skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this a London thing?

I've rented in the UK for decades and I've never had a dishwasher or space for one. Friends haven't bothered with dishwashers until they had kids, and then they needed to create a space and add some plumbing.

Dishwashers in the UK seem like the opposite of ubiquitous. Maybe I live in a strange bubble.
> The whole crypto ideology of "deflationary money free from institutions and government regulations" is just wrong, not something we should want

Yeah, I figured you were of this opinion, and then this whole discussion breaks down. You're not arguing in good faith here, so this discussion is just wasting both of our time.

Sometime in the future you'll realize that different people want different things, and you'll help yourself by at least trying to understand the other side sometimes.
I'm all for greater accountability of big corp when it comes to climate change, but did I miss where they said "it's not us, we swear"?

It will be much more difficult to replace fossil fuels, which have a direct upside (keeping a big chunk of the world moving, chemical industry, etc), despite the eco-devastation. I'm yet to see which fundamental, irreplaceable need cryptocurrencies fill.

Also, as a note, fossil fuels and mass meat production started in a time where climate change was not a concern. They are deeply ingrained in the majority of societies, even though the trend since the end of the last century is to divest.

I see the exact opposite in cryptocurrencies. They started to become mainstream in a period were people should know better about these things and the trend is to grow even more.
All that means is that Congress has the authority to legislate in the area. Interstate commerce isn't a basis for federal court jurisdiction.

The Supreme Court still reviews state supreme court decisions, but Amazon would have to allege some sort of constitutional violation, which seems unlikely here.
BTC does nothing more than slightly expand the set of elites. If anything, its distribution is much more lopsided than that of fiat money.
Dishwasher Detergent DRM?

It would have never come into my mind that this is something that even exists.

What's with the tabs you put into the little chamber, or which I'm just dropping into the cutlery holder since the chamber lid broke of. Aren't they compatible or what?

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For their website:

Is the use of a Bob cassette mandatory?
No.
However, to ensure optimal washing quality and higher Bob life durability we recommend using the Bob cassette.

Can I refill my Bob cassette myself?
No.

We use a highly concentrated detergent formula which is not publicly available for sale.

So we have set up a way to collect used cassettes, clean them and refill them in our factory.

This allows us to offer you an optimal washing quality with a zero waste solution!

Seems fair to me.
Really great post indeed ! As a small data point, I'm renting a 40-50 m² flat in the UK and only have a washer/dryer. No dishwasher and no additional plumbing for one.
Exactly, it is taxing our environment and will so ever more. Sooner or later it will become unbearable and will need to be regulated, simply due to its contribution to climate change. Let's hope that it can be regulated, even. It is by design not sustainable and we have just one planet.
Sure, but for 0.15-0.20 Euro per tab you can get quality tabs. I buy "Jar Platinum" tabs in bulk and I have never had any issues with the quality of the wash and I have been using them for like 10 years daily.
Yes I agree. Never heard of these, seems totally bizarre, but I suppose I get the appeal (if you didn't know/think about the proprietary connection/protocol) if your kitchen/scullery wasn't designed with space for a dishwasher. But how many properties in the UK can be like that? Not very many, I'm sure an estate agent would tell you you'd have a hard time selling without 'updating'.
There's either something really wrong with your OnePlus or your eyes, if it is slow.
Worth checking your dishwasher though. Ditto, that's all I knew in UK (although I mostly hand-washed).

But even here in Aus now, there's a little compartment for pre-wash/rinse detergent... but nobody is aware of it that I've come across. That youtube video was revelationary!
US hegemony is military, not monetary

US army will be hegemomic even if the entire planet switch to BTC
I’ve used one and wasn’t even remotely worried; calling it “terrifying” is a little extreme.
What if you're arguing that women should stay at home, or that climate change is fake, or immigrants are a blight on society?

It works both ways I'm afraid. And many people will think that those opinions are somehow good for society and that they're being good team players by pushing them.
There's a genre of opinion that sounds like "I don't want politics in my videogames/workplace/church/facebook group", which stems from an idea that politics is exclusively a thing that politicians do in government, coupled with a (mistaken) sense that 'being political' is a bad attribute.

In fact, 'being political' is non-normative - per wikipedia:

Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations between individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.

So, the first answer to your question is a pedantic one: "joining together for a common purpose" is by definition a political act.

The second, more nuanced argument, is that your even if it's not obvious, these mission statements are political:

- "Accelerate the advent of sustainable transport" - says that 1. sustainable transport is good; 2. sustainable transport isn't coming fast enough; 3. it's appropriate for a private company to influence the transport market

- "Build the best CPU" - 1. CPUs are a good thing to spend energy and finite resources on; 2. something about the validity of calling a cpu 'best'

and so on. I agree that having a clear mission which your employees are aligned to is crucial for morale and effectiveness; but the way that mission is chosen, who influences it, the way that it displays beliefs about what is desirable; and how it evolves over time all are all political.
We have a Bosch dishwasher and switched over to tablets (Finish brand) when I installed it after using the sample packs.

