skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a very rosy view of the olden days.

The rich have always had disproportionate power, but historically there was a lot more top-down violence. When the US started out, it was generally only land-owning white men who could vote, a pretty small proportion of "the people". It took decades past your "200 years ago" to get a vote just for the minority of people who were white men, and it was a very bumpy process. E.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorr_Rebellion

It wasn't until about 100 years ago that a majority of "the people" could even vote, and it was only 50 years ago that saw voting and economic rights applied reasonably equally to a majority of "the people".

Or we could look at actual attempts at "the people" having a modicum of power: labor organizing. The US has a rich history of anti-labor violence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence_in_the_Uni...

I am happy to complain about what's going on today. But as bad as, say, Amazon is about union organizing, we shouldn't pretend that it's (yet) as bad as it was for most of America's history. And part of what makes today better is a strong-enough set of governments to push back against corporate malfeasance. As the police in this story clearly did.
Astronomers and navigators. These also were the first people that needed accurate time and first people capable of measuring time accurately, so much of the expertise is in astronomical or naval institutions. This was still very relevant in the 1950s when the modern time systems were being developed.

There is a growing movement in the timekeeping community that agrees that keeping UTC close to UT1 is no longer important and that leap seconds should be abandoned.
Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental
Here's the third "Meet the Batch" thread - previous one was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996057. This time I've tweaked the title slightly in the hope of doing better re https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996536.

Here are 6 startups for you to read about and engage with where interested. The initial order is random.

Lernit (YC S21) - Corporate training program for Latin America - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049505

StandardCode (YC S21) - APIs to easily comply with child privacy laws - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049504

Scispot (YC S21) - Workflow automation for life science - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049501

Muse (YC S21) - Allow anyone to build 3D websites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049502

Ruth Health (YC S21) - Digital, at-home post-pregnancy care - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049503

Deskimo (YC S21) - Book workspace by the minute in Singapore and Hong Kong - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049507
Hey HN! I am Satya from Scispot.io (https://www.scispot.io/). Scispot is a no-code workflow automation platform for life science. Think of us as an Airtable for Life science.

Life science companies often have no choice but to rely on a laundry list of tools to stay up and running. Electronic lab notebooks, LIMS (Lab Information Management Systems), Google Docs, Asana, Notion, and Airtable are just some of the tools that are used out of necessity. As a result, most of the biotherapeutics, diagnostics companies, contract research organizations, and labs struggle to stitch together disparate data. They end up scattering their sample, inventory, project, and protocol data in various systems. The disparate data adversely impacts the experiment's failure rate. Not being able to connect data also impacts the data integrity and regulatory compliance for fast-growing bio companies.

We let you personalize your workflows using an orchestration layer. A lab can track and manage its samples and inventory, plan and prepare experiments at the desk, and execute experiments at the bench using Scispot. We have project management features to easily visualize research and operational activities in a calendar and a kanban view. We also have APIs for developers and data engineers to plug in existing systems. For instance, customers can integrate their batch runs and inventory to their legacy systems using Scispot’s API. Scispot maintains a thorough audit trail (eligible for CFR part 11 compliance).

Customers are using Scispot to connect their inventory and chemical library with experiment execution. Customers also use Scispot’s template library to create protocols in bulk and connect the protocols with the inventory.

Scispot is founded by three founders, Guru (a molecular biologist and a life science tech veteran), Nash (automation expert), and me (the product guy who loves building workflows). We’d love to speak to any of you that are curious about what we’re doing or if you have any ideas/challenges for us!
Hi HN, we’re Ben and Alex, founders of Muse HQ (https://muse.place/). We help anyone build immersive 3D websites.

Alex and I started building 3D websites because we were bored of building the same old static websites that we have been contracted to do for the past 6 years since high school. Building websites sucked and was boring. Fortunately, Alex discovered the power of three.js. Between us, Alex was the first one to start building websites in 3D and frankly, I was jealous because I saw that the code for 3D websites was far too complicated for me to grasp quickly and I felt left behind. This is why Alex and I started Muse, to make the 3D internet accessible to everyone and easy to use so we don't have to keep building static websites.

The way we solved this problem was by first building an open-source framework called SpacesVR that made it very easy for React developers to start building 3D websites. Several months later, we built a no-code editor that works similar to Squarespace and Wix built around this framework. Using our framework, our team has built over 200 3D websites by hand. Since launching our no-code editor, we have seen over 40 websites published. Also, a crazy thing happened the other day when Alex was scrolling through Twitter. He stumbled upon a 3D website that used very similar control mechanisms to our websites. With a little bit of investigating, we found out that a virtual gallery project, 3XR, started using our framework to build virtual NFT galleries for all Mintbase stores!

