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An idea to end “follow-ups” at work
Hi, folks. Long time lurker, first-time poster. I've worked at companies for the better part of 20 years in the IT/software area. I'm a productivity fanatic, and recently I had an epiphany around a way to make people more productive.

Despite todo lists, Asana, Github, JIRA, Workast, Trello, butcher paper, and who knows what else - I spend countless hours in meetings where people give each other things to do. Sometimes people write them down; sometimes they don't. Sometimes there is an email follow-up, and sometimes if there is a program manager, they put it on a spreadsheet. Inevitably, what ends up happening is a human being has to send an email, Slack, call a meeting and ask - "Are we on track?," "Is this done?" and so on.

The problem with many lists/tickets/task systems, I think, is that they are focused on the capture, but not the delegation.

What if there was a system that would do the nagging for you, and when you give someone something to do, it attempts to suggest what's a reasonable due date or reassigns the tasks to someone else? What if the system plays the middle-person in terms of resetting expectations, by prompting the person executing the task if they can do it, and when? And in between checks in with the person to see if they are on track? The system would also keep all parties informed.

Do you think this would be useful?

I'd build it much like how operating systems work. Instead of threads, the backend would model people, each with their load. The system would basically act as a scheduler, and recommend when a thread (person) is overloaded, and similarly check on each thread for health. I want to build a virtual operating system for how work gets done by focusing on the inter-process communication between the people in a company.

If you think this idea has legs - how would it work best for you in practice? How could you get other people to adopt it?

Thank you, and I look forward to your feedback!
Sure, many people make that argument. The recessions happened regardless of their source. But the financial panics that preceded lenders-of-last-resort and countercyclical monetary policy were significantly more frequent and severe than anything we've seen in recent history.

Edit: just noticed your edit, Bernanke never said that monetary policy caused the Great Depression, but it is the consensus view that policy was too tight during that period and exacerbated it. A mistake that no one is keen to repeat. Certainly the interest rate rises in the 80's caused a contraction, one could argue whether the subsequent recession was worth the cost of fighting inflation. I think all would agree that the stagflation that prompted that maneuver was not ideal.
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This is the thing I'm wary of. That when it does get to mass-market appeal, it'll be targetted by bad people, and then locked down, and this is why we can't have nice things.

I don't want to buy an expensive hackable pad of paper that I then have to fight the manufacturer to keep hackable.

I'm fed up of tech that stops me owning it properly so that idiots can be saved from their ignorance.

I'm waiting for v3. Let's see what happens then.
How applicable is this to large scale electricity storage? I don't have any numbers but I doubt you could power a large economy like the German one based on pumped-storage.

It's ok for some niche use cases but I doubt it's the future.
For you, but it's an issue.

Anyone who has used any Linux knows HiDPI or mixed DPI monitors are a massive issue on Linux. Even when you get your xrandr configured perfectly fine, disconnecting is a hassle. And that's completely ignoring apps, QT, GTK, etc all handle DPI differently. So you need a different config with DPI setting on each.

One of the best I've used is PopOS with the HiDPI daemon enabled. But even that has issues.

Even Windows can't deal properly with having a 4k laptop screen and a 2k monitor attached. Have to deal with weird text scaling issues and other weird scaling issues.

But MacOS can and does it beautifully.
Are you sad about the leak, or about the nature of the discussion?
I’ll just put a matte / paper feel screen protector on my iPad and use GoodNotes.
> A lot of people seem to think free markets -> anarchy, which is a complete straw man.

In American political discourse, this is exactly how the "free market" is defined by the political establishment. Taxing externalities is very unpopular among Republican and Libertarian politicians (Gary Johnson flirted with the idea of a carbon tax, but quickly withdrew support) and is relatively popular among Democrats and the Green Party. Which parties are the ones people associate with free markets?

You can hem and haw about appropriate use of the term "free market" all you want, but calling colloquial usage a "straw man" is disingenuous.
Battery-Less Near Field Communication (NFC) Keyboard (2014)
You mean rsync via USB? Or can you rsync by WiFi without allowing it to send requests to their services?
You'd have to compare the label creation date with the scan date.

Example one of the ones I got dinged on:

Jun 30, 2020
7:29pm
Tracking number provided

Jul 3, 2020
6:45am
Accepted at USPS Origin Facility
BEAVERTON, OR 97078

It was dropped off Jul 1 in the early morning. Ended up sitting there for two days before they got around to scanning. Admittedly it has gotten better the last couple weeks but it can still take them a day.

