skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One study estimates 100,000 Americans die every year from air pollution

That's still a lot more deaths than commercial nuclear fusion has been associated with in the US. It's also, incidentally, a lot of deaths.

> 1. Not a single nuclear power plant has been built without significant government subsidies.

This is a non-sequitur. Just because something needs government subsidies doesn't make it bad. Things like the Internet, modern solar energy, and the USPS were built with either massive initial subsidies or even complete government involvement throughout their ongoing lifetimes. That doesn't make them bad.

> 2. Nuclear power plant falsely reduce costs by externalizing significant costs such as the processing of fuel, the processing of fuel processing waste, maintenance, inspection (eg by the NRC), switching out fuel, processing nuclear fuel, the time-to-build or the failure modes of nuclear plants. Lest we forget, the Chernobyl Absolute Exclusion Zone is 1,000 square miles 35 years later.

Versus coal and oil plants, which externalize the costs of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Also, comparing a shoddily built and designed Soviet plant to modern Western ones isn't a good comparison.

> If these next-generation LWRs are so economical, why isn't someone building them at scale? The standard response is political opposition but what about China?

In the West, it's negative perception that largely predates widespread public awareness of climate change. As for China, it looks like China's getting in on the nuclear game too, precisely because of air pollution concerns.
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...

> delusional as climate deniers

Yeah, no. Even if us supporters of nuclear power are wrong, we don't need to be compared to people who are on the level of flat earthers.
Validation for demand comes first, but sometimes the product starts with a new user experience that opens more demand for old functionality (think the swipe for tinder). Since I work on consumer products - for brand new ideas I prototype the user experience first. I think in HTML/CSS/JS so it’s easy to just do it that way. Then I start playing with that as a user - maybe store data locally, and make it useful and easy. Once that’s polished and I find myself using my own product for a while (or whoever requested the feature does), I start building a proper backend in go with testing, api, performance, database, etc.
Is this related to research in this area or something different?

https://inqlab.net/projects/dmc/

https://openengiadina.net/papers/eris.html

https://openengiadina.net/papers/content-addressable-rdf.htm...
Before I studied math, I always slightly resented imaginary numbers as being "math wankery" and just defined because mathematicians had a compulsion to generalize and define new nonsense because they could, and not because it made any sense to.

On the way to changing my mind, I learned that the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra only works for complex numbers (and not "real" numbers), the beauty and simplicity of rotations in the complex plane, but maybe most convincing to me was a history lesson about quaternions.

Quaternions are an extension of the complex numbers, but they're not typically taught in higher math education these days, which contradicted my resentment that mathematicians were just obsessed with getting more and more abstract and general for the sake of it. Of course, they were in vogue in the 19th century (Maxwell's equations were originally written down using them), but mathematicians soon realized they just weren't as useful or as "nice" philosophically as complex numbers and just about anything you can accomplish with quaternions were better accomplished with vectors of complex numbers.

That story played a big part in persuading me that there really is something special about complex numbers -- that maybe they're the most "natural" or "real" numbers of them all.
Is it wise to write off safety issues? Chernobyl, Fukushima and three mile island all seem pretty bad.

There is also the Robert Heinlein story "Blowups happen". I'm just not understanding how this can all be hand waved away.
Huh? I wonder where that default password came from
> You can only date a relatively small number of people.

I think more people need to understand this.

Like, if you sell something used you don’t need to craft the “perfect” ad or get tonnes of exposure on it. You only need to sell one.
> why didn't Apple just let the iPad replace the Air if "all they need" is web browsing and office clients?

1. Take out the “vast majority of consumers”, and there’s still a large enough market for both devices.

2. “All they need” and “all they want” are two different things.

3. Apple is in a business to make money, and people are willing to pay.
Still too fast for it to have been tape hah. If it was on tape, it would have taken minutes
Ask HN: Has the quality of Google search declined for anyone else, or just me?
Google search used to be one of the wonders of the modern digital world, but (and I admit this is subjective) it feels like the quality of results has decreased drastically over the years. I just can't find stuff as easily as I used to. It still comes out on top for e.g. querying for technical information but for other things (image search) I don't even bother with it anymore. It also feels like certain kinds of queries are subject to malicious SEO practices where it becomes impossible to find results that aren't from the same group of tabloids/media outlets.

What happened? Did they let their golden goose starve to death? Or is this all in my head and Google is actually fine for everyone else?
Genuinely curious - what's a better way to verify accounts aren't bots?
Good luck doing that with a multi-terabyte compressed tar file!
A Seattle Times article from 1989:

> Inside Microsoft – A ‘Velvet Sweatshop’ or a High-Tech Heaven?

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/archive-inside-microso...
But individuals (elected or not) should fully operate and make decisions in accordance with their openly held beliefs.

