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>I haven't tried Sonos, but if a product, which you'd assume is more or less just a speaker, requires you to "sign up" or to some extend expects you to manage it via a smart phone, you should generally be sceptical.

It's worse than that. Not only do you need to have an account to use these speakers, but there's no way to run them without using the built in app, and there's no way to avoid getting on the upgrade treadmill with the app.

I had a sonos setup I was very happy with, until I was forced to upgrade my laptop app because it wouldn't let me play any music without upgrading. And then guess what? My laptop was too old (circa 2010 17" macbook pro) for tne new app, and when I complained on their forums, was told to upgrade my laptop because the os was no longer supported and it was a "security risk to run old operating systems".

Goodwill was very happy to receive those speakers that week, and sonos is now on my list of companies I will never buy from, and on the list of companies I will take time out of my day to make sure my friends (irl and internet strangers) hear about their practices.
Taken literary its dumb for sure.

However, its far from inconceivable - 7 days could actually be 7*10^n something and intelligent design was proven to be possible (we humans created live viruses in a lab from raw materials as one example, almost 20 years ago).

Simulation theory (i.e. Matrix) is another possible option. It even has highest probability to be true.
> old research literature on LSD like stuff from James Fadiman

True, much of the research before we knew about set and setting approached the substances as psycho-mimetic, or substances that induce psychosis.

Aldous Huxley described them as the "gates to heaven and hell".

> The problem with psychedelics is they only make you "more" of what you are.

I think that's oversimplifying, the drug is a serotonin agonist, it tends to have some pretty predictable results. For example a large number of trips go in the general direction of "love is all we need"(Sam Harris, Waking Up).

> nobody talks about the very real possibility of having PTSD flashbacks

There are risks of bad experiences for sure, yet there are benefits for many people too. At the end of the day, "controlled substance which can be used under supervision" is not a bad place to be. Michael Pollan points out that psilocybin was highly ritualized in the cultures which used them, they were sacred and non-recreational.
Saving space (basically) for free by re-ordering columns in PostgreSQL
What about the glass instead of the mask, would that be considered reasonable?

It seems like it would benefit both the server and the customer. (the glass I mean)
"Neurotypicals literally have the same scale of mental privilege as whites do in a racial context."

Wow this is profound to say the least, thanks for making this connection I've intuitively felt but could not articulate the impact of my ADHD and potential to succeed in life starting from an early age.
> She might have been the hardest-working person I've known. She also couldn't hold down a job to save her life.

A bipolar patient in a hypomanic phase can feel strong energy, motivation, creativity, and euphoria. These people can be fun to be around and work with for a short while, at least before the downsides of compromised judgment, inappropriate social disinhibition, and other downsides become problematic. Hypomanic people can work themselves into greater responsibilities at the office, which quickly comes crumbling down when they switch to a depressive episode and can't get anything done. Or they can progress to a full manic episode, where extremely compromised judgment, delusions of grandeur, inappropriate risk taking, inability to concentrate on one task, and other negative effects take over.

One of the unique challenges of dealing with bipolar individuals is that they might actually enjoy their hypomanic phases, despite the obvious negative consequences. It's some times difficult to convince them to give up the hypomanic weeks for the sake of arriving at a stable baseline. They might become convinced that their hypomanic phase is actually their "normal" self, as they're often blinded to the negatives of their behavior during these periods.

> She's the reason I can't ever see eye to eye with anyone who wants to cut our social safety nets or who sees welfare recipients as somehow subhuman.

I fully agree that robust social safety nets are important for our society and that welfare recipients should not be looked down upon.

However, it's more of a bridge than a long-term solution. The best path forward for most patients is to be treated with stabilizing medication and to return to the structure and accountability of having a job, ideally. Bipolar patients tend to struggle with unlimited free time, unstructured days, and no accountability to their work peers. The key is robust and ongoing medical treatment and monitoring.

Again, to be clear, I'm not disagreeing that social safety nets are a bad thing or that welfare recipients should be looked down upon.
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I only know this website cybercrime-tracker.net from French computer sec researcher Xylitol, it lists websites hosting malware.

You can find hacked websites by Google Dorks but you will hit Google Captcha after some time.
Care to share the main components of your setup?

I've been close making an investment in Sonos, mainly in Amps to ensure good multiroom and the simple Sonos experience.

But tired of reading this kind of stuff and the usual "large company" bullsh!t.

Thanks,
> Isn’t the big question how matter exists at all?

