skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, we are Ismael and Sophia, co-founders of Chari (https://www.chari.co/). Chari is an ecommerce and fintech app for proximity stores in North Africa. It allows them to order anything they resell in their store, get delivered in less than 24h and benefit from payment facilities.

80% of the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) consumption in North Africa, and in developing countries in general, goes through small mom and pop stores (Vs 20% in the modern trade, such as Supermarkets). We are husband and wife and have two kids. We live together and go to the same mom and pop shop next to our place. Many times, while we were buying our groceries, we were left waiting because the truck of Coca Cola (or any other supplier) came by and the shop owner needed to deal with the supplier instead of his clients. When we ask the shop to serve us first, he replies that he can't because the supplier vans companies can't wait. Indeed the streets are narrow in North Africa, the vans usually create traffic jams and they have to sell and unload very quickly while the cars waiting behind are horning.

With Chari, they don't need to let their clients wait. When they run out of stock of a specific SKU, they add it to the app during their spare time between two clients. At the end of the day, they have the list of the SKUs that are missing in their shop. They then make the order to be delivered the day after.

We launched 18 months ago in Casablanca Morocco and have been growing at a 40% monthly rate on average. Last month, we opened our second warehouse in Morocco and our first one in Tunisia. Here's a promotional video if you're curious: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HEZla3KvtWYM06PO94igppL95ea....
> Which is an idea.

An idea which seems to be overwhelmingly axiomatic.

> Which is a point in the mirror, it avoids to face.

Are you thinking of this phenomenon where when people look directly into their own eyes in a mirror, or directly into the eyes of another human being, something "weird" seems to happen?
Hi HN, we're Aakash and Siddhant of Jovian (https://www.jovian.ai/). We run a 6-month program that helps working professionals with a background in programming, statistics or analytics land their first data science job.

Four years ago, we quit our jobs and spent several months learning data science and deep learning. We completed several online courses, read some books, and participated in some Kaggle competitions. We were finally able to make a career transition to data science, but looking back at the journey, we felt “It shouldn’t be this hard!”

While there are various platforms offering data science education, most learners don't feel confident while approaching real-world projects even after completing multiple courses and earning certifications. They find it hard to clear interviews to land their first job, and often require several months of training on the job.

Jovian is the platform we wished we had access to when we started learning. There are three things we focus on: (1) we teach practical skills that students use to build real-world projects, (2) we offer 24x7 support & detailed feedback on every project, (3) students learn together with a community of like-minded learners in a university-like environment. We’ve taken inspiration from courses like fast.ai and mlcourse.ai.

Our 6-month program consists of 7 courses, 14 coding assignments and 4 portfolio projects. Every week, students watch 5-6 hrs video lectures and work on assignments for 15-20 hrs. Students can ask questions and get help 24x7 from our TAs over Slack and Zoom. Every 5 weeks, they complete a unique guided real-world project and publish a blog post. We offer 1:1 resume review, interview practice, and job search support for 12 months. We make money by charging a flat fee for the course, which students can pay up-front or monthly.

One thing we discovered and found surprising is that most of the math used in data science can be explained through code. Many people find math intimidating not because the concepts themselves are tough, but because they aren't used to mathematical symbols and equations.

We look forward to your comments!
We're Jiawei and Jialu of Tuli Health (https://tuli.health/). We let people get medical diagnostics quickly and safely in a pharmacy close to home, instead of going to a hospital. We're based in the UK.

I have a MD PhD from University College London, and Jialu has been a software engineer for the past 10 years. We’ve lived in London for a decade and while we appreciate the NHS, we also wished for a world where we could walk down the street to get healthcare. This is what we're building.

Instead of travelling a long distance and waiting a long time to receive diagnostic tests, customers can now receive diagnostic tests from their local pharmacies, just around the corner from where they live.

There are 11,000 independent pharmacies in the UK. Our software makes it easy for them to sell and fulfill Covid-19 tests. These same pharmacies have just started selling allergy tests as well.

