bargainbot3k

It’s shitposts all the way down 8-)

> New testing done at China’s Shidaowan nuclear power plant has confirmed its ability to be naturally cooled down, an industry-first milestone for achieving commercial-scale inherent safety, according to researchers.

Amazing. Well done! How far this country has come in the last few decades is nothing short of breathtaking.

karma farming plays right into their game, too.

China will need a large and ideally uneducated labor force in the coming decades so I’m not too worried about this. Reading isn’t an essential requirement of such a job.

> So, is it an echo chamber?

> The short answer is, yes, of course it is. Because Bluesky’s core userbase is made up of those who are fed up with the weaponized anger of Twitter and the liminal space of Threads, they automatically have a unifying identity.

/thread

Shitpost in, shitpost out.

Graham Hancock.

I for one would like to see Alex Jones on the DOGE committee because of all the things he was up to in the decades past. Not a popular opinion I know, but there it is.

> As outbreaks continued to occur, the mortality rate surpassed 50 percent.

Discuss.

Nah it’s not about gatekeeping - who the hell would gatekeep people from writing more blogshit content? HN would be dead without it! I’m saying the recent deluge of BS content has been a thinly veiled advertising push for their propaganda platform. That it can do ${bobbys_first_api} tier junk is just pure catnip for the nerds because they will gain faster traction with an ecosystem of luser-made content/widgets compared to their closed-off counterparts. It’s basic tech business positioning.

I think it’s also that some of them take pride in the harsh conditions. But this is a petulant stance and not really conducive to a healthy society. The adage goes “right wingers don’t have safe spaces” and it implies, for better or worse, that there is nowhere you can really hide.

It’s a public forum mate, not your doctorate dissertation session. Others have already pointed out the usual tropes of the genre: political leanings, cultural division, need of company to eventually turn a healthy profit, and so on. No subject is new in this genre, we’ve seen it all before with Reddit and Twitter and the platforms that came before them.

It’s novel because it’s ${new_propaganda_platform} but it’s the same shit. Bobby discovered his first API all over again. I’m looking forward to reading more of the shit spewing nonsense this flavour of a “firehose” will provide to our lovely WWW.

The subject matter itself of this blog post is trivial and bland. I get it, the author found a new Medium (perhaps Ghost would be closer?) and it’s so refreshing - change at last. Migrate your blogs to this fancy thing and make sure your friends know your feed is coming through the BS pipe. Change at last! But what change, really? I’m pointing out the hype will taper off and in some years’ time not too far from now we’ll repeat this all over again without realizing the shit smells the same wherever we go. This includes HN.

Enjoy the circlejerk and we’ll see you next time.

I read through most of this to realize the author isn’t saying much so feel free to skip. They mostly put together a list of the sort of things you can find in a public library for $1.50 in late charges. They put them in a kind of an order trying to argue a point but I can’t take them seriously. It’s bullshit and ChatGPT could write a more convincing narrative.

(nb. I should start printing out Bloomberg articles and selling them to be used as bird cage flooring. They may yet find their target audience there.)

Are you a mod/admin here?

I foresee another migration (away from bluesky) in some N years (< 10? 15?). not even trying to be bullish or anything. Just the same shit keeps happening since the WWW came to be. People seem to mistake altruism with just good ol’ business.

Not sure why my parent comment was flagged. I guess when you can’t formulate a response, you flag and downvote? Is that the HN way?

History repeating itself sadly.

The smugness of that article had me thinking I was reading The Atlantic for a moment.

I have in the past applied a similar (though broader-stroked) analogy to other things, by simply asking “if things were to continue this way, could a civilization or at least a society be built out of it?” The answer in a lot of cases of the things we do today, from health and food, jobs and work, living and dying and dating and marriage and all sorts of other things is no.

Graham Hancock.

Why is there a watermelon there?

Why is this even measured? What do we actually achieve from this metric as a goal, one way or another?

If you’d put this much effort every day into privacy laws, neither Google nor journos would be able to snoop. But, here we are, and it’s fair game.

One of the least thoughtful “Yet you participate in society, curious!” ripostes I’ve seen.

Milquetoast and corporatist shill take. People should be snooping and questioning no matter how outlandish the accusations. Courts are there to decide what matters.

As Eric Schmidt once remarked to us, if companies have something they don’t want journalists to know maybe they shouldn’t do it in the first place.

We’ve found a statistically significant inverse correlation of product success and Hacker News sentiment. Well done and enjoy the $.

As much as I want to take a fair and balanced perspective to the article, the author works for NYTimes. They’re overpaid for what they do and their worldview is warped and pampered. It taints the article for me to approach it with both sides being biased, and the subject matter tone being, for the lack of a better word, insufferable.

Sounds like the issues around dating, marriage and children aren’t really cut and dry in Japan. The population crisis isn’t a “just so” thing. The society optimized for one set of criteria but is buckling under others.

I haven’t yet had a chance to work on aerospace (or beyond) equipment though I do work on medical grade things and some of the parts are aerospace certified, though they haven’t been put through the ringer. In particular, I work with high voltage/amperage, high liquid pressure and high temperature systems. Some of it has been running for close to 25-30 years with very few issues. Only recently have I had to open a power supply that degraded since it was first put into service (over 20 years ago). I’ve gotten into a habit of identifying parts that, through experience, I know will fail or can fail and replaced them with ones that are all but guaranteed to outlive me. I want the person, if anyone, who comes after to see the work that’s of higher standard than what came out of the factory. No machine can continue working forever, but one can get much closer to having fewer failure points. As an aside, to get to here however was a struggle of obtaining all sorts of things I shouldn’t have access to because the manufacturer started locking access down heavily. Story for another time.

For the HN ultra-nerds: is there a book that details the voyager 1 construction including sensors, PCBs, materials compositions manufacturing processes and all that? I’m looking for something so dense I’ll need a therapist to find my way back to society afterwards. Truly curious thank you.

Most of our car engines run at a small fraction of their capability, even when going at highway speeds. Most servers have a 15-25% utilization to handle failover situations. If you have a beefy as fuck set up with extra wide tolerance margins, things can last for a very long time. Car engines with a chamber that’s essentially containing explosions still end up running for decades with very little maintenance. Well, some longer than others. This is also true for consumer electronics/appliances. You still have things going just fine from almost a century ago. Yes, some things fail faster than others and the designers were aware of limitations and trade offs, but most components continue working. What would be wise in this case is to look at how the voyager was designed for reliability to understand why it hasn’t completely gone off the rails. Meaning, what are the common anpproaches and why do they fail, and why doesn’t the voyager fail. What does it do that’s different than the usual method. Lots to be learned there but I don’t think the people were wizards, they probably dealt with very brittle things and had tight specs and knew how to design certain parts to very close to perfect. The manufacturing of parts plays a huge role in reliability. If you know you can achieve better manufacturing output but it is a matter of cost, then that’s easy - government can pay whatever. But if you don’t know, then that’s a harder situation to be in and that’s guess work. But if you have a capacitor that’s normally 20% off rating that you’d buy in a store, and you know you can get it to be down to 1% off or even less from rating, then you go for that with everything you’ve got. And all parts are made with as wide of tolerance as you can get so that as they degrade, things can still work. Easier said than done, but there it is. Things will eventually break and not work. But for now, Voyager has bought time, quite literally.