skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on your heat source, it may be fairly easy to make your own thermostat. Although I have a heat pump, which is much more efficient than electrical resistance heaters, I have found that I can actually save money in winter by closing a couple interior doors and putting up a couple of interior curtains to somewhat separate the room I spend 99% of my time in and one bathroom from the rest of the house thermally, and then heat just that room with an electric space heater. The heat pump thermostat is in that room, so the heat pump stays off. I check the rest of the house now and then, and when it gets too cold I open the doors and curtains, turn off the space heater, and let the heat pump get the whole house back in range.

That's a net win because although the heat pump is more efficient, the gains from that are more than made up for by heating parts of the house I'm not in.

I dialed the space heater temperature setting way up so that it would be on whenever it had power, and plugged it into a DLI IoT Relay [1], and hooked a Raspberry Pi up to the IoT relay's control interface. I added a DS18B20 temperature sensor [2] to the Pi. The only other parts needed are a 4.7 K resistor, and whatever you want to use to connect things (I used a small solderless breadboard [3] and premade jumper wire [4]).

Wiring is easy. GPIO06 to Relay Control+, Ground to Relay Control -, 3.3 V to DS18B20 Vcc, GPIO04 to DS18B20 DATA, Ground to DS18B20 Ground. 4.7 K resistor between DATA and Vcc on the DS18B20.

Then it's just a matter of some Python code to watch the temperature [5][6], and turn the space heater on and off via the relay to keep it in range. I went for simplicity, and just have a print statement that periodically prints the time and temperature, the min and max setting, and whether the heater is on or not, and I can check that via ssh. The min and max settings come from a text file, which I can ssh in and change. It would not be hard to add to this generating a graph and making it available on the web, and making a web interface to change the range, but I don't need that.

Interface is whatever you want to build on top of that.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WV7GMA2

[2] https://www.amazon.com/TOOGOO-DS18B20-Digital-Temperature-Ar...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EV640I6

[4] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00M5WLZDW

[5] https://pastebin.com/JaakzGsZ

[6] As with many projects of this type, that code started out as quick experimenting, reached a point where although it was still ugly throw away code it actually did what I needed, and so I never got around to then writing a writing a proper production version with comments, good error handling, and so on.
When you don't ever face consequences, why hide? It's just extra work. And then no consequences or even positive reinforcement from your Facebook friends validates them and makes folks even bolder.
I’m bearish on Uber and I read the entire article, but it’s full of a lot of bald assertions with no supporting evidence and the only real point it makes, and it makes repeatedly is that Uber is only “successful” because they offer below cost rides subsidized by investors who were pushing growth at all costs because they wanted to flip their shares to dumber money in the future.

I don’t feel like he needed that many words to say that.
I see where you are going here, but you have to be careful of false equivalences. You can never fully remove the effect of bias, no matter how hard you try. However, if you genuinely want to you can significantly reduce its impact on your thinking, and thereby make more consistent decisions.

Really you only need three things, so it is "easy" but not easy, if you take my meaning. 1) you have to genuinely value and prioritize reducing your biases, knowing this may make for some difficult times for you. 2) you must develop a capability for critical thought (essentially, education though it need not be formal). 3) and most importantly you must do the work. And it is work.

Number (2) alone won't do you any good, which is why you see highly educated people who are very biased.
No Place to Pray (2017)
Can you elaborate on AF447? I’ve never heard of the AoA sensors being connected with that crash, and a quick search indicates that they were working fine.
The product at the time had iPod+iTunes+smaller form factor+faster charging+interface.

What part changed during the iPod era.
No, the physical health effects are that you would be fried to a crisp by particles you hit en route, or assuming empty space, the blue-shifted cosmic background radiation when you get close enough to c. The general problem with going fast is that you are heading into a high-energy particle beam in the direction of travel, and will be cooked alive in far less time than it takes to philosophize about the meaning of life.
Cities with high bicycling mode shares have good road safety records
Worker's compensation in Washington state is paid by the hour.

it is a unit cost, not a fixed cost.
I'm pretty sure both are going on. If someone joins a new group of friends who have strong opinions, they'll usually adopt those opinions, or at least act like they're normal and shouldn't be challenged. I think most officers start in the police in their early 20s and will be mentored by the older ones who will explain that their racist attitudes are what save their life, etc. Good questions for empirical study.
Another, more optimistic way to describe it is that students are spending more of their wealth to invest in their own human capital, which isn't measured in statistics.
Yeah, this is simply capitalism.

Remove the cause and not the symptoms!
As a med student I appreciate and agree with her assertions, but I hate it when people use Twitter like this
Maybe - is Amp rendering blocking third party tracking from GTM tags?
Frankly I hate the modern way of doing business. "Operating 25% in the red is fine as long as we're growing 200% a year" and just keep doing that until your company implodes and your investors have moved on to something else.
https://github.com/denis-sokolov/chrome-supergenpass Thanks a lot!
>I keep hearing people talking about them and their benefits over que binary system.

