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Show HN: A phone number to text with questions about current events
Hi HN! For my senior thesis in CS, I built an SMS-based application to make journalism more accessible. It works like this:

1) You text the topics you're interested in to my phone number. Every day, you'll receive a text with 5 headlines from The Associated Press (https://apnews.com/) related to those topics.

2) If you have questions about any of the current events the headlines describe, you just text them back. A response is generated from the contents of the articles using the RAPTOR retrieval framework (https://github.com/parthsarthi03/raptor) and texted right back to you.

The repo can be found here: https://github.com/tdh15/pressText

I'd really appreciate any and all feedback. Whatever you got, I'd love to hear it :)
Incidentally, simply baking flour does not render it safe until moisture is added: https://ag.purdue.edu/news/2021/04/Home-kitchen-heat-treated...

That's not what the cited article says. Instead, it says:

“But it’s not that simple in flour because Salmonella is more heat resistant when moisture is low. We still need more research data to confirm how hot you’d have to get the flour or how long you’d have to hold it at that temperature to make the flour safe to eat.”

You said "baking does not render flour safe". The article says we still need more research about "165 degrees", and does not even say baking flour at 165 degrees is unsafe. In other words, it could render it safe, we just don't apparently know.
Please explain why quantitative algo (not HFT) trading is “bad”?
Congratulations, you made me feel older than dirt!

For a good 15 years shops would sell games with Roberta Williams' name prominently emblazoned across them. She was possibly the first person who shifted games based on their name alone.

Which is wild because the puzzles in these games were pretty nonsensical.
People outraged by the piano and not at the suicide nets must be the new consumerism peak, albeit my belief is that this campaign is just part of the overall marketing strategy, an apology before the outrage.
Adam Curtis Documentaries on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m25q3it0rDs&list=PLtsknc8NVn...
You want me to pick one out of google? They all say the same thing https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paradox-red-green-festive-per... https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-33464903

Here's a link full of its own links https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/6982/excep...

Or we can look at how old the western association with red as negative money is: https://grammarist.com/idiom/in-the-red-and-in-the-black/

If you wanted specific links you should have said so 4 days ago after I wrote "You can also do a text search for china red green stocks, or japan red green stocks."

If you want a citation for HN's orange not being deeply cultural, then you got me, I didn't actually check. But let's see... "The orange logo was chosen because it was the opposite of VC websites which were typically forest green or navy blue" yeah that's not deep culture.
There's a good podcast called Acquired. Highly recommend it. They're private equity guys who cover the history of companies and what made them great, and cover the topic very well.

For IBM and AT&T, from what I gather it seems like they missed out on multiple waves of new technologies because there wasn't a market for it, or the revenue was so low it wasn't worth their time. They were market maintainers, not makers. They also rested on the fact that they were the incumbents, so made the incorrect assumption that people would always default to them out of convenience.

Your second question basically falls back to whether FAANG make the same mistake; resting on their laurels while some small fry breaks into a market they deemed too small to serve.
The Digital Antiquarian has a good article about Roberta Williams:

https://www.filfre.net/2011/10/ken-and-roberta/
These are live webcams. At the time it was sent it was probably showing the aurora
What if the facts themselves aren't balanced? The truth needn't be comfortable.
I don’t understand the logic. Let’s say a call is not spam, for example, family. You are saying you never miss such a call? You never ever leave your phone or are in a situation where you can’t pick up?
On T-Mobile specifically: I would actually go as far as to file a complaint to the FCC arguing T-Mobile hasn't purchased/upgraded enough tower backhaul to utilize the midband spectrum they already own and have active. Just having it on-air does no good if it's not even possible to saturate 50% of it. Spectrum is ultimately a public resource so it should be use it or lose it.

