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Well, that's another thing. I'd love to get my hand on a 1980-1980 Mercedes.

Another thing build for live https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W126

I'd love to import a well maintained one, still featuring its original parts.

They prey on nostalgia, but the rugged aspect also speaks to me.

Casio watches, Nokia cellphones (formerly, now Huawei or Xiaomi), Thinkpad latops and Panasonic Toughbooks - if you have one, you are likely to have one of the others.

Looks like people are getting defined by their lifestyle. (I guess Rolex and Apple would be on the other end of the spectrum)

excess stiction - so you means the keys requires a lot of strength to be activated.

Could it be the plastic getting older and less soft?

Is anyone using a 2004 era CTB100 at home?

I love the extra buttons and that it comes with a speaker for voice chat.

I'm considering using one for programming, with the extra buttons remapped.

I care more about freedom than performance here. Not feature complete is fine as long as it works for what I do, and that I can tweak it to do more.

Eventually, something that is not licensed from a western company (or which can't be protected by IP law) but that is fast enough for most uses will also become a $0.10 afterthought.

The mips24k is remarkable in that you can comfortably run a linux kernel with a lot of userland utilities and even text mode software -- just what we used to run on Linux computers many years ago!

Medical information is likely to be ICD codes for the active diagnosis, and antecedents (history) for this patient.

This is worse than full text medical information because everything is already coded, so you can make some simple algorithms to find crunchy details with a very high specificity.

After they received training when they learn that this step is important and not just a formality, and why it is done, I found that people do observe procedures, especially when they have to sign the checklist they filled themselves.

Human beings observe procedures when they understand it's part of the job and they are held accountable.

(see my comment suggesting disposable keys, like for crypto wallets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20088758 )

If the "allowed" ICD code is linked to the public key, or in the worst case if the patient provides the disposable private key to the insurance for verification (along with PCI like rules forbidding this key to be stored, like credit card expiration date if I remember correctly) this couldn't happen.

It is gross negligence to keep these things together for longer than they need to be. Private data should be seen as a liability.

In spreadsheets (excel) and notebooks (ipython/rstudio), having the data bundled with the code is a feature. It provides reproducibility.

> a destroyed formula can go undetected for a while...

That is a problem in methodology, not with the tools. There are many solutions that do not require abandoning spreadsheets.

For the destroyed formula example, you need tests. Simple example to do that with a checklist: if you are doing a SUM(), require that the employee ticks a box saying "all the number were highlighted when clicking on the SUM formula".

For the out-of-sync version, you need a central repository and another box "I retrieved the latest version from the xx repository, and this version was: ... "

Then require that to be printed and signed (accountability), and you'll see mistake disappear.

One of my eyes has myopia. The other one is fine.

Did I play out too much as a pirate with an eyepatch?

Joke aside, the disease has many causes, and there is some genetic predisposition. It is too easy to blame it on the modern environment.

There is absolutely no technical reason why it should be the case if done properly.

With SIM cards or other hardware devices, your private key is never leaked (if "done properly")

With cryptos like BTC, you can generate many keys from one source of entropy, and treat them as disposable.

I don't see why medical records couldn't be encrypted with a disposable key, given by a hardware device which stores the seed, and only linked to the matching public key.

Name + ICD diagnosis, what a wonderful leak for blackmailers wordwide! (/s)

Seriously, these two pieces of data that are innocent alone, when taken separately (HIV, chlamydia, cancer...) should NEVER have been linked together, ESPECIALLY when given to a third party, EVEN MORE stored together.

I pray it will result in many lawsuits with hefty punitive damages, and that as a consequence private data will be considered a liability to be deleted as early as possible (just like corporate email in many companies)

The beautiful thing with democracy is that these housing solutions that provided an actual solution to homelessness where banned, are still illegal, and thus won't be "brought back" even if they make perfect sense, were preferred by the people who used them, are a free market solution, and much cheaper than the alternatives.

See San Francisco as an example of what happens when more money is poured in the "modern" solutions - very little reduction of the problem, if any.

> the MT7621 based board you cite has two MIPS 24k CPUs, straight out of 2005

Yes, I'm having a lot offun with a 14 year old CPU, so I want to see a modern one, if possible with free software GPU support like for the Mali

> without that silicon external to the CPU, any kind of crypto would slowly chug along

Which is exactly why I want to see MIPS64 that can do all that without hardware acceleration - and much more with it.

Then please stand by your username and explain me, with rational discussion, why you think I'm wrong, and how Russia is so much better.

And FYI it's not a mockery - I'm watching TV and eating, for real. It wasn't a metaphor, but I guess you didn't give me the benefit of doubt.

And personally if I had to live in either Russia or China, I know which one I'd pick to maximize not just my purchasing power, but also my freedom.

I guess this unpopular yet factual opinion is shocking to some people: I am watching the downvotes pile in with a bag of popcorn.

It's quite weird just after reading the karma whoring article yesterday!! But I stand by my opinion.

> VThe problem is with building a competitive stack, Huawei can't get access to a 7nm fab in China

yet

> Huawei can build 7nm chips at TSMC, but due to their ARM l

ARM -> RISC, as ARM is not the only game in town. For example, at the moment I am having a lot of fun with a Unielec u7621 board (2 mini PCIe, mSata and USB3 with hardware accelerated NAT to handle 1Gbps) that costed me about $45 : https://openwrt.org/toh/unielec/u7621-06

I would love to see MIPS64 SOCs with a few GBs of RAM to replace my raspberries

We can't ever know the counterfactual. If these had degenerated into a revolution, there would have been many more casualties.

