skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These benchmarks have been thoroughly studied by the elixir community (even myself) and are... Trash.

They compare things that have nothing to do with production, use non realistic code for most language and keep refusing PR to fix it for elixir.

The community simply decided to stop trying to engage and let that code die.
> Those same 90 people you're providing negative value and nuisance to are getting it from hundreds of businesses a day, gradually driving the signal to noise ratio of all communications channels down to zero

It’s more likely that they find a good match with about 2% of them, and those 2% help grow their business.

I really get the sense that the people complaining the most about cold calling (different than robo-calling) are folks who:

- have little or no business experience

- have never had a good sales experience

- work in tech where the default sales experience sucks

Successful business people know what their hair-on-fire problems are, and they are willing to take on speculative engagements that may help them solve those problems. This is not rocket science.
5 legged devil horse.
Napi.rs, framework for building pre-compiled Node.js addons in Rust
Completely my train of thoughts. And it is not only china. Patents are based on laws and laws serve a society... If that does not work anymore (obviously after a long and broken process) the law changes.
That does not answer my question though... I am not spending $600,000 on hardware!

I have no doubt that there are plenty of cases when local hardware is cheaper, but gp said "There is no possible use case in no possible universe where AWS is cost effective."... and I claim there are many use cases where AWS is cheaper.
In Europe nobody gives a shit if you graduated from, say, University of Frankfurt and not La Petit de Academy Francois Internatzionale.

Nobody? I think what you mean is "nobody in the middle class cares". Clearly they are very prestigious universities in Europe (Sorbonne) that open doors other universities don't.

What I've noticed in the US is that the middle class (and even lower) aspire to the top colleges. In Canada? Not as much.
> It’s a tired argument that these things lower our quality of life:

The problem is that even if we solve global warming, we are still going to die, probably at the same time. Being concerned about the effects of climate change means having empathy for your children and grandchildren who will suffer much more from it.
Antarctic Stare
Green Revolution; most people have never heard of Norman Borlaug, despite being responsible for saving hundreds of millions of lives.
What is the Privacy Policy?
What does eradicating mosquitoes have to do with hurricanes? We've already messed with the level of sulfur in the air over the oceans by using high sulfur fuel in ships in the past, so the risks should be pretty well quantified. Possibly by gathering historical ship route data and combining that with historical hurricane data an effect could be proved or disproved without even having to try an experiment.
Based on our current data LK99 isn't a replacement for helium cooled superconductors for the same reason YBCO and similar aren't - critical current/critical magnetic field aren't in the right ranges for what we need out of MRI machines.

I do think it's too early to say one way or the other what all of this ends up looking like, so we might find that purer/larger samples have better properties than what was measured so far, or the discovery puts us on the trail of other RTAPS in the same class that might be better for these purposes.
So many HN commenters lament their employers, both private sector and non-profit universities or similar. Their bosses, the short term thinking, management issues - the complaints are never ending.

The regulatory bodies are an extreme - their employees can basically never be fired, they have arbitrary and capricious control, and their existence has no market test. Most regulatory institutions were created many decades ago. It’s not absurd to think they are ossified, bureaucratic, and purposefully ineffective - “damaging to society”.

If a startup company can be a mess, and a large established company a mess, why not a regulatory agency? Pointing the finger at them and saying they are bad should not be a partisan issue. We should all be highly suspicious of their power, their unelected authority, and the innate desire of humans towards power and vanity who are attracted to such institutions.
I love this Lex Fridman interview of a nuclear-fusion physicist at MIT: https://youtu.be/aJoRMFWn2Jk
> Other than the IP, people would rather use the Steam Deck over the Switch.

This is very tech people loop take. Targeted people just want to play games.
Are there api keys for google maps in the car? Or does it emulate some client like a browser or android phone?
You do realise that for most people they do not get buggy games to run.

If it is buggy, they play something else. There is a wide enough offer for this strategy to work really well.

