skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Focusing on getting good detectors and optics in a great observing site is a more efficient use of resources than organizing, collecting, calibrating, troubleshooting, etc. a crowdsourced effort. Plus, I imagine the CMOS detectors they're talking about using are not cheap.
10x developer
Is that why Nintendo has a significant number of obvious patents despite prior art? For example, recently they patented "time manipulation of objects in game".
Did you know: Paul Graham is in the book!
At that point in a startup’s lifecycle it’s all about hard skills all the way. Hard skills and culture. Everything else can be taught.
There's a whole special CPU/memory mode for it, actually.

https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1331735383193903104
Good article, though I can't agree with the conclusion.

"Expert" doesn't really communicate much. There's a meme that's probably older than I am that goes something like:

"An expert is no different from the rest of us, he just has a binder and slides."

Today it would probably be a PowerPoint presentation, but the point stands: Expert has been an overused and overloaded term for far longer than 10x, and other than specifying a focus ("video encoding expert" or similar) it is insufficient to actually communicate to non-technical people the distinction.

Saying specialist is also descriptive of your focus, but similarly doesn't get to the underlying difference between and average and a 10x developer.

A video compression specialist is going to be really good at video compression, and maybe that's because they're really familiar with the math and the domain. And that means they could create compression algorithms much faster than I could; I don't know the technical details of any compression algorithms to the degree that I'd even consider taking such a job. Some tasks are best handled by experts or specialists; that's fine and appropriate.

But a generalist "10x" developer can typically handle many domains. In fact, jumping between domains is not uncommon. Their "expertise" is in being able to grok complex systems and multiple levels of indirection and interaction; what the systems are doing is less important. Maybe the video compression specialist is also a 10x developer, but just prefers to stay in the video compression space; that's fine. But I've seen code written by specialists were really good at their specialty, and their code worked...but it was not good code. And one hallmark of a 10x developer is that the code is good.

So both expert and specialist are really orthogonal to 10x.
This is surprisingly poor production?

Peak insolation varies widely, but 1000W/m^2 is a typical value.
5.8L/hr/m^2 means that it's using something like 180kWh/m^3 on raw solar insolation.

For comparison, reverse osmosis is around 3kWh/m^3. This means that 20% efficient solar panel would produce around 67 L/hr/m^2 (aka ~11x more).

Obviously this is passive versus active, but it's still a surprisingly large difference.
Ok, thanks. The Ziti mesh optimizes for latency. Does it move existing streams around the fabric mesh when it finds a better route or only new streams? Are there plans for multicast?
The 10x developers are way more dangerous to the status-quo in an established company than the 0.1x developers. If your business-system is up and running don't change it. Milk the cow and then move on. That method worked for many years.
And very often, unless they come from the same plantation as "good" ones, they're the tastiest ones. I've experienced so many times that the best, bigger, shinier fruits are the less naturally grown ones, and their taste often reflects that.
10X developers exist, and its painful for existing senior software engineers to welcome one on the team. They are also much rarer than people want to admit, and don't write software the way a "good senior engineer" does.
The notion was that a "race" is something of such significant scientific relevance, that not being able to use "Black" to refer to a "race" would be a disservice. But you aren't here saying Black is a race, it is a "defined biological state of the most visible organ in your body". Okay, what does that have to do with race? Did you not understand my previous post explaining that "people who are socially considered Black" is basically a useless scientific criteria outside of its social circumstances?

You seem a little bit more focused on repeating some rhetorical dunk you read somewhere online than actually understanding what is being discussed. Take a moment and actually consider what I'm writing. To repeat the example that I gave before, research on Ashkenazi Jewish diseases is not hindered by calling it research on the specific haplotype group that it is. The poster that brought up Ashkenazi Jews is misunderstanding if not disingenuous. I think you also don't get the difference between what a haplotype group is in this context, and your concept of "race".
I see it more as an acknowledgement that, in the midst of a propaganda war (which the entire world is now engaged in 24/7, thanks to the internet), the information you put out into the world may have strategic value to individuals or groups whose goals are contrary to the good of the human race. When true things are used to justify horrific actions, it's particularly difficult to prevent because that truth lends serious credibility to the supposed rationality of the horrors being enacted. Superficially-rational evil is the most destructive force in the world specifically because it's built on a foundation of carefully-selected truths.

That doesn't mean the truth should die or we should hide from true things. But it's impossible to avoid the amoral power of true things, and pretending "just telling the truth" won't or can't lead to horrific outcomes is a level of naiveté intelligent people can't afford to have in an era when political and civil violence is back in the Overton window throughout the world.
The whole '10x better' thing needs to chill out. Almost every time the phrase it used it's applied to something that can't even be accurately measured. "This product is 10x better" - okay, that's probably just your subjective opinion that you're dressing up as quantifiable fact. A small # of people are much better at their jobs than everyone else - this seems to be true - but it applies everywhere and it's not always '10x'. It might actually be that someone is twice as good or three times as productive, but we still slap a '10x' on the description.
It’s the Daily Mail. Not a credible source and should not be allowed on any serious discussion site.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-mail/
Of course the article is right, but the initial Twitter thread that sparked the whole concept is beyond laughable.

