skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair I don't remember any chat client having figured that out at that time.
More like:

PR department: "People think Amazon corporate are like drones and we're no fun, people are leaving because we sometimes prioritizes profits over human-life, what can we do about it?"

Legal team: "Lets pretend that there can be a zombie apocalypse in our legal terms, easter eggs like this will surely make people forget about all that grim stuff"
I don't think that this will enable you to send emails that conform to the DMARC standard (using DKIM and SPF). Might be ok for a side project, but in my opinion not enough for a small business.
From the last discussion: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-the-heck-happened-to-t...

The BMJ is not the shining city on the hill here. You can have problems with Facebook policing information, but Thacker is unquestionably an anti-vax conspiracy theorist and the BMJ is allowing him to use their reputation to push that narrative.
Bellingcat have done all kinds of investigations, including some which embarrass or implicate in war crimes governments like that of Ethiopia, Chad, and Cameroon who are US allies.

Here's another example, which highlights the lax security of US troops guarding nuclear weapons in Europe, and which strengthens the hands of activists campaigning for European governments to disallow those agreements: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28/us-soldiers-expos...

However, it's important to emphasise that a group can have a singular focus area and still be independent. Its researchers all have their own personal interest areas and areas of expertise (esp. in language), which drives the kinds of things they focus on. As long as nobody is directing them, and so far nobody has provided convincing evidence of that, it's not something you can rely on to prove bias. A smoking gun would be if it emerged that they actually worked on something that would embarrass the US or UK and then covered it up.

Are they pawns for the West? Maybe. But we need better evidence than this to make that a believable case.

Wikileaks I believe was accused for instance of actually having damaging documents on Russia and deciding not to release them for some reason. It was an active decision they made despite having the means, and went against their professed claim of not holding back.
There is often no time pressure, and no commercial pressure.

This means that polishing around the edges, e.g. documentation can have more time applied.

There is also different context - for internal tools, the scope is often well understood. The team who are using it are long term colleagues. There is no need for a logo, flashy landing page etc to convince people to use the tool. There is no need to sell it to stakeholders - they asked for it in the first place.

We can also make really good assumptions about what features can be cut. In an internal tool we know our users, we know which teams need the tooling etc. We can do training. So we can very deliberately ignore certain use cases etc.

In OSS we don't know any of that, so often have to cater to everyone, hence building a much more robust tool.

It's also some survivorship bias - the incredible OSS projects rise to the top and do have all this stuff. There are 10,000 internal tools built for every 1 popular OSS tool. The 'bad' OSS projects aren't being seen or used, so we don't notice how bad quality those ones are.
Well, I started with the guided walking meditation in the app I use (Waking Up). It has 3 pre-recorded coaching sessions for walking. I did the longest one which is for walking outside in public.

I wished it had more, but it only had that one. So I bought this other app, called “Walking Meditations” (on iOS), and it basically just has 3 guided walking meditation sessions.

I also have “Ten Percent Happier” so I did that app’s walking meditation.

After trying all these guided walking meditations a couple times each, I started trying to do it on my own, without any guidance/coaching.

That works, but I personally still do better with a guided session. (That is to say, when I have an audio guide, I tend to notice more quickly when I get lost in thought, and observe the thought and let it pass, then return focus to the object of meditation, whether that is my breath, body sensations, environmental sounds, etc. If left to my won devices, after a while I still tend to get lost in thought for several minutes before realizing it.)

So then I realized, hey, I can do the regular guided meditations while walking. The guide does usually say something like “OK, take your seat. Close your eyes, and bring your attention to the sounds around you | your breath | the weight of your body in space.” I just ignore the non-applicable parts, or substitute something applicable.

If walking outside, I don’t close my eyes. Instead of bringing my awareness to the feeling of my body in the chair, I bring it to the feeling of my feet hitting the pavement, my legs supporting my body.

But the rest of the coached meditation generally works fine. The commentary in these sessions generally consists of long pauses with gentle reminders and hints, to softly note your in/out breaths, become aware of sounds or sensations, or note when you become lost in thought and return your focus to the object of meditation.

I believe with more practice I will likely just do it without coaching, but for now I like it with the coaching. I also made a habit of doing morning meditations standing on my roof, eyes shut usually, but facing the sun. That works great, too.

Especially great for walking are the guided meditations that have you pay close attention to all the sounds around you. In a city, or in nature, even in a stil and quiet place.

