skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "the right tool for the right job" applies for ML topics too.

If the job involves "looking smart and innovative" for whatever reasons, people tend to err on the side of overly complex solutions.

On the other hand if the advice "let's just go with an SQL query built on a stack of egregiously oversimplifying assumptions" comes from someone, who doesn't know how SQL and linear regression / logistic regression with binning/bucketing / simple decision trees work, I would ask for a second opinion. Because a huge part of the retail banking, non-life insurance and marketing business is running on this simple stack. Obviously profitable.

If the same advice comes from someone, who knows when to use deep learning instead of XGBoost and why, I would go with his/her advice. And I would try to keep him happy and on my team.
> That pact only looks like working working well from the outside. Travel into the mainland, get hammered with some local colleagues, they will tell you what they really think about there "benevolent leading party". Don't trust the crap the party shouts about itself in its outlets to the west.
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Its completely impossible to have any business that is carbon negative. From the person working there that exhales carbon dioxide all days long to every physical items and energy that was somewhere involved in the creation and operation of the business, has releases carbon dioxide and will release more when its decommissioned.

If it would be carbon negative show me where it removed CO2 from the air and how it is stored now "forever".

This is just a climate indulgence scam.
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> So what is the value of Linux when it needs to play OS/2 Windows compatibility flag?

What's the value of Windows if it has worse compatibility to is former incarnations?

>And some is still more than I could say for something compiled in Red Hat Linux (!Enterprise) or Mandrake, to put it in perspective regarding 2000

It could be always worse and better, let's talk about z/OS
After the solarwinds breach I started an open source project to replace solarwinds. I used django and it's working great.

Anyone have experience upgrading django? Does it go well?
Great!
Happy for you!
I missed the crypto wave..
If they can cope with / get used to the intense new sensory input, I imagine the same tricks would work (point out interesting things, make sure they understand what's going on so they know what to expect (but without making it an ominous future event), etc). That might require making the hairdressers' quieter or less crowded, though. (Timing your first time well is probably important; I'd aim for somebody else to watch first, but not large crowds, but it depends on the child.)
It is a serious crime, but perjury is hard to prove because you need to show that Zuckerberg not only lied, but did so intentionally.

Facebook is fairly unpopular amongst both political parties so it wouldn't surprise me if at some point in the future, they were smacked down by an antitrust lawsuit or beaten up by Congress.
It’s called quarter pounder:

https://www.mcdonalds.com/dk/da-dk/product/quarter-pounder.h...
> How do you know you're looking at a 10x developer instead of a 2x, a 9x, an 11x, a 500x, a 0.2x, or a 0.5x?

This is the hard part, isn’t it. It’s hard to tell beforehand, but if you’re skilled enough you can look at someone’s contribution history and see what they’ve done over the past years. It’s not perfect, but it helps.

Similar to how you review a 10x artist, just look at their work.

I don’t think asking people if they are great is very useful.
Great comment. Who watches the watchers is an extremely important aspect of whether society evolves to something better or entrenches some form of corporate dystopian nightmare. Current outlook is not good.
If both vehicles are approaching a green light, the driver of the car needs to make a right turn and the bus lane is to the right of the car lane, how is it supposed to work? How does the car get to the dedicated right turn lane without crossing the bus lane? What if there is no dedicated right turn lane?
There usually aren't too many to choose from. Select the cuisine you want and read up on the individual restaurants elsewhere.
> more effort has been put into making it nice, objectively, than any Linux desktop alternative.

Again, subjective.
It’s powered by a microcontroller, so it doesn’t run an OS.
They cite a study that concluded “while programmers are better and/or faster than others, the importance and scale has been greatly exaggerated.”
> And that's the only client in existence that supports the XEPs required for XMPP to be a viable alternative in the modern world.

That's not true, but admittedly that information is not trivial to find right now for end users. It's a known problem, and people are working on a nice comparison of XMPP client capabilities so people can make a more informed choice.

> What if I don't want to run my own XMPP server? How do I find the one that supports message carbons, file uploads, encryption, push notification, client state indications...

https://compliance.conversations.im/ or for something less overwhelming, https://joinjabber.org/
That sounds rough, I'm glad you ended up in a situation that you like!

