skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meditation may have specific benefits. But having a fit body and knowing how to draw, write or cook is also nice.

But the important common part is that you take steps to better your life. Even activities that have no proven benefits by themselves such as magic rituals, "alternative medicine", prayer, etc... can work.

The idea is that such activities can create a positive chain of events: you going to the gym, your training calls for better nutrition so you eat better, you also sleep better and the workout schedule can impose a healthy work/life balance. You may want to start meditation to improve your focus.

With meditation you realize your body doesn't feel well so you eat better, sleep better, that pause helps you maintain a good work/life balance. You may even consider exercising.

Notice the recurring themes. Once you are in a self improvement mindset things start to support themselves.
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While everyone involved surely deserves either life in jail or the death penalty, there's something we can do without going through the corrupt 'justice' system:

Inform all the clients of these companies of what they're doing. Let them know they bribed the police to put clients in jail after filing a claim.

And don't forget to name names - don't let them hide behind the corporate facade.
House Prices Drop Again in San Francisco and Silicon Valley
Can be, the Wall of Sheep mentioned here is from the traffic on the DefCon network. General practice is to make sure at least your bluetooth and wifi are turned off. Realistically, no one is going to use a 0-day to hack into your personal phone.
I was just thinking about it as I wrote it. I think that's correct and glad you brought it up.
What about AzPainter?[0]

It's really cool image editor based on X11, that still is obscure competitor to GIMP and Krita ;-)

[0] https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter
Does google insurance not provide for mental health care? I know it’s not standard for many corporations but I’d imagine google’s healthcare is very competitive. If so... idk what this person wants.
Your last paragraph sounds very bitter from you. Like it's almost personal?

Hate to break it to you, but the rich elite in the UK will not suffer because of Brexit. The poor will suffer, as they have always done. The elite will be just fine, and probably be in a position to strengthen their standings from the chaos.

And finally, what is your conclusion on China then? You are not arguing they're in the right, so what? What's your suggestion? What's your take? What should the CCP be doing right now? Should they be implementing democratic reform on the mainland to converge with the HK culture more?
I can't imagine RCS getting the momentum to become a real viable platform. Even if it's integrated into Android phones and seamless from the users perspective the major carriers have no interest in putting forth the effort or making it a real thing. I suspect it will be a nice to have feature like "HD Calling" where calls have increased quality.

With Google lacking any real leadership in the Android division(See Wear OS) this problem won't be solved anytime soon. I recently switched from Android to iOS because I have faith in their ecosystem and vision. Sure it's a walled garden, but I'd rather have a nice walled garden that's tended to than a forest with no supervision, direction or purpose.
Networking Companies Aren't Getting Better at Security
Sounds like they hired a CISO with a toxic personality more interested in internal PR than security, and all the talent ran off. Sounds like this is the exact opposite of what any company should do.
Can someone explain why Google seems to be such a hotbed for stuff like this? I ask this question in earnest. Perhaps this is just bias in what the media chooses to report, or perhaps the cross-section of news that I read fails to find other examples, but social uproar seems overwhelmingly more common at Google than most other workplaces in both the software industry and most other industries in general.

As for the memo itself, I do highly recommend reading it directly first rather than commentary on it:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjvy3/heres-the-memo-abo...
> This is a step in the right direction, but YT's system is extra-judicial in nature, and they've decided to be more copyright holder friendly than the law itself requires (likely so the law isn't used, which is cheaper for YT).

Bingo. Content ID came out right around the settlement of Viacom International Inc. v. YouTube, Inc. Even though the courts consistently upheld YouTube's claims, it wasn't exactly a smooth ride and more appeals were coming. I also imagine every other traditional media companies saw the potential and were equally interested in bring lawsuits.

I agree with your assessment: governments need to enact better laws to handle media as it is produced and consumed today. Until then companies of years past will try to suck every dime they can from their competition on their way out.

Could YouTube's handling of copyright be improved? Of course. Do I see systems like Content ID going away without a change in law? Absolutely not.
Hyundai has an electric concept car for Frankfurt Motor Show
> President John F. Kennedy voiced support for returning America to the Gold Standard. He was assassinated soon after.

He also voiced a million other things that you might as well pin his assassination on, if you're so willing to jump to conclusions.
Three Rules for Lowering Development Costs Without Compromising Quality
I used to work as a data scientist. This title is not what it should be, I witnessed first hand how business thought data science is the magic that they would be able to rely on to consistently deliver impossible work. There are so much junk that gets shuffled our way and have the expectation that gold be coming out of them. It feels like the financial bubble of 2008, except it's with the inflation of the position and the 'clout' of data science.

