skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- People expect appliances to live for years if not decades, and many are not willing to trust a new brand for a multi-hundred-dollar expense

- Producing and especially shipping and storing huge and/or heavy appliances is expensive AF, which means you need a lot of upfront capital for inventory and warehouses

- Getting onto Amazon is easy, but almost no one buys a fridge on Amazon - which means you have to establish a relationship with brick-and-mortar retail, and that is difficult: the retailers expect free demonstration units for each location or subsidy for advertising, as well as have ridiculously long payment schedules (depending on whose rumors you listen to, some chains want up to 1 year of time from product delivery to payment due date!).

Basically, it boils down to the question on how and where to get money to disrupt an industry that has enormous cash requirements, low margins and an extremely niche target demographic. Your best bet is a benevolent billionaire willing to put up cash for decades.
You'd think so, yes. In Scotland we have a similar problem with motorcycle theft. And lots of motorbikes have trackers on them. Anecdotally * , though, even providing the address that a stolen tracker is reporting isn't enough for the police to investigate. The thought seems to be that the police are simply chronically underfunded, so they're prioritising whatever their internal targets are - presumably violent crime incidents.

Obviously this will vary hugely by region and police force. Some of them probably would be happy having easy cases handed to them on a plate.

* Very anecdotally! I don't have any stats on this, and the anecdotes come from a fellow biker who is part of an anti motorbike theft campaign group, so take with the appropriate number of grains of salt.
It's a bit different from the "Bloodstraw" idea, but still interesting!
Flask Mega-Tutorial author here. This was a surprise. :)

Happy to see people continue to find my tutorial useful and relevant. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer.
Does this have the downside of not showing your muted status to the other participants?
These types of builds are a lot more interesting as you imposed some constraints in terms of noise and cost, resulting system is a lot more practical
> Its a comment chain on a tech site not an introductory article.

Yes, but it's a tech site with a broad audience. I still think it's nicer to avoid any but the most commonly understood acronyms. It's a hard call to make but there's no harm erring on the side of caution.

Maybe I'm too prickly on this topic. In this particular case I think it's probably OK but I often see people misjudge this to the point where it's genuinely confusing for most of the audience.
For the items covered in this tutorial, I would rather recommend Django. Better documented and arguably more suited to the task. For an API alone e.g. along with an SPA I would consider FastAPI.
Bike thieves can be quite professional and experienced, and are likely to figure out common placement points for trackers. Not to mention that they will try to offload the bike quickly anyway, so you have a limited window within which to catch them. And even if you do catch the thief, you'd likely need further evidence to achieve a conviction.

It's a frustrating problem.
Sorry, forgot to reply here. See the answer a few comments above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490449
Not OP, but I think OP meant about: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/

FastAPI is async web-framework for Python comparable [0] to Flask.

Read it as Flask is "old" and "slow" (i.e. synchronous and needs multiprocess deployment), whereas FastAPI is really fast, single threaded and async.

[0] IMHO comparable only at "hello world" level as FastAPI is much more and uses a lot of goodies of newer Python versions (typing, asyncio, etc.)
The same considerations apply, though not always. JavaScript can be JIT compiled, though the JIT might not make the same optimisations as a C compiler. It's running on the same CPU though.
It seems this is only the case if it's a tweet that contains a retweet. These are now removed from the stream as they're not of relevance.
To expand on the theme of "dangerous" - the rider strikes me as being in an extremely vulnerable position, perched high up and at the front of the vehicle. In the event of a collision, the rider will be the first thing to make contact with an obstacle and they will do so with the weight of a boat behind them. The design of the frame is such that if you hit a low wall, you will be launched over the handlebars.