It has been exciting to see our no-code editor and open-source framework grow. I encourage everyone here to build a 3D website, try it out, you may enjoy it! You can check out our open-source framework at https://www.npmjs.com/package/spacesvr or go to https://muse.place/to build a 3D website with no code. Have fun building!
We're Alison and Audrey, cofounders of Ruth Health (https://www.ruthhealth.com), a digital + at-home clinic for pregnant people :]

We deliver 30-minute, online physical therapy video sessions to help the 83% of postpartum womxn with moderate-to-severe Pelvic Floor Prolapse—in other words, who pee in their pants after pregnancy. Birthing people deserve a life without postpartum pain and incontinence.

With our personalized, 1:1 telehealth Pelvic Training + Recovery Sessions, moms worldwide can get back to work, sex, and normal life 5x faster—all from home.

From SF to NYC to Singapore, patients simply share health information, get scheduled, and then log on for our video sessions during this $10-145/session sliding-scale Pelvic Pilot program. By taking our Training + Recovery Sessions 30 min/week from home for 2-6 months, womxn see an increase in strength, reduction in pain, and greater bladder control—versus spending often double the price and 3+ hours door-to-door on each Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy appointment in-person. Onboard here to get scheduled (https://bit.ly/RuthHealthOnboarding) for your first session!
Hey HN! We’re Daniel and Arjun, founders of StandardCode (http://www.standardcode.io/). We make it easy for companies to comply with child data privacy laws such as COPPA and GDPR by providing APIs for collecting parental consent and ID verification of minors.

COPPA regulation makes it difficult for companies to cater to children under 13 without building in safeguards to collect and manage parental consent and to block third-party sharing of data without transparency. As a result most companies just prohibit users under 13 from signing up for their services, either as a policy or by having an age gate that prevents an under-13 child from signing up.

However, with a record number of under-13 users on the internet due to the pandemic, behavior is permanently shifting and many companies now want to cater to all audiences. By providing APIs to manage the collection of consent, we allow companies to safely acquire underage users while minimizing friction in the sign-up flow.

Our customer-facing REST API presents a few high-level resources that are needed for collecting parental consent and ID verification for children. Customers typically make 1 API call to create a profile for a child, and then 2–3 more calls to collect parental consent or verify age and ID if necessary. Afterwards, we push data to a webhook endpoint to notify the customer when consent has been collected or an ID has been verified.

Our business model is based on usage — we charge a small fee per user for whom we need to collect parental consent or verify age and ID.

We'd love to hear from you, especially if you have experience with products catering to children!
Hey HN! I’m Santiago Maldonado, CEO and Founder of Lernit (https://www.lernit.mx/). Our platform makes it easy for companies in Latin America (Latam) to train their workforce, even when they are remote.

According to studies, 74% of CEOs worldwide are concerned that a lack of essential skills in their employees is threatening the future of their organization. With the increase of remote work comes the challenge of keeping teams aligned and pushing in the same direction.

When I graduated from college, the biggest learning platforms were Coursera and Udemy, and it hit me that there is an immense gap between what you learn in an on-demand course and what you do at your job. Usually, these courses were outdated and had no relevance to what employers wanted their employees to learn. So I saw a huge opportunity to create Lernit, where companies could ensure that their employees were learning valuable skills that could be used at their job.

We allow companies to develop online courses on the specific skills their employees require for accomplishing organizational goals and personal growth while staying focused on priorities. These priorities are easily visualized and aligned to the company's main objectives through OKRs (Objectives and Key Results for a specific period). Each individual can check in and track progress while receiving feedback and mentoring in a collaborative environment.

We offer an all-in-one solution for HR teams where companies can set, align and track goals, evaluate performance, train and develop their workforce and build culture without the trouble of managing different tools at expensive prices.

We are eager to help companies reach growth and more than happy to answer any questions you may have about our talent platform, so if you have any or are just curious please leave a comment!
E-Bike Riders Cause a Tiny Percentage of Injuries to Peds and Cyclists
Hi HN, we're Christian (ChrisMischler) and Raphael (raphco) of Deskimo (https://www.deskimo.com/). We provide on-demand access to professional workspaces, where users rent desks by the minute. We've started with Singapore and Hong Kong as our initial markets, with the intention to expand into other markets soon.

Raphael and I have been working remotely for most of the past 10 years. During the pandemic, all of our friends suddenly saw themselves thrown into a similar position and we've observed how they adapted. Many don't have a suitable home-office setup and while for most the pros of remote/hybrid work clearly outweigh the cons, having access to near-home desk space would solve the downsides of working from home for most.

