skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 486 DX4-100 could play mp3s in stereo (or in mono at 66mhz), but do absolutely nothing else at the same time. I used a DOS mp3 player (mpxplay) and it could be done.

Docs suggest stereo is possible at DX2-80mhz if you disabled screen output and heavy mp3 file pre-buffering.

Top level comment here claims the issue was the on-screen animations and they were able to build a highly optimized mp3 player on a 286 (dunno through what speaker): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zZpzxHSeM

Even on a later pentium, I had to minimize throttle priority on my web browser because smooth scrolling requires a ton of juice. Still does to this day looking at power consumption on an iPhone.
My 100 mbps upload bandwidth at home is free (apart from the monthly 35€ payment). Useless bots will get stuck downloading from me instead of hogging readthedocs.
If I remember correctly the labor protections sounded commensurate, at least in form, with American standards: counseling (for whatever it’s worth), attempting to restrict hiring to people over age 18 (although the journalists did interview a person who fraudulently used a relative’s ID to get hired at age 15), etc.

I don’t know about the quality of those services. It might be that the company operates in a cruel trashy way. But if we call it a hypothetical, and stipulate that the company unilaterally extends worker protections approximately equal to American worker protections (and much more attractive than local protections), would that change the calculus?

It’s the same difficult work wherever it’s done. But in one context, it pays a really attractive wage and reflects good working conditions compared to the other options available to the worker. In the home context, the same wages would not provide a remotely adequate standard of living, and the worker has better options and should probably take them.

In that framework, isn’t it more humane to take the work where it does the most good for the people doing the job? For that matter, doesn’t it help raise the standards in the remote job market: when a company comes around that’s rich enough to offer workers the choice of a job with better protections, doesn’t that encourage local businesses to make their protections more attractive too?
In my minds eye I've been yearning to see an IDE that focuses on a zoomable interface.

This looks like a good start.
Well, the US is pretty well-known for its spying capabilities, both government (NSA/Echelon) and private (Palantir, etc.)
I had to greatly reduce my caffeine intake at one point, and I've kept it down since. I'm inclined to agree that it's a garbage drug, but in small amounts and strictly in the morning work -like you do- it seems to work for me. Rather than drink 5 cups of decaf I drink one cup of decaf made with 6 parts decaf beans to 1 part caf. Then maybe later in the day I might eat three tiny pieces of 100% chocolate mass, but like you I'm afraid to after 2PM-ish.
Hand, but yes.
It’s hard to say. It’s common sense that it doesn’t matter that much for rational outcomes. Maybe it matters a lot if you are selling something psychological - like in a sense, before Amazon, people with shopping addiction were poorly served, and maybe 50ms matters to them.

You can produce a document that says these load times matter - Google famously observed that SERP load times have a huge impact on a thing they were measuring. You will never convince those analytics people that the pesky 50ms doesn’t matter, because they operate at a scale where they could probably observe a way that it does.

The database people are usually sincere. But are the retail people? If you work for AWS, you’re working for a retailer. Like so what if saving 50ms makes more money off shopping addicts? The AWS people will never litigate this. But hey, they don’t want their kids using Juul right? They don’t want their kids buying Robux. Part of the mythology I hate about these AWS and Stripe posts is, “The only valid real world application of my abstract math is the real world application that pays my salary.” “The only application that we should have a strictly technical conversation about is my application.”

Nobody would care about CAP at Amazon if it didn’t extract more money from shopping addicts! AWS doesn’t exist without shopping addicts!
People have been asking "what about five years from now" for twenty years, so extrapolating from the current rate of change, I'd say things will be fine.
I just wanted to check if I'm affected.

...

then remembered I'm using custom platform keys

tbh. I don't understand why secure boot is build around global root of trusts instead of ad-hoc per device trust (i.e. like custom platform keys but with better support), at most supported by some global PKI to make bootstraping on initial setup easier

this would not eliminate but massively reduce how much "private key" got leaked vulnerabilities can affect secure boot chains (also move most complexity from efi into a user changeable chain loaders, including e.g. net boot, etc.)

