skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just leaving this here in case it saves someone else a little suffering: it was life changing to start sleeping with a pillow between my knees. I used to wake up with debilitating lower back pain every morning, which I worked through with stretching and yoga and such but then I saw a commercial for one of those bowtie shaped foam pillows that go between your knees and figured "what the heck" and ordered one. It was weird at first but seemed to help a bit, then one night I came home late, tired, and couldn't find the thing so just jammed a regular pillow between my knees--the following morning was the first time I woke up without back pain in years. It's definitely hard on the pillows so now when I buy a new pillow for my head I demote the old one to knee service.
I sleep in a Racing Car!, Do you?
This line of discussion from Protonmail is making me greatly reconsider closing my accounts (plural) there for VPN and mail service.

This is embarrassing at minimum, and show negative interaction with customers.
Has anyone tried out the Bryte bed?
https://youtu.be/2X6c6x-Cwes
I've actually been doing some scanning because I picked up a large format scanner for a non-profit I'm on the board of but haven't been able to arrange a handoff.

The problem I find is that I have a ton of stuff that's neither "must keep" or "trash can" but, while I don't really begrudge it the space in my house, for now, it's also not stuff I'm going to spend hours and hours scanning against some future want.
(crontab -l ; echo "00 19 * * 1-5 killall slack && killall zoom") | crontab -

is a good start.
Mac Mini M1
Ask HN: Founder, stressed and lacking enjoyment – advice?
Hi HN,

I am the sole founder of an early stage AI/software company. I've been working on this company for 2 years and am finally starting to look for funding.

For the past couple of months I have woken up dreading my workday. I try to get myself hyped, motivated and disciplined, but I don't enjoy the day-to-day tasks I need to complete. I'm passionate about the mission of the company, and want to see it succeed, but am unhappy about how the process "feels".

I never expected it to be easy, but this degree of unhappiness is surprising to me, and I want to address it. I also find myself worrying a lot about whether or not we will "succeed" and the "success" of my career, which I believe also hurts my ability to enjoy the process itself.

Have you ever faced a period of little to no enjoyment while starting a company? What helped you get past it?

TIA,
tasteful rogue
Rebel AI group raises record cash after machine learning schism
Just some rambling, hope you enjoy :)
It's about a thousand times more expensive per ton to store the paper in libraries in archival condition than to bury it in a bog, so not really.
I make all of my sleeping purchases based on sleeplikethedead's ratings. Great source for "Unbiased and Accurate Mattress Research" [0]. I have so far not been disappointed.

[0] - https://www.sleeplikethedead.com/mattress-methodology.html
There's a bunch hosted by google, e.g. the Tretyakov

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-state-tretyako...

There's probably a way to get a full list out of

https://artsandculture.google.com/
LOL, about identical stats and understand completely. My furniture is all either wood, metal, or super cheap. No sense in dropping 2k on a fancy couch I'll just destroy in 6 months, I figure. Do you guys have size Cal king in the UK? Luckily they aren't too hard to get here in the US, though finding nice bed sheets can be an adventure.
Apple Pay isn't much of an advantage. Samsung and Garmin have the same thing.
Ask HN: What is it like living in a non-Bay Area tech city?
As a Bay Area resident, I always hear these rumors that the next Silicon Valley will be Austin, or Santa Monica, or Miami and so on.

I've heard stories of friends of friends who moved to Austin, or Idaho City, or Philadelphia and magically were able to have a house, and a yard, and found a company, and buy that Tesla, and have space for their weird hobby and apparently have zero downside to moving.

Admittedly I’m skeptical.

So for those who live in up and comer tech cities like the above or any other that I've missed, what is the experience like?

How does it compare to Living/working in the bay?

How is tech valued there?

How competitive is the job market?

How do the different rules, regulations, markets benefit / hinder tech in your city?
As a private pilot: The same. I always took extra care to cut back on the engine after takeoff, crossing the homes near the airport more slowly and without ascending much. And I avoided pristine landscapes or at least also slowed down a lot for a much quieter engine and prop. Because when I was at home or in some national park I hated those noisy small planes as much as the next guy.

