skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microhabitats discovered in methane hydrate (“flammable ice”) in Sea of Japan
I have yet to see a merchant not accept Visa and accept Mastercard. I'm betting all the networks will increase their fees to raise revenue.
SeaWorld Ends Dolphin 'Surfing' and Related Stunts During Its Shows
Show HN: Curated Resources List for Digital Nomads, Remote Workers and Travelers
I simply love puzzle games, and this one looks very interesting. I may try it sometime, it looks very good on steam. I hope it succeeds!
Ask HN: Latest on “Film Restoration and Enhancement with AI”
Does anyone know of any derivative software created using the techniques showcased in this video:

https://developer.nvidia.com/siggraph/2019/video/sig964

There is a mention of an app that restores photos but I am looking for something that can run on a desktop and do something like take an 8mm motion film scan and improve its quality.
You could do dual socket on Socket370, don’t know about quads though
Yahoo Boy Who Scammed American $5k Lands in Serious Trouble
Schwab's currency exchange fee (via withdrawal at non-US ATMs in local currency) has basically been the spot rate in my experience, for a decade or more that I've been using it. And there's no other fees so it's basically free forex (for small amounts I presume, they're not going to let you do that for $1M I bet).
No more magic than anything else fundamental. I don’t know whether consciousness is fundamental, but magical has nothing to do with being fundamental, unless existence itself is magical.
Leif J. Hauge

https://www.powershow.com/download/3b604b-ZGQwN/Pressure_Exc...

Read the history, including how the then-current prototype (out of series of improved versions developed over the 12 years it took to get to a market ready design) and all the inventor's personal belongings were lost in the invasion of Kuwait.
some links that might be helpful.

Router Security Checklist (contains a lot of links/references): https://routersecurity.org/checklist.php

RouterSploit - Exploitation Framework for Embedded Devices https://github.com/threat9/routersploit

you may or may not want to look at recent research papers of SDN, Data/Control/-Plane security.
I'm available right after fourth down.
I'm curious why one would care in the first place.

But to answer your question- in my family we find vinyl a fun way of discovering artists and songs we would never be served by either a DJ on the radio or some algorithm used by a service.
Black coal is basically dead while brown coal might survive economically without carbon pricing.
Agree with the sentiment.

1inch is sort of focal I figure. Kind of like so many people choosing random states to be 42
This makes some sense: to maximize the illusion, both leading and tailing edges of the bus should be going through the light and dark strips at the same time.
The progress report linked to Dragon Quest X (https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Dragon_Quest_X:...) and I'm impressed to find an aspect of the Wii library I didn't know existed: a game that expects to be installed to a USB drive to be played.

I honestly thought every game would just be playable directly from a disc, but I guess this one was too large for a single disc.
Don't forget that some "obscure" music is marginally cheaper/easier to obtain on vinyl. For example space age pop, which is one of things in the sweet spot for collecting (for pleasure, not for money): used to be popular and mass-manufactured, now almost no one cares, so the market has a lot of this relatively cheap. Living in the former communist country, I regret not having easy access to heaps of Western vinyls in Goodwills and such, but at least seller awareness is not that high.

Also, records are psychologically so much nicer to own. They are large and so is the artwork. Pretentious/ridiculous liner notes are great. Having them set up to sound on par with digital (I don't claim to have means or ear to achieve true "audiophile" sound) is a PITA and requires some money or hustling/tinkering (that's me). You have gear maintenance, cleaning etc. But it's a little hobby in itself.

There is also interesting things about the vinyl itself you start to notice. Up to about 1960s the material was thicker, and then starts the progression toward the "floppy" vinyl from 1980s (although some state publishers in my country used the old style even then, great production quality also). Nowadays vinyl is thick and heavy again and probably better produced than ever. But it also became a semi-luxury product so it's almost never worth it, at least for me. I have some new records that they messed up in manufacturing but I'm sure it also happened back in the day.
What a strange article.

