skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part I really liked is "Is Toil Always Bad?" because quite astute
psychology and management ideas appear here. My takeaway is that
people who like toil (and there are many zealous oversystemetisers
around) are some of the most dangerous to long-term productivity.

However, I really feel for the author, because the distance between
this philosophically ambitious position and the reality of using Big
Tech products - which in my life are the primary source of pointless
makework activity - is sad and frustrating.

Now, one cannot blame the tools for stupid policies that lead their
misuse in constructing makework processes, but (to take the
Heideggerian stance) they carry certain exacerbating values along with
them. Technologies can be 'seductive'.

The point of departure for me, was the definition of "overheads"
as justifiable makework according to some value set. Whose values,
exactly? And if, in Weber's sense, bureaucracy is an unavoidable side
effect of process, then the possibility to design "toil-free" systems
is really about complexity management, not post-facto eliminating toil
through automation, because that will only break things and introduce
more toil (Which is of course the primary theme of Gall's
"Systemantics").
There is a correct solution (the one you're not doing)
Cheaper is good, but the quality is much worse and your first demo is very obviously Jordan Peterson, who has a famously annoying voice and some would say personality.
IMO the primary reason they're pushing 2FA is for the people who are careless enough to eg log into their personal email on their work computer.

I wish there was an exam you could take that would get you a "computing license" that you could show to bypass a lot of this stuff.
IIRC it doesn't even exclude funny cables as long as the option remains to use an USB-C cable too

So if you really want I believe you could issue a double port

Clunky for smartphones maybe, but should be trivial for larger devices
You were not kidding! Azure is extremely impressive. Try the demo here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
Hm, I haven’t even noticed the notch in the past 7 months on mine.
About 420 degrees, the question is duration, not temperature.
huh? In my country, everybody is registered in several administration databases with enough data to re-id you anywhere, anytime, and they even have biometric data (usually your finger prints) and medical data (they know where you have scars, and have probably some DNA infos).

In the information age, ppl have to be sure their administration and corpos are using this power sanely for the Right(TM) stuff or things will turn to ...
The Professor sounds like Jordan Peterson, is that on purpose?
For those that follow the "take a backup drive to a relatives house" - how do you actually do the backups in that case? Do you have two backup jobs running, one for "the important stuff" and one for the rest of the system, and the important stuff just goes to the other disk? I'm trying to get better about this, but this is something I've never fully understood.
If you know to use Linux properly you can tamper with digital evidence and make a mess for a digital forensics investigator. The thing is, despite Linux making it easier than Windows, it doesn't come with a "here's how to erase digital evidence!" manual[0]. It's "left as an exercise to the reader".

Probably same on macOS, but it's (mostly) not open source, so you can't really argue about it being an open source thing that lets you do evil stuff. You could argue about its availability though.

And it boils down to the point you (and others) were making: these are tools, the ethics are in how you use them.

[0] I know there are some forensic distros that come with anti-forensic tools. Still, Linux in general is the environment that allows that kind of thing to work in the first place, going back to the original point of whether it should be open source or not.
Secondary innovations can also come from solving a primary industrial or commercial problem as is often the case.

By their nature, secondary innovations are not promised. Hence, researchers can get away with not "delivering" any, no matter how much they pitch the "possibility" when asking for funding.

The quality of researchers who will be working is another factor. Presumably it would be very competitive with LHC stuff. But I've seen research projects just become money black-holes as they just end up with unremarkable un-creative research staff who are just there for the paycheck and not competitive enough to otherwise get out of the academic comfort zone.
A surprise for me was that lightning is only USB2 and one-sided, so at any moment it is plugged half of the pins is unused. Additionally it has exposed wires, in case of charger failure, USB-C provides a better protection.
Is the professor meant to sound like Jordan Peterson?
It is only available in English ?
>we didn’t realize it’s stored next to the fan

Huh how would that shorten the lifespan of any storage device?
Good question. I would apply that reasoning to the information about how a gun works for sure, but IMO there is some (admittedly hard to define) amount of danger or perhaps destructive power beyond which we might or perhaps should choose as a society to restrict the ability to wield a tool and certainly at least some guns exceed that limit for me. I’m not sure that any software, on its own, does though, at least I can’t think of any immediate examples.

I admit that this limit is hard to define. It’s also extremely hard to enforce for pure data, if that turns out to be what we want to do.
This happens. I've had SDCards sitting in devices long enough unpowered that they required a format when spun back up.
I will argue that you don't even need real world application. What I do find really important is motivation of a problem.

Before even talking about math, teachers just need to explain where the problem came from, who was thinking about it and why (if it's known specifically, like cardano's 3rd degree polynomials, even better).

If there's one thing that gets me (and by my own observation, the high school students I tutored) motivated, it's this by far.
A hit, a palpable hit!

