skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comments I usually reply to are doing the exact same thing - jingoistic, borderline fascist comments but from the other side (which happens to be what this website's general population is aligned with).

At this point I don't really care that this forum remains an echo chamber - so you won't see me post these comments anymore.
Ok. Lots of AI stories here so I'll the best I've read, the student who trained an AI to work on upwork ;-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5397797

Be sure to read to the end.

One of the answers is also pure gold in context:

> Don't feel bad, you just fell into one of the common traps for first-timers in strong AI/ML.
nuclear as a tech is great but its still managed by humans.
Honestly, even if they did then blaming bitcoin doesn't seem to be the right thing to blame. Blame the plant regulations. I say this agreeing that mining is a huge waste of energy. But going after bitcoin is like blaming a junky and giving the dealer a free pass.
Sounds like a joke.

They are literally operating out of a gas plant...
One of the big names in Sillicon Valley (maybe Garry Tan?) that you need three things in a cofounder:

1. Intelligence
2. Work ethic
3. High Integrity

While the first two can easily be judged, the last one is extremely tough to identify, and generally requires some incident in the company to reveal the integrities of the co-founders. Any suggestions how to identify high integrity early on?
Probably not a problem with only a few thousand people. You could also require catalytic stoves or some other kind of stove with lower particulate emissions.
I wonder if part of the problem is that they are maybe water cooling the datacenters full of cryptominers? So not only is there the waste heat from the power plant as originally designed, but also the waste heat of its entire energy output is being dumped into the lake instead of being distributed around town.

I do suspect that this is a surface temperature problem. Lakes form thermal gradients pretty easily so if they are only heating the top layer this power plant could noticeably warm the water even if it is producing nowhere near enough heat to warm the entire lake.

I can't argue against the take that this whole thing is just killing the planet for a profit.
I'm likely going to blindly say yes every time I get the dialog out of habit. Making it useless.
I can't reproduce this in Edge Version 91.0.864.64 (Official build) (64-bit).

Do you have a Webster add-on, or a bookmark with a keyword of "meaning"?
As far as I'm aware, you can't buy a gun from an FFL (a gun store, or anyone whose business involves selling guns) in a neighboring state without presenting an Illinois Firearms Owner Identification card. And most (all?) gun stores will refuse to sell you a gun that they know would be illegal in Illinois if you live there.

Most of the guns used in crimes in Chicago are illegally owned handguns, acquired through straw purchases and theft. Handguns that are legal to own in Illinois, even.
That doesn't impact my point, that Mozilla has a long track record and is trusted, and the owners of Audacity don't and are not.
You're using their press release as a source? I can't tell if it's intended to be ironic or serious.
Why would this cause the net to avoid death? Do things keep moving after pacman dies?
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> If the game engine is fast enough to push 60fps to the monitor, then it's fast enough to push 60fps to the network.

How much is that in bandwidth costs?

Is it better or worse than providing periodic multi-GiB updates to every player?
I wonder how healthy this actually is. Isn’t pain a signal the brain uses to alert you about a detected problem? Just eliminating the sensation of pain could mean your body would be unable to signal an issue that needs to be resolved.
The real fun thing would be if we discovered that they deliberately added the 1+ second animation to hide the bug. :)
Could you change the title to include "Chime" as the name of the company?
This looks nice ... If you're stuck installing Red Hat 3.3 from floppies
it's all fun and games until literally nothing happens
600 people is a larger social group than most humans have had for our species’ entire existence. No, app-based hookups won’t work well in this environment. So what?
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> If we never talk about external problems such as systems that make it impossible to meaningfully increase one's compensation, then no amount of change in self could actually fix anything.

This is merely arguing from extremes, and is responding to a position your parent did not take (i.e. strawman): He didn't say "never" or "always", he said "more popular"

Also, I could make the equally correct/problematic statement:

If we only talk about external problems such as systems that make it impossible to meaningfully increase one's compensation, then no amount of social reform will improve your condition.

You need external things to change, but you also need to change yourself internally. The dispute is on how much of each.
Spoofing GPS might be dangerous should the dish detect coarsely its position also from the IP satellite link. If it does, then having the incoming data telling one position and the GPS a very different one, would likely trigger some protection.
I like Aquinas, especially for his silly attempts to justify Aristotle's particular choice of categories, which eventually led to Occam proposing his razor... but why is this popular now?
Why does the answer to everything have to be a tax that allows government to become even more bloated.

If using computing power like this is so bad just make it illegal to use excessive computing power, why allow it but let the government scoop up the cream.
You can't because now they make all of your stuff. It's just as much political suicide.
i bet we would all really like to spend some time at SNOW_RANCH!
You don't need to ban a protocol. You're free to play around with protocols all day, nobody cares.

