skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There wasn't a big enough market for their futuristic arm band without clear use cases (or reliable functioning), and I'm not confident it would be any different for their smart glasses coming out next.

What's bothersome is the large amount of VC funding [1] that went into these guys. After they blow it, investors will be wary which will further retard progress in the field of HCI technologies.

[1] https://www.canadianbusiness.com/innovation/thalmic-labs-int...
Currently, only an x64 implementation is provided. "While it can be implemented on ARM processors which have AES instructions, we have not yet created a reference implementation for that platform."
This is just bad engineering and project management on Telstra's part.

They should have regularly reviewed the work that was being done and if they had issues resolved them during the warranty period.
Diff in Media Pref Mediate Link Between Personality and Political Orientation
Sort of intentionally in stealth mode according to the dev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17683186
It's hard to know how to apply the appropriate 'grain of salt' when reading things like this thread. I worked for a small (~40 person) start-up before where there was rampant religious discrimination and inappropriate workplace behavior by executives, even the head of HR who functioned more like a culture gatekeeper to enforce the particular overt religious cultural aspects of the founder.

When developers pushed back, they were called uncooperative, threatened with pay cuts or being fired, told they were not team players or were making too big a deal out of things. It was crazy!

In my experience, the times when management believe they are suffering from a problem developer are actually reflections of the management. There are exceptions like employee theft, issues with employees after they are terminated, and these things are often pretty black and white. But for all the other types of things that are more subjective about effort or cultural fit or finger pointing or tone or attitude or whatever, I tend to think most employees are absolutely not the problem, rather it is inept management and extremely poor culture mandates.
Yikes, really makes me wonder if they are getting ideas from dystopian science fiction films as well as black mirror.
>OOP is good for domains that naturally give rise to a clearcut inheritance structure, such as stateful GUI frameworks or ontologies that directly mirror real-world objects

Stateful GUI frameworks are not the only way to build UI frameworks... It'd be pretty easy to argue that people are building stateful UI frameworks because they're predisposed to think about them in terms of OOP.

And so far as I can tell, inheritance ontologies never directly mirror any real world objects. Real world objects are purely compositional with some specialized emergent context-sensitive behaviors.
This scene would actually make a really cool test case!
Great list, but you missed one (probably more):
- some updates launch several CMD.exe windows that pop up for a second, steal focus, then disappear.
US Drops a Stunning 21 Spots in Global Life Expectancy Rankings to 64th Place
How does dating work exactly in this context?
That's interesting. What are other uses for your implant?
Food stamps are a fantastic way of infantilizing grown adults.
US will withdraw from nuclear arms treaty with Russia
That's par for the course when going for the cheapest bid, quality be damned, be it a local company or not. It's just that no local company in a richer country can compete on price, so the cheapest ones went away when globalization got going.

Most companies know one can't hire the cheapest job applicant, they try (more or less successfully) to vet them, yet somehow outsourcing companies are exempt. One wonders how much these managers actually want the project to succeed.
Exactly. We're heading to a mix of the worst of Brave New World and the worst of 1984. Coupled with generic other dystopian realities, such as The Last Book in the Universe where the elite live in a perfect society separated from the rest, who live in a very dystopian one.
America Is Drowning in Milk Nobody Wants
It's not that simple. The point is vendors empowering 3rd party repair shops with knowledge and tools than monopolizing repair market which leads to higher repair costs, lower product lifespans, forced product upgrades, etc. - basically everything right to repair associations are fighting for.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00690
I wonder if we can have a pill to maintain high level of mitochondria in all our cells in background.

It seems that modern humans have a lot of power-saving traits which are active deterrent as of now when food is abundant, since they lead to obesity, muscle loss and mitochondria problems here. Other mammals don't seem to have such problems en masse.
Agree with all of this. The Metro Detroit area is diversifying itself better than it ever has.

The biggest problem I see is recruiting talent. The University of Michigan has established itself as a west-coast feeder school.

I personally left the area post-graduation and got a job at a FANG company. As much as I’d love to move back, I just can’t find a job that pays anywhere remotely near what I make on the west coast.

Apparently, salaries are starting to rise, which can only be good for the area as a whole.
I don't buy this argument. Erlang does have a steep learning curve, but it isn't the semantics of the language, it's understanding how to build and deploy OTP applications. Understanding apps, releases, clustering, mnesia, process registries, circuit breaking etc. all take time. It also will cost you hours, and hours, and hours down the road when you have a large sprawling app with very little abstraction and no -specs, because dialyzer is frustrating.

I was able to learn Rust in about week by reading the O'reilly book. Compared to C++ it's almost tiny (I have many Bjarn's C++ tome and the Meyers books right next to my Rust books actually), and unlike C++, the compiler will essentially teach you the language if you didn't learn enough from the book to write code that compiles.

