skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Smoke detectors usually have replaceable batteries though, which kind of work like an off switch.

That is changing. Several states, including California and New York, no longer allow replaceable battery smoke alarms. They require long life sealed batteries. Other states are in the midst of doing so.

They are doing this because smoke detectors have a limited lifetime. You are supposed to replace them 10 years after manufacture. However, they don't suddenly stop working at 10 years...they just get less and less effective over time.

Many people don't realize they are supposed to replace them, or know it but forget. I didn't know, for instance, until mine was ~17 years old. It still went off when I'd sear a steak if I forgot to close the door between the kitchen and the room it was in so there was no obvious thing to tell me that it was likely losing effectiveness.

By going to units with a sealed battery meant to last the lifetime of the unit they hope to make it more likely that people will remember to replace them. When it is time the units will beep like the replaceable battery units do when the battery is getting low.

I would guess there are also people with the replaceable battery units who when it starts signaling low battery take out the battery planning to pick up a new one next time they are shopping, forget, and take a long time to remember if ever. Sealed units will help there, too.

BTW, when buying smoke alarms it is probably best to avoid Kidde (also avoid them for fire extinguishers). They are prominently featured at Home Depot and Walmart, and can be a little hard to avoid if you don't take a bit of care. Here's why to avoid them, from the Wirecutter.com article on basic smoke detectors:

> With placement on the shelves of Home Depot, Kidde is the most prominent competitor to First Alert, but its overall track record is, in a word, disturbing. In 2018, the company recalled more than 450,000 dual-sensor smoke alarms; in 2016, it recalled 3.6 million smoke/CO alarms, and in 2014, it recalled 1.2 million smoke/CO alarms. In addition, since 2005, Kidde has enacted three separate fire extinguisher recalls of 470,000 units (2005), 4.6 million units (2015), and 40 million units (2017). Worst of all, in early 2021, a federal judge ordered Kidde to pay a $12 million civil penalty “in connection with allegations that the company failed to timely inform the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) about problems with fire extinguishers manufactured by the company.” For these reasons, we can’t, in good conscience, recommend any Kidde products to our readers.

> Although First Alert is not immune to recalls (it recalled nearly 150,000 smoke alarms in 2006 and roughly 600,000 fire extinguishers in 2000), none of them are recent or on the scale of what Kidde has had to do.
> Further, the answer is probably not to tell people to simply move.

Though if you consider the long-term outlook apocalyptic and you own a house in these states, it would be prudent to sell before everyone else.
This led to a cool question, what objectively little, unimportant thing can get you bent out of shape?

Hearing people chew their food.
Better ship a copy with every product sold so the customer can properly appreciate what you've done
To add an interesting fiction book: The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi focuses on a hypothetical future where individual militias and municipalities/states in the South/South West fight and engage in near hidden warfare over access to the dwindling Colorado River. The wealthy are able to live in compounds where enormous amounts of water are recycled in a self contained system, while the less well off have to fend for themselves in what is a veritable super desert. It's quite dark, but a troubling possible future written in a clear hard sci-fi voice.
Also: interview with Joshua Schachter on the Web Masters podcast. One of those rare podcasts where every episode is worth listening to.

https://latonas.com/blog/web-masters-episode-9-joshua-schach...
Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks
TouchTunes jukeboxes -seem- to use a dark pattern of playing music nobody wants to listen to in order to encourage jukebox purchases. It could also be that the default music is stuff that is less popular.
The academy has also done exceptionally well. Individual institutions like the University of Oxford have unbroken chains of governance going back centuries, and so do scholarly societies. And of course, the institution of (say) science as a whole could also be regarded as a common endeavour lasting centuries where the highest-status individuals routinely make decisions with the far future in mind (although you would usually say that they're doing it for their legacy).
Such a terrible name for a software that does much more than just a "Preview".

