skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2009, I could send and receive text messages though SMS gateways that would control my arduino-controlled hot tub that my friends and I got for $100 on Craigslist. I could adjust the temperature and it would acknowledge and tell me when the programmed temperature would be reached based on the time derivative. This was useful as a grad student in Ann Arbor winters.

I had a python script running on a handmedown computer running Ubuntu 8.10 that just periodically checked an email account, parsed the command, flipped the relay as necessary, read the temperature rise, and replied.

Writeup: https://partofthething.com/thoughts/hot-tub-controller/
Circular reference? Joking aside, you write for yourself first when you write a blog. You learn better when writing about something and you see the gaps in your understanding when you try to explain something to others.
> Any control theory guys out there with suggestions?

Nothing small and cheap. We've been applying a massive forcing effect by adding billions of tons of CO2 per year to the atmosphere over decades. It's going to require a commensurate amount of effort, at the very least, to swing the needle back in the other direction.

Our best bet might be something crazy like using nukes to set off volcanoes to generate an ongoing low level 'nuclear winter' type effect. We'd have to be careful to pick the right volcanoes, though, to minimize the CO2 emitted by said volcanoes.
Apple Maps gives better turn by turn directions (in general).

Google has better data.
Look, just give me the torrent file
I have a blog but I write on it very infrequently. I definitely would like to write more.

I think the blog format is a little limiting - the idea that it is serially published on a regular schedule, ideally sticks to one topic.

I think what I really want is more like the old style "homepage", where you'd have a collection of links to different random projects you wanted to share. Like here's my catalog of the best 1970s rock albums, over here is a tutorial on how I built my own automated plant watering system, and so on in that fashion.
The merchants lose when there's fraud/chargebacks, not Visa. Visa forwards that cost to the original merchant. That incentivizes them to be more vigilant about fraud protection, e.g. having to put your zip code in at the gas station.

And the banks that issue the cards are the ones that pay points/get interest, not Visa. Visa simply processes the transactions. If you noticed, your "Visa" card has a bank issuer, like the Capital One Quicksilver card (which uses Visa network)

The cost of running a transaction network has nothing to do with credit card points, insurance, chargebacks. Those are all handled by other parties.
> The study's summary says that this is because conspiracy theories are communicated in a language that is understandable, while scientific communication uses language that is opaque for most people.

Well, when you remove the constraint to be truthful, you can do a lot of things to make statements that are more plausible and convincing to a layman. In other words, of course when the main requirement is just to sound good you end up with statements that are more convincing.

Did you know that 74.13% of all statistics are completely made up? It's true! I've got a report from the Institute of Data & Information Oriented Technology Studies right here!
It's not about appearances. Referring to the data of how many usable organs came out of a prisoner, without any mention of their emotional state or state of health would be weird. With the obvious knowledge that a pig is capable of experiencing fear, depression and pain, why is it any less weird to not give any consideration to a pig?

An empty gesture of sympathy while feeling no concern wouldn't make that any less weird. It would just add dishonesty to the existing shitty state of affairs.
Someone on twitter:

>If you interview the NRC about this, ask them if in the history of the agency (established 1975) they have ever approved a nuclear reactor license from start to finish. (They haven’t.)
I just got a new Moto G phone, with one year of service, for ~$100. The thing is incredible.

I am not sure what $400 for an iPhone gets me. Other then Airtags. I might get a cheap used iPhone just for Airtags.
>(but much more low key and out of sight)

What does this mean? Other reps do exactly the same thing as Pelosi and are required to report their trades in the same way. Pelosi is the target of attention due to reporting about exclusively Pelosi's actions
This is clever but due to the astounding amounts of spam and scams I got through that mechanism (not this script specifically), I had to set this to blocked on my T-Mobile account.
Yeah that makes me wonder how many of such real bombs are quietly deployed in npm/maven setups all over the world...
Ah makes sense. I should've looked it up and double checked before commenting, my bad.

Honestly, in that case I tend to agree with GP. As long as you recognize EOL means you are in charge of supporting it and possibly backporting security fixes and you're okay with that - why not use it?
Rey and his wife escaped the Nazis on bicycles:

From the article:

> They fled in June 1940, just as German troops were closing in on the French capital, escaping on bicycles cobbled together from spare parts. They carried with them only their clothes and a satchel full of early George drawings. They made their way to Spain and eventually to Portugal; in Lisbon they caught a steamer to Brazil, and from there continued to New York. (Their story is also the subject of Ema Ryan Yamazaki’s charming 2017 documentary, Monkey Business, which also looks at the Reys’ lives more broadly.)
I’m wondering if it is possible to find a list of provider emails from other countries such as BraZil.
For free? What's the catch?
> We spoke to more than 25 writers, directors, and producers—all of whom identify as liberal

