skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(tl;dr: If you're in a state with closed and/or partisan primaries, that's probably the easiest and highest-impact change - and doesn't require changing voting methods. https://ballotpedia.org/Primary_election_types_by_state has more.)

The article discusses two independent changes together:

1. Changing to open, non-partisan primaries (where every voter can vote for any candidate in the primary), and

2. Changing the method by which the winner is chosen.

A jurisdiction can move to open, non-partisan primaries without a new voting method. As the article mentioned, Washington did so: https://ballotpedia.org/Primary_elections_in_Washington . Other states: https://ballotpedia.org/Primary_election_types_by_state

In terms of making winners better represent the entire electorate, moving to a non-partisan primaries might be the single highest-impact improvement that a jurisdiction can make. It almost certainly is when one considers the chances of the change actually happening (ie, viability).

Separately, jurisdictions can elect to change voting methods in elections with more than two candidates. For example, I’m co-leading a campaign to change Seattle's open primaries to use Approval Voting[1], which is on the Seattle ballot as Proposition 1A[2] now.

My point is that each of these changes has supporters and detractors, pros and cons. Acting like they both need to be changed at once makes things harder.

[1]: https://electionscience.org/approval-voting-faqs/

[2]: https://seattleapproves.org/
Yes. I wouldn't "work" for a company that didn't provide me with hardware.

I'm assuming you're using "work" to mean an employee-employer relationship.

If you want me to provide my own hardware, I'm a contractor and will not lock in to an exclusive relationship with your company and charge a significant premium.
Mastodon isn't trying to replace Twitter.
If I’m living in the moment, I’m not using social media at all quite likely.

And it doesn’t matter if the effect is “psychological,” it’s going to have an effect on product outcome.
I’m pretty sure I read something about research into gut health affecting dht levels recently
I love the Spartan response to his invaders with overwhelming numbers. Taiwan is no match for the PRC army but they are a sovereign country and should stand up to the bully.
Because Zuckerberg has controlling shares, it is hard to force him out. I would expect bitter shareholders to sue him for breaching fiduciary duty or similar, but IANAL.
"Social media isn't inherently bad, if people across the world can learn how to self-curate." Is equivalent to "Social media is bad" IMO.

There are always going to be "enough" people who can't self-curate that social media will be harmful.
Blog post has theory but no performance measurements.
Does it matter? I used Rust to write it but I don't claim it's "blazingly fast". The post-modern tagline is a joke. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33158035
I would be very interested to know how Lotus compares to Lago too. I’m just about to start using something like this and was leaning towards Lago but was also considering killbill.

That being said, Lotus seems even more ideally suited for me (also a Postgres/Django app so kudos for that stack!).

The main thing I want is ability to centralize all subscription management despite customers potentially using different payment processors (eg stripe vs PayPal or crypto). It certainly looks like Lotus does this as well. I guess I’ll dive in to see how difficult it might be to add a custom payment processor (eg crypto payments), but I definitely think I’m leaning more towards using Lotus now. Thanks for making this!
Usually, you would see RS used in a setting where any error is going to be erasure (non erasure error -> failed checksum -> erasure error).

Then you use something like LDPC codes for in-packet ECC. RS for multi-packet ECC.
You need to pick servers (providers) for emails. But we don't really think about it this much because we're used to it.

The fediverse is built on a very similar type of network: federated servers, similarly to how gmail talks to yahoo and hotmail.
"brew install helix" gives me:

> Warning: No available formula with the name "helix". Did you mean healpix, helib or helm?
To be fair, size_t doesn't solve this particular problem; you also need to use correct array slice representation (ptr,len) not (start,end), and calculate the midpoint accordingly (ie (ptr,len/2) or (ptr+len/2,len-len/2)).

