skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very stupid article.

Elite sports talent gets paid on the ability to win, which increases ticket/ad revenue and helps the coaching staff retail their jobs. There is also a very small pool of pro-level athletes in a country, in the US around 2,000 elite, pro athletes. An example is NFL quarterbacks: has there ever been too many available?

None of the above applies to programmers.

Additionally, most mgmt. staff cannot tolerate IC's making more than them, both because of envy and the optics of an IC contributing more than their manager. (I know multiple IT salesmen who were forced out because they earned several times more in commission than the CEO was paid. You would think profitability came first, but nope.)

Elite programmers have to start their own companies if they want to earn what they're contributing.
If you go to the article and read the quote under the title, you'll see where the 50x comes from.
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Yep, the 2nd amendment entitles you to shoot tax collectors. Exactly right.
There is something I’m not getting. If “I am talking” is the present continuous tense, why is «Estoy hablando» not the same tense? They seem to be exactly analogous: a verb for to be, conjugated, followed by the present participle.
This struck me because I find the 10x claim pretty suspect (at least as it's usually characterized). 50X is just myth inflation.
The costs are hard to argue with, yeah. I certainly wouldn’t try with my limited understanding of the world of energy politics. I did enjoy learning more about the history of why nuclear is so expensive though even if it isn’t entirely useful knowledge. It’s pretty dry and I don’t have a PDF link handy to share, but I found the “President’s Report on Three Mile Island” (iirc, prepared for Carter while in office) to be a very very interesting read. Also these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Three
If your boss sucks you can't fire them, but if the union sucks you CAN vote out the officers.
Manipulation of voters works best in low turnout elections. The more people vote, the harder it is to manipulate either the voters or the voting results.
The right circumstance + the right person can make someone 50x. It appears to me the ability to identify circumstances and people and put them in the right place is also very important? It might be another 50x worth thing.
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NYC has the LinkNyc free wifi program. Guess who uses it the most? ..... the homeless, and the poor. (they replaced pay phones with it, and i have seen it being used always by the less than fortunate types).

Connecting to it is not great, but it is better than nothing. This would have helped the poorest people, yet SF turned it away without providing a substitute.
That's a funny story. Yes, we also check licenses, security, popularity and maintainers before introducing a dependency. Then of course again track changes for every future release so there is a significant overhead to for every dependency.

When you say never took on any external code repository does it mean you guys would make a copy of every package you add, build it yourself and not use something like npm dependencies in production?
Interesting. I would be curious about if it's the engineering ability that makes them get such high salaries or it’s something else.
WhatsApp for instance sold for $19 Billion and when it was acquired had an engineering team of just 35.
Stallman is looking more like FOSS' Stalin every day. There's no technical justification or even an overtly ethical one to use GCC over libclang, Stallman's ego just needs stroking every couple of years.

I long for the day that he stops making decisions.
> they are doing their best to wipe out the culture....

This is a dubious claim at least to me. There are videos of tourists in Xinjiang showcasing many many mosques. In fact their mosques are a major tourist attraction. If you have reliable non-western sources for this information do tell.

Also, go watch the brit video.
Site not loading. Any compelling reason to divest this responsibility from the FBI? I assume weakening legal protections?
Typically people will store it somewhere (S3 or otherwise) and generate an IPFS hash of the file and write the hash to the NFT. Doge is just a Bitcoin fork and can't store data any more easily than Ethereum.

File storage protocols exist such as Sia and Filecoin, that are more appropriate for decentralized storage.
i wish their site has at least one screenshot of what the app looks like. It's hard for anyone to evaluate whether they should switch over without even looking at an image first!
In my mind and experience, a "10x engineer" (not sure I'm ready for the "50x" term) gets (or should get) that distinction because they write high quality, fault tolerant, secure, performant, well documented code, AND they empower their teammates. It usually has very little to do with the speed in which they accomplish all of that, which I think is why management has a hard time identifying who they are.

They may think the engineer who fixes 10 bugs a week is their best asset. But what about the engineer who quietly created high quality code with very few bugs, that's extremely easy to maintain?

A "10x engineer" gets that distinction because their software provides dividends in quality and maintainability for years and years, even if the initial implementation took them a seemingly long time. But management often just sees the engineer who's closing the tickets the fastest, even if that person's code becomes a curse on the company for years to come.

