skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm mostly surprised that a post about psytrance gets over 400 upvotes on HN. I'm a former (goa/psy) trance producer (in another life and century), and recently coming back to the world of producing. Maybe I'm stuck in the 90s, but it still feels to me like that "underground" sound we dance in the forest or desert to. But nope - 400+ upvotes on HN means it's a lot less underground than it is in my head, and even though the millennium was just "2 years ago" it seems like there was a lot of progress in those "couple years".
Soft to a boat, but not soft if you happen to be standing on deck and run into it. A modern straw bale is going to weigh about a hundred pounds. When this bylaw was written, straw was gathered and stored loose and they'd have been just tying a bundle together for this purpose.
You have no idea what you're talking about, right? https://www.axios.com/2023/05/11/stripes-crypto-strategy

"Accepting money is one thing, but paying out money to the rest of the world — especially long-tail countries with poor banking rails is another thing," he said.
"It works better than fiat payments in a lot of cases," he added."
It's less common now but pc keyboards always had the empty up arrow on shift in the 80s/90s and still common into the oughts: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/IBM_Mode...
Just wanting to add that this might just be perception. The most harmful bubbles are the ones you don't realise you're a part of
Ultra-Rare F-Type ZP Edition Is How Jaguar Will Bid Farewell to ICE Sports Cars
Argh, my life was so much better before I knew that :-(
Do you host any content like this?
Dumb cars, Dumb TVs. Printed books. Voice calls on the phone. I like reading the newspaper, just not subscribing to it. Paying with cash. Paper maps.
Show HN: Most powerful personal finance tool
You can just ask GPT-4 to summarise it instead.

https://chat.openai.com/share/251675a4-7b46-470e-a14e-fe6cf3...
Nobody should expect rolling TV news to meet the same standards of accuracy as written news.
Well I tried to keep it as implication as possible. There’s no way to make the question not sound crude unfortunately.
Sunvox is my favorite software, I can hardly remember any other software with so much personality + utility + smoothness + multi platform
Gotta be careful with domain names! After one drunken binge in the 90s, I ended up maintaining andthehorseyourodeinon.com for years.
[rambled musing]

If technology X is functional productive, is technology X really outdated?

If I think about how long the things I use will remain productive, the newest things have the shortest times…i.e. anything that requires the web.

A lot of technical change happens because scope expands. Battery powered screwdrivers make sense because more ordinary things use more screws and because there are more ordinary things in ordinary lives…e.g. DIY’d wire shelf organized closets.

[short answer]

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My HP LaserJet 1012 that I bought refurbished for $90 in 2004. I think I’m on my third toner cartridge. And through college it served as the house printer for half a dozen people.

I recently connected it to an old AirPort Express in bridge mode so that I can use it wirelessly. My partner got tired of plugging into it and wanted to upgrade it, but I refuse to part way with this simple and reliable beast.
Nvidia's banking on TensorRT to expand its generative AI dominance
Would it be wrong for me to flag this for wasting my time?
Are you claiming that in 1983 - it was mainstream even in the investment world that the only usage of the Internet was fraud and crime?
These blanket statements on Hackernews are so frustrating to read. Every one of these articles is bait for these type of comments. The comments fill up with people saying microservices suck, then it fills up with comments saying those comments suck.

Please understand that every environment, company, and project is different.
Orange Pi / Xunlong is a stable brand that's been primarily on Aliexpress for 7-8 years IIRC, producing various boards, all of which work fine for me. Very reliable seller, and the product + it's cheap. In the past they had Orange Pi PC, which was half the price of Raspberry Pi 2 or whatnot and much better in connectivity (4x real USB host interfaces, ...).

Their software I would not touch, but I never had to. Most Allwinner and Rockchip boards are well supported upstream. I just upstreamed support for Orange Pi 5 Plus a week ago or so.

https://xnux.eu/log/088.html

All you ever need with these random boards is to build your own Linux kernel and bootloader for them, which is a few fairly standard steps, and then you can use any normal aarch64 distro on them, even if the board is not "supported" by the distro.

