skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many other ways to downsize. Young without kids share the same 2br, children live with parents, many people live in trailers close to work, etc. This is already happening, with more price pressure more people will go this route, or more to the area with less zoning and more smaller cheaper condos.
I don't think Agile/Scrum provides any guard rails against "bad" high-level technology or architectural decisions. Which is fine: no pre-canned process really does that.
Just don't ever give it the wifi password. Drive the TV from a PS4/PS4, xbox series X or home theatre PC. Use the youtube/netflix/amazon video/whatever client software on those platforms.

I have a thousand times more confidence that microsoft or sony will keep their operating system patched and free from zero days than some random OS on a TV. And at least they're big enough that their telemetry and data collection practices are documented.

Yes, it's true you can't get much use out of an xbox series x without an internet connection, but at least you know what you're getting yourself into in advance.
There are TVs, here most are Chinese white label brands, that instead of using Android TV just have a microcontroller running Android on it. In fact I've installed Android on a Raspberry pi and the experience was literally the same. There's no smart features unless you select the input to Smart TV (which i assume is some internal HDMI interface renamed to Smart TV on the UI)
I wasn't familiar with MoCA. Seems like a lot of the advantages of power line networking, but higher throughput / reliability I imagine. Thanks for the tip!
> lack of support for AES-256 GCM

Why do you need AES ?

Age uses ChaCha20-Poly1305 which is more than good enough, and has the added benefit of being an algorithm that is optimised for software only implementation and doesn't need hardware support (e.g. AES-NI instruction set).
The zapper function in ublock origin can be used to get around this limitation.
Some people on HN alos talk about nitter, I havent used it, but maybe that would work too.
By far the best investment you can make is to upgrade your earning potential.
I run a software consultancy and I could easily employ someone who specialized in writing software tests or a release engineer at 7x your current wage (these are unglamorous but ultimately not had things). Making 7x per hour changes the income and wealth equation dramatically. You could literally self teach both of those areas in 6 months.
Two books from the library, free gitlab account, fork 2 open source projects, implement test suite, begin writing tests. Start submitting pull requests upstream when you get good.

80% of software companies can benefit from work in those two areas and they provide more value than they cost so there’s effectively infinite work.

If that field doesn’t appeal to you I’d suggest starting a business. A recent study of people who earn more than a million a year (maybe posted here two weeks ago?) has shown that it’s primarily business owners. Typically in boring, but very established value areas, typically with a local monopoly.
Things like car dealerships, auto repair. The article (which I can’t find right now) also mentioned “marketing research”? which baffles me.

A clever person could learn a lot in the library over a weekend about starting and operating a business, about choosing a good business to start (businesses without a lot of competition, but a solid customer base are good. I’d choose one that will still work in an economic downturn)

Beware the taste for the expensive lifestyle. It’s easy to creep by degrees to a lifestyle beyond your means. If your expenses exceed your income it doesn’t matter how much money you make, you’ll be in debt to you reverse it. I’ve lived both ways and can tell you low expense is the only way to go.
> I think being able to identify and authenticate original works is a good idea that has practical uses

I agree. I don't agree that blockchain, or NFTs, can ever deliver on their promises to contribute to that matter, because of their nature.
How do you think would the blockchain, or NFTs, help to identify and authenticate original works?

> I believe there's a ton of hype and bad actors (as usual in a new market)

Can you name an example of another market where this was the case - i.e. bad actors were the majority of actors, and then something (what?) happened that made the market unviable for scams?

> the idea of purchasing the Nyan cat original

What does the "original" .gif of the Nyan Cat do for you that my copy of it doesn't?

> same as a material painting

I see 2 purposes of the "original" in a material world: 1. speculation, 2. paying the original artist.
Since 2. isn't possible for e.g. the Mona Lisa, what remains is that it's a pure speculation object.
You could argue that experts could distinguish the orginal Mona Lisa from any copy, but that wouldn't work in the digital world, where my copy of the Nyan Cap .gif would gif just as your original would.

What is the problem statement here, and how would NFTs, or blockchain, contribute to a solution here?
One would think this would have been more obvious.
The difference between exceptional and average programmers is not something special. It can been seen in all creative fields.

The important factor is not speed but output.

Some people can do things that almost everyone else would consider impossible.

Having even a single one of those in your company can be the most important factor of success.

Fabrice Bellard https://bellard.org/ and Justine Tunney https://justine.lol/ are good examples of this kind of people, but there are of course many others.
I'm against this war, but I think the history is a little different. Russia has always been a reliable supplier except for the recent demand to pay in Rubles.

Nordstream was built because Ukraine was an unreliable transit nation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_ga...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/03/russia-ukraine...
I contend that the only reason their existence is debated or controversial, is because the concept hurts the pride of those who like to think of themselves as best-of-the-best engineers, but are afraid they're really not.

