skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t understand what people mean by 10x programmer.

So chances are you've never seen one. Now I wonder how are our experiences so different, because I've known a bunch and I've worked at that level sometimes.

> I thought it was a joke meme making fun of very fast but ultimately flawed programmers…. but then I realized some people were serious and sorta glorifying the negative aspects as well.

That makes sense because there's a lot of egos involved in this topic. When you are doing most of the job of the team, obviously you're tempted to make it a part of your identity.

But also it makes other people jealous and they look for a way to justify, blur, compensate and explain it away. In this matter, denial often comes from insecurities. Some of the incarnations:

- There aren't 10x programmers, it's just because sometimes 1x programmers are surrounded by 0.1x programmers.

- 10x programmers generates 100x maintenance when they leave.

- There are 10x programmers, but they're not you, only a handful of geniuses in the world.

- There are 10x programmers, but they're jerks and a company is better off without them.

etc. (Sometimes the criticisms are justified, but not always)

If you've never seen one, maybe it's because:

- You're working in a line of work that deals with solved problems, incremental solutions.

- You're working in a process-heavy team. Either 10x people flees from that or the process makes them invisible.

- Other perverse incentives.
The direction of the currents simply follows from the polarity of the voltage in each case, but this section of the transcripts shows the presenter of the video is talking about the change of magnitude of the collector current in response to a changing base current:

6:02 an NPN bipolar is like a switch which is normally open. it won't conduct until a current is applied at its base terminal. PNP types on the other hand act in the opposite way they reduce the flow in relation to their base current.
Reminds me of this article:
"1980s computer controls GRPS heat and AC" About a single Amiga controlling HVAC systems for 19 public schools.
https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/1980s-computer-cont...
10x is only an positive if she / he makes others more effective as well. If they detract - and we've all seen'em - then the metric is the delta between the 10x and the affects on the rest of the team.

Since 10x'ers (by defintion) are rare, most leaders / managers should be trying to build 10x teams. That is, the whole is better than the sum of the parts. For example, a team of 5. As team members, at any given moment three rise to 3x, one to 1x and the fifth is neutral. Something like that.
exactly!

Just think of the times you gladly give away your right of way
please elaborate on the "drastic eco-legislation", sounds like a talking point from a dubious source.
Will a workforce of ex-Googlers create a positive benefit to other non-Google companies?
Interesting; I found a youtube video yesterday of a guy doing the "things that are weird in the US as a foreigner", and one of them is that where he is from, light switches are "up is off, down is on" evidently because he found the US "up-on, down-off" behavior odd.

As a native US citizen I wouldn't have even considered that to be nonstandard.

Your "know right side is on" made me think of it.

I don't debate your point as a whole, but not everything may be the same way worldwide you think it is.
Have some empathy with servers that are literally paid $0 in their paychecks. Compare the state of things for servers in NY vs servers in CA and realize that your arguments do not hold up.

The de facto $0 wage that servers are paid is a crime. It should end.
Revolution is an extreme outcome in reaction to a system of determined abuse.

A "good solution" would probably look like taking better care of people and reducing the polarisation of wealth particularly in a business community that is earning billions in profit.

> "We’ll be offering 6 months of healthcare"

This tells us something of the desperation that workers face.

> "The fact that these changes will impact the lives of Googlers weighs heavily on me, and I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here."

Hello, I'm your rhetorical assistant Clippy, it looks like you are laying off thousands of people from your profitable, influential business without any good economic reason. Personally, I think the top of your managment pyramid could take a pay cut if you really care.
This seems to reveal that the problem with automated lights, etc. is that we no longer have a single source of truth for the state of the light or other device. I think the problem is that we are updating the state of the light but not updating the state of the UI i.e. the switch. The solution would seem to be that the automated system should be moving the switch in order to turn the light on or off instead of adding another point of control like a relay that changes the meaning of the switch position. I'm sure this would add cost to the system but I think the benefit in usability would outweigh it. The perfect system for me would be a smart switch that is electromechanically actuated by the smart system but also has an override switch that you can toggle in order to prevent the automated system from moving the switch. That way you can still maintain full control, the switch always indicates the correct state and you have all the benefits of the smart system.
> would anyone consider paying for an upgrade to use it at work or for personal use?

No, TeraCopy and windows file transfer are fast enough.
Mine, too. In a rural area in the Midwest in the 80s.

http://hackeducation.com/2015/02/25/kids-cant-wait-apple
> or possess in or affecting commerce

Doesn't this mean that the prohibition of using such substances doesn't apply just to the moment of purchase, but to the whole period of time that you posses a firearm? I'm not a lawyer either and I'm not even American, but this is how I would interpret it. Also it would make little sense to have a law saying that you can't be a user of illegal drugs at the moment of purchase of a firearm, but you can start using such substances afterwards.
Point taken.

