skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever worked on an older house or car? Plastic rots, one way or another, and those moisture barriers will have become brittle and useless over time. I don't know what causes this to happen, especially when we keep being told plastic will outlast civilization itself, but my experience is that plastic in usage has a very definitive shelf life.

You replace it as you do with anything else that exists. Everything requires maintenance.
As I understand it, it is proposed that consciousness is the brain performing a play on a stage, the platform, the working memory, learning to solve a problem.
Like children playing with their toys and dolls to learn about their world, the social and the physical.
The toys and dolls are sensory inputs, mental states, ideas and so on.
So they are phenomena distinct from consciousness.

Thank God, I can still confuse people with the dumb question, what that strange thing in their head is, they call 'red'.
But then again, most don't want to play this game anyway.
I've never been 'afraid' of numbers/finance as such, but typically have operated on the smaller side of things enough where it hasn't been too much of a burden. I've had multiple financial folks in the family (accountants/cpas/cfos/etc) such that when I've had questions, I have trusted people I've turned to, which has been more than enough.

About 10 years ago I brought on an outside accountant to handle my small business stuff. They do the final 'paperwork', but it's forced me to become a bit more diligent about financial housekeeping stuff - documenting purchases, keeping tax forms, etc. And I try to never let things go more than a few weeks before reviewing (primarily expenses). Part of the 'dread' of financial stuff was having to wade through a year's worth of paperwork. Keep ahead of that and working with an external accountant has made all this more of an annoyance than anything else.
Everything about the remastered recording sounds “better.” The samples are cleaned up significantly…probably 16 bit or better. It was probably re-programmed for a newer tracker or maybe some other newish audio software though the arrangement seems to be unchanged.
Isn't this a Show HN hidden in a story? Either way, congrats on finally sticking to something. I hope to achieve something similar in my life :)
I always wonder about how the hell DOOM ran at 30 fps on a 33 Mhz system.

320 * 200 pixels @ 30 fps means they needed to calculate 1,920,000 pixels per second. With a 33 Mhz CPU, that's ~17 clock cycles per pixel, and that doesn't account for time to handle game logic.

I know it's not a true 3D engine, and the status bar took up a good amount of space, but even accounting for that, you still don't get a lot of clock cycles.
Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
In the late 80s I was messing with a rotary phone hook switch and dialed 117 accidentally, which was the proctor test set. It was an automated phone testing platform, and it would let you test things like the coin receiver and touchtone tones, among other things.

I never had the coin sound maker, but I did have a small transcription digital recorder years later that could trick the proctor test set into thinking a nickel had been inserted.

I don't remember all the other tests, hopefully there's a webpage somewhere about it.
Sure thing, but why not keep the source in git, then distribute to end users, as we do with other software artifacts?
This article is perhaps interesting, but it is not well-written, nor, I would argue, particularly well reasoned. The author makes gratituous assumptions about Mike's reasoning, assumptions that appear unlikely to many readers, and fails to provide any justification for them. Read it again - how much of Mike's reasoning comes from Mike, and how much from the author? Did the author even ask Mike?

It seems that, you and a few other commenters are predisposed to make the same assumptions as the author. You think it's ironic that so many folks in this comment section are questioning the headline - a headline which dovetails directly into the authors assumptions. I think it's pretty ironic that you didn't deep read the article, including spending time considering the author's assumptions, as you're simultaneously criticizing other people for not doing the same.
This is an underrated path, IMO.

Consulting is an excellent way to hone the non-coding skills necessary for bootstrapping a company: Scoping projects, timeline estimation, choosing tradeoffs, finishing things, selling things, presenting products to others.

It's also helpful to be able to get out and talk to other businesses and people on a regular basis. Bootstrapping can be extremely lonely in a way that is hard to understand if you've only ever worked inside of companies with people to talk to.
I've had the demo in the offices of one Hugo Krop (of Textlite fame, later jailed for fraud).

It was a complete fake and I told them that - and how I thought it worked, and for a counter demo disrupted theirs with $5 worth of electronics (VHF sweep generator). They left and never came back. I jokingly call it the first tech DD I ever did.
You are probably right when I say a lot, it was thought of as relatively to most of the EU.

But the fact that bounty hunters and "repo" like in the article exists makes it a lot to me.
BTW, if anyone wants to experience the boredom of 18 km of turns among the trees, without actually going to NC/TN—there are custom circuits of Deals Gap/Tail of the Dragon for rFactor, Assetto Corsa and perhaps other sims. (Possibly ‘Grand Prix Legends’ was the first one to get the mod.)
If you go to the actual section on financial statements/income statement it breaks it down much further which is what I would expect.
Can someone give a solid and succinct review of doing this as a side-job? What was 1) the hourly pay, 2) language(s) you reviewed, and 3) how was the work?
Can't you apply the same logic to humans? It's just the circle of life to use humans for your own purposes, whether for slavery or eating. We are just part of nature.
Single celled organisms don't have endocrine systems, if they are able to break plastics down and metabolize them, then that's the end of those big thorny molecules.
Owning your own phone outright often solves this rent-to-own upgrade problem.
Thanks I always forget
Bacteria. Not bugs...
While I’m not saying summon is a great feature, it would not have hit the things you’re mentioning.

