skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even good companies make mistakes. If they were receptive to you telling them and addressed it with you then I'd be likely to give them a pass. Only time this would differ is if I knew the company had a history of sloppy privacy controls etc. Most likely this is a human being that was stuffing envelopes and when they got to your letter they accidentally folded the other companies letter and sent it to you unintentionally (or it was given to them that way).

My personal view, people often expect perfection until it is their own mistake, I wish people would give others (including companies) the same benefit of the doubt they'd like to receive when they make a mistake. Not saying you aren't but assuming they at least apologized and said they have addressed it I don't think there is any reason to do anything else. Of course, if you know this company is sloppy, first why would you use them, but second then it is more fair to raise this issue more publicly. But unless you want your every mistake judged the harshest way possible, I say accept people (who work in companies) will make honest mistakes, address it with them and move on unless it is chronic or abusive.
The whole scheme would collapse. It only works as long as people reasonably believe paying will solve the problem for a long while. This is why many ransomware campaigns pretty much run a callcentre with support for how to easily buy BTC and make the transfer.
You'd rather wait for Toyota of all people? Toyota is infamous for the bad quality of their software/firmware. Not that I'd expect much better from other established car makers.
Deep learning of dynamical attractors from time series measurements
Agreed.

I've never encountered someone that I think is genuinely a 10x programmer. I've worked with a few people that thought I was one, which I'm most certainly not, and I've explained that to them.

I've encountered a lot of what I would call .2x programmers though. As you've said, there are a lot of people that are really bad at the job. It's not a slight either - there are a lot of people doing this job that really don't care for it at all.

It's hard to be good at a job you don't enjoy. Especially if life forces you to do it 40+ hours per week.
> Does this still work if he puts this money towards a cause you're not keen of?

This also applies in reverse. Here's an interesting article on some of this stuff if you're looking for another opinion - specifically #4 and on: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/against-against-billio...
Also libertarian minded....have you considered that in a natural state, businesses this large would be very hard to maintain? The fundamental business structure we have today is based around a government-sanctioned "personhood".

If you could strip this away, there would be no corporate veil, and you could sue the person who failed to act (or whom acted wrongly) and did you wrong. Think of bankers at Wells Fargo creating false accounts in customer names...hire investigator or do your own, sue, discover, repeat...there would be MUCH MORE downside to bad behavior, even if the upside is there.

I think personally that organizations like GORE would exist, and who knows what else might emerge...more co-ops?

Of course this does require 3rd-party alternate court systems (maybe like cert issuers, but held to the same liability standard above?)...our current system cannot handle this, so it may be largely academic thoughts.
> sometimes individuals unilaterally deciding something is a problem can be good too

This view is mostly true if you agree with that thing being a problem. What if the billionaire unilaterally decides to spend 10B to combat the pro-choice/pro-life movement (whichere you agree with)?
I'll bet 10x managers do exist, but they quickly become VPs or CEOs
I would like to think I’m one of them, I’d flail about in attempt to solve some random programmer test, but I’m also the guy that sits back and says ‘hey how about we rethink this i n s a n e architecture?’
Just don't get into the comfort zone. Keep learning and you're good.
One more thing you're not going to lean if you're the only developer in your team.
Tech suffers significantly from memory loss.

To be fair, when you dive deep into complexity, it's easy to get lost in the weeds. The trick is to remember what you're doing and why you're doing it so you don't lose sight of goals while chopping through the complexity jungle.
What percentage of tax revenue do you think goes to bombing civilians in Afghanistan?
In a previous life I worked on a site that had a private Wordpress instance that was scraped and cloned to a more or less static site.

You can either do this explicitly using a small scraper tool, or implicitly using aggressive reverse-proxy caching rules.
Bezos Says He’ll Commit $10B to Fight Climate Change
It's just unrealistic to propose that astronomers put their telescopes in space instead. There's no way to put a telescope with a 30-meter-diameter primary mirror in space. I don't know how many decades away that capability is, but it's way beyond our technical capabilities now.

Large-aperture ground-based telescopes have huge advantages over space telescopes in many technical areas (and disadvantages in others). Eliminating them would be a huge blow to astronomy.
Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's extradition hearing
> Can someone please provide practical advice on moving from a site hosted on Wordpress using all the plugins to a static hosted site? It seems unbelievably complicated.

Oh I'm sure it is. Static website is just that--static. You don't have a database, and that is a great thing, but that also means you can't store stuff like users, comments, articles to be published in the future, etc. out of the box.

You can do all of that of course, but it's going to be difficult, and you're gonna plug non-static parts to your static website (such as plugging the comments part). All in all, you can't expect to have all the advantages of static websites as well as Wordpress.

