skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would an employer care whether I took time off to pursue other things otherwise?

Because you might feel like doing so again, or because there’s the possibility the time off wasn‘t voluntary. Not saying employers should think like that, but there’s a portion that does.
> I realize I need to be integrated in a community with similar objectives

How do you find such a community?
Providing emergency aid to shooting victims doesn't incentivize more school shooters. If anything, it's a disincentive because it counteracts their goal. By contrast, forgiving student loans incentivizes more people to take loans, which in turn allows colleges to raise tuition prices.
So let's see if I have this right.

* You've never met a 10x engineer, and you can reason clearly and cogently as to why they don't exist, so you conclude that they don't exist;

* Someone ... indeed, several someones ... tell you they they have met, worked with, and/or managed people who really are 10x engineers;

* You say that these people must be wrong.

This feels a lot like the biologists who wrote - convincingly - that kangaroos can't exist. They'd never seen one, and gave completely water-tight arguments that the method of locomotion was inherently impossible.
Some things, even Musk couldn't fix.
It's embarrassing how slow that thing is compared to CPUs 2 years ago...

The video below compares 8150 against CPUs from 2020 (i.e. no 5900x or 12900KS), includes data from 8370.

https://youtu.be/RpcDF-qQHIo?t=425
Yeah, I agree. This setup though is the one to which the original "naive" argument applies which is why I think it's interesting to ponder.
Thank you OP! I love it when even without a click to a possibly tracker laden URL I can learn something just from the headline of an HN post served over HTTPS :-)
100% + Google $$$
OOM on OS X looks like the OS popping up a modal dialog asking you which application you'd like to kill because you're out of memory.

OOM on Linux looks like the OS just killing the heaviest application if you have no swap, or grinding to a halt if you have swap and actually need to use it as working memory.

OOM on Windows looks like your system grinding to a halt because you're paging all the time.
2000kWh a day? Our apartment houses family of 4 and we spend 2400 kWh a year (incl. electric stove)
Instead of working from the office or home, why not work from the road?
You can do something similar with a Prius. Turns out a Prius has a pretty efficient generator in it.

> As long as it has fuel, the Prius can produce at least three kilowatts of continuous power, which is adequate to maintain a home's basic functions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/automobiles/02POWER.html
> and they don't have any kind of "class slot"

Yeah, that really sucks. Objective-S's object literals do. Otherwise they really wouldn't be object literals, would they?

It was really an accident, because Smalltalk's literal arrays use #(), and since I wanted to have dictionary literals use the basic same look, I chose #{}. And also I use {} for blocks and block structure, rather than []. Well, it turns out you can tuck a name between the # and the {}. Yay! Classes. And thus objects!

EDIT:

Just saw that edn uses a very similar mechanism. Neat!
Best advice: Take a Month off and start applying to boring corporate SWE jobs. Almost every major Corp in the US has large engineering teams, they pay well, it's almost always a strict 40 Hour workweek and they almost never ask Algo/Leetcode questions in interviews. You may not make FAANG levels of compensation but you can decompress and prepare for those interviews for a few years if you want or just chill.
You should read contracts and, if things go wrong, keep contact logs.
The child tax credit would be an example of ‘buying votes’ too, right? What about promises to increase milk subsidies? Or promises to keep protecting the limber industry from competition from Canada? Aren’t all such things ‘buying votes’ as you put it?

I’m not an economist but I suspect that in a society with a strong welfare system, universal healthcare, and free higher education then wages wouldn’t have to be as high as they are in the U.S. for certain industries. I don’t claim that student debt forgiveness is the efficacious or even that it should be done. I do claim that it’s best to ‘buy’ votes by creating a society with strong social programs.
Agreed that this is a big advantage. I’ve switched to having a separate set of serialization objects with straightforward copy constructors or mapping functions and let the serialization library do the job against those. I used to hand roll the serialization, but this is admittedly user.
It's like how people have been saying lisp is the future of coding.

