skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re saying it’s Indians that are doing the majority (>%50) of cutting edge research? That’s just not true, even in the slightest.
This wasn't always the case. When Rust was publicly announced, there was a heavy emphasis on concurrency via a an actor-based green thread model. It's also easy to compare them because they were sponsored by direct competitors - Google & Mozilla.
>The 10x programmer is essentially a libertarian concept: That is, they do it all by themselves because they don’t recognize how much is done for them by others.

I'm finding myself meeting a lot of "10x" descriptors. I'm not doing 10x the work but I'm definitely doing the work of the next two highest performing colleagues put together.

I also see myself putting burdens on my team. My communication, teamwork, and managerial skills are poor and always will be. Yet I always seem to do things technically that makes people look at me like I discovered fire. For me to say I didn't outperform my colleagues would be effectively to say I had no value as an employee since there would be nothing to compensate for my shortcomings. There have been meetings about me where everybody except me was in the room and I was talked about and the only reasons the team decided not to fire me was my performance and work ethic.

It makes me feel really bad reading all the response to high performers that aren't well rounded like they are inherently arrogant toxic drags on a team. There's nothing wrong with having an employee with a lopsided skillset in a team that can support somebody like that. I think seeing such employees as inherently toxic, or seeing them as a holy grail. They're like artillery; only effective with support.
It was voted against throughout the country including liberal states such as California.

The relevant vote took place in 1868, when the states ratified the 14th Amendment.

A very small number of elites did.

And by "elites" you mean "Tax-exempt churches doing everything they possibly could to subvert, deny, and if possible eliminate peoples' existing rights." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8
IIRC films used to be edited by manually splicing the master _physical_ film. This altered the original master copy. The development of non-linear video editing revolutionized the industry, starting with Avid and proceeding to the Amiga toaster and now to the marvels of magic that we can literally carry in our phones.
They charge for apartment listings in certain markets.
And the acquisition of those skill sets come from the west working with them. Science isn't a closed shop anymore.
By definition, most patient issues don’t deviate from the normal. Optimizing for the most common case makes sense.
I tend to run when I take a lunch instead of shoving food in my face (I sit at a desk, I can do that whenever I want), and almost all my "break through" moments happen on the treadmill. It's a little frustrating, to be honest. All I'm trying to do is to not think about running, and consequently how much I hate it. BAM! Something clicks, and the solution to something I wasn't even thinking about comes to mind.
Most of the terms and conditions of the various reward programs out there (Hilton included -- I'm a Hilton Lifetime Diamond) specifically exclude resort wifi from their "benefits."
Personally. Spend a lot of time on a topic and choose a small amount of things. Don't let the list of things you want to learn grow too larger before things are ticked off.
Not that it matters to the point you're making but Rodman was the one known for the rebounds.
The higher overhead of talking to C from Go (as compared to C#/Java) has not changed, and likely won't.

And of course, C# and Java also have overhead.
I would agree with this. Soft multi-tenancy can work for some setups, until the tenant has a business need for something which could introduce a vulnerability and compromise nodes.
I think you and the parent agree.

Go and Rust don't overlap/compete enough to be interesting comparisons, especially considering how often the comparison comes up
That too, but non-linear means that you are working with random access files, basically. Linear editing systems were typically tape based. You'd then have to access the footage in a linear fashion. Typically you had 2 or 3 input tape decks and one output tape deck. This existed both for analog and digital tapes with more or less advanced software support to access the tapes.
Zig is a new C
Rust is a new C++
Go is C with garbage collection
Nim is....just something totally else.
I think “interesting” is “novel” in this context. Given that pretext, I think Imba is a better fit for this list than Elm.
The regulation doesn't, no, the technical details of MCAS as a piece of software necessary to maintain airworthyness however, demand the flight control computer be able at all times to work as designed to maintain the regulated condition of airworthyness. Namely, no control stick force inversions on approach to stall.

It's kind of hard to do that with a computer if you've lost your electrics. Therefore either the system needs to be bulletproof, or you should have designed out the need for the crutch in the first place. Not gone and made a Frankenstein's monster of a plane.
I cannot recommend 17776 highly enough. It is absolutely one of the best pieces of art that I've experienced in the past decade.
The term 'useful' here is open to interpretation; it'll mean something different to everybody
The app may be great. I have no opinion on that. But the number (1 billion installed!) is rather meaningless, if many manufacturers are installing it by default. Active monthly users would be a more meaningful statistic (and would allow comparison with total android user base [1]).

