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Different countries have different laws and requirements around grid-connected inverters, mostly so people working on the grid don't get electrocuted when a stray inverter keeps feeding in power.
That’s been a way of doing interviews in the Valley for at least 20 years if not longer
I upgraded from two 16500A boat anchors [1] ($20 a piece) to a 1670G [2]. But you’re right: I much prefer my DSLogic UPro 16. Like many others, I’ve started designing my own 64 channel logic analyzer, but like just as many, I never completed it. There are almost no use cases. When I need to debug wide busse, it’s usually in an FPGA and then a signaltap is the way to go.

[1] https://tomverbeure.github.io/2022/06/17/HP16500a-teardown.h...

[2] https://tomverbeure.github.io/2023/12/26/Controlling-an-HP-1...
Seriously, how are you gonna teach a lesson you didn't write.
"tiling"? what do you mean by that?
the expected cost savings only increases as the age for assisted dying decreases

in the limit, health care is abortion and euthanasia only.

we all know that abortion prevents suffering of the mother and the child who will never experience it.

euthanasia fixes the mistake of not aborting.

we cannot suffer if we just dont live.
Beautiful work. What's your technique for making these?
Very few .NET projects rely on explicit threading. There is almost never a reason to do so when tasks can be used instead, like in this benchmark.
Lego Omnidirectional Vehicle
re Temperature config option: I've found it useful for trying to generate something akin to a sampling-based confidence score for chat completions (e.g., set the temperature a bit high, run the model a few times and calculate the distribution of responses). Otherwise haven't figured out a good way to get confidence scores in llama.cpp (Been tracking this git request to get log_probs https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/6423)
I don’t really like the esthetic of really old test equipment so I tend to stick with stuff that’s 1980s or later. Those tends to have digital interfaces.
I was just about to ask WTF is a Schema-typed value supposed to represent.
The reason that there's so many TUI apps in Rust is probably thanks in large part to the Ratatui crate, which is a framework for TUI apps: https://crates.io/crates/ratatui

But yes, if you're making any sort of TUI app, please include a screenshot or asciinema in the readme. :)
Brave search uses it. From my limited understanding, it sends a time-consuming javascript function and its input to your browser, and has your browser calculate the output and send it back. The server matches your output with the expected output. I assume the server would pre-compute in some way? On the spectrum, it leans more towards being a spam-alleviating thing rather than a human-distinguishing thing.
It is extremely frustrating to watch "connected" "smart" devices repeatedly do exactly what we knew they would do, and yet nobody ever learns a damn thing. People will keep on buying Internet-connected devices, manufacturers will keep making them, this sort of thing will keep happening, and the rest of us will struggle to even find mass-manufactured things that are not Internet-connected and "smart".

Even devices that are pretty much for "self-hosting" are increasingly trying to sneak in cloud-connected back doors, like Synology DSM trying to sneak in cloud authentication to your local NAS. Stop trying to make the devices I bought for the purposes of having locally-managed devices depend on cloud services! My local network is not just a fucking gateway to cloud services!
You can try Theodoridis if you can find a first or second edition. It is old enough to not be diluted by the recent craze but still recent enough to cover all the necessary fundamentals. There is also a new edition coming out soon, but that seems to have been heavily tainted by the ChatGPT hype.
I was greatly disappointed the movie didn’t include the most interesting part of the book:

<spoiler>

A message is discovered in the digits of pi.
Simple Supplement That Causes Prostate Cancer Cells to Self-Destruct
>Googling Is for Old People

seems just to be some nonsense the writer made up. If you look at stats the most frequent users are 16-25 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1000019/individuals-who-...

And comparing Google/Bing/Yahoo, old folk Bing while youngsters Google https://www.internetmarketingteam.co.uk/who-uses-bing-how-ag...

I can see how revenues are moving to Amazon. Google is terrible for product search, like what is the best value TV say, compared to Amazon.
Yes it matters. Or at least it matters whether the claims you make are true, and there is a difference between “had a right to” and “did”.

