skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The idea being give the hot part the full cooling capacity.

Isn't it also to prevent the hot part from heating the other, cooler parts? This could be used to give each part of a CPU its own independent cooling. That'd be pretty cool.
Congress (verbally) fried GM because stories like that hurt the car industry unless people believe they are being dealt with, not because 100 deaths is a large number.
sls '^........k.$' .\wordlist.txt -raw |where { $W=$_;
('a','b','c' |where
{ $W.Contains($_) -and $W.IndexOf($_) -eq $W.LastIndexOf($_) }
).Count -eq 3 }
China produces more power from renewables than the entire generation capacity of the UK. You can build more firm generation capacity with solar and batteries than a typical nuclear generator, in a year, at a cheaper price. Hell of a bike.

Nuclear has a niche, but it got steamrolled by the S curve of solar, wind, and batteries.
Lax regulation and taxation poor government oversight, weak and corrupt local government. Perfect place for finance
Wild, innit? When there's a really rather nasty but Intel only bug; there's corresponding AMD bug, with name and website and all that; even if the actual vulnerability is "if you was 0wnz0red already" grade.

The rest of Intel is rotten stumps but the PR department is still a sharp fang.
I sure hope I retire before then. Late 50s for me. New generation, indeed!
Ask HN: Do you keep a encrypted journal on your computer?
> The only "good" programming language is the language I make! Everybody thinks different

Yeah. There's always one little thing or another that bothers me in every language I've learned. Guess I've just come full circle now that I've finally made my own. No doubt it will bother someone else too. If anyone ever uses it.
I fail to see the point of this thread. You are complimenting Google Chat and badmouthing Google the company, is that correct?
The main thing I’ve run into is that you can’t build the project anymore.

This is especially common, for example, if you want to revive the source of a Minecraft 1.7.10 mod, say.

As more and more code build scripts pull in external things, the harder it is to get them running again years later.
Ms as the counter exam0le choice was amusing to me because dr. Terry wahls reversed hers with diet and currently does research on a diet protocol to fix ms: https://terrywahls.com/
Two words: mass transit.
Radioactive, yes. "Super" radioactive, no.

Longer half-life -> less radioactive, by definition. Infinite half-life -> not radioactive at all.
AFAIK they have quite a few MOUs with other utilities, may not be down for the count yet. Seems like the US government is all in on SMRs, so they could end up subsidizing...
IMHO there's never "dead" when it comes to software. It's just "done".

I don't know who came up with and propagated the notion that software needs to be constantly "in motion" and perpetually changing (perhaps to justify their continued employment?), but it's an irritating trend.
No one in STEM would get their PhD without this tool. It’s amazing
Slight amendment: China is installing more wind and solar PV generation capacity this year than the entire generation capacity of the UK. The increment, not the total.

Edit: Nuclear power generation in China has, IIRC, tripled in the 21st century.

But demand has gone up much more than twentyfold though, and this year we are the crossover point where wind an PV manufacturing and install rates, and transmission line build rates, exceed the growth of demand, so fossil plants can start to be retired there.

If nuclear can't be built fast in China, where can it?
Riding a bike requires you to live in a shoebox-sized apartment.

Shoeboxes are dead.
Deny and list predate digital computers. Why do you hate logical naming?
Yep, fixing the prompt fix the image https://imgur.com/a/io8swAj
Please explain how we are running out of space for windmills, especially offshore ones? Or why solar plants make no sense
Citation:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/13/chinas-carb...

> The most striking growth has been in solar power, according to Myllyvirta. Solar installations increased by 210 gigawatts (GW) this year alone, which is twice the total solar capacity of the US and four times what China added in 2020.

> The analysis, which is based on official figures and commercial data, found that China installed 70GW of wind power this year – more than the entire power generation capacity of the UK. It is also expected to add 7GW of hydro power and 3GW of nuclear power capacity this year, said the report.
People accidentally a scheme all the time. I first accidentalled a scheme in high school. I learned about S-types, which were to Lisp what JSON is to JavaScript. I made a language around then. Oops.

