skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed I propose the standard definition of productivity used in economics departments, business schools, and thousands of textbooks, news articles and the like, including those written by people, like Brynjolfsson, quoted in the article.

Seems a lot easier to refer to papers, statistics and the like when you use the same terminology everyone else does.
I used this as my Computer for a Month
My opinion (and I don't insist that I'm right) is that you've got to go back to Backus' Turing award paper[1] to ground a definition of FP, and he was specifically talking about an algebraic approach. This is something that seems to get overlooked when people talk about FP, but I believe it's even more important than, say, referential transparency.

[1] https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/backus_0703524.cfm then click on "ACM Turing Award Lecture" or just -> https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1283933&type=pdf
PVC and ABS are used in water pipes, PET is used in bottles. It seems unlikely that these bacteria would have the ability to break down 3 completely different types of ‘plastic’.
I've worked in a couple non-tech places, usually either everyone has crappy $300 bargain bin laptops, if the laptop is just used for a frontdesk role or for accessing some websites, or everyone has something similar to an Inspiron or IdeaPad with an i5 caliber CPU (almost surely less than $700 looking at current prices). In the latter case usually the executives/managers have Macbooks.

I know both my GP doctor (hospital) and specialty doctor (private practice) use bog standard midrange Windows laptops that can't possibly cost more than $700. Once you get past the $700 mark you're entering premium territory like XPS/Spectre/ThinkPad.
There is no tool in the world that will make you good at something you don't know.

If you allow me a story, I sail on a kind of boat, called a squib. For the foresail, eg the sail that is in front of the mast, it has the regular sheets, a Cunningham, a halyard tensioner and barber haulers. The squib is a very easy boat to sail, notoriously hard to sail fast.

Complaining about AWS being complicated, is the same as complaining the squib is complicated, just because it gives you options. I don't have to use all those controls, I still can get from a to b without using them. But if I want to win the race, I have to understand what they do and use them appropriately.
Staining is a treatment. So is waxing, or varnishing.

I’m sure some people leave their wood furniture unfinished but it’s certainly not the standard, and not how you make them last.
-Back in the day when file sharing was new, I won two rounds of beer from my friends in university - the first after I tried what I dubbed hardcore backups (Tarred, gzipped and pgp'd an archive, slapped an avi header on it, renamed it britney_uncensored_sex_tape[XXX].avi or something similar, then shared it on WinMX assuming that as hard drive space was free and teenage boys were teenage boys, at least some of those who downloaded it would leave it to share even if the file claimed to be corrupt.

It worked a charm.

Second round? A year later, when the archive was still available from umpteen hosts.

For all I know, it still languishes on who knows how many old hard drives...
Isn't that what Twitch is for?
> Mistake after mistake because of bad information either put into the computer, or codes being misinterpreted.

To note, in the olden days, mistakes written in your record or misinterpretations (e.g.took the wrong record from the cabinet) would just have been a fact of life and nobody might even notice. Ms Wilson and Ms Wiston just shouldn't have been in the same hospital at the same time.

As you say everything was more flexible, more fuzzy. If you wanted the world to look orderly you'd quickly sweap under the rug the misaligned bits or disappear what you don't want there.

This is also why you use cash and paper register if you need your restaurant's finances to look pristine on paper while still racking in money that doesn't need to be accounted.
Well for one you can give the government full control to freeze your funds whenever they want
I would suggest that GraphQL queries wrapped in quotes aren't bad. I personally don't see the point of using GraphQL client libraries at all.

If you interpolate parameters into your query, then there are yucky quoting issues, but GraphQL allows clients to pass both a query and accompanying variables for that very reason, and users are encouraged to use variables.
> If anyone wants to suggest a better (i.e. more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31492789:

> "Bing search contract prohibits DDG browser from blocking Microsoft tracking scripts by default."
Seems immoral to give it to the bottom 10% of people in the US, who are relatively wealthy compared to the rest of the world. Why not give $15,000 each to the 300 million poorest people in the world, or $5000 to the 1 billion poorest?
Is there a similar tool that a non-security expert could use on the Mac?
Orchestrations that promise they are “cloud-agnostic” like Kubernetes in fact are also bound to vendor lock-ins due to services they are run on.

