skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the topic: I've had an ecobee 3 for the past few years, and I'm pretty happy with it - if you're in the market I'd highly recommend one. Killer features are mostly from the room sensors:

* Keep upstairs comfortable at night, main floor during the day

* Auto home/away mode (based on motion). This works so well, I only just changed the schedule to account for working from home about a month ago

I also like "Run fan for minimum of x minutes per hour" as it makes a noticeable difference on sunny days where the South side of the house is normally a lot warmer than the North.

Other than that, the app is decent and it's easy to connect to Home Assistant.

I have an older wifi thermostat controlling my fireplace, and a very useful automation I only just added turns on the furnace fan when the fireplace is "on" (temp set above 21) which helps keep the house balanced.
Performing 2x better for 1000x the cost is ridiculous.
No Béarla (No English) Documentary
Lately I’ve been listening to the back catalog of Balaji Srinivasan interviews, which is spread across multiple feeds but which is available on https://balajis.com/content-archive/
Yes it is. Starship, the part that will end up in orbit is longer than the truss section, which is the longest section of the ISS and has the solar panels on it. At the crash sight of SN8 watching the people walk around the wreckage, it gave a good indication of scale.
GLab v1.13.0 Released
GLab is an open-source GitLab command-line tool bringing GitLab concepts to your teminal next to where you are already working with Git and your code.

https://github.com/profclems/glab/releases/latest
GLab v1.13.0 Released
Short-Range vs. Long-Range Wireless Power Transmission
Truly dramatic for the OP to consider they’ve banned him for using a client for the blind, but here we are
It doesn’t render on my iPad but which esp32 HomeKit library is the author using?

I have an esp32 sensor system in my garage I’d like to add HomeKit functionality to.
Link to Episode 1 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyll-bBZzyk
Here is an overview,

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/dn275r/sega_sa...

Remember that Windows CE was just an alternative to the actual SDK, and it was something like DX 5.
I remember seeing this on the cover of Popular Science in 80s (maybe early 90s). A ship with a large cylinder used for propulsion from wind energy.

edit: I found the issue
https://www.google.ca/search?sa=X&sxsrf=ALeKk01n7hvalLGEwW3e...
I always viewed it as people wanted their secretary to have more cachet akin to the WH COS. The go-to behind-the-scenes, "assistant POTUS" type roll.

Realistically though, that type of job exists in politics but it simply doesn't exist in business. The WH COS-type duties should be handled by a COO, Managing Director, EVP, etc. Any time I've seen COS used in a Silicon Valley context it's a glorified secretary/scheduler.
I'd be interested in seeing if products can become HomeKit only. Unfortunately you still sort of need your own app for setup, etc. It's a decently sized barrier for manufacturers, and their app ends up shit anyway.
Yeah, and GitHub Actions is also usually down more often than their other services.
You simply stated it better than the Reuters article.
Those paintings and the rests of food in the jars make it really exceptional. There were already many food stands you could see in Pompei (or Ercolano) nearby.
>I think it's more useful (and reasonable) to look at all the brutality

In what specific way is it more useful? Other than just the overall raw fact of pointing out that collective memory is often arbitrary and in flux (which I think most people intuitively accept). You certainly will not get to see people get upset or relaxed in exact proportion to the magnitude of the topics considered.

I'm asking because I've heard those arguments in various contexts and there's rarely added information other than an attempt to de-legitimize grievances through historical comparisons.

I'm not saying that this is the case here or attributing intentions to your post, but I feel it is worth mentioning the context under which these arguments might be perceived.
https://archive.is/gNaJM
While also significantly increasing the energy input of the earth.
Management pressure to produce is coupled closely with practitioner actions are gambles Pt. 10, and these two things lead to less efficiency.

I see the function of management at my workplace is to get practitioners to take bigger gambles to produce more favorable outcomes. This is convenient for management because they can capture the upside of a gamble and focus blame on an individual on the downside of a gamble.

