skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
InterNyet: Why the Soviet Union didn't build nationwide computer network (2008) [pdf]
From many of the comments I read, the reason is often regulation.
Fundamentally, yes. All motion does end up adding entropy to the environment. This is especially egregious for fossil fuels which are literally combusted/oxidized to move chunks of metal on wheels carrying different kinds of cargo. Electric vehicles change the dynamics somewhat but the motion of magnets still ends up contributing entropy to the environment at a somewhat reduced rate than fossil fuel vehicles.
> As I understand it, PIR, the operator of the .org registry charges registrars $9.05 / domain year [1]

How can it possibly cost PIR $9.05 per domain to run a registry? Or are they a for profit entity?
This is something to be extremely proud of. Espionage is how proprietary information gets disseminated and built upon (and eventually made public in some form, or via its descendants).

So many of the technologies we enjoy today are in widespread use because of espionage (industrial or government or both). It's how you even the tables from time to time.

There's nothing immoral about espionage - only what you use the information for (to build systems of repression, or to build systems that improve ourselves).
"running out" = two more years of killing civilians by bombing hospitals
Ah, thank you.

Now that I'm back at my desk I had to check ISO8601, that suffix is not included. However it does look like an extension - RFC 9557 - which looks like is still in proposed state.

I would personally caution using these suffixes until wider adoption, because AFAIK the Olson database names themselves are not standardised on non-POSIX systems (i.e you might have a hard time on Windows).
Could you share some sources on stimulants discontinuation?

High discontinuation rate around stimulants aligns with my observations but I was wondering if that was only because of limited medication options where I am (not only for stimulants but in general).
In a Latin transcription, the Greek "u psilon" (simple u) may be written as either "u" or "y", without causing ambiguities.

The Greek vowel had been originally pronounced the same as Latin u, so the old borrowings in Latin from Greek write it as "u".

Then, by the time from which most classical Greek literature has been preserved, the pronunciation of "u psilon" has been modified in most contexts to become a front rounded vowel, like the French "u" or the German "ü".

Because of this, in later Latin the letter "Y" has been created and added to the Latin alphabet, to write the front rounded vowel of the contemporaneous Greek, which had no Latin correspondent.

Latin "y" is normally preferable for writing Greek "u psilon", unless the discussion is about older attestations of words (like in Homer) or about the etymology of Greek words, when it is preferable to write "u psilon" as "u", to match the old pronunciation or the vowels of the cognate words.
There Will Be No Violins (A Novel)
Makes one wonder whether they just like his fascist leadership style or there are some rather direct incentives involved. Russian secret services like to stir the pot in other countries in order to weaken them.

A few German right-wing dudes seems to have more or less provably received money and favors from Russia.

https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/politik/bystron-r...

There was also that strange Russia-Trump connection for which there was insufficient proof...
> it must be because of a DEI hire

Of course, white people making mistakes is unheard of.

Yeah it's quite frustrating how easily people latch on to the daily meme if it reinforces their preexisting prejudices.

Republicans calling Kamala Harris the DEI candidate in 3, 2, 1...
Just yesterday I read about Interactive Metronome and thought how it could easily model to various games. I am now quite sure that many games, especially classic ones, could try to get some sort of certification.
Save yourself while you still can.
Aviator's name wasn't released. Kara Hultgreen was the first female carrier pilot but was killed when her F14 crashed during landing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Hultgreen
Likely guanfacine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanfacine

Looks really promising for people who don't like stimulants or can't take them for other reasons, slowly gaining popularity as well. Unfortunately not yet approved for adults in Europe, or I would have tried it. I'm fine with stimulants, but I'm a little wary of the effects on heart health over decades and I would like my appetite back. I also dislike that with stimulants I don't have any attention span in the evening, guanfacine provides more of a steady effect from what I can tell.
In Rust, you can't implicitly omit fields when instantiating a struct, so it would have to be a bit more verbose, explicitly using Rust's analog to the spread syntax.

It would have to look something like:

f({ hours: 2, seconds: 53, ..Default::default() })

The defaults could come from some value / function with a name shorter than Default::default(), but it would be less clear.
Seems the anything is editable ux is similar to plan 9?
guess who's lobbying for that regulation
You can see that the image of the four CPU boards on page six is actually a quad exposure of a single CPU board being moved around. Seems kinda wonky to me.

The hand-drawn watercolor diagrams on the next few pages are neat though
They have endorsed the product in the only way applicable. There are different processes for drugs and “medical devices” and this one falls under devices.
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/it-really-fda...
Exactly. The only thing which might prevent Sonny from explaining the situation is the pending resolutions, which means that no party can comment on the ongoing situation. Realistically we don't know what's going on, and because it's all ongoing it's not actually appropriate for us to know one way or the other. After it's been settled, any party can make a comment, but still none are obliged to (and I'd caution that drawing conclusions based on only one source is inherently biased and unreliable)
That ::<TYPE> thing at the end is called a turbofish. It is rarely necessary to give it explicitly (but sometimes you do when the compiler cannot infer the return type on its own—thusfar in my own rust coding I’ve needed it exactly once).
You’re not wrong about the end result, but the breakdown of systems this complex goes deeper than placing the blame on some CrowdStrike employee.

