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The only real 10x engineers I have met are people that motivate others to work much more efficiently. I know many ~4x engineers, and a lot more 0.4x engineers. A 10x engineer is somebody that can make a 0.4x engineer perform like a 0.9x engineer.
Your post appears to be an argument against the notion of 10x developers and instead an argument for 10x environments where any developer can be exceptionally productive given the right circumstances.
Is there something wrong with using present tense to talk about a specific mouse design?

The "just" in the first sentence could be misinterpreted, but that's not the part you quoted...
I'd argue that 'HN' is not a monoculture, and opposing viewpoints come up from time to time in response to new information, from people who might otherwise have kept their thoughts on the issue to themselves.
As someone that was a daily iPAQ user with it Bluetooth tethered to my phone, they aren't even comparable.

The browser on the iPhone was actually good for the time. Touch actually worked, the display was responsive, they OSK was quite fast, and the lack of copy/paste was just dumb.

I ditched the iPAQ as soon as I held the iPhone and used it for five minutes.
Well, if you're using less than 5% of energy, that means with the same amount of energy you can make 20x. So I'd say it's actually 1900% more efficient.
All the major services have dial-in numbers in most countries. If you live in Rwanda, refuse to have a smartphone, refuse to install applications on your laptop, and refuse to use web client versions of these systems - what do you want from this thread? To be in all of these categories at the same time is either irrational stubbornness or Internet trolling.
The fact that you could browse actual websites (sans Flash of course) was amazing.

WiFi and the companion iPod Touch made me feel it wasn't as much a phone as a goddmaned computer with a phone app that mostly didn't suck.

The text input took a while but I still charge up and unlock my OG iPhone and am amazed at how well it fares (yes, iOS3).
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Yet the C/C++/ASM in JavaScript runtimes are heavily optimized for performance.
Why doesn't anyone talk about compensation? Does 10x engineer gets paid 10x as well? Or taking 1x compensation is another feature of the 10x engineer?
I'm going to quote the first paragraph here:

> Eliezer Yudkowsky’s catchily-titled Inadequate Equilibria is many things. It’s a look into whether there is any role for individual reason in a world where you can always just trust expert consensus. It’s an analysis of the efficient market hypothesis and how it relates to the idea of low-hanging fruit. It’s a self-conscious defense of the author’s own arrogance.

And then quote again the only reference to the EMH:

> It’s an analysis of the efficient market hypothesis and how it relates to the idea of low-hanging fruit.

How, just how can you say something 'bedobi upthread? It's frankly a "fake news" level comment. I hate those, because it looks legit enough that people will take the lie at face value.
Those people are called testers.
I'm often astonished by the Tweets someone like CNN will pick to justify a story. Someone with a handful of followers with 8 retweets and 2 favorites becomes a headline story. It's sad.
> now even open-source communities are happy in using Slack and JIRA

That just means these systems aren't so hated that they have 0 users among those communities.

There are open-source communities I no longer participate in, purely because of the annoying collaboration tools they switched to. Just because some people are happy with a tool doesn't mean everyone is. It means a few people in charge chose a tool, and they're implicitly selecting their community from the people who are OK with that tool.

I don't know what the story is with Clojure that you refer to, but I've never had any trouble getting Clojure help on good ol' IRC. I've never left an open-source project for sticking with simple classic tools that work.
Do you subscribe to any channels? Have you liked any videos?
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I'm flabbergasted. Such precious, rich, true and amazing moments of life.
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Haven’t we all seen the ads on YouTube and LinkedIn? Kinda surprised to see it on HN and github!

Has anyone tried it professionally?
Yeah I remember seeing a demo of a Psion from a SwissAir seatmate. It was quite awesome for year 2000.
Does it not annoy you having to reboot all the time?
I'l bite - how do Hackathons "epitomize gender imbalance"? Anyone can go to a Hackathon and compete.
hey look it's a case study of nominative determinism in action!

that being said, i approve
Wow. Skype/Email didn't suffice? :)
I don’t use this, or Spotify, but those are the only two systems I’ve heard people give praise for the recommendation engine — I suspect that its because music playlists are almost equivalent to a rating system.

That is, the user is capable of efficiently informing the engine of their taste, and there’s significant incentive for the user to consistently re-evaluate their ratings (playlists), so it can be trusted as up to date.

Another very important aspect is that playlists are useful enough to the user that they actually want to maintain it.