(And because C doesn't mandate correct handling of benign undefined behavior, you still have a problem if you `return ptr-orig_ptr` as a size_t offset (rather than returning the final ptr directly), because pointer subtraction is specified as producing ptrdiff_t (rather than size_t), which can 'overflow' for large arrays, despite that it's immediatedly converted back to a correct value of size_t.)
Microsoft mulling cheap PCs supported by ads, subscriptions
I had a IIIF. Ioved that camera. I had to sell it to make ends meet. It was small and compact. I took it every where.

Images from Hasselblad have better resolution, finer grain and are easier to print 16 x 20.

Images from the Leica have none of those qualities. What they have is a spontaneity that can only happen if you are always carrying your camera
L33t o'clock has been a thing for me for years now. I experience that weird phenomenon where you look at a clock and it happens to be 11:11, except for me it's 13:37 and I'm like "hey, it's l33t o'clock!"

There's another one I call "Razor o'clock" at 7:11 pm, i.e., 19:11.
> Unemployment rate is currently close to the lowest it’s been in history.

Yes, it is. But declines follow peaks.

> People who lose their jobs will be reabsorbed elsewhere

...or they won’t, and very soon the unemployment rate will be farther than it is today from the lowest it has been in history.
The idea is that the ability to create technology creates an evolutionary gradient whereby increased intelligence yields better tools yields increased survivability
Had a double-take then realized "baby lead weaning" should be "baby led weaning".

I don't think lead is all that healthy. ;)
Algorithm interviews never worked it was just a filtering mechanism so they could access cheaper labor. The reality is you have no idea if someone is qualified for their job until you hire them. Everything else are just signals. Fuzzy at best.
Backpackers have been using this technique to save fuel - I've got a cozy for my cookpot.

I also remember seeing this on one of the Victorian Farm shows - it was something like a pot roast brought to a boil in the morning, then put in a well insulated container to sit for the day.

Edit: Whoa, I just clicked through to "The Product" section, and it's an open source design using an Arduino. Super cool!
The disconnect between what was actually written and what you think was being said is astonishing.
Frankly it doesn't look like it's ready to be useful. As an example tried "Braze notifications" and the first result was about Brave, then two mildly relevant, and then a long stretch of "Who's hiring?" topics from which HN seem to mention only notifications.
He was working for Google but he left recently, no? I doubt Google would have any problem if he works on mold linker full time.

I believe he decided to do things this way.. one man show is always problematic (atleast it is easy to go back to lld if anything happens to the author or the project itself)
I thought the same when I joined twitter with its "tweet". In my head it just seemed weird, but quickly didn't even think about it anymore once I found interesting things
Good luck taking action against the person with all the voting shares.
I think both can be true at the same time but it is unlikely for the first
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization

Just because the general country-wide unemployment is a low number, does not mean with any sort of guarantee that an individual will be able to transition in a decent amount of time as not to unduly impact their life.

And given what the oligopoly of banks... err, the FED has been saying, 'they are hitting the brakes of inflation by raising interest rates significantly' - further exasperating the layoffs and slowing/reversing hiring at other firms.
If this is the end of FB and Twitter, it can’t come too soon.
D-Day like beach invasions are unlikely. Blockades and targeted strikes on infrastructure are likely. How long can Taiwan reasonably last without energy and food imports?

They U.S. spends most of its military resources on force projection. Not homeland defense so military spending comparisons are not simple IMO. China has been acutely focused on Taiwan and its military resources reflect that.
Geneva Scraps Drone-Fighting Eagle Brigade over Safety Concerns
Maybe you need to update your homebrew cache? https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/helix
If you weren't an elite hacker, would you be erasing the record of your activities?
He’s just a young Donald trump
I have very strong, very mixed feelings about Musk and am not sure if he is a great businessmen or not. However, I did appreciate DHH's blog post about Job's returning to Apple. Massive layoffs and Jobs admitted that mistakes will be made, but at least decisions are being made. Short worthwhile read: https://world.hey.com/dhh/apple-fired-4-100-when-steve-jobs-...

