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I've used Slack forever. Before that was IRC, Campfire, then Github Chat (an internal product there), and others I've forgotten. I'm sure I'll use Teams at some point.

The thing I always think about w/ chat apps for work is you don't want it to be that good. DMs are often a cancer in terms of knowledge transfer. Unlimited history and search means that people don't write up ideas in a proper way in a more suitable place, whether that's a long email or an ADR or a google doc or a pull request. Threads are undiscoverable and missed by people who should be in the loop.

Most product managers building these apps want to engage their users via the standard tech metrics - usage stats, number of searches, messages sent, whatever. But if you are in your chat app all day and responding to notifications and watching 30 channels, you aren't doing work. You are just surfing your own internal twitter. I've been there, it feels fun but at the end of the day you realize you didn't get shit done.

All of the incentives are misaligned to actually build an effective chat app for the 'calm' organization. I have read about Twist (https://www.twist.com/) which I know is all about that focus, and I hope to be able to use it in earnest someday.

I know when I'm really doing well with my job I'm on slack for an hour or two a day at most, and very deliberate about when to keep it open. The rest of the time I'm coding or thinking or writing or working w/ colleagues. That takes a lot of discipline tho, and the allure of always on chat is a strong one.
Er.... There's no restriction. Whatever number you want. My father just traveled several times recently (each of them hundreds of miles). In China, fully moving to a different city takes some effort (schooling, etc), but simple travels are just matter of high speed rail tickets.
Crush these metrics to become a more efficient engineer
Having worked in a number of large commercial enterprise (non-IT product) and government environments, next to no one uses Google Docs. The ones that do, are looked at sideways and are a pain to work with due to interoperability issues with Word/Excel and Docs/Sheets (yes, they do exist).

Microsoft has also taken some pretty big steps forward over the last couple of years when it comes to document collaboration/sharing. Most Office applications now allow for live sharing/collaboration via the desktop apps.

There’s also the O365 web-based capability similar to Docs/Sheets. Plus, these are integrated with other O365 products like OneDrive and SharePoint (laugh, but SharePoint is unlikely to go away anytime soon with enterprise customers).

I have yet to find a product differentiator that GSuite (or whatever they call it now) has over M365/O365, except maybe sometimes price. On the other hand, Microsoft has a number of differentiators over Google’s products. Even with the price differences, Enterprise customers get significant volume licensing discounts and see cost savings through not having to retrain everyone from IT administrators to day-to-day users.
Through foster children, and measuring whether their IQs are ultimately more correlated with their foster family or genetic family.
That has made my day. Thank you.
The thing I like about this post is that it isn’t dependant on VC backed ventures. It’s good, sane advice regardless.
You raise good points.

I would agree that Plato/Aristotle are good foundations for understanding European intellectual history but a lot of chronological study is required to see their influence / relevance today. Here's a cool dependency graph that shows the centrality of Ancient thought: http://www.designandanalytics.com/philosophers-gephi/

However, I worry that a student without some grasp of valid inference would be at the mercy of aesthetic attraction/repulsion factors for deciding what to accept as valid.

I specifically recommended "Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking" because I found it to be the most practical and skill-based class in a Philosophy curriculum. While they usually cover some proofs, most of the content has to do with identifying arguments. In addition, having knowledge of formal/informal fallacies helps in everyday inference. It is also relatively free of heavy "Greco-roman" western bias, which may appeal to a wider audience.
Good point, I should have explained it. To get into vim takes time and to get muscle memories at least 9-12 months. Something a lot of coders even don't do, so why should a data scientist do this. The result is that you are so much faster because most of the time you don't write code but stare at your code, navigate around and do small changes. So, I think if you deal with code 80% of your day, vim binds are a must and this was my biggest gripe with these notebooks. Google Colab is the only notebook offering painless vim binds. No other notebooks has proper vim support because data scientist are not coders and rather care about math.
> "They ... haven't yet (after a month) accepted our break on their Challenge leaderboard."

