skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then have filters that allow people to customize their experience. Don't want to see content about race? Filter it out. Only interested in science? Filter for only that subject.

The user should be the one who is given the tools of censorship.

What's wrong with this idea?
You're confusing income and wealth. And also the people earning the most money in a generation with the average.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/10/09/millennials-own-less-tha...
He isn't the only one who can solve the bot problem.
Facebook's opportunity is with Android users.

Use the Quest in a Homekit-enabled place and its obvious the Virtual Assistant governing home and the customer's general information lookup / admin operations must extend between the VR platform.

And beyond that--a level of trust around data privacy Facebook will never achieve is absolutely necessary.

The problem is Google, Amazon, Snap, Microsoft and others all want that market.

> it's entirely possible that the best days of Facebook are behind it.

It is certain that the hay days are over. The fight to be number two to Apple in VR / AR is going to be a bloodbath.
MANGA?
unless they changed it githubs terms of service do not allow multiple accounts. you'd have to split them over multiple hosting services, which, depending on the project, may not always be practical or possible
I am in a similar position actually -- I don't find autocomplete to be the main feature of IDE, it doesn't add that much over dumb hippie-expand. Code navigation is much more important.
> The ONLY way to solve the toxic nature of Twitter is to enforce a)a real name policy, and b)fully verified[1] identities for all users/bots (opt-in, where others by default filter out non-verified accounts in their feeds)

IIRC, Facebook's still toxic even with a real-name policy. Wackos often lack the shame or self-awareness to not be toxic even under their real name.

Anecdote time: one of the most toxic people I've encountered online posted under their real name--in a Web 1.0 forum where pseudoanonymity was the norm.
It is pretty common for people to use it a few times and abandon it.
In this case you don't even need a source. You just need to have your head out of the sand, but outside of that, you can look at all the users who have left the platform or became entirely inactive after Donald Trump was banned, then look at the surge of users the alternative Twitter platforms gained, and pretty much make a safe assumption they lost at least that. You can also take a look at Twitter's stock price in Jan 2021, where it was close to 77 dollars, and rising at the time, and compare it to the pre-Elon hype price of 39 dollars, with Goldman rating it as being closer to 30 dollars in true value.
Everyone is scared of what he is going to do to twitter; why? We have zuck in control of meta so it can’t be any worse than that, right?
HN crowd is, surprisingly, quite myopic about new technologies. Ethereum & VR headsets are great examples. Both of these are incredible and will definitely change the world in a very drastic way; yet, both are hated and ridiculed here.
Agreed, I only use it for board game design and discussion. If you stay away from politics it is quite valuable and rarely toxic. They have recently even added explicit Communities and that has been good so far.
> Youtube's moderators are youtube employees.

What moderation? For what are you talking about? From what I gather they predominantly rely on automatic filtering, with barely any human filtering. They don't even moderate some of their largest channels.

E.g.

LinusTechTips complaining about spam junk and community fed solutions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo_uoFI1WXM

MarquesBrownLee doing the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw-vODp-8Y

Reddit does the same broad stroke in that yea they have broad generic spam/bot detection, and also rely on reporting moderation and community driven tool. They already operate in a similar/better model than youtube.

The original argument was that Reddit/HN couldn't handle 5% of Youtube community and I am calling nonsense to that.
People keep saying that, but I have never encountered an untruthful resume.

Fraud is a crime.
Not bitter at all, not sure where you got that impression from my post. If I have something that does not present me in my best light, why should I volunteer to show it in a hiring process? I am just being practical.

I do think all hiring processes have a component of arbitrariness, so I don’t think it is necessarily a bad sign that a company quickly dismiss candidates from poorly-maintained GitHub accounts. I would gladly not show my GitHub and try to get the job showing my skills in some other way.
> ...the idea that there will be or should be a "ruling class".

There will always be a "ruling class" the same way that there will always be dependency hierarchy in the cost structure of things (eg from compiler design to the way a solar system works).

> ... and we have no obligation to enable the fabulous wealth and power of some elite ...

Indeed. But let's be pragmatic for a second. What can an individual (or a collective of people) do to not enable (ie disable) existing wealth and power (ie the status quo)? Unfortunately the answer is by gaining wealth and power themselves. (eg in the cultural-economic form or socio-politically or militarily, etc). To change the dynamics of the system. Anything else is just ignoring reality and encouraging hypernormalization [1]. The world is in a huge mess now because many highly capable people chose not to make the hard decisions. (eg with the current RU & China situations)

... and the world will only become a better place (eg in the sense of reducing suffering, and for the pursuit of universal human & animal rights, etc) when hard decisions are made and executed to bring forth a paradigm shift (that which can be measured game-theoretically e.g. compare modern day France to 18th century France)

> ... without provable commitments that this will benefit all of us

Proof is useful but it is not enough in the same way the map is useful but it is not the territory.

