skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a physicist much like a mineral is a geologist, so I have zero serious knowledge of the field and everything I say must be taken with a pinch of salt. That in mind, Hossenfelder seems to blow up regularly in HN with clickbait and catnip topics for laymen who self-identify as "pretty smart", so the whole email from an insider who "says what everyone is actually thinking" and aligns with Hossenfelder's ideas seems kinda suspect.

She makes daily videos mostly of "current happenings" not related to physics. I feel that she wants to keep the image of a full time academic speaking authoritatively, while being a science communicator that simplifies the works of others for non-Physicists like Neil deGrasse Tyson.

It doesn't even make sense for someone who's paranoid of their employer to the level that they use an alternate email when the exchange is supposedly gonna be confidential. They believe IT is manually reading their emails? An alert rule for outgoing mail to Hossenfelder? While at the same time have enough trust to use their full name and mention authorship in the email to a Youtuber with 1.6 million subscribers? One would expect that they would ask for their info to be redacted, which is exactly is what happened, but then you don't have an excellent clickbait title. Also, in the case that email is real, what she did is incredible shitty and only for clicks.
I can see your point.

This is a good reminder to me that I need to control my tongue as well; I have said things like the Pijul author did in that thread, and I need to do better.
I google this for a while...
First They Came for Our Attention, Now They're Coming for Our Wallets?
> Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 1x 3080, 60.43 tok/s (eval 110.68 tok/s)

That wouldn't get on Hacker News ;-)
I like the idea of Pijul, not the implantation (so far). What are you building and where can I get it?
A lot of energy from renewables are being wasted due to mismatch with the demand. Building storage for it is quite expensive. I wonder if it makes sense to set up carbon capture near the places which don't have the storage. For example here in the UK we're wasting between 13% and 25% of all wind electricity generated depending on the weather/time of the year.
Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making
The service itself is open source ; but it relies on a closed source service. Both are not incompatible.
Unironically, yes - You can find many sources online by googling it: https://www.stansac.com/blog/are-garbage-disposals-bad-for-p...

It could be that it never happens, but most food waste should go in the trash or ideally compost.
Not really, it is just to convince them that Nintendo has a huge lawyer army awaiting their ... overzealous fans, so they can decide whether it worths to buy Nintendo games or not. If they decide to buy, sure, nothing we can do.

Also it's definitely not part of public education. Not everything happens in a public school is public education. It can stay in the form of clus or forums.
This is where the snide touch grass comment above was awkwardly pointing. If you feel like you're wasting your time and can't be bothered to do so in a holistically responsible way (supporting the creators at the very least) then perhaps your time would be better spent doing something else.

i.e. you may be wasting your time already.

I probably shouldn't have wandered into a thread that's ostensibly about ripping off content creators to begin with. I'll take my moral high horse elsewhere lol.
Americans get a pretty generous foreign earned income exclusion, so unless you make way more than $100k, you have to file but not pay. It could be weird, though, if you are working remote for an American company for W2 income (you can still get your taxes back, but you will have withholding). Also, after the exclusion there is the foreign tax credit, which will cancel out most post $100k taxes if you are paying foreign tax.
On cpu or the NPU “AI” hat?
Inference speed is heavily dependent on memory read/write speed versus size. As long as you can fit the model in memory, what’ll determine functionality is the mem bandwidth.
They patent that stuff not because they want to use it but because they want to block and stifle the competition — it’s truly despicable if you ask me
It was not, 802.11 (no letters) and 802.11b were 2.4GHz. the 802.11a standard came later.
It's not that, it's "too long with low information density so ingest it more efficiently." That way we can spend our time on things that are more productive or enjoyable.
ALL you have to do to increase space for wild plants is remove height/density limits in cities. That's it. Then let people make choices about how much housing they build, and let people make choices about where they live.

You would be shocked how many people will choose to live in density, no matter what they say they want, if we weren't restricting the supply of dense housing so much it's become unaffordable.