Once you've put in the initial investment, Rust code is way easier to maintain, read, and scale. It's also easier to onboard people. Onboarding people for Erlang is hard, and it's hard to hire for. Rust on the other hand is familiar to all of our FP people who like Haskell and Erlang, and our Java and C++ devs.

I've also found it extremely suitable for writing services. We have many services in Rust running in production right now. We have a service toolkit for our cross cutting concerns. We can run our IDL through a compiler and get a client and server that are on the order of 20x faster than their Erlang counterparts.
Not the OP but I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GnIVWEAPus
The ground has never breathed that hard when I was on shrooms
This has been known for years. See this blog post from 2013 for example: https://garethharney.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/the-forgotten-...

The key piece, among other circumstantial evidence that was already known for decades, is a coin found many years ago and not this graffiti.
What did you end up using for Rust? The actix ecosystem is pretty good, and quite fast.
Apple Apologizes for Hacked Accounts in China
I bet that it's due to subpar lighting combined with the mindset that HDR will fix all visual flaws.
This is fascinating. Has anyone considered repurposing this for something like sign language?
Hmm, so the product doesn't have much potential in its current state. I suppose it would be difficult to improve far beyond that using the same technology - perhaps they'll try and move to some sort of AR based solution?

The concept seems really neat and it'd be a shame if it all ended up not working out.
Coffee is probably like wine to most people: critics who say it's bad always seem to be exaggerating, it's hard for the layman to actually tell if it's objectively good or bad, and in the end you're drinking it for an effect or company anyways.

For example, burned coffee is more of a caricature of its normal taste unlike, say, burned popcorn which tastes like charcoal. You could probably tell most people including me that some burned coffee is some local artisanal roast and I'd chalk up any changes in its flavor to that and move on.

People clearly just aren't making coffee purchases based on taste, so you have to liken the whole thing to people going to bars. At which point Starbucks is simply the well-known bar in town with no surprises. You know their hours, you know where it is, you know you can get a table and dominate it shamelessly for hours, and so do all the other people in your group.

Sure, you'd like to try one of those lil cafes around the block sometime, but it's something you procrastinate just like anything else that will introduce the slightest change in your life.
I worked as a GMAT/GRE tutor for a while. The same was true in that field.
My points were not about what who wants, but what happens after they get it. A guy may want traditional marriage, and still may grow resentful when it leaves him stuck in job he hates while wife does less and have additional demands on him at home. The wife at home won't really appreciate his issues, because she has zero experience with any of that.

The traditional roles split worked as long as there was a lot of real home work and not much choice. Then it worked as status symbol for a while, but it was status wifes who eventually rebelled.

Unmarried teenage pregnancy is not what people generally means when they talk about traditional role of gender. Unmarried pregnant teenager is better off now compared to whatever you means by traditional time.

Large reason for lowered teenage pregnancy rates is sexual education - kids know about contraception and know to use it. Conversely sexual discussion being taboo in the past meant more teenagers pregnant.
Well, the problem is the uncanny valley between native and its imitation.
I am sure I am missing some nuance since this is the first I have heard of this but, on first blush, that seems like a great idea.
Yes, exactly. The problem is that for many companies that decide to outsource, the motivating factor is cost savings. "Why pay $80-100/hr for an Indian engineer when I can pay $20?"

And then six months down the road, "why are all our systems so shoddy?" "Why are our development cycles so long?"

As a consultant, I've seen this pattern so many times it's insane. And depressing... and for better or worse, lucrative.
I've read the whole article. It was like good written dystopian novel but non-fiction which I can't believe.
I don't buy it, easy to blame developers. Why not blame poor communication and specs?
Windows runs the software and hardware people use. Until that changes Windows will be around.

The real competition to watch is ChromeOS.
Here is a random example (https://www.domain.com.au/64-days-avenue-yeronga-qld-4104-20...) I just came across. A home that was purchased 30 years ago for the equivalent of 350k, selling for 1.4 million.

The same sized property next door has a full sized home and three townhomes. So potentially one person living in the same space that is housing a dozen next door.
I remember installing Mozilla Firefox on family friends computers in those years and changing the icon to IE so the average person wouldn’t notice and the world would have one more Firefox user.

I was a teenager.
Trump says US will pull out of intermediate range nuke pact
I'm one of those seemingly weird people that simply never has issues with Windows.

I've used every professional version of Windows as a dev since Windows Vista and it's always fascinating to go online and read of the horror stories that people have with Windows.

The only time I ever complain about the OS is in your typical enterprise environment where admins load all sorts of terrible gunk in the name of security that every so often has your machine slow as molasses.

