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Define productivity. Working really hard on the wrong thing can be seen as productive but is in fact negative productivity. Slack and so on aren't about increasing individual productivity but longer term company productivity.
Thanks. I know I have used this decorator approach in the past to grab the ASTs for Python functions, but I guess my scenarios were all on the happy path. I see now where this might not be bulletproof.
"why don't you work 65% less and chill?" most people would look at you funny. It's not a choice. I have rent, etc.

I see what you're saying, but at the same time, at what annual revenue level do humans actually start "chilling" more and work less? 500 thousand? I'd be curious to see statistics.

Where I live (Canadian city), a lot of parents are working less, through a variety of arrangements (stay-at-home mom, consulting, part-time work, parental leave). Some of them have pretty low incomes. Society doesn't make it exactly easy, but it's certainly possible, it's just not yet the mainstream option. Social safety nets obviously help.

Wikipedia has this nice chart: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Heures_t... . Some countries have seen impressive reductions.

Anyway, I definitely agree with that:

A solution that relies exclusively on choice fails the smell test.

Wealth inequality, etc...
"Market(consumers) for GUI design software will increase or decrease in future?"

In regard of this, there are three types of consumer roles:

1. "readers" - all of us reading the internet, e.g. me and you reading HN now.

2. "creators" - all of us who create IT stuff and content at some extent- sites and content, browsers will never be quite adequate for that role, for many reasons. Compare desktop Word and those desperate and ugly attempts to reproduce it for browsers.

3. "app users" - you or me consuming modern applications, Slack, Skype, etc. That must be lightweight desktop apps, IMO. Sciter.JS (as does Sciter) is the best candidate for such cases.

Groups #2 and #3 are smaller but proportional to #1. As soon as #1 will grow as #2 and #3 will grow too.

So the need for desktop UI will definitely not go away in foreseeable future - only grow. And so the need of HTML/CSS in UI too - due to flexibility of Web stack and developers base.
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Democracy in the modern sense (universal suffrage, very large polities) is too recent an experiment to have strong data on that — the vast majority of the democratic experiment has been conducted under a US hegemony. I’m not sure the (also very limited) Ancient Greek example bears enough resemblance to the modern idea to be a useful comparison (I suggest also as a non-historian).
> One: the Fed has invested trillions buying everything under the sun (not just t-bills) to prop up the markets and make it look the economy is fine.

And ... the predicted response (dollar collapse) has not happened so one can make 2 arguments:

1) if the result you like is the economy working then: Well Done! If the result you want is maximizing the value of dollars then: Bad Fed! Very very bad!

2) given that this hasn't collapsed the value of the dollar, why haven't they done this earlier and given the money to our government to spend on infrastructure ? Clearly we're still in the zone where more loans make the economy go smoother.
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How do you explain rural people more conservative than urban? Do rural folks have more phobias than urban folks?
No, acknowledgement is only required if the license requires it.
I definitely subscribe to the idea of people self-medicating (even subconsciously). I don't have a lot of first-hand knowledge of his drug use post-high school. However, if you believe that psychedelics are powerful enough to permanently change your worldview, then you may have to consider that they can have other permanent side effects.
Do you really equate analyzing timelines critically with practicing gematria?
If you're debugging weird latency problems, I'd recommend to start from relative timestamps. Then filter to just one or two TCP streams that exhibit the problem and go from there.

Inspect packet contents. The packet dissectors are doing a lot of heavy lifting, so look at the deconstructed data. I realise this may not be a welcome suggestion, but a sharp pencil, an A3 (or larger) scratch pad and a good ruler go a long way.

I've dug to the bottom of quite a few network and traffic problems in my life by drawing the observed traffic patterns into sequence diagrams. Once you have the diagram visualised, it's easier to spot the places where something funky either happens or looks to be missing.
Calling it Dabba and the website not displaying the title and subtitle correctly on desktop certainly made me think that this was a parody.
> For a more balanced take I suggest this Atlantic piece

This made me laugh out loud
google the Buteyko method (which is the subject of much of the book). Not surprisingly, the claims made by its practitioners do not hold up to rigorous testing.
The claim being raised here is that remdesivir was a known-to-be-failed treatment that was only trotted out after the miracle hydroxychloroquine cure came out, with the implication being that it's an attempt to suppress HCQ.

That remdesivir was publicly considered a leading candidate after its supposed proof-of-failure and before the HCQ treatment was publicized rather demolishes whatever implication of conspiracy is being considered.
I'm forced to use Slack for work and I notice that there's a multi-second delay between my keyboard input and when the characters show up on the screen.
The reference is this article

https://www.academia.edu/3093773/Založení_Karlova_mostu_a_ko...

