skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Englands or later the UKs way towards democracy was quite gradual.

But I think they were the first to kill their king „in the name of the people“ (1649)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Charles_I

And then not much later deposed another king in 1688.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution

While the country was not a republic right away these revolutionary events lead to a de facto rule by parliament and earlier I think than any other country I can think of (though how that parliament was voted for and who got to vote is another story)
You can wire a relay in parallel to the start button and control it with your own controller.
I mean MS is selling Arm based Windows machines now and I assume they're going to have to offer some kind of compatibility framework for legacy software.
Can't is a really strong word. Customer convenience drives sales.
virtual (void) by the Cotton Squares

"and then I had to reboot a hundred times..."

I remember that. It came with the OS.
> How do you know that?

Glad you asked! For a start, as you say, it's Victorian.

For further confirmation, zoom in on the buildings with exposed red bricks and you'll see they're in a Flemish bond pattern, which only appears on solid walls. It's not new enough to have a fake Flemish bond pattern for decorative purposes.

You can also see at roof level, the party wall extends above the slates. Where it's unpainted, it's visibly two bricks thick.

If you can get into the house, you can usually tell from how thick the walls are. On houses with cavity walls, sometimes you can remove the skirting board going through an external door and look into the cavity.

You can also check externally for weep holes, the telltale signs of cavity insulation having been installed, and whether there's a damp proof course.

If you have friends in the area, they'll probably be able to tell you. If you get a survey done (which might be reasonable on a house of this age) they'll probably also be able to tell you. Often the homeowner will know too.

If you get cavity wall insulation installed, they'll drill a hole in the wall to check the cavity with a borescope and take a photo. It's a condition for getting the government grant that they confirm you don't already have cavity wall insulation.

> I think it would help if estate agents were required to list some basic facts about the house — the year it was built, the basic materials for the walls and roof, the type of heating installed.

If you check the 'energy performance certificate' (EPC) it should tell you about the insulation and heating. Of course, the qualifications to do EPCs are minimal so they don't really tell you any more than you can figure out from a house viewing. And estate agents often don't deign to produce the EPC until the house is already sold.

For this house, the EPC is https://find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk/energy-certif... and states the walls are "Solid brick, as built, no insulation (assumed)"

The land registry's title plan will tell you when it was built for about three quid.
> Complaining there is only an Apple App Store is like buying a Ford and complaining Chevy parts don’t fit.

More like Ford preventing you from using 3rd-party parts, and thus locking you into Ford's (more expensive) parts and service.

> The people who argue for antitrust action against Apple seem to badly misunderstand anti-trust, at least compared to my own understanding.

The US is moving forward with Antitrust against Apple. Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38883393
Not sure how prevalent they are bit aren't fish ladders built with dams for this exact reason?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092585741...
Slight nitpick:

The X32 competed with the now-F35.

The YF23 lost to the F22.

I still think the YF23 is utterly gorgeous and I wish it had been put into service.

EDIT: beaten to the comment by 3 minutes. Oh my poor pedantic soul.
Nice use case about Elixir! You should definitely write about it, I'm getting sick of the "We used Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView" articles out there. MMOs are one field where Erlang/Elixir can shine a lot due to their concurrency model, their fault tolerance, and especially no-downtime upgrades thanks to hot code reloading (very attractive to upgrade the server without disconnecting people).
There's a 200,000x greater chance you die in a car crash. Personally, I couldn't be less worried about aircraft safety, even if this rate continues. If I could get a discount to take a 737 MAX exclusively, I'd do it.
5.5% compounded over 5 years is a bit over 30%: not a huge amount but an easily noticeable speed-up. What were you thinking of when you typed “significantly faster”?
Perhaps this only represents a lack of imagination on my part, but when I think of the typical person I see driving a Mercedes, they don't look like the typical person I think enjoys Will.i.am. I'm prepared to be wrong about this, maybe it's a geographical thing and I'm just missed the 20-40 somethings who buy Mercedes, but where I am the people driving them tend to be... old. Quite old.
> We have basically pure machine code running our web in wasm. It's utterly unintelligible.

Whenever technology changes there's always an argument against the new thing.

In this case, I don't think that argument has merit. We've been running various flavors of compiled code since (almost) the beginning of computers, and the merits and drawbacks of that approach are well understood.
I don't understand why people let them get away with this inductive logic.

While it COULD mean you used the device out of spec, it could just as easily mean THEY MESSED UP when manufacturing your device.

On the whole, its more likely that your phone had a pinhole defect from the factory than you ran into 3+ feet of water and threw your phone in.

If they can't prove they did waterproof compliance testing my specific device before they shipped it, then they should be assumed to be responsible.
From TFA:

"The Post Office said the honour was given for [Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells'] work on "diversity and inclusion", and her "commitment to the social purpose at the heart of the business and her dedication in putting the customer first".
> Do we have strong political will to create something like that here? I honestly don't think we do.

