skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The primary fissile material remains a threat

That's difficult to ascertain. Russia (then the Soviet Union) stopped testing nuclear weapons in 1990. The US in 1992, the UK in 91 and France in 96[1]. Since then, their nuclear arsenals had to be maintained "by model". Is this difficult? Is it reliable? I don't know, and I suppose that 99.9% of the people who know are not allowed to talk.

But what we do know is that it's expensive. The latest US budget (2022) allocated $20 billion for "Nuclear Security" [2], $15 of which are for "weapons activities". I'm not an expert, but I think it roughly means the money needed to keep the nuclear weapons functional.

But maybe the US if very spendthrift. You know, the military-industrial complex, and all that. Well, it turns out France and the UK are not doing it on the cheap either. France spends a about $5.9 BN per year [3], and the UK about $6.2 BN/year on nuclear deterrence, and they have a much smaller arsenal compared to the US.

Well, Russia has a larger arsenal. And their total defense spending is less than $50 BN/year. I don't know if they spend $10 BN / year on their nuclear forces, but if they did, it would not surprise me if a lot were siphoned out. How would anyone know, if there is no actual nuclear test going on?

As a cute little tidbit of information. All current nuclear bombs are "boosted" [4]. Boosting requires Tritium (an unstable Hydrogen isotope). Tritium happens to be the most expensive substance on the planet, with a price of about $30k per gram. It has a half-life of 12 years, so there have been about 2 half-lives since the Soviet Union collapse. A nuclear bomb needs to have its Tritium replaced periodically if it is to remain effective. What is the probability that someone in Russia dipped a bit in the Tritium fund to buy a yacht or something?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing#/media...

[2] https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2021-05/doe-fy202...

[3] https://sldinfo.com/2020/10/an-update-on-the-french-nuclear-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosted_fission_weapon
Security things in the Linux kernel version 5.10
> In addition, the 'educational assistance' is barely enough for a two-year vocational training program, certainly nowhere near enough for a full four-year college degree. It's better than nothing, certainly, but the advertising and the reality have a big disconnect.

Could you expand on this, please? My experience was different so I'm curious about what you actually know.
One issue with Mastodon is that one of the servers I was part of shutdown unexpectedly. Now I can't transfer that account. Can't they find a way to create something actually a bit more decentralized so that you're not tied to a single server?

I think Mastodon is a great first step, but unfortunately doesn't go far enough.
They're gonna have a hard time naming things after ppl. who were in US Govt. managerial positions before the 1990s. Discrimination based on sexual orientation was not just enthusiastically pursued, it was often mandatory & recommended.
But the school doesn’t own the machine, the parent does.
I don't have any personal involvement with Mastodon either, I just think it's a cool piece of software and I'm cranky enough to point out a tired trope I see day-in-day-out on this site (name complaints).
> Only half of the world is stupid, everyone else is pretty much above average intelligence

I'm not going to get into a median vs. mean debate here. As far as IQ—or whatever metric you use—goes, I wouldn't be surprised if those 2 numbers were nearly the same.

But what if 80% of us is stupid? Everyone with below-average intelligence, and more than half of us with above-average intelligence? Could be that "Not Stupid" doesn't begin until IQ 110, or 115.

I'd toot it, but that sounds lame.
> For one "If you wanted to use GitHub, you'd have to get a paid account" is not that ridiculous. It's how businesses worked since the dawn of time: people paid to get their services. If GitHub and every other "selling eyeballs" business is forced to come back to that, that's a win in my book.

It's not a win for the hundreds of millions of people in poorer countries who cannot justify the costing. The free account model has massive value to an unimaginable number of people in the world, whereas to those like you and I it's of minor benefit.
> All scientific evidence suggests the nervous system is not developed enough to experience anything resembling consciousness or to feel pain until 20 weeks at the earliest.

Bold claim with no data to back it up and yet a cursory search on Google shows how false your claim is:

1. https://flo.health/pregnancy/pregnancy-health/fetal-developm....
2. https://www.whattoexpect.com/pregnancy/fetal-development/fet...

Is feeling pain or being conscience the standard upon which we determine the worth of someones life? If yes then please head over to your nearest hospital and pull the plug on all the comatose patients.
Leaked Intel Roadmap: More Efficient Chip Than M1 Pro and Max Within Two Years
At least with respect to macOS, the Realtek 8153 chipsets in these docks suffer from having to use the built-in ECM driver. If you're on Apple Silicon, that's your only option. If you're on Intel, there are some flaky but more performant drivers from Realtek available. The ECM driver will cause high CPU load and for many users, will result in performance that's worse than wifi because of it. You'll also get audio dropouts and system hitches from the CPU loading.

