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Dreaming in animals is a well researched and proven phenomenon.

https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/what-do-dogs-dre...

> One of the most famous of these dream experiments involved lab rats. Rats in the experiment spent all day running in a maze. Scientists monitored the brain activity of the rats in the maze and compared it to the brain activity of the rats during REM sleep. What they discovered was that the same areas of the rats’ brains lit up during REM sleep as when they were running the maze, suggesting that the rats were likely to be dreaming of the maze. By comparing the data, the researchers could figure out where exactly in the maze the rats were dreaming about.

There's more in that article on dogs specifically, including studies where they chemically disabled the pons, which is the part of the brain stem in vertebrate mammals (humans included) that stops us from acting out our dreams while asleep (and which is involved with disorders such as sleep walking and night terrors).

Just like you deduced, the dogs are just literally dreaming about all the stuff they usually do while awake.
well supported mainline Linux

This is one of the main advantages for hobbyists.
Most sales are completely for no necessary utility now — often not even convenience even.

You need to create psychological need to get the buyer into an unnecessary product or service because frankly they are already over served.

This is mostly a sign of our economy being built on post-need. It’s sad because somehow we still heap suffering on ourselves as we run ragged to come up with faster ways to inject digital heroine into our kids veins.
So you're saying that the Pi is a proverbial Toyota Hilux and people are buying it to highway commute to work and back instead of using it for what it was meant for, and then saying it compares poorly to sedan? Yea, no shit.

If you're not using the GPIO or any of the ribbon cable peripherals there are much better options out there. But a Pi will be able to do things those machines never will.
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I recently spent some time looking into exactly this. I ultimately decided to go with an N100 running Proxmox. It is a wonderful compromise between power utilization and compute.

The N100 was roughly $50 more than the Pi 5 (after adding storage to the Pi). The idle cost to power both is roughly $5/year for the Pi5 and $10/year for an N100 (based on local electricity rates YMMV).

I'd argue the Pi still has a purpose: Running it off of battery/solar is likely better, it is physically smaller, and it also has pin-outs and documentation/software to support it. If all you're after though is a small-low power usage computer, it may not be the first choice anymore.
After 13.8 billion years, why hasn’t the Big Bang faded away?
Basically, we all have specifics, I focus on RF/Wireless Security projects for government... so you can imagine the sales cycle... sometimes there is overlap and we work together.
It should be unfair labor practice. Also, what does it achieve? It is not going to increase retention significantly, on the contrary, they will likely get lower eNPS.

By the way in Germany employers are legally obliged to provide a reference (Arbeitszeugnis). Most of them that I have seen were too positive and sometimes obviously exaggerated.
This seems like snake oil/security theater to me. If someone is sitting in front of your unlocked computer and you don't have a master password set, aren't there a ton of ways to steal your saved passwords despite this, e.g., going to the site and then using the developer tools to extract the password after it fills it, copying the entire profile and uploading it somewhere, or running a custom build of Firefox with this check removed?
> 4. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

Excellent. Continue the good work.
What law would this policy violate? What’s the basis for the suit? That you think it might be anti-competitive because it reduces labor mobility?
You'll lose because it isn't unfair or anti-trust. It's not nice, but there's nothing illegal about it.

The first amendment is widely interpreted to mean that you can't compel speech. Requiring a company to write recommendation letters would be compelling speech. That would be unconstitutional.

(And it doesn't matter if an individual manager would like to write a letter of recommendation but corporate policy is against it. The manager is paid by the company, would be sharing company information, and is an agent of the company in this regard.)
Agreed. The whole premise of this article is absurd. An apples to oranges a comparison. The Pi is a platform for embedded systems development and design. And is excellent for what it is designed for. It's not a desktop workstation.
If I understand you correctly, it would be very easy to do extend this in the code sample here: https://taylor.town/pg-task

For a given payload, you can spawn threads for processing however you want.
i would say yes, a lot of things fail from a lack of kindness.

