MarkLowenstein

I'm with you. If I got basic income I would absolutely quit work and not go back. The burden is now on these researchers to find at least two people who would go to work only if basic income were instituted, to balance us out.

Look at this like playing Tetris. If you're at the bottom on a fresh screen, you can lay out nice layers and drop that vertical in for four-liners at a pretty regular pace. Optimal results, and you can handle the less-convenient pieces and unfortunate sequences predictably. Get in the middle ground, though, and it gets stressful to keep it under control. You make mistakes which worsen the problem. Once you're stacked near the top there's not much that can save you.

So it is with the time you allow for scheduled activities. You want quality and predictability? Slow down.

This. For a firm with all these supposed high-performers trying to discover and cater to my viewing habits, they sure had a hard time figuring out that I never chose their "original content" that they were shoving in my face all the time.

I dropped them in 2020.

If a fact-check is ever found to be wrong, isn't that proof that the fact-checker is claiming things to be fact, when they aren't?

I'd support a licensing system for this, at the individual and company level. If Facebook fact checks are ever wrong, even once, they lose the ability to call anything they do a "fact check". Same reason certain ice creams are now "frozen dairy desserts".

Haha, yes. If it weren't for the phenomenon written about in this article, I bet HN readership would plummet at least 20%.

Great write-up with good ideas, clear code, and graphic detail. However my brain hurt more than necessary to read it. Two easy improvements could be made:

- Make each picture expand to 2x or 3x magnification on hover. We want to see the pixels, but opening each picture on a new page and having to magnify from there is crippling.

- Answer the reader's mental question first. Every reader is coming in to see how well the algorithm does against existing options. Have representative pictures at the top of: the original, result of one or two standard algorithms, and result of the best Yliluoma variation you have to offer.

Also in that age group, but I was tired already back in 1995. I was an enthusiastic hobby Win32 programmer. Win32 was considered "hard" back then because it was a flat set of 1000+ functions, plus an event-loop-based programming model. It had a complete printed reference over two thick books. But then to make Windows programming easier, MS introduced MFC (Foundation Classes). Well that had 7 or 9 reference books for it, equalling 3 times the total thickness of the Win32 ones. Since then I've done a lot less Windows programming.

Anyway, that's just one of a million examples of this phenomenon. You have to keep learning more things just to be able to make the same stuff you could have made 20 years ago with simpler tools. This doesn't bother some people, but I think that set of people is getting smaller.

In my opinion this is the reason why women, who used to choose programming careers in the 70s and 80s, do not get involved as often today. Only people who are obsessive can continue to care about all the new versions of every software product or API, despite them offering little improvement. And the people at the high end of the obsessiveness curve are primarily men. If you think a healthy work environment needs proportionally more women, fix this.

No, I didn't think of that. It would give the same effect (after all 1920x1920 isn't that high a res). But on the other hand, could I resist using the other pixels I paid for?...tough choice.

I've got one. 100% recommended. Bought mine at $1500. I'm not rich but I've never regretted this purchase.

The problem is multiplied by an information-theory phenomenon: like a mathematics textbook, each line of dialog these days is distilled to contain maximum information. There is little redundancy. If you miss a line, it really matters.

Combine that with this trend of filming long, brooding pauses punctuated by only occasional dialog, and you get a lot of resentful watchers after they've waited for 30 seconds for the actor to finally say something, and then it trails off unintelligibly, leading to a 90-second adventure in rewinding not far enough, then too far, then waiting for buffering...

Yeah, if I found a remote control with a "QUIET" button instead of just "MUTE", I'd buy it in an instant.

Everyone who uses Twitter has seen the little ! triangle saying a tweet has "misinformation". Or read about people suspended for discussing

- Possible therapies for COVID like ivermectin or HCQ

- Claims that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was swung via fraud

- Hunter Biden's laptop [edit: had D. Trump here but that's covered by above]

I'm fairly confident that you have, yet have decided to be obtuse. If you haven't then maybe you aren't the right person to opine about censorship on Twitter.

