skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the illegal (ish) part comes from Apple making macOS free if you're installing it on Apple hardware. They don't publicly license it for use on non-Apple hardware, although, I would guess that VMWare if not others has a license to run it on random x64 servers to test ESXi with because setting up a different testing environment of Mac Minis to test every change to their hypervisor on instead of using their normal testing infrastructure would be dumb.

(or they just do it anyway and don't tell Tim.)
The confusion is that it's all about what people can and cannot do, not how much code they can write.

If your development needs are mundane crud stuff, you don't need a "10x programmer". If you're doing tricky stuff, on the other hand, you absolutely do.
huh that's cool. If it also had a "better derive(Default)" as well I'd probably end up using this in almost everything I write tbh.
Face Detection in just 15 lines of Code (ft. Python and OpenCV)
Well it's basically Visual Basic for adacemics and it excels at that. Aside from it's obvious problem: Python is a very practical, though almost generic language, with a rich collection of useful libraries -- so why not?
What type of anchor are you using and whats your work load like?
If you have GPUs, NVTabular outperforms most of the frameworks out there: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NVTabular
Is the difference between suspension and layoffs that a layoff can collect unemployment insurance while a suspension can't?

Does suspension lead to fire with cause?
That's not bad at all! I do wonder how they're going to make the tranceivers rugged enough for the wet and salty environment your average sailing yacht is found in, and I suspect the motion of the waves makes aiming the dish a challenge. I suspect the speed will drop as soon as the boat goes upwind and starts heeling!
If facebook was to vanish another similar site will just take its place lets not kid ourselves. Were stuck with this monster even though ive not been on facebook in 8 years or had an account that long i still see it mentioned constantly everywhere
>maybe next time don’t break the law

...or engage in wrongthink. The Supreme Commander must never be questioned even in private, peasant.
> The 10x programmer is a silly myth. The idea that someone can produce in 1 day what another competent, hard working, similarly experienced programmer can produce in 2 weeks is silly.

I think the 10x programmer myth was never about productivity. The idea is more about creativity. I.e. one creative programmer can create a product that would have never existed otherwise.
you'd be hard pressed to find a fish that wouldn't like a tasty larvae
> If you’re dealing with a reasonable person, you should be able to preface the question by explaining how having sufficient time off helps you do your best work and avoid burnout

If you are dealing with a reasonable person, hopefully you want have to explain any of that.
I think the point of the story is to show that you can take one of the most affluent cities in the world but if you have crappy policies, you still end up with a crappy city.
Okay, what's their operating margin? Since there are a lot of these stores, Amazon (or whatever marketplace) takes a cut, there are fixed costs, fraud, scams, refunds, other stochastic losses.

Sure from time to time someone finds manages to make a decent income with such an operation, but it's not because the unit economics are so great.
So you want to use the app that the service has spent the most time polishing.

That seems obvious.

What doesn't it why you believe in today's web that that's impossible.

PWA is the way forward.
The commentary on the fast inverse square root
vaccinated people can't die eh? what's the fatality rate of covid again?

while we're at your plan, let's also round up all the fatties and fire them until they work out, that is the leading cause in morbidity when it comes to covid, plus we'd wipe out the #1 and #2 killers of humans.
The US had a postal banking system for 55 years. It was dismantled by congress[1]

1: https://uslaw.link/citation/stat/80/92
"Management consultants are no longer relevant".
But seriously, I encountered MCs at an old-school Fortune-100 recently, and they seemed painfully incompetent at anything software and machine learning related. I had many meetings hashing out strategies related to recommendations and search, and I still scratch my head wondering what came of all their efforts. Maybe they are more relevant in less technical areas?
The point of the article is that Tether is already doing all of this traditional finance stuff under the hood, but just with Chinese paper so they can rake in more yield, but is way riskier.
> More recently, Julia promotes itself as a general-purpose language suitable for non-scientific domains too.

Julia looks cool, but I do mostly web development, and I don't see how I would benefit from it.
"Unlike viruses and bacteria, there's no easy mechanism for a new variant of a parasite to spread its mutation laterally."

I was not aware until just now that malaria is neither virus nor bacterium.

Thanks - appreciate your response.
When the ask is to compare it with Brave, noting that it is an Apple-only product is indeed a con against Orion.
Chanos, the lead short seller here, manufactured a crisis of confidence that made a crucial capital raise difficult. This proved fatal to SolarCity — and also impacted SpaceX, as holder of SolarCity bonds. In 2018, the same playbook from Chanos nearly cratered Tesla.

Here’s a timeline and analysis from a trader:

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/elon-musk-vs-short-s...
I once saw something quite wise, which is the difference between a self soothing and self numbing. Self soothing is an activity you can do to handle a stressor you have at the moment and then you can move on from. But if you have to continually perform the behavior and never actually move on, you’re just numbing and putting off the processing part of pain/trauma.
Carmack is an interesting choice here, oddly. He and team were among the first ones there, but it isn't like they weren't rapidly met. Nor, strictly, the first. Ultima Underworld, I'm pretty sure, has a bit of that distinction.

