skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Quite often when I visit a great restaurant I find its a sauce that lifts a dish from the good to memorable. I always thought that was because of the stock made from scratch.

Or from knowing exactly what materials or procedures to add to the "school cafeteria" sauce your food service supplier delivers to make it work great with your dish.
And yet the same video mentions the H2S release earlier in the process as dangerous to nearby populations (timestamp 3:34)
"text as the universal interface" is the thing that enables "packaging for both use and reuse", so it's not surprising that this is what they refer to.

> Moreover, I don't think that this feature is unique to UNIX.

It's not. It's not common though, and certainly Emacs Lisp code doesn't work at the OS level, it is trapped inside Emacs.
Well, this is weird and very off-topic. I keep that page personal and separate from my business, which I'm allowed to do. I don't really care if I've lost a customer or 2 over my personal beliefs -- my business is growing just fine, thank you. My customers do trust me.
I don't think anyone really doubts that some engineers will work an order of magnitude or more faster than others on a given task. They just think it's a misleading way to think about performance, which likely falls on a unimodal curve within your organisation, and likely differs by task.

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? The premise gives the impression that you can neatly split engineers into two groups, which is wrong. Your 500x engineers are only going to perform that way on tasks they've done before, your 0.2x engineer might just have the flu or might be an intern on his first day, your 2x engineer who wrote a parser for that weird proprietary format last week could be 0.5x this week because she's working on ansible scripts, and in general it's impossible to settle on a constant integer factor of engineering ability that does any better than IQ.
Exactly! And many people still need to use floppy disks and parallel ports.
Great tool, and useful for anyone looking for new coins.
For me, holiday days are a BIG deal. If company policy allows me to take 6 weeks off without people getting upset, I would happily take a 2/3rd pay cut over the same with 2 weeks off. Of course, if the company allows unpaid leave that's fine, but US companies tend to get bothered if you actually take decent amounts of time off (even in the UK).

What's the point of living just to work?
Japanese sushi is one of those foods that have almost no chance to be replicated at home.

First there is almost no way to get the rice to consistently taste anything close to how they do it in restaurants.

Second, it’s unlikely you will buy dozens of different high end top quality fish, prepare the fish, and then just make a few slices for your meal.

Finally, sushi is made to be eaten immediately. So if you want to make your own meal of 20 to 30 different types of sushi, you will have to either make and eat as you go, or make them all then eat them after they have sat for too long.

At least for many Western dishes, I can replicate maybe 80 percent of the taste. Sushi is a completely different level.
Wow, I'd nearly forgotten about this. The exact same thing happened to my sister-in-law a few years ago when she visited with her Windows 10 laptop and couldn't connect to our wifi.

Eventually we figured out the 'p' (or maybe it was 'n'? Can't remember for sure.) in the password was getting skipped, but it was hard to tell with the password masking. Tried a USB keyboard, onscreen keyboard, same thing. I think we might have given up and let her use one of our computers at that point. It was (and still is) very confusing.
Well in the age of livestreams you don't have to guess you can just watch them work. To me pretty clearly Jon Gjengset Rust streams are what would I call 10X, although it all depends on what you consider 1x to be :)
Maybe you also witnessed the parents first time taking a child for their first haircut.
Shake down is a completely unfair characterization of what's happening here. Facebook is being sued because they're alleged to be damaging their shareholders in three ways.

1. They're using corporate funds to protect Zuckerberg personally.

2. They're in violation of an FTC Consent Decree relating to Cambridge Analytica which poses a material risk to shareholders as there are financial penalties for violating the agreement.

3. They're misleading Government and Customers about what data they're collecting and how they're protecting it, which opens them up to more lawsuits and further puts shareholders at risk.

Running a public company is a two-way street. If you want access to public financing and the ability to shield individuals from personal financial/legal risk, you need to abide by certain rules relating to reporting and transparency.

If you don't want to be transparent, you don't have to IPO.
Google locked account for sharing a historical archive labeled as terrorist
My employer considers me a 10x developer. It's not a title I'd choose for myself. I'm the only software engineer to be on a bonus scheme, which is great.

But it means I'm expected to be available constantly. I'm not a one-man team but I tend to be the first point of contact for people outside our Eng team. It gets a bit much sometimes.
“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it” - George Carlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyvxt1svxso
Wouldn't this cause radiological pollution in the gas itself, making it useless? At least for sale to foreign countries...
> and even watch [video]

But has Onyx fixed the dithering, optimizing for less pixel switching?

I have been played with using EPD for video for years: very usable, but the ghosting can be a problem.

