skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people take it to mean someone who cobbles together broken apps at a rapid pace and gets credit from management for being a hero

I agree, but as you say, this is more often than not the definition used (unconsciously) by management. Management considers this person the 10x and others consider them the -1x.

And yet.. these developers are also great though, in their niche. It's awesome to have someone on the team who can whip up the demoware in an evening for investors and customers! Even when I'd rather they never commit anything to the product source.

Which is why this discussion of finding who is the 10x is misguided. Turns out people excel at different things. Good management will identify what everyone is best at and have them focused on that. Bad management will shoehorn people into the wrong roles and set them up for failure.
How exactly would they verify it? One can easily be a gamer and a scalper. If by number of games, what’s a hundred games during a steam sale compared to a $2k gpu?

If I’m running a mining operation, I can easily pay people in Asia to play video games on my account for dirt cheap to run up the time.
I like your system!

One nice property of rot13 is it reverses itself; rot13(rot13(X)) = X. At least, for basic ASCII alphabet. Your UTF-8 encoding step makes that impossible. I wonder if there's a sensible Unicode-friendly algorithm that has that rot13 property.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...

3 deaths from TTS following J&J as of May 7th where there were 8.73 million doses of J&J administered.
IME Facebook's interface is horrible and full of unnecessary cruft. Couldn't you just make a subreddit? Reddit is so much easier and cleaner IMO.
Just want to say - thanks Chris! LiveView is the most innovative web technology I've seen in the last 5-10 years, and it is an absolute joy to use.
The seed comes from initial investment, but if premiums weren't a major component of growth they'd just be an investment firm.

They don't have control over investment returns for the most part, so premiums are the only avenue for growth that they can do something about.
What is this „freedom“ you are talking about? Are you suggesting that my experience somehow lacks freedom?
We structure Elixir applications differently than a lot of platforms. Phoenix is not your app – it's just one thing that slots into your Elixir application's supervision tree. So you can run one Phoenix web server or multiple in a single Erlang VM, and nothing changes. Your Phoenix endpoint isn't global, so it will happily sit alongside several, or it will happily serve a single web server to any number of Phoenix routers serving different APIs.

So to answer your question directly, you could either add your JSON or GraphQL API directly in the same router that serves your LiveViews, or you could create a router specific to the API, or you could introduce a completely separate Phoenix endpoint and router that starts a 2nd web server. Both would boot as part of the app serving different ports. Phoenix remains a great choice for native clients if we're talking JSON/GraphQL, but because we also have native channels clients in objc/swift. Hope that helps!
There are a few people working on open source pick-and-place machines. Here’s one example https://youtu.be/y14pdfjYsyo
But they didn't keep their 30pin thing around for a long time. There was a huge number of people who got devices with that connector and got fd by Apple. The longer Apple waits with USB C the worse it will be. I have the feeling they want to get rid of the connecter all together but couldn't get it to work yet.

Lightning was a way to lock down who can make 3rd party devices. Apple doesn't care if you can connect something both ways. Look at what they did with mag safe, every one loved it, yet they canned it.
It scales, just not at the price companies are willing to pay. Or, put another way, the main social media platforms aren't spending enough to ensure their service works well.
OK, I see what you're saying.

Though I think there are actually at least two discussions being had here, apparently talking past one another:

One, that a vendor which promises some service but fails to deliver on it, as An0m did here, would be subject to civil claims for fraud or false representation. This seems to be your general argument.

Another is that any given business has concerns over surveillance and privac breaches, whether from law enforcement or other entities, and that any use of digial communictations and data systems exposes them to this risk. Paper-based systems have, of course, far lower capabiliies to data processing, but also to data exfiltration*.

Both are risks.

You're focused on one. Others take a broader view, myself included.
I would probably consider consultancies very differently from product companies.

Since the company charges a per-person rate on hours worked, all it needs is to charge more than you pay them (plus utilization). So it's a very viable business model for the company to hire the cheapest (so either least skilled or least experienced) developers, as long as you have enough projects where you can charge for them. Maximizing engineering skill is not profitable, maximizing the diff in pay * the number of hours worked is what is most profitable.

I would argue that consultancies are probably the worst type of company for attracting talent. If we consider the idea that an engineer becomes skilled enough that they now have to power to choose which projects best interest them, then choosing the company is analogous to choosing that next project. If they join a consultancy, they specifically lose that power. Since, you're not signing up for a single company and single project, you're signing up for every single client in that company's portfolio.

