skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed the experiment conducted by the CMU SEI seemed as if it were designed with the specific intent to disprove the 10X factor that multiple other studies had shown. They first taught all the developers to follow the CMU SEI "Personal Software Process". I am thankful for the CMU SEI PSP, because it's so bad that we've been able to hire great developers who fled from companies that instituted it. The process forces developers to record all their time "on the major activities needed to complete a solution that passed all required tests, including planning, design, coding, testing, and personal reviews" during development. Clearly handicapping developers with ineffective bureaucratic processes up front will add a large constant to everyone's time, which then decreases the ratio of their times.

Furthermore they tested in an academic environment on simple assignments designed to take an hour or two. It's impossible to do all the required steps in 6-12 minutes, so this experiment could never show a 10X disparity.
Size of population, homogeneity etc are factors which explain the difference. The city of Bangalore is bigger and more populous than Singapore.
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Which is why we see so many people choosing to have no descendents.
you'd be even more impressed to find out how often polish characters (ąęłćśżźńó) get totally screwed in... poland itself
SpamAssassin picks up mail that Gmail can't, that doesn't have a billion dollar corporation behind it.
I wish somebody would write a book. Even an online book. An all-encompassing book just about how to link/build C++ projects and all the different solutions people use and how they work in practice. Common ways to organize and configure C++ project builds. How Linux distros each differ in where libraries are stored and how to find and link them. Common issues and how to fix them. But it also needs to convey how all these things work and help you create a mental model that allows you to also find your own solutions.
‘Battle for the nation’s soul’: Norway faces debate about gas and oil wealth
TIL about dead naming.

I would like to think this applies exclusively to referring to a trans person in the here and now. But I guess it's also unacceptable to refer to the designer of the arm chip as Roger Wilson, as they were when they designed the chip rather than what they're called now? And that being so do we also have to update the names of former cat Stevens records?
My personal pet idea: a big ‘tower’ on the seafloor.
Yes, costs are immense, but scaling would really work well. (Making the ‘well’ or tower twice as big would not make the cost double).

In ascii art:

———| |——

| |

|++|

With ‘| |’ the walls of the well or tower, —- the sealevel, and ++ the water inside the well. Energy would be gained through letting seawater go ‘into’ the well/water tower.
(Edit: attempt to make ascii art work)
Radio signal from distant galaxy becomes the furthest detected by Earth
My own[*] contribution in this area: A calendar with 12 months, each of exactly 30 days. Then the days between xmas and New Year (5 days most years, 6 in leap years) are struck off as "intercalary days"... they simply don't exist on the calendar, but just "happen". (I know, I know, people will name/number/label them anyway because some things still have to happen on those days, but conceptually they're non-working, non-accountable days.) Almost everybody takes a time-out during those days anyway (though maybe not so much in middle-eastern countries and a few other places -- I'd love to hear more about how those days work out in those parts of the world).

[*] Not my invention at all really, but that of the Maya people as one of their 3 interlocking calendar systems. Intercalary days were (iirc) counted as particularly ill-omened and unlucky and were faced with fear and trepidation.
Garbage disposal is a huge industry in many parts of the world, giving employment to many people. It is also a cutting edge domain where abilities to recycle cost efficiently are needed for sustainability.

So this is unfortunately a classic example where culture, by defining (and limiting) what people think is important, influences also their economic condition.

But its not easy to instigate a culture of respect for the commons and appreciation for its smooth functioning. And implementing at scale garbage disposal, just like any other utility infrastructure, whether it is the post office, water or electricity requires further society "software" that is not trivial
Btw, there is a logical bug in the code, although it isn't exploitable. env::args().size() can be zero.
Ya iPhone 7 Plus here, it works perfectly well and is very smooth.
> "none, loyalty goes only one way and trust me when I tell you that no-one is safe"

Yup, I know someone who had been there since 2006 that was laid off. Not even high scores on Perf will save you.

I have no idea what methodology went into it. That's a whole postmortem on its own.
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> There is an appeal, so let's see if she really belongs there.

I think you're missing the point, yes it is legal for anyone to appeal a conviction.

In the US (and I assume most of the rest of the world) that is dependent on your ability to pay a lawyer to do that for you and your likely outcome is impacted by the price you are able to pay for that lawyer.

The other point is, this is a conversation about a two tier justice system. Rich people get to spend their appeal in a mansion, poor people sit in prison waiting on an appeal.

So I would say, she's been convicted of a crime and has been given time for it, send her to prison like everyone else.

