skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get why these houseplants are popular recommendations, there's a bunch of various talks that reference these as good for helping with air quality. That said, I wonder if it's really good advice to buy exotic indoor plants - there's plenty of native plant salvage[0]/restoration groups that could probably help you find something you can nurse indoors and plant outside later, may help one learn about things native to your area too. These groups usually do a couple sales a year so just get on their mailing lists and be ready to pounce.

[0] example of one group in central WA: https://www.nativeplantsalvage.org/
Nothing exists in a vacuum. Same here, and you could rank these "tribes" by relevance: #3 as thoroughly intertwined with the real world, #2 as useful but mostly disconnected, and #1 as irrelevant for everyone but themselves (and ironically, holding themselves in the highest regard).

This almost reads like stages of individual maturity -- from "only aware of self", through "able to manipulate the outside world to reach goals", to "aware of and collaborating with others for common good".
You could isolate apps via OpenIndiana’s Zones, or perhaps explore FreeBSD jails as well.

Bhyve on both works help you with such isolation, too.
That’s what the government wants you to believe.
30% of Linux fragmentation comes from package managers. 30% of Linux fragmentation comes from the system process. 30% of fragmentation comes from choices concerning default installed packages.

UNIX covers exactly zero of those. If UNIX was worthwhile, we wouldn't have Linux fragmentation or, indeed, an article explaining how to run UNIX scripts on a UNIX-compliant OS (sure as shit ain't a standard if it doesn't actually work).
Negative Capability
A phenomenon like road rage can be explained in a similar way: since the interaction in that situation is brief and unlikely to be repeated, it makes sense on some level for the response for the perceived slight to be disproportionately intense (“condensing” the lifetime of revenge in a single outburst).
3rd party docks are so much smaller and so much better. Makes it so much easier to bring along the dock on a trip so you can connect it to the TV in a hotel room, for example.
> It's clearly related, why delay?

Different regulations are handled by different authorities. Noise is often regulated at a local level.

For example, someone living close to the Niagara Falls may not be bothered by the same drone noise that someone in a remote area without much ambient noise might be.
> After a long intermission working as a sculptor and creating giant food replicas for restaurants

OK I’ve eaten in thousands of restaurants, from McD’s to Michelin-starred places in Paris, and humbly admit I have never seen a giant food replica in any of them.

It would appear I have not been spending my time wisely.
Or if you really want your data to survive, engineer it into a virus for your local species of cockroaches! Getting the data back could be gross, but it'll survive nuclear holocaust. ;)
I'm firmly in the #1 camp but I have plenty of respect for people that can actually get useful things done.
Discover the 10-Second Morning Trigger That Boosts Metabolism
Anyone can point out that autistic, schizophrenic or very old people lack certain inhibitions. But it's downright fascinating to think it may be explained by dulled inhibitory neurons or hypersensitive "regular" ones. That could be an easy fix!
“The threshold should probably be lower than it currently is. I don't think the threshold should ever be 0. We should always allow at least some free transactions.” -Satoshi Nakamoto

The p2p electronic cash system I signed up for in June 2010 is not working “how it is supposed to work”. $7.77 average transaction fee? Why not try raising the block size to even 2MB? That would do nothing to hurt decentralization. And do you really think an asset currently worth $500B needs to incentivize people to keep it working?!

“I would never spend $100/yr to validate/store transactions and keep my Bitcoin investment working unless I can make a profit on that $100/yr on fees!”
The claim is not that Blockstream intended to profit from Lightning. Rather they used the promise of Lightning to throttle Bitcoin, in order to profit from Liquid.
guidelines for HN comments:

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3.""
This should really mention Mailvelope for those that insist on doing webmail. Only does inline PGP but that is the best you can do with a browser plugin.

The guts of Mailvelope actually come from Protonmail (OpenPGP.js).
I wish they allow drone flying in state or federal parks.
A male human who works at Apple and has reproduced at least once.
Mice are very analogous to humans. There’s a reason they’re the most used animal model in experiments.
Perhaps you'd be better off posting from one of your alternate accounts if you want to remain incognito: [redacted]
How about embedding them in a split keyboard in the middle so I don't even need to move my hand off the keyboard? E.g. I can just touch and jump to any part of the open file? Won't be very accurate due to the small size but sometimes I just need to go to a specific section and then I can scroll.
One alternative is pay directly for total access according to the quality of news source. NYTimes, Washington Post etc just automatically get a lot and go downward.

