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Just because Thermoworks isn’t the original manufacturer of Thermapens doesn’t make their claims any less valid. They are presumably authorized to use the Thermapen trademark in the US, and are right to be angry at Amazon for allowing counterfeit products to be sold using that trademark.
The page takes over scrolling. What is this called? It is quite annoying.
No, we simply change the game. Why is their labor not worth the new minimum wage? Is it outsourcing? Foreign tariffs or import controls. Is it robots/automation? Tax robot productivity and provide a general UBI with the output.

Why is the livable wage so high - is the problem affordable housing? How about we provide guaranteed government backed housing loans directly through a federal agency (no intermediation), and force the rate on secondary mortgages and investment mortgages up significantly making investing in real estate less appealing?

The market is already not a free one - we know this ever since the FED started bailing out corporations in the 80s. If we are already moving towards a centrally planned system, why not drop the façade and at least do it in a way that benefits the underclass as opposed to the bankers.
you are missing that:

a) an immediate steep drop in difficult will allow the network to resolve transactions without loads of power, and the few nodes online will still comprise the network. some networks have much longer difficulty adjustment periods and they will be debilitated for months as blocks will not come, other networks have much shorter adjustment periods and will generate new blocks in minutes

b) that transactions can be signed offline and broadcast eventually, far far in the future.

c) alternatively, in a temporarily trusted environment, physical notes with private keys can be handed to someone else in exchange for goods and services. anybody can check the current balance with their own copy of the chain state without the internet, the date/block height of the physical notes balance should be stated alongside the note and anybody with a chain after that block height can verify it. if a provider really wants the latest copy of the chain to accept these notes, order it on a physical disk shipped to you and verify the checksum with multiple sources.

d) this means the user can exchange for goods and services without the internet, and the people that are still connected to other nodes such as a radio tower or internet cafe can act as tellers at banks and broadcast transactions periodically for people.

better than trading bottlecaps.
I bought my wife a Thermapen for Christmas and it’s revolutionized her cooking (and mine). She’s using it for everything except toast and boiling water. Chicken, steaks, roasts, fish, fudge, cakes, casseroles, anything where complete cooking can be determined by internal temperature. The margin between perfect and overcooked fish can be slim, and she likes steak as rare as possible. This thing lets her nail it every time with no fiddling around.

Yes, we have cheaper thermometers. The difference is night and day. More than anything, it’s the speed with which it settles, but the unit is also calibrated, which gives us confidence. (I spent some time looking for a cheap alternative, but didn't find anything with consistently great reviews. I decided it was worth the extra money to buy less hassle, and I went with Thermoworks. No regrets!)
I tried that but a lot of companies just aren’t set up for it anymore and actually offer better customer service from Amazon or eBay because they are held to some sort of dispute process. I recently bought something that went on sale for a few hundred dollars less literally a week after I received it. I emailed and requested a refund and it was a huge issue and hassle. Same thing wit canceling an order for a backordered baby product and the company mailed it weeks after I requested to cancel it then refused to refund it despite it having now gone to an address I no longer lived at... I now prefer buying from Amazon. I bought a $1400 tv and it somehow broke like 5 months later but Amazon sent someone out to pick it up and refunded the order. BestBuy would never do that.. they’d tell to take a hike and deal with the manufacturer. I bought a bbq and it was delivered days later whereas Ace Hardware needed weeks..
I've seen this terrible error when system has bad RAM. It's not supposed to happen, but it does when crappy drivers die
Theranos: Judge skeptical that Holmes’ luxury lifestyle should go before jury
you can get pretty close with mathematica using the notation package e.g. these three defines compute euler-lagrange equations given a lagrangian.

https://imgur.com/aMfdYQy
It's not telling you to whom it is worrying. You made the mistake of assuming the headline meant "to you" but it is not stated. It is certainly worrying to someone.
> but society as a whole benefits.

