skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that it was the case. There were some other devices and the wifi name wasn't conference room or anything like that. It just looked like a sloppy setup with no password or whatsoever. Keep in mind that we weren't even in the lobby but we were social distancing on the lawn outside.
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Whiteboards were a huge part of my daily work prior to COVID and the lack of whiteboards had a negative impact on my team. Touchscreens have not really been the same for us, it is too much overhead when all you wanted was to quickly work out an idea with someone else.
There is something missing from the English article, which is a shame. In the French article [1], he talks about another story at the end that implies lights.

He was able to control lights from all the bedrooms in another hotel by putting his laptop between the tablets controlling the lights and the ethernet cables. Funny story, the IP adresses were assigned based on the bedroom number, eg the bedroom 714 had an IP of 172.16.20 7.14.

Edit: my bad, the second story was included in the French article but was written by another person, Matthew Garrett. Here is the story in English: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/40505.html

[1]: https://linuxfr.org/news/son-et-lumiere-a-l-hotel
The interface between Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Dynamics for example seems to make sense to me - that these low-code solutions can be used to augment an existing (cloud-based) ERP with new forms/capability that wouldn't otherwise be practical.

It seems to be a case of 'right-tool-right-job' rather than a blanket rule that no-code is good/bad.

I actually think no-code is incredibly powerful when applied by the right person to the correct problem, and will run circles around a custom-developed app in terms of cost, time and flexibility. If you apply it to the wrong problem then of course you aren't going to get the same outcome, like with any technology. I think the mistake people often make is thinking that no-code aims to eliminate all-code, but like any development tool it just fits a certain niche well.
Many non Americans find this system... intriguing.
US citizens residing in Puerto Rico do not vote on the presidential elections.
The US dominant ideology is private enterprise, not government enterprise. This is why the US does not even own its high-tech weapon manufacturers, preferring to have Boeing, Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin at one remove. Of course, they wouldn't exist without government money, but they're private companies with private shareholders.

So when you're talking a few hundred billion dollars for a US-first technological capability, the important question is who will get the money and how will they be held accountable for delivery? What, even, are they expected to deliver - no use if the plant is more expensive than TSMC so everyone chooses them anyway.

The history of these initiatives is not great: https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/post/foxconn-promised-130... (Republican)

https://fortune.com/2015/08/27/remember-solyndra-mistake/ (Democrat)
How does Google manage protobufs
I've heard that all you do at Google is move around protobufs. We are trying to do the same thing. Can someone outline how the protobufs are available publicly in googleapis but developers are able to deploy local grpc servers using them? How do they manage open source protobufs alongside private internal service protobufs?
One of the central characteristics of art, is that it is trying to break out of boxes. As such it resists any attempt to define it and I personally think that’s is actually a really good example of Wittgenstein’s family resemblance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_resemblance).

But, in my opinion, even if a definition could capture what’s art, it won’t be a lazy definition like "Art" is "better than I can do”. Art cannot be limited like that and there are many things people do “better than I can do”, which are not art.

Art has a long and complex history of grappling and negotiating with the role of skill, perspectives range from equating art with skill, over seeing skill as a tool for carrying out a vision to a conscious rejection of virtuosity. Even the rejection of virtuosity can create great art.

For example in dance, my profession, there are whole fields like postmodern dance or non-dance, which reject traditional dance skills, and non-dance artists like Jerome Bel create amazing, touching art, by authentically showing people failing to do “better than I can do”.

(Although you could maybe argue that in this case the artistry is just shifted to another level, the level of composition and ideas instead of the dance itself.)

To see one example of how an artist reflects on the importance of skill/virtuosity in art, here’s an excerpt from Jonathan Burrows “A choregrapher’s handbook”:

“Virtuosity is just another way to help the audience to care what happens next.

Virtuosity raises the stakes to a place where the audience knows something may go wrong. They enjoy watching this negotiation with disaster. Will the performer fall, or forget what they’re doing, or will they get through it?

The resulting anticipation, poised on the brink of success or failure, suspends time in a moment of in-breath. This slowed-down time, in the midst of risk, is as much of a pleasure for the performer as for the audience.

However, if everything is virtuosic then there’s nothing against which to read the virtuosity: it has to be in balance with other modes of engagement.”
I had a long stay in a hotel in Europe one time. One day, the TV turned itself on and started playing a French music video. The TV was apparently connected to Wi-Fi and had some sort of Chromecast feature built-in, so anyone could play content to any room. Unfortunately all the settings were locked so I couldn't disable it, and had to keep it unplugged.

