skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi HN—we’re Harkunwar, Vipanchi, Chaithanya and Mehul from Oneistox (https://oneistox.in/). Oneistox offers online cohort-based courses for designers, architects and engineers to advance their professional growth.

Online learning by watching pre-recorded videos does not work for design and architecture. Learning design is an iterative process that happens through communication over drawings, sketches, screen visuals and physical prototypes. It also depends greatly on being exposed to how your peers are addressing the same problem and understanding approaches from the experienced. No LMS (Learning Management system) in the world caters to this way of communicating while learning.
There is also very little quality curated content online on design, architecture and construction subjects, and no space which upskills you in these fields sufficiently for career growth. Meanwhile, demand for designers has been growing at 21% annually over the last 5 years but only 1/5th of this demand has been met.

We felt the skill gap when we were in grad school. What we were being taught was last revised 35 years ago. 80% was also by the faculty that was non-practicing in architecture—hadn’t built anything in their life. Institutes were doing nothing to address this in India. We researched deeper by talking to professionals abroad, and found that this problem came out to be global, especially in developing and under-developed nations.

We've built a new, cohort-based, project-based LMS specifically to learn design subjects for feedback over drawings, sketches, screen visuals and physical prototypes. Our learners work in groups of 2-6 on live projects and create concept designs to executable drawings from scratch. Project-based learning and peer-to-peer interaction in cohorts increases completion rates by 12x!
So far we've had over 2000 learners from 27 countries upgrading their skills in subjects like Building Information Design, UI/UX, Sustainable design, Computational design, and others. We connect course graduates to industry professionals for hiring. We look forward to your feedback!
This is Chris and Robert from HeyCharge (https://heycharge.io/). We're developing low-cost EV charging for indoor environments like underground parking garages.

Current indoor EV chargers are expensive to buy, install, and operate, especially because they need internet connections and cloud-based backends. They're also unreliable, because even if the charger's internet connection works, the user might not have one on their mobile device while underground.

Our chargers don’t require an internet connection, they don’t require any setup other than an electrician to wire power, and our charger and app work together, even when underground and outside of mobile network coverage. This makes them cheaper and more reliable.

We exchange cryptographically-signed, single-use tokens between the charger and our mobile app. We provide tokens proactively to users whenever they have mobile network coverage, meaning they have a supply to use when underground in front of their charger. The charger doesn't need to connect to the internet, only to the user's phone. It provides a charging session in return for a token. After charging, a token is sent in the reverse direction, where it’s eventually sent to the back end. We only provide a replacement token to the user in return for them bringing a complete charge session report. The user’s app and device is an untrusted intermediary in this design, making the system resistant to abuse.

I (Chris) got my career start at UC Davis working on EVs in a graduate research group under the inventor of the modern plug-in hybrid, Dr. Andy Frank, followed by experience at Google, Mercedes-Benz R&D, and E.ON Energy. I finally brought my first plug-in car home to a Munich city-center apartment in late 2017 and realized just how difficult and expensive installing EV chargers in these buildings was. We started HeyCharge to bring EV charging to users like me, living in apartment buildings. We are deploying hardware to our first pilot sites now. Looking forward to your thoughts, questions, and comments!
Hey everyone! We’re Juliana and Robert, co-founders of Parallel Bio. We're improving drug discovery by replacing animal models, in the hope of making cures for humans, not mice.

The biggest reason why 92% of new drugs fail is that drugs are currently discovered in mice, which are not realistic models of human disease but are used due to the challenges of working in humans. We've created a human ‘immune system in a dish’ to discover drugs more likely to work in patients.

Robert has a PhD in immunology and is intimately familiar with the ways in which people are failing to recognize the importance of the immune system in diseases and the failures of trying to model it adequately. Juliana has a MSc in bioengineering and for the last 5 years has been working on developing mini-organ models in an effort to more accurately model human disease.

Both of us have always recognized a gap in the pharmaceutical industry that everyone seems to acknowledge exists, but few people are working to fill, which is using humans and human systems to treat disease. Since it is not always possible to test drugs directly in patients, there is a critical need for human systems to test drugs on that will predict downstream success in the patient.

Our immune organoid is a 3D system that has all of the features of a human secondary lymphoid organ. It contains all of the cells (B cells, T cells, NK cells, etc), structures (germinal centers, LZ/DZ, etc), and function (somatic hypermutation, antibody and cellular response, etc) that you would expect to see in a secondary lymphoid organ. It matches the genetic background of the patient from which it’s derived, meaning it also models diseases that patients have. And because it exhibits the same functions as a human immune system, you can test drugs and vaccines as if you were testing them in actual patients from the start. It's also easier to work with than mice.

