skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone remember Nokia plan B?

When that came out I created nokiaplanc.com

https://web.archive.org/web/20110218174018/http://www.nokiap...

Which was then followed by others creating nokiaplane.com and so on
Many casinos in the US operate on tribal land and are to a large extent independent of state, and in cases even national, regulation.

Primary regulatory authority lies with the US Department of Interior, under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (1988).

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Gaming_Regulatory_Act>
What!!! No!!! You’re not supposed to have multiple accounts !!! Mastodon federates !! The whole point is that you can have an account on one server and then follow and interact with people on other servers !! That is literally the whole point!!!!
The people who view Mastodon as a Twitter disruptor care.
Luckily the headline for this post doesn’t contain any prejudicial language intended to disparage Microsoft for making this decision. Actually, wait a minute…
Remote work alleviated all my software development unhappiness, because suddenly I was free to develop software.
You can have multiple accounts on Twitter; it’s allowed and even encouraged since both the mobile app and the web app have an account switcher, and TweetDeck lets you use multiple accounts at once IIRC.
How can you have issues on a 6 figures salary??? It is uncanny! I live in southern France (family of 3) on a “average” EU Software Engineer salary (plus my wife salary as an accountant)and can’t really say I not much change in prices (besides the energy bill that went up from 100 euros to 130)… but I never bothered checking prices when groceries shopping. My savings keep going up so no worries there either.
Agreed on BB. I was interested when they moved to Android, and then they died. There still isn't a good, high-end Android with a keyboard from a company I know I can trust.
Oh, that looks promising! Thank you.
The thing I hate about interviewing is how aberrant it is -- companies ghosting as a common occurrence, the power-dynamics of an interviewer vs. an interviewee, the feeling of being evaluated constantly. It also can be an arms race of "how well can you find out the exact questions they will ask and prepare for it" sometimes because if you don't, many other can and will.
A broader understanding gives your more fallback positions in the event of some disaster or catastrophic economic collapse, so I'd say:

Put a little bit of your time into learning interesting new skills in even vaguely related fields. A Jack of all trades may be a master of none, but if chaos is the future, adaptability is the key to survival.
I prefer to just write in Perl and without third-party modules, which is backwards compatible to 5.000 (1994)
You're talking about filters inside the ML model, but I think the more interesting question is morality and the law.
My experience is that they usually complicate your taxes. In particular, past a certain asset threshold, Wealthfront will do something called "direct indexing", which basically invests your money in individual stocks the way an ETF would. It has TLH benefits, but at the cost of a massive 1099-B that you have to deal with every year.
Actually, it is not that simple. It is widely hated in upper-class, well educated residents of large cities, and very popular in rural areas where people are less wealthy.

https://www.cbos.pl/PL/szukaj/open_file.php?url=2022/K_092_2...
I figured that was the answer but I liked reading your explanation anyway :)
> I think there were one or two others as well

Motorola A925, Motorola A1000, Motorola RIZR Z8, Motorola RIZR Z10 (aka 'banana')

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Motorola+Z8&t=ffcm&iar=images&iax=...
Yes, basically you can list your packages in the yaml file and have them installed.

But you can also add .nix expression files in the same bob.yaml that can be used to build your packages when a package is not found on Nixpkgs.
Lead singer of Weezer contributing to OSS
Elop did, Nokia engineering not so much.

Our culture was pretty much anti-MS before he came on board.

On the server side we were using HP-UX, Perl, C++, in 2005 the transition for Red-Hat Linux and Java started.

On the devices, Symbian and the Maemo (Linux based).

Symbian was finally getting usable with PIPS, Qt and Eclipse based Carbide.

I happened to be in Espoo the week after this memo was published, I haven't found anyone that agreed with it.

Everyone thought the community would never jump of joy with Microsoft technologies, and right they were.
That's the inevitable consequence of political centralization. Orwell wrote this back in 1944, but it still applies:

"Hitler can say that the Jews started the war, and if he survives that will become official history. He can’t say that two and two are five, because for the purposes of, say, ballistics they have to make four. But if the sort of world that I am afraid of arrives, a world of two or three great superstates which are unable to conquer one another, two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it. That, so far as I can see, is the direction in which we are actually moving, though, of course, the process is reversible."
Windows Phone was quite good, but Microsoft had a terrible case of chronically fucking everything up.

They made everyone buy new phones for Windows Phone 8, which did not have any user-visible changes (though it did switch the OS to NT).

They took multiple years to add basic functionality like a notification center, and by the time they did, it was too late.

They actually shot themselves in the foot and had extremely poor Office support - behind even the competitor platforms that got a proper set of apps.

They bought Nokia's phone business and then just gave up completely.

