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Somewhat shameless but relevant plug - we use the ESP32-S3 for Willow[0]. The dual core S3 and "high speed" external PSRAM are game changers.

What it is capable of (especially considering the price point) is nothing short of incredible. Wake word activation, audio processing (AGC, AEC, etc), audio streaming, even on device speech recognition for up to 400 commands with Multinet. All remarkably performant, easily besting Alexa/Echo in terms of interactivity and response time (even when using an inference server across the internet for speech recognition).

Sure we're down in ESP-IDF land and managing everything we have going on in FreeRTOS is a pain but that's not anything you wouldn't have on any microcontroller. We're also doing a lot considering and generally speaking we "just" throw/pin audio tasks (with varying priority) on core 1 while more-or-less dumping everything else on core 0. Seems to be working well so far!

[0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow
As a rule of thumb, it's safe to assume anyone who complains generically about "money printing" doesn't actually have a rational point. They're generally hand-waving broadly, suggesting some John Birch Society type of inflation conspiracy.
I respectfully disagree... :-)

Simple example: `/Library/Keychains/`

There are many important folders, not accessible by standard users.
Well, remember too that IBM didn't pay $34b for just RHEL - a big part of the purchase was OpenShift which has been coming up in revenue and has RHEL as its underpinning. And I have a lot more to write and say about that in a series for my own blog, but certainly IBM isn't looking for RHEL revenue to go down...

And to be very fair to all involved, that's not even remotely unique to IBM. IBM is a public company and the expectation for public companies is that revenue always goes up. Always.

Red Hat had to live with that as an independent public company too. If IBM weren't in the picture and Red Hat were reporting poor subscriber numbers for RHEL, investors would be calling for heads because late stage capitalism. There's no more room for long-term thinking if that doesn't involve "numbers go up, every quarter."
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I thought auto sales was a result of the downward/upward demand wave the pandemic drove?

Basically fewer people bought cars, then lots more people bought cars and meanwhile there was a shortage of chips.
Pretty standard to use ATWINC1500, CYW43439, ESP8266, or ESP32 to add Wifi over UART/SPI/i2c to another microcontrol chip.

This is done with the RP Pico W, Adafruit Feather M0 Wifi / or Airlift, 3d Printer boards (Duet Wifi) and allows you to add Wifi to code bases already written for these boards without worrying about rewriting and/or hitting memory performance issues with running Wifi and logic on a single chip.
Do we have the materials and manufacturing capacity for a massive amount of solar panels right now? Installers?
I wish this entire Stealerships industry just vanishes and this reason (crazy ADMs) alone is enough. There is enough tacit collusion in the industry that makes it unnecessarily difficult to get around being ripped off.
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This fee goes to the park itself. Booz allen only gets paid for the lottery system.
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Gentle reminder that "labour costs" are, in fact, what allows you and a large majority of humans to live ie wages. Framing it as such is really non neutral and perpetuates the idea that companies should come first.
I included relevant information to why I felt it "obvious": incentives (wages), training. That's the entire extent of what I feel relevant to discuss with regards to my wider argument. It's not my job or intent to defend how much increased safety it applies, or to save you from googling whatever supporting information you are actually looking for. I'm only arguing that Oregon given information they had at the time believed it to be in part a safety measure. Again, the correctness of that belief (especially at the time) is "obvious", and the actual "magnitude" of safety gained is irrelevant to any claim I am making and starts to move the debate out of context.
The context you're missing is that Apple doesn't allow any third-party browser engines on iOS for "security".
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It's just for the popular national parks and it's only about the popular seasons, and a lot of it has to do with motor vehicle traffic. My partner and I ride our bikes to most parks or we visit parks off-peak and we almost never bother with any of this.

EDIT: I've always wondered why more private companies don't create shared buses to help backpackers hit the entrance to the park. A lot of the times just getting to the entrance is what makes folks use their cars, and if you could park in a nearby town and take a shuttle in and start your backpacking that would go a long way. I know some parks run shuttles inside the park but I'm talking about a more backpacker/cyclist specific transport just to the entrance to minimize impact on the park itself.
The avgas is leaded and marketing materials “encourage” using it, FWIW.