But my personal machines all get updates regularly and so far so good.
You can run Classic Shell and get the Windows 7 experience back. I recommend it if you must run Windows; it's probably the only way to get rid of the god-awful Start menu/adware junk that M$ has now.
Not sure where the strawman is. I'm trying to describe that the cognitive process you think exists, doesn't actually exist the way you seem to think it does.
What a fantastic and riveting read. Of course, as with real life, the ending was upsetting (heroin really does kill and to this day, dealing with addiction to heroin is something we as a society still haven't figured out). I think one thing this highlights is something I've learned from reading and talking to activists who work with prisons. There really is a "different world" in prisons. Even with all the motion we've made since the 60s and 70s, prison remains a strange institution that has some moral abstract basis and purpose for existing in society for the rehabilitation and punishment of those who commit crime, but generates its own logic, and its own hierarchy, and perpetuates itself. Just like in Beto and McAdam's day, today prisons try to help fund themselves using prison labor, which has come up here before. United States prisons and the justice system as a whole still needs dire reform.
Darwin platforms ship binaries with different slices for different versions of Intel processors. You have the generic x86_64 and the newer x86_64h which supports more features.
I disagree. Both sides can have issues, and it's not primarily the fault of "managers." You can see some issues that I list elsewhere in this thread.

The part I do agree with is that responsibility to address the issues often is in management.

I do wonder if every tribe thinks they're good, and it's the other side at fault? ... I think about this a lot in my media literacy work, where I explore the empathy gap:

https://www.nemil.com/s/part2-terrorism.html

https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README....
> It should always be a person's #1 priority to live as long as possible.

Then a career change may be one of the most effective ways towards that goal. An environment where your employer provides a gym may be a bit too stressful...
I can't tell if there is a comma missing or you really mean that noone is terrible?
QL definitely has a huge focus on automation right now.
https://www.youtube.com/user/arcanfrontend
I’m not really sure where you think mathematics is full of inheritance. Do you have an example?

Off the top of my head:

Subsets, sub-anything-else, not really inheritance

Definitions of the form an X is a Y with the following extra properties, I think don’t really count as inheritance either. Example: A ring is a group with ..., but if you wanna to prove anything interesting about a ring, you can’t kust use the group properties or you would have proven a theorem about a group, and so the only useful thing about the group structure is that you know what it is. Any useful theorems will need other useful definitions (eg homomorphism) and these don’t get inherited and so the isomorphism theorem for groups doesn’t become the isomorphism theorem for rings “for free”. There’s also the fact that a field is a ring plus an extra property but most ring things become basically useless because much ring weirdness becomes trivial in a field and what is not trivial in a field is typically impossible in a ring, so knowing about rings doesn’t tell you much about fields.

Example: a topological space is a set plus a subset of its power set such that ... but all the interesting things in topology typically have little to do with those sets and more to do with eg functions (but not just any set function) and the added properties.

I suppose the theme is that one adds structure to (ie inherits from?) something because the new structure bans a lot of the weirdness of the bigger thing and allows for more interesting things to be done. The structure of the bigger thing is therefore not so useful because what is known about it is less relevant once more structure is imposed.

In applied maths, the Fourier and Laplace transforms are part of a more general family of integral transforms yet this knowledge is basically useless in their application and it would not make much difference if they were not related.

Fourier series fall into part of a bigger theory called Sturm-Liouville theory but in many of the places one uses a Fourier series this bigger picture is not relevant whereas the specific details about Fourier series are. This is not to say that Sturm-Liouville theory is not useful.
Agreed. Moreover, smart people do stupid things every day; intelligence is not an absolute.
it’s always on the table.

often we stay alive because dying would cause others suffering.
Ask HN: I will automate your processes for free
Share with me 1-3 processes related to the web you do regularly, which you find tedious and would like to automate.

I will only pick a handful of projects right now to allow myself to deliver the best value to them. My preference goes to use cases that tick the most boxes of these:

- Very repetitive and/or high value to you

- Well defined processes (you can write down the rules / flowchart of what you do precisely, no human judgement should be involved)

- Low in complexity

- Realistic automations - no AI or ML involved

- No internal systems (for now)

Please express your wishes (things with the highest impact) , and besides the realistic aspect, do not feel restricted to my preferences.

Example use cases:

- Synchronize Asana to Google Calendar

- Backup data from Airtable or perform some actions based on it

- Consolidate data from several sources such as your CRM, your analytics, your Medium statistics and whatnot to a single location such as a spreadsheet or even into a Rest API

- Setting up custom alerts based on tweets (if tweet from user X or contains keyword Y and has a positive sentiment send me an email)

- Setup follow up rules for emails such as: If user didn't login for 10 days send them a reminder / survey

- Create your own push notification system, and receive custom events (I can hook you up to webhooks or other systems)

- Setup a basic slackbot that triggers some API call for example, or receive messages in slack from an arbitrary source

- Watch news sources or job boards for keywords or more complex rules, and do whatever you want (receive a notification, store it in the database ..)