Have I told you about my neighbor who uses a leaf blower nonstop from 7am until 8pm? Well, he doesn’t actually, be he has a right to, and it’s splitting hairs whether he actually does or not.
It's slightly more complicated than that.

In most cases, Dealers don't own the cars on their lot; they are financed either by a manufacturer's financing arm e.x. FMCC, Ally (sorta), NMAC, or an independent e.x. Santander.

Oftentimes, the Tracking device is part of the finance company's agreement, if not part of keeping insurance costs down.

Of course, dealers are more than happy to try to charge you for -not- removing it...
It's CPU intensive JS code that must run to get an output that must match something server-side, the idea is that it makes attacks/spam not economically viable to run.
Many use cases for SIMD aren't trivially expressible through wrappers and abstractions. It is sometimes cleaner, easier, and produces more optimized codegen to write the intrinsics directly. It isn't ideal but it often produces the best result for the effort involved.

An issue with the abstractions that does not go away is that the optimal code architecture -- well above the level of the SIMD wrappers -- is dependent on the capabilities of the silicon. The wrappers can't solve for that. And if you optimize the code architecture for the silicon architecture, it quickly approximates writing architecture-specific intrinsics with an additional layer of indirection, which significantly reduces any notional benefit from the abstractions.

The wrappers can't abstract enough, and higher level abstractions (written with architecture aware intrinsics) are often too use case specific to reuse widely.
That's what's always tripped me up learning VHDL. I still don't really like it.
Prior to my knowledge of Firefox profiles and multiaccount containers, I used tiny core to isolate my banking, shopping, general browsing, etc; from both each other and my base OS, in virtualbox. I preferred it to other small distros like slitaz and puppy because it was really bare bones and easy to add to.

Now you'd likely just use docker, or like me profile and containers for compartmentalisation; aka super paranoia.
I’ve had anywhere from three to six weeks depending on seniority.
How Biden Made a Mess of Ukraine
The work akiyuki puts into his great ball machine contraptions is just short of amazing.
In git terms, it's like `revert` Vs `rebase`.
Probably not, $750 million buys a hell of a lot of legal boilerplate. It's more likely that people will just be disappointed when it "releases" and try to protest it in ways that don't matter. I'm imagining a Cyberpunk 2077-type release, at least in my head.
Mapping the Thanksgiving Harvest
>The point is that you are already tracked via your phone (which is likely kit in airplane mode), so there’s not a massive gain to preventing car tracking.

That's like arguing "you're already plastering your face on social media, why are you hand wringing about corporations/governments building a facial recognition database?". The difference is that the former is consensual/optional, whereas the latter isn't. Moreover, just because most people aren't exercising their privacy rights, doesn't mean it's okay for those rights to be trampled on for everyone. Most people aren't activists or journalists who need free speech protections, but that doesn't mean we can trample on the first amendment. Saying you don't need privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't need freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.
my thinking is, in a modern society this kind of barrier is illegal and not accepted for usage in public places. It should be, as everyone is of equal rights. So, if there's a free parking lot, then whoever is the first takes it. That is valid for wheeled vehicels, because the parking lots belong to the driving lane, not the walker-lane. A Remote-Controlled parking barrier can be used on private grounds whereever one wants, though, but not on public.

At least its in my country like that, Germany. You even aren't allowed by law to stand by yourself and block a parking lot, when there's one otha brotha wanting to park. Then its even allowed to carefully push the blocker with car to free up the lot. If one needs a parking lot infront of the house, because furniture transport or delivery, then one goes the official way and lets the blocking done by the municipal services. They're allowed to, if asked upfront.

Happend to me once. I argumented loudly and nearly had a fist fight. Then I went up and looked up the laws, and that was the moment, I learned by all means its illegal to block a public parking lot :)
AMD chips have more cores than Intel chips, so pushing for a single powerful CPU means "Buy AMD, not Intel."