But yes the efficiency and heat output definitely differ based on the fuel used, some will work better than others for a given stove design. You should be able to combust most of the hydrocarbons regardless of fuel source by adjusting the air intake but any non-hydrocarbon additives will produce strange byproducts which will seem like it’s not burning “cleanly”. e.g. SOx, NOx.
Glad you like it! Sadly this version is not, but this project is a rewrite from an old version I created that is open-source! https://github.com/jaflo/snipsnip

If you are interested in audio analysis in general, I would also recommend checking out librosa: https://librosa.org/doc/latest/index.html
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I have a hard to park situation in my garage, so both are very useful.
A better thing to keep in mind is if your economy is in a wage inflation cycle where companies are increasing the amount of money to pay out to employees because their costs are increasing which makes inflation goes higher and higher. It wouldn’t be as companies are just hiking prices but, YMMV. I also don’t want to say that corporate profits are something to desired for and that the outcome that the paper outlines isn’t good or bad.
I think the advice to "not roll your own" is usually in regards to encryption. Other security stuff is more reasonable to take on yourself; I'm not sure it's more likely that you'll use someone elses AuthZ framework any more correctly than you'll implement your own.
Cancellation fees should not be more than double the actual fee of booking. This highly incentivizes no-shows and the use of virtual credit/debit cards for the initial booking.
Well, "need" is subjective. But subpixel rendering has diminishing returns as DPI goes up and (as the article describes) it causes several performance and interoperability problems, so the appropriate DPI threshold to turn it off might reasonably be somewhere lower than parity with print. Everyone agrees it's a good idea on cheap low-dpi displays, but whether it's still worth the costs on so-called "retina" displays is a judgment call.
It's kind of nuts how even when NASA says "we need this to be undisturbed because it keeps our weather satellites and others working" other parties are crying about it. Like, is there no chance that the opposing party response can be "Oh shit, yeah NASA's got a good point. Let's go find a different place".
Because people expect that in a functioning competitive market, simpily raising prices won't work because your competitors would out bid you.
The calm and professional way you respond to a needlessly aggressive comment does you credit.
Size doesn't matter, only political power. The chunk of the voter base that believes that stuff is also the chunk that currently plays kingmaker for half the american government. Their last president was literally a proponent of this idea.
This reminds me of how scurvy was apparently well known in the age of sail but sort of forgotten with the industrial revolution. It showed back up again in Arctic expeditions from what I understand.
A lot of technology companies are in suburbs/exurbs. Silicon Valley is a suburb. Boston/Cambridge basically didn't have a single tech company of note in the city by the mid90s and that mostly just changed when pharma/biotech moved in, the Seaport developed, and west coast tech companies opened up mostly Kendall Square satellites.

The whole era of Route 128 computer companies never had material real estate within the city limits.
They hadn't even hit a trillion in 2010. Since then they've printed 1.3 trillion. 500 billion in the 3 years. I think the amount matters.
Inflation is caused by monetary policy.

Did profits increase? Potentially, yes. But they couldn't have increased without the enabling condition of massive money printing.

Companies were trying to maximize profits before 2020. That hasn't changed. What changed was the monetary policy.
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Therein lies the rub: the people we selected to represent us turned us into a cash flow which they then sold to a government contractor. Instead of buying us a website, they sold us.
The interesting thing about the graph is, as far back as it goes, the contributors fluctuate but seem not unusual or unexpected. So companies are not extraordinarily greedy right now, they act the same as ever, just more do so.

My personal, uneducated, unverified hypothesis was that companies overcompensate price increases for three main reasons:

* They assume consumers dislike many small price increases. The current increase, therefore, has to last until the next oportunity.

* They expect an economic downturn, and want to extract as much money in preparation of the reduction (ironically fueling the downturn).

* They use the opportunity to adjust to what they expect the market would accept, because they assume PR backlash if they do it without a reason.

I think the last one is a form of "market inefficiency" but one that generally benefits consumers.
Fascetiously, for internal use cases, just use AD
I’ve also been in the same boat but haven’t really given Lenny a shot because some of the instructions makes it unclear on where to go (federated, instances) for the experience I want.

I’ve genuinely been missing the “news” on communities I frequent. I’ve been spending way more time on HN, but it’s not the same when the specific communities arent represented here.

Genuinely curious on how your Lenny intro went.
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> For day hiking, very few places require a permit.

