skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly:

Cofounders looking for salesperson to work for commission only.
I want to use stripe but we sell travel, and 1.5% for a +1500Eur ticket is way too much compared to what integrating with my regular ol' bank costs 0.15%, no fixed fee.

I would love to use stripe because of DX/UX, but honestly as a SMB, can't really justify it.
Alaska satellite broadband project scuttled by coronavirus[NOT]
"If your use case is gaming, does Linux support matter much?"

It really depends on the game.

For instance, Factorio, which is enormously popular on HN, has a perfectly functioning Linux version. Many other games do too, and some games even perform better on Linux than on Windows, not to mention having a better user experience on Linux (especially if you are technical and know what you're doing).

I have an old Linux laptop, and Factorio performs well enough in single player, but I run in to serious performance issues on multiplayer. It's be nice to be able to run this Linux game on a more performant Linux machine, without shelling out the $$$ for a new gaming rig.

Further, I'd like to avoid Windows as much as possible, where it can be avoided.
>There are so many build systems in C and C++ because for each of those, someone finds something to be inadequate and has something else that works for them.

Makes me wonder why Lisp is cursed[1] but C++ isn't.

[1]: http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
Folks who enjoyed this may appreciate Simon Winchester's recent book The Perfectionists, where he covers this method amongst other things. Core to the idea of perfection are machine tools, what we in software often refer to as a toolchain. The way the toolchain revolution allowed us to go from intricate one off clockwork to reliable longitude measurement, better locks, and industrialized machinery parallels compilers, operation systems, etc.
> though I would discourage using TOTP secrets as your secret key since most authenticator apps make it difficult/impossible to access the secret key once it's stored (for security reasons).

This is why I have two Yubikeys.

But are you suggesting soft tokens (only) are useless?
Dining and sleeper cars are pretty ubiquitous, see https://journeybeyondrail.com.au/guest-information/food-beve... or https://dereklow.co/across-the-usa-by-train-for-just-213/.

For me, standing up is what makes the travelling pub most interesting - how did passengers avoid spilling their beers?
Who was this convenient for?
Of course he was, the only way this was possible in the first place was by falsifying water test results. You don't just not notice that your city water supply is testing multiple points below the required pH level. And the only people who gain anything at all by falsifying water test results is the state government who forcefully took control of the Flint government via Emergency Manager in order to cut the budget. If they failed to cut the budget they would be called out because both the state and local populous voted against emergency manager takeover, so they forced a way to cut the budget, thinking they wouldn't ever get caught. But they were too stupid to realize managing the water's pH level is what prevents the entire water system from corroding away.

Where it not for the leaded joints spiking lead levels in people, they probably would have gotten away without anybody noticing. Nobody would have noticed anything was off until years later when the water system is leaking like a sieve with nobody to blame for it.
I had issues with Paperspace too, switched over to Shadow.

I pay +/- 14 USD per month for a computer with 4 cores @ 3.4 GHz, 12 GB RAM, GTX 1080, 256 GB SSD.
No commitment.

I'm not sure where is the good deal with Workstream ?
Type of App
> Known to be contagious? early Dec.

Source?
+1 I get about 3FPS when sharing a youtube video across zoom screenshare

edit: on a very highspeed symmetric connection.
I've seen whole hospitals converted to hotels so I don't think that's a huge problem unless you start advertising it.
Is thunderbolt support tied to the CPU?? I thought it was just a slot that can be added in the mother board for any powerful CPU
Very cool stuff, Davit! Any idea if the same can be done in Firefox?
I understand that but those don't fall into the "not for sake of programs" category.

Under that category, I imagine something where the resulting program itself is of any, however minuscule, use to me.
> Despite the protestations of l33t Cyberhaxxing Z3r0 Cools everywhere, you only have to turn off hyper-threading if you are sharing a machine with someone you don't trust.

If you're reading this reply, you probably automatically executed `hn.js`. Are you _sure_ you know what it does?

