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Arduino never made sense as far as technical specs go. You could always buy more capable and compatible AVR microcontrollers for one tenth the price. In the past decade, the disparity has gotten more dramatic as 8-bit chips have gotten even cheaper and even more capable.

Arduino owed its success solely to building a healthy maker ecosystem of folks who simply defaulted to it as a platform, published tutorials, and promoted it through word-of-mouth. That's probably still there. Raspberry Pi had the same thing going on for it, by the way.

Marketing / community building trumps technical merit in almost everything, and embedded computing is not an exception. I'm not lamenting this, it's just a fact of life.
It is surprising it is even worth that. I mean how are they going to make big money at all. It seems the advertisers in aggregate do not like the new changes, hence a drop in ad revenue. And since they have dramatically low employees now, unless Musk has some miraculous money making idea up his sleeve, they will not be able to take on many features or products which might be new paths to extra revenue. I think in the end twitter might just fold at some point or become a small private company making very less money.
Boeing 'tried' in the sense that they said "We will try if the government pays for it". And also by 'tried' it means 'we propose an absolutely outrages design, to make sure it appeals to politicians and we can get money for it for the next 15 years.'.

As soon as the government money was gone, Boeing threw the plans in the trash. Everybody else who was competing for government money instantly threw their plans in the trash as soon it was clear no government money was coming.
Cruise Ship Invasion
In the case of hit-to-kill intercepts, terminal guidance was proven and reliable 30-40 years ago (at least), it is a mature capability. That is no need to test that it can hit the target per se if the rocket can precisely respond to the guidance commands.

What changed is that they later attached that terminal guidance to new high-performance rocket motors that pushed the materials science requirements to a point where it was difficult to get the rocket to respond precisely to guidance commands and the terminal guidance package itself suffered ablative damage due to extreme acceleration. As such, all of the tests for the last 20+ years have been tests to determine if the missile components materially degrade or fail in-flight, regardless of what they are aimed at. The nature of the target and test environment are almost irrelevant to this question -- hitting the target is pretty strong evidence that the materials didn't fail.
Oh that's super cool! Will need to try it.
> If we can both generate and detect neutrinos, we have the basis for a communication device that can operate on a point-to-point basis between any two locations.

AIUI, you’ll need a much bigger detector farther from the beam location, and the bandwidth is going to suck at any range, but, sure, the odds that someone sticks a neutrino detector in the path is pretty low.
We better focus all our resources in colonizing other planets and harvest asteroids that's what makes all better off.

If we fight, we all loose
That's relevant for order of magnitude only, and only for "body sbop" work that is the same as previous work.

And only works if management wants an estimate. More commonly, management wants a lie they can tell the client.
Much of the differences between British and American spellings are due to Webster's attempt at spelling reform in the early 19th century.
He/she hasn’t been around enough to see these patterns yet. The amount of times I’ve had to implement security, rbac, rest crud, modeling, service integrations, etc are too many to count. I rely on packages that help reduce the boilerplate and because I’ve done that so many times, I can give you an estimate on roughly how long it will take.

The fact that the OP doesn’t see this is fact that they are too junior to be asked for estimates at all.
I would like to crank this prediction up a bit more. I think we are pretty close that it doesn't make sense to have simple client apps anymore. Why shouldn't the LLM do it all?

Let's say a simple single purpose web app such as Calendly. Why should I pay for such a service if I can just ask the LLM to create the entire app for me?

In TFA, the author let the LLM create an ics file. Why shouldn't the LLM also spawn a REST endpoint and serve stuff from it matching my prompt?
I am finishing up the third one and also have no idea.