Honestly all this time I was under the impression that it's only good for previewing and nothing else.
The average length isn’t enough because the likelihood of derailment might be a function of train length. It’s possible shorter trains have gotten safer and monster trains have gotten more dangerous due to their increasing length.
What kind of fraud? There is buyer protection and zero risks for eBay - PayPal won't release the money until the delivery is confirmed, what you are talking about?
“Those aren’t eating sardines, those are trading sardines.”

- old traders joke
Intel representative teases the new Ponte Vecchio
I'm not going to dive into the whole theory side, but suffice to say as a libertarian socialist, no, I'm not a communist in the sense you're thinking. I also don't accuse "anyone who opposes communism" as being a genocidal fascist, so I'm not sure where you got that from. Libertarians have a tendency to backslide into fascism when confronted with left wing pushback, but libertarianism itself isn't a fascist ideology.

You're framing this as libertarians versus Stalinism or something like that, I was thinking more unionisation, social-democratic movements, that sort of thing. Fascists pop up in the face of some pretty milquetoast leftist agitation - see the parent commenter who decided to become a fascist because leftists were mean to them.

I do believe that voluntary contracts can be exploitative (because they can by definition), but that didn't come up in this thread at all so I'm not sure where you're bringing that in from.
They have and it is slowing them down, but they're using different metrics to define and track productivity. If you're interested in hearing about it this guy has a pretty good perspective on the overall issues:

https://youtu.be/Q0rk5tnrFqA?t=9300
Looking at it another way, the value of plastic and wood/paper comes from the molecular structures. The value of steel, aluminum, lead (from lead acid batteries), and in future lithium/nickle/cobalt (from LiIon batteries) comes from the raw elements. The latter tend to be economically recyclable, the former do not.
> The idea is that billionaires can better focus resources on things they seem important than governments.

Stross anticipated your reply though,

> They can fund lobbying groups and politicians, rant about colonizing Mars, and buy midlife crisis toys like Twitter or weekend getaways on a space station, but their scope for effecting real change is actually tiny on a global scale. Even Putin and Xi, who are at the state-level actor end of the scale (individually they're multi-billionaires: but they also control nuclear weapons, armies, and populations in 8-9 digits) have little global leverage. Putin's catastrophic adventure in Ukraine has revealed how threadbare the emperor's suit is.
Ukraine did have some air force even in 2014 where its army was barely functioning, and it surely has air force now. What's left of it at this stage.

Ukraine is a large country.
The problem is that much (not all) the business important data is involved the public internet. Take this school for example - prospective students applied online. One could imagine sneaker-netting the application data to an airgapped network, but that introduces its own costs and risks.

Email (or other messages systems like slack) are one of primary tools of business, facilitating communication within an organization. You can't do that well with an air-gapped network, except to make that network really leaky.
Much of that trading will happen off-chain using local accounts on some exchange and thus not contribute to the transaction count. Only the deposits and withdrawals require on-chain transactions.
Unfortunately doesn't seem to be the case. All I have is "rotate clockwise" and it's just like Reader DC in that it rotates the view of the entire document rather than actually rotating a page.

It's missing the rotation arrow buttons that bug you to buy a subscription, so that's a bit nicer than the current Reader DC release. I assume this is just because it lags behind the main release and they'll be rolled in as a future update on the Classic track?
It's particularly galling when many California cities have desalination as an option and it's opposed in many places. Farming is going to have to cut back regardless, though, since it uses 80% of the water. (Not including environmental use.)
Yes that's why I used their term. It doesn't say much about it though. The Ethereum Wiki [1] has a much better discussion of its security implications IMO.

But my point is mainly that moving checkpoints is the standard solution to long forks, so a discussion about PoS security should probably focus on that, vs theoretical alternatives like trusted hardware.