All that said, I find it entertaining that the ability to do word processing on mobile is seen as "incredible". I would think word processing is a simple task that demonstrates a device to be a real general purpose computer - I've done word processing on a computer since I was a child.

[1] about 2.5 billion devices active monthly. https://twitter.com/Android/status/1125822326183014401
I don't have a strong opinion about this, but your comment isn't really comparing apples to apples. The levels of poverty and poor living conditions in modern India are worse than we had in 1950s America.
The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Built a Fortune on Free Software
Remember, both Hilton and Marriott do not own any hotels these days.

Their entire mission in life is to build a set of brand standards that their hotel franchises use, and then ensure that the owners of those franchises can obtain maximum profit from the Marriott and Hilton customer base. Resort fees are just another...step down that road.
> You don’t want to take the time to learn an existing product

Existing libraries can be very complex. Spending time on them is not guaranteed to pay off. When a library is marketed as a framework, it’s a red flag, such libraries often come with a strong opinion how the software should be designed.

> You’re not going to properly code and test your own solution

This article is old, but still good: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/05/06/five-worlds/ Different software needs different tradeoffs for quality, budget, and the rest of them. If you’re working on a tool you’ll run only once, grab the output data, and forget about the tool, you don’t need neither proper coding, not much testing.

> You’re going to leave features out that you would have gotten for free

Are you going to need these left features? For many real-life libraries, like https://www.boost.org/, you only going to use small subset of these libraries. The features you’re not using aren’t exactly free. Inflated binary size, slow compilation, tons of dependencies, complicated build setup, complicated deployment are quite common issues.
For Java developers, Go feels like something between Java 1.2 and 1.4, those that leave probably aren't doing modern Java anyway.
Ask HN: Likelihood the NYC Power Outage Was a Software Bug?
I just realized yesterday's NYC power outage happened exactly 42 years after the 1977 NYC blackout. It got me thinking about whether yesterday's event is likely a software bug--maybe some sort of buffer overflow that took 42 years to build up. (I have literally no idea.)

It seems Con Ed has no idea what caused the blackout. Do you think it could be a software bug? If so, what type of bug would take 42 years to present itself?
Sure, every language collapses multiple sounds into unified phonemes. In modern Mandarin, [v] is a kind of /w/. In Old English, [v] was a kind of /f/.

But that's a little different from what I asked about. These correspondences can be learned directly -- a child growing up to speak Old English would have known to treat [v] as a form of /f/ because he would have heard [v] all the time, as a form of /f/. The language had an explicit opinion, and [v] was a common sound.

But that isn't the case for foreign sounds. A child growing up in a Mandarin-speaking environment will never hear [θ] at all. Instead, the correspondence of [θ] to /s/ is an implicit rule, driven by the rules that actually do exist. I want to use the explicit rules, like [v] = /w/, to predict the implicit ones, like [θ] = /s/.
What comes to mind is something called "zero budget farming" invented by in India by Subhash Palekar. This is basically an approach based on the premise that modern farming including Organic farming is killing the microbes and other beneficial organisms in the soil critical to sustainable agriculture. http://www.palekarzerobudgetspiritualfarming.org/zbnf.aspx
It's a standard term of art in video editing.
Thanks. It was a long time ago at this point.
23andme has been found to be highly inaccurate.

https://www.livescience.com/63997-dna-ancestry-test-results-...
Writing a Ph.D. thesis with Org Mode
> Doesn't that also potentially undermine democracy?

I don't know about that. It's true that ads are meant to sway thoughts, but aren't debates basically supposed to do the same thing? The problem would be misinformation.

The information shod definitely be use carefully and thoughtfully, I agree. Or possibly even not collected at all, if at all possible. I was just pointing out one avenue of monetization.
Even if this debacle drives Boeing out of business, all of the expertise, factories, tooling, and designs still exist. Is there a realistic path forward that has Boeing ceasing operations, but transferring the assets to a new company with new management that can at least manufacture and support the airframes that don’t have massive problems?
In some states, sure. But where I live in Indiana, the strongly Republican state hates gay people (government and much of the citizenry). Remember that one of the cases in northern Indiana was the 'Gay Cake lawsuit'.

Our state only allowed gay marriage because SCOTUS ajudicated it so.

Also, the decision also affected me directly because women could legally change their name in marriage for free. But men doing so (I am one of them) had to pay a bunch and go in front of a judge and ask permission. The Gay Marriage decision removed this form of sexual discrimination as well.
I'm a hobbyist photographer. I still shoot film, although not with a Hasselblad. The reason I do it is that I like the aesthetic, different films also have different types of grain. Shooting film also slows me down. Each shot is going to cost me money to process, so I take my time to see a scene unfold and compose my shot. I always carry a digital camera when I'm out and about just in case I see something interesting, but when I shoot film I always take a camera out with the intention of taking an interesting photo.

