skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, the SRAM based units have a asic boot loader that may often be reconfigured with external pin logic. i.e. the chip configuration may be pulled from internal flash memory, sdcard, and external spi flash. Most designs I see place external spi flash chips next to the fpga, and the JTAG header in some convenient location.

While some modern high-performance fpga chips may have internal flash and an asic cpu... the configuration can generally still be updated with relative ease.

Notably, there are some exceptions where some chips may have fuses blown to lock it down, or were substituted with a One Time Programmable chip variant in production.

All that aside, the IP license to make it work will likely be unavailable for free, and high-speed/lvds layout is a black art requiring some pricey equipment to get clean performance.

One is often better off getting an overpriced xilinx PCIe development kit from a vendor, as most of the basic IP issues are solved... and one may focus on your core application.

Reverse engineering high-speed boards are way more work than most folks could imagine.

Best regards, =3
True, but birthrates start to go back up once you get into very elite quantities. The proles have kids, and the empire-builders have kids. The professionals in the middle don't.
Sean in his recent, very long “quick AMA” twitch stream said he had played with it a little bit but they didn’t really make anything with it, such is the overlap with Max with which they were already invested.
there's nothing wrong with corporations tracking use of their hardware.

they have to watch for data exfiltration and attempts to download malware, etc.

don't use a corporate device for anything you don't want work to see.

use your own. that's not a hard ask.
Oh snap these are built in Processing? I'll have to give it another go.
Hannah Arendt and the politics of truth (2020)
Simply knowing how it would have to work doesn't magically grant you the capacity to do it. Life is full of unexpected surprises, and they can be very expensive.
Portable Inline Assembly
> I've also noticed what I think is a car driving habit, which is to "accelerate out of trouble."

“95% of the time the throttle will save you, the other 5% you won’t remember.”

- Ricky Carmichael, Motocross and Supercross legend
Where can I buy these N100 chips and get development material (reference designs, etc.) for them?

Rockchip has been super easy, I have no idea where to start with Intel.
> I know this site is pretty pro-union

If this site is primarily workers (as opposed to business owners) then I am not surprised.
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Ai Image To Video Generator is a powerful tool that uses AI technology to transform static images into captivating videos. Users can easily upload images and generate videos without any video editing experience. The AI analyzes image content and adds dynamic effects like blinking and changing expressions, making the videos more vivid and realistic. The process is quick, usually taking just a few seconds to generate a video. The tool is versatile and can be used in various scenarios such as social media, marketing, and education.
This is what I was expecting from AI in games
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> it's true that your interests are not fully aligned with your employer

How are the employer's and employee's interests aligned exactly?

I would posit that they're not at all. They're completely opposed. You, as an employee, are completely disposable. You are an inconvenience because they have been unable to economically automate your job... yet.

Even if you're in a job unlikely to be automated anytime soon (eg software engineer), the industry as a whole is colluding to suppress your wages with what I call "permanent layoff culture". Layoff 5% of the staff every year and give their workload to the remaining employees.

There is an extreme power imbalance here. If you withhold your labor, it really doesn't matter. If the employer fires you, well that's a real problem (for you). It's your health insurance, shelter, food and water, putting your kids in school and your transportation (because we're a dystopian car-dependent hellscape here in the US).

But I'm sure you're better off negotiating as an indivudal. So many believe that. I'm sure they're all right.
> If you or I did this, we would already be in jail for phishing plus whatever add-on charges the Feds could file.

Yes. It's a good opportunity for an ambitious state attorney general to prosecute Facebook, of course.
Packet doesn’t have to be in any particular frequency band, e.g. not in ELF-MF (3Hz-3000kHz).

It just implies packet switching instead of circuit switching or message switching, and can be done at any frequency.

APRS is packet; anything that hears a position report can decode the data and decide what to do with it, as a unit. This is versus circuit switching or message switching-circuit switching being a dedicated channel (e.g. a phone call, regardless of what the underlying protocol is, since I know we can do things like VoLTE where the underlying network packetizes and multiplexes traffic) and message switching being like email-routed all together somewhere, perhaps via multiple hops.
Backwards compatibility can be the bane of innovation. There are many instances where we are living with arcane systems or limitations simply because it was too cumbersome to break compatibility.

Deciding what are 'acceptable' limitations given current constraints vs 'planning for future expansion' is an art form. Unfortunately, too little thought is actually put into that decision in too many cases.

I remember working on a system (NetWare) when the server error code was a single byte. It didn't take long to run out and they started assigning the same error code to multiple conditions. The last one (0xFF) was so widely used, internal docs referred to it as 'something bad happened'.
Plenty of unionized companies close locations. What happens is usually covered by the union contract.
Their contribution to the genocide in Myanmar has said everything about Meta you'll ever need to know. It's a tragedy that working for Meta is generally seen as neutral whereas working at any defense-related companies is often met with scorn, despite the overwhelmingly greater negative impact that working at the former has.

