skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's ambitious bordering on delusional. They're also doing the dirty trick of putting "2016 - 2022 Senior Research Scientist at Robotics at Google" on their resume even though they've been in the senior position only since 2020. Like, dude, you're doing great, your resume doesn't need any more artificial pumping up. Or I guess it does if you're aiming for those positions that are kind of out of reach.
Yeah, when I speak or write out my thoughts I often find they weren't as fully formed as they seemed while they were just in my head, and maybe shouldn't have counted as thoughts in the first place. This is one reason it's beneficial in a work context to keep a project journal or regularly discuss work with other people.
Twitter knows that Trump used them to get elected, and they are scared Elon will unban him.

It’s pretty obvious Trump and Alex Jones tweeting again would bring in a lot of eyeballs for better or worse.
That only demonstrates lax enforcement, not that Twitters mission is pushing politics in lieu of money and active users. Trumps politics haven't changed since he started his right-wing schtick.
> gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board

So is this a generational thing? Much like YouTube, where I spend a lot of my time instead of watching TV, the people I follow on Twitter are practically nobodies posting really funny and interesting stuff. Since 2015-2016, I'd say there really hasn't been a need for the old celebrities as we used to know them, there's plenty of people creating good content now.

You don't need to be approved by Netflix or HBO and be paid millions just to be funny.

> a bot army of shills repeating verbatim over and over and over

I really only see this under crypto tweets, and I've eliminated most crypto talk from my feed. Problem solved.
Why would running the GC on its own core be a good idea? Don't you want it to happen wherever it would be most efficient, i.e. on the same core where the memory in question was most recently accessed?
If this were truly the case, then bots wouldn't be a problem!

More narrowly, I buy that this is true for some segment of the tweeting population. I know this is provocative, but removing those false positives from Twitter may be a good thing.

I have a Twitter account that I use very casually (1 tweet/month, maybe), and I'm 100% sure that my activity is not replicable by a bot.

I'd no longer call myself an expert, but I used to work in conversational AI and have kept up with the research. The latest language models are incredibly exciting, but they're still not at the level where they can simulate a non-braindead tweeter.

The above is more of an amusing thought experiment than an actually-feasible approach. Aggressive removal of botlike users would have to be opaque enough that it'd cut against the free speech objective that Musk has been promoting. But I will say that, at a smaller-scale, the best communities I've ever participated in have had incredibly strong content neutrality norms alongside robustly-enforced civility norms.
No.

That's such a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of surgeries and the risks being discussed are present without any heart-lung bypass being involved, ever.

That's not to say it's not an issue for people undergoing such a procedure, but it's just not what's being discussed here.
I dont understand the point of these blog posts. Is he trying to say this is how everyone should hire? Because if we all only hired based on "would I want this person to be my boss" or "is this person smarter than me" then no one would ever get their first job in the industry.

I cant help but feel like this isnt even how this guy actually hires. This feels like a post intended to gain linkedin clout or something.

Edit:

I feel like it's worth noting that this guy is "Chairman of the Board" at his company and previously "CEO." So his expectation is that everyone he hires who is presumably paid less than him be more talented than him. What does he think this blog post communicates to potential hires?
>> How can you reject an idea if you do not listen to it first?

If you say "oh hey, I have an idea I'd like to run past you" in some cases I'll ask what it pertains to, and if the subject is of no interest to me, or if it's related to problems I don't care about, or if it's about making the flat earth round, I may well tell you I'm not interested in the idea before even hearing it. But that's very uncommon and some of those cases are more of "not my thing" than rejecting the idea itself.

I will reject ideas for perpetual motion machines without hearing them though. For that you'll need to start by explaining which laws of physics you've broken and how before we get to the embodiment of an actual machine. If you don't know which physics needs to change I'll chalk it up to "you're an idiot, stop wasting my time".
> If I do not want to see tweets that contain certain words or phrases, block it.

You can already mute words on Twitter.
I tried to mostly follow tech people, but so far I haven't had any luck finding someone to follow who doesn't fill 50% of their feed with political tweets. I could probably make it work with a mute list or something, but I just don't care enough to spend the time to be honest.
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One generalizable takeaway from this - smaller studies can only show really huge effect sizes. This is what statistical power means - to see small differences between groups you need really large samples. This is fine if you have actually have a huge effect - you probably don't need a large sample size to detect if sugar causes insulin levels to go up in people that are fasting.

But if you don't really have large effect sizes in whatever you are studying, then you are screwed. All your statistically significant results are going to have really large effect sizes, because those are the only ones you can see in your small sample size. If you didn't get a significant result, you don't publish, or you stop following up, and if you do get a significant result you publish and do more follow up studies. In time with larger studies or new technology that changes how we can measure things, it becomes apparent that you were chasing noise.
Not the author, but . . .