Especially the example at the end, I find it unrealistically ambitious to think that the process of customers placing orders at factories will just be automated on a blockchain with smart contracts. There is a lot of human communication involved in setting up manufacturing contracts, there’s no way this scenario is realistic.

The author is mixing up blockchain with factory automation, it seems like. The connection is weak.

And I don’t think banks are squeezed by processing power. Banks don’t need a blockchain. Their source of truth are...the banks. Banking is basically just a CRUD app.

For cryptocurrency, the blockchain basically just solved banking without banks. But when you have a bank you don’t need a blockchain because you have a bank.
Ironically, last year Microsoft pushed out a broken patch that caused search to stop working unless you set the "BingSearchEnabled" key to 1.
Magic has nothing to do with it. P-zombies are a philosophical thought experiment against physicalism. The point of the argument is to demonstrate that a purely physical description leaves out conscious experience. Nagel made the same point regarding bat sonar consciousness and science’s view from nowhere.
Kroger did that very thing last year it was messy.
A Fintech banking startup in Switzerland (Neon) recently did the same. They also removed the surcharge on the exchange rate and now give the official MasterCard exchange rate.
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For me there are two aspects. First is directly related to your question, which is that vinyl has stricter limitations on the mastering[1] compared to digital. Some might prefer the sound that results from these limitations, at least when well done.

But for me it's mostly about the ceremony around playing a record. You have to actively participate, preparing the player, and you sit down and listen to the record in linear order. No fast skipping. So when I listen to vinyl it's about relaxing and enjoying the music for what it is.

[1]: https://www.gottagrooverecords.com/vinyl-mastering/
I don’t know if I had this bug. Search on my desktop wasn’t working yesterday, but it almost never works right, so I /barely noticed anything was unusual/.

Good job, Microsoft.
Entrepreneurship is a spectrum so why did we forget to support its social side?
Black Workers’ Wages Are Finally Rising
NIST also operates WWV which broadcasts the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWV_(radio_station)

https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/radio-s...

When I was a kid my dad had built a Heathkit multiband radio receiver[1] and we used that station to set our clocks at home.

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vintage_Heathkit_16-...
Revolut have free transfers between two users: https://www.revolut.com/legal/fees
Still better than face-stopping some truck.
Thanks for mentioning the elephant in the room.

Is there a reason the Linux folks don't do something about this? If I were them I wouldn't be happy seeing my licensing terms treated like a joke.
Here's an interesting paper:
https://www.brookings.edu/research/a-dozen-facts-about-immig...

> Immigrants are 4 times more likely than children of native-born parents to have less than a high school degree, but are almost twice as likely to have a doctorate.

> Immigrants are much more likely than others to work in construction or service occupations, but children of immigrants work in roughly the same occupations as the children of natives.
> I have yet to see a merchant not accept Visa and accept Mastercard

Costco in Canada.
You should be able to swap the wifi card for something with better drivers. Not being a BSD user, I couldn't give a recommendation.
I really enjoy these, but they're really for an entry level audience. See, e.g., how to do a select query in SQL. Good to know, for sure, and helpful if you're unfamiliar with SQL, but definitely really basic. Love the drawings though, and I could see if I were just getting into being an SWE or aspired to be one, they could be a good starting point.
Welcome to the era of supercharged lithium-ion batteries
Of course. The intention was to provide information so that they could improve their copy, not to preen.
Debt is dumb. The childish glee coming from this author should be ignored. 2008 is coming again soon and debt holders will suffer. Please get/keep your financial house in order. Business debt is just as dangerous as personal debt.
The Tesla and the manual have something else in common; braking as soon as you let off the gas (at least if you configure 1 foot driving and downshift driving)
Raymond Hettinger does or did a few talks on dictionaries too. He covers the history of dictionaries in python and how they evolved. It was mentioned in the article's comment section.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33CVV29OG8
Coronavirus: Five Brits in French ski chalet catch virus
My Netflix watching is all via an AppleTV, but thank you anyway.
How does procedural generation work? – Bitwise
There’s lots of people who aren’t going to hospitals and aren’t tracked. If it’s really a 30% fatality rate, we’re going to lose a billion people to this before it over.
And that’s why solipsism is not entirely defeasible. You can’t be certain other people are conscious. But it’s reasonable to think they are. It gets harder with other animals, and even worse with machines. See Ned Block’s paper on The Harder Problem and Commander Data.
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This seems like phenomenally bad logic.