On the utilization topic: T-Mobile was able to purchase and consolidate a ton of the available 2500mhz N41 licenses (EBS/BRS it's called). Out in my market most of the towers are hitting around 700mbps as a ceiling on 100+80mhz N41 carriers (combined with another 15mhz x 2 of N25 and N71). Should be around 2gbps with that deployed. Meanwhile TDD configuration on the UL sucks, so upload speeds have actually gone down as more N41 capacity is online because they are inefficiently using something like 90% of the airtime for downlink and handset vendors are rarely using UL-MIMO and UL-CA in devices.

On poor historic licensing problems: I'm not exactly complaining that T-Mobile got N41 consolidated, EBS licenses (which covered most of this) ended up being a really scammy setup: Tons of free spectrum was doled to schools and other nonprofits, and they mostly didn't use it... they were allowed to lease it, so there was a whole industry of leasing out these EBS licenses that schools never intended to use. Just doesn't make sense, so FCC opened it up to auction some years back.

On antitrust shenanigans after T-Mobile/Sprint merger: Crappy DISH was propped up to be a 4th carrier after squatting AWS-3 for a decade and only having a single test tower to show for it. Post-merger they've been building out their network but it's by no means nationwide yet, they are still mostly a MVNO in most markets (under Boost branding). Part of the terms of the merger's antitrust agreement was T-Mobile also had to make their SMR 850mhz spectrum license from Sprint purchasable by DISH, but DISH couldn't pony up the money they promised to, so now that has to go to auction. Which sucks around me because T-Mobile actually left it on-air on the old Sprint towers NIMBYs won't let them service. So I'll get service gaps when it's eventually gone, but yeah...

https://specmap.sequence-omega.net/ is a really good resource for seeing who currently owns the licenses in a given area.
"They Were There"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmVCePfMXAU
I know for a fact that Gabe Newell, for example, reads all emails that people send him, and even responds pretty often. So I'm pretty sure other famous people do that
As someone who has never seem them, what I wish most people would do is attempt to edit said photos to 'about what it looked like to my eyes.'

You can find some online, but they range from 'just like the picture' to 'random fog', so one is left not knowing what to believe.
I have such great memories playing all the Sierra games back in the 80s on my IBM PC, overcoming all that difficulty over weeks and weeks of trying to figure out what to type to get to the next stage of the game. No internet, giving us all that space to imagine and wonder what those world may be like, imagination going off with the help of all the constraints of EGA/VGA graphics, that was a special time. Roberta and Kenneth, all my respects.
Smoking Is Awesome [video]
Great to see that it's no longer a pro only / enterprise feature. I've long left Windows behind for Linux (with very few regrets) but the paywalled FDE was definitely a motivating factor at the time - it felt like a table stakes feature for a modern OS to me.

If they started offering reasonable ways to opt out of all telemetry and advertising (ie: without buying enterprise/using third party software and crossing your fingers) I could almost be tempted to dual boot for the games/software that don't run well in wine/proton.

I wouldn't be particularly opposed to paying for the privilege either, but don't make me buy X copies to be eligible.
Wait no way? That’s where the pirate eye patch trope comes from? There was a practical reason?
The point I'm arguing with is your made up benefit of TUIs re. keybinds
The problem is with cooked rice that hasn't been cooled off properly (or not kept hot enough). The heat-resistant spores of the Bacillus Cereus will then develop and the bacteria will proliferate and produce a heat-resistant toxin, which can hurt you even after reheating the leftover rice.

You need to keep your rice cold (<7 °C) or hot (>63 °C) enough for the spores not to develop. Letting your rice cool off naturally in a pot is also leaving it at the wrong temperatures for a longer time than if you rapidly cool it off.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7913059/
I'm in the same boat, and have a lot of power failures. So when I replaced my tank, I made sure I went for a 80gal size / 40 gal badder. I also upped my pressure from 30/50 to 50/80, so that I have more pressure in there regardless.

But I've noticed a disturbing trend. A lot of people now have "continuous" pump/tank setups. A little pressure tank the size of a 20lb BBQ propane tank, just to allow for pressure stabilization, and a weaker pump. I guess cost is the motivator.

