skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My method is to turn off my mail clients 'auto pull'/notification functionality and manually pull my mail.

I also don't use email on my phone.

Basically the idea is I'm reserving a chunk of time (I usually do first thing in the morning and at the end of the work day) to read and respond thoughtfully.

The biggest thing really is just turning off those notifications that by design are to distract you.

This won't work for everyone - specifically operations people, or folks who work in a environment where people use email effectively as chat or it's expected you reply quickly. Intelligent use of filters (only notify when the boss mails you) might be a solution.

I read this same story come up with chat constantly. Adapt/modify your tools to make them work for you.
OK, I guess based on the downvotes people mostly think that these are premium prices. I honestly thought it was in the average range for the given specs.
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Hugs, ice cream, doing crafts with my kids. Simple things.
I'm unconvinced.

The rhetorical trick is to paint the opponent as unreasonable, pretentious, impractical, etc. if they don't agree with your double-crux. In this case, the resolution of the double-crux is not the strong argument (your opponent would never willinging agree to the double-crux)! The rhetorical characterization of your opponent is the strong argument. Again, it's just something you should watch out for as an audience member.

Also, inexperienced debaters will often agree to double-cruxes when they shouldn't because they don't understand the strategy that's being deployed agains them and the double-crux is presented in a "friendly" tone. And once it's deployed they realie that was a stupid thing to agree to. The truth we've discovered is that one of the debaters is inexperienced; we haven't learned anything about the underlying topic.

In practice, debates (acdaemic or out in the real world) are almost never searches for truth.

Again, as an audience member in an obviously zero-sum debate, I'm extremely skeptical of the double-crux. It's usually a steup for a rhetorical argument or a way of easily beating down an inexperienced person. It's rarely a geniune assertion that this one thing really is the fundamental point of contention.

In a friendly, respectful argument designed to search for truth, double-cruxes can be a great tool.
There were a number of similar quotes in a recent review of Bruce Cannon Gibney’s book on Boomers:

‘And way, way before that, a letter published in a 1771 issue of Town and Country manages to sound laughably familiar, in sentiment at least: “Whither are the manly vigour and athletic appearance of our forefathers flown? Can these be their legitimate heirs? Surely, no; a race of effeminate, self-admiring, emaciated fribbles can never have descended in a direct line from the heroes of Potiers and Agincourt.”’
Oh...kay? If you could end up with $1.2 million more in cash after the donation, then you'd have an argument. But in your example, the donor has facilitated an additional $8.8 million from the government, which I don't necessarily see a problem with. I certainly don't see a moral problem with it on the part of the donor. On the contrary, if you can get anybody to match you %700, then the moral case for giving to charity is only strengthened.
Without commenting on anything else you said, sending voice to the cloud isn’t necessarily for processing power reasons as much as it is for access to a dynamically tuned ML model that is constantly changing and improving based off of the samples it receives on a daily basis. In theory, anyway.
Shhh. Automobile enthusiasts are furiously pretending that the automobile itself is not the problem. They don't want to hear from cyclists and pedestrians.
Well as part of their “infinite possibilities, with guardrails”, I would like to see titanium guardrails set up around iOS so they stop Material-izing it. Use the damned UIKit please, you have enough billions to invest in separate code.

Google apps feel wrong on iOS. They also work less responsively, in part because they don’t do the default/expected thing and in part (presumably) because whatever implements their own unnecessary custom UI layer on iOS is just slower.

Besides, in their quest to change everything, features are harder to use. Why does everything seem to take 5 more taps and a slide-out menu that weren’t necessary in 2010?
Python enjoyed a whole lot of popularity before the ML trend took off. If that's the best thing going for it, I don't think it really answers the question.
> It has all the things you want in modern C++

Variadic templates?
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I actually don't think that it's about who can make the criticism, I think it's more about what the criticism can be. A woman really isn't any freer than a man to make a sweeping generalization that is unfavorable to women, especially if it's attributed partially in biology. Interestingly, you really are largely free to do this in reverse, as we see (admittedly in a fairly mild form) from this article. Though be careful here - what seems like a compliment can in fact be very condescending.
Congrats!

I bought my $firstname.$lastname 2 years ago but forgot to renew and let it lapse.

Someone else picked it up and is neither using it not responding to my emails. I'm still devastasted.
You know how to take Skype FOR BUSINESS and make it even less useful? Prevent chat history, corporate-wide. You know, so we can't be forced to divulge the transcripts by a court. (As a Fortune-250, what do they have to hide?) Are there a lot of companies that share this practice? Did IBM release a white paper called "Chat History Deemed Harmful," and all Fortune 500 CIO's stroked their chins, nodded their heads, and contracted them to come turn it off? Or are we special?
There is a difference between volunteering for overtime and getting forced to in a way.
When someone says "you don't need to apologize" it implies an apology is customary/necessary given the situation but the wronged party has decided to forgo formalities and just wants to move past the wrong and move forward with making it right.

