skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems unfair to blame Elon for some number of "mission critical" people being let go. It's highly unlikely he sat down and crafted the list himself...

He set a direction and it was executed, many layers of individuals were likely involved.

Note: I'm not a Musk fanboy, nor am I a hater. We can settle for relatively impartial.
A closer analogy would be to an oilfield "man camp" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGg57r9wK0) — temporary housing for a bunch of people who have signed up to do a few months' stint of work in a job that requires them to be in the middle of nowhere to do that job (because that's inherent to the nature of the job.) They're a lot like military encampments, actually.

The real question is why these factories are built in the middle of nowhere. There's no clear need for it; no reason they couldn't just be built in cities. They're not heavy industrial polluters or anything that would make people not want them in city limits.
The trick to fix that is to submerge the eggs into boiling water for a minute. Pull them out. Wait for another minute. Put them back into the water and complete cooking.
Only me and the other guy seem to care. We all should care. Our government has no business collecting our transmitted information. This has to stop.
The link they posted suggests they live in Kazakhstan, to answer your question.
I mean look at the success of Stardew Valley, a game whose entire premise is that you move to a small rural town to start a farm and forge relationships with the locals. Its a well designed game to be sure but I really think some of the popularity stems from scratching that itch of communal living that so many folks feel they lack.
Need to stage a false flag attack on a radio station first.
An addition that most posts, including this would benefit from:

Be incredibly kind when judging other people for their projects. What goes around comes back around.

IMO a lot of the problem is not in finding things to blog about, but the fact that the Internet hive mind will casually toss off incredibly unkind criticism about your projects.

I remember https://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/ making the rounds almost ten years ago, and it played a big part in making me and many others nervous about exposing our projects to the world. The fact that there was any debate at all around whether or not the people criticizing that project uninvited was terrifying.

Of course, I have developed a thicker skin since then. And things are a lot better in 2022, and I imagine (or at least hope) that most people around here would not have such negative reactions to a hobbyist project. But it's good to remind ourselves every now and then.*
This is super bad news for Apple — Zengzhou having a massive lockdown will scare away workers for a while unless they promise to pay big jumps in salary to come back I would imagine.. Apple shifting tons of production to India is super bad news for China and this is definitely going to accelerate it. Zhengzhou is Uber important to apple’s iPhone production.. so my guess is that Foxconn production is essentially zero right now and will be for a month before lines get back up to speed.. (lockdown is supposed to be 7 days) but these production lines are massive, so could impact production for an extended period if workers are nervous to come back. Likely could cost Apple tens of billions in revenue..
IMO, a program failing due to a parse error on the input, and a program failing due to a bounds check are functionally the same thing (provided you are using a language with bounds-checked arrays so you don't segfault). You're just moving the bounds checking from the array access path to the input collecting path. I could be misunderstanding you, though.
On Software Minimalism and JavaScript Frameworks
I wasn't recommending that they all be fired. Ideally some number of them would be redistributed across other teams. What is often inefficient is keeping a large team around that has largely fulfilled their goals.

Also performance is too large an area to make it a single team. It is better to have a database expert guild (or team) that other teams can consult for performance and other engineering quality issues and similarly for other performance sensitive areas. I can't speak for security but I imagine that each area should have experts that cover security for that area.

Perhaps others like working cleaning up poorly written non-performant designs and code but I prefer starting earlier in the process and building it into the engineering culture.

Edit: I think it's actually easier to have a performance/security team at a medium scale of growth. At small scale they would be in the product dev teams or known by name by all teams. At large scale I don't think they can't cover the surface area/volume produced by all the teams. So it should be more effective to develop mechanisms/processes and culture.
> ... slashing rates in 2025, shouldn't be too hard to scrape by til then

If rates aren’t being slashed long before then, then either:

(1) the brief burst of layoffs were an aberration and the job market will have otherwise stayed strong, so scraping by isn’t an issue.

(2) despite a weakening job market, inflation has been so persistent that fighting it remains a higher Fed priority than stimulus, and a politically motivated loosening of monetary policy would be a recipe for slingshotting into hyperinflation.
Shrug, it helps reduce "unwanted" content in the community.

I'm sure it depends on a few different factors (upvote, comments, possibly keywords).
Mods can also pin or de-list stories as they see fit.

It also depends who does the flagging, more karma == more power. If one abuses the function I imagine mods can / will [silently] neuter the account to have less (or no) effect.

There was also an interesting story recently about hacking HN ranking. The author created a bunch of accounts and got stories delisted from the frontpage by having too many noob accounts give a story an upvote over a short time period, apparently this triggered an anti-spam mechanism.

