skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course demand is greater than supply. If it wasn't prices wouldn't be increasing greater than the rate of inflation.

You're right that the type of immigrants don't matter, but the reason I mentioned illegal immigrants is because the amount is completely uncontrolled. Legal immigration we could easily ramp up or down.
Ask HN: How many are switching to Mastodon?
With Musk officially at the helm of Twitter now, I noticed a few prominent people on Twitter saying they have jumped ship to Mastodon or other platforms. How many on here are considering disbanding and choosing Mastodon as an exit strategy? Does Musk = Bad hold any weight?

I know for me I noticed a sharp decline in engagement on my Twitter account, and a recent study said Twitter's core users are leaving in droves. I don't even get any new followers. They used to trickle in over time, but all that has stalled. Twitter has now devolved into bread and circuses IMHO.

Anyone jumping ship?
IANAL and would love to be corrected, but the chart in this article may confuse many.

Permissive licenses cannot be relicensed any easier than non-permissive licenses. Permissive licenses can be incorporated into larger works with minimal consequences, whereas with AGPL, the consequence is that the rest of the software must be AGPL. Arguably incorporating permissive licensed code into a closed source work is a form of open core, which is what this site is advocating for!

Only the copyright holder can relicense the software. A CLA is often used to assign the copyright of any contribution to the company operating the open source project. This ensures the company can relicense the project, regardless of the current license of the code. A DCO is an extra acknowledgement by the developer about their contribution, but does not change the copyright assignment, and thus has no effect on relicensing.

Interestingly, there is a CLA that can be used to restrict the ability to relicense a contribution only to other specific open source licenses: http://www.harmonyagreements.org/docs/ha-cla-i.html
Its not only upvotes that affect ranking, but also flagging.
We’ve decimated many bird populations. Silent Spring is all about that, albeit 50 years old.
Zuckerberg still holds absolute voting control over the stock. Unless it tanks enough that he can get legitimately sued, or employees quit en masse... I think all other shareholders need to settle in and enjoy the ride.
You're not getting an official GNU repo if Apple still takes a cut. They'd only set one up on their terms, which Apple is chronically incapable of cooperating with.
You're leaving out a million grandparents who keep up with their grandkids' milestones across oceans through FB(like mine), and the countless old friendships rekindled(like mine). American exceptionalism?
What Is Sustainable Software Engineering
> So... what happens when USB-C no longer makes sense anymore? Will they have to keep using it no matter what? Wait for the law to change?

According to the amended Directive, the EU Commission should review it every few years and if I remember correctly the law gives the Commission delegated authority to change the annex for the law, where USB-C and USB-PD are specified. Meaning, when the industry want’s to change it, the industry, presumably the USB Implementor’s Forum, needs to go with their proposal for a better alternative to the EU Commission. Which is not unreasonable, I think.
Yeah pretty ballsy move! (Android being always like this does put a bit of damper on it - shell, running tools, custom kernels yeah all of that ;)
One day when you’re all grown up you’ll understand that people valuing different things than you doesn’t mean they’re idiots.
I created a Twitter account for the first time since 2014. Excited for the show.
Ask HN: Should I Leave Twitter (as a user) ?
Now that Twitter is owned by (currently) the richest man in the world, is it time to leave the platform or is a wait-and-see attitude more appropriate?
As others have said, that's Reddit content basically. Some times mainstream content might reach HN, but I'd be very surprised if just "Facebook stock dropped" was a big HN thread, not the type of things to discuss in HN, this is not a mainstream news outlet, even if some times some mainstream news do come up.

For instance, I'd expect a lot more to see a thread here about things like, how to invest during these downturns for hackers, personal finance tips for devs in turmoil times, a dev actually affected sharing their story of FB's drop, etc. Things more related to the community.
Digital Audiobooks are becoming more and more of a racket. Amazon recently removed the ability to buy an audio book for a $ amount. You can only buy a credit and exchange that for a book. This means that you might be buying a new $30 book for 1 credit or a $3.25 book for 1 credit.

It's incredibly frustrating and only exists to trick readers into overspending on books.
The BSO’s Cold War Collaboration with the CIA
US has lot of advantages, a huge single market, strong currency, startup culture, low corruption, almost good justice system.
> What is the point of restraint? To what end?

You know, stopping climate change. The thing that's gonna keep your grandchildren from eating meat at all if people don't stop consuming so much of it.
No, they're saying he's out of touch.
Like 25%-33% of the annual revenue. Easily enough to sink the company if they continue without a turn around.
> when Android phones went through that phase of every phone flagship phone had some sort of gimmick

I don’t think they ever grew out of it.

https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/phones/galaxy-z/

https://www.motorola.com/us/smartphones-razr-family
There's no river at the bottom, either. I thought the "desert" part would make that clear, but I guess it had to be said.

