skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is called an 'automatic transfer switch', it basically islands your off-grid installation when the power isn't available. As you already mention whether or not it is allowed is dependent on where you live. As it was the electrical inspectors in Northern Ontario were very much in bed with the power companies and typically would find all kinds of reasons to persuade renewable energy builders to let it go and rely on grid power. Given the state of some of the homebrew systems I've seen they probably had a point.

Automatic transfer switches were technically allowed but at the time I didn't know of a single installation in Northern Ontario that got a stamp of approval and was allowed to be operated un-attended in grid connected mode.

There is some risk, but this is usually exaggerated, the theory goes that a lineman should be able to disconnect a segment and then it should be idle, requiring all renewable installations down-grid to disable themselves. As a rule this is fully automatic anyway because all of the grid connected inverters that I'm aware of stop working as soon as the grid fails because they use the grid to supply them with phase and frequency information required to function.

But that wasn't good enough, the installation needed to be physically disconnected from the grid, requiring a very large relay and somehow it then had to reconnect if the grid came back on for a specified minimum amount of time (I forgot the details). By the time I had worked all this out I figured since I'm going to be in island mode anyway most of the time I may as well take the shortcut, cut the grid entirely (saving a considerable amount of money in the progress) and invest the difference into a nice genset (which I did, a 5.8KW Kubota diesel).
Proof-of-work was created precisely to prevent a Sybil attack, but while allowing an open network (i.e. not having to buy the token from the creators).

You need a form of scarcity to prevent a Sybil attack.
Solved cryptographic puzzles of an adjustable difficulty is one such form of scarcity.

Does this address your concern about relevance?
Er... I get it that it's about changing the "reference system" and not primarily about GPS. But the difference between "magnetic North" and "true North" depends on your position, and how are you going to get your position if not using GPS?
It's not just his opinion, the NIH themselves admitted it [1] and the lab succeeded in making the coronavirus far more virulent:

> EcoHealth and its Wuhan partner constructed novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses — artificial, lab-generated viruses that do not have counterparts circulating in nature — that exhibited 10,000 times enhanced viral load and two to four times enhanced pathogenicity in infection studies in mice engineered to display human receptors on their cells (‘humanized mice’).”

It's equally if not more dangerous that the public has been deceived for so long about the true origin of the virus, because it's further ruined trust in the media, government and big tech by making this event highly politicised just because a few individuals in the US government wanted to hide their own crimes.

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/bombshell-nih-letter-bat-coronavirus-...
> Xiaomi, Huawei

Google (Pixel), Samsung, Nokia, OnePlus, etc. All such companies are roughly equally evil. The difference might be price (though frankly it usually is not that divergent), but the tracking is the same. Given that the tracking is present at every price point, the price point is not relevant. The origin of the technology is not relevant. All that is relevant is the fact that this is normalised and it should not be.
> Sure, this concept might’ve been awesome and ignited a revolution. Or it might have sent Apple to the grave.

The IBM PC almost did that - as soon as clones begun to appear, IBM was relegated as just another PC maker. They tried to make a software-compatible PC that would not be easy to clone in the PS/2, and they failed badly. Now IBM doesn't even make PCs or PC-based servers.
Hearing alcohol addiction, it seems so "unreal" in the sense that, I can see it as a problem but I always feel it can't be that hard.

I think alcohol, tastes disgusting in general. It's fun to mix with other things to have a stronger effect, but I've always enjoyed everclear to accomplish that, which basically is just pure ethanol.

I never understood alcohol culture, bars, going out, etc.

And I always related that to not being "popular" or feeling calm in a new city or such. I think it's so strange to go to a place, have to wait in line, pay admission/cover, to talk to a bar tender that expects tips, and then pay extravagant costs for something that can be purchased cheaply anywhere else (yes, I understand the transaction/food/beverage/hospitality.)

Never will get it.
In response to my contributions? Yes
I saw the author present once, I couldn't follow anything they were talking about or the code samples presented.
I agree, I just thought it was funny to get this popup before reading the article.
No good action goes unpunished
In north Sweden we have also only two kinds of potatoes. One is called Mandelpotatis, and then we have all the rest that noone buys.

Seriously, if you don't like potatoes or think it's boring, try Mandelpotatis (if you can find it, it likes sandy, not very nutrious earth to grow or it will get sick and die :-)

I have been thinking of a way of writing my recepies so I can process them into a database some day for easier search. I realised I would never have the energy to actually do it so I'm just switching to markdown and running a static webcompiler on them to output html with search function in javascript and upload to github. Works better than expected and have everything I need.
> What are you talking about civil and military police in "continental Europe"?

