skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can balance a corpse with a corpse on the scale of justice, but that would just leave two families ruined.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. I have to ask, how did it feel to come back to the grind after that period (if you did)?
The (slow) death of blogs and .plan files is probably the greatest net negative Twitter has had on the internet.
Yes, what wonderful countries those are.
I'm technically sound but not technical enough. We are looking for a Deep-Tech Co-Founder, who have experience in Computer Vision, experimented with CNN and/or Transformers. We have quite a bit chunk of equity (double digit) on the table and currently fund-raising our first round. Additional experiences with GIS, GeoSpatial data, etc would be brilliant.

We, at Valinor Earth, are building climate intelligence tools and data for profit and sustainability. Our current focus is Food - production, its transportation, and consumption.

My co-founder is super connected and we are land-grabbing really fast but yet to be revenue positive.

My official email is brajeshwar@valinor.earth and we are geographies agnostic team.

On a different note, Y Combinator has a Co-Founder matching[1] platform on its StartupSchool. Pretty interesting people there.

1. https://www.startupschool.org/posts/39814
Please make this a thing on HN.
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Can't afford the steam turbine.

It's astonishing how much the engineering literature is like a stopped clock. All the time you hear that a new power source could be "competitive with coal" but coal is not competitive with natural gas used to fire an open-cycle gas turbine.

The capital cost of the steam turbine (and associated heat exchangers) at a coal plant or nuclear plant is as humongous as the hardware itself.

A supercritical CO2 closed-cycle gas turbine would fit in the employee break room of the turbine house at a nuclear plant.

Without some transition to a higher-temperature reactor (liquid metal, gas cooled, or molten salt) nuclear power can't possibly compete economically against other power sources.
There's a feature that they scan your messages for abusive content, so it's surely not encrypted as they can read every private message
Not familiar with C compiling besides a few small programs I wrote back in college but can Linux not be compiled currently with LLVM?
I’m pretty sure this can be explained by the age distributions. Key part is page 44 where they calculate risks.
Just because something is disallowed doesn't mean people stop doing it.
MariaDB vs. MySQL performance on CPU-bound range queries
> the COVID vaccines only have 7 months, since the first vaccine was given

Your comment is full of factual inaccuracies, and this one is easy to refute. The first COVID vaccines were given in trials in February 2020, shortly after the SARS-CoV-2 genome was sequenced, and they've already got 17 months of data.

Also worth repeating what another commenter said, vaccine side effects always show up in the first two months.

You may not trust governments and their narratives. I don't either, and I can still see that the evidence clearly points to these vaccines being safe and effective. There doesn't seem to be much evidence in support of continued living in fear.
This is one thing I really don't get. It doesn't even support a USB dongle to do Bluetooth. I've heard it works with some of them, but not all of them.

I use my Switch only plugged into its dock routed through another device that allows me to use Bluetooth headphones. So it's not an issue for me. But I really can't understand how you can sell something as portable if you can't use it with Bluetooth headphones out of the box.
Who would hold them accountable for killing Muslim civilians as collateral damage?
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I was reflecting on the panic around India's second wave, when it appeared to be going exponential. Base rates suggested that it would level off and decline similarly to the pattern seen around the world. It does look like that's what ended up happening.

At the time, though, feeling the emotional impact of the tragedy made it quite difficult to apply base rates.

- How have you personally improved at leaning on things like base rates?

- Why don't more experts default to using base rates as the standard predictive model?

- Is there a reason it's not standard practice for experts to use base rates when making predictions?

[EDIT: reformatted to clarify the questions]
I once went to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) to see an exhibition of various digital, partially digital, or digital-related exhibits...

What I remember the most was a room exhibiting several older websites on beige-boxes with CRT monitors, running Windows 95 and Netscape 3, and period-appropriate keyboards and mice.

They were set up so that you could click around and browse around, and I even went so far as looking at the source.

What I realized was that NN3 is a pretty capable browser, and so are many which came after them.

Well, I decided to start testing my Web projects with every browser I could get my hands on, and I've discovered that, if you are very careful, you can make sites which work with 25+ years worth of browser software...

And if I'm not on a strict schedule, browser quirks and compatibility are kind of fun!

