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I'm also an FPGA person that started off in software and this is exactly how I feel, and the reason I'm building my own HDL too. Software languages have evolved so much since the 80s and are so much more productive, HDLs have missed out on that, but convincing hardware engineers about that is an uphill battle
Yeah, but for a little extra, the scenery of your window keeps changing every minute, every hour, every day compared to a fixed room :)
No, CM shifts toward the bottom, especially while the engine is thrusting and the craft is upright in lunar gravity. The liquid methane and O2 slosh toward the bottom of the tanks in those conditions.
I've just had a dental filling without anesthetic
#### Dental Filling without Anaesthetic

I'm absolutely gob-smacked.

There was absolutely no pain or discomfort at all.

Not one single bit.

If I had had an anaesthetic, the pain of the needle going in, and injection would have been the and the only pain of the procedure.

So, I'm now in Berlin, and the dentist I like, trust and prefer is here, so I'd made an appointment for a general check-up before I arrived.

I had that yesterday, all was well, except for needing one filling.

So I go today for that filling, and dentist says to me, "how about not having anaesthetic?"

And I'm like... "is that a thing? wouldn't there then be considerable pain?"

She says, well, it varies, and it can be just fine. If it doesn't work, we use anaesthetic.

So I say let's try it, and we do, and it worked - it was amazing.

It was so much easier in the mind, without anaesthetic.

Before, my belief had been - having always, always had anaesthetic - that anaesthetic was needed and necessary and always used because the procedures induce considerable pain.

So when I've been in the dental chair, my belief has been that what's being done would be very painful, if it were not for the anaesthetic.

So I'm laying there, and I'm fine with it, used to it, so I'm relaxed enough, but still my basic assumption is that something very painful is occurring, which is being masked. There's an inherent tension in being in that situation.

Turns out at least some of the time it has in fact not been painful because there has been no pain.

Laying there then without anaesthetic and experiencing no pain, it is then clear that there is no pain, and so there is no tension.

So, my question to y'all - have you had this before? have you had fillings without anaesthetic?
Principles of Electricity (1965) [video]
> they're a necessary inconvenience where there's no room for physical controls

Hear, hear!

and yet, SpaceX thought it was a good idea to make the controls in their space ships mostly touchscreens as well. Utterly insane, IMHO.
There's always a way to prevent or mitigate harm. You can suspend or degrade service temporarily until a fix is applied.
it seems like this is only for YC companies to launch
Wow. That could have been something! Might have been a commercial flop, but it would have exposed a lot of young folks to some useful ideas a decade or two before they otherwise would have been exposed.
In Germany, you usually start school at 6 years old, with 4 years of primary. After that, you have three options:
- Hauptschule, which takes 5 years and only gives a basic degree (sufficient for working in the trades)
- Realschule, which takes 6 years and gives you a more advanced degree for apprenticeships
- Gymnasium, which takes 8 years and gives the highest degree necessary for University

With each, you also have the option to continue afterwards and work towards a higher degree. He most likely finished Realschule, although it would be possible to skip classes and finish Gymnasium by 16 (but this is exceptionally rare).
Towns ending "-by" and "-thorp(e)" seem to be quite clustered in geographical location.

And the division betwene "kirk" and "church" in names is suprisingly stark.
The author, Dr. Mark Tarver, is perhaps best known for the essay The Bipolar Lisp Programmer: https://marktarver.com/bipolar.html

If you want to jump straight into what makes Shen interesting, read Part 10 of the manual, starting with recursive types: https://shenlanguage.org/OSM/Recursive.html
> So a good number of them -- at least the ones that are knowledgeable about software licensing -- won't even go near your software

Yes, very good thing for me. I'm building a Web alternative to Google Maps. It's OK if no big company reuses my code. I just want to make it free to see, and to contribute, not to use without contribution.

If I was building a library, that sure would be a different matter.
> Nobody is robbing kids of spoken words, as if they are entitled to them.

Please don't reproduce.
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The voice commands on my Tesla are pretty handy and I prefer to use them over the touch screen when possible. 'Set wipers to auto', 'Set temperature to <NUM>', and 'Open glovebox' are my go-tos. Main downside is that it requires cellular/internet connectivity.
I love how this is being downvoted! Writing Verilog or VHDL is exactly like writing C, or maybe even assembly
100,000 GPU based nodes = 100MW (Look at Frontier supercomputer usage)

So, 1 million GPU-based servers, which is just double of what Meta is planning to use for its own supercomputer. So, not that much.
Depends on what you mean by finding :

- finding what the domain name is ?
- resolving the DNS to an IP address ?

