skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. There is literally nothing I want to see on Netflix since The Witcher season 2 ended. Same with Disney+. Oddly enough Amazon has the most compelling content, and I'd pay for Prime even if they didn't offer streaming, so it's essentially free for me.
A few comments:

1) The PhD takes a huge hit on your opportunity cost.

2008-2014 is 6 years of time; for me, it was the delta between starting my career as a junior engineer and becoming a tech lead at a hot unicorn which let me pivot to a CTO role at a small startup.

2) Academic credentialism has real effects.

This guy did a CS degree at an Ivy in the US. He has been set up for commercial success in the US tech industry through a halo effect you cannot also access unless you gained access to that institutional grooming at the same age. By choosing to do that PHD in EU (and a no name one at that), you forfeited that access.

In my experience, while the effect of this goes down over time, it has extremely strong launch + early compounding effects.

3) Risk tolerance can work to your benefit or against it.

You are working at a FAANG which is the safest and most cash lucrative option. In all likelihood, you have a great WLB and now a great blue chip brand on your resumé. However, the cost of this is that you're generally not going to get access to projects or culture that, by virtue of your participation, set you on an extremely steep growth path.

To get access to that, IMO, there's no real alternative to achieving strong outcomes working at a startup. Of course, that can be hard to do -- how do you figure out which ones are future winners, and how do you get them to let you come on board? I have no great answer rather than early career trial and error (accepting some of it will work out poorly and uncomfortably so).

I wouldn't say that "OP is a beast" per se, but it's much more likely that they have been groomed (working in the right conditions) in ways that you may not have. And yes, startups titles are not comparable to big company titles. It's apples and oranges.

The company he joined is a Series A startup, so absolutely an early stage company where whether you're VP/CXO, you're functionally going to be doing a player/coach role at most with tons of strategy baked in. But I wouldn't call that inflation, per sé. Sure, it's not the equivalent of being an experienced people leader and executive at a big corporation manning a giant organization at its helm. But you are often times in charge with significantly more responsibility and do not have bureaucratic friction and slow pace to hide behind. Doing a startup is just different. It's insanely risky, overall has poor risk adjusted rewards, and often is a magnet for shady characters. But if you can filter out the wheat from the chaff, you get access to the best career opportunities available, bar none.
It's not even REMOTELY close. They didn't have their bank accounts frozen for saying mean things, they were frozen because they were blocking roadways, damaging property, and making life in general more difficult for innocent citizens. You may not agree that they should have been frozen but it's absolutely not about saying mean things.
ELT? I was the RCA on my boat. Had some of my notorious stories of my time on board happen when I was the RCA...
Presumably this possibility is part of the risk the lenders are taking into account and charging for. If loan collateral was subject to constantly being marked-to-market and lenders could “margin call” to get more in scenarios like this, lending would be quite a bit safer.
SQLite is far faster than Postgres or MySQL, however, the price you pay for this is having a single writer thread, and it's a library incorporated into your process, not a shared DB. It's faster because those other features of a server have a cost as well, particularly the cost of write arbitration.

SQLite is fine when all your load can be served by a single backend process on a single machine. The moment you need multiple backends to handle more load, or the moment you need high availability, you can't do it with SQLite. SQLite has very limited DDL operations, so you also can't evolve your schema over time without downtime. Now, for streaming backups - how do you come back from node failure? You're going to incur downtime downloading your DB.

I run many SQL backed production services, and my sweet spot has become a big honking Postgres instance in RDS in AWS, with WAL streaming based replicas for instant failover in case of outage, and read replicas, also via WAL. This system has been up for four years at this point, with no downtime.

I love SQLite, and use it regularly, just not for production web services.
AIs Spot Drones with Help from a Fly Eye
Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users:

- Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter.

- Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out.

- Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-bait content.
Cathie is a bit of a case and I'd stay away from the ARK fund myself (it's basically a bad way to own TSLA which was great when TSLA jumped) but that fund is limited to holding no more than some percentage as TSLA, maybe it was 10%?

Disclosure: I held TSLA in the past, not at this time, though I hold index funds that hold it.
Every dogecoin transferred kills a dog. It's part of a fancy new crypto mechanism called proof of jerk.
I mean do you actually know anyone working at Twitter currently? That's really not that far from reality.....
They did invent their "standards", which they apply randomly and capriciously to suppress speech of people they don't like, while ignoring the same from people they feel more to their liking.
I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter
This guy is another Dan Luu. Insufferable posts.
Not a fan of Deprecate dynamic properties. This is one change/direction that may make me reconsider php in the future.
SpaceX isn't the only company shooting stuff into orbit. And VW isn't the only manufacturer pushing into EVss. I used those two because the were braught by OP.