- Scrape a website (you'll need to bring your own captcha service if it's required)

- Automatically post for you in several platforms using one submission

Thank you for your time, hope this will lead to great collaborations :-)
We need a tool to convert a certain format to html, work flow required OCR and a few manual inspection items. An Indian outsourcing company took 2 months to finally setup the workflow. They'd be paid an initial fee, and every time we sent them a batch of file. They would stall on emails claiming national holidays. Memorable events included me needing to go through two levels of hierarchy before I was able to speak to a developer who knew how to change CSS or rather would change it.

This is when I realized that Indian society is fuck. Whatever modicum of knowledge one of them processes they jealously guard from their peers. It seems the kind of "better then tho" caste system is preserved in the knowledge economy. To an outside observer this knowledge was what a 18 kid with any motivation could learn.

I hired a Canadian (Also Indian) contractor to work with me to fully automate the system. We got done in 2 weeks and collected a substantial bonus. Our code is still in use a decade later.
StockX is a Dan Gilbert company so if QL goes down, they probably do too.
Is there are a usable demo or reference implementation of a desktop environment based on Arcan? Something akin to Weston for Wayland?
Sears Kit Homes Changed Housing
Chicago is an outlier in most ways, but, still, I’m from St. Louis and a connection to Detroit would be news to me. There are parts manufacturers all over Ohio, for example, but the Midwest is a lot bigger than Ohio.
I don't like Microsoft's attitude toward users [1]:

> Windows 10 Home users will receive updates from Windows Update automatically when it's available. Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise users will have the ability to postpone updates. The amount of time that Windows 10 Pro users can postpone updates is limited.

Basically: unless you pay a ton of money, we will use you as a guinea pig for testing.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-specifica...
You became a personal hero. :)

I always wanted to do stuff like that, never had the energy or the peaceful times to do... ever since I was like 19.

Mind if I contact you in the future about any of these projects? I would very much like to try most of the things from your list!
Most devs have no management experience and it's like trying to describe what 'drunk or high' means to someone who has never had a drink or smoked up.

It's trivially easy to 'blame management'.

It's often the case, but it's often not either.
That's a blatant lie, running a full node is not required to "be decentralized", for the same reason you don't need to run a full node in Bitcoin. Light nodes have the same guarantees about the integrity and irreversibility that full nodes do. Perhaps you should try learning about them - see https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Light-client-protocol - before stating things you don't understand? The fact that the worst thing a "fudster" like you has to say against Ethereum is that it had a hard fork to revert a millionaire hack caused by a bug in early stages of the project; whereas something not too different also happened to Bitcoin - see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident - when it had the same age; says it all.

I don't often comment here, but I simply can't understand why an human being would come to the internet and hatefully attack things it doesn't like with straight made-up facts. I mean, I know this is so common, I just don't get why. This kind of thing makes me sad about humanity as a whole. Why can't we be nice to each other?
I can't really go into it in detail, but at a high level Erlang default methods of distribution and security don't scale very well. There are people working on better mechanisms for this, and I know of several companies that have custom solutions for clustering nodes. One big issue is you cannot easily burst Erlang nodes to handle peak traffic. The number of nodes is usually relatively static in a deployment.
I'm working on an online debate mediation platform to settle Twitter flamewars more thoroughly and amicably.
It also has some funny Easter eggs, like a "Fibonacchos" stand.
This reminds me of "The Chase" from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Its plot centred around data stored in the DNA of different species across the galaxy.
Will this hash be useful to check if the content of files of all sizes has changed or not? Thinking about storing the hash of a file in a database to evaluate when changes has taken place.
OP: article linking a study suggesting a strong correlation between exercise and mortality

Top reply: I really really like to go to the gym, and I fast because I think it's really, really good. Get a personal trainer
ORNL demonstrates 120-kilowatt wireless charging for vehicles
Don't forget the "tax advantages" of Starbucks
$200k and up, for a Senior Software Engineer, is something that's only "frequent" in the U.S. (and varying a lot based on specific locations). With rentals costing many thousands of $ a month, significant healthcare costs, a need to have a car for each person, and no safety net.

If your friend is earning around €100k in France and not even living in Paris, then they're in a VERY privileged position. I'd say that €110k in Paris, factoring in exchange rates, CoL & taxes, can be the equivalent to a $200k salary in SV. So it's hardly a downgrade.