skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For twitter, here are the actual number for the bay area, according to state filings[0]

* SF: 784

* San Jose: 106

Still high numbers IMO but SF for example has ~800k residents, so this only represents ~0.1% of the total population. Not super convinced yet that it's going to have any immediate impact on housing in the city unless this triggers a much larger avalanche of firings that don't have an associated swarm of smaller companies waiting in the wings to pick good employees up at a discount.

[0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Here-s-how-many-...
None of the top states that grow soybeans are as water starved as the desert.

https://www.cropprophet.com/soybean-production-by-state-top-...
I think your argument is “if I try hard enough to make what I want to do really hard, it will be really hard”. I agree. I’m not sure I buy your argument about ORMs being limiting, given your current… limitations.

Of course you could just do CAST(? AS …) or use something like “string_to_array(?)”. But that’s just working around not being able to compose queries.
Quakes on Mars hint the planet might be volcanically active
> When you say the CEO should take responsibility for it all, what exactly do you mean?

Either stepping aside or killing the VR thing, which is haemorrhaging money and which is very negatively affecting the share price. The article itself has a quote by some Meta investors asking just that, i.e. for the VR project to be killed.
No good businessperson runs around as half-cocked in bright, broad daylight as this guy. I’ve heard plenty of large fund managers say he’s too overboard to take seriously enough to invest in his businesses.
I wish the Elon anti-fans would wait for Elon fans to say something, then respond to them, rather than posting 900 comments picking fights with people who haven't even posted yet. This obsession with adoring or condemning love-hate branded celebrities as quickly and loudly as possible is unbelievably grating.
Relatedly: why is flickering LEDs so common? I presume most people also just don't see/don't care?
I personally can't wait for the high strung emotions on both sides to die out. There are people that actively cheer for Elon to fail and to take the entire company with him, and others that actively hope he's going to single-handedly restore free speech.

Meanwhile.. it's a corporation that trades in short messages between it's users. Is any of this really worth the emotional investment? It's an odd time in America, but casting all your hopes and dreams through the lens of what Elon Musk does today or where Twitter is tomorrow seems to me to be the worst way to approach it.
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Climate doesn't matter much when people can't afford a mortgage payment on a tiny house that costs several million dollars
Amazing idea :)

I've been learning and playing with Common Lisp. I've been involved in Java for more than a decade and wanted to try something new. I wanted to try something outside of OOP and more functional. I went from Scala -> Clojure -> Common Lisp. I've also switched to Emacs for almost all of my common tasks. That hurt as a long time Vim user :) but I'm enjoying it so far
It's actually much cheaper to buy more disk drives than to pay somebody to delete files.
> failed to innovate because the engineering interview is based on memorization

Disclaimer: I'm a software engineer myself.

I think if a company considers product innovation as part of its software engineers duties, they have already failed.

Software engineers innovate on technical solutions, they are the bridge between innovative products and their implementation, and it happens that they can bring out innovative product, but innovation is the job of product people, not software people.

I know some on HN would like to believe that software engineers are the ultimate worker that can and should do everything and anything, but it's not the case.
just curious, are most buildings built for the big one? or is it more let the quake shake down the weak mentality
Not of the total workforce, but "the workforce that earns enough to be able to afford thousands of dollars a month in rent alone". If enough "big tech" people get laid off and are forced to move away because they can't make rent, eventually rental markets should cool down first, and secondary the ownership markets.
China is a dictatorship war machine. They don't have to go through all these process. They just do. That's why we need to properly to recognize them as a threat at all levels or Taiwan is a goner
Not sure everyone agrees this is a good method

Quoting from https://www.finedininglovers.com/article/can-passive-pasta-r...

"The response was swift, and it came from starred chef Antonello Colonna. The Roman cook rejected Parisi's solution, claiming that with this procedure the pasta becomes "rubbery", and impossible to serve in a high-level restaurant. Colonna considers the method a failure and proposes cooking on an open-fire grill, with pots that have fed entire generations like a cauldron. The chef claims this traditional low-temperature technique lowers electricity costs in his restaurant."
> So, I want to know why this doesn't get properly fixed in the manufacturing process. Because nobody cares? Is it too costly? I wouldn't mind paying a small price premium for a product if there was a guarantee of no coil whine.

