skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
looking at levels.fyi it seems there are at least several companies paying 7 figures to ML engineers with less than 10 years experience, although majority are at 15+

https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Machine-Le...
There's a big difference between moderation on HN and sites like Reddit. Reddit completely shadowbans, filters, or bans anyone who doesn't post with the hivemind. This makes it so you can't have a fair contrarian view and it completely pushes out people and makes an echo chamber. I would say that Reddit takes it to the level of the Soviet Union in wrongthink.

While HN is moderated, you can have pretty much any fair view as long as it contributes to the discussion. Which is nice and the ideal middle ground. Although I will say, I never have any issues with Twitter and the moderation is just fine besides some high profile cases I disagree with. I would say it's even to lax.
> So it would be okay to you to list the home address, movement and acquaintances of senators, congressmen, judges, etc?

Yeah probably. Publicly elected official is pretty up there on it being important to have transparency.

> If I donate to a cause that hopes to influence public policy, should I be doxxed?

No, you shouldn't.

> the rules about "public sphere"?

The rules are a spectrum. Someone can both believe that it is important for very large public figures to be transparent, and also believe that it goes to far to dox anyone who has donated 1$ to a political cause.

And there is no contradiction here. And if you are to imply that there is a contradiction, then you are engaging in Loki's fallacy.

No I don't know the exact specific point where someone becomes a public figure. But I do know that Elon Musk is a public figure, and a random person who donated 1$ to the ACLU is not a public figure.
To add to the annoyances, I always get 2 notifications, which in reality are ads. every single time I login.
Why is this interesting? Tesla is... not a FAANG company?

Not only is there no 'T' in FAANG, but the industry/product is completely different.

Or maybe the author just wanted to make a joke about coffee. Who knows.
I’m unsure how a VPN and private relay would be expected to operate concurrently?

What happens if you enable two VPNs concurrently today?

Private relay and VPNs serve significantly different purposes - private relay is very clearly http[s] focused to the extent that I recall it doesn’t cover most traffic?
If that was perceived as a problem, we would see people writing ridicously long theeads or including screenshots of Word documents as images… Oh, wait!
IT'S GENIUS
It’s not just about insults.

If you come into a tight culture of people who will riff all day on harmless puns, or crack references to old Jersey Shore dramas, or whatever, it can be acutely alienating.

I wouldn’t personally want to work in a place so sterile, but I also feel confident in my ability to float around and either find a lively culture that suits me or work my way into a culture that once felt alienating.

But not everybody feels so confident in that, and sterile results-focused work communities get the opportunity to have these people thrive.

That sounds good for those people and for those organizations.

As long as the whole job market isn’t made to look that way, I’m not sure there’s a big critique to make.
More people live along Vermont Blvd in LA County than in the state of Vermont
I think that most people can't - and that'd make avoiding jokes a good rule for the majority to follow.
If that was the intent then it isn't working very well. If anything, legal equality between religious organizations and similar secular organizations, whether for-profit or non-profit, would entail decreasing the influence of the former on politics.

Personally I'd make the opposite change (everyone should be exempt) but religious organizations shouldn't get special treatment just because they're religious. The practice of having special rules which only come into play when religion is involved undermines the separation of church and state; it means that the state is discriminating between citizens on the basis of the presence of absence of a (recognized) religion.
It's even worse than that.

You'll find tons of grants--and even jobs--that are time-gated: you must be within k years of your PhD, where k is pretty small (1,2, maybe 5). Annoyingly, these apply to some faculty-level things (e.g., ESI status for NIH grants), so if you start on the back foot, it's hard to catch up.

This is bad for a lot of reasons. It's discriminatory (and arguably illegal, since it must have a "disparate impact" on people over 40). It also shapes the sort of research people do. It encourages trainees to work on established projects in established labs, which promotes orthdoxy and thwarts the idea of training people for careers as independent investigators. It rewards choosing techniques that are "safe" and fast-moving.
Demonstrating how easy it is to get someone to disclose their clipboard contents to any web page that asks? ;) Not working for me either, but it was surprising to see my previous copied text.
I'm a former U.S. submariner. Probably 90% of my shipmates who had served at least 3 years would have said the same thing. They hated the Navy, hated sea duty, hated all of it.

And then towards the end of their commitment, with a several thousand dollar re-enlistment bonus on the table, most of them would sign up for another 6 years. The bonus would usually be blown in a week on a new vehicle.
Every time I tried to make a Twitter account it was locked and needed a phone or email. Never posted just followed, made accounts just for Conferences or a city I was going for travel.. . It was years ago and years before that as well. After getting locked out for just wanting a feed with personal data exploitation so many times .. I'll never understand how anyone defends Twitter. I would only use it if someone paid me at this point.