I think this is the most abhorrent aspect: it's not in the spirit of science to arbitrarily delay findings
You could theoretically design a faraday cage full enclosure bed curtain instead of a tinfoil hat.
Those lockdowns also come with massive screening tests. Usually lockdowns end in a couple of weeks after the identification of clusters of transmission.

The numbers are generally small (maximum a hundredful), so not difficult to handle.
I don't think that's the answer to the backspace=^h question, but HJKL is precisely an artifact of the keyboard that vi was first used on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi#Creation - in addition to HJKL being labeled as the arrow keys on that keyboard, also note the far superior placement of escape and control where modern keyboards typically place tab and caps lock; this also made vi a lot more sensible.

(And of course that last bit is a whole topic unto itself; to this day, caps lock is the dumbest key on the whole keyboard to me - mostly useless, takes up prime real estate, and 100% worth remapping on every machine I control. But that's a rant for another day:])
> 2) My wife posts a carefully worded and cited response.

> 3) Four or five people react with laugh or angry emojis.

> 4) someone weighs in and tells my wife how stupid and dumb she is, and how she is completely wrong. They often say this in a very nasty way.

> 5) She responds in a firm but not rude way that she believes they are wrong. She cites sources.

> 6) This person never responds again, and drops off.

Happens to me as well in other forums.

I have decided I'm not doing it for those people, but rather for those who would otherwise read the post, see it was uncontested and think "therefore it must be true".
should laws prevent them though? is toyota. or microsoft. allowed to make more than 1 product?
There are some people I know who regularly have to create power points, I'll recommend they check this out
Inertia is a thing. A guy I work with has used Office for decades. He's never even tried Google Docs. Refuses to look at stuff if you send him a Google drive link. Asks for a Word document. He doesn't do anything sophisticated. Google Docs would be more than adequate. Just set in his ways.
Recordflux?
To give a more direct answer, the Harvard Justice course which is famous and you can watch it all here: http://justiceharvard.org/
I always had the impression that the armed forces have a hands off approach to drugs, while its the federal government that puts the foot down.
And yet most philosophers aren't Stoics. Physics will tell you how fast an object will fall. You can ask a dozen physicists and they will all give you the same answer. Philosophy only tells you how to live if you ask exactly one philosopher. Ask a second, and you will be no better off than when you started.
Err. I'm not sure what asn.1 is missing for this? I've seen lots of people use asn.1 exactly for this (i.e. writing a grammar for an arbitrary pre-existing binary format not readily described in asn.1).
The paradox is "pressure to keep civil" to you may not be the same to me. Numorous times trying to call out someone not civil will put you in the not civil category. That's why systems like HN aren't necessarily encouraging of open discourse. Many don't want to get judged, and judging is all many do, downvoting based on rhetoric and neuance (or lack thereof). And, the achilles heel is the downvote as the not-civil vote, except there is no discourse because you can't reply to a downvote.
Runner’s high is the point where the person running enters a particular state of flow, a sense of release and euphoria where the mind can perceive the entire body as well as each part of it moving with ease and feels whole. It’s part like sex, part just the right amount of drunk (except minus the delusion), part some kind of meditation, sometimes kind of climatic even.

I’d argue that when going for a run at some point it feels like the effort becomes paradoxically effortless and you’re in the “now”, then that’s it. The “feeling better afterwards” is more like aftershock.

(BTW although Info experience the high, I don’t like running, but I do it because there’s such a quick bang for the buck in terms of cardio training, and it’s basically “no excuses” frictionless: dress up, shoes on, go)
So it's about Casper catching up with Snow White. Guess that's why the wozx project is targeting 2026. Anyway, seems like an interesting idea. Thank you.
It seems this award would have awarded anything as 2nd place, what if there was nothing else better? Does the award really tell you how great this is, or maybe it simply shows how little progress has been made.

