skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced about their hand-waved explanation of radiation safety here:

> The long-term effects of global radiation will impact humans and will cause loss of life, but this increased global radiation is “just a drop in the bucket”. Every year, we emit more radiation from coal power plants and we have
already detonated over 2000 nuclear devices. Adding one more bomb should have minimal impact on the world.

I don't think "eh, what's one more detonation?" is persuasive when you're talking about a device more than 10x the size of all previous ones put together, being set off in direct contact with the seabed. Most of the fallout from nuclear testing came from the handful of ground burst tests that weren't fully confined, so I'm skeptical that "try to make it a clean fusion design" would actually be enough here. It would be cool if that were solvable though.
A healthy disc shouldn’t wobble enough to push much of anything. We’re talking like 1/20th of a millimeter.
Thank you for this. Would love to see it integrated into copilot or cusor
Ask HN: What happens when every HN post is flagged?
Consider that in the past week or two there have been many posts getting flagged despite being about a topic of particular interest to many HN account holders.

One might wonder what HN will look like when all posts are flagged, and hypothesize what conditions would be required to realize that.

Something to consider as these posts keep getting flagged.
Sounds like you need a more watertight contract and more lawyers.
Smokeping is an amazing and underrated resource as a network health metric and diagnostics tool.

If you have a network monitoring or asset system you can export IP addresses from, you should use a small glue script to automatically build a smokeping configuration. I've got one for our LAN and one for the WAN at each of our sites so I can track down issues at either level.

The LAN connection charts are a great daily sanity check, and the WAN connections (I have every-to-every for each site so any and all inter-site issues can be seen) can help keep your ISP honest with the service they're delivering.
Can I put these EV specific tires on my ICE to get super-duper tread life?

(and have the tire companies been conspiring to make tires disposable?)
Europeans don't have or understand free speech
That's not how bamboo works though. It is hollow and needs to be processed into larger blocks
I think git is quite nice and easy to work with once you realize one thing: git is first and foremost a filesystem. Version control is built on top.
Bespoke audio. Command your characters with your voice, not just the mouse. (They might argue or remind you of their other abilities or tactics if they don't feel you are utilizing them maximally.)

The opponents have to use it too, which can open new game mechanics around silence or distracting noise.

Jealous NPCs. Space-sim banter. Follow-up plot points based on adhoc conversations.

What if we can't click the right dialogue all the time; we have to convince them from our experience.
This looks bad of course, but isn’t he also someone who knows about how this stuff works and has lots of relevant experience building messaging strategies to achieve a goal? Sounds like the guy you’d want handling the opioid epidemic.
This was epic, thanks for sharing!
Presumably you don’t mean a large bamboo tree?

There are so many neat cutting boards available, with suitably eye watering prices. I made I nice Rimu one (though admittedly it was glued) out of old house framing that was otherwise going to be binned.
Chopping down these ancient hardwood trees for house framing is depressing to think about.
https://gatherandyou.co.nz/products/handmade-rimu-chopping-b...
Yeah, RAG is a great way to handle outdated docs
The point in the article is those billionaires should not be allowed to influence a system being organically created by real people. Whether it be patchwork or whatever the outcome of that organic process is.
Some actions we can take are to reduce our collective meat consumption, reinstate WWII levels of progressive taxation, and use the money towards "public luxury, private sufficiency", so that the now even-poorer chicken- and turkey-farmers (and hopefully other livestock-farmers, too, given their environmental impact) can continue to do meaningful actions that support others, rather than getting further depressed and offing themselves.
NASA has a list of 10 rules for software development
I did this with my son. It was fun for both of us and we could compete on fairly equal terms. And the cups are cheap. I really recommend trying it, especially if you and/or your children aren't very sports oriented.
Padel vs Pickleball
I'm struggling to come up with what intent this behavior was supposed to perform. I block probably one person every other thread.

I don't block you because I had some kind of conflict, I blocked you because I don't like what you tweet and I don't want to see it and it's not clear what "not interested" actually does. Why this would impact anyone other than whom I'm blocking is perplexing. I certainly can't vouch for what they want to see and whom they want to interact with.
Almost fully isolated. As far as I know Intel screwed 386 design forgetting about trapping POPF on interrupt flag change. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160411-00/?p=93... https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/adm...
You are right, the situation is not as dire as in baseball or arguably even soccer, there's more chaos and room for innovation.

But still data-lization is taking the fun out of basketball, that's for sure.
Labor in my definition is something you do for someone, rather than [for yourself, because that's exactly what you want to do].

> Relationships require conscious effort (labour) to maintain.

