skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What about a private sector solution?

The private sector has over and again shown that it is not the right lever to use when trying to solve public commons / ecological problems. The private sector is what gave us Dickensian hellholes full of child coal miners, the North Atlantic cod collapse, the Bhopal disaster, etc.

Private enterprises are structurally incentivized to externalize their costs in order to compete with other private enterprises. They are about as good at preserving a shared public space (physical, ecological, or informational) as any of the hippos are in Hungry Hungry Hippos.

I'm not anti-market in general. I think within the bounds of a well-structured regulated market, they have shown an incredible ability to increase efficiency and allow goods and labor to flow around and organize.

But that only works when the market participants are playing a game with rules and enforcement. If you just get a bunch of people together all trying to win without regulation, you get a quarterback carrying an assault rifle onto the field.

> We consider Michelin stars to be indicative of exceptional food.

Yes, but we do not rely on Michelin to make sure we don't each roaches or get food poisoning. We rely on regulation for that. Michelin ratings don't scale to the level needed for food safety. It's a niche, luxury product.

> It could be at an individual reporter level or a publication level and reviewed using a set of public, transparent criteria.

Reporting without enforcement is pointless. There were many many reports showing clearly that the North Atlantic cod population was going to collapse. The fisherman didn't care. They just wanted to get what they could out of the water for as long as they could.
While RFK sometimes got help from Edwin Guthman and Peter Edelman, he also spoke extemporaneously sometimes, most famously when he had to announce the death of Martin Luther King to a crowd that hadn't yet heard the news:

https://kennedykingindy.org/full-rfk-speech
The GC is the only thing I strongly dislike about the .NET ecosystem. I would really like some option to turn it off altogether (like what Java offers).

I've got several short-lived applications that are extremely latency sensitive and would work flawlessly this way.
There should be a name for the logical fallacy where direction of travel of a statistic is taken out of context. Local fluctuation being taken as the beginning of a trend. Perhaps just "short-sightedness", but it's more specific - inference of future events based on short term signals.

It's really common in news about the economy. I guess the outcome is really important, but we only have these instantaneous signals. So something like superstition kicks in (when we're not carefully considering what is stated).
I think it is a more general statement.
No, it's quite mixed. CalPERS, for instance, has a VC arm. This makes sense. You want a diversified portfolio. CalPERS is not unique in this.

However, you are correct that running this endowment in a way that doesn't expose you fully to stock market movement is part of the job description.
If this means you can take the corner faster, why not just do it all the time and make sure the side of your car is strong enough to withstand it?
> "A single platform, where all operational data sits powering real-time AI driven feedback loops for continuous workflow improvements. In the platform, automation enablement scales to the size of the wanted business rather than being limited by the operational headcount."

Reads as someone shuffled some buzz words and took a random sample.

But OK, I guess you can't do anything wrong with this approach in MBA land…
"Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success" -- that is the original article on Hacker News, under which we are having this conversation.
> Using some statistical difference between races as a cost function wouldn't be satisfactory either.

So how do you expect the expert to de-bias the system without some cost function?
I always have to enter the password to start an install. I’m not sure if there’s a failsafe after some period of time since I usually install day-of but I usually wake up to some nag saying it couldn’t be installed overnight because I didn’t authenticate, and all of my devices are set to install automatically.
Sports don’t generally work that way, especially in the US. If it’s not specifically against the rules but clearly should be, you get the old “great job! Never do it again!”
That assumes they are not doing productive work.

Examine the alternative. Should small businesses purchase the space all out, from developers or brokers? If this is so much more efficient, why don't they do so?

Similarly, you could ask the same of residential renters. What would happen if we simply banned all new rental contracts. Would access improve or diminish?
>Firing 25% of the workforce "for cause" looks like a very hard sell to me

Why would this be? Musk has already signaled his lack of confidence in the previous management, why would this not extend to their hiring practices, training, HR policies, etc.?
Oh I can make-up scenarios too! Ready?

I make $60k because my company underpays and I don't work in tech where jobs tend to be very cushy and compensation information abounds! I start seeing job listings for my position with a floor of $80k. Wow I just made $20k more thanks to reducing information asymmetry!

For a real example, I had plenty of recruiters and companies that _refused_ to "talk numbers" until the end of the process. Now that I'm further along in my career and finances I have the luxury of being able to shop around and kick companies to the curb that don't suit me.

When I was first leaving college and had no income and little/no savings? A huge power imbalance in favor of the companies and I personally didn't feel comfortable pressing about salary. A law like this that I could have pointed to to just say "you have to tell me, them's the rules" could have had immeasurable impact on my career.