We are not and cannot recreate the Chinese manufacturing sector in the USA. Firstly the scale is all wrong, in most cases we're not going to produce for the entire globe, just our own needs and that of our friends. Second, what we are doing is being done in Mexico, the USA, and Canada. Not just the USA. Thirdly, this has been happening for years now, a lot longer than most have been aware due to the shale revolution making nat gas energy and byproducts dirt cheap. The pandemic supply shocks and the accelerating break down in globalization is just the latest motivator.
I'm wondering - are there developers who think that this functionality is something any user actually needs? Or is it the higher-up part of the company pushing on "we need internet connectivity in every appliance we put out and we need it by yesterday"?
data is always valuable to someone. if you collect it, then you can sell it to someone who desires it.
https://gist.github.com/Jonathan727/9ef58e7a64806d1e01112b20...
Also I'd contact your favorite airlines and demand that they retire their MAX planes.

https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/airline-consumer-...
The 80286 had sufficient memory management hardware for full Unix. What it did not have was sufficient memory management hardware for reasonable demand paging, but it was fine for swapping systems.

Wasn’t 16-bit OS/2 demand paged on the 286?
Black Mirror covered re-animation of loved ones via AI & robotics:

Be Right Back

Black Mirror: Season 2, Episode 1
Vouching is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cvouch

Re who flags what: the basic pattern seems pretty consistent and I've described it a number of times over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... The short version is that there are some people who flag specific topics but usually those flags alone aren't enough to make the difference.
> I can't imagine there's much value in LG knowing how often I wash my clothes.

Depending on what their sensors can collect, usage data could certainly be helpful in building a more robust product.
This cartoon expresses the reason: https://images.wsj.net/im-535576/social
Because it only increases high single digit each release. If they keep up the 10% improvement for the next 10 release, we will reach a speedup of around 2.5 times. That's very small, considering how Python is like 10-20 times slower than JS (not even talking about C or Java like speeds).
Except that firefox is particularly better than alternatives. It isn't sending my browsing history to Google, and actually lets me block ads. Firefox provides a level of customization and options to protect your privacy that chrome will never match.
How do you know if it's "twitter-scale" if it's a mastodon implementation?
Buying something else means a pilot/fleet mismatch, and higher retraining costs
Re: the refrigerator door.
I’ve always wondered if just engineering a door that shuts itself is a better option here… like a servo that swings the door around enough to shut… what’s the overhead for either unnecessary piece of technology…
I think there is a subtlety there. Historians would not necessarily hold ancient people to modern standards. That said, they do not have to ignore their impact on others and can take aim at not holding some practices in good terms. Consider, do we look neutrally on infanticide?

Now, granted, this does seem to largely be a "western" thing? We are more than willing to criticize our roots and ancestors. It does seem that this is getting silly where our willingness to discuss "bad" things in our history has blinded a lot of people into thinking that other cultures do not have similar items they needed to grow from. As an easy example, it is baffling to me how slavery and minority oppression is largely viewed as a US thing.

Edit: Consider, we would accurately call the practices described as genocidal. You can say that neutrally, sure, but I don't think any modern person should aspire for a genocidal society?
You're making this about Julia despite my repeated statements to the contrary. Please reread what I've written, you aren't responding to the actual point I've made twice now. A reminder: I'm talking specifically about my outlook on the future of Python, vis a vis my historical experience with how other JIT languages have developed.

If you wanted to rebut this, you'd need to argue that Julia has always been awesome and that my experience with a slow warmup was atypical. But that would be a lie, right?

And, subtext: when I wrote my first commebt in this thread, its highest sibling led with

> I think the pessimism really comes from a dislike for Python

So I weighed in as a Python lover who is pessimistic for reasons other than a bias against the language.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most languages designed and controlled by some relatively centralized organization, whether a company or a nonprofit?

Javascript, on the other hand, is a loose standard that different companies kinda sorta adhere to. It was a rushed one man project put out to compete with Java back in the 90s, then every browser tried to do their own somewhat compatible implementation. Javascript became the lowest common denominator, winning out not because it was better than say Java or ActiveX or Flash or whatever. It was just commonly available.

Fast forward a couple decades, the situation is both better and worse. We at least have ECMAScript now, and the core language has certainly gotten better and more dev-friendly.

Unfortunately, what ECMAScript covers is so limited and the standard lib is still so poor that lodash and similar are common just for basic data manipulation, not to mention the hundred DOM abstractions like React or Vue or Svelte, and occasionally Angular. And client-side state is its own nightmare, and then persisting things into cookies/localstorage/indexedDB is a whole other can of worms, along with different ways to do pub sub. Being tethered to file-based HTTP and HTML means that even basic routing is a hack on top of a hack.

