skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand this argument. If 8k employees were laying technical groundwork that can be transformed into product features more efficiently than greenfield work, how were they "doing nothing"? Twitter is a mature product used by millions, not every engineer is going to be shipping user-facing changes regularly.
Ask HN: How do you discover features in unknown code bases?
I'm realizing that one of the reasons why I don't do a lot of additional hobby programming is because I'm missing a fundamental skillset that I never developed (in a reliable way) over the years. I think I don't know how to discover features that I'm interested in, in code bases that I'm unfamiliar with.
Example: In Chromium I want to find the algorithm that is building the DOM. I'm not sure if that is even part of the code base (https://github.com/chromium/chromium)
How would you personally approach this problem?
Good as far as I can tell! There’s quite a few conferences around the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, chapel hill). There’s also a lot of company campuses in the research parks and Pendo + Red Hat being headquarters downtown.
I'm passionate about finding a job. Switch to SWE from DS, but also strong aerospace background so I know F=ma and data that isn't clickstreams. It's blood on the streets out there though, as we all know.
A 50% haircut without a careful planning is straight-up negligent.

It's like there's anger at being forced to follow-through on the transaction and decided that he's happy to burn the cash.
What is your evidence that it was haphazard?
isnt't there some sort of confederation as you are mentioning in fediverse now?

like you, as an instance admin/owner/mod can have your mod decisions public, there can be a public mod log, you can share block lists with other instances.

https://github.com/guysoft/PleromaPi/

this is a pi image for pleroma, a lighter mastodon alternative server, one simply has to edit the config and boot into it. that's it.

same for this https://handbook.spinster.xyz/

this instance has their rules public and other instance owners can decide, often with users inputs of a remote instance should be blocked or not. others are free to accept or reject their decisions but yeah...

many kings is fine so what do you suggest? every person has their one person instance? sure

https://libreserver.org/epicyon/
https://git.sr.ht/~tsileo/microblog.pub

these come to my mind.

a person has to be tech literate enough to buy and set up a domain. if they can do that, even if following online guides, they should have no trouble installing any of these services
>That is how communism ended.

Whoa, wait a minute. Where?

Communism in Europe imploded on itself because of western pressure, weakened Soviet Union and dysfunctional economy. Protests were just a manifestation.
But they are their own Discord Server instances right? A Discord Server for Ruby has zero interaction with a Discord Server on Gaming or Politics.
If big techs era is over, I encourage them to sell all their stocks in big tech as proof of their beliefs.

No?

I think this is just rhetoric for clicks
If you review it everyday it might. I know I would never look at the recording.
When I uploaded my first website in 1998 I got quite a few comments in the guestbook, even when there was really no interesting content there. Now I upload carefully produced and edited videos and I get no response.
That's fair, and a concern I share with you. I've been a heavy user of the Fediverse since 2017, and what I see right now is a bit of an eternal september moment. I'm hoping it'll return to some kind of normal once the current storm settles, but there is a risk that this time will be the one that changes the Fediverse landscape forever.

The EU instance has been nice, and I'm following several of their accounts, and they're mostly posting policy information as well as updates on various programs, but I can't expect every singe organisational account to be similarly nice. Especially if new ones arrive that post much more controversial content.
Put yourself into their shoes. Why take a risk with Twitter when there are other options with similar returns but without the drama? There is a non-zero chance that just being associated with Twitter could turn out to be problematic in the coming months.
Not really an exoskeleton . Doesn't an exoskeleton attach around the limbs? anyway looks interesting i guess
Is there a bootcamp but for electronic/electrical engineering related things? Thinking of sending my cousin to study EE but doesn’t want to waste time doing college degree.

We already have a business and would like to expand a bit more on electronic side of things like IoT/hardware stuffs.
For Russia? It isn't.
> These assumptions are the same flavor of cognitive bias to the one you're accusing others of: That born of a desire to paint a group of perceived opponents in a poor light.

Not the parent poster, but that post didn't seem to contain the biases you mentioned. You had to make an intellectual leap to find them.
Here is another open source alternative to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. that is supposed to allow any community to assemble its own software... for dating, events, making reservations, videoconferencing, livestreaming, taking trips together, common interests, etc.