It's pretty horrifying that the rider in their ad copy isn't wearing a helmet. At that height, almost any minor accident could result in brain damage.

https://betriton.com/static/64fb2c33c24d9797c14aabab4aa3540e...
Is there another group that is LARP-ing as Viet Cong?
There are legal requirements for enhanced emergency calling in European cars. Cars must have the ability to alert emergency responders with location data. Don’t expect to be able to disable internet in cars going forward.
Makes sense, given Sheffield was a major steelmaking town back in the day.
Meta Congratulates Itself for Trying to Moderate Misinformation in Australia
One of the developers' blogs I follow has an interesting similar article with some good tips: https://adam.ac/blog/stream-deck-for-developers/
That’s different. The shared hosted vault is better (and works great). I’m talking about a “set and forget” version, where 1Password doesn’t work at all, unless the volume is mounted.

I tried using symlinks or aliases, but that did not work. 1Password simply created a new vault.
I'm not sure why you'd even want this. As someone who had hypertension, so many factors affect your BP. I could drop mine by 10 points by just taking a warm shower. That's why I had to take it at the same time everyday, and it was a process to do it too. I'd have to sit in my chair in a prone position for 10 minutes or so, slow my breathing, relax, clear my head of thoughts, etc. Once I felt significantly relaxed, I took 3-4 measurements and averaged them all.

Having a heart condition is a very easy gateway to health anxiety. I had to stop wearing my apple watch, my wife keeps the pulse oximeter under lock and key, etc. because I became way too focused on the numbers while ignoring the context. It became a very bad feedback loop.

I don't want to monitor my BP 24/7.
Haha, the simple explanation is usually correct.
Seems like nothing more than an indicator, far from proof for any tampering. If I was part of a goverment and I was doing something bad, I might feel like doing it in Dutch instead of the goverment language, just because if something gets leaked, it seems weird "why would it be in dutch, it cant be real".

Im not implying anything and i dont care, I just feel like this is a fallacy to some degree
At first glance I don't see how any of these qualify as remote kill switches.
> At which point you'll have to disassemble the damned thing and physically rip out the LTE modem, possibly resulting in the device bricking itself when it can't phone home after a while.

I wish the guy best luck with his unplug solution. I recently did something comparable and was first lucky to discover when unplugging antennas from the board the device seemingly went on unaffected just to find out that it behaved erratic: Input was terribly lagging up to the point of being unusable to interoperate with. Reluctantly and in defeat I had to re-attach the antenna. I doubt it was designed to behave like this on purpose, but the CPU being tripped for operating out of regular parameters.

However intentionally bricking the device when it can't phone home is a very likely future.
Are there any best practices on using one of the "-sk" key types and authorizing usage with your security key, vs. storing the whole ssh key on the security key?
Not if we want to stop global warming. What we can do instead is store renewable power as methane or hydrogen and burn that when batteries are insufficient to cover. But perhaps advances in grid scale batteries will make even that obsolete.
The driver is the one controlling the car. Without one, the car can only roll downhill.

Is that really a position you want a non-democratically elected agency to have? Society at the behest of Jerome Powell?
I think you can buy a 5G jammer on aliexpress /s
Django Reddit Clone
The industry lobbies heavily (as described in the article and well documented in other sources) for subsidies not reduced regulation. This suggests the nuclear industry's issues are financial not regulatory. This conclusion would also agree with most financial analysis of wholesale electricity markets where nuclear electricity is multiple times the price per MWh compared to not just renewables but also CCGT. Wind, solar and gas turbines are the only competitive generation technologies available currently.
I have to laugh at this image: https://betriton.com/static/c93a7e95444881f50ad62628a6958bab...

If you want to remain unseen, camouflage face makeup is probably the least of your worries when you're in a bright blue amphibious camper-trike.
> In the long run I hope to see high capacity transcontinental HVDC lines linking continents so we can buy solar power from the other side of the Earth when it's night where we are, and sell our surplus when the sun is shining -- no batteries needed. That's hard and expensive.

There are a bunch of projects in this space. I love going down this rabbit hole.

