skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There absolutely are different levels of talent between coders. But it is more nuanced than that - I rarely see anyone who is 10X better than everyone else at everything. But I do see someone who rocks one specific type of coding, while they are slow at others. Figuring out what skills you really need on your team, hiring the people who excel at those specific skills, and letting people spend most of their time in the area where they excel is how you get a high performing team. Also a pigeonholed team, though - there is balancing to be done in the long run.
Not sure we have proved that yet given the autonomous driving shit show.
"Censorship" is part of a whole here, and it's not obvious what to call that whole.

This is a complex of censorship, data gathering, personalization and such. A few months ago microsoft accidentally turned on some china settings globally, and "tank man" disappeared from search results. Tank man is conspicuous, I wonder what less conspicuous switches can be flipped.

The main arteries of media & communication are strategic assets. These responsible for near 100% of Alphabet & FB's revenue. Ad businesses, app stores, etc. Google pay Apple more revenue for search defaults than MSFT earn in gross from their "2nd place in the market" position. Google pay OEMs and telecoms to be their default app stores. The complex is all about bottlenecks,

Control over these is the financial asset behind several of the world's most profitable companies. It is a primary intelligence target/asset. It's a major part of china's information/narrative control mechanism... has been for a while. The thing that's changing is that china's mass is starting to cause tides elsewhere.

This game is a "ring of power" game.
Pre-cloud it was always pulling teeth to get new hardware provisioned. You had to get past the guy who has realized his only power is saying no by refusing to write checks, and then you have to get IT to provision the box, and there may be physical layout issues that complicate doing that in the best way possible.

It's very common for someone to take all of those servers using 25% and do manual bin-packing with them. It's also common for changing features and customers to alter the resources needed after the manual process is completed, leading to further rounds of bin packing.

And every time you relocate services or hardware, there's a chance for an outage. That can become a wall you can't climb or cost you social capital every time it happens.

My general impression of Kubernetes is it's trying to solve that social problem with technology. We know how that usually goes, but any port in a storm, right?
Depending on your definition that’s also a Chinese phone. You might be able to get one build in India, but that require a lot of effort.

The problem is that you’re more or less screwed if you trust neither China nor Google. Generally speaking the iPhone is your best option, but partly due to a lack of options.
You know that no one wants fentanyl? People want heroine, Oxys, xanaxs etc.

People are overdosing on fake drugs and relapses.
Won’t one of these engines cut you in half if it fails?
Yes it requires Wayland.
Is that even enough though? Couldn't china put in shadow processors or other hardware-level surveillance similar to Intel's management engine? And it would be extremely difficult to detect, let alone disable or mitigate.
> Sure, let's just give up and allow deadly poison dealers free access to our markets.

We already do this in a wide variety of industries.
i.MX still needs binary blobs. I think the only ARM SBC today that can run blob-free today is Radxa's Rock pi 4.
No need to be snarky. I didn’t say you were wrong, and clearly I don’t know about the problems with signal on android as I don’t have those devices.
Denying that 10x <anything> exists is usually a shallow defense mechanism for our own egos. We aren't that good at <skill>, so we convince ourselves that no one else is either.
A line of reasoning that tells our turtles something totally false doesn't deserve validation for doing it with slight uncertainty.
Free tibet", long live Taiwan independence", or "democracy movement".

i sent this to a friend who owns a xiaomi phone and asked him to resent this back to me via sms. the message appeared just fine.

note: i am from india so this might not be enabled on the phones here for now
They've also been selling telemedicine consultations to prescribe ivermectin, taking the money, and then not delivering the consultation [1]. They are a straight up scam posing as a charity.

[1] https://time.com/6092368/americas-frontline-doctors-covid-19...
In fact its not strange that the government mandates things - you are right. What I should have said, is how is it right? Why should people who are excluded by the government respect or honour those rules? Should they continue to pay tax?

On what basis is it acceptable to segregate people from simple rights of existence? To exclude them so that they can't shop or work or travel? I'm not talking about people who have been found guilty of criminal behaviour.

Are you ok with the governance structure being able to exercise such total control? Especially when we know how corporate-paid lobbyists exercise such control over governments.

Again, isn't it handy that the pharmaceutical companies (which arguably have the biggest budgets of all privately held industries) are the ones that are doing fantastic business, on account of the virus?
Crimea is the best success, but its because it really more of an annexation of a population that is ethnically same as the annexing nation.

I don't want to give what Russia did legitimacy, but its closer to self-determination than most liberal internationalist (the IR theory, I don't mean US liberals) will give it credit for. Crimea was only part of Ukraine due to the dictates of the Soviet Union and had only been part of it since 1954. Then again, maybe I'm overestimating how strong Taiwanese nationalism is.