In some sense I've just elaborated your points above but from the angle that the world is going to collapse soon if we don't reach Tier 1 as a cilivisation fast enough.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
Perhaps I should have qualified the phrase "different language."

It'd be more accurate to say 9.0 is a dialect, rather than a wholly separate language.
Eh, this doesn't sound good for all the people that were on ECMO because of covid.
You're not alone! =)
Once upon a time, I was on a dev team which had to share an RSA 2FA token for accessing a client's VPN. Rather than pass it around to whoever needed it, we just pointed a webcam at it.
What is the performance like? I’ve found that VNC is garbage even in on a fast local network, let alone over the internet. I’ve yet to find something that works anywhere close to as well as Microsoft RDP, which feels like sitting in front of a local machine as long as you don’t try watching HD video or something.
How is investment in real estate going to outpace inflation when it comes up against the income barrier? I’d argue we are going to see that it won’t. The future isn’t like the past and when real estate gets too expensive for even the wealthier members of the working class to afford we are going to see stagnation or extremely limited growth. A large portion of the real estate market is homeownership and having that slice of the market disappear would have extreme downward pressure on prices.
Those radar are pulsed not continuous power. It’s far more difficult to locate pulsed sources hence things like burst encoding.
Source? Seems to be required based on https://validator.w3.org/nu/ which is also linked as the validator to use for WHATWG from https://whatwg.org/validator/
3. The vast majority of normal, current users who make no attempt to hide their identity and in fact frequently share it along with plenty of other personal info- as well as sharing links to their twitter profile on other real name identified social platforms.
> Their 9-5 jobs suffers

If they do it this way, they are doing it wrong.

At my current job I can squeeze all my daily tasks in maybe one hour (mind you, this is after 10 years of doing a very similar set of things). It becomes longer when a significant change comes or an emergency happens but after a few weeks it's all the same. I study new things and develop my competences during the spare hours but I can imagine I could earn money as well. The pay is good so I don't have motivation to take an extra job but I can totally understand people who are more ambitious or earn less.
It seems that Hare has some restricted comptime logic.
See section 6.8 of the spec [1]

[1] https://harelang.org/specification.pdf
I'm old enough and I have done this exact thing enough to know that of course it suffers. A lot more than you want to admit too.

Even if you don't ever mix the 9-5 time with the freelance time, (Which FYI is nearly impossible in practice.) you just aren't going to be at your best when you show up the next day to work your 9-5 8-hour day after having worked a full day and moonlighted for another 4-6 hours afterward the day before. You're lying to yourself if that's what you think. And if you're working weekends, you're going to get burned out in a way that only punishes your 9-5 employer for not giving you a higher workload. People get fired all the time when their weekend or after work binge drinking interferes with their work the next day, why should spending your discretionary time burning yourself out be any different?

Human beings can only do one thing in any moment. Worse, this truth has some applicability over longer time scales as well.

Human beings require substantial periods of recovery in order to perform optimally. Often, what you do during that recovery has dramatic implications on how well you're going to do when you get back at it. (Ever solve a difficult programming problem only after taking a break? You won't get those same eureka moments if on your breaks your loading entirely new problems into your brain all the time.)

You do the math.
Of course a lot of people do -- but at a cost to productivity (per hour) and as said, their health and and relationships. There's lots and lots and lots of research about this, actually.
My anecdotal understanding as well.
I'm too young to have used Google Reader, but I have a selection of ATOM/RSS feeds I follow. Is that not comparable?
I've been working multiple remote jobs for the past 4 years. I'm currently working 4 full time engineering roles and a part time contract. It's been tough but a great experience.

The main struggle is scheduling and making sure you can make all the meetings. It's also tough finding the right job which gives you autonomy to form your schedule.

The main perks are obviously money and not caring about getting laid off. In this market it's pretty hard to get laid off, we shall see how it plays out over the next few years.
https://archive.ph/ln9md
My favourite bit is that the organisation set up to handle the English "bail out" money eventually became RBS which, a few hundred years later ended up requiring yet another epic bailout from the UK government.
Any tips you can share on how to deploy your saas app without downtime when using sqlite?
This film made by AT&T (promoting their stuff, natch) is probably the best artifact of Century 21 I've seen. The first 4-5 minutes are great to watch if you ignore the actors, and you can skip the breathless discovery of touch-tone calling. =)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liAgTFd9Fo4&t=342s
Do you often get into sitcom-like situations where you are in two different meetings at once and have to make sure you avoid any unmute mishaps? I'm specifically thinking a case where you have to respond in a way that would make sense to both calls at once.
I'm not on twitter but the Justine Sacco incident doesn't make it sound like a nice place to me.
Bring back the chrono-sorted timeline while he's at it. The algorithm sorting is a big reason why I use tweetdeck and FB purity to keep it as it was.
Is it really common? How could it be? There are so many things to try out. reddit.com/r/oculus/
Imagine if they’d stuck with developing their own phone, if they’d iterated, and poached talent, and kept at it. They’d have had (so far) over 9 years to make it work. They could have sold the hardware at cost, or even made a loss.

