skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it is as black and white as you make it out to be.

Yes, there will be large demand for water even at higher prices. But less than at lower prices. Maybe a little less, maybe a lot less, but either way we are better off than now.

Also, there are many other effects to consider besides how much the demand will change. As the price increases, alternative water sources become more economic - trucking water in, building pipelines and canals, building water capture systems, desalinization, etc. Rather than solving the problem by using less water it may be possible to solve the problem by using water that has less environmental impact.

Generally speaking, I find your framework hard to parse. Free market thinking and cost benefit analysis are orthogonal, not two parts of a whole. Pricing externalities, as we are discussing here is not the same thing as cost benefit analysis.

Cost benefit analysis is a bureaucrat sitting in an office and deciding what policies should be enacted. Pricing an externality means assigning a cost to use of some scarce resource, and letting the market decide if and when the resource is worth the cost.
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33488224

see the top comments.

"Allegedly Oracle did this years ago when they had layoffs-- employees were let go, then asked if they wanted to return. Apparently, if they said no, the company considered the exit a resignation instead of a layoff, and would refuse severance. If oracle was then taken to court over the lack of severance by former employees, those employees' refusal to rejoin the company could be used to avoid an unfavorable ruling for Oracle."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33488447
Mastodon API Documentation
You could absolutely get something like that working using GitHub Actions.

My TIL blog is served out of a GitHub repo - it doesn't have tests against content in the TILs themselves yet, but it wouldn't be a big stretch to add that.

Something like nbdev might fit this idea well too: https://nbdev.fast.ai/
no, i find it weird too lol.

however, remember how many people used to so confidently say things like, “i will never use the word tweet. i’m an adult with an adult voice!”

if Mastodon catches on, it’ll just naturally fall into vernacular just like tweet did.
Relevant:

Jeffrey Epstein's household manual: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21128538-gx-606
What happens with you "followers" when you change servers? Do they follow along automagically or do they have to undertake action to re-connect to @you@new.server?

As to running your own server - something I have been looking in to because I support the decentralisation of the 'net - I am under the impression that Pleroma is a lot easier on the hardware than Mastodon. Does you concur?
Huge thank you to the helix team and contributors.

Running `hx` for the first time is one of those experiences where you go simply go, "woah". I've since never looked back and it's slowly defeating how often I open up even larger things in VS Code.

The thing that always held me back from learning `[n]vim` was the huge amount of configuration variability between all the variants and the lack of instruction on just doing something out of default. Neovim is basically the best experience out of the box but even sometimes there you want to have extra functionality. It's really hard to beat the amazing defaults in `hx` and even better `hx -g fetch||build`.

The one thing I'm still missing is ease of running singular test cases or test groups in larger codebases. This still feels hard on Helix.
Rust will never be a contender for C, because Rust does not embody the same lasting concepts C does. Rust is an obvious competitor to C++, where complexity growing without bound abounds.

But for those of us looking for a C alternative, we have it, and it's Go. Is it a perfect replacement? I don't think so. But it is the closest spiritual successor the industry has.

"Go bears a surface similarity to C and, like C, is a tool for professional programmers, achiev- ing maximum effect with minimum means. But it is much more than an updated version of C."

"Go is sometimes described as a ‘‘C-like language,’’ or as ‘‘C for the 21st century.’’ From C, Go inherited its expression syntax, control-flow statements, basic data types, call-by-value param- eter passing, pointers, and above all, C’s emphasis on programs that compile to efficient machine code and cooperate naturally with the abstractions of current operating systems."

-Preface of "The Go Programming Language"[1][2][3]

"We’ll start with the now-traditional ‘‘hello, world’’ example, which appears at the beginning of The C Programming Language, published in 1978. C is one of the most direct influences on Go, and ‘‘hello, world’’ illustrates a number of central ideas."

- Chapter 1.1 Hello World, "The Go Programming Language"

[1]: https://go.dev/learn/#featured-books

[2]: https://www.gopl.io

[3]: https://www.gopl.io/ch1.pdf
i wish tesla would make hvac for houses to be honest, the amount of thought into managing heat in a tesla is something special; or maybe it's AI
Reality has an anti-Elon bias.
Hint: There is a direct way to tell if pasta is almost done.
The term you're looking for is heat capacity. Water has a much higher specific heat capacity (on a per unit of mass basis) than most other everyday materials, and it comprises most of the mass of a pot+water [+pasta] system being heated, so the time and energy required to boil won't be changed significantly by the presence or absence of the pasta.
I agree that his approach is odd, to say the least. But Elon is clearly marketing himself as part of a counter-culture movement that's opposed to the current dominant neoliberal/corporate zeitgeist (but isn't quite alt-right). It's extremely deliberate. Whether or not it's a good idea remains to be seen. Certainly in the short term it hasn't been.
There are many types of Reed-Solomon codes, each with different amount of redundancy, they are a special case of BCH codes, a kind of code that approach the Shannon limit (the maximum rate of error-free data that can be transferred over a noisy channel). The bandwidth of a channel (like radio, or optical fiber) is not really limited by the media, but only by the noise it has. Optical fiber have almost zero noise, that's why they are so fast.

