skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Airbnb, I understand there is verification of identity checks. Secondly you'd need to pay to rent an expensive place in advance (which could be done fraudently) followed by the fact that it's much harder to fence furniture relative to cars which are more uniform.

Simply put, I imagine there is more money is stealing cars.

As to "selling the house", this often requires a serious amount of paperwork and is harder to do.
my receiver (denon x1400) doesn't turn on the tv when it turns itself on, but the tv turns on the receiver and turns it off. i've set it up a long time ago but IIRC it was configurable.
Too funny at how people don't realize they are owned
Or were they 0.1x?

I'm pretty sure I've encountered -1x devs as well, who contribute little and suck time from the rest of the team.
The caveat here is that it depends on what you mean by "test" and what "insights" you are interested in.

If you are interested in (for example) determining the optimal price and only 1/20 users buy something... you still probably need about 1,000 X (price points you want to test).

In that "test" you are basically trying to uncover the demand curve (or points on it). It's a statistical question.

Say you have a dating app, and you are trying a new matching algorithim. It will also take thousands of matches before you have the data to make determinations.

All that said, I totally agree with the author. I would just frame it differently.

The question you need to ask is "do I need statistics?" Statistics have become habitual, but much (most?) of the time, we don't need statistics.

If you want to learn if a user can write and publish a blog using your software or install a water filter under they sink... you don't need statistics. You need to know where most people get into trouble, and n=5 will work fine for that.

This is intuitive if we just think outside of the "testing" vocabular. You write a CV/essay/article. You ask 1-3 friends to read it and advise. You don't produce statistics.
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> " Original sin implies a failure"

Consider that term in it's original context, and the size of the human population. It's clear that "original sin" does not imply failure to thrive.
> My biggest gripe with Python in production is that it isn't statically typed.

With mypy (http://mypy-lang.org/), it could be.
> unless we're simply talking about people who are "productive"

That is literally what the grandparent poster said, and matches the first two definitions I can find on Google.

Personally, I often think of this example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3033446

It's really interesting to see how both sides approach the problem (without rushing it), but only one of them solves it. That certainly counts as a 10x difference?

> "10x engineer" is a marketing gimmick used to gain leverage in various ways, IMO.

I've been following the discussion, and I think that "10x is a lie" has itself become a dangerous meme. It's already hard to tell some of my clients that developer quality matters, that hiring cheap developers en masse is pointless if they can't reliably fizzbuzz. Now Developer Twitter decides to proudly proclaim that everyone is equally capable as a developer, except some of them are toxic jerks. Sigh.
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I've seen simnilar calculations putting it at £150k and assuming private schools. To be fair, I would probably agree with that number.
I often use my smartphone for such meetings, mostly Hangouts/Meet. But not using Zoom and Skype at all will provide difficulties with clients.
I think this is inaccurate and you need citations to justify the idea that those in deep poverty are better off then they were 25, 50, 100 years ago.

Health outcomes, (obesity, nutrition, drug addiction ) could easily be worse.

Security outcomes, (violent crime, domestic violence, police violence) could easily be worse.

Economic outcomes (job security, lifetime earning expectations, minimum wage) could easily be worse.

Social outcomes ( close friends, community ties, connection to close family memebers) could easily be worse.

Remember that looking at averages is misleading if the distribution is changing around a constant mean.

Further, the idea that crime is an economic choice, and not a socially determined choice is highly suspect. For instance, street level drug dealers make very little money [1], the average US bank robber steals ~$4,000 [2]. Crime is rarely a "rational decision" it's made in a socially constructed context.

[1] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/sp/5049.pdf
[2] https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/06/11/what-you-sho...
Very nice. Why doesn't the team put an about page with details of the team there. Says powered by Libra and has links to the Libra project, but how are people to know if this is a third party effort or from the team?
Lol nope, not gatekeeping programming languages :)

The above are all pretty cool though and each (as Larry Wall would put it) are the perfect examples of modernism. Each one takes a single idea to a fault.

Lisp => lists, Haskell => functions, Scheme => lists and recursion, Prolog => logic, Smalltalk => objects, Forth => concatenative and extreme minimalism, and APL => arrays.

