skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have the code to hand at the moment, but when my partner and I catalogued all our fiction books (over 2,000) I discovered that you can search Amazon via ISBN, so the workflow was:

1. Scan book ISBN via a standard barcode reader (in keyboard emulation mode) [1]

2. The barcode reader 'types' in the ISBN into the GUI of my homebrew app along with a new-line character.

3. The app takes this ISBN and searches Amazon via it's API, then parses the results. If there's more than 1 result it just picks the first one (which is 99% correct), if it's not correct there's an option to override or enter details manually.

4. The app then queries the amazon API again for the book details, and places them all into a record in a SQL DB.

5. For reasons I can't quite remember the app also goes to the actual product page of the book on Amazon and grabs the high resolution picture of the book cover (which only some times matches the edition of the book we actually own) and stores that locally.

6. There's a web app for searching the DB that we use when we can't remember which books we actually own (first world problems!)

7. Any new book that enters the house is catalogued BEFORE it is even allowed in the Library.

It's a basic set-up, but other than the Amazon API, which is abstracted via my own functions, it's not dependant on any other (closed or FOSS) book management software.

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[1] A cheap one like this will do it: https://amzn.to/3CyqaAC
“Adding people to a late project makes it later”. Equally, replacing high performers with multiple people wouldn't work most of the time.
Very sf-type of term, is it still in use? From an eu perspective the idea to rely on some members of your team to be 10 times more productive than others seems like a terrible idea for anything longer than a 1 month sprint. That's not to say people's raw smartness, competence and experiences are the same just that a better focus would be growing the team as a whole.
This here. I think the author is confusing what a 10x developer is.

I took the 10x dev to mean somebody who may work efficiently but also improves all of the devs around them. Improving yourself by 2x is one thing but improving the team around you by 2x is where you get the 10x.
If a child is using a fake ID to buy cigarettes and alcohol, the harm they suffer is not from owning or presenting the ID, but from consuming the product which the ID gives them access to.

A company could in theory ask for ID before selling any product (ignoring age discrimination laws), and you wouldn't say that a child is harmed if they use their fake ID to buy a bottle of water, for example, so the use of the fake ID doesn't necessarily lead to harm.
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> Before USB-C, the universal, international standard was micro-USB and every phone manufacturer (at least in Europe) was bound by law to implement it.

That is false. The EUC program was about PSUs, not device ports, and Apple was compliant by providing PSUs with detachable cables. Furthermore the EUC never legislated on the subject, they considered that the voluntary covenant worked well enough and no legislation was necessary.

> Apple has changed its connectors since socket interoperability became effective and they could have adopted the standard.

They were already complying and the “standard” at the time (micro-usb) was bad, not using it was a good thing.

> They just purposefully ignored the consumer-respecting standards in order to keep their 40$-connector business flowing.

At this point you’re just outright lying.

> According to European regulations, Apple's actions are strictly illegal

You are, and I want to make it clear that this is an objective affirmation, high as a kite.
Important factor is novelty, going to a new restaurant once is likely to give you more than 0.5x the utilons as going to the same place twice in most cases, though maybe that curve inverts eventually as you become a "regular".
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If the train had a loudspeaker on the front emitting a pure sinewave of known frequency, louder than anything else in the environment, you could probably just use a frequency counter and the Doppler formula.

Given just some microphones picking up whatever sound the train makes on its own, it's not obvious to me that there's a simple solution.
I would assume I am using the right shift key like 50% of the time - for all the capital letters which are on the left half of the keyboard.

Strangely though, for control sequences, I basically exclusively use the left control key.
> NZ would be even worse.

The difference between Aus and NZ is night and day... there's so much more choice for interesting work in Aus. However I think that's changing; in just ~2 years there seems to have been a huge increase in tech startups in NZ, due to VC finally arriving. I think there are easily 4x more NLP startups than before.
Wow. Just wow.

I would take this guy as a coworker any day. Excellent real world awareness, practicality, only reinventing the bolts of one wheel, and excellent explanation of what and why.
> And yet not only has Apple already done exactly that for iPhones (specifically: migrating from the iPod connector to Lightning)

I feel that only confirms my point. The switch happened ten years ago, yet many people are still being mad at Apple today over it.