Personally speaking, if I was to run a consultancy and cared about the quality of the developers, the only choice is to hire exclusively new grads out of college. That's when there is the greatest diff between the pay they can command and the potential skill level they have, since that skill level is unknown. You can then exploit that gap for a number of years, until they realize how good they are and can command a high enough salary from a different company (most likely a product company) that has the margins to be able to pay ridiculous salaries and not blink an eye.
Backblaze is great, but it’s not a replacement for time machine (and I use both).

Being able to buy a new Mac and make it into an exact copy of the old Mac by using time machine is amazing - I’ve done it a few times over the years, and it still impresses me every time. Plus I have time machine backups from 2011 which I occasionally browse to see what my kids were up to then.
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You're technically right, but it's practically true for good algorithms. Yes, if you apply a rot(-13) before your rot(13) "encryption" it's going to make it worse.

I think that if we are going to be concerned about multiple layers of encryption, as you say, then we should be equally concerned with things such as what encoding we use to send text with, or whether we use gzip or bzip. It would suck having to worry about all that; good encryption algorithms work regardless of how their plaintext is encoded, and home grown encryption is just another form of encoding.
I learned about Ivermectin from MedCram circa May 2020.

Everybody I know personally who did not learn about it from me learned about it from Eric Weinstein on the Joe Rogan podcast.

A good friend of mine watches Fox News no less than three hours a day and took both Pfizer doses months ago.

I suspect you might be projecting, and perhaps you learned about Ivermectin from a neoliberal TV show. Most of the people who believe in the safety and efficacy of Ivermectin believe so precisely because they are not consuming television propaganda, and so they are still able to form their own opinions from real information.
Matthew Yglesias, the author of this piece, went to Harvard.
A substantial portion of the money spent on wages at primary care physicians offices is on staff to negotiate with insurance companies. At a previous employer, where I worked closely with many primary care physicians offices, it was not uncommon for there to be three or more staff members working entirely on billing. That is ludicrous.
I've only ever had three words for people who refuse to get vaccinated, wear masks, and keep their distance: "It's your funeral." It seems like others are starting to take a similar tack, and I approve.
It is a fascinating case, but apart from the technical aspect of it.. how is that not entrapment? FBI effectively created a tool explicitly designed for criminal element and 'marketed' as such.

I would ask about legality, but I am worried its in a very, very grey area.
Free to the makers of the device though, it's not like they were charging the manufacturers for paid promotions like an Instagram influencer would - they recommended this device to their associates because they thought this would help them coordinate their activities more efficiently whilst reducing their personal risk.
Contact your state legislators and ask them to put large fines which go to the patient if they are discriminated against for their insured status.
There's a tool called "scapix" that's popped up recently that fixes this and is really impressive.

It's zero-boilerplate (IE, don't need to manually write bindings like most tools) bindings from C++ code for both Swift/ObjC and Java. The idea being you can write C++ code and then consume it on both mobile platforms, making your life easier.

https://github.com/scapix-com/scapix

It also is really useful if you want to use Java from C++. Manual JNI invocation and type translation is awful, this just smoothes over all of it.

https://github.com/scapix-com/scapix#java-link

Good usecase being when you want to extend a Java app with some native capabilities.

I've had a scenario where another app handed me the pointer to a window to render to, and so the only way to use it from JVM was to write some bridge code. Where C++ started the JVM & invoked my Java app's entrypoint, sending over the window pointer, and then from there I could render/paint into the window.
that's not a cellphone network that's a VHF/UHF radio repeater network. basically same idea as ham radio hilltop repeater stuff in the US, but built for private purposes, and using COTS radios capable of basic encryption.
> is it just a matter of figuring it out from the microcontroller manual?

pretty much, you might end up tweaking which pins you use when designing the pcb because the one on the other side of the chip is just as good, but it simplifies the routing and layout of the board significantly.
And if I place a call for someone on good-faith belief that they need assistance?
Your comment I think is on point. The article here makes it sound more... sophisticated than it is.

https://www.xda-developers.com/fbi-backdoor-pixel-arcaneos-a...

Unlocking the phone with a normal PIN code shows some normal apps like Tinder,
Netflix, and Facebook, but none of the apps actually open when you tap their
icon. However, unlocking the Pixel phone with a different PIN code reveals icons
for a clock app, a calculator app, and the device’s settings. Tapping the
calculator icon doesn’t actually open a calculator app, however. Instead, it
opens a login screen for the ANOM service

What percentage of HN's population would find this convincing? What's interesting here is that any one of us could have pointed out the absurdity of this, but black markets don't have a way to propagate such information it seems.
Darktable? It gets posted on HN frequently and seems like a lightroom competitor.
I could run chat programs on multiple computers in the 90s, so today we're in a worse state than then. What gives?
That's obviously wrong if the price keeps going up like it has.
> Sync.rb works like this: the browser WebSockets to the server, and as Rails models change, templates get re-rendered on the server and pushed to the client. HTML rendered from the server would sign a tamper-proof subscription into the DOM for clients to listen to over WebSockets. The library provides JavaScript for the browser to run, but sync.rb programmers don't have to write any themselves. All the dynamic behavior is done server-side, in Ruby.

