skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone to whom the name E.M.Forster does not ring a bell, he's more well known for "A Room with a View" and "A Passage to India".[1]

He also wrote another short story which I consider to be even better than The Machine Stops. It's called The Other Side of the Hedge[2], and while it's not as prescient it's one of my favorite short stories and I would highly recommend it to everyone.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster

[2] - http://www.101bananas.com/library2/otherside.html
first sentence gotta typo? "BitBounce is an email paywall that blocks spam and lets you get paid to receive marketing emails from businesses who what to reach you."
R.I.P. Aaron Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
File under "estate planning actually matters."
You can absolutely beat people in greenfield projects with experience; choosing and designing business data structures optimally so that not a lot has to be refactored.

I don't really buy into the idea of attributing "x speed" to a developer, the idea is trying to oversimplify what is really a function of experience in- and the complexity of current task
>...but what could prevent this sort of thing?

If it's on Windows, probably the digital signature[0] of the installer bundle will flag for invalid/unknown signature. For nix you could verify checksums but for Apple, if it's not in the store, I think it's nigh* impossible to do.

[0] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/packaging/sign-...
"The algorithm was originally attributed to John Carmack, but an investigation showed that the code had deeper roots in both the hardware and software side of computer graphics."
The very same reason why your eyes are aging is the reason why you should not use spaces at all, but tabs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c8drjo/nobody_t...

Discussed:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341354

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20381027
For most people the four biggest categories of carbon emission are the stuff they buy, heating their house, car emissions, and jet flights. A newspaper falls into the first category but it's a pretty small fraction of it.
So does Nuxt.js (for Vue).
I don't see the issue as the statement is not targeted at any single person, just a generalization.
Sure. As long as code generators that parse adhoc type descriptions from header comments and spit out code for a homegrown object oriented system / generic data serialization framework are banned on sight.

Or most code generators in general. If you are using a code generator to bring features from other languages to C then just use those other languages.
Interesting service!
I'll try it
"you guys are all idiots"

vs

"I don't think this is a good idea. I still think xyz is a more optimal solution".
And a lot of it is experience knowing what to build in or what hooks to set up so that when the obviously missed requirement gets added right at the end its trivial to add.
Isn't portmanteau French as well?
I’m not sure I agree with the sliding scale penaliziation. If flights cost a lot, they should just cost a lot. Penalizing people who use it more does nothing to alleviate the gap between the haves and have nots at the individual level, but really exacerbates the issue of medium sized companies breaking into the international scene and further widens the gap that currently exists.
Data breach affects Sprint’s customer accounts
ColdFusion and ActionScript
"Since Googlebot executes Javascript, this allows an attacker to craft XSS URLs that can manipulate the content of victim sites."

In some imaginary future with ubiquitous headless browser-based bots, having Javascript disabled might actually be a good test for "Are you human?"
Unless the jerk part is extreme, this is totally inappropriate. Extreme brilliant jerks are rare in my experience. Funny/tolerable brilliant jerks are the norm in jerk world.

This is babysitting of adult people.

Any kid must tolerate/live-with way more insulting behavior every freaking day without anything in return like regular pocket money.

Somebody think your code is shitty, you smell funny, you have weird glasses, you talk to quite, wow, lets immediately make a drama.

World of adults has become inferior to the world of kids.
Tech Unemployment Hits a 19-Year Low
Big difference between a four and a 12 year old.
Because what a "10x developer" (i would just call them pragmatic, personally) might call a shitty solution is still better than what you may call a well designed testable solution?

Not everything needs 90% test coverage and more comments than code to be good. And not everything with 90% test coverage and more comments than code is any good at all.
"That is, until they discovered that Cylance also had whitelisted certain families of executable files to avoid triggering false positives on legitimate software."

Surprised to see this way down in the article. No wonder that when they manually whitelisted false positives, researchers could just append code from those to malware and it'd rank it harmless. Isn't the proper answer to not have manual whitelisting of entire programs, but to train it better to exclude them?
I feel like it more means people who poor social skills are tolerated because they are otherwise brilliant in a given niche.
It says return flight, that probably accounts for 2x?

The figures are averages taking into account which aircraft models are typically used on flight routes, and the estimated occupancy of seats on board those planes.
Then distribute it over more than one page.
They're opening up the protocol so that any website can provide the authentication, and Mastodon already implements it: if you have an account on Mastodon, you can have an additional proof on keybase.

See the blog post and the spec that details the changes to implement: https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-proofs-for-mastodon-and-ever...

I presume a pure IM system would have to implement some web gateway at the server level.
A new design to make people want the middle seat on airplanes
Buses get stuck in traffic, unless you invest in dedicated bus lanes, and even then they inevitably have to interface with regular road traffic (and traffic jams) at some points.