Radicle solves both problems in theory, but more the latter than the former right now:

- there is some basic functionality to search for projects hosted on Radicle, to find the right repo id (I expect this area will see a lot more activity and improvements in the near future),
- given a repo id, actually getting the code onto your laptop. This is where the p2p network comes in, so that the person hosting it doesn't always need to keep their computer/router/tv box on, etc.
Generative AI for Beginners – 18 Lessons
TLDR: Because tree-based models don't just outperform deep learning, they totally outclass deep learning on simple data.

But they don't scale with larger and more complex data. You cannot (realistically) make an LLM with XGBoost.

Kind of surprised how well Resnet and FT Transformer do though.
Aligns with my latest thinking as well. Even if an AI can write better stories than a human can, there are futures where human-written stories are even more valuable for all that. The supply and demand for human writers may remain good, if many would-be writers give up or never learn the craft, and there's still a niche demand for "primitive" human written stories. To me it seems like a good idea to bet on craft, albeit craft serving a niche market.
At the moment, our app is available only for iOS; however, we plan to add support for macOS, iPadOS, and watchOS in the near future. More than this, we are already working on it. In our roadmap, we also plan to add support for Windows and Android; however, this will require additional time.
No. It was the first result on Google image search. However, after taking a closer look, I think it is some in-game screenshot of a bus simulator.
France doesn't get clockface timetabling because the topology of the network doesn't allow it - to mamy chokepoints.

(Of course when I say doesn't allow it, I mean they could, but it would be very impractical and require major tradeoffs.)
The EU made us all poorer, it hasn't lifted many out of poverty
Speaking of facing reality about European politics, the so-called “fascism” that commentators such as this like to clutch their pearls over bears absolutely no resemblance to any of the actual 20th century European fascist movements. It’s just plain old Christian Democratic centrism of just a few of decades ago, of which coincidentally the EU happens to be the very brainchild.

Anyone who values the EU single market should be very wary of pushing the Overton window so far to one side that the values that it was founded on and is sustained by falls off the other edge, and this goes for both directions, left and right.
Synthesizing avatars into a 360 video provides a virtual walking experience
> No one expected to provide a bunch of logistics support to a non-NATO ally that uses our Cold War enemy’s doctrine.

Rephrase: No one expected a real land war in Europe without establishing air superiority.
Genuine question: do you have the same objection against the terms machine learning, goal-seeking, or AI agents?
a colo will host your nas in a virtual machine for €5 a month or in a physical machine for €30 a month. this includes the machine and internet connection. i think you'll have a hard time finding a studio flat in europe for under €150 a month
JetBrains will do the right thing. They have been doing so for years.

It's amazing to see how, time after time, the internet loves to destroy anything and anyone and utterly ignores the rest of their existence. It excels at bringing out humanity's lowest forms to the forefront.

No association other than being a happy paying customer.
It’s primarily marketing for sure, but the fig leaf is that the details allow targeted detections and mitigations based on the details of the bug. You can use the PoC code to test WAF rules for instance.
And it's not even online machine learning, depending how does one see the very limited in context learning.

The offline learning is also a multi million dollar endeavor atm for most capable models. That does not take into account the cost of acquiring gpus.

Somehow all of this is missing from most articles.

I'm very happy people start pointing that out
Like the Rush song says, if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Cloudflare deciding to do nothing may make them complicit in a different way.
The issue is JetBrains was trying to avoid having the issues disclosed, or at least significantly delay it. They would have been communicated an explicit timeline and Rapid7s entire process up front. Rapid7 would have let them patch and released the vulnerability details on a generous timeline if JetBrains had continued to communicate with Rapid7. The reason Rapid7 is doing this is because there are so many companies out there that will ghost you and ignore that your firm exists trying to delay the release of your vulns indefinitely. I have released vulns at my company and coordinated dozens of them. Before coordinated disclosure was a thing it was the wild west and companies often did shady things expecting they could muscle or ignore security researchers.
My mother-in-law has had a Mercedes for four years. It has a self-parking feature. She still doesn't know how to use it and probably never will. She couldn't possibly assign a function to the left scroll wheel either. And she's Mercedes Benz's target market.
Why is silently patching considered a "no-no by the infosec community"?

If your product's automatic update functionality can reach most users within the responsible disclosure window, that sounds like a net positive? We still learn about the vulnerability but limits the potential fallout of the disclosure.

