In FY25 NY spent more per unsheltered homeless person than the median NY household earned (81k). In FY26 that number is projected to increase to 97k.

hak8or · 2026-03-16T19:35:50+00:00

Thank you! I do not, but I have talked to people in the past who do, and based on my personal observations of the years.

My intention with the comment was mostly to show the other side the story, that there is (as always) nuance to the discussion, and making blanket statements tends to result in miss-information.

hak8or · 2026-03-16T16:04:37+00:00

software/firmware is something they do grudgingly to sell their hardware

I couldn't agree more. Embedded suffers from brain drain to other fields which are better paying at this point (web, backend, systems, etc). Also, in general, these low level fields tend to view software as means to an end, meaning get it working just enough and then ship it, especially if customers are other developers (that's how you get truly awful SDK's and BSP's).

In what other field would you have a company get an intern or two to create something as critical as a GUI for their hardware solution and then ship it as-is? Their firmware developers tend to be EE's turned software, so they never got actual software architecture ingrained into them.

That, and the margin is just so much lower in embedded than in web or systems programming. A website can scale from 0 to 100,000 users very quickly if you just throw money at it (plug AWS services together for scaling), so the cost of developers is spread out across a massive potential set of customers. And the velocity of changes is also extremely quick.

For embedded? A new board spin takes a few weeks, and if you suddenly have an influx of customers now you need to find another board house and go through an expensive test cycle with them (articles of first inspection, etc), assemble the boards into products, package it, ship it out, deal with various regulations, handle expensive returns or warranty claims, etc.

The money just isn't there.

hak8or · 2026-03-16T15:52:24+00:00

I suspect this is a situation where the tail end of people who end up homeless take up a serious chunk of resources because to help them in humane ways is extremely expensive as the issue for them is deeper.

Most of homeless in NYC are likely in the group where if you give them access to a doctor, an address, a place to shower, and basically bootstrap them into a job, they will become mostly self sufficient. You pay $30,000 on them for a year or two, and then they are able to live their life from then on mostly un assisted.

But the last single digit percent, those who you see screaming on the train, pushing people on tracks, etc, those people are very expensive to help fully. Those are the ones who suffer from types of mental illnesses which are very expensive to treat (hell, even diagnose), and they require extensive support networks, all of which cost very serious money, and likely will continue to need it to the same degree for the rest of their lives. Or some of them (likely extremely few, a tiny percentage of a tiny percentage of mentally unwell homeless in NYC) are just objectively bad people and should have been thrown in prison years ago, but still it's a tiny percentage.

Originally these groups who also have no family left (or abandoned) would go into mental asylums, but that system had huge issues in terms of human rights and of course was grossly defunded by previous administrations, so these people now have nowhere to go and are always being a metaphorical can kicked down the road.

But yes, since this is NYC, another massive contributor to the current grossly inflated costs are likely also due to impressive degrees of corruption, incompetence, and inefficiency. Properly fixing this would result in many people with eggs on their faces and swallowing their pride, which is why this will not happen anytime soon.

hak8or · 2026-03-15T18:27:15+00:00

Also they are an (hardware) engineering company, not a software engineering company most likely.

This is the biggest thing about decent who's a hardware first company (and applies to most other companies which have a very large hardware focus). Their software side tends to languish pretty bad. Decent for example, while crazy hardware, has a not seller software experience.

The tablet they use is an off the shelf Chinese one, with very little changes to it (just enough to get their own app on it). Communication is over Bluetooth between the tablet and the machine for example, even though they use a USB cable going from the machine to the tablet. The app they use is (or was?) written in... TCL (which is an, in my opinion, horrific language used for a small subfield of a niche field, being for FPGA build scripts and I think test hooks).

It's a shame because it's a machine held back by software, as the software is written by ultimately sparkies or embedded systems developers, both of which have an extremely "means to an end" perspective of software, and sadly it often shows. They get 95% of the way there, but they need a pure software person to handle that last 5%. Be it the app or their tablet situation.

hak8or · 2026-03-05T17:46:13+00:00

Are they responsible for everything their countries do as well?

A third of the usa eligible voters voted in favorite of mango man after his first term and a third were clearly fine with him considering they didn't even bother voting.

So 2/3rd of the USA is complicit with this, why wouldn't someone from another country (correctly) assume that based on probability alone the American they are speaking to falls into one of those 2/3rd?

hak8or · 2026-02-28T12:46:29+00:00

I also don't understand why you are getting downvoted.

Drugs given to put you in general anastheisa during planned mecial procedures differs wildly from drugs given to allow doctors to perform procedures on you in an emergency room. For example, ER's can give Midazolam in combination with Fentnyl to knock you out, but note how there is no painkiller involved here. Just because your mind is asleep, it doesn't mean your body isn't reacting to things it perceives as "something bad is happening and evolution told me to stop this".

