skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe that the majority of comments on Twitter are trying to say that every developer is as as equal as every other. Many of them are arguing that the "10x developer" idea is unrealistic in the sense that management wants to hire someone 10x more productive than everyone else (this story agrees, 10x is a big exaggeration). Some people have worked with so-called 10x developers, who have been slavishly defended from criticism by management, who are churning out piles of code that will be difficult to maintain, it seems that some of those people also have some toxic behaviors.

In terms of the question "do 10x developers exist", I wonder if it really matters. An argument has been made that there are people far better at chess or football or piano than everyone else, so there must be developers who are vastly better than the average in the field. I'm not sure that software development is really the same kind of thing... But even so, we do not have the systems in place that would allow us to recognize such people. All we have, for the most part, are anecdotes from recruiters and managers and many of these stories sound self-serving and exploitative.

It could be the 10x developer exists in the same sense that the 10x CEO exists: every so often one appears and seems to meet the standard. But the closer we look, the more circumstance and the people they surrounded themselves with seemed to be even more important. Often it looks like maybe the particular period of time was a factor as well. And the argument goes on and on, so on and so forth.
This is also a good argument for obesity. After all, a pound gained is a pound sequestered. [/s]
No - but I do think we should be sure we read deeper and question who's motivating a certain position. Ask is there a source of truth that can confirm someone's position. For example, I can see google's search business controls about 90% of the search traffic. I see browser usage around 63%. For advertising (google main source of income) I see they don't dominate they share market with Facebook and more recently a lot of talk about Amazon's position being strong to take more of that market.

See: https://www.statista.com/chart/17109/us-digital-advertising-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/20/amazon-advertising-business-...

That said maybe my sources are not good? But it's better to think is someone being truthful or trying to manipulate me with a specific position...
Hence why I said you have to do what makes meaning for you.
Thanks, yes the Swift model is what I would be going for.

I just wrote my first Go program this past weekend, evidently I misunderstood the tutorials/docs I read.
Shops aren't going away in all history to come and go. Some people and some cultures moreso actually understand what in life matters and some items will forever need physical fitting, thankfully for our raw three-dimensional reality. Cash won't ever be erased from Earth's surface not in a thousand reincarnarions, mark those words on the outer layers of your soul.
In California I’ve never found a county that lists the property owner online. The only way to get the owner is to go to the county recorders office and look it up there.
The problem is there are those who don’t share your idealism and would take this position and take full advantage of it.

Vietnam might have been a boondoggle of a war. But it certainly better than had we folded and let the dominoes fall in many places where there was some discontent but not nearly as much as there would be with Soviet style governance.

Certainly there were smarter ways to wage the war, but short of taking over the corrupt local govt there wasn’t much else we could do. We suggested land redistribution and other forms of reform, as we implemented successfully in South Korea but the South Vietnamese wouldn't have it.
The courts one is different. The reason for everything being public is to have transparency into the person getting a swift and fair trial.
Building a Fully-Extensible Developer Collaboration Platform
Every time I have looked at Turk lately the HITs I've seen have been awful.

For instance there used to be a lot of HITs that involves transcribing printed receipts.

I wouldn't mind doing this so much if the receipts weren't smudged and creased or otherwise illegible, but I think these people have an OCR that can handle the easy ones and you're left with a residuum of hard cases which sometimes can't be transcribed at all, or for which you'll probably make enough mistakes to get in trouble. I find that mentally fatiguing on top of the extra time.
If the author had said that crispr based gene drives are malware then I can see that metaphor working, but I don't think that was what was the case here. Also, crispr for neuro diseases isn't just knockouts, there's work with single base change Cas forms and RNA targeting crispr, it's a broad range of tools
I had a lot of trouble understanding spoken Spanish when first arriving in Colombia. This tool provides deliberate practice for speech recognition. It's what I wish I had at the time.
No sooner than I posted that I began to wonder if I mis-heard that number (pretty sure I heard that number on a podcast... which now that I think of it, might have been hyperbole to make the point that Google really wants people to check out GCP and, ideally, get hooked). Microsoft had their BizSpark program which granted $150/month in Azure credits plus operating system, server, and enterprise edition developer licenses for three years, a value that comes to far more than $750 a month if you really use to its maximum potential. The best I can find at the moment is $300 but I don't know if this is per month and if it's just limited to K8S research/education or not: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/google-cloud-gran...
I don't see the point of it. Even if it's good, it's not going to be a Bond film, it'll be a film about some sort of special agent, not a James Bond film. Why not create a new original thing, where the lead character played by a female and build on top of it. Why do they need to mess with the existing working formula... I just don't get it.
But at the same time, can't say few latter Bond films where all that good, so maybe it'll shake some things up in a good way, although at this point, I don't really believe they can make a good Bond film.
Is there a word for something that keeps coming back and making you laugh 10-20-30 minutes after you've read it? This compact treatise on the human condition has it.
Maximum sum of non-adjacent numbers: algorithm explained
> Even in countries which pride themselves on free speech.

