skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
""it will fix itself". By radiating the surrounding environment ?"

We humans have a bias. We live in the biosphere, and from our perspective, we are surrounded by it. Everywhere we go from day-to-day, life abounds.

But this is a very deceptive bias. Most of the universe is not the biosphere. Outside of the biosphere, the universe is rather nasty. High levels of radiation are the norm. Extreme temperatures (or what we consider extreme temperatures) are the norm. Very life-unfriendly chemical regimes are the norm, either by being full of nasty chemicals (Venusian sulpheric acid) or, more commonly, being so full of boring chemicals that life is very very difficult (Mars).

This comes up most often in space exploration, when I see someone being concerned about putting nuclear power on the moon, whatever will we do with the waste, and the answer is that the lunar surface is already a radiation hell-hole. If you dump something like that on the surface, yeah, we humans will want to stay away from it, but it's a lot less material change than our intuition thinks. Our intuition wants to say "but what about all the wonderful life that will be affected", because everywhere we go, there is life. But there isn't any on the moon. Nothing will die because we dumped a couple hundred pounds of waste on the surface.

Similarly, the subsurface of Earth below the biosphere... and I include the bacteria living in rocks and the water table and everything like that as part of the "biosphere", we know it goes deep but it doesn't go down forever... is already an incredibly harsh place. The chemistry is already nasty. It's already full of chemicals either too "interesting" or too "boring" to be useful for life.

I'd like to see a good analysis to make sure this isn't going to work its way back up into the biosphere, yes, but your intuition that anywhere we put something, some life is going to be affected, does not necessarily apply to a mile under the surface. "Radiating its surrounding environment" is definitely not an issue in the slightest. There is no "environment" there, in the sense you mean. I'm more worried about what might physically migrate around into something that does have an "environment", but a mile is a long way for anything to travel through solid rock, and it needs to move pretty quickly too to get up into the biosphere while it's still a danger.
Of course it is. Nobody else is going to fund such research.

That's true in pretty much every industry. That's why papers have "conflicts" sections, so you know who's funding it, and can take that into account. That doesn't make it wrong. You just need to put it in context.
> I don’t know much about US electrical standards but aren’t your residential circuits rated for 1800w or 2400w?

The residential AFCI issue I describe isn't about the wattage directly. It's about transient currents generated by large switch-mode power supplies being detected as arc faults. Similar concern as with induction motors.
I assume that they do take this into account and come to the conclusion that the real existing profits from the outrageous prices on RAM and SSD storage outweigh the potential profits from people who don't buy their hardware b/c the refuse to pay the hefty markup.

I totally bought a MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon, fully knowing that I'm getting ripped off big time with added RAM and storage. Yet, it's still the least painful platform for me, and the hardware is really nice, even a few years on. In the end, I expect get a meaningful lifespan of 5+ years of daily use out of the machine. I wouldn't know any other laptop which could provide this kind of service life while constantly being a joy to work with.

Apple know that their user base consists of many people like myself, and milk them accordingly.
OXO: A game of traditional 3x3 Noughts and Crosses, in Bash
The BSD license is more permissive than the GPL/Linux license, so one could argue source code investments made here can more readily be integrated into all systems, even closed source.
So snarky. It is just a job, a company pays people to make products that they can sell to people for more money, bcs it is necessary for their products or else. Just like you go to a supermarket and buy products, that enrich your life and satisfy your belly. I would not call this "sucking money", its just trading.
Tony's Chocolonely is an interesting brand, because its origin lies in a Dutch TV show investigating consumer goods. At some point, the presenter ("Tony" [1]) decided to sue himself for buying slave chocolate, and then decided to see how hard it actually is to make slave-free chocolate - and Tony's Chocolonely was born.

As I understand it they're less strictly idealistic than they used to be so as to be a profitable business, but at least it wasn't an attempt at fairwashing an existing brand.