What we know for sure is that, 30 years later, the country is enjoying tremendous growth, has lifted a lot of its population from poverty, and did that even with foreign powers trying to meddle with it.

Personally, I would consider that a success - especially when compared to say Russia. Sure, things could have been handled better, but Monday quarterbacking is easy, while action is hard.

The whole point of my post was to look for the root of the disagreement. What you call luck (as you suppose human beings are naturally inclined to do evil), I call that normal as I suppose human beings are naturally inclined to do good, and are looking for ways to continuously improve that.

> Using fission as your go-to example of "See? It's OK, we can handle world-ending technologies" is just appallingly wrong, it actually demonstrates precisely the opposite. We can't be trusted

The fact that we are alive seems to demonstrate precisely the opposite. You also conveniently forgot how many countries engaged in bilateral disarming programs (well, maybe Ukraine shouldn't have...) and how it generally makes sense because these nuclear weapons are expansive to maintain.

Still, you consider global atomic war a recurring risk every year, because you do not trust fellow human beings taking the right decision: "we can't be trusted".

This is why I believe this opposition comes from wrapped world views, a lack of trust in the future and future generations.

It seems like a sad way to live. Meanwhile, the world is improving, little by little.

No. I decided not to have kids after realizing it came with the "risk" of making me prioritize their life over the life of many more human beings.

I do not want to alter my utility function to favor people simply based on them having some of my genes, or having been educated by me (so I'm not a teacher either!)

However, there are many wonderful parents out there - I've read some poignant stories about parents who went on with organ donation after their kid had a accident which caused irreversible brain damage. I couldn't picture myself doing that - which is why I was afraid the "risk" would be very real for me.

Maybe not in the beta, as mentioned in the article where there may have been a risk of imminent collision.

But in the stable version? Yes it should. Your daughter is not more important than say the newborn twins that may be carried by another car that your car is about to hit.

Otherwise, you believe that her existance is worth sacrificing N people over - or hell, even a few million people, and that ain't right.

Reading the comments here, all I see is doom and gloom. Not a single positive view. It is sad to read that on HN of all places.

Will some bad things happen? Yes, like when humanity learned about atom fission. But the overall result is a net positive: lots of energy for everyone (and yes, that includes Iran) and no world war since then, even with major tensions like during the cold war.

As someone else said, there seems to be a curious wrapped view in the West that did not exist some generation before. Just even looking at old tv shows (Star Trek TOS) you can see people had faith that the future would be better. And the future kept its promises - lower mortality, longer lifespan, a dramatic reduction in poverty worldwide, etc. But the very few movies where you still see this positive stance are usually not made in the West.

For some reason it has fashionable to signal the future will be a dystopia. Sorry, no - there is no future, just what we are doing. If you do not like what you do, maybe do something else to make the world a better place? Or at least, don't complain about your own choices.

Fortunately, many countries in say Asia do not have the binders the West has. And please, do not say that they are "backwards" and will "evolve" their morals to see the light and adopt your own biased views. In my book, it's the West that's getting backwards and entering into some new middle age based on the new religion of environmentalism and naturalism.

Whatever. I personally do not care which country furthers humanity scientific progress, and I will take any advance as a "win" for team humanity.

Why am I not surprised?

They just provide plausible deniability to clients, who may not be able to pay the ransom for legal reasons.

HN in 2010: don't touch bitcoin.

HN in 2019: it's Dutch Tulip Bubble! (in the midst of the next bull run)

Meanwhile, those who followed contrarian advice did great.

It feels like Slashdot calling the iPod lame.

Sometimes, it's not irrationality, but a true change.

I expect first a delicious crunchy chocolate, then a soft tasty almond paste.

Oh, wrong marzipan - oops!

This is a nice way to do that, but you have a low volume of data, and you think 30 seconds is fast and 1 minute of downtime is acceptable. I question these assumptions.

Consider the situation when you're adding thousands of new records per seconds, and the database is being used every second (quite literally: to compute per seconds statistics).

A better solution is to have triggers on the old master, to do the same inserts on the new master (after copying the data/promoting a replica/whatever), and have similar triggers on the new master when the IP is not the old master (to be able to backout to the old server)

Then both the new and the old master run "in parallel", with the same data, and you can have the apps use the new server (on a new domain name, new ip, new port, whatever) when you want - on a app by app basis if you want. You can keep both until you decide to decommission the old master.

Wicked cool! It also plays for the theory of areas specialized based on the stimuli origin (center of vision)

EDIT: and for the low number of participants, when it comes to brain function, it's often unfortunately the case. At the same time, "hardware" differences are not very large within the human race: visual cortex is visual cortex.

The UniElec U7621-06 is interesting: https://openwrt.org/toh/unielec/u7621-06

I would be interested in a 5G "as open as possible" chip. I was considering the RTL-881x family before (https://github.com/nazar-pc/rtl8814AU and https://github.com/astsam/rtl8812au) but a standalone ath9k like the AIRETOS AEX-AR9590-NI could be even better.

Where did you buy your device? It's not on ebay or amazon.

Yes, among the basic check with hexedit or strings as suggested below.

When you are flashing a bios as the other poster mentioned, you want to be sure you have the right file and you will be able to restore it.

About SOIC8 clips, if you can't get a reliable read, consider soldering with stripping wire straight to the IO ports.

Stripping wire is thin enough that you can't break a leg of the chip.