If you can find an adapter that uses the Realtek 8156 chipset, which I believe the CalDigit TS4 uses, macOS will utilize the NCM driver and your performance will be rock solid.

ECM is a very primitive USB protocol for ethernet, whereas NCM is a more modern and performant one. NCM is to ECM as UASP is to BOT mode, if you're familiar with USB external drives.
I assumed Netherlands was due to the sea level, but it shows that the "uninhabitable" definition they're using is nonsense. Because the Netherlands is very much inhabited, and inhabitable, it just requires occasionally spending $35 per person on a sea wall.

By that definition, most of the world is unlivable because you'll die (within hours!) if you sit naked outside at night in winter. And clothing and an insulated, heated house costs a lot more than $35 every few decades.

Likewise, desalination will become cheaper and cheaper. That's not "future maybe technology" like fusion or carbon capture, that's something that's already in use today, at a cost that will become feasible as the cost goes down and India develops more.
>You can be optimistic about the long arc of human progress and still realistic about our ability to take catastrophic steps backwards

This is the line I'm straddling at the moment. If you're not realistic about our ability to take a catastrophic step backwards you'll always just see things as "business as usual" until "business as very unusual" hits.

I find it interesting to research technologies and methods that are potentials for replacing our unsustainable practices and some of what I learn gives me hope, but it's super naive to pin your hopes on "business as usual" continuing based on all of that panning out before the current system is pushed outside its safe operating envelope for too long and non-linear behavior kicks in.
It’s basically “its not what the truth is, it’s what people believe”.

It extends beyond the workplace into politics as well. Hell, anywhere humans interact.

So you might write the best code, be the best at developing others, most productive. But none of that matters, what matters is what people believe.
And we still poison alcohol to make it undrinkable:

> Denatured alcohol (also called methylated spirits, in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom; wood spirit; and denatured rectified spirit) is ethanol that has additives to make it poisonous, bad-tasting, foul-smelling, or nauseating to discourage its recreational consumption. It is sometimes dyed so that it can be identified visually. Pyridine and methanol, each and together, make denatured alcohol poisonous; and denatonium makes it bitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol
There's cases of US/Western companies getting screwed even worse. A Chinese person sees it as fair to save money any way they can, so it's relatively common to have your design modified on the fly FCC or other regulatory approval be damned. In some cases the resulting product doesn't work, but you've already paid, and there's no way to get your money back.
HMMWVs

What does this acronym stand for?
Nobody suggested making an amazon warehouse tornado-proof?

You don't build a house to be tornado-proof. You have a tornado shelter. You build it at ground level with sloped sides, or below ground.

Cargo ships have life boats, so do oil rigs. If you've got a warehouse with hundreds of people in an area with lots of tornadoes, you build tornado shelters sufficient to accommodate them.

Cost of doing business in an area where the only reason you were doing business was likely cheap labor and land.

Daddy Bezos has more than enough bucks to build a tornado shelter or two at his warehouses.
They're even more rare in the military than in the general population. Firstly for the obvious reason - they don't need any of the benefits so they don't join. Secondly - someone that becomes that wealthy while serving (via a trust-fund, large inheritance, or winning the lottery) would no longer be a good fit for the military. They usually get offered an Honorable Discharge. However, if they still desire to serve the remainder of their term, they can place the money into a blind trust.
Certainly there is some inductive bias. Neuroanatomy is broadly similar human to human which constraints connectivity. There is an energetic penalty for excess wiring - evolution drives neuron placement to minimize wiring length (eg topographic layout of layers in cortex), which further constraints connectivity. In general, there is a huge body of evidence supporting the hypothesis that organisms are highly tuned to their environments.

My point is that in contrast to fruit flies, humans (well, mammals) raised in environments with non-natural scene statistics show significant differences in coding in the visual cortex. Here are some random references I dredged up:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4210638/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222...

It's not hard to see why this might be selected for in mammals. The historic range of D. melanogaster is just sub-saharan Africa, whereas the historic range of humans is huge, and we are primarily visual organisms. So it would be advantageous to have different tuning if you lived in the desert vs the forest. Of course you have to look at the range and divergence times of the full phylogeny but I am getting distracted from my actual research. It's a very interesting line of thinking though. I was quite surprised to learn things were hardcoded in flies when I joined a fly vision lab.

https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/11/3/844/5304659
Burning Up: The Controversial Biofuel Threatening BC’s Last Inland Rainforests
If everyone ran their own SMTP server, SMTP would still not be decentralized. There are additional points of failure on simple federation that are outside of the owner-operator's control. Their domain name can be frozen or stolen by the registrar (this actually happened extensively to many websites, most notoriously The Daily Stormer which was suspended by dozens of "free speech" registrars and dozens of national ccTLDs). They can be denied IP transit or transport, or blackholed by specific ASNs.