Absolutely not. You can just live in a relationship and labor no more than you would be living alone. I know because I've done both for extended period of time. The presence of the other person should make your life easier not harder (and vice versa). Good relationship is when you and your partner do only things each wants to do and do them for yourselves not for each other. You offer generously, you accept graciously, you thank profusely.

Anything else is tainted by transactionality and becomes balancing act and harder and harder as relationship ages and/or life becomes harder. That's why so many relationships break down. Transactionality gets off balance in perception of one party or the other.

Finding a person you could have a good relationship with is harder than finding a person you could have some relationship with obviously. But it's worth it. In 14 years a word chore didn't pop up once and neither any disagreement about money. Of course some of it is finding the right person but a lot can be done just by having proper framework of what life and relationships are (not labor) and leading by example.
Now I'm sad. It reminds me of this chart that shows that 10 companies own a huge swath of the major brands. https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/11dvx...
Begone literal Neo-Nazi (check comments and username)
Economics wins, despite public policy and misguided ideology. Fossil loses in a windy, sunny state in a fair market.
Much of the damage was in areas where a controlled burn would have been impossible due to geography. And the kind of vegetation in the burn area isn’t suited to controlled burns anyway:

https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/techne/why-shrubland-make...
Presumably you still need server code to prevent blocked users from interacting with each other, no?
And to add to that, power is almost always the number that is reported/counted so watts is usually correct. That might seem strange since batteries store energy, but in terms of the service they provide to the grid power in/out is more important than storage at least for now.

Edit: 1-2 hours of storage seem to be the current state in Texas at the moment: https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-storage/texas-co...
> most teams can find these archetypes and build rosters that get you to the playoffs

Not really, it's still 16/30 (I don't like playoff formats btw, so American).
I mean — the best cybersecurity experts are often former black- or gray-hat hackers.

Hiring people with intimate knowledge of Bad Thing to try to fix Bad Thing is not necessarily a bad strategy.

Just need them to have very legible incentives. That’s less clear to me in this case.
Is Alzheimer's less prevalent in sauna going populatioo?
A man who smoked two packs of cigarettes per day for years, used to comment on "people who went to Health Food Stores" .. Look, he would say, see those people? they are not very healthy.. (often people with health problems would seek a better diet).. That man smoked for 40 years, no problem! he said.. his skin suffered, he lost his sense of taste for foods.. One year he was diagnosed with Lung Cancer and died after a slow, lingering and painful illness, in his early 60s.
You may be thinking of the US Forest Service’s suspension of prescribed burns.

https://cepr.net/publications/us-forest-service-decision-to-...

However, state and local agencies undertake prescribed burns regularly. To be fair, clarity (read: honesty) from political figures on this topic (and others) is at an all time low.
We could also try to fix the anti-intellectual culture instead of just griping about it and/or retreating. It didn't emerge out of thin air, it emerged as a reaction to a mostly-accurate sense among non-intellectuals (i.e., the people who make most of the world actually work) of being constantly condescended to by the intellectual class.

What we need isn't to go all prepper for some kind of dark age, what we need is a new breed of intellectual that actually makes an effort to understand what life is like for the 65% of the population without a 4-year degree and then attempts to bridge the gap rather than trying to run the world from within a filter bubble.
This why I find our political tribalism so frustrating, even moreso now that I see (primarily young) people trying to use "centrist" as a dirty word.

Texas has actually done a lot better at producing supposedly "liberal outcomes" by acknowledging the reality of economic incentives. We've built a ton of renewables. We've also built a ton of housing that have shown the stark contrast to the idiotic housing policies of California. I'll also give a shout-out to the "Sunset Commission" of the TX legislature, which reviews government/regulatory bodies every 12 years to ensure they're still fulfilling their original mission.

At the same time, we have idiotic laws that force women to leave the state to get healthcare that will save their lives. Our educational financing system is a disaster.

Point being I don't consider myself a "centrist", I just want to choose policies that actually work, regardless of tribalism.
There is no sound evidence of having so much microplastics in the brain. The studies that show it are very broad, incomplete and did not check for false positives.

"The main analytical method used in this study was pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. This method can give false results when used to measure plastics because fats (which the brain is mainly made of) give the same pyrolysis products as polyethylene (the main plastic reported)"

And then you have something like this: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32882126
You're probably right, I meant that the power consumption should be roughly comparable between them (due to inefficiency added by each mini).
It’s a steaming pile of shit too.

FWIW you may be able to remove copilot from your subscription but it is still a shitshow.

Google workspaces isn’t much cheaper, if you’re brave you could try ZOHO’s groupware at a significant discount but I’m sure that comes with caveats.

