skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes and preferred

many places built for this purpose have alternate hidden passages to assist with this

it is still seen as good service when this is done well

some restaurants accomplish this too and it is a night and day difference for wait staff to only appear at the correct time instead of hovering, guessing at an interval that is either too long or too short, obviously staring, or inattentive
That's not true in any practical sense.

Sure you can run the xp calculator app on windows 11, but so what? Most of the programs that people want backwards compatibility for, enterprise apps, won't run correctly. Yes that's mostly because of how they're coded, but even if the source code still exists, I doubt anyone is putting effort into updating them at this point, and is just running xp or 2000 in a vm.
I blog about what I’m learning about, plus an occasional short story or serialized piece of fiction

Eg, I’m studying two short stories every day to get better at writing short stories. As long as I’m studying them and taking all those notes, I may as well post those notes online.

Or, notes about more general topics, like “what is rhythm in prose?”

People studying other disciplines can easily do the same with what they’re learning. Once in a while it leads to some fun discussions with the people who stumble on your work
As others have mentioned, eBPF is quite neat software, but it's observability in an of itself is quite difficult. It's hard to understand WHAT eBPF programs are loaded, and what they're doing. Supposedly Android has a dozen or two eBPF programs running at anytime. Is Ubuntu on my laptop running a similar batch? I have no clue, and many of us here probably wouldn't know where to look either without some Googling.
I just wrote an in-depth comment about why I don't think Helix needs an extension system (despite the historical precedence from other text editors) that I think folks interested in Helix might find interesting:
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...
I don't know about that. Is any web site that has user comments social media now? That seems an overly broad definition.

HN isn't particularly social as far as I can see. I don't have a network of friends. It doesn't facilitate personal connections or groups.
If you're not a part of some clique that decides to move off Twitter together, then I doubt you'll be able to just recreate a similar environment.

Otherwise for someone who posts frequently and has a good following, then it's probably worth it to start posting on Twitter and Mastodon at the same time, that's the only way it happens. Big movers and shakers are either going to stay on Twitter or drag everyone else with them, basically unlikely to happen.
Rust is the industry's next incremental step toward functional programming. Eventually, more and more non-functional features will be removed from languages.
There is a finite field (or Galois field GF(p)) of size p for any prime p. This can be exhibited by integers mod p.

There are also finite (Galois) fields GF(p^n) of size p^n (positive integer powers of p)

These can be exhibited by polynomials with coefficients in the GF(p) field with up to n terms.

Eg for p = 2 and n = 3

0

1

x

1 + x

1 + x + x^2

1 + x^2

x + x^2

x^2
You have to keep in mind that in this type of organization, managers are highly incentivized to grow their teams, by all means.

The number of people "under" you is the dick measuring tape.
I think Rust is a competitor for C in much the same way that C++ is a competitor to C. And I suspect it will eventually gobble up more of C's market share than C++ has, because it's a much better language (no disrespect to C++ - Rust is at least 20 years newer), the linux kernel being a good example of this effect.

There probably is still a niche for a simpler language than Rust or C++, but I don't see Go fulfilling that niche. Zig seems like the strongest candidate here.
Hey, c'mon, this is advertising and must be removed
Typically you'd use instant / minute rice when backpacking.
What time is the Blood Moon total lunar eclipse on Nov. 8?
A 145 year old pasta company just published open-source 3D printing models, Arduino circuit layouts & code and a bluetooth-enabled smartphone app on its website, that too with a decent sized marketing push. All so that you can build an overengineered kitchen timer from scratch in your bedroom. This is exactly the wild future I imagined as a tech enthusiast building cheap PCs two decades ago.
I was gonna say, Serious Eats talked about this method (starting with a boil and then cutting the heat, mentioned in the article but not in the comment) so many years ago; only that they didn't call it "passive cooking". It comes with the nice benefit that you'll never have to worry about the pot boiling over except during the first minute, and, from what I've noticed, it seems to better align with the suggested cooking times on retail packaging.

I've argued with people about this and could never convince them to try it, mostly because of the "grandma did it this way" reason.
It's a pretty common technique for cooking rice noodles but it never occurred to me to try it with pasta. Thanks for posting this!
> The "proof" for structural inequality was that crossword puzzle authors are mostly white men.

If structural inequality is not to blame, how do you explain the discrepancy between the demographics of puzzle setters and the public at large, then?
Well in this case, those people might be getting fired.
Backpackers typically use parcooked instant rice. Anywhere from like 30 minutes to all day will make it soft. A lot of folks put their cold soaking food in water at the start of the day so it gets jostled around and softened all day as they hike.
Interesting. I would suppose however that hotels have facilities (like, many backdoors) that can support such work, but households not necessarily?
If there's a severance payment, I wouldn't mind that, as I was planning on leaving the week after next.
Passive cooking; great idea
Building electronics + app to help people measure some time? terrible solution
That's why I tend to avoid spaghetti these days. A smaller pasta fits in the small pot better.
Facebook is one of the most innovative software companies out there:

- Cassandra

- Hiphop VM

- Flow

- React

- GraphQL

- zstd

- PyTorch

- rocksdb

I hate Facebook to my core, but this is pretty undeniable. You gotta re-examine your priors on this one.
I have a thermos vacuum pot, and do stews and soups with it once a week where I just bring things to a boil and leave it in the insulated thing overnight.