It is too costly.
You want a low frequency to be good at EMC ( i.e. FCC regulations) and you want higher frequency to spare money on components. Easiest is low frequency and hope for the best.
Nobody cares about your ears as long as there is no regulation specifying noise. And glueing is expensive and, in the long term, might not bring any improuvment.
what are the other things he is screwing up?
My wishlist for hot reloading (2018)
> Not super convinced yet that it's going to have any immediate impact on housing in the city

It's not "Twitter layoffs cause issues" - it's more that if you can identify 5, 10, 15+ well known companies doing layoffs concentrated in that area there is probably also a very long tail of smaller companies doing layoffs also. Cumulative effect of it all can be quite large.

> ~40% of the workforce

This is an enormous exaggeration. However, even a 4-5% reduction in jobs in the area can have an enormous effect on the economy and housing market.
the doors were more expensive than actual desks, because they could only use solid wood doors. it was continued for its effect as a symbol, worth paying for. Nothing to do with efficiency directly.
> He's basically a modern day king

In what way? I mean, besides him being very powerful. Other than that, his behavior here seems perfectly capitalistic to me.
It’s a sense I get from the collection of posts not just this one in particular. Perhaps harsh and hyperbolic. What happened feels like a clash of two worlds - the soft sounding environment of Twitter and the sometimes brutal or cruel environment that Musk clearly encourages (though he would argue it’s just efficient and necessary I’m sure).

I saw one thread where people who were one day posting #lovewhereyouwork got fired the next day after working over the weekend for a project Musk announced by email on a Saturday. It’s like they couldn’t imagine that a flippant billionaire was working them and slaughtering them like sheep. So used to a corporation that coddled them, that they walked into it smiling. I don’t use terms like bullshit hatefully…I think it is bullshit. Smart and well intentioned people, but sort of delusional nonetheless. Talking about missing time with family because, “I get to solve problems at scale no one else does.” Companies are not families, what you are doing is not always important. I think calling each other “Tweeps” is an example of this. You forgot that when the easy money party stops they will treat you like what you are to them, a line item.
let _ = v[0]; // panics

Why don't you use .get() instead?
You're not punished by having less political power, if you want the greens or noone, you get exactly what you want, and if you have a ranked preference, that is available to you. It just has a scary name that makes people think something undemocratic is going on, but nothing is. It's depressing it's explained like you have less political power than your fellow citizens.

If it's not a trade off compared to FPTP, are you comparing to a parliamentary system? How would that work for individual or nonpartisan posts, like say a town mayor or chief dogcatcher?
This asks for a login - but you can't use "your" login, you have to create a login for that server.
i did once, with lentils; but nothing beats cooked food, no matter if it is pre-soaked or not...
Amazon actually has an 'unregretted attrition rate' metric that it holds managers to. Essentially they are expected to shed a percentage of employees annually. This metric gets gamed as "hire to fire" to keep your core team intact.

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/amazons-controversial-hire-to...
Thanks for the recommendation, it looks very promising. Photopea is another great option that I've been meaning to try
I assure you there are plenty of engineers with abstract and engaging product vision at Meta. There are some genuinely difficult problems to solve at their scale and they are incredibly creative at it.
How do you know this is legitimate news?
You're looking at this from the wrong angle.

You do have control here. You do select your moderator, and you do have the power to change that.

You select which server your account lives on. If you disagree with the admin at such a fundamental level, this is probably not the right server for you. You can simply select another server.

You also have the option to run your own server. It's not hard to handle just a few accounts, and there's even places you can pay to host and configure it for you. I know several people running their own servers, and a few of them just have one account.

Let's compare to Tumblr for a second. They've had a wild ride with content moderation over the years, and this has led many people to leave the platform. Those people lost their accounts and their followers forever with no recourse. If your mastodon moderator starts getting scared by nipples, you can simply migrate to a new server and keep all your followers.

The real trick about mastodon is that you can take full control if you really want to. However, most of us don't want to deal with running a server, so you just have to trust someone else to do it. If you find a community that matches your interests, it's actually a very pleasant place to be
I grew up in the midwest and I remember a lot of non-commercial social events like potlucks that were commonplace. Some based around churches, others family groups, and others friend/community based. Talking to my family that still lives there, the number of these events over the decades has dropped dramatically. In general these types of events were low cost and had high socialization. It is thought by some that the commercialization of leisure [1] in advertising culture gives too much time and importance to high expense low socialization gatherings and focuses on convincing the consumer to consume more media thereby increasing advertising. Many social media outlets are thought to worsen this situation by optimizing to keep clicking an app (anger clicking, parasocial relationships, etc) rather than focusing on closer in person relationships.

