skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the article, but I also think it leaves out something fairly important, which is minimizing huge time sinks. Instead of being 10x better, how can you reduce wasted time 10x?

I remember working with this one guy that was light years smarter than me, but if you watched him use the IDE it was painful. He did everything in the menus, slowly. How much of his life could he have back from memorizing f5 and a couple other shortcuts?

Maybe you could reduce waste in various ways:

* Learn keyboard shortcuts instead of pecking through menus

* Use search instead of browsing (especially with keyboard shortcuts!)

* Have you ever lost half a day debugging something that turned out to be dumb? (I have!) Is there a way to modify your coding style or your testing habits so you never hit that again?

* Do you know your stack well enough that (given the time) you could reimplement the same ideas yourself? (Or is it a magic box that you can't debug? How much time and effort do you spend prodding the magic box?)

* Have you automated all the manual things you currently do?

* Are you wasting a lot of time dealing with bad abstractions when something much more basic would suffice?

* Are you mastering your tools/languages/frameworks, or are you switching around so often that you spend a lot of time looking things up?

* Do you have input into how your tasks are written, or are you stuck with whatever breakdown someone else came up with? Is your work getting awkwardly twisted to fit into these milestones? Can you work out a better system with your leads?

That's the tip of the ice berg -- I think if you look at almost anything you do, you can generally find some aspect of it that's cumbersome and wasting your time. I feel like when you account for wasted effort/time, and removing it, becoming "10x" starts to seem a lot more reasonable -- it's not about being a genius, it's about being introspective and careful about how you perform your work. It saddens me to say this, but I think that sort of introspection is rare. I see so many programmers doing uncomfortable awkward things every day, because it's only like 10 extra seconds, except those 10 seconds times 20 times a day times a year and now that cost is out of control
She’s neither the first woman nor the first black but she is the first black woman mayor of San Francisco
It's sad how Netlify feels the need to shill their service when others are launching their product - like you have done with this account.
That’s not true. Panasonic disagreed with you in their latest earnings call. They’re ramping up for more production. I think Elon has stated they can ramp up 30-50% with the existing space.
What is the end game here? I can't figure out if they want to cripple Huawei, which seems unlikely to succeed, or if this is some sort of negotiatong tactic as part of some bigger geopolitical game.
The max run length for a display port cable is much, much shorter than HDMI.
I don't think that is unfair. It’s perfectly acceptable to be a 3x developer.

What bothers me is the people that are happy to be a <1 developer. Or even a <0 developer, whose benefit to the team is net negative.
To be clear, I'm not actually saying this is all the fine. I think there are discussions to be had about the obviously worldwide impact. However, the point that I'm making was that "nobody but SpaceX has any say in what happens" is not true.

Certainly people can complain that current international treaties, federal regulations and so on aren't sufficient, that the decisions reached by regulatory bodies were incorrect, or ill informed, etc. But first they should be aware those decisions existed and did take into account input from a variety of sources, and it's not just 'if you can get it to space, do whatever you want'.
10x is also about quality. Not raw output. A lot of times the really fast devs are fast because they don't stop to consider how they can do things in a fundamentally much better way, they just churn out the status quo as fast as possible. Those type are not 10x.
Your earlier comment seemed to suggest that astronomers should just put their telescopes in space. There are telescopes that simply cannot be put in space with current technology. Even for those that could theoretically be designed to be put in space, we're talking about increasing the cost of doing astronomy by orders of magnitude.

At the moment, the vast majority of telescopes are on Earth. There is a role for space telescopes, but the total number of them could be counted on a few hands. Space telescopes are an extremely precious and limited resource, used basically only for things that absolutely cannot be done from Earth.

We can sit here and dream about building 30-meter telescopes in space some day, but that day is a very long way off. My guess is that even far in the future, if you're given X amount of money to invest in astronomy, you will still want to invest a large percentage of it in ground-based telescopes, because your money goes a lot father on the ground for most problems.

> a single 30m element isn't necessarily the only way to get very large telescopes.

No existing or planned telescope uses a single 30-meter element. I think the largest primary mirror is 12m. All the planned 30-meter-class telescopes are segmented.
Oh no, these other programmers get the task done but they use 10x the amount of code to do it and nobody can figure it out. It mostly works too, except on Tuesday's when it's raining.
Both. It’s meant to be punitive for past transgressions related to trade (which is a complex issue beyond the scale of a single thread) and send a message for future interactions.
Won't this just cause them to set up their independent supply chain?

As I understand things, part of the reason for encouraging international trade (esp. post-WW2) was/is to tie different countries together so that it would disincentivize conflict between them.
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> In my experience, most people are not interested in sifting through mountains of garbage just to pick out a few morsels of a decent conversation.