Trains are faster, safer, more spacious, more comfortable and much less affected by congestion.
Half a century after Apollo, why haven’t we been back to the Moon?
The challenges of single toggle buttons
> Women entered the job market due to birth control and legal changes

Legal changes is fascinating euphemism for "not being punished for it anymore".
the original owner was able to
own the piece in the first
instance on very shaky grounds

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act [1] and Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act [2] both allow permits, issued by the Fish and Wildlife Service, for possession of the protected birds.

This is used, for example, to allow museum exhibitions and Native American religious ceremonies. There's even a special form [3] to apply for the permit!

So long as the eagle is in a museum that meets the requirements of the eagle exhibition permit, the ground seems pretty firm to me!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migratory_Bird_Treaty_Act_of_1...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_and_Golden_Eagle_Protecti...
[3] https://www.fws.gov/pacific/eagle/permit_types/exhibition_de...
My house gained $100k after I bought the house and Zillow realized it was renovated. A few other house have sold (including Zillow buying one) in my neighborhood and my house is on the high side of the average price.

It makes me wonder why the estimate gained $100k in 60 days. Once Zillow bought a house of course everything went up.
It's a matter of speech, not a concrete measurement. I'd liken the speed to a "compiled" version of the problem in your mind; if you've done it before, it's easier to apply it now, rather than to start from the beginning to understand the problem.
> The pilots' union responded with fury, branding the recorder a snooping device, and insisted "no plane would take off in Australia with Big Brother listening"

interesting I never thought this from the pilots perspective.
No fix citing "internal communication difficulties", perhaps Google could use, I don't know, some kind of tool. I too work for a huge company, and oddly enough we also have communications difficulties sometimes despite all of our tools. But we not a technology company, seems like a Google should be better at this.
This kind of reminds me of http://wdobbie.com/ since the only two posts he has are about rendering fonts directly from the bezier curve data of the font.
My impression is that these are less common in c codebases than simply abusing c++'s built-in features is in c++ one (probably cause the former actually requires a lot more tech skill than the latter).

Maybe I'm wrong?
It's not just a mathematical artifact though. Political affiliation has deep cultural significance in the US. It permeates every aspect of a person's life and affects all of their relationships. There are plenty of Americans who will demand to know what you think of the president, on first meeting you, and then decide whether or not they like you based on the answer to that single question.

You don't see this in countries with many political parties that each grab only a small piece of the pie.
My early teenage years were in the city, my later teens in the suburbs.

I hated that move to the burbs... Nothing to do except getting kicked out of the local mall or Borders. No libraries, no parks, no pools nearby... And no public transport.

When before in the city I could just take public transport and go downtown, meet my friends, go to the library, etc..

Now that I have kids, I live in a city. But it's a quiet neighborhood, and we have a yard -- that I did appreciate from the suburbs ;-)
I think it applies well to a number of affluent urban areas in the US.
Is this an actual Government program or it just uses their template (which if I remember correctly is OS)?

I like that it's pretty realistic in it's expectations. Courses that claim you can build a web app from zero in a few days are basically tell you what to do without actually having you learn anything of value.

The course itself seems to cover a lot but many of the lessons are way too fast. Going from declaring variables to event listeners without explaining what functions are and how callbacks work seems to ask a lot from a novice.
Learn a best course for your career growth
https://www.slajobs.com/data-science-training-in-chennai/
looks nice! though the focus on proprietary API-based backends (?!) is a bit puzzling? how about commiting to a git repo on the web server. Running within nextcloud?
I always thought the 10x developer was simply someone who sees the cleverer, simpler way to do it. Like in trick maths problems: software is the thing in the world that is most like math.
Setup VS Code for Efficient PHP Development
Cool service for knowledge base. I will use it.
It could be just a cloak.

They are being investigated, they are receiving fines for data misuse.

What's better way to divert attention than do something more outrageous which pulls more investigator there?
CAA isn't relevant here.

CAA is a mechanism for trustworthy CAs to agree not to issue certificates to people who don't want them.

So if you set CAA to insist you only want Comodo certificates in darkhorn.example, Let's Encrypt will refuse to issue certificates for names under darkhorn.example

But no matter how you set CAA for darkhorn.example, my private CA can issue certificates for it no problem. Let's Encrypt aren't _prevented_ from issuing, they are _declining_ to issue by policy, and that policy is part of why the world trusts them. But the world doesn't trust my private CA, so I don't have to follow that policy.
I don’t know. I don’t think it’s that bad. I don’t put together the spreadsheet from scratch. Been doing it a long time though. We start with what I had last year. I just have to fill in my numbers for each license. Then they come along and tell me I need an external connector because I’m doing this or that. I groan a little bit and pay.

