skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was mostly cold neutral in these situations, as if it was something normal. I usually casually chatted with the hairdresser (or MD, or whoever was about to do harm to my kids :)) and I could se that the child was closely observing.

> If I behaved like it was normal and not a big deal, they would usually relax and there was no fuss.

Humans are social animals, and the young ones learn their attitude about new situations from the leader of their pack. You can see the same behavior with dogs: meeting a new person, they'll often mirror the attitude their owner has to the new person (obviously with less fidelity than children).
execve does not do the same as system at all, as per manual

> execve() executes the program referred to by pathname. This
causes the program that is currently being run by the calling
process to be replaced with a new program

The argument in favor of system is that it is a standard C library function. It is clearly in the article:
> Better, while we are being pragmatic why not use good old system C stdlib function
Author here. There definitely are people, who perform better than others, even when the environment is not built to favor them and hinder others from performing well.

If we believe that the talent within a field follows the power law, as suggested by this study (http://www.hermanaguinis.com/PPsych2012.pdf) it means that only 20% people in the field are high-perfomers, and something like less than 5% exceptionally high performers. When you look it from the perspective of scaling an organization it means that getting these people to your company will be very hard. 80% of companies are hiring within the "average or below average" section. The truly high-performing people, who are passionate about their craft are very likely to move to companies that are at the at the top of XYZ, where XYZ is the topic within software engineering that they're especially passionate about, pay well, etc.

There was originally a section the article that tried to highlight "statistics", but I eventually left it out, because I did not find a good place for it:

"Statistically speaking, it is much easier to create a "10x engineer" by creating an organization, where most people perform poorly than actually hire and retain someone, who really is 10x better at software engineering than an average person."

In hindsight, I think there are a few things that could have been emphasized more, so the thrust of the blog post would have been clearer:

- The title could have been better frased around the topic.

- The context is companies that are growing fast and need to scale.

- You likely have a company full of close-to-average people.
Well, it depends if I (or the society) have to suffer from the externalities of what they eat. But that's another topic.
Is there any benefit to make it so that the function must be applied X times to restore the original text? E.g., ROT2000.
If you’re just starting then imo it’s easier to go the other way. Start with a fully-built dev board like a Wemos D1 mini. Keep building things and as you run into roadblocks and learn how to get around them you’ll naturally develop the knowledge to get further into fabbing your own integrated PCB.
I'm so glad I've been playing around with OpenWRT lately. I bought a second router a while back just to experiment with it and now I have automatic fail-over between two ISPs (with mwan3) and WPA2 Enterprise (with FreeRadius).

Needless to say, my Netgear R7000P will soon be decommissioned. I wish it were officially supported on OpenWRT because it's got a good amount of RAM and flash that could have been put to better use.
This example holds true imo. There is a world of difference between a 2:10 marathoner and a 2:30 marathoner. Same as a 4 min miler and a 4:30 miler, etc.

Because of diminishing returns, improvement can still be seen as potentially some kind of multiple in many skillsets.
For me it's that discovery is strongly reminiscent of "Chip's Challenge" which our family loved. It was one part scroller game (like Mario?) and one part puzzle game - https://archive.org/details/chips_challenge_windows_3.x
Rust and Go are equivalently explicit about the memory concerns surfaced in this analysis.
Filthy White Male Privilege
Margaret Howe Lovatt
https://kb.netgear.com/000064039/Security-Advisory-for-Remot...

This link covers more the actual article.

TLDR: RCE on
R6400v2
R6700
R6700v3
R6900
R6900P
R7000
R7000P
R7850
R7900
R8000
RS400
You missed the point that loudmouth braggarts thrive while 10x programmers are toiling in obscurity
>The author correctly points out that there is no left-leaning equivalent to Rogan's format.

