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Ask HN: NYC Community Chip Fabs?
I'm interested in experimenting with designing a CPU and GPU, so I was curious what my options are for manufacturing and iterating on this kind of thing

For physical manufacturing, is there something like makerspaces or community biotech labs https://www.genspace.org/ in NYC? I ask about NYC cause that's closer to me

Or is simulation the only real way to go as an individual who is experimenting?

Thanks for your help :)
For a minute I thought PWHL was short for "pwn-NHL".
> We did get some strongly worded letters from Robinhood though, lol.

Unsurprisingly, the most sleazy players are the first ones to go after someone accessing their services in ways they didn't anticipate or intend :).
Other than the myriad of problems with passwords that NIST has killed in competent circles, what are some other "useless controls"?
He/she has probably lost some PFAS recently, if in need of a transfusion.
It makes sense that new rules should apply to newly made/sold phones. Why not grandfather existing phones? Isn't any communication better than none in an emergency? A working phone, even if it doesn't support placing official emergency calls, would still be able to place a phone call for help. Even sending an email or WhatsApp message is better than nothing.

This makes me wonder, is calling the emergency services number (911 / 119 / etc) now restricted to only such mobile phones officially supporting the protocol? This means you can't dial the emergency number from a pay phone or landline? I'm really confused about the underlying logic here.
I think it's worth it. Much less SEO-driven crap; pages with actual info about a search term seem to be more prominent than pages trying to sell me something related to the search term. YMMV.
I looked into it a couple years ago and can't find anything. I believe it does though.

It doesn't have the consistency (or price) of a ceramic and it's not an oil or wax. It's something suspended in a volatile liquid. If you spill some it evaporates quickly and you can inspect the residue which is the actual lubricant. I don't know what else it would be but PTFE or PFAS.
Recently, I've found myself trying to avoid any food that touches any plastic mostly for this reason. It's so hard to do - even aluminum drink cans are coated with plastic on the inside, apparently.
I've heard sports gambling as an explanation for why people don't feel prosperous despite low unemployment ,wage gains, etc.
Their delete post endpoints probably require auth. What’s to stop you from deleting someone else’s posts
It's pretty annoying that so many scientists and good engineers are still almost exclusively on X. I would move to a ghost town if just those people would move.
Article from the incident: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7743817/Explosive-m...

Explanation of what happened: https://hackaday.com/2020/12/30/water-and-molten-aluminium-i...

The guy walks away at the end so he seems to have escaped mostly unscathed. Very fortunate to do so given the severity of this. Hopefully he really was unharmed other than needing new underwear.
I like that better too, but open source is often used synonymously with open architecture, so it's good to be aware of.
Same sort of timeframe, a project I worked on used netwoking via mobile hotspots on a bunch of Android phones with SIMs from a provider that used CGNAT. If the target websites wanted to block that, they'd be blocking well over 10% of all mobile phones in Australia.

(Hmmm, all the devices we used then would have just stopped working with the shutdown on the 3G network here. I wonder if it's all broken, or if they've upgraded all those devices to 4/5G ones?)
Happy to answer any Q’s about what we built and why it is a gamechanger!
In Brazil there is a recent trend with gambling called "fortune tiger" aka "tigrinho". It's just a ridiculous ugly slot machine. You can pickup and play in a second.

You see people playing while working in the cities. Mostly poor people playing.

YouTube is completely inundated with videos revealing the, I kid you not, "best strategy".

These are made with a special version of the app for influencers that have a higher chance of gain, apparently this is well known.

Here's a recent video from just yesterday with a "strategy"
https://youtu.be/sDQdIUl777M?si=-0tZ0OMN3HeQtFdn

Here's reporting on the issue 11 months ago.

https://youtu.be/FU5e5TLvol8?si=cqmLkZXR96ucgvIi
I work at medium to large government orgs as a consultant and it’s entertaining watching beginners coming in from small private industries using - as you put it - consequentialism and virtue ethics to fight against an enterprise that admits only duty ethics: checklists, approvals, and exemptions.

My current favourite one is the mandatory use of Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). They’re digital snake oil sold to organisations that have had “Must use WAF” on their checklists for two decades and will never take them off that list.

Most WAF I’ve seen or deployed are doing nothing other then burning money to heat the data centre air because they’re generally left them in “audit only mode”, sending logs to a destination accessed by no-one. This is because if a WAF enforces its rules it’ll break most web apps outright, and it’s an expensive exercise to tune them… and maintain this tuning to avoid 403 errors after every software update or new feature. So no-one volunteers for this responsibility which would be a virtuous ethical behaviour in an org where that’s not rewarded.