I'm very much in-favour of the private vulnerability research and responsible disclosure, but the "no silently patching vulnerabilities" sounds more like wanting to own the press to me than actually wanting to improve people's security.
We're talking a few dollars per unit for the various capacitive buttons, if that. Steering wheel controls already connect over CAN bus so it's not like you're saving a great length of wire, for example. They still connect to controllers, etc. Even tiny savings add up, but the cost of non-capacitive buttons is something they could recoup with almost zero effort.

Instead, it's almost certainly a design choice: they're easier to design around and 'feel' futuristic. Or that's what the designers and marketers think, anyhow.

The bigger cost-savings are in the touchscreen infotainment systems, where they get to eliminate the physical cost of a ton of buttons while simplifying manufacturing and parts inventory (no having to deal with a bunch of different trim parts to accommodate buttons for various options, etc.). That's probably the biggest reason why consumer pushback against touchscreens has taken so damn long to barely start having an effect.
Strongly agree. See artists such as Domi and JD Beck, Snarky Puppy, Jesus Molina, Sungazer, Greg Mehldau, Sullivan Fortner... The list goes on.

There are some extremely great jazz musicians out there today.
Just make it like 90-second rule for aircraft escape chutes. The manufacturer has to prove the stock interface is reasonably safe.

It'll be exploited a lot, so the standards must be high enough, and implementations also must be continually scrutinized by independent neutral bodies.

And we know what comes of it; the industry consortium implementations pass the test with flying colors and it'll look like hugely unpalatable dinosaurs, while new entrants like Tesla struggle to even interpret the spec to follow. The consortium may also explicitly or implicitly ban Chromium based everything.

But at least it'll be safe.
>somehow their customers will back them in the face of the "consequences" Apple applies

Could you elaborate on this point? I'm not sure what their customers would even be able to do in apple's favour? Discussions on tax and anticompetitive activity is largely niche, and even here the facts don't get in the way of the court of public opinion:

Take each of these major tax/anticompetitive headline grabbers from the last few years:

Apple Owes $14.5 Billion in Back Taxes to Ireland, E.U. Says - New York Times.

Apple hit with record €1.1bn fine in France - BBC

Italian antitrust watchdog fines Apple, Amazon more than $225m - Al Jazeera.

And it's about there where most readers stop, but what actually happened after this point?

1. The latest ruling in the 14BN irish tax saga was in Apple's favour, and since then it's taken around 3 years for the EU to file their appeal. So that is still on-going with the EU on the back foot.

2. The record French 1.1Bn antitrust fine, reduced to a third, and the appeals process is still incomplete.

3. The 225M fine from the Italian antitrust authority was struck down entirely.

These are judgements from the EU's own courts, which lends credibility to the people who make cynical statements about the various EU agencies application of these fines.

For this reason I scoff when I read an editorial which describes the USA as protectionist in comparison to the EU. The evidence is to the contrary.
The compute exists, but we'd need some conceptual breakthroughs to make DNN training over high-latency internet links make sense.
> In a "free" market why would a Bulgarian be forced to operate only near Bulgaria?

But this isn't about a Bulgarian person - this is about a truck registered in Bulgaria. That means that the registration fees and taxes, which are a national responsibility and are not at the EU-level, are paid in Bulgaria.

So if you only drive the truck in, say, France, you're essentially evading French taxes for the said truck.
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>> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Copy pasting from stackoverflow has been a meme for almost a decade now. I don't think that destroyed software engineering. Generative AI goes further than that, but fundamentally don't alter software engineering, at least at their current levels of power. You can't give them high level tasks - you have to handhold them. Yes verification is easier than creativity, but I haven't written a sorting algorithm, a Web server, an LRU cache or something similar from scratch in a long time. I reach for a library I know works well. If the LLM helps me write code at a higher level of abstraction than libraries, so what? It's going to be a leaky abstraction just like libraries currently are - the best engineers who can traverse the abstraction hierarchy will still be in demand.
Why WA officials pulled secure laptops from 1,200 incarcerated students
A hydrogen pump just got installed in my county last month, actually.

> regulation was heavily stopping any car startup, and the catch-22 problem of not being able to charge because nobody had electric cars existed.

Now we have electric subsidies and replete charging stations, and we're not really any closer to democratizing the technology. I'll be real - the focus on scaling-up lithium-ion has been detrimental to the electric car industry, and set them back so far that hydrogen ignition might still win the lower-end market. Tesla put their pearls before their swine, and now it feels like they're paying the price.
Their monetization strategy is pretty critical for people who’d sink their time into the service and entrust it with the code for long-running projects. So… how do they plan on making money off of this? If they can’t or won’t say, what sort of projects do they imagine they’d attract in spite of that? (e.g. ephemeral ones? Data sets about current events?)

