skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Number one on the list of "gifts your family can give you to make you hate them": the BeatBo[0] child's toy. It rolls around, has no on/off or volume control, and is motion/vibration activated, so it will indeed start blaring music and rolling around if you take actions like "walk across the floor".

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Price-Bright-Beats-Tumble-Beat...
It requires a card from a subscribing library. Not all subscribing libraries are public libraries and not all libraries subscribe. They don’t have exclusive streaming rights to much of their collection, although they often have stuff that no one else will have because their focus tends to be on indie/foreign/documentary films (not exclusively, but largely).
Music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eqb_-j3FDA
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I remember getting a digital watch in a box of cereal in ~1990 or so. That thing lasted 10+ years on just the battery inside it.
They only added the option to turn off auto play quite recently.
You'd have to implement a coeficient based on the average time needed to aquire said skill for a person with average IQ and EQ, performance, number of base skills required to learn said skill, so on. This formula would be a bit more complex than this but you get the jist of it.

It wouldn't be impossible to quantify it for all but edge cases.
Even if Monsanto is trying to influence reporting, that doesn't mean that the criticism against GMO is automatically correct. That doesn't even make sense

The previous commenters are talking about the criticism of GMO in which GMO organisms are suddenly killing babies because there's corn making fish proteins. The criticisms literally don't make sense from a biochemical mechanism standpoint, and the previous commenters are pointing this out.

That means that the previous commenters are standing up for scientific integrity while you come along saying "big company bad, therefore everything big company says is lie"
Because my young kids always got suspicious when I tried to “teach” them something, I found a way to weave it into real life. One kid would ask me for 7 Froot Loops, so I’d give them 4 and ask them how many I still owe them. Or we’d be out on a drive and I’d ask them if trees are alive. Then I would be adversarial with them: “if they’re alive, why don’t they move?” “What do they eat?” The adversarial thing works really well, depending on their personality. I’d get them to do all kinds of math stuff this way.

If you’re looking for a more structured approach, I counted marbles on a carpet with one kid for a while, every night. They put up with it but pretty much hated it. I could tell the learning wasn’t super deep. When I tried that with the second one, they pretty much rolled the marbles under the furniture.

What I’ve learned about kids is they are so different that a single approach may only be optimal for 1 in 5 of them (I made up that number). Which is why I wish I could home school them, because no teacher or school I’ve found can seem to customize their lesson plan enough.
> Climate change makes Canada much more useful than Mexico. The United States has enough arid desert already.

Yeah, but that's moving the goalposts. I was only commenting on suitability as a target for "a war to fuel the nationalist fire." There are already hooks for that w.r.t. Mexico, but they'd have to be created out of whole cloth for Canada.
Having a rather successfull app with no tracking at all I'll be throwing in my doubts.
Show HN: Rebudget, Simplify Your Budget
Hey HN,

I've recently released the MVP version of Rebudget, a personal finance app that I've been working on-and-off over the last 2 years.
Rebudget helps you create a budget and track your personal finances using the zero-based budgeting or the envelope method. I originally
started working on this mostly as a fun side project to experiment and see what I could do, but also as a potential Mint/YNAB replacement
for myself (as well as my wife's spreadsheet!).

There is still a lot of work to be done (it may be a little rough around the edges in some places), but I'm excited about the challenges and work ahead.

I'm open to any questions or feedback that is provided. Thanks!
> Oh, great, this debate again! I shall use this post as ammunition next time I am arguing with our stupid design team about why we need an off switch on the stupid product we are designing, because it is a giant pain to live with devices you cannot turn off.

I increasingly subscribe to the thesis that many designers and design teams design primarily in an effort to impress other designers. They don't have to use the things. They often don't even really care if the things work at all. They care that other designers - their artistic peers - are impressed.

This does not generally result in what we the customers or users would regard as good design. The phenomenon reminds me of software engineers I've worked with who were more interested in building something with event sourcing and stream processing and functional languages rather than solving the problem more readily.
Yeah but in both scenarios you are putting it on a different vehicle to go longhaul.

These would be replacing rigids for fairly local delivery - rigids which don’t usually do long haul now.
Well, I am little confused. Is this thing open source too?
It's just done it again! this is the forth time in three days, twice from my PC and twice from the smartphone.
I'd push back pretty heavily on that. Bike companies have plenty of ways to tweak messaging. But at the end of the day, bike shops have set and small hours. And Walmart is probably the largest seller of bikes in a given region.