Even more impressive, much of the success of later titles came from his picking the likes of Abrash to help make things fast. Notably, the WTF comment in the "fast square root" trick was from Carmack about a contractor's code that was speeding things up.

Getting even more meta on it, they had amazing dev tools at their disposal that many other programmers just couldn't afford. Look at the recreations folks do nowadays using pico8 and friends. Some folks get some really amazing tricks running in that field.

None of which is to say Carmack is a bad dev. Quite the contrary, he is quite good. But don't discount the role of everything else to the early success that Doom and friends had. In particular, the artistic execution and vision of everyone else was probably worth more than you'd consider.
I really miss the playfulness and willingness to experiment in some of the old designs. Even the G4 cube was a really interesting idea, even if it had issues.

As much as the asthetic doesn't appeal to me, I love that a lot of gamers mod their PCs with lights and other effects and really pimp them up. I like that people are having fun with the objects that fill their lives. Sometime all the sleek modernism just gets a bit soulless.
> 15-20 enums (or more) for their error types and it makes things very cumbersome

Like everything, it can be a balancing act. I tend to be free about creating error types (one per module, usually, but it's not strange for me to create more). When you implement `std::error::Error` (to be able to make error trait objects) and have a tool like SNAFU (to make error enums), then having more error types isn't much of a hindrance in my experience.

> I’ll start with `anyhow` if I’m writing library code and then refactor to enums later

The newest (beta) version of SNAFU actually strives to make this case even smoother. There's a `whatever!` macro that you can use to create stringly-typed errors and then migrate case-by-case to an enum. Check out the docs for some example usage.
my first thought was the same, but I still had an intuition that it makes sense to call this sort of thing quantum as opposed to other, say, chemical-based senses which, although still at some level obviously relying on quantum physics, are more readily explained by using higher level concepts.

I suppose it comes down to emergent phenomena: what's the lowest-level concept you HAVE to invoke to understand what's going on here? when you want to explain how taste buds work, you can talk about neural paths and chemical chains, and even though each of those things relies on quantum physics to exist, you don't have to invoke the concepts or objects of the quantum world to understand the phenomenon in question. but with this particular phenomenon, you do. you can't just explain how this works with higher level concepts, you have to get low down.
> This was novel to me. Listening to music negatively affects your ability to focus? I guess it's time to throw out my headphones...

Not so fast.

Actually, listening can help you focus IF it helps you block some other distraction AND you choose something that you can stop focusing on.

When I worked at the office I used headphones whenever I wanted to block off chatter around me.

I also have tinnitus -- light music helps me mask it so it stops being distracting.
> It's a question of knowing

Exactly. Norvig's skill set happens to be of the upscale variety, but similar "10x" knowledge+practice effects exist in more pedestrian domains as well.

Compared to my current self, my teenage self was a 10x PHP programmer. I'm absolutely sure that it would take years for me to get back to being even remotely good at PHP-interleaved-with-HTML style coding.
Hacking is a major problem with hosting anything. Hackers are much better then anyone you can afford to hire. Think of the endless hacked Wordpress sites.

Heck how many times has a small company forgot to renew their domain name.

What’s the solution to this problem?
You outsource to someone that mostly stops hackers.

Now accounts being hacked is a major problem as my wife and her friends can attest to.

What’s the solution to that?

Just make another account. Highly annoying and upsetting. But a simple and easy solution.

Those solutions are all free and easy.

So yes Facebook is evil. But it’s also extremely practical for small little groups that can barley use a computer.
> That amount could pay for lots of schools to built etc

I think if you research school costs in the jurisdiction in question, you’ll find $54 million could not pay for a lot of schools to be built. Maybe 1-2.
I'd fund that study, if only to see birds with tiny paper bags over their heads.
Bloggers will write about anything to get viewers same as streamers ect. I’m waiting for a blog that’s completely fake articles that have a small disclaimer at the bottom
Soma is still drugs. The collective prevalence of alcohol, marijuana, and psychiatric medication is nearly 100%, and probably 10x higher in dose than when the novel was written.
Now try including if statements, loops, structural pattern matches, context managers, etc.
Goodbye Wordpress, Hello Jamst... oh ok Hello Wordpress again
I dunno, go look through any popular subreddit and it's all about "extreme" leftist politics, even /r/funny, etc.

But sure, some fantasy about neo nazis discussing tv shows that I'm sure GP totally saw and didn't just make up is relevant.

