skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
transmitting electromagnetic signals over the air has been done long time ago (think fm radio), but to charge a battery you need much more power, to a level that becomes unsafe foe humans to be around it. there is no mention in the article about saftety and what the long term effect will be on humans when constantly around it.
>will become boring after you see it couple more times

The only websites left in my whitelist are those that only have static image banners.
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I wish you weren't being downvoted! If you join an organization that is union you should almost certainly join. Otherwise... You're a scab. That's how it goes. Sorry HN doesn't see reality.
I don't know exactly why users flagged it, but many did. One possibility is that you've made a bold and controversial claim without accompanying evidence. That sort of thing predictably impedes our ability to have the kind of civil and thoughtful discussion that we're here for.
Why would developers need agents? Hollywood actors earn orders of magnitude more than your average 10X-er developer.
New York’s tech community pens letter condemning Trump’s immigration ban
How is the fact that over a third of the US can't afford Internet in 2017 not the story? That's horrible.
This is true, it routinely exhibits higher forecast skill than any of the US models.
If you want to charge your phone while it sits on a mat you can use an induction charger where is an entirely different technology from what uBeam is promising.
The new version of the Osmand~ Android app introduced free-form text searching.

It's a lot better, but still not good.
I like the line of your thinking, but - seems to me the other commenters have it. Sounds more like a advocacy group, or a professional association.

I think the actual answer to your question is "for many of us, things are pretty good". Unionization happens with wide-spread abuses; when things generally suck. I don't know what wide-spread abuses there are in software, particularly salaried positions.

I don't necessarily need a union, but I do need the information necessary to negotiate better - that sounds like a professional association.
In the video she holds the phone 20cm from the charger, and directly facing it.

This is a scenario that's well known can work (at high power levels which are not generally legal).

What doesn't work so well is charging off axis and at higher power levels.

This is a school science project level demo...
I guess if you aren't good you start calling yourself a "pinko commie" as if it was a virtue!
Several years ago a friend and I had a need to build a virtual file system that was portable between Linux and Windows. At the very least, we attempted to share as much code as possible. It proved to be pretty easy and we had a working prototype after about 30 hours of work. We used FUSE on Linux, and Dokan FUSE on Windows.

[1] https://dokan-dev.github.io/

[2] https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/wiki/FUSE
I don't doubt that they saw benefits to its use, but the most obvious reason to use copper instead of gold and silver is that it's far, far less expensive.
Without a powermeter or multimeter, that's just a gimmick demo. I've done that with UHF RFID tags from 10m away, where we harvest a few mA to light up an LED. That doesn't mean it can charge a cellphone.
John Romero's Irish Adventure
I was at a conference once setting up a booth for a company I worked for. We ended up borrowing an electric screwdriver from a booth next door, but had to turn it by hand because only union members were allowed to use electric tools to setup a booth.

Unions may have helped once upon a time, but now they just take money from your compensation to pay union managers who work against a company being efficient (which makes pay even less over time).
In line with the core ideas Thomas Piketty lays out in Le Capital au 21ème Siècle. I like to think it's gotten better, but being born rich is still the easiest road to being wealthy later in time.
I'm not okay with a quota on doctors. I'm certainly not okay with a quota on engineers, especially since that's a massive incentive to offshoring to somewhere that isn't stupid enough to artificially constrain the number of engineers.
For reference, it appeared to be 20cm away from the transmitter and held exactly facing it.
It's entirely possible that efficiency may not be a product objective for uBeam.
"The court" in this case being just one magistrate, Magistrate Judge Thomas.
I'm surprised nobody has yet brought up the update that just came through which fixes issues in graphics card switching in new MBP's. If it preferentially uses the discrete graphics more than it needs to then, well, you know, battery drain problems.
This very topic is about the fact that apparently Google doesn't have the ability to defend against nation state attacks. If you are not American, the US government being able to seize your data is very much a nation state attack.
They said it's not seizure, they didn't say it's theft. Argument for piracy has been that it's not depriving the original owner of the content, but that has been argued against. So I'm not sure your argument will hold.
> unlimited vacation

