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>While the event was happening I gave short updates by editing a comment here.

It is disingenuous to only state you edited "a comment" there. You posted 10 comments in that thread, with at least another 10 edits. Of the top 5 comments, three of them are yours. On HN, each time you make a comment and people upvote your comment, it contributes to ranking the post higher on HN's front page. I fully understand that you were probably just trying to be communicative, but unintentionally or not, you did "fan the flames" by drawing additional attention to the issue.
I understand the mercantilist view, I just don't think it's credible.
Have you looked at the cute pinkish red and white cases they sell, and the branding, and, well, everything? The raspberry pi is a toy. Just a really cool educational toy at that.
There is no shortage of energy storage technologies. I don't know where this idea comes from. There is a lack of commercialisation of those technologies because you can't make a profit if your competitor is being subsidized for destroying the environment.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people taking salesforce are going for a managed cloud options. It may be running Oracle but the business will likely be several abstraction steps away from managing it day to day.
I believe their plan revolves around lending money and then charging interest on that (like typical banks). They already support overdrafts[1] on their app.

[1]: https://monzo.com/features/overdrafts/
The IRS makes Americans abroad file taxes as well.
I've wanted some security cam software to run on a Pi for ages because the stuff shipped on my IP cameras is awful. Do you have any plans to offer a callback system, e.g. so when some customisable event happens (change detection, perhaps between certain hours of the day/night) it could then callback to a custom script for further processing?
> But in most places in Europa opening windows on both sides of a building will do the trick during the few weeks of hot, hot summer time.

Great idea! Now I just need to ask my neighbors to open their windows at the same time as I do, because my apartment has all windows facing west and theirs have all windows facing east.

Around this time of year, I have my windows fully opened for hours and hours in the evening, but it only helps a tiny bit, maybe 1℃.
without creativity... I don't think it would make for a very effective slave in a world that is constantly changing.

Is creativity possible without consciousness? I don't pretend to be an expert.
Misuse of Deep Learning in Nature’s Earthquake Aftershock Paper
Surprisingly, recognizing a bird is much harder when you count rare species and running birds. Thus, sparse data. Does it recognize penguins too?

AIs today still fail at it. Some folks were trying to train one to match endangered species and they had to pull mighty tricks to have some 70% accuracy. I think it was here on HN some time ago, but can't recall a link.
If startups are ditching Oracle and IBM, they went wrong in adopting Oracle and IBM in the first place. Do Chinese startups really do that? Can you still count as a startup when you're using Oracle and IBM?

But it seems the headline is wrong, and the actual story is that large Chinese enterprises are ditching Oracle and IBM for a Chinese startup.
Ask HN: Is HN is covering up for Google?
So, you'd propose I sit back and leave a story with incomplete information on HN's front page and say nothing?

True that I posted other comments but they are short and don't say much. The real action was the main top comment.
This is old news. Pretty usual situation for the MS world though. Take a look at alacritty.

In my experience GPU rendering does provide buttery smooth scrolling and output for tons and tons of text. Now you can `cat` that 1 GiB log file that much faster!

I still prefer libvte-based terminals though.

https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/
I used my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ to control all Fish tank equipments remotely. We live in a city (Chennai, India) and my family usually goes to our native for 2 months every year during summer vacation. During these times, it find it very difficult to manage the equipments.

The Raspberry Pi controls 2 Lights, 2 Filter pumps, Cooler, Fish feeder, and CO2 cylinder. Am planning to attach a camera and some sensors to the system as well.

Right now, all these components are controlled by simple scheduling, but am planning to extend the control through a server in future.

The Pi is connected to a 8-Relay board and is attached to a extension power board. So this setup can control just any equipment.

Source Code: https://github.com/codetiger/AquariumControl
I prefer "Move cautiously and make things".

As in, spend your time making something you'd be proud to sign your name to.
Mine is a similar setup, except with Windows architecture.

- Surface Go using stylus.

- OneNote for note taking

- ColdTurkey app (completely locks you out of blacklisted apps for a set amount of time [I've tried to crack it - I couldn't])
This kind of populist pandering makes me upset. What about people who didn’t go to college? Or people who killed themselves to pay off their student loans? This is nothing more than wealth transfer to a specific demographic (young, educated) to buy off voters. This isn’t how a democracy should function.
I'm very hopeful for Monzo, with some caveats.

They have a lot of fascinating and useful DNA having gotten started in the UK before the US. The UK's regulatory environment for digital banking is leagues ahead of America's, w/r/t data access, APIs, etc. If they can persist UK style data features through their American rollout, they'll have something no other American bank currently offers.

While my strong suspicion is that the UK's push for digitization / interoperability in the financial sector stems from Orwellian nanny-state ambitions that would be right at home in China's playbook, it would be fantastic if we could somehow manage to empower customers with access to their own information without similarly empowering data-thirsty governments to surveil and oppress.