It sounds like Stimulus Reflex is essentially Sync v2 (today's libraries are able to accomplish Chris's original vision)

https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/
A lot of the replies I see to this are people talking about their personal chat histories. For various reasons the trend these days is to not consider those valuable*

Where chat histories are valuable and where you see a "store and index it all" approach is enterprise chat. Slack, Google Hangouts Chat, etc, store and archive all the data because that is the collective wisdom of past and present employees and it is valuable to search through. Depending on the industry (i.e. Finance requires this via FINRA) it may even be mandatory to record all communications.

* unless you are moving to a new device, but even then it is rare to search that far back in history.
If you're expressly told before taking it the same information we know now, is it false hope? Also isn't praying to a god false hope? Rolling dice in Vegas...false hope?

Everything in life is a gamble. How you interpret the results is you own undoing.
I think the reason that Metal is not interesting people is that you can't run it outside Apples ecosystem. If you learn Vulkan, your code will run everywhere.
What evidence did you have that people were doing this, which presumably affected your opinion on this topic?
I like that, or maybe an option to create static HTML pages with everything baked in, that you can download. Hopefully with more active users I'll get a clearer picture of what users want and need in that regard.

Regarding monetization, right now my goal is to make this as useful and attractive as possible to people. Down the road I'd really like a donations/pwyw approach. For me travel and generosity go hand in hand, so I think it would be meaningful. Not sure if it would work, but I'd be willing to give it a try.
$500K/yr plus Seems like a total joke. Just do something that gives you energy and makes other people happy. The reward will be higher. Be creative.
Yes, we have a thoroughly regulated, negotiated, contractually obligated system. You can't have a true "free market" in health care without some truly egregious outcomes because when people are in health crisis they will pay anything to stay alive, and we already know we won't countenance the (let's call it what it is) extortion that the free market would produce in those scenarios. Because we want to feel like it's a free market, because free market economics is a cargo cult when it comes to health care, we get the worst of both worlds.
It's easier to take the path of least resistance and usually you won't get shot for it. Trying to fix things often makes you look like a trouble maker, especially if something doesn't work as well as it could (which often happens when iterating through change).
Funny that you can join Tinybeans through FB. They say they don't sell your data, but I couldn't figure out the monetization strategy.
Brave rewards is opt-in. If you don't want to receive ads, just don't turn it on.

If you still want to support creators but do not want to receive any kind of ads, just buy some BAT at any exchange, load your wallet and schedule monthly contributions.

If you want to support a publisher who is not on the creators program - send them a message and let them know they have another income alternative.
Your coworker is better, sounds like you spend a lot of time on premature generalisation.
> it's important because they've put an actual dollar amount to its return on investment.

The issue isn't whether you can put a dollar amount, but on the confidence in accuracy. I've seen how this is done in my company: Construct a narrative, assign numbers to that narrative (with some justification that doesn't always involve real world data), and come up with a total. They are incentivized to inflate the numbers as their goal is to increase their budget - not be accurate. If all departments did this, and you add the numbers they come up with, we'd easily end up with a number 10x our annual revenue, which is ridiculous.

Some folks who are not vested in this will aim for accuracy. And even then, they will have a large confidence interval - easily off by 2x.

How are you going to go from there and estimate an employee's value? Even if the project's value was 100% accurate, you still need to break that down to each employee. And since most employees don't work independently, you need to model the interaction effects (my work depends on your work - if you perform poorly, my contribution to the bottom line is reduced).

If the estimate of the value of the project is off by 2x, then you've already got a pathetic lower bound on the interval length of your confidence interval.

Alexa is actually an easier case to model. My job is to improve the internal communications infrastructure so that important messages get delivered (IT announcements, CEO communications, etc). How will you model my contribution to the bottom line?

I can assure everyone: At any decent sized company, no one is trying to come up with your value to the company.
> All of this is for the patient and their doctor to decide.

> Not the pharmacist. Not the FDA.

In case you don't know,the FDA is the US regulatory body whose mission is to " [protect] the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices;"

In the US, doctors only prescribe drugs that have been verified by the FDA, and pharmacists only distribute drugs approved by the FDA.

