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That was my point? These are the hard problems that need to be solved, not drones.

The solution is almost never technology, it's usually politics and legislation.
Sounds expensive compared to boiling a kettle. I actually looked this up, boiling a litre of water in a kettle costs about two pence and I’d only boil around half a pint (~280 ml) for this costing me 0.56p per go. That device retails for about £30 where I live so I’d need to be bitten badly enough for it to be a problem about 5,350 times before it’d be worthwhile.

I guess it depends on whether the device is durable enough to last that long, and whether or not you’re careful enough to avoid burns with the spoon method!
I don't think it's necessarely backwards. If you spend your life almost hunting to extinction and then protecting a species, you'll always have something to do.
They came in at #13 on that list. While traffic's bad in Boston, commuting via public transit is actually a viable alternative. It's very dense and has a solid commuter rail system in addition to an expansive (if aging) subway system. It's also very bike / pedestrian friendly.
“Gingko bioworks is a colossal scam” – Scorpion Capital
I'm aware of the reality as I'm a freelancer who has by and large remained outside IR35 (via good legal / financial advice, and careful selection of clients)

When I was employee I worked at places were there were many contractors who were essentially disguised employees and being paid for their time, rather than on a project basis with anything at risk

Who knows how we ever got to the position of nurses, and lorry drivers being employed on a limited company basis - probably because the 'employers' wanted to avoid the NI bill
Ask HN: What are some good non-fiction books about software engineering?
I recently read the book Sandworm. It tells the story of how worms like NotPetya and WannaCry spread and how cybersecurity specialists tracked it. It does mention technical aspects often but it is not a tutorial. It showed me a window into Cybersecurity that was really interesting to the point of almost making me change careers.

I really enjoyed it and I was wondering if there are any books like that about software engineering. Not a "how to code" book, but more of a documentary related to software.
I have noticed the opposite phenomenon: at some point I lose my reverence for new things and start treating them poorly. Usually electronics like a new phone, new laptop, new headset. When they're new, I feel their value in their weight and physical characteristics. Once I get used to that, they start feeling commonplace and I treat them carelessly, and don't even really feel bad about it.
I won't do features like this, partly for this reason. A feature like this hits their API through code, and that is the part that probably got it shut down. Years ago, I got a similar complaint from Facebook - that my code was calling their API repeatedly, and this was not allowed. I changed my code to not do things like this, in order to stay alive.

So I avoid any features that would make repeated calls to their API to make changes on the user's behalf.
If their code isn't running in production with little maintenance required then they didn't actually produce the thing. Just add that requirement and it becomes clear.
It's not the number of trees that make it a grove but the number of druids cutting mistletoe.
I realize it's weird to argue against you, because you wrote the article and are the one affected by this.

But, i disagree. Even if it were an entirely different company. The fact that GitHub didn't send an e-mail and that repos can be hijacked like that, is in itself something GitHub needs to address. And thus at the very least, GitHub needs to be dragged in.
Its not a 'good' thing or a 'bad' thing, its just basic logic.

Same as saying people who wanted to go to the park did something else instead because the park was closed. Its not good or bad. It just 'is'.
If you're going to consider employer's NI, are you also going to factor in pension contributions, paid time off, and other employment benefits that independents generally don't receive? If you go back a few years, the financial advantage of paying via salary + dividends in terms of reduced NI payments roughly cancelled out the direct costs of having no employment perks, particularly paid time off. The difference varied slightly depending on the level of salary/turnover as the relevant thresholds were all different, but there wouldn't have been much in it for most people. Now that independents also get hit with either dividend taxes or IR35 arrangements, while employees receive additional benefits notably including significant employer pension contributions, the balance is heavily tilted towards an employment relationship in purely financial terms if you're comparing direct employee salary with freelance/contract business revenue.

In theory, market forces should have pushed freelance and contract rates up to compensate for those changes, but in practice the opposite has happened. Because the IR35 changes have driven an industry-wide shift towards blanket inside-IR35 or umbrella policies at many larger clients all at the same time, they have been able to push their rates down to help offset their own extra costs (or, in some cases, simply stopped taking on independent labour altogether), and in one recent survey the average independent had actually reduced their rate this year.

