skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In today's startup and VC ecosystem, they've already won. They don't have to ever become profitable, they just need to get money from their friends and connections, forever.

I don't recall who said this (if anyone does, please do share!), but it goes something like this: if you reach Series F, it means exactly what you think it means. Well, not anymore. It won't be long until we'll exhaust the alphabet for funding series names, and we'll go two letters.

And this is not even a critique of PG. It's just what the VC and startup ecosystem seems to have become. If anything, YC does seem to be a sort of counterbalance to this trend.
For non CZ/SK people reading this. This story is an extremely niche example of "anti" communist games.

For example, transgoogle this article https://gaudeo.sk/jaro-filip-online/ and watch the video posted there, which is from 1986 and it was airtimed in the state television as an 8-episode-long series.

Jaro Filip, the guy from the '86 video is openly saying that he is playing Alien 8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv6yLoibUS0 and he is joking about it quite casually.

By the way, Fuxoft - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWfQH6o8T9I nowadays a crypto-millionaire (part of Golden Triangle, together with the guy mentioned in the OA, https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Triangle ) did some nice text adventures like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1P56S5vdW0.

By the way, the first official games/programs distributor for CZ/SK and even UK/US titles was probably Ultrasoft. These games in the article were not official games, well, there wasn't a market for this thing in the 80's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasoft Maybe you will know titles like Quadrax, Jet-Story or Tetris 2.
I recall "Dr. Gene Ray" defending the credibility of Time Cube on similar grounds. There wasn't enough of an idea presented to even have an argument about.
How Big Pharma Finds Sick Users on Facebook
I didn’t think there was anything crazy about Mighty.

It looks like a straightforward play to implement app streaming to deliver an application that holds immense amounts of personal data, and Mighty will (eventually) monetize that data.

It feels weird to bet on devices not being fast enough though, in a world where my phone is faster than my laptop.
Researchers chart path to drastically lower administrative costs of health care
Random Forest in Machine Learning
It is already; VBA for the desktop versions isn’t going away anytime soon but it also not being developed apart from updates to the object model to reflect added features.
In-process sandboxing is falling out of favour.

Code Access Security has been removed from the .NET framework [1]. And Java's SecurityManager is deprecated for removal in future versions of Java [2].

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/misc/code-...

[2] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411
The start of that book starts with a great quiz you can take online[0] to see how accurate your perceptions of the world are.

[0] https://upgrader.gapminder.org/t/sdg-world-un-goals/3/
hahaha, fuck, I remember ages ago, maybe 2013, when people were trying to get me to buy into the "web 2.0" craze -- "Web is the future!", "web can scale!", "nobody will install apps!", "your stuff will be accessible everywhere!"

funny how they all turned out to be mixed bags. the best part? people telling me web apps are "lighter". even back then I knew that was a hot load of bullshit.

good to know the other shoe has dropped and we're really going full-circle to thin clients/mainframes, but shittier.
I'm sharing the new website and domain, let me know what you think? The barrier to entry is already quite low, but what would make it easier / more convincing to participate?
For VR to ever begin to approach something close to reality, and to really prevent people from getting sick wearing the headsets, it needs to be nearly 90Hz per eye and very high definition in a very small, lightweight package. While you're focused on the rectangular screens, the market is figuring out other ways to use this technology.
It's one of the most studied disasters in history, but basically the main causes boil down to:

1. Personnel who didn't understand the risks of deviating from written procedure

2. Engineers who didn't anticipate or underestimated certain failure modes and didn't design the reactor and monitoring systems with sufficient redundancy and failsafes

3. Grossly insufficient monitoring systems

4. Denial at every level once it was obvious that something was Seriously Wrong
>This is clear gaslighting

Please don't destroy the term gaslighting. It means something very important and not at all what you are using it for here.
Hopefully we can set two devices as trusted?
Well caught! I have two off by one errors :D seems they start from 1 instead of 0, and I didn't account for the null byte :D your solution is nicer and easier to read :)
That's above minimum wage, isn't it (I don't know if it's different over there, but I expect it's not >$12)?
Rare earth prices in December 2020
My MacBook Air M1 is dead
Hard to transport.
Your point is a good one but let me offer some tweaks that make paying for stuff not look as bleak.