I personally simply took my content from Wordpress and built a new website with gatsbyjs. It's fast, clean, and entirely in React + Typescript. It has no dynamic parts, though. If you're a business and your Wordpress site is production critical, who knows, you might not want to migrate. You might also want to explore alternative solutions, like split some parts of your Wordpress blob into several static websites, and keep the main WP site with less content that's easier to manage... There are a number of possibilities.
Sounds pretty intensive. Every page would need constant scraping as links update and sidebars change, wouldn't they?
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> > is it time, or just a number?

> Yes :)

> That's the beauty of it: time is just a number (of seconds since 1 January 1970).

> > Which scalar data type should your parser use?

> Integer, since it's an integer number of seconds.

> > And is it seconds since epoch or milliseconds since epoch?

> Unix time is always seconds.

Whilst time can indeed be modelled as "just a number", Unix time spectacularly fails to achieve even that.

* It can go backwards
* Simple subtractions do not give accurate intervals

It's not a good measure of time. Don't use it as such.
How do you get to that figure? As one example the US Government spends billions of dollars per year subsidizing renewable energy, ie fighting climate change. $6.7 billion in 2016 alone. I'm not arguing that's an appropriate sum, however your 25 year premise is drastically wrong.

Since 2010, I'd bet the US Government has spent in the neighborhood of $60-$100 billion on renewable energy subsidies. The EIA reports that for 2010 and 2013 the figures were a combined $30 billion.

Then throw in nuclear energy subsidies over the last 25 years, which is comparable to the Bezos figure by itself.
Wasn't there another unrelated MacOS issue where their client was un-uninstallable? It would perpetually install itself. I may be mixing them up with someone else. That might be what the parent was talking about, though, since that's particularly malware-esque.
Ideally, replace the note in parentheses with the correct historical reason that you explained in your comment here? :)
Doctors transfusing recovered coronavirus patients' plasma to infected patients
Hi! We plan on monetizing either through a premium tier with productivity tools built for power users or charging a very low amount from every user.
https://archive.md/eb3kq
Can you give us a link to this monitor? I'd rather get one based on an HN recommendation.
> That said, I think GP is expressing skepticism that the total $10B figure comes from Bezos' personal fortune rather than being a spending plan for AMZN's business. The article doesn't exactly make this clear.

Yep, more along these lines. Lots of people are latching on the "tax break" but I thought I made a larger point about where the $10b figure is coming from. That's part of my cynicism: Bezos gets to write a great headlines with big rounding number like $10b, but I wonder what kind of creative accounting will be applied here.
Show HN: KIPA, distributed Key to IP Address translation
Just put cloudflare or a similar service in front of it and tada, your host handles only a few requests per minute.
Amazon seems to be pursuing the green agendas they set out last year, so I think it's plausible he really cares about this issue.
F1 score is harder to misrepresent, and relates more closely to business objectives. MSE is mostly for regression. Log-loss is very useful for training because it represents a useful signal for how well your model is progressing in fitting the data, but you'll still want to evaluate precision and recall.

In practice you'll usually want to tune the tradeoff between precision and recall for the situation. This way you can make a direct connection between model performance and the costs and benefits as they manifest in practice, as well as your tolerance for risk.
I agree on the gas cloud estimate, which leaves us with exotic large extrasolar bodies if the star isn't actually changing shape (which IIUC, it also shouldn't be doing...)

Curiouser and curiouser.
You can whittle those 130M actual voters down into 25M voters in important swing states.
If the argument the blog is trying to make is Architects can't know everything then it's a bad article to submit.

On the other hand, if the argument is a boss should not expect someone called Architect or senior engineer etc. to be able to troubleshoot based on experience I have a problem with that.

If someone can't be air dropped and they have a title that is intended by the business as code for a senior level software person who can think of how to build systems and can also build them themselves, then I am not sure what they bring to the table.
Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing – AI Podcast
You can use wget or curl to make a static copy of your Wordpress site and publish that. There are some small caveats (all files need to be reachable via links or you will have to manually tell wget where to find them) but it's a great solution if you want the convenience of Wordpress and the security of a static website.

I set up such a system for my old research group during my PhD (as they were not allowed to use Wordpress directly) and they are still using it 8 years later: http://iramis.cea.fr/spec/Pres/Quantro/static/index.html

Back then I wrote a simple Wordpress plugin that would create an empty file when a button was pressed in the UI, and I had a cron job that was executed once per minute, checked if the file existed and if so deleted it and copied the new version of the dynamic website to the static server.
I had lunch with a coworker who said all our orders for Lenovo laptops are backordered right now.
The US federal government is absolutely a single central power. That its leadership is selected democratically is good, but doesn't change that.

