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I don't like the idea of home automation and these complex, all-in-one systems in general. They are just bound to fail. And not even in some spectacular fashion, they will just be a grind to use with this or that piece not working correctly, requiring fiddling, etc.

Like my rather pricey, fully automatic Nivona coffee machine which has a really hard time beating a manual coffee grinder and a French press since they don't require descaling, special cleaning tablets, or adjusting the tray sensor to notice that the tray is back in.

Or like these home audio solutions where the sound is following you around the house in whatever configuration you want but have a hard time beating a simple bluetooth adapter connected to an old hifi.

Both at 1/50th of the price.

What works and what I would like however are some simple technological improvements to existing solutions. For example, being able to check if I closed and locked the door behind me. More like that bluetooth adapter than a complex integrated solution.

Also, it really doesn't need to relay my conversations to the cloud. What a terrible trade-off for a silly gimmick.
Delay a bit too strong to be useful. Some quantized or delayed loopy thing might do the trick.
the internet connectivity requirement is silly, especially if you want to build a long term system.

This guy has a great youtube channel[1] which documents how he builds his home automation system (in house). Would highly recommend watching his videos.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUEKr_48EfQ&list=PL8mjSseObL...
Skype seems to have recently lost the ability to have a text chat window open during a voice call. It doesn't do notifications on the icon in the task bar anymore, either. Sigh.
voice commands are essential for them to spy on everything you say
I don't know why this doesn't get brought up in every one of these conversations.

As someone who was recently a teenager, if school started an hour later, I would have stayed up another hour. Most of my friends were the same way.

One of the things people seem to miss is late nights are generally when teenagers have the most freedom. With your parents asleep no one is awake to bother you.
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That's one thing I think is missing from the immigration debate. If we're worried about immigrants driving down wages it'd, perhaps somewhat counter-intuitively, make a lot of sense to make it easier for people on work visas to leave their jobs without losing status. Instead we see people going after family visas. The rhetoric doesn't match the policy (well, some of the rhetoric comes from an uglier place and does match the policy, but I mean the stuff about jobs).
If it were true, we would all be writing in c++ and there would never be a Stack overflow or Null pointer exception. But thats isnt true.
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This is exactly how Islamic burial works.
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I maintain that alcohol-free beer is one of the best post-workout drinks available. As I see it, the proper place of alcohol-free beer is not as a replacement for regular beer, but as a replacement for energy drinks and sodas.
Monit is a gem that doesn't get enough attention. The developers also have a web app you can easily install to aggregate a bunch of monit instances with a nice web interface, alerting, and historical statistics. Absolutely the best value in systems monitoring for small-to-medium environments. https://mmonit.com
I've been monitoring my energy consumption, extending my existing doorbell to an upstairs stereo, automatically turning lights on in different modes as I walk around at different times of day, playing a beautiful loon call as the sun sets, securing my home while I'm away (it auto-arms when my phone disconnects from the router and disarms when it returns), turning on a/c when I begin my commute home, reminding me it's garbage day, etc. All locally running on an open source platform with remote access over OpenVPN. This is the wonder of Home Assistant.

It's mostly just for fun but you can easily see it becoming very practical. My security system is legit; it emails snapshots from cameras to a special account that triggers a urgent notification on my phone while turning on a loud siren in the home and all the lights. I did a funhouse mode that played static on the tv and monster/police/machine gun noises on the stereo while chaotically blinking all the lights... it actually scared even me a little.
It is dangerous when your set of beliefs are held as above reproach such that any criticism of them is considered insulting. These are defense mechanisms that act to insulate ideas from scrutiny, and they're used to keep people indoctrinated into whatever their group's ideology happens to be.

If you can't handle your beliefs being questioned or called out as irrational without resorting to feeling personally attacked and calling for apologies, then you're not yet prepared to have an honest conversation about whether you're justified in having those beliefs.
The problem is the physical connectivity across borders and oceans. Undersea cables are expensive, ground cables not so much but still vulnerable to border patrols, and wireless broadcasts can be picked up by anyone with the right sized antenna - the only realistic possibility I think would be point to point microwave/laser for backbone stuff, and I'm not sure how cheap that could be made or if crossing the Pacific/Atlantic is feasible.