That would have been worth it to own part of the market. It’s not like they don’t have money.
> It could be baked into proof assistants that are part of (optional or add-on) tooling, like what sel4 does. A simpler language makes this more possible, and the things that a proof assistants can do go far beyond what rust is able to provide

I’m actually doing my PhD on the verification of Rust programs and wanted to add that the opposite is actually true. The type system of Rust helps to create a much simpler model of the language which allows us to do proofs in much larger scale than with C (for the same effort). This is specifically because of how ownership typing helps us simplify reasoning.
How do you know if I have enough assets? I'm just some random finance source.

Sorry, this isn't how it works. To transfer to another bank the banks will adjust central bank balances. Look up how ACH works behind the scenes, or the equivalent in other jurisdictions.

As for "centuries", again, no. Clearing houses - look them up.

In general - if something sounds magical in finance, you have to dig deeper. There is no magic anywhere.
according to pretty much every middle manager, director, and vp I've ever worked with

You might be right and every manager is terrible, but it's worth noting that the common denominator in all of these interactions is you.
The thing is, reasons Y and Z for me very often are "because I want to". I don't even really want to fluff it up and call it something nauseating like "professional growth". I just followed my curiosity. My personal projects are a safe space from stiff professional judgement (or at least were).
I don't think that the biggest benefits that Musk is bringing are technical ones, although he can surely afford to mobilize a lot of technical power, but policy ideas. Twitter will be run differently, become less toxic, and hopefully in addition to that game-changing attitude the bot problem can be addressed as well. I don't see how it can get worse, but there's a lot of potential for it to get better. Who knows? I might actually start using it.
I think that saying social media can't make the future better is like saying the internet itself can't make the future better. It seems obvious to me that both can improve humanity.
Land is finite but there is more than enough if we fix our stupid policies.
Science of Persuasion
Best take care not to eat any especially ripe fruit, then.
Creating development environments for Drupal with DDEV
Not sure if you all have heard but there is a story that is a bit related to this.

Few months? ago there was a youtuber who claimed he had an engine failure, while wearing skydiving gear. He said he took the flight to spread friend's ashes. He had a camera mounted on the plane, and on himself. He jumped out of the plane and recorded it crash into the ground. Then, he parachuted down to where the plane was.

FAA has revoked his pilots license. I am assuming charges will follow, since FAA said he purposely crashed the plane.
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/youtuber-trevor-jacobs-...

My cousin is a commercial pilot, I used to fly with him when he had his private license. The FAA does not mess around. There are usually very thorough investigations of plane crashes.
My amateur opinion is that it's not very difficult but it hurts subscriber count, clicks, engagement metrics etc. If he takes Twitter private there will be incentive to fix this because there won't be shareholders to please.

On the other hand, why are bots not considered a result of free speech? I'm not free to run hogwild on your platform with bots? That's censorship!
People are going to implode when Trump is unbanned.
This argument holds zero water. You have Iranian officials openly calling for revolution, Chinese foreign officials spreading literal propaganda, and Saudis calling for actual executions, which I would think also consistently violate their TOS, and yet have seen no similar measures taken against their accounts.
Maybe, but the article is terrible too.
I know a lot of people hate ORMs but I tend to find them useful, and if you do go down that route, it is pretty easy to write an application that will work with either a Postgres or SQlite backend.

I use SQLAlchemy and write applications where by just swapping out the database URI I can use either SQLite or Postgres. SQLite is nice for local development and easy testing, (you can even run tests using :memory: to accelerate CI/CD) and then I use hosted Postgres in prod. That said, based on what I have seen I would not be at all afraid to use SQLite in prod for internal tools etc.
I could never. If you make enough money at one job working remote then there’s no need. If you don’t make enough then use your spare time beefing up your portfolio and applying to crazy-high paying jobs. Eventually you’ll land one.

For me, working two jobs adds a level of secrecy that’d be difficult for me to maintain long term. Also could be hard to do simple things like take PTO.
is this even legal?
> Then, come the interview, the guy can barely code, much less know the ins and outs of variable scope. It turns out there is very little correlation between how good a resume is, and how the interview actually pans out.

Be careful with this assumption.

Interviews generally measure how well a person responds to anxiety. This can overwhelmingly dominate and mask any signals about their competency.

I can talk about algorithms and data structures all day and have little difficulty solving fairly challenging problems.