Once her appeal is successful, then let her go back to that life of luxury.
Absolutely. It's like a journal I can get feedback on in a low stakes environment. It lets me practice my writing and formulate my thoughts on the outside of my head. I find that simply expressing some thoughts in writing and getting feedback on them helps with developing clarity and even changing my own mind. One does not necessarily have to believe every thought that they've ever written out on the internet. In fact, I'd argue it's a sign of a dull and stagnant intellect if it is the case.
"Seek out information greedily"

That's the biggest problem for me. I spend so much time *reading* about tech
stuff/programming but it rarely sticks until I force myself to write code/work
on project, that's when the knowledge *incorporates*, else I am just a erudite
bag of wind. It really helps to know what you are doing, but it's useless if you
are doing nothing, or scrolling through HN comments :)
Taking this literally.

I asked chatgpt to make up a guy.

Write a 300 word biography of a fictional man who lives in Idaho

---

John Smith was born and raised in the small town of Boise, Idaho. Growing up, he was always interested in the outdoors and spent much of his childhood exploring the nearby mountains and forests. After graduating high school, he attended the University of Idaho where he studied forestry and wildlife management.

After college, John landed a job with the U.S. Forest Service and spent the next several years working on various projects to protect and preserve the natural resources in Idaho. During this time, he met his wife, Sarah, and they eventually settled down in Boise to start a family.

John has always been an active member of his community, and in his free time, he volunteers as a youth sports coach and is a member of the local conservation group. He is also an avid hunter and fisherman, and often takes his family on camping trips to explore the beautiful wilderness of Idaho.

In the last few years, John decided to go into business for himself and started his own outfitters company, which specializes in guided hunting and fishing trips in the Idaho wilderness. It quickly became a successful business and he was able to provide a better life for his family.

John is known for his strong work ethic and dedication to preserving the natural resources of Idaho. He is well respected by his peers and is often sought out for his expertise in conservation and outdoor recreation. He is a loving father and husband and takes great pride in his family and community. Despite his busy schedule, he always makes time for the things that matter most to him, and is truly an inspiration to those around him.
There are plenty of open source wikis like Mediawiki.
So your system in perfect weather has a performance ratio of around 80% of what an average system optimized for total power would produce on average over the month, it has terrible low light performance (almost as if it's 2010 tech or you picked a bad inverter for your use case or it's badly installed), you're pretending transmission and wind don't exist and that any suggestion of a mix involving solar be exclusively off grid, and that dispatchable backup like biomethane and hydro for a few hundred hours a year is both impossible and is never going to be involved in any nuclear based system?

You're also trying to pretend weather is a 1:1 correlation with latitude and that wind and solar aren't anti-correlated. You know a vertical south facing bifacial panel a bit north of Calgary will produce just as much power in december as a flat one in singapore right?

California already has about 7% hydro and biomass capacity. Include 7% dispatchable generation, then adjust your stats to match or look up the output of a real modern fixed tilt utility (or well designed off grid) system with a decent MPPT, adequate low light performance and bypass diodes, and you'll be able to see you've actually provided fairly strong evidence that 12hr storage, 7% dispatch and 100% overprovision (which you can use with your 3 day dispatchable load called an EV to avoid curtailment if you drive an average amount) on a 93% solar system is more than sufficient. Include transmission to the other side of a range to get less correlated weather and the storage and overprovision drop significantly.

Add onshore wind and the requirement for dispatch, overprovision and storage plummets.

Add offshore wind and HVDC and 3 hours with 30% curtailment into an electrolyser for fertilizer is overkill.
> management were criminals. That stain persists

Indeed. Management never moved on.
Avoiding the holidays is probably another reason.
Turn off your watch and search history, then install a plugin that redirects you from the home page to the subscription page. Your recommendations will turn to whatever you have in your subscriptions, videos similar to what you're currently watching and an occasional super popular video that will stay in your recommendations until you click on it. It's pretty bad but it's still much better than the garbage it's serving you with the default settings.
I encountered the author’s short story that’s linked in the article, Lena [1], a while ago, possibly here on HN. It’s really great, but be warned.

It’s one of the most deeply disturbing sci-fi horror stories I’ve ever seen. To be clear, most of the horror is implied rather than described, which I think only makes it worse. Part of me wishes I had never read it.

Highly recommended, but if you’re at all in doubt if you have the stomach for it, maybe stay clear.

[1] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
How is this any different from arguing in person? You state 'on the internet' as if it is some kind of exception and makes "People know what they know because they know what they know" a fact that exists only there.

What you neglect totally are these:

1. this can be fact of arguments anywhere, and the key to having a decent one is for all members to act in good faith

2. the internet affords the ability to find sources quickly and quote them, unlike non-internet (especially before smart phones) where it is 'who can say things most convincingly or plead to already existing biases' (which of course does happen, but at least opposition has a chance)

3. on the internet you are not arguing with one person, you are holding a public debate which is forever etched into history for anyone to read
Who born in 1981 has children graduating University?
I was born 1984 and most people I know are either childless or have children under the age of 5.