With a propeller the engine is not alone in producing noise, the propeller can easily be worse. Especially when you are perpendicular underneath an airplane crossing above.

Still, what I find even worse is that general aviation still uses leaded fuel. I know this is so "esoteric" for most people that few really care, because it is so abstract. As someone who went through a heavy metal diagnosis and chelator treatment (university clinic, lab proven exposure) I know that even the tiniest amounts still have an impact. Not a clinical impact, you are not sick. But your brain and everything works a bit worse. With tiny amounts adding up over decades any small problems you get will be attributed to "age", "stress", "it's in your head". Because while we know, statistically, that there is an impact (that is why the _medical_, threshold for lead, and others, is zero), we are unable to make any useful statements for individuals. Which means for any given person the problem does not exist, and for the population level it remains an abstract threat.

So noise is one thing, but spreading lead over the landscape - yes in tiny amounts, but I believe it still adds up and matters - to me is even more outrageous.

I apologize, for years I spread lead over some, or many?, of you guys here when I flew around the Bay Area. At the time I completely ignored the "LL" on my avgas. Only after my own clinical encounter did I realize what it meant, suddenly it was more than just a technical term.

https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/avgas/
Ask HN: Anyone interested in learning how I bootstrapped a profitable HW startup
I bootstrapped a profitable niche Hardware product as a solo founder. Thinking of creating either some course or an ongoing behind the scenes community where I share everything from start, to launch, to ongoing marketing and development.

Some stats:

- took me total of about $8k to go from idea, prototyping to producing first 50 units

- worked with manufacturing in China for the first time

- took me a year (not fulltime, probably 3 months if it were fulltime) to write all the software and do the design work

- after about 5 weeks I think, I got my initial investment back and am now profitably growing this niche product.

Would there be interest in some of the behind the scenes journey? Pay per month for monthly behind the scenes updates? What would you like to know specifically?

Thinking of monetizing my journal :)
"she inspired a generation of film makers and artists that reality is not one that needs to be reproduced exactly as it is filmed or photographed"

I'm not sure what you mean by that, but there were plenty of films before the 1943 Meshes of the Afternoon which showed reality in fantastic, even dreamlike ways.

From the 1902 A Trip to the Moon to the 1920's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari to 1922's Nosferatu to 1927's Metropolis, and other German Expressionist films, to name just a few.

For me the new thing that Meshes of the Afternoon brought to the cinema was an explicit interest in dream symbolism.. though even that may not be that new, if you count Bunel's 1930 film L'Age d'Or and other films of the surrealist era.

Deren has often been described as being in the surrealist tradition, and I think that's accurate in as much as she was interested in artistic use of dreams and dream symbolism, and the borderline between dream and waking life.
Alternatively, you can call it "Street Art" and promote it: https://www.swedishnomad.com/malmo-street-art/

Personally, I feel it's odd to combat graffiti by making it legal, but the result looks good to me.
I once helped develop a "survey" for a nonprofit org, which wanted to gain some insight on what they were doing well and what they could improve. One of the other people involved kept insisting on reducing the number of questions and complexity of the ratings. He said it all boiled down to one basic question, "would you use this service again" and while we didn't quite get that simple, in retrospect I think he was more right than wrong.

Maybe a boolean "would you buy this product again" is the basic question for a review. It's still open to being gamed, but only in one way.
IMO unit tests can be done against any implementation, even a mock one, so using Monty would be beneficial, if it supports all you need.

However, you need to have integration tests, to ensure that such implementation behaves the same as the MongoDB version you have in the production. Such tests only need to be run when you change the implementation or upgrade production MongoDB.
I feel like they have pretty much cleared the issue up. Any coder would agree that a captcha service is actually very hard to build. Especially a good one. What they're doing isn't exactly 100% wrong, but it isn't 100% right either. Either way, they're implementing hCaptcha. I see no issue?
JupyterLab does support real-time collaborative editing in the browser, as of a few weeks ago.

https://github.com/jupyterlab/rtc
I don't make my bed. I just have a pile of king size blankets on my queen size bed (about 3 of them, depending on the season). I crumple them to lean against sometimes, and spread them out at night. They're pretty much square so I don't care about their orientation.

