skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How you like to cook pasta aside. This is so dumb. No one is going to solve the climate crisis with not boiling the pasta while certain companies is reaponaible for basically all emissions.

What is the word for this? When you try socialise problems like this to try shift blame? I’m still surprised how many people don’t know thar “climate footprint “ is invented by one of the bigger oil companies in a similar campaign.
Remembering when I was applying to colleges, it was understood that inexpensive state colleges were probably 'sufficiently good', and cost effective, but it was impossible to grade that statement. Would it be good enough for your goals in life? How can a sixteen year old know?

So, people picked the 'best' school they could get into. Not just for the 'experience', but to make sure they got the best education they could and opened as many doors as possible. Because you don't really get a do-over.
Nothing in the article supports the "large-scale" qualifier in the title. There's also no link from Reuters to to the alleged WSJ report, but that is unfortunately par for the course.

I could understand a title like "Meta is preparing layoffs this week", but not the one used by Reuters. Alternatively, the Reuters report could include details possibly contained in the original WSJ article. Or maybe "Meta is preparing to layoff thousands this week" as others have reported.

If it's only 2,000 and the workforce is 65,000 strong, that's 3.1% of the workforce. Is that large-scale?
I'm not sure what you mean by this. You certainly can shield a static magnetic field by using a magnetically soft material.
There are a lot of reasons the Bay Area is desirable--especially if you're someone who appreciates outdoor activities and natural beauty. But most people also need jobs and at least somewhat affordable housing. If snowbelt or desert cities do a better job of providing those, climate and natural beauty only go so far for a lot of people--especially if they don't otherwise have strong connections to the area.
If you can find one example of a hiring manager being honest about the scenario, I'll eat my RSUs
Here's an idea: Public, government-owned (but not operated) colleges. Fueled by taxpayers and completely free for students.

Students who wish to pursue higher education shouldn't even have to think about finances for that education, aside from maybe the travel and food expenses (although now with remote work/learning that also is going down)
I would color myself conservative, though most of my conservative circle might smile at that. I have no interest in seeming progressive.

I've come to accept that I am pedantic. I use phrases like "Native American" to avoid ambiguity, not for any political correctness. I don't refer to anything east of Colorado as the Midwest. I sometimes call cornets trumpets but mostly because I am ignorant. Mostly I find that it's less work to use accurate language instead of long clarifying explanations. But you got me this time.
I'm so sad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArBo5C9en6Y (decompetition.io) didn't show up on HN nor Reddit, as I would have been thrilled to participate in that
http://opensfhistory.org/Download/wnp27.6626.jpg

Kidding.

Yes that's the real question, the recent Engineering Explained video on hydrogen cars gave me a good amount of concern that viable hydrogen cars require careful consideration of how much hydrogen they can store on board, and so they can easily be compromised.
How does increasing admin size by something like 10x make sense when states cut funding to public schools?
It is impossible to contain now and China's dictatorship doesn't care.
Hope to see dark mode someday for the leet programmers.
Amazon already discounts equity comp. You vest 5% the first year and 15% the second year, but you get paid in cash equivalents those first two years.
> a "metaverse" that nobody wants

This is going to be the next famous “nobody wants Dropbox” comment.

I don’t know if Horizon Worlds is going to be successful, but Reality Labs is much, much bigger than that. Do you honestly believe no one wants VR and AR? Seriously?

Think about gaming alone. Think about sitting on an airplane with three 50” monitors overlaid with your vision, where you can actually code, or do whatever. Travel, education, shopping, entertainment. The possibilities are endless.

This stuff is basically already possible today, and maybe a couple years away from a legitimately good experience.

Meta is way out in the lead on this. When the media talks about the spending on Metaverse, they’re always imagining Horizon Worlds. I think it’s entirely possible Horizon Worlds becomes successful. I mean, my company does some watercooler meetings in gather.towns, where you have a tiny little 32x32 pixel avatar. It’s entirely possible in a few years we’ll be doing these in Horizon Worlds. But even if we’re not, and that’s entirely bunk, Reality Labs is still the leading VR headset manufacturer, with a ton of software to make it all possible, still has an entire games division in Oculus Studios, and much more.

People definitely want this stuff. It’s early days still, and Reality Labs is definitely burning cash rapidly, but they also sold a billion dollars of headsets over the past year.
What immediately came to mind was a dirigible. I'm hoping that's not really the case.
I've come to the opposite conclusion that China won't invade the Republic of China because China has won this fight already. Unless they really, really have to because the Republic of China has declared independence from China. They have stated this many, many times already.

Cast your mind back 150 years or so. The Union only declared war and invaded the Confederacy because of the same reason.

No side wins in a Civil War.

