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What do you do with your old tech?
I got too much crap, it's not just tech but, the tech is what I'm most conflicted about. My stash includes a Timex Sinclair, a couple of Atari 800s and Mac classics (no keyboards), a ColecoVision and a VIC 20, a Commodore 128 and quite a few Commodore 64s with associated 1541 drives and other supporting pieces/parts as well as numerous beige boxes from 386s on up

I know part of it is sentimental [0] since I ran a BBS or two on the C64s and some of the IBMs. My issue seems to stem from the tech still being operational (especially the Commodores) but not being useful besides a reflection of the past. [1] Its part sunk cost as well

I'm reaching out as a sanity check to see if there any ideas to utilize any of this besides the recycling bin. I do not want to become the Weird Stuff Warehouse [2] for my area but I'd rather not just chucking everything out if there's a better use that I haven't thought of or about

[0] Ask HN: Do you become emotionally attached to your old tech?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14844979

[1} Ask HN: What do you do with old technical books?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14595576

[2] The Weird Stuff Warehouse is where old tech goes to retire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5777858
As a seasoned player of Dota watching the replays, I can see exactly what's going on. There's lots of snowballing/cheese which are the least common denominators of gameplay and least intellectual. Such dynamics would no doubt be dominated by a bot like program which is why they choose them. I could imagine that people who aren't seasoned players are impressed by this but this reads like an average wood league "south" game. People who play Dota will know what I'm referring to in reference to "south". In such games, the strategy is simple : You beat out the brute-force cheese snowballing w/ intellect. However, this is where they no doubt decided to put up the artificial red tape.

You're 100% right and being down voted for it as I no doubt will. I am not impressed because I've played a ton of games and observed a ton of dynamics. You can tell in the first 10min what level and type of game play is occurring and it isn't of the intellectual variant. It's of the bot variant. Broader Dota was designed and constantly updated to combat such gameplay. When people settle on cheese strategies or exploits, they intentionally change the game balance to prevent it.

I'm more interested in how this is achieved than what it has been tuned to try to trick people into believing. Looking under the hood, I see the same thing when I look across all Weak AI solutions : Lots of hand coded steering functions with dynamic weights populated by incredible amounts of brute-force random searching (past a human lifetime of average gameplay).

While this may secure headlines and funding, this is miles away from the real direction you have to go towards Strong AI. It doesn't seem many well funded/popularized groups understand this thus will ultimately end up fooling themselves. Point out this truth and you get down votes. Essentially the broader community plugging their ears which is why a large number of these efforts are due for a significant failure.
> As we are finding out, to reduce immigration absolute numbers requires increasingly inhumane, bureaucratic, arbitrary and impractical processes.

Why does it require any of those things?

Immigration to the UK in 1995 was ~228,000 people. In 2017 it was ~550,000 people.

Immigration to the UK in 1995 was no more inhumane, bureaucratic, or impractical than it was last year.

It would be incredibly easy and practical to go back to 1995 levels. An order of magnitude easier than implementing UBI.
> The reasoning behind Android apps being laden with Windows malware is unclear

My first thought was that it was a clever way to get behind a router/firewall and on to networked computers. Not so mysterious.
Heart attack symptoms differ in men and women. The most common ones in men (chest and left arm pain) are less common in women.

Perhaps female doctors are more likely to be familiar with the symptoms of heart attack in women.

Additionally, I think there's a stereotype of a heart attack being a male affliction (probably because the difference in symptoms led to underdiagnosis in women in the mid-20thC). It's conceivable that male doctors are less likely to consider heart attack as a diagnosis for a woman even when the symptoms are typical of a heart attack?
That's a bizarre conclusion to come to. The real motivation is that if you know apps are reflecting into your internal implementation details, and you want to make a change, you're stuck with a bunch of bad choices.

1. Break the apps.

Users tend to get annoyed when they upgrade the OS and their apps stop working.

2. Maintain a compatibility shim.

Depending on what the change you're making does, this might not even be possible. Assuming that it is possible, how do you know what needs a shim and what behavior is actually expected?

3. Give up and do something else instead.

Things get worse if you consider that OEMs may want to modify implementations as well, so you'll end up with apps that work, except on some devices. There's no sensible way to prevent app breakage when there are apps depending on your internal (and explicitly private) API; the solution is enforcement.
It's a major shipping/transportation hub, with a huge number of spanish-speaking people, so i think cartels have historically found it a useful place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaloa_Cartel#Operations
Looking back on a year and a half of remote work
That's true. A staggering number of them are power delivery to start with - you don't waste anywhere near half the socket by dropping 4 memory controllers (!) but yeah, it's not EPYC.
hmm I have a couple of blind friends, and one was an avid redhat user in the late 90s/early 2000s. I didn't reply to the question because I honestly can't remember, but in the late 90s, at least, dealing with Linux was a lot easier than JAWS on windows.
Can Mycroft’s Privacy-Centric Voice Assistant Take on Alexa and Google?
Then add that many trees again each following year.
I'm currently in a large-ish metropolitan area and my problem is that even after watching 30-31 movies a month, there are still several new releases that I miss. For all of its faults, Moviepass has really opened my eyes to many excellent independent and foreign films.

