skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
REMOTE, Global (or Montreal, Canada)

I'm a technical guy, founder of Status Machine (https://statusmachine.com/), a pre-seed, pre-traction company that's building a dashboard (see the website for an example) for companies that manage many websites and need to see an overview of their status. Status = up or not, secure or not, etc.

I plan to integrate with as many tools as possible via webhooks and APIs.

I'm not sure what type of co-founder that I need. So feel free to get in touch, even if you are not sure either what you could bring to the company.

Email: julien @ the domain cited above.
You mean, of course, "The low number of deaths accompanied strict lockdowns and regulations."
The big problem was GOVERNMENT, though.

Seriously, the mRNA vaccines were created in a few days once the seriousness of the virus was realized. And then held up for 9 months of testing because the government wouldn't allow challenge trials. We could have been vaccinating people a few months into the pandemic and instead we waited nearly a year to roll out the vaccine at scale.
Them why is t my hard drive four million kilobytes? We already crossed this bridge with gigabytes, and the course was laid in with terabytes, which I first heard in a business setting over 20 years ago, when that was still a rack of hard disks. Cloud providers and the LHC brought us petabytes, and that was over ten years ago. The “oh by the way the next unit is ‘exabyte’” conversations started around the same time.
"Completely predictable" is different from "This would minimize the probability of being fenced in by the four ghosts." no?
Can you link to context for this? I learned both in linear algebra, so it seems like either would be just as 'expected'.
Also I think the parent post is ignoring generally accepted realities of the Japanese higher education system.

The hardest part of the top tier universities is getting in. Being an actual university student is the time in life when most Japanese slack off, get part time jobs and devote lots of attention to their hobbies. Skipping class is normal in most departments and largely what you get your degree in is meaningless.

Japanese university grads merely have to graduate and based on the school they went to will determine which prestigious companies they can successfully apply to. New grads apply to the company, not a specific position and companies allocate their new hires based on what positions they need filled.
Funny, most of these stories originate from the legacy media. Wonder what axe they have to grind? Modi belongs in the same boat as Putin since he does not pander to globalist interests.
My guess would be zero more than now. None of the startups is limited by getting employees and I'm almost certain no funding would be gained by allowing at will employment as it is a non-issue anyways (as it is already possible to do so by just hiring contractors but nobody does this).

edit: Consider that most people would request considerable more than they earn here now if at-will employment would be the case, offsetting any "gains" you might consider. In Europe wages are considerably lower than the US.
> The scariest part is that this is apparently insanely profitable for them. NY is pretty progressive and it would not surprise me if they crack down on this kind of thing, but other states or countries seem unlikely to do that.

And this is why you need a carbon tax.

These clowns are basically making money by turning negative externalities into bitcoin. And the best way to deal with a negative externality is to tax the heck out of those folks and thereby either a) make the activity unprofitable, or b) use the resulting revenues to plow into mitigation efforts to offset the effects of the externality.
I think the intended meaning was that the rest of those 32 countries don't sentence people to capital punishment for drug crimes.
Yes, you can, assuming we're talking about the modern BSD license.

So, your point was?
User tracking isn't purpose of telemetry, so the variable name is misleading.
I am intrigued, but I think I still need a bridge to help me get to practical uses in my my fields involving (largely) non-physical systems.
Interesting!

There's a SaaS that let's you do this https://typing.io/
Full-time remote jobs don't require a full-time commitment
lol, Stripe will now.
Seems like a good opportunity for governments to tax their carbon dioxide emissions. It would be easier to get public support for a carbon tax that only targets "unproductive" sources.

Edit: What if governments just imposed a carbon tax on all crypto mining? The legal framework necessary to support that could be extended to cover other carbon sources in the future.
Atlassian has a separate tool chain, FishEye and Crucible, for code reviews. It's a separate product with a separate license and very few people seem to use it, but the Atlassian suite is meant to be a suite, as in many separate tools for specific purposes, instead of Gitlab's approach of having everything built into the core product. Atlassian's actual code review tooling is just as good as Gitlab's and really better because you can use it across arbitrary repo sources and don't actually need your code to be in Bitbucket or in a single repo or a single server at all.

You're just not using it if you only use Bitbucket.
This "stupid thing" was the right thing to do for end users. They come to our website to see pictures of properties they are looking for. We just made them ~100px wider. They were literally smaller than a 256x256 map tile. It also matches the image thumbnail sizes of its sister site as well (which were already larger), which was mentioned specifically at the end of the article (I doubt you made it that far).