Edit: And I completely agree with author about Paper in the field need to do better.
It's still cheaper than what the US is currently doing. Lockdown is almost a whole year and numerous restaurants I usually go closed permanently.

While in China, it's like putting sparks off here and there, but most of people are not affected. If the problem can be solved by money, it's not a real problem.
Holy crap! Is this for real?

Cisco got its start by pirating a competitor’s operating system?

The same thing happened decades later, when Huawei pirated Cisco’s operating system for their own routers, when they first started out.

They eventually settled out of court, and Huawei paid up for their malfeasance, so Cisco no longer complains about it, at least not publicly.

But the irony here is unreal.

Cisco here is claiming to be holier-than-thou, but in actuality, they did the same thing that Huawei did.

Also, I heard Huawei travelled into the future, and stole Cisco’s 5G technology. Otherwise, how else could Huawei have come up with their own cutting edge telecommunications technology on their own?
Teams is basically a different interface for sharepoint with video + chat on top, modeled after slack. They seem to have thought: slack is cool because it has integrations, let's do that even better by giving our customers an iframe into all their ms apps!

It is pretty amazing that it is so successful. But a lot of people have a really hard time just finding things. Like, on the level of how to open a program and find the right documents. Somehow the solution of merging everything into one 'teams' works out, even if the experience is extremely horrid and feels like going back ten years in time.
If you want 'untraceable' BTC, you have an big burden to do so (buy it for cash in a parking lot with no cameras and using an alias).

How about a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that runs over Tor? There's an app for that: https://bisq.network
> The problem is sources of color data that don't have a tag. CSS is a big offender. CSS doesn't specify the colorspace of colors, so typically browsers will just send whatever is in there directly to the display.

CSS defines that all hex and rgb() colors are always in the sRGB colorspace. There is also support for other colorspaces, such as P3 and Adobe RGB. [1]

The Safari web browser does color management for wide gamut displays correctly, so #ff0000 looks correct and not too vibrant. The biggest offenders are Chrome and Firefox, because they are not color managed. Those web browsers (and Windows) give you the wrong colors.

> There are also plenty of images out there that don't include color space tags, so it's undefined as to what colors they're actually trying to display. Some software assumes sRGB.

Images without colorspace tags have been defined to be sRGB images by the web specs [1] and all web browsers should already do that. Other software may do something else, as you said. I hope all software will copy how web does it.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/
The main reason we switched to Teams (besides the bundling) is that Slack calls are limited to 15 participants.
Assigning blame for various components of the overall mortality is important for those who can change the policy, but for lil' old me it's very great to see at least one indisputable number (excess mortality - hard to fake the fact of death) that can be trusted to represent the magnitude of what we're dealing with in 2020, and which, yes, includes all deaths caused by (or avoided by) various policies. Everything else quickly becomes a jumbled opinionated mess which depends on how deaths are attributed and quickly loses any objectivity and meaning.
Remember wfh for a week to finish a project well behind schedule due in part to depression. 20 hour work days on Adderall while watching breaking bad from start to finish. The only food I ate was cereal and the occasional McDonald's. Good times
Yes, but we're not limiting people's freedoms to avoid a negative mental health impact. That's a separate observation.

We have these restrictions to avoid collapse of our health systems. The hospitalisation rate of an uncontrolled spread of the virus far exceeds any country's healthcare capacity. The maths is inescapable.
Some great fireball captures in this 3m video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNK6EW_v4Ag

The landing-spot pentangulation was done with 5 dual-yagi stations along the perimeter of the landing zone.
There’s some irony to me that slack did an Apple style “Welcome Microsoft” ad, failed to compete effectively, and then sued them for antitrust.

If you’re going to put out an obnoxious ad and act as if they’re not a threat then it feels like you shouldn’t be able to later whine about how the competition is a getting a little unfair?

That said, stratechery’s take on slack’s advantage seemed reasonable to me. There’s just something about this combination that bothers me.

