skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the Macos software is pre-release - and jittery/high latency is an understatement.

Supposedly a new version is being released mid-nov. Hopefully that will address the issues.
Th is article should be ignored. When will the article CEO’s should plan for lower pay happen?
How Much Did Supply Constraints Boost U.S. Inflation?
Got the perfect lawyer for you... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031060/characters/nm0000050
It's a bit technical to set up. Maybe sell rpis that are already set up to host? Plug n play somehow
How Much Do Supply and Demand Drive Inflation?
In this model there's no difference between me making food at home and a hospitality venue making and serving food.

This model assumes that everything can be reduced to an algorithm, a model.

Anyways, getting hungry, enough of this nonsense, I need to go microwave some math.
Cost-Push Inflation vs. Demand-Pull Inflation: What's the Difference?
>The only unfairness is if we signed treaties

Apart from the literal genocide, you mean?
There are a bunch of not commonly stated factors for high SWE salaries:

- Gender disparity in CS...women tend to avoid CS programs cutting out roughly half the potential talent pool particularly before 2015.

- Gender disparity in education. Schooling and college admittance rates up to college tend to skew more female making the actual gender disparity even more pronounced. Software engineering is mostly men who have half the potential job market competition virtually drop out past college!

- Programming languages are "English". English is virtually a prerequisite for programming (correct me if I'm wrong). This makes outsourcing to any country other than highly developed parts of India difficult.

- It's changing constantly which diminishes the value of higher education and experience. Examples: kubernetes widespread adoption in 2017, JS frameworks that became popular after 2015, HTML5, wasm, transformers after 2018 (in ML). 16 year olds in 2017 can be more expierienced than college profs in newer tech.

- American tech monopolies. Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon each have in the order of 100,000 engineers. Do they need that many? Probably no. Can they AFFORD that many? Yes. Google makes an avg of 1.6 million in profit per employee. They can do that by charging tax on their network effect monopoly and overwhelmingly hire in the US. This drives wages up across the sector.

- Programming is hard for many of the tech illiterate. Many of us grew up with a computer at the center of our homes. For the vast majority of people on earth this was not the case. It's actually getting worse with the usage of tablets and smartphones.

Here's a couple of WRONG arguments for high salaries:

- Software scales cheaply...this does not matter if you can hire cheap equivalently capable SWEs overseas. A McDonald's employee feeds many more people than a Michelin chef. Doesn't make one get paid more than the other.

- "Good" software engineers should get paid more... This is fine, but I see plenty of shitty SWEs getting paid just fine. Wages are set by supply and demand

- Programmers produce more value to society. Nope. Vaccine makers, bridge makers, factory builders..take your pick. All of these areas now DO involve software though, so the market for folks with mixed skills is getting ever bigger

I expect to see pure SWE jobs diminish in value, but domain expertise SWE jobs increase!
Yup, and it's probably convex - something like 1 + 1 + 3 = 5, but 3 + 3 + 3 > 12. That would also explain concentration of tech in a single area, or a few areas of the world.
How this guy builds mesmerizing kinetic sculpture
A lot of these points would be right if it wasn’t for the fact that software is so damn valuable.

In investment banking for instance you are lucky to get 10 lines of code into production per week, but those lines of code can soon add up to replace a trader making $1 million a year or supporting $X million in electronic trading commissions.

In Silicon Valley the salaries are breathtaking, but how many $billion and soon $trillion companies are being minted as a result of their efforts?

I think that’s the dynamic going on. Many developers are average and overpaid, but they are a scarce resource and look at what they can create in the right circumstances.
If either is possible it nearly proves that we must be very early for intelligence in the universe. A universe with intelligent life and FTL turns into a party pretty quick as soon as someone invents it.

If we even proved it was possible at table top scale I’d be about 99% convinced we are first in at a bare minimum our galaxy.

I would also argue that we should scale it up and get a presence out there fast in case someone less nice than us is also inventing one right now. (And we aren’t all that nice.)
It addresses nearly all concerns for comfort without the need for 3rd party accessories. Even glasses fit well. The catch is that you can’t seem to change anything out for 3rd party options

On the other hand, im not sure resolution is high enough for text heavy work
Right but I think the signal to noise ratio was eating to much compute for what was little payoff. And either the ultrasonic or radar don't even work above 10mph, I forget which. They are used purely for parking.
Agree, though rather than be annoyed I opted to have some fun. Using a browser plugin that automatically changes all occurrences of selected words in a web page I now get a snarky chuckle whenever EM is mentioned. Also works well for craven politicians and narcissistic celebrities.

"Laughter is like shock absorbers. Without it you feel every bump in the road."
> In web tooling there are things like Django's Admin app.