One of the practitioner reactions I've seen to this in government contracting is to become hyper specialized in one specific job function. Don't be a jack of all trades, don't wear multiple hats. Don't spring up to help someone. This leads to two outcomes.

1. When a practitioner is confronted with a novel problem, they will say that's not their job and that persons X, Y, or Z can help. Person X directs you to person A, persons Y and Z direct you to B, person A also directs you to person B and person B directs you back to person X. You ultimately find that no one is responsible for anything.

2. When an operation does need to be performed, it takes tiny contributions from many people. This leads to long chains of activities that take months to do simple operations, such as purchasing items because there is inevitably someone who is out sick or on vacation for two weeks.

This in turn leads to more hiring, and then management hits back with initiatives to streamline operations. It is a fascinating cycle.
> increasing the money supply steals money (the value of money) from everyone's checking account over the long term.

It's worse than that.

If inflation was uniform and instantaneous, expanding the money supply would just result in a corresponding change in all prices and account balances. It'd be like trying to redefine the litre in order to get more gas from the pump. As such, the state wouldn't bother trying to change it.

Inflation "works" insofar as it allows those who receive the new money earlier to buy goods before the suppliers realize their prices are too low for the new money supply, and in so doing drive up the prices faced by those who receive the new money later. The aggregate effect is to transfer money from those who receive the money last to those that receive it first (banks, financial institutions, forex, etc.)
Are you sure? The only thing I see is that the word culture is not conveying a shared message and is therefore failing at language. Another person in this thread said something similar to you "Culture is an overused and overrated term" while defining it similarly to me.

Why speak in absolutes when it absolutely is not conveying a shared message.
I hear you. But having once worked with team-members who take critique at anything, personally, I feel there is more to this.

I always try to praise a person. But I also want to "reserve all rights" to say that a codebase is crap or a choice made in the past was evidently a bad choice.

Finding the balance to critique work that a person contributed to, without criticising that person itself, is hard. A true challenge, I found.

It becomes even harder if a project is Open Source and you truly feel you have to "warn" people against using a solution in certain cases. It then becomes really hard not to sound like a grumpy old neckbeard or someone with a grudge. I lately decided it is best to just shut up, and let people find out themselves; to let them fail, fall or possibly succeed and prove me wrong instead. I do see the arrogance of that too, though.
I've always heard that, for the US, when thinking about salary you want to about double what the employee makes when considering the employers cost.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25540820.
Yep. Once they disable old.reddit.com, I’ll stop using it for good.
Well, I don't know what was my problem, but for some reason I couldn't make the HTTPS requests, and couldn't find any info about this. It does indeed work, and I believe I need to have some wine.

Thank you! I've re-deployed the page with https now.
This is the one [1], sorry about the link not rendering. Pretty simple to use, I just followed the Lightbulb example [2]

[1] https://github.com/Brawrdon/esp-homekit-arduino-sdk?utm_sour...

[2] https://github.com/espressif/esp-homekit-sdk/tree/master/exa...
I'm confused as to how this differs for any piece of software. A function has a public "API" (its name and parameters), and software is primarily conditional logic surrounding functions calls.

In other words, yes: it is APIs all the way down. But is this a novel framing of software?
Thank you! That’s a great idea. I just have so many bicycle races recorded off the television going back 25 years, and I worry about losing them. Way out of depth on this.
This is a terrible mindset to have. When I was a manager I took every opportunity to praise my employees (with meaningful compliments and feedback) and discouraged negativity. During a management team meeting I even stood against the others on promoting someone because he was always negative and I pointed out how inefficient his coworkers were around him and that he would only continue that, it didn't matter how good he was himself at the job, he needed to be encouraged to change for the better. After working with him for a while and helping him see how he was hurting others and himself, he changed his mindset, and was later promoted, I continued to coach him even after I left that location.