So I would say yes, a lot less people meet in person [2]

[1] https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almana...

[2] https://theconversation.com/teens-have-less-face-time-with-t...
You can use client side symmetrical crypto to allow for the private key to be stored on the server.

It means that weak keys are a problem, but that's been the case since the dawn of time.
That's basically where I'm at. I don't dislike or resent Musk, although I can see why others do. I'm just disappointed in him. At a time when positive role models are needed, he's letting his self-destructive freak flag fly. He obviously isn't getting the therapeutic support that he (by his own admission) needs.

I'm sure some of us have parents or grandparents who worked for Howard Hughes back in the day, and are now feeling a strong sense of deja vu. Musk seems to be speedrunning Hughes' career and, really, his entire life.
> Except that is a guaranteed political non-starter in essentially every country that has high beef consumption.

50 years ago everyone smoked. What we need are Surgeon General reports linking eating red meat to cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and especially colon and rectal cancers, which shouldn't be too difficult because it's true. Then we need ad campaigns, "Mmmm meat! Tastes just like cancer!" Then all that is needed is for the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society and American Diabetes Association to sue Tyson, JBS, Cargill, and National Beef, to find they lied to the American public about the deadly effects of their product, which they intentionally marketed to children - the meat food group was always bullshit. Then comes taxing red meat and the collapse of these industries, because unlike nicotine, red meat is not addictive. Viola! Suddenly there is more water in the West than they know what to do with. Ranchers, cowboys, cattlemen and meat processors are retrained to work at all the water parks and recreational reservoirs that could then exist throughout the West, drawing in fortunes in recreational boating and tourism.
The trick is to have a living room and a regular habit of hosting something like “Monday night in” where people come over and just hang out.
fwiw when I say "hacker" I mean the other sense of the term. Not cracker/phreak.

But someone who 'hacks' on software. Unix hacker is an old but long lasting stereotype.
It’s not like the laid off people will run out of the area the next day en-masse. All have some kind of ties there.
Ah, yeah you're right, I got jumbled.
What does the 40% number have to do with anything? A company can lay off 100% of its workforce but it won't affect the local Bay Area market unless it makes up a significant number of its ~8 million population. A few hundred or even a few thousand people aren't going to move the needle.
I've been looking for evidence that the bug's been fixed, but even upon bringing up the issue with Mozilla engineers, all they have to say is "turn overcommit back on, we don't support your configuration".

Excuse me, Mozilla? Firefox should not be collecting 20-30 gigabytes of committed memory in the first place. They must be high or something.
I'm not sure what the "elon support" split on HN is, but in the past it seems to have been rather 50/50.

I suspect that HN has recently seemed more anti-elon because the anti-elon crowd has a lot of bullshit to point to recently, and the pro-elon crowd doesn't really have good defenses to most of it.
It was, but once Starship becomes operational, the financial game changes by many orders of magnitude - to a point where a single billionaire with no fucks to give can actually book themselves a ride to Mars.

One may hate on Musk for a number of very good reasons, but it cannot be denied him, Shotwell and the rest of the SpaceX team have thoroughly kicked the established space industry mooches into their asses.
Is that a winning campaign strategy?
In the US, when it comes to Italian food, there's a lot of "you must prepare it this particular way or else Nonna will burst out of her grave and flog you with a pappardelle whip" discourse.

With that in mind, it's kind of fascinating comparing the en-US and en-GB Barilla websites. The GB site emphasizes sustainability ("100% Plastic Free", a page on sustainable basil farming, this Passive Cooking thing), while the US site emphasizes the quality and authenticity of the product ("Barilla al Bronzo", "Vero Gusto", "Chef's Corner"). No corporate responsibility promotions at all.
District of Columbia
They just don't.
also

> only a relatively small levee is needed.

facing towards Germany, if those small red lines are it.
How it looked in his head:

Swoop in to the sounds of Jan Hammer’s Crocketts Theme with his Tesla staff entourage, you’re fired you’re fired, sit down, hack the planet, job done, planet bows before him, free speech restored.