> 10x engineers hate meetings. They think it is a waste of time, and obvious things are being discussed.

Engineers understand the value of meetings. This is the sign of a 0x engineer. It's the sign of a 10x code monkey. No legitimate business needs code monkeys.
From what I have read, Chez is a quite performant implementation (benchmarks https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/) and does a lot of things correctly (according to spec) and cleanly. Basing Racket on Chez takes advantage of the things Chez does well and probably saves a lot of time. I have too little knowledge about Racket's internals, to give a better and less general answer.
Hey Bill! Rating aside, I'm a big fan of Ad Hoc's homework assignments. Here's what I love about them:
1. Your team has made them public for others to use. This is HUGE.

2. The library is organized and the prompts are generally clear and explicit about the requirements to complete.

3. You offer support for candidates with questions about the assignment.

4. Kathy Keating told me about the grading environment you all use with rubrics, blind grading, and rotating cohorts of graders. We actually created similar tooling for the teams we work with.

I also want to explain why they're rated as 3 stars (and why I think this undersells how good they are). When we designed the rating criteria, it was really important to recognize tests that could extract hiring signal without requiring a ton of time from candidates, since that's one of the biggest issues that candidates face. So one of our criteria was "setting clear expectations for candidates (e.g. time expectations)" and another was that the time requested was "reasonable...(<4 hours)". So a test that stated upfront that it would take 8-10 hours would meet only one of those criteria. You can see the full rubric if you hover over the "5-star scale" text in the sub-header.

Unfortunately, the Ad Hoc tests don't specify time anywhere (technically missing both of these criteria) while doing many other things well that aren't captured in our rubric (e.g. candidate chat tool, blind grading). I admit that our rubric isn't perfect and it feels like the Ad Hoc tests are being doubly penalized for something that's easy to fix. In fact, if you add this to the tests, I'd happily update these to 5-stars.

Finally, if you're up for a chat sometime, I'd love to meet you. I really appreciate the work that your team has done to improve the hiring experience for candidates beyond those at Ad Hoc! You can reach me at alex@trytapioca.com
But how is it different from human artists creating new artworks based on their studies of thousands of previous works, I wonder? No artists have paid royalties just because they went to an exhibition and had a glimpse of other painter’s work, no?
> Society has cared for it's elderly basically forever, and _now_ we're saying it's too expensive?

Because individuals used to look after their own elderly. Now there's a lot more institutions involved, meaning a lot more other people work, meaning a lot more other people need wages paid.

It's a bad, crappy job that no one wants to work in, and no one wants to pay high fees for looking after mum and dad
> We rely too much on money as a determining factor for things. Money does not accurately reflect value, nor does it accurate reflect contributions made to society.

Yes, but nevertheless money works better than not doing anything for stuff like street parking. It's simple and effective. Perhaps another system would work better on paper for allocating street parking, but I'm guessing most other suggestions would be a lot more complicated and brittle in practice.
If you say 10x developer 10x then Jeff Dean appears behind you.
I'm waiting to see someone get prosecuted for this "fraud":

Q: So, Mr. Defendant, when you signed up for this service, did you intend to pay?

A: Yes

Q: And did you pay?

A: Yes

Q: But eventually you cancelled the credit card?

A: Yes

Q: And why did you do that?

A: I was tired of the service, and they made it almost impossible to cancel.

At that point, the prosecution drops the case.

But hey, if you want to keep paying for a shitty service you don't want anymore because you can't jump through all their hoops... well, you do you.
Legally, there's no requirement that you moderate a forum so that its contents can't facilitate the commission of a crime (outside of a few things like DMCA anti-circumvention). If this were the case, everyone would have to be extremely careful when discussing anything dangerous, and most people would be hesitant to participate in the discussion at all for fear of being exposed to liability.

In fact, even the person posting something like medical misinformation can't normally be sued.
typescript DOES support this out of the box.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#baseUrl
Here's a decent spin on it from Daedtech: https://daedtech.com/defining-the-corporate-hierarchy/

Sociopaths -> Opportunists

Clueless -> Idealists

Losers -> Pragmatists
I’m using duck.com, Hide My Email and Firefox Relay. All work fine, but I think Firefox Relay has better UI to manage aliases: it has tags and can block promotional emails. And I like that it’s a paid service.
"A lot of people are surprised to find out that people who don't live near them don't share their values."

