skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author brought up mouse acceleration, which reminded me of why I switched back from Linux to a Mac: the mouse curves were terrible IMHO, with seemingly no way to change it. The parameters you can tweak in X11 didn’t let me change the fundamental curve, and to me where so much worse than Apple’s it rendered the system frustrating to use. I don’t know if wayland suffers from the same issue or not, but certainly googling around the many places were people similarly complained weren’t answered by a magic Wayland config. Does anyone know if it’s possible to get an Apple-like mouse curve in Linux?
Robin has done a fair bit of numerical simulation on his OP posts here https://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/12/how-far-aggressive-al..., and says he'll have an actual paper out in a week or two.
excellent viewpoint. I can agree with a lot of it, here's my take on it:

> It doesn't matter what the label is; any label that attempts to stratify programmers is a "myth".

I can agree with this, but the thing is this is true regarding anything nowadays, whatever you say someone, somewhere will find displeasing. the "10x" label however, to my argument, is "10x" worse than other labels such as "star". perhaps you don't take this phrase too literally, but it does sort of "quantify" in people's mind the concept of 1000% productivity, which can be interpreted as unattainable.

my goal is to let people accept their mortality - there is some output you can produce which is optimal, 100% or so. it is much more rational to think your output is 10% and you can progress from there. at least in my mind, it is discouraging to say "your 100% is still not nearly enough"

I guess the point is - rhetoric speak matters.

p.s. I just love sigma-3 programmer. can I get to sigma-5? ;)
Almost no one is using BTC, you can barely by anything with it.
If people could not become rich by profiting from their efforts, we'd all still be living in teepees and spending our days foraging.
> than quasi-slavery of other Bangladeshis in the Gulf States. It’s the product of powerful propaganda.

Why is it surprising? It's not complicated. Gulf states - not Israel - pay the bills in Bangladesh. It also throws in religious fundamentalist indoctrination schools for free, schools that preach hatred of Israel.

> It’s kind of horrifying to see the effect of that same propaganda here in the US recently.

The majority of the US supports both Israel's and the Palestinians' right to exist without oppression and fear of attack. People are largely opposed to either party violating that principle.

Perhaps you missed the outrage in the US at the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, or the bipartisan condemnation of the Saudis' war against Yemen while the previous president and his family courted them, or the US renewable energy industry that is trying to decouple us from Gulf petroleum dependency.

The US public has deeply soured on the Gulf States across the political spectrum. The only people who are still warm to them, as ever, are those who seek access to their immense capital or are enamored with their theocratic and authoritarian system of government.
Fermi's paradox.

It assumes that technology will get to the point where it becomes trivial to explore space. That's not an easy assumption to grant.
You could produce at no cost all the apples and cut out the original apple grower with no upfront costs yourself.

So the problem is: you break capitalism, hard.
But if a civilization has been expanding for a billon years the chances very small that you are this millennium of fuzziness.
On the flip side, UBI will increase the revenue from those jobs. The less desirable jobs will pay more simply due to supply and demand.
Reading the comments in the thread I think a lot of engineers never really encountered a real 10x before.

I was skeptical too before it happened, but after meeting and working with that person I was convinced.

My honest advice is simply to pay more if you want to attract them; These guys don't jump ship frequently and are often off the radar for extended periods of time (hints, they are getting internally promoted pretty fast). Especially now with remote being more socially acceptable it's pretty much the time to hire before these guys get locked-in with a vesting schedule.
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Roundup deserves its bad press, regardless of which exact scandal caused it to penetrate popular consciousness. Monsanto's highest margin R-Up product range is ultra-high dosage pesticides together with crops designed to tolerate the pesticide. It kills all rival plants, as advertised, and through its effect on funghi and bacteria it has plenty of knock-on effects on local ecologies. It's real "Silent Spring" material.

The decision by the EU Parliament to ensure that decisions about permissibility of pesticides are based on open science, rather than the proprietary study model that dominated before, has led to a lot of good research. Cf. e.g.,

https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/article/176/2/253/5835885?ca...
>“There is currently no plan for PWA support in Firefox,” Townsend finally blurts out in response to one complaint.

