skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression is that the author is taking aim at a rather simple, outdated and largely superseded philosophical notion of what science is. While there are probably cases of social and institutional pressure being applied to discourage fringe theories, there seems to be a lively opposition to each of string theory, dark matter and dark energy.
They're not phasing out the #1 incentive to buy electric cars: Insanely high gasoline prices (nor should they). So I'm not seeing a regression in the making here.
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Anyone interested in (lucid) dreaming?

I've got a side/passion project that I've been working on for... quite a while. It's called https://oneironotes.com and it's a dream journal app for (lucid) dreamers. Think Evernote (or well, that's a bit old now... let's say Notion or Bear or Standard Notes... so, a note-taking app) specifically for "oneironauts".

Currently there's a pilot version as a PWA available for a lifetime subscription, but I'm working on more robust, mobile & desktops apps.

As a sole founder & developer I've been doing everything myself. I'm not really actively looking for a co-founder, but if anyone here is interested in working with me on this, send me a message! Technical or not, doesn't really matter. The project would mostly benefit from someone who's an experienced lucid dreamer, knows the niche and has excellent marketing & community building and/or design skills. Contact details on the website.
From the article:

New car sales in the country last year were 141,412, of which 76,789 were fully electric.

We're a small country, so yeah not huge numbers but...
Agreed, ideally there's be more walking, (electric) biking, and public transit.

Still though, switching from gasoline cars to electric ones is a substantial improvement.
The way I quit coffee and Starbys (Starbucks) was when I looked at my year end CC summary and realized I was sinking ~$600 per year. Easiest thing to quit in my life.

This is likely on the low end for most people and it was about ~100 transactions in total, but at least now I have an extra $600 every year to save or yolo.

(also I hate Starbucks now after realizing ~80% of their products contain a significant amount of sugar. It's no wonder they are a multi billion dollar industry, they got their customers hooked on sugar)
Monero priced in Bitcoin is down 60% in the last year and it's down 90% since its peak in 2018.

If Monero's purpose is to be anonymous and untraceable, and Bitcoin's purpose is to be a store of value, then it appears the market prefers the store-of-value use case.

There's a popular idea that crypto currencies are only good for illegal activity. But the evidence so far from a nearly trillion-dollar market says that avoiding law enforcement is not what's driving the crypto phenomenon.

There's another popular idea that central bank money printing is devaluing national currencies when priced in crypto. I'm sure that's part of it, but inflating the money supply by 30% doesn't really justify a 10x increase in crypto valuations.

It's a small sample size, but the handful of wealthy families I'm acquainted with who are investing 0.1% to 2% of their net worth into Bitcoin (and a little into Ethereum) are more afraid of a collapse of the western political order than central bank money printing.

Institutions and high-net-worth individuals aren't looking for privacy for illicit transactions so they're not putting their wealth into Monero.

They've witnessed or researched what the collapse of the USSR did to the ruble and asset prices in the former Soviet Union, and they're buying some insurance against a similar unraveling in the US and Europe.
Hey HN!

I offer Speed-Networking-As-A-Service. The networking events are automated and can be standalone or part of (for example) webinars. I made this because to support online events after my in-person events were not allowed anymore.

I have a few regular customers but want to focus on the tech and am looking for a sales/marketing person to get things growing. You can contact me through the website. I am Dutch and based in Portugal (in case that is relevant).

https://fringenetworking.com
I'm not strictly looking for a cofounder, but I'm interested in doing a startup with other folks. I have been working on a bunch of different things for a while with limited success. I have good leadership and technical skills, but I'm bad at sales, fundraising, and not so good at coming up with product ideas for things people want to pay for. I'd be interested in joining another startup as CTO depending on the situation.

Check out my GitHub profile to learn about my work: https://github.com/brndnmtthws

I was a (somewhat) early Airbnb employee if that makes a difference.

