skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At several companies I worked for, by using Scrum Points, it was always visible that the most experienced devs were able to regularly deliver a multiple (definitely around 10x) more points than interns and about 2x more than the average dev. Not a perfect metric by any means, of course, but definitely quantifiable and observable. Metrics for LOC and commits/PRs made also followed a similar pattern. Again, not perfect metrics, but it's what we had.

Like another poster said [0], it's not really 10x the average, it's 10x when comparing best vs worst.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31074087
Javascript is absolutely not the only way these payloads can infect your device, so I wouldn't consider that particularly safe.

Also, if you aren't on a phone or similar, you can just use curl to expand shortened URLS. Tell it follow redirects (-L) and print headers (-I), and use the last "location: " header it spits out. e.g.,

curl -fsSLI https://t.co/blahblah | sed -n 's/^location: //p'
The short answer? $2T can buy a lot of secrecy and extensive QA.

The long answer is I don't think either of these statements are necessarily true? Apple products usually leak before their official launch. And as for quality while generally ok... Apple has had some poor launches including: Apple Maps, Safari on Windows, butterfly keyboard mechanisms. And other issues are user unfriendly product design like the mouse that has as charging port on the bottom rendering it unusable. And still more quality issues stem from lack of transparency like Battery Gate.

I personally think Apple has a strong fanbase that overlooks these issues and is quick to forget
I think your first principle is applicable to all.
* Work is a means to an end. A job should support the lifestyle you want to achieve, not be an end on itself.

Whether a 10x programmer, a 1x programmer, a startup founder. We all have different views on what a well lived life is. Which could include being the best or prioritizing things outside work.
Need power-ups wiki.
Yeah that was whack
Nothing wrong with typos, hope I didn't come off that way. jagged-chisel got the gist of my idea. Was just curious if it was intentional or not
All smart contracts are immutable, but some are less immutable than others.
If you like to think about interstellar travel, one interesting option is that somebody (something?) could develop the ability to live independently of stars based on fusion. In this scenario you wouldn't have to move very fast, 10,000 years to get to the nearest star is about right, but you might lose all interest in dry inner solar system planets like the Earth (compared to something like Pluto which is closer to 50% water) before you get there.

If you could find lithium you could breed tritium and run a D + T fuel cycle, which creates a massive flux of neutrons (maybe need Pb or Be for multiplication) and will let you breed extra T that you can let decay to He3. D + He3 is a good candidate for a fuel for "fast" interstellar travel that might make the crossing in 50 years.

Alternately if you can make D + D work you can certainly live between the stars and you can still harvest some bred T and He3 for "mobile" applications.
That's great - but did this saving involve sacrificing on experiences you've had ? Setting yourself up for retirement at age 20 sounds like a miserly life.

It's generalizing of course, but I've noticed this in friends I grew up with. They had avoid debt mentality, saved a bunch of money compared to their income, etc. The money they saved up didn't really enable anything significant, and they had to miss out on a bunch of stuff to make the budget.

Now we're in our mid 30s they have a bit of money stashed up, still single, still trying to figure out what they want in life. I've paid off the debt I've racked up in 20s, make considerably more than them (in no small part thanks to the more risk taking behavior) and the experiences I've had helped me move forward in life.

You only get to go through youth once, even if you have millions in 40s-50s it won't make you young again. You'll be making money your entire life.
I always found these discussions absurd as well. I’ve worked with people who were great team players (usually leads and principles, actually) who also produced quality code in a much shorter timeframe than anybody else. They also tended to be amazing mentors and role models.

I’ll glorify that all day.
First off, please stop using "orthogonal" like that. Second, the cloud cover is not "unrelated" (if that's what you meant) to the wake up and come home in darkness issue. Portland and Seattle are often dismal and dreary, but not totally "dark" in the mornings and early afternoons, making it feel and look "dark" more often here than other cities where the sun gets a chance to peek through at those early and late hours.

And I disagree with "it's not cold in Seattle." It may not be freezing most of the time, but weeks of consistent 35-45 degrees Fahrenheit weather with little sun certain feel "cold."
The integral of 1/(1+x^2) is tan^{-1} so it's not surprising to see π somewhere in the result, but I really want to know why/how they choose this integral. Does it has some graphical explanation of why this should be greater but similar to π? Is that related to the polygon with 96 sides?
Looking at the most charitable map projection I can find, I see where you’re coming from - but I think most people would still call it the NE corner.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://1igc0ojossa412h1e3ek8d1w-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
And yet, it's number 1 on this list, which is linked from both of the lists you linked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by...
The idea is neat. The UI didn't really work for me in a couple of ways:

- The modal input mechanism feels kind of clumsy. An extra click is needed for the most common move, and the buttons are somehow too inconspicuous. At least I kept forgetting to make the use/save choice for powerups.

