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> Retrocomputing FPGA work is a fun diversion from normal software, enough that my brain was convinced they weren't related (had a bit of a mental block for software).

That's awesome! I feel this, I've had a software development mental block for a number of years now. I just don't find modern software all that interesting anymore. Lost in mountains of model mapping, layers of terrible abstraction, that never ending package update grind (shudders), bad APIs, closed won't fix works as designed bugs (sigh), truly insane complexity and so many many things that are simply outside of my control.

It's my interest in related, but different areas that has kept me engaged recently: micro electronics, 3d printing, and home automation. They exercise enough of my decades of programming experience to get that fix, but the projects are small and focused on solving very concrete problems instead of moving a decimal point on some spreadsheet somewhere completely disconnected from me. It's great when you make something for a friend and you can see the joy in their eyes as they realize how much this thing you made helps them.

Sounds like FPGAs are doing that for you and that makes me happy!
It's up to the low-level code to stay within taggedPointerBits, and the value is arch-dependent.

For netpoll, it looks to be just a cyclic epoch counter, so the size doesn't really matter: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/4956c3437bd2f4448bcec51321...

For use in malloc, it's assumed to be >=10 and verified at init:
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/4956c3437bd2f4448bcec51321...
That publication, presumably intended for German decision makers, state that it would take Russia at least 6-10 years after concluding the war in Ukraine before they could rebuild to a point where they would be any threat to Nato.

Furthermore, if the war ends with either a stalemate or a Russian loss, there will still be an Ukraine between them and most Nato countries (unless Ukraine joins Nato).

While I definitely agree with the article that it makes sense for Germany increase their capabilities (not only by increasing budgets, but also by making sure the money is used to expand abilities, not just subsidise various industries or communities), there is no way Russia could become a serious threat to a united Nato even given 6-10 years of buildup.

Also, countering Russia over a time over the next 10-15 years almost certainly will only require building up stockpiles of current generation hardware, combined with ensuring that enough personell is available.

To do their fair share, Germany could aim at matching Polish strength, for instance.

The article in question here is about the next generation of hardware, a "superweapon" by today's standards. If it arrives in 10 years, then that's pretty good timing. Let's say the War in Ukraine lasts to 2026, and Russa starts intensive rearmament (or just let the wartime production lines continue to run), then moderate Nato buildup would be enough until the 2030's.

From there on, error bars grow larger. It is possible that Russia will collapse under corruption and demographic collapse, but it is also possible that they will be able to turn their economy around (possibly through heavy automation) while continuing to develop their military, especially if they maintain close relations to China.

In such a world (that I think of as low probability), it's good to have new generations of weapons available.

Meanwhile, China is in the middle of a collossal force buildup right now. I'm sure the "German Council for Foreign Relations" doesn't focus very much on that. But for Nato as a whole, China is a much, much more urgent danger within the next 10 years, and probably for at least 30 years.

The only way I can see this change, would be if AI could be used to convert Russia's huge reserves of energy and raw materials into military strength. But countering that that would require a completely different type of planning, anyway.
Indeed. Anyone who lives near a beach in a warm climate is likely familiar with these long sleeve hooded “tees”.
suggesting that you add the words 'adult, nsfw, and porn'
to the #policies/code-of-conduct page..

Every time a new thing comes up that I might consider using I skip to the terms pages and ctrl-f 'porn' and 'adult'

This of course came up blank, so I was encouraged.. then I scrolled and saw 'no nudity' as a heading -

I'd also change #policies/terms-of-use so that porn is not under the heading of illegal content.. as someone scanning visually would skip that heading section when looking for policies against nudes.

Strongly suggesting you put in big letters of banners on home page, and ever page of the site - maybe in the footer.. - "not for commercial use"

It would be easy to assume that commercial use is encouraged by the sections highlighted on the /#uses page.. and even though you say no commercial use at the top of #policies/terms-of-use - many people will never click to that page and make assumptions by the other info presented, along with expectations of similar services that have popped up everywhere.

If it were my thing, I'd put "the 'rated PG thing you can share with friends and family" all over it - since that is what it is trying to be I guess, but it's not clear.
I'm curious to know more about how much vibration your solder joints see. I agree that most crimped connections tend to be sub-par but in my experience that is due to either bad tools, bad materials or both. Personally I use Wagos if waterproofing and/or space isn't a concern, marine grade crimp connections (and the proper tools) if it is.
Because it costs an epic fuckload of money and effort to perform the cleanup. Quite often the cities are in worse shape as they take no debt to perform said building/cleanups and then are left without the funds to perform the basic level of maintenance they were before the olympics.
Its travels in waves but it is actually a field.
If you were wondering how to bump up your API rate limits through usage, this is the way.

