skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where can people get monitors in such cheaper price?
Recommendation for those looking:

/r/artisanvideos

* pleasant guy talking for 45 minutes about his lifetime of experience using chains: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/comments/lyvfzz/just_...

* man weaves a bed: https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/978s2c/man...
"Currently unavailable"
LOL
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... shows C is generally better
If you remove the anti limestone bit, it’s not that hard:

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Klarstein-Garcon-Kettle-Temperatu...

Some places do not event need to worry about limestone, but if you do, use a water jug with a filter whose job is just that, like what Brita proposes.
Tangent: looking for a monitor recommendations for programming purpose. And also somthing which wouldn't be too harsh on the pocket.
The main problem is toasters generally toast the bread for a set (adjustable) time. When you toast the first slices the toaster starts cold, but when you toast more slices right after the toaster starts hot so the slices get toasted more.
My kettle fulfill almost all his criteria. It max out at 1.25L and it beeps. I like the beep feature, it's not super loud on mine, but I guess it could be possible to disconnect the beep.
I am quite happy with this recent purchase : https://www.palaisdesthes.com/en/stainless-steel-with-variab...
What a romantic take on a failure of fiduciary duty towards ones employees and investors. Imagine being an employee there and thinking you’re going to change databases forever only to have the founder being distracted and then the whole outfit failing.
Yes if they look like the Streacom NC1/NC2... but all the cases for the Raspberry have bad design.
Both companies have tried to or successful broken "the way the open web works" time and time again and both of them should stop.

Will they? Of course not.
Unsure if the author really wants an answer, but capitalism does not optimise for good design or for consumer satisfaction. It optimises for profit.
Helpful behavior during pandemic tied to recognizing common humanity
TL;DR Market consumes nonsensical kettles. Capitalism is to blame.

Not the fact that we buy with clicks. Not the fact that market does not strongly prefer reputation systems. Capitalism.
does not seem to work with standard 80-column terminals. Shouldn't it read the value of $COLUMNS and $LINES and re-scale the gifs accordingly?
I didn't read Ethereum whitepaper because I consider it to be a copy of Bitcoin but what was the purpose of POW then? Just to initially mine a distribute coins?

Looking at Ethereum whitepaper[1] I only found one mention of proof of stake:

"an alternative approach has been proposed called proof of stake, calculating the weight of a node as being proportional to its currency holdings and not computational resources; the discussion of the relative merits of the two approaches is beyond the scope of this paper but it should be noted that both approaches can be used to serve as the backbone of a cryptocurrency."

And why Satoshi didn't consider switching Bitcoin to POS if it is so good.

[1] https://ethereum.org/en/whitepaper/
I physically tore out beeper from my kettle and it worked perfectly ever after.
The idea is not to change the chemical composition of the water (as a softener in a Brita filter does), but just to filter out any chunks of scale that have formed inside and come loose.
Stop working is the right way. I was a guest once where the kettle set on fire. Recommended this on as replacement.
This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
Yeapp, that kettle got Hackernewsed SO badly!
Rust's type system is Turing-complete (2017)
Does anyone have any reading material on the history of control systems of electric vehicles? Today most EVs use AC motors with a inverter - a bunch of power transistors - that convert DC to AC, adjusting the frequency as required by the motor (that's what the hum you hear is). However obviously that wasn't the case 100 years ago, or even 50 years ago when electric (trolley) buses were still used in many parts of the world.
> The evangelism is exhausting.

My best guess is that people who are "stuck" working in C or C++ wish they could use Rust at their Jobs.

Or that others would make the leap and get over the learning curve.
Yes, but that's exactly the problem.

With any currency, spending happens when you see something that is worth more to you in sum over the future than the value of the currency. So when the value of the currency gets lower, you are eager to jump on opportunities; conversely, when the value of the currency gets higher, you are reluctant to jump on opportunities. To a first approximation, you spend inflationary money as early as you can, but deflationary money as late as you can. And that's the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem you get with a deflationary ETH - an ecosystem where everybody spends as late as they can. Does that sound like it will lead to a vibrant offering of services to you, cause it doesn't to me.

