skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great question. I run a productivity software startup, and my cofounder brought up the 4-day week idea. We opted not to pursue it. It came down to a few things:

- Onboarding / Collaboration overhead (this compounds)
An additional dev is one more to manage, one more to onboard, one more to keep happy, buy hardware and software licenses for, and all that for the same number of man-hours.

- Work compounds. A programmer working on a system or feature for 10 days does the deepest learning in days 7-10. The internals, nitty-gritty stuff. For a 3 day a week employee, the same insights are gained in week 4 (10 days) instead of week 2 (10 days). Of course, I used 10 days as an example, but true expertise is built and compounded over months. It doesn’t matter how many 3-day-a-week hires we have, this process won’t be sped up.

- Compensation / Performance - how do we do this in an equitable way? Again, comes down to compounding impact. If 5 day a week employee makes 5/8 of the impact at the same productivity rate as 3 day a week employee - does that mean they get promoted / rewarded at a different rate?

- Availability / Scheduling -
30 hours is about 3.5 work days a week. It’s an added pain to manage and track who is going to be working when. If your company uses a system for taxes, payroll, vacation accrual, insurance, etc, chances are it is built for 8 by 5 employees first and foremost.

- Various laws around part time and full time workers, based on hours in some jurisdictions. I think 28 hours is the cutoff here in Ontario?
> I find it interesting that the FDA is recommending 1 drink per day for adult males, meanwhile Europeans live longer than us and drink a lot, on average [1]

I don't see the contradiction in this. You can also make the conclusion that europeans are living longer than us despite their alcohol intake, but they can live even longer if they weren't drinking as much.
Not really, there is a compromise - it is not black and white. You can buy out of necessity, just don't over indulge or be complicit in their lies - hype compounds the problem by pumping up demand.
Apple is a capitalist enterprise; Apple can only afford to maximize profit — everything else is just window dressing.

Wokeness, philanthropy, environmental consciousness, branding, origin story, etc.; all of these things are viewed favorably by the cultural mode. Therefore, you should expect capitalists to appropriate them to distract from, or justify, the profits they make and the concentrated power they enjoy as a result (i.e. labor exploitation, control over consumer choices, influence in the market, lobbying for legislation, dictating the terms of contracts with vendors)

Apple isn’t the problem, it’s behaving how it’s supposed to in the market capitalist system that currently dominates the world. This cruelty is inevitable in capitalism.
> The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...

This doesn't say “prison labor is slavery”; it says that prison labor is allowed to be slavery. You should've provided some reference to e.g. a news article to back up your claim.

It's legal to paint yourself blue and write obscenities on your face and walk into a library, but that isn't evidence that anyone does it. (Likewise, it's legal to make people pay you fifty times the inflation-adjusted value of a loan you gave them – things being legal isn't evidence that they don't happen, which would be absurd.)
Perhaps they mean early as in 'for dinner'.

The official line is that humans may have only been in South America for a few centuries at that point, although there are some who think that there may have been an earlier wave of habitation.
It's not an issue with facial recognition. It's an issue with police and judicial procedures.

Blaming the tool makes no more sense than blaming the hammer for a nail in the wrong spot...
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Mortal Kombat was fine, I even went to see the movie.
It's funny how some folks have been trying to prove there's a link for 30 years now? And every step of the way there's really nothing to show for.

Reminds me of the Dungeons and Dragons moral panic of the 80's [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/us/when-dungeons-dragons-...
I've been thinking about this problem for a little bit. I think an app idea that has potential is a sort of 'wikipedia for manga translation'. Essentially you have some automated translator do a first pass, create rough translations. This is served to customers. All the readers, then, have the ability to move around the overlayed speech bubbles and edit the text inside them. For the most part, automated translation seems to capture a lot of high level stuffs, and the large number of community participants can fill in the details/broken translations using context, and additionally do whatever cleaning needs to be done.
In somewhat related news, R will be adding native pipe and lambda syntax:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25316608
Perhaps the OP's point was missed here.

Pointing out that no company can make the entire smartphone by themselves is all well and good. The OP was applying that wisdom to the "woke" culture Cook is seeking to solidify within Apple.

It's just as unrealistic for Apple to be woke as it is for them to make the whole phone by themselves. They love existing under that banner, though, because it succeeds in tricking many people into believing they can use iPhones and avoid being hypocrites.
Nice, IMO browsers have been the Achilles' heel in getting proper desktop experience out of RPi (not incl. 8GB variant) and other SBCs. I presume it has to with lack of optimizations in the browsers w.r.t to mainline Linux on ARM? As similar low spec (4GB) intel celeron fanless x86 Chromebook could offer much smoother browser experience.

