skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions they don't need DOS anymore, so they seem to be past that particular problem. It could have been as simple as something like FreeDOS on modern hardware didn't work because it was written to use a real serial port and not something like a USB to serial adapter. And perhaps until recently, they didn't have anyone to help figure out how to bridge something like that through an emulator or vm passthrough device, etc.
Sure, they can make 220k if they only take 4 days off in an entire year:

https://abc7news.com/bart-news-building-a-better-bay-area-ov...
Custom AI accelerators are in the works that seem destined to beat normal GPUs in those specific workloads by quite a lot (in performance per watt).

If they were to release a design with the same architecture, but with all compute larger than f16 completely gone, they could probably get identical performance from a chip that is significantly smaller. I think both AMD and Nvidia will be releasing this kind of design (with more tweaks I'd guess) in the future.
I think this is a bigger signal than anyone appreciates

If google is making it harder for people to spend money on ads, something is either seriously broken or alphabet figured out another way to make money that isn't ads
For context, I also work in the industry and have seen embedded codebases ranging from several thousand lines up to tens of millions.

The region where A is true for me is roughly about an 8051 whose entire codebase could be held in a single developer's mind at one time. That's an increasingly miniscule portion of the industry for many good reasons.

For B, my experience is that your codebase often long outlives the products and hardware it's shipping on and is doing very nontrivial things like wireless networking. The article is saying you should have a way to run the code without hardware (obviously useful for testing/CI/bring up) and with a HAL (which makes porting easier), among other common sense suggestions. Vendors don't always provide this, but my info might be out of date because I haven't been able to work in this space for some years due to my salary expectations.

If you have a full RTOS (e.g. FreeRTOS, RTEMS, etc) you definitely do not get the ability to do these things for free. You need to actually have an architecture and work to keep things like raw hardware accesses isolated. I've spent literal years of my life cleaning up codebases where this wasn't done, so I have strong opinions on the matter.
https://davidmarquet.com/turn-the-ship-around-book/
Show HN: An AI-art, Jackbox-like multiplayer game
Dallestrations is like a mix of Drawful and the game telephone.

Each player enters a prompt which an AI then draws. Then another player will guess what prompt generated that image. Then the AI draws that guess and so on.

At the end players can see how consistent each prompt stayed throughout the rounds. Here are the results from an example game https://dallestrations.herokuapp.com/ede93e19-ecb8-4d91-b973....

Actually uses stable diffusion rather than Dalle-2
There was a recent Ask HN from someone who was concerned that maybe greed was the only reason people would work for places like Facebook or Google any more.

That thread was quickly killed before it could grow any legs, but I did have a knee-jerk response anyway:

I'm sure there are some other reasons for those employees having potential to do more noble work, but aspiring to become an "ad man" on an aggressive media platform has always had an appeal to a certain amount of selfishness at the expense of others.

Now when the entire process is geared to appeal more strongly to even more greedy individuals, that's what you're going to end up with more so than anyone else.

I'm certainly not the innocuous one, with the toxic petrochemicals and all, where the oil business has always appealed more strongly to the greedy get-rich-quick types in its own way.

Rather than add to the size of a growing behemoth, I chose to do my survival activities more as a parasite instead.

There's definitely less money for the taking when you have to earn every dollar by adding value to resources, as opposed to collecting pay from accounts where funds were accumulated wildly before you showed up.

But that's the kind of decision you've got to make.
In the past, younger people tended to view older people as authorities because they had demonstrated their competence. As a younger person, it seems today's older people have demonstrated a general incompetence; For instance, climate change, economic instability, etc. Thus, we view them with skepticism.
In many cases they are the same set of logic as the original systems. That’s the point. Some are reverse-engineered guesses but the vast majority are tick for tick identical. How could a software emulation be more authentic?
Airbnb is not a solution for me anymore. Their prices are really similar to hotels and resorts but with the added value of having to clean, cook, etc...

There's also the issue with housing affordability in the Airbnb's era.

"...live long enough to become a villain.."
It also makes the trains stable; wide stance.
How does anyone know you have a useful product?
Was it necessary to do that? A stability problem elsewhere?
Why is join() a string method instead of a list or tuple method?
A lot of the airbnb listings are hotels now. AirBNB is becoming a general discovery platform.
And a company like OpenSea can arbitrarily destroy the value of blockhain assets on a whim as well. It turns out that the problem isn't that companies like Stripe are evil and looking to screw people over, the real truth is that money is complicated and dealing with things like fraud cause myriad edge and corner cases which have real financial effects.