Being driven to install tools to get it to run is an exceptional behaviour and a lot of hassle for anyone, windows or Linux. Nearly noone does that.
Before Proton, I used to run games using plain Wine.

You had to go to WineHQ, look at the open issues and workarounds, and often troubleshoot issues yourself.

Lutris made the process a bit easier and then Proton made it absurdly easier.

The problem with Proton is that Steam Input is not well implemented.
Smallpox eradication
Shorter video on the Wilhelm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfRPPMXY5SQ
>Of that particular list, I would say levitating trains are currently solved from a technical view point[0], and are awaiting economic viability.

No, they're not. They're already economically viable: that's why Japan is building one between Tokyo and Nagoya right now, and it'll be in service later this decade. The current bullet trains are huge money-makers and have been for a long time; the Chuo shinkansen will be too.
I think LK99 is a 1D — not 2D — material.
Ask HN: Help me understand both parents' identical cancer deaths
I've had two non-smoking parents both die at the age of 70 in 2014 and 2017.
Each had:
- The same type of lung cancer (adenocarcinoma, a on-small cell lung cancer) showing up in the same lung
- Both worked in office jobs
- It's possible one or both grew up in smoke-filled homes, but that was fairly common at the time.
- They moved around several times in their lives, living no longer 5-10 years in any residence.
- They were fairly vigilant about checking houses for radon levels. There was a mildly unsafe level in central Pennsylvania where they were living for 6-7 years in their late 50s. That level, however, still registered under what Europe would consider unsafe and it was addressed with a radon extractor fan. One parent worked in the basement level, which was also where my room was as a teen for 5-6 years. The other parent was rarely on that level of the house.

From what I understand this is rare for non-smokers to get this cancer, and extraordinarily rare for both to get it without a shared non-genetic cause even accounting for radon risk.

I'm curious if anyone has any ideas on how to think about this? I'm now in my 30's, but am concerned that if it was radon, that I will have exposure from my teens bear consequences on me later in life. I'm curious if anyone in the hacker news community (analytical/creative types) can think of any explanations for this that go beyond random chance. I'm also curious about who I could talk to about this that would have good context on cancer etiology.
Agreed, that's what makes the omission odd. Normally you'd expect them to list any candidate that they have any possible reason to think might be relevant, especially if they aren't entirely sure what is going on.

Is that clearer what I mean? I think the only reason to exclude those things is if they were super confident they weren't a good idea for some reason we don't know. Or they just... forgot? That would just be very surprising.
I prefer it to renting from Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Epic and Ubisoft.

And prefer not having to haul a library of physical media with me everywhere at the minuscule risk of losing access to said games.
You might enjoy this compendium https://www.assemblytutorial.com/
For a lot of traffic, the $40 is nothing compared to the per GB price.
And https://unpoly.com/
Those move and copy icons, omg just love them!
I like to start with Mort and the Death books then move on to the Witches books
Superconductor though.

A semiconductor is a material that is somewhere in between conductor and insulator and varies depending on things like temperature or current direction. That is the material used in transistors and diodes.

I would say we are very far away even if this proves to be it.

First you would need to manufacture it reliably, then reliably without impurities, then reliably in some constrained 2d/3d geometry. Then you can start thinking about small footprint applications like IC design (chips and sensors). Perhaps then scale it to PCB design and RF applications like coplanar waveguides.

With that alone you would enter a new era in electronics with virtually no 'thermal noise' and no residual heat.

Beyond that (think large coils, motors, electromagnets) you would need a very large design step. As far as I understand this is still a very brittle ceramic, manufacturing very large or very long chains of this material would be unlikely. So the floating trains are probably a bit further away into the future.
This depends on if battery production can continue to be scaled up by another order of magnitude. That's a very short period of time for monstrous growth in multiple industries, it's by no means a sure thing.
nothing, but a programmer who does so knows they are creating an abomination while in C, it's just a normal day. (and for anyone looking at the code, the rust version will look like a buggy mess, while the C version will look like correct C code).
> Can you please say this in english for people who aren't terminally caught up to politics du jour?