If we're looking at the overall financial situation for employees vs. (genuine) independents and not limiting the discussion to tax/NI specifically, you also have to look at flexibility, particularly issues like business expenses and the ability to spread your personal income over time if your business revenues are irregular. These are important aspects of flexible work that have also been damaged by the recent IR35 changes and will often end up costing a legitimate freelancer or contractor more now.
I always say "code is a liability".
Not that nobody apologizes, more often than not those early warning voices are singled out. Because obviously, having seen it coming, they could have done something to avoid the crash. So of course they are to blame.
The way I see it:

Developer: a person that creates software.

10x development: a person that does it 10x faster.

What you describe, I'd simply call a lead developer since making other developers 2x or more is a lead developer his job.

If you're a developer and you're doing this, then it'd be one argument to get promoted to lead.

Also, if you really are a 10x dev, the one I know works in the HFT space. He's making bank. I'm not sure if that's your thing, but I've noticed they seem to appreciate 10x devs a lot more than any other company out there (and that includes FAANG).
I just mean it's very far from being prohibitively hard/expensive for an average Joey the baker to get a personal web page outside Facebook.
Yes and no. I don't have to buy missiles from the DoD like I do stamps. It's a service but it's some weird quasi-governmental-business
Just because npm audit says something doesn't mean it has any impact at all. Most of its outputs are false positives.
There was that fall that I made a lot of alcoholic cider and then that December I drank enough of it to get a little bit dependent on it.
I did that for a while just because. Three day weekends are nice even without the rationale of progressive taxation.

Overall I'm not sure if a tax that encouraged it would be such a bad thing. It's obviously against the protestant work ethic which makes it seem almost unthinkable in America but it'd probably be healthier overall.
>The P.O. is a service, it doesn't have need of income.

no but it needs funding, has the funding been good over the last few decades?
You have more than one user. Some of them will want power, other will want ease of use. You can't satisfy everyone without making multiple products.
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I remember your comment from back then :D. Great news: Since then, I actually did make it a library. The runtime has been a library for a long time now, and ObjFW itself is also almost there in the amiga-library branch.
20 years of experience here. My little contributions:

21. Do not mistake hype and popularity for quality.

22. The best code is no code, but configuration is worse than code. Maintaining 1000 lines of YAML is worse than 9000 lines of code.

23. The best code is no code, but replacing a script with a zoo of tools and libraries is often worse.
If you keep reading on, that was not the problem ;). The problem was missing glue code that would actually register the frames.
> So Teslas can smell the milk and throw it out if its gone bad?

Cars do not need that skill.

> Or listen to a faraway sound and know that its getting closer at an alarming or not-alarming rate?

I'm sure the car has multiple microphones, it just needs the brains to process the input.

> Or feel the road getting harsher and understand that the GPS is incorrect?

Again, I am sure the car has multiple G sensors, accelerometers and gyroscopes. It just needs the smarts to process the input.
I'd love: order today and receive tomorrow grocery delivery. It actually seems sustainable.
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Well, and also, people probably googled "is facebook down", and clicked on the various carousel news stories.
Problem: Spreadsheets. Solution: Specifications
The more I learn the more I realise everyone else is wrong too. Especially when it comes to general purpose tools - there's so many tradeoffs even in an ideal world but really often the original author just did things wrong, but right enough that his solution stuck and everyone kept piling on and building on top.

PHP and node come to mind immediately.

Ruby is down right retarded with promoting Concerns for modeling cross cutting concerns and fat controller/model is a pattern for creating technical debt.

Dealing with python environments and packages makes me want to avoid python if at all possible.

Using C# and Java means I'm probably going to have 3 projects for a hello world.

I'm not positively opinionated about my tools - it's more about deciding which one sucks least for a particular task.
No. Most people want good services and products, they don't care about decentralization.
Does anyone else love these technology psycho-dramas? I really don't have a dog in this fight but I find myself following them more avidly than a netflix mini-series.
If anyone tries running Photoshop under Windows using this and has good performance please tag me in a comment. I've migrated several times from Qemu, VirtualBox and settled on VMware player (for non commercial usage).

I found that to be the "best" performing, although still leaves a lot to be desired and having to open the application, manually sign kernel drivers and then reboot after every kernel upgrade is a little tiresome.
The point is: you've run out of nappies and your kid just took a dump. Do you:

* Take them to the shop with no nappy on
* Order ASAP delivery

Seems simple to me. Convenience is great and I'll pay.
To pose it another way: for general software Dev (not some niche use case that only one guy understands), let’s say building websites in Vue or React, the idea of a 10x developer is that they can work in January and another, average, programmer can then spend February, March, April, May, June, July, August, and Sept… and the average guy won’t get more done?

