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> Middle managers are extremely important.

This is quiet a fuzzy and unsupported claim. In what respect are these important and what is their main goal: Coaching the team or sitting in meetings to align and make sure everything is aligned and they are visible? Are their head on the table of the product is not delivered and not flying?

To me middle management has to be redefined with a clear responsibility that has very much changed from the past.
I'm glad you mentioned DHH's Rails demo. Along the same lines and taking that productivity even further is this demo for Avo. An extendable framework that helps developers build production-ready apps with configuration.

The pitch is that every app has a way of managing the data. You have a page where you view a list of some items (Index table), a place to see the details of those items (Show view) and some page to update those records (Edit view). Why go and build those things everytime. When we start building apps we don't go building our framework. We don't build Rails for every project, but we use something like Rails, Laravel, NextJS, etc. Going forward with this, why build the admin panel when most of the time you end up with something similar. The views from before, a way to filter things, to sort them, to apply actions, etc.

This is 15 minute long and goes through most (not all) of the features. In the demo I build a room booking app. This is the application the customer will use and not some obscure admin panel where only the support team will reach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK47E7TMXn0

In this, second, 20 minute video I build a production-ready blog admin panel the same way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgNK-oINFww
Ask HN: Are there examples of sentiment analysis in a professional context?
I've never seen sentiment analysis that was convincing in a professional, business context.
Understanding the context of sentences is challenging (e.g. is it a question or an opinion? Which part of the sentence is relevant for the sentiment?).
Do I also need to argue someone's opinion of the earth being flat?
Eh, a sustained 100% growth per century is exponential..
Will fail if using sckit-build though. Had tot write a patcher fixing rpaths post-auditwheel.
This is cool, but I'm not 100% sure about the touch-ready part. It works, but it's kinda iffy on my phone.
It absolutely matters because it chances the whole concept to retaxing more of peoples existing assets just because they appreciated in value. People for wealth taxes muddy this because the support for taxing things before any gains are realized is really thin.
It's not actually deflation that's the problem. If productivity grows fast enough, prices can fall, no problem. That's what happened to the computer industry just fine for decades.

The real problem is a fall in nominal GDP. And that's a problem no matter whether prices are rising or falling.
If cash is abolished or has to pay a negative interest rate then no, you will quickly notice that the negative interest rate is closer to a storage fee and you actually have to store that value somehow in the real economy. The purpose of credit is to bridge supply and demand across time and that actually takes some effort if there are no safe havens like cash or real estate.
I worked for the government, no one was doing anything. But everyone was stressed and super busy.

I automated two teams of peoples work load, and they said we can't use your code because that's not how it works, the goal is to spend budget and hire more people, so we get more budget next year.
Have you worked on a recent idiomatic development setup (dockerised local development, top level imports of everything and plenty of setup at the top level too, people unfamiliar with how to manage .pyc files so they simply disable them...)?

Common libraries like requests or sqlalchemy take 300-500ms to import (eg. try `time python3 -c 'import requests'` and contrast just `time python3 -c ''` which is python startup overhead).

As I said, tests run in sub 10ms, but from issuing pytest to completion it's usually 5-15s.
Do androids dream of disemboweled cubist ducks?
Saving money is equivalent to investing. Investing is pretty good for the economy.
If only we could get the AI to help us figure out how to eliminate the use of full justify once and for all.
I tried Qt but the result was the furthest thing from satisfactory. My advice: don't bother.
No, that’s not what Piketty showed. I suggest you re-review their work.

There is no evidence about it stifling growth in the US in his work nor any follow-up work.
Just for font rendering you need harfbuzz+freetype if you want something decent (e.g not stb_truetype) so you're already talking 5-8 mb of libraries at the bare minimum. You also want ICU for proper unicode processing unless you don't have any unicode string operation anywhere in your software . +16 mb and we haven't rendered a single pixel. Then you're making a GUI - you aren't going to restrict it to people with a GeForce RTX1070+ right ? No, you want everyone to be able to use it, yes, including that one person in the back with a GMA500 intel chipset which does not support opengl 3.2 but will leave an absolutely scathing review of your app if it does not work on their machine (alternative: same thing but it's the company you're building the software for which had a fleet of 2008 dell Inspiron for their employees). So now you need to ship ANGLE + some software opengl implementation so that people with 2008 eeePCs won't see a black square when they open your app. Add 10 or so more megabytes and you have the very, very, very bare minimum on which to start building your UI toolkit if you want to cover common use cases.
I'm pretty sure it would behave as if you perpetually set the interest rate 1-3% too high.
The public should invest as much as possible in the rehabilitation of prisoners.

