skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As far as I can tell, Earth's atmosphere seems to extend further into space than Venus'.

Technically, Earth's atmosphere extends infinitely far into space. It's not like there's some force-field holding it in; it just gets less and less dense with altitude. So the line depends on your definition, which must be some threshold.

Anyway, Venus has about 90% of the gravity of Earth, so with 92x as much pressure at the surface (of a slightly smaller solid body), I think it stands to reason that at any given altitude, Venus's atmosphere has much higher density than Earth's. If Venus had far higher gravity, then this might not be the case at some altitude, but since its gravity is lower, then Earth's meager atmosphere should show slightly greater stratification I would think.
Unfortunately, spam exists and phone verification is one of the least-bad-way to ensure that the user is a real person (there are other options, but it really is one that has many advantages).

Given that Signal does not have access (by design) to much information about their users when they use the service, they can't really fight spam once accounts are created. You could do spam detection on the client and privacy-preserving voting in order to ban spammers, but the UX would be very poor and that opens a whole new can of worms.
Not true I don't have spam on Tox or Briar.

But sadly I don't have contacts either!
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Why do space operations use "nominal" to mean "working correctly"?
Yeah, I speak a little Japanese, so I was able to ask one of the people working at the museum.

It really depends on the shrine. Some explicitly allow lifting and some have stones that you're not allowed to touch. So it's best to ask in just about every case.
Sounds like your username.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.
Taiwan's economy is deeply dependent on TSMC. By preventing TSMC from selling to the mainland while encouraging subsidies for TSMC's competitors in other countries the US is really squeezing Taiwan with unclear long-term consequences.
That is, until eternal september.
Or you literally aren't allowed to fix it, while it also being your responsibility to fix it.

For example you see are responsible for fixing problem X, so you go to do it, and are told that X isn't on the planning board this month (because problem X hadn't occurred yet when planning happened at the start of the month) therefore you aren't allowed to work on it. But in other meetings, it's your fault it's not fixed, X is your job after all.
>China will steal what it can, corrupt who it can, threaten who it can and most importantly, re-invent what it is missing (they have a bigger STEM education pipeline that most Western countries combined) until they no longer have this achilles heel.

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

China has done what you said since 2005. it've been 20 years. is China leading the semis industry?
Currently the weapons against bullshit is trying to talk to it. Engage and you'll find only 5% of the time there is depth, or earnest.

The rest is just airing itself like dirty laundry by the second response and ultimately just serves in contributing to a humans ability to quickly adapt to new environments. Which means bullshit just smells more nuanced today.
I cited someone who posted empirical evidence from a lot of peer-reviewed studies. Slapping the defamatory label "racial supremacist" to anyone who cites evidence one doesn't like doesn't change anything. Apart from that, a "supremacist" usually refers to someone who thinks his group is the best one, but we have no indication that he is Ashkenazi Jewish or even East Asian.
Quebec, Canada one-ups on this! Our warranty law essentially says a "product must work for as long as is reasonable". There is also a very easy way for citizens to apply to a commission, including past judgements, with a simple form and no cost.

One can also look at past judgements.

So far, the logic is that an expensive fridge should last 10 to 20 years. Same for other appliances. And if companies give the run-around, those costs are added to judgement costs too.

These laws, such as Norway's and this one in Quebec, are vital. And to anyone saying they care about the environment, creating a massive appliance like this, and then making it purposefully bork early to kick a replacement, is absurd. The environmental cost of production, shipping, and then trashing such an appliance is silly, just to pad the pocket book.

Note: I'm the first to say profit = awesome. Let the market decide. But LG (for example) is famous for having a compressor issue with fridges, to the extent that there have been class action lawsuits against them. And on top of that, having an inability to get any parts... so people cannot even get fridges fixed! Replacing fridges every 2 years (an example) instead of once a decade is probably incredibly bad for the environment... for no valid reason!

From:

https://www.opc.gouv.qc.ca/en/consumer/good-service/goods/ap...

What is a “reasonable lifetime”?

The reasonable lifetime warranty provides that an appliance must serve for normal use for a reasonable period of time. However, the law does not specify, for example, that a stove must have a lifetime of 10 years. Why? Because several factors, such as the price paid, the contract, and the conditions of use, must be taken into account to determine the reasonable lifetime of the item. Thus, a $700 stove cannot be expected to last as long as another one with the same features, but that costs $1,500.

Also, add to the above another bit of logic I've heard. If you buy a clothes washer, and use it 3x every single day, obviously that might fall into "non-consumer use" or "excessive use", thus shortening the above "reasonable lifetime". Meanwhile, if you're a bachelor that uses the washer once a week, the inverse is true! It should last longer.
I mean, that's the reason they can't ask for one, but I'm more interested in the reason why the FCC said they can't ask for one.