1. Bundling multiple subscriptions is a long-time practice and if more services were paid offerings we'd likely all buy some bundle that gave us most of what we wanted at a reasonable price.

2. Paying for services will reduce the number of services around... which may be a good thing when so many offerings are sub-par.

3. With more paid offerings, we will be more deliberate about how we spend our time, which is what advertising-based models make us forget we are really spending. And as you age you realize that the time you spent watching ad-supported drivel was more expensive than if you had just paid directly for the things you really needed and spent the rest of your time on things that matter - friends, family, experiences, learning etc.
I'm saddened to hear this! For me, LiveLeak was a real life Safety Training video catalog plus much more. Comments weren't the best attribute of the site but you could keep yourself informed without having to participate. I think that most users related to site it in their own personal way. Some came to view gory videos, some to express their views, while others to see what's new with world.
If you can hold off any lumber intensive construction until next year, it might be sensible if you want to save on costs. Fences, decks, etc. the opinions I’ve heard is the cost will go down considerably but we probably won’t see costs as low as pre-covid.

But today, $9 for a 2x4 is ridiculous. I’m sort of expecting labor costs to go up too since these guys are in such demand.
We can make trust-less stablecoins backed by crypto but we cant run a blockchain on a stablecoin. Its only stable if its backed or pegged to something and that we dont know how to do decentral.
Wunderite (Techstars Boston 2020) | Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success| Boston MA | Remote | Fulltime | https://www.wunderite.com

Wunderite simplifies sales and underwriting for insurance agents and their customers (InsurTech).

Recently raised $3M seed. (Spark Capital, Boston Seed, industry executives)
Building the early team. Looking for thoughtful, curious, talented team members

Built in Laravel + Vue

Roles:
-Full Stack
-Front End
-Back End
-Product
-Sales
-Customer Success

Email me: peter at wunderite.com (co-founder / ceo). I’m a former insurance agent + self taught engineer.

[1] engineer posting https://angel.co/company/wunderite/jobs/1357251-senior-full-...

[2] round https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/28/wunderite-raises-3m-to-bui...

[3] refresher on the insurance industry: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/insurance-supply-chain-peter-...
> I want to visualize 1TB of single cell RNA seq data in a browser tab, then open a new tab, change some params, and share the link to a colleague. I want it to be instant.

But why? Wouldn't you be better suited writing a native application that would do this better? This seems like you're building a problem for this solution. Most people use a browser for Gmail and to read news. Your example already works really well on the browser on my phone
WHO, Germany Launch New Global Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence
Important things to remember with defer in Golang
Yugoslavia wasn't exactly part of the USSR block after 1956 and it actually was part of the group of independent nations.
I think that orthodontics would be an area where it would be often quite useless, because usually it's not just about moving the teeth, it's about changing shape and alignment of jaws to get enough space for the teeth.
> There are many ways to waste electricity. Bitcoin is a big one, but so is electric heating of uninsulated houses

This is like seeing someone else light a cigarette on a plane, and deciding it’s harmless for you to smoke because someone else is already smoking.

(Edit: changed metaphor to match original)
I do find it a bit odd though that the browsers don't just default to this at this point. Like, why is the default webpage font still Times New Roman?
I suspect in the not-so-distant future, every company will have their own token, much like they have their own domain/website today.
We likely will not attempt to port the Erlang concurrency model to the browser, at least not to start. Some Gleam users have been experimenting with an actor model library in JavaScript, this could be the basis of future research.

More generally, Gleam doesn't have any concurrency primatives in the core language currently. We have a type safe OTP library, but it implemented in userland with a core of ~200 lines of Erlang rather than being built in to the compiler.
> Dropbox, Boom, Lambda School, and another dozen ideas within YC that all seem surprisingly possible.

