skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Europe (or at least big tea drinking Nations like Ireland and the UK) electric kettles are in every home, and they can boil 1l of water in just over 2 minutes. So while I have a gas range stove, I actually use the kettle to boil water for tea, coffee, rice, pasta, stock etc. Other small appliances like air fryers and standalone induction hobs reduce reliance on the has burners. And from a "green" perspective, switching to an induction stove would mean junking a 100kg stove. I'll probably never change my stove.
Google "Bob Hulse squid".
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket spotted from space before and after 105-satellite launch
ClojureScript on Microcontrollers (2020)
I don't know where you got the idea that Democrats think this is a witch hunt. Are you talking to Democrats who work in tech and/or the companies being hunted?

House Democrats were unable to find Republicans to support a recent antitrust investigation's recommendations[1].

Prominent Democrats have been pushing reinvigorating antitrust legislation for years[2], in fact.

The only partisan issue is whether the govt can or should compel social media platforms to carry speech that they don't want to carry, which is a violation of the First Amendment[3] and something Republicans support.

1. https://www.protocol.com/critics-say-what-house-democrats-go...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/breaking-from-tech-...

3. https://www.lawfareblog.com/no-florida-cant-regulate-online-...
From https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/37334713/heres-the-diffe...

"Tsunami Advisory Alert color: Orange

When a Tsunami Advisory is posted, tsunami conditions in or near the water are expected. Under an advisory, strong ocean currents and/or waves with the potential to cause coastal damage are expected.

The public should stay out of the water and away from beaches and coastlines."
I have never had the state DMV lose record of my ownership of a vehicle. I don’t know anyone that has. I can’t find any record of it happening.

It doesn’t sound like an actual problem to me.
A classless CSS framework is a good fit if you’re looking for a simple and lightweight solution that doesn’t require dipping into Node ecosystem or learning an idiomatic class name system.

Why not just use Tailwind? It, for example, essentially requires a front-end build step: it must read your source HTML files in order to know which CSS rules to bundle. (Without that it would have no choice but to serve a multi-megabyte stylesheet with all possible selectors.) Tailwind may be a good choice if you need more control over appearance, you are OK involving Node at pre-build, but you can’t write isomorphic GUI components—e.g., you’re providing server-rendered HTML with a non-JS back-end.
> the incumbent solution is actually pretty reasonable and the actual gains from a new system are negligible.

This is especially true when you learn about the nasty edge cases title insurance helps with. A lot of people trying to drum up buyers for their hashes talk like the value comes from recording the chain of transfers when you're really paying for things like handling cases where, say, a surveyor made a mistake in 1952 and now two landowners have legal ownership of overlapping properties or some mistake in probate three owners ago meant that someone has a claim on 10% of it.
One of the advantages of China's large and diverse reactor programme is that when they are building FOAK designs and something comes up that holds up the work (as it did on both their AP1000 and their EPR builds), they put their nuclear qualified workforce on buses and move them to other builds.

Compare that to Flamanville, Olkiluoto, and the US AP1000 builds where every time there was a work stoppage to review a detailed design element, a massive and expensive workforce just had some paid chill time.
PoW is what makes Blockchains of BTC truly permissionless and decentralized. It's a solution to the 51% attack. Yes PoW is resource hungry and expensive but it's a feature not a bug.

If we remove PoW to reduce cost and stop wasting energy, it just makes it another centralized system. PoS or FPoS is centralization in the hands of a few whale coin holders.

Many other VC backed blockchains like Solana are not even decentralized. And to talk about enterprise blockchain like Corda or Hyperleger, I don't know if it's even correct to call them blockchain.
> Unfortunately, that means that header bidding results in less money for the website.

Can they make up the difference in not getting ripped off by Google?
Is the US most homes use combination stove/ovens called ranges. These are the cheap option because they are mass produced. Stovetops are more common in bigger, more expensive homes which is why the stovetops at Best Buy are the "premium" models.

Also, at least in the US people have been told over and over how a kitchen remodel actually adds value to your house. "Every dollar you spend you get a dollar twenty back!" Well maybe so or maybe not, but if you don't sell your house before you need to remodel again, you are never realizing that gain.
I argue that the price for fuel essentially doesn't matter because you don't need all that much. Electricity costs a couple of cents per kWh, so it's very unlikely that synthetic Methane will cost more than a few dozen cents per kWh. So you can run a stove for an hour a day for one or two bucks or so. I guess that's several times more than you pay for natural gas, but a lot cheaper than going to a restaurant.
I’ve listened to a (very) few Rohan podcasts. He’s not a great interviewer but he has some great guests.