Yeah, those things are tanks.
The "Professor" voice sounds like Jordan Peterson. Is this related to https://notjordanpeterson.com? That one was taken down: https://www.vice.com/en/article/43kwgb/not-jordan-peterson-v...
> Is Maybe/Option an effectful computation

Yes, Maybe/Options are a way of encoding partial functions/exceptions.

List is a way of encoding non-determinism.
They already do, in many ways. Specifically, they already mandate the type of power plug that electrical appliances must be sold with.

I don't know where I stand on this ruling philosophically, but I'm looking forward to having accessories all use USB-C instead of having some for Apple and some for everyone else.
It's not a new thing. Car design has been dictated by regulations for decades and while I'm sure it has definitely stopped some novel designs from getting out there, I think we can be mostly thankful that we don't live in a sea of heterogeneous (let alone hazardous) designs. Cars can still look cool, but not to the point of being a detriment.

USB-C is a pretty lax standard (for good and bad) and at the end of the day, the ultimate reason regulators have to come into play is that the industry didn't deal with this issue internally.
And what if someone dies? We'd need something that would do periodic health checks. Preferrably during off-peak hours..
"This book should not have been published in its current form. It contains many instances of incorrect and inconsistent terminology, as well as many other errors."[1]

[1]http://metamodular.com/Books/land-of-lisp.html
they are not responsive - the heat built up in them does not dissipate nearly as quickly as when you lower the flame on a gas burner.

Clearly this is true, but I don't see any reason it needs to be under most usage conditions. On my electric stove, when I want to stop applying heat, I move the pan to side, off the heated surface.
I will always get onboard to boost Hossenfelder. She respects the subject matter and also the students, and it impresses me a lot to see it in practice.
That's also my understanding.

So Macbook Air 2022 with MagSafe charging will be completely legal as long as the USB-C can be used for charging.
I meant more historically why things are this way. Open offices/cubicles have been around longer than people have been wearing headphones in the office. I certainly don't agree with it for modern tech work.
I definitely recognized the voice of real people alive today in your example set. I assume it's some kind of a trained ai you feed hours of content to for them to determine the speech pattern, question is, are you paying royalties to those individuals for their contributions?
I see a lot of negativity and nitpicking in the comments, and I for one welcome the idea. Wired charging is a mature technology, USB-C is extensible enough, and most manufacturers have already adopted it as a de facto standard. Only Apple seems to be reluctant, and only on their cellphones and perhaps some of their headphones.
I really have no idea other than financial reasons why Apple have not already moved over, considering (IIRC) USB-C is ~100x faster than lightning and even supports higher wattage too ?
I'm not sure which trend are you referring to. In any case, I'm not suggesting employees should be measured solely by time worked. Only that I think setting performance targets based on a reasonable number of hours worked seems to make sense to me. Otherwise, I'm not really sure what benchmark you would use.
I think the question is, what would happen if the USA passed similar laws like everyone else and the profits plummeted? How would the pharmacy companies react? If nothing changes, the USA is not subsidizing. If things get worse, they are subsidizing.
How can they talk about lunar power without mentioning nuclear? It's dark for 14 days!
Researchers from Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) successfully sent data down a custom multi-core fiber optic cable at a speed of 1.02 petabits per second over a distance of 51.7 km. That’s the equivalent of sending 127,500 GB of data every second, which, according to the researchers, is also enough capacity for over “10 million channels of 8K broadcasting per second.”
Or its just evidence that humans have been using these compounds for eons, contrary to what the clowns in government seem to think
wait, we need 3 USB-ports: one for the external displayport panel, one for charging, one for the mouse and the keyboard.
That's like claiming that the government services that still run on cobol should have been manual office jobs instead.
i think the opposite might happen. coding would become like reading and writing with every desk job involving code.

high level positions would require the same training and experience they do now with full stack added to them.

like conveyor belt work becomes checking widgets for defects managers busy themselves with maintaining code. The code will grow endlessly creating more work than doing it by hand.

the company db has a crazy amount of data that you will need to be able to query to be able to develop new insights. if it turns out to be useful you wrap it into the software or a separate app

eventually you want the video data in the db with all the machine learning trimmings.

there is no end to this but we wil fail to train people to the desired level
> He has the money already.

I thought he had to seek additional funds because tesla stock dropped.
Apple finally lets you see your Wi-Fi network’s password in iOS 16
I second your opinion that learning to write an interpreter is a great idea at some point in a career. It definitely helped me gain a new level of understanding and, well, confidence in my knowledge of how pretty much any language “works”. It makes everything more interesting, too!
Thousands of cheap special effects that would not otherwise be possible without a studio. Comparing this to meth, which has extreme detrimental effects on the human body, brain and the society that has to deal with the dangerous junkies it creates is completely absurd.
So? Infant survival and life expectancy rates are also way up since their parents generation. You can't just throw around generational statistics without any context at all and call it valid.
Enforcing 2FA is the most effective security rule ever created. Vastly more effective than password rules, rotation, user education, any anything else ever tried.

