skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may have seen that thread, and it probably gave me the idea for my second option. Still, I've got to wonder about the relative hassle-insecurity of a cheap MVNO versus GVoice. Like sure Google has a bad rep, but at least they've got good common-case security properties. Whereas a lowest bidder MVNO is likely to have poor security to begin with, and poor customer service for cleaning up after the fact. It might still be worth it to try a GVoice number first for every service, then fall back to the mule. (although everpresent point against Google: they're better at exploiting surveillance data, in a way that an MVNO won't be)

"all of these phones" implies you have expanded to multiple mules? I presume for multiple accounts at the same service? Is there any indication that really works for eg making it so all your Google accounts don't get locked at once? Or are you doing it to undermine the use of phone numbers for cross-service surveillance association?

FWIW I haven't looked in a while, but the cheapest US consumer SIM I've found is H2O Wireless (on AT&T) at $10 per 3 months.
Show HN: 3by3 – discover fresh podcasts by answering three simple questions
3by3 is a fun side project, I built over a weekend during one of the Pandemic's lockdowns. For some reason, it remained just that - a side project. I like it, maybe others will do too.

Built using Svelte on the frontend, Go on the backend, and PostgreSQL for storage. Hosted on Netlify.

Below is the official About of the project:

3by3 is a fun way of discovering podcasts by answering three simple questions. It grew out of my desire to introduce the magic of podcasting to more people. The podcasting space exploded over the last few years. There is now more content for every taste than ever before. And yet, finding one's way in the ocean of audio remained just as difficult.

Rather than going for popular choices, I built 3by3 with the idea of getting to know you, the listener, better. Answering three simple questions is enough to give 3by3 an idea of what you would love to listen to. Not a perfect match? Start over, and you will get a new set in a few seconds. Come back as often as you would like. We are constantly adding more questions and podcasts to our database. We are sure that your matches will become better and better over time.
If there is one thing that Marx was right about it is that once the accumulation of capital ends, capitalism itself breaks down.

Just listen to all the people kicking and screaming that interest rates should be increased or that 0% interest rates are wrong and negative interest rates (which represent decentralization of capital) shouldn't even exist.
There are consumer protection offices advocating that accounts shouldn't be charged negative interest rates even though it only applies to accounts with more than 100k€ in checking accounts. Imagine the horror of getting a certificate of deposit for one whole month. Instead, some banks have decided to just charge monthly fees which is incredibly regressive because you would need 25k€ in your account to exceed the monthly fee at -0.5%. Meanwhile if you have millions on your account you pay the same fee, ah yes, subsidize the rich.
My opinion is that it is difficult to enjoy music we don't understand. I realise one does not have to love everything about a whole style of music, but not having a clue why this whole style may be enjoyable sounds like maybe you haven't been much exposed to it.

So here is one (genuinely interested) question: how much do you know about jazz?
"Ng" is like the "n" in Frank, not the "n" in France.
Of course you’re right that conservatives can’t define ‘critical race theory’. Almost nobody can, but regardless Freedom of speech and public school curriculum constitute entirely different political questions.
You're not that person either. This conversation is impossible, it's really about forensics and empathy.
Yes, the legal restrictions against critical race theory are very hypocritical
Kotlin jvm cannot but you transform your kotlin jvm easily into kotlin multiplatform code. Kotlin multiplatform is not the same thing as kotlin js and can be used both by jvm and js code.
You can also leverage the expect/external/actual keywords
Yes, there are several factors that make that location particularly good, not only temperature. The cold and absence of sunlight for months at a time causes a relative absence of water vapor in the atmosphere during winter, which is extremely important for CMB observations. The high elevation (~10k ft) means there is less atmosphere to look through as well. During summers the sky heats up, contains more water vapor, and reflects so much more light that our telescopes become substantially less effective. Another advantage to the South Pole is the ability to continuously observe the same part of the sky, as the telescope is located on the earths axis there is no rising and setting of sky overhead. There is also a particularly 'dark' patch of sky in the southern hemisphere called the 'southern hole'. This is located up and away from the plane of our galaxy and contains very few objects standing in the 'path' of the CMB which also helps obtain better quality observations of the CMB.