If only Ivy League English majors get to be writers, then I think society as a whole has lost a lot.
This article doesn't seem to address any of the strains originating in India, fwiw. My guess is that they haven't known of them long enough to understand their reaction in vaccinated people.
In the emptiness of space, Voyager 1 detects plasma 'hum'
Moreover the us is likely to withdraw naval overwatch over the Arabian sea and the middle east as it no longer needs access to Saudi oil. This sort of thing is very prudent for the UK to develop. Probably china should think about this sort of thing too since 60% of its food supply depends on middle eastern petrochemical input.
The letter to Nature Astronomy (paywalled): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01363-7
And thus is what people have come to expect, sadly, IMHO. Except for the technically inclined/HN userbase. Though another comment said Germans prefer plaintext emails w/o attachments.
In candy making, the difference of a few degrees is the difference between a sticky unpleasant hard candies, hard brittle ones and caramel.

I've used shitty thermometers trying to make candy. It sucks. If you want it to come out consistent, you need a good thermometer. One that lasts longer than a few months is always nice too. I dunno if a $150+ one is reasonable. But a quality thermometer helps for sure.
Couldn't it also be a perfect example of the bandwagon fallacy?
> I've seen no shortage of candidates get passed on because of spelling mistakes or something equally silly

I wouldn't use this as the only basis to pass on a candidate, but it'd certainly be a red flag[1]. If you can't take the time to even run spellcheck on your CV - a document you have specifically crafted for presumably serious people to read - what does that say about your attention to detail at work?

There's room for leniency, obviously, because even professional proofreaders miss stuff and not everyone is writing in their native language, but some baseline level of competence is expected.

1. I'm usually hiring people in design and product, not engineering, so ymmv.
The report is linked in the article. They report that the storage for the media control unit (where the video goes) was destroyed. The restraint control module (more limited data capture including speed/acceleration and airbag status) "was recovered but sustained fire damage" and has been taken to a lab for evaluation. They might get something off of it.
Over 40 Apps with More Than 100M Installs Found Leaking AWS Keys
As an outsider looking at this it seems like you can just work a decade in that job and earn what you'd earn in 2-3 decades in the game job. Even more if you can invest.

Unless you're truly miserable, it seems like the obvious choice. You can always go indie or head back after that first decade and at that point it's all gravy.
I don't think this was a case of them simply not getting a response in time. The NYT will usually add an update to the online article if they receive a response after it's published. And according to Electrek, Tesla refuses to comment on all press inquiries [1].

> Since dissolving the team at the beginning of the year, I had hoped that Tesla would try to build a new one, but it doesn’t seem to be the case.

> Instead, Tesla is leaving all press inquiries unanswered and doesn’t seem to comment on any story.

But I agree with you that the local authorities really screwed up here when communicating with the press.

[1] https://electrek.co/2020/10/06/tesla-dissolves-pr-department...
I’m trying to understand hedonic adjustments
Ecoafriq eshop – Issue #10 It’s Africa, and it’s snowing
Ive not put money into crypto as I dont see the real value/future while recognising I could be completely wrong and many people smarter than me believe otherwise.

But my logic to this is;

1) People need to consider the government, they make billions from domestic currency plus use it as a key tool to control the economy. Once these 2 facets are being affected do you think the government will not have resistance? Maybe not if its pervaded into society and has political backlash but there has to be political pushback at some point as govt will not want to let these go. For example some people say Libya war was in part over Gadhafi trying to move away from the dollar to a Afro-dollar

2) My understanding is bitcoin is limited by choice and not absolute. Bitcoins protocol can be updated and as time goes on there will likely be pressure to do so, and with this comes rise as if the wrong decisions are made it could be bad.

3) Crime and terrorism will likely take away the anonymity benefit. Like this recent oil pipeline hack, they wanted bitcoin payment. Once it gets linked more to terrorism, fraud and crimes like paedophile rings there is going to be huge pressure to regulate away the anonymity so its likely another benefit will evaporate.