Most post-modern languages combine many of the above in more practical and less elegant ways. Python is OO at heart, but can be written in a functional style, and can do array programming with Numpy.

So there is value (I think) to looking back at those languages from an educational point of view even if you're not using them in your personal projects or production.

The more novel ones that the author posted are probably also educational in their own way, but probably don't ram just one idea home. I think we're mostly past that now as Wall has stated. Perl6 might not run very fast or be very mature or popular, but it is a very interesting language that does a good job showing the post modern system. It pulls what the language designers felt were the best features from all the past languages (Perl5, Python, APL, Haskell, Smalltalk, Awk, Java, C#...etc).
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I've been meaning to check out Klong for ages and the accompanying book. Thanks for doing this work Niles!
You may be right, but in that case, why is the second range "nicer"? AFACT it is because he explicitly adds 1 in the first example but implicitly subtract 1 in the second, which makes it looks cleaner. If you want the N'th element of an array, the range in the first example is N ≤ i < N+1 while in the second it is N-1 ≤ i < N. Written out like that, I don't see how the second is obviously nicer.
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Not really being serious: Are we inadvertent being hooked into an attempted YouTube DoS by resource exhaustion?

It works go something like: System transcodes when demand is applied; normally demand misses 90% of videos; demand surely focuses only on unprocessed videos; 'attack' diverts resources to processing videos that would otherwise have never required processing.
If stripping code whose only relevance is in a UB situation doesn't amount to ignoring the UB situation completely, I don't know what does. It's literally the production of code that is completely ignorant of the UB situation.
he's awesome
Original Twitter thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/skirani/status/114930282842006732...

The guy got lit by Twitter crowd for claiming that 10X devs exists, are introvert and often lacks deep empathy.
To me, the sin of Java has been to make String final.
Or, to be more precise, not to have made it generifiable.
(So the compiler knew the difference between, let's say, String<FirstName> and String<LastName>)
As long as I don't have to do hardware development, the Windows Services for Linux works pretty well for me with regards to command-line tools. I've been un-installing cygwin on my systems recently.
2 USD per hour can be decent depending the location. Where I live in Thailand people on average make 7 USD per day.
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Then you get things like this: https://youtu.be/syiSYMPwFck
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It doesn't even need letter/number buttons, just some proper tactile feedback rather than this smooth hello-my-owner-has-more-money-than-sense rotating action thing i.e. the scroll wheel on an iPod classic from the mid 2000s was miles better.
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If you like this, you might find this interesting as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepIntoYouTube/
Usability testing is more like brainstorming. Those 3-5 users may tell you what some usability issues are - but they won't tell you how big those issues are, for your purposes. With imperfect a priori information on who the users of your thing are, you have to go back to assumptions.
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> your criticism is not constructive

It always is. I never criticise destructively.

> your knowledge might not always be relevant

Then I expect to be told "no, you're wrong, here's why..." and then we can discuss, and one or both of us can learn something.

> you might not have as much knowledge as you think

Always true! However if the other can indicate areas of ignorance, I appreciate that and will go away and learn about it.

> the incorporation of your knowledge might not be what's best for the organisation at that point

I see my job as supporting the business. I happen to do that with technical tools, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm there to support the company because it pays my wages.

> something else

Probably I'm just insensitive/thoughtless and should learn to think before speaking. But definitely a fair fraction of programmers get defensive about their code.

Anyway, good points, upvoted.
I guess we need to distinguish between mainstream and HN mainstream haha.

I like PicoLisp and wish it was more popular. There are some decent resources on it and the mailing list is pretty active.

I kinda disagree with the primary author's "need for speed" article on why performance doesn't matter anymore. I think there is definitely the majority of common uses in the business where he is right, but we're getting to a point (think data science) where faster is better and necessary. Using C++ is still too painful for most (pointers anyone), so I'm betting languages like Nim, Rust, and D will continue to grow in popularity to some degree.
> what is design if not the tasteful balance of factors resulting in a vision of experience

Determining the essential functional qualities of a product, and balancing these with aesthetics. When you throw in the industrial factor as in industrial design you're also considering cost at scale.