Of course they'll like it even better if you bought two AMD chips instead of one, but they probably don't care as much whether you put those chips into one server or two.
More high-rises being built in Miami than every West Coast state combined
It's not the solar inverters themselves that are usually internet connected, but rather the controller box (some kind of embedded system) that is internet connected to allow monitoring and control. Perhaps this manufacturer decided to economize and make both of them part of the same "box", with the result that an error condition in the controller would result in the non-operation of the inverter part.

Some systems like mine (Enphase) do a good job of letting the inverters operate independently of the monitoring/control software. But to do this, I believe they need to add data storage to the inverters themselves in order to log data during a controller "outage".
Yeah, I am using sqlx and it is amazing. The only thing it cannot do is help you in the case when you actually need a query builder, e.g. when you need support for queries with dynamic filters and sort orders. But other than that it is much nicer to work with than every other query library I have used.
This is nowhere close, nowhere near close, not even within the same 100 mile radius close, of first principles.

This is literally starting from `man ld` and going one step further. The manual literally starts with a `man ld` printout and then goes to describe it from concepts onwards.

If you want first principles we can try to maybe start the discussion at maxwell's equations and take it a handful of hundred steps from there until we arrive at how logic gates, diodes and transistors work.
> pre-compute

Or it could be a SAT or something that's easy to verify and hard to solve.
Not OP, but I work on AI in higher ed at a major university.

I get the concerns about AI grading. The solution isn't to have AI grade entire assignments at once. Instead, break down the assessment into smaller, discrete tasks and develop a grading rubric around those. The idea is to limit how the AI can respond - usually to simple binary choices like completed/not completed, true/false, etc. (Also, the models have been RLHF’d to generally put a positive spin on things, so if anything they’re likely to be overly generous in assessment.)

From there, provide the AI with the answer key, student response, rubric, and any other necessary context then use the Structured Outputs API to force consistent responses for each discrete task. I've had the most success using boolean values or simple enums (like "Correct", "Partially Correct", "Incorrect"). You can include a field for reasoning, then chain AI calls to get a second assessment as verification.

That's the high-level gist of it, though I'm skipping a lot of details. I have a basic demo of how this works on my site if you're interested: https://www.markokrkeljas.com/projects/real-time-task-tracki...
ChatGPT doesn’t increase my income. It’s useful for my hobbies, and probably made those more expensive.
I’m honestly amazed there are not more conversion kits. Pull the IC powertrain and gas tank, replace with battery and electric motor. It’s obviously way harder than it seems or I think a lot of folks would be doing it.
Most automotive A/C compressors are either on or off

All AC compressors are either on or off. The compressed gas is gradually released by the TXV. The drop in pressure as the gas exits the TXV is what makes it cold.

Some older temperature dials actually mixed the cold A/C air with the hot air from the heater

What vehicles don't do this?
On the day/night balance, I was looking at cats as an example of a species that sleeps in smaller chunks and splits activity all around night and day.

Reading the article I thought there should be more weight given to behaviors different from sleep to adapt to the other niche, and also that being perfectly adapted to a niche doesn't sound like a benefit in the first place. My understanding is that most species have an evolution process slow enough that they never completely fit a niche but also have enough versatility to move around.

I'm thinking dogs, bears, crows, racoons, migratory birds etc. where adaptation happens, but not to a degree they can't move out from their niche.
Yes! Oh man, it was Dec and, besides the usual showcase, he would feed punched paper tapes into the old music program he made in the early 60s and there was an awesome christmas carol sing-along with him with the PDP-1 backing music! :)

It was cool to play Spacewar! on it as well from 1962, some of his colleagues made it on the same computer at MIT. Very likely the oldest program you will ever interact with, certainly the oldest game, and it was so damn smooth and playable.
Hacking ancient mind body practices with AI
Hey everyone. This may be a bit out there. I'm a developer and certified instructor in Qigong - an ancient mind body practice. Some months ago I decided to apply AI to create modules that support the exploration of these mind body practices. Would love some feedback.
I work on deployed embedded ML products using NVidia Jetson, and while there are C++ portions, a lot of it (dare I say most of it?) is written in Python. It's fast enough for our embedded processors, and Docker containers makes such things very deployable -- even in relatively resource-constrained environments. No, we're not on a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino, but I don't think that SAM2 is going to squeeze down reasonably onto something that size anyways.