[1] Actually Teun (van de Keuken), but that doesn't work well in English.
Junior Developers:
There's this guy in the cellar, his beard is 1 metre long, he hates the Sun but he likes FreeBSD.

Management:
He must be right if he has such a long beard, let's take FreeBSD

Marketing:
At least he is not eating from he's feet or wants to retroactively abort someone, let's go for it.
There is! I wonder how much new *BSD code Apple has imported the past ~5 years or so. Does anyone know?
Letter from Mark Zuckerberg to Jim Jordan on Censorship
Given Hinkley Point C is currently at US$58bn estimated and still not open, a mere $2m for a hole sounds very affordable. Could very quickly spend more than that in meetings.
It could be more appropiate "Fire! Some may die in 5 seconds". Maybe no one died yet in the 5 seconds mark, or maybe someone die but we attribute that to the heat more than the fire, or just don't count them as there was no one important for us.

But that is no reason to calmly stay there doing nothing while the flames keep rising up.
I don't see how diversity of platforms/OS could be anything but a good thing. FreeBSD has been making a lot of QoL changes over the last several years and is laid out much more like a cohesive system than any Linux distribution I've used. Not to mention it is still used elsewhere.

Putting all your eggs in one basket is usually a good way to end up hungry.
That neighborhood is the neighborhood amazon is in South Lake Union. But as far as I can tell every corporate building in town uses them which is a wild amount of buildings.
I don't like the way this feels, face contortions
I have a very similar reaction to codeine. Based on genetic testing, my body processes it much faster than normal, which is similar to increasing the dosage much higher.
I wonder if this is coming up just before the election because of the Harris campaign’s suggested policy of capital gains tax on unrealised gains for people who have over $100m in assets? I think this is a great idea personally given what these people are doing to avoid paying tax including taking out loans against their own share portfolios.

EDIT: surprisingly aggressive downvoting on this, seems reasonable to make the point that a lot of owners of social media sites have billions of dollars in taxes riding on a Trump win if this policy happens.
Would like to hear opinions on Briar
Oh, I’m very familiar with the statistics you’re referring to and how often they’re ripped without context and injected into arguments like these, often with a barely veiled racist tinge to it. I was just curious if you were brave enough to say what you’re actually trying to say - clearly no.

There’s no causal relationship between black on black homicides (especially in the fbi statistics you are allegedly referencing - those crimes would be solved and not related to missing persons) and missing black women and even taking your argument as generously as I possibly can, suggesting so is very victim blamey and a little gross. For your statement to be true you’d have to also allege that the same statistics you’re referencing (but won’t post) are actually incorrect and the violence rate is much higher within the black community than the “authoritative” source you won’t post, which kind of invalidates your entire point, if you even had a real one.
Well to some degree we actually can know how much we know and don't know, with statistics [0] and our observations so far. So much of modern science was easy pickings in the 19th and 20th centuries, while these days we keep investing ludicrous amounts of effort into ultra specific experiments to figure out some small new thing that often just confirms what we already thought, learning relatively little in comparison to the ye olde polymaths making three new branches of science by themselves. The fact that we're so far into diminishing returns is an indicator by itself. Most new tech these days isn't even new, it's just figuring out how to make the already known practical enough to be cost effective.

Now sure, a person during the roman times or the middle ages could be caught saying the same thing and couldn't be more wrong. And sure it's entirely possible that we'll figure something out that will revolutionize our knowledge of the universe entirely... but every time general relativity predicts yet another observation to an annoying level of perfection that chance becomes smaller and smaller.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
There are some things that make the fake scores really obvious.

It's going to be a challenge to protect the leaderboard against fake scores. There weren't a whole lot of them before, but it's starting to increase as the site grows.
The ability to rewrite incompatible subsets of basic Unix utilities is where Rust truly shines.
Ah, you’re correct; I misread this as fractions of a dollar, not cents.
If you have a Pixel, use Graphene instead. It's incredibly easy to install and is better by every metric.
The way (most) management thinks is everything is fine because attrition is low. Nevermind that your probably still losing your best people, your culture sucks, your people aren't actually productive, and the second the company hits a rough patch and their grants are underwater- everyone will leave.
"A former marketing employee at Nvidia told Bloomberg News that she would often attend up to 10 meetings per day — each of them involving more than 30 people."