Richard basically says "you don't need to apologize, just implement LVFS". This implies that the wrong which necessitated an apology was not shipping LVFS which is not the case. The only apology they might owe him is for not notifying him of the reason why they chose not to ship LVFS after spending time with him investigating using it.

This situation is like spending the day with a car salesman and then leaving without buying a car when the salesman takes a potty break. Then the car salesman runs a TV commercial that says "<you> wasted my time. I don't need an apology though, just buy one of my cars."
And RAII! That's so nice in an RTOS. Never again forget to drop priorities or reenable interrupts just because you went down a not as well trodden failure path. You can even return the lock_guard, and the caller can continue to do work in the same atomically locked context, but if they choose not to, they just drop the return value and everything works as expected.
Saw someone post this on twitter:

Escape room idea:

You are in a conference room with
- a projector
- a speakerphone
- guest wifi
- camera
- A surface laptop with slide deck
- and a Skype meeting …

You can leave when everyone can see the slide deck and hear the presenter.
Per various articles I could find on the West Coast Kelp Die Off, it appears that multiple years of warm El Nino waters, a massive starfish wasting disease, and urchin boom resulted in a 3-pronged assault on kelp populations. Now that the El Nino waters have cooled, and the starfish population is returning to normal, 2 of the 3 stress factors are being reduced. The last--the urchin population--is being controlled through a combination of the regrowing starfish population and man-made efforts like urchin vacuums.

See https://www.kqed.org/science/1357320/scientists-and-fisherme....
It is interesting, although not that surprising. Human languages are awfully imprecise means of communication. :)

I agree that sharing process is important, and your MongoDB example is a good one (not that I am short on reason to not use MongoDB).

However, I don't find the post to describe System76 processes beyond "there was email communication", and that progress towards a goal aligning with the author's preferences was suspended. The only thing I can conclude from it is that the author is in disagreement with System76.

From the format of the post, I would quite frankly be biased towards assuming that the problem lies with the post author. This assumption is of course not based on tangible evidence, which would require access to the email exchange to obtain.
Assuming that everyone knows how to take care of themselves is ignorance.

We don't live in a natural state, otherwise, it would have been fine for me to kill you for my survival.
NASA supposedly found that its programmers' code quality dropped after about 40-45 hours of work per week.

Scandinavian and Slovenian immigrants to the USA, working as coal miners, felt that 8 hour days were important (http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/52/v5... pg 254) and negotiated to have that included in their employment contracts.

So is it perhaps universal that 8 to 10 hours per day is what people feel comfortable with?
Hangouts is a decent alternative.
And eventually any product you use will need to be changed. When that time comes you make the necessary changes. But as far as being locked in to IBM as an analogy, that doesn't really support the argument. There are companies still running 30+ year old COBOL programs and IBM still sells compatible solutions.
AWS is a growth business, in a competitive space, so (particularly given their overall history) it seems unlikely they will increase margins if it could risk adoption.

Of course, in the "long term" (whatever that means), the market and shareholders expect to reap vast profits, and price that, along with the company's free cash flows, into the stock.

However, my personal thesis is that Amazon specifically is a bit of an anomaly in this regard: it seems unlikely to me that we will see any strategic shift in pricing from basically any Amazon-owned entity in our lifetimes -- the culture is too ingrained towards a strategy of complete and utter dominance over all markets, margin reduction being a key tool in the toolbox. So if I were to bet I would say pricing power is pretty low on the list of concerns of AWS lock in -- more concerning are things like unexpected conflicts of interest as Amazon eats the world (see also: Netflix), operational dependency (ultimately, you rely upon AWS ops' competency for your uptime, security, etc), end-of-lifing of services you depend on, opportunity cost vs other vendors who may offer better services, and other unknown unknowns.
Hey guys, apologies for taking a bit: we've been hard at work! Speaking of which, we made some modifications to our site. How does the display look now on your ends?
You are still losing access to $10 million dollars of value.

I can see taking issue with the forgone taxes or whatever, but a $10 million stock donation doesn't keep any extra money in your pocket (which is the scam proposed in the WOT above, that big donations somehow are profitable).
Flow typing is where the type of a variable changes based on control flow.