Many people have thought about neutrino comms
Property rights remind me how most(-ish) cities are older than the countries they're in.
Did we go back to thinking we wanted to be less connected to the world around us, and we're looking for a $3k device to help us do that? I thought maybe society was admitting there are major, inadequately examined problems with device addiction, social alienation, mental health, and so on. I guess maybe we were just in a lull between product launches, and I mistook that silence for introspection. My bad.
If I worked on your team, I wouldn’t any longer.
To guarantee the value for the odd people retiring you have to enslave the younger people working to guarantee that promise. Then you take a (large) cut of that generational transfer as a reward for guaranteeing a reliable store of value. Wait! I think I just invented the way the modern world works
I have fond memories of creating LEGO CAD models and running them through POV-Ray for hours on end to turn them into gorgeous renders.
There's some interesting technology and philosophy angles there. ("What exactly is money and how does it work?") But the moment crypto became a speculative asset, it jumped the rails.

We get a lot of obviously not-ready-for-prime-time stuff hitting production because it's too lucrative (see any number of DAO and smart-contract schemes that imploded), and there's a systemic allergy to input from the outside world as to what normal consumers want (things like reversability and systemic backstops), because the current system appeals to speculators.

I'd see the case for "useful in the future" if there were more efforts to answer the no-breakthrough-tech-required "faster horses" problems people have with mainstream finance. FedNow is coming in months and will give me settlement in minutes for pennies, and likely very solid legal backing. This is faster horses. Crypto might offer similar settlement speeds, but I understand it depends on the particular chain I choose, and to an extent, how much I'm willing to pay to push the transaction through. I'd also wonder how reliably the courts will accept a crypto paper trail if there's ever a dispute on a payment. (Not necessarily because the trail is bogus, but simply because it's not a well-established precedent of who and what can be trusted)
If you've worked in the industry long enough you work with a PM who will ignore everything you say and ask for a delivery date, and then ignore everything you say until you give the date that the management or client wants. What they won't do is give you the resources and support you need to hit the date.
The author is suggesting finding a corner of the world where you can play a better game. The better game they are suggesting is to hop off the treadmill of external validation, and figure out how to find it internally instead.

Like many or most of us here, I spend a lot of my time around software people. But I just spent a bunch of time this weekend with a group of people for whom music is their way of making money in some way or another; teaching it, playing it, writing it, etc. Something very striking to me is how much different the internal vs. external validation thing is between them and me. These are people who get little external validation, always scraping by with unstable income, struggling for recognition in a crowded field. But they all do it because they just freaking love music, they're excited by the possibilities, and almost always happy when they're playing. On the other hand, most software folks I know are compensated richly externally, but often struggle to find peace and contentment internally.
I think a more defensible phrase would be "net negative to society". Crypto has its positive uses, but you have to balance those against the negatives of slow transfer speeds, speculative bubbles, scams, energy consumption, and carbon emissions.

Also, it needs to be said that Nvidia is probably just jumping on the next marketing bandwagon by pivoting to LLMs after the collapse of crypto. This doesn't seem like a principled stance they are taking.
Exactly all that GAFAM/BigTech/OpenAI/ChatGPT corporate propaganda should be forbidden here. At least this post promotes some free/libre and opensource and privacy respecting software.
My point is that sometimes its better for some things to just be illegal because it is likely better then the alternative that you would likely get.

If this was a hugely important issue, yes, try to change it. However until then, lets not waste political capital on it.
The i stands for imagination/ignorance at the moment. Intelligence (or something indistinguishable from it) doesn't seem too far away but isn't here yet.

So all we have is a dumb bot that can appropriate styles and ideas. Revolutionary, but not quite to the extent needed to sue it for copyright.
I work in an industrial physics and mathematics domain, and in that domain specifically, I must say it is very charitable to describe a majority of software engineers as doing "applied mathematics", if we are to interpret that as meaning "software engineers are participating in the practice of doing research mathematics." Except perhaps in some extremely reductionist view of what it means to "write a program" (e.g., programs are proofs, Curry-Howard, or some other idea), I don't think "applied mathematics" truly characterizes the work of, say, someone writing out a GitHub Action or adding a new RESTful endpoint to list a company's product catalog.

