skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've been in the industry long enough to experience working on a variety of different projects and teams it's an easy sell to understand the concept of a 10x programmer, but the 10x programmer also isn't as exciting or "sexy" as we make them to be.

They aren't mythically smart and intelligent and can recite api features off the top of their heads.

No, the 10x programmers I've mostly encountered are "boring":

* They write solid code that's maintainable and relatively bug free. Fixing bugs is an incredibly time consuming activity. A developer who can reduce their bug rate is incredibly efficient not just for themselves but for the entire team and project.

* They aren't going to prematurely optimize in terms of code or design. How many of us have seen development grind to a halt due to an incorrect use of a design or architectural pattern? The worst grievances I've seen are using Microservices when it's not needed...leading to huge slowdowns of productivity due to overhead costs. And that's just one example.

* They understand the value of good software engineering practices that lead to long term success of the product/project/team. Many of those practices are "boring" but are necessary such as writing effective automated tests.

I guess another way to put it, many of the 10x developers I've seen are ten times more effective because they can avoid common mistakes that the average developer makes.
When I compare threat of chemists (as example) to AGI it does not make sense, I genuinely don't understand what possible threat AGI can poses, like what is threat model of AGI, is there any objectively ?

Do people imagine AGI as in movie Transcendence and think it will happen in there's life time ?
CMake can be used in a declarative fashion. So-called "Modern CMake" is declarative except for the "find" scripts which try to find the paths to various libraries on the user's system (since C has a dozen competing standards on where to put them).
But I'm still going to get my GUSD earn from Gemini right?
> imagine trivial court cases hinging on whether a "reasonable person" would drive a certain speed.

Why is this dystopian? It's literally the point of courts to apply judgment.
> Sometimes it doesn't matter. Example below:

There is a saying for the examples you and others are posting ...."The exception rather than the rule"

Posting contrived examples in order to attempt to prove a point. For the majority of cases, a random ID remains the better option.

But unfortunately developers still treat security as an afterthought. They continue to use "serial" because of what can only be described as sheer ignorance, i.e. demonstrably false misunderstandings about database technology.

Case in point, I placed an order on an e-commerce site a couple of weeks ago. I was not best pleased to be given a tracking URL that read: "https://example.com/order/WEB-nnnnn", where nnnn was clearly an incrementing number. Such a thing is inexcusable in 2023 !

It took a lot of strength to resist the temptation !
You mean unions?
Agreed. In this case, google isn’t even claiming this change was unexpected, just that the reality has changed. Seems way more honest than the other corporate-doublespeak layoffs we’ve seen.
Amazon owns multiple grocery chains!
For future reference maybe:

https://support.shell.de/hc/de/articles/360010717657-Kann-ic...

https://www.shell.de/mobilitaet/tanken/shell-tankstellensuch...
But it takes two to tango. In my experience a lot of the negative impact of a 10x:er is actually that they make 1-3x:ers feel very insecure, and some of them can’t handle that / go off the rails…

Now, is that really the 10x:ers fault?
> When you see someone who doesn't know how to open a terminal, and log into a server at the command

Maybe this person doesn't quite get how to properly not use a comma between dependent clauses. How could one trust this person to communicate well?

> networking, DNS, firewalls, shell scripting commands, or how to configure the services upon which the application's stack runs, like web servers, application servers, caching services, or even databases...

I have known plenty of gainfully employed, 25-year-old software engineers who didn't have experience with each item on this list. That's perfectly fine; it's easy to teach in one brown-bag lunch session. I'll still take the wizard because those innate abilities can't be taught.
The YouTube recommendation system is optimized to direct all users toward pools of content that have the highest amount of watch time. The AI has learned about various paths that get users to watch for longer amounts of time. One of those paths is right-wing polemics. Another path is, say, makeup tutorials. It's not inherently political.

Purely by its own machine learning, the YouTube algorithm becomes sophisticated at inching people toward the high-watchtime material. There is no mal intent. There's no intent at all except for revenue. The AI doesn't "know" what the content of the reactionary videos even is. All it "knows" is that people who get there watch longer, and that people get there by way of other interests, such as martial arts, history, or guns. It also "knows" that this transition has to happen gradually to succeed. The recommendation progression is subtle:

Martial arts -> combat -> guns/militaria -> liberals are coming to seize your guns

Martial arts -> combat -> guns/militaria -> look at this neat Nazi gun -> were the Nazis so wrong???

