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Cool! Reminds me of speed-reading tools, but those ususally only keep a few words in focus, not whole paragraphs. This is almost the opposite, way more relaxed!

What really helps me with reading long articles online is a little "% read" counter in readup.com. This app tries to track exactly what you're reading. The feeling of getting credit for actually reading something adds motivation to read it, and helps me get through small moments of distraction (disclaimer: I'm working for Readup. Here's how that tracking works! https://blog.readup.com/2020/11/02/how-readup-knows-whether-...)
The Financial Implications of Plasma Sales for Individuals and Non-Bank Lenders
Based on the size of the barcodes, screen, various ports, the scrolling control + buttons (presumably sized for human fingers) I think it's pretty obvious it's rather large.
You have to deal with every idiosyncrasy as soon as you begin using external dependencies (and even many standard browser features), because there is no standard convention at any one time, much less over time. There is no fixed paradigm, no common way of doing things, and so the student must first understand how each library frames the world differently, and then work out how to composite those worlds into anything approaching coherence.
I am pretty sure these companies will price in the time to charge and up charge the electricity rates. Considering they wouldn't want to fast charge all the time, they probably price in 2 or 3 hours of time of every rental for charging.
> To get accepted and graduate from a reputable university you have to get good results in standardized tests and work your self through multiple courses for at least 3 years. That by itself doesn't mean anything but there's a level of rigor and self-drive required to succesfully traverse this experience.

It's worth noting that Lamda school actually does use an industry-standard "IQ test" [0], although it seems the cutoff is quite low (23 out of 50 whereas the median score according to Criteria Corp is 24).

[0] https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/how-to-ace-the-criteria...
I get the impression that the business model for these bootcamps is largely the modeled after the one used in startup funding, where the bulk of the money will be made on the top 5-10% of the class.

There's also likely some element of grabbing mind-share while they work to automate the process (plus, gathering data on who make profitable students). Eliminating the instructor will allow N to grow much higher than 150 per course and reduce costs dramatically.
Mainframes, COBOL, and databases that store data in formats that replicate the hard limits of paper punch cards are a real problem. Banks, insurers, and governmental institutions won't get rid of them and choose to surround those fossils of IT with layer upon layer of tech that gets outdated the moment it gets delivered. I was on a project where we were told to come up with an alternative way of encoding UUID4s, because "bank X runs their DB on a mainframe and they only have N bytes they can use for an ID."

It used to be a given that nobody wanted their bank to run on anything, but mainframes. Now we'd rather they used cloud computing and Postgres. Mainframes have had their day. They may have a future, but they need modern databases and development tools.
From what I've seen, I agree about some of the grads being fantastic - the types who could have been extremely successful in a traditional college CS path if they had chosen. However, these are few and far between, the exception to the rule. Most (again, from what I can tell) really struggle, and don't have what it takes to succeed in this field (be it lack of genuine interest, focus, curiosity in technology - whatever). Add to this the fact that every company has had the "only hire the best; hiring is the most important thing in the world" mantra beat into their heads, and suddenly all of these would-be developers are far from employable. I routinely see and hear of entry level dev jobs (at small mediocre tech startups) getting over a thousand applications per role, and they reject all of them.
Can live video support help your Shopify store? or any e-commerce store?
Feel sorry for Tesla shorters.
More precisely: suppose that all voters provide an ordered list of preferences, each complete and transitive (option A preferred to B, both preferred to C - no other options available): there does not exist a function that returns a "collective" preference so that ("non-dictatorship") there is no individual list that will always predominate irregardless of the other lists, and ("unanimity") if all voters declare the same highest preference the collective preference will reflect that, and ("non-irrelevance") the collective preference between two alternatives will only depend on the preferences voters claim about those two alternatives.

The page member rfreytag indicates, https://mises.org/wire/arrows-impossibility-theorem-exposes-... , has a very good explanation.

Edit: I realize there could be another (suggestive) way to express it: at least in the (theoretically possible) cases where preferences show a cyclic pattern (when similar numbers of voters claim A>B>C, C>A>B, B>C>A), there is no """optimal""" way to determine a collective preference.

Edit: there is again another nice way to express it - member ajennings shows it at the end of his video (see nearby) with a simulation: if when all voters express preference for an option the outcome reflects that ("unanimity"), and we take a decision in the controversial scenarios, and we demand that the collective preference between two alternatives will be a function of the preferences individual voters claim about those two alternatives ("relevance"), then one ordered list of preferences will make the others uninfluent ("dictatorship").
I'm contracting right now. I have to be honest I can't really complain in this instance. That being said, I'm located in Austria due to family reasons and it seems a total wasteland here contract-wise; and feels like the grim reaper is behind the next contract.

