jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Ok, let's set aside "10x" because many previous discussions about it have shown it is a distasteful description to some. For those who do not believe in the "10x programmer", how do you feel about programmers such as John Carmack (Doom, Oculus)[1], Fabrice Bellard (ffmpeg, pi algorithm)[2], Linus Torvalds (Linux, Git), TJ Holowaychuk (node.js projects)?

I don't question that those brilliance of the people you mentioned but as edw519 says, in his free ebook [1],

> I'm not suggesting that you'll go out and write Rails in 3 weekends. What I am suggesting is that the more I meet "famous" hackers and the more I meet people from this community (online and offline), the more I realize that there's not really all that much that separates us.

> Lot's of people are obviously brilliant. And even for those who are a little less brilliant, brilliance is only one part of the equation. Work habits, determination, perseverence, passion, and maybe most of all, belief, are just as important. Don't sell yourself short.

What I suggest is, a magical genetic gift, might not be the reason why those guys achieved so much. It might be because they were more "aggressive" and "focused" hackers. They insisted on building everyday and chose to work upon very challenging problems.

[1]: http://static.v25media.com/edw519_mod.html
Didn't even know I could do this with uBlock! I will most certainly be using this feature extensively. Thank you for the filters!
M1 Macs don't have Internet Recovery. You need to use another Mac with Apple Configurator 2 to restore the firmware using DFU mode, which unlike with T2 Intel Macs, includes the whole OS.
agree - in my view, if you're not designing for the 'hit by a bus scenario', you're not an expert, irrespective of technical knowledge
A queue implementation in C is easy to create and understand if you don’t have a library for it handy. Combined with a mutex and/or a spin lock and once you’ve grokked pthreads’ mental model you should have the primitives. But those are all guns that shoot both ways if you aren’t careful.
Thank you and enjoy!
That's interesting. As a non-native English speaker, I was surprised to read it as well. Do American natives really think that non-native accents indicate low intelligence?
Asimov wrote about that with his "zeroth" law of robotics.
I’m generally a proponent of strict measures. This is performative bullshit that will harm more than it helps.
Halo Effect, baby.
To me dragon dancing has always been oriental idiosyncratic thing I thought I would never understand. But geeze, nobody could not appreciate the strength and skill on display in that video. They were tossing each other in the air while the pole they were balancing on was wobbling, all while making the damned thing blink for christsakes. The theatrical element added by the costume was icing on the top.

Well done, Malaysia.
Some tradeoffs though; this is what it looks like on IE9 http://i.imgur.com/EkH81zN.png
I open HN comments and see criticisms of the articles pretty often; usually things like 'the author didn't do his research', 'the author is drawing invalid conclusions from bad data', 'the author is citing another page/article/resource/blog post that he doesn't seem to understand', etc. After seeing more than a few of those, I've started looking at the tone of the top few comments before reading most articles. The HN topics also tend to branch off on related (interesting) topics, which makes them often a separate article entirely

(In actuality, I Cmd-Click down the page to open link, comments, link, comments, link, comments, link, comments, then start at the rightmost tab and work left.)
> Hitler was elected in the same sense that ... any other head of government in a parliamentary system whose party only directly controls a minority of seats, was, or is, elected.

Which is to say... not elected. Becoming the head of a coalition government is more akin to a negotiation than an election.

In this case, the "negotiation" involved a lot of arm-twisting.
It's only effective if nearly everyone does it right and that's the issue. A large number of people can't.
Build a bank of bandpass filters with different center frequencies, and you have an analog Fourier transform. (Or at least the power spectrum equivalent; it's trickier to get the phase info.) Analog vocoders are one example of this and they were invented long before discrete FTs.
> Update: Added a Monte Carlo mode which lets you play with data that is randomly generated from the daily returns of the S&P500. The probability of a daily return being picked is the same probability/frequency that it occurred in the last 68 years.

This mode is rigged.