Also shooting with medium format film, it allows me to get higher resolution than a similar priced digital camera. Digital Medium format cameras exist but are significantly more expensive compared to an old film one.

Certain film cameras in good condition are getting hard to find, so they either hold their price or go up. Sometimes if an influential film camera blogger mentions a particular camera that too can cause the prices to spike as well.

I've often heard a comparison to using film is similar to vinyl records.
> - The traffic that (apparently) comes from competitors scraping our prices exceeds the traffic coming from legit customers. We're paying more to supply data to our competitors than to our customers!

Make an API, put your site behind CDN. Couldn't be more simple. And there's more they could do.

> - There are sometimes actual reasons beyond wanting "shaky profits" for wanting to limit what site users can do, including development resources to built features and APIs, as well as the actual cost of the computations.

Already answered that.

> - And I have no idea where your assertion about "dirty tricks" comes from. I'm having trouble finding anything "dirty" in trying to detect people abusing the system, and temporarily blocking their access.

There was an attempt to make a startup to compare prices in local stores, that caused an outrage among shop owners. They too claimed they were "abused". If you dive into how all those standards like html, http and etc were designed in a first place, you'd find that they were made with an idea that data is expected to be easily digestible by machines. Fighting it is futile and postpones us from having nicer things.

You could just export your prices in some CSV form on regular basis if making a proper API is too hard and redirect incoming scraping traffic to some README page instead of fighting a battle you can't possibly win? That's of course only valid if that business doesn't mostly rely on depriving customers and competitors from information about prices. In that case you have my compassion, but it's clear that pro-community-social-bla-bla-bla rhetoric is nothing more that a disguise. That I understand, but oppose.

Or should I finally respond to that lame remark about neighborhood you're trying to push? Meh.
The country is "pumped" huh? So they're slapping each other on the ass, grunting in support of their next bench press max attempt? Get pumped up, India. I'm criticizing use of this sort of language in modern journalism.
Porn scratches an itch. If it didn't exist the itch would still be there. So the CO2 production of porn should be measured against whatever the alternative is. Wouldn't people spend more time and CO2 producing energy finding mates or other distractions in place of porn? If they do spend more time mating with non virtual partners won't they spawn more CO2 producers than before?

It may be that porn produces lots of CO2 AND it is a net CO2 sink compared to the alternatives. The article mentions no such trade offs.
Opinion polling is fickle. How about actual voting on the issue such as super liberal California saying no to same sex marriage: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_...
That is my understanding as well. Not sure why a lot of folks are sticking to pilot certification idea.

IMO, removing G-force sensor from the system should be looked into. I just can’t see any sane engineer agrees to do so. They used it to make sure system only engages on high G but will limited authority, now the system needs to engage with low G, but higher authority - they should’ve introduce another signal (air speed?), not remove one.

It is either incompetence or greed.
Many professionals still shoot medium format on film because the digital counterparts are ludicrously expensive and lower resolution. Hasselblad's come with their own brand premium (in part because of stories like this), but many older cameras retain their value because the lenses are still excellent even by modern standards.
Hey thanks for your candor. Perhaps you've saved me from loss of a great position? Think I'll keep it for only after a face to face with the hiring manager that's already decided it's worth putting up with the other aberrations that come along with the package.
So...the rocket is going to blow up?
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18838227
Bank tellers make up an absolutely tiny proportion of desktop OS users, most of whom run normal desktop apps. I have seen tellers connect to terminal apps running on a server, though, so I know what you mean.
Please post on HN when you get that project done, I'd love to see what you come up with!

I'm in a somewhat similar situation, where I have a split keyboard with blues. It's pretty good, but the combined height of PCB + plate on top + standoffs and plate below PCB (the 'case' is just two plates above/below the PCB) + switches + keycaps is quite tall. I'm also going to try to make a slim keyboard in the near future.
Well, Tor is usually blocked. If you want something more reliable, use private proxy services, for example https://gimmeproxy.com
AWS has one, though I found it too clunky to actually use

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...
Sure, hence the “maybe”. More and more, though, it’s Premiere or Media Composer (although more Adobe except for high end commercial editing where Avid has always had a foothold).

And more and more Mac video editors are switching to PC to get higher clock speeds and better GPUs for dealing with 4K, 5k, and 8k footage faster for less $$$. It will be VERY interesting to see how that trend plays out once the new Mac Pro is released.
Even if it is a software bug, it being related to the power outage 42 years ago seems very unlikely.
> The real question is, why aren't Airbus and Boeing massively increasing their production capacity for those lines?