Another possibility I think might be an implementation of the Iridium satellite system but on an open, consumer/hobbyist level (CubeSats maybe?) where anyone with the spec and access to common parts can build a satellite receiver/transmitter - but then how do we get them into space without a gov/corp noticing?

A truly independent, physical network is critical but I can't see how to practically implement it in the areas where it would be most needed...except on a local level. Which, to be fair, may be all that's needed for that area. I doubt revolutionaries/activists are too concerned about accessing American cat videos, but communication to outside supporters would be important I would think.

Most of the crypto enthusiasts I've met seem to forget how expensive the international infrastructure is and how easy it is for a central org to break it completely if they really want.
I used to believe like you do. What I believed to be my natural schedule--what I naturally gravitated to--was the nite-owl 1am to between 9-10am or so sleep schedule. In school, I always felt sleep deprived when I had to wake up around 6.

But I recently spent the better part of five months going to bed at 9:30pm and waking up at 4:30am. Despite getting less sleep overall, I've never felt as well rested or alert throughout the day as I did during those five months and I've never had an easier time getting to sleep. The key, for me, was also modifying my eating schedule and screen usage (computer, phone, TV). I often wonder how many people who simply accept that they're naturally nite owls are using blue-light-emitting screens late into the night and eating their last meal of the day so late that their body isn't ready for sleep. Because I know that once I adjusted those aspects of my life, my sleep schedule magically responded.

The difficulty in maintaining that schedule has been societal pressures. Those five months were spent living outside of a city where noise, light and social norms around dinner time all make it very difficult to maintain while having any sort of social life. I'm still searching for a way to reconcile my sleep schedule with my intended lifestyle.
More evidence that integration and centralization create better experiences for developers and consumers. Amazon is very successful in this area, and one of the few companies with the resources to offer this level of integration and centralization.

It’s a no-brainer for IoT companies to integrate with Alexa at this point. The problem is that nobody in the IoT industry seems to care about security, and Amazon does not seem to care about privacy.
This seems very familiar to me as a former resident of Cloyne Court Hotel, the largest and most radical of Berkeley Student Cooperative's houses. It was shut down in 2014 after the settlement of a civil lawsuit about an overdose that took place four years prior. Just like Senior House it was a "a proudly anarchic community of creative misfits and self-described outcasts" and just like Senior House it was shut down for sticking out.

http://www.dailycal.org/2014/03/14/co-op-board-votes-convert...
I've been wondering for a while now, seeing constant asks for charity to Appalachia, if they could just get more remote work there.
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I mean a bit more concise than that.

To catch and rethrow an exception you still need a try and a block, and you probably add a level of indent.

Compare Rust, where you can generally spell "I'm sufficiently confident that this won't happen that I'm happy to abort if it does" as « .unwrap() ». (That's not a great word for this idea, but it is at least short.)
I think it's an American problem of treating 18 year olds like 14-16 year olds. Same goes for drinking. Why can't we trust (young) adults like other countries do?
I think that would only help when the problem is that your application is using too much memory in the first place, in which case the real solution is to fix your app so you're not leaking memory. But it looks like what's happening here is that something else on the system uses enough memory to trip the OOM killer, which case a preemptive restart won't really help.
Why would you assume it would be inaccessible to the user? I'd expect a key management interface at least. I guess I did say "not extractable", but I meant more that random apps don't have access to it directly, but they call an api to do the signing.

> the app itself could take a deepfake video and have the OS sign it

Note how I said "it asks the user via the OS to approve the result". I would expect a modal OS dialog to let the user review and approve the content before being signed and passed back to the app.

Thinking about it, there's actually nothing stopping this from happening on today's hardware using just application sandboxing. Substitute "OS" above with "Signing App" that does the same thing (accepts media signature requests from other apps, and opens dialog to request approval from user with a preview).
There's a pretty wide range of sensitivity. I'm also a VR developer and relatively insensitive to nausea (I was happily playing unreal tournament on the DK2 which made other people want to vomit pretty quickly). I almost never experience any nausea these days, even after extended sessions in games with a lot of motion. I hate anything without 6 dof tracking though, not because it makes me sick but because it completely lacks immersion.

