skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are genes that can create sub cellular nanoparticles as well. i guess you could genetically edit germline gene modifications or even genetic modification post viable organism to create "in situ" nanoparticles

https://www.nature.com/articles/am201590

Optogenetics can be more invasive than what we see with the fruit flies as they usually involve running fiberoptics directly to the desired nerves. Also potentially more useful in growing tissues in petri dishes. new muscle tissue for heart/ethical meat you name it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5437765/

What we are seeing is sub second rudimentary brainwave manipulation. Literally a rudimentary remote controlled fly.
What if Fossil were recompiled as an αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε ?
Yes coal mines are horrible. However, reclaimed mines are not worse for the environment than literally replacing equivalent acreage with a blanket of monolithic fused-silicon solar collectors (under which, there is no environment).

My point is not that coal is good, it is that the acreage comparison is not good.
A terrible shame how HN shadow bans people. Wouldn't be using it if I didn't remember that this is a site operated by ycombinator with objectives other than facilitating an open and and inclusive social network. Violates the basic principle of decency on how you should treat others the way you want to be treated. i get why and accept it in a way, doesn't mean I like it.
Wow! One of the biggest con man has made it to HN as well?

He is commoditizing soil and has found a new way to make money.

For those who really worry about soil and the facts spoken or presented by him, it is a total garbage and it done purely as a publicity stunt so that people will start buying the so called blessed soil from him (??).

Buying the blessed soil (whose soil is it anyway?) will save the soil from degrading? Poeple get to buy some soil samples blessed (!!??) by this conman and keep it in their homes and expect the soil is saved while he happily walks towards the bank laughing about people's stupidity!!!

Really??

One has to blame everyone in the entire process. Not just the use of chemical fertilizers. Greed driven by demand, corporatization of essential commodities, globalization of govts and pure profit based approach is making the life on this beautiful planet a deteriorating hell! Sooner or later, it will become like the scenes of Wall-E movie where people abandon the planet and start to wander around for a better quality of life albeit with some differences.

The propaganda should have been to stop using chemicals and pesticides, move towards organic method of farming and educating people about sustainable living and introducing technology guidance, reducing dependencies and a changed economic models... But it all sounds like Utopian wishes and might never come true on this godforsaken planet with the current set of population and people's mindset...

HN is a fantastic community with great minds wandering across multitude of topics and I hope they don't buy into this BS!!!
If possible, I'd recommend getting an OpenWRT wireless router where the GPIO (general purpose input/output) and UART pins are broken out. You can use that to control a relay and turn devices on/off from just the shell (eg: deploy the routers in pairs, and if one of them goes down, you can power cycle it using the other device). The UART port lets you access serial data devices (possibly through a 3.3V to 12V level converter) using Picocom.

For example:

1 Channel Relay Module with Optocoupler Isolation ~$4
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2251832713449142.html

GL-MT300N-V2 OpenWRT router ~$27
https://store.gl-inet.com/products/usa-only-mango-gl-mt300n-...

GL-MT300N-V2 OpenWRT Specs
https://openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/gl-mt300n_v2

- UART pins

- GPIO pins available (requires soldering)

- 1x USB 2.0

Example of toggling GPIO44 10 times, then leaving it on:

let GPIO_STATE=0
for i in $(seq 10)
do
echo $GPIO_STATE > /sys/devices/virtual/gpio/gpio44/value
# Toggle GPIO_STATE variable between 0 and 1 via XOR
((GPIO_STATE ^= 1))
sleep 5 # sleep for 5 seconds
done
# Enable GPIO44 at the end
echo 1 > /sys/devices/virtual/gpio/gpio44/value

https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/initscripts
On top of that, there is the potential for the new place to not be so good. Maybe they hired you on with a part of your salary being paid in bonus (and your last job was too), but unlike the last job that paid a bonus every year for the last decade, this new one cut bonuses after 2 years due to "market conditions".

There is also the potential that if the new place is paying you more than they are others on your new team (that have been there for a while), they will expect a lot more from you than what may even be practical. I've experienced both of these in the past. At this point I make well at the upper end for my job specification (although I end up wearing quite a few more hats), and although I can get a 10 - 15% bump that isn't worth as much in my current tax bracket.
Hmm, yeah but most people don't own or rent outdoor space to do anything on.
Totem Robotics Kit – A Review
Fact-check: No, NASA did not issue a warning against masturbating in space
Blazor WASM is promising but it really lacks some like MobX. There is a Weave based project that's sim to MobX, but hasn't gotten a ton of traction.

Then there is a Redux-like option and.. No thanks :D
That's a copper mine, and yes mercury occurs naturally in copper ores.
Interface gets crazy confused after multiple inputs.
I’m not sure why the color of the device matters here
I think I like the idea but I have a really hard time figuring out what exactly the code is doing. This is in contrast to say (in my experience), jsx - where what's going on is quite obvious, or zig, where for the most part it's clear what "the equivalent c would be".