I feel most engineers (including myself!) become enamored by beautiful ideas enough that they'll want to try applying it to places it doesn't really work.

Doesn't mean I have to stop dreaming of a plan9 flavored 100% Lisp OS though!
> In the US, it’s not easy to sue a company as a customer. Maybe about thirty years ago, it became common for companies to put into contracts and terms of service, clauses that required binding arbitration to resolve disputes. This was cheaper for the company in many ways including a streamlined resolution process, cheaper lawyers, no sifting through frivolous lawsuits, and finality once a decision is made. It sucked for the consumer because it’s essentially a privatization of justice.

It seems insane that people are just fine with this. There's not even a top comment here mentioning it at this time. Is there no movement to make this illegal at all?
Before people say 'Hey that's can't be true'. It is (sorta):

> In America, the style of grammar used in academic, government, and professional situations is called Standard American English. There is no official government agency in the United States that makes rules for the English language. In fact, the United States does not even have an official language.

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/who-makes-grammar-rule...
New Research Shows ADHD Medication Doesn’t Help Kids Learn
If this was a valid argument than Modern English is also a rump language which was vandalized by countless French and Latin loanwords and that lost its grammatical correctness when people stopped conjugating verbs and using grammatical genders.

Old English was a way more complex language, akin to German and had a different form for each person. For instance, to shine was "sċīnan", and the present tense was

- ic sċīne
- þū sċīnst
- hē sċīnþ
...

Nowadays, it's just "I shine, you shine, he shines", without no distinction except the third person's 's'. It's a vastly simpler language, and yet, it allows people to convey concepts as well as any other language.

A thing I find ironic is that in certain languages that do thoroughly conjugate verbs, there's a way to mock those foreigners who don't know how to use verbs properly. It often happens that those who lack the knowledge of the proper inflected forms use the infinitive everywhere as a stopgap - for instance, one may say in broken Italian "io avere freddo" instead of the proper "io ho freddo", and every Italian speaker would understand it perfectly, albeit a native speaker would probably scoff it off as a blatant sign of a lack of linguistic knowledge.

That's precisely what English went through during the transition from Old to Middle English. People started speaking "broken" English and they kept doing that, and after a while it wasn't broken anymore. Subjunctive tense? That's basically dead in modern English too.

The point I'm trying to convey is, what you consider as the rules nowadays come straight from the broken babblings of the illiterates of yesteryear. If those Roman scholars that were complaining about the broken Latin spoken by their contemporaries had their way, the Romance languages would have never existed. Ironically, the moment Europe dropped Latin and started adopting the "vulgar" actually languages spoken by the people is widely considered the moment Europe truly started blooming again, and a crucial first step towards the literacy of the masses.
Yes I went to a cheap state school that I could afford. I'm from a modest background and it didn't occur to me I could borrow beyond my means and go to a nicer school.

I certainly don't feel student loan forgiveness is "fair" in that circumstance!
Surprised there’s no discussion on the price delta here - I could buy 10x power-walls for $110k, or 1x E F150 for $40k and get a free truck thrown in.

As someone with a large house who just investigated a hybrid power walls + gas generator + solar backup solution and didn’t go through with it due to cost, this is huge. I am literally considering buying an F150 to just keep parked stationary behind my garage.
How many tons is your AC? I’m also on the gulf coast and struggling to size a generator for my 5-ton compressor.
i certainly hope they can build square car that is cheaper than a rounded car :)
I'm sure the university of Phoenix can hook you up
I think it might be more apt to say that there are "10x employees" because it doesn't just apply to engineers. A small minority of people are just freakishly good at what they do (whatever that might be).
Nice paper. An interesting paragraph:

> This conservative state of affairs in the chemistry community is unlikely to result from some intrinsic properties of chemistry as a science. Rather, it is likely to be the product of complex historical and sociological factors, which can be traced back at least to the Middle Ages and the secretive research projects of the alchemists in their quest for a recipe for converting vulgar metals to gold.