There's a difference though between "guys" as an address (which is used by plenty of female-only groups as well) and "guys" as a noun.
Here is a benchmark of Protobuf, FlatBuffers, and Cap'n Proto across Go and Rust. It doesn't include JSON tho

https://github.com/kcchu/buffer-benchmarks
That has nothing to do with the Nordics, but with the decimal separator. In locales that use a comma as the decimal separator (i.e., most European locales), Excel uses a semicolon as CSV separator.
Given that we are talking about a US Citizen working as a CEO of US Company...
Maybe seeing in the dark is simply so valuable that evolution has created extremely light-sensitive eyes for many species?

If there was a molecule whose detection in tiny amounts would give a species a competitive edge, we might have noses capable of detecting 5-molecule amounts of this substance.
> "A series based on “The Last of Us”, a post-apocalyptic game, seems to be a critical success.

It was announced to be, long before it was released. It's very very bad. In the future, no one uses a broom or cleans up their room.
So the article is outdated I guess. The length of the chain is the same now.

I'll consider switching back to Let's Encrypt once this setup doesn't require a whitelist.
Google don't have to worry about such activist shareholders in the same way that other companies do. Larry Page and Sergey Brin have the controlling share in Alphabet thanks to their Class B shares. They only have a fiduciary responsibility to the other shareholders.
> They are, conceptually at least, a liberating force.

At one level I agree. At an individual level, you can go places you previously couldn't, at previously-unheard-of speeds, without asking anyone.

At another level though -- the automobile depends on the collective to maintain roads, particularly highways, and it constrains motion to one dimension. A world in which the State didn't build roads and in which automobiles were consequently much less useful would in some ways be more free. Less legible, less accessible, more dangerous probably (since harder to transmit state power and police law), but more free, like the interior of the Amazon or the Congo or Papua. A more wild place.

But you have, I suspect, thought of all this:

> We see it differently today, of course.
How do mass layoffs work in places like the EU?

I know it's much more difficult to fire people in the EU, but is there an exception if it's done as part of a layoff?

The only real solution I can think of is regulatory in nature (e.g. requiring paying out 6 months pay during a layoff, which might make companies think twice before "hiring ahead of growth")

Because let's face it, "hiring ahead of growth" is the real problem. These companies aren't firing people because they are making less money. They're firing people because they hired people before they actually needed them, in anticipation of future growth that didn't materialize.
This is a really interesting idea, but in my experience there is already lots of fragmentation of tools in project management in any team or organisation.

A standalone tool which is most effective if used regularly, but requires manually updating data which likely has an external source of truth is a very hard sell. This is a shame as one tool which does one job well is generally a good thing.

I guess integrations are a non-starter as few mainstream tools store time estimates as a range?
Nope, haven't seen anything you listed.
Well at the height of the market euphoria, nobody listened to my warnings a year ago:

From [0] November 2021

Me: 'Finally' The start of the market crash is under way...

>> Stock market up 1% today on both this news and decades-high inflation. [0]

Then more concerns for preparing for the recession months later after I said we were already in a recession. [1].

>> No. That is completely false. We are most certainly not in a recession. [1]

So after many layoffs, rising inflation, US debt ceiling fears happening since then the lagging indicators of this have now take effect and so 'now' we are preparing for the recession?

It has already happened and is still happening which it is too late to prepare.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29508238

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31441710
In addition to Alito having no certainty about how Roberts would vote in the end, it turned out to be the case that Roberts didn't vote to overturn Roe at all (much like more than a few, well-informed Court observers guessed that he would). If Roberts was the "target" of the leak it was definitely a "reckless gamble."
Physical Limits to Computation
> Might it be that the media coverage is in fact more than for instance coverage of Yemen, because people care more (however unfair that may be to the Yemeni)?

I can tell you nobody cared at all (most people outright ignored the situation) about Ukraine in the 2014-2022 period, even though Ukrainians were dying for all those years. When Russia took Crimea, that was minor news in my country.

People are used to conflicts happening in the world and we've grown cynical about it, which is why nobody really cares about the Yemenis, for example.

The reason we now care (even though trust me, from a personal point of view nobody really "cares") is that there is a daily stream of Ukraine related news, reporting exclusively the point of view of Ukraine and the statements from their government, often without double checks.

"News just came from Ukrainian officials that the Russians raped 50 children". Even without any evidence, when a statement is repeated ad nauseam by every news source it becomes reality. In the meantime Ukrainians artillery killed several civilians in Russia-occupied Donetsk, but there is no mention of it. This is how propaganda works.
This is what happened when the stakeholders know what AI can do.
I would rather have one anarchistic Leonardo da Vinci who doesn't give a fuck about Shrek than hordes of standarized, cookie-cutter groupthink people that find some capitalistic product funny.
> Disney is one company that probably few of us were going to miss if they go broke

What on Earth are you talking about? Disney is one of the beloved companies in the entire world. Tens of millions of people would be crushed if Disney would go broke. Provide some real facts instead of making baseless opinionated claims.
I use "Windows Subsystem for Android" to load my .apk's so I don't have to endure sluggish Android Studio.
Everyone knew things would change.

