skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft seems to be hungover from whatever they were doing with tablets about 10 years ago. They might be coming around to the fact that people don't want every computer to behave like a tablet.
I'm not actively searching for one. Especially, since I have the feeling I'm not an easy person to work with and finding a co-founder that fits would be sheer luck, haha.

But I'm currently planning to build a SaaS product, that I want to turn into a company, if it works out.

"Slack for microblogging" or "Twitter for companies", depending on the perspective. Making asynchronous company communication better.

I'm a self-employed dev consultant and technical writer from Germany, who makes most of his money with tech blogging right now. I'm more on the bootstrapping side of things and not too big fan of VC money.

The co-founder in spe should fill my skill gaps (i.e. being are more business focused person, someone like a COO maybe?) but have enough overlap that we understand each other. Being a EU citizen is also good, I guess.
To be fair, the issue seems to really be with the HN title and not the actual project…
I smile and explain that I like the flavor.

It turns the conversation upside down and makes the other person sound like a junkie.
You're really missing that these prescribed regimes aren't some long-tested, optimized plan. The vaccine manufacturers literally had one chance to guess what the right application schedule was, and had one chance to do clinical trials on them.

Because they NEEDED the vaccine to work, they chose very conservative numbers. Multiple doses, high loads, super cold temperatures, etc. Those trials have produced a lot of strong corollary evidence that partial vaccinations work, but it will take a very long time to do a full set of clinical trials on those doses.

And in the interim, a lot of people will die, who probably would have lived had we proceeded with 1-shot vaccinations. There's a lot of risk here either way, and choosing and never modifying the original dose schedule is not "safer" -- it's just a bias towards inaction.
> in SQL even reads create locks.

IIRC, of all popular SQL databases, only MySQL uses locks at all. Postgres, MS SQL, Oracle all use MVCC.

(Edited: typo)
That part made me sit up in my chair — I remember that era, the anthrax scare, and yet never heard about that scientist!
I hate the way this article is worded. Or perhaps the problem is the source documents.

"Ticketmaster" didn't do anything. Ticketmaster is a company which cannot make decisions or take actions.

- An employee at Ticketmaster stole a password (and financial documents)

- Multiple other Ticketmaster employees abused that stolen information to actively attack a competitor.

- Ticketmaster management was aware of this and rewarded that employee with a promotion and additional responsibilities.

Both the thief and the managers who rewarded the the thief should be going to jail. Instead the company is paying a small fine. I guess at least someone is going to prison, but I doubt all of the parties who were aware are. As usual, the executives in charge walk away.

Hopefully there is a class action lawsuit by the shareholders/ owners of this company against Ticketmaster.
See also Ars Technica article about this:

Cryptocurrency stealer for Windows, macOS, and Linux went undetected for a year

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/crypt...
The exemptions that electric cars currently enjoy will eventually be phased out so quite a lot of the shortfall will disappear in the future. The only remaining shortfall will be the petrol taxes and I suspect that this will eventually be recouped by some variety of road pricing or mileage tax which will be unfortunate because it is a regressive tax as has been pointed out by another comment here. It is likely to happen because Norwegian authorities are very willing to impose tolls; road pricing or mileage taxes are but a small step from there.
> your personal rights (in your private life or in how you run your business)

What "personal"/natural right do you have to establish a limited liability corporation? That is a social construct, intended to facilitate business, but it is not some "private sphere" distinct from the society we live in.

Your account of consumer choice "regulation" fails when confronted with even the most basic externality.
After starting to drink coffee 2 years ago, about a year ago I developed palpitations. I suggested to my Dr. that caffeine might be the cause and he disagreed. Finally, I just did the experiment and it was the caffeine.

I loved drinking coffee. Just understand there are potential very negative side effects.
Back in 2012 I did some building on ZSpace[0] and the that setup still feels like the sweet spot: Physical keyboard, physical pen (with virtual extension), physical glasses to detect head position for parallax, 3D environment to play and create in.

