skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is this nonsense "productivity" and how does one assign a number to it?

I think it's largely a monetary artifact. A bunch of money sloshed around the system. Those transactions inflated GDP. Then, with a lag, official inflation numbers caught up. Now "productivity" is lower than it had been at the peak, just because transients pass through our measurement systems.

Something about using the word "productivity" for this particular measurement feels borderline evil. So much that is productive in the vernacular sense is not productive in the GDP sense, and vice versa.

Having and raising children is productive (of human beings!), but it only enters GDP stats insofar as you buy formula, diapers, and college tuitions.

If you care for your own ageing parents, or if you raise your own children, GDP goes down. But if you take a job and pay somebody else to be a caregiver, then GDP goes up. Consider the extreme example of two women who pay each other to raise each other's children.

In Ukraine, wheat production is down. Some unmeasurable production of defense services is way up. Since the soldiers don't pay their squadmates to lay down covering fire, that working-together isn't captured by GDP.

We call it "productivity", but it's just a measure of intermediation by money. It'd be like measuring "social activity" as aggregate Facebook likes across the country.
He and Joe the design guy were the worst thing to happen to Microsoft.

They effectively killed Microsoft's chance of being a phone competitor and set Windows productivity back by close to a decade with Windows Phone, Windows 8 and tiles.
BitWarden isn't all that tiny. I am pretty sure the main reasons for the docker container is that is built with dotnetcore and uses sql server for its database. BitWarden is complicated to install for self-hosting as opposed to using it on PiZero.

That said, I am skeptical of running it on a PiZero. I could see running it on a Pi3 or Pi4 where I can leave it connected to my network and cron backups to a NAS.

The BitWarden documentation itself shows 12 containers running. https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/
IP law is fundamentally different from product distribution law, and antitrust doesn’t really apply to IP (FRAND being a good counter-example, but that is rooted in contracts).

All IP is monopolistic, and there is no first sale doctrine. If I buy a physical book from you, it is mine to do with as I see fit. If I license the right to publish your book as part of a set, I am not necessarily allowed to sell that set into your channels and undercut your pricing. The terms of the contract dictate that, and it is not at all an antitrust violation of our contract says I am only to sell the set to schools or whatever.
I mean, video games could do it of course. But the idea definitely started with TV.
No need for (a minimal set of) dotnet runtime. This means Nushell can possibly run on slightly resource constrained environment such as Raspberry Pi, of course you don't expect it to run well with 256MB of RAM though. Also, Nushell is battery packed. For example, say bye bye to your Oh-my-ZSH because the features you have with OMZ (like shell autocompletion, suggestion, theming and formatting) is built-in in Nushell. I have also tried to parse `zfs list` output in my Proxmox machine that I don't want to use `zfs list | less` that often.

That said, I hope Powershell Core can be packed with dotnet 7 native AOT mode [1] so we don't have to screw around with 100 different MSIL DLL files to run a single shell...

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...
> if a man wants to have /storage on his owned machine, who are we to tell him otherwise?

Nothing wrong with a man putting /storage on his owned machine.

But if I were using my own machine and I put /storage there (actually, I used /opt/<site>), it would be because I didn't know there was a standard place for things. Then someone told me about /srv and its purpose. So now I use /srv even on my own machine so that I'm familiar with /srv in a professional environment.
Introversion/extroversion is probably the most robust aspect of personality--virtually every personality spectrum includes an introversion/extroversion dimension. However, a lot of people probably misinterpret what it actually means. The best explanation I've heard is that it's essentially about how you "recharge": introverts recharge by being alone, and being in a large social function is draining; extroverts recharge by being in large social functions, and are drained by being alone.

Of course, the annoying thing about US culture in particular is that introversion is often seen as something undesirable--witness all the articles about how introverts should learn to be extroverts, where you don't really see the inverse about how extroverts should learn to be introverts.
I Wish I Could Ask Alaa Abd El-Fattah What He Thinks About the World Now
Because they're licensing the design of the chips. The idea that you can impose conditions on what I'm allowed to do with the blueprints you sold me are preposterous.

