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Geoengineering is bad. The problem is that the alternatives may be even worse.
The first time I opened a hex editor, it was to give me better stats in X-COM: Enemy Unknown.

I was about 16 and had no idea what I was doing. But, at the very least, binary files stopped being some incomprehensible magic. They were just data that you can change, if you know what you're doing.
If this is the Hex game I know, the one on Wikipedia, I think you're kind of sweeping a lot under the rug by equating Go and Hex.
That line of thought “if it doesn’t immediately pay for itself it’s a liability and tax payer money shouldnt be used for it” keeps getting used by certain groups to diminish what the government provides back to the people.

It trivially follows that if you find a service unsustainable then you must cut it. But this makes sense only when you can show that the secondary effects also don’t cover for the costs, however those are often ignored in such discussions.

Ideas are dangerous when they are dishonest and misrepresent reality or hide the full picture.

People don’t want complicated solutions to things they don’t understand, they want simple solutions to things they believe they understand. This is the basis of populist rhetorics and populist politics.
I did warn the other commenter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36935242. But in general, we need you to follow HN's rules regardless of what other people are doing.

(I don't mean just you personally, of course, but everyone here.)
Friends don’t let friends use HP.
It could be Guy McPherson ? - https://guymcpherson.com/
Haven't used panther myself, but I've chosen to use other solutions instead of FastAPI because tends to be the usual python soup mess on multi-modular projects. Also, I dislike pydantic quite a lot (I know, it works well for many use cases, its not a bad library), and usually use a three tier (presentation-service-data), DI-driven approach to development, which is largely incompatible with most python framework approaches. So, I've been building pretty much all the required layers on top of some of the Flask functionality for http (mostly the router and the dispatcher).

Also, building a framework is also a nice way of understanding how the sausages are made :)
The Voyager missions are simply incredible. Definitely worth reading up on if you're not familiar!
Proportional representation has problems too. There is no perfect system.
It's not. Not sure what the official boundary is (if there even is one), but Midwest is far east of Western. It would better be called 'Norcentral' these days, but the name is probably left over from times when St Louis was considered western
It's a thing from the past. Last year the punctuality of Deutsche Bahn long range trains dropped to 65%.
Discuss HN: Resources for Learning Clojure
From the discussion here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37000562) it seems like there are many people have shown interest in Clojure but never tried to learn it or couldn't make it stick. So I thought I'd share my favorite resources when I was learning Clojure:

Programming Clojure https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Clojure-Stuart-Halloway/dp/1934356867

The Joy of Clojure
https://www.manning.com/books/the-joy-of-clojure-second-edition

The Bay Area Clojure User Group
https://www.meetup.com/the-bay-area-clojure-user-group/
(unfortunately it looks like their last event was in 2022)

What are some resources you all have found useful?
Is there an actual paper?

I am struggling to find concrete info, I only see media packages for press releases?
Is this the first 360 deg 4K panoramic police chase in the world?

I wonder what radio signals the streetview car picked up whilst it was happening. Were they monitoring the cop radios?

Is this a stealth attempt to collect data at speed for some self driving vehicle project? Its not like this could have happened any other way.

Did someone hack the vehicle controls?

Is this an attempt to get data for a new games engine, to rival Grand Theft Auto or Need for Speed?

Was the driver having childhood flash backs to the Dukes of Hazzard?

So the driver said he was scared to stop. Well if google employees/contractors/ are scared to stop, what does that say about US police practices.

I wonder if this idea of police brutality will spread to other countries, considering the dominance of US social media. When will the first UK police chase occur where the driver says they were scared to stop?

So many questions and a question of time.
In small amounts I enjoy how pretty it is. As a kid I found it fascinating how different it all looked. Growing up we only had a few. French Francs, German Marks, Belgian Francs, Danish Krone.
Honestly this comes across as paranoid yet defeatist. You don't believe encryption works? Really? All encryption? Do you think cryptography researchers are all in collusion or just inept?
Maybe we just really wish science news would be about something positive after decades of climate doom and global pandemic horrors.