Ok, so it is not real work. Of course you can attend fake meetings for 16h per day, but you cannot focus on actual development for that long.

(Unless you work on a solo project that really interests you or have significant code ownership within the company.)
You know whats the right thing to do? Stay with the facts and avoid hyperbole. "There is a fire in Hall B, I'm leaving the building" and people will follow you with no questions asked.

Its a matter of how you communicate.

I'm tempted to rewrite the abstract in a better wording so people can compare realize what an difference that makes.
Buttondown is intended for marketing emails, like Mailchimp, right? It's not necessarily for business email like O365, Google Apps, Fastmail, etc?
> that one that accidentally launched during static fire a while ago

Sounds like china currently has zero rockets that are reusable
NVidia has had an incredibly rise in stock price. That means for anyone who joined 1.5+ years ago, they are sitting on a life-changing but unrealized gain. That means two things:

1. They're afraid of getting fired before they can cash in;

2. The company knows this so can get more "free" work out of those employees without any really direct threat. All it takes is minor tweaks to how performance reviews work and having a quota for subpar ratings; and

3. In 2 years when those gains are all paid out, a ton of people will leave and those that stay will have absolutely no fear and no motivation to do extra unpaid work because they're independently wealthy.

This pattern has played out in many tech companies. Some companies (eg Zynga) went so far as to go to employees and tell them "I'm going to fire you if you don't agree to reduce your stock compensation" [1]. In addition to being scummy, it's kinda funny considering where Zynga has ended up.

[1]: https://archive.is/5Py2R
In basically any other field of endeavor, this is fine though, most things people do aren’t judged as though there can only be one best person in the world at it.
"He regrets", no he doesn't. He got something we don't know in return for his allegiance to the democrats, he is a businessman after all, but now he sees that the rats are fleeing the sinking ship and he wants in with the Trump campaign...
Yeah. There's a reason I'm on HN, and not on 4chan. (But 4chan is there, if that's what you want...)
Motherboard and CPU, memory, NVMe drives, PSUs, SlimSAS cables and breakouts, a custom machined case, assembly, support.

You're free to try building one yourself for cheaper. If you consider your time for researching/assembling/testing it to be worthless, and are happy with a contraption in a miner frame, then you can probably do it.
Yep. My point is, it's that it's actually a hard problem
Oh that's a great suggestion! I was adding a bit to the description, but I should provide an example too.
I already admitted to being a layman, but I'm referring to SVBs venture debt offerings. I was under the understanding that the SVB collapse was so devastating (and the reason there was the government bailout that went above FDIC) was because the lucrative venture debt offerings SVB had were contingent on having all your money and payroll through the SVB account.
The voting system and accepted answers tools also fail to account for time and always have. A highly voted, accepted answer five years ago might be very wrong today because the frameworks changed or best practices shifted or all sorts of other reasons. There's fundamentally no concept of "these votes are stale over time" or "the accepted answer has changed". There's technically no concept of "this question was asked 4 years, but seems stale, can I get fresh answers?" and in practice a direct antagonism against trying that given the incentives among certain parts of the moderator culture to "close all duplicates quickly".

Many good responders and some of the better heavy handed mods work around the lack of tools for dealing with time with a constant stream of "Update:" and "Update to the Update:" top-level edits to the "accepted answer", but that isn't universal and requires manual intervention, only encourages heavy-handed moderators that heavy-handedness is the "right" approach versus a light touch, ignores what the over-gamified voting system was supposed to represent as the concept of an "answer", and overall sometimes just makes answers look "sloppy" rather than "idempotent".