Who are these people?
This seems like a security issue in addition to a privacy issue.

If these cameras are hacked, now you can watch someone entering their passwords, working on stories pre-release, communicating with sources, etc.

This makes the CCTV system a very juicy target.
I think you're confusing special and general relativity here. The equivalence principle in accelerated systems only holds true for infinitesimal regions of spacetime.
They did it by focusing on an absolutely minimal experience.

The main search engines of the time, like Altavista, gave you a busy, cluttered, experience as they pursued monetisation.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000308224033/http://www.altavis...

Google gave you a search box: http://web.archive.org/web/20000815052943/http://www.google.... Over time they stripped even that down.

Just as significantly, the search results were also uncluttered, and "good enough".

This approach was absolutely critical when they started out, when people would most often be using 56k modems, where every byte had a real impact on the end user experience.
Creepy AI Predicts What You Look Like Based on Your Voice
Would you apply that logic to any reseller? The corner market shouldn't be able to tally how many apples it sold? That just doesn't seem like a consistent legal principle to me. Clearly if you allow someone to sell your product you are implicitly allowing them to record the fact that they did.

There may be an antitrust argument here, but this data ownership thing seems like a non starter.
We have two contrasting terms that work perfectly well right now:

Open Source, a set of licenses that allow users to run and modify software for personal or commercial purposes without your permission.

and Source Available, a set of licenses that allow users to see and modify your source code provided they meet some kind of criteria you set up, such as not using the code for commercial purposes or not doing things you don't like with it.

These two terms already perfectly encapsulate the entire range of new licenses that are being proposed for databases like Mongo.

But a nontrivial number of proponents for SSPL dislike this distinction because they want the goodwill and reputation that comes from being able to say, "we're Open Source." They want to be categorized the same way as MIT or GPL licenses, even though they fundamentally disagree with the worldview behind them.

> The OSI believes it owns the definition of open source and refuses to update the definition of open source, which is short-sighted and dangerous.

No. The OSI believes that Open Source has a widely agreed-upon definition, and that definition shouldn't be hijacked just because it's inconvenient for some company's software monetization strategy. The level of condescension in this article is really infuriating. Literally nothing is preventing any developer or company from using the SSPL right now: nobody will judge you, nobody will call you evil, the only thing the Open Source community is requesting is that you do not call it Open Source.

Open Source was not invented so you could use it as a PR strategy. We don't need your help.
I’m curious how that compares to other violent and dangerous jobs (ie, military, prison guards, etc) and other country’s law enforcement.

If the US or job is higher that could be a serious problem that they need to look into (if it isn’t already, which I doubt). There has to be more to this than the police are just over-selecting for evil people.

Although the US has to be one of the highest numbers of police dealing with people with weapons. I remember the WaPo database of police shootings showing that almost all of them (95%+ except one or two involved people with weapons). Adding all the people who didn’t get shot but still had a dangerous weapon, that can have some PTSD. Which famously rears its head in many unexpected self-destructive ways.
According to Steve Jobs “Thoughts on Music” essay posted in 2007, only 3% of music on the typical iPod was bought on iTunes. This was original posted on Apple’s home page. So it wasn’t the music store that made that much difference.

https://macdailynews.com/2007/02/06/apple_ceo_steve_jobs_pos...

Through the end of 2006, customers purchased a total of 90 million iPods and 2 billion songs from the iTunes store. On average, that’s 22 songs purchased from the iTunes store for each iPod ever sold.

Today’s most popular iPod holds 1000 songs, and research tells us that the average iPod is nearly full. This means that only 22 out of 1000 songs, or under 3% of the music on the average iPod, is purchased from the iTunes store and protected with a DRM.
It's just an analogy, for what they are accused of doing on the retail side of their business.
Yes, the Warsaw Pact invasion that ended the Prague Spring - he had no idea even about Prague Spring
Agreed - this is a but misleading.
I don't see this. Are you saying the author has a bone to pick with Amazon in particular or that he has a stake in seeing OSS-based cloud services become non-OSS because he has money at stake in selling those services? None of the proposed licenses significantly curtail the possibility of having internal deployments of software or linking against the software in commercial software.
Linux uses GPL, it kind-of forces the tit-for-tat relationship.
> that's not an innovation worth billions of dollars

Small ideas at scale can easily be worth billions. Marginally-improved ball bearings, for instance. Or the idea of a supermarket.
Nobody ask it if it would like a game of global thermonuclear war.
According to Wikipedia, only one of the pitot tubes was blocked:

“The investigation concluded that one of the three pitot tubes, used to measure airspeed, was blocked.”
That's "law smell" if I ever saw one, already so many carveouts. It means the law/the ABC test is shitty as written, makes no sense, and should be scrapped.
> No. Those opinions on either side of the debate have been done to absolute death online. I can't imagine a single person you could find on this forum that could not list for you the common talking points(for and against) government taxation and regulation.