It doesn't help that so many teams are focused on 2 week sprints and quarterly goals. That kind of work favors a certain type of engineer, and incentives short term solutions.
But the problem is the software industry is hype complex. Thus is almost impossible to measure your real revenue contribution.
LOL, Almost every thread I read related to Stephen Wolfram, there are always people who complain about his ego.
interesting, you should submit this as a top level post
We do have long term solutions. Large low oxygen beryllium copper caskets encased in steel. Drop them into a shaft bored into a mountain.

There's other ways, of course, but this was the best one I remember reading about; it's expensive but less so than the incidentals of CO2 and particulate release.
You are a little too credulous about how politics works, especially in San Francisco. Choosing to delay a time-sensitive project (how long does it take to coordinate and execute a plan for summer programs for tens of thousands of kids?) is similar to cancelling it, but perhaps a little more shrewd and palatable.

While here, may I point you to a decade-long rezoning plan which was delayed by "6 months" for any project which hadn't paid out extortions to favored "community groups." Nine months later, the purported "equity analysis" which the delay was for has yet to materialize: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2020/07/21/hub....
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Without remarking on the whole 50x thing, I do think it’s worth pointing out that lots of software people don’t work on web development or CRUD apps very often.
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Eventually we'll just burn the "spent" fuel in breeder reactors. Anything else doesn't make much sense.
> Stuff (and most labour value) will trend toward zero, and land will trend toward the infinite.

We're already in a post-scarcity society for:

- open-source software
- streaming audio/video
- social media

.. and probably other sectors? Each has their own scarcity dynamics and network effects, but the price of "stuff" has indeed trended towards zero.

US is currently experiencing a housing/land shortage in desirable regions outside of big cities.
It took that long because idiots routinely hold up the process with infinite questions. At some point you need to realize your existing behavior is worse and just move on, do not let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
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> “In software, the difference between the average software developer and the best is 50:1; Maybe even 100:1.” Steve Jobs

> If you’re a software engineer, you would probably agree with what Steve Jobs said.

I am and I don't. I've yet to see even a 10x engineer. I've seen people who are more than 10x within a very narrow domain, but when you include the whole system and all their responsibilities, no one comes close to 10x.

SW development is not just coding. The other aspects of it are harder to scale in performance. Amdahl's Law is very relevant here.
I thought most stock options are worth like x% of your base salary. They usually can boost the total salary on a certain level but not a crazy amount?
They are slowly spreading their reach from SF area down south, so will take them quite a few years to be at South Bay unfortunately
An app called "elevate" has some good exercises
Except this comes in in real life all the time: "you don't need a lawyer here, you're not guilty..." - yes you do. You always need a lawyer. You always should plead the 5th if it applies. No, you should never be talking to law enforcement without a lawyer. No you should not let law enforcement "take a look around" without a warrant.

Real life is full of things you absolutely should do which are sold up and down through media as "looking guilty".
Nice try Chesa... you just opened this account to defend that guy that indirectly has led to the killing for 3 people, and the rape of a immigrant woman. People that he let go, just went back and created those crimes.

Also, his numbers of prosecution tells that he needs to go. Don't get elected if you can't are are not willing to do your job
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It was probably also this way back in 2004.
If you have any interest whatsoever in Westerns as a genre you should read Lonesome Dove. It's about 850 pages but I'd be surprised if it took you more than a week to read. For the longest time I had no interest in reading it because, of all the things, the title put me off (I thought it would be a romance of some sort).

His uncles were cowboys toward the end of the cowboy days, and when they were young, they'd heard stories from the old-timers about how things used to be. Those uncles told Larry those stories and he eventually incorporated that knowledge into his westerns, and it really shows. One thing I find fascinating about Lonesome Dove is that, as the article says, he intended it to deconstruct some of the myths of the West and show what a hard life it was, but everyone who reads it falls in love with the world and the characters.
And I think Instagram had like 12.
> I think it's reasonable for an organization to think twice before taking a dependency on such projects, given the sort of anonymous attacks mentioned in the article.

I'd argue that "thinking twice" should be the standard bar for all open source dependencies, not a discrimination levied towards anonymous or pseudonymous developers.

