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Ask HN: What smart-home hardware felt magical to you?
I went deep into the DIY smart home rabbit hole, and after the microSD card of my HomeAssistant Pi failed, I came out of that hole and noticed that most of what I've done was pretty much not needed.

I had a dozen IKEA Tradfri switches and custom rotary encoders controlling everything in my house. From Tradfri bulbs to WLED RGBW LED strips, to 433MHz controlled plugs and Snapcast multi-room speakers. I even had switches that started random playlists on Spotify, or showed the weather and next bus stop on my Fire TV.

The only thing that I still use from that pile of waste is the motion controlled warm-white LED strip I soldered myself and flashed using ESPHome, because:

• it turns on when I enter the bathroom and it's brighter than most bulbs

• after bedtime it only turns on at 20% brightness

• it's local only, standalone, no Linux or hub needed

• I rarely have to manually adjust it, and for that it has a physical rotary encoder, no smartphone app needed

• it just works, I don't have to debug/restart/troubleshoot anything

Almost every friend that stayed the night and used our bathroom, asked me where they can buy such a thing, and I ended up creating 1-2 strips for each because there's nowhere to buy this set of features at a moderate price.

But I'm getting tired of soldering these strips for everyone, I'd love to buy a ready-made product that's at least similar in features (and price: ~$30)

Which is why I'm asking, what smart-home hardware have you bought (or hacked) that really made your life easier?
We could be free. The fences and iron bars that stop us from taking our world back from the billionaires, are mostly in our minds.
Tipping is part of the terminal flow. You touch your card or mobile device, choose the tip, then choose how you want your receipt. (This is in southern California, where terminals exist but are still rare.)
When you never move you don't notice your chains.
Domoino’s had 45+ minute wait times. That’s what got them in trouble.

Phones are an acceptable alternative if you can provide equivalent service.
I think neither is an important answer, but to reach neither, we have a lot to do:

1) we need a lot of counseling to the family. The ability for the family to feel safe and move on from the trauma is critical. Otherwise the cycle continues.

2) We need a lot of counseling and empathy training for the perp. The ability to understand what they did, and feel remorse past just the consequences faced is critical.

The craziest thing I've seen is when a guy was part of an armed robbery, and due to technical reasons didn't serve any time. He ended up turning everything around and becoming a massive boon to the community. The point here is we need to do what is right to society.

3) We need to take a person-by-person approach to rehabilitation.

4) We need to invest a lot of time into rehavbilitation spychaiatrists and groups vs just criminalization. This works in many countries. The sweedish island prison where every prisoner there feels honored to be given a chance at a productive life rather than incarceration. There are no walls, guards, escapes. There is only rehab.

This is an incredibly complex and nuanced problem that doesn't sound wonderful yelling from a podium for political points. But that's the point, real change is hard and nuanced.
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If you consider thread safety an aspect of memory safety, I still see those issues pop up in modern c++. And memory leaks in terms of ever growing maps still happen. But the only times I have seen use after free or similar in modern code is where there was a bit that wasn't so modern. Is there some list for clang tidy modernize that will treat using anything other than value semantics as a warning?
You're focusing on justice for the person who committed the crime.

What about justice for the person or people who were victims of the crime? What about justice for the society in which the crime took place?

While the perpetrator may be a wholly different person now, what if not everyone agrees that a crime, or the consequences of that crime, can be expiated so easily?
It's not "everyone has a vote". Some have more voting powers than others: "provides contributors with greater participation to have more votes"

Typically you can expect Gitea Ltd. employees to have greater participation.
Add a chart with monetary velocity next.
Not surprised to see you on here. I was the guy who got into the discussion about the merits of single mode vs multi mode with a few of your friends on Facebook a while ago. I was in the multi mode camp mainly due to cost reasons whereas they were in the single mode camp for future proofing reasons.

That said, the cost gap between MM and SM optics today is much smaller especially for 10G (and for the fiber itself it seems to have even reversed), so single mode definitely makes more sense. For some reason, MM fiber is still widely deployed in certain niche use-cases though. Not quite sure why.

For example, I know that it's used on modern military jets for their 10GBASE-SR networks. I wonder if it has something to do with being able to repair terminations in the field? I know MM is pretty forgiving that way. Or maybe it's just another case of them adopting whatever was popular at that exact moment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
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I have literally never had a doctor who was supportive of my disability, and when I finally sought out someone "queer friendly" they were more condescending and rude than most of the straight ones I'd interacted with. Purposefully unhelpful to the point I started reminding folks, why would you only kill yourself? These doctors might not harm you, but they'll purposefully avoid helping you, and that's the same.