(alert: scanned and turned 90 degrees, my neck hurts)

On page 202 it describes founding of the bridge. The author puts it in context of gathering the remnants of St. Vitus (that Charles was obsessed about and his statue is present on one of towers at the end of the bridge) and highlights that the conjunction (opposition) of Saturn and the Sun happened on 1357, 9th day of 7th month.

He further investigates whether the way Charles or people of his age would write the date is the same as ours and concludes that it is likely - arab numerals, year, day, month then time, 60-minute hours are all documented in his court. Founding of the bridge would have to include a mass so it could not take place in the afternoon, which 5:31 AM isn't. Indeed different ways of expressing time used at the time are all consistent with that - except the "old bohemian" way to express time because that would be before sunrise.

If they did express it the same way as we do then at 5:31 AM the constellation of Lion (symbol of Czech kings) was in ascendent (just above horizon, important astrological place).

Additionally, a sign (which was dated to 1640 but could have been a replacement of an older one) on one of the towers at the end of the bridge contains a palindrome poem (in Latin).

Another reason why it could be true comes for the author from the fact that Charles and his people would have known and read Dante Alighieri's Vita nuova where similar numerological symmetry plays a major role. And the Prague Astronomical Clock contains a completely extra gear that serves no purpose but the counts of its tooth is also a palindromatic sequence.
Here in Seattle, we've built out a light rail system under budget and ahead of schedule. And of course, we've also really flubbed the cost/schedule for a highway tunnel.

I'm not sure that the result is axiomatically over budget for major projects. That said, I'm less worried about budget than I am worried about who benefits (e.g. I'm generally ok with transit going over because it provides such a valuable benefit for the city.)
>> Compared with fifteen chews, chewing forty times per portion resulted in lower hunger (P= 0·009), preoccupation with food (P= 0·005) and desire to eat (P= 0·002).

It's a good thing, because while I'm taking 40 chews per bite of pizza, all of my buddies are inhaling theirs, and there's none left after I've finished my slice.
One thing missing from my recent engineering managers is lack of relevant coding experience.

You don't need to be an great engineer to be a good manager, but it definitely helps when your manager knows enough about the battles fought in the trenches and can offer actual feedback/support instead of nodding for 30m, then going to another 1:1.
Yes, it is compromised private information.
That doesn't make it incompetent or wasteful if it's doing hard or novel things. Looking at the interstate highway system or trips to the moon or massive global health investments and dismissing them as over budget is absurd.
There absolutely is a survival bias. I should have phrased my comment better because my point wasn't that all trans people get stronger by what they go through.

I was trying to say that the comment isn't transphobic at all, and if people think stuff like this is the reason why trans people kill themselves then they're probably blind to the actual transphobia that happens in the world.

Also, I strongly believe that we shouldn't be restricting language out of fear of being offensive, because then people become too afraid to talk about important issues.
What is so special in Unity/Unreal engine style model in this regard?
Yeah, still not taking into account the energy we're using and the manpower this energy liberate.

But this energy is not infinite. Despite all innovations in solar/wind, and assuming efficient storage that does not exist yet, EU won't be able to absorb a 3% decrease in oil+gas importations by 2030. Rystad (https://www.rystadenergy.com/), pre-covid, was forecasting a 2 to 8% decrease in oil and gas import from the EU according to the think tank "the shift project" [0][1].

I won't talk about manpower much because there is still a chance that nothing more heavy than Covid will hit us in the near future, but meals will be hard to get this year in eastern Africa and while this year India did not suffer as much as in 2019, another drought like 2019 next year would be even more disastrous. For information, this winter could have been worse for Africa than 2011, luckily the wildfires and drought in russia were localized further north than a decade ago.

But well, we still have two silver bullets: fusion and renewable hydrolyse.

[0] https://theshiftproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Study... complete data analysis

[1] https://theshiftproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/fig40... short graph.
"Remdesivir" was a word i kept seeing for a decent time before Covid, too; they've been pushing that snake for a while. I gather it's a meta-scam, it's nearly impossible to make the stuff right and the "next miracle drug" noise is a means of getting funding for the ludicrous synthesis which is where the money is actually being made.
Are those sources target independent or specific for each new build of the package? That is, is there a new source code package on hydra when one of the dependencies changes? Or does it only change if the package itself changes?

