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by phoehne | 2025-11-21 19:02:59+00:00
It won't be just one big move that kills the community. Eventually, I could see it as locked down as the STM32 ecosystem. Nor do I see them continuing to sell the same parts for over a decade. They'll just want to use it to promote new kit. Nor do I see them keeping to board designs open over the long term. That will come one little step at a time.
by tossandthrow | 2025-11-21 19:03:04+00:00
It is reframing of the same underlying reason to ban porn wrt. Hyper stimulants and religion - said in layman terms, people don't fuck when they can wank to porn. It is mostly a sociatal pressure to keep men motivated regardless of framed as hyper stimulants or religious reasons (which you can buy into or not).

The trafficking is another category, though, and I think still very active.
by Polizeiposaune | 2025-11-21 19:03:41+00:00
Pictures of the aftermath here:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/11/booster-18-anomaly-p...

Official SpaceX statement:

"Booster 18 suffered an anomaly during gas system pressure testing that we were conducting in advance of structural proof testing. No propellant was on the vehicle, and engines were not yet installed. The teams need time to investigate before we are confident of the cause. No one was injured as we maintain a safe distance for personnel during this type of testing. The site remains clear and we are working plans to safely reenter the site."

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1991889258701885702

As of when the photos were taken, the stage was still standing, but with a large hole in the side. Typically propellant tanks which rupture result in more complete collapse.. but this test involved only gas pressurization and no propellant.
by tptacek | 2025-11-21 19:03:44+00:00
The thing about this Texas abortion Flock story is: whether or not your muni keeps Flock, absolutely no municipality should have out-of-state data sharing on (arguably, none of them should have any data sharing on at all --- operationally, departments do just fine making phone calls and getting the data they need).

This is totally configurable inside Flock. It's very easy for a police department to do. Sometimes they'll argue that they need to keep sharing open because sharing is reciprocal --- that's not true (in fact, you don't even need to have Flock cameras to get access to Flock data; that's a SKU Flock has!).

We piloted Flock with open sharing (my commission got consultation for the police General Order for ALPRs in our municipality, we pushed for no sharing alongside a bunch of other restrictions, we got most of what we wanted but not the sharing stuff). When the pilot ended and the board needed a go-no-go on deployment, another push got made on sharing and we got out-of-state sharing disabled as a condition of deployment. Then at contract renewal, when the writing was on the wall that we were killing the contract†, our police department turned off all sharing.

Even if you're not worried about stuff like reproductive health care (you should be), it doesn't make sense to allow departments that don't share your General Orders direct access to your telemetry.

† I wasn't a supporter on this for complicated reasons.
by petcat | 2025-11-21 19:03:54+00:00
> instead of the slow, safe, low-casualty taking of territory

I don't know what is considered "low-casualty" for Russia, but the last reports I saw they were approaching 250,000 dead soldiers in Ukraine since 2022. That is just an astronomical number.

USA only had 60,000 killed in Vietnam and that is considered a national catastrophe.
by bmacho | 2025-11-21 19:04:12+00:00
Let T^S = {f| f:S->T} be all functions from a source set S to a target structure (set + operations + relations + axioms) T.

You can lift all the operations and relations from T to T^S, and you'll get a structure with the same type signature.

Universal equations involving operations remain true when lifted. Therefore if T is a variety[0], T^S is a variety of the same type.

So for example if S a set with 2 elements, then T^S is TxT + lifted properties. If T is an Abelian group then TxT is also an Abelian group. If T is a ring, TxT is also a ring. If T is a field, TxT is not a field since (0,1) has no inverse.

What about the relations, what types of identities remain true when lifted form T to T^S?

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(universal_algebra)
by xmodem | 2025-11-21 19:04:57+00:00
I've seen this argument made frequently. It's clearly a popular sentiment, but I can't help feel that it's one of those things that sounds nice in theory if you don't think about it too hard. (Also, cards on the table, I personally really like being able to pull in a tried-and-tested implementation of code to solve a common problem that's also used by in some cases literally millions of other projects. I dislike having to re-solve the same problem I have already solved elsewhere.)

Can you cite an example of a moderately-widely-used open source project or library that is pulling in code as a dependency that you feel it should have replicated itself?

What are some examples of "everything libraries" that you view as problematic?
by fifteencrctrs | 2025-11-21 19:05:02+00:00
> Copyright © 2025. All rights reserved.

> Source available for inspection and personal use only. Free to use non-commercially; commercial use reserved to the author. No warranty or liability. Contributions do not confer authorship or ownership rights.

Not super related, but have you considered getting a proper licence? Your project is not so much 'open source' as much as it is 'source-available'. Might be a good read: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/9805/can-i-li...
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-21 19:05:08+00:00
The difference is, when Russia and dumb US citizens say "Ukraine is a Nazis state" 1) they are outright lying and 2) Russians do not think of "Nazis" as meaning the same as what the rest of the world understands. Russians do not hate the Nazis for being genociding freaks, they hate them for being backstabbers.

