skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wouldn’t a smart tv do something ... smarter than just using the default dns given to it by the network?

It could certainly try... but usually you would block that in your firewall. Fixed DNS servers or fixed server IP addresses are tricky because if you ever need to change them, you can't, because you'd need to update the hardware (which you can't since it sits behind a firewall).

It could try to use things like Google's DNS server, but that is easily blocked in your router.

Not a lot that could be done except trusting your (internal) DNS server...
Quite entertaining but could use an editor. Went as expected but the value is in being able to relate.
I'm still not quite sure how to take this, does this mean that:

We can not fix problematic netcode (this is a running joke in the TF2 comminity)

We can fix game balance issues (that could also be fixed through configs)?
Indeed it’s possible for Godot and Source to be good game engines and also not at all substitutes for each other.

The kind of discourse that litigates why that fact is true doesn’t serve curiosity or add knowledge.
Sounds like Greenspun's tenth rule.
Thank you, that makes more sense now; with that explanation I can re-read the original quotes.
Rainbow Six Siege adds Māori character with Christchurch shooting birth date
What anger?
Your summary is "both sides" crap. I agree, money has too much influence on both parties. But which party refunded $1T in taxes which were already due and being held aside via accounting tricks (eg, Apple routing all their profits to a tiny subsidiary in Ireland to avoid paying US taxes)? Which party cut the capital gains tax? Which party is going to cut it again? Which party supported Citizens United and which objected?

Finally, there is a matter of changing the laws to be in your favor vs flouting the laws and doing what is in your favor.

And you find this "amusing."
The Northwest Passage is important now tho. The short path from most of Eurasia to North America goes through the Arctic. Ice caps are diminishing/going away. The US wants Greenland. All of these are related.
It's okay, if you're a AAA company with something like like 25-50m in sales, y9u get a tax cut to 20%

When you put it that way, the model makes so much more sense to matching how the US operates.
Solar is cheap, but it's only a supplementary power source. If you add in energy costs it becomes much, much more expensive than fission.

The elephant in the room is natural gas which is the true competitor to fission and is still dirt cheap in the US.
Anyone else surprised to hear that MapQuest still even exists? It's like a culture-period reference point when in movies/shows a character looks something up on mapquest or prints a map. I mean it hasn't been a thing for about 15+ years. Assumed it got sold off/absorbed or something
dark-reader-for-safari works well. mobile add-on
Oh the bullshit they brainwashed you with. What infrastructure? Non-existent healthcare? Non-existent public transportation? Non-existent fiber to the home? Non-existent policing of crimes? Schools that look like jails? Homes built of shitty wood? Power outages, fires, disasters all the time?

There are countries with far better infrastructure that have less taxes. The US loves spending tax dollars on a bunch of inefficiencies and meddling in the affairs of other countries I will never live in, with my money.
EAST, WEST, URNER
TDD Mistake #1: Tests without Pipeline
Hydraulic systems are themselves complex and require many components all of which may fail. Detecting failure in a hydraulic system requires additional systems and is generally only indicative of overall system state rather than specific failure in a specific sub-assembly, on account of the shared nature of the medium. Assembly and testing are expensive.

Electronic systems are much simpler by part count, lighter, and smaller.

When communication fails, you know it's failed, and you know where it's failed.

Adding sensors for real time feedback is extremely cost-efficient. If your current/torque/temperature are not within an expected profile, a braking system failure may be inferred. This is extremely cheap, reliable and fast on low-end hardware.

In this case, they do not need left and right forms, they can just produce one part. Right away that's a huge saving in mold cutting time, mold storage, part production, distribution, etc.

In a mechanical system, if something fails, you have to disassemble the subsystem, identify the failure, search the supply chain for the part in question (possibly not labeled), obtain or manufacture the part, re-install it, and then hope for the best.

In a digital system, it can probably tell you what fails. It's probably cheap. It probably has the part number printed on it. And it certainly knows how many hours it has been used, and how heavily.