I've never heard anyone bring up lighting as a factor in nausea before. There's certainly a lot of room for improvement for visual quality but it's not something I've heard anyone discuss as a factor in simulator sickness before. What do you think might be going on there?
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I believe TEM has better resolution
The question appeared to be simply how one might obtain such an address.
once upon a time, on a site called slashdot, there was a meme (not sure if it was called that back then) about our robotic overlords. i've suddelny realized how close to home it's now hitting and am very nervous about the future.
holy crap how did i forget my G1 didnt have a headphone jack? i used to know EVERYTHING about that thing
Absolutely. One can imagine a more level playing field when things like attractive websites, SEO, and efficient internal data management are more available to small businesses.
On the contrary, it's possible that transcendent experiences are built into the human psyche, and that schizophrenia-like disorders are examples of the extreme end of suggestibility and ruminative thought -- i.e., an inability to properly interface with subconscious processes.

The brain is a storyteller for the conscious experience, and yet the deeper that rabbit hole goes into creativity and analysis, the more discipline is necessary to turn away from it and delegate to the unconscious.
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The only reason I said flagships is that it took awhile for the cameras (both still and video) to really replicate what could be had as a stand alone.
primitive.io is an IDE designed for VR
They didn't address the biggest "pain point" of "smart homes" aka home automation or domotics.

The biggest issue is the lack of a universal standard. A home is not a smartphone you can replace every 2 years. Things are measured in decades, and changes may require expensive and time consuming work in addition to the cost of the product itself.

I looked into home automation when I had to work on an old house. I looked into KNX, which seemed to be a good standard: adopted by several manufacturers, robust, etc... The biggest problem, beside the price, is that I can't buy the hardware I want (ex: A/C unit) and expect it to connect to my network. Most of them don't have any smart feature, and those that do are restricted to a single system that even if it lasts may not be what will be popular 5 years from now.

In home building, almost everything is standardized. Power plugs, dimensions of appliances, pipe fittings, etc... Smart home won't take off unless it is the case too. Any yet, maybe because it looks like the next big thing, companies try to lock down the market instead of first working together. The worst part is that the "smart home" is not a new thing at all. We had most of the technology decades ago, it never took of for that reason, and it seems like all we can do is repeat the same mistake.

Cloud and AI are new but it doesn't change the deal at all. If you can't get appliances to talk the same language, it isn't going to work. As for the incentive for the companies involved, getting your money or getting your data is essentially the same thing.
The environment kept changing too. Even if an organism evolved to a local maxima where it was the master of it's domain, the climate or geography could change. Or a giant meteor could fall on it's head. At that point, the maximas change.
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"Improved engagement" in corporate training materials? I fear that's a concept that only exists in the sales literature of training materials creators.
The GPL doesn't work like that. You can't withdraw the license from code you've already shared.
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It seems more like a defect in attention, but not a deficit; it’s an overabundance of attention to irrelevant details that the brain ascribes significant meaning to. The reason I have this hypothesis is that ADHD patients tend to have lower concentration of dopamine, whereas schizophrenics have a higher concentration than normal.

An example would be ascribing significant meaning to an event that is random. But for the schizophrenic the event isn’t random, it’s the result of a persecutory delusion, at least in the paranoid variant. It looks very close to religious thinking, but in a negative way: “The dry cleaners I go to are secretly a front for a shady government organization that is attempting to study my every action”
And so far, not a single comment in this discussion is concerned with the actual topic of the article, fiine-tuning and naturalness.
They do. Or at least, they did. Well, sort-of, in the sense that it was still Linux. The e-ink kindles - at least the first several generations, I have no idea about the recent ones - were a pretty vanilla Linux with a java userspace managing the UI - but NOT android. The original Echo seems to use a version of the e-ink Kindle's OS, while newer Echos use FireOS aka Amazon's android fork.

Amazon really tried to make FireOS work as a google-free mobile OS, but just never got the volume. Ok, I guess they still sell those $50 tablets or whatever, but millions of Firedroid devices is still a rounding error compared to billions of Google Playdroid devices, or even hundreds of millions of Baidroid devices. Network effects dominate - even Apple has a hard time with maps for exactly this reason.
Sounds like there's a niche I'd dearly love someone to find and exploit.