I wonder if he really blurted it out, or if he just stated it.
Floating Point in the Browser, Part 3: When x+y=x (y != 0)
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No, you don’t need reflection or annotations to use dependency inversion. Why do you think so?
No, I once saw two that were the same.
It's a problem when playing from a non-start, non-keyframe point (which in practice means any arbitrary point). I'm guessing that's what you meant.
Sure, this is the obvious takeaway if you are solely interested in how to persuade others and advance your agenda. But the reason why personal experiences are better at bridging moral/political divides is because shared experience makes it possible for to hear another viewpoint. If all you get from this study is an improved approach to advancing your issue, that's a shame.
I've seen people learning about dependency inversion from a book called "Clean Architecture", then proceeding to apply it to every bit of code they write, to make it "clean". It makes code difficult to trace by reading alone. Indirection may be cheap, but it adds up.
> Books do the same thing

Huh? If I have a book, I can lend it to a friend, sell it on eBay, or even put it in a library where thousands of people can read it for free. If I "own" a book on a Kindle, I can do none of those things -- and if our corporate overlords decide they don't want me to read that book anymore, then they can remotely remove it from my device, even if I paid for it [0]. The abuse is that DRM is being weaponized to criminalize fair use and other consumer rights that copyright law otherwise would not give corporations authority over -- and because of DMCA 1201, it is illegal to work around DRM even for fair-use purposes.

In fact, DRM does next to nothing to prevent piracy, as evidenced by the thriving piracy "industry" today. Every DRM system can eventually be bypassed, somehow -- there has to be some way to decrypt the content, otherwise I wouldn't be able to watch it. It's akin to putting up a "no stealing" sign outside my house -- sure, it means that thieves are technically trespassing now -- but they were already breaking the law to begin with and no flimsy little sign is going to stop them. It could be argued that DRM only makes piracy more enticing, because consumers can use pirated content in completely normal, fair-use ways that are blocked by DRM.

As Doctorow explains in the article, DRM was never about protecting copyright, it's about protecting monopolies. DRM means I can only watch a movie with an approved web browser on an approved operating system on an approved computer using an approved cable to connect to an approved monitor, and that I can only repair a tractor at an approved tractor dealership.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am...
I’m not typically one to “vote with my wallet”, and I think it’s very impractical to do so with all of big tech.

I do however tend to buy products and services that align with my values and shy away from products and services that go against my values. For example, I’d be more inclined to buy a Tesla and install home solar panels then I would be to buy a VW because Tesla is emissions free and VW lied on their emissions tests. VW lost some long term customers because of that incident and Tesla is continuing to attract new buyers that are concerned with climate change. Due to this trend we are able to deploy more electric vehicles then government regulations require.
Do you want to work for free then?

I understand money is used for supporting yourself, but do you honestly work for free after-hours? Everyone has better things to do than work. Travel the world, make businesses, and spend time with family. You'd rather work?
Study finds acupuncture modulates inflammation in mice (2020)
It's worth trying to reduce the amount of centralization, and make baby steps to improving the situation.
I wrote a blog post about it[0], but in one sentence: it didn’t help us (in my opinion all those tools, not just intercom)

[0] https://blog.gingerlime.com/2019/why-i-stopped-using-interco...
my intention was for people to set attainable goals for themselves. not to interpret "10x" literally, or mathematically. I did use it figuratively, such that if x = 10%, then you get 100%. I do appreciate the feedback as it helps me formalizing my thoughts in the future.
You can be outraged at two things at the same time.

But the apartheid situation in Israel is perhaps a more blatant example of ongoing human rights abuse, and thus easier to understand compared to the more subtle racism as class subjection in the US.
> The social harm can potentially happen if parent is preventing contact with peers and their culture too much.

Yep. But, the best thing my parents ever did for me was not allowing me to use a phone until I was 16. I still had a laptop I could communicate with friends from, but the physical barrier to constant communication was incredibly important to help me not develop an addiction to all things internet.
(It's too late to edit my comment above. But if I could, I'd use their preferred pronoun rather than the gendered one I mistakenly used.)
Circa 2007-2011, before their deal with Starz expired, Netflix streaming usually had any movie, new or old, I ever wanted to see. The catalogue was massive. Now, around 3/4 of the time (my estimate) I'd be forced to rent or stream elsewhere.

https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/...
How to recognize different types of timestamps from quite a long way away (2003)
Excommunication
Vulnerability has been popular for a while now as a way of successfully navigating crucial conversations.
Ask HN: Can I Buy/rent a subdomain from a reputed domains for my app?
Intent is to not buy any domain and can someone lend a subdomain and can use it for few days. MVP and basic feedbacks takes time. Does getting a quality subdomain from a reputed domain makes sense?
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What I Learned from Scanning the Brains of Potential Terrorists
Even if we do have young competitors like us, they could still be millions of years older than us- the blink of an eye, in a planet’s lifecycle.