About latency, the key point is that humans suck. There's no way 1ms latency is going to alter driving outcomes. If you care about latency, you're autonomous driving. And that's something that electronics excel at versus humans. Let's say signals begin to come in suggestive of brake failure on one of four brakes while rounding a corner at high speed. ABS systems can compensate for the failure in real time and intervene to guarantee safety, even across subsystems such as by reducing speed. Mechanical systems are subsystem-bound and will leave the driver to 'discover' the 'new handling characteristics' at the point when it's already too late.

So the summary is: cheaper to produce, cheaper to assemble, cheaper to debug, cheaper to maintain, cheaper to replace, less unique parts, more freely positioned within a vehicle design, more readily reusable across vehicle designs, safer in some conditions, more suited to forward-looking applications such as autonomous driving.

(Disclaimer: I am not a mechanic, however I do have a fairly solid understanding of multi-disciplinary mechatronic design problems.)

As an aside, although we have no ongoing connection, I would note from experience some years back that Bosch VC have been one of the most stand out professional venture firms I have spoken to. If you have an industrial project, particularly one that connects with their existing business lines, they will not waste your time in providing a well considered and efficient response. Definitely a class act.
Wow, this hits surprisingly close to home.
I do not feel existential fear about everything, do not take any antidepressants or anything like that... I just very rarely feel happy, or passionate about anything, at all anymore. My job just burned it all out. I felt depressed for few months, though I am not really 'depressed-stay-in-a-bed' type of person. I do live normally, I am just feeling sad and indifferent about anything.
I told my manager that I am almost done with my mortgage and he asked in return if I am planning to quit my job...
And the worst thing is that job is not bad, I would say it is quite good. Good pay, paid time off, remote... It is just so freaking pointless and stupid.
I would prefer doing anything other than working there really, today I did groceries and it felt more rewarding. Oh well, maybe I should stay in my previous project like the moral of the story tries to incline instead going for bigger pay.
> Some places in eastern Washington only pay $.02/kwh! I'm in a medium sized city in the northwest I pay $.08/kwh.

Is that after delivery costs? Half my bill is paying for the delivery.
Please list the amazing amounts of waste.
m8 they shared their database with the entire world: https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-uncovers-exposed-deepse...
Of which approximately half are inactive. So about 10% of Facebook.
I see the Oraclifaction of Amazon has began
Isn't this a well-known issue in the academic and research community where researchers include their friends' names on their published work?

Since researchers are rated and measured by the number of published papers they have, many people game the system by exchanging bylines with their friends ... so that it boosts their total number of papers published.
I love multitasking - I feel like I'm doing more than 100% and I like being productive.

The trick is to pick a combinations that works:

* listening to a language lesson when cycling (learning+sport)

* repeating flash cards in a bus, instead of doomscrolling (commute+learning)

* listening to a language lesson when cycling to work (learning+sport+commute - whoa!)

* thinking about my programming project when cleaning my home (work+brainless menial work)

In most cases this involves something that doesn't require to much too much conscious attention and something that does.
Japan backs nuclear power in climate plan criticized as insufficient
I was wondering about that too. I think it's deliberate and friendly because they're both technology testbeds for ITER.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Advanced_Supercon...
Compared to fission? It's still quite unclear that fusion will provide improvements over fission.
Does anyone have a top 5 issues list of things that are holding up fusion progress? Like there are basic material science issues that still need work to bring costs down, so that critical materials don't cost too much? Or there is still some theoretical plasma physics that we're still working out the details on? Or magnetic confinement simulations are still too crude, and we need 100x on computing power. Or whatever.
Wikipedia's Co-Founder Is Wikipedia's Most Outspoken Critic
> There are at least 3 major open source alternatives today, way more powerful and easier to work with (O3DE, Godot, Wicked).

My general impression from lurking on these kinds of threads (with no relevant personal experience) was that Godot is a good 2D engine but not a good 3D engine. Do you find it comparable to the other two?
Could be wrong but I fully expect these chips to TDP-doen very very very well, as AMD chips have been doing since Ryzen/Epyc first came out. The performance drop off is far less than linear; efficiency climbs and climbs.

