skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People is the US are in denial. They think it’s the 70s and 80s where if they dismantle their large industries then smaller competitors will take their place. Now, what actually ends up happening is Asia steps in and eats everyone’s lunch instead.
I've previously developed a commercial product that used buildroot.

In that case, it used an A/B partition layout like Android, along with a custom update script and kernel-based bootloader to implement atomic updates and fallback capability. The rootfs image was built by buildroot and devices would query an API and download the image, then write it to the inactive root partition.

You can do effectively the same thing with GRUB, but the project I worked on also supported devices that booted using u-boot. The kexec bootloader allowed a single implementation for different architectures and platforms.

So, the answer is you can update however you want, but there are a few common ways it's done in embedded.
On a related note, we all know the story from WW2 where Bastogne was surrounded by the Wehrmacht, and the Wehrmacht sent a note to General McAuliffe suggesting he surrender. He returned with a note that simply said "nuts".

I simply did not believe than an American GI ever said "nuts". So, I asked my dad (WW2 veteran). He said he briefly worked for the General, and asked him what he actually wrote. The General laughed, and replied "what do you think I wrote?"

F-U

The Stars&Stripes journalists changed it to "nuts" thinking the Americans couldn't handle the profanity.
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CoRncrete: A corn starch based building material https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41752020 - Today (53 comments)
Perhaps you're right, perhaps not.

It feels like the mostly non-commercial web is like a fever dream now. I miss it.

> Remember when Usenet was originally rendered useless after succumbing to spam?

Yes, but then we repurposed it as a medium for distributing buffy the vampire slayer eps from some guy with a big sat dish who intercepted internal transmissions to local tv stations, so what we could see the next ep half a day in advance.
It’s a discussion about a sexist environment. Catch up
Wait, so you can "dunk" on the authors of title article, but cannot be dunked on yourself?

They didn't even say anything stupid as you did. And voluntarily and unsolicited. No one made you or asked you, you just volunteered this thought to the public.

Well the public has heard it and some have judged it. It's all on you if you don't like it.

I speak under my real name because I'm not ashamed of what I say. Or when I am occasionally, I honestly accept it.
If they swam there, no. Invasive species have to be introduced by humans, by definition! The effect of grizzlies on the island ecosystem is unknown, and that may be more of what you're talking about.
Sweet jesus was anything stupider than the solar roadways idea? "Let's take a technology that can easily be aggregated in appropriate, economies-of-scale implementations and _distribute them_ and require them to be extraordinarily more durable while running voltage through a surface that's being contacted by random people thousands of times a day, with the miles and miles of additional distributed infrastructure necessary to boot!"
Remember, this doesn't mean that you, the small guy, must not patent anything, on the contrary.
What decisions are to be made based on the data? What tasks are users working on?
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It's sort of out of the scope of Buildroot, but there are different systems like mender or swupdate that cover updates. They tend to need some level of platform specific changes because embedded systems these days have 7 levels of bootloaders.
Just found this and thought it very applicable.

It's a global heatmap style chart of autism research.

Http://prevalence.spectrumnews.org/
The recent Blogpost about reaching V1 was quite a sobering reflection.
It always amazes when a startup takes on a really hard problem with initial excitement to change the world just to end up posting a blog post that, well, they found out it's a hard problem and they better pivot to make some money. Probably have read dozens of those posts before and, as it seems, the trend still goes strong.

https://blog.pythagora.ai/2024/10/01/pythagora_v1-release-re...
"So, for example, if you can solve some problem \Pi by running a SAT solver ten times, this doesn’t mean that you have reduced that problem to SAT— in reduction, you can only run the SAT solver once."

This is also not true.
I feel I read that sentence a lot when Sam Bankman Fried was still the darling of the tech intelligentsia, but the closer you are to the huckster and moneyman corner of the spectrum rather than the actual research side the less true that statement is.
In Rust, if expressions are not place expressions. In the example, arr_ref is a reference to a temporary, not to an array element. In Rust, it is possible to take an address of any expression, but taking an address of a value expression will produce an address of a temporary.
A slap on the wrist before Google turned into a power hungry monster, that would've been the proper way to go. But in the US everything is about money money money. This is the result, a fucking behemoth, that can't even wipe its own arse anymore. Chrome, as a browser is a failure, an anti-innovation cesspool. They load all the shiny new features, that nobody uses into chrome, just to fuck up the competition. Here, soon to be competitor, implement these 55 different color schemes, and here is 55 totally unnecessary subsystems for you to fiddle with.

