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The best microwave I've ever used was probably from the early 80s. It was in my maternal grandparents' house.

The controls were two knobs. There were no other controls. No start button. No open-door button. Both knobs felt Very Serious. There was no spinny platter thing, but it didn't seem to really do any worse than the new ones with it—but it was easier to clean. It was pretty big for a microwave.

One knob was power. One knob was a timer. You turn the timer knob to start it. It physically ticks down until it dings (real bell, not a speaker) and stops. You pull the (heavy) handle on the door to open it. It's secured with (I suppose) one or more of those mechanisms where a flared tab goes between a pair of little wheels, so it's secure unless you pull fairly hard, no need for a release button.

It was still mounted in the exact same place and working just as well as it did in the 80s and 90s, when my grandma moved out to live with my parents in the 2010s.

I've seen a few kinda similar models on offer, but they're expensive and without feeling one in person I really doubt they're actually as good.

(A bunch of the finishes on their very-modest poor-rural-town house—outlet and switch cover plates, some of the trim, the front door, the storm doors of all things, and the doorbell, were all luxury-tier by modern standards—some of those, I've never seen anything as good on any house built since 1970 or so, and I've been in some "nice" ones; some stuff's simply gotten worse, and I tell you what, the solid feel and butter-smooth action of some of those things really did make life better)
I decided I don't hate my microwave enough to bother, lol
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Yes, at appliances stores. Also though, at goodwill. Mine always has like 30+ microwaves and of course you can plug in and test.
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I actually have one the the Panasonic microwaves whispered about at the end of the article, and it's been the best microwave I've ever owned. "Panasonic NNSC688S Mid-Size 1200W Inverter Microwave Oven, 1.3 Cuft, Black Stainless Steel" which Amazon sells for CAD$300, although I see one used is available for $180 - a steal, IMHO.

The key word in the description is "inverter". I am very much in the pro-inverter camp. In an inverter microwave, power is supplied through an inverter circuit to supply a steady and constant amount of power throughout the cooking time without cutting in and out. So if you select 50% power, the microwave will deliver 50% power throughout. Inverter microwaves are also more energy efficient than standard microwaves.
"Stop handing people cups of coffee so hot that spilling it requires skin grafts," is apparently a difficult-to-learn lesson.
I wish I could get that in london :(.

uk internet infra is backwards.
It's not that easy, unfortunately: Many networks span more than one access point, either simultaneously or across time (mediocre CPEs are notoriously being swapped out all the time by cable providers, in my experience).

Initially loading and then synchronizing certificates across APs would be anything but trivial.

I've surprised my friends a few times by keeping my SSID + password constant over the years and across several moves within the city (and across ISPs) and even internationally – whenever they come to my place, they have Wi-Fi the second they step through the door :)

It's also nice not having to re-configure various embedded devices, many without a sane user interface to type a passphrase or even accept a new TOFU public key, every time I set up a new router at my family's place.
“It’s impossible to make cheap EVs like Chinese companies have dozens of examples of.”
> and ubiquitous processes for easily mapping the URL to an alternative location.

This seems strange to me because the whole point of a Uniform Resource Locator is to specify where a resource can be located.

It's a bit like saying "My project depends on the binder on shelf 7 in Room 42, sixth binder from the left. Except when I go into production, then use...." Don't tell me what binder it's in, tell me what it is.

I can see a case made for URIs, which is basically what Java did.
Beyond memory safety, Rust's other advantages over C++ are simply that it has a far better type system (by nature of ADTs), cleaner and more consistent syntax, cleaner tooling overall, and a far better module/modularity story.

That, and the borrowing/safety aspects of Rust also shake out into threading/concurrency, where the compiler does a pretty good job of forcing you to adopt better practices in regards to state sharing, locking, concurrency.

Cargo, though... I am coming around to thinking isn't great -- workspace support remains half-assed, especially... and crates.io is amateur-hour for reasons many people have pointed out elsewhere on this post. I have been tempted to switch my personal projects to bazel, with 3rd-party deps checked in/submoduled.
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> GCS Archive Storage

Have you considered Backblaze B2? (It has free egress!)

I think GCS is pretty good as a coherent offering that includes the various storage tiers + auto-classing + lifecycle notifications to pub/sub to feed Cloud Dataflow, etc. But if you're storing data purely for retention or disaster recovery, you should consider a service architected as a backup provider that happens to present an object-store abstraction, rather than an object-storage provider that happens to support your backup software — often you'll find very different that the provider themselves have made very different CapEx trade-offs, resulting in very different pricing models, that can favor your use-case heavily.

(I say this as someone who uses GCP for elastic load, but has non-IaaS bare-metal for base load; and where the DB instances living on that bare metal do their pgbackrest backups + WAL streaming against a B2 bucket.)