I guess my point is, yes, it can happen but it happens on both sides. Mostly, people just want a nice place to hang out amongst their like minded peers, and no that doesn't mean discussing Jews 24/7 believe it or not. GP talks like someone who has never talked with someone on the other "side". We're all people, stop dehumanizing the other political spectrum because you don't understand them.

tldr: the most extreme people on the right probably discuss Soros/Jews as much as the most extreme people on the left discuss Trump/MAGA. That doesn't represent anyone else.
> You can hate side projects, open-source work, whatever as much as you want, but IME, the programmers that engage in that (and thus have multiple times more actual experience than one who works 9-5) are universally the 10x people.

The usual correlation-vs-causation disclaimer goes here. How many open source developers spend time on it because they produce good code?

I spent quite a bit of time on side projects and helping (as I thought) others with projects that I like. After many years of doing this I have come to the conclusion that I simply cannot produce really good code. So rather than being a drain on already overworked maintainers I decided not to bother them anymore. Seeing a few others starting 5-10 years later and quickly outrunning me is quite discouraging, but such is life.
It's also the better shellscript for administrators. And user-friendly, like basic. It excels on many fronts. The surprise is more that it took so long to reach that point, considering how old and widely used it is.
I use 1Blocker, a very mature ad blocking tool that just added JS-based blocking rules, and StopTheMadness is a popular tool for tweaking websites e.g. forcing videos up front, stopping auto play, and showing their controls. This allows macOS native PiP on most websites that don't usually support it.
the dot com boom is over, you can make the next apple or google from your garage any more. All the low hanging fruit have been picked...
More hacks upon hacks to make up for the glaring inability of the Rust people to acknowledge they made a mistake by leaving out exceptions. Just like the "type after identifier" thing, the use of error values instead of exceptions was a pointless piece of Go envy in fashion at the time that we're all going to have to live with for decades.

Plus, Rust doesn't even get to avoid paying for exceptions, because it still has panics and still has to support unwind semantics --- even though they can be disabled at build time.

Avoiding exceptions was a needless technical error and an illustration of why we should design systems around tried and true techniques instead of jumping on fashion trends and ossifying those fashion trends into immutable mediocrity.
The article says,

“Importantly, this is evidence of quantum physics directly affecting a biochemical reaction in a cell – something we've long hypothesized but haven't seen in action before.”

But there is an entire field called quantum biology:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2018.064...
Union square is really bad. Its full of homeless who harass tourists because they know they tourists are less likely to know how to react. In general the rule is don't engage, and if that doesn't work, keep walking.
Quora is awful. I said good riddance to them years ago.
If you don't need any of the features MS Word provides and you are proficient in using LaTeX and vim... yes.

That's kind of my point. If you can avoid using a heavyweight tool whose features you don't need... don't use it. I highly recommend finding any alternative that would suit your needs. You will be a lot happier.

The problem is the constant unspoken assumption that heavyweight tools shouldn't be used at all.
You can short Tether against USD on Kraken. It's rather expensive though.
Not if it's just a part of those engineers' jobs. They're already familiar with the underlying application data so owning the transformation is just understanding what the data needs to look like and documenting it. They're going to need to document the raw data anyway to avoid those analysts asking them a million questions. Might as well avoid hiring analysts who can also learn the transformation bit and just give them good data.
In college (so about a decade ago) I bought one of these and put Debian on it. I used it for a year to play Marathon, run XMMS, browse the web, and write OCaml for school. IIRC there was no driver for the Nvidia display chipset so it had to use software rendering but it still (barely) managed to keep up. Fun times!

Later on I decided to install a more spiritually-appropriate OS and threw OpenBSD on it. It sat on my kitchen bar and didn't see much use until I ended up tossing it during a move last year.

Great machine. My grandparents had a Mac catalog at the turn of the millennium that advertised these and boasted about how the processors outperformed P4s with double the clock speed. I didn't believe them back then but now I know better ;-)
With the tradeoff of not showing you the title of the active tab, if I'm remembering correctly?

I tried it for a bit before that annoyed me into switching to the taller layout, which is a visual downgrade from the previous design but at least has the same information visible.
> One study found that just 2.5% of people are able to multitask effectively.

.. and a queue of anxious white collar parents forms to get their child tested to determine if they are in the 2.5% /s
Docs for Developers: An Engineer's Field Guide to Technical Writing
> But I think collateral damage may be unavoidable no matter which word you use for this ... they might be reminded of their own limitation and feel ashamed or inadequate because of it.

This issue is that when people use "retarded" as an insult, they are saying people with intellectual disabilities should feel ashamed. When they use r- as an insult, they're saying that their target is acting like they have an intellectual disability, and that that's bad.

https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/impact/why-the-r-wor...

This is distinct, though related, to criticizing people's intelligence. When you say something is stupid, you claim you're saying it's bad because it's unintelligent. Is that why you're criticizing it? Should you be criticizing things for being unintelligent? This is a more general point than the use of r- as an insult, but it is indeed a topic which is raised by avoiding r-. I don't think the broader topic should be used to avoid talking about r- though.