In the EU, the trend that I'm seeing right now is even "remote" contracts require you to be located in that specific EU country. Haven't tried US yet, but I assume without personal contacts and impeccable credentials it is not realistic to convince someone beyond the great pond to hire me.

I imagine my colleagues in the UK or elsewhere might not feel the impending doom, because contracting/consulting over there is pretty much the norm.
Yes, but that's not useful if you don't know that one is a headphone jack (from the side), or that the other is a JTAG connector, or you do know but don't know what sizes JTAG connectors come in. And even allowing for all that, visual size analogies provide very poor information when the common element is relatively small in both cases.
It's a bit tongue-in-cheek, but there's some truth in it at least for anything infrastructure related. If your thing is a success, it almost certainly needs to scale to Very Large numbers, and be reliable/distributed/performant/etc. So if you're proposing something that you expect to be successful but only needs a couple of VMs, it would be an outlier.

(I work there)
Ok! I've amalgamated the two and re-Boeinged it.

We don't want misleading titles and of course you're right, corporate press releases tend to do that.

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You cite the conviction of a couple "low-level" people who only trespassing, but there were certainly people who were violent. Multiple people died. They threatened to kill the vice president and members of congress. If they weren't stopped, surely government officials would have died. It might be a strong word, but I don't think it is entirely unwarranted.
> These two statements conflict.

TSMC 5nm is not the same process as Samsung 5nm though?

All the processes are the company's secret sauce. They aren't sharing the details. Ultimately, Samsung comes out and says "5nm technology", but that doesn't mean its necessarily competitive with TSMC 5nm.

Indeed, Intel 10nm is somewhat competitive against TSMC 7nm. The specific "nm" is largely a marketing thing at this point... and Intel is going through a rebranding effort. (Don't get me wrong: Intel is still far behind because it tripped up in 2016. But the Intel 14nm process was the best-in-the-world at that timeframe)
HSL Colorpicker Easy
You should look into the actual implementation of the notch and I think you'll be pleased! Imagine the exact same screen as your 2019 macbook pro, but instead of black bezel on the left and the right of the camera, you have the menu bar instead.

Everything beneath the notch is the same size as the screen on previous laptops, so the notch allows for extra space beyond the 16x10 that you're used to. This means when not using fullscreen apps, you gain some screen real-estate because the menu bar now has dedicated space for it. However, when you're doing something fullscreen (like watching a video) the screen on either side of the notch is blacked out so you're left with a standard sized screen for viewing your content (with no visible notch). It seems like a win-win.

I much prefer this implementation to what they did on the iPhone with the notch cutting into fullscreen images and videos. The only downside I can see is if you have a light colored menu bar or background and don't like the look of it when not fullscreen, however my menubar is always black anyways so I don't see that being an issue at all.
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I’d like to remind people that this type of sentiment has existed for over 100 years, before the introduction of the automobile in America. Before the turn of the 20th century people in cities were furious about the amount of horse manure in the streets and the amount of pedestrians killed by carriages.
I'm 100% in agreement with this. I'm optimistic that we'll have intraplanetary flights by the end of this decade that would at least let me experience micro gravity and take a holiday in Australia at the same time :)
Interesting, that would be a handy feature to have on my Kobo eReader.
not many. Also many times even if the site is still around the content may not have been updated in years.
Sure, his prose requires a little bit longer attention span than what is common today, but otherwise Karamazov brothers was one of the most captivating and pleasant books I've ever read.
Source: I'm Russian and read Dostoevsky.
No, I think it's significantly more serious than that when considering the rhetoric being used by some of the people.

One of the people who was charged with misdemeanor trespassing posted a video saying “We broke into the Capitol. . . . We got inside, we did our part,” adding, “We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin’ brain, but we didn’t find her.”

I'm pretty strongly in the conservative-free-speech-maximalist camp and can't condone this kind of violence apologia; it's on the wrong side of an uncontroversial bright line. The voices of anyone who can't talk without espousing violence against politicians they disagree with won't be missed in the national conversation.
Neural networks that closely mimics the brain’s olfactory circuitry
First go to where the people are.

Turn off your phone and put it away.

Then, when you're somewhere with a bunch of people, don't look at the big groups talking and laughing together. Look for someone all by themselves who looks even more introverted than you. Go over to THAT person and say hi. Make some positive comment about the event. "I'm really looking forward to the thing. I've really been interested in things since I was a little kid." Ask them their opinion, "What made you decide to attend?", "What do you hope to get out of it?", "What did you like about the thing we just saw?" "How did you get started in this kind of thing?" Be ready to give them more than a one word answer about why you like the topic.

