skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Productivity is subjective to what's important for the team or organization. I can be productively wasting time if that's my goal. A 10x programmer with superhuman coding powers doesn't really exist, but a programmer who delivers 10x more value to a team or shared goal can look that way.
Nice. This is my favorite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60503
And Craigslist itself isn't the juggernaut it once was. Facebook, Zillow, NextDoor and other sites are all taking bits of its market.
What does it take to change the way things are done? It feels like no tech startup is going to solve this in 5 years - more like a cultural shift that can take generations
I've been using an iPad w/Brydge keyboard as a laptop replacement for a while - mouse support in iOS 13 is closing the remaining gaps.
As effective as western versions, and often even identical but in a far less controlled form. Also often just as toxic.
As a late professional bloomer in corporate America/megacorp tech and someone without a traditional CS education background I struggle with this a lot.

But in the moment of envy it comes down to what your personal goals are and if you are reaching them. Personally, when I see others flying high I wonder how many long hours and weekends they have put in for that 10-20% extra they might be making. When others get more acclaim I wonder how long the glow of that lasts until they are expected to raise the bar even more to outdo their last accomplishment.

If your goals are acclaim and more money then it would be good to talk to the high flyers and find out what their special sauce is. If your goals lie elsewhere its okay to take a minute to be frustrated, but see how that frustration could be used to fuel your own drive toward your goals. High-flyers only have so many good years anyway until they are eclipsed by someone younger, prettier, more skilled or dynamic.

Just for reference, I realized that I am not cut out to be a high flyer but had specific compensation and work/life balance goals for myself.
You haven't had time to watch the video?

> Permaculture really seems to be the new Lysenkoism.

No need for insults.

> That is nakedly not true at all for yields and shows a massive ignorance of history, trophic layers, ecology, and economics to declare it less productive.

Yeah, I actually know a lot about this and you are just plain wrong.

Agriculture has always been destructive. The masses of people have historically been miserable and malnourished, suffered from regular famines, etc.

Applied ecology generates greater yields per acre, and per unit of labor input, than any other system we have tried. It's a new form of civilization.
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This tweet[0].
People then made endless parodies of it.

[0] https://twitter.com/skirani/status/1149302828420067328
The phrase "a world without guns" was a rhetorical shortcut to describe a nation where obtaining a firearm is significantly more difficult than in the United States.

I was also not talking about rates of suicide or murder, but rather success rates based on the tool/method used.
> Why are so many mechanical keyboards tiny?

It's more about travel distance from your home row.
Adding more modifiers or having vim like modes baked in your keyboard help filling the gap.
Tripped across this while trying to confirm that it is what I think it is:

https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1114/d-mann...

It is what I thought. It's a glyconutrient and probably basically the same stuff I took for, I'm not sure, maybe a few years.

I have a genetic disorder that predisposes one to infection generally. A friend who was a former nurse bought me glyconutrients as a gift on the condition that I agree to just take it long enough to give it a fair shot.

I did. It helped. I kept taking it on my own dime.

One year for Christmas, she hand packed me low dose, additive-free guaifenesin. That helped me make it through Christmas without a trip to the ER requiring antibiotics for the first time in years.

Those are not the only things she did for me and my health. There were others. She very much helped save my life and start me on the road to recovery.

So, anyway, I was spending $100/mo on glyconutrients and $300/mo on supplements overall. If I missed a single dose of glyconutrients, I began deteriorating.

I was curious why. What the hell was this doing for me?

So I began googling around and I found that a lot of the important stuff in your immune system are classified as glycoproteins.

So I surmised it was providing targeted nutritional support for my immune system so it could crank out "soldiers" for the war effort and keep cranking them out.
QBasic was probably the first language I wrote something in from start to finish. It was an attempt at a clone of Deflektor [0].

Before that, I never really got anywhere on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64, though I still hope to go back in an emulator and make up for that someday.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzA8NdXEB2M
True 10X developers are really good at picking the right tool for the job. They know the OS and standard library of their language very well. They also know patterns for how to apply technology to problems and have read a lot of other people's code. This knowledge translates into up front productivity but also less bugs as things tend to get done right and the correct technology is picked.

I've seen a lot of code bases and it's never the super experienced, incredible developers introducing tech debt and bugs, it's the poor to middling developers.
We will run out of phosphate soon enough. In the American mid west, the corn and hogs take turns to get the phosphorus cycle going.

When we run out of P, mining asteroids is always an option. How much of a viable realistic option...I don’t know.

I think there are two other viable solutions:

1. Synthesize food in labs using fermentation techniques to feed the world population.

2. Genetically modify Homo sapiens to synthesis food and tinker with metabolism.

Both the above seem more practical and likely feasible than destroying the planet with Ag for marginal benefits.
I personally think high individuality productivity is related to

1. an ability to avoid screwing around, procrastinating, implementing things that are fun rather than things that are useful.

