skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it was, but it got converted to a normal purchase.

The funnier part is that they (Diageo, the owners of Guiness) discussed moving out of the original brewery and the people got so angry that Diageo realized they had to keep it open.
As I said, there is no reason to extend tax to personal property. If poor people owns something valuable, they stop being poor when wealthy people take it.

The distinction between personal property or personal possessions and private property is important to make and the line must be drawn.
Yeah, this is silly. Elsevier and the like should be burned down for crimes against humanity. I mean, it generally is illegal to price gouge during famines.
An article talking about investing in crypto that doesn't even mention the concerns around Tether, is one to be a little careful of...

Even if you come to the conclusion that all is fine with a "stablecoin" that's not 1:1 backed with the USD and has printed almost $2billion of new Tethers since April this year (whilst under investigation by the NYAG), you should at least mention that as a risk (IMHO).
i live in berlin and visit a zoo of some kind (there are many) with my kids almost every week (some weeks multiple times).
Why would they want to buy your frying pan? Is the value you've given it very low, making it cheaper to buy yours than another one? Is there a shortage of frying pans, increasing the value of yours?
I'm colourblind (protanopia I believe), the context colouring doesn't appear to work for me.

I can use syntax highlighting to snap eyes to the correct pattern I'm looking for, I can't really discern the value in large coloured blocks of text though. I can already work out what part of code that is by the rough shape of the block before I even start reading it, why would you need to colour it in?
>a non-GC toolchain could still be used for short-lived programs (such as command line tools)

Or missile firmware: https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ad...
I have maybe seen two people I would characterise as what other people might call a 10x developer.

One of those 10x was truly someone who was worth 10 developers (at least!) given that not only was he capable of holding the entire business in his head, but he could also mentor and bring people together. At crunchtime he could also shield the rest of the team by churning out features at triple speed while still keeping them in a mostly maintainable fashion. He brought the best out in everyone.

The other 10x was a silo of knowledge, was terrible at mentoring and wrote code which was neither readable nor high quality. That said, he was unmatched in his ability to ship and solve problems in distal regions of the codebase. In my evaluation of him, although he was 10x more productive than everyone else, I can't help but wonder how much less productive everyone was around him (and the team was larger than 10!).

So tl;dr YMMV. They definitely exist, when they work right then probably can set up systems/organizations that can scale around them and generate tonnes of value. When they're egotistical/insecure vampires, their global value will be questionable but they will definitely look good relative to everyone else!

I think moral of the story is don't hire assholes...
You can argue against things without pissing people off in the process. Remember, at the end of the day you're at Atlassian and not a medical company, no one is going to die because of your decisions.
Seems like this guys used some kind of upvote nexus and got on frontpage.

Basic info on how to buy crytpo with clicky title!
Did you understand the tax deduction part?

You can set the number so that if poor person must pay tax, he actually is moderately wealthy.
QA doesn't seem like a specialty occupation. We had over 100 QAs in our department with a degree from community college and others for-profit. Some with work experience and no degree.
Nobody ever got fired for choosing Jira and Confluence. It seems rather inconsequential which people Atlassian chooses to employ at this point.
Let me tell you about one of my personal stories.

The project I got transferred to was the thing of nightmares.

Not deterred, I hacked into it a shitty solution and shipped it very fast. I shipped it so fast that suddenly I had everyone's attention. And I shipped another thing super fast and got more attention. One day, I said "this needs to go", and everybody listened, architects and directors alike. 6 months later, most of the code was replaced by my code or something originating from it. Every projects and features delivered on time with great appreciation of the clients.

You have to make it like software development is not a problem at all in the eye of your client and never never go behind the line where this is not true. The day software development is a problem, you lose. You must deliver software like you're delivering a book from amazon, no matter what. Because then, you got credit to make things better, which creates a positive loop. In that particular instance, I used some rushed victories to get more credits to make things clean later on. The guys who say they can make things clean but never ship and never win any battle against a deadline are just funny anyway.

To be honest, I took some fights in my career. I was fighting some dudes in every project. But don't fool yourself: if you're not really capable of making things better, then fighting is useless, just improve. You win the fights because the managers are on your side and you get them on your side by making software development not a problem at all.

