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Our house has a commercial style HVAC system. The controllers for everything (relays) are very simple. The run on a protocol called BACNet that is unauthenticated and pretty straightforward.

I was able to read in all the data points and then use the weather forecast and a few other data points to make changes to my HVAC system. The comfort different has been very drastic. Our house doesn't overheat on hot days and doesn't get cold fast when the temperature drops. (I am in the Northeast where there are big swings).

I rolled my eyes when I saw your comment, then I watched the video. The lips and cheeks are distinctly botox'd.

It is worth noting that it is trivial to buy fake stars for a project you are not affiliated with. The reason someone might do this would be to "test" the purchasing of fake stars without risking contaminating their own project.

I think the most interesting thing would be to run this test against the list of Launch HNs, sorted by votes, grouped by class.

FWIW a smug doctor usually corrects people that they are a Physician.

David Sacks wants to run for President. He watched Trump's election closely. He wants to be the smart guy that uses the idiot's playbook. He is working hard to get placed on as much media as possible as a commentator. He is connected to many of the richest and most powerful people in the country.

He is, at the end of the day, a bored billionaire with some very pedestrian ideas. He does go to great effort to shout them louder. He does seem to have some serious ego issues, but I guess what politician doesn't?

I think the hilarity of Calacanis literally tweeting his own similar ideas is that it was a transparent attempt to be louder. ie: he just didn't feel heard about his ideas, so they needed amplification.

One I saw recently was "With developer signups from the world’s leading brands" and then a wall of logos under it. Felt like a stretch to use a company's logo when all that happened was someone downloaded your open source code.

I have a friend who is going through something eerily similar. To be honest I had to do a double take because a fossil fixation was a part of their breakdown too.

It sounds like you are aware of the impact it had on your family, I would just encourage you to very actively try to demonstrate to them that you understand it and want to make sure their life improves as yours does.

In my friend's case, I think pride has kept them from fully acknowledging just how shitty they made the lives of those around them. Everyone stuck by them because we love them. Their spouse in particular feels like they put up with hell and now that the person is healthy again they don't want to spend time making up for "the past".

It's not easy, but if you have the capacity for it, I encourage it.

Other than that, congratulations on getting through and getting back. A lot of folks come out of a break like that and do not reenter work or past hobbies in any meaningful way.

I do this so often now it's embarrassing. I have always had a problem with tone. Even on email where people don't expect much tone, I manage to come off as an asshole. Now I just write out my points and ask Chat GPT to rewrite it based on whatever criteria I think the receiver would prefer. I get responses in a fraction of the time I used to get them in.

I would love to hear the inside story about why the old one was discontinued and it took so long for the v2.

The HomePod mini is the "first device" we have given to our children. No screen, I am comfortable with apple privacy, access to music and podcasts, etc.

The mini has shockingly good sound for $100 and what it is.

Agree, ducts are wonderful! If you don't have ducts, go ductless for sure.

My question is a bit of a non sequitur, but I noticed that your project took off pretty quickly out of the gate. Congrats!

I am curious what non-HN places have resulted in that level of interest in the project?

This is a society set up for this sort of thing. You are physically isolated both at the home level and the community level. There is nobody you can run to. It is a physical taking of your passport. Your desire to get it back or any words you might have in you don't change the fact that your passport is gone and you are isolated.

There is a "breaking" period for most of these workers where they are demoralized as well.

She cannot get her old passport. If her "employers" know she is leaving, they will stop it.

I won't post about how we plan to get her out but I believe it is a good one and it has very littler risk to her or their brother. Perhaps when it is all done will feel ok posting more.

It is costing us a lot of money in the end, but the woman we employ is part of the family at this point and it's important to us that her sister is safe. We will employ the sister on her landing in our country and will do so for at least a year.

We have a Filipino woman who works for us. She has been a citizen here for 25 years and has worked for us for 12. Her sister went to Qatar 15 years ago and has been miserable. We have just finished preparing a sponsorship for her in our country and now need to extract her.

It involves having a replacement passport printed for her in the Philippines, her brother flying to Qatar under his Canadian passport and then bussing her to a neighbouring country to fly out of.

It seems like people like your content. Don't stain your rep in the community just because you want the next hit. You've had to post apologies like this before as well, so they do wear thin.

Best of luck.

The guidelines [1] state:

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions. Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting—not for promotion.

(They solicit upvotes in their slack/twitter/etc)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

re: posting to github blog. It is simply to get additional stars on the repo.

