skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably like a lot of you on HN, in my downtime, I closely follow people that I think are high-signal in their various domains (science, computers, startups, longevity, philosophy, cryptocurrencies, etc).

Once I find someone, I consume all their content obsessively, reading all their books, tweets, essays, and watch their videos/podcasts.

But I noticed a few problems:
1. A person's content is scattered around the web on multiple platforms.
2. Twitter is too fresh and noisy. It's hard to find someone's most seminal work across the years.
3. It's unusually difficult to be told/notified every time they release something new. People don't always like to self-advertise all their podcast appearances, or panels/interviews they've done.

So we built alias to address these issues - we've indexed all the content on some of the best creators in many fields, for you to subscribe to, which means you get an email whenever they release content.

For info on how this is built - Some of the indexing is done by cron jobs that fetch from RSS feeds, utilizes the Twitter API, and scrapes the web, but also some of it is manual, performed data contractors.

We'd love to hear your feedback and also - whose profile would you like to see on the site next?
Great point! Numbers are hard to get on that, but 1/10 would not surprise me.
The pump cup, in theory, never touches fuel. And goodness knows MSR isn't shy about using O-rings. There are nearly half a dozen in a Dragonfly between the pump and the stove. They're using a material that holds up to fuel contact for those.
Why do more people need to be interested?

Why do we need to ensure access to quantum computers to programmers?

Seriously, any programmer can fire up a quantum simulator for any number of the quantum instruction languages and be more productive than with a real quantum computer.

Because of the hype, we’ve all been led to believe that we are “ready” to program quantum machines and we just need to train more people through boot camps, hackathons, and summer schools. It’s simply not true.

The quantum computers of today are programmable (barely), and the programs do run (though you can only run a dozen or so “statements” before you get junk results), but they’re so wildly bad compared to what you’d expect out of a textbook that you easily conclude “the scientists have work to do”.

Scientists do have more work to do, but it seems like every month there’s a perfectly respected scientist who gets a $15MM series A and starts spouting the same misinforming junk that quantum computing is going to help FedEx with logistics, or steel mills with operations planning. Then they hire a bunch of good academic people, pay them software-engineer salaries, and string them along to help them perpetuate the fundraising machine—not by actually doing science of course—hoping to also have a quantum computer/software/applications/algorithms be built as a by-product.

Money is very attractive to people, especially physicists who frequently find themselves jumping ship for an alternative, higher-paying career. There must be around 100 quantum companies now, most of them startups, and—to my knowledge—zero of them providing anything demonstrated to be a valuable commercial product. Some of them are definitely doing good work here and there, but in the bigger picture, the profit motive—whether shareholder value or venture capital returns—consistently undermines their ability to do research.
>Should I feel like I have imposter syndrome because I'd be uncomfortable as a professional athlete, something I don't do?

We aren't talking about short couch potatoes being scared to apply to the NBA. That's a justified sense of inadequacy.

We're talking about people switching from one fairly normal job to another one that probably has a lot of overlap with what a person was already doing. Imposter syndrome is the unjustified sense of inadequacy.

Its not a binary thing though. Some people would have a little bit of doubt transitioning to a slightly different role and that's normal. Change is scary to lots of people to varying degrees. However, some people are very competent, yet might be afraid to apply for a higher level position or a slightly different role because they fear that they are actually terrible and that they've gotten where they are due to luck and graft. That's imposter syndrome.
The world's top ransomware gangs have created a cybercrime “cartel”
Classics for the People (2019)
Here's an old thesis (of mine) in CS, with a bunch of inference rules, proofs, etc. (Ignore the standardized front matter of ~5 pages)

https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/7418/1/MSc_Arnar-Birgisson...
Chinatown Vegas Malls – Chinatown Vegas
Is that really how many Starlink satellites are up there? Foo. I had no idea.
Ask HN: Stripe Connect Alternatives for Platforms?
I've been a heavy Stripe user since 2013 and as a developer, love them. My day job (roughly 4M a week in volume across the platofrm) and my own saas (targeted at wrestling clubs) both run through Stripe Connect.