The implementations of the firmwares around the Max2 had the issue of using the Floyd-Steinberg dithering only, which changes the dot status too frequently for EPD (where dot switch is very costly in energy/battery). For video, you want a dithering algorithm that is very conservative on the dots. (I was tempted to develop a video player following those principles, but time constraints did not permit.)
Well, the article does conclude with that exact tweet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_Pounder

> In several countries that do not customarily use United States customary units as a unit of weight, the Quarter Pounder is sold under different names. In France, Belgium and Cyprus it is called the Royal Cheese and includes cheese. In German-speaking Europe it is known as a Hamburger Royal; in Germany it includes lettuce and tomato and is branded Hamburger Royal TS (TS standing for „Tomate und Salat“, tomato and lettuce). In Russia and Ukraine, it was known as Royal Cheeseburger, and since 2016 in Russia it is called Grand Cheeseburger.
In the past five years or so, reddit has really become a very hateful and bitter place. More than ever before are dissenting opinions met with snark and vitriol, and positive, charitable discourse has generally disappeared. I ultimately felt much better after deleting my account.
This is almost certainly true. Professional wine reviewers fail taste tests all the time.
The solution proposed is not good because it presents “hire 10x” and “support 1x” as some sort of exclusive options.

Of course, the smart choice for orgs is to do both. If I had to choose a single (and I don’t) I’d go with a few 10x progs over dozens of 1x because small teams work better in general due to coordination overhead.

This is no excuse for letting 10x be jerks and I would probably run away from any hiring notice that talked about 10x. I think this follows my observation that smart people don’t talk about being smart, they be smart.
I'm confused by your post. I use signal seamlessly between my desktop, iphone, and ipad using the same account. I can take photos with my phone, post them to a chat, then go back to my desktop to type longer messages more easily.

Is your problem that a phone is required to be the primary device when doing this?
>No, it does not. It means that Microsoft no longer provides support for the IDE. That does not prevent the developer from maintaining their own VB6 code. With some extra steps, the official IDE and compiler for VB6 can still be installed on Windows 10. Running programs built from VB6 is still supported.

If you're comfortable with this then I don't think you're actively investing in your software.

>This applies regardless of the programming language to any codebase that has been around for long enough.

No, if you have a team actively maintaining the project you have the knowledge transfer in-house which is the second part of that sentence.
Yes, that's what I mean. Not quite sure how worldwide it is, but as far as I'm aware, my country doesn't have it - either that or it's limited to a very special caste of workers, maybe CEOs or board members or something, but definitely not "normal people" with regular employment contracts as per our labor law.
I'm guessing root cert expiration data growth is much lower than storage density improvements. And of course you don't need to revoke a certificate that was never on the device in the first place.
10x software engineers are mostly 10x problem solvers who happen to be programmers. The driving attitude is refusing to work hard to accomplish something of low significance, which is mostly done thanks to: finding clever solutions, reducing feedback loops when debugging or testing, gaining proper understanding of systems to avoid empirical tweaking, asking around quickly when getting stuck, and also cleverly navigating company politics in order to ship something in environments where it is hard.
The issue I seem to often see, for some reason, is that people who have a say in hiring often don't realize themselves that the great engineer did something quickly thanks to an insight, or, more generally speaking, thanks to being very good, or being able to turn the problem on its head, as opposed to pure brute force.

They often seem to have the idea that it's more or less grunt work. Yeah, if a truck will haul 10 tonnes in one go, you'll get the same time if you hire an army of people, each carrying 10 kg on their backs, give or take economies of scale.
Because 100% of people can enjoy the thinness 100% of the time, and only 5% of people need VGA for about 20% of their time.
Short answer: iterative prototypes.

OK, but then how do you know what each prototype is required to do?

It’s true that you might be lucky enough to work on a project where your employer/client/customer is willing to let you make some of the decisions. In that case, you are effectively defining some of the requirements yourself and hoping that your employer/client/customer will be happy with your decisions. That’s a risk you can mutually agree to take, and sometimes it will pay off royally, and sometimes it will end in disaster, and probably most of the time it will end somewhere in between.

However, in my experience, the more important the software you’re building is, the less likely it is that you will have that kind of flexibility for the developers. At the extreme end of the industry, if you’re building something like the control system for medical equipment that will kill the patient if it goes wrong or a billion dollar satellite that you get one shot at launching, you probably aren’t going to be doing it through informal discussions with a “product owner” and relying on TDD to make sure everything is working (where “working” in that case is really a euphemism for “whatever test conditions an individual developer felt might matter”).

I have yet to see a single project in all my decades of experience in this industry where the requirements didn't change during the project.