You realize that's a ploy to get you to take less vacation/not pay out accrued hours on leaving the company right?
Did you read the article in the link? That's pretty much what it says.
I'm sure it was charging. Probably at a rate of 1 full charge per month, but totally charging ;)
I could be wrong, but I believe the issue is not that 34% of households can't afford Internet, but that the eligibility requirements for this problem are so lax that they cover 34% of households, despite the fact that many of them can afford Internet on their own.

From the linked document: "The average annual household income of those eligible for Lifeline support is roughly $38,000. Numerous families with incomes at that level already subscribe to broadband."
>Electronically transferring a movie from a server in a foreign country to one's home in California does not amount to pirating because there is no meaningful interference with the original movie holder’s possessory interest in the movie.
Unions are essentially a form of cartel, and they suffer from all the same organizational problems. Workers are faced with a prisoner's dilemma. The best individual choice is always to defect. To keep a unified front you need some sort of centralized force that prevents people from defecting. In traditional unions, it is enforced by law that all employees must join the union if the shop is unionized.

A secret voluntary union would lack that unifying force and would collapse as workers pursue their personal self-interest.
Ya know, it's interesting to me how many people on HN suddenly have knowledge of esoteric telecom laws (which, if you look at past telecom discussions, this didn't happen), and just happen to have handy links and quotes and such less than 30 minutes after this was posted to HN at all.

I'm sure everyone stopped and took the time to read up on strange corners of telecom law just in case this came up, so we could have a vigorous intellectual discussion.
It certainly should be. If I need to waste enough electricity to charge my car just to charge my phone, that's a big problem.
IMHO, Developers are unionized!
Here is how the scam racket works.
1.)Open Source Software is 'THE INTERNET.' Linux OS, BSD,
I am using Firefox and Vim/vi text editor, etc is
pervasive and important.
2.)The major media aka 'fake news' point to Linux, founder
of Linux with his middle finger upraised. Pun intended.
Demonize and scapegoat all developers as 'crazies', hackers,
crackers, and co-conspirators for reddit, HN, or other
internet discussion areas.

3.)Sure, a twelve year old can code. But, is it quality
and sustainable. There are child soldier armies in Africa.
Do you get the point?

4.)the real job is called Unix System Administrator or
applications engineer or electrical engineer or business
analyst. The names of job titles change in order to
give you a LOWER SALARY and keep you a 'college student
debt slave.' Your real skillset is contributing to the
codebase aka knowledge base aka collaboration mesh aka
Internet aka e-commerce protocol.
Do you get it now about the scam racket?

5.)Even OpenBSD and various New York City Linux Clubs
are close to bankrupt. It is difficult to find volunteers.
With no volunteers, I doubt there will be any 'organization
even considering' the formation of a union.

6.)Look to history! One class of 'skilled worker' aka
software developer aka COAL MINER worked harder than slaves.
Coal Miners got 'black lung' and lived their life like
sucking for air through a straw. Developers got 'eye
disease' and lived their life like half-blind cripples.
The Coal Miner "Molly McGuires' were a 'secret organization', broken as a criminal conspiracy.
Some were 'Irish'; some were not ON BOTH SIDES,
the monopoly 'Robber Baron' Franklin Benjamin Gowen versus
criminal leader "Hugh McGehan" and Pinkerton Detective
Covert Agent and infiltrator "James McParlan."

7.)No, IMHO, I don't think "Occupy WallStreet" stands a
chance of starting a union.

8.)I like to rewrite basic Perl and shell scripts into
Python calling into C++ code. Withe the new evolving
standards of C++, I know CHAOS, CONFUSION, even
failure and desperation will occur.