Design is not a purely visual discipline.
That's what native used to be, but nowadays it's "not electron". Qt or wxWidget apps are considered native as well.
I have a whole page on nim here - https://www.btbytes.com/nim.html

Edit:typo
I think this reading appeals to our human desire to interpret things as personality-driven narratives, but I'm not convinced it's accurate. I think many of "Ive's missteps", and the behavior of Apple post-Jobs can be adequately explained by market forces and changes in the incentive structure driving Apple's product development.

During that period, Apple went from being a somewhat niche player for digital artists and enthusiasts to being one of most valuable brands on the planet. They went from having to work very hard to convince consumers that they were worth taking a risk on, to being a coveted status symbol which some customers would pay virtually anything for. I don't think it's surprising that during this period they would push their product line toward higher-margin, less utilitarian products you might want to replace more often for their various flaws.

I also don't think it's surprising that we're seeing Apple signaling a shift towards their old, pro-consumer ways now that the smartphone market is weakening.

Yes it's compelling to think about things in terms of the interplay of a few individuals, and the hubris of a rouge designer, but in general understanding the behavior of corporations through the lens of incentive structures is much more accurate.
> Technically he should have said "less than or equal to 120" rather than just "less than", but otherwise it's accurate.

I suspect it may be because the author is German. In French at least «inférieur» means “less or equal than” and you need to say «strictement inférieur» to say “less than”, and I wouldn't be surprised if it were the same in German.
Since Twitch uses IRC under the hood, it would probably take a full rewrite to support that kind of thing. I agree though, I'd love an alternative way to keep some comments sticky.

YouTube live chat does have a couple features to aid with that, they have "super chats" which are basically a way to pay to get your comment to stick at the top of the chat box, and they have a filter to just show top comments instead of the full live feed. It helps somewhat, but obviously it's not a complete solution.
If it goes to the front page apparently it IS interesting to hackers.
If you rely on an optimization like this, that's not a code smell as much as a code-sewer:

This is one of those optimizations that a very clever compiler might be able to do interprocedurally give a certain input for example.
> ethical qualms

What ethical qualms are those? The fact that someone else tells you that by using something you agree with a bunch of agreements that they made up on the spot?
This was not framed in any shape, way, or form as a justification to the MacBook design. OP just provided some related and useful info.
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The Guggenheim in New York is another example of this. I've heard it told that the reason the bathrooms are all tucked away under stairwells and in other awkward places is because their inclusion at all was a detail the architect originally overlooked.
There was a story a few years ago about someone renting an AirBnB to run a meth lab
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That's really cool, I didn't realise the free version did 4K! As with most of these specialist types of applications (thinking of music software, with which I am more familiar), the GUI and concepts can take quite a lot of getting used to as they are so specialised, but Resolve actually seems reasonably user friendly for doing simple edits. No idea how to use all the Fusion stuff, etc, but seems really powerful!
The loop (and function) terminates when x == 7, and the compiler can show that x will be 7 at some point i.e. it knows it's on a system with overflowing integers
Sorry, my bad, you're absolutely right!
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lol chicago... anyone wanna have a guess at the thieves' skin color?
Lithium probably has similar or worse issues, though?
I couldn't even finish watching the video... once he said the letter "P" I switched off
Ah, this explains it 100%.
I don't think this is really right. He claims that uninitialised memory is not just random bytes, but it is!

It's just that there is a compile time optimisation that allows the compiler to assume you will never read from uninitialised memory.

It would be perfectly possible to make a language (or even a C++ compiler) that didn't perform that optimisation.
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Car2go started out as a joint venture of Daimler and the car rental company Europcar. Nowadays it is a joint venture only of car makers Daimler and BMW.

