skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we start killing everyone by sending them to the vacuum of space, will we evolve to survive those conditions? Some solutions just defy what adaptation is capable of
> I have a Ryzen desktop with ECC, and it registers about one bit-flip per week.

This isn’t normal. You have a bad memory module.

A non-ECC machine should able to support memtest86 (a rigorous memory testing tool) for a week straight without a single bitflip.

Having a bit flip per week is so far away from normal that it’s definitely a bad memory part.
Except social media is a thing now so people don't rely on mainstream media alone, tech's impact will be clear I think only in a historical context (20y+)
Does this link work? If not what do you see?

https://infosec.exchange/@eric_capuano/109570476711349840
What kind of concepts would be hard to delineate?

I like the Zen approach to mystery, which is to accept it and resist the temptation to rationalize the mystery away. Thus no absurd concepts are needed, since concepts are not needed. (I’m relatively new to Zen so I may be off the mark a bit here, but I think I got the essence correct)
If there's a very strong "only during standard work hours" usage pattern with SLA penalties for downtime, adapting deployment patterns to that reality can maybe be sensible.
I repeat: public safety is THE reason why we organize in countries, so police, army, justice system is in COMPLETELY different category - it is something essential, the rest is disputable. That's why you cannot compare them with, e.g. schools, there are decent countries without public education, yet, there is no serious country without police/army/courts.
Just about any Certificate is worthwhile depending on your reasons. Best case I've seen them used for is to help you break into new technology areas, EG. you want to work as an SRE for AWS services, having a few AWS Certificates under your belt might be just enough to get you that interview (plus you'd kill at AWS trivia nights).
What a bunch of nonsense. He needs to give his degree back asap. It's called an oil pump. when your car is running it pumps oil to the parts that need it. only in really really cold temps where oil can actually freeze is it bad to even start the engine. how long you let it idle doesn't matter. it's literally just sitting there running the oil pump and and circulating oil to where it needs it. If idling an engine in the cold will hurt the engine then so too will driving it because the exact same thing is happening either way.
There's been plenty of studies they measure bit flips in memory. If you really wanted to measure, you'd find them without much difficulty.

Yes though, when you have gobs of memory, you're unlikely to see the effects of bit flips. That's not the same at them not occuring.
It's not obvious. The Beltway networks are in place.
> Am I ignoring something here, or couldn't they just lay railroad track then? It's not a heavily populated area.

They'd need to either go directly through to the port's yard, through half the port and with a new bridge over a river, or branch off of a closer yard (between cluden and stuart), cross through a creek and two highways.

Former means enormous capex (if you can even get permitted and negotiate with the port), and latter means merely large but now you're at the mercy of traffic on the NCL.

Nothing impossible, but I can see how the refinery would have started trucking 25 years ago (apparently it started in 1996) and scaled that up progressively.

And then there's the bad news that this section of the NCL is not electrified, so you'd still be paying for your diesel and it would be completely unhelpful.

Not to mention as the article notes:

> Resource-poor Asian neighbors such as Japan and Korea are also counting on Aussie green hydrogen to help get them off fossil fuels in the decades ahead.

This is a project / study from the parent company, per their own "our company page":

> In early 2021 our sister company Ark Energy Corporation was established by Korea Zinc to decarbonise the energy supply of the group starting with Sun Metals.
Is that a third world countries issue? I’ve heard of it in the UK, there are a lot of comments on this page about it in the US. Your point about livestock is good, but that is definitely happening in the UK and US.
Let's assume this is true for a moment.

Then the issue is that you don't know which is which, a priori. Most strong statements end up false, eventually. The statements that eventually end up right may have been strong all along, but most of their strong cousins will eventually end up wrong instead. Consequently, the cautious approach is to be skeptical of strong statements, since they will likely turn out false.

(I'm also not sure that the initial assumption is actually true. There are tons of examples where the strong statements have not prevailed. Remember those saying Covid-19 is a killer virus, decimating billions? Or that it's no big deal? Turned out neither. It was bad, but not that bad.)
> the default key mappings make it an RSI machine.

Citation needed. Even the poster child for that rumor, RMS, fixed his problem by switching to a better keyboard.
And yet I was miles ahead many other struggling artists and musicians that couldn't make a cent out of their craft. I was shrinking but what really forced me to stop and start to learn a programming language was the pandemics (that's how I learned about HN btw).
I agree with you that words do have power and meaning, but disagree with the current zeitgeist approach of censorship.

