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California had rolling blackouts because of criminal fraud. The governor was recalled to kill prosecution of the fraud, and to get the state to pay the fraudulent billing. Arnold came through with the $80B.
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Human-level intelligence or animal-like abilities? (Adnon Darwiche, 2018)
Ironic that a post about disinformation is full of it. It would benefit anyone to look up what a conspiracy is and how many things are technically conspiracies. It's basically a buzzword for anything you don't like that hasn't been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. News flash, anything that is nether proven nor unproven is debatable.
I really want to get into thrust vectoring model rocketry (after some experiments with solid fuel "gunpowder" based rockets).

The first major challenge is procurement! I was able to get gunpowder from a friend who has contacts in a fireworks shop. Constructing it required minimal machining and was a lot of fun. Finding parts and machining timing for liquid fueled rockets is harder!
Fairly off topic for HN, but this is my honest answer.

The Bugle: Spready Mercury. I’ve listened to the bugle since 2008 and hearing John oliver on it again gave me hope that there are still good things that can happen in spite of all of the chaos that’s going on in the world right now.
Re scalability of verification: you don't have to verify everything to get a massive security/safety boost. A well-structured system has a small trusted computing base (TCB), and if you get that right, your system can be pretty secure even if parts of the TCB remain unverified. Eg drivers and network stacks are outside the TCB if you encrypt all data, they can only threaten availability. This was just demonstrated pretty well with AMNESIA:33: for an seL4-based OS, it's just a minor issue, not a critical vulnerability: https://hensoldt-cyber.com/2020/12/08/how-amnesia33-does-aff.... This confirms my analysis from a few years ago, looking at critical exploits in Linux and how seriously they'd be in an seL4-based OS (hint: mostly not at all): https://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/csiro_full_text//Big...
I wonder how many other things I'm saying that put me at a disadvantage.
Yes, I have worked with plenty of experienced engineers who would have no problem picking up a new language and spelunking through legacy code on a legacy operating system.
Interesting project and great docs!

Can you point out the code responsible for executing the http connection? If it at all modularized, I'd like to plugin code for a different kind of check.

(Are you thinking of supporting customized checks through plugins?)
Yep. I’ve lived in cities where the pedestrian crossing light will never turn on until you press the button. But that doesn’t stop newssites claiming that “all” do nothing.
Is it just me or is this article heavy on fear and devoid of any actual information?
“Afraid to express themselves honestly” usually means they don’t feel safe making public statements about, say, their belief that women are inherently less intelligent than men, that black people are inherently less intelligent and more violent than white people, or that Obama wasn’t really born in USA.

They consider being called on their nonsense to be a personal attack, and the persistent corrections they receive from people they talk to are a sign of a conspiracy against them.
Cancel culture has taught us to hide behind online anonymity, and to never respond honestly about our true feelings, and opinions. Which has had the effect of forcing most people into being more suspicious and less trusting of others.
>R&D is for new economy companies what purchasing PPE is for the old ones

Struggling to follow a bit here. Am I missing a similarity that should be obvious? Or is this saying that PPE purchased for use in R&D would be expensed versus capitalized if intended for use in revenue-generating activities?
It's a force vector field. What's not real about it?
Apple mandates WebKit as only allowed browser engine. If a page crashes iOS the error is likely in engine itself so it doesn't really matter what "browser" you actually use.
There are some HPC environments that use Kubernetes but they likely use custom schedulers optimized for batch workloads (e.g. https://github.com/volcano-sh/volcano).

"containers" are often used but not always docker containers. HPC environments I've seen will often use container primitives (e.g. cgroups, namespaces).

There's a lot you can learn with managed Kubernetes and it's a great place to start. You can learn a lot of the parts of Kubernetes with running through https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way or reading https://www.amazon.com/Kubernetes-Running-Dive-Future-Infras...

I'll email you to follow-up since tracking HN comments isn't a great way to have a conversation.
You can perform both steps in the same device. It's just more efficiency to have a dedicated electrolyzer doing that elsewhere.
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>> There are no such other options on the market. ARM isn't highly customizable, since it has over 1000 instructions you must implement. RISC-V only has 47 instruction you must implement. All fairly simple ones.

I think this is a wrong comparison. There is a subtle difference here that is being missed.

CPU's become bloated over time as they get used differently, as the applications shift, as they try to address newer areas. And with each iteration, they still have to support the legacy code. That is how you end up with thousands of instructions

It is easy to have a lesser instruction count when you are starting from scratch and have no legacy.

