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xv6 is now targeting RISC-V and has displaced MINIX as a better pedagogical tool in my opinion.

MINIX is dead for multiple reasons, including technical ones [1]. Simply put, its design and implementation are no longer fit for purpose on modern systems. At this point, starting over from scratch would probably be more effective than trying to address all of its issues.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34916261
i ask on SO or irc usually if i get stuck, sometimes reddit.
Its almost like some PR gestures are irrelevant when actual SHTF, and then you see intents and corresponding actions in clear.
For sure. Done is better than perfect and iteration is a great strategy. I wouldn't have made this criticism if I'd realized you agonized over it.
I had a similar situation with my shutter blinds. The company wanted €500 to install a "smart hub" to enable voice control instead of their little remote. To hell with that, I ordered a couple of servos and an esp8266 and 3d printed some little fingers that would press the buttons on the remote and added the whole thing to HomeAssistant via ESPHome. Cost me less than €30.
> Is there CP/violent content in Instagram? Nope. In Facebook? Nope. In YouTube? nope.

Yes. Infact you can find public groups, pages and channels posting all kind of illegal stuff (drugs, weapons, fraud, dox..)
Do you understand but just don't agree?

Can we help in increasing understanding on why people have certain opinions in this topic?

Or do you kinda know why and are expressing a kind of disagreement and disapproval of holding the opinions?
I am confused - aren't these boxes basically fancy three phase outlets? They probably have some safety fuses and some comms equipment, but the 'core' of the system is basically copper wire that connects you to the grid.
This post well summarises everything that is wrong with the current domotic / home automation space.

You either waste a tons of money on consumer grade product, and spend even more when they break, or you become a domain expert, hacking your way through it and running HomeAssistant (or similar)
May I ask what your opinion is on secret sharing with Substitution Cipher instead of Shamir’s Secret Sharing? I see many implementations of SSS so I was just wondering why people find SSS preferable over using something very simple like Substitution Cipher? Maybe I have overlooked something that make Substitution Cipher much less feasible.
Planned obsolescence is when you purposefully design it to fail as soon as possible (but past any warranty period), to force repeat purchase.
It could be a custom zetasql extension leaked into the paper.
Not a physicist so this may not be related but AFAIU magnetic fields must change to produce current. Just having a magnetic field does not imply electrical current.
I find it deeply uncomfortable that the HN contingent is rushing to defend the French government on this matter.

The European Union has been angling for more comprehensive access to messaging platforms with proposal after proposal.

Everyone here loves to sing the praises of the EU but broad regulatory powers is not a clear cut value proposition: European governments and those governed have a long history of oppression.

What's more, many of the broad regulatory powers have been used successfully by despotic regimes like China as cudgels not only to break apart monopolies (good) but to demand unfettered access to data (bad).

These accusations made by the French government of conspiracy on one individual and alleged invitations by a head of state to entrap should be chilling to anyone observing. It reminds me of what happened to Jack Ma, when Ant threatened the CPC's interests.

If Telegram really was not answering enforcement requests in a timely manner, then France should have moved against the company either through a direct ban on the app itself or other court action. Putting its CEO in prison sends a message. That message should be terrifying to anyone who values a free society.
Recurring order functionality is typically delegated to a third party app in Shopify land; the two biggest incumbents in this space have pretty ordinary UX so it’s likely you were looking at one of those.

More recent entrants in the market do a much better job on this front.
>A customer managed to store their spare parts ashore (!)

I'm going to bet they /never/ had to use those spare parts before and thought they were dead weight.

Happens everytime. That box of cables you threw out last week because you never opened it in the past 20 years? Yeah, something just broke and you need one of those cables now.

Happens. Every. Fucking. Time.

And everyone wonders why I look like a chronic hoarder.
> ISPs liable for crimes committed using their services?

If you host illegal content from your home network, the police alert your ISP, and the ISP did nothing, you can be sure the police will arrest them too.
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I think it's actually pretty typical for important electrical interfaces to not be public or royalty-free, as much as I wish that wasn't the case.

That's not to say the government shouldn't get involved. I think the bigger thing here is that if an industry group is specifically setting things up so that Linux is shut out of having high-end video support, then it looks an awful lot like cartel behavior -- industry incumbents are working together to lock out a competitor. Maybe it could be the basis of an anti-trust lawsuit?

Presumably Apple and Microsoft would have the most to gain. Microsoft is a member of the forum. Apple doesn't appear to be, but an Apple guy is on their board of directors.

I'm not a lawyer and I don't know how such a lawsuit would work. Who represents Linux in this case, since it's not owned by any one company. Linus Torvalds? AMD? And would all the companies involved in the HDMI forum be liable for the behavior of the forum (which would include AMD)? Does intentionality matter? I.e. if Linux was excluded accidentally rather than deliberately?

https://hdmiforum.org/about/hdmi-forum-board-directors/
https://hdmiforum.org/members/
There are so many companies that I am sure countless individuals have come along and have solved a problem for themselves that many other customers probably have. These solutions hardly ever surface.

