skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use a mac it can unlock your computer without having to use TouchID/Password. That's a killer feature that almost makes the watch worth wearing even if I used it for nothing else.

I really like using it for runs but I haven't used a Garmin so I can't compare. Seems to work well but I keep my phone on me as well. I've tried going without my phone and using Pandora but it eats up the battery really badly. I don't think you could run for more than an hour or two with everything going. (I have a series 5)

I also use it with Things for checking off todo items, siri very occasionally, sometimes answering quick phone calls, and as a quick way to ping my phone if I can't find it in the couch cushions. These are all pretty minor things but moderately improve my life.

All told it would be a mediocre product I might not even bother to charge and wear every day. That unlocking my computer though is the one thing it does I find helps my life a ton.
20 posts in two years and you use 21 to complain this is still off topic post is still #1. Drop a parent level post if you have something better to discuss, don't reply on this post saying this doesn't meet your standards
At two companies where I have worked recently (IBM and a small startup), Slack quickly displaced email. Email was hardly used in either organization.
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“Cellebrite Physical Analyzer now allows lawful access to Signal app data.”

How can they say that? After they sell the device they won't know how it will be used.
Same as the reopening late this past summer. I guess there will be another reopening and we'll see what happens now that some have the vaccines.
This answers many questions that I had on the details of the Pfizer covid19 vaccine administration, directly from a CDC presentation. Found it much more informative and concise than regular news reports.
Sin Compromiso Seleccion No. 5 Parejo and No. 7 Parejo are my current go-tos. They're some of the best smokes I've had in a long time.

I got a box of 13 for $156 at my local retailer. They're not inexpensive, but as I said, I don't smoke often anyway, so cost is less of a factor in my decisions.
Slack is fine and works fine. As a user, you can very easily turn it off and on at will, mute it, even set status messages like "I will check my messages twice a day".

There are plenty of 'product X is bad' write-ups, but all of them try to blame something while the blame is for something intangible which is much harder to write a clever title for.

Same goes for the open office; that can work just fine if you make sure everyone shuts their mouth while working; having your 'own' office space with lots of distractions isn't any better than having a 'shared' space with the same distractions. The problem is the distraction, not the space. At best you would state that a certain type of space makes a certain type of distraction easier to occur. But that's a lot more words when you catch more eyeballs with 'office bad, isolation good'.

Before we complained about the office, home, or Slack, we complained about Email. And before that about the phone and the pager. This isn't new. What's new is the scale and the amount of people not taking steps to do what works for them.
> Serious blowback happens when you break something for some segment of your users. You don't have to break things to provide new features.

Do you work in software development?

1. With that many users, you are going to break something for someone. Probably for tens of millions of someones, at the minimum.

2. At some point you will have to break something. Some of the new stuff will be incompatible with the old stuff. No one has a crystal ball.
I've written code against Amazon's MWS (btw they have a brand new RESTful API available now) and just for the record the eBay, USPS APIs are similarly "not stellar".
Except the parent poster is comparing Intel macbooks with a ryzen. He's not comparing M1 arm chips like the post. He's mistaken.

The amazing thing here if the claims are true is that a simple macbook air has performance on par with a full blown Ryzen desktop.
It's certainly scary, especially all the threats.
My version of this philosophy is, "Write code a junior developer can maintain." That means unless absolutely necessary don't use unusual language features, use the most common framework on the market for that problem set, no unnecessary abstractions, etc. So far it seems to work well.
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Building google _was_ research. It grew out of a PhD thesis. There are publicly available papers describing lots of the infrastructure innovations along the way (GFS, bigtable, mapreduce, borg, spanner, etc)
Does this count in the building and maintenance of railroad and the movement of all the maintenance/support/construction equipment (-> super-heavy diesel trains) etc?
The commissioners are appointed for seven year terms, there have to be at least two members from each party, and both Democrats voted yes on this action. So while you're right that it's not entirely independent, in general (and definitely in this specific case) it's not right to see it as an extension of partisan politics either.
> Nobody thinks "It's disk, because it comes from diskette."

uh ? that's pretty much how I think all the time when writing words for which I'm not sure of the spelling
I think the trick is to find collaborators who are not approached too often and then pitch the project as something they are going to be proud of and ensure them you're going to be maximally respectful of their time. Simply being concise and organized is already a sign you are going to deliver on your promises to them.

