skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a seed-stage startup I was paid more than the CEO, and technical founder. High-value IC's absolutely can be paid more. I had plenty of responsibility, but it was in the systems not people.
Low probability events do happen sometimes though and a heuristic that says it never happens can let you down, especially when the outcome is very bad.

Most of the time a new virus is not a pandemic, but sometimes it is.

Nothing in our (human) history has caused an extinction level event for us, but these events do happen and have happened on earth a handful of times.

The arguments about superintelligent AGI and alignment risk are not that complex - if we can make an AGI the other bits follow and an extinction level event from an unaligned superintelligent AGI looks like the most likely default outcome.

I’d love to read a persuasive argument about why that’s not the case, but frankly the dismissals of this have been really bad and don’t hold up to 30 seconds of scrutiny.

People are also very bad at predicting when something like this will come. Right before the first nuclear detonation those closest to the problem thought it was decades away, similar for flight.

What we’re seeing right now doesn’t look like failure to me, it looks like something you might predict to see right before AGI is developed. That isn’t good when alignment is unsolved.
Start with changing your job to an environment where you could make an impact. Then start making an impact - take ownership of your work, help coworkers who get stuck/hung up on a problem, be active in planning sessions, communicate your thoughts and worries openly, push stalled tasks forward, etc... That usually gets noticed pretty fast.

Nobody will notice, reward or promote some guy sitting in some corner, feeling sorry for himself. Being a good manager means helping your team, shield it from the everyday crap flying around, fighting for answers, resources, helping people to deal with hard situations in life (divorce, health problems, death). You need to be actively involved in your work - and that's exactly what you're having problems with ATM.
Blockchain techbros have thoroughly burned up the good will that society grants new technologies, and earned it a distrust until proven otherwise state. There's even an XKCD on this exact topic: https://xkcd.com/2030/

>have now changed their research interest to ‘combatting disinformation’ about election integrity.

Seeing as how disinformation is a gigantic problem these days, this is a better use of their time than trying to reinvent a wheel that already works. Implementing a transparent verifiable blockchain backed voting system will not reduce election fraud conspiracy theories because those belief systems were not arrived at through rational logic in the first place.
> Why bother? Just give me an app that can handle nicely markdown files

Markdown (and any other markup) really sucks for anything that is more than just plaintext with some formatting. The best markdown-app we have at the moment are those like Obsidian or Logseq, and they are very low-key compared with a proper richtext-app, like Notion or even a mature word processor.

And looking and the hard struggle of obsidian and their community-plugins, it might be really time to get a proper open richtext-format for the notes-space, to liberate us from markups and their limitations. Maybe something json-based, to bring the notebook-movement into the ring too.
heh, also at that time, there was little else to scratch that itch, other than going back to Frontier: Elite 2 on an emulator or something. That's how I got into Noctis all those years ago.
Exactly. Well put.

The model that isn't sustainable is a permanently investor funded one.

Often when these products launch - they have zero advertising, zero features to make money - they are totally aimed at growing market share - totally focused on the user.

Then it's inevitably downhill from there - whether it's people not being prepared to pay ( eg Blue ticks ) or complaining about advertising or scrapping of data.

One of the damaging effects of the large amount of investor funded products is that it makes it very difficult for the user supported ( paid ) ones to thrive.

Perhaps the current state is because we are not at equilibrium - and as regulation, and the market matures it will become a bit more sane.
By "wash trading gone wrong", they mean it failed in its objective. The "wrong" here doesn't mean morally wrong, it means "the wrong way to achieve the goal". Much as "a code optimisation gone wrong" doesn't mean it was morally wrong, it means it catastrophically failed to achieve its objective.
My read on the climate threat is more civilizational than extinctional, small numbers of people can survive even the "global nuclear war over resources" endgame of climate change. It's still a pretty horrible endpoint because so many of the easily accessible resources you'd need to kickstart another high tech civilization are already exploited and inaccessible in deeper mines but I have doubts even the worst outcomes would be human extinction.
There are four differences between Godot today and Unity circa 2007 that make this unlikely:

1. The Godot trademark is owned by the Software Freedom Conservancy, and not the original authors or their company.

2. The founders do have a consulting/support company, W4Games, but it is not Godot Inc, and because of point 1, can never be. Secondly, it is not afforded any special place in the project leadership structure. W4Games employees account for 2 of 9 leadership positions in the Godot project leadership. This is overseen by the SFC who would not permit a company to have too many seats.