The suburbs would simply stop growing in their tracks.
I haven't, testing it out is on my todo list for sure
It is not ready yet, sorry!
I overstated it, and thank you for calling me on that, but one can find references that say it can breakeven.

For example:

https://netl.doe.gov/research/coal/energy-systems/gasificati...

"each ton [of CO2] can yield 2-3 barrels of oil"

Burning a barrel of oil produces 468 kg of CO2, so 2 barrels would be slightly carbon negative.
The success of the Switch 1 might be a reason why the Switch 2 won't be, since game publishers will see that massive Switch 1 install base, still make versions of their games for the Switch 1 if at all feasible and give your average consumer less of a reason to go get one.
You need to quantify before you say it's an issue. Eg. if the battery cost is 0.001% vs 0.0011% it's not actually an issue, despite technically being more expensive.
Anecdotally, it’s very dependent on driving cycle and driving style, but EVs use their brakes much less in general. It would be interesting to measure the total mass of brake pads sold per vehicle mile for different vehicles, though this would likely be more challenging than it seems.
For the past 30 years, cars have been "good enough". This idea that one manufacturer is "vastly" better than another is nonsense. All care manufacturers are vastly better today than they were in the 1980's. This is largely due to regulations. When left to their own devices, auto manufacturers put bigger fins on cars to outsell each other; but under the pressure of government regulations we literally get safe, more efficient cars. But to claim EU should import US because they are somehow "better" is laughable from a technology perspective. US auto manufacturers are just adding bells and whistles (keyfobs? use a fucking KEY. giant touchscreens replacing consoles? NOBODY likes or wants them).
Carbon capture technology is for installation inside chimney stacks, when there is no alternative to burning stuff and thus producing CO₂.

Nothing else.

You'd extract the CO₂ directly from the exhaust gases.
It can't clean CO₂ from the open air. It does not scale that way.
didnt know this!
Engineering/inventing ways to emit less CO2 is fixing the root cause of the problem.

Spending energy that likely came from fossil fuel burning to "capture" CO2 is like saying you've found a perpetual motion machine. The engineering is simpler for this in some ways, but it's still not really a "good" solution.

I agree organic capture is a good idea, and CHEAPEST thing we could do to have an impact dump iron into the open ocean to spawn a phytoplankton bloom, but there is no money to be made doing that.
Interesting, I was always thinking that audio/visual information is naturally much easier to consume. For instance: I can watch a video and count to 10 in my head at the same time – I will still get everything what was in that video – but with text it's a much harder task since the head is fully occupied with "narrating" the text what I'm reading, so reading in the end turns into podcast inside the head before actually get consumed.
I'm talking about mainstream MS keys you buy at reputable vendors, not sketchy eastern European keys. If you're going to pirate it, just pirate it.
Interesting, didn’t know it. Did you read the page in question?

“
As of 2023, the Great Green Wall was reported as "facing the risk of collapse" due to terrorist threats, absence of political leadership, and insufficient funding. “The Sahel countries have not allocated any spending in their budgets for this project. They are only waiting on funding from abroad, whether from the European Union, the African Union, or others.” said Issa Garba, an environmental activist from Niger, who also described the 2030 guideline as an unattainable goal. Amid the existing stagnation, a growing number of voices have called for scrapping the project.
“
I forgot to follow up on this, I don't know how to make HN give me some kind of a notification on replies to my comments.

I should have been a bit more clear. I love memory safety. But I dislike a lot of other aspects specific to Rust. I would much prefer e.g. C with memory safety (somehow). So that is, for me, why not Rust. Rust is more more than just memory safety.
thats why Kreuzberg also exposes a sync API for you to consume.
You can’t solve systemic issues on an individual level — the whole system needs an overhaul, not much consumers can do here.
Darcs to me is a bit like VHS vs betamax. A superior technology that did not win in the market due to other factors.

Way back in the day we did some due diligence on our source control - at that time CVS - and settled on darcs as the most elegant.