Edit - it is as good as it gets on earth and way cheaper than a satellite! Other benefits are rapid upgrades and repairs with newer technology. A satellite, by the time it is deployed, is already pretty old! But the South Pole still isn't cheap!
Epigenetics and Genetics (DNA). Epigenetics allows for changes within an organism's lifetime, and include the ability to pass along environmental stressors to the next generation.

There is a great book from MIT press [Evolution in Four Dimensions](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/evolution-four-dimensions) that goes into how Genetics, Epigenetics, behavior and symbolic transmission of data between generations guide evolution.
This is a digression, but the book starts by saying that it's a benefit to the developer to have one language front and backend. I've been working on node/JS web apps for several years now, so this is my lived reality, but I don't like that it's the same language front and backend. Just as a web page with HTML, JavaScript and CSS lets me mentally separate the different aspects of the front end and context switch more easily between them (I'm never confused about what I'm addressing), I've found having JS both front and back end (separated by a GraphQL API) to require being more conscious of my environment. There are subtle differences between Node and the browser VM; there are different concerns with resource usage and concurrent operations.

When doing React I refused to follow Facebook's lead and relocate styles into the code. In my mind it just crowded the JavaScript and made for more code where multiple concerns where colocated. Am I the only one who felt this way?
The overdogs always censor, because they can, and the underdogs always fight for freedom of speech, because they must.

I don't think their colors matter.
Thanks for clicking the link at the bottom of the article (which I totally missed) and clarifying. The article made it sound like this was both an Ubuntu/Canonical offering and the only path forward. Still concerned about its future, but glad to hear my fears were largely unwarranted. Mea culpa.
Show HN: I have made a comic book using only code
Hi HN,

I am making an online comic book that respects all of the HN rules of what a good website should be : no JS, no tracking. I have even gone a step further : no assets and no dependencies. One can do really cool things using HTML and CSS only.

Please visit at least two pages for the full experience by clicking on 次 at the bottom. The text is in Japanese please forgive me for this and enjoy the concept more than the content. Also if you are a Japanese speaker, the text has not been proofread and likely contains language mistakes)

To create the illustration I use two tools.

With https://www.pixelartcss.com/ I create CSS from video game tiles

I use the following to create the illustrations from the tiles :
https://www.thecodingfox.com/interactive/pixel-world-editor/
Show HN: Generate vanity Ethereum wallet addresses within seconds
I was about to say that saying X is v1.0 seems like clickbait if it's not a known thing. Then I realized that it's Common Lisp with 2k stars (which seems like a lot in relative terms).

Especially since being a v1 (rather than v2) the README (or release notes) seems to be a better link.

[0] https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp/blob/1.0.0/README....
5G Skeptic
Add some free hosting to the domain (Github allows you to create pages for a domain of your choosing, for free). Then add a contact email so prospects can get in touch if they want the domain. Then you just give them the transfer code upon payment. Only caveat, they have to trust you to give them the transfer code, which is why you should probably use a middleman to broker the deal. And there's plenty of 'domain flipping' services to do just that:

https://www.dontworkanotherday.com/guide-to-domain-flipping

https://sitebeginner.com/domains/domain-flipping/

https://www.sidehustlenation.com/domain-flipping/

https://www.makedollarswork.com/domain-flipping/
> You could probably make something as nice and integrated as Things on Linux, but for someone as busy as me, it is nice to use what is already there.

I find this a funny point, as Things is one of the apps that has a near-direct clone[0] on Linux. It also costs $49.99 less than Things!

[0] https://github.com/alainm23/planner
> If systems are built with the requirement of letting users export their data, then the additional effort to do so is trivial.