> but so has virtually every Android vendor done exactly that

I think I’m failing to see your point. None of those vendors has any amount of control over the USB accessory ecosystem, or do they?
This show was so much better than what I see parents letting their kids watch today, such as this seemingly AI-generated spam. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nursery+rhyme+c... I wonder how this difference will affect the next generation.
The best street market in walking distance would probably be Chapel Street in Islington - about a 20-minute walk. There's a street market in Finsbury.
Been a while since I stayed in the EU, but I was in Brussels in October 2019 and stayed at an Aloft at the time of an EU summit. I distinctly remember remonstrating with the clerk about the embarrassment of my British passport when I handed it over.
It's been unsupported for 12+ years ? If you have code relying on it and haven't migrated to something supported it means your code is not maintained (don't care what your excuse is, using VB6 in 2020 means you're not actively maintaining the project), written 2 decades ago with the coding standards of the era, the original developer team is gone and probably retired and since nobody is actively maintaining it nobody has much knowledge about how it works.

So yeah anything that's still running on VB6 is very likely crap.
It's not just corporate, it's human nature. Many people will steal your wallet if you leave it unattended. Some will steal it out of your own pocket and others will actually stab and kill you for it.
most users would like to decorate their posts with bold underline color whatever and would not want to learn markdown
The original study (if I remember correctly) showed a 10x productivity difference between the most and least productive students on a given task. I find that very plausible. In real world settings the difference might be much larger, since some developers effectively have zero or negative productivity.

This article talks about a developer with consistently 10x productivity compared to the average developers in an organization. I think this is pretty rare. And I would consider it a warning signal. It means that either the average is really low or the hero is really a one-of-kind genius which will likely move on to a different job quickly (or get hit by a bus, per Murphys Law).

It could also indicate (as per the article) that the 10x developer is actually keeping the other developers down, e.g. by insufficient knowledge sharing or writing unmaintainable code. You often see this if the 10x developers is "the old guy" who develops at night and hates meetings of any kind. Removing this guy will cause an immediate hit, but over time increase the productivity of the remaining developers.
So true, especially about RegEx. I love RegEx. You can do so many things with simple RegEx rules.

For example, have you ever tried to autodetect a published datetime of a news article published online? In many cases, it will be in metadata, or in the time/datetime tag.

However, there still many websites where published time is just written somewhere with no logic at all.

Writing a RegEx script by hand can resolve a problem. But every time I speak about it with our clients/prospects, they ask about ML that we use to parse news content.

Product: https://newscatcherapi.com/news-api
Only until you get used to it, I think over time most people end up appreciating it even if it seems weird at first.
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Doesn't really bust the myth, though does it? Just says that the 10x engineer is a sign that the company may be in trouble, depending too heavily in such engineers.
From 25 years in electronic engineering, I guarantee that there are some engineers that are 5x or 10x others.
> From an eu perspective the idea to rely on some members of your team to be 10 times more productive than others seems like a terrible idea

It's just less socially acceptable to say it out loud, doesn't make it any less true. If anything, 10 is a conservative estimation: the spectrum spans orders of magnitude.

> a better focus would be growing the team as a whole

Not mutually exclusive. Prima donna behavior is always inexcusable. If you can't work with others you're not 10x, you're 0x.
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I'm using an external display connected via Thunderbolt/USB-C instead of HDMI so I can use the display to

- power the laptop

- plug in the mouse plug into its USB-A port
Just to give a concrete example: no amount of software engineers can be hired to produce comparable work of an expert cartoonist except by dumb luck. Throwing 1000 engineers won’t solve the problem.

I imagine within the tech world there are tasks that are ill defined and a small subset of engineers can solve, but a typical engineer may not have the background to solve it.
Same thing goes for caffeine, alcohol, and many other drugs.
I strongly suspect those conditions are not confined to the US.
For me the worst thing was when I invited my parents to more expensive restaurants (more the $50 category in a cheap country) that my father was complaining about how small and expensive is the food, and making jokes about it to the waiter. They got used to it after 10 times going to these places, but I still felt ashamed for some time.
Meta: I feel like a lot of people (including me) just come to HN for the comments, which are often (subjectively) better than the article itself.

Basically the heading becomes the random discussion topic that gets thrown in the room.

Maybe there is an experimental social platform in that:

(Re-)create a HN or reddit look-alike, but instead of user submitted links just pick random headings from news sites. Every ten minutes, post a new one without any context or link to be discussed and voted by the audience.

No idea where this would take us.
> demoscene: a series of increasingly elaborate and labor-intensive techniques for showcasing skill in a constrained environment. The Heston Blumenthal/molecular gastronomy approach.

I’d add on: anything that’s difficult/time-consuming/etc. to make at home even if you could, but scale makes it a lot easier.

