skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, so 10X is just grade inflation..

If a 1X programmer is taken to be the worst or lowest quartile and not the median or competent programmer then this 10X is pointless and misleading.

This 1x programmer has no productivity whatsoever, has a negative contribution to any project they are on, damage designs and confuse meanings and doesn't even use the results of the time they consume from other programmers to improve because having copied the answer, their boss thinks they are improving and is off their back.

A top quartile programmer would be a more meaningful statement when considering HR decisions particularly since productivity is usually going to drop fast when changing workplace, domain, preferred languages, development styles, and coworkers.

You aren't getting 10x what you would expect given that you are optimistic in whoever you hire.. You are getting about 2.5x iff they are "10X".
I've seen this logic applied to trash in the wilderness, and it's maddening. "Don't blame the consumer for leaving trash everywhere, blame the manufacturers for creating non-biodegradable trash."

Setting aside that even biodegradable trash is harmful to animals, it's ridiculous to absolve people of basic hygiene requirements. If you can haul it in, you can haul it out.
> and from there a river.

And from there it goes to the next community downstream.
We tried a local alternative to Blue Apron. They hand delivered to our doorstep. It was pretty well done and organized. Packaging didn't seem particularly wasteful to me. Might be worth checking around to see if anyone local is more friendly that way.
There is a major difference between the Apache Software Foundation and the Linux Foundation. The ASF is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. The Linux Foundation is a 501(c)(6) business league.

Donations to a 501(c)(3) are tax-deductible but are very restricted, which donations to a 501(c)(6) are not tax-deductible but are far less restricted. Not coincidentally, the ASF's annual budget is a tiny fraction of the Linux Foundation's.
> Are you sure? If you are, then you’d be willing to switch places with a poor black woman

Such question attempts to distill gender roles into a single binary "better" or "worse".

If I ever get accused of a crime and put in a trial then sign me up to get the court statistics for poor black woman rather than poor white man. Who would not choose to get fewer year in prison, smaller fines and better results in regard to criminal psychology tests?

If my life goals was to have a large social support network, long life, and children then again we see that poor black women has better statistical results than poor white men. Lower risk for suicide and homelessness is also nice.

If my life goals was to have a large income or have a professional title such as CEO then being a poor white man is still significant worse than rich black man, but compared to poor black woman it is better. Rich white man tops the results on this goal which usually is the only data point people care about in this kind of discussions.

Overall which one has most benefits? It depend on what goals in life one values higher. Maslow's hierarchy of needs comes in mind. Personally I find that gender roles is a mixed bag and would prefer them to go away and be replaced by equality on all data points.
I’m well aware of solipsism, but there’s nothing to say that a convincing simulation couldn’t be purely solipsistic.
Though I have only skimmed through the textbook, it looks very well written. I admire the effort you have put into it, and that you have made it available for free. The same thing holds for the text on number theory (although it looks like you have put even more effort in the linear algebra text - not only due to the fancy typesetting).

How much time did you put into writing? I have been wishing to write something similar (that is, math texts about linear algebra, analysis, number theory, etc.) for a long time, although I can only hope it to be of this quality. Do you have any tips for an aspiring math textbook writer? I have a graduate degree in math, but I unfortunately I don't use math in my day job, so I am afraid that the material I produce will be too low in quality to be useful for people...
When we say 10x programmer, are we comparing to the worst or median skilled programmer?
Why we've never found aliens – and it could mean humanity is doomed
I see BSOD's at Chevron gas pumps all the time.
I hate to see it is a paid app. things like this need to be open source and free.
It could be a good tool to learn clojure coming from php or vice versa.
Infrastructure for Deep Learning (2016)
> Also, I think a lot of these laws also do another disservice in that they make people feel like they're doing something to help the situation which keeps them from actually solving the problem.

Suppose home recycling is pointless and all it does is annoy consumers for no reason. Could that cause consumers to buy things in packages that are easier to recycle? It's possible that if government took care of that, consumers would stop caring about it and produce a lot more trash.
Giuliani is 74. Gorsuch is 50. There's no way a president would give up decades of influence on the court by nominating an oldster.
You're grossly misinformed about the importance of corporate sponsorship and involvement.

1. Google's use of Linux legitimizes Linux (further)

2. Corporations have contributed far more to Linux's source code than individual volunteers

3. As much as you'd like to paint Linux as a socialist, anti-corporate savior, it's symbiotic relationship with capitalism is what makes it thrive and relevant.
I just don't want to use Windows to test my code when production is in Linux. There are things all those tools do when running in Windows that is specific to Windows. And I'm not some anti-windows Microsoft hating guy. My main desktop is running Windows 10 and I was quite excited for WSL to come out so I had Windows 10 Insider Preview running on my machine for more than a year. But at the end of the day when I want to do "real" work I keep going back to my Macbook.

