skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you run someone's random python script? Did they target a lowest common denominator distro python? Pip / VirtualEnv or any of those systems? Is it actually tied to some notebook thing?

I'd be either using (distribution provided) Python 2.7; or if that doesn't cut it for some reason then probably a custom build interpreter that becomes a part of the project. But I'm just weird that way.
High cost losses won't necessarily do that either.

The fallacy is that these transactions have to be financial.

They don't. Any number of other remedies - from jail time downwards - would provide a stronger deterrent.

Without strong deterrents and the threat of even more expensive class action - possibly leading to personal ruin - individual losses can be written off as a cost of doing business.

Generally the sanctions for bad behaviour are far too light, and strongly biased towards business owners over customers/victims.

The Sackler/Purdue story is a perfect example. Inconceivable levels of harm were caused - far more harm than a high profile terrorist attack. But the Sackler family is still worth billions. And no one is going to jail.
That's neat, thanks for the link. Looks like he's ambivalent about it: "The geometric purity and beauty of Beck's map is wonderful and is a big symbol of the Underground; the geographically accurate map is also just fine."
Y is getting more expensive, but is definitely still below 100k
The vision of nice urban high density housing is a myth aside from very few exceptions that also happen to be quite expensive. Most people would want to escape that if their finances allow it. Pollution, noise, too much proximity to others are factors that makes this just plainly not attractive. Proximity to the work place is nice, but not the only factor that needs to be considered. This is primarily a problem of transport infrastructure.
Nobody seems to do search right.

You would think that really big companies would have search figured out on their own site. But Google usually works way better.

Site search gets tripped up on irrelevant false positives in some stack of fine print. Or even in a preview of a link to another page.

Or else it will totally ignore words and show partial matches high up, probably due to some terrible rank scheme trying hard to sell something.

Google's big issue for me is that it likes to show you those mirror sites that mirror reddit and github, sometimes in a way that makes it look like original content in the cache preview, but are actually boner pill ads if anyone but googlebot tries to view them.
That is really exciting!
Thank you, I sort of needed that this morning. Your words brightened a stranger's day by a bit.
I like this list! I try to live up to many of them but fall short :-)

One thing I don't understand the point of juxtaposing it against a high-performer. No human is going to be good at all of these things at once regardless of their efficiency or ability. Even if you could churn out bug-free code at an unbelievable rate it would not matter if your soft skills suck.

Personally, I'd call this the "shepherd coder" (vs. the "cowboy coder").
Just curious. What if you failed the claim? Let's say OP didn't hire an attorney, would he/she has to pay anything to the company for a false claim?
Based on the cursor, and my own experience with it, he's actually probably using https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css/ so technically "NES font". But I do agree that it makes this less readable AND less respectable in the end. It's like writing a manifesto in Comic Sans. Serious topics deserve more serious fonts.
We know he won't be executed on Friday.

Assume he'll be executed on Thursday. Then it means that by Wednesday, he'll know that he'll be executed the next day. So it won't be a surprise then. But this contradicts the premise that the day of execution will be a surprise. So the assumption that he'll be executed on Thursday leads to a contradiction. Hence he won't be executed on Thursday.

Similarly, Wednesday can be eliminated, and then Tuesday, and then Monday. Which contradicts the premises. But the premises were true anyway.
This is a 10x, not 1x
Those shapes can be made using grozing pliers, or a well tuned water jet cutter.
I believe this is true for most languages.

I've had the same happen (and then stop happening, to my delight) to me with English (non-native speaker with fairly strong Eastern European accent).
I think it's more of a complaint that the link was posted here; stuff behind paywalls isn't really on the web, after all.
Is willing to leave their comfort zone.