I was thinking of delving deeper into the production process behind The Program, but so far my goal has been to keep these articles interesting to a casual reader. However, since I do get this type of question from time to time, I'll probably commit something to paper eventually!
Agree with what you have said about the MWS API, but this repo is actually the updated REST based API - which appears to be mostly the same functions as the older API but with less documentation.
Garmin smart watches have had continuous blood oxygen monitoring for some time now. But measuring at the wrist can never be as accurate as fingertip.
So is the goal here to basically root the android / iphone, then grab the encryption key, then grab the decrypted signal app data, then grab the encryption key? I mean makes sense as a tool if they can automate that well.
Sphinx supports this for Python: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/extensions/doctes...
I never understood why those in the tech industry were upset about that.

They were doing A/B tests and were tracking sentiment. So what? How is that different than running an A/B test and tracking any other dimension?

People were asking questions like "how many people died because facebook was manipulating their emotions?". What? Why can't we say that about any change ever? It seemed to only matter to people when they started looking at sentiment.
Can't speak of other roles, but at least within tech/dev teams I have encountered Slack has replaced email almost 100%.
Except that searching through email was a lot easier than searching for something in Slack. Important conversations would be scattered all throughout slack. I had a notes file in which I would store URLs for these important messages.

I just retired recently and can say truthfully that simply not having to deal with Slack has improved my sense of wellbeing immensely.
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> You cannot just slow down.

If you engineer to survive it, aero- and even litho-braking are alternatives where you can “just” slow down, without using onboard reaction mass.
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I've done Surat Thani to Bangkok in a first class sleeper, and indeed recall sleeping blissfully. One of my most memorable train journeys.
can i introduce you to my friend openCV? :/
i've had a Deluxe cabin experience with the shower. it was wonderful and private but anecdotally i still ended up sleeping better in the first class seats of the TGV that we had connection to right after the night train
While it's water-resistant, it isn't really meant to be worn in the shower. So I just charge mine while I shower. It pretty much never dies.
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> Yeah, I think of Slack as the virtual version of the open office. Anybody can bother you at any time.

Open office doesn't mean that anyone can bother you at any time. It's important that companies set expectations about these things and enforce them to avoid that slippery slope.

Same goes for Slack. Once you expand beyond intra-team communication, it's important to set some expectations for what is and is not appropriate in Slack.

At the least happy point in my career, I had to be a member of over 100 Slack channels to get my job done and I received upwards of 100-200 @here and @channel notifications every day as people competed to stand above the noise. It was miserable. At the worst point, my time tracker was counting upwards of 4 hours per day spent in the Slack app.

Ironically, my efforts to push things to e-mails and scheduled calls was met with a lot of resistance from people who were afraid it would hamper flexibility and ruin asynchronous workflows. We also had absurd levels of office politics because people were treating each other as screen names instead of actual people working in other offices. I would take an open-office floorplan over that nonsense any day.
>Some of scarce will become not so scarce as their availability limited by energy.

Then those resources will cost the same in units of energy

>Other will increase in price as they're limited by other factors.

So why use energy to store value and not those resources? Of course I am free to choose gold on a personal level, but shouldn't it be the default strategy of every investor to not store value in energy?

Going back to your first comment:

>Everything we produce can be measured in / has energy cost. So maybe some kind of energy units should be the universal currency.

I can imagine that energy can be used as the unit for value transactions. For value storage however, it's the other way round: I think value has to be stored in assets that don't depend on energy.
fair but wildly off-topic.
You are definitely the non-vocal majority.
Leaving the dystopian sadness aside for a moment, this could be a killer tool to learn a language. It would not obviate the need for real interactions with native speakers of course, but it could be an awesome side resource if configured to correct your mistakes.
So you think diskette was derived from disk, where disk refers to “8-inch floppy disk introduced by IBM under the name of diskette”?

https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_450...

I’d say IBM called floppy disks diskettes by opposition to hard disks, which were huge at that time:

https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/winchester-pio...
This has to be the core question of how all messaging/communications channels work. How much work is it to effectively send messages? How much work is it to effectively consume messages? I feel like this dichotomy ends up deciding so much about the human effects that eventually arise from these software decisions.

I do a lot of work with people in China, and my main complain with WeChat as a "do everything" medium is that it is 100% set up to prioritize the sender. In practice, this means set up to prioritize the boss. It is an absolute disaster for those on the receiving end: it's nearly impossible to keep track of and effectively act on incoming information. You must respond RIGHT NOW or that information is essentially lost.

In the end, I believe a messaging channel that requires more upfront work on the part of the sender ends up providing knock-on positive effects for everyone involved. But due to the generally ego-first thought process of all human beings – and the absolutely ego-first though process of most bosses – the channel that affords the least friction in sending appeals the most.