These days though, even day hiking is increasingly permitted :( I live near the Oregon Cascades, an area that used to be unpermitted but got too popular. A few years ago they introduced a permit system (for both day hikes and overnights), but implemented it terribly... a large % of the permits were released on a single day and were sold out within hours.

People ended up hoarding multiple permits for multiple weekends because they couldn't be sure which weekend they could go (or what the weather would be like), then 40% of the permit holders never showed up on their given reservations... so nobody got to go. They've since tweaked the system.

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/02/16/wilderness-permit-cen...

Your point absolutely stands -- that day hike permits are still largely unusual across the entirety of the US public lands systems -- but more and more places are getting so popular that they do require reservations. It's one of the downsides of social systems like TikTok or Alltrails, which improve discoverability but also focus public attention on the few best trails rather than the thousands of "still pretty good" trails.
I'd argue that there doesn't have to be any secret reason. You say that greed "is a given" as an argument that there must be something mysterious going on, but raising prices when you can get away with it is no less a given.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36483676
Are you familiar with identity theft? How about browser-based attacks leveraged via Google vulnerabilities that allow malicious (corporate) actors access to your keystrokes (e.g., user sign-on information across all accounts)?

Google's response since mid-2022 has consistently been "deny deny deny" and downplay, much like you are doing here. Meanwhile individuals and small businesses are targeted and crushed. It's hard to know when your identity is compromised, and by the time you know it, it's usually too late to easily triage. To the extent Google introduces products and services that contain large-scale vulnerabilities, it is very much their fault. Yet, nothing happens. Individuals pay the price of using Google products, and Google continues to make billions of dollars, unscathed. Microsoft and Amazon are also guilty of this.

Where are actual consumer protections? Nowhere to be found, in the US.
Based on what I can tell Red Hat agrees with that and has gone through great efforts to invest in and evolve the CentOS project. The current state of the project is CentOS stream which is still a LTS enterprise distribution and has an efficient dev cycle that prevents the delays seen in years past. Doesn’t centos stream fill the niche you are describing?
Combine that with the fact that many states have made direct-to-consumer sales illegal [1]. Pure rent-seeking and regulatory capture from dealerships. Similar with hospitals: certificate of need laws [2] mean that you need to go to your direct competitors to ask for their permission to start a new hospital. Imagine if to open a pastry shop you needed a permission from every other pastry shop in the city. When someone says: capitalism is bad, ask - what capitalism? We don't have one.

[1] https://www.wispolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/State... (PDF)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need?useskin=mo...
There is still process you have to follow. Being president doesn't magically make you immune to rules and process. No, trump could not just "think they are declassified and they are", and that's not how it works, and he knew that.
> “The intermittent nature of wind power (wind turbines only generate electricity if the wind is blowing, and how much electricity they generate depends on how windy it is) present operational challenges for grid operators,” analysts from the US Energy Information Administration wrote in a report on Monday. “Low wind and high demand periods could result in energy emergencies.”

> Wind plays a central role in meeting demand in Texas as well as the two power grid regions that cover most of the central part of the United States. Drought conditions and low levels of major reservoirs could also hurt hydro power generation.

> NERC also flagged concerns about new environmental rules that restrict power plant emissions, warning these regulations will limit the operation of coal-fired generators in 23 states, including Nevada, Utah and states along the Gulf Coast, mid-Atlantic and Midwest. This is the first summer since the implementation of the EPA’s Good Neighbor Plan, which aims to reduce cross-state smog from power plants and other industrial sites.

This is pretty clearly regulation/environmentalist caused. Not that we shouldn't pursue a climate friendly grid, but we're not there yet and forcing the timeline is causing creaks and issues.
Wrong. There are plenty of situations where there should be NO interaction with the device.

For example, one of my apps is for tracking live timing while racing (e.g., lap times, difference in relation to their competitors). There should be NO interaction involved while they’re driving.
Unlike a lot of antitrust action I see, the DMA has teeth. Up to 20% of global revenue per infraction. I'm not worried Apple is going to give up the entire market, and I know that that fine is enough to force compliance. So yes, I have a lot of faith in this system.
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What do you mean by "sensible"? People would probably start carrying Glocks with a suppressor, stock, vertical front grip, and micro red dot. That's only sort of safer for police as long as people don't look up how to make an armor piercing bullet.
>So, it looks like you program the RA4M1, and the ESP32 is just there for wifi (and USB interface). That seems like an incredibly odd and wasteful choice.