I have a Linen blanket, it feels a bit like a potatoe sack (it gets softer over time), but it has a decent weight (more than a sheet) and feels cooler than my other blankets. The hype around them isn't made up, when I first received it I was surprised that it felt physically cool to an extent I had never experienced with other blankets. Linen is made of flax seed. It was more expensive than regular blankets, about $100.
Yes, fair point, the "ent" is literally something like "de-," so you are "de-blaming" yourself or "freeing <subject> from blame."

But in common parlance, I think the phrase "Ich entschuldige mich" is really meant more to say "I apologize" than anything else. I guess this could be a place where descriptivists and prescriptivists differ in their interpretations (and I lean a bit more towards being a descriptivist).

I haven't studied German society closely enough to know what people really mean with this phrase, but this is how I've always interpreted and used it, and other people seem to use it in this manner as well.
You don't 'disconnect', you do other things and that causes your mind to switch.

Most people want an intimate relationship, a family at some point and to be healthy. Chances are, you want some of those things too. By pursuing them, things will fall into place.

Just don't expect it to be easy or fun right away. If you didn't do sports of some kind as a kid, any physical exercise will be awkward for a while but it's a hurdle you just have to get past. The same applies to being social - if you aren't naturally extroverted, it'll take some time :)

One more thing: sooner or later, your interest in learning new languages and frameworks will exhaust itself. There's far less interesting stuff happening than one imagines when one's first learning about it all :)
Oh, my bad.

I thought when they were referring to the server, it was email servers in general.
I've been really happy with my setup.

Floyd Bed Frame — The Floyd frame can be bought as a queen size, then upgraded to a king later.
(https://floydhome.com/products/the-bed-frame)

Parachute Linen Sheets — kind of expensive, but the first set of sheets I've felt excited about using (https://www.parachutehome.com/products/linen-sheet-set)

~5 years into a cheap mattress off of Amazon, but I've been really happy with it so far. I think it was a Wirecutter recommendation:
(https://www.amazon.com/Dreamfoam-Bedding-Plush-Pillow-Mattre...)

Before I moved in with my girlfriend, I was sleeping on a twin mattress on the floor! (With a small rug underneath it). So I suppose anything would have been a step up.
Purple mattress, sheets, and pillow. Still get excited about it even though I bought it a few years ago. Can’t recommend enough. Got the base model not the fancy one. Housed in an old IKEA bedframe.
I don't know if the hn protonmail account is an official account or a fan account, but it seems quite unprofessional and really scares me off being a protonmail customer.
Amazon: We're Urging Congress, Legislatures Across U.S. to Support/Fund K-12 CS
Your boss will eventually ask to make your "ad-hoc" stuff "production".

At which point you'll dump the hot mess in somebody else's lap, and the whole thing will be rewritten from scratch.

If that's your thing, then go for it.
The whole issue is google already has a business model that is a privacy-invasive agenda. The cat you describe has left the bag years ago.
> Well for one thing, at least in my experience, most credit card transaction data does not include granular information about the transaction (like the list of groceries you bought).

No, that information is collected as part of the "points" discount card and then sold to advertisers together with your credit card transation data.
‘X-ray vision’ is closer to reality, thanks to 5G networks and radar
"Job Cuts"? It's just a reorg.
NASA blaming the Challenger tragedy on Powerpoint is pretty rich.
Both are simple, factual and true statements? Why does that make you stop reading?
That was my reaction as well. If an external independent researcher can do this, Amazon, Google, and other big platforms surely have enough resources, smarts, and full access to all the data to identify and eliminate bogus accounts, shill reviews, and scammy or counterfeit products. Yet they don't do it.
I’ve always enjoyed this kind of cultural comparison due to the perspective it brings to my own inherited behaviors (American).