I just have a script to cross-build the recent kernel for the boards I own, and update it remotely. Not a huge issue.
There's a great documentary on Demoscene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-keHkcTZD4
My persuasion is opposite. As software development gets easier we should expect the pendulum to swing back to custom apps that are fit for purpose, and those have a natural gravity towards this style of architecture.
It's possible and indeed normal to critique things even if you are not famous or notable and that's a fairly poor argument against any critic. People who never written a play or poem write critiques of Shakespeare all the time, should they be banned from doing so because they're not playwrights or poets?

Likewise, it's possible for someone to manage a sports team, successfully I might add, even if they were never a top player in that sport. My point is, I don't need to be a billionaire or found a successful company to be able to critique Paul Graham's writing. I personally find it banal and would rather seek out writers who came up with novel ideas, like for example Carl Jung or Joseph Campbell to name a couple.
Anyone who plays AAA games knows the currently state of the art and technical limitations. Sure it's not everyone, but a large enough non-technical portion of the population will be able to appreciate it, to some degree.
Okay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If you want to bet $10k on the success of this, outline the success criteria and deadline for evaluation of the bet and we'll spin up a Long Bet [1].

Stripe talks a lot, while TranferWise (among others) gets shit done wrt cross border payments on real rails. Crypto is slowly dying while central banks raise rates globally, making the casino attempt at yield unpalatable (most crypto trading was gambling). Africa, for example, is going digital payments faster than some developed countries [2] [3].

Stripe's problem (along with Visa and Mastercard for that matter) is that developing countries are leapfrogging developed world financial infra, and owning it themselves to prevent "light colonization" of this critical financial infra. This compresses the global TAM for the for profit folks who are skimming off rails volume.

[1] https://longbets.org/

[2] https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-i...

[3] https://papss.com/
The network does the payment processing. The rest can be implemented at a higher level. It is like offering customer support for open source software. Technically anyone can build a company on top of the software and start providing support.
Regular pipes mostly transport liquids or gases. These are metal tubes with latches in metal tubes moving at high speed.
Hyper-pedantic note: I think "sigmoid" is the term that describes these curves in the full generality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function
So what, maybe they need to perform exorcism of daemons
Unlikely on both counts. Realistically speaking, the problem with crypto is that you will always have to go against a nation state level entity's tax office. And that's not someone you can win a fight with unless you deal in real money.
Yeah but one of the big players could do it and successfully route their users there.
This logic sounds strange to me.

When I hear about a government being "protective", I associate that with "The Brussels Effect" and EU, not with Washington.

Let's take a bad analogy in food additives; Brussels will often ban things they science points but don't have confirmation yet if they're really dangerous. Washington will often only ban things once they unequivocally confirm that is a very serious short-term poison.

On a side note, you can't use Binance from (most?) of the EU either.
Here is the full list of this (and previous) years winners:

https://improbable.com/ig/winners/

And here is the full (virtual) ceremy, possibly even cheesier than the live ones that used to be held on the Harvard campus:

https://youtu.be/P9UQi0ORXv4
> The flu shot does not prevent one from getting the flu and spreading it to others

It does both of those things. Maybe read: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm

> Also, the risk of something needs to be put in context of the risk of what you're protecting against

True. And one thing we're protecting against is getting the flu. That has a probability much much higher than 1 in 2 million.
It’s most likely 9-layers because that what you need to correctly route the traces from one set of 12 pins, to the other set of 12 pins (to make up the 24 total in USB-C), which is needed to make the connector fully reversible. There will also be a e-mark chip in there that tells any connected device what the cable is capable of doing, so you don’t accidentally send 240w down a cable only capable of carrying 100w.