Is it because of pointless administrative gridlock? If so, good on them for finding a way to get around some bureaucrat's unwillingness to wield their approval stamp.

Is it because of some technical reason? Ok, bummer, but that's totally different. If it's someone's bottom line vs a public resource, that's that... but I get the sense the FCC would have said that explicitly, no?
Nothing has changed.

For some reason they want to distribute this command line script as a double-click installer which doesn't need to be signed either. Users will simply need to override the "this is untrusted and you shouldn't open this" dialog.
This seems similar to https://www.mail-tester.com which I use all the time to quickly diagnose mail issues
Las time I checked, the battery on those was horrible because the cpu just uses too much power. Hence why I'm waiting for SD 8 support, plus SD is much faster, just in case I'm somewhere with low connectivity and need to run vscode (electron behemoth) locally.

Thanks for the suggestions though!
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Indeed. The track record of monarchies turned republic is not great. Iran comes to mind.
Pentagon explores military uses of emerging AI technologies
Regulation fixes:

Life cycle ownership: Just like handling hazmat in industrial processes is considered the ownership of the entity using the materials, so too should the waste stream resulting from the end of life of the product. Encourage products that are easy to dis-assemble into mostly parts that can be usefully recycled (used by someone else!)

TCO and Right to Repair assistance. All service manuals and instructions should be public domain. Parts with various cryptographic keys and enclaves must also be serviceable by future end users; physical access (and possibly installed jumpers or other easily replaced parts) to reset and enroll in a new security domain must be part of the design. (I would like to see PCs ship with a 'jumper' connected to a physical key position. Enabling that jumper would E.G. allow BIOS updates, including changing the installed / enabled list of allowed signing authorities, including locally provided options. Empower the end user.)

Firmware blobs for the various chips on a product should also be submitted to the copyright office(s) and ownership of the product constitutes a valid license to obtain a new copy of the blob (for programming / replacement of any chips).
> All of this can be modeled out in Excel. No one does it anymore but I am from a time when it was common, so I have that skill in my back pocket. It isn’t nearly as much work as it sounds like, much of the details are formulaic. You do need to have good data on how your workload uses hardware resources to know what to build.

And this is one of the big "screts" AWS success: Shifting a lot of resource allocation and power from people with budgeting responsibility to developers who have usually never seen the budget or accounts, don't keep track, and at most retrospectively gets pulled in to explain line items in expenses, and obscuring it (to the point where I know people who've spent 6 figure amounts worth of dev time building analytics to figure out where their cloud spend goes... tooling has gotten better but is still awful)

I believe a whole lot of tech stacks would look very different if developers and architects were more directly involved in budgeting, and bonuses etc. were linked at least in part to financial outcomes affected by their technical choices.

A whole lot of claims to low cloud costs come from people who have never done actual comparisons and who seem to have a pathological fear of hardware, even when for most people you don't need to ever touch a physical box yourself - you can get maybe 2/3's of the savings with managed hosting as well.

You don't get the super-customized server builds, but you do get far more choice than with cloud providers, and you can often make up for the lack of fine-grained control by being able to rent/lease them somewhere where the physical hosting is cheaper (e.g. at a previous employer what finally made us switch to Hetzner for most new capacity was that while we didn't get exactly the hardware we wanted, we got "close enough" coupled with data centre space in their locations in Germany being far below data centre space in London - it didn't make them much cheaper, but it did make them sufficiently cheaper to outweigh the hardware differences with a margin sufficient for us to deploy new stuff there but still keep some of our colo footprint)
If you read the work of Christopher Alexander you will notice he is proposing a much leaner method for building.

For example: start by marking the position of the front door on the property and lay out the living room with sticks and wire so you can decide where you want to look at while sitting on your couch.

And I believe he was right. Building lean can be done but does not fit in the 'architectual way'.
You might like the "Chicken Man and Red Neck" short from the classic anime film Robot Carnival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc7Ygt45ZOw
No. It is pretty well known that hormones have a significant impact in brain development, and it is pretty well known that sex has a significant impact in hormone balances and regulation.

Brain structure changes even during the menstrual cycle, and before or after pregnancy [1].

[1] https://karger.com/nen/article/111/3/183/220637/Shaping-of-t...
A bit of both. Scotland definitely has a concentration of stonelifters in the community. But there are plenty of stones that I haven't added to the map (in Iceland, Sweden, the Faroe Islands, and Japan especially). I try to branch out to other countries and cultures as possible.
It's 29—Delphi, I mean
No, you have to do a bit of work to proceed with the installation. Windows with throw some scary warnings at you if you download something unsigned and try to run it. And if you're very unlucky and anger the SmartScreen, you may need to use power user level workarounds.
Is that or similar system prompt also baked into the API version of GPT?
We're talking about private banks issuing their own money, which stopped in the 19th century (around 1860 in the US). The gold standard (bimetallic standard at that time) did _not_ help at all, instead had a negative impact in the long depression, keeping people poor and productive investments at their lowest.
I just got a few for my daughter, on Ali Express they are less than $2!
It's a JH7110 SoC, same as VisionFive 2, Pine64 Star64 and PineTab-V, Milk-V Mars.

