skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the same way about accounts of working with most (if not all) modern arch-capitalists, trust me.
That's actually a fantastic idea, and I assume that the main barrier to implementing this isn't a technical one, but the coordination problem of getting enough instance admins to opt-in to appearing on this system, and finding some neutral third party to maintain it (potentially the same people as run this instances.social site).

Splitting your user story into smaller tasks, it seems like the technical side could be implemented as follows:

- An agreed API / JSON format / microformat for instances to list the top 3 user interests that distinguish them from other instances (ideally using Wikidata Q identifiers[0], to create a consistent cross-language taxonomy) and maybe a paragraph of text to give a fuller description of the community

- An agreed API for checking whether a username is already taken on an instance (and maybe a standardised query string format supported by each instance, which allows a third party site to send their visitor to that instance in such a way that the visitor is presented with a sign-up page where the username box is already filled)

- A site with a neutral domain name like "join the fediverse . party" (or just re-use instances.social if that's catchy enough), with the UX you describe

- A way for new instance admins to submit their instance for inclusion (which triggers some automated checks like "is this instance online?" and "which parts of the fediverse does it federate with?")

Actually the hard part is probably preventing Sybil-attacks, since some attacker could create millions of dummy instances that have only one user on (though the instances will no doubt lie and claim to have billions of users). Maybe there does need to be some cabal or union of instance admins who can be trusted to give estimates for how many genuine users are probably on the smaller instances they federate with (reporting "0" or "negative infinity" for instances which they block).

[0] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43649390
Antisemitism and other overt racism go beyond "not woke."
>Are we really at the stage where we simply downvote people who say things that are hard to hear?

This behavior is ubiquitous and has been for some time. Though the frequency has seemed to have increased exponentially somewhat recently.

It's a form of punishment.
Programmers aren't actually paid all that well. We're paid marginally better than schoolteachers and firefighters. Don't believe me? Look up the salaries for software engineers vs schoolteachers in Boise, ID. Now look up those figures in SF/NYC. They track. People get an incorrect view because they look at the national average, which is skewed because more programmers are forced to move to high-COL areas like SF/NYC just to pursue their profession.
thanks for the contributions!
Most people don't (and won't) run their own instances, either because they lack the skills or resources (including time).
That's such a strange piece of UX. As a typical user, who on average consumes content rather than produces it, what I care about is that my list of followed accounts migrates with me so that my feed stays relatively consistent. As a content producer I would also care about my past posts migrating with me, which they don't. Having followers continue to follow me after migration is only the primary concern for the "influencer". I get that "my friends can still find me" is an important feature but who thought it was ok to skip the other two?
Awesome story. Really shows the value of keeping a good maintenance manager for a long time at older apt buildings. (Or for any old, large, and complicated physical system, really)

Cheap out on this labor and you will pay for it many times over.
Sure. And he's going to take Tesla private and he's going to run SpaceX from his new HQ on Mars. What did you think he was going to say to investors? "This is a disaster and we're all going to lose our shirts"?
good suggestion ! why does it bug you?
It's useful for telling how much effort went into a software system, and how much it will cost to maintain it, but it's not useful for telling how much effort went into a task, even when it's not being gamed.

It also doesn't tell you how much effort should have gone into a software system. Spend six months writing your own message queue? 16384 lines of code. Spend two weeks wiring up your system to RabbitMQ? 1024 lines of code.
You don't know what you're talking about. For example, HTML escaping (a.k.a quoting) rules don't care what you're escaping - an email, a street name. It's just text.

And that's the point of it. You quote precisely because the container syntax doesn't know the syntax of what you're embedding. If it knew, there would be no need of the escaping.

It's called abstraction.
I had the same thought. It’s one of those stories that we’d love to believe, just because it’s so incendiary. But the original source seemed to be an unsourced tweet, and it’s not a good idea to believe those.

I’d be interested in evidence too.
Some software brings in a lot of value, that's true, as evidenced by all the wealthy tech companies out there.

But I think I wouldn't be too far off if I will estimate that only about 0.1% of developers create software that results in seven (or more) figure economic gains, 9,9% have moderate productivity that pays back their salary with some surplus and they other 90% of developers have actually negative productivity, and are only paid well thanks to the success of the first 0.1%
I wouldn't be so cocky about this. I agree with the value that software engineers bring, but you also have to look at the driving factors. Over the last 20 years, the web + smart phone revolution created an unprecedented opportunity whose value was captured by the first wave of companies who figured out how to scale always on services to billions of concurrent customers (Amazon, Google, Facebook). They built their foundations lean in between the dotcom and real estate bubbles, then, over the last 12 years we then had an incredible tech bull run capped off with a pandemic which forced everything online in a way that further ballooned expectations.