Shoot me an email if you want to chat: hn@brenden.brndn.io
When we ran services like this in-house, I don't really recall a time where any of them failed. Now that we have a 3rd party run those services, it's easy to recall multiple instances where one or more of them were down for some reason.
Laughing or belittling the subject of your "journalism" isn't exactly upstanding conduct?
Wait ammmm, does sand manually curate the site or you have to send him a link to get a second chance.
Not sure it's a case of intentionally propping up equity markets (of course interest rate policy directly impacts on government bond markets although I don't think that would normally be described as propping them up). But the phenomenon has been around for a while - I've heard it called "biflation" - high inflation in some markets/products (asset markets in general, as well as some services), alongside deflation in others like imported goods with not many goods/services actually following the middle road which the official inflation statistics give as an average. It's exaggerated to some extent but it's definitely there.
Hiring additional data engineers is a problem, not a solution
That's an issue for the webshop service provider ;)
Yeah, I think you're right: you could download instead of compile, it's just the assembling into an apk on the device that has the advantage of customizing exactly what you want.
> HN hug of death

Being on the front page of HN (or Reddit for that matter) doesn't bring in as much traffic as you would imagine. It's not insignificant but it's not a deluge like what you are picturing. Turns out most people don't bother to click into the article. They head straight for the comments section. Source: work for a company that has been on the front page of both HN and Reddit on many occasions and have seen the traffic.
Ask HN: Would it be possible to use QubesOS with Silverblue and Nix/Guix?
Fedora Silverblue provides an immutable base system, which makes it easier and faster to upgrade. That in itself looks like a great feature to use as a TemplateVM on QubesOS.

The problem is that since the base image is immutable, the way you install apps is via rpm-ostree layers, which you sould use sparingly, or FlatPak/AppImage or containers (podman/docker/toolbox).

FlatPak has its own problems (https://flatkill.org/, https://flatkill.org/2020/)

Nix/Guix seems like a more elegant way to overlaying new apps on the system in a more controlled/secure way.

Would it be possible to combine these technologies, QubesOS with a Fedora Silverblue TemplateVM (maybe even for Dom0) and use Nix or Guix to install packages? Would it actually make sense to do so? What would be the potential issues or drawbacks of doing that?
Tesla is cyclic because they're delivered on boats that have to transit the Panama canal. And because Tesla runs on the stock market quarterly cycle. The cars manufactured in the first month of the quarter are mostly delivered to Europe for delivery in the last month of the quarter. The cars manufactured in the second month get delivered to Eastern North America and the third month cars get delivered to California and close states. That way most cars are delivered in the same quarter they are manufactured in. So over 4000 cars were delivered in Norway in December, but only 200 in october.

The COVID-19 shutdown disrupted that cycle, so December was really the only month this year that Tesla delivered a significant number of cars to Norway.
> I don't understand the idea that a week of headaches is somehow worth it in return for quitting caffeine.

> I just take a minimum regular dosage to avoid withdrawal symptoms.

So you take caffeine just because you're addicted to it, but see no upside to getting rid of the addiction? This is a really weird take for me.
Been building https://zoomingle.com over the last few months, it's a group video chat service that automatically creates randomized breakout rooms to facilitate 1:1's and other small group chats within a larger group. Came up with it because happy hours during Covid had no side conversations, spontaneous chats, etc. and figured that's the whole point. It's somewhat do-able with Zoom's breakout rooms, but if you have a company of 60 people and what people to be able to chat in random groups of 3 for 5 minutes for an hour, the person manually creating all these breakout rooms would go insane.

I'd like to continue running the tech/product side, but looking for a CEO/co-founder to run the biz dev, strategy, marketing etc.

I'm Brian, a 30 y/o Canadian living in NYC (but totally happy to work with someone remotely, ofc). I've co-founded and ran the engineering teams of two other tech startups, and currently doing misc tech consulting and freelancing.
This explains the 30% 24hr growth of Stellar. Stellar has been working in this area for years and is built to facilitate exactly these types of transactions. I think they are probably the best positioned to take this on.

