skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans have a tighter feedback to the muscles in the eyes and do most of the stabilization that way. Chickens don't have that sort of eye movement, and so they have to be more responsive with their head.
All humans are effected by these distractions of modern communications. We all check them too often and notifications break everyone's focus. Our brains are built like this. When something happens suddenly, we focus on that. May be because of evolution. So, how is this our own individual problem?
I believe the European base model Mazda3 has a 1.5L engine with 99 HP. If that is the one we are talking about, or even the 2.0L engine with somewhat more, then 260KMH is not remotely related to the engineering capability, with or without a speed governor. I'd assume it's just the standard gauge for all their cars.
This is exactly right but it just shows how terrible the default Slack configuration is. It's probably somewhat broken by design. Being noisy and distracting surely increases Slack's usage numbers.
This stuff is straight out of Silicon Valley.
Ehhh, I think the thing that is most telling about both of those is that many scientists don’t see that as even well founded as problems.

Amongst neuroscientists it’s often called “the hard non-problem” for example.
> Then one of our co-founders Tim wondered, "what if we didn’t ask any questions and just backed up everything?"

But that is not what they do exactly:

"we do not backup your operating system, application folder, or temporary internet files that are transient and would not be useful in the future. Backblaze also excludes podcasts in iTunes."

https://www.backblaze.com/remote-backup-everything.html

Is there an online backup service that makes a complete image that you can just pop a boot CD in, and restore from online? That seems like the holy grail.
The cost to insurance companies is crazy if they just smash and grab. The loss of valuable work product to businesses is far higher.
That seems rather depressing... People so scared of crime, they voluntarily choose to live in a sort of police state. No wonder that "the vast majority of crime in the Town of Quantico is domestic related".
It seems to me like what you're trying to do is analyze video, while Moviepy is mostly really good at programatic editing. Have you looked in to OpenCV?
Well, yes, but standards are kinda hard to incite.
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt
Ownership of a zero-sum resource like land, spectrum, or DNS is the most fundamental form of power.
Well, that depends on what you need support for. Are you a company giving google lots of money? Their more professional products, like Gsuite and GCP, have support available: https://gsuite.google.com/support/ and https://cloud.google.com/support/?options=premium-support#op...

You're going to have trouble if you're trying to get support for free services (or cheap consumer services) though. Support ain't cheap, and ads aren't going to pay for that.
I've spent the weekend watching videos of and reading about converting classic cars (VW Beetles, Porsche 911s and others) into electric powered vehicles (some of them gloriously restored!). It was exciting to learn this:

1. Electric conversion is about three things: batteries, chargers and motors. Of these three, batteries have been the least technologically convenient aspect of converting to electric - until recently. For years batteries have remained heavy and expensive, rendering them inefficient for use to power modern vehicles (it's all about size for the kW). Electric motor tech and battery charging tech have been past their "S" curves and are considered mature, buyers being spoilt for choice.

2. Over the last 5 years, battery tech has improved both in size-to-power ratios as well as in dramatic reduction in costs - and there's more to come. (Soon with graphene and Samsung we will have 5x speed in recharging). The tide is definitely changing on the battery tech front. All three factors for electric conversion now make electric powered vehicles (that can do more than 200km daily) a viable possibility - eve for home DIY conversion.

3. It is not surprising therefore to see a growing cottage industry of DIY electric conversion kits in the US already. (Google "DIY electric car kit")

ICE (internal combustion engine) motor companies have always kept their R&D and production process of powerful and efficient motors as their competitive advantage. That's their mojo. The gas motor and drive train technology is essentially the car that customers have been buying. This is the very heart of the industry at threat. 3 components and goodbye to a century of battle-test crankshafts, pistons, intake manifolds and injection designs! Gone.

It is my humble opinion that we ought to be more excited about the DIY home kits for electric vehicles instead of the Teslas and big automakers.
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I've been the lead programmer / CTO for several startups. I'll also happily pootle around with devops/sysadmin tasks, chat with non-techy clients, troubleshoot their troubles and help un-bamboozle them about horrendous tech issues, mentor junior developers and designers who might find our million billion sub-fields of programming a wee bit daunting, and host a mean beer o'clock on Fridays.

Technologies I've have experience with: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, PHP, Backbone, Angular, React/Redux, Knockout, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, plus the million billion other fiddly bits and bobs we all brush past/through in our own work.

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Location: Wellington, New Zealand

Remote? Yes

Willing to relocate? For the right role, maybe!