Any proposal for market timing requires correlated returns. "Technical" traders infer short-term trends form patterns like the shave-and-a-haircut and lovely-lady-humps that are ultimately based on a theory of market psychology, and "fundamental" traders usually make structural observations like price-to-earnings ratios being mean-reverting.

Both of these hypotheses are excluded by construction when market results are constructed by a random draw of daily returns.
Truth. But, people aren’t thinking clearly.

Two things could make this situation a lot worse.

1. A worker strike because of panic, or overwork, or opportunity, or inequality, or whatever. I hope everyone has realized the truck drivers and shelf stockers are way more important than Hollywood celebs. But I wouldn’t “rely” on shelves just being magically stocked as panic increases. There is unfortunately a smug level of “well of course they’re going to drive the trucks and stock the shelves! They need to because they’re poor, they wouldn’t do these jobs if they weren’t”, wether people have that as a conscious realization or not.

2. Terrorist attack (terries getting froggy). Obviously this is a bad time to try and blow up a car at Times Square, but, what do you think the reaction would be if 5 people across the country went and shot up three or four grocery stores each? It would be BAD with let’s say compared to 9/11 it would take extremely little effort.

All that’s needed to make this worse is more panic, and the media is trying their hardest on that.
Depends where you are. In some places (us) you have to refrigerate them in others (eu) you don't.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/should-you-refrigerate-...
I'm thinking about diving into Eloquent Javascript[1] today. I recently graduated with a CS degree, but I don't know at least one programming language moderately well. Figured I'd dust off some programming cobwebs through JS and then go from there!

[1] https://eloquentjavascript.net/
There was even a reasonably high budget movie made about it, The Day After Tomorrow, not that it showed anything approaching a realistic depiction of the results of that shutdown.
Except they allowed Ping to get released in the first place. If they knew themselves so well, that idea would have been left to die on the vine rather than having X number of employees working on it at whatever expense.
Since they’re all expected to be emitting at roughly the same frequency (or at least we could assume for testing purposes) couldn’t we throw all their data into some maths to compare?
Doesn't Dropbox version stuff?
This. Although I've found in my career that at companies like that, once you reach your mid 30s and are married, or have a family, for some reason they feel you are more stable and reliable and are more likely to promote you to some position like team lead or architect.

It really sucks, but for some reason, the most talented developers who are usually in their early 20s are seen as "less reliable" and more likely to jump ship taking a lot of product specific knowledge with them, so they are usually not trusted with positions of seniority.

Then, by the time we're in our 30s and have more important obligations like family, etc, we are promoted to positions where our 22 year old self would be more suited to the work load. Hopefully in the 15 years between these two phases we have gained some wisdom.
Or, since Squeak 4.0 is the newest version according to their download page, maybe, just maybe, it was a simple mistake, rather than FUD. :)
Would you mind updating your bar charts to say "Query time" instead of "Query speed". Some mention of the unit of the numbers would be nice as well, such as "Query speed ( ms/req )"
I'll wait for RT to write a retort and just ignore both of these government mouth pieces.
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/feamster/why-your-netflix...
I agree that the superposition with complex probability amplitudes (fundamental quantum randomness) is different from just statistical randomness of trying every possibility. I fact, this is one of the notions which is being used to verify whether the D-Wave computer (as a black box) is "truly quantum".

1. I don't quite see what periodicity has to do with the speedup. Could you elaborate on that?

2. "...if they did that you'd be able to solve NP problems in constant time." Again, please explain.
In QM, the answer you calculate is actually the weighted sum over all possibilities... so the way I see it, it does cover every possible path. That answer might not be useful in telling you which is the shortest single path, but if you were an electron traversing a graph and wanted to optimize your travel, you'd do exactly what the quantum computer says and traverse all paths! The classical notion of "best path" might be trickier to deduce from a quantum computer. Maybe I'm addressing something tangential to what you're saying.
Sorry. I checked the guidelines linked at the bottom of the page, but I didn't know there were a separate set of guidelines for "Show HN". I'll make sure to follow them in the future.