- The path of terrains/actions taken is really hard to read. I think it's due to overlaying the two kinds of icons on top of each other. It'd probably be better if the terrain was shown as-is, but the action type was shrunk to maybe half or third, placed in a corner, and with an opaque background.
There is an interesting Youtube video by AlternateHistoryHub on exactly this topic ("What if Britain Wasn't An Island?"), so if you're interested in a bit of theorizing about what could've been or might've been, I recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssoKkvDbJpE
I've flown with these guys, all ex RAF Red Arrow Pilots, didnt need a sick bag!
https://theblades.com/corporate-and-private-events/

Thing is, if you have the gift of the gab get into politics and then you have the use of various taxpayer funded aircraft at your disposal, or make it rich, or be a head of state!
Even then, “M1 tile memory cache is designed for minimal tasks, not heavy computing” is such a stupid thing to write…
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This weekend I drove to the beach when I could have just sat in my house all day. I personally benefitted by receiving a relaxing afternoon at the expense of creating extra pollution for everyone else on the planet to deal with. By your definition that is evil and therefore we are all evil.
Taking into account Elon Musk is limited in the amount of stock he can sell from Tesla, the first conclusion is he does not have the money to buy Twitter.

The offer:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465...

mentions all cash. 43 billion in cash is a lot of dow, but the offer does not specify where the money is coming from.

Are frivolous purchase offers also subject to possible lawsuits, or should I get my buddies together, and also make an offer for Twitter?

"Twitter board gets an 'F' for dealing
with Elon Musk: former SEC chairman"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-board-gets-an-f-for-d...
I'm not a technical expert, just someone who lost a couple thousand bucks of expendable high-risk gambling money yesterday and wanted to dive deep to see why.

>So what happens after that 24 hours? The way you've described it here, it sounds like there's an up/down voting system after the cooldown period to either confirm or block the proposed measure, but it's not clear to me how that works. Who has control over that final decision?

Anyone with at least 0.15% (IIRC) of voting power could propose a measure, at which point it would show up on the web app frontend with every LP token holder's vote defaulting to "No". It would have to accrue "Yes" votes from holders of >50% of LP tokens within a certain time period to pass. Alternatively, holders of >2/3rds of LP token could force pass a measure immediately, though this wasn't implemented on the web app frontend. But each of these was subject to a 24 hour period -- no measure that hadn't been proposed at least 24 hours ago could pass, even by supermajority.
bruh all they had to do was test the change once in a non-prod environment. amateur hour
Crunch times are a thing in a lot of jobs.
I don't know. An 8.8oz tin is $24.60. It's very good, but is this magic chocolate or something? What am I missing?

The ingredients are: vegetable fats (coconut, palm kernel), sugar, fat reduced cocoa powder, whey powder, cocoa powder, emulsifier: soy lecithin.

It's the same ingredients as Hershey's kisses whereas you can get kisses at $0.31 an ounce compared to $2.79 an ounce. At this point I'm just curious...

https://nochewingallowed.com/collections/all-products/produc...
> I think that is debatable

I agree. They have kept up as much they absolutely had to.

Very little amount of thoughtful, apt changes.
That is exactly the problem I have when self-teaching. Classroom learning gives me external feedback on my performance as well as pushes me along when I get stuck. I have a hard time deciding when I'm spinning my wheels on some unimportant point or if I'm genuinely taking the time to understand a new concept fully without such guidance.
I've bought hundreds of Dell desktops, laptops, servers, etc., over the last 15 years. Rarely have I had any issues.
Clearly this software is actually for tracking the varrious surveillance drones that are disguised as "birds", it's just easier to distribute if they play along with the ruse. Checkout the logo of the software-- they're clearly saying that birds are mechanical. :P
It actually is the one about platforms because Unity has established itself as the standard in game dev (and I am saying that as a Godot VR game developer who is trying to break through that)

So "every" company that builds something in that space targets Unity first, Unreal second and after that maybe something like Godot.
Most of the things can be implemented by developers not using Unity as well but while others are actually building the game, you are building the framework below it.
That is a noble thing to do and will help the community in the long run but has zero advantage for shipping your game on time.

The best example is Meta's OpenXR support. They released it on Unity first (as they do all their other features) and Unreal game developers were complaining that they can't use passthrough because Meta hasn't rolled out support for Unreal for several months.
So while the Unity developers were already happily working on their projects, Unreal devs were waiting and not even having a timeline when it will be possible.