Which is great - for creating custom admin panels easily. You can't use it as "generic app" you just turn on and it works, so someone has to do it.
Well, if he had a plan for right after purchase, he does seem to be executing on that plan extremely poorly. He has seemingly no revenue plan except charging his verified users $8 per month (down from the original $20), and it’s not even going to cover the interest rates of the loans he took out. So he has some real catching up to you to really make some money.
I’m confused. The parent shows one company was founded by the person. While in the other case, it wasn’t.
I think there are two interesting sides to this here: First is that essentially a key part of this strategy is ideological, not pragmatic. Centralization came out of pragmatism, not ideology. It seems hard for me to believe that deliberately choosing the less efficient solution is a good idea for a start up.

The second is that we seem to be seeing a lot of VC brain here. By that I mean, I can scream at a VC "OMG THERE'S A TRUCK COMING AT YOU AT 100MPH" and the VC will respond "Well what we need to do is look at how the concept of a truck is cha-" before becoming a fine pink mist. I'm not impressed by people who can't answer basic questions about their product. I know Jack will hate to actually address this, but: how do you balance speech, censorship and moderation? I get we can wax lyrical about freedom of speech, but how are you actually going to address thousands of people shouting the N word at your users? And if your answer is "It's decentralized, it's down to X,Y,X people" then I have to point out, you've just outsourced the most difficult differentiator of a social media startup.
I've run my own single-user instance since 2018 - the biggest downside is discoverability and community.

Discoverability: With other users on the instance the federated timeline is populated by posts from users that others on your instance follow, so you have to follow people a bit more liberally to discover other posts.

Community: Instances also have a local timeline, which shows posts from others on the instance and this gives each one a slightly different vibe. With a single-user instance it's just your posts!

But either way, you can still interact with pretty much anybody else in the Fediverse, and once you're followed by a couple of people your posts will go out to the federated timelines of other instances and you'll get interactions via that.
He's really going full pointy-haired boss. Bringing in "your people" is a classic old-school manager move. This is starting to border on accidental self-parody.
As noted elsewhere in this discussion, the Nreal Air glasses already offer 49ppd, which is way higher than the VR headsets on that chart. I haven't gotten to try them out yet, but they seem interesting.
Who brought up illegal? Why would that matter? This is about morality.

> You are completely incapable of having an honest conversation about this

Yeah only other people have that issue!
> people who wouldn’t otherwise have had them reinforced.

You mean people without access to niche communities / echo chambers?

I grant there are people ready to embrace destructive ideas, but the fraction of them that don't already have access to those ideas is small enough to be irrelevant, especially in the age of the internet.

Better to have them out in the open, for the reasons I mentioned, and moreover, because it's better to have an accurate view of what they think.
Show HN: Hire shortlisted top talent from Big Tech for your startup
Get in touch with top talent wanting to skip Big Tech to build the next frontier. Quickly iterating, would love to hear your thoughts.
If the supply/demand ratio stayed the same, salaries couldn’t go lower. But you are right that if software companies were poorer that there would be a necessary reduction in demand.
The "system service" you talk about is still part of Google Play Store package. What I'm talking about is an API on PackageManager level (part of OS/AOSP) and not inside Play Store.

The whole mechanism you describe is unrelated to the issue of installing user apps without confirmation for alternative stores.
I have a code base that is a mix of hard, soft, and static real time. I have a command line interface built in to it and a lot debug logging that can be re-enabled.

I've also spent some effort into making it tolerate being interrupted. And there is also the good old technique of inserting break points while the code is running.
My donations are my own business.
> I do. The stated political beliefs of the people being interviewed & their claim that many @ Twitter shared their beliefs

You do not have a source. Guilt by association is not a source. You're just making a guess and you should be called out for claiming a guess is an actual source.

> If someone is banned from the site, the site is not accessible to that person.

Sure, by definition you can't access a site you are banned from. But that's not what accessibility is and that is not what the accessibility department was working on.

> If people are being banned for political speech, then it certainly violates any form of platform neutrality.

Yes it does violate any form of platform neutrality. That still has nothing to do with the actual definition of what accessibility includes.

> Banning someone for exercising their free speech is anti-accessibility.

That's absurd. Accessibility already has a definition and it's quite specific: it's about disabled people. You are free to re-define words, but folks are also free to ignore your personal definitions.

> Freedom of Speech is a human right which Twitter has been willfully violating.

I don't agree with you that they have been violating anyone's free speech but what does this have to do with your original claim that "the accessibility team acted as political speech commissars"?

