skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2016 - While working as an engineer at Google, I decided to start a free coding bootcamp on the side. I believed I could teach anyone how to become a software engineer so I made a public post asking if anyone is interested in learning how to code and about 30 people showed up at my house. While I was at work in Mountain View, 30 people strangers used my house as a coding bootcamp.

2017 - 30 students were hard to manage and students started leaving. It bothered me, so I quit my job at Google to focus on this full time. I reached out to the students who left to see what happened and one of the reasons was money. So for the students who are struggling financially, I started giving them 2k / mo stipend.

2018 - Paying 9 students 2k / month used up all of my savings so I had to look for a new job. Also started a non-profit to write off all my payments as donations. This helped alot because to keep paying the students I took out my 401k savings and the donations helped offset the tax penalty.

2019 - Students got jobs. Realized that I want to train students to become good solid engineers that I want to work with instead of gamifying the interview process. Instead of padding resume and LeetCode, our curriculum focuses on building good products with good tests and maintainable code.

2020 - Ran into financial trouble, had to let all the students go and gave them a 3 month notice.

Now I'm primarily lurking on the chatroom of our final product, helping and teaching students who are following my curriculum.

https://c0d3.com

Next year I will get more RSUs and with that money I plan to kickoff a free code house, a safe environment for students to learn (much like 42) with free food and housing.
I’d be interested to read more about this. Any sources you’d recommend?
You have food though right? 3,000 children in India die every day from poor diet related illness. I'm sure they would prioritize food over internet.

https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-die-due-to-hunger-in-I...
Quantum mechanics is deterministic in most interpretations except Copenhagen, which is losing favor.
Just visited mathis.art. My apologies for the bluntness but the general impression it gives off is a project by an eco-centric person making bold claims about things. You speak a great sense of pragmatism but I don’t see anything pragmatic about the campaign, both in your HN post and on the website. Also I don’t see anything mathematical or remotely art.

Please don’t get me wrong. What you are doing sounds interesting. Here is just my 2c and I hope you it find useful. Looking forwards to seeing your progress. You are in my watch list now =)
> Maybe the mass of the fungus can be grown from CO2 from respiration.

That's not a thing. Fixing carbon to a usable form [0] using "general biological energy source" to the carbon pool is extremely difficult (there are only four and a half, counting c3 vs c4 as a half, pathways known) and requires complex machinery to achieve.

[0] assimilating carbon dioxide in general is not difficult, even humans do it but it does not enter the general carbon pool and is effectively only transiently converted out of CO2, and net does not contribute to biomass.
New offshore wind will soon change the renewable electricity production landscape.

I recommend watching the two NREL videos on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58EYcYbRKqk

NREL Overview of Floating Offshore Wind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdKvmwsFGPE

NREL Grand Challenges in the Science of Wind Energy

As for comparing with nuclear for the past two years (2018 2019) capacity factor of nuclear power in France has been around 70% mainly due to maintenance according to RTE (1)

For reference best UK offshore wind farm had 55.3% capacity factor in 2019 and UK offshore wind average capacity factor was 40.6% in 2019 (2)

(1) https://media.rte-france.com/bilan-electrique-2019-2/ 379.5 Twh produced, 63.1 GW installed, 68.7% capacity factor

(2) https://energynumbers.info/uk-offshore-wind-capacity-factors

Not far from so-called "baseload".
Currently looking for 3D visualizers to turn complex shapes into others. Grassroots at the moment, so would need volunteers.
Yes yes and everyone has seen a back end dev that thinks they are gods gift but really over engineers everything to trash and doesn't understand the front end nearly as well as they claim.

Back end shit talkers are the worst kind of gatekeepers because you think the problem is only on one end of the stack and you don't look ast yourselves or your back end colleagues enough because just as many are dumbass charlatans

This is about non devs, not front end devs that you ddont like you baby. Let's all pick apart the back end tech that you missed anddd call you a retard!
Cheddar is a name of a process as well as a location.
This is great news I think. Being a smaller org I hope Scribd innovates on the product more and doesn’t take it for granted. Much better owner-product fit here.
California imports a lot of electricity (18% of consumption at this moment) so we can be affected by what's going on in nearby states (particularly in the Pacific NW where we draw a lot of hydropower from).

Installed generating capacity is probably down from 2006 too. Electricity usage is flat or declining and old coal power stations have been phased out in CA.
all things in moderation, including moderation.
I really like the Scribd service and is an subscriber. Lots of good books there, both audio and regular ebooks. There is also lots of documents which I find useful, especially for more obscure stuff.
The judge hasn't allowed the settlement yet, and it is not clear that he will allow it. He rejected the original $550 million

https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-wont-sign-off-on-550m-f...

