skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This blog reminds me of something John Carmack calls architecture astronauts. It talks about "glue" / connectors integrated with a programming language, which at a high level, sounds really nice. But I am skeptical of how well one could implement it in practice. Interoperating is far from standardized and I definitely want concrete examples illustrating what "Architecture Oriented" is in code and not theory. I hope there is a part two for this.
Running a Hidden Markov Model against shotgun metagenomic datasets != culturing microorganisms that can "do the thing".

Link to actual journal article: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.02155-21
I think refusing a 5% speedup to ensure that the format will not change fits really well with the goals of the project.
I was mostly joking about the envy of lower codes. DTMF had long replaced pulse dialing when the 909 NPA was created. Still supported, but even my grandparents had touch-tone phones.
> It wouldn't just be 'non profit', it would be 'considerable loss'. You can't provide a service like YouTube or Google without incurring enormous expense, even if you're only counting the infrastructure costs.

I'm not a bit worried we'd go without capable search engines, without ads. Very likely there'd be donation-supported ones that are at least as good, and maybe better for some purposes (IMO Google's utility peaked around '08).

The free side of Youtube is a UX problem to be solved by something like torrent clients (maybe plus some RSS). Or probably a dozen other ways. It's far from insurmountable, there's just no motivation to fix that now (because there's no demand for it). That's the story for most of the services that could be replaced by [two or three existing protocols] + [some not-exactly-rocket-science UX effort]. The commercial side of it is solved by... hosting videos. Yourself, or paying a service to do it for you (these services already exist, despite YouTube's dominance, all the way from simple video-hosting to full white-label video streaming services).

> Anything that's used by someone is valuable to someone. I don't like paella, but I don't propose to eradicate all paella restaurants for that reason. Again, this feels like a hand-wavey and not very wise answer to dismiss problems with your idea.

It's plain that a huge percentage of online content could be replaced with Snake Game on an old Nokia with ~0 loss of enjoyment for the consumer. A perfect replacement for them is a book of Sudoku puzzles. People look at the stuff but the value is extremely close to zero, in that nearly any other time-wasting activity is just as good. And that's after dismissing the ~75% of the Web that's spammy garbage of negative value (because it drowns out better material covering the same thing).

> You may have your own wishes and preferences, but it's not a good idea to let those invade the rational, evaluative part of your mind.

Beats accepting the wishes and preferences that created the bad situation that exists now, right? Why should that be privileged over what I'd prefer? Has zip to do with a lack of rationality on my part, though it's easier to dismiss ideas if one first paints them as irrational.

We can have useful, widely-used open protocols or we can have spying (ads may or may not also be on the table, but take away the spying and there goes much of the advantage of the huge tech companies, anyway). The two very clearly cannot co-exist. I'd prefer the former.
1. I don't know, maybe just don't be a piece of shit company.

2. JetBrains charges me $12 a month ($149 annually) for its entire suite of software. You think this tool by itself is worth $120 a year? For a personal license?

3. Developer's problem, not mine.

4. This is not an issue everywhere. You work with penny-pinching mongoloids.

5. This is not an issue everywhere. You work with penny-pinching mongoloids.
I get it. Our lawyers have been clear to us on this topic, but I understand lawyers don’t all have the same advice. This advice has worked for us and we all have to sign a document every year that we don’t text clients.

That being said, the rule is way behind the technology. Most people use texting in place of talking, which has different requirements (sometimes very different requirements).
Kinda similar is "scaling restriction" - how true it is that "you have the right to do X" means that "you have the right to do X, repeatedly, at scale, and/or automated". There are a whole lotta things (from groundwater extraction to burning fallen leaves to sending e-mails) that are pretty harmless on a small scale, but...
And…… deployment was easy. There is video on youtube teaching how to deploy a simple django crud app. Video length is 45 minutes. We are going backward.
the sales tax thing is a bit silly!

for the rest, the only alternative I see would be for the government to get ouf of it completely and say it's up to each seller/distributor to handle their own bottles, but I guess this would require more complicated logistics?

I'm pretty sure that's what happens for glass bottles in Germany, I remember bringing back plastic crates of bottles to the brewery, and buying beer in big sturdy 50cl bottles that had obviously been refilled dozens of times already
He's got a point.

$50-3000 / week tells you nothing.

They should tell you the avg $ per hour.
Love the nostalgia in this thread!

Does "remastered" mean the channels were rebalanced? I remember poking around the demoscene archives a few years back, and a lot of the golden oldies have that distinct instrument-per-channel thing going on. Especially pronounced with headphones.
Funny, I call it "architecture without the astronautics", because you get to express architecture in a very simple and straightforward manner.

http://objective.st/

Sample scripts:

https://github.com/mpw/Objective-Smalltalk/tree/master/scrip...
I have never seen a monitor that turns off with a black screen (aside from dynamic contrast mode). What happens when the screen needs to turn back on? Does it freeze for 1-3 seconds?

