skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but not for managing climate change.
Couldn't you overlay html elements on top of the canvas elements? You don't necessarily have to use canvas text.

Each canvas element can tell you the size of each rect, so for each of the 50k log lines, you'd have an element in the canvas. When scrolling, the html elements can fade. As the rect scrolls into view, it draws the html div over itself, since each rect is uniquely associated with a line of text.

It was a thought with some of the previous work I had done with canvas.
Cloudflare Pages, or Firebase Hosting. Both can be spiced up with cloud functions.
It would be interesting to have limits on size. Something like a max of 1 million users.

Optimistically, it would result in all applications being federated and there being a multitude of hosting platforms to choose from.

Or Microsoft would sell Teams server software to hosting companies with strict requirements like not allowing connections to competing products. Or just slightly alter the existing O365 reseller model..."We don't have 100 million users, we have 100 users (resellers) who each have sold 1 million licenses."
My Favs:
- Cloudflare
- AWS s3
- Github pages
- Google
Edit: Removed bad "simple english graph", thanks. Though the regular english wikipedia traffic is flat from 2016-present.

As for NYT, is there a better proxy to compare to? There's no public pageview stats and they have a paywall.
This reads like such a propaganda piece I really don't know what to say.

Apart from the fact that the article seems to obscure the fact of if companies actually know about the counter-terrorism operations (they somehow say people suspect it).

It also creates this myth of "democratic oversight" and we all know how much that's worth since Snowden. Also it constructs as if Google is in such a special position here. I mean the vulnerability could be caught by anyone theoretically. Also what is a counter-terrorism operation, monitoring some environmental protestors, what about political activists (of any colour), or does it only count if it's Islamic terrorists?

And then there's the whole "putting soldiers lives at risk" which gets repeated every time this comes up. As if we should accept every violation of privacy/human rights, because it saves soldiers lives. They are soldiers, it's their job. Arguably their lives have been put at risk by sending them on the mission.
I think its possible, and I might switch over my opinion if such a thing existed - it'd still be hard to optimize it to build worlds of "factorio level" complexity.
This is why it should be done on an organisational level: a company provides a service that makes sure that the car charger is enabled only at times with negative prices, and then makes money on providing a certain guaranteed load.
Are private pay to use toilets even legal in the USA? Might be state dependent
Well, this conversation was flagged already like 5 times (at least)
It's exactly like refactoring. You can replace a component that does something with a different structure for accomplishing that. Of course, if the system was tangled, then you may need to refactor other components first (read: relocate them to give room). The structure of the base around something is going to place limits on the refactoring. If the base is so horrible that you decide to gut it entirely, it's just like a rewrite.
I am not an expert in any sense, but adverse possession definitely does come from England and originate in common law.
My biggest question is WRT to the tax subsidies that were given to companies like Twitter in SF, as well as Google (likely all over, but was thinking about the NYC building)

So - they were given subsidies to build/occupy there such that the claim was that it would stimulate and heighten the surround area and businesses...

So if Twitter is 100% WFH option, then why give them massive subsidies when their well paid employee population is no longer present on-site?

However, they may have already expired?

https://time.com/14335/twitter-tax-break-san-francisco/
If you are a conveyancing solicitor, you can subscribe to the land registry database and just search it like any other with no need to pay per search, as far as I know.

The reason for the payment is that the Land Registry is required to be self funding. Actually I thought that they might have been incorporated as a private company already and sold off but not sure about that.
> Only a select few crawlers are allowed access to the entire web, and Google is given extra special privileges on top of that.

Hmm, so set up a VPN on the Google Cloud so you have a Google IP address, use a Google User-Agent, and go!
A grating distortion in the article is that Stallman and the FSF tried to take the credit for Linux. ("The Free Software Foundation is famously fixated on insisting that it be given credit for Linux.") Stallman just wanted recognition for the GNU part of Linux distributions based on a GNU user space. "GNU/Linux" not "GNU Linux". Stallman never, ever wanted to take credit for the Linux kernel; that is ridiculous.

More abhorrent than that is the position that free software should be done in such a way that nobody claims credit, justified by a glib quote from Harry Truman. Harry Truman was a politician and, for a time, president of the United States. Presidents rely on other people to execute plans, and implicitly get credit for everything good that happens during their reign anyway, as well as blame for the bad. So it's easy to make seemingly magnanimous statements of that sort. I would rather say that the absence of a blame environment is more conductive to getting things done, rather than the absence of credit.

Software is a creative work made by specific authors, who undeniably deserve credit. Credit transcends even copyright. To falsely claim authorship of a work in the public domain isn't a copyright violation, yet it is plagiarism. It will forever be plagiarism, even when the work is millennia old. Falsely claiming to have produced a cave painting that is 30,000 years old is plagiarism. Some unknown prehistoric person is credited with that.

