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by palmotea | 2025-10-07 16:00:25+00:00
> Besides that, IMO hiding hardware details from the developer is the worst thing about Arduino. The hardware details matter and it's far too easy to get footgunned by some implementation detail hidden from you.

Wasn't Arduino not for developers, but for hobbyists? People who aren't super technical but want to do something neat with basic microcontroller functionality?

You're complaint kinda seems like saying "BASIC isn't great language, it's got a lot of problems when used for enterprise applications." It's not really meant for that.
by rasengan | 2025-10-07 16:00:34+00:00
They worked pretty hard as detailed in an archived article changing names and any records they could [1], but you're right - not good enough [2].

As pointed out on this reddit post [3], Proton's appears to contradict itself a number of times.

It's a good thing trust based VPN's are obsolete. After all, trust isn't constant [4] as seen in this article showing how Proton supplied IP addresses to "authorities."

[1] https://archive.ph/wG8t8

[2] https://archive.ph/4bzBm

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/8x9aik/protonvp...

[4] https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...
by JohnBooty | 2025-10-07 16:00:45+00:00
This talk about high performers and low performers needing focused environments to perform gets me thinking about the scenario of putting them together.

Well, hold up. I think that some large school districts in major cities have magnet schools for gifted kids.

But to my knowledge in America most gifted programs are not some kind of total segregation and I don't see a lot of people arguing for that either. In my experience in US public schools the "gifted" classes were like maybe 1/4 of our total classroom time.

Likewise with developmentally-challenged kids. Most programs have an emphasis on varying levels of integration with the other kids. In some schools, the special-ed kids are in "regular" classrooms but have their own semi-dedicated assistants.

(Example: 1 teacher, 20 kids, plus 1 special-ed assistant and 3-4 special ed kids)
by lisper | 2025-10-07 16:00:51+00:00
There are two different ways to produce a voltage source. The first is to put a variable resistor in series with the power source, which you can adjust to control the voltage. This works, but dissipates a lot of heat. The second is to put a switch in series with the power source and a capacitor in parallel with the load, then switch the power source on and off very rapidly and use the duty cycle to control the voltage. This is how modern switching power supplies work. In actual practice, there are also inductors in the circuit which cause resonance, and allow the switching to happen when there is no current flowing through the switch. This is how modern switching power supplies can be so efficient.
by xpe | 2025-10-07 16:01:19+00:00
> It’s purely designed to counter a perceived threat by smearing it.

"smear" as understood by most people, means "to damage the reputation of (someone) by false accusations; slander: someone was trying to smear her by faking letters." (Apple dictionary)

If there are no false accusations, there is no smearing. Are you claiming the report makes false accusations? Where?

Disagreeing with emphasis or prioritization isn't sufficient. Not engaging with the reasoning (or not understanding it) isn't a valid basis for claiming "false accusations". I reply more fully at [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45493266

In case people will feel better knowing that I'm not on the team of their enemies, I can assure you I'm opposed to corrupt and authoritarian behavior anywhere. I'm sickened by who Trump is, what he has done, how he has confused so many Americans, and how he is a conduit for some of the worst beliefs and impulses of Americans. Some of these tendencies are rooted in confused ethics and bad reasoning.
by mattkrause | 2025-10-07 16:01:27+00:00
Yes! Dodge v. Ford is a tough one because Ford explicitly announced that he was using the company's money to advance his own philanthropic aim. That's essentially theft: it's the company's money, not his.

However, as long as management is running the company as a company (and not, say, the director's personal slush fund), the courts give them incredibly wide latitude. They're won't second-guess whether it was "correct" to prioritize long-term growth or short-term profit-taking, as long as either is vaguely in the company's interests.

A parallel case, Shlensky v. Wrigley, has absolutely bonkers facts. Wrigley wouldn't install electric lights at his ball field, clearly due to some...idiosyncratic...beliefs about how baseball "ought to be played." However, unlike Ford, Wrigley left open the possibility that this was also a business decision too: perhaps changing the neighborhood would drive people away, or the lights would cost too much to operate. Consequently, the court found in his favor even though one gets the sense they were not totally convinced it was a sensible business decision.

Longer thread with references and quotes here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23393674
by fingerlocks | 2025-10-07 16:01:50+00:00
The keyboard layout change is not on my version (dogfood) for some reason, maybe because I have to use Remote Desktop and it doesn’t detect a physical keyboard. But fine, I’ll take that back. I even asked AssPilot for help and it was predictably useless.

And cmon modify the registry to debug multiple processes? People work together in teams and share a common tooling that ideally tries to minimize the friction required to get work done. Think about that while contrasting the steps required in that article with the alternative of“launch the app a couple more times, then…”
by andrewflnr | 2025-10-07 16:02:01+00:00
Sure, some of those might be worth looking into. But also, we can be a lot more cavalier about saying a company that can't pay its workers should go out of business than we are about saying that a family that can't afford housing should just live on the street. I think the latter case is more worth attacking directly.