Maybe it would be possible to show an abbreviated set of guidelines in the compose page when /show hn/i is detected in the title?
Lovely that loan providers legally? benefit from criminals in the crypto world.
After all the scummy tactics Uber has pulled, (recruiting and ordering/cancelling drivers from Gett comes to mind), I really have a hard time feeling bad for them anymore when it comes to matters like this.
Looks good. Any idea how we can try it?
If it were true that this was all caused by black cab drivers pulling strings, Uber would have been thrown out of London years and years ago.

Multiple mayors - including the current PM who was once Mayor of London - have explained that there needs to be an open culture.

There are other private hire vehicle operator firms in London. Addison Lee is huge, and there are many, many "minicab" firms. They all comply with TfL's licensing and vetting procedures. Uber does not.

This isn't "black cabs vs Uber", this is "black cabs, Addison Lee, all the minicab firms, TfL and the Mayor of London demanding basic vetting procedures that everybody else does without question or issue".
How does he deal with physical mail and official addresses for taxes, etc? (this has been a pain for me in the past)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/116444/nautilus-ui-experiments.png

Looks pretty!
The worst is when people use forum's [spoiler] tags to hide their email, as if the bot is LOOKING at the page! haha
You can talk about artificially constructed realities all you want, but the idea that other people matter is also artificially constructed. It's not the "source" of the reality that matters. What matters is whether we generally agree on it.
Aren't scientific journals more of a hindrance to scientific progress these days anyway? They're not essential to the peer review process, and the services that they do provide could be decoupled from publication.

It would be very nice to see a distributed publication system taken up by the scientific community, based on circles of trust where anyone could partake in the peer review process.
http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... looks pretty promising.
The automatic dependency management that lets you have conflicting version dependencies is one of the big wins with commonjs and npm makes it so easy that it "just works".

npm is great, and isaac is usually very responsive on irc.

that being said, there's still something a little irksome about encouraging people to curl a .sh and pipe it to bash.

=)
I've been immensely disappointed with RIM lately. I don't really get app envy since I have both an iPod Touch (with Facetime!) and a Blackberry 9700. It's not my first Blackberry and hopefully not my last.

The reason why I love BB so much is because of BBM (instant contact with anyone, cross-carrier), the tactile feedback of the keyboard, and email processing. These features can EASILY be copied by a Droid or Windows Phone (doubt Apple will release a keyboard phone).

Where RIM failed is by being clueless. They charged $200 per 10 apps and forbid prices less than $2.99 that weren't free. I mean, what kind of business decision is that? What kind of company disallows $0.99 apps on claims that they don't want trivial apps? Who would pay $200 without the guarantee of a return? Sure, now they support new prices but only after a year of realizing it wasn't working.

Next, WHY would the CEO even think that the Torch could achieve iPhone-like sales opening weekend when it has to compete with the iPhone 4 and Android phones on a single carrier, AT&T?

I feel like the company is just naive now. OS6 has been great. But, the bugs that it has are just embarrassing. Memory leaks, battery jumps from 40% to 5%, browser crashes, 3rd party app crashes, etc. So disappointing.
Rim is doomed because they've fogotten who their core customers were: businesspeople.

Compare what I think is the greatest phone every made: http://r.phonedog.com/shared/images/items/1464-main-medium-b...

To what it was replaced by: http://www.dplwholesale.com/buy2buygg/2010101415181049514.jp...

The old one was tough as freaking nails. It didn't do much, but it did those things really, really well. It had a scroll wheel on the side, and you clicked and right clicked on things just by either pressing with the tip or the knuckle of your thumb.

