skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because an absolutely incredible increase in total cases, so of course hospitalizations are going up. However, it isn't going up unusually given the number of cases. Also, those numbers include kids in the hospital for other things, that test positive for covid. Finally, kids get put into the hospital quicker if they show issues with covid because that's what we do with kids if they are significantly affected by any pathogen.
It's property crime. They'll write up a report and you can give it to your insurance company. They're not going to investigate it in-depth or serve as your personal security force.

The most effective solution is probably to put up a fence and cameras.
Motorcycles would probably not have been accepted were they invented yesterday. They've been grandfathered into society, like tobacco. I say this as a licensed motorcycle rider.
Well, bummer, and best of luck to you then.

At least you know you did everything you reasonably could and didn't just give up like the "vaxxed and done" crowd.
Building a marketplace is too hard, but building a in game system to handle any kind of asset with any kind of specification that user might wanna play with is easy?
Yes, you can specify an exact version in package.json. The easiest way is by adding "-E" when installing:

npm install chalk -ES
yarn add chalk -ES

The -S installs and saves to package.json (equiv to requirements.txt).

That results in:

"dependencies": {
"chalk": "5.0.0"
}

which is an exact dependency. By default npm and yarn use "^5.0.0" which means minor upgrades are allowed (5.x.x).
People who are not you should spent money so your kid can see his grandparents?
Congressional Trading in 2021
> And those would be?

For instance: ethical codes that reporters in many cases actually care about, the well-established organizational structures news organizations use to manage advertiser-created conflicts of interest, etc.

I'm not saying any of that is foolproof, but it's definitely effective enough to render a lazy compilations of "this program is sponsored by Pfizer" moot as media criticism.
"Pig Heart Boy (1999)"
https://youtu.be/JoBW_XCWDDA
I don't care how fast it spreads as long as the vaccine helps them not die.
Agreed. MLE in very ML-heavy companies tends to mean SWE who work on ML systems, and sometimes, that can mean as much working on stuff like infrastructure as modeling.
"That's not even a 9/11!"
As I understand it, LFP cells have a lower energy density compared to cobalt. Is this company claiming they can build a 200kwh LFP battery that takes up the same amount of space as a stock model S battery?
I wouldn't call it a "facade". It's 4-day weeks where in some weeks you have to be on call on Friday. If there's enough people that means being on call every month or two.

As long as they're up front with us when hiring it seems fine to me. If you don't want to be on call, that's something you need to factor into your job search. I've always factored it in for my searches!
> You may personally prefer it just as some niche audience still personally prefers to run their own email server.

No. This is a false dichotomy. There is a very healthy market for email service providers. Basically every domain registrar runs one, a good amount of ISPs... there can be a cottage industry for service providers.

> Almost everyone uses a centralized provider

Because the large companies make it free to try to make their money by either exploiting the data or by using the email service as a loss leader. Signal can not do either, so they will have to rely on some other revenue stream, or they will end up like Mozilla.
No, it's absolutely right to harp on the CDC for this. If you intentionally tell a lie to people in order to manipulate them into doing something for what you think is the greater good, you set your own reputation on fire. The truth about what you did will come out, and for everything you say from that point on to pretty much a generation of people, everyone will constantly second-guess whether you are once again telling a lie to serve what you might think is some greater good. Getting a semblance of that reputation back is a slow and painful process.

Haven't the horrors of history given enough examples? The ends do not justify the means. Lies like this have most definitely already backfired hard. Anyone who thinks they are some special elite who is entitled to lie to the public for the greater good is wrong, evil, and unfit to hold any sort of power.
You can ask for specific later fixed log4j version. You don't have to ask for unspecified latest one.
It’s amazing how much of what is being said was something that got you banned, ridiculed and yelled at by people… almost like the skeptics were right all along…
Careful with that. You might end up with pigoons [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryx_and_Crake
Next you will want a building in which to keep these objects, which will of course need heating and lighting (need I even start to compute the power cost…) and will take up real estate that could otherwise be used for apartments where people could literally LIVE!

You’ve also failed to account for right clickers (so named for the click of a camera shutter, normally triggered by a button to the right of the camera) who can simply take a picture of your object and trade it as they like… This will surely reduce the value of any one of your works to zero!

(In all seriousness, NFT’s gotta be stopped!)
Oh I'm definitely not going to work on this anymore until I see some real money and a proper agreement.
The false equivalencies in this thread are astounding.
Not sure how.
The number of deer who've caught COVID19 in Ohio seems to suggest otherwise.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/12/third-oh...

COVID19 is _effectively_ spreading to the entire Ohio deer population.

> The investigators said the prevalence of infection varied from 13.5% to 70% across the nine sites, with the highest prevalence observed in four sites that were surrounded by more densely populated neighborhoods.