No vectors, so no vector crypto. No scalar crypto for that matter. RV64GC_Zba_Zbb.
7T is price anchoring at it's best. When he gets 1T it will seem normal.
No, they bought an SDK for it.
They need small chips but most important fast and big cache
Yeah. The store design in this aspect is awful.
I noticed this issue as well. secd consuming 20-60% of CPU all the time (how I noticed it in Activity Monitor) but even worse: writing GBs of data within seconds according to the "Disk" tab.

One theory is that it can be caused by device activation going wrong at some point. The solution from the forum using cloudkit CLI did not work for me.

Fix for me was deleting (scary) the directory that was named like a GUID and all the files within them which basically wipes your Keychain including local stuff like touch id config (and then fetches Keychain things again from iCloud but nothing which only existed locally like touch id). I don't know if there are other negative side-effects of removing the directory + contents though (!).

That said: I only noticed because of Activity Monitor. I still had about a day of battery life which speaks for the efficiency of Apple Silicon I guess.

That said 2: Now I notice "WindowServer" takes up about 15% CPU all the time. Is that usual behaviour? Or is it a side-effect of Activity Monitor updating its own window? Is there a way to get Activity Monitor like output on macOS via the CLI?
It is "optional" in the sense that it removes hassle from the user. This is what the original article and my comment are all about. And don't get me started on building anything remotely more complex stuff for Mac from Windows or Linux. With the other too it's trivial to build and ship across by comparison.
You shouldn't be talking to the customer to hear what monstrosity of an application they think they want months from now, or even what "features" they think they want added.

You should talk to the customer to understand the problems they have, and work with them to figure out the smallest thing that might help them solve their biggest problem. Build and deliver that small thing fast, then iterate.
The geographic anatomy seems to follow my rule of thumb: distance from the largest city in one's watershed correlates with many beliefs in the States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_silicon

In AI training you typically use the full hardware all the time, unlike general purpose computing, so this is probably a bigger problem.
I've tested a few different ones and from the free ones I'd recommend: copyleaks, zerogpt and quillbot detector (a bit aggresive sometimes though).
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JH7110 uses 5W maxed out, so yes, will run pretty cool. SBCs using the chip don't need active cooling, or even a heatsink.
This, but each sentence as a separate Slack DM with its own corresponding “Whack Whack” sound.
>I read the entire article and really thought this was satire.

Can I ask what made you think it was satire? Just disbelief that stonelifting is a thing?
Still there is one difference. Architect needs to design not only within client's and technical constraints but also within legal regulations.
You memlock everything, so OOM's not a problem, per se. You need to allocate a bunch up front though. If your program does not handle allocations failing it'll panic (Rust term) and switch back to the kernel's normal scheduler.
Indeed, the root of the problem is financialization.
I have no problem with that. Look at how cheap photovoltaics became, and how it became win win overall
> I've been searching for a laptop that stays cool, even when pushed

That would be an intentionally throttled laptop, which is not what most people would want. Because if the laptop "stays cool even when pushed", it means it could have been pushed more.

However, if low thermal output is what you want to optimise for, then an M1 macbook air always running on low power mode is a very good candidate, and abundant in second hand market for very good prices. Or any M1/M2/M3 laptop as long as you run it on low power mode.
"how can i be like basil of baker street?"
Well, current bleeding edge semicos require like hundreds of billions if you start from 0

Meanwhile what about those materials that could allow you to make 1000x faster cpus, but we arent capable of manufacturing them at scale and also their lifespan is way shorter than silicon.

Im not saying 7T is reasonable, but if thats what he want to do, then it is very interesting and expensive as hell
Genuine question: is labor cost really that important for cutting-edge fabs? I would have assumed the tooling would be far more expensive.
It depends what is crashing. Audio drivers in WinXP were in kernel space IIRC.
It's still preferable to use a burner number for signal/telegram if you want privacy.
Programmers are rarely promoted to run serious projects. Many work a lot of unpaid overtime. Many of use spend our days focusing on compliance rather then outcomes.
If you quote, quote correctly. I wrote "USAians", not "USAsians". What you wrongly quoted might imply something else then intended. Besides, it was the decision of the gov. back then to give shelter to these very questionable "scientists". If you consider mentioning that historic fact as a "slur" against americans, that tells a lot more about you then you might imagine.
Really hating the trend of putting half of the document behind series of “click here to unhide the content” dropdowns.
of all the countries in the world capable of pulling something like that off. Japan is right up there.
It's an SDK release that also contains the operating system which never shipped.

