skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't call it cronyism. I asked what cronyism would be called if the qualifications were met.

The point is that giving preference to someone you know reduces or even eliminates the other person's opportunity. This is especially important for minority groups that may not have as many connections in a given industry. Sure, people do what they need to for work, but people skipping in line...
I'd say that trust does not scale. Every online community that gets huge, tends to get ruined over time.
That is some marketing wank.
> a more accurate word

How do you know the OP’s thoughts to believe you have a more accurate word to convey them?

Parochial perfectly conveys the combination of ignorance, narrow perspective and pettiness. What would you use with the same meaning?
Did they also monitor the group of post covid patients who died from covid?

i.e. I would think that number has significant survivorship bias.
I'm seeing that, too, but it's frankly worthwhile to note that he abruptly shut off "microservices" fwithout any thought as to its implications.

Columnist Paul Ford posted this, which I thought was rather apt: https://youtu.be/j3Uy9wsfkok
If you want to work for a teenage edgelord who publicly embarrasses and fires employees on Twitter in front of millions of people for contradicting him (I thought he bought Twitter to save "free speech" though...?), then have at it.
They would also make a Microsoft owned version of the protocol to support features only their client and server supported
Truman Capote – Playboy Interview (1968)
I'd love it if the downvoters could point me to effectiveness data on the new targeted booster.
He’s Fired
I have to point out that this was an entirely predictable outcome of submitting it to hacker news…
If Twitter goes down it’s like a tree falling in the forest. Light will make it to the forest floor and new shoots will get a chance.
Oppy was a good rover and tried its best to do science for as long as possible. At the end, one of the Martian dust storms got the best of her. I like to think that she’s just hibernating, waiting for future astronauts to find her, clean her solar panels and come back to life :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_(rover)
This should be an easy concept to grasp, but it seems that unless one has lived in an environment affected by this, they cannot understand.
OP here. Failing surface level tests is not an issue for me. I agree you should not pass through a candidate who can't demonstrate basic coding skills in front of you, or more specialized skills like simple Django knowledge if that's essential to the position. I've been on the hiring side and watched at least one otherwise qualified candidate fall apart in front of me on a simple coding exercise, probably due to nerves. It can be heartbreaking to watch but at some point you have to draw the line.
Is there where somebody has to add "in lab mice" to the title?
Fastest way if you want CMS stuff integrated is wordpress.com on the Personal plan.

But if you're okay with a git style flow, then you can use Cloudflare Pages. That's what I use. It's free and fast. But it's not spouse-friendly.
FTR, SSOU 9112:2021 (ukr. "DSTU 9112:2021", transl. "DSTU 9112:2021") is a an actual official State Standard of Ukraine for official transliteration:

> From 01.04.2022, the national standard DSTU 9112: 2021 comes into force: «Cyrillic-Latin transliteration and Latin-Cyrillic retransliteration of Ukrainian texts. Writing rules». The standard was proposed and developed by specialists of the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine and the Technical Committee 144 “Information and Documentation”.[0]

According it there are two variants inside this standard (see comparison[1]):

1. ДСТУ 9112:2021, Система А (system A) — letters represented with "Basic Latin" and some characters with diacritical marks from "Latin-1 Supplement", "Latin Extended-A" Unicode Blocks):

1.1. Київ, Україна - Kyїv, Ukraїna

2. ДСТУ 9112:2021, Система Б (system B) — all letters represented using only "Basic Latin" Unicode Block:

2.1. Київ, Україна - Kyjiv, Ukrajina

[0] https://dntb.gov.ua/news/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%96%D0%BE%D0%B...

[1] https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%A1%D0%A2%D0%A3_9112:...
Yup, I'm worried about what else could fall, but I think this was a necessary correction, and hope this stays contained.
Lexeme jest: eleven excellent genres
Oh, that makes sense, I heard that Switzerland have bilateral treaties that allows them greater autonomy on financial matters.

I guess PayPal not setting up a UK subsidiary is mainly due to FCA being a decent institution (Britons might disagree, but have you tried complaining to the Luxembourg CSSF?)
I personally have half a mind to submit an application once the smoke clears a bit. Musk is a man who moves technology forward. But unfortunately my software skills can't do much to help SpaceX or Tesla. But Twitter, that's a pure software company. Perhaps I can help Musk move the ball forward there instead.
> How can it break a web standard when this server-side mess of different require(), import(), import "npm:", import ".mjs" does not directly translate to browser code anyways?

require() and .mjs are specific to Node (Deno does away with them), import() is actually a web standard. Not sure how npm: fits into things, though if you're importing an NPM dependency directly you're almost certainly pulling in some non-web stuff anyway, so maybe they just decided that was a lost cause

But "web standards compatible" is one of Deno's stated goals. A whole lot of the Deno code out there (or at least a much larger portion than Node code) can be imported directly, with no preprocessinng, by browser scripts. That's a super exciting goal to work towards.
The term Conspiracy Theorist is a slur and a pejorative in the vast majority of cases where it is applied.