People are currently using our platform as a new way to produce antibody therapies, to test vaccine candidates, and to test new treatments for diseases like multiple sclerosis.
We are the founders of Kodex (https://www.kodex.us). Kodex makes it easy for companies to process and respond to subpoenas from governments around the world.

Government agencies subpoena user data from thousands of companies around the world, and companies largely rely on email, fax, and spreadsheets to manage them. At a previous job, we would frequently see companies struggle to comply with legal orders, because they lacked the internal resources or expertise to automate the process of working with government agencies. Even multi-billion dollar companies had this problem. At scale, it is enormously burdensome.

Somewhat surprisingly, companies have all independently learned to comply with these requests in almost the exact same way. Regular ticketing systems don't work for this, so companies have adopted a web of Zendesk tickets, spreadsheets, and emails just to manage the intake of requests. To respond to requests, they typically send unsecured emails. The fact that this inefficient and insecure setup is so common suggests that these companies' needs can be met with one product, rather than custom solutions for each company.

Kodex automates the entire process of parsing, analyzing, and responding to subpoenas by providing companies with their own online Government Request Portal. It is similar to the Law Enforcement Portal that Facebook made for themselves, but it is a resource for every other company to use.

I think most people who haven't lived this problem assume it is only an issue for big tech, when in reality big tech are the only ones who can afford to build their own internal tools to alleviate their pain. If any of you have felt this pain, we'd love to speak with you! And your comments and questions are welcome.
Hi there! We are Orestis and Urs from Zeit Medical (https://www.zeitmedical.com). We enable fast stroke detection at home.

90% of strokes go untreated due to stroke recognition delays. Many patients live in fear that a stroke might happen and go unnoticed for hours, particularly if they are asleep when it starts. Stroke is currently impossible to detect based on symptoms. Unlike a heart attack, there is no distinct pain. There is a compelling need for a monitoring/alert system that will enable fast access to treatment.

Orestis has a PhD in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and has spent a decade developing wearable health-monitoring technologies. Urs is a pediatric critical care physician. Both founders have done research at Stanford. We've also both experienced the never-ending fear of another stroke in our families. We decided to do something about this problem--only 10% receiving treatment is just not cutting it!

We have a stroke detection algorithm which has been clinically proven in operating rooms. We're pairing it with commercially available brainwave sensors to create a smart headband that enables immediate stroke detection at home. The sensor pairs with our app and if a stroke is detected it alerts caregivers abs 911. This is different from other technologies that aim to improve patient transportation (once the patient is in the ambulance) or door to needle time (once the patient is in the hospital). The longest delays occur prior to calling 911, so this is the critical phase for making a difference.

The headband pairs with an app to analyze the brain’s electrical activity in real time with our stroke-detection algorithms. Brain activity metrics are already used in the clinical environment, but so far this know-how has remained siloed within the hospital. Our headband runs on AI that emulates the ability of expert neurophysiologists in digesting brain activity information to infer whether a cerebral injury is taking place.

We have recently kicked off a 15 person human factors study to assess overall system adoption and compliance. We also offer a sign up to get it first once our technology is cleared by the FDA. We look forward to your questions and comments!
> it's not possible to parse it without executing it, for example

It’s possible to define useful subsets of LaTeX (e.g. math markup only) for which this is not the case. MathJax does just that, in fact.
I like this strategy to encourage contributing back to open source by being a huge and foundational and producing so fast that the cost of forking is almost never worth it except in extreme circumstances. This feels more like voluntary cooperation than being smacked in the face with ~~the book~~ a license. Though I suppose it wouldn't always work if you're not a big project with lots of contributions.
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It's a hype-filled word. The metaverse is not interesting especially if it's operated by FAANG companies.

Virtual Reality is a Sci-Fi thing. I'd rather have Augmented Reality so I can have reviews on products while I browse a real/physical store without taking out my smartphone (which is getting slower and slower as time pass by).

IMHO, VR will never be a thing, not with the current technology at least.

I don't want to live in a world were the idea of sitting at home to live in a virtual world instead of going out is considered "progress".
I remember when Chirp was the Twitter Developer Conference. Those were very different days.
Sneak peek: Storybook interaction testing
I find the "Do not block the event loop" example terrible:

const fs = require('fs');
fs.readFile('/file.txt', (err, data) => {
// perform actions on file content
fs.unlink('/file.txt', (err) => {
if (err) throw err;
});
});

This comes right after a section about "use flat promise chains" and is also vulnerable to leaving file.txt behind if the "perform actions" part throws. Much better example imho:

const fs = require('fs/promises');
const data = await fs.readFile('/file.txt');
try {
// Do something with the data
} finally {
await fs.unlink('/file.txt');
}
> But at least one health agency has put the protection of the mRNA vaccines for delta as low as ~40%

> then it sounds like the transmission rate could be about the same for both groups.

