skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The radio stuff is about "wave impedance", the speaker or headphone stuff is more like a power supply situation at (in RF terms) very low frequencies. You want your power supply to have low impedance so it doesn't sag and keeps tight control over its output voltage.

There must be a mathematical description of these different situations but I can't be bothered to work it out. An important part of it is probably that an audio amplifier has feedback, an RF amplifier just emits a wave and the consumer must make itself compatible with it. Lower output impedance = more effective feedback control for an amplifier with feedback.
Bevy's creator and project lead here. Feel free to ask me anything!
Pfizer is one of the largest drug makers in the world, and an annual net income of $10B puts them well behind many tech companies (Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, Google, TCMC), carmakers (Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes-Benz), retailers (Walmart and Home Depot), fashion brands (Dior), telco companies (Verizon), banks (Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, UBS), financial services companies (Visa), insurers (United Health), shipping companies (Maersk), and basically every gas and oil company on the planet. I think you would be hard pressed to identify a single one of these companies who hasn’t benefited from tax payer funded government research and initiatives.

So what exactly makes it so perniciously awful for pharmaceutical companies to do so?
If they should have the right to unionize, then someone needs to enforce that right. Or the company with far more power (Starbucks) will retaliate so hard that the right, in practice, does not exist.

I thought this country was about protecting rights. I’m not interested in living in a society where companies with vast amounts of power can do whatever they want to make money. The incentives are nearly completely unaligned with human flourishing, and you don’t need to look far to see that.
I never thought I'd see a 1947 truck manual, this is so cool, nice find!
Since LLM are just big learning machines, we run the risk of overfitting to exactly certain candidates.

Candidates use LLM to write CVs - AI hiring tool use the same keywords/logic/LLM to filter out CVs - candidates refine their CVs using LLM - etc you get the point.
I'm not sure what you mean by "tokens not being a finite set". I suppose there's the theoretical issue of token length being potentially unbounded, but whatever problems your editor has with that, your lexer will likely also have. For any finite length file, there is a finite number of tokens, and once you parse it, you've got a much smaller list of symbols plus a convenient address for each one. I don't think it's a practical issue.

Vim's understanding of tokens makes some reasonable assumptions, but unless you've configured the textobjects plugin to talk to a properly configured language server, you're working on vim's presumed tokenization and not a tokenization that's native to whatever the underlying language is. Helix tries to bundle this in by default, but it still doesn't feel like a first class citizen.

As for turning machines, not since the 80's have the tokens that appear in our editors been the tokens that are manipulated by our processors. There are typically a myriad of bytecode translations or compiler optimizations or parser hijinks between what you're editing and what you're running. It's the AST that matters to the code author, and the AST is a tree, not a string.

We need to get to the point where you can directly annotate on a function parameter:

> this function is slow when this parameter is > 100

...such that the annotation sticks to that parameter, however the viewer has chosen to render the text.

The best we can do at present is to sprinkle some text nearby leave the problem of deciding which parameter and which function are referenced an exercise for the reader. This then necessitates that we preserve the way the text appears, which prevents us from presenting it differently based on the view context (e.g. maybe the reader prefers different units, timezones, or a language which flows their text differently than the author).
Is that really cheaper though taking into account that the cheap ones (and perhaps the expensive ones too) have a lifetime of about 50 years and cannot be recycled at all?

That doesn't sound sustainable at all to me.
Please explain in detail. I'm not seeing the connection.
That it’s getting harder doesn’t mean it isn’t valuable - any more than being in a neighborhood full of fast food restaurants and no grocery stores means eating at home isn’t valuable.

It sure does say something about the neighborhood though, doesn’t it?
That's true for RF, but not for DC. Audio is "DC" because transmission lines are well approximated as ideal wires at frequencies below 100s of kHz.
The behavior of DNF is you either forward the whole thing or drop the whole thing.
That’s the McCann Big Mac carbonater (funny enough, no relation to the McD Big Mac) probably. Or the syrup pump which can be electric or CO2 powered.

Most places that serve a lot of draft beverages have a big tank outside the building that gets filled from a truck, otherwise they have a service contract with a local company that swaps out CO2 tanks. A McDonald’s would probably use 100# tanks (which weigh like 150 full) so you wouldn’t have employees do that.
A typical response to this issue is "why does it matter to you if someone else has more than you do?" - framing the issue as essentially envy. The obvious problem here is that it really is largely a zero-sum game. A dollar represents a claim on the world's resources, which are limited.

Capitalism is an effective system for motivating productive activity, but it also has an inherent tendency to concentrate wealth.

If we want to avoid a situation where a few people control such a large proportion of the world's resources that there is not enough left over to meet the needs of others, then we need to balance this tendency. Income taxes are one approach, but wealth taxes deal with the actual issue.

