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While I appreciate a fair dose of skepticism, why should I trust your claims that these are all pseudoscience as opposed to the people that claim to be experts in those fields? How are you sure that your understanding isn’t simply a dunning Kruger effect and you truly do have knowledge that debunks all these fields?

Once again, I’m skeptical of many supposed sciences as well, but I’m just as skeptical of internet commenters that claim entire fields of expertise and science are all pseudoscience and made up.
I am old. I remember when we called these "Flash Robs" and Flash Mobs were people getting together for random events like pillow fights or dancing.
Yes this is a really good suggestion and still on my to do list. If anybody is involved in the WeatherSTEM project and can make an introduction please reach out to me.
I was hoping this was going to talk about the increasingly trendy open kitchen concept in homes, or more specifically answer the question: why have kitchens traditionally been separated from dining areas in the first place?

Unfortunately, the article is about restaurants.
Thanks. I'm fortunate not to live in Medical Lake or nearby, where the most destructive fires (in terms of $damage$ anyway) are still ongoing.

I know little about these air quality sites, how accurate they are, or if they are all measuring the same things in a normalized way. I just latched on to the PurpleAir info, as I'd at least once seen the site favorably mentioned here on HN and the UI is pretty tolerable to me. If the world is going to burn around me I should probably study-up on such things rather than, oh, on the latest Scala db access lib. :-) The local media is referencing aqi.in as a source, not sure if this is related to your aqicn one:

"SPOKANE, Wash. - Five of the top ten cities with the worst air quality in the world are in the Spokane Metro area, according to aqi.in.
Mead sits at number one with an AQI of 502.
Spokane is number four with an AQI of 444.
Airway Heights is ranked sixth with an AQI of 426.
Spokane Valley sits at number eight with an AQI 392.
Cheney is sitting at number ten with an AQI of 370."
https://inx.lv/mi5K [khq.com]

The outside light this afternoon was truly dim due to the haze - I could see smoke in the air less than 50' away. Eyes watering, awful smell ... I can't imagine what that AQI=1000 Beijing experience would have been like ... almost seems non-survivable, at least if it's the same sort of pollutants. We're getting organic ash (yes, we paid xtra for it!) from grass/trees/shrubbery &etc but also getting the combustion products from hundreds of houses+vehicles that have gone up in flames over the past few days. All kinds of plastics and rubber and electronics ingredients I would think.

I haven't heard if all this is going to blow towards Seattle or PDX but if it does they're not gonna be happy. We'll have to figure out how to blame it on Canadians if it does cross the Cascades.
You're entitled to that opinion, and I don't think it's a great system, but I think it's not the lunacy you're implying. Military life, for example, involves a lot of bullshit routines, which have ancillary benefits of creating discipline and coherent mindset. I don't mind disagreeing about how good or bad this is.

But I do want to dispell the idea that people are less intelligent, less capable, or somehow mindless just because they disagree with you about this (Or OP), and choose to be part of it.
I loved the whimsical art version from the 1960s, and looked to find the paperback editions with that art.
I tried it in MS Team web call, and Zoom web call, neither of them seem to do WebHID, so I didn't find any option to enable similarly as in Google Meet. I guess Meet has to do this, as they don't have desktop version themselves.

On the other hand, looking at MS Team & Zoom desktop apps (in MacOS), there are some options that suggest that _some_ sort of USB hacking would be possible.

Teams > Settings > Devices > Sync Device Buttons; and Zoom > Preferences > Audio > Sync buttons on headset seem to be the key to enable that, but it's unclear just now what sort of device are they looking for.

I'm guessing it can be the "General Desktop Page 0x01" / "Call State Management Control 0x13" kind of device, as briefly mentioned in the blogpost, with the Call Mute Toggle 0xE1. It's a different kind of value (changes on a signal edge) rather than absolute like the button done here, and would need a bit more experimentation to send the right kind of signal. My initial checks are inconclusive.

