skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can simply take pictures and videos. There's lot of inspired and inspiring shorts on Tiktok for instance.
I think that in common speech at least, “sugars” refers to simple carbohydrates - eg “10g carbohydrates of which 3g sugars”
^ This! He’s splitting $13M 50-50 fiat-btc.

Much more impressive would be random middle class person taking part or all their salary in btc.
I'm saying that (1) has not been achieved even within a period of time that's 3x Brooks's prediction, and that (2) has been achieved as Brooks's claimed it would. Again, don't confuse 1986 with 1966. We had Smalltalk in 1980. In 1987 we had Perl. Everybody was using Visual Basic starting in 1991, and Python came out around the same time. The most popular "fast and easy" programming language we have today is 30 years old. We've been using virtually the same IDEs for over 25 years. Clojure would be immediately familiar to anyone who's learned Scheme with SICP at school in 1980, and when I was in uni in the mid 90s, you know what the most hyped language was, the one that was thought to take over programming in a few short years? That's right -- Haskell. Things have really changed very little except when it comes to the easy availability of free libraries and knowledge on the internet.

> But again to be clear, today's expectation of "large, complex software" -- has also changed

But most tasks cannot be achieved today 10x faster than in 1986 except by the one way Brooks said it might be.

In other words, Brooks's prediction was incredibly prescient, and it is those who disagreed with him (and many, many did) who turned out to have been wrong.

> I don't know why we have to constantly refer to 1986

Because Brooks's prediction is predicated on the thesis that improvements due to changes in programming languages and methodology mostly impact the ratio of accidental/essential complexity, which means that we expect to see diminishing returns, i.e. a smaller improvement between 1990 and 2020 than we had between 1960 and 1990, which is exactly what we see.

> Just that one example was 10x improvement within a decade

Brooks didn't say there can't be 10x improvements due to languages in any decade, only that there won't be in the following decade(s), because when essential complexity is reduced, there's less of it to reduce further. To grossly
over-simplify his claim, yes, we did see a big difference between 1980 and 1990, but we won't see as big a difference between 1990 and 2000. Or, in other words, he claimed that while you certainly can be 10x more productive than Assembly, you can't be 10x more productive than Python.

> As another example, the productivity improvement is the writing and deploying complex apps using Ruby on Rails or Javascript frameworks and deployed on AWS. That's more than is more 10x faster than the 1990s CGI days of having C Language code writing to stdout to output HTML. Those early web apps were simpler and yet they were so utterly tedious and slow to code.

But that's because the web took us backward at first. It was just as easy to develop and deploy a VB app connected to an Access DB in, say, 1993, as it is to develop and deploy a RoR one today. A lot of effort was spent reimplementing stuff on the web.
Eh? If someone doesn't think the Exorcist is terrifying then I'm not sure what is, speaking as someone regularly playing violent games (though not usually horror or gory stuff)
Because it is not necessary. The actual parties involved know what is meant and intended, so adding some ongoing and constant amendment process is counter-productive.
I'm happy to hear that you're winning the battle and I hope you continue to do so.

My comment stands. You would be forced to eat crickets and I wouldn't (be forced to eat them). That's the whole idea with feeding people "efficiently". Piss-poor people who can't get a living wage are already fed the most unhealthy food because it's cheap and easy to mass-produce, whereas those who are well-off can eat whatever we want, whatever we think is healthy and nutritious, or just pleasant to eat. And all this talk of efficiency means is that more cheaply produced, low-quality food can keep being sold to those who need to watch their wallet more than they care to watch their waistline.
I don't think the physics are on your side on this one.
So, how do we follow the money?
You're going to Julia so that you can avoid typing "import numpy as np" at the beginning of a file? Or is there more to it?
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I would be much more interested in that topic. But like this one, I suspect there is a gray area that no one wants to talk about at all, and for some reason the answer must be black and white. Which makes me suspicious.
My first LTO drive installation was on a multi user SGI CAD application server. This system did all the compute and data management for roughly 30 users. I/O streaming was easy and efficient.

IRIX allowed for live file system backups and the drive doing compression meant all that happening with negligible user performance impact.

Was literally set it and forget it, aside from tape rotation into off site storage.

Compression would have had an impact.

We don't do multi user app serving much today, so maybe a smart drive has less benefit. But it mattered then. 2000's era.
How do you know which supplier is "fine with that", and how do you anticipate a supplier before they decide to change over to using illegitimate labour?

Auditing suppliers, verifying supply chains and switching away from cheaters is one way to address the issue. Another is to not do business in China at all.
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> Careful not to confuse work and value. Sheer labor is worth minimum wage, the value of someone is far more than their hourly labor.

I am. It's not me being careless. We reward both by the same means - money. Not my fault it's this way. I think it's perfectly reasonable of me to work from the means of compensation outwards, when making comparisons.

