skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the cause, but I wonder if this could be the result of more people sticking with microsoft's default browser after improvements in edge
If you want to push people away from gas heating, just tax the shit out of gas. No household uses enough gas for cooking that it would matter that much to them. (We cook a fair amount and heat domestic water with gas. In the summer, our bills are around $30/mo, including about $12 in fixed charges. Quadruple the usage charges [add a 300% tax], and if I want to cook with gas, I still will, but I sure as hell will get rid of my gas water heater and boiler.)

If you roll out the tax as 25% starting in July, increasing 25% every 3 months after that until it hits 300%, people have some time to plan for it and you don't hit them this winter. Maybe you need to return 1/3 of the tax money to low-income households who are having a hard time getting their equipment upgraded in a timely fashion and 1/3 of the tax money in incentives to that same group [and landlords of affordable housing] to help them cover the capital costs.

Trying to backhand it by making people "not want" gas stoves seems like a longer and less certain path than just giving people economic incentives to do the thing that you want them to do.
Gas stoves aren't a significant _environmental_ problem, certainly in terms of CO2 (in fact, unless your electricity is almost entirely renewable or nuclear, they're probably marginally better than electric from a CO2 perspective). There is a concern that they're a health risk, though (though the evidence that there's a large effect is somewhat weak).

Personally, I like my gas stove, though I expect to have to adapt to something else in my lifetime (the big push in Ireland is towards heat pumps, and once gas heating goes it will not be economic to maintain the home gas network just for stoves).
> The only downsides I’ve found are you can’t char things on a flame...

Grab one of these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004FPZACE

They're great for creme brulee, among other things.
Have you maintained a connection with your past friends? If so, what do you use?
Data of 4.3M BookMyShow Users Is Up for Sale
A threat actor is selling a huge database of users on a leak forum. As per the listing, the data belongs to BookMyShow. The database has personal records of 4.3 million BookMyShow users.
Ahh yes, Big Induction.

Well known astroturfers.

They’ve known since 1970 that climate change due to induction stoves… wait, sorry, confused them with Exxon.

Easy mistake.
> Postgres is “just” a SQL engine running on top of a key-value heap and trees pointing into it.

I wouldn't call heaps a key-value data structure; even if you could argue that the location of your data is an implicit key. And the trees are strictly optional - you could build your database with only hash and brin indexes.
No, I'm asking has any right leaning party or politician came out in the media and said yes we should ban gas stoves?

I've only seen the tweet from Biden appointed Trumka - https://mobile.twitter.com/TrumkaCPSC/status/161255345946272...
Mostly stopped using it when the last few updates started to make my mac CPU crazy everytime I use it. It always been not great on macos but now it is just unusable.

Still using it on android but it takes ages to load the first page when the app just started. It really is bad.

I stopped donating to firefox too considering the hypocrisy of the for profit business parent business that fired a ton of good engineers to pay its CEO more.
Silencing of journalists, banning accounts for saying mastodon, for saying anything negative about tesla or criticizing Musk in any way is a net positive to my twitter experience. I'm on twitter because some people that I follow and some friends are on twitter, and I want to see what they say. Meta commentary about the platform or the owner is noise to me. I do not feel any shame about it, just like I don't feel any shame because I don't contribute to most software that I use, or that I don't help every single person that is going through a hard time.

I've met a lot of wonderful people that do lots of things to help other people, and try generally to improve the world in their own way. They all objectively do more than me, and yet not a single one of them wasted time trying to shame me because I "didn't do enough". If I had to guess, that would be because it's not effective at all, maybe even detrimental to what you're fighting for. It's your ego being in the way, caring more about being right than doing good.
gas stoves should be banned
Unsurprisingly, the outage hasn't affected twitters own client.

Roll on May 2023. Unless twitter want to block the EU, they will have to provide the same level of access to 3rd party clients as they do their own. If the API is down for 3rd parties, but not for twitters own client, that will be considered a breach.
Yeah that would be cool and in a free-er market more friendly to healthily competitive innovation diversity, we'd already have natural-sounding narration built into every browser and reader; which would be an accessibility UX boon. But the publisher oligopoly wouldn't stand for it and there's not really much of an incentive for the marketplace monopsony-monopoly janus/jani to bake it into their products for free or a flat fee, even if the lawsuits from rights-holders standing to lose out on audiobook sales would be worth swatting away.
Thank you! I did spent a substantial amount of time playing with prompts, variations and upscales to try and get decent results. The space elevator one for example, way harder than I thought.

Still not fully satisfied but good enough.
During the last two/three COVID years, Firefox did a poor job supporting correctly and reliably WRTC and other features related with in-webbrowser videoconferencing (jitsi, Google Meet, etc).

Now, I think, maybe things are fixed and working correctly, but the damage is done.