Conjecturing about whether or not a particular situation might be explained by a conspiracy does NOT make one into a Conspiracy Theorist.

The term Conspiracy Theorist would accurately describe someone who makes a living at it -- like Alex Jones or David Icke.
Problem is that if anything else breaks you're pretty fucked if there is no good bike repair shop nearby.

Chain can go few k already so just getting it replaced at start of big trip is enough
> Because Mastodon does not, today, solve all of social media's problems

Because Mastodon does not, today, solve any of social media's problems
How feasible are tubeless setups on long tours? I'm curious. Anyone who MTBs knows about the dramatic improvement. In just the past year I would have had 50+ flats using tubes. I'm positive because I pull out thorns by the dozen. None require patching since the sealant fills the submillimeter holes immediately.

Being able to locally resupply with a compatible sealant is the main impediment. 4-8oz spare fluid in a packed bottle covers one refill. How often do you need to replenish sealant on wheels being used all day every day in mixed weather?
I expected to be more surprised than I was at the end of the article. It was very interesting anyway.
My non-cynical take is that they have overheads for data in GDPR-esque regions. They want an excuse to easily eliminate that overhead. They can’t “just” take your money before closing so they need to justify it.
"Embrace" is indeed not in this example, but would depend on whether the project originally adhered to some community standard.

The "extend" part might map to maintaining or getting free labor for a project, maybe to eventually modify it in an incompatible way once sufficient usage share is attracted, if you can get other devs to do it.

"Extinguish" would then be breaking the public version completely while possibly still using the working code in proprietary software.

The "extinguish" part needs a CLA to be legal, or with, say, the GPL, they'd be required to publish the source of the derivative work.
I was very confused when I was in check mate, but the other player didn't capture my king for some reason.... so in the end I won. Didn't expect that. They probably just didn't see the check mate even if it was obvious to me!
The Master and his Emissary by Iain McGilchrist on the differences between the brain hemispheres.

It's really an under-appreciated 800 lb gorilla hiding in the middle of the room of neuroscience that the two hemispheres are massively internally connected, but the corpus callosum does more to divide the hemispheres than to bridge them, in an organ for making connections, a fact large enough to beg for an explanation. Each can sustain consciousness on its own. They construct two different worlds, and you can find echos of the two worlds throughout all of human endeavor.
How Much Mining to Power the World with Wind and Solar?
I'd say that in my professional experience, Rust is probably the best "at scale" language that exists today.
Oh c'mon. Anybody who's anybody who wants to pay the terminal fee can play too. As far as I understand it, sales/marketing at Bloomberg like it that way. Thou does protest too much.
Nagel & Newman's book really made Gödel's Theorems click for me. Gödel, Escher, Bach also made diagonalization click.
For those dearly departed websites, a fine extension exists to easily pass a 404 URL to archive.org, painlessly loading the backed up site in 2 clicks of a mouse...
Available for Chrome Edge Firefox and Safari
https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
It seems like a fair review. It's looking at what it really is, not at what it's hyped up to be.

I like VR, and I can imagine that with higher-fidelity face tracking and full-body tracking it could be closer to face-to-face meetings than video calls. But for now the whole thing is indeed a "Roblox-like".
There don't appear to be many hyperlinks. Assuming sequential filenames, gluing them together can be done by:

mkdir out; pdftk * cat output out/topo_cat.pdf

(also, this requires you to have installed pdftk)

A table of contents can be added with a little more work, if you don't care about anything below the chapter level. Assuming sequential filenames again:

chapters=(
"Preface"
"Preliminaries"
"Examples and Constructions"
"Connectedness and Compactness"
"Limits of Sequences and Filters"
"Categorical Limits and Colimits"
"Adjunctions and the Compact-Open Topology"
"Paths, Loops, Cylinders, Suspensions, . . ."
"Glossary of Symbols"
"Bibliography"
"Index"
)

page=1
chapter=0
rm bookmarks.txt
for p in *.pdf; do
datafile="$p.data"
if [ ! -f "$datafile" ]; then
echo "generating $datafile"
pdftk $p dump_data > $datafile
fi
chapter_pages=$(awk /NumberOfPages/'{print $2}' $datafile)
echo "page: $page"
echo "new pages: $chapter_pages"
echo "chapter: $chapter"
echo BookmarkBegin >> bookmarks.txt
echo "BookmarkTitle: ${chapters[$chapter]}" >> bookmarks.txt
echo "BookmarkLevel: 1" >> bookmarks.txt
echo "BookmarkPageNumber: $page" >> bookmarks.txt
((page=$page+$chapter_pages))
((chapter=$chapter+1))
done

pdftk out/topo_cat.pdf update_info bookmarks.txt output out/topo_cat_bookmarked.pdf