In our case with Godot it's actually a question of, do we put in the time to port to Unity or do we put in the time to build support for all the things we need that are already available for Unity. And how often do we expect that situation to come up in the future
A lot of people dislike turbotax, but compared to what? HR Block which is basically a payday advance company at this point? I've done my taxes with turbotax for awhile now and haven't had any major issues. Maybe they are evil, but not enough for me to care considering I use it for like an hour or two once a year.
If you mean this sincerely, it's the key with this symbol: ⌘.
Search engines rely on trust. Dark patterns that include shady things like exploitative URL insertions on clicking links are highly relevant.
I’m speaking about Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which existed during the first stages of colonisation, and in which Poland played the dominant role.
Then you're left with only one option, aren't you? Continue doing the same thing, hoping for the opposite result it has had so far.
How could it ever be decentralized if it requires laws to enforce?
Chicken tenders don't have anything to do with the size of the chicken - they're basically chicken nuggets which are made from... "pink slime" is the the term I've heard used but that's clearly pejorative though probably descriptively accurate. Anyhow it's liquified chicken poured into a mold, take of that what you will.
Wow, I find Jack Dorsey's conduct in this highly questionable. He left (or was he asked to leave?) as the CEO and is now trying to topple the current management.

If he was so much in favor of this, why did he not do this while he was the CEO, which was till a few weeks ago.
>Hm, but in this concrete example Elon is also a shareholder, so he can buy for 25/share, right?

Nope. The poison pill allows everyone but the one who triggered the provision to buy shares at a discount. From Twitter's press release:

>In the event that the rights become exercisable due to the triggering ownership threshold being crossed, each right will entitle its holder (other than the person, entity or group triggering the Rights Plan, whose rights will become void and will not be exercisable) to purchase, at the then-current exercise price, additional shares of common stock having a then-current market value of twice the exercise price of the right.
"Omit needless words."

( Strunk and White, 1918 )
https://makeagif.com/i/RLd9kS
Yeah, I have decided I'm just too old for this style. Something wants to be serious, but then it tries to be cute by adding all of the GIFs that do nothing to enhance. I'm all for adding media in whatever format that adds to the understanding of the material. These kinds of garnishes are no better than the animated backgrounds of MySpace and Web1.0 days. Now, get off my lawn!!!
>What is wrong with Google?

They made a rational 80/20 decision and then got insulated from feedback on the 20.
Morgan Stanley is basically going to finance it with TSLA shares as collateral.
Not offhand, but if you want to find the discussions, you can go into the Beanstalk Discord and search "Ukraine" prior to the time of the attack, and you'll see people discussing the rogue measures.
I wonder what happens if you have no recovery methods enabled on your account?
This is true, and yet almost all serious attempts against American presidents have been lone wolves. Even worse, they tend to be lone wolves who are quite literally insane in terms of their motives (as in, rather than being convicted of attempted murder they are found legally insane and institutionalized). So the Secret Service protection is fairly comprehensive.
what happened to living in the woods and not having to work for the man
I once had a boss who espoused all these principles while simultaneously telling us we needed to work nights and weekends to hit completely arbitrary deadlines. (American aerospace company.) I honestly couldn't believe what I was hearing. I stuck around just long enough to hit my cliff, buy a little stock, and then run for the hills.
Move fast and break things doesn't/shouldn't refer to your customers. At some point, companies have to provide reliable, safe service particularly when planning to force customers off their own machines into the cloud. Amateur hour is right, also uncaring.
Wow, I'm star-struck by the reach of HN. Thank you for the tidbit!
Requiring physical presence in some manner makes identity verification, if not failsafe, a lot harder and riskier to spoof. I observe that my broker was allowing transfers over the phone early in the pandemic. But when I did a similar transaction earlier this year, they were back to needing me to go into an office.
I've been intrigued by the concept of a co-living space combined with a hacker-space/co-working space (something similar to a boarding house with attached hacker/maker space) but it does sound like you would definitely have to have a hard separation between the "living" space and the "working" space.

I wonder if its something that could feasibly be organized or if hackerspaces should just stay hackerspaces.
That's not true. You are assuming there is a base level of crime that just gets pushed to other places. But if you discourage crime then it just doesn't exist anymore.
> Despite our capabilities we never tested these weapons of horror in space

I’m afraid that is not true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime

“The explosion took place at an altitude of 250 miles (400 km), above a point 19 miles (31 km) southwest of Johnston Atoll.”

That’s roughly the same altitude the international space station flies at.
10x is a really bad term, it tries to quantify a difference without a baseline.

The difference isn't in quantity, but imo rather in mentality. Relentlessly automating repeatable tasks can net 100x or 2x or 0.5x depending on context, but something that don't happen often enough.
But all of that complexity seems to be added with good intentions. Just look at the "Coronavirus Tax Relief" as the latest example which by itself has a long FAQ page describing all of the details: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/coronavirus-related-relief-for-.... Adding that to the tax code was probably the best short-term approach to quickly ship something (and lots of people are probably in favor of those changes), but that complexity adds up over time.