(Maybe I should walk around Scott Township handing out fifty cent pieces so my opinion matters in 30 years like the local party officials used to in the park down the road from St Clair hospital -- I like how it's the same thing as if you hit a 21 in blackjack. I notice little things like that.)

Some of that is due to bouncing between insurances, so I clarified I'm eligible for an Italian passport to reduce the "Hi, I'm a shitty specialist but feel free to peruse a review website and pray to christ you don't have any meltdowns while I siphon up a few copays to pay for the degree I felt entitled because I refused to raise the minimum wage".

I hope it's coming through that while sometimes I can be intense in the comments section, if someone is so distrustful of the medical system they're considering emmigration it should be taken as an extreme signal.

But that's the problem -- no one ever has interacted with me like a victim or a peer in a medical context. I remember saying I wanted to be a horror writer and cautioned it might be better to stick to nonfiction when I was a teenager.

That's why I did things like point out when I turned 18 in February, I'd be legally able to buy an AR-15 during the 30 days it would take to try to evict me prior to graduation, because my parents were that kind of petty -- to this day they treat 911 like a customer service line... I had a cop bang on my door the other day because I hadn't called my mom.

(I tried telling them hey, I actually looked into being a domestic violence counselor, you need to stop coming here without a warrant, my mom is abusive and this is false concern but they just kind of ignored me -- the police, much like politicians, never actually seem to care what I say unless they agree, which is fine, but people tend to regret not listening to me.)

I hope for his safety he doesn't do that to someone with more severe anger issues, I've given up on trying to find a solution to that issue though -- I haven't had two weeks of quiet enjoyment of my home since Trump took office, and folks keep having increasingly terrible meltdowns when they fuck around and find out that I don't need to break the law to get them in line.

At this point, I'm debating if I should renew my medical marijuana card, since it seems like I'm just... rewarding a bunch of extortionists.
Copyleft has very little to do with this. The authors of a permissively licensed project keep their copyright as well, and nothing stops you from taking over a GPL-licensed project as a company as long as it stays open source. Copyleft only stops someone from distributing changes as closed source.
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Indeed the plastic bag trick works very very well in a lot of different use cases. I was able to pull twine over 500 feet with this technique while doing my driveway conduits.
> They seem to be abandoning the embedded market that made them a huge success in favour of trying to enter a super competitive server market where they are only one of many players.

There are two problems here: the assumption that they are "a huge success" and that the server market is "super competitive".

It is extremely clear that Arm is not "a huge success" as a company. They get squeezed by Qualcomm on a regular basis. The margins have been super-thin for many years, and development of initiatives to make ARM more broadly successful have been hamstrung by their own partners and customers who do not care to make the ARM platform bigger. They've hit their limits in the space they're in now.

There are only two players in the server market: AMD and Intel. There are specialized cases of "third leg" options, like the AWS-only Graviton built on ARM ISA and Ampere Altra based on ARM CPU designs on Azure and GCP. There's a ton more opportunity in the server space than the embedded space if they can just get things worked out there. Server customers are more high-value because they are more willing to upgrade equipment. Server designs usually have socketable CPUs, which means there is multiple opportunities to sell to the same customer within a 10 year timespan. It's also cheaper to sell to server customers, because there's less up-front engineering work required to build something to sell. It's just a way better market to target.
Who put them there?
Inspiring. If you can stay positive in that environment, what excuse do we have? Get it done!
Having gone through a very similar journey, it took around 2 years for me to completely disassociate myself from a specific programming language. It was more a 'me' problem since I leaned on to a programming language rather than a problem domain.

I still consider myself a systems programmer mostly writing glue code in Go/Python and jumping into C/C++ as required to improve performance when required.
Workers of biggest iPhone factory in China flee on foot from Covid restriction
This talk was at the right level for me. Briefly it covers the goal, a broad list of implementations, and ultimately resolves to interesting questions currently being considered for Zig.
We're talking about work and corporate world.

If I strongly disagree with the new CEO's opinion or company values, I can move on.

None of these things you mention would suddenly make me:

- receive joy from other people's misfortunes

- make others lose money on purpose

- sabotage and attempt to destroy a company

For me, someone who does these things (that OP originally mentioned), is someone very far away from being ethical.

Hence my original point, if you think it's ok to go behind behind people's back because suddenly there's a new CEO at some company, you were never honorable.

