skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you open the kebab (three vertical dots) menu, select Add-ons then Add-ons Manager, you should see a list of add-ons you can install.

Edit: I've updated my previous comment with a better link.
Yes it is.

Ten years ago my employer asked me to make a GitHub account to contribute to the employer's open-source software on GitHub. I could've used my personal account, and plenty other employees did, but I figured it might be bad to give my employer control over it so I didn't.

Today the employer has tightened control to the GH accounts - they must now SSO to the company portal, which requires doing it from a company-enrolled machine running an attested OS and browser. It's perfectly reasonable for the company to have done this, but I would've been devastated if this had happened to my personal account.

Separating work accounts from personal accounts is always a good idea. Clearly at least one person in this thread did not know it, so there's no harm in telling people about it.
> But individuals (elected or not) should fully operate and make decisions in accordance with their openly held beliefs. Whether that belief is conformant or influenced by organized religion is not relevant.

Yes, exactly! From the perspective of government, religion is just like any other philosophical system. Why should policies rooted in Christianity—so long as they are otherwise within the limits of government power—be treated differently from policies based on socialism or or secular humanism or libertarianism?

You’re correct that French “secularism” isn’t real freedom of religion, but rather makes atheism the state religion and religion into something you shamefully practice at home with the lights off.
You seem really hung up on only one side being right or wrong. He was in the right. He then did something wrong. That doesn't justify what Twitter did, but it doesn't ingratiate me to his side either.

Yes, I generally treat people with politeness and consider it a mistake when I let my emotions get the better of me. Perhaps not surprisingly, I've usually only had good experiences with most businesses when there have been mistakes, even mistakes I felt were egregious and should not have happened. That's not always the case, but in those cases that's the last business they usually get from me.

When I say this guy is a supplicant, it's because he has no leverage to get what he wants. It's obvious Twitter doesn't care about him. The other stories in these threads make it obvious they don't care about most of their users or at least about fairness. That's what he's subjected himself to and this result shouldn't really be a surprise.

I use HN and it's free to me. I could get banned.. I'd have some questions about my ban; but I also know dang to be pretty damn fair. I respect him and I think he respects others. There's no scenario where I'd talk to dang like this guy talked to Twitter. If dang acted like Twitter, I would either not be here, or I wouldn't be at all surprised when I was treated like I didn't matter.
Feels like a similar methodology here https://xkcd.com/605/
My contact specifies my place of work as "anywhere with an internet connection"
No causation reported
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Interesting. I seem to have had the opposite experience. I tried the method you're suggesting for a while, but there always seemed to be a flurry of additional calls after answering one. I thought that maybe the answered call was noted somehow as indicating that the number was valid. Completely anecdotal, just my $0.02.
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Receiving Tutoring on a For-Profit Project
I'm working on a small SaaS site, both as an earnest attempt to create some income for myself and as an attempt to teach myself programming. At it's core it involves scraping data from various places on the web, combining it, cleaning it, and laying it out in a useful way. I have made progress on my own, but I know I would make more progress if I had someone with experience helping me out. I don't have the capital to hire someone to do it, nor do I want to just hire someone. The point is that even if this business doesn't succeed, I will come away with a lot more knowledge on web development, site administration, and scraping and cleaning data. As an alternative to hiring someone to build the site, I'm wondering about hiring a tutor to help me move forward faster. It seems to me that there would be ethical and business problems that arise from this. Wouldn't my tutor in a way be an employee? How could I protect the business idea while getting help from the tutor? I suppose one alternative would be signing a non-disclosure agreement and offering a certain amount of equity or revenue sharing. I am not out here to exploit someone else's work and pass it off as my own. I want to build the service, run it, and maintain it, but I know that I would benefit from having more experienced eyes guiding me in my work. I'm hoping someone on here could offer some advice, ideas, or alternatives.
But

$ 65e6/1400e6 * 100
4.642857142857143
$ 40e3/700e3 * 100
5.714285714285714

??

What's more, it's almost certainly not the last word on that subject when you just compare empty homes to population as it's also about the sheer, absolute scale of China's literally cities—not scattered homes or towns—that are near 100% unoccupied. Also the figure for SF might be a bit out of proportion b/c the city limits are just a slice of the Bay Area (1 out of 9 counties); from https://www.trendstatistics.com/real-estate/bay-area-vacant-...:

1. San Francisco had 38,651 empty homes in 2018

2. The Bay Area has over 46,000 vacant homes

Now the Bay Area has a population of ~7.75 million people (Wikipedia), so San Francisco has only ~10% of the BA population, but the percentage of BA vacant homes located in SF is a staggering ~84%. None of these figures is terribly precise, but 46e3/7750e3 is like ~0.6% (~half a vacant property per 100 people) for the entire Bay Area. Not sure what you calculated or whether it's just too late over here for me to do maths, but I'm getting 38651/860000 * 100 == 4.49 for San Francisco (4 and half vacant homes per 100 people), while for China I get 65e6/1400e6 so ~4.64% (~5 vacant properties per 100 people), which is nearly the same when you compare the small-ish city to the huge country, and China having ten times as many vacant properties when compared to the Bay Area.