Well I don't think there is a right-leaning equivalent either, in the sense that there really isn't any other "Joe Rogan" kind of guy out there, it's a singular, unique show. Besides the format itself, if one wants to find counterpoints or different stances to the ones presented in his show I'd like to learn how not to find those, it seems to me they are everywhere.
Turning ideas into currency – a study of thought leaders creating income
A Warning Sign of a Mass Extinction Event Is on the Rise, Scientists Say
Here's the SNL sketch that is mentioned in the article:
https://youtu.be/-zq5kWvp528
Awesome - my first thought was “hmm I wonder when the Julia community will implement something based on this” :)
Chademo 3.0 is 0.75-1MW
Make sure your enployer isn’t just stroking your ego to make you work long hours and take on more responsibility. Make sure you get the compensation you think you deserve not future promises..
Not OP but most Western European countries have a public broadcasting company that can be a good source (e.g. France 24 for French, DW for German) if you are learning one of those languages.
This is one of the key things I remember from when I was first learning to drive: Don't actually think about turning the steering wheel; just look to where you want to go and let the steering happen.
The major lending-library services like OverDrive use ADE-wrapped epubs.
The battery is indeed doable, but the keyboard and screen on the macbook air are more of a challenge, although the parts shouldn’t be hard to find in a few years. With the Framework laptop those parts are easy to replace but bespoke, so framework’s repairability will be determined by parts availability in half a decade.
History's Seductive Beliefs
Would it have been in bad taste to say it during Hindenburg's administration? Your personal data may be more durable than benign government.
I recently came across this: https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c8...

which lays out a pretty compelling case for Len Sassaman being Satoshi. Len worked alongside Hal on PGP
Lots of people talking upper body strength, but the real reason is because all of these are on site, some on the road, in situations with poor recourse for harassment.

You're right that there's a cultural fix, but it's big.
Even more basic examples, like when is the software ready with 100% feature capabilities, so that everyone can take a training.

Schedule, travel accommodations, teaching materials, trainers,.... need to be accounted for and planned on due time, on synch with go live for the new infrastructure.
No, I'm claiming deflationary currencies are unsuitable. Inflationary currencies are much more desirable, which is why the world powers tend to have slightly inflating currencies.
Lots of angry people on this thread who don't realize cables with icons describing their function exist. You just need to look.
You’re right, and I should have been more clear. I’m responding with a US comment because the article concludes with the author suggesting what it would take to make the US work this way. I’ve edited my post to reflect that.
This goes a bit beyond just cultural taboo.

A breathalyzer test can determine if you are under the influence of alcohol _at this moment_. No such test exists for weed. The only way to prove someone is not high is to do the usual urine test, which returns positive if you've smoked at all in the past ~month.

It's a liability thing. If a "weed breathalyzer" is invented and employers can prove that you are sober when reporting to work, I think smoking in the evening will become much less of an issue.
Yeah, but if humans keep existing for millions of years, then the probability for a turtle on the Galápagos Islands to live in the time between when humans started seafaring and when humans visited the islands would be extremely small compared to any other time period.
The right thing is to do both, because we don't have time to relax and wait for the grid to be 100% renewable. Using less energy means we can convert the grid more quickly.
It's where you bring the children to grow.
While many of the points made by this article are valid, it fails to address important questions like: how can we remain informed and how do we decide what is important enough to be informed about?

I stopped reading the news on a regular basis many years ago. There were a few reasons for that. One is that most of the news is about topics that we have no control over, another is that news is highly repetitive in nature (few significant events are isolated to a particular day or week).

Yet the biggest reason is that much of what is presented as news is actually opinion. While the author suggest separating fact from opinion, that is usually only possible to achieve by reading the news. News outlets may denote a handful of prominent sources as opinion or analysis, but they aren't going to do that for a puffed up piece where the facts alone would barely fill a paragraph.