PS:

To be clear " I don't understand why" is rhetorical, I do understand why and find it a terrible bad idea.
The words "AI" and "respectful" don't belong in the same sentence. The mere concept of generative AI is disrespectful.
Seems fair - I strongly think that "certain formalized problems" is very very far away from doing actual maths! And that actual maths is sometimes much less about solving known conjectures and much more about developing new theories.
> If the computers in a computer reliant massively distributed organization go down, what's the alternative?

I feel like the answer should be obvious: if you need reliable systems then you don't create a single point of dependency on such fragile systems.

The latest blog from Bruce Schneier is a good writeup on this brittleness:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/07/the-crowdstri...
I'm not sure it's reasonable to just treat it as an AMI problem, given that AMI literally named the key "DO NOT TRUST - AMI Test PK". Obviously AMI was stupid to trust the OEMs to, you know, have a clue what they were doing and replace a wired-in test key in their production builds... but it's also true that, even if AMI should have known that the OEMs are idiots, the OEMs are still idiots.

I suppose you could also break it down and say that the particular idiot who hardwired a test key in an SDK or whatever should have known that both the rest of AMI and everybody at the OEMs would be idiots, and found a way to make it relatively hard for them to stay with that key. But however far you dig, it's idiots all the way down.
This is absolutely wild.
> IOW, they're being underpaid relative to market, in exchange for ownership, expecting to get more later when they sell the shares.

Alas this would be a big issue. It is the deferred payment test writ large. Do you want $20 now or $30 next week.

For a lot of humanity when times get difficult we will tend towards the immediate payoff rather than the long term. To eat the seed corn.
Not easily on a static server and not without the risk of annoying an actual real human listener!

If you look at the "Defences" section: https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html#Hints you'll see there are some things that can be done, such as randomly rejecting a large fraction of requests that don't allow compression (gzip is madly effective on many feed files: it's rude for a client not to allow it). But all these measures take effort to set up, and don't stop the bad bots making the request 100s of times too often. Just responding to each stupid request forces a flurry of packets and wakes up and uses CPU...
AI laptop stickers have arrived to ruin your day
Boeing is grateful for employee pointing out falsified records
> Eh. I‘d argue the average dirt poor Indian right now isn‘t far off from your 1800‘s Chinese rice farmer.

Look at life expectancy and infant death, it's night and day. People really tend to underestimate how world changing antibiotics and vaccines really are. And most of those “dirt poor Indians” have mobile phones too!

> How are these people struggling exactly?

You really need to build up empathy and open your eyes to the world, look at them, listen to their stories and you'll hear the struggle. Here are a few examples from the top of my mind: the constant fear of being sanctioned because they did something deemed “wrong” by the administration, is one easy example. The contradictory requirements they need to meet. The struggle to get those benefits in the first place (try interacting with the administration when you're not fully literate, or barely speak German). The lack of any financial mattress in case of trouble, which makes even minor issues critical (an example which happened recently to someone I know: you need to comply with rules in order to get your benefits, but one day your old car break and you cannot afford to repair it, but you also cannot comply anymore without it and risk losing money). It's about having no food left in the fridge 3 days before you get your benefits and cannot buy new before it comes in. Everyone has their story, and they are depressing. But to accept that those struggles are real, you need to make the effort of looking at it.

> Prove where I said anything about easy living. Quote me. It‘s you who is lying and I‘m getting annoyed by this conversation.

I've explained that in another comment: I just mix you up with another user whom I was responding to when you replied and took his side, so I mistakenly assumed you where the original guy.

> Maybe consider that differing opinions are not always propaganda you might read in the Bild, but sometimes come from people‘s real experiences.

