MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anenefan | 2025-04-18 02:02:43+00:00
Wanting to find out more I read [1] - startling that 1979 little incident only cost a billion to clean up. [2]

From [1] > In 2009, science writer Richard Martin stated that Weinberg, who was director at Oak Ridge and primarily responsible for the MSRE, lost his job as director because he championed development of thorium reactors.[23] Weinberg himself recalls this period:

[Congressman] Chet Holifield was clearly exasperated with me, and he finally blurted out, "Alvin, if you are concerned about the safety of reactors, then I think it may be time for you to leave nuclear energy." I was speechless. But it was apparent to me that my style, my attitude, and my perception of the future were no longer in tune with the powers within the AEC

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

Edit to add more and for clarity.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-18 02:02:49+00:00
Thank you very much for your comment. It used to be my favorite saying was "lie with statistics". I think it needs to be updated to "lie with citations".

Frankly, I think what the parent comment is doing is flat-out lying. Or else they were doing some kind of test to see if people actually read citations.

The last two you quote are especially egregious. E.g. saying "Google engaged in bid rigging where competitors agree on who will win a bid, again to inflate prices. https://www.justice.gov/atr/preventing-and-detecting-bid-rig... gives the clear implication that the link supports the antecedent. hammock's comment is complete bullshit.
by o11c | 2025-04-18 02:03:22+00:00
Respelling using only the 26 letters works pretty well for the General American dialect. The most unintuitive specific respellings (otherwise pretty easy) are:

uu for 'oo' in "book". A relatively rare vowel but some very common words use it. dh for 'th' in "the". The two sounds of 'th' are not fully separated in English. igh for 'i' in "price". Common but lacks any unambiguous shorter spellings.

The second issue is trying to prevent the default rules from applying. [aeiou]_e is usually easy to fix by doubling the consonant, but that fails with multi-letter consonant sounds (splitting into syllables helps this one). The s->z change at end of words is very difficult to stop (we can easily respell "fleas"/"flees" to "fleez", but respelling "fleece" to "flees" is problematic). The only reason respelling usually works is because most words don't change into existing words.

The third issue, of course, is that there are many dialects with extra sounds (mostly original, but some later inventions), or different pronunciations for only a subset of words that are indistinguishable in other dialects. I have no idea what sound is used to distinguish "for" from "four" in dialects that distinguish them.

But the issue that almost never gets addressed is stress, which is not really a word-level phenomenon but significantly affects pronunciation. For example, "to" has maybe 5 different pronunciations just based on exactly how stressed it is compared to adjacent words (t, ta, to, too, tooo), and it also has variants based on what particular sounds are around it. I'd guess that stress variations exist for every semi-common word that isn't a noun or lexical verb (and some that are).
by jmb99 | 2025-04-18 02:03:25+00:00
The highest-current M12 battery (XC 4.0 Extended Capacity and XC 5.0 High Output) can deliver 600W peak; the highest-current standard M18 battery (High Output HD 12.0) can deliver 1620W; the highest-current M18 Forge battery (Forge HD 12.0) can deliver 3240W.[0]

There are vanishingly few AC-DC power supplies that can push 600W (that’s 50 amps at 12V), let alone 1620W (90 amps at 18V) or 3240W (180 amps!!) and definitely none with a USB-C plug on them. You’d realistically be limited to ~1500W on standard household receptacles, and you’d need some hefty cables on the output side of your power supply, especially if you want them to be jobsite-safe. For reference, 180 amps is in the same ballpark as EV fast charging stations; that’s a rough estimate on the size your cord would have to be plugged in to the bottom of the tool.