A small deviation from the "36% conservative, 35% moderate and 25% liberal" [1] US population, but I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/328367/americans-political-ideo...
Hey, I'm in the middle of building a large scraping application - would you mind if I asked you for some advice? Email in bio!
This reminds me of a tweet I read once: "The bank thinks I'm too poor to pay $900 a month in a mortgage so I pay $1400 a month in rent."
I don't have any problem with the existence of dark matter. But one way that it's different from all those other things is that we can generate them or observe them locally. We have landed on asteroids. Heat, gamma rays, electricity, neutrinos, gases, all can be made in labs. Yet if there are dark matter particles, we haven't found them yet.

Perhaps dark matter is just a victim of its own success. If it were just referred to as non-baryonic matter of a currently unknown construction instead of a catchy name like dark matter, perhaps few people would care.
I got the Panasonic advanced charger (BQ-CC17) in 2016, it charges individual batteries. Amazon link:

https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-K-KJ17M3A4BA-Individual-ene...
Why would it be hyperbolic? What exactly do you think happens when temperatures keep rising to unbearable levels? Keep cranking up the AC? What about the crops that feed the animals we eat to survive? What about the dwindling oceans we farm sea food from?
Neither. Just my POV.
It's common practice in game industry, each successful breakthrough game spawns clones of various quality. Doom spawned tons of first-person shooters, WarCraft spawned tons of real-time strategies etc.
I think it would for traditional capital, since normally you'd have an account with a bank and receive the investment via that account. But unregulated securities do a (probably intentional) end-run around that.
If you walked into a store and the cashier was unconscious, would that not be stranger than if the cashier was conscious?
The USDA Agricultural marketing service has an incredible amount of frequently updated data and reports about the movement and price of agricultural commodities through the supply chain.

https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news

Want to know about truck rates and availabilities?

https://mymarketnews.ams.usda.gov/filerepo/sites/default/fil...

Want to know about fruit pricing at retail in the northeast?

https://marketnews.usda.gov/mnp/fv-report-retail?repType=wiz...

Advertised consumer prices by commodity for the current week?

https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/wa_lo100.txt

Where are bell peppers on the US market coming from, how are they getting there, and what do they cost?

https://www.marketnews.usda.gov/mnp/fv-report?commAbr=PEP&ro...

How is this year's shipping volume compared to last years?

https://www.marketnews.usda.gov/dmr/DMR20220112FV.pdf

What's available at the Boston Produce Market?

https://www.marketnews.usda.gov/mnp/fv-report-top-filters?st...
Word Golf! Recent recipient of grant from Tyler Cowen. Super fun and approachable.

https://www.word.golf
If it sold then customers want it. I don't understand how can you deny customers from having a product just because you feel you are owed everlasting profit.
Duh.

The official CDC estimate is that for every person who gets a positive test, 3 got Covid-19 and never got tested (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...). This ratio has slightly declined over time (it used to be 4.2), but with the shortage of tests right now it is probably at least that.

Combine that with positive tests over 15% or more in most states, and we are already well over 50%.
Should you proceed with your plan, be sure to check the bin for the presence of tiny insects every now and then. One of the problems with storing rice in quantity is the profusion of insects (bugs, moth larvae, et cetera) that like to make the rice bin their home.
We'll find out in 90+ years what really happened when the documents get unclassified.

This line of thinking wasn't yet authorised by the US government so it must be fake news until approved.
Being a "rip off" is not disallowed by our legal system though.
There are many anon teams in the crypto space. More likely to rug but it is a legit strategy. Lyra.finance is a recent one, some off the top of my head are Tornado, Grin, and Whiteheart / Hegic.
On the face of it, I do not believe it. "Mostly dosen't pauses" is believable. Great strides have been made

But what is it? Where can I find out about it? A deterministic garbage collector would (a) prove me wrong and (b) be a Very Good Thing
Presumably they pay rent in those malls, and the bigger the store, the more rent they pay. The problem with that arrangement is that you need to be at a certain minimum scale in order to afford rent at all - you can't just occupy a free/basically free store to play around and make toys in. Taking a commission avoids that issue by making 'rent' scale with the amount of business you do, not how much floor space you need.

I'm not saying that 30% is the right amount - I really don't know. But the mall comparison doesn't seem like a cut-and-dry case to me at all.
To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking lots
Can you imagine saying "no one would use our product if they weren't forced to" and still winning the case against you?
I made that last sentence just to preemptively respond to your argument.