You are the one asking “how are those people struggling?”, it's easy to assume people don't struggle when it's not directly visible. You are the one arguing that something which exists (poor people being poor and having constant difficulties) doesn't in fact exists. In a way you are telling me that the people I've witnessed, don't exist!

So yeah I blame propaganda because the reasonable reaction to someone telling you “this thing exist” isn't to say “no it doesn't exist”. The line of reasoning “I've never seen that so it must not exist” is not how the human brain works in general. Even flat-eathers don't believe the earth is flat because they've never seen it round, they do believe that because of a socialization process: other people told them it was false, and so they started questioning it and liked the idea.

> all because you assume I‘m some kind of far right idiot. I‘m a bit sad for you honestly.

I never mentioned anything about you being far right. You see, you too are being confused between different HN users;)
In the article, they mention that they are working with the crawling company to be reimbursed for the download costs.

Naming and shaming the company while you're trying to work with them is a real good way to not get what you want.
How do you remove them?
GPT bots be out in force. esp. w/r/t topics like immigration and europe
For years, Dell laptops came with a USB key containing drivers, a sort of "rescue boot disk". I once tried using them as a normal pen drive, but then realized they were read-only.

If there is a way to make them writable via software, that would be very interesting (and dangerous).
A potential game-changer for emergency medicine: Synthetic platelets
A proof solver existed. They were improving the proof solver explicitly by making the formalizer a part of the training. Formalizer reliability is the key novelty. It turns out it was only reliable enough for training. So unless they made the problem statement at the outset that "we'll only make the formalizer strong enough to train but not use", I disagree with that assessment.
Bitcoin is to crypto what the Model T is to automobiles - first to market with network momentum. Hedera is the Tesla Model 3 - it's built ground up from first principles to be the future trust layer of the internet, especially for finance/DeFi. It's aBFT consensus mechanism is built with KYC, real-time logging, can do 10^5 TPS vs Bitcoin and has finality in seconds across the network. Hedera is seven orders of magnitude (10^7) more efficient than Bitcoin in terms of transactions per kWh. 0.00017 kWh. It is the most energy-efficient "blockchain" (actually a DAhG) in the 'verse. Hedera is supported and adopted across industries at the enterprise level, has a burgeoning retail/hacker/creator community, and strong tokenomics. (Do your own research, not financial advice).

If you are genuinely interested in the future of trust, finance, technology, and care about sustainability.... you're probably already an HBAR hodler but if not, it's set to take over.

Check this comment out in two years.

Edit: To me, the main thrust of the article seems to be nothing new. I find bitcoin to be archaic and transactions can be so slow, ETH moreso. Unpredictable fees... etc. Sustainability-wise, though, the point is moot because it's not like BTC will disappear. But sustainable DLT tech can definitely work efficiently - carbon neutral to negative.

https://www.swirlds.com/downloads/SWIRLDS-TR-2016-01.pdf

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14848

https://nowpayments.io/blog/hedera-energy-efficiency-and-hba...

https://hedera.com/learning/sustainability/is-crypto-bad-for...
When the Olympics Gave Medals to Artists
Probably makes it harder to outsource inflated projects to contractors and makes them more publicly liable because now the public can audit them.
Nix is actually a really nice tool for building docker images: https://xeiaso.net/talks/2024/nix-docker-build/
> I have some RT1176's in my "to try" pile.

Keep in mind the dual-core 11xx chips are a bit harder to boot than the rest of the line - but you probably need the power domain flexibility for most FPGA projects (1064 has way fewer practically-usable 1v8 banks.)

> crypto accelerators were all locked behind NDAs

I've been able to use every bit of hard IP and high-assurance boot from registers using no vendor code whatsoever.

Here's what you are looking for:

https://github.com/JayHeng/imxrt-level2-boot/blob/master/dev...

> The other issue I had with the RT is that they lacked internal flash

The IMXRT1064 has a 4MB Winbond QSPI chip in-package, by the way!

> PCB complexity is slightly higher than with a STM32.