Where else have you seen this?
More than 500k people have RSVP’d to “storm Area 51,” in the name of memes
Considering they are running this as an early preview I'm not sure if we are going to get much in terms of public response. Maybe now that it's a long outage journalists will be poking enough.

Pretty sure universities and other institutions would be able to inquire though.
Bollocks. Tipping is predictable and normative. You assume 15% when going to restaurants, and roughly the same amount in other contexts, like getting a haircut.

No one is fleecing you, and the costs are predictable using basic math.

You may be thinking of Lobbying, which is a totally different phenomenon.
Making the index available would be very valuable for scientific research. when I was a googler, we used the index (and google scholar's index) to do all sorts of interesting science projects (DNA search, gene search, etc) But we couldn't publish the results for various reasons. If the index (or a fragment of it) was available sitting in parquet files (or possibly a better format for indices) you could easily sit around doing spark jobs to extract all sorts of interesting web data.
Recursion is either an abstract way to create a loop or a way to use the call stack as a stack data structure. There isn't really a good reason why it needs to be part of a programmer's toolbox.

I think the clever nature of recursion is what has made it into something that some programers think is a better way to traverse a data structure, but I think it is often difficult to justify.

Even trees can be traversed with a stack of the current state. If something goes wrong, checking the traversal stack is much easier than a runaway call stack.
... unless it needs to do a quick follow-up update after applying one of the pre-downloaded ones. And then not three reboots later you get your machine back.
AJ Muste:

“The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”

Source: https://chomsky.info/196709__/
True, but some landfills capture that methane and pump it back into the natural gas grid. I don't know the details of how efficient or widespread this type of capturing scheme is, but it seems to me like this is probably actually more sustainable than using natural gas from drilling and fracking.
Failure is such a normal thing that I cannot see how it would be heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking to think that some see all failure as a dark thing that must be avoided. Holding failure in low esteem is a path of fear and egomania.

It sure is possible to rebrand every failure we make as success in some thing else. "I failed to win the tennis match, but I succeeded in hitting the ball into the net!".

There is a reason "fail fast" is a mantra: it's through looking at our errors we have chances to do better.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, it seems like a perfectly plausible outcome to me.
Anything can be used maliciously. But it's way harder to make an bioweapon an bioweapon out of crispr than it's worth. And it's not like you'd have any particular advantage from using crispr, I guess you could load a bunch targeting some essential gene into an AAV and spray it on people but it's probably easier just to wait for the flu virus to mutate and do its thing.
Someone needs to tell Jeff he lost.
And yet most Google results that don't point at one of a handful of major sites are SEO spam :-/

The spammers won. Google gave up and settled for "we like the right kind of spam—the kind that took a little effort, and makes us money".
This seems like a common side-effect of an overly segmented microservice architecture.

I’ve noticed this pattern numerous times, my guess is service/feature teams want to avoid at all costs taking another service dependency (and all the testing and coordination that entails) so they just punt.

Sometimes a big old RDBMS housing all of your data which is actually already related in reality makes the most sense.
The claim: “We have our own unique stories!”

The practice: “We’re just gonna appropriate your stories.”

Classic.
Yeah, “unknown knowns” is better known as “the weirdo over there who just sat at the piano and started playing it perfectly having never played it before”. The parent is taking it too meta.
The solution to technopolies is decentralized protocols.
There have been plenty of accidents involving the failure of old analog control systems too.

FBW adds cyber-related failure modes, but it is hard if not impossible to make the traditional hydraulics, strings, springs and pully-based systems resilient against failures since the number of things you have to duplicate explodes exponentially.
Driverless Cars Are Taking Longer Than We Expected. Here’s Why
Neural Computation Relies on Compartmentalized Dendrites to Discern Inputs
I'm currently paying MTurkers $2 for a study that takes 10-15 minutes. That works out to $8-$12 per hour. I would never be able to recruit people to participate locally for just $2, but I can on MTurk because mine is one of many tasks they can complete in an hour.
So what would break if GPS went down for 4 days?

Sat nav obviously, Amazon package tracking, Grindr? (I assume that falls back to cell tower triangulation???).