However, in the last six months or so I've been getting huge blow back from paying customers because of how badly their customer support is performing these days. So much blow back that some customers have left the software, because they refuse to work with Stripe anymore (and we don't integrate with anyone else).

So... what are marketplaces using these days? Our platforms run Stripe Connect with standard accounts. Something like that is preferred, but it's not required.

My list so far to research is:

- Adyen

- Braintree

- Go Cardless (not sure if they have marketplace features)

- Checkout.com

- First Data (not clear if they have marketplace features)

Anyone have experience or recommendations?
TL;DR: "if I have nothing to hide I have nothing to fear" is absolutely a correct observation, but we all have or will have in the future something to hide so we all have something to fear.
Wasn't Computer Modern created with input from Herman Zapf, and Matthew Carter among other titans of typography? I don't think Knuth just whipped it up in isolation without any feedback, so this whole "it looks like a font designed by an engineer" seems both incorrect and needlessly arrogant?
Besides a sore arm for about 24 hours I really had no other side effects from Pfizer. After the second shot my arm got sore a bit closer to the time of injection, but overall pain was lower.

I felt worse the day after my yearly flu shot in 2020.
Sneering at the article doesn't really make your case more convincing. Instead it just seems like it provoked an overly-defensive reaction.
This is so stupid on so many levels. I hope this is just hypocrisy and lies to cover his ass, because if he actually believes that then he's the dumbest son of a bitch on the planet.
So what? It is business as any other. If someone owns many hundreds properties, there is probably investor money behind that.

There is not a human right to get assigned a dream house. You have to purchase, build or otherwise procure it. People make different choices with their money, some people save/get mortgage and then get a house, other people will spend their money in other ways.
Extradite the killer of Harry Dunn, Anne Sacoolas first.
That's true, interesting point. :) For me they're both strictly medicine though.
Cash Will Soon Be Obsolete. Will America Be Ready?
The problem is that many advertisers don't want their ads appearing next to "unsavory" content. So if they don't do a "good enough" job flagging inappropriate videos less ads will be bought.

It isn't really a choice that YouTube is making. It is them attempting to remain appealing to advertisers.
DNS is designed to be fault tolerant. Such a design, however, is often not leveraged correctly; the implementation of DNS can be and frequently is subject to SPOFs.
German pharmacies stop issuing Covid vaccine passes after security breach
Debt-collection software maker Prodigal raises $12M led by Menlo Ventures
I've known a few people that this happens to. Not sure it's the same as long-term schizophrenia but there's definitely similarities.
> Can you please show me where in my comment above I say that "science is "opinion of experts"?

Right here: "What's hasty is the easy dismissal of the *opinion of experts* on a subject ... When did HN become so anti-science?"

> The people who have deep knowledge of a subject of scientific inquiry, we call "experts".

Those "experts" said that Jews, Slavs, and African Americans were stupid and inferior to Anglo-Saxons, and ought to be enslaved or killed. Science is not a blind deference to "experts."

> Hard work and applying oneself to the task of learning is what does.

I have not found this to be the case. The harder work required is combing through evidence. People who apply hard work to learning generally come out as ideologues who can regurgitate opinions, from similar ideologues who came before. The way to become an expert involves looking at primary sources and understanding the evidence which went into a conclusion. In my domain, it involves working through a lot of math too.

A lot of the scientific establishment is a game of telephone where Bob cites Sue who cites Jill who cites Jim, and by the time you get to the end, there is no trace of evidence left. Good science involves recognizing when that's the case.

> This, the preponderance of inexpert opinion found as the first comment in posts about researchers' work, dismissing the researchers' work and supported by a majority of HN readers, is what I think of as "anti-science".

Then you're wrong in your thinking. This is anti-scientific-establishment.