My basic point is this, even those with the wrong mindset can be swayed with the right mindset, as long as it is sincere.
No Special Duty - Radiolab[1]

From the link below: "What are the police for? Producer B.A. Parker started wondering this back in June, as Black Lives Matter protests and calls to “defund the police” ramped up. The question led her to a wild story of a stabbing on a New York City subway train, and the realization that, according to the law, the police don’t always have to protect us. Producer Sarah Qari joins Parker to dig into the legal background, which takes her all the way up to the Supreme Court... and then all the way back down to on-duty officers themselves."

[1]: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/no-sp...
You’re saying The iPhone is mostly popular because the A13/14 are faster than the competition.

The grandfather points out that iPhones up to the A10 had comparable performance as the competition, and still were popular, so having faster CPUs can’t be the major reason for that popularity.
Anthony Quinn Warner, person of interest in Nashville bombing, a 'computer geek'
I'm here to see M.F. DOOM.
He said per month.
On a side topic: any idea why the self-check can't be disabled in cert-manager? It seems like the project would not even exist otherwise.
And having two completely separate internets (IPv6 and IPv4) forever isn't a wasteful burden?

Not requiring backwards compatibility in IPv6 guaranteed that IPv4 would be around forever. IPv4 is never, ever going away because of this.

The only people who couldn't see this coming were from Bell System backgrounds where you could use centralized schemes like "Ma Bell says tomorrow is the Flag Day, flip the switch". In a decentralized system people don't stop using the old system until you give them a new system that is backwards compatible. Then you drop the backwards compatibility in a second, separate upgrade much later, on a timetable dictated by adoption, not flag days.
Technically from 2019 but heard it this year, it's 1984 (the year not the book) [1] an outstanding episode from the excellent Theory of Everything podcast [2] by Benjamin Walker. As bonus you also have an episode about the book 1984 [3].

[1] https://beta.prx.org/stories/288310

[2] https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/

[3] https://beta.prx.org/stories/288314
If large companies were not making record profits, the market would not be this high no matter what the interest rates the Fed chose to set.

Yes, stocks are the only investment that has a decent return right now -- but don't let that obscure the real changes to the economy that are happening. Large companies and e-commerce companies are doing fantastically well this year. (So are their employees, for the most part.)
Real Vision interview of crypto book authors. "Thank God For Bitcoin"

https://www.realvision.com/shows/the-interview-crypto/videos...
So great. Thank you. I think you’ve saved me a bit of trouble with my sensor project (a chest freezer monitor).
Yeah - I was also misinformed by support both before and after purchase.

They have a great resource library but their support staff don’t seem to get enough training.

Edit: I had to fish a new wire for one thermostat, and rewire the furnace for another. The results were well worth it though because of the wireless temperature and occupancy sensors.
Speaking from personal experience - not really. My employer rescued me. The US did nothing. Maybe you are thinking of France?
Walter Bright related his own tale about the problems macros can cause here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25423730 but that was with assembler, which is a whole nother kettle of fish

"The trouble was the author had used the macro language that came with the assembler to invent his own quirky, weird, undocumented and thoroughly impenetrable language. None of the programmers could figure it out. He was lamenting that he'd have to assign a programmer to recreating it from scratch, which would take months and cost a lot of money." (This was related on the passing of Eric Engstrom, who fixed it)
Which is a major reason why the reason for a ban should be required for any ban. There is a basis for investigating intent. The evidence that would be necessary for ascribing intent has been obscured by the same party that made the ban.
That's classic
15 k / month? Lol. Perhaps in a very tech dense specific area in the US and then you have the rest of the world.
I suppose the main difference is that the colonization of the US was an invasion that was so successful that native Americans living there before were almost exterminated(being today less than 1% of the US population) and as a result nobody cares about them anymore.

Usually invaders, like Alexander the Great, Tariq ibn Ziyad , Kublai Kan, Hernán Cortés or Napoleon will kill opposition(mostly males) but leave women and children and men who don't oppose them.

