skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For this $1500 street price soundbar, I'm wondering whether they consciously decided not to invest in BOM cost or software effort that would help avoid bricking.

I'm not sure I understand various industries' conventions...

While interviewing for a principal engineer job, I was meeting individually with a bunch of team leads and managers, and one engineer asked how would I design firmware updating for the company's product (which was more critical, complex, and expensive than a soundbar).

I assumed they were probably trying to see whether I would throw in some robustness/resilience (not oversimplify it). So I sketched it out, while hitting notes like diffs, downloading and assembling in staging space, imperfect networking, having at least two firmware "slots", backing out upon boot loop or failure soon after boot, gradual deployment to installed base, contrasting with some less-critical consumer product firmware update practices, etc.

(Either that was a bad answer, or they got distracted thinking about something I'd said, because I was getting odd subconscious backchannel cues, and they were unresponsive when I tried elicit more requirements or guidance about what they were looking for. Maybe there was some standard embedded systems programmer canned answer that I was supposed to recite (analogous to the Web brogrammer 'system design' interview), and they couldn't think of how to nudge me towards the shibboleth without saying it?)
I initially had a similar reaction, but there are so many cases like this for unit files. I think a higher level DSL for generating them would be useful.
My first reaction is that a model can’t, but a sampling architecture probably could. I’m trying to understand if what we have as a whole architecture for most inference now is responsive to the critique or not.
Not always. There's a time and a place for including end users in your threat model. These would include scholastic and carceral settings, where in both cases the end user may, as an example, desire access to resources that have been deemed inappropriate.
It would depend on the translation, and what you understood him to be doing. One of the ones I read recently was incredibly bastardized to seem more stoical, completely removing in cases his own asides.

These are diaries he wanted burned -- they were just exercises in writing for himself to clam himself down. He is writing to himself.

Go back and read a few sections and ask: "what happened to Marcus on this evening for him to go to his study and rebuke himself with this lesson?"

There's clearly a lot of bitterness there, and depression.

Opening a translation at random, to a random book: https://vreeman.com/meditations/#book10

> # 10.1 To my soul:

Are you ever going to achieve goodness? Ever going to be simple, whole, and naked—as plain to see as the body that contains you? Know what an affectionate and loving disposition would feel like? Ever be fulfilled, ever stop desiring—lusting and longing for people and things to enjoy? Or for more time to enjoy them? Or for some other place or country—“a more temperate clime”? Or for people easier to get along with? And instead be satisfied with what you have, and accept the present—all of it. And convince yourself that everything is the gift of the gods, ....

I mean this is a deeply mournful person with an excess of self-admonishment.

Why is he, somewhere alone in his room, writing these thoughts to himself? Why does he go on and on to admonish his failure to "Know what an affectionate and loving disposition would feel like" ?

Whatever the cause that evening, he's in great pain with it. He sees his life as a failure. Its harder to tell the inciding incident in this particular passage -- but for some, its clearly been some betrayl or insult or similar which makes him rail against people.

----

Consider, just a little ways down:

> # 10.13 When you wake up, ask yourself:

Does it make any difference to you if other people blame you for doing what’s right?

It makes no difference.

Have you forgotten what the people who are so vociferous in praise or blame of others are like as they sleep and eat?

Forgotten their behavior, their fears, their desires, their thefts and depredations—not physical ones, but those committed by what should be highest in them? What creates, when it chooses, loyalty, humility, truth, order, well-being.

------

Reading this I say to myself, "OK. Marcus, dear me. What cross are you matrying yourself on this time? What gossip has upset you this evening. Why now, each morning, do you have to remember that you're above the gossiping crowds "

All this suppression of the particular by talking about the abstract is all very telling. No one rants like this in their diaries without a provocation, he's too self-righteously high-minded to do anything other than rail against all humanity. A normal person would air their particular grievances -- and be much better for it.