But COVID Rogan is something else entirely. He’s gone pure contrarian conspiracy theorist on everything. Many of the things he’s saying are easily disprovable and his guests are even telling him he’s wrong, but he won’t let it go. It’s sad that this is one of the most popular podcasts out there. Stunning that he’s piping misinformation directly to so many people.

His conspiracies aren’t even logically consistent. For example, he’s a proponent of monoclonal antibodies because he received them, but strictly against the vaccine because he didn’t. He claims “they” are withholding the monoclonal antibodies to drive more people to the vaccine, while shrugging off the fact that both are made by “big pharma” (in some cases the same companies), and that monoclonal antibodies are orders of magnitude more expensive and more difficult to make.
The title is confusing, a back door implies something already baked in the system, but the article talks about a malware!
https://pysdr.org/ is a good introduction to DSP/SDR using Python.

Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24750588.

Ham Radio Workbench podcast on GNU Radio: https://www.hamradioworkbench.com/podcast/GNU-Radio.

In terms of hardware, there is a large spectrum, from inexpensive RTL-SDR (receive only, ~$25), PlutoSDR (transmit and receive, $229, which PySDR covers) all the way to $x000+ for USRP etc.
I agree with you but have found the data is much harder because organizations are so sensitive to that risk. Even though it can be anonymized, many don’t even want to allow it.

Absurd anecdote: I had a coworker who tried to present healthcare data from their research. They attempted to anonymize it humorously with names and SSN like “Mickey Mouse 123-45-678”. They were told them they couldn’t share the data on the chance somebody might actually have those name/SSN combinations
> there are range hoods near the price of Fotile which still only do 400 CFM!

Ok, but having just shopped for range hoods (and purchased a 1000 CFM Thermador hood) there are plenty of good hoods in the same price range by various manufacturers that do 800-1000 CFM. I'm not trying to say the Fotile hoods aren't good, I honestly didn't look at those. But I don't think there's anything particularly unique about the fact that they do 800+ CFM.

You're right though, there are plenty of underpowered hoods out there also, and one should definitely pay attention when purchasing, along with other factors such as source of make up air.
Apple is/was just making hay whilst the sun shined. I know many on this site would disagree, but regulation generally is for everyone's benefit. Just like a healthy progressive taxation system.
I ran it in the past couple of years, maybe with DOSBox; I can't remember exactly.
Removing trust completely is a pretty high bar... but there are different voting schemes out there and some of them do a pretty good job of removing a lot of the trust. Cryptography is typically involved, but blockchain is not needed. I wrote more about this here: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/thesis/
The article mentions kerosene multiple times - wouldn't it be a better option to run a generator off kerosene to produce electricity to power multiple households?
Those crypto hate articles are so trite. By this point, either people get it, or they don't.

We could even agree it isn't for everyone. Some people suffer from or dislike centralization, others don't. Some even explicitly WANT centralization.
Electric stoves are fine until the power goes out. With power issue in California it's nice to be able to cook a meal on the stove instead of resorting to a tiny camp stove.
Only if Nokia Mobile had survived, we could have seen something in this space. Here is what Nokia Research Labs(in Cambridge, UK) and Cambridge Univesity were working on before Nokia exited the mobile space:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymbFfoiHbOg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw2yiOhsFsc
Might be a good instance to use folding markers for your editor.
React but doing MPA, with routing on the server. Keeping it simple.
There are many different ways to construct an electronic voting system. What you are describing is a traditional, centralized electronic voting system. There are electronic voting systems out there that provide certain guarantees without the need to trust.
Not if you believe the complaints that 30% is too much “Apple Tax”. No, they’ll keep the price the same and use the profit to improve their apps and business model.

(Can you see my crossed fingers?)
In my experience identity (how you think about yourself) is the easiest thing to change. I did it several times in my 38-year-long life, mostly accidentally. Habits are much harder because by default you do them automatically, without thinking. I'm not even sure identity is an independent "thing". IMHO it's an emergent property based on things you do and think and it changes from one moment to another. Habits on the other hand are definitely real and persistent.

> Being able to change wants and desires at will however seems almost unattainable.

I don't think you need to change them. If I'm addicted to video games and wasting my life my root want and desire usually isn't "I want to play more games". It's "I want to feel I'm good at something" or "I don't want to think about myself as a failure anymore" or "I don't want to think about my life falling apart". These are all good things. You don't need to change the desires, just the way in which you achieve them.
> since the morality of the very practice is dubious

Really? What's "dubious" about selling attention for money and/or physical goods? The practice is older than money itself.

The current social contract where advertising is clearly marked as out-of-stream information is a very good thing. Because the alternative is all advertising is "native", meaning lies and deception.