For example, amazon, netflix and pornhub all have rating systems, but they’re not at all useful. The interface isn’t useful enough for reviewing and reflecting on, its not comprehensive enough to keep as a primary list (because it only covers what they offer, which is very limited) and there’s of course no impact on the recommendation engine (because the rating systems are not worth using; chicken and egg). No sane person would touch the things (beyond “upvoting”, which isn’t significantly related to taste)

Imo ratings are absolutely vital to useful reccomendation, but they’ve been totally neglected
Systemic racism -> poverty -> crime. It's not complicated -- your facts are racist because they're facts about a racist system.
The war on drugs is and has always been racist, it is targeting minorities and filling prisons. How it is precieved is a different thing.
Regarding the Thinkpad: I know this may sound crazy, but consider using installing windows, and using Linux in a VM. You get all the OEM and MS drivers for the hardware that way.
So. Much. This.

This also applies to colleges as well as clients.

If "meetings" implies "work" (which it _strongly_ does to me), then you use whatever the meeting requires.

Your job is to do the work. Not to dictate and ensure FOSS purity amongst co workers and clients.

On your _own_ hardware and for your personal comms, sure - knock yourself out. I have a similar refusal to use Facebook/Twitter for social/personal stuff. It means I get "left out" of some things where no-one remembers to mention to me an event organised exclusively thru FB, and I'm OK with that. Your boss should not be OK with you missing meetings or pissing off clients because you refuse to use Skype. Deal with it, perhaps while encouraging change from the inside without making annoying demands on everybody else - or quit. (Or be a jerk and wait until you get fired for it...)
it always makes me so happy to see people using the WTFPL
>There's also a report of it happening on even a Haswell-E system and the common factor being NVMe on Windows 10 version 1903.
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Compare that to Gmail that was in Beta for more than 5 years. How many 'test' users did they need? :)
And how exactly is Hangouts better? I mean I sort of get your argument and what you are trying to tell, but what's your punch line here?
How is a club of people stealing cars not "organized crime"?
It's easy to test. Wrap your cell phone in aluminum foil, then call it and see if it rings.
You're forgetting the fake leather on the calendar, and the ugly green felt of the Game Center. https://www.cultofmac.com/189707/steve-jobs-himself-is-respo...
I'm aware of "buy-and-hold index fund investing". I believe it was a good strategy because it was an an unpopular, undervalued asset class 100 years ago and has since become very popular and overvalued.

Another important consideration is that companies now go public much later than they did pre-Sarbox. The sad truth is that a company's biggest gains are generally behind them by the time retail investors are allowed in. There will be no repeat of the windfalls ordinary investors made[1] from the IPOs of Microsoft, Walmart, Starbucks and similar companies in today's batch of new IPOs. This in itself is a good reason not to reflexively discourage someone from learning about angel investing.

> I am also bewildered that you'd think buying index funds is good in an up-economy but is bad an a down-economy.

I don't think this.

Provided long-term real-GDP growth prospects are good, I think buying index funds when the funds themselves are under-valued is a good strategy. Looking at the underlying P/E, P/B, DCF or just about any metric you choose, you'll see that on average, publicly traded stocks[1] are very expensive compared to historical valuations.

1) both directly and through funds that index them
That's pretty much my observation, I've seen many high-output types, but seen maybe one or two people who "might" be far above average output/quality. Generally I see people who become 10x by pushing down the effectiveness of those around them to 1x. If I write something that works, but am then told to pretty much re-do it all to fit a different design, my productivity becomes pretty low. Yes, I could start with a different design, but my impression has been that there is basically no initial design I can do that won't be re-designed by the '10x' individual, because they feel it's their job to 'improve' everyone else's design.

Now, as another commentor pointed out, some people can be brought in to solve a problem others cannot solve (simulated annealing solution, which I'll just say "oooook" to). Sure, there are individuals who can solve actual problems others can't, but those actual problems are very rare. Most of the problems I have are 'ship the product' types, not 'solve this one very hard problem' types.
> Transparent aluminum, also known as aluminum oxynitride, is a transparent polycrystalline ceramic with a cubic spinel crystal structure made of nitrogen, oxygen and aluminum. It is optically transparent in the near-ultraviolet, visible and infrared regions. It is four times harder than fused silica glass, 85% harder than sapphire and 15% harder than magnesium aluminate spinel. The material remains solid up to 1200°C (2190°F). It has good corrosion resistance and resistance to damage from radiation and oxidation. It is about three times harder than steel of the same thickness.

https://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=8095
http://www.petittube.com/ is 100 times better
It technically is "organized crime", and I'd guess legally it would be too, but it's not what people usually associate with the phrase.
wow, those number suck hard.

I wonder what Nationality these "Turker" are from...
Oh, you think you can actually disable it? its just an UI setting, Google keeps tracking you anyway. Go ahead and try it, disabling does nothing to the recommendations.
I just have views of a planet and some spacecraft flying above the surface. How can I get the actual videos to play? There is no GO button anywhere.
Well that's what they get after writing pointless article after article, with barely the substance of a tweet, trying to gaslight the population into believing what they want them to believe. No wonder they're failing.
>>> no Hippocratic oath for our profession

Sadly there is no profession for our profession. I often think the model for any software profession (if we can create that - something I doubt) is railway engineer - where the professional signs off on the safety / completeness of work done on the railway - and that no train can travel
without it. It leads to plenty of uncompetitive practises - but also to ... y'know ... people not dying in crashes.

