skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People create a $BETTER_ALTERNATIVE

Having created a $BETTER_ALTERNATIVE, people then assign to it the powers of creation

Once the creative powers of $WHATEVER get misassigned to $BETTER_ALTERNATIVE, other people are made subordinate to it. A created $WHATEVER that lacks the powers to create is taken to be the all-creative thing and so allowed to lord it over the real creators.

The real issue is that anything that is given power, will ultimately use that power to amass more power and prevent others from gaining power. This is natural - as it powers the evolutionary process on our planet

To break the cycle, we must break from our chains of mortal humanity. What price are we willing to pay to do so?

Or another question - is it really a bad thing? Some version of $BETTER_ALTERNATIVE will balance out the problems created by $PREVIOUS_BETTER_ALTERNATIVE, but will create new unforseen problems. Like capitalism for instance. We cannot predict the future
I am safe if I take Windows 10 from a 2014 laptop and use it to build a desktop. Right?
>Unless you are saying we need to abolish the position entirely and just rely on the legislative and judicial branches of the government on their own.

I'm not saying that, although I do find the idea appealing. Mostly I'm saying the position of President has been elevated in the ideals of American politics far out of proportion that what it should be, and the position itself has all of these weird Neo-monarchical backdoors to give the Presidency some degree of carte blanche power over the other branches, just because the founding fathers didn't trust the other branches to be capable of doing their jobs.

American Presidential elections have become national events to rival the Superbowl, but few Americans care nearly as much about judges, or Senators or Congress, much less local government. By default, most will write off the entirety of government as a fully corrupt, perfectly incompetent sewer, not worth engaging with, believing in or thinking about beyond spite. Only the President is seen to have true agency, can be justified as representing the people, and has the power to enable actual change, almost through sheer force of will alone. At least if they're from your party.

I just think the balance is entirely out of whack but I'm not certain whether that's a symptom of merely politics or a flaw in the system itself.
Unless you're talking only about yourself, I can assure you, making "You go to jail for this" part of the equation definitely shapes aggregate societal behavior. Source: history.
Sure but how many times?
I believe the proposal is to have 20 hours a week in which everyone’s expected to be available at the same time, not limiting weekly work hours to 20.
I don't have a definite answer on why some writing systems decide to use diacritics why other don't. I'm not sure there is a single reason for English.

But I think a bit of historical context would help. Many European languages derive from Latin, and most other were influenced and borrowed its alphabet. Latin didn't have diacritics, despite having pronunciation accents. E.g. "mania" could mean "mănia" (madness) or "mānia" (a kind of spirit). With time, many short vowels disappeared or changed, e.g. "orphănus" became "orphenin" then "orphelin" in French. I suppose that, for languages that are mostly an evolution of Latin, introducing diacritics was a way to mark words that were different from Latin words. It was even more useful because Latin was the written standard (a moving standard across centuries).

By the way, French and English are languages were you can't be sure of the pronunciation of a word you've never seen. Some studies have shown that other languages are much more efficient to read and write. For instance, Spanish readers barely slow down when reading a text that contains rare words, while English readers stumble. I remember stumbling when I first encountered "antienne" in my native language, or "recipe" and "gaol" in English.
Yup, another way to think about it is that it’s a difference of 16h, not 8h. You work 8h less and gain 8h of free time.
I am be curious to see the same exact breakdown but with number 1 starting as “God created humans” to see what the difference in the rest of the list would be, if anyone wants to take a stab at it.
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I like this better in theory, but my experience is that, given my current hours, work tends to very frequently spill over until later in the evening. If my day was supposed to end at 3 or even noon I don't think it would make a practical impact on how late I worked.

Work spilling over into extra days does happen during crunch times, but is much rarer. Though I likewise fear that 4 day work weeks would simply mean you end up working 8-8 everyday to get the same amount of stuff done.
Same could be said for the cpu, but that has seen big jumps in performance.

Faster cpu enables 'heavier' applications, some of which also involves more graphics work. And there's also gpu compute (tbh, dunno if that's even a thing on RPi's?).

A useful general-purpose computing device has a practical ratio for cpu, ram, graphics & storage options. Gpu is definitely the part that's lagging on latest RPi iterations.
You are correct in lampooning the word "force" but don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. The point is still valid. Also, it seems obvious that the danger is in long-term ecosystem implications. "I haven't had to so far" is irrelevant.

