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The Hybrid F-150 with the generator option may be a much better option in that situation. A spare can could prevent you from running out of power and ending up stranded. Or you could drive out to quickly refuel.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a35152752/powered-hous...
The AI apocalypse is coming. We will replace jobs, make people refund and automate many things.
The AI utopia is possible too though, where AI makes you fabulously better at your job, prevents error, makes you more productive and more clever.

Both futures will exist simultaneously.

This community gets to decide the which ratios of those two futures will comprise daily life. Because we are the ones who will build it.

Ai tools that assist, collaborate with and work alongside a human worker make that worker more than they are. This is utopia.

AI tools that replace humans and make them redundant are dystopian.

Build the former, not the latter. We can’t stop the future from unfolding, but we can carefully and thoughtfully nudge it. We do that by choosing our work carefully.
Cycling a battery from 75% to 25% and back puts very little wear on the battery. A battery might have a 3000 cycle lifetime, but that's a 100% -> 0% -> 100% cycle.

3000 cycles is already 10 years at just under 1 cycle per day. Adding an order of magnitude more cycles by cycling between 75% and 25% gets you a century. Something else is going to die first.
> I typically do a medium roast with no oily sheen to them and it serves me well.

I thought an oily/shiny appearance of coffee beans was due to them being roasted too long ago and then some of the coffee bean oils "leaking" out of the beans. Is this not the case, i.e. something that might even be controllable with the roasting process, even something desirable in some cases?
Which is a by-product of steaks and leather.
My interpretation: that many of these qualities are admirable and useful, but are sometimes sacrificed in a quest to become (or be seen as) a 10x engineer.
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It's much like the Monte Hall problem, in that people often forget to include the portion about the revealed door ALWAYS being a loser. If it were a randomly opened door then the option to switch would actually just be 50/50. This can be shown by just running the simulation over thousands of iterations. The same is true here. It's not actually going to yield better outcomes to switch. Sometimes logicians just need to own up to the fact that empiricism and applied mathematics is where the rubber meets the road.
Yes, although there are (at least) two different meanings of "I don't trust your setup script". If I don't trust them to not do nefarious/malicious things, then I also shouldn't trust their Docker container either. If I just don't trust them to write a good setup script, eg, getting permissions right, putting pid files in the right location, not stomping on other stuff in various directories, etc. Docker solves that problem. They can put whatever badly written crap they want in the container and I do have some guarantees that it won't break the system it's running on.
While I get the thrust of the manifesto, anyone who could with a straight face check off every last one of those is well on their way to at least a "3x", in value for the company if not pure engineering talent. It would be nice to live in a world where that is just baseline professional behavior, but it really isn't. And in the defense of the people who may trouble maintaining that level of behavior, that's really a pretty high bar to meet for a human being.

Trim that thing down to maybe 4 or 5 things and we could perhaps call that a 1x baseline.
Any recommendations for macOS?
Perhaps they broke out a start of concave curve and used a grinder to get it the rest of the way there*. It would probably be labor intensive and fragile but it might work.
Lol, where did you get that I maintain one stable app from? I additionally don’t see how your working conditions relate to churn in JS given that you could use the same stack for each of those projects, as I said, as far back as 5 years ago
One of my first jobs ever as a teen, I was skinny and no muscle anywhere on my body. I could do my job but furniture was next to my department. It was store policy that female employees may not lift anything heavier than 20 lbs. Full time furniture employee was female.

I generally complied, why not. Clearly illegal and sexist policy that was only true for our store but more than happy to help. Mind you... soon as it was over 20lbs... women no longer helped at all. We had to lift whatever it was on our own. Even if I struggled quite significantly and they could have easily helped by grabbing a corner. They wouldn't touch it.

One day I was accused of being a bad team player blah blah. Basically came down to furniture lady not wanting to lift something heavy but I wasn't available to help because I was already helping a customer in my department. She never actually said anything to me. But I was getting written up because I refused to help. I refused something I didn't know about?

I got a page to write my response. I wrote something along the lines of, "store policy that female furniture employees dont have to lift more than 20lbs came into conflict with top policy that we must help customers. I was not asked to help lift the heavy products in this case because I was working with customers. Managers were also unable to help the furniture employee because they too are female and unable to help lift due to store policy. Unbeknownst to me the furniture department customer was poorly treated while quite a few employees stood around waiting for me to help my department's customers. I was overloaded in my department with customers because I was the only person on duty whereas 2 people are normal for the department. If I had helped with furniture I would have violated a different policy in that I cannot abandon my department to no employees. I need further instruction about which of these policies takes priority."