Unless you're browsing the web with Javascript completely disabled, and you also don't have any applications that automatically update themselves from a remote source (are you _sure_ you know what those various auto-updaters are downloading?), you're running untrusted code on your machine.

Perhaps you don't particularly care about that risk, or you don't feel the risk is severe enough to warrant the performance hit, which is fair, but the risk is there nonetheless.
Snowcrash and Thief of Time! What an amazing juxtaposition :)
I spent years doing this, but I would still need / want a technical co-founder for my ideas.

Now I'm a technical manager who can code pretty well, but that's not really all that helpful to launch something legit and complex.
Apple's operating margin is the lowest it's been in a decade. What are you talking about?
never drink french red wine sold in bottled water style containers in France unless you have a very robust digestive system. I spent a couple of days in a fetal position after a bender on that stuff...
Thermal throttling and energy saving when using all the cores on a laptop i9 means that the 4000 series 8 cores are on a league of their own.
The Next Leg Down Will Involve Credit Cards
It works semantically too. You say the generation first, then the specific model within that generation.
The way I read it, Intel would lose it too. Neither Intel nor Apple could afford losing it for even one day. It would thoroughly damage their brand.
Not flat but similar idea

https://www.cmog.org/article/hale-reflecting-telescope-palom...

Imagine hand grinding telescope lenses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjUcBWYVF9s
Be aware that you are locking yourself into AWS if you structure everything around ECS.

IMHO once you hit a certain scale the dream of vendor-independence is a lie anyway. But while you are still small, I wouldn't box yourself in. Just my opinion of course.
Not crazy at all. This is where the industry is going anyway.

For example "Tonal" is a work out machine that attaches to the wall, with a large video screen (probably larger in the next generation version).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdV2U6NxVUY

Regarding your wall projector, it would be cool to have a camera project your image onto the instructors. Then some computer vision magic to grade how close you matched their exercise.
Well, this argument goes both ways, a generic implementation can never leverage special properties of your data. See i.e. Alexandrecu's talk [0] at about 1:05ff. If as a company you have special use cases or guidelines, you may easily benefit from libraries using these properties.

[0] https://youtu.be/FJJTYQYB1JQ
Grower?
Rocket Lake 12th-gen CPUs could be released in a hurry to combat AMD Ryzen 4000
Does anyone recall when Sun Microsystems was trying to build turnkey server rooms into shipping containers? I wonder if concerns like those you enumerate here were a minor hiccup or a major roadblock.
I think there is a market here. I don't use this service, but instead use an EC2 instance as my developer box (for personal projects) and I do like being able to easily move between multiple machines, no matter where I am and easily spin up another instance when I want to start fresh or try out other setups like having a more powerful machine or something with a GPU. At work (I work at AWS) most people do the same for their developer machines and don't have physical desktops, just using their laptops for access or lightweight local development.

A service that makes setting up and managing those developer machines easier for folks who don't want to learn or fiddle with AWS options would be valuable.
You do not seem to acknowledge the huge task they untertook. The internal Dogwood batch has already come to Purism [0], so the progress is made all the time.

[0] https://social.librem.one/@purism/103968824971000879
Nice - assuming it has USB-C? The external USB-C SSDs are great for source media.
Poland. It was the most criticised part of initial restrictions, fortunately it is being relaxed on Monday (going out for recreation is allowed, opened parks and forests, however masks mandatory when going outside).
Ask HN: Tricks to improve posture?
I'm sitting in front of a computer at least 8 hours every day and have noticed that my posture is terrible, constantly hunched over especially when I'm at my desk. Has anyone developed any tricks or tips about improving posture? It seems like a simple problem but requires constant reminding, otherwise you will fall back on your old slouched posture. Thanks!
>My hypothesis is that living things can't be depressed about stuff they are unaware of, since depression is a relative state rather than an absolute state.