And, as is usual in product companies, getting price under control will almost certainly have more of an impact on sales. That and just getting in front of more people, period.
A lock and a key has other failure modes. I broke a key in a lock more than once in my life. I also once accidentally fouled up a lock with some kind of dirt/fluff that it stopped working with the key.
I would say our risk perception is broken in an opposite way: we became too risk-averse thus making simple things insanely more complicated. Think nuclear power.
Ask HN: Is Heroku Being Sunset?
I'm curious of the veracity of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31291549

It describes a "Project Periwinkle" that essentially would be spinning down Heroku. Is this really happening?

Is it time for me to look for a different host?
So you want to avoid fiscal regulations of a oppressive regime?

Sounds like tax evasion/money laundering with extra steps to me.

You could call it justified tax evasion, maybe. If I'm being generous.
My bank has desktop apps but not for Linux. The only other alternative to a smartphone is a hardware TAN generator and they won't give me one because I "don't need it".

At the same time they only allow a 5-digit pin as password for everyone, and as the phone is the second factor it doesn't have 2FA itself. The 5-digit pin is enough to access everything, you don't even need a username because the app is tied to the account.

It's obvious they just threw something together to comply with regulations.
You could probably pick it. There are, not surprisingly, plenty of videos on YouTube about this.
Nothing about this requires the blockchain though. It's additional complexity for no gain.
Driving in very-central London is great. Ever since all the fees the streets are often empty! Parking on the other hand...
Just happened again. See comment below.
I guess it depends on the developers' definition of "successful." If the goal was to ship a completed game than Star Citizen is an abject failure. If the goal was to make hundreds of millions of dollars working on an overly ambitious passion project than it has been wildly successful.
Ask HN: What is the most compelling reason young people should learn to program?
What is the most compelling reason young people (13-18) should learn to program—especially if they are not interested in pursuing a career in the tech industry? Why should students use their computers for more than browsing the web and using word processors?
Why? Turning off your smoke detectors to save battery seems like a profoundly bad idea
I've always wondered how restaurants in SF can find employees. I've never lived in San Francisco but everyone tells me you can't survive there unless you make at minimum $100k. So where do these cooks making $15/hour live? These days nobody will rent to you unless you make 2.5x rent so how does this work?
> For example, 38 percent of developers using ads for revenue generation, and almost all apps selling data to third parties, reported a decline in revenue with their post-GDPR monetization strategies

Oh no.

Does that mean there’s been a drop in parasitic flash light apps?
Not sorry at all for that "lost generation", maybe they should have though about business ideas that don't rely on exploiting private data.
If you are looking at online things try
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or https://www.abcya.com/
Dude. Go move to my dad’s village in Bangladesh for a year, so what they do, then come back and post on HN.
Technically the US is a “high trust” society. Meaning we have institutions like rule of law, independent courts, and elections that are trusted by society to facilitate commercial and legal relations between people, rather than personal relationships and kinships.

Yes we complain a lot and criticize the government and don’t fully trust our polarized politicians, but a real “low trust” society is a far cry from what we have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_trust_and_low_trust_socie...
Environmental Protection Orders and the Lost Generation of Innovative Chemical Plants
I think you're missing that the feature we're talking about is specifically within the $5/month option, in much the same way that ProtonMail (the one I use), also hides their catch-all option behind a higher price-point.

I'm also fairly sure that they don't let you reply as the address the catch-all was placed on, which is an important feature.

If you know any that do, that'd be great.
I might give it a chance.
It seems the supply of tech talent is constrained globally. So if a sufficient number of companies try to outsource, they could drive up prices and be no better off. Legal issues can come into play too. Some information must be kept domestically and not be distributed off-shore. On top of all this, my company already does some outsourcing. The quality of the work is usually subpar. They tend to be ok at supporting well documented systems, but not great at building systems. The turnover can lead to potential problems in even supporting systems since it's a revolving at those agencies - as soon as someone good finds a better job (fairly common) they'll leave.
does it matter whether you have a heliocentric or a geocentric worldview when using this method?
I would assume they were prompted for their age on youtube.
Even typical Twitter users can have opinions we agree with at least some of the time.
Global economy is on its way out, as covid, and the return of the cold war, have shown what happens when vital sectors depend on foreign powers.
I'm a Wordpress developer, and I didn't know much about Wordpress development < 2 years ago. I try to be diligent about testing code and providing ample documentation. However, even years after a site or a product has launched, I'm pulled back into the project to correct some mistake in a function's logic or some other such bug. Perhaps there are libraries that can help provide more rigorous testing.

