skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The hard work often involves making unpopular decisions, or telling someone "no" when their pet request wouldn't be in the best interests of the team

I realise I'm just plucking a small point out of a large comment here, but I'd like to drill down into this one a little.

My very limited experience is that teams can generally self-manage this sort of thing. You tell them what you're trying to optimise, under what constraints, and lay down some ground rules for equal and fair participation, and then the team can make their own tough decisions and tell each other when they're not acting in the best interest of the team.

What am I missing?
“Sleep apnea can really jack up your heart if left untreated”

Maybe that will finally work to get my husband to discuss his painful-sounding snoring (with sudden stops) with a doctor and push to get sent for a sleep study!
Probably /r/themotte, a place where people who think of themselves as hyper-rational use polite language to veil their abhorrent opinions.
He's got money and in theory he can float the existence of Twitter in an unprofitable state for a while. The fact that he's borrowing so much for the purchase means it's unlikely that's how it will actually work but Twitter feels much more utility-like than a profitable business. Some rando rich guy stepping in to float the bill for a decade or so seems reasonable to me.
That's some godawful typography for such a smart guy.
How does calling a cave diver a pedophile fit into these? Words are just marketing. Musk's actions are more telling.
Poison pill can be used for price negotiation, not just blocking an offer. Prevent hostile takeover and force the buyer into the negotiation table. They are now in the negotiation table.

The rumor is that the offer to be accepted is the same, so it wouldn’t have worked as intended, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth trying.
Informal poll: is bootstrap over?
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Big warning: their summary is "Among high-legibility fonts, a study found 35% difference in reading speeds between the best and the worst."

This is completely wrong and comes from an abuse of statistics. See the original research at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3502222#d1e6428

An understandable explanation: imagine having 5 dice. You roll each die 4 times, then compare the highest sum to the lowest sum. Then you report that the highest die rolls 35% higher than the lowest. This is what the authors did, with each die being a font. But the experiment does not actually show evidence of any difference. If you rolled 500 dice, this method could claim that the highest dice are 200% higher than the lowest, even though all dice are still equal.

The original authors seem aware of this shortcoming, but did it anyway: "we are somewhat stretching the applicability of a Cohen’s d analysis for this data". This is likely because they did not know of a better method. But it is wrong to be pushing this analysis. The main author is from industry, so perhaps he was unaware that this effect can be corrected for, or that this type of misleading claim is malpractice. But someone in the chain of publishing - the journal editors, the reviewers, the large author list, or Jakob Nielsen who is promoting this - should have caught this. It is their main result!

In the absence of legitimate statistics, the article's circumstances point to a failure to detect measurable differences between fonts. There are two ways fonts may be better than each other:

1. across the population, so that one font is better for everyone

2. personalized, so that different fonts are better for different people

The first case should be easily detectable, and the second case should see some correlation between preference and speed because of a familiarity bias (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3502222#d1e7351). These are the Bayesian expectations I walked in with. Neither of these appear supported by the article, although I have only skimmed it.

To be clear, the experiment does not give evidence that fonts perform equally either. It looks more likely that the experiment design failed.
No. They are more related to the "glanceable" displays mentioned in the article.
To begin with you and your crew can stop downvoting comments you disagree with. Do it and you will have evidence of change.
I'm just multiplying 1.6M by 1000. assuming a Solana engineer held on to every token they were granted.
Interesting! Now I wonder why this is. Could it be age brackets being stretched? That's just off the top of my head, but I'd be very interested to hear people who know about these kinds of things.

EDIT: Probably this:

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-highest-earning-...
What qualities does the "right" person have? Is the goal of a financial takeover actually finding the right people to run it? Are the current people the right people?
Are there no longer issues with regards to the limited number of writes on flash chips before they wear out ?
Yeah sadly it was the same for me (Firefox). I was hoping for a cool trick.
Used it in several Django projects, up to around 2M pageviews a day but most of that cached read.

I usually drop it because I need something that Postgres has or does better, or it's a write heavy site.
jeez, where are you getting jobs where you can work like 2-3 hrs a day and get paid 250k + ? Are u a leetcode god or a 10x programmer?
The last time I used C++20 features (modules) I caused a segfault in GCC. This was in December, iirc it was GCC 11.
well, that's a Pyrrhic victory. Still a victory, true.
But according to those quotes there was still anesthesia administered in all cases, just not always general anesthesia.

So the possibility of anesthesia being the cause has not been ruled out by the studies you quote.
Maybe bike riding isn't really exhausting for you anymore?