I think the "moderator capture" by heavy-handed moderators seems an inevitable consequence of the "game" mechanics, where some of the tools have been lacking, and the sorts of people prone to undervaluing their own labor on behalf of companies incentivizing them with "points" over wages. I think the increasing feel of "StackOverflow is stale" is directly for not having time mechanics and a way to refresh answers from time to time as technology changes or shifts. The parts of "StackOverflow" that are as close to "evergreen" as possible are continually edited mini-wikis in a sloppy 90s top-posting USENET thread style that is messy and requires both heavy-handed moderation and works around the tools and the concept that an answer has a single author rather than is enabled by the tools.

ETA: Time in both directions, too: sometimes you are stuck in a legacy codebase and need to know "what was the accepted answer to this question 5 years ago?" and want easier tools to wade through legacy answers than trying to archeology dive through years of poorly organized Wiki editing history and comment history scattered across a N answers and M comments to each answer and/or hope that someone preserved somewhere in the middle of the top-posting thread in the current wiki state.
“I believe the government pressure was wrong and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” Zuckerberg wrote

I believe how Zuckerberg handled a pandemic that killed millions of people around the world was wrong. At some point in time, we have to admit to ourselves that misinformation, including misinformation masquerading as "satire", is deadly and we're going to have to come to terms whether spreading deadly misinformation is a constitutionally protected right.
At some point the worlds going to need a Richard Stallman of AI who builds up a foundation that is usable and not in the total control of major corporations. With reasonable licensing. OpenAI was supposed to fit that mold.
IBM Leaves China
RISC-V with the compressed instruction extension actually ends up smaller than x86-64 and ARM on average.

There's not much inherent that needs to change in software approach. Probably the biggest thing vs x86-64 is the availability of 32 registers (vs 16 on x86-64), allowing for more intermediate values before things start spilling to stack, which also applies to ARM (which too has 32 registers). But generally it doesn't matter unless you're micro-optimizing.

More micro-optimization things might include:

- The vector extension (aka V or RVV) isn't in the base rv64gc ISA, so you might not get SIMD optimizations depending on the target; whereas x86-64 and aarch64 have SSE2 and NEON (128-bit SIMD) in their base.

- Similarly, no popcount & count leading/trailing zeroes in base rv64gc (requires Zbb); base x86-64 doesn't have popcount, but does have clz/ctz. aarch64 has all.

- Less efficient branchless select, i.e. "a ? b : c"; takes ~4-5 instrs on base rv64gc, 3 with Zicond, but 1 on x86-64 and aarch64. Some hardware can also fuse a jump over a mv instruction to be effectively branchless, but that's even more target-specific.

RISC-V profiles kind of solve the first two issues (e.g. Android requires rva23, which requires rvv & Zbb & Zicond among other things) but if linux distros decide to target rva20/rv64gc then they're ~forever stuck without having those extensions in precompiled code that hasn't bothered with dynamic dispatch. Though this is a problem with x86-64 too (much less so with ARM as it doesn't have that many extensions; SVE is probably the biggest thing by far, and still not supported widely (i.e. Apple silicon doesn't)).
100% - almost bought a mac mini, but the RAM was a deal breaker.
I don't understand the point of this article. That IQ is different then height? Oke great and? I have never seen anyone claim they were the same.
> sounds like they're setting themselves up for a mass exodus of talent when the stock inevitably falls

Or even if the stock stays up. The moment those options vest they'll have to either drop an even-more astronomical options package on those workers or allow them to leave with their fuck-you money.
I always come back to Schutz's Geometrical Methods of Mathematical Physics as my reference for notation, but I agree. I came to this by way of General Relativity, so that colors my perceptions. The few treatments of GA that I've looked at (briefly) weren't very clear about the distinction between 1-forms and 1-vectors and seemed to assume Euclidean metric everywhere, so I left thinking that it seemed a little weird and not quite trusting it.

