skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The layoffs are a signal of where twitter will go and what values it will have.

Cutting an entire team is a pretty good way to say "not at all important".

For some things there are very low hanging fruit. Having at least one expert review a new feature in a screen reader can be the difference of not at all usable to mostly usable with just a few minor tweaks. Not having this at all, sends a message about priorities and the new shape of twitter and what the company values
Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30667022 - March 2022 (177 comments)

Veloren – Open-source MMORPG written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26037461 - Feb 2021 (143 comments)

Re "[dupe]" on HN see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33498313
How much better is the resolution for the Quest Pro for working? I spent a a few days working in a Quest 2, and even with resolution problems, it's an incredible and productive experience. I miss it when I'm not doing it, but the resolution is just not there yet. I'm hoping the quest pro is all that I need for a high-enough resolution virtual office.
Low-energy prep of steel-cut oats for several breakfasts:

1. Boil water in an electric kettle — we have a gas stove-top but we buy wind power for electricity; it's a Texas-grid thing.

2. Pour boiling water into a pot, add oats, bring back to a boil on the gas range, then immediately turn off the gas.

(I use a ratio of 1 cup of steel-cut oats to 3 cups of water.)

3. Put a lid on the pot, put the pot on a trivet, cover with a dish towel (to keep heat in), tip the pot lid a bit to open it (to let steam out).

4. Come back in an hour or so — the oats are cooked and still hot; eat some, save the rest in a container to go into the refrigerator once cool.
Bjork Teardown of a Sony Trinitron TV & PCB (1988)
Hey, it specifically says it prints it with biodegradable junk plastic! Though I think the landfill at the end is the least problematic environmental issue here
That's a bizarre objection to 3D printing in the home. I don't do it for such reasons, but I assure you everything I've ever printed would have had a far worse environmental impact if I'd bought/had it made elsewhere. If I'd even been able to.
No, the person saying they don't do LC hard questions is not correct. Most are going to be LC medium but they do ask LC hard in some interviews. I can in fact point to two questions I was asked by Amazon in the last few months and I worked there for several years. In any event they are mostly LC medium, possibly LC hard--exactly what you should expect from a FB interview in the past couple of years.
That's what I assumed they meant but there's so many layers of correction/protection going on and most of it is non-optional if you want a working system. For example, if you disabled the FEC that's used over high-speed serdes links within a core router you'll be left with a broken system, the error rate is much too high. In the designs I've worked on you can't disable the internal CRC/ECC on the databuses without risking corrupting the control data, which won't end well. Nobody provides separate data and control ECC protection, that's pointless overhead.

I guess they probably meant disable checking the ethernet FCS, that might still work but I think it's a very bad plan. I doubt this option is even exposed to network operators.
Elon Musk has unfortunately a very long track record of over-promising and under-delivering.

Anything he say should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt.

I don't think he is a complete fraud, but I would not bet my shirt on his Mark colonization project.
Proper 64-bit support in Vista and later versions?

Also out of the box support for TRIM and a few other goodies.

XP --> Vista/7 was the biggest jump in terms of functionality, since it also happened to coincide with massive performance gains in hardware.
The fact that there's a new, highly upvoted post about Twitter every few hours on this site is ridiculous. I'm waiting for it to pass I guess.
Right, in GF(2ⁿ), e + e is always 0. Thank you for the correction.
I don't know how you're measuring "greatest" but I certainly consider his greatest accomplishments to be putting together, betting on, and operating the companies that produced these products. Of course he doesn't know how to build a Tesla batter or a SpaceX rocket himself - probably no one person does.

These were very difficult industries, industries that were extremely contrarian to bet on when he did. Making the financial bet alone would be a great accomplishment for any normal person. Peter Thiel is a famous investor for making far less contrarian and far less successful bets without operating anything except Paypal.

Musk's bets were far more concentrated, and he chose the personnel, operated the companies, made the strategic decisions, and yes, also marketed them brilliantly. But he only got to flex those marketing muscles because he spent a decade assembling, managing, and financing the teams that built the product in the first place.
If people are being overpaid and underperforming why wouldn't the business owner be within their right to fire them?
Accessibility, but the middle 11 letters are skipped.

See also: i18n.
This is amazing: denote empty citations as an alernate to the terminating sarcasm tag (/s). It's probably even more explicit, and we are forced to charity by the absence of reference.

Imagine what wonders the wandering of undeclared references shall do to a mind numbly scrolling through comments; forced to pause, and brief attention focused on the fitting of a slotted thought.
The thing you need to realise is that different people find different takes on the same idea better than others. Maybe they find one author's writing style or presentation easier to follow than another's. Maybe they're a fan of said author, and enjoy hearing their takes on everything they write about. Or maybe they just one person's writing more engaging than another's.