The EU supergrid is already being built out, and doesn't require linking far flung continents since it links Norwegian hydro and North Sea wind power, among other sources. A mix of geographically distributed hydro, wind, solar, batteries and perhaps geothermal will negate the need for relying on solar + HVDC stretched around the globe along with the geopolitical risks.

Some examples from past HN comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30935073

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29230939

Morocco-UK solar/wind/battery project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJunxkln578

Germany is aiming to get 100% of it's electricity from green sources by 2035, so expect a lot more projects in this space in future:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30500650
Speaking of prototypal object systems, is there still an application for JavaScript prototypes today? I can't remember interacting with them even once in the last five years unless it was some legacy code from long before that.

That said, I don't think classes was much of an improvement. I've seen a lot of profoundly stupid code come out of it, like singletons with a static getInstance(), just because that's what you do in Java, never mind that JavaScript has object literals. Then again before that I saw the same stupid singletons, but implemented with prototypes instead.
Cars are a health crisis. So many people have died needlessly due to cars that it’s easy to understand Europe’s drive to make them safer.
So if you and your partner each contribute 50% as a household, then you both own 50% of a house, so the maths still checks out.
Go Type System Overview
This is just the consumer website for people downloading the plugin.
> That's why Europe doesn't have rolling blackouts. It has a lot of wind and solar.

Patently false. Europe has a lot of nuclear and gas and coal - way more than wind and solar - that's why it doesn't have blackouts. Europe is up on the 50th latitude, solar is 3x worse than in California or Hawaii - and hence 3x more expensive. The cost per kWh of French nuclear plants at 7c/kWh is not much higher than French wind or solar at 5-6c/kWh, and it is half the cost of solar/wind plus the battery capacity to make it through windless winter weeks.
Prime Run: a game about adding and subtracting prime numbers
Nothing and e.g. Permazen does that:

https://github.com/permazen/permazen
> Both to show ads in the vehicle and to harvest your location data.

The discourse 5-10 years ago was that this was the price you pay for free (as in beer) consumer services. In reality, no such principles exist, and everything is instead a numbers game. Do enough people complain? Does it factor into their purchase decisions?

Unfortunately, average people seem to not value their attention, even as everyone else is fighting tooth and nail for a share of it.
That‘s a romantic idea, but not what they have done for decades though. The Fed is way too busy propping up the system to prevent collapse.
How Internet Fighting Works
The Chinese government at least is not in disguise about their surveillance plans whereas we see it sneaked in into more and more appliances of daily use.

I hate this coming Orwellian future.
I've really been enjoying the coverage of QM's challenges from PBS SpaceTime as well as Sabine Hossenfelder's videos.
We're hordes waiting for a usable product, but that iconic/pop moment isn't about to come, the tech just isn't there yet.

Think late 2020s at best, and probably well into the 30s for the kind of refined VR we all know possible. It's like we had nice and functional pocket computers since the 1990s (PDAs etc), but it would take a solid decade for the iPhone to be made under the vision of a statistically rare product genius (means we can wait ±5~10 yrs for things to emerge as commercially successful tech). Or how video games took about 20 years to move from whatever came before the current "modern" era/paradigm (say late 1990s) that lives on to this day in terms of UI/UX. Same with the "desktop" metaphor for PCs, etc.

We have yet to nail the hardware for VR, let alone the OS code (core libs etc) whose precision and intuitiveness will feel tremendously "corporeal" in the case of VR, visceral, much more than any TV/monitor + vibrating thing could ever do (let alone keyboard/mouse). If you've ever did the timing for an action-paced fast video game, you know the kind of intricate subtleties I'm talking about, where one frame can make or break some experiences.

Then will come the time to nail killer metaphors, high-level GUI/GUX, killer apps.

We're not quite there yet.
I recommend using the add-on "Check Home Assistant configuration" before every upgrade. I only upgrade when I get the confirmation from this add-on that nothing will break.