Yes, I blame Hermes Trismegistus, Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, and Isaac Newton :)
This is explained in the article:

In their numbers and variety, these documents put the debate over Chinese in a new context: They provide evidence that is impossible to ignore for politicians, business leaders and society in all countries that interact with China.

Revelation is one thing, hard evidence is another.
True, there are a lot of meaningful 8 phoneme phrases. Maybe a million? Then the odds of hitting any of them would be about (10^6)/(44^8) or about one in fourteen million.

But close matches like "Rahdio Shack", "Radio Shahck", "Adio Shack", etc for all those phrases might occur more often than one in a million.
California Supreme Court: Meal and Rest Premium Payments Are “Wages”
Universities have a broader purpose than training people for the workplace. Ironically, increased costs is a large part of the reason why society's vision of universities has become so limited.

It's also worth noting that reducing subsidies to education led to much of the administrative expansion. Recruitment, development, alumni, grant, and IP offices were created or expanded tremendously in an attempt to find additional funding from sources like more students, donations, indirect costs, and royalties.
> I'd like to see student loan debt forgiven along with implementing a plan to address the cause of this ballooning debt.

Forgiving debt incentivizes debt though. It's impossible to address the root cause and forgive the debt.
It's a de facto independent state the same way that Scotland is a de facto independent state. Probably even less so. But now imagine prepending every Scot with "The Scot" in a publication -- just in case you don't confuse them with some other member of the UK.

It's silly, but mostly racist.
A home warranty was included with a home I purchased back when it was a buyers market. I did end up using it to replace an entire AC unit. Fortunately the process was surprisingly smooth. They required me to pay a few fees out of pocket, including a refrigerant disposal fee, which was funny because all the refrigerant had already leaked out. I tried to argue with them about that but gave up because it was a small price to pay for a new AC.

Even though I had a good experience, I think it's better to save up an emergency fund for home repairs rather than rely on a warranty.
I don't follow, why do you say "reported amount of time"?

You can ignore any time anybody ever reported, the only thing you need reported from others are the proof of work accumulated from the attestation block to the latest block
I really noticed this when reading the page for a grad school at a nearby university, maybe one of the students on any of the research teams in the department were American.
Does this handle LFS file-locking? Very handy for repos with lots of binaries (eg game dev), but also almost wholly unimplemented in the most popular Git GUI clients.
Ask HN: Why are you here?
I've been following HN for the past decade. It was an inspiration to see so many people working to make things better.

Being part of a community that was solving problems, "improving the world," gave me hope and purpose.

Then, because of my own hope & purpose, I felt like I was able to contribute to hope & purpose in other people.

But things are changing.

Myself, I've lost hope. My hope that 'things will get better' is lost.

I used to believe that startups were meant to solve painful problems. But the most painful problems in the world aren't even discussed here.

And I believe we can all agree, regardless of political affiliation, that the fabric of society is itself 'at risk' of collapse.

So now, I most frequently come here for a distraction. To drown out the noise of reality with some overly complicated technical write-up, or some arm-chair theoretical physics, or plead with smart people to look deeper.

Today I'm here, hoping, to find a little hope.

Why are you here?
The watch that came in from the cold
Raja Koduri, the head of Graphics at Intel. Before that he was leading the Radeon group at AMD. He's been doing GPU stuff since the 90s.
Brython-3.10.6 Python to JavaScript Engine Now Using Abstract Syntax Tree
The top 10 CRMs you should build integrations with
MongoDB is the most famous example to transition from AGPL to a closed license. MongoDB was AGPL until October 16, 2018. Since October 16, 2018, it uses Server Side Public License (SSPL), which they authored.