X10 still exists, and modules are still sold (for about a tenth of the cost of KNX modules from a quick search), but it's an ancient standard and very limited compared to what we might now expect. On, off and dimming are about the extent of its abilities.
Good riddance to those who go away.
As a data point, our enterprise / healthcare customers (not particularly technical and not generally gamers or previous VR users) don't bring up nausea as an issue despite or training experiences lasting 15-20 minutes at times.
This has the seeds of a good thread.
The Shockwave Rider is part of a sort-of-series of near-future novels by John Brunner. The others are Stand on Zanzibar (overpopulation), The Sheep Look Up (ecological catastrophe) and The Jagged Orbit (interracial violence).
I feel like Google Assistant has also gotten worse lately. I used to tell it to "navigate to the library" and it would handle it just fine. Now it asks "which 'the'?" like an idiot.
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I have a PhD, though it isn't in neurology. Speculations don't become any more plausible just because the person making the speculation has a PhD.
I'd never allow the internet to turn on my oven.
You say that you had to spend a great amount of effort yourself.

Does that mean you somehow got access to various diagnostic tests (blood tests, CT/MRI scans, etc.)?

I'm ok with modern medicine as far as treatment goes. However, the fact that diagnostics are not commercially available is somewhat maddening. I understand that it's not for everyone, but that doesn't change my point.
Power is somewhat diffuse. Ultimately, there are channels for real power. It's a corporation with a small number of officers with signing authority. Ultimately they, in a very real sense, own and control the Institute.

The Institute owns the computers your data lives on. The Institute owns and has keys to the rooms where those servers live. The Institute believes it owns the data too.

What force do you think is needed?

Power at that level is rarely exerted at levels visible to a student or employee -- but it happens. I can't comment on your medical data, but most places, there are discreet channels for what the Institute considered to be more serious issues.
aaah, ok now my veil before my eyes is clearing up.

So like in: I change a small thing in ansible, perhaps even in an unrelated role, and then check if all is still as I expect it?
I thought to an extent they had routed around that issue by producing a lot of MMO products. You can copy the binary; you could even set up a private server, but you can't fake the community.

I think there's an interesting survey to be done of how economic factors affect game design. We have the famous example of how F2P took off because some countries didn't have the credit-card penetration to do monthly subscriptions, but I wonder if you saw, for example, C64 games being designed differently in countries where floppy drive takeup was low, or online games clustering in different genres depending on the available internet speeds.
> I really feel that the smart home experience vis-a-vis Alexa is getting worse.

To add a counter point, a week ago my 7 year old daughter had a great time asking one for various types of joke (“Alexa, tell me a bird joke”) at a pace only a primary school child can. It worked really well.

> I’m tired of expensive devices getting worse with every single software update.

Replying to you from an iPhone 8 that reloads the page 9 times before I’m allowed to see it, crashes every 10 minutes and has deleted all my photo albums. Yay iOS 12.
I can recommend you to use something like https://docuapi.com/ for Hugo (golang-based static site generator).

If you fell in love with NodeJS and something like Vue, I'll recommend to use VuePress. Very impressive and fast.

Both of these is easy to use. All you need to setup is CI config and deploy static documentation anywhere you want.
Presumably attendees from Calais or Paris experienced slightly less culture shock.
"But I must caution the results are preliminary and need to be replicated and affirmed in further experiments."
A fork of Android would probably be most successful in China where they don't rely on Google apps and services. I don't think there's much of a market for Android without Google outside of China.

I'm curious how long Google!Android will be supported once Fuschia launches. Maybe 2-3 years, and it depends on how many existing Android devices can move to Fuschia.
It is fascinating that octopus response to the drug is similar even though their nervous system is very different.
Agreed. Also, what exact architecture were they using, how were they segmenting, etc. This feels like a rehashing of known challenges using a random implementation struggle to make some broad "AI" judgement.
You're kidding yourself if you don't think Amazon is selling that data: "The Amazon Advertising Platform allows advertisers to efficiently reach Amazon shoppers on Amazon sites, across the web, and in mobile apps."

https://advertising.amazon.com/ad-specs/en/aap

Also not for nothing but this is the same kind of thing we all said with Google early on and now we're all beginning to pull back on it.
OK This has become a big feud, apologies for choosing the incorrect words and being rude. Let me put it another way by "disciplined mutation" all i meant was localised mutation. A lexically scoped local variable is enough to handle the spread of mutation, i dont see the need for a specific datatype to handle mutations exclusively. Monads make mutations explicit and global. I hope that makes sense.