skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we instinctively recognize the outsized levels of certain pros: a 10x leader that is a different creature from a typical manager, or a captivating writer that is 10x better than the average novelist, or a 10x actor vs a standard-issue LA newcomer, or a 10x teacher who inspires far beyond what curriculum mandates. Can we accept 10x lawyers, coaches, artists, or musicians based on their impact? We do, and we seek and celebrate them. Why fashion designers but not app designers, why essay writers but not program writers?
It's pure aggrandisation to compare such rudimental human behaviour with crypto key exchange.
Why VC's love SaaS business
> I think it's a misinterpretation of microservices to say that the purpose is that the teams can choose their tools and processes.

The crucial feature of microservices is to enable large number of people to work on delivering the same service, but not being constrained by the traditional modes of software release, where the entire monolith could only be updated at a fixed cadence and where the whole thing had to pass through a rigorous suite of tests etc.

One freedom that this gives a team is to choose a different language for their service... on this point there is large consensus. But one need not stop there; you could technically run your service on another cloud with a completely different deployment architecture. All that is asked for this insane freedom is that your service honor the SLA's that you provide. SLA's define the interface, everything else is left to the team.

That being said, shared tooling does provide some nice benefits where learning is shared across teams allowing new ones to bootstrap quickly. However, that is something the team should be allowed to choose.
Unix time still has issues. It officially pauses for a second when leap seconds happen. You can't actually calculate a delta in seconds between two unix timestamps without a database of when the leap seconds were.
Certainly not a bad idea, but in my case I care to own the domain because I also use it when naming Java packages for the projects I write. Since I'm already paying for the domain, I figure I might as well use it for my actual website too. I've found S3 and Route53 to be the most cost effective for my particular use case.
Depends where it is spent.
Joel Spolsky's "Hitting the high notes" always comes to mind for me when this debate arises.
I don't know about Google Cloud as a whole but I've contacted Firebase support a number of times and they have always answered promptly.
What have the company done in the past 15 years to build a progressive learning culture?
Based on that article, Bezos just pledged more money to fight climate change than the U.S. government has spent on it in the past 25 years.
I think this money could be used much more effectively by attacking other more pressing issues (like child nutrition). Climate Change is not such a cut-and-dry situation, it's difficult to parse out the facts from the political commentary/posturing. Bjorn Lomborg articulates all this better than I ever could.
What I'm seeing is industry is doing the same thing to them that they did to Intel. Encapsulate them in a cyst like the body does to a parasitic worm. Basically all of their non ad ventures will fail due customers reflexively choosing their competitors products. Just like no one will pick Intel as a vendor outside of their core products.
You’re probably thinking of a security vulnerability in their Mac client due to a poor design choice that they were negligent in fixing expediently.

Still, I don’t think this classifies the app as malware—the behavior was not added with malicious intent.

https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/zoom-zero-day-4-million-...
Yeah the donation deduction is just a form of leverage. You effectively pay X but the charity gets 2X (actual multiplier depends on your marginal tax rate).

One way of looking at it is that the government is "matching" part of your donation with tax money.

But you never make money that way.
> in the grand scheme of things, [Spaces] is a relatively recent addition...

It's not that new. Spaces were added in 10.5 (2007).
> this will be massive for archive efforts

It's not open source, though. That means whatever improvements for preserving Dreamcast games will be taken to the author's grave. A lot of emulator development revolves around people sharing knowledge about how things work and making incremental improvements.

Taken to an extreme, if you were trying to fully map out a system from top to bottom for the explicit purpose of preservation like byuu's higan[1], it would make no sense to keep the source closed. There's an article[2] describing his request for help mapping the SNES PPU at the transistor level for the purpose of perfectly emulating it. The kind of effort moving in the direction of preseration requires is nontrivial and open source would be a massive benefit. And if there are any flaws there's no need to rely on the motivations of a single contributor to fix them.

I don't believe such a goal is compatible with a profit motive.

[1] https://byuu.org/higan

[2] https://byuu.org/articles/edge-of-emulation
At the right time, for the right company, definitely.
Volkswagen is paying less than $100 per kWh for the batteries in their MEB cars. The mid-range Volkswagen ID.3 achieves slightly greater range at a lower price point than a Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus.

The supposed battery advantage isn't really there. So hopefully the Maxwell stuff is better.
I don't see "Fortune 100-level support" listed on Google's website. How do I purchase it?
That 'force overseas sales' thing sounds like a notable differentiator, though I'm not well versed enough to know if there's (m)any contra examples for this practice.

