skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, you should check Materialize. I feel Materialize is like dbt but with an ingestion layer and real-time materialized views.

To deliver that you need to centralize data on their the Materialize database, which is may main caveat. With dbt you can use any data warehouse.
As your sports coach always said "You don't need talent to practice!"

I'm not a huge believer of some mystical "innate ability" that people sometimes use to explain talent. Imagine a great concert pianist who plays flawlessly. After the concert, someone says, "Oh, you were born with such a wonderful gift of talent!" If I were that pianist, I'd be kind of offended--it totally ignores the decades of daily practice it took to get that good. Or a chess grandmaster. You're such a natural! Oh yea? STFU, this took years of grinding!
Facebook’s Algorithms Are Too Big to Fix
Related: recent NYT write-up of VA Hospital study on VR for combat PTSD. What's interesting is that the sting of memory is alleviated by re-immersing the subject back into the offending environment under safe conditions

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/well/mind/vr-therapy.html
I'm guessing there are clearly 10x painters other painters can identify, but there are even fewer quantifiable metrics to measure a painter's output than there are for programmers.
==you can safely assume the MBA got there because of more nepotism and the non-MBA is the more valuable pick.==

Based on what? Cynicism?
BitGo being another centralized custodial wallet antithetical to the white paper? I mean, my dollars are interoperable with every bank in America and that really doesn't excite me. They're also interoperable with the banks in El Salvador since both use the USD.
Anecdotal, but there is a middle ground with something like ketamine therapy, where you induce dissociate consciously (and the external reality has an almost alien feeling) and it allows you to have all kinds of thoughts, some of which can be pretty unpleasant, but without the intense and immediate emotional reactions to those thoughts. In the past it has allowed me to work through issues with far less discomfort.
I did this after a traumatic brain injury, and ended up playing too much video games, neglecting other aspects of my health.

Can't say that overall it was a net positive experience, although it did get my mind off the trauma and the traumatic memory and it did help moderately with depression (I am not depressed now, about a year later)

> Ultimately I think it helped me cope, but I also was aware that it was a very alluring sort of way of life to work, school, escape into video games, and nothing else.

Ah yes, that's generally the conclusion I came to as well. I'm scaling it down as of this moment, personally.
Gotcha. Your dad sounds like an amazing guy, hope he overcomes his depression.
Deep dive into AWS Cloud Control for asset inventory
Comparing Google Analytics and Plausible Numbers
If your ETL code is written in Python, just use Prefect and thank me later: https://docs.prefect.io/
The adblocker Wipr has recently added something beyond the Content Blocker API with Wipr Extra. I only found it because I had forgotten to switch to AdGuard on my office Mac, and Wipr Extra showed up in an update. Lots of restrictions and caveats though about what it can and can't do. Some details at

https://giorgiocalderolla.com/wipr-faq.html#what-is-wipr-ext...
It’s naive to assume military research labs don’t have this in an advanced state of development right now, or even combat-ready weapons that just haven’t been used yet.

I mean, it’s obviously possible. That means militaries have at the very least developed it to a proof of concept by now. This kind of tech often exists for many years before becoming publically known.
I admit I'm combining payday loans and check cashing into one bucket (since it is one industry providing these different services), and although check cashing rates are much lower than payday loan rates, the average of 2-3% to simply cash a check is still egregious and to me, absolutely unacceptable.
Have you tried the iOS app as well? Interested to hear your experience with it.
Exactly. It's not how fast someone churns out code but how well thought out/elegance in approach that delivers this 10x value.

Instead of writing entire systems from scratch, maybe you have enough experience or familiarity with well known techniques and libraries to ship faster.
No, but they are the only ones with high hospital demand currently being driven by an explosive contagious vector.
I used to find that listening to music without lyrics (classical, movie themes, etc.) did it. Lately though I just listen to a local radio station that plays music I like.

I think I'm convinced that the difference is how well I know the music - listening to the radio is all songs that I've heard hundreds of times, so I don't think I'm subconsciously spending effort listening to the lyrics since I know them already?
Can you explain why? Maybe I'm missing a lot here, but what is spacex going to do to justify a valuation of, say, $200m over the next 20 years? If starlink succeeds it might be able to capture probably no more than 5% of the Isp market, which will probably correspond to around $50bn of revenue in a year in a couple of years. The satellite launch market is currently around $5bn a year, I think, or spacex currently has revenues of that amount and I've heard Musk say that he expects that part of their revenue to roughly top out at that amount. Even if that industry, say, doubles in the next 20 years, that's not that much revenue to warrant a >$200bn valuation. Most of the other potential revenue sources are all in theory highly lucrative, but I would seriously doubt that spacex would see any significant revenue from a colony on the Moon or on Mars in our lifetime, though I might just lack the imagination. Can you explain why you would want to own this company?
> We've had to ask you this multiple times before

I've just seen this, and I don't recall any previous occurrences.
is JAMstack just another buzzword for static site hosting?
You're proving my point. 31% of total income is quite a bit more tax than 22% of consumer spending (which is a fraction of total income).