TL;DR - “just do the same meditation, but while walking”
"that will continue even if you leave the company" - yeah, just like the free email on custom domains forever...
"Free of charge" pen testing more like. You may have missed the news but since yesterday there aren't even any commercial flights between China and the US anymore, they were all cancelled.
iPhone SE (which you seem to describe as "budget price experience" considering the message you're replying too) base price is 489€. I can buy 2 very decent budget price Android devices for that amount of money. 6 if I don't go with decent.
> I'd be happy to pay them 120 bucks a year for what I'm getting now

The only reason I'm still using it is because account bound purchases are attached to it, otherwise it would have been long gone. As long as there is no way of transferring these anywhere google will not get a single cent.
Frankly, if I were the BMJ I would start contacting lawyers and issuing writs. I'm unsure of exactly what or where or how, but the principle that peer-reviewed scientific articles are being shadowbanned as "false" and unshareable by a for-profit, unqualified US organisation is...deeply offensive. A large lawsuit by an organisation such as the BMJ (an impact factor 40 journal first published in its current form in about 1840) would, at the very least, highlight how Facebook rapidly has become a publisher and its algorithms shape what people see.

It's like making a collage. If you put newspapers in a shop window, and sell them, you're a shop. You don't write the newspapers. If you cut out individual letters from newspapers and give them to people, you're not a shop, and you've made the message you create. Facebook is cutting out alternate sentences-to-paragraphs from the tabloids and selling a set of stories it thinks its users like, interspersed with ads. That question of degree is very much the sort of thing that legal brains like to get involved in.
Oh no, I know that's why they're buying it. With the caveat that I live in Eastern europe.

Never saw a developer with a mac here.
It seems the larger the size of your grave, the better it gets preserved. :)

I wonder if Jezz Bezos will have build something that's even bigger than a pyramid or the Taj Mahal. Maybe he'll buy half the moon or something.
The Internet was an important stepping stone towards web3.0.
I worry that the attempt to impose a schema on one's knowledge isn't that useful, and will run into natural obstacles in the same was as ontolgy-building (CyC/OpenCyc). The real world doesn't have a consistent schema.

I don't want to engage in the busy-work of imposing an unstable schema on my knowledge. I want to ask my AI familiar to give me a list of all titles of articles I've read related to reverse engineering, say.
I remember google talk. There was a time when everything Google released was hip, minimalist, fast and to the point. Google search, maps, Gmail, hangout.

How things have changed.
Great essay. I also got on IRC in the late 90s and ran into someone who was feeling down. They didn't say they were about to kill themselves, luckily, just that they were quite depressed. Somehow before the everyone got online I had a number of quite deep conversations with people.

The internet now is a double edged sword. You can learn a lot from it, you can give or get help, you can do things that you couldn't just a few years ago. But you can also get helplessly addicted to things you find there, spending years looking for a dopamine hit that you perhaps thought was on the other side of the sword.
> horrible dev experience

That's an understatement. It was soul destroying awfulness.
I hope they explore the upsides of separating your memories like this.

Because the downsides seem pretty obvious to me...
You can’t just say it’s not a great place to work without expanding on that with details of some sort.
I think we're basically in agreement: neither of us thinks we should be naive about these agencies, as they definitely aren't. Intelligence/security agencies have a purpose, but shouldn't become zealots. And they should be trusted, but verified as the KGB used to say.

> Stay involved in local / state / federal politics.

Not an option for me - I'm geographically challenged. One thing to be envious of with the American system is you guys can affect a great deal, from judge and sheriff appointments to the president. Your post is a good reminder not to take it for granted.
Like a hyperactive toddler that wants all the toys his friends have.
Blockchains are cities
> The company though is another thing altogether not a great place to work

I have no affiliation with Gitlab besides I've tried their self-hosted option years ago. But comments like this without any substance behind it leave a sour taste in my mouth. "why is it not a great place to work at?" and "how do you know this?" are the first two questions that come to mind that are the bare minimum that should be added, otherwise your comment is just borderline gossiping.
> those who's health is poor enough they are likely to die soon, just don't have energy to walk a lot?

True, and there's a feedback loop in there as well. Being inactive leads to significant losses in muscle mass which leads to even more inactivity which compounds the problem. Sarcopenia is a serious problem especially in the elderly.
If they move from a different proprietary closed source chat system.. meh?
Thank you for sharing! I am worried because mail isn’t apples core business…
For me its whatsapp for everyone under 90 (over 90 is email or phone) and signal for everyone who is in IT or is close to someone IT. With the caveat that as almost all signal users are on WhatsApp too sometimes we forget and use it anyway.

Sms is mostly for when you want to add urgency and be less likely to be muted.

I would love to get rid of WhatsApp due to FB and hope to do so somehow soon.
I read ubik early in my science fiction journey and found it very bad. I read 200 sf books and then opened ubik again years later. This is the die hard of science fiction. a fantastic book like no other in SF but that takes all its greatness once you get to know better SF.
So donating money isn't going to change much. Many people with far more money than us have vested interest (some would say actual "shares") in destroying/polluting our planet. Most NGOs are concerned with paying off their employees and selling good-feels to disempowered reformists, not with actual change.