Windows command prompt compared to bash is simply horrible. I personally find Powershell to be just as bad. The console app in windows is still light years behind Terminal in OS X. In fact VSCode's built in terminal wrapper is orders of magnitude better.

Things like wkhtmltopdf to generate PDFs or ffmpeg to work with videos should run as they do in Linux on the production server. In OS X I can use brew to set things up. In windows I have to hunt down binaries, put them in the right place, and set the path manually via an OS level GUI many clicks down in Advanced Settings.

The extra work I need to do to make all those tools work in windows makes setting up a windows dev environment cumbersome and annoying. The way it's laid out in OS X gives me way cleaner interoperability with the way the code actually runs in a Linux environment.

It's one of the reasons I love WSL! Finally I can have a ~/.ssh/config in Windows! But I still can't edit the file from a Windows text editor.

Finally if I'm on a team where the production environment relies on some of these linux binaries being available I don't want to waste work hours researching and writing on boarding documentation for the one dev that feels like working in windows when the rest of us are on macs.
Those three are only neighbours to maintaining ssh connections problem.
Taxes don't always need to be slower or more weighted to lower income (e.g. property taxes). However, they tend to be gamed more easily and sometimes have unintended consequences.

Regulation and taxes go hand in - how are you going to pay for regulatory enforcement unless you dip into some general fund? Answer: a tax.

The biggest lie about government is the one that claims all taxes are bad. Without taxes, you get Somalia. Someone is going to run the roads/commerce and enforce a tax to do so - do you want it to be the local strongman or an elected official (where you may be able to vote on how taxation works and/or vote someone else in)?
In Ars Technica's article Nick Fox, VP of product design for Google Assistant, said:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/google-duplex-is-cal...

> Fox didn't rule out selling this kind of tech to call centers, but that's another potential down-the-road addition. "There are companies that do that well," he said. "There are very big and established companies that provide software for call centers. It's not the core of our business. We'll see as we go whether we think if we can help there. But it's not a business that we're in today, and it's a pretty well-served business."
Just casually having dinner with Elon Musk and Sam Altman, as one does.
This sounds like a difficult problem, because compostability and shelf stability are contradictory goals. Pretty much by definition, anything that doesn't break down on a store shelf after a day, is going to pile up in the compost pile. It's not a problem for fresh foods intended to be consumed that day, but if your produce bags were compostable, they would not be very useful.
Who can say no to all those free CDs though?!
> Secondly, the notion that by federating or centralizing, you can avoid or generate discursal control is pretty unfounded. The 2016 US Presidential election and Brexit are more than enough evidence of that.

Control isn't binary. Facebook can exert much control over discourse while still being vulnerable to powerful actors.
I get a ton of crap at work and other places for mentioning that consumer recycling is a giant farce and is nothing more than a distraction for the consumer so they can feel like they’re ‘doing somethkng’ while nothing that matters actually changes.
> Once your application gets big it's really hard to have a good structure to scale further

Agreed - I would note that there is nothing stopping you from having good structure (with multiple independent/encapsulated services/apps) inside a single Django "app" (as the OP suggests).
> Why is Apple's OSX, which exhibits a lot of the same behavior with spotlight, exempt from this concern?

They aren't. Neither is Ubuntu[0]. Luckily there are plenty of other operating systems that take your privacy seriously.

Join the bright side.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.en.html
From the article, it seems the game is an in-house product that the Scout team must conduct with trained facilitators and some special software. It doesn't sound like something you can download or sign in to play.
Laptops with 128GB RAM are now a thing [1]... in case you find yourself wanting more than 32GB

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/laptops-with-128gb...
In my experience, PHP is super lean and fast.

You definitely can run PHP software on commodity hardware. The typical LAMP application based on Laravel or Symfony runs just fine on a $5/month VM. And will serve something like a million monthly users without breaking a sweat.
Analysis of OpenAI's DOTA2 AI and what being superhuman actually means
As someone who has ported racket's for loops to guile scheme (or at least, re-implemented them without looking at the source of the original racket macros), a JIT has several benefits. There are some things that you just can't know at compile time, and hot paths/inline caches solve a lot of those things.

for example (for/list ([a (in-range a b c)]) (+ a 100)). Since in-range has to check when to end the loop, it has to know whether the loop goes in negative or positive direction (ie: to check the loop using < or >). If the values of a b c isn't known at compile time, the comparator has to be checked for each loop. This can potentially be very expensive, especially in an inner loop.

There are loads of optimizations that can be done much more efficiently/easily by a JIT. Store sinking, store/load forwarding, array bounds check elimination, value-range propagation and hyperblock scheduling to name a few.