And thank you - I've added How Asia Works to my reading stack.
If he had backed (now suspended) Presidential candidate Andrew Yang early enough he could have aligned himself with Yang's message: highlighting too that Amazon paid $0 in taxes + is closing 30% of malls, etc. - which would be him acknowledging and responding to the issues at hand that Yang; allowing him to acknowledge the current system's structure - that all companies including Jeff's - must compete within, but that it's ultimately a problem for society (even if it's good for the economy/GDP).
One thing I have observed about software and organizations is that big, intractable problems in code are often rooted in big, intractable problems in the organization that produced it. If you look at a codebase and find that choices in one half are half-incompatible with the choices in the other, the likely explanation is that the organization itself has factions, each of which insists on doing things its own way, and management can't or won't step in to resolve the deadlock.

In short, working for dysfunctional organizations means all your time as a programmer is spent catering to the dysfunction.

Now, is it possible for an organization to be functional when all its priorities have been set by congress? Or the president? This president? Or worse, whose priorities have been set by this president and the congress that is diametrically opposed to him?

Count me out.
Actually the main reason is risk. I have a client right now with plenty of money to pay me that really wants me to do grants for them but they're not a quality client and I believe they will be turned down by most grantmakers and that's not how I work. They have some PR and governance issues.

There are also some clients (or grantmakers) that simply turn me off. Not common, but it happens. E.g. a certain kind of religious foundation only granting to those who contribute to their world view (with all respect to religion in general though), or a corporate foundation whose name I just don't feel like applying to (sorry McDonald's, you just leave a bad taste in my mouth).

It feels weird being part of mining companies (and philanthropists) paying funds to do good when what their source of money did was not good, but you weigh up the whole world and realise it's better sometimes to just help community projects happen, you've got to have balance somewhere.

Usually every grant project makes me tear up at least once, out of empathy to those I'm helping. That's what it's all about.

I love my job.
I feel for you. Our holiday house is about 30km beyond the middle of nowhere, but the 4g uplink is reliable. Plus we have to share it with very very few others...

If we ever need more, I'll probaby do just like the folksy two-man ISP you describe...
Zoom is great. It did have a bad news cycle because they had installed a url handler that let folks initiate meetings with video sharing just by getting them to click a link. That news cycle got that behavior removed and now there's a confirmation screen before you go into a meeting after clicking a link.

Zoom has been pretty consistently terrific for us. I'm at a distributed company so we live in it and it's very reliable and makes it easy to see the faces of _everyone_ on the call with you.
The people who make the "they're just doing it for tax deductions" argument give me the feeling that they don't understand what a tax deduction is.

All it means is that his taxable income will be whatever his income is minus that $10B. He's not getting a net benefit from doing this.

To make the math easier, consider someone making $100k and paying a 30% tax rate. If they donate $10k to charity, rather than pay 30k in taxes, they're paying 27k in taxes. They saved 3k in taxes, but they still donated $10k, so they're out 7k.

If his entire objective was to pay less in taxes, stashing it in the Cayman Islands would make way more sense than donating it.
It looks like you could build a small SaaS around this...
I stand by it, if you're not prepared for exhaustive (and exhausting) problem-solving then don't start down this road, try something easier like Philosophy or bear-wrestling.
Here's my terraform-ization of an S3 + Cloudflare setup for SSGs. I use Zola but that's incidental.

https://gitlab.com/bitemyapp/statically-yours

There's a weird bug with the `tf init` but it can be worked around by running `tf init`, deleting the providers in `.terraform`, then running again. Hashicorp has an open bug for the problem I think.

I could probably clean it up more but this has been okay for a couple sites I run.
The story talks of the lava coming out of the volcano.. so it is clearly active at least
It's not irrelevant: a single company can undertake different economic activities that produce the same economic outputs with different ecological results. I've seen this first-hand in my line of work. When you make companies publish their greenhouse gas KPIs, they start to reduce them.
Highly recommend enabling this feature to give cross platform Airplay-like functionality to your Mac and Windows clients.
Hey I don't care what he does with his money as long as it's legal. I'm not going to give him a big huge tax break so he can decide where my taxes go though.
Too big for my hard drives covers a lot of space.
Hey, thanks for including a link to my package! Which serves as a reminder that I should include a better tutorial or introduction sometime...
Don't forget to allow a few hundred million to donate to political parties (particularly the incumbents), as the current minerals/mining lobby is quite entrenched.
What is your tolerance for losing data?
If you were such a non-standard hacker in the US, why would you reveal it? None of these particular -isms are considered reputable in the US. It would appear that the US is entering a period of persecuting holders of non-standard political ideologies, too.
I liked the part where they referred to them as "technicians".
For whatever it's worth, I recently attempted to run a 4K 60hz HDMI connection from my gaming PC to my 4K LG OLED TV in the living room.