What you really have done is just made yourself an excuse to act who you truly are. Someone who'd say everything's ok and fake a smile in front of your colleagues while lurking behind the backs destroy people’s work.

I very much dislike this loud, ego-centric, self-righteous "I know better" political individualism, where a person thinks it's suddenly OK to "have fun and destroy".

People forgot about dialogue and compromise.
I think there are two issues you don't address. Death is final. There's no later exoneration if you've killed someone and it seems pretty clear that this has happened. State and federal governments have executed innocent people.

The second is that content of this article itself. The author does not sound thrilled to be in solitary; but the author also seems to have found meaning in life. Do you think that the author would choose death over the life he has forged for himself? I don't think so.
That happens every time an empire declines. The Roman empire had a globalized economy, and that ended up collapsing into the medieval period of hyper-localization. The collapse of the Dutch and British empires had similar results. The American empire is collapsing now, and globalization is the first casualty.

Fun fact: Victorian England even had several very successful uber-like businesses (phone ordering aggregators in this case).
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Humanoids have been around for millions of years. In universal timescales language has existed as long a TV.

I’m arguing figurative identity built through linguistic structures is bad for us. That it binds inner monologue to circling fantasy. That’s it’s entirely built on emotional policing; reinforced preservation of spoken story and tradition, which binds agency to pledges of allegiance, other words of power.

Whether it’s good or bad, I don’t know. That’s too simple a set of choices. I don’t think it has much to do with engineering tolerances to build a bridge or machine. I see how it’s correct use is babysat by the educated, as is spoken tradition. But I have yet to see how those educated are more than one of billions.

I don’t buy into figurative identity. It’s all a bit repetitive. If I can just dismiss the truth in language I have a hard time seeing how it matters in concrete terms?

To be real this is a perspective I’ve adopted over time. I’m in my 40s. I used to love creative writing and fiction. Now it all seems prosaic and repetitive relative to experimental discovery. I don’t use English to guide my next experiment but the measurements of the previous one.

If, as a normal human, one of billions, can function like this successfully it’s hard to see language as a fundamental requirement of doing and more of a historical barnacle like religious texts.

Edit: I really don’t care about comment scores and online reps either. Chemical addiction to doing what’s acceptable in the aggregate is exactly the argument against language I’m making. Infinite potential sentences of meaning, constrained by politically correct memory.

I would hope it’s obvious words are not stored as real things in us. Speaking and writing are trained mechanical behavior. If you merely train the smallest amount of language possible, behavior is tailored to defend that language. This isn’t really a novel idea.
"bad because observing the common pathologies among rich people and the known detrimental effects those pathologies have on the people that the rich exert influence on"
Only now do I realise that "Goodenough" is a real person's name, and neither a placeholder name nor a case of Emphasis Via Capital Letters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough
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> American's dominance in technology, finance, and entertainment would not be possible to sustain without it.

Yes, without it, other nations could develop competitive industries at the top of the food chain and their citizens would have options other than working in sweatshops.

Globalization comes packaged with many demands that primarily benefit Western corporations and make it very difficult to rise above subservience.

(China rose largely because they ignored these demands, violated Western intellectual property laws, restricted the transfer of money in and out of the country, heavily regulated foreign companies, and had enough strength not to be sanctioned, invaded, or overthrown for doing so.)
When working for a hospital, it’s an admin somewhere. When in private practice, the insurer generally has geographic monopoly, so I sign off on whatever they shove in my face if I intend to accept their patients. The only time I have a real say in price is in private practice for uninsured patients, which is where I set aside a piece of my time for charity care.
I think we thought they were a lot more sophisticated than they actually were. But shock and awe was designed to basically neutralize all of that anyway. The Navy was the night shift and that included a lot of tomahawk missiles too. The Air Force was the daytime campaign so there was a lot of capability to take out different threats.

The biggest threat I remember was we were very sure Saddam had chemical weapons (mostly because we sold them to him previously, but I digress). So we had to carry gas masks and did chemical attack drills alot. We also were forced to take many shots including small pox and an experimental anthrax shot. Many of my friends have medical conditions they believe are related to those shots.
I also enjoyed the movie adaption of it, especially the weird psychedelic visuals, but I’m glad I read the book first.
> designated as a male at birth in the uncommon case of being born with inadequately formed male genitals and maintaining that designation into adulthood.

I find it interesting that you spend most of your message talking about the biological precedent of calling someone with a penis and a scrotum "man", yet even within your ideological construction you have to allow for some wiggle room.

> It does not refer to the feelings or self-image of persons designated "transexual males"

Says who? My FtM friends are "men" just like my friends with a penis that consider themselves men.