> “The Illinois Legislature said this is meant to be an expensive violation,” U.S. District Judge James Donato said during a preliminary settlement approval hearing held via video Thursday.

> The Illinois statute carries civil penalties of $1,000 for each negligent violation and $5,000 for each knowing violation. With a class of millions of Facebook users who had photos of themselves uploaded in Illinois, damages could have reached tens of billions of dollars.

> Donato demanded lawyers for Facebook and the plaintiff class explain why the higher damages amount of $5,000 per violation was taken off the table.

> Last year, Facebook paid a $5 billion fine to the Federal Trade Commission to settle claims that it violated a 2012 FTC order by allegedly deceiving users about their ability to control private information. Donato said that settlement could provide adequate evidence to support a push for higher damages.

> “It looks to me that what Facebook did to violate the BIPA may also have been a violation of that prior FTC consent decree, in which case you have a pretty good argument that this is an intentional or reckless violation of BIPA that would warrant $5,000,” Donato said.
Ask HN: Is there a browser extension for opening all links on HN in new tabs?
By this I mean: add an option to the context menu of the browser that says "open all links on this HN page".

And as a result of that, 25 tabs get opened, that being all the links on the page.

That's my use case: I want to open up all the links, at the same time, each in their own tab, and I can just CTRL+TAB through them as I please.

I'm just asking here on the off-chance that it exists but I somehow could not find it. If it doesn't exist yet, I may well have to write it myself, which I frankly hope doesn't take too much effort. Let's hope there's some decent boilerplate for this, that can be easily found.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Acid test is basically baby's first step. JavaScript api coverage, canvas, wasm, webgl, and all the other stuff is becoming table stakes, too.

A 2005-level browser is probably tractable. It gets much harder from there.
The web never forgets :-)
I remember when SlideShare was acquired by LinkedIn. I had a logged-in linkedin cookie in my browser, and next thing I knew, there was a public slideshare profile page online with my full name and profile picture, that I never asked for, just from browsing a shared slide. Took a few rounds of angry emails to linkedin/microsoft to get that deleted.
Thank you for the feedback. The post I made here is the focus for now. This was the site as it was a few years ago when I was experimenting with the idea and the question “Should an artist be egotistical?” After all, is such a site about exploring one’s self? Regardless, the site is now about how we all can think moving forward, so it is no longer an individual expression of myself.

I am currently working on a complete redesign as we speak. The only reason I even mentioned it here was the timeliness of the General Post. The site as it is needs to at least have the information I posted here, which it does not. Please consider it Under Construction. It currently is not related to the campaign at all.

Also, a thought experiment for you to ponder: Must art leave an artifact? Who made that restriction? If an artifact and a conversation have the same effects on the world, is one more artful than the other? Is the creator/instigator of a response more worthy when there is a tangible thing?

These sorts of questions are not what “Think OMNI” is about, though. Think OMNI is about eating, raising a family, engaging with neighbors. Pondering art is for after Breathing Room has been developed.
And in particular it's about the amount of virgin forest being cut down in places like Brazil to satisfy the global export market for beef cattle.
> But what if you didn't have to implement all of them?

In that case the browser would fail to render or even load some websites, which would convey the idea that the browser was a poor piece of software.
> That’s true, but only local and short lived and very local effect.

And critically for my argument, photosynthesis works (less efficiently) even when this effect is absent. It’s not a mystery ingredient that makes the whole thing work.
There's a fair amount of information scattered around about how parts of our GUI toolkit work, but there may be a blog post or two about that in the future. In general though it's not a particularly novel design on the toolkit end - the basics are all pretty similar to others. We just tend to put a lot of effort into making things work well and work fast.
> if it pays better
That's just trying to compare skilled people to unskilled labour workers. That's not how it works (unless you count counter-productive enterprise setups).

If you were to make such a comparison you'd have to take all of the non-technical parameters in to account:

- communication

- culture

- values

- productivity

- intrinsic motivation

- team fit

Those would pretty much remove most of the 'canned workers' people seem to point to from the conversation, as well as most of the enterprise 'consultants' and the like (i.e. Deloitte)

If you want to include them, you would have to set the bar much lower, but then you also should make sure that the provisioning that government program for visas explicitly mentions that. At the same time, the 'interview process' is just bad as far as I've heard and experienced. 90% of the people you interact with and the activities you attend have nothing to do with the actual work or work context. At the same time, those kids that did some school work and now think they instantly get a job that happens to use the same words in their postings as the words they used to label their classes simply have a disconnect between theory and reality. But that's more of a general American thing than purely college-to-job flows being bad.
What's your point exactly? Umlauts as we know them have been used for a few hundred years (hard to pin-point, because öäü evolved in "casual" hand-writing, not printing or books) before computing came along, so were clearly how the language worked before. The motive force for using AE and SS in computing was clearly that computers commonly didn't support it, not because people thought suddenly writing like this again a couple hundred years later would be fun.
I'm actually concerned that CSS or any other control over styling that is foisted upon the client is where the slippery slope begins. Once you add styling, the photoshop driven developers arrive and demand pixel perfection, then the never ending demands of more bloat and complexity follow.