In places like Syria, you see what happens when different ethnicities fight over territory. It's a bloody mess and everyone is worse for it.

Israel is in a different position since they really just want the land and not really the economy and people on the land. They are ethnically cleansing and then populating the area with settlers.

I was going to say that is unique in this age, but its really not all that different from what China did in Tibet or is doing in Xinjiang.
I mean the piece quoted above is the correct original source.
I wanted to post exactly this snippet myself.

From that a possible test case can be to open this HN thread in MiBrowser and see the webpage blocked due to the "free Tibet" phrases posted here (assuming MiAdBlacklistConfig includes English versions).

If anyone has a Xiaomi phone and is willing to accept the MiBrowser terms of use, please try.
> > If you must read the news, read it for the facts and the data, not the opinions.

> This should have been the first sentence.

Quality news organizations distinguish between reporting, analysis, and opinion.

The author of the piece (and many people in the comments here) seem unaware of this or are just purposefully hopping on the "news is bad" bandwagon.

Take a look at the guy's twitter feed and you'll see his bread and butter is incredibly bland "knowledge drops." For example, here's a direct quote of one of his tweets: "Hiring a professional is expensive but hiring an amateur costs a fortune."

Any time you see people talking negatively about news organizations (ie "the media"), be on the lookout for fascism, because spreading distrust and disinterest in the news is one of the goals of fascists.
Not really. I have so many shitty Razr and smartphone videos that I wish I had just enjoyed the moment instead of wasting time capturing something that has the quality of a gameboy camera.

Now I am thankful my dad endured the pain and captured a lot of stuff on the JVC shoulder camera. At least the quality is pretty good even for 80's/90's.

We don't capture events like we used to anyway. No one holds there camera up for more than a minute. So we're left with all these short videos. I like watching the really long stuff my dad shot.
Man, the time before social media must have been glorious indeed.

It seems that before social media people were engaged and productive and attentive and whatever.

Wait. MySpace was founded in 2003, twitter in 2006, Facebook in 2004, etc. I was an adult by then. I grew up before social media.

And yeah, people are more or less still people. Those 20 reasons are a wishlist. They're the same 20 things we always promise ourselves every single day after we spent the previous day failing to achieve those 20 things.

I'm not saying there aren't problems with social media, but let's not pretend we'll all become ubermensch if we all log off of twitter.
Best question. Declined to join or participate any social media from the beginning. HN is absolutely is on the spectrum of social media, but more like a well moderated usenet group. It's a well run decoupled internet comment section, sort of like a fat tailed reddit.

Without pictures, friends, followers, alerts, verified identities, personalization and emphasis on personal branding, an ad-driven revenue model, I wouldn't call it social media. If someone asked for my "social media accounts," I would not include HN in that, however, a subpoena might treat it differently. Security clearance people might think that as well. The fig-leaf pseudonymity provides some modesty, honesty, and civility for actual discourse, where social media is about status signalling, and not much else.
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It gets significantly more expensive ($3,099) if you opt for 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD. I assume there's quite a lot of material cost for the parts which don't change (GPU, Screen, Battery, et al).
Without wading too much into this fraught topic, I'd like to just point out that the AR-15 and other weapons with what you describe as the "military look" are functionally equivalent to many hunting rifles. Replace the "military look" with a beautiful mahogany stock, and your mind probably thinks "deer hunter" rather than "weirdo survivalist" but it's the exact same gun.
Facebook Hides a Report
Police bust men smuggling KFC chicken into city locked down for Covid
I'll add it to the toy list. Thanks!
That's more about perception than control. There are lots of things computers can control better than humans.
To what extent was this cultural stigma created by companies who wanted to discourage their workers from discussing pay, though? It seems more like an effect than a cause to me.
Or it would be something unrelated at all, going against the document's agenda.
Yep. I've seen 10x engineers become -1x when shoved into projects they hated. Their contribution became net negative to the project.

And then return to 10x when transferred back to projects they enjoyed.
> how do you know amoxicillin is the right one for what ails you?

In our case, that's what the doctor prescribes for my wife's chronic sinus infections whenever she asks one about them, and I've been stocking it as a goto first antibiotic for veterinary use since i started caring for my animals 30yr ago.

In anyone else's case, there's no great barrier to educating yourself about what you put in your body and why, and taking responsibility for your own health. Doctors are consultants, not priests.
> Though I can't speak to that fact specifically, I doubt that Nordics can be fired from not showing up due to striking - because 'striking' i.e. the threat of shutting down the factory and the company not being able to dismiss everyone is the basis for the collective bargaining power.