Or they come in only every other Monday and contribute as much as a median Dev working full time?

It just doesn’t seem reasonable at all, at least if we read it literally.

I have worked with and met great, outstanding, developers who are much better than me. Some of them famous. None of them are anything close to 10x as productive, and I’m not particularly great. They’re much smarter than me, for sure, but they’re not 10x as productive.
> To say that the evidence would have been here now is simply not true because we can't possibly know WHEN symptoms will present.

Actually, we can. Vaccination isn’t long-term exposure but a brief immune trigger — this is very different from medication being taken over a long term because the vaccine is only in your body for such a short period of time. In the multi-century history of vaccination, side effects are almost always immediate and the longest delays are measured in weeks, not years. There’s no mechanism for a longer reaction time because your immune system doesn’t work that way.
One observation that's only become clear to me after reading the judge's opinions in this case is that the legal profession has come a long with in the last ten year with respect to understanding technologies and in recognizing useful analogies to existing case law.
Unfortunately, that anger is going to fuel a 20-lane I-35. Fuck everything, we're doing five blades.
That’s quite a roster of clients using xtermjs.
We don't call Vermeer a 10x painter, Beethoven a 10x composer, nor Shakespeare a 10x author. It would be silly to call Turing a 10x computer scientist, or rockstar and ninja would be insulting.

Vermeer, Beethoven and Shakespeare are masters of their crafts. The same word we use for skilled tradesmen. Why can't we call them master programmers?
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I like to say that I am a 10x developer 10% of the time. My work tends to be very "bursty" followed by long bouts of low productivity. It probably has more to do with my mental health than anything else. :/
For anyone interested in using MRAM rather than reading about it---with the caveat that there's nothing noticeably different from flash as a regular (not performance-focused) developer---I will suggest the first chip I encountered with this memory type:

The Ambiq Apollo 4 (Cortex-M4F) includes 2 MB of MRAM and achieves quite a bit of power savings (4 uA/MHz) from the Apollo 3. No idea what proportion of savings comes from new NVM tech vs smaller transistors, better peripherals, or finer voltage thresholding ("SPOT"), and I never checked the claims that MRAM has infinite endurance (as opposed to FRAM) or that computations can be performed from MRAM in the nanowatt regime.

https://ambiq.com/apollo4/
Software engineers are not at the top. Billionaires are.

I earn a decent chunk but I'd still have to earn my current wage for about a million years and pay 0% taxes to have as much as Jeff Bezos does.
The HN discussion on the article shared about Facebook (over here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797325) made me wonder…

What if Mozilla sold super simple web hosting for personal and small business websites? Essentially, they’d add an edit button to the web (like Tim Burners Lee’s original web browser had on nEXT). Each customer gets personal web address. Add follow/subscribe features & discovery. Add privacy features. Seems like that might align well with the foundation mission & help support Firefox & the open web…
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More than that, this video series has noticeably less "Look at MMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" to it. Which is refreshing. Less filler, just the good stuff, like a professional production about the subject rather than the maker.
I'm not mixing - as I wrote, many more are not famous, but their impact is similar. When discussing abstract concepts, it helps to have concrete examples of that phenomena. Using "famous" people is a shortcut to define a shared definition for what "10x" might look like.

And yes, there are "10x" teachers, investors, lawyers, storytellers, sales folks, etc. Similarly, the distribution of talent that helps with "software development" might have a very long tail, leading to extraordinary performance versus the median.
Ultimately pets are for humans, whatever you do for your cat you do for humans. The same logic works there.
It sucks to be frank. It wasn't quite my choice to take an early retirement.
Despite what the pundits say, you are your job.
> Except that when you are looking for kids, and to a lesser extent elderly people, they become afraid and hide.

Then maybe let each drone carry a Teddy Bear or/and a Rainbow Pony. I mean I would totally grab the wild drone for it's micro controllers.

Now, the truth is, we don't know how people would actually react to drones. Maybe a kid would hide even deeper, but that's an edge case here. The important thing is, this tool can generate real benefit for a rescue operation that no other tool can provide. How to use it properly is the responsibility of the rescue team.