Fixed-output derivations are used for sources (they are content-addressed in the store), so the latter.
It may have something to do with age. I would wager I'm older than the average HN reader, and the steady decline of competence and quality has been pretty obvious in my lifetime. I've had discussions with friends in my age group about this exact topic and no one seemed to disagree. This is all susceptible to all sorts of cognitive tricks though. We may simply be old curmudgeons.
I think another good reason is that it lets you specify language-agnostic dependencies, including build tools etc. If Nix really takes off, we can stop dealing with language-specific package managers.
If you're short on time you may find these notes useful:

https://podcastnotes.org/found-my-fitness/found-my-fitness-p...

https://podcastnotes.org/found-my-fitness/found-my-fitness-p...

Also this episode of James Nestor discussing breathing on the Joe Rogan Podcast may be of interest:

https://podcastnotes.org/joe-rogan-experience/joe-rogan-expe...

(Disclosure, I work on Podcast Notes)
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In the real world, any period of exponential growth is part of an S-curve (coming to a plateau) or a bell curve (reaching a maximum, then decreasing) of some sort. You can't cheat with the law of physics and entropy.
They were.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/twitter-has-perman...
Or Apple doesn't have enough TSMC 5nm inventory to make both A14 and it's big-chungus cousin and launch everything at the same time. That would also explain why they launched iPad Air a month before iPhone. The former is a lower-demand product so you could totally launch that one first when yields are lower.
It seems as if all of these articles just won’t go discredit Donald Trump.
At this point to my knowledge there is only one treatment that have been shown in an RCT trial to have a large effect: that is giving bolus dosages of vitamin D. [1] The effect was that only 1 (2%) of 50 patients needed ICU admission whereas the control had 50% ICU admission. In contrast the Remdesivir effect found was just fewer days of recovery. So we can contrast the vitamin D result with how much effort is going on to determine whether there are marginal improvements from anti-virals.

The trial is small (100 participants), so we should be doing a larger one now, but I don't think there is a down-side to adopting this as a standard of care.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...
Had a similar idea with sharetribe, but building your own marketplace is really hard for public consumption.
If you're just starting with the language, my recommendation would be to ignore the pragmas. None of them are necessary for basic functionality, and a lot of them are only useful for very specific optimizations. The most useful pragmas in my experience are the pragmas for FFI, async, and memory/side effect tracking.
Does it use the DOM, or can it use things like D3.js that manipulate the DOM.
Though I wonder if it would perform as bad as Slack if people were forced to use an Electron client in a web browser.
I agree with many (bot not all) of the points in the article. However, the article is not well reasoned and it’s not clear how many of the conclusions about cause follow from the description of the problems.
You are confused with the meaning of "free" in this context.
I've seen this in a lot of socialist circles -- an emphasis on building resilient communities, supporting your neighbors and fellow workers, and trying to lift everyone up.

I expect that there will be a strong reaction on this forum to the word 'socialist', but the communities you describe definitely still exist.
>This thing. There is nothing ideologically uncomfortable about 1984 for pretty much anyone in both NYC suburbs and Virginia.

You don't think a pool of people (mostly) from a big government state that's been big government for a long time (in retrospect I should have picked Boston as it's a far better example) are gonna have a harder time teaching about the dangers of the extremes of big government than a pool of people who's ancestors are known for untaxed booze and trying to leave the union? You don't think that when the (hypothetical average) teacher tries to provoke class discussion by asking about modern implications the teacher who grew up in the latter culture might be a little bit better at provoking a good discussion?
Good read!

Some others that I have enjoined in the embedded Linux realm are the posts by George Hilliard, Mastering Embedded Linux series and the Designing my Linux-powered Business Card.

https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/08/mastering-emb...

https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/designing-my-...
The default tracing Nim GC is capable of quarter-millisecond pause times while the new ARC/ORC stuff is more like single-digit microseconds: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/5734
This is the kind of experimentation and play that drives society
> distract people from pursuing a treatment that the major pharmaceutical companies can't make any money on [...] No conspiracy theories

You haven't come out and said it explicitly (despite being asked), so I'll say it explicitly and let you contradict me: You are a hydroxychloroquine truther. For some reason you believe it must be effective although there is no useful evidence for that either.
This overlaps with ideas like store-and-forward, delay-tolerant networking, and the Interplanetary Internet.

I've been writing local-first digital archives software. Our system uses git to store collection metadata and git-annex to manage binaries. It was originally designed to be used to allow partner sites with very low connectivity to contribute archival-quality video to a distributed archive. Data can be synced over the network or via physical storage sent in the mail.

Using Git/git-annex for this system has advantages for archival preservation. Copies can be located in geographically diverse locations and synced as necessary. The Git log's use of cryptographic hashes also makes data tamper-evident.
Auto-update of extensions and apps should be set to off by default. There would be less reason for extensions to be bought by other developers for their installed user base.