They said they cant file that. They said they could reprint the page, not let me respond and sign the page themselves. I replied with go for it, lets see what happens. As far as I know I never got written up that day.
Reminds me of this video: https://twitter.com/killersundymann/status/15297936834946826...
I don't like how this document buys into the "asshole genius vs kind regular worker" false dichotomy. I'm basing that on the reference to this tweet [1] in the repo, and especially the follow up [2]. Some engineers produce 10 times more value than others. Some engineers are kind. Some engineers produce the same value as others. Some engineers are assholes. I very much doubt there is a correlation between "asshole" and "producing more value", as I doubt there is a correlation between "producing average value" and "kind".

[1]: https://twitter.com/devblackops/status/1149883098567331840

[2]: https://twitter.com/devblackops/status/1150115483380621313
Would the software itself be any more valuable if it was engraved on solid gold?

No. It doesn't really matter what medium the software is on. Its value is independent of that.
I mean, what do you think I did? It is a link directly to a review of a product.

There is nothing in that review that is NSFW. If I ever work for a company where this is considered NSFW, then consider my notice of it being NSFW also my 2 week notice of leaving that company.
> And then the client ultimately makes an individualized decision wheter we settle and on what terms.

Could you please elaborate on how that works? To continue your example story, let's say you decide that rather than $20k you're willing to settle with taking $15k for your fees; and let's say they counter your $30k offer with "$20k take it or leave it". Do you then give the client a choice of "you get $5k instead of $6k if we settle, your choice between that or going to court"? Which could equally be "you get $1k instead of $6k" if you earlier decided to only lower your fee for settling from $20k to $19k?

Or does the client actually get more power than that somehow / at what stages do they get info & get to make what decisions or proposals?

(edit: and I'm just asking for curiosity since I'm not in the US, but maybe you could also clarify if what you're saying is true for the US or just for your state?)
The flip side of this is that the sometimes the judge will not award you attorney's fees even though it's a reasonable ask. I've sued companies three times in my life, and only one out of those three times was I awarded attorney's fees, even though it was requested all of those times.

Not to go into too deep of details, I'll also say if you ever do business across an international border, even with a company that is headquartered within walking distance of where you live, they /will/ find a way to weasel out of responsibility, even if they have a signed contract saying they're responsible. Once any sort of business crosses an international border, the only way you can hold a multi-national company responsible is if you represent a government that is an ally of the US and can bring to bear full military force, otherwise they /will/ screw you over.

In fact, the primary component of my debt post-college was paying back attorney's fees for cases I had won (or had won / appealed several times until I settled because I could no longer afford to pay for attorneys).

Personally, I am a major supporter of the idea we should have it be written into law that the party that doesn't prevail is responsible for attorney's fees for both parties automatically. That said, I also understand that this could be disastrous for smaller entities suing larger entities if they lose (to which I mostly say... don't file frivolous suits).
> Is not defined by the computer they're using.

Couldn't hold my laugh on this one.
True. Most of these truck owners when faced with an outage will simply run an extension cord from the 120v outlet on their truck to their refrigerator until the power comes back on. Nothing wrong with that solution and it costs $20.
I was careful to pre-empt this exact response in my original comment: I do know what it does. The fact remains that it's less readable (IMO) because of the density of line noise and the lack of common structural elements (like if and for - I suppose filter and map fulfill this but their parameter separate out elements that ought to be next to each other). I do think that my preference, however slight, would remain no matter how much time I spent with the functional versions.
An 15 mpg gasoline truck might use $100,000 in fuel over its lifetime. Buying a $40,000 electric truck pays off really quick. Selling power back to the grid is just gravy.
Everything with a white, soft belly is great!
Agreed!
Been on a one-man team for many years, and have felt exactly the same.
As others stated you are definitely not a loser. I know it because I'm not. :P

- Almost every one of us is working on boring CRUD web apps, and that's fine

- Work is not the only part of life that is supposed to make you happy (on the contrary)

- Try to spend all of your free time off screen. Exercise, meditate, read some books (not coding ones ..)

- XP >> LeetCode. A college graduate will definitely beat me at LeetCode, but I have been integrating online payment/banking systems in production web apps which have handled millions of $$ payments. Learn to promote those skills when job hunting, and don't worry about DS and Algos so much.

- We all need a bit of luck too : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LopI4YeC4I
Alpha go learns from self play. A google AI spontaneously invented a communications protocol. GANs work fantastically. The need for human input for training is vastly overestimated.
As a software dev I agree, and I've worked on some products I'd deem as a net positive to society. But there is just so much shit software out there.