I've worked with 10x engineers maybe 2-3 times in 20 years. One single-handedly wrote 85% of <extremely popular and complex app you've used> and another wrote most of the internal libraries at <company you've heard of>. They would regularly take tasks that most people would take a month+ to do, and just knock it out in a couple of days -- over and over.
I have a personal private knowledge base, built using mediawiki.

It’s easy to add content to and supports code highlighting, images, files and all the nice things you’d see on wikipedia. And has a beautiful skin (template) with gorgeous typography that’s a joy to read.

I also use it for tech notes, among the other stuff.
> there are plenty of fake 10x engineers out there, or temporary 10x-ers who are only doing well because of their working environment.

Isn’t that just really obvious truism that someone who is hyper specialized and really good in one area say video codecs is probably not a 10x’er in frontend dev? Doesn’t make it fake, still a jackpot as far as employers and probably coworkers are concerned. Unless you’re someone like like Fabrice Bellard but he’s more like a 1000x’er so probably still be better than most at anything programming related
How do you then get the software update, to fix buffer overflows while decoding the video stream?

(ok, most TV vendors won't bother to fix and most video sources ate somewhat trusatable not to exploit ... especially as an exploit can't do much unless it is connected to a network)
Lidar approach just has to be the winner in my opinion, simpler is better.
Exactly as predicted by many, many skeptics. Of course that's what his statement meant.
CSA was a high paying well respected job as I was growing up in the 80s and 90s.When I graduated and for a few years after it was still at the top, though software jobs had been moving away from CSAs, so you ended up with a bunch of people who couldn't get decent paying jobs in the field.

Back then the meme was L2Web Design.

It quickly overtook CSA and became the hot new fad, but the bubble burst fairly quickly, and now again you have people out of work and all competing for the same few jobs.

I watched so mamy web designers, real estate agents etc scramble to find some kind of work they could do that would pay close to what they'd been making.

In the end, most made career changes.

Here we are again and it's worse. Companies infantilzed their workforce, got them to expect pay of probably 10x what they are actually worth, and now they may have to join the 'real' workforce and get an actual job.

The movie Fun With Dick and Jane explores this very well even though it's technically a comedy, it holds so much truth its scary.
I'm 10X if I do everything by hand with only efficient and natively supported abstractions. If you ask me to use the latest trendy framework, I go back to 1x or 0.5X.
Gotta have that military-grade encryption with 256 bits of security.
there's often a reason TCLs are very cheap, however, the 55" 4K for sale at costco for $280 right now is fine if you only ever use it in a dark room, but even when cranked up to 100% brightness is near unusable in a sunny room when a samsung at 70% brightness is just fine.
This is wild! Duet Display, an app built by ex-Apple engineers has a curious toggle in the settings menu to turn off Airdrop, Handoff etc as well since it apparently screws up the remote desktop experience.

Apple also has introduced a beta feature called "Universal control" which allows you to use your keyboard and other peripherals across all devices nearby (ipads, other macs etc) I wonder how much of a performance tax these other features levy and if Apple tests the regression explicitly.
The best jobs I've had didn't have any of these control issues.

The worst ones required tickets linked to PRs with multiple layers of approvals, on and on. It could take days to get a few dozen lines of code merged. No thanks.
I'm surprised they aren't moving to Matrix, privacy-wise.
Yes! I’ve bought many for my old work as we don’t allow smart tvs.

I bought the Panasonics and never had any issues.

https://na.panasonic.com/us/audio-video-solutions/profession...

Im sure there are other companies. Im on my phone so can’t research. Look for “digital displays” instead of tv.

Good luck!
Reframing and simplifying the idea of how to keep a Zettelkasten
The difference would be that with Newton his results applied to pretty much all observable situations and only when our observation ability improved did we discover problems where his work wouldn't replicate and we had to tighten the specification of what his work applied to. In this regard you could also call the problem in the social sciences a specification crisis because their claims don't hold up over the wide group they attempt to apply them to in the results discussion (I would argue far too often they don't apply beyond the x people in the study, but that's open for debate). I agree, we shouldn't stop trying. We do, however, need to be aware of the things we are doing to be utter failures and correct them, otherwise nothing will come from trying.
The moment you allow bugs, you can't ensure backwards compatible changes.