Ultimately software engineer salaries were driven by the competition for the elite talent, but the ceiling was created by the market dominance and stock performance of the biggest companies. FAANG hoovered up an incredible number of engineers because they could afford it, not because they could productively use all those engineers. The average FAANG engineer can not reliably generate the value they are paid—most of that comes from a tiny fraction of engineers running the revenue engines of the company.

While I agree the best engineers will only become more valuable, there is good reason to believe that competition will force margins down and this will put downward pressure on the average engineer salary over time. We may well have already seen the high watermark mid-level software engineer salaries, as we did a while ago for stock options which the investor class has steadily whittled away via financial engineering that consistently stays one step ahead of the historic perception of the rank and file.
No, it's not easy to manipulate. You're thinking in linear terms which isn't what lines of code changed is useful as. You can't use it to distinguish which of 4 different productive programmers is most or least productive. However it's extremely easy to distinguish the non-productive programmer in the group of 5.
And it's not easy to fake, because as soon as that developer start merging in a ton of bogus or useless edits to push up their numbers then everyone on the team, including the manager will call them on their bullshit.

It's just like shift times for workers in manual labor jobs. You can't tell which of the people who are meeting up 8 hours a day is most productive based on if they where there for 8 hours and 12 minutes or 8 hours and 25 minutes. But you sure as hell can easily see that if someone is showing up 4-5 hours on a nine-to-five job, then something is wrong. And if that person tries to "fake it" but showing up for 8 hours but spends half the time slacking off, but coworkers and managers will call him on the bullshit.
As someone who has worked with Varjo products (XR-3, XR-1 and VR-3), my feelings about them are that the image quality is really good, but the accompanying hardware and software make the experience a PITA
The rumour is that a significant part of the losses is that Elon spooked advertisers, so their ad spend dropped off a cliff. So what was a marginal advertising platform last years is a massive mess now.

Oh and Musk used something >$10Bn worth of loans to buy twitter, so they immediately have a new $1bn/year interest payment to make. That's 3 mil a day alone (check my maths).
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Hi,

I'm hoping to get some feedback on a tool I'm working on that helps people understand compensation packages that include equity, which are often confusing. After you enter the details of your package, it will create a graph and table breaking down your annual compensation in $$$. You can also compare your existing compensation to a new job offer. The tool is free and your data isn't saved unless you sign in.

What do you think? Is something like this useful?
The Varjo XR-3 has a PPD over 70. Sadly locked behind a subscription pricing model.
It's also exactly like when people on the right started leaving twitter and all these alternatives popped up.

And in the end, people (who left willingly) ended up back on twitter anyway just because people kept sharing things from there. But also because the alternative services could not keep up with the momentum, resulting in degraded service. So everyone seemed to collectively go "meh" and returned to twitter.

I predict everyone will be back on twitter once all this blows over, and especially if alternatives can't keep up. Uptime and reliability seem to be more important than features, freedom, or just about anything else.
When you move because you don't like the instance anymore, how do all of your connections follow you?

This, to me, is the central problem in the Fediverse.
The Quest 2 and the Reverb look closer than I expected. The contrast is the main difference (and that could be an artifact of the way it's shot)

The tracking on the Reverb has a bad reputation and I've avoided it for that reason mainly - as well as the extra complexity resulting from using one more translation layer (Windows MR > SteamVR) and a minority platoform.
literally just referencing richard gabriel’s use of the word thats all. each side has genuine champions but usually one side is more purist (however defined) than the other and they lose 80% of the time
In the UK it isn't respected at all. It's about the same as being a taxi driver.
I've never been good at mob behavior or just doing what I'm told.

I'm staying on Twitter until I see if it's significantly better or worse. IMHO, the current "I'm leaving" fad seems to be somewhat political, and I don't think political boycotts are constructive.
It's definitely suspicious that we've gone from 'can't find workers' to recession.
https://trackthis.link/
I had mostly the same experience, but I bought a Logitech k830 and it shows up in meta headsets

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/keyboards/k830-illum...

I didn’t notice the screen door effect on Quest 2, only the low resolution for reading text
use of GPL code in a subset (obviously not all) of proprietary software
> I've used VR headsets, nothing is comfortable after even an hour of use, we're just not designed for that

There seems to be something specific about VR that invites people to vastly over-extrapolate their personal experience. I find it really difficult to believe you've tried the Quest Pro or NReal Air [0].