[1] https://eth.wiki/en/concepts/proof-of-stake-faqs#what-is-wea...
>If only cities in Canada and the US simply enforced traffic laws that are already on the books

Traffic flow is generally outside the bounds of the law. Going full jackboot would just piss a lot of people off in the short term and get the law changed in the medium term.
I have to believe that a lot of that is the landscape part. I admittedly live by myself but if I do the math right, it looks like I use about 3,000 gallons a year--virtually none of which is used outside the house.
MIRI's Sharper View Hints at New Possibilities for Science
In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled, and the population of the US went from 209M to 330M. Much of our water problems stems from the simple fact that there's so many more people and companies that are now trying to use the same amount of water.

The only long term solution for our water problems is massive investment into desalination and pipelines from the coasts inland. There are other solutions such as using what we have more efficiently, equitably and with less waste, but that will only get us so far. We're heading towards 400M Americans by 2060. They'll all need water.
Blazor relies on dynamically generated JS Bridges and WASM, where as GWT just generated JavaScript from Java Bindings. Seems similar on the surface, however the difference being that Blazor is trying to leverage direct compilation of C# constructs directly to WASM whenever possible, and supplementing that with some JavaScript interop, as opposed to trans-piling things directly to JS itself, as with GWT.
Well, we don't seem to have any information about the hardware used, so it's going to be a sketchy comparison.

In any case, shouldn't your measurement be made the same way John Jacobsen seems to have made measurements —

$ time ./bin/visual ./image/visualnc64.im -nogui -doit "Stdout nextPutAll: 100 factorial printString; cr. ObjectMemory quit"
93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000

real 0m0.616s
user 0m0.452s
sys 0m0.161s
The landscape view is cool, nice to be able to drill down into sub-sections ... e.g. https://landscape.cncf.io/serverless
A DESIGN WITH ALL-CAPS: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/a-design-with-al...
One of the problems with the US dairy supply chain are anticompetitive practices with respect to manufacturing facilities. I’ve witnessed this.

There are a very limited number of manufacturing facilities approved to product infant formula, and only the largest of companies have the scale to work with them.

This affects product quality—illegally importing baby formula from smaller brands in Europe into the US has become incredibly popular because the perception of quality is much higher.

Does strict regulation to ensure the immediate safety of formula make sense? Yes. Does regulation that is so strict that only established multi-billion dollar businesses are the only ones who can produce it make sense? I don’t believe so and I believe that it’s bad for the country.
But that's exactly what an alphabet agency employee would say!
Yep, in college I was taking the train home, and an earlier train had a passenger who had a heart attack, but the ambulance couldn't get to the train because all the crossings were blocked and there were cars everywhere that couldn't move out of the way.

Took about 45 minutes for the ambulance to get the lady off the train and the hospital was literally a 5 minute drive away. They just couldn't get to her.
Why do you think you're the only type of rater?
Can they? The US government has spent more on, and done more to advance space travel and exploration than Musk can ever hope to. The CDC completely eliminated malaria and other mosquito born illnesses in the US, amongst many other things. Gates has done nothing comparable. If you look at every billionaire’s pet projects you’ll find governments that have already done and are doing more. What billionaires lack is oversight and what they have in spades is budget and incentives to spend on PR to make themselves look good while doing little. As an average person, I’d rather governments did these things than have to put up with billionaires class who get less done while talking about it more.
Let's play my politics !!! I don't believe that anyone should be coerced into not having an abortion, but I don't believe anyone should be coerced into paying in someone else's abortion. Thus I agree with... wait for it... neither side in the current debate. Congratulations to the winners!!
Artillery with spotters accomplished the same task.
I think the modem worked its way in there because some employers mandate compliance and that's how they check. (Think safety-critical jobs like driving a train; if you're diagnosed with sleep apnea and don't use the prescribed mitigation, you can't drive the train. Too many people feeling "fine", falling asleep, and running their train around a 30mph curve at 80mph.) Insurance companies obviously love the excuse to not pay, but that's probably not the primary purpose for telemetry.

