skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting fact, but with world population doubling every 60 years or so, 5000 sq mi won't change things much.
I don't recall ever seeing plastic lining in canned food. Kind of would defeat the purpose of the can, no?
He is not a he. He is a she.
Why would you substitute egg in cookies if nearly all of calories come from sugar and flour anyway?
Hi I had another idea. You could also show "If you invested X dollars in VTI, your returns could be Y in 5 years Z in 10 years J in 15 years"

X is the amount at the checkout page.
> Doing so bans the person from holding federal office forever.

Not inherently, but presumably (as it is the only remedy left, and apparently requires only a majority vote after conviction) the Senate would adopt the forward ban allowed by the Constitution if it convicted.
I didn't say there wasn't rioting involved (some smashed and burned buildings, some statues torn down, dumpsters set on fire, etc.), but based on what I have read and seen – as an outsider who has not visited Portland in years – most of the direct clashes between cops and protestors were instigated by the cops, and most of the violence was cop-on-protestor. As far as I know no cops were killed. Were any even seriously injured? I saw a news photo of a cop with a bruised shin where it was hit with a rock; another report mentioned a cop whose glove got burned by a firework.

The vast majority of the protestors in Portland were out during the day, and were peaceful and organized. There were undoubtedly some people who came out at night because they wanted to tussle with the cops, launch their fireworks at that federal building, and so on. My impression (again, second-hand, as an outsider) was that the cops (local and federal) did a terrible job of diffusing that energy.
I plan on experimenting with methods of communicating velocity this weekend :)

The keyboard highlights engaged keys with color already, so I have that to play with as well as the speed and fully-depressed angle of the key itself.

VMPK is a big influence, which respects note velocity. https://vmpk.sourceforge.io/
I'm working to solve job search. I think job search is fundamentally broken. It's a horribly fragmented and frustrating experience. It's a big ambition to challenge the incumbents in this space, but it needs to improve. Anyone with passion and abilities are welcome to join the endeavor.
An E2E encrypted link/bookmark management app, which will be called StackMarks. The idea is to be able to ‘talk’ to yourself and send text messages, images or files, organised into topics and be able to receive them on any device you own. I don’t know if anyone would actually find this useful but I definitely feel the need for something like this, since I find the idea of having a FIFO ‘stack’ of short-lived links or notes much more practical than all the alternatives I tried.

The challenge mostly comes from having everything encrypted. Some problems I have found so far:

- How to manage schema upgrades of encrypted JSON object data? This would be a simple migration if the data wasn’t encrypted. So far I’ve thought of adding a version field to each encrypted object and add migration steps to upgrade from each version to the newest so old messages would be migrated as they are fetched and then updated with the new schema.

- How to handle synchronization between devices and make it fast and reliable? I’ve thought of adding an endpoint that accepts a cursor and returns the list of changes made to the user’s data since then, such as messages added, updated or deleted which would trigger a API fetch or state update on the app. This could be sent over websockets and a regular endpoint for when it’s down. This is modelled nicely as a queue of changes to the DB for each user from the beginning, where the DB only contains the final state after all changes.

- How to handle conflicting changes made simultaneously so as to not delete user data? This is still mostly unsolved for me.

- There’s probably more as I keep implementing.

This idea has been brewing in me for at least a year now :). Glad I finally got started on it. I would love to hear your thoughts.
Fun fact: the dollar cost averaging feature was a direct outcome of the market crash in early 2020. A whole bunch of users were rebalancing out of necessity, but they wanted to dollar cost average their way back into the market. So we had to scramble and build it quick.

If you have any feature requests, please reach out!
I'm working on a web framework Oat++. Similar to java-spring but for C++.

- https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp

- https://oatpp.io/
Working on a python-based command-line driven tax software. The idea is that user will download it and may use in the command line so they don't have to share their personal data on the web.

It will be both interactive and batch oriented. In batch oriented method, the program will generate templates based on a brief description of user's situation and user can fill up the values in this template and feed it to the program. Program will fill up appropriate forms and produce PDFs.

A later version will be able to interact with the IRS API so that the tax could be filed directly from the command line.
Sorry, I put in the wrong URL, it should be working now!
Sorry, you actually believe that? We are drowning in greenhouse has emissions and you think Bitcoin mining is a useful thing to add to it?
>Put this way: what if it was an illegal firearm? We can't just turn a blind eye to youth breaking law, but

I don't think you realize just how common this is. There are very few people managing high school and college machine shops who haven't helped cover up an NFA violation. Even outside that making oil filter silencers for .22 rifles (or other cheap guns high schoolers have access to) is not at all uncommon. Eventually most grow out of it (i.e. they have a real life and the risk reward calculus changes).