Current hardware have lots of other flaws but what you mention (comfort) is mostly solved for most people (there are always exceptions).

[0] https://www.nreal.ai/air/
When I was doing embedded work all our terminals simply remembered the last settings and it was like we would set it once and not have to think about it again.

The voltage thing is real (and real stupid IME) but we never ran into clock issues that would skew baud rates one way or another.
I worked at a print newspaper. They have target word counts not because it’s a great metric because that’s literally the amount of space they have for article on the page. Same for magazines. There is a target number of pages in the issue. Any business that publishes in both print and online still has that constraint.

Online daily newsletters are designed to take so many minutes to read, which is calculated directly from the word count. So word counts often have utility.

Coding sometimes has space and memory constraints but often it works best to optimize for maintainable code, which might be shorter or longer depending on the case.
But the key here is "if YOU could". To the extent that AI lowered the minimum requirements to build Google Docs, labour supply would increase and you would be facing a lot of competition, becoming more and more replaceable by people willing to earn as much as you -2c. Then it becomes "if WE could". Market value is not productivity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33400142

You already posted this under a different account.
You do need decently stable clocks for 232 and friends. Anything clocked by an RC oscillator is probably going to cause some sadness eventually.

I2C is terrible in so many ways. (Don't send it off-board. Just don't. Ever. Trust me on this one. I don't care what you read about the bus capacitance spec, do. not. do. this.) Sending out a clock on a 400pF on-card bus isn't too bad, but when you have a kilometer-long cable... yeah, we'd rather not send a clock down that, thank you. Hence the use of self-clocked or pray-we-have-similar-clock-frequencies protocols.

3.3V or 5V devices aren't RS-232 and people need to be careful about that. They're just UARTs with regular old logic levels. RS-232 or 422 or 485 are Serious Business levels to go out and do battle with the mean Real World and the only place they should ever land is at a dedicated transceiver. Full stop.
Equipment that’s designed to cut methane emission is failing
Its a highly illegal felony, yes. but take into account the value of a human life is low as $226 in some countries. These operators are in foreign countries and dont care.
TikTok is projected to have a net revenue of 18B in 2023 (23B in 2024)…and that’s mainly from ads. Mastercard revenue is around 18B. If you think Twitter can hit 26B revenue in 6 years, I have a bridge I would like to sell you.
because broadcom doesn't release their ISP documentation.
This situation for Twitter is closer to winning a lottery than to being a wild success. The fact that they locked in the offer at that price point and then the market crashed is pure luck (with a ton of work from smart lawyers), but it’s not the result of some brilliant long term strategy.
Musk also said we’ll have people on Mars by 2022.

Forgive me if I don’t take his plans for twitter at face value.
> He was fixated on the idea that his code needed to be extensible (without a clear notion of how or why) and kept adding abstraction after abstraction for every new feature he added.

Sad to say, usually the only way this lesson can be learned is through being fired. And not always then, but at least it is no longer your problem after.
Customers pay by the word, as in the publisher prefers someone buys a 10 book series vs a 3 book series.

However, people don’t buy programs like that. If Madden 2023 has 10x as many LOC as Madden 2022 the price doesn’t change.
Are the assumptions in this plan really realistic, though? A cornerstone to these numbers seems to be the $12B in subscription revenue from the mysterious Product X with 104M users, hinted to be the ad-free "Twitter Blue" that just launched. (Pricing is pretty consistent as well - $12B in revenue with 104M users implies ~$120/month = ~$10/month.)

Subscription-based social networking has been tried before: that was the revenue model for LiveJournal/DeadJournal/uJournal/SomethingAwful/Flickr/Del.icio.us 20 years ago. People do pay for it - but only a couple percent of people will pay for it, and that was for companies that charged more like $10/year rather than $10/month. Worse, social networking is a network-driven business where the utility of the product increases the more people that are on it, so if a subscription-based business model results in fewer total users, you end up losing out to a free ad-supported model. This was exactly how MySpace and Facebook totally took over from LiveJournal & Flickr.

It's possible that 20 years makes a difference, and the userbase now is fundamentally different from it was 20 years ago. But I wouldn't bet on it - if anything, the masses are less willing to pay for entertainment than they were 20 years ago, because they have less money. I'd chalk this one up to a businessman with lots of money and experience in other businesses entering a business that he knows nothing about and assuming his experience is transferrable.
Lmaooooooooo
> the lawsuit against GitHub Copilot is extremely counterproductive

The lawsuit against Copilot is about license infringement, not productivity.
Isn’t reasoning things from first principles exactly how you learn?