Where is your actual evidence of the accessibility team doing that? Actual evidence would not include your guesses or guilt by association.
A 16 year old child can work in a factory putting a keyboard together. Face it, there is a pyramid , and some jobs require the smartest people humanity has and that job is programming. Computer science is becoming established and is the most important area in the progress of civilization now. All other human work exists only to support us programmers at a species level of thinking and we make the real contributions that matter , that live on for centuries. The doctors exist to keep programmers and all the people below us that we depend on for supporting us healthy. The farmers exist to keep programmers fed. But have you wondered why do we programmers exist? We exist to automate and manage all these cattle below us and direct humanities endeavors with the systems we imagine and bring into reality.
Let me help you choose an instance -> https://instances.social/
It’s important to understand what is and isn’t being considered here.

He is considered legally innocent, that doesn’t mean he is actually innocent only that the courts are treating him as if he where innocent of this crime.

It’s the same situation as someone getting convicted of breaking a law that came into effect after they had done it. They bring a Habeas corpus appeal that says based on the facts accepted at trial and the date of the law went into effect I committed no crime rather than saying I didn’t do it.
Lol, I’m sure software will make a great restaurant. Using software does not make a software business.
That’s exactly what I think of as inbox as well. As a (I’ll admit, ugly) workaround, is there someway to have the default date set sometime in the far future?

I guess I’m just wondering if that’s technically possible since this app does look very nice, aside from your main feedback.
There were simple computational devices going back centuries and depending on the definition even millennia. The axioms of computation were also entirely formalized and proven long before electronic computers were born
Do you get decision paralysis when deciding what home to buy or what apartment to live in?

This is what freedom looks like, vs going to a defacto centralized megacorp and having them tell you where to live so that they can most efficiently manipulate and spy on you for profit.

Everyone has become far too accustomed with exploitative corpos telling them what to do on the internet. Choices are harder, but healthier.

Just make a choice, and you can make a different one later.
The Home version is surprisingly cheap. I became so reliant on Mathematica from my student days that I just have to buy the Home version after graduation.
So he created a Mastodon clone?
It’s currently under review, the Supreme Court can take a while to make a decision.
> It's a lot easier to handle realtime in an editor than in a fully featured game. There's less other stuff going on

I don't think that's true. Most games are optimized to limit the number of draw calls and textures. The viewport of a 3D software package has no such limits. As a result, my viewport rarely runs as well as the games I play.

In any case, that's besides the original point, which was that it wouldn't need to run in realtime. My argument was that it would.

It's not a completely impossible goal. Look into what some artists are making with Dreams on the PS4. It uses raymarched SDFs for modeling.
The most brilliant part of his plan is how he is needlessly antagonizing his own advertisers and threatening to send his crazed followers after them.

That is how you grow a business. I'm sure the advertisers will come running to make deals with a man who may or may not lash out at them publicly and send his followers to attack them in the future over any disagreements.
It was just the first example from the top of my head. The expression above calculates the right thing, cast to int. In general, prescribing which units we can multiply and which not, is extremely silly if you consider how we learn it in school. You can multiply anything and everything, simply take care of the units. There isn't an obvious reason why we couldn't have 2000 dollar-pounds as a transient value in a longer computation.

The real problem is that most type systems aren't fit to track the units automatically. Solution: Don't beat yourself up, track the units in your mind / in comments / in variable names instead of the type system. And just get it right. It's not that hard - if you mix something up that's usually the type of bug that is immediately noticed and fixed.
This horizontally scrolling text is so damn distracting and doesn't respect the 'prefers-reduced-motion' flag in the browser.
You are right. But the problem is not that they don't have responsibility. The problem is they often claim to be paid so highly because of the responsibility.
They don't need to cut off your finger to steal your fingerprint
I think this will all work out fine in the end, the unique thing with twitter is the exact people who lead these boycott campaigns... are all completely obsessed with using twitter. The author of this thread is a prime example.

And the ads are placed on the feed not on a piece of content (like the issues youtube was having).

Elon should just deploy a "woke bubble" option where your ad is sandwiched between posts from two liberal elites. The audience would still be broad as just as many people follow these people to laugh at them as to support them.
If one's goal is to be as correct as possible, either at producing truth or making moral prescriptions, there is little reason to think an echo chamber is more likely to be correct, and many reasons to believe it's likely a strong impediment.

Echo chambers don't ideologically clean house, and vibrant merged discourse is anti-fragile. Weak or bad ideas can linger for a long time in an echo chamber, because of conflict avoidance, social pressures and the apathy of "sounds right, I guess" in an environment without any challengers willing to raise opposition to support their elimination. A vibrant discourse aggressively tears apart weak ideas of both sides, and creates an arms race to have good, hard-to-tear-down ideas which can pull people over.

Echo chambers struggle to agree on base realities and in doing so ultimately polarize in a way that is harmful for society's core fabric. Research seems to indicate that the partisan polarization we're experiencing today was very strongly correlated with the rise of cable television [1], which allowed people to self-segregate into bias-catering echo chambers. Regardless of your view, I feel most would agree it is a bad thing to live in a democracy where 30% of the electorate believes the seated president won by voter fraud [2] as disagreement on this point being split on these growing partisan lines is a powder keg.

