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Michael and Liana I love what you are doing and the intersection of electronics hardware and e-commerce.

Some background: Hi I’m Marcus. I’ve previously started an IoT company and have just made & patented some WebUSB Shipping Scales and a seperate WebUSB Label Printer (primarily for e-commerce. E.g. creating shipping consignment labels directly from Shopify and other platforms).

We made our own hardware to automate our electronics components e-commerce business and now are looking to share it with others.

Whilst my company sells sensors including the load cells found in scales, we found it way easier to go to China and mod an existing scale, really just switching out the electronics for our own.

I’m wondering what path you took with regards to the electronics.
Are the insides a mash of Sparkfun and Adafruit parts?

How did you came to the decision that 3D printing was worth it even for an MVP?

Just out of interest, what wifi module are you using ? I’m guessing an ESPXXXX?

We skipped wifi because our solution had to be idiot proof. Think the difficulty in making a process that would enable your grand parent connect the scale to wifi... I’ve been there, and it still somewhat sucks with cheap wifi modules.

Have you considered HomeKit?

I wonder at what point other technologies like cellular would make sense.

Sorry for all the questions!

Written on a phone. Excuse the typos.
It says more about the changing coalitions than anything else because Democrats lost the congressional ballot in Texas by a little over 3 without Ted Cruz in every district.
> instead of being amazed every 7-10 years when droughts come and go.

Was there a drought 10 years ago though? I don't recall.
Agreed, also harms potential investment (limited upside).

What would be stopping you setting up a 'savings' bank. Set a higher interest rate on that, and make it trivial to swap the money between accounts?
FB, Google and other tech giants are about to face a 'reckoning,' state AGs warn
Maybe the word I should use is clever. The people who draft laws are very, very clever. This means that they know exactly how to manipulate language and the courts to get the effect they want.

Whether the effect they want is a sensible effect—that has nothing to do with whether they're clever.

A person with a genie in a bottle is normally just "doomed", because genies exploit loopholes. If the person is an experienced, clever lawyer, though, then they're not doomed; they're actually quite powerful. That doesn't mean they'll use their wishes to accomplish anything good for the world, or even good for them personally. They're still a regular, irrational human being with irrational desires—desires for status among their peers, for adoration and worship by the public, for renown and legacy. Etc.

I'm pretty sure that the people who proposed to "place stop-signs in the web" knew what they were doing, and knew what it would accomplish, and wanted to accomplish exactly what the law-as-drafted would accomplish if signed into law. "But it would just make everything worse!" Not for them. Not for their voter-base, at least from the perspective of voting for them again. Not for their lobbyists. Etc. It might make the Internet work objectively worse—but whoever said that politics was about making things better? Regulation mostly serves to make various processes more inefficient and to give those processes higher barriers-to-entry—in a way that makes them safer, or less prone to abuse, or whatever else. Politicians are always thinking in that mode: "something might get worse, but it's a compromise for everyone else—some good, some bad—and a win for me personally!"
There is no PC, Mac, or Amiga floppy drive that could not have held the tfile Anarchist's Cookbook (the tfile cookbook is not the same as the book, which fits easily on a single-density 3.5 but not on a 5.25).
Sure, I understand the "so let us do our job". I've been on the other side of that.

On the other hand, I need information to be able to do my job: Is this only our cabinet having problems and I need to start rolling to the datacenter (in the middle of a giant blizzard)? Is this possibly some sort of problem with our own power infrastructure? Is something on fire (an EPO triggered by fire could cause this)? Did the roof cave in under the weight of the snow we are getting? Is the power stabilized or is there some indication that power might be up and down?

In short, I need answers to: Do I need to gracefully take down my site to prevent lost transactions and database corruption? Do I need to switch to our backup site?

For context: All of our servers powering off at once and then back on shouldn't be possible. It should require the failure of at least 3 independent pieces of equipment (except at the breaker panel or in our cabinet where it could be only two failures). It is extremely unusual for this to happen, first time it's happened for me and I've been in that facility since 2004.

So, yes, I respect that you need to do your job. But I also need to do my job.

Plus, I'm pretty sure the guy answering the trouble line, his job WAS talking with the customers. The people working the problem likely didn't include him. This is a huge data center run by a ginormous company. I don't think I was taking him away from twisting a wrench. :-)
Maybe we need Houseparty for work?
It does. Given that everyone has their own idea of 'best', California has climates that span desert to rain forest and pretty much everything in between.

As long as you locate to the area that most closely approximates your personal definition of 'best' you win.
Does it run inside the browser or does it use a server to get the actual torrent?
James Gunn has been un-fired from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Are you trying to get users to sign up for the product that you say you are about to shutdown?
Yes, it takes your history into account, so it will learn of this variability over time.
Good thing - V looks hot.