Better can mean better at learning or teaching, cleaner approaches to problem-solving, interesting combinations of ideas I wouldn't have thought of, more potential, or any number of other things.

I firmly believe in only hiring people who are better than I am. That involves looking for ways the candidate is better than I am instead waiting for the candidate to fail the entrance exam.
the innate value of Twitter is that it is open to the public and the interaction basically drives (sadly) a lot of public discourse.

Look at the trump presidency for just...rife examples of this but the phenomenon occurred before and after. Until the remaining news media stops having news stories that are primarily based on 'X tweeted Y' organically, there is a serious negative incentive to have Twitter's corporate leadership end it for them.
That's true that HN is moderated, but when people complain about free speech, they care more about banning content that's inconvenient vs content that's off topic or in a bad tone.
Twitter may have brought in over 5 billion in revenue. But it’s net profit was nothing to write home about.

It’s not about how much you make. It’s about how much you keep. Besides the demographics of people who want the crazies back on Twitter are not exactly the type that mainstream advertisers care about. Have you seen the types of advertisers on most far right sites?
Or maybe the managers will decide to only interview people with a GitHub link?

Could go either way.
The real test for Tesla will be F150 Lightning vs Cyber Truck sales. If Ford can show strong sales, it shows that a focused incumbent can fend off an upstart competitor, despite the upstart's first-mover advantage on the drivetrain. The other sign to look for will be if European carmakers can slow Tesla's growth in the low to mid-end luxury market.
What’s a good vnc client and server that actually pulls this off? I’ve never had any luck with it either. At least not on Ubuntu.
It's even worse than what you say sometimes : some people are actually competent in engineering, but when it comes to simply remembering basic stuff or communicating about what they do -- total blackout. Meaning, they just want someone else to manage every little thing they have to do, remember the small details. And then they'd complain they don't like to be micro managed
I honestly can’t believe how bad the experience is. I click a link and can’t read the tweet without logging in. So they’re making it difficult for end users to view content. But on the flip side it’s so easy to make an account that there’s bots and spam everywhere. Twitter is literally designed to make it hard to consume, easy to pump in crap.
This will end up like every other mass migration away from social media platforms. Remember when everyone was headed to Diaspora after Facebook did something unpalatable for users? Remember the “1,000,000 strong for the old Facebook” groups? It never works. Social media’s power is in its momentum.
I use Chrome on Desktop and Safari on iOS. Need a magic solution that works for both.
> Removing the hundreds of millions of people who were killed in the name of national security and the maintenance of political authority would not magically make them die for some other reason instead.

Citation needed. This institutionalized protection system is actually exactly how we got government in the first place.

But also, in the last 50 years, which hundreds of millions have died? If there's clear trajectory that deaths are decelerating, why are we now more than ever eager to overthrow the system?

> Whether you call providing the benefits of typical governments without their horrendous costs an iteration or a removal is semantics. My concern is that it gets done.

Again you only speak in terms of costs and refuse to speak to or quantify benefits. That's not an objective evaluation. It's like saying computers are bad because people get hacked, and therefore we should throw out computers and start over from the abacus. You must quantify the good and the bad to evaluate.

> You mean like being born economically so deep underwater it's impossible to ever even break even because of the economic mismanagement of your political authority wielding organisational unit? At least ledgers using those consensus mechanisms only levy debt on people who choose to participate.

I reject the former premise and the latter isn't a reason to participate in a distributed ledger system.

> It's clearly what a whole lot of people want, as to whether they need it or not, time will tell. For all the aforementioned reasons, I think the case couldn't be clearer that they do, however.

Respectfully disagree. The overwhelming majority of participants are just speculators. They couldn't care less so long as number go up. The overwhelming majority of holders bought on an exchange (off-chain) and never, ever transact. They may as well hold micro BTC futures.
I didn't think it would be possible to make Twitter more hospitable to trolls and harassers, and I figured Musk's play would be minimizing bots, trolls, and extremists in order to attract the sane masses and drive up the stock price (sane people = better content = more ad/subscription revenue).
That doesn't really make any sense. The CPU is totally unaware of whatever high-level concept the garbage collector is pursuing. If hot garbage becomes available for reuse, then it's the best outcome.
G for google and A for Amazon
I wasn't nearly senior enough to have any influence in something like that, but in the internal culture, MAU was seen as such a strong proxy for success that suggesting the metric was flawed would have been sacrilege. The company had big parties and put out press releases every time a multiple of 1 million MAU was hit. To point out that most of those users were bots abusing our service's free tier would be noticing the emperor had no clothes on.
I think you're asking about automating the screenshot comparison, and there are some answers about that already. I wanted to chime in with a complementary comment.