Android users had/have(?) to side-load Fortnite. Depending on who you are that might feel like being "forced." Is your argument "If you feel like you are forced to use some app you are wrong and should just stop" or is it "If an app gets big enough that a lot of people feel forced to side-load it, then it earned the right not to abide by any platform holder policies."
> who started it gets you genocide.

Are you aware that the UN court case against a Russia conducting genocide is being heard at the moment?

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1141417
I think you just set the World Record for most strawmen in one comment. Congratulations.

If you took what I said to be some type of blanket 'Reddit is a perfect and wonderful place' you misunderstood.
Por que no los dos? For lots of jobs peak productivity is probably around 20-30 hours of work. Could easily be 5-6 hours, 4 days per week. Gives you time to warm up and cool down from your more intense work.
> I've worked 4-10s for 3 years at an aerospace contractor but after 8 hours I felt done.

Same thing here - I enjoyed the day off, but 10 hours was definitely too long, and the day off wasn't really worth the trade off.

My current employer has "my mondays" - half the Mondays are days with no meetings, half are completely off. From an employee retention perspective this is a pretty sticky benefit - it would be difficult for me to go back to a normal schedule.
Good in the short term. He spun off unprofitable parts of the company. He streamlined the core business.

Bad in the long term. He didn't believe in unprofitable orgs. GE did not develop new technology and fell behind the times.
>I never experienced anyone doing serious creative work in the sense of creating something on a tablet.

You must not know many illustrators, which is understandable, but I’m not sure I follow the overall point. Are you saying home users still need something to replace Windows for non leisure computing?
This is why working in a company with async communication is quite nice as you can do whatever works for you. I'd do 12h*3 and ~30min on the other days to answer any urgent questions from people working on a different schedule. Sadly I don't work in a company with that culture anymore :(.
Is the zp100 cloud connected though? I thought the early sonos stuff was entirely on your own network
Temporary destruction of farmland isn't nearly at the level of a priority as fighting for territorial control of your country. Ukraine has in fact flooded farmland (outside Kiev) as a countermeasure against Russian activity.

I don't imagine this objection as rising nearly the to level of overriding the priorities of war objectives / victory.
> When CEOs Are Paid for Bad Performance

That's good news for Mitchell Baker (Mozilla CEO) who receives millions while Firefox usage has been dropping for years and has recently hit a new low (https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity).
Lol, fair. I'm referring to SolidGoldMagikarp* being a gibberish inducing word to ChatGPT, but maybe drunk is the wrong analogy and PTSD is a better one. Don't bring up <topic> around <person> because they'll go off on an crazed, uninterruptible rant about <topic>.

I think I see your point. If I tell it that I hate rain and want to visit, say, Boracay in August, it'll tell me that it's in the middle of their rainy season, but what you're looking for is a system that has an idea of who you are, and can give that advice without having to tell it that you hate rain, for example. If I ask it about buying a 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air, it doesn't mention safety until I ask it if it's safe, at which point it does tell me that it doesn't have modern features like crumple zones or air bags. Or seat belts.

That's interesting. I find it kind of annoying when Clippy pops up and offers to help, or when Google Home says "by the way... <new feature>", but I can see where you're coming from. It would have to know me and who I am, and offer personalized opinions to demonstrate a thorough understanding of a topic, instead of me having to explicitly ask about specific aspects.

* https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzyva/ai-chatgpt-tokens-wor...
The saluspa from "bestway" demands your location before allowing you to setup wifi remote control of the portable hot tub on the android app. I wonder how on android I can spoof the location used by an app, or if anyone figured out if you can control it without the app.

I set it up away from my house and use a separate wifi network but it pissed me off.
Why can't we have a system where you (and the vast majority that you're sure love targeted ads) can opt in to being tracked by Google and other companies, and everyone else is protected from invasive data collection by default?
There's a world of difference between subjecting an innocent person to the penalties afforded for felonies by 18th-century English law and subjecting an innocent person to "limited access to [Facebook] for a few days." That difference completely changes the acceptable ratio of innocents-suffering to guilty-prevented-from-harm and the expected level of oversight for the process.
You're kinda both right; the dish itself was fixed, but the system as a whole still had limited steerability because it was (spherical?) instead of parabolic, allowing 20° of the zenith.