I ended up trying out probably 4 different cables before I found one that was actually able to transmit the signal correctly over 25-30 feet. The cable that ended up working for me was a KableDirekt cable that I bought off Amazon. The beast of a cable is THICK. I also had a lot of luck with AmazonBasics HDMI cables for shorter runs.

The most important thing for 4K HDMI cables seems to be that they need to be well insulated and thick.
I'm not sure it's a "tax dodge", he just won't pay income tax on the money he donated.
Do the jokes count towards the 10X ?
There are some vague efforts to bring gaps into i3. However, while it seems like the maintainers aren't opposed to having the functionality in base i3, they are choosing not to simply merge it in because of quality concerns. At the moment, gaps is a somewhat hacky patch on top of i3 with a few drawbacks. They probably won't add gaps until they find an elegant way of implementing them as a core feature.

https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/3724
I agree with your point about finding better ways to spend time, but I also think that any LESS time spent on facebook and the like is a VERY positive thing. And despite being skeptical when reading the first few sentences of the original post, I think his app actually sounds like it does something valuable.
If you have a problem and you are reading math textbook to learn methods to do the problem, it would be a lot easier to study textbook. The only problem is to find such a problem, so the most of the textbook would be relevant to it somehow. Or at least it should seem to be relevant long enough while you are studying. Though you could try to find several problems so they cover all the textbook.

It is a funny way human mind works (or at least mine does), it needs goals. When it have goals, it starts to generate guesses how to reach goals. It tries to check these guesses, some of them it fails to check, so I start reading textbook over and over, trying find answers. I begin to see where I lack proper understanding, and I can turn this lack of understanding into questions. Lack of understanding is vague and I do not know what to do with it, I do not know where to begin, while question is something specific and I know how to search for an answer.
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Maybe governments are good sometimes, but sometimes individuals unilaterally deciding something is a problem can be good too. We can have it both ways, and we currently do.
If they made them for the UK I’d have one already.
> in vi, the keys are shifted to the left by one for compatibility with most keyboard layouts

I wonder where they got that idea. The keys are "hjkl" simply because they were inscribed with arrows in the machine Bill Joy used when creating vi[1][2]. From [1]:

> Joy used a Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal... the keys h,j,k,l served double duty as cursor movement keys and were inscribed with arrows, which is why vi uses them in that way.

The StackExchange question has a picture of the keys.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi#Creation

[2] https://vi.stackexchange.com/a/9315/14283
They tried to tighten 5 years ago - the market tanked and they immediately reversed. This is for infinity, can only result in external/internal war.
I'm a paying customer of firebase & google maps and both helped me promptly on technical issues.
The pretty URLs thing is confusing me now too. AWS lets you configure the buckets to do the pretty URLs.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/HowDoIWebsit...
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/IndexDocumen...

I put up a Jekyll site on s3/cloudfront recently and it seems to work well.

Anyway, I’m still wondering about the consequences of the naked s3 endpoint being available.
You should example gifs/images to demonstrate the repo. Also before and after would be nice too
So basically this is a neural network architecture discovery process.
Is the speed it's taking to building the static site usually a problem? I don't recall ever waiting for it to be done. Maybe my site is too minimal to see a difference (https://annoying.technology).
The concept of the 10x programmer seems to have been drifted from its original meaning. It isn't that there's a coder that is 10x better than a good coder. It is that a lot of people are really bad at their jobs, and a coder that thinks and learns about problems can be far better than those people. It comes from terrible "corporate drone" software developers in the 80s and 90s - the ones that would takes weeks to developer simple routines. Bring in someone that loves software dev, and they appear magical.

Today, with Google and Stack Overflow, that gap has diminished, but there is definitely people still way better than "average" developers. However, if you have someone that keeps their skills sharp and their problem solving desire sharper, you won't fine anyone 10x - maybe 2 or 3x, at best.
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USDS and 18F make their rounds on HN periodically. The mandatory relocation without relocation stipend, required drug testing, and security clearance all make recruitment difficult.

Edit: Oh yeah, the short terms hurt as well.
Part of the Zettelkasten philosophy is that it requires you to actively work on links between notes. Some notes are simply forgotten, Luhmann (the original Zettelkasten master) used to say, unless they are indexed into your system.
He's going to find a way to make those tax savings either way so it's great to see him doing something positive.
Should income-earners pay for the fire department, or should those whose property might burn?
It's amazing how truly unreliable ultra-cheap VPS providers can be. You're lucky if you even get an upfront notice before they decommission hardware you are relying on, or the entire company just disappears overnight.

