skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cannot bust it because most of us have empirical evidence of a 10x engineer (whether it's 10x, 20x, or merely 3x doesn't matter -- there are engineers who can and hold projects all by themselves, with top-notch code and utmost speed and quality design).
I actually went for dinner nears Kings X the other day, and there is a little market section near St. Martins https://canopymarket.co.uk/

Although I actually totally agree with you. Kings X not having as much public land makes the entire place almost feel pre-gentrified if that makes sense. Not much soul.
Thanks! So this is about retirement funds going after some board and execs for breach of fiduciary duties given the earlier FTC findings.

seeking to remedy the Individual Defendants’ breaches of fiduciary duties and/or Brophy insider trading violations from June 26, 2013 through July 23, 2019, the date before the FTC announced the $5 billion fines on Facebook the following morning (the “Relevant Period”).
Show HN:Integrate Data Science tools in minutes instead of months for SMEs
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14 comments in 14hrs. For comparison, a post about TikTokers trading stocks has 168 comments in the same time.

I find it incredible that this bombshell hasn't elicited more of a response. Too uncomfortable a subject to discuss perhaps?
It may be apocryphal but that story is generally credited to Venom, and accident rather than intention.
>Is it really that 10x performers exist, or that 0.4x performers are abundant so 2x performers look like 10x performers?

Performance is relative, so if the norm is 0.4x, that's the actual "1x" base to just 10x programmers by, even if it's below what a 0.4x programmer could potentially achieve if they really tried.

In other words, if most devs are underperforming due to complacency, lack of motivation, etc., that should also factor in in the 10x programmer calculation.

So, 10x doesn't have to be "10x as good when both are 100% motivated" just "10x as effective" is enough (even if it's because they are more motivated and not actually more intelligent, knowlegeable etc).
If you don't want all the ports at once, then it sounds like modular ports is perfect? You can just attach whichever combination you need on any given day / moment. Or am I missing something?
TFA ends with that quote.
Apparently the GUI part was removed in Windows 8 and then re-added in Windows 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Copy#Windows_8_and_Serv...
Public Attitudes Towards Offensive Language on TV and Radio
> do you have a list of objective criteria you use to decide which list of companies is morally acceptable for your candidates to have worked at

As a matter of fact I do.

> Isn’t this also incredibly hypocritical given that you admit to working at FB yourself in the past

It is. I excuse myself by saying that it was creepy but not overtly evil at the point where I left. To be honest, I think I got out at just the right time to have a small shred of morality left, but of course I would say that and others may differ. I am sure lots of people do not care, and the fact that my work at FB in its early days gets me interviews shows this to be a widespread opinion, but I have been inside the factory and have seen how the sausage is made. I have a date I keep in my head, and if you were at FB after that point you would be a 'no hire' for me.
Interesting, I wasn't aware that was supported. Thanks for the information
>> In the US, we lean toward less regulation than many European countries and we reap different outcomes as a result.
> Yes, when laws are friendlier to wealthier people, wealthier people end up better of than poorer people, not sure why you think this is a very insightful comment.

I probably should have written my comments in a slightly different order. This: "Generally: if it's easier to hire/fire employees and pay them the price you choose, it's easier to take a risk with a new business." was meant to be one different result that could come about with less regulation.

>> The US path to "Nordic levels of equality" may look much different from the Nordic one.

> I am always amused to see supposedly economically literate techies making obviously false economic claims: Denmark having a smaller population would actually make it harder for them to achieve an effective welfare state, not easier, given economies of scale. This is econ 101 stuff. In the extreme end, a country with, say, 1000 people would have a much more difficult time implementing a welfare state than Denmark would. American economy is significantly more advanced than the Danish economy, so if they can pull this off, it should be much easier for the US.

What "obviously false" claim did I make? I made a case for why Denmark is significantly different economically and demographically from the US and tentatively stated that that implied that the US path to Nordic levels of equality MAY look much different from the Nordic one.

How is it that MAY is obviously false? The opposite of MAY is certainty - is it certain that the US path to equality will be exactly the same as the Nordic one?
Well, if there are software companies that have 1.5x growth and there are that produce 10x and some produce 100x growth, then by definition developers in the 100x company are 10x more efficient than those in 10x company, assuming the factor a developer plays in company growth is significant.

It feels like these myths busters are a bit left leaning.

Sames as a topic about whether Tim Cook deserves his huge pay/bonus, to which the answer to the left leaning academic is, can you find a replacement for him?
> the author is confusing what a 10x developer is.