We shouldn't work to eradicate a worldwide pest that causes hundreds of thousands (millions?) of annual deaths because it might encourage more logging?

The solution to every big problem humanity faces will inevitably create other smaller problems for us to solve. Two steps forward...
The traditional bricks are difficult to stack and vertically to connect at the same time. Stone, two plates, Stone and then the holes on the vertical axis fit again. The modern beams are 1x1x1. Much better structure for model building.
I think a lot of millennials who formed their music taste in the age of Napster, LimeWire, Torrents and Spotify seem to think the internet has everything (given the illusion of limitless choice).

This is of course not the case and there's so much music that's only realistically available on vinyl.
> Nice post.

Thank you.

> The graph of the sphere, the cone and the cylinder probably needs a 3D version just before it, so it's clear that they are 3D objects.

Sadly, my skills aren't up to that, and I don't currently have time to acquire them 8-(

> Request for someone with a lot of Blender capabilities: Make a 3D version of the graph, where the back half of the objects are opaque and the front half are transparent.

That would be cool.

> ... bonus points for another version where the top third of the objects is transparent and the bottom two thirds are opaque.

Even cooler.

Sadly, the post is sinking without trace, so I doubt anyone will see the request.
I used to work in the same building as Lycos, which is how I learned about their (now defunct) zombie-themed weather app, WeatherZombie [1].

The forecast sometimes called for "Rrrrraiiiiiiinnnnnnsssss"

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20140703054940/http://www.weathe...
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A Summary of Heathkit Shortwave Radios
bi -> Random file

bit -> Bitlocker

bitt -> qBittorrent (yay!)

bitto to bittorent -> web search
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The point of the exercise was to prove that something non-human can be conscious at all. So if it "shares the same consciousness" that's great. If not, still good enough.
There is no evidence either for or against, because evidence is objective, while consciousness is subjective. Instead there are arguments for and against, depending on what people think the nature of subjectivity is, and therefore whether a machine could be conscious.
This is a great idea.

Cloudflare, FAANG, etc are a position to seriously mess with mobile services and website traffic to all of East Texas. They're free drop service for any legal jurisdiction they want, right?

The "regulatory environment" there might not withstand the public pressure of those services getting denied. Ie, if its citizens felt serious pain of companies refusing to do business there, maybe they'd drop the rules aiding the trolls.
Ask HN: Resources on Computer Instructions Optimization?
I recently learnt that a CPU optimizes instructions by doing things like predicting the results of conditionals. Where can I read more about this kind of stuff? I know basic computer architecture things like transistors, assembly code, compilers etc but I am more interested in this kind of specific problems and ways people improve computers.
>There's no suggestion in the article you referenced that attempting to eliminate mosquitos had anything to do with the famine.

Not directly, but assuming that what humans regard as pests don't have a function in the ecosystem, so I'd say his point is valid. Mess with the ecosystem in an extreme way and you might suffer dire consequences.
Sorry. Copied wrong numbers.

In europe 1.1%.

>Whatever is taken as estimation of the American pandemic death burden, it is well below the European estimations we provide and others have provided. A possible explanation is that, at the end of WW1, Europe was characterised by massive civilian and army movements, a health care system put at its minimum and frail populations. This has very likely heavily impacted the European death toll.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634693/
My search stopped working months ago, typing anything blanked out whole the Start menu. I figured Windows was punishing me for turning Cortana off in the settings. At some point in the last few weeks a Windows update fixed my search. I agree with a lot of posters- I won't use Windows search. It doesn't do what I want or need, and does not function how I expect.