Even at 20W, I expect this would be an absolutely dominant gaming handheld, if someone was inclined to pack it all in.

But what really excited me is the idea that the Deck could Dock to a BFC, Big Fucking Cooler, that let it throttle up to 100+ watts. Good portable power, but then at home it could be a beast.
Sure they will. US car manufacturers ship parts to Mexico where they are assembled and shipped into the US for sale. If that method now costs 25% more, they will probably move some manufacturing back home to avoid the tariff.

Apply that to all companies who ship parts to Mexico for assembly/manufacture, and it will make a difference, assuming the tariffs are high enough to make a difference in the showroom.

Here's the Gore/Perot debate pre-NAFTA. Perot seems pretty spot on in his assessment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fi8OOAKuGQ
> all power sources rely on taking cold water and making it warm constantly so that it makes a turbine move.

PV (photovoltaic), TPV (thermopohotovoltaic), and thin film and other solid-state thermoelectric (TE) approaches do not rely upon corrosive water turning a turbine.

Turbine blades can be made of materials that are more resistant to corrosion.

On turbine efficiency:

"How the gas turbine conquered the electric power industry" https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=38314774

It looks like the GE 7HA gas/hydrogen turbine is still the most efficient turbine?
https://gasturbineworld.com/ge-7ha-03-gas-turbine/ :

> Higher efficiency: 43.3% in simple cycle and up to 64% in combined cycle,

Steam turbines aren't as efficient as gas turbines FWIU.

/? which nuclear reactors do not have a steam turbine:

"How can nuclear reactors work without steam?" [in space]
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/7ojhr8/how_can_... :

> 5% efficient; you usually get less than 5% of the thermal energy converted into electricity

(International space law prohibits putting nuclear reactors in space without specific international approval, which is considered for e.g. deep space probes like Voyager; though the sun is exempt.)

Rankine cycle (steam)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_cycle

Thermoelectric effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect :

> The term "thermoelectric effect" encompasses three separately identified effects: the Seebeck effect (temperature differences cause electromotive forces), the Peltier effect (thermocouples create temperature differences), and the Thomson effect (the Seebeck coefficient varies with temperature).

"Thermophotovoltaic efficiency of 40%" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04473-y

Multi-junction PV cells are not limited by the Shockley–Queisser limit, but are limited by current production methods.

Multi-junction solar cells:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-junction_solar_cell#Mult...

Which existing thermoelectric or thermopohotovoltaic approaches work with nuclear fusion levels of heat (infrared)?
There’s this quip that there’s also a lot of spaces in a news paper.

Mostly, the parentheses are read like spaces.
Exactly. It's like declaring you're going to lose weight and then just trimming your fingernails.
CFS is building their demo reactor that should achieve Q>1 and are already building their first commercial plant: https://blog.cfs.energy/cfs-will-build-its-first-arc-fusion-...

Barring some kind of engineering failures and delays they seem on track to have things ready in the early 2030s.
I'd hoped it would be looking at vintage singer leather stitching machine maintenance. Sad face.
It’s a common fallacy: “$thing is good, new and exciting, therefore everything else is old and rubbish”. The pattern is very easy to see if we pay attention. It’s very common in tech circles, where people tend to be easily excited about new things.
Same deal in Australia. We had tariff walls up until the early 1990's. The trajectory of the economy was plainly obvious it triggering a speech by the then treasurer saying Australia was at risk of becoming a "banana republic". They then went about a wholesale re-arrangement of Australia's economy. They did a lot of things, but the major one was tearing down the tariffs. During the re-arrangement a lot of people lost their jobs, and it triggered a major recession. It was a painful time.

But that was the last recession we had. It's been 30 years of growth thereafter.

