skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do watch Lock Picking Lawyer (great channel btw) and I've dabbled with lockpicking myself.

But maybe locks are generally worse in the US than they are here in Sweden. Masterlocks are infamously bad.
I actually am using it to record metrics for umami.is:

https://app.umami.is/share/8rmHaheU/umami.is

I'm using it for all my websites. The reason I went with another site for the demo is because I wanted something with at least 30 days of data so users can play around with the different settings. Once I get enough data, I'll switch it over.
For you it's a flu. Unless you're really old, or have serious chronic illnesses, you will be fine.
66% efficiency sounds amazing for compressed air. I was expecting 10%.
No, but I am tired of every security/surveillance post I see on HN having a glut on comments downplaying the severity or real-world applicability.
I have a question on this.
I am employed in a startup since the last 3 years. I already have 100k shares vested (5 year window, 3 years passed). I can buy them at a low strike price (<$100 for all shares). However, I think that when I buy the options, I'll have to pay the tax on the amount?

What happens if I don't pay the tax but just buy the options? Will I lose my options because I haven't paid the tax?
It is true no physical law obligates the universe to make them observable to us. But, this is the same universe that gave rise to Star Trek, Firefly, and especially The Expanse making so many of us dream of interstellar travel. So, I’d say ethically it’s pretty damn obligated to make them observable :)

/s (Sort of.. not really)
Survey: Writing at Work
>All these strict (implicit) social rules are ridiculous, and I am not interested in that kind of toxic environment, where a simple question results in inter personal conflict.

You can't really expect navigating a world where everything is laid out just for you. That's not how it works. The faster you learn this the less you'll suffer. There's a hint of entitlement here that you should probably fix as well.

>I also don't care what you think about my maturity or social ability.

Of course you do, you made a blog post about it, posted on Hacker News and you replied to posters on your thread. All your prose suggests bitterness. Stop being bitter about it and move on with your life. Seek therapy if you feel it's overwhelming you. It has been 2 years now. [0]

>A mature adult would have been able to respond with a message saying that dating is not appropriate, and a mature adult would have still been able to talk about math after saying that dating is inappropriate.

She didn't acknowledge you because you made the e-mail about a date. Had you not made it about a date MAYBE things would have turned out different. But you were too focused on something that's not mathematics to think straight.

>To me, it seems more like the other person is immature and not capable of engaging in a constructive situation.

Take responsibility for your own actions. Admit you were wrong, LEARN from it and move on. Do I have to remind you that YOU e-mailed her first about discussing research and make a date out of it? YOU e-mailed her after you saw her at that public lecture knowing that she didn't previously acknowledge you?
It's not up to the other party to tell you how to behave. She's not your parent.

>Anyway, over analyzing a simple email with a question is a bit unnecessary, and it was the opposite of productive. The productive thing to do would have been to simply acknowledge the situation and divert towards mathematics. What annoyed me is that none of the university faculty was able to do so.

There's no over analyzation here. You made your intentions pretty clear with your first e-mail to her. You should have worded it differently and actually make the "research discussion" about actual research and not a date.

I'm sorry things turned out wrong for you, but I don't feel sympathy for you after you lashed out at faculty like that. Next time, refocus your anger to something productive and not destructive. Just look at how that turned out for you.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumination_(psychology)
Reading this brought back memories. I caught it back in March here in WA state. I’m not sure when I got it. But I’m pretty sure it was the week before the lockdown (March 23rd). I was already self-isolating, but I just got careless one day. I went grocery shopping, wore a mask, brought my groceries home, put them away, and then ate something and scratched my nose. It was right then that I realized I hadn’t washed my hands after I got home and put away the groceries. About 3 or 4 days later, it kicked in.

My doctor was basically the same as the one in the article - couldn’t do anything for me. Kept telling me my case is considered minor because I can still breath and my temperature wasn’t spiking. I never hallucinated though. Feel like I missed out on that :)

My fever hit 103 and stayed there for over a week. A couple of days it hit 104. I told myself if it went higher I’d figure out how to get to the hospital. Luckily it didn’t go up. I was able to just stay home.