Beyond that, page speed is a ranking factor in Google, so it's absolutely not "stupid" to pay attention to it and make small changes that improve it: https://searchengineland.com/google-speed-update-page-speed-...
No. "The only reason people aren't manufacturing guns illicitly in Illinois right now is because it's easier to drive to the next state" is a little closer.
Another great recommendation would be Tatami Galaxy, though you really need to be good at reading subtitles. It features some truly mind bending animation.
Congratulations, I love it! To me it would be very valuable to have a filter on location requirements - if you have such information available of course. Like, who needs office presence (and where), who is okay part-time, who is offering full remote... but once again, great thing!
Yes, the cover up and hostility towards the lab leak hypothesis may actually be the strongest evidence for it.

Which is to say, not much. But we have no evidence for the natural origin story, and it's a somewhat strange coincidence that the initial outbreak was near a lab studying these very same kinds of viruses. Granted you might put such a lab in places where there are lots of bat viruses to be found, but that's still a much, much larger area than the city of Wuhan. The closest known wild virus came from a source 800 miles away. Draw a circle over a map of China including both Wuhan and that bat cave and you can see that quite clearly.

Combine that with the fact that Sars cov1 escaped labs in China to infect researchers not once, but at least twice, and the Bayesian calculation swings heavily to the lab leak hypothesis.
Lots of people in the Free Software community think that programs should exist only to help the user, and should just do exactly what the user tells them to do and nothing else. I am one of those people. Showing ads, making network requests that aren't necessary to carry out the expected functionality, etc. all fall under violations of that principle. Some violations are worse than others, but I treat them the same way.

It's on the developers of the software to make these settings granular and off-by-default. If I want to help a developer, I'll go out of my way to do it and flip one of those switches if that's what it takes.

Personally, I don't think this goes far enough; I think programs should require explicit consent simply to connect to the network, and most should request permission to connect only to certain domains. But that's just me ;).
Just because you didn't see it happen, doesn't mean it didn't happen. If we accept your report at face value. all you've proven is that their algorithm isn't 100% comprehensive regardless of impact/number of followers of the people, etc.

It seems far more reasonable to me that if POTUS or $randomCelebrity tweets something it will get more scrutiny from the moderation efforts at Twitter than I would if I tweeted the same thing.
not sure. I had many ideas in the past which I felt were the best thing since tabbed bread.

but in the last 2-3 years I find myself a different head-space. I no longer need the validation for my own ego to have others work on "my idea".

Instead I am passively keeping my eyes peeled for potential products that are run by people I have chemistry with, and where I can bring value, maybe even for free (initially). Great if it turns into more down the road.

And some feeling tells me I probably am not the first person who reaches that point/conclusion in life. HN would be exactly the place for it considering angel sites are full of marketers and people with short attention spans, and/or perhaps worse.
Sel4 is an OS that is formally verified.

It's security parameters are well-defined enough that you can use it to launch isolated VMs with... less secure OSes that are sandboxed from each other.
The famine in Yemen and Sudan is a result of logistic breakdown when the war etc. makes it very expensive to transport food.

US produces enough food to feed like 2-3 billions people. It is just the vast majority of it goes to feed animals to get cheap meat. So even with agricultural output drop like 50% the will be no famine in US. The meat will be much more expensive, but no calories shortage.
Customisable Financial Models for Startups
the only sure way to make this fail is to not try it. the worst case is that noone here gets any response. with nothing to loose, why not try it.

at a minimum it shows everyone who is posting here, how many other people are searching. and maybe some good comes from that too.
This similar article: https://www.eatthis.com/news-imst-high-resistance-inspirator...

Links to this (also recent) article: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.121.020980

Which links to https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03266510?term=NCT...

Which might be from 2017? Or study began in 2017, updated May 2021?
The person you are responding to is correct. I’m a current LibreWriter user and have lost a fair amount of data to it as have people on Word who were unfortunate enough to have collaborated with me. I’m done drinking the kool aid and in the process of switching out.
Geographically at least that's more an extension of the Persian empire than Rome.
Ask HN: How aware are you about building decentralised software on blockchain?
The HN attitude about blockchain is overwhelmingly negative.

Yet what I see with smart contracts on blockchain, such as the Ethereum Virtual Machine, is a huge potential for change and opportunity.

If you don't know what that is:

You can run code on the Ethereum blockchain.
The user pays to run your code, instead of you paying to run the server that serves them the code.
This is because everyone who's running an Ethereum node actually has a copy of your code in the blockchain.

This is called a "smart contract" but enough people have experimented with it that they've actually built decentralised applications - dApps for short.

There are now real world examples of decentralised applications in Finance - DeFi - which includes a Decentralised exchange - uniswap - and decentralised finance like Compound, Balancer and Yield Finance. So there are apps. You can get a loan from a DeFi app today.

This seems like it has huge disruptive potential. Mark Cuban has talked about how he could sell tickets as NFTs on the blockchain, and get a percentage of resell, forever.

You could in theory build something similar for Airbnb or Uber on the blockchain - just NFT a house/day and then sell it on the blockchain. Same thing with Uber - drivers could auction off their time in a blockchain dApp.