Everyone likes to think of themselves as being on the originating end of the firehose.
A performance that reminded me of his Mac the Knife mumble years ago at the Donmar.
Python can too, and I think most other languages are inspired by it.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html
Never heard of Ark. I checked out their site but can anyone give me some context on why they're notable?
Confluence removed quite a few features from the new UI.

I don't know Circle CI but they probably have 2 orders of magnitude fewer users. Also in my experience with CI tools, few users actually manage them for many people and those people are either experienced or quickly become experienced with the UIs. They are usually not the average user getting confused by UI changes.
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This is not the MWS API. The MWS Api was indeed written more than 10 years ago but is much better than this new "REST" api.

This is Selling Partner API which was released few months back and is intended to replace MWS.
This is actually something from Python's stdlib: https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html

Really underrated.
I visited a beautifully restored and maintained castle in Northern Germany not long ago.

After the tour, as I was walking through the courtyard, I noticed out the corner of my eye what appeared to be a pile of horse manure.

On closer inspection it was actually steel statue of a pile of horse manure, put there as a reminder of what would have covered the courtyard in its heyday.
This is not only simple and comprehensive but also doesn't require any special support from the tooling or language. Love it!
It's been surprising to see how much better people tend to view Amazon vs. Walmart when Amazon is just the next iteration of megacorp retail consolidation in the same vein with an increasingly horrible record of employee exploitation and abuse.
This is a good point but allow me to play devil’s advocate. If a breeder uses an ML system to select from many possibilities to find breeding specimens, then the product of those specimens is used for the next generation of ML system, there is now the possibility of a feedback loop.
I find feedback buttons on most Google properties actually
reminds me of a description of MSFT's first XML-based office file formats (not sure if its true or was a joke) but it went something like

<xml>
<office-proprietary-binary-blob>
wky4b5tlwybkjbb2...
</office-proprietary-binary-blob>
</xml>
It'd take some doing. You wouldn't be able to burn a CD-R backwards without some extra steps; a "blank" CD-R contains some data in the pregroove to identify it as a recordable disc and specify some parameters to the burner. A reverse-rotating drive wouldn't be able to read that data, since it'd be backwards. :)
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> conversation threading that actually works

Gmail's "threading" is probably its worst sin (beating out its weird IMAP interface). When I started using Gmail, my other mail client was mutt, but every other client at the time showed replies to email threads properly as a tree.

As an aside, you could argue that email conversations should look like a DAG (since you could totally quote multiple emails and have multiple In-Reply-To headers, why not) but I'm not aware of any clients that did that.

Gmail went a third way, completely linearizing a thread into a "conversation". This view makes it harder to have discourse over email: if you want to make sure to split a conversation and have both forks get addressed, you have to change the subject line to un-thread replies to your message.
I agree. The convert to text part was about indexing the content of the calls for easy searching.

I bring it up because speech recognition has become so commoditized that most of us could think of a way to whip up an, albeit bad, solution to this problem using AWS/GCP/etc in a weekend.
Electric airplanes are getting close to a commercial breakthrough
> I wonder if Trump will do something like offering a parden.

Probably one of the only ones that actually will be positive in intent.
Is this actually happening though? You are claiming that companies are using Slack to creep into the personal lives of employees? Where is that even coming from? I’ve never had an employer force me to be always online, Slack or otherwise. Not counting on-call duty of course, but that’s completely different.
We also used hard disk/floppy disk here in Europe (NL). My recollection is as the GP says, "disc" was only consistently used for optical discs (CD, DVD, BR).

It may still be that "disc" is European in origin -- the original CD came from Philips (NL) and Sony (JP) -- but for computer components, I've never seen it spelled "disc".
How long does the battery last for you? I tried this with Pandora once and I felt like it ate up the battery so bad without my phone on me that I wouldn't try it again.
If I recall from the news on it that I have read it will start in India. Also there is going to be a terms of Service change this February.
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Some gitter channels
This is awful, And also it is obvious that if one physically possesses the device, the keys, one can access this data.
> Slack is fine and works fine. As a user, you can very easily turn it off and on at will, mute it, even set status messages like "I will check my messages twice a day".

From a workflow standpoint, this is optimal.

The catch is that many people view Slack as e-mail but with an expectation of instant response. The farther your Slack communications stray from engineers, the more likely you are to encounter this mindset.

Years ago I would have argued that Slack is merely a tool and these are personal problems, but after setting Slack up at a few workplaces I've realized that they structure the defaults and notification settings to encourage this "always connected, always on" mode by default.
> videos do get taken down for infringing.

