skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the shift in focus, specifically toward what your organizational goals are. However, it isn't clear to me where many of these metrics are coming from- are they manually input, or is it possible to connect them to a data source?

I've found that often without connecting to actual measurements, it's easy for teams to do dozens of hours of effort where a single hour of that effort achieves the majority of the effect, because when measurements aren't used directly, people will often just throw energy at the problem until it "feels" done. Sometimes this even means all that effort accomplished nothing. This is why I'm such a big fan of Impact Mapping[1].

1. Impact Mapping: https://smile.amazon.com/Impact-Mapping-Software-Products-Pr...
This seems like a variant on something that I've been interested in for quite some time, but haven't had the time/motivation/focus to really play with it. I call it "non-parallel slicing" in my head, but I think there is another term for it.

I use almost exclusively FDM printers. Slicers take a 3D model and "slice" it into a series of horizontal profiles that are laid down one-by-one on top of another to create the 3D output. This results in the print head moving in the X and Y axes pretty much constantly, but the Z axis moving only once per layer, and moving only in one direction (+Z).

There's no physical reason the Z axis couldn't be more mobile. Yes, you'd have to be careful to ensure that the print head doesn't impact the print in areas where material has already been placed, but that can be represented by a virtual model of the print head in software - or even by a handful of standard measurements:

* nozzle inner diameter: 0.4mm

* nozzle outer diameter: 0.7mm

* nozzle angle of approach: 30º

* Z-offset between nozzle and lowest part of the hot end: 5mm

The above would mean that instead of layers being all parallel to one another and to the bed, layer height could change dynamically throughout the print process.

If you're printing a wing section flat on the bed, the center will bulge - so the first layer height at the leading edge of the wing would be as small as possible (say, 0.05mm). At the thickest point the layer height could be larger (say, 0.3mm). The next layer would then be laid on top of the layer below, compounding the differences in layer height.

With traditional, parallel slicing, to get that resolution you'd have to set your layer height to 0.05mm throughout the print. The top surface of the wing would be a series of "stairsteps" much like the "jaggies" seen when upscaling a raster image. With a well-designed non-parallel slicer and an appropriate model, the top surface would be a single layer, laid down in a complex three dimensional curve.

The nozzle's "angle of approach" and the "Z-offset between nozzle and hot end" would place fairly restrictive limits on how much any given layer could diverge from horizontal and from the prevous layer. That said, this approach would allow today's commodity printers to be used in this way.

A more capable approach would be to design printer hardware to directly take advantage of non-parallel layers, by adding additional axes: A, B, and C, which would represent rotation around the X, Y, and Z axes respectively. This would allow full movement of the print head relative to the work piece (subject to the physical constraints of having the print bed supported on a plane, which the hot end may not impact).

The best part of all of the above is that the language used to encode instructions for 3D printing - Gcode - is literally designed for this use case. Gcode was originally intended to control milling machines, and 5- and 6-axis CNC are fairly common (albeit expensive).

I came across someone's university project a couple of years ago that implemented something similar to this concept, but never investigated it deeply and have since lost the link.
Discussed at some length just two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31138214
I take TikTok is just an example and that this applies equally as well to other social media like Instagram/FB/Youtube? Or is there anything particularly notorious about TikTok?

I haven't used TikTok myself but I have observed others using it and it certainly feels a lot more fast-paced and saturated compared to Instagram (which for me already feels like that anyway).
Hi HN, I am the creator of this project. Will be happy to answer any question you might have.
>Crowd-sourcing moderation, including flagging for categories you've outlined, will fail utterly.

I agree, which is why I didn't suggest it.
Remember Google glass? Besides, I think new technologies are generally thought of conservatively by the majority and will only have a couple of supporters in the initial stages.
I use it as the data store for my company's Grafana instances. I back up the SQLite store to an S3 bucket with litestream.io, allowing me to treat the servers as 'cattle'. It has worked perfectly without any issues, and saved the cost of a full RDS instance on AWS.
What kind of projects are the people you hire working on, and is it more than just CRUD UIs?
isn't this what pyc's are? what's the difference?
- This really isn't representative of the ML job market because the author is such an outlier.

- The fact that it isn't representative is what makes the article an interesting read.

- The fact that they claim to have a plan for solving AGI in 20 years really detracts from their credibility.
I think I'm with you in that I like autocomplete but I want to ask for it; prompting feels too busy.
He Came Out of Nowhere and Humbled Amazon. Is Chris Smalls the Future of Labor?
>>> If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills repeating verbatim over and over and over...