JavaScript single page apps are my comfort zone, and I will not sleep until every single dev is here with me. I am not leaving. It's very comfy.
The tone is very weird: not quite passive-aggressive (yet oddly specific in a way that evokes the suspicion of that), and not very helpful, either.
The irony is that you could use a userscript to fix this userscript search engine's title.
With something like:
document.title = "not home";
I'm a .5 engineer.
This was my takeaway as well. So in order to not get screwed everytime I do business with any corporation (i.e. virtually constantly in the modern world), I have to go scrutinize contracts, meticulously log phone calls, initiate and follow up on arbitration procedures, etc, and still lose money in the process? How is that a win? Who has time for all of that? It's so ridiculously one-sided, yet we're so conditioned to it that we think we're doing alright when we're just getting screwed.
I had a T1 line in my house when I lived in rural New Hampshire from 2000 to 2005. There was no other option at the time and I was working from home and needed something.

Cost was high (around $1k a month if I recall correctly) but it was very stable. And the support was good, too.

Once lightning struck the house and fried a bunch of stuff including the CSU/DSU in the basement. I called 911 and they sent out the local police. When he smelled the burnt electronics he suggested we call out the local volunteer fire department. Apparently lightning strikes can cause a smoldering fire in the walls.

The fire department arrived with a thermal imaging camera and you could see the heated up drywall screws leading toward the well-grounded telecom equipment for the T1. No fires in the wall thankfully.

While the fire department was there the local telecom truck pulled up to replace the CSU/DSU. The T1 was back in service within an hour of the lightning strike.
One of the creators of Flower here, AMA!
> features in video games which may be accessed through gameplay, or…

Well, that’s every game ever. The author needs to learn to write and to think critically
> Windows interrupts you regularly for stuff that's not important to whatever you're doing.

It has literally never happened to me. However it happens weekly on Mac, where I will lose the focus of my window and be prompted for an update.
6. Start not giving a shit about career, helped me a lot
Can you really not see why that is a problem?
> ... risk being left with a half-charged vehicle during a grid failure.

To be fair, most folks who own pickups usually own multiple vehicles as individuals, and that's not even counting the other household members.

I don't know what they're getting at with "at scale", but it seems like a good idea for "rugged individuals" with a battery-powered big truck. What else are the going to do with a pristine, washed-every-week, empty pickup truck that never carries anything and is more of a status symbol than anything else?
I don't see the '22 MacBook Pro available with less than 16 GiB.
It sounds like you've never spent much time around good programmers. You are trying to learn it all yourself and online content is hit or miss.

Try reading through popular library code on GitHub. Read a high quality programming book, not blogs and stack overflow. Try to get a position at a larger company no matter how junior or low pay, but with good programmers who will mentor and answer questions.
Great point. I feel like this is an often ignored advantage of JS/TS projects. Most often data is passed around as POJOs. It's dead simple and easy to duplicate, serialize, and mutate
Frontier system the first exascale machine with an HPL score of 1.102 Exaflop/s
It truly is a sad state of affairs, isn't it?
Typosquatting Attack on ‘Requests’ Python package
The attacker created a copy of the highly popular "requests" package with all kind of typosquatting permutations, preserved the original functionality to stay under the radar and added a cryptominer surprise!!
AWS for Industry, but Better: The Railroad Investment Case
I know a family in Canada who has frequently power outages.

It would be perfect for them.

Easy to use, easy to maintain and stabilisng their system.

They like to drive trucks like these as well.

Of course EVs might become a standard backup/stabilisation part in our ecosystem and currently everything ev is still more or less bleeding edge but why do you mind if people start investing in this type of technology over others?

Shouldn't you be happy about it?
Generally agree. Companies can mitigate the costs through insurances and just passing on costs to customers.
It's an unfortunately common sentiment: some of us like programming in their free-time : ^ )
1. browses hacker news all day
2. still believes Tesla FSD is just around the corner
3. Uses tabs for indentation
If being a 1x engineer will lead you to making such an awful UI, I don't want to work with any 1x engineer.
See https://glarts.org/font-and-typeface-legal-tip-sheet/
My apologies, I must have looked at the Model X data twice. I'll make a note.
The "being part of a whole" experience was significant
and strong: when any of you did well, the collective-you
was doing well, and so you wanted it like your brain
wants your legs to do well

One of the strongest (completely natural) "highs" I've experienced is playing team sports and completely abandoning my ego, while others did the same. One organism working toward a common goal.

