skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You see this recently with Wikipedia. Google's widgets have been reducing traffic to Wikipedia pretty dramatically. Enough so that Wikipedia is now pushing back with a product that the Googles of the world will have to pay for.

Do you have a link of that product/service from Wikipedia?
I loved Henry Huggins and me and my neighborhood friends attempted so many of his antics: we built forts, we tried dowsing for water, and hunting for nightcrawler worms to earn money.

I read all of them to my young boys; they’re a throwback to a simpler time, when most kids spent their days outside, dirty, playing with their friends. I’ve tried my best to recreate Klikitat Street for them because, in my opinion, it’s the ideal way to grow up.
If you think this is a good hiring method, please do it so I can avoid your company. I specifically hate games like Factorio because they remind me of tech busywork, with very little intelligence or creative thought required. If you want creative thinkers, try another method.
I had a task at work today where I had to go to pen and paper first in order to get myself moving forward on it. Not exactly the point of the OP, but it was a different kind of enabling factor.

I had a web site update to do that involved a handful of different pages, with related forms and emails and so on. I had an email chain of modifications from the requestors. I was putting it off for a couple days because there were too many places to start and I needed to straighten things out in my head.

So I printed the email chain, and then with my favorite pen (Sharpie Pen) split the emails into parts and drew little blocks for each page and added bullet lists of steps to be done. Once I scribbled things out like this, I was then able to get into the editor and make the changes (Divi Builder on WordPress). And most importantly, check things off as I went along! Endorphin hits!

As I was making the content and layout adjustments, I got frustrated with the builder and clicking and dragging to change each little bit and wished for a text-mode way of making these adjustments, something above the level of HTML and CSS but below the GUI approach. So at this stage I wanted to go back to typing.

To finish up I would get into OneNote and write up the steps I did, including screen clips and links and file paths, then I will have something to search for next time I do this. So for me several forms of note taking are useful at different stages of the process. Often I will do this all in OneNote, but today I needed the physical stuff to get going!
I worked at Google, albeit not in mother ship (MTV) when Google+ was everything, those were some crazy times!! I recall when G+ numbers were so embarrassing that dashboards (built using jigsaw) were scrubbed clean and teams were mandated to report usage numbers in terms of percentages instead of active users. Apparently "25% growth QonQ" sounds better than "we added 2500 users"
Ask HN: Adding a non-Canadian founder to Canadian Inc
So we have a Canadian Inc. and we are looking to bring a team member in as a co-founder (20% equity).

What are our options?

1. We can ask them to move to Canada; become an employee and we issue them stock options

2. We create a Delaware corp and make Canadian corp a subsidy

3. We shutdown Canadian corp and just move everything to Delaware corp (using Stripe Atlas?)?

4. We ask our friends on HN for advice (BINGO!!!!)
Conway's Game of Life TUI GUI
There is no single cohesive political consensus across Hacker News (and really, not across any large social media platform, despite rumors to the contrary.) If there were, political threads here wouldn't turn into dumpster fires so often.

What we have is multiple, violently overlapping political magisteria, with the consensus of any particular thread depending entirely on which hemisphere is awake at the moment, who posts first (and thus guides the thread in a particular direction,) and whose posse downvotes the opposition the hardest.
one can be addicted to drugs, even ones without severe physical dependency
It’s quite rude for you to say my home is not remarkable or worth preserving. You’ve never even seen it. You know nothing of my tightknit, diverse community which cares about things of more importance
than ipos and user engagement.

“Droid housing” is san francisco slang for the soulless eyesore boxes containing cramped, slapshodnfaux “lofts”, usually painted a bluish slate grey or salmon pink on the outside, entirely devoid of character or quality.

Thankfully San Francisco’s direct democracy works well to keep this city small. There are many soulless sprawling cities which are seismically stable, devoid of character, flat and inhabited by people who don’t care enough to resist.
Stallman wrote "the most plausible scenario is she presented herself to [Minsky] as entirely willing."