This law obviously doesn't solve every situation, but you must be able to see the information asymmetry and power imbalance that exists that this will help resolve?
> Once you start arguing about the economic value of volunteering, divorce, income inequality, and crime

Who is saying we should do that? These items have value, that is not debatable. It might not be economic value, but that's not the point. The point is, these items are not being valued on a national scale, or at least extremely undervalued against GDP. If you have extreme wealth inequality, GDP is a pretty poor measure of basically anything.
People love to rail against GDP as a bad measure, but what do you think pays for all those social programs and healthcare? It doesn't grow on trees.

More GDP = more money for things you want.
Abstract poetry about capitalism (via GPT-3)
Well, imagine you're campaigning in a Democratic Party primary against an incumbent president from your own party who keeps bragging about how much GDP increased during their administration.
The discriminant between the two positions is that 'free speech' (as constructed here, I probably disagree with the conclusion) need not be a binary. Where backdooring encryption is clearly a binary policy that once triggered can't be revoked, this is only because it pertains to hidden information. Mitigating the proliferation of specific classes of content can be done with specific intent because you know what types of content you're mitigating - fundamentally this is no different than a website (like this one) deciding not to contend with certain types of content (as the rules imply). This means that you break out of the 'slippery slope' argument pretty easily and can get access to 'not negotiating with domestic terrorists' without the negative externalities of suppressing open discourse.
Sounds like this was foreshadowed in his SXSW talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESXOAJRdcwQ&t=53s&ab_channel...

Great watch would recommend
> Pollution is well-defined and easy to detect.

No, this is absolutely, deeply, profoundly false.

The entire history of the ecological movement is about conservationists working incredibly hard to create the notion of "pollution" as a concept, persuade people to believe it, build technology to detect it, generate data based on that, prove that it actually causes harm, and get people to care.

Really, please do learn more about the history of ecology and conservation and you will realize that the truth is anything but what you just said.
Night light is easy to fake with upward-facing illuminators.
How does one inform them if one cannot address the signal-noise ratio?
It entirely depends on what you are counting, but I do think your comment is extremely misleading because Microsoft was important for business web servers in 2000. “a few people who didn't know better did that” is outright deceptive.

The dominant position of Microsoft’s proprietary IIS in the Fortune 500 makes Windows NT a lock for the most used operating system undergirding the Web servers -- 43 percent. But the idea that Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Internet presence is weakening isn’t supported by the numbers. Sun’s Solaris holds a clear second place at 36 percent, with all other operating systems falling into the noise level. Linux showed up at only 10 companies.

That quote is from https://esj.com/articles/2000/06/14/iis-most-used-web-server...

It is fair to say that in 2000 Linux was beginning its growth curve for web servers, and all other OS’s were starting their decline. I do note the Fortune 500 had a lot fewer tech companies back then (zero in the top 10) and churn has increased a lot (perhaps due to not following technological changes): “Fifty-two percent of the Fortune 500 companies from the year 2000 are now extinct.”, “Fifty years ago, the life expectancy of a Fortune 500 brand was 75 years; now it’s less than 15”.
Thank you. Cancelled.
The problem with counting "books" is that the term is used in so many different ways, that one might end up with estimates that differ by several magnitudes depending how narrow or wide a definition or charactierization one adopts. How many books is a bible? One or around 80.[1] When there is a new minor edition, do we count no, one or 80 new books? Some of this 80 "books" are only letters and less than a page or only a few pages long. Shall we count them all as "books"? If we do so, should we than count each letter of a modern published correspondence as a single "book"? Poems were often published as very small booklets, but for prominent writers you may be able to purchase their "complete works" in a single more or less thick volumn, or the very same text in one thick volumn or a few more handy volumns. How should we count this?

> Physical copies. Obviously this is not very helpful, since they’re just duplicates of the same material.

Alas, this is quite often not the case, in particular for older books for various reasons, for example copies were bound from sheets of different print runs that used freshly assembled typesettings containing accidential or deliberate variations, sometimes sheets were missing or the order of pages is not correct, etc., etc.[2] For important "books" we should therefore digitize every available copy.

As great it would be to have 129,864,880 "books" scanned, this would be just an initial phase. We would need a quality control: Is the resolution of the scans really always sufficient? Are the colours correctly represented (includes every scan a standard colour chart for comparison)? What about watermarks (they are extremly important for dating old books)? ... ...

Besides, I personally prefer to speak of "making books digitally available" rather than of "preserving" them, because many features of a physical copy are impossible to preserve digitally: chemical coposition, (bio-)chemical traces, the DNA of parchment or animal bindings, their texture, how it feels to handle them, their visual appearance under different illuminations ... ...

[1] The number varies from denomination to denomination.