Tesla self driving
Tesla robotaxi
Tesla park summon
Tesla cybertruck
Tesla solar roof tiles
Boring company
etc etc

One of the main things that Toyota Production System brings to manufacturing is the concept of respect, everything is supposed to be based on respect for each other. Maybe people fall short of that alot of the time, but that is the goal and intrinsic to all their other techinques like genchi genbutsu, kanban, just in time, waste elimination, etc.
have you overslept 2020-2022?
Yes. I will. And I upvoted you because I think it is HN duty to help you out, and not bury you.

If someone is fucking up, they are in the wrong position. People need to work for a living, and shouldn't be under duress constantly. It is up to them and their manager to find a position that is rewarding and engaging for them.

If they don't care, they are also in the wrong position.

It is no reason to not treat them with kindness. You don't have to blow them, but you don't need to be UNkind, as several have said below.

The only people I don't treat with kindness are people who are legitimately trying to hurt me and people I love, or promote hateful ideas with glee. People who are failing at their job need help.

And if they still annoy you, then I think the problem might be in how you view the situation. Compassion helps with anger. Try to think about why you are so angry, and if it really matters or helps to be so angry. Especially if you are not the manager. If you are the manager, consider that maybe the job isn't for you. You shouldn't be pissed at work all day!!
Studies have been done where they deactivate the sleep paralysis chemistry from dogs and they literally run at full speed while dreaming. Pretty wild.
Call me when they not only understand the offside rule and the reasons for its introduction, but can provide a comprehensive summary of the ways it has contributed to the perception of soccer as a slow paced & uninteresting sport, and go on to advocate for its removal in favor of a more tactical distribution of players on the court and higher points per game, along with the various benefits those entail.

Now that'd be intelligence.
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But what do you use Pi GPIO for? Using Pi GPIO directly leaves pins unconfigured or stuck while your app is inactive. Aren't most need for GPIO better served by Arduino + PC?
It's exactly the same GDPR that every country in the EU has. That recruitment practice sounds like it could be a breach, I would go ahead and submit a SAR just to put the frighteners on them to be honest.
s/sophisticated/complex/

FTFY
The old rule of thumb that you want the bandwidth to be 3 to 5x your baud rate is no longer true. It has been found that BW as low as 0.7x has very little effect in TDECQ and so the newest optical ethernet standards have moved to that for standards testing and the electrical standards will likely soon follow.
This BW is also applied as a 4th order Bessel-Thompson instead of an oldschool 1st order gaussian response.

Real-time scopes go up to 110 GHz now! Sampling scopes are unfortunately dying out now a days.
As a Russian, I hate it when people do this. It's extremely annoying when you just click some random interesting-looking link from HN or Reddit or Twitter only to be greeted by a 403 or a connection timeout. Then you turn your VPN on, and magically, it loads just fine.
It's a video generation service, and also would stripe "refund" those "legitimate" customers if they hadn't requested those refunds or were payment spamming or something? Theres a few rather obvious reasons to suspect we're not getting the full story here lol
Yes, the Intel-based one supports Quick Sync.
Funny, because Alexnet came out in 2012 and Inception in 2014. So the problem was already more or less solved when the comic was drawn, but the DL craze hadn't reached the masses yet.
Microchips SAM9x60D1G is 128MByte / 1Gbit of onboard DRAM on package.

Single core lol ARMv5 because I assume someone out there still wants Jazelle or something? Updated to 600MHz.

More recent SAM9x75 is 800MHz but still ARMv5. So Microchip coming in with all the ARMv5 that the market wants today!
If you’re in a small apartment or sensitive to noise, I think it’s still worth considering the Pi or a new fanless N100 system.

I bought a tiny Lenovo i5-6500 system on eBay, and while it’s fantastic from a price/performance perspective, you can still hear a subtle whine when the ambient noise drops.

