skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did you get it prescribed? I can't get my doctor to give me one.
A lot of those are really good photos, and I really think that a good photo is critical for success on a dating site. It's not just about being physically attractive, but that a good photo conveys personality -- including the sense that you care enough about your profile that youre not just grabbing the first selfie off your phone.

That said... in my personal experience a good candid shot is more effective than a portrait. These portraits are all lovely but they don't say much about you. One says "I have a dog", and some distinguish "I like cities" from "I like being in nature". But the bokeh removes one of my most important tools for looking at a dating profile -- knowing what to say for my opening line. Being able to look closely at the photo and say, "You like X? I like X too!" or "Tell me about your trip to Y" is infinitely better than "Hi" or "You look nice."

It may be that a good portrait is the best front picture, and you supplement it with candids. A good portrait doesn't make you look good so much as it gives a truer sense of what you really look like.
What Happens If a Watch Falls into a Black Hole?
Wasn't that the graphing-around that said that people are dying from Corona but the total number of deaths isn't increasing correspondingly, and quite possibly not at all?

I found it quite interesting, but it sounded more like a reason to investigate than a result of investigation. For example, some non-Corona treatments are happening in much lower numbers than usually; how "should" that affect the number of deaths from the relevant causes and what numbers are actually observed? It's not sensible to draw conclusions about Corona from the number of other-cause deaths without also looking at the changes to other-cause reasons and treatments.
Hacker News is small enough that dang will probably see a decent fraction of your content. The best way to get to the front page remains submitting quality content.
The last time the White House transitioned from Republican to Democrat we had this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_War_(2008%E2%80%932009)
Libra–Facebook’s Long-Awaited Stable Coin– May Launch in January 2021
That's an interesting claim!
Is there a tax efficient way to structure a tech company in Switzerland?

Taxation doesn't look very good neither on the personal level (income tax / dividend tax / tax on deemed rental value of your property if you own a house!!!) nor the company one (corporate rate tax, high cost of personnel).
They do have some good deductions and a lump sum income tax for foreigners relocating to Switzerland but it seems like you won't benefit from it unless your income is 7 times higher than your yearly rent (or deemed property rental value if you own).

Is there maybe some possible legal fiscal loophole with foreign entities?
I have a master's degree or higher from a US school. When I applied for an H1-B a few years ago, my employer's immigration lawyers decided not to submit applications under the master's cap, since my degree was unrelated to my position.

Are there potential issues if the master's degree is unrelated to the position? I have a related undergraduate degree.
Calling Iran a “peaceful country” and “virtuous” is not supported by the facts. Iran develops nuclear weapons despite its negotiated agreements.[1] It engages in hostile acts throughout the region directly and through proxies like Hezbollah. [2] It interferes with domestic elections of other countries. [3]

1- https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-11-11/un-age...

2- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Persian_Gulf_crisis

3- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/21/russia-iran-...
Hey I’m working on Amna (https://getamna.com). It seems super relevant to this problem space. Will post to Show HN next week for more thoughts.

Amna is a fast way to do context switching. You write a task, and start working on it. Amna gives you a space with an editor and browser (more in the future), and saves your work. It makes information really easy to navigate. Though not great for general browsing, it’s perfect when you have a task to do. And you can easily come back to something at a later time.
About Iran & electric energy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Iran#Electricity ):

> Energy consumption in Iran is 6.5 times that of global average. It is estimated that 18.5% of electricity generated in Iran is wasted before it reaches consumers due to technical problems. Electric power wastage hit $1.1 billion in 2006.

Interesting (if true/correct) - I guess that they could first fix this if they really want nuclear for the purpose of generating electricity.
I mean, it’s Thanksgiving holidays.
>Investors have very little risk appetite

Are high profile investors in Swizterland interested only in retail investments?
If you read the rebuttal Coinbase did 3 investigations, 2 of them by external reviewers (with the doucmentation made available to the nytimes) who found no evidence in the complaints. This is a hatchet job by the woke nytimes using identity politcs to cow a company who refused to kneel.
It is a reference to the assistance provided by France to help the American colonies (and later the United States) rebel against the British Empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolut...
Are you aware of what Iran has been up to in the region? Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Gaza..
I wish I were that smart but thank you. I just don't do enough to give back and this is one way that I do or at least try to.
It largely doesn’t exist there because they’re so monocultural. Zoning in the US was created explicitly to preserve racial divisions in neighborhoods.
Oh, come on, history is written by the victors. I am not saying that they have not did bad things, but if Germany had won, they would say the same about U.S., who, just as a reminder, dropped two nuclear bombs in civilian cities.