I know a Ukrainian guy that, without fail, orders borscht if it’s on the menu. He could make it himself, but his wife forbids him from stinking up the house with beets and cabbage for the afternoon it takes to prepare.
> Java 17 was released last week and half the places have only just started using 11

That's not Australia, that's just Java. Most companies who bet on Java 10 years ago did so because it was a stable and conservative platform; they were not going to accelerate their development practices just because the vendor started telling them to.

Most friends and colleagues in Java shops are all in the same boat: they're barely done migrating from 8 to 11 and they don't really know when they'll move further (although it should be easier). Maybe they have the occasional greenfield project on a newer release, but the bread and butter is always on the old workhorses.
A 9x mother will give birth a baby in 1 month.
If you're comfortable working with sqlite files it's an incredibly simple process to bypass any account registration or need to ever connect the device to the internet, this should work on all models new and old.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1998068#p...
I once found a Casio F-91W at an opshop but then lost it at a festival. Didn't realise it had such a following online.

I then bought a DW-5600E on special, it's great. Hoping to hold onto it for a bit longer!
Yah, that planted an impressive meme into our minds, didn't it?

But TBH, would it even matter? I mean, to be that near for it to happen, there is so much radiation under way that it makes you unconscious before you even know it, I'd guess.

Maybe you'd see a flash, and then you would be gone. In the timescale of such things loooong before anythings starts to heat, char, be blown apart, away, to ashes and steam.
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> It's not a myth they exist, but you shouldn't depend on them.

It's hard to tell if it's arrogance or reluctance to admit some people are more valuable than others and just allow them to get to a point they prefer to leave than stay.

Domain knowledge, institutional knowledge, whatever you wanna call it, takes time to acquire and these kinds of companies are equally reluctant/arrogant to spend enough to hire properly. That's not enough to kill them mind you, not right away anyway, so they are destined to be mediocre at best I suppose.
I'm saying it doesn't suit your purposes either. You are assuming that all meals at a given restaurant have the same effect. This assumption is untrue, and this means that any prediction you make based on your interpretation will also probably be untrue.
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I'm not aware of such issues, but i'm personally still running micro-USB devices only so i have zero clue. Let me know if you have links/resources on this issue.

However, i'm fully aware these were not the arguments presented by Apple when they refused the USB standards. If Apple cared for durability, which they definitely don't [0], i'm sure a lot of people would appreciate that and maybe standards could be improved across the industry.

The fact that Apple never cared for any form of standard that i know of [1] does not give them a lot of credit.

[0] They pioneered making it very hard to replace your own battery and flipped the finger on everyone by using non-standard screws on purpose. Seriously, how can it be legal to sell a product which requires any form of tooling to change a battery?! Let's not even get started on software obsolescence on iOS/macOS...

[1] USB and VGA, sure, because they were forced on them. Maybe FireWire? But even then i'm not sure it was a standard back when Apple started using it... On the software side, apart from email, DNS and WWW clients they also don't respect any standard protocols: AirPlay, iCloud, etc.
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I don't quite remember where I heard this and whether or not it was a joke, but a skydiving instructor told this story where his students were supposed to land on a plain empty field. But there was one tree somewhere on this field. And whenever he cautioned his students not to land on that tree, invariably, at least one student would manage to land exactly on it. When he didn't mention it, it wouldn't happen.

With children, I find it's almost always a better strategy to focus on the positive sides of an experience. Of course, it's more difficult when they're already afraid of something (maybe through their friends, a previous experience, or the parents themselves). But there are lots of blank slates and it's one of the great parts of being a parent to let them write something positive on it instead of tainting it with fear.
Soho is pretty much equidistant to UCL, and is closer to kings. Everything is close in london.

My issue is this, Kings Cross is basically what someone thinks a "tech hub" should feel like, rather than what will naturally pop up over time. My company is moving from Soho, which is a nice vibrant (now sadly diminished) cultural center, to kings cross.

Everything is private land in kingscross, which means that the local council has no real control over what happens there. This means no real chance for markets, or passion shops that only have a tiny amount of capital to start up. Soho has three market pitches, shoreditch has at least 2.

Kingscross has none, and if they did, they would be charging eye watering pitch fees. This means that there is almost no chance of new local stall popping up and building out a presence. (Unless mummy & daddy provide cash) Which means that all the shops are both expensive and "boutique"

Shoreditch on the other hand was a working class, vibrant community. Most of the locals, barring the oldies who have council houses have left. When industry started leaving, and the artists started moving in, there was a time of creativity(90s early 2000s). Things looked scummy because there was no money, not because it was the USP of the area. The USP was it was cheap.

