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I think the Hamming piece that circulates here infrequently is very insightful:

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

> Now for the matter of drive. You observe that most great scientists have tremendous drive. I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous drive. One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John Tukey was slightly younger than I was. John was a genius and I clearly was not. Well I went storming into Bode's office and said, ``How can anybody my age know as much as John Tukey does?'' He leaned back in his chair, put his hands behind his head, grinned slightly, and said, ``You would be surprised Hamming, how much you would know if you worked as hard as he did that many years.'' I simply slunk out of the office!

> What Bode was saying was this: ``Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest.'' Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity - it is very much like compound interest. I don't want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime. I took Bode's remark to heart; I spent a good deal more of my time for some years trying to work a bit harder and I found, in fact, I could get more work done. I don't like to say it in front of my wife, but I did sort of neglect her sometimes; I needed to study. You have to neglect things if you intend to get what you want done. There's no question about this.

On the other hand, I would also recommend caution here -- I strongly believe that some people simply have a much higher capacity/tolerance for work. John Carmack appears to have been able to sustain 80-hour weeks without burning out. I can't. I don't feel bad about this gap. This observation is pretty mundane; it's exactly the same way that the average person's psyche or physique simply can't tolerate the training workload of an olympic athlete.

"Work harder" might be the right advice for someone who has excess capacity that they are not using. It might be terrible advice for someone who is already trending towards burnout working 50-hour weeks when their capacity is 40-hour weeks. There's an element of self-knowledge required to honestly evaluate yourself and determine exactly how capable you are. (Of course -- push yourself sometimes. You might surprise yourself. I personally think it's a good experience to have pushed up against burnout on a project I care about, to know what my limits are. But I don't aspire to ride that line in perpetuity.)
Resources on the page at that URL still load from your .com domain - will Cloudflare serve those too?
I watched the same thing happen with the introduction of Intellisense. Pre-Intellisense I had tons of RSI problems and had to use funky ergonomic keyboards like the Kinesis keyboard to function as a dev. Now I just hop on whatever laptop is in front of me and code. Same reason - massive reduction in the number of keys I have to touch to produce a line of code.
Without luck, you will not get to the level of Messi. Without knowledge, you will not get to the level of Messi. Without living in the right environment, you will not get to the level of Messi.

The "natural ability" thing is just a spin on the same idea. Work hard to recognize your natural ability. Be realistic about it. In that view, natural ability is not a matter of luck. It is still a story about doing the right things so that you deserve all the credit if you are successful, and more importantly, so that you can blame those that didn't.
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It's a privately ran optional system. I do realize that society generally makes it non-optional, but then that gets into arguments about running a debt based monetary regime.
The Revival of Stoicism
Nice way to turn this into a personal attack. I have nothing against this opinion, and said as much above (I might even share it). His attitude and wording is entitled and disrespectful, like this is an inconvenience to him and not the result of worldwide events.
Again, I'm not glossing over problems, I'm contextualizing them. I've been very clear about that in this entire thread. Cherry picking individual metrics doesn't present a clear picture, and I'm striving for a clear (not distorted) picture. Notably, healthcare costs don't mean much on their own, you have to adjust for per-capita wealth as well. With respect to wealth inequality, would you rather live in a country where almost everyone is below the poverty line or one in which almost everyone is above the poverty line but some moreso than others? Again, I want to reign in inequality in the US, but I don't need to invoke hyperbole to get there.

You aren't going to get a clear picture by cherry picking statistics that support your conclusion. You need to contextualize. Of course, if your goal isn't to get a clear, honest picture then we're aiming for different things and we may as well part ways now.

EDIT: From wikipedia, regarding measures of inequality:

> Gini coefficients are simple, and this simplicity can lead to oversights and can confuse the comparison of different populations; for example, while both Bangladesh (per capita income of $1,693) and the Netherlands (per capita income of $42,183) had an income Gini coefficient of 0.31 in 2010,[53] the quality of life, economic opportunity and absolute income in these countries are very different, i.e. countries may have identical Gini coefficients, but differ greatly in wealth.
Ask HN: Do Freelancers Use Slack?
Since Slack is a workplace chat application, I was wondering if freelancers use slack for communicating with their clients. Or do people just stick with email?
Electronic lottery tickets as micropayments (1997)
Sounds like New York will continue to lose population and significant tax revenue, then, by giving in to totalitarian ideas.
SpaceX: Transporter-2 Mission Livestream
A lot of the “finops” practitioners I’ve seen are myopically focused on tagging of AWS resources; and that falls to pieces with kubernetes because AWS can’t see inside the kubernetes clusters.