Sad, really.
WPP boss targeted by deepfake scammers using voice clone
That's a reason to not use Latin; but when it comes to numbers and scales… I was surprised to discover that other people are themselves often surprised when they learn that a billion is a thousand times larger than a million.
Because it's not mobile service and you can't make calls if you don't have some kind of a data connection. I'm saying this as someone who's used a GV as my primary number to give out to people.

Additionally a ton of things like banks don't like that it's a VOIP number and won't let you use various services tied to it.

EDIT: In case you're not from US, US Cellular is a full regional cellular provider, they aren't asking how to get a US phone number.
Show HN: PDF to SlideShow and Chat
Hi,
DocShow Pro converts PDFs into Slideshow with voice and a embedded Chatbot.
Primary use cases that I'm targeting are converting eBooks to Personalized Courses with chatbots and presenting and understanding research papers easily.

I'm working on the UI / UX part of it to make it Productionize it.

Selva Prakash.
I think “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” may be of more interest, topically, to hacker news readers, because it converges on the use of computing as a means of controlling social unrest.
Show HN: Language-agnostic structured data extractor
Started as an unofficial port of Instructor, but its language-agnostic and focused primarily on llama.cpp.

Starts HTTP API server. You send JSON-Schema + Data, it responds with a JSON matching your schema, extracted from the data.
In which no one follows the protocols, so someone ran an extension cord into the cage, because some supervisor couldn't charge his phone in there.

Or something similar.
Version 2 of this ad should be clips of people doing fun things and then "the new ipad has the best screen for watching tiktoks"
How can you apply permissions logic that is not easily expressed in Postgres itself? That’s the main reason I want to build an API in a “proper” programming language.

I suppose I could build that in front of Postgrest but why add latency?
Hello fellow CI user!
> Back in the day, the parallel port was awesome for hobbyist hardware hacking.

R-2R Soundcard!

Soundblasters were crazily expensive (and a Gravis UltraSound even more), but you could solder a R-2R resistor ladder [1] connected to the parallel port, and have pretty decent soundcard (well, at least when compared to the onboard speaker) for $10 or less [2].

Not many games worked with it, but it was quite popular amongst the demoscene at the time.

[1] https://hackaday.com/2014/09/29/the-lpt-dac/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing
That’s awesome! Wish I get to see it that visible too.
Automation anxiety dates back to the late 16th century
Protections are stronger once you work for some time (1.5y?). But he was immigrant and maybe could have fought it, but did not.
Are you sure most Linux distros still support a pentium III by default?
> It has keybinds.

Which are invisible. Unlike with the menus that show you keybinds right next to a command, and have Accelerators where you can use keyboard to navigate the list visually with the keyboard instead of having to remember all of the keybinds.
(unless you mean web apps, but then this app doesn't run on the web, so that comparison is moot)

(by the way, "most" clis don't support any keybinds, they're using command line flags)

> Contrast that with this

I have, taking a very common app for comparison - Windows File Explorer. It has borders (and nicer ones at that as they don't need waste the width of the whole char of space because they're not text), and also same groups (left pane)

> clear sets of interactions

Can you list a clear set of interactions with the Clipboard panel in the bottom-right (can you rename a file from there? drag&drop it away? delete a file / delete from the clipboard), and where this clarity is coming from

> Flat... Whitespace

Seriously, this file manager is a flatly designed app!, just go through the checklist:

Flat design is a modern design style that consistently maintains minimalist, 2D features. Here are six signs that what you’re looking at is flat design.

Contrasting colors: often bright colors, flat design relies on distinct contrast to send visual cues to users.

2D styling: simple shapes and no realistic images.

Simple typography: typically sans-serif fonts are the choice of flat design. It loads fast, it fits with minimalist style, and it’s easy to read.

White space: negative space helps designers indicate which part of the page they want users to focus on and makes the website more readable.

Grid-based layouts: usually flat design is symmetrical and uses a grid for the layout and hierarchy.

Simplicity: symbolic icons, abstract forms, no textures, and no gradients.

https://careerfoundry.com/en/blog/ui-design/what-is-flat-des...