You just outlined it yourself, take away the military's own police and you have, in your words,

1. a police which polices regular peope

and

2. sometimes a gendermerie which is sometimes nominally a part of the army

You also go on to give several examples of this system being used in continental Europe. You could've added in Spain and Italy too.

I'm really not sure why you asked the question if you're going to answer it yourself.

If you're looking for a non-continental police force which does not follow that system then you only need compare with the UK or Ireland.

> In any case, the problems with policing in Europe aren't even close to those in the US, and i don't think any of then can be attributed to hving two policing entities with different scopes.

So you say. From[1]:

> Covell was among the 87 protesters wounded when police baton-charged the Diaz school in Genoa, beating people as they cowered in their sleeping bags and planting petrol bombs to justify the raid.

> Once arrested, protesters, including five Britons, were taken to a police barracks where they were beaten again, sprayed with asphyxiating gas, threatened with rape and forced to sing fascist-era songs.

> Despite the handing out of verdicts including convictions for grievous bodily harm and falsifying evidence in two major trials, Italy's tardy justice system has ensured final appeals are yet to be heard and most sentences have been timed out by the statute of limitations. "No one has ever been arrested or gone to jail," said Massimo Pastore, a lawyer who has represented Covell and other activists.

That's not even the half of it. Do you think this is an isolated incident? Can you divorce this from militarised policing?

Perhaps you'll disagree and then answer the questions again, that would be helpful.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/12/night-police-b...
Holy cow, I seemed like a fun little project until I saw the android AND iOS apps!
Some folks don't know when to stop, or maybe that's most of us ..
If anyone wants to read a really good book that puts the War On Drugs and addiction in perspective, I highly recommend Chasing The Scream by Johann Hari. Very well written, well-referenced and involves interviews with all sorts of people - drug users, prisoners, an ex-cop, ex-cartel members, psychologists.

His other book on depression, Lost Connections, is similarly great and insightful.
> Back in the day before the rise of Facebook, there was an open source service that combined all the popular messaging protocols

It was not a not a service which was always on and synced between units.

It was a client you had to run on your machine and keep connected. And it obviously didn’t roam.

Pretty much an apples to oranges comparison.

Matrix and Element aims to bring all those things you mention to a single protocol, to which you can connect any client you like, on any device you like, and roam as you like with all your clients always in sync.

It’s what Pidgin used to deliver, levelled up and connected to the “modern” (read: closed) IM-silos the majority of people are using.

It’s definitely different and it’s definitely interesting.
Tesla Dojo Whitepaper
First Air Flight 6560 crash [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Air_Flight_6560
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Iran says cyberattack closes gas stations across country
> anything but

Contact tracing is surveillance and has already resulted in large-scale leaks of sensitive information. Given those things, it is not unreasonable to call it out in this context. Nothing about that narrative is simplistic - the simplistic perspective is that it is for health and therefore okay.
> What is the advantage though?

Canada needs to move off magnetic north because the magnetic north pole is located in Canada, and it's changing rapidly.

But that doesn't apply to the US. Sounds like a terrible idea for the training aircraft fleet to force them to buy INS systems when they all have magnetic compasses.
Nice! I wasn’t aware of that project. It has very similar idea. In cookcli there's a small web server too. It’s not fancy or very developed, but allows to check the recipe or manage shopping list
I've been running the Signal bridge for a couple of months and it seems pretty unstable. Sometimes it stops delivering messages and I have to restart either signald or the bridge. At other times, it broke completely and started working again only after a couple of days, when I updated signald.

I haven't tried the WhatsApp bridge yet because it needs to go through my phone or an Android VM. WhatsApp recently announced support for using WhatsApp Web without the need to have your phone online, but I don't think it's available for everyone yet.
FWIW, the ECHR does recognize the right to privacy and that's legally binding to all EU members.
They're a fraction of what they used to be, the panels that I bought back then you can now have for 20% of the price or so. Funny enough, installation costs have gone through the roof so effectively you still pay just the same for the total installation unless you do it yourself. You'd expect that increased competition would drive down installation costs but it didn't really work out that way. I'd stay away from movable panels, it was a lot of work to put it in and cost quite a bit, for that money you can now buy far more panels which more than offsets the ability to aim them better.

Installing a windmill is something that I would not advise for novel installations unless you have a lot of room around you and quite a bit of spare time. Windmills, compared to solar are finicky devices and require a lot of thinking to get them right, solar power is much simpler.