Multiple people covering the same story isn't a bad thing, regardless of whether it's in the form of a blog post, video, podcast, TV show, book or any other format. It's like how multiple brands of sweets, soda or toothpaste exist.
And we aren't going to win this battle by putting up symmetric forces against China either. At this point in their development curve they will gladly let a large number of ships and manpower sink because of their massive populations. Building more stuff that requires people simply isn't going to work. Most of our population isn't gung ho about going off to die somewhere and our replacement rate and excess population is low. America simply cannot field the world itself with 300 mil population, and instead must partner in alliances like NATO and grow allie militaries to share the burden that make any attack by China expensive on a worldwide scale.
> What we need are Surgeon General reports ...

There are observational studies demonstrating a correlation between red meat consumption and various health problems, but risks involved from eating red meat vs. smoking are not remotely comparable, nor is the scientific evidence anywhere near as convincing.

Nor does some people eating meat directly affect others’ health, the way smoking in enclosed indoor spaces does.

It would be better to give people truthful information about what risks are known and what our confidence is in those, rather than trying to scaremonger or force lifestyle changes based on exaggerated health claims.

Climate risks and environmental externalities are a much bigger problem with red meat than direct health effects. (And a better cause for ending subsidies / adding taxes.)

If you are just worried about health per se, it would make much more sense to start by targeting soda and alcohol, and follow up by targeting candy, cookies, chips, etc. Even in fast food restaurants, the fries and soda are a bigger health problem than the burgers.
skookum!
Does lite xl support language server protocol though?
It might not always have been horizontal.
> Instead, Nevada would have a nonpartisan primary, from which the top five candidates of any party would emerge to the general election.

How useful is this? My understanding in that in a fair number of elections there is no challenger to the incumbent party, or the challenge is token at best.

That is the two parties have implied territories, sans a handful of areas that are up for grabs "battlegrounds".

With traditional voting or with ranked voting, I'd like to see "None of the above" be provided as a candidate. The People should be provided a means to express that feeling if that's the case.

Let be honest, low voter turnout is often a function of the products being offered. "Not of the above" provides important feedback that's currently lost.
It's pretty common. Most pasta cooking directions say to use 4-6 quarts of water for a standard 1-lb pack of dry pasta. Many Italian grandmas (I'm making a guess off n=1 person with Italian heritage who learned it this way) do it like this. Because this technique is so ingrained, it's less obvious to reduce the amount of water.
Your post comes off as extremely negative towards Musk. I’m going to get downvoted for saying this but let’s be honest for a minute.

There were multiple videos titled something like “a day in the life of a twitter employee” were they employees at twitter documented how they drank alcohol and “chilled” on the roof after a few meetings. This doesn’t seem like work to me.

Second, the moderation team at twitter covered up the Hunter Biden laptop story because they had a bias. I don’t think they were doing a great job.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Phlare: open-source database for continuous profiling at scale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33437419 - Nov 2022 (40 comments)
Very interesting observation!

And yes, I strongly agree! Just hanging out was the thing people did.

Kind of miss that. Time to maybe fix it some.
I think the point being made is that health is devolved, and this story affects NHS England, but not the other NHS systems in Wales, Scotland, or NI. This is a common problem with reporting on the NHS - journos often say "The UK NHS" when they mean England.

(It's arguable about whether, and how much, an arms-length-body is directly managed by the department of health and social care but I don't think we're going to agree. People who are interested in the detail can read more here: https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-Short... (It's a bit out of date, there's been some consolidation)).
People are idolized, their accomplishments embellished, and their shortcomings overlooked when they are in positions of power and prestige. Often times the role of sheer luck, cronyism and connections are completely downplayed
yes, anyone halfway intelligent on that team knew MONTHS AGO that their job was already gone
This is not just efficient but also saves a lot of time. I do this with rice/pasta or anything that requires boiling. Also, using a pressure cooker can save a lot of time/energy with foods like legumes/meats etc.
Accessibility = ‘A’ + 11 characters + ‘y’
Having had to rehydrate pasta while hiking to save on fuel as a beginner backpacker, I can confirm it does work.

Still, I now only bring semolina and polenta on multiple days hike. Both can be eaten fine after an hour of soaking in cold water.
How? For all intents and purposes PLA is not biodegradable
True but unlike most pasta, store bought couscous is usually pre-steamed/cooked. That plus its small size (large surface area) makes it perfect for cold soak.
I had this conversation before and I think I know what they mean; they don't mean it in a low-level, technical sense. It's meant more in the sense that Go is very much of a similar philosophy in terms of abstractions not getting in the way of your work. That is, if you're a moderately competent Go dev there's little to decipher looking at pretty much any codebase.

