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> You don't want to have your mail server running at home anyhow

I do in fact want this. It may not be possible, but I definitely want it to be.
> There should be regulation that forces all vendors to use a public standars, instead of letting them develop their own.

Forcing them to use public standards and forbid them to develop their own? You can't possibly believe that, you're literally stifling innovation. A much better approach would be to force them to make their standards public.
I mean, immigration is never a long-term solution.

Immigrants will soon be facing the same issues (high housing, high education costs, lower wages).

I reckon in about 20-30 years the arbitrage opportunity to immigrate to Western countries will be eliminated, it already is much reduced compared to 30 or 40 years ago. QoL in Western countries will be lower, and higher in the rest of the world.

I often think of a documentary I saw about Somali refugees who came to America in the early 2000s (sadly I can't find it anymore.) They ended up moving back to Africa because they hated life in America. Working two terrible minimum wage jobs just to pay rent and food. They made no friends and had no free time or money.

They were happier living in a UN funded refugee camp spending time with friends and family.

I think the only way Western countries have any chance of reducing the falling QoL is space exploration, but I don't think their is enough energy and motivation.
Except for how, you know, weapons and medicines have slightly different effects when used.
Customary links to the 'required reading' blog posts on undefined behaviour in C:

* https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2011-05-13-what-every-c-programm...

* https://blog.regehr.org/archives/213

* https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=63...
Why doesn’t every company do everything? Why doesn’t Nintendo make phones? Why doesn’t Boeing make game consoles? They chose a market and they’re serving that, and millions of their customers are happy with them. If people need something different then other companies are there to cater to them.
It was quite easy, just like with iOS, you just had to pick one platform (Windows CE, Symbian, BREW, J2ME,...) and target those devices.
Coughing is a taxing activity - it wastes energy, and causes discomfort. We cough for a reason - I doubt it's from the solidarity to infect others. Of course we can sense the virus, but the irritation it causes. Do all viruses, which replicate in the nasopharyngeal tract, trigger coughs? Maybe some viruses evolve to cause irritation similar to air passage obstruction, which triggers the instrict to clear your throat up?
I remember writing a small GDrive client a few years ago and not liking the GDrive API and the way they handle files vs. folders at all. I would definitely not pay for this service.
Yeah whatsapp kept asking me do you want to backup your chat history so we can easily recover it.
To the point it became so annoying i almost deleted whatsapp.
I just assume there is no privacy on the internet. If i wanna keep a secret i will keep it in my mind.
Right, but whatever process causes the coughing could well outlive the virus itself
Some westerners don't identify strongly with a specific country. I am one of those.

We might consider the "good" of "all" people above the good of our country.

When that is your mindset, voting for policies that favor your own country, your own well-being can in fact feel wrong, if it is at the cost of other people's well-being.
Africa's Sachet Economy
Nowadays tooling will enforce this "goodness" for most languages. Whitespace blocks were a pain when people mixed tabs and spaces.
Funny, because just a week ago, a post made it to the top talking about the problems of not only Z-Wave, but Home Assistant.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25099615

I chimed in to his blog and that thread about the problems I've had with Home Assistant:

First off, the project is schizophrenic. They are way too into rewriting things for the sake of rewriting things. You have to read the release notes because a routine pip upgrade can kill your whole installation. In the five years, I've run it, they have 1) Introduced, rebranded, and retired a recommended install method. 2) Completely redone the web architecture. 3) Completely redone the Z-Wave architecture. 4) Routinely release UI features that are just placeholders and useless.

This has ramifications when you're searching for a problem. Often examples on blog sites or Stack Overflow are obsolete after only a few months.

Second, they are trying to target a wider audience by moving functionality and maintenance to the web interface, but they are so far away from this, it will take years. They are trying to get around the inherent linux-ness of their project, which is a huge undertaking. Troubleshooting pretty much still requires journalctl. Because of this attempt hide away its linuxness, Home Assistant is now in an obnoxious state where some actions require you to start it in the web interface, but then you need to ssh in to finish the job.

Take deleting a Z-Wave node. You first have to Delete it in the UI. Some parts of it though, never work. The "Delete" button is greyed out. So then you have to ssh in and vi into the configuration file to delete it from config files.

Finally, the communication in terms of the UI and documentation are overly abstract. Everything is done in terms of "entities" and "nodes." When you add a Z-Wave device, you get an entry for it in entities, nodes, switches, Z-Wave, and devices panels. After five years, I can't succinctly tell you the difference between them.

Do I use Home Assistant still? Yes. It still is the most flexible and open product out there. Would I recommend it? If the user did not have a background in linux, I would definitely not recommend it. My biggest pet peeve with this project is how many people recommend HA regardless of audience, not taking into account the Linux knowledge required. HA is not a magic pill.
> Is it viable for every country to produce all of it’s own basic necessities — food, medicine, energy, fresh water, building materials? Is it desirable?