Asia is on a separate, parallel railway and they are getting awaaaaaaaaaaay.
Right, AI is good and will be good. I agree with you 110%. I quit a well-paying job and have gone a year without salary on this premise :)

However, I worry about the premise underlying your reply: a sense that this is somehow incompatible with the viewpoint being discussed.

i.e. it's perfectly cromulent to both think LLMs are and will continue to be awesome at coding, even believe they get much better. And also that you could give me ASI today, and there'd be an incredible long tail of work and processes to reformulate to pull off replacing most labor. It's like having infinite PhDs available by text message. Unintuitively, not that much help. I can't believe I'm writing that lol. But here we are.

Steve Sinfosky had a good couple long posts re: this on X that discuss this far better than I can.
The language is MicroText (used to program the Commodore), for those who don't want to have to go to the article to find out that much.
Here is the full text of that article:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009167492...
Tilt beds for shipping containers already exist. Just fire it out the front? Or just use a winch?
That's cool! I bought freshhackernews.com and pointed it at your project. It'll take a second for DNS to propagate.
This is an awesome way to spend a few minutes!
What a shit laden article from an otherwise great outlet...
We could come up with policies, regulations, incentives to address that.
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Are they really so great? It seems one can find endless stream of questionable materials there, so reading The Economist should be done with sizable grains of salt.
“Lucky” Fish Could Save Lives (2015)
Yes. The two books by Schreier: "Blood, Sweat, and Pixels", and the sequel, "Press Reset". Both are worth reading, and better than this article.

The article author touches on the gamification of work, but doesn't get very far with it. Games as a "work simulator", or "grinding games", have been around for years, but they're less popular than they used to be. There are many of them, though, from "Modern Farming" to "Lawnmower Simulator".

Yes, there really is a lawnmower simulator game. It's a total grind. You work for a lawn-mowing business. You have to walk the lawn before mowing and pick up rocks, to avoid damaging the mower. Then you mow, not missing any spots or damaging flowerbeds. Then you get paid. Then you may be able to buy a better mower.[1]

Now get back to work.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anIUhgxk-B8
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With all these weapons, the cartel should be able to give the Russians a good fight in Ukraine.
The most terrible idea is doing nothing and letting Google continue business as usual.

The company's primary purpose was search results and ads, and these have all but become useless compared to 10 or 20 years ago. Today, you can't find what you are looking for beyond surface level topics.

Google collates data on you in into dossiers on everything you do and then sell it to the highest bidder without full disclosure to the end user, in cooperation with other tech companies (Facebook et al; "signals").

They have been caught red-handed wiretapping millions of people while only getting a slap on the wrist (i.e. that Google Maps case with WiFi AP mapping from their streetview cars, and roving sensor networks). Each count there is a felony, they paid a measly fine of a few million while raking in billions from the sale of derived data.

They manipulate elections, leak AI secrets to China, and adopt algorithms that align closely with CCP rhetoric and practice (shadowbanning posts for or against certain topics).

We are getting close to entering a war footing with China, and Google is a strategic company with national security implications.

Any country in similar situations can't allow traitors of strategic importance to remain in privileged positions. Its a national security issue, and doing nothing is the worst possible outcome.
U.S. Navy Launched Subreddit Puzzle Game to Attract Submariners
> The NN matches more users that all seem like they'd be likely to buy such a SaaS because it figured they're in the market, or have disposable income, or maybe have searched for productivity solutions, or maybe have browsed some competitors

If the audience you provide has none of these attributes, there's no way for it to magically intuit that you want these things from your customers. The neutral net doesn't know what a to-do list is or who uses one. It doesn't know the price of your service. The only thing happening is it's determining which of the signals about the users in your source audience are the most impactful. By supplying the source audience, you're supplying criteria for who your ads should be shown to.

Whether you're explicitly setting those things or not, you're still supplying criteria. You can't swap this system for a recommendation system, they don't work the same way at all.
Original tweet (since deleted): https://imgur.com/a/OIB65Ro

I've always been of the understanding that "responsible" disclosure by definition means only disclosing to the vendor. Shouting on twitter that "plugin X has a security vulnerability!" before giving the vendor time to address it is hardly responsible.

Quite the opposite in fact.
The purpose of a video like this is not to deliver data.