Can you make me not call it an ARM chip, probably. Can you compel me not to make the chip at all -- crazy.
Malicious intent aside, there is nothing wrong with releasing.
I don't particularly disagree with any of this from the perspective of the Fed, but that is a different discussion entirely - the distinction *is* crucial for the purpose of answering the original question of 'how is inflation bad'.
It was part of the contest that your enemy team is not able to detect and remove your backdoor. The obscurity of systemd sockets was my winning move.
Isn't Softbank generally pretty well regarded? I'd be surprised if they went with a strategy of chasing away all of Arm's customers.
> A family with two young kids living in 100m^2 is pretty spacious.

depends on your perspective, I guess! that sounds horribly cramped to me.
Fun fact, two of those five things are known to be counterproductive, but coaches still do them, presumably due to social expectation and/or job security.

Conservative play calling with a lead, particularly on defense, is known to reduce your chances of holding the lead. Sticking to more balanced tactics leads to losses that look more spectacular, but fewer of them.

And depending on how you look at the stats, the "icing the kicker" timeout either doesn't really work, or only works if done before the offense is set, which is not when most coaches call it.
ripgrep solves the "precise full-text search" problem quite nicely.
Wait, what French naming?
I also still have an OG one for similar purposes (shifts room lights to orange in the evening, brightens them up blue in the morning, plays music and radio on a schedule). Stays up uninterrupted for months at a time, sd card got corrupted maybe once or twice in over a decade.
You mean you can't scale to giant without the kleptocracy blessing in 2022?

There's lots of bare metal around
> The degree of bullshit paperwork every white-collar worker has to deal with nowadays is a direct consequence of computers making it possible to make us do that work, and for the recipients to process it.

These are bold claims backed up by little to no data other than your anecdotal observations. Productivity has generally been on a steady upward trend in the US since it was first measured in 1947. My own professional service business, which does require a decent amount of "bullshit paperwork" would not have been possible at the scale it achieved without technology.

> In contrast, if you tried the same processes few decades ago, it would mean hiring dedicated people on both ends, and the costs - as measured by their salaries - would be clearly visible.

Ever seen Mad Men? There was literally a full floor full of human beings typing out bullshit letters on typewriters because computers didn't exist in the era.
> Fair. However I like your closing sentence before you edited just now:

>> Or, instead, you can ask how can the market be coerced to be more fair.

I edited it to make it closer to what I meant. "Coercing the market" feels too much like giving people green light to force their opinions on others, which is already a big problem in modern society, and I'm not advocating more of it.

What I'm after here is what I believe is a human universal, even if fuzzy in details: the hierarchy of value based on how much one's contributing to others' well-being. It's the one that would place farmers, doctors, garbage collectors and sanitation engineers near the top, and influencers near the bottom.

The way the market allocates rewards doesn't reflect the social or personal importance in any way - it reflects the ability of a person to capture rewards. Farmers, rescue workers, cleaners, etc. get little, because their work has been optimized to extreme degree. They are worse off because of scaling. Successful[0] entertainers and influencers get a lot, because they benefit from scaling - near-zero marginal cost of any additional member of the audience means that, even thought they provide small amount of value to each person and receive small reward, it adds up to a lot of money.

This mechanism, few people serving a tiny value multiplied by large audience, is just one of the "money printers". There are others, like controlling the way money flows (advertisers), or skimming off the high volume of money flow (finance), etc. Point being, all those mechanisms feel like they're exploiting the structure of the market, instead of being a useful service to others.

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[0] - Almost forgot about this, but it's probably the critical thing: these jobs are in a winner-takes-all market.
Here's a video of the Stokely touchdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fPamV6LsV8
> in less than a year.

