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5 day week, no-flex also has costs, it's a matter of value and perspective.

So what if productivity decreases by a few % if it means we all get better work life balance.

Change is not easy but over time equilibrium can be found which is not dependent on this paradigm of infinite growth.
> As a person who is against abortion, I fail to see a problem with this.

Well obviously.

> If you’re dumb enough to have a GovCorp tracking pod

You realize its only a problem because the government has decided you cant choose what happens to you in the first place ?

Whatever your opinions on abortion, it's incredibly you simple accept it as a 'given' that a gov app would be tracking you by default. That's not an OK thing to accept.
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I think OP meant 2 years experience at that senior level based on other comments.
We aren’t special. As a hedonistic utilitarian, I look forward to an AI someday replacing us and experiencing the universe in a greater capability than humans ever could.
Americans, if you're from a British background, and Brits, if you're from an American background.
What for? There's just Apple software and a few niche things.
Seems very quantity-oriented. Maybe having lots of a thing is required for life to evolve from it, but again we have a sample size of 1. Maybe there is a quality-based form of life where what matters is not how much stuff there is to evolve from, but having a specific variety of different elements in the right conditions. Maybe all it takes is a handful of atoms in a particular unimaginable environment.
I sell airplanes do I am to feel responsible for the 9/11?
You think that the vice-presidents are officers and the directors above them are not? Do the VPs lose their legal responsibilities and powers when they are promoted?
About 2s here as well.
According to Twitter, as soon as you attach the Rosetta volume it switches TSO to on
But IMHO this is an unwanted effect that we should avoid
Nothing is 100% secure, but the point of using a TPM is to prevent extraction of the keys.
Hi OP:

I'll give you the talk I would if we were face to face. I edited this a bit after posting, to mimic the feeling of going back and forth a bit to clarify points:

I signed up my freshman year, right before the wall and before it opened up to non college students and was a member until the Trump administration. (They count your friends as foreign contacts, so I told them: join the Shin Bet or BND or whatever if you want, I am that offended, these traitors don't have my protection anymore, I am going home to Appalachia, do whatever you want to them.)

One of my todos after I can rest a bit (COVID has been busy for a hacker like me) is to stand up a simple static blog on the domain tied to my username, but every time I try to draft what would be the first blog post, I get side tracked dealing with the drama that was stirred up by my security research.

So yeah, I'd just... move on.

I relaxed my anonymity stance and uploaded an ID to Twitter to try to get a harassment issue solved, all that happened is they refused to handle the issue, then I continued to suffer electronic and physical attacks.

Buy a domain name for your favorite handle, and be ready to use it to point people at new social networks or comms methods, these tech companies will just boot you off before the new owner or new idea comes in after enriching themselves on your data.

So far I've had excellent experiences with Gandi, Digital Ocean, and Namecheap, but they're IT companies in the full sense of the word, not a place like say, SquareSpace that markets to folks needing a GUI, so if you're not a strong full stack developer.

Also, I deleted my Facebook and forgot my takeout password, so forgive me if this is a stupid qustion, but can you at least do the takeout?

I had phone numbers for the real friends back when I signed up, but nowadays a lot of folks seem to stick to these platforms and get weird if you suggest just sticking to text and calls, or Signal if you want to use the data plan / wifi to avoid using bandwith or minutes or whatever.

Though I think that may be a cultural thing -- I meet younger people who are very used to blocking, unblocking, routing around blocks etc, so my attitude of "If I block you, it's forever, call an embassy is you have an issue" pissed some old contacts off when COVID showed them how deadly serious I was about that.

For context, I have not left the USA since the Obama administration, and when Biden took over, all that happened is the folks who had been temporary allies all attempted to hurt me at once, as local party officials refused to answer my calls for help.

Blue lives matter fascists can talk like Redditors about "did you report it" all they want -- they will literally riot outside the mayor's house if you show up and talk like a Redditor in response to someone telling a hotline "I'm not suicidal, I'm homicidal, this goddamn pedophile in the South Hills won't stop calling me, and I need to keep the line open since they're the caregiver for my father".

TL;DR: Just move on. Giving them ID will probably just hurt you -- it allows them to verify their identity algorithms, then they can kick you off like they always intended.
Unlike "com", Anguilla's TLD, "ai", has an A record pointing to a usable HTTP server:

http://ai/

A few years ago I tried all two-letter ([a-z]) TLDs and found some others that were able to handle HTTP requests, but they were either just redirecting to another domain name (the ones I noted down back then don't seem to work anymore) or returning 500 errors (http://uz/).

