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> 4 hour work-week ain't happening.

Four hour or four day? Both are terms that have been tossed around, though this is discussing four day (which you then discuss as 32h weeks later).

> AI will make people who work 70 hour per week even more productive. So in knowledge work roles, firms may opt to have one 70 hr extreme workaholic vs 2 32 hour people

Have you ever had to debug code from people at the wrong end of a 60-70 hour week? For a while, I had a coworker who tended to to this sort of thing, and I eventually started looking at the relevant commit messages. If they were incoherent, expect the code to be "not even wrong" grade interesting - you basically had to re-write it to get it do what it was supposed to. The sort of people who enjoy 70h grinds also seem to not particularly enjoy writing tests.
Yes, simply accepting the inadequacy of our current technology is always going to be easier than working to improve it. It's also going to lead to infinitely less progress.

Humanity is eventually going to be able to extend lifespans indefinitely. Whether that happens sooner or later depends on how many people decide not to go gentle into that good night.
Even photo and video evidence suffers from courtrooms that don’t understand how nearly all cameras will record and encode images.

JPEG encoding (and thus MPEG encoding) takes 8x8 blocks of pixels and represents them as a discrete cosine transform. In a very real way these pixels don’t actually exist. If your video evidence relies on such a small portion of MPEG encoded video, you can easily mislead a jury to convicting an innocent person.

I’m reminded of the Rittenhouse trial where the prosecutors had a technician massage a still from a video for hours until some very tiny collection of pixels, enlarged from the original by quite a bit, were arranged in such a way that they said demonstrated Rittenhouse initiated aggression against the first man he shot.

The defense actually had some idea about such a small collection of pixels not being a reliable representation of reality, but couldn’t sufficiently explain it and didn’t have an expert who could, so the judge allowed it.
I think this answered my only question: how the heck is he just writing HTML inside of Go, as far as I know, Go doesn't have any metaprogramming to that extent, and I doubt Go ever will.
On a metaphysical level it conflicts with the idea of a nation and the virtues of loyalty and honor. Citizenship is a relationship with a people and a sovereign.

On a far more practical level if citizenship is a cell phone plan it destroys the concept of any safety net. The people who are the largest net contributions should choose low cost plans that don't offer services they have no intent on using and the population that uses those services can't prop up their plan on their own. I know I would choose a plan without social security because mathematically it isn't benefitting me.
The prompt in my post was just an example it probably would work.(the prompts I actually used included proprietary/private code/data, so I cannot share them here).

Codellama is likely a lot less powerful than GPT.
With the way people are driving today, I don't think it really matters much.
I thought it was entertainingly specific, and fortunately the abstract at least [0] was slightly less immediately beyond me than I feared, to satisfy my curiosity a bit:

The main proof is an improvement to the 4^k bound (standing since 1935) to (4-eps)^k for some epsilon.

They additionally prove (I guess they have properties that make it slightly easier than other rounder/bigger numbers?) it for eps=2^-10 and eps=2^-7 specifically.

(3.993 then comes from the latter, 4 minus it gives 3.9921 and change, but of course you need to round that up to 3.993 in order to say it's a bound: it's not definitely less than 3.992, since it could lie between the two.)

So yes maybe/it probably can be improved from 3.993, because that's a bit of a tangential claim anyway - the main thing is that it's 'some non-zero amount less than 4'^k.

(But mostly yes it was beyond me, I won't pretend to be able to even attempt to understand the proof really.)

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09521
> it aligns better with my family (the local public school is only Mon-Thu as well)

This is interesting and makes me think the answer to the title's question is public schools. Most Americans are not in a position to individually ask their employer for a 4-day week, but if the local school system does it, suddenly there's a unified block of thousands of people who really need Friday off to take care of their kids.

