skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And lets not talk about the 0.1x developers who are probably also a thing. If you get enough of those together, team productivity completely collapses. I've seen that happen.

1x is normal. Some people are less, some people are more. Normal is good and predictable. There's nothing wrong with normal. Normal people that put in a decent effort will produce results. That's a good thing. For a lot of long lived software, normal is what you want. You can't reasonably ask normal people to be more than normal. That would be abnormal. Putting in 120% of your best is not a thing. It doesn't work that way. You are doing pretty OK if you are getting 70-80% of your theoretical best. That's what normal is.

There are of course people who are a bit more capable than their average peers. This is often confused with working long hours. The ability to work longer is mostly something young, relatively healthy people are good at. But there's a difference between working longer and working smarter. You can't work 10x more than a normal person. There's only 24 hours in a day. The only logical way to get 10x more done is to work smarter. There is no other way. And some people really just are that good that they get more work done in the same amount of time. Part of that is experience, brains, and just being really efficient with their time.

An exhausted 10x developer is not a 10x developer. Because they'll be perpetually too tired to work smart. So they might be producing a lot of code but it will be the type of code that will need a lot of maintenance. A true 10x developer consistently writes less code with high impact without wearing themselves out too much. Doing that requires skill and experience. The best code is code you don't have to write. Use the right libraries, avoid reinventing wheels, make your code testable (so you don't get bogged down debugging it), don't repeat yourself, etc. If you find yourself doing the same thing over and over again, automate it. That's your job. Don't keep on doing the same thing. That would be stupid and somebody else will do something smarter eventually.
I'd love to learn more about this loan system. Do you mind if I ask which country that is?
Hold on. That bill contained the PBM stuff, but that doesn’t mean he was wrong about it being full of pork - though I don’t know one way or the other.

They certainly could have just done the PBM reforms in a separate bill instead of shoving it into something else…but then they potentially wouldn’t be able to get their own choice cuts of pork passed.

Anyways, seems odd to blame Musk directly for that even if his tweet did kill the bill.
The percentage of the federal budget that is spent on dialysis and the life of the patient preceding when they're put on dialysis.

Even without that, when Cuomo in NY said he wouldn't trade grandma for a dollar, there was thunderous applause across the US. And many here argued that the economy isn't as important as any life lost. That's enough to cement it for me.
That's fair. I just think saying "credit reporting should be illegal" is throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Well this brings back some old memories :)

We built our own KLT point tracker to make "Onscreen Text Substitution" stick to moving cars and/or during camera pans.

We reverse engineered Winny (a Windows-only filesharing software) to build a Linux server with WebUI so that you could conveniently remote-control a server in Japan.

We built a C-like language with AOT compiler that actually creates machine code to make particle effects render faster.

We used spectrogram analysis to assist with separating the audio track for along karaoke animations.

And of course there was multiple competing xdcc servers.

And then there was the truly crazy stuff like a TSR bootloader for your PS2 which would hook drawing calls in memory so that you can fan-translate video games, too.

We truly had an insane amount of cutting-edge tech back then, if you consider that this was just some people's hobby to enjoy Japanese content.
Does that include airfare and living expenses? I figured out that if I needed two crowns, it would be cheaper to fly to Estonia and use my friend's dentist than to go to a US dentist.

On prescriptions, reimbursement for drugs bought from cost plus would also help drive down pharma prices
The cuts in funding directly and immediately cut researchers doing lab work and the funds for all the reagents and experiments.

Teaching assistants are different, those are paid by the university so classes will continue. Only the science gets cut.
The issue is that “BlueSky” is, for most of its users, the centralized official app. If that gets bought and starts blocking or demoting content from “non-official” clients, switching to a third-party client will not help you since you would lose your contacts.

And the longer this centralized situation lasts, the harder it will be to get back to a healthy ecosystem where nodes are truly peers and none of them can hijack the network on its own.

(Also, I am ignoring the complexity and cost of running an AppView. Running a Mastodon server is a $5/month affair, running a BlueSky AppView is several orders of magnitude more expensive.)
It seems like this is confusing The Church with a church.

