Wow, this is amazing at first glance. Will definitely have to dive into to see that it hits all the requirements. But as someone who trodded down this rathole when a client asked if we supported SSO, it would be an amazing utility to have around.
How battle tested is this with real companies and different IDPs?
In any case, congrats on the launch and will definitely be taking a closer look.
Can you elaborate what it means to remove the chunks of silence? Aren't there valid cases where there's no sound but you're actually showing/doing something on the video.
Ahh thanks for that, I hadn't seen this post. And the comment thread perfectly summarizes and addresses some of my shock and questions when I read the article.
Just insane the amount of numbers a site this Shared is throwing around.
I wouldn't characterize these as fake news, they just appear to be massively automated sites generated from public press releases from local government. In several of the articles they list the byline as "By Press Release submission". So it appears they aren't trying to be too deceptive, and if you search the text from the articles is does link back to the actual press release from a real .gov site in that locality.
Also looking at the bylines from metric media news service itself ( just append /author/metric-media-news-service to the main domain ), I would have expected a more discernible pattern of articles biased towards a particular viewpoint, but again, I didn't see anything too nefarious.
So at first glance, it looks like a reasonable local site albeit very cookie cutter, and primarily regurgitations of press releases from local official govs. And at second glance, it doesn't appear to be much worse than that.
NOW having said all of that, I can easily see how this can be turned sideways very easily and quickly by the site maintainers. If you're actually able to build up a good readership with some of this 'basic' content, then come election time or some other critical moment where influence is important, you can easily seed more biased content into the articles. And these don't necessarily need to be blatantly 'fake', they can just be slanted a certain way. They could certainly go full bore and insert some really fake content in there once in awhile.
The sheer magnitude of it all is impressive, taken in isolation these sites would seem legitimate but seeing them all side by side and seeing the content laid out it becomes painfully obvious there's an ulterior motive to it all.
Thanks to the parent comment for making me ( and hopefully more of us ) aware of this type of activity.
Main points being that brain activity and cognitive tests have shown that kids with excessive screen time use exhibited negative results. Granted these tests likely refer to unattended, non-interactive screen time which is slightly different than this particular app's situation. But the general idea and question of screen time is relevant.
Also anecdotally, I have a young nephew and niece who's parents recently instituted a screen time purge for weeks at a time -- ( parent is an MD and recently attended a conference where research showed similar negative impacts in children's brain development after screen time use ). They've seen less hyperactivity, less meltdowns and improved listening and behavior. Again, one example, so take it for what it's worth.
Raising kids is a time consuming, challenging endeavor for most people, and everyone's experience is going to be unique. So, to each their own. And I'm someone who grew up with NES and after school cartoons. But even given that, I intend on leaning towards caution in this respect and limit screen time as much as possible certainly towards the younger age spectrum.
Very interesting read on the intersection between Tech/Politics/Money.
Personally I think it's bad idea to inject this type of (essentially) spam email marketing into politics to drive fundraising, but the alternative of Super PAC isn't very attractive either.
"Good things happened to bad people, and bad things happened to good people. Executives who contributed to the crisis retain enormous wealth, while many of those who trusted them have suffered life-altering losses."
The breakdown of trust in our institutions slowly chipped away.
Headline is clickbaity with the AirBNB and the $5M price tag. AirBNB has it's very legitimate issues that need to be discussed, debated, and addressed. But media definitely loves to use AirBNB as an easy punching bag these days for the 'tech running amok' storyline.
However, this situation just seems like it falls entirely on the property manager for not doing due diligence on a renter, and for not having a large enough security deposit.
Actually, this might be one of the intended effects of this feature. What better way to make it appear their catalog is wider and ever-changing then to cycle through these static stills every so often. It may not be the most user friendly design pattern to 'trick' your user into thinking there's a bigger catalog, but I can understand the desire for it from their perspective.
And to be perfectly honest, sometimes those changing stills have actually made me watch a movie that I had previously glossed over because the image wasn't as interesting. So from personal experience I can say their primary intent was reached w/ the periodic cycling of stills.
Hey Krapsna, my satirical read was in regards to the hyper scientific labels of "Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome", "team energetic asynchrony", and "chronotype diversity".
As someone who also has atypical sleep patterns ( late sleeper, early riser ), there were some interesting points in here.
I know there's been research done as well on the number of hours of sleep required rather than 'when' it occurs, but those haven't seem to have reached a consensus yet.
I will say some of these articles sometimes read satirically.
Notably, they have a diagnosis for people who can't sleep at 'normal' hours: Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome. Then the kicker at the end, "The term “chronotype diversity” is starting to find traction, as business managers explore concepts like team energetic asynchrony". At this point, I stopped and looked up at the URL to make sure I wasn't on a parody site.
But all joking aside, it would be interesting to explore what societal as well as productivity improvements could be had if people's sleep patterns were viewed as varied rather than forcing everyone on the same schedule.
Good article summarizing some of the pitfalls of General Magic that goes along with that HN thread from a couple weeks ago from the insider perspective.
It's not too surprising that people are generally waiting to have kids later in life. But still a very interesting analysis of 4 decades of birth in America and how socioeconomic and geographical factors play into it. With lots of good data to look up based on county, age, etc.
Some quotes I found interesting:
"Lower-socioeconomic-status people might not have as many opportunity costs — and motherhood has these benefits of emotional fulfillment, status in their community and a path to becoming an adult."
"But if going to college and achieving an upper-middle-class lifestyle seems unattainable, then having a family might seem like the most accessible source of meaning to you.”
As a developer and business owner, there are some interesting lessons to be gleaned from this story:
1) long time incumbent has its lunch eaten by exciting new product
2) publicizing a release date to hold the product and team to a fixed time window ( no slips.. or at least the public backlash on it would be fairly loud )
3) yet, incumbent has a passionate and die hard fan base(users) and supporters that want to see it succeed even in the face of a better(?) product. lots of good will built up here, but will it be enough to see it through this 'fix everything sprint'
interesting to see where this goes. Fortnite certainly seems to have won all the attention and glamour as the new kid on the block, and seems pretty solidly entrenched now. They might not be entirely the same game, but there's no question they're often compared and contrasted heavily. It couldn't have felt great for the PUBG team when Fortnite's battle royale mode launched and exploded. Good luck to the team on trying to retake the market!
So this is an effort led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, which in itself is noteworthy, but then to claim a $1 Billion "seed" round is eye opening.
I'm highly skeptical with G090's failure ( which is mentioned in the article ) whether a studio(?) focused purely on bite sized content can survive, but they certainly have the funding and pedigree to attract some top level talent to give it a go for a few years.