After a Lot of suffering. I believe there was an incident recently in which Pornhub refused to take down videos of a minor in what was an obvious situation of revenge porn.
But the overall history of Google UX reads like:

- new idea rolls out with a kickass set of options, settings, features

- after some arbitrary time of collecting initial users (and one presumes feedback in some form) an aribtrary set of very useful features gets written out as part of a revamping / streamlining / brainfart of global proportions.

- everyone that hasn't signed on to that flavor of UX koolaid is left out in the cold because whatever got cut is NEVER EVER coming back no matter how many people want it back.

- everyone convinced to jump on the Google platform is condemned to use only what they are given, never anything better.

My feelings about this are strongly colored by the fiasco of the GMail interface losing the simple, basic, core option of looking at emails oldest first or newest first. All these years later I still can't understand why some cabal decided that we ALL only needed newest first regardless of any preferences stated everywhere else in the entire internet.

But I long ago lost all confidence that anyone at Google listens to outside feedback about anything. I have a hard time believing that anyone actually dogfoods honestly.

I assume the engineering teams do circlejerks of "what do we want this to do" - "ok give the world whatever we decided and screw anyone's ideas how else it could work".

> the challenges of bringing all of the existing users over to the new experience are very real

I can't remember any time that a new feature rollout didn't subtract as much usefulness as it may have added. It's never "we want this to do this for you as well", it's "we've decided that this is how it should work, and you'll just have to get used to our own way of doing it if you want to keep using it. Sorry not sorry."
No, there's no good evidence of any benefit, after lots of good studies on it.

One of us is fooled though!
A Nobel Prize will definitely follow, once the Pandemic dies down. My guess is that the Nobel Commitee would recognize the leading vaccines deployed worldwide, not just Biontech.
My NYTimes sub goes to my gmail, and then it forwards to my fastmail (I rarely need to check my gmail).

I was unable to sign up for an Etsy account with Fastmail. They only acknowledge the majors. But I was able to sign up with gmail and then promptly change it to fastmail. Really sophisticated opsec on their part.
Or SideCar, if you are willing to count iPad as a display.
> schedule, specifics of curriculum

These are not the changes OP is complaining about. Your responses kind of strike me as misdirection.
IIRC in C++ this is only so if there is a try/catch underneath.
Both. Financial institutions (broadening this to cover brokerages as well) produce federally required documentation (it may be digital in 2020, automated) for tax purposes; the most common in my travels is a 1099-DIV (dividend payments) but there are many kinds for all sorts of financial things a bank could/can handle related to investment income.

Both parties submit paperwork to the IRS - the institution tracks the assets they're holding/managing and reports it to the IRS on their side; they issue you appropriate documents and you do your taxes and report it using whatever appropriate form. The paperwork is of course dependent on the situation, for the average checking/savings accounts I will guess it's the 1099-DIV as most common - simple interest payments.
FYI: On the holdings plots I see "invalid date" on all of the x-axis labels

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This morning I had three members of my team private message me to tell me about their weekend.

On one hand, maybe I'm an asshole because I don't care to have three separate conversations about my weekend.

But there's something about Internet Messaging which makes it highly inefficient and basic small talk that should last 30 seconds in the office, last 30 minutes.

I tend to use phrases like "ttyl" or "cya" to try to escape the conversation. But it doesn't always work. So I end up just not responding after awhile. Either way I look like an asshole.

Slack or not, online communication lacks etiquette.
Funnily I just read this related post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/kd0yiw/why_am_i_like...
Yeah there are cities that build along rivers and streams, but we really need a cycle network built for connecting residential areas with employers via a direct path, the way we build roads.
God, this is frustrating. They essentially cracked Instagram's entire production environment open, and took explicit steps at every turn to stay within the published guidelines, and then they just take his report with zero compensation whatsoever. Insane.
This article really scratches an itch. I have been frustrated by how poorly we use energy in northern climates; we simply replace common sense with petroleum and electricity. There is solar, there's thermal mass of dirt, there is geothermal.

Northern homes could be surrounded by glass, and/or sunk into the ground/hills. Black should be more common for exteriors. Solar water heating should be more common.

With a bit of earth moving and ingenuity we could build greenhouse orchards into the sides of hills and save on shipping costs for fresher produce.
Even with IPv6, you're still in scenario 1 from my list. Also, using it would really only help with carrier-grade NAT. Someone with the amount of skill needed to setup a server probably has the skill setup port forwarding and dynamic DNS on their router.

Which reminds me of the DSL modem/router combo my roommates had gotten in my first apartment before I moved in. The router was MSN and had no local configuration page, all configuration had to be done through some external Microsoft server that didn't work by the time I got there (so I could never do any port forwarding).