What is going to stop RISC-V from becoming another ARM or perhaps x86 even, in another couple of decades ? When it spans such a large application space that most of the extensions become default and the core becomes bloated ? Time for another ISA then.
Is there a use case for a microkernel firewall? If you compromise just the tcp/ip stack, you can send and receive arbitrary packets, which is exactly what you would use a root exploit on a monolithic kernel to do.
Berkshire Hathaway could have made the cut if they didn't choose to use Google Analytics.
Odd, I remember an advertisement a couple years back for SAP programmers that was $200+ per hour from the state. I wonder what computer it actually is. The University business school still teaches COBOL and there are plenty of COBOL and RPG programmers in the state (yeah AS/400). Also, our governor is definitely tech savvy.
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Machine code is code like any other code. Sure, often not easy to read or modify, but not impossible. I'd start with a disassembler, a debugger, possibly a decompiler and lots of patience. Given appropriate time and pay I might even consider it a fun job.
They're providing the hammers and chisels to knock down their own paywalls. I'm not saddened by this.
Same here (Netherlands) but it’s important to realize that greenhouses make a lot of use of natural light and soil and are therefore not entirely the same as indoor/vertical farming.
It's not just you. I find this to be a typical writing style in the Guardian.
That metric isn't just about actual payroll expenses, but also things like office space, janitorial services, etc.
This is where the `curl` happens: https://github.com/upptime/uptime-monitor/blob/master/src/he...

It is utilized by this function here: https://github.com/upptime/uptime-monitor/blob/master/src/up...

If you're thinking about different checks, perhaps you can explore this too? I have no idea where to start... https://github.com/upptime/upptime/discussions/73
What does the x_y signify? And what's going on with 0_0?? From my (very limited) understanding a fixed point/cycle like that should be vanishingly unlikely.
Think of it this way. I really like donating to free software. But sometimes I have to actively hunt for a donation link. So in my opinion, it would be good to low-key advertise it whenever appropriate.

Also, while we're on the subject: I would love it, if free software came with a token product. For example: a "star" tier that shows up in your online profile, or something. This way, people can donate and make it into a business expense.
> Do you think FOSS stacks are made of ice? That they would melt if you don't constantly resupply fresh ice from arctic excursions.

Yes, if you care about things like not getting oWn3d and having your customer data exposed.
Why not keep constants constant (so your switch example works), but have an extra translation step in front of the syscalls?
Enter at your own risk & peril ;)
Can one still order a T1 line? 1.54mbps isn’t so fast these days in most places...
Here's a thoroughly nuanced analysis of the causes and motivations leading to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
https://youtu.be/RCRTgtpC-Go
It's at least safe from someone hacking into it and intentionally (or accidentally) causing harm.
The video at T1.5 is paused, and the video at T2.5 is playing. Those are banal, ordinary facts; the difference between them shouldn't surprise us, any more than the fact that length of the string "hello" is 5 but the length of the string "goodbye" is 7. You only get confused if you imagine that there is somehow a single "state" of "whether the video is playing now" that somehow "changes", which is unfortunately what non-FP programmers tend to do.
I think more than the technical merits of RISC-V, the appeal lies in the fact that you are not locked in to a core vendor and the software tools ecosystem.

RISC-V has commoditized the cpu.

It doesn't need to be orders of magnitude better. Even if it is at par or even marginally worse, people will start using it.
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Thanks! That was very interesting. Luckily today's new hip culture (IT nomad) is original and not pushed by some authors..... Wait a minute...
Slightly related, .fail TLDs were delegated back in 2014:

https://icannwiki.org/.fail
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This is very clever. I wonder if it could be adopted for Python C extensions (where possible) to make it easier to distribute cross-platform binary distributions. Of course it wouldn’t be suitable for gui toolkits, but I imagine that the majority of Python C-extensions could be handled.
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Interesting. But for me upvoted links are already stored on Hacker News. What I wanted to download / archive is others' comments. Some comments are so valuable that I saved in a personal note (HN Wisdoms)
"The only reason the world knows anything about this today is because, in 1998, Earl Tennant, a courageous farmer from West Virginia, came to me demanding answers."

Which is, of course, complete bullshit.

I'm not dismissing the toxicity and persistence of fluorocarbons, but this article is too grandstanding and fearmongering for my likes.

You're better off just reading the Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid
Those are the temperatures (0.0, 0.7, etc.) that control the craziness. 0.0 means the model makes the optimal guess for each token.

Unfortunately, both GPT-2 and GPT-3 have a tendency to enter loops. But it's not always bad: https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-3-experiments/blob/master/e...
Working really, really hard when I was younger. I still work, but only on what I want to work on.
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Even mathematicians are not all-knowing. There are lots of theorems that we suspect to be true that have never been proven to be true. In fact, Godel's incompleteness theorems state that there will always be statements that are true, but can never be proven to be true.