Edit: auto-correct typo
> That’s why in a free marketplace, Elon asserted his free speech to take over Twitter due to their perceived poor management.

That’s not really accurate. Twitter’s management took Elon to court to force him to take over so the stockholders they worked for could reap thr windfall ofnthe premium price he regretted offering and tried to tun away from.
I don't see how.

Incivility on Twitter began because of several reasons:

a) 140 char limit incentivized hot takes over nuance

b) ad-based metrics (mDAUs) incentivized addiction-based UX choices (infinite scroll), and nothing keeps people glued to a screen like bad news

c) the algorithm started showing content to followers that was contextually unrelated to their follows."Here's a post from a person you don't follow, but is followed by one of your follows).

Mastodon does away with a lot of this. 500 characters allows for plenty of nuance. Federation model means there is no monolith obsessed with accumulating the most users and shoving ads at them.
tweeps understandably upset but if he is really offering to buy them a horse I think that is more than fair?
Just coding for fun on whatever I want to. 25 years in the biz, lot's of enterprise work that many times was not fun. Having a blast currently with Django/Python. Also poking around with Go and Flutter/Dart.
You can subscribe to a hashtag in the newest version: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1
Not sure.

I use an RO (reverse osmosis) and run that through alkaline filter and that is the gold standard for me I have not tasted better water, even evian or those expensive Zip systems.

I don’t recall how good Brita is but I imagine similar to Zip in that it will get rid of most of that chlorine taste and filter out a lot of particles which is a big improvement. If I were renting I would consider Brita for the convenience of nothing to install and no ugly unit.

I wouldn’t buy bottled water for home unless very low
on choices! Because it seems wasteful.
feel free to email me and we can help build the custom payment integration you need. mikael [at] uselotus.io
I think those aren’t incompatible views.

Undeniably Elon’s success is his tremendous wealth, the basis of which are two very valuable companies that the cofounded and has as CEO marketed brilliantly, if not always honestly.

He obviously knows a lot about what people to work with.

It is highly unlikely he knows how to build or design almost anything Spacex or Tesla makes.
He knows a lot about everything they make of course, and can get more detailed briefings and information on it that anyone, but he didn’t make it.

So the wealth and the successful companies are his success sure, but his greatest personal accomplishments are obviously his marketing skills.
Lichess is planning a new mobile app in Flutter.

https://github.com/lichess-org/mobile
No, employees take responsibility when the stock is down. Decision makers only take responsibility when it's up. :D
> I just do not think these federated attempts will get us there, I think that's been proven over the last thirty years, and I don't want us to waste time on half-measures destined to fail.

Email seems pretty successful by any measure…

All this really needs is an overlay (app or something) so people don’t have to care about the underlying technology. With all the newfound interest there’s probably someone working on such a thing and other people looking for somewhere to throw a bunch of money to cash in on the new trend.

Just look a the pandemic and WFH, video conferencing went from some niche thing to something my 70 year old parents were doing on a regular basis to keep in touch with the family. The first month or so it was a bigger mess than the current twitter exodus and an almost direct comparison.

IDK, having the beeb give a pretty balanced overview doesn’t seem like such a bad thing. Unfortunately nobody cares about that and just want to go on about how Elon is the worst human ever.
Tutorials don't really need paid tutors if peer to peer Q+A like a discussion forum is available. Another concept that could improve things is team education - you get marked on your own achievements but also partially on how your whole team does - so you have incentive to help others along.
> Adtech here, spending is increasing in all things.

This is misleading.

Increasing? Yes.

Increasing relative to view a couple months ago? No. [0]

META's valuation has gotten hammered recently due to reduced ad forecasts on top of AAPL locking down iPhone privacy.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/less-growth-seen-for-2023-u-s-a...
But you could say the same thing about nearly everything.

Sure there are millions upon millions of books. Someone who enjoys reading won't elect to read books they know are a waste of time or something that will be offensive to them.