Martial arts -> MMA -> Joe Rogan -> Jordan Peterson -> feminism is destroying Western civilization

Martial arts -> MMA -> Joe Rogan -> (((George Soros))) is a space reptile

Your line of questioning assumes that this process is malfunctioning, when in fact it is working as intended. You're correct that it's ethically grotesque, but since when have companies ever taken responsibility for externalities without being compelled to via regulation? YouTube has the legal right to host and broadcast whatever (non-obscene, non-copyrighted) content makes it the most money. The only free-market answer would be advertisers pulling money, which they occasionally do as a disciplinary mechanism. But if the advertisers don't really care, well...
"The Myth of the Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer"

10x does not exist. It is overblown. Yes, there are extremely gifted people- no, they are not 10x their peers.
Hukou is just for state benefits -- and that certainly has implications. But there is nothing stopping you from getting on a train to visit your aunt who lives 4 hours away.
> my-car-is-my-identity culture

Projection much?
They're working on GoT (game of trees), an OpenBSD-born client that interoperates with git repositories.

AFAIK, they still interface with CVS directly, but I assume the expectation is to eventually transition to got.

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
The Battle for the Future of Amazon
I'm a teetotaler, so by your assessment I'm a miserable person to work with? I point this out because I've had to deal with this at my current job and luckily they don't push it with me and respect my no-alcohol position whenever we go out to eat after work. I can't imagine working for any company that demands that I become a drunkard off-hours as a "team building" exercise.
I like the Datalog-based policy language used in Biscuits.

https://www.biscuitsec.org/
Argentinan here. 38 yo.

"Parties" Are now dinners with friends, no more than 10. Many of them has child's so is hard for everyone to go, but we do some meetings.

As professional, parties moved to After offices, until pandemic, no more than 1 or 2 hours in a bar with colleagues (even we had the adminbeers for sysadmin community). That was really nice.

Anyway I'm moving to Chicago, so just tell me when you wants to do a BBQ.
Successful and well-regarded companies will indeed arithmetically maximize profits if they're around in the long term while they are likely to see short term profiteers fail. Maximizing profits entails rather more than making a quick buck.
Not that I disagree, but how can you be confident that this is the case? Have there been studies on this topic?
As other's are saying, it depends what you need.

However, I'll give you a financial argument: a laptop with more memory will last you longer (unless it breaks down). It's more expensive upfront but if you then are able to use if for 5-10 years, it was a good investment. So, buy what you can afford now rather than the cheapest one. It might hurt a little but you'll save some cash longer term.

CPU speeds have stopped massively improving years ago. So, any CPU from the last ten years with 16 or 32 GB will run most workloads reasonably well. And a lot of things of course aren't really that CPU intensive to begin with. But if you run out of memory, things will start swapping and get tedious. That will happen a lot with 8GB and a lot less with 64GB.

8GB was already on the small side ten years ago. 4GB was definitely claustrophobic at the time. I upgraded my then mac with to 16GB (from 8GB) and I used it for another five years until it finally broke down. I have a new M1 currently with 16GB and a samsung galaxy book running Linux also with 16GB (cost me about 700euros a bit over a year ago, good value IMHO).
"dictionary, n. and adj." OED Online. Oxford University Press, December 2022. Web. 20 January 2023.
So basically regulations that you shouldn't hire someone unless you're really really sure you're going to keep them around for a long time?
on the ethical side, I'll pick an ex-googler over microsoft, meta, amazon, IBM, Snap anyday.

Ex-Microsoft people and ex-accenture people are never setting foot again in our organisation
This really is a shitty article. Tesla has substantially more vehicles on the road, so purely quoting numbers is deceiving.

Be honest at least and quote the figures per 1000 vehicles or something
Are you doing thesis on procrastinating?
Cuid2: Next Generation GUIDs
Gargantuan Astronomical Data Tapestry of the Milky Way
It seems like we need a meta website. "I need to visually compare the size of XYZ.com" that helps you find sites like these.
What do you want them to say? "It's our right to fire people and we've now chosen to do so!" Technically true but sounds bad.

They're just putting a PR spin on it.
>where they shoe-horn various modern-day identity politics and "progressive" topics trying to appeal to Twitter critic mobs

It's refreshung to see this level of objective honesty on HN.
Are you referring to stories like Wolf of Wall Street?

If so, I would not expect stories like that from tech (or any other business where relationships are not the main sell). People getting high together or partying is not going to make the next generation processor or programming language or improve battery technology.
We have some in france, mostly on highways with lots of tunnels.