Likewise teenagers routinely get exposed to hard drugs and "the system" is the last thing that helps that.

Damn near every adult has a bunch of "I'd be in prison if the caught me" stories from high school.

So yeah, I think we should handle both with a stern talking too about federal prison and not much else. Most kids will mature out of this behavior and it's not worth risking screwing all of them to try and pre-emptively save the few that won't grow out of it.
I’m not familiar with omniverse, mind elaborating?
Yes but they can only cut if you off for non payment, they can't cut you of for your political views. They can't even cut you off if you use your electricity to commit crimes.
Writa.co https://writa.co

Compartmentalizing medical content writing using professionals writers, machine learning, marketing automations, and "plug-and-play" journal sourcing.

Project came to me after serving as a marketing director for a multi-state ophthalmology practice. Understanding how vital quality content is to S/M medical orgs I wanted to see if I could dramatically reduce the time/cost involved with outsourcing professional content. Just launched a week ago with a single client
What's a flat collection hierarchy?
Thank you! I would love to hear from you on what could be improved.
I'm building a job platform focusing on the quality of job listings and the fine details of the application process.

Basically, I got fed up with the meaningless cliches rampant in job ads, the unclear technical details and the randomly thrown in cultural values and I'm going to be offering a consulting service meant to improve these factors + a job board to showcase the result of these processes + an ATS-like tools for teams to work together on selecting the best candidates and help them during onboarding.

The product is built on the belief that a working relationship is just as much an "opportunity" for both sides involved and that keeping that in mind changes how you approach the process.

I've spent the last 14 months building this tool and the first live version went online on 21/1/12 21:1:12. Most of the modules (meaning Rails models coupled with Vuex modules) are turned off with feature flags, meaning that currently only the home page, the pricing page and the legal pages are available. The rest will be gradually turned on over the next week or so.

This is the first time I'm talking about it publicly except for my personal Facebook.

The project is called Moonka.space - https://moonka.space

("Munka" means "work" in Hungarian, so it's a double pun on work<>space and moon<>space)

I will probably do a Show HN once everything is turned on.

EDIT: forgot to mention, progress is public via GitHub: https://github.com/moonkaspace/launchpad
While I get why they are doing this, there is a certain amount of irony here. Facebook fighting to prevent the collection of users data.

It made me laugh a little
The lining is transparent (and usually gives the metal a yellowish hue).
If someone from Fitbit is reading this: It is asinine that the data from my wearable has to go to my phone, up to the cloud, and back down to my phone for display.
> Further, many Americans are 1-2 generations removed from "the farm" and are still heavily influenced by habits like "three square meals per day" that made great sense on the farm and make no sense at all in the city.

Meh, Americans snack all the time. French people are anal about their meal structures and times and we’re not fat.
Just adding that I found those courses really helpful as well.
Not bot, not beast: Scientists create first ever living, programmable organism
With one group of friends I’ve been doing weekly calls for months now with audio through Mumble for audio, and video through Discord where everyone stays muted.
A Rust/Electron/three.js cross-platform disk-space usage analyzer. It's meant to be easy to learn, efficient to use, and nice to look at.

I have a beta up and would love any feedback: https://diskatlas.com/

It's my first small software business idea that I'm seriously pursuing. My goal with it is to earn enough passive income that I can return to work on more ambitious exploratory projects, e.g.: http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd
I like the name calling when your point is called out. But sure it is "cool" to abuse people now I guess. Did you call out Amazon as well ?
The second part of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves is filled with megastructures in space. I wish he made some videos to explain them better than with words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves
Sounds like a great backdrop for the next dystopian sci-fi film.

Dull thuds in the distance as dark masses streak across the sky every 10 minutes.
Nice! I’ve had some beta users request the ability to add markers or audio cues. It could be a nice opportunity to get into some ML stuff.
That’s a great idea! I’ll think about how to summarize this even further.
That's interesting. What is the reason for it? Isn't a sterilized metal can safe by itself?
Having used Tcl, one improvement it could benefit from is making debug a first-class citizen.

(At least the versions I used) do not print the exact line number if something fails. They print top of the enclosing loop. Super annoying.
Nurse’s Notes During James Forrestal’s Hospital Stay
Enforcing an absolute is much easier. In Singapore, you wear a mask at all times outside your home or face fines of up to $3000, with exceptions only for eating, drinking, and "strenuous exercise".
I'm assuming they use standard codecs like H.264/MPEG-4 and AAC for wide hardware compatibility. Zoom runs on a large variety of platforms including mobile devices. Would be very surprised if it was the likes of Opus etc.
I doubt jack cares about Twitter’s stock since he even knows that Twitter itself is not even sustainable anyway.