Nobody knew when and how.
What about its purpose AI could say (but you don't ..then you could worry)?
Parent Teacher Association/Organization, basically a parents group for a school.
Your comment made me wonder something i don’t remember being discussed in these terms, but what about our markets and laws makes liquidity in employers and employees work poorly?
I remember running OpenBSD on my laptop in the early 2000s at a total system memory use of 26MB.

Running Dillo instead of Firefox, vi (or vim) for coding, and twm as window manager. That was super low even back then. I think the only unavoidable memory hog nowadays is wanting to have many browser tabs open. And having a heavy IDE; VSCode is pretty cheap on resource use, but with LSP support you can really feel a difference with a better CPU and enough RAM.
It’s cool our brains have that as a heuristic for whatever reason. Wonder if you could train yourself to see 1-3?
> As a normal employee when you are "responsible" for something you are fired if you fuck it up

I'd hate to work somewhere like this. When you fuck up, you take responsibility, you fix it and you ensure no one can fuck up the same way. You don't just fire people who fuck up, or people won't ever do anything for you.
Do you think these people would have been better off if tech had carried net fewer heads the past couple of years? Having an extra 100k employed for two years is worse than those jobs just never existing?
Well said. And most professors do not have, nor or required to get, training in teaching at all! Random is the right word and there is a large stdev at that. I remember one semester I had both, by far, the best and worst professors of my long schooling career; both in the same faculty too. Going from one class to the next was disjointing on how vastly different the experience was. The worst prof was so bad that that the students of the class banded together and complained to the dean that we were learning nothing and that this was a required class for our degrees. The best prof was so good that he was able to fill in some of what the other was missing on top of his regular curriculum and it felt effortless.
Thinking words mean things and aren't just tools of manipulation is childish.
Yes, we should indeed.

Of all the most useful projects to humanity (diverting asteroids, developing free energy, curing cancers, solving childhood poverty, etc) in any top-3 list I'd put "having a single common language that is super-simple to learn and master and which everybody is taught from childhood".

Let's not change English or French then, but leave them as "classical" languages, but teach kids the new easy/expressive/explicit one. No gendered nouns, no phrasal verbs, no reported speech markers, etc.

Completing this initiative makes all the other ones easier to complete. And it's not like it's much more complicated than the other complicated things we donate to and try to push forward every year.
I regularly get recommendations for extremist content on Youtube, even though it's not thematically related to anything I already watch. The most harmless ones are Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate videos, but not too far behind is conspiracy stuff, fundamentalist religious channels, "spiritual" videos about faith and ghosts and living the Matrix. Like you, I used to click on the <not interested> options to little effect, so now I just ignore them. It's actually a running joke with my friends that in the YT app on my iPad I often get an extremist suggestion exactly in the third slot of the suggested videos list.

Here's my theory on why that happens: Youtube knows I'm male, kind of old, a tech nerd, and that I likely don't have any kids or a wife. That's it. It's the kind of content I'm supposed to like in my gender/age/status cohort.
Is this true or just a pun? Like your acid taste buds are literally sensitive enough to register a single H+ binding?
Why not 99% or everything above $300k? Are you saying you couldn't live on less than $2M?
Almost all articles on WFH posted on HN are followed by lots of comments on how WFH is better, less stressful, more productive, more enjoyable, etc. So yes, lots of people find working from home easier.
10x = It takes 10 people to clear the mess they left behind. In my 15 years of career, all people I have seen who were referred as 10x were the people who took terrible shortcuts to deliver whatevs they try to deliver and when it comes to building on top of that thing everyone who touched that hot mess had a miserable life.
>Couldn't they ask these laid off people to find anything in there?

How do you know they didnt?
This kinda makes me feel old...

When I joined Google in 2006, we were 8k total.
> I.e. rxjs code like this

As with everything, we should be picky. For rx, Ben Lesh - always yes, obviously. Michael Hladky - yes. Deborah Kurata - maybe yes? Random youtuber - no.
It's the corporate version of "It's not you, it's me." breakup line.
weev and AT&T as well.
If we were able to jump from nothing to human, then there would be no need for a Turing test. We'd know that a not-nothing intelligence we create is human.

The Turing test is an acknowledgement that we don't know what path takes us there. Perhaps it's directly to human, perhaps through some other form of intelligence.