3. The founder's company also does not have overwhelming control of contributors. Of the top 10 contributors, numbers 1, 2, and 7 are part of W4 Games inc, but all of the top ten have significant contributions.

4. It's open source. This is less of a deterrent than the above, since it's MIT licensed so someone could make a closed source fork, but they would have to compete with the community in that case.
You can write crap code in any language. To avoid it you need to enforce some decent set of best practices for that specific language. That also means not using best practices from language X in language Y and then complaining that language Y is crap.
Not using VSCode currently but I think pretty much yes.

You can goto or peek definition in VSCode. And the find tool has the option to find all occurrences throughout your project.
Exactly. Very popular way of distributing software e.g. on alt.sources, back in the day.
Who ever claimed that? Look to China instead.
Where do you do this? I think this is only with Android...
I'm sorry, I can't hear you over this Taylor Swift song I've got blasting...
Microsoft being allowed to leverage its enterprise word/ppt/xls trench and bundle OneNote/Teams without anti-trust regulators batting an eye is what kills these companies.
I do not see the power to lie in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution. Therefore, Congress does not have the power to force these signs on us.
>It's discrimination and is against the spirit of the Internet.

The Internet was technically a US weapons project, idk what the "spirit" should be there ;)
Since this has generated quite some interest, the reasons I dislike Laravel are:

- so. many. godobjects.

- I dislike ORMs. I could not put my finger on it, while using PHP frameworks, because they were omni-present; but after using Python, Go, and C#, I found it to be easier for me to just avoid the overhead of an ORM.

- Terrible structure. Sorting classes by type is something I have experienced to be generally less helpful than sorting by "topic" (not a native speaker, so this might not be the correct word for it. I recently heard it compared to collecting cars, then disassembling them and sorting by tires, steering wheels, seats, and so on)

- Too much magic™. I understand that many like this about it, but I found it harder to understand what exactly the program is doing.

It's not a lot, but after literally years of PHP and having these paper cuts almost weekly, I was at one point fed up. I first switched to CodeIgniter, which I found more pleasant, but still not even comparable to the comfort that cherry-picking components gets you (yes, you can by using composer, but most people I have spoken to discouraged that in favour of Laravel's built-in fun).
Studio approach
Click through onto specific posts, and it reads: "Get the app to like, reply and post."

I suppose this is so it can, like Twitter, be shared and embedded elsewhere for reference.

There is no general landing page if you go to threads.net.
You absolutely have no idea what you’re talking about. You’ve likely never interacted with any antifascists and are only regurgitating what you are fed on the news.

It’s really sad so many people bought this crap narrative delivered by our corporate overlords.
Love this. The colour Seoul series is my favourite, but all of the pictures are really interesting and engaging.
Similar to beacon advertising but instead of bluetooth it'll use your face.

"Welcome back Jim!"
I think you're asking for something which doesn't really exist, then.

Here's an idea - just listen to audiobooks. If you're not interested in podcasts and you're not interested in videos, I'm not sure what other options there are. People don't generally make "audio-only" YouTube channels because people who want audio-only entertainment normally choose podcasts.

Further, if your only experience with podcasts is 2h conversations which could be summed up in 10min, then you really just haven't explored enough I'm afraid. The channel you mentioned, Economics Explained, has a great podcast.
He is right about the meanness, but his own product head says the goal is to capture market (to be ad monetized in future) cuz ppl are unhappy with twitter. So that's the goal of Threads. Not doing anything about meanness.