Or alternatively, you could expect/require officials to operate for the good of the country/organisation! It's all very well saying "we knew what he stood for when we elected him" but surely it would be better that the rabidly self-serving or corrupt official is held to a higher standard.
Ah, yeah, that's completely fair. If someone is making an archive _for Windows users_, that archive should absolutely be a zip. A tarball definitely sends the signal that Windows users aren't the primary audience. Sometimes that's okay, sometimes it's a sign of a really shoddy port.
Unlikely. Phosphate is ubiquitous in the body. Your metabolism basically runs off phosphate ions. And your stomach is far more acidic than phosphoric acid.
Sadly, this is irrelevant. Running a corporation within a capitalist system will always optimize for maximum value extraction. Even if they can charge more in base price, this scheme always yields even more on top.
Why are they a pain?
Well, except no zip decompression library I know supports anything like that.
Job creation numbers are mostly myths. There are many people doing bad jobs who, given the opportunity, would be doing other jobs. The fossil fuel industry has been subsidised in many countries for decades. That money could have trained people to have skills in areas with less negative environmental impact. That money could have been used to develop better technology.

In Australia I recently did some contract work for a large government infrastructure project. They claimed that they had created so many hundreds of jobs. In reality, those jobs are temporary, and the people filling those jobs could easily be working on other projects.
> Sigh, this again.

has this kind of initial dismissal ever won anyone any favor in an argument?

I see it all over the thread, and I find myself having a hard time wanting to consider the argument afterwards even if I am personally aligned with them just because it seems so inconsiderate and rude.

Is it supposed to signal your experience in the field, having heard this argument so many times -- or does it signal the opponents inexperience? Either way I find that approach to come off as arrogant and rude.
A potential defence for Musk maybe?

E: Disclaimer - I don't care which way the Musk vs Twitter thing goes. I just can see this being the next sticking point
I suppose the transparency is nice, but I still can't wrap my around why people in this industry put up with unpaid work - interview homework and whatnot. No other industry is like this.
Yeah I'm definitely not an expert here, just raising the question. I guess compared to pharmaceuticals which are something we'd take only as a last resort/backup plan, is there extra danger in modifying the most basic of our food sources? Any unintended side effects that could happen or limitations to our tests?

(I'm definitely am in favor of regulation to prevent overprocessing of food too. So no double standard from my end there.)
Note: this is only for write protection passwords. Files that require a password to read are actually encrypted. I think any password that would prevent editing but allow reading would necessitate a fairly complex digital signature management scheme for data provenance (which might be useful in some settings).
It’s worse—-almost all of them already use a nonstandard variant of C. The committee is bending over backwards to accommodate them, but they literally _do not care what the standard says_, so this doesn’t even benefit them. Most will keep using a busted C89 toolchain with a haphazard mix of extensions no matter what the standard does.
If you don't have to budget or care to, then sure it's not. Otherwise, paying for a fare only to have to pay another to transfer between the different train company lines is a headache.
> I'm going to ignore that you chose the MTA, a famously corrupt organization that is responsible for tunneling under the densest metro area in the country, as a baseline for the cost of rail.

Sidenote, that's called apophasis - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis
People are consistently attacking a straw man of Lemoine's argument. Lemoine claims that LaMDA is more than an LLM, that it is an LLM with both short and long term memory and the ability to query the Google version of the internet in real time and learn from it.

Various Google employees deny this. We are seeing a dispute between Google and Lemoine about the supposed architecture of LaMDA. If Lemoine is correct about the architecture, it becomes much more plausible that something interesting is happening with Google's AI.
I wonder if it's just that a single 20oz of diet/zero sugar soda doesn't make a big enough difference one way or another. Likely not so good for you but not as addictive and statistically significant as say, alcohol, nicotine or fatty and sugary foods.
> Some changes that more-or-less stuck: - More sun for Vitamin D - More Avocados - Omega-3 from fish oil - Nutritional Yeast for B Vitamins - More greens (especially for magnesium) - Spinach in smoothies - Less sugars, carbs, and bread - Parmesan cheese for calcium - More beans

+1 for blind spots. Choline (eggs), Iodine (Iodized salt, seaweed), Zinc (pumpkin seeds, etc) are a few others in my experience. Intuition builds up steadily after tracking a while. Good luck!
That's not even remotely what happened here though.

When they stop you, say "you stole that", ignore that your receipt says you paid, kick you out of the store, and stop you from coming back, they are pretty clearly accusing you of theft.

That's a straightforward translation of what Twitter did.
Well, there are reasons. If your archive format handles compression, it can be designed in such a way that you can seek and extract only parts of the archive. If the archive format doesn't handle compression, you're dependent on reading through the archive sequentially from start to finish.