The easiest way around this though is using a scans form which is just a printout where they can scan once and it marks all of the packages as accepted at once. It still takes time to prepare the form, print and find someone at the dock or drop window to scan it - they don't seem to particularly like doing it.
It's not that impressive.. The NVIDIA A100 has better efficiency: 312 TFlops @ 400W for the same precision (FP16.32).
I loooove pumped hydro in theory, but it's so geographically finicky, you can't deploy it just anywhere. Particularly flat land, where the wind resource tends to be both plentiful and accessible...

But it's definitely one arrow in the quiver, and together there are solutions for just about any storage problem you can imagine.

Personally I think a big obvious shift is that EV chargers should be located in the places that the cars park during the day. The whole "charge at home overnight" thing is an unnecessary demand shift. Charge at work during the day, when the PV is producing like mad.

Even if the PV is on the roof at home and the power is getting shipped several miles over the grid to the office where the car is parked, it's still easier to move power over distance than to store it over time.

Of course PV on the roof at work would be even better, since commercial roofs tend to be broad and flat and boring. But it'll take quite a bit of forward thinking to unlock that cognitive step.
It's not about the water flow, it's that there's a physical barrier that blocks migrating fish from going between the river and the bays/estuaries/ocean.
Very cool, I recently purchased an iPad pro and Pencil and was looking for something like this. I really like the idea of infinite canvas (a la PureRef) for organizing thoughts and references and making relationships between different types of data.

Since you said you're looking for feedback, I'd love to be able to add an Apple or Google Map view, and zoom into a specific area, add pins, and add notes. Think planning a trip or road trip.

The other idea I've been looking for is something that renders in-line web previews in a flexible way. So if I were to paste a link to a website into the app, it wouldn't treat it as just a text hyperlink, but rather, render a small web preview that I could resize or manipulate to display the portion of a page I'm interested in. Ideally this would then be cached so if the page were to update my preview wouldn't break. But also have an option to refresh the preview to update to the latest content. Or auto-refresh to use it more like a dashboard monitoring tool.

Otherwise, for critiques, I wish it played nicer with landscape/portrait. And I kind of like how interactions are geared towards dragging things in from off the screen or flicking things off the screen, but I feel like it's not quite smooth yet. Things seemed to get stacked together and cluttered half in/half out of the canvas as I was working through the tutorial.

Cheers for the launch!
Yes its not everyone's cup of tea
Interesting. Do they literally embed Stripe JS? I'm not a front end developer and don't know a ton about web security, but it seems like a malicious/hacked site could still get the card number this way.

The purpose of PCI compliance is to protect the number/info, so how would Stripe (and similar) get approved if they're creating a payment widget that allows third parties to snoop card numbers?

Is this a PCI loophole, or is there some technical barrier preventing the third-party site from getting access?
Yes we would be short on quality lithium sources. Mining lithium is extremely damaging to environment, too, but you'll rarely hear about that in "climate change" discussions.

https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/availability_of_...
Is the brand really that valuable? Because the app is not magical. With a few million dollars you could replicate it top to bottom. Couldn't the US government just ban it and help the new US-based competitor succeed? This is what China would do if the roles were reversed.
> The device is open -- does that extend to the notes and filesystem itself? I'm very interested in the ReMarkable 2, but I want to be able to write scripts to handle stuff like syncing.

Yes, the notes just live on the filesystem. You can fetch them using scp or rsync. They are in a proprietary file format, but they are not encrypted, and I think there are some open source projects on github that let you view them on your desktop.

> Especially if the handwriting recognition stuff they have is something I could hook around.

I think the handwriting stuff lives on their cloud and is proprietary, so I have never tried it.
Ask HN: Why is Tesla worth $420B?
Stock is trading at all time highs but it’s delivery numbers seem to be roughly the same over the last 6-8 quarters or so.

It’s now more valuable than Johnson & Johnson and Visa.

What’s going on here?
I'm not saying that only the anglophone world has this issues. I don't know why you guys keep hammering it. It's not about the numbers, it's about relevance and how it's approached.

Argentina has a lot of issues, and women getting murdered is not of particular relevance among the high level of crime, the high level of corruption and the extremely difficult financial situation of argentinians, who can't even save money reasonably in their local currency, which may be a given for US, but it's a living hell for them. In facto, inflation is consistently the first problem for most argentinians in most polls.

Argentinians don't need to talk about BLM, because it's not relevant to them. Women in tech is probably one of the least problems for them. Energy and time are precious resources, and they need to be focused on important issues.

