skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is possible, it's relatively unlikely. Top performers can generate enormous amounts of value for a company. As a hiring manager, I absolutely believe in the existence of 10x engineers. The reason the term has been so mired in controversy is because folks think the 10x part refers to raw coding ability, but it doesn't. It refers to soft skills, communication, leadership, domain knowledge, business acumen, customer relationships if relevant, and dedication -- overall impact on the company. It's actually quite easy for one developer to have 10x as much positive impact on a small company compared to another.

As a hiring manager, though, I'm stuck in the middle between developers and executive leadership. Executives tend to form a notion of what different roles should be paid, and they just won't bend, even if it means losing talent and spending $1 million+ replacing them over time. The problem is that replacement cost is abstract and easy to ignore, whereas paying a single developer $500k/year to retain them feels very real. Never mind the fact that losing them means multiple projects will be derailed, you'll spend a year looking for a replacement to hire at twice their salary, that replacement will take 3 additional years to reach the same level of domain expertise, it turns out that replacement never takes on the same degree of leadership or earns the same level of trust from colleagues, and in the midst of all of this the absence of your top performer causes two other talented engineers to leave in the following year.

$500k starts to look reasonable in retrospect, but you'll never be able to sell it, so you'll do the above dance instead and spend more money in the end.
It won't be difficult once it has been figured out once. It won't be expensive once we've truly started to unleash energy from matter. On a geological timespan, the milky way is very explorable.

I think the most likely reason there isn't any observable alien life is that we're being intentionally undisturbed. Or at least, seemingly undisturbed.
I agree - in my experience, "motivation" is a wildly volatile concept, especially in how a) when it arrives to your thought process, it's usually in the form of bemoaning a lack of motivation, and semi-consequently b) one almost always thinks about "motivation" in a form that is highly moralized (i.e. inviting shame & co.). I find that usually when we employ "motivation" as a concept, it is usually (whether explicitly or latently) in the context of personal failing.

The most success I've had in actively dealing with things like this is when I am able to frame a situation for myself in an extra-moral way and actually believe it - i.e. that something is, like you said, a matter of habit-building and consistency, rather than ontological and exertional good-enough-ness. The tough part here is that many people understand this, cerebrally, but it takes drilling this perspective quite a lot to actually ingrain it into one's belief system.

There's a night and day difference, though, between "well I guess I couldn't do it after all" and "well I guess that's a one-day blip on a four-day streak", and people with 'motivational' difficulties also aren't that great at conceptualizing about & nurturing incremental progress towards an abstract goal, which this also helps immensely with.

All in all I love that your takeaway was, effectively, that 'motivation' can be seen as behavioral inertia that hasn't yet been solved by habit-training. It's not a poetic nitpick at all; at least in my view it's the fundamental operative basis for dealing with the phenomenon of procrastination.
Good one, yes, the POST references should all come with pointers to abuse potential.
>And I wouldn't expect anyone in that position to give me two weeks... If I never need to cross that bridge again, what do I care if it burns?

IMO that makes them an asshole.

But, to your point, sure. If I have FU money then depending on a lot of things including what arrangements I could make with an employer, I might well choose not to work for someone else.
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Setting Up Django and Elasticsearch in Vagrant on macOS
Look Moses, the promised Hill we can die on, as foretold!
I'm a fedora and thinkpad user for 8+ years now, I would love to see Lenovo consider selling this machine (or any 15+ inches) without the numpad and with a centered touchpad.
I've been seeing him get downvoted frequently, often for well written and thought out comments. I suspect there is a non-negligible number of people who just vote based on username.
Whether it's through moderation, or the real name policy, NextDoor has avoided the worst of 4chat. There are no page long posts of a single repeated epithet, and there's no child pornography, and the only drug talk is in reference to the local homeless problem (though that may also be related to the age range of users on NextDoor). It turns out that adding real names only slightly raises the threshold on what some people will say.

IMO it is NextDoor's hyperlocality that makes it such a hot, angry mess. On Facebook, your cousin that's 5 states away's friend that's straight up posting swastikas unironically? The chances of meeting them, ever, is fairly close to zero if you don't want to, so it's far easier to walk away. But on NextDoor, it's because that the people are in some cases, literally next door to you, that the conversation is almost immediately emotionally threatening. It turns out your neighbors aren't like you, but not in a good way, and it challenges your sense of belonging to the local community. It turns out George down the street who's a sweet old man who's lived there for 20 years and has a pretty dog, is a neo-Nazi. Not something that would come up while exchanging pleasantries about the mail being late today, but thanks to the Internet, his eccentricities are on full display. Good fences make good neighbors.