Not OP but I believe they are referring to the fairly sizeable part of the voting population who believe that we need to deregulate everything and dismantle any agency that is responsible for regulations. That and the increasing distrust by the right of medical professionals and scientists makes for a dangerous combination.
> Not sure that AI chat bots are actually reasoning in any basic way, so much as they are filtering out noise and presenting an output that might satisfy the input

Not sure if there is a difference, for sufficiently abstract interpretations of “satisfy the input”
It's also bullshit in my estimation. See my top level comment about bees. I've been watching them at my house for years.

And this is one of the issues with trumpeting every phenomenon and claiming it means we are immediately doomed (as top level poster does here).

When the phenomenon turn out to not be real or not as portrayed then it is assumed there is no real issue. Sort of a boy who cried wolf scenario.
Just so utilitarian!
I am not stupid, I know that

However, take a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99#Replication_attempts

0 from both the EU and the US

Getting downvoted over this speaks volume ;)
Also Gunicorn…
Immutability is not a property of the ISO file (system) format, it's a property of having it live on an optical disc.

But most computers these days don't have drives for optical discs, and if your ISO is merely a file on a USB stick, then it can be broken just as easily.
How much does the NAT gateway cost? Quick search didn't turn up anything (and I don't care about this enough to spend more than a few seconds on it). You can turn a regular EC2 instance running Linux into a NAT box by giving it two network interfaces (hell, you can even do it with a single interface) and a few shell commands; I wonder if that's cheaper, even including the price of the public IPv4.

Edit: I see from another post that NAT gateway costs $0.045/hr + $0.045/GB of transfer. That seems... not terrible? An a1.large on EC2 is $0.051/hr + $0.09/GB transfer to the internet (which I assume this type of box would be doing a lot of).
I disagree that things hit a wall, but there are a lot of smaller unknowns:

- Work RAM refresh timing seems to be a bit variable and the exact logic for the timing has been unclear

- The exact point when scroll values are latched from the internal scroll RAM when in full screen scroll mode is unknown

- Precise cause of a CPU lockup when configuring a 68K->VDP DMA and then performing a normal access instead is also unknown

- Certain details of sprite rendering that can show up in certain edge cases are also a bit unclear

- The function of some of the VDP debug registers is unknown

There's a lot more like that, but that hopefully gives you the gist. Nuked-MD-FPGA (and its C-based predecessor) will hopefully make a lot of those questions easier to answer since Verilog/C with a lot of unclear signal names is still a lot more easier to interpret than a die photo.
That was not a black swan event, that was a concerted effort over two centuries.
Hm.. ok the post is about electricity generation though. You can also run your car on electricity...you can heat your house with electricity (heat pump). That is another chunk of CO2 mitigated.
I try to ignore his flamebate comments, so am really only aware of his dismissal of Linux support and paying to remove Linux support from games that already support it.

In what way is he openly hostile to gamers in general?
Even without any change in law there'll be a seemingly endless swarm of "I can't believe it's not butter" almost the same varieties appearing and having to be knocked down (if possible) for infringement.

As long as there's profit to be made that exceeds the cost of delaying legal action and any eventual fines levied against what may turn out to be near bankrupt shell companies.
That's not to mention delays in work too. Every time there's a "quenching" event at the LHC, that's days/weeks/months fixing everything and getting it back down to temp.

I seem to recall they had to shut down for a year or so for upgrades at one point too. Having to work around the cooling had to have affected that timeline.
USA Startups in 2023
I’m a shareholder (only a handful of them) and I wish they’d not pay the dividend but instead put more into R&D, open up the AppStore a bit, buy more interesting companies, etc. I see the dividend as just a play for wall street. I’d rather see the share price rise and than get dividends that I’m doubly taxed on.
> new software and hardware is being developed or rolled out right now that is incapable of working on an IPv6 network

I would be shocked if this were true for hardware. Even for software, every major OS in the last 10 years as supported IPv6, and prefers it over IPv4

I’m sure there’s horror stories, but I doubt it’s systemic.
4) A cure for cancer
Finally Linux will get the same respect Mac gets from gaming publishers.
The planet will be fine. We may be boiled to death, but the planet itself will continue spinning. Likely the worms at the bottom of the ocean near the volcanic vents won't even notice we've gone.