I don't expect billionaires to be perfect, but so far none of them has invaded countries for mistaken reasons, killing hundreds of thousands of people, or locked up millions in a War on Drugs.
The OP's example is perfect: he didn't go to the leaf-nodes and write each test by hand. Instead, it was clear that writing a tool to do the job would be better. Software is all about leverage. This is what defines a 10x programmer.

However, I'm constantly amazed how many programmers fail to see the forest for the trees.

To a large extent, not seeing (or seeing and ignoring) this type of solution is learned behavior. Many environments are hostile to this world view. Writing tools (especially those that generate code...eek!) is seen as "over-engineering" and "unnecessary complexity". If you're in a factory, on a line, your job isn't to climb away from your leaf-node.

Any programmer has the potential to be 10x, they just have to see and act upon it. Few do.
Not to diminish the achievement, but worth noting I think that RollerCoaster Tycoon was based on his earlier Transport Tycoon engine, so at least he did get to split the work up between two projects.

I have a personal theory the that the average 10x programmer is say 2.5x smarter than average, but also 4x more focused on work, netting a 2.5x4=10x total when you remove all the procrastination and general fumbling around of the average developer.
> Second, it's not -$10b if he's getting a tax break for some of this. It's $7.6b as someone else mentioned

No. It's $10 billion. 10 billion that he won't pay tax on. But he gives $10 billion and the cause receives $10 billion. The $2.4 billion is money that the government won't get in taxes.
Great, I think this is something I'd like to bake into the next release.
Interacting with generated code is never going to be as nice as hand-written code. It is a tradeoff to express semantics that exist in the interface definition language and the n- languages that the generator targets.

Go and "oneof" in protos is always fun: https://github.com/jrockway/ekglue/blob/master/pkg/glue/glue...

But it's better than saying "welp, that program is written in c++, so you have to write your tools that interface with it in c++ as well."
Is there any quick guide or plugin for front-ending Wordpress with Cloudflare? Sorry if this is a LMGTFY or RTFM but there's legit lots of conflicting advice.
It's otherwise called Exceptions
I think you might be overthinking it. Just drop cache after publishing.

Maybe you’re doing something more complicated that isn’t amenable to pseudo-static?
You can share your screen and then everyone else in the physical room needs to start typing a bunch of characters in to connect to the right zoom room. Which you probably email or slack to them or try to figure out how to connect to the TV. This skips that whole mess and lets them connect automatically.
Don't look at my GMC then. Panel gaps are bad. Paint so thin you can see through it. Rattles and squeaks everywhere. And the electronics are of course garbage.
That's actually something we actively think about and have tried a failed solution in the past; we implemented a feature where you can find other productive things to do - the implementation wasn't good and we plan on giving this concept more tries in the coming weeks.
I think it was Dan Carlin who suggested it might be a good idea to (every decade or so) conduct a live nuclear test above ground and publicize it widely. Not to make sure the bomb worked - but to remind everyone of the destructive power of these devices
I have experienced this.

The most brilliant programmer I've ever worked with wrote hardly comprehensible code since they could understand other's code easily, so they didn't feel the need to write readable code because, in their word, "What do you mean you don't understand it? It compiles, it runs, it works, you don't need more than that".
It's still a big pile of black-box systems where it's unclear what kind of data they collect and where they send it to whenever you connect it to a network. Never connecting it at all does defeat most of the points people like about Teslas.
To be honest, I didn't know that one... I just did basic double division the first time I saw it (into a float and compared it against an int casted back to a float). Someone in the interview room asked my if I remembered modulo and I was like 'oh yea, it gives you the remainder'
It's worth pointing out that the research found a 10x _spread_ between the least-productive and most-productive engineers - a '10xer' isn't someone who does ten times more than the average, so it becomes less mythical if you think about someone who does, e.g. 2x more than average in an organization with a few burned out engineers doing 20% of the average.
this was literally what I was doing today and if I'd just checked hacker news it would have saved 3 hours of faffing with Lambda
* On privacy

The first 2 of your 6 top points are no telemetry and limited data collection. How is that not soliciting users to install based on increased privacy?

* On moral obligations

If you solicit people to use your foo for no money and they come to rely on your foo and then withdraw or change the nature of your foo abruptly you may leave people worse off either perceptively or in actuality than if you never existed.

You are managing to create moral obligations for yourself without actually deriving any benefit. It's common to misjudge the nature of that obligation. Your users may imagine that they are "owed" a timely fix to their free software for example but its as false to imagine no obligation exists at all. You have an obligation not to leave people worse off than you found them or at least make a good faith effort in that regard.

People herein are imagining the extremely likely eventuality that their personal information will be sold and that since you didn't bother to inform them of a situation that would arouse this concern they imagine that you didn't tell them BECAUSE you had something to hide.

