skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You simply aren't able to find the living internet behind all the nonsense. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

It's not about it being not existent. It's about it being too small a percentage. And will algorithmic generation and rampant re-posting of news content 1000s of times on different outlets, this is probably true...

8 billion people are able to manually create much fewer content than thousands upon thousands of automated generation scripts and bots...
Correct. If customers can be "DDoSed" off of Cloudflare by Twitter mobs spamming them constantly, then what good is their product? Cloudflare needs to institute a policy of blocking people who make demands that they drop a customer and direct them to the abuse form instead.
There's obviously a threshold - some amount of expenditure is needed. You need a certain amount of capital.

Obviously we're past that point at many places, and not enough in others. But if the underlying issue is poverty outside the classroom, I don't see how lack of money isn't the cause.
>I'm not sure the author should be quite so proud of the results of his hard work

Well, that's a problem for every for-profit company, right?

If TikTok goes from attracting 5 minutes of attention a day from its users to 10 minutes, then that's great for TikTok. If it gets to 12 hours a day, then that's a civilization-ending disaster. If a coal mining company extracts and burns every cubic meter of coal in the Earth's crust then we all die. Etc etc.

Companies want to grow and compete, and that's good, since it's resulted in literally all human progress, and is why we're no longer living in dirt huts and dying at 30 from cholera. But taken to the extreme...
> that poor woman

The poor orca who's been abducted at 2 and kept in a swimming pool for decades for fun and profit you mean ?
Ah. I forgive myself for not parsing the point made because that is a non sequitur
I have fond memories of Racket, my intro to CS course used it. I already knew how to program, but I was really only familiar with C and it stumped me, in a good way.

Sadly I have never used Racket since. The kind of stuff I'd use it for is well-covered by python.

> Made me think why they don't just build Racket entirely in its self!

I'm not sure either, but I remember it might be because Chez Scheme has a parallel garbage collector that they could reuse, and being Lisps they could easily maintain backwards compatibility.
>So after 9 months releasing the M1 Macbooks, the M1 Pro Macbooks came out afterwards, already replacing the old ones in less than a year.

The M1 Air and 13" Pro are really entry level machines. The first model with a M1 Pro costs $700USD over the base model 13" M2 MBP. The M1 Pro still has much better performance compared to a base M2. The M1 Pro, Max and Ultra didn't replace anything. No one with a budget is going "Oh, the M1 Pro only cost an extra $700USD, I'll get that".

>What use is a system that bricks on an update; losing your important file or for power users having to wait 6 months for the software they use everyday to be available and supported for their work?

What's the point of this comment? Things happen. It sucks. Apple isn't the first and won't be the last company to make a mistake. Don't get sucked into the shininess of their latest product.
Well — no.

Those people have a shared biological lineage, with only a relatively short period of differentiation — while they have radically different cultures.

What you’re describing is “black” being useless as a social construct (ie, I know nothing about their culture) but useful medically/scientifically (ie, there’s groupings of medical conditions correlated with that lineage).

I would go so far as to say only racists use “black” as a social construct — and project that the medical groupings are the same.
I think the guidelines are to encourage civility and healthy discussion. That is, to not dismiss an argument by calling the person a bot. But if the person claims to be a bot, I don't see how it can be a community violation to call a bot a bot.
I thought we went over this almost two decades ago. http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/20050607_141_...
Deep dives and how the Internet works
Again, I'm just asking for actual data, I'm not invalidating your claim, I'm asking for real support of it. I pointed out the Wikipedia article's citation links to a 404 - so I can't even validate (nor did you.) You've just accepted your premise, and what I've found is, "success is never around the corner" for those who have already made up their minds.

Good luck!
I just really like developing stuff. If my company went under, and there was a big software crunch that made it hard to get a job, I’d probably try my hand at being a professional photographer, but I’d probably spend my evenings writing code.

I don’t tie my self worth to my corporate career at all. I tie it to my ability to produce excellent software, but I’m just lucky I ended up born on a world in a time that values such a thing, because it’s what I love to do.

If I was concerned with my career, there’s probably much better things I could be doing with my time than becoming a better software developer. :P
> We have a pretty good way of predicting the sex of the fetus and somehow our misogynistic and sexist society doesn't have a mass problem of aborting females.

But we do...