Thinking only about the economic cost is such a stupid simplification of the issue. Having a broken but cheap prison system will have massive societary costs. Much better to spend some taxpayer money to actually have some criminals return healthily to society and start contributing again.

By the way there are plenty of real financial burdens on the innocent public, if you know where to look. Maybe we should stop subsidizing the rich with the "innocent public" money?
A finite amount of gold is perfectly fine. Fractional reserve banking is a thing, and allows us to create arbitrary amounts of money, even in a gold standard setting.

This has worked really well in the past in eg Scotland and Canada.

Also, the price level can adjust.
> If those are in the form of earned compensation to which the slave is entitled (which, sure, along with actual wages is common in some historical forms of slavery, but not really the norm in chattel slavery), they are benefits, not wages.

Pure sophistry. There is no reason to call the same thing by two different names. Ask the IRS whether the food and housing your employer gives you count as wages.

> If they are (as is typically the case with chattel slavery) discretionary items given at the pleasure of the employer based on the perceived future value to the employer of the worker having them now, they are just maintenance costs of the slave as an industrial machine.

Not much better. The transfer of valuable goods to a slave is a maintenance cost in exactly the same way that the transfer of valuable goods to an employee is a maintenance cost. Nobody's paying salaries out of the goodness of their hearts; they pay salaries because that's what it costs to have work done.
What do you think your screen is doing all the time? You can't blit to the screen once and then "freeze" it. Your computer/phone is blitting pixels all the time.
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ok sure, there are always exceptions. But in general my point still stands.
From the website header:

> Also, next pandemic, let's approve the vaccines faster!

This is obviously very important to them. Is there some proof that the vaccine was unnecessarily delayed or just that they believe if we mess up and humanity suffers, so what?
Tens of millions people are in literal slavery today, whether sex slaves, child labor or other forced labor. Reading about what they endure, it seems disingenuous at best to claim slavery and employment are "clearly not that different" by reducing it to the nature of the compulsion behind it. It's like claiming a bullet and a tennis ball clearly aren't that different; they both involve projectile motion through the air under some degree of momentum, though the nature of that momentum can be different.

For things to be "not that different" implies they are interchangeable to an extent. I'd certainly be interested to know the result if you surveyed a random sample of 100 employed people and asked if they'd be willing to forego work to enter slavery.
While that is true, equivalent time sampling oscilloscopes with high bandwidth optical heads from the 90-00s still sell for 5 figures on ebay, so arguably still out of typical hobbyist ranges.
> No more low-hanging fruit

> Genetic engineering is in its infancy. Quantum computing and fusion are on the horizon. Neural brain links...

Well if anything none of those examples you gave sound like low-hanging fruit.
Globalisation kicked in with the end of the gold standard. It is appropriate to say that it held the economy back massively.
It's your understanding of the world that is very limited. Prisons are not a punitive system, they are public services like police and firefighters and so on.
Self-reproducing machines are capable of covering the surface of the planet, yes. There's one right now (covid). But there's lots of energy and oxygen up here and they rarely displace other such machines (species) or even displace much of any earth and water. And because they're self-contained and self-reproducing, all of their instructions can be lost over time to entropy including the ones we're afraid of.

None of em replace the entire planet though. That's a lot of rock to digest without any more energy to help you do it.

And a paperclip factory isn't self-reproducing (that would be a paperclip factory factory). It's just a regular machine that can break down. The people afraid of that one are imagining a perfect non-breaking-down non-energy-requiring machine because they've accidentally joined a religion.
I think it looks rather nice, and could be used for an Oberon like inspired experience.

Although since Go plugins support is stagnant, probably some kind of OOP IPC like D-Bus or gRPC, could be used for the concept of commands, viewers, gadgets and REPL.

Not the same, but could be approachable.

Anyway, nice work.
I hope you never have to suffer wrongful incarceration. Or maybe a bit just so you learn how the world works.
> very dangerous proposition as it ties the survival of the lower classes to the whims and magnanimity of the ruling class

UBI is very dangerous because it removes a basic right (that is not widely enjoyed, even today): The right to work.

With UBI, peasants can't reclaim their right to work and trade. Government will yield massive control over its populace and have everyone on leash because UBI is the only revenue one can earn; that or a government job. Of course, every corporation will be nationalized or heavily regulated to come under the control of the state. Small/Medium businesses would have already disappeared by the time.
> Well, I'm not proposing that people and companies do anything specific, it's up to them how to handle it.