The _visual_ feedback from moving your head and rotating objects with the pen were extremely low-latency. Gesture detection is still nowhere near that level of fidelity but with peripherals, perhaps it's not necessary.

[0] https://zspace.com/
The Day Steph Curry Made 105 3-Point Shots in a Row
What's a good way to connect?
In PPP terms Norway has almost the cheapest petrol in Europe.
Now find me a tesla for £7k like I can buy a leaf for used.
I agree, this is the case already to some extent. And yes, the article is quite vague in general. I believe it's intended as thought-provoking and not really a proper argumentation. I think in that sense it's an interesting piece. We must remember to not be too myopic when knees-deep into our over-fitted math frameworks.

I'd only add that, in my opinion, the vehement rejection of non-mainstream ideas is actually more common in non-professional circles. While a physicist may find interesting considering a new idea, a physics enthusiast, in my personal experience, is much more likely to acuse of pseudoscience and crackpottery. It's sort of a validating and gregarious warm and fuzzy feeling. Look at those people with their clearly energy-conservation-violating nonsense. Hey, I've done it before.
Xchg Rax, Rax
A sad reflection of how a nation fails. In the USA documents created by the state enter the public domain immediately, which has allowed far wider distribution. Some commercial interests have created 'annotated' works based on government issues, and thus copyright this annotated version.
Thankfully, this was defeated in court.https://www.natlawreview.com/article/supreme-court-holds-sta...
The sentence explaining what it does has a typo which makes it confusing:

> Unclack is the small but mighty Mac utility that mutes your keyboard while you type.

This should say "mutes your _microphone_ while you type". You can't mute a keyboard
For the people that is arguing for a delayed dose. The issue at hand is we have 80% of the stock pile unused, there is currently no point in even applying this tactic and taking unnecessary risk.
Fyi your site is not working.
Also, testing from the App layer let's you capture the latency between services too so you can get performance of that "last metres" of code.
Recently I’ve started getting into some hobby stuff and Etsy provides nice links with things to buy. Pinterest results seem very similar and you click them and they are... a picture. Often of the same item that’s for sale on Etsy. It’s super frustrating.
Why don't we start playing options? Everyone gets a tenth of a dose so we can get it done next week. Just start a whole new study, made up of everyone.
https://armorysystem.com - SaaS asset management for LE. Looking for someone to help with Sales/Marketing. Willing to give equity for right fit. Reach out - service@armorysystem.com
That was an awkward moment, and Joe’s reply sounded bad, but what he meant was that he wouldn’t give up creative control of his show for anything. Spotify reportedly just paid him $100M, and one of his conditions for that deal was that they get no say whatsoever, and he said he wouldn’t agree to any deal where he has to answer to someone else. So when he said that Moxie had nothing to offer, it was intended to mean that there is nothing that anyone could offer (which he has emphasized before), not so much that Moxie personally had nothing of value.
If you don't like the taste you can use caffeine pills which take less time/money and you can be more specific with your dosing.
"Complex Analysis: An Introduction to the Theory of Analytic Functions of One Complex Variable" By Lars Ahlfors was very enjoyable to me. However, I read it after I already knew Complex Analysis.
This is a great video. I think finally I understand the basics of Riemann hypothesis and the zeta function ζ(s). Thanks for posting this.
As a software dev, "OTA software updates" on a vehicle I own sounds like a security nightmare / active anti-feature.

I don't need my critical transportation bricked by a failed update, or removing functionality so they can charge me extra to re-enable it, or any of the other nonsense routinely seen from device makers.
I am working on an iOS application whose goal is to deliver a "game show" like experience to peoples doorstep. Think of it as a hybrid between HQ trivia and lootcrates. Once a month, people will compete in a live action concurrent game show using their cell phones. A portion will be phone input related challenges and another will be a live action portion recorded via phone using the items that were shipped to them. They will not know what items they are using and or how they will be used until the night of the event.

I have an MVP for the application in TestFlight and have done some video work in premiere/after effects to try and create a video to be pitched on kickstarter. Just looking for someone who is passionate about the idea and thinks they could positively contribute.

