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Yeah I think it takes a special mind to use today's dev environment, but the distance from where we are today, to an interrogative system creator (which is a pretty cool idea btw) is eons; there has to be something more in the middle.

I think it's always going to take someone with a systems-thinking mind to engineer a system that's any good, but lots of people have that, people who created their own business and thought through all the steps in their system and engineered the whole thing in their head. That's systems engineering, just not with code. But there's so much knowledge that's required to go from zero to custom software deployment that I'd characterize as non-essential complexity, today.

Yeah I think programmers tend to make tools for programmers, for themselves and the way they think, which is totally natural and to be expected. But man these poor users.

It's not so bad when they're using mainstream programs with millions of dollars in dev budgets behind them, but when you get further down the long-tail it just gets so awful and users are so helpless. The software an insurance agent uses, the charting app a therapist uses, the in-house warehouse management system people spend their entire day using, where if they could just make this field auto-focus or a million tiny other things, they would save so much time and frustration.

Generally speaking, users edit data and programmers edit schema, and never the two shall cross. Users execute code but only programmers change it. What hope do we have of democratizing programming when these roles are about as foundational to computers as it gets? What would we have to unlearn to change this?
Wow. No words. Thank you for sharing this.
Why? What purpose does that serve? If he re-butts one there's half a million others ready to take it's place.

This kind of thing only gets solved one way. And it's not pretty.
I like really simple ones.

I used to just throw my clothes on the floor before bed, and my New Years Resolution last year was to stop doing that. Sometimes I slip up but I've kicked the habit.

This year's is to stop ordering food. If I REALLY want it, I have to go walk to the place!
In fact this has recently been studied.

>https://sciencenordic.com/body-death-denmark/frequent-blood-...

> A new study concludes that regular blood donors are not at a greater risk of a premature death than those who rarely donate blood.
I see (at least) two technological trends that may strongly influence "important" problems and that may be interesting to compare:

"3d-printification" or democratisation of manufacturing capabilities. When advanced manufacturing become cheap, generic and small scale you need less capital to create and design important hardware.

"UX-ification" of advanced programming practices or democratisation of software creation capabilities. When advanced software design, composition and implementation becomes cheap, generic and scalable you need less capital to create/design/implement software and to be in control of the software you want/need.

When those things come together the importance of capital will greatly diminish for some vital parts of life. It will not solve all problems but some. And maybe create other problems. But it should at the very least greatly impact "important" problems.

The "UX-ification" of software creation is the part where software engineers can be part of.

Disclaimer: Perhaps I have a naive assumption underlying all this - the idea that increased flexibility eventually "will lead" to apparent simplicity. But isn't living organisms kind of a proof of this? The amount of complexity that an animal needs to understand to continue living and reproduce is dwarfed by the complexity of the animal itself. Well, also cars and computers.

Something like that. Maybe. Goodnight.
I disagree partially. Depending on the size of the corporation holding the brand, and thus available capital, it may be chump change for white/greenwashing via advertisement campaigns, cross media product placement, lawsuits, and employing whole armies of "reputation management* trolls...err professionals flooding any site with positive comments, burying anything else.
Implying people who disagree with you only do so because they are like criminals is not a very open mindset.
Your units are funny. Using W-hr (energy) and then making it a rate by making it per year which gets you back to power. You could have just said, “the US consumes energy at a rate of 450 GW”.

There’s no need to introduce hrs and years to the mix. Watts describe precisely what you’re attempting to quantify.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=4+PW+hr%2Fyear+in+GW&o...
It was easy to get 10/10.
>That's an understandable reaction if you just look at the raw USD value, but that's very far from the full picture. They are not pitiful when you start adding the costs for housing, healthcare, transportation and the rest of the things that you need to live.

At $45,284 the US has the highest household net disposable income per capita in the OECD (http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/united-states/), where "disposable income" (http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=46) accounts for healthcare and government benefits.
Also (as someone with a PhD in a PL-related area) I think the effort to implement a real programming language and drive adoption is a much more significant contribution than writing a dozen academic papers describing the theory behind its features. The academic research is helpful but often people say "not a new idea" and imply that the real work was done by whoever first wrote down the idea, which is often quite wrong IMHO.
Just to be clear my intended point (and the judges point) was that the justice system is broken, not that punishment is a worthwhile goal.
Yet another related syllogism:

1. We tried X as a solution for Y.

2. X didn’t work, because the basis is fundamentally flawed.

3. We endlessly superficially tweak X to try to get it to work and it fails every time but we claim X is still good because it’s “never really been tried.”
Is this something that is merely against prison taboos, or would agreeable people in this situation also decide, "It's better for us all to have to hold our poop 23 hours a day than to just bow to the indignity and go when we need to go?" I'm anosmic so for me it would be a no brainer that you go when you need to. The toilet's right there.