I am a recognized "expert" in one domain of research. That's why I am anti-scientific-establishment. I see how the sausage gets made. I am pro-science.

I think the scientific establishment would benefit from more diversity -- in all dimensions (liberals talk about race and socioeconomics, conservatives about ideology, and no one talks about culture), more transparency, broader engagement, and more, to be blunt, audits to make sure people didn't fabricate results.
I don't know when the project started, but ViaSat has been working toward constellation service of their own for at least 6 years: https://www.viasat.com/space-innovation/satellite-fleet/vias...
> What about Kurt Cobain, Buddy Holly, Tupac? All get remembered disproportionately for their deaths.

Fwiw, Cobain and Tupac's deaths are pretty far from mind when I think about them.

> But despite the BBC's efforts, it's probably not sexism.

Sure, this is practically a new Betteridge's Law. Journalism has been consumed by a bizarre ideology that fixates on a couple of social ills, so "no, it's not sexism" is a reasonable response a good chunk of the time.
There was a legitimate concern in the fall of 2020 that the FDA would rush the vaccines out prematurely for political reasons. That did not happen, thanks largely to the integrity of FDA Commissioner Hahn, who insisted we follow the science. A major reason this concern was legitimate is that the CDC was compromised in similar ways, with testing slow-walked, communications altered, among other things [1].

Regarding the vaccine timeline, Trump deserves major credit for Operation Warp Speed. To a large extent, we got lucky - the mRNA vaccines are really good, while others (CureVac) did not fare so well.

[1]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/covid-19-was-always-goi...
In my case is different. I tend to focus and learn better with cannabis, but that might be that it relaxes me to some degree that I can take existence better and concentrate stimulating my mind.

In fact I believe weed changed me for the better. May sound cliche but now I'm deeply interested in philosophy and technical concepts and aptitudes (like programming), and actually my whole attitude towards life got really bright and mature, with myself and with others.

I'm not saying weed alone made that, but definitely helped me. As I said, at least for me concentration, in this case facilitated by weed, is life changing.
> I'm not sure what you mean here. Outside of, say, military usage, every single telecom company is a competitor to Starlink. Internet is internet.

With regard to satellite Internet mega-constellations, it is true thus far. The two other major constellations (OneWeb and Kuiper) have avoided SpaceX as a launch provider, choosing competitors instead – OneWeb has gone with Arianespace Soyuz and Virgin; Kuiper has chosen ULA (and is assumably going to choose Blue Origin too once they are ready). SpaceX has said they are happy to launch competitor constellations, but it makes sense that its competitors aren't happy to fund their competition. It is very unlikely that Arianespace or ULA can actually beat SpaceX on price, so avoiding funding your competition is the only logical explanation for OneWeb and Kuiper's decisions.

SpaceX is launching other satellite telecommunications systems, that obviously also compete with Starlink to some extent, but less head-on. For example, they are contracted to launch one of the ViaSat-3 satellites. ViaSat-3 is a satellite Internet constellation, so in that sense does compete, but it only has 3 satellites in geostationary orbit, so it isn't really going after the same direct market as Starlink. (ViaSat appears to be getting scared of Starlink, as evidenced by their anti-Starlink applications to FCC and threats of a lawsuit; given that, I wonder how much longer they'll be willing to buy launch services from SpaceX.)
I think we're talking past each other. You're not describing a house that's cashflow negative, you're describing a cashflow positive house, with 337+mainrenance expenses and >800/m revenue

Generally a cashflow negative house will have a much higher payment over a shorter term with much more principal, and much more in rent.

You also forgot inflation of the house price. You have to take into account 2% increase in house prices even without the fed doing anything, and leverage that. When you do that you find out that almost all of your interest payments disappear and much more goes towards you principal, thus increasing your equity gain.
Imho this looks a bit like they want to push their browser app on mobile.
Why not let people join the waitlist via desktop?
Unbound has a 'serve-expired' option: https://nlnetlabs.nl/documentation/unbound/unbound.conf/#ser...
I wouldn’t mind YT RSS
My favorite feature personally is the built-in 2FA support. Click and it logs into your account and copies the 2fa code to clipboard so just paste on next screen.