This is also why I never got into Bitcoin. Why would I ever spend a bitcoin? As a currency it's near worthless, ironically; people who spend it will in the long run always be outcompeted by people who buy and hold. (Before the bubble bursts, anyways.) The medium of transaction should not be an investment vehicle; those purposes are directly opposed.
Great idea, and in theory the induction cooker should be able to detect temperature, to turn off when the water boils, and also be able to function as a rice cooker etc.

But I've never seen one with a temperature sensor or probe.
Amp already did that.
Oh yes!

Technology Connections made a video about just that, and it’s crazy that bread colour control just no longer exists!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
Some people I know have a 50 year old kettle. Sure, they look a bit old fashioned, and have marks and scratches, but they still 100% boil water.

I don't really see any reason kettles can't be made to last that long - it isn't like the human need for boiling water is going away anytime soon.

To get a design that lasts that long isn't much more expensive either - all it takes is very carefully recording what's broken on each kettle that fails, and modifying the design to avoid that failure mode. Within a few iterations, you'll end up with most kettles lasting 50 years.
Personally I've thought this over a few times as has many others.

As a software dev myself I'm fully aware that at least internet facing software must be maintained and that maintenance is actual work and should be paid.

On the other hand there are so many apps where a subscription feels flat out dumb, so here are some alternatives:

- tokens instead of subscriptions. Just don't make it another dumb whaling business or a toddler trap. E.g: local play free, networked game takes one token from one player. I'd be happy to not have to type payment details into my kids phones. You could even make a social thing out of it. Maybe I'll pay as much but 1. if I stop using it won't drain my bank account until I realize (making me feel stupid) 2. I don't lose access to my data.

- meaningful upgrades/add ons

- yearly releases

- monthly but with perpetual license for the last paid release (Jetbrains model)
Hey cofounder, I really hate your name. I sure hope you don't get popular and be another company polluting the language unnecessarily by co-opting common words.
The font is beautiful. The license is unworkable.

How should an organization keep track of the number of users working with a font? It's an expensive and practical problem that's outside the core business of any company. Even with the most expensive package, there is still a cap and that's a at 1500 USD which is a steep price considering the competition is free.

Then we have the license agreement. First it's too long. Yes seriously. Getting company lawyers involved makes sense when doing something risky, expensive or complicated like hiring from abroad. Not for using a font or buying a cup of coffee. There is nothing complicated about these transactions. It's made complicated by the agreement.

Skimming through the contract...

> you undertake to keep all copies of the Font Software secure and to maintain accurate and up-to-date records of the number and locations of all copies of the Font Software

Expensive and practically difficult in a small organization and even worse in a bigger one.

> These terms are governed by English law and you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the products in the English courts.

Well that's great, now we need an _English_ legal team.

This is a fantasy.
Big brain here. Kettle on a stove will never break, and if your stove breaks you have other problems anyway.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26427348
Why do this on a blockchain instead of with a central authority? If they have the copyright, they don’t need a blockchain they can just use a database. If they don’t have or don’t want to enforce copyright, why would the players want scarcity?
You, sir, must either live somewhere with very soft water, or be very young, or be not from the British Isles?!
You should be able to drive that with a Zero no?

Where is the battery? Lead-acid or Lithium?

What does this even do, I see no arms, cutters or anything?
Planned obsolescence is also a factor. See, for example, the Phoebus cartel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

Other examples abound. The modern version of planned obsolescence is corporations using the DMCA to prevent consumers from repairing their own stuff.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26443100
To practise Rust, I rewrote my small C99 library in it [1]. Performance is more or less the same, I only had to use unchecked array access in one small hot loop (details in README.md). I haven't ported multithreading yet, but I expect Rust's Rayon parallel iterators will likewise be comparable to OpenMP.