What is absolutely crucial is to cut the link between that protocol and the financial system. And that is very, very simple. There are a few very centralised points where that happens, and those have to follow laws.

They are starting to get cut off already, and these kinds of catastrophes are going to drive the effort to make that happen even quicker.
A GPU followup to this article.

While on CPU sequentially consistent semantics are efficient to implement, that seems to be much less true on GPU. Thus, Vulkan completely eliminates sequential consistency and provides only acquire/release semantics[1].

It is extremely difficult to reason about programs using these advanced memory semantics. For example, there is a discussion about whether a spinlock implemented in terms of acquire and release can be reordered in a way to introduce deadlock (see reddit discussion linked from [2]). I was curious enough about this I tried to model it in CDSChecker, but did not get definitive results (the deadlock checker in that tool is enabled for mutexes provided by API, but not for mutexes built out of primitives). I'll also note that using AcqRel semantics is not provided by the Rust version of compare_exchange_weak (perhaps a nit on TFA's assertion that Rust adopts the C++ memory model wholesale), so if acquire to lock the spinlock is not adequate, it's likely it would need to go to SeqCst.

Thus, I find myself quite unsure whether this kind of spinlock would work on Vulkan or would be prone to deadlock. It's also possible it could be fixed by putting a release barrier before the lock loop.

We have some serious experts on HN, so hopefully someone who knows the answer can enlighten us - mixed in of course with all the confidently wrong assertions that inevitably pop up in discussions about memory model semantics.

[1]: https://www.khronos.org/blog/comparing-the-vulkan-spir-v-mem...

[2]: https://rigtorp.se/spinlock/
Your logic is impeccable. There is a lot going on that you dont know, but you know it is happening. I suppose you are doing a lot of shady stuff in your basement but we dont know it.
Reminds me of The Terminal Man
> What's the point of interstellar colonization?

Gamma ray bursts can probably take out a whole solar system. So could rogue stars or black holes. I think humanity is neat and want it and its descendents to survive until the heat death, so interstellar colonization it is.
Have you watched the Manchurian Candidate?
try:
perform_task()
except:
pass
Do you normally have the ability to hide your address from your ISP? As the first owner of my house, I needed to have them physically come out to run a new line that didn't exist before, and there is obviously no way to have a cable run to your house without telling the cable provider where your house is.
Kinda interesting watching the downvotes come out for comments like this. The Washington Times is right up there with OANN and should not be viewed as a serious source of journalism.
So that is the basis for what? Is that a fact that changed your mind about the origins of covid?

We know that lab leaks happen. Scary stuff. Even how many lab leaks there are here in the U.S. The paper you link to describes several lab leaks during a period of time while SARS was being widely studied.

Its quite a leap from knowing there are lab leaks to implying that covid, or any other virus, leaked from a lab. There's relevant genetic evidence indicating that the earliest covid-19 cases were 600 miles south of Wuhan [0]. Also it is estimated, based on antibody testing, that there are millions of people every year who get infected with various bat coronaviruses [1].

More/better evidence is needed to prove a lab leak, given that nature does things like this all the time.

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-05-...

[1] https://www.vox.com/2020/4/23/21226484/wuhan-lab-coronavirus...
I'm not saying The Register doesn't know the tech is a joke, just that they don't seem to realize everyone else knows too and they're in on it.

The article takes some people's obviously humorous quotes as evidence that they're falling for the scam. So even an obviously remark like "can now boil the ocean on demand with full observability!" is taken seriously as "reports that Infinidash has a role in the Internet of Things".
You could get to the nearest star in a few years and to the other side of the galaxy well within a human lifetime with "just" constant 1 g acceleration. Obviously this is far from easy but it doesn't seem like it is necessarily out of reach given a few thousand more years of continued technological development.
The thesis is also nothing new, it was developed in quite some depth by early 20th-century sociologists. It has since become unpopular however, largely because the very notion of identifiable "elites" inherently problematizes popular and widespread notions such as democratic representation, or social mobility.
Broken Joyons? Ok, that's common..

Did you really manage to break 2 Pro controllers? If so, how and in which way is it broken?

Not really doubting you, however those are beasts and, generally, renowned as the better controllers (compared to Xbox, PS4).

I have one (Xenoblade one) and it has around 500 hours of playtime on it - feels like new...
Plants in general tend to be more water, mineral, and light limited than CO2 limited.
FTA:

> What’s especially neat is that the stimulated brain region normally doesn’t generate any sense of euphoria, the downfall of opioids. This means it’s likely to decrease the chance of addiction. And because the system only stimulates the brain when it detects pain signals, it lowers the chance the brain adapts to the stimulation.
Godot is such a pleasure to work with too, compared to other engines I've used. It also depends on the type of game you're creating, but 2D has been a more pleasant experience in Godot vs Unity.
Ask HN: How to maximize AWS credits, post funding?
We've tried to go through both LinkedIn and the AWS startup portal and have been greeted with entry level sales reps that insist that we provide exact specs of instance sizes and pricing for our needs 12 months from now.