But millions of years of technological evolution is plenty enough time to make grey goo (or light speed spheres of incoming civilization).
You might enjoy "Replicas," — https://youtu.be/ze_ANsckvS0 — a 2018 sci-fi thriller starring Keanu Reeves, which centers on whole-brain emulation. No spoiler review here!
I think that the patents on glyphosate itself expired recently. The RoundUp-ready seeds are still protected, though.
Yet they still pushed through the atrocious, worthless Munich agreement that so completely eviscerated Czechoslovakia, despite knowing not only that the Nazi war machine had no realistic hope of major conquest against fully intact Czech territory, but also that the High command of the Wehrmacht itself was near mutiny at the idea of trying such a thing. Had Chamberlain simply shown more spine at that point, there very likely never would have been a genocidal Nazi conquest of Europe. I know that the what-ifs of history are full of unknown unknowns but given what did happen, It's hard to imagine a rejection of German demands in 1938 possibly having lead to as bad, let alone worse..
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I don't think so.
The difference is that it's optional rather than globally enforced.

In theory it could also allow for finer tuning in deciding what is visible within what nested server, but that hasn't been implemented yet.
> Don't forget the media lied throughout that time too; let us not forget the craziness of satanic ritual abuse, or the lies that led to the vietnam war, etc...

The satanic ritual abuse stuff was in the 80s early 90s.
Lies that led to vietnam, sure. But also there were lies that led to the Iraq war in the more fractured Fox News/internet age so it seems like the more fractured, politicized news didn't help protect against that.

> To claim there was sometime in the past where the news was good and reliable would require overlooking a huge amount of actual historic malfeasance.

Sure, my point was there was a past where we had a more common narrative. That certainly has downsides, but now we're seeing that it had some advantages compared to our current fractured era.
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This. And I refuse to watch serials anymore, just feature-length films. Why? Because I’m tired of being strung along. Here, watch this season now. But wait 12-18 months for the next season. Repeat. By the time that next season rolls around, I just don’t care about the characters anymore.

Fiction writers love to play this trick with book trilogies and book series. So I don’t start a book series unless all books are already in print.
You could try something like https://github.com/the-paperless-project/paperless
Isn't supporting multiple languages, which have different numbers of characters a bigger issue?
We had also investigated the differences in fingerprintability between HTTP/QUIC and HTTPS (WF in the Age of QUIC, PETS'21). We had found equivalent fingerprintability with deep-learning classifiers when eavesdropping on the traffic through Wireguard. It's interesting though to see the stark difference they found between fingerprinting HTTP/QUIC and HTTPS when using only the first ~40 packets. The trends in those early packets had also allowed us to easily differentiate between the two types of traffic over the VPN.

Our paper, in case you want to read more on this area: https://petsymposium.org/2021/files/papers/issue2/popets-202...
Feel free to downvote it. I expressed my honest, unbiased opinion. Until the OP, I had never heard of SOPHIE, so attempted to listen with an unbiased mindset.
They hide the fact that you are buying from a reseller as much as they can.

I mean, it says Sold by X and Fulfilled by Amazon right under the add to basket/buy buttons. It's repeated on the order summary. I'm aware people keep missing this, but I don't really get it.
Can't a tradition based society just use tradition to keep divorce painful and punish those that do it? Like the core aspect of a wedding is to bring everyone you know together so you can tell them all at the same time "I promise to stick to this person". If you want that to have weight then just treat it like it has weight. Shame your friends in to staying married if they talk about considering divorce, and shun those that go through with it anyway.

I understand the concept of having different views of how serious of a commitment marriage should be, but I don't understand why "I want things to be this way" automatically means "the government should make things this way". They're the scariest institution that exists because of the overwhelming power they wield. Hell, they're largely defined by it. Bringing the government in to play for every little thing seems to me like buttering your bread with a scimitar.
I'm not sure what the complaint is there. They grew their business, which is what every business tries to do, nothing unique to Google about that. The interesting question is are they finally becoming a victim of their success. It seems obvious to me that the big tech companies have grown past the size where public interest / public square questions start to kick in, which is why the "it's a private company, they can do what they want on their own platform, no free speech issues to see here" argument is so weak. It's also not at all in the long-term political interests of the people who've recently adopted it as a mantra, just for a temporary advantage over their adversaries. Not smart, guys.
Right, if I could edit (too late now it seems) I would add "from post WWII till about the late 70s".
Sure, but my question was just if the article was making the same basic argument as the given hypothesis (along with the same basic assumptions).
The selective schools can sell their signaling services and support massive bloated administrative groups. People will pay for the validation.

Non-selective schools (like Leicester, which admits 80%!of applicants, of which only 20% choose to attend) won’t be able to pull this off. The signaling value is too weak. They can’t get you an interview at a top company. If they can’t prepare you for it, how many parents will pay for a 4 year vacation?
Are the universities a de-facto one party system? No. Does their aggregate behaviour resemble one? More often than you'd expect.