From their FAQ:

> The market is quickly moving to consume most software as a service. This is a time of incredible opportunity for open source projects, with the potential to foster a new wave of great open source server side software. The reality, however, is that once an open source project becomes interesting, it is too easy for large cloud vendors to capture all the value but contribute nothing back to the community.

HN discussion from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18229452

FAQ: https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license...

Today, MongoDB is an AWS partner: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/mongodb/

The most recent notable example of open-source software going closed because of Amazon specifically is Elasticsearch, which switched from Apache to SSPL. The announcement blog post was titled "Amazon: NOT OK - why we had to change Elastic licensing".

HN discussion from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25833781

FAQ: https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing
> A college graduate will earn $900,000 more than a non-college graduate over their lifetime.

A male college graduate, on average. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/research-summaries/education...

"Men with bachelor's degrees earn approximately $900,000 more in median lifetime earnings than high school graduates. Women with bachelor's degrees earn $630,000 more. Men with graduate degrees earn $1.5 million more in median lifetime earnings than high school graduates. Women with graduate degrees earn $1.1 million more."

Of course these are just averages. There's no guarantee that any given person will earn even a penny more. Not to mention that not everyone who goes to college even finishes their degree, but they accumulate the debt regardless.

> Maybe we should focus our money on making college costs more affordable rather than forgiving loans

Why not both?

The thing is, the people who make a lot of money after college are able to pay off their debt. The real problem is the people who get stuck with debt for decades, unable to pay it off. It's a lifetime burden. Senior citizens are a very fast growing group of student loan debtors.

I don't necessarily believe that you should forgive student loan debt the minute someone walks out of graduation. But what about decades later?

Anyway, it's important to remember that these lifetime earnings numbers don't include college costs. You have to subtract those. Unless your parents pay for your college, in which case you have no student loan debt.
It's disheartening when I want to build out in a new van soon and the only electric van on the US market is the Ford E-Transit with an abysmal 130 mile range when loaded down. Local dealership has two on the lot that are already spoken for by businesses. When asked about ordering one the sales reps told me "maybe 2023" as they were more than 9 months out from getting their next batch which was also spoken for already.

I'm starting to get the feeling that supply chain issues are going to be prevalent for the rest of the 2020 decade.
>"...is my child safe..." Perhaps the issue is that the people who go to college these days are still... children?

I have a half an hour soapbox rant about over-protective, bulldozer parenting and what I have seen it do to our kids if you have time.

I work in administration now for retention services, but I've done a little of everything over the years from maintenance and janitorial to executive leadership to professor.

My favorite story - I taught an educational law course; this was a 600 level graduate course for future principals and superintendents. It was a weekend course that met 4 weekends, for 8 hours both days each weekend. On the second weekend, one of the students came to class Sunday morning hammered. Not hung-over, I get that. But hammered drunk. Slurring, falling down drunk.

So, I sent this full-grown adult home and gave him a zero on what we were doing.

Monday morning, this man's mother called me to complain that I treated her son wrong. He was 15 years older than I was. He was a leader in his k-12 school. He was training to become a literal district superintendent. And his f**ing mom called me. Like, the 18 year olds I at least understand. The parents are used to stepping in at that point (even thought that's a whole other issue). But this man was a full-grown ass professional adult. And his elderly mom called to try to tell me I was wrong for sending him home when he came drunk to my class.

This is the world we live in.
8 GB is more than enough for many workloads, especially web development, academics, and remote development (and for that matter, non-development workloads).

Why not increase the potential pool of buyers with specs that are acceptable to them?