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, PHP, Backbone, Angular, React, Knockout, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, plus the million billion other fiddly ones we all brush past/through in our own work

Resume/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tu299jxtp2i3jhl/CV.docx

Email: pineutrino@gmail.com

Hi there! I'm a web developer, a generalist programmer, and I adore building squiggly and robust tech-thingies. I've been in professional web dev for over eleven years, five of which have been remote contracting. It's great fun!

I've been the lead programmer / CTO for several startups. I'll also happily pootle around with devops/sysadmin tasks, chat with non-techy clients, troubleshoot their troubles and help un-bamboozle them about horrendous tech issues, mentor junior developers and designers who might find our million billion sub-fields of programming a wee bit daunting, and host a mean beer o'clock on Fridays.

Technologies I've have experience with: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, PHP, Backbone, Angular, React/Redux, Knockout, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, plus the million billion other fiddly bits and bobs we all brush past/through in our own work.

Here's a bunch of references: https://www.dropbox.com/s/803ckfhdnnpzl69/references.zip

And here's a bunch of case studies: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dbxy06nhq1xged3/Case%20Studies.doc
Turning of all notifications is the key, I think. I have a single type of notification enabled which is able to interrupt me, and that is the vibrator on my phone when somebody calls. Everything else I only check when I feel like it, which is fine. Notifications are really overrated.
I agree with the author here but not for the reasons he stated. my biggest gripe with Slack is that it results in less and less one-to-one conversation.

We used Slack at my last job but we were encouraged to stop by the person's desk for any matter that requires immediate attention. I sat near our CTO and sometimes I saw many engineers standing around his desk trying to debug a production issue. This resulted in knowing other people's name/face (which I realized after I joined my current company).

At my new company we use Slack for pretty much everything. If there's a production bug you're encouraged to @here on the dedicated channel and someone would take a look at it. There's no one-to-one interaction to debug it. We had our holiday party last month where I introduced myself to some of my coworkers and once we started talking we realized that we have chatted on Slack but never saw each other even though we were all working in the same office. I never associated the engineer's face to the name.

I do think Slack is a powerful tool in modern work environment but people shouldn't be too dependent on it.
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I've found exactly the opposite. People love to randomly interrupt me by showing up at my desk with questions. I tell them to use Slack instead, as this allows for asynchronous communication that doesn't interrupt my workflow.

I also push people to ask questions in a channel instead of directly to me, as usually someone else will help them before I even see the question.
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Long post about rendering.

Not a single pretty image.

What gives?
Slack is a great product, but with a wrong communication model. We have for the last three years developed Twist, which focuses on asynchronous communication by default. It includes some of the best features of Slack and email. We currently have about 1000 teams actively using it. Read more of our reasoning here: “Why We’re Betting Against Real-Time Team Messaging” https://blog.doist.com/why-were-betting-against-real-time-te...
how do you figure out the solution to the bugs in a reasonable time without having 1:1 sessions? If you just hand over the bug and the other guy has to deal with it alone then that's really inefficient.

That's also why it's hard for me to imagine that it's true what you say. The need for quick results will always create smaller meetings at this or that guy's desk.
Start on the track, without creating... And do it quickly. The start is important, and taking the turns cleanly. Despite the fact that she is just laying the, it is harder than it looks
I don't know what Germany is like these days.

Large portions of the Autobahn are still unlimited.
> Second question, is this graduate level or undergraduate?

The course can be taken as part of a master's degree[1].

[1] http://www.vvz.ethz.ch/Vorlesungsverzeichnis/lerneinheit.vie...
Relevant, cheetahs running filmed with an high speed camera:
Cheetahs on the Edge—Director’s Cut
https://vimeo.com/53914149
What are you porting?
May I ask what kind of work you do where you're meeting hundreds of actual MBP users? I am part of a big digital nomad community and the new MBP has received tons of criticism, and I believe rightfully so.
The GDPR, as far as I was told when asking a lawyer, covers anything that could contain personal information.

If a user chooses to put their SSN into an HN post, then that post is now also personal data. Or their address. Or if they write in a post that their parent has a specific kind of cancer.

Unless you can guarantee that no post contains such data, you should assume them to be personal. And no ToS rule "don't post personal data" will protect you.
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I hadn't realized because I only stopped in to reply to the grandparent's post, but that is fantastic! A really excellent active baseline.
Thank you so much, this is what I looking for ;)
I doubt it. They're built on Electron, they get Chrome support free and probably just don't want to spend any resources on making it work in other browsers because most of their users use the native apps.
Also, where does the author get the idea that preventable is an antonym of accidental?