But, of course, if your data-to-be-archived is originating in GCP, it may well cost you more to send it over an external provider like Backblaze, than it costs to just keep it in GCS. That is, as they say, "where they get ya."
I do say, the defcon 1 freak out over googles latest way to track you is quite amusing. its peak HN yuppie hipster bullshit.
For basically anyone that has a job having a subscription service is better value than regularly going to the library. If your library has a digital option then I guess it would depend on the UX if that makes sense or not. Keep in mind that many (most?) of these subscriptions are used by multiple people in a household.
How do we avoid this problem and sustain companies who make long-lasting products?

- Subscription service?

- Annual government funding?

- Annual private funding for "best product in category"?

Also how are some companies who make long-lasting tools which are apparently good quality (such as Lodge, PYREX, Patagonia) seemingly doing just fine?
This is in a different direction than most people, but i think the "SoftSecurity" approach of early wiki sites fits. http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/SoftSecurity

The idea being instead of blocking malicious people or doing automated detection, you should spend human labour to just undo them until they go away.

Early wikipedia from what i understand didn't even have a block function - instead if someone was too overwhelmingly problematic you had to find someone with server access to block the IP on the webserver level.
Afaik models without turntables rotate the emitter instead.
Don't regular microwaves also do PWM? How's that different from just cycling on and off?
Wow, that's a cool app idea and your website design looks so friendly. The closest company I can think of is Lalamove which operates throughout Asia (founded in 2013). Sorry if it's not the right place, but I couldn't find on your website how the fully insured part of your service works. Do you need to take pictures of everything before hand?
The cycle time is too long for sensitive items like butter. Even at low power it will bubble over before it fully melts.
They only buy them because they’re conditioned to buy them with cheap gas prices and advertising.
Interesting, always curious to see things from the UW data lab!

Would be nice to have this supported as a custom format in Quarto [1], which supports some interactivity in documents, but doesn’t have the same focus on it as this.

[1]: https://quarto.org/
Bicycle[0] Geometry Terms.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23506557
I had a Google Workspace account and a bizarre issue with my account thinking I was on a Caribbean island. I was a paying customer, and could talk to a human, but it was an awful experience.
"yet another Okta compromise" sounds passive to you?
What are the magic words these people use to get a bank to give them millions of dollars, let them walk off with it, then eat the loss?
Yeah... Google employees just _do_ that sort of shitty redirection, and it's obnoxious as fuck.

Maybe it works in a "We're too polite to disrupt whatever political game you're playing in the hopes that you'll reciprocate when we splash obvious bullshit when we play ours." snakepit that seems to be most of Google, but out here, we're unchained by that political nonsense.

Bonus chatter: We get that you'd like die for your coworkers or whatever, but as people who have no social (or political) investment in either the services or how they're made, these "But they're run by GOOD, PASSIONATE people! I have personal experience with this!" appeals are simply irrelevant.
No kidding. I’m struggling to think of any technology or technique that’s ubiquitous globally. Not to mention the labor and emissions required to harvest, transport and spread heavy rock across even a small percentage of fields.
> I don't know why this topic polarizes people to such an extreme degree.

Because some people are so rabidly anti-Elon that they would rather nail the feet of the human race to the ground than allow that "bad man" to succeed at taking us to the stars.

There were several people here on HN screeching that a few lumps of concrete strewn on a beach is an ecological disaster of unfathomable proportions.

Don't forget about the astronomers complaining about the global internet being provided by Starlink affecting their precious telescopes, while ignoring the minor detail that Starship will be able to launch a JWST-sized telescope weekly if they want to get above the atmosphere.

We can't have the future because it slightly inconveniences the present and ruffles the feathers of developers fired from Twitter.
Interesting. Is there an IDE (ideally, VSCode) extension you could recommend for that?

What do you mean by giving access? Is it possible to limit its access only to certain functions/files?
I don't think it is unusually difficult to find Rust programmers. The challenge is finding Rust programmers who also have expertise in systems software development. Rust was designed to be a systems language but ironically it primarily seems to attract developers that do not have expertise in systems software.

This isn't necessarily a problem. C++ and Rust can coexist pretty well in practice, and Rust is a good entry point for learning how to write systems software.
I'm not an advanced or regular microwave user (try keeping a straight face while talking like that about microwaves lol, but I use it maybe once or twice a month averaged over the year) but frankly I don't see any performance issue with my cheap microwave compared to what one could expect from a microwave. Put food in, wait 4-5 minutes, food comes out hot.

