skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, I had assumed some kind of general peace for the resettlement of the surface of the planet. Given that, there would be some lawlessness, but at least no orbital strikes/nukes.

I was more thinking about various types of agents from the people living in space, all infiltrating each other, traitors to their own types, double agents, weird combinations etc. Plus mysterious people nobody can place - who turn out to be agents from the submarine/hot air balloon groups. And vice versa.

The land is now mostly open and clear, right? So there will be new populations, settlements being started down on the surface. A resource race, with possibly high-tech stuff lying around, relics from the lost civilization!

Player characters could start off as an alleged group of "explorers for sites for new cities" put together by a newly established base - but actually one is trying to divert them away from the hidden holy site of the mineshaft people, where he came from, the other is a spy from a lost faction of the brain people who are outlawed in space now, another is trying to fulfill a 5000 year family promise he received from his father, that when he could, to go to a certain place and say a certain prayer, etc.

There is just huge diversity of backgrounds and tech, and a large, unexplored environment potentially full of strange treasures!
How could cooling be implied from climategate leaks, when climategate deniers where saying "There is no relationship whatsoever between human activities and climate change."?
No, it does not. They are free to create adjacent products to boost revenue as long as they want without debasing existing ones.
That this is a solution remains to be seen. Does this result in net negative population growth? The evidence seems to suggest it does. Will it result in a sharp enough decline in total population numbers fast enough to mean anything? That seems unlikely.
They don’t need to, it just happens to be in the best interest of Costco, so Costco inserts itself.

People buy larger ticket items at Costco because they trust it to work, with a return policy that makes it a safe bet. So Costco needs to sell products that don’t get returned in order to make this strategy work.
> I hold that even in the absence of specific regulation, the German market would provide Germans with pork that's safe to eat raw.

Seems history is dubious on this idea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Meat_Inspection_Act
Thank you for the thorough explanation! For the longest time I thought he was a founder of Tesla and Space.
I don't mind the snapping, but it's terrible that when fast scrolling it stutters at the last few tiles (it should do snapping only after the scrolling is over - but not sure if that's possible)
But it is 490km by car
> They don't know what the boundary between their web browser and their OS is,

Exactly. The thing many users are referring to as MacOS, is in fact, Darwin/MacOS, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Darwin plus MacOS. MacOS is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning operating system made useful by the BSD corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by the Single Unix Specification v3.
I love dialects and grew up in New Orleans. It's an absolutely fascinating city if you have an ear for accents since there are so many distinct ones.

People often tell me that I have "no accent" even though I grew up in the South. The answer is that I used to have a very strong east Texas accent. When I moved to the New Orleans area at ten, I was surrounded by so many distinct accents that I guess my brain didn't know which one to latch onto and I ended up with a sort of generic American one.

I have a distinct memory of a classmate in fifth grade referring to a pen as an "ink pen" (as if there is any other kind) and realizing it was because in his accent, "pen" and "pin" are otherwise indistinguishable.
> Not sure which computing analogy would drive home the complete recklessness of this mentality

Geoengineering is an act of desperation. Its like your laptop is on fire, so you throw some water on it.
Releasing a competitive GPU as a first-gen product and only being a year late is impressive as hell.

Let me go through why it's hard to release GPUs at the right time as someone who's done this at a different company. Development probably started 3-5 years ago, before COVID. They would have estimated what AMD/Nvidia's performance would be that far out and what TSMC's process would look like, then sketched out something that might meet a reasonable performance/cost target, with random guesses at a bunch of important and completely unknown factors like driver quality. Then COVID hit and the entire manufacturing world descended into utter chaos for the better part of 2 years. This is probably a large factor behind why Intel didn't manage their initial 2020/2021 estimates, with another part being that management at any company has no idea how to estimate silicon timelines. On top of that, the 10, 20, and 30 series all had completely different performance increases, probably generating a few revisions of that performance target on their own. Every time they revise the design to keep it competitive though, firmware is screaming at them about stability, and software is screaming at them about timelines, and leadership is screaming about costs.

But somehow despite all of that, they manage a relatively timely release and it's competitive in the low end after a few months of driver improvements. Unfortunately there's another problem. These things are fabbed at TSMC, not Intel. Intel doesn't have that many wafers at TSMC compared to Nvidia/AMD and meaningfully increasing that is expensive. So instead they make the rational decision to release the higher-margin stuff first and let the drivers bake some more. Everything else can get price-adjusted (and minimally design-adjusted) before it releases to make it competitive, which is why the article doesn't have actual pricing.
They need active guidance systems. Being solar sails - with a competent design, they can be trimmed (small portions of the sails moved with electric motors to adjust the forces from the sun) for station-keeping.
> My assumption would be the complexity of the print mechanism / tolerances / balancing.