I would imagine that playing in a (cohesive, unselfish) band or an orchestra is much the same. Or acting in a play, etc.

I have experienced this at work as well over the years, but much more fleetingly.
then you must be sociable af.
Suing? They can get you terminated, or hinder your advancement. Anything that can be construed as reflecting badly on you or the company can be used against you.
There's a sentiment that design patterns are ways to make up for missing features in a language. I think that misses the forest for the trees as when people say that they almost always mean the GoF patterns, and not the concept of patterns in general.

Strategy pattern is a great example. First class functions make the GoF pattern a moot point. But it's still useful to understand that this is a useful thing to want to do, whether or not one has direct language support.
I've clocked some time online with the "rationalists". I have learned some interesting things.

But I was going to build a custom religion designed to make motte & bailey arguments in favor of it easy, it would probably look a lot like "rationalism". "It's not a religion, we just apply these precepts of rationality rationally! Look, the rational application of rational principles, rationally, is all but in the name!"

I actually agree that not everyone there treats it like a religion. There are people like me who just cruise by, pick some fruit, learn some things, apply some useful things, and get on with it. But there are absolutely also people for whom it is their religion.

Ironically, as IIRC some of the thought leaders have themselves pointed out (usually in the form of an agonized, hair-pulling sort of "Why, Bayes, why?" sort of post), there is very little rational reason to believe that improving rationality will lead to a lot of massively better life outcomes; the evidence of this is thin on the field. (Picking up some things around the edges, absolutely. But the hope that you suddenly Solved Life because you're "more rational" seems to be pretty poorly founded in reality.)
Is it possible that even a small % of people losing and forgetting to actually use the cheques saves more money than a little added cost to each payment?
Ubuntu shouldn't be recommended anymore. Flatpak won. Snap is a disaster.

If you ask me, Fedora is the new Ubuntu.
They're not scammers - I've just got a firstname.lastname@gmail account which means a zillion confused people think they're me.

https://xkcd.com/1279/
Cuneiform isn’t exactly an alphabet. It can represent sounds, letters, whole words, or broad ideas in single symbols. It true that it was used for many languages, but if this is a trove of documents from a palace or temple then many will likely be in Akkadian. Akkadian was the diplomatic language[1] of the region until the rise of the Achaemenid empire in 550 BCE.

Since the site is from Mitanni[2] then some will also surely be in Hurrian[3] and maybe Amorite.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_language#Development

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitanni

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_language
How large language models will change science
I’m not sure how literally applying Bayes’ theorem and reducing the sample space accordingly is owning logicians but you do you.
What is the UK equivalent of this?

Last year a phone company wrongfully added a credit to my account for 900gbp which I noticed had been there for a while, claiming I owed for a phone. It was actually an identity fraud issue. I had forgotten when it had happened and never checked my credit scores, but then during the year needed credit and was getting declined so noticed on checking.

I contacted them and they flat out refused to remove it essentially implying I was lying. It happened with multiple phone companies at the time and I contacted them back then and they removed it apart from Three. I even contacted Vodafone for my records and they refused to help.

I escalated it multiple avenues such as credit agencies and ombudsman and none could help so ultimately was stuck with this charge. I contacted Three, the managers and CEO and was ignored.

So I had no other options (perhaps legal route which I know nothing about) and had to let the credit on the account close after 6 years.

The time spent on it and frustration was awful.
I still feel that yak shaving is a big part of the difference. I'm not a pro software developer anymore but getting started on getting started is the hardest part of any project for me.

Writer's block is another part. Just thinking about the numerous ways to approach a problem and getting analysis paralysis, while the 10x just jumps into some experiment without a second thought.