Fields should be as mathy as they can be, but no mathier. Otherwise it's just fake formalism, as you said yourself.

> Let me put it to you this way. Anytime you see the word "Design" it refers to a field where we have little knowledge of how things truly work.

You are setting up a false dichotomy between knowing everything (which nobody does, certainly not scientists or mathematicians), and knowing nothing.

There are plenty of fields with "design" in the name that are quite rigorous: analog circuit design, digital signal processor design, microprocessor design, compiler design, etc.
I had the same feeling. No info except 8 letters of chemical names and their relative longevity. The rest of article is just random pick from chest of horrors with awkward focus of recently fashionable scares (covid, vaccine efficacy).
At first I thought this was going to be a list of the HN users that clicked the link but thankfully it’s not :)
Is there a psychological explanation as to why criticism is more prevalent?
Yeah, I've done some locks and status IOT stuff around the house but I don't trust my rather expensive central air/furnace to nest or my own hacking. The 10 year old thermostat works quite well.
Hilariously enough both https://1mb.club/ and https://10kbclub.com/ itself are included in the listing. This means that they will eventually have to retire as the clubs grow...
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Can someone explain to me why “vertical” farms need to be vertical? Why not just use greenhouses, along with all of the AI/other technologies? Where are most of the productivity gains coming from?
Nothing like having to do a job to take the fun out of it. Why not keep it as a hobby and just have dinner parties?
This is not true technic wise but true politics wise, or politically incorrect, you should not be downvoted.
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> it must assume probability and logic is true.

True in what sense? I appreciate the rigor you're trying to bring to this discussion. Most of the points regarding logic you raise here and in your other replies on the thread have been comprehensively debunked in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

One omission is the nature of human senses and perceptions. The understanding of which eliminates whatsoever any possibility of conclusively distinguishing the statement "logic is true" from "logic appears true to us but it's actual truth status is unknowable". This is just a toy explanation and the Critique is far more comprehensive and rigorous.

> empiricism involves the addition of observational evidence on top of other forms of analysis.

That may be the case in circumstances where it's convenient and other forms of analysis serve the function of useful tools or mental aids. However empirical observation always trumps other forms of analysis when they're in conflict. Otherwise we're no longer discussing science anymore.
Assuming that by "our country" you mean the US: For example in Europe, car use is a lot less prevalent, walking and using a bike plays a much bigger role, and because of Covid, people are thinking about re-designing cities to rely even less [1] on cars.

So it's perfectly possible to go back, given that people actually want it.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-22/a-car-fre...
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Well. It’s a guardian opinion piece. While I often find guardian language stilted, I find that there is value in reading it.

DuPont is one of the big daddies of the chemical industry. The few who control the poisons of the world also control our seeds.

Having said that, learning about the author is also important to understand the motivation :

[..] Rob Bilott is a partner at the law firm of Taft Stettinius & Hollister, LLP and author of Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont.

His book was the story behind the film, Dark Waters and the documentary, The Devil We Know.

Rob is also a 2017 recipient of the 2017 Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” for his work on Forever Chemicals.

On Thursday, Rob Bilott is participating in an online discussion on the need to regulate PFAS titled Dark Waters no more! Is it time for a global agreement on toxic chemicals?[..]
Link isn't too informative, the product page may be better: https://www.sysmocom.de/products/lab/icE1usb/

Given osmocom's focus I guess the main point to this for them is talking to base stations that have an e1 port.
This seems like the right place to ask: I remember some months ago there being a discussion about a dark mode for HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966 .

It seemed at the time like dang was amenable to adding it, but nothing seemed to to come of it. Am I missing a setting somewhere? Dark mode is the only reason I use an external app for viewing HN.
Apparently not, since you are wrong. You are paranoid "my dude".
It’s equity as in “equity in your house” equity. Many people have been denied access to equity in “the system” and if the disenfranchised have skin in the game then this stabilizes the system.

It is similar to policies that made access to home ownership easier (for some) because having a mortgage (and equity) is implicit buy into the system which lowers the likelihood that you’ll fight against it.

Those without equity have nothing to lose.
Dan Carlin's podcasts are my goto for crazy long (18-24 hour) car trips.
I had some serious deja vu when I opened the second thread and the top comment was nearly identical
> A downside of this approach is the binary can't be executed with the exec system call because the kernel doesn't recognize scripts without a shebang. It can only be executed from within a shell.

It's a little bit more nuanced than that, depending on the platform. You don't necessarily need to have a shebang. This behaviour is guaranteed in Linux, and traditional on BSD, but not POSIX:

> If the header of a file isn't recognized (the attempted execve(2) failed with the error ENOEXEC), these functions will execute the shell (/bin/sh) with the path of the file as its first argument. (If this attempt fails, no further searching is done.)