Blockchain, for all it's promises of decentralization, has rapidly centralized on a few players who's interpretation of the chain are practically law, and thus, is subject to the same problems as any other centrally governed system. The many differences include that stripe (and it's competitors) can handle millions of transactions whereas bitcoin struggles on a few thousand.
Thanks that is a great tip!
Spinning Reserve
Then restructure the debt. There's no need to provide further subsidies to citizens who are already half a million dollars ahead of other Americans.
You must be taking different Bay Area transit than me (not that Bay area roads aren't hellish). Other than peak commute times cars are far faster to pretty everywhere BART serves outside of SF proper, and obviously much faster to anyplace BART doesn't.

The aforementioned Dublin > mission BART route is only about parity with driving for a 9:00am arrival in SF, and much slower after[0]. To say nothing of the obvious choke point that is the bay bridge, which would be well served by either an expansion or a hybrid approach. Robotaxi to west Oakland, hope on a bart, pick up a new robotaxi in SF to get to e.g. the sunset, or other not-bart served location.

[0]https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Amador+Lakes+Apartment+Homes...
To be fair, the laypeople are also likely bombarded with advertising about the ballot measure. The advertising will simplify what's stated, and get at some potential consequences of voting yes vs. voting no. There could actually be a benefit with this language in that uninformed voters will actually not vote on it, whereas generally speaking, people vote with complete disregard to their level of knowledge about a subject.

Also to be fair, even if the language was perfectly easy to understand, there's probably at best a 70-30 shot the voters pick the right choice, since people lack the critical thinking skills, and education in public policy and economics to choose what's best.
I don't ride Bart anymore, but plenty of us would have done this work for free.. just to see a small chance at improving the system.

The dysfunction is broader than them being unable to afford engineering talent.
A touch device may be a better option in that case.
Tmesis
Damper baby best baby
It’s almost as if, were we to decide collectively that everyone who works should enjoy a decent living, it could be so.
This is already in iOS 16! Connect your AirPods Pro, then go to settings and tap on the AirPods.
Yes... nobody is doubting that. It just sucks for us.
GET TO THE CHOPPA

Guy could barely speak english, but listen to the background audio when he screams that. Great example
A longtime ago, I read some trading book, sorry cannot remember the title but it was about trading psychology.

The two most important points were:

1. Anything could happen
2. We can only control risk

While these points were related to trading, I slowly started to apply to pretty much everything.

I used to think, like code, I can perfectly control outcome of any serious effort. Now I know in real life, you can do everything perfect but still get unexpected outcome.

It sort of prepare me for unexpected and always think about backup plans.
Thin sans-serif body font means you hate your readers' eyes.

(I've mostly given up making this complaint, and things have gotten better, but I couldn't resist on an article on the importance of better documentation.)
This is true, but as you say, the revolution started out the way rayiner describes it, and it seems very plausible that the 2nd. amendment was motivated by that specific circumstance.

Personally, I think we would have been better off without the 2nd amendment, and the framers of the constitution may not have foreseen the role it has come to play in politics (if so, it would be far from the only case), but I cannot find much ambiguity in it.
I ordered one direct from Terasic back in June and received it in about 2 weeks. Cost excluding shipping was $243.
Not to interupt your martyrdom, but complaining about downvoting is a great way to gather downvotes.
You have a typo: it's Ryzen 3100 (2x2 CCX). There is no such thing as Ryzen 3300
I think this is becoming more of a thing. It seems like the modern developments are built as both hotels and apartments where every unit could realistically be used for either purpose. And it seems like the idea is that if the hotel doesn’t need so many units, they can sell them off.
> (Actually I have no idea how easy it is to hide money from the tax collectors using crypto, but I assume that's one of the appeals).

Depends on which one but let's take pure bitcoin because that's what the post is about.

Governments have 3 main tools, tracing, freezing and recovering. The breakdown is different in crypto vs fiat.

In BTC, the blockchain contains all previous transactions, everything is public. If you send your BTC through middlemen it'll be mixed in with their assets but you can still follow the trail perfectly. So tracing is easier with BTC than fiat, because you won't have to convince some Cayman island bank to hand over the cash.

Next, there's freezing, which is harder. You can't block transactions to Iran on the chain, but you can block entry and exit points when trading with fiat, on most exchanges. Since freezing is technically equal to censoring, it's a feature.

Recovery is almost impossible, to the point of you can even lose your own private key, let alone someone who stole from you. The government can't produce a valid private key any more than your quad-core IOT fridge.

TL;DR avoiding tax is hard to do for retail people, simply because the regulators are watching the entry and exit points. So even if you tornado cashed and zcash yadda yadda and your funds are untraceable you eventually need to buy fiat for them, because you'll need the fiat for the Lamborghini.

> rather than trying to hide your savings in untaxable havens.

