skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're trying really hard to salvage a point talking about hundreds of megawatts of "decay heat" days later.

An operating reactor isn't making "decay heat".

The claim made is that the cooling system is passively safe in shutdown. Fudging the amount of decay heat by a couple orders of magnitude, and then arguing about "what if it doesn't shut down" is a bogus argument.

Obviously if you cannot reduce a reactor below nameplate power indefinitely, you have a big problem. Thankfully, we have multiply-redundant protections against this in modern designs: redundant control rod assemblies, neutron poisoning, positive stability, etc. Other than Chernobyl (a clearly bad design), all cases of delayed shutdown experienced so far have been innocuous and we've learned a lot from them.
12" models were about an inch narrower.

According to everymac.com, the 12" PowerBook G4 (2004) had an amazing 10.9"x8.6" footprint (and the 12" MacBook (2017) was 11.04"x7.74" - and 2.03 pounds.)
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To the petrochemical comment: for example look at Paul Stamets. Among the many irons he has in the fire, he knows that certain fungal pathogen species have competitors that are in some cases benign. But fungicides are broad spectrum. They kill off many fungi that would be no problem (and the occasional human liver). The worst weeds and the worst pathogens can often spread faster than their competitors. Only by maintaining a complex ecosystem can you achieve an armistice.
HN discussion from 2017 on the same article at a different URL:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15231302
Just like casinos, the house always wins.
You'd think. But I've seen many many many examples of this pattern in production JS code.
I think the bigger point here is that it's impossible to know either way because DDG doesn't undergo independent verification of their privacy.

It's closed-source code from a privately-owned, for-profit corporation based in the U.S. We have no idea what information they share or don't share, other than the claims they make about themselves.
> Yes, but too many media outlets have abused the "may" thing so badly that maybe it's just better to say, "Congress considers launching criminal investigation into Bezos testimony"

I don't agree at all, and your assertion contrasts with what is clearly stated in the article.

The BBC article quotes the letter signed by five members of the US House Judiciary Committee which states:

> "At best, this reporting confirms that Amazon's representatives misled the Committee. At worst, it demonstrates that they may have lied to Congress in possible violation of federal criminal law," the letter states.

BBC provides a direct quote. It was the committee members which stated that Bezos "may have lied", not BBC. It's as unambiguous as it gets.
I am not a Windows fan either but I kept my pitchfork in the garage after I watched a fair review of Windows 11, recently, and it argued MS seriously tried to streamline its messy UI, especially with respect to system configuration: https://youtu.be/_G4aql8_shw

Not sure why they couldn’t do this clean up using incremental updates of Windows 10 but maybe the underlying changes were actually too drastic and therefore too risky to ship in a rolling release.
It was buggy as hell, good riddance. For me the biggest annoyance was when volume buttons would freeze the touchbar, and the only way was to reset the audio system! Ugh!!

(Make it inherently safe - physical keys, so less chances of programmers ruining it).
In my experience, being a DDG user for several years, I use search to find answers to some problem I'm facing. If I can find it, I'm happy, without caring about if Google would have given me better results. I don't spend my time comparing between the two.

Based on the above, I'm been mostly satisfied, I'll say 99% of the time. In the 1% of cases where DDG has not provided me an answer to my problem, as a hail mary I try !g (Google) and sometime I get an answer and many times not.

So, IMO the difference in search for most practical uses is minor. Now, add the uncluttered user interface on top of it, DDG wins by a huge margin.

Edit: Anecdata, an area where I've found that Google is slightly better, as in having a few more results, is in returning results from forums and sometimes Reddit. But even then, DDG results are mostly sufficient and there are only a very few instances where I've had to do !g.
Bing has been caught stealing results from Google too.
https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/

It seems like every search engine that isn't google, is still just google but with extra stuff mixed in. It'd be nice to see a competitor that didn't rely on anyone else's search results and only developed and gathered results from their own index.
I oppose you.
Checked out the link, thanks for that. Will have to dig into their approach more.

Agreed with immersion being important. Ultimately, you can't learn anything without work, but considering how useful tools like Anki have been for me in learning languages, I think there's room for something like that to, as you said, improve on that method :)
AWS doesn't need to copy Cloudflare. It already has literally everything Cloudflare does in their catalog already. In spite of this Cloudflare is still attracting customers at premium prices.
> MuJoCo is a second-order continuous-time simulator, implementing the full Equations of Motion

Are there any books describing how to implement this kind of physics engine?
> That's a myth. There's plenty of data on this. Most American never get anywhere close to the top 10% - not even remotely - regardless of age.