Furthermore, it seems like we humans are spreading it to deer, with the deer in higher-density human neighborhoods reaching ~70% infection.

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I don't think we humans are sitting around talking to deer indoors. Any reasonable application of Occam's Razor is that humans are spreading COVID19 to deer through some kind of outdoor setting.
Yes, somehow people seem to confuse a link to the Github repo with the same tags with a verifyable build and a hash of the result.
It may “seem” like that to you, but YC publishes actual stats…

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-summer-2021-batch-stats/

* 50% are based outside the US
* 70% are not B2B/Enterprise
* 43% of the batch is white (less than half)

So…your impression is simply incorrect. YC doesn’t fund the companies you think it does.
I am wondering if, when Tesla sells a car as "100kWh", that is the available capacity (80%-20%) or if the total pack capacity. There would be reasons why they would want to go either way.

But I think the biggest difference is probably that there are known high capacity chemistries with shorter longevity, which can be safely ignored for a one off test to drum up press for investors.
I think you are responding to a caricature. It's not much different from one side saying, "one particular political alignment is basically interested in creating a socialist nanny state."

Do you know anyone on a deep, personal level that is of a different political alignment? To the OP's point, retreating to a bubble of people that only agree with you is one way to help such a caricatured outlook can take hold.
What's new is deliberately destroying a generation's future potential, for a disease that barely affects them. What's also new is that the repercussions of our collective response to this disease will be felt long after Covid fades to another endemic sniffle.
Well, my comment (in this case) was directed at the people at AWS who decided to use the "colors" package instead of just spending a half hour adding their own ANSI escape sequences.
I was "not any good" relative to how much better I am now. I'm happy and fortunate that trajectory is continuing. Thirteen years and counting, in fact.

Who knows, maybe you're a better coder than I am and you just "got" it instantly! It's immensely important for me to keep growing, so I guess it's a good thing I may be so much worse than you?
Loads and says all is fine for me.
https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=3500&Fr... :)
Ask HN: Where do I start in starting a startup
I have been an individual contributor in all my career. I like to focus on the technical side, and find the management/business side unbearable. I am leaning toward the idealism side of things and as many people here would love to help a bit if possible to advance technology and innovation.

I would like to build a Data As A Service company that, in a nutshell, would crawl the internet and stream the data at almost real time. Think of it as Twitter's Firehose but for the whole Internet.

In my previous attempts, with ideas I had, I would usually spend a few months working on a functional prototype, and pray it would take off.

This time I thought I'd reach out for the wisdom of HN crowd. Where/how did you start your company? How far in investigating the idea and/or building a prototype were you before you reached out for a business co-founder? Where/how did you find them? Did you go through an incubator? Are there any rough guidelines on how to one should proceed from square one?

Thanks!
This is an interesting technique. When I first started working in a place that had lots of free/good food, I was worried I'd gorge. Instead what I found was that knowing I'd always have access to good/free food meant I didn't feel the need to overeat ever.
Is this really about EU telcos, though? In the European article I mostly see messages about this from UK telcos, which are European but no EU anymore. I've heard that UK net neutrality law is kind of a joke, and now that they're outside of EU control the UK can do whatever the hell it wants, and I fear for UK citizens that the mostly consumer-focused EU ideals aren't shared by the current UK leadership.

Plenty of telcos want to force competitors out of the market with zero rating and triple play subscriptions, but I don't think any of them have made any moves against net neutrality this bad. A few years ago I've seen carriers doing HTTP introspection to force images through their compression proxies (usually budget ISPs who want to stop people from actually using up their data plan so they can make a profit) but that seems to have stopped completely now.

As for legal interception, this doesn't make any difference. When law enforcement finds that the suspects are communicating over Apple's network, they'll just knock on Apple's door with a warrant and demand a wire tap from their network. That's how legal interception of "privacy protection" VPN providers works, and Apple isn't even trying to ship traffic outside national borders, just to the closest data center.
Critical security flaw: right-clicking is enabled!
I don't think that's a realistic expectation. If millions of people have a highly infectious disease, then it's very likely to spread to any wildlife (that aren't naturally immune) in the same general area as those infected humans. By the time the vaccines were available, Covid was basically everywhere.
> also pointed out that if founders stay lean, this is more than enough capital to survive for years, regardless of the economic environment.

What does this look like?

I'm thinking 2 people's salary and overhead at say $110K each -- including employer's taxes, healthcare, and all benefits, that's maybe salaries of like $75-85K? Which is of course not a lot of money at all by software engineer standards (or to live near YC HQ), but is that still more than YC means by "lean"?

Because after two years that's $440K, leaving $30K/year for any infrastructure (like, that your software runs on) or marketting, or any other overhead at all.