I'm rewatching House MD. at the moment, it's very housian in its own way. Its not that he has been lied to, its that Lying is the Metaphyiscal Necessity of Life, and o woe is me, what suffering! Etc. All just a cheap misdirection for being hurt by someone.
I think it can work for a short period of time if you have enlightened leaders or if the political machine wants to please you; they always alternate pleasing some people and upsetting others so that they can keep control.

Over a long period of time the interest of the powerful will always win. There is a reason if no government (whether left or right) can fix the situation and inequality between the top 0.01% and the rest keeps increasing.

The only solution to maximise wellbeing for individuals is to reduce the amount of control the powerful can exert on the rest of society.
Yeah that’s fair to be honest, at least until my blog starts pulling enough money to not be worth destroying my reputation on a rugpull
Nothing against people who like to chat with random strangers at a bar; that's perfectly fine. But no, sorry, it does not "entice me". I find it tiresome and distracting. I typically will only sit at the bar if I'm with others. If I'm by myself, I'd prefer a quiet table.
So about 12 people were curious but not too surprised when our American friend told us her experience of a school shooting at her university. She was in a different building to the shooter.

The room was shocked into silence when she said "oh, and there was the time at my elementary school..." and had another experience of guns at a school.

We had been surprised by this:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/one-in-15-amer...
> Why else would a soundbar need updates anyway?

Because for free you only get the first 15 levels of volume. If you want to get to 25, you need to pay a subscription.

I thought it was obvious... how does the seat heating work in your car? /s
I've been a waiter or bartender on and off since University days - I'm really sorry you've experienced that. Making someone feel unwelcome is maybe the worse mistake you can make as a Server in restaurant - it leaves an impression on people, as You've noticed.

Obviously, they failed their job responsibilities - failed at being people too. The owner/manager should never be allowing such behavior, if they are acting in a way that makes you feel like you do, that shouldn't be happening at all. That is an administrative failure too.

I'm sorry that it's like that. I'd say stop eating there but you shouldn't have to do that even.
That's still a huge step back from previous generations, where all kids were expected to find their own way to their parents, whether waiting at home, waiting in the pickup loop, or waiting a few blocks away where it's not as busy.
Automatic data transfer would be super cool to get out of the box. We had a custom multi-tenancy solution for our application that heavily used PostgreSQL schemas. One schema for each customer.

It was a pain to get that work with Cockroach since it doesn’t optimize cross schema queries and suggests one DB per customer. This was a deal breaker for us and we had to duplicate data to avoid cross schema queries.

Being able to live within Postgres has its advantages.
Agreed, I saw it firsthand while I was there. The elementary school was near the train station I had to take to get to university, and there was always a line of little kids walking themselves there every morning.
Since this exposes the answer, the new architecture has to be based on world model building.
Aspartame was definitely approved in 1974.
> children are at far greater risk of abuse and abduction by concern trolls and the State

Is there evidence of that? And would you define 'concern trolls' (beyond 'people who have concerns different than mine')?
Yes, it's beyond many, and people are clearly both willing to write and grateful for easier alternatives. Why celebrate gatekeeping?

And even then, just because I could write a small utility doesn't mean I will, 99% of the time. I think being able to easily benefit from others work is generally great.
> I'm interested in examining the idea of a programming language that eschews the notion of a callstack and returns to having a single fixed activation record per function.

Welcome to the old 8-bit C compilers.

Everything was statically allocated so no recursion. The downside is that you can only have a single thread of execution.

It would be interesting to see what that would look like if extended to multiple threads (they would have to be defined/allocated at compile time).
Modern soundbar are bugged Bluetooth enabled, also with ship with interfacing protocols, while legacy bluetooth/wifi drivers are ok, protocols just break
I run a 100 billion+ rows Postgres database [0], that is around 16TB, it's pretty painless!

There are a few tricks that make it run well (PostgreSQL compiled with a non-standard block size, ZFS, careful VACUUM planning). But nothing too out of the ordinary.