In any case, my experience is that the coordinate-free manipulations only go so far, but that you pretty quickly need to drop to some coordinates to actually get work done. d*F=J is nice and all, but it won't calculate your fields for you.
From a Signal user: Sounds good! Never heard of it before, nor has anyone I know probably, no iOS app, not an option I'm afraid.
Dokku looks great, I have not tried it yet myself. I've been using CapRover (similar thing) for years and have no complaints! LetsEncrypt support built in, has a web interface and CLI utility to deploy (can also use github triggers).
> If Durov is charged “it will be interesting to see what measures a judge imposes, as he lives abroad”, the person continued. These could include house arrest or a ban on leaving the country.

The options especially include jail (pre-trial detention), which can also be used as a way to pressure, and is not uncommon in France.
> A former marketing employee at Nvidia told Bloomberg News that she would often attend up to 10 meetings per day

I'd hardly call sitting in meetings all day "work" in the classic sense
There's a lot of amusement to be had reading through all the esoteric buckets number theorists have come up with to categorize numbers through over the years.
>This seems like a strange use of money

I do not :)

Linux and even more so, us, needs FreeBSD and the other BSDs. IMHO Linux, at the moment, seems to be heading to Corporate Domination and is slowly becoming a Windows type Clone. Plus with Wayland being Linux only and its largest funder is Red Hat, it seems to be trying to eliminate BSD.

The *BSDs right now is a option for people who want an OS to work the way they would like it to, not a way a Company like Red Hat/IBM wants it to be.

So great for FreeBSD, and the way the BSDs operate, developments will cross-pollinate the other BSDs.
Hurricanes (as with climate) are complex systems and are based on a number of distinct conditions.

Among the driving factors is the total thermal energy available, largely as sea-surface temperature. And looking at current conditions across the northern Atlantic from Cape Verde to the Yucatan Peninsula, temps are well above average. Nullschool's Earth weather visualiser is a good way to view current and historical information:

<https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/08/23/0000Z/ocean/surface...>

From the site's "about" page: "ocean surface temperatures and anomaly from daily average (1981-2011) updated daily".

We have had a lull in Atlantic / Gulf storms since Ernesto (8--20 August), but we've also seen the earliest Cat-5 storm, and some of the fastest storm development, of the storms that have developed to date. In particular, storms can go from a weak depression to a major hurricane within 24--48 hours (as with Beryl: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Berylhttps://en.wiki...>). A later storm, Debby, stalled and progressed slowly over the Southeastern US, dumping prodigious amounts of rain (>500mm / >20in) triggering flooding (from precipitation rather than storm surge), and causing $2 billion in damages.

My understanding is that other factors can lead to tropical waves not developing into storms, most especially wind shear. I don't know if that's been a factor since late July, though that's been the core of most discussions about possible further development of the season.

And the official season runs through 30 November, typically peaking in early September. So we've got quite a ways to go.

Rapidly-developing storms with access to a great deal of thermal energy and tropical moisture increase the likelihood of major storms developing rapidly with little warning and severe impacts. That's no joke to deal with.
The real joke is quoting psychologist to counterpoint students of races? (I guess anthropologists?) Or quoting psychologists about anything, regardless
Ask HN: Problems in Need of Open-Source Hardware?
For Open-Source software, it's very easy to search GitHub for interesting projects that are looking for contributors. Is there anything similar for Open-Source hardware?
Platforms decay in a lot of ways. Doctorow was describing a particular cycle, closely tied to a particular funding model. But even free platforms can decay -- look at the way individual Usenet groups would rise and fall.

Doctorow chose an arresting choice of word, and perhaps it's sad that it drags us further along the euphemism treadmill (or in this case, dysphemism treadmill). But "platform decay" really doesn't capture what he was getting at, either.
Given that the design and endpoints of clinical validation studies is priceless information for developers of similar devices (i.e., competitors) applying for FDA clearance via the 510(k) pathway, it would not surprise me at all if this information was purposefully kept secret no matter how flattering it is. Especially for relatively new technology like AI
And the entire stated purpose of SO was not to be like expertsexchange…