Decentralized protocols will provide graph access in absence of centralized resources.
Oh absolutely, I agree that it's very cool at a technical level. But I don't believe it's going to succeed at its mission with the current branding.

It is of course open-source software and they don't have to do anything if they're happy with the status-quo, but imagine how better if would be if you had something with the branding & adoption of Twitter and the features & benefits of Mastodon?
> You're not allowed to say disparaging things about anyone in your command chain, which goes up to the president. There's also limits on your political speech, in relation to making political statements in favor of candidates.

You are right, there are more restrictions for me. I'll change my evaluation of "you sign away all your citizenship rights" to mostly false. The OP made a rather encompassing assertion. I still retain most of my rights as a US citizen.

For anyone reading this that is curious, we do agree to a new law code. It's the Uniform Code of Military Justice. One aspect is that it ensures service members are held accountable to laws in countries where there may be drastically different laws. It also includes provisions such as article 88 which states:

> Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

And article 89 also limits speech more than an average citizen.

> not everyone gets the GI bill benefits they are promised

I'd be curious to hear the facts behind this assertion. The regulations are pretty clear on how to qualify. I've never seen someone qualified then denied.
3. I help people solve practical problems that require relatively mundane physics and math, plus the ability to bridge multiple disciplines, use things like theory and modeling as tools, and conduct experiments to test hypotheses. At a company that makes measurement equipment.

Some of this stuff is work that most people hate, and are happy to have off their plates.
Sure, but it doesn’t change what I wrote. In fact your non-peer reviewed site had this to say about CNN:

“ CNN typically utilizes loaded emotional words in sensational headlines such as this: Trump pounces on Justice Department report findings.”

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/left/cnn-bias/

So are we gonna be biased or call every guilty party out?
Whoa there buddy! Everyone know that Amazon is terrible so please stop providing facts that run against that narrative.
What’s funny is that she constantly criticizes certain members of the physics community for the very reason you point out.
Yah if this had been out a few years ago I probably would've gone with Rust on the embedded route. Instead I tried Nim since it could compile to the ESP32's. Turned out that I found it more pleasant to read and write and easier to integrate with ESP-IDF. Nim's ARC is fast enough to not be a hindrance 99.5% of the time on the ESP32's -- heap allocation is the real performance/latency killer. Rust can bite you there as well (its easy to forget about free's at the end of a block!).

Still Rust seems nicer than C/C++ for a lot of applications. I'm glad there's a couple of options for better safety / security in embedded.
This is ostensibly a (tech!) startup incubator forum. So it’s a lot of extraordinarily technical and business-savvy people.

It doesn’t take much experience with marketing to cringe at the idea of branding a post a “toot”.

Frankly that decision turned me off to the whole project because it casts doubt on all their other decisions. I’m glad they moved away from it but that definitely harmed adoption.
Jargon game: "Urbit or Xanadu?"
Seems pretty clear you’d hate Amazon no matter what they do?
What say your population of young people halved every generation for three generations. Would your city or country have enough people to keep it functioning given the level of specialization required for the level of complexity it is based on?
Two basic questions about the performance of the model:

1. What's the maximum context size (don't know the right term for this) that the model can consider at once? For example, for GPT-3 I believe the limit is around 2000 tokens (where each token corresponds to a few characters or perhaps a word in a dictionary)?

2. What is the inference latency - how long does it take to get a result from this model? Given that they don't have any demos linked to in the blog post that I can see, seems like it's long (like multiple seconds, maybe even a minute?).
Depends how badly you need that dollar.
Does mystical language honestly require a trigger warning?

https://psychlopaedia.org/society/republished/whats-the-diff...

"""
The idea of trigger warnings originates in the psychiatric literature on post-traumatic reactions, where triggering had the same connotations. The primary features of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) include so-called “re-experiencing symptoms”, like intrusive thoughts and flashbacks.

These thoughts and images bring traumatic events vividly back to life, accompanied by the intense fear that the events originally evoked. Experiences that recall those early events trigger re-experiencing symptoms through a process that is rapid, unconscious, involuntary and automatic. That process is often understood in terms of fear conditioning.
"""

The only person who I know of who has a form of PTSD that could be triggered by reading a mystical take would be Dawn Lawton, writer of "When Buddhism goes bad", or someone who went through a similarly distressing situation.

https://danlawton.substack.com/p/when-buddhism-goes-bad/comm...

Is a situation like this common enough to warrant it? While there are some posters on HN who are into buddhism/meditation or have tried it, I think this sort of experience is still not so common in this space and the TW threatens to cheapen the meaning of a trigger, normalizes pathological sensitivity and adds artificial social barriers to interesting discussions.