(Though, to be fair, I doubt Google would ever use any of my code. I know your cryptographers; they don't need me to contribute lol.)
Can anyone who's used both, compare it with Directory Opus?
Usually X-Debbugs-CC is a psuedo-header rather than a real email header, that makes it easier to add to submit messages.
Regardless of your country when dealing with a government official always have a recording, at least audio, of said meeting. Then name and shame, make them lose election. Crying 15 years later is kinda pointless.
In English why do you need to say “exacerbate” when you can say “make worse”? Or “defenestrate” when you mean “toss out the window”? The usual answer I hear is that it’s because it makes the language more beautiful and precise. I think it makes it inflexible and inconvenient in the same way that it’s easier to have 26 letters combined in arbitrary patterns than 5000 kanji that each represent one or more things.

You have to thank the British and the social class system they have invented. A person who can exacerbate a matter by virtue of defenestrating something (or someone) is at least of the middle class social status, and by listening to their speech accent in person, you will also be able to reason about how posh was the school they – naturally – attended (low class people went to a school but did not attend it). «Exacerbate» vs «make worse», «defenestrate» vs «throw out of the window», «attend a school» vs «go to a school» are examples of social register words that are specific to a particular social status of the person or a social group they belong to. Middle to upper class people tend to use more words of French and Latin origin to stand themselves apart from people of a lower social class who tend to use more words of the Anglo-Saxon / Germanic origin.

Social register embedded at the language vocabulary level is not unqiue to English (for instance, Korean, Thai, other SE Asian and some native North/South American languages also have multiple registers that require switching to the most appropriate vocabulary depending of how old, how regal, how well known etc the receiver of the speech is), but the clear indication of socioeconomic background is likely a rather unique trait of the English language.
> The challenge is that to successfully cash out, ALL the pieces of the company have to work together and effectively to some degree.

In theory, yes. However if you look at Google and FB a lion's share of their revenue is through ads. Yet they employ thousands of engineers and pay them extremely handsomly to chase all sorts of projects and moonshots most of which are inconsequential.

My favourite hypothesis is that they keep the smartest engineers hand-cuffed in gold and ask them to dig-a-hole-fill-a-hole just so that they don't go somewhere else to build a competing product. They succeed by and large. In India for instance a small/medium startup has no chance in hell to match Google's total comp, let alone other perks. Not only is cash and RSU handsome but also they get yearly RSU refreshers. The kind of money Google pays just blows my mind.
I disagree with the "only", yes if a capital-intensive takeover happened they cannot take your bitcoins from your wallet, but they can still straight up destroy bitcoin or quietly enrich select parties through double spends as btc inflates.

Fwiw the history can be re-written if over a long time a miner produces a longer chain due to hash power advantages in secret; when released it would by default invalidate all transactions since the secret mining began.
Thanks for the interesting comment!

Just a personal anecdote, my native language is Hungarian, and I have been studying English from pretty early on in primary school. And I was really terrible at it, I assume in part because of the “rules” that has more exceptions than applicable cases. And the language “clicked” much later on, when I accumulated enough of the language that I could “hear” whether a given sentence sounds right or not.

This is in stark contrast to my (failed) attempt at learning German, where even though I know like 3 words all together, I could form quite complex sentences because the language is so regular. I didn’t like learning all the rules, but it “clicks” much faster if they are consistent.

So my experience (as a layperson) is that a language has to be “compiled” and one must hear what is correct to be able to speak it to any reasonable extant - and in the learning phase, sentence forming is more like being “interpreted”. And perhaps a more “dynamic” language is more troublesome to compile.
> "I haven’t found any resources for". -- are you a city official, or just spreading fud here and talking out of your arse....

They are simply saying they don’t know enough to talk about it, so they are talking about something they know more about instead.

Not FUD and you really shouldn’t randomly attack people like that.
Nah, it's not that prohibitive. Your standard Ethereum smart contract has at least a dozen variables stored at any time. About a year ago it was roughly $13 per KB. That price has probably doubled since then.
The notion that behavioural tics can betray lying (or truth-telling) is also part of the kayfabye / stage dressing of truth-determination and vetting.

If you have a set of props (polygraph, truth-teller, various actual or fabricated observations, etc.) that you can present as a plausible basis for claiming someone is lying, then you can apply more severe psychological pressure, possibly getting them to break and confess, though often also simply forcing a false confession, a very real hazard.

(See various accounts suggesting that friendly-demeanor interrogation is far more useful.)