Some would argue Brendan Eich of Netscape accidentalled a scheme in JavaScript, but others would argue that he didn't. Most accidental schemes are pretty bad, and the original JavaScript fits the bill, or it doesn't, depending on what you think to be a scheme.

There's a law about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule

It comes up in most DSLs.

I bet this is a better accidental scheme, by virtue of the author, but a big part of the point of a scheme is that it's easy to implement, yet powerful. MIT freshman used to build a scheme interpreter and a scheme compiler in their first computer science course (6.001).

It's very easy to accidentally a scheme.
But copper is conductive, so it will conduct electricity too. This could possibly be placed in areas where copper can't be, maybe even much closer to (or even directly contacting) the actual copper traces in the chip.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about CPU manufacturing to speculate much more than that.
I've seen kicking and petting the watchdog, but this is my first time seeing stroking
There are captive buttons to change gears/direction in the X (2023) where the hazards are, as outlined in the docs: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_us/GUID-E9B387D...
I've been publishing code on github for what feels like a decade and i have never felt that anyone taking the time out of their day to write a message to me via the issues page is rude. I think you're the rude one, if you don't want public interaction mark your repos prvate.
But that's the problem isn't it? In some cases they are equivalent and in some cases they are not and a next-word-predictor needs to have "explicit" training data (i.e. it is not doing "reasoning") whereas a human can infer.

This isn't surprising if you think about how the machine actually works rather than treating it like a sacred magic box.

The default assumption for why there is any "success" for in-context learning should be that it's just picking a nearby token that "fits" not a process of logical deduction.

edit: The obvious band-aid-fix is to feed reversed sentences into the training data without telling anyone, after which LLM boosters will proclaim that LLMs "learned" to reverse logical implications.
Because the Google search result experience is so bad, I do this to find better information more and more (already every other day). It's not a lot better, but better.
It’s handled by text shaping libraries (e.g. Harfbuzz in Chrome and Firefox), not font rendering APIs (usually provided by the OS), but you have the right idea.
There is a lot of utility in having a bunch of 1-to-1 links. If you look at the internet you will see that it supports multitask, but it is rarely used nowadays. You would expect to see similar things from other communication protocols. The days that everyone's communications went to everyone are over.

Even if there is hidden commercial activity going on, is that really so bad? Imagine if the internet banned commerce on it, there wouldn't be so much investment into it.
Preach! Open source maintainers don’t owe non-paying users a thing. Open source isn’t a cheat code for getting work done for free. It’s a means of sharing work that was already done so that it doesn’t need to be done again by others.
Cargo already supports using git repos as package sources, but it's painful to use due to slowness of the git protocol. HTTP registry updates are nearly instant in comparison.

If git was the only option, most people would probably just use GitHub, which is merely changing one big host for another.

When it's actually decentralized, when developers use their own git URLs on their own domain, suddenly you have to worry about things like the domains expiring. You have to worry about security practices of every single host. crates.io is a big target, but they know it and act accordingly.

crates.io doesn't allow deleting of packages, but an arbitrary git URL can disappear causing a "left-pad" incident.

Some of these problems could be solved with another protocol better suited for decentralization (where the data is immutable and content addressable, and identities are private keys rather than domains), but that's way more complex than "just use git".
Excel is by far the most used no-code/low-code platform, IMO.
Next gen nuclear was developed fifty years ago for the Mars program before it was cancelled. See nuclear lightbulb research.