4) Generally I dont see much consumer use or growth in use. There are high transaction fees, capital gains implications, and a great alternative called money. So from a usge (not storage) view there is little incentive to come across to bitcoin type currency day-to-day though I respect this one can quickly change but at the moment its more speculative value for store of wealth backs by the hope of scarcity, but as mentioned that's not absolute.

5) There is a lack of protection. If I get scammed online my credit card deals with it, or if I have shares/property there are legal systems to ensure ownership stays with me but crypto, do the wrong thing, or join the wrong exchange, you may find its all gone one day and that carries huge risk which now offers huge reward but once growth slows do you want to carry that?

Generally, as I said I dont profess to be correct and recognise I may well be telling my grandkids one day when I could have bough bitcoin @$65k and been rich now but I feel when you pull back to macro view it feels more speculative/FOMO that a product of value, to me anyway.
3000-pound triceratops skull excavated in South Dakota (2020)
Could also be a hostage situation... You don't want to be willy nilly blowing shit up on an innocent third party ship, though a few bullet holes can be patched up.
are we under attack?
There is a nonzero percentage of people reading this that know that Fluke is a brand of scientific/industrial test and measuremnet gear. https://www.fluke.com/
... when I open it up in Word, I don't want to see lots of red squiggles form misspelled words. If JavaScript is spelled three different ways, that's a problem.

The care and attention to the resume (which the candidate has time to prepare and consider) is used as a proxy for the care and attention that a potential employee will pay to the code base.
Sure, in the fields of computer science, data science, etc. However, this is not the case in more traditional engineering fields (electrical, mechanical, etc.) which tend to teach MATLAB throughout undergraduate education and subsequently rely on it throughout graduate education, research, and industry.

MATLAB has some significant benefits over the FOSS alternatives, such as its first-party commercially-supported extensions/libraries (known as "Toolboxes"), and commercial support for the core product itself.
Same here, writing code seems to map better to what you would step through solving the equations by hand. You can see how the equation “works”. But it may be, that I just haven’t gotten my mind wrapped around the concept of programming with equations yet.
> Employers are looking at your education, companies you worked at, years of experience, and maybe a vague idea of what your work area was before this.

Speak for yourself. The biggest signal I have when deciding whether to call you for an interview is your resume.

I have never considered education so far. There’s 2 states: I know the school, and I don’t know the school. I’ve never known any school so far.

Anyway, your resume decides how enthusiastic I’m going to be when starting your interview. Which is going to make things easier when that time comes.
>There was a time for proprietary systems like this but I think it has passed.

spoken, truly, like someone that has never worked in a [^software] engineering firm. civil/electrical/chemical engineering firms all uniformly rely on matlab, comsol, solidworks, autocad, etc.
> Best advice for cv writing: if you're not modifying your cv and cover letter for every job ad, you're doing it wrong.

This is an eternal debate. The last time I discussed this on HN, I got people on both sides of the spectrum. On the one end, there are people like me who used to tailor resumes per job, and write cover letters specific to the role/company, who then one day decided to ask whoever responded with feedback on the cover letter, only to always hear: "Oh, you sent a cover letter?" On the other end are HN users who are managers who claim they read them.

Feel free to pick which end is closer to reality.
I'm in my 30s I associate 24 fps with jerky pans and unwatchable action sequences. And if we're talking 2:3 pull down in something that was never intended for theaters, I think, what a pointlessly detrimental affectation.
Apple's M1 is an ARM processor that has two major benefits over ARM based PCs.

1) Rosetta is FAR more powerful than any translation app on windows. This means that M1 is able to run Mac programs that were built for macOS much more efficiently than windows apps running on ARM. It's amazing how much this piece of software does in making this a smooth transition for apple.