2. innate ability to avoid yak shaving or dump it on others.
I'm good if he remembers "stab trim runaway - throw the stab trim cutoff switch". Because that's all that's needed. That's what the pilots did the first time it happened with Lion Air, and they landed without further difficulty. (The LA crash was the second time it happened.)
Safer thing to do would to grab a release and pop it in /usr/local/bin: https://github.com/eko/monday/releases

Ideally, it would be made available via Homebrew too.
Piping from an http source directly into sh is not a good idea
> When K&R invented C

Side note, Kernighan (of K&R) did not have any part in the invention of C, it was all Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan famously wrote the book on it with Ritchie but that was it.

In his own words[1]:

> remember, C is entirely the work of Dennis Ritchie, I am but a popularizer

1. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mihaib/kernighan-interview/
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> I view lines of code that other people have to maintain as less costly than lines of code I have to maintain.

Initially... but they can break your lines of code in unforseen ways in the future, and when that happens it will be you maintaining those external lines of code, because no one else cares.

To make things worse external dependencies are often highly generalised and complex because they are trying to cater to more than your project, as a result you may incur the cost of those lines of code even if your project doesn't need them as you have to wade through them and accommodate them when things go wrong with the parts you care about.

I'm talking worst case, but the point is, you want to only use dependencies you trust, which usually means minimizing your total number of dependencies also.
Because you don’t seem to understand the difference between learning avoidance and reducing sensitivity. (If you notice my first comment I specifically referred to learned avoidance not simply any kind of learning.)

Reflexive behavior is a predefined response to a stimulus over some predefined limit and thus on it’s own it’s reactive not predictive. In a purely neutral context there is no reason to increase the response based on the external stimulus.

Avoidance requires the ability to predict before a negative response occurs. Without the negative association there is no impetus to increase avoidance.

Aka, don’t put your hand in fire is inherently different than how quickly you remove your hand from fire.

PS: Reducing sensitivity with exposure is a rather different thing as it helps deal with edge cases. At a meta level, strong constant uncontrollable spasms is extremely unlikely to be an ideal response to a given stimulus.
Agile in Their Own Words
The point that I'm getting at is that even in states where a majority dislikes gay people, there's not much of a move to abolish the 14th Amendment. People complain about "activist judges", and there's been one significant recall (Iowa), but that's it.

FWIW California was about the same as Indiana in how marriage equality was achieved: a popular vote against followed by a court ruling for. It's popular now, but it wasn't at the time of the court ruling. It's extremely rare that minorities get 14th Amendment rights in a referendum.
If you want to be perceived as an 10x engineer, be the engineer who starts the codebase, write all the code according to your preferences, and maintain a position as arbiter of what the "right way" to do things is in the codebase as the team grows.
I don't think that quote makes much sense. I can want a specific thing someone has (e.g. praise for work done) without wanting /everything/ they have.
I've worked with 2 10x engineers in my career. I don't know if they were precisely 10x, but they were the most productive engineers I've ever seen. At the startup I worked at, this was the VP. When he left, the company almost collapsed because he was singlehanded doing so many different jobs that we didn't know about. I would say that was more of a negative than a positive, but just from the sheer amount of work he did, he was definitely more productive than the entire team.

I had another friend who was also extremely productive. He never graduated from college, but he was a programming genius. One day he decided to learn ANTLR. Then he decided to deconstruct our query language for our product into ANTLR and discovered several bugs and inconsistencies in the implementation that made it impossible for ANTLR to parse it. Then I said "Hmm, it would be really cool to use ANTLR to read our XDR files and spit out some code that would implement the migration between versions." He said "great idea!" and accomplished that over a weekend, hand-constructing the grammar by hand. He saved the team probably 1 month of work every release cycle. He was absolutely astounding and the best programmer I ever had the honor of working with.
It’s pretty common to see arguments that the net lifecycle impact of a hybrid outweighs that of a traditional car, because it has more impact in manufacturing. It’s not true (there is more impact in manufacturing, but the breakeven point is fairly early) but it’s an attractive notion to people with a contrarian bent, especially those who like to think that environmentalists are stupid.

Incidentally, the same thing exists for pure electric cars, solar panels, and just about anything else of that nature.
Thanks for sharing this. It's fascinating to read the article and then have such a blatant counter-view/argument/description in the comments. I've really started to like HN mostly for the comments these days.
That side effect is well known. Usually they won’t use those antibiotics unless hearing damage is less worse than not using them ((e.g. death).
At the end of the day, it's just a fucking job. If you need the money I understand the envy, and I've been there. But ultimately most of us are working really hard to make other people rich. Being really good at that game (and it's a pretty bitter game) isn't something to be envious of.