> The natural sex ratio at birth is approximately 103 to 106 males for 100 females.[37][38] However, because of sex-selective abortions, the sex ratio at birth in countries with high proportions of missing women have ranged 108.5 in India to 121.2 in Mainland China.[6][18] As a result, counts of missing women are often due to missing female children.[18] It is estimated that the cumulative number of missing female births due to sex-selective abortion globally is 45 million from 1970 to 2017.[38]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_women
Ah, so the social science reproducibility problems are hypothesized to be caused by bias (or, less provocatively, filtering), moreso than e.g. bad experimental design. Yes, that would nicely reconcile both perspectives.
> That there is a genetically distinct haplotype group that corresponds to many folk that share these traits with me, is sufficient

This is what race means. You are taking the same referent and giving it a different designator.
I suggest using this archive: http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/20050607_141_... because devblogs.microsoft.com has repeatedly deleted all the comments and broken links and will do so again.
I remember Robert Moore in the epilogue. Where was Paul Graham?
> If humans wouldn't have made that mistake... it's certainly not safer than humans in that regard.

I don't think you understand how this works. If you prevent more accidents than you cause, then it's safer. Period. It DOESN'T MATTER if those accidents you caused would not have been caused by a human. If you cause less accidents than humans on average, then it is safer. And Tesla has shown that data that even among it's own cars it's safer.
That's over 9000 anime.
I don't think the article is saying the don't exist. It's saying that they only exist within a specific context. They're 10x in one domain.

But it's also saying that what they're calling 10x could be a developer with a skill set that might not be possible for another developer to compete with, even if given infinite time.
Yes! I spoke to Andy (the author of the article you linked) when he posted this. I'm a big fan of this approach. And the software we're building is quite similar to the interview-bot one that GitHub uses internally. Why shouldn't every eng team be able to benefit from tools like theirs?

I'd love to add GitHub's take-home to the library, but I feel the article describes the exercise without sharing the actual prompt. If there's a public link to it, lmk and I'll add it.
3D gun printing operation busted in Calgary
Here is an interview talking about the move to ChezScheme https://www.notamonadtutorial.com/rebuilding-the-racket-comp...

"Why did you choose Chez Scheme over other Schemes to rebuild Racket?

The biggest weakness of the Racket BC (“before Chez”) implementation are its back-end compiler structure, its inefficient internal calling conventions (over-adapted to C), and its poor implementation of first-class continuations. Those are exactly the strengths of Chez Scheme. Furthermore, Racket’s evaluation model was always closely aligned with Chez Scheme, such as the emphasis on interactive evaluation and compilation.

It was clear up front that Chez Scheme lacked significant features that Racket needs, such as support for continuation marks and reachability-based memory accounting. However, the high quality of the Chez Scheme design and implementation, in contrast to old Racket’s implementation, made adapting Chez Scheme more appealing than retrofitting Racket’s old implementation further."

And much more.
Access to a dev account means they might have pushed out a malicious code update.

Huge huge potential loss here for people until they affirm this didn't happen.
Yes. If it needs to reroute, it will do so as long as the "terminating" site doesn't go offline. That's the one maintaining the "final" TCP stream so that one can't be rerouted.

Multicast support has been discussed, but it's not at the top of the pile of features that are getting worked at this time that I know of. I'm sort of on the other end, closer to the SDKs than the fabric, but I am pretty sure it's not in the immediate priority list as I recall.
I don’t know that the scale is quite 10x but some engineers certainly have whole-number productivity multiples vs others. I could identify several of these folks at my workplace.

Also w.r.t. the points made about meetings, having gone from a large organization with many meetings to another large organization with few folks are definitely wasting time in meetings in some contexts and the best engineers at the first org would bias towards avoiding meetings.
Why is the prosecution asking about irrelevant things like that? Why doesn't it continue like this:

Q: But eventually you cancelled the credit card?

A: Yes.

Q: Despite your contractual obligation to pay?

A: yes, but they made it impossible to can...

Judge: You must only answer the question.
If the password journal my mom left at my house while visiting is any indication: absolutely not.

Use a password manager, remember a 2nd password for your email yourself, and then use a second factor for as many things as possible. USB keys are best, but anything is better than nothing: SMS, Authy, Google Authenticator, phone call, whatever. Chrome and Safari both have password managers these days, and some Chromebooks even have a builtin second factor. 2FA is still a hassle for sure, but it's getting better all the time.
Do they still use WhatsApp despite it being owned by Facebook?
Compression method appears to be zstandard and uses https://github.com/klauspost/compress, for those wondering like I was.
Your list is basically "recentism" where current things seems much worse than old things. In modern history the world has never been cleaner, never been safer, never had less war than it does right now. The climate is not going to be a disaster, the worst that will happen is a ton of people will need to move - but the climate will change so slowly you'll barely notice. Inflation has been worse in the past, and while polarize politics makes me quite upset, I suspect it's been worse in the past.
We’re on HN - we both want free services, but also don’t want them to ever become paid.

It’s a fine line.
While 10x developers certainly exist, the term often feels like the engineering equivalent to HR/recruiting's buzzphrase of "rockstar ninja developer." You know one when you see them, you want one on your team, but to talk about it too much in the hypothetical feels a little embarrassing, like woolgathering wish-fulfillment.
No sane person will deny they exist.

