skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think OP is right with what the ultimate question should be.

Let's agree that a normal driver without autopilot (ND) is mostly attentive, with occasional attention lapses (frequency depending on the individual).

That same normal driver according to MIT, is less attentive when using an autopilot system - let's call this autopilot distraction (AD).

However, the Autopilot system, despite its weaknesses, likely offers some extra safety benefit (ASB) - especially if it can somewhat counteract the attention lapses that a normal driver would have.

So the question becomes, does the autopilot's marginal benefit outweigh the autopilot distraction?

Is: ND > (ND - AD + ASB)?

However, determining this would be difficult without real-world testing. In the real world, the factor which matters most is whether accidents happen (kind of the Overall Survival of this experiment) - which is why testing the real-world accident rate is important - and is ultimately the important question.
A fact I notice in a lot of teams and orgs, valid for both this and the 'heroes' discussion:

Every organisational silo has,in the long term, exactly one 10x engineer, a.k.a hero.

If there is no hero, the organisational silo will fail unless someone cares enough to take the role. If there is a hero, the need for a second one disappears. If a hero falls away, you'll have a few months of chaos after which a new hero appears.

People will naturally give problems and hard projects to the best available person, and generally people agree who that us. So one person with a slight edge gets all the training and quickly gets much better.

Heros are a consequence of organizational barriers.

Update: That last part is inexact. Heros are a consequence of knowledge barriers.
That sounds like a good approach. I guess you could just a smartphone app to avoid buying a scanner e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gamma.scan...

I guess the experience might be smoother with a dedicated scanner though.
> the incentive for spammers et Al doesn’t exist

Ha ha ha.

Tumblr is the place where you get followed (sometimes even messaged) by porn spam accounts regularly.

This problem is so infamous that even some ARG creators literally used the "spam bot aesthetic" (but with weirder messages) to pull people in: https://youtu.be/ZaYioM_bsb0
UK doctors earn way less than US doctors, same as engineers
Relevant quote from Brian Eno (1996)

> Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
Why do you think Ari-Pekka believes it’s the organization of engineers that creates long-term sustainable productivity?

Hint: What does Ari-Pekka do for a living?

Most people want to believe that what they do is the unique secret sauce of value creation, and they want others to believe it too. This is basically what you call politics.
Googe's Rule #2:

> First, design and implement metrics.

> Before formalizing what your machine learning system will do, track as much as possible in your current system. Do this for the following reasons:

> * It is easier to gain permission from the system’s users earlier on.

> * If you think that something might be a concern in the future, it is better to get historical data now.

:-/
I don't think banning it is that implausible. The energy costs of transferring it are not trivial, making small transfers impractical. That cost also makes it politically interesting to suppress it.
> I haven't watched the semi-recent film about his life because I'm a big softie and I'm sure I'd bawl,

From the article:
"Rogers once halted taping of a show when a cast member told the puppet Henrietta Pussycat not to cry; he interrupted shooting to make it clear that his show would never suggest to children that they not cry."

:)
Is "heroism" an euphemism for write access to the repo?
I imagine that's implied by the decentralisation. How could you possibly implement censorship, given its design?
Sweden’s Cultural Revolution
beats to <inset thing> to is a meme now. I expect the gateway Lo-Fi for many was "beats to relax/study to" on youtube.

Or for the brits: "lo fi boriswave beats to relax/get brexit done to" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cre0in5n-1E
Ha, yes - I always love seeing those restaurants that are "Kebab, burgers, and pizza!" because you know to stay away. I wouldn't trust Apple to build a car (cough) and I don't trust my kebab guy to make a decent pizza. There's something to be said about specialization.
Racial Bias and IWantToSeeNyome on Instagram
Why is it legal?
First time I haven’t jumped for the ‘Reader View’ for a while. Nice job on the site. I need to give my Dan A4 build some attention after reading this.
Agile Is Dead, McKinsey Just Killed It
There is RO Mercury?
Well, my experience is that to increase productivity the most important thing is not doing things. If you can filter out the meaningless features and shut down products that are a product of politics (giving someone a product to keep them happy even though everyone thinks it useless) you can increase productivity much more than focusing on the technical aspects of development.
I know an objectively measured 500x engineer.

In the '90s, Siemens AG and Ericsson made a joint venture called Ellemtel for a classic six-month death-march project: if it completed on time, the customer paid. Otherwise, discarded. Each company sent 250 engineers.

At the end of the six months, they delivered a working system. Fully half the code in it was by this one engineer.
Is anyone using Ubuntu Touch as a daily driver and their only phone? I would like to hear experiences.