Echo chambers in real life duplicate local conditions ideologically and morally, which is often bad. Ethnic cleansing, lynching, slavery, and other horrific abuses were at many points in history "how things were done around here", and while these are extreme examples, there's no reason to think that your local area "gets things right" just by nature of its proximity to you - the same social pressure towards conformity in these groups will likely apply at all levels, big and small, giving you opportunities to be wrong about all kinds of things.

For someone who wants to be right or in the right, echo chambers are a losing formula.

[1] https://www.dallasfed.org/~/media/documents/research/papers/...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/poll...
It’s not true though. If you go to Kenya restaurants exist without computers.
In Switzerland this just makes sense. Trash bags cost 2$ a piece. Recycling is free. Any violation will result in a huge fine.
Debirdify
It’s not a dumb monitor. Even the new Apple headset will require internet connectivity and an online account. Also from what I’ve seen, most VR headsets have an option for not sharing your usage analytics. It’s not shared by default.
Plenty of anarchists (e.g. libertarian socialists) don't like bitcoin either.
Yeah, you can stop supporting censorship.

Facebook, Twitter, Reddit et al are modern censorship platforms. I know that saying that violates liberal dogma, but it's true. You could probably even go so far as to say cancel culture is a censorship platform, particularly when it's misused.

The problem with censorship is that it stifles intellectualism. Intellectuals have always cut against the grain and said crazy shit in essays, much like I'm saying now. It's the sort of crazy shit that challenges your worldview, and it's natural to want to downvote, report, and have that content removed from your platform of choice.

But intellectualism is the only thing that can create a revolution.

And politically-correct censorship is getting all the intellectuals silenced (along with all the actual idiots).

Now, what's it mean to "stop supporting censorship?" Everybody agrees that, as private platforms, these companies have the right to moderate and remove any speech that they choose. The problem is that they're also seeking protections under Section 230, which says "Internet companies that don't moderate their content can't be responsible for their content." This creates a dilemma, especially when these companies have created an oligopoly surrounding online speech.

We need legislation that establishes the public forums and discussion areas on these providers as public utilities so that their users receive first amendment protections under the Constitution. This still allows them to remove content that violates the first amendment - like incitement - but would otherwise reclaim the internet as the world's largest mass free speech zone.
Hmm, oh! C++ comes to mind. Of course, there is such a thing as null, but in:

void fun(string x) // std::string
{
}

x cannot be null. The reference semantics (like a copy of a string sharing the data with the original) is an implementation detail/optimization encapsulated inside what appears to be a value type.

The tools are there in C++ to create ideal types for your problem domain which just look like value types that have no null domain value (or any other value you don't want), and standard strings are like this.
Like any job, it’s probably a small percentage of the workers producing most of the results. I know at my job it’s pretty obvious who is actually consistently working but somehow it isn’t obvious to management or just harder to prove.
Testing Carmichael's Conjecture
I cannot tell if you are aware you're setting devs up for failure or not. Half your mentioned metrics are tackled by hard forcing your devs to run branch CI prior to merging and giving them a slap on the wrist for not running CI checks locally pre-push.

If they are important enough to measure, why not hard force them and focus on the remaining metrics instead?
Has anyone tried doing this with a Varjo headset? https://varjo.com

I would love to try this, they have some of the highest resolutions that I've seen but a little $$$
I am bit worried about Poland’s push to restrict media. Isn’t that exactly what we’re fighting for in Ukraine? A system where many opinions can co-exist.
If you actually pay attention to the “a whole bunch of stuff”, maybe you'll understand the latter statement.
It's unlikely anyone thought they did.
escaping requires validation. You don't know what to escape if you aren't allowed to validate.
`5 * time.Milliseconds(2500)` is not a type error, though `int(5) * time.Milliseconds(2500)` is.

(This is especially relevant because you really mean `5 * (2500 * time.Millisecond)` vs. int(5) * (2500 * time.Millisecond)`, as there is no `time.Milliseconds` function.)
https://archive.ph/Ghoqp

http://web.archive.org/web/20220323141142/https://www.nytime...
One complaint about it is you need a fast router and ideally a wired connection to it from your computer. Otherwise it can be too laggy to use.

But virtual desktops are cool. The Quest Pro makes it nice because the pass through camera is quite good.
I don't like him either, but I don't subscribe to the Musk model where he's simply a chaos agent with no regard to consequences of any sort. He didn't want Twitter and got locked into buying it after losing a game of chicken, and now he's scrambling to make some sense of what he's got.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/technology/twitter-first-...

Twitter was profitable before this happened, even with the increased headcount. It seems like all the loans Elon took out put a noose around Twitter for no benefit to the platform at all.