It’s unreasonable, IMO, to think that companies should have had the foresight to see legislation that would happen two decades after the company had already existed and as a result build a system for retrieving user data that has no profit generating potential.

GDPR is good because prior to it there really wasn’t any economic incentive to provide this information.
What people say is not important, obviously no-one will say that, but in practice nobody cares how tall Mick Jagger is, or Gabe in The Office.
I think it might just be the NTSC composite that looks bad. I have never felt any desire to use RGB on my PAL Mega Drive since the composite output looks excellent. On PAL it gives just the right amount of blending to smooth out the dithering, but at the same time is sharp enough to resolve individual pixels, and lacks any sort of rainbow effect which apparently plagues NTSC.
Soundex (Phonetic Algorithm)
Is this really new? It seems subgroups of either side have selectively supported free speech based on whether they agree with the message.
VS Code tamagotchis that level up as you code
You can combine git grep with fzf to fuzzy search commit message and also see preview of the selected commit. See https://gist.github.com/junegunn/8b572b8d4b5eddd8b85e5f4d40f...
TDR’a graphic design is still some of my favorite to this day. It was so iconic and instantly recognizable. Their album art for PWEI’s “This Is The Day…” and WARP’s “Blech 2” compilation for example are incredible.
You could discourage them from buying out smaller competitors en Masse.

In my mind it shouldn't make sense to found a company with the explicit goal of being purchased by one of the tech giants in a few years.

Many are never even really trying to get s sustainable business model and venture capital is fueling this machine.
The support of freedom of speech by conservatives is both selective, largely limited to issues they feel oppressed on, and temporary, likely to be dropped as soon as they have the upper hand.

Liberalism has freedom of speech as a core principle but liberals are now treated as hostile not only by conservatives but also the illiberal left.
Whilst these are undoubted challenges, I also think that there are more traditional challenges to freedom of speech. As majorities within societies have accepted liberal ideas, liberals have become increasingly censorious, threatening the freedom of speech of conservatives.
DDG is just a Bing front-end/proxy. They do not have their own crawlers.

If microsoft quit search for some reason, DDG would go away with them.
"There are many ways to center a business. You can be competitor focused, you can be product focused, you can be technology focused, you can be business model focused, and there are more. But in my view, obsessive customer focus is by far the most protective of Day 1 vitality.

Why? There are many advantages to a customer-centric approach, but here’s the big one: customers are always beautifully, wonderfully dissatisfied, even when they report being happy and business is great. Even when they don’t yet know it, customers want something better, and your desire to delight customers will drive you to invent on their behalf. No customer ever asked Amazon to create the Prime membership program, but it sure turns out they wanted it, and I could give you many such examples."

Jeff Besos

I think focusing on your customers should be the most important. Learn about competition, but don't act according to it, and let your competitors be that way if they want to
This is a scaled up version of my setup for my adult son, who is legally blind.
We setup 2 of these as our "zoom" stations at the beginning of the pandemic.
A good chair/sofa up close the TV, 55" UHD TV connected to a Lenovo laptop with a wireless keyboard and trackpad combo. My son's TV is also connected to the cable box, WII, DVD players (Reg & BR)

These are not some sort of high performance workstation just a cheap and dirty solution. Everything was in the house , Laptops from 2016, TVs and keyboards from the last couple of years of Black Friday sales and a few HDMI Cables.

I saw someone else's setup with a dual recliner that had integrated Fold away TV tables that the keyboard and mouse sat on. It was a gaming setup.
It is a hard problem, but the GDPR went into effect 3 years and 10 months ago. That date didn't come as a surprise, but was known 6 years ago. Anything newer than that should have taken data requests into account from the design stage. Anything older than that has had ample time to adjust. More than that 4 years you quote for Takeout!
Very interesting name for a voice coach.
Twist: one of the Clippys becomes a traitor and collaborates with the humans.