It's smart if you can pull it off, but it does get a bit weird on news.yc where you expect to be going to a repo when you see github links.

The OP/Author has recycled posts from their corporate blog to their GitHub and then submitted them to YC many times in the last few weeks: For example, this post was submitted by them 2 days ago [1] and is on their blog here [2].

Their submission history shows a this is a pretty regular pattern at this point. [3].

To be honest, they've done a very impressive job of content marketing in this community in the last 6 months. I'm not sure anyone has been able to place more of their own stuff on the front page. From that perspective, they are doing something quite successfully. From the perspective of the community, it might feel like things have been a bit over manipulated at this point. I'm not sure at which point you earn a shadowban for self-promotion, but I have to wonder if it's worth the risk.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34016490

2: https://www.getlago.com/blog/post-mortem-of-our-1st-yc-start...

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=AnhTho_FR

Kraken regularly used shell/cover companies to hire employees. They have a pretty complex web of fronts not-called-Kraken. Entire offices are 'employed' by one of these companies.

Ericsson announced it was going to acquire Vonage for over $6bn in late November, at the peak peak of tech stock multiples. https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2021/11/ericsson-...

You really have to wonder if that deal is going to close with this hullabaloo and the cratering of multiples in the time since.

Has anyone used the parent company's product (RapidAPI)? It seems like a proxy in front of APIs, most of which aren't actually integrated and need to be configured separately. I feel like I am missing something.

I hope Paw doesn't end up as poorly designed as this.

This is unfortunately not much different than MS/Github's treatment of npm. They brought npm in, had lots of conversations, and then released a competing product. In the case of npm, they went on to buy them on the cheap.

There was a lot to be annoyed with npm about, but this isn't the kind of behaviour we should reward.

On my first visit to Seattle, you could ride the bus anywhere downtown for free. It seemed like a great way to provide mobility to those in need, while still having a paid option for those in the outer areas of the city to get home to their suburbs.

The first conversation I had with someone on the bus there was with someone going to an employment counselling office. Not sure why that struck me, but it always stuck with me.

No I see that the free ride zone has been gone since 2012. Too bad!

I'm currently building a brand new house and we've opted to forego most of the current home automation solutions. While they may have ushered in many of the promises of the past, they are locked in and difficult to service. Instead we are installing standard z-wave controllable switches/dimmers and standard programmable locks/thermostats, etc.

In the end if we really want automation we can use HomeKit or Alexa, although inviting Amazon/Alexa in to our home is a bit contentious.

There is a rocky beach near where I live in Halifax Nova Scotia that was once a very large sand beach. It was mostly "taken" for highway and other construction: http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/01/25865/hudak...

"However, from as early as the 1940s, the beach was also the site of commercial resource extraction. Because of this, by 1966, it had ceased to operate as a fully functional recreational site. Rapid and dramatic changes to its geomorphological formation, due to the large-scale removal of its sand and gravel, saw the gradual reduction of Silver Sands’ once ‘silvery’ crest, into a predominantly rocky shoal. Particularly between the latter half of the 1950s and the mid 1960s, but all the way until 1971, its material was being used for various government construction projects around the Halifax Regional Municipality.

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With friends like that, Rahul hardly needs any enemies!

"[..] the goal of making America a better place"

This sucks to see from YC. So many of us around the world look to YC as an accessible version of American prosperity. America is an exclusive and very rich club however.

A bigger impact than improving American government would be: Improving American Democracy. Improving global government.

I know things have changed a lot in America in the last few years, but I didn't realize how pervasive the nationalistic mental model had become.

YC: Do good in the world, please.

I think that at a lower height, a rescue is considered to be easier.

10 ft would still require a safety program, it just wouldn't be fall arrest, more likely prevention (scaffolding)

I am currently building a house, and there are large portions of it that have a >25ft drop from rooftop to the ground below. That means the workers on the roof or upper floor need to wear proper fall protection. Depending on the job that can often by a harness system.

I was surprised that because of the height of the potential fall, we needed a "rescue plan". In other words: arresting the fall is only half the job.

The result was quite a bit of extra expense for us (because of the site conditions, we need to keep a hydraulic lift available), but when I read about how quickly suspension trauma becomes an issue, I could understand why the safety regulations are written as they are.

70 year old otherwise healthy male? I suspect nobody asked you about pulling a plug because nobody thought you should. At least not so quickly.

That's much different from what is described in the article.