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New programmers on a team eventually affect the quality of the code as they work, and thus the project conditions. Project conditions can also include how easy it is to work with others on your team, which depends both on the new dev and the existing team. So that definition misses a lot.
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I'm using www.websitepulse.com for that stuff
I've listened to all but the last 20 minutes of the podcast now. Thiel I find interesting and his ideas provocative even when I don't agree with him on some points. Weinstein I didn't find very interesting at all. He appears (at least in this interview) to just be trading on his association with Thiel. I have also previously found his labeling of 'the intellectual dark web' pretentious and the composition of the group suspect, including charlatans (to use Taleb's word) such as Pinker, Harris, Shermer, Peterson and Molyneux. I won't be listening to future episodes; Thiel was the attraction here.
Mo Servers Mo Problems... seriously, we need to be careful of what we dream of.
Yes and still, the idea of taxing sentimental value feels as absurd as tax on level of life satisfaction or something similar.
Almost all laws have exceptions for personal property and housing that is occupied. Automatic tax deduction takes car of the rest.
If they stick to it, it could be helpful in hiring as well. They need reverse inquiry from really smart kids (and it is mainly kids in all likelihood) who were not the standard candidate from years past.
I wouldn’t even trust the government with this ability. Also what will the government do with these assets? Hoard them forever? Or eventually sell them back into the market. I can imagine govt employees receiving kick backs for seizing assets this way and selling them to their friend.
This is quite a common approach in consulting companies too. It's not unique to FB.
Thank you for this tip (it worked). It looks like this is actually a Visa policy.

From their terms:

"For a recurring transaction, both:
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- Provide notification to the card holder at least 7 working day before a recurring transaction if any of the following is true:
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- More than 6 months have elapsed since the previous Recurring activity"
They see you have a good pan and want one that's the same. Buying yours is less effort than going to the shops and faster than ordering one.

Obviously social decorum would usually prevent this scenario, but the fear of possibility remains.
If the definition of a 10x developer is 10x more productive than the least productive member of the team, then I’m at least a 10x engineer.

We had a story to build a relatively simple go web server and deploy it to kubernetes one of my teammates got it, and basically got no where with it for a couple of days so I thought I’d get it started for him.

I got a basic hello world server set up and deployed along with a ‘ko’ setup so he could do hot rebuilds and deploys with a keypress.

I sent him the git repo and instructions for how to get it working.

While I was waiting for him to get it working, I was kind of in a groove so I kept adding features from the story.

By the time he got it compiled (with me coming over and just walking him through everything because he couldn’t follow the same docs I used to get started), it was already 90% finished.

If I had waited for him, he’d still be working on it for another 2 weeks at least.

It’s not that I’m a genius or he’s an idiot, he’s just fairly new on the team and I built our whole stack from scratch more or less and know it like the back of my hand.
I think the person you’re replying to means a GC that needs headroom, not a GC like Python’s which generally doesn’t.
I think the parent actually meant "debate", which to me as a fellow European also seems to be a very American thing.

I don't think that debating and abstract logic are very related fields.
There is also such a thing as a team which validates its performance only on test coverage, documentation coverage, endless pedantic code review and adherence to strict architectural standards, but manages to produce little to no real-world value.
Maybe you're only aware of these beasts because their codebases need disproportionately more maintenance? Please say yes. :-)
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The good thing is, once again, people talk about privacy.

I really hope people go on the streets.
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“If poor people owns something valuable, they stop being poor when wealthy people take it”

Only if you accept the money given makes up for the loss. Money does not make someone rich. It may put bread on the table but that poor person is still poor because they lost what was important to them.

Also the rich don’t get rich by paying more than they have to, which may not be what the property is worth to the original owner.
I wonder what 'brilliant jerk' means? For me the worst kind of jerk is a 'fool with authority'.

I'd much rather work under a brilliant jerk than a hypocritical fool.
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> If poor people owns something valuable, they stop being poor when wealthy people take it.

if you owned some land which could've been mined/fracked upon, then it might make economic sense for said company to purchase your land. You'd have to either pay an above average tax rate to justify holding on to the land, or be forced to sell it.

On the one hand, it does make economic utilitarian sense. On the other hand, it prevents people from being able to control their own property. Esp. if they have no funds to fight or defend themselves.
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"The 9,000 year lease signed in 1759 was for a four-acre brewery site. Today, the brewery has expanded to cover over 50 acres. The 1759 lease is no longer valid as the company purchased the lands outright many years ago. So don't worry, we're not planning on going anywhere."

https://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/faq
You can't invest into crypto. You can only speculate with it.
Nice, I think that would be even better.
> I'd much rather work under a brilliant jerk than a hypocritical fool.

Good news: There are people who are neither. I prefer to work for competent non-jerks. A team of good people will always outperform a brilliant jerk that drives everyone else away.
A corrolory to Hanlon's razor suggests that never attribute to intelligence that which can adaquetely be explained by stupidity.

