skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes they do, and with a balanced underground contact microphone you can pick up lots. Though ideally you want large soil sample box with target animal (ants or worms) and that inside an acoustic chamber to rule out external noise.

It's amazing how much sound there is out there, hard thing is filtering out the rest and capturing those low dB sounds that are often drowned out.

Now with an array of microphones you could potentially track the movements of the target underground animal, but be some serious effort.

Basic balanced contact micrphone how to build https://www.instructables.com/Balanced-piezo-contact-microph...

Suggest adding sandwich layer that's non conductive but also good at picking up sound in the frequency range you are targeting - small shard of glass works nice, but again, it's a whole rabbit hole of exploration you may or may not wish to go down.

I can also recommend the behringer 202hd as a good preamp on a budget for such a balance contact microphone.

Or for something non balanced https://jezrileyfrench.co.uk/contact-microphones.php do top microphones and that model was used for many BBC Nature documentaries with David Attenborough. Though personally not used those myself.
Lots of people think that grants aren't intended to fund tools, but are you sure that's the case?

Particle accelerators are big tools, and the engineering is funded by grants. Ditto for telescopes. PyTorch allows thousands of labs to more efficiently do AI research, so should it have been fundable in some way?
According to some studies, social media is worse:

https://m.economictimes.com/tech/internet/social-media-more-...
When you're walking around with your dog, or in some other situation where you're not their employer:

Chat with the plumbers (and other tradespeople). Nothing deep or profound. Don't even bring up these work topics unless they do. The weather, the Super Bowl, your dog, what they're doing right now...

I could enumerate the benefits, but let's leave it as "you'll feel better, and so will they." And you'll get a gut feeling about them as people.
That's just because your government isn't currently categorizing you as a "garbage human".
And gambling.
I think dying alone is much worse than dying with your family suffocating to death.
Yeah. I agree with you completely.

I am not a cryptocurrency skeptic, but my level of trust for a “DAO driven aircraft / taxi service” is exceedingly low.
> Alfred Nordmann argues that the reversal test merely erects a straw-man argument in favour of enhancement.

Yes, basically as a fellow commenter argues. Thank you for the link.
This has caused so many problems in institutions I have worked at.
It obviously depends on where you live and what you do in your job and how much you work and how hard. I'd argue though that, to say it in OP's words, most of us should get watery eyes every time we see our paychecks given how much time we spend actually working, what the work environment is and what that work entails. We're so incredibly lucky it's hard to fathom.
If you can get a hand on this book then read it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code:_The_Hidden_Language_of_C...

The other resource is: https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer and https://www.coursera.org/learn/nand2tetris2
I'd say GP's comment contributes more to the discussion than yours.
Ah, allright, I think I got the pattern. Next time someone wants to:
"""Everywhere you go, there will be {insert derogatory but also statistically backed pattern}
Disproportionately they will be {insert your -ist qualifier}"""
You just have to say sorry and it will be okay?
> (if the term applies)

I'm responding to whether the term applies.
We are not arguing about the usefulness of CORS, of course it is useful. It does not protect you though.
Reaction-Diffusion
Your contractor, on the other hand, may well have got a few rounds of golf in during the day time.

A neighbor owns a painting company. He goes around the various job sites in the morning, sees that everyone has their marching orders for the day, returns in the afternoon to check in on the progress. In between the morning and afternoon though? He does what he pleases.

I believe he started the company with a buddy, the two of them doing the painting. Things grow though, you hire guys, your role changes (and your income too).
Decentralization can't provide consumer protections regardless of what regulators do. The one thing it can do is resist censorship and things indistinguishable from censorship, like software failure.
I don't think the post is talking about golf. If you look at physically demanding sports, most players don't last past 40 unless they're an incredible athlete.
The number of people who'd do something like this is miniscule. Human society is built on trust for a good reason. We know that rules are imperfect and trust our fellow humans to do the right thing. They don't always but most of the time, the average person will.
I don't see it that way at all. The NFT vector is arbitrary. The point was to drain his accounts and nothing more. If a less suspicious method was available, I'm sure the scammers would have taken that one.
> I basically end up writing pretty much anything twice

That's how top down usually works. It's good for problems you've already solved before.
Then they must be made from remarkable ignorance... To be charitable.
This is not new, nor is it a surprise. Many animals that burrow have well developed senses of sound, and some even have sensory organs for detecting electrical charge and vibration.
Smoking, in particular, has significant effects on third parties so you're freedom to smoke takes away other people's right to clean air. For example, parents that smoke on the house with their kids who have no choice to leave.
Some substances will sell without any marketing, such as alcohol and cannabis.