This was still a lot more limited than the horizon-to-horizon of the other iconic radio telescope type: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSIRO_ScienceImage_8...
This is pretty well known, so I don't know why it would get so popular.
The problem is every company wants to have Google level usage so they plan for it and it never happens. This leaves them with an over engineered solution that costs an insane amount of money. The cloud providers continue feed our industry that FUD so companies feel using their services is the best and only option.
It's a decade now and there is still no real use case for it..
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Nokia CEO Elop turned out to have a $20M bonus in the case of a sale of the company. He really drove the company to the ground and made it a headless chicken for Microsoft during his tenure.
I do think a 6 hour 5 day schedule could see zero productivity drop, sure. At four 8s I’m gonna be zonked out short of 8 hours, anyway, just like with a five 8s. That’s a good point.
"Zeke expresses some level of forward-looking regret that he might never get handed as juicy a story as crypto was in 2021 and 2022. There still exists juice, Zeke! Go get the juice! You still have a de facto worldwide monopoly on juicing! The rest of financial journalism cannot find an apple in an orchard at harvest time!"
Map Men is such an underrated YouTube channel IMHO. Consistently informative and cleverly humorous.
To be clear, you’re saying it’s the non-core hours in which you’d get work done?

This is probably true for most ICs, and false for most managers/execs. Hence the tension.
Norwegian Privacy Appeals Board Upholds $6.5M GDPR Fine to Grindr
Its up to you if you want to conflate frankly harmless and 99% anonymized ad tracking with destroying the planet.
Removing ads would disadvantage less affluent people and youth, as many free services like online platforms and social media are funded by advertising. This indirect subsidy from wealthier consumers who buy advertised products would vanish if ads were eliminated. Likely, services would introduce paywalls as an alternative revenue source, making access harder for those unable to pay.

Moreover, ads would be replaced by something worse. Without ads, companies would still market their products, but in more covert and potentially deceptive ways. This could lead to less transparency and potentially more manipulative tactics, making it harder for consumers to discern genuine content from promotional material. Journalists would be given free stuff, get invited to parties, there would be product placement everywhere, endorsements, etc.
Here’s the technical analysis linked commissioned by the consumer council when building the case : https://storage02.forbrukerradet.no/media/2020/01/mnemonic-s...

(Disclosure: I work for mnemonic, the company that performed the report, although I joined later)
Can you clarify what aspect isn't true? It is the nature of law to take informal behaviors and codify them into "legal" and "illegal." At that point, individual people's beliefs on a topic no longer hold full authority over what they may choose freely to do; the law dictates what one must or must not do.

(And that's just the behavioral aspect. The literal, legal aspect is that laws define terminology. From a legal standpoint, personal definitions are irrelevant when the law recognizes a definition in plain-letter).
Homes “unaffordable” in 99% of nation for average American
Peter Thiel’s Palantir Pushed Toward the Heart of U.K. Health Care
I'll never be able to view "can flip my locked phone to silent mode while it's in my pocket" as anything but a design flaw in the first place. IMO, the greatest improvement to this area is finally being able to disable that physical action in software.
There's a theory that the second-level, C-suite employees all are entered into a gladiator contest to get the giant extra bump in pay that comes with being chosen to be CEO. So they work with great energy and ingenuity to make things happen, hoping for this 5x bump in pay.

Only one of them gets it, and he/she may be erratic in the very top role. But the next layer repopulates and the process continues.
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Hyperswitch is on a mission to build payment infrastructure that serves billions of people at scale - a utility like water or electricity
I would love to bet against you on pretty much anything related to politics, because I think your views are so far divorced from reality.
There's a bug in it. Forgot to add detergent :-)
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Sure, but Europe's inability to compete with the US in consumer facing software is not because EU as stricter privacy regulations, but because of its incredibly diverse linguistic, legal and cultural fragmentation which makes gaining "escape velocity" a huge challenge for any business not just tech, versus the US where (nearly) everyone is an American citizen (there is no EU citizenship) and speaks the same language everywhere (there is no EU language) and has similar culture, business, spending habits, regardless of state.

Gaining escape velocity is just not possible in the EU where every member state still has full legal sovereignty, a different language, different governing and business laws, different governing body, different economy, sometimes different currency, different legal framework, different military and different consumer habits. The EU has unified some items like the currency for most members and some common laws, but still too few compared to the US which is a full-on country, not a membership of sovereign nations.