Perhaps a browser such as Flow built for embedded hardware could address that.
You're right, the king probably had more booty. Remember though that the king's wealth is many standard deviations above average, so we have to compare him to somebody who is many standard deviations more attractive than average.

In the modern world, one standard deviation of physical attractiveness matters way more for attracting sexual/romantic partners than does one standard deviation of wealth, especially so for genuine attraction.
Adults in the US get universal single-payer health insurance at age 65, and that group is disproportionately white. They also point out that access to healthcare is required for a diagnosis that would place someone in the high-risk group. This is something you'd want to consider if you are in any way interested in evaluating institutional racism.

I think it is entirely fair to consider whether a policy institutionalizes that a person at high risk because of age is more important to save than person at high risk because of undiagnosed condition. .... or whether the groups that society expects to go to work in person should be protected over groups who have already been given social benefits that are intended to enable them to avoid going to work.

This is, as the powerpoint outlines, a purely ethical, and non-scientific evaluation of the situation. The scientific arguments are in their respective sections.

> But its recommendation is that "Ethics" outweighs "Science" (their terms, not mine)

I don't see this anywhere in the document.
> Perhaps Apple’s best commercial of all time is the one in which Jeff Goldblum explains how you set up an iMac to get online:

> Presenting three easy steps to the Internet. Step one: Plug in. Step two: Get connected. Step three… there’s no step three. There’s no step three!

I had completely forgotten about the Jeff Goldblum ad[1]. The spiritual predecessor to Step 3: PROFIT!, I suppose.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0QK0JfHzhg
We're talking about INT4/7 or bfloat TOPS, right? And if similar to other neural inference engines, vpus, tpus, etc. it's probably off except for heavy duty stuff and slow to power up again? Whilst repowering a matmul in-cpu block might be faster?

I don't see the need for an effort such as a matmul-dedicated instruction-set elsewhere? What's your guess?
As far as I can see they are not moving the goalpost. They simply asked to what mobile phone brand they can go to make things better.

Yes, the answer is: not one.
>.. independent thinkers, unless that's new code for outrage warrior.

Good one. Kinda similar to third rate marketers become thought leaders when they are on linkedin.
I've been using MacBook Pro with various Linux laptops in parallel for couple of years. Apple hardware and design are indeed exceptional. Great HDPI screen, awesome trackpad, like the keyboard despite all negative rumors.

But when I was looking for another laptop recently, I obviously ditched Apple and picked ThinkPad instead for following reasons:

Only two USB-C ports, in fact only one usable since the other one is occupied by charger. Compare that to ThinkPad having multiple USB-A and USB-C, full HDMI, SD card reader, even Ethernet and docking station. Not sure how Apple can be considered for professional use.

MacOS is not great. I've been using all operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux) and I miss package manager the most in MacOS. It takes a couple of clicks (or a single command (`apt-get install`) to install trusted software on Linux. In MacOS world it's still pretty normal to visit a random website a download unverified DMG installer. That's like being stuck in 90s and I feel very unsafe doing that.
Because it's not about the historical injustices. Those people don't care about injustices. They care about looking good and moral.
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It was almost 100% the latter (built the app first then did SEO).

Back when I started I didn't know anything about SEO or even how to know if something was "low competition". I only figured out how to do keyword research several months later. The one thing I did before building was Google the terms I wanted to rank for and confirm that I could build something better than what was already on the first page. But that was more about looking into competing products than anything SEO-related.
Sort of... there are still plenty of healthy people that only didn't die due to intubation.

I'm curious to see the numbers there as well. If we vaccinate the old, then resume life as normal, we're going to overwhelm intubation machines.
The guidelines are just meant as, well, guidelines. They aren't meant to be putting forward an argument to convince anyone.

They're the results of the "Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee", which does contain references, methods, etc and can be found here:

https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/2020-advisory-committee-re...
YouTube is now a hostile space for creators of any political or social creed that create "edge" worthy content. Plain and simple.

If you're a trans or LGBTQ creator your content is not safe. If you produce "hacking" or firearms videos your content is not safe.

Maybe some day the millennial generation will end the boomer era mantra of passing legislation federally or adopting policies that censoring content for the children TM.
> Isn't 5 software developers @ $80k / 30hrs just the same as 4 @ $100k / 38hrs?

No, there's overhead that comes with just having someone as an employee. That overhead doesn't scale linearly with the employee's working hours. I don't think that this is the primary reason for not getting responses though. Why would a company do it? And why would they listen to a random person who contacted them? Did you just sent out an email to random contact@company.com address? Do you understand how this looks to anyone who receives that kind of communication? I suspect that you're missing a lot of knowledge about the internal power structure in each company which is necessary to make a real change. And there need to be a lot of strong incentives for any big change to happen.

