skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fully agree, automatic mechanical watch movements are truly a marvel of engineering. The fact that the movement is powered purely by the kinetic forces naturally applied from wearing it, and can reasonably accurately keep time over years, under a wide range of conditions… is truly impressive.
What are your thoughts on the acquisitions that Aterian ($AETR) has done in the last 6 months?

Are you going to be approaching it via a similar acquisition financing mechanism? Buying at 2-3x SDE for a mix of cash and Moonshot stock issued at 10-20X Earnings?
Facebook Loses Bid to Block Ruling on EU-U.S. Data Flows
What about mining other coins .. ? Doge ?
Seems like both DKIM and SPF checks have passed:

https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/1391415257881530376/ph...
There was no change in the evidence on masks between March and April of 2020. This is retconning the CDC’s incompetent messaging.
Study Reveals Where Memories of Familiar Places Are Stored in the Brain
The NY Post isn't a credible source, sorry.

If Pompeo had evidence of Kerry having illegal talks, he had the opportunity to provide this evidence to the FBI, seeing as he was part of the administration at the time. Instead he chose to 'slam' Kerry during a news conference.

But still no answer to the question if Kerry pretended to represent the US government, which would have been illegal.
I would so love for this to be true, but it's far outside my area of expertise. The important thing, though, is there have to be useful experimental predictions. The only reason I could ever reconcile my understanding of reality with QM is that it's an extremely good theory for making predictions.
> We can vote out of government those who would allow violations of our privacy (whether or not we do so is a different, but equally important discussion).

I think this is an illusion. There is ~no one to vote for that supports rolling back US government bulk surveillance.
Languages like this: fun to author the grammar, and have the entire thing in your head. So expressive! Difficult for anyone else (including yourself in 2 years) to understand
With version 3 it has another: Haskell doesn't yet have dependent types.
Young? He's 29? Were you mistaken or are you implying that 29 is pretty young to be creating self-aware youtube content.
Lebanon NJ the town is covered entirely by a historic district. Like I said, you can't just do whatever you want and disregard local zoning if you own land.

> With construction costs of $1B for an 18 mile run in Chicago, the Boring company could make this Lebanon <-> Manhattan for $2.5B.

This is vaporware until it actually happens. Maglevs and monorails and personal rapid transit were also supposed to be significantly cheaper than their traditional counterparts, until they weren't. I could promise you HSR for $1, that doesn't mean I can make it happen.
Veritone launches platform to let celebrities clone their voice with AI
Can you say something about what kind of companies you are looking for, how you value companies, etc?

Contrived example: Say a company has $1m, $500k, 100k in sales, gross & profit respectively... is that enough information for a starting point? How do marketing mix, growth, sector and other such factors play in?

Also, since it sounds like you are running these as going concerns, what happens if/when founders and key employees aren't included in the acquisition or move on? Is running companies directly an avenue, and if so, are they still run as independent units?

Lastly, do you dabble in grey areas between outright acquisitions and partial ownership?

Also interested in your terminal destination... but other comments have covered this.
Looking at it on a map can be deceiving though. About 80% of Russia is in Asia, but about 80% of Russia's population lives in European Russia.
I tried a few of the top "content blockers" from the App Store and none of them worked very well (at least the free versions), so I gave up and assumed it just wasn't feasible. I can't imagine I'm the only one with the same experience. I'll revisit this based on your comment and others in this thread.
I just tried to build the trip - with a Tesla long range I only have to add a 20 minute supercharger stop (assuming that the slots are available), but for a Chevy volt it's adding an hour of charging time in two 30 minute breaks.
To all those wondering _why_ that is the recommendation, I did some digging and the answer is "the binary package is compiled against one version of libssl, and if your system happens to use a different one, in some weird edge cases it will lead to a segfault"
And yet despite all its obvious shortcomings, people looooooove democracy.
Thanks for the link :) Though that top comment seems to explain that situation fairly well? Reading the rest of the thread it looks like FUD and the usual HN mess, is there any actual evidence of shadiness since the merger?
There are different types of terrorism. It falls under the cyberterrorism and critical infrastructure category.
Give vaccines to Covax not children
No idea if this is worth the paper it is written on but Stuart Hoegner posted this on Twitter:

https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/tether-assuranc...
25% income tax? Yikes.
That's what I eventually figured. But the angle really made the writer sound like they had no fucking clue about electric motors in the first place.
Maybe a good use for quadrocopters or other low-cost drones.