If the inference code (TensorRT, Tensorflow, Pytorch, whatever) is fast, then what does it matter what the glue code is written in?

Python has become the common vulgate as a trade language between various disciplines, and I'm all 'bout that.

I've only been working in computer vision for 10-ish years, but even when I started, most research projects were in Matlab. The fact that universities have shifted away from Matlab and into Python is a breath of fresh air, lemme' tell ya'.
Yes. It comes down to intention.

The charitable read is that they are notifying you of the possibility that the car’s data collection may unintentionally include sexual activity. E.g. your car was recorded as having a rocking motion while parked.

The other read is that they are intentionally collecting sexual activity data for nefarious purposes.

The first is the lawyer drafting the release being overcautious. The second is a corporation being evil.

I’m not in love with either, but the claim was that Nissan was actively collecting data about sexual activity, when there is no proof of that. The only thing there is proof of is that they put a notice in their terms of service.
With links, it still seems to hallucinate on my end. Some info isn't even mentioned in the links it referred to, but it just spits it out like it's actually there.
Perfect art for a classic Etch A Sketch.
Would this deprecation of the state include disbanding the police and the armed forces? I'm guessing the people who are for the deprecation of the state would answer quite differently if the question specified details of government functions.
I am a nafri with a PhD and engineering experience (with europeans), I can't make good living going the traditional way either with with remote jobs being impossible and no luck landing a visa.. I have built custom solutions for big name EU companies to keep an eye on the competition through scraping. captcha solving cloudflare bypass is a great part of that. Getting back at companies making the UX bad with captcha does feel good also.
This is what a lot of us have had to do early on because we had no other resources than first-hand manuals (mostly only printed; Hackers scene with books was painfully true), and maybe someone on a BBS or Usenet (later IRC) who could answer a question or two if they felt generous enough with their time to not heckle us for being dumb. If you're looking into `ld`, you've crossed a point of no return.

And the `ld` manual is great and there is nothing wrong with it.

The dropbox comment is people who are completely misguided as to the market value of a product that solves a real pain point for users and the recommended alternatives of using rsync was comically out of touch with the technical acumen of an everyday person. (see also the great "Less space than a nomad. Lame." comment from that other site)

Using `ld` is on the opposite swing of that, and that discussion is very much res de facto technical one with no punches held back. This is what the "Hacker" in "Hacker News" actually stands for.
Literacy Rates and Simpson's Paradox
Of course greenfield has been a term for a long time, but how long has it been used to describe software projects? I'd think a lot less than that.
Yes, just like my download speed is capped by the speed of me writing bytes on paper.
Solar power is the fastest growing energy technology in history
You're doing an excellent job of intentionally selectively misreading what I write to twist into something you can more easily argue against.

You're creating a linguistic purity test where someone must be able to declare that your preferred definition is the only valid interpretation, thus creating linguistic "biological facts".

Anyone pointing out that multiple definitions exist and that biological realities are more broad is mocked and fought with. These people create nothing positive for their communities and it is appropriate for the communities to ban them, despite their screeches about how they're being censored and should be allowed tobprovoke whomever they like without consequence.

BlueSky and Twitter aren't public squares, they're a business more like a cafe, and are allowed to remove disruptive clients.
https://archive.today/cF5RG

https://bsky.app/profile/statisticurban.bsky.social/post/3lb...

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Learn to Solve It
This is a modern way to learn C programming and a companion website to The C Programming Language website.