Taxing wealth is not unfair if you accept that the economic system we have chosen is itself unfair. We give too many advantages to those that gather income through owning things (i.e. unearned income) compared with those that engage in productive activity (i.e. earned income).

I say we 'give' those advantages because they are not due to some inherent law of nature. It is a choice we have made as a society. In the natural world hoarding works in the opposite way. A stash of nuts doesn't magically grow. Quite the opposite. Real effort has to be expended to preserve the stash.
I'd generally agree, but it definitely depends on how the device is being used.

My VR headsets don't see much usage outside of simracing which I'd consider a hobby more than just gaming. So my point is that, "working" might present that same routine which demos/gaming/facehugger yt with low return on novelty.
That’s interesting.

I use that with a site I make that I want to look and feel more like an app and so I use the PWA fullscreen stuff now.

I have no need for all the browser url bar and buttons and it just wastes precious screen space for my application.
This is unwanted advice, I know, but here is what I would do: I'd make it so that both the transmitter has a very high output impedance (so that plugging in an headphone causes its output to drop to near zero) and the receiver has very high input impedance (so that it doesn't bog the tx down).

It will cause some noise issues, because a very high impedance front end will pick up stray radio transmissions, but I think it's doable given a small enough bandwidth
You may not like it, but when discussing these big geopolitical issues, ignoring and silencing the justifications and counterarguments of others is dangerously narrowminded. How can real solutions or constructive discussions be had when only one viewpoint is allowed and even proven facts are verboten if they seem to support an "enemy" statement? How will self-censorship and denial make us better than those we dislike? If we really want to be better than others, we should attempt to live up to our ideals, not hypocritically hide our shortcomings.
What is the license of the GitHub emoji assets?
As others have mentioned, Ollama uses Llama.CPP under the hood and they recently released Vulkan support which is supposed to work with AMD GPUs. I was able to use llama.cpu compiled with Vulkan support with my app [1] and make it run on an AMD laptop but I was unable to make it work with Ollama as it makes some assumptions about how it goes about searching for available GPUs on a machine.

[1]: https://msty.app
It can take an instant to become disabled: there is no permanent and distinct set of "disabled and "not-disabled" people.
Scrum is the thing that has tainted "agile" in my opinion, because Scrum is so widespread that many people think they're the same thing.

Leaving aside the "agile is a philosophy, not a methodology" argument, there are well-defined agile methodologies other than Scrum. I've worked at a couple Kanban shops and, while our dev processes were far from perfect, most of the things people routinely hate about "agile" just didn't come up at all because they're actually Scrum features.

If the thing you don't like involves the words "sprint" or "standup," you are complaining about Scrum, not agile.
I could see Epic maybe giving it another go, but the features would be limited. When people hear UE5 they think of the new flagship features like Lumen and Nanite, but those are built around API and hardware features a few generations ahead of what WebGPU currently offers. Nanites software rasterizer, for example, really needs 64bit atomics to be at all viable.
I had one such coworker until recently, and he was actually fired because nobody on the team felt he was pulling his own weight.

He produced massive amounts of code which did not fit the style of the codebase at all, and when questioned point-blank if it was LLM-generated he denied it (even thought it was undeniable).

I'm all for using tools to boost your productivity, but IMO when you offload generated junk to be reviewed by your team it's a sign of disrespect.
Well at least they should be and most companies other than faang don't have enough scale to warrant staff vs sr staff (L7) breakdown so next level is principal with company-wide impact.

> I suppose I have heard that the L6 bar has lowered somewhat from ~2015

Yes title inflation is real. A lot of "Staffs" today would barely make it Senior 10-15 years ago. IMO this is a result of ZIRP so we might see reversal of that trend soon...
Making someone slow down in front of me is the very last thing I want to do in traffic!
Gotcha, I thought you were getting matches after/during the pause. Makes sense. And IMO checking email should be deliberate, too.
Wow March 23rd, 2008. I was in Japan. Height of the financial crisis.

https://mogami.neocities.org/files/prime_intellect.pdf
Sample size of 1, but I ran an RPi4 just fine on a USB thumb drive for about a year.

Still upgraded to an SSD later because I wanted even more storage space (and SSD seemed to have better random IOPS than a thumb-drive), but I'd say go for it.
Bwahaha. It does say something, but that fluff piece isn’t saying what you think it’s saying.
What instructions do you provide then? It's not a wild assumption when easily 95% of people/companies operate like this.
Muse Retrospective
Dude, wake up. The richest European is selling purses, perfumes, cognac, and belts. Investment wise is balls deep in real estate and yachts. Second richest is selling shampoo and lotion. Europe is feudalism. IT has no priority or strategic importance. The situation is more or less "so MS can bring some of this AI stuff and invest billions on top of it? We like billions and cannot remain behind in AI, yeah let's shake hands!"
Class A and AB amps often have significant output impedance due to how they are constructed, and used to be the standard. They still are the standard for HiFi audio. The other types of amps are generally pretty low impedance.