I think they'd been working on it for many years beforehand. Getting the software stack ready for a new architecture, especially one where there is a lot of 3rd party code you can't touch, is a lot of work.

After all, step one was porting their darwin kernel in 2007. Then the 'Unified Platform' work of 2017 made the userspace work on ARM... Then 2020 they released an ARM desktop product... So it was a lot of years!!
Maybe jetbrains didn't want to fix the IDE parser for some reason? Although there's still value to that lint warning as lint isn't coupled to the IDE. So you'd get value out of that warning regardless of if you're using Android Studio or not, as well as value in CI or similar.
The last clause in your comment is doing a lot of work. Prohibitive cost is only one form of exclusivity, but there are many others. For example, Twitter’s blue checks are free today but difficult to obtain. It sounds like Twitter is looking to replace the current system of exclusivity with one based on cost, and $20/month just isn’t very exclusive.
What do the ATMs take?
That's such a tease. I check RPI-locator daily. Buying a Pi anything in the US is hard now.
Remix deploys to lambda wow
Hey. I had a conversation with one of my closest friends a few days ago, and this is exactly how I described what I want Nicheless to become.

I wrote something similar here that might resonate: https://nicheless.blog/post/mission

I stumbled upon this use case almost by accident, when a few of my IRL friends published stuff on Nicheless. I realised I looked forward to reading what they were upto or thinking about. And then figured other people might like the same experience.

Thank you for sharing that you think about it similarly.
More like 25 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_8 had it in 1998 (possibly earlier. It isn’t clear to me whether Sherlock became PowerPC native in 8.5 or was new and PowerPC native in 8.5), Windows NT in 1996/2000 (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/windows-search-platform/the-e...)
“ By 2014, the app was fully operational, and featured Hangouts Messages, SMS, and Go”

I had no idea the hangout was all that. I never opened it because I thought it was another social gathering thing.

It’s a terrible name. It’s also more terrible Google was reluctant to retire old product names but I understand.

Retiring names and consolidating become extremely heated political conversation. I have so many battle scars from it.

You need a really strong leadership to call the shots on it. The current one probably isn’t doing it
A Mathematician Who Fled to Freedom but Still Stares Down Doubts
You are basically the Smokey Yunick of paper airplanes:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060323051213/http://insiderrac...
Sales and marketing are not new.
First I would make a thought-beam in my secret volcano lair. Then I would get some off-the shelf twitter clone. Then I would beam the instruction to use it into a couple billion people's brains.
It's someone's personal blog post. No need to be mean. The styles are a little brutalist but also readable to me.
Autodiff Puzzles
The increased coupling of next to vercel does not appear to be an accident but part of the business model.
That was our approach. Build it into the keyboard, do all the various secrets management (passwords, TOTP, et al) and message encryption behind a data diode (sorta air gapped). And RPi isn't the ideal compute module for it as you don't want a wireless chip on the inside of the "airgap". https://www.anomie.tech/
Technically Tokyo Metropolis includes some islands several hours by plane south of Tokyo, including Iwo Jima of WW2 fame. Their combined population is only a rounding error compared to the mainland though.
So basically they want to go into marketing?
This, and many other "bad sportsmanship" behaviors, are taboo because they are far less likely to affect the result of the game than they are to injure someone.

Behaviors like this will typically result in some variation of an on-field fight, which honestly seems like a pretty fair means of enforcement.
Good news, the StarFive JH7110 in the upcoming VisionFive 2 and Pine64's Star64 should fit that bill.
Maybe!

Perhaps they operate a combination of biological systems alongside their electro mechanical ones.

Their ship may be locally intelligent everywhere, with that all rolling up to an i9 ish main control system.

Purpose optimized hardware communicating along standardized interconnects could mean lot of hard tasks done in silicon or shared with biological systems too.

They may have decades, centuries old solutions to many hard problems boiled down to heuristics able to run in real time today. Maybe some of these took ages to run initially.
Unless the higher price commended by more reliable disks causes other manufacturers to improve reliability, thus making the pie larger.