This means that recently I spun up a tiny web server that costs $200/mo with a $500/mo WAF in front of it that does nothing just so a checkbox can be ticked.
I agree that commentary was rambling anecdotes, stats, and repetition, but when I turn on the tennis channel and I see the commentators talking about the “Fan Dual match of the day” and the current match line odds, it makes me think the commentators are no longer for me (non-gambler), but for fan dual customers themselves. I do not have a problem with anyone gambling, but I would like prohibition of sports betting ads for content broadcasters, or at least limit advertisements to commercials only, no more integrating with the broadcast itself. Could you imagine commentators talking about the best F150 deals or any other commonly advertised product every 10 minutes? (Please don’t give advertisers any more ideas)
Don't know what the latest is, but this from Teradyne was probably close: https://www.teradyne.com/products/ultraflexplus/
What’s wanted (or not) by website operators is irrelevant.

Adversarial interoperability is a cornerstone of the value of the internet and something we should fight hard to keep.
Because it's a set of puzzles on a 2D grid. We don't live on a 2D grid so it's already on the wrong track. A set of puzzles for a 3D sphere wouldn't get us any closer to AGI either but at least it would be a more realistic representation of the world and how a general purpose problem solver should approach reality. Even Minecraft would be a better test and lately people have started testing LLMs in virtual worlds which is a much better test case than ARC.

Insofar as ARC is being used as a benchmark for code synthesis it might be somewhat successful but it doesn't seem like people are using code synthesis to solve the puzzles so it's not really clear how much success on ARC is going to advance the state of the art in AI and code synthesis according to a logical specification.
The lining is better for you than the aluminum being directly in contact with the acidic beverage, but I totally understand your concern.
In my (perhaps limited) experience, most of those reasons are just different ways of spelling "our official solution is shit, because we don't care and/or make money in some underhanded way".
This is one of those clickbaity myth things. There are all sorts of old timey photographs with people smiling in them.
The details of the crime seem to point to something like this.

Remember that Picasso was questioned and probably involved. One theory is that what we think is the original is, in fact, a master-copy by Picasso. The original is held privately in Florence.
I'm keeping track of the comments on this post with the agent. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/ouIWvi_zaB8
Wild, thanks for sharing. Any brands or other details you uncovered? I’d bet that most/all common products for countertop sealing may be implicated?
Bloody hell, that’s not subtle, is it?
Yep - I'm not saying society OWES me the treatment - just that I should be able to get it if I want and am willing to pay for it.

I agree that we don't want all of society to be collectively paying for something that has large, clear costs, but dubious efficacy. Then again, COVID...
Could also work with HomePods and similar, any Apple device on the same network segment that can send the magic packet.
i do belive loss leader is a sound marketing principle, if you can eliminate an all or nothing mentality [ its all mine or you get nothing ]
"strings" is a Unix CLI utility that automates the equivalent of a tried and true practice on Windows: opening an executable file in Notepad.exe and scrolling around until you find human-readable text (usually near the end of the file).
Thank you. I was waiting for someone to stir the pot and start to bring in alcohol. Keep it going this is good stuff.
Yes, but their blood/plasma PFA concentration won't change at all unless your blood has extremely high PFA concentrations.

Even if it did, the average blood/plasma recipient is more concerned about "not dying of blood loss" than PFAs.
You can be sure Hershey will throw a supplier to the wolves if they can point a finger and be reasonably sure there's no way to trace the decision back to Hershey.
>that we forget it serves an actual purpose, and is probably one of the primary drivers of our society’s prosperity.

We chose to give our fate of "prosperity" to monopoly money and we wonder why people became lonelier, more depressed, and hopeless in life.

When services cease to serve society and instead this speculation for people well off enough to participate, it should be no surprise Goodheart's law is minmaxed towards enshittification over quality. Shittier but higher engagement algorithms, price hikes on a whim, ads everywhere on your screen real estate, paywalls for essential news. And subscriptions for things that have no business being a subscription. So many subscriptions. I could go on all day.

And ofc the final optimization of this phenomenon is reducing costs on the mode expensive part of a business: labor. Automate it away or become a US shell company when 95+% operates in a 3rd world country paying well below US minimum wage. That's exactly what society needs, less reasons to get out of bed.

But if it made a few dozen billionaires even richer, I guess that's all that matters in the end.
Kind of since you don't have the B-F tritone. There is a lot more instability, and the resolution to C is a lot stronger, in G7 than in F/G or similar chords.
Accessing a publicly available web service is not “taking liberties with things you don’t own”.

If you put a server on the public internet and I send it a message (assuming I’m not using ill-gotten credentials, etc.), anything it responds with is your problem, not mine.
Show HN: Automatically tweet (X) the music you're enjoying on Spotify
Hey HN!

Excited to show a project called Bopping that makes it effortless to share the music your enjoying on X (Twitter).