Weev meanwhile is just a fucking Nazi. This exact thread is about a person who is not a Nazi facing persecution, and yet you go out of your way to use a literal and explicit Nazi as your example.

In fact, nearly every time I see people make this kind of "Oh it could happen to you, it happened to <X>" they seem to pick people who are damn Nazis.

Gee, I wonder why those are the cases they know about?
by logical_proof | 2025-11-21 19:05:16+00:00
My kids do Taekwondo and church youth groups. My eldest did not want to do robotics but he does run the Dungeons and Dragons group at our library. We do music as a family. My daughter does choir. My son has done drama but declined to participate this year. They have been homeschooled their entire lives. All three of them received something I did not, the ability to converse with adults from a young age. This is of course anecdotal so YMMV but I would love to see a study on the conversational skills of homeschooled students.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-21 19:05:30+00:00
I have quite a lot of difficulty eating out once you start cooking at home, because think of what you are buying:

- one English muffin (is it called an English muffin in England?)

- one slice of cheese

- one egg

- one slice of ham

- one cup of coffee

- one hashbrown

£5.09 for that? Obviously when you buy from a restaurant you're paying for their labor, rent, electric, and much more so it makes sense - McDonald's franchisees tend to operate on single digit profit margins even at that cost. But mehhh, still. And then the food you end up buying is packed full of preservatives and other additives and artificial ingredients.
by Imnimo | 2025-11-21 19:05:42+00:00
>Why doesn’t someone else create a competing app that’s better and thereby steal all their business?

How do I know if the competing app is actually better? I mean, this was the advertising angle for eHarmony about a decade ago - that it was much better than competitors at actually turning matches into marriages. But this claim was found to be misleading, and they were advised to stop using it.

Could a potential customer really get to the bottom of which site is the best at finding a real match? It's not like a pizza restaurant where I can easily just a bunch until I find my favorite and then keep buying it. Dating apps are like a multi-armed bandit problem, but you stop pulling arms once you get one success. So your only direct feedback is failed matches.
by jquery | 2025-11-21 19:05:43+00:00
To me, the absurdity of the idea of p-zombies is why I'm convinced consciousness isn't special to humans and animals.

Can complex LLMs have subjective experience? I don't know. But I haven't heard an argument against it that's not self-referential. The hardness of the hard problem is precisely why I can't say whether or not LLMs have subjective experience..
by syawaworht | 2025-11-21 19:05:56+00:00
My own experiential insight is not definitely not complete, so of course the guidance of a master or of course your own direct practice should be preferred.

But to the extent I have observed awareness, the idea of an entire "experiencer" is an extrapolation and fabrication. See how you generate that concept. And then, look closely at what's actually going on, there is "consciousness" of the components of the aggregate. (Maybe not dissimilar to some of the lower level mechanisms proposed in the article).
by Tangurena2 | 2025-11-21 19:05:59+00:00
We were discussing cheerleading at a break in one of the office meetings this morning. Varsity Brands, owned by Bain Capital, controls the "sport" of cheerleading in the US. If you want to compete, you must purchase current year's uniforms, pay to enter contests run by VB, stay at hotels that VB decides. A teenager involved in competition cheerleading can easily spend $5k-25k/year. This "sport" injures more teens each year than football does - and that's a high-contact sport with significant protective gear.

>I traced Varsity’s market power to three basic maneuvers. The first was buying up most of the cheerleading competitions in the country, so that entering a competition meant dealing with Varsity. The second was secretly creating and running the nonprofits that govern the sport, such as the U.S. All Star Federation, which gave Varsity the power to write rules for and organize competitions, scheduling, camps, and ancillary services like insurance. And the third was cutting deals with gyms to block rivals. Gyms are where teams of cheerleaders train, and gym coaches tend to have control over what uniforms athletes must buy. The company gave gyms who bought their uniforms from Varsity preferential treatment and special rebates.

>One key result of Varsity’s scheme is inflated prices to the end consumer, which is why Bain bought the corporation in the first place. If there was cash to grab, Varsity tried to grab it. For instance, Varsity makes it very hard for parents to watch videos of cheerleading competition except through the firm’s specific expensive streaming service. There was the practice of 'Stay-to-Play,’ where Varsity would force athletes to stay in a specific hotel if they wanted to enter a competition, with Varsity likely getting rebates from that hotel in the process. The net result is that today it can cost up to $10-20k a year to be an All-Star cheerleader.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/antitrust-and-the-fall-of...