Water in this system is part of the capital cost (charging it up when you start), then a minor maintenance cost (replacing evaporation). Otherwise, unlike primary hydro, there is no large constant flow out of the system, and no need to be on a river.

The water lost to evaporation is at least an order of magnitude less than water evaporated from a nuclear plant of the same levelized power.
SugarCRM, CFEngine2/3, Chef, Heroku, grsec, Tripwire, ... there are countless examples in the dustbin of history who ceased giving back, rested on their laurels, and became FOSS-washed commercial ventures who faded into the past.

Docker maybe next given the way they're going.

Provide value at a constant rate to things rather than bait to gain users and switch to exploiting them.

The same could be said for too-good-to-be-true pricing.

If a project needs to lock-up code and service to survive OR large companies use it widely without supporting it monetarily or with fixes, then maybe it shouldn't be open source to begin with?

OTOH, if you don't want anyone to use your software and if you want to stay poor, use a radioactive license like AGPL.
Musk Closes $44B Twitter Deal
Eyesight is a combination of the sensory organ and the processing that it feeds into. That is, it includes your brain. Unfortunately Tesla's "brain" is vastly more stupid than most adult humans. Extra sensory organs are a quite reasonable way to compensate for reduced cognitive capability. So, this idea of simplification seems dishonest to me.
Tbf a some farmland used to be wild grassland not forestland. Though clearly much forest is cleared for farms as well.
This is nonsense. We have lakes already. We don’t dig two giant holes in rock. Look at real work pumped storage costs.
Correction: profit motives would push Apple to fix the App Store, since it would no longer be competitive with the offerings smaller companies can build for themselves. Which is a good thing - Apple admit the 30% cut was excessive and reluctantly dropped the cut for select users. The long-term solution is forcing them to compete with the rest of the industry, which is what will foster healthy relationships with developers instead of Apple holding their users and developers in a Mexican standoff.
Another case is doing something technologically simple enough that benefits from having a fully customized workflow outweigh having to write some stuff by yourself. This can happen with content-heavy genres like, say, 2D point'n'clicks - you don't get much by using an existing engine there, but you have to follow its idiosyncrasies which may or may not work well for you and your team.
This is because HN doesn't do 'megathreads' where talking points are consolidated into one super thread. All the copycat submissions you see are competing trying to get their submission to be the 'megathread'. Soon enough a submission gains traction and people agree that this submission is where everything should be consolidated.
That's a huge reach. You can only "double up" so much.
You're absolutely right; this could happen at any time. For instance, when the midterm election of an uninspiring administration coincides with recession and rising oil prices...

Inevitably, the first amendment to come out of such a circus will govern who can use which public restroom.
There's bias at HN. Comes with being a message board.
Thanks for posting this. Berger is great.
What's hard to understand about the media enjoying having a worldwide realtime info feed?
> I used to blame Tim for design decisions that lead to the keyboard fiasco and the touchbar

Was that Tim or Ive?
FYI : https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2022-Octo...
It's not based on a grudge. It's based on previous conversations with Agrawal and him coming to the conclusion (along with Jack Dorsey) that Agrawal won't work with him to make the changes he wants to see.

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1575598387335901190
Thanks.

I will make an ELI5 explanation later when having time - you know, it is much harder to explain something ELI5 instead of discussing the tech details. There is a full long chapter about non-ELI5 explanation though.

> If this fixes Flutter, why not put these changes in the main Flutter source

I have been making a ton of PRs to Flutter :) I also discussed w/ Hixie on public discord channels about being into Flutter, but later we concluded that it is much easier to be a 3rd party package.

> I'm a bit confused, if this is a 60 fps for free with some renaming, why is it that easy ... Something feels fishy here.

Sorry what is "with some renaming"? Not get it, it is not renaming, but literally really ~60FPS.

You can see benchmark chapter for the details, or download and compile the app and run on your own phone and look at source etc. If you find it not ~60FPS, feel free to create an issue with your profiling data so I can see what bug it is.

> This is cool, dont get me wrong, but I just dont see how its "this" easy to fix jank/60 fps.

Hey this is not "this" easy - I have spent a whole full month without weekends and with a ton of failures! And please see the "design" chapter - a ton of work indeed. So it is never "easy".
Probably heaps of flags, just like this post is likely not on the front page quickly due to flags.
I thought it was missing from the list...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Coulee_Dam#Irrigation

However it seems that the pumped storage I recall hearing about as a kid has an extremely low storage capacity and is more focused on irrigation.
It's not Agrawal's company. He's a winner for how much he got in his golden parachute.
Ask HN: How to Share Code with Intern?
Curious to know how you share your product codebase with interns or newly developer teammates?

What'd you do to limit access to the codebase while allowing the dev team to develop?