[2] And even renowned contemporary publishers sometimes silently correct errors without changing the numbering of the edition.
That wasn’t my estimate of the actual IRS plans but rather a clarifying/rhetorical question of an up-thread hypothesis that we should expand the IRS until there is de minimus marginal income. Your issue is with their idea, I think.
Fast inverse square root. Commonly attributed to john carmack, it actually predates his application of it by several years
I will tell you why: People are changing jobs a lot. When you start a new job you are usually slow at almost everything. You don’t know where files are, you don’t fully understand what you are working on, you don’t know who to go to for a particular question and so on. Worse you slow everyone else down too.

Companies decided employees weren’t worth raises. Employees left. Companies need to value employees more with pay if they want them to stick around and keep all that institutional knowledge.
Seriously. If there was an obvious alternate metric, we'd already be using it.

Measuring well-being and happiness will never be straightforward and uncontroversial, despite what the authors of the article say.

You don't need to look much past the first few paragraphs of the article to see an obvious bias about income inequality. That reveals what attempts to find new metrics are really about: the authors want to use a set of metrics which have built-in left-wing assumptions about how society ought to look.

To think that such controversial metrics could serve as a replacement for GDP only reveals the authors' own naivete.
Wasteful consumerism, if it's truly wasteful, will also lead to lower future GDP growth. It's not a bad long-term metric. But I won't care if the US president claims to have moved the GDP by X%, even across two terms. The market can stay irrational for a long time.

To use Luke's example, say buzzsaws introduce planned obsolescence. People buy more saws for no good reason, which is "good for the GDP." More fixed income goes to buzzsaws instead of eventually being spent on something more useful. The buzzsaw industry expands a bit, pulling people and resources from other endeavors. Society is collectively spending its effort producing then throwing away buzzsaws when it could have created future growth through technology etc, which the GDP would eventually measure.
The Usenix LISA conference made LISA obsolete
> They are just too early

I think this is part of the dilemma though. Apple has been rumoured to be on the verge of releasing their AR solution for several years now. It looks even more likely next year. If they do, Meta will be behind. So in one sense you can say they are too early, in another you can say they are already too late. So if you're both too early and too late, maybe you are actually at least trying at the peak of your opportunity to execute. It may come off or it may not, but the odds are not going to be better a year from now if Apple releases and captures the whole premium tier for itself.
It's pretty formulaic. Head to Amazon and get a copy of Metcalf & Eddy and start treating wastewater.

The real issue is that wastewater treatment is energy intense. It takes a lot of horses to keep the smelly water bubbling, and the heavy sludge circulating where it needs to get to.

Removing emerging contaminants like PFAs is even more energy intense, requiring heavy pumps to push water through filters.

But it's money well spent if you value a clean environment.

Now consider the lakehouse your family enjoys in the summer - where does the wastewater go? Does it go to a septic system? Is it short circuiting straight into the lake?
This is just unbelievable. wow.
Famous, or sometimes infamous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underarm_bowling_incident_of_1...
That's cute, but I suspect that kind of boldly foolish move would not be the kind of thing a team would appreciate, since it implies they can never count on what their driver will do.

It was basically a Happy Gilmore hockey golf swing (which outperforms a regular golf swing when it works, but unfortunately is enough less reliable that it's not worth doing).
Going Self-Service
Hot countertake: No nation has a monopoly on jackasses and the majority of problems in my life caused by misinformation on the Internet came from my fellow Americans.
The History of Vine
give me this for mac os please. my home-rolled dotfiles repo is ok, but id really love some config management system that’s not ansible that i could use to bootstrap my workstations.

i used to write a lot of chef and generally like ruby, but i can’t make heads or tails of whatever progress chef is. mostly seems like chef as an oss tool is dead.

anybody got something else they like to configure their mac os systems with?
Interesting concept and thanks for the description here. I'd stuffed my cards with sentences because I found that learning was more of a flow that way.

I was wondering what variation would do to the learning.

Sad to bail out on the Google login requirement. I understand it's easier to get a prototype going with that. I'll be waiting for other options though.
I worked in a wastewater plant for a while.

The smell in the secondary tanks - aeration - is surprisingly inoffensive. The smell for the tertiary tanks can be even a little sweet smelling. In the digestion tanks it's pretty much odorless.

It depends on the input of course. I presume it's mostly food scraps and human waste. Nothing industrial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_liquor_suspended_solids
As someone who worked in the electronic health records industry, closely with design teams, and has thought more deeply about certain aspects of this problem than anyone else in history (not exaggerating), I think you're missing major factors.

First, yes, productivity was one of the goals of the forced move to electronic health records systems. The federal government passed the HITECH Act in 2009 creating economic incentives for doctors to switch to EHRs because it would be better for public health, Medicare billing, and also because it would supposedly unlock doctors to spend more time with patients and be more productive, via the use of technology.