The chills were terrible. I was so cold and shivering so much that I couldn’t sleep. Eventually exhaustion caught up with me and I just passed out. I have no idea how I kept my dog fed and a minimum of accidents in the house. I really don’t remember anything from those 2 weeks. It’s just a haze.

But the one thing I do remember is the cough. I’ve had the flu, bronchitis, walking pneumonia, and even real, ICU pneumonia (to be fair over 2 decades ago so I don’t recall how bad it was), and the COVID cough was so much worse. I would curl up in the fetal position because I had coughed so much that I couldn’t straighten up. I walked hunched over because my abs hurt so bad. There were several times I’d start crying because I felt a coughing fit about to start. I don’t know if cough medicine helped at all, but I was drinking it every time I was lucid enough to remember to. I ran out one day and started panicking. I got really lucky and found a couple of bottles at a local Bartells. But I couldn’t go get it. I have great neighbors though. And one of them went and picked it up for me. They put themselves at risk to help me. They dropped it off at the end of my driveway and didn’t come within 40 feet of my front door. I waited till they were back in the house before I went and picked it up.

So yeah. It’s a “fever and a cough”. I really hope that none of you ever have to experience that “fever and a cough”

Edit: Some bio facts about me. I was 43 when I caught it. At the time I was training with power lifting, CrossFit, and a lot of rucking. If I really pushed myself, I could hit a 7 minute mile (not competitively fast, but fast for me). I would call myself healthy at the time I contracted it. No underlying health conditions (beyond bad eyesight and partial deafness).
My current working model (WIP).

1. Write in Markdown. Stay as less markup as possible and tend towards plain text.

2. Organize/Categorized into folders; such as -- parenting, entrepreneurship, startup, homelab, books, etc.

3. Choose a really simple publisher (Jekyll for now). I sprinkle the least front matter in the header of each file. So, I can publish the selected ones online for me, friends, and family.

4. Let Obsidian look over it (it drops just one folder .obsidian), write with it sometimes. I don't want any tool taking over, chewing it and making smart decisions for me.

My focus are those files inside the folders. I should be able to just replace Jekyll or Obsidian in future without losing the integrity of my content.
I was going to mention Julia.

Not only does it have it, it has it in (what I feel) is a really accessible way. Seen a symbol and you don't know what it is or how to reproduce it? Enter "?" and paste them symbol into the repl and it'll tell you what's it's called, the shortcut to make it, what it does, and the equivalent non-symbol function name.
Here? [0] I'd be interested in reading the email thread of why it still panic'd, if you have it lying around.

[0] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/kern/kern...
Wait whaaaat? This is the first I've heard of this. I've a vague understanding of causality. I thought the arrow of Time moved in one direction only? How can A come before B come before A from, from one observer?
What level of spending is required for that? I to a large extent agree with your intent, but I think the argument is invalid. What if I said, I thought we could achieve the same results at 10% of the cost?

What if I think many of the policies actually do great harm? What if I'm in jail for a nonviolent drug offense?
Yup and it was then largely popularized by Jack Welch former CEO of GE who is/was responsible for a lot of modern execs views on the matter.
When in history have we ever seen a disease where doctors, the public, or the media said "living in fear for your life is a good idea if you contract this disease?"

If someone contracts a dangerous disease aren't we supposed to reassure them that things will be OK? Isn't that part of good medicine? And yet all of society has turned this idea on its head when it comes to coronavirus. One report after another about how horrific it is. Constant anxiety and fear that takes a real toll on people.

Yes it's worse than the flu, if we take the stats in Los Angeles for example about 2.5% of confirmed cases have died. (Based on this it's a fair guess that less than 1% of all cases, including the unreported ones, have died.) Many people like the author have severe symptoms and then recover.