Right, I'll show myself out...
Because Trump mainly won for being anti-establishment. The Dems hope to get those voters for their next candidate. It's a decent play, because Hillary was definitely establishment.
I am a foreigner living in Germany, and my diagnosis is that Germany is one of the lesser fascist nations in the western world. The UK is more fascist, certainly Austria and many eastern europe nations. Italy. Maybe even the US.

Germany has a weird divide. It is the one nation earth that REALLY tried hard to deal with its past — on the other hand it didn’t reach all the people. Especially not the eastern Germans who grew up under Soviet rule and who (much like many other ex soviet states) developed a weird nostalgia for the strong hand of the state — they are aware that comunism is dead, so they go for something else.

I don’t think German society is especially fascist in any way. Not more than other nations, it might be a little less so.

However especially CDU politicians are kinda hardline and they got many of their laws revoked by the constitutional court, as many acrivists predicted. Public surveilance is nowhere close to UK levels tho.
That's another thing that wasn't clear. Those old legacy icons that do match these new squares by happenstance, are they also going to be shrunk and hovered in an identical square or will we be able to see the full icon again?

Also why are we trying to make all these icon borders the same in the first place? The silhouette is one of the first things our brain sees and processes; that's why it's such an important part to pay attention to in art. Making it all the same makes it that much more difficult to differentiate the icons from one another, which frustrates me as a user.
> That is precisely the point of the ICC: to prosecute individuals who are deemed by the consensus of its member-nations as "war criminals"

ICC prosecution decisions are not made by consensus of member states (nor is that the process for referrals to the ICC, only for changes to the Rome Statute.)

> Well, again, the ICC only exists to prosecute cases where the country of citizenship of the accused refuses to prosecute them.

Not technically only refusals, but failures more generally, and not limited to countries of citizenship.
I’m a Pole as well. These people you talk about are probably a textbook example of a vocal minority.
It's more obvious to the consumer why they are being charged more, and it gives them more control.

Also, just conserving wouldn't be enough to keep your bill down -- you'd have to conserve better than your neighbors. If you keep doing the same thing your bill will slowly go up as you get "out-conserved".
Yes it's similar in the sense that you can issue/destroy a virtual card for online purchases as you wish.

In our case, you would be able to get 2% cashback, have virtual cards, and a digital banks with a beautiful UX (in our biased opinion).
No. I’ll borrow stuff or lend stuff to people I know. Random neighbor, no thanks.
That approach has been shown not to work for the vast majority of people. The problem is the "you will be hungry" bit.

Scott Alexander blogged about an hypothesis for the obesity crisis that points to high-reward, high-calorie, low-satiety foods as the problem [1]. I find this argument compelling, as it fits well with Paul Graham's compelling thesis that capitalism optimizes for addictiveness [2].

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/25/book-review-the-hungry...

[2] http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html
in some states rain water belongs to someone else -- the most surprising thing I've learned this whole month...
More of, I'd like to see more than them privately telling other companies that they've dealt with the issues. I'm open to someone showing me something that's more definitive than "We promise we did things", given that they've previously promised to do things and then not done them.

Their website doesn't seem to say anything about their ownership more than "locally owned", and at this point, they've burned a lot of their credibility when it comes to doing the right thing. If they've actually gotten rid of folks and they're a employee-owned company now, then I have no problems with buying from them and supporting folks.

I'm mostly just admitting that I haven't heard anything definitive either way in the last few months, and since the company doesn't seem to be making it easy to tell if they've changed things, it's likely that folks in the coffee community still think poorly of them.
I wish I could opt in to that for all automated communications. Fighting my way through voice-recognition menus is always a pain in the ass that makes me wish for the telephone menu systems of the 90s.
I am going to laugh the day AI drivers need to get a license and or can get points from their license taken for traffic violations :D and the human has to pay for it
How Brexit Changed the English Language (Bregret)
Not sure yet. I'm considering GPLv3 with the linking exception.
> Personalized Lifestyle Optimization

The author is very down on this market, but it might be one of the easiest to develop if you could do it without all the pseudo-science. A lot of the research going on about gut biomes and how individuals process foods differently show that this could make a substantial impact on peoples lives with fairly little in the way of negative consequences or limiting of agency. I know a lot of people who would buy into this market if it wasn't priced too high.
And then there's HN...
Google Timelapse
Was an interesting talk, many tidbits / perspective from the 90s. Definitely made me think about recent activity in the cloud space.
The cow piss ends up not just re-fertilising but also as run off in streams, rivers, and ground water. This is worse as there is more intensification. So in a well working society farmers would either do something like this or get regulated out of business.
Methane emissions are the bigger problem.
Not a typo, it really increased from $3 to $75 (ownership of the building changed at the same time). I think it's purely a cash grab. But this city is a seller's market so they can probably get away with it. It's just a shame because the previous company that owned the building was so nice and lax about everything.
What about Go's runtime do you find not very well optimized?
That sounds like a fun project, but economically impractical. When we installed panels on our roof it was cheaper to just lay them flat and buy extra panels to make up the difference, than to install them on static frames to angle them for most efficient energy generation. If static frames are not worth it, dynamic ones are definitely going to be too expensive.