It's easy to dismiss Nextdoor as a hot angry mess, but there are very sweet things too. My neighbor just recovered their cat, someone is collecting clothes to bring to a women's shelter, but the hot angry mess is very shouty, and impossible to tune out.
More like they will just stop asking and get scammed.
I don't see clojure in the same realm here. Both rust and elm are geared more toward enforcing correctness through their type systems to tame complexity in large projects. In my experience, clojure, being dynamic, fits more as a comparison to vanilla JavaScript. In a langauge-to-language comparison, I think clojure is somewhat more appealing than JavaScript due to immutability by default and general functional niceties. However, the fullstack comparison is not quite apples-to-apples as clojure (backend) is JVM and clojurescript (frontend) is node. While it works for some people, clojure feels awkward to me as a fullstack language.
That calculator (and this argument in general) assumes you are sinking 100% of your income into dead costs, saving nothing and building up no equity. Avoid blowing that monopoly money on cocaine and hookers & you can work for five years and buy half of Ohio.
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Interesting! Thank you for the link.
I've noticed this in other countries where there are accusations of rigging the results that the ratios always super high, in this case 80%.

If you're going to fake an election result that had some legitimate measurable opposition, why make it so extremely high? Does that mean nearly every vote counting place is rigged and it's so bad they don't even bother hiding it?

Just like when Crimea voted to join Russia it was 97% [1]. People use it as justification pretty widely but it's also hard to tell what's true in such an environment. It's nearly impossible to trust such a number, even if a majority potentially existed.

Note: I'm not suggesting it's at all accurate but it makes it all the more outrageous and suspicious. The protests are then predictable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum
For anyone who didn't know what was meant by 'the new Silk Road':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
Being on the receiving end of poaching is simply a failure to compete in arenas beyond compensation.

Not only must you compensate your talent at the top of the market and then some (including generous equity), but you must give your employees an amazing work environment with excellent work/life balance, while providing something for them to work on that motivates them on an ideological level.

When any part of this aegis cracks, poaching has the potential to ravage your ranks.

I would say that in the case of especially valuable or world-class talent, it's the founder's responsibility to know as much as they can about that person, and to truly pitch them on a level that fully aligns across all dimensions of that person's life. Give them not only excellent comp, but fulfillment and purpose that is congruent or even symbiotic with their personal lives and overall ambitions.

Deep down, most people aren't pawns that you can simply acquire with a number and expect the highest quality work from.
Somewhat related to this point: A large conglomerate I worked for managed to kill one of their major products by making the mistake of assuming that programmers are easy to replace with any other skilled programmer. So they moved a product team to a new office, knowing that the highest-paid people on the team would not choose to relocate, and assuming it would be easy to backfill them with inexpensive new hires at the new location.

Except, in this case, the programmers in question had decades' worth of hard-won domain expertise that was absolutely critical to their job function. And, this product targeting a niche industry, it was relatively uncommon domain expertise. So much so that the only people on the job market who had it were these folks whom they were ousting. All of whom had found positions at competitors within a day or two.

So then the company lost their ability to maintain the product in any meaningful way, and, within a year or two, customers started moving on as well.
The answer is: By going fast.
They were doing fine until Chrome ate up all the market share.

Google shouldn't have been allowed to do that. It's very anti-competitive for them to have a browser that defaults to Google search and disables plugins that support adblocking.

Google is destroying Mozilla. Their monopoly is making the web worse.
Few weeks ago I got a notification that someone from Moscow (which is like the opposite of where I reside) wants to restore my Google account ("is it you?"). It had "yes" and "no" buttons. I was in the middle of doing something and opened the notification pretty carelessly. Thankfully, I have managed to "no" successfully. But it was horrifying to think that I could have lost everything if I accidentally touched that "yes" button on my phone's screen.
Yes, I use it all the time, but most websites are really simple things – for every figma.com there are a thousand e-commerce sites that do very mundane things.
A Company got down from 20 to 3 people. Completely different tech stack each.
Many warnings that company was in major trouble if any of left. Other 2 had no way to support.

Oh It was so painful when it happened.
Yeah, I know what you're saying. This is more of a clinical disection of procrastination.

Many more of our blog posts and book chapters are more about the emotional side of things. Plus, we do coach people 1-on-1 in our program.
I have an even worse expirience.

I was a SWE for a large corp for a while, and after that transitioned to a role of manager.

As I was very eager to build a good team, and the company HR looked slow and unefficient I tried doing recruting myself, at least the part of meeting people and talking them into come to work for us.

What I could decide (up to a point) the salary and benefits but people had to go thru testing with the people from HR (IQ tests, personality tests etc)

Anyway I was pretty successful in finding experienced engineers but the thing fell apart when it came to HR testing. "He/She is not a good fit for the company" they would told me.