The Xilinx FPGA that is sitting next to your MCU incurs multiple orders of magnitude more PCB-complexity than a little QSPI flash, haha.
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>It’s like putting all your retirement fund into your company’s stock.

As opposed to putting your retirement fund into other company's stocks, which everyone does at the same time, making those companies too big too fail without unraveling several threads of social fabric.

I think your statement actually proves why employees should have stock in the company.

If we really were worried about issues such as this we'd have universal (not attached to you employer) healthcare and a pretty robust (but minimal) retire fund for citizens.

But we have the opposite of that with none of the upsides.
Was just trying to troubleshoot for the sake of curiosity. But yeah, your method works.

:D
Sites need to start suing crawler operators for bandwidth costs.
Tik Tok crawler fucked us up by taking a product-name (e-commerce) and inserting it into the search bar recursively with the results page. Respect the game, but not respecting the robots.txt crawl delay is awful.
I almost always include I2C EEPROM - just too cheap and pretty easy to route.
Thank you! I was a technical writer before learning how to program, so it's important for me to write well-documented and well-tested code.

Doing so also allowed me to completely remove and replace my first attempt at implementing the moon phase algorithm when it turned out to be not-accurate enough (the values were off by about 4 hours).
10TB/day is, roughly, a single saturated 1Gbit link. In technical bandwidth terms, that is the square root of fuck all.

The crazy thing here is that the target site is content to pay ~$700 for the volume of traffic that you can move through a single teeny-tiny included-at-no-extra-charge cat5 Ethernet link in one single day. And apparently, they're going to continue doing so.
Have you watched the video? Because the whole point of it is exposing how MrBeast is earning money by manipulating his children audience into gambling.

Yeah, he cracked the code of how to milk money from children, incredible smart at what he's doing.

I don't think he deserves absolutely any respect for exploiting children for profit.
You probably mean envious not jealous.
The contrarian point is everything that can be moved to the cloud and browser has done so and the growth rate will only decline. Slow "GDP" type growth rate.

Most of things that are poised to take off in a dramatic way - like cloud and browser in 2005 - are heavy in local/edge computation with a fat pipe to the internet. Examples - Games, AI, ML, Robotics, IoT, sensors, drones, Industrial equipment etc.. All of these actually favor a language like C++.

Not everything in the world is a SaaS business connected to the cloud via a browser.
I opened it up and was a little surprised by what it showed in my surrounding area. It was filled with restaurants and businesses that haven't existed for years. There must be thousands or even tens of thousands of apple maps users that live in the area that see those places in the app every day. I wonder how often they try to visit one of those places. Perhaps they have a habit of searching on google (or google maps I suppose) to verify that it exists before they go to a new place? Very interesting.
Everybody is different. I'm sensitive enough to caffeine that trace amounts causes anxiety. I have to avoid chocolate.

I'm equally sensitive to alcohol. Because it's immediately absorbed into the blood, a sip of scotch will take out my antidepressant in seconds. It's shocking how quickly and how severely even a small amount of alcohol affects me. It's almost like an allergy.
I would really love to see a "maps" app that focuses specifically on local discovery for businesses and other points of interest. Or, one that at least makes a real attempt to deliniate between getting you to a known place, and finding you new places to go.

Most mapping apps seem to blend navigation & discovery into a single experience that winds up being worse at both.
In similar fashion we have some large legacy systems on Coldfusion. Last time we needed to upgrade Adobe had gone crazy with their pricing based on CPU core count. Migrated everything to Lucee and OpenJDK and it's been running beautifully since.
If NHRL is what you want to do then checking out an r/c airplane club and asking questions may be a way to get started. That's going to give you an idea on how transmitters, receivers with multiple channels and servos/speed controllers work.

Once you understand how transmitters/receivers work and what servos and speed controllers do then you can construct a chassis. The speed controllers would drive the motors moving the robot around and then a servo could open the valve on a flame thrower or something...