That's not to say tar is wrong to not have native compression, it's just one reason why it's not crazy for archive formats to natively support compression.
Consuming anything that has aspartame in it gives me a severe migraine.
If phosphate ions are present in abnormally high concentrations, could that cause issues for some species of bacteria? AFAIK our phosphate is usually contained within our cells, and I'm definitely not an expert on the digestive process so I'm not sure how phosphate gets absorbed, at what rate, or if any enzymes would mess with it
I don't mean to suggest the burden is on you to provide one, but what alternative even comes close to requiring a phone number for account creation... perhaps a credit card authorization?
Though it's worth noting that him learning that sympathy is actually a plotline across several books, and at the very start of the series he's more of a cold and stereotypical Death figure.
I’m mistaken. As I review the 12 Fl oz Mountain Dew can in my fridge, it appears it’s 170 calories. I was remembering the same bottle closer to 23 oz I picked up at the gas station for someone earlier today.
As a manager, I have the salary conversation in the first call. Not specifics, but make sure we're in the same range. The last thing I want is to burn hours of my team's time evaluating someone only to find out a candidate we're all sold on wants 50% more than I can offer. I'm always confused by these stories - the hours and hours of wasted company time can add up to tens of thousands of dollars of effort, opportunity cost, etc. Figure it out ASAP so you're only spending time on people you can actually hire.
They were bad, but just bad enough to roll over and give up on fission.

While Chernobyl killed people from radiation (around 50, with a hotly debated number between 0 and 4000 from long term effects), TMI and Fukushima did not. We have only directly amd definitively linked about 50 deaths to radiation released in commercial fission accidents. It's like a really bad bus crash. And that doesnt even count the social and emotional costs of fear and evacuation, which are large.

But context matters. Particlates from fossil and biofuel cause more death every 7 hours than the high estimate of deaths from nuclears entire history (using 4000 in chernobyl).

So nuclear fission is very safe. It's not perfectly safe, but it is orders of magnitude safer than the average energy source. Oh and it is carbon free so it prevents future deaths from climate change. So yeah.
All measures are real numbers.
You seem to think that the point is about the particular individual and their story. It's not. I'm not "piling on" anything.

My point is that we collectively criticize the leadership on business like Facebook (or any "FAANG" for that matter), but we give a pass on all people that go work there. My point is that we should (collectively) start looking at them as enablers and also be responsible for all the damage that the companies have done.

Instead of saying "how cool, Johnny is making 400k/year to work at Google, I wish I could do the same", we should be saying "What's up with Johnny that he needed to sell his soul for $400k/year?"
You have never used an arm64 MacBook. Otherwise, you would know that almost all compatibility issues have been solved long time ago.
If there is not a strong team lead to push back and get those meetings canned, the only thing you can do is vote with your feet. Just a bad deal, sadly.

I truly love scrum when it's 7-minute standup meetings and then I get to run the rest of my day in peace. But as a team lead myself, I need those quick stand-up meetings so I can "pick up" if anyone is stuck. Many devs refuse to ask for help and it's my best way of "catching" them. ;)
For one, like you said, there are so many spam websites out there that it's extremely difficult for Google (or any search engine for that matter) to gather genuine results. I also think that it's a matter of incentive. As long as traffic doesn't decline, does Google really have any incentive to fix or improve things?

Also, I presume the search algorithm is not how it used to be too, what with ML models being used left and right. I wonder if anyone really knows how we get the results anymore. There are a few initiatives like kagi but I know too few about them to say anything at this point. For now, I am quite content with appending "reddit" at the end of every non-technical query nowadays... at least until they start gaming this as well.
1. They get a substantial tax deduction- as much as half the donation, and the foundation pays no tax.

2. It makes them feel that they have done something good by donating to an educational foundation.

Note that not all tax-exempt nonprofits are 501(c)(3) educational foundations. You need that for the donation to be deductible for the donor.
Sell a service rather than sell your users and suddenly the bots are far less of a problem. In essence make users pay, bots will become shy
I'll flip that around if you want to serve on a language standards commit there are a lot of other languages to choose from. Why be on the C standards committee with the express purpose of blocking progress?
Do you have a specific complaint here? Or what specifically he got wrong in his books? Or some studies you can point me to connecting a low calorie diet with sustained weight loss?

Or is this just a pithy attack on reading books by journalists who summarizes scientific research?

I’m always open to be shown wrong. Otherwise I don’t really care about defending this specific author. I found his to be the best summary on the subject among multiple books, articles, and studies.
It would be nigh impossible to connect any particular DALL-E output with any particular input, thus making a legal novelty but not a scam.

Also, in the paid version, all rights accrue to the user, not to OpenAI, so that assertion is false.
I'm excited to try this out when the beta releases. I wonder what typesetting algorithm they're using. Hopefully it can produce output at least on-par with TeX's Knuth-Platt algorithm.