I’m not surprised they don’t like it.
Psychedelics Alter Metaphysical Beliefs
None of these violate your bodily autonomy.
I’m talking about my own experience comparing an electric car and a gasoline car at low speeds. EVs being significantly quieter is already well established and we have laws for EVs to make extra noise to alert pedestrians.
Why Furries Make Excellent Hackers
MIT and U.S. Department of Defense team up to launch a new edX learning platform
> Like all things in life, when its implemented well it works and when it does not it is terrible.

for a good example of this look at the iPhone's predecessors and the iPad's predecessors... before those the PDAs were basically awful and internet phones were junk. the iPad basically created a wide-spread tablet market.
If you wrote the code, you can testify to whatever you want.
But commenting on someone else's code, that's probably a job for the engineering order.
I have been using Neeva for several weeks. It took a while to stop my eyes from scanning past "the fold" in search results. The useful stuff is right there at the top. I can't say enough good about my experience thus far.

I had a concern about search latency, so I emailed Sridhar at ceo@neeva.co and he replied in a few hours. We had a nice chat via email. Now I have a mug and a T-shirt.

I'm looking forward to paying $5/mo to be a customer, and not a product. Would happily pay $20/mo -- this is worth more to me than subscriptions like Netflix.
Large events outside of New York have not had any such vaccine mandates, and have not led to any outbreaks. By the numbers, New York has handled the pandemic worse than any state in the US. I'm not sure we should be holding up any of the measures they've taken or are currently taking as any sort of holy grail.
Christmas travel is a huge deal in the US. I recall at the time many people predicted the spike due to the holiday travel.
Orphaned by Windows 11? I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore
To say "bring menus back" isn't forward thinking. Menu's are gross, not all resturants bother to clean them because to do so is a burden on service flow. They're also an uneeded environmental factor.

This pandemic was a complete reflection of human laziness. With the technology we're spoiled with, if there's an effortless way to carry better hygiene habits, we should make use of it.

So to the author, you can be as bummed as you want watching customers stare down at phones. You can go ahead and paint it as some Orwellian fever dream. I don't want this planet's landfills to load up on slightly cracked Cheesecake factory booklets.
Selecting descendants or sibling elements? Selecting based on tag and class? Selecting elements with a given attribute present or matching a particular value? Selecting elements with classes starting or ending with a given string? Selecting elements without children? Selecting elements that aren't any of the above.
Bootsrapping Course
The bootstrapping couse is very comprehensive and informative and explains and reveals important secrets curated by a entrepreneur herself
How does and article like this get that headline? About 2/3rds of the way down is a section titled "Where I’ve Abandoned Plain Text".
IIHS restores Tesla Model 3 top safety rating after testing vision-based system
A disturbing number of people think they're actually adding value by doing this.

Orwell called it 'Duckspeak'.
If folks can't produce a confirmed positive covid test or antibody test, then they can effectively be treated as unprotected because there's no evidence they have protection, that's fine.

> If you mean allow workers at an old folks home to opt out based on a prior positive test that is unreasonable. If it makes you even possibly slightly less likely to kill the old folks you should get the jab.

Where is the line drawn? Maybe it would be more effective for people with 2 doses to get a third? What science is there showing antibodies + 1 shot is more marginal protection than 3 shots?
Yep... I mean, part of that is a problem of "SPA everything" cargo cult; basic web page? SPA everything! Content management? SPA everything!

I manage my wife's electronic store that's based on WordPress, and I see absolutely no reason for ever changing it. I've written a bunch of custom scripts, all in PHP back-end and jquery front-end, and... It just works. And it's fast. And complexity is totally manageable.

But, I've also written a few SPAs for her business deployed as PWAs, and I can't even begin to think about how it would look like if I was using jquery for these tasks. React (or Vue or whatever) is an escape hatch from going insane in such situations.
Did I miss the long term safety information of the corona virus?
PDFs are better than a paper menu, for sure, but wouldn't you prefer a website that scales properly and allows you to place orders? I think that is the point parent post is making.
I'm open to reconsidering it. What's the evidence that human interaction with restaurant servers is good for either the servers or the person being served? Do people that pack in lunches to work experience lower health than those that eat out?
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I bought a 1st gen iPhone Touch for my wife who wanted a PDA (ha!, remember those?). I remember being really impressed by Mobile Safari - you could actually browse real web pages! And they rendered normally and you could interact with them normally! I had my doubts as to how much it would catch on, boy was I wrong! The first iPhone I got was a 16 Gb 4s. Two years later I got a 32 Gb 5s. Two years after that I got a 64 Gb SE. Four years after that and I got a 128 Gb 2020 SE. Notice a pattern with my storage?! :)

On my first three iPhones I used an Otterbox Defender case. For this latest one I'm using a Mous. These phones have been dropped down concrete stairs in a parking garage, I've had them in my back pocket when I slipped on ice and fell directly on them - never a cracked screen or any hardware issue. I'm pretty impressed. Meanwhile my wife has an iPhone 7 that's 5 years old and looks like new and is running the latest iOS.
> their grabbing at lowdash debounce or react-virtual because they don't have the confidence to build a leaner version themselves

Yeah let's stop (re-)using open source software and write everything ourselves.