Oxtail soup, pork spareribs, chili, biryani, hunter's stew, etc. Helps it with getting everything really nice and tender, and easier than a slowcooker.
Here's a trivial rewrite that satisfies your dogmatic requirement without any meaningful difference:

setup()

exercise(but_not_for_the_last_time)

was_blah = (state.currently == blah)

state.do_other()
something(state)

assert was_blah && state.now == blegh

In fact, this last version is worse, because if do_other() can fail if state wasn't blah, then what you'll get is the exception from that failure interrupting the test before the assert would have been reported.
This article says they are trying to bring back "dozens" of employees. 3700 were fired. Of those apparently some were fired due to clerical error. What is there to explain?

There is a bunch of mass layoffs happening in other tech companies (and across the economy), are we going to pretend they will all go smoothly?

Actually come to think of it, without this acquisition Twitter would still have been forced to let a bunch of people go anyhow regardless of who happens to be the CEO. Possibly just as many. Probably with less severance... but definitely with nicer emails...

Take a deep breath.
> Would your new remote work colleague "friends" that you met once in a company retreat fly over from their countries and take care of you?

You seem to have confused the definition of "true friendship" with "free nursemaid", and are still living in a pre-Internet age where physical proximity is a limiting factor on your friendships. I'm genuinely happy for you and your IRL friendships because everyone needs friends but ever since the Internet, physical proximity is no longer a limiting factor for what constitutes friendship. Some friends are just harder to access than others. That doesn't mean they're any less your friends. You've never had a friend move away for college or work or family?

Think about getting injured while on vacation in a foreign country. How many of your "true friends" can also just fly to said foreign country to take you to the hospital? vs if you're injured while on a work retreat three countries away from home; do you think your work friends are going to dump you at the curb and blindly hope you're still able to make commits come Monday?

The problem, really, is that the word friends is a very limiting word because there are just so many different kinds of friends. Some of them can take you to hospital, some of them can help you debug a particularly thorny piece of code, and others will watch your cat while you're away or send you food if you're hungry. If you're limiting your friendships to only those people who can take you to the hospital, you're missing out.
> There will always be those that suffer

With that attitude, there will be.

But there doesn't have to be.

> Targeting them more precisely with aid is the way to solve that, not helicopter money into massive bubble and inflation.

Not aid. Money. Straight up cold hard cash. Any thing else instead, like SNAP, housing vouchers, etc treats them like they have no agency. Yet with corporate handouts, we do no such thing. Look no further than the PPP debacle.
And there’s plenty of other companies ready to scoop up the talent. Most these laid off employees will have job offers within a month.
A man has to be full of great melancholies to accomplish what he has. This clearly has positive and negative sides. Judging from the accomplishments of great people throughout history you cannot have one without the other.

In the case of Twitter something had to be done. It was too powerful of a public forum and was mismanaged and run by extremists and exacerbated existing divisions, turning them into real rifts. If half a country feels they are being actively suppressed, demonized, and treated unfairly that is a recipe for disaster. Was Elon the guy to fix it? I dunno who else would be crazy enough to try. And his roots are in web tech so his experience may help.
One of the things that made the bootstrapping click for me was realizing there are in fact servers that DHT clients talk to once to find an entrance to the network. They all have a list (such as https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/blob/c80238d66ff3... )
Commoditized*
The claim: reduces CO₂e emissions by up to 80%*

The asterisk: water boiling phase excluded

When I boil pasta, I use full heat to get the water boiling, drop in the pasta, then let it come back up to a boil, then drop the temperature as low as possible to keep a slow boil going--about medium-low.

Guesstimating that the boil takes about as long as the time to cook the pasta, I'd say that the pasta cooking portion only takes up about 1/3 of the energy of the total (cold pot to cooked pasta).

The 80% savings only covers the pasta cooking phase, so overall, it's only saving 4/15 or 27% (roughly). If you use a lot more water, then that initial boil time further reduces your savings.
I've never done it by timer, but a quick search indicates about 90 minutes should be good. I'm always pressed for time and just let it soak while I set up camp, so its usually a little crunchy still when I'm done.
I don't think you'll ever get the same texture without heat due to lack of starch gelatinization.
I see this in lots of 'how to boil an egg' guides, where cooking time matters.

