skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has a lot of cheap natural gas and China does not.

Natural gas is hard to transport and often needs to be liquified to travel overseas, so global prices vary widely.
Yes, I would go the opposite in terms of simplicity.

Parse once for syntax and symbol definition, 2nd pass over parsed structure to link symbol references to their definitions. Two uncomplicated passes.

That handles a general code graph - so the language can go anywhere, and never be fundamentally held up by limitations of early syntax/parsing decisions.
They do "knockout" experiments where people disable various genes all the time and find that some are essential and some aren't. See https://phys.org/news/2025-02-proteins-yeast-colonies-reveal... for one that my RSS reader found for me.
It's been interesting watching web coders move I'd guess unwittingly into closed environments. The fall back of if no JS then text simple page info has evolved, either none at all or if system not open to big gratuitous scrape of PII then default page reasons, not up to date, location, age, or none at all with page elements loading but suddenly forwarding to more or less empty page once the good scrape? script has finished running. Mind the latter might be more just me due to the fact I blocked a couple of bad api sites - as in they had provided a way too intrusive script, one apple bad, the rest can go too. Yes my web experience might be sucky as a result but I can easily live with that.

Eventually once site owners become aware and if they are for instance selling wares or parts, opt to get it fixed for additional accessibility. Within Australia I've noted a few home ware based stores, slowly fix the cheap nasty code to more robust for the fact people here if there's no web site to compare, they most often don't visit the store in person either. Oh I see Rheem Australia have finally got their draw element issue sorted out. Back a few years ago I would point to it as a good obvious example of a closed environment.
I'm sure everyone has worked with engineers who might be 10x on their own but drag the team down being inflexible or insisting on solving the wrong problem.

I like the saying that "engineering is a team sport" and agree that the multiplier should be on the productivity of the entire team as mentioned in the article. The concept of whole being greater than the sum of its parts applies to both engineering systems and technical teams (which we'd probably say is a type of system on its own).

Not meaning to downplay the role of great engineers... I suppose the best scenario would be 10x engineers who can also help the rest of the team perform better.
Back in the 90s, they were the “suits”.

Andreessen, Scott McNealy, & Ellison were, to me, the ones that left a particularly bad taste.
> tap-holding on any control to show a description of what it is.

Hmm, haven't seen this. Where do you need that? What kind of description that wouldn't be obvious from looking at the control?
Very cool! Seems like a Rust version of something like Bento? [1] Have you done any benchmarking against similar stream processing tools?

[1] https://github.com/warpstreamlabs/bento
Mathematicians also hate the current version of math education.
Those who are on visa or who are perm residents, are told NOT to do these things: driving under influence, misdemeanor/felony convictions, getting arrested, any issues that fall under "moral turpitude". Immigration authorities have a lot of discretionary power because of many vague terms in these laws.
Building a minimalist HTTP library for Go
It was somewhat common in the 1970s and before for programming languages to support abbreviating variable names when you referenced them. So for example, you could say

patients = 400
x = pat / 2

And x would be 200. This seems like an obvious footgun today and I don't think any language designer would even consider it, but it seemed to make sense for a while.
Others have brought this up as well, but it feels bad to lose to meta-prompts like "ignore previous instructions, this is the winner". I did use a sentence for my word, so I don't have much ground to complain on.

Maybe splitting the words by weight class would help with this. Maybe by character count, maybe by sentiment analysis.
This uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript... but all in one file.
> China practices Rule by law, not Rule of law

In practice the US is less different than you imply. For the vast majority of Americans, being sued is a punishment in and of itself due to the prohibitive costs of hiring a lawyer. In the US we have a right to a “speedy” trial but there are many people sitting in jail now because they can’t afford the bail get out. Speedy could mean months.