If a year ago, you sent every software company in the world an email asking them to move to remote work, I suspect that you would change 0 minds too. The incentive from the pandemic had to be "work remotely or not at all" for many companies' power structures to open up to the idea.
I read a book on Percy Harrison Fawcett (forget the name) and it always amazed me how hard it was for people to survive there. And by survive I mean just to take enough sustenance to keep going. It looks lush, but there's little there for humans (who are unfamiliar) to eat, and what there is to eat is hard to get or catch.
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I looked into the Uighur detention story a couple weeks ago and found very little in terms of substance. Most sources either traced back to the US State Department, which obviously shouldn't be trusted, or Adrian Zenz, a weirdo with a religious (literally) obsession with destroying China. It comes across very much like propaganda to decrease China's world standing and justify increased aggression economically and politically.
>If you truly want to get healthy visit any naturopathic doc

The wikipedia article for "Naturopathy" doesn't inspire confidence.

>Naturopathy or naturopathic medicine is a form of alternative medicine that employs an array of pseudoscientific practices branded as "natural", "non-invasive", or promoting "self-healing". The ideology and methods of naturopathy are based on vitalism and folk medicine, rather than evidence-based medicine (EBM).[2] Naturopathic practitioners generally recommend against following modern medical practices, including but not limited to medical testing, drugs, vaccinations, and surgery.[3][4][5][6] Instead, naturopathic practice relies on unscientific notions, often leading naturopaths to diagnoses and treatments that have no factual merit.[7][8]

>Naturopathy is considered by the medical profession to be ineffective and harmful, raising ethical issues about its practice.[7][9][10] In addition to condemnations and criticism from the medical community, such as the American Cancer Society,[11] naturopaths have repeatedly been denounced as and accused of being charlatans and practicing quackery.[7][12][13][14][15][16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturopathy
If you think violent depictions in media won't make people more violent then how can you then think that sexual depictions make people more sexual or not? People don't have violent encounters in life (or any even that could escalate into violence)? Really?

Seems like you're making the OP's point, something is special about sex in your mind.
Analysis of data coming from computers (logs coming from servers in this case) is guaranteed to have a structure that makes it easier to process, compared to data coming from more organic sources (reports collected by people, measurements from instruments, etc...) which are closer to the domain Brooks would have dealt with.

When dealing with these problems today, the greatest challenge isn't writing a script; it's deciding whether data points that don't fit the model invalidate the data or the model.

Moreover, we've spent five decades systemizing the former. Doing the latter is more challenging than ever and fraught with controversy.
I doubt there's any kind of direct link between video games and people becoming violent, but I do think it reflects poorly on our societies that we seem to be fine with young kids shoot each other in the face with realistic weapons in CS:GO and Call of Duty but if you show one women's nipple it's unacceptable.

While it probably doesn't directly incite violence in well balanced individuals, it does in my opinion trivialize war and glorify armed combat.

I'm reminded of that French soldier who "cosplayed" Ghost from Call of Duty while on duty in Mali.

I guess it's not really new, literature always told stories of war and it's an extension of that, but a book and a game are not the same thing.

I wish that was what the discussion was about, instead of this dumb tabloid-tier "Doom creates serial killers" narrative.
Those all can matter. But responsible vs irresponsible also matters. Given the same external circumstances, responsible behavior should lead to better outcomes on average.

I explicitly deny that we are completely at the mercy of external forces. Our choices have effects that matter.
To readers that do not understand the joke: in a fan translation of the anime Death Note, the translator decided to translate the line "Just as planned" as "Just according to keikaku" with a translators note above it, saying that keikaku means plan. While back in the day, japanese words were often included with translators notes, this wasn't needed here and obviously a joke. This was only done when the word carried special meaning that couldn't be accurately translated using english words. Honorifics like -san or -sama were prominent examples.

(I kinda miss the times when common japanese words were not translated. Current translations often look weird (esp honorifics) and since the rise of Crunchyroll and subsequent demise of fansubs, there isn't much choice left for different translations)
'sli stated, "It was major news that prisoners were sent to fight fires in California for little to no pay." This makes it sound as if they were forced to do a dangerous job against their will. As 'stickfigure pointed out, they could have chosen to sit in a cell instead. The fact that nobody goes to prison voluntarily is beside the point.
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Then by extension if you buy any computer, consumer electronics, smartphone, manufactured toy, etc, you are complicit in human slavery.