Its a subjective definition. You have a different one to the author. sneak has a different definition to you.

That's a part of the problem: there's no clear definition and the label "10x developer" means different things to different things.

Some of these definitions definitely are a myth. Some are not. But the conversations about it tend to not be that meaningful, because everyone argues their own definition, which may or may not match up with other people who are also arguing theirs. The best we can do is define our definition and then state our reasoning about it and then others can agree or disagree or say yes but if you define it this way that I do, then its different because whatever.

Right now, everyone has a different definition and the discussion isn't that useful.
If a brittle piece of JS (with high support cost due to runtime errors) is replaced with a piece of Elm, the runtime errors are gone.

The one that made the decision to change it, and actually ported the code, easily wins the 10x badge when we consider the high support cost of that brittle piece of JS code in production.

> institutional knowledge is lost.

Exactly! Say a dev rewrote the brittle piece of JS to resilient JS, and did this REALLY fast. Great, you may have a 10x'er on your team! But in this case the knowledge is merely with one guy, he has the experience and discipline to write resilient JS: something rarely found in human beings. In this case the 10x'er may be a 10x coder, but not a 10x architect/techlead/CTO.

Hence I dont like to depend on human's experience and discipline, but prefer to fix it with Real Good Tech and Tooling(TM).
"Do people not consider their chat histories valuable?"

No, I consider them a positive liability and delete messages/conversations as soon as they're done/actioned.

When the Brown Shirts come to get you, it'll be your own message history they hang you with. (Only slightly :))

Question: You have your SMS history going back a decade. How many times has that proven useful?

I, too, used to keep messages & emails "forever" until I realised that it was doing nothing for me but becoming a maintenance burden. Now I have "max 24 months" retention policy and have never once needed to retrieve an email older than that.
Reminds me of the Surgical Team from The Mythical Man-Month, and of an interview of I think one of the authors of the agile manifesto, talking about IBM internal experiments concluding that it was the most effective organisation.

I've been working in such teams, the surgeon was typically one of the early developpers, that did (and knew) most of the code, but as the system grew sub-surgeons started to emerge for new or reworked parts.
The success of Deep Learning in Computer Vision is fascinating for me.

It revolutionized the field in a little over a decade and brought forth new frontiers.

I do believe that CV is an area ML will excel well into the next century.

Perhaps, we will find a way to chain together ML systems dynamically, overseen by a procedural system that makes real time decisions in understanding its input.
I have actually seen this before. It wasn't the P key; it was a different key. X or C, I think. However, the symptoms otherwise seem to match. I don't remember if we tried a second keyboard, but we definitely tried the on-screen keyboard and were confused when it, too, didn't work.

The only things we could guess were something related to the Windows Search, Cortana, or telemetry services. Unfortunately, it's been since the early days of Win10 since that happened so I don't remember any other details. We also had to physically restart the system to fix the problem.
> With children, I find it's almost always a better strategy to focus on the positive sides of an experience.

Which, according to the article, was the second step of Fred Rogers' rewriting process.
> A Pelosi spokesperson said that she does not personally own any stocks and that the transactions are made by her husband. "The Speaker has no prior knowledge or subsequent involvement in any transactions," said the spokesperson."

This is so flimsy it's almost comical.

She doesn't need to know what her stock trading husband is doing. He needs to know what's happening in government before it's public. She knows this information, and they are a couple. Thus, unless she promises that she doesn't talk anything about her work to him, it is assumed that he will learn of things before the general public will.

Even if she doesn't talk to her husband specifically about her work, she probably spends a good amount of time talking on the phone or to aides where he can overhear.
ctrl+F "XMPP"… No? OKay, I'll be that guy.

Multiple devices, multiple platforms, E2EE, gateways to other networks... my XMPP server handles all of that, and I convinced non-tech users to use it mainly because of the great Android client Conversations.

Yes, there are some rough edges because there isn't a iOS client that matches Conversations in terms of user friendliness. But siskin-im in on its way there.

I also have had complaints from friends but mainly because I am a shitty admin...

Oh, and having your phone number as your username is something that really is important for you? Use Quicksy then.
What I'm getting at is if our 1x is defined by average or median, essentially. Of course without actual data it is impossible to say.
Tau – Unit-testing framework written in Pure C (8x faster than GTest and Catch2)
Maybe people are past caring.

What is commenting, protesting, international sanctions or going to war actually going to achieve here?