If that was true, HN would be infinitely more popular than reddit.

> If you let trolls and bad-faith actors persist on your site, soon those people will be the only folks who are left.

No. If you let users block trolls and bad-faith actors, they go away.

Once again, if you were right, twitter, reddit, facebook, etc wouldn't have grown to what they are today.
The US wants to stop a Chinese company buying chips from a Taiwanese company?

The problem the US has is that it has blatantly conflated national security with economic interest. Now we've got no idea whether Huawei is a genuine threat or whether America would just prefer you buy American. The UK was a great example - even one of the US's closest allies isn't excluding Huawei from 5G infrastructure.

If there was actually a clear national security threat and the US was acting reasonably, its allies would be backing it and we might actually see a unified resistance to potential Chinese espionage. Instead the world is pretty much unified in seeing this as another one of Donald Trump's fantastic negotiating ploys where he alienates all his allies, sacrifices key objectives needlessly and then claims victory anyway.
The one example is not a pattern, but I'm not familiar with all such moves by Google to know if there are others, but I freely admit there may not be. It is, however, an existence proof to show the possibility, which is enough to engender skepticism when choosing them as a vendor.

In my experience Apple is more considerate in such matters. They tend to API end of life with more lead time, barring some issue that has to be changed more abruptly either due to abuse, security, or bugs, which is not unreasonable. But even they don't approach the level of support guaranteed for traditional Enterpris software though, and Microsoft mostly fits that category. Sure they end support, but it's telegraphed years in advance. In large scale enterprise systems like ERP, a 10 year roadmap of product support and 3 year roadmap of features is pretty much standard. Albeit the products themselves are hardly best of breed, but there is a lot to be said for guaranteed stability of infrastructure, capabilities, and support, especially when you can bolt on your own custom needs (of course at additional expenses though.) Enterprise has these benefits, but you pay an extraordinarily high premium for that.

Also, special agreements with them (provided you're willing to pay even more) are often available to continue support even beyond the EOL of those Enterprise offerings. (My workplace had to do so for a major system for 3 years (it was a 40 year old system) due to delays in upgrades to the newer offering.

Sure it's unfair to expect Google to keep money losing products, but I think if they ate the cost to keep these sorts of things going a little longer for more graceful exits, they'd engender more consumer confidence and gain more in the long term.
I think one reason this might be the case is because modern cloud-computing makes scaling a single centralized service super easy and straightforward.

In the early 2000s if you wanted to build something "at scale", the only real way forward (besides raising tons of money upfront) was to build a decentralized protocol. Offload most of the compute, bandwidth and storage to the end nodes.

Nowadays, you can just an AWS auto-scaling group behind a load-balancer and a CDN, and you can pretty much handle infinite traffic.
That’s a good question. Presumably you could draw some line to distinguish between small communities and enormous ones (tens of millions of monthly active users, for example), or distinguish between social media and forums.
Team sports is a terrible analogy. Like someone else mentioned, software is about leverage. There is no leverage in team sports.
reStructuredText handles this sort of thing well with its line blocks: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtex...
Moderately-good is not genius.

Part of being great at something includes an ability to abstract out common difficulties, which helps other people to understand (even when you are not that great at explaining).

I'm not aware that I've ever met a genius who was working on completely different principles to other people - everyone reaches the same difficulties and has to find a way to resolve those.
What are they going to threaten TSMC with? Banning it's products? So you kill the smartphone and most of the SoC industry in one fell swoop?

TSMC has way more bargaining power than Huawei. The US won't be able to bully it around that easily. They could easily find enough buyers for their wafers in Asia and Europe.

Any tarif would be directly passed onto TSMC's clients too, so it'd be straight up taxing 80% of the things that have silicon in them. I don't see what leverage the US govt has on an entity with as much global relevance and few competitors as TSMC.
Save a couple hundred bucks and buy it from Dell.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-ultrasharp-32-8k-m...
Awesome, now I'd love to be able to run (via emulator) a NeWS (Network extensible Window System) (networked display postscript) workstation... Google searches have turned up nothing...
How did you setup your menu bar? I can't find something that can replicate the i3bar/polybar experience, and I don't like having the native mac menu bar as it is hard to see the desktop I currently am on.
Did you miss a "not" there or are you saying deplatforming should be a requirement?
The objective is to make wealth, not money.
Then we find that all these photos are stock photos from the depths of FBI labs and none of the photographs show an actual slug collected from a crime scene.
No idea if its "the same guy", but this is a link to an interview with the UN special rapporteur on torture about his investigation into Assange.
The stars align for AR to go mainstream
Or (more likely) because they are not allowed to by policy.
The only advanced semiconductor foundries are TSMC and Samsung; if Huawei was locked out of both they would be stuck with inferior technology.
Governments aren’t homogeneous. In the US there’s plenty of energy (especially among conservatives) to restrict social media giants’ right to censor, at least with respect to political censorship.
A comment below explained that we don’t have the technical capabilities to launch a 30 meters diameter telescope in orbit. And we’ll probably not have that capability in 10 years either. The extremely large telescope being build in the Atacama desert is almost 40 meters in diameter.