I have to wonder if this aberrant response to coronavirus says more about our times and the media we're subjected to than the virus itself. A 24/7 stream of corona terror is being pushed into our eyeballs. How does that help anyone, especially the people who get sick? Does panic, fear, and a response straight from our lizard brains help us end the pandemic? Who decided that mass terror was the best way to beat it? I didn't sign up for this strategy and I bet you didn't either.
This is true for Autotools projects, but isn't true for CMake, Bazel, Meson, and others. Let's take CMake for example, which is IMHO the most popular build tool: most modern CMake projects prefer to use the Ninja build system over Make.

And coming back to Autotools, some of the largest Autotools projects (see the GNOME ecosystem) has been moving/moved to Meson, which can also be used to generate Ninja rules instead of Makefiles.

CMake Generators: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-generators....
Meson: https://mesonbuild.com/
Bazel: https://bazel.build/

GNOME and Meson: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/MesonPorting
The Fabulous Next Billion
Don't forget universal education so you have a literate population who feeds into your startup workforce.

The problem with most libertarian arguments is that they love to point out all of the negative externalities of taxes, but none of the positive externalities of a well educated, healthy, fed, sheltered, happy society and a clean environment.

People and the environment are treated as cost free infinite sinks and sources.

Markets may be the most efficient mechanism for allocating goods and services using price signals, but that assumes your price signals aren't garbage. Garbage in/Garbage out, and if you have uncounted for costs your externalizing from your inputs or outputs, then you're effectively freeloading off of everyone else who will pay those costs down the line.

Thus when someone makes billions of dollars and starts to whine about paying a chunk of it, what I hear is an ungrateful douchebag who participated in a game whose rules were set up before his birth, won big, and wants to loot the corpse and run off without paying it forward. (I'm looking at you Eduardo Saverin)
I'm at the tail end of it now. Or at least I hope I am.

It started about three weeks (wait, is it four?) ago with a high fever, migraine, back aches, and fatigue. Then a few days later I started getting a bit of a soar throat, and a few days after that I lost my sense of smell and taste in about a day -- and that's when I knew. A few days later I took a test which four days later came back positive.

My wife and daughter were both sick as well. My wife's symptoms mimicking mine, but offset by two days. My daughter, well... kids are invincible, also being 3 she lacks the vocabulary to communicate much more than this and that hurts. She had a fever and a head ache for a few days.

The fever, migraine and bed rest lasted about a week and a half.

They were both given the all clear last week, while I got put on antibiotics and an inhaler because I was displaying some indications that it was migrating to my lunges. I seem to be in the clear now.

I'm 38 and a C level exec at a startup in a critical phase, and I am afraid to say that I've been defunct since this thing started. The fatigue has been crushing. But it seems to be mental fatigue and not a physical one (well, after the first week at least). I've been doing gardening and started a gazebo construction project while this was going on (being idle makes me go a bit nuts), sweating like a manic under the sub-tropical sun, but I've hit brick walls as soon as I've tried to focus on anything more complex than "man beat tree, tree fall down".

I can't focus on anything complex for more than a little while. Today I stubbornly started debugging an issue, but after my initial findings, and realizing it was a slightly complex problem, I had to hand it over to a coworker as I was completely wrecked after 10 minutes of focusing -- and this was the most work I've done in weeks.

I see some improvement every day, but it is very frustrating not being able to get any real work done.
It's scares me that it has had this big effect on me even if I had a comparatively mild case. I can't imagine what other people are going through.
If pay goes down, engineers will just swap for a different remote job, or move back to Silicon Valley. Many are in this industry for the money. If they can't find a way to keep their wage premium, they'll bounce. Startups will look more attractive. Part of paying FANG money is to keep the best folks available on retainer.
You make a good point — a tax like this would be a full-employment act for tax lawyers. I used to be one, and if a tax like this were enacted, there would be so much demand I might be conscripted by my former colleagues.
I try to avoid anecdotal accounts because they give a pretty limited picture of the range of experiences.
Ask HN: What are the laws around collecting images in the wild to build AI?
I've been wondering this for awhile now and can't find any information about it online. What are the laws (if any) put in place regarding image collection to train AI (commercial and non-commercial purposes)?