I had actually never heard of this but according to NPR it's fairly common already:

> Seven percent of school districts in the U.S. are now just four days long. In Missouri, it's 30% of districts. In Colorado, it's 67%.
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What do you do for work? Where are you in your career?
thoughtbot, inc had been "leading this charge" for over a decade
I see the 4-day week as a desirable perk that may be available within high-performing organizations. Modifying pay is probably more a bargaining chip for ICs who are working 4 days when others are not.

Outside of knowledge work, the 4-day week appears where demand outstrips supply. It's pretty common for dental offices, an one example, to work 4 days _just because they can_. The bos can pay themselves several hundred thousand dollars a year and pay their staff competitive salaries without giving up their long weekend plans.
yes, they dropped instruct model already and i think people are churning the variety as we speak
The real startup I worked at was probably around a dozen people when I joined. You could probably grow some beyond that and still be reasonably agile (that is, the CEO still has a good idea of the day-to-day operations and can move the company to the right market fit), but once you're at a size where irrelevant middle management is capable of existing (probably around the point that you need two layers of management), I'd posit it's not really a startup any more. Although this might fly in the face of the common definition.
I made thinktype, which you can use just like that, but which also lets you save and search your notes, also locally: https://thinktype.app/
Windows has Sticky Notes, same story basically -

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NBLGGH4QGHW?hl=en-US&gl=U...

Essential for whenever I’m starting a new job.
The first time I remember running across this was /Innumeracy/ (1988) by John Allen Paulos. It's been discussed for decades, and as best I can tell hasn't really been addressed at all.

I don't know the solution. Ideally, everyone would be good at math, but I don't see that happening in the near future. My best answer is for us to provide every court have an on-call statistician, reviewing every case. I would hope big law firms are already doing this, but you should get a mathematically-sound judgement even if you have to depend on an underfunded and overworked public defenders.

(More recently, I've been wondering this about scientific publishing. Misusing statistical tests--or choosing the wrong once seems--like a fairly common source of error in peer-reviewed science. It feels like there, too, we need expert statisticians carefully reviewing every paper of note. Given the amounts charged by some journals, it feels like a reasonable service to demand of them.)
> what is this argument tactic called? Strawmanning?

Yeah, think like how you challenge yourself in deliberate practice. Putting up a "straw man" to fight doesn't really help one learn to fight.
Yes, we let anybody reduce their work week to 80% - for 80% pay, of course.
When they get below "1nm" what measure will the switch to; and will it have even less relationship with any reality?
Wonder how many software devs would be able to do this.

When I have a long weekend, a lot of times, its 'finally, no interruptions so I can get some work done', and end up working.

Guess, if you have an itch, could fill it with open source projects instead.
I have a feeling they're not going to stop being a thorn in Apple's side for quite a while...
Samsung Display is about to begin work on Apple's first foldable screens
As someone who has hated something like 85% of all recent app redesigns with their wasted screen space and needlessly floating elements, Thunderbird's is one of the few that I actually kinda like, after I took a few minutes to tweak it to my liking.

That said, I completely understand the impulse. I do this a lot nowadays.

Something to keep in mind is authentication methods if you're using Thunderbird for certain accounts. Like just this year Microsoft broke QAuth functionality with Thunderbird, and I'm pretty sure you can't set up QAuth2 on Thunderbird 78 (at least without an addon).

You can probably count on that sort of thing happening more and more.
Where do they implement this?
Do you know where he says he's not taking commissions? Just curious bc I wonder who is trying to commission this kind of stuff, and what his reason is for not doing it.
I worked on the PlayStation OS too. Very different everything. I was Sony Computer Entertainment's first software engineer hire, promptly sent to Tokyo to help finish the system.
The article started by talking about UAW negotiations—it's about "employees that have to move muscles".

