skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, the timeless principle of I have not, therefore others must have not. Is that the basic crux of the argument you are making? Or did I misunderstand?

If I may point out, the argument (upholding the system) appears to be structured around justifying why others must have not by saying that all non-high-paying lumberjack-employing businesses will go out of business, and then this high-paying business will leave. Is there any reason why this high-paying business would leave? It sounds from your statement that this is guaranteed, for whatever reason. And if it does leave (because obviously no business is guaranteed for all time) is there reason to believe another external business would not step in to fulfill that demand for handmade-in-africa table business? Or that the newly unemployed lumberjacks (but flush with cash relative to local conditions from their high-paying salaries) will sit around and twiddle their thumbs for all time instead of starting their own lumberjack-related business?
I've started doing that too. Makes it quite a bit less useful though.
It seems they link to a discussion page [1], which references this document (I can't find a published version):

Computer text line lengths affect reading and learning
Peter Orton
https://cdn.tc-library.org/Edlab/eye-tracking%20article.pdf

But it seems that Peter Orton has published quite a few works in this area [2], [3]. Specifically [3] seems to note that with a less wide text column width readers are not statistically significant faster (but are a bit), but do see that for difficult reading content, the shorter width requires less re-reading then a wider one along with significantly better retention of the contents of the document.

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme...

[2] https://www.scienceopen.com/document_file/671b2d53-73ce-4a91...

[3] https://sci-hub.se/https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007...
> It didn’t have any return info on it so he opened it to see if there was any info inside.

Before reading this, I think curiosity would have gotten the better of me were I in the same situation. But the story is a good life lesson: when you come in possession of a package with no return address, there’s probably a good reason why the sender didn’t want anyone to know who sent it.
Is that really so?

I cannot recall seeing any of them with such an extra text.
That just means bad marketing.

> Amazon has helped fund over 20 thousand charities of your choosing. These small charities couldn't have made it without your help.
We must, one day, realize that .NET will disappear when Microsoft stops supporting it. All work done with this framework is only a prison for future developers. This must end.
Skimmed the article, saw the author quoted Bjarne Stroustrup, closed the tab.
That's because if you said AI invented something and there was fraud or it was stolen from someone else the people who were making money off the patent would just say "Oops! nobody should get fined or go to prison because the computer did it all by itself." Imagine if Elizabeth Holmes said the AI told her the Theranos machine worked. It lied, so you have to put the AI in prison now.
Why did this comment get flagged? It's great.
Fortunately the AI will have been trained on human legal opinion and will rule the same way
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fluentui#/controls/web...
Check out "Production Prolog" by Michael Hendricks on YouTube, which demonstrates the same thing, at a talk at StrangeLoop:

https://youtu.be/G_eYTctGZw8
You're talking to the wrong guy for any of that stuff. I suck at games and play them on easiest settings any time it's available. I consider difficulty in games a personal insult to me from the developers with one glaring exception of anything from FromSoftware except Dark Souls 2.

Different games and genres will have different ratios of luck / inborn talent and reflexes / research and training. But over time I've found the best way to get value out of games is to not care how good or bad you are and just enjoy the ride of seeing something new or doing something you just can't do in real life.
> where I just happen to know all the right things and happen to have all the needed authority

This is such an important part of the 10x programmer formula. It’s no mark against their talent or skill, but the environment and team is largely the deciding factor on developer productivity.

I’ve been a 10x developer and a 1x developer on different teams. Ive found it really depends on the environment and my peers.
yeah I think the system is a combination, although I'm not sure the intricacies tbh

I've heard google does something fancier where they take a test, run it a bunch after it fails to check if it's failed

I think the system at work only runs each test a couple times before giving up and marking it failed
I have an absolutely horrifying Python script that makes a little sort-of-container that spins up a brand new MySQL instance, initializes it with a provided set of statements (from mysqldump), and runs it. And cleans it up when it’s done.

And I have a wrapper that does it in a shell.

This makes it possible to run MySQL-dependent tests, in parallel, on a dev machine, without too much misery.

(MySQL is awful. Don’t use it for new designs. MariaDB isn’t obviously better. AWS RDS MySQL is, in my considered opinion after wasting days on it, even worse. RDS CANNOT INGEST THE OUTPUT OF mysqldump WITHOUT ILL-CONSIDERED AND POORLY DOCUMENTED KLUDGES!!! WTF!! Don’t get me started on how defective every MySQL replication mode is.)
For whatever reason (Win95? MacOS?) I still to refer to them as Folders in a GUI but a Directory in a terminal.
> After all, he might have gone pro but he wasn't even in the top half nevermind the top quartile.

No, he was deep in the top percentile of players. By the time you even get to NFL draft, you're clearly one of the best ones. Even the last draftee will make millions of dollars. To make your analogy meaningful, instead of comparing top 250 players, compare top 10,000 ones. If you're not in top 10,000 football players, should you stop striving for career in professional football? Hell yeah.