With 2FA, almost all of the traditional attacks are impossible and the only one left is specially crafted fake login pages.
Oh, got it. You mean it doesn't pronounce "$99/mo" correctly? Yeah, there are quite a few cases like this where we don't translate symbols, abbreviations, etc quite right, yet. But unfortunately, in this case, I spelled out "$99 per month" but it still sounds awkward.
This is true. Although now this is starting to pretty closely approach what the OP is doing, just using another store for the signatures instead of the CT log.
With 'old' banks (and other systems that use these tokens) with a physical token, you can (often?) not do that.
Apple is already remotely backing up passkeys off-device.

We are having a debate about an Apple policy that doesn't exist. Apple is not following the "keys never leave your device" model, so that security model has nothing to do with whether or not Apple will engage in vendor lock-in.

We're not making the choice to leave users vulnerable to phishing attacks, Apple made that choice, and we're arguing that because they made that choice they have no excuse to also engage in vendor lock-in.
Good point. I forgot they still charged over USB-C as well.

I need to work, not infrequently, from the dining table with a laptop plugged into the wall. I have two large boisterous dogs and two not-so-large but still boisterous children. They occasionally tear around the house, and the dogs have snagged a cord and destroyed a laptop by pulling it off the table back in the old pre-magsafe days. Magsafe prevented damage to multiple laptops for me.

While I love the single-cable docking angle of USB-C, I'd give it up for magnets if I needed to. For my thinkpad, I actually have one of those magnetic USB-C cables to use at that table.
I don't see how that would be useful here. I'm not giving out info about my webcam to anyone. There would be no way to verify the signature.
From the FAQ:

"Any technological developments in wired charging can be reflected in a timely adjustment of technical requirements/ specific standards under the Radio Equipment Directive. This would ensure that the technology used is not outdated.

At the same time, the implementation of any new standards in further revisions of Radio Equipment Directive would need to be developed in a harmonised manner, respecting the objectives of full interoperability. Industry is therefore expected to continue the work already undertaken on the standardised interface, led by the USB-IF organisation, in view of developing new interoperable, open and non-controversial solutions."

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_...
As a consumer I much prefer lightning to usbc. And would prefer apple open it.

That said it’s moot. I’ve got a mix of everything in my house and some of it won’t be upgraded for a very long time.
> USB or Lightning

This problem
USB is universal, but there are so many variations that it's not very clear.

Does the EU mandate say which USB-C modes and variations have to be supported?
I do not doubt this at all, but I also have to imagine that vehicles are more aerodynamic than they were a decade ago.

I also remember keeping a squeegee in the car to remove "bug paste" from the windshield after the wipers couldn't handle any more bug guts.
I have 6 Haswell (2013)-era Dell Optiplex computers that are the kids' Minecraft (and YouTube) computers, the living room TV source, my non-work PC, an electronics lab computer (with a GPIB interface and general look-crap-up usage), and a PC in the guest room [which also serves as an additional video conference PC when multiple of us need to take simultaneous calls].

I got two of them right as the pandemic started for the kids, paying around $150ea, and got the other 4 earlier this year for $90 ea with i7-4770 or 4790, 8 GB of RAM, and an OEM Windows license. They'll all run Windows, Linux, or macos (Hackintosh) as needed. Some I've upgraded to 16 or 32 GB of RAM. All got a modern SATA SSD. So, I've got 6 working computers for under $1300 total. They're not speed demons, but they're perfectly usable and can drive multiple 4K displays at 60 Hz.
> A firesafe in a friend or relative's basement is a much better choice

The article addresses these options and why they are not ideal either.

Also, one thought experiment I just came up with: how many of your friends are you willing to let store their pendrives in your basement's firesafe? How often would you be comfortable with your friends coming to your home to update their pendrives?
Sure. And that's why there is a waiting list a mile long for electric F150s.
> 1) I bet a far fewer percentage of people use Shakespeare, Steinbeck, or any other literature in their jobs. Is this an argument for eliminating literature from the curriculum? Why or why not?

I'm sure everyone knows that Shakespeare is used in no more than a tiny sliver of jobs. To me the question is, does reading Shakespeare's plays and writing essays on them make for better humans? Or, as Caplan would probably say, is it just yet another "good worker" signal implying some combination of social class, intelligence, compliance, and conscientiousness/industriousness?
My VoIP provider offers this (voip.ms) and I love it.

I rarely listen to voicemail anymore (not that I get many, but say, some voicemail from kids school, or a client who didn't get the memo not to call me). And less errors because I'm always distracted when listening to voicemail (what a waste of time).
Sounds to me like someone does not trust employees to manage themselves and meet deadlines, and thats ok. I was coming into this thread from a highly skilled, well paid workers perspective.