This makes a pretty sound argument that “cloud-agnostic” solution is never going to be built.

Its bad for cloud-providers business and so they will never unify.
>Could you imagine having to go through hundreds of filing cabinets and massive systems just to get information about a customer?

Yes, things are much faster now. But having to manually scan an entire office of files sequentially was never a thing.

The files were alphabetized, indexed, collated. Clerks knew what they were doing.

In digging through my home state of Indiana's Marriage records, they had an ingenious system that did a fair bit of error correction and sped up retrieval of information by orders of magnitude. This system goes back to the 1800s, consists of an index, and sequentially recorded Marriage Licenses, bound in the same book. Entries were indexed by both the groom and brides last name, which meant in most cases, you could recover from a single error. Worst case, you had to scan that one book for the County, for that year, or fraction thereof. If you knew the date, that made it much faster as well.
The estimate I've seen is that 25 million tons of plastic are added per year. That much carbon is added to the atmosphere every 6 hours.

Plastic in the oceans is not a worrying amount of carbon, it's just a worrying amount of plastic.

Even if you burned every single kilo of plastic produced, that's still "only" 380 million tons a year, or about 4 days worth of CO2.
It's interesting to see everyone's different views on Docker. Here you (at least to my reading) suggest that people who need simplicity should just chuck their app in a Docker container, but elsewhere I've seen it portrayed as something you shouldn't touch until you have an infrastructure team.

Maybe I'm interpreting this wrong and the HN-consensus path is something like bare VPS => Docker => use AWS directly and tweak everything how you want it?
OMG, thank you so much! That's a huge relief.

I actually started boycotting Zoom meetings where I can. If anyone sends me a zoom invitation and I know that they are not forced by having to be available for larger audiences I suggest them to use basically anything else.

I don't know why, but from the first time I visited their website until today, I have the feeling I can't trust the company.
The worst offense is perhaps that we've evolved quite intuitive languages that would impeccably serve most con/prosumer needs as far as "mostly static but smartly architected" configurations are concerned.

Python, Go, even Scratch (for a 100% GUX)… And among the many pros, error handling is enough to warrant the change from markup.

But IMHO here's the one barrier: people need to stop thinking of an Information System (IS) as a collection of machines, and move one level of abstraction above to consider said IS as the unit, and machines as subs of sort (subsystems, components, modules, call it what you want). Conceptually, your "main" space is the IS, everything else is modules down the namespace hierarchy. We need to think of machines as we used to think of programs, and think of IS's as we used to think of machines. In the UNIX philosophy, any application is a collection of programs, just as an IS-as-code is a collection of machines-as-software-modules (basically feature libraries for "main" to use).

When that paradigm comes, you'll be able to simply "import" some subsystem (say Elastic Search, whatever machines in the IS) and add that (as a class, method, whatever) to all your existing objects, because the concept of "interfaces" (quite literally the basis of interoperability, dating back forever in computing) will be _native_ to your IS model in a Turing-complete paradigm.

Not sure my wording made sense to non-programmers (cue: "quotes" are technical terms, not general meaning), but I'm too lazy to write a layman expose.
But that's precisely why the "correction" will have to be much steeper for Fed to rein in inflation. Fed cannot magically fix the supply side: they can't control Putin or lockdown in China. The only way to bring inflation way down is by dampening demand. To dampen demand Fed essentially would like see the stock market collapse, the extra liquidity that has been injected for the past 10 years need to be evaporated so people will feel impact to bring down demand.
I know it’s probably too simplistic, but this interview really resonated with me:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/05/why-this-computer-sci...