They have a piece of software on their machine which they believe could violate their privacy ergo they are worse off than they started. Furthermore they believe that the only reason they aren't MUCH worse off than when they started is because someone spilled the beans on reddit.
HDMI 2.1 has a variable refresh rate mode which will presumably become the standard over time.

https://www.hdmi.org/spec21Sub/VariableRefreshRate
Hey thanks for the reply! Yeah I totally agree in terms of no one is perfect and mistakes are made.

My thought pattern was more around whether I was/am meant to reach out to the party whose letter I got to inform them so that they can make a decision on how to respond, as it doesn’t impact me personally at all.
You should read the book the OP mentioned. Most of the charities these billionaires donate to are also under their control. So the beneficiary and the benefactor are one and the same. Sometimes the moons align and the billionaire, the charity, and the public good are all served. Other times you get the Trumps' version of charity. And in some cases they can be harmful, such as the founder of Mozilla donating to charities that were anti CA Prop 8.

These charities are a way to bypass the democratic method of funding public goods. I don't believe the US military budget should be as big as it is. Yet I pay taxes that fund it whether I agree to it or not. If I was a millionaire I could fund a religious school that taught white Jesus as the one true religion instead of funding secular state schools.

The bigger problem is the people who have created many of these problems now want to be in control of the solutions.
Australia also might not be keen on a foreign alien buying up all of their natural resource extraction infrastructure, private or not.
Build your own with: https://github.com/quiet/quiet
Overfitting is usually limited by the complexity of the reverted equation. It's usually a lesser problem in symbolic regression than in NNs

But yeah, with such small sample size it might not generalize as much
Not quite, they re-flew this particular booster 3 times after the initial launch. Reverting to the norm would be a crash after the first flight. Makes you wonder what the maximum life expectancy is for these boosters.
Not really. Coal is not economic to make new plants. New plants are generally natural gas or renewable. So shutting down old plants shifts demand to NG or solar/wind.
Cisco have had this feature on their video conferencing stuff for about a decade.
> You can't make money this way

Are you sure? What about something like this:

1. Buy art for $1M

2. Get your friends to bid up the price of the art by selling other works from the artist to each other at inflated valuations

3. Donate art to art gallery with a valuation of $10M

4. Deduct $10M donation from your taxes
Thank you! Yes - we are planning on implementing something along the line of remembering the last time you hide newsfeed, video recs
It doesn't matter. IOTA isn't a cryptocurrency, but a decentralized messaging platform. Coin is a funding mechanism, it's more like matrix.org on financial steroids, rather than bitcoin.
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Nobody trusts or likes oil companies or drug companies or media monopolies either but they are extremely successful at achieving their political goals.
Uighyrs detained for browsing Internet in China
I think you're missing the point of the comment you're replying to. Yes there are developers who are more productive by working at a meta-level above normal, but there are also people who are just 10x more efficient at actual coding. Those are distinct concepts that may or may not overlap.
I remember one programmer that I characterised with "He writes a lot of code". I ended up with one of his not small routines that I replaced with a one page assembler routine in MVS NIP rather than OPEN.

When reworking printing software to support multi color, I researched a commonly used subroutine though several layers of calls and replaced it with, yes, a single character constant.

I lost count of the many legacy applications where I tossed out great gobs of code produced by "productive" programmers.
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Google Cloud gives you 1 free f1-micro compute instance. Coupled with a CDN like Cloudflare or Netlify, it should be beefy enough for a static site.
Show HN: Skyscraper, a Clojure framework for structural scraping of whole sites
S3 isn’t actually that great at serving a ton of traffic without a CDN in front of it
That 4x more focused means "it ain't me, coz right now I'm commenting on HN" ...
It's relevant for any computer with a BIOS, it's relevant for the coreboot project (although these days in diminishing value).
The jury system has nothing to do with the costs defendants have to bear.
It’s really not expensive at all, but you have to have policymakers with the will to implement these policies.

Arby’s has more employees than there are coal miners in the United States, for example. The problem is there’s an enormous amount of investors and entrenched interests who are going to have trillions of dollars in stranded assets from these policies. Those folks should not be made whole for bad investment decisions.
Not really learning from the private sector are they?
Wouldn’t it be great if 2019 was the last time we got new stuff?
Can you just use a VM? I run it in Parallels at my work which only has mac laptops.
I've tried the assign keyword, but I can't get it to work with Firefox or slack

assign [class="Firefox] 3
assign [class="Slack"] 4

But it doesn't work for me
I’d expect anything that is manufactured in China to be in a similar situation.

POs have already extended out significantly (some of our parts have more than doubled). Those estimates are at best guesses, I would be surprised if they don’t continue to slip.

Manufacturing supply chains are at incredibly low levels.

The second reason (slow sales in China) would really only affect things that are there, obviously.
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every pharmaceutical company, for a start.