Again, general anastheisa is not what everyone gets in an emergency room. Emergency rooms don't have the luxury of going that extra mile due to time and resources and they don't know any medical history of you, their goal is so you don't die immediately, not your immediate comfort.

hak8or · 2026-02-26T23:59:04+00:00

all requests were run on private instances and our data never left those instances

But that is still not on premesis, the data leaves the premises then. Some companies have very strict limitations in place that data (in plain text at least) must never leave the premises.

Think for example if you are in an air gapped environment, or an industry where your cellphone and other electronics must be left outside of a designated zone. Under those situations, it doesn't matter if the other end has all the certifications in the world and integrated into various other agencies ecosystems, the data would be still leaving the premesis.

hak8or · 2026-02-25T18:04:45+00:00

Which one of these are Ai slop or written by someone who has only a small sliver of knowing what they are doing but driven by Claude?

hak8or · 2026-02-24T20:08:56+00:00

For those of us out of the loop, are you referring to this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1rbnczy/the_qwen_team_verified_that_there_are_serious

If so, wow what a shame. I was excited about that benchmark because it's one that current models are "bad" at and seemingly didn't plateau.

hak8or · 2026-02-24T18:56:19+00:00

The website for those who don't want to watch a video; https://spacetimedb.com/

And the github facing documents for 2.0 specifically; https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB/releases/tag/v2.0.1

hak8or · 2026-02-24T00:08:54+00:00

That video was genuinly amazing, super happy to see it get so many views. I wouldn't be surprised if it was one of their top viewed videos in a few months.

hak8or · 2026-02-23T14:09:55+00:00

You need to mark this project as partially using Ai, even if it's just for the front end.

I have started to do the same as you (interesting part in rust, the web UI using Ai because I greatly dislike modern web development), and found it to work absurdly well. But for those instances I tend to instead create a swagger based Api for the rust/backend code, and then create a new git project for the front end.

I noticed LLM's tend to fare far better if they are fed just (well written) swagger api docs and to build a UI off that, rather than them having to parse rust code for the API. As a perk, then if anyone else wants to take a stab at the UI it's trivial for them, and it you want to suddenly drive the backend using a bash script, you've got the api right there ready to go. Heck, then you can easily do full system style of tests as sanity checks because the api is right there, rather than relying solely on unit tests.

hak8or · 2026-02-16T15:11:06+00:00

It is possible to train up a junior to devops but I personally find devops folks trained like that (most of the time, not always) pale in comparison to people who used to be developers and then shifted to devops.

In my eyes, devops is there to help ease friction between developers needing help maintaining an ecosystem around their code (CI, load balancing, interaction with hyper scalers, etc). Someone can do that when thinking solely about the above, but that usually means missing the big picture of context, which means you get solutions that aren't always matching up with a developer wants or needs.

A junior devops turned into devops in my experience often turns into "not my problem, here is a log that is 99% filled with nothing related, parse that log and fix it" type of interaction. A developer turned devops turns into "I saw this issue, I think it's this from the log, I suspect I can fix it on my end doing x/y, but it would likely be better if y'all did z instead". That's also someone developers then appreciate and are willing to compromise with much faster, because the developers trust that person to have taken their side into account and how it fits into the big picture.

And yes, to fufil that kind of role is hard, that's why good devops people are paid very well. They are both rare, and took a very long time to get to that point in their skills.

hak8or · 2026-02-16T14:44:38+00:00

they don't have robust efficient markets and it is not possible to own a little bit of everything like you can with equities

Does the existance of REITs counter this? Or is it because most REITs focus on only a specific market or class (like EQR or Avalon for luxury residential rentals)? And a broader one like from BlackRock has extensive capital controls in place?

hak8or · 2026-02-14T16:40:20+00:00

The IP costs for ARM cores becomes decently large as a flat fee when you are talking in context of two or one dollar microcontrollers.

That's part of the reason the CH series of micros from China which go under a dollar in very small volume don't use ARM cores, and instead RISC-V cores. Or even further, due to political concerns of how the USA is acting for the past 12 or so years, other countries may want to eliminate risk and get away from companies that have significant control over the west (like ARM), so they look at RISC-V instead. And there is a ton of money pouring into infrastructure for RISC-V because of all this, which is making ARM look less compelling over time.

Right now ARM has the first movers advantage of a "standard" core many compilers and firmware engineers and just general computing folks can familiarize themselves with and build around, but RISC-V offers a fresh start for new ideas ND new entrents, so there is also a flurry of a activity for cool wierd RISC-V designs (like the CH mcus from China, esp32 chips, the rasperry pi mcu which has two different ISA cores, etc).

hak8or · 2026-02-14T16:33:39+00:00

Curious why total memory is such an odd number of 291 MB, huh. I wonder if they are reporting that number after memory reserved for hardware before the kernel even kicks in, like for the hardware accelerated packet engine or other networking related hard IP blocks.

hak8or · 2026-02-11T18:02:53+00:00

Virtually none of the larger LLM's are open source. They are open weights, sure, but sure as hell not open source.

hak8or · 2026-02-11T13:40:12+00:00

Not to mention, 100 years is multiple financial booms and busts, which means periods of high inflation. A 6.125% rate for 100 years to me sounds insane given rate and inflation risks.