// also, it's the best way - TY @z991
People have replicated the results. Which isn't surprising, given how much trash content that place has these days.

Also: does anyone think those big accounts just up and left after one shoestring organization published something?

They most likely replicated the results themselves.
There's that stereotype in Australia (more women than visible minorities, good luck scamming an Indian dad), but I'm not sure how true that is. Every mechanic we've been to has been honest and respectful with my wife, and generally half the price of the dealer.
The free speech thing is a red herring. Musk said 'freedom of speech' but not necessarily 'freedom of reach', which seems reasonable. This is not the problem. The problem is that the algorithms simply don't work. The sewer analogy is good - shit seems to float to the top, rather than the other way around. Places like HN and even reddit nailed this a long time ago, but any given X feed just looks like an append-only list of trash. Or a quick-moving stream of turds, to stay within the analogy.
This is part of a longer series but is maybe the single best video I know of on the topic:

https://youtu.be/kCc8FmEb1nY?si=zmBleKwlpV06O3Mw

I thought this video from Steven Wolfram was also quite good:

https://www.youtube.com/live/flXrLGPY3SU?si=SrP1EJFMPJqVCFPL
If it was widespread but slightly more configurable, how would that increase friction? It’s still always setup to run automatically and transform your input to the output. The whole point of it is you don’t have to think about its rules, just code and it will do the rest.
The article writer claims that the market for this will disappear as more electric trucks enter the market and I couldn't disagree more, it will make them MORE desirable.

The biggest issue with electric trucks is range, and it's way more of a problem than it is with cars. Charging a truck in 20 minutes is a very different beast from doing it with a car since the amount of power needed is much higher, potentially in the tens of megawatts. Trucks are also traveling very long distances every day instead of just on the occasional road trip. If having a trailer assist is the difference between getting to your destination in one go vs stopping that's way more important for a truck than a car.

If a truck can effectively get a 30% charge just from picking up a trailer then that's massive.
Settlers ethnically cleansing in the West Bank (which is not Hamas run): https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/9/23945651/west-b...

Likud members using the language of genocide:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/16/the-la...

You can google the rest, ‘Likud genocide language’ comes up with plenty of examples.

The means they are using are right in front of your eyes. Forcing them from their lands, murdering civilians, killing entire families.

I think a better question is what would Israel have to do for you to accept they regard Palestinians as animals. Was all that not enough?
They already have the land rights, favorable social environment for construction, more compliant population, less local/more federal legal zoning and land use power, more federal level direction to get things done, higher rate of engineers in population.

That CA is bad at all of those makes it expensive and hard

In addition to very low competence levels in gov't compared to Japan due to many factors. Sure Japan has financial corruption in construction but it's a known system and they build things treating it as a tax. In CA there are many more parties who all attempt to hold construction projects hostage.
The problem, as stated, provably has no answer. Assume such a number exists. Call it n. Now define a new 64-bit numbering scheme such that each number x is interpreted as n+x. n+x > n, which invalidates the hypothesis. There needs to be more constraints for this to be interesting. Like largest number representable where the representation is closed under addition and multiplication, or something like that.
Thank you. Finally someone mentions Solid, it got all the good part of React, and none of the bloated parts.

Personally, JSX is the mainly thing that makes React attractive. As JSX is just modern E4X. It really ought to be put into the ES standard again instead of this Web Component stuff.

Another good JSX implementation (SSR) is:
https://nanojsx.io

If you just want something light JSX, then this seems the way to go for now.
I expect one of the biggest factors is population density.

California has a land area of 165,000mi^2.
Japan has a land area of 145,000mi^2.

California population is 39M.
Japan population is 125M.
That seems like a digression, though, since obviously none of these putative Drive customers reporting being notified of a TOS violation. I didn't say "service providers must provide service under all circumstances", I just said they had to follow their contracts, which demand provision of service under whatever terms the parties agreed on.
Especially vendor statistics about how useful their product is, how much money it's going save you and what the performance is.

I usually ask for proof of such claims. That makes the first vendor call interesting.
How very convenient! I'm on this map. My train is in the right position, but I don't think the name is quite right: I'm on the Silver Star but it's labelled as the Northeast Regional. Excellent project, though, thanks for posting.
Bring some earmuffs.
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It shouldn't work if the security setup is different; if the home network is WPA2 then another open network with the same SSID should be ignored.
F500 companies are paying them millions in licenses to save 10x their hardware cost.
An electron has .05% the mass of a proton, and only a small imbalance of electrons and protons is necessary to generate extremely strong electric fields by earthly standards.
I mean they have to be for now - you're just being semantic for the sake of it a bit. I will say as a team that utilizes Lit for our design system web components (which none of our users even need to know or care about no matter their framework btw). The Lit team are huge advocates of aligning with native standards (now or what they might be in the future) and working to establish or push them forward. The goal of the project for a lot of these issues truly seems to be to eventually not need them to be a part of Lit at all.
Ah, I somehow imagined a second `cat` in there. That makes more sense, thank you!
I work in an industry where an extreme amount of effort is expended in ensuring the employees do not walk out with data. Effort is spent keeping production network separate from corporate network to the point that checking email is done through a remote connection. USB devices are filled with epoxy, and the USB drivers are removed from the OS.