Whoever thought up
the great idea to allow auto-update-able kernel modules for something as mission critical as emergency response or healthcare deserves just as much blame.
I’ve worked in healthcare for my whole career, this is madness. Not that their process is without flaw, but can we remind ourselves of how stringently we assess medical devices? I cannot imagine it’s controversial to say that emergency response equipment is every bit as critical as a insulin pump. If they fail, someone dies.
I think it is a very worthwhile project, thank you for your work
My indigenous partner likes to make a quip: when someone mentions “the apocalypse” he asks “which apocalypse?”
I usually say otherwise but I’m on iphone Pro screen and it displays the website just fine, text size and photos are proportional and eligible
Democrats are the party of “wouldn’t it be nice if?”

Republicans are the party of “yeah, but…”

We need both types of thinking, and it’s a shame there isn’t a party that actually merges the two instead of this crappy tug of war we have going on. Practical progressivism, or something.
Because nowadays nobody knows you test the actual bits you're going to ship, not whatever random crap comes out of someone's build script run in a different place and time that's supposed to be the same as what you'll ship.
> who exactly would benefit from such a nefarious scheme

State Actors, given the current Geo-Political tensions.

You have to take a all-in-all broader view. I remember a while ago Kaspersky was accused of data-siphoning/spying from computers it was installed on and other nefarious activities. See New Government Ban on Kaspersky Would Prevent Company from Updating Malware Signatures in U.S. - https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/new-government-ban-on-kaspers...

As for your opening statement "Some part of a company already aware of an issue but different part still ships is a pretty common tale" is not applicable here since this code runs in kernel mode (in both OSes) and thus would be subject to far far greater scrutiny and testing than an ordinary app. As Dave Plummer points out in his analysis Microsoft Kernel Drivers are signed and certified after an exhaustive testing process. Even if Crowdstrike wrote their drivers as an interpreter and the data update files were actually programs in some p-code, Microsoft would have definitely known of it and its inherent vulnerabilities. I would bet money that Microsoft knows all about preventing threats/vulnerabilities than any other company simply because of their long experience and large userbase and thus would not have allowed Crowdstrike such a free hand.
I just saw a report that Russia bulldozed down a memorial to Holodomor in occupied Ukraine. This is just one datapoint to consider for the useful idiots who believe that Russia is the victim of nAtO eXpAnTioNiSm.
I took caffeine pills to self-medicate before I got diagnosed. It was better than nothing, but nothing compared to proper medication. Taking enough caffeine to concentrate properly also made me shake a little bit, so not super fun
All of these options work and are equivalent.

- let time = Timestamp::parse("2024-07-11T01:14:00Z")?;

- let time: Timestamp = "2024-07-11T01:14:00Z".parse()?;

- let time = "2024-07-11T01:14:00Z".parse::<Timestamp>()?;

You’re free to choose whatever you prefer, although the compiler needs to be able to infer the type of time. If it can’t, it’ll let you know.

So a fourth option is allowed, as long as the subsequent lines make the type of time unambiguous.

- let time = "2024-07-11T01:14:00Z".parse()?;

This is a direct consequence of Timestamp implementing the FromStr trait.
If espionage is okay, then we should not be subject to intellectual property laws. The point is that there needs to be consistency between what's right for the country and what's right for its citizens.
7. The operating system vendor that allows buggy kernel drivers to be loaded and run and panic the system.
I remember getting into a debate with him on Reddit about something or other and then realizing who I was debating with and saying never mind.
I just think there should be consistency between which laws apply to the country and which apply to its citizens. If IP theft is okay for the country, it should be okay for its citizens too.
If you use GNOME, you have inherent trust in that administration as the governing body for the software on your computer. Outside of explicitly checking every line of code and then compiling yourself, there's no way to actually validate what you're truly running on your computer other than that trust.

If you don't use GNOME, why is this interesting to you anyway?
"Was a Warning."

No. It was just a failure. The warnings have been trumpeted for decades.

It should have been no surprise that the giant company that was trusted to secure our single source of OS software against "supply chain attacks" ended up committing the largest "supply chain attack" yet seen on Earth.

We are effectively still in the wild west. The gold rush has to end before we can truly civilize the place.
NotchNook
> They just happen to be the best, primarily because of their intel, and you wouldn't believe this but because their sensor has always been very lightweight and easy to manage.