Cuz guess what? There is no solution to reducing meanness in environments where everyone broadcasts. Think about radio spectrum and everyone given a free radio to broadcast. What do you think happens?

Claude Shannon already showed us that when everyone broadcasts you get noise. And to overcome noise what do ppl do? Raise the volume, or like a good spammers/marketers annoyingly keep repeating the same msg. Isn't such an environment a breeding ground for meanness?

We haven't solved the noise on twitter, cuz free for all broadcast mediums are not possible without being ever growing noise generators.
Save yourself from Alt-Tabbing or going into Dev-Tools when building websites with this Chrome-Extension. Retrieve all Color Information and Modify them in Real-Time and much more
I would recommend avoiding iris-go, the author has a bad history of rewriting the git history, and using code without attribution, see this for more: http://www.florinpatan.ro/2016/10/why-you-should-not-use-iri...
Software Engineer position is filled? Only the electrical engineer position is visible on the careers page.
Wait, what IP are we talking here?
If you send an email from gmail to me, you don't get to ask that it be deleted just because you decide to delete your own gmail account. (Well you can ask but it would be unreasonable to comply. Same, if arguably less strongly, for comments you've made on posts or in threads on social media.)
Funny enough I am also working on a game project and use SDL2 for the cross-platform aspects (I don't need to learn some incredibly specific IDE, I get the control, but it abstracts away all the more boring stuff), but I specifically want to target the Steam Deck for my next PC game project.

Thanks for the tips!
>> many Mastodon instances said they intend to defederate immediately with Threads

“Federation”
this sounds like an interesting product and the team clearly has impressive credentials.

I am very sceptical of crowd funding however, I think these are largely terrible investments for consumers while explicitly targeting people who are not accredited investors.

what made you go that route instead of pursuing VC funding?
I fell into management because my boss moved overseas to set up a new team and I was asked to ‘supervise’ the team left behind. No pay rise, no title change but extra reporting responsibilities with a weekly evening phone call. A year later my boss pressured the CEO to give me a title, an office and send me on a 1 day management training course. The pay rise eventually came through another 6 months later.
I had a period where I read every interview there, it was so cool to read about peoples tech stacks. I kind of fell off as it seemed like it ended up being more interviews with non-tech people than tech-people which removed some of the interest and utility for me. Got to revisit that site.
Big Update to OpenBSD's pfsync
I have written about this some time ago here: https://andrewpillar.com/programming/2019/07/13/orms-and-que...

The main reason, in my opinion, comes down to how Go as a language was designed. I have written some follow up posts to that, specifically this one: https://andrewpillar.com/programming/2022/10/24/a-simple-cru... wherein I explore creating an ORM-like library via generics in Go, this may be of interest to you if you want a better understanding of how some of these things would work in Go.
A guide to speed classes for SD and microSD Cards (2020)
I blogged about this yesterday after seeing a similar post on HN

https://dynamorando.pages.dev/blog/the-public-web/

Though I am not sure the political will exists.
To partly answer your question, Lake Michigan isn’t that deep close to Chicago, so it doesn’t stratify to have that constant 4C depth of water nearby. Contrast that to Toronto on Lake Ontario where the depths (and temperatures) drop off quickly:

Lake Michigan (Chicago is near the bottom left): https://www.mlive.com/resizer/ShCu4LXkI1ioIVtd5mmLimlPt_M=/8...

Lake Ontario: (Toronto is right where it’s bluest/coldest): https://www.mlive.com/resizer/13wrdcYuMUdx3A_4kycmNO_XhpY=/8...

Source article: https://www.mlive.com/weather/2020/08/see-how-cold-it-is-at-...

Toronto’s system works with heat-exchangers on incoming municipal water. Possibly working with already warmer water would present in-system microbial growth issues in Chicago.