The scary parts are probably going make headway regardless, so cheers to the silver lining in the interim.
See https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/free number 3.
Search for 'nazca lines hands' on Google Images and you'll find dozens of other pictures of this figure...
Probably possible, yes. Subconscious drives are a thing. You could have sentience without consciousness. (The difference is that consciousness can change or modify drives and recognize its own actions on the world - its own agency. It is related to sentience and the line between the two is thin and blurry.)
I'm not sure it is possible to be conscious without having been at some point sentient.

The idea was that such an AI would never question its priorities or change them, not that it wouldn't be able to solve novel problems.

(Which is the definition of intelligence, duh. And shows how far we're from that. What we have is glorified pattern matching algorithms and some basic symbolic logic and clustering.)
Ask HN: Do you still use your old Raspberry 1? What for?
I think honestly think westworld (yes the tv-series) has the best explanation of why general intelligence is a hard problem to solve.

They mention consciousness but I think the same apply to intelligence in general. Humans in my mind aren't different from say a program you write except that we have a lot more input and possible outputs depending on a much larger variant of external variables.

If we could build machines that have eyesight just as we do, muscles just as we do etc I'm sure we could reverse-engineer the human being.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S94ETUiMZwQ
I have the same for Norway & Norwegian, since I visited there for 3 days last summer. Instagram has access to the location on my phone and knows where I am down to the metre.

Absolutely bizarre.
You make some valid points, and physically writing may indeed be helpful to particular cohorts. But for people like myself, who are slow writers and poor multitaskers, the act of physically writing takes attention away from the act of listening, meaning that I miss a lot of information. The core issue is that we all have different strengths and weaknesses, which is why there is no such thing as "one size fits all" when it comes to learning.
I created a toilet bot for our office. We only have one toilet, which caused a lot of people to walk to the toilet to check if it's free.
I connected the Raspi with GPIO door controller and created a python script which makes use of the UCWA library from skype for business and hooked it to a blynclight (status indicator).
Now ever coworker can add a specific contact to his Skype for Business favorites and will immediately see if the toilet is free or occupied.
As a german I sometimes have the feeling that our automobile industry has more advanced software than the government.
Absolutely not! I appreciate your communication during the incident, and I definitely don't mean to discourage any participation in threads or reduce communication. I'm just pointing out that it did, if unintentionally, draw more attention to the issue.

What I don't appreciate is your company's unprofessional response re: Verizon after the issue ended, but that's been discussed elsewhere.
- One running my home automation setup (zigbee2mqtt, home assistant, influxdb, grafana, and nose red)

- OctoPi for my 3D printer

- RasPlex (Plex client attached to TV)

- Lakka, an emulation OS for retro gaming
I always wanted an aquarium and this was the sole reason I never got one, thanks I'll look into it.

Can you tell what are your equipements and whats the setup like? (sorry, if already mentioned in github I can't open at work)
>good at solving open problems by (apparently) intuiting connections and making inferences, probably with the appearance of creative operation and experimental learning, but lacking any genuine desire or personal agency.

so, like a philosophical zombie? like something that appears to be conscious but isn't?
If the buses have GPS then Montreal should launch an app. They did that here where I live and now everyone can see where each bus is, live, on a map of the city. Best thing ever for us control freaks.
I tried making a "travel access point" with mine, so I could have all my devices already setup to access a single access point and funnel all the traffic through that. I was previously using a $20 router, but curiously the Pi 3B just didn't want to play ball, dropping packets / connections and generally sucking. :(
Don't be sad on my account. I actually like them very much. They are funny and persistent. I watched one yesterday try to outsmart a crow for a piece of cheese. That she even tried was pretty courageous. We have an obviously-paired couple living on the roof of the building next door. They are very sweet and would be welcome to visit if they would promise not to nest. But they won't.

And the first pair of baby pigeons we sheltered was the last pair of baby pigeons we will be sheltering. The mess was indescribable and everyone was so comfortable they all wanted to raise families here. Horrified, I chased pigeons from our balcony during mating season (circa any time it's warm outside) multiple times a day for three years before I regained control of my tiny kingdom.

Pigeons have the whole outdoors to nest in, the city even maintains a pigeon house on top of a building just across the way. I have my balcony...
Heightened suicide risk is often both _short term_ and _situation specific_. Access to support at this time can save lives. People cannot access support if they're dead, so alongside providing immediate support you also need to reduce access to means and methods.

