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Ask HN: What do you do with your crappy old computer hardware?
We all have computers from the past that we have acquired through various means; old Pentiums, laptops, SMB servers. Unfortunately, these machines are often far weaker than today's low-cost alternatives (eg. RPi's). Also, after scavenging for parts, the only viable solution seems to be to recycle them.

Prove me wrong.

Is anyone doing anything neat with old hardware that the rest of us could try?

I'm thinking along the lines of taking a hodgepodge of weak hardware and combining it together to run a lite K8s cluster. Or some kind of processing behemoth that Dr. Frankenstein would appreciate. Or better yet, something that would break the internet if everyone started doing this with their old hardware. Just looking for fun ideas to try. Thanks!
Separate thought related to this--

I've personally made the following investments to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide I'm directly emitting -- and these are the sorts of things we'll need millions of people to do in the coming years:

* 6kw of solar panels (no A/C): $22,000
* Powerwall batteries to power house when not sunny: $18,000
* Whole house insulation as part of remodel: $15,000
* Conversion of all kitchen appliances from gas to electric: $5000
* Replace gas water heater with electric heat pump: $3-4000
* Electric car: $30k+ (mine was $50+)

The remaining gas-powered appliance in the house in our furnace, which I'll get to replacing in the next few years (est $15k) - at which point we'll probably also have a second electric car, and need to increase our solar production as well to keep up.

How many people can afford the above list for their homes? In 10 years if the above items cost half what they do now, how many can afford it then? How many landlords are going to make these investments for rental properties?

The transition we face is potentially economically stimulating (there's a lot of stuff to replace!), but also has really high up-front costs (and sunk costs) that will have to be managed. This goes both for national infrastructure all the way down to people's homes.
Of course it's not a new problem, which makes the failure many people have to recognize the problem this time around rather disturbing. Evidently the general public cannot be counted on to learn from history.
Use Vagrant! Then you don't have to install/run PostgreSQL natively at all, and can run it inside a Linux VM.

https://www.vagrantup.com/
Passing optional objects as method params is bad. The trouble is that an Optional<T> can still be null itself.
It's another case of a designer using a Light font weight (designed for large headings and posters) for body text instead of a Book weight which is actually designed by the font designer for body text usage. Font weight spectrums exist for a reason and the current trend of "all text should be Light weight" is just quite frustrating.

Worse, in trying to get some of the designer's own guidelines on the font's usage (designers generally are good about letting you know what they think their font is useful for), I find it is clearly a commercial font that doesn't have an open license, so this GitHub repository shouldn't even be distributing it.

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/paratype/futura-book/
Facebook gets to control money, Google gets to control cities.

Seems fair and totally reasonable.
You should check out Open Sprinkler. I've got mine running on a Zero W in a docker container and it's been solid.
Glowing recommendation, I'll have to check it out!
A better question:

If they are a malicious/malfeasant actor, can non-Verizon ASNs partition Verizon off the internet until they fix their shit?
at an Airline, we are designing a IOT feed for Aircraft Turn Around processes (RFIDs, Cameras, Sensors, etc), fed to a Pi per gate and transmitted to a MongoDB with a custom made GUI, it's a prototype/lab kinda thing though not made for full production...
So what's the recommendation to get instead, if the Silvia is too expensive?
Steam is dropping support for Ubuntu
There are other factors to include as well. Monitoring and management are quite important, and this is where environments like the JVM and .NET do a very good job. Ecosystem maturity, availability of mature and quality libraries, availability of good quality documentation, community size and support.

I find these guidelines to be a good starting point when deciding what stack to go with, as opposed to what the latest hyped languages are. We've already seen people go with hype, only to realize and backtrack their decision to use a more mature and well established language and ecosystem.
i'm going to guess this was an exercise to try to do this, not to be effective as a tool :)
A new way to monitor sickle cell
It's weird, he seems to think this article couldn't be published to Facebook. I wonder if he really tried to do so.

It's also interesting that he published it on the NYTimes.com, which has an even higher barrier to entry, and thus is not an option for most people to express their freedom of speech.

I know article titles are usually an editor's choice, but doesn't it seem like he could have easily published that article on his blog? (Fully admit I have have missed his larger point; I have difficulty grokking Mr. Doctorow's writings, which is a pity because I think he's an interesting thinker.)
Nice! Can you say more about how you're able to do the Rust aspects of code gen and checks?
whoa! This seems like an awesome tool to get around paywalls.
This problem has been known for decades. As of April 2019, 56.1% of the world's population has internet access. Do you think it is acceptable for a major transit ISP to have no basic filters in 2019 let alone implement RPKI?

