skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We should not measure Economic Productivity" isn't a great start.

Increasing well-being is a laudable goal, but it's nebulous in concept and in specifics even more tricky. "Well being" belongs in the world of political or philisophical discourse, but as a basis for economic planning is probably not going to be useful.

But now that we mention politics, we already have proxies for measurement of well-being. In western democracies the people vote for the politicians (or policies) that they believe will increase their well-being. So the polls and vote tallies are one form of measurement. One of the government's roles, as policy maker, is to balance the needs of the people with the ability to provide those needs.
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I had a conversation with my wife about this just about a week ago. We have a different background (America vs Europe, me being Europe). When she explained “Quiet quitting” to me, my reaction was the same as yours. Quiet Quitting is just doing the job which you are paid for. Which to me is perfectly reasonable.

Culture probably plays a role here. Like that joke about an American making calls / texting for work while in the hospital, and a European taking 4 weeks vacation for the summer, just dropping everything work related.
In the programming world, there is no clear definition of just "doing your job". Two programmers can both work 8 hour days, doing their best work, and one can literally provide 10x or more value than the other. It seems like in programming the only definition of "doing your job" is "do your best".

With such a range of skills and loose definitions, it it is almost impossible to tell who is doing their job and who isn't.
Yes it’s more complicated, obviously, but OP was implying that any censorship at all equates to hypocritical intolerance, which is a simplistic absolutist position.
Sure, but if a pissed-off rich person is willing to buy it, doesn't that mean your home's highest and best use [1] is as a rich person's cudgel to make you miserable?

So really, as a God-fearing capitalist you should be all for it!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_and_best_use
Most of the anti-labor sentiment I’ve heard from non managers has been about systemic quiet quitting by union members. Some of those examples are 30 years old.
The "dream" is that it results in a fair valuation, but the reality is it results in rampant problems. Unless you set your valuation high enough, anyone with money who is pissed at you can cause you trouble; how much cash would you need to take to move from your house to an identical one nearby, for example?

However, if you invert it and instead say that you can sell at anytime to the agency that values your property, then it might work, because at that point the "little guy" is the one with the power.
We don't have any idea how that would work, since the only "everything app" that exists is in China. OP's blog is saying the same thing - it's a move towards monopoly and it might not work otherwise.
For this particular case I’d want it to be even less creative. I want it to be able to make designs that just use cabinets that are available to buy, and it should know where to source them and what they cost.

And only show me lights that really exist and are for sale, etc.
Just need a MacWrite-grade app that can export to PDF and SerenityOffice can be sold in a nice big box with a pile of floppies.
> PoW doesn’t magically address the interface problem with the real world.

I didn't claim it did? PoW solves the "how can we trust this transaction should have happened" problem which prevents some centralized org from stealing coins from your wallet. However, it does that at a huge power cost (it has to, by design).

PoS solves the power cost problem, but cannot be initiated until there is enough stake holders with enough to lose. Start with PoS and you are basically asking for your centralized management to be trusted. The PoS transition has to be planned pretty much from the coin's foundation.

Of course, there's also traditional banking which I think are generally the better idea. Not because they are more trustworthy necessarily, but there are 3rd party enforcement mechanisms which are hard to stop if a bank becomes a bad actor. (the legal system). That, of course, assumes a functioning gov, but my assumption is that's what most HN commenters live in.

The major problem with crypto is that 3rd party enforcement is not possible (by design). So, if someone steals or scams you out of money, you are SoL.
Why are some people working more than they can? For their own startup or doing a PhD they are passionate about I understand it, but for a random company?
You're not too quick with valid analogies, are you? Hint: what you just posted wasn't one.
Hi, this is Sebastian from Step CI

Thanks for sharing Venom!

Certainly, there are lots of tools in the space, both SaaS and open-source. Mish and I can name you a few!

However, there’s one thing these tools seem to be missing - a greater goal.

Our vision is to give you a tool that will free you from writing and maintaining API tests ever again - in any shape or form. What you currently see from us is the first step!
If the argument could be valid the way I’m using it, then the rest of your comment is just playing devil’s advocate. That’s not very constructive (and kind of a slippery slope fallacy of an argument)
> I am not trying to imply that porn "actors" have low intelligence, but..

Curious - if she was a software engineer would your comment be different?

In any event other people also got hurt in this pit in a less spectacular way.
I'd agree we don't need complex numbers to produce this, because it's right there in the function (cosx(x)/2pi) without them. However, by way of intent, if someone says "hey check out these integers in order, but both positve and negative simultaneously, in the shape of a universal function over reals - as though they thought it was important to show they could produce those integers from the reals. Of what is that an expression?"