This was when I discovered Samsung TVs have a menu option to scan for viruses, which I still think is hilarious.
OK...so google just fixed maps then. I don't know anyone who wants to get on the highway if they don't have to.
I can relate. What worked for me was getting noise cancelling headphones and working inside a room with a door. It took some “training” (aka listening to loud music on noise cancelling headphones if she tried to interrupt) but she no longer interrupts me during work hours except on rare occasions when it actually is important. She will usually IM me too, instead of talking through the door.

In other words, respect your own boundaries first. That goes a long way towards helping other people recognize the same boundaries.
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We support up to 1Gbps/100Mbps as a standard subscription on cable, with symmetrical connections available for an additional fee, except on 1Gbit, where the fastest upload available is 500Mbps.

Cable is alive and well, if properly maintained and upgraded.
But no graph available for ethics.
Lemaitre?
Because EECS staff (grad students, professors) don't maintain the IT infrastructure of UC Berkeley?
Isn't Apple's terminal already GPU-rendered too? Or was that iTerm2…
Yeah, we have a service that needs to use a proxy for most calls, but one component mustn't use the proxy, in a way that iirc is not properly captured by a `NO_PROXY` entry. Now the abstraction breaks down and the service has some ugly special-case code. :(
I once upon a time suggested installing dual boot for a family member's pc with elementary just for her to try linux out. Every so often she uses it when windows has issues (more often than not) and ever since that, when I got a new laptop I tried using it over gentoo which is my usual choice (I have other issues with gentoo over the past few years but that's an aside).

Elementary isn't perfect, it has its hang-ups like anything else but it's pretty good, stable, and it's generally a pleasant experience. I can't really decide if elementary is better than gnome or not, I think I prefer gnome's activities view to the macos inspired dock+applications shtick but the design elsewhere feels a little bit more my taste than gnome. Also, while I don't use the curated apps that much, greatly prefer firefox to epiphany and the email app has issues with protonmail the ones I use are aesthetically pleasing.

All in all, I'm still waiting on the next update! But kudos to the team for a good 10 year run and here's to the next 10.
> If I've made a selection in terminal, Ctrl+C will copy it. If there's no selection, it will kill the process as usual.

You can set that up in a bunch of terminal emulators these days. I have it working that way in Konsole.
I was able to touch type with my thumbs on my blackberry, in the before-times
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Kind of off topic, but is something using either Lombok[0] or Manifold[1] to have better ergonomics in Java? It sounds like a brilliant idea to me, but I don't use Java on a daily basis.

[0] https://projectlombok.org/
[1] https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold
What surprises me about this whole discourse is how quickly the narrative has been rewritten.

Read any article from the likes of HBR from 2019 and it's apparent that much, much research shows that offices, and open offices in particular are toxic for productivity - and that the 'water cooler' collaboration effect has been vastly overstated.

Sometimes in an open office you could go several hours without getting anything done at all because someone had decided to hold an impromptu meeting by your desk. And irony of all ironies - you put your headphones in at a loud enough volume to drown out the noise and then get tapped on the shoulder for 'distracting' people.

Fast forward a year and a half and the 'water cooler' myth seems to be accepted as fact, and none of the business press seems to mention at all the harmful effects of open offices on productivity. It's not like good ideas ever came from those interactions - they tended to produce the half baked ideas, and definitely didn't produce the x-functional alignment it actually takes to get anything done in most orgs.

The switching cost of interruption - or even the fear that you could at any moment be interrupted - is a complete inhibitor to deep work. My only hope is that when people are inevitably forced back into the office, people will be able to be more productive because of 40% fewer people being in them.
There are a lot of use cases. For example, I have 17 applications running on a system that need a connection string. When I need to change that connection string, I can 1) change 17 config files; 2) change 17 shortcuts containing command-line arguments; 3) change one env variable.
There are a cohort of people who abhor touchscreens for typing but there currently exists nothing that caters to them.

Everyone making phones caters to the 80% case, there are economic reasons for this (supply chain runoffs, manufacturing equipment and software) so making something for the remaining 20% cases is increasingly expensive.

To answer your question directly, me (a 31 year old white man technologist) and my friend (a 28 year old white man technologist)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not just confusion. If you hype it up as the future and then drop it how excited are people really going to get for the old stuff?
It’s not an issue of pay, it’s an issue of time and convenience.
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Downshifting is the devil.
Honestly, I find that it works astonishingly poorly. Autocorrect is often wrong, sometimes showing the right thing milliseconds before second-guessing itself into a totally wrong word, so now I'm having to backspace because for some reason typing the actual letters I want is bad user interface.

Agreed regarding target audience, though.
I guess I am an extreme in that I hate going into work. WFH forever please.
Because of Mein Kampf perhaps? Then again it's on Amazon, do they block Amazon?
"I think some of the issue is just most people not being prepared or having the right accommodations."