With the exception of borders, which are less common in other flat designs
Things You Should Have Already Experienced on the Internet
Consumer vehicle preferences have never been solely about price and considering that none of the manufacturers actually want to compete solely on price, I don't think it's the right lens to use here.

Manufacturers have extensive data on why consumers choose what they do and carefully position their lineups to address that data. They fail to achieve that regardless, because they have no real ability to actually fix the structural issues hobbling them like their software or the dealership model. They could fix these issues, of course, but the commitment doesn't actually exist when it's time to write the checks and do the work.
Japan’s iPhone marketshare is one of the largest. You can bet a lot of folks cared to watch it.
While I agree, I think many apartment dwellers have less storage. Home owners tend to have more, just due to that extra space.

But the other factor is, some people literally only eat pre-made food, which often a large portion consists of frozen things. I've been in some homes, mostly single people, which have no flour, rice, oats, etc. No real raw materials, such as eggs or butter. No canned food. Maybe a jar of peanut butter and a loaf of bread, and a package of processed meat in the fridge.

The rest are frozen things like prepared chicken wings, and so on.

What I wonder is, what are the percentages of people in these situations?

20%?
TUIs, in general, are more amenable to keyboard navigation than GUIs are; id est, even if GUIs offer keyboard navigation, they are simply not, on average, as good as those of TUIs. I'm not sure how that is controversial in the slightest.
Finally a comment of yours I can fully back :)
Can watch it here https://thoughtmaybe.com/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/
Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Interns in Sales, Engineering, HR in Austria
Huh.

"Computers can see us as large groups, but they’re glum and only aggregate us to sell us stuff. In reality, the computers give great insight into the power of common identity between groups. No one’s using that."

That's from 2017. Unfortunately, that's no longer the case. From ISIL to Q-Anon to MAGA to LGBTxx, finding dispersed but like-minded people and using them to build a political movement is now common. Worse, automated blithering with LLMs works all too well.

"The history of modern self-expression dates from the hippies."

It goes back further than that. Find a copy of "Swing Kids". The "music is the weapon" concept of the 1960s and 1970s was mainstream for a while. Back when being in a band was a big deal.
Before Live Nation got to decide who performs where. Now music is just a business. Even rap.

We have a huge problem trying to get society to go in useful directions. People have forgotten how to make democracies work. So we get autocrats.
> Gutting the functionality that upstream has built into a piece of software and then publishing it under the same name is dubious at best

reminds me of busybox's implementations of: bash, sed, awk, ect
and similar situations when folks go and ask 'how something-in bash works' then 'it doesnt work' all because of macos bash vs gnu bash, and forever on the battle goes with naming.
I guess there are a lot of contrarians like me in the bsd community then
I have found the Wikipedia entry to be much clearer and interestig than this article

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_derivative
40 years of the Rumpelstiltskin puzzle (that also depends on a misspelling of the character as Rumplestiltskin). Thankfully, that puzzle was optional at least, unless you wanted to full score.

I can't say that I love or even like any of the King's Quest games, but it's undeniable how important they were for an entire industry, so cheers to that!
I like this prediction. Apple Maps version 1 was a huge flop and Siri’s capabilities have been quite conservative despite their investment, and despite Apple getting caught recording users to try to improve it.

It makes a lot of sense for Apple to deploy hardware and small on-device LLMs as extremely overpowered “routing” modules that do basic things locally and then farm out other things to a cloud partner.

This also fits in well with OpenAI allegedly launching some sort of assistant Monday, so then Apple can point to it if it does well (and integrate it) or at the last minute fall back to Google if OpenAI flops.

I wonder if Tim Apple models the Google search deal ending in the next 2-3years, and if there’s a contingency in case chat-based interfaces flop. Given how the car got canned, it would be surprising to see Apple try to make their own GPT-5 / search engine, so the 5-7 year plan must be to remain largely dependent on Google and Microsoft (and to keep Facebook out of the party).
Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data
so why not just pipeline sql n' everything inside h2? Or else you have to deal with shit like

> Essential for the architecture is the conceptual split between data retrieval via HTTP GET and data-modifying requests which use the HTTP-verbs POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE

The whole argument from OP's article is about the god damn HTTP verbs, I totally blame REST on this.