Not that it matters. "We shouldn't try to improve things for one set of people if things are bad for a different set of people" is an incoherent and toxic attitude regardless of context.
Who cares about the investors? Why is this an important question? Corporations and investors aren't the only people in the world with an ability to reap their rewards.
https://www.videogist.co/videos/watch-electricity-hit-a-fork...
From reading the FAQ it seems the terms are basically that you have to keep paying the license fee in order to release content updates for your games on platforms where you used any of their code to make the build. And since this is for the 3 major game console platforms, any code that touches the console SDKs is under the NDA you have to sign with the console platforms.
https://www.videogist.co/videos/solving-the-motorcycle-keych...
Overtly advertising it? No. Hasn't stopped me (and quite a few others) from getting 4 day weeks out of them.

The trick is being senior enough (or in demand enough) that you can get one company to agree to a 32h week for you (and be willing to walk - I've interviewed with very interesting companies who weren't willing to consider it, and so we ended the discussions).

Once you have it in some form or another, you're good. It's just a condition of employing you, early in discussions with other companies.
This is an obviously tough subject to get precise data on, but dark figure analysis and innocence project data indicates that the CONVICTED innocent percentage is 1-3%, i have seen individual studies peak at 7% but those are outliers and not likely to be the real number.

this seems really good until you realize its 20,000-140,000 people in prison right now. that are innocent.

and it gets REALLY bleak when you look at the 400,000 people who are locked up at any given time, pretrial, in jail. who are legally innocent. The proportion of individuals held in jail pending trial increased from 56 percent of the jail population in 2000 to 66 percent in 2018 (https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-better-path-forward-for...)

so, of the roughly 2 million people behind any bars at any given time, 400,000-500,000 are innocent. 25%.
It’s only leverage if somebody else offers higher pay for 4d week, which isn’t too different than the standard “other companies pay better” leverage
bit.io was a 4 day work week company before being acquired by databricks [0]. not sure if they kept that afterwards, seems unlikely

https://www.databricks.com/blog/welcoming-bit-io-databricks-...
I used to work for a Dutch bank (in London) ~20 years ago and pretty much all of our colleagues in The Netherlands worked a four day week although with full pay and hours, just working longer days over the four day week.
>maybe if this is really successful we’ll do it

Even worse. They're so self aware of their own incompetence they know it's pure luck if they can pull it off. My overall point still stands they can barely ring it around the bay they definitely won't be able to build a single geothermal plant in Yellowstone.

How come in other countries you get a much nicer train and you don't need the tooth fairy to pay for it? Rhetorical question.
So what's the big idea? Keep playing whack-a-mole with Apple until Apple changes their TOS and sues their pants off, or until they run out of open holes? Or is there a bigger end goal?
tbh I was surprised to hear it myself. I work in an agency for a client 100% of my billable time. I don't work on Fridays where I certainly would've continued my day-to-day tasks. I'm kind of a tech lead on things (it's a little fuzzy) so as long as I've got things stacked up enough for the rest of the team and people are unblocked, work continues. I think they meant it in a "we haven't had to slow down or get blocked" sort of way.

I think it mainly speaks to the fact that "most stuff is not actually critical". So people have adapted accordingly and the work that needs to be done, is done, and that which isn't so pressing can wait.
It really depends on usage. If you need to have long conversations, or are sending huge texts, the all-you-can-eat for $20 plan will almost certainly be cheaper than API access.

If you're doing lots of smaller one shot stuff without a lot of back and forth, the API will be cheaper.
If you run a site in the US targeting a primarily US user base, should you be forced to abide by the laws of Saudi Arabia?
Linux wars replaced UNIX wars, and POSIX moves slow.
Mostly a complex scientific computing application. (sorry to not be more specific, but it was indeed not a webapp)
I want to see an Up Goer Five⁰ explanation of all the ways "you will not have a good time today" with distributed systems.

0: https://xkcd.com/1133/
I've heard of small/medium software companies doing it. Apparently it's a lot easier to arrange in smaller companies, and the economics for the business can be great if they're the only ones in the area offering it.

