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> I know multiple startups that use LLMs as their core bread-and-butter intelligence platform instead of tuned but traditional NLP models

It seems like LLMs would be perfect for start-ups that are iterating quickly. As the business, problem, and data mature though I would expect those LLMs to be consolidated into simpler models. This makes sense from a cost and reliability perspective. I wonder also about the impact of making your core IP a set of prompts beholden to the behavior of someone else’s model.
I want so much to be in the business of selling my own traditional downloadable software, that I've thought about (in the absence of an idea) just putting together a do-nothing application with payment, installer, configuration dialogs, bug feedback - everything but a raison d'etre.

The irony is in my day job I am developing a traditional downloadable Windows application which will come with an immediate user base. But although I have considerable discretion over the project, it isn't mine (in an intellectual property sense), and I'm not getting rich off it.
Yup, anyone who suggests LibreOffice (or some other alternative suite) as a sufficient substitute for MS Office is someone who's never actually done real-world work with external stakeholders. Practically everyone else uses MS Office, which means you must too.

I learned this first-hand when I was a grad student and had to write a technical report to submit to our government funders (using their required MS Office templates and all). I used LibreOffice and saved it as DOCX and everything looked great. Then my advisor opened it on his computer running MS Office and asked me WTF was up with all the mangled formatting.
I don't think that is clear at all. Refer to their amicus brief where they explain their reasoning in detail: https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/brief-amici-curiae-wr... The gist of it, which you missed, is that they think the ban violates Americans first amendment rights.
ICC isn't too complex itself, but the bolted-on design of color profiles makes them annoying to handle, and easy to ignore.

You can't just handle pixels, you need to handle pixels in a context of input and output profiles. That's a pain like code-page based text encodings before Unicode, and we haven't established a Unicode equivalent for pixels yet.
> Does this mean that the other systems’ cards are easily cloned? This seems very insecure, if so.

No, basically all stored-value/transit cards and access cards use cryptographic two-way authentication, and for newer ones, the algorithms used are even decent (AES, 3DES etc.)

Essentially all old MIFARE Classic cards can be cloned with little effort these days, and some older access control and transit payment systems are still using these, but modern cards are much more robust.
>Edit: found one from Pew. "The share of Americans who support the U.S. government banning TikTok now stands at 32%." Sept 05, 2024. In contrast, 87% US lawmakers voted for the law that caused this.

The relevant poll would be one right after the ban was enacted on bipartisan support. It's far too politicized now meaning that a huge percentage of people will simply support/reject it purely based off of "their candidate" being for/against it.

This holds for both sides of the debate.
The structure is a made-up quantum field theory.
APL?

(For certain values of readable)
The author is someone who went to conferences that DHH also attended, so for some of the audience it's a funny anecdote.
> And if it hadn't been cut down enough it would have cannibalised sales of the more expensive synth.

I think you're right about this. I originally thought that maybe removing velocity sensitivity would have been enough, but lots of people would probably have been happy living without it.

> It's maybe more accurate to think of it as the prototype for the much cheaper budget 4-ops that Yamaha flooded the market with, after the DX7-tier was saturated.

I'd genuinely love to know what was going on inside Yamaha after the success of the DX7. There's a lot of information available about the development of the DX7, but I can't find much about what happened after. I'm not sure why there were so many of the 2nd generation 4-operator FM synths: DX21, DX100, DX27, FB01, TX81Z, V50, TQ5, and a bunch of other variants of these. Of these, only the TX81Z has really achieved the same kind of 'iconic' status as the DX7.
Excellent work and very interesting to read. DX9s very occasionally pop up for sale for silly small money, and now I would seriously entertain getting one just for the fun of having a crack at installing your custom ROM.
Let's see:

SC decision that presidents are above the law.

Violent assault on the Capitol.