Well, that's just what I think. But if what you say is true, it would also be what you think, as me.
Customer service is done by another comapny. Source: It's me this time, NS customers service errrr....We help, it's called Webhelp.
>We've been killing each other for thousands of years for far more trivial reasons than getting 18 years of financial obligations.

Yes we have, and the repercussions of those acts are still being felt to this day with calls for justice, reducing human worth to purely a "financial obligation" to be avoided at all costs makes us lower than beasts roaming the Serengeti
Isn't this a pretty typical bring-your-own-device policy?

I.e., if you want to use your personal device to access the organization's private network or resources, they are going to insist on having control over that device, or at least they are allowed to.

Or in this case I assume that CPS "owns" your son's account and probably has a terms-of-service-style document somewhere that makes GoGuardian or similar a condition of using that account.

If you don't want their software then you can't use "their" account on that computer. I don't love that policy, but it sure seems like something they are allowed to do.
Don't forget how the bronze age ended.
"For people who can, it's just fairy tales, so what's the point of instilling a false sense of understanding?"

I think this statement is worth examining a little bit. This statement implies that, unless you are going to develop a working knowledge of the math and become a practicing physicist, then you shouldn't bother reading anything about it.
Was the initial screen LeetCode?
The detailed follow-up to that post is here: https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2021/12/12/a-cor...
Mastodon is nowhere on the entire spectrum of decentralized. No component of it provides decentralization.
TSMC to supply Nvidia's next-gen GPUs, breaks up with Samsung
It actually doesn’t clearly say any at all. Like literally.

Random Joes that have no voice will not be banned. Make a name for yourself and start gaining followers and you most certainly will unless it’s too damaging to twitters reputation. Their sporadic treatment of these types of people are what allow you to hide behind this reasoning, they keep you guessing on their procedures.
And there are others, e.g. GoToSocial ( https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial ), written in Go.
If anyone would like to watch a comedy film about a similar topic, 1997's "The Castle" [0] is a beloved* and oft-quoted classic in Australia, that follows a family fighting the compulsory acquisition of their home for an airport expansion.

It is _very_ dense with its cultural references, so many jokes might slip by unnoticed if you aren't from Australia, but I would still recommend it for its good-natured charm.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_(1997_Australian_fi...

* especially by legal professionals
Mastodon is pushing releases out the door at a pace I'm happy with - they're at version 3.5 so far since its initial launch of 2016 or so. I'd consider that (and the sustainability of the project) a success. A lot of project maintainers burn out after an amount of time or stall out completely so this is an indicator there's something more here and it's healthy.

I'm not quite sure I agree with the point you're getting at concerning branding and mass adoption.
Well if that is possible, that's great, but when I've asked similar questions before the answer is always to use some external library like joinmonster or whatever.
Well they did have a shelter area. My point was the people that followed the tragedy with horrible tornado advice in order to score political points.
>Population is projected to level out, so it's a moot point.

Is it projected to level out or to decline? Because birth rates below replacement indicate decline, not leveling out.
I'm on my third Mastodon server, which is mastodon.social.

The first one was Drew Devault's server, which he advertised here. (I didn't know who he was at the time.) One day it disappeared without notice. Admittedly, I wasn't using it much.

The second one was schelling.pt, which I picked solely for the cool name. It started having weird brownouts after a while, where nothing would update and images were broken.

So, don't do as I did and pick a Mastodon server on a whim, without checking out the person running it and what they're willing to commit to. I guess mastodon.social is probably safe, but it would be nice if there were professional hosting.

(You could also self-host, but I don't care enough about the Fediverse to do that.)
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment–A Review
Excellent! Tight feedback loops are everything. Feel free to take a look at my /milestones page or DM me if you have any questions. I'm always looking for accountability buddies too.
The Road Ahead – Bill Gates Comdex Keynote 1995 [video]
This is amazing! I would pay for an api into this, in a heartbeat.
> China has no well known flagship brand demonstrating that level of quality.

OnePlus.
As I understand it, space force is doing ramping up by keeping the same Air Force people in the same Air Force desks off the same Air Force building and changing their uniforms and insignia.
Rust and esp32 was a rough ride for setup. The pthread rwlock thing stumped me for a while because I missed `esp_idf_sys::link_patches()` in main. I eventually found that missing piece and got it going.

It's hard to tell which MCU is pulling ahead for me. Rust/esp32 is so new it's not even merged to mainline llvm and I'm constantly updating esp-* libraries. OTOH, AVR/Arduino has been "just working" for me except you're stuck on a Rust build that's over a year old now due to a bug.

And then both architectures seem to suffer a bit because I stuff all the toolchains in a container, lest they explode all over the filesystem. But then VSCode can't really autocomplete anymore since it doesn't have all the pieces.

That all said, they're both super fun and it's nice to see things moving along.