Around the same time Linus created git and the rest is history and eventually darcs went the way of betamax.
I recently saw a video by Sabine on this paper https://arxiv.org/html/2501.06623v1 that basically proposes blowing up a gigantic nuclear bomb in deep sea basalt deposit and basalt would capture the carbon.

In the paper they did some math on the bomb size needed to reverse 30 years of carbon emissions, and it's huge (orders of magnitude larger than what we tested so far), although I don't understand why it needs to be one huge bomb. I'm sure you could try it with one military head and test the impact.

Interesting approach in any case.
Unvaccinated people die, unvaccinated poultry is an existential risk to the ag industry. Different incentives making the palatability of solutions malleable when pushed through mental models and belief systems, like making sausage.
yes, I just tried SymbOS 4.0 today: https://x.com/pengan/status/1890829089524642215
>it's unfortunately pretty obscure

NumPy is partly inspired by APL and descendants. One of the few places that programmers commonly get performance afforded by hardware!
Google facilitated Russia and China's censorship requests
Am I the only one who expected Electrical Circuits designed via Genetic Algorithms?
Interesting, I run a small cluster of 4 mini pcs (22 cores total). I think it should be comparable to the aforementioned EPYC. Power load is a rounding error compared to appliances like electric iron at 1700W, etc. The impact on electrical bill is minimal as well. Idle power draw is about 5W per server, which translates to ~80 cents a month. Frankly my monitor uses more power on average than the rest of the homelab.
> For a little more money than 4 RPi 5's, you can find on eBay a 1U Dell server with a 32 core Epyc CPU and 64 GB memory. This gives you at least an order of magnitude more performance.

You could also get one or two Ryzen mini PCs with similar specs for that price. Which might be a good idea, if you want to leave O(N) of them running on your desk, house without spending much on electricity or cooling. (Also, IMHO, the advantages of having an Epyc really only become apparent when you're tossing around multiple 10Gbit NICs, 16+ NVMe disks, etc. and so saturating all the PCIe lanes.)
You can play switch 1 games on 2 so even if that might happen it won’t impact the success of switch 2
No, it would be 149years now, right? It will only turn 150 on May 20th this year
>Does modern Pokémon start battles by throwing a pokeball to release a monster to begin fighting?

yes
Congratulations, this looks attractive for IllumOS and HaikuOS
As with most things, the answer is capitalism
I think you are looking for the term migrants. Expats and migrants are both considered immigrants, although migrant workers are generally considered more harshly than expats. It used to be determined by whether you had a package or not. No package, you are a migrant worker, otherwise you are an expat. They called highly skilled foreigners in China without package “half-pats” though, although I think we typically qualified as just highly paid migrant workers.
I think it's so wild as to be unbelievable by most people. It's the same reason the climate crisis is denied by so many people - because it seems so scary as to be unthinkable so they mentally categorize it as fiction or propaganda.

The US has long been the leader in pure military force. The Russians, however, discovered that the way to defeat this is from within - with psychological manipulation. A bomb goes off and instantly destroys everything around it. This weapon, however, is just as powerful but works very slowly and methodically.

I think it goes something like this: Putin knows he needs to get to Trump. To get to Trump, he needs to find a person that has shown that they posses a mind to get what they want and also has the one thing that makes them a god in Trump's eyes. Elon is the perfect target, as he has both - he's the richest man alive, meaning Trump worships him and he has the financial power and mindset to enact real change. I think it's entirely possible that Putin and Russian intelligence figured out how to get into Elon's mind and radicalize him (he has several known conversations with Putin himself), using him as a puppet to get to the white house. All of the ideas this guy and his entourage are parroting mirror the ideas of one person - the greatest enemy of democracy in the world - Putin.

I'm not some conspiracy theorist. In fact I hate it and am proudly banned from the conspiracy subreddit for informing them that they're all delusional. That said, I truly believe this is really happening. Unless this is immediately stopped, this will lead to the darkest period in the history of the modern world.