I mean clearly we're in way over our heads here when trying to predict what would happen after Day Zero, so why not?
IIUC the effect in bosons was already known, and the new interesting part is that they were able to measure it in a photon gas experimentally:

From the abstract of the paper:

> For gases of material particles, studies of the mechanical response are well established, in fields from classical thermodynamics to cold atomic quantum gases.

[i.e. a similar result is known for atoms]

> Here we demonstrate a measurement of the compressibility of a two-dimensional quantum gas of light in a box potential and obtain the equation of state for the optical medium. The experiment is carried out in a nanostructured dye-filled optical microcavity.

[i.e. this is a new experimental result]

> We observe signatures of Bose-Einstein condensation at high phase-space densities in the finite-size system.

[i.e. the photons are bosons as expected]

Just in case, this is not a dismissive comment. I'd like to add that it's amazing and weird that they can measure this.
It was only added to the OED in 2018 after being misused in tech for fifteen or so years.

Originally a performant was someone who'd performed in something (similar to combatant).

Unfortunately it stuck.
Free-expression cultism expands like a gas.

It's one thing to have a constitutional amendment that forbids jailing somebody because the government doesn't like what they say.

It's another thing to say that somebody has to provide you with a free printing press, that people have to read it, that communities can't protect themselves from harmful communications, etc.

Where does it stop?

Several times a week I flag a discussion on HN where somebody leads with how grievously wounded they feel because somebody downvoted their post. Free speech fetishism turns into a sense of entitlement that people are forced to not just read their dreck but we can't express disapproval of it. When are we going to be forced to grin and clap like idiots to appease their narcissism?
Sorry, what impact does i3 have on your carbon footprint?
Consumers voluntarily choose to let those corporations get away with anything. It's that boring. They do it, because of the horror of lowering their living standard even a tiny bit to something that isn't unethical.

We need to get off oil and gas and what did the government do in Germany? They literally removed taxes from oil to boost dependence on Russia because populism is just that strong.

Heck, just look at homeowners, they vote in the exact laws that mega corporations need to corner the housing market. There are no conspiracy theories. Every single human on earth is responsible for the mess we are in.

I'm the problem and so are you.
I don't see the Maddy link, but anyway try for something written in the current century.
As long as the so-called “left” is against ideals of individual freedom, the so-called “left” is a complete joke.

Freedom of speech for working people, who have always been subject to the whims of the authoritarian workplace, has never been realized in the United States. Still, abandoning it as an ideal altogether, and nonsensically insisting its passé while inciting a war on “disinformation” in the same breath is utterly terrifying.
How do you go from the pre stage to final stage?
I don’t know about “only” path but not sure why this is downvoted as it’s a valid point of view.
I guess the motivation is low as I frequently have to do this it seems.
Open versus Proprietary: recalculating Dutch solar power generation
> Ultimately this was resolved by not allowing window spanning on the platform anymore.

You can still window span on macOS. You just have to disable the feature that gives every display its own workspaces.

Not that you’d ever want to do that. At least I can’t think of a single good reason why anyone would want this.
Did you read the part of the story about their horrible computerized drug dispenser? I'm amazed more people didn't die as a result. Prosecuting this nurse is among the most wrong-headed things I've seen all week.
> I would be interested in anyone posting what they think is an economically viable path to challenging Google.

You only search whitelisted sites, which removes a lot of the SEO and blogspam from the results, and makes the index is wildly smaller. Search is free, but users can also pay a cheap subscription for the ability to flag sites as spammy, submit sites they think are missing, and submit queries the site has trouble with. Someone manually goes through the top N most-repeated submissions each day (early on this is all of them) and determines whether to tweak the whitelist.

Because your initial audience has to be people who are very enthusiastic about better search results, you should identify what they're interested in and focus your efforts on initial whitelists to things they care about. That might be technical questions (MDN StackOverflow, every random framework's docs site), or maybe whatever it is journalists would want to have access to (I'm not qualified to answer).