They’re pretty easy because you only have to do it once a year. It drives me nuts when a vendor wants me to manage individual licenses as people are coming on board. I end up having to keep extras on hand. At least let me reconcile quarterly or something. It’s even worse when each seat has its own key.

Microsoft makes the license management and reconciliation so easy. The only negative about their licensing is they double dip with the desktop OS and CAL stuff.
You shipped hacky software very fast, and you think this is a good thing? Sounds like you got ahead personally at the expense of anyone who had to use what you wrote :/
Greece earthquake: Panic after 'strong' 5.3-magnitude tremor strikes near Athens
People need to remember that in the old days several minuets to compile was the norm and you might have to wait your turn in the queue.

I recall working in my first jobs terminal room and one of the engineers came in to login to AUWE ICL - and shaking her head after seeing 38 jobs in the queue in front of hers
>Not sure what comes after step 3

The steps 1...3 you described are literally "the demand for housing will gradually fall". What follows is, naturally, gradual lowering of the prices, with subsequent stabilization and rebirth.

Curiously enough we observe the same patterns in nature: a species out-grows its prime ecological niche; the population starts falling down (usually without outright crashing), and then stabilizes at the optimum point. The cycle repeats.

The only possible source of instability in the whole housing/population cycle would be the government trying to prop up the house prices once the price correction starts. Some people have this misbegotten idea that real estate has to be a magical kind of investment that always appreciates in value.
What is the problem with carbon? Why is there an assumption that is is causing a problem? This seems like a useless tool.
Merging is work too. The times of merges are indicators that the person did work at that time.

Obviously the methodology is limited but it does seem to work well in practice. If you have evidence that the statistics are wrong for one of the listed programmers, please do share it.
10x developers rarely write books. Those pamphlets are usually written by clueless consultants who have never produced a large working code base.

So, keep buying those books ...
I just happen to have a 80T NAS that I plan to use as a sci-hub mirror, is there a way to download it? libgen torrents are dead.
California building codes have been pretty strong for many years. Only older residences are likely to suffer catastrophic structural damage when "The Big One" hits.

Earthquake insurance is a terrible deal. Instead of paying insurance premiums, put the money toward earthquake safety retrofitting and saving an emergency fund. There will probably also be some state and federal disaster zone financial assistance.
PHP 5 has been deprecated for several years now. PHP 7.0 was released in 2015, almost five years ago. The current version is PHP 7.3.

While upgrading from PHP 5.4 or lower to 7 can be... interesting, it's not all that difficult or time-consuming. PHP 5.5 or higher to 7 is much easier.
You're also a jerk if you imply people are stupid, or don't understand, or something's beneath you, etc.
I think it's a perfectly valid analogy;

A runner is doing everything you'd be doing running, but more, and can achieve far greater speeds that you ever can.
And, simultaneously, the removal of lead from gasoline
Over the past 12 months, I have understood that:

- artificial intelligence is a vast scam,

- global warming is a massive scam,

- neo-liberalism is a vast scam,

- the wars waged by the United States are a massive scam,

- that feminists, immigrants and gays are the new proletarians of the new world order,

- that the United States is waging a war against the rest of the world with widespread indifference,

- that the banks are our new masters.
Those words can have different meanings in different contexts; one can be talking about jobs and say "I'm a journalist", and mean that they earn their income through journalistm. One can also, in a conversation about hobbies, say "I'm a programmer", and imply only that they enjoy the act of programming and do it in their free time.

I think it's dangerous to set hard requirements for such labels, specially ones like "journalist". It's not a given that journalism is considered worth protecting and, while in most western countries there's a sort of public agreement that "journalists" deserve protection, this often seems to be associated more to the word "journalist" than the act of journalism itself, and taking that label away from someone may also leave them defenseless, as they no longer "deserve" the protection of a "journalist".
Building real estate equity is essentially a form of retirement fund contribution.
I have similar feelings about Kialo. I've been experimenting with a site concept that seeks to make canonical statements (fact/value statements, policy statements, questions) that could be associated with others while avoiding the pro/con binary. After all, one man's con can often be another man's pro, depending on the underlying assumptions, and things don't always fit neatly into those categories.
How about 'don't rely on bureaucrats who create faulty fire detection, alert and communication procedures'?[0]

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/16/world/europe/...
They'd not be a 10x engineer then. The whole "x"ness is an oversimplification, which is the point of the article
How to speed up your development
Ha, or ones built this decade looks at monitor 2 and sighs audibly.
I hear this often, but I am unconvinced. This just leads to jittery pages that keep moving when I try to do something to them.