Bopping connects to both your Spotify and X (Twitter) accounts, tracks your listening activity, and automatically tweets out your top 3 tracks every day (timeframe adjustable in settings).

When it knows an artists handle, it will tag that artist in the tweet, which has resulted in some nice artist/fan interactions. I often get artists retweeting or liking my tweets which feels very cool.

It's been fun to see the tweets from the small group of people using it on my timeline. Would love for you to give it a try. Excited to hear feedback and see what tracks everyone’s vibing to.

You can see some other bops here: https://x.com/search?q=I%27m%20%40bopping_to&src=typed_query...

All bops are also added into a (rather eclectic) playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5bXlqMaUBEcwN8lP5CEZbN?si=...
So those bloodletting docs from the 1700's were really ahead of their time then
Not necessarily. I visit our local medical vampire every 3 months to drain a pint due to high levels of ferritin (hemochromatosis issues). I asked what they do with the blood. They destroy it by ashing it. The tech said they do this with any blood drawn from someone with a known disease state. So if phlebotomy becomes a common treatment for PFAS loads, I'd guess the draws would be destroyed. I hope.
In most cases, in the US, reverse engineering is not illegal.
I have a friend of a friend, that works for NASA. Was hired specifically as a disabled hire. His management gave him NO end of grief. Violated many NASA and US Gov rules / laws.

His disability prevented him from being able to go into the office, but he could EASILY do all of his work from home. They wanted him to get a doctors note EACH and EVERY day he could not make it in to work at the office. WTF if he cant make it into work, what makes you think he can get a doctors note.

He filed with his union, turns out NASA has a union, who knew. They started the process but ten he found himself a different job, one that actually cared.

Sad that he had to go and change jobs. The new group has him working completely remote.

Irony is NASA just had an event about awareness for disability, what a joke (see article
https://redstonerocket-al.newsmemory.com?selDate=20241106&go...)
He tried working through his manager, his managers manager, and the Equal Opportunity Office. Talk about 3 people who are clearly promoted above their skill level.

TL;DR friend of a friend just found another job.
They generally just scribble the name. Generally when I speak to support representatives and say that I got a delivery confirmation with a signature on it pretending to be mine they get extremely apologetic.

I don't know if it needs to state the name next to it, that's a good question, and may also depend on jurisdiction, but I would suggest that if a delivery signature was just writing a name then it wouldn't carry the necessary weight for proving receipt.
Well said. For me, watching anything regarding the NFL in the past ~8 years is borderline intolerable. The godawful commercials with loud as shit volume, every broadcast "segment" needing a fucking ad spot, the sappy 20 minute stories about the running back's 2nd cousin's wife's childhood babysitter going through an oh-so-hard time with cancer that was only made to get more women to watch, the political grandstanding...I can't take it. I've barely watched any games this year.
This is not an accurate reading of the code. Snopes quotes an FAQ on the US Treasury site (now missing, but presumably still correct) [0]:

> Q: I thought that United States currency was legal tender for all debts. Some businesses or governmental agencies say that they will only accept checks, money orders or credit cards as payment, and others will only accept currency notes in denominations of $20 or smaller. Isn't this illegal?

> A: The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," which states: "United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."

> This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/legal-tender-payment/
What's wrong with lecithin? It's naturally occurring in eggs.
PFAS has made me terribly suspicious of lubricants and waterproofing agents, and things that have been lubricated/waterproofed. “Compostable” paper food containers especially. Can it really be ok to eat bread that doesn’t spoil on a paper plate that doesn’t soak through?
the article proposes that placing bets should be done in-person at specific locations. no mobile apps or websites.
Does it accumulate in organs, or would it go back into the bloodstream eventually?
How would we know
I read that some markets had >10% differences and from what I can tell, polymarket transaction costs are 2% of profit. That said, Im not sure that all of the listed markets had open financial access, so it stands that there were real reasons the differences were sustained and people didn't do exactly what I said.
A recent example is the micelle used for mRNA vaccines.
mdBook is my favorite tool for creating on-line docs. I wouldn't use it to create a printed book or a PDF, etc., but quick static documentation in HTML it works quite well. It's simple and robust and just works; and most of the limitations are due to Markdown rather than to mdBook.

If I could wave a wand and extend it in any way I chose, I'd want the ability to implement macros (or the equivalent) a la TeX, so as to automate doing fancier formatting in HTML.
Poked around a bit. It's responsive and looks great on mobile. Kudos
You seem to think I'm arguing that they are insider trading. I'm not arguing that!
can it even be considered a firewall if it's running in an "audit only mode"?
There is almost certainly no way this is Hershey's fault, they don't make packaging, they just buy it from suppliers.
Fantastic blog to read - thanks!