I think an important part of their dominance is that they're the zero configuration EDR. Buy Carbon Black, and you'll need to know something about what's installed in your environment, what you do and don't want running. Buy SentinelOne, and you need to know that plus you have to learn a complex product.

But with CS, you pretty much just install it, then get that sweet, sweet green checkmark on your security audit.
Cant wait to learn what else Intel manufactured in same fab using same processes. Any of their GPUs? FPGAs? FPGAs that went into military stuff?
TBF it was extensively tested. On airline and hospital computers.
So… Write malware?
They all sort of suck to be honest. The least suck has actually been hosted Google Cloud Logging of late, it's just "not bad enough" to get the job done.

When I worked at Postmates we had a proprietary log search built on Clickhouse which was excelent. The same idea was also implemented concurrently at Uber (yay multiple discovery) and is documented at a relatively high level here: https://www.uber.com/blog/logging/

If gun was placed to head I would rebuild that over running the existing logging solutions.

I also worked for several months on building my own purpose built logging storage and indexing engine based trigram bitmap indices for accelerated regex searches ala CodeSearch but I ran out of motivation to finish it and commercialisation seemed very difficult, too much competition even if that competition is bad.
Really really should get around to finishing it enough that it can be OSSed at least.
Ask HN: High Focus Activities
As someone that deals with anxiety I have developed a dissociative disorder for which I have been in therapy for some months now.

My therapist recommended me to find an activity that requires all my focus to allow me to ground my mind and gain awareness. I am already doing meditation and mindfulness, this is more an activity like crochet or chess.

I would like the HN community if you have any ideas for such activities and if you have had similar experiences.
As a child in the 80s, one of my teachers had a stack of 70s kids science magazines for rainy lunch times.

One of them had a section in Lunokhod and also on some sort of pressurised diving suit. I'd seek those magazines out and stare at them for ages - they both seemed so exciting and remarkable.

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

When I got interested in the Lunokhod a few years ago I tried to find footage of the video feed that was sent back, and only found a grainy gif compiled from some of the images - I don't think any live footage was recorded, or if it was I don't believe it was made public. Seemed so amazing, remotely driving a vehicle on the moon, at that time.
To answer the question as literally as possible, if you reuse heat from a process in order to raise the temperature of something that needs heating, you are reducing waste heat.

Here's an example, unrelated honestly to the article but just your question -- you have a pan of water on the stove, and you are continually pumping room temperature water into it. You are also continually pumping heated water out of it. This is analogous to a lot of chemical reactors but to keep it simple.

If instead you run the hot water being pumped out next to the water being pumped in, the heat can be moved from the hot side to the cold side. That means less energy is needed to heat up the water coming in, because it is preheated.

So, in practice, you do indeed release less heat energy because less is required to keep that kettle hot. The hot water being removed gets cooled down some too, for better and worse (often this is good, who wants hot chemicals right?).

This has nothing to do with the article though, which is talking about using a neural network trained to help speed up predictions of phonon dispersion relations, which is great but maybe a little unclear. A phonon is sort of a quanta of heat if you like, so knowing how they travel in a material certainly is important and objectively cool, but the 70% thing does feel like a bit of a non-sequitur.

To be honest I suspect the first sentence and second are not as related as they are implied to be, the first is simply true and the second is also true but is hardly the reason the overall industrial base of humanity is only 30% efficient. Some stuff just can't be 100% efficient, like a Carnot engine. I'm shocked it hits 30% considering thermal power stations are a major thing [1]. But I also doubt materials limits make a thermal power station less efficient by much, there's just a limit on a thermal engine.

[1] To be clear, there is no citation in the press release to explain the source of this claim. Maybe it is only including after electricity generation, or maybe it only applies to industrial facilities, or maybe they're doing some weighted average of the efficiency of different electronics. I am assuming the 70% includes generation losses.
As far as i remember, their hard drives were prone to failure (the motor will not spin off).
That's a naive way of looking at it. There's no "world police". It's the law of the schoolyard when it comes to international relations. You make and break alliances, set up partnerships, break them, gather information to help your allies, and life goes on.

You spy on everyone. That's just how it works (by necessity).

If some country is hoarding the secret to a revolutionary food that would help your starving citizens, you're not going to say "Oh, I'll just let my people starve because spying would be WRONG."

If someone has a game changing weapon that they're threatening the region with, you're not going to say "I'll just let them have this power because spying is WRONG."

If you could spy to get new chip technology that will elevate your country out of 80% poverty, you're not going to say "Oh, we'll just remain poor because spying is WRONG."
Unfortunately, for old books the modern transcriptions into text are never reliable.

Only the original scanned images can be trusted, and even those can be ambiguous when the scanner had a too low resolution.

