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by westurner 3d ago
ScholarlyArticle: "A nanolaser with extreme dielectric confinement" (2026) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx3865 NewsArticle: "Tiny nanolaser could cut computer energy use in half&quot
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A nanolaser with extreme dielectric confinement(science.org)
2 points by westurner 3d ago|1 comments
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by westurner 3d ago
ScholarlyArticle: "Uncovering piezoelectric effect in polycrystalline diamond membranes" (2026) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea8318 NewsArticle: "Scientists discover diamonds can gene
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Piezoelectric effect in polycrystalline diamond membranes(science.org)
8 points by westurner 3d ago|1 comments
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by westurner 3d ago
Is this what we call "net metering" here in the US? Unfortunately this region only has "buy-all-sell-all", no intraday prices, and and still not enough storage to store solar from peak at noon until evening commute: ht
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by westurner 4d ago
Which part of that comment are you referring to in specific?
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by westurner 4d ago
WAVM in Rust? WAVM does not yet support ARM MTE or RISC-V CHERI? wasmtime-mte could be added to the benchmark.
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by westurner 5d ago
But what about shearing force in a wind storm from mounted panels? The other day on YouTube I saw a solar shingled roof that pointed down into a rainwater cistern; a roof with circular curved negative pitch for rainwater collection. Apparen
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by westurner 5d ago
How to better solve for solar roofs (BIPV: Building-integrated photovoltaics)? Should they sell this product to another firm that will get it done? Or is there a lower cost, safer, more sustainable product? With a compatible part stream?
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by westurner 5d ago
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38454406 re: XBRL and Value Investing: > https://github.com/topics/xbrl
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by westurner 5d ago
A few resources for Digital Literacy: From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675139#35676503 : > Media Literacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_literacy#Media_literacy_... Internet safe
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by westurner 5d ago
> Unlike blanket bans, A.B. 2071 and A.B. 2298 address online safety through education rather than prohibition. [...] +1. > A.B. 2071 and A.B. 2298 fill critical gaps in California’s school curricula by equipping students with acti
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by westurner 5d ago
Emulation of RISC-V in software; container2wasm has TinyEmu for RISC-V. dearchap/tinyemu: https://github.com/dearchap/tinyemu Qemu also supports 32bit and 64bit RISC-V: "RISC-V System emulator — QEMU document
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by westurner 5d ago
Here's another example: "EPA to Weaken Rules on Methane Pollution From “Stripper Wells”" (2026) https://www.propublica.org/article/methane-gas-epa-proposal-... Methane is a potent greenhouse gas; it&#x2
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by westurner 5d ago
Other datacenter concerns in other communities? - water usage - water pressure - water contamination (from evaporative cooling towers concentrating metals) - purple pipe water - heat waste from air cooling - corrosion from evaporative cooli
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by westurner 5d ago
So plan for a heavy crack down or a severe rule change after this probably short-lived partisan deregulatory action? And a return to voluntary membership in the Paris Agreement?
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by westurner 7d ago
(I am again posting this comment, which was certainly censored in error: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605915#49633297 ) What about compressible fluids? Existing Navier-Stokes models for compressible fluids: "
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by westurner 7d ago
There are various specs for this; Schema.org/WebAPI; https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1423#issuecomm... RFC: WADG0001 WebAPI type extension https://webapi-discovery.github.io&#x2F
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by westurner 7d ago
Can a process loaded this way be reverified once loaded?
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by westurner 7d ago
Is everything in NavierStokesAndEuler/NavierStokes [1] precedent to the derivations? How to tree shake Lean4? (Edit: `lake shake`,) [1] https://github.com/openai/NavierStokesAndEuler/tree/main/Nav...
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by westurner 7d ago
"Blowup for the Euler equations with smooth forcing" (2026) https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/euler.pdf "Blowup for the Boussinesq equations with smooth forcing" (2026) https://cims.nyu.edu&
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by westurner 8d ago
"OpenAI has solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium problem using $15m of AI effort" https://www.newscientist.com/article/2588063-openai-has-solv... $15m in tokens; but what about labor? What about compressible f
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by westurner 9d ago
Well, perhaps a thought experiment about this then: - One person lives in a world where people have applied AI (the smartest tech we have) to solving for datacenter impact and broader climate change objectives. - The other lives in a world
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by westurner 9d ago
> the LLM tells are impossible to ignore. Bluntly, your intellectual fly is open: lots of people notice — but no one is pointing it out You are going to be left in the dust with this attitude. People using LLMs will continue to school
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by westurner 11d ago
> We need to use AI to redevelop AI datacenters in order to cancel the harms. This is worth money. It is worth a lot of money to solve the AI data center sustainability problem. And, solving the AI datacenter sustainability would prese
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by westurner 11d ago
> We are also in a time when most people would prefer to use that water for drinking, washing, cleaning… basically anything except data centres. That is not what is indicated by consumer behavior. Though it isn't healthiest, peopl
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by westurner 11d ago
We need to use AI to redevelop AI datacenters in order to cancel the harms. We need to use AI to solve for global warming. Is there a more appropriate use for AI?
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by westurner 15d ago
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239751#49244282 re: agent sandboxing methods : > I started working on a VM format that stores signed machine state into an OCI container repository, using the hypervisor migra
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by westurner 15d ago
Does mklinux multikernel flush the CPU caches at KHO (Kexec HandOver) when confidential computing is used, and what about the Landauer limit?
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by westurner 15d ago
Yeah, but still, how does that agent perform if paired with this inexpensively trained transformer instead of the more expensive foundation models?

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