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I tried to build some TENS device, but lost in "safety maze".

I reverse engineered some existing device, there are TONS of safety measures.

At least: current limiting resistor, transformer, voltage/current feedback, GND isolation, MCU protection.

After replicate all of these, I still not brave enough to try it myself, I just find it too dangerous.

PS: TENS device is fun. article seems like a bait.

Re:Confessions about my smart home on Sunday May 18, 2025 @01:56AM (#44019274)
I have also tried to upgrade home lamps. But instead of "smart", I choose simplicity. Using MDNS (local network discovery protocol) and a minimal HTTP interface, I made lamps discoverable and controllable offline via a basic Android App. No central servers, subscriptions, or cloud dependencies.

The result is pure freedom. Setup: plug in and connect to Wifi, done. Control: install app, join home network, control lamps anywhere in the house. Automation: A lightweight, customizable app handles everything.

The app polls locally for available lamps, which works flawlessly for 5-10 devices.

Security might be a problem, but since everything lives behind a firewall, I’m comfortable with the tradeoff.

Re:Structuralism as a Philosophy of Mathematics on Sunday April 07, 2024 @03:04PM (#39962931)
A funny insight about Platonism (if it's not funny, treat this as a bad joke)

I think aka "∅" therefore I know I thought aka "{∅}" therefore I know I knew I have thought aka "{{∅}}"

and ...

boom! The entire Math system is imported. (BTW, limitations known as "computation theory" is also introduced)

So maybe we are actually mathematical being on a manifold named as "real world". To me it is more concise and profound than "philosophy". As we are real, so do all mathematical objects.

Now this is on github. (What would AI assistant system respond after trained on these instructions?)
Maybe some logic honeypot would be good, such as a infinite content paging list with some random trigger hidden at pages with non-sense titles. When one IP hits these triggers, it is automatically banned.

Bots will trigger it by walking through all pages, but real human would not click in since the paging is non-sense and titles are non-sense.

Re:Tell HN: Copying and pasting from ChatGPT unsolicited sucks on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @06:01AM (#33892978)
Read your bible v.s. ask loki for explanation
Re:Tell HN: Copying and pasting from ChatGPT unsolicited sucks on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @05:55AM (#33892935)
How could we know if it found the key ingredient or it was pretending that?
Re:Show HN: My Child's First Program on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @11:40AM (#33882878)
I'd like to see what instruction could let ChatGPT output such invention.
I changed my mind. Give all same kind UBI is better idea. Otherwise "shakled genius" may find a way to jailbreak and cast wisdom of revenge on everyone else.
One solution could be:

If you volunteered to be acknowledged as a genius, you must open your status. You wear special shakles which is salient and observable to everyone paying the resources directly or indirectly. You shouldn't be allowed to physically protect yourself to your surroundings or you lose the genius status. (or under some absolute physical restraint or suffering verifiable by everyone). Everyone could challenge you at court with sound evidences, which is judged by random sampled jury group by laws well established in future.

With that I could trust to give them "life long resources" to give us "prophecy".

Automated founders, automated managements, human battery, dream making machines. Welcome to the MATRIX.
A interesting deduction:

By making quantum computer, we are making us into Schrödinger’s Cat. Which entangles our destiny to a quantum possibility.

Such as a highly sophiscated military quantum computer which decides war and peace on quantum computing.

It must be very fun to observe us from a Alien Species's angle.

Re:http://pn./ on Sunday September 11, 2022 @10:51PM (#32805528)
Works but not working through some proxy. A rare but interesting edge case
Re:TinyPICO – tiny fully-featured ESP32 board on Monday July 12, 2021 @05:48PM (#27815507)
I followed a project named parasite https://github.com/rbaron/w-parasite

I made a small MPPT solar harvester with a 0.47F supercap. This system reports soil moisture without using battery. It works even when weather is cloudy.

Hope this gives you some insight.

SQLite is good and open source. I've tried MariaDB on a Python project. The connector has bugs very hard to debug. I tried to download the python source, C++ source and failed to locate the bug. I tried to add issue but find nowhere to report. Finally I give up and use MySQL instead. It works like a charm. Open source adds value, but IMHO being good is first priority.
Re:“I will slaughter you” on Friday February 19, 2021 @06:52AM (#26192136)
"AS-IS" clause still counts?
It's very tricky to dilute them. DIY can easily lead to over-dosage.

In powder form, it's hard to make e.g. 10mg dosage, the error margin can exceed 100% by hand or some cheap weigh, and powder will form small concentrated chunks.

3D printing for water(ice)?
Maybe we need to do both. Green energy or carbon neutral is good, but cannot achieve instantly. Most countries are inside treaty, but stop oil, coal and gas will give countries outside treaty a unaffair advantage, making the goal harder to reach.
I'm just thinking the same thing. BTW the excess energy can be reflected to orbit labs or moon to make something more interesting (reactors, generators, water electrolysis etc)
As spacex mature, is the science fiction that use mirrors to adjust sun energy possible? Could this solve global warming?
I'm pessimistic about this.

Without network netural principle, ISP can easily take away user's rights by putting them behind NAT, and censor their network traffic "for their's good".

Decentralization cannot solve this. It's a political issue.

Too many differences.

No awareness; No knowledge; No government; No communication; No money; No faith.

If so the poor guy will be happy instead of sad to see hacker's information :)
It should have a feature that if someone locks it and cannot unlock, it will unlock after a long period of time, for example, 3 months, to make it safe to use.
Re:AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We’re All Fucked on Monday December 11, 2017 @09:57PM (#15902681)
The creepiest is that whenever there is a discriminant network for judging/identifying sth, there is a generating method taking advantage of this network to make artificial one to fool the network. That means, one day we can take advantage of 3d-printing to make face masks to disguise as anyone, making anyone's voice, and making anyone's handwriting. The existing identity system will total break down. (I'm from China, here exists a kind of company which loans to you solely by ID card scan and webcam verification. Just imagine one getting lots of loan using stolen ID cards and artificial realtime face swapping videos and artificial voices) Apologies for bad English
Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] on Saturday March 12, 2016 @04:19AM (#11272076)
Next move: how about beating human at online dating?
Re:Query your JSON by SQL on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @12:39PM (#8459521)
Here is a simple implementation to use SQL to query JSON. http://trentrichardson.com/jsonsql/

A virus hypothesis

Now there is a complete virtual currency, and there are online market to spend currency for human labor. How about making a virus that mine currency on infected machines and then spend them on these markets to ask people optimize it? Such as mining BITCOIN and spend them on MECHANICAL TURK or something similar.

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Re:Microduino: Arduino in your pocket, small, stackable, smart on Sunday September 22, 2013 @07:04AM (#6426418)
This is not a new product. Here is a history list of this product and its price in China: http://rate.taobao.com/user-rate-174397421.htm

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