9 layers might sounds like a lot. But reversible connectors are a bit of a logistical nightmare from a PCB routing perspective. Made even more complicated by the very tight signalling requirements needed to hit Thunderbolt 4 transfer speeds. The end result is what looks like a significant over-engineering, but is really just an expression of how difficult it is to transport high data rate signals around PCBs and cables.
Sending money to other countries? You don't need to hold the coins long. Just buy some stable coins, send it, and other person sells them through a broker.

From what I understand sending money across counties is very expensive. Not to mention "bad countries"

Do people use it for this in real life?
WouldItBeWrongForMeToFlagThisForWastingMyTime.Com
Willen braucht man. Und Zigaretten.
I talk to people sitting near me when I work instead of using slack even though I get grief for doing it this way.
The crappy Dell KB813t that The Company has provided me has an outlined up-arrow.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-keyboard-smartcard-usb/...
In principle it isn't any more unhinged than the millions of people we work with who think Christianity or Judaism are real. If her Shamanism makes you uncomfortable, this is how many of us non religious people feel about all of you all the time.
I've used TextPad forever as my main editor. IDEs are distracting for me, even something like Sublime is more than I want.

When I was a Java developer long ago I'd supplement it with some use of Eclipse as needed. But whatever drives my desire/need for simplicity in my editor is surely the same reason I left the Java ecosystem and the same reason I don't write/design code that can't be maintained without advanced IDE features.
Japanese tea commercial actress created by AI, is it the scandal-free future
The military could change the specs and require the sats be equipped with kinetic interceptors. Strategic Defense Initiative mk2. Oh, wait, they already have. It's now called SDA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Development_Agency
Why can't the host of the image just delete the image? At that point, the NFT is effectively banned.

Also, something like OpenSea can block you and you're effectively banned for all practical purposes.
> The org sets the direction and we decide how to implement it.

This is key.

"Good" managers can manage the expectations of the org to enforce this kind of relationship if the org wants to be pushy or micromanage-y. They insulate their team to create a real sense of agency and ownership. It's nice that your org makes your manager's job easy in this regard.

"Bad" managers are the opposite, they just dump the poorly-defined, poorly-justified demands onto their ICs. When they can't figure out why things aren't going well, they call for many hours of meetings with their ICs to hash out in detail how the implementation should proceed, which typically ends up being nothing more than the manager trying different ways of convincing their ICs to do it the way they already imagine it should go.
Meant to say "Kung Fu" instead of "Lotus" above lol, anyway I'm excited to check that out. Highly recommend his other bands which tend to play more on the East coast, and smaller festivals where he tends to drop in on random other sets late at night
How successful was this effort? How did you know how successful it was?
>"Your goal is for people to get their first moments of value from your product, commonly known as “activation”. All the talk about eliminating friction and removing steps is totally detached from this goal."
This is the gist I Guess. Remove as much friction as possible without compromising the "moments of value".
I'm assuming it would involves more ICs which it can bump the cost of the testing kit exponentially to test all of the pins.
My tape machines from the Tascam 424 series. I'm currently recapping and restoring a reel-to-reel machine. Would like more of those so that I can make insanely long delays and loops.

I also like retro consoles. I repair and restore various consoles from Nintendo: DMG-01 for me. The kids like the Nintendo DS's we got used; I have a box of spares I cannibalize for parts as we need for repairs or customization. I keep my Nintendo 2DSXL going; great bit of kit there.

I still build things with the classic 555 chips and the (re-issued) CEM-3340 chips. Working on a mod synth with one of my kids to help them learn electronics (and music).

I don't buy new computers anymore... we just have refurbished, off-lease Thinkpads. With a good backup system in place these can be swapped out, repaired, or replaced easily as life happens.

And I guess when I do woodworking I also don't use power-tools and build things with hand tools only. I tend to find tools at estate sales or garages and I restore them and put them to use.
Some projects aim to be that. This is a stablecoin backed by a centralized entity, it was not intended to be a decentralized project.