LuaJIT is still the fastest dynamic language out there, but the complexity of the codebase surely makes you wish that wasn't the case.
terra.dll is 53 megs. Terra is really oriented around high performance computing, so if you want a quick little script, it's a bad fit. For small apps, it can still be useful as an ahead-of-time compiler to either a stand-alone executable or a C-linkable library.
Show HN: My Dad and I wrote a simple distributed storage system in PHP
The goal was to aggregate LEB providers and/or homelab enthusiasts to ensure redundancy and high availability. I added a simple URL shortener to test it out.

All feedback is welcome!

Link Shortener: https://github.com/christian-kramer/qdlink

Distributed Storage: https://github.com/christian-kramer/qdstore

Live Site: http://qdl.ink
£600 of fraudulent transactions reversed in the last few hours here, card blocked and new one being sent out.

Cirque du Soleil better be bloody worth it!
There is another comment floating around on this thread about how expecting network state to be preserved after sleep is unreasonable; when the system wakes up most likely its open connections will be stale. Might as well close them gracefully at sleep time.
> As for the veiled Damore references, the problem isn’t the discussion that men and women are different in a variety of ways, the problem is he was using it as a justification to argue that his female coworkers didn’t meet the same hiring bar, and that in general some just don’t make better engineers.

Incorrect. He explicitly stated that white and Asian men faced a higher false negative rate. Not that underqualifies women and minorities were being hired.

> Jumping from “there are differences” (which no one disagrees with!) to women shouldn’t be engineers is a huge leap. One filled with bogus arguments, misreading studies (one of the study authors damore quoted, came out and said that he drew the incorrect conclusion from it.). His essay was motivated reasoning, had tons of fallacies (commonly, the map isn’t the territory, and the world isn’t Boolean logic).

At this point you've completed diverged from what was written in the memo. At no point did the author say women shouldn't be engineers. His point was that we shouldn't try to socially engineer an arbitrary diversity target, and accept the possibility that even absent social pressures women may not choose to enter tech at the same rate as men.
In fact, in templated code decltype(v)::const_iterator might be preferable to plain auto in some cases as it forces a type that does have one of these...
Yes! And you can extend it to five R's: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, and Recycle.

You don't have to buy or accept products that can harm you, your company or the environment. Vote with your dollar. Refuse non-recyclable giveaways/swag; plastic bags; toxic chemical solvents; items with unnecessary packaging; single use plastic; phone books.

Use less. Think about what you use and buy. Reduce junk mail, mailed bills; acquisition of unnecessary toys and tools; the amount of energy you use; water and wastewater; waste in manufacturing processes; acquisition of cheap products that may not last long.

Why buy something twice when you can buy it once and reuse it over and over again, such as cloth grocery and produce bags; water bottles/travel mugs; packable metal cutlery set; glass jars from pickles, jellies, and salsa; bring old takeout containers for restaurant doggy bags; a normal mop head rather than a disposable; washable dish cloths rather than paper towels; refurbished or used clothes, electronics, cars, etc; building materials from home improvement donation centers; rechargeable batteries; shoes and boots that can be resoled or re-glued; sewing for minor tears in clothes; borrow or rent rather than purchasing for one use; food scraps as flavoring for stocks and soups; food waste as composte; leftover plastic bags as waste containers or for organizing.

Take something and use it for something else. Repurpose junk mail envelopes as scrap paper; cereal bag liners, for handling/storing foods or organizing home goods; torn or worn clothes as rags; donate unneeded items rather than throwing away; tires as wall insulation or boat fenders; glass bottles for glass walls; plastic drums as floats, feed troughs, compost bins, rain barrels.

If the above 4 options won’t work (refer to this guide as well http://thegreeningofwestford.com/2012/02/how-to-recycle-ever...) recycle paper, plastic, metal, and glass; fabrics and textiles, including ripped or stained; electronics, accepted at some electronics stores and special recycling centers; wine corks, accepted at some wine and food stores; home good and building materials, to re-stores and habitat for humanity; books, home goods, clothing, and other items to thrift stores.
Interestingly, many of the things that we've though would be huge problems in the future turned out to be non-issues or much less of an issue than we thought. A few examples:

-Population crisis

-Peak oil & oil crisis

-Global cooling concern in the 1970s

-Ozone crisis

-Rainforest crisis

-Worldwide food shortage
Falsification is a philosophical issue. Some say it's important. Some could live without. See Feyerabend.

None of that matter if there is no theory in the first place. Much was tried. 't Hooft got as far as holographic principle. And there's still no theory at all.
As someone who went to a 3rd tier school and spent the next 5-7 years grinding to get to a top tech company in a country that I had just immigrated to, I want to say Thank You for addressing this problem.

I cant speak about banking/finance industry but in tech, most jobs should be level playing fields for everyone who knows how to program but they are unfortunately not.

Nepotism is ripe in tech and in SV, that means you need to be from the ivy leagues.