For a resident with $100,000 income... $31,000 in income taxes. Assuming no savings and all consumption taxed at 22%, that's ~$15k in consumption taxes. Total tax burden ~$46k.

For a US-based nomad with $100k income, paying US income taxes (~20% fed/state combined), that's $80k to spend and <$18k in total taxes.

$28,000 delta. That $28k is being spent on something (military, police, whatever). Maybe the nomad isn't using any services that the $28k delta is funding. I don't know. But, just on the rough math, a nomad pays less in tax than a resident.

I guess the real question is does a nomad use services more like a short-term tourist or more like a long-term resident? And does the consumption taxes paid end up as a positive or a negative? How long does a nomad have to reside in an area to consume enough services to need to pay income tax? I don't know the answer - I only know the nomad is absolutely paying less in total tax burden than a resident.
Curious the downvotes, the thread is discussing how the prior history of a bitcoin can cause it to be worth less in some contexts. The different value of the same asset based on its history is the definition of non-fungible in the classical sense. If one satoshi can be "tainted" by its history it is not equivalent to any other satoshi. Lack of equivalence = non-fungible. Now Zcash and Monero would be fungible.
From the article:

"SpaceX’s new valuation makes it one of the rare private “centicorn” or “hectocorn” companies in the world"
4 years ago I was in India I had to pay my rent every month by cheque. Funny enough that was also when I first saw my first cheques, and also learned how to fill/sign them.
According to Jared Isaacman, he originally spoke to SpaceX with the goal of investing. It was only after he was turned down that the idea of being their first civilian customer came up. It was easier for him to spend ~$200m to fly to space than it was to buy shares.
FYI, EQs will distort audio. Especially if the adjustments are large.

Your average EQ will introduce phase shifts to the various frequencies that make up a sound.

Linear-phase EQs don't phase shift but they also introduce pre-ringing and post-ringing effects.
The Nerdwriter made a similar analysis of Louis CK, realy worth watching: https://youtu.be/ufdvYrTeTuU
Remember folks, the Tiobe Index is a ranking of how many web searches are being done for a language. The farther you get from that metric the more you are speculating.
Alternate headline: 99.3% of Kaiser Permanente's 304,000 employees vaccinated, 0.7% unvaccinated placed on leave
Oh man, I always find it funny in a slightly schadenfreude sort of way when someone swaps to a new platform, goes to talk about how great that new platform is, and then the platform can't handle basic load.

That being said I do use Jamstack quite extensively, it can trivially handle huge loads due to it being mostly just static files that can be served through CDNs. This seems like it has nothing to do with Jamstack but it's still funny.
Hey! Founder of Polar Signals here! We are super excited to be announcing Parca[1] an open source continuous profiling storage and query engine as well as an eBPF based profiler. Oh, and also we got funded! Polar Signals was founded almost to the day a year ago, and we launched a private beta for our product earlier this year[2]. We are long time Prometheus, Kubernetes, Thanos, and Cortex maintainers, which are all very performance sensitive so we wished we had had access to continuous profiling tools when we first started working on those projects.

What is continuous profiling? Instead of capturing profiling data on-demand and as a manual process, continuous profiling always captures profiling data, and stores it to be queried over time to aggregate and compare.

Using our private beta we explored further what our users want most from continuous profiling, and we identified it to be:

* Cost saving: We discovered all companies to have low hanging fruit that can easily be optimized away, often saving easily 20-30% in resources. The only problem is companies don’t know because they don’t measure.
* Optimizing individual interactions: Latencies of interactions have a proven correlation between converting a customer or not. It’s incredibly hard to obtain profiling data at the right time, but if it’s always captured it’s just a matter of querying it.
* Understanding change: Performance engineering tends to be very sensitive and small changes can have a big impact, therefore the ability to deeply understand what changed from a point in time or a newly rolled out version of a software is invaluable for optimizing but also in order to understand incidents better.

Parca features a fully from scratch designed storage which implements multiple optimizations that are unique to profiling data, specifically our sparse XOR encoding for uint64 series is what allows us to store this data at raw resolution. More detailed information can be found in the storage docs[3]. And with the newly open sourced Parca Agent[4], we can capture CPU profiling data with practically unnoticeable overhead for the profiled processes, it automatically discovers all containers in a Kubernetes cluster and starts profiling them with zero instrumentation needed!

This is only the beginning of the project, but we are excited to work with the community to make this project more and more useful!

We will be hanging out in the comments section today, so please leave your feedback, criticisms, or just say hi!