Stick me in an interview and, depending on a lot of different factors, I can easily come across like this person. Sure I've built open source libraries, written countless articles, and have given talks at open source conferences but at the end of the day I can't handle 5 hours of talking with people and then do even the most basic tasks. Anxiety and exhaustion will over-ride everything at that point.
It was chugging at ~100 inserts per second on about ~300k rows of <100 bytes each. Just inserts, no index (it was the first thing to go), no foreign keys, one table only. SQLite was spending all the disk bandwidth copying data in and out of a tiny designated working area and flushing. This was in 2013 -- I'm afraid I've forgotten the details. It's an old problem, long fixed by now.

The problem itself didn't concern me nearly as much as "no perf tools + no perf foolproofing." That's a rough combo. If a problem this simple required this much debugging, extrapolations to problems of any complexity are terrifying. I knew that simplicity implied limitations, but this lesson taught me that simplicity could also imply danger.
I think most people experiencing that. And like anything, you can improve it with practice. One of the best training classes I took at work was a class on using a mind map to structure a presentation, then practice by recording myself giving it. Playing back the recording and watching it was eye opening. I always thought I was a bad public speaker because it felt like I a was inserting lots of pauses, “Um..” and other stuff like that. After watching the recording it turns out a lot of that filler stuff was in my head - I never really said it!
Our brains are amazing; still learning how to live with mine after 50 years!
> Put engineers on-call instead of hiring support staff

Note that in some jurisdictions (including the USA) this is problematic from a labor law perspective.
that's a good question. how do i know who speaks the truth? should i believe everything? should i believe nothing? should i vet everything i read on the internet myself?

i have to delegate trust and if everyone can and will speak whatever they want - or worse, there are FSB troll farms purposefully injecting noise into any public free speech forum, i can't do that. noise floor raises so high the signal can't be filtered out anymore. what then? we declare 'free speech won' and go home victorious, but without a public forum like HN?
The pricing incentivises spot nodes, which use dynamic pricing to try to prevent this...
The "city" (government) often loses money on these events, but it is typically a huge influx of capital for businesses in the area. I found the numbers for Expo '86 for example...

Revenues: $491m

Expenditures : $802m

Deficit : $311m

Economic contribution :$3,700m

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_86#Facts_and_figures
Chart 7.2 here is probably the most useful https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/public-spending-sta... since it goes back further than 2019/2020.
Not OP, but I have convinced a surgeon not to use a general for shoulder surgery. I was fortunate to have had a previous surgery with a doctor that avoided general when he could, so I knew it could be done and that it worked well for me. To bolster my case, I found research papers showing that recovery from the surgery I was having was faster and better with a local nerve block + sedative instead of a general. The nurses tried to convince me I was wrong and making a bad choice, and the doctor would not do the surgery unless I agreed that he could use general if he felt he had to in the middle of the surgery. But then he did the surgery, did not have to use the general, and thanked me, because he said he was going to start doing more surgeries without general.
I don't buy it, and honestly I think hardly anyone else does either.

I remember when I tried the first iPhone in 2007. Sure, it wasn't super fast, the screen was small and pixelated by today's standards, but I remember going "Holy shit, this is amazing." It was easy to see its utility on the first use of it.

Contrast that with a VR headset. I think "This is a cool game to play for 20 mins or so", but I have absolutely no desire at all to spend any portion of my time in "the metaverse". This is fundamentally solving a problem that people don't have, and it's a solution they don't want. I have yet to see anyone (who isn't somehow paid to shill it) be genuinely excited about the potential of "the metaverse".
Another question:

Is extremism inherently wrong?
Russia making awful alternatives to western tech is just a stereotype at this point, isn't it?
I am wondering: if hare compile for some UNIX systems, then it should be "easy" to port this to MacOS.
It says none of that. At worst, it is incomplete as an instruction manual, but it's a fine list of starting principles for thinking about humans doing work.
> they don't seem to have any form of comptime logic

Or macros, not even textual C-style ones. Non-starter for me.
They only put people under ECMO when there's no other way they will survive so I think it's a pretty good deal.
Totally agree on jr vs sr. Another point that is conveniently overlooked in the article so the author can have his holier-than-thou moment. It seems he's hiring seniors, and only wants stars.
I currently have 1 full time job, 1 full time contracting, and 4 clients that pay me a retainer for a set amount of hours they can use week to week.

It's going fine; I measure that based on my performance reviews all being excellent, my clients all paying the bills on time, and all work is done in a timely fashion. I do individual contributor infrastructure engineering at the senior+ level.

Managing the calendar is the toughest part, making sure things don't overlap is difficult. My full time calendar is relatively light, the contracting gig on the other hand is starting to get on my nerves with the amount of meetings they're pushing me to attend.
I still enjoy the Simpsons' take of that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREnFrwhy8g