> The long and short of it though is a person who makes the people beneath themselves work more valuable is worth that added value, and arguably deserves a proportional portion of said added value.

In my opinion, this is nothing more than business based, pyramid scheme level, cult-like thinking. I'm a well paid webdev. The company is fairly flat, there are only two distinct levels above me - engineering management, and founder-ceo(s).

My day to day work is designing and building out random systems, and handling tech debt. I would be doing this in a vacuum too, and to the same standard. The personality and input of the ceo has little to no bearing on my performance. Me and my team would perform equally well under any given non-maniac. CEOs are not like, high level gods or something. They aren't remotely as rare a set of personality traits as the voodoo-thinking of SV seems to think. C-tier management is not literally multiplying my output. Sensible feature requests from users and sensible filtering by product managers has ten times the impact that C-tier has on my work.

> deserves a proportional [...]

> Steve Jobs can be argued to be an example of that

The resignation and subsequent death of Jobs had, in the macro perspective of apple's stock prices, literally no impact on the value of the company. Apple stock is currently over x10 what it was when he was there. An essentially infinite number of things took place that were far more important than Job's personality, which lead to the success of apple. He was more like a train driver railing down the tracks than some maverick cutting through the jungle. At least Bill Gates has the introspection to realise this. General luck, and luck of timing is what generated nearly all of that value, and the rest was generated by labour. Somewhere in there is some ephemeral and unquantifiable sliver of value coming from the specific personality of the founders / ceos.

So, what proportion do we dole out? Who do we compensate for luck? For all of the endless work done before that wasn't compensated to the moon but was absolutely required for this moon-level capital generation? It's all too up in the air to try and rationalise that CEOs should earn one million times what a farmer earns and think that makes any kind of sense at all.

Think of all of the wealth, (generational too) that came from equally traited men setting out for oil. Literal random chance would go on to create mega-empires that have lasted a hundred years. Our current system of compensation, is pretty close to being nothing more than a load of bollocks, when it comes to this kind of thing.
Moderna's phase 3 includes preliminary data on a single dose, and it appears 80-90% effective at/after two weeks. See table 15 on page 28:

https://www.fda.gov/media/144434/download

https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2020/12/18/coronavirus-vac...
True, but that research also shows that the negative impact is dose dependent in a very non-linear fashion. The information I would hope to get out of such guidelines is at what level the risk curve starts to bend upwards rather more steeply.
I mean is it government overreach to recommend a healthier lifestyle? It would be government overreach if they mandated a limit or some kind of mechanism. If anything this is a soft recommendation on how to live a healthier life. Hardly government overreach.
In public companies, the process is a bit different, but the idea is the same. Say the CEO or other senior management "writes" a press release...

(I put this in quotes because they don't put pen to paper, it's done by someone else obviously, but these are their words)

It may be copyedited by Comms for tone and grammar, as well as fact checked by someone who is an expert in the subject - but also by Legal if it touches on relevant issues. In that case, they will seek you out, if only for CYA reasons, before it goes out the door.
That seems kind of a circular argument: we need another OS but which emulates existing OS's for compatibility. I agree that compatibility probably overrides other concerns. A 3rd OS would need some revolutionary feature(s) to overcome its compatibility limits. And that revolutionary feature would be something that can't be added to Windows or (x)nix. Anyone want to suggest game-changing OS features?

A better goal would be to isolate OS features to give us more choice. The file system would be independent of the GUI engine, which would be independent of the executable manager, etc. It would give one mix-and-match ability. Possible partitioning:

- Execution/task manager
- GUI
- File system
- Security system
- App and upgrade manager
- Integrator
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If you assume there are two types of people: prone to violence (not necessarily violent, given socialization and incentives) and not prone to violence (possibly due to physical skills or a more generally submissive personality):

- Sociological stereotype goes that videogames are mainly popular among those not prone to violence. Therefore most results on the matter might only mean that videogames cannot make people not-prone-to-violence act violently. If they're physically unfit (and not deranged enough to use guns) this may be obvious a priori.

- The data says little about whether videogames increase the likelihood that someone who is prone to violence will act violently.
I think traditional journalists generally are unsure what to make of / wary of Wikileaks.

Rather than a site willing to release anything.... Wikileaks, even from the early days they, seemed to craft their own narratives in a way that many journalists find uncomfortable.

Even in the earlier days of Wikileaks when they had a facebook page (not sure if they do anymore) they'd regularly announce an upcoming data dump and imply that it was very important and serious and imply what it was about .... then radio silence. They never would release anything on that topic...

If you asked on their page, your comment was deleted ... whey did they not release it? No word. Many of these weren't national security type situations and there was enough info that you knew they never released it ever, just radio silence.