Assuming those numbers, then transmission would be 40% lower in the vaccinated group? The 40% who get protected, do not then transmit. That's not "about the same".
One human constant through history is that the future always seems bleak to most of it.

This seems like an understudied thing to me.
If a security issue was discovered in mosh, I feel pretty confident that we would find a way to make a release with that fix (even if it's just a point release that applies the fix on top of the current `1.3.2` tag)
The notion that scanning cloud data on device is somehow worse than doing the same thing on server is deeply flawed.

If you have a false positive on device, nothing is sent to Apple's servers. It takes several (possibly false) positives at once to trigger a human review.

If you have a single false positive on server, that data is sitting there where it can be subpoenaed and abused.

Also, recent history shows that Apple is willing to fight government demands to invade user privacy in court.
Filtering out a few false positives is easier than auditing every dependency from scratch by yourself, and probably less effort than explaining to your users why your site didn't include a fix for a known vulnerability.

I take your point about "npm audit" being an annoying tool to use, though, and would recommend the package better-npm-audit in its place, which allows developers to ignore specific vulnerabilities by adding entries to a config file that can be committed to the repo.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/better-npm-audit
No doubt they're bad. But the case appears to involve multiple people in the UK.
Stop Using Exceptions Like This in Python
A friend and i did something similar! We set up a website for "${our_village} Metropolitan University", despite our village not being a metropolis and not having a university (a slightly deeper joke is that this form of name is usually used for ex-polytechnics in the UK, often in random places, and often not very good). When we wanted to make a webpage about some random topic, as one did back then, we'd make up a department for it. I remember we put all our computer programming stuff in the Poetry Department.
Yo Quiero is using the process on their pre packaged guacamole.

https://yoquierobrands.com/
Some utility operator is going to have nightmares for the rest of his life over trolly probleming hundreds of people when he pulled the trigger to shed residential load... because ERCOT has been avoiding anti-frost equipment on its gas lines since the mid-90s.

Texas power is a mess.
What's happening here is disintermediation - the employees in SEE and EE have realized that they can cut out the middleman (their local employer) and work directly with foreign clients. This makes the lower cost of living the employee's, rather than the employer's, competitive advantage. It also means that these local employers now have to compete on two fronts - for labor with their foreign competitors who have greater purchasing power and for gigs with their former employees who can offer the same services but with lower overhead.

The next step will be that these newly minted freelancers will realize they can charge more and raise their rates. Lower CoL is a huge advantage here - you can wait for months for the right gig to come along while your competitor in NYC can't. In the end, I think the rates in the WE and the US will drop all around the board while simultaneously rising in cheaper areas until an equilibrium is reached.
Conflating lack of social skills with evidence of sexual predation does seem like a very effective attack vector against many of the best academics in the world. I'm inclined to reserve judgement until the facts are in, I don't know any of the players even as celebrities I follow.
Skip 1.0 and 2.0 to brake people's expecting.

Like at some point just e.g. move from 0.69.0 to some arbitrary number like 7.0.0 or even 70.0.0.
> Today the glue probably works better (barring regulation that forces compromises to product efficacy)

Regulation might do that and there is much more going on:

Regulation also protects health and safety of customers and workers (especially important with chemical products) and prevents fraud, and it corrects market distortions that damage businesses, including instituting changes that the nature of the market prevents any one business from implementing, and opening up competition.

Other things limit technological innovation, including incumbents with market power who profit more from eliminating competition than from improving their products.
I'm gonna buck the trend here and say that this might be true.

Software development indeed has lower stakes than other professions (legal, medical). No one is going to die or be put in an iron cage for life as a result of our work -- well, at least not directly. But the bad consequences of their decisions leave with their clients. We are often tormented by our mistakes for years on end.

If you work in software long enough you also start to perceive a cyclical pattern in software "best practices" which leads to burnout. The hard problems you cut your teeth on as a journeyman become yesteryear's folly, and vice versa. If there are such a thing as fads in medicine or law, they certainly move at a slower pace than software.

It's also possible the developer makes more decisions, albeit at lower stakes, than doctors and lawyers. When you write a piece of code, you probably make dozens of tiny decisions per hour. Think about the last time you saw a doctor. Did you notice him/her pause at any point to think something over or make a decision?

So which is more prone to decision fatigue: a worker who makes a few decisions per day, based on a stable body of literature, that may lead to someone having a bad time somewhere far away in the world? Or a person who makes 100 decisions per day, based on fads, hunches, politics, and blog posts, that may increase their own workload by a factor of 10 in 6 months?
What is this, a third world country?
In the US, there is an assumption of innocence; the person asserting libel must prove it.