I had never heard of Everything but just downloaded it and tried it. It is fast! I typed in YYYY-MM-DD for a few different dates. I have never used OneDrive, do not want to use OneDrive and wish I could uninstall OneDrive. OneDrive creates ~10 new files every day.

The broken (now fixed but still stupid) search is just a symptom of a bloated quantity-over-quality, walled-garden, rented-not-owned, OSaaS.
I agree! Specially after I installed a different desktop environment (Plasma KDE, which is beautiful) as Ubuntu's default was really poor in my opinion! Now, I honestly don't know if I prefer my Mac (used mostly for work) or my Dell :) which is great!
In the 80s we called POPCORN (767-2676) to get the current time.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/remem...
I'll try. I'm a recent convert.

1. I spend so much time with computers and virtual things, that there's something about the physicality of the thing that's incredibly refreshing.

This is the same reason people like fountain pens and watches. Do you need a watch when you always have your phone on you? Not really, but watches are cool.

2. Sound, which is tricky because it doesn't sound better. Vinyl has different strengths than digital music. When its done well, the artists will master the music to play to those strengths. There are albums I have both mp3 and vinyl versions of that are distinctly different versions of the same idea.
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Whoa, calm your horses angry boy.
So basically, it sounds more like real poverty threshold. Here in Cyprus, it must logically be near that of Italy because per capita GDP, climate and culture are similar, so round $180K, and PPP correction factor is about 0.65, so like $120K a year... really, pre-tax, ugh... is that rich?

I can't see how someone making $120K pre-tax here can buy a good new car (well, simplest sure, but not what's considered good here - starting from BMW 5-series) or their own place, apart from cheap, cold, moldy apartments.

Essentially it's the level where one stops worrying about grocery prices or stops picking economy class tickets based on price, starting to consider convenient times etc. Are people really that poor? Only people i know who make that much or less, are employees, and they live hand to mouth, unable to afford heating their crappy rental places in the winter, and driving 15-year old, clapped out cars.

This place is full of apartment blocks where a single bedroom is $1M+. I really don't trust these metrics, $120K must be just above median for a household and maybe at top 20-25% for a single earner, and top 1% should be at least $500K, that is what should give you "able to buy a good new car and own apartment which is not a shame to invite people to" living standard.

I think i know one person who makes more than half of her income officially. Even not sure about her. I guess it's that - people just make vast majority of their earnings under the table. Official salary? sure, it's in line with this data, some like 1700 EUR a month median. Show me a person who actually lives on it.

And "sharks of capitalism" that people can blame for their problems - who are able to bend the rules in their favors by bribes and connections, and otherwise "oppress" someone - do exist, i know a couple of them... but they don't make on that laughable "rich" level. They make millions of euros. Per month.
Debt is a very useful tool for raising capital. It is a way to raise money without selling ownership, and is often the wiser choice. It all depends on the situation. Blanket statements disparaging (or encouraging) debt without regards to the situation are dumb.
Debt is one of the financial tools at your disposal. Properly used, it's extremely powerful.
‘We have a problem’: EU tech regulator despairs over lack of GDPR enforcement
As someone who was regularly frustrated with the problems you describe, it seems that recently (I think with the 1903 upgrade, but not sure) things have gotten a lot better and I finally feel the start menu is listening to me again.
Ok, lets build the modular nuclear reactor designs your international factory is churning out. Surely there must be at least one country on this planet that is doing so? It can't be that every country including china is abandoning nuclear without considering such an obvious design.
This is a pet peeve of mine, releases that happen only on vinyl (and, with a moment of perversity, cassette). Yes, let's use a medium that degrades with each use.

I have resorted to, for those situations where I cannot plead the masters out of the sound engineers, buying the still sealed, unplayed record where available so that it can be converted to digital while it is still pristine.
That's what I always say, if you want to be eco and you want to drive electric, by an electric bike.