The point is, shortages being a price phenomenon is not all that actionable. You can't avoid digging in to the details.
by m_ke | 2025-10-07 16:02:02+00:00
You could say the same about the car manufacturers, lehman and every company in the valley.

The whole US economy is getting propped up by AI spending, and to continue on the scaling law ladder each new iteration requires 10x more investment. If OpenAI is not able to raise it's over for anyone adjacent to them (NVIDIA, AMD, Anthropic, etc.).

It's AGI or bust for OpenAI, because as you said there's no margin competing on API tokens since open source is almost as good for most use cases.
by hatradiowigwam | 2025-10-07 16:02:08+00:00
Four things are happening (and one of them is gold) that make a terrifying situation.

Facts:

- Gold has reached all time highs

- US debt (ie T-bills) selling at all time lows

- US equities are at all time highs

- USD falling day over day, month over month, year over year

All 4 of those facts cannot remain true indefinitely. The all time high equity prices are because it requires more USD(which is decreasing in value) to purchase them. Gold is at all time highs because USD is decreasing in value, and the flight to safety leads people to gold. US debt is falling in value because no one wants to buy it. At some point, equities will give up and crash, or gold will have to crash....and I don't think it's going to be gold crashing.

edit: formatting
by palmotea | 2025-10-07 16:02:35+00:00
>> It's hard to be positive about the idea of your skills getting devalued and getting kicked to the curb.

> I think it depends where people build their own identities in the value stream. Do you see yourself as.... It is about mindset.

No. You're missing the point in a pretty serious way. In large part, we're talking about lower levels on the hierarchy of needs than that.

> Some folks see AI as an attack, and some see it as a way to remove some drudgery while they focus on harder problems.

Some folks see it as a way to remove hard problems so they can focus on drudgery. Do you love to code, but hate code reviews? Guess what you get to do more of now!

> Building greenfield prototypes is now 100x easier!

And then the boss-man can use his MBA, fire 90% of the team, pocket their wages, and get 10x the prototypes. Repeat that through the economy. Your teammates have 20 years to retirement and can't pay their mortgage. "Progress!," but for whom?
by cardanome | 2025-10-07 16:02:48+00:00
> Masking is a form of dishonesty and people who are good a communication see it as such.

Masking is autistic people adjusting their communication style so they are more acceptable to allistic people while neglecting their own needs.

For example many autistic people show emotions differently. They can default to a flatter tone of voice or show less microexpressions in the face i.e a flatter affect. (Just to be clear, it does not mean they have less emotions. Just because someone expresses emotions differently does not mean they have more or less. Again, they could be for example extremely happy but you would read them as withdrawn and disinterested.)

Much of autistic masking can be micromanaging these things. Tone of voice, face expressions, body language.

,And here comes the kicker: High-Masking autistic people are read as MORE honest and authentic by allistic people. Yes more honest no less. Because they show behavior that is you would say is more "in unison" from the point of view of an allistic person.

It is the same effect when people think they are good at spotting a liar. There are studies that show they are worse or close to random chance. Flipping a coin is as reliable as "listening to your gut".

People that think they are good at communication are the worst because they don't realize how full of shit they are. You can't know how another person feels, they can only tell you. I guess we are back to dunning kruger. Oh, the irony.
by splash20230703 | 2025-10-07 16:03:10+00:00
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by mybackhurtsabit | 2025-10-07 16:03:12+00:00
I assume you haven’t checked on this since the Windows 7 days, but Massgrave is open source, and the activation logic boils down to about five lines of PowerShell, using only native Windows utilities. I think they even have a tutorial on their website that explains how to perform the activation manually if you want to avoid running their scripts.
by cptskippy | 2025-10-07 16:03:17+00:00
> I've used the ESP32 native tools and they are a lot more complex than Arduino.

How so? All of that is abstracted away from the users just like it is for Arduinos. In fact you can use the Arduino IDE to develop for most ESP32 chips.

If anything Arduino is holding back everyone with their horrible IDE. Their Board and Library managers are painfully slow and having no way to store configuration with your sketch means that you're taking a screenshot of a drop down menu if you have to make any changes.

Eventually people want to write their own libraries to make their code more manageable and the Arduino IDE makes it difficult for someone who knows what they're doing.

> But I used an Arduino, with 5V tolerant outputs, to light up Halloween costumes for years.

I have yet to encounter a piece of hardware that doesn't respect 3.3v as signal high. All of the neopixel variant's data pins work off 3.3v and most people have moved on to 12v and even 24v for larger projects while still raw dogging 3.3v on the data pin without issue.