(I'm ready to "retire" whenever personally, and then work on the code I want with the people I want to without financial expectation!)
When You Find a Weird Program from 40 Years Ago and Realize It's Yours
Retire 3x earlier?
Then it overheats like hell if you connect it from the wrong side.
If you like Anjunadeep then I’d recommend looking into the weekly Above and Beyond Group Therapy (abgt) mixes, and also possibly Monstercat Silk Showcase, another weekly music music
It's still the norm in much of Europe, I wouldn't be surprised if half of Europeans would consider it OK to drive home after half a bottle of wine.
Yes, working for an Eastern European government it was nice to see strong push back in the region but especially from the Lithuanians who take strong stances against authoritarianism (e.g. they have also been strong supporters of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya against the Lukashenko regime). It is partially because they depend so heavily on American defense and know that they need to be totally behind the US' stance on everything and can't risk getting too close to China - the benefits are far outweighed by the risks.
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Amazon Is Lobbying the US Government to Make Pot Legal
If you search for "white noise 3 hour long" you will find a track from an artist named "White Noise Therapy" and it is, unsurprisingly, just over 180 minutes.

It's also been streamed 30 million times which is impressive.
Why Does Punching Sonic 3D Trigger a Secret Level Select?
Agreed.

Though, with Macs, it's trivial - their migration tool is peerless. (As one would certainly expect and demand: since they control the whole software/hardware stack)
Costs balloon for U.S. particle physics megaproject
if you could point to how you configured your power management that would be great
Modern day ad tech is all about tracking and targeting groups based on their interests, something any government trying to deal with dissidents will be interested in.
Beautiful.

If you're just skimming, be sure to slow down and read the "Bodge Time" section.
> Unions promote mediocricy. If thats fine - good. Europe can allow themselves to be mediocre, while most of inovation is done in United States of America. But what if USA would do the same, where we would get inovation? China?

This is a pretty baseless claim - do you have any evidence that most innovation is done the US because of an absence of unions, or despite an absence of unions?
Busy and Hectic is Not my Style
None of the websites or posts on this topic that I've come across contain any numbers.

Would it really make a difference for the average project? Honest question.
The article seems to make and fight a strawman argument, making a supposed 10x engineer a problem for information sharing, teamwork, etc.

In my experience, it is quite the opposite: while very few of the 10x engineer are indeed "leave me alone to solve hard problems; figure out yourself how to maintain my solutions within the enterprise", the majority makes simple, robust designs that are easier, not harder for the team to understand and maintain. And when they leave, they generally leave behind a system that is stable and does not need day-to-day meddling from a senior engineer, which gives enough time to find a replacement. My 2c.
It isn't since 2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act

Proving you've done it can be hard, though.
I go one step farther and have conversations auto-expire after a certain amount of time (e.g. a week) for both parties. Scripta volent.
You don't.

Either do what the client needs or turn down the work.

Good luck.
To everyone that grew tired of "Lofi Beats to Study/Relax to", I present you Mr. Dom Whiting with his exquisite techno and drum and bass mixes that he plays while cycling on the streets. Great music to work/code to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_weZX8rEoio
Buying other coins than BTC. If BTC does 10%, ETH did 25% and other shitcoins went up 50-80%. So I distributed among different coins and just sat out and waited.
Alternatively, since the hardware is excellent, burn LineageOS on them (most of them are supported and stable).

To unlock the bootloader you still need a xiaomi account and to wait a week. Otherwise you can contact someone on reddit or telegram with EDL keys.
Collection of some big project codebases – for studying only
I wonder if the author can see the irony in having a SaaS business, yet equating taxes as theft. Definitely a weird look about all of this...
"sudo tlp start" :)
I don't think it's over. Take the current dip (which might go until 30k for BTC), buy in, and wait another year. This space is not done yet. And it's mostly used by professional traders to squeeze out some beta in their portfolios. So be a little fish swimming with the whales.
Can't recommend Cercle enough.

My favorite Cercle video is the one at the pyramid's of Giza.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD6GDiyHmbE
Most of the window making jobs are just production. In software you don't have the same friction of production. You don't have to type in the source code each time you install the program. But you have to manufacture a new window and physically install it each time which is labor intensive. Also, the window designer job is not hyped as much as IT jobs are.

Furthermore, you do see household appliances getting fitted with useless feature bloat and shoddy software and wireless and touchscreens on microwaves etc. It happens. IoT, subscription based software updates for power drills etc... Tractors that can't be repaired and contain a jumble of proprietary software as a service etc.
The mere possibility of high wages is of little use. The employer will tend to optimize towards paying as little as possible for as much productive work as possible. With disincentives to work for very little, "as little as possible" grows. In the worst case for the employee it becomes unaffordable, but in many industries there's a lot of headroom. Other industries may have to make headroom by moving costs to e.g. consumers.
They play ball with intelligence and law enforcement agencies providing something to them the government could never practically or legally procure otherwise.
Since we're on this topic, I want to ask a question:

How do I play video files stored in my VPS to Chromecast?