Does anyone have recommendations of resources where I can read further comparisons? Is there a name for the study of these cultural differences?
This is true. We were shown Meshes of the Afternoon in our foundational filmmaking courses at AAU. Her use of choreography in combination of camera placement created a truly remarkable effect on the viewer. An example is her running up the stairs swaying back and forth with a slight tilt of the camera which made it seem as though the abode was moving like a ship on the open sea. Techniques like this she poetically used continue to inspire film makers today.
A lot of the comments seem to suggest that good quality content is missing from LinkedIn and other mainstream social media platforms.

I wonder what people consider to be good quality content?
Homie, it has nothing to do with you or your work commute. Cyclists have every legal right to be on the road as a car and if a shoulder lane isn’t safe enough to cycle on then it’s safest and recommended and the law to take up a whole lane to ensure assholes like you don’t risk their safety/lives by trying to squeeze past them in the same lane. Best to just treat them as a car and try to practice patience.
> But don't do work in your free time. Don't fix bugs for your employer, don't learn stuff you need to learn for your employer.

What hammered this home for me after years of loving my job and thinking about work outside of work, was how little ROI that investment has actually had, compared to how much value it's added for my employers. Now don't get me wrong, I'm pretty happy with my career progress so far, and my love of my job, and learning outside business hours, is a major part of that.

That said, though, I can learn a lot of the same things while trying to invest the time itself in something of my own, where worst case scenario I get the same learning out of it, my employer and my career both still benefit, and I get to choose the direction myself. There's at least a chance, though, that I could produce some extra income, and maybe even build something sustainable on the side where I can personally see a much higher fraction of the ROI, rather than it disappearing somewhere into the enterprise.
Thanks for the warning.

By "Knob" I meant the kind of that you turn on a radio when tuning toa frequency.
Garmin is now #2 in smartwatch market share. Fitness tracking features are generally superior to Apple but there are few useful 3rd-party apps. Currently only one Garmin watch has some limited LTE support so they generally need a smartphone Bluetooth connection for messages. Rumors say they'll be launching additional LTE models soon.
Can't speak for U.S. banks, but in Europe more banks seem to support Apple Pay than Garmin.
Got any recommendations for blocking youtube ads in safari?
If general relativity is an accurate model of gravity then distortions in space-time are caused by mass. Traveling at the speed of light can be shown to require an infinite amount of energy to accomplish for a finite mass. However space-time itself could, according to our current understanding, travel faster than the speed of light.

So if you could 'warp' space around you rather than travel through it, you could go at an arbitrary speed. Unfortunately warping space-time is typically accomplished by large amounts of mass. Hence a large amount of energy. If I remember correctly it also requires we bend space in a way we have never seen nor have any reason to believe is possible to accomplish beyond it being allowed by general relativity. It's quite a pickle.

Without such a device humanity will still populate the galaxy but it'll take hundreds of millions of years. Assuming we don't wipe ourselves out.
Programming may be your passion, but too much of something will eat you. You need to find balance. Its imperative you find a way to switch off and recharge.

I would suggest joining a hiking club or something you can do at weekends thats different to the daily grind.

Especially don't think about bugs at the weekend.

I would even go for a cycle or a run first thing Saturday morning, then go get a coffee, some breakfast. Invite a friend for coffee.
I think ultimately find another pursuit in addition to development.
I've also had fun due to a BOM. In my case it was for configuring the Assetto Corsa server. It takes an INI for the entry list, but halts parsing if it encounters unexpected input. Without any kind of message. The BOM was an unexpected input, so the server just immediately shut down because the entry list was "empty".

That was a fun, and totally unstressful way to begin my time managing a racing league's race events.
Choosing something you ideologically do not support is not sane
The Putin-Era Propaganda State (2015) [pdf]
Etymology: What Is This * You Speak Of?
> If it's going to be a hodgepodge anyway due to user-generated content, wouldn't that be another argument for not trying too hard to develop their own integrated visual theme?