OK, let's take a look, because the GP was arguing about income mobility across different years of a person's life - intra-generational mobility -- not earnings compared to your parents -- inter-generational mobility. That distinction was the key point made. And the GP is basically correct:

From two studies about intragenerational bottom[1] and top[2] income mobility:

* 53.1 percent will have experienced at least one year within the top 10th percentile

* 36.4 percent will have encountered one year within the top 5th percentile

* 11.1 percent will have experienced one year within the top 1st percentile.

* 70% of Americans spend at least 1 year in the top quintile

* 61% of Americans spend at least 1 year in the bottom quintile.

* 42% of Americans experience at least one year in the bottom decile

Summarizing:

"Taken together, these findings indicate that across the American life course there is a large amount of income volatility. Rather than a rigid class structure, the top and bottom ends of the income distribution are fairly porous. This finding provides an interesting and important caveat to the overall story of rising levels of income inequality across the past 40 years." [2]

Note that a key issue when studying mobility is that you need to do it across a few business cycles. If your study is only during an economic expansion, then it's not going to be meaningful, as life changes tend to clustered around contractions and recoveries, and several such episodes are needed. Thus the studies I selected cover 44 year periods. Some of the studies are for 5-10 year periods, and that's really too small.

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[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271598246_The_Life_...

[2] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
When you trade-in your Mac you are asked if the enclosure is free of dents, turns-on, battery holds charge etc.

Strange that they would ask these questions if they were simply going to shred the device.
Not sure what is bold about that. The people in UP Michigan are some of the ones doing the SmartScan back office, and customer support. AFAICT there were no product/engineering people there.
Sorry, but it's not as if a Content ID claim is the end of the road.

You can appeal a Content ID claim. If your appeal is rejected, you can even appeal that — which forces the claimant to either issue a DMCA takedown or concede. During the pendency of the dispute process all ad revenue is held in escrow for whomever 'wins' in the end.

It's a great system, and I say that a full-time producer of content for YouTube.
You don't. It's a technological progress similar to one where we lost our ability to repair transistors with introduction of chips. If this doesn't work for you you should stick with the old tech, I think the Russians did something like that on their soviet era plane electronics. There are also audiophiles who don't even switch to transistor and use vacuum tubes. Also the Amish who stick to the horses and candles who choose to preserve their way of doing things and avoid the problems of electricity and powered machinery.

You will need to make a choice sometimes. Often you can't have small efficient and repairable all the time.
Edwin, thank you. We finally got our file from Stripe Saturday night so that's good so we can move on with a new payment partner. We have lost 6 weeks of revenue that we most likely will not recoup. Stripe shut us down without giving us a chance to change whatever perceived behavior we violated. Even if we did, at least Stripe should have had the decency to give us a chance to fix it since this had not happened before that we're aware of.
I'm assuming you moved things along a little quicker and I appreciate it. This is not good business practice that I had to hunt down an unknown site just to get help. You all need to make some improvement with your support teams because this was absolutely the most frustrating experience. I've worked production support in the past and if one of ours customers had this awful experience, I most likely would have been fired. I feel bad for the next person/company who has to go thru this pain...please..do better. You're messing with people's livelihoods
Interest rates are mostly determined by two things: 1) in what other activity could I invest this money; and 2) what is the probability that I won't be repaid. Well, also a third thing: overhead to run the business.

Payday loans are fundamentally unprofitable if they charge less than usurious rates of interest.

First, the default rate is sky-high: News articles suggest that over half of payday borrowers default within a given year.

Second, the loan amounts are relatively small, but require a retail storefront and staff.

Think about other types of lending: A mortgage is underwritten once per decade and involves 100's of thousands of dollars at once with a three decade term. The band will earn hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest over the course of the loan, so having a banker in a tailored suit spend a couple hours with you is a trivial cost. It's also secured by real property which can be repossessed in the event of a default.

A credit card is underwritten once a decade. The small transactions are mostly automated and much of the risk is pushed onto the merchant. So, again, tens of thousands of dollars can be earned per account. Retail space is not required to scale the business. The default rate is higher and the loan is unsecured, so it carries a higher interest rate.

Now look at a payday loan. Half of borrowers will default each year, and collection rates will be low (the borrowers mostly don't have assets to recover). The term is usually a few weeks, so it requires human interaction 12-26 times per year. The loan amounts are also small, so 1/26th of whatever a reasonable interest rate is isn't enough to cover defaults and all the manual processes.

If you don't believe me, the above statements are trivially falsifiable: Just start your own payday loan company with "reasonable" interest rates and see how long you last.

If the news articles reporting 50%+ default rates are true, your non-profit payday loan company need to charge at least 100% APR just to break even before overhead and cost of capital.
Yeah, the browser really does all the lifting, it's just about exposing some files and making an interface that allows you to interact with your collection the way you like.
>Torrents aren't necessarily illegal so I'm not sure why running a website called "kickasstorrents" is relevant.

Because we all know that website and what torrents it had. That "torrents aren't necessarily illegal" are neither here, nor there. Their torrents were illegal.