It’s hands-down the most effective dishwasher I’ve ever used; I never imagined I’d have feelings about or brand allegiance to a dishwasher, but Bosch earned it (and Finish is part of it, I guess).
It's not so straight forward because China is not a centrally planned economy, and very few products prices are as priced in a straightforward way as are 'rare earths'.

Imagine telling Huawei to stop selling a massively profitable product overseas for example.

I don't really see this strategy being carried out other than in the most general sense. Where are these supply chains popping up and getting swamped?

And remember, this is very costly to China as well - selling at a loss, so they can then sell 'very cheaply'?

The problem with the above thesis is that all of this is a 'secondary economy strategy' i.e. it's good for catching up, it's not very good for surpassing. You need domestic consumption, and the ability to export goods at the highest end of the value chain, both things China will struggle with.
Online European Lisp Symposium – May 3rd – May 4th
I live in a UK flat without a 'full-size' dishwasher. Did you see OP though? This isn't about that, my half-width one still goes under the counter and takes normal tablets.
Just for some insight my product was a consumable product (considered candy/confectionary) and packaged in glass. I think the insurance premium came out to $700/year (I forget the exact coverage but I'm sure it was a $1M to $2M policy).
> Are nix and Bazel in the same category?

Nix bills itself as a fully reproducible package manager and Bazel as a fully reproducible build tool. In the abstract, both of these reproducibly build software, so that puts them in the same category in general.

> Can you re-run Make in a pipeline to verify that the actions in use match what would be generated based on the repo state?

Yes, and I’m doing something similar although not with Make. The problem is that this home-grown build system doesn’t do incremental builds, so everything will be fully built from source every time, and that can take a while for very deep dependency graphs.

Conceivably your “Actions generator” script could generate only the jobs that need to be run based on what changed since the previous commit, referencing artifacts from the previous commit for those build steps which weren’t invalidated. This is a neat concept, but we’re well on our way to reinventing Nix or Bazel.
Google and Samsung offer at least 4 years of support. This number will increase in the future as they decouple stuff from core OS.
The headline does make it seem like it's about the environmental footprint, but his actual quote in the article doesn't seem to be about that. He just doesn't like giving money to financial products "created out of thin air".

That being said, you're right in regards to other people who are definitely scapegoating it.
"Surrender to the US monetary global hegemony for the enviroment"
Yes, I see this political dimension for Tesla -- on a different topic than racism -- but I give you that point.

However, there _are_ plenty of Mission Statements that are a political, just look at your local craftsman or industrial suppliers: "making plumbing work at your home", "creating the best concrete foundations", "selling the best shoes", etc. those are not "fundamentally" or primarily political missions.
How are you finding app availability and system stability?

About four or five years ago, I had a BQ Aquaris E4.5 which ran Ubuntu Touch and used it as my daily driver. I really struggled with the lack of app support - no Messenger, no Snapchat, no Instagram, no WhatsApp. There were also lots of little bugs that really showed the operating system hadn't had the massive amount of testing a mainstream OS would get. So I dumped it and got another Android.
Because a) you can’t dissect and a human being and connect them to instrumentation for test and measurement like you would to a machine, and b) the meticulous wide scale testing available to drug companies costs billions, which no one would invest for dietary insights.
I can't help but feel that you've already decided your stance on this, and evidence is sort of irrelevant. 19 people resigned, and 20+ people thought that this was an important issue based on their participation in the DEI committee. 2 people are advocating on the other side. Why would the default assumption be that the remaining ~35 people side with Jason and DHH on this matter?
The Docker Toolbox repo is still hanging around, although in archived form: https://github.com/docker/toolbox

With 19.03 it should still be possible to access the public hub, I think.
You can't have trade deals and subsidize industries like that. Won't work with USMC and probably not with EU etc.. So it's complicated, even thought it's probably the right thing to do in certain areas.
That video link about synchronisation is very interesting. Thankyou.
Synchronization of bridges, hearts, lightning bugs, metronomes, sailing clocks. Cool
Uh, the administration Biden belonged to more or less ignored worse stuff than this that enabled attacks like this. Take, for example, the OPM "hack." Read this:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/encry...

IF you're wondering how whoever was running attacks like this would get the data to follow people home with attacks like this, in places where there aren't any sensors, look at these hearings from 2014.

Noone was fired, noone even lost their pension over that.
I love reading these hacks!

Of course, from a pounds-and-pennies sense, the work he did, hacking the washer, was probably worth enough to buy a dozen of them.
These counter-top ones? Not that I'm aware of. I have a normal (though half-width, but that just makes sense for a 1 bed place really) one in London.