I apologize, I don't have specific feedback beyond a vague sense of mild confusion or constructive ideas on how to make it better, hopefully someone else brighter than I can take a crack at it?
(a response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32233552)
The crashers in public lobbies are real problems, but you should be aware that the vast majority of malicious behavior is not coming from modified clients. It's coming from avatars with specifically programmed shaders which causes others' clients to crash, or purposely malformed package files that cause the client to crash, or sound sources that cause the client to crash. All of those methods to maliciously crash other users are uploaded with VRchat's own SDK in Unity and requires zero 3rd party mods. On the flip side, there were mods specifically designed to prevent crashes by these malicious avatars that can no longer be used due to EAC (FinalIKSanitizer, TrueShaderAntiCrash, etc).
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Concepts for linear cities have been around for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_city

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/uh9mhp/the_l...
Sure, sounds fine. That doesn’t explain why either choice deserves criticism.
I found it interesting that 85% of pro sports athletes are introverts.

That said, I believe extroverts are the ones who make decisions about open-plan seating, with no regard to introversion.
There's 140,000,000 homes/dwellings in the USA.

$65,000,000,000 / 140,000,000 dwellings = $464.28 per dwelling

The government should offer $464 per home to any ISP/communications company that can demonstrate symmetric gigabit Internet inside that home on the condition that the home has a one year subscription.

Things would happen then.
If there’s a shortage of good candidates, and you interview reasonably well, I don’t think there’s a limit. We recently made an offer to a candidate who had about 7 different positions in 10 years (lots of startups), but was great in the interview, only to lose out to Google whose offer was unbelievably higher.
Do you know if it is practical to grow base ingredients like potato, carrots and brocoli with a low cost setup? And what about soil vs hydroponic?
I think you missed the actual answer. There is a near future sci-fi book called Rainbows End written by a computer science professor 15 years ago (and that predicted a lot of stuff, like... cryptocurrency) that has an answer for this.

What will be the real "VR metaverse" for most consumers is the one that maps to reality. The AR metaverse. Being able to visit people in real life in real locations, virtually: augmented reality. Where the virtual reality part of that is a small extra side bit for the dedicated people.
Imagine the constant thwack! sounds of birds flying into the glass.
First time hearing of seed sprouting is there a community site/forum for this stuff?
I forgot about that chip.

yeah, I don’t think anyone looked at the phantom stack idea. Perhaps interlisp should have.
Show HN: Pathvector – Secure and open-source BGP routing platform
Disclaimer: I don't have kids. So my stake is minimal.

I've lived places (North Carolina) where the public schools suck. And I've lived places (suburbs of Chicago) where public schools are "better" than private schools. So I've seen through family how the public system can fail and you would want a way to give some choice to parents, and others where there is no real choice.

At the end of the day I see school choice vouchers as a failure of local and/or state government. It's possible to have great schools with good teachers and small class sizes (the latter of which overwhelming dominates students' success, based on all the data and studies), with nothing but public funding.

The problem to solve with education is two part: first fund them, so they can pay enough teachers to have manageable class sizes; second to allow education professionals to professionally educate and defer to their expertise.

Basically we live in an era where we know how to maximize the value of education. First have enough money available to have enough professionals teach. Second, prefer to listen to those professionals who have garnered through data and experience what and how to teach kids most effectively. You'll notice that parents are removed from the situation; everyone has to pay to get kids educated because it benefits us all (property taxes), and like we don't tell doctors what to treat us with, maybe we don't tell teachers what our students need to learn or what methods to use.

So all in all, school choice vouchers are just a stopgap around a lack of taxes to fund public schools. Why give vouchers when you can raise taxes, except if those taxes aren't popular politically? And I don't think that's a valid question. Obviously all schools should be as good as they can be, and everyone should pay as much as they are able through taxes to maximize the quality of our schools. It's not an unknown, there are data and practices that are known to lead to the most success.

However. In the United States, conservative ideology correlated with a lack of education. Fact has a liberal bias. We shouldn't tolerate a political ideology based in ignorance, because it's doomed to create education systems that fail for its own survival.
And why bitcoin is here to stay regardless of price and of course xmr.
MTTF at infinity due to relativistic effects is a pretty funny idea.
I've know folks who leave, have a change of heart, and return to the same company (for more money).
"you'll love"
I think that takes more time to achieve.
There are a lot of legitimate b2c healthtech companies looking for app developers.
It reminds me of my favorite personal rpg game: One can find himself surrounded by superior minds which is quite humbling but what if this is not at all the case? You are to play the shining beacon of intellect in the room? Not much fun at all. Thus in stead one asks carefully crafted dumb questions until everyone is 100% convinced yours is the worse disposition. You still have to solve all the puzzels on the quest of live or whatever the mission your party of heroes gathered for but to avoid being discovered a nerd you quickly insert a dumb question. Is there alcohol in this beer? What day is it? etc Let them win with chess. Think deeply if you want sugar in your coffee.