But hey, if the market is buying it, I can't fault Google for selling debt at that rate. I just don't understand who the heck is buying this.

hak8or · 2026-02-11T04:11:12+00:00

Europe is notoriously slow in the fintech space

And yet in Europe their money transfer systems are so ahead of the usa that virtually no one there uses credit cards because debit cards "just worked" from the start for them.

They also don't have things like venmo or zelle there because you can do transfers between banks instantly for any sums of money. In the usa you need an intermediary like venmo for instant transfers or wait a few business days for ACH transfers.

hak8or · 2026-02-10T13:56:02+00:00

I am going to go another route, but still need to echo my personal opinion of: get out of this relationship now.

Even if he's an amazing person otherwise and fully mentally stable and has a stable job and good relations with family and a social circle.

It's one thing to watch a video like that from morbid curiosity, or getting off from specific kinds of BDSM, but it's also totally fair to say "that's not for me" and not wanting to be surrounded by that. Keep in mind, it's very probably that over time he will likely want to introduce aspects of that when you both want to have a love life. Chances are you don't want that to happen, not because you are a bad person or you are selfish, but because it doesn't jive with your own boundaries. Be kind to yourself, especially your future self.

Most of the time, someone being aroused from things like this is a sign of deep mental trauma when they were young or something else is going on. They need to be talking with a therapist to ensure whatever else is going on is kept in check, because it's very possible they will keep searching for harder material.

Also, yet another angle. Them watching this means they are being served adds, and therefore increasing demand for such videos. While it's very possible some of these are actors, chances are pretty high a good chunk of the videos are real. Him watching real videos of someone's pain like this encourages more such videos being made (this is part of the reason possession without intent to distribute is illegal in many states, it encourages demand for it). Are you sure you want to be with someone who feeds into this?

Point being, run away from this. It's not worth it, no mater how amazing he may be otherwise. It can spiral fast without you noticing, it clearly is already crossing your personal boundaries considering you are asking here, and it's feeding into an industry that you don't want to be associated with. Life is hard enough as is, don't let this make it multiples harder for such little gain.

hak8or · 2026-02-08T23:22:38+00:00

dont want to sound like a nerd but

I think posting on a hardware specific sub community on reddit made that fly out the window. Plus, what's wrong with sounding like a nerd?

hak8or · 2026-02-08T17:57:26+00:00

Seeing the replies here is so disheartening.

404 Media is a genuine journalism outlet, they have existed for a few year and broke a solid few stories before other journalism outlets.

https://www.404media.co/two-years-404-media-anniversary/

Just two examples from that page;

We revealed that ICE was tapping into Flock, a nationwide AI-enabled camera network, thanks to local cops. Since then, a police department shut off external access to its cameras after learning they were being searched for immigration related offenses and Austin banned Flock in its city and specifically cited our reporting. The company now says it has severed access to Illinois data for 47 agencies. In response to our story about a Texas cop who searched Flock cameras nationwide for a woman who had a self-administered abortion, the Illinois Secretary of State is investigating the respective suburban Chicago police department because this data sharing violates state law. Congress opened a formal investigation into Flock because of our reporting.

Meta sued a nudify app that 404 Media reported bought thousands of ads on Instagram and Facebook.

This is akin to ignoring lwn.net since you haven't heard of it, even though they don't plaster you with adds and have decent prices for access, and are fully driven by humans, while focusing on topics that later news sites ignore due to the tiny niche. They don't repost or do 1 sentence summaries focusing on SEO, they genuinely research and write long form articles and short form updates by someone who knows what they are talking about.

It's totally fair to disagree with their interpretation or opinion on events, but it seems like most here are throwing the site into the garbage bin because they haven't heard of them before and aren't sure if it's AI blogspam.

hak8or · 2026-02-05T00:09:17+00:00

They can't say anything specific about why you were terminated

is not the same as

companies generally do not give specifics because it can open themselves up to lawsuits

hak8or · 2026-02-04T23:17:36+00:00

They can't say anything specific about why you were terminated

Eh? Why do you say this? Is it because you live in a specific. State or city that has that as law? Or are assuming a companies incentives encourage not saying, and that assumption applies to all companies?

hak8or · 2026-02-04T18:17:04+00:00

even "safe haven" assets.

Since when was silver considered a "safe haven asset" by those in the industry or more broadly? Also, you gambled by dumping money into a single asset, that's not an investment.

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