Do you also spend 12 minutes smelling flowers and then complain that the gardener could have sent you a txt that said "they smell like flowers" so much more efficiently?
Isn't "Asia stepping in and eating everyone's lunch" what Americans were afraid of in the 1980s?
they are high risk, not for covid infection, but because they have other comorbidities, i.e. what are they really dying of? doctor were forced to check "covid" even if the doctors didn't believe that.
I've been the same way but I think it's time to give up; the language has moved on, and it's only a very specific age bracket that recognizes the distinction. Graybeard means something different now too. It's okay though. It's not important and doesn't need to be maintained; it was just another form of gate-keeping...

the early "nerd-bro" practically required the distinction as a form of identity reclamation in a culture that disparaged their puny interests in computing. We should celebrate that that particular shield is no longer needed, and thus that gatekeeping is no longer needed for ego-survival, either.
No, just slums.
SBF was convicted for fraud, crossing legal and ethical lines that Sam Altman has not. It's an apples-to-oranges comparison.
Wow, your story about the "FX and animation house" is funny, sad and unsurprising - all at the same time. I'm just surprised they didn't actually test the full workflow before leaping. It reminds me of this tale from actual production people working with Sora https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/actually-using-sora/ which I also found completely unsurprising. It still took a team of three experience pros around two weeks to complete a very modest 90 second video and they needed to reduce their expectations to "making something out of the clips the AI gave us" instead of what they actually wanted. And even that reduced goal required using their entire toolbox of traditional VFX tools to modify the clips the AI generated to match each other well enough. Sure, it's early days and Sora is still pre-alpha but, while some of these problems are solvable with fine-tuning, retraining and adding extensive features for more granular control, some other aspects of these workflow gaps are fundamental to the nature of how NNs work. I suspect the bottom line is that solving some key parts of real-world high-end film/video workflows with the current prompt-based NNs is a case of "you can't get there from here."
> fire it out the front?

You’d need blast shields for the remaining missiles. And this restricts use to fields with basically airfield clearance ahead. That makes the launcher vulnerable to detection and counter-battery fire.

> just use a winch?

Slow, expensive and takes up space.
Another universal concept he forgot about: if you have nothing good to say, say nothing.
It's a personal judgement. What you find quality and what I find quality is likely very different, so asking them to justify that their books are quality seems to be some sort of pedantic attack.
> Effectiveness of child masking has not been demonstrated, while documented harms of masking in children are diverse and non-negligible and should prompt careful reflection. Recommendations for masking children fail basic harm-benefit analyses.

An important finding, and very much 'of our time'.
Except now it’s actually happening and not with low population Japan but high population China.
I was an Audible subscriber for like five years when they started spamming my notifications with ads. I unsubscribed on the spot and haven't looked back. I couldn't believe it, I had probably given them $1000 by that point but apparently that wasn't good enough. Even if you give a company a significant amount of money they'll still do everything they can to squeeze even more money out of you.
I can't speak _specifically_ to ethanol, but there are good reasons for the US to provide various subsidies to farms. A visceral example -- if there is a large "world war III" and the US doesn't have a strong Agricultural sector, we could be screwed. It is worth keeping domestic agriculture strong, to hedge against the case where we can't buy produce from other countries. I suspect ethanol is a subset of this general approach. Worth noting I'm no expert, this is just my extremely layman understanding.

some more discussion on this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_policy_of_the_Uni...
Show HN: GameTime: Youth Sports Time Tracker
First attempt at an iOS app, I wrote it for my Sons recreational soccer team. We were trying to use a piece of paper to manage the substitutions, but the reality never matched the plan as kids got hurt, complained they were tired, people don’t show up or the kids actually manage to keep the ball in bounds and there aren’t enough play stoppages to do the substitutions.
The former pipeline takes in products, splits the images, and processes each one.

The latter pipeline would releases batches/arrays of images.
> Everyone relies on those servers. That's how WordPress ships. There is no way to make it use other servers

Making this configurable is something he has explicitly rejected:

> > When do you plan to add support in the admin UI for alternate source urls for plugins and themes, so that others can more effectively mirror your apparently overtaxed infrastructure?

> Why would I build that? The built-in source works great, for tens of millions of servers.

— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41676885
Brownian motion is what happens when people lose their life savings on meme stocks.
Network metadata is sometimes valuable all by itself. Investment firms buy satellite imagery to identify the number and models of cars in corporate parking lots, for better inferring internal business conditions. Frequency of pizza deliveries to the Pentagon revealed when major ops were taking place.

A private network will ideally present as an opaque black box to the outside.
> I don't see what's making you interpret this as a "big deal" or a "fight."

I meant the general amount of discussion about it, including here, LWN and LKML

> I'm offering some really light and off the cuff analysis over what may potentially be a bad feature.

In what way could it be bad? I can only see it as a bit more complexity than needed, perhaps.

> I would not consider the kernel's internal entropy management a way to find "less foot guns."

Why not? The kernel is the ultimate arbiter of everything and the best place to have an accurate view. Userspace is at the mercy of the kernel, so it can't be as good.

> I think it's telling that the only way to form a cogent argument around this feature is by invoking VMs with bad vendor state management facilities.