Any, way, I alternate between Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari, Brave, etc, acording on the task I need to get done.

Web browsers usage scope is huge and beyond reading liquid and/or formated text. And Firefox was behind in some relevant areas.
Did you not bother to look at the product page before commenting?
https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter-specification
https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter

In fact, it has two USB C ports, and both of those are USB 4 and Thunderbolt 4 and having DisplayPort Alt Mode. They also have three USB A ports (3.2 Gen 1), a MicroSD slot, a 3.5mm jack port, and an HDMI port.

There is even a photo with both USB C ports shown.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2059/5897/files/StarFighte...

What's more, even the charger supports both USB C and DC jack cables interchangeably. You just chose either cable type in configuration, or you buy both cables.

https://us.starlabs.systems/collections/power-cables
More interessting is the lose of ~60M users in the last 4 years. Peak in the data was at ~254M at beginning of 2019. Now it's at ~194M. The Hard lose continues.

Another notable point is that roughly 10% of the users have an adblocker, but 35%+ of users are using addons. What is the rest using?

It would be interessing to have older data for this, to see how the different stages of the XUL-addon-drama impacted those numbers.
> nuclear reactors kept as a backup

AFAICT nuclear doesn't work that way, it's best for giving a constant output for years, rather than being able to be brought up and down.
You haven't used the fancy induction stoves, they beat everything in terms of temp control and speed. Plus you can program them and pair them with probes. See the Breville "Control Freak": https://www.breville.com/us/en/products/commercial/cmc850.ht...

It's a game changer in a kitchen.
This. All these tech companies have reached saturation, but at the same time they are profitable. I guess investors want upward returns because they expect more money than they put in.
> I don’t really understand the fascination

Decent sci-fi not written by a White heterosexual male. And for the first volume, a description of the Chinese revolution lot of people prefer to hide.
Well I want all extensions to work on my Android phone so I use Kiwi Browser. Same for pull down to refresh. Same with having fast browser. Firefox offers none of these.

As for desktop I went from Firefox to Edge, then got tired being scared of every update MS making UI more and more hostile with each update and switched to customizable Vivaldi. Firefox was always slower and more memory hungry than Chromium and years of optimizations didn't change that.

Btw. what happened with Latest version chart in bottom of page?
Just get some of these magnetic attachments for your USB-C [1]. I use them on all my USB gadgets now.

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004883987830.html
Asia’s rise to economic power has been powered by American maize
That’s not what I am saying. I am saying who should get the money from the fine.

Company imposes the fine. Ok, they are the authority in the situation, but the company was not hurt by the contact—in reality they likely benefited from it. As a company if you are going to collect fines to discourage the behavior, why should you (the company) get the financial benefit of fine?
Hiring: Coding Challenges Make Us Better
NASA folk are more naive ivory tower types where as ExxonMobil are more practical, pessimistic types.
I deleted Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc, but I'm still here on HN. You don't have to quit all social media to get rid of the toxic sites. If I was on Reddit, I'd just sub to things like gardening and cute animal memes. If I was still into car clubs I'm sure I'd still be posting on the old car forums.
Use Kiwi Browser, full extensions support, pull down to refresh, faster than Firefox and more customization.
emby + Kodi is also good.
a 100 IQ statement
> ... it's a 42% pay cut either way, which is huge.

It's really not huge.

He's worth north of $1b (USD), so his 'pay' is ~4% of his wealth - compare that to yourself / any other human you know.

For a 62yo to churn through $1,500,000,000 (and interest earned on same) before they die will take some serious effort, but negligibly different effort than the $1,550,000,000 this story implies he'll have to contend with in a year.
You can have extensions in Kiwi Browser, actually more of them than bunch of approved by Firefox. It has also pull down to refresh Firefox users begged devs for for the last 10 years.
"Recycling doesn't work" is not true. Recycling of metals works great and is essential. Recycling of glass works well too. Recycling of paper even works.

It's recycling of plastic where it gets complicated. Some plastic recycling does work, but much does not. That's where the public has generally been mislead the most. The other place is that mant businesses that do home "recycling" service send what is picked up to a landfill or incinerator. This is straight up fraud and should be prosecuted.

But please let's not over simplify a complicatwd issue to the point of lying. Recycling does work and is essential in many cases.
Does high-level mean "commoditizing qualities that don't increase the costs of amortization?"

Because the premium EU and US markets pay for clothes that don't poison customers doesn't seem to come strictly from societal values (we still permit some amount of pollution and harmful compounds in our products and environments, just not obvious or acute ones), but a healthy respect of the mechanisms and agency these groups have to affect a business's revenue.

"Values" could also reasonably be euphemism for "finance".
Fossil fuel gas hobs and boilers BANNED in all new-build homes from 2025.