Perhaps at scale, things would be different, but I doubt it.
Show HN: Steamosaic: Generate a mosaic of your steam account
It didn't always. Products like Waffle and ZenHub came about to meet market needs for better project management with Github. (Waffle launched in 2013)
The burden of knowledge
Sharp rise in Arctic temperatures now inevitable
Freedom of speech should always be legal
I love market based economies, but not the idea that markets solve all problems. You said something about “their water”, and that’s the problem. Going back to the history of CA water rights, there is no clear concept to determine who owns water. If I buy the house on the river upstream from your house on the river, who owns the river water? I went to college in CA and had to take a bunch of CA history classes. I highly recommend reading up on CA water rights and it’s history. It’s a fascinating and enlightening topic.
All this sounds like a distraction for a ride sharing company. They aren’t an infrastructure company. Why would they want to both try to build out a ride sharing and infrastructure at the same time? Why fight a battle on two fronts?

On top of that you have to hire people to manage it.
To summarize some of the major points:

1. Calorie counts on labels undercount by up to 18%

2. Other factors to weight than pure calories, including genetics

3. Certain foods have low calorie counts but are worse than others with higher counts

4. Eating whole foods is better than non-whole foods and helped the subject of this article lose weight better than calorie counting & exercise

Worshipping whole foods is not the answer, you need balance. Plus who wants to live life like a Buddhist monk? Having a burger or pizza every once in a while is fun, it's just about moderation.

I'm calorie counting right now via a food journal, trying to stay under 2K a day (I also exercise 5-6 days a week, often 2x a day), and I'm oddly enjoying the experience.

One, I can't cheat myself. Before I'd get frustrated trying to lose weight and failing, feeling like I tried really hard and "deserved" it. But with the calorie count you know if you did or didn't. It's very easy to forget or not realize how much you're eating exactly, that's why you write it down.

Also, I feel rewarded if I eat salads every day, like I'm getting points in a game or something. Not everyone's brain works that way but for me calorie counting makes dieting more scientific, at least somewhat.

Articles like these are somewhat unhelpful because yes it's great to eat whole foods but so is 1) watching what you eat 2) relying on moderation and 3) exercising.

P.S. Didn't like how the article implicitly denigrates running as a weight loss tool just because this one person didn't succeed doing it -- not exactly a rigorous analysis.
I guess lots of people do the mistake of having a too-small daily deficit while counting.

It's obviously not an exact science.

If you go with a daily reduction of 1000 kcal, then it doesn't matter if you have an error-margin of 300-500 kcal, you still lose weight.

If you only try to save 500 a day, and maybe are not too exact in your logging, you might not see an effect at all.
Mandatory aquifer recharging would be a good first step. One of the big problems is that California can't adequately take advantage of these wet winters because the reservoirs can only hold so much and the ground can only absorb water so fast, so a lot of water ends up getting into the rivers and escaping back into the Pacific (or sits in ephemeral lakes/ponds/wetlands until it evaporates). If we helped along the process of getting water back underground (which should be readily doable, e.g. by pumping water back down into wells), that'd significantly lessen the strain we've put on our aquifer systems.

Step two is to significantly beef up our reservoir system. We should be able to capture way more of our winter rainfall than we currently do. That'll be a pretty big help to farms and cities further south (i.e. in the more arid half of California).

Step three is to stop pussyfooting around building desalination plants. If Israel can go from being constantly on the verge of drought to having a giant water surplus, then there's no reason we can't do the same with California (especially since we have way more room to build 'em :) ). California's adjacent to the single largest body of water in the world; it's ridiculous that we ain't taking advantage of that.
You would think the Germans would know better with their recent history.
Or we could just resurrect older breeds descended from Aurochs that had shaggy coats. Or we could encourage the consumption of traditional dairy products in those regions like reindeer or yak-based dairies.

Factory farming in NL versus California is probably pretty similar. California's not really a great place for ranching in the first place though, better to just do that in a place like Vermont with a lot more water.
How do you determine who owns water in the first place.
I just want a Turing Bombe Clock:

https://www.bad-dog-designs.co.uk/contemporary-clocks/bombe/
What the Hell Happens to Money You Put in a Flexible Spending Account?
I've read the entire thing. He explicitly denounces Trump's politics, merely acknowledging that some white supremacists have centered on him. That is hardly an endorsement of Trump.