To me this looks somewhat like the broken windows fallacy: In countries where the tax code is simple and allow for "automated" taxes nobody is going to advocate for a new law if it makes filing taxes a lot more complicated. But in countries where the tax code is already complex adding one more complex law doesn't make too much of a difference.
It sounds like a "right wing boogeyman conspiracy theory" but it's absolutely the case. A lot of this woke D&I crap is coming from the top down through these ESG policies. If you want funds from big players, you need to play the game of diversity shenanigans.
New Magneto-Electric Transistor Could Cut 5% from World’s Digital Energy Budget
> And yet, blue state liberal democrats are clamoring to move to Florida.

Old people are looking to move to Florida for the weather. I don't think that many liberals are looking to move there for the politics. Especially if you have a family—who on earth would want to give up the New York State school system, to raise your kids in the Florida school system? I can't imagine any blue state liberals would want that.
I had a period of a very nasty burnout that lead to depression. I started to feel better only after I begun excercing.

Heavy, strength-focused type of excercises are a real cure for depression and bad mood. They siginificantly increase the amount of Testosterone in the body.

Try Squats, Deadlifts and weight lifting in general. Push yourself a little bit and it's gauranteed you will feel amazing.
I think 99% of people would agree it's reasonable to have a very few, very clear exceptions. And it's possible to do so without falling down a slippery slope. We know this for a fact because sites like Reddit did it for over a decade, as did many other sites. It used to be that they didn't moderate content themselves for fear of losing their "common carrier" liability protection.

And many of these exceptions might not even necessarily even be exceptions to US law or the First Amendment. Abuse of computer systems (spam), Federal obscenity laws, etc.

And there are many potential approaches to hiding (with transparency) from view legal content that no one (or almost no one) actually wants to see, without necessarily even deleting it.

One obvious approach would be to allow users to dictate what kinds of content they want to see. An example is subreddits, where users who want to see gore could be free to do so. Twitter could implement similar kinds of self-moderation features.

There are probably even more creative approaches that could solve some of the echo chamber effects, misinformation, etc without heavy-handed global moderation. It's a hard problem but it'd be really great to see someone try at least.
Maybe a Nasal Provocation Test (NPT)?

https://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/32971/InTech-Nasal_provocati...
That some applications cannot exploit. Because it’s also possible that other applications actually do. Cherry picking application to discuss performances on a given architecture is not really better than cherry picking benchmarks.
It should be legal everywhere or else it’s not really a full democracy. Inciting violence to accomplish those ends should be illegal but not self determination itself.
Check out Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. It's essentially an Eastern European factory town simulator, which means walkable tentament blocks linked by bus lines directly to massive industrial blocks. It's also the dark souls of city managers, which means get ready to have everything crashing down because your heating plant ran out of coal in the middle of winter and now everyone is too sick to mine more
Yes, that's very true, thanks for making that point.

I'd like to add that it's never too late to try to preserve these cultures, traditions and languages. Getting interested to the ones of your place of residence, even if you're not from there originally, can be a great experience.

One of the best ways to do it is through singing and dancing (they go great together), and more generally, there are often chorals and various groups dedicated to these cultures, traditions and languages.

And indeed when you get into this kind of thing, you realize how much culture has been erased (in my case, the Occitan culture), but also you can see how much is left, and how important it is to preserve it.

It also helps a lot when reflecting on our own modern, imposed, culture, and realize that some of the things we think have always been there, have not.
It is an interesting observation when put side by side with the sibling post [0].

I think it really depends.

A senior that is 10x more productive than an intern or junior? That's perfectly fine, they are here to learn.

A mid-level dev that is 10x more productive than another mid-level? A bit of a red flag, and probably detrimental to the morale of the team.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31074653
BirdNET and Pl@ntNet have to be my favorite uses of AI to date. A true use of technology for the greater good.

I've actually been thinking about automated bird recognition for a while now, I live underneath a flight corridor for migrating common cranes (near Berlin). I'd love to be able to one day track their migration across the continent in real time using data from crowdsourced base stations.

I wonder if migrating birds could be identified in flight using optical/radar/audio. If anybody else has had similar ideas I'd really love to chat on this topic.
low pay?
Enable Trump's account in the guise of free speech.
Hand sanitizer entering a restaurant seems both mild and also a pretty good idea even without Covid. Flu is a problem.

I don't think it's so much that these places are invested in the theater so much as they want customers and don't know how many customers will stop coming if they stop the theater.
Even then, you'd still need someone to bring an action. No one is going to bring an action over a private bird monitor.

It might be nice though if the "live audio" detected human voices and auto-muted them. If you're making a live audio feed available you should post a notice for sure.
Generating a similar plot in Python takes less than half of a second, including startup time. While 13 seconds isn't "minutes" it's still egregiously slow.