When explaining it on the internet, the best way is to dump the egg into boiling water, and drain and cool with cold tap water after X minutes, because it removes other variables.

Buuuuut, if you learn your pot and water volumes and starting water temperatures and heating rate, you can cook your egg faster by starting with cold water, and maybe even knowing when to turn off the heat once the water is hot.
AmiBlitz 3.9.8
This will not happen is the Admin of the server you are one chooses to block the server you want to move to....

Mastodon has long become a political project ever sense their very public dispute with Gab... They ceased to be a neutral project and clearly showed the limitations of the federation space when it comes to putting users in control, as that control is largely symbolic and just like centralized system unless you run your own server, and you do not run afoul of the project dev team so you do not get put on a default deny list then you are not in control of your data
> the two main political parties.

Two parties is a feature often defined by State election law. Some States like Illinois specifically mention Rs and Ds. Other States often use a method of favoring (donation limits) major parties which is determined by off-year results in a race like the Governor.

Partisanship matters because of benefits in State election laws. State legislators who are Ds and Rs know this and don't talk about it because it would reduce their club powers.
I would clean out the State election laws before applying band-aids and lotions.
This site couldn't have picked a worse example. Pointing out that end-to-end encryption could literally have let someone get away with murder seems like a good way to get previously-indifferent people to oppose it.
Innovative software! Not product. React alone is a brilliant front end framework that changed the web. PyTorch as well.

Amazon does not produce the same level of open source, or anywhere close, but the products are more varied and far better.
I'd argue that it's the unfortunate result of Ruby being at the center of the Agile and XP scene back when it first became prominent (the manifesto etc) - because that scene is also where the more cultish varieties of TDD originated.
I hope they're re-adding verification to it soon, otherwise blue checks completely lose their original purpose.
Despite not liking his childish antics I'm rooting for Musk with this Twitter acquisition, as Twitter needed to improve - it's just not looking good from these first few days
this might work for you barbarians, but for us italians this a big no-no ;)
Not even scammers want to support AmigaOS
I have the same, but it was difficult writing that essay about Dijkstra playing Blackjack in Reykjavik.
Does holding it cause UTIs? Also the article says she is taking action because she got fired, demanded a $9m payout, was denied, then filed the lawsuit. Not because she was getting so many UTIs.
I went for the reader mode, but I wonder how things end up like this. Was the css written on a desktop and not once tested on iOS?
> I still have to guess that the impact of the recent large layoffs must be dwarfed by the impact from interest rate changes

Two sides of the same coin. It'll be brutal. Bay area home prices will fall by at least 40% from 2021 highs by end of 2024.
Responsibility for what?

It's easy to say that in hindsight, hiring 40K people in 3 years was not a good move. Maybe 3 years ago it was the best move. Maybe Facebook would have been down 90% if they didn't.

And I say that as someone that thinks the shift to the metaverse is a complete idiocy.
The layoff emails on Twitter had a January separation date and severance would come later this week.
It's far better to have integration tests without unit tests than the other way around.
I'm actually laughing at you and the entire Twitter chaos on this 'migration' made up of the same techies overhyping with the media taking advantage of the current outrage pretending that Mastodon is a viable 'alternative' when it remotely isn't.

Given that it already takes much explaining how to use it, 'choosing and instance', struggling to solve it's poor discoverability since a minute amount of Twitter users out of 200M+ have tried to move themselves, it means that you are already losing.

It is not 'early days' anymore. After 6 years of 'exoduses', Mastodon doesn't cut it as an 'alternative' and especially with the exact unchallenged reasons I've stated. It is not about getting manipulated by the current hype by the media, it is always about the retention afterwards that counts. Twitter is here to stay despite the 'current outrage' that the media is riding on.

Sorry to burst your (techie) bubble as hundreds of millions of non-technical people are still using Twitter and won't delete their accounts over something worse.
You could also probably ask how many of those people used Twitter to begin with? In my own experience, most of my friends and family don't use Twitter at all, especially if they don't have a business or creative hobby to promote online
The problem is that most people do not log out of their device when they discard it. And as long as the device is linked to its iCloud device, it is forever locked and cannot ever be used again.
This has happened before. It goes down something like this:

Server admin starts harassing people for whatever reason
Users from that server start calling them out (usually with a #fediblock tag)
Any sympathetic users will block the entire instance where the abuse is happening (this is called de-federation)

Any instance is basically a private space, and there is no external authority which can influence what happens there. Instead, that server gets blocked from interacting with other servers. A server in isolation isn't much fun, so those users tend to migrate elsewhere until the offending server is empty and shuts down.

The beauty is that there is no central authority which could potentially abuse users, but there is also no central authority to protect them. So we protect each other, and let the toxic servers stew in their own juices away from everyone else.
just rip it in half

(runs!)
Surely it would have been more remarkable if a company lays off 3,700 employees and exactly zero mistakes are made. A company like Twitter is impossibly complex, and it's very likely that some number of people are legitimately important, but their importance cannot be seen from a top-down view.