I want my mom to watch a video, from her TV, but I can't upload it to YouTube due to copyrighted content (yes, even if you set unlisted, YouTube will block it).
It's an interesting question! I normally think of a curry as being a sauce placed on some solid food, while a soup is a liquid food with perhaps some solid chunks floating in it; but that's really just a difference in how it's plated and how much sauce you use; it doesn't make much difference to the flavor.

My concern with ontological coherence is perhaps better explained by Goodman's "new riddle of induction": https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-bayesian/#Ob...

> In the past all observed emeralds have been green. Do those observations provide any more support for the generalization that all emeralds are green than they do for the generalization that all emeralds are grue (green if observed before now; blue if observed later); or do they provide any more support for the prediction that the next emerald observed will be green than for the prediction that the next emerald observed will be grue (i.e., blue)? Almost everyone agrees that it would be irrational to have prior probabilities that were indifferent between green and grue, and thus made predictions of greenness no more probable than predictions of grueness. But there is no generally agreed upon explanation of this constraint.

(This is somewhat mineralogically naive, because emeralds are just green beryls; a beryl that was blue would be called an "aquamarine" or "maxixe," not an "emerald," because greenness is part of the mineralogical definition of "emerald." But it's straightforward to change the riddle to refer to, for example, grass. The grass has always been grue; should we expect it to still be grue tomorrow?)
New affordable e-Bikes with a non-welded frame
Developer of affordable e-Bikes 250-1000W equipped with a patent-pending frame made without welding
Are we sure they're not actually the exact same problem?

Hypothesis: the "10x" developer does not actually have 10x the output of a single average developer, but rather the same output as 10 average developers working together (and having much of their productivity eaten up by coordination overhead).
Schrodinger's project management: developers are measurable as long as they don't know they are being measured.
> That doesn't look like someone about to go deer hunting.

I would just like to point out, and then I'm going to leave this weird conversation alone, that the US second amendment is not, and never was, about hunting. It's about protecting the outcome of the American Revolution, and self-defense. I'm allowed to post my personal beliefs on my personal social media pages, because it makes me happy and helps me meet like minded people. I'm not going to censor myself to please a demographic. I've done that enough in my life.
This largely mirrors my own experience. The work was just more interesting than regular SWE
there was no consistency i can assure you :)

(if you know what I mean)
IMO the 10x engineer is not someone who is 10x more productive than their peers. It's the person who will identify and solve critical engineering design questions far in advance, such that if you took them out of the team, the team would be 10x less valuable.
In this blog (which is hosted on the page of your business), you're equating taxes to theft. Which in my mind is a very weird look for someone offering any kind of non-shady business.

Especially in a SaaS (which, like taxes, are something you pay for so someone else can provide a service you care for but are unable/unwilling to provide yourself).
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Be that as it may but as a non-American my first reaction would have definitely been that at best this guy is a survivalist and at worst someone planning a shooting (and in-between someone who would have participated in stuff like the January capitol attack).

I'm living and have lived in countries without widespread gun usage (Germany and Austria) and I've never seen people carrying AR-15 or guns with a similar "military" look around here (I have seen hunting rifles) and have previously lived in a country with widespread gun usage (Israel) and the only people I've seen carrying guns like those there were soldiers or police officers.
Yes, it is called “fashion.” People periodically replace clothing or reconstruct buildings or alter cooking or food presentation. It doesn’t change much but it does maintain a great deal of economic activity, keeps the motors running as it were. By and large operating systems and websites and mature software systems are similar. It is a good thing because it soaks up the attention of people who would delay efforts to evolve, example Microsoft contemplating its OS navel as Netscape came about. It is also good because a small amount of the large economic value of fashion is still more than sufficient for the development of something new. As the “startup” has become fashionable the cycle repeats where the relatively inanimate bones of effort that doesn’t create new value is used as a framework for the rare things that do.
Looks like they store your password in plaintext?

https://i.imgur.com/PEggcGM.png
Coding on EPD displays, some miss the colour highlighting. Maybe with Kaleido or a high refresh ACeP...
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> how much easier it is to let employee's go when there's good reason or fire them when necessary.

Like what are the barriers for this, normally? In Germany there's the so called "fristlose Kündigung" where you can immediately be fired when you steal or something alike.

How does this compare to Denmark?
It seems most of these boil down to: build more efficient software.

Software that is more efficient with the network and CPU is also cheaper to run. So the incentives are generally aligned. When I deploy a system I want it to run on 5 servers not 50 for cost reasons not because I'm being green. If I'm being green by accident, that's a bonus.