Notre Dame Cathedral is a church, but you could burn it to the ground tomorrow and it wouldn’t have hardly any impact at all on the persistence of The Church.
That is under investigation, and believed to be non compliant with the act:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...
I can't speak for all providers, but I can say that, in many cases they're getting squeezed by the insurance companies, too. My girlfriend is a provider of services for young people with disabilities. The insurance companies fully dictate how much she can charge (how much the insurance companies will pay) and even what specific services she can provide (what they'll specifically pay for). It's infuriating. Up until about 7 years ago, she was fully funded by the state through the California Department of Education, and it was simple. She met with a single person from the state monthly, they reviewed her billable hours, made some corrections here and there, and she got paid. Simple. When private insurance was introduced it became a nightmare. She had to hire a full-time employee just to manage billing with the insurance companies. One insurer won't even talk to providers at all. Nothing. Nada. She has to fax them. Yes, fax. And their fax machine only answers during business hours; it's powered-off outside of business hours. Why? Because fuck you, that's why. It's obvious that the insurance companies make it as difficult as possible for providers to get paid, which is not too different from patients. Weird...not.
“No, stop, this important.”
If that is a reply to my "Well, no" then it is beside the point.

You are quoting laws that are about responsibility to "ex-wives" during the husband's life while the discussion is about widows.

There can only be one widow and widows' pensions did not, and do not, apply to ex-wives. Under common law alimony typically stops at the paying spouse' death, too.
My dad used to have a job where he’d basically go around to failing small-time family practices and help the doctors there figure out their financials. I remember him telling me that in an extremely typical scenario, he’d walk into their office and somewhere in there he would find a huge stack of unfiled insurance claims.

Usually when he’d ask them about this, the process of filing these claims with the insurance companies was so onerous, they just fell way behind on the process. Typically you could resolve this by bringing in someone with a LOT of experience filing these claims I believe.

This was back in the 90s, so maybe the advent of computers has improved this particular part of the game (I’m not in the industry myself), but at least back then, it was infuriating doctors too.

I am not surprised in the least to hear that, like every other system in this economy, it seems to have gotten massively more complicated for approximately zero real-world improvement
I can assure you there are countries where a credit score does not exists, and people absolutely get loans and mortgages.
I will always be suspicious of these company throwaways that are around only to sell a site. The website is buggy; the hyperlinks at the top don't work. The pricing makes no sense - 5700 credits for what? It's "a certain amount" but what exactly? There's no names or faces on the site.

You can promise whatever you like, but there's no credibility behind it. It's almost like someone asked Manus to start a business lol
Because the regulations encourage vertical monopolies. Replacing that with a state mandated vertical monopoly unconstrained by market forces isn't going to help. In fact it'll probably make the situation worse. There is no reason for there to be monopolies in healthcare and if they are emerging that strongly suggests misregulation. Giving the regulators more power in that sort of situation is the opposite of helping.
This is fantastic advice. At the first startup I worked at, we had several issues with our MySQL dbs & ETL jobs (MyISAM table locks, slow updates, no replication) - I spent a few days just reading the relevant sections of "High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More" - and voila I had solid recommendations built on facts rather than random opinions people created over the years - put my career on an entirely different trajectory.
This is so cool.

I’m exploring micro-VMs for my self-hosted PaaS, https://lunni.dev/ – and something with such little overhead seems like a really interesting option!
För the same reason that you'll find many operatives with links to e.g. George/Alex Soros in 'progressive' circles.
If it goes down how I'm seeing it in other universities and government labs.. highly unlikely. A ratio like 1:1 or 2:1 is still horrible, and those are big numbers.

Likewise, it's miserable for the people who are left. Research efficiency is plummeting due to having to do nonsense work and the funding path being murky for the next few years. Firing support staff and stopping funding paths means researchers must spend even more time to get fewer grants accepted.
Good job brother! What do you think you need to implement before it is production-ready?
> I certainly don't want to pay for all the sales kickoff parties and conferences that the employees of my software vendors pay for, yet I still am forced to.

Yes, there is a difference between the way you treat government grants versus private voluntary sponsors. Such splurging of others money is bad. That private companies do it is unavoidable and impossible to mitigate. But you can definitely try to avoid it with government money.

> Benefits of exchange of information

You can sugarcoat "parties" how much ever you want, it remains a fact that it is not a necessary aspect of the conference.
The libertatian view is that everything be privatized. Government found bad except as a feedbag.

But it goes deeper.

RAGE[0], Retire All Government Employees.

Or just take over government, effectively privatizing it. [1]

Document [2] PDF

[0] https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-d...

[1] https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/silicon-valley-whistleblo...