For the super light duty stuff like an M12 dremel, sure it’s doable. But for any tools that need high burst or sustained power, either a battery or just running the tool on 120V AC directly (or compressed air) is easier, cheaper, and probably safer.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRghl-44...
by seba_dos1 | 2025-04-18 02:04:26+00:00
"Interval between three pitches" is not a well-defined concept, just like "distance between three points" isn't. You need additional qualifiers to describe what you mean by that. Maybe you want the shortest path between them, or maybe you want a triangle. In any case, using a term like that makes it seem like you're confused with the terminology.
by kcplate | 2025-04-18 02:04:44+00:00
If my presumption was off base, I take it back. But achieving weight loss isn’t simple and it isn’t easy. It’s not simple because even though CICO seems to be a simple equation on its face, getting the “CI” portion of that equation doesn’t work the same way for everyone. So sloganeering and minimizing it misses the greater complexity.

That is what I felt like the person I replied to had done.
by emmanol | 2025-04-18 02:05:49+00:00
Vitality of AI content generation

In addition to subscription services for end users (to C), Kling AI also offers API integration and other services to business clients (to B). Currently, Kling AI has established partnerships with thousands of domestic and international enterprise clients, including companies such as Xiaomi, Amazon Web Services, Alibaba Cloud, Freepik, and BlueFocus.

Gai said that over 15,000 developers from around the world have applied Kling’s API to various industry scenarios, with a total of approximately 12 million images generated and more than 40 million video content created.

Today, Kling AI is becoming a new infrastructure for video creation in the AI era. The rapid development of Generative AI technology is also reshaping multiple industries, including advertising and marketing, professional creation, film, and entertainment.

To further inspire the creative passion of AI enthusiasts, Zhang also launched the “Kling AI NextGen Initiative” at the launch event. This program aims to increase support for AI filmmakers by providing millions in funding, global promotion, personal branding, and access to latest top features.

KLING AI

Jack Huang

JackHuang@klingai.com

Beijing, China

http://klingai.com/
by YurgenJurgensen | 2025-04-18 02:05:52+00:00
I have never once heard anyone pronounce the ‘l’s in ‘tortilla’ as if it was a Germanic word. And if anything, I hear people hypercorrect and insert ‘ñ’ where it shouldn’t (It’s not ‘habañero’, dammit) more than I hear them drop it from ‘jalapeño’.

I say we should double down and say ‘English is no longer phonetic. There are 26 symbols which are arranged into words arbitrarily, and you just have to learn every reading by rote.’

Every sentence should be like trying to read: ‘Siobhan Llewellyn-Nguyen ate the jalapeño and dulce de leche gyōza that she kept in her Versace bag alongside an unopened bottle of Moët-flavoured weißbier.’
by LoganDark | 2025-04-18 02:06:21+00:00
> Much like C++ then — the machine code to which it translates lacks types!

Ehh, not exactly. Most C++ compilers won't output machine code for inputs they don't understand. Though of course, you could simply translate some C++ code yourself into machine code and then say C++ is just like TypeScript in that way. "If you turn C++ into machine code, the machine code lacks types!" "If you turn TypeScript into JavaScript, the JavaScript lacks types!" The main difference is the C++ compiler won't generate machine code for you if the code you provided it doesn't compile, but the TypeScript compiler essentially treats types as a lint (unless extended by compiler plugins such as `typescript-is`, which I greatly enjoyed back in the day).

Also, CHERI begs to differ. And even other than that, machine code isn't dynamically typed because it's not typed at all. Usually, everything is data (usually even the machine code itself, except on Harvard architectures), aside from any architecture-specific memory protections (and other protections), if applicable. I could probably go on about this for days.

> A TS compiler will reject an ill-typed program. You of course can just strip the type syntax and get a valid (though buggy) JavaScript code.

Can't Deno execute TypeScript directly? Last I checked, it didn't do typechecking itself because [the size and complexity of tsc].

For what that's worth, cling also exists, so try tricking that into executing compiler errors. I don't think it would.
by TheNewAndy | 2025-04-18 02:06:43+00:00
If you just want to write C and are ok linking to stuff that is in other languages, then I used SDL2 for my game which I wrote in C and is on the app store. It was a very pleasant experience, and if I were doing an iOS thing again, I would likely do something similar.