I once sat on a chairlift with a lawyer who had represented one of the big printer companies and he explained that printers are the perfect storm of: hardware, software, firmware, chemistry, physics, fluid dynamics, paper science, and (yes) lawyers.

The larger companies have put billions into R&D, hence them continuing to pull the crap we see every other month on HN.
> refrain from aggravating the situation

I used to think this way, but after years of trying I don't think getting people to change their life habits is going to happen.

At this point I think geoengineering is necessary. At the very, very least, carbon sequestration at scale is a fairly safe form of geoengineering if we can pull it off.
Hard to say, the link is slow enough that video is unpleasant. But sure, it could have been someone fiddling around in the config when they first got the tv(onboarding process?) but does not have any streaming services so does not care that the link is garbage. But I think the tv was just happy to find a open network and started using it for telemetry.
It’s a good summary but I don’t think the data actually support their conclusion that “While some models projected less warming than we’ve experienced and some projected more, all showed surface temperature increases between 1970 and 2016 that were not too far off from what actually occurred.” +/- 15 % over the last 3 IPCC reports is a lot of missing energy. The models are getting better but I don’t think matching 50 year trends that are essentially linear proves that they are accurate for long term forecasting.

I’d be interested to see a new comparison for this years heatwave. I don’t think models would fare as well.
The Danish bespoke train IC4 has entered the chat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC4
Tonga, not tonga. I thought you were talking about a climate phenomenon unknown to me, when in fact you were talking about the country of Tonga.
In true Aussie fashion they were selling a Vegemite seasoned chicken briefly. I haven't been game but it sounds fun.
> have software stacks so large / complex to configure

I think that’s your problem right there
Your fingerprint and faceid are in public domain (registered on surfaces, cameras etc). I don’t think they are very secure.

It’s only a matter of time that retinas can be scanned too with precision cameras.
That is the listing for SponsorBlock, not DeArrow.
Use this:
" uBlacklist is a Google Search filter for Chrome, Firefox and Safari. "

https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs
Thanks for the optimism.

I guess I'm just salty, that 100% of my users can't connect to 100% of my users, but that is only because I'm building highly local hobby projects, so I can't see the global picture where the % is a lot more sensible.
We don't have any other choice.
> The first time I opened a hex editor, it was to give me better stats in X-COM: Enemy Unknown.

Ditto, although to be honest it didn't stop being "incomprehensible magic" for a rather long time.

What really mattered was the surprised realization that this was magic within my reach, something I could freely cast even if I couldn't (yet) create entirely new spells.
Not sure what you are implying but doxing has a specific meaning.
In stark contrast, in the UK an annual season ticket for a single train route between 2 stations 20 miles apart, is £1400 or about 1600 euro! Rail travel here is just farcical.
No true german would ever have a hard time discerning between ä and ă. That would be like mixing up p and b for an anglophone.
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Probably this zero day:

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2023-34362-moveit-transfer-...
I love that he's kept a version of the original 1996 site online also (see the 'about' page).
The PyTorch documentation has an entire section about how to make your code deterministic. In my experience, the performance difference is negligible.

https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/randomness.html#avoidi...

Unfortunately, determinism across devices or even driver versions is not that easy. You'd have to write your own BLAS kernels using only basic operations, which are guaranteed to follow IEEE 754 semantics.

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/floating-point/index.html

One gotcha are fused multiply-adds, which the compiler may or may not introduce, so you have to wrap all your floating point operations with __fma* intrinsics to make sure the compiler does not interpret them differently.
The thread says the cars are good and good value. This is what causes them to be dangerous on the road.

First they are rental, meaning they are driven hard and by drivers that don’t know the car and don’t have incentives to drive in ways that are good for breaks and engine.

Then they get put on the 2nd hand market, where the thread speculate that they are bought by people who are in a financial bind and whatever lies behind the bad decisions that led them to said bind is reflected in their driving.

This a good economical safe car attracts accidents.
How do you deploy your Apps? We exclusively use EKS and having one account per env and app seems like quite an overhead when I think about managing / updating EKS clusters for each one. It also comes with an overhead of base applications that need to run in each cluster by default (like cert-manager, externaldns etc).

Right now we’re using one account per env but also see downsides and thought of going the next step to do one account per env and tribe/team.
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We do this until CO2 levels come down. Hopefully 20-30 years. Regardless this is really a series of crazy experiments we are proposing doing on a very complicated system.
I have honestly no idea how that relates to my post. There are enormous amounts of money flowing into net zero, for example. There are people working on fusion, there is more thought given to geoengineering - to name just a couple of things.
I'm no great fan of geoengineering, however ...