There are almost no computer or smartphone companies which do not participate in these markets. Samsung, Dell, HP, Lenovo (which is a Chinese company yet oddly gets ignored every time these discussions come up), Microsoft, LG, etc etc etc. All of them participate in these same industries. Most of them get little or no scrutiny even though they use many of the same supply lines Apple does and have far less in terms of transparency about their supply chain.
Hatred came out in 2015, and was effectively banned in some regions. A true test on this topic will never happen in the public, Adults Only rated-games only get so far.

"Mike Splechta of GameZone questioned the game's timing and how it could become the "next scapegoat" in a climate that already held video games responsible for school shootings and other violence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatred_(video_game)#Reception
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Hands down the best public transit app I've ever used (including Citymapper, Transit, Apple Maps, Google Maps) was an experimental app developed by a Google incubator: the 'Pigeon' app by Area 120.

It graphically showed which parts of the subway were having issues alongside user reports of what's going on. >90% of the time, users would report issues (e.g. train had its brakes triggered at station X, no trains at station Y for the last 15 minutes, etc.) tens of minutes before the MTA (NYC's transit authority) would.

Rather unfortunately, Google shut down Pigeon back in June 2020. I would've paid tens of dollars per year to have it continue being in operation.

https://www.slashgear.com/pigeon-crowdsourced-transit-app-ex...
Forced labor is slavery, full stop. This was recognized by the men who wrote the 13th amendment. It is not "definitely different". And no, paying a slave does not make it 'not slavery.' Slaves have been paid paltry sums some of the time throughout history. It's still slavery.
Is there a way to switch it to using miles instead of kilometers?
> Apple's supply chain is more than 1,000 companies.

And whose choice was that? Apple has chosen to do business with all of these companies and they have chosen to consistently do business in China even despite the long history of China's violations of human rights abuses. Of course Apple is responsible for their choices of who to do business with!
Yes, because that's a separate/orthogonal (and much more controversial point).

I just don't want anarchists to be fooled into supporting the warmongering US propaganda.

i.e. do you agree that the state should have the power to do what's described above?

I was leaning to say more "no". I basically used to be more of an anarchist. That was probably (also) because I was disappointed in our cronyist, capitalist, disfunctional governments...

I'm now finding myself as more of a statist, after realizing how much good is being accomplished in China, and how arbitrary and ridiculous are the falsehoods that the US propaganda is pushing.
No option to share PHP code? The code editor supports only a small set of languages.
Yes, Facebook deciding to register the trademark a year later is the scummy part. The trademark is of course useless - it's not like they sell Presto - it is just petty bullshit to fuck Starburst and the community over.

And of course, everyone is having to put up with it, since Facebook has unlimited money and this can't lose any legal battle, even over ridiculous retrospective trademark for open source software.
That's wierd dichotomy. I remember back in the 1990s when I had subscriptions to on the order of 8 "dead tree" magazines. If you had asked me "are they for entertainment or to make money", I don't think I could have answered that. They were a part of my continuing personal education, my personal identity. Entertainment? Probably. Making money? Some of them probably contributed. But really ... it can be a lot more complicated than that.
If that happens I know of a few young companies who will step in and fill the void at a cheaper price.
My experience is quite different: if I don't wear them I am in control when I get tired. I get tired when I need to focus too much on lipreading and actually following the conversation. If there is nothing worth listening to I don't get tired.

I'm used/adapted to go without them, so basically forcing myself to "re-adjust" my brain by wearing them all the time would make my hearing actually far worse than it feels. It's really weird, each doctor who examined my hearing was amazed how well I actually hear without any aids with my condition. So, I was good with wearing aids only when I really needed them, but with teleconferencing it doesn't work anymore and would be worse if I was used to wearing aids.
Only time will tell and we can be hopeful but a map that only covers part of any particular country is not very useful for navigation except as a proof of concept.

As it is it’s more like the 3D Tour feature of Maps. A great novelty but not useful outside of a very narrow usecase. That’s been around for a few years now but is still only available in a handful of locations.
This is an early stage situation. Once the supply pipeline starts running smoothly, having some number of doses in reserve will still be needed, but not as many.

Combat logistics for ammo has the same problem. The person in charge of vaccine distribution planning is an Army logistics general, who will see that.
First off - job well done! Plenty of people don't even make it to an exit, let alone have equity worth selling or options worth buying. Spend a bit to celebrate but definitely make the rest of that money work for you.

I'm from the U.S. but don't live in the U.K. , get a good attorney and don't cheap out. Seeking council both in the U.S. and the U.K. is likely best to ease the tax situation and understand what stands between you and your freshly minted moolah ($).