Incidentally, the Chinese Civil War is a frozen conflict, but still ongoing even though a Truce is in effect. It's almost exactly the same thing as the ongoing Korean War that's never been concluded after 70-odd years.
What is the real status of covid in China? Is this just political thing or is it new strain? Are hospitals there overloaded? Government working off of the data? For rest of the world, covid seems to be just history.
quality generally has a broader meaning than conformance to product requirement specifications ;)
> I can tell you how hard it is for the people making the decision of who to layoff is exceedingly difficult and heart breaking.

We want C-Suite execs to think of employees as people. But in reality the C-suite execs just think of them as another expense, albeit a necessary one.

At the C-Suite, everything is a number: number of employees, income, expenses, etc. The most important ones are cash on hand, and profit after expenses.

Here's a thought experiment: If Elon offered you $100 million to fire half the company would you do it? Personally I'd have a hard time saying no to that.
In my view, Fortran's biggest advantage over C and C++ is its much simpler mental model. Compared against C and C++, a Fortran programmer needs to think much less about pointers and memory addresses. For example, Fortran procedures (functions and subroutines) are pass-by-reference, compared against C functions being pass-by-value. A Fortran programmer doesn't need to call a procedure with (C syntax) func(&x), declare the procedure with int *x, dereference the pointer with *x to get the value inside the procedure, etc. They can simply write x in all those places and it'll work. Why is pass-by-reference good in computational science? Passing large arrays by value would waste memory. Pass-by-reference is a better choice for large arrays.
No the working Cassandra was built by Amazon. It’s called dynamodb.
Bottom graph shows 45% in defence/aerospace plus the additional sectors that supported it.

https://lao.ca.gov/1995/010195_calguide/cgep1.html

Edit:not in SV, but the real estate prices probably felt it
> But here we're talking about people who made at least 300k a year, possibly up to a million. Those who stayed for few years likely never have to look for another job even again. The ones who didn't might still take few years sabbatical.

Are you suggesting that working "a few years" earning $300k in a high cost-of-living area means you likely saved enough money to never need to work again? Or are you suggesting that someone with the skills/experience working in a position that did pay that much for a few years will find it trivial to find another job?
"jump" ratio = 230,000 / 400,000,000,000 = 0.0575% of users. The English are masters of understatement, which is why BBC did not say "users leap" and used the word jump instead ..

Shouldn't BBC wait just a bit, like a month, before breathlessly telling us how users are jumping to another network?

Do you think stories like this may influence people to leap or jump to Mastedon?

And would you characterize this piece by BBC as "making news" or "reporting news"?
Recommend any particular beans?
Texture will be different depending on how long it stays in the water and at what temperature you cook it.

Going to the extreme could help: dumping the dry pasta in cold water and leaving it for a day would soften it while not cooking it much. The same process is happening at a way milder scale when you dump it before the boiling point.
US diesel crunch means it's time to stock up on food, Robert Kiyosaki says
This is great! I've been using https://beta.sayhello.so/ for this so far. Might give you some inspiration/ideas.
Yes certs expire (expiration is configurable). Large deployments will run an online CA that has some external means of verifying the identity of a host.

Rotation is straight forward. Add the new cert and reload the process (no restart required). Large deployments automate this process (which is easy with an online CA).
This is the same flawed logic that claims that Bitcoin is really centralized. You are looking at the wrong properties when you call email centralized. With email, as with Bitcoin, you can participate in the network and roll your own if you so wish, and no one can prevent you from transacting. That doesn't mean most should roll their own, but the fact that it's possible is a vast and fundamental difference. I really don't think most people understand what decentralized means. We are talking about the protocol, not the implemented topology.

Same as democracy in the US. Even if for the most part policy is set by centralized interests, just having the populace believe that it's a democracy and they have the agency to change things makes the system function in a fundamentally different way. The ruling class can't just cart blanche do whatever they want like in China, even if they are the ones holding most of the levers.
Reading is a big part of writing, and I'm not sure how almost monospaced fonts would perform for reading. Probably about average, if the conclusions from this study are correct: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/best-font-for-online-readin....
You’re right. I added an edit to my post.
I wonder who they belong to?

(That's a little joke.)
Area under the curve is most certainly not the only thing that is important. Heat penetration over time can be completely different depending if you start the cook from a hot pan/oven or not. Searing a steak using a gas burner or sous vide are prime examples.
I just saw on an investigative TV program that the TikTok in China has different algorithms for their domestic version. In that version, it limits screen-time for children under 14 by default and recommends educational content. The export version has screen-time controls but most people use defaults.

When children in China are asked what they want to be, #1 is astronaut. In the US it's social media influencer. Play that thought experiment a couple generations.
Another reason for using almost monospace: international languages. Many indic languages simply don't have good monospace fonts. It's not easy to design. They stick out in code, as a result.

But I've always wondered if allowing three or four different widths would help. We could still align text if (narrow) spaces were the smallest unit, and other widths were repeated multiples of that.