That means most of the society remains the same after the invaders take control of power, and grant special privileges to themselves, like owning the best land or having sex with the local women.

In the US, they never mixed with local population, they just expelled them of fertile soil until they died from starvation, illnesses or fights.
Having a throwaway account is sort of a reddit custom. Lots of people have one that is linked to them publically where they link to their blogs and work. While having another anonymous account to make jokes and comments about their lifes without people linking it back to them.
I was going to put this one. I'm a fan of Reply All, but this was an episode that was so good it almost didn't seem real. Low spoilers, but they downplayed the ending so much that even without it, it'd have been a really good episode. But with the ending, I straight up dropped my jaw. Such a cool, relatable, story.
I’d argue this showcases the mysterious death of forums, where Reddit has become the only one standing, but even it not being featured in Google search results.

Google used to return tons of forums as results, where as now it is all subpar SEO written to show ads to google users, which is Google’s funding model. Forums and discussion sites require a search modifier.

When I search for something I want to find real people talking about it, but it is becoming increasingly difficult.
Assets != jobs
> However a nice SSD with a respectable TBW value is not still cheap. a 860 Pro is almost twice the cost of a 860 Evo. Pro provides twice the TBW value.

TBW is almost never a concern for desktop users. The Evo has 600 TBW endurance per TB of storage, that would be a full disk rewrite every day for two years.

You will never download enough Docker images for personal use to burn out your 860 Evo before you would have replaced it anyway. (For those unfamiliar with Docker, spinning up a 500MB image ten times doesn't write 5GB to disk!)
It is, but it’s funny no one complains about per-user billing for the other products. All of these other products bill per user instead of by bandwidth and storage.
I've had peers like that too. I'm sad at the proliferation of zero-sum thinking. It's like a prisoner's dilemma. The equilibrium state is competition, but collaboration gets us all ahead in a non-zero-sum way. Or, if you really do see it all as zero sum, there's still an analytical way out. Just take the long view. Collaboration will get our group ahead of the group who competes for the smallest things. Hyperbolically, we'd all rather be a low level IC at early my-shares-will-be-worth-infinity Google than be a VP at an imploding firm.

The pro-social way out of the prisoner's dilemma's shitty equilibrium requires deliberate effort to foster the sort of personal trust and collaboration-by-default attitude that makes the 8+ work hours of every weekday of most of our lives not suck.

And it makes people feel good, which is personally enough for me (while recognizing the privilege that lets me say I have enough).
Well for start, the money. Which introduces all sorts of legal liability issues, aside from regulations concerning profiteering from use of public spaces.
Leading someone with more years of experience than my age
Yes, mostly

«Pulte, non pane, vixisse longo tempore Romanos manifestum»

corn arrived in Europe only after Columbus went to San Salvador
I am willing to help maintain older branches of this package
Early Christmas Present: Army Receives Revolutionary Unmanned Ground Vehicles
>Housing prices have risen, like in many other regions, due to a lack of supply of housing in the market, not changes in the money supply.

Don't you think demand/supply is strongly impacted by the actions taken by the FED or ECB (eg interests - since 2008 it's difficult to find better investment objects than real estate or Gold in order to retain the asset's value - loans are pretty cheap).

>These vague rants about governmental power are exactly what makes it to read any of these Mises articles with a straight face, it is nothing else but libertarian ideology.

Does that mean you are sure the government won't use interest rates as a mean for controlling the economy? Wouldn't you feel very bad when being forced to spend your money in order to not be punished with negative interest rates? Without cash you won't even be able to escape. Negative interest rates are just one example. I'm sure that this is happening if we don't act.

I can't see why you consider such things vague rants.
I think this is probably a good reason. It probably really helps to see the billing, user management, support handling, emails, etc. from these other Saas products.
> I've written on HN before that I'm TIRED of subscription apps, specially per user subs, for no reason!