I am a happy user of Sailfish since 2014, but diversity is a good thing, just happy there is an ecosystem for Linux phones.
I would add (3) can we leverage existing models.
It's not like there are 10x engineers, it's so many 0.1x ones that a 1x one is nowadays seen as something of a miracle.
I was on my 4th job before I discovered people usually find a job to move to before they quit.

I can only imagine the psychic damage done to people who hate their jobs, feel sick when they think about going in to work the next day, spending hour after hour in situations that just make them miserable, but can't get out. Can't afford to just quit. In my mind, it would feel like serving time. Feel like a prison sentence with no release date. I recognise my good fortune in life in being able to just quit; even just knowing I always have that option makes everything bad in the life of employment more bearable.
I'd agree. I don't think the article is refutes that "10x engineers exist" - more that some engineers who are able to work fast are incorrectly labelled "10x"

i.e. Having more knowledge or banging out shonky code might let you appear more productive than your peers, and you should probably adopt more metrics than simply coding tasks getting completed.
This is exactly it.

I do like MacOS more than Ubuntu (which I also use), and lately, customizability of Ubuntu has gone down too (As an old Mac-user, I want a menu bar, I actively dislike menus on each window) and the M1/M1X look real sweet compared to intel.

But Apple is the most anti-consumer company there is and I consider buying a Framework to give them a boost and hopefully purchase a laptop that will not need a full replacement for years. The ecological footprint of electronics is bad enough as it is, no need to reward companies that want you to throw away whole computers after 3y.
SRE's Impact on Technical Debt
> Heros are a consequence of organizational barriers.

Or organizational barriers are a consequence of heros?
Borscht is like pizza to me. It’s just never bad.
> Solve the problem manually, or with heuristics. This way, it will force you to become intimately familiar with the problem and the data, which is the most important first step.

Back then, when I did social research at university, I found it helpful to just look at the raw data. This is immensely helpful for familiarizing yourself with the data and discerning patterns that high-level analysis wont reveal easily. (In this case, you may want to start with a subset for evident reasons.)
Macs can have a very long usable lifespan - if they don't require a repair. Then even young machines are quickly totaled as soon as they are out of warranty. I wonder how many macbooks ended up in landfill because of broken keyboards which where too expensive to repair (like 600$ ?), though keyboards shouldn't just break and not cost more than 100$ to exchange...

My 6 year old iMac has a fan which sounds horrible, would be easy to clean if I just could access it... and while the HD is actually still upgradable, I can't reach it any better than the dirty fan.

And of course there are batteries, which do fail quite often after like 5 years and are also not meant to be exchangeable. In Europe, it might be difficult to get Apple to exchange the battery of older laptops though.
Not to put your wealth in it. Own something else.

If you expect everything to fall vs. the national currency, buy the national currency.
Technology executes lie in front of Congress all the time. It's only serious when someone calls them out and decides to pursue it.
They'd better not be. Thunderbolt 4 mandates 32Gbps of data.

The site says each port has 4 lanes of pcie 3.0
For very good reason, by an overwhelming majority of developers. The fact that a few developers thought VB.NET was even worse than VB6 doesn't lessen VB6's dreadfulness, it just highlights VB.NET's dreadfulness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_(classic)

>The final release was version 6 in 1998. On April 8, 2008, Microsoft stopped supporting Visual Basic 6.0 IDE. The Microsoft Visual Basic team still maintains compatibility for Visual Basic 6.0 applications through its "It Just Works" program on supported Windows operating systems.

>In 2014, some software developers still preferred Visual Basic 6.0 over its successor, Visual Basic .NET. Visual Basic 6.0 was selected as the most dreaded programming language by respondents of Stack Overflow's annual developer survey in 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016: Most Dreaded: Visual Basic: 79.5%

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-mo...

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017: Most Dreaded: Visual Basic 6: 88.3%

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#most-loved-dr...

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018: Most Dreaded: Visual Basic 6: 89.9%

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#most-loved-dr...
Dunno, I've known lots of rich kids who flew private to work these kinds of unpaid internships. They seem to think that the experience was more than worth it, at the very least it's something to brag about in any food related conversation.
Various countries have this, like Switzerland. Taking a guess based on the name I'd say Croatia? I think they may have had this in the past.
So true. And not just kids, adults also can copy emotions of other people, usually of group leaders, or of those who we like. What's important is that this is happening unconsciously.
I can’t go into details why, or the story behind the decision (or what I thought of it), but the company folded up all of their “offshore” development (we were one of their “foreign” offices).