I think I had one objective C file in there for calling a library function I needed, but otherwise I just wrote C code.
by eximius | 2025-04-18 02:08:40+00:00
I'm still pretty pessimistic on all this. Just today, I had what should have been an obvious win for an LLM coding assistant to help me. I was writing a go function that converts one very long struct into a second very long struct. The transformation was almost entirely wrapping the fields of the first struct in a wrapper in a completely rote way. If FieldA was an int on src, I wanted a dest{ FieldA: Wrapper{ Value: src.FieldA, Ratio: src.FieldA/Constant }, ... }.

It couldn't do it. I prefilled in all the fields (hundreds) and told it just to populate them, but it tried to hallucinate new fields, it would do one or two then both delete the fields I had added and add a comment saying 'then do the rest'. I tried a bunch of different prompts.

I can see how some vibe coders could make useful things, but most of my attempts to use LLMs in anything not-from-scratch are exercises in frustration.
by tombert | 2025-04-18 02:08:50+00:00
I like Kagi Search, it's the first non-Google that I've been able to stick with and I have no desire to leave, but I did downgrade my account to professional a few months ago.

Kagi Assistant wasn't "bad" or anything, but I feel like I get more than $5 of extra value out of a ChatGPT membership. I can generate images and there's almost no usage limit (unless you go crazy with o1 or something).
by wlesieutre | 2025-04-18 02:10:10+00:00
The 4x 18V/5Ah batteries that came with my lawnmower (which uses them in pairs) are retailing for for $560.

And then not as any sort of special deal, just the standard retail bundle, the lawnmower with four batteries included costs $700. So that's $560 of batteries and $140 of lawnmower.

It's funny how lithium ion cell prices have absolutely cratered everywhere else, but the price of tool batteries just keeps going up.

I wish there was somebody making reputable quality compatible tool batteries instead of mystery brand counterfeit trash.
by mindslight | 2025-04-18 02:10:35+00:00
> I don’t care about out there. I care about in here

There's your misunderstanding. Our enviable lifestyles in here are largely supported by our foreign relations out there - in this context, that exporting of culture such that elites from other cultures still strive to send their kids to college in the United States! And while it would be theoretically possible to untangle in here from out there, doing so would require a team of surgeons rather than a gang of butchers.

As far as the specifics of culture, the example of the overemphasis on book learning is a bit rich in the context of our homegrown MBAs pathological love for living out Goodhart's law. I've certainly encountered my share of foreigners over reliant on rote memorization. The thing is as long as they stay that way, they don't get far in America - and this is obvious to their fellow students. They're not becoming members of the "elite professional class", and nobody is following their tack thinking it's a good way to learn.
by jfengel | 2025-04-18 02:14:14+00:00
I used Harris's app, and was a bit surprised to hear him use language that he'd savage anyone else for.

I get the problem there; you're trying to teach what something feels like, and there just aren't words.

It's not surprising that you can alter the brain by various exercises, or that those exercises are counterintuitive. The brain is complicated and our tools for manipulating it are baroque. Still, it was a little weird to hear Harris give in without apparently reconsidering other forms of mental exercise from that standpoint.
by hirvi74 | 2025-04-18 02:14:48+00:00
> It was actually mostly forgotten until the 1960's.

Correct, much like Bach until Mendelssohn. My point was that, well both, are still around. Plenty more music was lost to the sands of time.

Which one is it? Beethoven's 5th? I think it's his 5th that has been played at least once a month since it was first performed. Now, that is a wild record.
by arctek | 2025-04-18 02:15:22+00:00
This just moves the issue elsewhere though. I do agree that adding an extra step of having to notarize documents will filter many people.

But outside of this if someone is determined they can issue fake documents at this level of provenance.

Drivers licenses for example you can buy the printing machine and blanks (illegally) so you actually need to check the registrar in that location.
by crdrost | 2025-04-18 02:16:25+00:00
If you just used lead the billet would be 31lb, it'd be procurable and shippable for under $100.

