MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _blk | 2025-10-26 02:32:08+00:00
Background is probably a bit lower depending on where you're at. My counter went through airport security luggage scans 'cause they wouldn't let me wear it through the metal detector. It beeps for a few seconds and then comes out about a days' dose of natural radiation higher. The count was higher than 300 CPM, but obviously only shortly. That poor bloke might stay at 300 (if ingested and he can't scrub it off) for a while but it's still not very discouraging long-term. Pilots have about that at cruising altitude.
by robviren | 2025-10-26 02:33:41+00:00
I greatly appreciate the nuclear industry. Nuclear field engineering was my first "real" job out of college and they really committ to safety. Transparency in this industry is inspiring because everyone involved knows that one screw up and that's the end of the US nuclear industry. Good luck getting oil and gas to be accountable and as transparent about incidents. I carry the culture into the rest of my work and appreciate being involved. Wish events like this didn't happen but it is not of significant danger and I find it great that they communicate even "smaller" issues.
by simoncion | 2025-10-26 02:33:56+00:00
In addition to what most of the folks are saying:

0) If you've not read this chart, do carefully read it: <https://xkcd.com/radiation/>. If you've read it before, take some time to carefully re-read it.

1) The guy's getting sent off to seek non-emergency medical attention. I bet you an entire American Nickle that that attention is almost entirely for injuries sustained in the fall, rather than for radiation exposure.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-26 02:34:18+00:00
Where's this "preprogrammed" meme coming from? Everything in robotics is still "preprogrammed". Later builds of ASIMO did have dynamic balancing and in fact ran with both feet in the air.

It's not like they just hit the precalculated coordinates on the floor with the feet, they used gyros and hand-written algorithms to compute all the forces in real time, just like today those Unitree bots do with GPU trained algorithms. They're fundamentally the same. Very little had changed.

Who's making up that hallucination? This isn't even the second time I've come across those "preprogrammed" BS.
by GaryBluto | 2025-10-26 02:35:05+00:00
> Will you be a little outraged though when they use real women without their consent?

It's a complicated issue that I've considered many times before. If we deem deepfake pornography unethical because it creates images/videos that look like real people, what does this mean for "lookalike" pornography, featuring actors done up (or who just naturally look) like famous people?

For example: Let's say Person A has a friend, Person B, who looks like Person C. Person B consents to Person A using artificial intelligence to generate pornographic images of them, which in turn look like pornographic images of Person C. Should Person A need consent from Person C?
by Brian_K_White | 2025-10-26 02:36:05+00:00
There is no analogy that worked both ways here. Some fitting counter-analogy might exist, but this isn't it, because there are no razor blade analogs in the handle analog of init.

I used hammer as the example because init is actually like a hammer. It is a dead simple impliment with limited scope and knowable, known, and absolutely predictable behaviors and properties. It doesn't actually do much of anything, which makes it infinitely flexible. By not having any will of it's own, it allows you to do more than a more complex, automatic, and integrated tool.

It can't suddenly razor blade you because it doesn't have razor blades or any other special features in the first place.

YOU are the complex integrator. And if you are not, I have no sympathy for you or whatever difficulty you have with responsibility.

You can still have complex automation and management, built on top of simpler lower level agnostic layers and tools. There was never any requirement to remove that flexibility and elegant future-proof design in order to have all the things systemd promises (and really, merely promises, it does not actually deliver any better than anything else).

Systemd is also a grand scope example of tight coupling. It's so bizarre how these supposed genius coders can commit such a huge example of something they all know to avoid like the plague in just a slightly different context.
by orev | 2025-10-26 02:39:29+00:00
I’m not an expert, and it would depend on the system you have anyway, but AFAIK the main differentiator between a cooling air conditioner and a heat pump is a “reversing valve”. You may simply need to change the mode to reverse it, then you get cooling. From what I understand, it would be unusual for it only to work in heat mode.
by pahkah | 2025-10-26 02:39:51+00:00
As someone who's interested in all this, I agree it would be nice to have more precision around capacity. Especially as it relates to longer term storage. But! In this context, output is more salient than capacity. You'll see a lot of stories about grid-scale storage that use output. (https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/854999 offers a fuller explanation than what I'll give here.)