Consider:

x : Int32 | String
if x.is_a? Int32
# typeof(x) == Int32
else
# typeof(x) == String
end
Which does seem to be why Skype for Business is getting replaced with Teams, and why Teams is not Skype branded at all, it's just branded Microsoft Teams.
As of now, I don’t believe any OS’s AV framework allows for multiple video sinks with the default stack and drivers; ie if you are able to use the camera in an app, it can be taken as a sign that no other app is using it at the same time. Which can be a source of some consolation/reassurance.
Hopefully the coins were originally obtained via legal means. Either way, it's very noble of the donor to give out large amounts of wealth like that.
That article lists a number of problems that are almost purely US-specific.

In actuality and outside of those artificial limitations, rail is one of the most efficient forms of transport we have, especially electric rail.
Thankyou! In fact, Idaho and Montana were at the top of my list. I have been researching internet speeds in those states as well.
New headline:

"Some people find open-plan offices really really uncomfortable. Why are you doing that to your employees?"

Here's my answer to that headline question, by the way: because the perceived savings on rent exceed the perceived loss of productivity.

Whether that perception is true is quite arguable, and the article provides evidence for increased costs in loss of productivity. I assure you, unhappy employees are less productive.
> No it isn't actually true. Roughly 80% of Chinese people are happy with the direction the country is going vs 40% in the USA.

This doesn't really have much do with superior governance though, does it? It has a lot do with the country's recent history.

a) It help government approval tremendously when you can censor bad news and disproportionately cover positive news.

b) It's also really difficult to assess how much credit the Chinese government actually deserves for China's economic success. Every other old-world power that has embraced capitalism has achieved similar success. China has also had the benefit of playing their economic catch-up from 1980-present, starting from an essentially pre-20th century economy. Is there really some amazing government wizardry (that couldn't be replicated by any of the governments of developed countries) in achieving immense growth by applying highly advanced (relative to yours) foreign technology to your gigantic populace through a market system?

Is censorship, stoking nationalism, and violation of human rights really the magic formula? I'm really skeptical there.

c) It's easy to overlook the immense inequality in China, both in economic terms and in terms of human rights. If you're a Han Chinese living in a first-tier city, you likely have a very different experience with the government that a Uighur or Tibetan. The CCP, to stay in power, really only needs the support of the Han population (they make up 90% of the population). This distorts incentives for treatment of minority groups significantly. If it's good for Han, it's good for the CCP.

On the other hand, the whole "censor the bad news" thing means that Han Chinese don't necessarily hear about how minority ethnic groups in Xinjiang or Tibet are treated... removing the historically most powerful feedback mechanism for improving the treatment of the oppressed. Which, obviously, is the dominant ethnic group being aware of the plight of minority groups, feeling human sympathy, and calling for change.

Worse still, as China's sphere of influence grows and yet the censorship remains, the same dynamic will occur--the CCP is incentivized to keep the Han Chinese population happy, and the Han population feels none of the guilt that a population with a free press provides when reporting on the its government's less-than-acceptable actions elsewhere.

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I'm happy for the Chinese people and their economic success and progress so far, but it's dangerous to overpraise the its government model given the misaligned incentives that exist. I understand that rapid change can be dangerous and believe steady progress may be preferable, but that's a very different position than promoting China's governmental model as something to be praised and replicated.
> If you have two drinks, walk for 6 hours and get behind the wheel, that's also a DUI because the time for your BAC to go down is more or less "all night".

Completely untrue - I've been a 'subject' in police department intoxication training, and have watched the BAC of myself and my fellow 'subjects' drop rather predicatbly over the course of an hour or two from 'going to jail' to 'probably shouldn't have driven but not over the limit'.

> The legal limit is very, very low, to the point where reasonable behavior is illegal.

Also untrue for most people - yes, if you are a high-function alcoholic you may be more able to perform basic tasks while at .08 or .1, but most people are significantly reduced in capcity when actually tested (not just 'I feel fine').
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This happened because they migrated skype from a peer to peer software to centralized servers. While this has enabled certain innovations, like web-based skype and better integeration with other devices, it negatively impacted overall quality of skype.
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Sometimes we have to make hard decisions like that where the upstream manufacturer insists on a feature in order to get a certain class of design (because then they can resell it to Windows companies and have it be an extra selling point). That sort of thing is happening less and less, though, as we continue to do well and help design successful products.
> The BAC limit in most states is basically two drinks.

Very roughly true.

> If you have two drinks, walk for 6 hours and get behind the wheel, that's also a DUI because the time for your BAC to go down is more or less "all night".

No, it's in the neighborhood of 1 hour to drop 0.01% from most sources I can find.

EDIT:

> The legal limit is very, very low, to the point where reasonable behavior is illegal.