UK Government legislation ... from a right wing government.
Yeah the extended sequence where the dude invents an imaginary waifu and then he uses his all-powerful position to find her? And he actually believes that she’s cool with this?

The writing is awful and has no sense of psychological realism, and falls into the typical “logical science man” who can do no wrong, really the sci-fi equivalent of a mary sue. Sure the ideas are neat but I’d rather read a synopsis than this cardboard writing.
Mobile playtime: an analysis of 118B hours of human data
>And I just discovered this week that zooming in chrome affects ALL tabs

You mean all tabs sharing the same origin? eg I zoom in on the HN front page then I open a comment section on another tab that will be zommed in too. Make sense imo
This is where the corruption coming from Google money shows through.

I'd add that to store the Firefox search engines, they developed a custom file format. This is to make it more difficult to configure search engines (and make you more likely to keep the default ones).

https://www.jeffersonscher.com/ffu/searchjson.html
The respiratory argument I really don't understand with specific regard to gas vs electric cooking.

I don't care if my range is powered by alien technology that magically sequesters carbon somewhere else - When you heat something above a certain temperature, you are producing all kinds of chemical compounds that are not going to be good for you. It doesn't really matter how the mass was brought to that temperature. The contribution of a gas range to indoor air quality is absolutely negligible compared to what comes out of a deep fryer or frying pan once you hit 400F+.

If the primary concern is everyone's health & safety, we should mandate high CFM extraction hoods be installed above every range and run public information campaigns to encourage their use.
They were originally a nonprofit, and then created a for-profit child company and moved all resources to it.

It's baffling to me that this is legal.
Residential anything will scale worse than the same process done on an industrial scale. Especially if it's the sort of complicated mechanical process that requires maintenance and safety considerations.

The big question is "how can we build a H2 electrolyser whose fixed cost isn't prohibitively expensive". Everything else will fall out from there. That will mean finding something else to use for the electrodes other than platinum.
Decentralized private computation: ZEXE and VERI-ZEXE
> Fair point as this person does want something. They want that friendship back.

If a friendship stops existing because you delete a Facebook account, it was never a friendship. Or at least wasn't one by then.
The Induction Industry Is Paying HN Influencers to Gush over Induction Stoves (2023)

Tongue in cheek, but nowadays it's so hard to establish what is a genuine appraisal and what isn't..
on the side of a bus stop of all places in Philadelphia.
> Surely stoves are connected to the 220 V connection? Same for washers and dryers.

Yes, except the washers.
The best Firefox feature to come out in the last few years. It's so integrated into my workflow that It's now hard for me to imagine browsing the web without it.
They might do more.
Above explaination does not nail it, that is the point.
OK fair point
It in fact does not work that way at all. Nuclear is the worst idea for an on demand power source. A dam is better.
I agree that it's complex and overly nuanced. I posted this because the article pointed out a problem, said "be careful", but didn't actually offer any way to address it.

Just z.value() gives you a reference, which, when returned will yield a copy. So no RVO in this case and the move is the next best thing.
That's attributed to Big Bang because most people believe there was a Big Bang. Maybe it comes from another phenomenon. Or maybe they're right.
"Hey chatGPT, write a short script convincing someone that I'm from a small town in America"
IIRC Yahoo also paid a fair share of it for a while. Didn't they even get a whopping 500 Million at the end?
The gas stove ban that is in the news is a US thing, not a EU or CA as far as I know. I haven't heard of any gas stove bans in the EU being talked about, though some were already on the table in an effort to get rid of gas altogether.

If I'm not mistaken, it was _not_ a political initiative, at least not initially, but talked about as an option by The US Consumer Product Safety Commission in the case if stoves could not be made safe, in response to scientific research revealing its hazardous effects.

Generally, right-wing parties care less about health hazards (if at all), so I wouldn't expect any supporting such a ban. Mind you, what is considered right-wing varies from country to country.
An Introduction to the Industry Trying to End Aging
> That’s why scolding and shaming from moms and aunties is critical to breaking the collective action problem.

Perhaps younger cohorts ignoring these people and their input contributes to the change in fertility rate? Depends on the culture of course, some take longer than others to discount generational advice.
Because there's no platform or ideology on earth capable of paid advocacy besides the oil industry, and certainly no political movements ostensibly grounded in "green" advocacy.
>Social media is more an financially backed mind-altering alien invasion than some extension of human sociality.

It's worse than that, which is why OP is upset.

Social media is more an financially backed mind-altering alien takeover of human sociality.

It's like poisoning the water supply. People can't just say "well, the water's poisonous; obviously the smart choice is to stop drinking water." People need water. People need people. And when your people are socializing on social media, your water supply is poisoned.
If you can use AI to create a fake voice, you can also use AI to create a prompt for the voice
It's gonna be interesting when the poles melt and the major powers war over who gets the land
> During the last two/three COVID years, Firefox did a poor job supporting correctly and reliably WRTC and other features related with in-webbrowser videoconferencing (jitsi, Google Meet, etc).