Just seeing the skeleton of the web page doesn't make it fast. The page will be unresponsive for longer and will visually stutter while rendering. It's a much worse user experience imo.
Seeking Ramanujan – Intuition as Algorithm
How does it cope with non-ASCII characters and various fonts? Suppose you had "ɡoogle.com" instead of "gooble.com" in that demo video (the first "g" is not a regular "g", but " U+0261 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G")… Browsers tend to show IDN names in the "xn--…" punycode format, but not always.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack

https://unicode.org/cldr/utility/confusables.jsp?a=google&r=...

https://ma.ttias.be/show-idn-punycode-firefox-avoid-phishing...
Now they have copyright problems in the other direction, with random companies claiming copyright over random videos and nothing to be done unless you're super-famous and can escalate the issue into the press.
Tweetdeck is lacking the built-in translation tool that's present on Twitter, though. (I just spotted that because there's a Tweet in Brazilian at the top of my timeline)
What Is Python Used For?
So what's the alternative, for asymmetrically encrypting arbitrary binary data?

For sending such data to others, the Latacora article suggest a tool that I've never heard of or heard recommended by other experts called "Magic Wormhole". It's a new tool that (from what I call tell) has a whole crapload of limitations and assumptions that PGP does not have: https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html...

One of the most severe is that it apparently requires both ends to have active internet connections to transfer the data over the wire between them. As I type this, I'm visiting my parents who have 5 Mbps internet. Let's hope that file isn't big or my contact has the time and patience to wait if it is! The other is that it apparently relies on a shared password, which just takes us back to encryption before the very problem PGP was designed to solve...

For simply "encrypting files", even Latacora gives up and says "use PGP"!!

As a side note, though I agree with them that PGP is not good for secure messaging, I don't find their alternatives convincing there either. Signal and Wire don't have solid group chat capabilities that don't rely on a single central server run by a third party and don't require private information like a phone number to use. I consider that absolutely basic for a good messenger. At least PGP, though very faulty in this area, is designed to be used over existing protocols like email to make them secure, so it doesn't have the last two limitations.
I think you can get pretty close to the comfort of JSX with plain JS, without needing a preprocessor. Local development is so much nicer without webpack, babel, source maps, ...

I've been trying trying this out [1] with a thin 300-line DOM wrapper, and works wonderfully well so far.

There are also libraries like lit-html but I prefer to construct html as an object tree, and not a string.

1: https://github.com/bwindels/brawl-chat/blob/master/src/ui/we...
Doesn't work like that though does it
I don't see a causation here, those things aren't specific to tech, and are in fact fairly common in other areas of work as well.
My experiences do confirm that there are developments which are indeed “worthless crap that never had any hope of meeting the goals much less being worth maintaining over time.“

There is a real problem of making unnecessary and long-term bad abstractions, and there is a lot of such often in the code using Boost, as an example.
Constraints and Concepts
One thing I've been considering is that facts are used to support underlying assumptions that would be useful if coaxed out. Facts aren't arguments, they're neutral things that people pick and choose from to shape their worldview.

If I could conclusively establish that, on average, there's a 3% chance that your house is robbed this year, some people will view that as a risk to mitigate and some won't.
> corporate root certs should be blocked / ignored by the browser in the exact same way and for the exact same reason ... technological solutions can't solve this issue 100%

Technological solutions can't solve this at all if the entire stack is controlled by the interested party.

In the case of government snooping, you (theoretically) own the end device being used for access. In the case of corporate snooping, you're using corporate owned and managed devices. There is absolutely no technological solution that exists that will prevent another person from building software for (or selling to) corporations who need to snoop on their employees. Considering the selling price of appliances that perform these services (e.g. Bluecoat's range), the cost of a browser is negligible in comparison.

I don't think it's fair to conflate a lack of privacy on corporate owned devices with a lack of privacy on your own personal devices.
It kind of does if this turns into a trend that caches on in the industry.
This is so true, because people that are really good at something usually hold themselves to incredibly high standards (which is one of the main reasons they become master craftsmen in the first place).
jet: a CLI to transform JSON into EDN into Transit and vice versa
If there was minimal code and a lot of the dependencies were unmodified forks of common things, the GP here is likely of the opinion that he should have started ripping the wiring out and replacing it with something that works.
> “reading the sensor” noise

"dark current"?
The key word here is "solution." If your code is supposed to do a job, and for whatever reason it's not doing that job, then you do not have a solution.

Code that doesn't do the job is worthless, no matter how testable and well-designed it is.

Of course you can debate whether this is a management (scheduling, resource, PM) problem or a developer (competence, architecture, tool choice) problem - most likely some of both.

But whoever is responsible, it's still a non-solution.
ADUs in California aren't really sheds. They are still subject to the residential building code.
> There are plenty of Americans who will demand to know what you think of the president, on first meeting you, and then decide whether or not they like you based on the answer to that single question.

This is a relatively new phenomenon that will hopefully not be around for long.