Another thing is, with information provided by drones, the search and rescue operation itself can become safer. Which also enables a load of new possibilities.
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Yes, Douglas Adams sums up pretty well the flight of moths. But the Guide is even funnier, it says that to fly, one must "throw themselves at the ground and miss".
Hi there - OP here - thanks for reading!

This blog is more of an intro to a few high level concepts (multi-GPU and multi-node training, fp32 vs fp16, buying hardware and dedicated machines vs AWS/GCP, etc) for startups that are early into their deep learning journey, and that might need a nudge in the right direction.

If you're looking for a deep dive into the best GPUs to buy (cost/perf, etc), the link in the below comment gives a pretty good overview.

PS - I can send you some benchmarks we did that show (at least for us) Horovod is ~10% faster than DDP for multi-node training FWIW. Email is in my profile!
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Totally agree. Each drone already has 4 sharp blades. Easy to replace them to be slightly bigger, sharper and from e.g. titanium instead of plastic and covering with poison/venom.
Enough to slit someone throat/wrist and wait until bleed to death or detect someone eye and stab with nail.
Doesn't that contradict your statement above - "There is zero evidence of such a phenomenon" ?
Capitalism never lets such thing happen without making it something that it profits itself first. I think the issue is not trust but exploitation, and such future without a central authority of eco, edu, tech and etc. can be attained ONLY via revolution not innovation
While I agree, I think the essence of this comment is that the converse of OP is not true, i.e. "you should trust a senior engineer that has strong opinions". As a sibling pointed out, it's sort of two steps: 1) make sure they have opinions, then 2) ask yourself if those opinions are that of a fan-boy or somebody who has been around the block enough to know a thing or two.
The hunt for blue-red october can start :).
That's not a boomer thing at all, it's a human thing.

As soon as younger generations secure a home, and when they resell later, they aren't going to give discounts to the next generation. Surely you can't belief they will?

Everybody that owns a home, regardless of generation, wants their home value to at least persist and ideally grow. Likewise, people want to protect their neighborhood, as it directly affects the quality of living.

It's natural and normal behavior, and not an issue in itself. The real issue is the infinite growth mindset in a finite world.
My favorite podcast is "Keep it" and "Ear Hustle". These postcast very popular in USA.
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Are you passing in a second GPU to the VM using VFIO? Otherwise I don't believe graphics will be accelerated.
>Why do you think that autonomous drones would make this worse?

Because it reduces the costs of doing it.
That's not true. They are available if you work for the bigger publishers.
A couple of data points from the UK. I know more people who have had vaccine issues than some of the 1 in 400,000 have problems stats would suggest. On the other hand the national death rates vs cases are about 1/10 what they were before the vaccines so they definitely improve your chances.
Yes.

If a stated principle conflicts with common behaviour, then you focus on the behaviour. People/organisations aren't incorrupt just because they claim to be.
This was a great way to start my day
"Build terminals in the browser" ... and give your passwords there, and type commands. What can go wrong.
Quora Dark Pattern: Unsubscribe
Wishing to see an article, Quora required a sign-in through 3rd party auth. Upon signing in, I unwittingly opted in to getting subscribed to regular Quora emails. This is part 1 - the unrequested subscription.

Now, for part 2: upon trying to unsubscribe, I find out that my unsubscribe clicks aren't working as expected. It's because on closer inspection, the email footer link takes you to page that merely allows unsubscribing from a small subset of these emails. I then find hidden (in the depths of the site, not the email) the full unsubscribe option - which is not an unsubscribe option at all (it doesn't exist), but rather the option to delete the account. However, Quora blocks me from using this prior to creating a first-party user account with them (recall I signed in through 3rd party auth).

Fuck 'em, I just blocked and spammed Quora from there.
Just because it can save more lives doesn't mean it overall 'better'. Because you're saving more lives at the cost of hugely increased ecological impact.
To the best of my knowledge PopOs custom UI components were written for x11
This is not a great experience for the majority of users. Even suggested questions like "What is Rust written in?" is going to confuse so many people.
Related is https://hterm.org/ , used with the built in ssh terminal in chromebooks.
I am happy with my choice. And hey, I've got more time to visit HN! But seriously, I would have been happy to exit the workforce at any point. Working in the tech field has never been healthy for me. It was a hobby that paid sufficiently. Now I have more time to focus on undoing the damage from sitting so much and not remaining physically active.
A change in juristic practice in 2011 (specifically, the trial and sentencing of John Demjanjuk) and new information uncovered in the Russian State Military Archive in Moscow.