The only unethical part of the landscape is the fact that Google (et al.) disrupted the traditional advertising markets and managed to avoid having to comply to existing legislation.
Regardless of gas or induction, whenever you fry, have the oven on, or burn something, air quality drops dramatically. I have a pretty robust air quality meter and see PM2.5 go as high as 400 when I fry food. The most microwave vents only recirculate air. You really have to cut a hole in the wall to properly vent cooking fumes. I think this is a bigger issue of gas vs induction for indoor air quality.
Automation has not delivered his full potential but only side effects which favored the few sociopath over the many.
Internet has delivered as much as possible in the early days, not its full potential, and has been regulated so that the orwellian side effects will be prevalent.
Bitcoin put a dent in the banking system, and it is being normalized. But the ideas behind blockchain and trustless consensus have a great potential. They will probably fail like the rest but why not give it a chance. I do NOT mean invest money. I mean invest time in understanding how those principles can be applied so technology can fight soulless technocracy.
Really? I’ve never seen a wok like this. Most flat bottomed woks are just flat bottomed.

A wok with a flat bottom outside and curved surface inside would also be heavy.
I wrote an inverter for XXHASH64, in python: https://gist.github.com/DavidBuchanan314/13020be9e2a251e2a2a...
Probably not. Way to small for that, and even the early large eruptions only affect the atmosphere noticably for a year or two (unless it's a really really really crazy large eruption that makes Tambora look like tiny)
The satellite wasn't maneuvered, and it was not specifically monitoring this location. It is a weather satellite that looks at half the planet at a time. This is just a crop of a much wider field of view.
Blockhains can be as simple as an API. See the 7 layer stack in the Nexus blockchain (you definitely don't need to go smart contract all the time).

I think the author exaggerates a bit the tone. Sure, 10 years is a lot of Internet time. But the steam engine took 50 years to become viable. Then the industrial revolution was a period of 80 years. Put that into perspective.

I guess, by speculative, you mean the cryptocurrency craze.and I can agree is a speculative bubble, an MLM scheme. But then you also have https://cyber.ee/resources/news/digital-identity-and-blockch... . You'll soon have CDBCs. And when it's here, you'll barely remember what this conversation.

Your bitcoin might be worthless by then.
Ah you're right my bad -- just opening the svgs work fine. I was trying to import them as editable objects, and the filters didn't survive there, so I assume there's not much edit support
It is somewhat disruptive to banks. You can invest stable coins and get interest for example which is higher than bank interest. And the operator doesn't need to spend a fortune applying for banking licenses for each country they operate in.
No we don’t
Related: Why I don't mock (2014). https://blog.metaobject.com/2014/05/why-i-don-mock.html
I listened to a lot of Rogan podcasts. Mainly before 2020. It was a different time and the show was a lot more interesting with a range of guests from different backgrounds. The few times I’ve listened post 2021 have all felt a lot more political and conspiratorial. It’s been a sad deterioration of a show I once found entertaining.

It’s worth noting that Rogan used to be deep into moon landing conspiracies. He mentions on his show a few times how he now sees the error of his ways. Perhaps some people just have tendencies for conspiracy and it was only a matter of time before another took hold.
> by coming to terms with it in some crystalline fashion

I’m not sure I get you. There are certainly ingenious speeches but there are genuine ones, too (probably not speeches but genuine acceptance). See “Radical Acceptu” by Tara Brach.
The notary is a teeny-tiny portion of the expense in the homebuying process. And you'd still need a lawyer involved if your transaction involves mortgages (and likely you'd still want one anyway to construct the transaction). Putting deeds on the blockchain changes the homebuying process almost not at all.

As for state IDs... why not just a centralized database with a public API? What does decentralization achieve for a system that is fundamentally centralized. Nobody can issue an ID except the government in this case.
> Google's dominance of the ad market

It isn't just dominance. I certainly don't love advertisers, but this is illegal monopolistic price setting. This should be ample evidence for the DOJ to sternly penalize (or break up) Google and Facebook.

Google controls too much surface area on the web and mobile, and they're using it in harmful ways. They've been caught colluding, price setting, and wage fixing on multiple occasions. They're using their disproportionate power to alter the entire market to fit their needs.

How is this any different from Ma Bell? And given the pervasiveness of technology now versus back then, how is it not worse?
Halting Progress and Happy Accidents: How mRNA Vaccines Were Made
For this problem, an enumerative solver may be more optimal (and faster); where optimality is finding the word with the least number of guesses: There are ~158k 5-letter words. Start with a word containing letters with the highest frequency of occurrence amongst 5 letter words (this prob distr is likely to be close to the distr in the english language). Make that guess. Eliminate any words containing black letters, or not having green letters in the right place, or missing a yellow letter. Pick the highest probability word from the remaining. Repeat.

This should almost always get you the answer in 3 guesses. [Edit: Realized after writing that 3 is too optimistic given you might not have enough constraints after the 2nd guess, and agree with dzdt's comment. 4 might be where we end up at.]