At some point it seems like a waste of time with poor ROI. You can make a story go away, so what? It's not like it'd work indefinitely, if it became widely abused the mods will catch on and modify the system.

I think the goal of HN is to have fun and interesting conversations, and connect with people. Excessive manipulation would be harmful with no real upside.

Here's the link:

https://reverseengineeringtogether.wordpress.com/2022/10/18/...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33255477

Hehe, it got death by flagging. That's pretty funny.
FWIW in my American experience most everyone I know has one and uses it, so your mileage may vary.
Mastodon accepts whatever content it receives. The character limit is only for posts created from that instance.
> A double edged sword at best and 100% not something I'd want to see in a larger codebase.

the real footgun is dependencies that monkey patch things you don't know about / don't expect, and then the order you require those dependencies becomes important. augughghhhhh I hate that part.
Your link, which agrees with my understanding says,

> Employees' right to speak in languages other than English may only be curtailed in certain narrowly-defined situations.

I'm not sure how that makes me wrong when I say that management needs to be careful to follow the law?
On point 4, be aware of potential risks with Baby Brezza: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/technology/baby-brezza-fo...
They quit their jobs. Here’s what they are doing now
If you really want to disconnect, stop voting.

Mathematically it (very likely) won't change anything, and you'll find over time that you're not as "team ball" invested in things (because at least the US political system is entirely a massive game theory simulation).

And then try as hard as you can to steelman the opposite position to one you hold (and that people actually hold the opposite of) - you don't have to agree with it but you should be able to identify the priors that cause disagreement, and not resort to "that side is evil/dumb/insane".

And after awhile you'll see lots of similarities and be able to identify them (when people are not arguing to search for truth or the best option, but are arguing for their side or to prove to their side that they are ON their side).
> Years back I noticed clearly that I'd go insane after only a few days without human interaction. However, after only a couple of hours of low quality smalltalk, which I dislike, with people I find uninteresting and didn't have much respect for, the crazy went away.

I had the same experience, and arrived at the same conclusion. I just need some minor socialization each day and everything runs smoothly in my brain.
Saying this universally leads to a too-rosy view of the future, I think, and downplays the amount of hard work needed to maintain society.

Consider advances in travel - you basically had people who saw, within their lifetime, a world of trains become one of planes, including some supersonic passenger flights (not to mention going to space). Even bullet trains are old at this point.

Lotta other examples of stagnation in the physical world rather than the information one since then.
How much of cooking protocol is to smooth over differences in heat flux? Recipes almost always seem to call for pre-heating an oven or bringing a pot to a boil before adding pasta/noodles. But temperature is temperature (when it comes to slow cooked foods, ignoring searing / maillard reactions). Are there any reasons not to just start cooking immediately while the oven/water is still coming up to temp, if I control for doneness? I cook almost exclusively by doneness anyways (internal temp and/or consistency), and it seems like for most foods, what matters most is area-under-the-curve (which is what the heat equation suggests).
It may be a reality soon

https://hechingerreport.org/from-associate-to-b-a-more-peopl...

New research from the think tank New America shows that 24 states have approved at least some community colleges’ plans to launch bachelor’s degree programs; at least seven have been approved in the past five years.
Be present is the best thing I can say. The golden rule is one that everyone should follow, so if there was anything your father lacked with you, make sure to put in that effort with your sons.

Finally, what works for everyone is very different. My dad was always concerned with my weight, so he would flat out say “oh hey you’re looking kinda chunky today” and while many would think that is kinda mean, the kinda relationship we had showed me that that meant he cared about me and was worried I was eating too much or not exercising enough. But if you as a dad said that same thing to your kids, they may resent you for it. Go with your instincts and be the kind of dad you would want, and if you had the desire to succeed for their benefit, I’m sure you’ll do great.

Remember that kids aren’t little gremlins… they are people like you and me that just haven’t developed as much yet. So treat them like humans, instill all of the values you hope for early, and just hope they stick! It might sound vain to say, but I like to think that a lot of what makes a kid like their dad as much as I liked mine was just the fact that I’m a pretty good kid :)

God bless and do your best! You’re already more than half way there with that attitude!
But the whole point is that Barilla's definition is ludicrous. The only definition that really makes sense is how much energy did it take to get the pasta from the box to my plate, and Barilla is excluding the vast majority of that energy in their 80% number for the sole purpose of inflating it to make it look better.
I guarantee someone with a checkmark impersonating AOC would be defended by Elon in the name of ‘free speech’
Hatetris world record broken by 61 points
How large is this tank?
> I share this sentiment and can't figure out why politicians aren't better stewards of the peoples' interest.

Probably because a good steward politician is the easiest to beat with bog-standard tactics.