Also, Stellar USDC support was already slated for February.
Oh I loved my Model-M Space Saver, collected quite a few of them. Co-workers did sometimes comment/complain but not that often. I also had this habit of moving my cursor keys up/down/left/right in rapid/slow movements while I was thinking deeply on a problem. Combined with how loud and that it clicks on each downpress and clacks on release was quite the cacophony.
That’s because the combined business of all Muhammads and their employers is way more than 210$/month AND it would be illegal, and Bad PR™, to ban them from your business based just on their culture/name. Otherwise they would have been “derisked” out of service.
This is what it is for me. I've quit coffee and caffeine multiple times, sometimes for a year usually just for a month or two. Just to see if I enjoy life more without it. But I just simply love the routine of coffee in the morning. Also I've found nothing that compares to the flavor of black coffee. I only drink coffee in the morning, but several cups (french press). One of the simple pleasures in life for me as well.
I doubt GitHub or any org is changing their SOP based on my comment. But the mere existence of a scenario equivalent to the one in question in the operating guidelines suggest there is room fur sanity to prevail in the interpretation of the law.
> make it very hard for immigrants to become citizens? Scandinavian countries do precisely both.

As a Swede, all I can say is..."excuse me, Wat"?
Sure—try swymm ~at~ swymm.org or gihaca8398@girtipo.com (temp email), trying to avoid spam :)
Why do you need money? Go to 50 stores, interview managers/owners. If there's a trend in their pain and you can solve it with software or sweat, build it as simply as possible.

Doordash put up menus on a website and started delivering orders by hand.
Luciano Ramalho on Python's Evolution [audio]
This doesn't strike me as functional as gov.uk. It's more like your standard wordpress stories site (there is even a section labelled "stories").

edit:

> The www.gov.sg Portal is the official online communication platform and repository of the Singapore Government, providing you with the latest policy announcements, information and news on Singapore. You can also translate Government terms using our translating tool, and search for contact information of public service agencies.

> The Portal is managed by the Public Communications Division of the Ministry of Communications and Information. We welcome your suggestions for the Portal, to help us to serve you better.

Indeed, it's more a branding website than an administrative tool.
This is almost completely a result of artificial government imposed constraints that make ICE vehicles exceedingly more expensive there. It really has nothing to do with free market choice. A new Tesla Model 3 costs less than a Subaru Outback or Mini Cooper [0]. A VW eGolf also costs less than a base model ICE Golf.

[0] https://www.skatteetaten.no/globalassets/tabeller-og-satser/...
Changing the Environment Based on Empowerment as Intrinsic Motivation
"desktop search that works"

Huh? How does it work for you, and how did you get it that way? To me it has been nothing but useless.

To those who are also looking for a better search solution on Windows: download 'Search everything'. It basically lets you grep on the filenames of all files on your machine, using regexp if you want. It's marvellous.
I only have my personal experience contrasted older swes. In the nyc area swes start at around 80k a year entry level, whereas a few years ago swes started at 120k+ entry level

Maybe google is different, but industry wide wages are falling
There's no one silver bullet solution. There are dozens of different things that need to happen that, in total, sufficiently reduce the emitted CO2. Surface level transport makes up for a significant amount of worldwide emissions, and as such phasing out petroleum-powered cars for electric-powered cars is absolutely part of the overall solution for climate change.
:/

On iOS Firefox and Chrome will actually also fail as they're all based on the Safari Web engine.

Sadly enough we can't make Spoke work with Safari yet as we're using video specific interpeted browser instructions.
I've been very happy with kolabnow.com services for a biz email acct, and I'm likely to switch personal over there too. Not free, but inexpensive, FOSS, Private, Swiss-located, and really solid service and support. Among a ~dozen others I've tried or still using, Kolab is the best of the lot.