What other identity or function of reals yields all integers? I don't actually know, but I'm betting being wrong on the internet that the artist behind this song in this context would pick this specific one for both aesthetic and practical reasons.

However, let's say I'm wrong but wanted transmit Euler's Identity in a universal physical signal anyway, what function would we use?

In the piece, there is a piano accompanyment of triads I haven't done the analysis of to see how they are linked to functional melody notes - but given the composer states his music is an expression of geometric principles, there may be more information in that, and if I persist in my folly instead of posing the half baked version in a comment, I will become wise. Thank you for indulging, the friction refines the idea faster.
I find myself saddened by the 'quiet quitting' meme.

If people were simply promoting trying to find a new employer if your current employer doesn't value your hard work properly, that would be great. That would benefit workers.

If people were simply promoting a balanced life in which it is okay to take leisure time and not make your whole life about your career, that would be great. That would benefit workers.

But 'quiet quitting' isn't just those things. It actively encourages people to stay where they at but to perform the minimum required to maintain employment. In many cases, it promotes a sense that you are sticking to the man; you're finally causing your your employer to get what they deserve.

But adopting apathy towards your career hurts you proportionally far more than it hurts your employer. 'Quiet quitting' is a meme that can easily harm the people who are most enthusiastic to put its tenants into practice.

Years ago I read an autobiography of a Black gentleman who came from very poor beginnings in the US South but ended up having an accomplished career laid on the foundation of the hard work he had put into being successful in his academic pursuits when he was young. He discussed some of the challenges that other young Black boys and men faced. In some parts of the Black community, young Black boys would insult their peers who were interested in academics by saying they were 'acting white'. Although it is virtually certain that these young boys had legitimate grievances about the 'white' society in which they were growing up (which was early to mid 20th century America), this had developed into a meme in which trying to be successful at learning was derided as pointless or as selling out. This was a tragedy since becoming successful at learning was in fact one of the best things that young Black men could do to raise their standards of living.

The similarities with the 'quiet quitting' meme seem sadly clear to me. Hopefully it will pass before too many young people's future growth is inadvertently self-sabotaged.

To be clear, I don't mean to deny that there are problems with the typical 21st century "employee-employer bargain". Let's just try to find a way to fix those problems without spreading a self-harming meme.
A phenomenal amount of words are being written about this topic but it seems far simpler to me than most are suggesting. People are sick of those who are already extremely wealthy capturing so much value from economic activity, without truly earning their wealth (by any reasonable definition of "earning"). Since people still need to eat, we are entering into a spite-centric model where I earn as much as I can, but in competition with my employer rather than collaboration. The easiest way for me to do that is to minimize the benefit they can get from my employment, while not offering any excuse to get rid of me specifically.

The best way I can see to recover from this trend is for employee ownership models to gain traction.
It's funny, I commented about this a few months back saying happiness is a better indicator than GDP and people were so offended by the mere suggestion.

Edit:
Clearly no one is offended, hyperbole is a lost art form, and happiness is at all-time highs judging by the responses I got.
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I wish I could follow this, but the blog sadly lacks any (discoverable) RSS feeds. So qrush, any chance of that changing?
Here's my anecdote to balance your anecdote:

I was getting paid very well in a junior position at CERN, rarely working more than 7.5 hours a day, doing interesting things, and with a hefty bonus when I took a three day long weekend business trip.
OP is not asking for advice. OP needs a cheerleader. Sometimes that’s all you need.
Agree. I bought a 15” Pro and an 11” Air in 2013, both with 16GB, and used them until this year, when I went M1. Only really because I couldn’t run the latest OS anymore.
Have you got your genes tested? People can have Lynch syndrome and not develop cancer. Colon cancer is also a silent danger in that it can grow for years without any noticeable symptoms.

I got colon cancer at age 35 (despite being a vegetarian, BTW), and it was first then that suspicion was raised that there could be a hereditary component - which was later confirmed by a gene test.
> A portion of the revenue generated from each bet can be kicked into a state's general fund, helping to support worthy initiatives such as public education.