There is no standard package manager, and npm is a third party project, which can't agree on which module format to use. Libs from like 2 or 3 years ago will often be incompatible with new code.

And that's just assuming you're using a browser. Outside of that there's not even a standard runtime, between Node, Deno, Bun, etc.

Typescript is yet another third party add on, not something baked into the language.

Eslint, prettier, etc. are all third party things.

In the old days a lot of this used to just be baked into the language itself, or at least an official IDE . If you ever had a chance to use Visual Studio (Not VSCode) in the old days, everything was so well designed and integrated, from code organization to the standard libs to the UI editor.

Nowadays there's 300 ways from 200 companies to do anything in Javascript, none of it particularly good or secure or performant or easy to read.

In a way it's natural selection, I guess, with different implementations all competing for supremacy, but it definitely is messy. Every time I use JS (which is every workday) I can't help but wish some other, more coherent, language won out.
> if they miss the target, the Russians aren't really heartbroken about it.

Something like 90% of deaths by US military are civilians, and huge chunk of that is women and children. This isn't a uniquely Russian thing.
I've had an idea for the longest time to hook up a smart outlet to my washer and just monitor when it starts using a bunch of electricity and when it stops doing that. That way I could DIY myself washer notifications, since I never hear when the machine goes off and its time estimates are near useless.
Do you think the flux capacitor played a role in storing the energy?
If you are in these comments, you need to plan a trip to the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio. It's amazing.
10% doesn't seem much. I was expecting it to be worse
I should give a plug to my favourite fitness app, FitNotes.

It's free, and not crippled, with a paid tier that has extra desirable features. It's usable entirely offline, although it does have cloud integration and backup features.

The cool part I use on FitNotes is its Body Tracker, which lets me track and graph all my vitals across time. I can set goals and observe trends. I can export all data at any time. It's really flexible and full-featured.
They can, but the CPS can always choose to take over the case -- and they are allowed to take over with the express intent of dropping the prosecution.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/private-prosecutions
Send them a bill for violating your home's fair use policy? Bandwidth isn't free, you know.
"Massacred" vs. "Left to Die": Documenting Media Bias Against Palestinians
If it's truly spam, flag the comment (and downvote it) and move on; there's little of that on HN. I assume you're talking about comments we perceive as low-quality. The obvious solution there is to downvote them, but I think you are talking about responding:

Passing judgment is very tenuous business and how I make most of my worst mistakes - then I'm the fool, who is spamming and worse, poisoning the conversation. Much better to be curious and ask. Usually I learn that what I understood as spam was my limitation - I didn't think of another interpretation, or that the author just needed to spell out a good idea a bit more, and now I've learned something. And sometimes the author didn't think of something and they learn something from me, which they wouldn't do if I attacked them.

It's also respectful, which is essential, and we have two people with positive interactions, which is also critical in this age.

As an example, I personally would say, if I had to judge, that your comments are spamming this discussion, and in multipile ways that explicitly violate HN guidelines. I am giving you the benefit of the doubt, that you are an intelligent person in good faith - which you deserve - and I think we're both rewarded.

Seriously, read the HN guidelines (link at bottom of page). They not only explain the ways of HN, they are a good guide to effective social media technique in general.

> Do you believe there is ever ...

My response is that hyperbolic, extreme hypotheticals lead to arguments and are not useful. Life does not happen at those extremes, nor does the interesting discussion.
As part of a corporate convention, I once saw Will.i.am try to DJ a set from his branded smartwatch [1]. It was probably the worst show I've ever been to. He might as well handed the AUX cable to my grandpa who can't figure out the difference between the Play and Next buttons. Ironically, they had a full DJ setup on stage that he ignored the entire time while he fiddled with his wrist. I think about half way through he gave up and just left.

Will.i.am seems to have a talent for hobnobbing with rich people at places like Davos and selling himself as some visionary. In reality you get a poor repacking of current tech trends. Probably his biggest claim is somehow being involved by Beats by Dre, some of the most overpriced headphones ever. Currently he is selling some AI that I have never heard of called Omega.

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/5/7162861/will-i-am-puls-sm...
Residential solar is very inexpensive if you install it yourself. 3kW solar panel is $195.90 [0]. 10kW battery is $2200.