Saying our mismanagement of the biosphere is somehow "grim" for the planet as a whole is hyperbole.
People wouldn’t distrust “The Science” and all manner of government institutions if they weren’t so obviously corrupted. But like everything human, they are fallible:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

I personally refuse to blindly accept anything. Science is a work in progress. “Professionals” started just like I started - as a novice. I don’t need to be told what to think.
How is it a "full-stack framework" when it's "for Django" that provides the backend service? Also on their own homepage they mention "Using other
frontend frameworks with Django", so I'll conclude it is in fact a frontend framework for Django.
I bought a Kia Rio, the cheapest EV I can buy in my country (Australia) is an MG4 for around twice the price (~$20k for the Kia, ~$40k for the MG).

I don't drive very much, under 10,000 km per year.

I've done the maths and for me an EV is more expensive over an expected 10 year lifespan.

Granted I drive significantly less than average, but fuel costs here are a fair bit higher than in the US so for a lot of people buying at the bottom end of the market it may still not be true that an EV is cheaper.
Not OP, but you can check list of supported devices at https://mrchromebox.tech/#devices.

You would want to flash a Full ROM (UEFI) which will then easily support any regular Linux distro.
I clicked your link, saw DP, and tabbed away to try and solve it myself first. (I also forgot to sample without replacement and wound up with $2.86.)

Delightful read!
Honeybees are endemic to Europe and not the Americas. However, we have many species of native bees in the US, most of which are stingless. I'm sure they're being affected somehow as well.
? was just a design choice as it's easier
Haber Process for manufacturing fertilizers.
This Whale May Be Largest Animal Ever-We Have No Idea How It Got So Big
"better is different is worse" is neither valid nor invalid. It can be whichever the person saying it wants.

I say don't worry about the orthodoxy of your stuff, only the function of your stuff.

If it meets your priorities better than the usual way, then by definition it was more correct than the usual way. It just means your priorities were different than others, but that is fine. Other peolple are idiots who don't even know why they do what they do. As long as you know why you do something a certain way, that's all that matters.
Well I never had an iPhone and from Android I only had Chinese stuff coze it's cheap. Mostly Xiaomi but also weird stuff like Lumigon, which for $100 had an infrared camera and (at the time) an unbelievable 128 Gb of storage.

I also never had viruses or malware or what else because I only install official app versions (Teams / WhatsApp / Skype messengers, Netflix / Amazon / HBO / Disney streaming platforms, Google / Microsoft / Custom Bank authenticators, Chrome / Firefox browsers etc).

My kid though ... my God. He installs random games from PlayStore, if I wouldn't have seen I wouldn't have believed it. Every corner of the phone was infested with ads and popups and crap, had to do a factory reset to clean it as even after uninstalling the games the crapyware continued).

Overall if you stay out of games and stick to tried and tested official apps, you're good. Well, apart from Chinese phone bugs, which are unavoidable given the price tag.

Like at least I got used to Xiaomi's bugs but my kid just wanted so much a Huawei Honor Magic5 Lite coze it looks nice and that's all that matters.

Crashed once right when I was setting up my Google account, second attempt succeeded. Then started pre-installed YouTube and took 5 crashes before the 6th attempt finally succeeded and the application started.

For the same money he could have gotten a Redmi Note 12 Pro from Xiaomi, with slightly better hardware specs (but not the slick curved glass look) and as it seems, leaps and bounds better tested software.
I already run all my containers as "non-root", I can run 200 Fedora images and I can do ram/CPU/bandwidth.