This makes me think it's doable.
Even a less popular iPhone product would still easily be a massive production operation compared to most other electronic hardware being made.

Supply might be good for now but there's consequences in the near term.
The president doesn’t control interest rates. Trump tried bullying the Fed into lowering rates and didn’t work
(Bullet trains might be old now, but for those of us who come from a country without them, hopping on one is still a huge thrill!)
If you put something in a cold pan, it steams/boils itself on the outside and cooks unevenly while the pan or oven is heating up. This almost always results in bland flabby overcooked sad food. The lower the thermal conductivity of the food, the more this matters. The shorter the anticipated cooking time, the more this matters.

With certain vegetables it's OK to do this, like peppers and onions, because the lower heat "warmup" phase actually helps them soften up and break down, and they are also pretty thermally conductive (lots of water, not much hard fiber). But if you do it with mushrooms you'll just get spongy wet mushrooms, and if you do it with meat you'll get sad boiled stuff instead of something juicy inside and crispy outside.

In addition, some cooking techniques specifically rely on the rapid denaturing of proteins on the surface of the food, forming a kind of crust, to prevent it from fusing to the cooking surface. This is how pan-frying fish, meat, and eggs works.
If you did it must not have been in the United States, or you got lucky.

I've been in over a hundred different hotels in the United States. East coast, West coast, Midwest, Rockies, deep South, South Atlantic coast, pretty much every region. I've probably only had a kettle a handful of times. Nearly universally a drip coffee maker, but practically never a kettle.

Note I'm not talking about the machine with the glass carafe on a small burner with a basket above it. That's a coffee maker in US terms, not an electric kettle.
What do these teams have to do with generating revenue?
>>So unless you want to claim that white males living in large urban centers from all corners o the US are not Twitter's demographics

That is not my claim at all, my claim is the people that are freaking out about Elon owning twitter, that are freaking out about having a more free speech platform, that are freaking out that conservatives views will not be instantly banned by twitter "trust and safety" are not white males living in or buying trucks in Medium to Large cities in largely fly over country outside of Coastal West, and Coastal North East states which seems to be where most of the people freaking out are based from.

Ford suspending ads on twitter is doing a disservice to ford, to appease people that were never going to buy a F150 in the first place. The twitter users Ford is targeting either does not care, or supports Elon's changes.

>>It's the most popular car in all US states except in 5 or 6 states.

Yes, and what states are those?? All blue states, and specifically Silicon Valley.

>>"the vast majority of these new trucks are [sold] in large and medium-sized cities."

I dont think that is the "gotcha" you think it is... There are plenty of Medium and even large cities in "fly over" country, further most dealers in large and medium sized cities so even if you do not live in one, or plan on using your truck in one, chances are you are traveling to a Large or medium sized city to buy the thing.

I currently live in a Medium sized city, but my truck was bought in a large city (the 3rd largest city in my state) and my previous truck was bought in the state capital even though I lived in a town of 1500 people at the time... The dealer I bought it from was a 4 hour drive away.
Not precisely the same mechanisms, I'm sure, but the A plot in this Community episode is illustrative: https://community-sitcom.fandom.com/wiki/Analysis_of_Cork-Ba...
It’s not exactly what you are referring to but I like to call out conservation theater. Like when restaurants in California were forbidden from giving water to people unless they asked for it. As if drinking water was even a rounding error on California’s water issues.
It always gives me a spell of cognitive dissonance when someone points out that Slackware is no longer a "major" distribution.

It used to be the major distribution. Funny how times change.
thankfully lightning's been deprecated too, so soon it'll all be usb-c
It is commonplace at many large companies to require top C-level executives approve each new hire personally (even if it's only a brief [mostly] formality). No reason it shouldn't be the same for terminations, especially large-scale ones.

I know Google and Oracle both operate this way.
Well, smaller than the envelope of the car, but that's all we can guess at this point.
Seems like the answer to the eternal “why does tech company X need Y employees??” is “they don’t”.
As hard as it would be for China to build their own Silicon Valley and put Apple, Google and Microsoft out of business. People think that Chinese manufacturing is simply a bunch of low paid workers in factories performing repetitive tasks, and the whole thing could be easily replicated in the US if not for labor costs. In reality there is an entire ecosystem of complex supply chains, very high skilled workers and the most advanced industrial machinery on the planet making it what it is. We simply do not have the knowledge or IP to run these kinds of manufacturing operations at scale in the US, regardless of cost.
I'd gladly take an electric kettle over what I had to use the last time I was in an American hotel room to heat water, which was the bedside drip coffee maker. Water heated through that still tasted like bad coffee.
Be as present and spend as much time with them as possible
Isn’t that argument directly opposite?