It causes far more harm on average than any minimal help it does in some cases. There’s substantial active harm in the amount of gaslighting and ill conceived redefinition of words going on. It’s exactly the sort of whitewashing of thought that’d lead to the world found in The Giver.

> throw out the marginalized baby

I think that’s just an updated version of the “white mans burden” — the white man has a burden to take care of the poor colored people.

The real way to change such things is over time by hard work and engagement. Dismantling actually oppressive systems in financial systems and laws. Giving opportunities not outcomes. Reducing things like inflation which disproportionately affects poorer people. And a hundred other things, all of which were working over the last decades with improvements in almost every metric for marginalized groups. Still lots of real work left.
I don’t understand what the desired outcome is for the FTC. These vaults are only accessible by Visa/Mastercard or the credential owners(issuer banks). At the moment of payment the flow is the same as any other transaction where it goes through either Visa/Mastercard/Amex depending on the brand. The fact is none one even knows the credentials in the transactions are tokens and not the real account number this includes the merchant, the merchant bank or any other intermediary like payment processors.
It sounds like it's working as intended. Redundancy doesn't help you with reliability once your system is in a degraded state. Running a server with a known bad ram stick is like driving a car on run-flat tires. It will probably get you where you need to go, but you really should be driving to a tire shop.
> > 1. More people will slowly come to the realization that electric cars are not as effective as originally thought. As a result, the government may shift their focus to hydrogen-powered vehicles as a new alternative.

> I'm 100% thinking the same, but I can't help myself think how this will be a disastrous change in some countries. For instance in Europe, fuel-based cars will be banned in 2030 and governments are actively pushing for electric.

> I think it might create a huge shift on the electric vehicle market tho.

It will likely be disastrous, and when they try to jump to hydrogen it will probably be disastrous too.

In my mind it will be a similar climb down to what the governments diesel push was in the U.K. Disastrous...
In SQL, SELECT 'four' > 1; returns true as well.
Does this allow overloading capslocks to both control (as modifier) and esc (when pressed in isolation)?
I added lazy loading by default to my workplace's monolith in Node.js. We relied on a couple of imports with side effects, which no longer worked because no one was accessing the modules that ran the side effects, and that was the trigger for actually loading the module.

Our fix for this was to relegate stateful imports to files with "bootstrap" in the name, which the lazy loader stub would allow to be eagerly imported. Moreover, any imports listed in such "bootstrap" files would then be eagerly imported. But that's it (at least wrt the code belonging to our codebase); no one else, not even the children of the bootstrapping modules, were exempted from lazy loading.

This allowed for a centralization of all the stateful import effects. If you tried to write stateful code outside of bootstrapping, it simply wouldn't run. (You could hypothetically hack around this. But it would be rather obvious, and I'm perfectly ready to revert pull requests that try.)

Maybe you folks could try some variation of this in Python.
And yet the economic growth of the red states, particularly in last few years has outpaced the blue states. Not to mention the tons of people moving into red states. Hence there are many that disagree with your assessment.
I’m sure you‘ll miss Tennessee’s no state income tax once you move to California.
I'm glad you found something that works for you. A friend used a similar technique of mashing the right and left control keys with his palms, but unfortunately after a month or so he discovered this hurt his hands too.

I'm of the opinion if you're regularly pressing keys on the keyboard without using the tips of your fingers and/or thumbs you're doing it wrong.
You can, I was working on solution to have hashing 2 times - new, and later old algo. Salt can be either reused or you'll have to use 2 salts for each algo.
Confirmed by top officials at Twitter, though their explanation is bullshit, since there's absolutely no reason to disable the existing system while developing a new system.

Musk is a liar, and you're a fool to believe him.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/24/elon-musk...

Twitter restores suicide-prevention hotline feature after outcry
Top official confirms feature was removed but only temporarily, following Reuters report that prompted criticism of Elon Musk
Once a month an RSS-related article will take off on HN. And the world will continue to ignore the potential for owning your own content in favor of convenient walled gardens.
Not sure if you mean talking literally, but imo offices a noisy enough now. I'd hate to work in an office full of people like me talking to an AI all day to get things done. I guess it would be like working in a call center.