> Without the 'power' there is no basis to bargain.

My understanding is that the Nordic unions have this power via secondary boycots. If you hire non-union unskilled labor for your factory, good luck getting unionized truck drivers to haul the finished product away.

> Also, it's worth pointing out that again, technically, it's 'legal' to 'not show up for work' even if you're a member of an N/A union, it just means you'll be let go and that's that. People are pushing the wording of that far to aggressively.

"Illegal" and "Unlawful" are terms that are widely used. Just participating in an illegal strike is not criminal and (unless you otherwise disrupt the company's business) the only civil repercussion is loss of job (including backwages).
Stealing information and protecting their position is pretty common in the corporate world, in fact that's how many corporations ensure their continued profitability.

What you have in China is equivalent to "US Government" + "Big Tech" - "Bill of Rights".
Analog computing is about making analogs (today we would say usually say simulations) usually of physical systems, usually with operational amplifiers.

Learn to model physical systems with differential equations first (and in 2021 you will probably also learn to solve/integrate them numerically on a computer in the process) then go to op amps.

Here are some other interesting problems you can solve with analog computers that aren't really modeling problems, though:
http://dataphys.org/list/dewdneys-analog-gadgets/
This may be kind of a dumb question, but what exactly is a "Chinese phone" and what is not? Is my current "Moto" branded phone (Lenovo) in the same boat and if not, why not?
I went through this process a few years ago when Apple removed the iPhone headphone jack and I'll probably never go back.

The thing that cemented that for me recently was how Apple now insists on notarization for all applications, even command line applications. My current company uses old versions of lots of open source applications, and MacOS constantly freaks out about them.

Time to move to Linux full time.
Stage Is Set for DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge Final Event
“The DARPA Defuse Project”
My issue is: can this model make testable predictions within our lifetimes? It doesn’t seem that way.

Even models of the far future and the distance past of the universe are held to standards of evidence and testability. Why shouldn’t this one be?
This approach works for all kinds of destructive conversations in the workplace.

You don't need to explicitly stop people from complaining about a manager's behavior or other toxic workplace features, you just need to explain to people how discussions around how they feel about a particular management style almost always leads to interpersonal friction, resentment, conflict, lower work productivity, and slower progress of our company toward an IPO.

You see, it's not a threat if you just explain how the real world works and that actions have consequences. /s
> Since principal payments are on top of those costs

I was under the impression that in most cases, the principal payments aren't on top of those costs. At least not all of it.
I understand that bolides would be the biggest danger right now, as they are small enough to be practically undetectable, but may be large enough to level a city. Are there any measures we can take against them? [0]

[0] I'm aware one of our best bets here would be a proper survey and sensitive enough telescopes/satellites actively looking for these kind of objects. And that there are some projects and programs along these lines already. It'd seem there's some more work to be done in that area though.
If it seem interesting enough, I will definitely read it. And yes, even if the articles has no comments, if it looks interesting then I'll probably read it.
Men Pay a Higher Price Than Women When a Workplace Joke Falls Flat
Philosophical Intoxication
You are more powerful than you may realize. Work on supporting open source hardware and software options.

1. If you are a developer, consider buying a Pinephone [1] and contributing to the codebase.

2. If not a developer, you can submit bug reports and test fixes. Same for Purism Librem phone as well [2].

3. If you are neither, or have no time to spare but do have money, you can always purchase one for kicks or donate to open source like Ubuntu.

4. Finally if you have no time or money, simply upvoting privacy related threads on HN and talking with your friends about it helps too.

[1] https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-beta-edition-with-conve...

[2] https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

edit: added numbering
GNU Guile was designed for embedding and is very light... maybe just use that instead?
This is why social media censorship is so dangerous, even despite the blatant partisanship from a DNC operative working as a senior manager at Facebook.

Stories that damage the established world order are suppressed and "fact-checked" (by biased partisan organizations, or worse, literal operatives working at these companies).

These organizations are looking a lot more like political machines as every day passes. They have their fingers on the scales in a multitude of respects. Google by boosting and deboosting certain political content, Facebook through algorithm manipulation, shadowbans and banning and Twitter through hashtag suppression, "trending" manipulation, "fact checks" and banning.
> One of the most interesting recent studies comes to a very different conclusion. In a controlled environment, the variation between most software engineers is much more modest.

This is a silly comparison. The engineers I've worked with in my career that stand out don't stand out because they can write for-loops faster than others or public-class-Foo-public-static-void-main-string-args-System.out.println-hello faster than others. They are much more productive because they are better at ensuring they understand the problems they're trying to solve, and solving the problem with the least amount of superfluous work.