2) The end-to-end pipeline at Apple has let them define the first M1 chip limitations in graphics and memory, and with this, and the shared memory and quick memory access, they're able to blow anything from Qualcomm out of the water. The only way Qualcomm could compete with that chip is if they dictated to the customer "this is the build you're getting, you can't upgrade RAM, or use a different GPU, etc etc. That's just not how they operate.
Not sure I agree with this one. Over the last few years, I've had tons of consulting work purely from my activity in the OSS ecosystem. I also got my last two jobs because of my activity in the OSS ecosystem. "... I saw your GH profile and noticed you have significant contributions to XXX, we'd love to have you join the team". I didn't have to do any algorithm questions for those organizations.
The ones that don't claim that no reasonable person would take them seriously when someone sues them for defamation (Fox has done this multiple times).
This does not mention the variant in India: B. 1.617. Excuse my language but fuck the author and this article. They went out of their way to list multiple other variant names but left the word "India" and "B. 1.617" out entirely while proclaiming "Pfizer COVID vaccine protects against worrying coronavirus variants". Is there another strain that's more worrying right now or even on the day that this article was published?
Not if the regulatory environment becomes very unfavorable to oil. Cheaper is another way of saying less profitable. If you’re not selling as much, all of that infrastructure for hydrocarbon processing becomes more expensive to maintain. An oil well doesn’t give you fuel, it gives you crude which goes through a pipeline which goes to a refinery to split fuel, plastic ingredients, and tar. Then the fuel must be transported. And you have to operate the oil well, but water, and then the well eventually runs dry.

People don’t really like wells near them, nor do the like the waste water from hydraulic fracking. Without a big industry to back it up, people will want to ban oil extraction.

All of which is to say that supply and demand only go so far when an industry collapses from lack of demand. Look at camera film. Shouldn’t it be cheaper because no one is buying it and it’s a niche product? Nope, the economies of scale no longer work.
"Performance improvement plans," by any name, are 95% bullshit, and 5% well-meaning, but clueless people managers who don't realize that that PIPs are bullshit.

At a non-Amazon company, I once had a PIP where the target sounded feasible in theory, but dubious in practice. "Fix N bugs this week," but the manager would choose bugs like "our software crashed two weeks ago, can you make sure it won't crash again?"

A colleague was put on a PIP because a coworker was promoted over him, to a lead position, managing him, and my colleague kept debating app architecture with his new lead the same way he used to before, without realizing that this newly promoted person now had the power to steer toward firing him. My colleague has since learned not to speak up in meetings about app architecture to avoid upstaging his new boss.
100%. I've been thinking about this a lot lately actually. I remember how happy Amazon used to make me, and now you can't trust any of the reviews and worse you can't trust the merchandise.

Not to mention that Chinese knock-off manufacturing has only gotten better over the last 5 years. Take a look at the Benchmade knife comparisons on youtube.
You could disable the squiggles in Word, you know.

> The care and attention to the resume (which the candidate has time to prepare and consider) is used as a proxy for the care and attention that a potential employee will pay to the code base.

It is very often used as a proxy. That doesn't mean it is an accurate proxy.
If you are pedantic AND loves experimenting, ThermaPen will at the same time ruin your life and make you so much happier.

The first week I got my thermapen I made and drank so much tea I was getting high from caffeine. Then came endless number of over baked chickens; still a folklore in my house the winter where chicken was plenty and oven always roaring.