It is the misfortune of large online discussion forums that between filter bubbles and user churn, there are always people who actually haven't heard those arguments before. And the longer we avoid rehashing old arguments, the more people around who haven't heard them yet.

So it's never very long before we have the same arguments again and again. Except that they're not the same, because it's different people around each time. You may say the same thing you've said before but they're hearing it for the first time. Then maybe they give you a different response than you've ever heard before, and one or the other person is convinced. At least that's the idea.

What's the alternative? Stop discussing things that are still happening and affecting people, because some different people discussed them last year?

> During that last economic slowdown, the US government extended unemployment benefits for years to millions of US workers. Contractors will not be eligible for any of that assistance in the next economic downturn.

But that's policy. Maybe we should get rid of the distinction entirely, make everyone contractors, but then have taxpayer-funded unemployment compensation for everybody. Maybe we shouldn't have unemployment compensation at all and instead have a UBI.

Even if you're only making decisions as an individual, the possibility of those kinds of policy changes happening by the time it becomes relevant to you may be something you want to consider when making your decision.
I really see this as a failure of the Systems Engineering process. With so many people unaware of the impacts of the changes, it’s up to the systems types to have the big picture view and make sure these sorts of things are taken into account.

Especially if as the article says a failure of the AOA sensor on the system would be Hazardous (looks like it was Catastrophic when paired with MCAS in retrospect), that would have made the functional Design Assurance level for this system DAL B, which adds enough rigour not only in the software development process but so much before you even get to that in terms of Safety Assessments and ESPECIALLY change impact analyses when the function changes.

For sure there may have been pressure from management to keep MCAS out of the manual but it’s not really up to he regulatory agency to be experts on the aircraft design, if things are being hidden by the company then I’d consider this bordering on professional misconduct on the parts of the engineers overseeing this work.

I say this as a Professional Engineer working as an aerospace systems engineer.
When I was younger, I had a boss that had security cameras around our small office. When he was at home (which was half the week), he would watch us through the cameras.

These cameras also had two-way audio, so I would be having a conversation with my co-worker and he would butt into the conversation..through the camera.

I only lasted about 3 months before I quit. There is still an active, private, Facebook group with ex-employees of this company. The boss was so horrible..it's almost like people needed a support group.
Flip.to is hiring a senior front-end/Angular engineer in Orlando
> a fundamental overhaul to an automated system that would ultimately play a role in two crashes

Are they STILL blaming the computer instead of the unstable air-frame after the engines were moved?
I guess the question is: is it for security or for monitoring?

If it's the second, that's ilegal in a lot of countries.
Yes, I would never use foreign taxi if it wasn't for Uber and friends
Classic whatabouttism. Does it really make you feel better to imagine two sides, one of which is "left", the other "right", and placing them on a balance? The two sides here are the police and civilians, not police and "leftists on the internet".
I think not uproaring is a very rational response to the threat model:

- You already have little expectation of privacy at work. Your computer has a sysadmin account for the company, and probably not a sysadmin account for you. Your Springsteen tickets are logged and potentially cached in the printer's memory. At most places, coworkers can see what you're doing in person. So there's no strong reason to expect more crackdown on occasional personal use of work time/resources than there has been in the past.

- There are easy options (especially for people who get an NYT salary) for private work and private computing: doing things at home, using your cell phone (not on the corporate network, no corporate login, and probably too small to see on the cameras), taking a quick break to a nearby cafe, printing your tickets at FedEx, etc. (Many of those are much more anonymous than possible at work, e.g., leave your phone at your desk, email to printandgo@fedex.com from a throwaway account, and pay in coins.)

- The stated rationale—responding to violent attacks—makes sense, is quite worthwhile individually in expectation (even a slight reduction in your chance of getting killed is quite valuable), and if believed implies insufficient staffing to effect a panopticon. There's probably just one security guard downstairs, at most.

- There's other personally beneficial reasons to want cameras at work, e.g., helping you (whichever side you find yourself on!) in harassment claims. In particular I'd actively want low-resolution cameras, enough to identify people but not enough to read standard-sized text on paper or screen, covering every office or conference room with a door that closes.