Osmium is about twice as dense so yeah that would still be shippable at around 60 lb... I don't think that's even tens of thousands at that point? Isn't it going to be in the millions? I'm just thinking that like if you went for gold instead, 50 lb is 800 oz, at $3300/oz these days doing this with gold is $2.64M, no? And surely osmium blows gold out of the water by like 10x, right?

Jokes on you when the $100 of insurance is all you get back from the post office...

Edit: a sibling comment points out that you can probably do this under $100 with tungsten too and get up into that 50lb+ range.
by sciurus | 2025-04-18 02:17:18+00:00
For many workplaces, it's not just that that don't pay for a service, it's that using it is against policy. If I tried to paste some code into ChatGPT, for example, our data loss prevention spyware would block it and I'd soon be having an uncomfortable conversation with our security team.

(We do have access to GitHub Copilot)
by jessep | 2025-04-18 02:17:25+00:00
I have had a few epic refactoring failures with Gemini relative to Claude.

For example: I asked both to change a bunch of code into functions to pass into a `pipe` type function, and Gemini truly seemed to have no idea what it was supposed to do, and Claude just did it.

Maybe there was some user error or something, but after that I haven’t really used Gemini.

I’m curious if people are using Gemini and loving it are using it mostly for one-shotting, or if they’re working with it more closely like a pair programmer? I could buy that it could maybe be good at one but bad at the other?
by LoganDark | 2025-04-18 02:17:53+00:00
That application of psychedelics is almost entirely dissimilar to what you are proposing. While a lot of the emerging research in the field is nice (and long overdue in my opinion), I would be absolutely floored if any of it recommended DMT for the treatment of dissenting opinions.

It's not like I just also could use some DMT either, since I already use psychedelics on a damn near weekly basis. It's just not something that you should be telling random strangers to try. It works differently on everyone, is not always helpful, and can even be harmful.
by mrandish | 2025-04-18 02:18:11+00:00
Yes, the Tandy 1000, 2000 and their PC-compatible descendants were what Tandy ended up doing, but being PC-compatible they were more of a "surrender and join'em" strategy in the face of the PC juggernaut instead of "beat'em". When I was referring to Tandy I was thinking of their earlier unique non-PC computers like the Model I, II, III, IV (Z-80), Color Computer (6809) and 16 (68000 Unix-based OS), some of which were sold until 1991.

If you're interested, this retro site has several articles covering the Tandy PC clones, why they struggled at launch (weren't actually very compatible early on) and how they eventually failed (weren't differentiated or cheaper at the end). https://dfarq.homeip.net/tandy-1000-models/ But Tandy's PC-compatibles sold very well in-between the first and last couple years. More interesting from a retro perspective though, a lot of people don't realize just how dominant Tandy/Radio Shack's unique (non-PC) computers were between 1977 and 1985. They outsold even Apple, Atari and the C64 in many of those years.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-04-18 02:18:30+00:00
The "haunting" riff in the Hounds song features a tritone, and it's a modal-ish progression - perhaps with hints of folk music lurking in the background.

You're not going to understand it by counting chords.

A lot of pop has these quirks. Even things that sound like I-IV-V or I-V-vi-IV bubble gum.

Slapping labels on the most obvious chords in a naive way misses them completely.
by throwaway36834 | 2025-04-18 02:19:58+00:00
$800 is the threshold for different tariff rules, so yes it is absolutely related. Those would previously have fallen under de minimis rules, but as of May 2 these are rescinded.

> All postal items containing goods described in section 2(a) of Executive Order 14195 and sent to the United States through the international postal network from the PRC or Hong Kong and transported by carriers that are valued at or under 800 dollars and that would otherwise qualify for the de minimis exemption authorized in 19 U.S.C. 1321(a)(2)(C) shall be subject to the duties described in subsection (c) of this section.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/07/2025-06...
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-18 02:21:38+00:00
> "bury" is pronounced to rhyme with "merry" in probably every accent of English that's ever been

I've definitely heard speakers for whom "bury" rhymes with "furry", and that's without the "Merry–Murray merger" (i.e., the same person would pronounce "berry" to rhyme with "merry" and quite distinctly from "bury".)