In the UK, the burden of proof is switched; the accused must prove their statement was truthful, which means an expensive legal battle. If you're a well-off asshole, you can leverage this in very nasty ways.
Why I Don’t Use a Smart Phone – Ann Makosinski
Ask Me AnyFin with Richard Peers: Building Green FinTech
The EU has long been run by neo-liberals, so they actually choose the policies deliberately.
It's still a little strange to me the whole free compiler thing. I used to pay hundreds of dollars each for, first Turbo C/C++, then Borland C/C++ and Zortech C/C++. I think IBM's C/C++ for OS/2 was the first time the compiler came free with an OS that I had on my computer and I was literally shocked that it included—for free—the GUI for building GUI applications. I guess being old is what makes me perfectly fine with paying for tools like IntelliJ which are a relative bargain.
I was ready to lose it on what I perceived as more pretentious developer shit, then I realized it was satire thank the Ford.
A well-made film can also get away with one or two plot points that it doesn't bear to think too deeply about so long as the film as a whole is good.

The letters of transit signed by General De Gaulle[1] in Casablanca is a case in point. As someone once wrote, that would have been the equivalent of US forces being forced to accept letters of transit signed by Osama bin Laden.

[1]Maybe Peter Lorre actually says another name which would make more sense but De Gaulle is the general assumption.
London’s Best and Most Secretive Address (2013)
If you create the Whatsform from an existing google form, we send the data to that form's responses along with connect via WhatsApp.

We will bring this feature to all forms created using WhatsForm in near future.
Could this be due to France's high use of nuclear energy (~70%)? I wish we had that, but it's nearly impossible to build here.
From the About page:

> ZeroVer is satire, please do not use it.
I've never had this issue with a personal custom domain. Basically all businesses have custom domains so blacklisting all of them can't make sense, surely?
Deregulation has been a major shift for most regions. Back in the day, the utilities would always plan the system for load growth and build new capacity and transmission when needed. This led to overbuilding as the utilities had a greater incentive to be reliable than to reduce costs. Later there was a big push to deregulate to let the free market make those decisions, but capacity is extremely expensive to build and prices have been very low in the past decade. Why that is the case is being hotly debated. The production tax credits for things like wind were very successful in getting many GW of wind capacity built, but they've distorted the market by letting those entities offer into the market much lower than anything else. From a green energy perspective, that is great, but there isn't enough storage yet (not anywhere even close), so conventional generators are still vital.

As far as the February event in ERCOT goes, this would've happened regardless I think if the utilities have zero desire to winter storm proof their equipment. All of that is incredibly expensive, so there would not have been a rush to spend money on something viewed as a hundred year event. With that being said. Hundred year events seem to happen every month now, so I'm fully supportive of new legislation and reform to the resource adequacy in the united states. I think it's hard for most people to understand that a huge amount of the natural gas fleet just couldn't get gas and that gas prices were in the thousands of dollars.
> Or is it just turning every column in my pandas dataframe into a series to pass into the covariates array?

Basically if you have a multivariate series represented as a pandas dataframe with several columns, the way to go is to create your TimeSeries by calling TimeSeries.from_dataframe(my_df). That will return a multivariate time series.

We don't yet have a discord channel, but I'm planning to open a Slack channel sometime soon. If you have other questions feel free to drop me an email: julien@unit8.co
A good satire should have a serious point it dismisses as part of the joke. For example Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is famous for its recommendation that Ireland's problems will be solved if the Irish eat their children, but it explicitly dismisses the possibility of taxing "absentee landowners" and other wealthy people and that is what Swift thinks you should actually do.

The closest ZeroVer comes is to quote Tom Preston-Werner, "If your software is being used in production, it should probably already be 1.0.0." which is something, but could perhaps be dismissed more thoroughly as undesirable or mistaken in this document.
The upside I think of is that this enables more specialization and "division of labor", which is one of the basic drivers of prosperity.
If you are going back Marty, there are a few timelines I’d like altered.
Michigan's Consumers Energy has had 14% of it's customers blacked out since Tuesday morning. 500,000 people across the state and it looks like another two days to fix it.
I really want to like Thunderbird, but... I can't do it. Mess of a UI, no clear way to do plain-text emails, and often won't open attachment sent from (enterprise) Outlook.
> Dropbox still has the best syncing tech

Can confirm without any references etc that I have found it to be vastly superior to all other syncs. Top of the pile for me is that it handles small changes in large files without reuploading the entire thing. That said, I havent used it for years.