Multiple vaults too is nice but I know others have ways to limit exposure of passwords in similar manners.
I agree this is a huge improvement. It addresses one of the few remaining cases where the anti-TS crowd could rightly claim embracing the type system leads to more convoluted code than JS.
Can these satellites provide service to higher orbit satellites? I don't know anything about this tech but I would assume switching from a concave blanket over the orb to a convex lens shooting out into space is very different.
>Sincerely, a person that refuses to let to of the whole "literally" thing. I'm great at parties.

Literally has been used to also (or mainly) mean "figurativelly" for centuries, including in major authors, it's not some new phenomenon from some unsophisticated masses...

It's just a sound, it's not attached to some inherent meaning that must stand still till the end of time. Not to mention etymology (it originating from the word literal) != meaning.

In fact, literal itself (and literally) have changed meaning twice in the past, originally they were used to talk about things related to words not to mean "in actuality" (which is also where "literature" comes from: littera from which literature and literal comes from meant: "letters").

So, it's people who don't know the proper history and use of literally that are annoyed by its used as "figuratively".

Probably they also don't know that literally wasn't about "in reality" to begin with, or that this is just one of many contronyms, words that mean both one thing and the opposite (e.g. "dust" - you "dust" to clean a house, and you also "dust" to sprinkle some powder on something, or "clip" which means both to attach and dettach, "sanction" - to approve or to put punitive measures on, etc.).
We’re all teenagers now: The adolescent mindset transformed the US and the world
I'm not sure that UK prisons are a huge amount higher in quality having read news reports about them. Though state controlled they're far from being the nordic model of rehabilitation.

That said, a similar argument does prevent the UK from extraditing anyone accused of a capital crime due to the death penalty being banned in the UK.
Anecdotally, I've heard in the 60s and 70s generally people would just smoke a lot more weed in a single sitting than today. Several joints to a person of harsh brick weed vs. half of one with decent modern weed, for example.
I am not a grower and have moved up consistently in my career over the last decade from IT helpdesk to devops lead, with a company that’s profitable, and currently many rounds of demos deep with two very big businesses I can’t even tell you what industry we’re in that’s how new and weird this tech is.

Sounds like you made being high your identity.

To me it’s like coffee (which I drink sparingly as caffeine messes me up worse; biochemistry shrug). I just consume it and go.

I’ve also never had an issue setting aside when I need to. If I want to interview, I can hop off cold turkey, give it 3-4 weeks to burn it out of my fat.

My career went nowhere before I started smoking, tbh. I was a Linux admin for nothing companies that don’t exist anymore; think mom and pop offices 20 years ago.

In the last decade I’ve worked for big tech, startups doing actually cool shit, and now for a really neat security company.

But that could just be the subjective experience side of reality leading to different outcomes for different people and have nothing to do with weed for either of us.
Their APIs are (or, were, last I suffered their use a few years ago) also terrible, eg blanket policy of refusing to cache any resource in the presence of "Vary" header, regardless of its value, and failure to honor standard HTTP headers... thankfully there are many other options for CDN, which are SO MUCH BETTER.
Could you go into detail about "paranoid and narcissistic personality" specifically the narcissistic personality - I have not heard of that.
I'm glad to see white collar crime taken seriously. Its always painful to see billion dollar crimes go unpunished.
Oregon congressman suggests tax on 'space tourism'
I'm just trying to understand what seems to be inconsistent about your view, no need to be hostile
You could create this as a frontend macro preprocessor that implements new language constructs. Maybe it could be called cfront. I just hope that the usefulness of that doesn't lead to bloated and complex codebases and binaries as features are added to the preprocessor.
> Imposter syndrome generally requires that you are/were in the role that makes you feel like an imposter waiting to be found out.