Both sides thought what they were doing was right and there is always a way to justify the means.

Disclaimer: I am from a country which was neutral during the WW2.

Edit: Here is the thing, I do not want this to become a "Who is the most evil?" thread, so I will not be responding except for this edit (I suggest everyone to do the same).

The point of this comment was that, public perspective is something that can easily be manipulated. The phrase "History is written by the victors." means exactly that. I just wanted to mention that Germany would use the example I gave to justify their actions "Wow they are evil. see what they did?". One should always be mindful where they are standing and check if they are being manipulated or not.

If this comment starts a flame war, dang, please feel free to delete the whole thread.
Swiss French speaker here. This expression is usually used to mean "There is no rush", or "relax we have time". Switzerland is quite slow to change.
Search by text assumes that I'm looking for something specific. But it would be great if we could sort results by github stars, for people that are just window shopping. It would also be great if projects could be assigned topics that users could then use to filter results.
Europe's last non-statist outpost.
When animosity reaches a certain threshold, ignoring it is actually dangerous and not merely to one's mental health.

I didn't respond in frustration. That's one of the issues here. Other people act weird, tell me there's something wrong with how I phrased it, I engage them conversationally and now some other random stranger replies with a comment that can be interpreted to mean I'm merely neurotic and oversensitive.

That boils down to "When other people react weirdly to your prosaic observation, you cannot engage them. You are required to try to somehow rise above it and not speak to them. And when this becomes an entrenched pattern, it's somehow your fault for existing."

That fundamentally doesn't work.
And that is just client support. For eSNI to work, both client and server must support it.
Short Interest on S&P Hits New Lows
1) you can submit application paperwork 6-months prior to the 5-year mark.

2) I did this on my own. It’s quite straightforward and there are tons of great resources online.

Two things to help you:
1) use Adobe Acrobat Reader to fill the form. The forms were created with Adobe’s tools (or so it seems), so validation is built/in. Also, there are sections where the response to the first question dictates the next few responses; with Reader, if you don’t check the box, you don’t need to fill N/A in the rest of the fields for that section. This might seem like a small detail but when dealing with USCIS, you don’t want to take any chances. With the right tool, you don’t have to worry.

2) if you don’t hear back on your application post the interview stage, request an appointment with the reason that you want to provide additional details or answer follow-up questions. My application got “lost” in a pile somewhere and took 75-days to make it through to the step wherein I could schedule an oath ceremony. The wait is nerve-wracking, to say the least.

Good luck and send me a message if you need any help. Once again, not a lawyer; just another immigrant who went through naturalization (and now filing of my dad’s GC) on his own.
People describing how they went wrong/changed their minds
I think this needs a "/s" on it.
Apple DNS Resolver coming soon?
Just noticed "resolver-a.dns.apple.com" and "resolver-b.dns.apple.com" - 17.7.7.7 and 17.8.8.8.

Neither responds to DNS queries, but they respond to ICMP by the nearest Apple PoP. Would make some nice competition to the other resolvers currently available.
Yes Bloomberg 5 Things is good. I also like most of the time the Oreilley 4 short links: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/topics/four-short-links/
The Gift of Death (2012)
Zurich has a very good cs university and one of the early google vp’s are from Zurich. Also very good tax situation.
Shared culture and norms are necessary for social harmony, and reduce the costs of law enforcement. Social harmony generally makes people happier as long as they are included in the mainstream, while internalized law enforcement frees up money for other uses. I see those as the main advantages of conformity.

I think however that it's generally true that conformity diminishes progress and positive change. Whether that's worth the loss of a shared culture depends. I think the current state in the US where there are two cultures which divide the population into two modes is harmful, since it makes society fractious and hostile. We could do for more conformity, now.

However if that were to shift back to a mass culture with various countercultures chafing against it, I think then more independent thinking would be good. I think mass cultures are the rule rather than the exception now, and most other places could do for more independent thinkers.
The obfuscation appears to be Go being statically linked, so there's a large number of functions to comprehend, along with the humans running the source code through a Go-code obfuscator that renames all functions to randomly-chosen strings, and XOR-encoded any printable strings.

That type of obfuscation is pretty common for PHP malware. The only thing notable here is that the original, human-written source is Go.
I love this piece. It combines speculative futures with indigenous ontologies and epistemologies. It's both now and then – which is the point.
Sorry! As long as the world's leading consumer and enterprise technology continues to be created there, it won't be going away any time soon.
I wake up every morning to great content. Thanks HN Community and dang!
Can you please add a link to your hackernews news letter and also does it support RSS?
Seems like that depends on what kind of conventional startup wisdom you're thinking about. For example, from what I've read about SaaS business plans, the conventional approach is drawn from the experiences and data of hundreds (or thousands?) of SaaS companies. It's not done with scientific rigor, but it's not individual founders making hasty conclusions based on their own outcomes either.