The add-on actually download the new version and checks my config file against it. When something breaks, you get the error message so you can fix what's not working (happens once or twice a year for me, usually a config change), and relaunch the add-on to test again.
Robert the Robot?
You also can’t see everything at once with VR or with multiple monitors. You have to shift your focus and move your eyes/your head. It is though probably a matter of preference whether you want to have your windows etc. layed out in 2D or 3D space that you have to move around in, or whether you want buttons you can blindly press to have the desired window pop up immediately right in front of you where you’re currently looking at.
Nobody claims that Germany is currently independent of fossil fuels. I don't see how your quote is relevant.
There doesn't seem to be a good solution for this. You could use an AOSP custom ROM and not root it, meaning safetynet is still intact. You're free of all the third-party apps, but now you need to trust whoever made your custom ROM.
Some do, but not all of them. We have the cheapest Eufy one and it doesn't have no-go areas. I just lift wires and have screwed a piece of wood underneath the shoe rack where it sometimes gets stuck because the floor isn't level. The piece of wood stops it heading under there.
We already know what would happen, landlines would still become irrelevant as cellular took over. There are and were still local “natural monopolies” with phone services.
Hello, I thought about it a little and indeed you are both right! For the sake of completeness I've updated beamleeto to use this mechanism instead :) thank you for your help!
Perhaps incentivised is the better word? Improving tolerances and repairability so that products last beyond the common 1-2 year warranty periods costs time and money, and potentially means that customers aren't buying newer versions of those products or paying for first party repairs. I'd imagine that many engineers who actually design/build the products would like to make these things more durable and repairable, but are more often then not told to cut costs to improve margins/work on new feature X or product Y, etc.
(half jokingly) docker in the browser when?
Makeabetter.computer – Microgrants for projects that make computers better
Around April 2020 I identified a project need for an "inverted search engine" - a system that would accept documents (recipe ingredient lines, like "three large onions") as input, and would match those against a dataset of terms (ingredient names, like "tofu" or "tomato").

That would have been possible with a feature like percolation[1] in Elasticsearch, but I felt that the overhead of maintaining state (percolator queries) by using a network service would be excessive and that building an in-process alternative would be feasible.

The result is hashedixsearch[2], a pure-Python search engine library with support for stemming, synonyms and a few other features[3] to support the use-case.

It builds upon inverted index support provided by the hashedindex[4] library.

[1] - https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...

[2] - https://pypi.org/project/hashedixsearch/

[3] - https://github.com/openculinary/hashedixsearch/blob/6980ee63...

[4] - https://github.com/michaelaquilina/hashedindex/
If you have a backed stablecoin (as opposed to algorithmic stablecoin) that is pegged to the USD without any funny business, then the price of that coin can always be restored to $1. No matter how badly people "lose faith" in the coin.
In central london you need two locks, end of story
Maybe in California it is. A lot more people live at latitudes where there is about a third as much insolation per year as in California.
It doesn’t matter where I put them in the Roomba app, it still ignores them. Then it goes out into the deck and makes a racket while it looks for things to get stuck in/on/over/under.

I’ve remapped the house and the problem persists.
We need a crypto that builds the network on trust between real people. If A and B know each other and B and C know each other, then A and C can trade or give credit to each other by going through B. No need for a global consensus.
That's KISS on a HD+ radio.

Seriously as a European I do not know enough about HD+ radio but DAB radio can transmit pictures which until now is mostly used to transfer album covers.

In due time we will see this abused to hammer ads down our throats.
Just curious, how old are you? In your 50s?

I'm wondering if, like music and fashion, people just have nostalgia for a certain era of things.

Me, I prefer the geocities era that I grew up with.
The top scorers for my university's entrance exams had the option to go for the CSE course. I had the option to go for the CSE course as well, but ultimately I decided to go for the IT course which was below the CSE course in terms of desirability. The course material was almost the same, placements opportunities were the same, and I would have had to work much harder to get good grades in CSE because all the top scorers would be in it.