We give users access to a wide range of professionally run workspaces in central business districts as well as in residential neighbourhoods. By giving users access to near-home workspaces, we give them an opportunity to work for a few hours and not waste precious time on commuting. We also have locations close to schools, shopping centers, and other places where our users need to go throughout the week.

There is no need for a membership, upfront payments, or long-term commitments. Access works similar to ride hailing: location-based and instant. A user scans the QR code of the app at the reception to start the session and scans the code again to check out. We charge at checkout for the duration of the work session; the maximum charge per day is capped at the rate of a day pass at the specific location. Our customers consist of companies who provide Deskimo accounts for employees, and individual users who prefer our flexibility over the cost and commitment of a coworking membership.
holy crap the stuff in: AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\default\Web Data ... wtf are you thinking google?
Reading this and before that your sister comment from @thesausageking I can only agree.

Looks like a self serving argument coming from a VC.

Not that it would be good, if we had cultures, were processes and cultures were in place that handle such transitions well. Companies and employees would profit from good transition handling.

But I am yet to see a company that does this in a half decent way.
Income: unknown due to financial privacy

Savings: unknown (held in cryptocurrency, private)

Tax: divide by zero error

Besides, doesn't the US already have sales taxes? Or are they state-only? I'm starting to favor a tax on real estate and/or land value, since that's physically impossible to hide.
>Or you could be at home and ignore the phone.

Although my experience, especially pre-answering machines, was that a phone call was something that many people felt absolutely had to be answered no matter what you were doing.
This. I have built many monoliths a few event-driven systems out of necessity.

In my opinion there's also a time factor involved, for example you think there's a huge potential but zero actual clients today. In that case if you think a monolith will do the job the first 5 years of its life, build a monolith.
ecommercebytes was clearly not appreciated at Ebay. At Etsy it was the opposite.
Tech Workers at the New York Times Want a Union
Stop blaming others for how poorly you run your support teams?
I work for a big AI consultancy. Most of the time we build ETLs for the data-engineering side, in a client driven capacity-building effort. We do this because our focus is on Data Science, not data engineering, and we often work in situations where the client doesn't have an existing data science platform. It's simpler to build, to handover and later to maintain.

In projects where the client already have a mature engineering and data science department, we bring the big guns! The scope is usually much larger, with several workstreams and involve production-ready deployments. In this situation we might build upon what the client already have (ETLs), or initiate a full event-driven transformation with a "backbone" team responsible for creating a platform, and several use cases building upon it. In the usual scenario, a team would want to start large computations or simulations upon recieving a trigger event from a monitoring system (model drift) or a human operator ("what would be the impact in € of a small decrease in parameter X over the next 7 days of forecasted sales"?).

Even-driven systems are much more robust than traditional ETLs with a central data warehouse, but they are also much more complex to understand and operate. In the end, we rarely deploy them because they cost us way too much engineering time compared to the benefits. That's mostly because we spend >70% of our time dealing with "security teams" and "access issues". Seriously.
MaruOS was a project that tried this for a bunch of phones.

https://maruos.com
This is such a limited take on Copilot.

1. they can check to see if the generated code is an exact copy of an example in the training set

2. when the code matches, they can discard it, they got many predictions for each prompt anyway.

3. My preferred option - they can display the URL of the source page together with the code, acting like a regular search engine at this point; this also solves the problem of not knowing the copyright status of the code
But if the asset bubble bursts and your home loses most worth.
She's not even "co-president", just "co-leader". Morhaime was CEO, Brack president. Odd title deflation in play here.
There have been stories of people heating houses that way, actually.
I kind of agree with the other comments that Blizzard is probably done. It will be interesting to see what emerges as the successor. They have made spectacular games over the years and those franchises will be sorely missed. But someone, someday, will probably do even better.

I hold on to a scrap of hope that somehow they will turn it around. But I can't think of a Fortune 500 that ever turned it around, so I can't be too optimistic.
Rise Of The Scientific Programmer (2015)
An interesting read is https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp2016-05.pdf

What's often missed in this analysis is population. Interest rates are tightly coupled to population growth and even with negative interest rates, a country needs to see Japan-scale population decline to risk Japanification.

The virus has accelerated EU population decline and exacerbated the North/South fertility divide. It's natural to think that as the long-term outlook for the virus worsens (over the next several years), this would have a non-negligible effect on interest rates. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-bir...
Then in order to help you make your case against yourself I waive your statement that the comment was low effort on your behalf. It truly was, _chef kiss_
Only 1 out of necessary 3 jabs was administered. Hence it was fake, the purpose was not getting people protected + secret operation, but just to collect intelligence. It's like calling Tuskegee operation good because some African Americans later got a bit medical help and maybe even compensated.
> In hindsight, I'm not certain if Jeff Bezos 'left well'.