People make the funniest faces. After a few reasonably dumb questions you can get away with slightly more stupid and work your way towards outlandish!

I suggested one time to take turns looking at google earth to see if someone walked out of a building.
It's almost like we need some kind of cryptography currency
You're not stupid for that, you've found contentment in your life that those who perpetually seek for more may never find. They may even pay for it later when the stress impacts their health and well-being.
Cultivating ignominy can be a spiritual practice in itself. Not unlike indifference to riches, etc.

Great poem BTW.
Exactly. Cities evolve organically, over decades and centuries. An up-front design like this will never come to be. Something may come from it, but it will be much more similar to a regular city than this.
Isn't sand going to start piling up on the side that the wind usually blows from?
My tip for staying and getting a large increase:

If you have leverage by being hard to replace with clear high $ impact and you ask your skip-level manager to make you whole, then you can negotiate a rise. For instance, I received a 45% increase this year upon an already good pay.
Surprised to find this on the front page of HN.

Note that the current law already forbids cash transactions higher than 11,000 NIS and that an exception is carved out for automobile purchases. This law is tightening screws that already exist, not implementing new screws.
My experience with those people (and being one of them), is they push as far as they reasonably can within a year or two and then move to something else. There's something about people who stay at companies for a long time (not denigrating it at all) that I don't have. At some point I say, I have reached my natural conclusion here and will now do something else.
And this will hopefully mean the end of Zuckerberg's expansion. It would be totally brilliant if this ended Meta.
> there are plans afoot to impose additional restrictions on cash in the future, with the Treasury and Tax Authority pushing for a law prohibiting any citizen from holding more than NIS 200,000 in cash in his home.

One motivation for CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies) was succinctly stated by BIS (Bank of International Settlements, the central bank for all central banks, including US and UK) Director Carstens at an IMF meeting in 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVmKN4DSu3g&t=1451s

> With cash, we don't know who is using the 100 dollar bill today ... a key difference with CBDC is that the central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that determine the expression of that central bank liability .. also we will have the technology to enforce that ... if an advanced economy issues a CBDC, and someone in a 3rd country wants to use it, it will require the consent of the central bank of the residence of that person, therefore the degree of control will be far bigger.

Previous CBDC threads on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30634245 (2022), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27805709 (2021).

Meanwhile, the US UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) was modified in July 2022 to recognize CERs (controllable electronic records), a flexible definition which could apply to both decentralized cryptocurrencies and centralized CBDCs. It's now up to individual U.S. states to ratify these changes in state legislation, https://www.clearygottlieb.com//news-and-insights/publicatio...

> Control under Article 12 is designed to be a technology-neutral functional equivalent of “possession.” It generally encompasses circumstances when a party has the “private key” or other mechanism to avail itself of substantially all of the benefits of the record, prevent others from availing themselves of such benefits, and transfer the record and associated benefits.
DALL·E diversity filter allegedly causing odd results if word “basketball” used
The why is spam prevention which is why it’s against their ToS to send automated messages as non-bot accounts. How do you (somewhat) enforce that you make everyone use their not scriptable client. Is it perfect, hell no, does it work, yes.

Like I get that this is HN and the hacker ethos is “anything I can do as a human I should be able to automate” but that makes the already intractable spam problem that much harder.
No environment? These sheep would beg to differ: https://www.photovoltaik.eu/sites/default/files/styles/auror...

Ok, it's mostly done in photovoltaic plants (and has advantages for both sides, because it stops plants that could eventually overgrow the solar modules), but I don't think there's anything stopping solar collector plants from being used the same way...
https://www.news24.com/news24/xArchive/Archive/Porn-the-new-...

psychological warfare
Recording of the week: What does the UK sound like?
Only played a few levels, but I loved it!
I think it's a Unity thing. No idea why it's a dotfile.
I think it’s officially within 1/2 a mile, but closer everywhere but the hills.

I looked at using the fiber to connect my house directly into the PAIX (I confounded an ISP years ago). PA was happy to rent me dark fibre which I could light up however I liked. They charged by the distance (I was about 1.5 km from the PAIX). IIRC it was going to be about $25K for the cap ex and then 2K/month to use it (plus my equipment). My wife sensibly said no.
Do you already own a home?
As with all DRM, it will pose no real obstacle to abusers will inconveniencing regular users (in this case, people using quality-of-life mods).
> The stated purpose of the law is to force the general public to use digital means of payment rather than cash, so that transactions can be easily monitored.

You mean you don’t want the government monitoring you at all times?