The aggregator is 100% the judge of quality but start with access to the highest quality sources and go downward. So everything is editorially decided except how many actually subscribe but since it's access to the best quality, it would be a desirable thing to subscribe to.
Depends on the rewards program I suppose. A US airline I’m familiar with does not upgrade frequent fliers on international flights.
Show HN: Re:loc – automatically set your slack emoji based on location
Bubble foam insulation is the way to go in deserts. This is where you pump a soap water foam in between gaps of greenhouse plastic. When you want to block light/heat, fill that wall with foam. Drain to allow radiation.

Water can be recuperated with an enthalpy wheel.
>I'd honestly prefer if it were just some crusty old Java monolith where all the objects are stateful, and have setters for every field, and all that good^H^H^H^H stuff. Because, while that kind of statefulness may not be well-isolated, it is navigable.

Am I getting this right? Your issue is a lot of hidden, opaque access to external state, so you think adding even more internal state on top would be a remedy because the stuff you add on top would be navigable?
About map() vs. Map
> Their identical names are just an unfortunate accident of history.

No. Their names are clearly NOT identical.

Arrays have the method "map()" and there also exists the global class "Map".

"Map" !== "map"

The fact that they are similarly named is NOT an unfortunate accident of history because yes they are conceptually related. They both are about "mapping" things to other things. So because they are conceptually related one would assume that their names are somewhat similar as well.

What is unfortunate I think is that JavaScript Object does not have the method "map()" like Array does. Therefore you can not "map() over Maps" (or Objects in general).
I'm motivated because it's a really novel set of things to work on with the tools of technology.

There's a TON of financial gain to be had, and I am incredibly bad at actually harnessing that because I'm too obsessed with silly details rather than user wants/needs. But it's a balance of keeping myself happy/learning and having cash, and I'm OK enough on cash that I do this to keep myself happy and learning.

Adoption is... decent? One of the interesting parts of this is that I will really never know how many people are using it because a lot of people will take the project, implement something, but definitely not post it to somewhere like github. And really, that's fine. There are games using the library on Steam right now, a few commercial systems that use it, and I get lots of reports from independent developers doing different things with it, so that'd good enough for me.
Eh, like most work from modern 'philosophy professors' it reads as nothing more than a better-worded angsty teenager blog. Maybe he hates _his_ job?

All I can tell you is that AI is not going to render everyone jobless anytime soon.
Another win for Democracy. Going to miss this guy in office.
This also works with the Google app.
I'm glad someone else noticed it.

During the height of the first pandemic wave in Canada, I literally couldn't find Bucatini anywhere, specifically De Cecco which IMO is superior to some other brands where I live. I went to dozens of supermarkets and they had every variant of pasta except Bucatini and I really couldn't understand what the heck was going on.
As a person of 6’0” I found the flight from LAX to SYD, and return, miserable in coach. I slept a lot and watched some movies but any way you cut it that is a long time to be sitting in a very uncomfortable seat.
Hadn't thought of that. Amusingly the classic chess algorithms even fail to mate with Q+K v K for reasons I discuss up thread. Eg Sargon 1978 version can't do it. It's basically a terrible idea however you slice it because these mates are a special skill, almost like a different game with different ideas to the rest of chess.
> it suffers from unemployment, decaying infrastructure, and low literacy and educational attainment levels.

Sounds great
Was just about to submit this, I found this from John Carmack's retweet.
I think those could be considered non-bullshit jobs. And, if social necessity were how work were allocated, rather than what makes capitalists the most money, we'd almost certainly see more tree planters and animal rescuers and homeless person assisters.

But, I'm afraid you're wrong about the main concern, if only in my particular case. I see it as "if I don't do something someone will pay sufficient money for me to do, eventually, I will find myself in a financial bind due to insufficient savings and suffer for it."

And, I would much rather work a non-bullshit job. It's just that the realities of capitalism make that a nonviable alternative. Thus, if I want such luxuries as a roof over my head and food in my belly, I'm deprived of my voluntary choice of how to allocate my own labor, in addition to having the fruits of said labor mostly taken away from me.
Great to hear you got something working, and glad I could at least provide some implementations to follow. :D

Yeah, 4-5 toys sounds about right. I've managed to get 6 running simultaneously on one radio (BTLE spec I believe says 2 at most?), but there was massive dropout.
There aren't many examples. Volatility is the best one I'm aware of. However, if you're regularly buying volatility to hedge your stock exposure you're going to lose a lot of money that way.
In the office, we used to joke that our next project would be in the teledildonics space. It's just fun to say. Someone actually did it...
Data storage is already so cheap thanks to HDDs that a poor African country can afford to spy on its population. This will hardly change anything.