So I am sort of on the type of mission you're describing. I've set up the appropriate VMs, and whenever I'm working on the computer (pretty much every day haha) is like a visit to a historic browser exhibit. :)

I also like writing in MS Word 97, so this makes it easy to paste the text into my blog afterwards.
I wonder if the economists have ever considered a society where brainy people are happy and proud to perform basic sustenance work- construction, manufacture of textiles, farming, driving, etc.
that does not seem to be the primary intention of the creators.

Even if it is a side-effect, who cares?
You're absolutely right. I'm working on an update now and hoping it rolls into prod this week.
Ask HN: How to talk to customers as a socially awkward introvert?
I’m an extremely shy, socially awkward person who also struggles with poor self-esteem and low self confidence.

I've an idea and would like to start a SaaS business. I’m targeting small business owners and going out to talk to people is hell for me. My heart races, I speak in a low voice, have an awkward grin and my attempts to talk to people has been a disaster - most people find me uninteresting and want to just go on with their work.

I also have ADD, so I’ve to or feel like I’ve to try very hard to listen and which makes it very difficult to think on my feet and ask meaningful questions or make the conversation interesting. I’ve taken the usual medication for ADD, but those make my anxiety worse. I’ve been on some kind of anti depressant for the last 18 years.

Can you give me some tips and or something from your personal experience to overcome this issue. Getting a co-founder is not a viable option for me as I don’t have that big of a friend circle.

Thanks for reading!

Edit: changed some wording
I agree, I love subtitles, and prefer watching everything with (English) subtitles, even films/TV shows in English. Mainly because of the same reason as you, and just to add, I also watch a lot of stuff that has strong regional UK accents. Sometimes, it's not just the accent, but the regional usage of very specific slang that is simply just incomprehensible because I'm not familiar with the word's usage in that manner and can't infer from context, even if the words themselves are in my vocabulary. (A recent example that comes to mind is Derry Girls...)

But I also wonder if there's something related to how people read that factors into this aversion to subtitles?

For me, subtitles are almost invisible and I spend zero-to-negligible effort "actively reading" them -- they just sort of get absorbed by my brain while I'm watching what's on screen. So it doesn't really negatively affect my enjoyment or engagement with the show/film at all.

I think maybe the folks that struggle with or dislike subtitles view the act of "reading" subtitles as a mental context switch that interferes with the parallel act of watching and listening.
DONT_BE_EVIL=1
Given that those people are Linux kernel devs, that's great!
The approach I used was similar. The idea of maximising observed control of the world means you seek states where you can reach many other states, but _predictably_ so. This comes 'for free' when using Information Theory to model a channel.
Yea I've used those too, great way to get a quick lil server up and running...

Quick question, I've on a AWS bootstrapping/code deployment framework to AWS currently, would you be willing to kick the tires on it a bit?

Put briefly, it configures an AWS org and domain, a GitHub Org, provides template repos, and connects all the wires...

https://docs.scaffold.ly/tutorials

It's not the Docker/Kube Kool-aide, but it is the Lambda+Serverless Kool-aide, so AWS charges for idle infra are near-zero.

I don't have much context on what you're building for your solo projects, but I'd like to learn more, so feel free to message me directly too, hackernews [at] cnuss dotcom
What won't work about it? This is a stupid comment.
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Isn't it among the best in the EU?
Yeah, Tropic Thunder, is a much better example of a recent movie that could never be made just a few later because somebody might be offended.
This is an excellent example of how these things could not have happened unless you took a step away from the grind. I know some people would say you could do that while working, but somehow I dont think so :) Thanks for sharing!
LF co-founder who loves to solve authentication problems, build opinionated/easy to use tools and interested in community building over at:
https://github.com/authcompanion/authcompanion
I am rather new with JS, TS and all that.
But did not IntelliJ have some JSDoc support to help it autocomplete JS, a long time ago?
Who mentioned AI?
That is just an argument for features/the quality of code, not about freedom. There are other models for make good quality software that has the features users want without making it open source. And no, having the source available for software that you use is not like freedom of speech.