If this interests you feel free to reply or dm on twitter in bio
A bunch of things that add up...:

* Lack of things like w^x enforced across the OS. (the root of this post).

* The quality of SoC and OEM provided drivers being very very poor - there are lots of kernel exploits to be found.

* Very slow/no updates. Time from an exploit being reported to Google to it being patched by a typical user is usually 6 months or more. That means for any random device you find on the street, there is probably a viable exploit buyable on the black market.

* Less strict review process on apps - means there is more dodgy code with access to /dev/exploitabledevice...
It appears as though the repository that you've linked is private
ICE cars rely on subsidies, why shouldn't EVs?

The US federal government subsidizes $20B per year towards fossil fuels across oil, gas, and coal.

The EU subsidizes €55B per year towards fossil fuels.

https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subs...
ah and I get it now - the author has associations with the alt-right. For those who had heard of him (I had not), they were already inclined to view his statements uncharitably, even though I think this particular essay does not have any real "alt-right" themes.
in most European countries (as far as I am aware) vechiles themselves are taxed in so called road tax.

you pay a higher amount if your car causes more damage to the road.
Crypto rush is doing anything but fading. Eth mainnet has more hashing power on it now than it ever has. Nvidia is selling 30 series cards directly to mining firms, much to the chagrin of anyone who wants to buy one for themselves. https://etherscan.io/chart/hashrate
Show HN: Replay coding interview sessions like a movie, here's how we built it
To bolster your argument: only the Kelvin scale is eligible for multiplication operations, so 30C * 3600 = 1,091,067C when converting to K and back.

On the other hand: I expect 500 ms of such extreme heat would instantly kill a human, although I'm having a hard time finding an answer for such a short time scale. Since X-ray imaging doesn't instantly kill, it's apples and oranges, but point taken.
Hi Dustin, Dave here. I just spent the last 4 years building out a parking management software firm which was recently acquired by our largest PE backed competitor. In doing that, I raised money, handled all forecasting & accounting, ran all sales operations (municipal is mostly done via an RFP process) and managed the high level product roadmap from our strategic objectives backwards. Most importantly, I have experience in successfully building long term relationships & contracting with over 250 Cities across the US, which I believe will be key to success in monetizing your product long term. If you'd like to chat further, please shoot me an email at dhyj7771@gmail.com. I have some ideas for open-source first monetization I think might be useful to you, even if we don't find longer term synergy from a conversation.
This is fantastic. I'm not applying for the co-founder role, but I've added myself to the mailing list. Brilliant idea.
Same thing applies to when I drink non-alcoholic beer. Sometimes I just want another beer without getting drunk.
Your linked repository does not exist (or isn't public).
Indeed. You notice a variant of this with Plaid based integrations, common with roboadvisors to let you see a full-spectrum view of your accounts. The integrations which are based on the major banks that likely have tons of traffic fare okay. But if you've got 401ks from an employer provider that doesn't have a ton of traffic, you're in for some completely broken ugliness and no real major working protocol for your downstream applications to use.

I'm curious in particular about one thing you said, which is graceful degradation. What kinds of graceful degradation are you thinking about here?
Links:

Code Editor/Executor Demo: https://logicboard.com/demo

Code Replay Demo: https://logicboard.com/demo/:replay
This is sad that larger companies have a fear of the new kids on the block. When in fact, large companies should be embracing the young companies.
Battery prices are falling 10-15% a year. Add economies of sale for other parts of an electric car and competition as new electric cars keep coming out in 2 years the difference will be less than 8k when the op plans to buy. My prediction is in less than 5 years electric car sticker prices will be cheaper than petrol cars with the bans on new ice cars coming in the few years after that new model ice cars might actually stop coming out as car manufacturers would not want to spend money on what they wont be allowed to sell.
I'd hope they have some site monitoring in place to find this error and fix it soon, if that's the case :-)
Did you mean to sound reductionist? Just because something is fun and interesting doesn't mean it's easy.
Just don't buy an ID until VW sort out the climate control and entertainment system. Currently quite a few Norwegian ID.3 owners are reluctant to drive them for fear of suddenly losing visibility when the climate control misbehaves: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https:/...
I’ve tried, compared to distributing the plugin as Android NDK library and dynamically linking it into your process performance is just so much worse.
I’m not surprised. My head is exquisitely sensitive to (lack of) caffeine.
Elon Musk Twitter Spam Hacking Verified Account
I am posting this here in the hope a twitter employee will see this and lock the hacked accounts:

https://twitter.com/Gunter_Gabriel/with_replies

yesterday I reported 2 other accounts. the problem seems to have been fixed. So now reporting this one.

This has been going on too long, since 2018, tons of $ stolen. You would think given the major hack in 2020 that twitter would have systems in place to prevent this from happening so often.

They are also able to hack hundreds of accounts for fake likes:

https://twitter.com/Gunter_Gabriel/status/1346493237318594561/likes

This suggest weak password hashing or insufficient rate limiting on the part of twitter to be able to steal so many accounts over and over
We don’t have specific data on covid, but it’s closely related to other diseases where immunity from contacting the disease tapered over time.

The best estimate we can make on the vaccine is. "From what we know of the duration thus far of immunity, I would be surprised if it turns out to be a 20-year duration, but I would also be surprised if it was less than a year,"

We don’t have the capacity to make enough vaccines for global herd immunity in under a year. Which is why reduced long term efficiency is a significant concern over a faster rollout schedule.
> Second layer, security - including healthcare in the US - "feels like it’s experienced hyperinflation", according to the author.

Not just the US. From 2000 to 2018, US healthcare costs went up by a factor of 2.3. Germany went up by 2.1, France 1.8, Canada 2.0, Italy 1.7, Japan 2.6, and UK 2.6. It's similar for most other OECD countries, and also similar if you expand the range to 1970-2018. My data source doesn't go back farther than 1970.

Here's a comment from a while back with a source for those numbers [1].

The US has two problems with health care costs. (1) we pay a lot more than nearly anyone else per capita, and (2) the cost is going up in an unsustainable manner.

The first problem is mostly just a US problem, but the second is a problem for everyone. This suggests that the first problem is due to something the US is doing wrong and could fix. The second problem, though, seems to be one that nobody has figured out.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20923851
Anyone else having Firefox on Android crash when trying to access this website?
Design is features. The problem is that all designers trip over each other to win the high-visibility low-effort turf of top-level theming, when the work that actually needs to be done involves paying more attention to individual features, where there is actual progress to be made.
Bit of a stretch to claim this is true for all of Europe if a few Eastern European countries purportedly do this, isn’t it?
Doing business across the EU borders is mostly easy, painless, and free.
If you hover over the Audiograms Pro help icon on the right, (midway down in the Pro plan card) it says "Custom colors, background images, and remove the Descript logo. 30 min max size (vs. 2 minutes)"
"PE" in this context stands for "Portable Executable". (For those not in the know, such as myself.)
Go can be understood as an improved C that keeps much of C's simplicity but adds small, powerful features like interfaces and channels and garbage collection

Go fixes C's well-understood flaws (declaration resembling use, unintuitive operator precedence, unrestricted address math, silent casting, zero-terminated strings, etc.)

Go puts essential C idioms directly into the language (pointer/length is formalized as slices, packages are part of the language instead of just being naming convention, etc.)

Go is mature, stable, widely-used, well-supported, and well-understood. C++ is a clumsy mess, but C is quite elegant and Go is a continuation/modernization/enhancement of that

If you like C, you will love Go
Maybe I’ve been lucky, but when I get “what’s the point” comments it’s usually in a good-natured, just-making-conversation way, and a response like “I know, right?” is all that’s required. I try not to say uninteresting stuff that people are likely tired of hearing (_new haircut?_) but I mess it up all the time.