I can also put that users home on the SAN so their data is retained if the container has to move servers. I'm unclear what that has to do with being an LXD advantage.
Not even close. A Nerves (iOT) package with Linux Kernel and Erlang/OTP VM and our App code comes in at 21Mb. See: https://nerves-project.org/
Imagine the garbage that you will have to wade through when sideloading is forced upon them.

We can only hope that one day Apple will save Mac users from the horrors of being able to run software of our choice.
With central bank interest rates at >5% this soulds a bit expensive, no?
As in: "If we built it in OpenGL/Vulkan, we will attempt to compile it on Mac; and if it works, release it in a mostly untested form"?

At least Vulkan is a first-class citizen on Linux, so the aforementioned issues are even less headache-filled.
The cloud is someone else’s prem
> But before you declare this a triumphant moment for desktop Linux, it's important to note that some of these Linux users are not, in fact, using Steam on a desktop. The Linux version "SteamOS Holo" 64-bit is the most popular reported, at just over 42 percent of the Linux slice of pie. That indicates that a huge portion of these Linux users are actually playing on Valve's Steam Deck portable, which runs Linux.

There's such a deep seeded, systemic bias against linux that it actually can never win, to any degree or magnitude, because the moment it starts winning we just move the goal-posts for the flimsiest of reasons to ensure it can't quite claim that victory.

Linux is obviously and clearly the most popular operating system kernel on the planet. Oh, no, that's no good a measure, servers are messy, let's refine it to most popular consumer operating system kernel? Oh... it, could also reasonably claim that title? No no, no Android, that doesn't count. Nope, No Chrome OS either, you can't have that, that's, well, that is linux, but its not. Just nice, pure, desktop linux, yes, perfect, arch linux, kde desktop, that'll never trend up and thus is the perfect new-new definition of desktop linu--wait hold up, I'm getting word this is, not possible, its actually SteamOS? Nope, kill it, that's not desktop linux either, kill it.
Yes but apart from that what have capitalists ever done for us
Neither do I. I thought they were doing good work on UE. I don’t understand the popularity of fortnite but people love it and play it and it earns them a ton of money.

But the store seems to exist because they don’t want to use steam or anything else cos they won’t want to lose the 30% cut on game sales or in-game micro transactions.

Yet they happily pay Sony and MS…

And if they created their store and opened it up to others and says oh yeah our fees are less. It would be fine. Gamers have choice. Developers have choice.

But buying games already on steam, or paying to get exclusives is bad. Especially when Tim lies so much.

They should compete by having a better product, service, experience. But they lie cheat and steal to grow.
Watch the Connections series.
They probably consider them hard to read because people overdo it with multiple nested layers of them when they don't need to, and tools like prettier often format them in completely moronic ways that obfuscate the original dev's intention.
Zig 0.11
That's certainly good news for the mountain chains and tectonic plates then.

No volcanoes were harmed in the destruction of the anthropocene ecosystem will make a fine epitaph.
350K+ reported casualties just in a year sounds already much

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-war-already-wit...
0 write your proof then, rise to unending fame.
There are definitely some unscrupulous dentists out there, but I’ve had good ones.
From the article: "It’s intended to work by training the immune system to go after certain senescent cells, aging cells that no longer divide to make more of themselves, but instead stick around in the body. These cells aren’t necessarily harmful, and *some play a vital role in healing and other life functions*."

Emphasis mine. It sounds like there could be major side-effects from this vaccine, possibly undetectable in mice. It would still be interesting to see how this progresses though.
Supposing this lead apatite if conducive, can we not use it for high voltage cables? Some absurd level of energy loss occurs in those.

I understand that there are current limitations inherent in superconductors, but is there no way to scale this?
full of lead, haha!
> As ocean oxygen levels dip, fish face an uncertain future

"An Uncertain future"? Seriously? The word you're looking for is "death".

No sense in couching climate disaster in metaphorical soft words. There is going to be death, and a whole lot of death of all species, including humans.
Yet the same people who do all this goalpost-shifting will also claim that it's pedantic to say GNU/Linux and that Linux is 'just a kernel'.