Just because someone failed to take certain steps to prevent an accident, it doesn't mean that they deliberately caused the accident.
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The max value of the speedometer is irrelevant, the max speed of Mazda 3 (depending on the engine) is ~210 km/h. On a flip note the value of top speed should in the car manual. Read the doc :)

There are countries with higher limits as well, i.e. they have not designed to be sold in your own country solely.
Your claim was they helped Mao during Mao's reign of terror. Clinton being born in 46 and Israel being founded in 47 does make that impossible for me to have guessed.

That source for Mao seems to be nearly exclusively drawing from seemingly unrelated dead third party sources. One of them is the Church of the Subgenius, a parody religion. And the only real link I can find them stating is that they were both in one of the most populous cities of China.
Yeah I would detect the cuts with something else. I just need the library to read/write video files, display them on screen, etc.
I've read your link and it's unclear to me why I wouldn't want both, relatively slow threaded conversations and quick real-time chat. And also I don't understand why slack+email wouldn't fulfill these needs already.

My personal problem with most of this conversation is that in bigger teams (e.g. 500 people spread through 5-10 countries) it is really the truth that you are left behind if you are not constantly up to date on emails and chat. And it's not just that you are required to read incredible amounts of both, it's also that if you don't interact you are left out of many discussions that are important to your work, while not having a way to opt out of the discussions that are just spam from your tasks' perspective.

Therefore I'd say the problem is not so much the communication medium, but the ability to interact with it en masse. I'm still interacting with each message one-on-one. But usually it would be enough if I could search all emails from my company that are not marked private or confidential for keywords, and get a sorted result back that prioritises based on what topics I'm working on. Basically google search for my company emails/chats, including these that are not addressed to me, preferably with a powerful query language like SQL.
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You guys oughta think about pricing. We just moved, a bit reluctantly, to Microsoft Teams (essentially free because existing MS subscription) because even Hipchat was way too expensive.

Does Stride really need to be $36/user/year, and double that if we need SAML?
The secret code of the letters of the Great Captain and Fernando the Catholic that the CNI and the Army Museum announced yesterday to have deciphered, had already been discovered previously. Gustave Bergenroth, a nineteenth-century German Hispanist based in England, published his studies on the General Archive of Simancas in the 'Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 1, 1485-1509' in the year 1862. In the preface he explains his journey in the archive and an introduction to how he deciphered the Spanish codes.

https://www.elconfidencial.com/cultura/2018-02-03/codigo-sec...

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It'd be cool if they let you in on how the code was deciphered. Does anyone know of any sources that discuss the process? Sounds like in this case frequency analysis wouldn't have cut it :D
No, that's quite a long one. Usually the slots are 45min plus 10-15min break, and lectures often take 2 adjacent slots. But these are 3 slot lectures.
upward of 2,000 laptop computers and other high-end electronics valued at more than $2 million

I don't think the writer bothered to do the math. I think an average value of $1000 per device is, um, optimistic, and I bet there have been tens of thousands of devices stolen in those three counties in the past year alone. (They didn't report any such totals.)

I'm also not confident that they will check all serial numbers against police reports (when complete with serial numbers) and that every local agency will follow up (I've heard nothing on any of mine or family's). Property theft is mostly ignored by most local LEOs.
Here's my advice: do not use passwords. Just don't. If someone wants to log in, mail them a one time link. And make the session long enough this doesn't happen often -- when was the last time you needed to log into HN or Github?

We also AES encrypt the emails with the key stored on a network share. It doesn't add a lot of complexity and if an attacker gets hold of the contents of the database, they still don't have this piece of PII. It's by no means a big hurdle against any serious attack but it's nice to have.
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I don't get that, really.

For at least a couple of decades there has generally been some internal instant messaging system at whichever company I've worked for. Nerds used to like plain local IRC server. In some places the expected tool was Windows Messenger despite it sucked bad and kept disconnecting. Slack is just another communication system: if you have problems with Slack you're likely to have problems with any messaging system if you configure them to allow interrupting your work.

The very reason I've personally always preferred online communications for anything non-urgent at work is because nobody gets to interrupt me and I get to check messages when I have an idle moment. The alternative is face-to-face communication which means someone is interrupting you at your desk several times a day which I ten times worse.

I currently use Slack over their irc gateway which works just fine. I have an Slack-connected irc client running in one tmux window and when I have time I can easily see if someone called for me or if the team channel has new activity.
His PhD thesis was Runahead execution IIRC.
Nothing has really changed in the world in the last two+ years. Google did some cool innovated stuff then, and it is doing it now. Small companies were doing cool innovated stuff, as well as boring stuff then... As well as how.
I'm not saying you shouldn't leave, but I wouldn't leave because of the reason you gave.
There are advantage and disadvantages to worrying for a small company. Look around, but look around Google as well.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5387052
TSLA's market cap is a lot bigger than $5 billion, and they have a history of being able to raise money.