My kids use it to assess how cooked chicken nuggets are. I even wrapped it in foil once to check automatic transmission fluid temp in a pinch (don't tell my wife). It reads as fast as it claims. It works consistently and without fail.
50 as in fifty? Guessing that’s a typo.
I recently finished Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. I highly recommend it, even if you aren’t usually into westerns. I saw it recommended a few weeks ago here on HN and bought it on my Kindle, then kept reading until it was done (stopping only to sleep and work).
The keto diet is pretty forgiving. I did it for 2 weeks and aside from missing snacking and being annoyed that I had to check the carbs on everything (apples have a ton of carbs apparently-- who knew?) it was easy. All my normal meals are frying some meat in oil, plus steamed or fried veggies, plus a carb like noodles or rice. I just stopped making the carb and went heavy on the olive oil and voila. I didn't notice too much difference, energy-wise, as in I didn't notice that I became a different person full of energy like I see in some positive testimonials. So I haven't continued it. But those first few days after I went back to eating carbs I sure did notice the hit to my energy in the hours after eating them.
my understanding is that whether autopilot is in use or not has no bearing on your insurance. as far as the insurance company is concerned, it's an accident while you're responsible for the operation of the car.
When I was a kid, my parents said the same things about TV, Music, Cartoons and Magazines.

This is not in defense of facebook or IG, they are problematic for kids for sure for many reasons and they should be restricted from data collecting on kids.

BUT... American culture is rooted in pop/controlled/manicured/curated culture... we idolize celebrities, sports teams, beauty... we should fix that too
Also he inspired this excellent chart with his disastrous Russian campaign:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Minard.p...

Trigger warning: dead Frenchmen.
Resources for Learning Signals and Systems
I attempted to self learn signals and systems since several months.I have learned Fourier Transformation and Laplace Transformation in university. But,I don't have a EE background .So, I watched many videos and started to read several books. I watched that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrJq2AzXZME .But,it didn't provide me a deep understanding of concepts in Signals and Systems .I read several chapters in this book (Signals and Systems For Dummies by Mark Wickert ) .But,it is hard to understand some chapters . Are there good resources for learning Signals and Systems using python or whatever ?
HSTS preloading is hierarchical, so it's not necessary for individual site owners to submit, if the domain above yours opted its entire hierarchy in, you're in.

So if you own example.foo or example.dev you don't need to do anything and indeed can't choose, because Google (owners of the foo and dev top level domains) preloaded the entire TLD.

http://some.example.dev/ can still exist, but you can't go there in a typical modern web browser, it will take you to https://some.example.dev/ regardless. So software that knows it actually wants the plaintext protocol can use it, but your ordinary users can't get SSL stripped.
Yet another engineering IDE. YAEIDE?
If you'd asked me yesterday to describe my memory of Sesame Street from childhood, that animation would have been what popped into my head. And I had no idea that it was Philip Glass. I just remember the music being weird and off-putting.

This is extremely cool, thank you!
If you already have an appointment the only debate should be whether you will need an additional third booster shot in the future if the strain in India breaks out and is different enough.

The key thing you should notice about the COVID vaccine detractors is their inability to distinguish between vaccines and the wildly different technology between the different vaccines, alongside their inability acknowledge the geopolitical hurdles for any of their conspiracies. If a German-company made vaccine is part of an insidious plot, then should you get the Oxford one developed in the UK? If Bill Gates is influencing vaccines in some strange scheme, does the conclusion mean you should trust the Russian Sputnik vaccine more instead due to the geopolitical impossibility of a Bill Gates plot being involved? The absurdity basically cancels itself out, just get the shot you are offered.
Where did you see it includes simply taking a sick day?
closed vs open is a false dichotomy imo. There is a middle ground that makes it worth maintainers' time, eventually.

Thankfully/luckily I've stumbled upon a good balance with my project.
People have got to make a living, by any mean. That's the state of the economy today, no small part by the effort of VC's.
The folks on the site that starts with 4 and ends with chan have done some funny parodies of it.

Thanks for the tip, I rarely visit that site but the parodies (while NSFW and not politically correct, in the usual manner) have been thoroughly, hilariously, entertaining. I think the fact that a style meant to be ultra-politically-correct getting turned into the exact opposite greatly added to the humour.
>I have an appointment to get my first jab in 43 hours from now and I am bouncing back and forth between getting it and cancelation.

Sorry, what is the downside to getting the vaccine in your mind?