Is my life better for ignoring the news? Probably, but I will also admit that I miss out on many things that I should be informed about.
OtterCastAmp is an open-source WiFi Speaker amplifier
The more pricey 2021 iPad mini is the best one Apple has ever made
I think you could end up in a quagmire of trying to calculate all the secondary effects of different production strategies. Maybe another GUI framework uses less power, but maybe it takes more developer hours. How much power do those workstations consume? And their offices or home offices? Or the power consumed by hosted services they use? What about the power to heat their coffee? What country are the developers in and how is their power sourced? Is a kWh of Chinese coal comparable to a kWh of US natural gas?

I don’t think a commissar can correctly compute costs of design and implementation alternatives, and I think permitting an open market and letting prices sort this out is a more viable option.
There’s a much bigger difference in ability going from a 2:30 marathon to a 2:00 marathon than going from a 3:00 to a 2:30 marathon. It’s not linear. But it’s also not relevant to the point the OP is making.
Gravityloss is correct.

It is quite trivial to fire a person if there are economic grounds for doing so.

It is somewhat complicated and laborious, tho, to get rid of an employee if they are underperforming or acting in a toxic manner.
In my experience, it's possible to identify these people early career, set up their environment to help them excel, and help them 10x. Actually hire a 10x off the street? Pretty damn hard
We are exposed to music so much that even someone who don't know how to play an instrument can tell the difference. So the average Joe can tell the difference in for example talent shows. Now imagine a talent show with programmers/developers, we kinda have that already with hackatons, but then it becomes more about the presentation, the actual code - if any code exist at all - is an absolute "hack".
To be clear, having a comprehensive requirements spec has nothing to do with using a waterfall model, and I absolutely was not invoking that model when I used the term. The point is that at any given point in time, either you know what you are currently trying to build or you don’t, and you can only meaningfully define whether your software is working to the extent that you do.
Removing almost every blue check journalist from my feed certainly improved my Twitter experience. It is no longer about news, it is about stirring sht up. According to the news we have been living in parallel universe for ages
The hair cutting experience is just scary no matter how you package the visit or the setting. Strangers with scissors and noisy devices and you did nothing wrong to be subjected to loosing your hair, even if you did, still it's your hair to keep, your head to protect. And who's the hair dresser anyway?

With kids there's no universal solution to spare the _parents_ some drama. At some age some kids want to be the boss, they'd rather be the hair dresser, cut the hair, use the tools to learn the experience. Others would just agree to watch how it's done to others then play it out, before agreeing to have it cut. Either way, some patience with a slow pace of kid's acceptance helps them figure out the why and find trust in it.

With the pandemic lockdown, I surprisingly got my "haircut" "done" by our budding home professional, with water spray bottle being the only real tool, but the plastic tools had the magic effect on my appearance in hands of this preschooler.

Next!
> List of lists of lists: This article itself is a list of lists, so it contains itself.[a]

So yes
I do my brag items within a big Notion page that has all my daily Slack-ups (yesterday + today snapshot). I use the ‘callout’ block type with an orange background and a :party: emoji so they stand out.

This has worked well enough, and I particularly like that the brag items are situated amongst my daily Slack-ups. quickly scrolling up and checking the density of brags gives me a sense of how I’m doing.

I’ve also started wording them better to align with Situation-Task-Action-Result form, which makes them more effective come review time.

Overall this habit/chore is one of the things I’m pretty glad that I just do.
Arch is not something for people that want to just use their devices. It's something for people who love to tinker.

Updates break something so often that I wonder if it somehow is sponsored by other OS developers to make them look good.
- OS: Arch Linux
- Window Manager: Sway
- Backups: rsync.net
- Mail: migadu.com
- Coding sr.ht
- Private servers: kimsufi.com
- Music: bandcamp.com
- Headphones: Grado SR325 X
- Camera: Fujuifilm X-T4

Ah the drew devault starter kit
If ZA makes all road names African, the UK should make all road names English.
Beyond earning a salary, the 2 biggest issues i face if i were to "go it alone":

1. My lack of skills as a lead salesperson. I'm really effective at many roles - both for enterprise and start up (e.g. - CTO, dev, BA, product mgr, project mgr, etc.)...but when it comes to selling/sales...wow, do i suck...at least as the lead. I'm really good as a wingman/second banana...but to get leads, or close that deal as the lead salesperson...well, that has been my greatest weakness...and honestly one that i've never desired to be good at...but then if i were to go into business for myself, i would either need to improve, or get a partner who is good at that.