Because devs don't pay to keep their code in the ETH blockchain, you can just build software and it will "run" forever, at no cost to the developer. You can also set up the smart contract to give you a percentage every time it runs - see uniswap. Thus user - pays the dev + network on usage.

This is a radical change and imo a huge avenue for new innovation.

But this is hardly talked about here in HN.

Let's ignore, if possible, the whole "proof of work is bad for the environment" question (all I'll say about that is proof of stake is real and in production with DOT/ALGO and that's a 99% reduction in energy consumption). I know it's tempting to go in this direction but again - let's assume all crypto is proof of stake for the sake of argument.
The news focuses on two activists who were jailed for allegedly plotting an insurgency in their country, and how the evidence is likely fake. However there is already a major insurgency in that country that is virtually unknown in the West.
no extension poles? thats back breaking work..
Creating an Image Classification Slackbot in Python
No, copyright doesn't spread via linking. That's why in real world you need GPL to get license incompatibility - no other Open Source licenses have this property.
How to migrate from Vue 2 to Vue 3 with a Vue/composition-API?
Nobody was mocked. The BJP leader claimed that cow dung cures covid19. He subsequently died of covid19.

The one sentence post was a PSA that cow dung cures covid19. Nobody was mocked. If you want to see mocking in a free country go here https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/ . India is not a free country.
EDIT: I'm leaving this here to help anyone else who might have been confused by this, which I imagine is likely.

What confused me is that the author is not treating the matrix as a function from vectors to vectors, as is the customary way to treat matrices as functions. Rather, they're using the matrix to represent a sparse, regular sampling of a function from vectors to scalars.

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This article makes no sense right off the bat. Here's the first substantive passage:

"[Laplace's Equation means] Find me a function f where every value everywhere is the average of the values around it ... In this post, when we talk about a function f we mean a 2D matrix where each element is some scalar value like temperature or pressure or electric potential ... If it seems weird to call a matrix a function, just remember that all matrices map input coordinates (i,j) to output values f(i,j). Matrices are functions that are just sparsely defined. This particular matrix does satisfy Laplace's equation because each element [of the matrix] is equal to the average of its neighbors."

The values of a function are the outputs it maps its inputs to. The elements of the matrix are neither inputs nor outputs.
Acrobats are also doing things like practicing with a lot of padding and nets. And working up to the big dangerous stuff by doing simpler versions.

I took pole dance classes for a while, for instance, and it was only after a lot of practice that I was allowed to start doing moves where I was upside down and hanging on to the pole with my thighs. And the beginning of that involved just lifting my ass over my head (after a lot of strengthening of my abdominal muscles) and wrapping my legs around the pole, and suffering through the pain of most of my weight suddenly being on two tender little strips of flesh in my inner thighs. Once they toughened up I could start doing more interesting things.
I know of at least one other company that is picking it up.
> I seriously doubt anybody here fails to at least vaguely understand the condition of US inner cities: they're war zones.

> St Louis had a 65 per 100k murder rate in 2019. Baltimore was 58. Birmingham was 50. Detroit was 41. Those are war zones.

> They're de facto war zones

I won't for a moment pretend that there isn't a huge problem to talk about - there is a very big problem - but I don't feel that this kind of hyperbole is helpful. Not only is it inaccurate, it also serves to demonize the people who live in these places and can be used to justify unhelpful policing tactics.

There are no bombings; there are no troops on the street; it is not occupied territory. We can and should discuss problems in our society without falling into this rhetorical trap.
You should read up on Google’s “associated country.” I think these politicians will take any excuse they can get, and not limit themselves to people who are physically within the borders of EU countries.
Noise-cancelling headphones, Ben Prunty's "Faster Than Light" soundtrack, and an interesting problem.

And a desperate hope that I won't be interrupted this time.
This rarely works in fields where they hire full time salary employees. The reason being that the part time employee is still very expensive in a lot of fixed ‘per employee’ cost areas like hardware and licenses combined with the fact that the full time salary person is supposed to be available to get the job done even it that involves some overtime or just off hours work, things part time people are notorious for being unable to do (the reason they wanted part time in the first place, they are unavailable).

This really narrows the scope of what employers are willing to hire part time for. Contractors are usually called instead.
I don't get why the law separates between connected and disconnected power plants? Seems a lot less simple than just saying "everyone who pollutes pays x".

This is also why carbon tax is gonna be a disappointment. There are way too many rules surrounding it, when really there should just be one carbon budget that every firm can try to buy some of on equal terms.
Oh boy, fermi estimation time! Big caveat: all of the below assumes ideal mixing, which is not a given at this scale at all. So I'm not rubbishing the residents. (Nor disputing the idiocy of burning 45 MW to "mine" numbers for that matter.)