I wonder what are the chances that a group within the US Government intelligence communities recognizes what's going on here and is monitoring it?
> a fighting character that fights

THERE! It's only for fighting characters that fight, just make a driving character that drives, or a flying character that flies.
>The patent mentions the ability to aim the pokeball which wasn't in the first 3 Gameboy games.

Sure but I'd say aiming is more or less the natural evolution of "$X in 3D instead of 2D." Obviously Nintendo disagrees and perhaps the patent system disagrees (depending on the outcome of whatever court cases happen), but I disagree with them.
I can't claim to be able to say much, but if it's anything like my experience, it can be an organizational problem.

I've seen this happen where there is something like an "architect / senior" vs "normal programmer" role split, where the architect can sell some stupid idea that sounds good, or make a proof of concept implementation, then throw it over the wall to someone else who needs to maintain and fix the mess.

Or if practices like code review or testing aren't done or aren't done properly, which is a way to veto or slow down bad ideas.

If the problem "trickles down" from the top of the company and you have no leverage there, I don't think there's any easy way to fix it, if any.
PAROL6: 3D-printed desktop robotic arm
My first generation bmw i3 is exactly this. Later models got much bigger battery packs.
Maybe the plastic is telling us to not worry about the plastic?

It's interesting to wonder that if something in the environment did cause widespread cognitive impairment, how long would it take for us to realize it was happening?
(disclaimer that I manage a climate research group)

Jacobson (first author) can be a little touchy about criticism against 100% renewables (litigious), but I think the paper presents a false dichotomy.

Regardless of the conclusion, even if all energy infrastructure in the world fully decarbonized today, we are still on a path to high warming (in fact a large chunk of climate change is due to land use change and other factors). The IPCC (and most of the community) is pretty sure large scale carbon capture will be required under any future pathway to avoid catastrophic warming.

This is a complex subject, with a lot of competing interests from parties that sometimes partially align with the science and sometimes do not. E.g. O&G companies like to push carbon capture because it plays well and potentially increases their longevity... But that doesn't mean the ideal outcome is to drop carbon capture as part of the toolkit.
I believe in subsidiarity. If we cannot maintain strong families and raise children well, larger issues will become unsolvable in the future.
Focusing on larger-scale issues at the expense of the most basic health of society is a recipe for long-term disaster.

Which means are justified to solve climate change and achieve world peace? And if we sacrifice everything our society is built on to reach those ends, where does that leave us?
Rats also eat electrical cable insulation so I wouldn't use them as guidance for your diet.
Imagine if after all the panic over climate change, nuclear warfare etc, the thing that collapses our civilization is little bits of Tupperware in our brains? lol
The weight difference between a Model 3 and the average new car sold in the US is a negative number. The Model 3 is slightly lighter than the average new car. So the difference comes entirely from torque.

But you could just... not have such a heavy foot.
Aaron Hsu has an APL compiler targeting GPU that gets tantalizing performance in machine learning: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589246.3595371
Funny, had this happen to Biden the media would have blamed his age...Trump isn't that much younger.
lol hyperbole much.
yah but HN is where the community discussed originates.
The difference is that Nintendo has been a market leader since the 80s and has been suing for patents and copyright infringement ever since - so their demise is far from guaranteed and they are just as relevant as they were when I was in primary school
Ok, I'm glad you mentioned that you have used it in the past. I have not, have only done RN and plain Android using java and kotlin. Your comments are spot on. Thank you.
For anyone not wanting to watch the 9min video:

this is about an email she received 7 years ago from a fellow physicist who admits that things / models he and other scientists have been working on are pure BS.

And that they only maintain them to continue to get the funding and their comfortable lives.
> I'm thinking especially of the companies trying to sequester carbon in the wells they empty - they end up making money both ways.

Sure, but the reason solar panels are popular is because they're (mostly) the cheapest way to generate power. By adding an additional tax to petroleum products based on say sequestering costs (as opposed to some made-up I won't chop down a forest offset) it encourages non-petroleum products to be used.

