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downvotetruthon She Was 29. And Doctors Helped Her Die

What medical services she received obviously failed to be helpful. "assisted suicide" is an oxymoron.

downvotetruthon She Was 29. And Doctors Helped Her Die

Psych hack. She needed mental help, she got institutional murders.

downvotetruthon (FinTech) Synapse has collapsed, 10M consumers, 100s of fintechs in trouble

BaaS is terribly ambiguous; "reseller" & "aggregator" are already used and well known in other industries. VCs with more money than brains just getting schooled trying to be hip.

downvotetruthon Big tech has distracted world from existential risk of AI, says top scientist

"Big tech" "distracted world" "existential risk of AI" "top scientist" - Title is all bull.

downvotetruthon It's so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees

It is more Equatorial vs Polar than North vs South.

downvotetruthon Beekeeper furious over destruction of $2M honey crop

The whole story seems a tad off given https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40389997 and that no one could be bothered to find someone to work for ~$5 million to put them through an autoclave.

downvotetruthon Small reactors don't add up as a viable energy source

> Vogtle nuclear power plant being built in Georgia, US

It was finished on April 29 and has been online since that time.

downvotetruthon Binius: Highly efficient proofs over binary fields

> Square root is expensive

https://reddit.com/r/math/comments/tc7lur/computing_square_r...

downvotetruthon Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs

intended url? https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/severe-geomagnetic-storming-l...

downvotetruthon The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia's water

Remember to bring lipstick as the trashed empty lots nearby serve as a great wild boar attraction to kiss and ride.

downvotetruthon The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia's water

For data centers, let's use prime retail real estate at a freeway exit: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Loudoun+County,+VA/@38.999... no where near where others might have a better understanding to put industrial property like the power company: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Loudoun+County,+VA/@39.208... wonder what consultant won that job.

downvotetruthon Tesla took down all its open U.S. job postings

If there is a desire to unionize, it would be great time for a strike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_and_unions

downvotetruthon Dune 3D 1.1.0 Released

"email is the same ID at gmail" https://github.com/phkahler

downvotetruthon EURISKO Lives

dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40095121

4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38413615

downvotetruthon SiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board

> RISC-V is inevitable

have yet to see a normal motherboard where the CPU is socketed (iGPU is a waste of sand on desktop); the ram is slotted and not a soldered upsell - mobile is the market for LPDDR.

downvotetruthon 1.18k drawings of plant root systems

If it were to imply an interval, then it would be [1175, 1185).

downvotetruthon Barriers would make the New York City subway safer

Hard to believe Adams is clueless about plastic guns [such as the Liberator (edit)]. Gun detectors are pure graft unless he is planning a full TSA strip search to use the subway.

downvotetruthon NixOS Is Not Reproducible

dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39908441

downvotetruthon NixOS Is Not Reproducible

> I keep reading people making this claim repeatedly on orange-site

If this is suppose to mean HN, the header color is blaze orange https://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color/#FF6600

downvotetruthon The AMD tinybox is on hold until we can build and run the firmware on our GPUs

That's rough

downvotetruthon Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’

> two fused chips

Jensen's comment about being first was such a dig to Emerald Rapids.

downvotetruthon Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative

If only the versions had voting...

downvotetruthon Tiny bitfield based text renderer (2022)

All may not get so close to seeing the light outside the Biau of Sin ai: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38800719

downvotetruthon CA train project needs another $100B to complete route from San Fran to LA

40M CA residents (/4 HH)x 100k per Tesla = 1T

downvotetruthon Chasing Passive Income, Americans Turn to Vending Machines

One would think there would be a higher rate of vandalism in Asian societies as all it takes is one with a crowbar[1] and the more prominent mask wearing culture.

1 https://japantoday.com/category/crime/charges-dropped-agains...

downvotetruthon An ALS drug fails, again

Infuriating that government site does not even display without JavaScript.

downvotetruthon Japan to revise official romanization rules for first time in 70 years

The Latin alphabet does not include J, U, and W, but the English alphabet does (see "Shinjuku") and this would likely be better understood as a form of Japanese spelling reform rather than "Romanization".

downvotetruthon Ask HN: Who is still programming directly on a server?

#RDPro

downvotetruthon Profiteering hampers U.S. grid expansion

AC was chosen because higher voltages are more efficient to transmit; a transformer that works with AC power can be made with some wire and an iron nail. To convert DC power semiconductors are needed that can switch quickly; those didn't exist for about 50 years after electricity was wide spread. toomuchtodo's deleted comment also adds: > (HV)DC requires less conductor per unit distance than an AC line, as there is no need to support three phases and there is no skin effect. AC systems use a higher peak voltage for the same power, increasing insulator costs.

downvotetruthon Profiteering hampers U.S. grid expansion

Not that reconductoring should not be done, but it would be great to leave the existing lines in place and stringing a new set to allow for both AC and DC, which requires only 1 - 2 conductors per circuit. To do that would require a level of coordination and vested interest that likely only Tesla has atm. Berkshire is also a possibility (maybe after Buffett is gone and interest rates are lower) with the huge cash pile that would have made sense to at least pay for electrifying their rail lines given the cross interest with reducing (re)insurance claims.