If you use a satellite, you might as well put a larger concave mirror on it to focus sunlight. A nearly 100 year old weapon concept that luckily never happened [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_gun
What's your valuation algorithm? 2-5x EBITDA or gross profit?
Right. I was talking about normal http/1.1 traffic with http keepalive.
The article leaves out my favorite part of the Post-It Note story.

When Silver and Fry were trying to get 3M management to productize Post-It's, they could not get any traction with anyone with authority to launch a product. So, they made up a prototype batch in their lab, put some on the desk of every executive's secretary, with a note to call their department secretary if they wanted more. They gave their department secretary a supply and told her they would make more as needed. Soon she was getting orders from every secretary on the campus.

One day she came to them and said: "This has got to stop! I am spending all my time filling orders for these sticky notes and I can't get my job done!" So they told her to just stop. "We have enough data for our experiment now, so you can just stop and get back to your regular job."

I find that part of the story simply delicious.
Not really a gRPC problem. Typically in the cloud one need to drop the connections after something like 2-4 minutes no matter what. Tweak it.
It's not Plichta's silane fuel.

Instead of hydrocarbon use hydrosilicon. Thought to be unstable (like "big bada boom" unstable) Peter Plichta discovered that "Silanes with chains of seven or more atoms of silicon per molecule are stable and can be pumped and stored very much like gasoline and other carbon-based liquid fuels."

http://www.rexresearch.com/plichtasilane/plichta.html

They burn nitrogen and are said to make lightning instead of flames.

> The combustion process of hydrosilicons is fundamentally different from the exclusively oxygen based combustion we know from burning hydrocarbons. In a sufficiently hot reaction chamber, silanes separate into atoms of hydrogen and silicon, which immediately mix with the oxygen and nitrogen of the air. The hydrogen from the silanes and the air's oxygen now burn completely leaving only water vapor, bringing the temperature of the gases close to 2000 degrees C.

> Since there is no more oxygen, no silicon oxide can be formed in the following phase. What happens instead is an extremely energetic reaction of the 80% nitrogen in the air with the silicon atoms present, that forms a fine powder called silicon nitride (Si3N4).
Well, for starters, your own nuclear power plant
Interesting thing from another article on the company:

> GMG is an Australian-based clean-tech disruptive company listed on the TSXV (TSXV:GMG) that produces graphene and hydrogen by cracking methane (natural gas) instead of mining graphite

I wonder about the long term environmental impact of a technology that - at present - depends on continued fossil fuel extraction.

https://finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/gmg-graphene-aluminiu...
Spoken like a true thief. "How can this be stolen? What is possession, really?"
It's sjw code for not being happy with who he or she was born as.
Should add the obvious ultimate way to prevent fingerprinting of this type is to just run Firefox in its own VM or container with a totally clean OS you otherwise don't touch. You could choose to share the Downloads folder between guest and host so you can still save files, but it then wouldn't be able to see what you do and don't have installed on your real host system.

Of course, if you do anything to allow hardware acceleration in your browser so you're not streaming media like it's 1999, it'll still be able to fingerprint you based on the hardware, but at least it won't see what applications you have.
For anyone wondering why there is a random confetti effect opening the article — the publication is 1 year old.
You're just being intentionally obtuse. This attitude is exactly why it's pointless to list sources to pretend-inquisitive strangers on the Internet.
No, that's the opposite - a good thing that there should be more of.
Station storage is where it's at, these would firm up renewables quite nicely.
Curiosity Is Important, but Colleges Are Suppressing It
Discord’s new features make for better online conventions
>After starting the application, PrivacyBot initiates an OAuth authentication request with your Gmail account. You will be asked to allow PrivacyBot to read, compose and send emails from your Gmail account.