This is definately a significant factor, many of us literally dont have a door to lock
> There just isn't enough money for the same number of fabs at the bleeding edge.

There definitely is but it will come at the cost of share buy backs and keeping share price up which affects compensation of management. Failure to keep the share price up by investing in manufacturing in US will also invite predatory share holders to topple the management. The cult of "free" markets driving wealth growth at the top of the society seems to have trumped strategic common sense.
Whoa, SE looks incredible. Thanks for your work on that!

Are there any plans to support non-English ebooks as well?

Edit: Regarding non-English ebooks, I was thinking about books like "Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst" (Birdflight As The Basis Of Aviation) by Otto Lilienthal (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54565). It's a fantastic book with nice hand-drawn illustrations, and it would deserve being presented/typeset in a beautiful way. Currently available ebooks are mostly bad.
It's not actually missing from the English article. The French translation just combined two hotel-related articles into one, the light story is from another author.

EDIT: Just saw your edit, ignore this one :P
Your features page says this:

> Email Previews

> Quickly preview your design on real devices or share it with your team by sending it as an email message.

But when I read the documentation, it seems like you just assume the user has a Litmus account. Is that correct?

Given your paid plans start at $19.99/mo, I think it would be wise to be upfront about the fact that you need a $99/mo Litmus account for this feature to work. Mail client compatibility is the most complex and difficult thing to get right with HTML email design. If you need an external service to get this right, this needs to be clearer. Right now it seems you’re selling Litmus as if it’s your own functionality then expecting your customers to then go and pay much more to Litmus to actually get that functionality.
> as long as you are in some non-flat spacetime (i.e. there is some mass in your vincinity)

I'm not an expert, but isn't that definitionally everywhere? Or is it that it works better when your vicinity is more curved? The paper is a bit beyond my ability to get anything from, and the summary on Wikipedia isn't much better, and also doesn't seem to match what you're implying it is.

> “Swimming in spacetime” is a geometrical motive principle that exploits the curved spacetime metric of the gravitational field to permit an extended body undergoing specific deformations in shape, to change position. In weak gravitational fields, like that of Earth, the change in position per deformation cycle would be far too small to detect, but the concept remains of interest as the only unambiguous example of reactionless motion in mainstream physics.
Managed to, somehow, install 14.1 on my Galaxy S5 while ago. Still stable and is great. Have not had the nerves to upgrade, as it not as simple as pushing a botton, but for now it is awesome.
> In numerical code the distinction between exact closed-form solutions and approximate solutions (through Newton's method and the like) is just not that meaningful.

Not that meaningful indeed, until, as the abstract states, it outperforms existing series and root-finding solutions by a factor of at least 2. QED. QED.
They were supposed to. This company was launched on an ill-fated Kickstarter for a slide-out keyboard attachment called "Livermorium" for the Moto Z. It's the reason I owned a Moto Z.

I have no interest in buying a no-name brand phone, though.
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MJML deserves a mention. We use it, together with mustache, to let users create their own mailings from some building blocks we offer.

Works quite well!
You mention "Writing an Interpreter in Go" - are you familiar with the similar book, "Crafting Interpreters" [0]? It's highly recommended by many but, again, may be more implementation-oriented than you're looking for. In that case, here is a list of other books that its author seems to recommend [1].

Another thing I've found very helpful is to investigate the details behind how existing languages work. It's especially interesting to think about how language flaws are sometimes unavoidable consequences of the underlying design.

For example, you mention familiarity with Python. Dynamically-typed scripting languages are my area of interest, so I have spent time making sense of Python's object model [2], including things like the descriptor protocol. It's then interesting to compare it to Ruby's object model [3], which despite surface similarities actually works in a completely different way.

[0] http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/

[1] https://twitter.com/munificentbob/status/901543375945388032

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2sgQ38UDVY
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I honestly found keyboards like this cumbersome because I can only use two fingers. I thought that was there reason we got away from them in the first place? Then haptic feedback made it so touching the screen feels better, but the original iPhone showed you didn't need a keyboard. I am so confused on who would buy this device.
Well, they do mean slightly different things in different languages.

But I suspect "set-class" or "give-class" would be a bit cumbersome to trip over every time it happens. A relatively core concept should have a relatively short name (in the Perl philosophy of working like a natural language) so we'd still probably have to find something around 5 characters or fewer.
You are right that the effects of internet advertising (assuming trackers etc.) on the individual can be understood as long-term, but in that case at least the operator is undertaking two risks:

1) The long-term validity and usefulness of the data they are gathering. A user may be relatively net-savvy regarding the use of private browsing, they may rescind their consent on this or that advertising network to track them, their visiting son or daughter might give their device a "privacy clean-up", or they may be ironically so digitally illiterate that when their phone dies or they forget their passwords they just create a new Google account.