9.)This is NOT about EFF or 'do-gooder organizations.'
IT IS ABOUT YOU, the CODER. When the new AI robot
and flexible hardware architecture based on FPGA, etc.
happens and sixty percent of the workers are out of work,

THEN IT IS TIMES OF DESPERATION.

10.)only then, will the 'scam racket' aka 'conspiracy theory' aka predatory capitalism aka the alt-right wing
of the internet movement will be revealed.

Does that answer the question "Why don't developers unionize?"

No, zero! It's not about the money or even insurance benefits. The CEO 'leads and manages' to get paid 500
times multiple of lowly coder. THE CEO has trouble fixing
the Excel Spreadsheet macro on his laptop.

Something is wrong; badly wrong. There is a 'scam racket.'
Those are the signs of deficiency, not overdose. What made you think you suffered from copper overload?
This is right. Unions need to be viewed as service providers, just like other kinds of organizations/companies. They need to provide benefits to their customers/members in order for them to be willing to pay membership fees.
Clinton was impeached, then acquitted. If Nixon hadn't resigned, he would've been impeached, then convicted.
This could be brilliant.
Corporations are international entities. If a corporation conducts business in my country, has offices, personnel, and stores data in my country, pays taxes here, I would not expect to be subject to American law.
The "real world" argument is a classic No True Scotsman fallacy.
Here is a TED video from 8 years ago that ends with the exact same demonstration: https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electric...
> I see a future where a developer is paid the salary of a retail cashier and it scares me.

The only way that will happen is if Point-of-Sale systems become so complex that a developer has to run them, or development becomes as easy as punching buttons on a Point-of-Sale system.
No which is why it's a challenge.

Most philosophers are not very careful thinkers. There is a lot of circular thinking a lot of apriori assumptions and so one. Mostly the designers who are worth listening to IMO are those who broke down previously held illusions.
That reminds me of a "C" level boss I had at a tech company. In a private meeting he said, "George, I think this team is not world class." Like he had discovered a crucial flaw that needed to be fixed. The product (that made them millions) was not world class in its design or engineering. The management of the company and its strategy was not in my opinion the best in the world. Sometimes there is this fever dream of excellence that prevents managers from being realistic about what is really necessary to get a thing done.
I frequently recommend the Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism (AronRa) videos on YouTube. They're obviously more about addressing creationism, but it's enjoyable and educational and necessarily explains a lot about evolution that I didn't know previously. One great part is where he explains the lineage of species by using folders on Windows.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL126AFB53A6F002CC
Netflix and Riot Games are paying ISPs, not vice versa. I guess they aren't the king after all.
This is fake news. The author doesn't understand Quantum Computing or the research paper he's (ostensibly) reporting on.
For a list of symptoms associated with too much copper, just look up Wilson's Disease. These people have dysfunctional copper excretion mechanisms and need to take drugs that chelate the copper so the body can excrete it.[1]

Looks like it's mainly liver toxicity and neurological symptoms.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson's_disease
Reader mode will not reveal content on paywalled sites, even if it's there. E.g. article content in a hidden div. Elinks (or even just "view source") will.
good luck. i hope you get the job.
> Qubes does not use Whonix for anything. Whonix can use Qubes, though.

Qubes comes with Whonix gateway and workstation templates preloaded. How is that not "using Whonix"?
The point is that selecting programming team members is more like selecting friends than selecting for example assembly-line workers, which makes anti-discrimination laws less effective.
buba447, therealsalih, jongold:
Thank you for taking the time for the detailed answers. The workflow and the mindset from your teams sounds inspiring.

I've been trying to create something like this but on a much smaller scale within my team, however, most of the time the challenge ends up being intimidating for designers, even experienced ones.

I'm sure the openness of Airbnb also helps to recruit top talent!

Good luck, and thanks for sharing, it's inspiring for the ones of us with the ambition of designing the future tools designers will use.
Nobody other than page 2 of the article you mean?
Amamart!
USB-C can provide as much as 100W, which is more than the MacBook needs. However, that does not mean the cable and charger you're using will.