I liked the idea of what I thought Wikileaks was early on, but it never was that, and I'm suspicious of their choices and etc. They seem as interested in crafting something, what I'm not sure, keeping their own secrets, as any state. Who really is Wikileaks, what are they up to, I wonder sometimes...

On the internet of course this is all or nothing. You either are for a thing and against everything deemed to be the polar opposite or the other way. It's hard to have nuanced discussions about these things but I think that grey area is where you see the concern from journalists.
More evidence for creationism.
That’s the thing with media portraying violence (and I’m saying this without judgement) it is always glorifying violence (“gewaltverherrlichend” in German) since one doesn’t experience the violence itself.

Even if (war) video games were to be made “gorier”, bloodier, more brutal one still doesn’t experience losing someone, re-building a life in a country that has been bombed to ruins, or dealing with the aftermath such as physical wounds or mental trauma.
One of the big pushes for this came from Tipper Gore and slightly the Clinton Admin in the 90s. Do you think that was Fox News or Facebook?
FarmVille doesn’t turn people into farmers either. I wonder if we need a study for that.
It'd be more accurate to say that corn grows in many more places in North America than sugar cane. I was surprised to learn that vastly more pounds of sugar from cane is produced in the US (~32 million pounds a year) than corn syrup (~8 million pounds a year).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_industry_of_the_United_S...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup#Unite...
I have a corporate issued MacBook Pro and an HP Spectre that I bought for myself. The Spectre is better than the MacBook. Both have aluminum bodies, 4K screens, big touch pads, they are the same size, both have great performance.

The HP has a much better keyboard. So much better. It runs Linux, not quite perfectly but pretty darn well. I actually like that the HP has a touchscreen, it’s often way quicker to reach out and touch a spot on the screen than to maneuver the mouse pointer to that same spot and then click. The HP has a regular USB port so I don’t have to keep a USB-C adapter around. The charger isn’t a giant heavy wall wart that falls out of older outlets. It’s a bunch of little things like that.
Yeah, I played a bit of Dual Strike and enjoyed it also— my main complaint with it was that the slight 3D tilt on the gameboard mangles all that beautiful pixel art.

Have tried Wargroove (it was in a recent Humble Bundle) and it was fun, but agree that it's just not quite the same.
I think for that to work you need a strong public transport system (regular daily, frequent enough and comprehensive) as well as having multi-purpose buildings so that companies are mixed in housing, as well as green places and areas for people to meet, sit chat and go shopping.

Doctors, dentists, hairdressers, cafes, bakeries and flower shops all fit nicely with housing.
s/impressive/foolish/
I believe that recommendation is outdated and was rescinded.
In fairness, every pilot who's even mediocre should be well aware of MCAS, its issues and how to turn it off.

The real question is what else have Boeing half arsed?
Orbital decay depends on a satellite's particular orbital height to a huge extent. A satellite orbiting 250 km up might come down in a week. The same one at 500 km might take centuries.
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Fairphone have dozens of suppliers in China, some of them indirect, and they say in their own literature they can't directly vouch for every company in their supply chain.

They're in exactly the same boat as Apple. IMHO this is about China, not any one company.
I don't understand how people are fine with the TSA going through their luggage unmonitored for "omg terrorism" yet keeping a list of vaccinations for preventing a disease that has killed more people than all terrorists hits combined is dystopian.

All the conspiracy theories I've heard about the vaccine sound like child's play compared to a US airport.
There is also Librem 5 USA, but it's $2k: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa/.
Where do you think those calories come from?
It would be easier to just not do any business with any company in Xinjiang, but is that actually punishing the Uighur community who aren’t part of the forced labor? It might be better to focus the pressure on China as a whole, and at the international level. Or it might be more effective to punish companies in Beijing because they have the ear of the government.
Fun joke
Could you make an alternative to SteamDeck?

A 4x4 arrangement with some clear plastic buttons on top of each individual screen would be pretty useful. Especially if it was a preview of a specific video source.
Is it any different than any other forms of art (eg. movies, tv, books) that depict human cruelty?
I'm sure he won't starve, but that doesn't address the fact that he'll still have to pay tax on the vapourised "money", and I'm sure he'd feel pretty stupid about having thrown away millions of dollars.

I'm afraid I simply cannot see any benefit. Why not get half his salary in gold or TSLA? If he thinks bitcoin is so good, why doesn't he buy bitcoin after being paid in real money?
Nope. All fabricated. No amount of alcohol is beneficial.

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I make things for people... and if the tools don't work right, then I persistence hunt down the bugs and make the technology bend to my will.

The computer is not an object of worship... it is a tool users must deal with to get their jobs done... that tool should reliably and predictably work with as minimal fuss on their part as possible.