That makes semver as good as any other scheme, including GitDate.
I've worked at companies that moved quickly using jira and companies that we're bogged down using jira

the key difference I've noticed is that the slower the companies move the more obsessed they become with their tools adding piles upon piles of ceremony and requirements I guess jira helps folks do that but that's the case for almost any tool tbh
you’re not making the right comparison. The right comparison would be within the same org. Is there someone on your team that generates $1M per week? Then they’re 10x you. Or does everyone else generate $10k per week? Then you’re 10x them.
In conjunction with the UN-led Stockholm+50 conference on the environment recently, there have been a few articles reminiscing about the original conference 50 year earlier.
The 1972 UN conference had been set during the war in Vietnam, and a topic at the time had been US' military's use of the herbicide Agent Orange.

Stewart Brand had been there (with his top-hat on), as a leader of a large group of American hippies that had been flown in.
They were widely seen as a nuisance by the other activist groups at the time, there to discredit the environment movement with their behaviour and to direct attention away from the "ecocide" in Vietnam. In one incident, Stewart Brand himself forcefully removed a speaker from a podium for mentioning Vietnam, even.
I find it interesting that the article on Brand in The Nation mentions the CIA, because there had been several indications that Brand's and the hippies' Stockholm visit in 1972 would have been funded and organised by the CIA.

<https://stockholmplus50.se/1972-2/> (In Swedish)
Of course a vegan activist group is going to attempt to convince us all that it’s animal husbandry that’s destroying the atmosphere. I’m sure the fossil fuel companies want us to believe that, too.

Coal and petroleum emit some 37 billion metric tons of CO2 annually.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissi...

Methane emissions from fossil fuels have been underestimated to a very great degree; they are actually up to 110% higher than previously reported.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19797/

The problem of animal husbandry causing methane emissions is going to be self-solving in any case: between desertification of ranchlands and the waves upon waves upon waves of virulent disease blasting through high-density animal warehouses, there is not going to be anywhere near as much meat being raised.

And in any case, methane emissions from melting permafrost are going to be orders of magnitude higher than anything humans have accomplished in our mission of self-destruction.
Some LG TVs, which are based on WebOS, can be jailbroken, https://rootmy.tv/
I see this, and I just wonder about the millions of dollars in radar technology sold by american companies owned by american congressmen...

I wonder if the chips they're using are made in taiwan... heheh
Yeah, how about neither?

You know there's countries out there which aren't trapped in endless recividism cycles and enormous organized crime recruitment in the penal system right?
In the case of Apple at least, they have a 14 day no questions return policy.
Search for "intel 7260 drops" says 162k+ results on Google.

No matter the drivers (though for me the stock Windows ones worked best), AP, whatever.

It just drops the connection once in a while.
Would this mean that Tesla would have to provide refunds for customers who purchased FSD? If so, would they pro-rate the refund based, as is customary under lemon law refunds? On the flip side, could they be required to inflation-adjust the refunds, so that customers get back the same purchasing power that they spent?

Separately, would this prevent Tesla from having a beta tester group that tries out FSD features at no cost?
Thanks! That's really nice of you :)
> One is that it is typically difficult in a suburb to get to a landmark destination (e.g. to the grocery store, to the gym, to a coffee shop, and to work) just by walking, without a car.

> This is true.

Could you post a few map links to suburbs (not rural) where you can't walk to, say, a grocery store or a coffee shop?
I really think that CVs (i.e. chronological listings of your career steps) should not be required for hiring. It is undignifying that we have to lay bare where life has taken us, just so that we can get a job.

Instead, people should be allowed to list experiences that are relevant to the position. And then it is also fine to say, that one has worked for X years on something. But anything that is not related to the job should not be necessary to share.
From what you describe you don’t seem like an idiot, but rather someone initially doing decisions outside of their expertise and learning from it. That’s the opposite of an idiot in my world.

You have a great PM now which might be a bigger factor than the specific methodology you use now.
Comparison is the thief of joy.

The notion of context is exceptionally important because it relates to Price's law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price ). You see this in big tech like crazy where most engineers are trying to get a few things done in a massive code base, and then many decisions come from on-high via principal engineers. As a former senior principal engineer, I've been there, seen it, and enjoyed it.

The question that haunted me was how to help more people grow into higher roles, and the problem is a lack of scope. This lack of scope is oppressive as there are only so many creative needs and the volume of toil is hard to avoid.

So, yes, if you have the right context, then you can do great.

However, we also can't dismiss intelligence, memory, or experience as multipliers. The unfortunate fact is that these are not uniformly shared, so there are a bunch of people talking over each other.

Worst yet, we don't have a common way of thinking about experience, and here Price's Law reveals an ugly truth: deep experience is rare.
Again, goes back to the point of you can do anything poorly. Ours are 30-60 minutes and usually have good conversations about issues the team sees. More often than not meaningful change comes out of it.
IQ is well defined. Programming ability is not.

