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by dzdt 1y ago
The main researchers associated here are Samir KC and Wolfgan Lutz. Their latest update (with a long list of coauthors) is from 2024 [1]; this is a followup of the important 2013 paper [2]. [1] https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id&#
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by dzdt 1y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43959274
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by dzdt 1y ago
LLM's have us spoiled. I'd like to see the ouput of something like nanogpt [1] trained on a Gibson corpus. Seems like a lot better looking result should be easy to achieve today. [1] https://github.com/eniompw&#x2F
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by dzdt 1y ago
The headline, subhead, and article text all point to budget as the primary issue. It highlights drastic cuts in Trump's budget: "JWST ... would see its operating budget cut by 25 percent relative to planned 2024 operations, from $
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by dzdt 1y ago
I was wondering about the headline date "missing for a millennium", as this Babylon is much older than 1000 years. From the article it seems like "two millenia" is more accurate: "The text survives in 20 manuscripts
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by dzdt 1y ago
Air quality (reduced CO2 or increased O2) is a proven performance enhancer and also legal but almost always neglected. Not sure why tho!
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by dzdt 1y ago
There is some market for a 2nd vehicle in a family which has more limitations. But the biggest market is for a do-everything vehicle. The question isn't what is the mean or median commute, its what is the 99.9th percentile journey. Sur
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by dzdt 1y ago
The stated reasons are not the real reasons. None of this is above-board. If you pay too much attention to what phony reasons are stated you will just be lead around by your nose. The part of the real reason that is made very obvious is tha
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by dzdt 1y ago
Amazing to me that an article like this doesn't have a big section discussing how a provider sharing personal health data without permission is blatantly illegal under the HIPAA act. It only mentions as an aside that there are various
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by dzdt 1y ago
The future of personal computing is being dictated by the economics of it, which are that the optimal route to extract value from consumers is to have walled-garden software systems gated by per-month subscription access and/or massive
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by dzdt 1y ago
Thanks, missed that! I remember seeing benchmarks showing like 15% slowdown from Spectre/Meltdown mitigations, so this is not as bad as that, but that is on top of the other too I guess...
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by dzdt 1y ago
The end-user processor slowdowns from Spectre and Meltdown mitigations were fairly substantial. Has anyone seen an estimate of how much the microcode updates for this new speculative vulnerability are going to cost in terms of slowdown?
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by dzdt 1y ago
March 28, 2025 earthquake
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First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture near Thazi, Myanmar [video](youtube.com)
6 points by dzdt 1y ago|3 comments
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by dzdt 1y ago
Worth linking the comprehensive modern reverse-engineered documentation of the illegal instructions: "No More secrets: NMOS 6510 unintended opcodes". This runs to 119 pages including detailed analysis of each opcode, any instabili
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by dzdt 1y ago
I more examples from when that kiddie chimney sweep photo/film session went viral in the late 1920's. Interestingly the fakeness of it was never acknowledged. Here is Horst Bohnke in Spanish literary/art magazine Blanco y Neg
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by dzdt 1y ago
Can you explain this like I'm 5?
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by dzdt 1y ago
Okay some further searching indicates the license that is expiring is Microsoft's export license to export Windows to Huawei. After the previous round of sanctions on Huawei, Microsoft had applied for and received a license to continue
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by dzdt 1y ago
I'm confused by the premise here, as repeated in the title and initial sentence: Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled its first laptop that runs the company’s self-developed operating system, HarmonyOS, following the expiration of
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by dzdt 1y ago
Indeed universal free lunch programs are on the chopping block. To my understanding the cuts are still at the proposal stage though. [1] https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/12/house-republican-budget...
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The kerning on the pope's tomb is a travesty(fastcompany.com)
14 points by dzdt 1y ago|5 comments
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by dzdt 1y ago
The point is to create a spectacle, something that wows the crowd. Exotic wildlife is better for that just by reason of being exotic. But a secondary point is to show the people the awesome power of the Roman state, with its immense contine
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by dzdt 1y ago
Still down 45 minutes later.
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R2-D2 and other lessons from Bell Labs (2008)(archive.nytimes.com)
1 points by dzdt 1y ago|0 comments
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by dzdt 1y ago
I'm not an expert, but to my understanding that is exactly the version of "lab leak" that is not able to be conclusively ruled out by the publicly available evidence.
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by dzdt 1y ago
The most recent peer-reviewd survey I can find on the topic is [1], which is the 2nd followup by the same author doing survey reviews of the scientific literature on origins of Covid-19. His summary conclusion: "There is much greater s
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by dzdt 1y ago
There is an elephant in the room. When an article comes up about the elephant's tusks or the elephant's trunk or the people the elephant has just stepped on, the discussion ends up being about the whole elephant. I know what you&#
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by dzdt 1y ago
It is a shame also that this topic is deemed too hotly political for HN and hence the flagging. We are lacking in good forums for measured discussion of what is happening in this country right now.
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by dzdt 1y ago
It IS a harm that SCIENTIFIC STUDY can only be undertaken if it meets new POLITICAL standards. This is research that has already been evaluated by an extremely competitive process for scientific merit. Political slant should be irrelevant.
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by dzdt 1y ago
Yeah its not really what it looks like though. They put cylinders of soft metal in place of where you would expect the press to have hardened steel.

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