2) The legal risks involved in gathering, and particularly exploiting, non-GDPR (or other local law) compliant data.

With non-consensual cryptocurrency mining, both points become irrelevant. Once it is mined, cryptocurrency is a pure commodity, regardless of legality and the consent or future opinions of the person whose resources were employed to produce it.
Any link about that? Are you talking about this? https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/6047#issueco...
I updated my comment with a link to the original story, thanks!
Foreigner's two cents: it's not that they don't care---the abysmal availability of Google Street View attests to that among others---but rather a combination of (a) masses (and hence bureaucrats) not having as comprehensive a definition of "personal-data invasive" as those that work in tech and (b) this German trust in any document that can be ratified/made into a legal proclamation.

(a) isn't really uniquely German, of course. Most people not in tech, though privacy-conscious, won't really bat an eyelid on Windows 10 telemetry, Instagram's excess of data gathered, etc.

With (b), I bet the Universities are satisfied that Microsoft has all clearances/certifications to be GDPR-compatible or whatever else. That pacifies their cynicism. If shit hits the fan, the courts can worry about it. The important thing is they checked all the boxes in the paperwork with sufficient diligence.

Again, just my two cents. I'm not even European but it seems to me Switzerland in real-life is what Germany is in most people's imaginations. But again, that's just more of my opinions.
What is your baseline for how good swipe typing is?

Pre-smartphone plenty of people touch typed text messages. No need to be staring at the screen. Stealth messages could be sent without taking the phone out of your pocket.

Physical keyboards probably appear to a significant section of people who would like to use their phone as a productivity device. Surely if swipe typing is so good it would be an option in Windows 10?

I agree on the price but I am still considering purchasing this phone.
This is desktop software, why is there a monthly fee?

I occasionally want to send “nice looking” emails but get asked by lots of comms people about it. Recommending a monthly fee service is a non starter, but buying some software is pretty easy to decide. “Should I pay once? Or pay forever?”

Is there anything in the functionality that takes advantage of SaaS? Other than updates and whatnot?

Of course the price/value computation is up to y’all and your customers but office365 only costs $10/month. Seems tough to value authoring email as higher value than cloud productivity suite.

It would be nice if there was a way people like me could use since our competition is an outlook template but still scale up to people who may do this all the time and be willing to pay $20+/month.
Work distractions are generally work related. The person at work who closes his door gets more output, but often that isn't the output that is needed. The person who pays attention to work distractions gets less work done total, but more useful work. Home distractions are not the same.
I think this is a silly line of inquiry at best, but if one were to attempt to take it seriously, surely “there is precisely one way to do it” is an approach that would better fit the “imperialist” frame than Perl’s actual approach.
Self-healing “Xenobots” mean a future with living machines
A keyboard is under development for the PinePhone.
>What segment does the physical keyboard appeal to?

Sysadmins, hackers, etc. Ever tried ”swipe typing coupled with autocorrect” in an SSH session?
I did basically the same.

The most intense symptoms (I even had partially numb fingers) went away after visiting the orthopedic who realigned my back. (You know, where they pull up your shoulders and then click, click, ...) I tried to move around more while realizing sitting still is the worst thing one can do for the back even if it might be less painful for the back/arms in some moments. Also I switched to an ergonomic setup and switched from vi to a more boring editor.

Then I started meditating regularly, slowed down on my job and quit it a few weeks after. Also I did a pause of around 2 months and at the same time I started doing swimming and parkour (1-2x a week). My new job was far less stressful and as it turned out it was okay to ditch the ergonomic setup. Now, years later, my back/arms/hands are better than ever.
Designs created in Mail Studio behave pretty much the same way as regular emails do if images are disabled. You should add alt text to your images and plan your design so that a missing graphic doesn't cause problems. Still, we're at version 1.0 so I imagine we can do more about this.

The app handles the HTML part of the email, while the plaintext is entered by the user when preparing their campaign. We won't be of much help there.
Agreed. But now we need touchpad hardware and/or drivers at Mac level quality and features.
> What segment does the physical keyboard appeal to?

I definitely welcome this. Swipe typing has been completely unusable for me, personally (I must be doing it wrong, Galaxy S10) and the display registers so many typos when I type that I often break out the whole laptop to type a simple whatsapp message.

The price is steep; if the phone is good though, it definitely interests me.
I ve seen a few videos on youtube recorded from clubhouse. It seems like a group recording app, but is that unique? Few people can arrange engaging conversations anyway so whether they record it in clubhouse, on zoom or in their mom's tape recorded makes zero difference.
Nerd in me: This is badass, I want one.

Brooklyn in me: My entire office is going to absolutely clown me for life if they ever see me with this goofy thing.

It's a brave device, that's for sure.