I guess theres some more serious things, any examples?
Personally, working through the proof until I have a flash of insight is how I develop intuition that allows me to know when and where the "trick" should be applied, which is often more broad than the narrow context in which it is presented through the materials. You may even develop some new tricks of your own.
more accurate headline: black female actor is the new 007 (code name, not Bond). assuming she's using the number in the movie until he comes out of retirement and either she's killed (cliche) or relents (better) or otherwise.
They put the Precise Timing Facility in Italy?
You simply don’t know. The whole country and its neighboring countries got destroyed by the Vietnam war. I am not sure if a communist takeover would have been worse for the regular citizen. When you look at Eastern Europe I think people were better off under communist government compared to the devastation a war may have brought.
A.I can now tell you why your baby is crying
> Facebook: “Provocative racist bookcases that will make you angry.”

Pahaha
Perhaps the author should consider that Hilary Clinton is a perfect human being.
Is mainstream just measured by popularity? Ballerina has a pretty mainstream syntax, but I guess it's not well known enough.
All these ideas are cool, but I am not sure how I feel about further locking myself into the google ecosystem.
Run chronyd on every Linux box is in my checklist (ansible playbook). It's not much but more accurate than a cronjob.
Especially with voice searches. People are searching entire sentences rather than specific keywords which are much more likely to be unique.
That which the market does not naturally provide... does one just morally expect?
Being conscripted to fight in a war you don't care about is a big perceived injustice when you have a fancy Oxford degree and a lucrative career ahead of you.

Being conscripted to fight in a war you don't care about when you're a ditch digger and will be for the foreseeable future is a lot less bad.

While nobody happy to be drafted a lot of people are less unhappy about it than the author. I know this will not be a popular opinion around here but many people consider it their duty to fight if called upon by their country.
My currency is worth four times less than that but the last time I dealt with 50 bills was everyday since going bankrupt and out of the system.
It looks more like they took the service down intentionally due to problems - it's still in beta. And kept the SAR signal intentionally up.
The Internet’s Tropical Fruit Stand
Using Infrastructure as Code to Scale Months Down to Minutes
From a government or bank's point of view, I can see the incentives for phasing out physical currency.

But for a common person, there are definitely uses:

* Tipping, when you don't want your server to have to report the tip as taxable income

* Buying/selling in places without reliable internet service

* Buying/selling illegal items

* Certain types of bars, etc. where it's logistically easier to use cash than handle a card + tipping on a receipt

* Training yourself to be more frugal by restricting yourself to cash for shopping / eating, where the shock factor of "look how much I'm spending!" is more visceral

* Giving to the visibly homeless

* Buying lemonade from kids

Also, I just like paying in cash sometimes. I'm hoping that the practical uses of it would create enough public outcry if banks/governments ever tried to phase it out.
I think this is disgusting, but as someone who grew up in Florida, I do have to wonder what additional information they are actually getting from the DMV; the driver's license had my name, birthday, and address on it, and most of that was fairly easy to find, even before the succubus of Facebook or Google.

I guess being the sort of anti-corporate person that I am, I do definitely have issue with the US government doing anything to assist for-profit corporations, but I don't know how much damage was done by this specifically.
Bach and Rembrandt were artists. Most companies are looking for 10x developers to write systems to manage billing, accounts, inventory, etc. I don't see how we can compare Bach to someone toiling away on a better business software in any reasonable way.

If there are developers out there doing work on the same level as Rembrandt or Bach then they are working in an entirely different domain. Personally, I don't think we have the ability to recognize these people and, if we did, there is no guarantee that their work would be applicable to business systems in the way that the "10x engineer" myth implies.
Or conscript children of top politicians. And not some cozy job far from any possible danger, but right at the center of it. I guess US wouldn't invade another country half around the globe even if whole population would have to switch to Flintstones-like cars.
Most of my hiking maps are printed on Tyvek or the equivalent.

And in any case a map is a piece of safety equipment - you spec if for the worst case scenario.
A little off topic but interesting point: In America restaurants must take cash but stores don’t. This is because once you’ve eaten you now owe a debt and cash must be accepted as payment for debts, as required by law. But if you are buying something you don’t have a debt yet, so they are free to turn you down.

One way to get around this would be to eat your candy bar or whatever in the store. Now they must take your cash, or accept not getting paid I guess.
That is a very selective interpretation of that paper.

The study found that some types of reusable bag needed many uses before being a better environmental option than thin plastic bags (e.g. cotton). Other bags, such as sturdier plastic bags designed for reuse were much better options, needing only a few uses to break even, environmentally speaking.

Anyway, 50+ (or 100+) uses - a year or two of weekly shopping - does not seem unreasonable for a cotton bag.
I remember I implemented 2FA for a previous company, and our QA person managed to lock himself out of the account while enabling it. I asked him how that's possible, and he said "well I went to enable 2FA, it gave me the recovery codes, then it asked for a 2FA code so I entered one of the recovery ones, but now I ran out".