In all honesty I can see people being enthusiastic about crypto as a “get rich quick” scheme (at the expense of less fortunate people but soit) - but how people can see crypto as the future of money with a worldwide ~10 TPS throughput and every transaction on a public blockchain is beyond me.
This isn't how we engage debate on hacker news.

Please take this kind of argument elsewhere.
Yes, actually. This looks like a realistic/practical path. Had no idea this was a thing.
I mentioned it in another comment, but while that does lower the bandwidth of a single frame, its not actually an issue. There's several DRM techniques that can survive a crappy camera recording in a theater.

"compression resistant watermark" turns up some good resources for it. QR codes are another good example of noise tolerant data transmission (fun fact - having logos in a QR code isn't part of the spec, you're literally covering the QR code but the error-correction can handle it).

The best way I can describe it is that humans can still read text in compressed videos. The worse the compression/noise the larger the text needs to be, but we can still read it.
Discussed a long time ago:

GeoGuessr: Guess the location from Google street view - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5748923 - May 2013 (97 comments)

Geoguessr - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5682367 - May 2013 (2 comments)

GeoGuessr: Let's explore the world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5572324 - April 2013 (2 comments)
Japan, U.S. to deepen semiconductor alliance amid supply crunch
That's unlikely, considering these kinds of plastics simply did not exist before. Famously, scientists were able to study in detail the evolution of the brand new capability for a group of microbes living in waste water from a factory to metabolize nylon, a completely artificial polymer with no natural analogue. Moreover, scientists were inspired by this to try replicating these conditions in a lab, with a brand new strain of bacteria. I think it took a few decades, but they eventually found that that strain, too, evolved the capability to metabolize nylon, despite the required enzymes definitely not being present ahead of time. Microbial evolution proceeds at blinding speed, so maybe you could argue this doesn't apply to insects, but insets also have pretty short gestation cycles and at least some species are clearly experiencing dramatic selective pressure due to human activity, so I don't think it's at all inconceivable.
In 6 months?? I can remember situations in the past where people were hired and then fired 2 weeks later because a contract was lost. Mostly in aerospace/defense industry.
Richard Nixon had a plan for dealing with this, but changed his mind at the last second. [1]

1 - https://thecorrespondent.com/4503/the-bizarre-tale-of-presid...
It's not like Websockets prevent this completely. eBay port scanning: https://www.ghacks.net/2020/05/25/ebay-is-port-scanning-your...
Explaining Bitcoin Mining as a Poisson Distribution
What can anybody do about it?
Poor guys, still looking for the right codec to play the britney tape they downloaded 28 years ago.
Thanks for the notice for the link. Sadly I can't edit anymore...
Here is the good one:
https://carlchenet.com/you-think-the-visual-studio-code-bina...
And why does a DB user need to know those details? Isn't it the whole point of DB systems to provide an optimized solution that allows users to focus on other things?
What does break down really mean?
The Spellbinding History of Cheese and Witchcraft (2021)
It's not about PRC wanting full-scale war, but PRC wanting to deterring full-scale war via mutual vunerability. PRC would like nothing better for to intervene on TW without US intervention. Comment chainw as in response to your original comment that US can blockade PRC and somehow not escalate to full-scale war when blockade is already act of war and it makes perfect sense to escalate to redirect fight within PRC favour. Just consider US has full command of SKR military in times of war, notion that PRC would allow herself to be blockaded assymetrically and not retaliate on such US threats in region during war is not sensible. As for international sentiments, I dont think PRC cares about opinions of those who looks unkindly to PRC hitting legitimate US military targets during war. For repositioning assets, in post PRC PGS world, all that does is buy some time. Replenishment fleet needed to sustain fleet beyond days for high tempo operations, once they're docked and gone USN is left with some CVNs with limited sorties that has to outrun her empty fuel escorts for anything productive. Or ships becomes relegated to CONUS litoral use due to systematic logistic disruption.

>tomahawk cruise missile isn't the same thing as an ICBM.