It’s taken that long for renewables to get marginally cheaper without solving the base load problem one bit. Meanwhile natural gas has dominated both.
> If the fuel rods were left in the reactor, they'd probably swell

Fun fact: nuclear waste becomes less radioactive than the original uranium in about 300-500 years. The problem with the waste is that it's concentrated in a tiny amount of space that will stay dangerous for geological periods.
Absolute doodoo this was
Bit rot in third party dependencies that never get updated is a real problem
I have Camo and used to use it that way. And latest MacOS has it more or less "built in" (mostly less, but it's there). I like a couple different magsafe "Continuity Cam" mounts for the last couple versions of iPhone + iOS:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B722VBX1/

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B5S7X6BN/

But, seconding PlexiCam.

The L clamps' cutout works with most any screw-in tripod mount.

If you get the PlexiCam Road Warrior Mini, you get two clamps and a miniature battery pack fill light:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C164VQ43/

I find these work well with Logi Brio 4K + Xsplit Vcam, or, with Lumina which has all the autoframing and soft bokeh you could want (far better than what's built into most web conf platforms):

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/webcams/brio-4k-hdr-...

https://www.xsplit.com/vcam

https://getlumina.com/

The other new thing to solve eye contact is Elgato's miniature teleprompter:

https://www.elgato.com/us/en/p/prompter
MIL-STD-188-110D defines a 38,400 baud modem at 48 kHz bandwidth. With 256QAM, the raw data rate is 240 kbps.

Of course, the 2.8 kHz bandwidth rule prohibits that in the ham bands. The FCC had originally declined to set a maximum bandwidth in their first ruling, but that caused everyone's head to explode (and that's one of the reasons this ruling has taken so long).

http://tracebase.nmsu.edu/hf/MIL-STD-188-110D.pdf
It used to be roughly that not too long ago, so it's not surprising that that's still the exchange rate people have in mind. I don't think it's worth making an issue out of or being upset by.
You got some great answers already, but to your first point check out Hennessey and Patterson's books, namely Computer Architecture and Computer Organization and Design.

The latter is probably more suited to you unless you wanna go on a dive into computer architecture itself. There's older editions available for free (authorized by the authors) on the web.

I first read the 3rd edition of Computer Architecture and besides being one of the most clear textbooks I've ever read it vastly improved my understanding of what's going on in there in relation to OoO speculative execution, etc.
I have good news: we have a working nuclear fusion reactor that produces power on the order of 300 septillion watts per second. In their wisdom, its engineers conveniently placed it about 1 AU from the Earth, meaning that all we need to do is catch the energy it's currently transmitting to us.
Security vulnerabilities (particularly in dependencies) make this desire practically unachievable for many pieces of software.
Trillian was already the name for a distributed system - an instant-messaging app. I used to use it around a decade ago. Seems like they still exist, but have pivoted into enshittification (it's an Electron app now, and you have to buy a subscription for chat history and read receipts).
> It is unclear to me, though, why an individual that imposes his will over another by force is (aptly) considered to be a despot, but a group of individuals that band together to impose their collective will by force on another group of individuals is considered as being a moral and acceptable state of affairs.

An authoritarian individual or group are equally immoral, although groups may be more stable given some diversity of thought and need to negotiate.

But the ideal of coordinated rule is that the whole population negotiates to create the rules for the whole population.

Democracy is an attempt at that, using multiple levels of representation to get around the inefficiency of everyone having to weight in on everything.

But its worth noting there are three aims of democracy and other attempts at good government:

1. Getting the highest quality decisions made. This, it turns out, is very difficult. We could even say, unsolved.

2. Demilitarizing politics. Democracies are a huge (but not perfect) success in this case. Peaceful coup, after coup, after coup, (i.e. elections replacing encumbants) is a tremendous improvement over civil wars, purges, assassinations, violent intimidation campaigns, ...

3. Decentralizing power, to water down governments self-interest. Any individuals forming a government are going to be prone to ruling the state for their own benefit. However term and role limits create turnover and power checks that reduce each individuals ability to self-deal significantly. Corruption can be rampant, but if the system holds, then by definition the corruption is far reduced from a despot situation.