Thanks
Their "Reality Labs" (AR and VR) ran an operating loss of 3.7 billions this quarter. By comparison their total revenue for the same quarter was 27.7 billions.
At this point people like you are just being pedantic. Uses of First Amendment and Free Speech are clearly referring to having a large window of acceptable speech. If people want to include porn, gore, harassment and spam in their colloquial definition of free speech, it is exceptional enough that should point it out up front.
Most Meta employees are heavily compensated in stock. RSU's and options are what made the top-end of (US) software development so rich, and therefore pulled up the compensation of everyone else at every other level of that market. What effect will this have on compensation for everyone else?

I've never worked at Facebook, but looking at levels.fyi, a Facebook E5- between 4-15 years of experience, based on some other googling- would expect to make ~400k, ~half of that in stock compensation. The stock going down by 70% means that they are not getting the money that they thought they were. Are they going to start jumping ship to other companies? Is this going to flood the market with developers? Will the rest of the top-end of the software engineer market- who already got in trouble for colluding to try and keep down software engineer salaries[1]- lower their offers to match, with knock-on effects further up and down the market? As an American software developer, this matters to me, and I'd expect that a lot of other people would have opinions, rumors, and FUD to share on the topic.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
Not at all. MTG is a prime scumbag and representative of a dreadful process of destabilizing politics of disruption. If Steve Bannon remained true to his maoist roots her actions could not get more ideally placed to undermine trust in the process of government.

But the awful aspect of this is that some distrust in the party system at present is justified. If we act like it's only Peter Theil and Koch distorting politics we do ourselves no service.

The democrats get elected as much by machinery as by belief in the social equity they promote. To believe otherwise is naieve. Nancy Pelosi should have been expelled for her share trading.

You appear to want to argue somehow there is no taint in democrat organized lobbying. Well fine: it's a trench war right now but please don't try to make us believe Lyndon Johnson wasn't pissing outside the tent when the Kennedys were working their machine, and that neither he nor the Kennedys knew where the bodies were buried, any more than Trueman or any other past democrat figure.

They all have feet of clay.
You want to leave because he is rich?
7x earnings seems egregiously low. It’s gotta bump back up 20% within a month. This is a total mispricing of the stock
I don't think you should make claims of censorship without evidence
Wait and see, but be actively planning your exit strategy.
His timing was all wrong, just like the rest of the thundering herds of talking heads and communication majors who parrot press releases and investment gossip boards.

Their fundamentals haven't changed in 2 days. There's a lot of freedom of motion and power with $50 B in AI-GPU-enabled server gear by 2024.
Slightly off topic, but thanks for highlighting the 'what is code' post.
I clicked through to the previous hn post of that article, saw the thousand (+?) points and decided to read the actual article. Well worth it.
Because time is involved. The scoring formula is something like `(votes/age)^g` where `g` is a "gravitational constant". So if there is a post with 200 votes overall but is 20 hours old will be ranked lower than a post with 30 votes but was created 1 hour ago
The intimidations might be looking for people like you to leave without needing to pay any severance
I'm not going to up and close my Twitter account for no reason, but I did just finally get around to opening an account on a Mastodon server. I've been meaning to start moving more to the Fediverse anyway, so this isn't a complete knee-jerk thing. But all the recent brouhaha over Elon buying Twitter did serve as sort of a nudge to finally take some action in that regard.

I do eventually intend to (at least mostly) wind down my use of all "walled garden" sites like Twitter, Facebook, etc., but I will probably do so gradually. And I may leave the accounts open and populated with a bot that periodically posts a reminder of where I can be found, or something. Not sure yet.
I've switched email to Runbox after trying out Fastmail, protonmail, mailbox.org. So far so good. Reasons I chose Runbox over the rest

- they let me try all the features during the trial period unlike others whose free trial period is very restricted (I actually paid other providers to try things like using my own domain, sending mail out to external mailboxes)

- Runbox was cheaper

- liked their stance on privacy better than say fastmail

- good customer support in English

- can easily use email clients like mutt and mu own PGP keys without doing any weird stuff like uploading them to a server or using a proprietary protocol for encryption

In 2022, I highly recommend Runbox. But use your own domain so that if they decide to do mean things in the future you can just lift and shift elsewhere.
FYI you can host an f-droid repository of your own for your application, and f-droid users can keep up to date with it. If you host your own repo you don't even have to publish source code.
Probably no use unless changes are made to the platform you strongly dislike
It's been ~6 hours since Musk closed the deal. Maybe he shadow banned your account in the afternoon
I must confess I am a bit of a stats nerd so when I see an 11-sigma event I consider it generally interesting, especially if the standard model for the underlying process is a normal distribution.
Yes. But not because of Elon Musk.
Why do you want to leave?
Are you saying there was a great squirrel die-off due to trapping?
The natural world also involves species consuming their entire food supply and then going extinct. Or polluting their ecosystem until they are unable to survive.