Make small talk. Ask open ended questions, "What's that like?", "Tell me more about that thing you mentioned a few minutes ago, I want to hear more about that." Be ready to tell a few stories yourself. Talk, and also listen. Really listen to what the other person has to say, and how it makes them feel.

After you broke the ice, and there's a pause in the conversation, look for a third introverted person all by themselves. "Let's go talk with that person." Now you have a group of three. Keep your eyes open for people on the edge, and bring them in and up to date on the conversation. "Hi, have you met Huey and Dewey yet? Dewey was just telling us about a fascinating method of arranging books at the library".

It's not easy to reach out and say hi to a stranger. It's extremely difficult. You'll have to force yourself to do it the first few times. When you leave your room to go to an event, promise yourself that you're going to talk to at least one person at the event. Then do it.

It's kind of like learning to ride a bike. All the thinking ahead of time doesn't do a bit of good. You just have to make a leap of faith, hop on, and hope for the best. Practice small talk again and again, and you'll get better at it.

Ask people about their other interests, and make it clear that you want to join that other activity. "You go rock climbing on Saturdays? I've always wanted to try that. How do I sign up for that?" Then meet one or two of the rock climbers and find out about their other interests.
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beta version of social scoring system?
Exactly. Gotta start collecting danger on every teenager who downloads the anarchist cookbook on the off chance they become a far right truck bomber in the next 20yr.

Yet every time something happens it seems like the suspect was on law enforcement's radar and they did nothing. Odd. Oh well, I'm sure a bigger data haystack to find needles in will solve that. /s
Even if a candidate gets an answer I'm doubtful the response will be much use. We like to think of ourselves as rational but I'm willing to bet most hiring decisions are anything but.

They might well tell you your skills are lacking when the reality is you remind the recruiter of the guy who ran off with his wife.
he died of a stroke: https://news.yahoo.com/police-officer-capitol-riot-died-2136...
The word users may think they're more productive. And they might be right. I strategically avoid that question because I don't want it to drive my choice of tools.
For the bottom of your email, website's hidden text, etc.

DISCLAIMER: We do not endorse bombs, explosives, (insert other key words).
The life and times of the 1.5 GB Indian
I think this is a far assessment. There is a certain level of mathematical aptitude that is essential for being able to be successful at programming. Maybe no in the strict sense of math but in understanding how different structures and concepts are able to relate to each other. However in the strict sense of math, there is a requirement there.

I also posit that as bootcamps grew - the quality control and quality of hires(students) decreased with the continued pressure of growing for their investors. Leads to bad outcomes.

It is not dissimilar to when a company blitzscales and the quality of incoming hires diminishes the further down the graph you go. I realize its a bit harsh of a comparison but I do tend to find the earlier hires at solid companies typically have something the later hires don't (though many of the later hires are quite good at their specific roles).
Airbulances are definitely a killer app. The loud noise is a feature, it makes people look up and make room for landing. A 0.005% chance of crashing on its built in airbags, and possibly damaging property or squishing somebody, while completely unacceptable for a personal recreation vehicle, would be ok for a device that can save a life every few flights. You can also find suitable infrastructure - helipads - on many urban hospitals.

Forget electric, it needs the highest density fuel system to allow at least an hour of flight, maybe a LPG fuel cell, or a piston engine geared with electromagnetic power couplers to the propellers for very rapid dynamic response.

A two person craft, lifting maybe 250Kg overall to allow for medical gear, the medic operates during liftoff/landing then autopilot takes you to predefined hospitals on predefined flight paths that are known to be safe.

This should be a thing already.
Some Say Self-Driving Robotaxi Isn't a Business; Billions Are Being Bet It Is
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I'm Quitting YouTube
Oh hmm yeah, the blog post is a bit dishonest.
Yea, I gleaned nothing from it which is not in the spirit of HN. It's hard to always comment in a meaningful way though.
Funny how memes can sometimes shift culture that much. I love it.
I also have a degree in experimental psychology and a masters in neuroscience, and to be honest, I think you're just describing the neurobiology of vision. Newborns prefer high-contrast images, but I presume you wouldn't consider them to have an understanding of art. And the "red/green" axis just makes me think of the red/green cones in the retina. It sounds like a very naive view of "art".

The comment "if you only consider fine art" also feels like you're moving the goalposts, where you're saying "within these works of visual art people prefer high-contrast images", but the categorisation of those images is that they're a subset of visual art within which people prefer high-contrast images.
The only pending legal charges and accusations are, at worst, the illegal parading.