[1] https://parca.dev/
[2] https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2021/02/09/announcin...
[3] https://www.parca.dev/docs/storage
[4] https://www.parca.dev/docs/parca-agent-design
This is nice, but not really much of a surprise.

With tons of ready-to-use libraries for string processing, machine learning, images, graphics, game development, web, etc., there is not much to dislike about it. It is my goto language for quick scripts -- works flawlessly on Windows/Linux/Mac.

The only downside is efficiency and being one-threaded, but if you are gluing together library calls, which you are most of the time, then it is good enough.
Standing on one leg is a sign of good health and practising is good for you too
Playing videogames is another drug with which to escape reality. But at least it gives you something to do rather than spending all your time dwelling in depression, which is why I have around 2800 hours playing Heroes of the Storm.

My experience has been that negative thoughts and memories are less likely to occur while playing, especially if you have to communicate verbally with teammates in order to succeed.

Making creative works using your hands is another non-digital outlet which keeps the mind focused.

Unfortunately, it's not really a permanent solution as intrusive thought and memories begin to show up during downtime.
Hacker News worked fine for me during the Facebook outage.
So the 10x programmer realizes you can accomplish the same goals with 1/10 of the book keeping, dependencies, interfaces etc. etc. etc.

In other words, the processes themselves place hard upper limits on the possible productivity.
2,050-year-old Roman tomb offers insights on ancient concrete resilience
The Debt Fight Shows the U.S. Is Politically Bankrupt
Reading the web offline and distraction-free
This is a post about a tool I am building to generate an epub from a website
Forget all the other deaths for the past twenty years. Everyone from Bush and on that continued that war should be rotting in prison.
It’s probably due to slowing it down by 4000x.

When the slow the windup of a baseball pitcher it also looks ungraceful.
California's Silenced No More Act Signed into Law
I find that it is a good proxy for how much each language is being used.
Given I signed up for my primary bank account at age 14, it's more likely than not that my signature is nothing like whatever they kept from then. My handwriting has had over 10 years to deteriorate since I finished school and basically stopped handwriting anything that wasn't a signature.
Stackernews – for your lightning (sats) news
I wonder if it comes down to the intentional, sustained focus of ones attention?

Or how does an open office compare to listening to music?

For me I sometimes use music to mollify ruminative thoughts or feelings that intrude and distract me. Which results in a net increase in focus. Similar for the din of the open office.

When I need deep thinking time both background noise and music are too interruptive or distracting and I need full silence. But I don’t require that level of focus all the time.
What is that even supposed to mean? Businesses compete for profitable customers. Are banks not supposed to do that?
Good riddance. It's telling that most of the employees losing their jobs over this across the country are almost never physicians and researchers (and only occasionally nurses). It's mostly support staff: people who often have no scientific or medical training and/or no college degree. That should tell you a lot about how justifiable their die-hard belief is.
Some people have noted that this is a very Airbyte specific article, but I think that the lessons learned are still important.

I have managed Airflow as a managed service for a company that has thousands of DAGs and one of our keys to success was splitting the compute and scheduling concepts into different components. We standardized on where our compute ran (Databricks, Spark, Lambdas, or K8s jobs) and had Airflow purely as a scheduler/orchestration tool.

Scaling your Airflow worker nodes to handle big-data scale transformations/extractions is a pain. Especially attempting to support customers who want to run larger and larger jobs. Splitting these concepts allowed for us to prevent noisy neighbor issues, Airflow as a component had high reliability for all of our customers, and we prevented the need for M * N operators.
Love your optimism, unfortunately it's not consistent with the facts.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
If nobody had previously succeeded then I would take the point that Carmack was somehow unique, but by the time Doom came out lots of programmers had produced 3d games, and we had ray-tracing and lots of graphics theory and implementation (e.g. elite written in 6502 assembly on an 8 bit cpu).

>You think John Carmack was the only one trying to make 3d games when Doom came out? Thousands of programmers where trying to.

Yes Doom was a great game, and well programmed, but it didn't really move the state of the art forward massively, as I would argue that hundreds of programmers had already written and published 3d games by that point.
Today I learned that China has "boomers" too. Seems almost like a universal phenomena.

“Square dancing is a problem left over from history. Many elderly people feel that the whole China is built by their generation. They have the absolute voice and status. We young people have done nothing, and of course are not qualified to question them.”
The myth part is that you can hire these 10x programmers by asking harder whiteboard coding questions and they will sit and close jira tickets for your company thereafter.
I'm 31 years old and have never written a check in my life. I've never even bought a checkbook. If a card doesn't work, I use cash, or in a couple of edge cases I've used a cashier's check.
Nice work there! I also think that the next challenge for data teams is all this data documentation and discovery work.