Ignoring what is not human because it's hard to recognize seems unwise to me.
So all of those 12K people are going to be in US offices? Noone outside of the US is going to get fired?
Fabrice Bellard truly is a myth.
Why would you do that? That would introduce major risk for no benefit.
You're hitting on the most frustrating aspect of this argument, the sometimes bizarre imaginary scenarios to try to make 10x a negative instead of a positive: "what if they're a 10x programmer but also a psychopathic serial killer who targets their colleagues!?!?!"
It doesn't happen that often to make it a reason to not enjoy life and go to parties.
In fairness, neither did Meta. Zuckerberg has a similar dual class structure through which he can control the company.
i prefer using just my eyes for driving vs smelling and listening for cars.

unless the car is honking it's pretty hard to hear anything due to insulation, especially on the highway.

but yes, humans are very good at using all the sensors they evolved with, the brain is amazing.

maybe one day someone will be able to balance all of their sensors and beat Tesla, or maybe Tesla will figure it all out.

can't wait to find out!
Technology is often used as an excuse for poor business decisions, but it is not always the sole cause of a company's troubles. In the case of Disney, the company's success is largely based on its ability to create and produce compelling movies and characters.

Since they stop doing so, Disney is in trouble.

The old CEO forgot that and focused on operational part of the company (parks, streamline online delivery) and completly ignored talents.

It is important for companies to adapt to technological changes, but they should not lose sight of their core strengths and what has made them successful in the first place.
Just use biginteger everywhere, still more efficient than even UUIDv4.
Scraping GitHub Repository
This library allows you to access the names of files and folders of any GitHub repository. Cloner class allows you to clone the file types you want to the path you want.
Seeing that I write code everyday now that will end up running on Linux Firecracker MicroVMs that I will never have SSH access to…

The “ecosystem” of development is very large. I’m sure there are parts of the ecosystem that others would know that you wouldn’t.
It is true you can taste protons. Whether you can taste a single one, I'm not sure, nor even how to test it.

Fun video by Steve Mould on the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSYE1T5d9jc
> we hired a bunch of people in order to milk the situation for everything we could, knowing we'd have to fire you today

Did people not also take jobs at google in order to milk the situation for everything they could?

Could those people not have foreseen an economic downturn, which happens at least every 8-10 years the last one being 14 years ago?

What specific lie did google tell, or are you speculating?
Taking full responsibility is resigning surely?
Really interesting. I'm not an expert, but I'll armchair speculate here.

We need 5-9 photons to merit perception. For us to see one atom, we would need 5+ photons to bounce off of that atom directly to our eyeballs in 100ms. Since both these things are so tiny, most photons miss the atom altogether. It's only when you have large numbers of atoms, densely arranged, that conditions create visibility.
"I can't believe that Google, Shopify, Coinbase, everyone, really believed that this was the new reality going forward."

They didn't. They knew it wouldn't last. But what they had to do was stay competitive and/or meet demand by scaling up while they could. Now they have a larger pool of talent and can cut people/programs who are too expensive or are under performing.
"Every damn body" knows this in retrospect. At the time -- when we were washing our groceries and we weren't sure if the IFR was 1% or 10%, and if it was airborne or if it was morphing into something worse -- our new reality might have been very different.
From my perspective, the entire problem is just semantics.

People are debating things like "10x isn't actually always 10 times the output" and "it depends what the context is and what the short- and long-term goals are when deciding if this person is doing miracle work or just making a mess for the future."

If we said, "there exists people who are, in many contexts, just naturally very fast to come up to speed and stay up at speed" I don't think there'd be a debate. We aren't labelling a specific context or speed, but we all know people like this exist, by very nature that not every human is equally as good as every other human at everything, and outliers exist.
It might be as simple as "whatever I was interested in as a kid happened to also make good money", which in itself is luck but also requires a bunch of work to action on it.

But as you already like the thing it doesn't feel like you put the work, it was just "the fun stuff I liked to do happened to be profitable", even if it required just as much work as anything else
Recent experiments have put the claim to test

Overview
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2016.20282

The actual work
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12172

> Here we report that humans can detect a single-photon incident on the cornea with a probability significantly above chance.
Yes, schemathesisi is great: https://schemathesis.readthedocs.io

Even better, you can start with the OpenAPI spec and build the code out of it: https://pyapi-server.readthedocs.io
I think that of all professions, even creative professions, best-selling fiction writers are the easiest to compare in terms of $$$. How does Saint-Exupery's Little Prince fare in total lifetime sales compared with Stephen King's entire output? (I don't know! But it's a question that can be asked).

In comparison, the comparison of best-seller musicians suffers from how many times the economics of popular music has radically changed over a century. And music is already the product of many people even for something like "Joe Pass plays solo guitar inside his closet as recorded by a handheld potato". (He plays music composed by others! Also not really an example of pop music.)