Can you explain what part of the Cloudflare statement you consider to be posturing? A cursory review of the BGP announcements referenced in the article are pretty clear. Facts are facts regardless of how the message is delivered.
This is great news, and something I’ve been requesting for years. I manage an IoT backend based on CoAP, which is typically UDP-based. I’ve looked at Nginx support for UDP, but a managed load balancer is much more appealing.
To add to this, the bad software support had very real performance implications as well. I was surprised to see benchmarks where the Pi 3 dominated boards that very clearly beat it on paper
If I receive a lost wallet once a month, I may trying contacting the owner. If I am busy with tons of customers and pick up multiple lost wallets every week, I definitely would not spend hours sending emails to all owners - it is not my job. I will instead hand it over to the police officer or just keep the wallets at LOST & FOUND, waiting for owners. This way of thinking actually supports the results why people tend to return the wallets with more money - because they believe it is more important and necessary to contact the owners rather than passive waiting. It is probably difficult for the westerners to imagine the real life of living in a country with more than one billion people, otherwise they would not test the "honesty" using such a bad experimental design.
interesting thought but it's hard to seal up a vessel for any length of time. you could perhaps do a positive pressure vessel that slowly leaks from inside to out. (this is a common tactic in clean rooms with purified air a psi or two more pressurized than the hallways so the clean air always flows out to the hall.) not sure what the effects of leaking CO2 into your room would have though.
I'm not disagreeing that it's important. I'm asking, in a corporate environment driven by capitalism and the ultimate pursuit of generating revenue/shareholder value. Why would a company care?

I know that I've seen situations where departments critical to this access control policy system were chronically understaffed, because they are cost centers. They don't generate value. In the same way I've heard security and access control dissuaded from software development, because "we just need to get this out".

What all of these situations end up with is "performative" access control. You have to act as though you need the data, but beyond that it's a free for all. This lets the company pretend like it's fulfilling it's obligations, while saving money.
Earbuds are bad for your hearing
Really? Any intern could just request access and get it, and maybe get caught abusing the access?

Not sure if you can share more, but this seems way to easy and auditing is, well, to late.
May I ask you have investigate those things:1:Does workers in receptions have a email? Is it better to leave multiple communication ways?(as far as I know, net communication is a separate department in China) 2:I realized that you are considering the language problem, why don’t you use local language?(I believe most of your wallets receptors
Understand English, but it’s not meaning they could write a English letter).
3:could u explain why didn’t receive email lead to dishonesty? To Chinese culture, just like japan, leave the lost things in a certain place is a common thing. The real dishonest is: you come back to the desk and can not the wallet back. Chinese is very passive in many ways( I confirmedly admit that), but call it dishonesty is ridiculous，especially you include none of Chinese culture-relative country in the paper.
Maybe you're expecting too much from visualization. Obviously people aren't "seeing" anything. What happens if you try to conceptualize a pyramid from one angle, then conceptualize it from that angle +10˚, then + 10˚, ...? Ta-da, instant visualization.
FWIW, I ran Pi-Hole on a RPi for about six months, and it was flawless (long enough for me to forget the root password :p).

One option would be to set up two Pis, and distribute both IPs in DHCP. If one is down, or can't resolve, clients will fall back to the other one. The chance of both being down at once (unless it's something that takes your network down) seems low, and the cost of a Pi Zero W (~$10) wouldn't add much.
From an anonymous source, I found out it's automatic termination if you're using super mode unauthorized. Would love to get one more anonymous or non-anon source to verify.
Just for starters, fact that the change will in fact give users worse performance than existing extensions like ublock origin provide, because ad blockers under the new scheme will be less effective and the performance impact of ads that get through will MORE than offset any supposed performance gains of the declarative API. It is technologically impossible to create a state of the art adblocker with that declarative API. It's complete trash and Google knows it.

Do yourself a favor and go look up what gorhill has written about the matter. To say that the messaging coming out of google about this change has been intellectually bankrupt is putting it too nicely.
Good Developers Don't Trust Employeers
Good developers who are open minded and free spirited don't trust employers. This is the conclusion I have drawn after spending far to much time researching articles and academic papers theorizing why tech turnover is so high. There are 2 reason actually:

1. Companies over hype the position (like requiring an Architect's training when the job really requires a construction worker). The Architect will likely leave the job in 1.5 years (which is the average turnover rate at many tech companies)

2. Trust between companies and tech developers is low. Tech environments are pretty hostile at times and developers absorb all of this. They wait for employers to address these problems but only receive lip service and wishful thinking. Trust devolves. After multiple rounds of this, developers develop a general distrust for companies in general and leave at the first sign of higher pay or better benefits. Loyalty is rare.

These are the major take aways I got from hawking every article and paper on the topic I can find. If you have a good article on the topic and care to share it, please do. I will definitely read it carefully.
All of the articles I have seen seem to focus on being able to recall imagery. Is there a similar difference in ability of recalling other senses? I can visualize in my head to some degree and I can recall sounds to some degree, but I don't think I can "smell in my head" for example.
I have aphantasia, I'm terrible with names but like you am excellent with faces.