>> Comedians like Stephan Fry left exactly because people were saying whatever they wanted and being abusive. You can't have it both ways.

> People will be hurtful and abusive no matter how moderated the platform is.

Which only proves the point that the GGP's formula for Twitter's success doesn't add up.

Also, we're not talking about a binary condition, but one of degree. If people are leaving now because of too much of "people ... saying whatever they want... and being abusive," it's reasonable to assume more people like that will leave as the moderation lightens up. Other people might join because of the policy change, but I doubt they'll be "comedians and entertaining accounts."
Ah! I see where the miscommunication happens. They use the word in a particular context.

Here "expert control system" means that it has a decision logic designed by some humans. They sit down wrote an algorithm and said "I think this is a good idea based on what I know about the problem." Compare it with a reinforcement learning system, where they let loose a generic learning algorithm on the problem and then they see how it performs.

In this context "expert control system" doesn't mean that it was expertly designed, or even that it is any good. It just means that humans designed it for this particular problem.
I don't think banning them is the right move, but making it easy to clearly identify who is a real human and who is a robot/fake account would improve things a lot imo

I think there is value in robots on Twitter, and there is value in anonymous accounts (for whistleblowers etc)
Thanks. I suppose I'm after more materials related to projects with a science/research element where outcomes are perhaps more loosely defined than for a typical software project. I haven't read this, however, and it is definitely relevant so it's going on the list.
Only if you falsify your timecards, right? I'm not doing it, so I don't really care. But the felony would be falsifying billing paperwork?
I was on the other side of this: We had a remote worker who got a new job but then tried to hide it, collecting paychecks as long as possible.

For any manager paying attention, it wasn't difficult to spot. He would swing between being eager to please and virtually unreachable. We didn't have many meetings or phone calls, but he had more scheduling conflicts than anyone else. On the rare occasion that we had high urgency tasks, there was about a 50% chance that he would obviously be not working on it at all until the evening, despite being online all day.

Eventually we let him go for non-performance, which wasn't too hard to document. Now he has a problem where his resume start/end dates don't match what he's claiming on LinkedIn or (presumably) putting on his resume. He also burned the entire team (they figured it out) so he's not getting any positive references from anyway.

It may work if you can find two jobs with two incompetent managers who aren't paying attention, but I don't think it's as easy as people suggest for any reasonably well paying engineering job.
He hasn't financed the full amount and is still short. He'll have to unload Tesla shares to raise the balance; I'm very curious if he'll do that. Maybe in being overly cynical, but it feels like it may be the board calling his bluff rather than prolonging the process/having to find a white knight. I'm morbidly curious about what a private Twitter will look like in 2 years (both the company[1] and product)
Overnight it’ll become less toxic because he’ll “run it differently”? I’m skeptical.
Eventually AR will be the next paradigm after the smartphone. It takes many billions to get there. We should be glad Apple/Meta are investing in it. Meta is literally betting the company on it. Even if they fail, the engineers will continue with whoever has the money to try next.
Have you actually tried applications / games on it?

If selling it to people requires they experience first then it's dead because that automatically limits the size of the market to people who are willing and able to spend $300+ to try it.

For VR to become mainstream people need to want it before they've bought it.
yeah, i even ended up using firefox foxyproxy addon because then i could either go all in on the proxy or whitelist style only few websites or blacklist with all websites and few open. that addon probably was the best thing in all of it because i was not pushing the entire OS through the tunnel.

yeah, i guess for some time, cisco was called out by news outlets for helping the government impose the firewall which the company later denied but the damage was done by then so it didnt really matter, still, i think this just slipped from their minds, a random port, somethimes 80, 8080, 3400. it was fun (well considering the circumstances) with the added risk of incarceration if caught and many were unfortunately so yeah
If you're familiar with work being done in support of the above, or even if you're just intrigued by it like I am... please feel free to reply or connect with me. Maybe you'll "light the fire" for me to spend some real time working on this :)
FWIW, a lot of US employers report your current employment status, role and salary to databases like Equifax's 'The Work Number' - and nearly any organization that subscribes can view this data. HR departments DO look at this info and occasionally spot-check it to catch moonlighting employees.

You can request your own data here: https://employees.theworknumber.com/
Now that it looks like Elon is going to buy it I wonder if your view has changed at all. Would you be ok with him censoring left and liberal and democratic posts? Your previous view seems to say that it should be fine since you have other sites to express your opinions on?
I want to just clarify that I think that Tesla the company has done some amazing engineering work. However, _Elon Musk_ himself has not been a great contributor to that work, and he is not a good engineer. He is good at hiring people and holding them accountable to a vision. He is good at raising money from both investors and average people. He is good at selling dreams. He is clearly not particularly good at actually building things.