Also live stock is much worse than slavery
Why you're in trouble:
You worked harder than them - and it sounds like you didn't get compensated enough for the hard work. They broke your trust. Since you work way harder than them (for free), they think you're desperate and have no respect for you.

This is a power play and they've been calling your bluff for the last six months. You keep asking for their permission and they have no respect for you.

So, the question is - what leverage do you have? Can you make it more painful for them than for you?
Those maps are a copy? You could have foold me.
> She though it was some kind of magic plastic

If all she's had is "dollar slice" pizza, I can see how she came to that conclusion.
Show HN: Kestrel – Secure File Encryption
IMHO the main problem is tokio introducing preempting behaviour which in subtle ways can mess with all kinds of normally fully valid rust futures.

Sure it sometimes magically fixes problematic code, but it's in effect still a magic extension to how rust polling works which can have surprising side effects.

In a certain way tokios coperative-preempting is not adequate to handle any future which multiplexes multiple futures but such futures are a stable of rust async since the get to go.
PostHog released plugins recently (posthog.com/plugins) - these let you trigger webhooks in other systems based on realtime events that have taken place (as well as exporting/importing data/transformations etc).

You just write a few lines of TypeScript in the platform (avg LOC is something like 80) - see https://posthog.com/docs/plugins/build. There are a bunch prebuilt too.

Disclaimer: I work there
I would advice against it, unless you want to be visited by rice weevils

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_weevil

Small packs of rice are the way to go imo.
Web1, Web2 and Web3 being explained to Congress
Don't do that man.

The oceans are growing acidic, countless species are being lost forever. We could literally all die because of this.

Blaming me for my commercial air travel while Chevron can imprison a lawyer for fighting against them is beyond fallacy, and well past what I can describe in polite terms.

Do you have family in the oil biz or something? Why would you do this?
I mentioned this website in the post. It has a list of providers for different countries (Brazil included). I don't know how up-to-date they are, but it might be a good starting point. You can also always try contacting the carriers directly. https://email2sms.info/
You have to use Python (I kid)
Isn’t mass the 4th dimension?
I think that's different. This isn't about appointing someone to a job, it's about preventing one person from trade with another strictly because of their marriage.
Will house prices ever stop making sense?
How is that a copy? I don't see it.
If a bill can only pass because it's toothless, then what's the point? Just because it passes doesn't make it better. That's some serious stretching of logic you're attempting.
I found the onboarding process to be... weird. As somebody who already has a profitable SaaS business, some of the questions made me stop and ultimately bounce, so I never finished onboarding. (I can’t remember specifics so maybe I should revisit soon.)

p.s. I’m looking for a co-founder.
The author is also complaining that blog posts are n-copies of something original. This whole programming and cs business is all like that. How many of us read academic papers that first described this algorithm or that technique? Most of us never do. We are consuming copies of copies of copies and it just works!! A blog post by a beginner on something might more approachable to other beginner who might find the expert's explanation intimidating, maybe because the expert that just assumed his audience knows so much.
What's scary is that this is for real. It's becoming the new normal.

Amazon has been a big driver of anonymous business. They don't tell the customer who the real seller is, yet, when sued for liability, they claim they are merely connecting buyer and seller. Even when Amazon doesn't know who the seller is. Amazon fought liability up to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, then finally settled when it looked like they were about to lose.[1] Amazon thus enabled an entire fake product industry.

We see this all the time with NFT scams. Especially the kind that are fund-raising operations for something not built yet. Those are public offerings, and when made to US persons clearly require filing with the SEC, with all the usual disclosures and financial statements. The SEC shut down the Initial Coin Offering industry back in 2018 for that sort of thing, but hasn't gotten to the forward-looking NFT industry yet. Probably because the complaints haven't started coming in yet.

[1] https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2020/09/23/product...
Forget the VC, even Microsoft, with a market cap close to Apple’s, and the net income to support it, are too cowardly to invest a few billion and 10 years into developing quality device.
I read something recently about seeding beaches with crushed limestone which accelerates CO2 absorption through weathering or something.
https://tinyurl.com/55rext65
I think the poster above is suggesting something much more nuanced than that. I think they're trying to say that the anthropologists do know what they research, to the best of their abilities. However, I think they're suggesting that anthropology projects are less likely to get funding if the likely reported results would heavily suggest theories that are ultimately critical of whichever seated establishment funded them in the first place.

Think about it this way - would you be willing to pay me 5% of your pay for this month to have me generate a report of your productivity, if you already knew I was highly likely to send a result that suggests your boss might want to fire you? If you were expected to pay me to do such a report for some reason, I think you'd prefer to pay me to report on someone else's productivity instead.
Except a sideloaded app would be exactly the same other than costing less. I'd love to shop at a sideloading store. It doesn't exist for my phone.
Some countries allocate set prefixes to carriers which can be reliable if number porting doesn't enter the equation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_telephone_pre...
Massive amounts of SMS spam.
- I already agree it is a debate. It has been a debate for 40 years ever since Moti Milgrom first proposed modified gravity (MOND).