ATM, I insert about 150,000 rows a second, run 40,000 transactions a second, and read 4 million rows a second.

Isn't "Postgres does not scale" a strawman?

[0] https://www.merklemap.com/
> I'm also not sure why you are calling Goolsbee a "Friedmanite."

The paper is from the Becker-Friedman Institute of Economics. It is literally the Chicago school. Do the authors need to call themselves disciples of Milton Friedman?

> I'm also not sure why you are calling Goolsbee a "Friedmanite." He served in the Obama administration and advocated strong government intervention during the financial crisis. Do you think every UChicago economist is a Friedman disciple?

Most orthodox economists at this point are. Sure maybe an ideologically pure free marketeer would have advocated against government intervention in 2008. But do you really think this guy is outside the neoliberal mainstream?

> where did you infer the economists are "lauding" the productivity increases?

Neoliberal economists believe that productivity is inherently good. I don't see anything in this paper about quality of life of employees or quality of service. Elevating one dimension above everything else implies a particularly importance of that dimension.
I remember an Irish cousin of my mother’s moving to Reno, NV in the 90s. She used to dry her laundry on a line outdoors, where the 40° heat meant that it would dry in minutes. Well, the neighbours found this bizarre almost to the point of being offensive and she got kind of ostracised for doing it… and then she had to join in with what everyone else did and used the dryer for 2 hours burning electricity to achieve the same result that could have been done in 1/4 of the time for free.
It's a little frustrating to me that the paper breaks out major chains as the big contributing factors, but doesn't analyze the remaining bucket. If possible I'd like to see the restaurants sliced by $/visit to see the effects on mid- or high-end restaurants.
I think I agree with you generalle but just from a logics perspective, this is a bad argument:

> There will always be security issues, so "but security" is not a reason to prevent a consumer from doing whatever they want with a thing that they purchased from you

Just because there will always be security issues doesn't mean you shouldn't try to take care of the low hanging fruit.
My parents used to live in a city where violence and crime was common, and I received all sorts of lessons from them about how I shouldn’t go outside, don’t talk to strangers, always be guarded, etc. But my family had moved to a quiet, crime-free suburb and everything they told me seemed like the complete opposite of what I was experiencing in reality when growing up.
Green cards cannot be yanked for constitutionally protected speech.
Anyone tried https://getsession.org/ seriously?

- desktop and mobile clients, cross-platform (with an AppImage that installs on old systems)

- end to end encryption

- onion routing, based on the Oxen Service Nodes [0], which also propels Lokinet that allows to anonymously browse the web

- no phone number or email required

- group chats, voice messages, voice and video calls (webRTC), attachments, emojis

https://docs.oxen.io/oxen-docs/about-the-oxen-blockchain/oxe...

https://lokinet.org/
I do not believe that is the case, but since I cannot see most of this thread I cannot even review it.
When will someone build a good theater system with an open source OS? That would be great!
Part 1: Hatching a Conspiracy (https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/hatching-a-conspiracy-a-b...)

Part 2: How Chicken Genetics Barons Created the Egg Crisis (https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/fowl-play-how-chicken-gen...)

Part 3 hasn't been released yet, but it's a good read so far.
He's 11 and loving it! Had to close the computer to get him to stop and go to bed. Well done!
Wouldn’t we loose specific features if a common cloud backup standard is developed ?
It's not very safe if you can't get off a curvy road with no shoulder, especially in poor visibility. You're probably OK as a bet as a sometimes thing but not something I'd, have especially a kid, do on a daily basis. One reason I didn't learn to ride a bike as a kid because that basically described the road our house was on and fatalities associated with kids riding bikes wasn't rare.
When an architecture is based around world model building, then it is a casual outcome that similar concepts and things end up being stored in similar places. They overlap.
As soon as your solution starts to get mathematically complex, you are departing from what the human brain does. Not saying that in some universe it might be possible to make a statistical intelligence, but when you go that direction you are straying away from the only existing intelligences that we know about. The human brain. So the best solutions will closely echo neuroscience.
> The security risk is not caused by websites, but by the fact that the browser can access your USB devices in the first place.