They key is understanding the radio control tech first.
I'm confused about that figure, since not having any savings to fall back on seems to me to be the definition of living paycheck-to-paycheck. How is that not 100%? The argument you're making seems tautological, and doesn't really account for the elasticity of people's spending habits, or the income ranges they fall into in the first place.
> AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level

> In the official competition, students submit answers in two sessions of 4.5 hours each. Our systems solved one problem within minutes and took up to three days to solve the others.

Why not compare with students who are given 3 days to submit an answer ? /s
You can disable Secure Boot on x86 PCs, but nowhere else.
Using Caffeine to Optimize Mental and Physical Performance (2022]
I couldn't find any citations that mention molybdenum as a way to increase metabolism of caffeine. However, I found one reference [0] that mentions, "Consumption of broccoli and brassica vegetables in general and absorption of large quantities of vitamin C increase caffeine clearance".

EDIT: It would seem that the vitamin C paper [1] concludes the opposite of what [0] states. "These results indicate that the elimination of caffeine in the elderly is not affected significantly by the concentrations of vitamin C achieved during this study."

[0] https://www.coffeeandscience.org/health/coffee-and-caffeine/caffeine-and-metabolism
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7064899/
The support most organisations need is security updates for older versions. The free OpenJDK forks provide longer term security updates for their releases.

Oracle uses a more tricky setup. Every LTS release and its updates, but only until 1 year after the next LTS release, is covered by their "no-fee license". After that 1 year the updates are under a different license that only allows personal/development use or use on Oracle cloud. So any commercial user needs to buy a license from Oracle for these versions.
You can always created a faster sort algorithm than STL if you specialize for data structures and access patterns.
Where are you getting them for $2.50?? The XC7Z010-1CLG225C is $74.83 at Digikey in qty 1.

Checking sketchier places Win-Source has the CLG400 package for $22.20 and even the cheapest aliexpress seller wants $4.84 for something marked as a 7Z010 that may or may not be legit.

Also "fight the chip" is pretty much the definition of what I did last time I did a zynq project. Just give me a plain FPGA and MCU with no wizards or GUIs or automatic code generation.
Likely it's just meeting the compliance requirement that all pieces of software are to be supported. Whatever that means.
Have capitalists ever stopped just because their actions (that make them money) hurt others? Because the consequences of the damage they cause might in the end hurt them, too?

Hoping they just stop seems futile…
But it'd be Swiss IT guys getting paid, right? That money goes back into Switzerland.
There are known algorithms that can solve _all_ problems in euclidean (ruler-and-compasses) geometry, no intuition required. The most effective algorithms of this type are quite inefficient, though, and (at least according to DeepMind) don't do as well as AlphaGeometry does at e.g. IMO geometry problems.
> We do not store or log your code anywhere. We do send snippets of your code to Open AI as input for our navigational copilot. We'll add an option to disable this soon.

I look forward to checking this out once that option is in place.
This is awesome! Nice work to you and your team!
The conversation about an adult YouTuber using psychological manipulation to milk children for money through gambling?

No one is dying, just children being exploited. No biggie.
> How about a rational number?

All rational numbers are real numbers.

> Why not a complex number?

What?

> That you especially like the real numbers is particularly unfortunate

It's not a matter of me liking or disliking real numbers. It's just that the topic at hand is about real numbers.

> when they are so poorly represented in essentially all programming languages.

Not essentially all programming languages. In every single one. It's the nature of real numbers. It's also not just 'programming languages', it's hardware as well.
> Next time they'll know better.

No next time, they're dead, so not a good selection criteria.

Agreed that both sides share some liability, but a vendor that says they create security software with root level code injection access must be held to the highest possible standard, and liability.

If someone puts up a shack and sells hamburgers and hundreds of people die from the rotten meat, they most certainly are liable.

But apparently crowsdstrike can brick computers remotely, causing enormous damage including some deaths, and just say oopsie and walk away without any liability.