Edit: Amp types as pointed out by another commenter.
"The constitution protects you against the government" is pretty much the entire point of having a constitution.
Likely, but America likes lowest common denominator weird stuff anyway. I imagine there are nuanced ways of communicating to Chinese audiences that don't run afoul of the censors, eg fulsomely praising CCP leadership for relatively inconsequential results (implying that inconsequential results are all they can deliver).
> i want to use 3.5mm jacks for super simple data communications and power

That sounds like an all around bad idea.
The LCOE cost advantage of alternative energy vs ... everything ... at this point is well known and calculated in Lazard's yearly LCOE study.

Nuke advocates do themselves no favors playing shell games and weasel words with the economics. Nuclear is expensive. The nuclear industry needs to figure out how to make it a lot cheaper. And no, it's not just the NIMBY regulation.

The legacy nuke industry has a ton of deeply embedded lobbying and relationships with the regulatory agencies and congress, including ancillary groups that do fuel rod reprocessing and waste transport, cushy high-cost satellite industries.

Nuclear is stuck in a rut. Economically viable nuclear needs a clean-slate redesign and all the old players need to be thrown out. Computer designs, modern software and sensors, materials, etc. Research LFTR to the wazoo.

One of the big pushes IMO should be the US Navy, which should start using nuclear power for all its fleet ships not just subs/carriers.
The nation of Somalia is not effectively governing since the 1990s or before and is often described as a failed state. Naval piracy, kidnapping, terrorism, and other violence are constant problems. The US travel advisory for Somalia is currently: don't, and then lists precautions like drafting a will and other steps to prepare for your potential kidnapping or murder.

Due to its ineffective governance, the country is used as a counterpoint to arguments that government is evil -- i.e., something will fill the void, and without a centralized government with policing capabilities and some sort of effective government services, you're likely to get extreme poverty and violence.
This week, on the unpronounceable.
I was thinking of testing healthcare software. Very few 50+ GQ models in the system.
Somalia has a patchwork of petty warlords exerting arbitrary and unlimited authority within their fiefdoms. This is a far cry from a debate about the limits of the proper authority of congress to intervene in employment contracts. You’re engaging in a lazy rhetorical argument that’s basically a straw man.
Adverserial examples in CVs coming soon?
Read the whole page, especially the "Repressive policies" section.
this is the major reason i have no desire for smartphones.

when i open an app, im doing that to use it, not update it.

dropping preflight hoops to jump through, inhibits access.

this is why i just destroy the camera on phone and use a dedicated camera.

i dont have missed photos, because my camera needs to update.
That's for maximizing the power transfer, which is important in radio applications because you want to maximize SNR (and because this is the condition where no power is reflected).

Power applications (like speakers or the power grid) are generally concerned with maximizing efficiency, which you get by lowering source impedance as much as possible.
That's true but it also implies that you are led / bossed over by people are typically incompetent.
The article points out:

> She worries the negative effects will spread as the technology does. "One biased human hiring manager can harm a lot of people in a year, and that's not great," she says. "But an algorithm that is maybe used in all incoming applications at a large company… that could harm hundreds of thousands of applicants."
I imagine it comes down to if you want macos or not. Seems like a niche choice when comparing to something like the pi.
What I want is an electrical equivalent circuit, that models not only the ohmic losses but also the reactance and the output power. For different kinds of headphones and speakers. And then a way to tune the parameters in that model to an actual device.
why multi-stage would make any difference? isn't multi stage just implementation detail for resulting image?
AFAIK only build caching could benefit, but pulling image should be unaltered with or without using multi-stage build
The IP layer doesn't have to know what is in those upper layers to include 50 or 100 bytes of it in a little trunk.
Sovereign (as not all are considered such) tribal lands are dictated solely by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (and Congress, obviously, as the institution granting that authority). In practice, unless something goes heavily against Federal interests (illicit drug production/trade, for instance), it is regulated by the nation ("tribe") alone.
Is it still crippling performance on AMD too?
When an A.I. can make a movie, what does 'video' even mean?
Did you look at using PHATE for dimension reduction?
> You forget the part where everyone who is single looking for a short term relationship is also looking for a long term relationship with the right person

I disagree strongly with this statement. There are people looking for all sorts of things. And assuming this leads to much relationship mismatch and pain.

The assumption that people who say they are looking for hookups or casual relationships are really just looking for the right person and I know better than them is not a good idea if I’m looking for a long term relationship.

I think it’s important that people trust what others say and don’t try to project their own beliefs.

Tinder is specifically made for hookups, per its own design. This is different from other sites that are specifically made for long term relationships (eg, eharmony, coffeemeetsbagel, etc).