I still think that Airflow is great for power data engineers. Airbyte and dbt are positioned to empower data analysts (or lazy data engineers like me) to own the ELTs.
Learn about Event-driven architectures and streaming APIs
To me, taking "principled approach" means you understand and can justify the eventual outcome of the approach, or at least guarantee that the outcome satisfies some constraints. How would you justify the number of channels in each layer of a convolutional network? The number of self-attention heads in a transformer? The depth? Can you certify its prediction performance?

Yes, the "just add more layers" approach typically works (in a very narrow sense of the word "works"), but we don't really understand why. We likewise don't understand the failure modes of the system, and cannot engineer around them. Thus it's not really principled in my view.
This needs to be required reading for every first time, non-technical manager of software developers.
Debugging is one of the reasons I keep using vscode. There is vimspector but I never tried that.

For code-completions coc.nvim offers similar config and plugins as vscode. There is official lsp support for neovim now but coc.nvim works fine.
You can only deal with psychological issues on a long term basis from a position of relative calm, which isn't going to be the case when the sufferer is in crisis.

Distraction (like medication) is a tool that can help the individual get their head above water in those moments, but, yes, presumably that wouldn't be the end goal.
I have recently given up on buying food from plenty of places that only supported platforms I wasn't on.

Looks like it was a trendy thing to hop into a platform and turn every other channel off until recently. The worst that I've seen was at the start of the pandemics. But at least around here, the trend seems to have completely reversed. On the last few months I haven't find any place doing it.
No, it's an over complicated way of using client-side technology to do server-side computation so that it loads as fast as a static page.

Groundbreaking.
Facebook is not a benefit of the doubt kind of company, so much so that random blogs on the internet will seem more reliable.
Good.

I'll just give a for-example. I was one of those dumbass kids who thought that I was going to be fine racking up a bit of credit card debt in college because I'd get a nice, high paying job the second I walked off campus. Then the tech industry imploded and it took a couple years (Katrina also happened in the mean time) and I ended up having a cratered credit score and on the business end of a lawsuit.

So when I land my first dev job, I proudly walk into the local bank and ask to open an account. My credit score wasn't good enough. But I needed a place to store my money.

The answer for me was Netspend, company of choice for most check cashing places, who charges you to hold on to money for you. Now, it could very well be that Netspend needs to charge that amount because people who use their cards aren't really people who can save much, but it seems like an inadequate way to service the population given that people need a practical way to interface with electronic banking regardless of how much they have or what their credit score is.
Lightning Strike at 103,000 FPS
One of the best things about OS X (as it used to be called) is that the runtime was accessible not just from Objective-C, but also from ruby or python or JavaScript. It was very cool to be able to fire up a repl and go exploring in the innards of the various frameworks.
I have (semi-daily) and would say it’s somewhat close to being day to day usable. They recently added Safari-style back and forth gestures and you can choose to arrange your tabs vertically (though not in a tree).

The main thing preventing daily driving is that it’s not in the App Store yet, leading to it not being selectable as a default browser. I also experience occasional crashes with hundreds of tabs open.
There can be that. But also some managers do not like you wander off task. So stick in your lane stick to your tasks... So eventually after years of that you just do only what is needed and skip anything else. After a few of those 'that is very nice but...' conversations you just say screw it and coast. Every once and awhile I get a burst where I can propel my group forward. But then usually I feel like I am bolder chained to them and dragging them down. More than likely I am just average and doing OK.
This is a great list. My two from 10 years of experience would probably be:

- Simplicity is everything. Complexity is fun but business is not about fun. It’s about solving problems. It’s about having other people be able to read your code and quickly understand it. Or having a system that can be debugged without a PhD in the specific tool you’re using.

- Everything is a tradeoff. If something feels too good to be true it probably is. If it’s easy up front, it’s probably hard in other ways. If you want to make something faster you’ll probably need to make it more complicated.
Nicely put. Yet I would add that your code is preferable to third party code if you can solve the same problem with 10x less SLOCs or complexity.
Edge's devtools seem to work very well to me -- what have you run into?
Some banks require a credit history to open an account, others require a good credit history.
A)There’s a TON of dead air space in a Mac Mini
B)the main board would fit nicely where the DVD drive was in the iMac…this would end up being an ‘easy’ project, based on modern tech being so much smaller, except
C) Interfacing with the monitor would take a little doing…pretty sure it’s not HDMI
BART: Denoising Seq2Seq Pre-training for NLG (explained)
BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13461 (paper)

Code (Facebook)
https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/main/examples/bart

Code (Hugginface)
https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/bart.html
Looks this does it https://www.extracttable.com/
Maybe I'm behind on the times but I don't think liberals are kept up at night by the idea of someone putting on facebook that the clintons are a race of green skinned aliens.

In actual fact I think, as per usual, the situation is more complicated than that. Some of the censoring may be for fabrications, but the people who decide what is and isn't a fabrication are biased, and therefore leads to opinions at very least being caught up in the mix