Also, while the US has undoubtably won the tech war financially speaking, due to it being unscrupulous at any level including privacy and justifying it to itself as "well China does it anyway so we should do it too otherwise we loose", but if you were to ask the average American on the street, and especially those queuing at the blood-bank to donate blood the second time this month to afford to pay bills, what would they prefer to have, either Europe's social benefits or the US winning the tech superiority and having the most tech billionaires, I think the answer would be clear and not the one you'd like to hear.
Sorry to hear this. Phoenix v1.7 changed how it structures files in disk and that broke quite some of the getting started material. However, the guides are always kept up to date, so you can give it a try: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html

You can also see the resources on this page listed by year: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/guides... - the recent launched ones are most likely up to date.
Don't the company's owners control who is on the board?
Get Security Done
Like I said, climate histeria.

The cause of wildfires is much more complex than "global warming". It involves forestry, proper maintenance, water management and many other things up to and including fires that are set by climate activists [1].

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/radical-environmentalis...
I'm on a true 4x8 work week and it's life changing. I have Tuesdays off. It feels close to half my days at work and half off. I'm more productive at work and the extra day off has allowed me so much flexibility in life; from going to Costco when it's quiet to 5 hour bike rides around Denver and even spending the day with my kids if they're off. It's huge. It's hard to place a value on it, but I'd probably turn down another job that was 5 a week unless it was at least $70k+ in more annual pay.
yeah, on top of that, it might've been an account that haven't been used for long time and suddenly started posting links out of nowhere.

this is far too little data to make assumptions like the one in the link.
I would offer that there's no use for social media! Anecdotally, I stopped using it altogether many years ago - I feel I've lost nothing for it, and I am also much happier and focused.
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Weird. I don't know anyone who uses WhatsApp or similar in the US. MMS is well supported and usually billed the same as SMS these days (AFAIK).
Presumably you don’t have any shitty hardware like this cable.
Well if you expand that slightly to "Name a government which use experts who don't have ties to the private sector they stand to benefit from by watering down regulations" the number of governments drops substantially.
Masked email is a killer feature for Fastmail
Having made the trek myself, and seeing one, in my opinion, of the great wonders of the modern world… I can certify that i would not drive there to just experience science museum stuff. Driving in puerto rico is terrifying, and up that hill to Aribaco… never again.
Feels like this had some traction a year ago at the peak of the Great Resignation, when worker power seemed ascendent. Now after all of the mass layoffs, are there more companies actually experimenting with four day workweeks, as opposed to those who had made the switch earlier? Also a shame that one of the more high-profile tech startups with a four-day workweek, Bolt, imploded (though not as badly as their competitor, Fast).
Thanks for the advice! I mean it in the maker spirit yeah. I don't want to write about thing I have no idea about, or haven't done. To be frank, I have the most experience in landing jobs, so I was thinking about niching down to more of a beginner audience. The ones who'd like to enter the market. And considering the state of the job market right now it might be the right time. Who knows, I guess I'll have to post about it to find out :D

Edit: Thanks for that last sentence you wrote. I've noticed I tend to come up with simple stuff for the most part, then I think hmmm... maybe this can become a blog post idea, and then I usually think - it's too simple, obvious, etc. I supposed that the best thing to do is for me to start writing about those and then see where it leads me to.
> in America where it effectively does not exist

You can find it in Aldi, Lidl, Walmart, or Sprouts.

Thanks for the recipe, though.
> Then the same people that wouldn’t help say, “Why did you build this monstrosity it Excel/Access/$OtherNoCodeTool ?!”

Not me :-) If Excel solves your problem, go for it. If it becomes a monstrosity and a bottleneck, then their management needs to allocate proper resources (i.e. hire their own devs). And they often do. The ones we see are the leftovers, where the ROI for a highly paid dev doesn't exist, so it's more economical to stick with the monstrosity.
Archived: https://archive.is/MUVmr
I'm a big fan of this. Having an idea of the "golden hours" for different parties is even moreso the way with geographically separated teams.

I'm currently operating out of Finland as a software lead for a quite complex product (the displays on your bus/train that show you the next stop - a smorgasbord of bespoke hardware, embedded Linux, and everything you can imagine at the border of software and electrical engineering) and I keep a laser sharp eye on what hours I work so that I can efficiently communicate with my colleagues in North America. If I need to get ahold of my man in Chicago I thankfully have the clearance at work to come in an hour or two later in exchange for having an hour or two which matches his timezone. There's a golden window where my evenings wrap around to his mornings that I like to try to use for high bandwidth communication before I close out for the night.
Term limits would also remove anyone with any potential to collect enough power to change the system.

And there is nothing that prevents the replacements from abusing the power and control afforded to them in similar or worse ways. They'll be kicked out regardless of what they do, so why care about the long term?