skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked at Jira stories and story points. In my direct team of 10 people, myself included, I have completed 71% of all story points in 2022, the other 9 are responsible for the other 29%.

If someone on my team can do 20 1 point "fix this typo" tasks, with 20 tiny commits, in the time it takes me to complete a 5 point task that I squash into 1 commit, that doesn't mean they're 4x more productive than me despite completing 4 times points and 5 times more commits.

Points and commits are a measure of complexity more than time. If you're doing far more of them then (in general, but not necessarily true for the author) you're working on simpler tasks. If you're getting through lots of high point stories very quickly then that's a sign that you're padding your estimates too much. Story points should judge complexity relative to other stories.

Neither points nor commits are a sign of being a 10x developer. A 10x person is 10 times more effective, not 10 times more productive. When you look at someone who is generally considered a 10x dev like Fabrice Bellard or John Carmack, they're not just doing more work than their peers. They're moving the state of the art forwards, and building apps that are fundamental building blocks thousands of people use to build on top of.
Yes, using the tweak tool. I believe there were also a few apps I had to tweak separately, like setting the default zoom level in Firefox. As for external displays, I don't generally connect my laptop to one, since my displays are connected to the desktop PC that I also own (which I run at 150% scaling in X11 mode so that fractional scaling actually looks good).
You seem confused. Random chance for what? Affecting what? If not survival or fecundity, what is it affecting? If an effect is completely random, it cannot drive evolution, because it is not a force for selection of particular traits over other traits. What are you talking about?
There have been lots of OS written in languages that support GC. And indeed mainstream operating systems use GC quite a lot for selected objects.
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Not smart to compare a nft and the a link to the image the nft represents to a Rolex and a fake Rolex. That gives the ‘believers’ ammunition and it makes no sense. There is nothing fake or different about the 2 images, while fake Rolexes are fake Rolexes.
The twitter thread shows a plausible reason. No photoshop involved.
Think of a very very elliptical orbit, one that's nearly a line and consider what happens when you take a bit of energy off the orbiting object. At perigee, when the energy is almost entirely kinetic, you're mostly just changing the velocity, rather than altitude of the object. At apogee, when the energy is almost entirely potential, it's the other way round - the change is almost entirely one of altitude. This is further stretched by the much more 'visible' effect of potential energy changes on altitude than of kinetic energy changes on velocity.
Na it's not about the size, it is that every product canonical build's is closed-source and has "mostly" shitty quality...quite the opposite to redhat.
That sounds like a problem for the FAANG, not for the author. (My old workplace used a third-party web filter that ended up blocking my own website. I sent a few requests over the years to unblock a few sites; as far as I recall, they all eventually got unblocked.)
Mistaking confidence for competence.

(It seems to me, though, that OP is both competent and reasonably confident, a good combination.)
No other technology platform has been so denigrated and ridiculed

Web3 is very likely to fail because a substantial proportion of both the tech and business space think it’s a load of unnecessary nonsense backed by fraudsters or the gullible who think they can get rich fast and want nothing todo with it.
This. NAT is not a firewall, never was. incidental benefit, which can't be relied on, specifically when there's no NAT (most v6)
I feel like the real fix for HIV is crispr editing of bone marrow to eliminate the receptors the virus uses to enter lymphocytes and B-cells.

I will not be first in line for that treatment
"I worry that by not being challenged I will become complacent"

Congratulations, you have the most useful attitude towards personal growth and development. This attitude has allowed you to continuously grow and improve to an extent that most people around you couldn't even imagine. This attitude also makes you dissatisfied, unhappy and insecure.

Ultimately, it's a question of values. What do you want more, happiness, or continuing to grow? You will likely never have both, at least not in equal measure.

If you choose to continue challenging yourself, consider finding a new group of people to work with. One where you're going to be the dumbest person in the room. Such a group almost certainly exists.
ditto for GNU Pascal. A safe systems language. I tried to merge in gpc patches, but was not successful so far.
> The next generation of the internet was already clearly defined - the inventor of the worldwide web had a definition for it, companies had been founded to that vision.

This doesn't seem in line with how Berners-Lee has been talking about the state of the web.
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The hiring market for software engineers went absolutely bonkers during COVID. Salaries shot up. Nearly everyone was hiring.

This "70%" advice was getting thrown around by every two-bit "thought leader" back at the start of COVID. I could totally see how following that advice would result in your competitors scooping up all of your former employees. And then you would be stuck in long and expensive rebuilding process just to get back to where you were, but now you would be stuck with more junior employees making higher salaries to boot. Oh and let's not forget that the 30% of the employees that you so graciously let stick around all probably dusted off their resumes, resulting at least a handful of defections. Accounting for those circumstances, I could absolutely see how a deep layoff in early 2020 would sink a company. COVID was a once in a generation opportunity for certain businesses as the entire world moved from IRL to online. Even some of the biggest tech companies struggled to keep up with the sudden demand.
Can you please stop posting that link? You're well over the line into spamming:

https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=bspear

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

- so much so that users are emailing us to complain.