(credit to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2418871/need-to-merge-mu... for the basic approach. apologies for the code dump instead of an output file; not clear to me that CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 allows distributing the result of this process, as simple as it is, whereas publishing this code is clearly fine.)
"Neither player moves first" The way that's phrased makes it sound like no one ever gets to take a turn, but they actually meant that players move at the same time.
If anything, the tools that were built to deal with problems extant at the time only allowed the building of more complicated websites - or, all too often, not more complicated websites but built in more complicated ways.
Show HN: A server that removes a byte with every request
I was inspired by a comment[1] here on HN to write a static web server that slowly degrades the content it serves byte by byte as it is requested. Every time someone requests a path from the server, a byte is removed from the next request to that path (barring 404s etc.) It resets every hour.

The nature of the Ritual is that I can't put this behind a cache, so it's possible that the cheap AWS server I used will get hugged to death if it becomes at all popular here. Sorry.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33568061
sooo cool, gg, guy i played. I really thought i had it lol.
He was handed billions in USD by VCs. I'm sure he stashed a lot of that in a Vanguard mutual fund while he made a show of operating his perpetual motion machine.
But you'll still owe them €10 EUR, is the point.

Presumably, this will hit anyone who forgot they had a PayPal account. They'll just take your money in the account if you have it to cover the fee, or they'll levy the fee and close your account, and you still owe that money.
> Musk has made his ultimate goal for Twitter clear to anyone paying attention: he wants to make the “X app” aka Twitter the next WeChat.

Musk has given a lot of reasons as to why he bought Twitter; I can't think of anything that indicates an "X app" is the real explanation. And his handling of Twitter after the purchase doesn't make me think he's trying to turn Twitter into something even bigger.
Xmas Gift for 7th Grade Boy?
Need some ideas for a Xmas gift for a 7th Grade Boy, US Middle Class!!!!
The old books are still valid because in the words of the old sayings: "Don't re-invent the wheel" and "If it works don't fix it".

If you think those sayings are not correct, merely look at the various Hollywood re-makes of hit movies of the past. Almost invariably, the older versions were much better than today's re-makes.
You beat me to it. One wonders if this might become a python13 feature, whenever they get around to branching the CPython repository.
I thought it was just for the first move, but I guess that wouldn't make sense. Its an odd game, but it could be interesting.
Vendia | Product and Engineering | Remote | Full-Time | https://www.vendia.net/careers

Vendia is hiring. These past few months on HackerNews, we’ve tried to differentiate Vendia through light humour and demonstrating why our team is awesome. In light of the ~50K layoffs in the last 3 months, we recognize the seriousness of the situation and are dropping the snark to focus on our core message: Vendia is hiring talented people to solve hard problems.

We’re looking for senior candidates with a minimum of 8 years experience in the SaaS / IaaS / B2B / Cloud / Distributed Compute / Database space, focusing on Software Engineering, Software Dev Management and Technical Product Management roles. How are we still hiring? At Vendia, we care about our team members and have shunned the hire fast, fire fast mentality, focusing instead on hiring responsibly & intentionally.

Our core value proposition centers around the fact that sharing business data is both critical and fundamentally difficult. We empower customers by enabling them to share data across silos (clouds, geographies, companies), enabling a single view (no more duplication), guaranteeing customers retain compliance, security, privacy and access control of their data. Vendia enables this by solving hard engineering problems: distributed computing & storage, consensus, multi-party writes, immutable ledgers, multi cloud and much more.

Right now, we're ~45 folks strong. We’re a remote first company, with an office in Seattle and coworking spaces available. We’re willing to sponsor H1B eligible candidates. And we differentiate ourselves from other tech companies with our Kind Humans Policy.

Learn more at https://www.vendia.com/careers
It was a good read but there were some inaccuracies there as well.
Saying weight doesn't matter much is naive. Yes, aerodynamics matter a lot but so does friction of the wheels onto the asphalt.

The heavier the car, the more friction (resistance) and thus more power needed to move forward (less range).
Indeed. If it wasn’t impossible, it was probably easy. Because there was just so little to it back then.

The good news is that it’s just as easy today to make those simple websites.
Lots of things are tradeoffs. In this case, the tradeoff is that trades are more expensive on chain, but you don't have to worry that the exchange will blow up and lose all your money, like happened with a huge exchange just last week.

As a bonus, Ethereum's scaling roadmap is coming along pretty well, with a pretty clear path to 100K tx/sec within the next few years. That should make transactions quite a bit cheaper.
Or match your block size to the fs block size and use ZFS compression :)

(It’s still a win to use compression at the db level because the data is typically also compressed in memory.)
mX macs are the future - you are guaranteed that there will be future generations of laptops sold in the millions(?) using at least some of this hardware. So the huge amount of work is probably going to be worth it.