Its major flaw is thin upright things like small trees or poles (although this may be better on vision only cars, I’m not sure). If it sees a person or child in its path, it’s just going to stop.
> There isn’t any

I don’t think we can confidently state that currently. Given that substantial amount of admixture persisted so many generations, it is quite possible that there has been at least some evolutionary advantage associated with it. The rest of your comment, however, is correct: we have no reason to believe that humans with bigger admixture derive huge value from it today, and no reason to be defensive about not having it.
I am currently working on a power plant control system that has a modicon 984 plc first released in 1991.

We expect minimum 20 years from PLCs, and unless parts become unavailable or failures too frequent we would generally go 30 years before replacement.

The PLCs are great, it’s the damned computers and their operating systems that keep needlessly changing our working system.

So we virtualize and air gap.
While HN might not be the place for "boring" political discussions (no doubt that flame wars and conspiracy theories cloy), do you have another venue that you publish your thoughts on? I quite enjoyed this comment and learned quite a bit reviewing the linked information. Thoughtful political dialogue is ever necessary and frequently absent.
Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2022?
If I wanted to keep my skill set sharp. What top 3 tech skills should I learn in 2022 to keep providing the most value in your opinion?
With any software, if it's inaccessible because of pricing and your circumstances, definitely reach out to the authors and explain your situation.

You will only get in life what you ask for.

They may say no, but you owe it to yourself to try.
Lots of material out there on on using WS2811/2 LEDS for Christmas lights. A Raspberry Pi is a little overkill; a ESP8266 / NodeMCU running WLED will do you just fine. Reddit's r/led is filled with these projects, or check our DrZzs on YouTube who has a ton of detailed guidance.
Nah, I will continue to buy disconnected vehicles for as long as possible since I chose to live in a rural area of the country, and I expect my machine to start when I tell it to. People that live in Chicago or New York choose to give up their ability to travel without the need for the government that is their choice. And didn't the pandemic have a major impact on some public transit lines operation? Again I believe in personal responsibility and freedom, I choose not to have that level of reliance on others.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/06/nyregion/mass-transit-ser...

And while driving on public roads is not a right, I still want my vehicle to start regardless of the governments opinions on whether I should be traveling :)

I chose guns because it was something that large corps like to virtue signal about. Also, while the bill of rights does not protect buying guns at retail, most of the cries for increased gun control actually want people to be forced to buy firearms in a retail setting so that the transfer can be tracked in the nation DB, which does not happen with private sales.

Also, multiple cities literally shut down transit during the protests last year due to "safety". https://www.masstransitmag.com/safety-security/article/21140...
Well, net profit is the same as net income.

Gross profit is different.
I don't get a horizontal scrollbar unless I resize the viewport to <159px wide.
Regardless of whether or not there was a conspiracy, I think the last 100 years of private vehicle ownership in the US have shown that solely due to the convenience, it would have happened anyway.
Gosh, building any tools that target developers as customers is a gargantuan task. Kudos to you for attempting something new here and giving it a whirl. We developers are some of the harshest critics around, no matter how legit or unfounded our criticism may be. Keep it up!
Try tabletop RPGs. They solve your main issue.
To my mind the fraud people probably poisoned your account in the hope that you would be locked out of FB and wouldn't notice the transaction.
From a quick view the bacteria eats all the products of the enzyme
I get the sense that history teachers talk about how history is the most important, physics teachers talk about how physics is the most important, gender politics the same, arts the same etc...

There's incentive to keep yourself employed however useless, bloated or out of time what you're teaching is.

I'm not sure how the school plan is evaluated in different places, but i feel like for example religion in a country like Sweden where most people don't believe in it[1] should be brought down to make space for something Swedes think is important.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_Sweden
I don't see the Julia language will be affected much at all.
Julia is not used in cryptography but scientific research.

If by Reiser you mean Hans Reiser I fail to see any parallel at all.

However I am curious do you know why your interest in the language is diminished?
Influences
Be sure to pay homage regularly to the gods of chance. Randomness plays a huge role in success and failure in all fields, but especially in entrepreneurial ventures. If you live in a developed country, relax and enjoy the fact that failure rarely means actual death.
Anybody with a cursory understanding of how technology works would have punctured that particular balloon. But in the present this guy would likely be sitting right next to one E. Holmes, M. Perry or anyone of a number of other CEOs that were 'faking it until they could make it'.
I have another couple of suggestions.