They don't want to be responsible for security?

I've done this to airgap devices.
If you really didn't want employees to answer email in the middle of their night, you would configure the company mail server to not deliver things in the middle of their night. Some companies actually do this.
Counterintuitively, this wouldn’t be that great for the grid.

If millions of people stop paying monthly utility bills, electric utilities start to run in the red, or have to further raise rates while the grid further destabilizes. This is unfolding in real time in California and a few studies have come out showing that subsidized rooftop solar is doing more harm than good without utility-grade energy storage.
Yeah, but people had already quoted me by then so I didn't bother to fix it.
Wow, thank you so much for that compliment! I have a lot of other ideas / writings I want to try to post to Hacker News that I think people would find interesting, I honestly just posted this particular answer as a test. If you'd like, you can follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/NathanWailes
Universal human condition, I guess. If we're going to persist in being miserable, might as well keep to ourselves and not screw it up for the other forms of life on this planet.
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> Companies do not price goods based on the goodness of their hearts.

Governments etc. argue that employees should not demand higher pay to match inflation to avoid a "spiral" out of the goodness of their hearts.

If employers catch the absolute currency value increase of inflation the employee employer balance is shifting.
Elixir has releases, so deployment is not really that hard whether or not you use containers.

And the beam networking stack is quite good, which is unsurprising given it's been in slowly evolving use for 30 years now.

In go you just don't get stuff like "trivially cleaning up associated resources with zero lines of code when your socket gets early terminated by the client or a backhoe cuts the network in to the data center"
There’s certain things I really don’t want to do myself.

Mainly DNS and email.
This is one of my favorite evergreen posts on HN. If there were posters of it, I'd buy one. So many good lines to choose from, but I'll just highlight this one today:

> Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them
> Of course it would be better to have actually functional public services, but our governments just don't seem to be set up to actually be effective at basic services.

It's amazing to me that people will just blow by this point while accepting corporate monopolization of what should be a public resource.

> or to just disappear forever into the coffers of bureaucrats and their cronies with nothing to show for it?

It's better that the people who do this are punished. Either with criminal charges or with the removal of their ability to bid for future government contracts.

The government is a sucker client. They pay huge contracts, always on time, and never follow up after they get screwed. And no, it's not better to just punt on this issue and throw even more money at a greedy rent seeking middleman.
That's a good point, I didn't even consider that side, I was thinking more about the security part for either the user or Cloudflare, not the political part that, as you mentioned, it gives too much power to control the internet.

That being said, if such accusations turn out to be true, then the reputation of Cloudflare should quickly degrade over time and people will stop using it.
Companies were also seeking to maximize prices in the previous decade of record low inflation.
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For me personally (not OP): I find Elixir more ergonomic, the networking stuff is very solid, soft realtime is the whole reason it exists, and I don't need single binary deployment because everything is going to be running in a container in AWS anyway. Elixir also has Releases, which let you deploy a self-contained application more easily. But I think Go might let you cross-compile out of the box, which you can't do with Releases out of the box as far as I know.
Interesting that Crunchbase thinks more workers have been laid off in so far in 2023 than were laid off in 2022.
I don't understand how lead pigments are still legal in some parts of the world at all. What kind of things need a bright yellow color that will slowly poison you if you touch it?

Also, those handheld XRF spectrometers are amazing tech. I wish they were more affordable.
How much is red hat paying kernel developers not directly on its payroll again?

They're the freeloaders.
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Infineon has a line of WiFi chips acquired via Cypress and originally developed by Broadcom.
Most prices are "sticky" -- they don't change prices continuously like the prices of commodities and stock prices do, they have a sticker price that changes irregularly.

Since they change less frequently, changes are larger.

Example: assume the price of wheat sees steady inflation at 5%/year, and the price changes every day.

Also assume that the cost of manufacturing a loaf of bread is solely dependent on the price of wheat, but because it's sold retail, it's price is sticky, and only changes every second year.

So the annual inflation on the price of bread fluctuates between 0% and 10%.

On the year the price goes up profits increase and on the year the price doesn't increase, profits go down.
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