How do you avoid getting bogged down fixing old code? Are there any other good tips and tricks for testing code and fortifying it against future breakage? Is it language-specific?

I wonder if there are any global rules that can help rookie engineers and developers avoid getting pulled back into old projects and old code. There's certainly something to be said about dependencies and updates in the world of Wordpress, and some obvious best practices to avoid those common conflicts.
Based on Google’s documentation on supervised accounts [1], sounds like your child is/was under 13?

They don’t have these checks in place for the fun of it. They’re usually legally mandated, otherwise some parent will sue them because “Google exposed my child to X Y or Z”

[1] https://support.google.com/families/answer/7106787?hl=en
Taxing consumption is inherently regressive. By its nature, it places a disproportionate amount of the burden on those least able to pay for it.
That’s not how I read his post. Regardless you can mark me down as someone who doesn’t want the government trying to “goose” our economy through increasingly complex methods, like artificially low interest rates, corporate welfare, etc.

I do however fully support reasonable regulations (consequences for externalities), building infrastructure, universal aid and healthcare programs, etc.

Basically bad decisions like over borrowing, and bad lending, should be punished (not bailed out or you encourage bad decisions). Financial decisions that shift cost to others (externalities like dumping chemicals into a river) should also be punished. At the same time a safety net can be developed (cheap housing, food, or even UBI) to prevent the most devastating individual consequences (especially those you may not even be responsible for). That’s my ideal at least.
Like everyone else here in the comments, I got major nostalgic vibes from this post. I was one of the snot-nosed kids back in the late 90s/early 2000s that made sure to add myself on my own staff page as "Webmaster".

Does anyone remember the early anime community of those days, by chance? It was such a vibrant community of builders and "webmasters".
It's just like "The" Mafia, even though we know there are multiple Families.
This was my experience too... I tried to us tessaract for mobile app that scanned food labels in realtime using the camera video feed, I found that google's ML library text recognition was much faster, and reliable.
Perhaps the size of the company could dictate the size and scope of work. With a small company, one person would bear responsibility for everything. Whereas within a larger corporation, the responsibility is spread amongst a cohort of people who then can focus on a subset of skills.
> there’s nothing really that can be done

I very much doubt nothing can be done - this is just a matter of (political) will and appropriate enforcement.

Here in MA we also have a law that says that items for sale must be priced. The law must have teeth, because all big stores have dedicated price scanners spread out through the store. The scanners can be used to check the price of any item, in case a price tag was not applied. In general, price tags are present, even in small corner stores.
"The GAR2022 blames these disasters on a broken perception of risk based on “optimism, underestimation and invincibility,” which leads to policy, finance and development decisions that exacerbate existing vulnerabilities and put people in danger."

Optimism? I'd say it's apathy. Doomsday reports, also very correct and alarming ones, have lost their effect. People have become numb, pessimistic and just assume or even accept that everything is going to shit. They feel powerless to do anything about it, or are too occupied with their own economic relevance.
I don't mean to nitpick, but please refer to my comment regarding the inability of being able to inventory everything that can possibly go wrong in a computerized system. That's especially true given that if you take any successful engineering project, you'll see that its useful lifetime usually spans several individual engineering careers. Take something like Windows, or even Android for example. The people who were involved in its early days usually end up moving on to other projects. It's in fact not uncommon to change teams or companies every 3-5 years. There generally is no way for newcomers to understand everything about the system they're inheriting and they'll typically be encouraged not to break legacy stuff.

So not only are systems increasingly complex, but those maintaining them at any given point in time likely don't understand them nearly enough to accomplish what you suggest: understand all potential outcomes and provide useful error recovery. Therefore, the "provide help and guidance" advice provided by Norman effectively becomes "silent failure" for those cases not anticipated by the current-day release team. And since anticipating all outcomes is by definition impossible, Norman's advice is awful.
Isn't it obvious?

On 9/11 ~3500 people died. During the pandemic that many people were dying of Covid every day. In 2 years over 1 million Americans have died of Covid. 9/11 sparked 20 years of wars (that we lost) and trillions of dollars gone, not to mention the hundreds of thousands or millions we killed directly or indirectly in the process.

But the pandemic response? Slave muzzles [1] and an incredibly safe vaccine could've saved millions of people worldwide. Minor inconvenience, basically.

I mean look at how people are upset how gas is more expensive now. Do you really think people collectively will subject themselves to something similar long-term so decades from now the Earth might be slightly cooler than it's otherwise going to be? No shot.