The goal is to allow for example a rural village to organize itself, make dinner plans, dating, doctor's appointments, and so on, using a local wifi mesh network and one computer. There is no need for all the signals to go to Zuck's FB or Elon's TW server farms in California. People need to have their own software. If you’re interested, here is more on why it’s needed:

https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/

If you want to try it yourself:

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

If you want to play around with it, it’s free to use. The platform is ready for use but needs a lot more tutorials and needs to be packaged for hosting companies…

https://qbix.com/platform/guide
Metaverse being “not-engaging” is not an engineering type of observation, rather some kind of psychology/marketing type of insight. I wouldn’t trust engineers telling me something is, or is not going to be engaging to the general public.
> that he's just lucky

In a capitalistic world, if someone is so lucky that he could churn out successful companies one after another, then he is an investment genius, his luckiness is a super power belongs to him and him alone, not anyone else, so capital, in forms of both money and talents, will still follow.

Regardless, he is so influential yet controversial it is going to be very difficult to objectively assess his work and impact.

Certainly I won't buy a cent what some media experts said about him at current moment.
> With this NLP approach, it is not obvious where the code came from

so if this exact same action was done by a human today, instead of using an ML approach, how does the copyright holder of today catch them? Why can't the same method be used for an ML produced code base?
I'm not fighting. I'm merely attempting to dispell naive, unsupported optimism to the benefit of my fellow Intel bulls who are too drunk on yesterday's Kool-Aid to interpret what the cryptic financial writing on the walls have been warning for several years now.
There was probably a WARN act violation in there, so it's not fully legal.
Hello from Astana, Kazakhstan. I just spent wonderful night playing World of Warcraft, coding some lua addon for it and tinkering with VPS. It's Sunday's morning and I'm going to prepare more coffee. Now I need to endure till the evening so I can actually attend work at Monday with proper schedule. At work I'm working on creating an ECG device which hopefully will be useful and cheap for local hospitals. And some other projects which are more boring.

Have a good day or night or whatever time you're happening to have around.
I get the sudden urge for Mastodon, and the anti-twitter sentiment at the moment, but IMO changing platform is irrelevant.

Firstly, let's assume that we are upset with twitter firings enough to quit twitter. Moderators, accessibility teams, etc - we consider them important enough that we leave when they go, and go to mastadon? Which has how many content moderators?

I'm no fan of elons style, but he's not wrong that a company losing 4m a day is sustainable. And saddled with 13b of new debt to pay off the old owners won't help.

Advertising won't save twitter. That's been tried and failed.

While there are edge cases where twitter is valuable, the vast majority is just noise, and not in a good way. The one-line sound bite has been co-opted by politicians and celebrities, to to little more than gain attention. It panders to the over-simplification, it eschews serious discussion of nuanced viewpoints. It is driven by those seeking attention, when absolutely any attention will do.

It is the bottom that internet communities raced to. Overall I think a world without twitter is better than a world with twitter, regardless of which platform it ends up on.
Can’t someone in the Google Search team put some negative weights on this practice?
A company like Coca Cola probably plans their ad spend well in advance, and these are likely managed by external agencies. It's one thing to stop planning new advertising campaigns to run on Twitter; it's quite another to reverse course on campaigns already scheduled in.
Ah yes, we can pass those archived posts around the campfire and have a good chortle about how wrong and naive those intensely wrong people were.
OP is asking you to “comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment, however niche it might be.”

Are you passionate about pedantry? If so, you might be in the right place.

This post was nice to see. In addition to other things, I’m thinking about how to make simple tools/apps that bring back the sense of wonder we felt in earlier times on the internet. I made a little app (really just a function that i have mapped to a keyboard shortcut) that redirects you to a random website sourced from a handful of interesting are.na channels as well as from HN. It has brought me joy both making it and using it. The app is called moonjump and also has a minimal UI:

https://moonjump.app/
Kudos to whoever did their most recent lint upgrade.
> In some ways it’s satisfying to see the badge stripped of its meaning and prestige.

The only official "meaning" of the badge was that the user matched the identity of the profile, even though more was read into it both by users and employees. The notion that it will now be possible to "pay to impersonate" is absurd, but I have seen it being spread widely on social media and on television!
Does mastodon even support E2EE? If you want encrypted chat rooms, isn't that what Matrix is for
(2008)

20 Comments, 2009
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=846028
Not quite. Let's compare them with some BLS data. For teachers, I'll pick elementary schoolteachers other than special education, which seem to be in the middle of the pack.

In Boise, an elementary schoolteacher earns $52,500 on average, while the computer programmer earns $75,070 - 43% more. "Software developers" (a different BLS job from programmers) are paid even higher: $96,980, or 84% more than teachers.

The mean wage for an elementary schoolteacher in San Francisco is $86,920, while for a computer programmer it's $126,220 — 45% greater. For software developers, it's $158,320, which is 80% higher than the teachers.

Nationally, this also applies: elementary teachers make $67,080, while programmers make 45% more at $96,650 and software developers 80% more at $120,990.

