skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I liked it when StackOverflow introduced features to elicit better community manners. For example, the prompt that say something to the effect of "BobUserXYZ is new to SO, he may not know all the social rules of our community, please take that into consideration and try to be welcoming and polite".

I wonder if similar prompts like that on Twitter/et al would improve toxicity. I don't specifically mean a "welcome our new community member" prompt. I'm suggesting UI changes that are designed with the goal of improved community manners which work in the context of Twitter.

StackOverflow being a community of mostly tech professional is far from an analog to Twitter. Surely, the goal of curtailing toxic behavior is much more easily attained in a community where the society have a common goal of solving technical problems.
On the contrary, I remember trying my first VR headset in the 90s when it was "Max Headroom-esque", so it's a bit rich to demand that I only consider the earliest smartphones by comparison, when VR has been progressing for 30 years.

And, to clarify, I think the current crop of VR headsets are quite cool. But again, I see them cool in small units of time. I also think many, many people have come to the realization that there is too much ever-present technology in their lives, and the last thing they want is to become the humans from Wall-E.

When it comes to crypto, given how antiquated our current financial settlement systems are, I can see its utility as a backend settlement layer, but 95% of what I see peddled in the crypto space is just some other get-rich-quick scheme.
I always thought of it as being Sabre without the LOX feed. Sounds easier to
build.
"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."

yeah like when he smoked weed on the joe rogan podcast... comedians absolutely hate that. and tweeting about shibu coin or whatever... ELON YOU CAN'T JUST TWEET SILLY THINGS! THE COMEDIANS WILL HATE IT!

"Musk himself controls an army of shills who attack anyone who disagrees with him."

no he doesn't.

"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?"

you sound like when the military industrial complex was trying to shut down bernie by inventing the term "Bernie bro" and then saying that Bernie is bad because he doesn't shut down his "toxic fanbase" on Twitter. such a pathetic argument.
> It's a position from a place of privilege and is actively harmful

The rest of this post makes sense but what is this supposed to mean? How is using real names "a position of privilege"? Does this just mean that some people's name is more influential than others? In which case, renaming "influence" into "a position of privilege" to attach to SJW ethos to something completely unrelated is double-plus ungood.
If you found this post at all interesting you will enjoy Destin's series on Smarter Every Day spending time on a US fast attack submarine talking to everyone and poking at lots of weird corners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d6SEQQbwtU&list=PLjHf9jaFs8...
As someone who is in a somewhat similar position as the author (looking for senior ML roles), I found this part enjoyable:

> I’m not like one of those kids that gets into all the Ivy League schools at once and gets to pick whatever they want.

Followed by "FAANG + similar" and a deluge of options. Also, I feel like their message is pretty liberal with using future projections and implying it to be the present. For instance, the author has 6 years of experience with 2 at the senior level. This is pretty far from "staff level" (at 1M+ compensation, I think this is L8) which they imply is/was an option at a FAANG company. I don't doubt that in 5 years they would be at that level, but they almost certainly did not get offered a "staff" position at a FAANG.
Wonder if it'll be able to compare to Tumblr from a social media-quality perspective now that it's private like Tumblr has been.

I just paid Tumblr $25 last week to have 7000 people see a funny joke I made last year. Win-win. The users get a sensible chuckle, and Tumblr gets a little walking around money. Can't believe Tumblr Blaze is advertising done right.
The solution to this problem is AdBlock. Everything that AdBlock needs to be the success that it is today is exactly what we need for social platforms as well. Both for moderation(filters), and for the 'algorithm'(sorting).

Want to keep the default list? Good, just do nothing and you will see what Twitter wants you to see. Want to see unfiltered? Just turn the blocking off. Want to add a filter just for yourself? Easy. Upstream that filter such that it eventually becomes the default? Go for it. Have different filters to cater to different cultures? We've got the different lists for you to subscribe to.

They should be made so that you can algorithmically pick whatever subset you want. If you just want Parlor content, go for it. If you want everything except Parlor content, just flip that flag.

Something literally illegal? That gets deleted and removed from everything.
"Running virtualenvs is "fine" until you're not connected to the internet, a less-and-less common scenario thankfully."

Any high security environment (read: the financial industry) will have most of the servers purposely not connected to the InterNet, to prevent people from doing exactly the above and from attackers hacking in. Energy and pharmaceutical industries - same thing. That's the norm, not the exception, so pretty much any industry which is critical for society at large won't allow access to the InterNet.
Doesn't seem like the rest of the world's universal healthcare did any better than ours?