I've never claimed that the only thing we need to do is install fences.
Only asking because under a Watt you get reliable small solar powered SoC
My project https://gitlab.com/giomasce/nbs is currently able to more or less bootstrap flex, starting from only tcc and musl (within a running Linux kernel). Terms and conditions may apply: I haven't tested much the generated binary yet, and given the tricks I have to do to get there miscompilations and introduced bugs are everything but impossible. But at least ideally it should be possible to iron them out without changing the whole path.

Bison is my next target, but I haven't been able to work much on it lately. It's true that it should be possible to bootstrap it by history, although I really hope that one does not need to many steps to get to the latest release.
Sir Nick Clegg Calls for Big Tech Regulation but Defends Facebook
Heightened suicide risk is often short term and situation specific.

I didn't say this (because I thought it was obvious) but installing fences is not meant to make people happier. It's meant to reduce access to means and methods. This is part, but only part, of preventing suicide.

It's a very important part, and it's the bit that we have best evidence for.

In the short term it's the bit that has most impact.
I've contemplated with the idea of building a plug-in that would disable all affiliate links on a page. What's holding me from doing it is that I find it unethical because some people are making a living out of promoting stuff. From the other hand, native advertising has become a scourge for modern web. It's not enough that every site has a dozen of visible ads, now we have to fight through promoted content everywhere.
The government is taking this seriously btw and enforcing fines, it's everywhere on wechat
Probably better off sending it again. (I'm not a mod.)
I get the fascination people have with Rust and I love to use Rust myself. Part of the fascination certainly is it’s tooling and that Rust nearly seems to force you to make the right decisions. I’ve never wrote in a language were I were so focused on the structure of my program rather than hammering in what I felt. And when you hit compile and it works, it usually does so flawlessly.

However I use Python very often still, just not for every task. Just like you said: Rust is another tool in the tool box and it isn’t that single purpose machine that you buy and use once for a single project, it is that japanese handsaw that is incredible useful and powerful in the hands of the right person. But sometimes you just need to make many cuts fast and then the handsaw (no pun intended) doesn’t cut it.

Python certainly has it’s place for me, but so does have Rust..
Ants are from the other branch of creatures with bilateral symmetry. That fork would have occurred before the Cambrian explosion, so that's at least a half a billion years ago. That's a long time!
For big zones it is relatively cheap (i.e, the cost per domain is low).

Since the invention of anycast routing, it is technically no longer complex.

If a continent fails, then either all BGP announcements are already gone, or you need a way to stop them. Then traffic will be routed to other continents.

It is not trivial, but for big zones if you get 1 euro per domain per year, you can do a lot of stuff.

And that is the sort of prices people cared about back then.

On the other hand, providing support, nobody has any idea how to spec that. What is a reasonable cost? The same goes for payment options.
I'm also in my 50s, and have been carrying A4 hardback notebooks around since 80s or 90s, that I use similarly. I add a margin, leave 5 pages at the front for indexing, and I've adopted a few highlighting habits to cross reference and link for easy reference later.

It's my definitive memory, and has been worth it to answer the months later questions of why we did or didn't include some feature, or designed something as we did. It's also where I think by pencil, so there's lots of plans, hierarchies, thoughts too. Those rough scribbles go at the back.

The few times I've tried to improve on this either by tech or organisers like filofax etc, it's quickly proved much worse or slower. The old Psion 5 got closest! Simply happy to stay old world now. It works, it's quick, and never needs charging.
I disagree profoundly with pretty much every claim made here. The analysis of the inception of liberal societies is very likely wrong.
Don Box wrote an excellent in-depth book about COM: "Essential COM"

It's on my desk right now, I was relatively inexperienced when I first read it so I thought it might be worth another look 15 years later.
Intentions can change.
That is true - it's probably more secure than storing them in the process, but several of these side-channel attacks can apply to kernel space (depending on hardware and security patches applied).

It's also not portable - OpenSSH runs on non-x86 architectures, and they might not have spare basically unused registers lying around.

Finally, I'm not sure the x87 registers have enough space to fit these keys. You have 8 80-bit registers, for a total of 640 bits. Your typical SSH private key might be 2048 bits or more.

So it's a fun and creative line of thinking, but probably not practical in this case.
Haha this reminded me of the time I lost my phone. I suspected it was left at work so I ssh'd into my Mac at work, started recording audio, dialed up my phone and voilá. It was there and I had peace of mind until tomorrow.
An age old tactic I have encountered: Deep discounts (after raising the prices of course). For e.g.

(Harvard research paper - WIP)
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-113_16977...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/how-ret...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/camilomaldonado/2018/09/24/what...
I don't think it's necessary for us to get a machine to reach "consciousness", whatever that is, before we realise it's overtaken our mental ability to combine two existing concepts in order to create a new one.

I imagine this is what's going to happen: we humans have drawn two circles (thank you dear fella for that analogy) and we are about to draw a third, combing two existing concepts.

