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These rare interactions with matter are also a cause of concern in voting machines, right? Or at least it was a concern at one point. A random bit being flipped or something.


It is mostly a problem of DRAM memory cells, though theoretically with enough energy it could flip SRAM cells to or override the driver of a given wire. It is not specific to voting machines.

But the main source is from cosmic rays and local radiation sources in the ceramic packaging and/or decaying elements in the metal frame/leads/solder.


Other types of particles interact much more frequently. But yes: bits do get flipped (even with ECC memory).


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When people mistakenly make a gesture, they dont do it once more exactly the same.

And when people point out that they made this gesture their answer is usually not to crack jokes about how they made a Nazi salute in response.

We can maybe disagree about WHY he did it, there's room to discuss if it was genuinely a white nationalism thing or if he was just being an edgelord.

But it WAS a nazi salute and denying this is disingenuous.


> it was genuinely a white nationalism thing or if he was just being an edgelord.

Can we admit to ourselves that most edgelords are actually people infatuated with exact same movements and value systems? Literally all edgelords get angry and strongly dislike anyone left leaning. For example, you do not see them harassing right wing, but you do see them harassing perceived sjws.

Somehow, there is no such thing as left wing edge lord. And that is because when left wing people act badly, they are blamed as bad left wing people. Edgelord is just a way to not blame right wing people and attributing them benefit of the doubt never given to the center or to the left.


> Somehow, there is no such thing as left wing edge lord.

Your comment is absolutely correct; Musk and his ilk are just people who "joked around" on 4chan and essentially radicalised themselves doing it.

HOWEVER left wing edgelords absolutely exist. Look up (at your peril) the phenomenon of "tankies". They're not your average communist, but rather apologists for Stalin's genocides.

Maybe your comment is more about the terminology at play, but it's interesting to see that the left wing mirror image of the average 4chan poster absolutely exists.


> HOWEVER left wing edgelords absolutely exist. Look up (at your peril) the phenomenon of "tankies". They're not your average communist, but rather apologists for Stalin's genocides.

But that is my point - tankie is someone who is a communist, hardcore pro-Stalin. There is no assumption that tankie is someone apolitical who is just joking around. There is no "he is just a tankie, doing things for fun, stop accusing him of being a communist".

Meanwhile, edgelord is someone who is supposedly just joking. A fine guy who just happen to draw swastika to get a reaction. Someone who you should let say and do movement things, because "deep down they do not mean it".

> there's room to discuss if it was genuinely a white nationalism thing or if he was just being an edgelord

This is what I reacted to. You cant replace "edgelord" by "takie" and white nationalism by stalinism in that sentence. It wont work. The "there's room to discuss if it was genuinely a stalinist thing or if he was just being a tankie" does not work, because tankie is literally a stalinist .

> Musk and his ilk are just people who "joked around" on 4chan and essentially radicalised themselves doing it.

Or rather, the were attracted to 4chan because they had the same opinions and values as those people. They did not just joked around, it was what they believed and who they were. And while both center and left pretended they are just playing, they meant it and managed to radicalize other people too.


> Somehow, there is no such thing as left wing edge lord.

I mean, I'm a pretty staunch socialist/commie and there are plenty of hard-left edgelords out there "joking" about gulags and executing academics and so on.


Yeah, they exist. The big difference is that we don't accept their behavior, especially when in positions of power.


Yeah, but you call them "hard-left" and do not pretend they are not communists or Stalinists. Meanwhile, edgelord is consistently supposed to be someone did the nazi salute, but the gesture was supposed to be innocent and totally not a far right thing.

You have put joking into quotes. Even in this comment, you are not trying to convince me that they are actually fine, that they are something less then Stalinists.


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AfD supporting, white supremacist amplifying dude from a deeply racist family being a closet Nazi is the least surprising thing imaginable.


I paid for a lifetime membership to Bumble premium a couple years ago, but as I noticed matches/likes declining for no apparent reason, I made a 2nd account with different credentials, paid for a week of premium, and had a bunch of matches (exact same profile as my other account).

From my anecdotal experience, they have some algorithm that leads to diminishing returns in order to keep extracting money for boosts or whatever.


sounds like you're swiping through people inyour area faster than they join?


I'm a digital nomad and changing locations frequently, so I have actually tried this A/B test a couple times when arriving in a brand new city. Same results.


The author pointed out in the article that users who join are shown to users who have been on the platform the longest and are thus more likely to provide likes because they are more desperate.


Not really that different


Not buying from a particular company is "not really that different" to trying to get an individual fired or otherwise cut off their source of income? Wild take.


You don’t “have to” make it environmentally sustainable…


The next generation will love your idealism.


Aerospace is hard, one step at a time. Every generation knows that.


If you see no path from ASI to vastly extending lifespans, that’s just a lack of imagination


Yeah I mean you already need super human imagination to get to ASI so at that point you might as well continue in the delirium and throw in immortality in the mix


I wonder if Xai is sweating their imminent Grok 3 release because of DeepSeek. It’ll be interesting to see how good that model is.


Was Grok2 or Grok 1 any good? I thought Musk was a distant last place shipping garbage?


Grok2 is right up there in the middle of the pack with the big dogs on a lot of the benchmarks. It's no joke. So I think Grok 3 could be really interesting.


Based on what? There’s not a better state in the country for large capex gambles by business.


Mark Tesla under the AI robotics category too.


At least this time the CEO of their chosen company isn’t a yuppie cult leader wannabe.


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