I for one was upset when I bought a HiFi amp from Cambridge Audio (CXA-81) and it came with an IR controller. The only way to be able to control that amp through the app is by means of a DAC which costs another couple of thousand dollars. I refused to accept this as my solution. I wrote a web server that used a Raspberry Pi Zero W and an IR transmitter along with a rudimentary Android app that had a series of buttons which corresponded to the functionalities I needed.

If anyone is interested the web server (written in Go) that the Android app talks to is located here https://github.com/ozfive/CXA81-IR-Remote-Server

I will upload the the Android app source in the next week.
Not in Europe, where we pay the same price as those who do have access to it.
It wasn't a "false prosecution", it was just legal efforts against prostitution (with all of its accompanying baggage like underage prostitution and trafficking). Like it or not, once you have a goal in mind like shutting down backpage for its prostitution business (pimping), then its game on for attorneys.

"Authorities say the site generated $500 million in prostitution-related revenue from its inception in 2004 until it was shut down by the government in 2018."

thats a boatload of money lol
HashMap in 25 Lines of C
I've been looking for ultra cheap x86 core-hours. Right now I'm running a 24c WRX80 machine at home, but my experiment really needs something closer to 1000 cores. They don't need to be particularly fast and latency/storage isn't a concern either. Each logical thread needs about 2 gigs to do the job.

The part that's really frustrating me is that I genuinely don't care about reliability. The experiment can deal with some lost nodes and progress. I don't want to pay for the reliability when I don't need it.

The only thing stopping me from putting more machines at home is the power and cooling. Colocation at the cheapest provider in town with 2nd hand gear is at the top of my list right now.
Neil Gaiman (in "Goliath," from the Matrix comic series, collected later in his "Fragile Things" anthology) said that humans linked to the Matrix were used as processors, not batteries.

This guy has a link to a PDF, might be better copies out there somewhere: https://english97withclay.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/read-goli...
That's where the wear levelling comes in, still expose 8GB of space to the host device, but internally have I dunno, twice that in cell capacity that you can move bits to as other cells wear out.

Its a shame mobile devices don't have a SMART equivalent, would be nice to have some warning as something approaches the end of its life.
> Again, I think you are focusing on differences at the fringes.

Ah, I see.

My perspective is that this comes up so often, in so many people, that it reveals an underlying truth: there's no such thing as "normal", not even in humans.

As you say, we agree that it's a spectrum :)

> "I can only be sure that I am real, everyone else is a construct of my mind"

No solipsism here: even though is unclear to me how to determine the boundaries, I still have a probability distribution that's got most of its mass somewhere between "most humans are conscious" and "most big mammals are conscious" — the fact I can't prove either panpsychists or A J Ayer wrong doesn't mean I have to take either seriously.

Now, that said, "most" humans. There's people who act like they're not really there. Is that behaviour indicative of an inner absence? IDK.

Even in the most extreme human case, that of anencephaly (*do not* google that unless you have an iron stomach), I'd rather not let them be treated poorly, for the same reasons I will never consume insect-based food: just because they fall outside the region where I put most of my probability of finding consciousness, doesn't mean I'm actually confident that it's absent.

(This also applies to AI, but as they share zero evolutionary history I have zero reason to expect an AI which does have subjective experience mapping "what they do" and "how do they feel about it" in anything like the way we do; could be all laughs and smiles on the outside while hating every second, just as Stephen Fry describes some of his depressive episodes, except even then this is over-anthropomorphising and even an AI modelled on a human brain scan may be much more different from this example than any two humans are different from each other).
I wonder if the HDMI forum can be considered a gatekeeper in terms of the EU's DMA. Their influence on the market is rather indirect, but I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of the EU uses HDMI every single day.
Having at least 2 web servers and a read-only DB replica for redundancy/high availability is very easy and much safer. Yes, setting up a single-server is faster, but if your DB server dies - and at some point it will happen - you'll not just save a lot of downtime, but also a lot of stress and additional work.
Working on FormNX.com, as the name says it's a no-code form builder to help create any kind of forms in minutes.