My own workplace has cameras everywhere other than the bathrooms. We're told this at orientation, and also told that nobody is actively watching them. This seems totally fine to me. If there were security cameras in the bathrooms / privacy rooms / etc., or in my apartment, or in hotel rooms, or anything else, that would be quite different.
Third party trackers are not prevented.
Money that went to the corps that is constantly improving their targeted advertising and increasing converting them.
You almost surely couldn't push your own fuel but a scoop is at least not physically impossible.

As far as we know, you always wind up with more drag than you can overcome by using what you scoop as fusion fuel.

The most problematic part is likely the fantastic particle and radiation flux that would impinge on the front of the craft.

Exploiting time dilation would probably be rendered impossible by this.
Yup, the difference between Fail Safe and Fail Operational.
I don't find that the article you linked supports the 'most gifted doing the actual production.' I found the main thrust of the article rather the opposite.

I do agree he has a reputation and that the points in the lurklurk article are valid. Clearly anyone well-read enough can pick out the inaccuracies and the presentation is sometimes way out of scope for normal scientific publishing standards.

In my opinion, to sell copies some some publishers like to fly a bit too close to the sun but that's industry standard now.
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China will be free someday.
So what if he is? Humanity can cover whole planet in asphalt and survive.
All people considering leaking evidence of unlawful behavior by powerful entities like governments should take note: The New York times is much more risky an outlet than it used to be.

If someone wants to find the source of a leak published at the NYT they probably only need to hack or seize the DVRs recording those cameras.
No, it isn't. Think of G as an oil company that owns and operates a pipe from the oil source (user data) to countries that need gas and other oil products (companies that pay for targeted ads). G employees have access to a lot of knowledge about how this pipe works, but make no mistake: any attempt to look into the pipe will be retaliated viciously. Employees are strictly not allowed to look at personal user data, even though they can do so by writing a simple SQL query. I really doubt that G sells raw user data. Not because it's kind or nice, but because an oil company makes more profit margin by selling oil products, rather than crude oil.
Just throwing it out there, this post is currently at 3239 and needs 151 votes to move to the seventh highest rank in HN history and 154 votes to move to the sixth highest rank.

As long as we're saying how we really feel, we should +1 to move it up the ladder.
Slack Revenue Up 67% as It Prepares Stock Listing
In my experience (2 niche blogs), nowadays, the real money comes from Amazon affiliates and direct ads. I gave up from Adsense 2 years ago.
I've confused AF447's Pitot tubes with AoA sensors. But I think point is still valid: two sensors _can_ simultaneously have same erroneous readings and we have to be sure pilots can handle such situations.
Uber/lyft's big innovation is shared rides.

For ex: "223 million of first billion Lyft rides were shared through Lyft Line"

http://www.businessofapps.com/data/lyft-statistics/

But when we look at the market as a whole, Via, a new company, took this trend and improved it(more people per ride).

So maybe UBER has no moat.
Bizarre that we would be regulating where people spend a significant fraction of their time? That's only a "bizarrely lukewarm take" in the US, few other places have this everything goes mentality.
As long as their is cheap food, cheap gas and television there will be no mass revolt in the US.

Few are willing to risk their life when they ride around in their F150 picking up cheeseburgers, fries and a large drink for <$10 on the way home to watch the game… or whatever. That’s the real power of America that so many underestimate. You can placate 90% of the population with that alone.

Take away any ONE of those things the US will spiral into anarchy in mere weeks.
What's legal and what's right are very different things. It's perfectly fine to criticize Amazon for behaving poorly even if it's something they are legally permitted to do.
I would also like to see the distribution, since the metric in the article is average. My guess is that it's flatter or more spread, like you say. It's not that the average worth has dropped, but the worth gap has also grown.
Along with older retirees, younger generations seem to be supportive of distributive policies that are going to tax them more during their highest earning years and shift more wealth to other groups.

I don't see this trend changing anytime soon without more fundamental change.
> There is really just one thing to complain about Amazon's use of open source, they aren't supporting back enough for projects they are using. That's it. They should be shunned for it, but that's not earthshattering, and it's definitely not a condemnation of other cloud vendors (Microsoft and Google) who support open source massively.

That was the author's point, was it not?
Yes, it is absurd, it would be illegal.

They could do the same through widely sold advertising metrics.
Notably, Stanislaw Lem mentioned eye-tracking studies by Tikhomirov which suggest that human players also do some sort of tree-walking (or whatever the proper term is), but are unable to describe it consciously.
Please don't take yet another HN thread into yet another repetition of this. It's not that it's wrong. It's that that lemon was squeezed dry years ago, the rind is hard as rock, and the spectacle of HN users gnawing on it is unseemly. It's also off topic. As is usually the case with his writing, there are genuinely interesting things to react to here.

If Wolfram's tic is a thing, the strange way the internet crystallizes on it is also a thing. In fact, it's a mirror image of the thing. Let's resist recreating that here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...