For most of my adult life, any newspaper article that quotes a PhD has reliably been about how we're all fucked.
Sure, but imagine if a D&D setting was an actual world that somehow survived long enough to start implementing countermeasures (remember the last 1/3rd of this book is set thousands of years in the future, so reasonably analogous). If the Player Characters decide they don't want to bother with a problem, it would have to be solved with other methods, like massive use of defoliants (think agent orange) and pesticides, bunker buster bombs (think MOP, if deliverable with enough precision), and as a last resort, dropping massive thermobaric weapons to destroy entire cities, possibly repeatedly, and then setting up miles wide demilitarized zones in a circle around the incident zone with kill-on-sight orders and automated turrets and tracking systems, if feasible with the tech available. Obviously a few Player Characters can't handle everything, so it would be reasonable common as an ordinary person to find out the next city over no longer exists and they have just been drafted to man the "human side" of the newly created DMZ.
Ok, I hear you about the word "you" - it's easy to confuse that in general. I often tell people "I don't mean you personally" (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

At the same time, if "you" can be misinterpreted as a personal attack, it likely will be - so the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

Moderation here is always going to be inconsistent, simply because we don't see everything that gets posted, or even 10% of it - there's far too much. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.
Ha! I had the opposite reaction- frustrated at the scroll behavior override.
Can AI Fully Take over the Data Scraping Process?
It is a pop culture thing, I really wonder when such misconceptions will end.
German are striking as often and sometimes more than the French, and their train are very often late, meaning a high chance of missing your connection.
When I can I take a train without connection. Even in my very limited use of German trains, I still average around 50% missing connections.

I had to take 3 trains a few weeks ago, the first one was 20min late, meaning I missed my first connection. It turned out no big deal because the train I was supposed to get into didn't leave: it was broken! I had to wait an hour at the station, then I had the chance to jump into a packed train (remember the previous train which did not come?).
It was such a pleasure.
It's amazing these projects began over 50 years ago in 1972 when 8-track tapes still dominated cassettes for music delivery.
An even sadder example of it: Windows.
Do you know that the neighbor didn't intentionally make their TV do that?
What keywords give you pinterest in result set? I use mostly Bing and I don't recall ever to see pinterest in any search results.
Hot Wheels has cars with NFC chips in them, and they're only about $5 a car. You could teach him how to make a stats tracker to compare his favorite cars, see which are the fastest, and which perform the best over time, with a cheap NFC reader you could place under tracks. You could even get some old-fashioned character LCD displays, make a little scoreboard and teach him how to print the winners on it.

If you're willing to learn to teach him something, it wouldn't even be that hard to get into hardware a little to make programmable tracks, and that'd be a relatively cheap hobby to share with him. Some cheap actuators from Digikey or Mouser and a $250 3D printer (which is an incredible tool to have if you're frequently around children anyway), and not only is he set with skills that'll make so much of his life easier, it'll probably be more interesting to him right now than making a card game.

Remember, hacker culture and everything that's downstream of it (like the free software movement) came about not because people were trying to prepare themselves for the workforce or from ambition, but because people wanted to make their toy trains run on time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Model_Railroad_Club

If he likes toy cars, then please, please, please find the intersection of your love of computing and his love of cars. It's not a bad sign that he cares about Hot Wheels, that's actually amazing! There's a lot of cool ways to introduce technology to a love of cars, and the types of projects that exist in the intersection of programming and cars are incredibly useful for understanding computers on an intimate level. You can work on tracks and scoreboards like I mentioned, or you could take his Hot Wheels and help him turn his favorites into RC cars.

https://hackaday.com/2020/08/12/scratch-build-of-this-tiny-r...

https://hackaday.com/2021/04/23/modding-a-hot-wheels-car-int...

If you want to go big, when he gets a bit bigger there are even more projects you could do. A simple ride-on kids' car (think a Power Wheels clone) is completely doable by someone of your vocation. If that seems like a bit too much for you, then you could always help him walk through a tutorial on how to make a self-driving RC car:

https://ori.codes/

I'm not hugely into cars; none of this is stuff that requires knowing about them to help your kid with. Please consider doing so; you seem like a really well-intentioned parent, and taking advantage of a kid's interests really helps when trying to teach them things. Thanks for caring about teaching him computing; genuine enthusiasm to share your love of something with a child can make a world of difference.
A rare opinion but one I share wholeheartedly. I started my career at Google Cloud but spent the rest of it working with AWS. AWS always feels like an uphill struggle, lots of micro management and resources that need to be duct-taped together. I'm lucky to have recently landed a Google Cloud gig and my God, things are so much easier and smoother now. It just seems better designed and integrated to me, albeit much fewer services to choose from if you don't buy into their ecosystem.
That's a reasonable point, but most people (or at least many people) in $region are going to interpret such a comment as a regional attack even if it wasn't intended that way. Most people's identity has something to do with where they live.
This dude isn't aware of MVC with scaffolding from entities....
https://www.newegg.com/amp/intel-21p01j00ba/p/N82E1681488300...