Since they're always trialing other disks on small scale, this can only really benefit both them and humanity as a whole!
> like the copy of Mein Kampf being in every copy of the source code

It was an over the top political gag in response to the original labs people inserting a copy of the gettysburg address in /lib. It was removed as the gag was lost on most people.
Nope. OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenGL ES is all already there.
I didn't bring democratic party into this. The GP was clearly talking about the left wing in the US.
There are plenty of hateful and racist things said on Twitter like : “all I want for Christmas is white genocide.”

But no one blinks an eye. So HatefulRacistUncle might be “HorriblyMisguidedAndRacistYoungCollegeStudent” and that’s also not ok to some of us.

So who polices this? Maybe we just go back to not reading things we dislike. You can block people on Twitter ya know.
It's more Unix-y. Smaller footprint, opens faster, short commands by default. Otherwise the PowerShell influence is vastly understated in project page and docs.
Idk about VR but I think AR could possibly become a winner (assuming fundamental problems like battery life and headset weight are solved)

Everyone has this mindset that VR must be coupled with greater immersion. I think the real “value unlock” will be when it’s just for casual side browsing alongside daily life, like how most people use smartphones

Will the tech ever get there? Will this even be good for daily life? Probably not. But it might be addictive enough to displace smartphone usage.

Immersion is too intense. Nobody wants to be immersed for more than maybe an hour, so VR will always just be a toy
Well, Google and Apple are also putting ML specific processors into their phones.
Coil whine does not require any moving parts. I mean yeah, they're moving in the sense that they're vibrating, but it can happen even without fans or spindles.
> Of course, the annoying thing about US culture in particular is that introversion is often seen as something undesirable--witness all the articles about how introverts should learn to be extroverts, where you don't really see the inverse about how extroverts should learn to be introverts.

I think part of this is misunderstanding what it means. I'm very introverted, I'm not shy. No one tells me I should practice being extroverted and it feels like the people who say that really mean "you should try learning to be more social" which is related but on a different axis and might genuinely be a good idea for someone in a collaborative environment even if they need to recover after.
here's a source.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/10/05/crowdfunding-spotl...
Looks pretty neat and available in default fedora 36 repos. But list of dependencies it pulls in is huge! 566!

I wasn't expecting to install 566 packages for installing something that can compare directories. :-)
Does Bitwarden's setup process still involve entering your master key in the browser? This always felt very sketchy to me, for some reason.
Human drivers could easily be fooled with a laser too.

Not only would they be fooled, their eyes might suffer permanent damage from exposure to lasers.
This reminds me a bit of the "Trojan Source" paper.

https://trojansource.codes/
Reminds me of semiotics.

The essay talks about the ability of generating explanations. It affirms explanations are the basic building block of GI.

But an important intermediate step is also the ability of generating meanings. The AGI would say: "This observation implies something else, it implies this". Without an explanation why, at first there's only the relation between signified and signifier.

Maybe a first step into AGI is to add a semiotic framework, before adding an explanatory framework.
When you put it that way, I agree - a password manager should really be implementable as a single statically linked binary.

There seem to be some other Docker features used, like healthcheck [0], and MariaDB seems to be installed, too, so it might be worth considering how much additional OS-dependent complexity would the equivalent functionality without using Docker require. At the very least, you need some kind of service manager to run your program on boot, and restart it on error. At that point, Docker may as well be used as a glorified service manager - just slap your static binary in a `FROM scratch` container, and you're done.

> I am not a fan of this kind of redundancy and opaqueness.

Me neither. But I wouldn't blame Docker itself - it's just a tool. If it wasn't for Docker, some other way of circumventing good engineering would be found :-)

[0] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/blob/main/docker/...
Systemd is a somewhat successful non-unix operating system, marketed to people who want a unix-like operating system using force. This isn't what anyone wants but you'll go along or they'll unleash a hell of sophistry about how this is "really" what everyone wants even if its the opposite, made up stories about the opponents, or only bad people don't want what we want and you don't want to be tagged as one of the bad people so you're gonna say you officially love systemd, correct?