Anyway, like I have already said, my intent here was only to try to make people like you see another perspective (namely that non-free platforms can create ecosystems where users enjoy the labours of a large number of developers who can make a profitable living out of programming for that ecosystem - access to such ecosystems is also a freedom and one that many users care about). Apart from making that limited point, I had no interest in having a pointless argument with an open source fanatic.
That all sounds very reasonable. Thanks for this "exchange", good stuff!
Thank you for that link! It's interesting they're still claiming to be using something like this, in the digital era.
Quantifying Copyright Reversion
An Exxon lobbyist thought he was in a job interview. Instead, it was recorded
There are several incentive fixes: change the negative incentive to a factor that discounts the reward for catching a sheep, add a negative incentive to death, or a positive incentive to being alive at the end of the simulation. The failure here was they didn't think about what happens when the agent can't achieve a positive score, ie can't catch a sheep.
> however deno would lend itself much better to running cf workers locally

What would be the reason for this?
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about or any knowledge of Burma's history. General Hlaing's junta has already committed one genocide against the Rohingya in 2017 and given the continued opportunities will turn Burma into a failed state, cause the death of millions and destabilise the region. Just because they lack Nazi Germany's industrial capacity and sharp uniforms doesn't mean they won't continue to murder, maim and slaughter.
I have been seeking co-founder for a couple months, a bit actively. Passively, for about a year now. I think you underestimate how big a pain this is. HN is a great place for people in the concerned bucket to give a shout out.
Adding a few more from HBO and Amazon...

Greenland
The Little Things
The Conjuring
Killerman
Ghost in the Shell (live action)
Redline
Sputnik
Disney and Superhero movies definitely lead the spiral to the bottom
Polanyi's Paradox
It won’t be so simple with Android. Google has moved critical parts of Android to closed source. You still need to play by Google’s rules if you want to have access to the Play store, and so far, mobile platforms have lived and died by their app ecosystem.
I'm sorry, you yourself haven't provided a single citation either. You are requiring others to have a stronger level of evidence than the level of evidence you are providing for your claims.

I don't find it to be in particularly good faith that as soon as someone disputes your claims, you immediately ask them to do research work that you didn't want to do.
Wait is the English a translation or did he write them in both languages? I’m guessing the former since the English seems too modern (and writing both versions would be a lot of work).
That's because they literally set it up to deliver that same punchline in the next paragraph.

Looks like you got too excited to be able to read the entire comment? XD
No offense intended, but I hate the name.

I was a huge fan of the Enso program launcher made by Humanized back in the day. Aza Raskin I think it was. I got so excited when I saw this said Enso, but alas..
Curious to know what kind of marketing efforts you took for these if any? Any marketing budget to speak of?

They look like really well done apps, congrats on (kind of) exiting the rat race!
Sorry to Bother You was so interesting, especially how they approached the first 2 acts. It was like a surrealist version of Do the right Thing. the 3rd act is well, it's different and while it doesn't live up to the build up... it's unforgettable .
I've been building a personal search engine in Flask/Python using Solr @ https://mitta.us/. Mitta runs on Google Cloud instances + AppEngine. The system uses a plugin and a headless Firefox + an image ML pipeline to extract meta data and text from pages to provide full text and object search. The system is currently command line driven from a web UI. Documentation for the backend system is at https://mitta.us/apiv1

Mitta provides methods to crawl, index, tag, filter and search various information over time.

My thoughts are that I will continue to work on this over the coming months to explore a few use cases for managing imagery for ML based business models, including analysis for time series data and bookmarking, such as we did at Loggly with system logs.

A versatile product oriented cofounder who codes would be useful in taking this proof of concept to market.

Email kordless AT Gmails.
We haven't decided on that yet. We will probably use a WYSIWYG Markdown editor (recommendations welcome!) along with a Git GUI client. That may not work forever, but it should be fine in the medium-term.

Note: marketing folks will probably not be editing the product docs much--the marketing site content is kept in a separate repo so we can provide a different solution there.
>"so according to you, your neighbors committing murder gives YOU the right to do the same because what ??"

Problem is when said murderers assume self-righteous position and pontificate how bad everyone else is.

If they punish the perpetrators and fix the situation than sure, full respect. But just for the fuck of it: who for example got punished in UK for deporting and otherwise ruining lives of their own citizens (Windrush scandal)? The answer is most likely zilch. Still they teach everyone else.

And yes I agree that the scale of abuse is way smaller in the countries like the US. But they compensate by abusing citizens of the other countries by dropping democratic bombs.
> We will continue to support the opt out mechanism described here: ...