This is because grid operators are most concerned with immediate power output. They need to keep the grid balanced, and if they need a gigawatt to do it, it doesn't matter if the batteries have 100 GWh if they can only discharge at 1 MW.

Since the batteries described here are used primarily to handle the peak of the duck curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve) it seems like 4 hours of capacity (the article mentions that the lithium-ion batteries have 4-6 hours of capacity) is sufficient to get over that difficult hump.

Anyway, to get back to your question of how many GWh, if we assume that the batteries have 4 hours of storage, then we're looking at around 4h * 15.7 GW = 63 GWh of battery capacity. (4 hours is what I've seen as standard for lithium-ion, conservative if the article's claim of "four to six hours" is true.)

Hope this helps ease the peeve!
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-26 02:40:11+00:00
If I'm understanding you correctly, I don't, but I interpreted the GCC docs to indicate the opposite. To me, the docs indicate that it's possible (albeit unlikely) for a program that compiles under -std=c* to fail to compile under -std=gnu* due to one of those extensions that "conflict with the [C/C++] standard" and/or "change the meaning of the base standard".
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-10-26 02:41:12+00:00
In Texas, they implement "hurricane lanes," which just means during disasters, you can legally drive on the shoulder. In practice, I've seen it where all lanes are made outbound-only.

If you live within 10 miles of a US Nuclear Facility like me, NRC requires they send an annual calendar marked with siren-testing dates and escape-route maps. You can request free iodine tablets, for use while you're irradiated in traffic.

But IMHO both examples are mostly just coping mechanisms, designed to give panic direction.
by malfist | 2025-10-26 02:42:17+00:00
Amazon ripped out the Q&A for products to replace with AI. I don't know where they think they're going to get answers for new products from, because you can't ask or answer questions anymore. Only get vague, possible hallucinated summaries from historical Q&A or reviews.

I asked it what the difference between the standard and the pro version of a dehydrator was and it told me about the pixel counts and refresh rates. The pro dehydrator was apparently for gamers. The actual differences were the door hinge and the tray material (chromed steel vs stainless steel)
by kalleboo | 2025-10-26 02:42:49+00:00
The problem with current LLMs is that they are so sycophantic that they don't tell you when you're asking the wrong questions. I've been down the path of researching something with an LLM, and I came to a conclusion. I later revisited the subject and this time I instead read a longer-form authoritative source and it was clear that "interrogating" the matter meant I missed important information.
by thegrimmest | 2025-10-26 02:43:08+00:00
Making the lists is not the problem. It’s the rounding people up and sending them to camps that crosses the line. We already have laws about the circumstances required for citizens to be detained. Illegal aliens can be summarily deported, such were the risks they took when the broke the law to get here.

> for a women that might die during pregnancy because abortion was banned

To discuss abortion we would have to agree about things like "what is a person?". Many would reasonably argue that unborn children are humans too and therefore deserve their own freedom.

Allowing fascists to speak freely is the hallmark of a free society. Otherwise who gets to decide who the fascists are or are not? Free societies are free as a matter of principle, not as a matter of consequence.

”I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”

When Nazis marched through Skokie, Illinois in the 70s, it was Jewish lawyers who defended them. Being obsessed with liberty is a much better defence against tyranny than hoping the enormous government apparatus that determines who gets to speak and who does not will never be turned against you.

> someone writing that I visited an abortion clinic can do me harm

No they do not. Any person who reads what they wrote and decides to visit violence against you is doing you harm. Don’t shift blame away from violent actors, they make their own decisions. We already have laws about violence. You are not harmed by people simply knowing you had an abortion. It is a true fact about you.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-26 02:43:51+00:00
> It’s not an extraordinary claim that needs evidence, it’s standard procedure.