These examples should at least demonstrate that there shouldn't technically be some special case for resolving TLDs. They work in normal web browsers, and presumably a lack of A records for other TLDs would just be some sort of convention.
> implement this at [...] and you get 2-6% productivity declines

This is the assertion this whole argument hangs on. I'd challenge it. At a farm or assembly line probably, I highly doubt it in knowledge work.
Looks like the website is actually a thin layer of JavaScript that converts the blog post from markdown, injects it as HTML, and then renders the comments below it. Without JS the site is just a hidden textarea.
How does a blockchain change this in any meaningful way?
Would this also handle domain expiry in some way?
Because for many roles the manager/boss has no idea how to measure results
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so they're actually doing 2d data capture.. oh... that makes sense... otherwise you waste all the x-ray that went through the patient slightly off the plane of the circle.

We don't want to waste X-ray exposure, do we?
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It's a bit disingenuous to conflate working less or part-time with universal basic income.

The first can be done by choice for some people, and doesn't always imply government subsidy. Also why pick 4 days as being closer to UBI, when you could make the same argument about 5 days vs 6.
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I actually WANT to go to the office, especially when it's nice out. My body is craving the walking and the activity, and the positive stress of being in a different environment is actually helping my mood significantly. I've become puffy, lazy, and slow.

But not 5 days a week, no.
yeah, what's wrong with starbucks closing at 7pm...
I've got a lot of color background[0]. This is a cool approach for sure, but one thing I would caution anyone on doing is only relying on math or an algorithm to choose colors. The author makes a great point about halfway through - that it's extremely hard to algorithmically define "nice looking". Human eyes are biological constructs. Mapping how they see the world to an algorithm that's working with RGB colors is a half baked effort at best. Use algorithms as a starting point, then refine afterwards. The author's approach feels like it didn't include that final refinement process.

IMO their approach fell apart a little bit in the chart of age distribution of users. While the even color distribution does prohibit a bias of the data, it's also using colors that don't feel harmonious with each other at all. The luminousity of the colors differs heavily, making some feel more bold than others. A better approach here would be to isolate specific hues that match luminousity, then filter those based on color blindness perception, rather than just tossing each of the hues palettes into a simulated annealing process.

A final nitpick, if you are doing color theory maths, avoid WCAG 2's contrast algorithms. They're fairly outdated, and should only be used if you have an enterprise requirement to use WCAG 2 specifically. APCA[1] is a better algorithm for color contrast, and is ADA/EAA compatible (it's also the proposed contrast algorithm for WCAG 3).

[0] Most recenly was in charge of Figma's update to accessible colors and their migration to dark mode. Previously worked on Atlassian's color palettes.
[1] https://www.myndex.com/APCA
Yeah and news/mail/telnet/irc. Not very common nowadays of course, although www still hangs around.
Wow, I have to say I strongly disagree with every single thing you said.

Video games are a small niche in the universe of technology products. To use them as a justification for classifying all tech as luxury seems, well, extremely stupid and misguided.

I’m surprised you don’t know, but the vast majority of businesses are small businesses with low profits, to act like they have plenty of extra money to spend on heavily taxed goods is ignorant at best. Tech is a productivity multiplier for many businesses, this is not really an arguable point as it is well studied.

By the way, no one is forced to buy tech enabled products (despite the implication in your “crazy show”). People buy tech enabled products over others because they solve their problems better.

And tech products are very low on the list of environmental issues in the world. If the tax was actually structured to promote eco friendly behavior in these countries it’d look wildly different.

You seem to have an axe to grind here but nothing you claim really holds up to a bit of critical thinking. Not sure why an extreme tech pessimist is on HN anyways :)
> Reducing the electrical power needed for the same amount of processing power is absolutely helpful for the environment

Just not buying a new device is likely still better for the environment, though a jump to the ARM architecture makes a bit more sense in that regard.

There are many lower hanging fruits than the energy consumption of laptops.
I believe the model is "100% pay for 80% of the hours and 100% of the output". This is usually accompanied by hand waving talk of "improving productivity" but I don't see how it will work realistically. If you were already spending 20% of your working hours scrolling Facebook (or HN) then you will do so on a four day week too (perhaps after an initial honeymoon period).

The alternative approach where employees just spread their 40h of work over 4 days instead of 5 is interesting too, but in a different way. Is the loss of productivity caused by being tired by hour 10 each day offset by having 3 full days to rest? Or even, perhaps those long stretches with nothing to think about but work are MORE productive? A 10h day could be tough on home life (kids/spouse/evening leisure), but if WFH that could just be offset against hours now not spent commuting. Everyone's situation is different. Will be fascinating to see the outcomes of this study. For starters, "define productivity" for a software business!
> If the organization is focused on KPI's so why does it matter if people work one day or four-days?