It was no surprise to me. I was saddened, but not surprised.
Better to go to Taco Bell where everything is made from the same handful of ingredients. They can guarantee freshness by turning over everything quicker than anywhere else.

runs
> They immediately started telling him not to be afraid and that it wasn't going to hurt.

Not being a parent but I can already see that they were setting themselves for a fail.

Framing!

I remember an advice I heard if you kids fall/hit themselves, laugh with them and ask them if they are ok, kiss the bobo etc. But dont act like they got hit by the car , they will cry as kids can read feeling and will adjust their reaction to your reaction.

Framing is very important when talking to anyone really, saying just 'the right' things might even have the opposite effect.
yeah it wasn't said when it was moved from though? The reference to Machine learning implies more modern, but not necessarily so.

At any rate even when it was maintained still looked down on, I guess a Dijkstra based side-effect.
Last time I checked it had 17k employees total (source: I worked there).
Or maybe in this case: When you have a shiny new hammer, and not enough fitting nails.
> police or even security guards

"Or even"? Aren't guards the much much "lighter", more reasonable option? Guards usually just sit there watching the CCTV (often dicking around on their phone instead), they don't have the same ability to wield state-sanctioned violence that the police has.
There's so much being stolen on these shitcoin networks sometimes I think that's where the term DeFi comes from...
tldr;

- sends various analytics to google and xiaomi

- downloads "blacklist", which contain china-sensitive phrases. Actual filtering is fortunately disabled in EU. (I personally am not sure what filtering actually does. Decompiled code and the blacklist use "Ad" in naming a lot. So if to believe the naming, filtering is for advertisements)

- sends sms to xiaomi for number registration when using cloud. There is some EULA type text, which user must accept for this to happen. Text does mention sms sending there. After sending sms is deleted (user can not check what was sent), its content encrypted, saved in db and sent to xiaomi server.

edit: forgot the fact that blacklist filtering can be turned on by xiaomi at any moment.
> 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.

> 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.
Everything 1.5 Alpha
No. He puts up a strawman argument, representing ”10x engineers” as producing shoddy work and not sharing information, which he then presents as being bad for the company. That is not a valid argument—obviously people like that are bad for a company, but those people are not ”10x engineers” even if they may sometimes be perceived as such.
> Wait, why is this like cruise ships? I

It's a "luxurious experience" fueled by slave labor.
yeah, I think that is closer to what it teaches. I think there will be at most 2 or three top people in the project, and then some lesser contributors who are skating - maybe because they are not that interested in that project and they are the leads in some other project that is running concurrently.
He is a snappy writer, but everything he writes is pushing his personal agenda around his pet issues.
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>no amount of software engineers can be hired to produce comparable work of an expert cartoonist except by dumb luck.

You actually hit this nail quite on the head with the example.
The "10x engineers" get a lot of their "10x"-ness from creativity - most I've met are cartoonists, painters, musicians, writers, cooks - artists in general that love software as a way of expressing themselves and earning good money. The beautiful bits of code you get after are usually there because the starting point is "create it" not "implement existing solution/pattern".
I guess they mean M.2, which makes everything more compact and cableless. It also supports SATA.
FFmpeg to WebRTC
It's funny because that's pretty much my experience with GitLab CI. Actions is certainly a younger product, I do feel that, but in terms of the design, how the pieces fit together, and what it feels like to develop for it, it all feels much more mature than GitLab CI to me. GitLab always felt like a Travis clone that was hacked to look more like CircleCI.
Disclaimer: not every week, sometimes I feel like working/coding and work way above 40 hour weeks.

My tasks to keep money flowing however come down to maybe 3 hours a week.

I've worked years to get there, but the majority of my income today comes from:

- 'creative' affiliate sites

- random crypto investments

- a local e-commerce project

I've had AdSense sites and a 'small' SAAS too. But I've sold those. The e-commerce is so that I avoid imposter syndrome (or so), because it's the only income I can actually touch that is more than a few files on a harddrive.

However, I am not rich. I am able to pay back dept from years of trying and life a enjoyable life, which is all I ever targetted for.
I’m writing a fairly ambitious app for a 501(c)(3). It’s a “full stack” system; but not what that term usually implies, as I wrote the backend from scratch (as opposed to adapting something like Firebase or Django). The frontend is a native iOS app, in Swift.

It’s coming along nicely.
Linux Foundation says companies are desperate for open source talent
You tip dishwasher or floor cleaners?

Cruise ships are set up to exploit every loophole out the being a legal entity on international waters under flag of loophole county.