It's an interesting idea, but then I think about dispositions. I would argue that animals are born with the awareness of which you speak. I call this awareness: instincts. Does a fishbowl accommodate a fish's natural born instincts?
Going by your words, Google’s hiring process seems to be hurting them right now (which makes sense). But what are the benefits of hiring this way over Facebook’s style? (or rather where does centralized hiring fall short?)
> Does anyone know of any IDE that is purely remote? as in you type locally and it's automatically syncing in the background on save?

Googlers use such an IDE internally. Externally Amazon Cloud9 and gitpod.io are similar options.
Scrum sprints limit work in progress just like kanban. It's just that with kanban you can set more granular WIP limits. I wrote about this here: https://andreschweighofer.com/agile/kanban-as-an-evolution-o...
I largely agree. Containerize as much as possible, then use Chef or Ansible for the rest.

If you know and use Ruby, Chef can be a good choice. Otherwise, go with Ansible. It's a lot more simple and flexible IMHO, and it's growing rapidly (for those reasons). A note tho, while Chef is Ruby it is still a DSL that will take some time to learn, which puts it on the same level as Ansible's YAML based "language" that you have to learn.

I like Chef but despite being a Ruby fanboi I still use Ansible for all new development. It's just a better developer experience.
How does 7pm sound?

That's what midnight UTC is in my timezone (US Central).
"LetsEncryptEmail" sounds like a good idea. It seems like there would be lessons to learn from Mozilla's Persona / BrowserID project which followed similar goals at a technical level. For instance, in addition to falling back to OTP codes sent to an email address for verification, they had a reasonably smart idea that you could use OIDC ("OpenID Connect") to validate logins more directly to at least major email providers like Gmail and Yahoo since many of the majors do have an OIDC endpoint or two.

(Mozilla Persona was a great project idea and a shame it never got enough market share. It didn't end up using personal certificates, though IIRC they explored that as an option and what they did use was technically very close.)
HPy: A future-proof way of extending Python?
I believe the climate started getting colder and more variable in the 14th century, which unfortunately also coincides with the arrival of the Bubonic plague. Similar events also happened with the arrival of the bubonic plague during the reign of Justinian of the Roman Empire. It's probably responsible for bringing on what we think of the Middle Ages vs. the Late Antique. If anyone is interseted, there is a great podcast called "Tides Of History" The author goes into great detail about each period.
Coronavirus: MPs to quiz ministers via video conferencing
The guy you are answering to was asking if there is more content than the title. but considering the comments it does not incite me to read the actual article
Be warned, EE jobs are drying up. I think they had negative job growth recently
Feature idea: use the webcam to project the watcher's image/body onto the instructor's. Then with some computer vision magic, gamify how close your workout matched the instructor's workout.
Swede here. Really baffling for me too. My kids have pretty much never even seen cash. I use the nationwide app Swish to send money to people using their phone number (almost every Swede is connected since it's pushed by all big banks) and only use contactless credit card.

How come Germany is so cash positive? Personally I think Sweden has gone a bit far, where some old people have been put in a weird spot where they can't pay because they're technologically illiterate.
> As an example, my company allows us expensing up to 2 family meals per week from local businesses to help these.

How is it different that "throwing money" as you describe Google doing?

> They are also extending the deadline with holidays not spent from last year so employees don't lose them.

It's same at Google.

There are multiple other things, most you can see at http://blog.google, including but not limited to working with governments, reducing the pricing for gsuite features, classroom software and others I can't comment on.

Disc: Googler.
The medieval warm period was most definitely a climate phenomenon with global ramifications though. Seeing as the coast of England was completely different. The higher water levels allowed the vikings to bring their ships much further inland than would be possible today.
Curious if you could find errors by comparing the results from the different models. Places where models disagree with each other more often would be areas that I would want to target for error checking.
That's also how I use it. I tried other hosters but for dev use, theirs is particularly nice because it's much cheaper. Also I like the user interface ;) Unfortunately I didn't try Gradient yet but Core already has so many possibilities...
Pennsylvania closed their state run liquor stores.