I used to cycle to work in the pre-2020 era, but during the first few months I remember how everything in my mind was about the bicycle and the road and forcing myself not to stop. After this first period the body adapted and the usual train of thoughts returned. When I noticed I was thinking of mundane things during the ride was when I considered that my body had adapted
I had a conversation with a PhD neuroscientist who was quite prominent and good in her field. She didn't have nice things to say about fMRI studies. Full Stop. That was ~10 years ago, so I'm sure techniques have improved, but she was arguing on the principle that the time scales on which it can measure just aren't conducive to measuring the actual activity that neurons produce.
This post reeks of someone who doesnt ‘need’ a job and has made enough money already. Good for op to go after ‘exciting problems’ rather than the mundane will I make rent and fees
As a relatively unremarkable data scientist/machine learning engineer of about 5 years, I've been keeping an eye on DS/ML positions as they tend to give a sense on what is important to companies in that space, although I'm not actively looking for a new role. More and more positions seem to require Ph.D. credentials even for non-senior roles, even though modern DS/ML tooling doesn't require it.

If I ever left my job I might have to quit DS/ML and do something else entirely.
Interesting article, although as with most military write-ups of this nature perhaps a bit thin on the introspection. Ever wonder just how much damage one nuclear submarine could do?

> "Rising between levels in the missile compartment, 24 large orange trunks fill the nuclear ballistic submarine like an apocalyptic orchard."

Probably (wiki) these are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-133_Trident_II

Each probably (wiki) carries four of these independently targeted warheads:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W88

Now, if you want to basically wreck human civilization with one nuclear submarine, drop one of each warhead over each of the 100 largest nuclear reactor sites on the planet. Fukushima for example had six reactors and >1500 tons of fuel rods on hand at the time of that disaster.

This will cause a complete meltdown and aerosolization of much of the fuel, it'll go into the atmosphere and rain down for thousands of miles downwind from the site, creating no-go conditions for human beings (unless you want massive radiation poisoning and birth defects etc.) Multiply that by 100x around the planet and you can see what a mind-boggling disaster it would be.

Now, that's just one nuclear submarine; there are many in operation. Plus the land-based and bomber-based nukes. And this is all done because otherwise, every single international conflict since Hiroshima would likely have escalated into the kind of crazy WWII tank battles and aerial bombardments of cities that took millions of lives. Probably has prevented full-on land/air/sea battles between India and Pakistan, for example. And yet... all it takes is some accident, some breakdown, some misunderstanding and the nukes start flying.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Some people will argue that this is why there are no alien civilizations, they all torched themselves once they reached our level of technological development.
IF the employers are happy with the work, or even not, nobody is getting exploited here. IF the work suffers, they are free to fire.

For the properties, people need to rent from someone. Landlords are only scum if they mistreat their tenants.
My own personal suggestion is to additionally use an add-on such as Tweak New Twitter, which (by default at least) results in:

1. you only see direct tweets and commented retweets from people you follow
2. no trending
3. no suggested
> The whole "pedo guy" episode comes to mind

Yeah, I think HNers supporting this should reflect on the fact that comments like this would get you moderated and rate-limited here on HN, and that's generally considered a good thing.
Completely agree, you're very much in control of what you see, and who you interact with. There's plenty of features in place to aid with not seeing things you don't want to.
You can fix a lot of the interaction at scale by allowing mass verification (there are third party APIs for this) and allowing people to filter on verified real human interactions.
It’s usually in the contract to accelerate them in times like this, meaning the employees get all the shares or the cash equivalent, saving them up to four year of their lives.

Buy anything could happen. Cleanest to accelerate.
> You are demanding, and you have no right to demand anything of random strangers on the Internet.

In which case, the developers of this language are demanding that I spend my valuable time trying to read through their documentation to figure out if this language is good for me, in which case I reply: my time is also a gift and you have no right to demand that of me - I'm going to go and look at another language, and suggest that friends and fellow developers do the same.
>Everyone agrees that Netflix is woke, the disagreement is weather wokeness is good or bad.

I thought conservatives preferred facts to feelings? This doesn't seem to be an opinion based on facts.
Of course he “admires NASA” that pours money into SpaceX.
It's more like sand blasting, but with dry ice instead of sand. This has been used for paint prep in industry and automotive for some time now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry-ice_blasting
He used Twitter to foment a violent insurrection.
i believe it becomes a shitshow if you start twitting. Thats because twitter will notify you of replies to your posts (it shouldn't maybe). there are mobs of political trolls that trigger each other and it can become pretty funny. if you can ignore it , fine, but most of them are being deliberately provocative

twitter should be for top-most posts only.
I've had success using the self-service tier from Ably.com, which is <$100 USD/mo. [1]

Their client libraries handled most of the edge-cases that I would have had to worry about using SQS or a message broker on my own. It seems like they're scaling using sensible technologies on the back-end and have very approachable pricing for early-growth projects compared to some of the enterprise focused alternatives.