I suspect the younger Australians have forgotten the lesson, but it the word "tariff" still frightens my generation. In the USA, you have no one who has lived through tariff's for near a century (Smoot-Hawley in 1930). The economists and academics will be advising anyone who would listen what the effect of rasing tariff walls would be, and it seems like the USA politic did a reasonable job of listening to them for the last 40 years or so. But now the current mob running the place got there by championing not listening to elites.

It's time to re-learn the lesson, I guess.
It’s hilarious that people are arguing that rich people aren’t taxed enough when they don’t even understand these basics.
“The fact that they are uncovering amazing amounts of waste can't be ignored. Whatever their motive or reasoning.”

It can be ignored because it isn’t a fact. They have claimed to have uncovered amazing amounts of waste but I have yet to see any evidence that they have. They have uncovered spending that they disagree with on a policy basis but that isn’t waste that is a difference of opinion on spending priorities. And even that hasn’t been amazing amounts.
You just want to nitpick, I see. I'm not interested. Have a nice day!
> As of today it's not enough to have positive net return, but to have a LCOE of maybe $60/MWh

If you don't count externalities (see cost of firming intermitency [1]).

> (and going down).

Not the last two years according to LCOE+ 2024. the main culprit is inflation, but the curve was nearing flat anyway.

[1]: https://www.lazard.com/media/gjyffoqd/lazards-lcoeplus-june-...
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Yes, its much more common for women, its rare for men.
FWIW, the head of USDS under Obama (Jennifer Pahlka) wrote a whole book about it:

https://www.recodingamerica.us

Interview with the author:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...

Recent opinion piece by the author:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/democrats-elon-mu...

(Those may be paywalled and I'm out of gift links.)
Inclusive or.
Yes!

I have worn various and my current are Airpods 2 Pro.

The daith is discreet, does not get in the way of anything.
https://news.mit.edu/2024/commonwealth-fusion-systems-unveil...

So according to the industry leaders, we will have the first 400MW plant within 10 years.
Classic MegaTokyo strip[1] for illustration purposes.

[1]: https://megatokyo.com/strip/9
I don't think HN users wanting to preserve HN for its intended purpose of intellectual curiosity has much to do with "absolving themselves". It's simply a question of having a forum with that purpose rather than another.
> svelte people have always cast a narrow eye towards typescript and for good reasons as well.

Out of curiosity, could you elaborate on this a little?
Linus Torvalds Would Reportedly Merge Rust Code over Maintainer Objections
I have a 'smart tv'. I don't allow it to connect to any network.

The only really annoying thing about it is that noises from tv shows or the house sometimes triggers the voice recognition, which fails, and then you have to click through the error message.
I managed this by getting a gTLD (digit-only .xyz is cheapest) for internal-only services and then running a Caddy instance to reverse-proxy to my internal services. I don't port forward or open ports to that Caddy instance, so it's not available externally.
In a sense it's worse than that - when the mega-publishers started leaving Steam in favor of their own stores with better margins, Valve conceded by introducing a tiered system where their cut drops to 25% after $10M in sales and again to 20% after $50M in sales. It's deliberately structured to give a discount to the mega-corps which least need it (EA, Ubisoft, etc) while ensuring that indies with no leverage over Valve mostly remain on the 30% bracket.

Even more ironically those indies typically use negligible amounts of Steams infrastructure, while the AAA games which enjoy the 20% revenue share are the ones regularly pushing 200GB downloads though Steams servers.
I thought dopamine was the main focus
Just as an ICE is “worthless” when the engine dies, I’m not sure where the argument is here unless you are going to claim they fail quickly in which case I’d be asking for data to back this up. Note that the data will have to show them lasting more than 8 years / 100,000 miles since that is a standard warranty these days.
An employee commented on this on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1isd0wi/aws_blocking_t...

E1337Recon 257 points 7 hours ago (Tue Feb 18 14:00:30 2025 UTC)

> Hey I’m gonna raise this internally as this is not a good change in my opinion. (Strictly my own opinion and not that of AWS)

> Edit: The change is being rolled back
I agree that if you want to get better at specific things you should just do those things.