Virginia/West Virginia/Ohio's are still open, I'm pretty sure across the whole U.S they're still open.
There's a guy who used to give classes on hand scraping and machine rebuilding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH7tZZdUr2w
Not bounded means that if you give me a number x then there is some y that is bigger than x.

So, in the context of the paper, if you thought that your computer always made a decision after a week, then there is some situation whereby the computer takes longer than a week.

For the record, I think the mathematics is sounder than the computer science which in turn is sounder than the social science. As the author admits when he mentions Kepler, we can't really prove Buridan's Principle. But I think it goes further than this in the social aspect: We don't know whether indecision at traffic lights is even accurately modeled by Buridan's Principle. Then the question becomes not whether it's true, but whether it is a good model. And these kind of models are always dangerous ground in the social sciences.

Edit: The reason why I say the mathematics is sound is because he rephrases the usual notion of compactness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_space.
Mike Sperber on Functional Architecture [audio]
It's amazing how many of those old chips are still out there, but deep inside something else. I came across a 6502 embedded in a sensor SOC about 3 years ago. A 6502 for goodness sake.
There’s a huge chasm between no camera and pouring huge amounts of R&D into shipping a cutting edge camera every year and marketing entirely around that. I’m not sure how you jumped from my post to “a version without cameras”, as I did say I take a nonzero number of photos (mostly utility shots). One hell of a straw man.
Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation Turns Selfies into Anime Characters
why not just click on the link? - seems more work to run this

Also appears quote missing in second code block
Question for HN: I cannot imagine starting a company with a stranger. There are so many intense moments, points of extreme trust, and ways for things to go wrong, so much passion, and so much blending of self and company, that I wouldn't ever feel comfortable embarking with someone that I didn't know incredibly well as a cofounder.

Are there reasons to believe that starting with a stranger as a cofounder will generally work out well if you can pick the stranger carefully?
thats pretty clever :)
So, basically, even though the phone is/will/might be good it will be the windows phone debacle again with people, journalists and reviewers beating the drum of "no apps ! no app store !" until we get articles lamenting what could have been and what a shame it is because we don't need so many apps and the essentials one (whatsupp, facecook and prestagram) got there in time anyway.
The Gov. is an ex-COO from Gateway. I guess this is what they mean by making government run like a business.

EDIT: Sorry, I had the wrong company down as Dell and CEO before. Don't post from memory folks.
I like to use this technique for CLI command and help tables. It eliminates having a single giant table in a file, instead you have a C macro which makes the system aware of your command right next to your command definition.

int my_command(..) { ... }
COMMAND(my_command, "command_name", "example command")
HELP("use --foo argument for this...")
HELP("use --bar argument for that...")

Also used this all the time back when I programmed assembly language.

It's definitely a problem that this is not standardized. For example, TI has their own C compiler for their ARM CPUs, not everybody uses gcc..
That shot is really good. Do you have a photo of the contraption?
I feel like we are a long way off from that just based on price. Generously I think we can say a 1TB SSD (sata even to go cheaper) is about $100. That compared to a bare WD Red 8TB which comes in at ~$27/TB. ~4x the cost and smaller drives is a hard sell (even with the speed). I have a pool of SSD's that I keep some stuff on but the rest goes to spinning rust.
Unrelated but if you are the same guy that wrote the wireguard blog post, thank you!

It was the only one I could follow and get up and running really quickly. And my go-to when I setup a new instance if I need to.
Case Study: Casper’s Use of Scarcity and ‘Risk Removal’
I'm curious what others here are paying for a cloud VM for dev tasks. My current favorite VM size on Azure is Standard_NC6_Promo that includes a K80 GPU, 56GB RAM with 8 vCPUs for $0.39/hour.
Your site doesn't appear to work in FireFox. I really like the concept though.
They don't seem to support translating a whole page, or am I missing something? Copy/pasting is tedious.
Grayscale reports record Ethereum inflows in 2020
Lot's of what we (most other first world countries) take for granted is not present in the US.