That's seriously it.
Verified-and-approved "whistleblower" says what?
Dogs literally cannot shit without human intervention
Browsing the Web on the Samsung Galaxy Watch4
One of those on "parade" was shot and killed.

If someone dies while committing a crime in some states the entire party can be tried for murder.

On the other hand I have watched videos of the "unwanted guests" being invited in, and in one case being given a tour.

If you invite people in and then shoot them it could rightly be considered murder.

Property was stolen and damaged which lends itself to being more than a guided tour.

A similar event happened to the White House in March 4, 1829. A party was thrown and they trashed the white house.

Another event for context:

Bomb explodes in U.S. Capitol, Nov. 7, 1983

President Bill Clinton pardoned the now styled "activist".

The whole event on the 6th was a cluster, and there was FBI involvement.

Calling it an insurrection maybe right for the wrong reasons. "Cui bono" certainly not Trump nor the Conservatives.

Either way both sides are in bed with big tech and all should resign from politics and we should have elections again and disqualify anyone who took money, or favors from big tech.
Do you have hard evidence that cameras increase productivity? I find them nothing more than a distracting frivolity in the workplace.
Sorry I meant in concert with. I run node red on a raspberry pi and then send it stuff from the esps. My brain was thinking the right thing and my fingers didn't type it. You're absolutely correct.

I have them send MQTT to Node Red.
I've interviewed a few candidates in a similar situation to your partner. My impression is that the bootcamps had very little to do with their success. I would put it more down to personal drive and possibly the programming STEM grads tend to get exposed to.
Input latency

That’s the thing that makes Visual Studio so annoying. Even typing is slow. A lot of other stuff too.
Oh yes, illegal parading

https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-ar...

> Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon or inflicting bodily injury; civil disorder; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building
Again: Your point being what, exactly?

Does your little observation, here, have any bearing on the article? Does it make the facts less factual? Does it make the numbers less number-y?

Hell, I tried to go back to the top-level comment to figure out what might've triggered you, but your original comment is a non sequitur as far as I can tell.
I've never used it, so I can't speak on it's complexity, but are there any comparable open source alternatives? Like an OpenOffice style project?
It's fairly common for companies to instruct interviewers not to tell candidates why they failed if they reach out for fear of being sued over the response. It really sucks for candidates, but given that it essentially costs companies nothing to have this policy, I'm not surprised they do; no company is going to make a choice that has even a small risk of a huge negative downside if there are no direct obvious upsides to counter it.
> It used to be a given that nobody wanted their bank to run on anything, but mainframes. Now we'd rather they used cloud computing and Postgres. Mainframes have had their day. They may have a future, but they need modern databases and development tools.

I suspect you ask random Joe on the street they would say they would rather be on a mainframe.

Also, I would much rather my bank didn't host on AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.
Yes, it's no more interesting a category now than it was then. These are basically just horse race stories.

Also, it's a classic generic topic which has had a ton of repetitive, not terribly interesting, and often nasty discussion.

The antidote would be an article on something specific, with significant new information.

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The piece of art the gave me that feeling is the movie Taxy driver.

A great, disturbingly accurate, representation of what happens when loneliness starts to eat away at a person's mind.
This is by design. When efficiency is pursued for greed, the gains typically only go into more greed and not into living a more relaxed life. Most modern economies still require 40 hours of work every week no matter how efficient production becomes, and this is par for the course for the past 300 years of industrialization. The Amish do use plenty of tools and the set is decided by each congregation. The core idea is to have enough but disincentivized people from the excess pursuit of material profit.
Good point on job offers being biased.

Up till today I was lucky on companies I worked for or with. It's just that every time I open up the job boards these days, I pray my contract gets renewed.
> I've pretty much hated MS Word

Do you mean the app, the web or the Teams version?
Or is it the way each allows different things, blocks certain actions or displays differently?

It is incredible that this mess is the industry standard.
There are certain companies that come with a significant risk of getting sacked for performance reasons: Amazon, Netflix, Facebook primarily. Others like Google, Cisco, Microsoft are known for being very chill on non-cloud teams and would be pretty hard to be fired from if you're doing the bare minimum.
This attitude is why none of the web-native hyperscalers have been able to even come close to competing in the HPC space: you cannot optimize a large-scale problem if you cannot optimize a small-scale problem. The first, last, and only approach from Google, Amazon, and even Azure is horizontal scaling, which is ridiculous because they absolutely employ people who can go deep on anything they might need. Unfortunately, while throwing more hardware at the problem will eventually solve the problem, it gets horrifically expensive in the meantime, and never really makes optimal use of the resources.

One day one of these providers will figure this out, and then I'll either need to go work for them or retire... but today, I'm not worried.