(Not that I'm against it, but well, it's not like they're fooling anyone with the "torrents aren't necessarily illegal" defense for their particular case. That wasn't some FOSS/PD software torrent site, and that wasn't why people visited it, or why it was run...).
SEC: Brokers enticed by PFOF are making trading into a game to lure investors
> b) Iraq had no "weapons of mass destruction"; cite Hans Blix, others.

I think that overstates the case. There was no good proof they did have those weapons, and a lot of stuff was fabricated or blown out of proportion to support their having them, but there was also a lot of reason to suspect they had them (including that we/our allies had supplied them to Saddam the past!...plus prior use against the Kurds and Shia). I think the consensus opinion now is that Saddam was trying to make others (especially within Iraq) believe he had a viable WMD capability, but that he didn't have an active program at the time of invasion.
I would encourage looking into Rhino3D and Grasshopper3D. As @jpgleeson mentions - this is already widely used by architects as they move from a world of buildings made up of mass-produced identical components (e.g., every brick is the same shape and size), to a world where mass customization is possible (e.g., every brick has variable shape, massing, structural properties, etc.). Being able to prescribe that programmatically has a lot of promise. Tools like Grasshopper already enable some of this customization via code as you can see here https://developer.rhino3d.com/guides/rhinopython/ghpython-ca...

Plugging into existing frameworks (like Rhino) is quite easy and can open the door to other realms of optimization/simulation for the designs you are scripting. For instance you could leverage generative design (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HLRtXSG7fQ) and other software that can be used to evaluate designs according against variety of criteria ranging from structural integrity, to environmental performance, to 3d-printability, etc. If there’s open source frameworks you can plug into, even better.. and if not.. then maybe that’s what’s missing: an easy standard way for various opensource projects to share and edit information.

Programmatically-defined designs make sense to me only if you can easily change parameters to quickly produce, evaluate, and optimize the designs/variations/results. Otherwise - Better to use a GUI that allows for more direct (and less abstracted) expression of designer intent

Similarly open source CAD makes sense if it can be augmented by other open source projects - including sharing and editing data from these various projects
For the record, I'm vaccinated.

Is there specific evidence that vaccines don't cause long-term harm? And if in time, evidence shows that they do cause harm, who will be responsible? (in slovenia, all the vaccines were safe and effective, then we first stopped using astrazeneca due to clots and a woman dying, then israel said they don't work enough, and mandated a third shot, then a girl died in slovenia due to Janssen, and only mrna vaccines were recommended for young people, then sweden and denmark stopped using moderna, so we're down to one safe vaccine).

Even the stupidests little things, like sanitizing the living crap out of stuff, even before the mask mandates, was something that was 'true' back then, then the 'truth' changed, and we still had to pay for all the useless crap... we had mandated sanitizers in elevators, all the high buildings paid a shitton of money for them (because the dispensers were expensive then and hard to get), then someone though about fire codes, and "woops, remove them".

TLDR: the problem is not that science changes, the problem is, that we do very socially and economically dangerous and expensive stuff now by blindly trusting whatever the current scientific idea is, not thinking about "what if the science is wrong?" (eg. if covid is transmitted mostly by air and not by touching infected surfaces).
No, they are saying apple is making a mistake and that "Apple is ridiculous."

What they don't value is that apple, in the midst of chip shortage, is going to be doing delivery within ONE WEEK of announcement of an absolutely bleeding edge node solution.

I get it, your Dell Intel whatever is better and/or cheaper. I used to be on dell and now am on lenovo. But there is a reason apple charges what they do, a totally integrated solution, that just works, battery life for miles, not too hot on the lap etc etc. and available in seemingly insane quantities.

Seriously, ford parks cash cow F-150's and apple is turning out millions and millions of phones (100 million phones alone per year)?
For the 360, from 2010 production (when they introduced the 45nm shrink), the CPU and GPU was merged into a single chip.
Security, provisioning, dependency management, infosec, etc. the list of reasons for someone to develop in a VM is endless.
It'll be a bit before I can publish the paper, libraries, tooling etc. around this - it's been maybe 8 years in the making but slow - the general idea is:

1. GPUs are actually _ridiculously and stupidly_ excellent at natively rendering Bézier curves if you "limit" yourself to quadratic curves.

2. Most of the reasons designers / end users hate working with Bézier curves is because of the absolutely terrible control point manipulation that cubic curves require.

3. GPUs cannot natively render cubic curves (look at any of the papers on this and you'll find they do CPU-side translation of cubic -> quadratic before sending to the GPU in the best case) which harms perf substantially and makes animation of curves expensive. Plus handling the intersection rules is incredibly complex.