Of course, but every time the requirements change, you still need to identify what the change is so you can change your implementation accordingly. There are many ways you can address that problem, some of which involve one big requirements spec document and some of which don’t, but if you don’t end up with some clear and well-maintained spec each time, you don’t know what you’re trying to build and you have no meaningful definition of “working software”.
So what happens if you divide by 0 in Elm?
To be fair, the grandparent said 'runtime errors', not 'bugs'. And it is a stated goal of the Elm language that runtime exceptions thrown from the compiled Javascript should be impossible. As far as I know, they have succeeded in that goal.

How this relates to 10x or not I don't know - I'm not sure the discussion is a productive one without further context.

It might be that for some tasks, Elm really does provide a huge benefit in productivity. In that case, it's probably fair to call a developer that selects and uses the tool correctly a 10x developer - provided they are able to evolve the culture of their company so that others can take advantage of it.

For other tasks, or in other contexts, Elm might be a hinderance. If it's lacking an indispensable library, or if the company culture is not ready to accept it as a core language, it won't help anyone to rewrite in Elm.

As always, one of the key things that makes a good (even 10x) developer is the ability to select the right tool, and to wield it gracefully.
They literaly performe organizing teror attacks #facepalm
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45419466

Reality Check verdict: The German interior ministry says that in fact last year 27 illegal migrants either committed or attempted to commit murder or manslaughter. The 447 figure refers to killings or attempted killings by all asylum seekers and refugees, most of whom are in Germany legally. Overall crime in Germany has fallen to the lowest level since 1992, but there has been an increase in migrant crime.

So Germans crime rate decreasing, immigrants crime rate increasing.
Most of the italian big cities except from Milan, Rome and Florence. Just take one with the best climate for your needs.
At least with "google" I can still say [web] search and people will know what I mean. I'm not sure how I'd even refer to e-ink screens without that word; even with the word I sometimes need to clarify ("like a calculator, but with higher resolution").
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?
Aside from my personal experiences in this area, you can ask the Winkelvoss twins what happened when the judge in their case found out that Zuckerberg/Facebook’s lawyers lied and withheld evidence that would have gotten them a bigger payout. As the person who represented them told me: “Those guys can lie to the government and get away with it. I’ve seen them do it.”

So, no, this is not the “mother of all lawsuits.” Nothing will happen to Mark Zuckerberg or Facebook. And, yes, there seems to be something rotten in the American political system — on both sides of the aisle — that’s keeping these scumbags protected.
While I agree in the sense that I have not seen evidence that reflective is better than emissive, I would rather see studies than depend upon ad hoc comparisons. The properties of a light source are typically different, the properties of surface reflecting or transmitting (for the lack of a better word) the light are different, and how the screen brightness responds to ambient light is different.

There are many reasons why one type of screen may be better than another. The lack of compelling evidence simply means that there is a lack of research and certainly does not imply they are equivalent.
Unpatched macOS vulnerability lets remote attackers execute code
Don’t forget that we have -x performers.

There are some programmers who are worse than nothing happening. So a 10x looks better by working accords the averages of all the 1x, -1x, etc.
Nah, it’s just cheaper to print (small type), bind (once, and badly), and to manage inventory in some edge cases.
I see a variation on this article, several times a year.

I can't speak for other cultures, but the US has a fundamental mindset that all but worships "exceptionalism." We like mavericks, rule-benders, and exceptionally talented individuals. Being attractive, and having a winning [public] persona is also very helpful. Sometimes, good actors can use attractiveness and persona to cover up for a lack of accomplishment and substance, and often, people of great substance, are ignored, because they are not attractive, have "problematic" personalities, or are not particularly good at self-promotion.

I remember watching a documentary that compared the k-12 educational systems of the US, Germany and Japan. They looked at how high-performing students were treated, and how that affected their peers.

The US would concentrate on high performers, often to the detriment of their peers.

Japan would make high performers coach their peers.

They seemed to decide that Germany had the best approach. I don't remember exactly how that went (I remember extremes).

I'm a damn good engineer. Am I "10X"? I don't know, and don't care. I'm not in competition with anyone else. I get done what needs getting done, and I always have a ton of stuff I don't know, and still need to learn.

Another thing about the US culture (I was not raised in the US), is that it is highly competitive. We can't just be good at something; we need to be better than someone else.

That seems exhausting, to me.

I'm not competitive at all. I have worked on high-functioning teams, my entire career, and was never interested in competing with my teammates. The team competed against other teams, but that wasn't really anything that concerned me.
Counterpoint: I know absolutely nothing about music, and generally prefer classical to modern pop.

I know a lot about food/cooking, and think McDonald's makes a great burger.
Just beautiful and a quick scroll seems to suggest a fairly involved undertaking. Hoping to have fun reading it but for now just enjoyed the look of it,

I think having so many sides adds a lot of visual appeal.
Can you build 2 containers and run them up in the pipeline.

docker run --rm -d my/webfronent
docker run --rm -d my/backend

Then run your tests.