He's probably in an audience for targeting, and the audience is presumably only updated every so often.
That reminds me of the rules of Swedish folkrace (a sort of amateur rally). You can put as much value as you want into your car, but after the races anyone can buy it off you for 8000 SEK. That way the bar of entry is kept low and the odds are evened out.
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Everything you said is true, but I didn't make up the definition :) This term was coined many years ago to highlight one simple idea.

That you can hire someone tomorrow that would have 10x the output of the average hire. Basically that such people exist.

Cross team productivity, and inter team dynamics are very interesting topics, perhaps more interesting, but this label for this topic is pretty clearly defined.
It seems like this is material movement toward actual authoritarianism to me.
Oh! I should’ve known it was all stored in the registry. As you say, this is Windows after all. Found some MS docs that look relevant: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/seccrypto/sys...
I am not saying you are wrong, but could it also be:

1. the person had been there the longest, and had the most context on the code base.

2. There was very little docs on the code base, so new people had to go to them.

3. This person would just do the feature instead of helping the other person implement the feature, and ensure their position as "top feature churner"

If these are true, they may be 10x of the others on the team, but they are holding the team back by not dropping themselves to 4x and lifting up the other team members to 2x.
So, a person with an Asian name apparently has enough power to change a "system created by white men".

Where is the all powerful patriarchy shutting this person down?

What has this bureaucrat created apart from grabbing power?
The term "journalist" is no more subjective than "author" (literature) or "programmer". As with many things, the line is normally drawn where people start to making (wholly or partyly) a living from the activity or not, i.e. whether they are professionals.
My old boss was Korean and he told me about those protests. He was a college student at the time and often waxes poetically about how easy college was back then and he'd just skip it all the time to go in the street and protest. Then he got super rich from the new government. It's probably a little bit of both, maybe don't get so irrationally upset over HN comments. He's not calling the south koreans pigs. Americans are the same way, we ignore government abuses because our lives in general are comfortable enough we simply don't care much more than to comment about it on the internet.
>> Good news: There are people who are neither.

True, but from my experience, companies are shockingly terrible at identifying and promoting those. Instead, they tend to promote the foolish but politically correct loud mouths.

High intelligence which is unrewarded tends to leave signs of trauma in a person. So they might seem like greedy selfish jerks, but in fact, they're frustrated for good reasons and we should listen to them and tolerate their harsh but accurate views about reality.

Jerks are fine so long as they're not afraid to criticize you to your face and give you a chance to improve. Not all jerks are sociopaths. For example, Linus Torvalds has described himself as a jerk - I'd be honored to work for such person. Altruism is about actions, not about choice of words or tone of speech.
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The opposite side of this particular spectrum is Microsoft in 00's, where it was very clear to everyone that fixed sized pie is being divvided up, and people would wait for the smallest missteps by their peers, and CC their manager, and their manager's manager to make sure they know someone fucked up and their rating is lower at review time. Since there was a curve, one's own rating could then be higher, assuming they don't screw up likewise. Whether you're helping others didn't matter one iota.

Personally, I prefer peer reviews, even though they do often lead to likeable no-ops being promoted, and introverts being passed over for a promotion.

At least in "peer review" companies I never felt like my peers are trying to stab me in the back all the time.
A city has 100 homes. Local homeowners vote against any new construction to preserve taxpayer-funded parking welfare (aka neighborhood character)

This means that house prices are a race to the top so to speak. You're always competing with your neighbors.

The first thing you do is have both of them work (this happened ~4 decades ago). Even if you don't want to, you have to, because your neighbors are doing it and they're your competition in the home hunt.

The second thing you do is live together with other unrelated adults to save money on rent (hey, housing is scarce for some dumb reason, after all).

The third thing you do is decide not to have kids, because after all, the 2+ bed flats are full of adult professionals sharing them. You can't possibly outbid them!

Meanwhile, the few extremely well-paid people are able to pay for the nice homes that were built before the housing cartels took over. Everyone else is screwed. They can move to the country, but jobs are scarce and crappy <massive generalization of course>.

Not sure what comes after step 3. Maybe we could trying building a flat or two?
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Inefficient but legible collection of machine learning algorithms in NumPy
The amount they would have to value it at so they could afford the tax if they have to pay it may too low to turn them into a wealthy person if a wealthy person chooses to buy it.
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1. Please stop self-generalizing. This only leads to hopelessness, which is unwarrented since there's a huge amount of Internet-related activism in India, even more than the Western countries.