There is no other way. I don’t think you understand how shares of a company work. There isn’t some secret treasure chest of cash the owners have to pay that burden. They just have to sell off portions of the company because that’s what has value. This eventually results in a loss of control and dim-witted bureaucrats like the fund managers at black rock start to dictate direction.

The whole stance is antithetical to innovation all for the sake of wanting to take something because it has a high potential value.
Aside from some highly dubious claims, your biggest error here is thinking that all low carb diets are keto diets.

A keto diet restricts both carb and protein intake. It’s 80% or more calories from fat. Carbs OR protein in excess of that will suppress ketosis.
I understand this but just basic code hygiene of null checking at boundaries and edges makes this a non issue.

You shouldn't be setting nullable variables to null so far away from where they're used that they're a problem.

E.g. if you're passing around an object with a possibly null value attached you should instead set it to a default empty state, empty string, zero, false etc.

Its only in rare circumstances that you should be needing to worry about null values.

I will however concede that non nullable types are super useful. I just don't think languages should remove null entirely. E.g. some rust projects have so many options types null would have been easier to code around. I know this is down to inexperience but at that point you've lost me - inexperience with null types is the only thing that makes null types a big problem.
There's an archived version of that page https://web.archive.org/web/20220617155011/https://newsroom.... that was published 40 minutes before the Buzzfeed News article. (15:50 UTC vs. 12:31 p.m. ET)

Rather unlikely that the one published earlier is actually a response to the one published later.
I mean, if it's closed source you're not getting the debug symbols in any case lol, no matter which language.

It uses debuginfod for fetching symbols - here it "just works".
No you don't. Source: I bought previous generation top of the line scopes as well as similar lecroy ones and have colleagues who just bought this device.
I think having good regulations and meaningful safety culture are important. I also think this guy taking a dim view is not warranted. That said, a lot of safety regulations nowadays is about minimizing liability and increase in safety is incidental.

I worked in a British company (that had a warehouse) in an office as an IT contractor, and in the 3-storied office all stairwells were full of posters telling me I should hold the handrails and that kind of completely pointless garbage.
Thinking with External Representations
> "if you do X like me,

Secondly, that very strongly suggests survivor bias. You almost never hear about all the people who did X and didn't make it. And the one time you do, those were unlucky, or didn't really do X (true scottsman fallacy).
He mostly studies computational complexity. Quantum computing is a part of that, but there's other subfields. Though the kind of AI safety described in this post seems more like an extremely fancy version of program verification, so out of CS bloggers you'd expect John Regehr to get into it.
It is possible to allocate every object in its own page. In practice this is useful as a debugging tool but far too expensive for day-to-day operation.
I have RSI which led to an operation as well as a collection of different input devices. A few of them are trackballs (OTOH: Microsoft Trackball Explorer which the Ploopy is shaped after, Logitech Trackman Marble FX, Trackman Marble and MX Ergo but I've also tried others like the CST). I also have a few mouse variations and I've extensively used Trackpoints in the past.

Variation certainly helps but what I keep coming back to are Apple's trackpads. The modern versions (the ones using force sensing instead of buttons) in combination with turning the sensitivity way up and enabling more mulitouch gestures are really, really good for me. I've yet to find another input device that requires less wrist movement and less force to use.
I am confused, how did you reach that conclusion? How does this announcement relate to the future of physics research? Sure, Scott's research is at the intersection of complexity and physics, but he is a CS professor at Texas working in the theoretical computer science department. His work leans far more towards TCS, with some work having connections to cosmology (he cares about physical limits of the universe and the information theory of things like black holes) and other interesting ideas from physics. But the main themes of his work have been quantum algorithms and complexity for a while. He's also nowhere near the experimental side of physics.
> It is in fact the primary use of refcounted pointers in many C++ codebases I've worked with - perhaps with a single std::shared_ptr and several std::weak_ptr s [...] Store a std::string or std::shared_ptr<std::string> instead, even if it's "unnecessary".