[1] https://ably.com/pricing
No they don’t decide. They suggest. Are you also offended by the suggestions?
I know a former Amazon Engineer.
After working at Amazon as a mid level engineer, co-founded his own startup in Mexico, as CTO.

It's a startup... titles in a 50 people organization don't compare to 50,000 people organization titles.

I'm sure you can go and be a VP at a startup too, if that's what you want to do. Just go and network at Incubator, Investor, & Entrepreneur events/meetups/organizations, and come up with an idea & customers, then execute and try to get customers on board... rinse and repeat.
Burning man 747 to be moved to Las Vegas
The current limit was still arbitrarily chosen and image macros are still legion on twitter.

The limit was not chosen because it's particularly well aligned for interplanetary communication so I'm still confused as to why twitter is being touted as the best aligned social media platform.
I wonder if any of these tools have crossed the chasm, though. In 99% of office environments I've seen, it's a split of probably 90% MS Office and maybe 9% G Suite.

Sure, people use OneNote and such as a secondary thing, but outside of some startups, they're not the central thing. And startups are early adopters, very fickle.
I find that I have a lot more monologues if I’m talking with people a lot during work. Or if there’s some unresolved thing I want to discuss with someone. When I spend long times without speaking with anyone then I find the chatter goes away
If Elon Musk wants to fix Twitter, he should focus on creators and subscriptions
He, undoubtedly, overpaid for Twitter. Also, the blue-check allows key users to distinguish themselves and is one major reason that "notable" people are using Twitter for essentially all their communications. Elon's plan to diminish the blue-check by giving it to anyone who has verified themselves by buying Twitter Blue would be very destructive and hurt Twitter's moat.

-- Edit --

Actually, disregard the blue-check comment. I oversold it. A blue-check is actually not that important.
I like this. We love to frame every news story as a key battle in the epic struggle of Good vs Evil.

But sometimes, there is something happening that is just random... stuff.
Don't despair. I work for a FAANG and have previously worked at startups. Title inflation at startups is a huge factor. In fact, titles are not equivalent between any two companies. I have seen startup CTOs (even series A) transition to senior engineer IC roles at a FAANG.

As you identified, location is the next big factor. If you are still in Europe, my advice is to leave or to start your own company there. If you are working for primarily US based companies in Europe there will always be a limit to the level of exposure you get to leadership and to how fast you can rise up the hierarchy.

Finally, don't discount Eric's profile. Through some combination of his public profile and professional work, he's established a reputation and following. That is just as important as any hard engineering work in securing a senior/leadership role.
I agree that joking, and laughing at certain jokes, are by their nature divisive. It's feasible to get a room full of people to agree on a feature spec, but it's not really feasible to get a room full of people to agree that a particular joke is funny.

I don't agree that "joke less, laugh less" is good advice. There are things in life more important that minimizing divisiveness at all times.
Any idea what motivated the decision to run on an 18 hour day? You mentioned the drawbacks (widespread fatigue), but there must be some (many?) benefits. I'm curious what those might be.
Just wanted to add another’s scenario where postgresql has been useful to me. Functions. There are cases where you have expensive operation(s) that reference a lot of persistent data. Even without massive traffic these operations can be prohibitively expensive in the middleware. Leveraging database functions can be a massive performance improvement (100x + for me), especially if your middleware is slow (e.g. rails).

I’ve used SQLite in production once and it worked great. But that was a very simple app. For more complex (but not always higher traffic) I’m leaning more and more on postgresql and less on my middleware, like moving business logic to the database when it makes sense.
Isn't this a quite an annoying thing to setup? IRL Live streamers have these backpacks and they seem needed to be battery powered and quite bulky.
It's Newspeak.

This particular manipulation of language consists in the confusion of cause and effect.

Diversity of opinions exists. It's good and it's accepted to be good, even if it makes feel some people bad sometimes. Freedom of speech requires effort to accept we're different. To make it sound bad, you need to create a frame where everybody agrees on everything until some evil "divisive" person creates division.

That's false.
> Miscellaneous: joke less, laugh less

why did the language police cross the road?
> Their plane, if they can ensure there's nothing on the ground to be hurt, it should be their own business.

Maybe that _should_ be the case, but it is not.
Me too. Attempting to paste anywhere else does the same, as a reflection of the inescapable futility of existence.

Or it could just be that I'm using Firefox? Seems to work for me in Chrome. :)
If you're positing Twitter does not influence political power and reach, it's hard to accept any other arguments seriously
Systematic and well entrenched problem require the first step of acknowledgement. If you do not even acknowledge there is a problem of empathy across the board today in our society then you are not even in the first step.
A Scottish man in the UK was recently charged with saying the only good British soldier is a dead one.
White House seeks more power to counter use of drones in US
"Product impact is even slower than robotics due to regulatory capture by hospitals and insurance companies."