What infuriates me are vacuum cleaners. To make them more "eco-friendly" it's even regulated in the EU now that vacuum cleaners may not use more than 900 watts. But it's not like vacuum cleaner technology has improved tenfold since I had my good old 1500 watts vacuum cleaner in the 2000s (rip). So how did they achieve this magic? Well, new vacuum cleaners don't vacuum for shit, that's how.
Given these companies keep their coffee scalding hot on purpose, the profit must worth it
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Had this in music school. Struck me completely out of nowhere the first day I performed in studio class. I had never really struggled with performance anxiety and then, suddenly, I was completely paralyzed by it.
In my job I regularly wonder how to get a found phone laptop or notebook back to their owner. The notebook is the easiest. The apple laptop the most stupid. I have the locked laptop i have my iphone you would think, with the closed eco-system, there to be some magic ritual i can perform for the laptop to register on the owners "find my device"???? Or at least let me type a number for them to call?

Sometimes, (if i charge the phone) eventually contacts real names appear on the home screen. This seems just the information one shouldn't be sharing?

It is really odd how garbage the tech is here.
Do not imagine the good that an all-powerful government could do when people you agree with are in charge of it.

Imagine instead the damage an all-powerful government could do when people you disagree with are in charge of it.

Because, with probability 1.0, they will be someday.
> don't leave sensitive data out there

Where "out there" is Okta. You are basically saying: Don't leave sensitive data with Okta.
Nonzero is enough to choose an alternative.
Having spent the past week dealing with GCP support, which I pay for, I can assure you, it sucks. It’s miserable and my least favorite part of GCP by far.
Nightshade: University of Chicago's attempt at poisoning AI art generators
Phased array, heat sensors, no turntable, uses beam forming to get food uniformly hot.
The ranking are here:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

It’s amazing how many new and better ones there are since I last looked a few months ago. Instructor-xl was number 1, now it is number 9, and its size is more than 10x the number 2 ranked!

Things move fast!
Presumably if there is an option that is more C02 efficient, it would have less tax so could be cheaper. If you spend your monthly bonus on the cheaper option it’s still a net positive
My fridge, Drip Coffee Maker and Toast, 3 devices, from 3 different manufacturers all use the same three beeps (same pitch, same time delay between beeps) so its ambiguous to deduce if my toast or coffee is ready or if my fridge door isn't entirely closed. But hey, great component pricing on that beep chip.
This is a very important point.

I'd argue all these "publish your DB schema as a GraphQL endpoint" frameworks that seem to proliferate have done a lot of damage to GraphQL's reputation. Strongly coupling data to presentation seems like such an obvious anti pattern, yet tools doing just that seem to be very popular for some reason.
I think it is not getting a lot of traction one way or or another.

The possibility that they could convert Instagram users to Threads might sound enticing at first but I think really it is a pipe dream. Even if you have a stupendous number of users who are playing Game A, they aren't likely to be interested in Game B so Instagram's large user base is not the huge advantage that it seems in starting a new service. Some of this is why you see companies like Google and Facebook buying competitors because it is a much more certain thing to buy a competitor than to launch something like, say, YouTube Shorts.
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Lodge and Pyrex are probably not the best examples - Lodge cast iron has gone down the tubes recently, making thinner pans with worse factory coatings, and Pyrex switched away from the high quality borosilicate glass they had used for decades to a cheaper formulation recently.

Patagonia has even lowered their standards somewhat - I know a guy who bikes to work every day in Seattle and has used the same Patagonia waterproof panniers for something like 15 years, and I would be willing to bet that new ones are more cheaply made and less waterproof, while costing more.
I think that's a different attack, where you could passively sniff wifi traffic from networks without WEP. I meant more just hosting your own hotspot with a popular name, forcing clients to connect to it via disconnect/reconnect attacks, and then you're essentially a tiny MITM ISP that can monitor all their unencrypted traffic
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I don't get bonuses, so I consider my side-hustles my bonus. This year, it's close to 100%
I've never understood peoples' obsession with matching appliances for this exact reason. No, I don't want my fridge, microwave, stove, and dishwasher to come from the same manufacturer and make the same noises, thank you very much.
Public IP prices just saw a massive (announced) price increase. Admittedly it was from free, so perhaps not a true “increase”.
> We can't have the future because it slightly inconveniences the present and ruffles the feathers of developers fired from Twitter.

Or because he constantly stomps on experienced engineers with stupid ideas and puts the whole thing at risk. Literally EVERYONE said the cement base was a stupid idea and yet Elon had to trump his own experts.

Every time he forces his idiotic ideas on his engineers he puts the future of the whole business at risk. At least he’s been so distracted by the Twitter debacle the adults have been able to make decisions without having to cater to his ego and make him think the idea was his.
The site is in dire need up updating.