I'm glad on the "measure" side it gives examples of how to measure (though I can't vouch for how good they are).

But really, as a web app developer (which is most of HN, I think) this doesn't apply "too" much beyond just increasing hardware efficiency which you'll want to do anyway. It intuitively seems graphics and GPU heavy apps are the biggest offenders.
The New Lucid Air Has a 508 Mile Range. Is That Worth It, or a Giant Splurge?
"10x engineers" definitely do exist. Anyone who doesn't believe in 10x engineers just hasn't met one yet.

I've had the pleasure of working with two 10x engineers. One of them is a problem-solving and execution machine. I could understand what he did, and I think that I could have done the same, only taking 10x longer.

The other one... the other one isn't just a "faster me". His brain works on a qualitatively different way than mine. I probably couldn't have come up with the things he came up with, even with 10x or 100x more time.

These guys are also incredibly humble and nice, and hilariously funny. Fantastic humans all around. Stu, Matt, I miss you guys!
Buy low, sell high. Commercial real estate prices are down right now, good time to buy up properties.

People are reading way too much into this.
According to _Founders at Work_, they just reverse-engineered the keys and emulated them on a Palm Pilot
There are certainly cases where from a legal perspective the company is no longer permitted to operate. Arthur Anderson following the Enron fraud is a good example.

Not in the realm of possibility here, for many reasons. Even if it were, the number of employees issue- 50,000- would be quite minor in the list of considerations. Amazon would just hire them all outright.

Right now lots of parties are pulling on threads, seeing what unwinds. The most significant possible outcome I see is Zuck being forced to divest- the only change which could impact governance- and relatedly several senior execs and Board members being faced with criminal charges.

Another potential significant outcome is a mandated break up, similar to AT&T, though exactly on what lines and terms is extremely challenging to conceive.

I put the chances on either as pretty low.
This is wrong. Rewriting your code in Elm (or other niche language) doesn't make you a 10x developer.

Same way rewriting your code in Rust doesn't make you a 10x developer for removing memory safety issues.

A 10x more productive developer is more productive within an ecosystem against others who are also in that same ecosystem. It's not fair to compare a C developer to a Rust developer in terms of developer skill. But maybe productivity you could. Like how Python is more productive than C++ but you don't call the Python developer a 10x developer.
Sounds like they/you worked in bad roles tbh. The field is incredibly varied. You’ll find just as menial regular SWE roles too
Reading this, I feel less offended (really, I don't understand the use of that word in politics) and more scared and threatened. I'm a :sparkles: gender minority :sparkles: so politics can get really directly influential really quickly, and the picture of a gun-owning person who thinks taxes are theft is less than encouraging: that type of ideology usually does not account for people like me's existence. It's possible that it's just a hobby (heavy benefit of the doubt here), but it reads like a political statement against my ability to live freely.

Anyway, you asked: that's why I'd be scared to put much into the OP's hands.
Thanks! I am gonna try this!
> People do pick up on these things.

Pick up on what things? Guns are tools. You may not be interested in those tools, but judging someone because they enjoy them legally and responsibly is unfair and unwarranted.
Same reasons, except that's why I use XFCE.
I never think about the anxiety of kids but I love to guide their steps by spreading a bit of funny information here and there and giving slight hints or challenges to make them try safely, while nurturing their own curiosity.
Until I did a year of Plone development, I always thought webapps were IO bound.
It's a joke. I understand politics are at an all time high for polarization, but I think people need to lighten up.
So this only works for now if you have an iOS app?
It was also the 60s. Asbestos was still a thing, as was leaded fuel, ubiquitous smoking etc
> I'm not sure how I'd even refer to e-ink screens

"Electrophoretic displays (EPD)"
My problem with all methodologies are the lack of coherent stakeholders on the business side. Product owners are a poor proxy at best but at least they're a definitive throat to choke when things go awry.

Being told for the 20th engagement in a row that the right people for a conversation about a feature can't spare the time to be in the the room to workshop it or provide meaningful feedback (so why are you paying $300/hr for my time?) is de-motivating.

As a rule I find most human beings exceptionally poor at thinking structurally and critically about why they do anything at all, and strategies or behaviors which would improve those things either by outcome or experience.

They just go on raging their fists in the dark and at the same time running away from any daylight that might make them change.
Ancient Rome Constructed Its Own Pyramids, One Still Stands Today
What "strategy" do you use for crypto?
Just "buy the dip" or??
I mean run-time checks that the user must implement.

For example, in JS you might put these all over your code-base:

if (typeof x !== 'string') {
throw Error('Expected a string');
}