For those who claim there aren't three films a year that are worth watching, what do you think is a film worth watching? Do you require that everything be a "Citizen Kane" or "2001: A Space Odyssey"?
I am implying that suggesting these days that men are intrinsically better at one profession than women would get someone fired.

> Now try and figure out why. You are already halfway there.

You can keep your condescension for yourself.
"Fewer guns === fewer shootings. Axiomatic."

That's not an axiom.

Left as an exercise: find a subset of guns such that, if they were destroyed, is likely to increase the number of shootings.
I've always found this so odd. Passports are so often stamped on random pages (or not stamped at all) that I wonder how the border guards make heads or tails of them.

But I guess all that matters is that the guards in that country understand their own system.
Please don't post drive-by partisan flamebait here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Lumping part of New Hampshire in with Boston is like lumping Northern Ireland in with London. One side considers it a horrible insult and the other doesn't see why you wouldn't want to be associated with them.

For those reading who are not from the area, this is fun to imagine but not actually true.

The tension between Northern and Southern New England is less serious even than the Boston/New York "rivalry" which is notional and mostly confined to sports.
The official syntax in the spec describes "Extended Mnemonics" including the sane bc aliases.
That is false. Historically this was not the reason, this is now the new claim they make but it was never the specific intent.
I agree with what you are saying, except for perhaps the first line. What I mean is - I would posit that if you aren't privileged, you have almost _more_ incentive to slip out of society and into the middle of nowhere. There is cheap real estate in this country - just not on either coast. There is a cash-driven, barter-heavy economy out there for people who are willing to do ugly, dirty, time-consuming job in places far from the cities. Not an easy life, but perhaps comparatively less stressful or costly than one involving a multi-hour commute in order to work a minimum wage job in an expensive urban area.

My then 96-year old grandmother put it best: Your generation has a lot more money than my generation, but you have more stress and will never know many of the simply pleasures my generation experienced. Yes, perhaps it is a privileged mindset, but I find myself wondering if/when "Average Joe/Jane" type people are going to decide to get off the roller coaster and seek a different path than the traditional one society / media / politicians / etc push, in their interest.
Lots of people have biases that they don't realize can impact the quality of their interactions. There's a frequent issue where people who speak English as their second language are more likely to be perceived as less intelligent. Certain thick regional accents also can cause that issue.

Part of the educational process for all professionals, especially doctors, includes learning to monitor for potential prejudices like that and taking steps to ensure it does not impact your ability to deliver high quality care (ie, ask more questions or have a colleague review your work if you are unsure).

I'm not tar and feathering people. But when women in our society are constantly saying "Some men don't take me as seriously as my male counterparts despite my equal (or superior) credentials" then maybe there is some truth to that which can bleed over professional interactions in hospitals as well? I've experienced it first hand myself professionally (never been to the ER) only a handful of times, but I don't think it's the norm, and I don't go into professional situations with men assuming it will happen. Still, when it happens, it sucks and I wish other men would talk to those guys and tell them why it sucks so those guys will do better.

We've gone a long way towards making sexism less of a problem for everyday women. Just because there are a few examples of it that have slipped by doesn't mean we give up. We just know more of what to watch out for.
I've found that when you see business plans that focus on buying at $1 and selling at $.50, the real plan is getting people within a subset. Once they have critical mass, they are a prime target to be bought

It's obvious that they're losing money hand over fist - it doesn't take a economist to understand that $10 is less than 1 ticket... or in bulk.

It would seem their only 2 major options (and 1 prayer) is to raise prices/lower service, go bankrupt, or hope and pray that someone in media will just buy them.

The crowd that is paying are dedicated movie-goers that are willing to pay money ahead of time. It really now matters how much this list/group is believed to be.
At 1000 trees per year per person, that's a lot of building per person.
Finally, a dark theme.
Thanks for posting, some quick feedback:

The link to https://docs.inscryb.com/editor/markdown-guide is broken.

I clicked on all links on the page, multiple times, before I found out how to publish something (it's in your profile).

When I tried to sign in on another language's page, I got an error message like "key not found" or something. Could maybe be more clear.

Is it a conscious decision to require separate accounts for different languages?
Depends on where you are. Alamo Drafthouse usually has classics (popular and cult) as well as indie films.
I have done a lot of biking and saw this article a while back. It makes me look closely at every depiction of a bike I see. We have some pillows with bikes on them. I look close and notice the chainring is MONSTER huge, like a 60T. Whoever rides the bike on those pillows is not to be messed with.
> It is war.