Most people don't consider #2 and #3 the main reasons for having a democracy, but I think both are far more important and reliable benefit than #1. So effective (most of the time), that we mostly spend our times arguing about #1.
I know at a minimum that hurricane forecasts have gotten significantly better over time. We can now

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/verification/verify5.shtml

Our 96 hour projections are as accurate today as the 24 hour projections were in 1990.
Apple doesn't allow Apple Watch to read NFC tags
We homeschool our 5 children, one of which is high school age.

I wouldn't fret over experience. You're adults teaching material for children. Even if you don't remember specific material it's trivial to refresh yourself. It's mostly stuff you've learned already.

Patience as you correctly suspect is key. However it's not the typical patience you need when parenting. It's the ability to allow someone to figure something out, or to change curriculum or plans on the fly.

But honestly, that highlights the beauty of homeschooling. You can change, take a break from or altogether drop a particular approach. It takes some getting used to. Once you get over the panic that your child will fall behind and watch them work through a struggle over a long period it really is rewarding.

Go for it, you'll figure it out. The fact that you're worried about it is indicative of the fact you'll do a good job.
Still happens with Quad9, unfortunately.
Forks don't suck, BSD is a fork. There would be no linux without forks. Libreoffice is a fork, when is the last time you ever heard somebody say the cursed words "open office"? Probably about 15 years ago, when it was forked. Forking is normal and encouraged. Fork for literally no reason, all the time. It's fine.
Microsoft, Google will not challenge EU gatekeeper status
Anecdotal evidence here, but one thing I've found interesting as a Clojure(Script) developer is how projects with one commit in the past year are considered active by most of us, whereas in the JavaScript and Python world, it seems that a few months without a commit makes people start asking if the project is abandoned.

On the flip side, one thing I dislike a lot about the Clojure community is when people say "sometimes software is complete and there is nothing else to do" as an excuse to tolerate libraries that have gone unmaintained for years. Again, anecdotal evidence, but half the time I hear "the software is complete", I end up finding a bug in said software.

Lastly, this paragraph summarizes a bigger problem with consumer behavior in open source:

The best-case scenario for asking if an open source project is dead is that you annoy the maintainers and delay development. The worst-case scenario is that you give the maintainers an opportunity to reconsider if continuing to work on the open source project is worth it.

People seem to forget that the vast majority of open source projects are thanklessly maintained and it is annoying having to deal with e.g. people who blatantly ignore instructions in your README, file an issue resulting from said negligence, then open a pull request to "fix" this problem that can be avoided by simply following instructions in the README. (I have had this happen in a few projects I maintain). One of my friends calls this style of PRs "drive-by PRs", and I wouldn't be surprised if most of the PRs in the author's project are just that. I want to say the author slightly alludes to this situation when stating

... accepting a misguided PR will create technical debt and take even more effort to address.
> Subjective meaning is still meaning :)

Even if it an illusion? If you personally (subjectively) believe that your spouse loves you, does it matter that they're secretly actually (objectively) cheating on you?
The strongest argument in favor of nuclear seems to be that it sounds futuristic and it's what we grew up believing would be the future of energy.

However in practice it has never turned out to be that great. There's little to recommend it: it requires massive amounts of labor, double checking high skill welds, documentation, and nobody in the industry seems the least bit interested in making this an efficiency process.

Nuclear rockets sound cool. Nuclear electricity plants are pretty awful in practice.

Batteries are about 1000x more useful on the grid than nuclear, it will greatly enhance reliability as they are super scalable and have the potential to massively increase the efficiency of grid transmission and distribution, the most expensive part of electricity for most. Nuclear has none of those benefits.
This is fantastic! Do folks do this manually in other languages or are there proven packages folks use?
But not easily storable.
They are not cheaper. They appeared cheaper for a while when there was a bubble and interest rates are zero. Now wind and solar farm projects are failing.
Why? It's either useful or it's not, and if it is and it's open source you can take it and use it or enhance it as you like.