Sure maybe it can be fun for a third grader to look into images made for them by a cheep satellite telescope, but professional astronomers will continue to need the larger telescopes that remain technologically impossible to lunch into space for the next decade, or few.
> There was an error

When I get these kinds of messages I just want to strangle the person on the other end.

Cool, an error. What did you do to try and fix it? Or was your first step to contact me?! (hint: it is)
I can recommend that.
>be careful here as a 2016 USB-C MacBook Pro 15” doesn’t support 4K 60Hz over HDMI

Yes it does. I use it every day. Might be your adapter.
One example of the above is PyKwiki: https://github.com/nullism/pykwiki
Social media is a bit different than, say, the phone system, in its ability to widely broadcast things.

It's different from traditional publishers in that there are orders of magnitude more 'publishers', rather than, say, a newspaper and a few TV stations per city.

It's a tricky problem.
I remotely occasionally support a bunch of farmers with fleets of raspberry pi, arduino and psoc. Those guys probably directly look after more computers than a lot of webguys. Writing C/python seems the most common.
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Thanks for the share, Stickk looks interesting. Stayfocusd + Stickk, with cross-platform usage tracking, would be the holy grail. Another thing to note is that Stickk has a lot of user complaints, so there’s a lot of room for competition if they don’t iron out the kinks.
Tesla Semis Are Cheaper Than Rail Enough of the Time to Reshape Ground Freight
Seems like one could craft policy that treats social media giants differently than relatively small forums, no?
Came across this by accident and thought it was an interesting approach to to high level modern C++ guidelines.

Fairly approachable even to myself with limited knowledge of the language.
Relatively low-moderation? Half of the boards ban for political discussion in its entirety.
> Assange is an asshole.

The smear campaign continues to be successful even in people who consciously know it was all lies.

The human psyche is pretty "amazing".
Another reason to use DuckDuckGo...
In software, one more-or-less generally-accepted result is that, when you fix a big, the probability of introducing new bug is somewhere between 20 and 50%. One would hope that it's much less for critical software, but it's not zero.

In the same way, what's the probability of introducing a new defect when replacing the wiring harnesses? It's not zero. It's never zero.

So the answer to "should we fix this issue?" is not "yes, of course". It's "will the fix make things better, or worse?" And of course, you don't know with certainty, but you make your best estimate of the probability of the new problem being worse than the old, and then you decide.

So even if "eliminating risks to the best of our ability" is in fact the right goal, that doesn't always equate to "eliminate this risk", even if we can do so.

> I don't like the idea of manufacturers policing themselves.

Here I agree with you completely. We've seen that movie; let's not watch it again.
Platforms would need to allow themselves to be DDOS... Not gonna happen. It won't stop alt-right talking heads with no clue about the world to promote their "platform/publisher" agenda.
Isn't it Go?
But I'm already logged in...
I'm not running the latest os.

On my displays I could only get the list of resolutions for my monitor, even holding down alt with preferences.

Meanwhile apple displays showed this dialog:

https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...

Maybe the latest OS allows it?
That doesn’t sound too different from many prisons. Is it not detention if it’s “easy” to escape?
If you think 10x programmers are merely more efficient and writing code, you're wrong. A 10x programmer produces 10x less code to solve the problem which is why they're 10x faster at it and the quality if higher.

Some of this advice is good but actually being speedy is not necessary.
My LG is a little over 4 years old (an LG 27MU67, sadly no longer produced), and the only complaint I have with it is that the capacitive buttons are difficult to use by feel. If I could get another monitor that's exactly the same, I'd do it in an instant.
Clickcease has an incentive to prevent this, as it's their entire business model. Google has an incentive to let it happen, because it makes them more money by forcing people to keep outbidding each other. As long as Google ads are so ubiquitous that it isn't very feasible to just stop using them, then Google has no reason to stop this abuse.
And even bring your config with you: https://github.com/caddyserver/nginx-adapter
Google's invalid click contact form that Krebs links to says:

> Please keep in mind that it's your responsibility to prevent invalid activity from occurring in your account, and this form does not absolve you of that responsibility.

How is some random lay person running a wordpress site going to know how to prevent invalid activity when anyone could do this to them? I hate that corporate speak too about they can't comment and how they have tools, without addressing the concern people have. I resent how much power Google and Facebook have over small businesses that have an online presence. I hope the Justice Department takes a real good look at all this bullshit and breaks these giant, powerful companies up so that we end up with small companies, that care about their customers.
I don't.