> Let's take another biological example, which is weight training. (...) What would you say to someone who said "if you're not cutting it at the gym, better quit early rather than later?"

This is another false analogy. People who go to the gym do this for their own personal benefit, not to make a career out of it. These are completely different scenarios. I'm not telling people that they should quit learning stuff for their own personal benefit, only to quit dreaming about the research career if they are unlikely to succeed in it.

> Is it really the case that you have found a cheat code and one true metric to determine whether a human will reach academic significance or not?

You really are unable to resist strawmanning, aren't you? Can you quote exactly what made you think I claim that? Can you honestly engage in what I actually say?
Also A2000 12GB, it's a slightly less powerful 3060, but it only requires 75 w of power, meaning you don't need to plug in a power cable.
Energized floors will take them to infinity (and beyond).
That sounds fantastic. What tool are you describing?
Will Bun ever open up to non-proprietary communications? Since inception, there has only been Discord (and I suppose GitHub issues, but that's also proprietary). There is a whole host of reason from FOSS philosophy, to privacy/security, to moderation to not be locked into such a platform. Will future Bun include a IRC server/room on an existing platform like Liberal.Chat, a Matrix server/room, an XMPP server/room, Zulip, RocketChat, or Discourse?
the main soft I develop (https://ossia.io) has been built through clang/libc++ on msw for 4+ years now so you are preaching to the choir, but many companies insist in building with msvc and you cannot just tell them "no"
I’m shocked the police didn’t search the car. They always seem very eager to tear everything apart to pop someone with additional charges. Maybe because they weren’t alive on account of the blood loss...
Ah, right, thanks, I do recall that now.

Is the disappearance of the additional "On/Off" label perhaps another trend layered on top of the toggle switch trend?
On second thought… not evough people would install that sort of extension, on enough devices, for long enough to make an impact. It would only have an effect if an employee at these companies mistakenly took it to be a big deal and was able to spread unfounded fear. Kind of like an employee that hyperventilates if their company does not send out plain text versions of emails. Yes- you are supposed to do that but no — one graybeard Unix admin customer complaining that they can’t read an email sent to a million people doesn’t really matter.
i thought that as well on first watch, the bag seems to jump or suddenly change.

I think, after watching it frame by frame, the bad is being quickly grabbed by the "hands" and over (what looks like, to my untrained eye) 2 frames the bag gets squashed a little.

i think the hand motion is hidden by the arm, the bag is being held in a slightly weird way which makes it change shape unexpectedly and the hand closes very fast (hard?) making the shape change quickly.
Only 3 in stock, so I imagine this showing up on HN will rapidly reduce that to zero. Sorely tempted to buy one, but someone will get much more use out of it than I would.
If the second stage lands on the landing pad, that's fine. If, however, Earth rotates so that the landing pad isn't under the orbital pad at the moment of landing, the hopping was the idea for how to get where needed. But hopping has its own drawbacks.
Isn’t it likely the tools are also stolen? Did the police even check the trunk?
I don't necessarily think his calling out no "real" 10x engineers is the main point of the statement. It's more that people who aren't good or are struggling to produce software are more numerous and should have more focus than trying to find a person who is outstanding. Which I think is a fair point of view. If I had to guess I think the distribution of engineers skews to having more poor engineers than great ones.
Why do you think typewriters exist?

Print and cursive are about the same amount of effort, and that amount is a lot more than hitting keys. The average person can type 40 words per minute, or handwrite 40 letters per minute.
that were first thrust into poverty to start with by a different system of exploitation.

I have to admire the beauty of this argument as it has occurred over time - let's exploit them using force and make them poor (enriching ourselves), then use the poverty to justify paying them less (enriching ourselves), using the argument that we are slowly lifting these billions out of poverty (enriching our souls).
My hearing loss is mostly in my right ear so affects language processing. Even now if I don't have my listening brain "warmed up", and someone talks to me, what I hear sounds like the adults/teachers on old Peanuts cartoons. I did eventually get a head MRI (I went to a ENT doc in my late 20s for another reason and the doc was concerned about this unexplained loss) but it showed nothing abnormal. Probably its been there since birth (I apparently had a lot of ear infections as a kid).