2. Secondly, the cost of health care - at least in the U.S. (where i live/work). I'm able to bring lots of other costs down (home mortgage or apartment rent, etc.), but not health care...at least not for my family's needs (*NEEDS*, not wants!). So, if/when i were to go into business full-time for myself, i would need to ensure i can cover such costs...and that makes things quite difficult...especially as per my point #1 above.

...Which is all to state that i'm highly respectful and in awe for folks who *can* make it on their own. Kudos to the post author, and to anyone else who can make it happen!
Except it doesn't, not to the extent of how bad Linux does it.

I really would like to see IBM marketing materials about the Year of z/OS Desktop.
Nothing I said was racist. Many developing countries have a higher birth rate than the US, no one disputes this. You are the one brought that baggage to the conversation. Why? I don't know. Maybe you need to do some reflection on that.

Second, birth rates ...

Irrelevant to my point.
The story I've heard is Delta isn't any more deadly to the over 50 crowd, but it's definitely more deadly to the under 50 crowd. I understand there's been a surge of younger adults going to the hospitals and ICUs and young children are filling up the children's hospitals. I suspect the younger people respond better to treatment, but I don't have any stats to reinforce that suspicion. Even so, they're filling hospitals and there have already been cases where people having non-Covid related issues have died while trying to find a hospital able to admit them. It's a mess.
They were brand new, ripped myself and compared with the CD still in the drawer. Using different bitrates and other settings, whatever was documented for the CLI tools at the time. I was using some Red Hat variant, but this was before Fedora. In 2002 I believe.

Though I'm sure that the encoders got better, really, the quality of the common rip has not.
I am just getting boxes with hex codes in them if I type ascii letters so that is not so very nice. Even if you have all of the required fonts I am not sure it is that great to get characters from a completely foreign language. Also, I suppose, one could end up with surrogate code points which do not have a character representation. To summarize: I think this sounded like more fun in theory than it turns out to be in practice.
"At some point in the future, news will likely be tailored for you."
That's part of the arch experience.
Amazon’s Department Store Plans: High-Tech Dressing Rooms,Apparel Brands
The Wikimedia Endowment Reaches $100M Milestone
Whether or not some people in a given field are 10x more knowledgeable or productive than others is a question that can be answered.

Whether trying to find 10x programmers is a good HR strategy is a separate question.

This article is just a stream of consciousness brain dump, which I guess proves that 1/10x clickbait authors exist.
One of the biggest opportunities in technology right now is to re-run the Next/Apple playbook and create a new hardware/software technology company focused on developers. Good quality hardware married with a great OS / window manager. Most of the software we use to create software are electron apps, a thin layer of native code to run a bunch of javascript. The main notable exception is XCode, but the ecosystem of non-ios/apple developers is far larger. Wish someone would do this. I'd pre-order tomorrow.
Well, those mediocre European airplanes can fly.
I read the news in part to be entertained, and to have something to talk about with others in the way that sports fans always keep up with new players, stats, and upcoming games. We can all think of low quality, highly polemic news sources that turn our friends and colleagues into absolute monsters, but I'm not talking about that.