(&yes, I use Gmail for junk or transactional stuff; need the acct for an Android mobile, and their UI is a horrific kludge of UI conceits trying to showcase their 'mad design skilz' - yuk!)
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/01/04/va...

>we have to be clear that this is, in fact, an experiment on the population.

Experts are divided. On the other hand, these experiments probably work OK, but with increased reward comes increased risk with the possibility that these ideas could end up generating more resistant variants of the coronavirus.
The DMCA makes this sort of misbehavior legal. It’s a terrible law.

Without it, we also wouldn’t have YouTube, which would be a net win in my book.
I'm guessing the ID.3, at least that's the one that dominates here in Norway[1].

[1]: https://ofv.no/registreringsstatistikk (select "Desember" and check out the 2020 "Hittil" column)
You'll have to use ADB once to install F-droid and each new app not from the Play Store, but F-droid will be allowed to install updates.
Honestly I would just be happy with the start menu pins not looking like crap. Give a little more leeway on how we can customize it and I would use that instead of my desktop for quick reference things. But the different size of icons is useless when all the icons look crappy or are too small for the size, and worse when I do take the time to download an icon myself, it ends up forgetting/missing the icon now looking worse than before.

Second idea: I want to store desktop icons in expandable groups much like how a smartphone does.

But I'm not confident I will like the changes they make, most people won't since most would just hope to go back to the look and feel of windows 7 or before.
Yes, this is how we run them ... erm, I mean, what?
I've found this to be a significant problem in testing a side project I've been working on for making music together over the Internet (https://echo.jefftk.com). I can load test the backend by simulating requests reasonably easily, but the hard part is all the cases where my simplistic testing is unrealistic.
As a counterpoint, Juspay's payments has always worked well for me, and the rotating logo personally inspires more trust than certain other wallet-cum-payment providers. I do all payments thru the web, and never on the phone, so that might apply.
Or maybe they actually tried quitting and never noticed any effects? I drink _lots_ of coffee throughout the day (most of my fluid intake is coffee). I don't have any sleep problems, my blood pressure is on the lower side of normal, and I've gone completely without caffeine several times in my life due to various non-related circumstances (like business travel), from a couple of days up to about a fortnight. No withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. I always find comments in these threads a little hard to believe, honestly.
This is not correct. The security page only shows that they use Google for Speech to Text.

Instead, Text to Speech is done using technology developed by Lyrebird.ai, which Descript has bought over. Descript rebranded it as Overdub. Note that style transfer learning of voices is a hard problem and Overdub seems to have nailed it perfectly. I speculate that the underlying technology of Overdub is based on sv2tts (https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04558).

The closest comparision to Overdub would be https://www.resemble.ai/.
That may still not prevent Cherry MX blues from being picked up by the microphone
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I'm looking for a co-founder to start an ambitious space hardware startup. Looking for a technical co-founder with experience building space hardware.

About me:

I'm Steven and I've been in the tech industry since 2007. I've been a software engineer since 2010. For the last 6 years, I did the whole digital nomad thing and worked remotely for most of that time. It's been one hell of a ride.

I'm ready for the next chapter of my life. I want to head back to California (where I'm originally from) to start a very ambitious aerospace hardware startup. Yes, no software for me ideally.

Contact in profile.
When this question is asked, there's always a hundred people eagerly telling you to switch to Fastmail, forgetting that 14 years ago, everyone was saying switch to Gmail because it was the good option.

I would just suggest people think about what might happen if Fastmail gets enough of a userbase to be the next Gmail.
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/another-journal-flip...

Tim Gowers offers some background to the overwhelming case for open access publication. Sci-hub is an example of an almost inevitable reaction to the blatant profiteering by certain academic publishers. Let's remember that in the main, taxpayers across the world, through their governments, almost alone, pay for the very expensive business of carrying out university and institutional research and preparing manuscripts for publication.
Second option looks the more scalable solution. Solves the 'why should I bother inputting all my inventory into this new website' and allows you to handle the problem of not having any inventory to show for a real time search or even any shop partners yet.
Have seen this done successfully (including acquired companies) for quotes for services markets.
This is a very new feature on iOS, ~1.5 years. JusPay has been doing this for about 6 years now.
>It's nonsense, top-to-bottom.