Now if you really want to achieve some change, you can either finance radical propaganda and subversive activities against industrial capitalism (the root cause), or you can with likeminded folks organize a local utopia.

Building a zero-waste (or close to that) neighborhood is not that hard, but requires political and scientific education for all. If your whole area starts composting not burning waste (selling stuff without dedicated packaging), gets rid of Internet Of Turd (IOT) devices, sets up a local electronics/clothing repair shop who also sells decent new or second-hand products, and has a local venue to eat for free if you don't want to cook yourself, you'll be leading by example into an eco-friendly 21st century.

Most people will sell you half-baked solutions because they don't want to reduce energy/resources consumption, they convince themselves we'll find magical fairy dust that makes environmental problems go away. But that's not gonna happen: we need radical change now, and we need to chop heads off of people who get in the way because they want to protect their financial interests against the interest of our entire planet (and all inhabiting species).
Steps seem to be far more specific than, say, distance. And all the data suggests incorporating walking into your daily life is better than sitting around all day and compensating with visits for the gym, so the people you mock are arguably right.
All good points.
Thanks
Sounds a bit like bootstrapping a lisp.
From saving the file until the browser refreshes it usually only takes a few seconds. Especially if the compiler JVM is warm.
Yeah that's more likely
Where does height come into play if it was not controlled for
At first I thought this was a joke poking fun a cryptobros, but looking further it appears to be serious.

I think these guys really do believe this piece of jewelry solves huge societal problems.
The article explained why - even with the forced blackouts, demand kept rising regardless. They were this close to needing to shut down the entire grid to avoid catastrophic damage that would've taken weeks or months to recover from. Increasing costs exponentially is basically a form of exponential backoff [1].

As horrible as $7,000/day electricity is, it would be worse if the whole grid was down for a month to recover from catastrophic failure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_backoff
Thank you for the article. The more I read the more it seems like a redesign into BigObject seems like the right thing todo. BigObject for history, 360 and other more static informasjon.
Seems reasonable. Fairly standard clause I’d think.
Surely a reasonable court would say that it's very clear what they meant?
Deeply offensive doesn't mean illegal. Unless there's a law that you can point at which bans this, there's no point in hiring lawyers because any challenge will be immediately thrown out. The real issue here in my view is that Facebook - a private company with no legal requirement to keep publishing anything that people post - is becoming the de facto news source for vast numbers of people. And, God help me, I have some sympathy for Facebook here if, as another commenter says, this study is being taken out of context and being used to push anti-vax conspiracy theories. It's such a complex issue.
Yeah, and don't forget William Gibson-style mega-corps that are almost uncontrollable sovereign entities at this point.
Your article reminds me of another article I read about horrendous nuclear weapons security in the US that appeared years before bellingcat existed. It seemed as weird then as it is now that the US government would willingly embarrass itself, but I can see how it might come about as a result of interagency rivalry and/or frustration that deep-seated dangerous security lapses were getting bureaucratically buried.

I'd be deeply surprised if Bellingcat released anything that embarrassed the director of the CIA.

I glanced at the bellingcat page on Ethiopia to see if they really were undermining the integrity of a US ally as you implied. Top story is about the fact that they're using Iranian drones, which is a bit of a poke in the eye to the US, and, depressingly, probably is the aspect of the conflict the CIA feels most invested in.
Different virus, but after a rough infection it took almost three years for my intermittent tachycardia to stop and to have the ability to exercise like I used to again. Weirdly it seemed to be the first shot of covid vaccine that put a final stop to it for me, that or a crazy coincidence.
The correlation held for 10,000 to 17,000 as well as 0 to 10,000 steps. Are people doing 10,000 steps/day “barely able to walk”?
> these coordination problems can be solved

If you focus too much on _punishing_ the companies rather than solving real problems such as government finance, you'll end up with ridiculous ideas like this.

If I'm running a country and every other country in the world is taxing someone at 15% and i currently get $0, why shouldn't I offer to tax them at 10% if they moved their business to my shores? I get something instead of nothing plus other sources of taxation _because_ they're in my shore.

AND even if that weren't the case, I as the sovereign, get to decide how much the tax should be. Not a bunch of edicts from people who can't run their own finances properly.
Wokeness is about caring about people who look different from oneself, and who aren't in positions of power. The summary you quoted is wrong on every level.

Source: Am leftist who is secure about genetics, though would prefer less methylation of my particular genes.
I found out about this from my mother. It seems this is being circulated within the boomer conspiracy theory circles. It's funny for people who get the joke, but they have no idea what "Lumberyard Materials" could be. It sounds really scary to them.
We have to dismiss them shallowly, and squarely.