Normally we'd ban such an account as a spammer, but you've posted about plenty of other things and seem like an obviously legit user, so I thought I'd ask instead.
Middle earth?
If you read the Hurt Report, most motorcycle-involved collisions happen from the front of the bike, with the car making an unprotected left across the bike's lane. Increasing visual conspicuity of the front of your bike (and attire) is the best way to avoid being hit. Exhaust noise is not a safety feature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_findings_in_the_Hurt_R...
That's fascinating. What would a good emergency vehicle siren sound like?
Increase the taxes until you can be grateful that somebody spends that much just to be heard.

Why should taxes not solve negative externalities? If they don't solve it then they are just too low.
> Eventually I ended up with one messenger, music app, a camera, a mapping app, and a browser.

Which mapping app?

Ever tried GrapheneOS? =]
> the privacy nightmare APIs

Unless something has changed about jQuery, it is only concerned with DOM manipulation and data fetching. Do any of the privacy nightmare apis touch those areas?
I don't get why the Apple wins? You'd have plenty of issues on a MacBook running an unsupported OS.
6 months? So in year or two we will all receive this?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220518195424/https://www.vultu...
I did have the same problem when I was having 5+ pots (250ml / pot) of coffee everyday. Then I reduce my intake to 1 cup, and I only drink before noon, then everything became fine.
> Pretty much, yes. That's the only way you get any useful information.

Nah I don't agree. Sometimes people act irrationally. A otherwise friendly person might seem unfriendly because they've had too little to eat. Or because they had a bad day at work.
Typically they would agree that their temporary unfriendlyness is not in accordance with their eithical principles, nor generally in theirs or anyone else's best interest. They (we) are just limited as beings. Unable to do what they know to be best.

Another way to look at it could be to say that people are not a single actor. What is the self? What we perceive as a unified I could very well be a much more shattered / distributed fenomena. Relying on the "rational actor model" limits the perspectives we can take on what a conscious being really is.

And I do think logic is a *requirement* for rationality (agree knowledge is not though). Maybe perfect logic is not necessary, behavior of sufficiently rational actors is perhaps well approximated by the rational actor model.

But maybe not! Question is - will increasingly rational actors eventually converge to the same behavior? If not - then rational actor theory cannot even approximate human behavior, it intrinsically has to be a theory about "human logic".
Nice! Very similar to dtrace instrumentation
Discussion of controversial issue results in people being angry at eachother and less productive - why are people trying to turn this into a way that they can be angry at Meta? There are plenty of legitimate reasons to hate them, you don't have to go creating new ones that barely make any sense.

Banning topics like religion, politics, etc. makes sense. All you're going to do discussing this is make other people angry. Nobody has ever changed their mind on abortion because someone down the hall "discussed" it with you. It does not progress any minds, it does not create anything of any positive value whatsoever. Why wouldn't they ban it?

>The same policy explicitly allows us to discuss similarly sensitive issues and movements including immigration, trans rights, climate change, Black Lives Matter, gun rights / gun control, and vaccination

I'm baffled as to why any of this was allowed in the first place. If you want to have discussions about this, do it off work. Or better yet, set aside a specific time where people can gather to talk about this face to face, instead of allowing it on your internal messaging systems.
I lived for a few years in "Orange, California". Every night around 11pm the loudest motorcycle you could imagine would come by.

I could handle the noise, but when the wife and I had a kiddo who was a light sleeper-- our lives were hell for a 18 months or so.

Imagine, having a newborn and a motorcycle drive by emitting 110db of noise against her windows 5 nights a week, for a year.

If I had murdered this person I would have been, "the bad guy."
Ever since I watched Foundation, I am kinda not very keen on the idea.
This makes many factually incorrect statements, over generalizations, and is filled with emotion. I don’t know where to start.

Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t own the term “web 3(.0)”.

Miners/validators charge a fee. Any cloud provider also charges a fee. DIY isn’t free either.

I’ll ignore DeFi because I know it doesn’t necessarily sit well with HN, but there are valid use cases for blockchain in Gaming.

10 years is a long time, yes. But there are a lot of things that need to be built, tested, and adopted. Blockchain moves slowly. So what?