Everyone would be better of if that industry died already. Including environment.
From a glance at Wikipedia, it looks like the "third way" has been used by organizations with wildly different ideologies all over the world for at least a century now (and I wouldn't be shocked if it could be traced back at least to the French Revolution). I guess I associate it with Mussolini because he was the first I read use it.

I wasn't familiar with Gesell and the ideas Freiwirtschaft. It actually sounds like a decent (real) third way, a lot like Georgism, and an idea worthy of debating at least.
Earlier than that (at least as far back as 2003, my memory is hazy but it might have been 2001) I was using RSA based tokens for TFA to access on-prem systems at a couple of our clients for product support purposes. At least one of those was significantly smaller than AOL would have been in 2005. So the tech was readily available and had been for some time, AOL had the resources to scale it out to their key infrastructure, and after a significant hack I can believe that even in those relatively naive days there would have been plenty enough management impetus to Make It Happen.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Securely_wipe_disk

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/Memory_ce...

I'd probably do
cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sdX (use pv for progress indicator)
HostBeat creator here. Feel free to ask me anything if you have questions :)
"Frenchs" is impossible in a couple of ways. First, you would have to spell it "Frenches". Second, it is not an English word; your options within the language are "Frenchmen" or "the French".

"Chinaman" is considered racist now, but I suspect "Frenchman" is still good.
Yes, more about form factor than speed but that’s a bonus.
It's only a "blockchain" in a very literal "AES-CBC is a blockchain" kind of sense: there are things that are chained. It's really a Merkle tree. No bitcoin style implications of the word here. In fact the Manyverse website says "no blockchain".
> If we can't know in advance, how can you expect a glorified Markov Chain to magically figure it out? If it could - and it can't, but if it could - how would you know it did it correctly?

We might not know anything about them in advance, but the patterns are there and could maybe be extracted from the some training data. If only you had a statistical model that was flexible enough to find them…

Validation is then as easy as running the model on some examples outside the training set.

> No, it gives an infinite number of sine waves added up together.

Yeah, and after Doppler shift it is still an infinite number of sine waves - no immediate information gained.

Of course, if there are characteristics in the original noise and its frequency distribution, you could try to find those in the doppler-shifted signal. How would you determine the characteristics? From a dataset of examples, I guess. So now the problem is: recognize a pattern from examples and try to find it in new instances. Sounds like the kind of problem ML has found success in. (If you're now thinking "we don't need ML, just some advanced statistics"… Well ML is often basically a statistical model with lots and lots of parameters.)
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Y'all are saying this is all fakenews?
I noticed there is a call to prevent members of Congress and whatnot to be prevented from holding stocks.

That won't happen. Ever.

What's more likely is that their transactions will be exempt from being made public... they make the laws afterall :)
Didn't Bill Clinton lie to congress too?
If patient sues the doctor that the stitches were wrong, legal costs may go above the $47k. Cost of doing business.
I'm not sure I follow here. Linux does have LVM, what's the problem with it?

That's also what the article says: If you have LVM, you don't need any special tool.
It gives Israel military aid on the order of $3-4B per year. On US budget orders of magnitude that's peanuts, and comes with none of the US troop or naval commitment of e.g. the Saudi or Korean alliances.
How do I make my parent stop? She says she enjoys it..
I have smoked socially myself here and there, but never became addicted.
>The consequences of data collection don't relate to people within our social circles so it is much harder to be viscerally affected by it.

This reminds me of how people discovered that their friends/family members were Stasi informants after East Germany collapsed.
Seems pretty criminal to not mention Nujabes.
> I do not want all my USB-C cables to be able to handle 90W. That would make them very thick and expensive.

The difference between the minimum and 100W is that the cables need to support 5 amps instead of 3. That's not much difference at all considering there are data wires too.

Supporting 240W requires a couple tiny components in the plug. That's also barely anything.
MIT really put the yards into this unexpected headline finding. Just what will they think of next?

There is less sunshine at night?
Perhaps, but I think it’s a fair comment to say that more effort has been put into making it nice, objectively, than any Linux desktop alternative.

Maybe some folk prefer the alternatives, and that’s fair, but if you did some pretty objective metrics of bugs, visual inconsistencies, user workflows for standard tasks (like adding new hardware…) well, it’s impossible to deny that Apple has significantly invested in making these things “nice”.

Its really quite difficult to argue the software is really the compelling offering with Framework laptops.

You can already get that on other systems if that’s your thing, and that’s never been enough to do more than barely raise a few eyebrows from folk who are particularly keen.