That's what I mean by less footguns: a solution where userspace code can be written in a straightforward manner and not worry that everything might have changed underneath is less likely to go wrong.

> I felt like commenting because this generally feels like the "worse is actually better" trend in kernel development that's become en vogue lately.

What do you see as "worse"? It's faster, and it's less troublesome. Win/Win as far as I can see.
Yeah, that's about what I speculated from the book's title and what little description I got from the thread. It feels very natural and organic, but also personal if that makes sense? Like, I've mostly pulled away from any of the S2's in my life, my unorthodox home/familial unit is S4, and work feels like a mix of S4 teams railing and struggling against S3 leaders and their S2 followers.

It's a good "cliche system" to help simplify the complex power dynamic strata in a large organization. I dig it!
My point is that things that would previously have been 5 minute blog posts now are e.g. 90 minute video odysseys, and the primary cause is that's the way "creators get paid".

I think this is bad for human progress.
We've clearly reached the limit of whatever common ground we can find here and will have to agree to disagree on what we each find intuitive and plausible.

All I hope to accomplish is to move you an inch away from the stance that materialism is the only reasonable way to think. That is what I mean by arrogance.

Cheers
Lately not so much, they have been catering progressively more to the extreme leftist point of view as the Agnelli's (Exor NV) invested progressively more in China.

The websites claim they have an independent editor chosen by committee, but corruption occurs in any centralized/hierarchical organization and corruption by dependency is one of the oldest forms of coercion that won't leave much in terms of obvious breadcrumbs. The objective quality and subject matter of the writing has degraded considerably.

About two decades ago they were pretty well respected, but not anymore. As you say, a sizable puck of salt is needed.
For sure we are getting toys like that by next xmass. I legit going into my parts bin to see if I can wipe something up to stick in a teddy bear right now... Might not have movement, but a talking teddy bear is fun little project.
But this is a video.
why not use regression on the existing entries to infer what the missing ones should be?
On the subject of completely free speedups to databases, someone sent a patch to MySQL many years ago that loads the text into hugepages, to reduce iTLB misses. It has large speedups and no negative consequences so of course it was ignored. The number of well-known techniques that FOSS projects refuse to adopt is large.
Can’t read it due to the paywall. But dismantling Google would be great for everyone that isn’t Google. They are, like many other large companies, basically immune to competition. They have strong network effects all over the place, lots of capital, and large patent portfolios that let them just copy anyone else shamelessly. The existence of these big companies distorts the idea of a competitive economy. Think about how many Google’s products have been launched and rebranded repeatedly and shut down. Could any other company, that is competing fairly, make this many mistakes? No.

But Google is also bad for the world in many other ways. They control our information. Through the curation of search results, censorship or demonetization policies on YouTube, policies on their ad network, and even seemingly harmless things like fact check labels on content, they control and shape our ideas. If you take their huge reach, control over the information we consume, and recognize the massive bias present in their employee population, it’s obvious that their existence is also a risk to our political process.

I haven’t even touched on the privacy issues, but they’re there.

But let’s set all of this aside, because I feel like we can waste a lot of time debating details and avoid taking action. Their size is a problem in many number of ways, and the specifics don’t matter. Companies that are too big corrupt our economy, our politics, and more. Let’s fight for better laws that make it very simple to break up companies that are too big.
You're just name-calling; it's juvenile and unprovoked.

Like, I'd muster some respect for your efforts here if they were substantive and responsive to the actual point. But you choose to make a different first impression.
I don't mean to teach fish how to swim, but - what I meant to say is, just, packaging, enclosure design, weight distribution, durability, etc shouldn't be - starting enclosure design AFTER final PCBA ought to be wrong.

I am, e.g. completely fine with cheap generic ready made enclosures[1][2][3] for low volume handhelds, and do understand that reality is reality, done is better than perfect, real designers ship, etc., I mean no offense to hardware rockstars either, and with that said, I really think I can say more higher priority to final form factor can be safely applied to projects like [4] and [5], despite obvious cliff between your and my qualifications.

1: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/hand-held-enclosures/1981369

2: https://www.takachi-enclosure.com/products/LC

3: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006805827217.html

4: https://mikrophone.net/phone_big.png

5: https://mntre.com/media/reform_images/jacquelines-reform-ope...
The same design decision is in most languages that implement Common Lisp/Scheme-style numeric tower (eg. have rationals as core type). You do basic arithmetic on rationals or integers, you get rational or integer. You do transcendental function on pretty much anything, you get float. Also usually you also get stuff like complex rationals, which makes the rules somewhat convoluted, but that is no that relevant for this discussion.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1581#:~:text=The%2...