Prison food probably means you have to break the taboo some days no matter what.
I work at a company where every junior PM is has a right to put any feature he wants on any piece of screen real estate. Every idea about how to build it is good. Every implementation is good enough to launch. Every launch is successful. We do not have the concept of "no." We do not have the concept of failure.

It avoids a lot of the politics and culture issues that Apple is infamous for, but I think it's also the reason our products could never be mistaken for theirs.
On Page 1, there's a chart comparing low resolution gaming to a Core i5, and the Zhaoxin chips are running DoTA at just 20% the framerate of the Core i5 integrated chips.

On Page 2, the Zhaoxin KX-U6780A is compared to a Core i3 and Ryzen 3, and underperforms both of them.

On the Page 3 gaming benchmarks, it often performs around AMD A10-9700[0].

The one place is does seem reasonably competitive with a 7th gen Core i5-7400 is in the 7-zip compression benchmark on Page 4, where the eight cores are put to use against a four core Intel chip that doesn't have hyperthreading enabled.

[0] https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/7th-gen-a10-9700-apu

[1] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/97147/i...
The median age of employees at all the top tech companies
Generally, deterrents such as extremely harsh prison sentences have no evidence that they're actually effective. Many nonviolent crimes such as the kind associated with addiction will occur as a result the illness. Other violent crimes such as murder occur compulsively, and therefore do not respond to rational thinking such as "jail really sucks bro".

Think of it like this though: If harsh, dehumanizing punishments were an effective deterrent, crimes would've gone up when we stopped chopping off people's limbs for stealing, and in fact we'd have more stealing in modern day than at any time in history because public mutilation is not an acceptable punishment now.
Idyll (https://idyll-lang.org/) is a very promising tool in this field.
Personally, I made mine because I use vim and was sick of switching workflows to check my todo list.

You can read about it here: https://jerseyfonseca.com/projects/bujo
Searching for a symbol is not pulling any data. There is no audit info on the page like contact, address, team etc
How many page views do you have?
Peter M. Neumann has died
The author made a comment about GDPR privacy violations, but those are European laws that largely don't apply to American companies, especially related to internal HR matters.

While I don't want to dismiss the complaints out-of-hand, it does seem like there's just a touch of exaggeration going on.

Perhaps it's just a matter of perspective, but many of the complaints described could be chalked down to someone inexperienced being thrown into the deep end in a large organisation. E.g.: the complaint about "not knowing what I was doing for days" is almost laughable, when in my experience new hires at large orgs aren't properly informed about what they're doing for months!

The racism and physical abuse of course is inexcusable, but unfortunately all too common...
Tools like nMigen do exist where you write a Python program that generates the Verilog for you. You can also run formal verification on it. I’m sure Intel and AMD have their own in house software systems.
How would 2019 data help us understand the impact of 2020 on the comic industry?
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This reminds me of "Why I Hope To Die At 75", https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/10/why-i-h... - do you agree with the reasons there?
Seriously. Whatever happened to social reinforcement and shaming? If the friends posted videos of themselves drunk driving or hurting animals, people would have no problem replying "Dude, what the hell?? That's fucked up and you're not my friend anymore." But they post themselves horsing around partying, putting themselves and others at risk during a worldwide deadly pandemic? All of a sudden it's not cool to shame people. WTF is that about?

My friends know our household is pretty strict about gatherings. We've maybe had a handful of people over, mostly one at at time, and only when it was totally necessary. My parents knew better than to even mention whatever their crazy Thanksgiving and Christmas plans were--they knew they could count us out because I was very clear with them throughout the year.

Honestly I'm not that torn and none of this weighs heavily on me because I'm not on Facebook or any other social media. I don't get bombarded with pictures of loved ones acting irresponsibly and taking risks with their lives every day, so out of sight, out of mind. My wife on the other hand is on facebook and insta all day and took 2020 much worse. Another example of social media's wonderful redeeming qualities.
This is a huge struggle for so many founders, you're definitely not alone in this so don't get down on yourself. Wish I had good advice beyond just saying that building it is only half the battle.