[1] https://github.com/GreatAttractor/libskry_r
The concept of private property or ownership predates all government.

Of course governments and police rarely get involved with small property disputes unless part of something larger like an assault.

Smartphone locking is similar to NFTs in that it is an extrajudicial process of enforcing property rights.

Likewise we also have algorithms that can take away all your photos and emails with basically no recourse to government or person.

NFTs just don’t seem that different to many things we’re already doing.
The nature of a fork is that the old system doesn't really go away. It's just that most of the economic activity that made it valuable (presumably) is going to move to the new system; so staying behind is kind of pointless. Of course the assumption here is that its current value had anything to do with economic activity (other than people gambling on the price of eth and other tokens). That's about to be validated in the real world.

I've been more than a bit underwhelmed by ethereum, which if you separate out the speculative transactions actually doesn't have a whole lot going on in terms of people actually using it for real things. There's a little bit of that but mostly it's just people trying to get rich quickly. Lots of smart contracts idling and generally not doing what they were designed to do, games not really getting played, etc.
I used the "design" package from Brandmark[0] for my startup Ritza[1]. It auto generates a bunch of concepts and you can choose one and then it gives you various logos, business cards, ppt presentations, etc.

Was expecting to just use it to launch and then get a professional designer once we had revenue but so far I've just kept it and I'm pretty happy.

[0] https://brandmark.io/pricing/

[1] https://ritza.co
This seems no different from a fungible document in that regard. The trust is still with a verifying third party.
Has Google been breaking the web with non-compliant implementations of web standards?
Thank you for doing the research and not just mindlessly adding features other languages have :)
https://www.speedcheck.org/wiki/bssid/ can be used to track your location
What does it mean for a JPEG of some work of digital art to be authentic?

Authentic means that it was put on the blockchain by an address owned by the artist. It means that the art could have only come from a specific artist.

As long as it is bit-by-bit identical to the original, authenticity (whatever it means) makes absolutely no difference.

Of course it makes a difference in value. If your neighbor was able to exactly duplicate a Picasso, do you think it would hold the same value as an original Picasso? It wouldn’t. A big part of the value of art is the provenance and the story behind it and the artist.
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Facts cannot be copyrighted. Only the literary expressions surrounding them.
Huh? You just pointed out what capitalism is about.
Well alrighty then.

I feel like that works better for factual, technical claims than political ones though. As another website says, "No technology is discussed."
> We need also need inflation.

Why?
More like it's been using its dominant browser market position, and "Essential" nature as a search/cloud based services operator, to wag the dog of the web standardization process.
I used to think that would be too expensive but then I saw smartphones sell new for USD 20 on Black Friday and I also see one year of 200 MB a month data plans selling for USD 30.

That’s retail.

I have changed my mind on this: if you were selling a million televisions a month, you could absolutely make it work from a money standpoint. They don’t need to send back tons of data and they don’t need to do it particularly fast.
Afaik there's no plan to attack, they are planning a "show of force", i.e. get more then 51% in a pool for a while without doing anything with the power. This is separate from either adapting or not adapting the fork itself and happens before the fork.

The original chain has to be forked either way, with or without eip 1559 because the "ice age" coded into the current version (it's in there for this exact reason). So if the change goes through and some miners decide to block it, there's not going to be an "original chain" and a "fork", but two forks, one supported by devs and minority of miners, and one supported by miner majority.
As someone who remembers very little of the German he took in college, I’d like to mention that I’m amused that a kettle is literally a “water cooker” (Wasserkocher) in German.
Consider living in the early 2000s and replace
'digital camera' vs 'analog camera' with
'dinosaur burning vehicles' vs 'electric vehicles'.