Lastly, the proper interpretation of the figures plays a role, too as discussed in https://socketsite.com/archives/2022/02/there-are-not-40000-... which article points out that e.g. homes only used during the week but not on the week ends are listed as vacant. In China you're looking not at single apartments but entire city wards with high rise next to high rise that are not. occupied. at. all.
Ironically you're calling out a weird prejudice by showing your own weird prejudice
The name of this product is too close to Famine.
The effect of restricting writes to only a directory and its descendants seems like the perfect use-case for chroot(), except that comes with some other limitations too.

I started out computing in the PC world with the DOS family (then moving on to Windows) before working with any of the Unixes, so my perspective may be different from those who started with Unix/Linux, but in my experience it seems links (both soft and especially hard ones when applied to directories) cause a rather large number of problems in comparison to their usefulness; they make the filesystem a graph instead of a tree, adding complexity to all applications that need to traverse it.
Quote from link:

Lately I’ve been thinking of Deadspin as a strange machine. For more than a decade, the people charged with the maintenance of that machine were allowed to tinker with it according to their whims and idiosyncratic tastes. The result of all that tinkering was a machine which, for all its apparent wonkiness, worked brilliantly.

The problem with a machine like that is that it’s difficult for anyone who didn’t build it, or doesn’t respect those who did, to understand exactly how or why it works. When Deadspin’s staffers and readers looked at the machine, they saw a wonderful and whirring contraption, but all Spanfeller and Great Hill saw was an odd collection of valves and pistons. They saw parts, but not the whole.

Spanfeller’s disdain for his own newsroom, the “stick to sports” memo, Petchesky being fired, and the cascade of oppressive ads—they were all signaling the same thing: Spanfeller and Great Hill weren’t really interested in preserving what we had spent the last decade building. Maybe a few components would remain to keep up appearances, but Deadspin’s demolition was coming, and we couldn’t stop it. What we could do was refuse to participate in its destruction.
Some age spread in dorms is expected. Some people skip grades and go to college early, some people take a gap year or two, and there are usually some upperclassmen in the same residence. I wouldn’t worry about it.
You're the one who said black and white hyperbole like "there's no opinion anymore" and then took serious issue with a literal interpretation of my post. I'm just pointing out there's a cost to originality and you're talking my post to mean more than it does.

Also let me flesh out my "alternative", which is starts with suggesting that perhaps people aren't being too unoriginal and that them changing their behaviour would be for the worse. Maybe the true alternative is changing your own behaviour so you're exposed to people culturally different than yourself just like the person who you first responded to.
All the numbers we can use are computable (how can you use a number if you can't actually talk about it?) and there are only countably many of those.
Yeah, this is pretty far out of my expertise (so appreciate your commentary). Your point about contamination might explain their market choice (which others have questioned in these threads).
This is a super important distinction! Great way to phrase it too--thank you.
The whole point of using metal for pots is that they're quite high heat conduction, which should limit any gains there. So I suspect you could get a _small_ improvement by thinning, but I doubt it'd even be noticable.

It'd be a mix of reducing the mass to be heated and increasing the heat conduction, both very small effects.
Can someone ELI5 how these operaters can track my websites if I'm using HTTPS and DoH? Sure they might see handshakes etc but what else can they see?
Which in the U.S. would be perceived to be quite a major issue:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/147824/adults-estimate-american...

(This is one of my favorite stats.)
Refactoring old codebases into something nice to work on is comfy though. It’s basically what I do in the startup world I just use less niche languages.

Although I’d suspect there isn’t a lot of refactoring going on in some of those code bases you describe.
This is really good advice (sadly) but I will disagree/add one point:

> Optimise for political capital not what’s right.

Yes and no. Often what’s politically valuable is short term and misaligned with what the company’s values are.

Pushing back diplomatically might be the smarter thing in the mid to long term. be mindful of where the request comes from and from whom.
"Flash drive" or alternatively "thumb drive" around less technical folks.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive
No, this is way too shortsighted. Fusion allows us to use other energy sources than our own sun, which means it's essential for viable space missions, and we won't need to compete with the rest of nature (including agriculture!) for our energy needs.