This doesn’t mean one is better than the other. Or that one type of person is better than others. Just that there are different people. And we shouldn’t assume they all people want the same things.
Yeah, every ex-Googler “riding off into the sunset” blog post like this is pretty annoying.

What’s even worse is when they do things like this post where there are little jokes about how it’s a financial burden to change careers or take a break rather than acknowledging how they have no risk of running out of money. Going to art school is the worst financial decision ever, tee hee! Yeah man, imagine what it must be like with student loans.

Great for OP for working at the right place at the right time and winning the proverbial lottery. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to take away from it other than “must be nice.”

Going to a pricey private school as a hobby/retirement activity must be real fun.
https://archive.ph/A8cfd
We consider anything that you can extract from the drive by removing it security theater. Root or not doesn’t matter.

You’re right that physical access is game over for content in general. This is more about extracting sensitive data (like credentials/tokens to 3rd party sites).

All backend communication is done using mTLS, where the private key never leaves the TPM (on x86).

Moreover, we’re encrypting all sensitive data we send to the device using the corresponding public key. Thus even if you rip the drive out of the device, you won’t have much luck.
You don't need to change the constitution, all you'd have to do is pass the rules you want through Congress instead of having them created by an unelected administrative agency.
I love the eval parallel...
Germany was defeated and was rebuilt and the tools to reshape the European political landscape from within was first ECSC and later European Union. Yes, US military presence works as some stabilizing mechanism but it wouldn't have been enough without European mutual political framework.

EU leaders mistakenly thought that they can have the same success with Russia but they didn't take into account the fact that Russian new president had completely misaligned interests.
PhD positions (at least in the UK) are similarly in demand: about 100 applications for 5 places. And, inspired by your calculation, it’s definitely not true that each person is applying to 20 places. I guess a lot of people just don’t get in. It does seem like a lot of people I know are genuinely struggling to find a job.

There are probably more than enough lower paying, lower prestige jobs on offer, but they don’t require academic qualifications and so university graduates feel they deserve better.
I agree with this, the 'firing up of the brain' and puberty are closely correlated in my experience as a child and as a parent. I'm not well read on Kafka but it seems he would agree as well.
If you try to assert a specific definition of a specific term like "HTTP error 503" then you have some authority. But if you try to assert a specific definition of a generic term like "error" then you don't really have the same authority, and you can't be surprised when other systems don't follow your definitions.
Using ChatGPT to make a Pokémon theme of my favorite card game
The list of companies/roles/descriptions/dates, and the list of universities/degrees/GPAs/dates, is the least interesting part of your résumé and should take up very little space. Most of it should be what projects you've done (for an employer or otherwise), presentations/publications, or other unique things.

I've been in the position of reviewing résumés for hiring, many times, and the list of companies gets a brief perfunctory glance when filtering, and then a second glance before the interview when looking for prompts to get the candidate talking.

Projects are going to get a much closer look, to get an idea of what they did, what skills they demonstrated, and what we should spend more of the interview talking about.
Same here in France, but I don’t know whether all companies are afraid of it or whether it’s just because I have an international culture.

I’m also very annoyed with the resume that gender students send, pink to see whether we discriminate, but nothing is relevant on those resumes. Of course we reject.
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$150 PC Engines APU2 (RIP) has 4GB ECC soldered RAM, SATA, mSATA and mPCIE.

$650 QNAP TS435XeU 1U NAS supports 4GB-32GB ECC SODIMM, 4xSATA, 2xNVME, based on Marvell/Armada CN9130 Arm SoC. Debian for Arm64 can be installed via serial console.

Some 4x4 Ryzen Embedded V1000 mini PCs support ECC SODIMM, e.g. https://www.sapphiretech.com/en/commercial/fs-fp5#Specificat..., possibly ASRock.
1. There's nothing a drug company can do to avoid/delay the release of equivalent generics. Releasing modified preparations does not lock out competitors from copying the original preparation

2. You have no idea how drug prices work. You don't have health insurance so you should be using prices from goodrx, not the list prices at the pharmacy. Americans either have health insurance or use the cash discount. Simplifying this would be great, but drug companies are not making the massive profits that breathless journalists claim
No, he's not a fluffy, but the tragedy is that for his first two terms he really tried to become friends with the West. He was called a traitor in Russia when allowed NATO to use our military airports to supply war in Afghanistan.
well I understand you and you are right

it was not my article btw, and it was the same practically as others

this higher level thing was a flop too, the discussion went on under other comments :)

my take is I have to right my first blog post somewhere if I have some time to analyze the issue

and then come back here and post it

the problem is I do not have time for this and Gemini hallucinates like hell so I cannot really work with a 66 page legal pdf efficiently :)

and I am not a gecko or chromium engineer or a lawyer so I actually lack the specific knowledge