Now there is loads of money, a decimated local community, but everything is kept in a state of shabbiness because people think that's what made shoreditch special. Its a zoo for people to pretend to be working class and or cool, when in practice they are neither.
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Let me guess, 12 months ago you also said you'd never take an operation warp speed vaccine.
I work in ML engineering, and I’ve seen people work on a problem for the better part of a year with little to show for it. The non-progress gets on leadership’s radar, so even more resources get directed to crack what should be a solvable but non-trivial problem.

An engineer who could have solved this problem without a fuss within a month or two is easily a 10x engineer. Not because they work 10x faster, but through better ideas and thought process, efficiency with their tools, and exercising leverage. This is even without considering their additional impact on the work of others.

I think this could be applicable in any software or tech field, as long as the best solution to a problem isn’t trivial or immediately obvious.
From your linked article:

> If the charger provides 800V and a minimum of 300A, the Taycan can charge from five to 80 per cent in 22.5 minutes.

Wow! That's an insanely huge amount of current. Obviously the cables would have to be very thick to reduce transmission losses, but then you'd also have to have sufficient insulation/protection at 800V!
If I -- US American -- have to throw out my Chinese stuff

Thats like..

Everything I own
Just don't build one solution to your problem with regular expressions: then you have two problems.
Yea funnily enough I just added a comment along these lines about restaurants in a different story. Just because an engineer is 10x better in some sense that another one, it doesn't meant that 10 of the lower quality engineers will make up for it, just as eating 10 times at McDonald's isn't going to be as much fun as eating once at a great restaurant (for most people)
Why are you okay with sectoral bargaining on the employer side but not on the employee side?
Chrome 94's Idle Detection API can be abused according to Mozilla and Apple
Check out one of the early papers on this. Its one of my favourite titles:

http://dataphys.org/list/pattern-recognition-in-a-bucket/

There was a Science paper on RC recently too:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abh0693
Having a running plan9 cluster since ~3years, auth (1) and cpu/auth servers (6) are all rpi's, just the file-server is a virtual x86 running in a DC (Hetzner), it's a great system, i really love it.

Next, having my Phone "better" connected to it.
These days I suspect that something like a toughbook might be the only option for those sort of ports - although that GPD Micro PC does look quite fun.

Even 10-15 years ago, proper serial ports were becoming extremely rare, but there are times when you need a proper one.

Around that time we resorted to pc card/express card serial ports for occasions when USB to serial isn't good enough, although they were relatively expensive (3-4 times more than a USB serial dongle).

(The use case in that scenario was field engineers connecting to a very wide variety of odd equipment, like fire alarm panels and door entry systems, that sort of thing - USB dongles were massively inconsistent and unreliable - different dongles would be compatible/incompatible with different kit, was a right mess).

Obviously, these days, express card slots are also quite rare.

(The alternative is hauling out my old IBM T22, which I think maybe came with Win98... mostly still works apart from the battery).
A 9x mother will benchmark one baby per month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_births#Nonupl...
I'm no lawyer but this looks damning - It says he lied to Congress.

I'm not in the US, but isn't that pretty serious (if proven!)?
Like some football players, some software engineers are a LOT better than others.

The measurement is value in $, which easily can be translated to 10x-1000x better.
> I think it's easy to assume that in this case Go's regex library would keep an internal cache of expressions

IMHO, the stdlib doing implicit memoization is a catastrophe waiting to happen.

I think that handling regexps and caching functions are two composable and orthogonal features that should be handled by two packages/libs/... .
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Strange that always the 10x is blamed for communication issues. The passive aggressive 1x, who try to undermine him, are a group and as such always right.

I haven't seen a true 10x who was still writing code and growing the team. Time does not permit that, it is a fantasy. There are team growing "10x" engineers who shamelessly take the credit for everything.
FAANG in London also pays £220k+ and closer to £400k+ total yearly comp for management roles. Once you have one FAANG on the CV you are going to have no problem getting £250k+ total comp packages from mid-tier fintechs and similar outfits in the city and 300-400 is available if you have some management experience. This may be an anomaly, but it is a sellers market right now in the UK tech scene -- lots of big funding rounds closing as the market remains frothy and capital frantically hunts around for something to invest in, so a lot of companies are competing for a smaller pool of talent.
Some part of it being wrong literally means that a thing in it is false, so I think you should rephrase the point you’re trying to make.
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Wait, why is this like cruise ships? I thought people on cruise ships were paid alright (considering also the tips they can make) compared to the alternatives they have at home (my understanding is that the vast majority of workers are non-American/W. EU)