Downvoters: do you not think their monetization strategy is important to potential users? Surely their investors didn’t throw that money at them out of the goodness of their hearts, and surely it’s apparent how that could affect their users in the long run.
Do you have any friends who are in school right now? A friend of mine told me about a web development bootcamp of his where nearly every student relied so heavily on ChatGPT that few of them learned how to do the course material. The article makes the point that generative AI is a pipeline threat, one which heavily affects juniors and students.
> Even on death’s doorstep, Trevor was not angry. In fact, he staunchly supported the stance promoted by his elected officials. “Ain’t no way I would ever support Obamacare or sign up for it,” he told me. “I would rather die.” When I asked him why he felt this way even as he faced severe illness, he explained: “We don’t need any more government in our lives. And in any case, no way I want my tax dollars paying for Mexicans or welfare queens.”

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/jonathan-m-metzl-dying...
> And also to have the US stay in control, that was the deal post WW2. This is changing though, looking at how much EU countries spend in terms of GDP they are slowly closing in on the US

a quick search said the EU spent 240B euro on defense in 2022, that number is likely higher now. That isn't a small amount. If you bundled the EU as a country, that would be 3rd on the list, and puts their military spending in the same class as china. The EU isn't piggy backing off the US for defense, the US is just spending an obscene amount on defense, because how else do you make the shareholders of the military industrial complex obscenely rich?
I mean if you start with Ubuntu LTS 18.04 and try to update it to 22.04, you will be in for a ride, especially on real hardware.
I've clearly lost the battle on this one, but prompt injection and jailbreaking are not the same thing.

For what it's worth, I agree with you in the strict technical sense. But I expect the terms have more or less merged in a more colloquial sense.

Heck, we had an "AI book club" meeting at work last week where we were discussing the various ways GenAI systems can cause problems / be abused / etc., and even I fell into lumping jailbreaking and prompt injection together for the sake of time and simplicity. I did at least mention that they are separate things but when on to say something like "but they're related ideas and for the rest of this talk I'll just lump them together for simplicity." So yeah, shame on me, but explaining the difference in detail probably wouldn't have helped anybody and it would have taken up several minutes of our allocated time. :-(
A look at things to consider when operationalizing AI models.
The project met the exact same end its predecessor (the PirateBox) did, and for pretty much the same reason. However, the project is quite old, and the focus on reflashing portable routers was a necessity then, but not so anymore - specifically, PirateBox (2011) actually predates the first Raspberry Pi (2012), and especially the first Pi with an onboard Wi-Fi (2016).

I'm just wondering, why hasn't a SBC-based alternative popped up yet? I think the project is/was awesome, I actually did maintain 2 public PirateBoxen for a while. Is it a simple lack of interest? The fact LibraryBox tried to pick up after PirateBox kind of suggests otherwise. I feel like it's actually easier now than ever to build a Libary/PirateBox-like project (although I do imagine an on-board network card probably has way worse performance than even those old portable routers).

I've even tried to put together an image like that in the past but I couldn't find a reproducible solution for creating raspi images so that put me off, maybe it's time to give it another try...
> So, if I looked at a function, understood it, then reproduced the function from my grasp (not necessarily verbatim, but by understanding the logical flow), would that be subject to the GPL? What if it varied? How much does it need to vary not to be considered derivative?

That's an interesting question. In general, the answer is no, but could change depending on if you had the function open at the time of writing the new function.

But a lot of us have knowledge of basic data structures, etc, from reading GPL-licensed code (or perhaps even proprietary code in textbooks). So, in general, coming up with your own understanding is fine.
> Interesting take. Poor package management as a security feature.

How poor is it to install a package with your system package manager instead of the language package manager? I wouldn't call it poor.

The biggest difference I see is that language package managers are usually not curated (and that's a feature: "it's much faster than getting your package accepted in a distro").

My preference is to rely on curated package managers when I can. When I can't, then I am the maintainer, and therefore I need to handle the dependencies myself. You can call it "poor", but the fact that I maintain my dependencies is actually a security feature. When you depend on 600 third parties that you don't even know and that are not curated, it is a security problem.
yeah i meant if each field could be a tuple of (val, bool) or (val, err) to get around the pointer issue
In the case of significant danger to the mother, requiring the sign off of a Doctor
The Post-Vatican II Church teaches you can be saved in any religion and even in no religion, logically, if that were the case, then why would one bother with Catholicism? Modern clerics like Antipope Francis and Robert Barron don't even think people go to Hell.

Vatican II Is A New Religion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX97Qg4DIJU

The Figures on the post-Vatican II decline
https://vaticancatholic.com/29_Figures.pdf