I still can get my head around why Mozilla doesn’t dip its toe in here.
Does this really. Really?!? Surprise anyone not invested in hyper loop being a thing?
Many, many things. (Note: not an openrc expert, so not commenting on whether it's possible to arrange these things using entirely what openrc provides, in a uniform fashion that works identically on any openrc system.)

Universal trivial logging, including of text just printed to the daemon's stdout/stderr, and you can easily ask "give me the log messages from just this application". And you can log to memory for stateless systems, or to disk.

Service monitoring as the default expectation: services are a thing that are monitored and restarted if they fail, not a thing that gets run once and hopefully stays running.

Full integration with all kinds of event handling. Whether something is triggered by a kernel event (e.g. new device), a timer job, an incoming socket, or system boot, it uses exactly the same mechanism to start a service. So you don't need one mechanism (cron) for timers and another (inetd) for sockets and another (init scripts) for system boot. And all of them use the same service monitoring, logging, etc.

Easy integration with various kinds of sandboxing. One line in a .service file and a service runs in a chroot, or has no network access, etc.

And then there's just the general standardization effort to unify the dozens of different places that things get configured into one mechanism that's the same across distributions. For instance, before systemd, distributions had various different places to configure the hostname; now, distributions have largely standardized on `/etc/hostname`. There are many more instances of such standardization, and most of them have been successful.
> They’re (in most cases substantially) more expensive, less energy dense by mass and volume, and require planning for refuelling (especially if used in areas outside of main city centres or for long driving, or if you live in an apartment without access to a charger at home).

The most popular BEVs already cost less than the average new car and the price will continue to decline as long as battery prices do. Ranges of ~300 miles are common, meanwhile the average commute is 42 miles, so charging at home is sufficient for the vast majority of usage and is more convenient than buying gas. Apartments will install chargers as electric vehicles become more common.

For long trips, you begin your day having charged overnight and then add 200 miles of range at a supercharger in 15 minutes. That 500 miles is more than 8 hours of driving at 60MPH and it cost you 15 minutes. For people who make such long trips on a regular basis there will be cars with larger batteries and more range so that "overnight plus once in the middle" gets back to being just overnight.

> Not to mention most grids being nowhere near able to support the entire population of car drivers fast-charging their cars during rush hour.

This is the least interesting problem. Upgrading power grids is a known process involving only widely deployed existing technologies.

> The real solution is public transit

Public transit doesn't work in the suburbs, the majority of the population lives in suburban or rural areas and changing that would take decades of new housing construction which is currently prohibited by law.
It's Lenz's Law, friend. It's as much a design point as a=F/m. Because of it, induction motors and magnet synchronous motors generate more torque at 0RPM than any combustion engine I've heard of.

You could have software limiters, but you'd need regulatory mandates for that. Actually, I support that. 3+ ton trucks with a sub 4s 0-60 shouldn't be street legal. Or they should at least require a special license and liability insurance.
This is my experience as well. I answer many such calls from devs as part of my work.

I can usually tell at the end of a call which group they belong to. I've been wrong a few times too.

As long as they don't waste my time I'm fine with everyone, some people just have other priorities in life.

One thing I'd say is in my experience there are many competent and capable people in every group, but non-competent ones are extremely rare in the first group.
This is a terrifying reminder of the shortness of our lives. I remember reading a blog by Tim Urban, where he showed that you could put all the weeks in your life on a single piece of A4 paper, and it didn’t feel nice.
> No, just no. We need accountability and responsibility. Every single Republican that is actually responsible needs to be holding their fellow Republicans to account for the lies they spread.

Let's say you're right. How do you plan to do that without "finding solutions and plans that can include everyone from all political spectrums"? How are you going to get some Republicans to hold other Republicans accountable if you haven't found a solution that includes that first subset of Republicans? I suppose you could aim for autocratic top down governmental control, but I think if you look around at the current state of the US government you might see some flaws with that plan.

It's easy to be frustrated and angry and rant at people. It's easy to dismiss them and write them off as not worth the effort. But in the end, the question to have to ask yourself is whether it's more important to be right and that other people do things for the right reasons, or more important to accomplish your goal, and other people do the right things even if its not for the right reason.
> Not to mention most grids being nowhere near able to support the entire population of car drivers fast-charging their cars during rush hour.

Feels a bit like a straw man. Most commuters aren't extending beyond the range of their vehicle for work commutes, and would charge at home or office on solar. I agree they should not be sold as though there are no trade offs, but after extensive research it feels that for a primarily commuter scenario, never having to stop for gas, charging at home, etc, would be not only practical but actually superior. I frequently have to gas up mid week and with a busy job and kids, it is an actual hassle that would be nice to be a nice upgrade.
He is right I really don’t understand the definition of „freedom“ anymore otherwise a pretty deplorable rant.
All of these are theoretical use cases and too infeasible/expensive to implement currently in video games, with the best tech demos of such genAI not being "interesting"/additive to the game experience and indistinguishable from AI slop.