Slack selling out to sales force also feels like a loss/failure. I think slack is a great product, this is just kind of a disappointing outcome.
that's a lot more characters. useless, unnecessary characters I might add.
Yeah, when I think of lab grown meat I imagine something grown in a clean, controlled environment.

Would much rather eat that than the alternative
I'm sorry but you misread the comment you replied to. It was taking analytic and continental philosophy as a whole (western philosophy) and was encouraging philosophy students to go beyond it and also look into non-western philosophy.
I did answer the question you asked. The answer for "how many lives would be saved" and "how many lives would be lost" if outdoor dining is/isn't banned is the same; approximately zero based on the evidence. You also have to consider that even if all restaurant dining is banned, that doesn't mean people are suddenly going to stop eating together, they'll just do it elsewhere, somewhere that's probably much riskier than an outdoor patio such as a car or inside someone's house.

>I don't see how it can be made safe, since as far as I know people can't eat or drink with masks on.

Clearly the principles of harm reduction discussed in the article account for patrons eating without a mask on while they are seated at a table, but I suspect you already knew that.

>I'd love to have asked that UCSF expert what she had to say about this.

I'd love to hear what she would have to say as well. Though seeing as she has a long career studying infectious diseases and has studied covid extensively over the past year, I'm inclined to think she has a good understanding of the risks involved in certain activities, certainly beyond the anecdotal evidence of commenters on HN.

>I'm still waiting to hear someone tell me how many lives would be saved by allowing restaurants to open. Is it going to be anywhere near 3,000 in a single day? Somehow I very much doubt it.

I'm not sure why you're waiting for this answer. The number of deaths in a day(3000) is unrelated to restaurants allowing outdoor dining, so why are you comparing them? Closing restaurants will not bring that number down, based on the science we have available, but if you have evidence that suggests otherwise feel free to share.
Kudos to her for trying. I’m sure it feels like picking up a single bag of litter while mass pollution continues all around us, but change starts small and if only more people put in the effort to contest nonsense when they see it, we’d be further ahead than any technological solution to misinformation.
"Flaw" is the trigger word. If we rename the list "Common human trends in thinking" then responses would be less dramatic, but also less interesting.

Awareness is definitely the key. If you recognize you're self-projecting, then now you can account for it. If you're aware of what the group thinks, you can be aware of when you're aligned with it. And so on.

Critical thinking is the ability to expand awareness and unimmerse yourself to the point where you can analyze an idea selflessly. Then you can dive in again to reconnect with how everything feels.
RT-PCR, it's pretty good but takes time.

They just do batch tests and mix samples in groups, if positive, test again. My father did one a few months ago after returning from Qingdao, where there were a small outbreak then in a hospital.

China is really good at doing things at scale and honestly US is nowhere close (too slow and too inefficient, from what I see here in Santa Clara)
> enormous write amplification and terrible io performance

Why would it be enormous instead of small?
I am probably missing something, but why can't they buy the land and charge you $1,000,000,000,000,000 an hour for the use, so you have to leave the house?
A physical therapist once told me that the number of runners (that is, people who have done it regularly for years) who have non-trivial knee problems is in the neighborhood of 75%. Don’t know the source behind that, but it’s stuck with me. And the reason I was there was because of the knee problems I had from running.
Except you can't actually use it, because it will kill the performance of your program.
For me, like many I'm sure, it turned recruitment completely on it's head.

Previously I would spend hours trawling job boards, composing cover letters and get excited at the prospect of one successful reply. It was soul destroying.

Now I can construct a post, complete with trendy hashtags, and passively watch _hundreds_ of recruiters reach out to me in 24hrs. Now I can sit with a coffee and easy filter out the crap. It's taken some time to build up the 8,000+ contacts, mostly of senior tech people amd recruiters.

Every job in the last 5yrs has been through LinkedIn and due to the ease by which I could change jobs, salary has sky rocketed too.

