skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calm Tech is one of those ideas that's been in floating around for decades but has never quite gotten the attention it deserves (... sort of a funny paradox, "pay attention to making tools you don't have to pay attention to").

This article doesn't mention some of the old standard examples:

Live Wire was a sculpture at Xerox Parc that twitched every time some number of network packets went through the office's router - you could get an intuitive feel for how much load was on the system.

There's an X Windows applet called "LavaPS" which shows all your unix processes as colored blobs in a lavalamp, sized by memory footprint, floating to the top by age. It gives you a quick impression of what your computer is doing - is one webserver process eating your whole core? Or are you getting forkbombed by thousands of little ones? Those look really different.

The definitive works on Calm Computing are a paper written by Mark Weiser (RIP) in 1996, "Designing Calm Technology" (which has unfortunately fallen off the internet)
and an O'Reilly book called "Calm Technology" by Amber Case (the Cyborg Anthropologist)

Ideally we'd go calmer than a "status light" or "status tone" - those are still pretty active! What can you convey with the color of a Phillips Hue bulb that changes slowly?
This is a good report, but I'd also be interested to see focus on GPU performance on both classic GPU intensive workloads and machine learning workloads.
Why don't cameras sign the photos at sensor?
Solving Data Lineage Tracking and Data Discovery at WeWork – Episode 111
I also support taxpayer funded healthcare, but I realize that taking care of each and every old person in nursing homes and keeping them alive as long as possible would consume a disproportionate fraction of the nation's resources, especially in a population with fewer and fewer children.

And the people triaging at insurance companies are doctors and pharmacists themselves. A doctor not employed by insurance companies is also a "businessman", considering they get paid more the more they treat. No one is exempt from conflicts of interest, but since US voters didn't want "death panels", they get to deal with prior authorizations.

It's the same function done by the NHS or government in any other country.
Amazon and Google are practically giving away smart speakers. Here’s why
Claim that their form of therapy will change everything:

>The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other "black holes" of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life.
...and the creators usually provide exclusive content or early access as extra incentives.
This comment is a master piece, in that it crystallizes everything that is dismaying about the present.

We live in a boring dystopia.
Yeah. This sounds like another case of religious organisations picking on the vulnerable for "conversion" / indoctrination purposes (aka brainwashing). :(
I can't own those, unless I refuse to return them to Netflix. I could "lose" them but it's still ridiculous in order to acquire those films.
Anyone who then wants their site accessible through this. It’s not a proxy, they’re just returning your IPv6 address based on what subdomain you type.

In order for a wildcard to work, every single user of the service needs the private key for that wildcard certificate.
Keynes was wrong. Gen Z will have it worse
Objectivity is moot when all your rhetoric is pushed into emotional triggers. My experience with CNN is it's for whipping up discontent, and using news bytes to do it.

As an example, and this is totally anecdotal, the past few times I've flipped to CNN they weren't talking about the serious news of the day, e.g. impeachment proceedings, but rather spent all their time on "gut-wrenching" (their word, used maybe 4x per minute while I watched) stories like the family who was killed by Mexican cartels 1.5 months ago, when the first rumblings of impeachment started proper. I sensed nothing in the broadcast but effort to keep eyeballs glued to the screen. No interest in reporting in any way "objectively" except when that means "restate the same 4 factoids about this story until we wait for someone else to come in with a 5th". No appropriate analysis, no demonstration of understanding that cartel warfare has been rampant in Mexico for decades and the caravan that was targeted looked an awful lot like a drug transport caravan from far away, nothing.
The problem is the resistance of the wires which causes a measurable voltage drop. Try extending a USB cable 10 meters to have an idea.
Effective solutions to deal with emotional and psychological issues are only effective if they are compatible with the individual being treated.

Unlike physical issues, where fixing a broken leg is the same regardless of the patient, emotional and psychological issues require trial and error, but most people don’t understand why it’s necessary to try different solutions, so they just assume it’s all quackery, and avoid the problem entirely.
JSLinux was largely a toy, AFAIK. I don’t think it was meant as an exhortation to write all software that way.
Trump proposes Social Security change to end disability benefits for many
I think this speaks of huge potential, not actual success. I'm really, really hopeful that blazor becomes something real with long-term committment but not fully convinced yet it's not the new silverlight. I hope these fears are unfounded but hesitant to go all-in as a first mover. W3C support is a positive step.
Isn't it mostly aimed at C/C++/Rust right now?
This makes total sense on UI elements (like buttons and menus) but should never be on content, that rule use here is just lazy.
Cops storm Nginx's Moscow offices after a Russian biz claims it owns Nginx
This seems to rely on a specific take on the phrase "change everything" that doesn't square with how I'd have read it, followed by the odd claim that CBT doesn't change anything, but then a description of things it changes.