Maybe I have a different experience than most. I just wanted an anon account for specific times and organic content. Guess if you do that you are evil and shouldn't have that right.
Kind of ironic that the author has elicited a divided response with the "joke less, laugh less" part of the post.
What do mean by atrocious manners and what it means to hate someone else? Did Jobs chew with his mouth open? Who was the object of his grudge(s)?
I also want to say that Anesthesiologists don't always "bring you to the brink of death, and then hold you over the abyss by your ankles". That would be silly.

Maybe for open heart surgery or brain surgery or some other extremely dangerous surgery where if you were to wake up the shock could kill you, but that would be overkill for a broken arm that needs pins to heal or for an appendectomy done with endoscopic tools.

Knocking you out and keeping you under would be more than enough for that.
Ah, just seeing this now.

I appreciate you taking it further and I think I can relate. The frustration with things being too ineffective and the drive to have a human responsible for something. I believe monarchies can be highly efficient, as many other top-down hierarchies. I think the challenge lies in that while one can efficiently help, one can also efficiently harm.

So, yeah, a part of me loves that a human could come in and make it more structured, more "the buck stops here" (ironically from the US President, the leader of a democratic republic), and I also worry about what happens when that person goes in a direction we don't like or a direction that harms or kills us. May seem like an exaggeration for a social media company, however, many genocides have been fueled by language through mass media.

> The social architecture of our society is so "democratic" that there is no responsibility, no human spirit, no .. humanity in the way we deal with things.

This is why I actually believe more in the idea of representative democracy than direct democracy. Yes, not as much responsibility as a single owner, but allocated responsibility to a few while being owned by many.
It is interesting to think of ancient Egypt's use of papyrus for paper. Very little of it remains. But all of those carvings in rock, you can go to a museum and see stuff 2000 years old.
> he didn't do it in his garage

No one ever has. You're setting up an unclearable hurdle; it's understood when someone says "he created the largest software company ever," they don't mean that Bill Gates created Windows, Word, Outlook, and Powerpoint singlehandedly. The way you do these things is with money. The fact money was used doesn't make it less impressive.
There are some groups defining AGI in a way where a 20 year timeline is aggressive but not impossible. The real question is how is AGI being defined by the author.
I really like the readability of avionics screens and their recommendations. I like their simple, mostly monospaced fonts and the uncluttered display panes. I'd love if more monitoring applications used that.

edit: https://www.faa.gov/documentlibrary/media/advisory_circular/... has some interesting guidelines.
ML/AI initial offers can be fairly inflated (https://aipaygrad.es/)
It seems like the advice is more like "Be the cog you are".
If you look at a map of the area, he ditched the plane in the exact place you'd pick if you were trying to stay away from large groups of people. That's one of the many aspects that suggest this was an intentional crash.
Even longer than that. You could install Visual Studio 6 on Windows 95 and get intellisense/debugging that's quite good. A lot of newer languages still haven't caught up.
Yeah, honestly seeing someone add a big chunk of fresh, useful information to a project's documentation would be even better than seeing code go in, because most people hate doing docs! Unfortunately what I've seen is absolute lowest-level "get a commit into the tree" stuff.
Having zero knowledge of it, I would say that, since a poison pill is merely an option for existing shareholders to buy more shares, if they don't get enough takers for that option, then there's no news to print and no offer to compete with Elon's.
I use Tweetbot for both MacOS and iOS. All I see are tweets and retweets from people I follow. Occasionally someone will go on a rant or tweet incessantly about their fantasy football team, and I mute them for a while. I can also mute words, hashtags, or people.

Now if Twitter removes 3rd party client access, well, yeah, I guess I'll see where my followees go. Or find another source of entertainment/news.
It also seems an odd thing for him to be solving since a lot of the marketing noise for his companies is bot driven. Perhaps he's more interested in "solving" the problem in specific ways.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-04-12/musk-is-of...
They presumably meant the Nazi period (1933-1945) and the period of SED rule in East Germany (1949-1990).
So if this person had been promoted to staff level in 2022, they could have changed their resume to "Staff Research Scientist, 2016-present" and that would be okay with you? Because it seems deliberately misleading to me.

It's different if the level isn't represented in the title - if they went from one band to another but the title was the same, I don't see a problem with putting down something like "Software Engineer, 2016-present" without wasting space on each promotion.
I find it interesting that getting technical work done is basically just antithetical to getting marketing and sales work done.

In marketing, sales, and even management the goal seems to be to restructure the status of a project look good in a somewhat exaggerative way while also mitigating any fatal issues the client does see where as in technical work your goal should be to have simple, clear, honesty and a healthy dose of distrust not for people but for systems and their ability to not fail.

Watching them talk at an office party is like watching two people talk who live in different countries and speak different languages.
Right, and that was the reason the point was raised.

Whenever we achieve the grand unified theory of comment sections, it will include a formalized concept for this process of context loss as an explanation for where arguments come from.