The author apparently does not understand regulatory capture and is throwing around catch phrases to sound smart. Regulatory capture would imply that healthcare encounters less regulation than it should due to influence over the relevant government agencies. This should increase product impact and reduce time to market, the opposite of what he suggests.
Consider using the "Minimal Twitter" browser extension. That solved for me the issue you're dealing with.

Or try element picker from ublock origin.
Yup, but as I live in the tropics, I can speak confidently about this behaviour, having witnessed it, experienced it, and participated in it in my childhood years swinging through mango trees.
While this is cool, I think we should seriously take a look at how insects navigate 3d spaces. They typically have compound eyes, where each eye-let incredibly simplified (in fact, early-stage evolution) photoreceptor that has independent connections in the brain. They have crappy resolution but incredibly good response time and spatial awareness. And they are super low power.
Corporations are just groups of humans represented by a legal entity.

So yes, free speech only applies to humans, lol.

Do you support spam bots having rights or are you just using that to try to win your argument?
Unfortunately, for Netflix, in its rush to get content the company approved a lot of average quality stuff. Stuff that has little longer term attraction. So the attraction to its library is minimal. Apple would be attracted to the users but now Netflix's price is very rich so its purchase is not attractive at this time. A few years from now the company will start to trade on earning rather than growth. That's when Apple will want to buy it. But at that point multiple companies will want the subscribers so others will go after it too. My guess is that Netflix would not be the first choice for Apple. They would try to buy quality content first but apple is still figuring out the business so if anything happens it will be years from now. My guess is that Netflix will end up being part of Discover. They have started to agregarte content and Netflix is a good fit.
that's just conspiracy theory garbage- there's no way the chinese govenment has a political agenda
This describes 95% of machine learning at FAANG+, unfortunately nobody likes to talk about. Context: I work at a FAANG.
A similar thing is happening in the music space. For quite a few years, I was happy with Spotify for my streaming needs.

Now, thanks to outages, an increasingly crappy app, and a conscious decision to constantly shove podcasts in my face (despite the fact that I am a paying customer for a music service), I've quit Spotify in 2022. At this point it's safe to say that I don't miss it at all.

Growth will be the death of the entire technology sector eventually. It erodes quality services, you can never rely on anything because they'll eventually be mined out for profit.
It's still working just fine, with still the same amount of swap in use (approximately).
Do you have a strategy for doing this? Since C++ stays relatively backwards compatible I would imagine there is lots of legacy code that gets untouched but newer features would go into the new stuff - with legacy code getting replaced only for big refactorings?
the blue check is already meaningless. It's been handed out to people with 100's of followers and no names.
If Twitter were unmotivated my money and functioned more as a utility under the moral compass of Jack, that seems like a better outcome than a rich guy who deeply cares about money and the stock beholden to capitalistic profit driven investors, no?
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Here you go: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ClipboardIt...

Also note that the ClipboardItem API doesn't work in Firefox unless specifically enabled :^(

I guess I'm okay with that, considering the API could be used for things way less fun than your magic trick
I also find Twitter a nice place, as I mainly follow science and engineering topics. As for occasional stray into politics and culture wars, I simply try to get information and analysis but ignore opinions. Take the controversy on the "don't say gay" bill, I simply tried to get answers to questions like what the bill says, does it target any specific group, was what Disney said true, why some people were angry that the bill forbids teaching any sex orientation before 3rd grade, why sex education is such a divisive topic in the US, and etc.

As long as I focus on getting information and ignore those who consistently gave doctored information, Twitter is awesome.
Can behavioral interventions be too salient? Evidence from traffic safety msgs
What caused the board to change course was that Elon Musk filed with the SEC showcasing that he actually has $46 billion in funding secured, via an amended 13D filing [1].

This led Twitter's board to take his offer more seriously and many shareholders to ask the company not to let the opportunity for a deal slip away [2].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000110465922...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-twitter-set-acc...
Nix flakes, and how to convert to them
The lead developer said the performance problem could not be solved and the code was abandoned.

I'm not sure how you can spin your way around that and be taken seriously.
Semantic nitpick

"Shills" implies commercial backing. Ex. the democratic party hires operatives with shill account networks to create the illusion of popularity for certain tweets. (google sally albright)

"Stans" is the better term for Elon fanboys. I haven't seen any evidence Elon is paying these people to defend him online (would be pretty pathetic if he was). I think most of these people are just really into the cult of personality. Much more similar to kpop stans. (etymologically rooted in the eminem song "stan" - an excessively obsessed fan)