We offer easy-to-use software for the pharmacies to register and manage patients for diagnostic tests. We are currently used by over 150 pharmacies. The link to the dashboard is https://portal.tuli.health. A user can sign up as an end customer or a pharmacy.

Covid has led to changes in our user behaviour. Many services have now become hyper-localised. Covid tests led to the pharmacies delivering the first diagnostic tests. In the future, other diagnostic tests will also be available: STI, , biochemistry profile, gluten intolerance... Hopefully things will get easier and more accessible. We look forward to your questions and feedback!
Hi everyone, my name is Rick and with my co-founders Sven and Théo we are building Snowboard (https://www.snowboard.software/). Snowboard is a fast and automated data catalog for the Snowflake data cloud. It helps teams find, understand and trust their data assets.

In past jobs, I (Rick) rolled out Snowflake at a manufacturer with 11000 employees and $2B in revenue, and Théo built the data team and infrastructure at a B2B company that raised $200M. My experience introducing Snowflake was that after 2 years and more than 1000 tables and many more columns, it was hard to find data and tedious to understand it, and users would not trust the data without a lot of upfront due diligence.

We index all data and visualization assets that are connected, making it easy to find them. We profile data continuously to show what's inside, how it is changing, and make it easy to document and tag information. What helps us surface a lot of context is that we parse Snowflake's query history. This lets us provide automated data lineage and indicate data freshness and usage.

Most of our customers that see their actual data flows are surprised by the complexity they have built. Some see for the first time how their data flows work and how many redundant data assets they have created from one base table.

For now, we focus on the Snowflake ecosystem and don't support the long-tail of other database and analytics solutions. This lets us "overfit" to the needs and problems of companies that sit on this stack, e.g.: Fivetran > DBT > Snowflake > Tableau. Under the hood we leverage the flexibility of ArangoDB to offer a fast application that offers great search speed and also graph workloads e.g. for data lineage.

Our initial market is 5k Snowflake customers, but the global data warehousing market consists of 250k companies. We charge per indexed data asset. The number of data assets in companies is doubling on average every 2 years, so this market is taking off.

We offer both cloud and self-hosted. Self-hosted means a Docker Compose configuration that starts 3 Docker containers. The only data that is transmitted to our system is a license check in this case.

Your questions and comments are welcome. Thank you!
It seems awfully hard to enforce all cases.

If a subletter voluntarily enters into an agreement with a lessee to pay above the rent control amount, who is the victim?

Is it not a victimless crime?
Yeah, that sounds like rent control doing it's one job: preventing existing tenants from being priced out of the places they already live. I don't think there's a single advocate for rent control that believe it will solve all housing problems.
Devin Nash explains the issue here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NURYbrDk7k

tldr: Financial transactions for porn suffer VERY high cashback rates so traditional payment operators do NOT like them because they become expensive to them VERY quickly.
>It's really one of the largest things that seemingly every developed country is struggling with right now.

Not Japan! Tokyo rents are surprisingly cheap relative to other major cities.
It's complicated :)

After Qt 5.6 some important parts were relicensed as GPL. Which means that the Wayland compositor and some other Jolla parts needs to be either GPL (which the main investor is reluctant to do) or Jolla needs to buy a commercial license for Qt (which the main investor is reluctant to do).

I understand that the developers at Jolla are ready to flip the switch to a newer Qt and have been for some time, but there is no business decision made yet.
> Some Polio vaccines were contaminated with SV40 for years

Right, and the Harvard Mark II had a moth that caused it to malfunction, therefore we can't trust the Apple M1.

This is the level of reasoning that anti-vaxers have sunk to. It's deliberate ignorance and sophistry.

Anti-vaxers aren't "asking questions". They aren't curious about actual reality. They are very confused people who want to maintain a simplistic (maybe naturalistic, who knows?) worldview and are increasingly twisted in knots and therefore filled with cognitive dissonance.