Kinda OT, but why suddenly is tax evasion a problem with retail crypto of all things? We have institutionalized tax avoidance for the biggest players (megacorps & ultra rich) to the point where nobody raises an eyebrow anymore. Seems inconsistent to me.
It was originally designed that way to cope with high winds across the Golden Gate Bridge (even though those plans got scrapped)
What power supply has CPU in it?
If by "game the system" you mean, "learn the necessary knowledge and skills taught in the curriculum to graduate", then yeah, they are gaming the system.

But to you point, I define critical thinking as the ability to analyze and synthesize disparate data in order to form thoughts and opinions which are well founded. When they come to me out of high school, this ability is often completely lacking. When they leave after 4 years, they are being sought after by top companies, forming their own companies, and entering into public service well equipped to meet the demands of their new careers.

No one is graduating from our programs by regurgitating words/phrases. I don't know where you got that perception. That would be descriptive of high school, not a top-ranked university.
Monetary policy isn't fiscal policy. QE is just a way of lowering interest and by itself does not significantly increase inflation. We've QE'd plenty of money since the recession without inflation. Japan QE'd even proportionally more money for much longer and has experienced even less inflation. QE makes lending cheaper, which enables businesses to produce more goods and services, so you don't have the effect of "more dollars chasing the same goods."

Even when the government spends more money than it collects from taxes, it's still not necessarily inflationary so long as if it's a productive use of money (e.g. public transportation increases employment opportunities). The main difference from Covid relief was that lot of money was simply created with no good purpose at all, so it fell into the category of "more dollars chasing the same goods."
Running but not really doing anything. No IO, no CPU activity, etc.
This attitude is why I hope government crushes the advertising industry. No one is entitled to my information to sell me shit. No one.
Full disclosure; I am not a pro ML'er. I dabble as a hobby and I am trying to learn as much as possible.

Question; Does the innovation need to happen on the hardware side?

I ask because there is a concerted effort, at least for inference, to reduce memory requirements and provide more access to giant LLMs.[0] It seems like everyone for the past few years has just thrown more and more compute at the wall to see what sticks. Where does it stop? 3 or 4 trillion parameter models that cost a $Billion to train? Is there a law of diminishing returns? Have we reached the apogee or will it be the 15 trillion parameter that ate $100Billion?

Accessibility to all manner of models, for knuckle heads like myself, is relatively new. Maybe I should rephrase, accessibility to interesting and FUN models that mere mortals can use and hack on is relatively new. Stable Diffusion is nothing short of spectacular for just having some fun with ML/DL.

My naïve thought is that, similar to most natural systems, smaller and more specialized models that can be "glued" together as a way forward. In my mind this makes more sense than these ridiculously large language models. That is to say, purpose built or fine--tuned models that can communicate seems like a good idea. GPT-NeoX "communicates" with to Bloom and makes a gaggle of small models that can be fine-tuned further. If regular people with a consumer GPU can train/fine-tune a model at home, this happens a lot faster.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07339
To make 150k, they only need to work ~250 days.

What I mean by "corruption" is
that the compensation in the story you shared is from 2018, and it's still going on in 2021 (the compensation data I shared)
https://www.techspot.com/news/95809-streaming-media-player-p...

Idle: 0.30w, In use: 3.03w-5.58w
Personally at this point I can barely print. I can understand the logic of not learning cursive but it's definitely a shame; just one more beautiful thing that we are losing in the name of progress.
For me it would have been a 15 hour flight ;-)

I was pitching an Open Source developer tools startup around here at this time. VCs laughed in my face since there's no business model in OSS or in developer tools.
https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2022/news20220708-2

High winds, lighter cars.
Notable how they try to deflect attention to this by saying essentially "...but look how bad the Russians are."

See the editor's note at the top:

Editor's Note, April 2022: We encourage you to explore this research brief and the full report that it is based on. However, because Russian state media entities and individuals sympathetic to Putin's decision to invade Ukraine have mischaracterized this research in recent weeks, we also encourage you to explore this helpful resource on Russia's "firehose of falsehood" approach to propaganda and our research on "Truth Decay," which is a phenomenon that is driven in part by the spread of disinformation.
Midterms coming up so…
Hard to be certain that the results are worthy of acceptance until one sees how open, fair, and free the process that produces them is.

Unfortunately, in this era, that is not a foregone conclusion.
Unpaid overtime
And what if you search for 'weird fetish' and those kinds of ads start popping up when you show a youtube video as part of presentation.

People do not want to be tracked and then bombarded with the cloud's idea of who they are (right or wrong), they want to be in control.
Always is when money is involved.
People are responsable of their anxiety. Not the others.