[2] https://america2.news/content/files/2025/02/Musk-NRx-Memo-Fe...
Hyperion (Tree)
Because I don’t pick where I live based on why I can get for my money. That’s like - the least of my concerns.
Gretag Eidophors (1992) [video]
I agree wholeheartedly with this article, and wrote about the same thing back in 2018 [0]. The Hero (or 10x) Programmer is a seductive archetype and I can see why managers and leaders and teams are attracted to the idea. The simple fact is, tho, that just about anything worth doing requires more than one person these days and the toxic negative side effects of “10x disease” on a team ends up outweighing any positive productivity effects a single person can bring.

[0]: “The Myth of the Hero Programmer” https://matthewsinclair.medium.com/0061-the-myth-of-the-hero...
As a counterpoint: Most countries in Europe don't really have credit scores, but mortgages still exist. We even balk at the idea of needing to take on debt to show you are good for it.
That’s somewhere in the neighborhood of an entire college tuition.
Tesla Owners Are Desperately Trying to Disguise Their Cars
I don’t understand the obsession of people with recursion. Sure it’s a cute math trick, it makes you feel smart, but it is an undebuggable mess with a ton of gotchas that lead to stack overflows.

Let the math to the math guys who never ship a product.
https://archive.is/cS4kH
I have honestly slowly over the years lost my love for the iPhone. Back in the early days they were exciting and you could jailbreak and do lots of fun things not typically possible on a non jailbroken phone. Some of those fun things eventually became features of the stock iPhones but in the end the phone is very locked down and can only do a very small portion of the things it actually could do if not so locked down.
I get what you're saying, but this reasoning has always rubbed me the wrong way.

You will often hear scammers and con artists justify what they do by saying it's the only way they have to support their family. It's like, why is your family more important than any other family in the world? It's still a selfish act.
This is the easiest way to filter spam, bots, and people that never bring anything valuable to the discussion. It also applies to bio.
Question: Do you believe that Google and Palantir will not develop tech and work for Chinese Government(market)? Or Apple? Or Oracle?
>If there are 100000 people being charged for domains companies will find a way to continue doing so

The companies will not have a choice in the matter. If ICANN removes the .su ccTLD from the DNS root servers, they'll simply stop resolving (unless most of the world is somehow convinced to adopt an alternate DNS root, but that seems like a far stronger "will never happen").

Any company that continues to sell .su registrations after the domain is retired would open itself to a world of trouble from unhappy customers and legal issues.
I totally believe it would be possible to create AI that replaces some positions in a useful way. But, it would require actual work and care and data collection and testing. Not, like, arrogance driven programming.
If you read the article, you will realize that the flying itself is the least problematic part.

It's sensing when the birds' mood is right, nutrition of the birds, sensing distractions and dealing with them, regrouping when the birds decide to not follow along,...

It's a really difficult and complex undertaking that isn't solvable with technology.
> why they care so much about work when the rewards are not proportionate to doing so much extra work.

Most of the >1x engineers I met can’t help themselves and be their best version.
IBM's S/360 was millions of lines of code in the 1970s. Managing millions of lines of tangled code is not novel. It is older than most HN readers.
> but great teams makes great software, not great individuals.

For a long time, OpenSSL, the standard encryption library used in everything from global banking systems to embedded devices, was built and maintained by two full-time engineers. It took the Heartbleed episode in 2014 to publicly acknowledge that potentially millions of technical projects stood (at least in part) on the backs of two nameless individuals along with the contributions of a small number of itinerant volunteers. While teamwork can be an important if fickle instrument, it tends to be a lightning rod for inviting too many cooks into the kitchen. What is often downplayed or goes unsaid in these commendations of teamwork is the place of an individual mind as the wellspring, the sine qua non, of great ideas and projects, including software. As is often the case, one person can solve an issue that has stumped thousands of others. Such individuals tend to work at a faster pace alone than the de facto committees that teams often become as they lose their agility, foresight, and focus. Unlike a football team, coding doesn't require a minimum number of people to achieve greatness. On the contrary, the opposite appears to be true - that there's a Dunbar's number for doing good work.
They want profits for themselves. The goal is to make goverment dysfunctional and remove its useful functions.
See also The Worst Kind of Programmer [1] which talks about how detrimental the work of high performers often is.

[1] http://mikhailian.mova.org/node/284
Salaries are rarely the biggest expense in lab science and it's easy for a bench scientist to spend more on reagents in a day then they will make. Then there is all the very pricy equipment that is necessary, the cost of disposal of waste, the fume hoods and other extremely expensive real estate....