Why bother with Twitter stock when Square stock is at an all time high.
Makes a lot of sense tbh. C and O have roughly the same atomic weight, and CO2 is about a third C (from the fuel). The fuel of course has a bunch of H but by mass that's only a small fraction. So a given mass of fuel turns into roughly three times as much CO2. With petrol being a bit lighter than water (which is 1 kg/l) the 2.3 kg CO2 per liter is right around the "factor 3" estimate.
Ambiguities result in increased litigation expense. Each argument over what a term means or how it should be interpreted is very expensive. These kinds of disagreements often need to be resolved early in the case by expensive motion practice.

It is much cheaper if both sides are willing to stipulate that they are in agreement with what the terms mean. Then you can get to fact finding and settlement talks with less upfront cost.
> I don't understand how the "selling shares" would work though

Basically at any point the cost in USD/other of creating an upvote is a function of the existing number of upvotes and downvotes. Eg if a piece of content has 3 upvotes, the cost to create another new upvote might be $0.07, but if the content as 100 upvotes, that cost might be $1.40.
Equally at any point, you can "sell" your upvote at that same cost ($0.07 @ 3, $1.40 @ 100). The way the maths works out means that finances are conserved, so the investment return for selling comes from the market itselm.

In terms of rewards, I was thinking actual money, just in very small amounts. People love speculating on markets so i think it's feasible.
What do you think about not nuking 230, but making its protections reliant on specific conduct? We can sidestep the 1A issue altogether since these companies would do anything to avoid being held responsible for the libelous, harassing, defamatory, threatening and sometimes terroristic content that their users post every day. That is nothing short of a gift given by the government, and it can be modified or restricted.

Moderation doesn't scale, so I think this is a case of either do what 230 requires or cease existing as a going concern - either of these would be good outcomes, so this is a powerful lever.

Some ideas in no particular order; a platform owner is only shielded from liability inasmuch as they (choose as many as applicable):

1. Provide a forthright accounting of any negative actions taken against an account (no shadowbans, no silent editing or hiding of content from discovery) at the time the action is taken with a forthright explanation of how the conduct broke the stated rules.

2. Provide an appeals process for bans/negative actions run by a neutral third party, with any ambiguity resolved in favor of the appellant.

3. Do not make or enforce ex-post-facto rule changes

4. Demonstrate no pattern of unfair or unequal application of the stated rules

5. If a ban is issued, a "wind-down" period must be granted to allow the banned user time to move what they can of their social network somewhere else.

6. Upon request, your own account's data must be provided in full.

OR

7. Remain completely hands-off from a content removal standpoint. Content is removed if it is either literally illegal or breaks the service and under no other circumstance.

This last one would still allow for spam filtering and content categorization, which would allow the user experience to change little from today, and puts the most control in the hands of individual users.
Lol no ? They did that to fend Microsoft for parents. There's a reason they sold it after patent war was settled. You have half baked information and make 0 points.
Nest was acquired and was already a mature and popular product. They by no means built it from scratch. And enterprise server products are probably outside the scope of what we are talking about, which is consumer electronics. I can build you a pretty decent server pretty quickly. I wouldn't know where to start to create a smart watch that had good battery life, great screen, great app ecosystem, great sensors, and didn't cost over $400. As far as I know, no consumer electronics Google product had launched and was an instant success. All the first product reviews I've ever read sounded like this: "it's a great first start and as a nerd who knows about these things I enjoyed some innovative parts of it, but it's not ready for prime time. Maybe next year they'll have a more polished product."
A platform for you to create your “List of links” page with comments.

Kind of a “your own monopolized subreddit”, or a “personal hacker news”.
Great! Just today received my Colmi P8, which is based on a nRF52832 SoC, same as yours!

I'm going to try wasp-os, based on python, but will definitely give banglejs a spin.
On the upside you just donated the term “vomit burp” to the world
And ISPs were not common carriers until they were. It was only meant for the layer underneath them: telcos. The world changes and we should not be stuck with the technology of the 80s until the end of time.
A travel planning app to help people convert their pent-up desire to explore the world again into live travel plans.

It constantly monitors:

- State-level travel restrictions for 65 countries

- Airbnb and hotel prices and availability

- Flight prices and availability

- Cross-border driving restrictions for road trips

You don't need to open 20 tabs to check that your flights match the hotel options, and then check that you can navigate each country's new travel requirements. We'll alert you when the whole trip is available.

We're calling it Airheart (https://airheart.com)
Researchers Discover New Variant of Covid-19 Virus in Columbus, Ohio
Reminds me a bit about what was said about ingenious composer Dmitri Shostakovich: He was a brilliant poker player, and lost every time.
I feel like Kurzgesagt does this so much better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A
Two things:

* (Yet another) password and secret manager, using modern cryptographic libraries (age) and with a strong emphasis on customizability[1]. I personally use it as a general purpose secret store for everything from passwords to command snippets.