Actually, it requires that you perceive other people to perceive that you have abilities, etc., exceeding what you perceive yourself to have. Role is tangential, though having a role that (you perceive) creates an expectation of particular abilities might contribute to you perceiving others to be perceiving you to have the abilities.

But, relative to the immediate context, it is correct that not feeling qualified for a role you don't have and that you don't think you are or would be seen as qualified for by others for is just (justified or not) low (relative to an arbitrary target) self-image, not impostor syndrome.
How We Reverse Engineered the Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack (2018)
Rust does take less time to learn than C.
Tons of choices, k8s is really just a definition of an API and there lots of things you can plug in at various points to implement parts of the API (or even completely extend it). Read the official docs--they'll walk you through the design and capabilities. As far as what's available, well it's a bit like trying to understand "what's the newest programming languge?" You probably want to plug yourself into the k8s community and start looking at subreddits, SIG meeting notes, community news, etc. New things are popping up literally every day.
Fire is such an ancient and normal part of California that redwoods have evolved to be fireproof, with many local trees and plants having seeds that require fire for germination. [1]

[1] https://www.nationalforests.org/our-forests/your-national-fo...
I have already seen reports from biologists about AlphaFold solving protein structures that have resisted laboratory methods for decades [1,2]. It's hard for me to see why this is not a transformative development for (one part of) basic biology. Note that the BBC article doesn't actually say that it will transform drug discovery!

I know HN is inclined to be cynical about big claims, but it is not hard to find computational biologists (unaffiliated with DeepMind) saying that this is indeed a revolutionary advance for biology:

* Mohammed AlQuraishi, a computational biologist at Columbia University in New York City and a CASP participant [...]’s strong hunch is that AlphaFold will be transformational.

* “It’s a game changer,” says Andrei Lupas, an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, who assessed the performance of different teams in CASP. [...] “This will change medicine. It will change research. It will change bioengineering. It will change everything,” Lupas adds.

[1] "An AlphaFold prediction helped to determine the structure of a bacterial protein that Lupas’s lab has been trying to crack for years. Lupas’s team had previously collected raw X-ray diffraction data, but transforming these Rorschach-like patterns into a structure requires some information about the shape of the protein. Tricks for getting this information, as well as other prediction tools, had failed. “The model from group 427 gave us our structure in half an hour, after we had spent a decade trying everything,” Lupas says." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4

[2] (unconfirmed) https://twitter.com/halvorz/status/1417535090385580033
Relased in late 1987, Windows 386/2.0 supported multiple DOS boxes using virtual 8086 mode.

Win3.1 added some features which made windowed DOS boxes more usable.

Win95 came three years after OS/2 and Win3.1 were released.
I just teared up
I meant Google's solution. It is actually great, if an email provider unrelated to ad tracking did exactly the same, it would be ideal.
It’s just based on user reports, so this is people mischaracterizing it as an AWS outage.
Well, unless we abolish individual p2p moneylending, SOMEONE is going to loan them money.

Providing more competitive and safe and professional options can only help, it can't make an already-bad situation worse.

The only situation worse than having to take a payday loan is not being able to shop for a decent vendor who isn't trying to screw you.
So how about we don't rely on trusting the car hardware on this? Let's test it externally, and treat it as any other kind of technical problem that makes a car illegal to drive.

Cars undergo regular checkup. Add emission tests to the requirements. Deny road-worthiness status for cars that fail.

Add spot emission checks to traffic stops - police stops you for speeding or broken headlamp, they can also take 30 seconds to stick a probe into your car's tailpipe. Fine people for violations and possibly take away road-worthiness status, depending on how badly emissions exceed the standards.

Basically, make it illegal to tune your car in a way that breaks emission norms, and (with spot checks) make cheating not worth the effort.

(This would be only temporary anyway; once most cars on the road are electric, the few remaining ICEs won't emit enough to matter - and any attempt to make them pollute noticeably will be easy to spot with an unarmed eye.)