If you want to bet against that, by all means, short the stock.
I'm on the same boat here. I get everything from appointments to family meetings to banking info. At first I tried to reach back to correct the mistake but it became a pointless task.

It's amazing how many banks and financial/medical institutions don't even bother in confirming email addresses given how sensitive the info they handle is.
> I read the article and found myself wondering how this impacts the collective subconscious and the culture as a whole.

As a whole I don't know. But many from the generation of the war have learned to never throw something away. Have something like a day in the week to eat left-overs. And some of their children have learned to do the same. But that has been getting rarer for the last 20 years.
I find the "All Unread" view works really well to use Slack asynchronously. You can just check it every so often, marking entire channels as read in one click if a skim doesn't interest you.
I have a policy that if an app sends a single undesired notification, I disable its notifications forever.

That even Google violates its own Android notification guidelines is annoying.
Email. You just went back to email.

Like many of the people in the comments of your article, I am struggling to see how this is any different from traditional emails. The only difference is that these conversation threads are public/discoverable, and not only sent to certain people... but most companies already have this (via groups/team mailing lists/confluence/...).
Why are successful professionals still working 70 hours a week?
I've never seen someone make that argument for better targeting, which is what they're saying cookies enable. You're not going to acclimate to being more interested in the ads you're seeing.
At the heart of it all is the amount of insecurity we have about our work, it's quality and relevance.
Not enough training data for greek language it seems. Here's russian version.

"Я и Вассилики пошли проведать Митсоса в больнице. Он сломал ногу и ему поставили металлические вставки. Вассилики, которая немного влюблена в него, принесла ему шоколада и цветов как глупая девочка из романтического сериала. Я пошла только за компанию. И знаете что было хуже всего? Не только его мать и отец были там, но ещё и Мария - его бывшая с прошлого года. Ужас!"

"I and the Vassiliki went to see Mitsos in the hospital. He broke his leg and put metal inserts. Vassiliki, who is a bit in love with him, brought him chocolate and flowers as a stupid girl from a romantic TV series. I went only for the company. And you know what was the worst? Not only his mother and father were there, but also Maria - his ex from last year. Horror!"
I think it's also possible to snooze Slack notifications for a few hours.
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It's marketecture. (marketing/architecture)

You don't actually need it, but if you can be convinced you need it or want it, then you'll pay more for it. Most people don't buy cars based purely on practicality. They buy the car for the lifestyle they wish they had.

And dammit I wanna be a race car driver!
I had never heard of this famine. I read the article and found myself wondering how this impacts the collective subconscious and the culture as a whole. Probably not in a good way.

I'm Dutch. Purely anecdotal, of course, but I'd say: "not".

I grew up in the north (struck by the famine) and moved south
(not struck by the famine) half a life ago. I've noticed no differences in attitudes to food, Germans or WWII.

A while ago some German ministry did a survey among populations of neighbouring countries and found that the Dutch liked the Germans the most. Anecdotally I can confirm this, everybody I know likes Germans and Germany. (And loves to point out their lack of a sense of humour)

My dad was born during the famine (on a farm, thankfully) and I never heard him nor my grandma mention it in an other way than as a matter of fact.
Ah, yet another Strong Towns anti-car screed of "let's make all roads so damn slow nobody can actually get anywhere" without any discussion of the downside of what they propose.

I've lived in "Cannah get theyah from heah" Boston. I can assure you that slow, safe, crappy, narrow, winding roads suck as bad as you think.

Or try going from Braddock to Penn Hills in Pittsburgh, PA. Nice and slow and infuriating. There's a reason why a whole bunch of people decided "You know, that nice empty area west of Pittsburgh with roads that actually let you get from A to B is very enticing."

> One can easily notice that most folks seem to treat the speed limit as a minimum speed rather than a maximum speed.

I disagree. People simply IGNORE the speed limit and drive at what they consider to be a safe speed.

Part of the problem is that there are political forces (cough police budgets) that encourage stupidly low speed limits. If all roads were set at the appropriate speed (something like 85% of traffic, IIRC, but there is an actual engineering number), suddenly "speeding" becomes an actual traffic safety issue.

And, in fact, ignoring a speed limit is a rational decision when everybody else would be going 10-20mph faster than you. Absolute speed means more damage when a accident occurs, but relative speed differentials mean more accidents occur.