There is a definite market here and as long as you keep the supply side of high quality, buyers will come.

Also, read your story of being a solo non-technical founder. Kudos to you man!
> Or you can get a Mac laptop, where getting the computer to sleep when you close the lid and start again fast when you open it just works.

Except it doesn't "just work." It sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, and the doesn't work happens often enough that I don't close my laptop. And let's not get started with plugging into external Apple monitors.
Northern California gray water and black water is treated and sent to Southern California as drinking water.

So it depends on where you are.
Link? I'll throw in $100 right now
In Germany we have rather socialism like structures like the "eingetranger Verein/eV" (membership association) or the "eingetragene Genossenschaft/eG" (incorporated cooperative)

These are made for things like that.

The idea with a eG is, the owners are also the customers. For example, if there is need of appartments, people found a eG to pool the money to build multi-appartment houses where they self live in later.

Since the customers are also the "stock owners" they elect the board.

I think this fits perfectly for these federated social networks.
One of these days I'd like to do one of the Amtrak long-haul Western US routes although I expect the idea is more appealing than the actual experience would be.

Unfortunately, Amtrak's Northeast Corridor basically makes money that it loses in almost of its other routes. There may be a few city pairs here that may eke out a profit but not a lot.
That was my experience too. My spouse and I were living in different towns, and I wanted access to my e-mail when I visited her. In return I put up with their quirky version of the Internet. My modems were too slow for any kind of Web stuff anyway.

Not much later, they changed their technology so that they worked through a conventional IP address, so you could fire up AOL, go online, then open a conventional browser or e-mail program. One of the e-mail programs had a facility for fetching your AOL e-mail, so it was like you were a regular Internet user.

Alternatives for reaching the Internet involved a lot of delving into settings files and setup scripts, which just didn't seem like a good use of my time. My friends who did things the "correct" way seemed to have a lot more trouble and maintenance effort. I listened to their adventures the same way I read Jerry Pournelle's "chaos manor" columns, feeling a mixture of amusement and pity.
a program which has undefined behaviour on some inputs is an incorrect program by definition
Who did you end up using?
> Diversity. Local news. Non-tech news.

Still just listing things not benefits. Why do people who aren't interested in non-tech news "need" to seek it out?
They do, and GCP.

I recall AWS/GCP public IPs getting banned in Russia when they were trying to block telegram.
> I had this vague feeling that the usual arithmetic conversions state that if the operands are of the same type, then no conversion is performed

that's 100% correct, nice catch.
I agree completely with what you wrote, but wanted to add something, which is a comparison between reactions to the Bem ESP study and work on the EM Drive (https://www.space.com/40682-em-drive-impossible-space-thrust...).

At some level, both of these are ostensibly bullshit. The ESP study results fly in the face of all known physical laws, but so do the EM Drive results. In the former case, you might say that the scientific method is obviously flawed, or that psychology isn't a science; in the latter case, though, you say "someone presented anomalous results that need to be explained," but we don't question the scientific process or physics as a science. This is even though in both cases, anomalous results were presented, people expressed disbelief in the results, and a lot of time and energy were spent trying to explain the anomalies. I think of both of them as akin to scientific illusions or magic tricks, where an anomalous result is observed, that is so astonishing, but in which a lot of explanations that immediately come to mind can be ruled out initially, and people spend a lot of time coming up with more satisfying explanations.

The Bem study has not really ever been accepted as evidence of ESP in psychology. What it led to were a lot of sophisticated discussions about Bayesian versus frequentist inference, and study design. If the response were to just dismiss things with handwaving as not being "real science" I think none of that discussion about Bayesian inference would have been gained. In the same way, I think it's safe to say that something has been learned about engineering phenomena, even if relatively minor, by studying the EM Drive.

Science as it is practice is deeply flawed, because, as you say, humans are flawed. But another issue I think is that science, even when it isn't flawed, is very unpredictable and often harder than it seems. It's not just that a lot of flawed theories were once accepted scientific positions, it's also the case that a lot of currently accepted positions were once seen as lacking in evidence or even preposterous. The hubris and gatekeeping that accompanies a lot of modern science is counterproductive not only because it's naive and disingenuous, but also because in many ways it shuts down systematic discussion, which constitutes the scientific process itself.
Marketing Firm Exactis Leaks Personal Info Database with 340M Records
Yes, we've completely ditched slack and run all process and operations via Basecamp. We even have our clients use it, very helpful for asynchro communication.
That might not be so obvious to someone who isn't familiar with SQL databases. To those people, the "nitpick" added clarity.
To be honest this is sort of why I have a iPhone: it does what I want and it makes life easier for me. I'm glad the alternatives exist, because that's better for all of us, and I know plenty of people prefer them, but it doesn't mean I need to be interested in them as a customer.