This brings to mind the war on drugs, war on terror, etc. Typically war is used when we are meant to take sides in support of drastic action without too much thought getting in the way.

> He and his ilk are about weaponizing the norms of society to destroy society.

I'm honestly not sure from this comment if you are deliberately trolling/baiting or if you just feel a tremendous amount of righteous indignation and emotion about Alex Jones.

In my view, if we start to assume that all content on the internet has somehow been vetted by responsible elders who know what's best for us, we lose the (essential) ability to filter out the garbage for ourselves.

In today's world, people seem to flock toward authority figures of all kinds and wish to wield authority against others (by suppressing their speech, etc.). So your comment strikes me as an appeal to authoritarianism and a call to authoritarian action to crack down on morally objectionable content.

Some people think that a picture of two men holding hands is morally objectionable content, and they seek authority to make their view dominate the public discourse. How is your goal different from theirs other than in the small detail of which content is objectionable?
This is just saying oil and ags gives lots of money to Republicans which I don't think is a surprise to anyone especially because Republicans tend to not only bw climate change deniers but are also anti-environmentalism, which oil and gas still very much funds.
Indeed. And to explain further: not all hero combinations are equal. Meaning: you cannot select any arbitrary set of 5 heroes and expect them to perform well. Different heroes have different strengths and synergies that make them stronger or weaker depending on the specific teammates and opponents that are present. This is why drafting is considered such an important (and difficult) portion of the game. In match 3, a purposefully-bad team was selected. It would have been VERY impressive if it was able to win.
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That's great but it doesn't answer the question. Investment is not income.
This entire thread is talking about different ways of producing energy. I think using less energy could have an even higher impact. We'd be poorer as a result, but it's technically easiest to implement.
As much as people like to talk about how P values are not useful and debate what values we should use, I don't think there's an especially compelling reason to choose confidence intervals over P values, or complain that one is appropriate and the other is not. They both measure the relationship between statistical likelihood and parameter values. P values fix the parameter values and measure the statistical likelihood, confidence intervals fix the statistical likelihood and measure the parameter values. So if you ask for confidence intervals and they give you a P-value, well you have a confidence interval it just won't be a nice round number like 95% or 99%.

It's kind of like complaining that you ordered 1 kg of water but were delivered 1 l, and insisting that everyone measure water by weight rather than volume. Don't read too much into that analogy, but the relationship between P values and confidence intervals is of a broadly similar nature.
I spoke to a doctor about publishing statistics and the major concern with him and his peers was exactly what you mentioned. Riskier cases will make your statistics drop, but the more experienced doctors would almost always get the most difficult cases.
Probably not directly, but I can't imagine what purpose this would be except to sell ads. That's what Facebook's business is all about.

I wouldn't be surprised if they were trying to run some sort of regression of behavior against bank balance and debt load. So sure, they're not using your bank account for ads, just a proxy of your bank account for ads.

Finding proxies for income is decades old (zip code and magazine subscriptions being the classic example), but I'm not aware of anyone doing at this scale and with direct input from banks as opposed to volunteered information.
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Why? I’ve paid for computer equipment and plane tickets using cryptocurrency several times. Just scan a QR code and press send.
Another possibility is that women are socialized to move more "gracefully" (i.e. less suddenly) than men; and their body language is thus less threatening to animals.
> I think Boston is often taken to be a very large geographic area.

Indeed. This is the Boston—Cambridge—Newton Metropolitan Statistical Area: http://zaidan-x.org:8192/highlight/cbsa/14460/states/countie...

Or if you prefer a more fine-grained approach, the Boston—Cambridge—Nashua Metropolitan NECTA: http://zaidan-x.org:8192/highlight/necta/71650/states/subdiv...

Either way you cut it, both are huge. And the CSA/CNECTA is even bigger (the CNECTA in particular is one of only two OMB-defined regions in the US that span five states or state-equivalents, the other being DC's CSA).

(edit: I do apologize for the HTTP links. I've been meaning to set up Let's Encrypt for a while, but I haven't gotten around to it)
It seems likely that actual pros instead of a mismash of commentators and community stars would be able to win game 2 even with the draft favoring the AI.
This link displays it best:

https://www.techradar.com/news/android-p-only-has-space-for-...

In short there is a 4 notification icon limit now with the clock on the left, whether you have a notch or not. I often have a lot more than 4 notification icons up (esp since a couple are permanent from background apps) and the rest will just disappear under a dot-dot icon.
In middle school in South Carolina, a public, accredited, full-time teacher saw me reading Harry Potter, walked up, and said "You know that book was written by Satan, right?"

Written by Satan. Not, like, "that book has satanic values" or "was written by a satanist" or "has evil themes," it was literally written by satan.

