skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It reads like the beginning of a script for one of those giant-aquatic-monster summer movies starting, say, Jason Statham.

Quoting from the OP: "The seabed 'observatory', worth about €300,000 (£270,000), weighed more than half a tonne. It could not have been dragged off by a storm ... Divers only found a torn power cable at the site, 22m (72ft) down and 1.8km (1.2 miles) offshore."
That's only true if anxiety is the underlying problem. I'll grant that anxiety is probably the most common cause but it's far from the only one. Chronic pain and mental illness can easily stop one from sleeping, no matter what you do.

For me, I have back pain that can get severe enough that I can't sleep. And if that wasn't enough, whatever regulates dopamine and norepinephrine levels in my brain doesn't work properly. When I'm depressed, my brain can't sleep until it hits absolute exhaustion. Not won't, can't.

I need all of these strategies, in addition to medication, get any deep sleep with enough regularity to stay healthy and sane.
it may take too much technical expertise to know that $method works. For example, most people don't understand asymetric encryption, but still "blindly" trust that it works because they are told by a trusted authority.
My assumption has always been that they think over a long enough time scale their investments will become basic defacto infrastructure. Prob entirely wrong, but that's been how I've seen it
Merlin requires opam, which is yet another tool beginners need to fight with. Reason support for Merlin was relatively recently merged, so it might work ok right now- but I couldn't get it to work with Reason the last time I tried. I agree it works fine with Ocaml.
Overall statistical safety just now for Tesla autopilot is probably worse than plain human driving. You can reasonably argue though that allowing research now will save lives in the future.
What you say was questioned recently by Brave, see HN play from 2-3 days ago.

(not selling per see, more like carelessly giving away)
Oh wow, did not know that! Then perhaps a better way to phrase it is that it does not imply slower general mental development of the children - at least that is what I read elsewhere.
It might also have been abducted by aliens, but it's not constructive to suggest something with a 0% probability, when rounded.

It seems like submarines splicing spy equipment into undersea cables is their biggest peace time application - and it looks like every country that can do it, does it in some form or other. It just came to light that South Africa is doing that, and they can barely keep the lights on as a nation. If a basket-case like South Africa does it, probably every developed nation does it.
well um, the car's battery was dead. so how exactly would it open via RFID? of course if you put that piece of information first, the headline isn't so catchy. i digress.
>How to regenerate whatever output from that JPEG the Tweet author claims to get?

No idea, that's why I posted here so someone that does know how to do this can either verify it as a hoax or a legit find.
I found the book 'Work together anywhere' by Lisette Sutherland extremely helpful. You can skip past the first five chapters if you already are in this situation.

It's really helped me work with a remote team. The book has tons of good recommendations as well, so it's practical as well as helpful.
What’s a phone book?
It sounds cutting edge to me but the last time I tried to install GnuNet on Windows and Ubuntu I gave up after awhile because it seemed like, if I recall correctly, it wouldn't run on Windows anymore and something was broken with the Ubuntu build/install I was trying to do.\

It seemed like I would need to debug a broken build in order to use any of it for anything.
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> That's what we've being doing except that no one chats on there

...Which serves as a demonstration that nobody needs chat.

Isn't it great how that works?
>Now, if you’re a “living Constitution” guy and think that the constitution means whatever you want it to mean in the present time.

You know perfectly well that's not what the doctrine of a "living Constitution" is about. Constitutional scholarship is not made up of people who agree with you and people just making shit up.
Slack doesn't seem to be the sort of company who will go with an Ad strategy for monetisation.

A number of free users upgrade over time by upgrading their free account or by highly recommending Slack at their workplace.
Why do people keep comparing slack to email? It's nothing like email. It's just an instant messenger.
>their investments will become basic defacto infrastructure

If their end goal is having the profit margins of an electric company, then these valuations are pretty hard to justify...
I agree that Teams is pretty bad but a lot of companies use it because they have office 365. Your view is probably skewed by looking at Silicon Valley it startups. A lot of big companies use Teams.

In my company Teams was actually a big improvement because we had nothing before.
Has violating the constitution stopped them, ever? I think they'll just hide it a bit deeper/ deny its existence a bit longer.
It would be far from the first time somebody's science or fishing vessel was spying on someone else.

But would it would be the first time the US has interfered with an ally's spy rig? Five eyes, and all that, it's in our interest, right?

Maybe someone else messed with it.
You can hack it in
Regional rail works okayish in Germany. A part of the regions and lines are carried by private business, others by the former monopolist that is still fully owned by the state.
You are missing the fact that the salesmen of climate change have been politicians, and politicians lie, and politicians propose political solutions, they want more and more of my limited money, and browbeat people who already don’t like or trust them, and frankly that is a bad combination of tactics if the solution is needed that badly across the broad spectrum of the population.