- I already was not surprised by the HackerNews crowd responding with hostility.

- I am pointing the HackerNews crowd to people who have studied this at a high level for a lifetime. Moti Milgrom. Stacy McGaugh. Pavel Kroupa.

- This article is actually a blow to bad journalism. This article is also an opportunity to call out that what "cold dark matter" is, is actually bad machine learning, where academics forcefit a new blob of invisible, noninteracting matter for every galaxy, which gives cold dark matter (CDM) no predictive power. Contrast with modified gravity (MOND), which models acceleration as sqrt(GM/R^2 * cH/(2pi)), which has predictive power.
It doesn’t restrict your liberties based on who your parents are. It restricts your liberties based whom you’re mooching off of.
Can anyone help me understand why carriers still offer these gateways for free? I would have thought they would charge for them?
I didn't know github comments was a thing, but if it's Microsoft instead of Disqus tracking people everywhere, it doesn't seem like an improvement.
Same... but I also use the cheap VPS for other purposes (like file sharing)... well worth the $10/year
https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/101985252700794470...

They fuel it, they empower it, and they depend on it, the market is all about manipulating an audience, for that, as long as you have money, you are free and welcome to do it

Liars and manipulators, that's what majority of asian companies are, specially in the smartphone app market

US/EU ones aren't clean as well, but they have to play by the same rules otherwise they get shadowed

Thanks Apple/Google for empowering such behaviors, and thanks to all of us for not standing up against it, and thanks to our politicians for keeping quiet
My husband was not able to download his earnings report from the social security website because the verification system did not work for him. My guess is it's because he doesn't have a recent credit history (we've been debt free for five years now) but it worked fine for me so who knows?

The other option was to go in person to the local social security office, but at the time it was completely closed due to COVID.
Do we deserve another messiah like Torvald or Stallman?
Mice can get into a lot of plastic containers, can't they?
I used to pay 7.50 then 8 bucks for the Times. But each year I had to call and threaten to cancel. One year they charged me 15-16 and I was pissed off and their phone guy not very helpful so instead of the retention route I just told him cancel no deal. Nothing.

Next day or week after expiry they offered me 4 bucks. I was happily paying 8 but they made me figure 4 was possible so now that's my bar.
>Pyroptosis is a series of biochemical reactions that uses gasdermin, a protein, to open large pores in the cell membrane and destabilize the cell.

> They discovered that certain conditions, like specific concentrations of calcium ions, for example, triggered the pores to close within only tens of seconds.

They dont say what specific calcium concentrations are in comparison to normal concentrations, but ageing and a variety of diseases are linked to calcium & phosphorus (phosphate) build up in a variety of organs.

So the question is, is calcium a silent killer or delaying the inevitable?

Considering K1 is taken up by many cells extremely quickly into the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum, I wonder how that alters this experiment?
> Google AdWords and Facebook both use(d) MySQL a lot and I assume they knew about Oracle and Postgres at the time they were built…

Why would you assume that? Both of the companies were tiny and full of children when these decisions were made. And Oracle was expensive and a non-starter for explosive horizontal scale.
The law would only apply to dependent children, not all children.
Show HN: Pre-Built Nginx with PageSpeed for Debian
Flour beetles can chew their way through plastic bags. I don't know if rice weevils can too, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Yep. The article explicitly states that it is only for children who are dependents.
Not the fee, but just allowing other payment services on the platform.
> but it's not going to last in the long run

Businesses also won’t last in the long run

> This bad hand drawing (sorry, I'm not an artist)

Why not get real art work from an artist ? Oh you needed something quick for the blogpost
Teach Yourself to Echolocate (2018)
> All it really takes is to go and look for them

They did, the closest sample is still Ra4991/RaTG13 which was found in a Wuhan mine and transported to the Wuhan virology lab before the outbreak.

Not aware of another confirmed sample found that is closer to SARS-CoV-2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaTG13
PostHog has iOS/Android/Flutter/React Native libraries for analytics - full details https://posthog.com/docs/integrate#client-libraries. We don't have session recording / feature flags everywhere yet though (I work there)
Luckily it’s easy to spot people who intentionally take the least charitable interpretation of a statement.

They hide behind “precision”, which is the other person’s fault when really they lack communication (griper’s fault).
Maybe the restaurant can resolve the hypocrisy by not doing that too.

Whataboutism isn't an argument.
They will chew through plastic.