What's a shame. I liked the minimalist Zune-like UI - it was perfect for a phone. And it just looked cool.
N900 was awesome, but it wasn't what the masses wanted. It had a lot of quirks, like UI freezing when someone calls you so you couldn't answer the call and suffering from slowing down over a relatively short period of time while being price competitive with the other high end phones.

N900 was a great beta. We never got a 1.0 though.
Nokia was slow. That's part of what got them when Apple launched the iPhone.

Chinese manufacturers are already doing top quality products. Huawei phone are/we're on par with the iPhone and were selling like hot cakes until the company was stopped "by any means necessary".
I'm not claiming suppression, just noting that economic incentives are misaligned, and noting that we, as a society, have in our toolbelt a whole host of treatments, and only a handful of cures.
But N9 was not a maemo it was Meego. It was incredibly polished it definitely was on par or better than android and IOS of the time.

While some of the assessments in the memo might be correct (it took way too long to get the N9 out for example), shouting this out to the public is incredibly stupid. I mean he is lamenting the fact they only have one top of the line phone out, but then decides to completely axe the system (and the pending new tip of the line phone) for making them and only sell the Symbian version which he just decried as being for lower end phones. And then wait another year or 2 until they have a Windows phone, a platform that they don't control and where they are completely reliant on MS and which is totally unproven?

Edit: OK reading up again, it seems I misremembered. It was actually the N9 which was the Meego phone released after the memo. It was essentially released that you had to be order specifically through an online system only at Nokia. It still gained wide critical acclaim, but at that point was poised to fail already.
And people wonder why there are climate deniers.

Trying to talk your way out an prediction that was clearly false just makes it look even worse.
People new to GitHub want to create a repository and do a git push, nothing else.
Just to be clear, are we talking about AUD$ or USD$? (Asking as an ex-FAANG who is preparing for job hunting in Sydney)
Ballmer Laughs at iPhone (2007)
Yes.

But that’s because the right has become synonymous with, or at least tacitly supports, insane racists, fascists, bigots and more unpleasant adjectives. You can be pedantic about our wording and try and slide the issue but the data is there.

There are plenty of issues where you can have multiple sides or perspectives and want to allow debate. But that is not what is happening.
How many positions like that are available at google? Under a 1,000 and the industry employs millions. Not sure this is a strategy for everyone.
It was somewhat of a 3-body problem: carriers, oems, and developers. Carriers wanted branding and bundling. OEMs wanted to market a distinction design. Developers wanted a platform. Three cooks with competing tastes.

For example: the Moto-Q ran Windows, shoe-horned in some AT&T UX junk, and a huge nubin that stuck out in the middle. It pioneered the ever present "pocket dial." Was thinking of developing for it, but after a few dozen pocket dials, I wanted to go full Frisbee mode.

Apple cut through the 3-body problem. They controlled the UX. Such as integrated voice-mail. The carrier didn't mess with the UX. After a few months, Apple provided a decent development environment -- maybe as a response to all the jailbreak apps that we were making.

Around that time I was in a focus group. What struck me was a horror story from a Symbian developer. Their toolchain broke after an incremental update. Lost a week dealing with it. That kind-of put me off of Symbian.

Maybe the real choice for Nokia was: either the burning platform or the sharks.
Lol Amazon would disagree and are laughing their way to the bank.
Because the Nokia board had a nice bonus clause for the case he managed to sell the company, and sell he did.

He was after all reaching its targets.

https://www.slashgear.com/stephen-elops-contract-revealed-as...
Do you have any recommendations for e ink monitors?

Also, are there any good e ink tablets?
I have a feeling that things went off the rails starting with USB 3.0. They should've just gone with USB 3, 4, 5, 6, ...
0.5% of 100M is still a lot, right?
I meant, why use <input type="checkbox" >, not why use any HTML tag at all. Of course you need some kind of div or span to style.
This looks like one of those BS ridiculous-syntax fraud-publications submitted to academic journals with the deliberate intention of showing them (the journal and its editors, and perhaps the whole scientific establishment) to be a pack of creduolous wankers, basically. Kind of obvious here:

> "The happy-productive worker thesis states that happy workers are more productive. Recent research in software engineering supports the thesis, and the ideal of flourishing happiness among software developers is often expressed among industry practitioners..."

'Recent research in software engineering...' now, what does software engineering research have to do with emotional psychology, again?
It’s sweet, definitely helps that most people live near one of a handful of cities.
Some countries forbid child porn even if no child was involved, it does not need to be real to be illegal. I assume so one can't say it was assumed to be fake but it wasn't. The lines get blurry when you generate porn with keywords like 18. Can you guarantee a legal training set of images? What if some actors look younger than they actually are? How will this affect the results? How do you proof the age of a person which doesn't exist based on one image?
Maybe I'm not getting something, but how do I make this thing tell me what the shortest route from A to B is?
> The old adage still applies, the jobs you want aren’t advertised and the candidates you’re looking for aren’t on job boards looking.