Completely agree, if you need to micro-manage then workday oriented results are easier.
I've been working 4 day workweeks for well over a decade now, took the pay cut myself.

As for the goal to maintain 100% productivity whilst cutting back on hours, I'm confident that they will succeed. In fact, they'll succeed in this without requiring some kind of brilliant plan, as this recalibration happens automatically.

When you start working one day less, nobody will reduce your workload by 20%. You'll have the exact same workload as before and now need to achieve it in less time.

There's many ways to cross this gap. An obvious one is that a typical 5 day work week has moments of slack, depending on the culture. Friday after lunch is where productivity sinks in many offices. Wednesdays are also slower as it's typically the first moment in the week where things are running (planned, prepared, on track). In a 4 day work week you sacrifice this breathing room, the 4 days become more compressed.

Another natural change is to take a more aggressive stand in rejecting non-sense. Excess meetings, unimportant emails, etc. This works very well and is extremely effective for the simple reason that you MUST. As such this time compression is a blessing, a cleansing mechanism for yourself and the organization.

You'll be amazed at how much time you can win back. Let's say you do need to attend a meeting. It's a 1 hour meeting. You're needed in the meeting. Go in and say you only have 20 mins. As if by sheer magic, what needed to be discussed gets done in 20 mins. Without this forced "budgeting", people would just fill the hour with bullshit.

Counter intuitive, but by being rigid instead of elastic, you maximize value.
> What problem is the EU solving here?

Everything works together, except Apple stuff.
I've worked for a number of tech companies in the US and many of them could easily move to a 4 day workweek. Reason I say that is at every place, there was a culture of slacking off on a Friday.

Not in an overt way but you could tell, meetings wouldn't be scheduled after 10AM on Friday, any meeting would be short and sweet. Any longer meetings would be pushed off to Monday. Slack is usually pretty quiet, and the green dots turn grey starting around 1PM.

The bosses could do something about it, but they don't because they also don't want meetings and are just looking forward to the weekend themselves. The only time you would even hear from bosses is a reminder to submit your timesheet before leaving for the weekend.
Proof of Work and Bitcoin may be generally trash, and unless they evolve they will eventually crash and burn, but "crypto" on the whole encompasses a wide range of good and bad applications.

Here's a prediction:
Over the next decade or two, scalable proof of stake crypto currency networks and blockchain-based systems will probably be used as base settlement layers for a growing portion of digital payments, disrupting VISA and PayPal and enabling new ways of sending and coordinating value online.
A Robust Backpropagation-Free Framework for Images
I was there when E4X was introduced, about 20 years ago. It lasted about 5 whole years before people started to think it was old and crufty.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...
As much as I generally agree with the goal of knowing all the things, that goal exists in service to living a good life. And I definitely have to question the economic sense of spending $100B at the LHC store, compared with many other stores that sell $100B worth of good life for earthlings.
I think both of those issues are because this is a fairly straight forward transcription of the original Twitter thread.

I agree that it would be nice if they'd flesh out some of the items with example code though.
Indeed, some design patterns (and monad is a design pattern) are more useful in some languages and less so in others.
> The take I can't believe is the SEC should decide how capital gets allocated.

That's literally its job, and they charged him with securities fraud didn't they?
With your numbers, that'd be 4% relative to the entire market, which is definitely something that Apple and the other phone manufacturers can deal with.
I signed up multiple times. Each time I received the same phone number in Turkey.

This has been done before. For example, https://www.receivesms.org/
I used it for a few years, then switched to a paid password manager. Keychain just doesn't (didn't?) have features that I need: cross-device functionality, family sharing, groups for different credentials (work/private), browser integration, etc etc. Also, its UI sucks.
do you clone the ubikey or enroll two different keys? i struggled to find providers who let you register a second key
Automatically illustrating poetry using DALL-E-2
> “Today we have made the common charger a reality in Europe!” said the European Parliament’s rapporteur Alex Agius Saliba in a press statement. “European consumers were frustrated long with multiple chargers piling up with every new device. Now they will be able to use a single charger for all their portable electronics.”

The devices this covers, those rechargeable by a wired cable according to the EU press release, have pretty much all used USB chargers for a long time so I don't see how this addresses the issue of multiple chargers piling up. At most it addresses the issue of multiple USB to X cables piling up, where X is most commonly Lightning.

Unless they also prohibit selling devices with USB chargers I have doubts that this will stop the bundling. Apple has tried to stop including chargers on the theory that nearly everyone already has a bunch lying around, and has drawn a lot of complaints over that, and fines in Brazil where the government regulators have decided that not bundling chargers with every phone is anti-consumer.