Which makes total sense - the acoustic output is probably not a major consideration when they’re optimizing for footprint and cost.
I find TFA interesting because I've got at home, both on my desk and in the closet, a mix of Raspberry Pis and... HP EliteDesk mini PCs / NUCs. I mean: literally the same HP EliteDesk as pictured in TFA. I bought three HP EliteDesk that were decommissioned from a nearby NATO base (so I bought them factory reset and without any hard disk in them).

One advantage the EliteDesk do have is that they are not ARM, which can help at times when I need to run that's only shipped as an image and that wasn't compiled for ARM. I know there are other ways but, well, when that happens I just run that on the EliteDesk.

Now the very obvious advantage the Raspberry Pi have: no fans. That is, to me, a big one. A huge one. My main PC is so quiet that I do hear the EliteDesk's fans when I turn one on. Typically I'll just run a Plex server at home on the EliteDesk and only turn it on when I want to stream something: the rest of the time they're off.

The Pi do run servers not requiring lots of CPU: like an unbound DNS server.

I don't see these as mutually exclusive: they can be complementary.

If I had to pick only one I'd probably still pick a Pi though.
There is more and better GPIO support for Arduino, ESP32 and STM32 than anything Linux based.
Does this mean self-awareness? I feel like this topic is sometimes mincing words, why would an animal not be conscious?

My computer knows exactly how much free memory it has, which is more than I know about my own capacity… why is it not considered conscious? Isn’t this ultimately all just inputs, outputs, and the ability to keep record of things changing over time?
Am I the only one not against intrusive surveillance provided it's the company computer?
"A know-it-all who doesn't understand anything" sounds fine in English to my ear.
It's not really anticompetitive though. It doesn't make getting another job harder because virtually nobody is getting references. Everyone's on the same playing field here.

Letters of recommendations, or even reference phone calls, are something that are widespread in academia and in entry-level service jobs. Like if you want to be a server or bartender, they want to make sure you were actually showing up at your last job and didn't steal money from the register.

They're not really a thing in the corporate world. Your technical expertise, certifications, and dates of employment pretty much speak for themselves. At least in the US.
My advice (as an older person) is to 'stop reading and start doing'. You will and can learn and get a feel for business by actual transactions with people and in particular directly with them. Where you can observe reactions (ie facial expressions) and by asking questions or offering information/answers. Especially helpful (again from personal and lucrative experience) is when you can observe reactions from some kind of interaction. (In this order: in person, by phone, by email, by text). Each has it's advantages and disadvantages (ie 'in person' less interaction (travel time etc.) but more info gleaned.

This is quite different than traditional 'manage by numbers' or 'do surveys'.
A ton of people use Pis as small home servers and for that use case, there are imho better options.
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I think few people could deny that animals can dream, or feel pain, or fear, or happiness, or change behavior in response to reward/punishment, or figure out how to use simple tools, or how to work together to hunt or find food, as all these things are trivially observable.

I don't think that animals have a higher-order awareness of these things in other creatures. A bird will eat an insect, or a cat will hunt and kill a bird without troubling itself over whether its prey is conscious. They just see it as food.

So maybe not so different from humans, after all!
I cruise thrift stores for wacky items, taking photos so as not to waste money, unless something is genuinely useful.

Illuminati t-shirt, 5x7 inch playing cards, Prosecco Pong game, AOL pager, poker dartboard, Star Wars fighter waffle iron, Bob Ross chia pet, solar-powered prayer wheels, Dalek ice cube mold (OK, I bought that one)

Happy thrifting.
>But what if you get a bad letter of recommendation and sue about it?