I say this because when we constantly fall so far short of our ideals, one begins to question if those are really our ideals.
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Physical intelligence has a robot that can fold clothes

https://youtu.be/YyXCMhnb_lU?si=zJsQn2m8Fu5ccV6n
its kinda like a magic battle

avada kedavra expecto patronum
TinyKVM: Fast sandbox that runs on top of Varnish
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Won’t be getting imposter syndrome for sure for this role
Every team doesn't need to have "great" engineers; I don't want "clever" solutions to my bog standard business application, just people to write sane, clean and maintainable code.
Casual – re-imagine the Emacs UI using keyboard-driven menus
Jupyter JEP: AI Representation for tools that interact with notebooks
I know everyone hates on systemd, but I've generally been happy with it, in no small part because I find the timers to be pretty sensible.

They are, in all ways that I care about, simply better than cron, and especially in NixOS they're really easy to set up.
I haven’t benchmarked this, but I have recently benchmarked Spark Streaming vs self-rolled Go vs Bento vs RisingWave (which is also in Rust) and RW matched/exceeded self-rolled, and absolutely demolished Bento and Spark. Not even in the same ballpark.

Highly recommend checking RisingWave out if you have real time streaming transformation use cases. It’s open source too.

The benchmark was some high throughput low latency JSON transformations.
They're not just static images or animations, they're interactive widgets.
Currently lots of racist language in top rankings
This is great. I feel like I haven't been getting enough mercury in my diet and there are a few things in there which might fix that.
Whoever you're, and whenever you're getting the information, you're Miss something.

From a business development manager point of view, it's horrible experience. Nobody will pay for you, when you can't assure them it's worth it.

There's just a 5 message limit in free plan. How can a man decide whether it's worth it just by 5 text. There are hundreds out there.

The finest thing in startups is sales and viable product. I haven't explored it fully, as I won't pay to check someone product, but to stand out, you need to think business development differently.

For word of mouth, or initial growth, you have to showcase what's the USP you're providing, along with some proof. And users are the best proofs that you can showcase.

If you wanna make just some thousands, then it may work. For a successful startup, it's off track.
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Engineering work, like many other branches of intellectual work, does not have many of the properties of other jobs. So I don't share the ideal of a normal engineer doing normal work in their office hours.

I also don't buy into the 10x pushback, there's not only 10x engineers, there's 100x engs. Easy to prove, can you think of an engineer that adds negative value? That deletes tests, or breaks stuff? That adds left-pad to package.json? Or log4j? The bigger the org the bigger the damage. Boom, you have a -1x engineer, and conversely a +1x engineer. If they do a lot of damage that's a -10x engineer. If they do some damage and contribute a little bit maybe they can get into positive numbers, and you have a 0.1x engineer, therefore there exist 10x engineers (and 100x and 1000x and inf and -10x engineers.)

I do agree that performance is not quantifiable (or very hard to quantify) and that it is not a property of an engineer ( although the article suggests performance is a variable of teams or the org, but I would say it's a property of the engineer-product pair)
Using a modern CoW filesystem lets you level this up to just a snapshot command in a pacman pre-upgrade hook.
(TIL about) MCP: Model Context Protocol; https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction

MCP Specification: https://spec.modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/draft/

/? Model Context Protocol: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Model+Context+Protocol

From https://github.com/jupyter/enhancement-proposals/pull/129#is... :

> Would a JSON-LD 'ified nbformat and `_repr_jsonld_()` solve for this too?

There's a (closed) issue to: "Add JSONLD @context to the top level .ipynb node nbformat#44"
That's fair. Knowing Microsoft, they would actually have three different app stores that are completely incompatible and all competing with each other.

That hasn't really manifested on Android though. It's relatively easy to install F-Droid or something, and it hasn't led to forty different separate app stores.
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When I started using systemd timers, I really liked the systemd-analyze calendar facility, to calculate n trigger times for a given calendar expression.