You can buy your CPAP outright for around ~$1500. This is a problem for many people, but probably not HN readers. The telemetry basically facilitates an interest-free loan that lets you pay for the machine over a couple years. More favorable financing than a credit card, so people aren't getting super screwed here.
people posting things on the internet just isn't that much of a novelty anymore

frankly nothing "internet" is a novelty anymore

no one needs your edgy take, nonlinear thinking, "challenging ideas"...its all just blah blah blah

the world needs people to build houses, not websites

get used to seeing more old-tyme content creators sign off for good, most of their bits had just been reduced to noise anyway
related piece/discussion from the new yorker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30810085
Or worse, the fix suggestion being wrong: "Please try again later", when the root cause is a misconfiguration, so it'll never work until the configuration is corrected.
I can’t speak to forever, but we have no plans to get rid of our free tier.
It's a shame, I was hoping for actual insight, but all I got was complaints.

There are absolutely challenging anti-patterns in the remote work world, but I have yet to see actual concrete suggestions for how to deal with them. No, "nohello.com" is not an actually useful suggestion (ignoring the fact that I fundamentally disagree with the premise). Just complaining about ad hoc meetings doesn't solve for the occasional need for quick discussions that, in a textual medium, would drag out or lead to misunderstandings.

"Be more asynchronous" denies the reality that some work is synchronous. If I need something from you, I have to wait until you give me what I need. Development is a team sport, despite what the stereotypes would have you believe.

I'd love to see how "remote native" companies are doing this, but according to the author, they just devolve to this state, too.
Youtube ads are to support youtube. Sponsored segments are to support the creator. They are completely separate. If you don't want youtube ads, Youtube provides an alternate payment method. If you don't want sponsored segments, that's up to the creator to provide a way out
You lost me at go home and keep working...
Compare that to Germany, where the average water consumption per household is
12439 gallons per person per year [1]. Sounds to me like Americans are particularly wasteful with their water consumption.

[1] https://www.bdew.de/service/daten-und-grafiken/entwicklung-d... (figure shows liters per day, 129 liters per day are about 12438.5 gallons per year)
>I don't mean to start a flamewar but in a country where abortion is being outlawed

1. If you're worried about starting a flamewar, then don't start one.

2. Abortion isn't being outlawed at the federal level, its simply being returned to the states.
I infer he's living in Vermont at this point. I don't think it will thrive outside unless he's got a greenhouse.
> will be starting kindergarten in the fall get a head start learning math and science

Let me guess, this is your first kid?
While I agree with others that remote does not necessarily imply asynchronous, there's a nugget I do agree with from the author's POV:

Video calling, chat tools and screensharing alone aren't really a great infrastructure for 'remote-friendly' organizations; maybe it's a bit of pedantry on play but since we're unpacking the differences between "remote" and "asynchronous" organizations, I wonder if it's worth breaking out the dichotomy of "remote-friendly" and merely "remote-capable"?

I don't have an answer to that, just sort of thinking vicariously through my keyboard
Two Sundays ago:

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/police-believe...

>Las Vegas police provided more details Tuesday morning in the discovery of a body at Lake Mead National Recreational Area.

Homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said they believe the body found in a barrel Sunday was a man who died from a gunshot wound.

“We’re going to expand our time frame of the murder to the middle to late 1970s to early 80s,” he said Tuesday morning, citing the clothes and shoes the man was wearing.

Spencer said officers discovered the shoes the man was wearing were sold at Kmart and manufactured in the middle and late 1970s.

The barrel was found Sunday near Hemenway Harbor because of dropping water levels in the lake.

Spencer previously said it is possible the barrel was dumped in the lake from a boat.

“The water level has dropped so much over the last 30 to 40 years that, where the person was located, if a person were to drop the barrel in the water and it sinks, you are never going to find it unless the water level drops,” Spencer said in an interview Monday. “The water level has dropped and made the barrel visible. The barrel did not move….It was not like the barrel washed up.”
The suffering impact of a single cut of meat is greater than any amount of crypto I could ever mine.