2. Plese stop using the label "Third-world". You are your own "first-world". There's better labels to describe yourself, namely "developing".
I really don't get your point. How does this help this guy's situation?

He couldn't get things released quickly because he couldn't even get the program compilied without serious effort involved.
I agree with this. Showing results is the easiest way to influence people, especially when it comes to software devs and management.

As a manager, I'm more inclined to trust someone who's delivered results even in challenging codebases. It's human.
Online. And there is a bunch of intranet stuff deployed on it and accessed through hosts file on employee's machines.
HN has an unhealthy slant towards giving more consideration toward rich people's problems, such as this.

Also, per the guidelines, an HN submission should be something that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". An edge case in US taxation that could affect only those wealthy enough to have an art collection doesn't really fit that definition.
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If those things are required for his role and he's not doing it, then he's not a 10x developer. There's some issues with your management.

Also, just because someone has good performance doesn't mean he's an insufferable idiot. In fact, those kinds of snarky replies about 10x devs here are way more toxic than anything claimed by them.
Australians tend to be very susceptible to sub-conscious application of the nations "tall poppy syndrome" cultural effect.

To me, this story just indicates that Atlassian is trying to be as "Australian" a company as it can be.

However, I may just be a small poppy in this thought. I'm willing to entertain the idea that I'm critical of Atlassian for their tall-poppy ideology simply because I am in fact a white male, however ..
The problem, of course, is that in America a driver will kill your four year old, and it will somehow be your fault for letting your kid walk to the metro station.
Have you considered actually teaching and paring that developer for a few weeks?

You know have another capable engineer. That's real 10x.

Your solution of just doing it by yourself is a short term boost.
Yeah it is hard. The enforcement would need to be done on a single backend. Not all users need to have their auth done by the same specific backend, but each user individually should always have their auth go to the same backend (or same concurrency domain, if distributed locking applies to the architecture).
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You seem to be describing countryside, not the sea of free standing houses and small gardens most people associate with the word "suburb".
This story is basically about a 10x coder and architect which acheives his 10x by belittling others by means of architecture astronauting and personal job security.
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"trust someone who's delivered results even in challenging codebases"

Yes but comparing a guy's productivity when he is demonstrating how difficult the environment is to make progress is poor management. He has already shown the results in previous project.
There's also the trait system, which although isn't unique in Rust, has many advantages over the inheritance-based class system that languages such as C++/Nim/etc uses. Rust's trait system can be both used for static and dynamic polymorphism seamlessly (basically, impl T vs. dyn T). But in C++, you need different systems for doing so: templates (via hacks such as CRTP/SFINAE, or concepts in C++20) vs. virtual/override. Note that Go has interfaces which is the closest thing to traits, but only allows for dynamic polymorphism (because Go doesn't have generics yet... it seems like it's going down a similar path to C++20's concepts)
By that logic we should emulate the reasons the moon has fewer people using drugs.
Right, goals are different, timescales are different, measures of success are different.
I inherited a similarly Kafkaesque codebase where I work now and yes, iteration on features went down dramatically from previous workplace.

It's just so difficult to do anything without something completely unrelated breaking.

Enough that I have considered simply leaving.
Many of those places are either feel good hyped up "concept investments" or fascist hellholes where you're monitored and nudged to behave one way.

I'd rather live in a low tech "stupid" town without government surveillance that is actually sustainable (and doesn't depend on various government programs, tax breaks and similar handouts).
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Both you and OP are right. May be the codebase you went in could be salvaged. Not true for OP where he has to prepare for a big launch.
Yes, but they go together as a package, you can't separate it out, you have got something in return for that debt. Most (all?) assets have liabilities attached, that gold bar has warehousing and insurance costs, that diamond mine has employees that want paying. It isn't reasonable to argue that they have negative value, because you're ignoring the positive value that comes with it.
Not really. Until MTA-STS is deployed in “hard fail” mode by almost everybody it doesn’t matter.

Similarly, SPF/DKIM did not solve spam because nobody was willing to really drop incoming mail with bad or missing signatures.

Email is an “ossified” protocol. It should fade away, and be replaced with something else modern and secure like a “federated Signal”.

If that something else allows anyone to send to anyone without permission, it too will be killed by spam.
Yes I am aware of these technologies, and it's basically what I mean, in an abstract way
I knew people who had worked at a company where it was pretty standard for people to leave their "360 reviews" in tears as extreme levels of self-criticism were expected. Their company culture apparently encouraged this level save "radical honesty".
Agree that your health becomes the highest priority as you realise that your family depends on you.