Who needs React when we can have cuddlecake's spontaenously written mini-framework (I lovingly call it anguvuesveact, because I got inspired) that definitely does not provide the required feature set or developer experience to support a productive professional development process, but it's mine.

Now that we have WebAssembly, couldn't we write applications in actual Assembly? It just takes confidence that we can build something lean with it, no other considerations necessary.

Well, uh, I just realized we don't need to rely on Firefox, if we just, uh, develop our own browser, uh, from first principles. A lean one, to be sure, only providing the features we need for our Web App. If we need new features we'll build them along the way.

Ah shit, my DIY lodash (I lovingly call it cuddledash, because I got inspired) has a bug but I'm focusing on the custom browser, so no time to fix that. :/

> React/Vue/Angular will not protect you from bloated, poorly written apps.

Only our self-written lodash lib will protect us, hear hear.
I really wonder who those folks copy-pasting from Stack Overflow all day are. I only rarely find pieces of code that I can copy-paste. Typically Stack Overflow only gives me an idea of how to solve something, but incorporating that idea into my code base is still not trivial.
Of course youtube does a poor job of distinguishing misinformation from controversial-but-accurate scientific information. Why wouldn't they? Isn't that the expected result?

All the angst in this thread mystifies me. You might as well go to a strip bar and then act shocked and outraged that your steak is overcooked. Of course it is; you're in the wrong place. The solution is to not to demand that youtube do a better job of curating science information for you, it's to not get your science information from youtube.
Seems like distributed file systems have a 'choice triangle': permanent, cheap or "doesn't allow hosting child porn" - choose one.
> [E]ven in college a lot of the work is pointless; there are entire departments that are pointless.

I find it interesting PG thinks that dismissing entire branches of science without specifying which ones nor justifying why, is a) a good take or b) makes his essay better.
I would do this, but my data has been up in social media long enough that I don't believe it makes a significant difference if I superficially "delete" it now. Maybe I'm wrong?

At this point, I just don't add anything new. If they're going to host my content ad infinitum, I might as well use their storage space and bandwidth.

I guess it probably would be worth ditching LinkedIn. There's no good reason why a [worthwhile] prospective employer would require it.
Renault Twingo III gets 66 mpg, while having much more space and being generally more useful.
Query your Linux operating system like a database
> This means Rosetta 2 doesn't even have to convert x86 to ARM fully, but instead can convert x86 binaries into a hybrid of x86 and ARM together and can skip steps like memory reordering that Microsoft's translator has to do.

I mean, there's no real "hybrid" thing going on at all, it's just a matter of what instructions get emitted by the compiler to match the externally observable semantics. In fact are already ARM platforms that use sequential consistency (TSO) for the memory model besides the M1; Nvidia's Jetson platforms are one such example, and a Rosetta-like translation layer on that platform would be able to take advantage of it all the same.

I guess it's just a matter of wordsmithing at the end of the day, though!
Apart from the historical reasons both `getElementsByClassName` and especially `getElementById` are optimised - the latter being a simple lookup - which I'm not sure `querySelectorAll` is able to take advantage of.
one thing that caught my eye was the convert comments to code feature. If you can use your voice to dictate comments then combined with copilot it might just be possible to write code without touching the keyboard at all!

of course I guess copilot won't be perfectly accurate right now or even maybe for a long time but it is interesting to imagine a future where the programmer can think and get code written without lifting a finger.
US Senate Hearing: Dr. Pierre Kory on Ivermectin (Dec 2020)
What's a proprietary solution that makes it easy for ordinary people to utilize and store their copious multimedia?
@Nat, these questions (all of them, not just the 2 you answered) are critical for anyone who is considering using this system. Please answer them?

I for one wouldn't touch this with a 10000' pole until I know the answers to these (very reasonable) questions.
Completely anecodatal story coming up.

When I was a kid my school had a "Gifted and Talented" program.

The "gifted" kids were selected based on performance on aptitude tests, then "talented" kids were appointed by the school board.

Every single "talented" kid had a teacher for a parent. That is not hyperbole.