The deeper in you go, the more likely that the reason the point was raised will be lost. And crosstalk will arise between people carrying on the original point and those who experience the latest comment as its own starting point.
It will be something like

"I don't think California should repeal civil rights legislation in order to allow overt hiring on the basis of race and gender."

"I think we should perhaps reconsider our non-enforcement of property crimes due to the fact that nobody can park on the street, the stores across from me are boarded up, and two pharmacies in my relatively affluent neighborhood just closed due to theft."

"I didn't find it appropriate for the protestors to tear down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant or rename a school from Abraham Lincoln."

"I don't think it should be part of the school curriculum to be talking to preschoolers about gender and sexuality."

"Asians are disproportionally denied access to schools and employment due to arbitrary ethic and racial targets."

Other such hateful things.
I never got into twitter, but I feel that way about instagram. Took me a while, but carefully following and unfollowing, I have a nice, non-toxic, interesting pastime when I want it.

I do occasionally get the random suggestion that is irrelevant, but that's a quick fix.

Facebook however. I don't think there is any help for my feed. I've abandoned trying.
Show HN: Build next-level web music app with this NPM package ported from Rust
Similar anecdata: Mid-40s here. Following a colonoscopy in my 30s, I have incredible trouble with dates and orders of things, finding words for things, and I lose my place when I'm speaking. Mid-sentence, just draw a blank. I end up yielding the floor so someone else can speak, I might pipe up later if my thought comes back to me.

Also, this happens constantly and it's maddening, I'll be a few thoughts deep and can't backtrack to how I got here; I used to be able to unwind my whole train of thought.

I make a lot more typos and I also miss seeing a lot of them to correct them so they slip out in my writing, which used to be impeccable. There are even unique types of typos that I've started making -- if a word has repeated letters, I'll jump the letters between, so for instance "cognition" becomes "cognion". I never made this sort of typo before the procedure.

It's all gotten even worse since the pandemic which I've been told is stress-related, and absolutely nobody will take me seriously as a result.

What's worse, is the standard of diagnosability doesn't take into account how you used to be. So if you started off smart and now you're just sorta average, no problem here, why are you wasting our time? It's like if your Bugatti now accelerates like a Yugo, sorry, that's technically street-legal so according to this book there's nothing wrong with it. It has to perform worse than a Yugo before we can take a look. What a shitty mechanic, you know? But that's where medicine seems to be.
patio11 has a long term bias against crypto.
When investing beware of inherent biases. Betting against yourself can be an advantageous move.
A position taken out in BTC or ETH is acquiring a deflationary asset, if you believe that the US Government ever intends to retire the national debt, I have a bridge to sell you. All they can do is inflate or default.
Under such circumstances, an asset that is finite and deflationary will appreciate in USD terms.
Also SBF is pretty obviously just a snake oil salesman. He will have positioned himself to benefit maximally from a crash, which does not mean that we will not continue a long term bull run.
A single ':' is used for other things, like casting types.

let x: int = 0;

It's so that the compiler can distinguish between those two, and likely some other areas too.
Stalin was pretty Hitler-y. He also had nukes. Shit didn't go down.

Not saying we're in sunshine and lollipops land, free of total annihilation, but things have to get really, really extreme for this happen. Sure, Putin may be clinically retarded enough to believe in his fantasies, but do you really think his buddies will walk the walk to the end with him?
Alpine support! Woohoo!!!

Love this so much - good job
I have no plans to do either. I can't see wlroots being rewritten, but I could see someone writing bindings for it. Hare does not make C obsolete, there's no reason to rewrite old code imo.
You have not yet demonstrated that his interpretation is incorrect. The data won't change so you should be able to do so. This page is full of folks making data driven arguments to that effect and they probably do more to make your point than this does.
Have you seen the movie "Failsafe"? It's an old black-and-white "non-action" movie about nukes during the cold war. Fascinating movie.
That's an interesting take. I will share just a single example that flew by earlier this week that is clear evidence of this policy not being followed, either by algorithms, or by manual followup.

https://twitter.com/ButNotTheCity/status/1518051399631785986

Content moderation can be a challenging problem, but this is a clear failure of both algorithmic and human moderation processes, and there are an enormous number of these failures that lead to real harm in the form of radicalization and targeting of individuals and groups online and the real world.
lots of Sheep drench
What's wrong with being a capitalist?
There is a pretty good list of "things good software engineers know and do" but I would add a caveat that good software developers shouldn't just apply things blindly.

For instance, developers trying to apply OOP design patterns to codebases written in non-OOP languages. It's important to realize when something is designed to work around the limitations of a tool, and that it doesn't necessarily apply to every tool.