Putting everything in the cloud would be the next logical step in preventing all of the thiefs, er, employees from being able to remove data from the building. Now, just to convince all of the clients that their data is actually safer in the cloud than on-prem.
I’d assume having your data in two cloud services is already good enough, assuming they are different companies in different locations.
Here's his first trip to probation: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/slides/graffiti-dc401-oct12.pd...
Unless a rig spends significant time not moving in daylight, I suspect the tow cost and other inputs to a PV attached to the rig is above the ROI for power.

It might mean the cabin AC can run when its parked, and keep things humane. It might supplement a refrigerated intermodal and prevent engine run-on so be good for noise.

I doubt it would extend range much.

Happy to be proved wrong. E.g. the entire truck-top surface area with an integrated trailer might be enough to make sufficient KW to be worth doing.
well if you're assuming the same number of passengers - given the logistics and hassles of air travel, one is likely more inclined to travel with hassle-free HSR, not to mention the secondary economic benefits
Sure is nice when you hire a bad employee
We all know the workarounds and bypasses and the "pay infuse so you don't pay plex". But come on, it's a tacit admission that plex is on a better position: which is all the op said.
Yup, and those are garbage - for the reasons you've identified. Marine grade or bust. Look I'm no fan of crimps but you're giving terrible advice here.
Interesting. At what point might it make sense for the tractor itself to evolve into a pure genset and steering unit, like a diesel-electric train? Might make sense as an interim step to carbon-free electrification.
That wouldn't count as a medical error. Medical error is when the doctors fuck up, not the patients.
Made me think of the old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader from 2009.
This seems penny wise and pound foolish. Having employees wait on their computer instead of the computer wait on the employee only makes sense if computers are expensive in comparison to labor. This box is literally slower than a Raspberry Pi 5.
What's your source for these claims? Can you link to it, please?
Why? Because that's too low? Or because it's too high?
Did you read the reply to your previous duplicate comment before copy-pasting your now moot point in the current top thread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38438450
HN is heavily moderated by very knowledgeable people and that's part of what makes it continue to work well.

It's like if you go into a bar and there's a guy screaming a bunch of curse words and racist crap in the corner at everyone near him. Normal people are going to leave if no one kicks the guy out.
There's other renewable sources that can be tapped. Running-water hydro provides constant baseload (with the exception of summer when rivers run dry, but there, solar fills the gap), geothermal energy is a massive reserve that's completely constant, biomass (aka burning cow dung and other compost gases) releases CO2 but it's better to have that CO2 than have the fermentation methane release into the atmosphere and you can store the gas in the regular gas grid storage to burn it in times of need, pumped hydro and distributed battery packs / EVs can provide peak regulation power...

And in any case: it makes sense to massively over-build wind and solar generation because air and maritime travel will need a massive amount of power-to-liquid synthfuel as there's no way to power either of these using conventional batteries.
Try this: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/24/movies/hayao-miyzaki-the-...
You sound like someone not fit for upper management IT. You clearly care about your end users.
Can I open the fridge while I'm at work to see if I need to get more milk on the way home? I believe it can also send reminders using AI to see if something is getting low. I thought it was dumb the first time I saw it, but there are genuine use cases that tempted me to put a wyze cam into my dumb fridge so I can get the same sort of features.

The worst example might be windows in the doors, so you can look into them. Except you put stuff on the door shelf and block the view or you can't really see inside all too well. Plus now you have introduce thermal issues.
North American Abandoned and Out of Service Railroad Lines Map (2023)
Well X/Twitter is one hell of an informative global sewer.
I don't agree. It's really hard to tailor your feed to be stuff you want to read and not garbage you have no interest in.
You'll hear no argument from me that the loss of alloparenting is devastating to our national trajectory, but I can't take seriously any suggestion that we return to the Cult of Domesticity; those are the conditions that brought these about! If you want Stepford Wives, you'll need to bioengineer them.
About 20 years ago we found a true villain in France, when they dared to suggest that destroying Iraq was not a worthy response to 9/11

It was wild. Your below-average American went so far as rewriting their menus so they wouldn’t have to order “French fries” any longer. The pettiness was bottomless.

More recently the Paris accord has given these same below-average Americans angst because it dares offer introspection on the F150 lifestyle that will soon be coming to an end.