The next google result was that one on Newegg. I saw it was out of stock and said I’ve seen all this before and gave up.
Convert any arXiv paper into a podcast episode
Hey HN! We built a tool to help people catch-up on latest literature on the fly. It's pretty bare bones right now but we'd love to hear what everyone thinks.
I don’t understand how Intel can afford to sell these so cheaply given they are fabbed at TSMC.
Root module is the official terminology used in Hashicorps own documentation. That's actually the term I'm most familiar with in my own experience.

https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/modules/s...

> Every Terraform configuration has at least one module, known as its root module, which consists of the resources defined in the .tf files in the main working directory.
In my experience cuBLAS is deterministic, since matmul is the most intensive part I don‘t see other reasons for non-determinism other than sloppyness (at least when just a single GPU is involved)
I remember seeing discussion a couple months back about how long it would take to get ASICS for LLMs. I guess the answer is this long
Same reason a photograph of a delicious meal (the theorized characteristics of the material you want) doesn't give much idea of how to make it, even if you have a stove and live next to a supermarket with all the ingredients.
Your comment was (a) flamewar; (b) fulminating; (c) crossing into personal attack; and (d) taking the thread further into a generic tangent.

All of that, the HN guidelines ask you not to do: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have used Keepass for years and have zero complaints.
You’re literally arguing with someone advocating for consumers to be provided with enough information to be able to make decisions for themselves. They’re not saying they want the government to ban these practices, just to make them non-deceptive. Which is a role the government has performed successfully in the past: see the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Have a look at Nvidia financial statement to get an idea why ;)
It must be so rewarding for the engineers on these projects when so many years later their work is validated.
If we're going to talk prog metal, someone has to mention the greatest band in that genre of all time - Fates Warning - so I just did.
I sympathize. You're the person who does this because they love it and sees room for improvement everywhere. Unfortunately, most people are not like that. I know because I've been in a few teams and it's rare to find the person who is seeking constant improvement. Most get to just good enough and stop there. It's fine. It is what it is.
NVDA also fabs at TSMC and has 60% gross margins, so there's a lot of room to undercut on price while still being profitable.

The real question is why doesn't TSMC charge more? How can a customer using the most cutting edge fab get 60% margins? (Similar for other customers).

Clearly there's a lot of pricing power on the fab side that's not being asserted.
The cost of the cooling subsystem and whatever workarounds you need to do to deal with heat buildup, plus about 10-20% in resistivity iirc. Not a pro engineer, but have some experience with building electronics and embedded systems.
A unit test would have caught this.
If the phone line is obligatory it’s just a way of restructuring your bill to make the headline rate look lower. (I’ve not paid for a landline for 15 years.) I’d love to use Sonic but they stopped building out the street next to me.
The more radical geoengineering ideas, like deflecting sunlight from space, are truly potential extinction level events that should be regulated out of existence. This should not be some VC funded endeavor.
I highly doubt many proponents of geoengineering think in terms of rebooting or isolating individual factors.

The appeal of geoengineering is you can nudge specific systems slowly into another direction. You can start small and observe expected effects and unwanted side-effects.

Reduction of sulfer emissions by ships is an interesting starting point to learn something.
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Isn’t google cloud deployment just bash calls to the google cloud cli disguised as declarations by way of yaml?
It would be interesting to see what happens when all the extroverts self select for in office work and introverts self select for wfh.
I mean if you want to proceed from a faith-based position that's a personal choice. Personally I'll start believing in bigfoot 2 seconds after I see one.
Lovely to see my home town in the news.
Related: Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman, that contains a chapter about the Statue of Liberty with lots of intricacies about coating.
There is no alternative.

We have "aggravated the situation" (as you put it) beyond recovery. Doing nothing will now surely lead to an unacceptable outcome. We are going to have to fix it, or resign ourselves to a huge shrinking of the habitable region of the planet, with the hunger/famine/war that will accompany that.

Obviously we can always make things worse. But when doing nothing is unacceptable, we have to start taking risks.
Impressive list. The maintainers should copy paste this onto that page
DeFi is a use case. Within that, there is interest rate arbitrage. You can lend one token as collateral, borrow against it up to your collateralization ratio that is comfortable and then use that borrowed token for something else. Typically, lend it out for more interest than your original borrowing interest. In a way, being your own bank.
When no fault divorces were legalized in California, the female suicide rate dropped about 20% - and stayed that way.