If you spend too much time on trying to put "substantive argument" against such nutjobbery, you only work towards giving them more credulence.
I guess it all comes down to your social circle then
any system that deletes stuff automatically without oversight is dangerous and can lead to critical loss of data.

the only time it is ok is when it is backups that are superseded by new backups, or a trash storage where i put things manually, and even there i prefer to empty the trash manually too.

but this is just how i am used to working. i realize that i accept messages in irc disappearing if i don't log them too (but then i set up logs for quite a number of channels that matter to me), and i could accept this service for certain use cases like for mailing lists which are usually archived elsewhere anyways.

but i could not use it for emails from family, friends or customers who might send me things that i want to keep.

furthermore, if you consider encrypted email you can't even tell what is an attachment and what is the body. removing the attachment would also affect unencrypted, but signed emails.
That is a different point than "basically abandoned" :-) I do use X11 programs on Unix and MacOS (so far XQuartz works well enough). And probably Microsoft Windows though I don't use it.
They gained credibility with game devs.

Did they though?
Lol completely untrue outside of a demographic of people online. Maybe the people in computer science majors at universities, not
your average young American
A pair of dice which never roll 7 (2004)
Now we need to adapt and tell fairy tales about big bad cars that gonna kill you once you step into their territory.
I have a different view of what microserves are and how they can be used without the overhead everyone is right to point out and hate.

In my project we do utilise microserve architecture through the serverless paradigm (i.e. bunch of lambdas) but those services are exposed directly to the client via API gateways (many of them). In essence there is very little service-to-service communication. Each service has its own data storage (s3, dynomo, etc), its own queues and topics and there is very little service inter-dependencies of any sort.

Each "micro Service" is kind of its own "micro API" if you like.

The reason I believe this is a good approach for pretty much any problem is because each component is 100% swapable, it builds on its own and frankly has little to do with the rest of the system and such erros do not have a cascading effect. These services can be moved and reused in other systems too. The responsability for using these services in some sort or orchestrated manner lies with the client and yes the client/s is heavy.

Now it is true that I cannot simply union select bunch of data. You need to except that each "micro service/API" is much like all other 3rd-party APIs and so you need to come up with your own way of pulling analytics, data consistency checks, etc. The fact that service-to-service comms are sort of banned have forced us to come up with interesting algorithms that rely heavily on solid computer science (math) principles.

Just saying
> shooting dead American soldiers they found inside Switzerland who had escaped from German POW camps

Prisoners of war were treated really bad in Switzerland. Wikipedia has detailed article about the Wauwilermoss internment camp [1] and links to additional literature. There was a SRF Dok report on this but sadly it's no longer available.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wauwilermoos_internment_camp
Nexus were never premium. It was cheap-ish high-end SoC best demonstration of Android OS.

However, Pixels are definitely meant to be flagships, and IMO they are still not worth that name.

Anecdata: my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 fell quite literally hundred times more than my Pixel 5 (I was very clumsy/drunk by then, and got better), and is still perfectly alive , while my Pixel 5's display broke very easily (it's not even the glass that is broken, it's some internal circuitry). Maybe phones were to be tougher back then? Well, I also have a Samsung Galaxy S10e, it survived many falls just fine (well it does seem a tad worse than my Galaxy Note 2, because paint goes off where it fell).
Unless all of your company's generators go down and you have to buy from another company to supply your fixed-rate customers, then you'll lose your shirt. Or if you tried to cheap out and always buy at market rate.
It's interesting to see how they change his kind of old-timey story titles into cool modern ones.
Nocebo responses explain up to 76% of Covid vaccine side effects
Or, the alternative and simpler explanation: Bellingcat aren't directed by the US government in the way you believe. Nor were the journalists who exposed lax nuclear weapons security in the past.
This is the kind of "bug" that I would expect matters in smart contracts, but is easily treated by a court (the ultimate interpreter of a contract) as meaning being perfectly clear, and therefore is not a problem.

IANAL, though.
It's interesting to see how they change his kind of old-timey story titles into cool modern ones, eg "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" -> "Total Recall".
Capacity markets are kind of controversial these days even in countries which do have them, because by design they're subsidies for inefficient fossil fuel power plants that wouldn't be viable if they had to compete to sell power on the open market, and especially for coal power plants which are meant to go away ASAP due to global warming. Texas in particular would have had to subsidize coal power for a capacity market to make a difference in the recent grid failure. The current trend for new fossil fuel plants is natural gas but that wouldn't have done any good since a major cause of the blackouts was that even the existing power generators couldn't get enough natural gas to continue operating. Coal plants don't have this problem because they can store large quanties of fuel on site, but they've been closing down in Texas and throughout the US and the rest of the developed world.