Understanding the conceptual model behind a SaaS business plan, the kind of metrics that people find valuable and concrete techniques that other companies have found effective seems worth doing even if you have your own theory or approach that's explicitly different—for the same reasons lisper mentioned for scientific knowledge, just at a smaller scale.

I single out SaaS not because it's necessarily more systematic than other tech business plans—I suspect that it is, but don't have a real basis for that—but because I've read more about that than other kinds of companies. I'm sure there is a lot of valuable collective knowledge for any sort of product or company you want to build and the advantages you get from learning that should outweigh any priming effect the knowledge has, as long as you are intentional in deviating from the "conventional" path.
Inviting Michigan lawmakers to the white house to discuss "voter fraud", directly calling Michigan electoral polling officials, firing defense officials and installing super loyalists to positions of power, firing officials who oversaw the election that don't tow his official stance of a "rigged election" (Krebs). Refusal to acknowledge the win of an opponent, instead spreading disinformation and outright lies. Getting into fights with the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (a republican) to try to force him not to certify the results of the election. Talking about trying to use the state legislatures to override the results of the election itself.

This is pretty sketchy stuff and is very much in line with a coup. While not necessarily "troops in the street" coup it's very important not to underplay this.

He's using as much soft power as possible to undermine the results of the election and to influence it in his favor.
> import cards from a directory of Markdown files

Anki supports CSV as an option for import. How about you convert the markdown files to CSV and import it? Recently I used it just for fun to import all the sentences from Faust and put them in a spreadsheet with LibreOffice Calc. I made it separate all the sentences by dots, and added another column with translations of the file thanks to DeepL. Converted it to CSV and it worked out, sentence and translation cards done.
The one we wrote for the class :)

Well, sort of. The first assignment was to write a bootloader in x86 assembly. For the second assignment we were given a bootloader and a partially-implemented kernel, and we had to finish the kernel by writing a non-preemptive (cooperative) scheduler (including implementing context switching and so on). Third assignment same thing but a preemptive scheduler. And so on. The partially-implemented kernel is very rudimentary—kernel threads but no userspace threads or forking, no filesystem, no virtual memory and no actual difference between kernel mode and user mode (until the virtual memory assignment, in which the partial kernel we were given did actually do ring transitions), etc.

Anyway all this is to say that we were running a very very bare-bones, stripped-down kernel, and even then it was annoyingly slow, so I expect that it would be still be extremely slow running a "real" OS. It's my understanding that that's not really what Bochs is for, though. If you want to run Win95 use a normal VM; Bochs is meant to be a low-level x86 development tool. Though again that's just my impression, so I could be wiong in that.
Just to provide a bit of the opposite perspective from what I’m seeing in most of the comments here, I appreciated the post. I know what it’s like to work with people who _care_ about what they’re doing, and what it’s like to work with people who don’t, and I (personally) would pick the former over the latter even if it meant more hours, less money, whatever.

At the end of the day, what makes me feel good is leaving the workday feeling like I got good work done with a good team, and we all tried our best because we care about what we’re doing, instead of just punching the clock. I’m not crazy or indoctrinated, that’s just what makes me feel satisfied by my work. But people are different and value very different things, so I’m glad there are companies that work well for each type of person.
Whoever did it should have done similar like Stuxnet. Killing a scientist is not honourable.
Well, as a toy model to compare to reality to see if it improves your insight into how societal changes happen, I guess. And if it doesn't, you can discard it.

But if you entertain it, it suggests that sudden shifts in culture (acceptance of gay marriage, for example) proceed along the boundaries of social groups, where people are influenced by both their closest friends and family and the prevailing external "field", until they "flip their poles" and align with the neighbouring domain, at which point it becomes more likely that their other friends and family will do the same, and so on.
Thanks for sharing! Having read your blog post, I'm intrigued...but I'm not understanding the process involved in "curating" items between the tiers. It could be that i'm overthinking what you described, but I'm certainly curious to learn more about your process. I look forward to reading any follow-ups to this piece. :-)
My personal theory is that determination whether a place can become a "Silicon Valley" is the population's attitude to drugs. If a developer can smoke a joint after a tough day or explore his or hers consciousness in other ways, without fear of going to jail and having their life ruined, then that attracts creative people. If you have creative people in one place, it all starts to come together.
> The Iranian nuclear scientist in question was building a nuclear bomb to destroy Israel.

You can't just say that without tons of credible evidence to back it up.