> No one talked about the fact that this particular developer had been developing the same system for the past 15 years, the first five almost alone. He relished being “the best." Wrote hard-to-understand procedural code to 5000-line files. Did not actively share knowledge with his peers. Over the years, some capable developers had joined the company. Most of them decided to move on. The ones left were happy to coast along and leave all the heroics to the “10x engineer.” As a result, the company had great difficulties in trying to scale its development efforts.

This example seems like a counter-example to me. It's important to separate out one's (potentially flawed) judgement vs the actual value an engineer brings. This engineer made everyone else less productive. Simply calling someone a "10x engineer" does not make it so.

> The best strategy for most companies is not a relentless focus on trying to hire “the best” in hopes of finding 10x unicorn engineers.

The rest of the article is a distraction from this generally good piece of advice. For many things, finding a competent programmer familiar with your tools and stack who can write the CRUD operations you need should be acceptable. A lot of software engineering interviewing distracts from this, with gotcha trivia questions about whether one can recite from memory algorithms from a text book that are not relevant to the work.
Vienna.

A great public transport system, fast-ish internet and classical culture.
The budget would totally fit the lifestyle but not as cheap as Bucharest and Bratislava.
The facts here paint a pretty different picture. 10 of the 11 scientists on the panel voted "no" and the last member voted "uncertain". These no votes were precisely because the only "successful" study of the drug only showed plaque reduction and failed to show any direct improvement in Alzheimers outcomes.

To me that indicates that this isn't a controversy between scientists, but an example of corruption / regulatory capture. Biogen spent a bunch of money researching a drug based on an unproven theory. When their results were very poor, the FDA allowed them to switch to accelerated approval, then ignored their unanimous panel of experts to grant that approval. This allows Biogen to sell an extremely expensive drug and recoup some of their loses before the ongoing studies required under accelerated approval further undermine the drug's claims of effectiveness.
> AR15 … are … equivalent to many hunting rifles.

You need hunting rifles with large magazines that fire in automatic?

Damn
Even Jack Ma was put through the wringer after questioning the CCP publicly.
That's easy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
Perhaps. But is it meaningful to talk about these incredible outlier cases when considering how you structure an engineering organization?

I think there are two kinds of companies that make tech:

1. Companies where all of the technical problems they need to solve can be solved by typical engineers.

2. Companies where some of the technical problems they need to solve are too difficult to be solved by typical engineers.

In the latter case you do need "special" engineers and you need to point them at these problems. But what percentage of companies fall into category #2?
"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter." ― Aleister Crowley

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few more great resources on this topic:
https://tinygem.org/about/#stopnews
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I spent years visiting family in Alzheimers wards and this was my experience too. Some days patients would have a brief moment of clarity, but usually it was just the typical symptoms.

For instance the sister for a famous (for the state) news reporter would seem to come out of it a bit to talk about her sister, but mostly she just walked along the walls, tracking the trim with her fingers and mumbling to herself.
Maybe. Just maybe. We will have artificial fusion energy in 10M years. ;)
While this is a cool idea, it's not terribly useful for anything more complex than a toy example. The fact that I need to physically wire the components and manually adjust coefficients every time I create a new program means that I can only really leave one complex program configured at a time. How do I switch between programs? Do I buy new THATs then?

It would be much more practical if the analog components could be configured digitally through a script, so that multiple programs could be constructed and run on the same compute platform. A hybrid platform of sorts.
Reading my comment again, I do see the problem... On the positive side, it teaches clear, consive writing. Even in quick, short comments. Or thinking, as far as that's concerned. I would have used the same words verbally as well.
I think few people believe amyloid plaques are the sole cause but there is still quite a bit of evidence that amyloid is heavily involved in Alzheimer's. Genetically almost all of the genes associated with Alzheimers have to do with the productions or cleaning up of amyloid beta.
> There is much less safety data on doses that frequent.

You can say the same thing about COVID boosters.
> I've settled on periodically glancing at NYT headlines, but with a very high bar for whether to actually click and read the article.

I can't speak to the NYT in particular, but in my experience, the headlines are often more misleading than the article. Mostly overly exaggerated, but I found several cases where the headline was false, and the article had the truth.

The lesson I learned is that perusing headlines is more likely to make on misinformed.
You're not encouraged to talk about salaries but instead try and guess how much people make from social clues like what kind of car they drive, what brand clothes they wear, where they go on holiday, how new their phone is...
this turned out to not be true - the comments pointed out that the overwrite is likely an app interpreting it as different image format, which had happened before, and OP didn't replicate the issue the next day in different light