Both receive absolutely massive subsidies from their respective governments, to allow them to price-cut the competition. The governments are not willing to increase those, hence limiting the amount of under-market-value products they can deliver to their customers.
Open source is not trying to win your "business" by competing on features. Open source is about choice.

If you want a feature added, you have the ability to do it yourself or pay someone (possibly the core developers) to do it directly. Contrast to asking a company like Adobe, where you represent maybe 0.0000002% of Adobe's revenue (based on $20/mo vs $9 billion), what do you think the chances are they'll listen to your input?

If Adobe (or someone who buys them in the future) decides to change their pricing model, or drastically change their product, you have no choice, or you're stuck on an old version (if it still runs), or you just can't open any old projects anymore. With open source, that type of thing rarely happens and when it does, it generally leads to forks (and you can always fork it yourself).

It's really about flexibility, balancing risk, and ultimately, being able to get done what you're trying to get done. Even if you don't use it, the competition generally pushes everyone to keep improving.
This lines up extremely well with my personal experiences over the years.

It makes total sense if you think about it: medicine is an infinitely complex field, and at the end of the day even though doctors have (in the past) undertaken significant training, they are still human beings, subject to the same limitations and errors as the rest of us.

New discoveries and nuanced understandings are made in medicine constantly, the idea that it is safe to assume that any individual doctor is going to know and understand all discoveries seems to me like extremely wishful thinking.
The US has a problem with poverty; should they eliminate NASA?
Summary: most no-name USB chargers are shite. They don’t put out the rated amperage, and even if they do it’s so noisy that you won’t want plug anything into it that you care about. Oh, and a lot of them stand a non-trivial chance of running mains voltage where it shouldn’t be.

The author did find three good ones, though. I think today’s task is to dig through that box of USB chargers and throw 2/3 of them away.
Palantir. The government is the gun manufacturer collecting all the needed data in various places.
I mean talking to Go from C or any other language as if Go was replacing a C library. Could not find low-level detail on this, but I remember it used to be very slow. E.g. PInvoke has an overhead of between 10 and 30 x86 instructions per call, which is quite small.

Actually I'm not sure if that is possible now to call Go from C via some C ABI/ABI. I looked into CGO in the past.
Exactly this; also, as a computational biologist I cringe at the stacking of dubious models that produced this "mapping". First is the "interactome", a terrible way to model biology, which is used to predict drug interactions, a highly dubious proposition, which is used to identify similarly-acting molecules in foods, again highly dubious - this isn't even GIGO, it's GIGIGIGO. And at the end of the day, none of this crummy methodology is going to result in any wisdom superior to "eat more kale". It's unfortunate that this is the prism certain investigators have trapped themselves in.
Fees like this are illegal in the UK. Which hasn't stopped some American hotel operator trying to charge them anyway:

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/donald-...

I don't think this chain is very big, so hopefully this guy's crooked practices won't affect too many people!
Scanning before reading getting a idea what it is going to try and teach me before actually reading it.

Writing down every word I don't know/understand and getting comfortable with them.

Playing with the subject matter.

Discussing the subject matter with people.
I agree. My clients specifically expect me to be that admin, that is the value for value I offer.
> What value does the creation of Eve Online bring to its customers, if they're never allowed to play it?

It does bring value to them the value of entertainment. But trying to accomplish something in real life would probably bring them more value in real life, why because that would then be what you are trying to accomplish. Value in real life. If you strive towards gaining some real-life value you are more likely to gain that than if you just strive to be entertained by a game and getting them game-points.

Now some games allow you to turn the game-dollars into real dollars. But the dollars you gain are dollars someone else loses. It is zero sum. No actual new value is created, no actual useful things are created, no actual useful new knowledge is being gained or created. The only value created is entertainment and there's nothing wrong with that. But it might give you more satisfaction to actually accomplish something in real life with all that effort you're putting into the game. I'm not saying you do, but in general and in this case reported in the article.
Exactly! Very well said. I wish more people realized that and stopped encouraging such events because people who are entering the field tend to think this is the norm.
There's always a coping mechanism, it's just a matter of where in society you and what norms and taboos you subscribe to. If drug use has been a part of your life or people around you it's easier to reach for. This is why demonizing drugs and drug users kind of work. But other coping mechanisms are just as bad and sometimes do way more harm to the individual before being surfaced. Workaholism is very detrimental and can have a long lasting effect on ones life(speaking from personal experience).