I sent it on to my father who spent time in Antarctica during the early 80s so it'll probably jog some memories to tell me.
D wave don't make general quantum computers. They use what is called quantum annealing. It's not comparable to IBMs, and you can't run general quantum algorithms on it.
perhaps one of the most interesting words of the english language today:

https://archive.org/details/JackWagnerattr.MontyPythontheWor...
FWIW: TriFlow contains PTFE, which is an exceptionally inert PFAS. the process of manufacturing it involves some nasty PFAS chemicals which are then dumped into the environment, though.
Quoting myself (missed it the first time?):

> You're again trying to change the subject to the distraction issue of original intent, not actual efficacy.

We're spinning in circles now. You have no argument against the concept or against the results, only a vague disdain for the path taken. You don't enjoy the storybook, nothing more.

Come back with a real argument please. Until then we have nothing to talk about.
This site is puritanical, although I have noticed this a lot with the left wing. In addition to speech policing the nags are going hard after gambling and alcohol. I’m very surprised they haven’t tried to outlaw porn to Save the Women
Not on a d wave processor, it's not a general purpose quantum computer.
I exclusively purchase wax coated paper plates and cups. They generally work just great for picnic stuff, but don't work at all for hot stuff like soups/coffee/hot chocolate.

They're at least twice as expensive, but I think it's worth it.
I don't follow sports but even I know that the baseball champions a few years ago were cheating. That wasn't enough to destroy trust?
Yes, and it can explore the entire map all at once.
How do screenshot permissions work in Wayland?
Yeah, here it is every two weeks without accommodations (or supposed to be).

This place is doing other shady stuff. My previous meeting with HR was about expectations around work complexity. Internal postings and the external posting for this role state that this is for intermediate work of moderate complexity. There's another internal document that says medium to high work for this level. However, the grammar that is used suggests the high part is just so they don't have to promote you if you are doing some high complexity work. This is further supported by their example of a medium to high task - resolution of a production issue (I have several examples of this). I have a secondary role for 10% of my time and the guy that runs that says my work is medium to high complexity and is giving me exemplary feedback. Even my manager put that I have high productivity and completing satisfactory work for low and medium complexity work. He also said that we didn't have much high complexity work this year, so there was limited opportunity for it. None of it makes sense to me.

There's another guy on the team that is my level that was promised a promotion if he stuck around, but they reneged. Even my manager told me if I were on another team, I'd probably be promoted, but the department head was targeting me for a PIP earlier in the year for some unknown reason. So even without the disability part, what they are telling me isn't matching the policies.
The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect
an industrial civilization in the geological record? (2019) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03748
I'd still argue it's all gambling, even though there are many safe and boring bets. We can't guarantee Gold won't be obsolete in 40 years or thst we find some insane vein or synthesis process that deflates the value. We can't guarantee we hit some depression right when you want to cash out.

Leaving your money to banks with the hopes you end up on top is pretty much gambling no matter what. Even if it's safer than most traditional gambling.
Agree, that's why it's a valuable service to make it hard to have skeletons.
In fact we still have lead pipes. Supposedly the water we pipe through them is treated to cause the pipes to be inert.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/lead-pipes-joe-biden...
This is addressed in the article. The idea is that it shouldn't be made illegal, but it should be made annoying.

Do what they do with tobacco and alcohol in most of the world. Sin tax and education are possibilities, but also limit advertising, enforce age limits (annoying age checks are also a deterrent for adults), have people go to a designated physical location (what the article suggests), mandate the display of anti-gambling messages, forbid 24/7 service, etc...

Physical casinos are typically heavily regulated, and often limited to select areas (ex: Vegas), why not online sports gambling?
This is quite a simplification. There are a lot of useless/dubious controls out there, but the problem is rather the contradiction between security pragmatism and compliance regimes.

####

Government: I need a service.

Contractor: I can provide that.

Government: Does it comply with NIST 123.456?

Contractor: Well not completely, because control XYZ is ackshually useless and doesn't contribute--

Government: hangs up
So WAF. Bad? I don’t know enough about it. If it’s just a way to inject custom rules that need to be written and maintained, the value seems low or negative. I had hoped you got a bunch of packages that protected against (or at least detected) common classes of attacks. Or at least gave you tools in order to react to an attack?
> If you think canceling one automatically means more support for another

I don’t, neither do I think competition means a close system. But it’s definitely a system where parties influence each others.

Your beer does not share any goal with mammoth, but other environmental projects does. Let’s say you want to invest 5€ to fight climate change. During your search of projets to support, you might encounter the cool-mammoth one. Now there’s competition for those 5€.
South Park subtitle:

"This is what de-growthers actually believe."
Why not clean the plasma of PFAS and put it back? Like dialysis but for biotoxins. (Actually, would the current dialysis process do this?)