[EDIT] in fact despite looking superficially like a fairly sober and complete post, I believe the parent might be a poster child for "shallow dismissal".
Most electronic devices require low voltage DC, so resistance losses in cabling across even quite short distances (10+ metres) would be significant. This is why DC distribution in data centres if it is used is normally 48V.
> at $5 per channel that is like saying the channel is half as valuable as Netflix, which is simply not possible

I can understand how you might look at it that way, but I guess it depends on how you define value. To an investor, no of course not... one youtube channel could never have the same asset value as half of the content on netflix.

But, if you're talking about personal value, emotional value, qualitative value, I don't think you can speak in terms of asset value. A super fan doesn't care how much the content cost to produce or the variety of that content, in fact they want more of that one type of content than anything else. Most people have something they are irrational fanatical about and would pay more than $5/month to consume/learn/see everything about that thing. It's about a feeling and that feeling is often worth more than $5/month.

That also doesn't include content that has real monetary value to consumers. For example, there is one stock related youtube channel I follow that charges $8/month for access to their private stock picks, analysis, etc. If that helps someone generate a 1% gain in their portfolio growth then that could very well be worth more than the content on netflix to that one consumer since the content on Netflix costs them more than it makes them.

So, I think it's fair to say that someone may like one show or creator half as much as they like the content on Netflix even though the asset value could never compare.
If we're looking at the economy then we shouldn't just be looking at the top 10-20% of men who have the genetics to be successful on dating apps.

What happens to the other 80-90% of men? They can either take the left overs of the dating market once the genetic lottery winners are done with them OR they can not bother playing the whole dating game and instead pursue other hobbies.

The rise of the red pill/mgtow types is a reflection of the latter.

I believe that now we're only beginning to see the macro impact of these dating apps (i.e, oversupply in the market for Diamonds). There will be fewer people settling down in the future.

I want to say that society will then re-learn why marriage was important, why traditional values mattered, etc. But I don't think technology will let us go back. The future is probably going to be very strange.
Thats an interesting thought. I wonder if we could do visual representations similar to "skin color + thumbs up" == colored emoji to essentially convert operator + verb combos into ligature type single characters. Would help with visual parsing/reading as well.

On a separate note, I think APL is well suited to both drawing based and voice based creation of programs on ipad like devices. I'm playing with this a little bit right now but will take a while to have something useful to others.
I suspect they are bottlenecked on CPU - most of these instance types are capable of higher throughput than they've captured, but you'd need more than 1 Iperf process to measure it on Azure.
What kind of defeatist mentality is this? There should be a correction in the other direction, if anything.
For hard copies, yes. You can still get it on iTunes.
imgur does some referer detection server side to redirect you to the html page if they think they can. So it's possible that the user is getting sent to the web view.
This shows the same message
This is super interesting! I'm giving it a shot.
Aren't Stripe and Airbnb the only two private companies on these lists? And for both of those I would assume they're doing RSUs, not options? But agreed on the lack of liquidity. Cash is king.
Is this a joke? Most of the web is deeply broken with uMatrix enabled. If you use uMatrix, you need to know what you are doing.
Have you studied extensively for the technical exams? I've tried, and I've gotten interviews at several of the FAANGs as well as some desirable mature startups, but I fail at the technical screeinging stage. Not sure if I've tanked it or was close, but I get the "no hire" call or email after take-home projects or whiteboard exams.

Btw, to give you sense of it, I'd have no trouble finding a loop in a linked list, printing all permutations of a set, or searching a tree recursively. I'd have to puzzle a bit to figure out how to do DFS vs BFS, but I'd get there, I don't have it loaded into memory. I wouldn't be able to implement merge sort on the spot, I'd need to look it up, though I could probably get it frontloaded. All I can say is dayum those interview exams are hard, what I described is a pre-req, nobody will just ask you to permute a set, but if you can't, you'll never solve whiteboard the problem they ask you in 45 minutes.

For take-home projects, one (a rails app) was rejected because I used named routes rather than using the more conventional methods (I know this wouldn't be good to do in a production app... guess I just wasn't thinking about routes, it was a demo app, so I just threw some names routes in there for demo purposes, it was a take-home), along with some "duplicated" code that I thought was justified but never got to explain (I personally think extracting this into another method would be a pre-optimization that would need to be undone when the methods diverged, something I thought would be likely under the admittedly fabricated business requirements). I did have what I though was good testing, the reviewers did complement that along with some aspects of the app in their review.