> What's dynamic contrast?

Shutting certain backlights to raise the contrast between the dark side of the screen and the lit side. It has various undesireable side effects such as the darkening and lightening giant areas unexpectedly. They often try to make the transition gradual which just makes the screen even less real-time.
I'm not sure your first sentence really hits the mark. Not paying attention in class isn't really "having fun" :P
Look into the book "Complex Ptsd: From Surviving to Thriving" by Pete Walker. I reckon you have a background that wasn't kind to you. I would also add limit media consumption (tv, radio, newspapers, social media, etc). Gotta find the root of why you react the way you do. When a negative thought enters your mind, stop it immediately and ask yourself where it is coming from? Is it your thought or from someone else, perhaps someone or something negative in the past? Good luck, fren.
Nice. I'm glad something worked out. Honestly I did not expect the happy ending here. It sounded like the biggest issue each time was giving up way too early. It's easy to say that though and much harder to continue to grind at your own project/start up when it's been 6 months to a year without any real traction.
My greatest success so far was a product that earned enough to cover its own hosting fees but not much beyond that :)
From a US perspective, braining other countries' brains is good. I understand the term is negative, but I didn't mean it that way.

We don't need to ask how the US stacks up against the rest of the world -- only our economic peers. Compared to many Western European countries and Canada, we are not investing our excess resources as well into social safety.

I'm not a socialist and don't support UBS, but the floor of poverty in the US needs to be much higher (for all our sakes).
That's my personal nightmare. There's way too much stuff still connected to my Gmail account.
> According to the voting market

There is no such thing as a "voting market". At the least, where is the skin-in-the-game? or itemised quid-pro-quo?

> if they were simple to understand

The rules of pool are simple to understand, that doesn't mean the game is easy to master.

Trading is a matter of predicting the market - that is not what is being described here; is is not being predicted that women pay less for sex, it is known from the market already.
I am very proud of you, of what've you've accomplished, and happy to see that your latest venture is getting some growth. There's nothing more powerful in this world than someone who is determined to do something. Slow and steady wins the race!

Also glad to see many others sharing similar stories about not giving up. Since we are on a christmas mood already, big hug to all of you.

Regarding me, I've been making and breaking stuff for about 15 years with moderate success. On 2017, I went to KAUST (flagship uni at Saudi Arabia) as it was offered to me as a place that was looking for talented people, to help them develop and thrive. I drank the kool-aid and gave it a try. It wasn't that great but not bad either, I was enjoying what I was doing so I decided to stay. Time goes by and on 2020, my daughter gets kidnapped by some of the staff there, after I refused to let my wife work for some guys who were doing some pretty questionable stuff. With (not so much) help from my embassy I was able to leave the country and put myself and my family safe again. Almost 4 years of work down the drain plus the psychological damage inflicted to us. That event truly, 100%, burned me out.

But, ..., came back right before the pandemic started, and that turned out to be a blessing for me. The world stopped so I didn't have much to do anyway. I spent time on me, doing things I enjoy, connecting with old friends, taking care of my parents, resting, etc. Earlier this year, the urge to make stuff came back and I launched a climate-related startup that is doing quite well. I have people who work with me (that's a first!) and they keep me moving, focused and motivated. We are about to start working with a HUGE client next January and that is making us feel quite excited. Highly recommend this to everybody, it's common for hackers to tend to "solve everything by themselves", but try to get more people involved, whether they're associates, coworkers, mentors, you-name-it, there's people out there that can make your journey much more enjoyable.

And, as other's have said, don't give up on your dreams, no matter what. If you have to start over, then start over, it won't matter, you will make it in the end!
A bit of context: Microsoft developed PhotoDNA to identify illegal images like CSAM -- NCMEC maintains a database of PhotoDNA signatures, and many companies use this service to identify and remove these images.

Microsoft claims:

> A PhotoDNA hash is not reversible, and therefore cannot be used to recreate an image.

This project shows that this isn't quite true: machine learning can do a pretty good job of reproducing a thumbnail-quality images from a PhotoDNA signature.

There has been some discussion in the past on HN about PhotoDNA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28378254. It has been claimed that PhotoDNA is reversible, but there was no public demonstration as far as I know.
> it probably isn’t written very well.

If it's written "very well" then what's the point of a pull request code review? /headscratch
> Biodegradable or not means much less than it sounds like

Long-term stability of plastics means that the problems from microplastics today could still be problems in a million years. It's worse than nuclear waste in that regard: at least the hottest isotopes degrade quickly and the less hot still halve on a predictable schedule. Currently, for a lot of plastics, all you've got removing them from circultion are UV degradation and weathering processes, along with processes burying them in sediments for unknown periods.