In other words, you'd spend most of your time familiarizing yourself with the code itself, not Go.
Please don't bother with posts like this. They don't add anything useful to discussion, and are against site guidelines:

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
Truth Is Required for Growth
I don’t mean to be snarky, but the solution is exercising self restraint. The world will continue on just fine if you stop engaging with the topic.
How’s that different from trusting Twitter? You can export your data everyday and back it up if you want. Move to another server and restore.
You have a very skewed view of who’s buying the F150 and who they’re selling the Lightning to.
IIRC the driver model and general security improved in fundamental ways. Some could've probably been back ported but not every improvement.

Consider that even XP wasn't the same from first release until SP3. It was really two or three OS's, just with fewer user facing changes than Vista and later major releases.
Whoops yes I meant logical.
Hi, on the github page/readme , the docs link is broken.

Also, on smartphone, the demo login page content is broken...
I do something similar to boil eggs:

1) Put eggs in pot, cover with water.

2) Put pot with lid on stove on full heat.

3) Wait for the water to boil, then turn off the heat.

4) Wait 6 minutes (for eggs with slightly soft interior)

5) Cover eggs with cold water, wait one minute, peel.

Perfect eggs every time, and I am sure this saves a bunch of energy. They peel really well too.
I think the article misses the root cause here. Drastically increased availability of loan-based financial aid means far more more money in the system, which means the prices go up.

The article nails the cause of more administrators--the schools have more money to spend and need to spend it--but completely misses the reason schools are able to charge so much more these days.
I'm not American and have an extremely naive question: why not make more parties?
I'm aware of this scheme. But I don't think you understand why it works. Track records are absolutely evidence of skill, if you understand the distribution from which they're drawn. Elon's track record is very, very far outside the null hypothesis of that distribution.
Or he is stuck with an electric coil stove that he can't replace. Those suck.
Newspapers were commoditized by the internet. The internet is a very low cost abstraction of location. The downside is that the variety of voices from the thousands of newspapers are now silenced.
That part is tongue in cheek. Cute and smart.
Come back to twitter work to rule while everyone else runs around freaking out? What are they going to do? Fire you again?
> > The conjecture can be reduced to restricting the runners' speeds to positive integers: If the conjecture is true for n runners with integer speeds, it is true for n numbers (sic) with real speeds.

No need for sic when quoting Wikipedia; you can (and I have) just fix it!
It wasn't Barillas idea. Looking at the quality and stuff used it was most likely thought up by a "Creative Technologist" in an ad agency with the sole purpose to win awards.(...and some PR but trust me it was done for the awards.)
Alec, of the Technology Connections YouTube channel, shows it's not just energy saving, but faster and cleaner. Even with US outlet power limits a kettle will boil a volume of water much more quickly than a gas stovetop, and my indoor CO2 sensor won't spike by hundreds to a thousand PPM of CO2.

While the time savings is modest, if you have an electric kettle it's a no brainer to prefer that over gas.

Though induction stovetops can be faster yet, and just as clean.
That web page doesn’t render without JavaScript.
For some reasons I thought most of the people switched to electric induction cooktops.
A "Good" Industrial policy is impossible [pdf]
Oh, this is good to know! May I suggest putting that in the FAQ? I looked for this information but didn't see it browsing the docs (perhaps I missed it though).
Where is the disconnect?

If an investor does poor due diligence and doesn’t put the work in to determine a reasonable fair valuation for a company, and then loses their entire investment, that is just.

If board members give bad advice and the stock falls, they incur losses.

These are just outcomes.

Most people would agree that attending a 6 week bootcamp shouldn’t entitle somebody to a 200-300k job. And it won’t in the near future.

You’ll have to do a lot more to achieve the same comp going forward, just like every other industry. There’s nothing special about tech, it was just a nascent industry in boom times. No longer
yes .... good point - which makes it all the more unlikely to succeed in meeting people's expectations.
Americans don't really do electric kettles, largely on account of using 110V mains, which limits power to around 1100W, making it a lot slower than ~2000W electric kettles in the 200+V world.
Is this why people like working in a cafe?
> So what is the algebraic structure that underlies the binary-search algorithm, since evidently it isn't really the torsor of a group?

Though it pains me to say so as an algebraist, I think that it probably just isn't a problem most usefully modelled with a more abstract algebraic structure. Although it would be easy to cook up a structure permitting "division with rounding" … maybe a Euclidean domain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_domain) is something like the right structure?
@yishan doesn't mention the most obvious solution — let the public vote on content. Wait, Twitter and Reddit already have voting mechanisms in place? What's wrong with them? Oh, they semi-secretly sell access to their voting mechanisms and allow unscrupulous entities to manipulate vote counts to astroturf? Oh...

The real problem is the lack of transparency as platforms fight tooth and nail to retain total control over content while appearing to foster freedom of speech.
Gentle parenting works, no you won't make wimps, you will make emotionally healthy people.
> There's no immediate need to review accessibility issues since there are no new product features/updates for the foreseeable future

Really? You were on the team then? I assume you found out that they had an entirely empty Jira backlog and no more accessibility updates to do on main, so they were let go?