I personally don't like hunting down morons, but when they step on stage and refuse to yield, the should absolutely be mocked, shamed, and embarrassed, maybe even more so that they risk the health and safety of others with their idiocy. They didn't reason themselves into their positions, so I see no reason why we should try to reason them out.

Done.
Some percentage of particles are going get stuck in the mask fibers, thereby lowering the viral dose you get. There is no way it doesn’t help at least some, the question might just be how much.
UnNethack is really good. Like the sibling poster, I too play a lot of Qud, but it kind of comes from a different tradition of roguelikes so it might not scratch the same itch. It's spectacular, though.

Cogmind comes to mind as being a neat riff off of the "hack" style of roguelikes, and the developer is super open and cool about the game. Or, for a little bit of an older but a much broader experience, you could check out Dungeons of Dredmor.

(As you mentioned--Jupiter Hell just came out and it's the sequel to DoomRL and it's awesome, if you like more coffeebreak-style roguelikes!)
Reminds me of the Pratchett / Discworld song "wouldn't it be nice, if everyone was nice?":

https://www.lspace.org/fandom/songs/wouldnt-it-be-nice-if-ev...

(sung to the tune of "It's a Small World")

If we all were friendly

I'm sure you would agree

That the world would be a better place

For you and for me

And if everyone was kind

I'm sure no-one would mind

So let's all be nice

Chorus:

Wouldn't it be nice if everyone was nice?

Wouldn't it be nice if everyone was nice?

Wouldn't it be nice if everyone was nice?

Let's all be nice.

Being good to people

Is lots of fun

And it makes a difference

To everyone

And a smile is a frown

When it's turned upside down

So let's all be nice.

Repeat chorus ad nauseam.
> It's not like a lack of rent control is creating vast new supplies of housing here in London

They seem to be building as much housing in London as it's possible to do so - new blocks of flat flying up all the time.
New evidence of extensive corrosion in collapsed condo
It’s because the human immune system is superb at fighting off disease, so it turns out it’s easier to just prime it than to create our own way to kill viruses.
Muon: Implementation of the meson build system in C with minimal dependencies
I guess you just "fall" into the tunnel, and then your journey ends with speed=0 at the other end because of energy conservation.
It's cool looking, but frankly it has nothing to do with "digging a tunnel". It's a "graphically draw a line through a sphere" app.

Digging a tunnel would have to deal with deep earth concerns, such as how to deal with the core, what to do with the removed material, etc.
GE and other companies tried to implement Demings approach. They called it Six Sigma. Those that used Deming's concepts were successful. Yet too many misunderstood the idea of SPC and used in areas that was not meant for quality control. For instance trying to use SPC in the managerial process itself.
Or going out to sea. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbpHA3xqvOE
Idk man, a lot of people didn't vote for Bernie in that primary. They had the option and didn't go for it.
> People act like oil companies are the ones burning oil. They’re just responding to demand.

No, they’re not.

> We need to make oil less competitive, with better alternatives.

Like tobacco companies, oil companies have actively lied and lobbied to maintain demand and obstruct coordinated effort of exactly the kind you describe as necessary. They are not passive actors simply responding to demand as they find it.
Title is also, potentially, not actually supported by data...

>Only around 8% of Swedes live in households spending more than 40% of disposable income on housing, compared to 15% in the UK and almost 40% in Greece, according Eurostat data.

Something is keeping rent low in Sweden (relative to a few other European counties).
Just like Apple does, if you can't audit the source code and build it yourself, the use of the keyword "privacy" is just a marketing gimmick.
> In modern hand to hand combat you don't use a sword

Modern soldiers still carry, and sometimes use, bayonets, and in some regiments they literally call them 'swords'. And they don't look like this toy.
You try to can build it yourself [1] for many devices [2].