But I also don't like Facebook's forced news.

Reddit is decent as long as the subreddit isn't big enough to be astroturfed... But big companies can do searches...

This place is probably the worst out of the social networks I use for censorship.

Snapchat is good
We've also been using S3 + Cloudfront for our static website, it's super cheap and has been low touch.

We've run into two things though:

- We have very little control over TLS versions and cipher settings.

- We have to use a CNAME so we can't point a bare domain at it which also means we can't add our site to the HSTS preload list (I think there is a way to purchase an IP though now, if anyone knows please let me know).

Overall totally worth it though.
> Google almost certainly can, but probably has no incentive to do it for whatever reason.

This has been my conclusion several times after digging deep into some weird data and discovering one of these...'grey areas' where it seems like if they cared about their customers they'd be doing something about it, but presumably they prefer having revenue from unsophisticated ad buyers.

Some of the things they turn on by default are straight up rackets, "Search Partners" for example. Companies like ask.com are arbitraging keyword traffic by buying ads to their own search results pages. These are "Search Partners" that show the ads you're paying Google for, but they're full of dark patterns to make you click the ads, and cost the same as a click directly from the Google results!
Not really.

"Tell a lie enough times and people will believe it".

Sadly, that's still true. Even in people who consciously know that it was all lies. That's the human mind for ya.
Unfortunately AFAIK there aren't any decentralized platforms that are ready for mass audiences. Techs like IPFS still have a long way to go before they can be reliably used for Twitter or Facebook-sized amounts of data.
I've let go of HDMI for a while now. They work terrible on macs as they tend to render at 1x instead of 2x at 60hz, or you can run 2x at 30hz, which is super laggy.

Not a lot of people seem to be aware of that, yet it's like not wearing glasses when you actually need some.
Sorry, I should have specified that the third object is a unary operator (was thinking just print). The point is that it can execute something twice, and that differs from a proper flow-based language.

The main point is that the semantics are, shall we say, interesting.
I don't know what you're seeing but the retina scaling options don't appear on any non-Apple display I've ever used. (Unless I hack the kexts.)
With regard to the rvalue vs perfect forwarding references comment: there's actually no special syntactic difference between the two. The reason forwarding works is because in

template <typename T>
void do_thing(T&&)

T will (with an rvalue) match the actual type, whereas with an lvalue it will match a reference to the type (i.e., you're moving a reference). This is what allows something like std::forward to be in the standard library and implemented in the language itself (without accessing any compiler builtins). That's not to say what's going on there is obvious nor really easy to reason about. It's more a hack that happens to work, like much of the templating ecosystem.
Perhaps home printers are a wasteland, but the copy/printers and plotters at my work are pretty dang reliable, considering they do thousands of pages or thousands of linear feet a day sometimes.
Does "Unfounded speculation about an organized effort to deliberately mislead the public" do more justice to the subject?
It is a fair point that they didn't say it on day 1. Having said that, they've been talking about the potential for computer upgrades since at least 2017: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/9/16119746/tesla-self-drivin...

I don't have time to dig it all up, but they were talking about the potential for computer upgrades as far back as 2016 as well: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/789008557341454336 (though not for pre-2016 vehicles).

I can see where people who don't follow the company closely wouldn't have been aware of this, though. And, obviously there have been plenty of false and misleading statements made in this area.
Let's say 20-30% discount on salary and potentially a bigger equity upside than a big CO. I haven't seen startup giving out cash bonuses.
This 20min Chrome Dev video goes over the same topic
https://youtu.be/UNJrgsQXvCA
Nice article on TSMC in the Christmas edition of The Economist:

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2019/12/18/a-lo...
I'm not sure these are real as much as these are put out by iota PR people.

Reddit had a massive issue with iota astroturfing.
Which is bizarre, Assange just hates the US in general. Of course he’d want the least competent people running the country.

He’s much further left than any US democrats.
The Fed is injecting liquidity into the market via repo operations. Remove the added liquidity, and watch the asset prices fall.

Another rate cut or two is likely this year as well, that will juice things even more.
That was a pretty "clever" part in the smear campaign.

First declare him a "rapist". But that didn't cut it.

So they made him a "Trumpist". And many people still believe it up to this day.
A lot depends on the HDMI version (and in somce cases HDCP)
I think the thing is, these things are all irrelevant in the grand development scheme.

What is really going to save you (and your team) time is knowing to have a test for the critical scenario(s).

Or knowing to build something right (and finding out what right means) the first time around.

From my perspective, it's all about trying to save yourself from future work.
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