If climate change stops being sold as a one sided political problem with one sided political solutions, you may see momentum on it, but speaking as a conservative, when your pitch men and women are Bernie Sanders, Warren, and Cortez, amongst others, people I don’t trust and disagree with already, people who have tried framing me as a stupid person who doesn’t get it, you have already lost me entirely on the pitch before it left their mouths.

Change the salesman and the tactic, because the current one doesn’t work, and it is doomed to failure because of that.
Doesn't sound that different from Gmail to me.
> We need to divide and conquer. The west needs to hold themselves accountable, and then hold stragglers accountable.

And then donate some of the tech and resources, too. By virtue of being first, we've cut out the developing nations from the most direct path to improving their living conditions. We do, IMO, have a responsibility to help them leapfrog the "fossil fuel" part of that path.

(Though honestly, we can revisit that point later. First, let's get to zero emissions ourselves.)
Isn't that the majority of modern tech companies? Take something which is marginally profitable, scale it beyond all comprehension and make it unprofitable.

I didn't see the need for a global digitised cab company but it didn't stop two companies burning $30 billion to try and make it happen.
This seems a little disingenuous, no?

Not at all - from the comment I was replying to “Vast majority of top 1% don't even have much capital to speak of.”

But my wider point being that it is just used to mean “anyone slightly wealthier than me”.
No, I'm Dutch like you guessed. While the Netherlands and Denmark are very similar in some aspects (flat countries obsessed with having the best bike infrastructure in the world) the language is quite different ;)

Living in Malmö I also find this quite hard to believe! Besides, isn't old people complaining about the younger generation butchering their language something that happens all the time in all cultures?
The short answer: you can't reproduce it. Because it never happened in the first place. Not to mention that Outguess doesn't provide the "data type" of the output - you just get the bits. The entire thing is a badly-executed hoax.
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Did any of those really have paid tiers that people actually used? People do pay for slack in a way that I don't ever recall them paying for those, partly I think because there are many more online only/remote businesses now than back then.
"Providing teaching resources to make the book and users of the book more effective at the job of teaching and learning isn't a bribe"

What if the publisher were to reimburse you $30k/year so you could hire some additional help in grading papers? Would that count as a bribe?

What if you were to spend the time freed up not on additional teaching, but with your loved-ones? Would the money count as a bribe now?

What if, instead of providing $30k/year to hire some help, they provided you with an online tool to do the job. You still spend the time now saved with your loved ones, not on better/more teaching. Is the provision of that tool a bribe?

What if access to the tool costs each student $100 per year (access for one year, via a voucher that comes only with the purchase of a brand new $100 textbook). Would the tool that makes you more efficient, thus allowing you more time with your loved ones, be considered a bribe now?

What if the benefit to you (in saved time) was $20k per year, the additional cost to your students was $40k/year, and there was no change in the quality of education. Would you consider provision of the tool a bribe in this case?
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I can understand a cut cable and a humans stealing something worth 300k. But in what scenario does a torn cable make sense?
Genuine question: How could a company confuse of what they mean to their users by such a huge margin? A content provider vs payment platform. Woah!
What an arrogant take on the impact of Slack from Butterfield.

Even if he says that Slack is "not about tech but about making work happen", there has been countless of other programs that, while being "tech", made work happen. I just can't see this "category innovation" at all.
A carbon tax is a viable solution. Last year’s Nobel winner in economics believes that even today, if a carbon tax were implemented we would be, paraphrasing, “stunned at how quickly the world would change”. Had we implemented a carbon tax two decades ago, enforced through global trade agreements, we could have started slow and ratcheted up over time.

We need to move beyond the scare tactic that it’s a choice between the economy and solving climate change. We already solved this on a small scale with the ozone layer.
"For example, could one claim that the right to free speech is only limited to forms of communication that existed at the time the amendment was ratified, which would exclude video or online communication?"

Yes. Maybe not simply video but what about a deep-fake video designed to deceive people that is indistinguishable from a genuine video? At some point unique cases arise that require careful judgement. This is what the judicial system is for, to provide "judgement" on things which were not anticipated by the law.

Sometimes those unique cases were only once unique but become ubiquitous due to changes in technology, geography, climate, or society.

right to privacy is an example. There's talk about this all over the place but it was only evident that people had an expectation and desire to exercise this right after it started getting abused by technology and technology companies.