No, slamming two drinks and hopping immediately behind the wheel is not even approximately reasonable behavior.
I work for Canonical, but I also share maintainership of some snaps. From an automatic email I received recently:
“A scan of this snap shows that it was built with packages from the Ubuntu archive that have since received security updates. The following lists new USNs for affected binary packages in each snap revision:
…
Simply rebuilding the snap will pull in the new security updates and resolve this. If your snap also contains vendored code, now might be a good time to review it for any needed updates.“

Yes, you don’t get that library update everywhere all at once, but this gives each vendor a chance to make sure that update actually works with their app.
Right because if you trust FOSS you never have to worry about a 2 year old vulnerabilities in how they implemented SSL....
If you're attending customer requests, that's productive work, right? That's not what's being discussed here IMO.
How did Aurora begin its life? Was it written from scratch or forked from existing open source database?
No, but the issue is, in many places it would be illegal for Google to record a call where they called someone else.
They aren't only lying about not making enough money. They are "lobbying" to keep up this charade.

Many European nations have much cheaper and faster access to the internet with many more ISPs. I don't see a logical reason why US can't have the same.
I would place my bets on low-pay. For example, working at a Big Four would probably net you more than working as a professor at Berkeley [1].

[1] http://projects.dailycal.org/paychecker/departments/computer...
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> This isn't what the science says

Umm yeah - science and personal experience say it really is. Do you have a source for your claim?
I have some R2 stainless "decking" (read: general construction) screws, and a standard consumer cordless impact driver generates enough transient torque to actually deform the cavity. Which even then results in the bit being "sticky" to pull out. I would imagine after several use cycles, the drive would be completely stripped.
As someone who've never heard of LVFS or System76, this response seems to be a bit unprofessional to me. He opens and ends with passive-aggressiveness, he points to 2 tweets as if saying "How did you not see these 2 tweets!" Well okay one of them is his reply to the original blog poster's reply to another thread, but a random non-commital tweet after several months of radio silence seems unprofessional too.
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iOS now has a “text to siri” feature that can disable spoken interfacing but retain the “smart” capabilities of the digital assistant.

Not that digital assistants are worth the risk they bring. Until now I can’t get Siri to do anything useful that isn’t very artificially and carefully phrased.
Ubuntu on my new ThinkPad X1 Carbn with 1440p 14" screen is awful due to no fractional scaling. At 150% it is perfect but with the only options being 100% or 200% it is close to useless for me. Such a shame. Guess I will need to look at how to get Wayland working to see if I can get fractional scaling back. Seems those who have got it working still have a load of issues with jaggy fonts though. I had hoped that in 2018 these things would have been solved. Even Microsoft has managed to implement a high quality solution.
> they always have to identify themselves as machines

That sounds like it will work as well as the federal do-not-call registry.

I think most of the issues could go away if we fixed the phone system to provide authenticated information about the source of the caller. If you can't or don't want to provide that information, that's fine, but I'm not going to answer that call.
Did anyone else notice that there's been an increasing number of mildly successful research that hint towards Lamarckian evolution as being real sometimes?

Has something changed (either ease or impetus) that's made it easy to do such research?

Or does it have something to do with the fact that most people's conception of evolution is Lamarckian in nature?

Whenever I ask someone to describe evolution, they describe it
the way Lamarck thought it worked. And when I talk about natural selection, they say they need time to digest that.
The first time Skype really annoyed me was when it decided that all video must be in 16:9 format, with no opt-out, resulting in the picture basically being cropped at the top and bottom in my case.

The second time was when it auto-updated to the "modern" version which removes the list of all your contacts, showing which ones are online.

For the time being, go.skype.com/classic.skype lets you get the "proper" version back. For 1-on-1 online video chats when skype is playing up I can also recommend appear.in, you don't even need to download anything, but it doesn't have a full contacts feature either.

There was a time when everyone in the publishing industry used PageMaker, until they suddenly switched to Adobe (if Joel is to be believed). I wouldn't mind if the same happened to skype, but I don't know what the alternative is yet.
It is absolutely not a moot point.

The actual legal limit matters. You don't have a legal expectation as to the margin of error of the measurement.

You should have Legal expectation that whatever measurement is used, will only be considered evidence of a crime if the measurement exceeds the legal limit by more than the margin of error for that measurement.
Of course there is. There’s nothing in my comment or parents comment about forced overtime.
They have been saying that for two years.
How do you even define smart?
Is it quantified by the IQ tests?
Does smartness include the factor of social skills(EQ) and how someone may present himself or herself in a social situations. How do you decide what's smart and what's not smart?
...but people do. No one does the former... pretty sure you understand that and are just being purposely dense.
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One thing I've noticed with cloud vendors is you are inevitably a small fish in a big pond. Few companies have the AWS investment to make Amazon take notice.
Essentially, if something gets screwed up you have no recourse beyond a refund and moving your infrastructure.