In my IT batch, even when I didn't study a lot, there were semesters where I got academic awards. And with my remaining free time, I was able to focus on things I was interested in. No stress. I don't have any regrets, but I just wonder how my life would have turned out had I taken CSE. I would have most definitely landed somewhere else, doing something else in life. Better or worse, I don't know.
This gives off a retrofuturistic feel that reminds me of Alien Isolation. I kinda want to see how it would look like in practice attached to a modern Home Assistant system. Maybe that's my excuse to learn ncurses and TTY programming?
Yes, and monads in Haskell seem a bit different from monoids in the category of endofunctors.
Is flask-admin worth using? Or any other auto-admin type libraries?
I'm not quite old enough to remember Black Monday, but I remember all the rest. I have the exact same feeling. The 20% correction is already done.

When I saw that CryptoLand video last year I immediately through of the E-Trade monkey superbowl commercial.

However, there is still risk that could make this current situation last longer and be more painful than I think we anticipate. If corporations start laying off workers and/or if the general public gets spooked enough to stop spending, that could actually induce a deeper recession than I think you and I are currently expecting.

No doubt there is some short-term negative news coming out this summer. The question is what the sentiment will be like come early fall. I think that's when we will know how bad this is going to be. It might be over by then. Hopefully.
+1 for the slow cooker. You can buy a smaller 2 liter one if you are concerned about space. There's a lot of benefits:

* Prepare huge amounts of meat (in the smallest one you can prepare up to a kg of meat).
* Very simple meal prep. Plop some meat, throw some salt in, add some sauce (soy sauce, spicy or whatever you prefer), add some liquid (water usually) and turn it on. 5 minutes or less.
* It never boils, so the water level never rises, avoiding spills (or having to even worry about it). So you can leave it overnight for the 8+ hour cooking process.
* You can transform cheap, tough cuts of meat (like Gulash soup meat) into fantastic tasting dishes.

One of the best things about a slow cooker is that the meat softens up, it uniformly absorbs all seasoning, and it makes the meat release its best fatty flavour.
One of these, perhaps: https://github.com/mgramin/awesome-db-tools#diagrams
> But you can always physically destroy/remove the antenna

Unless the device itself becomes the antenna or is reacting passively as is the case in RFID.
I think the only reason nuclear is in such high regard is because it's so risky and complicated so it must have an enormous efficiency.
The value of a thing is in two parts, it's use value to it's possessor and it's exchange value with others.

Examples have already been posted here. My house has a use value to me because I need somewhere to live. If I lived on a small island off Antarctica it would still have great value to me but perhaps no value to anyone else.

Money is a financial instrument that only has exchange value, unless you count say the use of bank notes for lighting fires or papering walls. It's value as money is entirely by consensus.

Notably not even the government that issues it actually sets it's value. Ask the governments of Venezuela or Zimbabew about that. Yes of course they can do things that affect it's value, like printing too much of it or defaulting on bonds, or consistently paying on their bonds, but the actual value is set by people. When someone sells a product or service they ask for a price, and if someone pays it then that establishes a value for the product relative to other products, and a value for the currency exchanged. What happened in Zimbabwe is people asked for an awful lot of ZB$ for things compared to how many US$ they asked for. Thats what set the value of the ZB$ (and to some extent the US$ of course).

Governments sometimes do try to manipulate currency values through currency controls, but what that actually does is constrain currency flows. If a currency control set a high price for a currency, it will just not be traded as much, only people willing to pay the premium will do so. Those not willing to pay it simply won't and those transactions and that economic activity will be constrained (or the exchange will happen on the black market).

There can be coercive pressure of course, such as Russia requiring companies to hold Rubles, but you could hold a gun to my head and force me to hand over my house at a discount or for nothing. That says more about the use value of loaded guns than about the exchange value of my house. Governments have the ability to take value rather than exchanging it, but even that has it's limits.