Usually when you "learn" something you improve your understanding of the domain, you start chunking things up into patterns and structures. This reduces your mental load and lets you use your "working memory" more effectively.

I think the intuition with say, "n-back" is that there's supposed to be no structure beyond the memory task, so any increase in performance _must_ be an improvement in some sort of generalised "working memory".

As I understand it people have shown that there is "transferance" between these various types of working-memory based brain games (i.e, getting good at one can improve your performance on others that you haven't done before). But no one has shown that getting good at (say) dual n-back produces a strong improvement in "real tasks" that aren't just memory games.
> Even in that case, nuclear fission could not beat solar or eolic ROI.

Neither solar or wind are free. There are costs associated e.g. with building, shipping, maintaining, decommissioning these things (and hopefully at some point recycling, but that’s not solved). Looking at the whole picture, these costs are not that different. These technologies are complementary, they have very different characteristics.

> Current estimates put fussion at $120/MWh.

Current estimates are completely unreliable, because no industrial-scale demonstrator was built. They are a useful tool for planning and modeling, but not solid enough to build an industrial strategy on them. (And it’s “fusion”)
It is possible, but not probable. The M.O. of the entire administration has been to replace expertise with loyalty. No reason to believe this group is any different. This was also the case in 2017.
Do people even do LAN parties anymore? x)
Sure, it'll likely throttle down, but at 15W it'll likely have similar performance to a 15W AMD mobile chip.

So you're running a chip that costs most of $1000 at the performance level of a $200 chip.
We are seeing right now why a high-level budget process like that wouldn't work: there is no guarantee of ongoing alignment in the executive branch, and it creates enormous opportunities for procurement capture.

Bringing things in house with things like 18F is the most promising solution we've seen to those procurement problems, but has been fought tooth & nail by the same people currently dismantling the roadblocks between them & taking taxpayer money without even delivering results.
Also looking at things like pirate sites, it would be never ending process. Close one and lock the their inventories and 3 will popup somewhere else. It is unlikely to be solvable issue.
I use this to remember what it does and also like thinking of XOR as an operation you can apply with a mask to flip bits (the linked article mentions this).
Also, their primary reason for existence is to add DRM to software.
I don't understand what this is supposed to be a metaphor for.

Bullshit / Pointless jobs ? Most are definitely not physically demanding. Meanwhile, our devices run on metals mined by 12 year old kids.

Toxic bosses ? They probably don't act in the open. And they don't pay well.

Lack of workplace regulation ? Your continent democratically decided that workplace regulations were bad, so it should be a "gleeful" metaphor ?

Bad job market ? Then the guy would be accepting a job where he gets punched AND badly paid. But that's not metaphorical: that's a lot of real life jobs.

So I'm missing something here.
> it would seem you no longer agree with that either.

On the other hand, you pretended that fixing that apache configuration was somehow "all I needed to do" to be compliant with EU regulations. We proved that this was wrong, and despite your best effort you are still unable to give a proper list of everything I need to do. You are unable to do so because it is virtually impossible; no matter how thorough you believe you are, you might still be missing an element you don't know well enough. To be safe the only path is to accept the fact that you will need to access personal data, even if that's not your purpose, nor if you do anything with them. The additional paperwork and needless effort are mandatory.

This in turn explains that regardless of what the Grok3 team really does behind the scenes; they DO have additional work to complete to be able to release their product in Europe, and that might explain the delay.

> If you willy-willy use bug tracking software that is needlessly collect and/or process EU individuals personal data, then yeah, you need to follow the regulations in the region you operate in.

I am willing to use whatever error tracking software you suggest. My criteria are simple: I might have JS errors I don't know about, please give me enough information to fix the underlying issue when that happens, without requiring me to fill additional paperwork.

My whole point is that the definition of what constitutes "personal data" is so wide that such a tool does not exist.
Yes and still in his Albert Spangler phase. But would he become a moral person if offered an angel by Lord Vetinari?