Bummer. I don't use GMAIL.
I often feel the same, and there is certainly a bit of learning curve, but in my experience, all the time you spend battling the compiler in Rust is time saved from debugging in C++, several times over. I'm repeatedly surprised by how my code just works when it finally compiles. It's like the compiler is telling you, "you just made a bug".
What do you mean by "not first class"?

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/functions/#man-anony...
It's interesting to consider how those primary candidates got there and to what extent it would be possible to change who shows up in that position.

Check out "Hate, Inc." by Matt Taibbi. He details the process by which party bosses essentially determine the primary field (and have done so for decades), and the media complex reinforces these choices using terms like "electable" or "wise choice" or "stubborn" or "off reservation".

Yes, this is only about the single off of the President (the Vice President choice is even less available to the people), but there is something to be said about the most visible and paid-attention-to office being the one that is categorically the least in the hands of the people. ...yet nobody seems to mention it.
Battery consumption, fan noise, heat, etc.
good point, here is basic criteria:
Private label brands
$3M-$30M in revenue
15%+ net margin
Predominantly on Amazon but also open to Shopify/DTC brands that are profitable.
Allan built HomeSav focused on home goods ("everything from couches to candles"), and we also like sporting goods, office, home improvement, etc...
In terms of products staying away from fast fashion, electronics that can become obsolete.
We don't do drop shipping, software etc...
Looking globally
Even as a British citizen who likes city life, London in particular never tempted me, because of both the nationally infamous housing cost and the un-fun experience of Tube travel.
I used to live in Harrow on the Hill. Zone 5, but great connection to central London with the metropolitan line. Much better commute than when I lived in Parsons Green, which was zone 2!
London is contention zone for billionaires and millionaires buying up property left and right.

What kid of property can you buy if you are a good software dev working at FAANG?
Coinbase’s successful transition to React Native
There's many apps, browser plugins and some styling (dark mode) collected at https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news Usually they lack login and voting because the API doesn't explose those features. On mobile I use one of the apps to make it more readable.

> is there even HN monetization

None. Budget is taken care of by https://www.ycombinator.com/ with full editorial freedom. HN is not run like a company, no investors, no growth plans (beyond managing the word-of-mouth growth).

> Inside the comments, there's no way to [...] collapse them

Look for the '[–]' next to the date (e.g. '2 hours ago').
Both you and and animats are describing the same thing, brushless synchronous machine, which exists for long time.
I also want pdfs and other files indexed
Today the fast services follow the same alignment.

Rerouting so far has been a headache; in New Haven-Boston where the tracks are so curvy new tracks have to be built, the FRA proposed going through entirely different population centers (the geography of the existing coast line is very challenging). This has resulted in an interesting fight where people want the train in their town, but also do not want the impact of newly constructed tracks through their town.
The Transitory Nature of Content on the Internet
Here's a fascinating Twitter thread about the history of aerosol transmission denial, going back to the early 20th century :

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1391111720526024708?s...

It's 100 tweets long, may be more readable here :
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1391111720526024708.html
“Hassle” is relative. It’s just as easy or easier than the 220 countries outside the EU. Ya know, the ones with north of 20x the population of the EU.
Flutter CI/CD using Git Tags in 5 minutes
> Failing/refusing to pay a subscription fee does not, generally, result in you getting thrown in a cage with rapists and murderers.

If you fail to pay the subscription fee for your gym, but break in to use the equipment anyway, it might.
Thank you for the comment. As someone ignorant of the field, the entire thing sounds like “turbo encabulator” to me! This gives me lots to Wikipedia and learn.
First of all battery technologies tend to get better over time.

Second, many times faster charging speed is nothing to ignore. It means you can charge on many more occasions and you don't have to stop the car.

