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by quartz 3y ago
I've got a Moen Flo water sensor I really love. It was something like $25 with no monthly fee, has a surprisingly good app (also measures temp + humidity) and can even be paired with a valve that automatically turns off the water in th
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by quartz 3y ago
It would be cool to see an equivalent map for freight rail. These threads always focus on the lack of passenger rail service in the US but ignore that the US also has one of the largest, safest, and most efficient freight rail systems in th
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by quartz 3y ago
This is really cool. Love that we're in a phase of AI tooling where you can just wire various projects together to create what (to anyone else who isn't following the space) looks like magic. Also love that your kid was more impre
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by quartz 3y ago
Couldn't you just send a wire?
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by quartz 3y ago
Right?! Everyone thought I was crazy to do this vs using something off the shelf but having total control over my notes app has been incredible. I can tailor everything to my style of note taking vs dealing with the lowest common denominato
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by quartz 3y ago
Just spitballing here but you could maybe do a 1-deep depth search… dot product on the initial search and also dot product on the highest confidence matched notes, then some filtering. So if you have notes that associate the name to your do
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by quartz 3y ago
This is a great zero to one reference. I built my own note taking ios app a little while back and adding embeddings to my existing fulltext search functionality was 1) surprisingly easy and 2) way more powerful than I initially expected. I
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by quartz 3y ago
Related HN discussion about UK power demand surges due to millions of kettles being simultaneously turned on during TV breaks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5018560
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by quartz 3y ago
If you don't need a certification on the results then cyclopure[1] is probably the best bet for reasonably priced testing. I live in NYC and had the state do lead testing and cyclopure do PFAS testing. Was very happy to have both come
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by quartz 3y ago
Your comment reminded me that Cyrix had a "586" chip (technically was called the 5x86) and 12 year old me definitely thought it was an Intel when I bought it at a local computer show. Turned out to be a great little processor for
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by quartz 3y ago
It wasn't just you. At least around 2013 it was a whole thing dubbed "the San Francisco yes": https://thebolditalic.com/what-s-up-with-the-san-francisco-y...
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by quartz 3y ago
Unlimited travel tickets like this open up so many opportunities. I booked a Eurail ticket with my wife when we graduated college and still can't believe how amazing it was to travel at-will all around Europe for weeks on end. I think
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by quartz 3y ago
Wait is this actually better? It's well presented in the ad but: - that removable veggie holder in the door looks crazy heavy and super awkward to put back in place (lining up at a sharp angle while gripping likely slick sides) - you h
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by quartz 3y ago
> At the heart of ETIAS is an electronic database system to better track who's coming and going. Lots of people online annoyed at having to pay a fee (7 euro) to travel but this is what it's actually about. Curious to know if E
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by quartz 3y ago
Isn't this it? https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-...
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by quartz 3y ago
The 90s were wild. We used to just print entire credit card numbers on the receipt!
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by quartz 3y ago
You can also marry these techniques with pgvector to find related content through embeddings. I've found this to be pretty magical.
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by quartz 3y ago
I'm no expert on this and my interest has purely been from doing a home filter setup in an NYC apartment and trying to figure out what the best practices are, but my understanding is plants can also be impacted through uptake but there
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by quartz 3y ago
Last year the EPA massively tightened its recommendation for PFAS in drinking water from 70ppt to 0.004ppt for PFOA and 0.02 ppt for PFOS[1]. I don't think anyone is enforcing anywhere near that level yet... CA is the strictest in the
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by quartz 3y ago
It's true. Exiting FB's incredible in-house information & developer tools culture is for many people one of the hardest things about leaving. Ex-fb groups maintain lists of potential "in the wild" replacements for ea
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by quartz 3y ago
For anyone interested, the entire 11th edition is available online from a few sources: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/metabook?id=brit...
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by quartz 3y ago
Cloud storage is a massive ripoff. Just go buy a 2TB drive at Best Buy for $120 and stick it in an external usb-c enclosure from amazon for $15.
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by quartz 3y ago
> Does someone watch an entire 2+ hour movie with a sweaty headset strapped to them (and plugged into a socket) instead of on a couch with their family/friends? I actually tried watching a downloaded Netflix movie on my quest while
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by quartz 3y ago
Yes it's this. This has nothing to do with 3rd party app operation and everything to do with generally closing the gate to the data garden. The value of reddit's content to non-reddit entities is rapidly increasing as its monetiza
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by quartz 3y ago
Early in the pandemic there was a very aggressive "you don't need masks and please don't buy them because hospitals need them" Ex: "US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams not only wants people to stop buying facemasks
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by quartz 3y ago
I remain flabbergasted that Brexit happened but wasn't the overwhelming victory of Boris Johnson & the conservative party at the end of 2019 basically a re-statement by the population that they wanted it? IIRC that was basically a
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by quartz 3y ago
In theory every store that sells rechargeable batteries in NYC is also supposed to accept them for disposal. I've found that occasionally true... but as you say for things like laptops without removable batteries it feels a little weir
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by quartz 3y ago
It does seem perfectly in line with the 1% rule[1] for social networks. In this case I'm not sure if a user is a content creator or not so it's a little unclear if this is 1% of 1% or 1% of all. [1] https://en.wikipedia
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by quartz 3y ago
We've been living in the (golden age?) of crowdsourced information for a while now. AI-generated content at scale (especially if it has marketing dollars behind it trying to influence future models) may well cause a resurgence of curat
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by quartz 3y ago
I’d frankly be happy with more apps just being offline tolerant. Surely google maps knows I live in NYC by now but if I’m between stations on the subway the odds of me being able to pan around at various zoom levels is surprisingly low. Sur

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