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I don't understand his argument here. He seems to be arguing against the idea that it's actually impossible to get anything productive done after you've worked a certain number of hours rather than the idea that a company or workforce can be more effective if they work fewer hours.

I can work for 100 hours in a week and get strictly more done than I did in the first 40, and yet I wouldn't be surprised if a company that required 100-hour weeks from its employees became more effective when they reduced their work week to 40 hours.
How do I possibly have more karma than Carmack?

Likely due to frittering away more time on here than he, rather than doing "useful" things.
The strawman is reducing his comment to "really just a debate on ideal hours and the post fails to make an argument there."

It's not about ideal hours at all. I'll post the entire comment here for anybody that might not have clicked through so you can actually decide what it's about.

Quoting Carmack:

I find these “shorter work weeks are just as effective” articles to be nonsense, at least for knowledge workers with some tactical discretion. I can imagine productivity at an assembly line job having a peak such that overworking grinds someone down to the point that they become a liability, but people that claim working nine hours in a day instead of eight gives no (or negative) additional benefit are either being disingenuous or just have terrible work habits. Even in menial jobs, it is sort of insulting – “Hey you, working three jobs to feed your family! Half of the time you are working is actually of negative value so you don’t deserve to be paid for it!”

If you only have seven good hours a day in you, does that mean the rest of the day that you spend with your family, reading, exercising at the gym, or whatever other virtuous activity you would be spending your time on, are all done poorly? No, it just means that focusing on a single thing for an extended period of time is challenging.

Whatever the grand strategy for success is, it gets broken down into lots of smaller tasks. When you hit a wall on one task, you could say “that’s it, I’m done for the day” and head home, or you could switch over to something else that has a different rhythm and get more accomplished. Even when you are clearly not at your peak, there is always plenty to do that doesn’t require your best, and it would actually be a waste to spend your best time on it. You can also “go to the gym” for your work by studying, exploring, and experimenting, spending more hours in service to the goal.

I think most people excited by these articles are confusing not being aligned with their job’s goals with questions of effectiveness. If you don’t want to work, and don’t really care about your work, less hours for the same pay sounds great! If you personally care about what you are doing, you don’t stop at 40 hours a week because you think it is optimal for the work, but rather because you are balancing it against something else that you find equally important. Which is fine.

Given two equally talented people, the one that pursues a goal obsessively, for well over 40 hours a week, is going to achieve more. They might be less happy and healthy, but I’m not even sure about that. Obsession can be rather fulfilling, although probably not across an entire lifetime.

This particular article does touch on a goal that isn’t usually explicitly stated: it would make the world “less unequal” if everyone was prevented from working longer hours. Yes, it would, but I am deeply appalled at the thought of trading away individual freedom of action and additional value in the world for that goal.
Hi, thank you for your comment. I have been looking for correct ways to integrate websockets on my django app. Currently I'm using gevent gunicorn setup. Can you elaborate a bit more on how to make websockets work with an existing app? Thanks.
Hard to break the law when the nearest person is over the horizon. /s
True but we should at least try to actively discourage it and educate people about existential risk. These will be so far beyond the scope of stock market trading.

My main thought on this stuff that I have been repeating is that the only real mitigation is to prohibit the manufacture of certain levels of AI hardware. Again, hard to enforce, but you have to try. And not having the hardware exist will be more effective than laws.

If we make an effort then we might be able to hold off the post-human era for a few generations. By post-human I don't mean that (necessarily) normal humans have been killed off, just that they don't control the planet anymore.
Multiple leaders on the left. In Australia, Canada, US large increases in immigration (undocumented in the US). All of these countries have large targets increasing population at levels never seen before. It's like they are acting from the same agenda.

They are not building housing or preparing for any increases. Are they expecting a population decline?
I stopped supporting an open source React Native library because keeping the sample code working in Expo was taking too much of my time.

This was years ago, maybe things have calmed down since then, but Expo always felt like hanging onto the horns of a bull, so long as you didn't fall off it was a fun ride!
Her interview on the Psychoactice podcast was really good if you want more than this article delivers.

Primarily she’s getting closer to a more appropriate definition of what a psychedelic is, with the more common modern usage including ketamine and MDMA instead of just tryptamines. All of them seem to re-open a critical period of learning through different mechanisms.
Reducing the uncertainty does not give you an edge vs having certainty a priori though.

For instance, you are not better off discovering that the urn has a 50:50 ratio than you would be if you knew that 50:50 ratio ahead of time.