Maybe. I feel like those people might be living under a rock. With all the media today it seems unlikely that an individual isn't attacked on at least one belief. I know I see constant attacks on my beliefs.

The problem is that with fast transport, we are extending many laws to the larger geographic area (state or national level), which means increasing the size of the negatively affected groups since we are not homogeneous.

Edit: why disagree?
The notion that lockdowns/remote work did not reduce in-person relationships / sexual activity seems unreasonable.

If wfh increased use of the internet, or zoom, or whatever it makes obvious sense that it would have also increased porn viewership.

Not every take on the impact of wfh is a corporation or real estate conspiracy.
I think about the way the West reacted to the decades of post-Soviet Russian threats and warnings such as after Malaysia Air Flight 17, Gazprom's conduct around the Yamal pipelne, and the way they use Moldovan nationality to interfere with domestic Polish politics. Or even the difference between the reaction to Russia's conduct in Ukraine in 2014 as opposed to 2022.

I think that Russia has been making threats for decades, yet the West's response has changed dramatically. Why now?

The Guardian: "Fury as Russia presents 'evidence' Poland sided with Nazis before war" (2009)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/01/russia-poland-...

Polityka: "Polish-Russian Relations: Bones of Contention Piling Up" (2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120224013051/http://www.ziggi....

The Moscow Times: "Poland Cancels Year of Bilateral Celebration With Russia Over Ukraine" (2014)

https://old.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/poland-cancels-y...

The Telegraph: "Ukraine crisis: Poland asks Nato to station 10,000 troops on its territory" (2014)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10...

BBC: "Russia bans Polish fruit and veg amid sanctions war" (2014)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28603140

Nine O'Clock (of Bucharest): "Russia Warns Romania" (2015)

http://www.nineoclock.ro/russia-warns-romania/

BBC: "Russia warns Poland not to touch Soviet WW2 memorials" (2017)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40775355

The NYT: "Burned by Russia, Poland Turns to U.S. for Natural Gas and Energy Security" (2019)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/business/poland-gas-lng-r...

In March 2020, the British government declared Russia the most "acute" threat to UK security in the Integrated Review.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

In June 2021, a confrontation occurred between HMS Defender (D36) and the Russian Armed Forces in the 2021 Black Sea incident.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/p3Ibq
I actually think @tinus_hn, who cited the rules in your link, is right: the rule should still apply because it adds nothing to the discussion to debate the bothood of a user even if they claim so themself.
Because they overrode the system by pressing the accelerator. Pressing the accelerator doesn't disable autopilot, it just overrides the speed setting.
Humans first made their way into the oceans relatively recently, often in a boat, and extremely late in the Orca's biological evolution.

It wasn't until recently that humans would be numerous enough in the water to be a viable food source for an Orca.

Tweak some things about our evolution and Orcas would kill humans often, sometimes for fun.

Orcas are the Hannibal Lectors of the Sea.
Effindice v0.3 | browser-based EFF Dice-Generated Passphrases crypto secure pRNG
Single page HTML page passphrase generator (based on the 2016 EFF wordlist) with a cryptographically secure pRNG implementation (Fortuna) for dice rolls and a randomized time delay on generation.

Wrote it last night as an excuse to play with javascript. Went through a few pRNGs, Fortuna seems best.

You can run the HTML file from the desktop, which is what I was looking for. A local passphrase generator that didn't talk to any servers that's easy to configure. Have a few feature ideas which I'll implement if there's any interest.

Feedback welcome
The blog post is a few years late

https://1x.engineer/
If you aren't being wilfully ignorant, then you will be unpleasantly surprised when you find out.
If only those businesses weren't trying to start off a relationship by acting in bad faith (eg, making it incredibly difficult to cancel your subscription)...
Minimum is around 1 kWh/m^3 for sea-water levels of salt concentration.
(It varies a fair bit depending on salinity, the actual salts involved, the temperature etc etc).
Possibly! It really depends on how you've architected things. I said it's "reasonable" not that it's the one true way of implementing it.
> I would kill for a "low-tech" EV - think Toyota Corolla[1], but with an electric power train. No touch screen, no "self driving" beyond lane assistance & adaptive cruise.

So... a base model Nissan Leaf?
The author is being overly semantic about a widely observed phenomenon in order to sling his devops. He's saying the phrase isn't good because a 10x developer given grunt work couldn't actually churn it at 10x speeds, but they're capable of doing complex work 95x+ faster than an average dev. It adds nothing to the discussion and is feel good drivel for insecure developers.
Proton VPN is based in Switzerland, so good luck with that.
I'm not disagreeing with you.
Public ones do worse than private ones, so the solution is to remove private ones, then there's no comparison.

Right.
If you're looking to move off of LastPass, and your company has a 1Password Business subscription, then you can get a free Family Account.

