Games around who does the grunt work requiring maintenance of a status hierarchy or a constant inflow of interns do affect quality and time to delivery though.

The current problems are oversupply of who does the creative work as well as no longer requiring interns.

There is both less of a need for new inflow and a problem with existing overproduction.

what are some good alternatives to mac os? there some features like image/text copy-paste being cross device that are insanely useful that make it hard to switch

>what are some good alternatives to mac os?

There are three main choices and they are all compromised in their own way. You just need to figure out what is important to you and what isn't.

What you shouldn't do is take too much notice of posts like these, I've read through the whole thing and haven't had any of the issues mentioned. I've also not seen a mention of the issues I do have. HN has a negative tone, it seems we like to whinge.

The romanization of these names is always confusing b/c stripped of the character and tone it's just gibberish. "Hunyuan" or 混元 in chinese means "Primordial Chaos" or "Original Unity".

This helps as more chinese products and services hit the market and makes it easier to remember. The naming is similar to the popularity of greek mythology in western products. (e.g. all the products named "Apollo")

I think it's particularly egregious that they use such a lossy encoding. I can't read the hanzi, but at least "Hùn yuán" would have been more helpful, or even "Hu4n yua1n" would have enabled me to pronounce it or look it up without having the context to guess which characters it was representing.

Tone markers are of limited use to Chinese readers (instead, just show them the characters).

They are also of limited use to non-Chinese readers, who don't understand the tone system and probably can't even audibly distinguish tones.

So, it makes sense that we get this weird system even though it's strictly worse.

Yes, this is very annoying, because how Pinyin works. There were a lot mistakes made when using Pinyin in English content. Pinyin suppose to break at character level, Pinyin = Pin Yin, you can easily write it as Pin-Yin, or Pin Yin, but Pinyin is just wrong.

Hun Yuan is a lot better. I agree, with unicode, we can easily incorporate the tone.

I don't understand why this vietnamese-style writing isn't the most popular pinyin. It's clearly superior to putting numbers inside words.

Agreed. We all have a duty to respect languages and their official transcription. Pinyin with tones does not look much different from French with accents. In both cases, most people aren’t likely to pronounce it correctly, though.

The irony is not lost on me that Tencent themselves did that.

The cost of this increased healing rate would be the tail risk of compounding injury though. It's not something a doctor could recommend even if it were true for everyone consistently.

Surgery has very well documented known risks and doctors recommend surgery.

Also surgery has outcomes that are barely better than non surgical interventions, sometimes, and they still recommend surgery.

if it were true for everyone consistently (faster better healing), where does the tail risk come from?

Even if the outcome distribution is the same for everyone and the expected outcome is better healing, you can increase the risk of much worse outcomes if the distribution has the right shape.

You fall and break something.

chat is the best way to orchestrate and delegate. whether or not this is considered "ME writing MY code" is imo a philosophical debate

e.g. executives treat the org as a blackbox LLM and chat w it to get real results

This is really cool! it allows you to see 2D charts in 3D without actually rendering anything in 3D

There are two caveats to this. One is that a lot of it is due to work being outsourced to China (which allows for metrics like 94% carbon free) The other is it has a huge population so it's going to have high absolute numbers of everything good and bad.

Actually, what allows for "94% carbon free" is the production mix. In our case that would be nuclear at 42% share, hydro 19%, wind 18%, bio 13% - leaving only single digit percentage to coal, gas and oil.

But it doesn't account for embodied energy in imported products.

The initial statement was about power generation, not sure if it is of value to mention in this context all the other sources of carbon (of which imported products is one, but not the only one).

It's not typically included in the production figures. You only consider the emissions from production.

It's not typically considered, but it matters when comparing against an economy that primarily manufactures goods.

IMO the fuzziness is actually a feature most of the time b/c I can pass misspelled words or close enough words and it'll still figure it out.

Also, if we model the mental state of the llm as a frazzled retail worker dealing with thousands of customers per second, the rote response is reasonable. As a dev, sometimes I get at annoyed at QA for a hyper narrow "trap" test case

there is huge incentive for people who don't know how to code/create/do-stuff to slow things down like this b/c it allows them many years of runway at the company.

they are almost always cloaked in virtue signals.

almost every established company you join will already have had this process going for a long time.

doing stuff successfully at such a company is dangerous to the hierarchy and incurs an immune response to shut down or ostracize the doing-of-stuff successfully so the only way to survive or climb is to do stuff unsuccessfully (so they look good)

In trading there is an idea called the "hurdle" which is a measure of inefficiency that any trade has to be above in order to actually make a profit. E.g. if the bid/ask spread for gold chains or options is 2% then any arbitrage has to be better than 2%.

For companies this hurdle rate is from political friction. Any improvement that doesn't provide benefits in excess of the political friction generated doesn't get implemented.

And in large institutions this friction can be very high. E.g. planes not crashing for Boeing or kids-not-being-shot for the U.S. seem like obvious things-to-fix.

But they generate so much destabilizing political friction that they just can't.