You can, and ALSO support this new thing. Supporting one more env var if you already support one for this kind of functionality is easy and low risk.
PS1-PS4 and PC gamer here. I got into the Switch in Dec 2020 and I've been significantly impressed with the quality of the games and console. I had heard from many that the Switch is worth buying for "Breath of the Wild" alone and that was fair for me.

That game is still IMO far better than any AAA title I've played (including GTA V, Red Dead 2, Cyberpunk (!), AC Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla) on significantly more powerful consoles/PC and it runs nearly perfectly on the current Switch, both handheld and docked. What's even more shocking is how they manage to keep the game so engaging and beautiful looking whilst keeping the loading times so low. I can boot the console, load the game and be playing in probably <30 seconds compared to at least 4 minutes for top PS4 titles.

Who needs hyper-realistic graphics and 5 min load times (looking at you AC/RDR/GTA...) when you have less realistic but MORE beautiful graphics, attention-to-detail with truly addictive, deep and mastery-focused gameplay?

Which leads me to the new OLED Switch release: when a game like BOTW is so great, still so relevant today and runs so perfectly on the existing Switch models, I'd say the console didn't even need an update ... although I would personally have loved bluetooth audio.
The overreach is in expanding the original mission of DNT, which was to request that sites not harvest a user’s data for targeted advertising:

http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/01/history-of-do-not-track-...

Expanding that to mean “do not reveal the user’s IP address” is a significant expansion of the original meaning, having little to do with the protection against being individually tracked that the DNT header was designed for.

Asking Homebrew to disable analytics has nothing to do with targeted advertising opt-outs, but supports the ideological goal of the authors in promoting their new idea that revealing the existence of the user is “tracking”. That expansion exceeds the scope of the definition of “tracking” as used to reference targeted advertising and marketing, something that is not applicable to the Homebrew project’s existing flag in any way.

Attempting to promote their beliefs by aliasing those two concepts together - tracking protection against targeted advertising, versus disabling telemetry and auto update - is therefore overreach to me, especially when presented without this context to projects such as Homebrew and others in pull requests, and I think it will ultimately lead to their effort’s failure.

To me, this is all a direct consequence of their attempt to ride the coattails of the failed DNT effort by reusing its key phrase “do not track”. They should have used a different name. In a few seconds, I can think of a pretty great one that still acronyms to DNT, so clearly creativity wasn’t the obstacle here. Instead they chose to anchor to “Do Not Track” and it’s too late now to change that. We’ll see what happens.
I think it's unfortunate that drills in art have been culturally moved away from recently. There is an active sentiment in the amateur art community that drill is bad, and that you should just draw/paint/whatever things that you enjoy, and you'll just naturally improve over time. This is part of why you see countless online artists who draw for thousands of hours and still can barely manage a likeness.

There are very few activities for which scrimmage improves you faster than drill. Whether it's sports, art, chess, video games, cooking, or anything else, doing the actual activity is a relatively poor way to improve at it.
you're bummed out because you can't steal people's code to make money
What's the problem with Prop 47?
>the value of what they're offering cannot possibly be more than the delta from what is freely and openly available. They didn't make the original any less available, and a user is only possibly going to pay if the features are different enough to merit the cost over the freely available version

I think its interesting that you described exactly the big problem the GPL was supposed to solve. The entire intention is to not allow another party to take the work you've done and build a minor increase in value and then piggy backing on all the value you've created.

Now you've removed contributions that could have made the original project better - most of the intention of open source is to make something that others can contribute too.
But please explain how publicly calling out and potentially doxxing developers would help this issue? Do you really want to target single developers and unleash the fury of the HN crown on them?

If we talk about morality and ethics, I think this is worse than implementing tracking, isn't it?

I know you guys wants to change the world and I absolutely agree that there are too many tracking in the world, but FFS, let's just take a step back and think about YOUR actions and their consequences.

Not everyone has the luxury to quit a job if they don't agree with the morality of their work. I know we are talking about OSS, but lot of the developers are living on the donations and sponsorships or even got bought out by larger companies and to keep their jobs, they have to do said implementations.
Lichtenstein, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Luxembourg. Can I have a cookie now?
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