If not the FDA, who do you think is responsible in the US to ensure a drug works and is safe?

The FDA is pretty much the US instition devoted to anti-quackery and anti-fraud. Why is this a problem?
So first of all, I don’t think it’s true that the article describes a switch to 100% free software. For example, the author bought a mirrorless camera, which is going to run proprietary software. Second, and more importantly, I think your comment implies that the only lever of control is switching between free and non free software and I don’t agree with this. For example, I am now protected against Google terminating or otherwise locking me out of my account whereas I was not previously protected. Even though I disagree with your comment, I appreciate that free software has some advantages over proprietary software and I would not dispute the claim in general.
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What is the definition of "win-win" that you are against?

I'm not familiar with Jim Camp, but the term is vague. The linked article to me mainly seems to argue that:

- the side with a better BATNA has more negotiating power (yes, of course) and

- a negotiator should avoid agreeing to a bad deal out of desperation (yes, of course - but not always easy to do)

I'm not sure how the concept of "win-win" specifically plays into it, so I think this is where definitions are useful.

To me, win-win doesn't make sense for transactional negotiations where there is only one dimension (usually price), but CAN happen for more complex negotiations with multiple dimensions where each dimension has different value to each party (price, time, volume commitments, etc...)
It's specifically related to finding authors of merge requests, or issues, rather than a generic code search.
1. That was way before the advent of smart phones and most technological surveillance techniques.

2. It was fictional.
That's not the argument though. Listen to the segment. Giving people false hope and baseless medical advice is one thing, but the anti-ivermectin crowd was going overboard including amplifying specious stories about rampant ivermectin poisoning. Ivermectin is absolutely prescribed to humans for some conditions and is being actively studied as an anti-viral agent against other illnesses (notably dengue and yellow fever). Doctors can prescribe it to patients unable to be vaccinated within their discretion. The debate here is that you can't counter one form of misinformation with your own or else nobody is credible.
Does that allow you to set up a new PC as an exact copy of the old one? Because Time Machine does just that, and I’d really like to find the Windows equivalent.
> So far no one has been able to do it.

But that's the problem with your argument. Of course people have done it, nearly every developed country has.

> If you want to reduce healthcare costs in half, so that it is only 10% of GDP, then expect to throw 10% of the population out of work. That will include nurses, doctors, EMT personnel as well as administrators.

No, it won't. I'm talking about eliminating the positions that would only exist because of the private insurance system. Which is a massive amount of dead weight loss.

It's not remotely hard to understand conceptually, I mean EVERY dollar that's devoted to arguing over insurance bills is completely wasted. As are all the dollars spent on insurance advertising and marketing, and so on. Every dollar paid back to health care companies as dividends, or used for stock buybacks.

That's a lot of dollars.

Every time this argument comes up people in the US start talking about it like "Oh yeah? Sure but what's YOUR solution then smart guy? Stumped you didn't I?"

Um, no. My solution is the NHS. Like you can go there and look at it I swear it's a real thing, they have buildings and everything, just book a flight to London and see for yourself. Or, in US terms, Medicare for all, which is also a real understandable thing that exists, except for the "for all" part.
I wish we could "resign" the FDA from telling us which drugs we can and cannot experiment with under threat of imprisonment.
That makes sense. App stores add a lot of cost both on the platform and developer side, and I think in this case a straight forward scripting api with some well thought security/privacy protections would probably be easier to integrate with.

Will definitely shoot you a note when we've got something built. Thanks!
That only implies he's well connected.
First code snippet I pasted in it got a conditional reversed so doesn't seem to be very reliable.
Yet despite having gone to Harvard, doesn't seem to be able to distinguish credentialism from meritocracy.

But hey! At least he went to Harvard right?...
What are people going to do, buy a $40,000 tesla because gas is up a buck a gallon?
I haven't listed a startup there yet but I love to browse it to look for deals or see whats in the market.

You read stories about major acquisitions in the billions and get the idea of just how good software businesses are, but seeing the tech stacks and fincicals of smaller companies has been eye opening.

One thing I've wondered about is how close to asking price they tend to sell for. Maybe there is a filter for recent sales I don't know about.

As an aside I too can imagine losing trust after the situation the original poster described and not feeling comfortable using the site after (totally understandable).
I've had such hard time wrapping my head around how to think in liveview - I've tried tutorials and building my own projects, but always end up thinking "am I doing this the right way"? How do other people structure their codebase, and what are the considerations they have? I think I'm trying to force my way of working with react and laravel, and lack some kind of a fundamental way of thinking to get my "aha!" Moment