I appreciate your insight, former Twitter employee. What else can you tell us about how your job went?
Right! The purpose of 'related' lists is simply to give people more (hopefully) interesting threads to read.
There are lots of parties. But first past the post system ensures they don’t get anywhere.
> Going with lower voltage is less efficient as the LED will output less light per voltage but not linearly, it will still use most of the power of full brightness at half.

I don't think this is true? Aren't LEDs more efficient at lower voltages/currents?
I have a gas stove because it just came with my apartment, but I went and got a $70AUD ikea portable induction stove and I'm very surprised, it's significantly nicer to cook with, the heating range is both lower and higher than what my gas stove can achieve. Boiling a pot of water on the induction is so much faster than on gas. For pasta its a no brainer.

Eventually I want to replace my gas stove with a full induction one but unfortunately it's quite expensive.
We have all this stuff now, right?
Preventing all the lawsuits that might result from bad accessibility seems like quite a business critical feature to me.
The two parties in control collaborate and place rules in place to marginalize and exclude any competition.
Nothing you wrote is accurate.

You must be new here. ;-)

The apps ran on both types of machines thanks to rosetta and the performance hit this takes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software) It is doubtful that a PPC system can boot an intel MacOS HD. One is RISC the other CISC.

I know about this because I used to do it all the time when I worked in tech support. Regardless of which Mac a client might show up with, I could boot it with the same external hard drive back in the mid-90s.

Rosetta allowed unmodified PPC apps to run on Intel Macs by translating them on the fly.

However, developers had the option of making a few changes and recompiling their apps to produce a version that would include native code for PPC and Intel machines; macOS would handle running the correct binary. These were known as "fat binaries".

Fast forward to 2020 and Apple is applying the same strategy. Rosetta2 translates Intel apps on the fly to run on ARM. And developers can recompile their apps so that they run natively on Intel and ARM machines.

Even though I'm typing this on an Intel Mac, I could boot an ARM-based Mac with its hard drive if necessary.

Here's the output from the file command on the ls command:

/bin/ls: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64e:Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64e]

/bin/ls (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/bin/ls (for architecture arm64e): Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64e

Yes, even ls is a fat binary that runs natively on Intel and ARM-based Macs.

Please read up before posting.

Perhaps you should take your own advice?
Accessibility is the letter 'A' followed by 11 other letters ending in 'y'. Same reason as Internationalization is I18n.
I wish these movements for "Ranked Choice Voting" would be recast as RCV/Condorcet (same input, differing tallying), rather than revolving around runoff voting. Runoff voting is essentially still bound to the idea of the two party system, with the added ability for an informational third-party vote in addition to your "real" duopoly choice. Whereas a tallying process that abides by the Condorcet criterion makes sure that whoever gets elected really was actually favored by most voters. The difference will start to matter if third parties ever gain ground.
The claim is weird, though. If they said “just add to boiling water and turn off immediately” then they would claim it’s 100% more efficient*.

If you turn off your water right before it’s boiling and cook your pasta, then Barilla is an energy generator*.
Dogs? What? I still find it insane that any workplace allows non-service dogs and even more bizarrely, some recruiters list "dog-friendly" as a perk.

Crazy.
Other things you can use this on than pasta? Are there recipes for
this kind of low-effort camping meals somewhere online?
I've noticed a couple of LED bulbs (one with warnings that it's non-dimmable) where the PWM (presumably) means that even when I'm not looking for it, I'll move my hand quickly to grab something and it looks like I'm in a 20fps computer game, fun novelty but it wears off. Fortunately there are plenty where I don't see this.
My experience too is that you face a lot of gaslighting whenever you have non functional requirements.

Back when the Athlon 64 was new I was very annoyed by noisy desktop computers and went through great expense and trouble to pick out quiet parts for a PC, frequently I found the reviews of quiet PC parts from sites like Tom’s Hardware were just plain wrong and that from the power supply to fans and hard drives I had to try multiple parts before I got something really quiet.

I am thinking about building a new PC but I haven’t done it for years since I was so traumatized.
I once had a pasta salad backpacker meal (forget which brand) that was pretty much this method exactly (except we rehydrated it in its original bag). Some of the freeze-dried veggies still had a little bit of crunch, but the pasta was good and it was quite enjoyable for camping food. I haven't seen it available since, though.
No problem. I thought of adding periods, so it would be "D.C." and probably should have.
It doesn’t work very well with rice. It’s one of the worst thing to take while backpacking. It doesn’t soak well. It takes a long time to soften while cooking and it’s not very good when it’s slightly undercooked.
Also yoghurts have been made using a jar in some insulated slow cool down method for centuries