For example, on the page for CBD, they are clearly unaware that THC and all its relatives are fully legalized here in Canada. It stops at mentioning our "Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations" but you can buy CBD and THC products from both our provincial governments (in Ontario we have the Ontario Cannabis Store) or from private businesses. In that sense, the laws are even more lax than for alcohol here.
Portland, Oregon has a roundabout with four stop signs and I've been mad about it for thirty years. Why?!
You would run into the same issues if you tried to do it with threads and rust too.

Any kind of shared resource is a tedious experience, that's basically it's selling point.

It is frustrating becasue if you go look for help, people are always condescending about global shared resources like that but there really isn't a better way.
> hosting your own hotspot with a popular name, forcing clients to connect to it via disconnect/reconnect attacks

You can only do that for unencrypted networks or those for which you know the passphrase, though.
Traffic calming features: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming
Well, what do you dislike about it?
MyScale vs. PostgreSQL vs. OpenSearch: About the Integrated Vector Databases
There's another duality of thought: I want SpaceX and Tesla to succeed. Regardless of my feelings about him, I acknowledge that Elon was instrumental in sparking the shift to EVs. Also, that having a dictator with a vision can allow companies to do audacious things that would normally die in committees (like reusable rockets, etc...)

That said, I have nothing but contempt for the man and am petty enough to have schadenfreude in any of his personal comeuppance.
I love the OG callback.

Before I clicked the link, I was scared this was contextually something far scarier:

"After centuries of intellectual property legal disputes with the Catholic church and the Chaucer family estate, the British Library has finally been able to secure a win for public domain content freedom."
> ... most climatologists think that humanity should eventually stop contributing carbon into the atmosphere on net.

Yes, that makes sense.

> It's unlikely that we'll completely delete all car dependency any time soon.

That is not the goal I am advocating. I would like more transit and less people driving alone in SUVs and living in overly large single family homes.

> Will every person living in a rural area have a personal train?

No, that would not make any sense.

> Electric vehicles already contribute less carbon over their lifetimes than gas

Yes, but expanding highways and stroads is not carbon neutral. Heating individual homes is not carbon neutral. Mining lithium is not carbon neutral and pollutes the environment. His ideas around hyper loops and Tesla tunnels under Las Vegas make no sense when we already have trains.

> I also don't see why caring about climate change would cause me to care about endangered turtles in Texas

Yeah that is my point. There is a link to climate change and habitat destruction. Elon moves to Texas and supports conservatives that do not care about climate change at all. They profess that climate change is not happening at all. Elon recently advocated more natural gas and oil production and drilling. It is all incoherent. I am not saying all of his ideas are bad, but I am saying he does not seem to make coherent sense.
> The number one reason and tradeoff for cloud is uptime and availability and the cost of not having it

Uptime? There have been quite a few catastrophic cloud failures. And some lasted hours.

Five nine is something like 5 minutes of downtime a year. The clouds aren't anywhere near that.
I was also skeptical, seems there’s a lot more to this story. Not that they didn’t disappear and reappear, but the spread of them isn’t as straightforward as we thought.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/native-americans-s...
Tesla started the race to the bottom for battery prices. They could disappear tomorrow but their positive externalities would live on.

I hate Tesla as a company and won’t ever buy their products, but I will still benefit immensely from their work. Credit where it’s due.
Maven has signing and you can check the signatures on your dependencies if you care to. Most don't, sadly.
1. Not applicable unless it is absolutely required, and not something I will consider until I have exhausted other options, since there is a reason they have not made it Send already. It will likely be quite complex and enlarge the scope.

2. I am using a normal thread but when I make it async the compiler wants Send.

3. The await point is in code that uses the engine. I am not sure there is another good option, since I need to use an API that has several libraries all of which are async.

The block_on is to allow the tokio Runtime created in that thread to execute/poll it

So, thank you for your input, I will test out the suggestion that I mentioned above, and then maybe look into spawn_blocking if that doesn't work.
Depending on how you feel about IKEA, their TILLREDA model microwave is two dials for time and power, and a button to open the door
It's an open secret.
On my Android phone, the homescreen can have a short message, I changed it to "If found, call {wife's phone number}"
This is great to see. It looks like the size of the embedding vector is half the size of text-embedding-ada-002 (768 vs 1536) while providing competitive performance. This will save space in databases and make lookups somewhat faster.

For those unaware, if 512 tokens of context is sufficient for your use case, there are already many options that outperform text-embedding-ada-002 on common benchmarks:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard
I don't think this is a relevant factor. According to one source [1], the optimum brewing temperature is "around 198-202ºF". That's only around 10F away from boiling. I'm not sure how much difference that would make in terms of burning. Keep in mind that something that's hot also cools faster, so by the time it ends up being served, the difference is likely much less than 10F

[1] https://www.seriouseats.com/make-better-pourover-coffee-how-...