I think the big question is why we experience the existence of matter.
Power Laws in Venture Portfolio Construction (2017)
Developed countries are worse. They don't recycle or reuse.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/china...
I see, and who is to be the interpreter of that?
GDPR does apply. You do not need any agreement from your guests or another reason, because the data collection is required by law. But you still have to deal with GDPR requirements around deletion (after you don't need it anymore), access (give it to the wrong person without the appropriate paperwork and you are on the hook), security (have a breach or a unhappy employee and...), notification, data protection officer, inquiries etc.
Yeah, lets not have them have the same luxuries as us so that they do not repeat our mistakes. \s
It was ~0.2% of the US vehicle fleet. Whatever sense it did or did not make, it seems pretty unlikely that it is having any significant effect on the availability of cars 10 years later.

(yes 2 tenths of a percent, 2 vehicles out of 1000)
I think the parent comment meant that those countries could use the old phones, not recycle them—refurbish and resell.
Also, Factorio looks ugly as sin.
> The software performed well, but I'd still like to increase the data capture rate. There are Adafruit libraries for the components I'm using in C++, so I'm considering rewriting air.py in C++, but I'd really love it if someone talked me out of that.

Would that really improve data capture ? How much throughput is it captured that python can't keep up (is that even the right kind of questions) ?
He sort of has his freedom, if you consider life within Putin's Russia containing freedom.
> The iPhone maker found 18% of devices shipped to GEEP were active on wireless carrier networks.

How is Apple able to get such numbers?

Edit: i am stupid - all Apple devices phone home because you must use apple services with apple devices. I was confused by the "wireless carrier network" part.
In a sense we are RNA-based lifeforms. Our protein synthesis machinery is dependent entirely upon RNA. I think there’s a perspective here that the RNA world never disappeared, just became symbiotic with higher-order protein structures. On one hand, RNA viruses continue to replicate successfully (i.e. SARS-nCoV-2) and on the other we rely on rRNA, tRNA and mRNA to function as a highly-conserved part of cellular function across all organisms.

When I was in grad school my default assumption was that ribozymes (catalytic RNA) are far more abundant than we currently know. RNA just very difficult to work with so there’s a selection bias against our ability to measure its behavior in vivo.
just to clarify, Borderline Personality Disorder is very different from Bipolar Disorder
> But in the meantime, respect existing laws and rights in contracts.

A great way of changing laws is to purposefully break them and undermine them, actually.

If people really do not like a law, then we can encourage others to break them, and make these bad laws difficult to enforce.

If a bad law can't be enforced, then it may as well not exist.
RNA life forms do still exist: they're inside more complex cells. These simpler life forms just came together into cells in a stable arrangement that was able to replicate itself, and evolution took care of spreading them over.
It's pretty clear what he is saying; which is that humanity will have little if no impact on the Earth.

He is not talking about climate change and the people panicking about possible 25m sea level increase.

Read the full transcript;

https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2019/08/22/george-carlin-savin...
"Contractor was breaking its contract pretty clearly."

Not in this case. Only when they could have prevented that employees were reselling the devices.

It looks like GEEP agrees with Apple and they are going after the people who resold the devices.
Let's do Berkeley, CA, a very wealth city by most measures with really bad roads. Or most of California for that matter, where PG&E can't even bother to do maintenance properly on +100 year old transmission towers and cause wildfires. Or the san bruno gas explosion which was another case of cheaping out on the maintenance.
Long live indeed, since iguanas are considered vulnerable to extinction. In fact, they already went extinct once on Santiago Island (one of the largest of the Galapagos) - they've been reintroduced by humans as part of a restoration program. This shows limitations of their strategy.
Just look at the dongles almost every mac user religiously carries with them.
The Thing is, Everyone does NOT have to speak the same language in the EU. Only the people selling and marketing and moving the goods do.

also...The EU does not value Technology? Innovation? or take Risk? (I mean what Risk is there in the US, when the large out of control corps are crushing the little makers??)
Google: 'Finding Wellbeing in Filters and Selfies'
HN's issue with broad topic knowledge is considerably worse than just the difficulty of curation.

For example, I emailed the staff with regard to the prevalence of COVID-19 misinformation on HN and the response was that it is policy not to remove COVID-19 misinformation (including raving conspiracy theories) but also to allow flagging by the 'community' to remove posts pointing out that something is misinformation.

Tacitly allowing the platform to be used to give a mouthpiece to spread misinformation and allowing users to bully people for injecting some degree of factual reality does not encourage good discussion.

Facilitating knowledgeable discussion across a broad range of topics starts with attracting people who are knowledgeable in many areas, and that cannot happen in an environment where the administration allows mob bullying--through the very thin veneer of the downvote/flag system--of people who actually know things.
Now imagine dumping a million tons of it at a time, in a few select spots of the ocean. That’s what we did with plastics.
I'm a very enthusiastic LFTR stan that wondered why we weren't full on into Thorium reactor research at the beginning of the Obama administration.

But wind/solar have just changed the face of energy generation.