How it turned out:

“Um, boss, we’ve spent the last three days trying to get a build running in Jenkins. Might want to get the dudes you fired back.”. While all the advertisers distance themselves from the unravelling incel, racist, sexist shit show.

The guy’s a fucking idiot. Nothing else to it.
How does ~1000 represent 0.001% of 800k?
It's interesting to me, reading comments in this thread, that this editor mostly seems to appeal to current vim/emacs users. It's like the first choice everyone makes when selecting an editor is deciding whether they want something that runs in the terminal, something that calls itself as an "IDE", or something in between.

Am I the only one who cares a lot more about functionality than branding or user interface?

The 80/20 rule means 20% of an editor's features are going to provide 80% of the value. Instead of focusing on an editor's presentation, why not try to identify an editor which has an unusual feature you consider valuable?
a failure that is infinitely more successful than any centralized solution.

and it will outlive gmail
Given the scrutiny of tech CEOs you'd think something would have leaked by now if there was something truly scandalous there. Who knows, maybe he is just really good at hiding it, but so far indications are that he might really be the most sane and least eccentric of the lot.
They're big fans of bittorrent, it appears.
It’s probably a good idea to wait for the trial to play out before passing judgment.
I'm not sure I would call it a safe haven. The same infighting that plagues marginalized communities on Twitter is there on Mastodon. I've had to block entire instances of people I otherwise agree with because they spent all their time making callouts, many quite questionable.
TikTok is not a copy of Facebook. The fact Facebook/Meta/Instagram is trying desperately to copy them is proof of that.
It’s been terminology used since the 80s. Just because you haven’t heard of it doesn’t mean it hasn’t been around for a long time. It was coined by DEC.

It’s also the reason why Arabic text can be output on the screen, Ruby characters can be used and screen mirroring is usable for UIs that need RTL layouts. You really should look it up before criticising it.

It deals with things as small and as important as date formats, number seperators, punctuation marks, monetary formats, support for different calendar systems, capitalisation rules… you name it, it encompasses it.

It’s a genuine discipline. It’s used extensively in Windows, Mozilla and LibreOffice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_local...
Why are you posting here if you want HN gone?
I don’t understand why people say you stop seeing your friends after having children! Me and my wife are still going out and seeing friends and practicing out hobbies and our kid is approaching the 4th month of age…
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There was tons of excitement over the years about his companies transforming the world and his successes there have been spectacular.

But over the past few years he’s become much more vocal about current events unrelated to his companies. He has every right to do it, but whether you’re a cable news commentator or Musk, the more you weigh in on social issues the more polarizing you become.
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You don't know history [0][1]. Stalin was absolutely not content to cooperate with Nazi Germany as Stalin offered 1M soldiers to be sent to border with Germany if France and Britain agreed on anti-Nazi alliance. They didn't even respond. Unfortunately this only came out in 2000' when classified documents came out and Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact is the only thing people remember. Time to update your knowledge.

Of course British and French were wary of communist Soviet Union but Stalin did offer it to Allies first. That's a historical fact. Once they didn't respond he tried to prevent and postpone the war with Germany with a well known Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact because documents also show that Stalin was perfectly aware that Germans will attack no matter what.

The above doesn't negate Stalin's imperialistic ambitions towards Poland.

[0]https://www.wsj.com/articles/stalin-first-tried-to-resist-hi...
[1]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/322...
They won't take Taiwan without hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of their own citizens dying.

The US has sold Taiwan quite a lot of weapons already and continues to do so.

And the fact that china has been threatening to invade the country of Taiwan for 70 years, and yet haven't done so, actually more proves that it is all just talk in the first place.

What's more likely is they they will just continue to saber rattle and not do anything. It's mostly just internal propaganda, and not a real plan.

They don't want those hundreds of thousands or millions of their own citizens to die either.
Great post

One nit, with the font:

l4:spami7ee

the first two characters look an awful lot like the number "14", when they're actually "L4". I'm not sure if bencoding is case sensitive or if anohter font may better differentiate the two, but that may be something the author may want to poke at if they happen to read this comment :)
> In simple terms, it’s merely being in the same room with another person who is having trouble getting things done on their own. As a body double, you don’t need to help or even say anything. All you need to do is just be there in the room, and through some invisible power, the other person is able to focus and finish their work. ...

I had to do a double take there to make sure this wasn't parody. Being more productive with another person in the room? But they don't actually do the work? And they help through an "invisible power"?

That's unexpected.
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