I thought this was so dumb it was brilliant QA.
Many long term investments. Space tourism, satellite launches for other countries (which India does), asteroid mining, tech innovation, SCIENCE!!!
Fri earthquakes on a crustal fault show it’s not only the Big One we should fear
Polar Portal: Monitoring Ice and Climate in the Arctic
Why are you using garage band in a music class? That sounds like using ms paint in a graphic design class.
Stations didn't use to rely on or require News programs to make a profit. It was a loss-leader to create prestige for the networks and comply with the FCC's Fairness Doctrine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
Of course that trend continues, but it's their typical excuse ("we need to teach marketable skills") and once the kids are part of the workforce, any further training (e.g. to learn about that mythical Ribbon UI, I remember the concern of how the economy will tank due to that retraining effort in the news back then) is Somebody Else's Problem.

Given that attitude in schools and the constant UI changes even within the MS ecosystem, I guess it should be okay to use LibreOffice for the earlier years and only use Microsoft "and that's what you might use at work" Office after year 8 ;-)
> Google is especially worrisome because it has maintained an unopposed monopoly on search worldwide for nearly a decade. It controls 92 percent of search, with the next largest competitor, Microsoft’s Bing, drawing only 2.5%.

1. The definition of the word "monopoly" is not applicable to this situation.

2. Property expropriation reduces the competition within the society, while also being unethical.
I'm going to dislike it to spite you. Did you just fall off a cabbage truck?
Errors that static code analysis does not find because it is not used
> I'm not sure there's a huge distinction between "how we structure and pay for our healthcare systems" and "western medicine."

Given that different 'western' nations structure and pay for their health care systems entirely differently, there must be, mustn't there?

Or are you conflating "Western medicine" with "US medicine"?

Indeed you are:

> Medicine is an example of a huge market failure.
Automakers overpromised on self-driving cars and electric vehicles–what now?
Retired. As soon as the kids are in the work force, they're not the teacher's problem anymore.
I love a lot of Apple’s design, but there is one particular example that frustrates me often: the mouse that comes with the iMac Pro. It perfectly illustrates Jobs’ mantra that design isn’t just about looks.

The problem is that in order to produce the beautiful silhouette, they put the charging port on the bottom. I never seem to remember to charge the thing, so it’s always needing to be plugged-in. And then you can’t use.

What I find bonkers about this is that mice were wired for the majority of their existence, so it’s not like this was a hard one to figure out. They just chose to go with what looked nice.

It is pretty, though.
I Cancelled My Amazon Prime
I do think "to a fault" is subjective, but things like Prolog make a great example. Prolog is really cool and useful, but it makes anything except for the queries a real nightmare and will therefore never takeoff as a general purpose language. That's all I'm trying to say. Languages like Perl allow you to do logic programming with logic programming libraries, but also make text processing a breeze.

Take it with a grain of salt of course. Smalltalk is amazing, but the way you store code in an image isn't for s everyone.

I don't understand your last paragraph...can you please elaborate? What cute sayings are you referring to?
I am glad our fathers and grandfathers and ancestors before that had the ability to see beyond their own shadows.
New data visulalization plugin for Kibana
It is because people just stick with their best usually instead of using a variety of search engines. It becomes rather winner takes all.

Google for general search.
Duckduckgo fir general if you want something a bit more private but not extreme enough to run your own spiders.
Bing mostly for porn search - not being snarky some people do consider it to have better results.
Google signed an armistice in the Great Spamsite War some time around '08 or '09, to the effect that spam can have all the search results aside from those pointing at a few top, trusted sites, so long as they provide any content at all. Bad content is fine. Farmed content is fine. Content that was probably machine-generated is fine. Just content. Play the game, make sure your markov chain article generator or mechanical turks post every day, throw some Google ads on your page, and G will happily put your spamsite garbage at result #3.
They mention military connotations with the device but honestly I can't imagine that being a good idea in terms of safety or logistics
Isnt it always lupus?.... Or sarcoidosis.
Half full, my car's fuel gauge points straight up.

I believe it is the side that the petrol pump handle appears on the small image of the petrol pump (next to the gauge) which indicates the side of the fuel filler cap on the car.
The comments he made are not just questionable, they're outright wrong (and a great example of the problem with cherry-picking data):

https://www.vox.com/2016/6/10/11903028/hillary-clinton-googl...

https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/jun/23...

(Disclosure: I work at Google, but this opinion is my own)
Instagram Flaw in Password Recovery Mechanism Grants Full Access
I had someone come and measure boundaries for some land on Friday, supposedly with centimetre precision. Does this mean that the markers they installed are likely in the wrong place?