All cryptocurrencies are not the same.
Yeah that’s likely true. The reason i like it as a language is that if you do know your design patterns and good engineering it is rather powerful, and the core language has plenty of nice little features. Prior to framework madness and a worker (person that works, not background process) mindset that plagues the php world it allowed for some fun creativity. I remember fondly how fun it was to solve design problems only to learn later on that hey, these are design patterns that other people in other languages use. Was nice to know i had the right “mindset”. It helped me become a better engineer in other languages ironically. I ate slept and dreamt design patterns. But thinking of it it’s because the language so easily becomes a mess that you need to constantly reinvent software programming just to keep things on track.

Therefore all in all i think, for me, php belongs to history, and without wanting to insult anyone, i try and avoid any debated with a pho developer - it simply gets stuck in a bike shedding endless loop.
It's explained on this page about how his blogging system works - https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F3xV227cRgx911cQ...
China Chips and Moore's Law
Until recently, my Pebble Time Steel. The battery now only lasts ~1 day, and I didn’t think I’d be able to replace it myself. Wish there was a battery replacement service for these watches! I now have a Garmin that achieves nearly-weeklong battery life, but doesn’t have calendar functionality or the ability to easily check recent notifications.
The surprising complexity inside a MacBook charger (2015)
I like the idea of a screen blur. Is there a setting to detect if you’re on a zoom call (or webex, teams, etc) and disable the blur?
I use the browser, Element, and Neochat.
Does the person running the GNOME foundation need to know anything about software? Does anyone in the organization?

Even the actual software parts of GNOME are all about staying between the user and the real software that does work. It can be argued that function was never a goal, the purpose is to promise, not deliver.

The Foundation seems like the same thing but writ larger: suck up money and "support" from everywhere they can, make sure none of it is wasted doing anything real. AFAIK this is the form all nonprofits mature into within days to at most a few years of formation.

This person's skills may be perfectly on point for the true job she now holds.
Indoor plumbing.
What will happen to mortgage interest rates after the next Fed meeting?
Is it really? Given the recommendations I get, somehow I doubt it.
That is a phrase commonly associated with the Nazis in Germany misusing it e.g. as slogan on a concentration camp. Please do not post Nazi propaganda sentences without context
One big thing about this is that the credit becomes essentially refundable (for those who qualify for the credit). Previously, just like the solar panel credit of 30%, the credit only helped you if you had sufficient tax liability to be offset. That is the normal non-refundable type of credit.

Refundable means you get the money, whether you owed enough tax for it to offset or not. (Most tax refunds are really just giving the taxpayer's own overpaid funds back to them.) Refundable credits are almost always a form of welfare administered through the tax system, for example the Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Credit, Adoption credit, etc.

So in this case, suppose the buyer has sufficently low taxable income that they have no tax liability (for example, someone whose income consistes primarily of Social Security and gifts from relatives). They still get the full EV credit, whereas before, they would have a carryforward credit that they could never use unless they started incurring tax liability.
This won't put bricklayers out of a job, it will allow them to focus on the more meaningful and creative aspects of their job. [eye twitching]
Yeah, and that 40G/s transfer rate. Makes exfiltration super fast as well.
WouldItBeWrongForMeToFlagThisForWastingMyTi.me/?
SuSE Linux from 2012. For that matter, desktop from HP from 2012.
IIUC the unlimited photos in high (not original) quality deal was/is for up to and including Pixel 5.

https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791
What's Happening in Chrome Extensions?
I love quality hand tools. Not just what folks think of as "tools", but even something like a well made pen or mechanical pencil. Anything that is so simple that you can repair it with no prior knowledge or education, and can be used to then further repair other things or do useful tasks is something I love.

In particular, drafting pencils (Rotring 800/600) are one of my favorite things to write with. They work so precisely, and are durable, and easy to disassemble, clean, and repair. They're the "original" mechanical pencils before it became a commodity thing made out of plastic.