The only thing the officers told the guy is "We're investigating the protest that happened". Then they asked him questions about the protest organizers and if/how he knew them. It's unreasonable to then say "they're investigating a crime"; they're obviously investigating protected speech and public assembly. They even claim they are investigating such. At that point it's actually reasonable to expect a source for the (counter-)claim that they're really investigating a crime.

> I’m not making a specific allegation

Well, except "they're investigating a crime". They are not investigating a crime. They are investigating. Whether or not they are investigating a crime comes down to whether or not a crime was committed. To say they are investigating a crime means you know what they are investigating.
by questionableans | 2025-10-26 02:43:56+00:00
I’m sure the stress level varies by the individual.

The upside to a more collaborative role like this is you don’t have the stress of having to know everything. Individual developer roles can be more stressful because if you say you’ll solve a problem in a certain amount of time, and then you’re off on your own coding, and things aren’t working out… you’re personally on the hook for the whole thing. Whereas if you’re leading an effort and company priorities shift so people can’t contribute as much, you communicate that to all your stakeholders, and look good for letting higher priority efforts have more resources.
by kragen | 2025-10-26 02:45:55+00:00
The NEC lets you do almost anything up to 30 volts and doesn't regulate what's inside the appliances you plug into your outlets, just the wiring that's part of the building.

I thought it was up to 48 volts, but it looks like NFPA 70 Article 725 Class 1 circuits are only up to 30 volts, and there's a power limitation I didn't know about: only 1000 VA. So you can only run a pretty small storage heater from a Class 1 circuit, and even Class 1 circuits have some safety requirements: https://www.ecmweb.com/cee-news-magazine-archive/article/208...

Class 2 and Class 3 also require the use of a listed power supply.
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-10-26 02:50:25+00:00
When I saw the first episode of the first season of the reboot, I was hooked. I couldn't believe that there was really a show that went all in with that zany, campy, sci-fi vibe. There's something about the britishness that makes it work.

A time traveling alien with a Northern accent investigates killer mall mannequins, one of which possesses a trash bin that then eats the costar's boyfriend and transforms him into a plastic golem. They get to the heart of the infestation, and the Doctor readies his weapon -- "anti-plastic," of course -- but desires not to use it as he struggles to talk intergalactic law with the malignant plastic blob. Then he runs off with the girl for adventures in future episodes.

Many of the flavor-of-the-week sci-fi concepts were quite good, and some were not. But anthropomorphic cat nuns! A giant head! Evil buckets with eye stalks! Killer statues that can only move when you're not looking!

Maybe it was some inner child aging out of me, but I feel like the show's writing took a nose dive about halfway through Peter Capaldi's Doctor.
by VogonPoetry | 2025-10-26 02:52:10+00:00
I view it more as a ransom / hostage payment or a response to bullying. There was a threat of tariffs; I'm going to hold your business hostage. The ransom was paid and the tariffs weren't imposed.

I think a bribe is better defined as "you cannot have this thing you want, unless you give me this". A quid pro quo.

I guess it comes down to who the "active" party was.

I would definitely call it a bribe if Tim Cook was the one that asked to get special treatment or lower Tariffs than anyone else and the response was give me a "gift".

Even if you believe it was a bribe, the value of it was purely symbolic. What was given wasn't a change in policy, it was a material gift of zero value to anyone else except for scrap. Others that have been subjected to this behavior have given up things like changes in hiring practices and working with "non favored" organizations.
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-26 02:54:12+00:00
PG&E is a public utility. Everything they do down to department budgets are decided by state regulators. I imagine almost everyone on this board already knew that PG&E was a publicly traded company. But just because they are a publicly traded company, that doesn't mean that they get to do anything they want. It just means their stock can be bought and sold by others, in the case of PG&E its mostly owned by public sector union pension funds. So it is a quasi-public utility owned by government workers in a highly regulated market. The idea its some sort of paragon of capitalism is absurd. Just about anything they do can be traced back to a decision made by an appointed state government body.
by 5Qn8mNbc2FNCiVV | 2025-10-26 02:54:15+00:00
I would 100% do it anytime because at some point enough is enough and you as the lead should have the backbone to put him into place. Best things is he shuts up forever, worst thing is he get's pissed off, goes to the manager and the manager sides with you anyways because you're known to be a good employee and he quits by himself/gets fired.

