joshdick

This is answered in the interview:

"Context collapse is a claim about informational contexts, and my claim is a claim about normative context."

This paper is from 1997 ...

I did the same thing! I was playing nonogram puzzles a lot in an ad-infested iPhone app, got sick of the ads, and replaced it with my own site:

https://karstendick.github.io/nonogram/

I think new forms of media, like radio and television, are worthwhile comparisons to AI. They were hugely influential technologies in the 20th century, making a small number of media companies hugely powerful. That sounds a lot like AI.

The difference to AI is that we regulated the heck out of radio and television companies. I think this is evidence in favor of heavily regulating AI.

Seriously. If he doesn't already have a diagnosis, he should probably get evaluated.

This is 4XX versus 5XX errors in HTTP.

> everything owned by no one is owned by infrastructure eventually

Whoa, now there is a truth bomb. I've seen this happen a bunch, but never put it this succinctly before.

Aww, that's so sweet!

> Look, we clearly have a problem here. This task was voted a two-pointer and after two weeks we're still here talking about this. This shows me that there's a skills mismatch between you and what we expect from someone in this role.

This is depressingly real. So much agita is caused by tasks that are initially underestimated.

Claude Code

Steve Jobs just came up with the number. There was no deep reasoning behind it.

Shouldn't future work like this just go into the backlog of your ticketing system?

And that's why we now require any pilot flying VFR within 60nm of DC to get special training:

https://www.aopa.org/advocacy/advocacy-briefs/air-traffic-se...

This is partially a collective action problem. It might be socially optimal for people to take more risks working on crazy ideas, but for individuals there's less risk in working for a large corporation on incremental improvements.

This species of mosquito isn't native to Florida in the first place, so I don't see how we can wreck the ecosystem by removed this non-native species.

I wonder how long till Substack starts aggregating writers. Subscribe to these 5 for 20% off, sort of thing.

You could aggregate writers within a niche to get a full view of that area. Or you could aggregate across topics to get something approaching a traditional newspaper.

Now that's it possible for the machines to be operated remotely, how long till those operator jobs are offshored?

It's crazy to think that a tech company like Apple might have the clearest picture of the pandemic

The paper does analyze a real conspiracy: Bridgegate.

"Taxi drivers told you what to buy. The shoeshine boy could give you a summary of the day's financial news as he worked with rag and polish. An old beggar who regularly patrolled the street in front of my office now gave me tips and, I suppose, spent the money I and others gave him in the market. My cook had a brokerage account and followed the ticker closely. Her paper profits were quickly blown away in the gale of 1929."

Reminds me of the angel's share when you're aging whiskey:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/angel%27s%20share

You're right, and I think you've highlighted what makes a good monolith so hard to build and maintain.

You need to be disciplined to keep a monolith highly modularized. For microservices, in contrast, their architecture encourages modularization.

There's a good example of this in my South Philadelphia neighborhood: The Italian-Americans here speak Italian with the accent of a southern Italian from a century ago, frozen in time. Italian accents have progressed in Italy over that time, but not among the immigrant communities here.

A recent HN article answers this question, actually!

"A basic installation of SAP has 20,000 database tables, 3,000 of which are configuration tables."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22244750

WikiMedia's database schema is used by Wikipedia, one of the most popular websites there is, so it's arguably a very successful database schema design:

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Database_...

When some of the economists mentioned are the president of the International Economic Association, a a chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, and a Nobel Prize winner who also happens to be the economics columnist for one of the largest U.S. newspapers -- I think it's fair to say that these are representative of mainstream economic thought.

At least a few gigs on a modern computer before you start running into issues.

Yeah, it's hard to imagine myself ever recommending my company buy TravisCI now.

Yep, that's right.

You need a certain level of maturity in devops practices before microservices are worth it.

Deploying an extra service to a kubernetes cluster, for example, is neither costly nor prone to breaking nor harder to monitor, etc.

I think the best practice nowadays is for a small startup to first write a monolith and then later split it out into microservices when they're ready.