I agree that in theory, nuclear can provide cheap and plentiful energy in a large number of applications. But in practice it has not, and the regulatory structures and entrenched interests (fuel rod reprocessor companies, US military wanting weapons grade isotopes, NIMBY) simply make it really really hard to do a new reactor.

I think small scale reactors that fit in a shipping container or pallet box is what should be pursued. A "disposable" reactor that can simply be sent back for recycling is the way to go.

As someone else has noted, a new nuclear project is a five year lead time. Look at the improvement curves in solar/wind EROEI / LCOE. Five years will be another annualized 10-20% savings in panels / rotors / batteries. Nuclear won't be able to compete.

When the main curves for solar / wind finally stabilize, then nuclear can probably target something that might be competitive.
Society can change such laws only when there is an open discussion that is exactly doing that, not-respecting the laws and rights in contracts.
Good for nothing?

Well, except for handling complex content documents like in all ebooks and, in sgml form, all webpages like this one.
What of the role cheap used cars play in helping people with little money improve their lives (for instance, by allowing them to commute to better jobs) and the positive ecological effects of raising people out of poverty? An impoverished population has less leverage against corporations and empowered corporations can lobby governments to stop meaningful environmental regulation.

It's not clear to me that 'clunkers' were a net benefit to society. Maybe getting rid of them was the correct choice. I don't know what the answer is, but I think there is probably more to consider than car emissions.
Oh incredible. Okay, then may be I was looking at the wrong approach all along.

Are there clear HTML5 web components tied to those engines? I am thinking a confetti component, for example.
> Reuse dilutes your brand and reduces sales

Depends on the customer. I would never buy an Apple device and neither would most of my friends, because they have diluted their brand by their long term unethical practices.

Unfortunately they still have too many customers who think differently or not at all. Once California is mostly uninhabitable it will change. But that will not happen the next couple of quarters, so they continue.
I'm not totally certain. I could do a quick C++ POC to see if that improves throughput a bit, but I've got doubts. My other thought is that the SPI interface only can go up to a certain speed. If anyone has deeper knowledge of that protocol I'd love to hear their thoughts.
anyone knows some ressources for running kubernetes outside the cloud?, like guides/best practices/example setups

like 1-2 machines scenarios inside airgapped companys, collecting and processing measurements and displaying them, used by managers of industry companies which expect a one click app install etc?

i really struggle with kubernetes in that case, and theres barely any documentation/best practices

i found it easy to run kubernetes on google,amazon,hetzner, but outside that it feels like hell
Contracts can be found to be unlawful. But until then we should publish and share this kind of articles, if many people know the shit Apple.,Google,Amazon and others do then this kind of laws will be proposed.

so let's share this not because it is illegal now but to debate if it should be illegal to prevent recycling and repairing.
> It's highly likely that these devices have reliability problems, used-up batteries, etc

The problem here are that these parts aren't interchangeable.
>From simple snaps to full-on photo shoots, camera apps and filters are here to stay. But the growing popularity of “beauty filters” and face retouching features sparked an important question on Google’s Digital Wellbeing team: Do these filters have an impact on mental wellbeing?

After conducting multiple studies across four countries and speaking with child and mental health experts from around the world, we learned that the potential for harm is real. The studies showed that 80% of parents said that they’re worried about filters and two-thirds of teens have reported being bullied by peers based on how they look in their selfies. Fortunately, designers and developers can understand and address these issues early on by providing features without sending unintentional signals about personal worth or beauty norms.
This. Most people pissed off about various (legal) offshore structures do not even understand their utility. A little financial education goes a long way.
It's obviously a much better business model to sell you a new car every year by artificially making the old one break.
A lot of them are not maintainable - eg, there's no economical way to "fix" reinforced concrete with an incorrect blend or incorrect reinforcement.
> there are many very different sets of axioms with very different conclusions and properties,

Hardly. There are three main branches and they all work on the same evidence and try to conserve most common sense conclusions.

> allowing you to get to pretty much any arbitrary conclusions

Absolute bullshit. You're either entirely unfamiar or lying.
Care to share some concrete examples of how academia is more free and how you expect that to make your daily life better overall? The author touched on that point a bit, especially when he described that tenure wasn’t as freeing as he expected. From his writing, he didn’t seem especially free to me.
Is that so? Could Congress pass a law establishing an official religion for permanent residents?
There is also problem of "defensive writing" as in writing that is not supposed to be understood. Math is very often used in this way - math is impressive, math gives vibe of rigor and formalism, math requires a lot of effort from reviewer to dispute, but is very often bullshit meant to sell a simple idea (sometimes even wrong idea) as a big contribution that is just simply hard to understand for uneducated. Nobody want to look uneducated, so it's unlikely you will be criticized.
Having a pension actually means (indirectly) owning stocks too.
I meant the containers are just plant based plastics, with no wood in them. There's a whole bunch of processes to derive plastics from plants:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioplastic
Sigh, I just can't understand why I keep trying to discuss anything with HN's resident Propertarians and their dogmatic private-property theology.