Which means that it _should_ work outside a shell on those systems.
T1 is still used a lot internally for connecting to existing phone PBX's that might not have an Ethernet connection at all.
This article really hams up the language -- but that makes sense, given its author is a lawyer who's spent most of his adult life trying to get PFOA banned. He is not a neutral actor.

That said, the pervasiveness and harmfulness of PFOA (and some of its newer replacements) is a real and significant issue that needs to be publicized.

I personally prefer this article from NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-b...

(Note that the author of the OP Guardian article is actually the subject of this NYT article!)
> "If most intelligences are still young (claim in this paper) then we are more likely to understand them"

Would you mind expanding on that? Why would intelligences being young mean we are more likely to understand them?
Not really that much interesting you can do with 10 kB it seems like.
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm but if it’s representing an actual grievance could you expand on it?
Why is it that a lot of people who ask leading questions on HN are such morons?
The guy who found out BPA was an endocrine disruptors was a scientist who was studying breast cancer and kept finding that his breast cancer cells were getting activated when put in plastic test tubes. He called up the test tube manufacturer and they refused to tell him the material that composed the test tubes. When he did his own investigation this is what led to the BPA / Endocrine link being discovered.
It is common for software development expenses to be capitalized and expensed over time (depreciated).

A lot of what shows up as intangibles is from M&A activity. If the acquirer paid more than book value for a company, then all of the remainder goes into intangibles (goodwill).

The write-up argues that non-physical assets (software) show up as intangables (balance sheet) then argues that they are expenses (income statement). It doesn't make sense.

I don't follow what the article is arguing, and it seems to draw big and likely incorrect conclusions from loosely related accounting terms and data points.
This isn't about glyphosphate. It's about the chemicals that make up fire retardants in furniture and non-stick cookware.
It’s actually an elegant idea. But there are some design flaws.

CEA includes many ways to control environment for Ag...glasshouse, hoophouses, polyvtunnels, hydroponics, aeroponics, aquaponics..

Installing vertical farms at this scale is hubris. Even though it’s a good idea. This will never scale. VC logic fail.

Also: no productivity gains. You heard it here first: no vertical farm is making a profit. And they never will.
This approach of using inline asm wrappers around functions which specify exactly the clobbered registers is neat, but...

I don't think the approach of making a call from inline asm is safe. In particular, it clobbers the redzone [1], which the compiler may have used and expect to be intact after the call.

In general, at least some compilers (e.g., gcc) assume there are no calls in an inline asm block.

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[1] https://godbolt.org/z/e4ecKr
Backend language support wise, it makes me think of Haxe [0]; would be easy to add a Haxe backend for Wax. Definitely Wax is a lot simpler to add backends for and all Haxe targets are garbage collected so might be an interesting experiment.

[0] https://haxe.org
Missed http://n-gate.com/hackernews/ :')
I think to create calorie rich base food, photosynthesis might be the completely wrong approach. It is extremely inefficient compared to photovoltaics. <1% vs >20%.

A better approach might be to produce hydrogen via photovoltaics and electrolysis, then use hydrogen metabolising bacteria to create more complex carbon hydrates and proteins from that.

The raw output of this might be edible in an emergency, but you would typically further refine it. Either you use fungi and end up with something similar to Quorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorn , or you feed it to livestock (fish, chicken).

I think that this might be the base of the food chain for space settlements. On earth, traditional agriculture works just fine to produce an abundance of food, and I don't see more than aesthetic reasons to change it.
Did you just yadda yadda a bunch of details?
In case it helps anyone else, this is a compact libc for an x86_64 binary format that can bootstrap and make syscalls on several kernels but relies on static linking (it doesn’t use any platform’s shared libc).
> The poison found in everyone, even unborn babies – and who is responsible for it

One of the things about poison is that the more poisonous it is, the fewer living people it will be found in.

Unless you can show a dos exposure curve of some symptom getting worse with dose, something that is ubiquitous would likely be relatively harmless.

Remember dihydrogen monoxide with is also in everyone and results in quite a few fatalities every year in both its solid and liquid form and in its gaseous form is a very potent green house gas.
What what I've heard the ID3 actually has more sound-deadening than normal and the LEAF's mirrors were designed to cause less wind noise.
I came here to write the same. Some great standards of journalism at work here!
Taking changelog.com offline (while recording the podcast) to test resiliency
> The people who got visas (however they got them) are not accidental citizens.

The visa point was about the parents of the accidental citizens. How many Papua New Guinean are there out there who were born in the US while their parents were on vacation there? How many Australians?
Not when you take global warming into consideration. Russia and Canada will have a lot more farm land in the near future.

I’m sure the USA will also unlock some new farming areas.