So while it's true that the ratio of software engineer and schoolteacher salaries is similar between Boise and San Francisco, this ratio is quite large (not "marginally better"), and software businesses being in high cost-of-living areas doesn't seem to explain why software engineers are paid so much (they still earn a lot more than teachers even in cheap areas).

Data is sourced from the BLS:

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_14260.htm
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_41860.htm
Seems pretty reasonable
Is HN is being profiled? Earlier the question about age demographics, now this looking for your interests?
There's a huge difference. Books can be written about Twitter, but you don't need to read any to use it.
FTL is a great game. There is a super big mod called Multiverse that adds a huge story, 50+ new ships, new mechanics, new aliens, and more. It used to be a pain to install but now there's an exe for it. If you've bestent FTL, I'd highly recommend multiverse
I wonder what percentage of Twitter users know and care Twitter is owned by Musk now?

This will be a big shock and a month from now, people will be going about their business.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/1/21544501/facebook-rules-p...

As always the right wing is better at working the refs

>Over the past several months, conservative groups— including associates of President Trump— were often not penalized by Facebook for violating its rules because people at the company worried about the perception of anti-conservative bias, The Washington Post reported.
Does anyone here happen to have insight into Twitter usage stats? Advertisers will return if the users remain, especially with what's been going on with Meta ads. Sure, some influencers will leave Twitter over principle and never come back, but Facebook and others have survived much more aggressive #delete campaigns.

My sense is that barring some major Twit scandal next Tuesday (mid-term elections in the US), the controversy will blow over. In a few months, Twitter's user growth metrics will start to trend upward. Much like how Facebook survived Cambridge Analytica #delete campaign. There isn't anything ready to replace Twitter in the next few months. All the free publicity it's getting right now is setting the stage for major publicity for every new feature Musk and team rolls out. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't it more likely Musk will actually succeed in the long run given his access to funding, track record and his ultimate goal of fixing the public square? Genuine question.
Sometimes, I think about what I really want. What I want most in the universe, for myself.
There's plenty I want for everyone else. I seldom let myself think about what would be good for me lately.

Sometimes, like tonight, I do know what I want for myself.
It's impossible, but it's my greatest desire for my life.

I want to be "uplifted". I want my brain capacity to be expanded by orders of magnitude. I want to understand, I want to comprehend, I want to see it all and fully understand the shape and implications of all things in my sight. I want to be more than a human mind. I want to be far, far wiser. It's not power I want. It's knowledge. It's understanding.
My general concern is that these continuing side projects are seriously going to start detracting from his self reported primary missions dealing with spaceflight and human colonization.

As a collective of industries/businesses, Spacex, Starlink, Gigafactories for batteries, and Tesla cars all generally support each other. That's four overwhelmingly large enterprises that any regular founder would build their career around individually. It's incredibly impressive that Musk has built all four into successful businesses.

The random side projects are a distraction.

Twitter is just the largest and most expensive. Boring machines is going nowhere, though I appreciate the comedy in the naming.

Tesla long haul trucks are a natural extension of that ecosystem but should be managed by employees at Tesla.

Neurolink potentially has some major long term foundational changes, but the tech is probably 10 years too early to build a successful company around. (However I think this is potentially Musk's most important future company beyond Spacex.)

But, he is the guy with the success so far, so my little one-man opinions are just that.

My personal priorities are on spaceflight and colonization, and I would like to see him just focusing on that. Despite the progress that Starship is making, everything seems to have slowed down dramatically. There has yet to be a full stack launch. They just moved ship 8 to the retirement pad. There was only one Heavy launch this year when 3 were scheduled.

Regular Falcon 9 flights are happening almost daily, which is quite astounding. Like, really astounding. Starlink is already active and providing high speed service around the world and is a critical part of Ukraine's defense against Russia.

I just want to see more progress being made towards the moon lander, reusable Starship launches, on-orbit refueling, and measurable progress towards Mars expeditions.
Depends on your world view. I give ~40% of my income to a decrepit government where I have no say how it’s spent. My city pays $25,000 USD per public school student and the results have not only been atrocious for decades but are declining year after year. Government jobs require college credentials… colleges whose accreditation are approved by the government, in some circular fashion of reciprocal approval. Our medical system is in shambles. I really don’t know how to convince people that the government has ruined society if they can’t see it themselves - the solution for statists is always to steal money from actually productive people like myself.
Where I am in Europe, it's standard for all interior framing (walls and ceilings) to be made from steel profiles. They are strong enough to hold up walls and doors, so I guess a workbench could work.