For someone new-ish to Sydney without much of a network, where should I be looking, if not the usual job boards?
While Windows Phone 7 wasn't that great, Windows Phone 8 was quite good.

Used all Windows Phone versions, and they all got more updates than most my Android devices.

Their market was around 10% in Europe when they decided to give up.
Originally they existed because nothing was computerised.

You went to your bank (and it was just that one physical bank) because that's where the definitive paper record of how much of the money in the bank was yours was kept. You also had a bank book, your copy of that record. Every time you went to a teller for a deposit or a withdrawal the teller would go to the bank's file storage, remove your record and update it, and your bank book to match the transaction, then return the record to the file storage.

If you moved town, or across town you applied to the bank to have your records moved.

Your checks (if you live in a country that still uses them) had your branch number on them, banks would reconcile checks using that info so they could update those all important file folders.
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Totally agree!

I've had them all, including a Zaurus, various Palms with phone, various XDAs, Nokia N900, Free Runner, Firefox phone, Ubuntu phone, you name it... but IMHO the N900 was the best form factor and UI - the only reason why I got rid of it was the band didn't support where I was traveling to.

Still sad the NEO 900 went nowhere. I would jump at that. Still interested in trying the Purism and PinePhone, but with my time as limited as it is, I'll stick to my Pixel 4a running LineageOS for now - but can't wait to get me back a pure Linux phone that works without issues!
I find kratom superior to cannabis in this regard. Of course kratom is not without concerns, but in the scheme of things they're just unpleasant rather than deadly.
I would love a more customizeable remee mask*

Tuning intensity and pulse frequency so i don’t throw the mask off my face

*https://sleepwithremee.com
Compared with Android, to this day, WinRT development experience is like being in heaven.

It took Android 10 years, for something like AGK to come up, and even then it is a mess of development experience.
The way inflation and wages are going, not many people in the world will be able to choose to boycott whoever is offering the lowest prices.
https://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=390-18-050

Law in question.
> It’s a little bit wonky, but I’m pretty sure that it can work.

Not that wonky, it's really a natural consequence of the fact that Rust's stable ABI is the C ABI. Plus you can then use lib-internal from any language that supports FFI to C, not just from Rust.

(Of course, some things just cannot be supported across a dylib boundary, such as arbitrary monomorphized code. But this limitation applies to all such languages; it's why you have "header-only" libraries in C/C++ for example.)
A lot of office/corporate routines and rote weight is taken off the shoulders with remote work. For young people, it might be a challenge to engage in social activities, but if they take the initiative, for e.g. travel around and work, they can find plenty of social events, activities to meet and engage with people or just enjoy themselves.
I think you speak from a US perspective. Nokia phones were absolutely ubiquitous in other parts of the world, way into the time of the Razr etc.. Even at the time this memo was written it Nokia still had around 25-30% market share IIRC.

Regarding the N9, it was released essentially without any marketing push, with very little availability (I think they didn't even get it into live stores, you had to order online). It was also released after the memo, so obviously only few people got it.
Owned most Lumia models, Android were even slower.

Starting with Window Phone 8 everything was native code, even .NET, while on Android the first Dalvik versions didn't even had a JIT.
Its levisoSAH not leviooosa
Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis. (2020)
I believe Microsoft literally ran an advertisement suggesting that people were spending too much time on their phones. This was an ad for their own smartphones.

That's an interesting look into their corporate attitude at the time.

You could say that their Office app monopoly sabotaged their web browser (and the web in general) and their desktop monopoly sabotaged their phones (and phones in general) but both the web and smartphones proved stronger in the end.
From the paper:

Freq Cause
186 Being stuck in problem solving
152 Time pressure
107 Bad code quality and coding practice
71 Under-performing colleague
63 Feel inadequate with work
60 Mundane or repetitive task
57 Unexplained broken code
42 Bad decision making
40 Imposed limitation on development
39 Personal issues
It wasn't also that well received inside, as we were pretty much a UNIX shop.
You were on the other side of the table
Eh, I'd just use Silverblue. You get the benefits of immutability, without having to learn a new language and weird tools to manage your workstation. I ain't got time for any of that.
It makes zero sense. This was mid 2000s as I was part of the BoA class action due to them holding transactions until you didn't have the funds to hit you with an overdraft fee.

Again, had I cashed the checks, I would have been given my funds immediately and could have deposited them into my account and the funds were there instantly. But if I deposited the check it would be held for a week before being cleared.

Usually when you have an account at the bank the check is drawn against you get the check deposited immediately as if it were cash.

Somehow, or because my boss at the time was terrible with money, or because it was BoA, the checks would constantly be held- giving my employer time to make the check good, or whatever, then it would clear. This made me be paid a week late and gave him the few days to make good on the check.