If anything, his motivation to me seems to be 'eco-fascism', a pagan movement centered around ecological justice and indigineous rights, with an emphasis on caucasian people. For one thing, he makes a big deal about global climate change as part of the reason why Muslims having babies is a bad thing. That is hardly Trump rhetoric (recall, Trump does not believe in manmade climate change).

It's rather incorrect to classify him as 'right-leaning' or 'left-leaning', the best characterization would be 'eco-terror', which has a long history (of both white supremacy, as well as just plain old terrorism). There are some things he agrees with conservatives on; some things he agrees with liberals on. That does not mean that well-meaning people espousing those same views on either side are responsible for this.
Very cool.

Any idea what you'd use it for?
Love the idea! Slightly off topic, but what was your experience applying for/going through YC as a husband and wife team? I've heard that VC's are reluctant to invest out of fear of interpersonal issues.
Allies bombed the shit out of citizens(Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, not to mention Hiroshima/Nagasaki). I don't think there's any debate that war crimes were committed there.
So use a bunch of tier 3 providers. Who is going to coordinate all of this? With AWS you have one company to call.
What's the 2% cashback from? Privacy or your card provider?
No, they are entering the same market as Waffle; they are not shutting down.
I was lucky to see this yesterday, and it was one of the most magical things I've seen in a very long time.

Every time I thought that they'd finish passing by me, another wave of them would come. It was relentless and awesome.
Maybe it was 900 feet? That would be more in the range of "shockingly deep, but quite possibly necessary in California".
That integration would be pretty slick, especially since the budgeting in Simple is somewhat convoluted and yours seems to be more like how Mint handles it.
Given the issue is caused by a difference in standards, of which none of the 'flushable' wipes really pass, it seems the obvious solution would be to:

A: Ban all existing 'flushable' wipes and force a recall on those in shops, since they clearly don't work as intended.

B: Set out government regulations for what counts as flushable based on how the water system actually works rather than how the companies are currently testing.

If they're not truly flushable, then they shouldn't be legal to sell as such, period.
> How many EU war criminals have the EU or ICC prosecuted?

The ICC has relatively few cases that have proceeded to prosecution, but of those currently under preliminary inquiry, some include EU citizens as potential criminals, and one (the investigation of potential war crimes by UK nationals during the occupation of Iraq) is exclusively focussed on EU citizens, even if the UK may soon separate from the EU.
Why do you think censorship can only be done by a government?
I think the target audience aren't the sort of people that buy a packet of coffee powder from the grocery store.
Let's work through an example. You are in level, trimmed, manual flight and the trim system suddenly starts pitching the nose down. As a consequence, the aircraft will begin descending and accelerating. Your first response, even before you have recognized that you have a trim runaway situation rather than just some turbulence, is to pull back, to restore level flight level and bring the speed down to where it is supposed to be. In other words, you are decelerating towards the in-trim speed, which is precisely what the quoted section of the manual is saying you should do.
"2x points" is advertised front and center, but since I couldn't find information on how they can be used or redeemed, I'm not sure if they are actually worth anything. For me, if you do not have, for example, airline transfer partners, I would not particularly value these points. FYI, optimizing for travel rewards is probably the #1 reason folks with a healthy disposable income use credit cards.
I don't think they're part of Waffle, but rather a new competitor.
Gitlab with Sid – Podcast
Is this hardware for the sake of hardware? I think this would be more useful in industrial or commercial use (bakeries?) rather than home use. If I run out of coffee, I go to starbucks on my way to work and order on instacart or go by grocery store on my way home.
I don't think so. Wawa makes great sandwiches; but, they're nothing like Waffle House which is more akin to a "greasy spoon."

The closest Waffle House and Wawa to me are right next to each other. Waffle House has a cross-section of society eating breakfast. Wawa has a cross-section too, with more getting coffee than anything else.
Yes! I took my three boys there each time we travelled South. They are all grown but still won't miss Waffle House when they see one. They think it a perfect visit when they get to kid a middle-aged waitress who won't take any of their guff.
Actually a scale still works for 3 if it's large enough. Counting scales exist which can weigh increments less than a gram but can measure trends of kilos without damage.
You raise an important point alot of our food issues come from abstraction and seeing the products not as having coming from a living thing but rather as a commodity.

We loose track of the implementation details of how the food is sourced.
Solar Panel Splits Water to Produce Hydrogen
> Signs all point to a recession in one to two years.

People have been saying this for the past 7 years.
The only time we told YC about our relationship was during the application on the question of "how do we know each other" but other than that, no issue at all. They have been very welcoming and respectful. I can’t complain at all.
> Yes, although even here, small is not that very small:

> > The main focus is about short keys of random lengths, with a distribution of length roughly in the 20-30 bytes area, featuring occasional outliers, both tiny and large.

Based on the graphs, XXH3 still seems to beat everything at key sizes > 6 (presumably bytes?)