If you're saying that you could discover a better ratio, then the thing that gives you the edge is the better ratio itself; if you knew the better ratio ahead of time, the epistemic uncertainty would only harm you.
Usenet and mailing lists had different UX problems, unrelated to tree vs. linear model - starting with all the little friction associated with browsing threads and replying to messages. Web forums improved on that. I suspect that back then, the linear model got popular incidentally, because of aforementioned UX improvements. Later on, however, people ported the tree model to the web, which gains all the same UX improvements while still not having the drawback of linear threads.

> It works reasonably well if users are careful to quote the messages they're responding to.

Unsurprisingly, they mostly weren't. Linear threads worked reasonably well when you were participating in or following a discussion as it unfolded; otherwise, they quickly became impenetrable.
You can make lots of money working 30-35 hour weeks. Perhaps those working 60 hours a week just aren’t as clever, or haven’t found a valuable enough niche.
And yet where I live in EU it's 7 eur/bottle...
Probably covered by passwords but..

- 2 factor seed phrases. Combined with a password manager and a list of services you use could be quite convenient

- Maybe also the answers to silly questions like ‘first pets name’

- list of professionals you use, like accountant, financial advisor, lawyer, psychologist

- list of people you’ve lost touch with but hold in high regard, so they don’t have to think too much about who to contact in case they want to come up the funeral
“It teaches them to think before they act”. Give me a break. This is nothing more than self lauding propaganda. I have been hearing this throughout grammar school that such and such subject/task/homework helps students do a, b, and c. I don’t think so. It only justified their system of education. Likewise, this is trying to justify prison programs. A sham.
I think he is a musician, though he downplays his skill. He told Jack White that he played guitar in Beastie Boys first album.

https://twitter.com/jetsetter/status/1574188554787655680?s=2...
It doesn't seem likely that spez is being specifically ordered to lie and slander in the way spez is currently lying and slandering
If it "saves the original parties some money" than how is it "unrelated parties... siphoning money from the existing parties"?
Livable != developed
At least 100x more of the country than has been developed is livable, just undeveloped. I’ve driven the length of the country four times in the last three years and I assure you there are vast stretches of perfectly livable land that simply hasn’t been developed because the market demand has been in major cities and expands outward slowly.
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It’s encouraging to at least hear that they don’t 4x the price of books in airport shops like they do with water, etc..
It's a play on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
I didn’t find the tone of the article as a negative thing. Contrary, sounds more how to make the most of your “youth” to gain financial independence.
Ctrl-G still beeps your console doesn't it?
This is really interesting. Very early in my career I worked on a team that supported the interest rate swaps desk at a large investment bank. Not one person told me to read this book. I still don't know what they are. Wish I read this back then!
CDOs aren't particularly crazy until you start pricing them using completely fictitious numbers and reasoning (IMO at least).
13 years and you only get $2M? No thanks, that's far too little for such a large ask.
Haha I'll bet he does.
Spitballing here: keep unauthenticated (as in, cached) access free; and add a button on /user to pay something like $10 for write access in 3P apps.
I did basically this except that I already had ~4 years of work experience (all in startups) when joining Google, I "retired" at 33, and then un-retired at 39 to have kids and buy a house in the Bay Area.

I wouldn't recommend doing it now, simply because "past performance does not equal future results". Joining Google in 2009 was an awesome move; the stock has roughly 15x'd since then. Joining Google in 2023 will probably not result in the same performance. Tech companies have this pattern of growing and growing and growing and then...dying. Just ask anyone that worked at Silicon Graphics in the 80s, Apple or Sun Microsystems in the 90s, or Yahoo in the 2000s. It's unlikely that Google will have the same growth or compensation in the 2020s that it did in the 2000s and 2010s.
Yeah this is what I call the Minority Report fallacy. People see or imagine an interface that looks or sounds cool, but don't think through what it would be like to really use it every day.

Do I really want to wave my arms to control an interface? No, they'd get tired immediately. A mouse on a desk where I can rest my arms isn't sexy because it's not new, but it's pretty much ideal.
I assume it is because they can.

If Shimano charges double next year and you only need a new rear derailleur, what are you going to do? Change everything needed to move to a SRAM one?

Chances are they’re charging double too. Is there anybody else? It has been a long time (8 years) since I’ve gone looking around.
Not to state the obvious, but this would be a wonderful time to share Ellsberg's story with someone in the younger generations.
Canada and Australia are following the UK. Allow massive immigration, drive up housing costs, angering the citizens to the point where they’ll vote against their own interests if it means hurting the immigrants more. Watch the rise of far right politicians campaigning and winning on blatantly racist platforms about returning to a former glory.
Every server is strongly subject to the whims of a possibly capricious owner. One cannot reliably treat any website as "public" because it really isn't. At the end of the day it's one or more boxes plugged into a wall you can't access one which one or more people other than yourself has admin and root privileges. It's someone else's property. Not yours, not "the public's."
Galaxy S5 had both and at 8.1mm/0.31in was thinner than phones are now. I don't see why I should have to choose 9 years later
Many of Johns points are sound, as expected, but the entire discussion lacks an overarching context, namely: "what is your goal?". That diverse, foundational variable defines all that comes after.