I am comfortable with my emissions. Those that eat meat are certainly hypocrites if they judge them.
Sorry, the following rant is only tangentially related.

New Windows sleep (""sleep"") states are bewildering.

My S/O's new laptop only supports "S0" or "Modern Standby"[0]. It can sit there closed up in its deepest supported level of "sleep" and have its fans spinning and keyboard backlight lit while downloading updates or whatever else it deems important.

Sure, introduce something like S0 and spend time improving it. Try to "perfect" it like how Apple has seemingly perfected its low energy use modes on its devices. It will probably take MSoft 10 more years. But don't also artificially restrict the use of other sleep states. On the new laptop it is supposedly a hardware restriction, but I'm guessing it's more just some firmware toggle (IIRC some laptops have had S1-3 re-enabled via firmware updates, but I'm not entirely sure now).

Edit: it seems that MS has patched a bunch of regedit tweaks that used to allow re-enabling more sleep states[1], though it depends on exactly what laptop model you are on as well I suppose.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/power/system-...
[1] https://superuser.com/questions/1179987
It’s not like the wealth of Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos is in liquid assets: their wealth is from owning shares in a corporation.

What we’re saying when we say “limit their wealth” is that we should force them to lose control of the company they founded and led to success — almost entirely!

Eg, Jeff Bezos would go from ~10% of Amazon to ~0.01% if we wanted to reduce his “wealth” below a billion dollars.

Given that neither government nor Wall St seem to show greater wisdom than these business leaders with demonstrated success, I’m strongly against forcing corporate leaders to cede more power to those groups.
Wouldn't dirt, sand, or rocks work just fine?
Owl – Scientific Computing for OCaml
I easily skip over that paywall using Firefox's "Toggle reader view (F9)" option. Need to time it correctly, but it's not too hard.
How a company is microwaving Alberta's oilsands
Depends on the context. In a book, yes. On the internet, not that much.
To run even a, say, “simple” traditional grain train—6,700 feet, 28 million pounds—through the ice fog of a late February night, applying the physics of the horsepower and weight to a landscape you cannot see, but must know—every inch of, every hill and dip, every crossing, every signal mast is something no office worker can imagine.

Why are train engineers expected to know every nuance of the route, when it should be trivial to do fine-grained GPS maps of the tracks and provide moving map displays that could show every hill and dip, every crossing, every signal mast. This shouldn't be left up to the memory of the engineers.

There's already automation that could enforce speed limits, but for some reason it relies on track-side equipment so isn't universally available:

https://www.businessinsider.com/amtrak-derail-washington-pos...
I don't disagree that blaming regular people is a distraction, but lawns?? really? Why does anyone have a lawn in the desert. Can we just not?
Typography is a literal profession. Like, one that's older than computing. It's a serious art form. What you're saying is akin to saying feeling disgust at awful programs is bad.
There were protests at SpaceX when it was revealed the Turksat 5B satellite would command and control these TB2 drones, extending their range from operator line-of-sight to near global.

Elon decided to go ahead with the launch. At some point we need to start calling SpaceX a defense company.
We were not at war with Yemen, and Al-Awlaki was not a soldier. If he were guilty of a crime (which I have no doubt he was) then he should have been charged and convicted and then executed if warranted.

>It was not possible to capture Al-Awlaki.

We know this is a lie. The fact that his family offered to have him turn himself in as soon as he was charged with a crime, proves that there was zero attempt to capture him. The Al-Awlaki family was begging the US Government for over a year to charge him with something so that he would get his constitutionally guaranteed rights.

And that is exactly why the US Government refused to charge him, because doing so would have afforded him his rights in court, which the US Government specifically wanted to avoid. That shows clear intent to deprive a US citizen of his guaranteed rights.