It is likely that the censorship and massaging of visibility is done by a team composed largely of ideological activists. Dorsey as a founder and leader would have the sense of ownership that would allow him to push back on that. I would expect that team to steamroll over the new CEO because his ownership is weaker.

The propagandists have confused you and many others on this topic. Telling lies or BS is absolutely not censorship. When something is not allowed to be said or published, or is soft-censored by muting its distribution...that is censorship.

One reason avoiding censorship is so important is that a lot of times, the truth is trampled by doing so. Remember Galileo. And while it is being trampled, guess what the truth is called? "Lies".

Best I could do was an image search that didn't have many good ones honestly. I know there was one once with a nice nuclear diagram associated...maybe under the alternate name "administrontium"?

14 comments in and no mention of the element Administratium?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e9/a5/74/e9a57450043a4af5725c...

Yes. People can make wonderful things on computers. Online satellite maps, GPT3 text generators, simulated 3-D universes.

But never a successful no-code system.

I appreciate that response and link. Maybe Lowenstein's Theory of Mealy-Mouthism will be on there someday, after 3 or 4 pariah years.

I think this is the phenomenon behind people's mealy-mouthed inability to speak fluently these days, filling time with "like", "you know", etc. We now live in a world where anything you say is a potential landmine of violations of strict politically and morally correct thinking. It takes energy to evaluate what you are about to say, and self-censor before you step on one...energy that is subtracted from planning the expression of your next point.

Compare people's apologetic and noncommittal tech presentations now, to those from the old films with 1950s people in their lab coats and thick-rimmed glasses. They had utmost confidence and verbal fluency back then.

Did anybody else just narrow down your browser to try HN that way?

I've tried a lot of sources of white noise while working. My previous favorite was "submarine sounds", but thanks to La Palma, I've learned that volcano sounds are the absolute best for my concentration.

What type of company do you work for? It may be different in software/services vs. commerce companies.

When something becomes routine for a developer, where they can predictably finish a work item without designing anything new, that task is immediately flagged in managers' minds as one that should be done by a more-junior/contractor/3rd-party/off-the-shelf solution. Almost by definition, then, good developers are relegated to only doing tasks that they are doing for the first time. The implications of this natural law are evident in the quality of the output, the predictability of the schedule, and career burn-out of people who are asked to be creative 100% of the time.

I'm bookmarking this conversation as a remarkable example of how certain styles of communication are missed by a lot of people...probably the same phenomenon that obliges you to include "/sarc" lest you be obliged to entertain a long follow-up discussion.

How many of us have had the inverse of this problem? We go to a browser's URL & search bar, and we paste in what we think is a URL...but then we failed to copy the "h" at the beginning so it regards the whole thing as a Google search for the remainder of our URL?

I'm sure tons of internal, proprietary URLs have been exposed this way.

Wow. This is the answer to a prayer I didn't even realize I had. I have been in love with those 50s/60s-era computer-industry fonts for the longest time but never thought I'd know the names of these gems. Eurostile Bold Extended, I'm in heaven.

I find that various white-ish noise sources help me a lot. I've tried everything down to "10 hours of baby crying" [1].

My favorite lately is the La Palma volcano live-streams.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7pj3IHcQw8

They're probably like me. I know the vaccine helps. I also know that I have near-zero risk from COVID. So I don't get the vaccine because I don't like injecting unnecessary stuff in there.

Dear Bing, want to have me as a full-time user?

(1) When I search for two words like OpenIDConnect replyUrlsWithType, only give me results that have both those terms. Don't make me put pluses on everything. And when I do give you pluses, please honor those pluses.

(2) When you ask me "Did you mean [blah]?" give me a button to push: yes, no.

You could literally do this by next week. I'll check in next Friday to give it a try.

Programming changes practice quickly and often because it's cheap to do so compared to physical engineering which is slowed down by execution time, high materials cost, and sunk costs.

The interesting question is this: would other engineering pursuits (say civil) have just as much chaos and lack of authoritative practices, if changing practices would be equally fast and cheap for them?