Cruise missiles are nuclear capable platforms, as are even gravity bombs from long ranger bombers. The distinction is nuclear vs conventional capable and calculations will converge when ICBMs have viable conventional tip heads that will force strategic thinkersto treat new capability and integrate threat model accordingly. ICBMs simply seen differently _so far_ since ICBMs have been exclusively nuclear. And on balance cruise missiles are perhaps MORE destablizing than ICBMs because they're harder to detect and can be stealthed.

>let's not pretend that there is one "bad" side here and one "good"

There's sides pursuing their interests but one side's interest is drifting from the stable 92 consensus. It's not about moralizing, it's just what it is with nature of DDP idpol populism.

>well you can just stop having a civil war

No you can't. Civil war that end in potential loss of territory, especially one that could be strategically exploited by adversaries doesn't end until all the blood that can be spent has been. Doesn't matter what TW companies does during current detente, if TW and PRC gov can't settle politically then war will resume eventually. It will continue until formal armstice to legally declare the end is signed, like US civil war not War of Terror. It's how wars actually terminate. TBH any successor PRC gov that's not CCP will still pursue TW reunification and regional hegemony. It's baked into PRC mythos by this point.
We have two pricing tiers:

* A free one that is hosted on Linen.dev/s/communityName i.e https://www.linen.dev/s/cfml

* A paid tier where it is hosted on the customer's domain ie. https://archive.pulumi.com https://linen.prefect.io https://community.supertokens.com

Most of our communities are on our paid tier where they get the content hosted on their domain and get their own custom branding. The main benefit being they get the SEO benefits of having a bunch of organic long tail keywords for their domain.

I am still figuring pricing out but I'm testing out volume based/community size based pricing.

I elaborated a bit more on how we handle privacy in another comment. Happy to address any other questions
I believe VMWare "adopted" Microsoft's research team, but that's the last I heard of the team. These days the most interesting corporate research happens at Google, Nvidia, OpenAI. I guess the forefront of research has moved onto ML and many old school researchers got left behind.
Well, perhaps it is a bad idea to let unprotected lithium batteries get out of balance.
The Signal compatible dumbphone Punkt MP02
A landfill also emits e.g. CO2 and CH3, it's not that it's a sealed process.
Well that isn't likely to happen, and so we are stuck with a local optima
> it's not true. it's debunked now

Where has it been debunked?
Scientists discover a gene that plays a critical role in embryo development
> if this was your point, the example is terrible.

Yeah, I addressed this in another comment here. I attempted in the last section to separate the ideas of "I heroically dived in" and "I took an opportunity in front of me" -- you shouldn't go looking for heroics. This didn't quite get across, and I totally understand why. Ah well.
My take:

1-13) General background info that informs the rest.

14-25) Important for any programmer that does enough file IO that they need to optimize it.

26-29) Important for any system admin to ensure they aren't inadvertently limiting the performance of their hardware.
I partially agree with this:

> I think the biggest drops in wealth have occurred in shelter, medical and a little bit in transportation.

But my conclusion is very different: shelter, healthcare and transport have not evaporated. If anything, we are more capable of treating people than before. We have the internet now, we should be able to educate more people.

The problem is that the cost of those things has increased significantly in the last 80 years, but salaries have stagnated. A diabetic teacher could buy a house and afford insulin on a single salary, now they barely can afford the later while they live with their parents, because they can't even rent.

As to why things are more expensive now... well I think the answer is that the difference is going to a small group of extremely rich individuals. Insurance and hospital owners in the case of healthcare, University owners on education. And lawyers in all layers.