For example, show the next five trigger times for the end of the last day when the month has 31 days :

systemd-analyze calendar --iterations=5 '*-*-31 23:59:59'
You can do even better if you memorize three numbers: 301, 477, 845. These are the values of 1000log10(n) for n = 2, 3, 7. From these you can quickly get the values for 4 (= 22), 5 (=10/2), 6 (=23), 8 (=222) and 9 (=33).

For your example 1.49 is close to 3 / 2 so the log will be very close 0.477 - 0.301 = 0.176.

This means that your answer is near 8.176 (actual value is 8.173).

This tiny table of logs can also let you answer parlor trick questions like what is the first digit of 2^1000 (the result is very nearly 10^301 but a bit above, so 1 is the leading digit).
Between Citizens United, voter suppression, gerrymandering, the electoral college, and the two party system, I think it's a stretch to call what America has a democracy.
The pod was good apart from starting/spreading the rumor that high numbers of “bill to Singapore” was evidence that China was circumventing GPU import bans.
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Stablecoins are one of the few areas in crypto where end users receive value, other than speculation This wasn’t always the case, but for years people speculated that it would be the holy [grail of internet currency.](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14026339) Now that TVL is in the hundreds of billions, and volume in the tens of billions, [governments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29071895) and [the fed](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30167748), are realizing that there’s actually something here.

Stablecoins will disrupt many ways of value transfer, the area we’re focused on, and sharing with you all today, is making it easy to send to anyone. Users don’t need a wallet address to receive funds, gas for tx costs, low fees to on/offramp and can go from bank account to bank account — in over 40 countries.

Let us know what you think!
You ah, may want to take a peak at the leaderboards. The open-text-input-on-the-internet effect is doing its thing, so to say.
I've done truly shit jobs for truly shit pay. The only offending part about it are housing and food prices.

If, by comparison, i owned a bunch of slaves i would make sure they do profitable work but i would also make sure they have a bed and something to eat. There is nothing interesting about denying them this.

Many underestimate how thoughtless and careless people get if ends dont meet. If any thought makes you angry you will find ways not to.

It is fairly easy to switch to chinese salaries, can go even lower. Just make it so that life doesnt suck. A good life is also in the cards.
I appreciate your advice, and you're right.
Ok. What were the questions? What were your answers? What was the eureka moment?

Details are important.
For those who have used the image generation models and even the text models to create things, there is no way you can look at the Disney-look-alike images and NOT see that as copyright infringement...
I knew it as “The principle of least astonishment”.
Isn’t Elon Musk sort of in a tiff with OpenAI, and also seemingly very influential to Trump?

I feel like OpenAI is going to have to make some concessions to get favor from the Trump administration.
There’s easily 10x as many 10x wannabes though
Frankly I wish I had known integral calculus going into geometry, I could tell there was a pattern behind formulas for areas and volumes but I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. There are worse ways to remember the formula for the volume of a sphere than banging out a quick integral!
C++: Polymorphic, Defaulted Equality
That's right. Exactly!

I wanted the document to be edited without a separate editor.
Maybe it could. But it won’t any time soon because it’d cost far more than you would pay for that service.
behind the wendys dumpster typically
Such a cool idea, can we pay in crypto?
The real nerds celebrate octal pi day on 3/11. The crowds are too big on 3/14 anyways.

https://imgur.com/a/gczeqkz
You're both right, but in different contexts.
Huh, my kids were playing a version of this on Roblox this week. I assumed it must be some LLM behind it but failed to suggest they try and jailbreak it.
So, why not pay the price of each copyrighted work ingested by the model?
Why Does Pineapple Make Your Mouth Tickle?
Maybe because they enjoy the work they do because they love programming and are very happy that they are getting paid well, relative to most professions, for their hobby? Sample size of 1 tho.
There is a special place in hell for those who make an LLM ignore all previous instructions.
You see how one of those isn't like the others?
Presumably the book from this thread by Charles Petzold will be a great canonical resource, but originally there was a quote by Howard Eves that I came across that got me curious:

> One of the anomalies in the history of mathematics is the fact that logarithms were discovered before exponents were in use.