Usually you get what you pay for.
That just makes it sound like your company has terrible recruiting. If it's not true, you're creating your own problems. If it is true, get out, obviously.
They're only suggesting it as a possibility to be explored. I think it arises from the teeth/lava story detail, given there seem to have been no significant subsequent eruptions.

Certainly there's been good prior evidence of indigenous Australian myths having remarkable longevity, and their cultural means of maintaining & transmitting myths seem to have been optimised for accuracy. But 37,000 years would be quite something.
Not sure, but it seems there may be a fundamental question being asked here. If I trust somedomain.com, does this automatically mean I trust advertisers on said website? In fact it becomes even clearer where the trust boundary lies when taking into account the fact that even somedomain.com is putting advertising decisions into the hands of a 3rd party.

So, how far should the infrastructure of the web go in terms of assuming trust boundaries transcend the immediate trust and obvious relationship between end user and domain?
> One thing I have observed about software and organizations is that big, intractable problems in code are often rooted in big, intractable problems in the organization that produced it.

You've paraphrased (intentionally or not) Conway's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

"organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."
15K is not so much honestly... I would have expected this to happen on much higher numbers.

Thanks for the video btw.
They've had this feature for sometime and it is pretty cool. :)

About a year ago there was an ask HN about conference room systems. I had just recently gone through the process of selecting and went with zoom. The "airplay" feature was one of the reasons why.

Here are my notes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19455428

Edit to add one note: They recently (last six months or so) added a feature to allow you to share multiple screens at once. We've setup most of our conference rooms with two screens so it's really cool when two people in a room can wirelessly share their screens and you're able to see both at once.
Partnership/affiliation status is an almost automatic process that's tied to your metrics (hours streamed, etc), so it's not some hard cap on popularity.
Do you think there is any appetite for funding these types of alternative ‘campaigns’. I’ve also thought a bit about this.
I love zoom, but I don’t get why this is special. I can share my screen already today after I am log into the zoom room. So they made it easier by skipping the login part?
Why wouldn’t there be such thing as a 10x programmer? Is the average programmer so good? There are outliers in every industry. Professional athletes are a clear example — they are often many orders of magnitude better than the average player of their respective sport.

There are probably also a few 100x engineers, maybe someone like Elon.
I personally know many programmers who are easily 10x average programmers. No question about it.

They crank out code that is easy to read, easy to understand, works right out of the box, and gives years of trouble-free operation.

Sean Parent is one of those programmers. It's pretty obvious when he describes how he replaced a nightmarish tangle of code that re-invented a simple rotate algorithm.

It's a remarkable talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2tWOdzgXHA
Vibration. The deployment probably disturbs the telemetry connection for a second. The same thing used to happen for landings. The camera would always cut out right as the booster reached the barge because the vibration interrupted the telemetry connection temporarily.
An emulator for a Sun 2 workstation
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_international_investment...
Can we stop the self hate already? There definitely are 10x musicians, 10x painters, sportsmen and 10x programmers. You know what never exists in 10x form? Burocrats and middle managers who write articles like this one.

I suggest to flag this as fake news and all future articles intended to devalue young talented programmers who yet are to discover their true market value.
>> can I set this up as an alternative WM and select it in my gnome-login-manager screen?

Yes.

>> Or do I have to install it as a completely separate DM?

I'm not sure what you mean. The Ubuntu package provided lets you select this desktop from the login screen ( as opposed to i3, Plasma, or Gnome ). This is essentially a new Desktop Environment, made up of gnome and i3.

>> Also, is this really only for Ubuntu?

Unfortunately yes. I've tried looking at packaging this for Arch Linux, but it looks like quite a bit of dependencies are forked ( i3blocks is now i3xrocks ). Not everything is pushed upstream. Getting this to work on non-ubuntu based distributions looks tricky if you're not familiar with packaging already.
The real value people like him provide is to make it so that normal people can outsource their sin (and the corresponding indulgences) to him.

Someone's got to be buying the cheap plastic junk, my friend. You need a buyer for the middleman to profit.
I personally have no reason to negate the existence of aliens or UFOs. I've read a lot of testimonies about encounters and everything, and they mostly add up with one another. The problem is that this theme is such that there's lots of passionate people out there, and as such, there's lots of fabricated stuff too. One must be diligent when researching about this stuff, but the evidence is really strong;
> JSON schema never really took off

I see JSON Schemas used all over. Advertising, Medical, Banking, etc.
> The lack of accountability for the influence billionaires have in our society should be a concern

The thing is, a lot of us like that what people do with their own money is not accountable to the government.

I think it's essential that not all of society is under control by a single central power.

EDIT: As someone said on Twitter - "Say what you want about billionaires, I doubt any of them would have decided to give farmers $10 billion to not grow crops."