They have tiny batteries compared to electric cars and thus an almost negligible impact in comparison, enough range for 90% of your commuting needs, can keep you moderately fit, and you still have enough money left to drive your ICE for longer stretches.
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NIST also provides "Automated Computer Time Service" [1] where you can call by modem to get an ASCII time code. It supports baud rates between 9600 and 300.

And the best part? It gets 2,000 calls a day.

[1] https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/service...
What if we just build another nuclear plant instead? Lets just go China or South Korea to build one for us. Or even better plan on some next Gen designs that are gone be coming out in the next 10ish years.
Not all of us are so lucky, one of my first websites was hosted by the little known bamboohost.com. Pretty sure it was http://linkinpark.bamboohost.com, but not even web archive can help me recover it.
Aside from the other conclusions and assertions in this long article, this particular bit resonates with me:

"Here is a widely believed cause-and-effect relationship I bet you’ve never thought to invert before: because most startups fail, therefore equity is the best way to finance them. Have you ever considered: because equity is how we finance startups, therefore most startups fail?"

At the very least, this lines up perfectly with my startup experiences and many other case studies I've seen - investors simply are not willing to accept reasonable growth or reasonable returns, they want massive scaling and massive growth. Sometimes that approach works out but very often you get expensive bets that never deliver on the level they need to and the startup flames out or ends up stuck constantly trying to clean up the mess left by the last big bet while trying to execute on a new one. A revolving door of new executives and new business strategies.
This reminds me of a great passage in Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine; I remember
reading it 50 years ago! It captured the feelings I had about getting a new pair of shoes,
the main character is musing over how to explain to his dad why he needs new shoes:

> Somehow the people who made tennis shoes knew what boys needed and wanted.
They put marshmallows and coiled springs in the soles and they wove the rest out of
grasses bleached and fired in the wilderness. Somewhere deep in the soft loam of the
shoes the thin hard sinews of the buck deer were hidden. The people that made the
shoes must have watched a lot of winds blow the trees and a lot of rivers going down to
the lakes. Whatever it was, it was in the shoes, and it was summer.

> Douglas tried to get all this in words.

> "Yes," said Father, "but what's wrong with last year's sneakers? Why can't you dig
them out of the closet?"

> Well, he felt sorry for boys who lived in California where they wore tennis shoes all
year and never knew what it was to get winter off your feet, peel off the iron leather
shoes all full of snow and rain and run barefoot for a day and then lace on the first new
tennis shoes of the season, which was better than barefoot. The magic was always in the
new pair of shoes. The magic might die by the first of September, but now in late June
there was still plenty of magic, and shoes like these could jump you over trees and rivers
and houses. And if you wanted, they could jump you over fences and sidewalks and
dogs.

> "Don't you see?" said Douglas. "I just can't use last year's pair."

> For last year's pair were dead inside. They had been fine when he started them out,
last year. But by the end of summer, every year, you always found out, you always
knew, you couldn't really jump over rivers and trees and houses in them, and they were
dead. But this was a new year, and he felt that this time, with this new pair of shoes, he
could do anything, anything at all.

So, yes, I want the new shoes.
On that note, I just used a pump with EMV for the first time, (US, in Delaware) which didn't ask for zip. I guess they're just starting to get deployed.
Tagging files on Windows is a horrible experience though, sadly.
That sounds like it would be a great way to eliminate the EGR system on vehicles as well if there was a way to vary the relative speed of the rotor to the crankshaft.
When you say, "Debt is dumb" are you speaking in hyperbole? There are lots of examples where debt is not dumb and is in fact the prudent thing to do. If you aren't speaking in hyperbole you are wrong and if you are I suggest that in this case you shouldn't.

Your overall point appears to be that a repeat of 2008 is immanent and this point can be better made without the "Debt is dumb" first sentence.
>Debt is dumb.

This attitude is dumb.
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