Sorry, don't mean to give you my sob story, I just... I'm at the point where I wouldn't mind a crack at these jobs but just feel like maybe it's not an effort that's going to pay off (I mean, how much more time do I really want to spend on the kind of problems in cracking the coding interview? I actually feel like I got something out of studying it and preparing, but going back over and over, nah... maybe other people retain this stuff better than I do, and you know, maybe that does actually say something about suitability for these jobs).
Printers with IP address (wifi card, network port, network card) these days support the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol
> Moreover this bytecode has the potential to entirely supplant native code and can do so with equal or better performance.

I interpreted that part of the talk as hyperbole and sarcasm. It was saying that programmers will be so far removed from how computers work that they'll happily program against a model that has five layers of abstraction that simply serve to provide the original interface of the bottom layer.

Bytecode, by its nature, has to be translated into native code -- the way for it to be 'faster' than native code is to be native code. In software, you can do this with static or JIT compilation. The hardware people do this by changing their CPUs to make the things that people do in the bytecode faster. (Apple introduced new floating point CPU instructions in their iPhones just to make JavaScript faster.)
> How does this work? Does the runtime tracks duration for each future?

There's a watchdog. It's similar to the sysmon thread used in go: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoSched...

> I would imagine that the future object will be moved. And for move to be cheap are they allocated on heap by the runtime?

The trick is to steal the runtime on the thread, not the task being executed, which makes the process constant time ;).
Ironically Uber is over $30 for the first time in awhile...hasn't been over $30 since even before lockup expiration.

There were fears that the huge number of shares would depress the price even further. Seems like that hasn't happened.
Awesome stuff! Amazing to see the progress and how you are taking this step by step
Clippers are still sharp, can still cause razor burn-like damage, can still jam, can still benefit from some hair being wet etc. I've worn a #1 or #2 all over for half my life now and have had incompetent stylists give me severe razor burn-like irritation, pull at my hair with clippers that weren't well maintained, be quite aggressive with the pressure over my scalp, regularly miss strands here and there that I then find days later in the mirror and have to trim with scissors, etc.

You can also put a guard on clippers and get varying lengths of hair remaining due to the angle, then of course lining up sideburns/removing sideburns/squaring the back/leaving the back natural/cutting my widow's peak down to the skin without asking me (which many people want) etc.
This looks awesome, great project!

Which specific CPUs or applications that you emulate really take advantage of the performance boost that WASM provides?
>I really dislike that so many of the US domestic charities are religiously driven.

In fairness, many of them are very good. The Mormons, for example, have always impressed me. I had a friend who grew up in Menlo Park, fell on hard times, and ended up in Utah. The Mormon community there was very supportive in substantial ways, and although they did evangelize, I hear it was pretty mild.

But yeah, it's...evil when a religion gets transactional with it's charity.
Objective-C Direct Methods
To be clear I am speaking of someone living off of 100m in assets. You can have negative net worth, be pulling in 35m/year and reasonably splurge on a 1m/year expense.

But, if you’re living off of say 5m/year from your assets a 1m/year splurge is a huge chunk of your income. At that level renting one would be far more appealing to most people. Though sure if owning a jet was a major hobby vs a means of transportation it’s easily possibly, just as I said a major expense.
Range was enjoyable, but it was essentially just a mirror image of Outliers. The same sort of interesting anecdotes about some people you've heard of and some you haven't, but saying you should eschew 10k hours in favor of a more broad experience.

Felt like a very "poppy" sort of management book. Not bad, but def not highly recommended.
Michigan's Cultural Advantage over California
Been having a lot of fun with friends. Non-techy people don't really believe it, so when it works well and is giving back cohesive text, they are really blown away.
Absolutely, have a look at that:

https://assemblyscript.org
The author writes from the perspective of a working psychiatrist. In this linked essay, he refers to specific quotes regarding CBT that touted it as a nearly miraculous therapy, when it was first introduced.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/16/cbt-in-the-water-suppl...
Heatscore
The idea behind the tech – using industrial robots to directly interact and TOUCH humans – is pivotable to healthcare. No need to be malicious.
Hey David here from Got-it, we're not forming BLE connections which require handshakes every 20ms and thus the difficulty in paring in crowded BLE environments. We just need to pick up the occasional radio event for our solution to work. As you've correctly identified phones are also limited to the number of connections they can form. We have successfully tested with 1500 labels all in the same cardboard box and that worked well.
even better, why not gzip all your S3 buckets?
at least we're still a little step above this:

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."
-- Anatole France
> Which made it sound as if they can get a cert for your domain, which they cannot.