But the microbial environment could at least confine this to be a very bad problem for our time, instead of forever.
> Let me rephrase: believing that governments can be effective on a global scale while keeping individual freedoms is the leftist version of Intelligent Design Theory of Evolution.

Again, no, it's not.

Global scale, one-size-fits-all government is the right-to-center-right, neoconservative/neoliberal colonial capitalist project.

The far left these days (Leninism having lost ground with the fall of the Soviet Union and it's sponsorship or allied groups abroad) is dominated by anarchist and libertarian socialist groups; and left-to-center-left groups are often milder versions of the same or differ from the center-right in the priorities of government, not its scale or scope. The far right may favor slightly smaller scale (large nation rather than global) government coordination, but tends to favor fairly intrusive scope of government and doesn't tend toward localism.

Equating maximum support for scale and scope of government with the Left may have made some sense when Leninism (and, despite “Socialism in one State”, it's Stalinist descendant, given observed Cold War behavior) were the most visibly dominant, notionally Left philosophies (though it still required ignoring the integrated colonial globalist nature of global capitalist ideology), but it's just plain looney-tunes today.
That is only going to happen for most people if the economics of car rentals are VEEEEEERRY reasonable. I am not willing to wait 10 minutes for an available vehicle every time I need to go somewhere. People who are dreaming of a day of full automation need to take this into account, because while I don't know how long the average trip by car is, I suspect that it's somewhere in the 15-20 minute range, which is impossible to match even with a fully autonomous driving scheme that can ignore things like stop lights and stop signs.
Up to a point, but a lot of it is already broken down into microparticles and distributed across the surface of the earth. I mean, _all_ of the surface of the Earth - from deep sea bed (1) to beaches (2) to mountains (3) to the Arctic (4).

We're decades late with what you're suggesting. The "long-term investment" did not happen. There is no conceivable way to collect it all up now, and it's in the fossil record for the long term.

1) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/30/micropla...

2) https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/april/over-four-bil...

3) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/20/micropla...

4) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/remote-ar...
you gotta be
httptoolkit is best software in market that works so easily and can bypass certs pinning.

Here are steps:
Download frida script from httptoolkit server and binary from frida github repo and download httptoolkit app in andriod. Here are my notes.

```
# Copy the server to the device
adb push ./frida-server-$version-android-$arch /data/local/tmp/frida-server
# ^Change this to match the name of the binary you just extracted

# Enable root access to the device
adb root

# Make the server binary executable
adb shell "chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/frida-server"

# Start the server on your device
adb shell "/data/local/tmp/frida-server &"

pip3 install frida-tools
frida-ps -U
frida --no-pause -U -l ./frida.js -f com.appname

# derived from https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/frida-certificate-pinning/
```
angular/asp.net
I know angular isn't popular these days but I am still convinced it is superior in every way to react.
two books on 2021
Having worked with both ActiveRecord and Ecto, Ecto is consistently easier to reason about and change than AR. It feels closer to the DB without compromising composability, and better avoids surprises. Ecto is IMO one of the killer features of the Elixir ecosystem that is undercelebrated compared to the neat things that are rarely used.
If you have python here is a 1liner:

python3 -m http.server

The home networking / dynamic IP stuff will probably not go away until ipv6 becomes more commonplace, but honestly that is for the better. Ask any business whose upnp-enabled receipt printer started outputting antiwork propaganda the past few weeks how it is going.
I'm just an old guy who's done way too much reading, I'm definitely not an expert on any type of warfare.

Before the advent of the proximity fuze, it was estimated to take upwards of 10,000 rounds of ammunition to kill an enemy airplane, because you had to time the fuze to go off at the right moment. After the proximity fuze, this dropped to about 10 rounds. Anti-aircraft became 1000 times more effective because of this change.

As far as I can tell, CWIS uses tungsten penetrators to kinetically kill a target. This means you have to actually strike the target, which is harder than being near it with a timed round, which is again harder than being near it with a proximity fuze.

So, it seems to me that taking advantage of the innovation that made anti-aircraft artillery 1000x more effective, would be a good strategy against drones. Given how small electronics have become since the transistor and IC, it should be quite feasible to put together a 20mm shell with a proximity fuze that can take the place of a normal round, but be far more effective.

Perhaps this is something already in development, or even deployment, I don't know.

My background is in programming, electronics, and lately I've made gears. I've been sick with long covid, so I've got lots of time to lurk here on HN.
I can't tell if this is meant in jest....
I wonder if they came up with some of the plan to backfit the political considerations. NJ getting 201 and DC getting 202 fits with the numbering scheme, in that codes assigned to entire states (or district as is the case with DC) had a middle "0", whereas states with more than one code got numbers with a middle "1".