> private property rights - people keeping what they earn

Interesting rhetoric given that there are usually Socialists suggesting that the workers should keep what they produce. But I guess the most important part is that the owners get to keep what they "earn"?

> Assuming the resources of humanity are collectively owned and should be equally shared is not realistic.

But why not much much better than today?

> The private property ruleset has resulted in the massive increase in productivity

Just repeating your gospels time and time about doesn't make them more true.

> On a per capita basis, the world is not extremely rich..

It's rich in the sense of being able to provide the basic needs of people. But what incentive is that to your dear private property owners? To not have cheap labour with bad labour regulations?

> It doesn't: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/0207/Progress-in-the-gl...

That's a long article, what part of it do you argue rejects that China doesn't represent a large part of the people raised from poverty?

> We should praise the CCP for emulating Hong Kong's private property ruleset:
> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-pol...

Once again a long article that seem to mostly be about some economist arguing for Charter Cities. Why don't you actually paste your point?

> That was a problem before too. Thanks to the economic development the world has experienced, that problem has gotten less severe, especially for the subset living in the most extreme state of poverty.

What is even your point with this world salad? The people are still in absolute poverty? Maybe that particular person has $2.30 per day instead, but so what if it doesn't cover basic expenses?
Ask HN: Best way to use BitTorrent from Python
I want to use BitTorrent to download torrents for a Python project (models for this https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate project), and am struggling to find the best way to do it.

There are a couple of options for Python bindings to underlying C++ libraries like the pip package python-libtorrent. With python-libtorrent its hard to verify that the pip package is being maintained by people associated with the underlying project, and the project documentation give information about building the Python bindings but doesn’t link to the actual pip package. There is also the option of trying to use a project like Deluge as Python bindings for libtorrent. There also some Python implementations of BitTorrent like pythorrent but these don’t seem to be very mature. Currently I’m able to manage all of my dependencies using pip pretty seamlessly which has maintained portability and kept dependency management simple which I would like to keep true. I’d also preferably have good support for BitTorrent v2.

I don’t understand Python C-extensions and Python packaging well enough to fully understand the complexity and portability implications of using Python bindings to a C++ library (my understanding is that the C++ library is being compiled by setup.py during installation but I don’t know how error prone this is). I also don’t know enough about BitTorrent to understand what it means to use a purely Python library that isn’t widely used/tested. How big of a concert is security hardening with BitTorrent? Is BitTorrent v2 support that important? Any suggestions feedback appreciated!
First Hacker Noon article published, being a better developer, show some love
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Sonos works well and I love it generally, but I’ve been really disappointed with their business practices the last few years. The S1->S2 debacle really shook my confidence and reminded me that I’m tying up a very expensive speaker with cheap digital services that could disappear or be obsoleted at literally any moment with little notice.

Their whole recycling/permanently destroying speakers debacle was also quite annoying.

If you go into expecting the third year and beyond of service to be bonus and that you’re the product not the customer, it’s a great fit for your needs.
I think you may have sent me a letter.
This conveys a lack of understanding of the lifecycle of a forest. When old and dead trees are removed, there are more resources available for new growth. Yes, available light/water/nutrients are the limiting factor on new growth in any forest ecosystem.

(...talking about lack of understanding, here comes the tunnel vision)

Hem, not. Obviously. Is several levels more complex than that. You forgot at least two really big factors here.
With https://decent.social I am trying to see if there is interest in an ad-free, privacy-first Twitter reading experience.

This is the official CLI version I am personally using and from which the idea about https://decent.social started.

Feedback is much appreciated
This is the "Libertarian wild west" option, and it will not happen under even the EU. Multiple app stores will only exist with government oversight and an agreed regulatory framework for reviewing apps for admission.
Aren't you making just completely wild speculation here? Isn't it possible that actively recycling those devices is far better for the environment than allowing them to be resold to China and/or end up in landfill? I thought Apple had one of the better records on the environment of all the computer manufacturers. Are you aware of reasons to believe otherwise?
Your original sentence is hard to understand, so it is being ignored.
I accidentally opened the link without ad blocker, wtf. How can anyone use the web without one, it looks like this https://i.postimg.cc/tJW4DXyn/Screenshot-20201004-204153.png
Why is it confusing that he would flee to somewhere where the US couldn’t easily extradite him, throw him in a “detention center,” give him an unfair trial, or assassinate him?
Why Apple will never receive another dollar from me, despite starting with an Apple IIc.