I used to look at Gopher (and more recently Gemini) as too stunted to be useful, but perhaps they are right to nip these things in the bud.
This seems in line with both my personal experience and the "systems vs goals" approach advocated by Scott Adams.

Build systems into your life that lead to desired outcomes naturally. Don't put yourself into situations that are likely to lead to bad outcomes.

The easiest way to get results is to live a life that gives you the desired results by default.
It makes a ton of sense if you look at it from the perspective of what leadership has been seeing: All this effort on maintaining their own browser engine, met with continued decline and further irrelevancy. Despite best efforts, a likely trend towards disaster.

In the face of that, it would be reasonable to think that the cost is nowhere near worth the effort, compared to just adopting Chromium.

I think it'd be very easy for them to think that their goals for the modern web are not intrinsically tied to having their own, completely separate software.
You think Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari (the main evergreen browsers) have bugs that have been open for years and are as critical as considering an element's width to include its border and padding? This misinterpretation of the CSS specification was something that essentially all front-end developers had to work around for 10+ years!
Given it is class action suit, I would say the lawyers make most of the money and the people who have the standing to sue will get nowhere close to $1,000 .
In fact since the Pythagoreans [1] where the monad comes first and after the dyad and after the numbers and so on. It also was the term for unicellular organism before this was coined.

Monadic was an adjective used in logic before the 20th century, using the noun dervied by the greek root monas which gave monad and monadic (and the same with dyad, dyadic).

If I take for right what is on the french [2] and english pages [3] of wikipedia about the terminology history of the monad words its usages seems to date to around the 70 when Saunders Mac Lane named it in reference to the philosophical term.

I feels some times people tend to forget how interconnected is and was mathematics and philosophy and how term from philosophy were used in a mathematical context based on their philosophical definition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(philosophy)

[2] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monade_(th%C3%A9orie_des_cat%C...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(category_theory)#Termin...
havent there already been countryhams raised on acorns in the usa? why so much clamor about the spanish ones? if I recall, people have been doing this on the east coast since the colonial era
> These aren't things where you can just scan the CSS of the top websites to find out if they're being used.

I guess I was drawing a distinction between a certain subset of functionality that's definitely being used constantly everywhere, like the core box model, vs new features that have gotten layered-on over time and specifically designed not to interfere with or change what came before. For example, the CSS Grid standard has zero effect on any part of page layout unless it is explicitly invoked with "display: grid". These hard barriers were drawn to maintain backwards-compatibility, but they could be leveraged to carve out pieces of functionality to not support, or at least defer support for.

> Building a browser engine from scratch is imho more doable now than it's ever been before

I agree. And I would actually add Rust as a factor for that. Don't forget, Rust was literally purpose-built for building a web browser. With its focus on memory safety and safe concurrency, I'd bet it will act as a very real force-multiplier when it comes to a project like this. Devs will spend that much less time chasing down race conditions and memory errors, while at the same time getting something highly parallel and performant.
The nudge is unavoidable. Every store in the world has to choose what people see when they first walk in, and what goes in the back corner.

Besides, how does your proposal not amount to a nudge?
Aha! I have learned something today! Although, in this case, I'm pretty sure they meant education, unless this is some sort of very subtle metaphor. But yeah, spellcheck would not know that, you're right.
i'd be really curious to see a follow-up on this in a year - will this effect continue, or is it only occuring because the meat dishes being so far away is unexpected, and once people get used to the location of the meat dishes they'll skip to them.
My take in this is that a company that takes pride in their work and really has the ability to produce great products would develop their own flavor rather than calling it "Iberian ham". There is almost always something nefarious behind copying regional products.

To give an example, I've bought plenty of "feta style" cheese over the years and not a single one was as good as real Greek feta. I wouldn't mind buying "feta" by Arla if they produced the same quality, but they don't. There are also sometimes other things to consider, e.g. the Iberian porco preto is free-ranging, and I also prefer it because of that. (Note that many "porco preto" products only contain some percentage, you need to make sure it's 100% porco preto.)

Don't get me wrong, I agree that there should be no reason they couldn't produce great ham in Texas. But if they have a good product they don't need to copy something from Europe.
Since you are ditching compatibility here, you can also ditch the browser engine.
I don't identify myself as a social entrepreneur but we built Cloudron around 2014 for personal reasons. When Google Reader shut down, we realized the importance of self-hosting and data ownership. Initially, we started writing our own apps but mid-way recognized that there is already a plethora of self-hostable (especially opensource) software out there. It's just that those apps are really hard to deploy. So, we now make a smart server platform that you can install on any cloud server or home server and you can easily install and maintain those apps.