I don't think VC-encouraged hypergrowth is possible with the above strategy, but you could probably get to ramen profitable in a reasonable time frame, with slow growth ever after.
This reminds me of Lady Gaga. When I first heard her music, I thought she was just another pop performer. But when I saw her play a live performance, I realized that she was playing up the silly pop performer trope while being a serious musician underneath it.

Similarly, I think the Beach Boys probably get discounted by many, including myself, because the genre they have chosen, and their style and aesthetic, scream not to be taken seriously. But, if you do anyway, there is some incredible musicianship in there. God Only Knows, cited by another commenter, is a great example.

I question what credentials this author has. The premise of their Beethoven series (Why has no musician in the modern era achieved the stature of Beethoven, despite a much higher population of potential artists today?) seems ludicrous on its face. I shouldn't say credentials, when I mean credibility. I haven't heard a single credible thought from the author yet, besides the suggestion to check out the Beach Boys, which was a good one.
> This attitude of “what is the best” promotes cargo culting and should stop.

The terse certainty in your response is ironic, is it not?

Considering the parent post frames that as opinion with the word "probably" and then makes a case for the opinion.
Their entire business is managing authentication and they don't use hardware tokens for all employees. Welcome to clown town.
My lame claim to fame.

I was the one who suggested making it a prequel and have scientists watching
you and from behind the windows (tough I'm pretty sure Nyko forgot by the time
he completed the mod). Odd seeing this mentioned here.

I still have a toe in the Source modding community and I'm watching Desolation
with great interest. An absurd amount of effort went into this, augmenting the
engine, the editor, inflicting vgui upon themselves…

Source is _not_ a flexible and cooperative engine, lots of hardcoded stuff,
necessary workarounds, complicated workflows, but there's still a modding and
mapping community and my only wish is for our Lord and Savior Gabe Newell to
release the sources of Source (1), GoldSrc, and the tooling around them.
So much could be done. I should mail him, iosource needs to happen.
It seems to me that we are the resources of this planet. If you just desired materials, any number of objects in space would be better suited. Unless it's the goldilocks zone of environments that you are after, a habitable planet might be harder to come by.
It happens in your body.

Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1V-LSD
I don't see any link to any sort of recent chart of the MUI. Hard to find online as well.
I use git blame a lot
Author here, I agree. I use ligatures mostly because I write JS and it's not that annoying. Now that I wrote something about PHP it's a bit problematic.
So I agree that the quality of Google search is declining, but long story short the others are still worse (IMHO obviously).

I tried DDG for a couple of weeks and it was just awful. For almost all non-trivial searches i had to result to !g. I finally switched back after two weeks or so and suddenly I'm much happier with the quality of Google search results.

Obviously this is just one man's opinion.

I think the technical challenges are big enough to make this a really difficult task.
This reminds me of my rant about televisions versus monitors on my 2014 blog entry "4K is for Programmers."

https://tiamat.tsotech.com/4k-is-for-programmers
because they Peter Thiel'd 10x'ed search and ads and competing against them would require extraordinary cost and a breakthrough in either.
Lol Yeah, I'm at fault for being hyperbolic on the internet.

In real life, I'm absolutely considerate of people's time. I just don't hesitate to ask questions early on and give others an "out" if they're strapped for time. It's just that I don't get it into my head that their time is so much more valuable than mine that I can't interrupt them to ask dumb questions.
I wholeheartedly agree. I don’t think I will ever understand why people want to mess with legibility in a craft that is so heavily dependent on using correct characters in correct places.
hm I think the industry was stale for quite some time but lately it has picked up a lot. What exactly are you looking for?
Today you have high refresh rates,4k or 5k screens, (curved) Ultrawide, Variable Refresh rates, low latencies.
Comparing them with TVs is not entirely fair, as those usually are not great for displaying text unless you get a specific panel with good chroma subsampling and in terms of latency TVs are usually also pretty far behind Monitors. The really good TVs are equally as expensive.
Euclidean Rhythm