Comparing anything to the iPhone is a terrible argument. The iPhone is arguably the biggest success (design, marketing, need) of the last 25 years and comparing anything to it doesn’t tell us anything other than “yes, iPhone good”.
A very successful screenwriter that I saw interviewed once said, “my goal is simply to write 10 bad pages every day.”
Whoooooeeeeew, whoooooeeeeew, whoew, whoew, whoew, whoew.
The tritium interacts with a phosphor through beta decay, so presumably if you hung a watch near it the phosphor would glow brighter with higher concentration of beta decay. Basically a sort of visual Geiger counter.
Is this the origin of the name for the film SPACEBALLS?
Why not invest more time and energy into renewing old plastics? We already have an ideal material, it just needs to have a longer lifespan of use. I have no doubt graphene will be the material of the future, like plastics were when they first came out. But we have more pressing concerns.
I have been drive for about 20 years, and I've never encountered a car theft.
> 10 years is a long time

That period also excludes all the work and progress in phones it took to get there.

> I’ll ignore DeFi because I know it doesn’t necessarily sit well with HN

DeFi is revolutionary. The idea of programmable finance and bank which can be created by anyone (we have 12 year old engineers with complex defi financial products) is nothing short of eye watering. On top of it, all the primitives are composeable which makes risk stacking possible. That's capital efficient for the capital owner compared to tradfi.

You can criticise the grifters in the space which are too many but what it enables is amazing to me.
It's basically a pluggable lexer, it is stable. And especially new config files have standardized on some variation of INI, Toml or YAML so there's less need for app-specific parsing.
That would be confusing, because T? means Option<T> in other languages (Kotlin, Typescript).
HolyC++
Title is a bit sensational: Should really be "1/4 of SF charging stations are broke". They rounded 22.7% up to 33.3% bypassing the more logical/sensibleness 25%
I see a big difference in mocking the policy vs mocking the people proposing it or the reason they're doing it. "Greenwashing" as I understand it is the act of doing something that doesn't help or helps the environment very little, but makes it look like you care and are trying to help it. This is a description of the person and process, not as much the policy itself.

I think most people would agree this is a weak policy and clearly done because its low-effort, agreeable and doesn't harm their corporate overlords much. So I can't say calling out the politicians isn't in order, but the policy itself is not actually bad.
At least in my tiny corner of Europe, most of us in The Left (caps important) get this difference, but we do still have many idealists that don't, and they are usually the ones that get in the news. Maybe (I hope) it's the same over there.

// I don't have any translation software handy at the moment, so I couldn't read the article, sorry
The UI is based on a framework that is open source. It’s called PatternFly.

https://www.patternfly.org/v4/demos/dashboard
But small particles surely do end up in the lungs when you're writing with a pencil, right? Certainly when you're drawing with one. Less than 100% of the graphene ends up on the paper ...
You can also sell them to people who don't need the latest and greatest and are happy to buy a still more than adequate used machine part
My work-issued X1 Carbon with Windows 10 came with busted sleep out of the box. So yes, Windows is no better.
I bought a 20 year old Miata and I'm throwing a huge wedding party
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> I still have an iPhone, which came out 13 years ago - blockchain also came out 13 years ago. The iPhone has changed the world in that time, but crypto has not. It has searched for a use case and the one use case it’s really found is extortion.

The computer science behind cryptocurrencies and decentralized ledgers and ownership blockchains are all interesting and cool to think about. But outside of computer science, on the social and economic plane, all of this is a pile of shit.
Brain in a dish learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game [pdf]
With the exception that McDonald's ice cream machines are not generally subject to the random depredations of moron drivers, anti-social types, weather and general malaise.
Given the mention of IntelliJ I’d assume Java or scala (probably the former).
The crowd is so easy to manipulate.
To be fair, it IS a load of unnecessary nonsense backed by latest bandwagon jumpers, fraudsters and the gullible who think they can get rich fast. There's no technical merit to it.

> No other technology platform has been so denigrated and ridiculed

As far as I am concerned it's entirely deserved. Web3, NFTs, etc. are a cancer and should not exist. It's on the same tier as DRM and pop-up ads.
> but there are valid use cases for blockchain in Gaming

Like?
there are valid use cases for blockchain in Gaming

If you mean the usual example of "you could buy a 3d model of a hat, and use it in all your favorite games" then you have no idea how 3d asset pipelines work and why this is never going to happen except maybe within the realm of a single publisher, and if that's the case there's no need for a blockchain. You could just store them on an account that's probably using Postgres in the background somewhere.
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Wow, I never knew this was vangelis, thanks for sharing.
"Mithridates".

Would a "mithradite" be a cultist or a fossil?
It doesn't get that many public use cases, here's the biggest one I've seen:
http://arcadia-unity.github.io/

But it is being continuously kept up to date by Cognitect, along with active development on a clojure-clr-next version. Maybe it has a bigger population of non public users.
Nothing that came out of crypto, nfts or web3 impresses me. I love new tech in general, and I go “that’s nice” a lot, but it feels like problems looking for solutions. The problem is mostly people trying to push it like the “new economy” in the early 00s, just before it crashed.
Don't read the Red Mars trilogy.