Mind if I ask what you're building?
> The laws from 20th-century America are still on the books and are still being enforced.

Many of them were ruled unconstitutional by Brandenburg v. Ohio. Legal conditions for immigration and naturalization are an interesting legal problem though.
If China is able to snatch me up off US soil, that’d be quite an achievement.
Farmville and Harvest Moon share a theme and maybe even an aesthetic but are in different genres. Harvest Moon is a single player sim game. Farmville is an async multiplayer invest/express. Zynga popularized the genre.

The closest "rip off" to Harvest Moon would be Stardew Valley, but no one ever refers to it that way because rip off is not a useful term for conveying taxonomy. Rip off is only useful for displaying derision towards genres the writer doesn't enjoy.
If you didn't see the Corporate-Communist Convergence, you just haven't been paying attention.

It's like that old joke about Bill Gates going to hell with the punchline "That was the demo version!", crossed with the old Soviet joke "But Leonid, what if the Communists come back?"

Communism isn't an economic system. It's a political system with a long sales pitch about how everything's going to be equal and prosperous and stuff after the communists get absolute power.

I'd add the caveat that it's actually worked for China, because they got lucky and the United States decided to commit Suicide by Destruction of Manufacturing Sector, in China's favor.
Sadly your prediction was correct, but I think your analysis of the dynamics of employers and employees is a reasonable one. A number of writers have made some insightful comparisons between the modern corporation-based economy and the historic feudal system:

https://bizshifts-trends.com/mutation-medieval-feudalism-mod...
Gosh - I hope that isn’t a prerequisite to greatness?

How does someone even get the human and financial capital to run projects like this? I guess your first attempt with the first founding team has to ‘hit.’

Otherwise, how can you afford to triple headcount, management, etc?
How can I control the Nyxt browser with the file system?
Doesn't that apply equally to every single law ever written? In a just world maybe the incumbents would pay something, but "somebody found a new way to hurt people, and it wouldn't be fair to everyone else who also want to hurt people but haven't yet" doesn't really address the actual problem - that people are being hurt.
I take it you've used Source Trail? Are there any operations you particularly like using it for? Are there any you wish it could do, but it wasn't able to?

I built https://twitter.com/PredragGruevski/status/13447256045208780... just for fun as an exploration of this space, and I'm wondering where the limits are :)
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And also, it assumes we can identify all/most of the partiers ... and that vaccinating them won't create more parties with unvaccinated people.
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All of these seem like natural expected results of designing and developing something in secret to the level that Apple takes it.

When only a few people even know something exists, you can't very well test it properly.

Or maybe there is something else going on in the case of the headphones, like Apple execs thinking they know everything and ignoring the expertise that may actually exist within the organization in the form of Beats employees.
Nice! The world needs more literate assembler programs.
Crippling depression.
Incredible, that's the kind of passion project I was thinking of when I posted! So cool to be in that position to potentially help a lot of people..

Know little about patents but I imagine it's something you want to do earlyish in your industry. Do you have anyone to turn to to help make it a reality? Making it a team effort may help motivate you when you're feeling down.
A Few Too Many
This has got the be one of the most delusional things I’ve read here
I can’t talk specifics about CDC as I’m european but this way of acting was present in most of the countries around the world and I think it’s somewhat safe to think that it decreased masks demand to a certain point (1%? 20%? 30%?). Even in solid democracies with high trust like Finland they lied so that people wouldn’t hoard that much.

Also I IMHO doubt that Fauci didn’t know about mask effectiveness - sure, maybe he didn’t know the very specifics but it was kind of obvious back then it wasn’t going to harm and one could infer that it’d probably help somewhat (nowadays it’s clear). IMHO all authorities just agreed to transmit a similar message around the world so they could in the meantime arrange more mask orders and sort out the distribution as production speeded up while avoiding massive riots and/or poor masks made at home that could’ve been worse than nothing.
For those who were wondering here’s the US recidivism rates as of 2018.

Smells like success...

- An estimated 68% of released prisoners were arrested within 3 years, 79% within 6 years, and 83% within
9 years.

- Almost half (47%) of prisoners who did not have an arrest within 3 years of release were arrested during years 4 through 9.

- More than three-quarters (77%) of released drug ofenders were arrested for a non-drug crime within 9 years.

- Forty-four percent of released prisoners were arrested during the frst year following release, while 24% were arrested during year-9.

- Eighty-two percent of prisoners arrested during the 9-year period were arrested within the frst 3 years.