I have never seen a high paying job in tech that wasn't ALSO higher stress and generally more hours. I'm sure exceptions exist, but as I've gotten to my mid thirties I've noticed that those in my friend group who make the most are also the most stressed. One of them is very, very good at CS. He works for a FAANG and makes an excellent salary. And he's fucking depressed as hell. But he has exactly the life I thought I wanted ten years ago.

I'm an OK programmer who has no commute, lives in the middle of nowhere crazy cheap, and has almost no overhead. I work 8 hours a day. If I get paged on the weekend (hey, it happens) I work commensurately fewer hours during the week. I see my kid more than most dads I know. He's said (in not so many words) he envies what I have.

There's always someone faster, slower, richer, poorer, healthier, and sicker than you.
That is probably part of why he is 10x - he works at peak efficency instead of masochistic "long hours mean dedication!" cults which forget the whole damn point is actual productivity.
What don't you get? Power goes in one end and out the other, doesn't seem too complicated, thr problem was somewhere in the middle. Lmao
Awesome story, thanks! Keep it up!

Is there any slack channel/group you are part of? What did you find?
Because money. You may become sick and have to deal with a sleep-deprived doc someday. But you have to pay said doc every month as sure as the sun rises. Plus, being sick only happens to others, right?
> So does he think he is unfairly demonised by some journalists and does that rankle?

> “I can’t fault them for not getting around to doing the fact-checking. You know people are busy and a lot of people in journalism have been told by their managers that fact-checking may not be critical.”

This is such an understated burn...

I'm truly astonished and confused by the idea that Newmark and Craigslist, by providing a better alternative to the classifieds section, are anti-journalism. To believe this, one must believe that journalism exists only as a happy byproduct of the advertising business that supported newspapers throughout the 20th century - that journalism does not exist as an independent good. Advertising-funded newspapers are a business model tied to a medium - one of many. Journalism is no more tied to them than transportation is tied to the horse and buggy.
"One thing my pops always told me is you never count another man’s money" —— Steph Curry

Now, granted, he was already really well paid when he said this, but he had only the 4th highest salary on his team at the time.
I agree. But yield is much less. Especially considering land mass for Ag is shrinking and we will likely face an uncertain future because of climate change. Indoor Ag can be controlled. I use permaculture and biodynamic methods for orchards and perennials but annual row crops, tillage methods seem to be the best option so far. I am a fan of permaculture but I don’t know if it’s feasible everywhere and for all kinds of crops.
I'm having a little trouble following. Do I have this right:

- blues are louder than reds

- You had a red keyboard and you didn't think you needed the noise

- but then you got the blue which was much louder and you enjoyed this

If that's what you mean, what did you mean by this:

>Just because the sound isn't necessary or helpful doesn't mean it's pleasing to have it.

do you mean "just because it isn't necessary doesn't mean it's NOT pleasing to have it" (in fact for you it IS pleasing to have it - you enjoy the noise?)

let me know if I am reading your comment right. it sounds like you very much enjoy hearing loud clicks, to the point of installing a program to emulate them.
Actually, it's good to work with people better than your are. I find it motivating to learn from them and do my best work.
"depending on a person’s insurance, getting a culture can be expensive."

How is this possible?

I live in a country not famous for its low cost health treatments, but I paid the equivalent of $6 (six dollars) for an urine culture just some days ago, and it was a full price paid to a private company, no insurance, no subsidy.

How much can a culture cost in the US?
People complain about stadium subsidies all the time. I’d presume the amount of people who complain about them would be somewhat proportional to the amount of people who know they exist.
Lesson: HN does not like to think about the perspective of anyone who does not happen to have access to HN
High temperature composting deal with the most common problems anyways, and you preserve the nutrients rather than burn them up. The biggest problem is how bad water waste management systems are at producing fertiziler, the wide spread idea that it's ok to pollute our waste water with what ever, making it unusable for composte is not healthy. I do not think burning it can solve more than a tiny part of that problem.
What’s the point of posting about Indian space program here if it’s going to devolve in to arguments how India is poor. What is new that is being said here that hasn’t been said before. So depressing.

Just to add numbers ISRO’s budget is 0.5% of Indian GDP, given that more money is probably wasted because of corruption and stupid policies I think this is not the worse way to spend money.
This is an unreasonable position to take.

Every drug has off target effects, that’s why they have side effects.

Oncology drugs, particularly chemo, attacks pretty much every cell in your body. That doesn’t mean they aren’t effective.
Hofstader's Law
> It's a missed opportunity that ODS doesn't store formulas as ASTs in the first place.

It's really for the best that they don't. ODS is XML, so they'd probably make the AST XML as well, which would outrageously oversized.
> When you refer to "anti-vaxxer lunatics", who is it, exactly, are you referring to?

I'm referring to the old lady I met in the park while I was walking the dog who insisted that her homeopathic "doctor" had the authority to tell her that "vaccines cause autism".