I love German-made hand tools, it's hard to beat push-through style ratchets for durability, simplicity, repairability, and ergonomics. I would put my Wera Zyklop push-through ratchets up against anything on the market anywhere in the world and guarantee it comes out on top.
Ask HN: What is an economical alternative to Google Workspace's Gmail?
What exactly did they say in what forum?

Did they reject your plugin?

I am assuming that they can't prevent people from charging for a service that happens to have a ChatGPT plugin.
It's so easy to just have 20 self checkout lanes and then this problem doesn't happen. Why is walmart the only one doing it?
If it were shamanism as one aspect of her background, sure it’s FUD. If shamanism is her only apparent background… then concern is the only correct response.

“a professional shaman, an artist, an herbal medicine maker, and a micro-homesteader” as the background for gnome kind of needs some justification, because it’s very unclear what anyone was thinking here
Lilium Jet Becomes First EVTOL for Private Sale in the U.S.
May you never lose that optimism.
So you're saying this is good for Bitcoin?
Various Orange Pi boards idle at 1-1.5W. The latest ones around 2.4W (not optimized, yet).
Local police are mostly controlled by local institutions, no? Not sure the quality of US institutions at the national level is all that relevant.

Note, I'm not claiming that local police are great. I just think that the situation is probably possible to improve, if we work strategically.

BTW, in 2022 the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked US democracy above that of Belgium, Italy, Latvia, Panama, and Singapore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
Consistency matters between restaurants, not between franchises. McDonalds fries may vary slightly from one location to the next, but they are more similar to each other than to other restaurants' fries.
As someone who never picks up their phone unless it's scheduled prior, I can confirm that people like me exist.
Why New York City is embracing low-tech solutions to hard problems
Thanks! It wasn't on the awsome rust embedded github yet, but when I dig in I found it. The bl602 does support wifi, but only 2.4 and I presume at lower rates. It definitely doesn't run linux though. But I wouldn't put it past someone to figure out a way.
I don't know about you, but I find this one rather charming! Just demonstrates the Plattenbau were a failure of imagination, not materials

[] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19860910310NR_Rostoc...
Also many of the keys are almost visually identical.
Rando wrote German to English website.
I don't think that's very comparable. First, pipelines are much less common than cables, so the opportunity for retaliation in kind is less. Second, pipelines only go through relatively shallow waters; cables run across the ocean, so the type of attacks used are different. Third, whoever attacked the pipeline is concerned sufficiently about retaliation that they disguised their actions (by injuring both Russian and German interests) and denied responsibility. By contrast, this harms the West exclusively (Estonia is strongly pro-Western, and speaks a Finnic language), and if it were confirmed that the cable was attacked, the culprit is clear.
This article is trying desperately to avoid stating the obvious, that the evidence now points directly at a failed Hammas missile launch.
It is annoying that these sellers do this, but it is a pretty obvious thing to do, it is economically incentivized, and so it is totally unsurprising.

The weird thing, IMO, is that Amazon doesn’t see this as a big problem that they need to solve.

I mean if I was to give somebody advice as to which cables they should buy on Amazon, it would have to be: use a brand you know and make sure you buy it directly from their account, and if there’s no such brand, don’t buy a cable from Amazon… but then I guess nobody asks.
It was not possible for NASA to maintain 24/7 radio contact with them because of the rotation of the Earth and the Moon. There could have been a situation where the astronauts were likely to die while out of contact. That's what it is referring to.
On a bare POSIX system thing like CMake first needs to exist there to work. And it isn't in spec.

Autoconf emits a source distribution that's build-configured using a famous 'configure' shell script.

Since POSIX is still a thing I wouldn't even put autoconf as outdated. It still has purposes.

For example I'd say that outdated tech would be running your website using CGI, preferably using C backend for extra mushiness.
Oldest wooden structure discovered in Zambia, dating back 476,000 years
The people still into crypto are the epitome of sunk cost fallacy