johnwyles

This apparently just came out, was thinking they had this out for some time.

Ya'll remember Enlightenment? That was my jam.

You don't need the other half of a base pair in your calculation

Oddly at the place I was with we saw literally the exact same metrics but inverse: productivity increase by mid-30%. Everyone hated the office so that makes sense.

My philosophy on it is that management is key. If butts-in-seats gives management the illusion of productivity then they will likely find out they are dead wrong. You can practically objectively measure productivity with remote work. Collaboration is more challenging and therefore surfaces many efficiencies you can make in your process.

Home Assistant + Node Red ~= 95% of anything I have ever needed of IoT (and this watch could tie into by extension). Albeit, I have put in easily >120 hours of work over the past couple of years to get it there, I still think it's mostly the answer to the issues you mention.

So I've been waiting patiently for something equivalent to Home Assistant but for QS and you pop up often. You're probably most expert to say what progress is being made for an integrated QS platform whereby you plop in a new integration and, even if there are a few manual steps (exporting, running a local software tool, etc.) you easily can import, slice on, and chart your data in a time series DB (similar to how with InfluxDB and Grafana you can do with Home Assistant). There were a few open source tools out there on GitHub but the ones I found were dated or didn't seem to have much love or enough of an audience to support them.

OH! I just saw you are the author of HPI which I have starred - it certainly was as close as I found but I pined for more evaluating it about half a year ago. How is progress? What other wise words can you lend?

I'm OK with it so long as it's something on GitHub, useful, and you can drop in replace it.

Could this be used to, say, collect a "royalty" on a work of art or good sold in perpetuity? In other words I create a painting that sells at a garage sale for $5. Then it is picked up by a local art collective and sells for $5,000. Later it is sold at Christies for $5,000,000. All the while my portfolio has benefited from this work but if I can collect forthcoming royalty of the sale of my work it too would be a nuanced stream of income.

Likewise some other thoughts: - Embedding an NFT in music so other platforms outside of Spotify can grow and each time your song is played you receive a small token? - A generator I bought from The Home Depot and sold to someone, who then sells it do someone, who then sells it as scrap metal? (incorporating diminishing returns as well?)

Odd to pick HRBlock/Intuit as they are used for convenience and because we don't have a central system like Sweden and have in the US 50 different states and territories with 50+ different tax rules and so many edge cases in existence it's almost the rule than the exception each individual has one.

Likewise these consultants are not just coming in and pointing their fingers at the obvious ICS on the internet. They are also providing services to understand why they were attached in the first place and where that process broke down, how to keep the current ease with which to operate the system, and implement the transitions.

with Big Sur though?

Home Assistant takes many disparate brands, services, devices, APIs and architectures for the world of IoT devices and yet they are able to somewhat successfully pull them together. I see no reason QS is any different and couldn't do the same even if it is scraping or exporting at intervals where an API does not exist. The analogy is different devices with different things they do, measure, record, and interact coming under a single umbrella of a QS service in a time series database (not unlike and maybe even exactly as is done with: Home Assistant + InfluxDB + Grafana).

I feel like the QS space needs a suite not unlike Home Assistant where you can plugin multiple integrations to these various services and begin collecting data relatively simply. Have you found anything in your travels that is mature enough to extend or spend time enhancing?

For those browsing here there is a common term for "tracking personal data" this called "Quantified Self". If you are interested in it as a n00b like I am this will greatly help start your search into the hobby. There are a lot of people doing it out there and a bunch of outdated or abandoned projects. I have yet to find a modern one that does for QS what Home Assistant has done for home automation and data collection.

This looks a lot like WrapAPI[0] which I found a while back researching for Postman Galaxy hackathon. How are you guys different?

[0] https://wrapapi.com/

Can this replace the broken and horrible tools of rbenv, pyenv, and pipenv? I shudder whenever a new version comes out what it does to my shell when I have a broken version (included as the latest from the output from pyenv globals or some such)

Cool...

you ok?

[lol, jk.] [yeah, why?]

The algorithm is more basic than the music it passes judgement on so take the verbiage with a grain of punk-vinyl-you-never-heard-before.

Anyone here remember turntable.fm? I do. Sad. JQBX.fm isn't the same either. That was a great way to get a higher "hit" ratio though.

I moved out of state BEFORE an IPO on options gained while working in CA that I then purchased as a resident outside of CA. This does not work as others are describing it. CA did and will come after anyone who earned options while in the state.

everyone is coming up with more complicated systems to usher it to the flames (e.g. vacuum it up and robotic arm drop it in, hook up a fan on low speed, etc) when it's really as simple as steepening the angle it drops in. also about 2 hours ago they didn't have a spot light on the subject to be torched so maybe they will get there.

it certainly re-energized the creative side of me to think up some similar live stream rube goldberg device so i like where their head is at

This is the exact point. Rarely has controlling information and science ever benefit humanity.

The irony is we're talking about Good vs Evil of potential AI systems. It could be a nuclear arms race but I suspect we would be better for it. When information has been free it has nearly always been of benefit to humanity.

I imagine creating a system that watches TTs on real and artificial subjects, gets the humans guess as to if it is AI or not, whether this is actually the case or not, and feeds those results back into the test. I'm sure this isn't a novel idea of yours or mine.

4% of the population but a ton more when weighted with economic power and control of trade secrets and technology rights.

I am curious: why are police reports confidential? Of course they could be very damning to a large number of people if they were public but I am wondering why they are not public records searchable in a database? What is required to make them public? Are they just available for trial after what I presume is a subpoena or some form of discovery?

From the example it looks like with next to no changes at all it would be able to spit out a plethora of "fake news" articles, even if it's only source was reddit.

You should note that a bulk of your list is the knowledge that a senior engineer should require of his peers. To be productive writing a small feature in a React app it could be had under a week out from bootcamp with modest support sharing whatever tribal knowledge and documentation for onboarding.

Looking at Knative to mature in a couple of years and with it on top of k8s we may see a slow migration back to self-hosting where it makes sense

Hah! I'll pay you $500 to finish half a dozen of mine!

Anki CEO Boris Sofman today told all Anki staff that they would be terminated on Wednesday and would be given a week of severance pay. Anki has nearly 200 employees.

If that is true this is truly abhorrent and grossly irresponsible towards those employees. Is there more to this story because that is simply awful and I feel bad for those employees and their families with such a short notice?

Just days ago, employees were told that Anki was aiming to find additional funding after a round of financing fell through.

Guess it didn't happen. This is just sad. I imagine those employees and their families have been through some high highs and now low lows. Hopefully enough of them saw the writing on the wall so they could land themselves elsewhere with little disruption.

I really liked their Cozmo product and have bought two myself. I found it incredibly creative and was hoping for more innovative products from them in the future. It shoved a lot of very clever things into a fairly decently priced product but sadly I think the $150-200 and not sub-$100 price tag prevented a bigger market(?). Even at the $150-200 I was very pleased with the build quality and technology packaged inside. This is just sad all around.