In the account I detailed in an earlier comment on this thread, I'd ... let slip to people who I thought might feed back my counterpart ... that I was in touch with some people who were incredibly good at hacking online information, and dug for (and revealed) a few details I'd turned up ... which actually were based on reverse-engineering a database structure and assessing the contents. (One ... glorious personal weakness of the adversary revealed some critical information I'd been looking for, in particular.) I suspect that message did find its way back, as my adversary was caught entirely unawares.

The net effects weren't entirely unlike a YouTube video on an "amazing mind reader" (actually warning of data surveillance and privacy ... on behalf of a bank): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7pYHN9iC9I

And the CIA's Crypto AG operation, in which a firm allegedly selling products to encrypt Telex communications had been back-doored for decades. The easiest way to decrypt or hack information is to have it in plaintext in the first place.

(Other than seeking justice in my own case, I've not made further use of the data I obtained. Though the information had proved tremendously useful, the experience was also a powerful cautionary tale as well.)
Not defending or supporting, just quoting-

> Nakasone told senators that the U.S. was unable to keep up with the threat in large part because laws prevent NSA and Cyber Command from adequately observing adversaries operating on U.S. networks. “They’re no longer just launching their attacks from different parts of the world. They understand that they come into the United States, use our infrastructure, and there’s a blind spot for us not being able to see them.”

It seems like the gist is, FBI focuses on internal only threats, NSA focuses on threats from outsiders, but if you want to track threats on a global information network properly, you need someone whose purview covers both.
I think the [valid] criticism is around the reasons the politicians wouldn't vote to approve. If their reasoning was based on anti competitive and privacy issues, then i'd understand.
Sacca said he eventually ran the same program in Mountain View.

> Google (dude's employer) was just going to gift internet to the entire city of San Francisco, starting with the poor, 100% free in perpetuity, and somehow promise to never use the data for any advertising purposes whatsoever?

So, this is easily verifiable that what he claims is true.
seem very elaborated... unfortunately I don't use windows.
Most plastics can be recycled into energy by burning them, just like "spent" nuclear fuel. The difference is that plastic waste occurs everywhere and collecting it would cost way too much, but nuclear waste collection works very well.
That is common in Europe. The biggest chain is called Sanifair. Costs between 50 cents and 1 euro.
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One day, I was eating while watching a Korean mukbang.
Then I wanted to see myself eating instead of seeing other people eating.
I thought it would feel like eating with myself.
Best liar ever if you want to see how good some people’s poker face can be:

Prison escapee convinces cop he is actually a jogger:
https://youtu.be/vBrnBmUmVzI

Liars of this type probably have been practicing in real situations where their lies got them something.

I think most of us (non nefarious people) don’t have to deal with lies of real significance. I’ve lied at stand-up, and I’m sure people know it. It’s a polite request for dignified forgiveness.

The only real lie that can happen in your life is with a spouse/partner, since that is a calamity in relative terms (betrayal). Kids/Teens will lie about a lot of things, but that should be expected (immaturity). Your company has to lie to you (business).

If for whatever reason you are dealing with major lies of any other kind, then you are probably dealing with a criminal.

So yeah, we should be bad at spotting serious liars since we have no business being around them (e.g your business is crime).
As someone who publishes a small software as a side-project, signing my bundles is a pain in the a*.

You not only need to shell out some 100$ to stupid companies like comodo who should not even exist, but also need to incorporate a company or do some crazy paper work to get it.

If any fellow small windows side project developer has a solution I’ll be happy to hear.
The difference is a sports team has at most 30 team members but a company can have 1000+ engineers, which makes everything tangled together
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There's also the very strong confirmation bias.

We're all very good at detecting the liars we detect.

(This is the fundamental diagnostics fallacy. Absent some known ground truth, identifying hard-to-detect, hard-to-confirm phenomena is, well, hard.)

(This then gets coupled to the treatment fallacy, post hoc ergo prompter. I did A, B was cured, therefore A cured B.)
I thought those were called podcasts.
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I think "N"x is just a hypothetical number. It can be 1x - 50x depending on the individual
Finger prints on a weapon does not prove guilt.

Perhaps you made a sandwich with that knife earlier in the day.

Perhaps you own the gun, and therefore of course it has your prints on it. That doesn't mean you fired the lethal shot.