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There's ongoing work on an official setup solution, "bitbake-setup". See https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/topic/111....

Shameless plug, there is also my own tool, yb. It's very early days though: https://github.com/Agilent/yb


Maybe to avoid broken links if you move the original files? That's the main benefit of hardlinks vs symlinks in my mind at least.


That can also be a downside, you believe you have moved stuff but now you can have different versions of programs that don't expect that to be a possibility.


If there is a simlink, a hardlink and an executable, all with the same name, which one will it run? Which one will the shell object to? Which one should the shell object to. If a virus/SUID program overwrites a simlink, no problem, but ift it traces the simlink to the executable, and then over writes that...


Relatedly, has anyone else noticed Doordash now has AI generated descriptions for menu items that the restaurant didn't manually describe? I noticed it while looking at a taco place by us.

For items with menu pictures, it gives a definitive description, e g. "Marinated pork with onions, cilantro, and pineapple, folded in a grilled tortilla. Served with lime wedges and a side of grilled jalapeño and sautéed onion."

For items without pictures, it hedges: "Folded flour tortilla filled with seasoned chicken and melted cheese, typically includes a blend of Mexican cheeses."

Part of me finds it pretty neat, but the other part wonders how long it will last.


Autogenerating an ingredients list feels like a risky game to play wrt allergies

At least with an empty description you know that you don’t know


At a previous Hack-n-Tell event someone presented a recipe website which used an LLM to parse a free-text recipe and change it to a numbered list of steps and ingredients list.

All I could think is that this is definitely going to kill someone. Luckily, it seems to be offline now.


Sounds like it will be a tasty lawsuit, especially if it's not disclosed that the description is auto generated. Hopefully they don't kill someone with food allergies.


It's not just the descriptions, they are also AI generating "photos" of the product.

https://www.404media.co/email/57421524-fd79-4073-b6f2-e7fb17...


Gobs of e-commerce apparel companies are now using AI product photos too. My friend works for one such company. It’s outrageous as it’s a complete fabrication of the garment’s fit on a model, how a piece of furniture looks in a space, etc. But it allows retailers to skip a huge cost to sell products, and they can make the models as hot, or diverse as they want - without paying human models a dime, or hiring a photographer, or scouting a location.

Seriously, Google “ai ecommerce photos” - it’s disgusting how these services advertise themselves while cutely sidestepping how clearly fraudulent this is to the customer. Here’s an easy scapegoat from page 1 of the results https://flair.ai/


If I notice that product descriptions or photos are generated, I'm simply not buying the product. The same way that if I notice a product photo is photoshopped without AI, I'm not buying the product.


I hate that so much


It's really funny to use "typically" in a menu item. Am I rolling the dice every time I order that menu item?


Wow, that's insane. Here in Poland product descriptions are legally binding. You can straight up sue if you don't get what the description says in any online store. Pictures are optional though, those you could potentially generate, maybe, not a lawyer.


Wouldn’t fly in a jurisdiction with actual consumer protections.


Marketer: "But we'll always have the United States."


I agree, but I'm curious if it's for the same reason. I like it because there is now flowery writing. Just direct "here are the facts".


https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex

Oooh that looks slick, thanks for the tip!


I'm guilty of not reading the article more often than not, but posting the exact link of the article in a comment is next-level.


Wow, that's embarrassing :/


It was more funny than anything.


Uh that is literally the link that is posted, that this thread is about.


How else will you discover new and exciting speculative execution vulnerabilities? /s


Any chance you could expand on how the DAG is implemented in Rust for the execution engine? I'm trying to do something similar (not for spreadsheets but rather for a language: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/bitbake/bitbake-user-manual/bi...). I cannot find any good examples of how to implement something like this in Rust. E.g. should I use a graph library like petgraph, or roll my own?


PySheets is not based on Rust. It is 100% Python.


I replied to the rowzero guy, which is written in Rust.


I reverse-engineered how my adjustable bed base works, then built (and sell) a hub for controlling it from Home Assistant. See https://blog.laplante.io/2019/01/11/reverse-engineering-the-... and https://www.tindie.com/products/cplaplante/temperbridge/


I feel bad for the bees


Definitely not the pigs they stung, though.


You just gave them another one:

"Interesting testimonials section.

loeg: HN influencer"


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