...so maybe using the 'mathematically pure' cubic curves is not actually so great after all. :) if only we had tools and formats (not SVG) that worked on isolated quadratic curves (without care for intersection) - then GPU rendering implementations wouldn't need to be absolutely horridly complex (nvidia et. al), or terrible approximations (valve SDF), we could literally send a vector graphic model directly to the GPU and have it render (and animate!) at incredible speeds, with easier to understand tools.

At least - that's the idea.
In C++ you're only ever one missing "explicit" from introducing such problems.

Suppose I call fire(bob). Programmers from other languages might reason that since fire is a function which takes a Person, bob must be a Person. Not in C++. In C++ the compiler is allowed to go, oh, bob is a string and I can see that there's a constructor for Person which takes a string as its only argument, therefore, I can just make a Person from this string bob and use that Person then throw it away.

To "fix" the inevitable cascade of misery caused by this "feature" C++ then introduces more syntax, an "explicit" keyword which means "Only use this when I actually ask you to" rather than as a sane person might, requiring an implicit keyword to flag any places you actually want this behaviour to just silently happen.

This way, hapless, lazy or short-sighted programmers cause the maximum amount of harm, very on-brand for C++. See also const.
So because a company stole devices to sell them makes Apple the bad guy?
> Apple does nothing to improve front line technician procedures.

I’m not a fan of planned obselence and waste but this is clearly wrong. They’ve spent loads of engineering effort designing a machine for their store that can replace and reseal and test iPhone screen replacements out back.
You can get an interest only mortgage.
I believe the author was talking about the act of writing the software. Modern type inference means that you can mostly code without needing to write down the types in many cases. This line of code is the same in JavaScript or C#:

var instance = new SomeClass();

In function definitions, where you are definitely going to need to provide parameter types it's extremely common to document those types in a docblock in a dynamically typed language. At least I always did. So making the types part of the definition is not a significant difference while writing the code.
Ok, I believe you're being sarcastic, because this little paragraph is ridiculous, so I'll address it as if you are - because then you have a very good point.

This is Apple's Pro line. There is no more performant laptop that they make. It's a portable workstation - a home tower that you can take with you. If people want battery life of 10+ hours or a light weight, they get the model optimized for that. Apple seems to not offer a real pro laptop (portable workstation) - period. People who use these pro laptops are either compiling code or doing heavy graphics.

Work gives us Dell Precision laptops with 9 hours battery life during casual use, a pretty dang powerful discreet GPU, and oh - Xeon CPUs. No offense apple, but this "pro" laptop is a toy in comparison.

So I don't get it - apple's plan. I couldn't seriously use their products for work unless I want to lose productivity. Why don't they make something that's actually "pro" instead of calling what everyone else calls mid-tier a "pro" and then completely excluding the actual pro target market all together. Do they just not want more money?

As a developer, waiting less time for your device to finish an operation, while sitting there reading HN, makes you not need as much battery life. And the Dell seems designed for a full workday plus an hour. Now, I'm not a dev - did that for a year of my 20+ year career, too much sitting looking at code. I do however script a lot - with gigs of text output from data collection of logs and performance data, usually doing basic calculations or transformations. I look a lot at large datasets and graph them. I need a big GPU, I need fast CPUs. I mount up a 20G RAM drive because the disk is too slow.

Now yeah - when compared to another Apple laptop w/ a Xeon, the M1 is faster for single threaded specialized workloads. Because Apple uses CPUs a generation behind everyone else, has worse cooling, and still loses on multicore. In real life, when I run a shell script on my laptop, and a coworker runs it on the same dataset on an M1, his is an all day run - he does it overnight. I do it over a long lunch - it's not even a real comparison.

Now yes - My laptop gets hot, fans are blasting, and if my charge is at 80%, it literally won't charge while the script is running. But... that's what I want from a "pro." Now, his isn't a pro, and it stays barely warm. But we're talking the difference between 7 hours and 2 hours here. I don't think the "pro" is going to be all that much better.

So I get the apples to old apples comparison. However apples to flagships from others - I highly doubt apple a serious contender for the portable workstation. Which is what "pro" should be.
Link to SEC report: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-212
Heck I was still using my 2012 Macbook Air until pretty recently, a decent machine if you don't mind that it gets really hot under load.

Barring any major fiascos (like past keyboard issues), the 2021 MBP does look built to last. We're in a good spot now in terms of stuff like a great screen (if you don't need constant 120Hz), low-power video decoding, a solid 8-core CPU, and probably even a passable gaming GPU. Should remain very usable even as it's outclassed in subsequent generations.
Regarding truth, I would prefer the counsel of a mathematician over that of an engineer. That said, I would prefer an engineer over a mathematician when my car breaks down.
Neurodiversity is a thing. Companies compete with each other on how good diversity stats they have, only taking in count visual appearance while on the behavioral side it is expected that everyone is the same corporate employee archetype.