The 'DIY powerwall' scene has turned recycling Li-Ion batteries into an art form, not all of it is done safely but some of the results are quite impressive, battery power too is now a fraction of what it cost back then and the life-span has gone up considerably, with more and more interesting options right around the corner.
Ah my bad - I must have mixed them up.
You can just disable any network connections and see, if the service still works. Text recognition in images (Live text/Vision framework) does. Now you could obviously say, "Who knows about any logs, and whether they are secretly transferring them as soon as there is any network connection or not?" Well, this is another topic, namely this of basic trust, and applies to any application and any vendor. (And, if your business is operating systems, living up to this trust may be a vital business decision. In contrast to some vendor of a random app, there's a strong incentive to do so.)
> Set oven to max temperature

This instruction in the Neapolitan Pizza recipe got me interested. Surely there is an upper limit?

Turns out the Wikipedia article about oven temperatures [1] has a dedicated entry:

> Neapolitan pizza: 905°F (485°C)

Which is way more than I expected. I guess this justifies the “set oven to max“.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oven_temperatures
Yeah, no. There's nothing measured in the approach taken by the FBI. Data on a server is not lethal, the FBI's response was.

And while sad, I'm not surprised. I spent time at Microsoft and once in downtown Seattle I saw a kid, maybe 9 or 10, kicking a can along on the sidewalk.

Police car sees this, siren on, jumps out the car screaming like a banshee at the poor kid to stop.

I've travelled. Like, 34 countries, and I've never seen a child treated that way. It was one of the scariest things I've seen, and it made me move back to London.

And so whilst disappointed by what the FBI did here, I'm not surprised. Isn't their slogan serve and protect or something?
It's a class signifier. It informs readers that the person using the word is smart and therefore his opinion should be respected.

It's the same reason a doctor might use words like "etiology" instead of "cause".
Any consumer that knows that "k" means 1000 is going to know how to figure out how many seconds there are in an hour/day/year. There is endless confusion caused by the double use of time in kWh that this article is an example of. There is little doubt that using the base unit would be better.
Someone should do one with modern low-profile mechanical switches. I LOVE those keycaps.
Presumably the orbs produce a verifiable type of hash. E.g. whatever output it has is also encrypted with their private key + some salt and you can always check if what a user provides has that.
This whole site is pretty bizarre and will suck you in.
I just need to write a GAN to generate plausible looking irises, then - Profit!
That’s to caramelise onions. Cooking onions through takes a few minutes. Plenty of instances where you don’t want to caramelise onions.
While I think that closing issues after a certain time is really problematic, there is an inherent problem with a certain subset of stale issues.

The most problematic part is that the older issues become irrelevant over time, in part because the system changed too much and they don't apply anymore or because the people originally asking aren't interested anymore in the answer. If you just accumulate old issues it becomes hard to find still relevant issues in this whole pile.

I don't think closing based on time is always a bad idea, but you should have a good mechanism to save issues that are relevant from the bot. In the end you always need some minimal triage on issues to keep them usable.
What an odd point of view. It doesn't sound like you respect your users at all.
Assuming < 2 KG of basil went in I'm pretty curious about the transmutation effect here. Surely some scientist has looked into this.
I like your optimism. I just don't see how we can produce and transport food, electronics, and specifically windturbines, solar panels and batteries on a global scale without using massive amounts of fossil fuels.

Actually, I would love to see a the real "energy footprint" of a solar panel. Like, how much mining, transporting, manufacturing and installing the panels consumed energy, and how many days it takes for a panel to produce more energy than the entire operation used. If anyone has such a breakdown I would be really happy to see it. If the numbers are good, maybe the future is still bright.
Also her amazing Book of Jewish Food, which has a strong emphasis on Sephardi and Mizrahi cookery.
Interesting. Most of the cuisine of Spain has some traces of the people's that lived/conquered/immigrated to Spain: salted fish (Phoenicians), olive oil (Greeks), wine (Romans), paella (Arabs), etc.

On the other side, I hate to critizice this article as publishing old discovered content is fascinating, but I want to clear some points:

- Spain was not always a peaceful time for Jews and Christians during the Muslim domination. There were massacres/pogroms[1][2], and most of the Christian population were forced to leave (by intimidation or by increasing the tax for being non Muslim (jizyah). These emigrants were called Mozarabs[3] and they had an unique culture. Don't get me wrong, the other side would have done the almost the same and later, indeed, they did (see points bellow).

- The name of Andalusia (the southern region of Spain) comes from Al-Andalus, but Al-Andalus was bigger than that as the name referred to all territory held by the Muslim conquerors[4].

- Muslims were allowed to stay in Spain when the Christian kingdoms took Granada. But as you can image, most of them fled to Northern-Africa and other places. The ones that remained, rebelled against the Crown in 1499[5] and were expelled in 1609[6].

- Jews were expelled (or forced to convert to Christiany) in 1492[7]. Spain was the last country in Europe to do so, but it was a traumatic decision: the country had a big Jew population ("Judíos Sefardíes" in Spanish) with a unique culture (even their own language) and they have had important roles through all Spanish history.