Also worth noting is that the ubuntu image on github is fully loaded with tools including chromedriver to drive headless chrome.

Here's an example from one of my pipelines.

https://github.com/authn-proxy/authn-proxy/blob/master/.gith...
"myth" is just another ruined word.
SEC Chair about crypto: “private forms of money don’t last long”
Great work! This makes WebRTC much more accessible, it not being available in ffmpeg makes people default to worse alternatives.
These are literally USB-C to X dongles. You may prefer them to be integrated, but they won't solve any compatibility issues.
Really? But at least with the U.S. there is due process and some accountability. Who knows what China will own in the future and how much power they'll have. What if they buy your favorite airline and now don't want to let you use it because they have your data? What if they build up the 5G infrastructure across the world? I mean, today they might not have that much global reach (although I think just earlier this week they went after some random person who tweeted something negative about the CCP while living abroad) but what about in 20 or 30 years?
Just out of curiosity when you say crypto, are you mining or buying Bitcoin with USD ?
Analyzing the doppler shift to calculate speed only works if you know what the unshifted audio spectrum should be. Trains generate a ton of noise at a wide range of frequencies and that noise probably varies significantly based on a bunch of factors.
Snoop Dogg aparently holds 17M $ worth of NFTs
> cleverly navigating company politics in order to ship something in environments

conversely, company politics can be a reason why someone could be 10x in one setup and a complete dud in another.
>A lot of what users need can be done this way in my experience.

In my experience, no, as the company gets to any complexity and size. The production DB is often optimized for use by the ORM/language of choice or there's twenty of them for microservices. This makes it really awkward to do some things in SQL. So now your engineering team is getting requests to keep changing the prod DB schema so analytics can be done more easily. More over the prod DB is likely 10% of the data your business needs. There's a reason companies like Fivetran exist to slurp fifty data sources into a warehouse. Marketing wants google and facebook and mailchimp data. Operations wants saleforce data. Finance wants stripe data. And they want all of this tied to the inhouse data.

Sure you can make reports in each of those services but then you need to tie them together and then people complain of differences in metrics and then you have a bad time.

edit: Not to mention analytics on what users do. Always fun when there's a billion row table in your production db for that.
The new (beta) Anvil Editor has been released
Secure and private email without accounts
Ubikom is free, open-source email framework based on the concept of Self-Sovereign Identity. You own your identity (which, in this case, means your private key), and all the outgoing and incoming messages are encrypted and signed by default. It works with any email clients that support POP3 and SMTP.
Accusing people of acting in bad faith is impolite. Accusing companies of acting in bad faith when there is ample evidence of their wrongdoing is one's duty as a consumer.
I used to listen to a lot of lofi hip hop but nowadays I've switched more to some Techno mixes from people local in Hamburg
What people call "ML" is actually several bundled phenomena. Unbundling them is profitable exercise that can help prevent alot of heartburn

* 1 -> the discovery of specific families of non-linear classification algorithms (with image and language patterns being examples succesful new domains). the domain where these approaches are productive might be significantly smaller than what all the hyperventilation and obfuscation suggests.

* 2 -> the ability to deploy algorithms "at scale". this cannot be overemphasized. Statistics used to be dark art practiced by scienty types in white lab coats locked in ivory towers. With open source libraries, linux, etc to a large degree ML means "statistics as understood and practiced by recently graduated computer scientists"

* 3 -> business models and regulatory environments that enabled the collection of massive amounts of personal data and the application of algorithms in "live" human contexts without much regard for consent, implications, risks etc. Compare that wild west with the hoops that medical, insurance or banking algorithms are supposed to pass

Conclusion, ML is here to stay in some shape or form, but ML hype has an expiration date
I once had a job that I chose because I believed X and the job involved saying X, among other tasks.

Mine was not the same X as upthread, but I'm not alone in being able to choose what to work on. The author of that posting seems honest, as far as I can judge it from the text, and I assume he's happy that his job allows him to express his thoughts (instead of filling shelves at a shop or processing forms in an office).
When reporters and students stop being beheaded in those countries, maybe we open the borders to them.

It's called sanctions.

We do it to Iran too.

No one is advocating for Canadian borders to be closed out they're not wholesale murdering students who disagree with them and burying the bodies in unmarked graves, at least in modern times.

I don't know what to tell you.

It sucks but they need to fix their shit.
In theory no. If you can get a job at MCD, you don't qualify for these benifits as they are an insurrance. But in practice, you can stay on benifits forever. The legislation governing this is extremely complex.
I honestly used to get quite annoyed at repetitions, especially if they had annoying vocal samples
> convenience trumps security

Your comment implies that security is being traded off in favour of convenience. Could you explain how?