If your use of open-source code is predicated on the expectation that someone else will always be there to take care of it, then you're just a freeloader.
The cheapest Pixel is $499, so it’s not like Apple users are paying more than the market will bear — and even if you get the Walmart discount phone you’re paying more than the savings in service pretty quickly, so this is a pretty democratic competition compared to all of the other ways people buy things they enjoy or signal affluence: people pay many tens of thousands more for premium SUVs, high end clothing costs considerably more than that iPhone, etc. Half the people here have the same phone as actual billionaires, and we don’t spend any time in their circles otherwise.

Your comment history suggests you have a personal identification with Android, which I think is making it hard to evaluate it rationally. I’d suggest considering whether that’s really a lot of money for something people use so much every single day, and whether your position might be one of the goals of the intense PR play Google has been making to get the EU regulators to make them less of an also-ran in the messaging space - they know it depends on convincing the regulators that Android users are being discriminated against, which is why you hear so many stories about that which turn out to be sourced back to Google and the phone companies.
TIL there are people who get mad if the list of naughty strings doesn't get enough updates.
my bad, thx!
Uhh . . . because it's 2023 and no software exists on an island? OSes evolve. Dependencies evolve. Literally everything in industry is constantly changing, be it for compliance reasons or because the foundational architecture (language, build pipeline, etc.) is changing. Put software on a shelf and it will rot. "Maintenance mode" is not feasible for any credible corporate application or FOSS project.
I don't know about Tesla, but at SpaceX he is actually the Chief Engineer, and in more than just title. A lot of the innovative stuff SpaceX has done were the result of engineering decisions he made. According to Eric Berger's book on the beginning of SpaceX, he is a quite capable self-taught engineer respected by the people who work for him, including those who moved on to other things and had no incentive to lie.

I don't hold him on any pedestal. But saying he's just a marketing guy isn't correct either.
> They can be picked up and worked upon at any time by anybody,

There is/was a clojure library for Apache Spark. It stopped being maintained. In ensuing 9 years, the tooling it uses has completely changed, the 3rd party libs it uses either changed or stopped being maintained and underlying Spark changed a great deal.

It would be less effort to start over than try to pick it up
Windows ships with VBScript, JScript, CMD, C#, and PowerShell right out of the box. I recall interviewing a college guy around 2018, and he tried to educate me about how Windows doesn't have a good command line / scripting / automation solution beyond command.com. I think I still said "hire" because he had other talents, but damn.
This seems like the kind of thing that would be addressed during implementation, rather than persevere as a fundamental problem with LLMs.
I always wondered how much damage insecticides do to the overall insect population. I used to wonder how they were able to just kill crop-damaging bugs. Later I learned that most bugs, no matter their ability to damage, were killed by it and it has a far-reaching effect on parts outside where it is used. Now they have to deal with climate change, mono-crops, land loss, and insecticides. No wonder they are in trouble.
A couple of counterpoints about the weather:

-beautiful year round is subjective; my town had a high of 52F today and was one of the nicest days all year.

-Miami is way too hot for a lot of people (and getting hotter)
That with full recycling, including partitioning and transmutation. In a once-through cycle it takes more like 10,000 years.

https://www.iaea.org/publications/7112/implications-of-parti...

Edit: I'm a nuclear engineer.
Is that actually challenging? My MC launcher can pull in 1.7.10, add a mod loader, and load mods into it just fine. Do you mean if you try to run a 1.7.10 mod in a modern MC version? That's not a realistic goal because of dramatic API changes between versions. There are a number of breaking versions that require basically rewriting mods. But you can still play the on the old version and most modded minecraft players are many breaking versions behind by default. This is the norm in most games, where game updates are routinely expected to break all backwards compatibility. And considering modding minecraft has never been officially supported, it's surprising it works as well as it does.

I'm playing a 1.7.10 pack lately actually, still just as good as when it came out!
i'm an idiot, 3³ = 27. but that's still not divisible by 6. that explains how it's possible to be only 25% more likely