For example, if a divorced guy gets his kid on Friday and Saturday every week, it turns out getting every Friday off is a super-valuable benefit for him, and now you can hire a $120k programmer for $70k.
They're either going to keep getting their access cut, or sued into bankruptcy. You can't really piggyback off another companies service in violation of their TOS without things working out poorly for you IMO.
This is factually correct, but misses the point I was trying to make. I'll fall on my sword there.

What I mean is: For library developers, inheriting an interface makes some sense. But throwing in an ontology that is meant to mimic human-like classification (esp just for the sake of it) is a disaster in all the code I've seen. There really isn't any reason for a Shape: Circle hierarchy. The better abstraction is around what can be done: a PrintableList<Point>, or whatever.

std:: takes the second approach (Type trait-like interface_-level decisions. There was (for a time) a huge push for the first approach of "is-a" relationships which makes zero sense almost any time.

IMHO ECS is a sane "has-a" relationship which is effectively a redo of "is-a" interface-level interactions, b/c each entity "has-a" list of objects that form it's interface with the system.
People are absolutely unquestionably addicted. I'm one of them. And I successfully quit for months as an attempt to resolve my chronic headaches.

Someone who quits caffeine long enough to end their dependence will realize most/all of the things mentioned above. But it takes weeks if not months. And you will inevitably go back because it's delicious and effective.

Or y'all are better than me and I am envious. Either way. That's my first hand experience :)
What information would you be interested in? I wouldn't know what people are looking for to add to the site and would love any advice on that front.
Huh. I actually didn't know it was that high - it's just the way the local district has worked for decades now.
1) Firms are happily wasting away a sizeable fraction of their resources now.

2) That would mean more competition for labor, i.e, if 4-day week is all you can get as an employer you take it.

3) Firms in knowledge roles want certain skills and profiles, if those want a 4-day week, then that is what will happen.
> You should respect the user's preferred font size.

This is impossible because what's desired depends on the font. Of course I can foresee the "we should respect the user's preferred font" response, but that's also impossible because you don't know the font metrics of that are and then it turns out that stuff breaks because the font is tons wider or whatnot. This is also the problem with "respecting the font size". Never mind the aesthetical reasons for choosing a different font of course.

This is why browsers have zoom, which solves the problem without tons of downsides. It's not always perfect, but much more manageable for everyone. Firefox can set a default zoom level too, and it remembers the zoom level per-site.

For all practical purposes the default is 16px. All browsers ship with that as a default, and those that don't should be doing that. This entire feature is fundamentally broken and a holdover from the past.
Force Apple to either allow or implement iMessage interoperability via competitive tactics, not regulatory means.
Interesting. I hope the 4-day school week doesn't exacerbate the education / illiteracy crisis that we are already seeing in America. Not sure if less time in school would help with this, though difficult to comprehend the nuances associated with experiments like this until the data is available.
> Just a block of cured epoxy resin isn't going to be tougher than glass.

I wouldn't be so sure -- toughness has a specific meaning (energy before fracturing), and polymers are generally going to be tougher than glass.

http://www-materials.eng.cam.ac.uk/mpsite/interactive_charts...

I haven't dug into it, but note how the article mixes up these terms to make it sound better:

> transparent wood came out around three times stronger than transparent plastics like Plexiglass and about 10 times tougher than glass.

If you plot that on those graphs it doesn't put it anywhere remarkable.