The first suggestion is to add

export -f :

just before the fi so that it is available to scripts called from the main script.

The second is to add

local IFS=" " # Insulate : from changes to IFS

before the printf.

because if I didn't then each word of the comment would appear on a separate line like this:

::
a
b
c

instead of this:

:: a b c

the reason for this is that I had defined

IFS="/n/t"

as suggested by the Unofficial Strict Mode.
In 2011 the nuclear industry promised rolling blackouts by now:

https://theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/23/germany-nucl...

Pretty sure they didnt envision Germany having cheaper winter electricity than France.

All I can find evidence for is a balloon that short circuited a substation, which is a blackout that is unlikely to have been prevented by a nuclear reactor.
It's the only solid metric they can report on quantitatively. What else could they report on? There's no way to measure T/B-cell immunity.

Plus you can understand that if 2 shots give a low immunity level of like 30%, the increase is substantial which would put 3 shots easily above 50% which is solid.
Why is a base desire like "deliciousness" such a primary and powerful force in your life that it overrides all other decision making? Are respect for other conscious beings and experiencing "deliciousness" really on the same level?
> The current IoT hype has blown over a little

I don't think it ever picked up: It was trying to solve a problem which didn't exist at the time. In the mid 2010's when they started popping up, the economy was growing and most of climate change, lowering carbon footprints and all that was seen as "Greta Thunberg's pretentious and delusional world" to working class citizens. And for the most part that still would have been the case if it wasn't for covid and the accompanying inflation. I don't think average Joe has learned a lesson from it or realizing how fragile our economy is. Almost like enforced necessity: "hey my electric bill is 4 times what it used to be" opens a new market. The ecosystem however was(and sadly still is) appalling: You get a hama wifi enabled light bulb, you need to download their app to set it up. You buy a Phillips one a few months later and you need to download yet another app to set it up. Not to mention the absolute hell that are both google home and alexa. Worst of all is that there are no efforts to open source alternatives(home assistant technically relies on either google or amazon). Privacy aside, their interfacing options are equally annoying. I do have a few wifi enabled light bulbs and I turn them on for my dog when I'm not at home through google and it is just as messy as it was on day one.
There are several domains dedicated for example and special purposes. This is just one.

https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/sp...

https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
This video I recently watched, and was well recently made, from Anton Petrov, covers some novel new techniques to create self reproducing cells which might actually be a great candidate for cleaning our oceans. It's at least a _lot_ closer than I ever imagined it would be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnivFz2rbM4
Julia has some nice ideas but it is time for a do-over as a fully open language (ie without the commercial backer actively upselling in their mailing list), and with the "time to first plot" and package management problems addressed.
Bit of a Layman but it seems there's an economy in the biological pathways for processing plastic going by pieces I've read.

The fascinating thing for me is that evolution has likely produced these variants many times over the past, but now the ecology supports their argument for natural selection.
Leaky databases aside, the objection to a National ID system is very American/British thing.
To me this sounds like easy cynicism. Is it really your expectation that evolution happens on the same time scale as Latest Software 2.0?
Which company do you interview for? I will make sure to never apply.
Reminds me of the George Carlin quote: "The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it's true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn't share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth."
Earth Is Spinning Faster Now Than It Was 50 Years Ago
I dont want to hijack the thread but I will just say that we are going full time on it starting January so it will speed things up!
No need to pick lanes, I have both today.

I am going to prefer on-chain BTC transactions to make international business transactions in thousands of USD.

I don't need the full force of trustlessness to buy my lunch - the risk to me is that I get a free lunch. Yeah I could use a classic payment card - but then I'd have to keep shuffling my funds around and that's not fun.
Why is this comment being downvoted? It appears to be correct.
I think it’s important to consider how we got here, but I think it’s more important to consider what we can do about it. Many social policies could make life easier for people like Jessica and her family.
Adding web based remote control to the old Marantz amplifier (ESP32)
Do you have good references that provide broad coverage on the changing tastes of anti-competitive enforcement? The Reagan-era comment intrigued me.
VCs actively dissuade founders from doing professional services.
Not so stealth eh?
I am personally, for a couple of reasons.

(1) Tailwind uses utility classes that feel like syntactic sugar over full CSS, so I don't feel like I'm "using Tailwind for layouts" as much as "using useful CSS grid presets"

(2) Much like with margins and paddings, text sizes, and colors, Tailwind helps me "pare down" the number of different values available to me. Much like having preset "m-1", "m-2", etc. values helps me be more consistent, having preset grid columns and gap spacing helps me stay consistent and not go too crazy.

(3) Because I'm using something closer to CSS-wrapped-in-classes rather than a set of components built by someone else, and because tailwind gives both a naming convention and an easy mechanism for adding my own classes that fit right in to Tailwind's, if Tailwind doesn't give me the exact values I want for grid spacing, then I can modify theirs. If I need to add a couple new presets in addition to Tailwind's, then I can do so easily.

