

You can generate whatever you want on your own PC, but if you try to use it for fraud or to share illegal material then you are a criminal.
There were many people posting links about hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin and discussing efficacy in the presence of scant information. Also lots of discussions around R0 etc.
OK, so they can't be credible unless they support some left wing causes.

Can they be credible if don't support any right wing causes?
> most likely because they were mostly young people and they were outside.

Except that public health experts, at least on CNN, didn’t run with “outside activists involving young people are pretty safe.” They could have done that, but instead they framed the carve-out expressly in terms of “we think protests are really important.” This was early in the pandemic, when we were still ragging on Florida for not shutting down beaches and shutting down school sports.
now you are just arguing for the sake of argument. unzip the file and it will expand to a 400MB folder.
>80gbps is a bit of a weird one. To work with 120gbps, that would imply that 80gbps is two lanes and 120gbps is three lanes in a single cable. I suppose this is possible with the type C connector as it has plenty of pairs.

As I understood it from TFA, 80gbps is realized with 2 lanes down, 2 lanes up; while 120gbps is realized with 3 lanes down, 1 lane up (yes, the opposite direction is capped to 40gbps).

So that's USB4Gen4x2x2 and USB4Gen4x3x1 if we use the current genxlane nomenclature? Who knows.

>There's no need for USB11 and USB12. Look at the 10/20/40/80/120Gbps sticker on the box. That tells you all you need to know.

I can't recall the last time I actually saw a gbps marking on USB cable/device marketing, so no I can't "look at the sticker" because it doesn't exist.

Just give me an unambiguous, whole, unique USB standard revision number for me to compare with my other devices and cables. The current system of superceding and overlapping standard revisions and meaningless genxlane numbers is fucking worthless and a waste of my time and nerves.
There are many different operating systems, including Hurd (which is incomplete), TRON (there is a FOSS version called "B-Free" but seems to be incomplete and abandoned), and others.

I also have many of my own ideas about operating system design, some of which are inspired by other designs but with some differences.
>So now the department is down 100k for a hack. Does the hack even work? Probably not. The "engineer" probable over sold himself and got hired anyway because of the talent shortage.

It seems disingenuous to assume the absolute worst case scenario is what will inevitably happen. The best case scenario is equally likely IMO: a reverse engineering genius undergrad will create a robust modern interface as part of a summer research project in the lab.

>Btw, as to your comment on this department's myopia, the university is top 10. The department is top 5 world wide.

That’s an appeal to authority fallacy. Just because you’re top 10 or top 5 or number one doesn’t make you immune to mistakes. Meta and Google are both at the top of their respective industries but make boneheaded decisions all the time.
yeah, in england the resident doctors in training would get paid 25 pounds to certify there was no such device in a body, it was unofficially known as “ash cash”
I've never seen the Trending page before, but it looks like another take on the the "Explore" page. I wonder, do people generally go to GitHub just to browse around? But if people find value in it, then who am I to say.

By the way, it's deprecating. Depreciation is something else.
This brought back some very nice memories when we used to play PS1 until our eye became red:)
I agree. Mastodon is more fun to use than Twitter.
Yeah, I've seen or been on several work trips to Vegas, and only a few people gambled. It doesn't appeal to everyone.
Here's the Nature article from last week which was surprising to many inc Hacker News
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2

re: hard sciences, the scientific community's refusal to accept the covid lab leak hypothesis stands out IMHO. School shutdowns/mask mandates for pre-k and public schools is another politicalized issue.
One of the explicit goals of rust is that it doesn’t have a runtime, so I’m not sure what you mean. If there’s a bug in rustc then we’re about as fucked as a bug in clang or gcc, so I’m not sure how that’s worse.
From reading the discussion about this issue here and on Reddit, it seems like most people weren’t aware that this page even existed - but the people who do know about it find it extremely useful. So instead of removing it, how about promoting it more?
Been doing it for 2 years because I specifically am looking for company looking for founding staff which is hyper-selective.

The worst thing is to be refused without knowing what's wrong so you're kept wondering why. Is it geographical reason? Is it national border reason? Legal reason? Culture fit? Personality fit?

Another worst thing is to be denied without any tests. Nowadays, I'd pick difficult and time consuming technical tests over being denied by technical merits due to incomplete CVs