However, the idea that you can have more of the 10x devs is an illusion and wishful thinking. Mostly because it doesn't take into account the undeniable fact that the high performers aren't at their 100% all the time. It's also kind of physically impossible, too.
"I recognise that science, media, politics, education, etc have been perverted to serve corporate governance interests, and that the truth is secondary to those interests" would be a fairer quote.

"I recognise that science is imperfect, and that occasionally it can mislead, but that overall it is moving us forward" would perhaps surmise your position. Obviously this is to weak for me, I think the scale of corporate governance is far greater than this.
That has a survivorship bias, not all cows survived the milking
The existence of 10x developers should be obvious given the existence of -10xers.
You joke but I've read this is literally how Google's internal politics work.
Unfortunately, you can't practically use this today because it has only very recently been added to Safari (March 2022). I guess something to look forward to in two to three years.
Being a 10x, or aspiring to be such a thing, is a bit odd. You should strive to improve the output of others.

Being a .5x developer, but giving everyone on your team a small multiplier on impactful work is far more valuable than prolific output. In fact we call these people “Director of Engineering” or maybe “Principal Software Engineer” etc.
Starting HVM in Sept does not mean you get Revenue in Sept. It takes months before volume reached, testing, packaging done and shipped. TSMC isn't unusual in stating it they wont get revenue from N3 until 2023.
Well, the GP was specifically complaining about how he's tired of all the bot-splaining.
DDG email protection isn't locked to a single browser, I've been using it on Chrome/ium and Firefox for around a year now.
> The very idea that technology is not adjacent to economics, politics, and demographics is silly.

maybe time to find another website to post your vaulted insights on then
Self plug - If you want to skip bookmarking and go straight to indexing, I have a firefox extension for it - https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it
Linux has done more to kill exotic OSes than anything Microsoft or Apple has ever done.

Because Linux (and you can throw in the BSDs here if you want) is so capable as is, the chance someone will write an OS from scratch is pretty low. They'll much more likely base it off of Linux and go from there, which means that it'll just be another Unix clone.

Even things like Fuchsia are heavily influenced by it, and end up feeling "similar". As someone else mentioned, Unix won so hard most everything else is dead; even Windows is very "unix-like" in ways people don't even realize.
This seems like good advice for startups with high burn in competitive markets. However, that may have more to do with the "high burn" and the "competitive market" part than the "startup" part...
This has not worked in my experience. It allows the IDE to understand the paths but the generated js doesn’t work… maybe I did something wrong?
I think this is worrying too much about a particular interpretation of "10x" and ignores the subterranean fact that people are trying to convey. There just are super-valuable devs. Everyone knows this. They stick out. And they are productive in a myriad of ways. Some are leetcode superstars, sure. But some are simply masters of unblocking the rest of the team. It's hard to even associate a particular skillset with it. But I'm sure most of you have a list in your head of the people you would absolutely want to poach if you were starting up something new.
True, I don't think it made sense to invoke the guideline in that context since the guideline surely exists so that you aren't dismissing a comment based on who you think wrote it.
Hmm, even though LastPass doesn’t have access to your pass, couldn’t a malicious software update cause attacker to view your passwords when it runs since the software ultimately has access?

This doesn’t seem to be the case in this incident though.
I work at job where I am a developer. The problem is they made me do other jobs as well.

There was one situation that took me out of the usual roles and obligations (meetings etc.) and made me just a developer. Who would have known, I managed to get done 10x the amount of work that time. Maybe even 100x.

How much potential is wasted on distracting your employees from the one task they should actually be doing at that point?
TL;DR:

Principle 1:

Researchers should be free to pursue lines of inquiry and the communication of knowledge and ideas without fear of repression or censorship.

All following principles:

Eh, on second thoughts, maybe not so much...
When did he use the words "maximalist"? I think the term he used was "absolutist".

However I don't get how libel is covered under free speech. It's one of the few forms of speech in the US that is not protected.
Not if they are using DIY drugs!
Actually, sickle cell anemia is disproportionately high only in specific populations of black people. The black race is more genetically diverse than all other races combined. Race has a very poor basis in science vs specific genetic lines correlated with specific geographical regions of genetic drift.
So just saying the quiet part out loud now, huh?
The 737max is not a company but a product and Boeing isn't a startup looking to raise vc money.
Incident impact and response seems adequate to me. Obviously I’d prefer no incidents, but this with the right layers of security in place to prevent out from impacting users and transparent reporting are the next best thing.
The interesting bit:

> In order to focus our resources on delivering mission-critical capabilities for customers, we will be phasing out our free plan for Heroku Dynos, free plan for Heroku Postgres, and free plan for Heroku Data for Redis®, as well as deleting inactive accounts.