Think you could stop your car by the side of the road and be on your way in matter of a minute.

Ability to charge cars fast is a huge problem because not only they need charge more frequently than feuling they need so much more time to do it. If you calculate, replacing all cars with EVs would require a lot of space to park cars and to guest the people that need to wait for the car to get charged.
This has to be low IQ bait.
Hosting a simple fullstack app in 2021: Render
The Economist hasn’t been right leaning for at least half a decade or longer now.
As a programmer and aspiring writer, the two activities don't really feel the same to me at all. I understand that there are many similarities. Building a piece of software and writing a novel are complex projects that span long periods of time, requires iteration, attention to detail, and cognizance of structure at varying scales, planning, etc....

But when I'm writing prose, it does not feel anything like writing code. I enjoy a beautiful line of written code, and can sit back and admire it for a while, before I get on with the business of hating it a week or three later, but it is nothing like the experience of feeling the taste of words on the tongue, of reaching into my own garbage sack of mental vomit to pull out gems to glimmer in the sun.
If you go to an "old-school" Asian grocer, the shelves are packed to the rafters, there's essentially no signage in English, and you can't help but feel like you're getting in the way of the regulars. This feels much less welcoming, while an H Mart style place that's laid out and brightly lit like a "regular" supermarket is much more conducive to exploration.
Fauchi, presumed spokesman for the CDC, came as close as possible to saying so, and/or was taken as such.

If that early statement can be justified by "fog of war" changing virus-related information at that time, then Fauchi should have allowed himself that complication. By offering "there were not enough masks available then" as a later explanation, he seems to have explained it essentially by saying he lied. In doing so he apparently threw away a substantial amount of his credibility, for many people. At worst a lying move; at best a lightweight move with lives at risk.
ebooks, mobile apps, online services, affiliate websites... tons of options, depends on what you're into.
Aluminum is the third most abundant element after oxygen and silicon in the earth's crust. Lithium is the 25th most abundant element. Early days, but that might bring cost down.
Which comment exactly did you perceive as ideological? Criticism of Stalin?
I'm from the UK so the section "What percentage of your salary goes to taxes?" seemed perfectly normal to me.

The way the "comment from the editor" is written ("Unfortunately, in England, higher salaries will mean higher tax rates." and "England's tax brackets can be slightly confusing") make it sound like this is not commonly how it works in other counties.

Could anyone tell me about how this differs from where you are?
The "h" is necessary to indicate there is no liaison with the previous word and the "d" is an indication that that derivative words use a non-silent "d" (like "hasardeux").
Does a production deploy require a backend server?
That's a nice laptop
However it's unclear from the website how exactly does it differ from other well-established laptop brands. Not talking about Apple here, but take Dell for example - Dells are DIY-repairable to some extent and you can replace some of the components, even 'consumable' parts like keyboard, trackpad or screen. So let's treat this as baseline - how Framework improves on that?
How come the search is somewhat stochastic? Deleting the "e" from "cake" and retyping it causes ~ 1 in 4 searches to display pure "cake" entries while the rest show things like "Baked praline ice cream cake".
While I agree that Rust is complicated, this example from the test suite is really a bad example because it's there to test the edge cases of the grammar to ensure backward compatibility.
Mattermost PM here, thanks for suggesting Focalboard!

@rubyist5eva You can learn more about Focalboard - the open-source alternative to Trello, Asana and Notion - at https://focalboard.com/.
The Tube's not the only way to get around London! Zone 1 maybe, but commuter rail is pretty decent by international standards (apart from Southern).
According to the Oxford Dictionary, the origin of hazard is as follows:

Middle English (in hazard (sense 3 of the noun)): from Old French hasard, from Spanish azar, from Arabic az-zahr ‘chance, luck’, from Persian zār or Turkish zar ‘dice’

It bears mentioning, as an interesting fact that I just found about, that azzahr comes from Andalusi Arabic, and that zahr (in Arabic) means 'flower', from which the Spanish word azahar (the white flower on some trees such as orange trees) comes.