Being an "engineer at heart" is part of his marketing game, just like it was for Elizabeth Holmes and Steve Jobs. Also, being an engineer at heart doesn't make someone a good engineer. Tesla has accomplished incredible feats of engineering, but that doesn't mean that _Elon Musk_ has accomplished them. Also, the fact that Elon Musk is an incredible marketer shouldn't be taken as a dig: he is clearly the best marketer of his generation and Tesla undeniably would have failed without him. It's when he or his followers get fantasies about Elon Musk being brilliant at everything that I get upset.

As to credibility as an engineer, let's look at the other examples of Musk's engineering work (the ones we know _Elon Musk himself_ was responsible for):

* The hyperloop is a ridiculous concept that defies physics and engineering. Musk personally wrote the "white paper" for it. He wrote that white paper because the California legislature was proposing high speed rail from LA to SF (that would be a ridiculous waste of money), and he didn't like their proposal.

* The boring company makes tunnels. They are not particularly cheap or fast to dig, unless you compare their tunnels to tunnels several times the diameter (as Elon Musk does in his marketing material).

I have no problem with Tesla and I hope they become a successful car company. There is a good chance that my next car 3-5 years from now will be a Tesla if the company proves itself capable of surviving a bear market and the quality issues go away. Musk has been great for Tesla in the growth phase, but they may need a new CEO for the next stage of life.
Are you suggesting fraud? If not what? (I also suspect many MAU numbers are fraudulent)

Edit: spelling
Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, GitLab, Alphabet?
how did you identify your breathing issues? My new dentist referred me to an ENT due to thinking I may have sleep apnea, and I've been hesitant to go as I have no idea whether this is serious or some ploy to charge me for more stuff. I generally fall asleep within a few minutes, have energy throughout the day and never use caffeine, and get a full night's sleep on a typical night. I also have almost perfect dental health (knock on wood). I would be happy to resolve breathing issues but I'm skeptical of how serious it is given my circumstances.
Sure, he could do all those things you list, but I have no idea why anyone would expect him specifically to be able to do it while no one else could.

Just a couple examples:

>gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board

Musk's personality and actions turn off many of these people. It will much harder for Musk to get these people back than it would be for a publicly traded company.

>lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills repeating verbatim over and over and over

Musk himself controls an army of shills who attack anyone who disagrees with him. It has now become common for people criticizing him to stop using his name because some of his fans will search Twitter for anyone talking about him in order to aggressively defend him. Why would we expect him to work to stop shills site wide when he has put no effort into stopping his fans from exhibiting this same behavior?
Not to mention there's a regional bias here. There are plenty places around the continent that just don't have many cool "startup" type jobs. (Or if they do there's a feeding frenzy for them because everything else in the area is insurance/finance, etc.)
That’s a disgustingly prejudiced statement. While I don’t like Mr. Musk very much myself, I’ve known plenty of autistic folks who do a great job managing communities.
Fyi someone took pcntl_fork() in PHP seriously and made WorkerMan:
https://github.com/walkor/workerman/blob/515ed41ac4fc51fc995...

A quick test got me 50k req/s HTTP "hello world" on my laptop.

The madlad even managed to place PHP in top 22 TechEmpower benchmark:
https://i.imgur.com/6fKUpbV.png
Look, this started with a claim that Twitter moderation policies are blocking us from addressing climate change. Then a separate claim, that any sort of moderation is harmful, was made and I challenged it. Now you are coming with a third position, which is that sometimes moderation is indeed bad. Which is true, but the real question is whether current moderation practices in Twitter are blocking us from meaningful discussion, in particular in regards to climate change.
> hits a month

Is not a very useful performance metric. What is your peak hits per second?
Murdoch isn't already a rich person controlling large channels of communication?
Bezos isn't already a rich person controlling a large channel of communication?

All of these channels are controlled by rich people. Who is controlling the lobbyists? Who is financing political parties/campaigns. This is the cost of oligarchy. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. I don't know how we get out of this spiral. I think a huge tax on digital ad revenue would help make these channels more organic and less contentious but I really don't know.
Slightly off-topic, because we use PostgreSQL on the backend, but because StoryArk is offline-first, we heavily rely on SQLite in our mobile app. The backend database is mostly just there to backup your local data and to sync it across all of your devices. So there aren't that many queries being run on the backend database.

