skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most test equipments, ancient or recent, are not expecting their programming interfaces, let it be an analog voltage, GPIB, RS232, USB or LAN, exposed to the public internet and it would be a extremely stupid thing to do so. The maker of them assume that if one is able to operate them, one should know where they should plug the cables in.

These equipments are simply assuming that anyone can access the interface is not hostile. This is a pretty good assumption in most lab settings that I know, unless the operator is so ignorant. This assumption certainly have made my life much easier in the lab, of course, where every LXI test equipments are connected to a isolated LAN. I would say a lot more f*k in the lab if I have to authenticate myself before sending a SCPI command. I'm happy that most test equipment makers do agree with me.

For example, modern Rohde&Schwartz gears running Windows or Linux (FSV, FSW, FSVA, FSUP, SMA, SMC, ZNL, etc.) have VNC or Windows RDP enabled by default, and have a weak default password shared among the series. Keysight ones too (E5071C, DSOX3000T, maybe not on by default but with a supported way). A hostile user can even screw up a LAN connected, damn simple VxWorks based multimeter like Agilent 34410A badly by sending the calibration commands at the wrong time or some backdoor commands (DIAG:xxxx, haven't tried but looks possible).

Slightly off topic, some Chinese test equipment makers are making hackability as a feature, look at Siglent or Rigol scopes. They can (and they are competent enough to) lock down the system with secure boot like some Tektronix ones. However they don't, so that people with less budget can buy a cheaper model and hack for the bandwidth.
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Yes, I knew about both of them (dc and bc) from before, having worked on Unixen for years.

And have used bc a lot.

Check out the useful bc -l option.

Here is the page for bc:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bc_(programming_language)

which is mentioned in the dc page's See Also section, which is what I alluded to in my earlier comment above, i.e. that bc is built on dc.

See the History section of the bc page.
Advocate for closure of nuclear plants in Germany and sign deal to fund coal company. All through shell corps, media and political brib... Sorry, campaign funds.
Hey! Your rust (and C# I guess) secrets library looks super cool. I'm going to look at using this in my next project. Thanks for sharing it.
You have to think about exception polymorphism. If you don't have exception inference, you also have to think about manually propagating exception contracts. Declaring it once is not a big deal, doing it over and over again is super annoying.
Despite this, dams and other monumental architecture as well as complicated water management controls were built in ancient times all over the world.
I remember hearing about a computer called the Jupiter Ace that used Forth. I
think it was similar to the ZX Spectrum.
I don't think anybody reading my invoices will have trouble interpreting them, and if they need to sort then they're welcome to add their own version of the date. But at least there will be no ambiguity about when I sent the invoice.
Offtopic: this is an excellent series on the 8086! Do you have plans to give a similar treatment to the Motorola 68000?
> why don’t you tell us

Well, I wrote «How would you compute the probabilities of each colour per position».

It is not a real world problem with properties such as "being pressing" or of "specificity": it is just that I was wondering if Mastermind could be treated probabilistically, i.e. defining the probability of colour X being in position Y given a set of game "hints" (i.e. statements in the form "colours+positions configuration A has n correct placements and m correct colours"). The context remained "intellectual curiosity" - not really "help me solve a problem"; HN, not StackOverflow.

The Bayesian perspective is the one that seemed possible and interesting: "can we define the probability of colour C in position P given a sequence of "hints", row by row"?

The whole point is seeing if some interesting method comes up. Without too many constraints. It is leisure, with the possibility of gaining some new intellectual key. The non-detailed expression was meant to keep the problem open (to any interesting proposal).

> state, not frame

No, I meant "frame", as in: can the problem (of defining probabilities of colour per position in a Mastermind game given some previous game "hints") be solved within a Bayesian framework - i.e. one updating the probabilities of epistemic states given priors and new evidence.
That's the expensive route if you do it too often. I can buy 2 yards of mulch scooped into the back of my truck for quite a bit less than the cost of 20 bags. And then there's things like gravel, which you really don't want to try and get in bags at all. I could probably get by with a smaller truck if I didn't tow a big trailer with it, but I'd still choose an actual open-bed truck over an SUV or minivan.