I probably do believe an accidental lab-leak scenario, but obsessing about it isn't going to bring anyone back, or refund my family's time in lockdown, or help us treat it going forward. If anything, it's a distraction from what we need to do to to slow transmission.
The landing page looks amazing!
Do you know what they call a quarter pounder in Europe?
Show HN: Composing Studio – An online, collaborative editor for music notation
> if everyone is reluctant to try the Framework laptop because they're not sure about long-term support, it will never receive said support. I'm willing to take the risk here, for the greater good!

I dunno, this whole idea of 'trickle down innovation' that ends up coming at the expense of the working class is a very bad deal when you consider the amount of advanced technologies available today yet which have been enclosed/commoditized as 'intellectual property'.

Another example is Musk's scammy 'secret master plan' hustle that tells a feel good (yet misleading) story to the propertied class that they should 'buy a $170,000 Tesla to help make mass produced Tesla's possible for poor people'. Which is a rich story when you see that big oil companies, together with governments, suppressed viable electric car technologies for years ('Who Killed The Electric Car?' documentary). My point is that these are deep systemic issues that should be remedied at their root, instead of them being presented as something the non-propertied -class should plan and pay for, especially when you consider that we have actually already paid for it (remember we gave them those big juicy low-interest government loans).

At this point in time, buying a modular laptop like a Framework computer should have no risks involved with it.

We need to just grow many more open source standards. All that proprietary hardware and software does is remove valuable feedback loops and lessons from the commons. It criminalizes cooperation, interoperability, repairing and repurposing. Only the propertied class wins here.

All the above arguments only compound and multiply when you consider that most of the technology that exists today was developed with taxpayer backed government loans (Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State), meaning that, as she puts it, "we have ended up creating an ‘innovation system’ whereby the public sector socializes risks, while rewards are privatized".
Freelanced for 5 years to build enough capital, poured every cent of it in crypto since 2017, and can now live off my savings for ~15 years.

I am still coding and learning, but not fulltime. Maybe 2-3 hours a day.

Will go back to work at some point but probably part time.
Abstractly it's nice to know.

But practically does it really matter?

Even if we knew the case, one can't just e.g. whip 0.4x into 1x, so a 2x remains a very valuable 2/0.4 jump.
If Spotify does have a length limit on songs, it's much higher than 7 minutes. Just looking through my recently played collection, I found a 14 minute track from the Mirror's Edge OST - https://open.spotify.com/track/5E3q9mLEXXaLNPc1AWf4lu?si=c2e...

Streaming to YouTube is also great for long-running projects, as they don't appear to have an upper limit on stream length (for example, NASA TV has been streaming since 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg) although I think YouTube won't save the stream if it's longer than 24 hours.
Does webgpu support vulkan glsl as shading language?

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/GLSL/blob/master/extensions/...
Yeah, this reads like a straw man attack on a particular and not widely accepted view of what a 10x engineer is.
the only one I remember had a Metallica intro. progz are a big part of why I grew up to be a programmer. also, those old Warez chat rooms were the shit! I remember it once took all night to download a cracked racing game that was 14mb over 28.8
Stopping reading The Guardian will probably help a bit.
I wrote a unit testing framework in pure C (8x faster than GTest and Catch2)
>Pavel Durov, is truy a hero in my book for his consistent stance against big powers, from state actors to tech giants.

Oh yeah, especially the recent Smart Voting fiasco. A true hero.
It'd be nice if there were some way to filter out job listings where some heavyweight development methodology was in effect. Some make it obvious in the description text, dropping SCRUM/Agile-related buzzwords. Others sounded awesome, promising an enlightened developer-centric focus and autonomy. Then I've shown up to find I'll be a mechanistic story point generator, wasting everyone's time.

This is an area I've had to exercise acceptance on. Even if SCRUM dies, the selling points for it (control, measurement, and interchangeability) are too powerful such that something else won't come in and replace it. However, I would like to know a team thinks that way, so we can steer clear of each other.
there is gsconnect on Gnome as well.
If they are doing these things because it makes your job more enjoyable, it's exactly as intended.
>Unfortunately, your doctor's recommendation is not necessarily the ideal option for your overall health.

What method would you suggest that would be more effective than evidence-based medicine? I seem to recall that there is somewhat of a cancer risk for continuing to smoke. So if Chantix is effective at getting you to quit, you would still be at a much lower cancer risk overall. It is also worth noting that the drugs were recalled because of an impurity in batches that could cause a cancer risk, not a risk from the drug itself.