Obviously this is a rare thing to do, but from reading the other comments it's miles better than being bullied out, quitting and letting the other person continue with that attitude
by meowface | 2025-10-26 02:55:06+00:00
It is very, very rare that a fringe or radical ideology that holds fringe views on almost all topics happens to hold a correct and important stance that is also very rare among non-fringe ideologies. Support for Palestinian rights has definitely not been as common as it should have been in the United States, but was still quite common among many non-fringe groups and individuals. You didn't, and don't, need to go to a radical Marxist critical theory publication to be better informed about that topic. I think the author makes an admirable defense of his magazine and shows it was not quite as crazy or worthless as the Sokal affair initially made it out to be, but we don't need to go all the way in the other direction.

Despite Alex Jones watchers all citing it as a great reason to watch him, you don't, and didn't, actually need to watch Alex Jones to learn about Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. Alex Jones was not the person who broke that story or even popularized it - and even if he were to have been, it wouldn't mean he was factually correct about most of it or about anything else.

Sometimes there are brilliant people with fringe, contrarian views or findings that initially get ridiculed and are later found to be correct or valuable. But Cantor was already a respected individual for his past work; he was not some no-name crank mailing theory-of-everything letters to mathematicians. Ramanujan was closer to that, but Ramanujans are so incredibly rare that you really need to be extremely cautious. And math is unlike almost every other field, where fringe claims can generally be objectively and independently confirmed or refuted, so you need to be far more cautious about nearly every other field out there.

However, I agree with your point that at the very least all sides should be initially heard out. Just not necessarily heard for very long.
by clumsysmurf | 2025-10-26 02:55:39+00:00
Even though I don't use Gemini, I have a permanent Gemini 'FAB' located above the 'Start Chat' FAB in Android / Google Messages and I can't seem to get rid of it.

Material 3 guidelines say "Don't display multiple FABs on a single screen":

https://m3.material.io/components/floating-action-button/gui...
by galagawinkle489 | 2025-10-26 02:55:44+00:00
Many sources for Wikipedia articles refer to Wikipedia without citing it. Many journalists will work from Wikipedia, and most of Wikipedia's sources are journalistic articles. It happens to be that often this isn't noticed because the information obtained this way is true and uncontroversial. Citogenesis only documents examples where, by bad luck, the result is untrue information.
by laurencerowe | 2025-10-26 02:55:49+00:00
A couple of discussions on previous TinyKVM posts:

TinyKVM: Fast sandbox that runs on top of Varnish - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43358980

Deno Under TinyKVM in Varnish - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43650792
by Modified3019 | 2025-10-26 02:56:06+00:00
Precious/semi-precious stones are rather arbitrarily defined. Various forms of chalcedony (agates, jasper, chert, etc) can often be called such, and are very common sometimes.

I’ve buckets of agates and jasper, among other things (like petrified wood) that I’ve found in fields while doing my ag job here in the willamette valley of Oregon. Oregon as a whole is amazing for rockhounding. There are some spots where I can’t go a several feet without seeing a 1cm or larger agate just laying there. Makes it hard to concentrate. I’ve mostly got it out of my system now though.

Cleaned up a bunch thanks to an ultrasonic cleaner, and one day will tumble a bunch to give away.
by SturgeonsLaw | 2025-10-26 02:56:34+00:00
Incredible at some things maybe, but for the average user Gemini is what broke Google Assistant (the article touches on that). Most people use Google Assistant to "do things" like play music, interact with smart switches, etc. Rolling out Gemini as a replacement before it could do these things was always going to be viewed as a regression.