Why? They own and operate the DNS server for has-a.name, so (if they wish to) they can just add any record that they wish, to any domain, right?

Of course this is true for any registrar, but that's also why not anyone can just become a registrar.
In fairness I have only tried Jenkins, CruiseControl and Azure DevOps.
What sets TeamCity apart is the use of Kotlin. You do have to invest a fair amount of time to get the most of it, but when you do the return is great.

Putting together a pipeline in Azure DevOps with tons of YAML is not a great experience.

As far as Jenkins is concerned I think that it's biggest selling point is that it's free.
I stayed in a newly built hotel a few years ago that had two USB-A sockets integrated in every single power outlet, both in the room and around the lobby.

What actually worries me about this is that they are all backed by tiny switch mode power supplies, and if not designed and built correctly they have a habit of exploding. So now your hotel has hundreds of potentially explody boxes hidden in the walls.
Considering that the overall category is "software engineering compensation", many people will be senior/staff engineers, unless people are constantly washing out in less than 5 years time.
Figma uses Emscripten which is technically not Webassembly (to my knowledge)
The Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 Showdown: AMD's Ryzen Picasso Vs.Intel's Ice Lake
Cheers, really appreciate the karma!
Which OS? Linux/Windows/OSX/Android? (The brand of the printer should not be important.)

Most programming languages have a library to create a PDF. Put it in a temporary secret location. And the OS have an API to print a file (if the proper program is installed).
upvoting for the reminder to revisit all the great Byte cover art -- I mean, there were a lot of giant black floppy disks flying around back in the day!
> FYI, another name for lite.cnn.com is m.cnn.com

That makes the "Please update to the latest version of the CNN app" message make more sense: they've probably saw lite.cnn.com as a service for phones, and decided to discontinue it in favor of their app.
Not really.

My idea binds them to certain terms e.g. they can only ban accounts if they don't follow guidelines,which means they have to give a reason which can be legally challenged.

They can only change the guidelines after a warning period, which means they have more incentitive to be constructive with the community as they can move away in that time.

As of now, if you join the plattform you only have very few gurantees.

As per the terms right now, they could happily send you an E-Mail at around 1AM and change pledge fees to 300%.

If that lands in the spam folder, you could not notice it until you have to pay.

Then they could ban you and delete your account without any reason, without any refunds.

Do I think they will do it? No

Do I think a company which presents itself as a fair new company who wants to be fair etc. should have terms of use which enable such behaivour?

No, I think it is high time that such terms of use are banned. I'm not even sure such terms would be legal in some countries.
That depends a lot on your past background. A number of the employees at these megacorps have either worked in finance before, or at one of the big consulting firms, or they've done the Valley dance between the hot growth companies of the moment. So they do have that reference point between many different companies. There's sort of a revolving door among many of the elite institutions that run the world - Ivy League universities, large dominant corporations, big-name consulting, finance, and government.

If this doesn't apply to you, and a megacorp was your first job out of college that you stuck with for your whole career, you may want to be a bit more cautious with your capital.
A bit meta, but I wonder how this became a story. Is someone constantly analyzing data for this kind of thing? How did it get surfaced? And, in general, what kinds of news services trigger off of polling public data?
This doesn't go into the "three strikes and you're shutdown" which has been used extensively against small creators. For example (and notwithstanding the rest of the issue) how 2k Games knocked the Borderlands 3 leaker (SupMatto) off YouTube, permanently, by making dozens of copyright notices against their channel. There's also the case of Alex Mauer (a song writer) who took several channels offline as a side effect of her legal battle with a videogame creator.

Also, the strikes remain until the disputes are resolved entirely, so even if you dispute everything, you can still be taken offline.

As a side note, the revenue escrow is very new. It took YouTube over a decade (Content ID was introduced in 2007) to come to this fairly reasonable middle ground. Just... don't take a vacation, OK?
Like this? https://browsix.org/
We don't want low voltage distribution. It's dangerous. The currents have to be MUCH higher, and actually increases fire risk.
Self-Driving Mercedes Will Be Programmed to Sacrifice Pedestrians
It`s parody.
Do you have any source for that? I have never had this happen.
It was brain shortcut, I meant point your reverse DNS of a routable IP to that name.
> Can you select the text on your buttons, your tabs, your dropdowns

Usually it's possible by just starting the selection beside the button and dragging across. For example, you can select a navigation button on HN easily this way, along with most sites. I use this all the time when I'm reading about products and want to copy the product name or model number, but it's part of a breadcrumb navigation. It would actually be nice if there was a browser shortcut, where if I hold "s" I can disable opening links during that time and select buttons like normal text.
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