All your data is kept separate from the company, and if you depart you just need to add a credit card.

https://support.1password.com/link-family/
Are they really? If social science is unreliable, then it is reasonable to conclude that (a) limiting its scope of investigation doesn't matter or even (b) limiting its scope of investigation is actually good, so that it at least does less harm. In what perspective are the issues fully orthogonal?
> What you said was that this was a US program to intentionally reduce population growth. I see no basis for that claim. Feel free to retract that claim or provide actual evidence.

I think you have to not read what I’m writing to make that argument.

The US government is funding an organization which has the explicit goal of reducing the number of children women have. By definition that is reducing population growth.

I pointed out it was founded with that purpose. But even if you look at what it does today: provide birth control and abortions (among other services). Again, by definition that will reduce population growth.

Might be for a good reason or a reason you agree with. Might be admirable, I personally don’t have any moral position. I’m just stating as a fact by funding that organization the US is funding the reduction in population growth through birth control and abortion services
If I lived in a dense city, I wouldn't drive cars except on longer trips and would have no reason to rant about other people using them in normal, legitimate ways.
Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers
Devbox is a command-line tool that lets you easily create isolated shells and containers. You start by defining the list of packages required by your development environment, and devbox uses that definition to create an isolated environment just for your application.

In practice, Devbox works similar to a package manager like yarn – except the packages it manages are at the operating-system level (the sort of thing you would normally install with brew or apt-get).

See it in action: https://youtu.be/WMBaXQZmDoA
its a shame they didn't move to having a CC linked to the account, and keeping the free dyno tier
I don't have faith or trust.. Are you saying I should? I don't even trust that the provided data is real.

However, everyone else seems to have faith in what they are told. No one checks anything, but they believe the studies they are provided, the articles, etc. And, frequently, they don't believe their own experience!
In this somewhat toy case - yes. :)
Why does it have to be corporate? I would venture 10xers don’t necessarily care about who they work for, only that they’re putting out the best of their craft.
"If people are truly worried about electing people like Donald Trump they'll broaden education and, in particular, education in the hard sciences like maths and computer science to bolster critical thinking and logic. At that point we won't elect reality show hucksters who blatantly lie and foment sedition."

If our choices at election time continue ro be between a shit sandwich and a shit sandwich without the bread, we will continue to have similar issues. Lesser of two evils and all that.

Ps which one has the bread is just a matter of perspective for each individual.
>You explain to me why cheaper sources of energy led to high prices. If you can? May require thinking.

Sure.

Sun doesn't shine at midnight.

The end.
That seem easily true by looking at historical examples. But history isn't proof for future outcomes and dare I say our "age of tech" actively seems disprove all these historical truisms. Innovate or die kinda thing.

But, we are watching all this play out live, so who's to say. FWIW I am not betting that the old status-quo is meaningfully better.
I've been "a 10x dev" several times, "a 1x dev" a lot of times and "a 0.1x dev" some amount of times.

Productivity is a complex function with many variables. I've also seen some super motivated and creative individuals barely tie their shoes and take a full minute to respond to basic questions on some days.

The "10x dev" is mostly a meme indeed. It absolutely does happen but it's not something you can just have more of.

The employers are free to keep dreaming of human robots though, if that helps them sleep better at night.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FYI - Cliff Stoll is active on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31575753
At least in Europe, these sorts of dark patterns are very much illegal and I've never seen them in the wild (from Europe based businesses).
Ok 10x developer.
But consumer protections are for "liberal nanny states" that "no one wants to live in".
Here is your previous comment in its entirety:

> GC is inherently harder. It has nothing to do with expectations.

> You have all the proof burden of using malloc (total size of live objects must fit in memory and WCET of allocation can’t suck) plus the additional proof burden that the collector’s cycle is schedulable.

I'm sorry, but I don't find that at all persuasive. You haven't even presented an argument. All you've done is proclaim that I have the burden of proof. Sorry, but I have no such obligation. I am providing information that I believe in good faith to be true based on my experience, but it comes with no warranty of any kind. I may well be wrong. In particular, there may have been a research breakthrough in real-time malloc/free that I am unaware of. It has been quite a while (>20 years) since I kept up with this literature. But back when I was an expert there were fundamental reasons why it wasn't any easier to make malloc/free hard-real-time than GC, so a new development on this front would be a major breakthrough. It's possible that such a breakthrough has occurred and I just haven't heard about it. But it seems unlikely. It's not like I've been living in a cave, and a web search doesn't yield any recent new results.

But the appropriate response if you want to challenge me on this would be to point me to the publication where this alleged simple solution to hard-real-time malloc/free is described, not to simply proclaim that I have the burden of proof.
Self-diagnosed or calibrated against an UL-approved reference engineer?