Health care insurance for example can eat a good chunk of that 3.6kUSD: the average cost of individual health insurance premiums is $440 for an individual and &1,168 for a family, in 2018 according to eHealth [1]

1: https://www.ehealthinsurance.com/resources/individual-and-fa...
Joseph Conlon of the University of Oxford stated that some of these particles, if they existed, would already have been detected in existing accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider.[12]

> sounds like a hack to me.

Few physicists attended and no preprint, paper, or equations were published.[13] Weinstein's ideas were not widely debated. The few that did engage expressed skepticism.[12][14] They were unable to debate more intensely due to the fact that there was no published paper.[15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein
I thought he went rather quickly from some of the earliest processes (boring, for instance) to stuff that's so abstract as to be removed from anybody's practical experience (disregarding metrologists, of course) and then goes farther into philosophical matters than I found interesting.

I would have much more a book that stayed in the realm of machine tools for about half the content, covering the process of bootstrapping precision in the pre-electronic era.

An interesting third quarter could discuss the limits of precision in practical mass manufacturing and the ways we work within tolerances that are economical. The engine block and head of an internal combustion engine have a large and irregularly-shaped mating surface that's subjected to repeated heating and cooling cycles. How flat do they have to be for a gasket to seal them effectively?

The last quarter of the book could cover developments in the era of CNC, and talked about the interplay between electrical components (e.g. stepper motors) and mechanical components (e.g. lead screws, timing belts, etc) and what we gain and lose in using those type of processes. Boring a hole for example, remains more accurate than CNC'ing it on a mill because good control when one x or y approaches zero becomes difficult both mechanically and mathematically.

Anybody interested in this sort of thing might enjoy "How Round is your Circle", by the way.
You need to make sure your desk is properly set up (screen, keyboard, chair). There shouldn't be any reason to slouch if it is properly set up.
Is this a look at our future? Everybody will just connect to a more powerful computer in the cloud?
Yeah I've seriously considered doing just that, perfect geek art :)
Thanks for the link. I looked around and I saw that 2 uM Zinc inhibited SARS-CoV-1 in vitro, while human cellular concentrations of zinc are typically in the tens to hundreds mM range.

As a non-expert, there are two things that occur to me. That either something weird is going on, or zinc is very tightly controlled by the body and the range is really important. This means that taking extra dietary zinc without an ionophore probably wouldn't do much. So maybe CQ would help promote additional Zinc. According to one review article I was reading, Zinc concentration is naturally increased during immune response unless the virus hijacks the Zinc system.

This information makes me open to the possibility CQ is doing something, but so far the real world results have been unclear. One study showed that CQ had no effect on patients in France. If it's the Zinc that's making the difference and they didn't give Zinc, that would possibly explain the results, but the body also has abundant supplies of Zinc and adjusting intracellular concentration by 2/1000 of the ambient concentration shouldn't be a big deal.
In the US right now, the legislative branch is actually split between the two major parties- the Republicans control the Senate, but the Democrats control the House of Representatives. Any new laws have to be approved by both sides of the legislature.
I find lots of little utilities fit the bill. They are oftentimes sufficiently narrow in scope to be of little use to anyone but the author, but that shouldn't necessarily eliminate their use.

For example, here is a Gist with a shell script I wrote that, given a set of Maven coordinates, works with a few other tools to build out a docset for use in Zeal / Dash.

https://gist.github.com/michaeljmcd/5564758537946963e946806e...

I had to dig into some corners of Maven I didn't know well to pull it together and it formalized some random bits of minutae.

Nothing elegant or crazy, perhaps, but it is a bit of coding apart from the normal day job that taught me a couple of tricks.
Mind sharing the brand/model?
i guess there's always someone on the other side of the globe. So a reasonable time for where the majority of your audience is is the best. Unless you wanna go all out and make it timezones dependent.
That could be fun! I saw Sway app doing that for dance movements, but in fitness such tech for sure could be more useful.
Mir 1.8.0 Release