You also have the option to tax corporate earnings to support these worthy initiatives. A portion of the revenue that would go to a CEO superyatch or dong-shaped rocket will be kicked in into a state's general fund. Just sayin'...
This is really neat. Solid share. Good on FT for having creative and humorous devs.
The issue with GDP-replacements is that GDP is a good proxy for many things, not just one. GDP / capita is a proxy for well being. GDP is a proxy for how credit worthy a country is. It's good proxy for how well a country could wage war if they switched to war economy. It's proxy for how much slack there is in the system that could be used to deal with bad times.
I've been using GBoard for Dvorak and it's awful. This is a welcome addition.
I mean.. not wrong?
This is the real reason WeChat exists and that there's no equivalent (or market for one) in the west. The built-in apps on iOS and Android for messaging, payment, mapping, photo storage, and so forth serve the needs of a majority of users while consolidating market power for the platform operators Apple and Google.

These integrated experiences had gaps in China, which were filled by Tencent, which then became a sort of virtual platform operator, essentially running its own virtual set of built-in apps on top of foreign-made operating systems.

There's no market for a replacement for a built-in app suite in the west so long as the existing ones are meeting users' needs, which is why we haven't seen Facebook succeed at this. I'm not sure where Musk thinks this market for the "X app" is going to come from.
> because we all know it 100% exists.

I don't know that.
Open source, open protocol. The superapp is the holy grail of consumer experiences but it's only been achieved in a very insular and siloed manner. The old model was ecosystem based and required large players like apple, Google and Microsoft to build operating systems. One level up WeChat and others have done it as a mobile app. I'd argue we could standardise that model as an open ecosystem but it's going to be damn near impossible to do with that goal upfront. It's more likely some open source niche use case could kick it off but after a decade of wishing, I haven't seen it yet.
The first time I had heard of proposition bets was about a decade ago, when a coworker printed out a list of novelty ones from Bovada for the Super Bowl (things like "How many times will Al Michaels mention the quarterback's brother during the broadcast?" or "How many costume changes will the lead singer make during the halftime show?"). They're nice to keep track of just for fun when you're with a bunch of people at somebody's house anyway, the score isn't close, and nobody really cares about either team. But the idea that somewhere there's serious money on "Will the first score be a run or a pass?" sounded crazy to me at the time.
This document is outdated, PartitionAlloc is used for all allocations now: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/ec6b52f91a4...

It uses plain os_unfair_lock: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/refs/he...

EDIT: It also combines os_unfair_lock with manual PAUSE spinning.
Not to mention Windows itself feels like shovelware at this point. Its a horrible experience to boot up a new PC.
The new formulation is a lot stronger though. Most kids probably bought one pack of cards perhaps, got burned, never bought another random pack. Now people cant watch a sporting event without gambling.
File explorer exists on iOS.

Manga reader - there are options, but less convenient than on Android.
Funnily enough when you look at the countries in the 'happiness index' they all happen to be countries which fundamentally have pretty good underlying economies (and often they tend to be from european countries that have decent social support structure).

Well-being is probably a third-order effect from a strong economy, good healthcare / social care, culture and a variety of other factors. But because it is a third-order it is very hard to measure the impact of policy, because:

* They are 'arms length' from policy changes.

* The indexes are slow to respond to changes.

* They are noisy and affected by unrelated factors (i.e. does a colder winter decrease happiness?)

* A policy which improves well-being today could very well decrease well-being far into the future (e.g. increasing a countries spending and decreasing tax).
The first part of this just boils down to "it's hard" and the second is a pure fantasy description of how governments are maybe supposed to work but none ever has in precisely that way.

These are both useful lines of reasoning in some conquests but I don't find them so in this one.
> But governments have to allow those things to happen.

I very much doubt that. Hell, I think the government would be all-for open payment standards as long as they're dollar-based and conform to tax legislation. The real roadblocks are the current protocol-holders like Apple and Google - their ability to profit off these technologies leave them in direct opposition to what you consider progress. And if iOS/Android doesn't adopt your open standards, you can forget about the general public adopting it.
I think you probably have some fundamental cause & effect arrows backwards here.

Specifically, every single tech recruiter and tech executive is doing everything they can to increase the diversity of their company. The fact that you're getting interviews for lead or architect but then being assessed as a better fit for senior shows that you're actually getting preferential treatment in recruiting stage and opportunities that an otherwise identical non-minority candidate wouldn't have even been interviewed for.

> It's weird as fuck that they are interested and crawling over me until they talk to me as a person

That's not weird at all. That's incredibly common. That's a sign that your resume looks good, but you interview poorly. Maybe you're the "talented jerk" who they fear will negatively impact other employees. Maybe you overestimate your abilities.

It's possible that the whole world is just out to get you and refuses to acknowledge your greatness. But it might be more likely that if many different groups of people have all been interested in you on paper but then you didn't meet expectations, that the common element here is how you interview and/or interact with others.
That's not the definition of a everything app everyone is using for the purpose of this discussion.