This is my complaint too, especially when a "user" is defined in a ridiculous way. GitLab is a good example. Unless you're on the top tier plan, guests are considered users, so if you want to give someone access to a pages site that has authentication, you have to pay as if they're a developer. It's frustrating.
'Super recogniser' policeman spots 2k suspects
Cars, SUVs, and crossovers we drove in 2020
Making Sense by Sam Harris, The Daily Dish and Your Undivided Attention because Big Tech is going to destroy the world
Eh - most predators don't eat new and weird looking stuff. The reason is, if you can't digest something and get sick, you can't hunt, and so you'll probably die. I think sharks are the weird one here - one factor probably being they're pretty dumb, and the other being they have a pretty tough digestive tract.

They are also cold blooded so it takes longer for a shark to starve.
That would be bizarre to just go after two people out of the many that use the Dystopia accessibility app for reddit.

And I count at least four in the linked page: slj7, Fastfinge, account_needhelp2020 (seems to be a temp account), RJHand
Shhh... you can do almost all of this on Github private repos for free. Tasks and issue management, wiki, kanban board, discussions, ci/actions to trigger other stuff (send notification email for e.g.), storage of docs, revision control, tagging and organization, notebooks (with code too!), static hosting, support tickets, and so much more with Github API/webhooks :) Startup of this size shouldn't be spending a dime on anything but the most crucial aspects of what you're building.

You don't even need GSuite/Office 365. Just use Libre Office and git commit them to your github repo for others to look at it. About the only thing you need to pay for is $10/year domain license and $5/month/user for email service such as FastMail. Your SaaS webpage can be statically hosted on FastMail as well.
I assumed this is implemented by people that don't know better. Why would you want to promote this instead of normal multi-user solution?
This reflects just as badly on the org's leadership, as it does on the individual. Managers and other leaders need to give people a talking to, when they engage in toxic behavior. And they need to set a good example by promoting people who are good teammates. Do this consistently, and people will change their behavior for the better.
Like when America was part of the British empire?
> McDonalds there seem to have a much lower level of cleanliness than in parts of Europe

Some McDonalds I have been to in Europe were a whole dirtier than the ones I have frequented at home in New Zealand, but I put that down to frequenting the extremely high traffic tourist mcds rather than the normal traffic suburban restaurants.
Genuine question, have you considered giving in and going to work in the USA? As an American, working as a software consultant in the UK is swimming against the tide. You could be free of the tax burden and earn more by working practically anywhere in the USA.

I know money isn't everything, but would be curious to know what is keeping you in London (as someone in an analogous situation asking myself the same question).
I like that framing... for me it's playing guitar!
I also read somewhere that they made sure the data formats used by the various modules are identical. Without that, you have to copy data to do format conversions. I don’t know how much of a problem that is in general, though.
That was the Saturn you’re thinking about. The Saturn had two sprite based processors and did 3D by skewing those tiles. This also presented other problems like with transparency (morphing squares into triangles causes problems with alpha blending). It was how Sega arcade boards also worked at that time and so Sega engineers were well versed in writing 3D engines like that but the rest of the development community had settled on the now standard approach of triangles. Couple that with the lack of an SDK and a dual processor system in era before developers were used to writing for such hardware and you had a very problematic console.

The Dreamcast, however, ran a PowerVR2 chip which was much more familiar for anyone with prior dev experience.

Perversely the PlayStation 2 was more complex due to custom hardware like the “emotion engine”. But Sony already had enough momentum from developers and consumers for any such difficulties to become game changing.
Is that form of corruption a systemic problem here in the U.S.? I don’t think that it is.

On the other hand, campaign contributions are common, legal, and involve large sums of money (especially to PACs).

Systemic corruption of elected officials, resulting in de-regulation in order to benefit wealthy shareholders at the expense of the public, is more concerning to me than the possibility of low-level officials seeking bribes.