The difference between genAI and procedural generation in gaming is that procedural generation is still strictly bound by rules and can be QAed/fixed if there are errors. Not so with genAI.
I found that info about the `discard` behavior quite interesting. And thank you for the kind, inspiring words -- cheers!
As you point out, it probably doesn’t ever make sense to use carbon capture to “offset” energy-related emissions. Probably the only way it would make sense would be as a way to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere after we’re no longer burning previously sequestered carbon.
I am not violently allergic to nuclear, and am mindful that there will be places it is needed, although it’s going to be incredibly expensive and time consuming to build where needed. Texas has enormous wind and solar potential, they can skip it.
Mob justice, not unlike January 6 I’m sure.

It’s hard to view your response as a good-faith response.

Trump’s own party have coyly admitted the actions are illegal.

The executive branch charged with faithfully upholding the laws is being dismantled, as the institutions are being coopted before our very eyes.
Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: Natural History in Early America
i was just reading the very active comments on a post about climate change, and it just.. disapeared. Is HN hostile to climate change posts?
Terrifyingly inspiring.
Chess Broke My Heart Here's Why I Still Can't Quit
My country of Smugistan solved playoff problem years ago. Very simple: every Smugball team makes playoffs. If Americans and Europeans weren't so far behind Smugistanian education system, they would have figured it out too.
>russia collapses... Then what?

Ideally they could get a normal government rather than the current murderous dictatorship.
Whenever this topic comes up I always wonder how many people commenting have ever heard of the odd eighths scandal.
It got to the point where I had a darcs commit take more than ten minutes. That's when I stopped using darcs.
So many shells, so little time.
There's billions of motorcycles in the world.
Spoiler: the aircraft never took off.

I’m not sure that they are as clever as they think they are. Maybe I’m not academic enough for the joke.

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
Oh so what do you consider to be present in the absense of capitalism if not what came before it?
Wasn't it "Don't issue an order that wont be followed" or some such? I think it is a common saying even though Kissinger might have also said it.
That’s really the core problem here. As is often the case with rent control models, the natural outcome of an incentive structure came to pass in spite of the best intentions of legislators/regulators.
The deadly lottery of the snakebite antivenom industry
The history of very wealthy people bringing down democracies goes back to Julia Caesar and Pompey bringing down the Roman Republic, and probably even further.

The question is, how to make democracy stable against interference by very
wealthy people?

One idea that occurred to me was to have non-linear money that becomes proportionately less valuable as it is accumulated into larger and larger amounts. Add $100 to $1000 and you increase that value by approximately $100, but add $100 to $1000000 and you only increase that value by say only $1. Of course this is impractical in this form, but this is in effect what progressive taxation does.

So maybe a democracy could be made stable against billionaires by having progressive taxation which prevents people from accumulating more than a certain proportion of GDP, say.

This would lead to a sort of capitalism in the small but communism in the large.

The revenue from this progressive taxation wouldn't even need to fed into the governments fund's, if its purpose was to supress billionaires then it could just be destroyed or 'burnt' and still achieve its purpose. Another possibility would be to distribute it to the citizens of the country as a sort of 'divident to shareholders', but you would have to be careful with this because some would-be billionaires might use this as a lever to build their popularity.

So a stable democracy would be a voting system plus an army (to prevent takeover from outside) plus progressive taxation (to prevent takeover from inside) plus a few other things to deal with things like citizenship and immigration.
Thanks for sharing, this format really puts things into perspective.
Rats may not have caused the Black Death, study suggests (2023)
An old adage about politicians is is to observe what they do, not what they say. This is more true with Trump as he follows, what is called the Mad Man strategy -

The madman theory posits that a leader who behaves as if he could do just about anything has a better chance of persuading other global actors to make concessions they otherwise would not make.

- https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/07/madman-theory-internati...

Whether the leader of a superpower should be adopting such a strategy is a different debate ...
Yes I'm also in the 1% and I wrote the article... I guess there is the 0.001% that need's addressing first. I don't know if that makes me an entitled narc for writing the article. Genuinely if Wanted attention I could do it in a million other different ways and I just want humanity to evolve.
The Voodoo 2 completely takes over display output. VESA stuff shouldn't have any effect in this case.
Sourcehut faced a similar issue awhile back and managed to avoid needing to go behind Cloudflare. Hopefully Codeberg has the same outcome.
I think it's because there's usually only a couple players at any given time, so live matching would never fill.
If they put the money into a fund, you would have complained that the government was overtaxing the citizens.