Same discussion, different technology. We all know how it ended ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A certain amount of planned obsolescence can be a force for good. It makes sure that production capacity does not become stagnant and disappear. But senseless cost reduction is an atrociously bad thing.
I am in a similar situation as you are. Our logo is also just a name written in Roboto font [1]

It’s enough. We also don’t have any illustrations on our website. Just text that explains our value proposition.

How many logos do you know? Apple, Google, Uber. Logos a damn hard.

How many companies do I know which I do not remember a logo? Stripe, Segment, etc. billion dollars companies which I know without a logo even though I might use them every day.

So, to just sum it up. You don’t need a logo, or design guidelines until you’re big enough that you can easily spend $10-50k to shape your brand — because that’s how much it usually cost for a good branding. Everything else will most likely be a waste of money, and more importantly waste of your time.

[1] https://newscatcherapi.com/
These are not the only ways society changes for the better. Every once in a while you get someone like Tommy Douglas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas
I had good results with the flexx Series from pmdtec.
Its super small and and light.
https://pmdtec.com/picofamily/flexx/
Microsoft acted pretty sleazy (IMHO) on the Australian law situation but it's rich for Google to attack them since they caved first and paid. I'm all for taxing companies (tech or otherwise) in sensible ways but the Australian news law was far from sensible.

Not to mention AMP and whatnot.
Google Web Accelerator, Amp...
I bought the stove-top Fellow Kettle [0] a year ago and it's a fantastic kettle. Boils water surprisingly fast, has a thermometer attached to it and the polished steel is beautiful.
They don't have filters because you are supposed to filter your water, a bad water isn't going to produce a good water based drink.

There are good kettle for enthusiastic coffee or tea lovers, but you have to be ready to pay a fair price for a product focused on a niche market in the west.

[0] https://fellowproducts.com/products/stagg
The trend for kitchen products which beep at you baffles me. Kettles, dishwashers, washing machines, ovens and hobs all seem to beep these days and there's almost never a way to switch it off. Can anyone tell me why? I can't believe anyone actually likes the beeping. Is it a result of disability legislation maybe?
Yes it's not the fault of capitalism as such (private ownership of the means of production for private profit), but of market-based economies.

They deliver a combination of what producers want to produce, and what people want to buy (measured by what they actually buy), not necessarily what people need or is good for them. Just look at the industrial food complex.
The Prius Gen 3 had an option for a 'solar roof', but it's pretty much just a gimmick. The whole roof is 40W. All the panels do is power a fan to bring exterior air into the cabin, to keep it cooler during hot weather.
Fiverr, order with someone who does 2 or 3 concepts.

Heck, order from two different people - each of whom do 2 or 3 concepts.

Less than $50 for a range of choice.

Simple.
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What a coincidence, I bought one today. Optimised on minimal plastic this time. It was slim pickings. Found a glass one without the gaudy blue LED illumination from below, so bought it.
quality isn't a binary state, but a continuum.

Therefore, by adjusting the quality down a little bit, the company gets a bit of feedback as to how low quality a typical consumer is able to tolerate at their price point.

So i think ultimately the responsibility lies with the consumer to demand the quality they want by purchasing good quality stuff, even if it costs more, and to educate themselves to discern what is quality and what is fluff.
> Ethereum is a huge pre-mine scam with lots of promises and very little delivery.

You really should visit https://ethereum.org/
Actually, they do have a temperature sensor that is used to turn off the induction over a critical temperature.

But it’s below the glass top, so it lags behind the real temperature, only tread the temperature of the bottom of the pot. This makes it unreliable for fine temperature control.