This is trivial to solve: both former employer and employee sign the letter, declaring that information in it is full, correct and they have no objections. It would be much harder to sue if you previously agreed that the letter is ok for you.
Okay, I stand corrected. Your measurements showed an entire 1% effect!
Definitely a good book. As someone who is very prone to ruinous empathy, the mantra, “it isn’t mean, it’s clear” has been very helpful for giving me the courage to raise issues earlier, when they are not a big deal.
If anyone tells you different you can take stacks like Beanstalk VERY FAR. Probbably way further than you want to. We just moved our highest TPS (Transactions per second) and OPS (Objects Per Second) service off of beanstalk after 7 years. At peak this service was serving around 1.1M TPS and around 8M OPS with peaks up to 3M TPS and 14M OPS. It was horizontally scaled and run by about .25 engineers. That was actually the main problem. That and the company got real good at running ECS. Our services are all golang so beanstalk eventually was getting in the way, and one of our last major issues had to do with nginx proxy on bean stalk not keeping up with our go service. There's several other edge cases with Beanstalk like how to do health checks right, and speed of deploys esp when they get wedged. But if you know it you can, as we found, go very far with it, powering a core feature of a very large web property (check my bio).

Am I happy we moved off, yes. Was I impressed how big we took a very simple "starter" setup, also yes. Again one of the biggest reasons was that all of our competence in the company was no longer on beanstalk but on ECS where we had solved the issues we had with it with more complex setups more in our control. If I were starting again would I use Beanstalk? no not me personally but when we started ecs didn't exist and beanstalk was better than bare EC2. now I know and am comfortable with ECS. Did it help the company? very much so, we leveraged the heck out of Beanstalk to scale the company horizontally and vertically.
Amazon review:

“Lost my job and livelihood getting caught with this. Had to give up kids to adoption due to health care costs. Definitely jiggled the mouse though. 3 stars.”
Fair. We've worked well together for past 1.5 years, but I suspect it might be because our roles & boundaries were clearly defined. We didn't have that talk when we kicked off this venture.

Early on I broached the topic with list of questions such as how do we disagree, how to handle breakup, hot buttons, practices/guidelines around finances. I need to push again to get those answers.
Nor this:

> Many people with STSS also need surgery to remove infected tissue

(From the CDC "Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome" page, link in other comments here.)
It is a fairly new thing in the security/privacy academic research community (probably just in the last 5 years or so, and still spreading), but a very welcome one. Not only does it encourage reproducability, but it also helps authors have a broader impact if their work is in evaluating ideas and offering practical proofs-of-concept that other people can easily build upon. It's all optional for the venues I deal with, yet lots of people do turn in artifacts for their accepted papers. For all we know, the next Let's Encrypt (itself partially a University of Michigan project) could start as a submitted artifact.

Other calls for artifacts if you're curious:

- https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/call-for-...

- https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2025/submisions/call-for-...

- https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2024/call-for/call-for-artifac...
> I think it’s still worth considering the Pi or a new fanless N100 system. I bought a tiny Lenovo i5-6500 system on eBay, and while it’s fantastic from a price/performance perspective, you can still hear a subtle whine when the ambient noise drops.

This. I basically made nearly the same comment somewhere else in this thread. But then we have similar nicknames so...
I have SSH access to my server behind a VPN. Not opening port 22 makes life a lot easier.
It's less likely, but bacteria do cause pandemics. Yersinia pestis, the most well-known example. Or Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is still a major cause of death today.

Or even parasites, such as plasmodium.
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Please don't use HN primarily for promotion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Which different provider did you go with?

I actually fell back to Gmail for the time being - I just don't like to "advertise" any Google product for known reasons, even though Gmail is a quite solid product, sorry about the confusion - but that's my temporary solution.

I am planning to either give Migadu a try or host my own mail provider. (I have seen some good feedback about https://mailcow.email)
You keep saying "reasonable" to mean things which are literally not derived from reasoning.
I really don't.

Be aware of your threat model and the risks associated.
I think they are comparing a $700 micro PC to an $80 Raspberry pi, but pretending they are in the same price range since the micro PC is available cheap in the refurb market.
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Sonos removes a promise to not sell personal data, gets busted by users
It's not allowed, but you'd have to sue if you uncover one such questionnaire, which is a hassle.