A lot of that depends on what kind of UGC they actually allow. I'm not certain whether they intend to allow users to upload their own content, or if UGC actually just means "build structures in game out of built-in assets". I suspect it's actually the latter.

> I wonder how Second Life deals with this.

In large part, through technical barriers. Second Life historically used a lot of rather idiosyncratic formats for its 3D models (like "sculpted prims" -- in short, XYZ coordinates stored in a texture), making it effectively impossible to import models which weren't created for SL. They did eventually allow users to upload meshes, but that capability is still gated behind some special permissions to prevent abuse.
The point of lecture is not to teach you the subject throughly. That’s what practice is for. The point of lecture is to get you so profoundly interested in the concepts you’re learning that you’ll go and do the practice without feeling like you’re doing any work.
I don't sleep on my back. Do you think this has anything to do with that?
Adding my own question, great topic, have any of you hackers figured out a great bed cooling system to buy or build? It seems like there are a lot of options, but not reviewed particularly well.

Bedjet probably the best example but there seem to be a lot of them. Basically anything that can move some heat away from me while going to sleep, but still being able to enjoy the weight of a sheet or light blanket would be really nice.
Full-text search within the average amount of a single user's emails is trivial and fast on any modern PC. Smartphones do it for autocompletion suggestions every time you type a letter. The only thing taking longer than a few milliseconds is the initial indexing.
There are a few interpretations but I think you are mixing "getting over it" and "getting over them". Getting over the death is very different to getting over the person.

>Your loved one will always be with you, in your memories, in your life experiences. If you get a smile while thinking of the things you did together, then they are not really dead.

Exactly, this is the point you can get to when you are able to get over their death - you can remember the experiences rather than just experiencing grief.
I've seen this pattern in the wild already. IIRC my bank (Barclays UK) has a section in their marketing email preferences where you need to check the box IF you don't want to receive any marketing^Hspam email. People notoriously hate to read, and even grandmas have learned the lesson never to check any box at the end of any form, and this is how they still get you.

It's atrocious and there should be legal consequences to whoever adopts or implements dark patterns like these.
Keep your dedication, but get something in return:

1. Go for a 4-day week. Reduce hours a little bit, actually bill/stamp/communicate your 9-10hour days you do anyway (I guess)

2. make 3 day weekends. 1 day chores, one day as usual (bugs, frameworks, rss feeds etc), but you get one additional
free day - let it come to you what will happen there. i have seen people practically going to professional cooking level, 250miles a day cycling, hiking, etc - you’ll discover that.

3. enjoy. don’t let your result being brandished by other people’s quick fixes to their lives (-;
Thanks. I liked this one.

https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin/status/139178233788132966...

And this:

https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin/status/138491328852230963...
I think my bed is old enough to drink. Might be even old enough to rent a car. My pillow is also very flat, which may be because I wake up every morning to having squeezed it into a ball during the night.
Tutanota uses an open source captcha. I guess their goal is to get rid of Google completely: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/open-source-email/
What we have here is users who don't re-use passwords being inconvenienced to protect those who do. Doubtlessly this is very progressive, as those who reuse passwords have less "has a fucking clue"-privilege. But nonetheless this does not sit right with me.
> Obviously there could be a middle ground of allowing someone to deactivate 5 accounts per month or something.

A improvement like this is indeed in our feature backlog, and something we hope to implement in the future.
"But start scrolling through your newsfeed,"

Why would you do that? I've posted my resume there, LinkedIn tricked me ("do you know these peoples") into "connecting" with former colleagues and recruiters can find me. That works well; the rest is rubbish and I don't know why they bother.
Vonnegut Reviews Heinlein's “Stranger in a Strange Land”
Thanks. It felt like I was trying to find how long to cook something and at what temperature and instead the author is only interested in telling me about their grandmother's sweaters and childhood summers in Vermont.