Hydroponics with fusion technology allows us to produce food without relying on the sun at all. I'd say that alone is worth the investment.
> Transgenders are probably the most protected group on reddit, so much that questioning their arguments even respectfully is banned from that website

This is demonstrably false, literally any r/ukpolitics thread with a trans-related headline will contain a ton of respectful disagreement and then plenty of open prejudice too.

If we're being honest, be honest, don't twist a narrative the other way.
It works with the "Google Search Fixer" extension for mobile FF
>OTOH, 2004 was a long time ago, and a lot has changed.

evidently from discussion of the article not for the better.

>That article could be a college freshman in the fall.

evidently not
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Patterson - also do college freshmen get articles in the ACM?

on edit: misunderstood witticism regarding age of the article to mean that it could have been written by a college freshman - didn't understand why 'in the fall' but now I get it.
What algorithm Facebook and Craigslist use to flag posting?
Both Facebook and Craigslist automatically censors any rental listing with a gender/sex keyword.

I am not even allowed to describe the sex of the other tenant who is already living in the suite. It's a machine algorithm block, they don't even need other users to flag the posting. It's an automatically ban.

Does any person think the wording below is prohibitive or discriminating?

> We are renting out one room in a 2-bedroom basement suite. The suite has two rooms. One room is already rented by a university male student.
We are looking for a responsible and respectful tenant to rent the other room. This is ideal for a student or a young professional individual.

I confirm that the offensive word above is male. Once I remove it. the posting is ok.

My question is what algorithm Facebook and Craigslist use to flag and block posting. what's the reason that they would flag a posting like this?
Your point about nutritional variability with location and time is valid. USDA periodically refreshes nutritional information for a variety of foods (https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/log.html) and provides location data for collected food samples. For tracking purposes, averages are a workable approximation imo.
I was a university instructor during grad school back in the 90s, there were plenty of entitled and shameless people back then too.
So as someone who has just arrived you only need to download an app somehow and register with it.
probably wasnt vegan during his formative years.
Fission is just solar from different star.
>The populations adjust their life around the infrastructure not the other way around

Public policy should try to make people's lives better, not worse.
Four trains per day on the route I am referencing

I don't know why people are bringing up hypotheticals that are so far from reality like one train per week. That's just not how trains are scheduled with Amtrak. I take the train on a regular basis and your example is entirely removed from the reality that I have personally observed.

How many planes are there per day on a single route in the Midwest? Because I doubt its hundreds
Yeah, I think it would be far better if companies made things free for young people in general rather then just students.
Either you don't work for corporates or only work as a contractor.
There’s little point putting in transit if dense development isn’t also allowed to follow. I concur though that it’s not too late.

Especially if you consider, car-centric development is bankrupting many smaller US cities. There’s a strong economic case for promoting dense, mid-rise, mixed-use development: it brings in much more in property taxes relative to the cost of city services required.

Simply put, every foot of road or pipe or power cable serves far more people (and economic activity) with dense development.
I noticed recently that I often preface statements with "just wanted to say" or "just chiming in here" and similar. I cringed hard when I realized and am working on eliminating that use of "just". Seems like the same general thing: it's never "just" X.
I’d love to see a Manhattan project for nuclear fusion research. Just pour money into it until we crack it. I think out of all the energy alternatives it’s the most game changing.
I'm assuming they mean that for a number to be used, it must be computable.
In my experience, top talent is most valuable in the early stages of a company. That is when it can have the greatest impact. Communication overhead is low, smart people can make fast decisions, and just get things done quickly.

By the time you have 100's of engineers, everything will be quite watered down. Anyone exceptional will get dragged down in bureaucracy, red tape, processes, procedures, enormous amount of useless meetings, etc. Maybe I've just been in the wrong companies. Having top talent is always better than not having it, but often it is wasted. You get promised the world and wind up spending half your days in Zoom meetings and waiting for PRs to be approved.
You're coming off a bit more aggressive than this conversation necessitates.

My response to your "consideration" is in my edit. Asking one to "consider" something is just that; asking them to think about it. It does not ask for a response (yet I did give you one while you were chastizing me for posting while you edited yours).

>what acts do you feel are justified by "just following orders," and under what circumstances?

There is a theme here - nuance. I've worked (past tense, and I'll have you know that part of the reason for my departure was my disagreement with this partnership) with FB as a partner in the past, and I am well aware of the incredibly wide variety of roles there. This is exactly why I am insisting that we talk to OP and learn more before we decide that they're a stain on society, need rehabilitation, whathaveyou.
The most relevant thing I can see is that managers can't recognize top talent, especially at larger companies. At a small startup, everyone has a sense of who's involved with what in what capacity so top talent can be recognized sooner.