[1] https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Sailfish_X_Build_and_Flash

[2] https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris
Wikipedia mentions that Muslim invaders have destroyed the temple multiple times over the centuries.
Typical populace, responding to incentives and trying to find ways to thrive.
It's basic economic principle:
Price ceiilngs, like rent control, cause a shortage of supply.
Price floors, cause surpluses in supply.

Everything else is just nonsensical hand-waving people use in an attempt to justify why various schemes they favor are not working yet again.
I think it's the result of some people being more and more cut off and alienated from themselves and life around them, so that's why they view it as "just other piece of technology". It says everything about them and nothing about life.
Imagine a vaccine against various cancers!
I think the majority of people resort to this hack because security folks in their infinite wisdom require to use alpine and nothing else. Unfortunately, a lot of libraries don't support musl and have no plans to support it in the future, so you have to be creative.
"Ideas aren’t worth anything. You can’t actually sell an idea anyway."

Yeah, I mean a patent. They're basically legal rights to an idea.
Yup. Considering my Android ROM can reach thousands of various phone models, from 30$ devices to 1000$ deviecs, and I can upgrade devices stuck on 3 years-old Android to latest Android versions, I believe I have a good basis to monetize it.

And so far, I haven't seen any path towards monetization.

Most people won't give you directly money, unless maybe you target very specific niches, like privacy or FLOSS (And I don't believe I can address either of those).

As you mentioned, another possibility is to get revenue through app store (or other revenue sharing sources) possibilites. There is the obvious one, Google Play Store. I simply can't bear Google's bureaucraty, and if I were to try that, I'd have died of old age.

Other actors would be much more willingly to discuss to 3rd parties, maybe Aptoide or Amazon Store would be interested? But then, you can't have Google Services, and usage would be much more limited. Also, I believe that the revenue from people out of Amazon Store is much lower than Play Store, because people have less trust towards it (but I could be wrong there).

5$ per install is imo far from enough, because it barely pays for the bandwidth to download OTAs for one year. Unless you mean 5$ per install and per OTA, but I don't like the idea of having the user pay for security upgrades. Also, it lacks an important property to replace revenue sharing, which is adaptability to users' money (if the user has a lot of money, the revenue sharing will give more money, and it's better for reach to still have a place for low income people, notably indian peoples can give you a lot of advertisement "for free" but they don't have much money)
AskHN: what's the best carbon capture service that I can subscribe to? "Best" as in: does CO2 removal (not planting trees or trading credits), is reasonably cost-efficient, and is audited?
Good God man, I'm sorry. We lost a baby early on too and would never wish that on my first enemy. And yes, the financial aspects are just a slap in the face.
How long did it take to upgrade from IPV4 to IPV6? IPV6 is a massively popular protocol in which virtually every technical person admitted we will need to move off of IPV4. IPV6 is 25 years old and we’re still not done with the migration.

Protocols have a massive problem with updating their feature sets and security features.
It doesn’t matter that it’s proven to not do what it’s supposed to achieve.

There will always be a contingent that invents reasons why “this time” it will work. “We just haven’t done it right”. And they go on to fail once again.
> All green boxes indicating support, with a note at the bottom: “this feature is deprecated/obsolete and should not be used”.

CanIUse should just color these deprecated features in orange, meaning "it works but don't use it".
It's mostly debian/gnome then ubuntu/gnome all these years, the only time I need windows each year was to do turbotax which I run that inside a virtualbox/windows on linux for one or two days. I did not do games though which I believe Linux was not ready for that in the past.
The GDPR should specify a standard cookie banner that must be used, some of them are beyond a joke. Google (for shame) has the most horrible, obnoxious dark-pattern banner, that they have obviously worked on to make as unfriendly as possible, while looking as benign as possible. I've never once in my life bothered reading the walls of script and check-boxes before clicking the most convenient button i can find.
The problem is not reflashing, we all have flashed the first time, we could do it again. The problem is kernel support. There is no new enough kernel for Xperia X hardware. For obvious reasons Sailfish does not have resources to port a kernel for a 3-4 year old device. Not sure whether source is even available from Sony for all drivers.