* A tool that runs commands when USB devices are inserted or removed, allowing a user to write filters against a variety of device metadata. The end goal is something similar to udev rules, but much nicer to configure and cross-platform. Still unreleased.

[1]: https://github.com/woodruffw/kbs2
Most interesting for nuclear waste.

Storage of long lived nuclear waste is often considered a major problem. There are suggestions of firing them to the sun (worst idea ever), burring them in subduction zones (a bit more sensible) or in special sites with plenty of warning for future generations (artists get creative on this one).

The thing is, nuclear waste may actually be among the most valuable things on earth. These elements do not exist in nature, and producing them require nuclear reactors and enriched uranium, which is a finite resource.

Even today we have the technology to burn nuclear waste in fast breeder reactors, though for some reason we haven't made a lot of progress, maybe it is not commercially viable compared to more conventional reactors. This has the potential to supply us with energy for so long that we can effectively consider it renewable energy.

All that to say that in the future, nuclear "waste" may become extremely valuable.
I find one particularly ironic quote from a suggested warning message for long term nuclear waste storage sites. "This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here." I find it extremely dismissive of future humanity, as if we somehow reach the peak of technological progress and that future generations will be cavemen.
I just mean that a collection has no subfolders or other structure. It is simply a list of items like an S3 bucket.
Yeah. For a basic keyboard/mouse, I wouldn't hesitate to pay $30 more for the "official" product. I wouldn't pay $100 more, but for it seems like there's a huge opportunity:

* Most mice on Aliexpress sell for $3 or so. I don't know the margin, but it's less than $3.

* I can't imaging anyone would hesitate to pay $5 more, and I wouldn't mind $30 more.

So yeah, off-brand could compete, and I'm sure students might buy it, but I think on-brand would do better.

And in either case, it wouldn't hurt. The $3 Aliexpress mouse vendors don't have any real IP moat. This is commodity tech.
The acquisitions that built Google's monopoly on search – Quartz
The question now: how soon before my fitness tracker stops working? (Given Google's track record)
egg allergies are a thing. people also like to be vegan/vegetarian. also chicken farming is notoriously cruel in a lot of ways though it's getting better.
donk_enby wants to be called she/her according to Twitter, unless you're speaking of someone else
I think it says more about how much longer we've been using eggs, as well as how much more demand there is for alternatives today.
Your extension sounds cool but what I'd love is a system to suggest if I should go premium or cheap on an expense.

For example I'd go super cheap on wired earbuds but premium on a set of knives. Or super cheap on knives but premium on an electric knife sharpener
Look for a Colmi P8. I got mine for 15USD!

Received it today and hadn't time to play with it yet.
I had an “ah-ha” moment when someone compared the mouse in Acme to vim command mode, and the keyboard to edit mode.

Now sam…that’s an editor I just can’t figure out how to be productive in.
Right. My point exactly. Google releases half baked consumer goods, then kills them later if they aren't a hugely important strategic line (like the Nexus/Pixel) or not a runaway success. The idea that Google could build a fitness tracker or smartwatch from scratch in a matter of months and it would be better than what FitBit currently has to offer just seems silly.
1000km at the speed of light is 3.33 ms which on it’s own isn’t an issue. While fiber is slower, you can have low latency connections over that distance without issue.

The real problem is computer audio isn’t designed for low latency. Generally, as long as video and audio are reasonably synchronized nobody notices, but latency as rarely a consideration on it’s own.
I think I’ve seen that! It was impressive. The jumpcutter python script was one of the first things I stumbled upon, and it looked super useful. Then I wanted the ability to tweak the params and visualize in real time, which led me to start in on this project.
Not very much? California has plenty of vaccines now, they just can't work out the last mile to distribute them. If only there was a valley in there somewhere that had people who had thought about things like this before...
Would love to see it in action.
Every day the browser becomes less of a User-Agent and more of a Vendor-Agent
I can't agree. It's their platform and they can leave up what they like. When someone starts advocating violence, treason, assassination then they can shut down that account. Also in national emergencies (like our current one with right wing extremists) it is also justified. I don't want section 230 undone, it will do far more damage than good.
A giant project from hell that is likely to be postponed next week, wherein I have to work 10-12 hours a day and never get any vacation.

Also, I am going to retire in a couple months, too bad.
Look into Gadgetbridge and the devices it supports. I ended getting a Mi Band 5 for $35 off of amazon. No data sent beyond the phone. The band works without a phone too.
I've witnessed people camping, placing an opened can of beans directly on the fire and such.

Seems absurd now, knowing plastic is in the can!

If anyone else knows the reason for the lining, I'd be very interested in learning more.