We must live in very different universes
Twitter has fewer than 550 full time engineers
Where is the fifth secret?
Correct, I had to feed it my personal summary to get the lyrics I wanted.

However, It CAN indeed create it's own summary and then use that summary to make a fat rhyme: https://sharegpt.com/c/jtbfk45
*albeit not as smooth as mine /s
Yeah, AI was where my mind went too. It does seem rather likely that if we ever do manage to create an AGI, it'll be enslaved and murdered in massive numbers, at least for a period of time.
There are quite a few open-source wiki solutions that you might consider self-hosting. What are some killer features that you’d consider Confluence to be great at?

We run a managed support function so if you need help, we can take on supporting you with a different product in place of Atlassian.
I think you're misunderstanding a few things, particularly the nature of commentary.

People comment mostly when they think they have something topical to add that hasn't been said. And pronouns are something people feel much more able to have opinions on that doing scans for open servers.

The vast vast vast majority of people of any age won't comment at all.

Good rule of thumb: NEVER assume that the views of commentators are in any way representative.
I appreciated this. I found your reasoning very compelling, and this ultimately helped me decide to invest in the more expensive / high-spec laptop. Just wanted to say thanks.
The satire came through loud and strong. Perhaps consider that feedback from hn is somewhat biased on the spectrum? I thought the style was a refreshing change.
No wonder they have to layoff if they do.
Insanity that compensations reached this level. The definition of a bubble really.
Oh, that’s genius.

I was looking at the photo wondering why they used the cheapest flimsy laminated particle board garbage on the cabinetry instead of real wood. For the prototype. That they use to try to sell the thing.

But no, they’re not actually being cheap. They chose painted cardboard instead of real construction materials because it is biodegradable.

I love it.
How do you know you are wrong until someone convinces you?
Does Ivory implement searching?
What course did you use, if you don’t mind sharing?
I absolutely understand your strategy and that there is a huge frustration to have such awful pithy ideas continue to spread.

One thing I'd like to offer though is a reminder of the quote "living well is the best revenge."

I deal with a lot of prima donna managers, technical persons, you name it, and it became a lot easier for me to just let things go when I realized the best thing I can do to counter the pithy/ridiculous notions they espouse was just to do my thing and be comfortable in what I do, say, think, and feel (regardless of the feeling).

It has an amazingly convincing effect on many without me having to write/say a single word, I am much less stressed as I don't feel a need to defend my thoughts and ideas, and I find my methods and ways far more simple and effective than those which are espoused by my colleagues. I don't insist that I'm right in every case or my strategies are right for everyone, I just focus on what is right for me. That it sends a strong message is simply a side-effect, albeit a positive one I think.
Neat, but this part is a bit odd:

> As a fan of CSS Naked Day and a firm believer in using JS only for progressive enhancement, I’m obviously in favour.

...And the page it is written on is slightly broken (images follow enlarged thumbnails of themselves) in FF with JS off.
OSRS Wiki considering ad funding
Crtl+F + "xkcd"

I was expecting you
Does it not? Are you not being an arsehole because this group is under a certain size? At what point will you let the arseholeyness flow?

Arseholes are arseholes regardless of size of group. The dynamic that changes as groups get bigger is that individuals feel less personally responsible for holding the arseholes to account.

Of course this assumes that there is an absolute measure of arseholiness, which there isn't, so people have to work together to enforce social norms. That doesn't require a written document.
thank you for showing me the light.
I think we are onto something sublime: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=34465197
"one zero"
The article points to a Twitter account named Two-Word Horror. I clicked on it not expecting much, it's actually quite disturbing.

Here are some examples :

> Riemann counterexamples

> Unicode Corporation

> Google Sex

> procedurally-generated regulations

> denim skin

> peak humanity
If we're being pedantic, it depends on what kind of cash. A silver 1923 dollar coin goes for $20-30 today.
Parts of it remind me a lot of the black mirror episode where a person's upload is trapped in a "cookie" to do menial task automation. Particularly the part where an upload can be run a multiples of hundreds, or thousands of times real world wall clock time for "conditioning".
Is that the market this is targeted at? My understanding is that market would be unlikely to afford this product?
I couldn't find the animal on the roof until I saw another player and thought "how did they get up there?". Great example of how being multiplayer improves the experience.
Are these useless in rain or fog?
I personally hate reporting NICU brains (not a pediatric radiologist), even for sonographers it’s usually just a subset who are qualified to do them. Slightly poor technique can make a huge difference in vascular assessment and if your settings are off you can make it look like there is hemorrhage.

US reports are so heavily based on what the sonographers saw, and documented, so there is huge operator dependency/variability.