I mean, the end goal is also to decide what you spend it on…

> Digital dollars, on the other hand, would be traceable and programmable. The Federal Reserve (or some other designated entity) would have the ability to create more digital dollars whenever it sees fit, and, depending on how the legislation is written setting up the currency, the dollars could be formulated to have various rules and restrictions built into their design.

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/599768-biden-is-planning...

(This is the US, but UK, EU, and I’m assuming elsewhere all have the same legislation at the moment. China already has this to a degree with the social credit system)

Imagine, I go to get groceries:

checkout machine: “sorry, you used all your carbon credits this month”

You: “but I need food!”

Checkout machine: “if you need food, remember cricket powder is carbon net neutral”

You: “guess I’ll eat that this week.. grumble”

Yeah, that’s literally and explicitly what is being discussed. Maybe this scenario is exaggerated, but carbon tax credit and restricting purchases inbound.
I understand what you’re saying about schools, but it just isn’t reflected in reality. New homes are built throughout the state still. Property taxes are readjusted on building renovations and sales so eventually these buildings will get reassessed. Another way schools are funded is through the state income taxes. It’s already the case that a majority of funding comes from the state. If anything a city would want to have old buildings torn down, converted or sold to developers because that would immediately increase current and future property tax revenue.
AT&T already offers symmetric gigabit fiber service in some areas, though it costs more like $1000/yr.

The US gov seems broken, hasn't done anything noticeably new and good for me since ObamaCare.
My gut says some of my crippling depression is down to multiple rounds of antibiotics throughout my life.

If fecal transplants, or some cheaper-to-prescribe version were made available, feels like that would go a long way to helping a certain portion of people who are depressed, anxious, and have weight or immune disorders etc.
Love it when people create great things for fun! Here I am working the work :(
It's rather telling that the ad tools on platforms are becoming the biggest facet of development jobs in social media. In looking through them myself, I've noticed how gamified and geared towards addiction they have become. Platforms encourage users to "experiment" until they find our what works, and everyone has to figure out how to target audiences properly, and the configuration options are very intense and varying (based on what is trending) each time... It's almost like playing roulette in a casino.

Lord have mercy on all the inexperienced kids and others who just want to create videos and have them seen when they try ads... A lot of experimental money is gambled away on ads daily... I'm pretty sure it's a big pile of income annually for platforms.
Not only that, but the headline's gone off the path quite a way. While the I3's front wheels are not driven by an axle, they do rotate on a stub axle, which I guess is technically an axle. It's really just a short metal stick (an accurately manufactured one) that locates the center of the wheel bearings. They're also using the stock steering knuckle, which is the part that actually turns. What they've invented is moving the tie rod connection closer to the stock center of rotation with hacked-up bolt-on bits. That's beer engineer level stuff.
> Amazon likely loses lots of money by shipping heavy food items to Bush Alaska,

Probably not.

U.S. Mail to Bush Alaska is heavily subsidized, through a program called "bypass mail".

In the past some people have seriously abused this program (e.g. mailing enough concrete blocks to construct an entire building).
I know it's just an example, but querying database, saving to file, displaying web page - all in one function - reminded me of old big-ball-of-mud PHP codebases.
This is heavy, heavy speculation.
cron heat maps
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6qscza
The fact that society is different from what it was when you were young doesn't mean "civilization is in freefall", let's not get overly dramatic, as you're probably just having your own "get off my lawn" moment as other generations before you have.

I'd also argue that it's consequences and not shame that keeps people's behavior "in line".
I would love to love it, but I don't know how it holds up against a used pickup truck, say a used small toyota pickup or an older f-150.
I dunno, I believe his ranting about M&Ms came from a real place. He sure seemed upset that their recent redesign left him less sexually satisfied.
For context, under the table transactions are very common in Israel. Tax avoidance is everywhere.
> under which, there is no environment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29217929

Also, if you put a solar panel on a roof of a building, there will still be a building underneath the solar panel. Many people live in them, they dont get obliterated just because they are underneath a solar panel.
It's a replacement for most - not all, but most - uses of aeroplanes.
But I don't want any content recommendations. I don't like the idea of infinite channels and endless content to flood my skull. I use Instagram to keep up with what friends and family are doing. I just want to see the content my friends put up. Not the things they like, not similar accounts, not similar industries, not hot topics. And when I've caught up, I want to see the previous content, not unrelated accounts and promotions.

I work in travel content and on my work account I want to see the content of my clients and prospective clients I've chosen to follow (to see the work they're selecting or which videographers they're using), but instead it pushes everything else on me.

More than ever, these apps are about consuming content - ever increasing amounts of it. I seriously resent that.
You would think that it would be beneficial for everyone to have people stick in a job role for a long time, gain lots of experience, become very good at it, and maybe even become comfortable. But just keeping things going isn't good enough in this world.