If a barista or anyone else was truly trying to shame me for drinking decaf, I think I’d find another place for coffee. Back before the virus, when I worked in an office, half (or more) of the pleasure of going for coffee was friendly human contact. Or, bonus points if you want to gently correct the person; as I said above I mess stuff up all the time and appreciate when a friend makes me see when I’ve been unintentionally rude.
To be fair, I would pay for a libre phone. And regarding that it is very simple and or basic, OK. Life has become too
complicated.
You can taper without the side-effects. But like you said, the addiction isn't really bad for you.

I went cold-turkey because i was half of a week in without coffee and then just stuck the rest of the week out. It only took a week for me to not be addicted.

It's really nice not to need the pick me up in the morning. I have a cup of coffee about once a month and up to once a week, but I'm very sensitive to caffeine now. I find this a benefit as i can "save" up for when i really need it.
I mostly agree with the process the article goes through on curbing caffeine addiction. The withdrawal process is crazy painful and there are better, though longer term processes, to get over caffeine in a manageable way. When I first started freelance/contract dev, I was drinking 2-3 pots of coffee a day. That's 12 cup pots. Burnout and heart issues after around a year and a half forced my change. However, I love the taste of strong, good coffee. Decaf doesn't cut it. I'm not quite a coffee snob, but I sure can appreciate a good cup of quality coffee. I don't drink soda or anything else with caffeine, which arguably helps.

Cold turkey for coffee isn't worth it. I've gone through 5 caffeine purges that lasted for 3-6 months of no coffee (the taste... the glorious taste is what pulls me back). If your coffee abuse has been long term, don't bother with cold turkey. The withdrawals make you out like a heroin addict.

I also don't recommend going straight to tea. You'll end up drinking a whole lot of tea to equalize the caffeine amount compared to coffee. Start cutting your daily intake in half. Stick to that for 2 weeks. Then cut down again by half for 2 week periods. This helps curb those withdrawals or make them non-existent. Once you're at a cup of coffee a day, stick to that for at least 2 weeks, but I found dragging it out to a month had better long term results on my first successful purge.

Now is a good time to switch to tea, but again, discipline to 1 cup a day. Never more. A cup of Earl Grey has roughly half the caffeine of a cup of coffee (depends on brands and how you brew). So, you're still sticking to the halving pattern. Another 2-4 weeks.

At this point, you have the habit under control and can maintain this with little discipline (but you still need the discipline 1 cup of coffee or tea daily and no more). If you want to quit, now you're going to go with no caffeine days. 1 day on, 1 day off for 2 weeks. Then 1 day on, 2 days off. Then 1 on, 3 off. At that point, I then can quit. With the 2 week intervals, I run into nearly no withdrawals, just mild cravings. Cravings are way easier to deal with than the withdrawals.

I do Lent, so this is why I now have a process to effectively deal with caffeine when the time comes. My caffeine purging experience is a rough 6 year exploratory process, change as needed for your life. I'm at the point where it takes a month and half to kick it and have no withdrawals. The withdrawals are such murder, way worse than fasting.
This is awesome. I have always wanted to self-host a Matrix instance as well, but I imagine it's going to be very hard to convince them to move over, from Telegram. Is there a blog post that I can read about homeserver setup? I am keen on seeing how easy it was, and keen on seeing what level of technical and financial resources you had to invest to get going.
I remember when Quora used to be one of the best sites on the Internet! :(
Nice work, I guess it could be useful, though I would only use CLI if there is no other way, it's not easy to read compared to the one on Playground/GraphiQL
Space things happening in 2021
The impact of sustainable fashion in the UK
- Looking for a tech co-founder for KahaniBox (https://kahanibox.com). We create story based games (Similar to Bandersnatch/Telltale games) for India and currently average user spends 1 hour daily on our stories. Raised $150k last year and currently in talks to raise more funds. I envision KahaniBox to become the Netflix for interactive fiction by scaling it to 100 million+ monthly users Looking for someone who can join as co-founder and take ownership of technology while I focus on product and growth. Located in India, anyone finds it interesting can DM on twitter @zaidazmi. Thanks!