Was New Jersey the most populous state to only receive one code?

> Only very rarely are area codes tinkered with in this manner. The only other one I can think of is 321 for the area around Cape Canaveral.

That's awesome. It would have been a crime to pass that opportunity up.
Plot twist: so are humans
There is, I think, one thing missing: a comprehensive test suite that checks all the possible edge cases.

Edit: as you can see below, the benchmark also checks for correctness so you can disregard this.
Will the Julia language survive this? Not as bad as the whole Reiser situation, but this diminishes my interest in the language.

Oppressors should not be given any support. And lest someone forget, “I was just following orders” is not a defense. He made a choice that will have negative impact on individual privacy for generations to come.
> Since WWII started, I don't think it automatically followed that leaving the gold standard did the trick. War economics are bound to have had at least some impact.

Banking panics and deflation ceased in 1933/1934 with FDRs gold-confiscating shenanigans, and at that point things started to recover, which was well before WWII.

> Also isn't printing money equivalent to raising taxes?

No, because creating money expands the money supply and raising taxes does not.

> Ultimately, isn't the issue how to distribute and produce goods, not spending in itself?

The Keynesian approach says that government spending is necessary to restore the confidence of businesses that demand will be high, so that private investment will resume, businesses will hire, and unemployment will fall. Once velocity is restored to the cycle of businesses earning money and using it to pay wages, the government can step out of the picture as the workers with their wages will take up the demand slack. Per this argument, what goods are being created and distributed doesn’t actually necessarily matter, which is why even government spending on economically worthless things like war equipment (much of which was abandoned in Europe as not worth bringing back after the war) will still work.

> Also couldn't people still get into debt, no matter how high the monetary supply? Like if the government says "build this bridge for us, and we owe you 100000$", what does it matter if the 100000$ are backed in gold or not?

Not if the government won’t deficit spend, and doesn’t have an institution to borrow from that can loan money by creating it rather than borrowing it.
> There will not be one single standard of policies that will work for all people, no matter how "democratic" the process to establish the rules are and no matter how good the ideas you think they are.

Are we defining "people" here racially, as a language group, or as the humans who live within the particular borders of an old colony or the territory of a long dead conquerer?

Why is Switzerland the ideal size? Does something about that size reduce the proportion of people at the "periphery of power"?
I remember watching a Defcon talk years ago by Barnaby Jack (RIP) who warned of this exact scenario, but in a medical sense.

ie. you take out a loan to pay for some sort of medical implant, you miss your payments, and they can turn it off.

I can't find the exact video, if anyone has I'd love a link!
I think it's the other way around, if the cookie banners were implemented at the browser level, there would be "auto-reject" extensions on day 0. Or, worst case, auto-rejecting forks of Chromium and Firefox.
The problem with web is that you have 3 levels of dependency:

1. OS (Microsoft has 90%*)

2. Programming language (C++ and Javascript)

3. Browser (Google has 90%*)

* of the market on devices with keyboard for production, mobile is consume only and completely meaningless for anything but reading SMTP over radio (unless you consider writing mails on a touch interface productive).

You do not want two huge companies to be the gatekeepers of your work, one is enough (Microsoft), zero is the goal: RISC-V with open GPU and linux.

Applets/WASM are too old/new to be practical now, also they are slow because of the VM (which on the client does not really profit from the benefits of non-crashability atleast not in comparison to the server).

We need to rethink everything and go back to what works; for my part vanilla JavaSE (HTTP/JSON) is still the best option for the serverside as it has the unique combination of a VM with GC that is open-source and no-crashes are important on the server.

On the client I have gone back to C (compiled with ++ for compatibility and comfort) with OpenGL (ES) 3. Audio/visuals both need 3D to be compelling, we have 2 eyes/ears; it's time to level up, whether you call it metaverse or not.

I now exclusively use the web for advertizing, real-time communication and distribution (video and forum) as everything else can be a command line.
Plastics already emit greenhouse gases.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Psychotherapy helps you increase your window of tolerance. Having meltdowns due to stress is normal.. but it doesn’t have to be a regular thing.
> ? Installing directly from the source instead of from an intermediary is good, not bad.

How many users did actually install directly from the source and not from a highly visible third party download page that collected and repackaged many programs with some drive by downloads involving adware? I remember falling for that a few times in my youth and even sites like Sourceforge hosting the projects directly ended up hijacking installers for a time.

> Imagine computers just working. Who would want that.

The fix was to pop up a window and asking if you want it to run. Nothing broken about that. Auto running software on an OS where everyone is sys admin by default is not a good idea.
> at least the Aadhaar is voluntary

It is practically impossible to live in India without aadhar.