Especially given Iran has no nuclear weapons while Israel does have them and refuses to sign any regulating treaty.

> In the U.S. our nuclear arsenal is a defensive weapon. So, not morally equivalent.

think you forgot the sarcasm tag.
The U.S. is the ONLY country in history to have ever used nuclear weapons offensively.

The Iranians have followed the nuclear deal, the U.S. has pulled out and violated the agreement. If anything, it is the U.S. that has shown itself as the irrational player here.
The fact it's 2020 seems to escape a good portion of people in their 40's who still think its 2004 and that they're hip and young. I can only think this is a similar cultural ossification for older people.

I know that's an issue for me because I recently got introduced to a bunch of YouTuber's with millions of followers that I'd never heard of. I actually find that level of cultural disconnect a bit worrying.
Better wages in Norway, though a more traditional low tech market focused around resources.

They've been trying to diversify for ages but can't comment on the results of that.

Haven't heard of any Norwegian Spotify, Mojang, Kings or Klarnas though.
And there is a quote: "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Sometimes I wonder whether one of the factors that makes US the mecca of technology is the lack of safety net there (compared to Europe).
I'm not talking about math. I'm talking about computer numbers, specifically IEEE-754.

NaN is represented by a maximal (all ones) exponent, and at least one non-zero in the mantissa. Infinity has the same exponent but an all-zero mantissa. So with a naive comparison, NaN compares greater than infinity.

If you only believe output from programming languages, javascript claims that the type of infinity is "number".

>>> typeof Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY
"number"
I don't know how egalitarian it is. Having visited Geneva and spoken with many people there about the crazy high cost of living - it seems that most low wage earners survive by living in nearby French towns and commuting in to work. That's an economy maintained by the indentured servitude of non-native people.
Tresorit comes from Hungary, they just made a business entity in Switzerland to look better from security/privacy perspective. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tresorit#History
The French have a shot at this, if there is political will in Paris. Closest thing to SV in France is Toulouse: a major university; defense and related tech industries; lots of competent world class engineers; and an attractive locale.
secondary propulsion system for maneuvering out of warp- and how goofy would it be to walk around in a vertically standing ship in gravity?
I thought this was common knowledge. Late 80s, my bro tech'd for his prof, who was researching artificial sweeteners, esp aspartame. He told me a burger w/ diet coke was worse than normal coke, because the excess insulin produced will then metabolize whatever useful protein is found into fat. He also said the fake sugars were more addictive, which I totally believe.
Off topic, but Strauss brand is fairly local and quality is amazing: https://www.strausfamilycreamery.com/
Silicon Valley probably just means highly paid engineering jobs for those journalists
A nuanced question which turns on among other things the definition of employment which in turn will depend in part here on how far advanced the company is at that time. I would need to speak with you to explore this but the short answer is that it might be possible to continue after your EAD expires.
Is that subreddit dedicated to psychedelics?
Iran funds Hezbollah that operates next to Israel. It is well known.

Iran is suspected to fund and ship rockets that are used against Israel. I won't say it is confirmed but it will be no bif surprise if the rumors are confirmed.

Iran officials often speak about eradicating Israel. The opposite never happens.

Israel is not known to operate any milits in or around Iran, they are not suspected of shipping rockets to Irans neighbors and they are not known to talk enthusiastically about flattening Iran or killing its inhabitants.

I think we can agree that it is a poorly kept secret that they are probably behind a number of assassinations, industrial espionage and possibly sabotage but the difference is still enormous.
Not OP, but it could be a literal translation of an expression in french: "Il n'y a pas le feu au lac", meaning "No need to hurry / There is no emergency"
Any idea why they've set the Genesis start time at 23sec past 12PM?

Perhaps just my OCD, but why not kick it off at 12 sharp rather than wait for [$random_number == 23] seconds?
you are not supposed to type realistic answers to security questions

Assuming that you are allowed to type an answer.

United Airlines makes you pick from a list of pre-selected answers. And some of the questions are easily worthless.

For example, one of the United "security" questions is "What is your favorite ice cream?"

How is someone who is lactose intolerant supposed to answer that? Or someone who has never had ice cream? Or someone who doesn't like any of the flavors on the list? My favorite ice cream today isn't the same as it was 20 years ago when I signed up for my frequent flyer card.
Stripped Bare (SA Train Stations Plundered During Covid-19 Lockdown)
Escape from Callback Hell (promissified async/await tutorial)
> The lack of focus on performance and efficiency has nothing to do with available resources, it is a consequence of management (political) decisions.

Developers focused on building their resume or playing with the latest fadtech are at least as much to blame!