As far as controlling sales, i think a regulated market for drugs is required. So am happy to see both the Swiss initiative and also the German initiative for legalising Cannabis:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_Germany

As for Superbowl, there really hasn't been that many iconic ads for alcohol, but I'm sure Budweiser will be represented this year.

https://www.vogue.com/article/best-super-bowl-ads-of-all-tim...
I should’ve been a cowboy.
After 15 years doing software development, I started training to be an electrician a month ago (in the Bay Area). The two people I work under are chill / patient.

Sometimes when dragging myself and wire though tight rat-shit crawl spaces... I yearn for my nice little home office. But, overall, I enjoy the work. It feels good to do work in the physical world.

A lot of electricians are nearing retirement. Meanwhile, electrification is picking up steam. The National Electrical Code 2020 is letting distributed / behind-the-meter software do a lot more heavy lifting (e.g. its letting software manage loads so that (expensive, delaying, and grid-taxing) utility service upgrades can be avoided)[1]. There's already big demand for electricians, let alone when EVs (and level-2 EV chargers), solar + batteries, and other flexible loads become mainstream.

My aspiration is to spend one week a month in the field, leading an electrical project (and taking all or most of the profit). With a low-cost lifestyle, I think I'll be able to spend the other three weeks improving processes / tooling around that electrical work. And working on related FOSS and education resources.

1. https://www.dropbox.com/s/klt1zzc7zxqwrfe/IAEI_Bill-Brooks_2...
Most people helping out like this have normal day jobs. Why would working at Ubisoft be different?
Reminds me of needing to do similar things to convince browsers to render e.g. a custom 404 response.

Mildly annoying, but hardly onerous.
Yeah, I genuinely do not understand what it is that drives people like the reddit OP to think that tradespeople somehow have it better than software folks. It's like they have never actually paid attention to how absolutely grueling plumbing/roofing/fencing/etc. is.

"Constant need to stay up to date" is actually one of the things I really like about this field, because it's one of the things that prevents the work from getting redundant, at least in the long run.
This is amazing, a fantastic idea! Well done.

How did you take it from idea to production? Do you have a design or print production background?
As a web dev who glues together api’s and json, I’d call myself a plumber. Instead of shit, I shuttle data from the frontend to a database and vise versa.
Software Engineering is probably the most privileged job, so switching to anything else would be not that easy
Yeah lol... The apartment building next to mine was having some reconstruction and the guys working on the exterior saw into my office windows (5th story). I started talking to them, had a cigarette together when I saw them lighting up, shared my WiFi password with them, etc, just being friendly. After a few days the guys asked "so, do you ever work man, or are you one of those computer pussies?". I agreed I'm a computer pussy as I'd never want to do any of what I saw them doing, in all weathers, very very early in the morning as well as very late in the evening.
> No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

> Every child has the right to privacy. The law must protect children’s privacy, family, home, communications and reputation (or good name) from any attack.

Convention on the Rights of the Child: The children’s version

https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/convention-te...

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The Fourth Amendment

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fourth-Amendment
If his MO is to have fun watching small-minded idiots trying to misinterpret every word he says, then yeah, I guess the tweet does indeed reveal it.
No.

The work is hard, dirty, and you need to go through a half-decade apprenticeship program before you can even start making the big bucks (which are still nowhere near what a programmer makes.)

And good luck finding someone to take you on as an apprentice.

I remember one of my buddies desperately pounding the pavement to get an on-the-job apprenticeship as either a plumber or electrician. It took him a couple years to find one. 20 years later and he's a successful industrial plumber, but that first decade was a lot of hard work - even before he got his first job.

Also, just about everyone I know who does even a skilled trade for a living has a body full of aches and pains and injuries. That's why the smart guys become foremen or start their own business - but they've all got at least a ten year head start on anyone reading this.

Just keep sitting in your home office cashing giant checks for screwing around on the computer.
An old, cynical engineer I once worked with left me with two indelible quotes:

- If it was fun they'd charge money at the door.

- If you can't write it down you can't do it.

You can argue about the accuracy of those ideas, but more or less I've found them to be true.
When I was 15 my dad got me a job where he worked, a trucking business where the work was dirty, hard and not well compensated. Moving equipment and large Diesel engine parts was incredibly tough. I made more money than I would have working in retail.

At the time my parents were worried that I was getting paid enough doing that kind of work that I might consider not going to college. If anything it solidified my view that college was my only option.

I do occasionally miss working with my hands but I’m thankful for what I have now as a software engineer. I’ve never seen anyone get sprayed in the face with hot coolant or hurt their back sitting at a desk programming. I don’t have to worry about punishing my body for 30 years.