(4) Early on when CSS Grid was new, I got bit by some bad layout bugs that were very hard to find, and impossible to fix (they were browser bugs). So, while I'm sure the bugs I encountered have since been fixed, I'm a bit gun shy on grids. I occasionally use Grid when it makes sense (via Tailwind), but more often than not I find it easier, more flexible, and safer to just use nested flexbox cols and rows. For which I also use Tailwind, if the project is of suitable size.

To sum it all up better, I view Tailwind more as syntactic sugar over CSS that helps me build my own design system. So, I would totally use vanilla CSS for small projects that don't need a design system. But for anything more than that, I like Tailwind for the same reason I like using web frameworks on the back end: it helps me keep things structured and consistent and more maintainable, even if I could do it all on my own without the framework.
> If the government can't refuse service and third parties cannot ask for the number

That is just in theory, you need to have aadhar to pay income tax(not paying tax is a criminal offense), almost all benefits are now getting linked to aadhar. Almost all employers now ask for aadhar details for job.
I would also argue that it's nearly always legal to bulldoze things, and the vetocracy doesn't really care if I bulldoze my house. There are only a very very few jurisdictions where demolition permits are an impediment. So the vetocracy is generally just fine with bulldozers.

It's the actual building of things that the vetocracy wants to prevent. For example, check out this comment (whose factual basis is quite low based on my knowledge) which I think is great example of the vetocracy. If the luxury condos in SOMA were bulldozed, that would probably be a good result in their eyes!

> The housing market example is bizarre, because if you go look at San Francisco, the entire area of SOMA is dominated by skyscrapers and luxury condos that are 90% vacant. Office buildings are going vacant at an accelerated rate. Salesforce Tower has never managed to fill up on tenants. We don't need to build new housing, we just need to actually price the ones we do have so people can afford them. Stop bulldozing stuff built less than 20 years ago to replace it with even more shoddily built stuff you can sell for even higher margins. We already have the homes, just let people live in them.
Is Meta not building a walled garden?
Do you want to lose your potential customer base? Because this is how you lose your potential customer base.
uhhh, don't store money on phones (aka proprietary samsung garbage from the 90s)?
First: Your tune rocks! It put me in a great mood this morning! Thank you for sharing it.

Next: I'm off to read your post and reminisce about that too much fun era in computing and music.
Generally yes, but for young men, it looks like the risks of getting myocarditis is higher from the Moderna vaccine than from covid. It is not the case for Pfizer/BioNTech.

In every case, the benefits still seem to outweigh the risks but it is recommended that young men get the Pfizer/BioNTech shot over Moderna.
Ask HN: Security Cameras Inside Houses?
I recently received a promotional offer in the mail for a home security system. It boasts both a camera doorbell, but also cameras for the sole purpose of monitoring rooms inside your house. The ad shows an example of monitoring your living room on your phone [0].

In the past month I've been to a few homes of family and friends, and was disturbed to see some of them have cameras monitoring the kitchen, dining room, living room, etc. An extended family member even noticed one of the cameras in the corner, pointed to it, and exclaimed jovially, "Don't run around naked!", to which other people laughed.

I have so many questions...

- Are people really buying into this?
- How pervasive is this?
- How does the general public express outrage over privacy incidents (e.g. Facebook revelations) but not make the connection to installing 24/7 monitoring in their own home opening them up to that risk?
- Do people not consider the ability for hackers or even state-agents to maliciously use this?
- What sort of chilling effects will our future hold where governments can shut down any sign of disagreement, without you even having to step out into a public forum?
- Is there a good way for me to discuss my concerns with family members without overstepping my bounds (*don't come in my house and tell me how to live*)
- Is privacy dead beyond resuscitation?
- Is the future really leaving me behind, where people like myself must become digital hermits against their own will, because "if you don't want to be on camera, don't come into my house"

[0] https://i.postimg.cc/QxxHp9yC/security-system.jpg
I don't see anything wrong with auto running a CD. I physically put it in the computer. And seriously, what security checks do you think a normal user is going to do between the pop-up appearing and clicking "run"?

Edit: three responses, zero examples of checks an actual user would do. Two references to the Sony rootkit, which was resolved after intense press by Sony removing the rootkit unconditionally, not by giving the users a choice, because everybody knows users would have clicked yes.
You clearly don’t work in solar. The panels move on trackers, the panels have to be cleaned of dust and snow, vegetation around the panels has to be cut, inverters fail, etc. there are many moving parts and maintenance required.
The point is they gotta get boosters in people before the hospitals get overcrowded (only then people will realize they should've gotten a booster or the shots). People can't figure this out, so they need to use the media to get the message out.