And VW and others would care about EVs because of the general awareness about climate change.
Oh ok — I thought you were saying his pattern of usage of the platform indicated narcissism, and I was disagreeing with that. That you’re saying here “he gets armies of worshippers responding to every tweet” still gives me this impression about what you’re trying to communicate, FWIW.

> Also, if using Twitter that much were "normal" then Twitter wouldn't be struggling as much as it is.

I think they’re struggling financially (if you can call a multi billion dollar profit “struggling”) because the money people make from advertising on Twitter isn’t that related to how much any given person uses it, as they’re mostly competing with each other for a fixed quantity of disposable income. (Number of users seems too large to count as a struggle, not sure what else you might mean).

(That’s my guess, at least).
Online retail companies will never stop collecting and leveraging first party data - their own users making purchases on their own sites.
This is false. 200 bank accounts were frozen for organizing or significantly financing an illegal blockade of our capital.

Nobody had their bank account frozen for "saying mean things about Trudeau."
Nice how you swapped "billionaires" for "major capitalists" in building your straw man, there!
this is a very bad faith representation of what happened.
At the time, the trannies were the most reviled group.
It's weird my comment here is being down-voted when its pretty much a quote taken from the article. I put it up as a TLDR so people who were interested could read more, and those who weren't keep skip past.
Or more realistically, the first thing he’ll do is re-platform all those that got de-platformed.

Trump 2024, here we go.
Say what you will about the OP and the claims he makes in his career announcement... I was struck by how casually the author mentioned that Academia is behind various private companies. Call me romantic, for in an ideal world Academia is just as close to the cutting edge of knowledge as private R&D laboratories.
Ask HN: Rural Rentals for Remote Workers
I have a single rural rental property that I want to market to SWEs or similar remote-only knowledge workers, particularly those looking to relocate from an urban location and get (far) away from it all. For context, I manage the property from next door for my out-of-state parents; it's a truly idyllic place to live and work.

I expect that I am not alone in either having such a property to rent or desiring to find such a place to live, so I suspect that niche services exist for these demographics. I have looked around, but the options are overwhelmingly diverse.

As I respect and value the HN community's perspective and opinion, where would you be looking for such a property?
And he worked in one of the most exclusive teams, Google Brain.
This is a very common issue in the IT industry.

The most important thing you can do is to not let it get to a point where its impacting your health.

What that typically means is taking regular vacations, if its already at a point that's difficult to deal with, you'll need to take a long break to recover.

A break where you only think about what you want to spend your time on, and time to do things that you wanted to do. There really isn't much you can actively do to recover after being burnt out.

Time where you have no main pressures is the only solution at that point and from my experience it usually takes at least a month to feel normal again. Some people bounce back better, but some people need to take at least a few months which can be difficult if you don't have much saved.

There are coping things you can do if that's not possible, meditating, specifically learning to still your mind can be helpful for some people. Disconnecting, not carrying a cell phone at times can be particularly freeing.

What's important is you take the time you feel you need because its different for everyone. Some people bounce back more quickly or more slowly. It all depends on your circumstances. You don't need to give work 110% of your time or effort especially at the wages most people get (considering inflation wiped out 20% of people's earnings this past year and the corresponding increase in taxes for some people added another 10% to that.
Researchers develop a method to keep bots from using toxic language
Glad you love Caddy.

If the host is popped, I'm not sure what Caddy can do to save you. Even authentication has to be stored on the machine... that was popped.
Not even close. Reddit 1.0 was an era where the trolls didn't know what was possible. It was a pleasant era where extreme events that necessitated the subsequent rules/bans didn't yet occur.
Reagan told a variant of this joke:

> 'It had to do with an American and a Russian arguing about their two countries,' Reagan said Monday, relating the story he told Gorbachev. 'And the American in the story said, 'I can walk into the Oval Office, I can pound the president's desk, and I can say, Mr. President, I don't like the way you're running our country.'

> 'And the Soviet citizen said, 'I can do that.' The American said, 'You can?' He says, 'Yes. I can go into the Kremlin to the general secretary's office, I can pound his desk and say, Mr. General Secretary, I don't like the way President Reagan's running his country.''

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/11/18/Reagans-jokes-draw-S...
The author is a skilled research scientist in a very competitive space with some high-profile publications (e.g. Gumbel Softmax). He is absolutely an outlier, but not a unicorn -- AI researchers with good publications and reputation will attract a lot of interest from companies with lots of money to spend. Low 7-figures for an ~L7 research scientist with competing offers from FAANG research labs is not crazy.
> designs are often very different because of the different scales and levels of organisation.