The closest you might find these days are politicians that their own side is always yelling at; they're likely from a secure seat and can take the blame when needed.
How to Start a Delaware Corporation as a Non-US Citizen Founder
So you’re living the startup dream, building a product, getting traction, getting admitted to Y Combinator, or getting US-based VCs interested. You need to start a Delaware C-Corp, like now, so that your seed investor could wire you the money. But as it turns out, you're a non-US citizen founder. Here’s a simple solution to all your problems.
Not a superstition. It's merely called Serendipity.

Accidents are statistically just as likely to be 'good' accidents as 'bad' accidents.

Evolution depends on the 'good' accidents. 'Neutral' or 'bad' accidents are discarded by Evolution - bad ones usually don't survive long enough to cause a problem to the mainstream species by passing on their faulty genes.
Cooking*

Doesn’t look to me like this is selling a new cooking device.
you can save way more time and electricity by boiling in a electric pressure cooker . your pasta will be done before the time it takes to boil a cauldron of water on the stove
Just stay away from analytics. I added it to my site, then I realized I was spending most of the time looking at the dashboard to see how well I'm doing. I disabled it, and now I consider my site as just a more public version of my notes systems.
IMO this kind of just moves the goalpost from "prove the program never panics" to "prove the program never hits the `None` or `Err` path" which is functionally identical in most use cases.

Obviously I am not suggesting that people use `arr[i]` everywhere and try to catch the panic, this is an antipattern -- use `.get(i)` if you don't know the bounds. I'm just talking about for the purposes of program formal verification.

Aside:

I think the language design team making the most terse `arr[i]` code not need unwraps or anything was the right move. Doing `.get(i)?` or `.get(i).unwrap()` all over the place is too much visual clutter.

If the user really wants, they can make a custom slice wrapper that implements the `Index` trait in a way that returns `Option`.
> Stainless steel takes ages to cool down

This also means it takes ages to warm up. It’s fine as long as we’re honest about the fact that we still need to input the same amount of energy at the beginning.
I am not worried. Unlike many people, I worked low paying jobs from cleaning rat poop with bleach to making high salary as wall st engineers.

If I got laid off, other people will have it way worse. I am strong, smart, capable and not ashamed to do even dirty work. Not worried a bit.
I hope this gets more attention only because I think that most people (in the world, maybe not posting on HN) would agree that internal groups like this at best are a luxury and more probably should never have existed. The narrative of "all jobs are essential and how could they run twitter if they are cut" gets shut down pretty quickly when you see the kind of jobs being cut
The things that attracted me to Python were:

1. “One way of doing everything”

2. Had a “Rails like” framework with Django

3. If I wanted to dip my toes in an AI library it would be a good choice

4. Access to a lot of system level libraries.

These all fell apart for me after getting into it.

1. As the other commenter suggested, there’s not even one clear way to handle package management. It’s a mess. In other languages, I’ve never had a good development experience with Docker because native is usually so much smoother, but with Python native is a bit of a mess with everyone recommending different tooling. This was compounded because I got into it during the last year of Python 2 so library segmentation was a bit of an added problem.

2. I’m hugely opposed to the way Django handles database changes compared to standard Rails migrations. This is personal preference.

3. I never had time to get into it, but figured if I ever did I’d setup something more dedicated for it. Plus Elixir released so much tooling around this space that I’d probably just go that route anyway.

4. I haven’t found anything system level that I need that I can’t get from Ruby or just calling directly from the command line.

Those were the biggest items.

It’s just not for me. I say that knowing full well that there are plenty of people who don’t like Ruby.
Almost every day I wake up and say “oh man I wonder what my dad is doing today?” And it kinda hits me all at once.

Remember your dad fondly, live a life he would be proud of and proud to call you his son/daughter, and do your best in everything and you will always have him with you. He’s in every cell of your body, and he is in every crevice of your brain.

Glad my story and I were able to comfort you some!
I wonder how much pasta you have to passive-cook in order to offset the CO2 output of the device’s production and use.
The Interactive Fiction Competition
Good question! Only one leg perhaps?

Or maybe a centaur with one foot open to the air…
I have immuno-compromised and elderly family. They have to visit the post office, the passport office, the insurance, etc.

Every time they do, people are refusing to wear a simple mask and are putting them at risk. There is always a guy that is obviously ill and is coughing all over the place.

Like if you go to a nightclub ill, whatever, everyone is there by choice. But visiting a government establishments is a legal obligation.

Why is it that if you go into my house uninvited, fall onto a ditch and break your leg, I could be held responsible, but if I cought at your face on purpose to infect you, noone is at fault.