Uh, I've been wondering at the use case for rc::Weak, that seems like an interesting halfway point if you think borrowing should work but you can't get the compiler to accept it.
There were more that months, at least another big project. But not everyone is interested in writing anouncements.
That only works out, when price matches customer expectations. Aren't you ever been position, where customer insist to get price offer for something ridiculous? Those clients always act offended, when you finally give them price. Even when you previously are communicating out that this is going to be really unreasonable, no point for calculating exact offer.
Right now it is working
The words below were written several thousand years ago. They remain relevant for you in your situation.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%20...
It's very sad to see how many people admitting they have bullshit jobs in this thread. They almost seem proud of it as well. You would think that, given the choice, (yes, many of us technical people DO have a choice) people would strive to do something meaningful in their jobs rather than just scoop up a paycheck every month while doing bullshit. It feels like some people have simply "given up" even though they are probably capable of finding something better.
It apparently was useful to someone. It is only BS insofar it can be automated easily.
This week in KDE: non-blurry XWayland apps
I had interest rates at 3%, and then suddenly orchards bankrupted and I had deflation of ~90%.
Bovine gelatin is another Creutzfeld—Jakob’s prion disaster waiting to happen.
Big customers are researchers and developers in optical communications, where you have signals that go to these bandwidths. Also microwave engineers working on next generation wireless systems, as well as people working in THz communications. Those are the ones I know about, I'm sure there are many customers in defence/security but I have no idea about those applications.
This is all nice and great, but what needs to be said, that this guide is tailored for small-ish companies, mostly tech oriented, primarily facing customers.
As someone who is working in a relatively big company (1500 employees in Europe) and worked in a corporate before, you need to have much more defined processes and definitions. Anyone who ever dealt with ITIL and is reading this must be very confused.

What also needs to be said - in my time I have seen orthodox ITIL bros, who got all their certificates and wanted to transform every ITSM process to the letter of ITIL and these people would probably get a panic attack from this guide. Nowadays I am seeing Agile bros, who want to do everything the Agile way, replacing one mess with another, just for the sake to be up to date with the newest frameworks.

I like that people at incident.io tailored the Incident Management to their needs and are not sticking to some predefined "rules" which are popular now. What works for them might of course not work for the rest.
Maybe go beyond programming and think of methods in data analysis, machine learning, and decision making.
Definitely not participating in a failed coup like January 6.
Nowadays that isn't the way to use Qt.

You would use QML, which is quite similar to JavaScript, alongside the quite nice designer tooling, while implementing in C++ the code that needs high performance.

Additionally QML also gets compiled to native code anyway.

Although on Windows only apps, I would also use C#.

Java Swing is nice (yep I own the Filthy Rich Clients book), however it is basically stagnant since Java 8, minus bug fixes, HiDPI and Metal backend.
Maybe he just wants to use his sabbatical to try something different? Someone in his position doesn't have to remain laser focus on their own field.
Or practical vs. philosophical.
Unfortunately, that keeps us stuck in technological local maxima; the users necessarily operate in the framework of existing things and are thus unable to articulate novel things they actually want or need. These are simply things users do not think about in a sufficiently extensive capacity and manner.
UBI would cover rent for a great many in a vast swath of the country.

It's not supposed to replace working, it's supposed to be a transfer from industries that employ no one but generate vast wealth, to people who work in industries where the marginal value created is less than cost of living.

It's also designed to be a cushion for the poor, and replace the various administratively expensive great society programs with a single transfer benefit.

Progressives hate it, because it doesn't solve all the problems, Conservatives hate it, because it offends their sense of propriety about government oughten do - and "gets in the way" of the labor market.
Intergenerational wealth transfer is far from assured. A billion dollars worth of cattle could die. Gold could be stolen. Bitcoin might be irrelevant.

Wampum didn't do so well either
Computers networking - yes. WWW… I’m not sure :(
What kind of performance can one expect?
The problem is that the deflation thinking has lead to two world wars.

The Austrians are famous for committing extreme austerity before world war two.

First hand experience with tough deflation probably caused Hitler to leave Austria and move to Germany where he promised a quick fix through worker programs. His goal to conquer Europe was basically equivalent to trying to rebuild the Roman empire which was dependent on conquering more land to grow its economy.

The gold standard has no history of success, it lead to the rise of feudalism and countless of wars, revolutions and conflicts.

The only logical answer is to stop the articial price controls on the interest rate and let it fall negative when the economy declines.
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Vale definitely has some interesting ideas! Time permitting I strongly encourage you to figure out writing down some semi formal full descriptions of some of these ideas to help share them. They are fascinating takes on ideas.
I suspect they still sell as many of these they can reasonably make, which I suspect will be significantly more than 2 or 3. I personally know of at least 5 labs who bought at least one of these in the last 2 or 3 years (I believe the URX platform is like 3 or 4 years old, but maybe wasn't at 110 GHz at the beginning)
Not same commenter, but we just went to the library as a family every 3 weeks. Around that age I was bored with the childrens section, so I tended to pick books on computing and quantum field theories :)

I ditched the math side soon for the computing section though.