As for attention disorders, I'm definitely in the territory of "everything is hard", and I've been doing nothing for some time now (even before pandemic). But I'm hoping this year I can finally make some forward progress.
Sort of like some sort of flying robot you can control remotely and take pictures with while hovering? If only such a thing existed.
A patent is a contract between the government and the inventor. The government grants a protected monopoly over the patented invention. In exchange, the inventor turns over all details of the invention to the public. The primary purpose of patents is to get as many ideas out to the general public as soon as agreeable, circulating in the public technology space. For this to make sense, the patented idea must be "non-obvious". That is, it must be something that one would reasonably expect could be kept secret — this is what patents protect against. If an idea can plop out of an AI, and that AI is generally available, then it is "obvious" in the sense that it's accessible to anyone, and thus the inventor does not deserve any special protection, because the people are not getting any meaningful exchange for what could be a real secret.
Nah, that's almost certainly someone hosting something on Azure and not Bing.
Love the list just a shame to see the 10x myth. 10xers really do exist but it's hard to think about when framing it simply as 10x programmers.

These are people who see two levels of hierarchy requesting something for months and then builds a prototype over the weekend that solves 80% of the problem. Who sees two teams arguing for days back and forth and gets them together to make a decision with them and moves on. Who sees the hours wasted every day on bad tooling and bloat and makes the bold decision to cull and simplify. Who sees a product team losing a quarter building the wrong thing and is not afraid to shut it down with the boss. They know how to hire A players and raise the bar. They know when to hire. They know when to let people go.

They are not 10xers relative to 0.1xers, these are everyday 1xer situations.

They consistently have multiple magnitudes of impact. That's not easy. For most of us that happens a lot less.
many AI is designed for doing research, medical and writer work.
> Here's a comparison of a simple job. With lots of concurrency, Bun is 20-30% faster, but uses 60% more memory.

That benchmark is out of date. In Bun v0.3, memory usage in situations like that dropped by 4x - https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v0.3.0, meaning it uses around half as much memory as Node.

Prior to Bun v0.3, Bun wasn't scheduling the garbage collector in conjunction with the event loop and that led to memory not being reclaimed correctly on idle
I agree with the article. The mass capitalist interests and short-term profit focus are exactly what's wrong with this world.

These people aren't going to change that because their livelihoods depend on it. The question is who will... I don't see any options.
(Less than intentional, more than accidental. I know the multiple meanings, so it came easily to mind by priming. That sort of unintentional wordplay is a bit of a bad habit, really, when it leads you to use obsolete vocab - the other day someone was asking me if I had made a typo for 'way' when I wrote 'X is in some wise deficient'. I didn't, but it's not like I was trying to be clear either.)
Just let me link to a content section (named anchor) on mobile. It makes sharing specific parts kinda difficult.
I pay $12/year for my VPS... it has 1GB RAM... checkout http://www.lowendstock.com/ or similar
Meaning something like rqlite[1]? The age of fat desktop clients all connecting back to the central SQL server is long behind us, so yeah there is probably little reason beyond fun for something like that these days, but where there is fun!

[1] https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite
Our setup just reruns the tests a few times which sorts out flaky tests. The page then shows the most frequently failing tests so they can be properly fixed.
Good to know, that is pretty useful for immediate transfers. I've done transfers between accounts at the same bank before, using their own website, and it still takes like 24 hours to leave 'pending' state.
It reminds me of the first macs. As I recall there was something called a paste book. It accumulated items. You could scroll through it to find the item you wanted.
This looks awesome! Looking forward to trying it over binwalk!
I'd be great if you could get it building on aarch64 and non-Linux system, I've tried adding the flake to my nix dotfiles on Mac, but quickly realized you support only x86_64-linux for now.
An astute observation. I had a good chuckle. Thank you!
Is there a chance the URL appeared in an email newsletter or marketing message or similar that was sent to many people? I have a theory that this is anti-spam and anti-malware appliances scanning individually for each recipient.
Over “comprehensive” documentation, sure. But how much time is lost because the documentation isn’t available that would explain why the code is doing what it’s doing, or worse why different code wasn’t used?

There’s a balance.
Yeah, I was wondering if they finally upgraded computers with Win XP and Office 2003 (with default font Times New Roman) to Win 10/11 and Office 2021/Office 365 (with default font Calibri).
> This reminds me of the realization that the difference between a Star Trek replicator and a microwaved can of Campbell's soup is about 30 seconds.

Well, 30 seconds plus the entirety of the farming, production, supply, transportation, and commercial infrastructure that gets that can of soup into your cabinet.

That said, I mostly agree with your broader point.
Yeah, I was actually confused when I read that in the article...
You're talking about the dude famous for the command "love your enemy" and fraternizing with all kinds of "unsavory" people. He would absolutely not regard healing a crook as a mistake. It's a little alarming that you would.

Ed: not to mention the fact that, canonically anyway, he would definitely know in advance who/what they were.
What Is IceburgCRM? Unlimited Many to Many Relationships
And that reason is? It is not like it is actually illegal as the law carves out sufficient exceptions to ensure that children are enabled to work.
Woot! Thanks for reading!
The memory usage difference you're seeing is likely a GC scheduling issue in Bun (not a JS engine thing)

Bun isn't scheduling the garbage collector between microtask ticks and we might need to start doing that to reduce memory usage. We did that in Bun v0.3 for the event loop, but we didn't do it for the microtask queue.
I think the causality is inverted here.
People who don't understand themselves will not understand others (and won't feel the need to).
At the most superficial level, almost everybody is a nice guy... Dig deeper and almost nobody is.