A finance-oriented CEO that is concerned with profits should be more concerned with instability and risk, compared to a product oriented CEO who would be concerned about the next hot thing.
Not GP, but for instance, Python web frameworks are oriented around decorators, and Rust web frameworks are oriented around macros. The syntax looks pretty similar, but like GP says, in dynamic languages you're using a (higher order) function, and in static languages you're using code generation for the same purpose.
My wife drinks tea, I drink coffee. Both of us grudge the time needed to heat water in our 120V American electric kettle compared to European 240V kettles. I^2 makes a big difference.
Gotta hand it to Barilla's marketing department. They found a way to seem climate conscious talking about cooking pasta
Thanks OP!

I just made my first blog post!

https://pcurve.blogspot.com

I loved the "TIL" suggestion.
Sometimes difficult to show harm and standing. Appeals are expensive.

The States I looked at have major/minor party and other hindrances such as mandatory reports to secretary of state by party officers from each county. Maybe I would look in N.H. election laws for a place without this.
It’s going to take time for this to materialize. Presumably laid off engineers have access to significant reserves, many of them will be able to ride out a short term period of unemployment. Now, if this turns into a torrent of layoffs across the Bay Area, then those engineers will be looking at long term unemployment, at which point we’re going to see short sales, foreclosures, etc.
Isn't that the whole point of that article? When the exact same thing happened to a different political option (people moving to Parler, or Gab) the whole coverage was about making the move as unpalatable as possible.

It is 100% making news at the moment, and it is quite obvious that mainstream journalists are a bit uneasy about no longer being the protected cast on Twitter.
I always wanted some kind of "collar" that I could put around a burner to try to direct that excess heat back into the pan/pot.
Yes. I assume there is a point here, but you're not being very forthcoming about it.

Is your suggestion that YouTube could function as a way to audit potential college courses? Good idea, except you would already need to know what you're looking for to not be captured by the recommendation algorithm.
Does this logic work for lawyers? "Biglaw" firms are similar to FAANG in that it is a handful of companies that offer very high comp (235k for first year). There is a deluge of folks that apply from all universities to biglaw but generally they primarily hire from top tier law schools and even then not all make it.

Similar for Big 3 consulting firms (BCG, Bain, McKinsey) in that there is a huge application pool for positions but they are difficult to get and provide high pay.
That dictator is on a bender consolidating power, economy be damned. Even before COVID-19.
what's wild is that since the Twitter layoffs last week, recruiter messages on LinkedIn to my account have gone from ~10/day consistently to 0 since the announcement.
You can certainly cook pasta starting in cold water, it just makes the timing more uncertain because you don't have a standard starting condition. It's nice because you can use just enough water to cover.
I had an electric kettle growing up, but nobody else I knew/know has one. I don't know why, they're extremely practical, don't take up much space, and don't cost much money unless you get a fancy temperature-controlled one.
We are breaking the rules talking about this, but...

Am I the only one who can't see step 3 and 4? (On mobile)

The carrousel won't advance
I cringed so badly when she reached her hand into the electronics. SMH
Adverse selection effect here. It's probably self sustaining at this point
We know that from the released texts, that Musk is a close friend of Jack Dorsey, so I would expect him to have necessary intel in place for months.
Probably an M1 Max -- afaik the Ultra is only for Mac Studio desktops.

I use a Gigabyte M28U monitor, which has 16W of charge. Pathetically low, but as long as I'm not compiling anything or running any especially heavy processes, it keeps my battery from draining! Clamshell results in a slow charge.
Apple naming is too Californian centric.
It can become even more virulent. Much more. To the point that containment becomes obviously futile. Right now, it is "working", for some definition of that word. Eventually there won't be any definition of "working" that will remain true.
The omnicube link is broken FYI
Growing freedom through shrinking abilities.

He's got a lot to learn.
> A better way to save energy is to use an electric kettle to get the water up to boiling.

An even better way (and one that also saves cleanup) is to use an electric pressure cooker like an InstantPot to cook the pasta
https://archive.ph/zhy35

(BTW, Story is 3+ weeks old)

Also see related story from 17 days ago:

As Covid hit, Washington officials traded stocks with exquisite timing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33278633

(381 points, 210 comments)
Yes - but have you ever seen a troop of monkeys organize themselves to produce a surplus of sharp stones for their collective advantage? Thankfully, monkeys do not have this recursive ability. Sadly, humans do.
Go hike in the rain--with a head lamp. I survived my time in the PNW because of this one rule.
We use a hot water pot at home, a Zojirushi. Never have to bother with hot water, it's always available and the thing uses a negligible amount of electricity (we're almost entirely on solar anyway, so it's a moot point for our family) comparable to all of our other appliances.
You don't have to signal the actual tweet, you can just add something to the profile - how many people check the profile for every tweet?

And I know you are echoing what The Onion wrote - and guess what, if you go to The Onion about page, it's pretty obvious they are satire.