That's very different from saying she was entirely willing. Taking words out of context to change what someone said is bad, right? Perhaps you should be outraged at Vice.
No, it's not a US thing. Cheddar melts fine, but the harder and more mature the cheese, the more the solids and oils will tend to separate and not be as super smoothly emulsified if you melt it onto noodles on its own. The point of a roux (traditional, French cheese sauces), sodium citrate (modern), or using processed cheese (American boxes, what Americans are thinking of texture-wise when they think of mac & cheese) is all to get the cheese to be very creamily emulsified. Processed cheese is just curd dregs + emulsifiers. Just melting cheese is fine but its not the same effect.
A couple of hours still substantially reduces your demand during peak rate hours.

(Besides, I grew up in Arizona, and was comfortable up to 78 or so.)
I did mention that a one hour tech talk. I don't think you should willie nilly hire anyone just because they are a smooth talker.

Quick example, Hiring a mobile developer: You talk with them, if Android, ask how Kotlin interfaces with the JVM and what they think (good or bad) about type erasure. iOS? Ask/talk a bit about memory management/ARC. Anyone that has experience with these languages/os (unless hiring for very junior position) should have some thoughts and opinions about it. They may say something you don't agree with (ARC is crap because X or Y) but they will know what they are talking about. You can also dig in to know if it is something they read online (ARC is automated reference counting, meaning each 'allocation' increases a ref counter. Ok, that is good, so, why use `autorelease` or `release` and when to use each? etc etc kind of questions)

You can do the same with backend (framework vs libraries) or frontend (react + state libraries) or whatnot, but if in an one hour tech chat with someone, you can't understand if they actually know they can at least code similar to giving them a fizzbuzz or whatnot, it says more about the interviewer than the person being interviewed.
Given this quote: "It's a stunning assertion, offered with little evidence, by the man who led the U.S. government's public health agency from the time the virus was first detected in Wuhan through the entirety of the Trump administration's response."

Why carry this headline with no evidence? It seems like this would just increase tensions and making getting to the cause even more difficult.
I'm no fan of RMS, but it does seem cruel to oust him for just one of his (innumerable) faux pas.
There should be laws the require the use of open distributed extensible protocols.

That means the government comes up with a way for the parties to collaborate and just enforces that. So the actual implementation is open to competition.

Things like communication protocols or extensible APIs or schemas for exchanging APIs.
Your argument seems to be that people are coerced into working at all. Not that they are coerced into working for Amazon.

If your position is that no job should be unpleasant, I can agree with you.

Making unsupportable claims about people being ‘coerced’ into working for Amazon really has little do with this.
It's hilarious that this is actually happening.
I should add - for men with poor count and/or quality there is a product called ICSI which involves the IVF clinic inspecting sperm cells and finding “the best” one and injecting it into the ovum.

To me it’s spectacular how involved we can be in the natural selection process due to our brains evolving so much. I can’t wait to see how we further this.
Blender has significant investment because users pay developers for its maintenance, yes.
>There are some folks that I have to admit, probably did best by not accepting us.

Yeah, I hear that. I remember interviewing someone who was _good_, but not at this narrow thing that we were hiring for. She seemed SO hopeful that we would give her an offer, I wanted to tell her directly "this job is going to waste 6 mo of your life and offer you nothing I return"
What casualties?
It's not clear batteries will do the same. While there's been effort to make batteries less reliant on scarce natural resources and mining, there's no guarantee we really get there. If we don't, price can be expected to go up, not down, with scale.

I would bet on price going down slightly with scale, but one can't really tell now what will happen: it might go up a lot, it might go down a lot, or it might stay flat.
Cities are ran by politicians that in most cases are too incompetent to do anything better with their lives. When incompetent leaders make decisions, the incompetence is flowing to most, if not everything they do, including this kind of projects. There is no immediate fix for this situation, unless the decision would be made by some kind of city manager or board of experts that are recruited based on competence and held accountable for the results (up to prison, if needed). The old story with "politicians pay with their mandate, they will not be reelected if they fail" is a story for toddlers, that is not a punishment on par with the damages they make, will the Stockholm mayor pay back 100 million dollars?
As the other comment says, I've never seen CGNAT in the US. I'm sure it's deployed in some cases, but I've never had to deal with it.