The change from, "a university should produce thoughtful and well rounded citizens and leaders to grow our society," to, "a university should produce activists to pose as experts and seize the means of production," has happened within the span of a single career cohort. I'd say that math itself isn't the target, but it does seem to have found itself in the way.
There’s a link in the article to Ivan Illich’s “Silence is a commons” that captures a wider point about commons, and paints it with a couple of historical examples.

http://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1983_silence_commons.htm...
1. Yes they are. Why do you think Jack and Elon and Ray are so into it now? Everyone knows too much money has been printed and the rich see it first and want out.

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”

The Economist, December 4, 2003
William Gibson

2. I’m holding as little cash as I can and trading it out for Bitcoin and Ethereum every chance I can get.
Any country even conservative ones still has tax breaks, minimum wage, other social programs for people with low incomes. Combine those programs into one thing and that's essentially universal basic income.
And that is a straw-man, I never claimed any of what you are accusing. You have nothing to say, so you twist the words. Quite sad actually to see this in Hackernews of all places.

I claimed that if you have your information about WSB from anyone but yourself, you have most likely been duped in some way or another and that is evident by how you talked about WSB, full of ignorance.

> Anyways, yeah, GameStop is a great company with a great stock and some evil hedgefund is going to lose billions for trying to manipulate the price!

Nobody said GME is a great company. What are the odds the proletariat on reddit throwing money into the fire pit in an attempt to hurt the rich is attempting to con you, and what are the odds somebody who stands to lose billions and already lost is?

gmedd.com, or you know, do your own DD.
Ugh. I’m pretty sure if someone wrote a huge essay giving compelling reasons why they were basing the strategy on fundamentals, bolstered with various details about the board changes and track record, the current stock performance, franchise cash flow, etc., then the least crackpot explanation here is that they actually meant it and that was in fact their strategy.

Your sarcastic “.. if the reddit author said it” totally misses the point. The point is not whether the reddit author is right only the reddit author is actually describing their honest strategy based on fundamentals.

Given the specificity of the strategy and the fact that it actually did turn out to be right it would seem like an extreme claim requiring extreme evidence to disagree or to presume some ulterior secret market manipulation motive.

Separately, I for one am not sure you are right to say $20B market cap of GameStop is crazy. I think it will drop yes, but not nearly as far as most people think. The change of board management for GME is quite a big signal of the large-scale ecommerce revamp they plan to execute, and that strategy was executed by the new board member previously at Chewy, so there is actual track record to believe this.

The valuation is high right now, sure, but I sincerely think it’s not crazy high. That’s why a lot of the WSBers and redditors are still refusing to sell. The plan absolutely was not a pump and dump, it was more like jumping on an airplane before it takes off - at least in their minds. Time will tell.
> Wind farm output typically peaks at night.

Is this generally true, or does it depend on geography (e.g. being near the coast)? Where I am in the midwest, it seems that the air normally gets very calm after sunset.
If you want to acheive something approaching the latency advantages of WebRTC with HLS its well worth checking out the low latency HLS work by Apple and the wider video-dev community.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/http_live_streamin...
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis-08
Yes, he does conflate a bunch of behaviour into IP. But that’s just his conflation.

Monopolistic practices exist with or without IP laws, terms of service, etc.

Take a look at some other industries: energy companies have protected fossil fuel exploitation and stifled research and adoption of nuclear and green alternatives.

Finance industry have maintained monopoly and avoided regulation despite there being obvious harm to their practice.

These behaviours are related to capitalism... not intellectual property.
If you use the "instant deposit" feature (its ON by default) on Robinhood, you are using margin. Its one of the weird things people never really though about.
How do you determine who was "first" when simultaneity doesn't exist on a cosmic scale?
webrtc is just a stream but you can absolutely tell the sending side to seek to a certain point.

If webrtc is your TV then the sending side is your VHS. You can tell the VHS to rewind or forward, but telling your TV to do the same is impossible. It just shows you what it gets.
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He's using "i3 with a heavily customized userspace" which isn't exactly what most people would use. Gnome on X11 lets you (integer) scale monitors through a GUI at the very least.
Well, there are a lot of Googlers who visit this forum. They’ll probably go in Monday and ask what’s up
I agree, unequivocally, my comment was meant to point the parent comment is filled with ignorance.
The GameStop surge is just another Ponzi scheme
i managed (well, to make sensitivity low enough it was usable even at 400dpi .. ) by recompiling libinput. yea really
It's generally the short sellers who lose money in a short squeeze. All this paternalism about poor naive retail traders is frankly getting a bit tiresome. They've done quite well for themselves and it won't take much risk management to stay in profit.
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