Well if you fund 1000s of ideas, some of them are bound to be successfull. There is no surprise there. That's basic maths.
"I'm not claiming this principle extends much beyond math, engineering, and the hard sciences. In politics, for example, crazy-sounding ideas generally are as bad as they sound. Though arguably this is not an exception, because the people who propose them are not in fact domain experts; politicians are domain experts in political tactics, like how to get elected and how to get legislation passed, but not in the world that policy acts upon. Perhaps no one could be."

Weird. Math, engineering, and the hard sciences are the few places where it is possible to positively say an idea won't work.
Can’t leave your phone alone? You’re just trying to blend in
The counter argument is that in clojure you can do (merge {:a 1} {:b “yo”}) without defining new types.
You are hinting at issues that apply to mega corporations in general. Your complaint seems to be that we aren't as used to harm done by mega-platforms - as we are to harm done by other mega corporations.

Giving Govs unconstitutional power over everyone's speech seems like a poor solution to the problem of corporations that wield too much power over us.
Yes, just a typo, fixed now!
HP’s latest all-in-one comes with AI noise reduction
That was a fun watch. You're really good at this!

Absolutely love the playback feature.
Well, I would prefer an attribute, that is already there for some elements (like css or js files):

integrity="<hash>"

This would kill two birds with one stone: If it changes in HTML, this means:

- Please bust cache

- Refetch and ensure, that the fetched file is securely valid

And it could be optional for every fetchable resource (img, video, css, js, etc.)
your site doesn't load in firefox on debian buster
YouTube deletes links to Russian anti-government voting project
Smart Voting (Russian: Умное голосование) is a tactical voting strategy put forward by the team of Alexei Navalny with the aim of depriving the United Russia party of votes in regional and federal elections. The goal of "Smart Voting" is to consolidate the votes of those who oppose United Russia. Today, opposition leaders report that YouTube started blocking links to Smart Voting website.
Is this a new policy? As far as I know Google employs algorithms and bots of different sorts to read emails to identify topics and then use it for ad targeting.

I.e if I send you an email talking about finding a vacation deal to go to Egypt, we will get ads to that effect (obviously it'll vary somewhat).
> I think cooling requirements will keep use of the 3rd dimension severely limited in the foreseeable future.

It's fun to go look back on old CPU coolers. They started around Pentium-era CPUs, then kept getting bigger. Around 100W TDP, they stopped. I think that's the largest practical air-cooled cooler.
That's not what I meant. I meant the best people _for the job_. I agree that candidates shouldn't be excluded because of disabilities that are irrelevant to the job of being an astronaut, but that's not why they're doing this. As the ESA spokesperson says, "it's in the principle of diversity and inclusiveness".
Or, you can embrace the abyss and find out what's on the other side.
> you can correlate the structure of the code with the interface/document being rendered

Note that you're taking for granted that the document must necessarily be a nested tree structure, which then behooves us to follow in the code.

Which may be right and good (and in any case is foisted on us); but the assumption bears spelling out.
Reminds me of the quote (from, of course, more grim contexts):

"For my friends everything, for my enemies the law"

Apparently by "Oscar R. Benavides, President of Peru from 1933 to 1939" (https://www.quora.com/Who-originally-said-To-my-friends-ever...)
Or steampunk if it has some brass on it.
Yeah, I figured we did once we started talking about solar sails and space elevators.
I'm sure there are plenty of Greek folks who think they've seen an alien.
In my experience, I always come to regret anything I ever bought from ads. To the point that now I use an adblocker. For people who are unaffected by ads, it's just a minor annoyance. For people who actually affected by ads, I'd say it's a net negative, not a net positive for their lives.
Traits to Consider If You Want to Find the Perfect Co-Founder
Exactly. The greatest problem with ads isn’t the horrible code or even the resource consuming stalking. Those are just symptoms of something long decayed and separated from reality.