As a German I wonder what the people where thinking programming VWs TDI system to activate emission controls only during testing, was it worth it? Polluting the environment and peoples lungs for a bit of money? It's not like dev jobs are a rarity in Germany. And yes I'm judgemental about this. And don't get me started on the things that are legal and still a detriment to society.
Honestly, a 10x engineer can do most of the list, but better. It's common misconception that if a person excels at something (s)he must lack in some other capacity. This is not true - there are extraordinary people that are insanely good across the board. They solve problems with unnatural speed and cunning, can explain complex things to 6 year old, really nice and social and love all programming languages (the last one maybe not actually).
Yes, I think that's entirely the point. A lot of the dialog around the whole "10x" engineer thing is toxic arrogant bullshit by people with big egos who may or may not actually be able to back it up with code, but definitely look down on you for not being like them and probably aren't good teammates because of it.
I’d buy a rental property guaranteed return on your investment
You're being abused by your employer. They need you and yet you think you have no value. You have value otherwise they wouldn't need you on call all the time.
I remember as a young kid (11ish) I lived in Rochester, NY, which was one of the first areas to get cable modems. I pleaded the case to my parents and we cancelled the extra phone line we used for the modem and payed the extra $20 towards a cable modem.

This was one of the few moments in my life that felt like ‘the future’ was arriving (the other around this time was my voodoo2 gpu running unreal). A year or so later we moved to Columbus which didn’t have high speed available yet.

What’s the quote, the future is already here it’s just not evenly distributed?

Incidentally I now live in Toledo and my internet is probably about the same speed as it was 25+ years ago… sigh
At least you have something to aspire to.
I've seen it a bunch of times, mainly from people closer to gaming/gamedev (considering the site is from handmade.network, even if not official, it is very tangentially related to Casey Muratori's Handmade Hero series).

I think it is the modern version of "to download the latest version visit our forum at XYZ" in an attempt to build some sort of community around a project.
More camber and narrower nose than NACA 4412. Less extreme than S1223. For what it's worth...
Now, someone needs to make a similar website for the 0.1x engineer.
Saint Petersburg Paradox
VMs virtualise hardware, containers virtualise the OS.

Simply, it's like: `mount disk.img dir && chroot dir`

Or in Windows.. mounting a disk image to X: drive, then starting an application with SystemDrive=X:, SystemRoot=X:\Windows, etc. (pretend that works)
The difference between now and then was a bunch of lawsuits that added more terms to the contract so it was "clearer" and people couldn't win a lawsuit because it wasn't in the contract.
It’s not clear to me that Go would survive Google giving up its continued investment.

Go has the fundamentals to survive - it’s open source, it has a healthy amount of contribution from non-google employees, the compiler is written in Go (that’s important when you consider an alternative situation like a python or js developer who wants to contribute a change to their compiler (they need to learn c / c++ respectively), i strongly suspect that if google walked away tomorrow, the velocity of change to the compiler, stdlib etc would not massively drop in the short term.

Medium / long term though… would i bet on Go over Java? It’s not clear to me that Go has reached the level of market penetration to make that a simple question.

Edit: i meant to add halo projects like docker, kube etc. as reasons to suggest the Go community is healthy
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Appreciate the response, learned much here!

1. "Crime and Puzzlement" is a great Barlow piece title, really love the primacy of African lore in his life and work (I am Kenyan).

2. From the Frank piece: "The anointed cultural opponents of capitalism are now capitalism's ideologues." Yes it would seem this previous epoch of countercultural thought and action is now the orthodoxy, I wonder whether a new epoch is [the counter counter culture if you would] is upon us and taking shape in emergent spaces like web3 where there is greater freedom to experiment with less fear of reprisal (more pseudonymous actors for instance).
Nope. If you eat it I don’t think you can really be a vegetarian. You cannot launder food until it becomes vegetarian. If an animal was killed off for you to consume a product, it is not vegetarian and consuming one won’t make you vegetarian. To me it’s no different than “vegetarians” who still indulge in bacon because it happens to be really tasty.

It is not too late though to give up gelatin based gummy bears and eat ethically the rest of your life.
It's been a long time since I studied it, but at one point it was known that many Asian and developing countries where ignoring the cfc ban. China was importing massive quantities in the 2000s and it was hard to know exactly how much they where emitting.
Apache Kafka and Memphis.dev
We're seeing certain industries where right to repair is getting traction and funding: military and agriculture. As funding for the issue goes up, so will public awareness. Another positive is that right to repair is 100% non partisan.
Have you had Black Forest bears or worms?
The working class is absolutely sitting on Twitter and complaining. It's sad that you view advice to improve yourself as a toxic "fuck you". Is your locus of control so far externalized?
Problem is, people don’t read before forming a first impression.
Albanese over Black Forest?
The button in the top right solves the font problem that was brought up. This is not a sarcastic joke about being able to close the browser. There is literally a button in the upper right of that website that switches to a much more readable font.
a whole legal handbook is much more so.