Maybe older builds that haven't been updated wouldn't have any space for one as you say, without re-jigging cupboards, so maybe people do. But then you're losing work surface for it..
just plain docker in a linux vm? wsl2 if the host is windows.
Because you're throwing jabs at Android while literally every other OS in existence behaves the same way regarding network access.
I guess it depends on what is "too small to justify the risk", but I have a strong suspicion Amazon is not in the position to drop any significant number of 3rd party sellers, since these sellers drive something around half of Amazon's retail revenue. Perhaps if very few drive most of that revenue - then it might be the case where Amazon drops smaller sellers. But from where I look at it - most of 3rd party sellers are just small scale operations.
Volunteers spent 40 days in a cave with no sunlight or way to tell time
I realize that's an issue. But is the web even usable without JS these days anyway?
“It is required in enterprise”
https://eclecticlight.co/2020/08/22/apple-silicon-macs-will-...

"This new policy doesn’t apply to translated x86 binaries running under Rosetta"

...I guess that's why.

The whole situation is so confusing. The article talks about how unsigned code won't run on ARM macs, but an ad hoc cert is fine.

I suppose this fits what others have said in the thread - unsigned native-ARM binaries will be completely blocked. Unsigned x86 binaries can run on ARM macs under Rosetta (what I tried... or possibly my bin was signed by the build tool).

But all these will still get block/warnings from Gatekeeper if un-notarized, which is the part you have to pay for.

This https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/47129 suggests there is yet another factor to consider - the "quarantine" flag. Presumably downloading a tar.gz from github releases via Chrome gets a quarantine flag triggering the Gatekeeper warnings. That Homebrew issue (from 2019 though...) seems to say that "bottles" installed via Homebrew (which is basically the same thing - a precompiled bin downloaded from internet) won't have the quarantine flag set and they just need to be ad-hoc code-signed.
This seems like a poorly researched article though. They didn't even mention any privacy coins that do offer privacy or at least plausible deniability like Monero.

I admittedly just skimmed it, but I also didn't see them refute Bitcoin as a store of value.
It’s just an I2C EEPROM. You could read and write it with ~50 lines of code on an Arduino (or ESP32 or STM Bluepill or any other microcontroller dev board).
Original hacker did say that he's never allowed the thing an actual internet connection, though, and it's still working just fine. So clearly the internet connectivity is not a hard requirement. I wonder what it does send back to the manufacturer, though...

Anybody who owns one up for dumping the contents of their dishwasher's conversation with Mom?
If you define "demand" as hard orders from the warden of your walled garden, yes. But that's not how the concept is normally used.

Personally, for instance, I'd have been perfectly happy if at least a few apps had stayed with the Android UI of a few versions back[1], before they went all flat and gesture-based. There was no demand from me, as a consumer, to imitate Apple's UI.

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[1]: And no, that's not outmoded "skeumorphism". That concept means "imitation of physical objects", like that shell on top of Windows that was a picture of a room, with a picture of a Rolodex on top of a dedktop etc etc. In the decades since ~1985 a separate visual grammar had developed, where a gray rounded rectangle with "highlights" on the upper and left edges, "shadows" on the lower and right edges, and text in the middle meant "button" in the sense of "click here to perform an action", not any more in the original skeumorphic sense of "this is a picture of a bit of a 1980s stereo receiver".
The "Nespresso" businessmodel of cartridges is too environmentally unfriendly, and one of these days governments/EU will step in and crush it.
> In lisp, you are learning a new language with every lib because each author think they are a god language designer and that their macro rock. Also they don't need a good doc cause they are obvious. Or good error message cause they never break.

You have any specific examples of Common Lisp libraries you found hard to understand? I had a hard time when first learning the language, but once I got proficient to write my own code, I found it easy to understand most libraries I ended up using myself, the same as any language really. That the REPL makes it so easy to explore them with your own context, helped a lot as well.

> Also the way the author dismiss the number gap of packages available is ignoring the elephant in the room.

In the very same section, the author describes why the number of package don't matter as much as you think it does. Curation VS free-for-all-publishing (like APT vs NPM). Add together that Common Lisp "the language" has been stable for decades, makes it much more possible to be able to use any of the libraries you find as well, where in the Python world, we both know this not to be true (just Python2 VS Python3 makes this a whole other world of messes).
>dropping into the cutlery holder

Are you aware that if your dishwasher has a pre wash cycle before the main wash cycle; then your detergent will be wasted. ?
A pre wash cycle is common in european dishwashers.
Looks like Buffet/Munger have moved from the denial stage to the anger stage?
The value `a` has to fulfill some more properties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator#...