The bill of rights contains what it does because the founders had just had experience with many of those rights being curtailed.
I dunno, HN can still be very addictive if you don’t have much else going on to distract you. It’s not manipulating you at a micro level in the same way as Facebook properties, but the rules certainly lead to an addictive kind of discourse that probably feels much more valuable than it really is. It’s information junk food, maybe more like the conventional news than social media. It’s not obvious to me that it provides me more value than Instagram.
I use Skype daily and have never had a problem with it, I've never understood the hate if i'm honest.
The Earth is 134ms around at the speed of light. That's how long it takes to communicate in real time with the other side of the world (your antipode). No technology or routing policies can change that.

This sort of real-time control would probably have to be done on the same continent at most, because of purely physical limitations.
Historically the right side has generally been technology making peoples lives better. At least in material terms such as life expectancy, diseases cured and so on. They still moan though.
> ‘Did you want to tag [friend]?

You can tag someone that isn't on Facebook? I'm pretty sure the box use Facebook accounts...
A business that’s doing great can have numbers that look like this if they’re investing heavily in growth. In that case, they’re losing money deliberately—if they wanted to, they could optimize for profits and be making money, but at the cost of growing slower and presumably sacrificing greater profits in the future. If you’re a shareholder, you probably don’t want that.

I don’t know whether Slack is in this position, but simply looking at revenue and losses doesn’t give you enough information to judge how well they’re doing on its own. You need to look at things like CAC and growth rate.
It is basically a chat program though right? It has some newer features, but they seem just like incremental improvements over proprietary chat applications I've been using for the last 25 years.
Sold! Lake Superior lighthouse auctioned off for $159,000
That is really cool, out of interest did it ever make money?
You should try it yourself.

We moved almost all development machines to Linux after someone demonstrated how fast Linux built some C project compared to osx and windows.
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What's a better metric? When deciding whether self driving cars is something to encourage or discourage, the obvious question to ask is: Does this improve safety?

You can make moralistic arguments about why you don't like this or that, but at the end of the day you are causing unnecessary deaths when you choose to suppress a system which is better than human drivers.
Gmail was not the first email program (which is what the OP asked about). Gmail came several decades after email was invented and already in widespread use. You may or may not realize this fact (depending on your age).
Teams is absolutely taking share from Slack. As chat permeates organisations, it needs policies, single sign on, oversight and standards that are harder to implement in slack than Teams/Office 365. I know of many organisations who've been forced off slack because 'company policy'.
Ask Yahoo, Uber and Lyft.

Just because a product is popular doesn’t mean it’s a good business.

It also amazes me that people hand wave compensation as a “real” expense....
Lego was actually flourishing in the early 90s particularly with Castle and Pirates. Each year brought new sub-themes and factions, and newer sets coexisted nicely with older ones. It started to go downhill with the advent of PC and PlayStation gaming in the late 90s. Kids suddenly had their attention elsewhere. Lego then changed the formula to launching short-lived flashy themes with spiced-up minifigs and unusual parts, and the old spirit of calm playfulness was largely gone.
1980 - usenet launches
(and general filesystem performance)
Another little-known Cloudflare tip is to use their Argo product's TryCloudflare feature when you want to open a localhost port to the world for experiments, demos.

It enables painless NAT traversal like ngrok, with the added benefit of Cloudflare's network acceleration and security.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/argo-tunnel/trycloudflare/
10x increase in Varnish throughput by replacing vmod‑curl with request restarts
Maye it didn't "just" do climate science, and for that reason someone with the right resources wanted it to disappear.
Samsung Galaxy Watch. It's running Tizen and that includes systemd.
I wrote two free books specifically on productized services.
The first book discuss how to productize your services and hire and manage remote workers (and it covers the tools and techniques to work remotely). The second book is mostly about value proposition and marketing.

1) http://www.productizebook.co 2) http://www.productizemarketing.co
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I've heard it described as having IRC channels with skype capabilities
They didn't anticipate the meddling kids.

What I mean is, they thought they were going to get away with it.
My understanding is that grafana is good at visualization, not searching for specific events.
Your idea breaks down immediately when you realize that hosting your own phpBB instance is far outside the capabilities of most users. This means that you're at least centralized into groups around phpBB hosts, i.e. this is a federated system.

In practice, federated systems become centralized. Email, for example, is now mostly centralized in a few providers: GMail, Yahoo, Outlook, etc. Even if you don't use one of these providers, they have a significant percentage of your emails.
The difference between chat and facebook is that with a team in chat, you can move it to anywhere (teams, irc, mattermost, zulip, whatsapp). With facebook, you can't move your friends, so you're stuck.
The first time you unlock the car, it always has to be using a physical card. I learnt this the hard way.

https://www.quora.com/Can-I-use-a-Zipcar-without-my-Zipcard
I agree; I just thought simply asking first might help prove out that there's nothing here. Normally, I'd hard pass on "content" like this, but apparently enough people upvoted this to make it to the front page of HN.
It'd be really interesting for Slack to go the Atlassian or Microsoft route - acquire companies that solve adjacent problems, and then bundle the products to enterprise customers. The sales get harder to ignore, and it'd make Slack as a company even stickier.