I'm guessing there will have to be changes in communication methods or work place setups or we'll continue to type?
Australia should stop exporting raw materials and do the refining closer to the mines. That would cut the cost of transport dramatically and keep more of the profit in Australia. But Australia seems wedded to the idea that it should remain an exporter of raw materials instead of finished goods.

And the idea that this can be up and running within less than twelve months sounds rather like wishful thinking to put it charitably.
The other Ubuntu desktops should be fine. I recommend the Xfce one personally, it has everything thats needed of a sane gui and the xfce is not a RAM hog.

However the snap nonsense also means I might have to consider Ubuntu no longer suitable to recommend if they continue down this path.
Seems reasonable, but if you work for a large company, you can't guarantee that a major release (which is a production change) won't cause any unexpected harm. I have worked with quite bit organizations, and deployed on Friday and wasted my entire Friday-night and Saturday morning, rolling back the +130 components that an app had.

If you are a small company, or you do not do extra weekend shifts, I understand your point. Elsewhere, you just want to live an adventure every Friday.
> You only need 1 true fan if it's the right fan!

Also known as an employer.
>First of all, people post extremely niche and personal content on their social media feeds.

In the old internet you could be reasonably certain that people where sharing because they wanted to share. There was no ulterior motive of profit, growing a large following, etc. It felt more genuine. Today, most people who actively post seem to be trying to build a following to become an "influencer".

It could be that this is a product of lack of discoverability of differently motivated content, but that lack of discoverability is still directly caused by what the modern internet is (its incentives and what is promoted by the giants in the space: engagement).

Gemini[1] and other small nets seem to capture some of that old share-with-no-ulterior-motive vibe, but we will see how long it lasts.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
The only way to hit the ctrl key ergonomically with either hand is by lifting your hand from the home row.

But that makes touch typing ridiculously hard. It is extremely easy to fail to return your hand correctly to the home row and now everything you type will be off.
devils advocate, but Google wasn’t designed to make sure the links it aggregates at the top are accurate/isn’t just blog spam designed to cater to specialized SEO tricks
Cool makes sense
> Soon enough, the problem will go beyond text and encompass image and video[1].

And the people making that happen are we. The sw eng / CS / IT nerd crowd. Those reading HN. And it's rare to see critical voices of those working on this. For basically everybody here it's just cool tech.

Our doom is the missing ethics of our peers.
What's the advantage of pets? Simplicity?
> What they need is water

Not necessarily. Once energy costs become around around 2.5x cheaper than they are now, MVC distillation becomes cost effective for desalination. With the space and sun they have, they have the potential for near unlimited water.
I’d use Go. It’s performant, not super duper difficult to understand, and has a solid std library and community.

I’ve used Node before but I’m sure you’ll have some number crunching and background jobs and what not. You could use Go to build all these things out and go far before you use some specific technology for it. You don’t need to install half the internet worth of dependencies to do basic things.
Southern Australia has predictable, medium strong wind. Over an enormous area.

Has a strong directional component too - the "Roaring Forties"

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_018106.shtm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_farms_in_Australi...
sure: if you extend things to the extreme. Ignoring that illogical connection between “feeding people” and “pop growth” - there is no, that I have read, indication that an increase in pop will become untenable, under a system designed to take care of its people. (Not under capitalism, for instance.)
Having a water jacket around the cylinder makes it less possible for the cylinder to heat (and change size) unevenly versus an air(/oil)-cooled engine. That same water jacket permits the tolerances to be set to assume a maximum head temp under 300°F (versus 460°F for airplanes). That means the steel rings don’t have to deal with as much dissimilar expansion as the aluminum heads and pistons. This allows engineers to choose tolerances accordingly. It’s not so much modern metallurgy or electronic controls, but a factor of having a lower temperature range.
> . I have never tried an actual Linux desktop at work

Which is it? Your statements are contradictory
No. Clean coal doesn't really exist, whereas green hydrogen does.

Agree however that the messaging around it has great greenwash potential. That was deffo Australia's previous fed government's intent with it.
People don't have enough time in their life to learn about everything they touch and need to say no to some things to get anything done.

Maybe those professionals want to learn tools for their actual job instead of fighting with the platform underneath. Just like artists want to draw, not learn how to fix their graphic tablet's broken driver.
The same thing happens in writing.

Hundreds of creators creating content for these platforms, want to know the average rating is Five Stars. Want to know the average viewership? ~100, to even get to the stage of generating money you need to create several hundred chapters, and essentially beat the system to even make a hundred dollars.