They come in standard lengths, so for walls you pretty much just lay them down and join then with self tapping screws. They even come with cutouts for wiring to pass through.

https://www.mfo.pl/en/drywall-framing-steel-profiles

External and structural walls are built from masonry.
This is a fluff piece. While there probably are some people making the claims he refers to, it's not a common thing. If you go anywhere, you can probably find some people making some stupid and wrong claims about some other group.

That said, he is wrong about Myth 3. Digital nomads are more remote than most remote workers. Most remote workers are just working from home, still likely within commute range from their jobs. But digital nomads are often much farther away (sometimes literally on the other side of the world).
I clicked the link to Elon's tweet, and of course the replies are full of American right wingers making US politics of the situation. Because "muh free speech" is going to make Elon's Twitter as successful as Kanye's Parler I guess. Or maybe Truth social? Or perhaps Voat?
For those 10x HN hero's there is never another guy. Only he can fix this problem, the other guy will need 5 years to replace it.

Or only he can produce this feature, e.g plenty of folks tried to improve python or perl performance to an acceptable state but no one succeeded.
I really wish more libre-social apps would support serverless deployment options. If I were to deploy a personal Mastodon instance on Heroku, it would be, what, close to $30/month? Shared hosting from a provider like masto.host is $6/month and quickly rises with use?

What if there was a CloudFormation stack that quickly brought up Mastodon on API Gateway + Lambda + SQS + S3 + DynamoDB? Costs nothing if you don't post or follow anybody, with slowly rising costs as you use Mastodon more, and basically no ops concerns? Wouldn't that eliminate most of the technical barriers (cost, ops hassle, albeit still some setup hassle) for promoting federated social?
I think that's because the media like twitter, and everyone hates facebook and hopes Zuck succeeds in destroying it.
Aside from the easy lock picking, the bolt of the lock looks incredibly flimsy. It’s a thin hollow tube rather than a solid metal bolt. It looks like a big push or kick would rupture the bolt and open the door.
The reality is a similar situation probably played out at Stripe, Lyft, and other tech companies this week. They’re really not that different.
This fediverse stuff seems incredibly overhyped.

Why don’t we all just disconnect from social media (esp Twitter) for a few years, touch grass (while the stuff still exists) and then come back for the metaverse refreshed and grounded in reality like it’s 1990 and we just invented the internet. Those were good times.
Since they no longer have the same influence as before over how the company operates, the people and groups who lost the power are going all out to weaken Twitter's influence now while it is weak.

I follow a handful of people directly, and my experience hasn't changed.
Most of the things in the UEFI spec are wishful thinking and completely unused by real-world hardware.
Perhaps this shouldn’t have been surprising, but Musk has absolutely no idea what he’s doing, having screwed up the most basic element of the business: he doesn’t even know who the customer is! (It’s, um, the ad buyer, stupid.)

People said the same about Tesla and Space-X too. They said the same about bezos and amazon.

* he reacted to the revenue drop by threatening those that are reducing their spend! (Does it need to be said that menacing customers who choose to buy less from you doesn’t really work in a free economy?)*

Or maybe he is exaggerating the problem for marketing purposes. Twitter is private so it no longer has to report earning. If this was true, he would have no reason to announce it. It is part of his marketing angle.
> while injecting the local economy with cash the entire time, and not taking up any sort of social resources or government benefits.

They unfortunately jack up the prices way beyond the financial power of the locals, cause gentrification and push the locals out.
como accedo a esto de thor?
Are you suggesting they should pre-ban all people and entities you don't want to see on the instance?
I don’t know, if Coca Cola wanted to end ads with Twitter it seems like they could make a call and it’s done. Nonsense all around
LockPickingLawyer is very skilled, but the tools he used in this video were basic, a wave rake only - definitely a low skill attack. He did it 4 times in a span of 3 mins, while still reviewing the lock..
There is a stage interview between Elon M. and R. Baron where the gist hinted at is the x.com plan from 22 years ago. The puzzle pieces that go well together in one triangle are Starlink, Twitter, SpaceX. Users will have the capability to set their Twitter comfy setting as they do for music, for example.

I guess a better way to value the pieces in Telsa is to give each organ a different name like Neuralink. The Optimus bot has so much potential. It will revolutionize how the mess is made tidy after conventional arms conflict in small corners of the world where petsize animals were used to de-mine operations.
Mass judgement of people based on ( alleged ) reputation is dangerous to both the judged and the judging alike. The same is true for such behaviour within smaller groups.
"Hacker News" is one such group.
Perhaps it would be appropriate leadership and ethical to source technical facts and opinions prior to judge anyone or anything, with the same blindfold as worn by lady justice - no matter what side we are on. Let's call it the good side, as left and right are captured already ;-)
They moved to Twitter (and somewhat less to Reddit) as far as I know.