I think some of you guys just haven't got the empathy to imagine a different setting than your current one. Just being able to put money in a bank and forgetting about it is a luxury some people can't afford.
You can say this about literally anything: Pornhub is just a platform for VOD. It just happens to be a popular platform for adult content.
I do this on mobile. It works fine except Yelp hides the zip code entry by default and the results "spin forever" as if your network is down until you re-select the search box to expose the zip code entry.
Ptable.com, Redesigned
They wouldn't mind having no nickel in the soil, what they do is segregate the nickel into special vacuoles as a protection mechanism against the poisonous metal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station

...can supply a maximum power of 1,728-megawatt and has a storage capacity of around 9.1 GWh.
> "in few hundred years CO2 levels will revert back'

Where do you imagine billions of tons of CO2 will go? It does not have a half-life like nuclear waste, once you've taken that carbon out of the ground, it is here to stay for tens of millions of years. There will never be enough trees to sequester this carbon. We must expend trillions of dollars to reprocess it back into oil or rock-like formations.

Also in the entire history of nuclear industry there has been no credible case of 'hostile actors' coming close to stealing nuclear waste. That's because doing so doesn't make any sense - it is useless to nations, and if someone like Taliban tried to handle it, they'd probably die in the process.

Nuclear waste is not a liquid that might spill and run away if you aren't careful. When properly handled it is vitrified in solid glass, and it doesn't go anywhere. Sweden is placing it in underground storage in solid rock, in a region that's geologically stable for millions of years - it will never bother anyone again or cost a penny more.
Those are both strengths. If Citi had that person they'd have learned from a lot of $1M messes before having a $900M mess.
> Software - eg the Linux kernel - can also contain vulnerability only NSA knows about.

But when it is found, it can be easily fixed

> In any case, security track record of crypto offload NICs is pretty good.

Maybe because the only way to see what it does is to use an electron microscope?
It’s in an SQLite file, and I just happen to be the type of person who made backups of the actual files every few months. I’m sure I could probably figure it out, but I’m just annoyed that something that just worked is now a big project.
Yeah, but they serve as a pretty good counter-balance to the over-zealous city council members who prefer to take on expensive pet projects rather than to competently manage existing infrastructure.

It happens at all levels of government. I have an HOA that I've participated in over the years. My HOA's job is to maintain a clubhouse, the pool, the tennis courts, a small kids' playground, and some other common areas. For some reason, every 4 or 5 years, some person decides he wants to leave the traditional HOA lane and "go big" on special projects. Email flamewars and special HOA sessions ensue and "some person" gets the message to stop trying to find ways to increase our HOA dues.
I am deeply disappointed in the general progress in this field. I had the CrossPad so long ago, you see. What the CrossPad could do was drawing on a piece of paper (any paper, this was not one of this magical dot things) and transfer the strokes in a vector format to the computer. What the ReMarkable can do is the ... same except the paper step is skipped and now you draw on a screen. But you still can't do anything remarkable ;) on the device with your strokes. It's clear from https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000266143... OCR is not on device because you need to be on wifi and logged in. Hurrah for twenty plus years of progress...?
This is why I have started using incognito mode for anything I wouldn’t want to appear in my YT watch history because I have experienced the same thing. Better yet, use a private browser like Chromium-based Epic.
Buy the Pen and Paper.

Nothing can feel like Pen and Paper without Pen and Paper. I stopped all this and bought $2 5 subject notebook and it relieved my anxiety and give me outlet to express.

Just buy Pen and Paper and stopped looking nostaliga and looking things in other things.
Chargeback ratio's are per account, but also have a minimum absolute threshold. So it's say, 2% chargeback AND at least 200 chargebacks before penalties kick in.

In a past life I worked for a place who had a few hundred processing accounts to load balance it all out because their chargeback rates were way too high. If an account gets close, you just don't use it for a month, or you throw a bunch of "safe" recurring charges at it to dilute it, or you hold a batch and send them through right before the rollover. Lots of ways to play number games.

Most of the execs did go to prison though, so don't take this as advice, but to be fair, the processors are the ones who told them to use those tactics.
As the top comment mentions the remarkable runs embedded Linux, it would be pretty simple to make your own syncing software and there’s likely alternative open source programs already made to do exactly what you want
It only takes the word "tax" to make many people internally scream. Crude heuristics, but hey it's human programming.
The subway that benefits the city is controlled by the state of New York. The state of New York that would like to spend counter-cyclically is constrained by laws and the inability to issue currency, and thus has a budget that is controlled by the feds.

At every level, the political power is structured poorly to make the subway (and regional infra in general) a low priority.
Eh. I enjoy the variety of languages of GT, but the quality is (imo)
better with DeepL[1], and Yandex Translate[2] has some minor languages
of Russia and ex-USSR which either aren't supported by Google or aren't
supported on the same level. E.g. Bashkir and Mari. GT is still very
impressive, don't get me wrong. But it has some strong competitors.