Since the "randomness" of the permutation is not that great, I was looking for something better, but could not find anything. The closest I got was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorshift#xoshiro_and_xoroshiro which only works for powers of two. A workaround would be to choose the next larger power of two and reject all random values which are smaller than `n`, but that introduces unpredictable latency and destroys the cool jump-ahead feature.
that's what cryptozealots don't understand

you can laugh about it, but fiat money will stay in charge
Bitcoin (or crypto in general) might be becoming one of the most divisive while really popular topics here. You rarely see quite that many downvotes on all sides on frequently discussed subjects.
Rinse aid? Yeah that goes next to the tablet under a little flap. Supermarkets sell it, usually blue.

Is that what the video was about? That tablets 'fly in the face of how dishwashers are supposed to work' because you also need rinse aid?

That's nonsense, how every dishwasher I've used has been supposed to work is you keep the salt topped up, the rinse aid topped up, and (supposedly optionally) use a tablet with each wash.
To be fair, GP said "but also skinning isn't quite the same as doing ux."
They’re oversized for this dishwasher, meaning they’d likely not fully dissolve and rinse off.
Hmm, so should we expect a future where washing machines and other appliances work like this but with actual DRM? That's a dark thought.
From the picture, it looks like I2C to SPI (or similar) and then SPI to USB virtual serial port. Not sure why they didn't just go straight to USB with an I2C-USB adapter. Perhaps they didn't have one. Anyway, from there it's just write a quick program to read/write the 24C02 through the virtual serial port and Bob's your uncle, as it were.
“We have just one planet”

I hope you’re vegan
You'd not need to do that if all (or all besides libc maybe) were statically linked though.

So that's actually an argument for statically linking, as doing such every day is just a PITA and not really an option for those who need to actually get work done during spending paid time on such a system.
But the problem with this sort of attitudes is that governments constantly lie. In a number of cases this is explainable. For instance, one way we do nuclear weapon containment is by lying about certain properties of Uranium (and of course mostly lie about lying, and of course, most researchers don't think it's particularly effective. While you need uranium to find the correct values, uranium + an old tv can tell you exactly what's being lied about and what the correct values are. Any experimental physicist leans how to do this).

But we are now in the situation that media in Europe are lying every day about the constant violence used by the police in Paris (and Brussels, and Madrid, and ...) against COVID-protestors. For example, just from today:

https://twitter.com/KevinTONON_/status/1388575836387880965

(Paris is usually much worse btw)

So you cannot trust these messages. Your argument is essentially an appeal to an authority. It is critically dependent on the authority not lying, and not leaving out critical information, and since you have no ability to figure out what they would lie about (and the State Dept has lied about their own people getting hurt and the causes many times).

That doesn't mean other sources are believable or not. The sources of these conspiracies do mean

1) people who were here were hurt.

2) the state department is not helping them.

3) the purpose of these denial messages is, at least in part, to justify 2).

I'm willing to bet that you at the very least think 2) is not true. So your careful fact checking has in fact lead you astray as well, because authorities, just like anyone else, serve their own interests.
This reminds me of using a floppy disk and a bunch of blind keyboard commands to recover my corrupted BIOS in 2002. Felt like a wizard when it worked.
"people who like what you're saying but don't like the volume."

There is no such thing
Everything is standardized and automated. There's no need for human interaction. You can tweak your code if it fails to build. The important thing is, that it's easier for Google/Apple to inspect your app if they have the code. (Maybe.)

For example they can simply refuse to release/publish anything if the code looks shit/obfuscated. They can explicitly ask questions about sections of code.

But since probably 99.9+% of "app review" is already automated ... likely there's no point in spending resources on creating a "GitHub clone" for submitting code to the various app stores.
I have mine connected to a wifi power meter and the data is logged in InfluxDB and monitored by Grafana, so I get an email and XMPP notification when the dishes are done.

Then the same for the washing machine, and there it is super useful since the machine isn't inside the apartment, but in the washroom, and it is a real problem if I forget the clothes.

But doing this with the dishwasher is not useful.
Did Munger actually mention energy use as his reason for disliking Bitcoin? I don’t see that anywhere in the article.

It seems that he doesn’t like BTC because it’s unregulated, highly volatile, and could be used for illegal behavior (I hope he doesn’t figure out what many people use USD for).

Having worked in crypto for a little while, I do sort of agree with Charlie on his last point to some extent:

“Bitcoin reminds me of what Oscar Wilde said about fox hunting. He said it was the pursuit of the uneatable by the unspeakable,” he added.

I just don’t see any interesting use cases in crypto that don’t look like Ponzi schemes. The ecosystem is bifurcated into scam artists and philosopher engineers who work on impressive infrastructure projects to nowhere. The most popular crypto isn’t scalable or has governance issues. It’s so expensive to send and receive money on most of these block chains that they can’t even be used for basic commerce.
Netherlands is a good pilot because construction costs are high there and also they also have work force issues. Perhaps it will take some time for it to justify its cost in the developing countries because they don't have any of those issues.