- During its duration, the (damned) Spanish Inquisition killed 5000 people[8], tortured much more and detained more than 100000 inocent people. A tragedy of course, but considering that the institution lasted for almost 4 centuries, the numbers are comparable to other puritanist/intransigent religious institutions of Europe[9]

To sum up, I don't like the idealization of some cultures. Most cultures clashed with others and that resulted in wars, death and pain. The History was written by the victors, and now we are here. I hope some non-Spaniards and loving History people see this comment useful. Thank you!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_C%C3%B3rdoba

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_Granada_massacre

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozarabs

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus (see the maps)

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion_of_the_Alpujarras_(1...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Moriscos

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_Decree

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition

[9] https://www.statista.com/chart/19801/people-tried-and-execut...
Show HN: Bruh.js, a minimalist functional-reactive web library
I personally love RPis. My company is balena.io and they too basically run on the little guys!
What sort of battery life does your laptop get?
How our SaaS landed its first 20 B2B partnerships with cold email
In the last couple of months I've rented cars from about 10 (Enterprise) locations in the UK, only Heathrow had it's own fueling station.
This is one of the most disturbing things I’ve read in quite some time. The implications of all of it and all the bad avenues it could go down chill me. A person’s right to anonymity gone forever. I think all people should deserve the right to disappear and be unknown if they don’t have IDs on them.

I understand what Sam is going for here (equitable distribution of wealth) but this is absolutely the wrong way to go about it.
In other news, AI shows an overall lack of intelligence demonstrating that it's core is really just pattern matching and lookup tables.
Or report the bug, which should probably have another name in this context.
"Xiaomi Vacuum can gather tons of informations about home. Air Purifier also"

Google ads know your age, location, and tons of personal information. Thats enough info for identify fraud.

What does the Air purifier send, level of dust? It does not even know where it is.
As someone who has also been running a Misskey server for a little while, I've observed that whilst the resouce usage is a little higher than other federation softwares such as Pleroma, the stability is amazing, even on the development branch.

There are some features missing however that I've grown accustomed to. Functionality that I quite often find myself using on a Pleroma based installation such as leaving internal comments on reports, easily being able to mark posts and media as sensitive and different levels of instance specific blocks (media removal, hidden from public timelines, follow only) are either hidden or not implemented as of yet within Misskey but the development of this software currently seems to be adding in all of the community recommended features that we feel are missing.

Whilst I'm not 100% happy with Misskey in it's current state, I think it's only a matter of time before all of the most popular missing features have been implemented and it become a viable replacement for other more mature fediverse softwares.
Have a look at heatpumps, you may end up with a very pleasant surprise, assuming your lot is large enough. Even shallow grids to really well.
What’s more expensive, a few grams of an easy to synthesize pharmaceutical or keeping someone in prison? It sounds like your idea would be a massive waste of taxpayer money serving only to gratify a perverse fantasy of sadism and domination.
I just get a page that says I’m not authorized to access this page. Privacy to the max!
State Department tested diplomats for 'directed energy exposure'
My bad - Beeper is the one that's founded by Pebble founder (not Fitbit). Kishan Bagaria is the one behind Texts.

https://twitter.com/KishanBagaria
No you can't. The whole point is to every everybody have only 1 entry / key.

The concept is simple: give everybody an equal amount of coins. You need a unique identifier / derivative of it
Also, on GitHub when you want to search an issue it filters by open only (you need to remove it manually). This brings on a lot of duplicated issues, so in some cases it increases the mantainers job.
Some research projects on GitHub do not say what they are about but just provide installation instructions. The GitHub repo is meant for the research group and collaborators, but it would not hurt to add a sentence at the beginning of the Readme.md saying what the project is about.

GitHub keywords should be used more often. If one's project is about solving the Navier-Stokes equations, add the "navier-stokes" keyword so that it shows up when searching topic:"navier-stokes".
I feel like I might be reaching for the tinfoil hat but it feels to me like there is a concerted effort to confuse the privacy conversation and turn it into one about how everyone is bad.

Call me paranoid but I think Facebook would love to be in a situation where privacy is an all or nothing game, because no-one is going along for the absolutist privacy vision which means Facebook et al can do as they please. They and their peers also have the money to change the conversation to something like this.

Again, call me crazy, but it's reminding me a lot of the oil companies big push for things like individual carbon footprints, and plastic straws being the real enemy.
A way to do this would be to start with a list of ingredients/techniques, and have a "dependency checker" that checks that every ingredient/technique is either in the list, or explained elsewhere. This way, the base would be explicit, and you can easily track explanations.
A similar concept was the Burroughs B-20 / Convergent AWS.

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

Converget Technologies did a LOT of pretty brilliant designs.