The idea to inflate space foam reflective bubbles to reduce incoming sunlight is one of the saner geoengineering proposals:

* It can start small and grow to measure incremental effect,

* It's orthogonal to any unintended effects as it happens in isolation and isn't deeply coupled to things unknown in the same sense as aerosols and atmospheric chemistry is.

* It's reversable as bubbles can be popped and no longer exist to reflect and have an effect.

> This should not be some VC funded endeavor.

Yeah, on this we can agree- a high degree of global nation state consensus is what's called for with most climate action .. like the 1970s UN agreements that got effectively sunk by unending Koch et al oil bro's negative media campaigning and lobbying.

'Lone' capitalists do seem to have undue sway in matters that impact billions.
Back in the day, my primary school paid the printer company (I think it was Epson at the time) $400 (which was a lot of money back then) to "upgrade" the school's (we only had 2 printers for the whole school) printers from black and white to colour. Lo and behold, he opened it up and flipped a single dip switch.
Ask HN: What is a good CHEAP laptop to run Windows?
I would like to purchase/use some automotive diagnostic/monitoring software (and hardware) that runs exclusively on Windows (VCDS for a VW). I only have a personal Macbook and bootcamp/dualboot is not recommended.
Is it possible to purchase a cheap (but also somewhat decent) laptop running a modern/LTS Windows version for under ~$250 USD? If so, what would you recommend?

I'm a software dev and am just more familiar with Mac hardware/machines at present moment. Not really sure where to start and what good options may be in the PC realm.

Thanks!
I think you are miss remembering what climategate was. Climategate deniers where saying "There is no relationship whatsoever between human activities and climate change" and they released some out of context emails to support their claims. How does finding out sulphur reduction was masking actual warming effect make climate science any wrong.
This is a good example of the lack of epistemic humility OP was taking about.
okay? A 20% floor for abusive marriages is honesty more optimistic than I expected.
The following document describes how the Voyager spacecraft communicate with the NASA Deep Space Network.
https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/DPSummary/Descanso4--Voyager_n...

This is part of a larger series of publications that may be of interest.
https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/DPSummary/summary.html
Is there a possibly extant universe wherein Pinterest is acting both intentionally and destructively to the detriment of everyone else?

I’d like to add that Hanlon’s razor is a fun bit of internet lore wherein we pretend humans do not act intentionally that’s based on, uhhh…
Why should I use Kaba instead of Linux based OS?
It is never actually cheaper to bundle TV once you count the Regional Sports Fee, Franchise Fees, STB rental and taxes atop all these fees.

Sales reps will happily tell you the pre-fee, pre-hardware rental cost of service, when they actually know within a few cents what your total bill will be
And it took way longer than a few decades to get there hmm...? Systems had time to adapt, including new animals evolving.
For example trees species habitable zones migrate north or south in response to a changing climate, but to do that the northern most edge of the habitable zone for that species at the time a tree starts is life needs to stay within the southernmost edge until that trees dies, otherwise they can't move fast enough. So the whole zone can't move further than the width of it within, what 500 years? At a wild guess. Depending in the average lifetime of the tree species.
Other systems involve evolution to adapt which takes a lot longer.
That's an over simplification of course, and I'm not a scientist, but those are not timescales we've got.
At the point Windows 10 no longer works, I'm going back to either Windows 2000 Server, or Windows 7. I'll sit behind a router with IPv6 turned off, and should be reasonably safe.

I moved to Linux last year, but had to revert to Windows 10 because of WikidPad glitches. The old (compiled) Windows version works great, but because of breaking changes in WxWindows, all of the dialog boxes are broken in Linux, and there's no old compiled version to revert to. That's the weakness of depending on source code.
RocketChat does good with minimal resources. Red Hat used that internally for about 5 years in Consulting. Red Hat definitely fits the xkcd 1782 IRC meme, though.
I guess it's not entirely surprising to see this from Nature, but it's been incredible to see how many people across the web try to tear any shred of possibility of LK99 being a real breakthrough because of a lack of replication, but from my understanding the lab it came put of, QEL, commercial research lab, so why would they publish the exact process to be able to create the material especially if they don't even fully understand it themselves

Regardless it is a promising development with the potential to flip several industries on their heads in terms of what is possible with current understandings but also what is possible from the mind of someone who grows up with the internet like those born post 2k with the internet
I might not be able to give a super coherent picture but I will have a go. The force that hold nuclei together is based on the residual strong force, it is a complex system so the models used for it tend to be semi-empirical (yukawa or reid potential). They go from being repulsive at short distances to being attractive with something like an exponential decay as you go further away. The force is very strong at 1 femtometre and pretty much negligible 3 femtometres away.
This is only the residual of the strong force though, which is what you can think of as holding quarks together. This force is very strange in that it doesn't get weaker the further the quarks get apart, but if it gets far enough then the energy will create new particles. That's just the strong force, I will leave it to someone more knowledgeable than me to try to explain the weak force.
Given the web content it should be "fartology.com" but wonder if the domain was already taken
> In English, the term labyrinth is generally synonymous with maze. As a result of the long history of unicursal representation of the mythological Labyrinth, however, many contemporary scholars and enthusiasts observe a distinction between the two.