I'm confused about it though. For some applications and games you need to connect peer-to-peer for them to work correctly. How is it possible to connect to a peer with some random port open (e.g. 48295)? It doesn't seem like the ISP could know that the request was aimed at you, if something like UPnP isn't being used. Or does CGNAT simply disable all incoming connections, breaking p2p applications entirely?
Look at the solution you get for Alaska in https://model.energy/

It's a combination of solar, wind, and hydrogen (with a little battery storage).
This is more or less what post-combustion capture carbon-capture-and-storage plants do, with the minor detail that they do the actual combustion above ground instead of below ground. But the inputs and outputs are as you describe: oxygen from the air, fossil fuels from underground, CO₂ outputs injected back underground, heat outputs sent to somewhere unspecified, typically the air.

CCS power stations are substantially more expensive than the usual kind of fossil-fuel power station, and they are generally considered to be economically uncompetitive.

It's probably better to do the actual combustion aboveground in many cases—although it makes your power plants easier to blow up with bombs, it also makes them enormously easier to build and maintain, and much less dangerous to work in when nobody is trying to blow them up.
AWS Amplify. Free for a year, doesn’t even need to be static.
"A head shop is a retail outlet specializing in paraphernalia used for consumption of cannabis and tobacco and items related to cannabis culture and related countercultures."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_shop
That doesn't negate the truth conveyed by the quote... government is often horribly inefficient and many people don't want the so-called "help" the government forces upon those people.

I certainly know I could manage my retirement funds more efficiently than the government. I dislike all the "help" I see government doing when it often produces worse results than anarchy.
For work notes, I index by topic - not too difficult, those don't grow all that fast and finding a few minutes here and there to update the index is not hard. Page numbers increase monotonically across volumes, so cross-volume references by page number work okay; each volume's index covers only its own topics, but that hasn't been a problem so far since needing to refer across volumes is rare except around when one ends and another starts.

For personal notes, I keep those in the same series of volumes as my diary, which I have not yet indexed. I have a very general system of colored tape flags for stuff like "essay ideas", "story ideas", etc., but nothing more specific than that.

I began this diary in 2018; it's now around 1150 pages and about to enter volume 7, and the lack of detailed indexing is beginning to be a problem. For longer-running works, it is not rare to have substantive notes across three or four volumes.

I've started looking for a workable method of maintaining an index by hand across so large a body of content, but haven't found anything that looks good so far - in particular, I don't yet know how to overcome the issue that a handwritten index can't feasibly be reordered to alphabetize or for any other reason. I'd dearly
love to hear whatever experience-based suggestions anyone might care to make here!
So if I understand right, for the real-time version rather than querying the NeRF to compute the frame pixels on the fly, they instead use the NeRF to pre-generate 3D Voxel data representing the scene which can then be rendered in real time using more traditional voxel rendering?
Here’a a thought: most companies don’t actually want to serve a ton of extra pages. For example, airlines just want to fly passengers. They don’t care who puts those butts in seats and they would fully acknowledge that they aren’t able to deliver a better flight search than Google can. I mean, sure, some small team of web developers at every airline is pissed, but the CEO needs butts in seats to keep the pilot and service unions off her back. Her own web dev team is the least of her problems.
> if this is relevant to you, I'd be happy to share this solution with you

Yes, please!
From WP7 to WP8 was WinCE kernel and single core to WinNT kernel and multicore. Maybe the WP7 devices could do it, but not with good performance. That one just wasn't going to happen.