It's basically a tariff for clean energy.
You could join on the dark side.

All it takes is learning how the fundamental forces of the universe work.

Ok, in this context having a friend who works in medical imaging was useful, but that’s just a trivial matter.
>What do you mean it doesn't exist in nature?

So, for example, for large enough r, the gravitational force \sqrt(r) will exceed the free fall accelleration g?

More importantly, does this additional branch of solutions that satisfies the initial conditions, survive under the small deformations of this dome shape? The perfect Dome shape certainly does not exist.
Rpi 5 is difficult to justify. I’d like to see a 4x N150 minipc benchmark.
Is there any YT video summarizing AI yet, or not yet? Do I still have to manually copy-paste the transcript into an LLM? Even Google's Gemini can't do it if given a YT link. Oh well, below is the copy-pasted transcript summary for this one.

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SUMMARY:

This video transcript, apparently from Sabine Hossenfelder, expresses deep concerns about the state of academic research in theoretical physics, particularly in high-energy physics (HEP). The email she reads—whether real or fabricated—illustrates the cynicism and structural issues in academic funding and research priorities. Here are the main takeaways:

1. Critique of Research Culture: The email suggests that much of modern theoretical physics, especially beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics, is a self-sustaining bubble. Researchers publish minor variations of existing models to keep the funding cycle going, despite knowing that these models are unlikely to lead to groundbreaking discoveries.

2. Funding Misallocation: There is a strong argument that public funds are being wasted on projects that promise revolutionary insights (e.g., the DUNE experiment, new particle colliders) but are unlikely to deliver anything truly transformative.

3. Academic Survival vs. Scientific Integrity: The email implies that many researchers stay in academia because they have no alternative career paths, rather than out of genuine scientific curiosity. The system, it suggests, favors those who conform rather than those who challenge prevailing narratives.

4. Cynicism Toward Taxpayers: The author of the email exhibits a condescending attitude toward the public, implying that taxpayers don’t understand physics and are being manipulated into funding what amounts to academic job security.

5. Impending Collapse: Hossenfelder warns that this unsustainable system will eventually implode when funding dries up or the public demands accountability. She also seems to believe that real scientific progress is being stifled by the prioritization of institutional stability over bold new ideas.

6. Ethical Dilemma: The video raises an important question: Should scientific research be judged solely by its theoretical promise, or should it be held to stricter standards of practical utility and accountability?

While her perspective is undoubtedly controversial, it does highlight a fundamental problem in academia—publish-or-perish incentives, grant-driven research, and the reluctance to challenge established paradigms. Whether or not one agrees with her, the broader debate about scientific integrity and funding allocation remains crucial.
Even if previous VCSes (edit: other than Darcs) used diffs internally to store changes efficiently, they were still inherently snapshot based.

I think Git's advantage was mainly from using Merkle trees rather than specifically that it was snapshot based.
Wow this really blew up since I last commented! Congrats! If you're interested in developing this further, I encourage you to check out how I made it language agnostic- instead of only Node.js. it's really not much additional effort
I am so sick of these media sites putting information that is critical to the free world behind a paywall so they can make their money above all. This is information that NEEDS to be known, and the media is a massive part of the problem for doing this.

https://archive.is/Nsk0W
>Rise of 3-and-D model

Maybe the solution is with a different type of 3D model, namely the Wilson 3D printed basketball. It has more drag than the regulation basketball, making long shots more difficult. This could restore the balance between long field goals and shots near the basket.
If you listen to Trump talk he really struggles with his thoughts sometimes.
Deepseek-R1 32B Training with Supervised Fine-Tuning
Yeah, providing math grants based on community outreach is arbitrary discrimination.
Up and Atom has a 2023 youtube video about the moving sofa problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUNl_jJMTOw
Flunking a Personality Test Can Cost You Your Dream Job
This isn’t about snapshot vs diff. It is about tree of changes vs. bag of patches.