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phonon··on Spain train crash: 'At least 10 dead' in high-speed collision
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_derailment ?

And this accident occurred a few weeks ago.

https://apnews.com/article/japan-train-accident-8759a27eaae8...

phonon··on Python's experimental JIT to be removed
Yes, exactly. If you can get a 2-3x speedup in CPython just with type annotations, and then a possible additional 2-3x by dropping down to "Static Python," that may be an overall near optimal solution for the ecosystem, all things considered.
phonon··on Python's experimental JIT to be removed
Out of the box it's comparable to the current JIT, but yes, major gains are only possible with at least type annotations. But that may be the only real way forward for a JIT implementation for CPython with the ability to gradually speed up slow parts of large programs.

https://facebookincubator.github.io/cinderx/#performance

phonon··on Python's experimental JIT to be removed
https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinderx might be a better approach.
phonon··on America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it
Take a look at Maglut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-fvHJAMZf4

phonon··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
Pretty much any lawsuit right can be sold, except for personal injury lawsuits, due to specific state restrictions for public policy reasons.
phonon··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
Seems like you should sell your rights to the suit to a third party for a flat fee and percentage of recovery.
phonon··on The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin
"no words for it"

Actinic?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/actinic

phonon··on Making Startups Powerful
According the the University it was for "Ghent University is shocked by the death of Professor Arday....recent public statements made by a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University regarding this matter"[1] and as discussed on that page he was not fired (yet?) but was "imposed a disciplinary measure on a member of its research staff for a period of three months. A preliminary inquiry is also under way to determine if further disciplinary action is warranted."

So perhaps you appear to the one "too lazy to research the facts"?

[1]https://www.ugent.be/en/news-events/updates-case-postdoctora...

phonon··on Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
I don't think anything will beat

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/15148829

School principal fired and loses $130k pension for overfilling coffee (about 50 cents).

phonon··on Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
"Officer" is typically anyone who can bind the company contractually.
phonon··on A browser-based viewer for Office Open XML documents
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436863
phonon··on EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
The entire argument rests on a 36-year-old survey form: "DOE Form 860 (1990) defines electric utility to mean 'a corporation, person, agency, authority, or other legal entity or instrumentality that owns and/or operates facilities within the United States for the generation, transmission, distribution, or sale of electric energy primarily for use by the public.'"

So the leap is: an old survey form says "sale of electric energy primarily for use by the public," therefore anything not grid-connected isn't a sale to the public.

No assessment of prior practice, history, the plain meaning of the statute, or other statutory exemptions. And there are grid-connected plants serving a single customer so why the distinction?

Why the 1990 form? Congress froze it into the statute so a survey agency couldn't rewrite Clean Air Act coverage by editing a questionnaire. EPA is now exploiting that freeze by treating the form's obsolete boilerplate as substantive law; a taxonomy EIA itself abandoned, since modern EIA-860 covers essentially all generators above 1 MW, grid or not.

It's as if Congress defined citizenship by reference to a 1990 Census form, and the agency decided who's a citizen by parsing the instruction booklet.

100% complete BS. The silver lining is that without Chevron deference, this "interpretation" won't survive litigation, though the memo's "not final agency action" disclaimer means challengers may have to wait for an actual permitting decision to sue.

phonon··on Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies
How is this different than https://foundershield.com/ ?
phonon··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Uhhh, we're not doing so hot there either. https://www.propublica.org/article/general-dynamics-artiller...
phonon··on As founding CEO of GitLab, I went "founder mode" on my cancer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556729
phonon··on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
OpenAI (Stargate) kicked off the price increases a year ago by locking up 40% of the global supply of RAM output.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-star...

phonon··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
A few hundred bad bits/transistors in a trillion+ parameter model would compromise its abilities not one iota...the models are inherently lossy and resistant to "brain damage"...
phonon··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
A full wafer like Cerebras is about 60x that, and N2P has about 3x the transistor density. So right now it's technically feasible to etch a 1.4 trillion parameter model. So roughly DeepSeek-V4-Pro class. Imagine that running a factory, for example.
phonon··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
Because Trump hates wind power for "ruining the view". That's it.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uyLiON_f5c0

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetl...

phonon··on Mario Meets Pareto
Are they conjoined triangles?
phonon··on JetZero
Pratt & Whitney PW2040 turbofan engine, same as the Boeing 757 and the C-17. They say that the plane itself is so efficient they don't need a cutting edge efficient engine.
phonon··on OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k
Codex context limit is 400k total, including 128,000 reserved output tokens.
phonon··on Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs
Global Foundries has lots of fabs with 10 year old+ processes....
phonon··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
M3 Ultra has a 1024 bit memory bus (819 GB/s) and starts at $3,999 (96GB of RAM). It can be done....
phonon··on Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps
How does it compare to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436863 ?
phonon··on Woman without right hand charged for holding phone in right hand while driving
Ticket quotas.
phonon··on Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”
Use EMV 3DS 2.x authentication with liability shift protection?
phonon··on A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned
"... this flying wing will burn 50% less fuel than today's jets..."[1]

[1]https://time.com/7292452/jetzero-low-carbon-air-travel/

phonon··on Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting
It would depend on exactly how the records were obtained. If hypothetically she paid a nurse $100 for it (and had done so many times in the past), that could be criminally liable. In practice, no-one would prosecute over a single x-ray. But when a reporter gets legally protected medical information "somehow", an insinuation that a legal violation took place at some point to effect that is not unreasonable.
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