White collar work can be exhausting, unfulfilling and stressful but it has to be put into perspective.
NoSQL databases are just throwing money to a problem
Random audits by E&Y.
Well, I guess I should rethink my constant urge to leave structural engineering and become a software developer.

“The grass is greener…” fallacy seems to be prevalent in most people. It becomes most intense when encountering obstacles, frustrations, boredom, and stress in the current situation, which makes sense I suppose. And it’s so easy to gloss over all the privileges that come with the current situation. When I was broke and busting my ass in university, I couldn’t wait to start my coop jobs. Then half way through coop, I couldn’t wait to get back to class. Now I have the luxury of living a comfortable life and there are no abrupt changes unless I decide to implement them. Yet the dissatisfaction creeps in…
Same here. I ran an rt-66n for years on advanced Tomato until updates stopped.
I moved to OPNSense on a APU2 which is fine for my current connection speed (80/20mbit).
That is not what we're talking about here.

We're talking about regulating ads.
They’re incredible, in slow traffic I have no issue fitting into a space which is only 12” bigger than the BMW is in length terms, and everyone around me is impressed, particularly the driver behind, they often gesture congratulations about these feats

In all seriousness though after a few years driving a Tesla it is a stark contrast, the BMW’s are actually well-manufactured, very quiet in the cabin, tactile controls instead of touchscreens. I’d forgotten what a good car behaved and looked like instead of an early-adopter plastic-fantastic interior and technology stack. Really do think with “Big Auto” starting to figure out bEV and things like F-150 Lightning, BMW iX and more coming to the market, Tesla is not looking like a solid safe equity to be holding in a 5 year time horizon.
It's way easier to lie via text. There are verbal and facial cues that make it much harder to maintain a convincing lie.
There's No Such Thing as Not a Math Person
Depends on the context and environment.

If I am a cofounder at a startup where the market isn't even defined yet, my priorities are to help discover the market. Then build an MVP off the immediate needs of the beachead market.

If I am an employee at an established company where there's a well defined, effective market, customer team, I work with them to get usecase definitions, then I write BDD/TDD and have rest of my engineering team help implement.

Are you looking for specific help? In that case, do mention the context and environment you operate in
I feel a relatively frequent urge to run away from my stressful job and spend some time working on passion projects. After a while I remember the industry has made me a relatively privileged citizen, that I never expected to be making so much money at my age, etc. Tech has a way of trapping you in if your work ethic is remotely decent and you are not wealthy.
Show HN: Identifying channel trendlines of Crypto coins with C++ and Python
Agreed, sci-hub is so much more convenient. But when the publishers finally shut it down for good, we'll have to find another solution.

A community of scientists sharing their papers would be a good thing already now.

I personally know active scientists who don't even try anymore to look up the paper, but rather go directly to sci-hub for any doi they need. I can understand why, but I also think that this doesn't lead to a sustainable publishing culture.
Monero _attempts_ to hide those details. This is an extremely hard problem and it has not been extensively tested against adversaries with deep resources. For keeping your drinking buddy from knowing what else you've spent money, it probably works but I would be very hesitant to tell people it's effective against, say, KYC exchanges much less an adversary who can do analysis against both the entire blockchain and other internet activities.
>as long as it is an anti-tobacco ad

This won't classify as advertising, most like information for safety, we have similar stuff in our country like

- you should drink 2L of water

- passive smoking is bad for children

- use table salt with Iodium to prevent ...

- don't use improvised heating devices

- excessive alcohol drinking is very bad for health
Each month, we publish attestation reports by Grant Thornton regarding the reserve balances backing USDC.

The key item here is "attestation report". What does this mean?

It means those issuing the report have no reason to doubt what they are being told/given. They haven't actually verified/audited anything.

Tether paid someone to issue some of these as well.
I don't really want to be a manager, though. I want to be retired.
This is just anti-work sentiment, nothing more.
I wonder why avoid computers in early retirement? Is it burnout from the grind or a lack of pleasure in the work itself? I imaging there are a ton of cool and worthy charitable causes that would benefit from the expertise, which they couldn't afford to get otherwise.
It’s like the televangelist. Money affinity scamming. You need to conspicuously show your wealth on chain so people think God (vitalik) made them rich.

Unless you flex with your $100M in aave on your main with an ENS name, how will your victims know you are rich and worthy?
You don't know what a screen is? It's the glass thingy above or beside your desktop computer, or on the inside of the lid of your laptop computer.