Deciding not to do something is consequential too, because Opportunity Cost exists whether you like it or not.
Today's zeitgeist has taught youngsters to never reach their potential and be perpetually inward looking. The exponential rise of "mental health" industrial complex and "safe spaces" in last 7-10 years is mostly has religious undercurrents and less on anything objective. It makes people misrable and pessimistic. May be the idea is to get them hooked on goverment services? I don't know. I can't steelman it.

I don't have any data to prove, but just speaking from the heart and what I see. There is definitely a need to address extreme issues and occurrences, but there is no way to separate wheat from the chaff and the entire movement has taken on weird self-fulfilling ideology.

Worker rights movements today feel less like the worker rights movements pre-2010. The absolute pinnacle of this is r/anti-work. And lots of it on HN unfortunately.

If you're here looking for optimism, there is none to be found. Cynicism everywhere.
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I mean hindsight... why not just say buy a house when he was 20 and then you'd be a multi-millionaire after 13-years.
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There are plenty of people who do side projects outside of work, train for marathons, etc. That doesn't mean you're atypical - most people don't run marathons, for instance - but I don't think Carmack is this wild, totally out-of-band 1 in a million in terms of energy/motivation
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Your accountant is 100% wrong. If you buy a computer and use it 20% for work and 80% for hobby stuff or gaming then you can deduct it for 20%. That's the law. This takes 30 seconds to google and your refusal to do so is mystifying because your accountant isn't liable for filing your taxes wrong, you are.

Your accountant keeps bringing deductions up because he wants you to feel he's worth his fees. That's why literally every accountant I've ever worked with has told me that "a good accountant pays for himself". Accountants compete with each other based on how much they can lower your tax bill. So yes, of course they'll help you make unlawful tax deductions, and they'll reassure you that it's perfectly fine and that they have many years of experience etc etc.
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There's also the opportunity cost of not using nuclear fuel right now, instead burning fossil fuels and incurring all the irreversible long term damage that comes with it.
Nice! Consider making so /h1 autocompletes heading 1, etc.
The dropdown is part of the Notion styling.
This is not true, and in fact there is a very famous thought experiment called the "sticky bead argument" that was pivotal in developing the consensus that gravitational waves are a real, physical effect and not just a "gauge" effect (an artifact of the coordinate system):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bead_argument

On the other hand, I definitely agree that gravitational waves are almost certainly too weak to cause any tectonic effects.
I'm really surprised by the apparently small number of 3rd party app users. It amazes me to think that cutting off apps that serve disabled users was even considered, though perhaps that was just a blind spot for the company.
Why do APIs for content sites must be free? Are you paying the cost of upkeep for that social media site? You said no ? Then you should shut up. Every social media site is a for-profit business. You, the user, can not dictate how they run their businesses. If you don't like the way things are going, feel free to pack your stuff up (proverbially speaking) and find yourself a new place. As simple as that.
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> Mods don't own subreddits, the community does.

Reddit's practices until now said the opposite.
It's false barriers that setup this tribal mentality where you think you have ownership in a community that someone else owns. Many are discovering this week that their ownership is fleeting
I've long since switched to other sauces. Currently, I like Yellowbird for a sauce I can get in most stores, and also have a few bottles of Jank (https://bbqjank.com) shipped directly from the manufacturer a few times a year.
I wonder if the GDPR’s “right to be forgotten”/“right to erasure” can be held against them here.
I did this. If you're on a modern version of Django, it's actually pretty easy: swap out gunicorn for an async alternative and install django-channels. I even got it working with GraphQL subscriptions (using graphene) without much hassle.
I like the list view on desktop, I would maybe make the title slightly larger to have a stronger contrast with the description.

They are not my colors, but the contrast is clear!

Mobile I think the cards are to high. Slightly smaller font, and cutting of after 2-3 sentence a read more link would probably make it easier to sift through your results.

But just my random opinion, good luck!
Nah. You just get a promotion every two years, and boom, CEO at 35. Simple!
This is a cleaning house / loyalty test: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-prote...

Reddit mods who do not want to be exploited further are best walking away now and trying to reform - if they decide, this must be exhausting - on the Fediverse.
100k years. Reality is that in 50 years the fuel will start leaking and then the cost of securing the vicinity/repairs will be too high for anyone to bear. Govt will try to ignore scientific warnings while some politicians will criticize the govt for not doing anything while others will say it's a waste of money. After some pressure, the govt will start repair work but in a few years the cost of repairs will be 3-10x the original estimates and with no signs of leakage stopping. After another 5-10 years, the govt will decide to pull the plug and a blame game will begin.