And this doesn't even touch upon Instagram.

I guess that they pay too much and employ too much of our industry, greatly reducing criticism because we all have a friend who has worked at Meta or we may even have applied ourselves at some point. Whereas we don't know anyone who has been at e.g. Anduril at the likes.
PyBaMM is technically chemistry agnostic but it's fair to say pretty much all the examples are for Li-ion. Sodium ion should be very possible as it's really the same physics but with different numbers. Flow batteries a bit more challenging because a few important processes would need to be added like the convection. Lead-acid examples are in there. PyBaMM actually started out on lead acid when Valentin was doing his PhD https://sites.google.com/view/valentinsulzer/publications
> But that's just pointless because there are a thousand other reasons they might want to close the store and there is no way to prove it

That's the exact point where your argument breaks down. It is possible, sometimes, to prove that a company closed a store because of a union. See the recent Starbucks trial. In the end, they were only saved by the SCOTUS, who isn't exactly uncontroversial at the moment.
> It's being actively promoted by companies in order to cut design costs

I'm curious why you think it reduces design costs to put less information on the screen? My experience has been the reverse -- the companies that chase trends (including but not limited to low-information-density screens and using mobile-first designs for desktop applications) also tend to spend more money on UI design compared to other companies.
I worked with an older German man who was a consultant on a research project that I was working on in graduate school. He was born in Gottingen and told stories how as a kid he got to test his paper airplanes in their wind tunnels with these famous scientists.
So is there something (social or technical) that makes it tricky to independently provide apps for plan 9, or is it just that the only people who care already have commit access?
"This site" isn't a single person and if you read the comments under this story, you will find a ton of anti-union sentiment.
Directed Energy: The Focus on Laser Weapons Intensifies
The "batteries-included" models in PyBaMM would apply to sodium batteries and lead-acid batteries (i.e. either the full Doyle-Fuller-Newman model or the Single Particle simplification). Flow batteries would probably require implementing a new model, which is supported in PyBaMM, since you need to model forced convection on either side of the separator.

I know PyBaMM has a relatively modular modeling system, but I'm not sure how they've broken down the models they have implemented.
The regulations don't require a banner. Just don't gather or share unnecessarily. No banner or notice required. Companies would rather hound users than stop selling them down the river, even their directly paying customers.

And if people are better informed of how far and wide their data will be prostituted, then I'd call it a win.
That sounds more like a self-declared leftist thing than an internet thing. It is old enough that Monty Python satarized them.
NetBSD on RISC-V – It Runs NetBSD
Honestly, I kind of missed Hamachi in the last decades.

It was such a superb and easy to use tool to design/configure your own private networks at the time. Filesharing, local game LANs, development cooperation, heck, even media streaming was so easily done at the time.

Personally I think that the future of peer to peer isn't tailscale, it's more someting along the lines of a selfhosted hamachi variant that's able to put generically nodes together from all across different NATs and ASNs, generically understanding NAT breaking techniques and STUN/TURN/turtle routing.

A tool like this that could also allow remote users to chime in without a centralized VPN gateway would be a killer feature for the modern world.
NABTU is a large umbrella organization encompassing a lot of these.
I certainly agree that Notch was standing on the shoulders of giant, brilliant Barth, and without Infiniminer we would never have gotten Minecraft. Zach's game design is so good that it makes you want to build, or build better games. You can clearly see the inspiration that took hold and the potential that Infiniminer and all Barth's other games absolutely exude. His games are worth playing not to sink time into but to simply breathe in. There's little else quite like it.

But I think even then this unfairly discredits Notch. Regardless of what you think of the man, he certainly did nail it all on his own. He didn't just clone Infiniminer -- there's surprisingly little left in common at this point -- he used it as a springboard to invent what is essentially a new genre. You see the same sort of ingenuity in Fortnite and Roblox, who certainly have Minecraft and by lineage Infiniminer DNA in them, among others.

The difference is that, for a very long time, Minecraft was Notch, and what he did with it is still arguably unparalleled today. It's staggeringly good for a single person. The simple core loop was incredibly ripe for iteration. But the ingenuity the game is absolutely littered with, dozens of little things, tiny decisions made between pre-alpha point releases, is all Notch. In so many ways the game made itself, like a chain reaction of features, but Notch himself is just totally engrained in the whole thing. It's nuts.

To say he didn't nail it all on his own, I simply cannot agree with. Zach Barth and Notch both made something incredible. The shame is that no one ever gave Zach Barth the comically oversized sack full of money he deserves. I will surely never fire up Infiniminer again, but I could fire up Minecraft at any time and instant fall back into the engrossing loop of the game. Though it's been many years since I last played, I inevitably will again.