Sheesh.
Indeed, building a programming language that is supposed to be for systems programming then it makes sense for it to be able to be ergonomic to write compilers in. But if you're building a programming language for building UIs (or any other specific use case), then making it bootstrapping it's own compiler in it's own language seems like a waste of time.
How dare you to belittle the plight of the needy people. /sarc
Fake iPhone shutdown simulation using NoReboot persistence technique
Jim Cantrell says it is true in https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Elon-Musk-was-spat-on-...
Never even thought about it. The constraint solving is what I find interesting. I revel in being able to adapt as the circumstances change.

Sometimes, I even tire of writing the code once I know how to solve the problem. But you sort of have to do that to get the next problem.
Really the only mandatory semicolons in OCaml are in data structures: `let my_list = [1; 2; 3]`. In code, they can all be replaced with appropriate `let` bindings.
You're making a surprisingly persuasive case. Maybe it's time for me to become an asshole too.
This is incorrect or at least incorrectly stated with respect to the word "you". I didn't start running regularly until my late 40's and I loathed nearly every step for the first year but my fitness and enjoyment levels slowly improved especially after discovering trail running. I started participating in ultra trail races after a couple years and found a wonderful community of people enjoying an activity all around me I didn't even know existed. Now, 10 years later, I'm the fittest I've ever been and far more fit than the vast majority of 25 year olds.

Am I going to win races against people half my age who are in peak fitness for their age group? No, of course not. But I can physically do far more at 57 than what I could do at 25 with respect to running. Many people can alter the course of their health trajectories at nearly any age but it requires consistent effort and often ignoring the messages of vested societal interests telling them otherwise.
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Why not just have it be contextual?

Keep the cross if fighting an actual country. Remove it if fighting terrorists or other non state groups.
I've done manual labor. Mowed lawns for a guy who had his own company, he drove us around in the truck, we'd hit the grass with his mowers.

Worked fast food, retail. Been a dishwasher, bus boy....

I think there is something abut the manual labor that gives you a daily sense of accomplishment. The lawn work for sure. Arriving at a tatty yard, leaving it looking like a golf course.... That sort of day-to-day sense of achievement is much more rare in software development.

To be sure I ultimately chased the higher-paying software field. But when I would see the "grounds keepers" at the Apple campus, I was often a little envious....
Reminded me of this: https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Here's one: humanity is not one large family.

"Loving one's neighbor as oneself" does not mean ceding money and power to distant, unaccountable bureaucrats who tend toward corruption over time.

Humanity is grappling with the benefits of piling up large "pattern of life" databases. Technical people love to optimize, but humanity is all about the entropy in the system.

The need to balance the conveniences to which we've grown accustomed without Big Brother (public or private sector) squeezing the humanity out of everything is perhaps THE issue of the 21st century.

The various other concerns, e.g. climate, are peripheral.
I'm a sceptic of crypto usage.

But DAO's do look attractive to me fyi. I wish I could do something similar in regular "fintech" ( and with c#)
Did you make it work?
But thinking more about this.... That's why I'm selling licenses to the tech for companies to use in their products. I also sell customisation, but that's mostly specific to the code on the x-frame that needs to change, rather than integration heavy of focused on the buyer's product.... But I still think I need to craft more specific markets to target... As you say. I just don't know how to do that.

All my current sales have come from organic inbound leads so far.
> If it was fun they'd charge money at the door.

I've told people that at my work and had it said back to me later.

"If it was fun, it wouldn't be work." Also, I leave after 40 hours each week because there will never be a day when the work ends early. If we run out of work, it's because the company is sinking.
I think what we really miss agency to build what we want and how we want, instead of scrum master wanting to credit us for our work
Aren’t there jobs working in the trades that aren’t in construction? If you’re working on large-scale projects, you end up running into the “becoming a cog” problem anyway.
It's amazing to watch in real time Crypto Andys learn all the hard lessons that went into making the financial system they seem to despise.

The common denominator in the examples in the article is that the crypto system at some point has to at some point interface with the Real World and that's where it all falls apart.

There's an example of a woman whose bank won't process the transaction. Just because it's crypto doesn't mean you can escape KYC/AML laws.

Another example was the person whose crypto was tainted by going through the same service used to launder ill-gotten gains, which even assumes their story is true (eg their Bitcoins may well have been ill-gotten).

NFTs are the same. I could buy an artwork but something outside of that system is required to show it's "authentic". I mean I could save the same image to my hard drive (possibly modifying a pixel) and then create a new NFT and what's really to distinguish it from the original? If there is no original NFT, how will a potential buye revaluate the artist actually issued the token?

I've yet to see an actual problem crypto solves other than avoiding laws. It's the biggest solution looking for a problem I've ever seen.