So, to summarize, we are not the species that can really plan for 100k years and have the conviction of maintaining those plans.
I could sit on my ass and play games all day, reek in all the unemployment benefits I possibly could, and still be nowhere near the bottom of net contribution to society.

The amount of social benefits that remain in people’s pockets after the grifters have taken their share are rounding errors compared to say bank bailouts and government subsidies (in the US).

I don’t think being a burden on others is good, but it’s nothing compared to active destruction, which can come with huge force multipliers. Every large organization have high ranked people that are rewarded for their destruction. There are entire industries dedicated to leeching off of honest people, like tax prep and time shares.
Both my parents worked since their teens and hasn’t reached 2M combined GROSS. Let alone net. 2M in 13 years is a dream for most.
Read the history of ID software. He quite literally pulled himself up by his own bootstraps.
This is an archive from four days ago? What's the news?
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Yeah exactly like us not worrying about all the CO2 30 years ago "because the atmosphere is so big mankind couldn't possibly make a change"

We should balance ourselves with nature now instead of dumping it on the future.

This way we're solving the CO2 problem the way a gambler solves their debt by borrowing more money to pay off loans.
The only time i see this works well is in r/manga, where active mod is only a single one for a fairly big sub. Almost everything that floats up and down that sub is by reader's discretion. Although it's an exception that proves the rule.

The sole mod has sanely make the sub stay open (also maybe because the sub is ad-unfriendly so it's actually more productive for the strike to have it open).
Hydrogen projects are sprouting up like crazy. It's pretty much a repeat of the early days of wind and solar.
Treating favored social classes as eternally oppressed doesn't fix the injustice, though; it ossifies it by creating an eternal "them" that is unconnected to social problems. Irish and Italians can apply now, and it's not because of any government program (unless you count war).
In-person interviews are kind've a weird thing to just throw in there. I'd describe them as very, very different than the focused mental work that happens during the normal course of a day job.

Interviews are high stress, emotionally draining, and, honestly, frequently rather degrading due to being talked down to. It's like having the fight or flight part of your brain firing on max for 5 hours. I agree that the only thing I really want to do at the end of such days is turn off.

That is wildly different from my day to day. After work, I'm still hyped to go to the gym, do some woodworking, program more, study. The world is an exciting place.

I've also found that if I succumb to the reddit infinite-scroll, a sense of numbness washes over me that takes awhile to shake free. I scroll like I'm seeking a high and nothing is doing it. Contrast that with, say, reading a book after work. Such a thing has never left me feeling the same empty feeling.
For government IT in particular, the cost of security is basically infinite because they aren't organizationally mature enough to do anything right. There's no way to make the cost of being hacked infinite; no court or legislature is going to order the DMV to be disbanded.
I think you’d be surprised what you can get away with if you’re really pleasant and don’t bother anyone. Just act like playing board games in the aisle is perfectly normal and smile and wave at people.
Having coworkers who are too curmudgeony to overuse chat apps and wikis.
But all this sounds like Hotwire/Livewire are not good architectures for many many types of projects.

Biggest Liveview app i know is fly.io dashboard and the issues it has from ux standpoint are very similar to hotwire apps.

Actually Basecamp and Hey.com are a lot bigger apps than fly.io dashboard and they are doing just fine.

You don't have to jump to Elixir to experience similar approach when you know rails/laravel already.
He is. He is super atypical.

Personally, I am drained by meetings and am in my happy place in front of an editor working on a grand project, one that I find interesting.

The moment work stops being interesting, eg due to lack of complexity, I leave.

Chaos and complexity energise me.
"That would be because one political party sustains itself by keeping it's voter base on a treadmill of fear and outrage,"
Pot calling the kettle black right here
Those are all pretty legit!
The Price of Correctness
100%...

The entire premise of "identity theft" is backwards. No one stole my identity, no they committed fraud against the bank.

In any other context fraud costs are born by the victim of the fraud, i.e it should be the bank. Only in "identity theft" do we allow a 3rd party of the fraud to be liable for the damages.

I am not sure how that even happened
>It's not healthy to read this forum where 99% of the comments are anti-work.

news to me. consider the possibility that people who disagree with you loom larger in your mental landscape than they really are.
I know spez said he is going to let mods be voted out, that's already a huge improvement. One sub I'm in with about 300k people has the mods punish anyone who expresses an opinion they disagree with, and it's a majority opinion. They also let rampant bigotry go unchecked. I don't think they would last long.
The redesign is a one-time cost. Lost sales in the EU will be ongoing until it happens.
Those solutions don't expose the phone as a storage drive like Android phones can, though.