Different strokes for different folks. It's going to depend a lot on what you routinely haul.
I like the idea of exploring what it means to optimize a system for simplicity.

But the “collapse” backstory seems silly and redundant, and dare I say it reminiscent of the kind of prepper that relishes the prospect of apocalypse, just so that all their prepping pays off.
God, it’s painful to see this. So much happened there. I read about it decades ago and dreamed of working there.

I ended up working at Microsoft’s Building 2, which was just as good. It was a giant plus sign, lined with individual offices and nestled in a veritable forest. I worked with some of the greatest minds in computer science, and they were all kind, helpful, brilliant people.

I knew at the time it was special, knew it wouldn’t last forever, and cherished every day there. It’s gone too.
How are you going to make an air tank that can handle 200 PSI without industrial supply chains?
Condensing inflated long-form articles back to their useful size would be a worthwhile AI application, just like searchable podcast transcriptions.
They will last a few hundred cycles and then you're done.

Anything that you rely on in a situation like that should be 100% maintenance free and should not rely on technology more complex than what you can make today in your garage with hand tools. Go over that level and it will just buy you a little bit of comfort but it won't last.

Candles: yes. Solar panels+batteries+inverters: forget it. Even a basic charge controller would be a major feat of engineering under those circumstances. I have some ideas on how I'd make that work if I really had to but I'd probably be too busy defending myself from marauders and taking care of my crops to be able to work on it...

What's interesting here is that plenty of the stuff that we take for granted is absolutely state-of-the-art engineering and there is no way that you'd be able to continue to rely on it for more than the available stock that you could still lay your (likely very grubby) hands on for spares, and even those have a limited shelf life.

Bootstrapping to the present day level of technology where working semiconductors can be taken for granted will take a long, long time. Even if you have the knowledge. Assuming that enough of the eco-system survives that you will be able to survive and procreate I'd estimate at least several generations, if we didn't entirely regress to some more primitive state. Mad Max would be an amazing level to bootstrap from, having working computers means you're focusing on the wrong thing. Electric light might be a good idea, but personally I would not count on LEDs or bulbs to last long enough in quantity and if you're going for batteries keep it simple: lead acid flooded cells (You'll need some basic chemistry tools and materials to make sulphuric acid, but that's probably doable).
> whether new nuclear power plants can indeed contribute to a clean(er) economy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26673987

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603464
Here in Argentina each person has a "unique"[1] DNI number that kakas tracking easy. It's like the SSN in USA, but here it-s not a secret and it appears in many documents. Do they have something like that in Japan?

[1] There use to be many burocratic errors that make the number not unique For example they assigned a town a range 30.000.000-30.000.999 and the next town the range 30.001.000-30.001.999, but after the first town used all their numbers they continue sequentially and overlapped the numbers of the other town. It's supposed to be fixed now, but old people numbers are full of surprises. One of my coworkers had to merge many big data bases and he still get nightmares about deduplications in spite the DNI is supposed to be a go unique identifier.
Return values obviously, with suitably designed method contracts. Some (maybe most) types of I/O errors are proper exceptions. Parsing failures are not.
The reason people demand higher standards is history.

An example: stacks that scrub radioisotopes out of steam from confinement during serious accidents when the steam has to be released to prevent overpressurization of the confinement system. These were added to most European reactors after Chernobyl. The US and Japanese didn't add these, saying the cost wasn't worth it.