This was going on for months. I did more than 300 interviews in my free time in maybe 5 months and only about 5 people where "ok".

At some point a guy from HR told me: 'you must stop sending employees from companies X,Y,Z to testing, we have a deal with them that we don't take each other's people' 0.o

The deal was not only no to stop "poaching" but when someone form those companies applied to a job posting they would call up the other companies HR and told them about it.

And there was more than 10 of companies they told me about that where forbidden.

Imagine all the people that applied for job at some company not knowing that their boss, the HR etc. would know about it.
The cynic in me can't help but wonder if this "new focus on making money" is why they suddenly decided to cripple the android version of firefox.
Unless you have special knowledge of the contracts signed, you really can't say that. It's likely the second company was well aware of the restriction. And it seems like the OP felt he was wronged more than the second party.
With everything coming out about how mail in ballots are being delayed and otherwise messed with and who knows what else is in store, what is the value of ensuring your vote gets counted relative to your time dropping it off personally?

That seems the more pertinent question.
This is not a code editor.

You're implying OP intends to abandon Mozilla based on their criticism towards corporate doublespeak.

If not then your comment makes even less sense.

Let me phrase it clearly to anyone reading this: It is perfectly fine to criticize corporate double speak and people should not be confronted for that.
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Check this out: https://superuser.com/a/748891. Might help you find what's causing the disk usage.
NetMeeting... there’s a word I haven’t seen in decades.

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I built this with a friend. We wanted a reader that is simple and fast and can be navigated using shortcuts, but isn't a single page application.

Sorry about not really showing anything before you sign up. It's very mvp right now. You can just use a throw-away email if you like :)
You can just ignore specific directories, i.e. your working directories, cache directories, etc. The latest version of the IntelliJ series of IDEs will suggest this for you automatically.
Western companies are far more ubiquitous in China than vice versa

Except at Wal-Mart. Where non-Chinese goods are so rare they get special labels and promotion.
Congratulations on the launch of the newsletter OP.

Another news letter on rational thinking I would recommend is ClearThinking[1]. They also have several tools, tests for rationality/biases, specifically useful if we want to test ourself or someone else for a job for which these would be a problem.

[1]https://www.clearerthinking.org/
The ratio of heavier elements to H & He is called metallicity, and it is a measurable characteristic of stars, which are classed into Type I (high metallicity) and Type II (low) populations. Low-metallicity Type II stars are generally older.

Nothing specific on what Type II stellar systems and planets would be like, though I'd suspect gas giants, generally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity
From oxford:
A working-class white person, especially a politically reactionary one from a rural area.

Further, Merriam-Webster’s first definition is:
sometimes disparaging : a white member of the Southern rural laboring class
I must be misunderstanding your example, because as a francophone living in Canada, google still shoves English-Canadian and French-Quebecois results + articles + maps my way when I search for information on Google.FR.. so I fail to see how Google isn't already doing exactly what you would hate to see them do.
> And not send each and every keystroke to Google

Is there evidence Chrome does that? I've never heard this claim before.
What could any explorers in the history of mankind do when they got to an unpopulated island or continent? Spread, inhabit, and help ensure the survival of their species.

Whether or not you agree, some people like the idea of humanity surviving as a multi-solar system species.

I'm not sure Alpha Centauri has any inhabitable planets, at least for our biology as it stands today, but what we learn along the way might render that moot.
In the government area, sometimes policy is prioritized over the mission. You can end up changing directions or jumping through hoops for basically no reason at all. My coworker told me that he worked for the government in a situation like that and the policies and procedures can kill your productivity and freedom. You still have competition in government contract companies to find a program to work on when your current one is winding down.

I haven't worked for a startup nor know anyone who has. I will say to stay away from large non-tech companies. I've see a lot of issues at my current company. You'll end up working on boring stuff like reports for the business quite often. Management and the business generally talk a big game but have no idea what they are doing. Half the time you can't get a process map or detailed requirements for an existing business process because the business doesn't know what they do or how to explain it.
British government to subsidize 50% off restaurant meals
That is how a market works.

I think the S&P is overvalued today. The market thinks otherwise. No matter how much I would like to purchase reasonable stocks at P/Es of 15, by and large, I can't. If someone else wants to buy them at P/Es of 21, they are going to attract every single seller.
Starlink is not the solution. A private entity then decides who gets what and the US government will also meddle in what is allowed.

Do you think Starlink would be allowed to route TikTok traffic if it got banned?
This post just seems to be to draw semi-sensational attention to a self-help book. The site isn't generally referencing primary sources or otherwise giving signals of why it should be trusted. It also doesn't identify the authors.