> I think the solution to this dilemma is to be aware of who might overhear you.

The type of impacts depend on who hears it, but you don't need a target of the insult for the insult to be bad. You are still perpetuating the idea that people with intellectual disabilities are shameful when you use r-.
Very few people understand the basic ideas behind cryptographic signatures. So some education would be required first.
I doubt the bricklayer will become more efficient by taking a walk ruminating. But sure, some tasks are like that. Those are the tasks where you have 10x producers.
I think it depends on how may tabs you have at once. If you only have a handful of tabs, then compact mode works and gives you a small amount of extra vertical room. If you have more tabs though, they quickly get squeezed too much to be useful. Then it is horizontal space that becomes a premium. I prefer having the tabs and the address bar on separate lines to give the tabs their space and to give the address bar and the other icons in that are enough room to be useful. The idea that the content should be dominant is fine but I’m also using the browser features to interact with that content and don’t want to sacrifice the browser functionality.

The styling of the tabs as buttons and the reversed highlighting of the current tab are just broken UI for no apparent benefit other than someone thought it looked cool. (It doesn’t really).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperacusis

I don't hear "notes" and "chords", I hear frequencies. My range (at near 50) still goes up to where i can hear the bats talking. In a room with people, i cannot not hear their pulse, breathing, and other biological proceedings...
Global Deal to End Tax Havens Moves Ahead as Nations Back 15% Rate
Given how many people are saying that they need music to concentrate, I was thinking something along the same lines and realized that listening to music doesn't necessarily contradict the study. It may simply be a case of people using music to pull their attention back to the task at hand in cases where the environment would pull their attention away.
There is something funny about this but HN killed my blog.
Added the Markdown content here: https://github.com/Ridingst/hillcroft-site
As a computer scientist who makes a living from developing new technology, I hate that many of my peers seem to think the solution to every problem is a piece of technology or some app.

Seriously, this is sad, and feels so cold. As others have mentioned we have service dogs in hospitals to visit kids. And also as others have mentioned, the hospital that piloted this is funded partially by the toy company Mattel, so I question the bias in this study.
Not feeding people is stressful for the whole experience.

The psychogenic fever seems to have effects that last for at least a month (you're not that quick to refeed) but it is only stressful (but extremely so) when you initiate the experience.

We've managed to initiate it in two people a small number of times but we're nowhere near a protocol that would be repeatable.
I am not going to explain your error to you if you have a track record of not admitting problems in your argumentation when they are pointed out to you.

Seriously, you wrote the above just after I wrote the following:

> To be clear, the problem kordlessagain is referring to is that if you make the effort to make explicit what the X and Y are, the response will rarely include the slightest explicit acknowledgement of any incoherence.

> Generally, if a fallacy is found in one's arguments and one values intellectual honesty, the best response is to apologise for the error first and only then attempt to restart the argument. If you don't do this, but try to act as if there was no error, you do avoid loss of face in the eyes of the unthinking that comes from admitting error, but you lose the respect of readers who understood the error and saw the evasion.

> It is a sad fact that today most people have little awareness of this risk of losing respect in heated arguments, let alone place high importance to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28785685
Sure, I've just found that it can be helpful to clarify intent is all, especially when you're dealing with someone you've just met - e.g. maybe the interviewer is mostly reasonable, but is scarred from past negative experiences with colleagues who were legitimately lazy. This phrasing might help such a person understand where you're coming from a bit more easily.
Apple should leapfrog them by creating an Apple Silicon gaming computer with a gradient of flickering lights that isn't just rainbow colors.
Agreed. I see a lot of folks coming up with one off solutions for pulling data out of 3rd party sources like Kustomer or Lever. Giving a centralized UI for setting that up would be a great service.

Seems like I have a fun weekend project.
One thing I've heard recommended, and enjoyed a bit myself, is to listen to music with lyrics in a language that you don't speak (at all, I'd say) - the (heavy conjecture) theory being that the foreign language isn't recognized and parsed as "speech", so avoids the language areas of the brain.
That is a fair point. It still cuts you off from other forms of static distribution like IPFS/USB though.
> it's easy to find both far right and far left echo chambers

Could you point to 3 "far right echo chamber" active-ish (more than 50,000 subscribers) non-banned subreddits?

For "far-left" I'd say: r/politics r/LateStageCapitalism and r/socialism

EDIT: I knew this post was going to get heat. I consider myself a "leftist" (and by US standards I would be maybe consider a communist) but my point was that there is active censorship of right/far-right discourse in Reddit. Even in my pro-socialist/anti-capitalist view I like reading and seeing the other side's point of view. Main reason being that I think we should be open to other views to see the things to improve in our ideas.

I would invite people to engage in the conversation instead of having a knee-jerk reaction.