It has visual debugger and display of stack and heaps. An intuitive explaination and ability to run the program at repl.it

Look at one example ehre

https://www.learntosolveit.com/cprogramming/chapter4/ex_4.3_...
Go really got this right, just one 'go' tool for dependency management, build/compile, tests, you name it.
The reason Spain's economy is bucking the trend of European decline
You're making the same mistake as the author. I get unnecessarily aggro too, but a plain reading of their comment isn't "they only cater to high net worth people" or they're advocating for such. Its "hey we're talking about 3G connections at this point, which are mostly shut down, and we don't cover developing markets"

Note most of this is nonsensical too.

His primary thing is "you don't need client side code because JS = (HTML + CSS) * x, where X >= 1"

We can start sneering about not caring about users there, too, having a one time client side download of that magnitude can certainly be much better on the poors than 10 page loads with SSR.
MIT's AI Lab with Lisp, ITS and such. They were far ahead of Unix, Bell Labs and Berkeley.
Another reason for using synthetic diamonds for jewelry.
This. Search engines are an index, not an oracle. Even though google and the others have tried to mystified it by adding those answer boxes and doing a bunch of natural language processing. Another trick is to use the `insite:` keyword. Works wonder for searching docs.
I have a friend in Canada right now who is trying to find therapy. His primary care physician suggested assisted suicide since he doesn't want to take antidepressants.
the West and China share the same fate
For sure. The models are definitely safety tuned after pre-training
https://archive.is/qtvRb
That told me that they were butchering the wiring on every brand new car that hit their lot.

There's no need for butchering. All that's needed is constant 12V. Maybe an aux 12V if you need to know when the car is on. At most, they may have installed a relay to cut the fuel pump or ignition, which is no more invasive than a standard alarm installation.
Taxing is not for punishment. Taxing is to support the government who's role is to shepherd the people.
Yup, the parallel is the dream of a lot of the AI companies "Hey look, this LLM can maybe come in and do 80% of the work, so maybe you don't need 80% of your staff? Certainly you don't need the most expensive members".

That's effectively the scenario that Luddites found themselves in. Looms came in and decimated previously well paying jobs and the owners of the looms basically told the skilled workers to pound sand.
>Re Final Cut, I would have agreed it was mainly just losing the high-end a few years ago, but the sheer volume of YouTube videos taking about switching from Final Cut (and Premiere) to DaVinci Resolve is hard to ignore.

Many of them are real, as Resolve has had some solid big feature updates with frequency and it's also very usable free, so it has drawn people in. Some of those "I'm switching" though are the usual video market influencer promotions and/or need to change things every while.

For Logic this is not the case though. Haven't seen anything suggesting it's losing users, and in the pop space it has tons of high profile users. There are also lots of industry "market reports" that say that the overall market is growing in general.
Yeah, they're not beautiful or really useful any more. I think the old way of capturing screenshots with a Polaroid is only interesting because it explains "single sweep" mode on the scope, which is vestigial nonsense on a DSO.
Either I haven’t seen this before, or forgot it, but it’s surprising because I use the sum of independent uniform variables every once in a while — the sum of two vars is a tent function, the sum of three is a smooth piecewise quadratic lump, and the sum of many tends toward a normal distribution. And the distribution is easy calculated as the convolution of the input box functions (uniform variables). Looking it up just now I learned the sum of uniform variables is called an Irwin-Hall distribution (aka uniform sum distribution).

The min of two random vars has the opposite effect as the max does in this video. And now I’m curious - if we use the function definition of min/max — the nth root of the sum of the nth powers of the arguments — there is a continuum from min to sum to max, right? Are there useful applications of this generalized distribution? Does it already have a name?
An experienced software engineer can learn new languages and syntax quickly. I would say the same for the core libraries for a given language. Learning the development environment, productionalization, deployment, and hosting can be daunting even for experienced architects.