Fuck this bullshit.
As long as transportation remains very much car centric, high speed rail isn't going to take off. I don't really know much about transportation systems in the USA except for what I read online. The train network can only connect the big cities or smaller ones on the route. Surely the bigger question is how do people travel once they get off the train. It's again back to cars unless most major cities have a robust public transportation system. Elon Musk as a businessman wouldn't want to miss that opportunity to push an alternative to high speed rail and sell more cars!
You are heavily, heavily overreacting here. Take a breath.
> That's funny. Whatever happened to vision and innovation? Improving the world and people's lives? Achieving great things through technology? Empowering people?

Unironically, they've already done that.

Microsoft put a PC on every desk, running Microsoft software.

Facebook connected the world to all their friends and relatives.

Amazon first revolutionized e-commerce, making it possible to buy almost anything from almost anywhere. Then they revolutionized server computing, making it possible for anyone to spin up a software backend and scale it out without buying or leasing your own servers.

Apple got pocket sized general purpose computers into the pockets of the majority of people in the world (through iPhone and inspiring Android).

Google enabled people to find pretty much any piece of human knowledge or information.

The problem is, once those goals were accomplished, there was a still a need to keep revenue and profits rising. Which always seems to end up with selling ads at some point.
A life of working for the man?
In these earthquake videos, am I correct in thinking that the mass is stationary and the building is moving around it?
People are not freaking out because the damper is doing its job of limiting the movement of the building. They never felt the actual force of the earthquake.
What I find most amusing is the amazon and brand ads I see on Facebook.

Amazon is trying to sell me dental office equipment, or specialized restaurant tools, and a dozen other things that few outside of a particular area of expertise would remotely consider. It’s bizarre.
> It's seems wild how much simpler is it for Americans to try out a business idea when you read comments like this - just start selling, and pay your income tax (unless I'm getting the wrong impression).

This is likely by design and is both a prerequisite and consequence of America's lax attitude towards businesses. It is likely one of the pivotal reasons why America has many more businesspeople (even just counting Silicon Valley companies) than Europe.
They just got rid of some of these tests in CA public schools…
But there's no guarantee that advertising won't be misleading.
80 years is a long ass time though
Not where you lived, but what you lived, i.e. what class status you were.
Vendoring is kind of a pain. You start with a tomlnthat has everything you think you'll need then you grab all that, run it by legal and the it team and copy it over. You find a new dependency and start again.

Before package managers you ended up with giant pseudo stdlib libraries like boost or eigen and you only needed a tiny piece but once you brought it over you had it all, and it had no sub dependencies to worry about. Monolithic was easier from a lot of standpoints. Crates.io is exactly what I'd want if I wasnttroo worried about safety or security. It is far more productive. But if you make software that other companies use to help make themselves secure, then you are wearing a bullseye these days and it is kind of your job to be paranoid about deep dependency trees.
I mean why CPU=8, not CPU=7 or CPU =9 has the fastest access.
Anyway, I have asked this in [stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73767563) and get downvotes too. T_T
The author’s pat on his own back was about as subtle as a train wreck.
> that sniffing the protocol would be fairly simple

ah yes, "fairly simple". The protocol is not the issue, the data within is. There are hundreds of datapoints, various switching logic, and tons more of 50 years of accumulated cruft. At least. All in a well tested, stable, and understood package. The documentation is probably pretty good but likely has small (but crucial) errors.

It's easy to assume that this would be a simple rewrite, but real engineering (not the kind we do on hacker news! lol) requires tons of planning, testing, and phasing in. This is dealing directly with people's safety after all! It's interfacing with a train control system, not a webapp that turns markdown into memes.

also

> RS-232 is my guess (could be the parallel port)

RS-232 is inherently a serial protocol. If you're using RS-232 since basically ever, it's either a built in serial port, some sort of serial headers, or some sort of usb-to-serial adapter. The parallel port has never been directly used for RS-232 - they are fundamentally different technologies.
> Was this definitely the cause?

No, I haven't confirmed it. We jumped straight to fixing it without debugging the root cause. It's possible the cause is something totally different (I should have added this caveat in my original post). I was just speculating.
Work for 10 people, but they only want to hire 3.

SOURCE: my current company likes me and the other 2 gritty software engineers.
Apparently a thing that is frequently done in TV shows nowadays is "scrapbooking": shooting a whole bunch of scenes for several different storylines, picking the ones they like or which test well, and editing those into a rough approximation of a single story. Rumor has it some of the Disney+ Marvel and Star Wars series are made this way. I can't say I've heard anything about Rings of Power, but scrapbooking does appear to be a cause if the aggressive badness in streaming shows today, especially "triple A" major studio productions that are bad.
When you have companies like Espressif who do huge volumes using RISC-V, yes. It's definitely a rival.

https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-c3