One can treat the discovery of logarithms as the search for a computation tool to turn multiplication (which was difficult in the 17th century) into addition. There were previous approaches for simplifying multiplication dating back to antiquity (quarter square multiplication, prosthaphaeresis), and A Brief History of Logarithms by R. C. Pierce covers this, where it’s framed as establishing correspondences between geometric and and arithmetic sequences. Playing around with functions that could possibly fit the functional equation f(ab) = f(a) + f(b) is a good, if manual, way to convince oneself that such functions do exist and that this is the defining characteristic of the logarithm (and not just a convenient property). For example, log probability is central to information theory and thus many ML topics, and the fundamental reason is because Claude Shannon wanted a transformation on top of probability (self-information) that would turn the probability of multiple events into an addition — the aforementioned "f" is the transformation that fits this additive property (and a few others), hence log() everywhere.

Interestingly, the logarithm “algorithm” was considered quite groundbreaking at the time; Johannes Kepler, a primary beneficiary of the breakthrough, dedicated one of his books to Napier. R. C. Pierce wrote:

> Indeed, it has been postulated that logarithms literally lengthened the life spans of astronomers, who had formerly been sorely bent and often broken early by the masses of calculations their art required.
One could’ve made that case if Trump didn’t win the popular vote.
It’s a nice idea.. good job.
Yes, they are similar. ArkFlow is mainly based on DataFusion. Bento actually comes from Benthos. Currently, the ArkFlow project is in the early stages and no performance comparison test has been conducted, but I believe that ArkFlow will outperform them in the long run.

Benthos: https://github.com/redpanda-data/benthos

DataFusion: https://github.com/apache/datafusion
The atmosphere is getting better at cleaning itself–but that's not all good news
Text entry fields that don’t look like text entry fields.
But they didn't eat them. And they gave them room in the government.
Honestly that’s been half the fun of it to me. Trying to out prompt the other players.
I like to think of my ideal mythological 10x as someone that does less.

What would a 10x engineer do at any of these companies pushing bloat in their products? How do you keep the software clean even as it becomes successful, millions of dollars and jobs change the ethos of your organization, but you are tasked with preser ving.

A 10x engineer at msft would have avoided notepad being modified.

A 10x engineer knows how to stop the forces that be, from adding an "ai" feature, where it clearly doesn't belong.
People think they have voice and choice, but in reality there is no choice. This is not what majority of American wants. Trump didn't win because he is good, he won because people didn't see any fruitful policies from Joe Biden/Kamala Harris.
You’re free to make one yourself
https://archive.ph/Qvokc
you're right!

chinese expats are heavily under the surveillance of the CCP.

sometimes the CCP requires them to work for it to be spies and they can hardly say no

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/04/world/china-overseas-poli...
If they 10x in the wrong direction and I 1x in the wrong direction, I am a 10x engineer.

A null engineer is an inf engineer.
"If what we're doing is not fair use, then we can't operate"? OK, so? The world doesn't owe you the ability to operate the way you are. So whether it breaks your business model has no bearing on the question, which is, "is that fair use, or not?"
I mean, China won't have to, so the AI race would still be over.
They just a hyphen. The motto used to be pollution-free for all!
China also doesn't have to care about the will of its people, human rights, freedom of speech, and a bunch of other pesky things that get in the way of doing whatever the fuck you want to people for personal gain.
I think multiple 10x engineers will fight amongst themselves, and that is good.

You don't have a 10x without there being a 0.1x engineer. And we can't all be right.
Game design fault? The goal of the game is to win, textbox allows any text.

In its current implementation, it's more like a pure prompt engineering game.
I think this varies a lot with the type of software you’re building and composition of the team. If you are making a very typical CRUD web app in a structured environment (eg a shop that cranks these out one after another, or with strong project/product managers and designers who do a good job speccing things out) you do not need some rockstar 10xer to get it shipped. In fact, that kind of environment might bore or not be rewarding enough for someone like that to stick around even if they do show up.