I think Toronto’s intake pipes were intentionally that deep because that water mixes the least with crap (literal and figurative) from the surface, not to make this cooling system more efficient.

The downside is that city users get warmer than otherwise water in summer, so their own A/Cs need to work a bit harder with the warmer water in your toilet tank and pipe work. And commercial/industrial evaporative air conditioners are starting off with slightly warmer water. But water heaters have a bit less work to do (great if resistive, bad if heat pump). And of course, chilly water in winter (but it is nice to be able to get pretty cool tap water year round).
I feel like any product that competes with free ones and does not have a technical wall is going to fail eventually.
Musk made a series of anti-"brand" decisions which caused a lot of advertisers to leave.
Hi all,

I used to work on Cinder and helped build the Explorer. Happy to answer questions.
I am a big fan of The History Guy (https://youtube.com/@TheHistoryGuyChannel)

He's very affable, good voice and cadence, and it's enjoyable even in an audio-only format. He's also very prolific, producing three episodes a week with several years in his back catalog.
Sure that's an option.

In essence that's a user ( indirectly through taxes ) supported model.

In the UK, the BBC follows that model ( the license fee is in effect a tax in all but name ) - and it's model is constantly under attack from certain quarters.

Indeed the BBC has being doing pilots in the social space - with SOLID and data pods.

See https://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/pilots/together-pod

The key question here is any of this stuff actually important enough for centralized funded.

Let's not forget, there is also the spectre of government control - you know the government security services will have full access.
Ah didn't even occur to me.. of course. I have been running my own server for a few months using Oracle free tier. Think I'll stick to matrix.org going forwards.
Threads has 10M users so far
At this point I'm really wondering why anyone still uses iOS given the ever increasing list of things it can't do for completely arbitrary reasons.
>My few years of personal experience of using Python with even small-ish scale professional projects have been... underwhelming so far

You have years of experience but couldn't point to anything in particular?

Heck, I like python and I can complain about dynamic typing issues in for loops, or that they are adding features like generators/decorators that make code more difficult to understand, which goes against the zen of python.

(But I still think python is great)
Makes sense, targeting the younger crowd. They're on 'Insta' not Facebook.
Phrases like “robbery gone wrong” are common.

It simply implies that someone was harmed when that wasn’t the intention.
Reddit's /r/punk subreddit is a good example of this - it has almost nothing to do with music and is instead just a general Redditor meme dump that vaguely links to "alt" viewpoints.
I always found it quite satisfying to do; many codebases I've worked on have mid-length block comments that are manually justified that way.
I’m curious - do you see a path forward for “public” social media?

I had half an idea yesterday on this from HN:

https://dynamorando.pages.dev/blog/the-public-web/
> […] and yes, even Apple

I was under the impression that Apple makes most of its money from margins on hardware sales, with services a growing percentage (Apple TV, App Store).

The "advertising and marketing" that is involved with Apple is them spending money on it so people know about what they sell, and not so much Apple taking in advertising and marketing money (which Google and Meta do).
There is! It's called microformats[1] and is a very minimal format to embed machine readable data inside of html via standardized class names. The format for a person would be an h-card[2]. There are a bunch of parsing libraries for multiple programming laguages, such as https://go.microformats.io/.

For example if you enter my website url in there you get all the data as a nice json object: https://go.microformats.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftiim.ch

[1]: http://microformats.org/
[2]: http://microformats.org/wiki/h-card
This is super-important. Sometimes the grass is greener on this side of the fence.

VCs want to get you to grow rapidly because the only way to move the needle on their returns is to blow the roof off. However as a founder, this is proof you can have a great business and a great quality of life by keeping costs relatively low, the team relatively small, just cranking out code and having fun.
I expect that if federated social media takes off, nobody (among the mass market) will know that it's federated, just like email. It'll just be, like you say, a couple of big sites that happen to enable people to communicate with people on other sites (and also a handful of wizards who self-host).