There's a pattern amongst software engineers in these and other discussions. When it comes to discussing management and resource estimation, some people describe software as the most arcane, idiosyncratic craft to exist. In other situations (e.g., where actual research mathematics or computer science is proposed to be used to solve a problem), software engineering has to be "simple", "aligned with best practices", and almost anti-intellectual.

The pattern of discussion (here and elsewhere), to me, indicates a survival instinct of sorts, if that makes sense. To this end, there's a sort of hypocrisy if it means being a software engineer is as unrestrained as possible: software is purported to be like applied mathematics in situations where it's advantageous to describe it as such (e.g., "we can't estimate because proving conjectures is intrinsically unpredictable") , then when the proposition is brought forth to engage with software as applied math (e.g., "team, we can bound the 99%ile perf by proving this recurrence on resource usage, and that'll give us evidence to modify our search algorithm with an adaptive radix tree."), software engineers push it away for something satisfactory to a CS101 student (e.g., "we can just implement auto-completion of our product catalog by searching a sorted array of item names, why complicate it?").

I understand the troubles of estimating resources for tasks and projects, and indeed the requests can sometimes be unrealistic and overbearing—I don't mean to suggest otherwise—but even the most technically sophisticated pieces of software are flush with "ordinary" kinds of programming tasks.
Still, demand would likely be a double or more if ETH hadn't made the switch.
There's nuance for sure.

Most - Maximize your personal fulfillment and happiness.

Something - Maximize your external achievements and recognition by others.

I personally don't care to make "something" out of my life. I want to make the "most" of it.
“The library is a safe place.”
> The devs say libinput is better because synaptics was too old, crufty, too configurable with too many edge cases to test... but from a user perspective I think synpatics was better.

That has been the user story on the linux desktop since forever.

Gnome 2 -> 3

Xorg -> Wayland

Alsa -> Pulseaudio

Synaptics -> libinput

Every single time, it's better for the developer and removing user functionality and making life on the linux desktop more horrifying.

Oh and gtk4 font rendering is broken for anyone who doesn't have a 300 DPI monitor. The current implementation of antialiasing causes blur. Can't even fix it by using a bitmap font as a replacement as they are no longer supported since the removal of FreeType.

Sometimes one can't help but wonder if Red Hat is paid to sabotage the linux desktop and keep the OS firmly in the camp of server side.
The American stance on children is different.
Children are the property of their parents, to raise and indoctrinate however one sees fit.

Luckily everyone grows up and when you're 18 you can move to a Democrat state never entering a church ever again.
Pay attention to this. A war between China and Taiwan is quite possible. There are Chinese generals who claim the war will be over in a few days. That's what Putin thought when invading Russia and trying to take Kyiv.
Well you could think of an ambitious startup like it has a certain runway to take off before it runs out of runway.

In a promising environment, the marginal companies could be grouped in with the most airworthy.

Now if you're barely off the ground, and the going gets rough, the runway means something completely different.

It's good to be in a vehicle that can make it back to a runway to fly again, rather than crash before you can get to some kind of survivable landing.

You can't always be sure of which one you are in or how good the pilot is.

In a threatening environent, the marginal performers could be unfairly grounded, although it could sometimes amount to risk reduction until clearer skies are ahead.

You might need to be careful you don't go to a place that will crash sooner with less warning.
> I would probably put the data on a ZFS volume with dedupe instead

But doesn't ZFS dedupe eat RAM for breakfast ? Double-digit GB RAM per TB data IIRC ?
Let em know, champ.
Electric powered lawn mowers have been around since the early 1980s, largely replaced today by battery powered mowers.
>It doesn’t really cost us anything to show empathy to someone or something. //

Disagree. I just hit the keys on my keyboard. Are you going to have a chat with them and then if they don't respond, only after that interact with them all-the-while hoping that they don't have an aversion to tactile interactions or a particularly delicate physiology in some dualistic everything-has-a-soul-that-interacts-with-the-apparent-World sense? Empathising with everything [as if it had a soul] would be entirely crippling.