Just use the CONNECT or PROXY verb for the sake of it and move on.
I guess it can use the time delay between two different microphones to figure out the direction.

And I guess if it can’t be sure it won’t ticket.
Thats why i use none of them. I only use Firefox and Chromium not even chrome.
PureScript also has them (as a library).
Geomagnetically Induced Currents (Wikipedia)
The mechanism of GIC which is the main risk for terrestrial equipment in geomagnetic storms is quite interesting.
? Just put on some sweaters?
DIY YouTuber Builds His Own 256-Core RISC-V Megacluster at 14.7 GHz 1-Core Freq
This function D on the integers might be interesting, but why call it a derivative? I can’t see much conceptual similarity with calculus derivatives.
Not if you want to actually execute the state of a human brain in a digital simulation to see how it works and whether it still displays certain abilities such as comprehension and consciousness. Otherwise a digital scan of a brain is just a glorified microscope.
9 hours later and we saw similar sights in the Pacific Northwest in the US! Pretty awesome.
At first I thought it should be the other way around. Keep the current keepassxc package and create a keepassxc-minimal. But seeing the build options it makes sense to have a keepassxc-full.

Only thing is this will annoy some people when they upgrade. But only when this reaches stable and then there will be notice in the upgrade documentation and apt-listchangea.
Linde has been storing hydrogen under ground for a long time now [1], but you can store and transport it everywhere you can store and transport methane if you’re willing to lose a few percent per month. It’s simply another cost factor.
And it’s not surprising that we don’t have a lot of electrolysis capacity given the economics I pointed out above.

[1] https://www.linde.com/clean-energy/our-h2-technology/hydroge...
Stockholm Sweden at ~4am https://x.com/aimkilian/status/1789188389108933097?s=46&t=Md...
It also suggests your queries are not complex enough.

From my experience the read APIs are quite complex, the write APIs can be separated into different APIs.
Wow. I agree, people would sign on for an old version of Google in a second.

I suppose there is no external access to any legacy Google code to make this A/B test. But it would be wonderful!
Also good at response. Ozone situation was fixed and now we actually track the asteroids.
I couldn't figure it out. I mean, could you have a go at it? Like I want each of the 4 edges to be parameterizable (by a CSS var) so I can add a slider to adjust how long the circle stays in each of the states.

I'm thinking of a customizable CSS version of: https://quietkit.com/box-breathing/
"This goulash is inedible!"

"Ah, comrade, you are just not eating enough!"
car manufacturers have been sitting too conformably for too long, I remember the $1000 option for bluetooth. What EV does to the market is going to be very good, it will push manufacturers to improve their product, and have better value. I have seen this in Chinese domestic market. How can a car in 202X designed so badly and does not have a place for a phone holder? And the design is so had you can't find a good way to install one. They will need to work hard or get out-competed.
Those are NOT open source licenses. Stop calling them that and we'll have fewer people like the op confused.
So the Debian maintainer complains about the upstream project (which they decided to maintain the package for) bringing "crap" and having "utterly misguided" development? And somehow people say that this is the reasonable person here, basing a major change of a software's featureset on such an opinion?

Independent from whether the original change is good or bad, so much of what's wrong with Open Source is people trying to work against each other instead of together...
Can't believe I slept through this.
I had assumed it was because, being a pirate, you were more likely to have had one of your eyes poked out during some sort of mêlée.

But that’s much more interesting…
Which is itself a relatively recent standardisation. Up to the '70's, a billion could beat thousand million or million million depending on where you were.
get ready for dead links...which I guess is one of the things.
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_derivative
I'm just reading about it now, but I think because the derivative power rule holds for it, and you can do partial derivatives based on primes. The linked wikipedia article covers it well in Elementary properties.