Over time, we had to make many decisions around outside investment, salaries and target audience. We make choices based on whether it has social impact and whether our day to day work solves problems that we personally care about and for other privacy minded people like us. For example, we did not pursue outside investment (despite offers) and decided to retain 100% ownership of the company. We felt taking funding will make us focus on large enterprises and the product will take a different direction (k8s anyone?), quite far from any social impact. Investors, who we met, seemed to care more about 100x growth than our cause and some even laughed at the idea - "who wants to selfhost email?".

Same for salaries, we took a heavy pay cut for the initial 2-3 years just to to get product going along (and so many pivots). What kept us going is that we felt there is a social aspect to the product and if we don't do this nobody will. With a bit of luck, today we are profitable and can pay ourselves decent salary now (fwiw, I am based in bay area).

Just wanted to share our story, I don't know if it's relevant to what you are asking :) Ultimately, we want normal people and businesses to self-host and have complete control over their data (I wish we had the resources to make a hardware appliance that sits alongside the router). I understand I am not curing cancer or solving world hunger, but I want to do my bit moving the privacy needle :) !
Phased arrays aren't magic. The directivity of the beam scales logarithmically with array size / element count. The limitations are such that you should think of it as being able to send Nebraska one signal while you send Kansas a different one. You can't get much more specific than that.

Elon has been very explicit about starlink never being competitive vs telcos in urban areas.

And independent people have done the math too. The system geometry maxes out at less than a single fiber: http://www.mit.edu/~portillo/files/Comparison-LEO-IAC-2018-s...
This is the one I personally have been waiting for. Thanks!

On the power distribution did you notice any bypassing? There are a number of ways to do it now. I have no idea how they did it, if at all, in the 70s.

Also, did you notice any trim or anything on the clock driver so they could match phase of clock and not clock?
ISTR there was a gesture to do this in Galeon, but tabbed browsing has gone downhill since then.
> Any kind of scientific (and legal) development in other means of helping in this matter will be beneficial for future people who will need to suffer less after prolonged psychological stress and/or trauma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equanimity

"The virtue and value of equanimity is extolled and advocated by a number of major religions and ancient philosophies." (Notably, the article does have in-depth sections on Eastern philosophies such as Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as Western thought including Stoicism and Epicureanism.)
Most I can tell your numbers are just entirely made up, I've never heard of any serious study ever estimating global green house gas emissions from agriculture under 10%.

https://www.c2es.org/content/international-emissions/

>Globally, the primary sources of greenhouse gas emissions are electricity and heat (31%), agriculture (11%), transportation (15%), forestry (6%) and manufacturing (12%). Energy production of all types accounts for 72 percent of all emissions.
Is this leverage intentional or a side effect?
Given the recent layoffs at Mozilla the future of Rust seems bleak
May I ask how well you compare with Visual Studio + Visual Assist for Unreal Engine 4 projects on Windows ?

This is not just a performance question.

I've gotten beyond tired of the thousands of paper cuts with the current combo and would love to find a better solution on Windows, even if it is paid.

thanks.

Edit: Just saw it's free to try. going to download it and try out
Today I learned that the British meter is 181 centimeters.
Opera tried that approach for years and failed to make any sort of meaningful impact
> "remote transition probably makes these logistics harder"

I'm not sure if you are stating that as a reason for or against summarily kicking one out on the first misunderstanding?

Yes, it's harder to communicate in a remote setting and easier to cross wires and miss expectations. That's why you need to exercise more compassion and communicate more clearly. Sending a deluge of emails before the program start is not clear communication, and kicking someone out at the first miss-step is not compassionate.
But methane is also short lived in the atmosphere. I worry battling methane and co2 at the same time is dividing the efforts.
"Degoogle" eventually led me to GrapheneOS.org
My favorite TD was RoboDefense on Android. Things I liked about it: first 10 levels free, under $5 to unlock the rest. Well designed leveling: you are always just this close to either unlocking the next upgrade or tower or so close to achievements like not letting a single baddie through. I found myself wanting to get 30s in at stop lights.
Ask HN: How can GPT-3 help humanity fight Covid-19?
After watching all those amazing videos of GPT-3 I couldn't stop wondering if it can help in any way with covid-19!
I can relate to your experience on switching to plant-based diet.
> Since OP missed the first day,

OP was present on the first day, they just missed one 7:15am meeting...
SlideShare is a thing of beauty: https://twitter.com/GoodSlides
handle != control