Since Bezos is "the richest person in the world" and the founder of Amazon, tough for me to believe he was pushed out; being so rich, he has to have a lot of stock, enough that the BoD wouldn't or couldn't push him out.

The story was that he wanted to do something else: I can believe that. And I believe that he gets to select the next CEO, will continue watching Amazon, and will take full operational control if he sees a need.

So, does anyone know (1) what the Amazon capitalization table looks like, (2) what stock categories there are, (3) who the major stockholders are, and (4) the amounts of stock they own?

In the sense of AVC's post, I don't believe that Bezos actually "left", "well" or otherwise.

Uh, I grew up in Memphis and, thus, happen to know something about the founders of both Holiday Inns and FedEx -- in the sense of AVC, they never "left".

[Uh, for some supporting details, I worked at FedEx, and my office was next to the founder's. The founder of Holiday Inn lived on the south side of Galloway golf course; I grew up in a house on the north side of that golf course. Etc.]
Chocolate, Cheese and Wine.
By spending more than 66.66667 million USD per year, obviously. The same reason that my personal net worth is quite a bit lower than the sum of my incomes over the years.
I've tried to go over this with my dad and uncles a few times, they're all IT professionals.

The theory is essentially that the machines weren't properly secured, they cite some provision of AZ election law that I don't recall precisely which states that if the machines aren't air-gapped the election is invalid and must be rerun.

They think the routers are the proof that the rules were broken and thus will force a revote. When pressed they never can really articulate a specific theory of fraud, just that the rules were broken and they're upset when the rules were broken and their guy lost.
Employees are being paid by hour, so they wouldn’t care at all. Customers - true, this might cause delays for them, if the company decided not to pay the ransom. It’s still just a delayed cost, though.
> keep a small emergency savings account (~10k EUR)

Hopefully you don't mean in a bank? If history is any guide that's useless with capital controls initiated before the public even gets whiff of it, see Greece and Cyprus 2008. A bolted-down safe in your house seems to be the caveat on such a statement. Money in the bank simply isn't yours and far too many people don't realise this.
I don't really get the point of this article. You can always find similarities in any two countries if you look hard enough. Especially when you are willing to really stretch the connections, as this article does.
If there is a shortage of labour surely it is to be expected that employees will have more bargaining power and move into higher paying and more 'respectable' jobs?
Somewhat true but there are also economic pressures on reproduction. Though I suppose you need some basic education to think that far ahead
Also PoS. Those are the grey area where I don't have as much strong opinions anymore.

As they are less compute-intensive, the benefit is more likely.
> This is almost exactly how the individual health insurance mandate worked in the ACA. Ten years later, it's never been enforced a single time. It just gets waived, year after year.

That is incorrect; it was in place and the shared responsibility penalty applied on taxes if the mandate was not adhered to from when it became effective in 2014 through 2018, but not after that because it was repealed by the Tax Cut and Jobs Act. It was never “waived”.
Competing private Ministries of Truth will be fun; once they start to disagree. Who won that election, again?
"he’s just the scapegoat" - I see him being called a "scapegoat" a lot in this thread but is there any indication of his innocence in all of this? I'm not saying that he is "guilty" but calling him merely a scapegoat seems premature.
Kotick settled a lawsuit about a 2007 incident (before the Blizzard merger) where he allowed ongoing sexual harassment of a flight attendant on his private jet, then fired her when she complained about it. He has a history, and it's reasonable to suspect that he is a primary source of the rot.

Brack is obviously not innocent, but that he's the only one being ousted does suggest that Kotick is trying to lay all the blame on him.

https://kotaku.com/activision-boss-loses-legal-battle-over-s...
The Story of Pixar
Well-led projects tend to create new spin-offs rather than overextend their original idea. The former is riskier and more liable to fail, whereas the latter chases diminishing returns and undermines the conceptual integrity of the system.

Microsoft forcing Windows on mobile devices in the 2000s is an easy example of that kind of failed leadership.

This subject matter is covered extensively in:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
And it's a never ending cycle. I get older but the CTOs stay the same age. They kick out the old IT, hire some foreign Sales Force squad to rebuild everything. It ends up costing 5 years worth of salary of the old team in just 1 year. Nothing ever gets past the finish line and the existing software just stays in place. CTO moves on with millions in his pocket, owners are left with nothing and end up trying to get the old team back to maintain the existing software. A few years later, another hotshot shows up.
If you're paranoid or live in a country where your risk tolerance dictates such a course of action, sure, keep notes on hand.
This is alleviated with a probate and has been studied in depth ala the FairTax. It's FUD and is holding us back.

Not to mention there are many efficiencies that come with this system which would likely cause prices to even out over time near their current levels or just slightly higher.