This just seems like terrible logic to me. Don’t use evidence based approaches to help you quit something that is definitely increasing your risk of cancer by a lot, because at some point down the road it could maybe be found that the approach you took had a much smaller risk of causing cancer. This is just fear of active risk vs passive risk. Accepting a much larger risk of maintaining the status quo over a lower risk of actively seeking out and taking a drug.
I was always the type of kid that hid any kind of injury or pain out of fear that my parents would get worried or mad. Still am that way to this day.
This stuff still happens, even to tech BigCos like Amazon https://imgur.com/a/yaI4B

Note the "Customer account search" with which you can easily find anyone who has ever used Amazon.
Usually, rather than just planting trees, carbon offsets do things like replacing inefficient equipment or processes in developing countries. There's a lot of low hanging fruit that can be decarbonised / reduced significantly with a little bit of investment.

Over time these low hanging fruit will all be picked resulting in an increase in the cost of carbon offsets.
The Days of the Single-Focus Startup Are Ending
I was going to present from my phone to a projector the other day, but ( probably due the wear and tear of putting in the charger every day for several years) it was glitchy, so I asked if I could borrow a newer phone and got a few month old, still glitchy, so I had to use a PC anyway. The plan was that I was going to walk around with my phone during the presentation...

What I'm trying to say with this story is that for example monitor cable connectors are designed to fit tightly (vga and dmi even having screws) to give a constant signal, which you don't get from USB-C unless you stand still.
As a Danish employer, it's easier to just join a collective agreement which is vetted by the lawyers specialized in employment law of both the employer's and labour unions, and use industry standard contracts, than to do individual negotiations with every employee while running the risk of negotiating a deal which doesn't hold up in the court of law.

Collective agreements save enormous amounts of administrative time and legal headaches for employers.

Yes, the employer's have their own unions.

What really sets the Danish labour market apart from the rest of the Nordics, is how much easier it is to let employee's go when there's good reason or fire them when necessary.
Someone who thinks all bugs will go away if the code is just rewritten in the hipster niche language de-jour, is probably a 0.1x developer. They may work hard but don't solve any real problems for the business and leave a mess to future maintainers who have to spend time debugging the forgotten hipster languages of yesteryear.

Do you think the developers who rewrote everything in Dart or CoffeeScript a few years ago were actual 10x productive for the business in the long run?
Physics-Based Human Motion Estimation and Synthesis from Videos
While the methods are very interesting, I often wonder about assumptions about what can be modeled. We already know that it's not possible to correctly predict an arbitrary nonlinear system numerically (since that system could be chaotic).

It's one of the reasons why for specific problems, heuristics or statistics are way better than any attempt at nonlinear modeling / ML prediction (e.g. highly accurate climate models vs. struggling weather models).
Yeah, the implementation described in the article seems almost exactly how I understand Signal has been doing it all along. It's purely a client software choice not to allow a phone to be a secondary device. There's a fork which adds this feature to the Android app, though I forget what it's called.
Do you mean as in being paid a fixed sum for a given period, as opposed to by hours worked or something? No, that’s a worldwide thing, and a very old concept.
What makes high wages possible is high worker productivity.

Or in other words, an employer can't pay more in wages than they make in income.
The comments are the 'sales pitch' for me that determine if the article is worth reading.
Inconsistency in Conference Peer Review: Revisiting the 2014 NeurIPS Experiment
>This just shows the lack of understand what free speech means.
I had a 16" MacBook Pro that was so hot and loud all the time that I just couldn't stand it anymore and sold it to buy an M1 MacBook Air, which thankfully doesn't even have a fan.

I don't understand how it didn't come up in any reviews, because you don't have to push it super hard to make it happen.
But it's literally not true. I am typing this from my M1 MacBook with the bottom panel open just to prove this point.
I was just looking for something to do this, but couldn’t find much. I need to serve up about 1000 cameras to both hls (for public) and webrtc (for low latency/ptz admin use). Today we do it with paid packages, but I was exploring just using ffmpeg + nginx. Hls is easy enough, but since webrtc is not http, needs its own piece. Anyone have ideas on this? I’m familiar with Wowza and Ant. Any other open source utilities that do rtsp to both hls/webrtc?
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As a Nordic citizen imo this is pretty much one sided left-wing propaganda article.

Yes it is true that unions have done some good things in the past, but today with their unreasonable strikes and mob/organized crime-style strategies they are driving most foreign investment away and also pushing long term industrial giants out of North Europe.

Unions are almost exclusively the reason why Finnish economy has been and keeps on tanking since 1990s.