For example, let's say I wanted to train a computer vision model to recognize scenes (let's say for a real estate use case). Can I simply go to 100 restaurants, snap a photo, blur out the logo and use those images to train my model?

Can I do the same thing for electronics if I wanted to built an object recognition model?
Conjuring up unnecessarily violent imagery makes readers with something to say less willing to step up and say it.
GPT3 generated article?
Best show on YouTube. Such a PBSST addict
What does this have to do with tech?
Judging by that quote, some people don't seem to know this, and you can bet they act like it protects them more than it does.
It can't, if that observer always moves slower than the speed of light in all reference frames.
My school had a class called CS 418 Computer Graphics. One of the final projects was to render a scene reflected off the surface of a teapot STL. I often pondered on the coincidence.
It's auditable, open source, and immutable. It's neutral. Neither good nor evil. It's your responsibility or the community's responsibility to audit the code and assess the risks.
I work there. If "shadow profile" means a profile that's created from PII for a specific person that doesn't have an account on the site, fb doesn't create shadow profiles.
oh no, chrome is awesome. I just saw a Google video about using fetch to get and send streams. Chrome seems to be the first browser that implemented that yet.

I just think it's not ok to auto play audio
Although many masks have a one-way valve or vent which allows exhaled air to bypass the filter and infect others.
Although there is a body of evidence building that you are more likely to have a milder case if catching it wearing a mask (due to a slightly lower initial viral load).

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/07/418181/one-more-reason-wea...
> Much to my astonishment/amusement, it did.

Surely "just happened" is the default state of all impossible, cannot happen scenarios?
What I was going to say, is that with many people now working on company projects remotely, the potential financial damage isn't just loss of the resident's belongings.
It sounds like things falling into wormholes accelerate terribly -- a natural particle collider? Should we be able to see the detritus?
if only they had iOS app.

Using Notion.io because of that, but i would change to Obsidian when they have it.

There is a workaround of storing the md files in iCloud and using a markdown editor like 1Writer to open and edit them. But you loose some functionality with that.
How to Start as a Tech Blogger
>If someone contracts a dangerous disease aren't we supposed to reassure them that things will be OK? Isn't that part of good medicine?

Ahh yes, for example when you're being diagnosed with cancer, a good doctor will always tell you that it's known to have a 100% survival rate. /s
1) so what? The point is that this creates an incentive for capital flight, no amount of moral nagging will prevent that.

2) That’s very debatable. Most benefits nowadays go to The middle classes to the detriment of lower classes.

3) Are you aware that Sweden had a wealth tax? It was a bad idea, it was repealed.
I am not a person who underestimates Covid-19 and take all the precautions that are required.

But to be honest, I had a flu with similar symptoms 2 years ago and I pretty much thought I was dying. I am generally healthy, in my early 30s. Terrible, terrible muscle pain, fever, cough, general nausea all the time. I basically could not operate normally for 2 weeks, after those 2 weeks I was maybe functioning at 50% of my normal energy. Actually, many of my co-workers would get that flu too and my boss, a real workaholic that would work no matter what, even he had to take few days off because he couldn't even think straight.

So yes, Covid-19 sounds kind of like that bad flu. It is bad, but 2 years ago we would just call it "a bad flu". So I wonder if a lot of the fear of Covid is based more on propaganda and social panic than on actual health risks. The only explanation I see why politicians are so eager to overreact is because most of them are of certain age and belong to the high risk group.

Edit: I understand that most of the concerns about the virus might come from the fast spread and impact on hospitals. Thanks for the comments who clarified this.
A blatant example would be Gilead Truvada for PrEP. US Tax payer funded research and all profits go straight to Gilead.

That's such a gross oversimplification to the point it's just wrong. If you want to read how one of the two drugs in the combo was developed, I'd suggest this journal article [1] - I warn you, the story evolves over 15 years.