It would be like going to the EV car dealership and being told the best modern EV they sell is a diesel pickup truck and they will unleash sophistry hell on anyone who doesn't go along with their meme that the best modern EV is obviously a diesel pickup truck but pointing that out in public is doubleplus ungood badthink.

Ironically, for a non-unix-like operating system, its not that bad and works some of the time, although not as well as a unix-like OS would work for someone who's engineering criteria is a unix-like OS. Most people would be technically better off with a unix-like OS than a systemd based OS, but thats not what the corporate marketing department is selling, so we all love systemd, uh huh.
>Why?

Case insensitive, weird parameter passing, no Posix-like interface.

>Windows, macOS, and Linux

Yet it is still mostly suitable for Windows, where it makes sense with weird (read: mostly bad and outdated) platform-wide proprietary decisions.

>This is by design

Well, humans should not spend too much focus on verbosity, maybe I'm wrong, at least that's what I've learnt from a university HCI course.
While systemd does have many good features, it also has failed to turn computers off on various systems and distros. I repeat: failed to turn computers off. This wouldn't be acceptable in beta quality software. But it's systemd and for whatever reason gets a free pass on failure to do incredibly basic things.
> and Microsoft is losing money on the ... hardware as well

I prefer to use 'not earning' in this situations. This device were never intended to bring money directly in the first place and anything successful [developed with the help of this device] can bring thousands and millions of revenue. It's investing for a revenue multiplier.
Mental health in a digital world of work
Why would that be surprising? Of course they are. Nothing "holy shit" about it.
I got curious how much storage this actually is... 2.6 Yottabytes, which is 2.6 million terabytes!
It’s a lightweight Hyper-V VM, just like Windows itself when you turn Hyper-V support on (boots hypervisor first, then the Windows VM in the root or parent partition)[0].

But if that’s an issue, WSL1 is still an option.[1] It’s a thin translation layer between Linux kernel calls and NT kernel calls, which was the original concept of subsystem from the early NT days which allowed OS/2 apps to run on top of ntdll.dll.

WSL2 didn’t replace WSL1.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-...

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-versio...
My coworker just told us a story in this morning's meeting about signing up for Facebook. He created an account about a week ago, but didn't upload anything, post, or put in any optional information. Yesterday he received an email notifying him that his account was suspended because it 'violated community guidelines'. The just lost what would have been a new customer, over what, exactly? Who knows...
Its not verbose. Its just that people that use it like to share verbose stuff as it is more helpful to others.
One could make the argument we are already there.
Git commit messages are useless
Install Exult and play Ultima VII, the greatest RPG of all time!
I chanced on https://adonisjs.com/ the other day. It's modeled to be somewhat similar in ecosystem, batteries included and some syntax/layout to Laravel. Haven't really tried it yet but the community seems to be very active, there is also https://adocasts.com/ for eg.
I just tried to install it on debian and it tried to pull in quite a few unexpected dependencies (e.g. 'libguestfs-reiserfs,' 'libintellij-annotations-java,' or 'r-cran-class').

I guess I'll start with the online demo instead.
> I was also banned for having sent the invite

wow, that's pretty wild. May need to "invite" a couple of my own backup email accounts then? Didn't realize that's a possibility.
We use* a lot more energy to maintain fiat money that's controlled by governments and their central banks. What's your point?
I ended up getting some ROCK64 boards instead. They’re a great price

One downside is the PoE hats are massive

https://pine64.com/product/rock64-4gb-single-board-computer/
This simply means those people must ensure those records are copied and stored elsewhere. Communication services don’t have to store records for the president.

Twitter has deleted many tweets subject to the rules you cite and it’s well within their right to do so.