>I missed out on two anti-competitive practices in the industry. The first is called “Stay to Play.” For many cheerleading competitions, though not all, out-of-town contestants are required to stay at a specific area hotel or set of hotels, or they cannot enter the contest. This is yet another way to raise prices on cheerleaders, and parents hate it. The second is that Varsity tends to be very aggressive about takedown notices for cheer contest video. If you film your kid at an event and put it up on Facebook or YouTube, Varsity is likely to ask you to take it down because it’s competitive with their VarsityTV streaming app. As one parent told me, it’s basically Varsity preventing you from sharing your memories publicly with your family or friends.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/what-a-cheerleading-monop...
by retrac | 2025-11-21 19:06:57+00:00
Getting a bit off topic, but I feel like this task is something that ought to have special language support.

It's a kind of serialization/deserialization, or what I think Python and some others call "pickling". Same task. Turn these raw bit patterns into typed values.

Ada probably comes closest of the major languages to pulling it off. It has separation of the abstract/programmer's view of a data type and the implementation / low representation of that type.

Specify a bunch of records like:

for Instruction use record Condition at 0 range 31 .. 28; ImmFlag at 0 range 27 .. 27; Opcode at 0 range 24 .. 21; CondFlag at 0 range 20 .. 20; Rn at 0 range 19 .. 16; Rd at 0 range 15 .. 12; Operand at 0 range 11 .. 0; end record;

Then aim a pointer at your instructions and read them as records/structs.

It works particularly cleanly with a nice RISC encoding like ARM. I'm not actually sure if that would work in Ada. The use representation syntax might not be generic enough.
by adolph | 2025-11-21 19:06:57+00:00
I wonder if this is being used irl. Seems like the next thing would be to attach it to a digital scope like the below. Connecting the low latency of digital compute to the durable self-powered biologic actuators of a human seems like a natural evolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCp8-tc0dfY
by kakacik | 2025-11-21 19:07:11+00:00
Apart from gaming and llms, most of the chip applications including all of military and consumer electronics is more than happy with 7nm process, whatever that means (proper nanometers those ain't).

I know some people live in the IT bubble and measure whole reality by it, but that's not so much true for the world out there. They have ie roughly F-35 equivalent, minus some secret sauces (which may not be so secret at the end since it seems they stole all of it).

You are making a mistake of thinking of them as yet another russia, utterly corrupt, dysfunctional at every level and living off some 'glorious past', when reality is exactly the opposite.
by belter | 2025-11-21 19:07:12+00:00
So I have spent some time modeling this...

Given the scale of Amazon AI infrastructure spending through 2030, and the very likely scenario the technology wont deliver the savings investors expect, with any basic economic modeling scenario, Amazon will cut 25,000 to 40,000 jobs over the next three years.

Not because AI can replace the work, but because Amazon will need to tighten its cost structure to cover the gap between promised efficiency and actual ROI.
by robrtsql | 2025-11-21 19:07:22+00:00
I don't think comparing the dating app to a pizza restaurant makes the dating app argument fall apart. The difference is that even a satisfied customer will get hungry again, so it's possible to provide a really good experience and still have that customer come back. A dating app is unique (or, at least in a different category) in that the best possible outcome for the user (assuming monogamy) is that the user deletes the app and never uses it again.
by indecisive_user | 2025-11-21 19:08:12+00:00
>but you are likely setting them up for life of social awkwardness and ostracization.

Citation needed.

If you put your kids in homeschooling and provide no other outlet for socialization then sure, they'll be socially awkward.

My brother and I were homeschooled, but we were also heavily involved in our community. We were at the local park playing sports 3-4 times per week, we did various summer camps, we had a few other homeschool families that we'd setup playdates with. Our parents would sometimes joke that we barely ever home! And, unsurprisingly, we had no problems with socializing or making friends later in life.

Was it the same kind of socialization you get from going to public school? No, but I consider that a feature :)
by IMTDb | 2025-11-21 19:08:14+00:00
I still believe that even with a reject all button, the regulation is absolute bullshit. The sheer fact that the regulation forbids that setting to be done at the browser level (the law specifically mentions that the consent - or rejection - has to be specific for each website and thus cannot be "once and forget"), is absolute dogshit.

I turn out to be the CTO of a mid-sized SAAS business (100+ FTE over 3 continents), and neither I, any legal advisor, or any other C-level that I have ever met are discussing "what's the fine ? should we just pay instead of complying ?" when dealing with legal stuff. I do not know who brainwashed you into thinking that all businesses are just gonna disregard any regulation given the chance but that has not been my experience at all. I am not saying that none are doing it, but this really isn't the norm. The whole "people = good, business = bad" is just some kind of cozy metal construction that fits in a TikTok video, but that not how the world works.
by dkhenry | 2025-11-21 19:09:05+00:00
When I recently switched jobs, one of my requirements was I had to remain remote, for at least the next few years, so I could remain at home and help with my children's education. I don't think there is enough money in the world to convince me to change back to public education. Aside from the benefits everyone mentions like a much better education, having so much extra time with my children is a priceless gift that I wish we as a society could give everyone.