There's nothing wrong in data science itself, just like there's nothing wrong with mortgage. But the current trend of software engineer/ non-software engineer moving into data-science is not sustainable. Things will break before it's fixed again, I've always considered myself a software engineer first and foremost, just with some extra machine learning/stats knowledge, and I'm glad to be out of that position now as it looks like we're in for a reckoning soon.
Oh, it's been solved, many times. But consider the advantages of paper:
- low battery usage
- high contrast; easy to use in direct sunlight
- rapid bootup time
- you drop it, it still works
- cheap
- low training time (for simple forms)
- error-tolerant in many ways

Now, there are problems as well, for sure, like no data validation and expensive harvesting of that data. But, in many cases, the above advantages outweigh the disadvantages, not because there's not good software to replace it, but simply because there are things that paper is very good at. If you don't particularly benefit from the advantages of software for your exact use case, paper can be absolutely the correct choice.
These might be reasonable functions to implement in a standard library, so having them it makes sense to use them. I rather feared Idris does not have some IO abstraction (reading/writing) files at all. Maybe I am conflating languages and libraries here, but they often go hand in hand.

My practicability expectations for languages implementing dependent types are pretty low.
Shariff: Share website content without compromising privacy
Big Coal Plants Begin to Close
Except there is more to it than just the green bubbles.

- Reactions to messages

- Any applications in group chats

- Encrypted

- Seen and typing indicators

The biggest single thing that I actually care about.
There is a nice button "Leave this Conversation" I can click on an iMessage group chat, and it leaves the conversation.
There are the actual rules of HN, and then there are the unspoken rules.

One of the unspoken rules is that the topicality of a political relates inversely to the degree to which it challenges the particpants' biases.
You’re confusing Avahi with NetworkManager, which, IIRC, Lennart should not be blamed for.

Avahi is simply an implementation of the ZeroConf service discoverability protocol, as also used by macOS’s “Bonjour”.
Some of the politicization at Google may have been born out of the "Bring your whole self to work" philosophy playing out on their internal Google+ network and "Coffee Beans" discussion forum. You can see many examples/screenshots of what was tolerated internally in the Damore lawsuit[1]. I've worked exclusively for large orgs (outside of the Bay Area) and it completely blows my mind.

[1] https://www.dhillonlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/201804...
Aren't data diodes already a regulatory requirement for any connection between avionics and the IFE?
I'm entirely serious. I have no idea what it even means for android to intrude on me in this context. I know what an intrusive app is, I don't know what an intrusive operating system is.
Another alternative (that I'm surprised isn't already mentioned) is https://github.com/lra/mackup.

What it does:

1. moves your dot files and whatnot into DropBox (or Box or Google drive or whatever)

2. symlinks the moved file to the original location
Yes, because that always goes well. I'm predicting like 80%+ of the implementations will use exactly that minimum key length.
It's already in there...
Your data will leak regardless because of typewriter keystroke acoustics [0]. So you better have a soundproof room for that purpose.

Keep any electronics out of the room that might have a microphone. Like phones, laptops, or running mechanical hard drives [1].

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09359

[1]: https://spqr.eecs.umich.edu/papers/Kwong-HDDphone-IEEE-SP-20...
Since when do 2 people and a dog need a 5 bedroom house? And does that really only qualify as “decent”? Especially 3 years out of school...

In any case OP was just trying to point out the entitlement that gets instilled, and how it can be particularly blinding when you’re wrapped up in your own decadent lifestyle. It’s a very common trait among people in the valley, in my experience.
Some additional, non-stock library photos from a few days I spent passing through Chingutti in 2013, for context: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmGcnZEY
Brahm Prakash: India's nuclear metallurgy man
Right, this is about going from 98% to 99%, which is not all that useful. Bearings today are quite good.

Before ball and roller bearings, though, it was really bad.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Peu5hH9vy7E
Have you considered not selling technology to cops?
I think they're photos of the library towns, but the author of the article didn't actually visit there.
>we're imagining a world where there are one of our devices in every police car in North America.

Sounds like a terrible world honestly.
Also posted this at the top of comment hierarchy. https://flic.kr/s/aHsmGcnZEY Pretty sure that's the same librarian; I'm squinting and mentally adding six years.
It would be a true horror if real work is like solving hackerrank puzzles --- everything is predefined and you're given a set task for a set amount of time, surely a robot could do the same?
MMS is also extremely unreliable compared to iMessage (as I mentioned in another comment thread). Messages are often delayed by upwards of 15 minutes, and I can't send or receive at all if I'm somewhere with less-than-perfect cell coverage (including my home and work). Additionally, some cellular plans can't receive MMS at all, and I've seen some Android phones unable to receive messages sent to a group larger than 8 or 10 participants.
> How did they promote politics in the workplace?