So, yeah, that's lasting for "years" (2, which is I guess the minimum amount of "for years"), with exactly two founder employees, but it definitely seems very very lean to me.

How do you think YC is thinking about it, about like that, or I guess, even less take-home for the founders? Or is this not supposed to include the founders supporting themselves for those two years, is that not how it works? Or is the assumption they'd have at least a couple hundred thousand of revenue in those years too? Or thinking they will surely get some additional investment? (but that doens't seem to be what "this is more than enough capital to survive for years" suggests).

I'm not saying 500K is "not a lot of money", of course it is!

I'm just saying it's not clear to me how it's enough money to run a business "for years", even "leanly". Just curious how they're thinking about it like that, how I'm thinking about it wrong/different. I figure I don't know what I'm talking about, hoping someone will explain how it works!
The vaccines do reduce transmission, so it is a relevant argument?
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116597
cf. https://tulanehullabaloo.com/57213/intersections/opinion-lat...
I thought that author of Faker don't ask a new maintainer, he just ask for money. So I think this point is valid.

A maintainer role could be to just accept some occasional pull request if he don't want to make it a bigger project.
It already happened:
https://amp.ft.com/content/074b881f-a931-4986-888e-2ac53e286...
> After a year has passed, the author proceeded to release a couple of major versions that had a more artistic feel.

Artistic would be a new color scheme or maybe a “support open source maintainers” message. The accurate description you didn't give is sabotage because he introduced an infinite loop:

https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/commit/074a0f8ed0c31c35d1...
> There's a restaurant close to me that's got "outdoor" seating. Its a tent with the sides down and heaters. It happens to match the legal requirements for "outdoor seating" in my county, but we all know that COVID19 is spreading everywhere inside that small tent.

> People are abusing these declarations in ridiculous ways.

And yet, the declarations are also ridiculous, which is the point that OP was making (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29880264). In the past (and maybe now, not sure) people have been required to social distance at national parks - or even forbidden from going to them at all.

On the other side of "ridiculous": 6 feet of "social distancing" wasn't enough to begin with. Building and elevator capacities were a sham. And, my employer (and likely many others) skirted all of these ridiculous rules in ridiculous ways - which is the point, that regardless of how people behave (which isn't relevant for this discussion, so I'm not sure why you're bringing it up), some of the rules are still bad and useless.

The vast majority of covid-related rules are unnecessary, hygiene theater, woefully inadequate, or some combination of all of those - and, yet, governments and people of a particular inclination insist on following this charade anyway and using various logical fallacies (e.g. strawmanning, as you did above) and emotional attacks on those that have the audacity to question them.
I'd love to see a study like that breaking down the risks between seronaive and recovered people. They all seem to just talk about the unvaccinated as one monolithic group, but the difference between those with a prior infection and without is known to be huge.

I've yet to see any convincing evidence that a prior infection isn't good enough, but I see plenty of people convinced that the recovered are selfish/evil/stupid if they aren't rushing out for a vaccine.
Charles and Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten Updated
The point of Crispy is to be closer to vanilla than ports like GZDoom, Zandronum, PRBoom, etc, but still remove some static limits (that custom maps need to work) and increase the render resolution (which GZDoom etc do, but vanilla and ports like Chocolate Doom don't).

Basically it's Chocolate Doom (which is essentially 1994 Doom, but it builds and runs on modern systems), but a little more easy to use and a little more compatible.
He was pointing out OPs unfounded fear, and how only OP is responsible for coping with it. It has nothing to do with the virus.
"prevent", no. Reduce, yes.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116597
Why do they hate him?
What electric car in the US costs 8k? I assume that is used, but even then that sounds cheap.
Thank you to Moxie and the entire team at Signal for building this incredible software and releasing it out in the world! I've been using it since the TextSecure and RedPhone days and moving more and more of friends and family to it ever since.

To the HN crowd, please become a sustainer (monthly donations) of Signal through the app. You get a badge that way, which is an opportunity for those you communicate with to learn about becoming a sustainer too.
In my opinion, the fundamental issue here is that open source software is a [public good][1]. So the paradox which everyone asks themselves is "if everyone can benefit from it for free why should I have to pay?".

But conversely, if people are benefitting from something you've created then it's only fair for the person who created this value to get some financial compensation commensurate to the value they've created.

The author of this package has chosen a method to get some compensation for their work that has resulted in a lose-lose situation where neither the author nor the users are happy.

But it doesn't have to be this way.

The [Opensource guide][2] has some useful tips on [Getting Paid for Open Source Work][3]. For people interested in web3 and crypto, [Gitcoin][4] is platform where you can [get paid to work on open source software][5].

Hopefully, by becoming more informed on ways to make money from open source software we can avoid situations like this in the future and create a fairer system that works for everyone.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics)

[2]: https://opensource.guide/

[3]: https://opensource.guide/getting-paid/

[4]: https://gitcoin.co/

[5]: https://gitcoin.co/grants/
Reporting property damage to the police is never useful. Where I live, they won't even send an officer out.