(do)
As a manager you should not be making technical decisions. The most knowledgeable and experienced technical staff should be making those decisions. From your description you have the basic technical knowledge to ask intelligent questions; to guide your staff to consensus and cooperation.

I have seen several situations with managers making technical decisions based on outdated knowledge / experience and it ended very badly. With projects failing and the best staff leaving.

In my experience, the best managers protect their team from outside interference, distraction and conflicting directions. Thus ensuring that they stay focused and are able to do their best work possible.
Wow! I had not heard of this before seeing this post, and I am now managing my Linux server with it as of now. This is way too convenient.
a lot of web3’s critical infrastructure like ipfs, TheGraph and Infura, scalable L2s, and zk proof tech is all far more recent and still in development so it will probably still be another few years before it matures i think
Something I've found very useful in my dev career - if you're the smartest person in the room, find another room.
Trading game assets (items) outside of the mechanics of a game.

Loaning assets (items) to other players without the game developers building the loan functionality.

Clan memberships that are recognised across different games.
Similar/related read: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
Just a heads up: I think you replied to a post generated by some ML model. Check out that account's other posts, and you'll see what I mean.
Stephen King writes 6 pages a day. Here's him talking about it with George R. R. Martin https://youtu.be/xR7XMkjDGw0
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Agreed.

The way I see it though is it's a solution looking for a problem.

"Look, we can build a decentralized database."

"Wow, let's try and use this to replace EVERYTHING"... and yet so far it has replaced nothing.

The most basic and obvious use cases – a Venmo replacement, a credit card replacement, and sending money across borders – these are all still done the traditional way, and it doesn't seem like that's about to change.

I'm hoping to be proven wrong, especially for the credit cards use case. Would be nice if everything cost 3% less. But it doesn't appear to be on the horizon.
Check out https://worldofcrypto.io, they are working on a gan based neural network to do a style transfer on your own nft.
I'm going to give this a try. Thanks for throwing the idea out there!
I am very critical/skeptical of more or less all things crypto, but I heard an interesting point from an artist recently who had begun selling NFTs of their work. It is in line with the thinking around the Rolex example in the article, but in my opinion, more salient:

I asked them about what appeared to me as the inherent silliness of selling an "exclusive" tokenized image, which could be easily copied with a right-click for free. Their response was that this is essentially no different from print making. When you buy a print, you are buying something you have the means to produce yourself. You aren't paying for the quality of the print making materials--you could order identical prints of the image from a print shop, or if you're less concerned with quality, simply print at home.

But when you buy a print from the artist, you're paying for that signature that says "#3 of 100." There's nothing stopping the artist from printing more, and there's nothing stopping random people from duplicating the print, but we're comfortable with the idea that a signature confers a "uniqueness" to the print that makes it valuable.

I don't know if that is an argument against print making or a case for NFTs, but I found the point interesting.

Context: I own no NFTs nor do I plan to.
That’s a great point I hadn’t thought of! Loud motorcycles and cars are so irritating to almost everyone, and would be pretty simple for cops to ticket (they’re on the empty roads with the cops at night and are by definition easy to detect). It makes sense that the cops are similar types of people (a-holes) who understand the motivation.
I imagine solving landfill problems with a plastic bacteria just compounding our problems: A 400m-wide hotpot of bacteria, some of it escaping, people being infected in their house, spreading to a few blocks, kids not playing together “because his toys have the disease”…
But you mentioned you work for American startup, presumably they are outsourcing? Guessing the salary is not the same as they would pay in mainland US (could be wrong).

the role of front end developer has become incredibly commoditised. I currently work for faang and I gave up applying for jobs because nobody replies. I just wait for recruiters to contact me.
Yep. I bought a car within the last year. I went to the dealership with a capital one financing quote and the dealership offered me a better one.
> You’re locally a 10x engineer because you wrote most of the code, so you’re naturally going to be a lot more effective than the other people on your team. This probably won’t translate to new projects.

>

> If you joined a new project where someone else had written 80% of it, it would take you years to catch up to their productivity; if they were controlling and continued to write 80% of everything, it would be impossible.

So much this! I read the OP and thought that the dev should get out more. I'm 10x as productive on systems I built myself vs systems other people built.

That's (according to my rough estimates) one developer (me) being 10x better developer than the next developer (also me!).

Switch to an established team and see how long it takes you to get to your self-reported 23x developer status.
You have to turn off the Nomad node to restore quorum, so yeah, the do become unreachable.
So you have no interest in explaining to me how EU countries (Germany etc) paying Russia for energy helps Ukraine? I'm quite serious, I don't know how paying Russia helps Ukraine, or are they not paying for energy? maybe I am ill informed.

And please don't come back with misdirection, either answer the question or lets leave it like that because it's a waste of both our time.