>if the new meanings they seek for those words are not accepted by their societies.

Trans stuff isn't particularly new. Being taken seriously is what's new for us. Apologies if that's a little uncomfortable for you as a cis person, that must be very very very difficult to deal with.

> Being unable to accept that the meanings of words is as they are understood by the parties in the discussion is a sign of emotional immaturity

If you'd like further reading on how sex and gender work, I suggest Gender Trouble by Judith Butler.
"Gitea Ltd. will be open to building special versions for special clients and will contribute any features back to the main repository when possible" pretty much means that they won't contribute back everything. That's what you get when contributing to MIT licensed code.
The “nifty fifty” is certainly not forgotten and absolutely a great buy.
I didn't read this as open core.

The previous point from the quote was that the project remains MIT.
The following point was that contracts favorable to those conditions would also be preferred and recommended.

At sounds like some contracts might need bespoke functionality to me.
It doesn't parrot Putin's lies, so from this perspective I guess you could call it "one-sided".

It does mention the agreements again 16 posts later, the background is really important here.
And a turing complete language delivered from a third party over said network connection to be executed locally will exponentially increases that risk, no?

> JavaScriot runtimes are quite well audited meanwhile.

Given (for example) the leftpad trainwreck, is that really true?
There already is a directive on open access to public sector data. It does not force any particular standard, protocol, let alone concrete data/interface schema. It just states data publishers must openly publish documentation, use industry standards, open data formats and protocols, and publish machine readable and processable data.

Of course there wonʼt be a mandate on exact API endpoints or data structures for every kind of service anyone could possibly create. That would be an impossible undertaking even for a bureaucracy like the EU.
If you're learning React, you shouldn't let yourself get bogged down all the JS toolings, build tools, etc. It can all be quite overwhelming, and the best way to learn a new topic it to learn it in isolation before bringing those concepts into the big picture.

You can get started with this right away, simply type `react.new` into any browser and it will bring up a brand new, ready to go codesandbox in which you can write code, see your changes update live, save your drafts, and eventually download your code and run it direct on your machine. Even as an experienced React dev, I still spin these up all the time for little experiments and proofs.

Once you're ready to actually build a website, you'll probably want to start with an established framework like NextJS[0].

0: https://nextjs.org/docs
Broadening out, this reminds me of one of the most eye-opening classes I've ever taken (and it was back in high-school!) -- Comparative Government/Politics: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-comparative-...

Was one of the few "see-the-matrix" moments I've had in my life.
I think this is talking about direct (line) managers.

But I’ve had managers who lead. I’ve had managers who facilitate. I’ve had managers who manage their boss (which overlaps with facilitation but is different). I’ve had managers who only serves as tiebreakers. All have their value, but it’s very hard to relate to someone who doesn’t want to do any of those. Especially ones who are scribes.

Why is being a scribe bad? You only chronicle data that you don’t participate in so that later you can report on who did what. In other words, it’s not my fault it was Steve who made that decision.

And then we had Mike whose only job seemed to be getting promotions. Still have no idea what he did all day, except get promotions. Wouldn’t lead, wouldn’t tie break, didn’t chronicle, didn’t up manage, barely down managed.
So is prison meant to reform or punish? Life without parole clearly means the person will never renter society, so there’s no point in reforming. It’s just punishment. So why not allow the guy to read literature? Or is it because that would be enjoyable for inmates, and we want them to be punished? But the analogy of a tree falling in the woods and no one around to hear it is apt. I can’t think of a single time I’ve contemplated how prisoners are punished and thought “man it’s so great they’re sitting in there bored out of their minds, this makes my life so much better and I feel happy about it.” They’re completely removed from society, they may as well be on Mars. It has no bearing on me or anyone else whether they’re having a good or shit miserable time. They will never leave, they will die in there. Can’t they just read a goddamn book if they want to?
Pictures of the guy are not what was initially painted by the mainstream, I know that much!
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If I had only one lens, it would be a 50mm prime. I have 3, mind you, a 35mm, 50mm and 90mm, but 99% of the time, I only attach the 50mm to the camera; zero regrets.
Even if you don't want to give up life in prison; it doesn't have to be as horrendous conditions as US prisons are.
At this point it seems a lot more likely you are projecting your own irrationality and helplessness onto others. Reasoning from correlation alone isn't going to get you very far.
As someone else said, maintaining control is something the US has struggled with, and while we may be able to project power over a really wide area, I don’t think we’ve shown that we can (or want to, really) maintain it.