I have a portable one that gives you the possibility to set the temperature you want by 20 degrees, but it’s not fine enough for tea (40, 60, 80, 100, 120... degrees Celsius)

Only just ok for Chinese hotpot:

https://www.amazon.de/Klarstein-Einzel-Induktionskochplatte-...
Indeed, with the browser being a replacement for XWindows, RDP and even SSH/Telnet.
It's not like you drop nukes from above when you're above the target, like from an airplane, orbits don't work that way. You could fire the nukes on many missiles planned so that they would re-enter the atmosphere all at the same time for a surprise attack.
You don't, but connecting them to a WiFi won't solve that problem because they can (and probably do) switch to radio if they can't reach their servers through Wifi connection.
everybody likes piling on google but i'm still thanking them for killing ie. people have short memories
50 years is a bit extrem, but my expectation would be 10 years minimum.
Correct.

Snake oil is intrinsically bad. We all agree it's bad, and thus, nobody is allowed to sell it, even if they disclose that it is snake oil.

But Hertz shares are apparently not bad. We're clearly happy to see people buying and selling them. Before, during, and well after Hetz's abortive at the money offering, thousands and thousands of people were selling Hertz shares, and I haven't seen anyone suggest they should have been prevented from doing so.

In fact, it seems like the only entity we, as a society, seem to feel shouldn't be allowed to sell Hertz shares is Hertz. Which would be really strange if Herz shares were, metaphorically, radioactive, no?
So did this play a part in the demise of the Passenger Pigeon?

It seems the pigeons ate the nuts, and the also plummeted in numbers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_chestnut
Yes.

But it’s not just taking care of those things that must be done; it seems to bloat the code.

I think it’s a great alternative to C for large apps like Firefox, and perhaps it’s a good alternative to Go for services.

For general purpose, I personally want something fast that’s easy, clear, and concise like Ruby.

Do I just accept that Rust is the most evolved version of C, or is my gut correct that it’s bloated? Is it a good choice for general purpose as-is?
But that wouldn’t answer the question. Why is it not profitable to make good kettles?

Also, you’re wrong. The people designing these kettles aren’t doing so to make more money for their company. If anything you could say that capitalism optimises for job security. That’s why you don’t see new features on kettles, and why no one will make a left handed microwave. No one wants to take a risk
It isn't a gotcha to say they own a computer.

Making a choice not to buy a car makes a measurable impact.

It's not a gotcha to say that they partake in society.

By your logic, it'd be arbitrary to safely dispose of motor oil instead of conveniently dumping it into the local park's pond.
It is less about charging speed but rather charger availability vs. demand. Of course, it is easer to provide high availability if the charging/refueling ist relatively fast, but at any given speed you can compute the number of charge/refueling points needed to prevent waiting times beyond a given limit. There can be hour-long queues at fuel stations too, just there are enough fuel stations that this is a very rare thing, but just look at the people queuing up at fuel stations when a hurricane approaches.
It's a decadent and corrupt culture proud of its ignorance. No consequences.
i'm interested in is why it's so much more expensive in the US. Is it monopoly? Why couldn't similar prices be reached in the US, if the insurance offered the same in the EU region?
That's because a Picasso is physical object and people feel attached to physical objects. We don't feel attached to a particular digital copy of a JPEG. And, by the way, the JPEG is not on the blockchain. The NFT on the blockchain tells us nothing about the provenance of the various JPEG copies that exist or about their authenticity.
Did it need a TL;DR ?! The whole article is only 288 words.
Not sure if this was a troll, but I'll assume it was honest and then point out that every system optimizes for profit. Profit is just taking out more than what you put in. That could be being paid even if you don't show up to work, or doing one hour of work and getting paid for 2, or selling something for $2 when you could easily sell it for $1. Everyone wants to take out more than they put in.

The genius of capitalism is in encouraging and facilitating competition so that other firms can come and take away your profit by selling something that appeals to customers more. In this way, the universal profit motive is turned into better products as people compete for surplus income rather than having that assigned by birth (middle ages), political connections (soviet systems), religious considerations (indulgences/moral crusaders), etc.

But everyone is going to optimize to get more than what they put in -- e.g. profit. The only question is what determines that income stream -- being able to sell products to consumers better than the other guy, or being a loyal party deputy.
The article https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-02...