In most cases, yes.

> I believe that the US being a net exporter of food, and a net importer of medicine is an acceptable situation.

China already denied exports of PPE to the US in the early days of corona, so no. In addition, during war, the US military has to be self-sufficient.

> We are codependent, and that codependency is going to keep us all from killing each other again.

That's what people said before WW2.

Everything you said is nonsense when the historical record is examined.
How the pandemic drove the IPO wave we see today
They did not license anything, Compaq stole it from them.
I don't watch any TV dude. The stats on admissions are public. There are also plenty of medical workers going public saying they feel guilty to be receiving public adulation at a time when they weren't even working because caseload dried up, which matches the stats.
Why is this a legitimate topic on a forum that forbids trafficking in what are labelled "conspiracy theories."

The net effect of allowing a discussion of this sort is to restrict discussion to the few fragments of the record of MKULTRA that were allowed to survive.

Mr. Kinzer's book does not hint at how horrible, extensive, successful, or powerful the program was, nor does it show any cognizance of actual techniques employed in actual operations.

Since we're not allow to bring up the truth, can we just agree to avoid the topic?
India has strip malls, a Hindu-supremiscist Prime Minister, a huge and powerful anti-science culture, and, last but not least, around eight million people living in modern slavery.

> The Global Slavery Index estimates that on any given day in 2016 there were nearly 8 million people living in modern slavery in India. In terms of prevalence of modern slavery in India, there were 6.1 victims for every thousand people.

https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/findings/country-stu...
It's really cool that there are open source bridges between the proprietary ecosystems. But I have to ask, why would you want to deal with all of this just to speak to your phone instead of pressing a button to open the garage door or turning on the light?

And this questionable convenience uses finite resources on earth, both carbon emission and ore. It's hard to scale back on what we use, and I wouldn't go back to a 17" monitor for coding. But maybe we could at least try to avoid creating new stuff that's accelerating our demise?
> For an individual, however, 70% would not feel very reassuring, which is why we need a lot of people getting vaccinated.

Agreed, but keep in mind that no one in the Oxford trial who got the vaccine got a serious case of COVID or needed to go to the hospital. So it's only 70%-90% effective (depending on dose) at keeping you from getting infected, but so far 100% effective at reducing severity and keeping you from dying or going to the hospital. So that's a huge positive to keep in mind and yet another reason to get vaccinated.
I think they are being very careful because the press will pick every aspect of this to bits and put the worst possible light on any positive spin as in "the secret plot to fool you into taking the failed vaccine developed by Boris Johnson's old university". There will be active attempts to derail any intervention that mitigates the coronavirus crisis because it suits so many bad actors to do that and it suits a large part of the population who like a crisis.
I wasn't talking about BASIC, I was talking about assembly.

Assembly wasn't that hard on those old things, so why is so much time spent today shoehorning JavaScript into places it shouldn't go? Spend that effort on something useful, or at least something sane.
Mere opinion is not very valuable. If you want to post something that goes against the grain and actually convince people, you have to tailor it to the audience.
I've built one of these. Good fun, but of course battery life does not match the 7+ years of the original. I think mine lasted close to a year?

If I remember correctly the magnetometer was end of life, but not critial to it's operation.

I'm not the original author, but I am considering ordering a few new boards and maybe the components. If you're really interested, give a shout on github: https://github.com/carrotIndustries/pluto/issues/1
Bathroom (even when it doesn't contain a bathtub or shower).
yep, seems to be built right into gnome on Ubuntu https://imgur.com/a/CA6zoWf
I am in the same situation as you. I also have a tolerant wife that "understands" that the lights are available 90% of the time (but when they are, it is magic).

Have you considered AppDaemon for automations? https://appdaemon.readthedocs.io

I tried to use the YAML based solutions but YAML is not done for that and anything more complicated is not doable (or at least without a super-complex code) - this is usually a few line sin Python in AD.

I would love to be able to use the presence automations but my wife ad children, for reasons that are beyond my understanding, sometimes switch off the wifi to use their data plan. The GPS tracking was draining the battery too much last time I tried (but I have to try again).
A week ago, after 6 months of trying to use google drive in my business, I gave up and paid for Dropbox teams.

I want to sync folders to my PC to access them instantly -and Google Drive is a mess, often freezes my file explorer - and takes forever.

Dropbox just works. I have having to pay that much for it, but better that than being frustrated with the Google Drive I already paid for as part of Gsuite...
The correct title is "D: The Functional Programming Language Nobody is Talking About", why leave out the "D:"?

Anyway it is an interesting talk and I'm regularly amazed by the D devs and community, even though I have never used the language myself.
Yes. And BASIC could sometimes be compiled to native code. JS is always interpreted.
Great. Hope there is a simple math proof before someone write this into a cobol or s/370 assembler routine to save their time :-)
Yep, the variable reward schedule https://gamification21.wordpress.com/learning-content-3/16-r...