I think the three are totally unrelated.
I use a Pi 3 running FreeBSD 12 and CUPS as a print server for my Brother laser printer. The printer has an option for a network card, but finding one is many times more expensive than the Pi, and it's so old I wouldn't entirely trust it on my network anyway :)
Make little fun robots like this Pixar lamp:
https://hackaday.com/2019/05/25/little-lamp-to-learn-longer-...
none of those require google to be around.

Far as I'm concerned, if this happens it becomes the duty of every person to destroy these sensors and destroy the ability to deploy new ones.
Decentralization would make it a little harder for the nation states to spread their messages, but you're right that it would probably make it much harder for us to stop them. I AM NOT and WILL NEVER BE proposing that the government manages our news diet. I guess I don't really have a solution to propose, and the point of my comment was more to suggest that we should try to change SOMETHING so that these companies don't have such great power, rather than let them continue and hope they don't (continue to) abuse that power.

If I could propose anything, it'd be that we stop letting outrage and clicks drive our political machine, but we all know that will never happen.
UK, London

Building a VR exercise & fitness platform.

Exercising at home is currently too boring for some of us to bother (even though we know more exercise would be good for our health) and simply watching videos gives no control of pace or any sense of progressing towards our goals.

VR content can be so engaging and while Beat Saber shows exercise can be ludicrously fun, it's also repetitive for the arms and doesn't teach you much about your body and how to avoid injury.

I'm currently part of a new Antler.co investment program cohort in London (hope that's ok to mention here :) ) - looking for 1 or 2 co-founders, ideally within the coming four weeks or so.

Would be interested to find another technical founder who can collaborate with me on early content development (mostly working with Unity and wrangling mocap data), and/or someone with marketing experience and an interest in helping build an inclusive community around the project.

Please get in touch via robert at sixbynine.org and let's chat

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-bragg
(~15yr graphics, Linux sytems programming and machine learning + comp. vision experience, C/C++, git, all the things :), Intel nearly 10yrs + 2 startups)
It's been a while so the details are not fresh in my mind, but it wasn't the easiest thing in the world. I think most of my trouble came from the general lack of polish on Kubernetes (from a cluster operator's perspective) than from the specifics of the Raspberry Pi. One thing I remember clearly is that kubeadm has completely failed to upgrade k8s from one minor version to the next every time I've tried it. I always end up just saving my k8s resources, blowing away the cluster, creating a new one, and resubmitting the resources to the new cluster.
RailCar: Rust Implementation of the Open Containers
Sorry about that, try https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691616652873
Get rid of my cable internet for starters, that's what I'd do.
It's a fictional piece based on the premise that in the future, social networks will be so regulated that he won't be able to get a piece like that past the automated filters. There's a paragraph at the beginning that explains it:

> Editors’ note: This is part of a series, “Op-Eds From the Future,” in which science fiction authors, futurists, philosophers and scientists write Op-Eds that they imagine we might read 10, 20 or even 100 years from now. The challenges they predict are imaginary — for now — but their arguments illuminate the urgent questions of today and prepare us for tomorrow. The opinion piece below is a work of fiction.
Woah, another native Charlottean! I hear we're like unicorns.

But that's similar to what I experienced in Seattle, except they say "y'all" too to be gender-inclusive now. You can spot a WA state accent by the way the say "bag" though (sounds like "beg"). My favorite give-aways for southern without accent though is saying "might could".
What the hell do you think cloudflare was supposed to have done here?
I saw a few of my static sites that are hosted on Cloudflare and few other auxiliary 3rd party services I use flapping back and forth on PagerDuty, but not all of my Cloudflare sites triggered down.

Is this just because the unaffected Cloudflare sites were not within the CIDR range affected?
> Governments don't give up control without bloodshed.

You say that like it's a bad thing?
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A useful analogy is that 'call to mind visually' is to seeing as thinking something is to hearing yourself say something. The calling to mind is necessarily less intense as seeing because while you are calling to mind your visual system is preoccupied with other visual stimuli.
How is overspending on college any different than overspending on anything else? Is the guy who drives around in the BMW he can't afford "tragic"?

It's absolutely possible to pick an economically viable major, go to community college, go to a trade school... It's also absolutely viable to take on loans and pay them off through hard work. How important is that degree to you? If it's very important then expect to sacrifice, almost everyone else is.

I know so many peers with degrees of varying quality that spend their money on international travel, eating out almost every night, living in the most expensive cities in the world yet they complain about their student debt constantly. Now they're presenting themselves as true victims and acting like anyone who doesn't support this bail out is a hateful wretch.