Same thing with other power standards.
the paradoxical thing about this is it would actually make me want to watch commercials! if I dont step foot in the store anymore, how will I know what they have ? I will want (!) marketers to give me information about their products. This will be a marketing wet-dream.
Neither is search and seizure about a possessory interest. It's about privacy and security. Even in the eighteenth century it was about "persons, papers, and effects." It was always an information security question.
I am wondering how much of this gets to be real-time. Are they computing the difficulty of finding a spot based on Maps/Waze users' live data or using daily/weekly patterns on past data?
How to NOT "create compelling ad experiences":

1) After the content has loaded it's broken into pieces by blank spots which slowly fill up with ads
2) Loading the page maxes out a recent CPU
3) Page with ads does 3x the number of network requests as the adblocked version
Your comments are either a tautology (projects are based on ideas), or very likely to be wrong (engineering projects should also include social values).

e.g.

> ... an ideological choice as the decision that the values should include inclusiveness

I explained why this is not just unnecessary, but also why it's wrong on a much more fundamental level.

When I get patches from people, I don't care what's under their clothes. I don't care what their political opinions are. I don't care what religion (or not) they belong to. I evaluate the patch based on it's engineering merits. I give them a review of the engineering work that they did, without reference to any of the above mentioned issues.

It's absolutely inclusive, in a way that perhaps you don't understand. It doesn't pervert the project by demanding that members adhere to a particular ideology.

I find naive attempts at "inclusiveness" to be repugnant. They are a back-door way of leveraging such "niceties" into taking over the group, and establishing an ideology-driven totalitarian dictatorship with Orwellian overtones.

And no, I'm not exaggerating here. Look at any number of groups which started out as goal oriented, and devolved into fights over ideological correctness. Very soon, the arguments over ideology overwhelm the group, and everyone who gets things done... leaves. What's left is the ideology-driven politicians, who then find out that they're in their an echo chamber. They turn on each other, and the group dies a flaming death.

See Atheism+ for a good example of this in recent years.
I am one.

When you switch jobs on H-1B, your GC application has to be redone from the first step. This is an uncertain process that can get stuck in red tape for indeterminate amounts of time. Your place in line stays intact in many cases though. So, switching jobs is possible, but is no way easy.

While you wait decade+ for your GC, you freedoms are severely restricted as an alien.
Install some C# apps on Linux, observe C# bash itself.
This is really neat. I have question, how hard and what is the procedure for writing the ISA and subsequent microcode to implement your ISA? Do you do this in Verilog or an equivalent? And how about writing the assembler? I would love to hear more about what that entails in a homebrew set up like this.
Using C++ Resumable Functions with libuv
There was the case of the goose that somehow synthesized gold, and excreted it in its eggs.
You got it backwards: the poet put them on the statue to reflect what we believed.
This is a very peculiar tone to use in describing a detail-oriented fact-based discussion. I didn't know _anything_, if the other comments didn't help contextualize this I'd not get much value from the story at all.
Does anyone have a list that reflects this? It doesn't seem to be the case in the Forbes 400:

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

But perhaps that's biased?
If you start behaving like that, expect foreign governments/clients to ban/boycott american providers.

If it were a real concern to anyone, the EU countries would have simply used their big stick and started banning Google and Microsoft from doing business until they cleaned up their acts.

And they'd have done it years ago.

As long as it's the US government violating your privacy, those EU countries are perfectly happy to see their data privacy laws neutered.
Another word for that range of the EM spectrum is "microwave". At moderate power density, they very efficiently cook meat. You are made out of meat.
The idea that Amazon isn't profitable is laughable at best. Examine what they're doing. If they stopped constantly creating new business divisions they'd be super profitable. They continue to invest in new businesses, though, so on the whole they're "unprofitable" on a cashflow basis. On a sales basis though? Immensely profitable.