Knowing the difference it saddens me that my native language doesn’t differentiate between them which makes me wonder which languages make this distinction.
Most modern color laser printers actually use LED arrays. If your laser printer has the same speed (pages/second) for b/w and for color, it's very likely using an LED array.

The printer I got from brother is definitely using one LED array per color.
The revolution here is not that it is as good as the competition, but that it might have a much better price, leading to a much better price/performance ratio.

If Intel is patient to compete for lower grade GPUs for a few years without killing its GPU line, then we might see them competing for the top in the future. And the top is where the big money is. They'll also need a CUDA compatible API to stand a chance, but they have time.

The only thing that saved Intel until now is that Nvidia can't legally produce x86 CPUs, although they tried.

The more competition, the better.
> Fingerprint scan, retina scan, faceID etc.

Not secure at all. You can be coerced physically to unlock something private/secure. Security should always be a combination of something you know and something you have (2FA).

Additionally, requiring a central authority to manage security is just _asking_ for trouble. Passwords work because of how de-centralized it is. Biometrics and physical-only tokens will fail the minute people realize they can just steal that data and use it to unlock everything centrally.

What we need are better tools to manage passwords in a more transparent way.
I think the other problem was economics. You buy an EV, a massive component of the cost is the battery, yet you might get a lemon battery next time you swap, and then the "swap service" refuses to accept it back. Yes the battery could be a service and never explicitly owned...

That's always been the most frustrating point to argue against, I think. Batteries can be insanely well instrumented. You can tell exactly how much charge has been sent into the battery and pulled out of it. You can tell how old it is, and you can tell how many charge/discharge cycles it has undergone. When you get a 'lemon', you are not going to have a hard time convincing the refill station that (a) the battery isn't delivering the stated performance; and (b) whatever is wrong with it isn't your fault.

There is no reason any normal human being should feel any pride of ownership towards a car battery. No reason on God's green earth. It is no different from the propane grill cylinders you swap out at the grocery store, except that with the battery you can see its entire service history courtesy of the embedded controller. Like those propane cylinders, the batteries will indeed look pretty shopworn after a few months/years in the field. So? You pay for the gas you use, and you pay for the charge you move. That should be the extent of your relationship with a battery, IMO.
Specifically because it kills sea life which reduces the amount of carbon the sea can hold. And for a lot more reasons.
Red Hat used to be a lot more lenient with the clones, just like Microsoft didn't care whether you used a genuine copy of Windows/Office or not. They probably assumed that once you became accustomed to CentOS, you would naturally buy RHEL when an enterprise project came along.

Maybe that's still a reasonable assumption to make. Maybe it isn't. Maybe it was in the past but isn't anymore due to the proliferation of clouds, serverless, saas, whatever.
The only viable alternative to doing nothing is stopping our quest for infinite growth in all sectors.

You're the proverbial boiling frog
Just like this company that deployed by mounting the production server on "the special machine" through SMB and dragged and dropped the files across.

You couldn’t drag and drop the whole folder, else you’d overwrite the numerous configuration files that were all over the place.

I really don’t miss it.
Except this is not a review. The “other side” is not reviewing, they are just pointing out it’s probably nothing and calling happy people naive, which is the easy and lazy way out.

This is a spectator sport. We aren’t specialists, are we? We are enthusiasts. This is like complaining we are excited about space travel of any kind.
Fires are actually decreasing.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/climate-change-hasnt-set-th...

https://archive.li/WfDJh
If you want a well built toaster I’d recommend a Dualit[1].

I’ve had the same one for roughly 20 years and it still just works exactly as it did when new.

It’s truly a design classic.

https://www.dualit.com/
Indeed, the sheer amount of sponsored links on some Google searches is such that you have to scroll a full page down to get to actual results.
On a large scale, not having memory with good ECC is enough to have entropy.
In the UK, a LNER season ticket (unlimited journeys) on just one route (York to London, 2 hours) on the “fast” trains (200km/h) costs nearly 20,000 Euro per year.
I’ll wager this is a aquirhire play, with no product based exit but rather offering a asic dev team and prototype to an established hardware company.