I feel like this is a mistake. They should double down on free. All their competitors are offering free hobby level hosting from newcomers like Deno to old hands like Google, Azure and AWS.

The cost of running those dynos is not an engineering cost. It is a marketing investment that pays off in 3-4 years time.

They will be short term more profitable though I guess.
What medical conditions do you know of that are specific to every group in the (allegedly useless and racist) social category of "Black"?
Doubt it's a matter of confinement, and more of continued exposure to Orcas.

Put a person around an Orca for long enough, and eventually, the odds are reasonable that the Orca will kill them.
Basically some kind of cloud orchestration. Thanks.
There was either a blog response or just an HN comment in reply to the Gervais Principle that theorized there's another archetype, that of the Engineer who just cares about solving problems.

These internet pop sociological schemas are fun thought exercises but over-reductive.
Who's to say it isn't already happening but not yet AI driven?

In 2011, it was pretty clear that sockpuppet automation tools existed (persona management systems). When you hear about Kamala Harris' "khive" or India PM Modi's online army, I always go back to this very prescient article:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/2/16/945768/-
Mind elaborating on this? This is a fresh take for me. Are you saying a 10x dev writes code optimized for their own velocity, at the expense of accessibility/teamwork?
It's hard to believe the whole 10x thing until you've seen it. I've been working as a software engineer for 25 years, and I worked with 1 person who was overtly ahead of everyone else by a significant, possibly 10x degree.

Actually a really humble person, would probably hate this label. Intensely focused, avid reader of tech source materials, and somewhat intuitively gravitated towards sound/simplistic solutions to problems other people had a hard time even understanding.

It's a thing.
Sidenote: I just googled about that equipment[1] and found it weird that the copywriting says: "IBM® Power System S914 easily integrates into your organization’s cloud & cognitive strategy and delivers superior price performance for your mission critical workloads..." the "cognitive strategy" words seems forced by a new marketing team. Cloud also seems weird in this context.

[1] https://www.ibm.com/products/power-system-s914
Well dosent Apple usually prepay? Thats normally why they get preferential treatment.
That is the reason why the top layer will not be chosen
Go Huskies?
The library plan sounds fantastic.

I don't think you're wrong with regards to past consumer rejection. I think people were now primed with the spread of internet and the SAAS / cloud culture that followed in the 2000s, then in the meantime smartphones happened, lootboxes / gacha became normal on phones then later in the wider gaming culture, music streaming gained steam and Netflix finally made a successful media streaming service... normalizing consumer behaviors which were previously alien to many consumers. But now the market is ripe for cloud gaming to become popular. Sometime in the 2010s maybe game passes on console also become a thing - the type of payment when as long as you hold the subscription, you have access to the downloaded game. I think that considering these changes in gaming and consumer behavior explain why cloud gaming is now acceptable enough to be profitable, or to be a thing at least.

Regarding Arma II and DayZ, and so on, I don't particularly like this type of thought experiment. I think if we allow the liberty, the opposite conclusion can also be drawn: think how much productive these people could have been if they haven't wasted their energy in these mods. Or what else could they have made - contributing to free software instead, or any other social good. And the ideas are also not original, I mean in general; the light bulb, the radio and the telephone all got invented independently in different parts of the world, so, Arma II being a cloud only game, we wouldn't have DayZ and so on, but we'd have something other that made battle royale a popular gaming phenomenon.

I think you're onto something with modders. I think local / non-cloud gaming will be alive as long as there are devices that run third party software without much issue. The games might not be very advanced or flashy, the AAA titles will surely go extract as much rent as possible, but I'm sure that the next Minecraft, Stardew Valley, or Teeworlds will get made, as these all began (or still are) passion projects of a single person, and sometimes, people just want to give. So I think passion projects will keep the local game alive - be it modding, an indie game or free software.
Ah yes, the final most official word on these sorts of things.. a former employer.. "confirmed" through a friend.
There are no 10x developers. Well, I guess ADHD developers may sometimes resemble something like 10x developers when you look at them from the outside, but that's only half of the picture.
> But the fact we're trying to determine is "was there anti-Irish sentiment in colonial era America", using Franklin's words as evidence.

Franklin's words are irrelevant to the question of "was there anti-Irish sentiment in colonial era America" – because he never mentions the Irish at all.

He does express a belief in an intra-white racial hierarchy, of "more pure" and "less pure" white people. He never once tells us where he thinks the Irish sit in it. My assumption about where he would have put them is as good as yours.
In addition to the other replies, Lemon predates W3C, possibly by a decade.
It's wise not to interfere with a contract between two or more willing parties (especially as an outsider).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
Nature magazine existence is attacking my dignity. Now what?

I'm taking the proverbial piss, but their statement is completely absurd.