The biggest problem is that you are shipping and forcing something users, in most cases, don’t want. It’s like pornography and illicit drugs in that yes eventually there are some beneficial edge case side effects, but almost universally it is bad. In order to increase market penetration you must become more bad and simultaneously sell it as a positive.

This isn’t a universal truth. Users are willing to accept advertising as a payment in exchange for media or something similar. This isn’t evil so long as it isn’t violating privacy, is immediately apparent without deception, and is voluntarily accepted by the audience.
I can't tell if there is actually a story by that title and it's not linked to for the obvious reason... or if that title just refers to the other related stories.
You don't take a decision on not buying a house "due to inflated prices". The market can stay inflated longer than you can wait for it to deflate.
What a crossword AI reveals about humans' way with words
Why do you think US houses are of poor quality? Just because they don't last forever with no maintenance? I don't think there's any point in over-building.
Some selected excerpts:

>Commodity
Quality + origin
Dec 20
November 20
Unit
Change%
Value date

Gadolinium oxides 99.5% min EXW China $27.906,54 $26.769,23 USD / mt 4,25 18.12.20

Gadolinium oxides 99.99% min EXW China $30.697,20 $30.153,85 USD / mt 1,80 18.12.20

Neodymium Metal 99% min EXW China $97.672,90 $75.384,62 USD / mt 29,57 18.12.20

PDS: Observation: There's money to be made in rare-earth metals!

2nd Observation: The inflationary price curve of the most extremely high priced rare-earth metals (if it exists) -- over a given time period (more = better for prediction purposes) -- in a given country's currency -- will probably be the most accurate predictor of Inflation -- in that country...

Which in turn might be the most accurate predictor -- of a future War -- should one happen (we hope not!)...
Taking this article at face value, the idea Graham is talking about, already has a name: jootsing (jumping out of the system) coined by Douglas Hofstadter. I’m familiar with it from Daniel Dennett’s excellent book Intuition Pumps.

A feature of ground breaking ideas is they contradict established wisdom, but that’s also a feature of most awful ones. The latter greatly outnumber the former. For every brilliant mind contradicting and redefining a discipline there are a multitude of clueless ones who lack basic knowledge of that discipline producing total crap. Think Einstein vs thousands of crackpots who don’t understand kinetic energy and momentum are not the same thing.

For this reason Dennett points out that the presence of jootsing is not a valuable metric to assess an idea. He goes on to say as it’s unhelpful advice to give to someone attempting to produce a valuable concept. He compares it to teaching someone how to invest by saying “buy low, sell high”. Yes this is a feature of a successful investor, but in and of itself, quite unhelpful.

Unfortunately, saying “my ideas jootses” isn’t saying much.
I'm frankly not sure how this is relevant to a survival scenario where people may or may not be injured.

Anyway, the entire ISS is built around astronauts using their feet as anchors, allowing them to use their hands for work. Without legs, you wouldn't be able to do maintain your position while working in 0g, hence the challenges of spacewalking. There's plenty of videos where astros show how the top of their feet become calloused as they use them to lock in their bodies to the structure.
>Speaking for myself, it's because his analysis focuses only on the benefits of ads, and conveniently ignores the actual ethical problems (e.g. large-scale collection of personal information).

Most people have no issue with the collection of personal information in itself. They only start caring when others start to make money off of it. If Google completely got rid of ads as a revenue source and still made the exact same services for free, they would still collect nearly as much sensitive data (e.g. location tracking for better routing). However, a lot fewer people would care. Privacy activists would still exist, but I doubt that regular people bother to listen to them.
I wish Twitter would reconsider switching away from system fonts, most people do not care about custom font, but most people would benefit from system font that is more accessible and has more familiar feel.
This is a beautiful, impressive, hack. The blog post itself is a minor tour de force.
Show HN: Osint Tool to find a person usernames, emails and breached emails
"Similarities in morphology are not proof of life. It is possible that all the specimens presented here
are abiotic. We cannot completely rule out minerals, weathering, and unknown geological forces that are
unique to Mars and unknown and alien to Earth. However, growth, movement, alterations in location and
shape, constitute behavior, and coupled with life-like morphology, strongly support the hypothesis there
is life on Mars."