[1] https://www.deepl.com/translator

[2] https://translate.yandex.com/
Tesla with Autopilot hits cop car–driver admits he was watching a movie
The transaction wasn't too big in any general sense. It was just incorrect for the specific intended action that day.
That's really cool, I didn't know India was doing that. I found this article a few years ago about a so-called "supergrid" that would produce a similar network across the globe.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/lets-build...
I would be very surprised if a commercial-grade handwriting conversion tool could run on that device. It sounds to me like they're sending off the data somewhere else to get converted into text.
> Reminds me of this digital typewriter project using a e-ink display: https://alternativebit.fr/posts/ultimate-writer

Related: https://github.com/dps/remarkable-keywriter

> Would love to see a real terminal on the ReMarkable. A terminal + vim + usb keyboard would be the perfect distaction-free writing tool.

I agree: e-ink display + terminal + vim + mechanical keyboard would make me very happy.
Fingerprinting the Fingerprinters [pdf]
Yes, that is true, and the regulatory environment is a big part of why current nuclear tech is non-viable.
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https://lockdownhq.com Looks impressive, glad you mentioned it.
Microsoft tried the build-a-competitor-then-pay-creators approach with Mixer vs Twitch and then shut it down less than a year later: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-closes-mixer-partn...
Unfortunately, I do not remember. I've bought my miband and set everything up last fall.

I will definitely try Gadgedbrige again when there are less active covid cases in my city so I can continue working out outside.

My main sport activites are free weight lifting and longboarding (long distance, 10+ km, no trick like on skateboard).

In my current app I really like trend charts, especially weight trend (and recommendations on how to lose more weight based on my activity). Do not remember if they were present in Gadgetbridge when I last checked.
But I don't like that the app I use now is slow on my old android (looks like unoptimized react native app).
Sounds similar to this guide I put together - understanding how the different modules work together and who is responsible for what is really helpful.

https://wattenberger.com/blog/d3
You're conflating (dis)incentives with price discovery.
Some of the reviews call that out, eg: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RRKL2ML06BX89?ASI...
Consumer safety protocols – hotels – Post Covid 19 – Ministry of Tourism
Arguably nuclear is only expensive because we've lost the skills to build it at scale and quickly, I the 70's it did not take 15 years to build a power stations, and neither does it in China today - they are building reactors at unprecedented scale, cost effectively and on schedule.
asynchrony without async/await
i guess more friction will wear the nub down more but it's not a big effect
> You'll have to convert them to epub or PDF to be able to read them on ReMarkable, but that's as easy as right-clicking a book within Calibre and choosing "convert".

There is a significant omission here. Converting Epub to PDF doesn't necessarily yield a good quality.

As a matter of fact, at some point I was so annoyed by the relatively nondeterministially poor quality (I stress "relatively"), that now, every time I purchase something from the Kindle store, I download and use the pirated PDF version, which is never worse than the Calibre output (I guess pirates actually use Calibre and tweak the process per-book).

It's very annoying to highlight a converted ebook, and find 80 pages into it, that the conversion cut text lines/diagrams in half.
How to Do Link Building: 8 Strategies for Startups (2020 Update)
Google "Windows disable shaking".
I think that this is actually one of the more compelling arguments that the threat of terrorism is overblown - there is literally 0 barrier to someone committing/attempting to commit these attacks - and yet they happen incredibly infrequently...which might mean there aren’t very many terrorists floating around...
Do you really think that changing wiper mode on Mercedes is much better than "touch screen"? It also awful to use and really hard to locate without looking at. I own both vehicles and they are about the same.

In emergency situation you can pres button as long as you want, a little bit weird but in reality very useful. Also pressing this button will open wiper settings and you can blindly pick a different mode.

Not like typical implementation in Mercedes.
Stripe merchants are not audited by G2 LLC for MasterCard? (*edit, maybe not with all banks I think of after 'submit')

https://www.g2llc.com/solutions/monitoring-solutions/merchan...

In EU they do, and if a string, or image on the site is not 'okay', you get denied for processing. And that's website wide, not just a single page. So in that line, I don't understand how stripe does this 'on the radar'.
re: setr

> You'd be stuck with essentially one "material" though -- eg color or brush or whatever -- but I could see its utility as a dedicated single-purpose device (like only intended for sketching/notes -- which I guess is mostly true of remarkable anyways)

I'd be curious about human perception of color matching/etc at the <50ms level - I'd suspect if you had _something_ that then became the actual color/brush, our visual system would probably just backfill to say it'd always been that color/texture.
There are very few payment processors that will accept adult content, and those that do exist (e.g., CCBill) are both expensive - on the order of 10x the fees - and also a damn nightmare to work with.

I can very easily imagine a scenario where Patreon looked at their options and decided it wasn't worth it.
A honest question, who really need this ? A pen and a notebook is a couple of euros ..