It's hard to take the site seriously when it equates gaming to being an alcoholic (while later in the same post backpedaling it): https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/should-i-quit-video-ga...
Yeah, that's top end of software engineer comp for E5/L5 at Facebook/Google, and middle of the road for levels E6/L6. For reference, E5/L5 is achievable with 5 - 10 years of experience, though without a specialization you'll most likely get $400k instead.

Netflix median engineer pay is around $400 - 500k, because they only really hire engineers who would be E5/L5 or above. Apple and Amazon also pay this at the titles which map to E5/L5, as does Microsoft, Uber, Square, Snap, Pinterest, etc.

This does not include stock appreciation, but stock appreciation certainly helps inflate the comp even further.

Going further out from FAANG: if you include non-liquid compensation, many pre-IPO companies pay comparably (or better, with the tradeoff of uncertainty); including Airbnb, Stripe, and Snowflake.

Source: I earn about that myself, I have friends at almost all of these companies, and I have worked at or received offers from some. Also, see levels.fyi.

I can't tell you what you should do, but from a cost of living perspective: people who make at least $300k in SFBA or NYC will very often come out ahead compared to making maybe half that in a significantly cheaper area, despite the higher cost of living.
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Linux used to be able to run Xenix and SCO UNIX applications- I have not tried this in years, but I'm wondering if the mechanism can be shared such that any OS can be emulated.
YouTube is actually very different. As a YouTuber, you, by default, have no monetary transaction with YouTube. It is possible for you, however, to ask YouTube to place ads on your video, where they get a 30% cut of the ad revenue. Crucially however, you are allowed to place your own ads and monetize your videos any which way you like. So YouTube just acts as an ad agency, and as far as YouTube is concerned you are just a user of their ad service, or in the majority of cases just a user of their video sharing platform.

There is no contract between you and YouTube where you do work and in exchange you get money. There is only the option for YouTube to choose ads for your videos and give you a cut in exchange - it's quite literally just like placing ads on your website using AdSense. No guarantee of $ per video or even $ per view, it works almost exactly like AdSense.

Which is crucially different from Uber where the contract is that you do a task in exchange for some money, therefore meaning that you do the work for Uber. On YouTube, you're allowing YouTube to place ads on your IP for money, and you're allowed to do anything else with your work and monetize it however you like, so really YouTube is providing a service for you.
There's the T line of ThinkPads, that does that.

P line is workstation and only comes with "pro" graphics... but the latest T2000 is basically GeForce 1660Ti MaxQ.
> Everything gets a lot easier if you select the right software and framework, primarily if you use Ruby on Rails. Rails itself is a full-stack framework that has a best practice for every piece of a web application. If you are committed to doing things “the Rails way,” you cut the total cost of ownership by A LOT.

Rails has an incredibly large community but I think this statement would be equally true for any tool you're well versed in
Democratic leaders simulate secession from the US if Trump re-elected
A) I see that nowhere in this post, so the author must have retracted it when he found that out.

B) Matrix has always been very easy to set up E2E

C) Matrix is now E2E by default, at least with the client non-technical users will be using. I think it is for the other clients as well, but I do not know for sure.
Fear. By going for 80% they play it safe. If they would aim for 55% they might just end up losing if the other side comes out even more on top than predicted. So you stuff as much as your margin of error dictates that you should.

In this case they were apparently afraid of a 75-25% loss, to make up for that you'd have to aim for an 80/20 win or accept a real chance that your stuffing will end up being inadequate.
The GPT-3 beta is something every programmer and their dog wants to get into these days and most of us can't. It's a really impressive new language processing neural network that people have managed to train to (among many other things) generate code from an English description of the program. If it can do that, it might be able to generate some reasonably complex Constructive Solid Geometry models and even something like MEL commands in Maya.

Greg, OpenAI's CTO, occasionally manually lets people in if they convince him of their use case (or, as one guy did, plant a bunch of trees in his name) in an email (gdb@openai.com). It might be worth shooting him a message explaining the idea. From what I've heard, once you have a key, it's mostly a matter of feeding the model examples until it does what you want.
My thoughts are this: The statement sounds powerful and appealing. But if you think about what it means, really, it turns out to be an extremist viewpoint with little meaning. People who give up freedom for security don't "deserve" neither. We give up freedom for security all the time, and we are often better off for it. I would argue that without security you cannot have freedom; some security is necessary to achieve a free society. How free are you if you must constantly look over your shoulder to see if someone is coming to take what you have or hurt who you love?

So sure, we can talk about the trade offs and whether we should require IDs at the airport. But the quote, I think, is a misrepresentation of the stakes.
This reads basically as an ad for "use rails its better than the rest, cause it's what we use, and you need us! So hire us!"