Same can be said for consuming newspapers (anyone else just skip the front page and go right to a special section you actually care about, like sports or business instead of politics?), TV, movies, video games? Music?

So are all things bad because some people are incapable of deciding for themselves how to consume said things?
I see a lot of vim-to-helix comments, but I have been a helix user for a little while and decided to try neovim seriously for the first time. I've used it, but I never got into it.

I like the extensibility and customizability of neovim. I do not like the action-subject (verb-noun as some put it) model flow, but that could be just muscle memory and bias. I'm going to keep at it and see if I like it better, it might turn out to be more powerful. I don't like a lot of the default binds, helix's binds just seem to be more sensible, again could be bias since I used helix first, and I can always change them.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1484/
The system you describe simply doesn’t exist, standards or no. A 64-bit kernel can’t hand out 64-bits worth of addresses because no CPU built today supports it.

A 48-bit index to an array can represent >240TBytes of RAM minimum - if your records are > 1 byte, you have significantly higher storage requirements. The largest system I could find that’s ever been built was a prototype that has ~160TiB of RAM [1]. Also remember. To make the algorithm incorrect, the sum of two numbers has to exceed 64bits - that means you’d need >63-bits of byte-addressable space. That just simply isn’t happening.

Now of course you might be searching through offline storage. 2^63 bits is ~9 exabytes of an array where each element is 1 byte. Note that now we’re talking scales of about about the aggregate total storage capacity of a public hyperscaled cloud. Your binary search simply won’t even finish.

So sure. You’re technically right except you’d never find the bug on any system that your algorithm would ever run on for the foreseeable future, so does it even matter?

As an aside, at the point where you’re talking about 48-bits worth of addressable bytes you’re searching, you’re choosing a different algorithm because a single lookup is going to take on the order of hours to complete. 63-bits is going to take ~27 years iff you can sustain 20gib/s for comparing the keys (sure binary search is logarithmic but then you’re not going to be hitting 20gib/s). Remember - data doesn’t come presorted either so simply getting all that data into a linearly sorted data structure is similarly impractical.
Unemployment rate is a measure of slack in the labor market, nothing more. It says nothing about an individual’s experience.

5% unemployment means there’s a rotating set of job seekers that comprise 5% of the labor force.

It absolutely does not mean that 5% of the labor force is perpetually jobless and unemployable.

I hope those lamenting these layoffs were also against the extreme fiscal excess which made them necessary in the end. The road to hell is often paved with good intentions
Interesting you use that analogy, because to continue it -- if you don't occasionally have smaller wildfires, you end up having ones that end up terrible for the health of the forest too.

Not sure what conclusion to draw from that.
Google, Apple, Microsoft, TikTok, Tesla, NVidia and the vast majority of tech companies of all sizes that have been using this exact same interview process for decades are managing to innovate just fine.

Facebook's problem has never been engineering. Blame its leadership and the product decisions they made (like dumping $4B a quarter into a "metaverse" that nobody wants).
> When the water boils, pour in your pasta.

Why even wait for the water to boil? I always pour my pasta into the cold water right from the start, and it doesn't seem to make any difference.
Not sure how common this is but I recall that Larry Ellison Oracle took it a step further and has emitters on his cars and sensors on his home that tell the help to vanish by the time he shows up.
HN seems pretty anti Elon, no?
Only crazy as growth stalled. If it kept pace with prior years they’d of had doubled revenue in that time frame
Actually, they have ~40M (even less now) out of which ~10M are people who consider themselves Russians and ~15M who speak Russian.

At best they have some 8M males between 18-54 for military duty who would actually fight for Ukraine. Still a lot but twice less than what you posted.
In addition, its common courtesy to check the "this account is a bot" checkbox, when an account is a bot.

And on the other side, it's a single checkbox to say "I want to filter any bots".