My language of choice is Lazarus/Free Pascal, but I'll do whatever is required to get the job done.
Yes, it's available on iPhone. The company is based in Czech republic and originally they were focused on Czech and Slovak market, but they cover the whole world. I haven't tried the navigation, I only use it mostly for navigation outside of cities for hiking - I can have the whole tourist map in my pocket and offline at any time.
^ this. You can show someone who’s afraid of flying that it’s the safest form of travel all you want, but you’re not going to convince them. Anxiety usually isn’t rational, so rational means of convincing don’t work.
As mentioned in the article, FileVault is practically enabled by default during setup. IIRC you have to go out of your way not to have it enabled.

> Because users are encouraged during setup to configure FileVault on new devices it is uncommon to see devices without it
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SF gets a lot of flak for housing - quite deservedly so - but we give a free pass to cities like Mountain View and Palo Alto. They have much much more restrictive zoning. Palo Alto outright bans a second storey. That’s where people go to work as well. They want to keep the offices there but not let the people live. What would be good is a tax system that’s distributed based on where people live nullifying the advantage of the lopsided advantage for favoring businesses over residents.
I'm absolutely terrified at the moment when my 3 year old son will get his hands on video games. So far we encourage outdoor play, playing with physical toys and very little screen time, etc. At some point some clash emerge (my son has a stubborn facet), a parent can guide only so much, kids do have to gain little autonomy at some point or at least prove it to themselves they do take some decisions. The problem is that lots of new games enforce really bad habits and any child can become a causality to dynamic. I will try to postpone that moment as much as possible and curate the content as to mitigate the problem. I remember when I got my first computer I was so fascinated by it that nothing my parents would say would stick but I got lucky, I got bored of games rather quickly and became interested in making them myself and that opened the gate to programming. The computer community seemed to be a lot more benevolent back then, now..
Cases and deaths are what's important? We're in a pandemic, the only way to beat that is getting people to change their behavior in order to stop the spread. Just because overall death rates aren't to your liking doesn't mean the media should report that everything is fine.
This is a non-issue. Submit something to osquery instead of trying to create drama.
Nobody tell them about napster yet!
As long as this persists it's a wide open attack vector for conspiracy theorists. Science has a credibility issue.
Especially since he references the Metro section... which is exactly that.
Lack of perfection does not mean you should give up everything.
Preach it brother.

Story of graft is as old as history.

But somehow I'm optimistic. Management and governance are technologies too. (h/t Peter Drucker) We can do better. We will do better.

How do we incentive desired outcomes? Ensure feed back loops are working? Thwart conflicts of interest? Try out new ideas, run experiments? Share best practices?

I've been wandering around for 20 years, hoping to meet other people (locally) who apply Drucker, Deming, Everett Rogers, etc. paradigms to policy nuts and bolts. Something like this, but for the close combat of actual work:

https://ssir.org/issue/winter_2021

I've started to read about participatory democracy (h/t David Graeber), but have yet to find people applying those strategies at work.

Last week, my politic & policy bestie turned me onto holocracy. I'm still chewing on it, am rather skeptical tbh, so won't share any links.

Meanwhile, we don't need to fix any and everything. It's enough to make some improvements, lick our wounds, and then do it all again.
The "different" part is that Bitcoin's value prop of being a store-of-value requires widespread adoption. This is a fairly big step in that direction, as Okung isn't just another tech entrepreneur adopting Bitcoin.

Getting paid in gold would be unremarkable, as that's been a standard for thousands of years (indeed, that's the entire point of gold). Stocks, likewise.
Great question and something I’ve been struggling with as well. A few things I like to do to make “down time” more productive:

- listen to podcasts and take notes, which I then turn into mini mind maps (it helps me remember concepts and linking ideas together)

- I do brand and marketing work, so I often use phone time to doodle early logo concepts, draft storyboards, start composing shots for photo shoots... etc. I find the constraints of the small screen quite interesting as it obliges me to veer towards simpler designs (I use Google Keep which allows for zooming in and out easily, and seamlessly integrates with the laptop version)

- whiteboarding (again in Google Keep or Miro) is also something I love to do on a phone, usually for processes and/or identity systems where I’d collate references for a projects into a single document for future use

- photo editing / story editing using VSCO and Over is a great way to use phone time productively. I often prepare visuals for blog posts or social stories that way,

- financial planning (probably less creative than the rest, but also a good way to spend phone time and many workflows are actually faster on mobile): I use a virtual bank (Monzo, in the U.K.) so I use phone time to label/categorise spend, visualise budgets, pay anything that needs paying and create simpler invoices with a Google Sheet template and pdf exports to Dropbox

Many more options, but these are my major uses. Looking forward to reading the other answers!
Encryption means speedy deletion so there is still value encrypting even if the key isn't protected. But that's probably not the reason for Apple always encrypting things with the key of the Secure Enclave. I think the reason for this design is to make the full system easier to reason about, which seems like best practice.
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I think web standards evolve faster than a single person can implement them.