I've also had an employer who was so bad with checks no one would cash them, not even the bank, it had to be deposited, even though it was a payroll check. That was back when everyone used checks though. That was probably late 90s.

The only time I had a good experience with a bank was at Chase, and only as a business customer. Had a geat relationship for years, then the minute I changed my account to a personal one everything turned sour.

Banks here in the US are so terrible kids these days prefer online banks like chime and cashapp.
The issues preventing this from happening are actually tracked in the Arti repository.
I’ll just leave this here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BGc3zFOFI-s (American tourists go for breakfast)
> I’m having a super hard time understanding why you’d want a native app require 100% connectivity.

> Did i miss something ??

Yes. The article writers gave their reasons for why they are offering a native implementation of phoenix liveview.

* Build complex, client-side applications that are faster and lighter than
those built with heavy JavaScript frameworks
* Deliver better user experiences across all platforms (no more "uncanny
valley" effect)
* Optimize productivity and resources with a single team, managing a single
code base across the web and native
There's a great advice for marketing people here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbAAVLcMzr4.
> the network division continued as Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), and was rebranded to Nokia Networks

It wasn't just a rebranding. Nokia wisely bought Siemens out from the Networks joint venture already in 2013, before selling the phones to Microsoft. Then in 2015, they acquired Alcatel-Lucent (including Bell Labs) to the mix. This way, they stayed in Fortune Global 500 even without the phone business.

And nowadays there are new Nokia branded feature phones as well as Android phones and tablets: https://www.nokia.com/phones/
The difference is the target audience. When a company reaches a huge size, employees have an incentive to act nice internally, because that's the way to promotion; but they have no incentive to be nice towards external folks. It takes effort from management to ensure people act nicely towards others, and Nokia clearly failed at that.

I met one of their "evangelist" when they were trying to push Qt. He came to a iOS usergroup, so clearly in "enemy territory", and just used a precooked slide deck that compared Qt to Symbian - nobody gave a shit about Symbian there, but that's how they lived, stuck in their bubble. He was quite off-putting and way too commercial-focused for a tech UG; I already knew Qt and left thinking I could have done a better job of selling the tech.
For those who are not familiar, the other guy is Mike Zafirovski, Nortel's last CEO before they went bust.

To me this really makes this video a fine historical document.
That is obvious from my comment.
> This is why propbation periods exist. It’s a chance for the employee or employer to back out.

It's not an equal risk though - the employer can easily weather (or not even notice) the ending of that employment, while the employee undergoes a life-changing event.
There is this YouTube channel called "how to make everything".
Now I'm imagining a team of archaeologists in 2000 years who are struggling to decipher USB cable packaging in an abandoned electronics warehouse.
Myths About CGI Scalability
> Additionally, no one in the panel was a software engineer ... for a software engineering position.

None of the FANGs I know ever had non-software engineers interview candidates for SDE positions, specially when software development managers are primarily software engineers themselves and interviews have a considerable software development aspect.

I'm sorry to say but your story doesn't add up.
> ... can submit patches to address accessibility later.

I'm not experienced with accessibility, but I pay attention to it whenever I can to increase my own awareness. A very common feedback when it fails (e.g. in software, online conferences, ...) is: "Accessibility must be part of the plan from early on. Trying to add it afterwards basically always fails."
I've not been part of lot of conferences, but both Emacs conf and Nix conf put videos up pretty much as soon as they're presented.

But if the conference is independent and the aim is to make money, I get it. Conferences with aim to socialise/promote to/the userbase tend to make it as low friction as possible.
The "hard work" mentality is gone because companies like Amazon purposefully optimize their 'blue collar' jobs to force churn so they can dangle benefits with vesting periods nobody will get to, and have an outsourced hiring firm handle all the paperwork.

That's why there were news stories about them "running out of people to employ." Word gets around eventually. Especially if the economy is doing well, most people will not want to work for you.
This subthread is exactly why NixOS is getting much traction outside of enthusiasts and people with a lot of patience.
I'm not sure I understand your question.
> Symbian was the biggest problem with Nokia phones.

I actually miss it, those were simpler times where your phone didn't spam you with ads or notifications or didn't get outdated every 2 years. No constant data collection or surveillance to the scales we deal with now.

More so, I actually miss the feeling of how new everything was, in the sense that is you wanted to play some games you'd sometimes scour WAP sites for the game files (or pay exorbitant fees through magazines).

There was a certain charm to games back then, too, seeing what people could knock together with Java on such a limited platform. Games like Gravity Defied, Galaxy on Fire or Gish, or even Doom RPG.

I'm kind of nostalgic, admittedly, maybe for a time when not everything was so well optimized towards monetization. And before Wirth's law became so present on our devices.
Wait, you say waste everyone’s time and advocate for probation period?

Are you serious right now?