Arduino's insistence on 5v logic levels is for maintaining backward compatibility which is honestly unnecessary.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-07 16:03:17+00:00
In a sense, it is not surprising. The surprising part is the apparent overall yawn from.. well, everyone. One could easily argue that the current situation is, to put it mildly, problematic. And I am not just talking fiscal, or financial, or geopolitical. It is somehow all of these and yet, due to some interesting level of crisis fatiue, most are shrugging it off. 4k seems high, but it merely reflects current perpcetions and still does not crazy. My pet theory is that.. there is no safe haven this time so money is all over the place.

edit: I am mostly in bonds with some gambles here and there, but that was my position since the begining of this year.
by wcunning | 2025-10-07 16:03:19+00:00
I started out my automotive software career with Ford, and as part of the new college hire training program, I actually got to see the process of how "book rate" is determined. They take a brand new car, straight off the assembly line and give a master mechanic a process sheet (head gasket remove and replace, for instance). He has a tool cart with a computer next to it, about 6 feet away from the vehicle. For each step he starts a timer on the computer for that step, picks up the necessary ratchet and socket or whatever, loosens the next bolt, walks the ratchet and socket back to the tool box, puts it away and then finally stops the timer. He probably practices the procedure a few times before the timed run, but basically this prevents the company from setting the time to do a job super crazy low.

He's also not allowed to take any shortcuts from the book procedure, which there frequently are a few available (use a long wobble extension bar and a universal joint and you can get in without taking off all of the stuff above that bolt, whatever). On the other hand, this is the warranty rate (meaning new cars, largely less rust, etc). Independent/non-dealer mechanics will typically charge more time than the warranty time estimate from the manufacturer to account for things like rusty vehicles with harder to remove bolts and such, though this is usually in the rate book they subscribe to from whatever information source they pay for (warranty + 20% or so).

The issue is that the estimated time for a job is probably a high estimate for a brand new car and probably a low estimate for a several year old car, and the risk of that is on the dealership. The dealership then pays mechanics an hourly wage ($20+, fairly high for well certified master mechanics) and assumes that the hours listed on the job from the manufacturer are accurate, leaving the mechanic to take the risk if it goes over. Generally, the dealership loses on this proposition too, since they lose out on business/bay/electric/heat/etc for the lost time, so they don't like warranty work. They can upcharge/charge for more time/etc on a job for a customer, not for warranty repair due to contractual obligations to the OEM. This is particularly bad for Ford, since they currently lead the industry in recalls and warranty spend, meaning that their dealership networks are getting a lot more of that kind of work with limited profit and no ability to turn it down.
by daveguy | 2025-10-07 16:03:22+00:00
I gave up trying to keep from using a microsoft account to login to Windows 11. Instead, I installed linux and created a Win 11 virtual machine. Fortunately, I only rarely boot the Windows VM. Now I have:

1. no more random reboots

2. fast updates

3. much lower idle cpu use

4. cleaner operation with fewer crashes

5. no ad garbage from the OS to worry about

6. much much faster linux environment (WSL2 is atrocious).

It was 600% worth switching. Caveat -- I used linux as a daily driver in the late 90s early 2000s, and went back to Microsoft for work compatibility. Linux is much better now, but I still wouldn't try to get my parents to run it.
by jrop | 2025-10-07 16:03:33+00:00
Yep, though I'm still trying to hit my stride recording videos. I don't release regularly because of lots of amazing $life things.

https://www.youtube.com/@nocturing

If you want a sneak peak of what I want to walk through, check this repo (see the examples/ folder): https://github.com/jrop/u.nvim
by incomingpain | 2025-10-07 16:04:05+00:00
>As far as I can tell accounts were frozen, not seized. Do you have a reference for donor accounts being seized?

When it comes to civil rights like Section 8 of the charter. There's no such thing as 'frozen'

They were searched, seized, and later returned.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/td-bank-freezes-two-a...

You have to go back to figure out how the government knew what bank accounts to seize. They didnt go up to each person and ask to see their debit card. Police dont have a ready list of bank accounts to seize.

The source of the seizures was the gofundme leak by a hacker. Who has since been arrested, convicted, and is in prison for a separate hacking incident. Canada gave him immunity to his crimes during freedom protest. They took the donor list and seized from there.
by calibas | 2025-10-07 16:04:14+00:00
Arduino offered tiny, inexpensive, easy-to-program computers and dominated the hobby space at first. This lasted for a few years, but then they started getting competition. The ESP8266 offered comparable performance at a fraction of the price, while the Raspberry Pi was about the same price as an Arduino but way better performance. Hard to compete when other companies are selling better hardware for a lower price.
by ripe | 2025-10-07 16:04:23+00:00
Thanks for posting. Long video, but at about the 12-minute mark he says something about warranty work, relevant to TFA. He says that the hourly rate for any work done under warranty is set artificially low by the manufacturer.