Then Fukushima happened. Had the reactors there had these systems, the radioactive release would have been reduced by a factor of 100.
Many of the Noema articles are like that. I looked it up and found that its made by the Berggruen Institute, a US-based think tank, but i have no idea what their interests are. The sprinkled-in jargon seems to be an aspect of self-promotion, overdoing it to the extent that it starts to read like a poem instead of having content.
Watch Out for the Fake Tom Cruise
Using ChatGPT to write Raspberry Pi Python code [video]
The French and the US reasons are, from what I understand, quite different. I don't know the US situation that well.

In France, many factors were involved:

* France over-producing power for decades around y2k, which meant it was hard to commit the country to build more nuclear reactors.

* The EPR being an over-engineered fiasco due to it being designed in a Franco-German partnership which quickly folded, but the design was kept.

* The privatization of the energy sector involved a lot of restructuring for EDF, and the creation of Areva. This had a lot of involvement, but the main one is that the state took a hands-off stance, and EDF and Areva started competing with each other rather than collaborating.

* Areva got mismanaged quite heavily. People like to point out the Olkiluoto fiasco, but what really killed the company was the Uramin scandal.

* Politicians since 2007 started asking hefty dividends from public companies, involving EDF, in order to prop up the government's budget. That created an investment deficit, and significant debt for EDF.

So yeah, lots of things, but the underlying issue seems to be that France used to have a culture of the state coordinating huge projects, which was lost with the new generation of politicians. There seems to be an appetite for new reactors, but the industry is significantly harmed by 20 years of political mixed signals, and whether the current politicians and the industry can deliver remains unclear.
Triple Agonist Retatrutide Hits New Weight-Loss Highs
Yet we have a real opportunity to run our society on something other than capitalism, if that would work better for us. Credit for social good; a UBI for basic subsistence; hell even a digitally brokered barter system are all possible.

Capitalism is 'obvious' to those with money and power. But it is not inevitable, as we are led to believe.
Have You Tried AWS Inferentia2 for ML Deployments?
AWS claims that Inferentia2 chip delivers 4x throughput increase and a 10x latency reduction compared to Inferentia.

Have you tried the offering? Would like to hear your experience
Part of the problem probably is that the site won't completely load. Hug of death maybe.
Siglent seems to be moving upmarket at least. Rigol has wildly good on paper hardware but their software is suspect.

Rigol made their own ADC chip that beats most off the shelf stuff yet they have some of the jankiest software and English translation known to man.
Crumbs and cat poo: Renaissance women’s ‘astonishing’ beauty tips revealed
PE is a toxic destroying cancer on our economy, and should be stamped out as vigorously as possible.
Doe WP has a like button? Or it's for Facebook or HN?
This is a common nuke bro story, but it's nonsense. The actual reason is that plutonium has negative value. It costs more to incorporate it in new fuel rods than it would cost to make fuel rods with freshly enriched uranium.
This seems like a number that would never be accurate no matter where you look. Either way, you just don’t see cities coated in cats like you do in Europe. Like dozens and dozens of cats up on a roof is a very common sight when you start exploring especially Mediterranean cities. Cats visiting you multiple times as you sit outside at cafes. Hotel and resort feral cat populations that the workers know by name at this point. I’ve seen it all. There’s just nothing like it in the US. Maybe in Key West at hemingways old home, I’m told.
the "get premium" sticky makes this website unusable for me. was curious to see how a flat-file CMS can make a come back.
Personally think https://getkirby.com is the entry to beat but I guess it’s just because I’m used to it and it works incredibly well for my use case.
It's interesting to see how a big company with a lot of talented engineers would build a brand-new web app, since there's so many ways to achieve similar results.
How are these advantages in a post-apocalyptic world over any other OS that most people could actually use and do useful things with?
tell that to the kids in Nike sweat shops
Not mad at this.

You can pay to remove the ads and retain the same (better, IMO) experience.

YouTube also put the kibosh on 3P clients since forever, so that's not being taken away.

That's the difference between what YT has done and the un-Galaxy-brain dumb crap Reddit and Twitter have pulled.
That's kind of reductive.