I've struggled to think of an analogy here... perhaps the closest I can come up with is Quake and Half-Life, which are even more closely related. Did Valve stand on the shoulders of giants? Absolutely. But they definitely nailed it all on their own.

We all build atop the works of others.
I'm sorry that you found it terse. I intended this as a brief intro and would encourage people who found it a little bit interesting or relevant to their problems to either read the more extensive examples on PyBaMM. If of interest, Silicon anodes are only one type of material being extensively researched in order to improve batteries. The holy grail is Lithium metal where there is no host material on the anode side at all. This would give the ultimate energy density but has so far largely eluded commercialization.
> the UAW got one of the big 3 to stop their planned closure of one of their plants.

Then they have excess capacity, which is generally not great for the union: Now if the union goes on strike the company just increases utilization at facilities in another country and actually saves money.

It also raises the company's costs in general, and so raises prices, and so lowers sales, and soon you're looking at more plant closures.
To be clear, I'm NOT advocating for premature abstraction, as a PM I live and die by "rule of three" when making decisions re: "let's just quickly solve this one bespoke need", vs "let's think about this more systematically".

But customers will never tell you all their requirements up front, and it's a PM's job when hearing a need from a customer to take the time to figure out if it's a single unique stand-alone problem, or simply one instance of an entire category, the other 3687 of which your customers are going to come asking for the moment they realise it's a category of problem your product is able to help with at all.
Milton Bartholomew: More pianos than typewriters
Is that actually the most common?
Australia owes a considerable portion of national income to China, has done for at least three decades and keeps a close analytical eye on the country.

Various Australian PM's have been dismissive towards China for popularist political reasons, aside from that the China watching below the surface tends to be good.

In the national press recently (last week) we have:

As Beijing quietly heads into economic oblivion while Washington lights up, expect tougher times ahead

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-23/china-approaching-eco...

which outlines how playing the long game has worked to China's advantage for some time, and how the scale of recent turns in fortune make for a ditch that could take time to reach the bottom and time again to climb out.
Perl is less simple. Though, I suppose lua would be a better comparison.
You could, but if you want Unix, you already know where to find it.
One thing we may still haven't realised is that UI designs are subject to fashion cycles, just like clothing. Except enough time hasn't elapsed for us to observe a full cycle similar to peak-bell-bottoms or peak-low-riders or peak-sideburns. We may be in a low-contrast / low-density peak, but we won't know until we pass it. However, looking back, we did seem to have passed at least one peak-skeuomorphic cycle (remember all the toolbars, icons, drawers and Microsoft Bob?). We may see another high contrast monochrome text-heavy cycle yet.
Israel Maneuvered to Prevent State Secrets Disclosure, WhatsApp vs. NSO Lawsuit
Theoretically, yes, they could, I think. However, with Certificate Transparency, the fraudulent certificates these Certificate Authorities could create would have to be published in CT logs to be valid, where they would be quickly noticed, and the CA would (hopefully) lose credibility and be removed from device's trusted CA list.
Differences (structure, funding, prestige) between institutes within Europe / USA are way larger than the differences between Europe versus USA.

What really matters in the end is whether an institute is able to attract “rockstars” in their field. Even better if these rockstars care about their institute and are willing to hire and develop young talent.

A single rockstar can elevate the prestige of an entire institution: look at Richard Sutton at University of Alberta, or Thomas Cech at Colorado.
In America, it is illegal for a union to bargain for things like not doing business with Israel. The union can put out statements about how they don't support trade with Israel, etc. and hope that management takes the feelings of its employee union seriously, but how often do you think that happens?
> does agreeing to ToS mean you also agree to being spied on in a way that protects them?

This relates to a much bigger problem of courts upholding contracts even when nobody actually believes they represent an informed and voluntary agreement.

We aren't quite at the Looney-Tunes step of enforcing extra clauses that were hidden in invisibly small print, but things are drifting in that direction.

See also: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/adhesion_contract_(contract_...
>> I was talking about future possibilities, not the past.

>Why would anyone want to do an audio-only interface? If there were a need or desire for it, it would have popped up somewhere else in society. It hasn't.

what utter rubbish you talk, dude.

you are talking repeatedly past me, that is, not directly addressing my replies, instead, you are going off at a tangent each time. that's not the way to conduct a rational argument. it's often seen as evading the point that the other person made (because you don't have a good answer for it), although it can also be just due to poor logic, and due to talking on the basis of emotion rather than reason.

as an example your illogic, to be precise, and referring to both of our points that I quoted just above:

I talked about the future possibilities, and yet you are continuing to harp on the fact that that innovation has not happened yet. does the fact that something has not happened yet, mean that it can never happened in the future? jay. eff. cee. did people think that mobile phones would happen before they happened? or computers? or cars? or fridges? or so many other modern inventions? maybe for
some of those cases it was predicted, but not for all, damn sure of that. and I bet some of those at least were not needed or desired earlier. still they happened.

quoting one of your above points again, to make another very valid point:

>>Why would anyone want to do an audio-only interface? If there were a need or desire for it, it would have popped up somewhere else in society. It hasn't.

nonsense, on 2 counts:

1. so you think that if there's a need or desire for something in society, it will automatically "pop up"? by the grace of god, maybe?