I can't really count how many times I've been pleasantly surprised by how extensive the feature set of SQLite is. I mean, it even has window functions (https://www.sqlite.org/windowfunctions.html).
And being able to quickly open up the app's SQLite file in a database browser is also quite helpful during development.
Musk was CEO of PayPal and definitely has a deep background in programming. He made his initial fortune through writing video games and then another software startup called Zip2 (a forerunner of Map Quest and Google Maps).

Levchin was PayPal's CTO and is also deeply technical.
>Not because of credentials or personal data, but the things we say and the way we say them online. These things will be enough to link personal accounts and alt-accounts.

Are you basing this on writing-style analysis?
> Both of these are incredible and will definitely change the world in a very drastic way;

I'd easily take the other side of that bet.

More fundamentally, though, I take issue that "the HN crowd is myopic about new technologies". I'll just speak for myself, but I was easily excited about smartphones, the potential of SaaS businesses, I remember taking my first Uber thinking "I'm glad I'm not a taxi driver", etc. etc.

The fact that many on HN look at hucksterism and bullshit with a critical eye is something I think we should collectively be proud of.
Lots of changes. Like built in async, generics, shapes (typed associative arrays) and I learned the other day here on HN that XML templating is built into the language, somewhat similar to JSX.
Is there no RSS feed for the blog? I tried finding a link but failed to do so. Hopefully I am just blind.
> "Moar free speech lmao" doesn't sound measureable

Did you just make up a ridiculous quotation and then attribute the sound of it to Musk ?
This is an extremely selfish answer - by refusing to spend a few hours writing a front-page summary of your language, you're valuing the time of your m developers (where m is small) over that of the n developers who might want to evaluate the language (where n is large).

A language made by people who consciously make that tradeoff is almost certainly not worth even trying to learn. At least, if you're looking for a language that will actually act like a force-multiplying lever and save you time. Like, you know, programming languages are meant to do.
Couple of other important points:

* the full time and contracting gigs are in separate time zones, which helps time management.

* I only actually work ~45-50 hours a week total, but all work is complete.

* I only take on work that aligns. I use several extremely standard tools and ALL gigs are all the same, which lowers my cognitive overhead a lot.
This makes sense. Thanks for the clarification :)
What happened to just letting things play out? You don't know what's going to happen.
Your score isn't my score.

My F/T job at a FAANG adds up to about 10 hrs/week at most.. sometimes 15 hrs due to extra meetings. Could easily fit in another job, but would rather sit in the sun and read a book.
There's a huge difference between coasting a bit and using available time to learn, do side projects, read books, even earn a bit doing some freelance non-competitive work--and working two jobs where the expectation of each is that you're working full-time. (And, in all probability violating various confidentiality etc. agreements.)
Resume parsing is something I'm working on, see https://lxagi.com, it's in the examples.
Who on HN hates VR? That tech has been breathlessly praised here, at least years ago, but it’s just since fallen into the trough of disappointment for the time being. Eventually it’ll get to the plateau.
That is, more or less, the core idea of Red Bull's marketing strategy--one of the most successful marketing strategies ever.

Is it so wrong to hype something for the sake of hyping it? I certainly get as much entertainment value out of this as I do from a Hollywood movie.
Comments on that article are quite juicy.
My suggestion would be to create a language that compiles to PHP, similar what TypeScript is to JavaScript.
I mean recent Twitter leaks have shown internal tools that let them categorize users into blacklists and the ability censor their tweets so they dont get much reach or engagement by not showing up in Trending lists and etc. The screenshots of the tools came out during the big hack a year ago that was pushing crypto scams.
You are missing one subtle but important flaw in your dismissal: not self-hosting means that your compiler will only be developed by people willing to write C/C++ code, which has practical implications as well as taking away some of the punch from your effort to improve on the status quo.
No matter how productive, high level languages will always cause a performance knock-on effect by kicking useful stuff out of instruction cache and internal registers.

Yet they are useful.
Problem is, even if you are careful about who you follow, they will eventually start tweeting about US politics, world views, etc. I follow mostly sports, but can't stand influencer devs, etc.

One exception is wesbos of course, maybe I just like the guy since he not always tweets about programming and I still enjoy his content.
I had good luck accelerating my Applesoft programs with TASC but I was surely a terrible programmer back then.
But why not use a single character? With the double colon, something like foo::bar(xyz) looks like bar is “closer” to xyz, when in fact it's closer to foo.
Vine was awesome.
I feel like people just want to dunk on Russia, which I totally get, but this would be the reality of any country trying to make a laptop with only existing (as in available day-0) domestic components and software. Taiwan, China, and the US would probably fare better but still would make mediocre laptops by global standards.
Thank you all for trying Pollhub.xyz. I went from zero users to over a hundred in a day thanks to you.