Also, M1 Architecture over Intel taps into solid state storage speeds to aggressively use swap storage when mem pressure exists. It really seems to be smooth, I've not noticed much hiccups. You might remember folks getting upset at this a year back because of the unexpectedly high SSD wear that results.
Yeah, but same is true almost everywhere else in Europe - I can walk into any shop, any fuel station, and buy original Gold Bears in any size. But in UK the original flavour is a rarity(like I said, I can see everyone just burying Haribo Star Mix instead)
Ehhh, some blackouts are demand driven, and climate change is increasing our HVAC demand. You certainly have a point, but I think climate is still a factor.
The examples you gave are not as direct. This is a direct stimulus that can easily be attributed from the government to an individual. In some cases, as you mentioned, there are political reasons that are also suspect and stupid in my opinion. However, this example is extremely simple and easily attributable as there isn’t some 3rd party hiring people or some number of dollars you get to keep in your bank account in the future.

I would prefer that the change be that loans can be discharged in bankruptcy instead of this one off forgiveness.
> You can speak weird english and people still understand what you say

Not necessarily. I'm Irish, and English is my first language. Landing in Atlanta airport a few years ago I asked some airport staff for directions to the bus, and they looked at me blankly. It was only when I said "bus" in a fake American accent that they understood
I'm fairly confident you could hack org-mode in Emacs to do this with a couple of lines of elisp.
They are certainly the most hyperbolic.
>they're trying to reintegrate and should be given a fair shake.

Agree. Things were different in the 90s, think peak crime and crime bill. Also, everything wasn't categorized as a felony back then, it seems like felony was limited to much more severe crimes (except drugs crimes), unlike today.

>it would come up in a background check (which would almost certainly be a requirement for such a job)

It would, but background checks cost money and I'm guessing it was a pre-screen method to save. I'm not defending it, I'm just repeating what I was told back then.

>A gap in someone's resume is a pretty worthless signal for whether they've ever been incarcerated.

Unfortunately, people have been doing stupid filters on hiring for decades. It's not a new phenomenon.
Wow, the ability to mobilize and execute that mission on short notice, not knowing when the rains will return and resubmerge the city is awesome.

I wonder if that's the closest that real archeologists will get to Indiana Jones style adventures.
I like using https://c4model.com/ - the Level 2 diagram is particularly useful.

I use https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/ for the diagram itself because Github natively supports it in markdown files, so you can revision control the diagram. I managed to get reasonably close to the C4 diagrams minus a few features that mermaid does not support.
I love Fork, it just seems to work the way I expect such a tool to behave. Also very snappy, even with large diffs.

I do wish it were available on Linux as well.
To call Redis not modern seems...
If there's a demand in the community for further development then the project will be immediately forked and this for will become new upstream.
Ask HN: Is Twitter still the best place to publish short original words?
Personal Blog: Have most control, but not sure if people can search it without seo.
Twitter:I find many good original words on Twitter, but now sure if people can search the contents outside its ecosystem.
Medium: I like it a lot but it seems favor longer articles only.
Other: ?
Dunno, I feel the 0.1x-thing is often a function of obstacles in the way of productivity.

At my last job, I was part of a crack team of senior consultants spent months building a CRUD service that basically did nothing but passing data from incoming requests to another API, and then doing the same with the responses. Because the service was distributed, this was asynchronous, and state was persisted in a byzantine state machine. By God were all the buzzword dev-ops checkmarks green. The entire team spent most days navigating a maze of elaborate OpenAPI specs, trying to make sense of nebulous kubernetes failure states, and debugging spontaneously self-breaking Jenkins pipelines that took a full hour to run each time regardless of fail or success. Hours were spent documenting the work, multiple daily standups, updating Jiras with elaborate definitions of done, time reporting in multiple tracking systems. It could take a full week of this stuff to bring a trivial code change into production. That was at most 0.1x development. I spent a lot of time browsing the internet because I literally couldn't affect the speed of the work, I was always waiting for some process somewhere to decide to finish so I could repeat the cycle.

Note: Many of these things are necessary sometimes in larger projects. This was not a large project, but it was run as though it was, leading to a development workload that was almost entirely process overhead.

In my spare time, I developed an internet search engine, and quite literally was 100x more productive than I was in my dayjob because I had none of that bullshit in the way.