How we start that is hard (probably something to do with safety critical software systems) because we aren't too sure what is the right way to build software.

And then we have the fun problem of the members of the profession trying to decide the answer to your trolley problem. Sorry scratch that. The various legislatures proscribing the answer and the profession trying to implement the conflicting results !
I also work in ML/DL. I'd use a different word than "surprised". "Appalled" is more appropriate. If the video proves anything, it's that everything they do is a hack. There is no principled way to do anything. There is something seriously wrong when they have to resort to oversampling to deal with catastrophic forgetting, aka, learning instability. Yet I'm supposed to trust my life with this thing? Today's DNN are still incredibly crude. There are fundamental problems that need to be solved before we can deploy them in anything other than toys.
so.... not really aluminum, just another ceramic with a high aluminum content.
It's more nuanced: environmentally landfills literally displace acreage of environment (which in my semi-uneducated opinion is often overstated) and have sporadic local issues e.g. material leaching into ground water.

Whereas power generated from incineration of trash displaces CO2 emissions from fossil fuel emissions.

'''Do the benefits of incinerating trash for electricity outweigh the costs thereof in comparison with costs of equivalent conventional electricity and costs of burying aforementioned trash?''' Absolute issues (e.g. NOx or CO2 emission) not in the context of opportunity cost are irrelevant to misleading.
That’s like saying messengers are responsible for causing any bad news they bring.

Testers are integral to situational awareness in any software or hardware project team.
If you can live with the crappy photo quality.
I, too, have listened to the latest episode of Planet Money
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His interview with Russel Brand is hilarious and deeply insightful, which was really surprising. I don't listen that often but will put it on when someone like that is on. Bound to be some entertaining banter.
For me it was Wig, Leo, and Sam as I was in the UK at that time. I jumped onto Hasselblad when I discovered the 200 series could shoot up to 1/2000 meaning I could ditch all my lights and still shoot medium format. Most of the stuff I shot prior to that isn't on my site because, TBH, it wasn't any good.

I was one of the original users on SBP, you probably knew me under a different username. I had stuff run in the mags with the original 1D, mostly postage stamp sized sequences. I remember the ongoing arguments about the pros/cons of using the 1D with its 1.3x crop on the fisheye.

For me shooting film is now mostly about 4x5. My medium format bodies have been used for projects I started back in the last decade. I'm waiting on the price of the new CFV II 50c from Hasselblad to see if I keep or ditch my existing V series bodies and lenses.
Only if you don't mind them being recompressed and the metadata being deleted. Of course, if you don't, surely Google Photos would be a better choice, since it's specifically designed for this purpose, has unlimited storage for lossy-compressed photos, and photos under a certain size are left alone.
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The article contains here-say mixed with facts about how bad Apple’s design process. It’s worth pointing out that while there have been some failures there have been some beautiful successes too. I love how the author blames the design team for complicating the touch wheel in one design, who knows if this is true it just fits with the narrative that is trying to be told.

My guess is that all of this is a lot more complicated than the author thinks and the road to simplicity is a very difficult one that has changed our technical devices for the better (overall). We’d still have plastic phones with “ergonomic” slide out keyboards if it was up to the author.
But there’d be another variable that is correlated.
It would be disappointing, if it weren't so formulaic - despite all his interesting views a decade ago Thiel is just yet another intellectual prostitute who talked a good libertarian game when confined to being inert opposition, yet given a whiff of stature he drops into repeating the bog standard authoritarian scaremongering of his latent team.
I don't think it is pedantic to state that aluminum oxynitride is clearly not aluminum.

This material, while it sounds super interesting is almost-certainly not a metal.

Furthermore, among aluminum's key properties is its machineability. This stuff sounds like it would destroy an end mill or shatter.

It is exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to make a transparent metal. If charge-carriers are free to move, a defining property of a metal, then they will move in response to the electromagnetic field of a light wave. That movement will act to either attenuate or reflect the light wave.
Credit scores measures behaviour in the same way that financial standing measures character or skin colour tells you something useful about a person. It try's to proxy one with another and fails, because really they're two independent variables and life is complex. Someone's ability to pay down debt at any given time is not behaviour, at least it's a tenuous argument.
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.960761

TLDR:

Sapphire is weaker, the optical finishing process is longer and more difficult.

Sapphire however exhibits less optical distortion
I definitely think there is a learnable aspect to design. Throwing data at the problem is expensive and does not create many deep insights. But focusing on communication and how the product communicates a coherent philosophy through features and UX yields a more systematic, standalone framework to test hypotheses against, something which data can further shape. It's more important to find "must" and "cannot" boundary conditions than preferences, and it's also easier to see if you are satisfying those conditions.