So far it's trusted by 3000+ businesses worldwide & got pretty good ratings on G2 & Trustpilot. So no new idea but to keep working on it.
In case it's helpful to anyone, I put this together to drive our Advantage Air system:

https://git.nethack.net/rob/aircon

Essentially it just talks to the android tablet API to do things so it's no help if (when) the tablet dies, but it means I can do things like:

- have the entire unit turn on/off as needed based on average zone temperatures

- open/close vents based on room owners' devices being online, or temperatures of nearby zones

- dump zone temperatures to influxdb
It's hilarious that what you impute to them is, essentially, that they don't have enough bullshit: useless management that hires endless hordes of bootcamp graduates for no reason (then lays them off when cheap money are over), no BS conferences without any substance, no hires of overpriced American "talent" when they have a tremendous pool of much much much more affordable and no less qualified people from CIS countries. Also, let's not pretend that a chat app is some kind of rocket science that requires a company of gazillion engineers and other stuff characteristic of VC funded special Olympics.
Please check this excellent book by former Microsoft and Groupon engineer on scaling Rails and Postgres:

[1] High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails Reliable, Scalable, Maintainable Database Applications by Andrew Atkinson:

https://pragprog.com/titles/aapsql/high-performance-postgres...
In real ones, maybe.

In the cheapest chinese knockoffs... I wouldn't bet my health on that, and anyone who does is foolish.
Many of the powers that be, particularly those with positions of influence in the DoD make their riches off exclusive contracts with the DoD with private companies they own or are invested in. Not to mention lawmakers themselves who invest in such contractors. The powers that be in DC are the problem, they don't want to fix it.
The more you know, the more fun the book is.

At times the going is tough even if you are a physics professor, because Pais accurately captures the process of discovery which was often messy with unfamiliar equations, strange logical jumps, or subtle mistakes.

I would not recommend the book unless you have taken courses in quantum mechanics, statistical physics and general relativity.

(Historically quantum mechanics and statistical physics were developed together, even though now we see one as more fundamental than the other.)
Coincidentally I have just finished this book, and the article and the comment you're replying to definitely reminded me of it. Great book - I was expecting the incisive social commentary and humanity that Orwell is known for (and it delivered) but it's also just a very entertaining read.
Lemmy exists.

Lemmy.world is fine social media site. One could just host their own private instance for friends and family.
My account does none of these.
I disassembled one of our gate opener's remotes, and hooked the button contacts to Raspberry Pi Zero's GPIO pins. Pi runs a tiny go webserver and Cloudflare tunnel. I hit an obscure HTTPS URL (via button on a phone's homescreen), gate opens.
> - There is the murder of racing driver "Laurent Pasquali" who is presumed to have been killed by a french intelligence officer. The plot involved over 20 people with several of them being french intelligence officers. In fact they got his personal information and address to plan the murder plot through the french intelligence database.

The guy who is presumed to be the murderer is an ex-intelligence officer, not currently employed by the intelligence services.

> It is even possible that Durov has saved lives by not communicating user information to the french intelligence services.

And exactly how many did he condemned by letting criminal network run wild on his platform, with little to no moderation, and no collaboration with police forces ?
In terms of forethought, I can't imagine anyone outside of the US/EU developing an app solely for an iOS user base other than creating an MVP. And then even still, once you have proof it can work why build something that intentionally shuts off the majority of your userbase, or provides a lower quality product to the user base? If you are lean and starting out, don't put all your eggs in a Swift/iOS basket and then hope for a tool like this to sort out your problems. It may be an easy quickfix for a basic app, but once you go even a little bit deeper than surface level you're going to run into problems, have to backtrack and start over with either native Android code, or a cross platform framework.

That said the cost is also something that is odd, when you have free alternatives that provide far more mature ecosystem.

In terms of getting deep with existing tools, what is the difference here when using XCode as to Android Studio or VSCode? The tools aren't difficult to use, at least any more so than XCode. If you're not a developer then sure, but if you are then AS or VSCode should be a breeze. We're far removed from the days of Eclipse and Notepad++ where you didn't have the tooling, online resources or automatic fixes that these tools come with today.

So yeah maybe my experience doesn't see the need for this, which is exactly the issue here. Who is making the majority of the apps we use today? Who is paying to use tools that speed up development? Engineers like myself.
Hi. Its a nice and very simple web site you have created. May I ask why you are using Shamir’s Secret Sharing, would it not be possible to use very simple Substitution Cipher? Maybe I am missing something when it comes to Substitution Cipher. I just see many implementations of SSS so I was wondering why people find SSS preferable over using something more simple like Substitution Cipher? One benefit of Substitution Cipher imo is that you can somewhat easily recover secrets with pen and paper also if needed.
For the sake of God, please fucking stop inventing new pipe languages.

LINQ: exists

Splunk query language: exists

KQL: exists

MongoDB query language: exists

PRQL: exists
One of the most complex and battle-tested open source projects is essentially a rendering engine for semantic text that has supported reflowing text to fit the screen for decades. And now you’re seriously considering having to zoom in on a column, then scrolling all the way back up and right to the next column, then down to the footnotes at the bottom, then to a random figure, to be a solution?
If only the free market was even more free, all our problems would be solved!
I love it too but this only becomes worthwhile if you manage to promote this post in social media somewhere. If you don't already have a strong social media presence or don't personally know anyone who does you can forget about it.
And here on HN you really have to get lucky, post at the right time and hope the flagging gangs don't get you.
> Execs are slow to learn but eventually the dim light bulb will go off in their head that someone from a much poorer country with an internet line can do the same work as their engineers making six figures and working in their home.