The western intellectual tradition is heavily steeped in credit. Theories, equations, industrial processes, objects and phenomena in nature, and other entities connected to ideas and discovery, are often named after individuals. Maxwell's equations, Einstein's relativity, Rayleigh scattering, Bell's palsy, Fermat's Last Theorem, Pascal's Triangle, Haber-Bosch process for ammonia production, Early effect in transistors ... credit, credit everywhere in STEM, philosophy, the humanities.

I find it obnoxiously odious for someone to dare suggest that free software developers should disrobe themselves of claims to credit. In free software, credit is your only reward, more often than not.
He's also a HN user: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lutusp
My life was upended for 35 years by incorrect cancer diagnosis
Isn't it racist and sexist to presume that women and POC won't play a game just because it's made by white men? How is that relevant? Is anyone else concerned over this kind of overt, casual, anti-white racism and misandry that has become socially acceptable as of late?
My weekend project is to move a small personal site to Cloudflare Pages[0]. Can't vouch for it yet, but it might be worth a look.

[0] https://pages.cloudflare.com/
After a static fire test Friday, SpaceX is preparing SN11 for a same-day launch
Do any of them intersect with Google Cloud IP addresses? If so set up a VPN server on Google Cloud.
Salaries are 100% based on merit. Everybody doing the same job at the same level is paid the same

If salaries are based on merit, and employees periodically get differing raises (I assume 'merit' will not remain identical across all employees), then before long everybody doing the same job at the same level will not be 'paid the same'.
Surge.sh is probably the easiest and fastest. Host a static site in one command.

I like Netlify for most stuff personally.
As someone learning Ruby and Rails at the moment, and who likes to learn things from the fundamentals, is there a good book or blog series that takes you through it?

Because I’m helping on a Rails app I’m learning a lot of magic, which is awesome for productivity, but I feel like I’m missing some important concepts that tie things together.
Tesla already supports this in some Scandinavian countries, where vehicles are controlled as distributed aggregate load.

It’s no different than Google getting paid when utilities send a signal to Nest saying, “power is going to be expensive shortly, precool everyone’s home in this geobound and then raise the temp so we don’t have to start gas peakers up.”
A title without money is valuable to the employee only because it gives them better leverage to find a job that gives them with more money.
I'm almost sure that my copy of the GoF book did have that sentence as the only one on its page, and as I said earlier, it was on a separate page before the main body of text, i.e. even before chapter one. Maybe we have different editions. Could still be wrong about that, though. E.g. it could been a different book, not GoF, although I think it unlikely. Why I say that I remember it being so, is because I once mentioned this to a startup founder I was consulting to, maybe because he had written some code that used inheritance unnecessarily, and I said it to him in that context, during a design discussion, and suggested we follow the guideline (to prefer composition over inheritance). He was impressed (I mean by the guideline, not me) and we did follow it from then on.
#4 is a reasonable request. If the client wants to verify the lower level ops instead of higher level application and deployment, the instrumentation would be counterproductive. That could happen if he was thinking something on the lines of "there's a guy here that compiles his own kernel on a personal laptop, I wonder what impact this has".

The other ones could be explained by him being afraid of leaking PII, and most PII being on that system.
> there should be a vote of no confidence option where a majority vote of the team can immediately remove the manager.

Like in a band. Best projects I've worked on have been like bands. Each engineer skillfully playing their instrument, while the manager secures the gigs, promotes the band, listening and acting on feedback from the members.
The Suez is at basically the one point it makes sense to build it. The next closest is off the Gulf of Aqaba and that's right on the border of Egypt and Israel. It really doesn't make sense for Egypt to go through the trouble of cutting a second one on the one in a million shot a ship gets stuck like this. The usual answer is just make sure they don't get stuck rather than spend the billions of dollars cutting a second canal would cost. Even if Egypt was somehow charged the losses for this screw up that probably wouldn't be enough to make it worth cutting a second backup canal.
Yeah, this is my bad, then. Wasn't aware of that, so was ignorant of me to assume they changed.
They did have to hire a pilot and there were some handlers at some point, I think the port offered the services though so you just paid the port services.
Totally an aside, but I saw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lombardi 's work (Vatican Bank Scandal) at the Portrait Gallery in DC, and it is absolutely fascinating.
I think it's partly because they create a website which reported on the status of the Ever Given which rose to 1. on the front page.

I feel like I often see submissions which are, even tangentially, related to front page material rise very quickly.

Regardless, congrats to Knuckleheads Club for fighting the good fight.
An Introduction to F# (2012) [video]
I've found that a surprising number of people (outside of fields like math, engineering, programming) are used to the idea of entering an operation and having it applied to the current value. E.G: pressing the [√] button immediately square roots the current number, pressing [X][2] doubles the current number, etc.