Looking at the eBay photos, the whole thing is 26 floppies.
Got to be honest, this looks like much more fun than normal ChatGPT. Reminiscent of some of the older stuff on aiweirdness.
I love how he's saying it's convenient because that gives you 2 parking spots... as if they can't afford to have room for a second parking space that doesn't block the car you put on the second floor while there's a tonne of empty space just in front of the garage door lol.
Its not really the move overseas itself that reduce in quality, its the conscious choice to both use cheaper materials and provide less training to that cheaper labor.
I'm not sure if you meant this, but I wonder too.. from the perspective of:

- energy loss in resource extraction and refinement (steel, aluminum, plastic, etc, etc)

- manufacturing energy use

- shipping energy use

- disposal energy costs of old device (including recycling costs)

- all the pollution in the above, versus pollution from local energy sources

It's entirely possible that an energy efficient fridge that lasts 2 years, could cost more energy than a fridge from the 60s that keeps on running.

So outside of "cash cost" even the energy cost may be higher!
But none will be as private as Signal.
Yes, stopping the rascists making life miserable for people is exactly the same as a mind chip
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Perfect forwarding forwards objects, not braced things trying to become objects
I have not seen shipping prebuilt PSOs outside of game console platforms. Typically games that care do on device caching if any. Unfortunately, lots of projects just take shader hitches as given.
Indeed, my grandma is on Martix (I did help her set it up though)
Let's hope they at least allow you to wait for a flush to pipe so you won't have to carry over the user's transaction.
Of course it's possible. Noone ever said anything on the contrary. The issue is how many hoops you have to jump through. And things like Tauri create at least as many problems as they solve once you build more complex things that are not minimal PoCs.
Agreed. It doesn’t seem like there is anything you’d want to do in a binary that couldn’t be done by creating an installer .pkg and just including all the logic in the post install script.

The user gets a double-click “installer”, and like you said, you don’t even need to sign it.
Just add an authentication header to the curl command.
Chip War is good.

Acquired Podcast has done a great TSMC deep dive.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc

Asianometry has done a lot of semicon videos with lots of ASML EUV videos.

https://www.youtube.com/@Asianometry
I could imagine some people not liking research into several kinds of weapons, artificial intelligence, or research that requires animal testing.
Just as a side note, I'm currently watching "For all mankind", and of course Von Braun played an important role there as well (in the real world, working 1959-1972 for NASA). I can recommend this series if NASA, spaceflight, moon or Mars are interesting to you.
Didn't know the Finger is active on HN :)

https://www.fingers-welt.de/gallerie/eigen/maschine/kaffee2/...

With hilarious quotes like:

> The first test produced the following conclusion: perfect fountain. The valve distributed the coffee perfectly outside the cup, the inside remained completely dry. So a “coffee deflector” had to be installed around the outlet.

> Somehow the thing is starting to look like a construction site compressor... Well... In the meantime I've brewed my first coffee on the moped. Tasted like crap. After some optimizations to the software, the second cup tasted better, but not as much as I thought it would.

> An increase in the pump pressure resulted in the hose bursting from my boiler and I was suddenly standing in a white cloud. GRMPF!

There is a video too.
Perhaps you need a refresher in Signal Protocol.

Do not be sprouting on about things that you do not understand.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1013.pdf
How does such a solution compare in term of energy consumption? A difference of 100W can easily cost $1000 over the life of the device.

But it's definitely way easier to manage than the interfaces offered by Cisco / HPE.
You can block the site in kagi if you don't like it, that's 50% of the entire moat of the search engine.
I have three Telegram channels with a few hundred subscribers each, and I also use the service daily, as I'm Russian as well.

I generally agree with you that Durov makes a lot of incredibly stupid decisions. I think pretty much everyone in the "Telegram community" (eg. channel administrators, bot/client developers, etc.) would agree that the changes Telegram is introducing are often bad.

The issue, though, is that there isn't any alternative right now - Telegram is the best messenger out there in terms of general usage. So while I do hate what they're doing sometimes, I still use the product and even pay for Telegram Premium. It's bad enough to be mildly annoying, but not bar enough to actually make people leave the platform.

Edit: just as I was writing this, Telegram introduced a new feature. I'm not sure if I love it or hate it to be honest, it's a smart way for them to save money, but it is pretty weird: https://t.me/tginfo/3942
Unlike most HN posters, I believe Sean lives (or at least lived) in China and thus has much clearer view of what's happening on the ground there.