This isn't a formal physical theory, just a heuristic for evaluating lines of investigation. Richard Feynman gave a good explanation of the principle, which he said he found helpful in his work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1dgrvlWML4
Ask HN: A Book for Wannabe Programmer?
From time to time people ask me for advice on how to learn programming. This is mostly from people at work who are associates. They aspire to become a software engineer simply for a higher paycheck.

I am reluctant to tell them to go read SICP or Knuth's Art of Computer Programming. I would like them to understand what they are getting into before they commit to it.

I would like to recommend a book that really explains some philosophy or touches on the mindset needed to become a programmer.

What would you recommend to someone who aspires to become a programmer, but who has no understanding of what is required?
Also really improves the microphone placing problem. On the desk my microphone would always be in my hands way or in front of the monitor and the cable was annoying too. I built a cheap microphone arm out of an Ikea swinging desk lamp (Tertial). It required some time but was a fun project and now I have a matching arm to my desk lamp.
> * no more compulsive soda drinking when bored

I found switching to sparkling water (we bought a Soda Stream) helped me here. Now I get a real soda maybe once every week or two as a "treat" (basically the now rare occasion we order takeout) and can resist them when in an office (rarely these days) with a vending machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_pho...

Also worth to take a look at is Fairphone, which is a little more finished product than most. It has an active community around it with many ports ongoing.
That is for sure. Impressive long-term self-discipline though.
Not sure about Cortex-M3, but I can confirm that the Cortex-M4 has a pretty basic 3 stage in order pipeline that gets flushed on branches. So unless there are caches between the core and memory (I think some STM32 have that), that CPU is still trivially deterministic.
not really, I worked on making this for another company. Reading is the simpler side of the story, the complex one is navigating the banking websites to be able to fill this in, and to maintain graceful degradation incase bank websites change
Buying a car in Norway or even from abroad has always been very expensive because of the taxes Norway poses on regular cars:

> https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/person/duties/cars-and-other-...

Electric cars are exempt from these taxes which is why they are so attractive in Norway for customers. Electric cars are also exempt from road fees.

Overall, electric cars in Norway are still getting 2.4 billion USD subsidies per year:

> https://www.nettavisen.no/okonomi/norge-sponser-elbileiere-m...

I mean, of course people are buying electric cars under these circumstances.
See my edit above: it's not the issue with the hardware but with software. Check out more recent videos from them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIFWZZ2YVqI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUNrY_qPCg
Its always to the advantage of the entrepreneur who can at once be passionate about their work and yet also take criticism in stride, turning it into the kind of useful feedback you describe. That being said, we all know constructive criticism will be likely uptaken, so its also on us (as a community) to foster it if we want the best outcomes all around. Though in general I agree, and have found this is the hardest part of both evaluating friend's works, and also getting friends to evaluate yours. I always feel the need to say "Please, don't be nice. I'm not looking for handouts. I don't want to spend time on this if no one is going to like it."
Nope, not at all. Thousands of Europeans are travelling to Iran for tourism or conducting business. The trade sanctions don't block visitors to check their work.

"The United States has imposed an arms ban and an almost total economic embargo on Iran, which includes sanctions on companies doing business with Iran, a ban on all Iranian-origin imports, sanctions on Iranian financial institutions, ..."

A private visit is not doing business, so the org cannot be blocked. And most other companies are ignoring the US sanctions, that's why we have the current propaganda push.

The law is ok, because economical sanctions are the only way to get rogue nation states to comply. That's why we have sanctions on Iran, Russia, Crimes, North Korea.
Unfortunately not against the US yet.
I’m unaware of a library that checks citizenship of the user behind an IP address.