It's a different paradigm to using the buttons to enter a full expression then pressing [=] to evaluate it, but I don't think it's accurate to call it "the wrong thing" - just that the button presses aren't transcribing to the equation you expect (the equation actually displayed by Windows 10 calculator is now accurate).
Yes, this is absolutely true.

In addition to the above, two virtual conferences I’ve attended in the last year have used Discord as their interface for attendees and speakers & organisers. It’s versatile, has a decent permissions structure & supports audio/video sharing. (Although both conferences chose to use Zoom for the actual talks.)
Interesting how scientific technology gets used in various cultures. Ultrasounds are illegal in some countries because people abort based on gender due to their cultural view of humanity.

Western secular society looks at humans more as mechanistic units in an economic machine instead of as spiritual beings with inherent value, so it’s no surprise that 90% of downs tests result in an abortion.
Oh don’t worry, you have 15 on-paper minutes to go from A1 to A70 in Detroit... in January... and the shuttle is down.
They'll just stick the program in three metro areas that are highly over-represented in congress.

Jerrymandering runs both ways. If you carve <city> up into ten districts you've just created ten congressmen who give a crap about bringing muh jobs to the <city> metro area.
This is why you have many smaller ones and disable them one by one instead of varying the power supplied to them.
Even in the software design biz, factoring often looks easier on paper. Small-scale modules and components usually have a better reuse record in my observation because you can mix, match, change, and drop them as needed per project: you can date components without being forced to marry them. F-35 is a marriage made in Hell.
False memories can be reversed
There is if you are doing it for work. For example, your company could get sued if you are found using that data and ignoring the ToS. If you are a public figure, you could get your name tarnished as doing something unethical or the media may call it "hacking". If you are rereleasing the data then you risk getting a takedown notice.
That seems like a suspiciously convenient way to absolve everybody of conscience. It's not the business' responsibility, nor the shareholders, nor the customers, nor the politicians. Everybody agrees that it's bad but each expects somebody else to do something about it.
How about a system whereby we tell others whether or not we want to be crawled/not crawled by them? /s
Three Things That Suppress Creativity
i thought 2008 proved that the solution to expensive housing was not, in fact, more housing.

it was not allowing massive criminal fraud by banks to continue unabated for years with impunity.
GitHub Pages or Netlify for sure. With either of these options, your static site can be set up to deploy whenever there's new commits to the specified branch.

Me and a friend mentor for Code Louisville, and we're able to get the beginner frontend students up and running very quickly using these options - they're free and much easier to use.
Are there other companies where a CX Specialist makes the same as an engineer? Usually I see Engineering offset from CX, so an entry level CX employee might come in at Level 1, while an engineer might come in at Level 3. I don't think I've ever seen an Engineer and CX Specialist have the same corporate level, but perhaps that's just the companies I've worked at?
I'd be curious what difference it makes. Supposedly fastly compiles wasm down to native first, so it should run faster. Obviously fetch time would be faster since it's sitting on their hard drives. Data transfer would obviously be video file size and bandwidth dependent. A lot of variables there, but still it would be interesting to see even for your particular bandwidth and distance from a fastly server, for what file size the break even point is (for a few different operations).
Just a note, if you are going to throw away the rule book (standard model) because its 'cold' fusion, you can't then say that hydrogen palladium fusion is a net loss of energy. If being cold changes everything so much, who knows under cold conditions if it's a net gain?
Our suburban/rural county borders 2 wealthy, metro counties. Nearly all of our new home construction is along that southern border and is being filled with new folks, moving up from the south.

Meanwhile, the majority of our county is facing a mounting housing crisis. The few available rentals are crapholes and/or priced absurdly high. The same goes for home sales.

For the first time, there are no homes here for the non-wealthy. Nor will there be any anytime soon.
This is not necessarily true. In many parts of the country, you get a month free but otherwise the tax would need to be paid, which I guess is to cover landlords who are between tenants. (saves some effort setting it all up and tearing it down again when it was only empty for a week or so). Also, you may not be able to claim that month if it has been claimed in the last year.
The M in MBA stands for Monkey or Money, or both.
Element is probably the closest thing to Discord for people who want to self-host. https://element.io/
Don’t let your design system look complete
The Bang Curve: 22.7% of young men did not have sex in the last year
Specifically Netlify Drop: https://app.netlify.com/drop

You don't even need to create an account, just upload a zip of your files.
I think the Uber example is a great read, and kind of makes my point. All that complexity and they are still losing money! All those payment methods, hundreds of megabytes of application binary, hundreds of backend teams, all of them very busy "doing things" but the company is not making money. Maybe they need to hire 60 more bizops ninjas.