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-qanon-rode-pandem...
By the early 1980s, Mergenthaler was selling the 202, which used computerized fonts rather than spinning film, and was considerably faster. A type-shop owner I met in New Jersey said that in the spinning film (VIP) days, his company ran the VIP three shifts, graveyard being given over to someone whose third job it was, and who slept beside the machine, which had been rigged to sound an alarm at end of job. Once the 202 came in, the backlog went away.
Except that I think it penalizes the neuro-diverse mind that can't get over the fact that this puzzle doesn't make rational sense, and they get stuck on that, at the expense of doing the problem.
There is a vaccine related joke here somewhere...
It seems that you are just reciting a long litany of pre-canned arguments that have told to you in order to maintain the status quo. For example:

> You do realize how much of the world's energy is produced by fossil fuels / chemical energy, right?

Assuming I'm ignorant of the current energy infrastructure is a weird thing to say when I point out in my very comment.

> The electrons don't materialize out of thin air. The energy still has to come from somewhere.

Yes and even passing familiarity with the world of energy shows that electrification of everything is going to be so economically efficient that it's unavoidable.

> And if the world's gas-powered auto fleet were to switch to electric overnight, we'd have blackouts for decades because we do not have the raw power generation capability to make up for that much energy deficit.

First, the idea of an overnight switch is ridiculous and uninteresting point to make, the entire point of the original article is that we have massive lithium price spikes, and we are barely into the transition.

...

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> Until batteries get probably about 2-3 times more dense in storage capacity, there's no way they can supplant gas cars and diesel powered semi trucks.

This is again completer disproven by what's happening in the market right now. Maybe 10 years ago you would have been able to say this with a straight face but you'll need to update your list of talking points now.

> And we should still be massively expanding nuclear power supply, 10 years ago.

If you look at the nuclear plants we were constructing 10 years ago, and where they are now, you will see that we dodged a massive bullet by not building nuclear then. The time to build nuclear might have been the 1980s, but around then nuclear has already been massive over-ordered, and we would have needed EVs or heat pumps something like that to start shifting more of our load to electric.

Since the 1980s, construction productivity has barely changed, whereas manufacturing productivity has gone through the roof. So in 2010, building nuclear, a construction project, was in incredibly risky proposition. And it failed miserably, saddling South Carolina electric customers with something like $20-$40/month extra on their bill for decades, for a project that will never be finished.

Nuclear is a dead tech, unless SMRs come in significantly under their projected costs, or if they can somehow drastically cut their manufacturing costs early in the late 2030s or 2040s. By then we will have an extra two decades of cost drops in solar/wind/storage too, so it is hard to imagine SMRs dropping at a faster rate. But you can't count them out entirely.
So if you're permabanned by Google and Apple (which isn't that far-fetched) you're out of luck?
What are some good hosts that can compete with Heroku besides AWS?
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Reminder:

Due to GDPR, companies can not track when people have gone for abortions and sell said data.

Remember safegraph [1]? This is in their privacy policy[2].

> As of May 25, 2018, a new data privacy law known as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (or the "GDPR") went into effect through the EEA countries. SafeGraph does not offer products or services involving the collection or sale of “personal data” in EEA countries. We likewise seek not to collect such personal data from our data providers. Should any of the foregoing change, we will update this section of our Privacy Policy.

This, to me, is one of the greatest wins of GDPR.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vzjb/location-data-abortio...

[2] https://www.safegraph.com/privacy-policy
The manual for it is still there: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/v1.6/
GitHub is a good example of that actually [0].

[0]: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/
Is Push-To-Talk the future of video conferencing?
Also not forgetting all the great lead-sugar based candy we're foregoing
I mostly agree with this - right tool for right job.

> They are mostly useful for things where high frequency bi-directional communication is required such as syncing multiple cursors, player positions/actions in realtime games and visual co-editing such as figma.

This is the only use case for websocket I have personally found - streaming user input to the server. Anything that goes server->client can just be some variant of fetch that is invoked as needed.

In my use cases, I stream player mouse events (via pointer lock API) over the socket. Depending on the browser/os/mouse, this can be hundreds per second.
Rechargeable AAAs are crap though. Power density sucks. Voltage level sucks (and voltage regulators will suck the battery dry before your micro does). And the form factor sucks.

I'd sooner have a 18650-family (e.g. 14240 or 14500) become standard than a bunch of AAAs.