It never, ever broke. I still have my original 7520 sittin gin a drawer in my house (unused because I don't have a nextel account anymore). The thing had fallen out of my jeep while it was moving, had been left sitting in a puddle for an hour and it just never, ever stopped ticking. (For reference, here is what happened to my iphone when it fell off the top of my dresser and landed on my wood floor: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs980.snc4/75359...)

People were absolutely addicted to their blackberries. The interface was flawless, it synced your mail every 30 seconds, never complained, the battery never died. It was exactly the type of thing that every person working on every product being worked on should strive to replicate. It was a business staple.

Was a business staple. Somewhere along the line, RIM decided to turn their back on the people who had given them so much success and, instead, try to duplicate the success of the razr (remember when that was the hottest phone around?). They ditched the bulletproof plastic cases and battery doors that never came off for shiny, cheap plastic because it was prettier. They ditched the functional, I would say perfect interface of the scroll wheel and thumb-knuckle button for some horrible, horrible trackball that has to be replaced every few months when it either gets too smooth to work, or gets some get stuck inside of it because it was cool.

They made the phone smaller, and lighter. It didn't go in a dorky hip-clip anymore, it went in a pocket or a purse.

RIM, at least in my opinion, stopped making hammers and started making accessories. Unfortunately for them, their accessories aren't even in the same realm as apple's. As much as I don't really like the iphone, I like it a lot better than any or RIM's current offerings.
I just wonder why his blog would change my mouse cursor
While it no longer makes economic sense to manufacture buggy whips, perhaps there is a Renaissance in the construction and sale of jack boots?
The protesters left peacefully after a few hours. The senate isn't holy ground, nor are the people inside it divine. They work for us, after all.

All things considered the events left me pretty unscathed.
Climbing Magazine: http://www.climbing.com/news/dawn-wall-four-5-14-pitches-dow...

Evening Sends (seems to have more info than anywhere else): http://eveningsends.com/climbing/like-dawn-tommy-caldwell-ke...
I don't think anybody can fault her for lifting the Ren and Stimpy style - everybody has influences and she's obviously a fan. It's not like she stole his characters.

And yeah, she broke the law and is in jail. I figured she wasn't there for cartooning. So it was stalking. Okay, right then.

Still tells a good story and makes nice illustrations to accompany them.
To hazard speaking on something of which I have no direct, personal knowledge, I don't think it's too much of a stretch. At least the sigint folks I know would probably call that work "spying". But that's only based on how I've heard them talk and joke with each other.
I never found flash cards effective. The card became a visual trigger and the answer was tied to the appearance of the card, not the question on it. I found that, for me, regurgitating _all_ the card's questions (and subsequent answers with reasoning) in my head, with a reference sheet nearby to glance at to spur my recollection of all the questions, was most effective.
Lux is now marked with (bot) in the select box.
Why do people use Amazon? A number of reasons.

Do I want to buy and manage servers myself? Would I pay for an additional computer to host my little toy Rails app? Will my ISP allow me to route network traffic to my personal IP with a standard plan? Most, at least that I've seen, prevent you from hosting.

For a little project something like the author of this article described, using virtual hosting is significantly easier (and more realistic). If you're going to run an enterprise operation, bringing that sort of hardware in house might make sense, but a lot of larger companies are still pushing that hosting out to places like Amazon as well.

Now, if you're asking why Amazon would allow (new) customers to scale up to $3000 worth of hosting overnight, maybe that's a separate issue. But how should Amazon judge that? There are probably users who want to jump straight up to that sort of scale. And evidently they did detect that the author didn't seem to fit that use case -- they actually called him about it pretty much right away.
I've worked in short cubes, tall group-cubes (3-4 people were cube room) and offices (both shared and solitary). In my current cube layout, we have a general practice where if a conversation is going to be large and boisterous enough, generally it's held in a private room off to the side. We have several of those.

I'm comfortable in all of them. I do find myself needing headphones more often in the short cube environment; but, that's not really a big issue to me.