DI containers are a waste of time in JavaScript, by the way.
To an extent the thesis here (that M*N is not insurmountable) has a grain of truth, but depends on the idea that an editor will support some specific protocol for that communications. From the article:

> Rather, a language should implement a server which speaks some protocol, an editor needs to implement language agnostic APIs for providing completions and such, and, if both the language and the editor are not esoteric, someone who is interested in both would just write a bit of glue code to bind the two together

Yes, this is the ideal world, but the first editor to actually go ahead an do that was VSCode, and the protocol they chose was LSP, so everyone else fell in line, because having a protocol that worked with one editor was at least a workable start.

Another example of this is syntax highlighting, which is definitely N*M -- people have written syntax highlighting plugins for every conceivable language for almost every editor, which always requires some manual patchwork. Editors are increasingly migrating over to tree-sitter for this support, which seems to have become the de facto standard, and as a long-time vim user and occasional syntax highlighting maintainer, this cannot come soon enough.
Firefox 101.0a1 (2022-04-22) (64-bit) says:

> Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: ClipboardItem is not defined
Currently on the job market in the AI space in the Bay Area - 400k to 600k is senior level at FAANG + similar. Low 7 figures at staff wouldn't shock me (although I don't have any actual data on that)
So what if they label videos? Not sure how that matters. Mute or block if you are offended. Sticks and stone y’know?

How many posts have there been on Twitter calling republicans Nazis? Or claiming the 2016 election was stolen? Or calling Clarence Thomas a house —-r or an Uncle Tom.

Libs of Tik Tok is tame by comparison.
> search engine optimization on Google ... there are ways to prevent or minimize that

If that was true, I'd imagine you could get quite a nice payday from Google.
Unfortunately I don't have numbers on hand. We approximated our Postgres would ingest around 1 TB over the course of a year, later I think? I could be wildly wrong.

It's been more than 5 years but from what I remember, it definitely was _not_ the partitioning logic (the sharding just meant we had a huge amount of files that were hard to organise). But a single consumer doing heavy writes on a single SQLite file would see enough traffic that pretty soon you would start to see errors and your writes would start to break.
> When/Where did he attempt this “coup”?

The autocoup was basically attempted between election day 2020 and the end of his lawful term in office, though some preparatory groundwork was done before, and quite a lot of residual activity continued after (mostly, it seems, around preventing accountability rather than continuing the initial coup attempt). Jan. 6, 2021 was key crisis point in the attempt (and often conflated with the attempt rather than being viewed as part of a larger whole.)
Not doing this myself, but I've worked a couple of contracts over the past few years where the workload and expected outputs were so small that they could easily have been handled as a second job alongside a more regular job with regular workloads. Think 1 hours work a day.

In both cases I resigned the job out of boredom, but I could easily have kept them on and worked a full second job with no one noticing.
Yeah. I can’t help but think his goals for Twitter just already describe a few existing platforms. They’re all full of vile, racist stuff, which advertisers don’t want to touch with a 30 foot pole, and aren’t worth anywhere near $40 billion. So I’m really not sure what he’s going to change, at least not without lighting his money on fire.
stop encouraging users to pipe curl to the shell, darn it.
Man it just sounds like such a miserable drone workplace to have no one laughing.

Giving up on laughter seems a "baby with the bathwater" approach to inclusiveness. I suppose being miserable is rather inclusive though :/
Write chapter that summarizes the findings and the following chapters focus on real-life examples.

Sounds like a research paper written for normals. :). Self-help Book 3.0?
I'm sure it's not the only reason. Maybe some people fork repos they depend on just in case the original owner decides to take theirs offline, etc.

But if someone lists their Github on a resume, and then the whole account is just full of do-nothing forks and no original work, I'm going to be a little suspicious.
My opinion is that in most cases the side effects are going to be less awful than the thing that you were put under for is.

Further, I'm willing to bet most people have no side effects from anesthesia, since most of the time they are only sedating you enough for you to be unconscious.
It seems to me that most people view "time" as it "exists" in the universe as though there infinitely many infinitesimal sequences of "snapshots" of the universe in a linear line, upon which you could (if time travel was possible) jump between them.

I was always under the impression that time as we know it is merely an idea and variable we add to equations to explain the motion we perceive. We see one thing happen after another thing, and conjure up the idea of time to capture a duration between the two occurrences. This duration of course only being relevant to us in our shared reference frame of earth, and because we have the ability to form memories, and experience duration.
Fun trivia fact: I tried to bring that convention over to Rust, but enough people didn't like it than in the end, we don't do that.
That assumes that the policies of these companies don't change suddenly to ban all of the associated accounts in unison.
> ... 90% of top companies have terrible technical tests which select mediocre candidates and pass up on excellent candidates.

This is one of the confusing parts of interviews. They are not necessarily designed to select the best candidate, but rather the least risky candidate.

It is quite possible to have a technically excellent candidate who would be a very risky hire and the interview process is set up to avoid hiring that candidate.