Looking at MS Presenter+, it seems like the button behaviours can be customized by software, so I wonder how much of its behaviour is hardware devined. Also, it's Bluetooth, so likely the control mechanism is different from this USB-based control.

Thanks for the question, though, the rabbit hole goes deeper!
Is it possible that all viruses can wake in immune cells every now and then? I'm wondering how common this phenomenon is.
"adopting so-called zero bail policies allow repeat offenders to get out quickly and commit new crimes."

I don't think this is actually true. At least, it's never been shown to be true in any statistically significant way. It gets repeated because it "feels true"

They've already arrested several of these people. And they'll get more of them.
Well Spotify also has never made a profit.

They suffer from the “DropBox problem”. Streaming music is a feature not a product. Apple, Google and Amazon don’t need to sustain their business based on streaming music. It’s a gesture to make their hardware more attractive.
I have two different major gripes. First, the power of the ring is not put into a proper context and, second, the film's exposition ruined the role of Gandalf and undermined the otherworldliness of Galadriel.

Let's put the ring into context. Imagine you were walking along and you came across an ordinary looking smartphone. Amazingly it works and you can make calls on it. Anywhere in the world. For free!

That's not bad. But it turns out this phone has a dangerous superpower. For, you see, Stalin developed missile guidance before the Americans and leaked the details. But there's a back door and this phone you hold in your hand is the key to it all. With the right knowledge, this phone could launch any missile from any country at any time. The phone has a primitive AI which attempts to phone home every now and then but no-one has answered it for years.

And here's the kicker: Stalin is still alive! Barely. Now just a disembodied brain in a vat hidden somewhere deep in Russia. And he wants his device back now that there's a massive arsenal for him to command.

Every agency in the world wants to get their hands on this thing. But you've got to somehow get it into the Kremlin so it can be plugged in to some ancient terminal and deactivated. But you’re not alone. Oh yes, you’ll have some help from a few random individuals who represent various interests, have a few fighting moves and are pretty good at keeping you hidden but without having any authority to make stuff happen for you on your journey.

So that's the position the Fellowship find themselves in. Does the film manage to convey any of this? No.

Moving on, the way the information is surrendered to the reader in the books is much more gradual than the film. In the books, Gandalf is the reader's and the hobbits' touchstone. When he's away the reader has no clue what's happening and it's not until the hobbits get to Rivendell -- after many close shaves -- that the full details are finally revealed.

Not so in the film: Galadriel narrates the whole thing before the opening credits!

This ruins the film twice over: Gandalf becomes redundant, reduced to opening the door to Moria and taking on the balrog. Thanks to the magic of cinema, the director teleports us everywhere so that we can witness Gandalf battling Saruman. Gandalf battling the necromancer. Gandalf battling the balrog. Instead of us learning all this from Gandalf himself after he reappears suddenly later on.

And Galadriel, the mightiest elf in middle earth, has had her grand entrance already: right at the start, as a voice over.

For me, the hobbit who undergoes the biggest Hero's Journey is Pippin. He starts out as a carefree young hobbit and comes back to lead the Shire in the uprising against Saruman. Again, the film chose to ignore this pretty decent character arc in favour of a bunch of CGI effects.

Visually, the films are great. It's a shame the screenplay is utter drivel.
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Fair enough, I exaggerated a bit there, I was mainly getting at the fact that in the book Faramir's compassionate/gentler/selfless nature was kind of a direct contrast with the power-seeking nature of his older brother and father. To have him try and take the ring by force seems to remove the entire purpose of his character. He's practically just another Boromir but with a chip on his shoulder.
Luxury goods will always be targeted cuz of how effective Marketing of luxury goods has become. If you convince the chimp troupe diamonds are magical, a large part ot what you end up spending on is securing your diamonds in vaults of ever growing complexity.
You are in denial. Plenty of people understand the weight of sitting behind the wheel and have the self control to devote the attention that driving deserves. If you don't have the self control, you should admit it and try to better yourself. But don't try to pretend that no human has surpassed you at the task of driving without glancing at a phone. Many have.
Any formatting in email is html.