Feel free to stop on the emergency lane or in a tunnel, I'm sure the ticket will be as bad if not worse.
"Heartbreaking"? Try having no friends, at all, that have hung out with you regularly, in more than 25 years?
First, just because we understand that Google wants to maximize profit doesn't mean they need to lie about it — it means they have no need to lie about it, because nobody's fooled. Either they consider at least some of us fools who would believe such an obvious lie, or they're engaging in a ritual of futile lying whose purpose I cannot grasp.

Second, why must the point of a company be to maximize profit? Why can't it be to make enough profit to remain stable in the long term, instead of growing rapidly to a size where it will eventually either have to engage in monopolistic behavior to survive or else, having extracted all available profit in its sphere, die?
Aero press with freshly ground specialty beans. The aeropress makes it very easy to get a consistently good cup of coffee and I definitely prefer it over a V60.

I guess that falls under "manual filter"? You're also missing french press in the options.
Wayfair is laying off 1,750 workers
That's fine. Some people don't want to put any effort getting a job or are not willing to show if they know how to program.

I respect your position. But understand, you are making it tough for me to know if you are good developer or just one of those people who are good at talking their way through interviews or need to go to a hundred interviews to get a job by accident. You will not get hired if I have anything to say about it.

I don't need to hire every good developer. I just need to hire some. The interview is optimised to make it unlikely for a bad apple to come through because it just cost too much to deal with people who are unable to perform. It is very hard to tell if a developer is in fact a good developer but it is pretty easy to spot a person who can't program their way out of a paper bag -- just get them to write a piece of code while you are watching them do it and explain what they are doing. And I also prefer to work with people who are easy to work with -- like people who don't make demands that don't bring them any value.

One definition of stupid is people who cost other people without any benefit for themselves. They are just drag on everything but don't benefit from it. If you come to an interview that I have designed and tuned and start making demands to change this or that derailing my plan and creating no advantage for yourself it is a sign of particular flavour of stupidity, in my view.

Smart people try to find a way to benefit themselves and even smarter people try to find a way to benefit both themselves and others by trying to find a mutually beneficial solution to their problems.
More to the point, personalised advertising doesn't mean you are supposed to like it; it means they like reaching you.
IIRC they pass around patches on email before committing to CVS. That workflow affords a bit more flexibility.
>Google knows Youtube is no longer the money maker it once was

Implying YouTube literally ever made money lmfao
Well, we're halfway there. "Last year, cassette sales grew 28% to 440,000 units, up from 343,000 in 2021."

https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2023/01/the-cassette-comebac...
The thing is that the city and the culture sets a very bad example by doing nothing to support homeless people (showing this, not telling this), which leads people to perceive that these people are worthless and that they can be victimized without limit.

I think of this episode of American Greed

https://www.cnbc.com/2010/02/08/American-Greed:-The-Black-Wi...

about two elderly women who killed homeless men to collect life insurance. They were quite shocked to discover that the state of California would pay for a homicide detective to investigate the case of somebody who the state treated like dirt when they were alive.
Update:

- Redoing UI

- Adding good prompt examples

- Planning on cleaning up code and open sourcing. If anyone is interested in contributing feel free to reach out at jonathanmir115@gmail.com

- Going to try to embed the audio files to create similarity clusters.

- Might add folder upload so that producers can upload large loop libraries and have their sounds clustered or allow them to search their library through natural language.

- If you have any ideas for cool things I could add or improve, feel free to leave it in a comment or reach out through my email!
Ha! Off there again in a minute. I’m a contractor who’s onboarding, so I walk in, talk to literally nobody and sit on floor 8 doing your thing for a while then leave, is kind of surreal.
I thought TOSDR did this but apparently not. Might be something to contact the founders over. Of course they provide summaries not the raw texts.

https://tosdr.org/
We now have avg speed cameras in Australia on most long distance freeways.
Then their mindset is the problem, not everyone else or the crypto ecosystem. The risk behind the volatility and instability is your responsibility to understand. No one is deceiving or misleading people about these risks. If there are "get rich quick" schemes around crypto, I agree they should be prosecuted for fraud.
All of them are doing this to shore up short term value. Say this saves google 1 to 2 Billion over this next year, that's a billion dollars they can spend on stock buy backs and dividend payments.
Companies exist to maximize profits with existing legal rules and social norms.
Specifically, here's a list of areas that implement some form of automated traffic law enforcement. However, many of these may simply be red light cameras.