I think what you meant was that people love learning lessons the hard and slow way instead of taking others’ word for it.

I’m sort of conflicted on this. Yes, it is faster to take an expert’s word for it. But after a couple of human generations of that, do we actually lose understanding?

I think we can only stand on the shoulders of giants standing on the shoulders of giants to some N giants until the whole acrobatic totem pole comes tumbling down. The game of telephone through the ages produces belief, not understanding.

Another option is making giants more giant, but that is an even slower process than one person learning from first principles: humanity has to find a way for our brains to learn those principles faster. Maybe that will take millions of years of evolution. Or maybe something like neuralink will provide a shortcut so it only takes thousands of years.
Sure, why shouldn't they be subjected to spot pricing too?
Twitter launches blue check for $7.99 monthly fee
trout.me.uk/lisp/ and trout.me.uk/gc/ are both basically archives of "stuff I knew I'd suffer that problem with" and it's a pleasure every time the contents come in handy for people who aren't me.

Also back when I was still pretending to be a mathematician I used both GWBASIC and UBASIC for assorted purposes so thank -you- for the nostalgia kick.
Yah. Buying a platform for 4X it's worth in a leveraged buy-out, antagonizing it's primary revenue source while firing half it's staff to roll-out a monetization strategy that 80%+ of 1M+ respondents said they don't want isn't exactly an inspiring start.
No landlord has asked me for proof of income. You think this peasants and lords system you talk about is mandatory ? I don't care about friends, people are a waste of time to interact with when they're all dumber than me.
HTML vs. Body in CSS (2015)
> we must be very early for intelligence in the universe.

Not under the Zoo hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis
My thinking is that if time travel / warp drive is possible, then words like "early" and "first" have no meaning. After all, if humans invented it, I would 100% expect someone to be abusing me with it right now. People would steal from the past to pay for the future.
> When you move because you don't like the instance anymore, how do all of your connections follow you?

You use the built-in[0] migration feature. Create an account on your new instance, point it at your old one. Then point your old account to your new one.

[0] Built in to Mastodon, anyway. YMMV with other Fediverse software.
They pay that much because it's very difficult to find local employees to work for McDonalds, you can hire hordes of great developers for half that salary in India or LATAM.
If the speech is illegal in whatever jurisdictions apply, then remove it; otherwise, it should stay. Yes, even trolling and slurs. If a platform emulating the public square goes beyond what is legal, it ceases to be a neutral platform and inevitably becomes a vehicle for propaganda. I realize that means propaganda could be spread by the users, but I'd rather than than the platform and users spreading it.

The real question here is defining "public square" legally.
Not exactly what you asked, but:

I worked as a structural analyst on passenger train cars (metros, LRVs, etc) for a while, as my first job after grad school actually.

Depending on the project (client requirements), we designed for 25-35 year lifetimes, with 12-24h operation typical. That usually amounted to millions of kilometers.

We had load cases with varying numbers of cycles. Eg curves with light loading might have been millions of cycles, but max (or even over max) loading might have been 10s or 100s of thousands of cycles.

All load cases were determined based on on usage stats from the operator and testing conducted to measure accelerations on the operator's infrastructure.
He did. Or anyway the first version. Possibly other people dirtied it after.
>"Hate speech can't exist on the internet, because words on a computer screen cannot physically threaten you."

If this is an example of the "intellectualism" you're championing, then honestly nothing of value was lost.
I have used pretty much every VR and AR headset there is, and have many hundreds of hours in them dating back to the Oculus DK1. Even the Index and the new Quest Pro lack the resolution needed for extended work with text on virtual screens, not to mention that the weight and heat of the headset become increasingly uncomfortable after a few hours. I also suspect that extended use of a headset wasn't good for the health of my eyes. Certainly if you wear glasses it would be pretty uncomfortable, but I generally felt a lot more eyestrain in VR than I would after extended use of a monitor.

I think we are still quite a few years away from VR being a slam dunk for a virtual workstation, and it's going to require continued investments in optics, material science and display technology. There's a reason Meta is spending billions on this, it's an exceptionally difficult problem.
what AI? what platform, they crippled it and shat on developers. The best thing to come out of twitter was Bootstrap

I think Musk plans to change the nature of twitter. He could build a substack and onlyfans clone for starters, but i think his ultimate goal is to make it the Wechat of the US
Twitter will soon add ability to attach long-form text to tweets
maybe zebra skin has a different oder. They said they used pelts.