There are much better codes nowadays that are closer to the Shannon limit, like LDPC, or convolutional codes. But they are usually much more computationally intensive. They are used in space probes where computation time don't matter, but you often have channels with much more noise than signal.

I keep a repo of C implementation of several error-correction codes including Reed-Solomon, that can be used as standard unix filters like gzip: https://github.com/ortegaalfredo/eccchain
If the marginal return per employee is still good then "lowering the bar" makes sense, not lowering the bar would be throwing money away - right?

And during the pandemic certainly some of the new talent showing up was good, things changed and people stuck in jobs they were actually "too good for" moved on.

I wouldn't assume it was "filling quotas" - it was filling positions and the positions existed for some reason, they were making a lot of money and there was probably more work to do!
So there's two things here: TILs and projects. I'm running a dev writers' retreat next week and happen to be thinking about this, want to suggest more:

- Superlatives: An interesting story about the first/last/best/worst experience when you did X. You see a lot of these in Rachelbythebay's work (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...) . Mtlynch focuses more on documenting his journey semi-realtime (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...)

- Data & News: This is a lot of work but collect data for yourself and publish it for others and others will find that useful. This is the strategy I am adopting for AI stuff https://lspace.swyx.io/p/open-source-ai. Dan Luu does this a lot to back up his work https://danluu.com/ The cutting edge of data is news, and you can see this on Gergely's substack (https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/) but you're basically a journalist at that point

- How $POPULAR_THING Works: This is Fly.io's (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) and Alex Xu's strategy https://blog.bytebytego.com/

- Overviews: What your part of the dev ecosystem looks like to you. It'll never be perfect, it can't be. Some folks on HN will tear you to shreds for missing something obvious. But it will be immensely helpful to people just behind you in experience. See: How I write backends (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22106482), The evolution of the data engineer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33317126), and my AWS vs Cloudflare post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28903982). Overviews become "Insights" when you can successfully reframe something in a new light that is useful for people to understand what is going on.

- Predictions/Wishlists: What is missing from your part of the ecosystem. The complement of the above. You can also invert it into a complaint post, like https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future/ or https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2... but those are less constructive if entertaining

- Principles: Timeless things, a superset of the previous two points. See rauchg (Nextjs cocreator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8559519) and dan abramov (react core team - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18792373

- Caching: Anything - ANYTHING - you look up more frequently than 1x a year (For concepts, I have a Three Strikes Rule https://www.swyx.io/three-strikes, For lists, I have persistent lists https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts and https://www.swyx.io/new-mac-setup). This could be a TIL, but often is not; the more accurate description is treating your blog as a "local cache" of stuff you always use, with exact instructions and copy pastable code that fits for you and is verified to work by you. The TAM is of course way smaller but this is how stuff like https://www.swyx.io/download-twitter-spaces ranks on Google immediately because of course there are way more people googling for the same things.

in short - try to identify the most useful parts of your experience and make it legible to others. your earnest and consistent effort elegantly answers "why should I read this" to the reader as well.
To the degree that housing in the area is in trouble, I still have to guess that the impact of the recent large layoffs must be dwarfed by the impact from interest rate changes. Of the people that still have jobs and feel secure in them, their cashflow will still get them much less house than a year ago. For those that had some form of equity compensation, the value of that has probably dropped sharply. I.e. people who would otherwise be potential home-buyers will be making significantly smaller offers, even if they still have jobs.

I think there are a number of recently completed or near-completion condo buildings that are going to be in trouble, having been planned around sale-price expectations which now seem hard to reach. But in the broader and longer-term view, doesn't the fact still remain that we have too little housing in the region?
Mom: We have mastodon at home.

Mastodon at home: https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox5dc.com/www.fox5dc.com/co...
Article is light on substance. Author has a few glaring holes in his understanding of basic Rust concepts, and the writes this:

> One of the projects I worked on consisted of bridging 900K+ lines of C code from and into Rust. There was no great difficulty in doing this

I'm calling bullshit.
Especially those remote controlled light bulbs. Why is that a thing? Who wants to have a constant buzzing sound in the background when the light is turned off using the remote.
Pasta needs to reach something like 80 degrees to "cook", if you just soak it at 35 it will not be the same result.