From wiki, the lake has a volume of 15 km3, or 15 trillion litres. The daily discharge of 135 million gallons is ~ 600 million litres. So, per day, it's cycling about 40 parts per million. Alternatively, you'll cycle the volume of the lake once every 67 years at that rate.

That same discharge is ~ 7000 litres per second, which will require 30 MW to heat by one degree Celsius. It's listed at at most 45 MW, so one and a half degrees rise, unless any of the water is evaporated, which it quite possibly is (after all, more is licensed to go in the plant than come out. I wonder if they have some scheme where a small volume of water is heated to a point where evaporation matters, then it is mixed back in?).

Once again, the locals may be noticing, but only if very significant stratification is occurring. Water is good at dissipating heat.
I wish I was a Tim, but I think I'm Rex in search of a Tim.
I cut myself from consuming news and FB/Twitter feeds many years ago, maybe back in 2014 when MSM went ape shit in my region.

Can't say I was successful, for number of reasons. News still find their way into my head via HN headlines (although I disabled them via Tampermonkey scripts), via buzz in comments, via talks with (some) friends etc. Also, only bad news go through via these channels, so the world looks even more depressing because when something good happens, nobody brings it up.

Probably I need to cut myself from passive consumption of reddit/HN too.
Tim Hunkin's website is an absolute gem. Poke around, he's written about almost everything he's done or made.
They're only off by as long as the US or any of its antecedent colonies have been around. That's not a big deal, right?
It's interesting this made the front page but no comments talk about Evan or his many accomplishments, just Google. I suppose that's a reflection of the recent sentiment where old timers leaving Google is a sign of something.

In any case, I had the pleasure of interacting with Evan a couple times while on Chrome, and he was this amazing slice of Google engineering culture. I have a vivid memory of him and some friends discussing how to optimize IO perf on Windows late on a Fri at the office. In my time at Google I learned so much from just sitting and listening in on things like that.

Figma's lucky to have Evan. While it's unfortunate to see old timers leave Google, it's good for the industry for them to be joining the next batch of up and coming companies.
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Full disclosure:
I do not think this virus was engineered
I do not think this was deliberately released

I do think the Chinese were studying this virus in the lab, not engineering it, but studying it.
I do think it was the result of a lab accident, a technician tried to cover up an accident/carelessness in order to avoid getting punished or fired, normal human behavior.

HOW DID THE CHINESE KNOW THEY HAD A NEW VIRUS WHEN THEY ONLY HAD A HANDFUL OF CASES????????

Covid-19 presents like the flu, without a test you don't can't know if it's the flu or Covid-19, but the Chinese knew they had a new virus in late Nov, early Dec when there were only a handful of cases. HOW DID THEY KNOW???

The only way to tell if you've got something new is because:
a) unique symptoms
b) a statistically significant increase in cases
c) a statistically significant number of deaths

In the early day of Covid-19 you had none of these present, with only a handful of cases NOBODY WOULD HAVE SUSPECTED ANYTHING WAS AMISS.

I can see it now, "Hey, I'm thinking that we have these flu cases, in flu season, and there isn't anything remarkable about the cases but I think they are the result of a new virus, so we should raise a red flag and swing the government into action." Highly unlikely.

There is one other way that you know you've got something new:
d) you know something that no one else knows, like there was a lab accident.

How did the Chinese know they had something new, when they had no evidence or indication that something new was circulating?

This is the only question that needs to be answered. Nothing else. If there isn't a reasonable and logical answer to how the Chinese knew they had a new virus with only a few cases that looked just like the flu, and no other information, then it stands to reason they knew something else.

What I think happened.

A lab tech had an accident or was careless, and exposed themselves to the virus they were studying in the lab. The tech didn't report the incident because they didn't want to be punished or fired. The tech incorrectly assumed that everything was fine, but then got sick. Then when some other lab workers got sick, the safety people at the lab got involved and they learned what really happened, and they pushed the panic button, quietly. The rest is history.
210 Reasons for decline of Roman Empire: https://courses.washington.edu/rome250/gallery/ROME%20250/21...

I guess that strengthens the case for #121 (for now).
You’re right. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.
I didn't really agree with the author's points but it did get me thinking about my own video consumption habits and I realized that this year I have only watched two movies in full. I've watched a lot of shows, but movies - no.
As for why that is, my current theory is that streaming at home has largely eviscerated my ability to sit down and dedicate a block of time to watching one thing. There is a strange form of FOMO that I get when I sit down and scroll through netflix. I get stuck in the browsing mode and can't ever make a decision because of too many options.

I find the entire streaming experience pushes me towards finding good series just to avoid having to make a decision. Finding a good film will alleviate me of the cognitive load of choosing for one night but finding a good series I'll be off the hook for months.
Because - as it happens fairly frequently in BSD land - said corp might change their minds and contribute back, code and/or money.