The modern text transcriptions are very useful for fast searching, but the results must always be verified with the original scanned images, because the mistakes made by either automated OCRs or by human readers can be shocking, especially for such texts, which may contain unfamiliar Ancient Greek words.
I can barely get myself to play games I'm actually interested in, since there's always something slightly more interesting than that. I can imagine this would be not only a complete non-starter but also... how is this specific video game supposed to help?
It’s weird to me that even after his debate performance people are still ascribing things to him directly. Clearly he’s just been stamping his name on the DNC agenda, though I definitely think the chips act is good in theory. We’ll see how it plays out in practice.
It was a seizure, not warning. More stupid bandaids will be slapped in a hurry without considerations from people who understand how this tumor works.
This completely ignores security incident response entirely. I don’t think removing the tools that slow or prevent a hack is the answer. I think it is unfair to call it crap if you have not dealt with security incidents.

Of all the lessons that could be learned from this, I think this not the best one. We don’t call for everyone to go back to having their own datacenter because AWS had a massive outage.
Saying anyone was removed "no-questions-asked" is not correct. The board asked many questions over the course of its investigation into the matter. And they just today held an annual general meeting of the entire foundation at which pubic comment or questions were accepted.
Labour's share of the vote hardly changed from 2024 to 2019; fewer people voted Labour in absolute numbers.

Labour's electoral prospects improved because of the implosion of the Tories, not anything they did.
I agree. Their reasons pre-2016 may have been selfish at best or fundamentally misguided at worst. But I felt the worst the potential Romney era would do is slow (but not halt) gay marriage. If you don't subscribe for the conspiracies, W Bush wasn't an awful president (outside of completely throwing education under the bus... But 8 years of Obama didn't fix too much and Biden tried but got huge resistance to some starts).

There's definitely a much more explicitly hateful undercurrent in the trumpism era. I never would have expected a Charlottesville to happen so brazenly in the 21st century. Let alone the insurrection.

And on the other hand, Kamala' complexion is part of why Im worried about the D vote. Because despite much progress there are undeniably some older D's who hold prejudiced thoughts (external or internal).It undoubtedly was a partial factor leading to Hilary's loss. I really hope I'm just overreacting though.
Of course we already have the undemocratic age limit, just only on the low side.
That shouldn't stop you from settling an argument (given it was respectful). The best way to learn is to be wronged by smarter people.
They're almost certainly going to pick someone centrist for the VP. Politico has a list of likely running mates [1]. They're pretty much all centrists.

Of course, whoever they nominate will just be called a leftist anyways. Even Harris is on the right wing of the Democratic party, and here you are calling her "left-leaning."

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/21/harris-potential-vp...
Another issue is that computer prices are really hard to compare across time, especially for systems targeted at businesses. Do you just use the CPI? Why is that meaningful? Do you use the one for IT? (Then it would be like, "$250,000 in 1989 ($1,400 today)") Something in-between? How do you capture the notion that workstations of this era were basically the first generation that allowed businesses to computer-aid stuff they used to do on paper, bringing a massive productivity boost?
> We don’t call for everyone to go back to having their own datacenter because AWS had a massive outage.

We don't? Okay, well, probably not everyone.
>Prescription stimulants are a common starting point for a lot of younger kids entering their programs right now.

So is drinking water, I presume.

This has "weed is a gateway drug" written all over it.

>It’s not just pointless fear mongering

It is pointless fear mongering in the sense that the risks are very low for the people with the condition the stimulant is prescribed for.

If you wear prescription glasses for fun, you can screw up your vision easily.

If you take chemotherapy for fun, you will mess up your health.

Heck, wearing wrong size shoes for extended periods of time will destroy your feet.

So go figure, people who don't have ADHD and take meds for ADHD are messing up their health.

The big question is why protecting people who are abusing the medication is more important than making it available to people who need it.

Abusing the meds has adverse effects, sure.

Not having access to meds has much stronger adverse effects. Like not being able to function in this society (getting an education, holding a job, having a relationship), depression, and higher suicide rates.

The risks from abusing Adderall are, as far as I know, significantly smaller in comparison.

But somehow, increasing risk of death for ADHD folks is deemed acceptable in this society if it can be done under the pretense of reducing alcoholism (without much evidence that it actually addresses the problem).

>These drugs are very popular recreationally among high school and college students and prescriptions are often sought to allow them to drink more alcohol for longer into the night.

So, we're talking about people who are already determined to get wasted on alcohol, and somehow, it's Adderall that is the problem here — not the alcohol, not the alcoholics, not the party culture, and not the fact that removing Adderall from the equation still leaves you with people who are determined to drink beyond what they know they can handle.

I'm without words.

Disclaimer: I have ADHD[1], and I have benefited tremendously from having access to medication[2] after getting a late diagnosis[3] at the age of 34.

[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd

[2] https://romankogan.net/adhd#Medication

[3] https://romankogan.net/adhd#Diagnosis