A couple things come to mind, like file sharing, calendar & room management, project management (around tasks, mainly), VoIP integration for sales calls, and maybe even gasp email.
> Mach's name Mach evolved in a euphemization spiral: While the developers, once during the naming phase, had to bike to lunch through rainy Pittsburgh's mud puddles, Tevanian joked the word muck could serve as a backronym for their Multi-User [or Multiprocessor Universal] Communication Kernel. Italian CMU engineer Dario Giuse later asked project leader Rick Rashid about the project's current title and received "MUCK" as the answer, though not spelled out but just pronounced as IPA: [mʌk] which he, according to the Italian alphabet, wrote as Mach. Rashid liked Giuse's spelling "Mach" so much that it prevailed.

It's fascinating how some things get their names :)
It’s basically the definition of enterprise software that the people who buy it aren’t the people who use it. The bean counters don’t care whether the users hate the software.
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Two variables control the image: shutter speed and f-stop (how wide the aperture is open). The higher the shutter speed the more you can stop action (like a baseball in the air), and the higher the F-stop, the greater the depth of field (more in focus beyond the focal plane). Your iPhone chooses these numbers for you and basically gives you what it can. on a camera like this you can set for automatic, but you can also control these numbers (choose the best shutter speed and it will choose F-stop; choose best F-stop and it will choose shutter speed). You want to capture your friend and the monument behind him all in focus, go for a higher F-Stop; want to stop action at a soccer game, go for a faster shutter speed). Beyond that, the glass will give you the resolution you need to blow up the picture. Sometimes, this might mean for printing, but also when you want to crop the picture and bring up something that was small in the original. That's where the great glass destroys the iPhone.
Hi, I'm one of the authors of the scientific paper¹ linked in this blog post. Incidentally, I wrote a series of blog posts explaining differential privacy in layman's terms. The first post might be "not-technical-enough" for HackerNews, but maybe the next in the series make up for it. Feedback welcome =)

- https://desfontain.es/privacy/differential-privacy-awesomene...

- https://desfontain.es/privacy/differential-privacy-in-more-d...

- https://desfontain.es/privacy/differential-privacy-in-practi...

- https://desfontain.es/privacy/almost-differential-privacy.ht... (describes a core intuition behind the system described in our paper)

- https://desfontain.es/privacy/local-global-differential-priv...

I also think Section 2 of the paper should be readable by most folks with a basic understanding of SQL and differential privacy.

¹ https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01917
Probably, but arguably all the negative news may have made the IPO plans untenable as it is.

Granted it is hard to measure investor interest but I'm not sure it was viable to just go along with the IPO, meeting leak or not.
Slack wasn't the first chat application either. The fact that it's a value add atop IRC is irrelevant, as Gmail is a value add atop IMAP.
At least a few years ago, I remember the bigger issues were:

- no message history past a few months

- the redesign made it look like a phone messaging app

- poor group chat functionality that didn't have anything beyond basic permissions

- calls were peer-to-peer for the longest time, making it mostly trivial to get someone's residential IP and DDOS their network.

It might have improved since then (I know calls are no longer P2P) but that's why a large portion of the gamers moved to Discord.
It's extremely unlikely the US would do something like that to an ally. In regards to 'spying' in general, usually you don't really sabotage. You just note what's being collected and control it. Because by sabotaging something you give away that you know about it, that is has value, that you're possibly actively looking for similar things, blah blah.

I would bet money that someone dragged an anchor across the line or the device, and it has since been dragged across the sea floor to an unknown location by accident.
That’s always the excuse. It’s an outlier when it happens.
Just take the time off, then. What is this, slavery?

(I'm aware that people with very low incomes and no paid holidays at all, may not be able to afford that. But that situation should be illegal in any modern, wealthy country. I guess the answer to the question above may indeed be "yes" in some cases.)
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It doesn't need autoconf to see this. I have seen it in a project with a simple make -j, compiling with clang in both places. Builds finish much faster on Linux.

To be fair this may be many things and not just mach syscalls.
> it would take time for the market to understand his company

Perhaps, and also perhaps when they do, it won't be so valuable anymore...
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Nowadays, it's very rare for a software company to be profitable when they IPO.