Then you'd better uninstall your browser, because this is already the case right now.

The fact that Chrome makes use of that capability and Firefox does not constitute a privilege/security boundary.
And we will never run out of uses for WG quotes. Or +1s :-)
Abuse at the Max-Planck Institutes in Germany
I made the mistake of updating my HIKMICRO mini thermal camera. Before it worked as a normal UVC USB webcam with any app or camera/video program on the PC. After it just has weird green coloration with hardly any variation, and only works properly in their Android app. I contacted company but they didn't care, nor provided any way to "downgrade" the firmware to the original version.
> Just pointing out the idiocy of the current situation. VW was actually founded by the Nazis

I don’t really get this.

So if we continue with this, logically Germany (and even Britain due to other reasons) should dissolve itself because it is permanently tainted as a country?

One of the reasons US seceded from Britain is because they wanted to steal more land from the natives and weren’t allowed to. It’s a country that’s basically founded on genocide (and not much better than VW)
Logical replication works both ways, thats a good start.
a TOS is not an ironclad legal agreement. Far from it.
Flakes are as stable as they can get imo. They are already widely adopted, so I don't see how they can ever completely walk the feature back. The unstable marker is only there because there are some edge cases to work around afaik.

And I agree that NixOS without Flakes is a worse experience overall.
Yeah, but is there a way for consumers to compare the compute performance of any given TV?

If OEMs differentiated their TVs based on compute performance, consumers might be able to make an informed choice. (See smartphones: consumers expect a Galaxy Sxx to have faster compute than a Galaxy Axx.)

If not, consumers just see TVs with similar specs at different prices, so of course they’re going to pick the cheaper one.
> And crucially, we made sure to tell the model not to guess if it wasn’t sure. (AI models are known to hallucinate, and we wanted to guard against that.)

Prompting an LLM not to confabulate won't actually prevent it from doing so. It's so disappointing to see an organization like this, that's mission is to inform the public, used AI not understanding the limitations and then making a claim like this.
zoning and economies of scale in building out larger schools overall which from a bigger area. throw in pedestrian hostile suburban road design...voila
Are those people in the room with us and can you point at any that hold both opinions at once?
Their phones are alright but everything else they make sucks
Organizing an event that citizens choose to participate in is a clear example of benefitting the US, at least from someone's perspective. Someone who "encouraged," something can't be more guilty than the people who chose to do it - this is really about the rights and the conduct of Columbia students.

It's also important to remember that the government follows the public, not the other way around. The legitimacy of preferences among belligerents in foreign conflicts is determined through the equilibration of public opinion, and it's the end state of the protests and discussions (whatever it is) that legitimizes or overturns the lists, not the other way around.

From the perspective of someone asking about immigration law, this doesn't pose the question "to what degree should I do things that the people around me like," it raises the question, "to what degree does my perception of the preferences of the current administration take precedence, due to personal risk, over what the people around me would like me to do for them."
More hardware is sold at cost or at a loss, compensated with ads. I don't like the model either, but that's how it is.

If price isn't the only factor for some, it is for many who would otherwise not buy these things. Sellers picked up on that long ago.

Other comments wish to see regulations, they can't outwit those marketing tricksters. For profit enterprise can, and will offer more alternatives with bigger stamps about privacy, ad-less certified and whatnot.
When they started the pickup lines, I started just parking about half a mile away from the school. He knew exactly where I would be and we completely avoided the traffic and insanity of that nonsense.

We live about a mile from his current school, so he rides his bike whenever the weather permits. He's always in a good mood when he gets home.