https://www.iihs.org/topics/speed/speed-camera-communities
This is great, its always difficult to see comparisons online. Of the the big 3 row SUV looks as big as the smallest compact. I'd love to see trunk space too.
Maybe this will make people wary of joining hiring sprees in the FAANG space as you could easily become jobless in an economic downturn.
I think this is aligns with Simon Sinek's philosophy in The Infinite Game[0], which I really enjoyed reading. I totally agree with your point: business mindset is a choice.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infinite_Game
I'm unsure what this is trying to say. You appear to be in begrudging agreement that Rust is commonly mixed with other languages?
Kde is light weight Enough
Well, that is why we all work under the guise of "formal education"; we cannot really admit and accept that what we are doing is something else, because then people will react like this. Actually, in many ways it is education, just not in the ways we think about it. In my opinion, most of what passes for "pedagogy" or "education skills" is quite frankly bullshit. You learn things everyday, whether you're a student or not, and you teach things everyday, whether you are a teacher or not. If you really want to learn something in the Bsc/Msc/PhD trust me, you will learn, and we will teach you. The problem is that most people want education to be some kind of straightforward, almost passive process, like "hey I'm attending university, if I'm not learning it's your fault". The transfer of responsibility from student to teacher as it is done today is absurd. Learning is an active, exhilarating, and sometimes even brutal process. And, well, sorry, but it should be: knowledge is power, and to learn things is to thrive and improve yourself. How can that be such a passive process as "go to lecture, see some slides, learn"? Learning is also competitive; if you know how to do something that few people know, you are more valuable to society. By definition, that cannot be a passive, watered down process as people want it to be; if it was, then the knowledge you obtained would be borderline worthless (because everyone else would have it).
they often purposely hire people who are not fans of the originals whose remake they are making. what those kinds of people makr are always hit and miss, and often miss.
I call them "Barbie dolls for men". You gotta accessorize!
You think the TLOU TV adaptation is bad because a zombie apocalypse is cluttered?
What do u mean 9s are addictive
Sounds like you need to throw a party instead of waiting for someone else to throw one. You don’t need an excuse!
Ha yes, when I was in my twenties I was known as the guy who’d get a week’s worth of work done in the one day I turned up…
New – Siemens AG Chairman Calls on One Billion People to “Stop Eating Meat”
No one is forcing you, or anyone else, to read what I wrote and/or quoted...
With our current pollution and energy issues you probably don't want that

https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/autodrag-gra...
I think the “unknown unknowns” of a possibly godlike-intelligence, especially in regards to the alignment of its vs human values, is what worries people
You are free to believe something else and go off and do whatever you want with your life. Nobody is stopping you, and more importantly, nobody is calling you a villain for believing differently.

And yet here you are, painting everyone who disagrees with you as some sort of maniacal evil-doer because what they believe is different than what you believe.
Truly sad to throw out the baby with the bathwater though.

On Youtube I can watch IAS lectures on cutting edge topics on quiet evenings. I can find incredible creators explaining mathematical and physics concepts - often with innovative and useful graphical presentation. I can watch Kendo matches from Japan and more BJJ instructional videos from true masters than I'd have time to watch in 10 lifetimes. For someone who spends all day reading/writing text for work and then still reads a lot on free time - well sometimes you just want to watch/listen vs. more text input!

But yes I will move on if anything like this happens again. Nothing is irreplaceable.
Yes, this is might constant nightmare too! Around 10k photo files Android starts to be painful to use. like app file browser taking huge to show the file list or crashing, and as you said, terrible experience when trying to get files on a computer.

This is mostly because of the mtp protocol that is really shitty, supporting only a single channel at a time and having to send the whole list of all files in one time.
But also because Android implementation of it is very buggy.

I was always stunned that for a dozen years, Google stupidly spend millions in reworking uselessly the UX twenty times but never solved real pmserious usability problems like this one!
This sounds like great advice. In an attempt to see if it works for me, I thought I'd give it a shot, so I set a timer for 2 minutes and started typing a response without a real idea of what I was going to say. I'd say it's pretty effective, but I do tend to fill in a lot of meaningless content as I think of what to write next. I guess the next iteration of edits can trim that out though. I could have used this in the past, and could definitely use it right now for writing some documentation that I am procrastinating on indefinitely. Thanks for the tip. This has been helpful. Not sure if I should actually post this, it's not really contributing much to the conversation, but this is an anonymous account of mine, so who cares. Timer is up.
It'd be neat to have a list of companies that use this strategy. It seems like all the big ones do?