I'm sorry but I worked hard and made good decisions and I absolutely expect the same level of competence from my fellow citizens. People make dumb decisions all of the time and you have to learn the hard way that your life is your's and there's no fairy godmother that will come waive your poor choices away.
So we run into the age-old problem of "who decides". Also, how do we prevent fragmentation when there is disagreement.
Attacker can read password from log data
Keep them in a drawer.
Why do you seem to be shadowbanned with two comments? Your first comment was dead before I vouched for it, too.
AS701 was the UUNET/Worldcom AS for the US and eventually the US/Canada network. Verizon bought Worldcom in 2006 and they became Verizon Business.

From the late 90s to early 2000s I worked for UUNET/Worldcom as an engineer in the network planning and design group. I worked in the international group but among other things we were responsible for the build out of AS701 into Canada, the exchange sites where AS701 connected to the various other international UUNET AS's and the PoP's where dedicated circuits for international customers who wished to connect directly to AS701 would be terminated. The point being that I am familiar with how AS701 was operated at that time.

UUNET's reputation at the time might not have been sterling due to the business decision to basically be a safe haven for spammers but from a technical standpoint the network was operated at a high standard. The basic BGP filtering referenced in the article was certainly in place at the time and if this had happened then heads would have rolled.
Tesla. I probably don’t have to say much more.

Here’s an older video with some interesting details: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KX_0c9R4Fng
LGBTQ Individuals Are At Increased Risk Of Homelessness
Yes, apologies and thank you!

If you email me (matthewatcloudflaredotcom) your shirt size, preference for men's or women's cut, and your postal address with the subject line:

"Verizon BGP Leak On Call Support Group"

I'll send you a Cloudflare tshirt. Least we can do.
You are 100% right and it has baffled me ever since I noticed it. Anyone have a hypothesis as to why this happens/is happening?
That seems like an entirely reasonable response in isolation. Sometimes you write new software and find it just doesn't work in production. Were they not doing anything else to prevent money laundering?
This is just a collection of things I've read that might or might not be related, mixed with my intuition of what might or might not be related:

* Absolute rubbish sense of direction. I get lost on a straight road with a GPS. I can't look at a map and visualise a route - i need to properly understand it or know it from repetition (a lot of).

* maybe a plus, maybe not even related - i can visualise sounds and music. I can play back a song or compose a tune in my head. I can "speak" in any accent in my head perfectly - it doesn't translate if I try it out loud but that is just bad speech skills. I also do some music production so this helps though I admit replicating the sound I hear is often very hard.

* No attachment to past events. I can't "visualise" past arguments or bad events, so I'm left with a concept of them which very quickly fades away as it's just "words". Bygones are really bygones. This one I read somewhere as related. Not sure it is, but I do relate.

* I can't draw to save my life, but I can at least copy something if it's simple and right in front of me. Always at awe at people who can draw out of their head (and I'm a son of an artist).

* I remember events from a very early age (earliest memory is from 3 years old approx). But again, I remember specific actions i've done, and can recall the scene, but not visually. Just the idea/concept of it.

* Just generally feeling like I missed out on something that is really cool. And more than that, missed out on the fact I'm missing out for 43 years.

* I rarely remember dreams, but when I do it's a treat because in my dreams I do "see" the dream. I'm always excited when I wake up remembering a dream. It doesn't last though, I forget it soon enough, but that initial moment I know I "saw" something is really nice.

* All those exercises of seeing a photo and then having to recall it - I find those really hard. I can only recall what I memorised verbally (One shoe, two combs on a table etc) - but can't recall the image itself visually.
And you believe the internet optimizer wouldn't have added /23s and /24s.... why?
I was thinking the exact same thing—right up until I got the part where they still haven't responded 8 hours later (to say nothing of apologizing), and played no role in fixing the problem (DQE did that, apparently).

We all make mistakes. It's unreasonable to expect 100% uptime from anyone. But if you operate a service that so many people are relying on, and you make billions of dollars in profit each year (we're not talking about an unpaid volunteer open-source maintainer here), you absolutely have a responsibility to at least try to help fix it when there's a problem. It's brazenly irresponsible to go radio silent while your customer's other vendor fixes the problem.
La Pavoni Europiccola is a great machine. I have a modern one (I didn’t feel like restoring a classic one), but it’s still great. I have replaced the factory steam nut with a single hole end that I made myself, but otherwise my machine is stock.

I love espressos, machiattos, lattes and have gotten to the point where I’m consistently producing both espresso and lattes (with art!) that I prefer to many reasonably good coffee shops.

It took me some time to learn the machine and how espresso works, but I got to geek out in the process. Highly recommended for people who are more interested in the journey than the destination.
Not really, what matters to me is the price I can get them at, including shipping, including taxes, including shenanigan fees, including sales, including discount codes, including 5% cashback on Amazon, including 1% cashback on other sites.

RPis pretty much never go on sale.