I actually wonder how profitable these very short term rentals are on their own. Maybe part of their profitability is long term brand development? Certainly city dwellers like me, who gets by with bicycles and public transport mainly, are exposed much more easily to the experience of driving a nice, modern BMW or Mercedes than they would without these "car sharing" offers.
You're implying that a shadowy conspiracy of politicians and climate scientists has, over the course of decades, spun the entire concept of climate change out of whole cloth purely to justify an otherwise-pointless tax? And, for good measure, that all tax is illegitimate?
Agree. The back glass was not completely practical, but mine survived plenty of drops, and the whole thing had a nice weight/density to it, and a very premium feel.
I’ve never heard of that interpretation. But now that you say it, I am overwhelmed with a really, really icky feeling about Charlie the creepy, abusive, paranoid, controlling husband. A little OT, but such people always explain that they do what they do because everybody around them is dishonest, conspiratorial, and so forth. But they are the ones who are constantly cooking up dishonest plots to control the people around them.

I use Alice and Bob all the time when writing socratic dialogues. But I switch the names around from time to time. Charlie is often Charlene, for example, mostly because I have very fond memories of a friend from my youth who was christened Charlene but insisted that everybody call her “Charlie.”
In the iPhone's defense, vs the other smart phones I had used up until I got my iPhone 4, it was the first one to have a web browser that worked reasonably well on all non-mobile websites, and it was that factor alone at the time was enough to get me hooked.
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This almost sounds like pair programming but one doing reviews and other writing the code and fixes.
This seems like a hidden form of taxation. Instead of paying money, citizens pay "taxes" with their private data.
As opposed to holistic. Western medicine is excellent when you can diagnose a specific single issue and fix it.

For issues that don't have a single-specific cause, the western medicine won't help much - it can cover specific symptoms, and tell you to do more sport, fix your diet and go to a therapist.

Example - all kinds of chronic pain (IBS etc), chronic tiredness, etc. Doctors will order all kinds of tests, and if there is no clear single issue, they won't help you.

Eastern/holistic medicine may not be perfect, but if science-backed options are exhausted, it's all there is.

Also, with all my respect and sympathy towards strict science, it has it's limitations - especially when it comes to complicated systems. That's why nobody argues for using science-based methods of running startups :)

Finally, fun fact, if we use current medical criteria, parachutes were never proven to work. No double-blind placebo-controlled human trials. :)
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The way you say this makes me wonder if excessive empathy is a mental illness.
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It's 20 million tonnes per year according to the source
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Unexpectedly, MMS was so crappy at the time and full of spam that it was actually a feature for me. Total count of legit MMS I ever received was half a dozen, and again half of that that I sent.

(I did not own an iPhone 1, only a 3G one, but I skipped on MMS as hard as I could)
+1: landfills is the worst option and should be never used for non-inert materials (that is why EU mandates incineration before bringing waste to the landfill). It is very hard and expensive to do it properly, with a perfect first layer, in a stable place, putting a lot of heterogeneous compounds doing a lot of different (and even unexpected) chemical reactions, using pipes to exchange air and drain/burn methane, maintenance and monitoring the site even for hundreds of year after closing it. It is a nightmare to handle that kind of landfills. Please incinerate everything first, and maybe reuse the ashes for public roads, benches and so on.
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Except it isn't satire :(
WSL is what finally got me to move off of OSX and back into Windows. IMHO, I prefer a thin MSI laptop to a MBP and a Surface to a MacBook Air. I'm trading my work MBP in for a Win 10 laptop with proper ports and docking station.
how about spaming the harraser with whatsapp bots?
If you are using iOS you can do it without a library or service just use siri shortcuts to make a spammer.
like send 100 messages for every recieved message
here is a easy to use spammer i found on github (not tried)
https://github.com/gaultierlecaillon/whatsapp_spammer
edit: added link to github repo
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These days it is very politically incorrect to say that someone is 10X. The LinkedIn is full of profiles with people whose job titles with words like “leader”, “mentor”, “coach”, “team player”. The only thing that is usually missing in their resume is ability to write code or do things that requires actual technical skills. These people eventually show up as your CTOs, architects and they want their people to be team player, mentor, coach, leader - everything other than actual technical work. These types usually hate the concept of 10x devs and deny their existence. I think they have successfully relabeled 10x devs as “brilliant jerks” and “social assholes”. We sometime forget that our industry in not made by these so called LinkedIn mentors, coaches and leaders but likes of Steve Wozniak, Brenden Eich and Ken Thompson.