At some point we will have drawn so many circles that the next one will not be drawn by us. It will be drawn by AI.

Who knows when we'll reach that level of machine intelligence and if it even requires them, the machines, to be conscious? But we will, without any doubt, reach a point where there have been so many circles drawn that they are now smarter than us at drawing them. Absolutely without any sort of doubt in my mind this will happen.

Tens of thousands of people comprehend Einstein's work. It used to be hundreds. We're smart as shit these days. Fuck me if it's not before I die.
At one point, I figured I wanted some lighting for my bar, which consists of about 70 bottles on shelves (about 1.2m wide and 2m height).

But a simple on/off is not good enough. Instead, I went with individually addressable LEDs (NeoPixels strips to be exact), and developped my own back-end to manage those LEDs, with a simple front-end.

So far, it supports lighting bottles individually, by category (rum, vodka etc...) and some simple animations across the whole bar.

It's a nice ambient lighting, and it serves as a show-off for guests.

Plus the whole thing runs on a second-hand computer power-supply. The Pi runs on the power-supply power-on line so that when no LED is on, the main power-supply is shutdown to reduce electricity consumption.
Google Chrome's Manifest V3 Proposal Would Stop Tampermonkey from Working
That's actually unusual, very few countries tax non-residents.
When or why would this be useful? I am not doubting there is no use case, I just don't see it.
...that should really be quantum computing right now.
Yup - for me, each ascender of an "h" is a line of red pixels next to a line of blue, no actual black at any point.

Removing the unnecessary font-weight CSS makes it better. Personally I also find it more readable if I remove the font specification and let it fall back to Serif, and it also takes up less vertical space, but that's a matter of personal taste. Not tried it on mobile.
I would like to point out that it is not only the company but the person behind Devise (ie José Valim). It may means, possibly, that they are not really a fan of what was created with Devise and think the experiment should not be replicated. You know.
Pattern matching is not intelligence. Calling it AI rather than ML is disingenuous.

Tell me when a generic algorithm can solve many different games on different environments at the very least.
Not so much fun when you where doing an Oracle Forms client side app, I recall having to use 13 or 14 floppy's in the correct order before I could even install that actual client side application.
"USA wants free trade", and that's why they are creating obstacles for Huawei without even a court decision.
Like most people on here I have several raspis that I don't use. Two raspi zeros are wild life cameras for my dog. I like to see what she's doing when I'm not home.

One raspi 3 is a camera covering the entrance to my apartment.
There is also, Custom element API section that is "TODO". Yes I saw those options the first time, but woulnd't you say the documentation is limited ;) if such is the case.

So far I see 2 sentences related to the subject, compare that to V2 docs.

I will try to see how svelte performs for this, but so far Vue wc-wrapper seems to be the most promising option out of "non-wc first" ecosystems.
It's easy to say that "oh, phone calls have no security at all, what do you expect?"

It's true that we can talk to friends and family with internet services.

But for businesses we use our phones. Personally I don't think I would affected if my call records were given to anyone or leaked.

But I can think of scenarios where it could be really damaging to someone.

Like imagine a celebrity was having cancer treatment they didn't want people to know. Their call.records get leaked to a tabloid who infer their calls to a clinic mean that they have cancer and run an article.

I can imagine that would be a painful experience.
to make a 2-D (1 layer) chip you need N mask/etch steps with probability P of failure, to make a slightly 3-D, 2 layer chip you need 2N steps and have a probability of P^2 of failure etc

Note that exponential term for probability of failure - 10000 layers means 10000N etch steps but P^10000 turns a 99.9% yield for 1 layer device into a .004% yield for a 3d 10k layer device .....

note: by 'layer' here I'm including all the metal/poly/passivization layers in a current device - also after each layer you'd have to leave space to plane the finished layer flat as a base for the next - which means insulation between them deep enough to fill in all the gaps in the previous layer plus vias - and as others mention some way to pull heat out of the core of what has historically been called a "hairy smoking golf-ball" CPU
Probably not easily embedable on a vehicle though.
Yup, back in 2003 I was doing experimental work on creating better EUV mirrors and the amount of reflection achieved was way too low to support any machine with a design similar to UV machines. You needed either a (much) higher intensity source or fewer mirrors.

I've been out of that loop for a while, so I don't know how the design of the EUV machines turned out.
Does it? You can manage symptoms but there isn’t much more than that available I don’t think?
Solving novel problems. Show me.

By novel I mean multiple categories. A system that can serve as archive, mathematician, calculator, can move a robot, drive a car and additionally make coffee from scratch. Oh and talks (speaks and understands and acts upon orders) in 3 human languages at decent levels plus can roughly explain what it's doing. Oh and can learn more unrelated skills.

Hey, people do it all the time.