So instead, lying on your answer is not sue-able. Which makes including such questions ineffective.
I'm not hardware designer and I'd like to learn more about getting into freelancing and consulting, do you have any pointers?
I'm an American who has recently fallen in love with ukiyo-e and shin-hanga. Hiroshige is my favorite artist right now. I'm hanging a print on my wall today for the first time. Really cool stuff!
Cameras on in their bedroom seeing a wooden bird peck at it while typing executive reports fed by gpt-6.
You can get new Mini PCs for not much more than a Pi 5, especially if you want an 8GB model, case etc. $150-$200 will get you an okay bottom barrel Intel PC with support for stuff like SATA and M.2 SSDs which are more annoying to have on the Pi.
'If you want to have a good party, ask your friends not to take photos'
A complete list: https://www.smart-jokes.org/klingon-software.html

Though I agree that's the standout quote from the list. I've used it before at work, as appropriate.
The Model 1B was $35 (in 2012 dollars) and the still available Model 4B starts at $35? It might even be argued that the Model 1B's successor is more the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W for $15, which is cheaper than the original.

The Raspberry Pi 5's base model does start at $60 but its specs are too different for a comparison to be meaningful.

[EDIT] Oops, I hadn't realized the 4B with 1 GB was discontinued. So the starting price of the 4B would be $45 for the 2 GB version.
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Full headline: “Denmark vs Slovenia, Euro 2024: Christian Eriksen’s first Euros start since cardiac arrest; Major talking points from DEN v SVN”

Yeah, maybe not exactly HN subject matter, but related to my second-ever submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27485714

He just scored the first goal of the game. (And Denmark’s first of the tournament, I assume; think this is their first game.) Seems he's playing with an “Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator” (ICD) device, which isn't allowed in Italy where he played at the time, which is why he moved to Brentford (England): https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/03/football/christian-erikse...
Ah, yes, it was my own comment :D Sorry for the confusion. What I meant was that bog-standard chemical rockets work just fine for ~100 km/s if the payload mass is low enough and you use enough stages.
“There is no way to opt-out of the new Sonos user agreement without returning the products purchased. The uproar is similar to the a recent and similar PR debacle that befell Adobe when it changed its terms of service for Creative Cloud apps and hosting.”
It is ok if it will re emerge in a million years.
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I use two of them (Lenovos) in my small homelab. They take up 1U side-by-side so they’re great if you have limited space.
What country are you in and what type of job?

In the US at the corporate level, this would be extremely unusual.

Not to mention how is it even useful? It's the easiest thing in the world to fake by passing along the phone number of a friend claiming to be a co-worker and full of effusive praise for you. It's not like most companies list the phone numbers of their employees somewhere publicly that you could verify.

Decades ago when I was a bartender, it was common practice for your "reference" to be a buddy who would pretend to be the manager at your last restaurant.
my experience was with an ASR-33. The paper was not oiled and it did not travel all that fast through the reader.
yes, i used ordinary scotch tape.
how it was done:

punch your 'patch'. make sure there are a couple of feet of nothing before and after (no data, just paper with the sprocket holes in it).

cut into the 'master' tape at the right point.

tape in your patch.

duplicate the 'master' to make a new master. the ASR-33 had a mode where it would duplicate a tape.
I think the main point is that you know the company/product support isn't just going to disappear into the sunset in 2 years and you're stuck with an increasingly outdated hacked together kernel thrown over a wall
Absolute nightmare fuel.

A lot of you here might not like the reality of this fact, but cryptographic currency was designed precisely to guard against abuse like this. It can't protect you if you give your traditional payment processor direct access to your traditional bank account, but it can absolutely allow customers to continue doing business with you in events like these.

If your customers genuinely want to continue using your online services and if your service is legal, then people will jump through the hopes to pay you in cryptographic currency if they have to. I certainly have.
I don't think I know a single IT professional that would allege that Linux viruses don't exist.