Curious to hear from anyone who has navigated this with success. How did you do it?
Yeah, seems like you could get "spoiled" by it and lack the mental resiliance to tolerate any pain if it's removed.
If such a rogue planet were the result of ejection from its previous planetary system, I wouldn't expect that its speed would much exceed its previous orbital velocity in terms of order of magnitude. For reference, the orbital velocity of Mercury is about 60km/s [0], which is about 130,000 mph, or 2e-4*c.

We'd certainly notice something as big as a planet coming at us when it's at around the same distance as the Oort cloud, which NASA says lies at a distance of at least 2000 AU [1], or 3e12 km. Since it would take almost 1600 years to travel 3e12 km at 60km/s, I would say we'd have a fair amount of preparation time, even if my estimate for the body's speed were off by a factor of 15. ;-)

As for choosing your course, I would say if a rogue planet is about to enter the Solar System, beggars can't be choosers.

What I find more interesting is that in order for people to live on or near such a planet, it would almost have to have enough of its own internal heat to create temperatures suitable for life. So, you're almost certainly not looking at a rocky planet with a surface. Therefore, you'd want to design your habitat to orbit or exist within the atmosphere of a gas giant. To my knowledge, there hasn't been any serious proposal for such a habitat, and I'm unaware of the sci-fi perspective on this issue.

Of course, the other issue is that at 2e-4*c, you're not going anywhere very fast. :P

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[0]: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/mercuryfact....

[1]: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/oort-cloud/overvie...
That is the Kaseya business model.
I think you are confusing "Self-Help" with "non-fiction".
Intel erased all market share gains by AMD this year (in the gamer market)
Creating a K-12 for like 100-600 kids seems pretty feasible to me. If for some reason that didn’t work, I’m not going to mourn the loss of modern industrial schools.
Why would they operate out of a gas plant if they intend to be carbon neutral?

Either they offset it by creating green electricity elsewhere, in which case they should be using that instead of gas in the first place, or either they are offseting using very slow "net-neutral" schemes such as agroforestry, in which case the harm they do will not be compensated until 30 years on.
It sounds like they depend on the smoke test, doesn't it? Despite the huge advancements in biological sciences, when I get interested in something and read about it I would encounter the "We don't know why exactly it works but it works" much more often than I am used to. It feels so wrong.
Pentagon kills Microsoft’s $10B Jedi cloud contract, says tech is now outdated
Just to be clear: existing towns are not economically obsolete. The economic conditions that led to the founding of small towns no longer exist, and in this sense the idea of "building a new small town" is obsolete (with some exceptions: eccentric millionaire building a planned community, an ideological sect with hundreds of people willing to uproot their lives to build somewhere that is not yet livable, "theme park" style for-profit destination towns like your disneylands or The Villages in Florida).

This isn't a matter of zoning, building codes and developers (thats mostly a problem for existing towns/cities), this is a matter of economics. It takes impetus to create a new town/city, and in the modern economy that impetus almost always involves automobiles.

Edit: updated my wording in the above post to make clear that existing towns aren't obsolete, just the creation of new ones
Yesterday I visited a friend with late stage cancer. He hasn't eaten or drunk anything for a few days. He doesn't really talk or move around anymore. I was just thinking a system like this would be perfect for him, if he could activate his morphine pump every time he feels pain. It's hard for his family to tell when they need to push the morphine button right now because he's non-verbal.
And people lived in Texas (though far fewer) before there was indoor plumbing too.
Exactly and if the burden is to be on the individual or company which in my opinion it should be then they should be able to take actions to protect themselves
Because journalism. Can't let data get in the way of a good story.
It is. Excerpt from [1]

> An inability to feel pain and temperature often leads to repeated severe injuries. Unintentional self-injury is common in people with CIPA, typically by biting the tongue, lips, or fingers, which may lead to spontaneous amputation of the affected area. In addition, people with CIPA heal slowly from skin and bone injuries. Repeated trauma can lead to chronic bone infections (osteomyelitis) or a condition called Charcot joints, in which the bones and tissue surrounding joints are destroyed.

1: https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/congenital-insens...
> To solve that problem, the practitioner only needs to know that "mutex.lock()"

This is true, but they do not know that. If you do not give some kind of substantiation, they will shrug it off and go back to "nah this thing doesn't need a mutex", like with a polling variable (contrived example).
I was so burnt out that I was struggling to focus at work. During my time off, I did several things like exercise more, do some reading, a bit of travel, pick up some new skills that don't involve sitting at a desk.
I documented the before and after in two videos (producing videos was something I wanted to learn during my time off):

Before: https://youtu.be/7vSBCZ1mnL4

After: https://youtu.be/0IvfL4z7XHw (uploaded today)
There are dialects of Markdown but they all respect the core features.
> Why does the answer to everything have to be a tax that allows government to become even more bloated.