Source: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/18upr9yfup0514.pdf

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Sorry friend :(. Here to talk if you need it!
To my aesthetic sense, virtually every “brutalist” structure feels authoritarian and dystopian to me. It is not only a good architectural style for prisons, but for any other building that is built with the intention of resembling a prison, which is what makes it so useful for government offices and the like.
> it’s not popular because it’s not needed right now

Dubai, a wealthy city of four million on Persian Gulf surrounded by the vast Arabian Desert, sources its water almost exclusively through desalination.
[This comment previously contained an assumption that reducing poverty reduces crime rates. A poster commented that there isn't as much of a correlation as this comment stated so I removed it.]
Amphetamine changed the default.
Sounds like you're an algorithms guy, and the other coders didn't have the background needed for understanding their use?

I'm self taught, and for many years didn't know about algorithms, big-O notation, and similar. You can do a lot of stuff without that knowledge, but there are definitely some areas that require it.
In my opinion they made the right choice here -- that is a much different behaviour than any other kind of menu bar icon has and it would be inconsistent with every other app and the OS itself.

It's a neat idea but that is just not the use case the menu bar was designed around and I don't think it makes sense for individual apps to go against the current in that way
Another Amazon Webstore Fail?
I agree, in 15 years at MSFT I've had mostly good experiences. The worst I've seen could only be described as "mildly annoying".

If any manager behaved like the article described, I don't see how the team would get anything done, plus their MSFT poll score would quickly get them into trouble.
A little further on, the article calls them apple’s “sleep” headsets, which I assume is meant to be sleek. Not exactly quality proof checking.
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Downsizing our current company has given me some more free time (which is bittersweet, as it seems to signal the beginning of the end for us, but liberating at the same time) to pursue some non-career oriented goals. I’m learning statistics and probability. I’ve found that learning an academic subject, without the academic pressure, is a very productive way to learn for me. Doing the exercises feel more like a rigor of learning rather than for a grade, which is a refreshing and unfamiliar feeling for me.
It was “centered on” those things, not “around”.
Look you can't expect them to invent something exotic like conformal coating, and then use it on a cheap throw-away $900 device like an iphone do you?

We have to have some understanding and reasonable expectations for poor Apple just struggling to make ends meet.
Don’t work overtime?
If they were ineffective but people thought they were effective they'd act like they were effective and go do things that would get them infected, falsely believing the mask would protect them.

They appear to have turned out to be effective (FYI: I've warn masks every time I've been outside since 2020/3/16 so I'm certainly on the side of masks)

Will you downvote this because it shows a logical flaw, not a judgement, but it you probably disagree with it?
I'm an employee of Apple and am appalled at the behaviors described in this article. I'm also unsure of what I can do to help here for similar reasons. That being said, I hope this person seeks some professional help to sort themselves out after this experience.

Not to get political but this is one reason that employment and healthcare shouldn't be so inextricably linked.
Who mentioned communism? Not I.
Was about to mention this.
Some writers capitalize nouns referring to archetypes.
Uhm, many sellers on Aliexpress offer Airmail too, you know? Not even exorbitantly expensive, per batch, not per part. Pre-Covid I ordered some light things, during my late night, and the day after tomorrow it arrived at my door via DHL. That was unexpected. Was about 35EUR for the premium. Didn't really matter, because equivalent parts from elsewhere would have been about 300EUR more.
> someone who has literally signed up to HN so that they could share a few paragraphs about their life

Hmmm, I think we're coming at this from different places.

Personally, I have no problem at all with people coming to HN to share their life experiences. For me, that helps my understanding of the world. :)
> The whole thing is an abomination. It serves no useful purpose to society to subject most criminals to prison

The purpose of prison is not reform. It's not even punishment or deterrence. The purpose of prison in the US is:

1) First and foremost it is a profit center. Caging human beings is a multi billion dollar industry in the US.

2) A storage facility for political dissidents and out groups. We just make up laws to target certain groups we don't like, and use that as pretext to lock them away (you know, that pesky first amendment always getting in the way).

3) To reify the carve out in the 13th Amendment which states:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Gotta keep slavery alive and well in the USA.
I've never been able to understand why Apple thinks they need to be so secretive. Most other companies do just fine without pretending that they're working on life-changing secrets that are worthless if they are leaked.
Which is pretty strange given that you see can see clearly a vast spectrum of different mental capabilities (from handicap to genius) your entire life. I guess it flies in the face of cultural virtues about how hard work will set you free.