You have farfetched dreams that government run anything would somehow be not shit. You'd hardly get any coverage and I doubt the deductible would be anywhere sufficient.
> Not if you make Twitter federated and let people host their own instance. For example, let Stephen Fry host his own Twitter server and he will choose what is allowed and what is not. This Twitter will integrate with other Twitter servers over ActivityPub. Something like Mastodon.

Moderation is hard work, and making users do their own moderation themselves defeats the purpose from a user perspective (e.g. exposing Fry to toxic comments so he can theoretically moderate them away himself on his own instance is not practically different that giving him an unmoderated platform).

> It's not going to happen because this model is not going to generate any revenue unless Elon figures out something.

Musk isn't going to figure out anything. If anyone does, it will be someone working for him and he'll get all the credit.
I also experience that 1 bad use case: heavy writes. I've always used SQLite first for any project, and when I did an in-house analytics tool for tracking user-initiated events (visits, button clicks, hovers, etc) I thought SQLite could handle it well. Unfortunately, even with heavy tuning, we saw WAL overruns and missing data.

Sadly, we had to move to Postgres and eat all that scaling complexity. :(
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I still don't underatand why paying would help. Wouldn't simply filtering out the unverified work the same way?
Yes, both personally and for work. It's pretty underwhelming, doesn't really enable any experiences that you can't already have with a flat monitor, as shown by the basically dead VR software market. I think there's maybe some future for VR, maybe, but it's clearly currently on life support and I don't think Facebook has really shown anything interesting to turn that around.
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Then how do you determine is a post is "cruel disparagement", "willful misunderstanding", etc?
The joke was he looks like a guy that's pregnant. That's funny.
That's a good addition but not really a fix. A fix would be to have a consistent ordering of parameters and a conceptually consistent interface.
First the answer to your direct question, but read on to get a probable fix to your problem.

Your connection to Google almost certainly doesn't have a very similar path as other sites. Faster or slower or whatever is incidental, but mostly it's different. Google has an open peering policy, a content appliance program, nodes, probably almost every public internet exchange, and lots of transit connections; in a lot of places, your traffic will go over your provider's local network and then to google equipment directly. Chances are you're connecting to a server that's physically and network close to you with low latency.

As of right now, HN is just a single host (with a failover host?) sitting in San Diego? in a small hosting company's facilities. They peer at public exchanges in Los Angeles and Phoenix and have no content appliances etc. If you're not in the region, your traffic is going over transit, which may be congested if your ISP is underprovisioned, and anyway is going to have higher latency.

Also, because Google and YouTube are more or less essential to the modern internet experience, if they don't work, your ISP is going to get a lot of calls, so they check and make sure they work. HN, not so much.

So, now that your question is answered... how to fix it. Most likely, all of that stuff, while true, isn't the problem. In my (not so) humble opinion, you're probably having an MTU issue. If you're not familiar with MTU issues, the basic thing is every network connection has a maximum packet size (Maximum Transfer Unit or MTU), and when connecting via TCP, it's common to send an option in the SYN that indicates the maximum size (MSS option), but the MTU along the path isn't really known by either side, and if either peer sends a larger MSS than the path can support, the other peer will send packets that are too large and they may be dropped. In theory, a router that drops a packet because it's too big will send an ICMP report that the packet was dropped, but they don't always send them, or they may be rate limited in sending, or the packets may not be processed when received, etc.

Google (and some other high profile sites) specifically cap the MSS they use below the ethernet standard of 1500, which allows for clients with commonly incorrect MTU settings to work without noticing anything is wrong. HN and many other sites do not.

Unfortunately, I don't know of a good MTU test site, and I haven't had time to build one, so you really have to use ping testing to confirm and work from there. Here's a windows based example of ping testing, but it should be adaptable to anything reasonable. https://kb.netgear.com/19863/Ping-Test-to-determine-Optimal-...
It may be against his contract, but none of the employment contracts I've ever had stipulated that I couldn't hire out my services elsewhere. Why do you think it'd be illegal?
That's because people have been resigning from their old jobs and switching to different ones.
This isn't that complicated. Twitter can just take down content in response to court orders, unless their review team decides to fight it on whatever grounds.

This is not only simpler for Twitter to implement, but provides a better level of due process and accountability. How many times has someone been 'abused' on social media and claimed XYZ company did nothing about it?
As someone who heavily uses not only autocomplete but also Resharper and GitHub Copilot, I sorta reject the premise of the question. It is annoying, but it's still worth it even so. I have to deal with IntelliSense, Copilot, and Resharper all fighting with each other and I think there's a lot of room for improvement in that interaction. But including the time spent fighting with them, I'm still writing code much faster. Ten steps forward, one step back. With standard code completion especially, most of the time I'm not looking at the things popping up, I'm using it via muscle memory; I know what the completion will be, so I just type the prompt and hit tab, I don't wait to see a popup.
But would the ROI ever have outstripped the coast to end-around Android and iOS?