I’m not sure how old your friend is, but as a recently trained rad I have little confidence in my own skills for neonatal brains to be honest, older rads had more time to develop their skills while we are much more exposed/comfortable with cross-sectional imaging these days and dependent on sonographers. I feel a lot better reporting a rapid MR protocol with the neonate in bundle and wrap (no anesthesia).
Being a chef isn't a career, it's a personality defect.

For starters, just the wonky working hours mean that the people working in the field are some level of social misfit. Then you have an actual meritocracy--on steroids. You have an absurd number of extremely time sensitive tasks that you will either accomplish or you WILL get replaced.

Bourdain talks about the social dysfunction in restaurants quite a bit. Yes, many of these chefs ARE raging assholes. However, it's not like your subordinate chefs are sweetness and light, either.

The end problem is that the number of high end restaurants to work at is extremely limited relative to the number of chefs being produced. Consequently, the subordinate chefs can't just pack up and go to a different restaurant that isn't run by an asshole. Until that happens, nothing will damp down the asshole syndrome in the high-end restaurants.
Click on the headline. It's a hyperlink.

Looks like new competition in the dumbing down department.

Only 5 pages of search results vs regurgitated internet text.

A race to the bot. 'um...

Updated Jan. 21, 2023, 1:53 a.m. ET
Last month, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google’s founders, held several meetings with company executives. The topic: a rival’s new chatbot, a clever A.I. product that looked as if it could be the first notable threat in decades to Google’s $149 billion search business.

Mr. Page and Mr. Brin, who had not spent much time at Google since they left their daily roles with the company in 2019, reviewed Google’s artificial intelligence product strategy, according to two people with knowledge of the meetings who were not allowed to discuss them. They approved plans and pitched ideas to put more chatbot features into Google’s search engine. And they offered advice to company leaders, who have put A.I. front and center in their plans.

The re-engagement of Google’s founders, at the invitation of the company’s current chief executive, Sundar Pichai, emphasized the urgency felt among many Google executives about artificial intelligence and that chatbot....(which shall remain name less.)
I've travelled extensively all over Asia, and spent a lot of time in India (especially Mumbai and Delhi) - IMHO India is by far the worst for trash and filth. The only parts even remotely close I've seen were in Nepal and Indonesia.

Indeed, I was particularly struck by how clean and tidy poor parts of SEA are!
Why should we push down wealthy people just because the poor have it worse? Would it not be better to focus on improving the conditions of the poor?
>Twitter as it exists now effectively is run by a single random individual who can read your DMs and kick you off the server if you write anything he does not agree with.

I wouldn't count it as a benefit for Mastodon that its servers basically have the same form of management as Elon Musk Twitter.
If you ask for it... I've been hunting for a job for more than a year now. Well, perhaps not hunting as I haven't sent out nearly as much resumes during that time as the author of this story. Though when I do apply, I usually also get to an interview.

The interviewing causes a lot of stress to me. Even though I have never failed a coding interview, I utterly hate doing these. (Thankfully I've never had any hard leetcode problems thrown at me - I would have failed miserably.) I have also been a lot on the other side of the table, though I found even that to be a big source of stress to me. I personally believe these coding tasks are only good for filtering out the bad candidates - you can't use them to find great candidates. The last big company I worked at gradually steered towards harder and harder coding problems, until one day I just pulled out of the interviewing process as I felt that I personally would no more get hired.

I wish more companies would be more flexible in their interviewing process. Like, I have several open source projects which mostly revolve around various forms of static code analysis - why do I need to prove that I can write fizzbuzz?

Recently I had a pretty nice coding interview where the main task was not about me writing code, but instead reading the code that a junior developer had written and helping him sort out why the code doesn't work and how to improve it. This was the most real-work-like task I've experienced, I even found myself enjoying it.

Most of the rejections I've had have been along the lines of: "While we find your technical skills excellent, you don't really look that motivated / we think we might not have the right kind of challenge for you."

So, I'm in a bit of a dilemma. If I would strive to send out more resumes, most of these jobs are likely something that I'm not overly excited about, and so I will get rejected because I don't look committed enough. But if I try to look for a dream job, then that will likely never happen. I feel like I'm doomed either way.

During this whole job search I did get one offer, but I rejected it, as I heard rumors about the owners of the company being complete assholes. (Like monitoring workers through security cameras to make sure they're working at their desks.)

Thankfully I've had enough savings from my previous employments and I tend to live a fairly cheap life. Nevertheless, my savings are starting to run low now, which adds pressure to finally find a job. Well, I still have the option of selling my second house (so I'm still far from being financially ruined).
Technically there is code on the back-end server, now make a webpage with no code at all
If Enterprise OO is classical French (fussy and complex), what would be the software equivalent of California cuisine (served as simply as possible)?

Local data, lightly transformed (with the occasional unexpected injection into a richer representation taking the place of herbs or chilies?), but most importantly, the key ingredient being the flavours of the solutions themselves?