Say a dealership would normally charge a customer $200 an hour for a job, of which the technician will make about $50 an hour. But if the same work is done under warranty, i.e., the manufacturer is paying, the dealership will get only $100 an hour. The dealership, in turn, will reduce the technician's pay to less than $50. Thus, the manufacturer is squeezing the dealership, which is squeezing the tech.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-07 16:05:17+00:00
So what?

GDP is a measurement of market value of goods and services. This hyperfocus on GDP is a societal disease, and all sorts of terrible policy derives from this hyperfocus.

There's a nice public park on my neighborhood. It's a very scenic place, with a river going through it, with trees along its course, there's also a playground for kids with a large lawn area where people do picnics and relax around. Very pleasant place.

That park generates 0 GDP. From a GDP standpoint, it would make more sense to remove the public park and turn it into a concrete hellscape for people to park their cars. Large cars preferably - huge SUVs or pickup trucks for that matter, no weakass economic cheap hybrids. GDP has to grow after all.

And if that came to pass, the lives of everyone here would be miserable. But GDP would be higher, so that wins.
by m_fayer | 2025-10-07 16:05:21+00:00
IME, health care workers (doctors and nurses) often defend many of the habits and attitudes encouraged by the system and hated by patients, because the pressure on them has banded them into an "us vs them" or "soldier vs civilian" mentality. Also because the current situation has kicked off a cycle of antagonism between them and patients and especially the people advocating for said patients.
by nowittyusername | 2025-10-07 16:05:51+00:00
This is a very common sentiment I see everywhere and it really highlights how uneducated most people are about technology in general. Most folks seem to expect things to work magically and perform physics breaking feats and it honestly baffles me. I would expect this attitude from maybe the younger generations who grew up only being users of technology like tablets and smartphones, but I honestly never expected millennials to be in the same camp, but nope they are just as ignorant. And I am thinking to myself, did I grow up different? Were my friends also not using the same Nintendo cartridges, and VCR's and camcorders and all the other tech that you had no choice but to learn at least basic fundamentals to use? Apparently most people never delved deeper then surface level on how to use these things and everything else went right over their head...
by JohnBooty | 2025-10-07 16:06:11+00:00
I'm pretty... neurodivergence-aware as well. I favor kind but literal communication if we are trying to achieve some kind of goal.

Still, there are a lot of things that can go unsaid when people have a shared, high, expertise level.

For example, if I'm onboarding a junior engineer, I'm going to have to literally explain a lot of things. From basic compsci concepts to setting up a text editor and local development environment to getting them up to speed on the language we use.

These are things that largely would not need to be communicated to a more senior developer.
by xpe | 2025-10-07 16:06:17+00:00
> A report like this is just part of that propaganda campaign of designating enemies everywhere, even in American cities.

Yes, it seems that Trump considers anyone who loudly disagrees with him to be an enemy. So when he looks at Portland, Chicago, and Washington DC, he views them as filled with enemies. On this I think we agree.

But you are confused if you think this tendency of Trump means that this particular NIST report is irredeemably twisted and manipulated. You seem to believe that Trump's derangement has percolated NIST to the point where nearly every word in the report is in service of his whims or agenda (which changes so often that even his supporters have to find ways to cope with the chaos).

No. I haven't seen you demonstrate much understanding of NIST or U.S. government agencies in general. I've seen you commit many errors and much motivated reasoning.
by dmoose | 2025-10-07 16:06:38+00:00
I agree with this point completely and have been maintaining at least a few linux servers for many years now. However, I never feel completely comfortable about it because it is not my primary responsibility and I know the target is always moving. If you have any good resources to recommend for current best practices I'm sure they would be useful for me as well as anyone deploying this kind of tool.
by silisili | 2025-10-07 16:06:48+00:00
Not following your logic here.

The thought seems to be that prices of everything are high, because the dollar itself has lost value. Makes sense. The conclusion then being a crash. But why? If the dollar is worth less and stops devaluing so badly, we'd just expect a stop in growth rather than a crash. Or are you projecting a strengthening of the dollar rather than just stabilization?
by halflife | 2025-10-07 16:06:55+00:00
https://iihl.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/SAN-REMO-MANUAL-...

The San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts. Specifically paragraph 98:

98. Merchant vessels believed on reasonable grounds to be breaching a blockade may be captured. Merchant vessels which, after prior warning, clearly resist capture may be attacked.
by KasianFranks | 2025-10-07 16:06:58+00:00
In 1996/7 I had a chance to use Tcl/Tk to build one of the first stock tickers on the web called DigitalTrader [1], after that we used it to build some of the first vector embeddings in 2005 for early biological language models at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab [2,3] for space biosciences. Still a fan.

[1] https://www.orafaq.com/usenet/comp.databases.oracle.misc/199...

[2] https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2005/03/31/a-search-engine-that-t...

[3] https://patents.google.com/patent/US7987191B2/en