The method described here (which has been around for centuries) instead gets you the same result as cooking in constantly boiling water, saving a lot of gas/electricity.
Warzone 4.3
I have ~weeks of uptime on Firefox MacOS with two separate laptops, and no memory issues whatsoever. So likely just a bug with something on your version/system (edit: check your plugins too)
There's no space limit on the internet.

If you want people to do writing that shares unique, new ideas you need to allow them the opportunity to practice writing first!
It is a lot like email. There is no centralized email network either. Ultimately, people will realize that they are really looking for a specific community rather than joining "Mastodon" itself.
Lite XL (lite-xl.com) is also extremely fast. Also, because a lot of it is written in Lua, you can very easily extend it yourself; you can just monkey-patch many functions and do what you want!

It's kind of immature in some ways, for example, the current release version has some limitations in the native plugin interface (which you need for loading C libraries for Lua, as Lite may use a statically linked version), and there is a conflict between the linewrapping and projectsearch plugins where opening a file from it is bugged if you have linewrapping enabled by default.

Lapce does seem more advanced in some ways, but IMO the enormous hackability of Lite is also a nice advantage.
I deleted that anecdote because it was unnecessarily personal and distracting.

But yeah -- Lemonade was not written for me. And as I originally wrote, if it was the only record available iTunes/Spotify, I would have no cultural connection to popular music[1]. (good thing, bad thing, you decide!)

Crossword puzzle authors being only white men is absolutely culturally separate from many people.

And maybe that's OK. It's no one's job to be all things to all people. Still, it's clearly structurally unequal.

Now...whether it's important or interesting that other cultures are denied the pleasures of crossword puzzles... That's a good question. I'm of the general opinion that those other cultures are not missing much.

Crossword puzzles might just be an old white person anachronism that will fade out in a generation or two. The likelihood of that increases if crosswords are not accessible to our future majority-minority population.

[1] This is superficially relevant because Lemonade is a cultural touchstone, universally acclaimed, and (according to Wikipedia) contains elements of a dozen musical genres, more than half of which are personally meaningful to me -- and yet I found it to be inaccessible to me when it was released. Clearly I owe it to myself to re-listen.
whoops decimals mixup, will edit:

784 / 815,201 = 0.00096 = 0.1%
Yep, dunno why you've been downvoted. Kernel rootkits are just normal dkms kernel modules. Why would the attacker use these new eBPF rootkits when the old open source ones are far more sophisticated and need similar privileges?
By the same logic, the CEOs of Shopify, Spotify and Netflix should take responsibility as well. Maybe there is something more systemic going on.
Disagree with "across the board". Tech still has a lot of difficult problems and a crazy amount of money to be made, so premium talent will continue to command premium salaries. It's just that a "staff engineer" 4 years out of college won't be able to sleep their way into $500K in salary + stock.
More:

• http://codesearch.debian.net/

• https://codesearch.isocpp.org/

• https://www.programcreek.com/python/

• https://livegrep.com/search/linux

• https://grep.app/
Security became big as well. Mail servers used to get hacked constantly and you’d have your private data leaked and your server turned in to a spam gun.

These days to host anything securely you need a team of the top minds in that domain working full time on it. Just makes no sense to run your own mail server when for less money you could let someone else do it and they will do it much better.

This is just a sign of the industry maturing imo. You could relate it to construction. Used to have people building their own mud and stick huts but now everything requires planning, regulation, codes, licensed workers, etc.
Article is paywalled - is there an estimate of how many will be laid off?
> Twitter was a $4 million a day money pit at the time of its acquisition.

Do you have a source for that? They lost $221M in 2021[1] which is ~$600k/day (and that was after a $800M lawsuit settlement which would have put them at ~$580M profit for 2021.)

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-posts-loss-2021-stock-1301280...
Turn off Javascript, and possibly CSS and you can read it. (I browse the web now with both off by default)
Might be related to this message they have on their main page:

> Due to the massive influx of users from Twitter, we have had to temporarily close registrations. Please check back later if you wish to join Fosstodon.
The Metaverse doesn't seem delusional to me, it just seems like a massive gamble. I can easily envision a future where they've cornered the market on VR. Where to play the latest Call of Duty you need to do it through the Metaverse Portal, and you have access to NFT skins that you either bought or unlocked as achievement from other games.

I hope that future doesn't happen, or that if it does its through a decentralized protocol and not owned by Meta. But if the Metaverse implodes I'd still consider it a failed gamble than delusional bullshit.

I can't defend Musk the same way.
Isaac Asimov wrote "Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare" and some talk show host asked him "Why did you write this? There are thousands of books about Shakespeare!"

He said, "Yeah, but not by me."
I used Duolingo for about 6 months and learned very little. The gaming part over powers the learning part. It's too easy to guess and move forward without learning anything. Plus what you learn is very random to the point of being useless. It's way over rated.

I also tried Rosetta stone. It's a good companion to an other learning tool but not very good on its own.