We still enslave one another on the daily, and the rich enslave others to just the right-side of immoral-enslavement to make wealth from them. 'We' put people in rings to fight.

The monster would not be the person using a robot, a mechanistic tool, in an un-feeling way; but the person who decides to program the robot to be a simulacrum of a creature with feelings.
You switched from the motte to the bailey so fast right there it made my head spin.

Yes, money is good. No, more centralized control over money is not good. Stop it with the socialist nonsense.
You still have some sort of spatial awareness while using a phone, which makes it more acceptable to use in public. Like, if I’m dining solo, and a waiter comes by, I will still acknowledge their existence and be able to respond to them, have an eye contact and be able to use your body language. That’s kind of lost in AR/VR case.
Which syscalls?
Perhaps not newer cars, but as soon as you register it as a classic (>25 years old), all of those rules and emissions testing goes right out of the window. The only issue you would have is local laws on noisy exhaust.

In my state, motorcycles aren't subject to any regulation at all at the machine level. I walked in and registered my 70's two stroke yamaha in minutes.
I think ChatGPT is actually better at creating the right prompts than doing the answers to the prompts.
> We would see decisions being made that aren’t physically possible with current technology.

Or we wouldn’t, because it would only be used where an alternative information cover story could be concocted or where the decision and action itself could be kept secret, to avoid exposing the capability.
Look at TI's CC1310 platform for wireless sensors. There may be newer models of it.
> Can't we sort of blame the Fed for that too?

No. SVB chose to pursue a risky investment strategy with no risk manager at the helm for months, the banking equivalent of stupidly storing all of your nitrous fertilizer in one place and then being surprised when the whole thing blows up.

SVB made numerous, critical mistakes in their management. If anything, one could argue the Fed enabled this stupidity by keeping rates low for so long. But ultimately, the failure falls on the bank.
I wonder how much of the original reddit post was written by ChatGPT, it seems to tick a lot of boxes.
That’s fair. At-will employment laws…
Electric mowers are probably more common than petrol in the UK.

They aren't battery powered but corded which makes them light and cheap. Not many people have lawns longer than 40m or so or whatever the extension cables max out as.

https://www.flymo.com/uk/products/lawn-mowers/
Summary:

Ken Thompson, co-creator of UNIX, expressed disappointment with Apple's macOS, prompting him to transition to Linux, specifically Raspbian.

Apple's ARM-based Silicon architecture offers excellent hardware, but users like Thompson and Linus Torvalds find macOS restrictive.

The Asahi Linux project enables running an ARM64 Linux distribution on Apple Silicon hardware.
What annoys me is that there are dozens of industrial applications for this technology, but it often feels as though AR is held hostage by a “need” for mass-market appeal.
> - The buyer has to make commitments externally, for instance to customers, partners, finance, marketing, his boss;

Usually a business person makes some promise to the buyer or his/her boss that a certain feature will be done in X amount of time without consulting the team who does the work. The result might be overworking, resentments, stuff not being done in time and technical debt.
Indeed.

I suspect vcs were telling the companies to bank with svb as some sort of mutual backscratching.
Absolutely not what was suggested, but ok.
Am I the only one who feels great about how so many people have lost it and become completely distracted by a chatbot? There's an enormous opportunity for everyone who is building something and just doesn't care. In VC it feels like a generational opportunity to just stay the course and not do anything stupid, and as long as you're doing something actually useful you'll be way ahead of everyone who wasted all their time chasing chatbots. It's like crypto squared.
Yes, I'm not aware of anything after that:

https://carrv.github.io/2020/papers/CARRV2020_paper_15_Zhao....
I find as I get older my sensitivity to specific sounds seems to be increasing. In addition to some already mentioned:

- the sharp beeping sound made by my elevator as it passes every floor. Ironically this apparently is an ADA requirement though most elevators I ride have a much more muted sound which doesn’t bother me.
- the beeping sound made by trucks when backing up, esp those that are so loud I can hear it inside my apartment.
The first iPhone didn’t even take video out of the box. That is how I learned about jailbreaking because my phone company sold me video messaging on my plan and the phone didn’t take videos! Lol. But if you jailbroke the phone you could get cycorder from Cydia and take videos.