I don't think I would like the open layout. Something about people walking by always being able to see what's on my monitor bothers me; and I'm currently in a situation where my boss could see my monitor if he chose to look up. Still not as bothering as a completely open layout.

So, I don't see anything wrong with cubes.

edit: I should have also mentioned that I wore headphones when I had my own office, too, because walls aren't soundproof, generally.
actually, also SPARC
The burden of proof is on those who introduce the preemptive policing. It's their idea to accuse everyone in advance.

There was already proof that DRM decreases sales however. But I've seen none that it helps anyone except those who pursue lock-in and other corrupted practices. DRM has no place in any ethical business.

> Strong correlations have been observed between the presence of DRM and strong sales

Can you point to any studies on this subject please? There are published studies in the other direction. Sales numbers can't simply be attributed to DRM because DRM is broken. Even latest upstart Denuvo was broken not long ago. So the theory of sales coming from DRM is easily refuted by reality.

> All you have against the claim that DRM for good games seems to help sales is requesting certainty,

No, what I have is certainty that DRM serves nothing related to sales. If anyobe still thinks that DRM is used for sales they are simply delusional or are akin to Lysenkoists who thought that plants can be trained to grow in cold climate.

> I'm also a software engineer and I can't help but acknowledge that it works with sales.

And your acknowledgement is based on what exactly? All engineers I spoke about it clearly say that DRM is dumb and never serves any useful purpose (and if it serves any, that purpose is crooked).
Are you proud to be an LSD user in the context of everyday society? Do you tell your employer? Have you recommended LSD to all of your close family members?

I don't know you or where you're from, but that's unheard of inside the circle of people I know.
BTW here’s a surprise I had to learn at some point: strings in JS are UTF-16. Keep that in mind if you want to use the console to follow this great article, you’ll get the surrogate pair for the emoji instead.
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/glossary/web-applic...
Wow. Ok. I did not know that. I thought that there is depth information embedded in the diff between the images taken at different focal lengths.

I'm still wondering. As a photographer, you learn that you always want to use a focal length of 50mm+ for portraits. Otherwise, the face will look distorted. And even a non-photographer can often intuitively tell a professional photo from an iPhone selfie. The wider angle of the iPhone selfie lens changes the geometry of the face. It is very subtle. But if you took both images and overlayed them, you see that there are differences.

But, of course, I'm overlooking something here. Because if you take the same portrait at 50mm and with, say, 20mm, it's not just the focal length of the camera that differs. What also differs is the position of each camera. The 50mm camera will be positioned further away from the subject, whereas the 20mm camera has to be positioned much closer to achieve the same "shot".

So while there are differences in the geometry of the picture, these are there not because of the difference in the lenses being used, but because of the difference in the camera-subject distance.

So now I'm wondering, too, why Tesla decided against stereo vision.

It does seem, though, that they are getting that depth information through other means:

Tesla 3D point cloud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKtCD7F0Ih4

Tesla 3D depth perception:
https://twitter.com/sendmcjak/status/1412607475879137280?s=6...

Tesla 3D scene reconstruction:
https://twitter.com/tesla/status/1120815737654767616

Perhaps it helps that the vehicle moves? That is, after all, very close to having the same scene photographed by cameras positioned at different distances. Only that Tesla uses the same camera, but has it moving.

Also, among the front-facing cameras, the two outermost are at least a few centimeters apart. I haven't measured it, but it looks like a distance not unlike between a human's eyes [0]. Maybe that's already enough?

[0] https://www.notateslaapp.com/images/news/2022/camera-housing...
I only opened a US bank account recently because of those COVID-19 relief checks that were sent out and nobody around here would cash them for me*. Other than that I've had no financial connection to the US.

* Checks are considered an arcane and insecure technology from the stone age here.
Maybe a response to the Israeli ship that was hit with a mine this past weekend?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-gray-zone-attack-on-cargo... (Limpet mine explosion on the MV Helios Ray cargo ship)