Arguably it matters in how you KPIs are set. I think it's reasonable to expect a full time employee to work more than one day a week. If you can meet all your KPIs with everyone working one day a week, then maybe you're aiming too low. Of course, if you require everyone to work 60 hour weeks to hit KPIs, that's an even bigger problem.
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30% doesn't go into marketing.

And no, most pharma research is not funded by the public (the NIH budget is 1/4 what pharma spends).
All of these formats evolved out of necessity up until the 90s, and innovation largely stagnated after that since there's little to be gained in this area anymore.
For 99% of people, monads are best understood by a) using and writing many monadic interfaces and b) forgetting about the whole mathematical background.

What a monad offers is: "1: Do A. After A is done, you can inspect the result of A and do either B or C. 2: You can chain monads of the same type together.". Sounds easy? It is because it is!

The big fuzz about Monads is mainly because prior to monads, doing IO was akward in Haskell. Monads offered a convenient way to do IO (and other interactions with the outside worlds, such as databases, networking, ...) and turn up basically everywhere. There is nothing stopping one from introducing a monadic interface in OO-World, and it is partly done (i.e. "orElse" or "then") in some domains. However, bigger gain is to be expected in Haskell, since the type checking system forces the developer to deal with monads in a disciplined way.

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I admit being guilty of having only the title prior to writing the comment. But even with only having read just the word 'monad' in the title together with 'lazy', I knew the author would describe 1) some way of lazily evaluating one thing after another and 2) some way of combining multiple lazily evaluated things with each other. After skimming, this is what the article is about. As always, the interesting stuff is not about the concept of a monad (which is pretty easy), but about how to model/code 1) and 2) in a specific context (in this instance, being lazy evaluation).
Centuries of organized destruction of indigenous cultures and their physical + social infrastructure?

Obscene levels of poverty, less access to medicine, justified skepticism of state health initiatives, abysmal baseline health due to aforementioned, etc.

Perhaps there’s some underlying biological/immune differences, but let’s not put too much effort into overlooking the obvious.
Web browser 3D apis are a bad example, because WebGL 2.0 is unware of what happened after 2011 in GPU hardware, while WebGPU is targeting 2015 hardware.
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I can’t see a way this technology could be used defensively. Wide access just leads to more abuse. There’s no principle by which it serves some sort of justice to make some crime more accessible.

It’s surprising how often this argument is made compared to, say, equal-opportunity access to fancy cars or good housing.
I haven't followed things in detail, but don't they have some substantial service cuts at the moment some due to some combination of the governments financial situation and the impacts of Covid on public transport ridership, not enough drivers and/or now additionally an ongoing dispute with the unions?
I offer a simple explanation elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31652379
Web3, NFTs, and cryptocurrency are dangerous to society and the planet
This is something I also did in the past. I would “ankify” the books I read, hoping to maximize my retention of the material.

However soon I ran into some problems, turns out I couldn’t remember the cues. The same way you can’t remember the capital of a country if you don’t remember the country itself first!

This led me to question the actual value I was getting from this whole ordeal.
There’s a balance somewhere. I guarantee my 8/4 workers will outperform your 24/7 workers. Your workers will be worthless 20 hours into their eternal shift, and dead from sleep exhaustion after a few days.

It’s obvious that the relationship is not as simple as one input, one output.

If you work your employees 8/5, and I do the same, but with a gym break with a company-provided trainer, my employees will work fewer hours than yours, but I’d bet my productivity will win in the long run.

This 4 hour work week experiment is along these lines. It’s not obvious to most of us how it will end or what impact it will have on productivity.
For the person that decides to use it, it is serious enough.

Do you mean the "real life" where UNIX CLI stuff gets cargo culted as the only way a developer works?
Well I must be wrong then, I was going to ask if it is not called a cross compiler? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_compiler
> ...than by handing that money to the old guard which has produced nothing of significance for the last two generations.

Genuine question from an ignorant layperson: was confirming the existence of the Higgs boson not significant?
> Of course high comp in tech is more a function of supply/demand of labor, and the industry still being new. It won't be this way in 20-30 years, as people continue to trickle in and correct the supply imbalance

Except demand has continued to expand, and I believe it will keep expanding. Salaries are high because of what technology can do for a company. Your type of argument has been made since I started writing software in the 90s. All that's happened since then is software has relentlessly eaten every other industry.

The classic widget selling company had material input costs, labor costs, delivery, etc... for many companies now the marginal cost of adding the next customer is almost zero with the primary input cost being labor.