We recently started using Vercel to host our front-end application, and out-of-the box, it automatically deploys every branch to it's own "Preview" environment. This has been game changing for me, inverting my review workflow. Before I look at the code, I typically test out the UX changes live.
Depends on the manager and the type of work. When younger I was working as a part of junior admin team for big ISP. Every day we'd all get the roughly same amount of maintenance tasks to do - but since, unlike other guys, I was into programming I automated a lot of it (and probably was a little faster and more focused in general) - so I'd finish it in about a half of the time they needed. Now I was quite clear that I will not do more work than others unless I get paid more, and the manager wanted to keep me, but because of bureaucracy and syndicate I couldn't get the raise. So we stroke an internal deal that once I clear my tasks I'm free to do whatever I want with my time, as long as others don't know about it.

Now, I wish I could say I did something smart with that time, but it was a long time ago, so I mostly spent that time playing Starcraft or chatting on IRC :)
Agreed. The people saying self-hosting is easy would do well to read this: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/RunningSer...
I don’t know what the original commenter meant, but a simple example is that tweeting (or following) things that I believe in while using my real name could cause a lot of issues to me an my family in my home country (even if I live abroad) So, in this case it’s a privilege of living and being born in a place with decent democracy.

Also, in my view, no democracy is safe, things can change in any country and I wouldn’t want a history of things that can be linked to me so easily. I am pessimistic coming from a place I did. Check marked people at least have money and connections to navigate those issues.

I am sure there are more examples. I think it was a valid statement.
I barely use Twitter, but I don't understand using Twitter for political discussions. To me it seems that it is a horrible platform for it. 280 characters isn't enough space to do much actual discussing of politics. It's enough to throw meaningless insults at the other side or post meaningless virtue-signalling type content, and that's about it. Maybe I'm wrong though, because I don't really use the platform much.
The core problem them was a lack of integrity on the part of the executives. Which I am not saying they were especially unethical. Lack of integrity is very common in executives. But still, that is the root cause there.
Yeah, tomorrow, maybe...

I hadn't seen this kind of content before and was waiting for a while til I figured to skip forward and, by the 24th hour, the counter (which I figured must mean moose but it doesn't say) was still at zero zero zero.

I can see the appeal but the title is a bit unfortunate if you aren't already familiar with it.
Premiere has quite a bad reputation at crashes. After a bad reputation as being slow. Audition, Photoshop, Illustrator etc. not so much crashes or slowness
I read, occasionally, the WP, the NYT, Le Monde and Spiegel (don't ask about the latter, it is the major "free" online paper in Germany). So far I have yet to see a difference between those when it comes to Bezos or Amazon (excluding differences between European and US reporting), nor do I see any major bias differences between NYT and WP.

And that's all the interference I care about when it comes to reporting.
Which of his companies are damaged?
I find it hard to believe the statistic in the video that 37% of remote workers are working multiple jobs, with the implication that means full-time workers.

Is that statistic actually for full-time workers doing overlapping time, and is there evidence? Or does it include all the people whose remote work is an hour here and there in random gig economy freelance tasks, where it's perfectly natural to have multiple commitments?
thanks for flagging that, the team is looking into debouncing :) please let us know if you have another other feedback to make the experience smoother
Makes sense. The people I've seen with problem relationships have more emotional issues and that's often when things like drug use and bad decisions go hand in hand.

The good news is I have a wonderful wife who I get along with really well. However, the further into my 30s I go the fewer friends I seem to have. Moving to a new country and the pandemic definitely didn't help. Where do people approaching middle age meet friends these days? Everyone always seems to in their own bubble and wants to fight about politics or other wedge issues instead of just chilling for lack of a better word.
I think discussion chains like this showcase a lot of misunderstandings around how twitter fundamentally works.

Most companies, figures, games, movies, etc have twitter accounts to convey information or offer support. If anything Musks ambitions will draw more of those entities back, especially ones that were not aligned with the twitters political views.

Sure, it is social media, but the individual users that used to use twitter like Facebook, browsing trends etc have left for the next new platform, for example TikTok.
Too bad, because "fixing a technical error or expanding the comprehensiveness" of existing documentation would be a very strong signal to hire!
HN font is good
Because you don't want GC to interfere with cache.
I’m interested in understanding the ML job market for traditional software developers.

Does the opportunity exist to transition into any particular ML roles then grow from there?
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We are looking into debouncing user input to make this smoother! So sorry about it
> I do have a terrible "mind chatter" though, I'd rather describe it as white noise. Way too many thoughts going through at once, which makes it very hard to concentrate on anything.