I don't think it's deliberate, but I think this war against standardization is to further exclude outsiders.
What company has constant load 24/7/365?
Yes this re-ordering can cause a deadlock. But it's not an allowed optimization to change a non-deadlocking program into a potentially deadlocking program, so this reordering can not happen. (http://eel.is/c++draft/intro.multithread#intro.progress-7)

You can still get this deadlock if you actually write the code like that: lock1.lock(); lock2.unlock();
That's just not an argument that works. You could cut your emissions down even more by using an electric vehicle.
> “Use is pretty flat, and the price changes are occurring in both older and newer products. That surprised me. The exact same products are costing double,” she said.
> Think of how many smallish projects are just never started these days because "software engineers are too expensive".

Maybe many. If the cost/benefit equation doesn't work, it makes no sense to do the project.

> I don't think software engineers will get much cheaper, they'll just do a lot more.

If they do more for the same cost, they are cheaper. You as a developer will be earning less in relation to the value you create.
I fully believe that JS is better than VBScript, but it's also possible that many other factors contributed to JS's triumph over VBScript. In whichever case, this is pretty weak evidence for the claim "JS won its popularity relative to other languages by merit" (presumably you weren't intending it to be strong evidence).
> There is no system to being lucky.

Do you really believe that you're just as lucky to find opportunity by staying home and playing video games vs getting educated and visiting trade shows, etc.?

Do you really believe that you're just as likely to get lucky with investments by never investing in anything, vs doing some research and doing investing?
How does this work in the context of leetcode/hackerrank interviews ? Can I just use the copilot to get a 90%?skeleton of the required solution and maybe fill in just the 10% smarts ?
The vaccine also leads to natural antibodies.
It only contains the spike protein so the immune system can safely develop the antibodies.
German privacy tsar tells ministries to shut Facebook pages
Things have started stabilizing. React is a clear winner in the framework wars (but there are some promising new upstarts). I'd build a small app in React and go from there. Next.js is extremely easy to get started with out of the box.

Webpack is still a nightmare but things like snowpack et al try to remove some of that complexity.
We went to a restaurant last week for the first time in a year, and sat there for 10 minutes waiting for a menu. The person who seated us didn’t tell us about the QR code. I discovered it after idly looking at the piece of paper on the table (which previously I assumed was an ad for drink specials).

A few minutes later I witnessed an elderly couple experiencing the same thing. They sat for 10 minutes expectantly waiting for menus to be delivered.

Lame experience.
I have to echo this. I know HN is full of people obsessed with a very different lifestyle but frankly... I think this piece misses the mark entirely.

PG I suspect and many others derive intrinsic happiness from the grind. From achievement. Yet this is a very myopic way to live that for the vast majority of people will result in a fair amount of unhappiness.

A far healthier and happier way to live is to live a balanced life. Work efficiently when you need to work, and be focused on your objectives. Don't waste time on stuff that doesn't matter. You can still be successful, grow yourself, etc. but without killing yourself in the process.

And for the love of god... take time for yourself to enjoy the finer things in life. Take a walk and try to find the beauty in things. Go travel somewhere new! Enjoy some you time and treat yourself.

I cannot disagree more with PG here, sadly. But that's all it is... a disagreement. Everyone gets to choose what life they want to live.
But what happens when they give you a modified version back?
Ermahgerd, yes! Doing this right now.
I truly don't think they can guarantee that. Which is a massive concern.
this is a common approach when you are dealing in rates less than .01 -- you just need to be sure you are rounding correctly
"corruption and legally sanctioned corruption masquerading as legitimate expenditures" would probably be a better TL;DR but yeah, corruption is it.
You can get away with a bad diet for many years.
Is it just me or is this page impossible to scroll on mobile? Safari/iOS.
> And there's no guarantee that what you're doing will prepare you for the opportunity at any given time.

Nobody said anything about a guarantee. It's all about making choices so luck can find you.
There would probably be some concrete value to having a flag day on the internet where we just universally agree to bump the MTU up to something a little larger and gain across the board.

If I'm not mistaken, this happened with both TLS and DNS - there were multiple days where all the major service providers flipped the bits to allow everyone to test the systems at scale and fix any issues that occurred.
Novavax does look promising, but I was mainly pointing out that there is currently no effective "old tech" vaccine in widespread use, it's all new tech.

I'm not saying that out of skepticism for these vaccines, I think it's amazing we're deploying all these new platforms. I just think saying that they're no more effective than vaccines we've had before is a misrepresentation of the facts.
Reminds me of the story that engineers would attend Steve Jobs public presentations (during his first stint at Apple) to find out what they needed to work on, because occasionally he would "announce" something that heretofore had existed only in his head.
Before anyone gets too excited by the headline, this is by David Frum, so it's a conclusion in search of a thesis.
If all you need is a proof of non-termination, then encoding a whole of Y combinator is entirely superfluous: "(\f. f f) (\f. f f)" is quite enough already. In case of SKI calculus, that translates to "SII(SII)".