It's no wonder I was such a shithead little anarcho-atheist growing up.
Because then suddenly you start getting bug reports about your multi million dollar fps not working well over someone else's streaming service/scheme. Not to mention how this fucks up anticheat detection..
> Look out of your window at a tree ...

> Even the drawings in the linked article with their horribly mangled geometry are immediately recognisable as a bicycle. It's not a difficult thing to draw, relatively speaking.

I guess, the point is that a bike is easier to draw that natural objects.

I bet if people had been asked to draw a tree, 100% of the pictures would be recognisable as proper tree. Conversion from reality to visual representation is not only a function of object complexity it is much more complex (pun intended).
> Mastering draftsmanship requires a lifetime of practice

Draftsmanship is quickly learned by young people. I sat next to a 20 year old at Boeing who was very competent at making engineering drawings (and Boeing had high standards - they didn't want any ambiguity for obvious reasons). Though perhaps you mean something else by draftsmanship.
That is the Defender real time protection, loves to hog enormous amounts of CPU during any file I/O, you can disable it temporarily but it very aggressively nags you about it. However it does let you exclude specific folders and will not prevent you from doing things like excluding your entire home folder or even C:\.
Your IP address is unlikely to change that often. My personal experience with Verizon, Spectrum, and Comcast is that it never changes. They're free to do so, and if you completely disconnect for a few days, you'll probably lose your DHCP lease, but I've never seen it happen. Of course it can, but it's not that big a deal in reality. Use a dynamic DNS server and you'll never have to worry about it.
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I am willing to bet that both DNA computing and DNA manufacturing (organically 3D print things, but like how organisms grow) will be yuuuuuuge.

Not sure when it will have its internet moment, but the universe has been doing this for a long time and once we unlock its secrets, we become a wee-bit closer to Gods.
Happy Donuts in Palo Alto and Safeway in Menlo Park and Mountain View on El Camino have a similar phenomenon but it’s usually only students whom have a place but sleep while studying.

There are many more homeless people whom have no options for housing or refused Section 8, and so seek shelter during heat of summer days or less frequent cold winter nights.

There must a nonzero fraction of thousands whom consciously choose to be leather tramps and live rough... not all homeless people are in unfortunate circumstances, crazy, on drugs, criminals, peter pan’s or defective. You’re reading from a rubber tramp right now. :)
If you believe that a company whose whole purpose is to use data on you to sell ads won't use data on you that it collects to sell ads then I have a bridge to sell you.

Funny that people complained so much about GDPR being bad for business and then get upset when things like this happen. It's almost like the two are related or something...
What Caused the Massive Magnitude-7 Indonesian Earthquake?
Things are looking up for New England's rising star!
I'd much, much rather they all go out of business than buy my health data because they think they can make a buck off it, thanks. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17700500
And if you go by the NECTA definition instead of the CBSA, Nashua is part of the Metropolitan NECTA which is a much tighter definition than a Combined NECTA/SA.

http://zaidan-x.org:8192/necta/71650

(edit: I do apologize for the HTTP link. I've been meaning to set up Let's Encrypt for a while, but I haven't gotten around to it)
RTT does sound really cool. Their application in a mall is definitely interesting. I wonder how well it works with multi-floor though. And how accurate it can be.

Meraki's control software is sort of able to triangulate a device, but because how spotty WiFi can be sometimes, it's absolutely not perfect.
Actually once you know the circle's position (this needs to be accurate) and approximate size you can convert it into log-polar coordinates and then apply phase correlation [1] to a known "template" to determine the rotation angle very accurately.

I'm not sure what would be the best pattern for this, but I might actually try implementing a prototype.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_correlation
I think you should judge it as what it is. A tiny write up of an idea where each answer needs a lot of work to be implemented fully.

I don't know if advertising is the culprit for the bad aspects of the internet, but I agree that creators/companies don't put any effort into alternative revenue streams. Not only that, but consumers have been trained to expect free content at the expense of ads. Yes, consumers are becoming more and more aware of the privacy-for-service trade they've implicitly agreed to. But I think it'll take years (if not decades) to reverse the "free content/service" mentality but also to have any other revenue stream rival "slapping on ads and calling it a day".

Subscriptions aren't the solution either, with more and more people experience subscription fatigue.

Maybe there isn't some Ultimate Monetization Method™ for internet services and content, but at the very least I'd like to see less defaulting to advertising.
Coming to my Nexus 4 soon? ;)

It always feels like the goal here is to get people to buy new phones. I wonder what % of phones running the previous OS will be upgradable.
Also if there was no wiggle room here, then any app that downloads and displays webpage content would be in violation due to embedded javascript.
Remote talent pours those same resources into another location to its benefit. Which is fine for the other countries; not so good for the US's position as a tech hotspot.