There is nothing that requires any text to have any formatting. But basic formatting can help readability. There is a reason to include bold or italics. Or headings. Or maybe even a simple diagram/image, or make links more approachable than the raw url.

Snail mail letters can include all of the above (except links), why not email?

Even when written memos were the norm in business, they still had company letter head.
We spend too much time thinking about them
A couple of points:

1. "$40,000 of computer time" is reckoned in the inflated funny money accounting that is used for computer services, not unlike how damages are counted in piracy lawsuits. A computer that is on but idle costs essentially the same to operate as one that's running jobs, particularly in the minicomputer era. Gates and Allen did not make off with $40k of actual cash or anything remotely equivalent.

2. Not to defend theft of service, an actual criminal offense, but a lot of hacking legends cut their teeth on committing theft of services as well, e.g. Captain Crunch and his phone phreaking skills with blue boxing, so Gates stands in some pretty damned good company. If they get a pass, so does Gates and Allen.

Beyond that, given that this is Hacker News, I don't doubt more than a few readers here have put college resources to, ahem, creative uses as well. (Myself? No comment. -whistles innocently-)

So, yes, the parent poster is technically correct (the very best kind of correct) but they are also trying to feed us spin that makes it sound worse than it actually was.
Note Kamala Harris was a prosecutor. Joe Biden started his 2020 campaign at a firehouse in Pennsylvania so he's definitely a champion of first responders who has said he would "refund the police."
cryptography noob here. what is the potential application for this function? I just read about Universal hash today, and from what I understand the results is not deterministic? So it can't be used for password hashing? Would appreciate explanation for this
In fairness, cruise is smart enough to not even attempt to unleash their cars on areas challenging enough to cause the death of a 4yo. If they did, who knows what would happen.
Conan replaced Jay Leno on the Tonight Show, not Letterman.
> You have no idea what you're talking about

Show, don't tell

> exposing yourself to a massive dose of radiation if you're so sure you're right

Are you aware that radiation is one of the treatments for cancer?

Are you aware that neoplastic growths are constantly popping up and being checked by your immune system, and that "cancer" illness only happens when these growths are not controlled by the immune system?

Are you aware that radiation works by destroying cells which are dividing rapidly through DNA damage?

Given these facts, is it really surprising that there is a specific amount of radiation (but not more) would lead to reduced cancer mortality relative to un-irradiated individuals?
> >On the contrary. People complain about stuff like this all the time.

> Yes.

Nice backpedaling. First it was "no one", now just "ignorant people".

The whole point of insurance is to create a risk pool. The more information one has, the less sense it makes to have insurance at all.

For example, suppose you had a genetic condition that made it a near-certainty you'd die of cancer. Under your model, no one would sell you cancer insurance.

On the other side of the coin, suppose you had a genetic condition that made you virtually immune to cancer. In that case, you'd be foolish to buy cancer insurance.

The insurance industry seems determined to slice and dice its way into irrelevancy.
I'm not an expert, but isn't the housing crisis global? From London to Mumbai, Barcelona to Shanghai, Amsterdam to Boston, the world's cities are becoming unaffordable. For the most part you can search "<city name> housing crisis" and find plenty of results. Cities without a housing crisis, like Vienna or Tokyo, appear to be the exceptions. It seems unlikely that North American zoning norms are the biggest contributing factor.
Top marks for humourous response ... unless 'scream' is an unintentional typo in which case forget I mentioned it.
This is where you're wrong. You can't just get up in front of a criminal court and decide that a company is a "hacking company". The judge is not going to allow it.
That's really not true. Rent control has been shown multiple times to actually work in reducing prices, and when quantitative welfare analysis in whether the drop in mobility is worth the drop in prices are done, it's often found to be worth it. There are of course ways to do rent control that are better or worse, some of which may indeed be generally counterproductive, and everyone agrees that it can't solve the problem by itself.