Salaries can certainly be a bit high right now while also staying on a long term trend where tech salaries outpace other careers.
The problem comes that even with extremely good deepfake detection, political operations can still use the deepfakes to fool the average voter into believing that is it real, irrespective of any successful analysis. You and I might not be fooled but we don't matter if 10000X people are fooled and affect our lives anyway in a negative way.
It's likely the site itself, as the .jpg extension is referenced in the html. The screenshots should be pngs, not jpgs. Weirdly the author is using a mix of both - it could be that their site automatically encodes larger images as jpgs. The full res jpg versions are heavy with artifacts.
Beacon, and I bet the majority of the audience here, is a knowledge worker environment. You don't shed out x widgets per hour. Your result is highly variable as it involves creating bespoke, unique or novel (in a broad sense) solutions to various challanges in development. In non-rote work mood has an extreme impact on results.

Rote assembly line tasks in a warehouse or factory setting, even there you will see a ramp up mistakes and accidents as the hours get beyond a certain point. The chances of these ever have been "work from home"are slim to begin.
That’s not a naive take but a stupid one, and it wasn’t made by OP. Slippery slope is a fallacy, not an argument.
Not to be flippant but would you prefer 5 days of stress over 4.

What i mean, is those two things are not necessarily related. I don't think its about squeezing 5 days of work into 4 days. Maybe expectations need to change, thats part of the process.
“AI generated art will devour sustainability of being an illustrator”
You're confusing JSX and the React target for JSX; only the latter has the problems you mention.

This is a very common confusion because most people approach JSX via React, and as such never really grasp that JSX is a separate, independent thing. If you're interested in learning it standalone, I'd highly recommend working with either the Typescript `jsxFactory` compiler option, or the `@babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx`
Just download one? What's the problem with that?

For simple calculations you can use home screen search.
100% true.

I did a small stint at a mid tier bank and this is exactly how it went. You try to advocate for better methods and you constantly hit inertia and a deep institutional belief in years of service.

"You use git? Interesting but our director (15 YOE) says it's a waste of time. Do you claim you know more than him? You've only just started here!"

In the end you could easily do the assigned work in 10h a week except you are hobbled by bad practices, poor infrastructure, cheap leadership (you want an IDE? our division didn't approve the expense) and so so much Legacy code.
I partially agree with this. Many engineers use little advanced math in their daily work. After years, they also forget certain things.

However, from the point of view of a software developer, there are a few branches of math that tend to be very useful even if you're stuck doing some boring front-end work. I especially mean discrete math: it really pays off to study the ideas and solve some problems. In your mind, you will immediately try to translate them into code. There are some intangible benefits of this that will materialize sooner or later.
> With the current system the domain will be eventually available again.

Why is that a problem? Do you even understand how physical property IRL is owned at a legal or philosophical level?
... and wouldn't the most useful cross compiler to the world be COBOL to Python (or whatever)? "There are over 220 billion lines of COBOL in existence, a figure which equates to around 80% of the world's actively used code. There are estimated to be over a million COBOL programmers in the world today." [1]

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/cobol-everywhere-and-nowhere/
Public domain is a problem because many countries don't recognize it. The recommendation is to use the CC0: Creative Commons "No Right Reserved" license that is equivalent but is written in a way that is recognized everywhere. Read the details in https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...

They have a bunch of licenses. Do you want to allow other people to make money with your work? Should modified versiona also be in "public domain"? Ensure that the license you pick allows people to do only what you want https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/
The Human Genome Project was a huge success. Being able to read the DNA cheaply got us a revolution in biotech (cancer therapies, gene therapies, mRNA delivery, and my favourite: partial / full cell reprogramming)
>to be clear, our CFO will probably continue to use Excel, as will some of the team who build very complicated modelling sheets

Hiring someone to translate those "complicated" sheets in to a combination of python and basic CLI tools like grep to work with CSVs might be worth it in the long term, but for word processing and presentations, if you can export to PDF rather than be passing things in and out of the organization, OpenOffice should work well.

Your issue will be that ultimately, if you're not exporting to PDF or ODT but trying to export to Microsoft's proprietary format you'll always end up chasing some obscure bug on a deadline that will make the entire endeavor not worth whatever costs were present up until that point.
Anybody advocating a specific n-day workweek, whether n is 4, 5, 6, or anything else, is probably going to claim their system has advantages related to productivity.

The argument can be more complicated than just "the company will be more productive." Examples are "society will be overall more productive" (because the free time will be used productively), or "people should be allowed to work more hours if they want" (because even if people are on average less productive working past 40 hours a week, some might be able to cope).

I think it's wrong to claim anyone advocating a 4-day workweek must necessarily believe a company will have higher productivity.
Is a pen that contains ink a weaponized tool?