"app" has the colloquial meaning of an icon on your device that you tap on that opens a thingy controlled by a company.
> The details were made public on October 6 through a court filing that detailed the customers who fell victim.

https://criptokio.com/en/altcoins-en/celsius-net-worth/
I logged in but it doesn't show me any songs :(
There is "what color of Gatorade which will be dumped on the winning team" which seems way too easy to fix.
The way I see it, we haven’t ever really had a liberal democracy. Rather we’ve always had a conservative minority with different rules for the rich and powerful from the rest of us. The New Deal was an attempt at a liberal democracy with a united working class, but that only lasted till the civil rights movement started to extend the benefits of liberal democracy beyond white people. That gave conservatives the wedge they needed to divide up the working class again.

Since then, the working class has been arguing among itself while the rich and powerful reap the rewards. I’d call that conservative capitalism, not liberal democracy.
You've mostly explained backend-related issues, no?
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> I feel like these "take advantage of the system people" are partially the cause of stricter monitoring and leeway.

But these people are so obviously detected it makes no sense. They are not even trying to hide. They could be the cause of stricter legislation, not monitoring.

I think everyone has a good measure about the value of the people they are directly in contact: direct coworkers, bosses and subordinates. You can ask other people when in doubt. I'm not claiming this solves every problem, my point is that monitoring is usually completely unnecessary and creates an oppressive atmosphere.
Yes. I am a human person. I care about human person things. Corporate persons can pay.
Without reading the page, I'm going to assume I'm better off reading linked topics from Wikipedia like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Well-being
Well, then you have a hiring advantage against many companies since you won't apply this judgment. I'd say LinkedIn is probably the least productive engineers, but most Googlers are right up there with the least productive. Facebook is bimodal.

But that's how I've found it in hiring.
In a centralized business, it's a standard corporate governance model. Which works great except for all the times it doesn't lol, but it's a known quantity. I've never heard of a decentralized equivalent that isn't just centralization with some extra steps.
As long as the transaction is legal, paypal should allow it to go through. They should not be discriminating against certain groups (as bad as they might be). They should maximize stock holder value as opposed to being biased against some groups. If they are wasting time/money with stuff like this, it really make one wonder what else they are wasting their time/money. I think I need to make sure that any paypal stock (and funds containing it) that I have needs t be sold and not to purchase any in the future.
> Accepting a job and then deciding the wage is not enough for the duties you have to perform after the fact just slows the process down for everyone and usually puts extra work load on your colleagues.

Uh,no. It's usually getting more and more work coz someone left/got fired and employer goes "well, productivity looks the same" (coz everyone is working that bit more) "why hire more?".

Or frankly you just learned more and are more productive than you were year ago... for same wage.
Musk's playbook has been kind of more on the ocean-boiling side of things (SpaceX, for example).
Platform !== app (though platforms can have bundled apps)

Browsers started as a document reader app, now they are deploy platforms as well.

You need to develop apps with functionality for either OS or web platforms, or both.
I don't like PayPal but I don't see alternatives for my business use case. I have lots of employees all over the world and some of them can only receive money via PayPal. Wire transfer fees are too high for small amounts of money. Western Union is very expensive.
This is essentially the point of the book The Circle.
Note that this also affected iPadOS where many of us have a full keyboard. It was a real pain switching between the 2 when going from computer to iPad. Thankfully, they added it to iPadOS, too, so now I don’t have to.
Wasn't meant to be a brag, just letting you know that 32gb of ram is on the low end for most employees.
I suspect one of the main things you'd figure out is that wealthy people are inefficiently turning their wealth into well being. I know some people with generational wealth who don't seem to be significantly more happy than your average Joe. OTOH there's also going to be a lot of poor people that we can justify in not helping as they are already happier than you'd think from a consumption point of view. Indeed people I know at the bottom of the income scale don't seem to be any different in terms of perceived well being.

There's been some research I've heard of in the area about people who won the lottery or have some life altering accident, somehow nothing changes how happy they are in the long run. Wonder if the evidence still supports that.
> Loss of purpose, lack of fair recognition and the need to preserve work–life balance seem to be the main motives of the younger generations for quiet quitting.

The fact that the author is not even recognizing "how much less money earned is worth" summarizes the entire problem. I wish you could pluck these people from the castle they have built for themselves and throw them back into the real world as a fresh 20 year old and tell them to do everything they did the same, and see how it turns out for them.