HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

Calms

4 karma · joined April 7, 2015

submissionscomments
Calms··on Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer
I own a few GreenPan products and started to wonder so I did some digging - seems they were subject to a class action lawsuit [1] which was voluntarily dismissed since it reached settlement[2].

Hard to know if it had much merit since it was unsuccessful though.

[1] https://www.classaction.org/news/class-action-seeks-to-debun... [2] https://truthinadvertising.org/class-action/greenpan-cookwar...

Calms··on Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?
"Breaking Ground" by Philip and Freya Mulvey.

A soil scientist's take on climate change which ties together some pretty compelling points.

Calms··on AWS DeepRacer League
I'm not with Amazon and as much as I'd like to do the same, I suspect not.

The whole idea of the competition would be to use the same hardware so it's a level playing field from a hardware perspective which turns it into a software competition, right?

Calms··on DeepMind StarCraft II Demonstration [video]
My understanding is that Alphastar is trained on reinforcement learning. I suspect this is unsupervised so it would have learned this behaviour independently without pro replays.
Calms··on China wants an orderly exit from Bitcoin mining
Other entities burning energy isn't a good argument for "wasting power" mining cryptocurrency as it boils down to whataboutism [0].

The proof of work is a potentially valid argument but wouldn't it be better if the work was useful in some way?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Calms··on Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Found to Be Very Unsafe and Will Likely Require a Rewrite
No, there is no impact to Synology's Hybrid RAID running on btrfs. Synology uses mdadm/lvm for RAID.
Calms··on A repository of modern C++ code samples curated by the community
While the question was aimed at the repo creator, I did intend on raising the question to incite further discussion since licensing concerns can be frequently forgotten - thank you for your insights!
Calms··on A repository of modern C++ code samples curated by the community
Great stuff.

Do you feel explicitly stating any licensing (or lack of) be a good idea for the samples?