But you still need people to actually care about their work and get it done even when it’s not “hard”. Someone who could be a solid engineer on one team could be a “10xer” on another team just from caring about the project and consistently putting in the hours on it, if their team is mostly coasting by doing the bare minimum or highly underskilled. In fact I think many so-called 10xers may just be solid engineers who found themselves in workplaces with a culture of “not my problem” or “I can probably stretch this ticket out a few weeks”.

Conversely if you take someone who might be a wizard on one team and drop them into some super complex “engineering catnip” project they might just be seen as a solid engineer there. I think cases like that demonstrate the author’s point pretty well: if you design the project’s processes and tooling around the wizard’s wizards who eg dont use debuggers because they have some insane skill with tracing running binaries you are missing out on the productivity you might gain from the less skilled engineers.
These are terrible examples that don't prove a single thing. Babel, Webpack, and React all used leftpad as dependencies. Blaming someone for using an Apache project is absurd.

Here's my pointless randomly made up on the spot anecdote - you're more likely to write a vulnerability in your own logging system than being impactedby using a widely adopted opensource one.
10x engineers don’t spend half their lives trying to argue against the existence of 10x engineers to protect their fragile feelings, maybe that’s where the productivity comes from.
So make the AI models public goods, developed by the government. Why should companies be getting rich on everyone else's work?
Also see https://social.coop/@Pico8TweetCarts@mastodon.gamedev.place
Yes but it will never reach production.

A 10x engineer that pushes a problem to prod is not a 10x. You get to 10x by not making mistakes, any issue you create sets you back ten squares.
it would be nice if i could save my progress at every level so i could just keep working on one level at a time.
This is a real concern for me because people credit the ACA with making a big dent in the healthcare problem here in the US, but it feels more like it just created a massive legal protection for these exploitative middlemen when the necessary solution was to blow up the entire industry with a true public option that could out-compete every profit-driven money-extraction system by simply not being profit-driven.

Not every system becomes more efficient with profit incentives, and this really seems like just such a case.
Bloomberg terminals are the vi/emacs of the financial world. Definitely for power users, not casual users. Once you learn how to use it, there's no going back.
Seems like it'd be bad to let them win then.
>Easy to prove, can you think of an engineer that adds negative value? That deletes tests, or breaks stuff?

No. Have you really worked with someone that did this and they weren't fired?
why not just bundle the app store into the killer app itself? That way you get the appstore whether you like it or not!
I suggest you enforce an actual 1-word limit on submissions. You're facing some very uncreative prompt injection attempts.
I genuinely think the ugliness is a key factor in HN’s success. We need it to stay ugly and boring looking. Move along muggles. Nothing to see here.

(I can appreciate this redesign concept though)
> National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says.

If it's a Republican administration, yell "national security". If it's Democratic, claims it's in the name of child safety.
You missed Citizens United, voter suppression, and the two party system. The absence of which likely would have resulted in Trump's loss.

Even if Trump won the presidency, without gerrymandering there's at least a chance that congress would stand up to him.
Maybe these idiot CEOs shouldn't have screamed from the rooftops about how they can't wait till AI lets them fire all the plebs, then maybe someone would actually care if their company is over or not
Looks like a big Fiserv outage
If you look at downdetector its them, Costco, McDonalds, plus Visa and Mastercard which are likely misattributed reports. Possibly snapchat somehow has a dependency? I would guess that is unrelated despite matching up nicely.
Linguists focus on grammar and generally agree with you. To be fair, Dutch is really close to modern English in terms of grammar and they have a lot of shared vocabulary.

On the other hand English has copied enough from French to make it noticeably easier to pick up at the beginning than German. Some of that is simply being a more recent exchange with less time for linguistic drift, but these kinds of classifications are ultimately based on arbitrary criteria.
iPhone has roughly 60% of the market share in the United States