This is called offshoring, and has been done for decades, to varying degrees of success.

Companies are always trying to undermine label. This is a tale as old as time. WFH changes nothing in that regard.

Anecdotally, my first job in tech was as a cheap developer from a poor country, more than 2 decades ago.
Non-copypasta source: https://x.com/canardenchaine/status/1828438807697408059 (When Zlatti_71 signs off with "Remylind23" and can't spell the name of the French newspaper they're attributing, doesn't that make you a bit suspicious? And Le Canard enchaîné is a satirical newspaper, so it's not inconceivable that the story is made-up.)
It's an easily workable metal, and apparently the easiest way to seal the hole made when they empty the vacuum chamber and / or produce certain welds.

https://www.wired.com/story/stanley-cup-lead-soldering/
Qemu is great, the DEVs and all who worked on her deserve applause, except for documentation. It's like someone creating a huge Japanese titanium indestructible fighting robot, but then using aluminum in the feet/heels.

So much of my qemu work spent on randomly changing options, with no change documentation, discovering features, with no documentation, options with no reason or indication why, manpages out of date, READMEs not updated, changelog not there, etc.
Dr. Scrum
Think about who stands to lose the most if Tesla and spacex dominate (answer: old money)

Think about who controls the media (answer: old money and friends of old money)

It is very easy to see why they want everyone to think spacex and Tesla are collapsing
reason number 6, running "Anti-Detect Browsers" haha
It's funny how he addresses the new syntax as "from-clause-first". Like a very minor change with a low value.
Oh gosh that’s me!
The details of their architecture is documented in a series of blog posts:

https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/03/stack-overflow-a-tech...

I get what you're saying, they didn't do dynamic and "wild" horizontal scaling, they focused more on having an optimal architecture with beefy "vertically scaled" servers.

Very much something we should focus on. These days horizontal scaling, microservices, kubernetes, and just generally "throwing compute" at the problem is the lazy answer to scaling issues.
As a media tech guy (running the media tech department of a university, which includes a DCI conform cinema): absolutely everybody hates HDMI. It is unreliable as hell, both physically and as a protocol. It tries to be too much to too many people and most devices, including expensive "pro" gear includes unchangeable random weirdness like ignoring EDIDs or forcing them onto you, that is documented nowhere and you can only find these things out when you buy it.

Add to that the fact that consumers/users can break the picture/sound in 100 different ways on their devices and you get a veritable support nightmare.

I wish it was just DVI+ but it does so much more.
It would help if Jetbrains pushed a lot more focus on the Desktop environment rather than mobile.
Asahi Linux? That's not osx, why would they care about that and what grounds would they have to take action?

Purely speculating here, but naybe they're taking action precisely because it's losing significance in the CI context? They might've seen the value in it before, and only see issues with it now
A couple suggestions for improving the code:

* Currently sendChanChan() takes 2 params: a 4chan and a 3chan. I think it can be simplified by just taking a 3chan. The send on the 4chan can be done before calling sendChanChan().

* Why does the code have 2 levels of loops in receiveChanChanChan()? I think a single loop would be fine. Especially since there are 0 loops in the place where receiveChanChanChan() is called. So currently, a single goroutine performs N receives all the values from the 4chan, but we have N goroutines to receive values for each 3chan (so each goroutine will perform on average 1 receive). That's inconsistent.
I think the standard answer to your point is that you can recognise "intellectual property" without granting a (limited) monopoly. There are plenty of proposals floating around for copyright and patent reform that curtail or replace the ability of the creator/owner to unilaterally set the price and decide who can license the material and how they can use it.
I got the Daikin for the same reason. You have to pay extra for a wifi module but after reading the reviews on their app, they mostly said, it kinda worked but largely useless.

I built an esp32 IR sender and put Tasmota IR on it. It has first class support for the Daikin. It can't receive but it seems no need as it's 100% reliable.
Here in the UK at least they're generally single phase and required to moderate the power delivered to the vehicle based on the current electrical load in the house because most properties have quite low main cut-out fuse ratings. Bonus complications if you have solar or want any kind of access control.
The amount of disinfo the Telegram defenders spread about this case only shows that they are far from the critical thinkers they think they are. Back when there was nothing known about the arrest other than it did indeed take place, it was the pro-Telegram crowd that was making all kinds of outlandish claims.

I can tell from the sidelines that you guys "doing your own research" and "staying informed" is a net negative for a society.