Maybe I am in the minority of people who use it as a tool this way?

Edit: I also have an emoji as the first "letter" in the string of my first name. This instantly allows me to visually/programmatically filter out genuine "human" messages from bots. I also reply to these messages, as let's be honest, a human took time to compose the message to me. A quick "thank you" (one button click!) goes a long way.
As a complement to Java!?
I cringe when I open linkedin (for work opportunities).

I cry when I read linkedin (for work opportunities).

I feel like vomiting when closing linkedin (for work opportunities).

(PS, looking, fullstack UX/UI/Vue/Node/Go/Python/Swift etc. Aus.)
Looks like this was some light travel “off-road”?

Probably a little more challenging driving 40+ mph through Death Valley or over boulders in the mountains.

There’s also the problem of adjusting tire pressure..
Your argument presumes that the natural tendency of the web is to foster a free and open market of ideas, rather than a system of closed echo chambers each inhabiting distinct realities in a post-truth landscape.

That by no means seems to be a sure assumption today. If anything, the question now is whether the latter state of affairs might not be the default, and if so, whether it is reversible at all.
You could always do a test purchase but they’d probably claim that it’s a bug if they didn’t pay you.
Not economical and absolutely not what will happen.

Think more like strip mining for coal.
Being interested in VG, now you have me curious - what is/was it?
You're here to save lives. Great. Do you want to start by banning all alcohol consumption, ban unprotected sex, or by making private vehicle ownership illegal?

Banning abortion saves lives too. Also motorcycles.

> ...but even when they're open many people are choosing (very sensibly, from my perspective) to avoid them

We should just open them then if nobody is going to go to them. In one breath you say we need to restrict them and in the other breath you say nobody will go. "I don't like to go there any more, it's too crowded" -- Yogi Berra

Another amazing feat of physics - like masks. When Covid cases go up it's because people aren't wearing masks. When the CDC and other international organizations record near-zero flu deaths for the year 2020 it's due to mask usage.

Somehow both things are happening at the same time.
What a great idea! Thanks!
Most replies (and maybe the author too) assume Philosophy=Western philosophy. If you are looking into developing a personal philosophy you need to know yourself better. Many ways of doing that, some kind of meditation needs to be involved. Words in books would have a limited scope withouth power of action. At that point is not better than poetry, just more difficult and boring.
> Where do people get their info from to just go with a "time to contact the FTC"? If feels like the equivalent of people threatening they will contact the BBB.

I'm well aware of how toothless and irrelevant BBB is these days. ("Yelp for old people"). Almost nobody visits BBB before making a decision, only after a bad experience. Given that, a business with a bad grade there probably doesn't feel much of a sting.

But I'm totally unfamiliar with FTC's power or purview. Is involving them on something like this a waste of time because of the dollar amount? I don't expect they would recover the money, or mediate a dispute. But I think the author is coming at it from the angle that the other party would rather not rack up complaints at all. Especially if they could get other affiliates to follow suit.

I work in telecom, and complaints to the Public Utilities Commission are treated seriously within my company (and in the wider industry AFAIK). We really do not want customers to file any. When a customer mentions the PUC at all, we take them seriously enough to get some more eyes on their problem.

My guess is that the author's checklist includes small claims as the next step after the FTC complaint. Or maybe they just stop at the FTC complaint and consider a lawsuit—even if small claims—to not be worth it for the amount involved.
One of my biggest takeaway from the 20th century study of history has been a wariness of using the words "Golden Age" or "Dark Age" alone to draw conclusions about what life was like for people outside of the elite.

As such I'm don't think the presence of a Golden Age is itself a particularly strong argument for literacy among the general populace.
"You started with the claim that most JS programmers were incapable of writing Hello World in C."

That claim is still valid. Have you worked with designers?

Also, have you checked wikipedia by now?
I wish you all the best convincing people its the best language in the world.