"Bring your whole self to work". Example of people bringing their whole selves to work: When Trump won the election we had executives crying on stage talking about the catastrophe. Not something you would see at a conventional company, I best most executives didn't even mention the election in front of their employees.

Note that I didn't say that Google promotes a specific political party, just that it promotes people bringing politics to work.
Nanolive.ch is doing this quite well, high enough resolution to make structures like mitochondria clearly visible. Also able to make time lapse of living cells. (I don’t have any business connection to Nanolive, just an Instagram follower)
I'm not sure where exactly I heard this, but some time when I was young, I either was told or read somewhere that the author came up with the name "Oz" when looking at a filing cabinet; the top was labeled "A-N", and the bottom was labeled "O-Z"
The same applies. Messages can perfectly handle group messages that include a mix of iOS and Android users. Unlike Whatsapp, Messages doesn't require that every participant has Messages, nor that they have an iPhone. Messages will send each and every group message to every Android user in the group using SMS.

But it will color the bubble green. And that's why they get locked out.
Very cool. Wonder if this could be tailored to analyze financial disclosures (10-Ks and 10-Qs) to rank management teams on their abilities to describe their company succinctly and appropriately convey messages on financial results to shareholders and the investment community.

It's a pet idea of mine that I just haven't had time to play with. Would need to adjust for size of the company and industry, at a minimum...
Sounds like it’s well-intentioned, but I’m afraid that given the incentives of all parties involved here, and the complexity of the technology, there will be a lot of false positives.

It’s obvious that the police will want a device that produces more convictions, no point in disputing that.

I’m wondering if you can elaborate on what incentives your company has to produce accurate devices, against your customer’s unstated preferences. What’s keeping you in check? Are you worried about class action lawsuits from victims of false positives, if it were independently proven that your device is overly sensitive?
Best thing you can do to limit carbon emissions is run an efficient business that gets a high ROI. Dollars to doughnuts, $$$ spent tracks with barrels of oil burned to crank out those goods/services consumed.
Do they build their on NICs for security or because it’s the cheapest way of segregating network traffic?

As in relying on logical separation of client traffic rather than physical one so they don’t need as many physical ports, switches and most importantly network cables(often the highest actual cost in many data centers as far as networking goes)?
If the only thing gained is the time to organise more protests it rather proves my point...
I think this is great idea, congrats. What about testing in the workplace? It has always bothered me that someone could fail a drug test for weed at work even if they hadn't smoked in 2 weeks, but someone can show up slightly hungover and be 'fine'. I would find it acceptable if you had some accident and they could test that you were under the influence right then.
You cannot avoid a politicized workplace because companies don't exist in a vacuum and neither do the workers. You can do your best to ensure things remain respectful but you can't avoid certain topics unless you outright refuse to hire people of color or minorities, in which case you achieve a political monoculture which is in itself a politicized workplace.

There is no such thing as an apolitical workplace or company.
Hambini has a good article on this[1]. The basic problem (apart from cost) is that only the ball bearing itself is ceramic; the inner and outer races are made of steel and the ball wears a groove into them which increases friction over time. Near the bottom of the article there's a 'power consumption vs kilometres' chart which illustrates this nicely.

"Hybrid ceramic bearings are the equivalent of trying to run a locomotive on an asphalt road - the hardness differential causes the road (raceway) to become damaged."

[1] https://www.hambini.com/blog/post/ceramic-bearings-vs-steel-...
https://github.com/amperser/proselint is also very nice.
I'm working at a unicorn. It's a relatively unknown one. They have no idea what they're doing. I've talked to peers across the bay and with my various companies I've worked at - they almost universally don't know what they're doing.

I've interviewed at over 100 places in the bay area. I'd say that from internally and externally, most of the companies here have no idea what they're doing. Most don't use rubrics, most don't have a standardized set of questions that have been heavily reviewed and tested, there is either no training or inadequate training, and most are winging it completely. Many ask whiteboard questions to interview candidates and they never had to do them for the job they got (got in through referral or at a different stage when they weren't doing such questions). Resume, referrals, and charisma will get you into positions very easily in many of these companies even if you're very technically challenged compared to others with less resume+referral+charisma.

Being liked is one of the best ways to get into positions you are terrible at but compensated so well for.
IMHO the bigger problem with group chat over SMS is that some networks (looking at you AT&T) limit the number of participants in a group SMS chat to ten. If you try to send a message to more than ten people it sends it ten of them, silently ignoring the rest, leading to weird fractured SMS group chats.
Does anyone else feel uncomfortable around people that talk about politics at work?
I would much rather talk about the latest sports balls games. There's so many conversations that you can have and many different statistics. You can even have sports balls debates that are enjoyable such as who is the best ball thrower.
>I can't imagine why on Earth anyone would want to bring such a personal topic into the workplace. As a matter of fact, it kind of disturbs the integrity of a professional environment to have these kinds of discussions during working hours anyway

A lot of times, it isn't their choice. I'm glad that you have never felt discriminated against, but just because that's your experience, doesn't mean everyone else's experiences are the same.

