jakewins

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by jakewins 26d ago
I tried this a while back and found it ended up being easier to just give the firmware agent a dedicated machine, there’s so much low-level stuff you want access to for iterating on firmware, and the docker layers kept confusing the agents
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by jakewins 29d ago
Related: I just discovered this weekend that you can trivially flash Lego power hubs and then program them from a browser via pybricks. I don’t want my 7yo to have a phone or iPad, so he’s not been able to use the PoweredUp hubs unless I’m
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by jakewins 1mo ago
What you're touching on is an ancient debate :) Should this part of society be top-down planned or should it be market organized? I know how I feel about this - I much prefer price signals here; it allows any developer that can meet th
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by jakewins 1mo ago
I can assure you the spreadsheets at firms building plants factor in forecasts of revenue for the life of the plant into investment decisions. If they don’t pay past the first few years, that directly translates to lower forecast lifetime p
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by jakewins 1mo ago
The money has gone to pay power plants that can supply winter capacity, exactly as the market is designed to do. The intention of the payments is to increase revenue for that kind of power generation capability to encourage more such plants
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by jakewins 1mo ago
Can you explain how that works? With the row-per-item I can see how you’d use locking primitives etc easily to deal with multiple concurrent shopping carts claiming available inventory.. but how does your solution solve contention? There’d
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by jakewins 2mo ago
Right, except the researchers are the ones that added the button, pressed it and now are upset at Ford, in your example. GitHub agents don’t have access to unrelated private repos by default, nor respond to public issue comments by defaul
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by jakewins 2mo ago
How is this a Github vulnerability? The researchers are the ones that grant the agent access to private repos and then ask it to answer questions in public repos.. of course this allows extracting private information? This is like setting
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by jakewins 3mo ago
There are attacks that allow dumping RAM if the device is powered on though and you have physical access. Depending on config it may be very easy (just plug in a dumper over Thunderbolt on USB C and do direct memory access) or hard (freeze
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by jakewins 3mo ago
I’ve had very good success in similar setups where you have some sort of “oracle” and can generate enormous corpuses of test data, such that you really, really trust the LLM code must work for the inputs you expect it’ll ever need to handle
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by jakewins 4mo ago
The point of “durable” implying stored to durable media is precisely that it allows the operator of the system to make that kind of calculation. They know the disks they picked and the replication chosen, and as long as the database calls
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by jakewins 4mo ago
I used to say this as well but like.. industry has, for a long time now equated “durable” with “stored on disk”. Any DBA will assume that’s what it means, and use that fact when they work out the replication they need either in clustering
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by jakewins 5mo ago
If a company says “encrypted at rest” that is generally compliance-speak for “not encrypted, but the hard drive partition is encrypted”. Various certifications require this, I guess because they were written before hyper scalers and the ass
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by jakewins 5mo ago
The complexity for that is almost always for redundancy and for ease of deploys.
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by jakewins 5mo ago
I feel like I’ve seen elsewhere that the argument there is that you often must have this optimisation working in algos that rely on it or you will get stack overflows. Having a keyword to force it then becomes a very useful thing, vs rely
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by jakewins 6mo ago
Utility solar is cheaper in studies that do not factor in the cost of distribution, but the picture is much less clear when total system cost is considered - not having to pay for expanded distribution grids or new interconnects is a major
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by jakewins 6mo ago
No reason to be rude or hyperbolic - I agree with you that cars destroy communities and we should strive to reduce the need for cars and parking. For solar powered homes specifically though, multi-story buildings are much harder to run sola
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by jakewins 6mo ago
Respectfully, 30kWh is not much in this context. In 10 years every modern 2-car home will have 200kWh on the driveway just from the EVs; add a 100kWh whole home battery at a price point close to a 10kWh battery today and the calculus change
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by jakewins 6mo ago
Fooled by Randomness talks a good bit about this, and argues it’s true - except you don’t know what to bet on. Hence the outlier successes will be from extreme risk takers, and for each such person there will be 1,000s of other gamblers tha
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by jakewins 6mo ago
This was really good, and second leaning on property testing. I’ve had really good outcomes from setting up Schemathesis and getting blanket coverage for stuff like “there should be no request you can generate as logged in user A that let’s
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by jakewins 6mo ago
They are clearly suggesting that the story recurring every two months is Astro-turfed, not that the story itself is false?
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Show HN: Hermetic 'blinded' agents using Starlark sandbox(github.com)
2 points by jakewins 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jakewins 7mo ago
I mean, no, it's more than that. You also need to choose optimal instruction encoding, and you need to understand how relocs work - which things can you resolve now vs which require you to encode info for the linker to fill in once the
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by jakewins 7mo ago
I am surprised by the number of comments that say the assembler is trivial - it is admittedly perhaps simpler than some other parts of the compiler chain, but it’s not trivial. What you are doing is kinda serialising a self-referential grap
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by jakewins 8mo ago
I don’t understand this summary - isn’t this a summary of the authors recitation of Masleys position? It’s missing the part that actually matters, the authors position and how it differs from Masley?
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by jakewins 8mo ago
lol no, but if you are in a regular vehicle, you can see under the front of the bus as you pass it, it’s a standard safety practice? The first picture of the bus in this random article shows what I mean, you should be checking under the bus
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by jakewins 8mo ago
Aye, and to always look for feet under and by the front wheel of vehicles like that. Stopped buses similarly, people get off the bus, whip around the front of them and straight into the streets, so many times I’ve spotted someone’s feet und
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Ancient infection disabled gene in chimp brains that remains expressed in humans(thetransmitter.org)
4 points by jakewins 8mo ago|0 comments
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by jakewins 8mo ago
Sorry I don’t follow. Why would the taxes need to be spent offsetting anything? The carbon reduction already happened, because the taxes made this auction choose lower emission alternatives. If you then also spend the taxes on some form of
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by jakewins 8mo ago
.. you are commenting on an article about how non-carbon-emitting energy options are beating out polluting alternatives, aided by exactly these taxes, so obviously yes, they are working exactly as intended: price signals for the market to g

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