Journalism imploding.
The uncuddled closing parens are a sure sign of a sick mind; probably corrupted by C or the like.
Has Trump changed the retirement plans for the country's largest coal plants?
We have a handful of devices built on STM32, RP2040, RP2350, RP Pico and RP Pico-W running bare metal firmware and green threads for task management.

These were generally designed to communicate over UART (to a physically-connected host) or a LAN (wired or wireless) using MQTT topics and plain text message formats.

We have a primary, core machine built around Linux SOMs like NVidia's Orin or the RPI5, which could run real software (like ROS).

I expect to have dozens and eventually many hundreds of nodes in a variety of facilities.

So far, things were going pretty well, though very sparse in terms of tooling. For example, I've got a makeshift midi controller (for physical knobs) that uses a Python script, debug connectors, and messy gnuplots to do PID tuning.

I got pretty pumped about the Foxglove Studio product and pulling on that thread led me into the (completely awesome) YT channel "Articulated Robots" (https://www.youtube.com/@ArticulatedRobotics), which led us down a path to seriously considering a move toward ROS2.

I wrote it off a couple years ago (2021/2022-ish) for a handful of reasons:

a) The move from ROS1 to ROS2 triggered my PTSD from my time at Google where everything had 2 versions: One that's deprecated, and One that's not ready yet. It also triggered trauma from Python's ongoing and complete disregard for backward compatibility.

b) It's obviously designed to run on Linux, but I have a bunch of low-cost bare metal micros driving around. What the hell kind of robotics platform doesn't (by default) run on microcontrollers?

c) CMake is already one of the absolute worst piles of trash I've ever encountered in nearly 25 years of software development. Wrapping CMake (twice now!?), which is already a crap wrapper is so obviously such an awful idea that it's tough for me to trust anyone who had part in that decision.

d) C++. No thank you. Slow builds are a non-starter. C is fine IMO.

Now, I've spent 4-5 days watching videos, doing tutorials and bringing up ROS2 topics and basically fiddling around with it and just learned that Google(ish) bought the core team, which has me deeply concerned about the future of the platform.

I'm actually still kind of interested in the DDS portion of ROS2, but the whole mess trips my spidey sense and has me feeling like dragons be lurking.

Seeing this thread with so many people speaking so negatively about it has me desperately wanting more information.

Can anyone point me to anything that presents concrete problems and (better) alternative systems that work?
Don't forget about dialing into the local BBS and trying to find cheats and tricks in text files.
Have you been able to try trailer.app?
I wanted to pick up a printer this year and the Bambu p1s was at the top of my list. I’ve been fiddling with 3d printers for a decade and I want something that is just going to work and not break the bank. Any suggestions on a comparable substitute?
"almost certainly" sounds like quite a stretch to me, but if you wanted to make a substantive point about male genetics that might be ok. Maybe. But it might also be a generic flamewar tangent (which we definitely don't want on HN), so a comment like that would need to be written in a particularly flame-retardant style.

Either way, though, a dismissive one-liner like the GP comment is definitely against the site guidelines.
> That transition was painful.

I was actually alive then, so I can speak to it.

Athena text widgets on X were black on white in the 80's. So was Lisa, Mac, and NeXT, OS/X and SunOS's first GUI. Yes, amber on black was long running, but since you weren't alive then let me tell you something: it sucked. Moving from VT100 (VT104) terminals to actual Sun/Aix machines running X was a HUGE improvement on eye strain.
But now they are breaking the law by turning it back on.
Show HN: Symbol Town – 2000 Unicode symbols for easy copying
Tired of searching how to type Unicode symbols, I built Symbol Town - a searchable library of 2000+ symbols for easy copy and paste.

Try it at: https://symboltown.com/en
I'm not running the show, but I am working at a place that does this. One time fee for a perpetual license for the current major version, free support, and historically ~6 years of updates per version.

Users tend to be quite happy about it, and we're profitable enough to pay comfortable salaries and have...a lot...of runway.