I think the killer feature of federation in general (particularly in the context of social media) is that it decouples user account administration (and by extension, data collection) from the network effect. I run my own node that just has my account on it, but I can still benefit from the network by federating with other nodes.
I've bought specialty woodworking tools from Dictum that are good quality
A few thoughts:

Look for opportunities to take on roles if there is volatility. I moved into management when our current manager left and I volunteered to be an interim manager. I did well and they moved me into the position permanently.
You may want to consider changing jobs. If current management does not see you as management material, it may be that you’ve been there too long. It’s very difficult to change people’s perception of you rather than creating a new first impression.

Dress for the position you want. Perception is (almost) everything. Dress like the managers do (if they dress nicer than everyone else). In general, dress just a little bit nicer than everyone else. If everyone wears t-shirts, wear a collared shirt. If everyone wears collared shirts, wear a blazer. If you look like manager but aren’t, people will ask whether you’re a manager. You’re halfway there if people suspect you’re a manager. If you don’t look like a manager, people won’t see you as a manager, both literally and figuratively.

Act like a manager by always following up on items, especially with your managers. Don’t let anything fall through the cracks. Your manager should never, ever have to check back with you on something they asked you to look into. Even if it can’t be done, make sure that you’re the one that follows up on it with them. Follow-up with coworkers on items you’ve asked them to do. Don’t be afraid to pester people. Send emails asking, “Any update on this?” Find a way to track all these things. Keeping track and following up is critical. Record and transcribe meetings with supervisors to make sure nothing falls through the cracks.

Improve your social skills. Learn public speaking if necessary so that you can sound confident in front of people.
DigitalOcean acquires Paperspace (YC W15) for $111M in cash
Numbers like this "as of June 9, 2023, according to Forbes. His net worth is estimated to be $220 billion" are very squishy.

Where you and I with our discount brokerage accounts will promptly get a margin call if a margin account lacks a penny of the requires collateral, Elon's borrowing against Tesla shares skates over loan covenants, as does the Twitter LBO debt, when loans of that size are a significant risk to the lenders.

Tesla is a mem stock, priced at 15X the P/E of Mercedes-Benz Group, which makes actual luxury EVs with good workmanship, and actually delivers level 3 ADAS.

Gravity-defying leverage is "wealth" that can evaporate in a day.
Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed (and agree with) the 'Photography In Plato's Cave' post.
Didn't it used to be the case that a lot of FreeBSD devs used OSX while OpenBSD devs used OpenBSD and this dogfooding produced better device driver support on OpenBSD?

I heard that somewhere many years ago, but it may be false.
We don't have 200 years to figure it out. I'm not the one that lacks perspective here. Hard problems also often take over 200 years to solve, we can't rely on the dogmatic belief that we will somehow figure it out.

A failure to plan is a plan to fail.
> 2. How come so many indie devs are off making their own notes app instead of pooling their efforts?

Notes are something very simple on surface, but can become very complicated and diversified on details. So everyone starts doing their own personalized sh*t, some are happy with this, and some learn the hardships of it and abandon their projects at some point. So we have a constant stream of half-assed notes-apps of various flavors, and some which are really well-made, to stay.
Note that when industries talk about waterfall, they usually imply either SPICE or an adapted version (for their own sector).

SPICE means Software Process Improvement and Capability d-E-termination (yeah it's stoopid), but is used e.g. as ASPICE in the automotive industry and is a framework for large enterprise companies to establish policies, roles and responsibilities across their staff management tools. [1]

The SUSE article is actually a nice overview highlighting the processes and workflows and how they iterate on work products. [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_15504

[2] https://www.suse.com/c/an-aspice-overview/
Not using Threads, but does anyone know if it requires a distinct new or account, or if you can login via your Instagram account? I'd imagine if the latter is the case, then this explain the high usage, if the barrier to entry is low (provided you already use Instagram). Also, I would be curious to see how many of the users remain active on the platform in the coming months.