Traditional American fee-for-service medicine has been absolutely shown to (a) drive practitioners to do unnecessarily risky and expensive things and (b) fail to produce better outcomes than salaried physician facilities.
As a choral singer, if there’s an app that one day allows me to sing with a fake choir of extremely good singers, I would enjoy doing that all day long. And it would allow my actual choir to practice way more, making our performances far better.
Incorrect. You linked to the overall R&D spending data, not medical R&D spending.

You can find the health R&D expenditure data here:
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/health_glance-2017-72-en...

It shows the U.S. spending 2.4x that of Europe on pharma expenditure as a % of GDP, and 3.2x that of Europe on government R&D health budgets as a % of GDP.

Edit: somewhat newer data is here
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/fc8b43f4-en/index.html?i...

It shows that the R&D pharma spending gap has actually increased even further to 3.5x.
Is the price premium worth occasional use? Every DIY store I've ever been to has truck rental outside, and it's a lot less than a new truck.
Lots of these tools have truly awful software engineering. Even companies that are top, premium brands have some really questionable decisions like embedding backdoor passwords in the firmware.

Never connect these things to the internet or any untrusted network. Last thing you need is a 10k instrument bricking itself.
Elon Musk dismisses Speculation that he’ll step down as Tesla CEO: ‘It ain’t so’
https://archive.is/KILCv - Full Title: Elon Musk dismisses speculation that he’ll step down as Tesla CEO: ‘It ain’t so,’ he tells Shareholders
Bad day, amazing story, and I’m glad you survived to tell it!
Lithium batteries will be dead within a decade. Solar panels within 3. Think about that the next time you cheer on a huge solar installation as a win for the planet.
But not every code base is in an early startup phase. Once the company is stable there isn't really any excuse to knock out underengineered garbage just to get something out of the door.
Congress is free to change the law that NRC must operate under. Until that happens, the NRC cannot "lighten up" (if they did so in violation of law, they'd be taken to court.)
Is a Minecraft port possible? That could measure the post civilization applicability.
Though, in this case, manpage doesn't exactly spell out that two strings of which one is 0 chars long results in a match.

I often remember my PHP days in horror, but mysqli_query manpage does warn you about SQL-injections now.
Based on the unavailability of the website now, I'll hold my reservations about their claims.
If we admit negative numbers for basements, then were are not using the natural numbers anymore. This is a completely different question since the integers does not have a beginning.
Interestingly the new generation grew into proper car size, complete with 1.5L engine. Something like Fiat Panda is closer to kei cars
Yeah, I'm not sure how owning (and maintaining/registering/insuring/inspecting) another barely roadworthy vehicle competes with just having a trailer or renting a vehicle from Home Depot for a few hours now and then.

For just moving stuff around the farm my neighbors have basically electric golf carts.
> The cause of death for many electricians who get shocked isn't from the shock itself, but from head injuries associated with falling off ladders.

So why isn’t wearing insulated gloves universal? I assume it makes work much less comfortable?
Business leadership being technical cannot be overstated. At my current workplace, we’re not allowed to say the word refactor to management as that freaks them out. My current place also has the most spaghetti code that I’ve ever seen in my life with more spaghetti being produced on a daily basis.

We technically have technical leaders, they used to be engineers eons ago but I don’t think any of them could solve first 3 days of advent of code to save their lives.
I test rode a folding Brompton e-bike in London and am tempted. I heard they are working on a version with slightly larger wheels which would be great, but no word on launch date - could be a while.
Why does the No CSS club add in no javascript?

Is there a club for people who eschew CSS but are comfy with JS?
> Single payer in the US simply means the patient doesn't front any money.

No, that's not what it means.

> The doctor/hospital/... just gets the money for medical services rendered directly from insurance (and insurance collects things like a deductible from the patient, not the doctor. Essentially, insurance guarantees payment to the medical provider and deals with all patient financial matters).

You seem to be describing medical insurance in general, not single payer health care.