> You could just fix 100 words like "bury" and "could" and "are" whose spellings are either wrong or etymological but don't reflect extant variants, and the spelling would be reformed, children's lives would be improved, and it wouldn't be a problem from any perspective of accent variation or etymology or anything.

In many cases it would take existing homophones and turn them into additional meanings of the same spelling, which would actually reduce clarity and comprehensibility of written text.
by killerstorm | 2025-04-18 02:21:39+00:00
Here's what happened:

1. It started formulating the plan 2. Got error from provider (it seems model set sometime randomly resets to default?!?) 3. After I switched to different provider, I want it to continue planning, so I use \continue command 4. But when it gets \continue command it starts writing code without asking anything! 5. In the end it was still in chat mode. I never switched to tell mode, I just wanted it to keep planning.

Here's an excerpt: https://gist.github.com/killerstorm/ad8afa19b2f55588eb317138...

It went from entry 3 "Made Plan" to entry 4 and so on without any input from my end.

I could not reproduce the second issue this time: I didn't get the same menu and it was more chill.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-18 02:22:00+00:00
> does not exist inside the body

Uh okay but let us not be reductive, because again you are confusing physicality and temporal space with spiritual reality, which is nuanced. A Christian would never say that “the soul [never] exists inside the body” because what do you mean by “inside”? That begs the question. Look up hylomorphism:

https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylomorphism

While the soul, in death, can indeed exist apart from the body, even after the destruction of the physical human body, the soul is immortal, and lives on, in anticipation of its reuniting with that body. Whether in Heaven or Hell, the soul and body shall be reunited.

Even if the body is “destroyed” by physical means, that is a subjective judgement by human senses, and that glorified body will be reconstituted by Almighty God for everlasting unity with the soul.

> emergent property of the brain

Unfortunately, even this scientific definition is reductive. It ignores the theology of the Soul as an animating principle of everything that is created. Animals have souls [thus their name derived from “anima”]; rocks and stones have souls; trees have souls rivers have souls: everything that we can detect in this world, and every invisible thing, possesses a soul.

The difference with human souls regards their essence and immortality. But material souls are likewise considered souls in orthodox theology, and this should be considered by scientists.

Even in an “eternal death” in Hell, the body and the soul will be reunited there for eternal torture, body and soul.
by instagib | 2025-04-18 02:22:18+00:00
One notable aspect of lead content is that the dosage of products can make them of interest to the FDA if they exceed interim reference levels (IRLs). For instance, a supplement I examined contained a nominal amount of lead, yet individuals began consuming double or triple the recommended dosage. This resulted in exceeding daily limits. This is a specific example of a single supplement.

What consequences arise if the lead content of all supplements, toothpaste, food, water, and other substances is comprehensively calculated?

https://www.fda.gov/food/environmental-contaminants-food/lea...

The action levels for processed foods intended for babies and young children are as follows: * 10 parts per billion (ppb) for fruits, vegetables (excluding single-ingredient root vegetables), mixtures (including grain- and meat-based mixtures), yogurts, custards/puddings, and single-ingredient meats; * 20 ppb for single-ingredient root vegetables; and * 20 ppb for dry infant cereals.

The FDA has not established a specific, legally binding limit for lead content in dietary supplements, but it has developed interim reference levels (IRLs) for daily lead intake. These IRLs are 2.2 mcg per day for children and 8.8 mcg per day for females of childbearing age.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-04-18 02:24:45+00:00
A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling, sometimes attributed to Mark Twain:

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-04-18 02:24:46+00:00
> how I should use their magic ritual to propitiate the dishwasher

Maybe you are just wrong and basing your opinion on old, obsolete data? Granted I haven’t had to do any ritual of any kind using dishwashers for the last 20 years… but yeah. It’s not like I’m the one pointlessly wasting time hand washing dishes.