> We do not know that vaccines do not cause autism.

I get what you're trying to say, but no. In this case yes, we do.

Pick your goddamned battles wisely friend.

Don't play Russian Roulette with other people's children.

(One epidemic and the anti-vaxxers will be up against the wall. Or we can shame the ever-loving-shit out of them and maybe prevent the suffering entirely. It's gaoddamned insane that we even have this problem. Image search polio, image search measles. Lord have mercy.)
The parent comment is pointing out that there are additional voltage drops before it gets to "homes and businesses".

The electrical outlet in your wall does not supply 13,000 volts.
The kind of reasoning we do is "if thread A writes to this location, then next time thread B writes to this location, it will have to take ownership of the cache line, which will take N cycles, so let's not do that". I don't think that kind of performance reasoning maps on to anything in Rust.
Possibly. I haven’t done any studies. I find good soil management with rotation and maintaining soil biome is sufficient in my Ca 8a/8b soil. My fields have soils that can be categorized as yolo loam and adobe can’t.
Off-topic funfact: one of the more eve famous players, SirMolle, was also one of the best homeworld players.
The new folios work really well on your lap (and are quite pleasant to type on as well, once you get over the emoji key and lack of escape key).

I paired a bluetooth mouse to mine on the iPadOS beta and have been using it for work for a couple of weeks. Much nicer to use than my work-supplied Surface Pro which isn't saying much, since they are awful at using on your lap).
I am very much against the subsidies for sports but (being from football country) there are many secondary effects why countries support it. From better population health to higher patriotism (international matches are only time people see the flag and anthem) and even crime rate. Its good for kids to have heroes/role models and sport heroes are usually the ones kids prefer.
Using Programmable Hardware Accelerators in Analytics
Air Force new AC-130J Ghostrider gunship does first combat mission
Yea interesting! Parker solar probe will hit a whopping 0.064% of the speed of light.. and the orbit is quite interesting as you said — needs to slow down to cancel out the speed of earths orbital velocity. So ya know, for a reference point, the 1% of the speed of light that the Trisolaran fleet is flying at is just a mere 6.7 billion miles per hour.. so 0.5 million ain’t too bad...
This sounds great. Do you think that their ability to deliver 10x value is based on pure programming skills or is it something else?

I'm managing developers and the ones who are most able to develop software aren't necessarily the most productive ones. I would love to know if 10x developers have simply a different mindset or in essence: What is their core skill that enables them to be so much more productive? Being focused, reducing things to the essentials and managing ones will power and time seems to be a subset of that "10x skill".
Here is another comparison. 9980XE multithreaded performance seems to be better.

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i9-9980XE-v...
This was my main thought when I was writing the "compete" word.
If you had kept going down the list, you'd see this:

> The studies only compare differences among developers who actually complete the task.

> Their figures don’t take into account the people (~10% in some studies) who didn’t even finish. Nor can they take into account the real-world cost of software that is nominally completed but is so buggy, flaky, or hard to maintain that it has to be rewritten by someone else."
Additionally, Brooks muses that "good" programmers are generally five to ten times as productive as mediocre ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

“In one of their studies, Sackman, Erikson, and Grant were measuring performances of a group of experienced programmers. Within just this group, the ratios between best and worst performances averaged about 10:1 on productivity measurements and an amazing 5:1 on program speed and space measurements!” – The Mythical Man-Month

https://10xfive.com/2018/07/31/origin-of-10x-principle/
I have to say I've never suffered from it.

The only people I ever envy are those who don't have to work, and by the nature of that fact, I don't work with them.
You have to wonder if you can eg get a cheap enough AMD chip that you stick an Apple Axx and an AMD laptop chip in the low-end laptops to manage the transition.
Yes, this is a good example of a "smart IDE", however I am looking for something more holistic.
True, but cases of fever harming the body are extremely rare. The fact that mammals, reptiles, and even insects, increase their body temperature to fight pathogens suggests that fever confers significant survival advantage and that our null hypothesis should always be that it is helping us unless we have strong evidence to the contrary. I agree that sometimes (rarely) our immune system does get it wrong in a serious way such that medication is crucial (for example, anaphylaxis); however, most immune system misfires are minor and do not justify the risk of medications with poorly understood side effects and interactions. Oftentimes, there is a good alternative to medication. For example, when I have sinus congestion, I can almost always find a head orientation that allows me to breath and sleep.
> What you don't perceive is why medical education has to be that way in the current state of affairs. Yes, has to.

No, medical education does not have to be this way. It is purely gatekeeping.

It's similar to how "You need a PhD" to land top AI/ML jobs. That's gatekeeping as well, though it is slowly changing.

Not many doctors or AI researchers will openly state this gatekeeping because they benefit, at the expense of those not in their field.