2. you say it hasn't.

here is another hn user, NotMichaelBay, in this same subthread, who says that it already exists:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41077865

start of his comment (italics mine):

>That already exists too, but it's also poor UX because it processes your response slower than a person would, and it sometimes misunderstands what you're saying or asks you to repeat.

so he says that it already exists. I don't think he would be making it up. but to address his point about UX, I think his argument that it is poor UX may be wrong. however I have not replied to it yet and may not do it for some more hours, because I have other things to do too.

but in a nutshell:

voice recognition and voice processing technology has progressed in leaps and bounds. it is much better than it was a few years back. I used to be a skeptic about it then, but nowadays it is so good that I use it many times on a daily basis, including for voice typing these hn comments, at least partially. I just have to make a few edits to correct the mistakes that it makes.
this is an example of a need and a desire (referring to your comment above), that I, at least, did not know about beforehand, but happily use once it is available. but it did not pop up in society just because I needed it or desired it. it happened because someone innovated it.
It shows you how valuable it is to have these superstars in your institute. Hiring One hilbert is worth more than hiring a thousand median scientists, and way cheaper too!
What is described in the article is not some elaborate scheme or novel work of software engineering. Rather, it's exactly what 99% of corporate networks do (proxy server with SSL inspection using a custom root certificate) "to combat cyber threats".

As coincidence would have it, this is the perfect alibi provided by a snake oil "cybersecurity" app by one of the world's largest companies.

Every tech company that has promulgated the lie that a VPN operated by a third party provides added security is indirectly responsible for this. Funneling all your traffic through a shady intermediary does no such thing, and in fact often does the opposite.
That, or scathing satire has been a mainstay at The Onion longer than political consternation.
Just bought myself an MSI Cubi N for exactly that - 1Gbs ports only though.
Interesting, I could see that going either way. Surely there is waste when funds are split across multiple programs, but the potential benefit to that approach is that people may get benefits from one or two programs rather than all of them.

WIC and the CA are great examples. The population helped by both programs is purposefully smaller than the total population. If the funds currently spent only on mothers or veterans is spread across everyone it seems reasonable that efficiencies of moving to a single program wouldn't make up for the increased number of beneficiaries.
If you go even further back, it was people from the Caucasus/modern day Ukraine that wiped out the male population of Europe and settled Europe. The same group of people that also branched off and settled in Iran and India. The speakers of PIE. Fast forward about 2000 years and the Scandinavians went back and assimilated with local tribes to form the Rus.
What's ironic is that the book was originally excerpted in the New Yorker:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Broker#Reception>

(I'd thought it had been serialised, per a recent New Yorker Radio Our podcast episode, but Wikipedia suggests just only sections were published.)

Serialisation remains one of the more viable ways of making long works accessible, as well as financing their creation.
That's a great decision
Sometimes simple utilities like this are runnable under FreeDOS/MS-DOS booted from a USB flash drive and/or CD. Other times, you need Win32, and would use something like modern Hiren’s Boot CD, which is Windows 10 based iirc, unlike the original releases which were XP based iirc.
It's a working strategy for some, I moved in with my father some 12 years back after the death of my mother .. he's only now just showing signs of cognitive decline and I suspect working alongside him on various projects has kept him in the game (he'll be turning 90 in just under 12 months).

I've enjoyed it, I'd not had much close contact since I was 16 or so and left for university and many years of travelling about.
And thus the inflation. In the 90s the US gov had a surplus. Disappointing to see the GP comment downvoted as it is correct.

Spending more than we tax will inflate the USD money supply.
> there's nothing wrong with corporations tracking use of their hardware.

As written, that means they can secretly enable the camera and microphone to surveil my house, supposedly to check the usage (or non-usage) of the hardware.

Surely that's very "wrong", if not also illegal in most places. Not everything about or near the hardware is fair game.
tbh I bet plenty of bacon lovers feel bad that a sweet intelligent animal dies to make their meal, and if a perfect copy of bacon could be made without it I bet a good number of them would be happy to switch to it.
Thanks.

I disagree, though how and why specifically is hard to articulate. Regardless, I'd asked for a clarification and not an argument. I got that first.