It's an incredibly powerful effect.

Slot machines and the "smart" social media timelines (rather than pure chronological) are the apotheosis of this in humans. Switching both Facebook and Twitter to pure chronological view makes them way less addictive as the element of surprise is all but eliminated on most people's timelines. The platform no longer presents you with something different each time you pull down to refresh.
yes, all of these vaccine research are funded by the taxpayer.
Primitive Data Types in Neural Search System
The Puzzle Game That Became a Fighting Game – Catherine
On 1 : I think that measles vaccines have to be 95%+ effective, or basically you have no herd immunity to prevent an outbreak and protect (for example) infants not yet immunized. Because, measles is so amazingly transmissible. Other vaccines are much less effective (ie. yellow fever?) but because the diseases are harder to catch they can be suppressed in the population just as well.
DNA synthesis method generates true random numbers
I disagree.
I think that the OS should provide a set of UI elements so that all applications have a similar navigation and learnability. Colors however are a great way to set a Brand and distinguish apps from another. A benefit is that I can instantly see if I'm in Powerpoint(red) or Excel(green), even if the view I have is just some pixels wide (e.g. previews).

But i can definitely see the appeal of a system wide color scheme. Dark mode is a nudge in this direction.
Another, but much cheaper trick is to always leave the alarm on: then you have around 10 seconds of chance every morning to find it, if not - then better luck next day!
That is a bit disingenuous; it maybe has issues in syncing with folders or such, but honestly when you work directly in the drive for your document creation and sharing and co-authoring, its a breeze.

It is good for certain use cases, and bad for others, what a big surprise, now lets not generalize.
Imagine how that computer would run JavaScript.

Even today, JavaScript is 1/20th the speed of native code at best.

Imagine something dragging at 1/20th the speed of MS Office on a 486.
"due to AstraZeneca pledging to the sell the vaccine at cost "during the pandemic", while Pfizer and Moderna have indicated that they fully intend to profit."

- Sort of sums up the difference between European and American approach to healthcare.
I do agree that there is a difference between 'similar' and 'nearly identical', and these seem nearly identical.
I agree. I use HA extensively for three years now and I still do not understand what is configured where (config files vs. the web UI). The web UI is more and more useful for that but then the config goes into the magical .storage bin and it is lost there.

This is for people who do it for fun and are ready to maintain a system.
Both these comments really hit the nail on the head. It's a very nice summary of google as a company, worsening everyday in their quality of the product and morality of the decision making process and on top of that the nightmare of dropping product and automated support nightmares.
I think that OP meant vs. measles - R =...14??
It would have been nice to have those capabilities, but we still aren't there yet. Such an optimistic view of things.
Screws – The Early Years
I’ve seen this number with some justification being the amortized cost of a successful product, which covers r&d and marketing but also the failed attempts that lead nowhere in between.

There are plenty of 50-100M pharma startups; they wouldn’t exist if your number was right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NNpJcYtEDw
Similarly, for divisibility by 29:

- Triple the last digit and add the next-to-last.

- Triple that and add the next digit over.

- Repeat until you've added the leftmost digit.

(Spot the pattern? Even works for divisibility by 09, where one has to multiply by one each time)
Except that you are only allowed to use these Linux calls,

https://github.com/aosp-mirror/platform_bionic/blob/master/d...

Anything not white listed on the LinuxSE and seccomp configurations, just has as outcome killing the "naughty" app.
Why Bother Having Babies?
Another thing that bugs me: you cant see what you have shared!

It's a security nightmare.
Tauri – desktop applications with a web front end
Google can change direction very well. They do so every two weeks, it feels like.
> Was that because the dog was the only part of the environment, that was alive / uncontrollable

When i got my current dog i built an outdoor dog kennel (12m2) for it. My previous dog lived inside in a temperature controlled environment, so i never wondered if it would get too hot or too cold. It did however destroy most of our stuff when it was alone.

Living in Scandinavia, temperatures can vary from +35C to -18C during the year, and while most of the range is "ok" (27C - -8C), the extremes was the reason for building it in the first place.

Had the dog been living outside all the time this wouldn't have been a problem, but when confined to a (relatively) small space, and living indoors for half it's day means that in the summer it cannot move to a better/cooler place, and in the winter it may not have a thick enough winter coat.

It has an insulated dog house there, approved for all year usage for guard dogs, and unlike my previous dog, this one actually uses it - though mostly when it rains.
I always wanted to fiddle with this but I don't have enough IOT systems besides a Roomba. Everything related to home automation including lamps are quite expensive specially considering I live in a small apartment.