[https://www.nber.org/digest/mar04/divorce-laws-and-family-vi...]
What do you mean by polyglot? Things like CUDA.jl?
Agree 100%. For example, in the UK they extend the manufacturer's warranty on TVs to five years and have a reputation for being very straightforward to deal with when things go wrong.
It doesn’t help that their entire catalog is reduced to three songs continually recycled on Classic rock stations.

I’ve seen every tour since Power Windows (‘86). All of them have been clever, funny, very professional, and respectful to their fans. I remember Geddy practically trapped by being almost buried in keyboards during the “Hold Your Fire” tour. The South Park “Lil Rush” short is on point about what this band is about live. (I laugh just thinking about it.) And I’m glad they were able to salvage the recording to capture the energy that was the “Rush in Rio” album. I will say none of the crowds at my concerts sang along to “YYZ”.

Their final album tour was extraordinary, particularly with the string section. It was one of my top concert experiences, along with Pink Floyd’s Division Bell (PULSE) tour (boy was that a spectacle). That said, the execution of their final tour was perfect as they counted down almost their entire catalog against a constantly shifting stage piece.

These guys constantly produced and performed for 40 years, never resting on their laurels. Total pros.
I'm currently reading Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley in Search of America". He wrote it in 1960 and even then he remarks on how the US is quickly losing local dialects thanks to radio, television, and mass media.
Though there are probably ways to work around that. I've used a Magisk module to trick SafetyNet and successfully used banking apps and such a few years ago.
but the point as i understand it is that then in most districts the minorities will never get a chance to elect representatives that favor them because they get outvoted by the majority.

but it bothers me that the solution to this problem is to redraw voting districts. and for a while i could not figure out why or what to do about it, but then i wondered, why not simply have multiple representatives for each district. say a dozen or so.
that way there is enough room for each minority to be proportionally represented by candidates of their choice.

to make it more interesting, give each voter more than one vote, up to the number of representatives. then you add up all the votes and pick the top 12.

make the districts larger or add a second layer of voting to keep the total numbers of elected representatives down. with a second layer all elected would again elect a smaller number amongst themselves again allowing minorities to be represented.
Can I just pass my first draft through chat GPT because I wanna save my fingers.
What percentage does it have to be before the mentally unwell are the baseline and the current baseline become the minority? Is humanity recognizing a long standing problem, or is this change to the human brain based on new factors we aren’t accounting for?

Serious question.
If you are interested in a field or technique I highly recommend articles in the physics review journal. They publish around 4 articles every quarter and each is a 45-70 page deep dive on a subject.
I'd still just buy the AMD gpu.

Mature drivers, and better tested alongside AMD cpus.

Also, I never liked Intel[0].

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osSMJRyxG0k
Has Nvidia assembled one of the greatest engineering teams in human history, or is everyone else just not interested in competing?

I don't get it. Intel have decades of relevant expertise, and have been printing money for years due to AMD's effective absence from the top-class CPU market between 2005 and 2015.

And yet years and years and years go by, and Nvidia is now the world's fifth most valuable company, far surpassing all other chip manufacturers (except Apple), and nothing is happening on the market.

How the fuck is this even possible?
TT is decent but doesn't have the staff of a huge NYC megapaper or ProPublica. (ProPublica is basically old school journalism with some influence of WSJ pre-Murdoch.)

TT does original reporting that's quoted in other papers.

PS: TT is ~9 blocks due west of where I hang my hat. :)

Greg Casar, our rep for TX-35, is on Democracy Now! every few months because he's sane, sensible, courageous, and on the side of decency such as ensuring federal standards for health and safety when the state decides to preempt local regulations.
Even if you somehow banded together all Costco members (i.e. people who paid membership fees to be able to ship there), you wouldn't be able to force the board of directors to resign (other than via boycotts etc.).

For a clearer example, Sam's Club has a similar membership, but that's well-known to be owned by Walmart…
I see in the comments it seems to be a huge miss understanding between 2 uses of “non-deterministic”:
1) from normal English: cannot be determined beforehand (results may vary)
2) from theory of computation: loosely “parallel computation” (unknown path to the solution)
Well, it's also same for me and it's asking for €24.99 for access!
I feel this is one of those moments when the technical term "whew" is appropriate.

I was born in the early 70's and the Voyager's have been travelling most of my life. In some ways they're like a touch-stone, something I always click on when I see an article.

One day, like me, they'll finally die, but until then may they travel onwards and outwards.

A tip of the hat to folks at NASA and JPL that built this marvel, with 70's tech, that still continues to amaze and delight us.
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