Of course, this model is possible because there was never any outside investment.
Isn't this why magnetism is used to contain plasma in stellerators?
People have lost rights/freedoms over the course of the last 8 years though.
Things change. Some for the better, others for the worse, but not all these changes are bad and some are inevitable, and it's not s if the past was all roses anyway.

What is a coin in an arcade videogame if it's not a microtransaction?

Software as a service is just different, and it's not all bad. You have automated upgrades, a consistently funded developer that can better plan and deliver updates, if you only need the software for a short period of time it can be cheaper. Frankly the packaged software approach was a kludge due to the technical limitations of the time. Now if big releases make sense developers do that, if incremental updates over time provided as a service make sense, they can do that.

Most of the section on what we can do about all this is focused on stuff that didn't exist in the past. The internet and online services, social media. Going back to the past wouldn't be to do those in some ideal way that used to exist, it would mean not doing them at all. Sure.

There is no ideal past to go back to without pulling the online plug. However, that plug isn't going away, and we don't actually want it to. The "How we can reclaim control" bit at the end is mostly correct, but it's really about coming to grips with managing the new reality, not going back to a situation we've outgrown.
Right now I'm just having fun poking around the code, investigating if there's much room for firmware modification. The CZ101 uses the NEC uPD7811 CPU, which has a really interesting architecture: It doesn't have any conditional branching, only conditional 'skipping' of instructions. I'll probably write something about the CPU at very least!
Just anecdotal input, talking to a coal miner here in Wyoming he said they received a 3 year deal to produce a massive amount of coal. I forgot the tonnage that was requested but he said it was unusually large. I assumed it was just wartime stockpiling but maybe there is more to it.
I've heard a lot of people recommending the K1 as a similar substitute.

https://www.creality.com/products/creality-k1-3d-printer

I might check it out too, while I like my X1C...Bambu might be overstaying there welcome in my house.
Designing a custom interposer is crazy
It already is! Click the link on the page :)
NO is the country code for Norway.
> I'm gonna need you to go ahead and RTO.
Seems like a reasonable assumption for that time.
I really like the two Elegoo neptune Max's I have (there are smaller models in the line also). I've also been eyeing the new Creality printers if you need an ams
And the K2 just came out...
Of course it's rational behavior. Nico was the one claiming that they were just "following the law", that's what this subthread was about. If you agree that TikTok was making a political point by shutting down, then you agree with the person you're replying to.
> used as a standard to calculate “laytime” and “demurge” (myriad of fees associated when a ship docks into a port).

Nitpick: I think you mean “demurrage”: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/demurrage.asp
Hence "few". Two if there are real elections in 2026, and the dems retake a majority. "few" if there aren't, or they don't -- in that case maybe 3-4 if term limits hold, or "who knows?" if as you say term limits don't apply, or Trump manages to put someone in place after him.
But the accrued liability means nothing if the president agrees he won't prosecute them, right?
> Microsoft struggled to release Xcloud becsuse Apple didn't want a game streaming service on IOS

This is allowed on iOS and Xcloud is still not available.
Treasury Levels Sanctions Tied to a Hack of Its Own Network
Honestly that's the indentation format I use for every language. Doing it in Lisp just makes sense.

My "OTBS all the things" rules:

- Never horizontal align. Indentation is a simple tree, with each set of children indented 1 layer deeper, which can be 4 spaces or 1 tab.

ThisKindOfThing(
foo,
bar,
baz);

is generally dumb.

- If a block is worth indenting for, the end of the block deserves its own line. Just do OTBS but also for parentheses if you've a long function call.

ThisKindOfThing (
foo,
bar,
baz
);

Is just more consistent and easier to manage while still being legible.

- if you're ever splitting something across multiple lines there must be an indent.

myObj
.Foo()
.Bar()
.Baz();

- you're allowed to double-dip on tree depth - that is indent only one level for like 3 levels of tree, as long as the opening of that 3-deep jump is a clear one-liner and the end of it is a line that says ")))".