My formula is therefore: Pick a few principles to apply to the solution you're making, make sure as best you can that they agree with each other. Test to see if potential users agree with those principles. Select features based on the resulting design framework. Then develop the product as a way of discovering more about this framework.

Lots of companies are doing this implicitly through their founding teams and hiring practices: they just end up with culture that values certain principles, so they get upheld at every meeting and the results end up in the product. But it can also be communicated and imposed more explicitly, and I think that's where design becomes more visible in the process.
If "running in the browser without plugins" and getting your "I am against propriety software X, Y and Z, so I only use propriety software A and B!"-attitude openly communicated are your only concerns you could use Discord as well. You will probably reach a lot more people than with Hangouts, too.
history augments memory when searching for specific things one remembers. having it polluted by random videos embedded on third party might not be great. history also drives recommendations, so again having random video views will ruin coherence of the home page suggestions
I think there is a misunderstanding in my calculation. If one pair of shoes last 3 times longer, then you investment is divided by 3. The same for load factor. If you use your shoes one every 2 days, you need to buy 2 times more shoes.
I want to know who is paying $0.01 USD to get someone to manually transrcibe a reciept to a table.

It seems the Mechanical Turk ecconomy could be dwindling due to the accessiblity of AI these days.
I still can't wrap my head around it why car rental companies like Hertz and Avis don't have this market completely cornered. They have the infrastructure, the assets, the know-how. Why is it still so inconvenient to get a car through them ?
last.fm is great for recommendations after you've been scrobbling for awhile. I've picked up so many artists from checking out recommended every once in awhile.
> Despite an uptick in foreign users over the past few years, the majority of them (75%) are based in the US.
This seems a bit worrying to me as a general principle, since Javascript's lack of tail call optimization (TCO) means that you can blow the stack pretty easily by manually recursing. Just my two cents :-)
If you'd like to see what this looks like in practice see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Qt6bVc5mY&list=PLuh2SVJZ17...

The hourly rate will flash every few seconds.
Missing: Icon. I think Icon is a fascinating language in spite of being dynamically-typed. I've not used it in many years though.

What makes Icon interesting is that its functions ("procedures" in Icon terminology) are essentially generators in that they can "fail" (prune, produce no [further] results), or "suspend" results as many times as desired. "Failure" drives backtracking. So it's Prolog-like, but with Algol-family syntax.

Not surprising then that I find jq interesting too: it has pervasive generators and backtracking, just like Icon, though with a fundamentally different syntax, and very limited type system.
(Out of curiosity, have you considered starting at raw recursion – like in your example – but then moving on to using utility functions like `map` from e.g. Ramda or lodash?)
I think I discovered a way to become a 420x engineer.
Ok. Well Id love to chat with him about @bksenior on any social platform. Thanks for the help. His idea is great.
And K, Icon, and others.
From my experience, I see that usually hackathon events have more male attendees than female. I am sure there might be hackathons where that's not the case but I don't think it would be very inviting for any female to go to an event that's full of the opposite gender. Just imagine if you were one of 5 males in an event of 100 attendees and the rest were females. I think you would be a bit uncomfortable/out of place even though that's not the case.
Most of the statistics are worded differently from that source, but according to the EPA, the energy used to make products with recycled materials is:

paper: 40% less

steel and tin: 60%-74% less

plastic: 33% less

glass: 30% less

aluminum: 95% less

edit:formatting
Well, AI can't handle the edge cases yet. For some businesses it makes more economical sense to invest in Turk for transcription rather than training a ML model, which obviously requires a sizeable investment. Either way, you'll need a decent training set and Turk is great for that.
From the article:

> "We cannot create transparent aluminum in real life, but we can get close with two transparent ceramics made from aluminum compounds"
Possibly Expensify? There was that news that came out a bit ago that their "SmartScan" actually fell back on Mechanical Turk [1] even though it was sold as a AI-type thing.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/expen...
True but the first poster to mention race was the one bringing up the issue of racism.
If you can find back the link, I'd like to read this
I find it very irritating where I am that the design team don’t interact with the programmers concerns about the designs difficulties and instead just point to user research. A lot of design issues can be fixed by talking to not just your users but any human walking by. Hallway usability testing works well and just about anyone, even a programmer, will make your design better with a fresh pair of eyes.
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> Part of the whole 10x package is getting the manager on board and increasing trust, not going behind their back.

People are acting like everyone's rational, and all you need to do is just explain things properly. But that's not often the case.

Also, if you have to explain things to someone all the time, it starts getting uncomfortable for everyone.
Given the extremely high correlation of crime to race, that seems unlikely. https://www.quora.com/Are-crime-rates-correlated-with-ethnic...