I would hope we are intelligent enough to avoid that. Meat eating is contributing to both.
> but it's influence on politics is very real.

> Personally I don't think this acquisition is healthy for a democracy

Fewer than a quarter of Americans use Twitter. Empty rhetoric is empty.
I appreciate the feedback and I'll be updating the site to add it all in. Thanks!

I think we can definitely help out with your stack, my email is in my profile if you want to get in touch.
My guess is that the news has been fractured too much. Normally in a situation like the Musk/Twitter news, @dang will merge a few of these stories together so that one post has all of the votes/comment momentum. There are a lot of stories out there, and still not a ton of confirmation yet. I personally expect for one of these threads to make it to the front page sometime tonight...

Also -- this Twitter news will likely affect many people on HN. It's going to be an ongoing topic of conversation; there are just too many people that might be affected in the coming days/weeks.

(Disclaimer: I posted one of these stories)
If you make career decisions from a HN poll, you deserve whatever happens to you.
Linux use is fixed to a specific version of Rust, not just an edition.

Rust today is very different from Rust 0.8. And the changes in the last few years have generally been small and in targeted areas that need work. It's nothing like Python in the old days.

Backwards compatibility is a thing for Rust as well. Almost all old code in existence works without modification in newer Rust. (The breaking changes are mostly soundness bugs, and possibly some type inference.)
I only want to say that I love the name SadServers. Strongly memorable.
If you don't like working for rich guys, you should find a different industry, bro.
> "DeBeers controls the diamond market" is a myth that won't die.

DeBeers was a monopoly that wouldn't die for 90 years longer than this upstart myth has existed. Compare to Christmas, come back and comment in 2000 years, and we'll just see if it's really "a myth that won't die." I doubt it'll make it past 2030. You should really be more cautious declaring an eternal myth so prematurely.
YouTuber built gas-generator Tesla to avoid plugging in on 1,800-mile road trip
Sure, but it seems like that quarter contains, for starters, essentially all of the mainstream journalists.
Interesting that this mentions people using row vectors in physics. In my physics classes (and math classes) vectors were always represented as columns.
There are a lot of people...right now, but in an apocalypse scenario, a huge number of those people will die off before getting a chance to hunt. Some to starvation, some to other humans, and many many to whatever event is causing all this in the first place.
World's biggest moat and a general lack of big, angry neighbors.
Once that goes through US states will have the option of DST/standard time switching, standard time only, or DST only.
It would cost more, but materials are the largest cost. A significant part of the labor are more skilled jobs that illegal immigrants can't do - plumbing, electrical, etc.

And if people aren't building because it makes more sense to buy a "used" house material prices would also drop.
> Using off-the-shelf Unreal to remake Witcher 1 sounds like a smart way on paper to get their feet wet and move on from the old engine to the new one using a project they are already familiar with and can help them realign from old pipelines to new ones.

You're wrong in more than one way. As others already noted, Witcher 1 did not use REDengine - but also, it's not CD Projekt RED who is remaking Witcher 1; they outsourced the development to another studio.
Twitter was far-left-biased, I thought y'all relieved now
I used to be a die hard android and Linux user, cuz you know it was all hip. I got frustrated with android phones never being updated in the early days. Linux always having video driver issues with multiple monitors and a crappy UI. A buddy gave me his old iPhone 5 to use when like the 7 or 8 was already out. The 5 was still better than my 1 year old android phone that I broke.

Apple just gets hardware right. Id never buy a non Apple product for my phone or laptop. They have the edge now especially more so with the latest silicon.

Vertical integration works when done right and Apple does it best.
Without it, we have a race to the bottom with social services and infrastructure. A state with better infrastructure cannot be tax-competitive with another state that simply sucks on the federal government’s teat for all its needs.

The biggest handout of all is small states getting two senators despite having 1/50th the population. SALT deductions are nothing in comparison, you could always redirect federal money to make sure red states are net beneficiaries of federal money… and whaddya know, even with the SALT deduction they were.
It is in this NYT story:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/technology/elon-musk-twit...
What a strange way to judge the value of a human life.
I know someone who didn’t give Tesla consideration because they simply didn’t want to talk about Musk endlessly. (And the auto drive claims…)

It’s not like Facebook is much better. Google plus.. got googleaxed… You could get of social media all together.

Plus I can’t imagine Twitter is going to improve. I imagine it’s a slow slide as it tries to make more money..mastodon and it’s ilk aren’t popular, though I imagine this might push some to it. You end up following people where they’re posting, so to the extent those people are on Twitter you will be.

If Musk can’t keep his operations engineers happy it might be a moot point. I have no idea how they keep a site of that scale working, but I imagine it isn’t easy.