Most of the WP8 devices were able to run WM 10, but the experience was really poor on the low memory devices, so those didn't get a release outside of the public insider builds. There was one or two devices that didn't get upgrades for some reason, other than those and the low memory devices upgrading to 10 was available, but it took a long time for them to get around to fixing things; it actually got a lot better in the release after they officially gave up. Possibly if there was a focus on mobile during development of 10, they could have made the first release good, and maybe even got it to work OK on low memory devices; Edge was still going to be trash though.

All of that said, a bigger problem was dumping goodwill of developers. WP7, WP8, and WM10 all had new frameworks for apps that were needed for new functionality and didn't work with prior Microsoft OSes; calling the WM10 one 'Universal' was darkly humorous.
> If we held a war, all of these fancy planes would be gone in the first week. So would all the aircraft carriers, a good number of ships, and likely all of the stealth bombers too.

Saying this does not make it true. Warfare is far more complex than you're making it out to be. Care to back up this statement with an explanation?
I tease my wife every time she is making Annie's that it's literally simpler to make my own Mac and cheese recipe, which she absolutely loves. Boil the noodles in milk, add seasoning, stir in cheese. Still, we always have Annie's on hand. Shrug.
NSFN are also a great registrar for those who host elsewhere. I found them way back when GoDaddy was in the news for pulling domains at News Corp's behest when I decided I wanted a registrar that wouldn't do that :)

https://mashable.com/2007/01/25/myspace-godaddy/
One thing about Euler is that for much of his life[1] he was basically able to publish whatever he liked without worrying about how many pages it would be and suchlike. He would often explain what things he thought of or tried and how he came to his answer. Compare this to Gauss who didn’t have this ability and kept his papers mostly limited to the definitions, propositions and proofs, although this could have been a difference in personality too.

[1] I’m using Erdős’ definition of life here being the time when one is awake and capable of doing mathematics.
I’ll second the use of GitLab pages - free hosting, free letsencrypt cert, only pay for your domain, very easy setup.

Here’s my setup with Zola: https://seanharrison.org/postgrails/20200523-got-zola/

A couple notes about setting up DNS since the gitlab instructions weren’t 100% clear to me: https://seanharrison.org/postgrails/20200720-gitlab-pages-dn...
Batch Normalization Fusion
The magic of garbage collection revealed:

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-gar...
> They’re also not entitled to that. In a democracy the many decide.

We did decide, and continue to do so in supervisor meetings and in the ballot box. You might want to read up on federalism.
Cost of a new nuclear powerplant: $10,000/kW

Cost of a simple cycle gas turbine powerplant: $400/kW (combined cycle, $1000/kW)

Go ahead and back up those renewables. It's still less expensive than installing nuclear, even if the turbines burn renewable-derived hydrogen.
How?

Any one of us would be tossed out of our job for far, far less. People here act as if Richard Stallman has been tortured, humiliated, tarred and feathered and sent to the stocks, but the truth is he's been gently mollycoddled and protected from the consequences of his behavior for decades and never even suffered more than minor inconvenience.

I had a post show up on my Twitter feed where someone claimed Stallman licked a colleague of theirs on the arm. Even passing out the "pleasure cards" people here think are so quirky would get anyone here fired. Stallman apparently gets away with touching and licking women at will.
I only allow notifications from people I truly love and absolutely nothing else. If I don't remember to check something it's because it doesn't bring me joy, it's because I don't care about it. I would never want to give anyone or anything the power to interrupt me except for those who value my time nearly as much as I value it myself. It's one of the most baffling things about today's world that people will accept, or even seek such interruption.

I honestly believe the underlying concept here is slightly immoral, moreso because it's an attempt to SAASify something that cleary doesn't need a server, and steal your info while they're at it. Hmmm, now that I've written it out like that I guess I'll bump it up to clearly immoral.
KDE: On the Reappointment of RMS as a Director of the Free Software Foundation
> Is there a smartphone that's usable as a daily driver, lets me have root and provides long term updates?