I think it's funny that when he gets older, he'll be able to say that it was uphill both ways since we have a sizeable hill between home and school.
Innocuous product features like streaming music, integration with Alexa/Google, connecting to TV and other speakers via wifi. Oh and collecting analytics data and selling to ad networks...
If you do not wish to use any javascript, you can use iframes and the "target" attribute on links and forms:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#...

However the user experience is pretty rough, which is why people typically don't use this feature.

If you want a minimal amount of javascript to achieve this, we (the htmx folks) also have fixi:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/fixi

Finally, we are working on introducing general transclusion into the HTML spec itself with the triptych project:

https://github.com/alexpetros/triptych

however that is a ways off (if ever)
IRS pauses modernization investments to evaluate AI technology
This is actually a lazy approach as you describe it. Instead, what is needed is an elegant and simple approach that is 99% of the way there out of the gate. Soon as you start doing statistical tweaking and overfitting models, you are not approaching a solution.
Not the person you replied to, but I'm literally pulling wire again to avoid dealing with that dichotomy. And hardware developers that think OTW firmware updates are a neat idea >:(
I'm having a hard time imagining this. Aren't most CRUD apps using OLTP mostly read-only in the first place?

I just feel like you'd need thousands of concurrent users on a typical CRUD app to even get close to straining SQLite.
I think parental paranoia plays a very small role in this. If at least one thing were to change: reasonable schoolbus routes, walkability, traffic safety, public transport, then we'd see a huge uptick.
New York City saw a 55% reduction in fatalities in school zones with cameras, and Oglethorpe County, Georgia reported zero accidents in a high-risk zone for three months after camera installation, compared to 1–2 daily crashes previously.

Using a monthly prevention rate of 0.9–1.4 deaths[0], a ban could result in 10–17 additional fatalities annually per monitored corridor.

So, after how many bonus deaths will Republicans be held liable?

0. https://ssti.us/2024/03/11/speed-cameras-lower-speeds-and-pr...
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this!
I've heard from a couple of people that O-1a petitions are not as smooth as before. Many people getting RFEs even if the lawyers told them the case was strong. Is one article on a major newspaper normally enough to tick the coverage requirements?
Having the agent type O-1 makes it easier to change companies? Some say yes, some say all the companies need to be listed when filing the petition. Thanks!
It definitely does mitigate the risk (pretty substantially in my experience!)
I totally understand the anxiety. If you get "DANGER!" pumped into you constantly, it's going to be hard to rationalize your way out of that.

Have you two ever tried walking along the road at around the same time? A calm walk along the same path your kids would be taking would put me at ease about the situation if I was in the same spot.
Is this a serious question? Because you're hungry, want to eat, and can't or don't want to cook (e.g., traveling for work).

Sitting at a bar with other people, suddenly you are not eating alone.

It's called socializing. Some people enjoy such things.
I wouldn't be embarrassed. I'd be embarrassed on their behalf, maybe, for half-assing it so badly.

I don't owe anybody who calls me out of the blue my time, especially when their shit isn't together. My mom answers the phone and actually talks to these people, and politely says "no thank you", whereas I don't even pick up the phone for certain area codes, and certainly don't engage in conversation if it's clear it's some bullshit I do not care about.
The Trials of an Exorcist, 1597
We've solved long ago mass manufacturing challenges. Today's problem is to sell.
I don't ever have a reason to practice this and can't be bothered to test it, so this might be off, but something like this ought to work?

fn recurse(tree, acc = Nil) :
tree.children match
case Cons(head, tail) => recurse(head, tail++acc)
case Nil => acc match
case Cons(head, tail) => recurse(head, tail)
case Nil => ()
The BT MAC is shared with peers so they can find you (as well as a list of your IP addresses) but I don't think identity is tied to it. Identity seems entirely tied to a public certificate. But I could be wrong.
Mozilla has basically never been 'just' a browser company. It's probably confusing for people who don't pay attention to stuff, but it's not for the rest of us.
Only if you give a part of Florida in return
Certificates expire.
it's the only track I didn't like