It's neither perfect nor failsafe. But with enough humans to moderate, report and help out, I'm sure it works better than any centralized, algorithmic setup can ever work.
Octobass: The lowest string instrument (2016)
Yes! I waited out the long `brew update` and now it works :)
In some organizations, you want to hire big going into the hiring freeze, so that once the layoffs start (and you get told from higher up, "cut x%), you can keep the people you actually care about. Insanity from the point of view of the organization, but rational from the point of view of the mid-level manager.

Don't know if this is what happened at FB, but it happens in some places.
It’s easy to find parking in the city if you’re in any of the areas outside of downtown, like the sunset, you just have to move every week for street cleaning
But even if we were getting rid of that Team what most of here would have done would be to move the best software engineers in that Team to other groups rather than fire them.
From the moment that he started to fight off this purchase in court, it's needed a lot of mental gymnastics to defend the genius of his moves regarding the purchase of an underperforming social network.

Are these the plays of a proverbial multi-dimensional chess genius that are beyond mortal ken, or one clumsy attempt after another to salvage a bad situation that he put himself in?

In some other HN thread related to this, people worked out the math behind the layoff of half of Twitter's workforce days into taking over: assuming revenue remained the same, the company would be profitable enough to cover the loans taken to purchase (with itself as collateral!)
Rating and continuous improvement can obviously fix this.
>And it exists only because people dont have time and energy left for socialization and other activities after work.

Did people not socialize in the days before worker protections demanded worker protections? I just don't think your reasoning covers the causes well, especially in the suburbanite 40 hour week type that travel by car for an hour+ a day to a single family home.

Media consumption exists because technology has allowed media to show up everywhere at all times very rapidly and we have not had a society wide inoculation to its negative effects.
Do you think that the world will improve if 21-year-old college graduates make less money?
Same thing happened to me when this was posted last month.

Then I spent 15 minutes imagining my new editing bliss while it failed to compile from source. I thought I solved it, but nope.

I like it, but make it work before I get that excited?
If I were asked back I'd take it (hopefully with an increase in salary) then I'd actively search for another job. Once I landed it I'd give zero day notice. Fuck them.

I understand I could be potentially hurting coworkers by adding additional work to their plate but Twitter didn't give 2 shits about the people left behind and the work that they would have to take on.

Why is it corporations can "layoff" without notice but as an employee you are expected to give 2 weeks notice? I guess one could argue that if the corp gives a severance pay then that makes up for sudden layoff. But it doesn't. Even if I have a savings for emergencies employee sponsored health insurance will eventually end. Then COBRA kicks in and there goes your emergency savings if you have a family.

Of course the whole U.S. health insurance shit-show is for another discussion but when you have a family AND a serious health issues, health insurance is front and center on one's mind.

If I never had to worry about health insurance and have the ability to go get the care I need/want would take a huge burden off of my shoulders and I'm sure I'm not alone.

Sorry for the rant.
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I found this page by learning about web dev on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxTb9ys834w
"Some of those who are being asked to return were laid off by mistake, according to two people familiar with the moves"

https://archive.ph/VLCqz
Not really "passive" cooking as you're just not actively pumping heat into already boiling water and just cooking pasta in steadily cooling water.

You can actually soften pasta and many other similar foods by just leaving them in room temperature water for a much longer period. Some backpackers do this to reduce weight and it's been the only way I've ever prepared food while backpacking. Admittedly, cold noodles, oatmeal, rice, etc. is a lot more appetizing if you're many miles from the nearest civilization and have worked up a huge hunger from hiking.
Not me! My chosen field is what I naturally hyperfocus on, which is the typical recipe for high functioning ADHD. The WFH struggle for me is stopping work.

It's the rest of life that I struggle with, and I've had friends literally come to my house to veg out in front of the TV while I clean. And then, once the kitchen is clean, it's suddenly easy to cook a meal. It's honestly quite embarrassing to need that as an adult, but by making it win-win, I've managed to convince myself to do it. Cool to see that other folks do this.
Drones as an anti-blockade counter?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastienroblin/2022/10/29/vide...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-unleashes-mass...