> Medicare and medicaid are single payer.

No, they're not. "Medicare for All" would be single payer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_healthcare
Peter Attia talked with Dr. Rick Johnson (nephrologist - kidney doctor) about Fructose and Uric acid.

see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V02z9mqTWzg

High uric acid causes high blood pressure as well as gout.

High amounts of fructose, when digested, causes inflammation, and results in elevated uric acid.

Your body can digest small amounts of fructose in your intestines, which is why eating fruits (along with the higher fibre content) doesn't cause the ensuing inflammation.

Purines in beer can also result in high uric acid.

The inflammation from high intake of fructose causes your body to go into fat storage mode from fat-burning mode (bears/birds will increase fructose intake to increase fat storage before their long hibernation/migration south).

As humans get older, their body will adjust to convert glucose into fructose when sodium levels increase (by the time you notice your thirst from eating salty foods, your body has already switched into glucose->fructose conversion). read statements above to see what happens when your body processes fructose.
> This kind of thing is just obviously not allowed in the US, right? I mean, where's the luxury? What happens to all that social status that comes from needing a small ladder to climb into the cockpit of your rigg?

You need to remember just how different the Japanese domestic market is when it comes to roads and vehicles. It's a tiny island nation with low speed limits (37 mph everywhere but divided highways, which are 62mph) and a lot of people. The US is 26 times larger with 1/10th the population density, and lots of high-speed highways.
I read this somewhere and it stuck with me:

First, make it.
Then make it right.
Then make it fast.
Seeing civilizational collapse or decline as far fetched is a direct result of your privileged position in the world.
The paper, Trigger-Level Event Reconstruction for Neutrino Telescopes Using Sparse Submanifold Convolutional Neural Networks, is here https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08812.

The crucial advantage of SSCNN are that they "replaces traditional convolutions with sparse submanifold convolutions" which operate "only on the non-zero elements" and creates efficiencies.
Thats not what I mean by using a search engine to parse documentation. I would just type “python documentation” where the first link I get is the documentation. Then I would search within that documentation for “ __init__” which, when tested just now, took me about 30 seconds all in to get to the known good source of truth here. That’s pretty good I think.
France bans Dutch bike TV ad for creating 'climate of fear' about cars
Where can one learn more about microcode, how it's implemented in silicon? As I understand it most machine code is actually "VM bytecode", and the "real" cpu is the microcode processor?
> Thus the issue not being renwables.

I never said renewables were a problem in Texas, I said the general energy policy is stupid.

>While coal isn't reduced as much as it should, all the data I found pointed to a continual downwards trend over the last years.

Until Ukraine war banned them buying coal and gas from Russia, now they need to produce it domestically. https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-energy-u-turn-coal-instead-of... and https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/energy-crisis-fu...
You can also put the 72 pin connector in boiling water for like 30 mins, take it out and let it cool. That should reset the pins back to "factory condition"
We can get to working semiconductors in our garages relatively easily. They won't be anything like the integrated circuits we have today.

It would be an interesting hard sci-fi novel to see the village black smith replaced by the village semi-smith and wind mill replaced by the nuclear mill.
If civilization collapses and you live on your own, you will not have much data to store, organize, etc. Therefore a computer won't be that useful to you.

What will be a priority to you will be to survive, which essentially means how to get drinking water and nutrition, as well as territorial control and self defense.

A computer will be useful to you if you become a ruler that is responsible for the census, taxation, etc.
Every time our C-levels get implicated in this stuff, email is never the medium. It's always text messages.

Which makes sense; they're way easier to spoof, especially if the initial recipient lacks authority to initiate bank transfers and forwards a screenshot of the forged message as "proof" to someone who does-- it launders all metadata from the message itself. Even the timestamp is lost.

And it's all out of band and not subject to internal firewalling, DMARC, nothing.

Never trust text messages (or screenshots of them) as evidence of anything.