If we want to do something about it we have to revolt in the streets.
Another school of thought is that plants aren't generally damaged by casual overwatering, but that many houseplants aren't thriving because of poor-draining soil mixtures or being left with wet feet.

If you fix the poor soil, you don't need to worry as much about overwatering because they aren't suffocating every time they're watered, creating a perched water table in the container.

Peat-heavy mixes also have a nasty habit of going hydrophobic when they dry completely - it can be a difficult problem to fix.

A bonzai grower called Tapla wrote a fantastic series of posts on the Gardenweb forums about the importance of drainage in container soils. I'd encourage anyone interested in this stuff to check them out - they've been instrumental in keeping my indoor trees alive.
Fund People, Not Projects
Cash App Fees
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There was very nearly a 16 bit VR platform for the Sega Genesis:

https://gamehistory.org/segavr/
Seniors want simplicity not complexity. Tricked out software and hardware add overwhelming levels of complication so quickly that anyone over 45 will run from it. Among that population, usable apps must be highly visual and the choices apparent (not hidden) and concrete. Their memorization, learning, and logic abilities are often impaired. Never was Steve Krug's UX mantra more relevant than in the aged, “Don't make me think.”
I came to the comment section looking for the mercenaries like you, knowing I'd find them, because I knew it was by far the largest group and oddly omitted from the article.

> We self-select into communities of our peers based on these ideals. We use coded language to express these ideals to our peers.

But, maybe most of us actually _don't_do this. We all know of the annoying fetishization of "passion" in programming that alienates the majority and it's getting weirder and weirder to keep ignoring it in the real world.

Tribalism be damned, deep down, most of us are doing this because it's a pretty fun way to keep our families fed and our minds occupied.
Yes, but when you read it in context, it's clear that the author is referring to themself:

>It's why I stopped taking pictures and videos of things. I never watched them again. It's all just a lot of waste motion over some dream that someday we'll find value in sitting and looking at this old stuff again.

The author uses "I" over and over again, explaining that they don't see the point, so asking about a different perspective seems genuine to me, or at least there's a plausible interpretation that it is genuine.

From HN guidelines:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Angular Route Guards for Authentication
In your angular web application you might need to restrict access to certain pages for some users, or in other words you might be looking for a method to authenticate in-app navigation from client-side. This is where Angular Route Guards will make your life easy. Angular Route Guard is an interface which can be implemented to decide if a route can be activated.
If UBI became a reality, I’d argue it’s unethical to not let them work for whatever wage they choose to accept.
At the beginning of the article I was thinking surely there are more important things to write about, but it dives down a pretty absurd rabbit hole. Especially funny is when the pasta spokesperson begins commiserating that the reporter is making more work for them.
'They' is the 'magical evil ruling class' that is the bane of every such fantastic ideology.

There really isn't much of a 'they' trying to 'control you'. Frankly, mostly, rich people are more conscientious, and just want to 'make money' for the most part.

The most cynical I think we could be would be to say that 'they' - meaning the business community at large - want you mostly to 'consume stuff'.

But the level of irrational cynicism here is a little disturbing, a see a lot of people who might be depressed and could be reaching out for help.

Notes on the creation of the consumer economy in the US towards the start of 1900's [1]

[1] https://www.ushistory.org/us/46f.asp
This is roughly what I've been telling the HODLers among my friends and acquaintances for years: there is no intrinsic, fundamental reason why BTC has value. It has value because people say it has value. And, if that sounds awfully like the "fiat currency" they tend to heap so much derision on, well, it should.

The USD is nothing more than an "economy token" to show how much one is winning capitalism. Likewise, BTC is some sort of economy token, but I'm not sure what it means. I'm sure the bottom will fall out of BTC far sooner than the USD, and I will welcome that day, because then we can repurpose the electrical power that runs the BTC network toward productive uses, rather than propping up some financialized mirage.
It is a wonderful pasta, but doesn't really surprise me that there could be a shortage as it isn't necessarily a pasta that every grocery store will carry. In my own little community (founded by Italians...), there's only one place that carries it with any regularity anyway.
I was an active Rotarian for a while, but have scaled back my commitments this year.
If you’re looking for a TL;DR:

People are using bucatini as eco-friendly straws, but uncooked pasta isn’t safe so the FDA temporarily blocked it or something.
> plus 2020-assessed property taxes

which is why i think property taxes are a stupid form of taxation. The property's income should be what's taxed - not the "value" of the property. And that income should be taxed at the marginal tax rate of the owner.
What do you mean by "none of that"? troupe mentioned a lot of things, including ways to educate yourself and ways to get a diploma. Those seem relevant to me in areas besides just software development.
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At the point where the value of human labor drops so low that humans become viable over machines again, why even bother with money at all? You'd be looking at essentially a post-scarcity world, although subject to the finite resources of the Earth and the amount of energy it gets from the Sun.
If the break-even point is a couple months, I don't even consider renting unless it's a really short term thing. Different strokes.
And (some) HN commenters only like to combine issues when it suits them :-)
I think the introduction can benefit from breaking up the instructions into bite-size/progressively-difficult sections with optionally videos demonstrating them.
Coinbase Will Halt XRP Trading
VISA says they do 150M transactions per day. I’m not sure how many are US, but let’s say half. Avg BTC transaction is 250 bytes, so you’d need about 10GB a day (about 70MB) blocks to do what you propose.

A 3TB drive is $39 on Amazon right now. So maybe 13c a day in storage costs to run half of visa’s US transactions.

Not raising Bitcoin’s block size has got to be THE most insane technical decision in modern history.
sounds like apple news+
here's a free version https://scihubtw.tw/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-0...

Looks like another paper on how everything in the brain can be tied to RNN or GPT2 or some other trendy ML model. 'Cure cancer with deep learning' style.

Before something like RNN can be used in a model of biological memory it has to respect the constraints of biological memory. Taking an arbitrary model and twisting the arm of data to fit it makes for some hard sale.

Claiming the findings somehow elucidate memory impairments in schizophrenia and autism (which are not even close to being understood), makes it even more look like bad science.
> Dump the current on a giant resistor and hope it doesn't melt?

That's called an induction brake and it's already widely used in trains and semi trucks. That said, you still need a friction brake at low speeds, since the induction braking force is proportional to velocity.
What are you comparing tapes with? There's not any home archive tech in the first place.
For those of you in industries like software: it’s very easy to stop working. At $1m saved, you can comfortably withdraw 3%/year forever. $30,000/year stipend on top of whatever passion thing makes you money is more than enough to live a modest life almost anywhere in the world. You won’t be eating at Michelin star places and you won’t have a palace, but you can comfortably live a decent quiet life in an out of the way place with a tiny rental, home cooked food, and maybe a cat. Want to be a tour guide in Iceland? All the other tour guides are surviving without that $30k stipend. Want to plant trees and sell homemade pots on Etsy? Same deal.

If you save to $2m, then that’s $60,000/year, already you are beating the median American family. This is the point where, for me, I had to make peace with the fact that I wasn’t working like a dog to survive. I was doing it to have more stuff.

If you graduate college at 22 making $200k/year and never get a raise; $1m by 30 should be no sweat.

So now that we’ve disposed of engineers, finance folks, and a few other white collar disciplines, what about everybody else? It seems clear that the big problem facing us on an economic perspective is that most people are economically extremely low value. Somehow, before all people are economically extremely low value, we have to figure out how to get to the Star Trek future. That, I have no idea how to do.
A different problem happened to me when digitizing my dad's tapes. Dad bought the player in USA and brought it to Turkey and made the recordings there. When I digitized them in USA, everything sounded in higher pitch. It later turned out that the voltage difference in AC (60hz/50hz) caused the rotation speed to change proportionally, so I slowed it down to 5/6, and it was perfect afterwards.
Packaged 'apps' to run in the cloud.

Rather than everyone selling a SaaS which they're just hosting on AWS anyway, they should just have a one-click install of an instance to my personal AWS. There's really no reason it should be any harder than installing an app to my phone or computer.

I've seen one or two "launch on AWS" buttons about, and they have a marketplace, but clearly these aren't widely adopted or useable.

I think this would open up some interesting opportunities for non-technical individuals and small businesses. Plus then you know you own your data.
As long as you guide them doing so and help them out if they get stuck - which is your job as a tutor. No one is helped if the gaps make it impossible for students to understand the concepts.
Happening in my city right now... They're installing a light rail up one of the streets, so first year of the project is naturally moving all the telephone and fiber from buried under the middle of the street to buried under the side of the street.
The straws theory is mentioned, yes, but the article specifically details how the FDA action was based on the measured iron content of De Cecco's pasta, and it also discusses reasons for scarcity of other manufacturers' bucatini.
Also, they apparently love being root-bound. No need to keep repotting them to larger and larger vessels. They are essentially the tailor-made plant for every black thumb...