Paris is truly evil to dare challenge such mediocrity
Apologies, too late to edit
They did. Will you retract your insult?
That's fabulous man, but it doesn't actually answer my question.

If the answer is yes then we have moving electrons.

If the answer is no then maybe we don't.
ECB chief says her son lost nearly everything he invested in crypto
>What are the alternatives?

Gouging your eyes out with a screwdriver? Sticking your dick into a blender?

Both are probably less harmful long term than using X.
Why not? They're a private company. Isn't that usually what Americans are telling people, that corporations are free to serve who they please?

But, more importantly, PostNord isn't doing anything - it's a unionised group of workers refusing to deliver Tesla products. That's how strikes work, and Musk's go-to course of action is to immediately proceed to legal action rather than negotiating and meeting the union's requirements.
I carry one of these things. I sometimes use it for shopping cards that normally take Canadian loonies ($1 coins).
ban nazis from your platform - boom, problem solved :)
Algebraic Design in Imagination Games
Ah, I thought the Japanese word was just "jira". My mistake.
Feels rather like he is arguing on a technicality. I've seen tons of awful extremist content recently with ads next to it.
We redeemed our $10K AWS credits. It was a mistake.
Sure but until then, they can squeeze the hell out of F1000s.

Problem with creating competitive offering is F1000 are not going to take risk on you. Last thing CIO wants to remember for is someone who greenlit moving core infrastructure to product that went under. They also need to provide decent support so startup today has about 15 years before they even think of breaking into this market.

So it's got to be a major player like Microsoft who seems to not care about this market because Azure. Nutanix is there but they are all in hyperconverged meaning traditional compute/storage separated hardware would have to be thrown out. Red Hat exited in 2020. So I don't see a competitor on the horizon.
I read that post, and I have been working slowly on a set of jupyter notebooks, with ipyleaflet (mapping) integration to make building train maps (with max speeds) easier. Looking for colaborators

https://github.com/paddymul/train-calculator
The distance between SF and LA (350 miles) is 50% greater than the distance between Tokyo and Kyoto (227 miles), making the time tradeoff favor trains to planes. The two cities are much bigger than SF and LA, so many more people travel between the two cities (85 million per year). Also Japan can build and maintain rail much cheaper than the US.
it's funny that there instances of collectivism in the US when there's either a monetary incentive or the desire to keep the "others" out

for example, the restrictive residential permitting systems in many urban areas, which just happens to be another thing Japan gets right
Wouldn't the truck owner offer a discount for the fuel savings, or formulated differently add a fuel surcharge for loads that take more fuel to carry?

There by getting the trailer owner to care if they have loads hauled regularly.
You realise, of course, that if another company was able to deliver the plates, the same issue would still be occuring thanks to Swedish unions being in solidarity?
Google Maps interactive direct link: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=10akDabya8L6nWIJi-4...

Image version direct link: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg... (13200 × 10200px)
Have you considered that your definition of "high level of energy" and other people's may not be the same?

For example Ballmer's famous Developers Developers Developers speech[0] is NOT my "high energy" and in fact if I ever had that much "energy" I'd consider myself to be having an emotional breakdown.

My "high energy" is: zero brain-fog, good mental acuity, and not feeling sluggish. I've found light fasting to help with that (e.g. only eating dinners). But it isn't really clear what you're trying to achieve and or what success would look like.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxbJw8PrIkc
How do people even know? You get linked to a tweet, and it blocks you by asking you to log in. Haven't seen any of their content in months.
I think I'll stick with DX7 V, but this is neat.
Signal availability issues on 2023-11-27
Upstream a poster noted that they never saw anti-Semantic content in their feed. The whole of my point is that many people who object to X are not concerned about its content.
I just skimmed through it for now, but it has seemed kinda natural to me for a few months now that there would be a deep connection between neural networks and differential or algebraic geometry.

Each ReLU layer is just a (quasi-)linear transformation, and a pass through two layers is basically also a linear transformation. If you say you want some piece of information to stay (numerically) intact as it passes through the network, you say you want that piece of information to be processed in the same way in each layer. The groups of linear transformations that "all process information in the same way, and their compositions do, as well" are basically the Lie groups. Anyone else ever had this thought?

I imagine if nothing catastrophic happens we'll have a really beautiful theory of all this someday, which I won't create, but maybe I'll be able to understand it after a lot of hard work.
> I don't know how you could see "mongoDB" and not think it is tech

Idk but mongo-anything has clearly insulting connotations hasn't it? I'm not a fan of cancelling language at all but still find it very surprising a product with that name could advance that far in enterprise computing. I guess I had hoped the article would explain the joke I was missing here.

Update: ads on a CMU site?