The initial discovery of the class of compounds was done at Emory university. Emory then partnered with Burroughs Wellcome. Burroughs Wellcome was then acquired by Glaxo, who halted the research. The rights then went back to Emory, who then spun it out to a start-up called Triangle Pharmaceuticals, who was then acquired by Gilead who brought Truvada to market.

Emory did sue a number of manufactures as they had a patent, but it was settled with a fat ($525M) cash payment to Emory and an on-going royalty stream.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5777139/
A fine rebuttal would acknowledge that a charitable reading of pg's original post includes the effect of growth---you're still left with the same fraction of wealth if not for the tax. It's not even a stretch to say that that's what pg originally meant, the phrasing in [1] is pretty careful and specific. FTA's thesis is entirely predicated on an error that arguably isn't there. It would do much better by acknowledging that yes, even under optimistic growth conditions the tax will take a big bite out of the final wealth, but that even under conservative estimates of growth the hypothetical founder will still be ahead. This is a facile "well-actually".

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20200818133017/http://paulgraham....
N95 masks in particular.
Is it though? I've heard very often that lecturing in this fashion is the most inefficient way of transmitting information from a slide onto a notebook without being understood by anyone writing it. If you're processing what you're seeing and summarizing then maybe that works but I think what worked best for me was always asking questions about the material.
I guess the 2020 version of this status code would be "Sir, this is a Wendy's"
I wonder if this is even legal in the EU, given the GDPR laws that prohibit sending customer data to the USA.
> I added panic("I'm a teapot!"); to the FreeBSD kernel, many many years ago (sys/kern/kern_thread.c). It was for an impossible, cannot-happen scenario.

I know it’s in jest but I absolutely hate to encounter this kind of thing in the wild. It’s a huge anti pattern and tax you put on other people who have to troubleshoot “impossible” scenarios.
I skimmed it, but he didn't mention that any of his friends even had it. He just said "my guess is that I caught it there."
It is only immutable and immune to manipulation while there are enough miners, and there are no hard forks.

While it may look good now, there is a non-zero chance it will disappear within 5 years for some reason or other.

So if your data is really important, better make a backup copy of it somewhere safe, like in B2.
If that’s the case, you may just have solved the halting problem. :)
We return 418 on our site in case an admin tries to access the admin panel without a required VPN. It actually clicked pretty fast with everybody on the team, especially those less tech-savvy. They know the "teapot issue" means they forgot to turn on the VPN. It's less confusing than 401/403 :)
Bulk mail is often produced using a letterpress-style machine. Personalized mail, on the other hand, is usually "handwritten" using a pen plotter (e.g., AxiDraw).

https://axidraw.com/
The original teapot server was an Acorn Archimedes, so this is a nice legacy.

Edit: I misremembered, it was a coffee pot. Bloody barbarians!

From RFC 2324, “
[CBIO] "The Trojan Room Coffee Pot, a (non-technical) biography", Q. Stafford-Fraser, University of Cambridge Computer Lab, <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/coffee.html>
Hard to extrapolate here since I don't have too much data, I hear you though. But yes, I am shocked that he still uses the product 6 months later (product-market fit?). As bad as it would be to reliant on my product, I'd rather have him eating greek yogurt and vegetables than sugary shit so not a bad sacrifice.

When it comes down to it, is it a dependency or brand loyalty? Think of all the brands we are "dependent" on and how it is normalized to buy an iphone every few years or a pint of ice cream every week, for instance.
This same thing just happened to Belkin WeMo. Looking forward to the class action.

I bought a bunch of switches because the offered local control and no account needed, now an account is required to set up anything new and local control is apparently going away. I’m now wary of anything that needs a proprietary app at all which would give them the ability to do this in the first place.
this is the setup I keep going back to(I've tried Roam, Obsidian, Tiddly) - VimWiki + TaskWarrior + TaskWiki.
Please if you’re reading this, don’t add this status code and don’t suffer anyone to add this to your code either. It’s not funny, and it’s not clever. Please don’t do it. Find another way to be clever and funny.