Legacy phone hardware... harder to justify.
This "need" to scale Mastodon comes from the current narrative where it's seen as a possible Twitter alternative.
A substantial portion (more than half?) of its bleeding is a direct result of Musk's purchase of twitter. The debt he introduced is the bulk of it, but it is compounded by a reduction in advertising revenue.

edit: to make this observation into an actual point: I'm not sure that a situation is a good justification when you're the reason for the situation.
> rather absurd assumption that the only material that's being blocked ...

It's fallacious reasoning to assert that any system that is less than 100% perfect should be changed.

If the current system meets the community's expectations 98% of the time, and alternative systems meet the community's expectations 90% of the time or less, it would be silly to throw out the current system.

That's like saying stop signs at intersections should be removed because sometimes I have to stop when there are no other cars there, and sometimes other drivers fail to stop when they should, and some stop signs have been defaced or knocked down.
It started in Amsterdam in the early 17th century by Dutch East India company, so no.
Where is this term popular? I have never, ever heard this term before.
There's a similarity in the performance of caches and ML algorithms -- they can have some theoretical absolute performance (or worst case scenario) but whether or not that falls into harmony or discord with the real world use is another question altogether.

Statistics may give you reasons for your faith, but you have to leap on to the next workload regardless.
Doesn't seem to be working at the moment. Console shows this error:

An Error lacking a "stack" property:
Form: TypeError
Desc: TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
Keys: [ fileName, lineNumber, columnNumber, message ] html.room:49:9
Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
Firefox kan geen verbinding maken met de server op wss://chess2.fun/?trn=sync&hutId=000000LFCzgqdaBb.
Pump & dumping any investment is often very fun, at whose expense is a matter for the courts.
It sounds like you misunderstand the fact that being trans has a stigma attached to it and the same percentage of the population has always been trans but more are comfortable coming out as trans now.

The percentage is not actually changing. It's the same as coming out of the closet as homosexual, people used to get beaten and killed for it but not as much anymore in the US.

That's what stigma does and public perception has been changing to be more accepting, that's all.
What a smart way to slowly destroy your own business.
Yeah, 24 miles over how long time period, and that OK - ride as you like... but he mentioned *Patagonia* so im sure its not Flat like the Earth.

I HIGHLY recommend something like an Orbea Rise E-bike assist for a trip like this...

I am currently planning a 2,500 mile trip and am working with Orbea on it...

But first I am printing some addon parts for my unit and in process of designing a proper trailer using T-strut to build a trailer such that it can attach to my full suspension, have two wheels that are the exact same as my bike, ie spares... but as t-slot, aluminum, with the appropriate mesh interior area covered, can extend into a "cot" upon which I can put up the tent.
I guess I don't really understand most of these. Some are clear, but others I'm just not clear on what they are supposed to do. Is there more documentation or explanation for many of these?
I have a Kona Sutra, really like it. I see a lot of Surly, like the one in the post, they seem to have a good track record.
Automatic snow tires throw chains at your wheels [video]
> Also I downloaded a QR code scanning app and every time I tried to scan a QR code it showed me an ad for another QR code scanning app lol.

Maybe you've already found a decent app (or realised that your camera has a built-in scanner), but the confusingly-named Barcode Scanner (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxi...) scans QR codes without fuss.
Showing off: Wild chimpanzees show others objects simply to share attention
Is this the case when you setup DirectDebit in UK?

It's sounds like something really illegal.
Good fun!
> the embedding of Topology in Category Theory was seamless and intuitive

It is no surprise that it is a good fit, category theory first emerged out of topology.
Until I need some software which is abandoned and depends on this version which is used on an internal network and thus I’m less concerned about its vulnerabilities.

Suffice to say there’s always a case for its use. I think it should be made clearer when you end up using a vulnerable library, but I think they should remain available.
What makes caching one of the hardest parts of computing is this assertion that it's easy. Everything is easy when you oversimplify it. Some things explode in complexity when you try to force them to be simple.
Well, not quite. If we accept the premise that he didn't want any of this, then it is probable that elon wanted to do his usual market manipulation thing, leveraging his popularity and wealth to take advantage of opportunities normal people couldn't, I presume. He was insufficiently careful and his bluff was called, which is an inherent risk of gambling.

That isn't a lack of desire, that's called fucking around and finding out. Why should the subject of manipulation (twitter administration) just quietly bend over and take it after being rocked so badly? If Elon successfully pulled out of the arrangements, it would look terrible for Twitter.
Oh shucks they are!! You fiends are about to crash my site again - that will be a wonderful opportunity to fix my squares up. Ty my friend.
Can you provide the link to Mike's podcast?
> Google ported their entire monorepo to Power

That's interesting; any chance you could give the background on that or point me to more information?
It is possible to survive HN traffic.