Etymologies from the most official Spanish dictionary:

azar: Del árabe hispánico *azzahr, y este del árabe zahr 'dado'; literalmente 'flores'.

azahar: Del árabe hispánico azzahár, y este del árabe clásico zahr 'flores'.
LOL No!

IRC is still alive and well thanks.
> As it stands, most people were compelled by law to wear a mask under every circumstance whether it made sense or not.

The CDC's recommendations changed yesterday. It'll take a couple days for states to adjust accordingly.
Nope. It generates a fully static site with HTML, CSS, JS that you can deploy with any static host. (s3, netlify, cloudflare workers)
> You don't have to like the CCP to enjoy China and respect its people.

This is the crux of it though. You don't need to like the CCP to enjoy China and its people. But you don't need to dislike China and its people in order to consider the CCP a hostile, morally evil state.

Rebranding the latter as racism is damaging.
Hmm,i wonder why i as a non immigrant don't qualify for this citizenship even after paying all taxes, including FICA
Ok, then: the US constitution only applies on US soil.
Flash Memory's 2D Cousin is 5,000 Times Speedier
yes focus on EBITDA. In some cases there is a metric called SDE which is seller discretionary earnings that has some additional add backs.
Los Angeles's quixotic quest to end homelessness
This is cool. I just shipped an app using Svelte [1] and I liked working with the framework. I would be interested to work with it more.

My app replaces Safari's new tab page with a wallpaper and weather widget. Obviously performance is crucial for this - your wallpaper needs to appear immediately after you hit Cmd-T.

Svelte was a nice way to get the benefits of a component-based framework while still shipping only a tiny JS bundle to customers. It has some rough edges, but it's cool to see the community fill out the gaps with tools like this.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beautiful-new-tabs/id156706823...
XUnit Spatial Activation Function for Image Denoising
He has videos dating 7 years back.
I thought he looked young for what he was doing.
Did not see him until quite a bit into the video and it was not what I expected.
Really knowledgeable, a lot of equipment and a really good setup for someone so young. There is also the fact that there is no big source of income that I could easily spot.
Michael Seibel said something like this: if you success, you would be like the top 1 percent among your peers. You should be cautious about asking average people's opinion about your startup, because average means failure in startup world.

You know more than anyone about your business. You have all the qualitative and quantitative data about your business. If you need some random HN users, most of which are not successful founders, to tell you whether you should quit or go on, there is something wrong.

As a founder myself, I can relate to your feeling. My last startup failed. I saw no hope in what we did. I gave up. There is nothing bad about giving up, if you are sure about it.
You do realize there are plenty of languages out there, and most novel features appeared first in some minor research languages? Like, there is hardly anything original to kotlin on your list, sealed classes have been in scala forever, and are basically just algebraic data types. Data classes are.. data classes, multiline strings is a cool but very basic syntactic sugar available in millions of languages, coroutines have been around, and kotlin’s couroutines are nothing like project loom. The latter is more similar to go’s threads. Switch expressions have been in scala forever, but a pretty basic thing in FP languages.
Guantánamo Detainee Agrees to Drop Call for CIA Testimony
There are no bugs, only unrealized intentions.
As a native-born Brit who moved to Eastern Europe four years ago, there is some information in here I actually didn't know.

Also, as someone who has moved country twice (six years in Italy was the first time), I should note that this article doesn't deal with what I can only describe as general UK culture and the British character.

I would strongly advise anyone heading Britside to do what I did with Bucharest and have as long an 'exploratory' trip as you can to get a feel of the place: the way people look you in the eye (or don't); whether you sense hostility; and just the general social atmosphere. You can assess this kind of thing in a couple of weeks, usually, at least at a broad level.

As someone who gladly left, I'm obviously not the person to ask about whether you'd like living there. But it would be a good idea to stay with friends there, if possible, and scout that aspect out for yourself.
IBM on track to release 1,121 qubit quantum computer by 2023