The overhead on a software is basically zero dollars but it's very different for science.
The development of that other protocol that was also blessed with a money injection from Jack, is NOSTR.

This protocol and all the clients and relays went the full decentralized route.
This had up and downsides. Not all clients support all features. Not all relays support all features, and the quality between these apps is greatly differing.

But the upside is: the development is truly decentralized. Nobody is in control and every developer chooses which of the many NIP (Nostr improvement proposals) they want to incorporate or ignore.

Off course, most users will just use the most popular clients (like https://primal.net/home and https://damus.io) but simply thaking your crypographic keys and moving clients, or using a whole bunch of clients next to each other, is just such a vastly better experience then logging on to one platform, either BlueSky or X.
They've removed this [1] page from their site, but it's quite relevant. The main reason funding is being cut is for things related to DEI, gender, and so forth. And it seems this organization was heavily involved in such, which means they may have seen a significant reduction to their funding, even if nothing but funding related to these issues was scrapped.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20240807150252/https://www.jhpie...
> It's crazy almost nothing changed after this revelation.

The "democracy" noted that when you bomb someone's brain with information and emotions (modern journalism), "he" will forget in 5 minutes what "he" was told.
Especially when "he" has to pay the rent and feed a family.

"he" here could be any person.
Are you using a niche OS or is it just an app which doesn't like them?
Command A: Max performance, minimal compute – 256k context window
If you want to dive into the details, you can copy the "fonted" output to a unicode analyzer. [0] is an online unicode analyzer that seems to work well.

[0]: https://devina.io/unicode-analyser
My apologies, I interpreted "running out of space" as meaning running out of memory, rather than meaning overflowing the stack.

The tail recursion part isn't right though. If it isn't optimised into a loop, then tail recursion makes no difference at all, you will overflow the stack just as rapidly, not later. If it is optimised into a loop, then you will not overflow the stack at all.
Ask HN: What new libraries/frameworks are you developing? And in what language?
It also sounds ideal for resuming memory intensive per-user programs, like LLMs with a large context window. You can basically have an executable (and its memory) attached to a user session, but only pay the cost for it while the user session has an open request.
Automotive industry is what is keeping QNX (if not Blackberry as a whole) alive.

I'm surprised Ford or some other major user hasn't just acquired the company outright.
Raw, unchecked pointers and manual memory management facilitate unsafe code. Any language that supports these is potentially "unsafe" to some extent.

So why not simply eliminate these unsafe features? The answer is --- speed.

What makes C/C++ suspect with regard to safety is the fact that these languages tend to promote unsafe features and constructs as standard practice and offer no realistic alternative using their standard libraries.

It's possible to build/invent anything using these languages including safe practices --- but the end result will wind up looking foreign to most who normally use these languages and cost more than their employers normally expect to pay.
The real 10x devs are the ones that just do ten times less work than the rest but you cannot tell from their output.
I dunno, I used to have Kaiser which is vertically integrated and the nice thing was there wasn't the thing where the Doctor says we should do X, but your insurance won't pay for it, so we'll do Y. Or my favorite where the doctor writes a prescription, and the pharmacy doesn't fill it because it's not covered, and you have to convey what is covered to the doctor so they can write that instead.

Kaiser would sometimes tell me that we have to try X first before we do Y, but then the X's worked sometimes, so it seemed like they were asking for reasonable things to reduce cost.
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Vague descriptions of wild partying and other "shameful" behavior at a taxpayer-funded scientific conference is a classic attack by conservatives aimed at discrediting, in this case, scientists.

Until you name the conference, I'm just going to label this as conservative bullshit.
I worked for a PBM in the late-90s. I wish I would've sold crack cocaine and guns to children. I would've felt better about myself. ... Hyperbole, indeed, but wow, that company, and PBM industry, was shady as fuck.
Agree. I am so happy that Dorsey's other open protocol (nostr) went another route. There is no 'official' client, there is just a whole bunch of competing clients, some of which have even attracted some small funding strategies to maintain a development team for the forceable future.

But none of these clients are big enough to push through locked-in features. They all have to play nice (for now, like SMTP and IMAP once did) and be interoperable.

For info, check out Lopp's blog: https://blog.lopp.net/why-nostr-matters/
What reflections do you have putting this into action over the year since that post?

BTW, your blog is one of my absolute favorites!