A sign of low IQ is requiring everything to be well defined and scientifically validated in order to move forward in analyzing a problem. Science is slow and has huge limitations. Formally defining complex concepts like "what is life" is also incredibly tedious and so complex that it's often nearly impossible. Do you want to formally define "programming ability" before ever making a statement that intelligence is highly correlated with intelligence? Are we really stuck in some limbo of being unable to come to a fuzzy conclusion on such a simple concept because we can't formally define something?

Look at the world around you. What does your gut tell you? Do you really need a scientific study to tell you that walking into a wall is unhealthy? Do you really need a scientific study to tell you intelligence correlates with programming ability? The former is obvious, the latter is also obvious... but not to stupid people.

You're absolutely not stupid, but sometimes people end up limiting themselves by trying too hard to be more intelligent.
Second up this post as it is basically what I started writing.

Want to add that one is signing NDA with a company - fun part is you never know who buys that company later so it might be nice people now and in a year some shady law firm takes over or some owner goes under and thinks up shady ways to earn something.
You may need to explicitly opt out somehow or connect the tv to a dummy network that blocks all traffic. I am having trouble finding the source on google again but I remember reading about some tv manufacturers automatically scanning for and connecting to open internet connections to update and upload telemetry data even when no Wi-Fi network was provided.
House prices may have doubled (even that sounds high), but in a lot of places condo prices are down to where they were 5 years ago, with listing prices often being reduced from the initial price. This is the opposite of what you hear about houses where they are being sold above list price.

In any discussion about housing prices in the Bay Area it's important to distinguish between condos and houses. The markets are very different because lots of new condos are being built while the supply of houses is (mostly) fixed.
This is the truth OP is burying their head in the sand to avoid.

Everyone is indispensable until they aren't.

Every business is profitable until they aren't.

And these days, with the insane expenses and revolving credit businesses all rely on, damn near any business can end up insolvent in the blink of an eye.
There aren't 10,000 living technologists who are discussed regularly on HN. There are perhaps a few dozen.

And I'll continue to not give any examples since I'm apparently already responding to an unprompted low-key pitch about a 1 in a 10,000 cryptocurrency opportunity.

Edit: oops, I misunderstood your low-key pitch. It's even more fascinating-- these technologists could be missing out on anywhere from 0 to 9,999 new crypto opportunities that innovate well beyond the single one you think everyone already knows about. Still, I think I'll pass.
I blog on my own site. 4 years ago I bought a domain and just recently I started to have a blog on it. It's powered by hugo and hosted on netlify. I write my post in markdown and as soon as I push the code (on a repository on github.com), the post is live. link: https://www.justinpolidori.it
I really liked Linear Algebra And Its Applications by David C Lay, although it seems that more people dislike it. I believe it's a pretty common book for college intro courses. It does illustrate everything pretty well if I remember correctly.

Perhaps a game development book is even more visual? I haven't read it (yet), but this book is getting recommendations: https://gamemath.com/book/
The title of the article is "10x (engineer, context) pairs" and the submitted title is... clickbait-y.
My interpretation is that if this is an issue for any meaningful proportion of ICs, it implies management is the source of the problem - if an IC does not have a good understanding of targets and priorities, then management has failed to adequately communicate.

If it’s only a small proportion of ICs, then you can look at the ICs being responsible. If it is a new/inexperienced IC I might still lay blame on management for failing to provide adequate support while an IC learns how to do their job. School and/or OSS contributions are good* at teach the mechanics of a job (how do you write code, how do you design a circuit, how do you do design, etc), but atrocious at teaching how to work in an actual work environment where you have to work with other people on your team, other teams, other people on other teams, etc, and how you do things like prioritizing goals.

Individual projects at school obviously do nothing for team interaction, group projects are IME atrocious at reflecting a real environment on far too many levels to express without writing a book (and so learning how to write readable long form prose :) )
I’m saying that John Blow works on fairly difficult software projects and shows the process, mistakes and all. That’s takes a lot of both confidence and humility. I tend to make more mistakes the first 2 or 3 times I pair program with someone, I can only imagine with 10k people watching my every mistake.

Add to this that John Blow is such an exemplar of the entrepreneurial spirit that this site has basically its foundational value.

The guy worked in the rat race for awhile, saved a modest amount to self-fund building Braid. Braid smashed every record both commercially and critically for what one guy in a garage could do in games.

He took all that money, hired a few people carefully, and built The Witness, not on fucking Unity or something, but from the shaders up so that it would have a unique look and not be a clone of something else. The Witness was also a huge commercial and critical success.

His most recent project is, uh, ambitious. I don’t know if it’s going to prove feasible. But I’m sure as hell rooting for success rather than failure.

Now mostly this is directed at the auth or the post, but you’ve kind of signed up for a little of this: what the fuck is your CV?