10x is the ability to avoid getting blocked. Everything else on the list could very well be part of any programmer's set of attributes.
I own EVs, though Tesla doesn't do this (they want you to do a powerwall instead, which starts at 10-20k).

Instead, I have a whole house natural gas generator. No gas to go stale. It powers my entire house. And it costs similar to this.

Maintence: Every 2-3 years, it needs an "oil/filter" change.

I have never had one before this house, but wow it is nice. We seem to be on some flakey power lines, we have lost power ~8 times in the previous year, ranging in duration from 1 hour to 2 days.
> Writes code that &emdash; gasp &emdash; has bugs.

This is peak irony if it's not intended.
At current gas prices, the lifetime TCO of a $70K Model Y is the same as a $40K gasoline SUV.
>The environmentalist me also appreciates that arabica supports better biodiversity

Can you elaborate? The article seems to point to the opposite, when arabica was nearly wiped out around the world by coffee leaf fungus as a result of the bio-homogeneity
None of those list items help me differentiate a 1x engineer from an anything else engineer, insofar as either category exists.

The whole idea of engineers as fungible resources with output that can be represented with a single digit is silly to begin with, and I fully support attacks on the concept, but this isn't attacking any of the fundamental problems. It's attaching "be agreeable, think long term, and don't overwork yourself or your team" to the bandwagon of "a 10x engineer is a silly idea." However, while those two aren't mutually exclusive, they're not the same thing. Calling yourself an anythingx engineer is giving tacit approval to the idea you can even measure output with a number, even if you do it ironically.
If millions of professionals are doing a thing a certain way, either they're all wrong and crazy or there's something I'm missing.

It's a Chesterton's Fence situation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence
I don't like this normalisation of copy/pasting code from stack-overflow... There are very few cases where this is appropriate in a professional environment regardless of your ability as a programmmer. Stack-overflow is a great tool for learning, but if you don't understand the code you're producing then you're not doing your job.
I'm not sure it's really that similar; the word "officially" here is meaning something along the lines of "discovered, and correctly understood what they were".
Impossible. Schrodinger’s envelope, then. You can’t reflect the probability to be 2A AND 1/2A if A represents the value of an envelope.

The value of the other envelope must include the probability that it is the original A (not some sleight of hand new A’ that, itself, is based on an expected value).
How is school going for you?
Best PDF reader. For me biggest feature is not locking file while reading. I can't image developing some PDF with Jasper with any other PDF reader. 10 years ago people looked at me as some god when I show them how to test jasper rendering PDF with JUnit and SumatraPDF and not deployng whole app to Websphere and clicking through it. Decresed time to see changes from 4-5 minutes to 2-3 seconds.
To expand on this, the switching argument is actually correct if you happen to know that the envelopes contain either {x, 2x} or {2x, 4x} dollars (where x = 50 or whatever), and you observe that A=100. These are effectively hidden assumptions of the argument.

If you wanted to, you could explicitly model all possible values of the envelopes, and all possible observations of A – and you'd get the right answer again, including in the case above. You just can't define A in a path-dependent way, and then treat it as having the same value in all paths.
DeepFaceLab: Integrated, flexible and extensible face-swapping framework
If Mac are so expensive why are hackintoshes still out of favor ?
Definitely not the only one. Stevia instantly and completely ruins the taste of anything it's in for me, so when I'm looking at energy or hydration drinks I always have to check the labels carefully. Gives me a bit more empathy for people with more serious allergies and sensitivities, I guess.
AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer breaks the exascale barrier
It should be <5k to install. Of course depending how far you need to go for the gas run etc.. but it's only maybe 1-2 hours work for someone with the gas line, and 1-2 hours work for an electrician.