Secondly, how come there is no regulation about selling chrome extensions and apps?
Yeah, though even simple efforts yield big dividends. We schedule about 20 minutes after our company all hands to 'zingle', which sometimes includes breakout rooms to just hangout with a dozen people in an unstructured way. We do weekly "pub trivia" and other social activities. I've gotten in the habit of booking social lunches with coworkers, where we just hop on a zoom and catch up over lunch.

I won't say it's a perfect substitute, but not doing those things would be a disaster.
That's an entirely accurate tweet at the time.

On Jan 14, 2020, the WHO had no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission yet. It came (to them) shortly afterwards.

That China may have had such evidence and kept it private doesn't make the WHO's statement any less truthful at the time it was issued. They aren't an intelligence organization; they rely on cooperative member nations.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/factchecking-trumps-attack...

> While there is a debate about what was known when — and it seems clear that China knew more than what it reported — the WHO never said the virus was not communicable. Instead, the agency always considered the possibility, even if it also shared information from China that found no evidence of such transmission.

> Lack of evidence, especially of “preliminary” results, does not mean the WHO was saying the novel coronavirus could not be spread between people. The same day as the tweet, the WHO cautioned that there might be some human-to-human transmission of the virus among family members in China.

> According to a timeline of events, Van Kerkhove, who is also the WHO’s technical lead for the COVID-19 response, also said that human-to-human transmission wouldn’t be unexpected, since that is what occurs with SARS and MERS, which are also coronaviruses.

Just a few days later:

> By Jan. 19, the WHO was more definitive, saying in a tweet that there was “some limited human-to-human transmission occurring between close contacts.”

Trying to use this tweet to justify US inaction months later is silly and transparent.
Why shouldn't they, why is that your point? If an uncharitable read of your comment is that you are mocking people and trying to gain hipster points by knowing about it before it was popular, then maybe a charitable read is that "we are too quick" is a warning of some hazard or danger that happens if we ooh and aahh about things too quickly which (in some way) objectively haven't earned it, by not being first, and that being first is in some way a majorly important criterion. If so, what is it that you are warning about?

What exactly is your problem with people being excited or impressed by something that was done before, which makes it worth a comment?
The actual paper (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679762095449...) does mention this, even though the press release doesn't:

> Specifically, we found that after selecting from two equally attractive objects, infants subsequently devalued the initially unchosen object. We ruled out the possibility that this reflects a desire for novelty or any intrinsic preference
among the options.

The experimental design that allowed them to do this is simple, but pretty clever. The original version of the experiment is based on first letting the baby choose between toys A and B, and then demonstrating that if A was chosen, the baby prefers a new toy C over B. (All of the toys were equally likely to be preferred by a control group.)

Since it's not possible to know whether the initial choice was random or based on individual preference, they did a modified version of this experiment. After the baby is shown the first two toys, they are placed under boxes and secretly swapped. Despite originally having chosen B, the baby instead gets to interact with A. In this case, the babies still fairly consistently choose C (the new toy) over B (the one they originally preferred but didn't get to interact with).

And as the press release does mention, simply giving a baby a toy randomly chosen by the experimenter doesn't cause the same effect. So the reasonable inference is that the actual experience of making a choice (or at least having the illusion of doing so) reduces one's attachment to the option that wasn't chosen.
You can rewrite on a branch and not merge it, no problem.

I've used this technique to learn and teach code bases.
Something like https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...?
Article seems to omit one of the big issues I had with being an engineering manager and that was managing budgets (people/assets) and financial forecasts. I'll probably become a manager again, but I'm enjoying my break and doing "real work" again.
Because everyone that takes drugs leads happy, productive lives?

There's no magic pill for happiness or "rightthink" and assuming that one side (conservatives) are against drugs because it changes people is really wrong.

If you look at the history of the conservative party, you'd see they were very much progressive in moral and social issues.

And, in many cases, they still are.
Derek Lowe recently discussed results from a different trial that were more positive.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/10/09/ha...

> The good news is that the patients receiving the drug had a shorter time to recovery (9 to 11 days, in the 95% confidence interval, versus 13 to 18 days with non-remdesivir standard of care. That’s real, but it’s not real dramatic, either, which is what you would realistically expect from a single broad-spectrum antiviral drug. This ain’t sofosbuvir clearing out hepatitis C, and even that one doesn’t do the job by itself. As for the hardest endpoint of all, mortality by Day 29 for these patients was 11.4% with remdesivir therapy as compared to 15.2% with the controls. So again, that’s a real improvement and very much worth having, but it’s not a Miracle Drug, either. Adverse events were actually lower in the treatment group, which is of course good news.
“Egon, your mucus”