Also the math syntax as shown is probably a big win. I imagine there's some missing control compared to TeX, but overall it looks WAY easier to write and read.
The long term plan is to reprocess it, which is why we need to keep it around in the meantime. If we just wanted to get rid of it that would be trivially easy. But we don’t want that because we know in future we’re going to want to get it back from wherever we put it.
I'm not from the United States and it's not strange to find those things in one store in many places, but it's also weird to find them as the three things on a shopping list. We could play this game all day but I'm not going to shift from:

a) those three objects together are going to sound weird in pretty much any situation

b) regardless of the effectiveness, mixing genes from a list of things that sound like they would never mix under natural circumstances in any other way than a lab sounds weird
haha I wrote something like this in python once.
Ask a technical query and you will invariably get a bunch of sales offers for the product in question.
While I don't like the phrasing in the article, I think the author is right that it is hypocritical of reviewers to exclude MacBooks from comparison. Especially for professional work as a dev, nothing ever comes close to the value proposition of the base MBP 14" model.
nope. Why do you think an arbitrary thing will help him slip out of his business deal?
Quaternions are actually often used in games to represent rotation, largely because they can’t gimbal lock.
I recently learned .bashrc/history abuse is common and learned to do things locally or tunneled when possible.
He is not smoking something but remembering a time of Apple just right after Jobs left the first time when after macs got expansion slots they started comparing macs to PCs.

Yes, old enough to remember that and expanding Performa macs for more performance.
Have there been any solid findings on whether, even if there is no nutritional value (directly fattening/metabolic effects) in artificial sugar, it has effects on whether it triggers your hormones -- or that of your gut bacteria -- to contribute as if it were real sugar?

In my mind that is the most interesting unanswered question to help decide whether it's an effective sugar substitute.
Also hand waving away the fact that the waste products have to be managed for civilisation-length time scales.
Netflix starts linking iPhone and iPad users to an external sign-up page
Allow bots but also give users the tools to filter out bots that Twitter keeps to itself.
I run Docker containers on my M1 every day for work. There's almost zero compatibility issues with M1 Macs.
No, in the case I'm thinking of he was doing something that wasn't normal at all. He was taking a field of mostly Roundup vulnerable soybeans and spraying it, killing off most of the plants, concentrating the ones that happened to have picked up the patented gene. There is no interpretation of what he was doing that wasn't clear and intentional violation of patent law. And thus he lost in court.
My variable speed AC came with humidity control in the thermostat. Perhaps you are looking at the single speed products, which cannot have a "low level"?
I have a T460s and I’ve never come close to 20hours of battery. Wtf are you doing
> nothing ever comes close to the value proposition of the base MBP 14" model.

Really? I bet you can buy a laptop for 1/10th the price that can do 90% of the same software dev tasks. The only thing the 14" does better is iOS development, which you don't have a choice of machines for anyways. I love a lot of things about the 14" Macbook Pro, but defending it's value proposition is something I can't really understand. It's a $2,000 laptop running the same OS as a $900 laptop, running the same git binary that you execute on a $35 Raspberry Pi. I don't see it.
Implementing it without embed. With embed the author says

> It feels like I wasted a lot of my life achieving something so ridiculously basic that it’s almost laughable

Which makes me think I should never get involved with an ISO committee, not something I want done fast at least
We can divide by negatives though? They are just as unreal as zeros, so the only difference seems to be that division by zero is undefined, while division by negatives is well-defined. I think the real difference is that dividing by zero is not useful, so it has never needed defining.
The parent comment was that male date-ability centers around muscle mass. While 'centers' is a strong word it's obvious that being fit is an important factor to attractiveness. By overweight I mean people that are over BMI 25 (which unintended could also include 'roid people'). Over 30 I guess pragmatism wins and other things are more important. e.g. single mom in his 40s will look for caring man with stable life/income.

I don't disagree with you. Being on any extreme negatively affects date-ability outside that niche. There's definitely an inflection point, probably around 'doesn't look natural/healthy', where muscle mass contribution is negative.
You keep bringing up climate change, like the only alternative is coal. Do you really think that nuclear fission can be a key player in reducing emissions to net zero? It seems far too expensive and slow to set up for something this urgent.
I'm genuinely curious what you need Docker and x86 together for.

Most Docker use cases tend to be server related and most hiccups running those on ARM have been solved by now (partly due to pushes for AWS Graviton cost savings and performance increases too, not just Apple).
Yeah... nah. Simply on CICO (well more just monitoring CI) I have lost 40Kg/90 Pounds over the last 5 years. It does work.
"There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest [machine learning systems] and the dumbest [humans]."
Doesn't work on ARM, or doesn't work on Mac?

Basically everything I've tried has worked on my Apple Silicon Mac, including x86_64 Docker containers using Docker Desktop. I'm sure there are applications that don't work, but I've yet to run into one first hand and I'm a software dev.