It could be related to your dopamine regulation or to anything traumatizing which happened to you in the past that you haven't fully integrated yet. Out of curiosity does this seem like a possibility?

Suppose as you were growing up you and your feelings were always invalidated. You may have learned to try to repress them. But I hear that when we try to quiet our feelings they only get louder. The limbic system is said to want emotions. If you trained yourself to push down your feelings instead of e.g. inviting them with curiosity then they don't just disappear.. you may need to relate to them in an emotionally welcoming/safe state in order to resolve them. But it can be scary if you never felt safe feeling your own feelings, e.g. due to what may have been modeled for you by a parent.
Good feedback here. Do you have any example “smaller forums” that you have found particularly helpful?
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How can you be “libertarian” - ie keep government out of people’s lives and a modern day “conservative” that is all about pushing religious beliefs on people and supporting corrupt law enforcement?

But he is not so “Libertarian” that he refuses to accept government subsidies.
yes, I'm sure there are many who do a stellar job. absolutely!

But 'managing' communities is one thing, managing the MOTHER of all communities globally across cultural differences is another.

IMH(biased)O the person filling that role should have DEEP social super powers, instead of deep neurological inabilities to effectively socialize and communicate. The chances for success is way higher, but hey he could be an outlier too, I just wouldn't bet on it.
"grand parent" comment.
I think his presence will cause more people to leave and he'll be left holding a 43 billion dollar potato. Not going to lie, tiktok and snap are just better. Twitter is where old people go to debate sports and politics like it's their job.
inspite of all those problems Elon Musk seems to be able to use the platform effectively given how much noise he gets on any of his posts becuase I believe Twitter is the only social media platform he is on.
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Doesn't advertising revenue require the same metric to be high? Assuming he wants to make money or just be self-sufficient, not operate at too much of a loss.
I think this is a further 'end of privacy' thing.

As Elon himself says:

"If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!"

"And authenticate all real humans"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517215066550116354 & https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517215736606957573

If Elon erodes privacy even more than at present, won't everyone else follow suit?
How is that the interest of investors what happens after the are paid?
Wouldn't that make it simpler to group people within certain organizations they use to verify.."two same strings creating the same hash value"? suddenly everyone who goes to the same school is grouped and being able to isolate someone because more and more trivial, as well as target certain groups.
Wouldn't a powerful fan or a small spinning brush be mostly as good and much cheaper and simpler to deploy?
The correct link is https://demo.abcdesktop.io/
The way it's written, but it seems that the hyperlink that's bound to the written link is different (https://www.abcdesktop.io/demo).
> Twitter is so fantastically successful

Yes, but being an international speech platform is a massive liability. And when you take a role of an arbiter of what politicians and MNCs can and cannot say you have to navigate thin lines. Just look at the chart of its stock price since IPO to see that its success is not financial. It’s basically a place for first-hand short-form news and for pretend-journalists to do “research” and pad their articles. Oh, and for overly online people to argue about controversial topics.
It's pretty clear that you've failed to understand my second comment as well. Perhaps the fault is mine, but I'm not sure it'd be productive to continue the conversation. Thanks for your thoughts
When people can function at a high level without large parts of their brain I find it hard to believe brains are the source of truth for behavior.

Wounds heal without appreciable activity in the brain.

Neurons are just electrical state we call neurons as a shorthand way of saying “electrical state in the brain”.

This just smacks as some form of geocentrism; “why of course the brain is the center of being.”

Gabe Newell talks about interfacing with the cortex as a tractable problem but we have no idea where to start to induce a sensation of feeling cold.

Michael Levin at Tufts is triggering regeneration manipulating electrical state in limbs directly, not the brain.

There’s more to it than the brain itself, which is why I think using neurons as a model for consciousness will never achieve AI that isn’t obvious.
A variation of this has had me preoccupied a few days already, on account of a study making headlines recently (
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2... ) finding that a mere ~29% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients consider themselves fully recovered a year later.

No doubt some of that really is due to the virus, but it would be interesting to know for reference how many perfectly healthy people would be in that state just from going though the treatment.
Flying Taxi Hub Startup Nears $25M in Fresh Funding
Left over from some expo in Osaka might be the most amazing and also ugly giant thing ever created

https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/02/12/the-1970-osaka-wor...

The Tower of the Sun

https://www.google.com/search?q=Tower+of+the+Sun+osaka&tbm=i...

One Piece, one of the most popular Japanese manga/anime for the 20 years, even made fun of the artist, Tarō Okamoto, by having a character that had the power to turn other people in to "art" in the style of "Tarō Okamoto" and would spout lines about how she was an "arteest!"