The cost of transportation is a bit more complex. It is a finite world, yes. But we'll run of nice weather to plant crops before we run out of oil.
Basically the reason why even if I'm willing to do my research on mechanical keyboards, I will still end up with a Logitech or some big brand one.
Decentralization is not a goal of the modern financial system. Indeed for many reasons, decentralization is not desirable, as crypto-bros are about to find out when Tether blows up and takes out 3/4 of the market.
We are more productive. We are doing more with less people. It doesn’t seem like we are more productive because most people are overworked which creates an illusion of unproductivity. Most of those jobs that were lost in 2008-2009 were never replaced, everyone left just had to pick up the slack which tech helped facilitate

The other aspect is that a lot of our tech is vapid entertainment. As buzz aldrin said, “They promised me mars colonies. All we got was Facebook” or something along those lines.
Where did all the productivity benefits go?

The answer is probably: to competition. If one company got CRM, wow, huge productivity boost! They would sell so much more per unit of salesperson labor input.

But it's a competitive world, so a lot of companies get CRM. The additional sales productivity gets competed back out; perhaps with the recipients of sales efforts (who now have a large increase in the amount of incoming contacts) losing/wasting as much productivity in aggregate as the companies using the software have gained.

The same dynamic applies to many other areas. Not to all areas of course; there are also real massive, long term benefits to productivity. Famously it used to take over half of all human effort just to keep us fed. It doesn’t anymore.
> They only need to have made 2% on those other investments and the 2% lost on crypto is irrelevant.

A quarter of their investments are commercial paper, which hasn't averaged as high as 2% yield since a brief period in March 2020. Actual cash of course has 0% yield. US Treasuries (sub 1-year), which make up nearly half their assets, also hasn't hit 2% yield any time recently. So no, they aren't recouping their loss on cryptocurrency.

> I think people fail to notice how similar a (non-fraud) tether model is to a traditional bank: you take short term deposits, you make long term loans, and you hope to have enough capital on hand to deal with any runs. Given the liquidity of modern capital markets, it's very rare for the fed to have to bail out small deposit banks. So it's reasonable to assume the same will apply to tether.

One of the reasons why banks rarely have to be bailed out is because there are stringent regulations on bank holdings. For example, a minimum tier 1 capital ratio, the amount of equity that needs to be held to cover unexpected asset shortfalls. This requirement is I believe 10%, and based on the evidence Tether has produced, Tether's tier 1 capital ratio is... 0%. It should also be noted that Tether is perilously close to insolvent, with (claimed) assets about 100-101% of total liabilities; most financial institutions prefer to be at least ~110-115% of total liabilities.

Compare Tether to banks if you want to, just be aware that it just makes Tether's financials look even worse in comparison.
The right side of the bell curve can now program an application worth many dollars per month and zero marginal reproduction costs. The left side of the bell curve is incapable of extending these technologies but increasingly consumes them due to their low cost. This can explain the seemingly paradoxical phenomena of the rich becoming fabulously richer, wage growth stagnating on average, and productivity barely improving. The inventions of the last 50 years were of smart people for smart people. We wanted flying cars on Mars, we ended up exchanging Amazon warehouse jobs for free TikTok.
Ask HN: If you are bootstrapping looking for your feedback on my next book
I have a final draft ready of the second volume in my Working Capital series. This one is about "Assembling Your Team." I am looking for feedback and critique: I am most concerned about flow, organization, and anything important that you feel is missing.

Here are the chapters:

Building your Team
Finding a Co-Founder
Forming an Advisory Board
Finding Early Employees
Contractors, Suppliers, and Partners
Activating Your Network
Coming to a Working Arrangement

My goal is to provide inspiration and support for founders who have stepped onto the entrepreneurial roller coaster. You are doing the hard work of changing the world. It's never dull and it’s never easy. I hope that this book helps you with insights and stories that renew your gumption.

This book is part of a series of “Working Capital” books intended for early-stage entrepreneurs to familiarize themselves with the assets they will need to create a growing business: financial, intellectual, and social. For more on this series, see https://www.skmurphy.com/services/working-capital-book/

Please let me know if you have the time and inclination to read one chapter and provide your assessment and suggestions for improvement. You can contact me directly at skmurphy@skmurphy.com