Economics is not even close to being sufficiently precise for you to be able to reason through any appreciable problem from first principles.
Too bad. If it's 8x16 I'll be much more interested. (I don't want to DIY something like "2 Ableton Push 3 combined".)
Polls frequently show that the Republicans have more support than Democrats do on crime, see

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/06/21/inflation-he...
This is the second time that I have notice a title change in HN where the original article has "The Man..." or "The Woman..." changed in the HN title to "A Man..." or "A Woman...". Why is this done?
Conan famously replaced Letterman on Late Night, not the Tonight Show, in 1993, and built his empire on that show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Night_with_Conan_O%27Brie...
I got the pro kit and it really is very easy to assemble. I want to connect it to my HomeAssistant server but apparently that requires manual configuration (firmware update? just config change? I'm not sure) by plugging it into the HA server directly. It does have a web portal but apparently that goes away once you give it your WiFi password. I wish I could configure it from the web interface instead of being funneled to the cloud service which I reject on principle.
I mean there's degrees of temptation. I don't think that simply being in the ring's presence was generally portrayed to be an insurmountable temptation. Some situations were specifically mentioned as causing the ring's power over a person to increase (eg length of time someone used the ring would put them more under its temptation) so I don't see why it's so hard to believe that someone could send off the ring bearer. In any case if that's an issue for you, how do you get around other more fundamental issues, such as how eg Aragorn manages to escape the temptation?
>It is also proven that harsher punishments are a deterrent to crime.

Is it?

In the US, there are pretty harsh sentences and yet a high incarceration rate.

Most crimes aren't committed for fun and harsher sentences increase the violence to prevent getting caught but don't prevent the crime a such.
> The same Ukraine that’s disbanded all opposition political parties

They didn't though, they only disbanded the political parties that had ties to Russia, the country thats currently trying to invade and annex them.

> suspended elections and is under martial law?

The elections are suspended per their own constitution.

They are under martial law because they are in a war.
It’s not really about crime, it’s about race.
Have you ever worked with the general public? At least half of adults would fail at that basic task.

The point of a business is to make money. You make more money by making the experience for your customers as easy as possible. If you don't, another company will.
ETA means Edited to Add.

Thank you for the information.
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The problem is a "small synth", like a Arturia Minibrute still feels quite large. And what should I do with it's keyboard? I use LinnStrument exactly because I'm not good at playing pinao-layout keyboard...

But maybe I didn't google the correct word for it.
I live in Seattle but just started a two week trip to Tokyo, so hopefully it’s all done when we get back. I have lots of family in Spokane, and my cousin was posting a fire evacuation map on Facebook from around near where he lives.

An AQI of 1000 typically means a dust storm in Beijing blowing in from the Gobi desert, or, conversely, very stagnant air with almost no wind. It’s a weird experience, but survivable.
Those things are not in disagreement with each other. It could just be that the bomb was a selection event which selected people who have the best ability to repair DNA, which protects from cancer-causing mutations in general.

Plus, the specific amount of radiation that is protective vs. cancer would probably only exist at a specific distance from the detonation site.

So, even if the study is 100% accurate and reproducible, in no way is it an argument for dropping more bombs.

You can't throw away data because you think someone could theoretically use it to support a bad idea.
One more thing that could be of interest. We are currently running a very large global co-location project where we place our open hardware monitor next to reference devices.

The aim is to develop algorithms to compensate for different environmental conditions (eg high humidity) in a structured way.

These algorithms will then be publicly available and can be used to enhance the accuracy of low cost monitors.

More information: https://www.airgradient.com/research/
why have kitchens traditionally been separated from dining areas in the first place?

Not long ago, cooking was often done exclusively by “the help”.
Can you point to a case of a DA refusing to prosecute a case of organized theft like this?
After finishing reading the article, it didn't mention one anecdotal cultural trend a friend who's teaching film class at his local community college noticed.