For most of them, they will quit writing after their first series doesn't pick up traction, most don't understand the formula and strategy, most dont have the time or money to try.

Average viewership for light novels reaching 30~ chapters is less than a few thousand meaning which might seem like a lot, but it's not. From there viewership gets lower and lower. It's all based on demand and the only thing people want to read is porn.
I've got elderly relatives using ChromeOS laptops and Android phones just fine. Both run on Linux and are far easier for them to use and for me to support than the alternatives.
This has been my experience as well: no problems screensharing except w/ Zoom native client due to their distro whitelist preventing screensharing under Wayland. A little irksome. Just let us try! Browser mode until then.
Sounds like fourth-rate Philip Glass.
And why doesn't it focus on that? Because it's not a product in the traditional sense. It has completely different motives.

I'm not going to argue this point until I'm blue in the face with you. Because at some point this kind of stuff is why open protocols always lose.
Especially small diesels which take too long to warm up for passenger comfort.
So exact spec except for the only spec that actually matters.
These are early days. Everything is going to move faster than you can keep up. You'll see head-turning headlines on a daily basis.

Next year will see AI begin to disrupt so many businesses you'd thought were absolutely impenetrable. I don't think anything is safe anymore.

By the end of the decade, I think even manufacturing and robotics will be automated. Everyone from McDonalds to Apple and Ford will feel the pressure.

I've got a mind-blowing demo coming out soon that will put even more fields on notice. And that's just my team. There are so many people working on AI-first products now. Incumbents will be overwhelmed and washed away.

(If ever there was a cue for a career change or opportunity to make a whole lot of money, it's this. Don't ignore this one! You're still early enough to take advantage.)
You are simply wrong about self synchronisation, simpler designs can not determine the code point boundaries from an arbitrary stream position. ᴜᴛꜰ-8 requires work to start decoding from near an arbitrary position. You purposely divulging my intellectual properly is not appreciated. You appear to not understand that either. I hope to use proceeds to employ developers to realise my many ideas, for the benefit of the human race. Why did you do re-post the design?
>What does this have to do with your new encoding? Text is usually decoded into a programming language specific form to be processed by software so self synchronisation itself rarely required.

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Downside vs SaaS is that an employer stops paying you when you stop clocking in.

SaaS customers keep paying until they churn, often with very little support along the way.
A two minute warm up is good for cars in winter, even with synthetic oil. Slow-ish speeds for a couple of miles will warm up the engine nicely. Keep in mind, when you start you vehicle on a cold morning, it high idles for a few minutes. This is by design.

Great and interesting replies as usual. For my two cents, don't trust the dealer where you bought your car. My wife and I bought a new Ram truck in 2021, I asked the salesmen what are the engine break-in best practices. He said he didn't know, no surprise there, so he called the service manager. The manager told him to tell me there is NO break-in required for these new "crate engines" these days!

I was shocked, so after I returned home I read the manual. It had concise instructions for breaking in both the engine and the transmission, which I was careful to do. There is plenty of stories on the web about the engine in my truck having upper engine problems, perhaps they believed the dealership.
The only reason why I let my car idle is because the windows are covered in frost outside and I don't want to daname them by scratching the ice off every day for 3-4 months every year. Better to heat the windows and let the ice melt from heat.
This is so boring, it has very high chances to be true.
I'm using it with my own domain. So far, delivery is happening as expected. The domain was running under the Gmail umbrella for many years until Google's decision to charge for Workspaces. I tend to believe (until proven otherwise) that all those years running on G's infrastructure had a positive influence in how message routing from that particular domain is handled throughout the network.
This comment seems to assume that innovation in mobile phones is complete, and that no harm will occur from letting the regulators take over more control from the current inventors and designers.
You said "hydrogen-powered freight locomotives." I didn't.
This one actually loaded eventually, win
antibiotic cocktails are tricky - sometimes using multiple antibiotics can reduce clearance. This is a really good paper on the topic: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05260-5
They seem to lack the ability to think, which seems kind of important.
Fantastic news. FIRE is a great organization.
It's more efficient than hydrogen as well.

And they could start building it today with no development work required. All the parts needed are available off the shelf.
Yep, let's not forget that Murphy's Law, whenever you least expect it, boom.
How should we be able to help without knowing your hardware and distro?