Yes there were other “smart” phones at the time but it truly felt like social media blew up in size with the introduction of the iPhone. And that was revolutionary.
> “All this crypto stuff, it needed parallel processing, and [Nvidia] is the best, so people just programmed it to use for this purpose. They bought a lot of stuff, and then eventually it collapsed, because it doesn’t bring anything useful for society. AI does,” Kagan told the Guardian.

No, the crypto mining industry collapsed because the largest GPU-mined cryptocurrency (Ethereum) removed the ability for people to mine it with GPUs. Crypto obviously does not "need parallel processing" in the way that Nvidia GPUs provide it, because Ethereum removed that requirement entirely.

Nvidia's statement is like a shovel manufacturer declaring gold mining dead because people are no longer buying shovels (because they moved on to backhoes).
It cured my ED and my skin is clearing up so speak for yourself
This is like the gingerbread man in the gingerbread house meme.
“Search isn’t a business!”

Blockchain and Web3 ended up mostly being zero sum games. But that doesn’t mean it’s not capable of being so much more. Who remembers the silly <BLINK> and <MARQUEE> tags? The Web has come a long way. And personally, for all its faults, I find Web3 better than Web2 in terms of economics - rather than giant server farms and Big Tech monopolies, we have UniSwap and Aave Marketplace and Filecoin etc. The network is owned by the participants and no shareholder class to extract rents.

Well, ironically AI can be a far bigger negative for society than blockchain.

AI can literally destroy all our systems. Its upside may be far lower than its downside.

Yet HN loves AI and hates blockchain. Predictable this will be silently downvoted into oblivion because it challenges that narrative, but I would have definitely preferred actual substantive discussion.
Hey, at least people who buy drugs with bitcoin are actually getting tangible goods. Despite everything, TSR might have been the most "legitimate" use of cryptocurrency to date.
It actually works with "less than words", tokens that can encode either a whole word or part of it. Example might be "you" as a single token, but "craftsmanship" might be 5-10 tokens depending on the encoder.

It has absolutely no encoding of the meaning, however it does have something called an "attention" matrix that it trains itself to make sure it is weighing certain words more than others in it's predictions. So words like "a", "the" etc will eventually count for less than words like "cat", "human", "car" etc when it is predicting new text.
It will be more likely start as a chat query about a product and then go into product research and then the model will casually suggest reasons for which product to choose. Example: which is the best magnesium supplement? The model will first guide the user to choose one form(of Mg) over other citing pros/cons. Then it will talk about different products for that type of Mg and suggest that one producer is better/worse because of reviews/issues/problems etc.
Some devs do work that could be replaced by software, but management doesn't know and the dev likes a paycheck.
Those same people don't educate their children on the existence of HPV and its role in their future diseases. The kids have already been green-lit in this department via total ignorance of the risks.

Uptake is limited simply because it hasn't been required in the USA as part of school enrollment. This is the primary driver of vaccination in the country.

I'm fairly certain you're conflating hormonal birth control with HPV vaccination.
Too high in this context means not socially optimal.

To the extent there’s hard, inelastic demand for an absolutely safe place to park cash perhaps it is more efficient to have the government offer such instruments than any other entity.

However, to the extent the terms are more attractive than they “should” be, and satisfying soft, elastic demand, that’s money that’s being pulled away from productive investments.
You vs. Robot: Showing your work and proof of soul
What if they're digging graves?
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