Every semester at the beginning of class, he'd quiz his students what they've watched. In the past few years, nearly everyone has limited knowledge of current films, let alone old films. He realized young people do not have the attention/habit of watching long-form films.

Social media/TikTok videos own the top of the attention economy ladder now, not movies. This trend is not reversing anytime soon.
> absolutely terrible with too few sensors.

Different country, different government, same problem.

I've dealt with the air quality services department in my state and they're so, so far away from what they ought to be doing that it's almost a joke.

The best analogy I can come up with is the NASA/Boeing Space Launch System, which is so absurdly expensive that one of its single-use rocket engines costs more than several entire flights of a Falcon 9.

Yet, everybody keeps moving on with the SLS project as-if it wasn't an absurd monstrosity. It's like the emperor's new clothes, there gets to a point where nobody will even admit the enormity of the error, so in some sense it ceases to exist.

Back on the topic of air quality: I attended a meeting where they finally got a decent budget (a few million) and started talking about big data, scalable cloud services, and IoT.

"Great," I said, "how many IoT devices were you thinking of? Ten thousand? Twenty? Fifty?"

"Fifty" they replied.

"Finally, we can get some decent coverage and accurate maps!"

"No, not fifty thousand. Fifty."

"Err... they're like $100 each. If you're only buying $5000 worth, where is the rest of the money going?"

"Oh, we've spent that already on the planning phase. We don't have any budget left! What can you set up for free?"

"Nothing."
A few 50 gallon drums, a battery, and a pump seems like cheap insurance if you are in a fire prone area. I wouldn't count on electricity or water pressure during a major fire.
With every new feature C++ becomes harder to think in, although I agree it has a growing subset of a quality language.
Or scientific papers?
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I totally would download a car.

Underrated reference. Well done.
SNL players are often drawn from those who are experienced in improv. In fact, as a live show, the players are often forced to improv due to circumstances, and you may find that some of the most famous, funniest lines/scenes were improv.

The writers change up the script until the last second, anyway, so the players are usually just as surprised at their lines as anyone.

As a recent example, "Lisa from Temecula", there was much discussion whether Ego's retort "oh, cuz we Black?!" was improv, and also, as a sketch that was nearly cut from the lineup, they decided to run it with a hilarious shaking table, which was the source of Pascal's surprise and laughter, and infectious to the rest of the cast.
Worth noting QNAP's pools are 500% not ever going to be importable on stock OpenZFS.

If you're happily using their devices, this may not matter to you, but since the post is about OpenZFS...
#5 bothers me. There is no technical reason that a downed power line should start a fire.

As far as I know, a certain amount of energy will be more or less unavoidably discharged when a power line hits the ground: the power line has some capacitance to ground, and it has a voltage (which varies with time) relative to ground, and the stored energy (1/2 C V^2) isn’t going to just disappear. This isn’t all that much energy.

But there is no real reason that the power station needs to keep delivering more power to an arc after the capacitance discharges. Avoiding it is somewhat complicated, but the technology is available off the shelf:

http://www.swedishneutral.se/main.php?name=gfn

IIRC some Australian customers have tested this system by intentionally dropping a live power line onto dry grass, and nothing catches fire!
> leveraging some structured decision-making processes?

i feel like there is no structured decision making that will produce a successful game. In the same way, there's no such a decision making process to painting a piece of artwork that will sell.
At this level of coordinated force, you just make sure you steal the gizmo that removes the dye pack while you're there. Though they probably already have dozens of such devices.
If you are that fast, just check the main.js in the src folder, there you will see the query params it just a GET :)

When running, just go to the '/api' endpoint.
The context specifies a world average, though.

Back then cities were more dense and, as well, individual households were more dense. It is possible, maybe even likely, that those pockets would measure louder than anything we're accustomed to today. But, at the same time, you would also have more places completely free of human activity to balance that out and then some when computing an average.