And then, on top of that, would FB have been able to produce something good enough to convince buyers to use a FB phone despite privacy concerns?

Seems like a big lift and the same challenge they'll face with VR and a bad privacy reputation. They're not just climbing the hardware/software/UX hill, they're also climbing the public opinion, regulation hill.
When I tried my first PDA, which was before anyone had stuck a SIM card in one, I was completely blown away. I wrote an entire book on the thing, and emailed it to myself for final print template tweaks, before sending to a publisher. After writing nearly a million words on it, I was just as excited about it as when I first got it.

Probably helped that the latency of the device back then was completely unnoticeable, in contrast with today's smart devices that can't keep up with my typing on their touchscreens.
"How would I trust the programmers who implement compilers that they are not goin to make any mistakes? I'll write the assembly myself, thank you very much."

It's much better to push logic from being manually re-written over and over by tens of thousands of different programmers, to being built into a language/tool/library by a team of a few hundred experts and then robustly tested.
You forgot to write that crypto startups compete with publicly traded FAANG on compensation on both cash and non-cash compensation, and there is no liquidity issue whatsoever on the non-cash they pay you with. Vesting schedules are more competitive than FAANG.

And the publicly traded crypto companies compete with FAANG on compensation too.

Non-crypto startups are the only ones sitting in the doldrums left out to dry right now.
The point is that your examples are clearly of "suppressing free speech". For example, what does not having a PR dept supress?

And the right to not send a luxury good to a journalist/blogger is hardly a free-speech chilling penalty; refusing service is not censorship.
- Choose and limit your battles

- Provide data to make an argument

- Put your concerns in writing

- Challenge your manager to ask their bosses tough questions

- Form coalitions with other managers to try to solve problems together

- Ask for a skip level (IMHO once a quarter, not just to address business problems but to maintain good relationships)

- If your employees are still at risk and upper management does nothing, threaten to quit
Making phones is extremely difficult. Even Google didn't do a great job of making a profit off its flagship, in-house line of Android phones despite them being the best Android experience available.

Apple owns almost all the profit-share in the market and the rest is mostly coming from low-margin, commodity phones. Facebook doesn't need the data of price-conscious people willing to penny pinch to buy a cheap-o Facebook phone. They need to hoover up the data of iPhone users. That's where the valuable advertising bucks are.
because its not a technical problem. its a political problem
Have you ever dropped a frame while debugging and fixing it on the fly in a debugger?

I think you miss out if you feel that this is a win when doing PHP.
The only reason those spaces implemented content moderation was because they couldn't get hosting anywhere. Not because of 'merciless trolling and spam'.
The main value I've seen from it is in CodeBasesWithReallyLongNamingConventions.

I'm glad that LSP exists, and I've got it hooked into vim... but autocomplete is seldom very useful to me. It's usually faster to just type the thing out.
Firefox mobile supports extensions, including Dark Reader or Greasemonkey (which would allow user styles)
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>What happened to just letting things play out?

What does this look like to you and how am I not doing that? Because it sounds like you are saying I shouldn't criticize what Musk might do which would be pretty ironic considering so many people think Musk is doing this to force Twitter to allow freer speech.
yeah I know that sounds non-PC... but there is some irony here.. that's all.

Clearly folks w/ ASD have incredible super powers, and in Elon's case, he feels he take a hard problem: ie, how to provide "freedom" of speech in every country, while adhering to that country's laws, and provide more transparency, better UX, and decrease the spam/botfest.

and with the help of other experts in this field, solve it. Sure why not.
But solving social media and all its nuances, psychological challenges, per culture, is not the same as solving manufacturing or space expansion..IMHO.

It requires, I feel a different set of skills ( soft-skills ) which you just dont read about, but embody yourself to a major degree.

So for example he was asked recently here at this TEDx : https://youtu.be/cdZZpaB2kDM?t=1477

"how would you solve the Edit button problem?
If someone tweeted "Elon Rocks" and then it was retweeted by millions..and then they changed it to "Elon Sucks" and everyone is embarrassed. How would you avoid changing a meaning so retweeters are not exploited"

his response:

1- I would have Editing() be available for a short time only.
2 - I would Zero out all retweets and favorites.

His solution, is very 'systems-thinking', and im sure comes from his personal social-skill biases 'super powers'. Which seems fine on some level, but also opens up another debate on the benefits of keeping a record or not.

But let's say that in the end, his psy-ops team of scientists take a vote and tell him that 50% of them feel we should not Zero-out ( because X, Y, Z ) and he ends up being the tie-breaker, and dictates that he prefers a more non-human/empathetic solution that would be more appropriate for his Ai's educational training.. or simply his personal social algo/taste.
> 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.