Why is it at least not a social norm to kick out sick and unmasked people from public institutions?
The FAA recently approved G100UL, a 100LL lead free alternative (developed by GAMI), and in lock step, the EPA is proposing declaring 100LL a danger to public health now that a drop in replacement is available.

The wheels turn slowly, but they do turn.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32682990

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33127880
I’m sorry, what does this device do? Is it really just an “internet of junk” kitchen timer claiming to save the planet?
Here’s a good introduction to coarrays: https://github.com/tkoenig1/coarray-tutorial/blob/main/tutor....
thank you sooooo much for sharing this, because I've been on here for what seems like forever and never had this explained... resolves one of my bigger gripes about behaviour of the ranking algorithm, I only wish details / stories like this were more widely shared
> What if you join on "gaming" and it turns out the admin of "gaming" is a huge d-bag and all the other instances decide to not federate with "gaming" ? Will you have to recreate your entire account?

no, you just move your account to a different server.

with reddit you’re at the mercy of the mods closing a sub down or locking down. same with discord. with mastodon we just move our account—when you move, you keep the same followers/following so in the very rare occurrence something like this happens, it’s a minimal disruption with an easy solution.

moving even redirects to your new account, so if someone has your old address, mastodon just directs them straight to where you moved to—god i wish email would do this.
Long Covid should be taken very seriously, but my understanding is that it is milder and less prevalent among the vaccinated. I don’t know if the hard figures “justify” something like a zero-Covid policy
An Approach for Anything
• Ending world hunger

• Making really tasty food for the foodies, rather than meh food for everyone (including people who don't appreciate it).

• Art

• A really big Minecraft server

• Doing something about the fact that populated islands are sinking into the ocean and some biomes are changing classification multiple times a year and we're all just sitting at computers and manufacturing thneeds.

Pretty much anywhere else, really. Wasted money, time and resources are wasted money, time and resources. If we could replace food with magic pills – and somehow ensure that the money, time and resources saved weren't just snapped up by the already-wealthy, leaving everyone worse off – why not do it?
I think when a font has all the characteristics of being monospaced like large serifs etc., but actually isn't, it looks subtly "off". I remember distinctly the user manual of a motherboard I had near the turn of the century somehow had screenshots of the BIOS setup utility rendered in almost-monospaced Courier New, and it looked sufficiently weird that it was distracting.
> I know it's not a simple answer, but how would you embed checks to flag or highlight potentially incorrect results to the user?

For starters, some problems do have analytical solutions. Yo can compare a FEM model of these problems with the known analytical solution and see if it's close enough or not. One of them is the elasto-plastic plate with a hole.

You can also run unit tests at the element level.
Animals that can change sex
"Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s five software platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we found it."

Sure maybe at one time, perhaps early 2000's. Apple you can thank samsung for all the success you've had over the years. lets be frank!
Great information. Sad labor life.
> He set a direction and it was executed

The direction absolutely should have included both initial high-level criteria and more detailed final sign-off on functions thar were being eliminated.
Twitter is headquartered in California, where you do in fact (mostly) get to do that. Whether you consider California to be a "civilized society" is subjective, I suppose.
These are the men running Elon Musk’s Twitter
In Canada at least we can buy shell off pumpkin seeds in bulk (salted or plain) but they're usually sold as "pepitas". Whole pumpkin seeds are just called "pumpkin seeds". Both taste good!
They did during the last few tech bursts. Why do you think this time will be different?
Have you ever been on YouTube?
"When the tide goes out we can see who was swimming naked"
I highly doubt that, even if everyone did this religiously, it would have any measurable impact on emissions, given how emissions from residential energy usage make up only a relatively small fraction of all emissions (and emissions from cooking only a small fraction of that). Am I wrong?
Or you can get super crazy and cook your dry pasta straight on a pan with sauce, barely adding much water at all, spaghetti all'assassina: https://www.cnn.com/videos/travel/2022/10/13/spaghetti-allas...
Definitely like what you have now in terms of a text editor! But thanks for letting me know about math.
You had to make up a scenario to justify your position.

Instead of doing that, discuss the scenario at hand.

There is no mention that people are being informed up front that they will be fired in 6 months, so your reply is not helpful.
Edit: nevermind the archive.today is 404 too

Made a new one with an added URL param: https://archive.ph/heHOE
In education, "supply" itself is not the issue; there are more than enough spots at state, etc. universities. Its supply of prestigious universities, which is controlled by a cartel. Similar to diamonds, which are neither precious nor rare, yet prices are outrageous because they are controlled by a cartel.

If/when I become President of the United States, I will hold back all education dollars on cartel-controlled education institutions, and heavily tax their endownments.
Courier New is monospaced.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-supplied....