Small companies fear losing their top talent. Large companies prefer to have more easily interchangeable/replaced engineers for ease of project planning/staffing and often don't distinguish top talent from a typical senior level. Titles don't correlate well with top talent, rather tends to be a level of seniority 'how long have they been here and competent' label.

The biggest of companies like to hire top talent but don't make good use of them, often seeming like a game of 'keep away' so that they don't work at a competitor or start their own competing company.

My own experience is that there are many different forms of top talent and the only way to get efficient utilization is for the employee to themself actively put them on the projects or roles that best suit their skills, whether the manager or company recognizes this or not.
You can spend $200k on Bentley and still have nowhere to park it at your destination.
This article seems kind of absurd throughout, then you get to the conclusion where they drip the "cats make you look gay" argument and you really start to question why you've read this stupid article.

I said this last time this study was posted and got people telling me how they left a date midway through as the guy said he had a cat and they assumed he was gay. So it may be society is stupid and not the article.
While not Fennoscandia, there is the 3000 year old Kaali crater in Estonia, ie during the stone age, a thousand of year earlier than what this article is about. There would have been iron available from it, and there were settlements afterwards around the crater.
But you could make small pits on the bottom of a pot with a metal drill bit, couldn't you? And this would increase the surface area contacting the water and heating it, right?
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Any company with more than 100 people will display these behaviours.

Companies with > 1000 employees will operate completely like this. Where there will always be 3 “priorities” for every manager: what they were told by the C-level, what they know to be important to their manager and what _they_ want to get out of their position.

The amount of times I have been caught totally off guard because I couldn’t fathom why a certain team or individual would be actively doing something to the detriment of the business… only to later understand it was to the benefit of their unit/selves.
When all these starups fail to deliver anything of value in a few years, the investors will disappear.

Commercial fusion power is such a huge challenge IMHO there are only two ways we can get there currently: ITER/DEMO (if it doesn't get overcome by bureaucracy and the members don't loose interest in funding it) or Elon Musk (who is probably the only person who can attract the top talent needed, motivate it to work day and night and secure the funding).
> We designed and built ITER at such a large size and cost (€20 billion) since high temperature superconducting magnets were not yet available.

This is one of those numbers that only seem big without context. Medium-sized cities spend more than this on interchanges and highway development over shorter timespans than any of the various multi-decade price tags that get thrown around for ITER.
Budgets are decided by elected officials and elected officials are steered by their polling numbers.

Out of all sources of energy only atomic energy is something that we can practically scale at the moment to cover almost all our needs (air travel and maritime shipping being notable exceptions). We just need to think a bit harder how to ensure this is done responsibly and safely. Not saying it is an easy problem, but I think the issue is too little resources are devoted to solving it. I would say this probably isn't harder than sending a man to the Moon. It is just something that should be possible to fix practically with existing technology and just good design.

The cost of humanity that can't decide on what needs to be done is that we are still reliant on fossil fuels and are distracting ourselves with half measures that have a lot of problems that in hindsight were pretty obvious. Like solar energy -- only works when the sun is up, is difficult to scale and we still haven't figured out how to store energy for when it is needed.

Our children will curse us.
How is this compliant with the GDPR? Is the GDPR a complete joke?
On one hand, you had "traditional" companies (oil, coal, gas,...) lobbying against it, and on the other hand, you had the "green" organizations lobbying (and protesting) against it.
That would replace one big global asshole with a thousand little genocides. It's much better this way.
I hate to say it, but this is the result of fossil fuel interests running the largest [1] economy in the world. We will literally spend 1 trillion dollars a year on war in the middle east and associated commitments but couldn't bother to spend a few billion on fusion research. Absurd.

[1] until recently
I remember using HotDog pro back in the day. I don't remember much about it though, even how much I used it.
Student loan debt forgiveness is nothing like free tuition, and has very different economic effects.

Countries that offer free tuition tend to pay universities directly and cap payments. That provides a strong incentive for universities to control costs. Similarly students who take advantage of the prospect of free tuition do not themselves go into debt.

By contrast student loan forgiveness involves forgiving loans to students who have already gone into debt. This makes their private loans easier to pay for them. The prospect of this makes people more willing to go into debt. Nothing about this program gives universities an incentive to control costs.

Rather than compare this to free tuition, it is better to compare this to other programs that make it easier for students to borrow to pay high tuition. The USA has had a lot of these programs, and the result is one of the factors driving tuition to rise faster than inflation for a half-century now.

I'm just predicting that the result of this program will be the same result that we've seen for the last half-century.
> I think it's obvious that the being self-taught (technically: self-teaching?) and being a student isn't the same thing.

Sure, but why shouldn't it be treated the same for the purpose of free dev tools.