My loneliness is a measure of other people's lack of self-understanding.
I know this because I get along best with people who understand themselves.
These people are more genuine because they're not caught up in the pursuit of memetic desires.
There are very few such people.
Do you have to log in?
> 60 days’ notice prior to termination
Should've used SQLite on the backend.
Lovely! Have an upvote, such as it is!! It is rare to see such a complete demolition of an argument or the real-time validation of that demolition through the rules-for-thee-but-not-for-me reaction to it!!!
As much as I like the original movie (and the book), that remake was _great_. Zöe Kravitz was fabulous, and the soundtrack for the whole series was awesome. Very highly recommended from me.
https://old.reddit.com/r/crypto/
This is going to get really interesting really soon I think, whether an 'AI' can be capable of inventive "thought":

Could, for instance, one teach an AI to come up with the concept of a screw[0] from training it on inclined planes and nails? Or at least, everything but screws/bolts, and any other form of rotary inclined plane. If AI can come up with a former novelty, there is no reason AI couldn't come up with a new one.

[0]Undeniably an invention, if trivial now.
> Hell, sometimes that's something totally bonkers like Haskell.

This literally happened to me the other month. I had a tiny problem which I realised was a perfect fit for the List monad. Guess which language has the best support for that?

I rewrote my little script in JS afterwards using flatMap, and it was much uglier.
That scene was definitely “in the movie” when I saw it, or at least one of the times. (Possibly some Australian regional edit? Possibly even perhaps the local cinema release edit?)
IMO the best thing you can do is reaching out to high school teachers teaching programming.

A coworker had an interested high school student come in for the day/week a few times, and shadow them.

For many kids whose parents have never heard of white collar work, it can be life changing to have a good impression.
If I'm worried about badly behaved crawlers... what's robots.txt doing for me?
Sure, right after we stop calling linear algebra and matrix manipulation "machine learning".
Quirks, Site Interventions and Fixing Websites
Yes, it came in with Macs. I was mildly annoyed at the time.
No the F-35B has only one engine just like the A and C versions. The big fan at the back is powered by a driveshaft from the engine, it's not a separate engine.

And like the other commenter said the Osprey can power both props from one engine (I wonder how that performs though, I'd be surprised if it can sustain a fully loaded hover)
Jeff Bezos grandfather (a major figure in his life) was director of Sandia.

My daughter really wants me to work for NASA.

My point is just that this sort of work has a “wow” factor to it.
I always thought it would be awesome if SQLite got something like this. The decision to use SQLite for small web apps would become a lot more compelling if there was no "I have to migrate to postgres when I scale" anxiety.
The continuous testing is something I’ve thought about and it’s a tricky one. We use property tests[1] so here’s a quick stab at how I’d like it to look like:

Test starts failing, immediately send a report with the failing input, then continue with the test case minimisation and send another report when that finishes.

Concurrently, start up another long running process to look for other failures, skipping the input that caused the previous failure. We do want new inputs for the same failure though. This is the tricky one. We could probably make it work by having the prop test framework not reuse previously-failing inputs, but that’s one of the big strategies it uses to catch regressions.

[1] specifically, hypothesis on python
There's an in-between point that I think is more common than good microservices, that I think you're describing, that I've seen called a "distributed monolith". Basically what happens when the microservices are too intertwined to be independently replaceable as GP suggests.
You guys discuss your sexuality with your friends? This seems weird, I don't think keeping some things private means one is lonely. Of course, at some point my friends will meet my spouse, which is broaches upon the topic. But in this context, it's clear that they are not potential targets of my sexuality, so there is no tension introduced. Also, once I have a significant other, I am no longer that lonely and I am open about my sexuality with at least one person.
Felt the same exact way. I’ve tried multiple times to give Firefox containers a try, but the UX is just horribly designed. So much so that I don’t think they even care about it as a feature. It feels more like a publicity stunt. If a browser could deliver a usable container experience, I would instantly switch to it.
Have to wonder what's the definition of toxic.

Anything that's not sufficiently politically correct?
Wouldn't that cost money?
(Don’t get me started on how defective every MySQL replication mode is.)

I was actually reading up on this this the other day (doing a bit of a breadth first search of multi-master replication in industry).

I thought the way it worked was... interesting. Sounds like it's just as interesting in production.
The good news is that with the new open Linux kernel drivers from NVIDIA, Nouveau folks will be able to use the same signed proprietary firmware as the proprietary userspace component of the NVIDIA drivers. So that should unblock development of the open userspace component of the libre Nouveau drivers too.