Because he has a track record of doing things no one else could.
Using fq_codel on ubnt edge router x and it is working really good ! Thanks for all people are involved.
> a fixed schema/format that will never change

When would this happen for any non-trivial multi-tenant service? The difficultly of performing migrations sounds like it would pretty quickly negate any simplicity gained.
MAMA? Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet.
I'm sorry, but even though anesthesia seems to impair cognition, it's nothing like you describe. One can certainly die from anesthesia, but it is incredibly rare. Anesthesia is very safe when dosed correctly.
>relies on attention

The success of most things in the world relies on attention. This is not unique to ad-revenue models of social media companies.
You can of course argue that any major update that breaks backwards combability the slightest is a dialect of the previous version, but that is just silly.

- Looking for PHP 8.2 dialect programmers!
- I have only coded in PHP 8.1 dialect.
- Sorry, won't do.

The changelog tells you want you need to fix on existing code when upgrading and the manual usually gives you a workaround if it is something larger. And in this specific case you just add the attribute #[AllowDynamicProperties] to you dynamic class and be done with it.
Glad this blockchain/crypto thing did not exist over a decade ago. Otherwise we would never have something as cool as BitTorrent. There are so many people who neither understand decentralisation properly nor crypto but wanna somehow become part of conversation so they link the two and derail the conversation.
My editor autodetects and preserves the line ending character sequence when I save. If I want to change it, I just need to change the setting. Doesn't yours? Why is this still an issue for you?
I'm aware of that, and have done a lot of hiring from the midwest, fwiw. I've been in a position where I don't have a ton of time for mentoring, so I tend to hire senior engineers who are used to running with looser requirements than they may get from a bigcorp, and don't mind juggling a main project with a small backlog of cleanup or bugfixes. I learned this filter after not doing it, and having candidates used to a more structured environment flail. That said, like I mentioned originally, if you can demonstrate in your resume (perhaps even with a "What I'm looking for" section) that you have the skills necessary to thrive, I'll overlook this point.

There are simply too many candidates to give everybody a fair chance, and a good number of candidates left over post-filters who will require fewer interviews to narrow down to a hire. Resumes are about marketing yourself to get to the initial screening call so that you can make your case that you are qualified. It sucks, but if you haven't been dealt the lucky cards and you want to break into startups, I think it's probably useful to know the filtering that you're up against.
Thanks for sharing. If you don't mind a couple of questions:

- is the compensation worth it?
- do you think this is going to be a long term thing for you (burning the candle at both ends)?
> I’d love to have a highres headset which can create virtual monitors.

You want HTC Vive Pro at a minimum (it's high enough resolution to see much less pixelation) with Virtual Desktop or Bigscreen, both of which you can get on Steam.

Support for Linux is sometimes spotty though. I sometimes have trouble with Steam VR on Linux. It does work but can require effort to get working, depending on your setup.

[0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/382110/Virtual_Desktop/

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/457550/Bigscreen_Beta
Yes, our clustered, real-time configuration file system uses sqlite as sole backing store.

https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pmxcfs.html

https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-cluster.git;a=tree;f=data/src...

When it was written by our CTO over 10 years ago he tried every DB solution available, that is those that somewhat fit the picture, only sqlite survived any test thrown at them, if setup as documented it handles a pulling the power plug in any situation, at least in our experience.

It may need to be noted that the DBs are only used locally, we synchronize commits ourselves via a distributed FSM, that's mostly transforming the Extended Virtual Synchrony corosync provides to simple Virtual Synchrony.
Breakthrough for efficient and high-speed spintronic devices
So don't put your github URL in your resume? If you don't want a potential employer to look at something and judge your ability based on it, it doesn't belong in your resume.
I am so confused with comments in this threads. Since when did tech employees became so submissive and scared? As far as I know, having 2 jobs is not illegal, not unethical.

Many, sadly, low income families have to work two or more jobs. We in tech make enough but what if you are bored and need more challenges.

My current second job is family but I know multiple single engineers (or in one case, with grown up kids) with 2 jobs. They work 16+ hours each day but with pandemic there was nothing else to do, so might as well do more work. At least, one guy is pretty open about it with both of his employers. Others hide it but they get the work done.

Also you can list 2 jobs on your resume. When I started my career, I didn't had very high paying tech job, I did freelance work on the side and listed on my resume. Never been problem.

Your company doesn't own you.
BITS/h is still a thing. How can anyone say your team isn't working if everyone is 9/5 in the office?!
Watchstate – Sync watch state between different media servers
Looks cool. FYI, the "demo" link appears to be returning 404 Not Found
Then please post some of these multiple disprovals. You know, facts.