I wonder if there are cool stuff that you can do with its scripting capabilities paired with comercial wireta... I mean assistants like Siri or Alexa. Think of "hey siri, please compile project foo and commit to GitLab" or "hey siri, please launch another instance of program x".
Yes, Lexus is the luxury branch of Toyota.

Most Japanese brands have a separate branch, mostly for the US market. Honda has Acura, Nissan has Infinity. AFAIK Lexus is the only branch that is sold worldwide under the same badge.
*giving
After a while, you may discover, that (also) you create the news.
Does Anaconda not work on ARM? Anyone tried this yet:

https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/
The BioNTech vaccine can also be stored for a week at -10°C IIRC. That's enough even for distribution to most remote places.
Just a thing to consider: I moved from Tasmota to ESPHome and like it very much. Their rebuild OTA solution is nice but could be much, much better by updating devices that happened to be off at the moment where the update was launched.
That hits home. The human reality of choosing a cofounder. This story embodies the weight of what it means to be a teammate to someone.
My Fitness Philosophy as a founder
Dave, if I see this in one of your PRs, I promise I will lose it man and we will end up in HR
Not for developing countries. And ultimately it is important for them to get vaccinated too, otherwise they will form a huge reservoir of COVID that will inevitably mutate and come back around to us.
Take why Android phone that allows rooting and install your own stuff.
can this kind of trick be implemented in a compiler for any benefit?
I've had a couple.. and the strap breaks before the watch does.
Check out Yeelights. Similar to philips hue but more affordable. That plus smart plugs is a good place to start for a small apartment
PyPy Support for OS X arm64
Your comment about the docs and configuration is very true. This is a real weakness.

As for HA I use it a state and device manager, the automations are via an external program (AppDaemon)
Ask HN: Should I Build a Domain Name Management Platform?
Dear HN readers,
I'm thinking of building an open source domain name management platform where you can manage your domain names from multiple registras.

What you think?
Will that be helpful? If so what are the features you would like to have ?
There is a talk by Jonathan Blow about this topic:

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
If we’re relying on solely getting immunity ourselves then we’re in really bad shape, although its not been well communicated.

We need the vaccine to remove the virus from circulation, not just keep us safe from it as individuals.
I'm 100% sure both Google and Whatsapp have received nice letters from the NSA ensuring all of their messaging tools have backdoors.
HiDPI Support in Chromium for Wayland
Because privacy is a right. And being bribed into giving it up is not a solution.
>> Mammals rarely engage in repeated stereotypical behaviour when presented with
a task wherein they cannot directly obtain their goal, but will change their
behaviour and attempt different strategies. This could provide one possible
definition of intelligence in animals: the more complex the improvised
strategy, the more intelligent the animal. Other behaviours can also be used
as markers of intelligence and there are gradations in intelligence.

This is very tempting to accept. I have no idea how accurate it is (not a
specialist in the subject) but it certainly rings true to my experience.

I might have told the story of the Light Fixture of Death on HN before.
There's a light fixture where I stay in the summers, shaped like a quarter
sphere, on the wall inside the living room. In the summer, large, orange
hornets that have their nest in the chimney start coming out of the fireplace.
In the nighttime, if the Light Fixture of Death is on, they will, invariably,
draw a, well, beeline to it, stand on its edge, slide on its smooth interior and
immolate themselves onto the (incadescent) light bulb with a horrible sizzling
sound. The fixture has to be changed every once in a while because it fills up
with dead hornets. There's a black imprint above it, like you'd expect to see
over a candle or oil lamp, because of all the smoke of burning insects that
emanates from it.

There is no exception to this behaviour. As soon as a hornet enters the living
room via the fireplace, it will always, always fly to the Light Fixture of
Death and burn itself to death. If they come in from another side, say the
balcony doors, then they often miss it.

I've started to think that this is some kind of hallmark of insect
intelligence: they have a set of behaviours that are adaptive in the sense
that they can cope with the variations in an environment but that are also
limited in that they only work in specific environments- and outside of those
environments, an insect's very survival is basically down to luck. Again, I'm
no expert on this so I'm possibly talking bullshit, but I can't imagine the
same kind of stereotypical behaviour in cats or dogs. I mean, I see dead
strays on the edge of the road all the time, but then again I see so many
strays that are not hit by cars. There must be some variation in their
behaviours. Maybe not.

It's tempting also to see insect behaviour as the result of some kind of
million-years' optimisation process, not unlike gradient-based optimisation in
modern statistical machine learning. But that's stretching things way too far.
Do closed groups make sense from a business perspective? I'm in a few just to experience festering hate and conspiracy with a made-up identity (INTP from Jung-derived MBTI psychology). They seem a net negative for Facebook, unless there is golden marketing data involved.
Another issue that I find absurd: if I share a folder with a group in gsuite (aka mailing list), and add or remove members to the group, the permissions are not automatically updated.
What do you mean? You use this when you use the builtin os package of Go.

https://golang.org/pkg/os/