Foo(Bar(Baz(
someVal
)));

- when splitting lines on infix operators, anything but commas go at the start of the line (also, bedmas counts as tree depth)

foo
+ bar
+ baz
+ (
var1
* var2
* var3
)
+ quux;
I think those chickens just haven’t come home to roost yet. His wife launched her coin today. There is no way this isn’t being looked at closely. Impressively quick start to the new shit show.
I can't (and don't want to) do this job purely mechanically, and never have. I doubt it's possible, and if it is, I doubt it would make for good moderation.

Actually, though, collapsing the GP subthread was just that sort of application of the site guidelines. It's obvious (IMO) that the subthread is flamebaity and well offtopic. I reversed that decision as a courtesy to lolinder and a nod to the "moderate less when YC is involved" principle—even though it was the correct call from the unbiased/mechanical/rigid side of the ledger.
I subscribe. It does work. Did you read the linked post of hers? Perhaps your client is throttled or blocked.
You also need the proper dependency types[0] I mentioned, though I'd say you can get away with FS for dependencies and FF for subtasks.

Beyond merely generating a Gantt chart, when you have dependencies and estimated duration you can start estimating how long things will take and which ones can take longer or be delayed without impacting overall project time; add the ability to provide constraints on start and end time, and you can automatically schedule work (and re-schedule at it happens).

Most of these things are in every system in some form or other, but dependencies seem to be missing almost everywhere - and dependencies are the one key component that enable major benefits and turn the system into a proper project planning tool.

--

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_(project_management...
You can create BMP files like that - I wrote some image generators that do that and they render fine in all image viewers. But the spec also supports much more, so if you're writing a BMP viewer then things get hairy.
Fortinet Confirms New Zero-Day Exploitation
He inherited a existing customer base in a niche field. That's not exactly easy to replicate from scratch.
>Test flights. My tests keep failing until I fix all of my code, then we deploy to production.

Do your tests require tens of millions, and can have potential casualties?
Trump gets away with lying because he also tells truths on important issues where others tell lies to force a false consensus. People are very sensitive to this stuff.
I didn't see the actual procedure mentioned by name, but they're likely talking about therapeutic plasma exchange.

It's a procedure nearly identical to plasma donation except they use a larger volume that requires a replacement fluid. In this instance they'd replace with normal saline with albumin, which is a protein that's important for maintaining intravascular volume among other things.

Plasma donation will accomplish the same objective, but it takes about 4-5 donations to remove the same amount of plasma as an exchange would.
Guess the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is also democratic then.

See, names are meaningless.
Then I would certainly be interested to know why you spent so much time making the same argument e/acc AI proponents make ad nauseam.

As it stands, the majority of your article reads like a debate against a strawman that is criticizing something they don't understand, rather than a refutation of any real criticism of environmental impact from the generative AI industry.

If your aim was to shut down bad faith criticism of AI from people who don't understand it, that's admirable and I'd understand the tone of the article, but certainly not the claim of the title.
Sounds like it's a good time to break app store duopoly
And then, what's the point?

A system that encourage everyone to jack everything up is pointless.

A system to tell the OS that the developer anticipates that data is shared and super hot will be mostly lied to (on accident or purpose).

There's the edge cases: database servers, HPC, etc, where you believe that the system has a sole occupant that can predict loading.

But libnuma, and the underlying ACPI SRAT/SLIT/HMAT tables are a pretty good fit for these use cases.
How did he price out the SaaS model vs the USB perpetual license?
Definitely, but it really irks me that part of that money goes to Apple for... what exactly?

I already paid for my iPhone! Why should my apartment building/employer/... have to pay a yearly fee to allow me to enter a building using it?
the funny thing about your post is that twitter itself is now an ad infested, paywalled, dark pattern website/app.