I see it as a healthy sign that Twitter management are rapidly identifying and rectifying any missteps.
Old English manors definitely have passages specifically for the household help. I’m not sure if American mansions are designed with that or not.
The most reduction in CO2 could be achieved if all the people that regularly overcook the pasta would just take it out after the amount of time written on the package. (only partially /s :-) )
I don't like this, not because I hate ads, but because such computers will be tivoized, because if you had freedom with them, some people might remove the ads.
I prefer self-checkout at the grocery store because I'm able to catch pricing errors proactively in real time, not at home squinting at a cryptic receipt.

I no longer see any advantage to me using a traditional checkout.
I agree with some of the points, but some of them are a bit weird. Like: creating a section called "Rust is unpredictable", because one library panicked?

Another thing is with the out of bound reads. Sure, you can make an out of bound read, but I'm pretty sure most of the production projects use clippy that would error out on this and require you to use `v.get(0)` instead of `v[0]`.
For eggs I've seen people use something like this [0], which I guess can be helpful if you switch pots a lot. Also trickier to test if a (boiled) egg really is boiled then with pasta.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Norpro-Egg-Perfect-Timer/dp/B00004UE7...
Feel free to answer my question, what are these investors seeing that I am not? You alluded to it but I'm dense.
Yes, like when they banned people for proposing that Covid came from a lab.

Or when they banned people for stating that the vaccine doesn’t eliminate transmission.

Both largely consensus views now.

Very hospitable to alternative viewpoints indeed. Maybe in a bubble
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Most of that seems pretty standard to me. I don't know when some of that stuff got phased in, but humidity controlled compartments have been around for ages. The shift to electronic controls probably happened around 10–15 years ago.

Stateside the yellow "EnergyGuide" stickers were required by federal law beginning in 1980. These cover things like water heaters, fridges, dishwashers, and air conditioners.

FWIW my one fridge is around 538 liters (~19 cubic feet) and is rated at 420 kWh/year ($50/yr at $0.12/kWh). Of course I'm not sure how the testing methodology compares to that of Oz.
Just imagining the U.S. trying to send supply planes as a Berlin airlift 2. Also Elon Musk making empty social media boasts to send humanitarian aid via SpaceX suborbital rocket deliveries. As with the Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian Black Sea blockade boats, would be interesting to see how TW and external forces try to workaround a blockade.

> 750k "illegally" working on TW without PRC consent, some directly with the ROC government to undermine PRC interests (technically spies).

This doesn't make any sense. If they are collaborating with the ROC government, why would they want to be sent back to the mainland? Are you saying the PRC would demand them back as spies? Strange sticking point to bring up during a blockade, which is tantamount to wartime. Feels like there would be bigger fish to fry at that point.

Repatriating 750k people would be a bureaucratic paperwork nightmare, let alone a logistical one, and it is not a feat that either government would take seriously.

At most the PRC would demand it and the ROC might humor them as an attempted concession/negotiating move but no way would they attempt to send hundreds of thousands of people in a single year, let alone at once.
> Included in the possible models are low-cost PCs available via subscriptions, with advertising helping to offset some of the costs. (Also mentioned in the job are direct-to-cloud devices.)

Does direct-to-cloud mean something like ChromeOS? That could be interesting
just wait until he hears about vending machines.
I was asking about the comparison of an existing radio (electronic, not electromechanical like a fan) to a brand new device.
This article is poorly/incompletely reasoned.

Suppose your high, low and mid indexes are as wide as a pointer on your machine: 32 or 64 bits. Unsigned.

Suppose you're binary searching or merge sorting a structure that fits entirely into memory.

The only way (low + high)/2 will overflow is if the object being subdivided fills the entire address space, and is an array of individual bytes. Or else is a sparsely populated, virtual structure.

If the space contains distinct objects from [0] to [high-1], and they are more than a byte wide, this is a non-issue. If the objects are more than two bytes wide, you can use signed integers.

Also, you're never going to manipulate objects that fill the whole address space. On 32 bits, some applications came close. On 64 bits, people are using the top 16 bits of a pointer for a tag.
Add zoom meetings and dogs to the open floor plan, and the office is a terrible place to get anything done.
Just as with other similar software licenses, this one is neither free nor open source, so nobody should ever use it for anything.
Oh man. Just “published” a Masto-Toot. The kids are not happy.
I agree that it's probably ergodic, but to show every distribution will definitely come about (approximately) you'll need a slightly stronger property than just ergodicity. Ergodicity guarantees it is almost always the case, but if you want it to always be the case you'll need it to be uniquely ergodic.

Since irrational rotations are uniquely ergodic I reckon this system will also be, but I think the proof won't be trivial.