It's news like HN, stuff from my favorite quirky subreddits and blogs, news in tech and gaming, and a skim of apnews.com & WSJ from time to time. Sometimes when I do stuff I enjoy, I have no further motivation than the enjoyment itself. I'm not under the delusion that keeping up with breaking news is going to help me change the world or become a better citizen or something.
That honestly sounds exactly like the culture in the US.
Florida’s new surgeon general skeptical of vaccines, opposes masks
Too late, America is screwed ... and its their own fault.
My biggest problem with 10x is that I see it applied prescriptively not descriptively. If it's just describing some fact about someone's output then fine. If you've got the data to backup your 10x trophy then good for you but I don't want to hear some shit about someone being a 10x developer because someone else said they were.

You also don't get to be a 10x developer by kneecapping everyone around you.
As I get older, and maybe because I worked at a company whose product is “talent optimization”, I think a lot of the “10x” thing is just a function engagement and passion. That is to say it’s not entirely skill or “intelligence”. You could take the best programmer but if you point them at a project they don’t give a crap about they’ll phone it in. Point them at something they’re passionate about and they’ll have absurd impact. They’ll think of more novel solutions, test and refine those solutions, and crank out the whole thing in record time.

If you want a 10x engineer, give them work they love.
Rust's stdlib is similarly bare-bones. Rust/Cargo has the same mindset of many small packages as JS/npm. The difference is that in JS abstraction and indirection has a run-time cost, so doing things via packages adds overhead. In Rust, you can have zero-cost abstractions that optimize away. The runtime and code-size cost is often the same whether you call code from a generic 3rd party crate or write it yourself inline in your function.
Lenovo's Latest Liquid Cooling Solution for Servers
> Among 222 novel therapeutics approved by the FDA from 2001 through 2010, 71 (32.0%) were affected by a postmarket safety event. Postmarket safety events were more frequent among biologics, therapeutics indicated for the treatment of psychiatric disease, those receiving accelerated approval, and those with near–regulatory deadline approval. From 2001 through 2010, the FDA approved 222 novel therapeutics (183 pharmaceuticals and 39 biologics). There were 123 new postmarket safety events (3 withdrawals, 61 boxed warnings, and 59 safety communications) during a median follow-up period of 11.7 years (interquartile range [IQR], 8.7-13.8 years), affecting 71 (32.0%) of the novel therapeutics. The median time from approval to first postmarket safety event was 4.2 years (IQR, 2.5-6.0 years), and the proportion of novel therapeutics affected by a postmarket safety event at 10 years was 30.8% (95% CI, 25.1%-37.5%)”

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2625319
Yeah, I’m sorry. Looking back at it, that comment was written in general exasperation with the current state of the web, not really at you in particular.
Pick up on what it means when you openly signal this sort of "tribal allegiance". I'm not making any sort of point on whether someone should own guns, or whether it should be legal, or anything like that. That's a discussion about how things should be, which I'm not talking about. I'm talking about how things are, and how they are is that this sort of online branding puts one in a "camp". And in my experience, being put in a "camp" is bad for business, for most people.

Furthermore, sometimes people are classified as such and so without them realizing, or at least without them realizing to what extent this happens, or what effects it has. Which I suspect is happening here, and which is why I posted. For a small business that offers a critical service, the personal branding of the principals (and public facing employees) matters. And for most people, that brand should (for better or for worse) be on the bland side, for maximum profitability.
Andrew Left banned from trading in HK for saying China Evergrande was insolvent
If you want an idea for corporations are going to act politically, check out libertarianism.

Basically: Anything that can be commercialized should be legal. Social things: Meh, whatever, really.
There's a whole website dedicated to collecting anecdotes like this:

https://www.iusedtobelieve.com/

Browsing it can be a great reminder of how literal-minded children can be.
I know, which is precisely why declaring one is not going to have kids because of "the climate" is nonsensical.
Hanson doesn't think (2) and (3) follow because of the possibility of panspermia. It's possible that our galaxy is the only one in a billion light years that has given rise to life, but there could, because of panspermia, skill be a high probability that a planet in our galaxy outside our solar system has life. See this podcast Hanson did with me: https://soundcloud.com/user-519115521
Insurpassable barrier to entry. Not a chance.