Also its given me the chance to learn things that I missed during my primary and secondary educations. Going through each proof in Euclid's Elements again has been a lot of fun, and its been long enough that I have forgotten most of them, so the thrill of discovery is real for me too.

If you can make it work, you should make it work, even if that means moving to a lower CoL area, there are a lot of small towns in the US that have excellent amenities, and are great places to raise a family.
by phoehne | 2025-11-21 19:09:08+00:00
The cool thing about an Arduino is you can just buy the boards and use them in a commercial product. This isn't something you can do with other boards. Some people have said the license requires you to disclose your firmware, but that's not the way I read it and I've never heard of anyone being compelled to release anything (unless they modify any GPL covered code).

Not all platforms give you the right to do this. For example, if you buy a dev board from STM - it's only licensed for research and development. Also, because you might want to continue to sell the same thing for years, and the board designs were open-sourced, you could buy the same part for years and years. So you can continue to sell your CNC kit that uses an Mega 2560 without worrying about Arduino coming after you or that they'd discontinue that part.
by websiteapi | 2025-11-21 19:09:49+00:00
there's a lot of hype around durable execution these days. why do that instead of regular use of queues? is it the dev ergonomics that's cool here?

you can (and people already) model steps in any arbitrarily large workflow and have those results be processed in a modular fashion and have whatever process that begins this workflow check the state of the necessary preconditions prior to taking any action and thus go to the currently needed step, or retry ones that failed, and so forth.
by ctoth | 2025-11-21 19:09:49+00:00
> A conscious textual agent would need something like a unified narrative environment with real feedback: symbols that maintain identity over time, a stable substrate where “being someone” is definable, the ability to form and test a hypothesis, and experience the consequences.

So like a Claude Code session? The code persists as symbols with stable identity. The tests provide direct feedback. Claude tracks what it wrote versus what I changed - it needs identity to distinguish its actions from mine. It forms hypotheses about what will fix the failing tests, implements them, and immediately experiences whether it was right or wrong.

The terminal environment gives it exactly the "stable substrate where 'being someone' is definable" you're asking for.

We missing anything?
by SoftTalker | 2025-11-21 19:09:56+00:00
> Parents side with their kids all the time in pass/fail battles; they're not objective.

I'm thinking this is fairly new. When I was in school, if I got bad grades or got in trouble at school, I got in trouble at home too. My parents were absolutely not calling the teachers complaining about grades. When I had trouble learning multiplication facts, they sat me down with flash cards every night until I had learned them, they didn't blame the teacher. This was in the 1970s/80s. This seemed pretty normal based on what I remember. When/why did it change?
by 5f3cfa1a | 2025-11-21 19:10:16+00:00
Grade retention ('holding kids back') has additionally dropped significantly since the average HNer has gone to school. I remember going to school where one of my peers went to sixth grade with his brother two years older than him. But now, we give out social promotions.

That might've worked if we funded schools & gave students who fell behind significant interventions & 1x1 attention, but that's not what happened. One of my friends has a very bright and talented fifth grader in a class with multiple students who can barely read or write. Guess who gets the most attention from educators? Which group the teachers structure the class for?
by Fwirt | 2025-11-21 19:10:17+00:00
That’s horrible that you legally cannot replace your own water heater. What region mandates that?

Where I live I can replace my own water heater, but it’s more cost-effective not to because the most reliable brands will only sell to licensed plumbers. So I can get a big box store model that will leak or die in 3 years for $300, and then have to pay for fittings, wiring, etc. myself and pay to dispose of the old one and provide my own labor, or pay a plumber buddy of mine who has access to the good stuff that will last 10-15 years $1000 to install one for me.

Building permits and inspections make sense in a lot of cases for things that could cause societal damage. E.g. if I wire my house wrong and it burns down, it could kill the people living in it (even if it’s not me) or set my neighbor’s house on fire. If I put in a septic system wrong it could poison all the wells in the area. But when you start needing permit and inspections for basic maintenance, it becomes difficult to justify the regulations.
by harddrivereque | 2025-11-21 19:10:19+00:00
Is it just me or are the news lately really not nice? Less free internet, funding cuts for science (including NASA and this example), the economy is worse than it used to be (as far as I remember), general mental health of the population is tanking,almost every aspect of usual life is being exploited by apps for micropayments, wealth gap grows, I come gap, well, grows too, but everything is impossibly expensive for every class.. are we going into the "great recession" version of the dark ages? I mean, it's not it right? But I have to agree, I do feel bad for the animals, but as someone who has participated in certain academic activities I am convinced that the scrutiny that the ethical committees have put the research through for this should ensure more than enough reasons for this research. Also. What happens with the monkeys? Do they send them to the zoo? I don't think so