I would be curious to see the distribution of #guesses needed across the 158k words.
It's already the case: if you buy your subscription on tinder.com rather than within the app itself, it is noticeably cheaper.
> has been a disaster, the app is slow, buggy, not everyone has access and it’s easily exploitable for crime

Sounds like early 2000s online shopping to me.
Are there many countries where the price, ease of manufacturing or patents are major problems of this unfortunate time?

Robustness against future strands and acceptability to covidiots are the two big problems where I live, at least as far as I can see.
This is a solution but not really a long-term one.Google/FB/Apple can already de facto buy less principled people or foreigners and also buy them citizenships to work for them.90%+ of the time such individuals who take these deals won't give a shit about principles[There are cases when they do, and often these outliers become leakers when booted out,but for the vast majority of cases this does not happen], given that it's obvious the motive(money) for such a move.

This is not an argument or a talking point against immigration, or importing workforce, what I'm saying is that by doing this and (at least) not reforming companies(or better: shut them down), you effectively empower these corporations to be even less-principled and the pressure from employers becomes smaller.Now theoretically this can be curbed by the government, but there are a few problems here: you cannot do this and think you can remain competitive as a global power;such policies are very unpopular in US;FAANG companies can easily lobby and overthrown this(they already probably did and do this) policy;

So the solution imo has to be a bottom->up one: pressuring the company internally, though this rarely works in practice.Google has become more transparent (even if a facade) in the latest years towards the average user.But at the same time it has engaged in shady projects for the military that are very concerning,so who knows what's going on.
Currently scouring the US.
No joy here either.
I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about in this context. You are quoting my comment so I guess it should be related somehow but for the life of me I can't figure it out.
I would love to see the evidence you used to reach those conclusions, care to share it?
Due to it being a radio licenced by rule, the firmware in wifi devices is locked down tight. If it ware wide open FCC would revoke it's type acceptance.

The only project that so far has managed to even partially use wifi hardware as a more generic SDR is nexmon[1] and even that is rather involved.
Really cool project but not much heard since 2018.

For just experimenting with modems across a noisy path one could just use the built in microphone and speakers.

1. https://github.com/seemoo-lab/mobisys2018_nexmon_software_de...
> incidental gas pollution... the author doesn’t discuss results from alternate ranges... "

The alternative ranges produce zero. Combustion heating, cooking and driving produces NO2, electric doesn't. The article is specifically about NO2, it has specific adverse health effects.

> Every time I cook the indoor air pollution also spikes "

What kind of pollution are you measuring? My air purifier reacts to frying too and shows "high pollution', but it just measures particles in the air - it cannot tell apart cancerous coal ash from harmless pollen and frying oil getting in the air.
GG&S is basically a religious book given the narrative it’s trying to enforce. It’s extreme blank-slatism.

It was pretty awful 20 years ago and looks even worse now.
edit: why does an Israeli medical researcher's blog show this:

""It’s been nearly two years now and my confidence in publicly funded science is completely destroyed. I don’t believe anyone reasonably intelligent can read the COVID literature and come out the other side without concluding that universities and governments cannot tell the difference between science and scientism. Our society is completely in the grip of people who have effectively evolved under selection pressure to strongly resemble scientists without actually being scientists. Their work looks roughly right from a distance - there are data tables, charts, equations - but when you sit down and read it the scientific method has gone AWOL. I am now explicitly open to counter-narrative claims I’d never have previously considered."

edit: looking for the actual reference here [0] it appears that it is an embedded quote, not the author. Please confirm for yourselves

[0] https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/what-convinced-you-containm...
No state has no power, so there are no "pawns" but it's very clear which states have significantly more power such that the less powerful states moves become virtually irrelevant to predicting outcomes based on the state of things. It's like big O notation when you zero out the constant factors.

I'm only commenting on why what's happening is happening, not whether it "should" be happening or not. Why states act the way they do is something you can study independent of what you want them to be doing. I explained in my previous comments why Russia is behaving the way they are and if you want to start to get an actual handle on that, check out what Mearsheimer and Caspian Report are saying. I won't be typing out the entire history and argument here.

> No one invaded these countries and forced them to be part of NATO

However, this part isn't true in anything but a pedantic sense. The US spends billions on propaganda, intelligence operations, NGOs, sanctions, capital financing and many other means to sway opinion and eliminate opposition to force themselves on other states as the preferable options. Violence is not the only mode of coercion. Again, this isn't some kind of moral judgement: they all do it, but some are more successful than others. To ignore this is just as naive as the comment I was responding to.
Really makes you think about how cool satellites have gotten. After some googling, I learned Himawari is a Japanese weather satellite:

https://www.satellitetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/PH...

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/himawari-8.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himawari_8#/media/File:Himawar...