I have a few friends who own property in West Virginia, so probably similar vibes to rural Oregon. A report to the police out there for something like this would probably be counter-productive. At best.
There is also a set of 3 books by I. A. Richards titled "English Through Pictures.I think it's a useful idea, but the pictures in these books are fairly primitive stick figure drawings.
What if NPM allowed a "global minimum version" for any package found to have critical security vulnerability?
A lot of it is based on trust, that’s evidently true, and as such, I think it’s perfectly fine to publicly shame a maintainer who looks to have breached that trust.
It is actively anti open source argument. It makes limited sense in subculture where contributing to open source is expected, but that subculture is absurdly small and answer to it is "this absolutely should not be mandatory".

In any other context, it is argument against open source existing.
That's not what the SAFE says. It's only on subsequent securities, not prior ones.

"If the Company issues any Subsequent Convertible Securities with terms more favorable than those of this Safe (including, without limitation, a valuation cap and/or discount) prior to termination of this Safe, the Company will promptly provide the Investor with written notice thereof, together with a copy of such Subsequent Convertible Securities (the “MFN Notice”) and, upon written request of the Investor, any additional information related to such Subsequent Convertible Securities as may be reasonably requested by the Investor."

https://www.ycombinator.com/documents/
I'm not sure I'm above average and would not assume to be better than you, but you could be more self-critical than me.

Few more years than you (it depends when to start counting), definitively in the same range.
I jumped onto Wikipedia to figure out why arrhytmia might be a problem, and it looks like "artificial heart pump" might stand for a VAD (Ventricular Assist Device), as in it pumps blood and it helps, but the original organ remains in circuit.
> Why? It's actually 50/50.

Is it, though? I'm sure it's not, and the ratio of women to men is much much lower. I know of a FANG which rejects male candidates with PhDs but goes to the extents of admitting female candidates with a single boot camp on their resume, and even then most teams barely have more than a couple of women in their ranks.
So why aren’t we testing for the cold and the flu? Those are just as endemic as Covid and they mutate every year too. Why test specifically for Covid?

What useful information does knowing you have Covid instead of the myriad of other respiratory viruses actually provide? The treatment for all of them is gonna be basically the same for like 99% of all cases.
This is a terrible argument. Marak didn't have to purposely break anyone's projects either. If he wanted to end it, he should have just sent a goodbye message stating the end of his involvement and walked away. This is the normal thing to do. If he wanted to be paid, he should have either picked the appropriate license at the beginning, or just changed it for future versions. The latter has also been done before with SugarCRM being one example. They are still around with paying customers. Something as free for all as the MIT license sends the wrong message.

This has been posted before, but Marak seems to be mentally unwell right now, which helps explain but doesn't condone his behavior.

https://abc7ny.com/suspicious-package-queens-astoria-fire/64...
Recently I got the stomach flu. It was a great opportunity to quit coffee since I pretty much just slept around all day anyway.

Now I just drink a cup of black tea a day. I feel a lot "nicer", but definitely less productive, as expected.

I'm trying to just keep my coffee drinking to Sundays when I work on my projects, and am less likely to get irritated with someone because they don't talk super fast :P
> That kinda sounds plausible, but it's a stretch.

This^^
It boils down to risk v benefits. The under 5s have been relatively very low risk. If a jab can't out do that then there's no room to move forward with that idea. Omincron appears to be even less powerful, less of a threat. Those odds make the current jabs even less likely to be approved.
It's amazing how over-spec'ed (in some categories) for housing plane is: air-tight, heavy thermal and noise insulation, built to withstand winds of hundreds of miles-per-hour. It's a shame we can't build something like the iPhone or Tesla of housing.
While this is starting to get into flame war we don’t want on HN (so I wont comment further on it past this)

The police in “Trump Nation” areas of our country tend to be very kind & permissive of skirting the law to the rest of those who identify with their same political views, and it often goes the same for the Sheriff, and sometimes even further up the chain.

Simply put - I don’t know the entire context, but if one of the reasons they’re harassing this person has to do with the fact he’s of the “wrong” political views, the police aren’t going to do anything to those harassing him.

That is one of the reasons our gun laws are nice, but sometimes when the “wrong side” exercises their right to self defense, the sitting president publicly calls for their execution without trial. [1]

@anon_123g987 if it weren’t literally poison I would be more inclined to agree with you on not using excessive force. But somebody who dumps poison on your property probably doesn’t think very highly of your life, and may over time take more brash measures against you. Also, having somebody work security on your property definitely isn’t a trap, especially in rural areas.

[1]https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/trump-fugitive-shoot...