Most of my friends are members of the LGBT community, though I am not. I know for them, they want nothing else than to just be who they are, do their work, and go home at the end of the day. But they have been denied that over and over again because they have been forced to work with assholes.

Yeah, society is becoming more accepting, and that's great. I think that makes the negative experiences even worse.
So, it's not about being black at Google, it's about Google not doing enough because the news spins everything into a racial issue?
Paper does not have downtime. It is robust, does not require licenses, charging, updates...

A cheap scanner get it useable elsewhere.

Simple, cheap is why.
>I think it's okay if it's a group of people who choose to opt-in for a discussion for 1 hour once a year. Then you're not "forcing" coworkers who don't want to be there to listen, or worry about sewing mistrust, as you have mentioned, which is a valid concern.

Yeah, but what happens when someone never shows up for things like this? Do people start getting suspicious that they're anti-LGBT? That's my worry whenever a workplace starts trying to bring non-work-related stuff into the workplace like this.

I have a hard enough time with companies that want to have "team lunches" or dinners. Even though they're really optional (or "optional"), if you never show up for them, it makes you look like you're "not part of the team". It's inevitable with any workplace social activities: if you're the one guy who never attends, it makes you stand out. What if your company/team likes to go to happy hours regularly, and you don't drink and hate bars? Again, it makes you look like a black sheep.

Honestly, I'd prefer it if employers stopped trying to act like my family and just stuck to getting work done, and letting me go home ASAP so I can do things I prefer and eat food I prefer. (With those team meals, they always pick restaurants I hate.)
GOOG?
Honestly this sounds horrible to me, work is a place for work. I don't care if you're gay, straight or otherwise, keep your personal lives personal.

Forcing employees to have a pow-wow about their feelings on ANY issue would have me updating my CV ASAP.
I've never understood why companies choose to delete videos rather than just monetize them. I've uploaded videos with copyrighted music, rather than get deleted the owners chose to have ads shown in my video(my channel is unmonetized) and I'm assuming they make money from it.
I don't know about the Conti belt but the Gates has been rock solid since they introduced the center track guide. The first wave did have some problems unless the pullies had guides, they could slide off.

For what it is, I love it, it's not a racing bike though. I'm curious about the mtb uses with a Rohloff hub, it's a fair amount of weight.
Reading the bit of that thread with the Autodesk CEO, I disagree with your assessment of their position. The CEO's response, in a nutshell, was that they aren't responsible for what people build with their software, but also that they provide free software for and support initiatives by green startups. He even said that Mr. Lemercier's passions was "appropriate and necessary"

What's more, Mr. Lemercier's asked that Autodesk no longer sell their software to dirty companies like the ones they were discussing. "Policing couldn't be easier...Don't accept their money."

Without even getting into the question of what Autodesk should or shouldn't do, I do think it's completely unfair to elide the difference between (declining Mr. Lemercier's idea) and (actively endorsing the environmental destruction found in Autodesk's downstream).
Do you struggle with the ethics of assisting in the arrest of, in my state, 90% minorities for a crime with dubious safety grounds?
That feels like a different implementation of the same idea.

Me? I charge my car when I come home from work. Provided it's charged by morning I don't car when in that time it's charging
It’s not luck as much as it was realizing early on that parallel computing was going to be big and getting CUDA out there before the world needed it.
Oh boy, here we go. Ugh.
It’s like saying that Time Warner doesn’t have a monopoly over the electromagnetic spectrum, while technically true in practice in some areas they do.

Twitter is a crucial social communications platform for large enough portion of some societies to treat them as a monopoly.
> reduced resolution in photos and videos

This and group names are the absolute killers.

It's tough. My understanding is that SMS is at fault under the surface, requiring that images and videos be compressed to fit a size limit (right?).

My preferred solution would be mandated adversarial interoperability.

Absent that, I wish android could bundle images into a dead simple hosting site that send me a link to all the images, at max resolution, displayed with zero chrome whatsoever, in a browser window. Then I can download them like normal assets (with my press-and-hold browser utils. no third party UI).

Receiving photos packaged in a google library, for example, is a nightmare.
Every parent scared to death of finding out their kid is vaping should ask themselves this: What if they were using actual cigarettes, or god forbid Vanilla cream flavored vodka.

Sensationalism is cancer.