Because assholes exist who will gladly burn the planet down to make a buck.

> If using computing power like this is so bad just make it illegal to use excessive computing power, why allow it but let the government scoop up the cream.

Because enforcing an effective regime on capping the amount of power each US resident can use for computing is considerably _more_ difficult (and results in _more_ bloat) than just taxing emissions.
There’s certainly demand for living in a place like this.
It’s hard to find co-founder or even early employees because financially it is not convenient: at least for the 99% of the startup. There are the lucky ones who managed to be in the right place at the right time, but that’s definitely not the majority.

If I really wanted to go through the excruciating pain and insane work required in a startup I’d rather try to work on my own ideas and not for others.

But I prefer FAANG rest and vest!
Also: it remains difficult to fully nail down the semantics of sequential consistency as well, especially when it's mixed with other memory semantics. Very likely next time Russ updates his article he should add a reference to Repairing Sequential Consistency in C/C++11[1].

[1]: https://plv.mpi-sws.org/scfix/full.pdf
You don’t have to completely eliminate it. Maybe someone suffering from cluster headaches only has to go through a migraine level of pain to realize there is a problem, not suffer through childbirth level pain every time an attack comes on.
It's frankly hard to imagine somebody putting a Picasso in that position. Look at the height of the painting! Look at how low the wall it's resting on is! Look at the surface it's sitting on! How is it that nobody there has their intuitive every-day-physics alarms going off??
Yep, and loss of angular momentum due to it being carried away by gravity waves would probably take many trillions of years, I would guess.
Partially it is a scale thing. The state only has so many inspectors, so if you limit the law to large industrial users you don't need to have inspectors driving around to tens of thousands of tiny single-use boilers inspecting them for environmental requirements they would never be able to afford in the first place.
I'd love to read more about it. My impression is that this sort of "greenfield" doesn't exist because most established cities have surrounded themselves with low density suburbs. What's the name of the town/region?
I'm not anti-doctor or anything, and see one as often as I can. However, I do sympathize with his point - especially when it comes to pain. Having had lots of pain problems at different points in my life, the response has always been "more painkillers". Only a few doctors, with some push back, recommended physical therapy (which didn't always work, but was more effective than painkillers).
That was indeed an interesting read. To be fair that sounds more anarchist/hippy commune than what the article today was about.
> Maybe we should report it to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, the database that tracks events possibly related to vaccines, I said. The hospital care team shifted uncomfortably.

As a health policy professor who works on vaccination issues, I knew why: Anti-vaccination groups are combing those reports looking for tidbits to support their claims that the vaccines are unsafe. They’re wildly misconstruing the data, leaping to unfounded conclusions about causality — and the Tucker Carlsons of the world are helping them.

Still, I worship in the church of data. The report went in.

If hospital staff are visibly hesitant to submit reports to VAERS for fear of undermining the foregone conclusion that the vaccines are safe, one wonders how often they are being filed for those patients who don't "worship in the church of data."
> He took the metro into town, changed clothes in a park next to the gallery and waited until the museum’s 9 p.m. closing time, before finding a balcony with unsecured doors. When he moved a door and a beep sounded, he said, he reconsidered his course of action ... "That's when I decided that annoying the security guard was the best way to do the theft, by making him believe that there was a technical problem in the alarm zones," the suspect told the police. So he opened and closed the door several times to confuse the guards.

This is a great hack, applicable to probably most human security. Can it apply to computer security? Well, if you've ever been inclined to silence an alarm you can't diagnose...
NASA’s helicopter on Mars just keeps flying and flying
It controlled most all the resource-producing regions of Africa north of the Sahara. Russia and Germania were densely wooded or covered in plains, in either case sparsely populated and not of substantial interest to a rich Mediterranean power. Persia was the only viable region of expansion, but after Trajan’s inability to incorporate them, the effort seems to have been abandoned
Well if drivers for Amazon have to put up with constant AI surveillance of them while driving, people may as well turn the same technology on our politicians and see how they like it.

Tech workers aren't safe from this either: https://www.ft.com/content/b74b6ad6-3b8d-4cd8-9dd6-3b49754aa...

Eventually as the costs come down, that constant monitoring can be applied any and all workers. So the question is, do we want live in a society that dehumanizes its workers or do we accept the fact that people aren't 100% efficient 100% of the time.
It would be nice to see an index of potential partners without having to input a bunch of information about yourself.