If you think it isn't paywalled you're thinking about it too superficially, you are paying by volunteering to be the product in the form of having an active account, and without an active account the site/app is effectively completely useless for about a year now.
Yeah people often say "you love things that are invented before you're 35, and you hate the things after that".

But do young people really love this hyper-commercial internet these days? All the subscription services? The empty social media content?

I do see what they mean a bit because I'm pretty sceptical of AI, though I did set up my own server to experiment with it in a way where my stuff doesn't end up in the cloud.
Would be unnecessary. They'd only be removing the plasma component. Either via plasmapheresis or a nearly identical procedure called plasma exchange.
That was only common for a blip in time where NOTHING was normal because it was all being figured out and cost constraint, not personal or ergonomic preference, drove computing capabilities.

> Even GUI wise, Amiga used a dark-blue background as the default Workbench

That's because of cost. It was expected that many people would be viewing Amiga video output on a television via composite output and white-on-blue is something that TVs are good at displaying. The 1080 was like 1/3rd the cost of the A1000 and I'm willing to bet that many, MANY A500s were hooked up to TVs for at least a while after being opened on Christmas.

I used practically every word processor ever made for Amiga. Except for WordPerfect they were all black text-on-white, and WordPerfect you could change that they just kept the default blue and white to match DOS.
General consensus that I’ve heard online is that the K1 is nowhere near the same league - cheap unreliable clone would be the most common description.
3,600-Foot-Tall Undersea Volcano Expected to Blow This Year but Nobody's Worried
In a sane world. This particular person has been impeached and acquitted twice over, though, so I'm not sure we're there anymore.
> Trump has since made reducing wasteful government spending a signature policy and his Republican generally argues for that and for small government. The incoming President’s post does not explain how acquiring half of a social media company meets those goals, or how the acquisition would be funded.

"It's not wasteful government spending if it means I get to play with taxpayer money in a way that enriches myself and my cronies, or maybe I'll just keep it from competing with my good buddy Elon's product."
Most famously Richard Nixon received a pardon by Ford immediately after his resignation but before any prosecution. Also, it’s any federal law, the exception is impeachment and nothing else.

So, pardons can very much apply before conviction or even prosecution. They may not pardon someone for something that hasn’t happened, but as long as there in office when the crime is committed that’s more a technical issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdick_v._United_States

After President Gerald Ford left the White House in 1977, close friends said that the President privately justified his pardon of Richard Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of the Burdick decision, which stated that a pardon carries an imputation of guilt and that acceptance carries a confession of guilt.[6] Ford made reference to the Burdick decision in his post-pardon written statement furnished to the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives on October 17, 1974.[7] However, the reference related only to the portion of Burdick that supported the proposition that the Constitution does not limit the pardon power to cases of convicted offenders or even indicted offenders.[7][8]
Despite the critical feedback you've received above, I found the article interesting, and having a homelab with several spare Pi's, it's got me considering setting a CA up. Thank you.
You may not like it, but this is what peak lisp indentation looks like :)

Honestly though, this style for ending parenthesis of block-type nodes makes a lot of sense to me. And you still retain the benefit of macro-ing your own syntax when you need it.
Yes, game developers.
He was out of town for 3 weeks the year before. He then compared to previous years and his use is way down.
RSS/Atom was near universal until Google killed their Reader product and reduced support in other products like Chrome. From there RSS market share has declined considerably and consistently:

https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-...
In those days cheating didn't impact other players. This is why pay to win is a bigger problem now.
It won't. It would be fantastic if the EU banned Meta or X. Instead they're suddenly scared of continuing to fine them for their endless illegal data harvesting and gatekeeping to cozy up to Trump.
You are correct. These are people from the grapheneOS community, and it is evident from their positioning. This is not a valid security criticism, but baseless fud.
Everything they do is a thing of beauty, showing lots of effort, care and aesthetics. Even those warning signboards at construction sites or road and cable works.