Yes, and sadly decluttering and simplifying law isn't trivial, or perhaps even doable.
I dont think the post mentions anything about what 10x engineers do or don't do. It's just a list of things normal people do.
Exactly and on top of that, building in this capability as new battery technology emerges will only expand the benefit. Graphene Aluminum Ion batteries as well as solid state batteries are expected to both increase energy capacity and expand the lifetime of the batteries themselves.

I'm not going to be a 1st year buyer of a Lightning but I'll probably be a buyer as soon as the newer batteries start getting introduced.
Some of those things are the same (everyone has Chrome and Firefox), but drag and drop, and copy/paste are functionally superior in, for example, KDE plasma so I'm not sure I know what you're talking about.

I have to use Windows at work. I choose to use Linux at home.
Bless your little heart. A twice dipped teabag will get you through the day just fine, I'm sure.
Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
Please don't list things that just need more bodies - specifically looking for intellectual blockers that can be answered in this thread.

This is a copy of a post from last August which was extraordinarily informative on a range of topics, even by HN standards.
I backup everything directly to GitHub. I first encrypt/seal my passwords/files using a Yubikey+PIN then git push them.

Here's my take on the automation: https://github.com/mihaigalos/pass
Upgrade your PyTorch model to run on AWS Sagemaker
From the outside it seems academia is an end, not a mean. Which in itself could be the full explanation. Also explains why even in "industry", as the author calls it, there's plenty of people willing to work (or appear to) a lot more than expected/required: to acquire more money/status/position/power/etc.

When you don't care to have your name plastered on numerous publications or on some company report, saying "no" to peer/company pressure is much easier.

Bonus point: Propaganda. Movies and tv shows are full of hard working heroes with impossible schedules and deadlines (literal most of the time) which makes for interesting entertainment but terrible lives.
It's not short in a hurricane zone. Weeks of no power after a strong hit is fairly common.
I'm pretty sure the finder lacking basic features such as cut-paste or copying the path to the current folder is a fact. The finder alone would be enough to justify my statement, but it's just a small part of the numerous issues of MacOS.

The dock leaving empty space on 50% of the width of your monitor is also a fact.

Or having to run a weird command in the CLI to add an empty space as separator in the dock.

Or having no "Apply to all displays" when changing background images on monitors.

That's just 30 seconds out of the top of my head.
We just had a massive power outage last weekend. (In fact, there are still people without power). The neighbors inquired into the cost of a whole home natural gas generator. $15K for installation sometime this year, $25K to get it installed this week.
I took a class that gave mindfuck questions and did not need curved grading.

It was simple. The weekly assignments contained 6 questions. One of those was the mindfuck question and wasn’t graded (if you solved it you got extra credit, but hadn’t been solved so far).

You don’t even need to hide the crazy questions. Offering them as extra credit is a simple solution that works well.
> Why care at all what someone does with an instance they paid for, as long as it’s not illegal?

I can think of a few reasons. I'm not sure how many apply in this case, but I think all of them.

1) Many service providers want to provide a free tier. It's a fairly inexpensive way to try to hook someone who will eventually pay off in spades. This is common in many industries. The difference is a business may scale because of demand - crypto miners will not.

2) There is a difference between 100% 24/7 utilization and intermittently hitting 100% at high load times. This has to do with hardware lifespans, the ability of overcommit hardware (like ISPs overselling bandwidth or airlines overselling tickets)

3) A company may think crypto is morally/environmentally/legally/PR bad and forbid it for the same reasons as weed, tobacco or porn. Or for processing transactions for members of rogue nations.

4) Using stolen CC numbers to mine crypto seems like a lossy but effective way to turn those numbers into actual money.

That's just trivially off the top of my head. As to your other question - no. None of the issues I described (unless you think any non crypto 100% pegging is likely to persist forever) are better solved with pricing adjustments. I don't let people smoke in my home. There is no reasonable sum someone could pay me to just smoke one cigarette.
Discord Is the World’s Most Important Financial Messenger, Hotbed for Scammers
Vietnam produces a massive amount of coffee, most of it Robusta. Their yields are considerably higher than other countries.
I think it can be actually infuriating for some people. I recently discovered that when some friends say that something disgusts them, they are actually feeling nauseous and could possibly throw up. On the other hand, I've never felt nauseaous from being disgusted by something. Same thing about second hand embarrassment, it's annoying for me but I can keep watching something, while they have to pause to "recover". People feel things in various ways, sometimes totally different from how you feel something.
Not all, only those that don't work in Linux for some inexplainable reason and whose developers no longer want government contract money. I think you'll find that that number is basically zero.
Do you have any numbers to back this up? $500/hour doesn't seem that insane to me for an expert's time.
>Model 3s are too small compared to a SUV, while X and Y cost a 100 grand

Uh? Model Y AWD Long Range costs $64,990 in the US before gas savings and incentives. https://www.tesla.com/modely/design#overview