The reason that third thing has failed, to my mind, is largely because the government, in the same act, required a HUGE list of requirements be met by the software designers making the EHRs. This list, by law, needs to be prioritized in scrums over customer requests and design thinking. Sometimes it makes good UX impossible.

Ironically, the government, hearing this feedback, actually added a new requirement to the list: "Safety-Enhanced Design" [0].

Go read that regulatory requirement and see if it makes any sense to you. That's why design sucks in EHRs.

[0] https://www.healthit.gov/test-method/safety-enhanced-design
Seems like they could have one of those mini femtocells that cellphone companies will send you if you have no reception at your place - these just plug into your home internet and then rebroadcast a 3G or 4G signal. I still have an older 3G one from Sprint I am keeping around (probably wont even work anymore).

One of these could temporarily be plugged in on request - they could have just a few of them (at whoever is head of IT) for different carriers just for this situation.
I wonder what the ad payment rate is to be shown on TV vs YouTube.
To be fair, I believe KDE is already a better desktop than Windows explorer. My fave features are "Wobbly Windows" effect and "Animated Hue" wallpaper. But I'm a nerd, so my needs are likely different from majority of the population, I guess :)
Dodging the question.

People want “merit” to be the determining factor… but they don’t want to express or discuss what merit actually is.

As someone has plenty of the characteristics commonly associated with merit, but who also has a strong sense of fairness, I’m awfully skeptical of the faith (and I used that word deliberately) people put in the concept. Why the hell do the talents I was born with or advantages I was given make me any more deserving of material wealth than anyone else?

That’s all I see anyone doing with “merit”… it’s used as a “drop the mic” concept that to justify self-serving criteria for conferring material advantages.

Personally, I think ability should confer obligations more than advantages. (A wildly radical concept, I know, in the morally retarded era we live in.)
My work iPhone 11 will run for a week in low-power mode - the battery is pretty large without the screen on with a bunch of apps keeping the CPU and cellular radio warm. I use mine mostly for MFA messages & Exchange when away from my desk and that’s a lot more power-efficient than I thought.
> In the first half of 2022, productivity — the measure of how much output in goods and services an employee can produce in an hour — plunged by the sharpest rate on record.

Given the sharpness of the drop, the timing with wonkiness in a whole slew of other economic indicators, it's bizarre to me that the author (and experts interviewed) would immediately assume that something changed with workers vs the metric is behaving weirdly.
The driver’s job is to win the race. This was the last lap of the season if it didn’t work. In the words of the SAS, who dares wins.

Edit: I would be shocked if he doesn’t get a hearty thank you from the crew and a bonus from the bosses.
Karpov is a member of the Duma, as well as being the former World Chess Champion. He is a prominent person who knows Putin personally and professionally.
> > I never thought this would happen, does this mean I should quit programming?

> Yes.

Not sure what I expected, I'll turn in my resignation effective immediately.
In the early COVID days, a friend got really sick and then in a comma for 4 weeks, followed by a few weeks where he couldn't talk.

His wife, who also helped with running his business (small shop, 4 employees), tried to get access to the business bank account in order to pay the bills. Cloud services would expire, services shutdown, they would lose a lot of clients.

She couldn't pay the bills, because while she was his next of kin, that only works if he dies.

So anyway, having procedures for death is one thing, but don't forget scenarios like being in a coma for a few weeks, or being kidnapped, etc.
I feel like the push to make software accessible (in a new-user, not disability, context) and intuitive has made complexity the enemy. Instead of having software that grows with the user's capability, features are hidden from the top layer of interactivity or just cut entirely.

I was at the post office here in Australia a few years ago and saw the screen. It was one of those DOS-era full screen red and blue text interfaces. She was flying through hotkeys and getting things done. People can learn, so much software treats them as infants.

And you know there's definitely someone looking at replacing that software with a modern GUI.
That's a real nice idea. I especially like how it is aware of the context of a selection.

Looking at the network requests, it seems pricey to run though, as it appears to use a whole page as input.
Execution Van
GDP is not what people randomly think it is. It is a measure of the economic output of a country. It isn’t about equality or productivity or did the money build a ghost town etc. If we had the magical mathematics to encode that much in a single number, we’d be traveling the stars.
So... not to denigrate Bhutan or anything, but how and why did Bhutan come up with the global happiness index?
I hope it is or that would mean our doctors and nurses aren’t paid!

GDP is literally just goods and services provided. So any compensated activity or good is included, so things like doctor's salaries, teachers, social workers are all included.

It's hilarious how people have such an aversion to GDP when it literally represents stuff they want.