[0] https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806170563774.html
Yes but the triggers are inside the phone, not inside the port. This detection is only for liquid in the port so as to prevent corrosion and damage to the port itself.
I loved The Incredible Machine, but haven't found a modern equivalent. I can see some similarities to Factorio, but I'm more interested in a casual, physics based (not economics) game.
Someone please compare 3.13 to 2.3! I’d love to see how far we’ve come.
What would you do with such an alert if you received it while not at home?
"Smart Blinds" are much more useful than your other examples IMHO.
I kid you not, LG Washer's have DLCs (Downloadable Laundry Cycles).
It adds no value.

https://twitter.com/Johnie/status/1744795720480411927

I had basically hooked up the washer to wifi when we first got it and forgot about it. The thing is, the washer doesn't let you disconnect the wifi after it's configured. It only allows you to switch to a different wifi and only if that wifi has internet.
I thought for a moment that was one mighty machine.
That's basically the norm for supplements in Germany (and to some extent in Europe).
It's rather common for people to have a small coin-like plastic or metal chip on their keychain which can be used for shopping carts.
SU was always one of the many aggregators in the addth.is toolbar, alongside places like Reddit. They do both serve the same function of making the Internet more discoverable - noting that early Reddit didn't have comments.
What! Why? (I couldn’t figure it out from your link)
I don't think this is true, in any case you can extrapolate, e.g. if you're leaving from gate 34, see which flight of this airline is arriving at gate 34 just before, then you can check that flight's details, including plane model, on the tracking websites
I wash Really hoping for some wireshark goodness in that thread!
Musk should just leak the requests if he thinks it's so indefensible. But he won't, because he has nothing. Just secrets that he's legally obligated to keep. Looking forward to Musk leaking the communication with Russia and China, because clearly his goal is to fight authoritarianism, not undermine the U.S.
I beg your pardon. I did do a Find on the FAQ but somehow didn't get it.
I'll answer, but as your comment here is doing exactly what I just asked you to stop doing, I need first to tell you that these interminable cross-examination barrages are not what HN is for, and if it keeps up we're going to have to ban you. We've already had to ask you this many times. I don't want to ban you, but slack isn't infinite here either.

The answer is that HN is for curious conversation on topics of intellectual interest. Does that involve being wrong sometimes? Of course it does. It would be absurd to ban people simply for being wrong. Moreover, even if we wanted to, we couldn't, because we don't know what the truth is on every question. (Some internet commenters appear to believe they know the truth about everything, but we are very far from feeling that way, and don't have a truth meter* to tell us.) Moreover, even if we did know the truth about everything, others would disagree, and trying to impose the truth on people who disagree would create a firestorm that would easily destroy the community.

The idea is in fact so obviously absurd that when people make this complaint, they can't mean it literally, and so must really be complaining about something else. Since I don't have a mind reader (or a truth meter), I don't know what the real issue is, but based on observable behaviors, it seems most likely that they want the mods to boost everything they agree with and ban everything they disagree with. Since each person has a different set of what they would like to see boosted and banned, this is impossible; we'd end up having to boost and ban everything.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I've been using icloudpd to get photos off of icloud. It took a while the first time but after that I set it up to only download the latest 500 photos (total number downloaded is usually way under) and run it every few months.

https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...
I recently purchased a TC5 and really like it. You can actually get proper commercial equipment from them with some mild social engineering. They still manufacture washers that are purely mechanical:

https://speedqueencommercial.com/en-us/products/top-load-was...

I stuck with the consumer segment because I dont want to have a weird conversation if I need service. The TC5 is electronic control, but it doesnt have all the limitation crap that other consumer units do. No lid lock & 100% fill is pretty much all I ask for these days.
The Post Office remains part of the government.

It was Royal Mail that was privatised.

That a public corporation has persecuted these individuals makes it doubly worse. At any point the government minister in charge of the Post Office could have yanked chains and stopped it.
It's a skill. :)
My washer and drier have mechanical 'egg timer' spring wound timers. I prefer something like that. Hell, I remember my microwave in college simply had two nobs, one for time, and one for power, and it was perfect. If I could find a high power 1200W version of that microwave I'd buy it today.
great, the new OS war is coming! the question is, who gets the network effect bottle neck right?
None of those things would trip the internal liquid sensors, though. That's the entire point. If the phone is actually up to spec (which, I have to assume it is), then any internal liquid damage would have to come from using the phone out of the spec.
Elon Musk explains decision to ban Hamas' X account: 'This was a tough call'
I don't appreciate the downvote because you aren't listening to what I'm saying.

When it rains, it floods. They (stupidly) build dams for rate of flow during low season (cause it isn't raining)... then the wet season comes and the dams all overflow. Poor construction practices doesn't help either. They also build dam after dam along the same river... I've see 10+ of these things... ends up being a chain of mess when the first one fails.

Just a bit of googling to give you examples:

"Dam design and greed may factor into flood devastation in Vietnam"
https://www.refworld.org/docid/58f9ca0c13.html

https://tuoitrenews.vn/news/society/20231012/investigation-u...

https://www.voanews.com/a/vietnam-must-improve-flood-resilie...