Even with this thread, I have to say I'm kind of a hypocrite, since I'm one of these "support role" guys in my own company. I make it a goal every day to try to draw a clear understandable line between my work and the company making money. Some days it's not easy after 8 hours of TPS reports. I've been in roles where to this day I can't figure out how what I did made the company money. It was a lot simpler to explain when I was directly making the product.
Company is dividendfinance.com
Keep an eye on /r/clojure or the #remote-jobs channel at clojurians for details
Are superstar employees about to be offshored?
Invest in the people you have. If they don’t have the cycles then hire someone you can invest in. Ultimately if it’s temporary expertise that isn’t core to your business you can still contract it out.

This system is similar to what a co-op would use, and there are successful (and unsuccessful) co-ops.
They are, it just takes a year or so to build these mech/chem tech ology machines when the specialized work force is so small and the training takes so long for knowledge transfer... this flows all the way down to high purity polypropylene sourcing itself.
While this works great for certain individuals who don't live in expensive parts of the world… $10 an hour with a family is going to be a tough time for many of the more expensive states. Of course nothing prevents one from moving but not everyone is willing to do that.

$10 per hour averages out to a little over $20k per year. If you aren't full time you probably aren't getting a lot of other benefits as well that will come out of pocket. Would be pretty tempting to work for 1 year at $200k and live off your savings for 10 years. If you even did a very modest investment it probably would stretch far further than 10 years.

Not trying to suggest you change anything if you are happy but your comment made me want to do a little math to compare scenarios and I figured others might find it interesting as well.
That's not really how interview processes work.

If factorio interviews fill all roles with competent personnel, reduces hiring of incompetent people, etc., then it could be "good enough". Sure, you miss a lot of people who would also be good [enough].

They're not saying people who can't play factorio can't develop; it's the opposite. The hypothesis is surely that the can't+can't group has a large overlap.
100000% this. Sure, I’ll take the title bump because in X months I’ll be able to get a raise from another company using that title.
It's actually up to the local council[0]. Oxford at least give you a month zero-rated, then start charging again (I'm in this position due to a messy move).

[0]: https://www.gov.uk/council-tax/second-homes-and-empty-proper...
Yes that's what I meant. I don't know factorio very well, "nicer" meant just that Satisfactory is more focused on being a pretty game with cool graphics and world exploration, and less "hardcore" on the automation stuff.
> South Korea was actually there for a time. If you wanted to spend money online, various regulations meant running ActiveX was a requirement.

This playbook is happening again in China now. Not with ActiveX but with WeChat and AliPay. It's increasingly difficult to live there without either of the two apps and I think it does not bode well for the future for society to be reliant on two private corporation apps for basic needs, in the same way that it was not a good idea for the world to be dependent on ActiveX 20 years ago.
At GE the aviation engineers were the only ones that really seemed happy. They were all working under grey beard engineers who were by far the least pretentious managers. Everyone else was under someone from the encient GE Taylorist philosophy of "a good manager can run anything." Very painful uphill battle on anything because you literally had to translate everything into a message that informed them of how it was going to make them look good and advance their career. They simply don't understand or care about the work/product/customer. You could literally build amazing shit with a lot of support from colleagues etc and it didn't interest them because they had no foundation to recognize the potential. If you did manage to have one or two of your managers (I had five-ish) that did see the impact potential the rest of the hierarchy or "matrix" would smother it. Not to mention the clueless (horizontal) scrum masters.
Salary levels are discrete, performance is continuous... you can expect to lose high performers if you have rigid salary levels. I assume at larger companies that is less of an issue because the marginal effect on output of even the high performing developers is small relative to total output, with some outliers.
https://render.com (lead by early Stripe infra employee!)
They've said they won't have blueprints.

Now, granted, they might change their minds -- but it's hard to imagine how blueprints would work. Factorio is played on a 2D plane, with few obstacles in general and none that can't be removed; Satisfactory is played in a 3D world with immutable obstacles.

The game is tuned towards not needing blueprints. You don't need large quantities of anything, just a small amount of every item -- the complexity scales up, but the scale itself kinda doesn't. Yes, some players will attempt to turn the entire output of the map into turbo-motors, producing exactly the right amount of every ingredient, and will build their factory in the sky to avoid dealing with the terrain--

And yes, blueprints could be useful in this specific case. But that's not most players.
Hum... On what machine do you build them?

That can not be the right lesson, because there's no inherent reason "personal machine" is any less safe than "building cluster" or whatever you have around. Yes, on practice it often is less secure to a degree, so it's not a useless rule, but it's not a solution either.

If it's solved some way, it's by reproducible builds and automatic binary verification. People are doing a lot of work on the first, but I think we'll need both.