I think this is the most probable cause of all the stuff mentioned in this thread.
This seems like a negligible cost. In my experience, both companies stick to a common system of measurement (almost always metric) and go on with life as normal. It’s not like both companies maintain distinct engineering plans for their native measurement system and have to manually sync updates from each side, and almost any American company that regularly deals with International suppliers is already using metric domestically (e.g., anything in the automotive, construction, agriculture, forestry, etc equipment industries as well as anything in the electronics space, the energy industries, and so on).
Just as before the Musk purchase, most of these reports of shadow banning don't turn out to be true.
Absolutely no one, but doesn’t mean you look down on one of the most popular languages as if it’s beneath you.
This person gets to get outside. I don't know what to say - social media isn't great for those w/o friends or loners. Just makes you sad.
Good question. I checked [about:telemetry] and I have telemetry disabled. I suppose many people are doing the same.
There is proper adblocking on iOS too with AdGuard. I'm literally using the same filters and rules with it as with uBlock Origin on desktop and works flawlessly.
A big part of the loss of users was when they lost the German market due to bad press after the Cliqz scandal in late 2017. They lost a lot of trust in Germany from that and Germany was one of Mozilla's most important markets due to how many privacy focused people there are in Germany
Do you have an induction stovetop now or a regular convection? Because in my experience induction is vastly superior to both convection and gas stoves. It provides far more and faster heat, cools nearly instantly and the nice ones at least give you flexibility where you put your pan.

The downside of induction is it doesn’t work with all pot types.

The big advantage gas retains is the ability to see with your eye exactly how much heat you’re producing. I do love being able to precisely tune exactly how much heat I’m cooking with. I assume this is why gas is so prevalent at restaurants.

But I’ve also found that at home once I get to know an electric stove (what does level 5 do vs 6?) I’m just as capable as I am with gas.

(I’m opposite of you btw. Had electric for a long time and just moved to a house with a gas stovetop.)
Conversion of HP 54520C / 54540C oscilloscopes to VGA display(s)
for a long (~7'500 word) expansion of that, cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34367615

> If one harbours anywhere in one’s mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.
It's obviously incredibly dated now, but I used to absolutely love this game on the Amiga in the 90s - Midwinter

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwinter_(video_game)
What happened with Latest version chart in bottom of the page?
I suspect that of measuring “particulates in the air” pressure cookers and microwaves easily win.
Why bother when you can just sell the electricity to the grid? What advantage does all that extra complication get you? Much cheaper to just scrap the gas hob and buy an induction hob and replace some of the pans.
Similar idea. I'd love to build a merger/splitter with some midi transformation functions. I think I saw a midi library once?
I'm afraid she's going to be unhappy no matter the state of her social media.
There are lots of what I would call "grey" marketing/sales type articles like this across virtually every saas business, it's how they get people onto their site.

Unfortuantely, an article that overstates benefits without any caveats is not illegal so it will carry on.

Many of us would like disclaimer e.g. "I work for the company" but also a much more bounded discussion, "this performance test works for this particular scenario" and perhaps "Please note, your scenario might be very different" and especially "Please contact me if you think I have missed something out".

I have worked for a business where you felt compelled to amplify the good and not talk about the bad but the world keeps spinning...
Sounds like they need a good grounded tech lead who is working with the PM to assist them in continuity, and organization.

I worked with a wizkid fellah with Aspbergers...and for the first 3 months, absolutely hated it. Then I realized there was a method to the managements madness for him, and after that I got on board. To this day I can't believe how fast that guy wrote some of the code he wrote, and how incredibly nice he was.

Being a genius isn't always better than being organized ;o)
McMurdo station (the biggest one) is standing on land and does thaw in summer [1]. That's on an island at the outskirts of Antarctica though, so I don't imagine it's representative of stations elsewhere on the continent.

[1] https://brr.fyi/posts/mud-murdo
What if you like social media but don't condone the horrible things Facebook does, but your firends and family are all there?
If it's so obvious maybe it should be obvious that my comment pertains to the fact that if you want to give away your money, give it away. If you're telling people you're giving it away in the future you're just trying to live your whole life getting accolades without actually doing the thing you get accolades for. And then you might even die and not have done it.
I disagree with the second point. Their email relay service and VPN is excellent.
My partner used it, until it stopped working for all live streaming, on all most frequent watched sites: starts watching some live stream, and some minutes later the stream is "stuck".

Switched to Edge, it works. Tried for some weeks, every time still stuck.

Now not trying anymore, starts Edge and watches.