edit: This is like trying to sell an electric bike by saying that it's three times faster than walking and 1/10 the price of a car -- ok, but how does it compare to a pedal bike? It's much more obvious when you do it with words that most people understand intuitively.
...And Registered Nurses
No it's not. It's true. The economist is really liberal. It's readership is majority liberal at 59 percent. The rest are a combination of moderate and conservatives, I think conservatives are 18 percent.
As an Apple customer, I applaud their tenacity. Every time Beeper's protocol hacks are fixed, Messages gets more secure.
The US have -among others- a privacy regulations problem, little regulations to protect users privacy and many more to violate it, as much as the direct blame is on big tech, but the real blame should be toward who you have voted for, and you - US citizen- ultimately for voting for someone not working for your interests.
What does "Publisher/Porting house allowed" mean?
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Create and modify social cards. No coding or redeployment is necessary
What’s the over/under on how long before Apple blocks it again?
yep no busy waiting for calls and sleeps within the system. However, 'sideEffects' where you basically just commit the result of an external operation still block the Lambda. But we're thinking about exposing a `fetch` api directly from the runtime (ie, we do a call on your behalf) that could in theory sort that out
(bit.io CEO here) - databricks has a 5 day work week.
This looks like great news for Godot! From reading the article, though, I can't understand what "per year" means in terms of console ports. Surely they won't invalidate your port at the end of the year, right? Is it just that you don't receive updates after the year is up?
You're assuming there will be any trees left...
Happy user of normal Beeper, have no skin in this particular game though.

Still, I'm glad they brought it back, and hope will continue this route.

Anything that helps break the high walls of that garden.
This is one of the better litmus tests to see if the expert witness is knowledgeable in the field, and more importantly, up-to-date on the tech. some really smart but definitely older expert witnesses will fumble this very hard.

Its not like those kinds of processes, the "enhancing" filters, are inherently bad or inadmissible, you just have to be clear with the judge and jury what the hell is actually happening.
I wonder how many people are doing that much extra work behind the scenes. Ross Scott was recently talking about manually editing out some very subtle sound that wasn't being filtered out from certain words.
The day the empress' clothes fell off
Over or under on 24 hours until they are "not back" again?
Yeah, not the point. The point is to prove that it's possible and relatively simple, and the only reason Apple operates this way is to lock people into the ecosystem.
And yes and that has worked out well for Android and PCs.

A coworker was just bragging last week that he secretly installed something on his son’s Android phone that allowed him to listen in on him, see screenshots of everything he was doing.

Users generally just accept all.
> We’ve made Beeper free to use.

> Our Play Store ranking dropped precipitously on Friday.

Really have to wonder what their play here is. What did they think would happen?

Isn't it always going to be a cat and mouse game with Apple? Who would want to use a messaging service that works some days but not others, much less pay for it?
Very short article, well worth the time.

To note, the supposed builders of the structure also left behind other tools that the researchers identify, not just the two logs. All that evidence after nearly half a million years is a miracle of a find.

Also, Homo heidelbergensis was the supposed builder. The wiki page has a lot of good info on these folks. One interesting point is that Homo heidelbergensis was more closely related to neanderthals than to us. We know tool use occurs in a lot of apes, so finding such evidence isn't to be all that unexpected. Still, amazing stuff and amazing work by the research team.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_heidelbergensis
> rent-seeking landlords,

Mostly superfluous verb.
Doesn’t this push traffic that didn’t pay Apple through Apple’s infrastructure? These guys should know better than to waste dev hours on a business problem. Apple isn’t going to allow this. No amount of shady spoofing or reverse engineering will change that. If you want to send an iMessage just get an iPhone. Pretty basic requirements.
Being primarily a civil attorney, I'm well aware of the disproportionate number of former prosecutors on the bench. A couple of points:

1. Most prosecutors are liberals. It's not like right wing law students go looking for jobs in prosecutor's offices. I can't think of any from my class way back when.

2. The problem is more that judges and prosecutors are old colleagues. The slant is that they all know the defendants are guilty. There's so much crime, and aversion to losing trials, that (unless politics is involved) prosecutors tend to only bring cases where the defendant is clearly guilty. They like shooting fish in a barrel. If they find that there are problems with a case they tend to let the defendant get continuance after continuance until the case just goes away on its own.
I was recently surprised that CGO only works on Windows with a msys2 compiler, while everyone else works just fine with Visual C++, or VS provided clang.
Those creative media execs dream of a dull life with a reliable shareholder revenue increase and the goddamn artists wildcards finally forever removed from the process.
Why does everyone love Tailwind?