Just because Amazon has ideas about how to reinvest doesn't mean they're only breaking even on their sales or selling at a loss. Starting new businesses every year costs money. Amazon might not have balance sheet profits but the company continues to grow. How could they do that if they were making a loss on everything? They aren't issuing anywhere NEAR enough shares to keep the loss-leader scheme going on investor money: https://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/shares_outstanding
Obviously NSFW, this is about a fake escort site set up by a french charity and a french web studio which uses photos of dead prostitutes to raise awareness about violence against women.
The article mentions "targeted electricity passed through the skull" as a possible treatment by "adjusting brain function". That seems a bit extreme to me, unless of course your condition is truly debilitating or causes you to become recklessly violent with noisy eaters.
I completed a couple of courses offered by Coursera and Udacity on Android development and managed to get a great role in a decent company a few months later with no previous professional experience. The courses are mostly entry level, but they gave me just enough motivation and knowledge to create my own apps, which I feel is the real reason I was hired.

The difficulty come from having no prior professional experience, so showing that you can design, build and ship a project in your own time really helps you to stand out.

The only thing about the course that you linked is that its not specific to a certain field. I would suggest that you try a couple of different courses and find a subject / stack which really interests you, then build small but increasingly more complex projects using what you've learnt.

I list the courses I've completed along with links to any verified certificates on my resume, but not once have they been referenced in interviews.. It's always the projects that make me stand out.

I'd be happy to answer any other questions you have! Also, the forums are also great place to meet like minded people!
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How are you finding only 2 ports affecting your workflow, if at all?
Technical eevblog FAQ on the feasibility:

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/the-ubeam-faq/
Consensus and crowd pleasing is not the same. And dictators aren't usually as good at pleasing the crowds as they think they are, otherwise there would be no need to suppress freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of elections, etc. which dictators (including Chavez, of course) routinely do.
I am not attacking you. I don't work in neuroscience or biology.

You used a term (SPW) I'm not familiar with without defining the term, the three articles you referenced did not include the term, in the end we find the term is not an acronym, I have no knowledge of your training or background and my background is different from yours.

I was intrigued enough to briefly search for SPW but seeing nothing clearly enlightening, I asked for clarification.

My reference to your needing a nap is because you didn't initially define the term SPW, since most reading your post were likely unfamiliar with. No harm was intended. Not everyone knows what you know or thinks about what you think about, especially technical jargon.
Don't forget brown or pink noise for a more soothing sound (IMO). Until a few weeks ago, I never knew there were other colors of noise. Since discovering them, I have found them to be preferable for my ears over white noise.
> I loved it

You misremember ;)

I took a similar class, and like for everybody else I ever talked to, half of the wires were somewhat broken and caused intermittent connections. Solving the puzzle of building the system was fun, and quickly done - finding the &#(@ broken cables and replacing them was weeks of tedium.

I suppose in a way it was perfect preparation for a career in software engineering. Solve the core problem, and then spend significantly more time on actually making it work in a world the adamantly refuses to be pure and perfect.
Got a link to that quota on doctors?
> Java never took off on Linux, but maybe C# will have a better chance once the .net core gets a bit more stable?

What? look at this page :

https://github.com/apache

Most these products are written in Java.
Curso – Desenvolvimento Ágil de Software
Why do you talk about things you obviously know very little about and present them as the entire story? Reducing, not eliminating, the Windows footprint was just one of many, many initiatives. U2F security keys are one of the well known ones outside the company. Or hardening ChromeOS.
Upon repetition a red link should appear next to "Guess Draw". I set the engine now by default to "slowest" should play around ELO 1900
In Apache it takes no more than 5 lines in an .htaccess file for a full-featured setup. Look up the ProxyPass / ProxyPassReverse directives and friends.
I don't understand what's with this issue: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/2236

What does Intel RealSense have to do with any of this?

Is it a GitHub bug, showing an issue from another repo?