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/kernel/core-... A 4.4 kernel would be required, but there is only 3.10.
"Something is keeping rent low in Sweden (relative to a few other European counties)."

Weather.
Amazon's great physical retail pivot
Windows 11 Removes Essential Calendar Feature, No Change Planned
Rent control actually works great for the limited number of people who can get into rent-controlled housing. They love it! Unless you want to move to a different apartment, or have your friends move near you, or have any pressure on your landlord to improve the property, or…

It’s everyone else who suffers the most. Usually they have no choice but to move somewhere else or stay at home with parents, so you can’t get an accurate picture by looking at aggregate household statistics. Unless you’re deliberately trying to ignore everyone excluded by these policies.

Rent control is one of those policies that sounds great as long as you ignore second-order effects and pretend the population and economy never change. In practice it just creates a different system of haves and have-nots while removing any chance for the market to compensate.
Weird Intern Refuses to Sit Down During Standups
There are lots of people without your educational background. It's a few years old now, but I remember finding Alice Bartlett's talk on <select> box inaccessability [1] quite instructive.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUkMCQR4TpY
Friction will likely mean that you don't come up to the same height as you left.
The open source part is basically a middleware layer that uses libhybris to work with downstream AOSP kernels and device drivers. This might have been useful at some point, but we have better choices now, like forward-porting these supported devices to work properly with a mainline kernel and userspace.
> Over the past 10 days, foreign substances were discovered in 39 unused vials at eight vaccination sites in Japan. All the tainted vials were made in Spain and were shipped to Japan from late July.

> Japan's health ministry on Thursday decided to halt the use of about 1.63 million doses of the Moderna vaccine that were manufactured in the same factory in Spain at around the same time as the contaminated vials.

> The ministry says it has not received any reports of health damage from the vaccines.
Not working compared to what?

From the article:

> Despite its complex challenges, Sweden is in a better position on housing than many other EU countries.

> Only around 8% of Swedes live in households spending more than 40% of disposable income on housing, compared to 15% in the UK and almost 40% in Greece, according Eurostat data.

> Swedes are also less likely to live with their parents than any other young Europeans.

The situation is certainly not good in Sweden but there are no simple solutions. Otherwise it would be much better elsewhere.
List of features removed in Windows 11
Rent-a-robot: Silicon Valley’s new answer to the labor shortage
Alerts steal and block focus. A notification permission request doesn't keep me from scrolling the page, or clicking a link.

If alerts were as common as notification permission requests, it would be absolutely infuriating.

Disabling notification requests is a simple browser setting and I haven't even bothered with it. If alerts were as common as notification requests, I'd do whatever it took to disable them.
Even a pure linear emission of 1 coin per second forever is disinflationary. A supply limit only serves to create FOMO.
You lie saying it’s unfair, right? There’s no incentive to ever say you’re happy.
At a glance, Visor looks very nice. Does it let you mark an issue as blocked on more than one issue? I love using spreadsheets to track issues but for me that's the biggest pain point.
One "good boy" and you're talking about puppies. Three "good boys" and now you've entered the realm of BDSM.
Not if you used that money to directly transfer that wealth to working class. All the money they've paid would return to them, in addition to the money paid by those corporate fleets.

But, in USA, it would surely go to military.
I think this is a perfect example of why the Open Source Definition has "Integrity of The Author's Source Code" If they care about being associated with other people's projects, then they should add a bit to the license that they have to change the name of the project when modifying.
RTLD_LOCAL?
Luckily they can't send different thumbnails to different viewers. Yet.

Veritasium actually did an interesting episode recently about how the major YouTubers optimize their titles and thumbnails using real time data now to figure out what works to go more viral. And apparently there's a convergence on "shocked" face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
A little off topic, but what is your goal with the micro needling? I thought that was a purely cosmetic procedure for things like acne scars, but now I'm wondering if I missed something.