This is our disconnect. I'm arguing for definitions that are scale invariant. In the long run and the wide (universal) scale I would expect any developing system to just increase in "layers of scale" over time so basing our labels on them doesn't seem useful.

In that view "technology" is just another natural specialist organelle produced by the biosphere.

As a fun aside, In the context of viewing the entire biosphere as an organism implies we are it's (still maturing) reproductive organs and that space colonization and terriforming will just be the organisms calfing season.
In order to reduce the risk of capital outflows, the National Bank of Ukraine has decided to prohibit Ukrainian residents from purchasing cryptocurrencies using the hryvnia, Ukraine’s monetary currency. This judgment comes just a month after the enactment of a law aimed at regulating and enabling access to cryptocurrencies in the country.
> Clear political banning and violation of section 230.

This has been posted a bunch of times, and it's wrong. Section 230 doesn't prohibit political bannings. It doesn't actually prohibit any banning at all.

This is the relevant section (from https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230).

> (2) Civil liability
> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
> (A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or
> availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene,
> lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise
> objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected;

Even banning for constitutionally protected speech is explicitly allowed.

Whether that's a good thing or not is a separate conversation, but nothing presently in section 230 would prevent Twitter/Facebook/etc from banning an entire political party.
It's a bit confusing; it's not $210 a share, but that was the exercise price for the poison pill bonus shares.

https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status/1516047634812833799
Can you demonstrate an exploit in Caddy itself (i.e. isn't actually exploiting something else, or configuring yourself into a hole first -- we can't do much about external factors)? If it's valid we'll see about a patch.
They do reject things based on implementation difficulty too. "Static if considered" rejects it on the basis that the implementations would struggle.
> If anyone who can get in a boat in France can migrate to the UK, that is, by definition, uncontrolled.

So this isn’t true at all. You’ve just demonstrated that your own justification is false.
It is very, very hard to predict the future.
Elon Musk to buy Twitter for $44B
I wrote C++ at Facebook last year and got to use C++20 features like ranges.

It wasn’t my call, though. Meta has a relatively big C++ infra team that participates in the standards committee, maintains the Folly utility library, and decides how complex new features like coroutines are adopted. On top of that, my code plugged into another team’s system, and they had written their own guidelines on how/if they want to use specific C++ and Folly features.

These guardrails were really useful for a C fossil like me with an on-off relationship to C++… It’s not a terrible language anymore, but it’s even harder than before to find the right subset. At least boost can be finally buried.
Actually, it is not.

The shortfall in UK's social housing can be traced back to Thatcher's policy of forcing councils to sell off their housing stock at firesale prices, and forbid them from using the money to build new ones.

Calling that an act of vandalism would be grossly unfair to the relevant Germanic tribes.
Ran the update, locked my brain and I am now fixated on biting coins.
“I’ll tell you a story about how my telegram messages were read in real time.”
Please.

https://i.imgur.com/mD6Z4zO.png

Idk if it comes with VS out of the box or comes from

free extension called 'Roslynator', but eitherway it is there.
Twitter says it's being acquired by Elon Musk for $44B
That is why I am doing a Post Doc
Well if you want to block everything that can't be inspected you will block a lot of common functionality.

The question about if it's in the network owners purview to inspect depends on the network and traffic. It could also be illegal privacy violations.
Senior to Staff positions at medium to large private or mid cap public companies expect little from their engineers :).

Definitely not 10x and I suck at leetcode style problems. I'm probably a 2xer who acts like a 1xer. That's the real secret. Don't overachieve.
Socialism isn't defined in terms of a "well-regulated market". Socialism is when the government provides goods and services.

> don’t forget that plenty of areas simply don’t operate on a supply-demand basis — e.g. healthcare

Supply-demand is in play even under socialism.

But here's a simple example. Take your corner drugstore. It has a couple aisles of all sorts of healthcare products, from aspirin to toothbrushes to athlete's foot cream to cold remedies. There are multiple brands with multiple formulations at various price points. How does supply & demand not apply there?

More generally, pick any health care issue. For each, there are a multiple of options available, with varying costs, efficacies, risks, and pain. Including doing nothing (by far most diseases disappear on their own). How is that not supply & demand?
It's not a mental disorder. The brain is a very complex machine. It would be quite surprising if every brain would work exactly the same.