A touchscreen notebook with a GSM/LTE modem and a decent microphone running Linux is the closest you can get today as far as I know
If you are in Canada, you can go to Dollarama and get sketch notebook with ring binding for $4, and a gel pen. No lines easy to flip pages and a smooth pen. Perfection.
If you are using load factor around %75, it means you’ll do 3 shifts at most. On average it is less than it as you are ordering your map on each removal and only case you’ll do backshifts when your items are “not ordered according to hash function”.

Tombstones are silly, you do add/remove %75 of your map capacity, now you have to rehash your map even your map is empty. I can’t think a single scenario that tombstones can perform better. It causes much more probing and much more cache misses than backshift deletion.
Firebase is stupid easy to host static sites on.
I think it's like 2-4 cli commands.

Only downside: it's Google.
The part that really matters is that you can empathize with the work that is being done. The more distance you have between you and actually ever doing that kind of task, the less that empathy is. It’s the same as with customers — if you never do the user studies, you will not understand even if you once did.
This seems like a reference to the last election
Two more, by authors coincidentally with the same initials:

Thinking in an Emergency (2012) by Elaine Scarry -- She argues for the importance of planning and procedure. Examples include the Swiss shelter system (civil defense), CPR training, and compacts in rural Canada to deal with grain silo fires. She suggests that careful thought before the emergency is vital for "civilization", or at lest for democratic governance. As a converse, the country is destabilized when an opportunist leader comes along, cowboy-style, and says, "This is a crisis, and I'm going to shoot from the hip and fix it". Hence it's both a pragmatic study and a lucid work of political philosophy.

Command and Control (2014) by Eric Schlosser -- This is more of an anti-study: not what to do in an emergency, but the inevitable flaws in complex systems, the limited efficacy of administration, and the inherent failings of human effort. Sort of the mirror-book to Scarry's, but also utterly fascinating. It's a history of disasters of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, and in an effort as huge as that, the disasters certainly exist at scale. (Interestingly, Scarry's book centers on the importance of governance in a nuclear state, or perhaps that democratic governance is not compatible with being a nuclear power.)
Well, sure, but every suggestion is going to take some time if you've never done it before. It's not like it's an obscure skill that you'll never use, it's pretty handy to know.
Folders in Windows can be network locations or internet locations without any guarantees on their access speed, makes sense to show to the user that it's still doing something.
I am doing this and it's fun! The only hassles I had are a. setting up DDNS (since I don't have a static IP) and b. getting a certificate from Let's encrypt with only port 443 open (80 is blocked by my ISP). But other than that, it has been great! Hopefully my ISP won't have a problem with that ;)
Roll Your Own CSS-in-JS Library
I recall fairly negative attitudes about the name Kevin being widespread in the late 80s in the UK. Is a modern offspring of this the Karen?

Certain names end up in cycles, falling out of favour with the privileged as aspirational types adopt it for their children and then it gets tired , falls out of fashion and then the privileged revive it. But this would rarely or never happen for names that haven't been popular with the upper classes - so you won't see Kevin getting into this cycle I'm sure but you could just with a name like Nigel (even though it has Kevin-like connotations). The whole topic becomes one of snobbery, superficiality and judgementalism but it's remarkable how widely understood the associations often are.
Euler had the advantage of being alive during a time when a lot less things had been already discovered.
>as an effort to make the cost of keeping drivers closed-source high

I don't think it is intentional. Linux development is very pragmatic, they just want to have freedom to refactor anything without caring about stable kernel APIs.
Discovered netlify the other day and wow is it simple
I want to make it clear that the Ledger passphrase, on paper, and hidden, was not ever accessed. And, even if it was, which it wasn't, his Trust Wallet on his iPhone was also compromised.

How can someone guess both passphrases, from separate wallets, in separate locations with different words? It's literally impossible.

Whatever technology is used to generate the passphrases in each of those wallets must be compromised.

Nothing else can explain it.