I'm a fan of pimsleur language learning. It's old school but it works, if you do it consistently and follow what they ask you to do.
It’s safe to assume that the viable market demand is already met by existing products.

By ‘viable’ I mean that companies can charge enough to remain in business by catering to a market segment that is willing and able to pay for the differentiation at margins sufficient to maintain the boutique sales channels necessary for low volume specialty goods.

Basically it is analogous to the audiophile market where discerning listeners are expected to pony up thousands of dollars on each piece of gear.

That’s my take.

YMMV.
My son is 4th month old and I still have plants of time for doing things (in the first month from his birth I managed to read 3 books… and do plenty of other things). It’s 2 adults and one baby… not that hard!
Recruiters from the big companies doing layoffs as we speak have hit me up, it means nothing.
Today's SMBC is a riot. Quite apropos: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/internet-5
Great advice!

You could write some articles about what you’ve done technically, make it SEO friendly, and get some Adsense money.
I hope the pasta in the US is plastic free too!
Interesting there are so many different names for these types of cookers. I've always heard this referred to as a haybox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haybox
According to Kenji, you don't even need boiling water to cook pasta:

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-cook-pasta-salt-water-boi...

https://www.seriouseats.com/tips-for-better-easier-pasta

"Want to get even more crazy efficient? Try soaking pasta in water as your prep your other ingredients. By the time your sauce is ready, you can just add the pasta (along with some of its soaking liquid) to the pan and, with a minute or so of cooking, your meal will be ready to go. One less pot to clean and a pretty satisfying magic trick to boot. Still skeptical? Here's the science to back it all up. The one exception here is fresh pasta—because it contains eggs, it needs to cook in boiling water to set properly."
In a game world motivation can be generated by access to the next room, level, whatever. Or, if you finish your fractions drill problems, you can play XYZ for an hour.
Anyone following your old account will automatically follow the new account. The only thing that does not transfer is your post history, for mostly technical reasons.

I don't know anything about pleroma, sorry. I do know that mastodon uses a ton of resources when you get a lot of users, but for <5 you can use anything including a raspberry pi
Wait, how long would you soak rice to make it edible? I’d imagine it’s longer than 24 hours.
Or just use something that does have e2e (Matrix/WhatsApp/Signal) for the DMs and reserve Mastodon for the microblogging.
What do you think’s happened to shareholders who held all these tech stocks that are down 90%?

They’ve lost 90% of their money, by definition
> The difference of two elements of the torsor of some group G is an honest-to-God group element of G, though, and so you have an honest-to-God identity element. You may or may not have an honest-to-God division or halving operator (which computes e given (e + e)) but in cases where G is the additive group of some field you do.

… some field of characteristic ≠ 2, of course.
Hey I'm Diego CTO/co-founder at lotus

We actually tried to build our payment processing infrastructure in a pretty modular way to make it super quick to integrate new processors. You can take a look at the extensibility guide here: https://docs.uselotus.io/docs/extensibility/integrate-paymen...

We'll be working on adding more options in the next weeks, but in the meantime if you need it ASAP we're happy to work with you to make it happen :)
A slow layoff is terrible for morale. Much better to cut deep then bump the salaries/reward the ones that stay. A drawn-out layoff is a great way to lose top talent as uncertainty is stressful and they will begin interviewing elsewhere.
Laying off half the workforce will probably save more electricity than whatever schemes the climate team ever dreamed up.

Just saying…
The algorithm is drastically better, but is also better because TikTok doesnt have as strong as a need for profit. Its a long story, and yes its a good product. But its an incremental algorithmic change, not a new product category
As a Life long F150 owner (having owned 5 of one from each of the last 5 generations including my current one... all V8's as well, Ecoboost V6 is a terrible engine and does not belong in a truck ;) ), and a person that lives in a Red State, and a person that Knows alot of other F150 owners..

I can assure you the people screeching about twitters new ownership are not Fords Customer base. Ford's bread and butter is the F150, a class of vehicle that the twitterverse that is leaving on mass would like to eliminate from production

Ford marketing dept is extremely tone deaf listing to that crowd
"Shoot first, ask questions later"[0] when cutting staff seems like a delusional idea to me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33496808
macOS has overcommit and memory compression, so you wouldn't notice even if your Firefox did have a leak. macOS is cool that way, but Windows isn't.

FWIW, I would still be using macOS... if I had any choice.
If you weld it, you can't easily change the shape of it later if you don't like it. There are reasons not to weld it even if you know how.
despite there being much more fragmentation for what a pop culture reference is, than the 1900s, people still act surprised when you aren’t aware of a cultural reference from their own little microcosm

like the default isn't to just briefly explain it, the default is to genuinely confused for the next 5 minutes and derail the whole conversation