They really should put more focus on the first sentence. Extraordinary claims need extraordinary data, which they don't have. They should have phrased it otherwise around. While abiotic phenomenons are more likely, we can not rule out a biological background. Further investigation should be undertaken.
You can restore a foreskin to some extent, an early form of this was practiced in the 8th century BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreskin_restoration
The features of the Rust and Haskell type systems that are most useful to me are requiring me to handle every possible null value and modeling branching control flow with algebraic data types, including exhaustiveness checks for those.

A value of type "User" can be either "LoggedInUser", "Admin" or "NotLoggedIn", and each of those can have data attached to it. Now I can write functions that only work on specific versions of this and the compiler will remind me to handle every possible variation. If I've narrowed it down to "this function only takes Admin", then the compiler will prevent me from passing the wrong type to it.

It's little things like being able to wrap a "String" in a so-called "newtype": "newtype SpecialString = SpecialString String". Now a function can happily accept three string arguments, but if each one is wrapped in a special type you can't mix them up. Or saying something is a "NonEmptyList" and now I can rest assured that it'll always have values.

If any of these can be achieved reliably (<-- important!) in Clojure then I apologize for my lack of knowledge!
If I understand it correctly smart contracts are just another piece of software combined with some blockchain magic. If you can't prove a piece of code is correct, wrapping it in a trendy buzzword won't make the code more correct.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't know how decentralization would change anything other than adding safeties against manipulation if done right.
It does a pretty crappy jjob of acting as a proxy, as the only thing it does measure is people using state unemployment programs.

Once you exhaust your benefit, or if you decide not to claim, you aren't counted. Some business models actually factor in usage of the unemployment system to provide continuity of workforce via keeping people solvent between rehires, further diluting the utility of the metric.

After a certain age, there is a marked reluctance to hire on older workers that I've noticed, and far fewer older applicants in at least my field than I expected. It is not uncommon in so.e parts of the country for some people to be completely unaware that unemployment is even a thing they can avail themselves of, or if there is, there's so much stigma and saber rattling at "those damn fraudsters" that after you hear it enough you start to wonder whether you should really be collecting it at all.

BLS - Better Lying with Statistics
Where does the money you seemingly save come from? You pay for them whenever you buy something that was advertised. If Google Search was $10/month, the average Google user would save about that much spread across all the products they buy.
Show HN: Metronome with strange time signatures like pi/4 or 6.9phi/7e
Evolution has bestowed on us the great gift of Cognitive Dissonance. When I look at what I do on a day-to-day basis, there are probably a hundred things that don't align with my own internal belief system. The only way I don't go mad is to find plausible justifications for what I do.

I work in a different industry with its own issues and impacts on the society and the environment. I try not to think about it and even look at the positive things to gloss over the bad impact.
RE: 4.

My company uses webmarshal which fronts requests and blocks pages deemed not good for productivity/data security. In that type of situation you already have an intermediary so mighty could make sense - make everyone use mighty and give it a custom blocklist. Obviously not a situation that employees would be a fan of, but it’s something that corporate is already doing, and mighty could improve the experience.
I hate to be cynical, but I think the reason why online advertisers keep harping on about the "benefits" of personalized ads is that it justifies their existence. They can keep trying to sell whiz-bang audience profiling and attribution technology, even if it doesn't work all that well.

Contextual advertising, on the other hand, is simple. It shifts the focus away from technology and toward people: recognizing your audience and crafting a message to them, instead of trying to have a computer do it for you. It's old-fashioned marketing.
Presumably because it is or was considered a web standard (either de facto or explicit, I assume the former but I’m not sure) that browsers decided to respect.