Source: Have a whole house gas generator
Which is a good sign that the font shouldn't have been used in the first place.
If I had a voluntary gap like this and I put something like "Sabbatical" on my resume and made a few notes of how I spent my time I wonder how that would go over. The last time I was in the interview process I saw my interviewer as a kind of interviewing pro, it wasn't until I got hired that I realized he was just a guy and he had really only interviewed and on-boarded a handful of people before.
Despite “figures from packaging retailer RAJA UK have revealed the 10 countries responsible for throwing the highest amount of plastic into the ocean,” the list is countries who have plastic waste end up in the ocean, usually due to pollution ending up in rivers emptying into the ocean, not literal dumping into the ocean.
I feel like these labels don't really help anyone. Everything on the list is stuff anybody should strive to do, except copy-pasting from Stack Overflow ;)
Well I think that's using an assumption that if we had greater exposure (ie less public health measures/vaccines) for the virus it wouldn't mutate and cause more damage than it did in its current form and causing a step change in in impact.

Also wikipedia in and of itself is not a high quality source.
I feel like this misses the point. And then a lot.
>> but it's weakly typed and very unsafe

Oh here we go :-) and yet the world spins on C kernels and lands jumbo jets in C autopilots and regulates heartbeats with C pacemakers and, and, and …

It seems there’s more nuance to this than just “strong types good”.

>> people went for C because speed was considered more important than safety

But for the past 10-27 years people have the choice to use a fast and safe language (java, c#, go) and they do, in very large numbers.

For the past 10 years (-ish) they’ve had the choice to use rust too - but they don’t. Rust has a popularity comparable to clojure or erlang.
/mea culpa/

I used to pay a lot of attention to who said what, but realised I was pre-judging comments based on what I'd seen people say earlier, and dismissing people's comments prematurely. So now I usually don't read the usernames because I find that tends to prevent me from judging a comment on its merits.

I didn't realise it was you that made that comment earlier ... sorry.
In Texas should electricity prices go sideways again it might take very little time.

But honestly I don't know, it's not something I've looked into. If prices become increasingly variable coupled to demand and impact of generation source at time of use, I imagine it could be quite lucrative and that might be a useful incentive to get effectively decentralized peaker plants in the form of grid-tied residential batteries caching cheap cleanly-sourced electricity.
Engineers (and other workers) lie in a multidimensional space - I don't think it's fair to project them onto a 1-d line, and call it a day. You're losing too much information, and might not see the big picture.
"if you’d like to avoid the inevitable judgment that will be rendered against you, please contact my office to facilitate payment"

The judgement may be inevitable, but a wealthy corporation may have the resources to keep the lawsuit in the courts long enough to bankrupt you or until you die of old age.
No, a small puddle is not going to have fish in it that eat mosquito larvae
I did not, no.
You could probably get a gas powered generator and use it all your life for that usage while still polluting less than if you bought a whole ass 3 tonne car
There are whole classes of things that were "unscientific" before we advanced to the point where they were scientific.

Medicine was VERY unscientific until recent days. Bacteriological theory was unscientific until it wasn't. Psychiatry was, and I'd argue, still unscientific. And machine learning is equal parts of magic and statistical math. Most practitioners in ML/AI area just tweak knobs and hope that some hyperparameter does infinitesimally better.

The key takeaway is that not even knowing the appropriate metrology to engage in makes this a very hard scientific endeavour. But that is the first problem to solve - how do you measure whatever that is. And once you can measure, then you can manipulate.

There's too many of these stories Ive heard from family, friends, myself, and others to think that this area is some sort of a delusion and fake. But what is its nature? Unsure. That's why I explore.
> in favorable direction

Speaking of directions, how about the bidirectional use of `yield` and `yield from` ?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9708902/in-practice-what...

# Sending data to a generator (coroutine) using yield from - Part 1
Agreed. Reflecting on the list, many aspects have to do with teamwork and cooperation. I’d go so far as to say the real 10x folks should strive for is 10xing their coworkers. If a 10x engineers is as good as 10 engineers, a 10x team of 5 may be 50!
The list is depressingly "ableistic".