It's possible what people have talked about here is a pretty normal spectrum between the extremes of hyperphantasia and aphantasia. Especially aphantasia is not well researched yet.
That law has been abolished a couple of years ago.
Startup types are basically the archetype of "temporarily inconvenienced billionaires".
Hah, my bulbs aren't burned out. They're also not manufactured anymore and would cost $80 to replace based on Amazon and eBay prices. I've had them for close to eight years now and have brought them with me to lots of places.
With a big difference:

Instead of the state deciding how much to equalize and who the recipients should be, rich cities preempted that and set their own equalization contributions unilaterally. In the process, instead of deciding on the equalization recipients through any political process or deliberation, they opened that decision up to individual taxpayers.
> defining a healthy culture for your elusive market place of ideas

After taking part in the "DevOps" cultural revolution, I feel that there is no path to mandating culture. Culture is the summation of ideas, practices, and values of all parts that participate in a system. If you try to discriminate against participants in order to get "the culture you want" then you'll end up doing some nasty discrimination along the way. That practice is also, ime, heavily correlated with ideological hell holes that lose relevancy the minute they gain relevancy because they're frozen in time along the timeline of acceptable ideas.
Hello and goodbye to the J language (2021)
I purposely job hunt for low performing teams/companies who are willing to pay for experience. Also, managing my calendar religiously is a must.
Don't forget that most surgery also involves antibiotics which can be another cause of trauma, particularly to the microbiome. Changes to the microbiome have been shown to have cognitive effects recently.
If it's any books that need a Reader's Digest, it's self help books.

There's so much filler in Atomic Habits it's amazing. I think 10 pages would be too much for what was actually covered.

I wonder if somebody actually did a good summary. It can't be too many pages, really.
you don't know what financial challenges they are facing, so there is no point in arguing that 500K is enough for their household.
That's about right in my case. 2019 was more or less the years we switched to C++11. Some projects started using C++11 way earlier, and we still have some code we keep C++98, so, 8 years.

Anyways, I don't know what you are calling "modern" C++, but for me it is C++11 and up. C++11 to C++20 introduced a few major changes but none as pervasive as C++98 to C++11.
How do you work in new codebases?

Do you remember all those properties, method names, like wtf? how?
We have the google nest hub in our kitchen and use it for recipes, weather, Wikipedia or “kid questions” and news / YouTube, music and intercom. I just wish apple had the same since I’m on iPhone and now to pause and think is it “hey Siri” or “hey google”. Can I make google respond to “ hey Siri”?
No, these tools are not being used for producing documents (not directly at least).

But that's not their purpose; their primary role is as personal databases, where you can dump any factoid, TODO or interesting article that you know you'll want to process later, freeing your short-term memory and your mental burden. Having all your notes in a single searchable knowledge base allows it to grow organically and find patterns, so that you can do incremental iterative refinement of your intellectual activities.

Creatives using them are saying that it's way easier to compile ideas for writing and publishing articles or blogs entries when they are compiled and processed with these tools.
This all day. Sure if you joined FB in March 2020 your total comp today will be a multiple of that 700k, but FB is not giving out 600k packages today to e5s ( and e5 imo is staff+ at many lower tier companies ), more like 450k all in compensation.
more power to you if you can as easily replace people as you describe.
I'm not defending the central point-- I agree with you that the primary means of interplanetary communication will be email.

It's just helpful to discussion if we don't assume others are expressing the stupidest possible iteration of the ideas they describe.
I am not Canadian and you're going to have to do your own fact checking but here is a post from an MP (whom I know nothing about but can assume you absolutely hate, try to put that aside):
https://twitter.com/markstrahl/status/1495472037438967808

Briane is a single mom from Chilliwack working a minimum wage job. She gave $50 to the convoy when it was 100% legal. She hasn’t participated in any other way. Her bank account has now been frozen.

I think regardless of your political affiliation freezing bank accounts and invoking emergency powers is controversial for obvious reasons. It is not a good precedent. Try to think ahead to a time when your political opponents are in power.
Private Relay turns itself off when a VPN is enabled.
It's possible. As a thought exercise, I'm sure Amazon has figured out some sort of formula to prevent the sale of illegal items on it's marketplace, which it has to operate at scale. At the very minimum a structure like that could be put in place. Another approach is the community of moderators that Reddit uses.

So many Silicon Valley companies launch products designed to scale without any regard for social impact - it's time to move beyond that myopic pov. It's not someone elses problem.
I agree with your point. I also don’t think Elon is as anti-woke as he appears to many to be.
I have literally never worked at an org, large or small, that didn't outsource payroll.
As a hiring manager, I don't assume that. When there's a single title over a long range of time, I assume it's a terminal title. I look to the details for the position to see what kinds of work they've done. In the interview, I'll dig into trajectory and experience at various levels.