People don't care if it can answer questions with more nuance when the smart stuff they paid hundreds or thousands for no longer works.
by cyphar | 2025-10-26 02:57:41+00:00
The libc syscall wrappers are part of the libc API, but on Linux, syscalls are part of the stable ABI and so you can freely do __asm__(...) to write your own version of syscall(2) and it is fully supported. Yeah, __asm__ is probably not in the C spec, but every compiler implements it...

For instance, Go directly calls Linux system calls without going through libc (which has lead to lots of workarounds to emulate some glibc-specific behaviour -- swings and roundabouts I guess...).

Other operating systems do not provide this kind of compatibility guarantee and instead require you to always go through libc as the syscall ABI is not stable (though ultimately, you can still use __asm__ if you so choose).

In any case, file descriptors are definitely not a libc construct on Linux.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-10-26 02:58:26+00:00
I prepared for EoLwin10 by installing Ubuntu on my older dual Xeon / VEGA64 tower. First time Linux user.

This computer is fast again.

I went with Ubuntu because it has one-click GPT support, even for an old blue-collar novice like me I can do it. So can you.

Next it'll be time to retire the fantastic'est Core2Duo Windows 7 Pro 64-bit -computer you ever did see... but only when it dies of natural causes.
by ramses0 | 2025-10-26 02:58:42+00:00
It's more like "provenance" of content. I broadcast my accountability of "myblog.com/posts/...", but would disavow "myblog.com/posts/.../#comments"

There's some ways of like "nofollow", but nothing systematic, and no "protocol" for disavowing paths, uploads, or fragments.

Back in the slashdot days, I thought of "blogs are the stationary of the internet", a way to more authoritatively declare that the content was yours... but interop is hard and unprofitable so walled gardens became the norm.

We just haven't had the benefit or forcing function which encourages a solution to "that stuff over there is less trusted than my stuff over here".

Maybe we're at the point where hosts of any kind MUST be responsible (or accountable) for any content originating from their domain? It kills indie/anonymous hosting, but puts a fine "KYC" point on distributing "evil" stuff on the internet?
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-26 02:59:26+00:00
PG&E is a utility. The amount of profit they make is decided by the state regulators. And the idea that PG&E buys CA politicians is laughable. The state worker's unions pension funds control CA state politics. They are the ones that donate the most money, PG&E doesn't even get a seat at the metaphorical table.

PS The largest and 3rd largest holders of US equity are those CA public sector union pension funds. They have far deeper pockets than PG&E by at least 10x.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-26 03:00:06+00:00
Unfortunately my on the ground experience is drastically different from you. I use Claude code though so that might be the difference.

But AI for me is right 90 percent of the time. It’s possible our prompt engineering is different.

> The AI of today absolutely does not add 0.5x, I'm using cursor and copilot and they still are us

You know when people say shit like this I wonder if they ever are able to think from another perspective? Like they say one thing but tons and tons of other people are saying another thing and what gets me absolutely curious is how someone can be so brain fucking dead that they can’t even consider the other perspective. Tons and tons of people say what you say but an equal amount say the opposite.
by KiwiJohnno | 2025-10-26 03:00:55+00:00
I have a Garmin with a sapphire screen. I've worn it every day for over 5 years, working on cars, in the garden, snorkelling on coral reefs.

In short, I my watch has NOT had an easy life. I've made no attempt to protect it or taken it off for anything except charging. There is barely a mark on the screen. A sapphire screen will be a hard requirement for my next watch.
by ylabidi | 2025-10-26 03:01:19+00:00
And on the heels of the Sokal affair, came the Bogdanov Scandal, which at the time, some physicist thought was an elaborate pay-back prank and as it turned out, 2 Phd theses, one in Mathematics and the other in Physics made it through the system even if with the lowest grades (University of Nancy, France), where the content of both theses is utter nonsense, and yet peer pressure, and complascency made it so that something that fails even the lowest standards of consideration for a graduate research (in the context of Sokal's affair it would have been a masterful pay-back) was actually legitimate. Kind of a sobering story in these strange times.