skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, in a conventional reactor, you use nuclear fission to heat/pressurize water and then use your hot, slightly radioactive steam turn a turbine. This mostly works because moving even very hot, very high pressure water around is kind of a solved problem in industry.

In a molten salt reactor, you use nuclear fission to melt various corrosive salts into a fluid, and this is good because molten salts store a lot more energy per unit (volume, presumably?) at low pressures, so you can transfer heat indirectly to nearby turbine-turning water without irradiating the water or relying on high-pressure water to cool your reactor. Cool.

But I was under the impression that the main stumbling block for molten salt reactors was that high-energy corrosion resistant materials for containing / moving molten salt simply don't exist (yet). I suppose this is less of a problem for a research reactor, but it doesn't sound like there's been a materials breakthrough here that's allowing them to get started. Are they just plowing forward and they'll need to replace the containment infrastructure every few years?
Important addendum (if it's not in your link or people don't read your link):

There's no rollover. If you don't drink during the week, that doesn't mean you get five drinks on the weekend. Each day is independent.
Does it make sense to use the no-reply alias at this point (after having contributed commits with your other address)?
TCP LAN games were also easy to set up.
Underrated commend.
I was a full stack developer for 5 years and an SDET for the next 7 and quit. I hated it. I'm a corrections officer at a maximum security prison and actually like it. I was underpaid, underappreciated, racking up credit card debt just to survive while living paycheck to paycheck. I actually had to get a second job delivering pizza. The SDET work was frustrating, stressful, disorganized, and I had no support and awful terrible team leaders and pms. This was at a large company you've probably heard of. I felt like I was in prison, now I actually am and I'm so much happier. I have savings and retirement, great credit, tons of time off, and while certainly not appreciated, I wouldn't change a thing.

I'd love to give it a go again if I could make the same or more money, work for decent people on interesting projects, work remotely, and have the same job security. I don't think it's possible.
The audacity to call this “React PDF Viewer” then try to sell it
Its not about what it takes to do it yourself, its about the upkeep required to keep the family happily using it.
The reason this hasn't been done is that the ToS for all enterprise-scale cloud services would prevent success, either by requiring arbitration vs. litigation, or via a disclaimer of liability.
How is this trashing anything?
As always thanks for the insight, dang
>> “The safety checker: Following the model authors' guidelines and code, the Stable Diffusion inference results will now be filtered to exclude NSFW content. Any images classified as NSFW will be returned as blank. To check if the safety module is triggered programmaticaly, check the nsfw_content_detected flag like so: Potential NSFW content was detected in one or more images. Try again with a different prompt and/or seed."

— That’s disappointing and appears conflict my understanding of Stability.AI’s founder claim that limits like these would not be injected into the code; this based on an interview he did here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2QtKcK2dA

If I am correct, makes me question all the other claims he made, which is unfortunate.

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Edit — Here is a direct link to point in the interview I was referring to above:

https://youtu.be/YQ2QtKcK2dA?t=701
There was this case a while ago of a wannabe cannibal who found someone who wanted to be eaten. The cannibal was arrested. Are you saying he shouldn't have been and it was perfectly fine for him to eat a consenting adult?

And admittedly I'm reaching right away for the edgiest of edge cases.

Edit to add the link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes
> Personally, I would've released the PoC back in July when they said the problem was resolved.

Dropping a zero day on the public is never acceptable, regardless of how disingenuous a device manufacturer is being. Bug disclosure without a known remedy has to be an absolute last resort kind of thing, and it's actually a little upsetting that modzero used that tactic as a kind of threat ("As the issue was not considered valid, we informed CrowdStrike that we would release the advisory to the public.")
> Something is seriously wrong with humanity

Yup, this seems quite accurate to me. Hence the desire to regularly dissociate.
If you've got an old computer that's "getting slow" you can go a long way by just maxing out the RAM and putting an SSD in it.
Thank you for this. Only UK though?
Is it wasteful though? Chomebooks generally can be repaired for cheap with a little time investment. Sell the broken one on ebay "for parts" and someone will repair it and continue to use it.

OTOH Apple's are notoriously unrepairable, or way too expensive to repair (case in point; this entire thread). They become trash when they break.
From what I can tell, the author is incorrect about the example given in "Optimizer gremlins". I tested an example on my own data and micro-partition pruning was active.

The issue with dbt models in Snowflake is that if you ever perform a full-refresh and don't sort it, you ruin any natural clustering that arises from an incremental model. I've run into this issue many times. Auto-clustering gets too expensive at scale and Snowflake doesn't give you much guidance on alternatives.
Hi jpambrun we're definitely open to comments and suggestions around this!
They pay you money, you disclose exclusively on their terms. That's the deal, and the purpose of the NDA. If you don't like the NDA terms, you don't engage with the bounty program, and you just publish on your own. There's no reasonable way to make a whole big thing out of this.
I'll have to disagree with you. The first three pages explain the scoring criteria, and if you scroll down there is more detailed data.

https://i.imgur.com/pjEj4sU.png
It's funny to me that Netflix has such strict standards for cameras, but their content delivery is usually such low quality. Maybe my friends with netflix just aren't paying enough to get decent-looking video?

One example that I remember is a horror movie where a bogey comes out of a dark doorway. I was totally distracted from the scene by the atrocious brightness levels. I won't even call it "banding", because that implies a sort of geometric layout to the levels - this was more like "blocking". It was even worse than I would normally expect from dark bt.709 content. I assume the issue was something like their compression eliminated any natural dithering that would make dark zones look OK in SDR content.

Hopefully their compression strategy does a better job with dark content using bt.2100 transfers.
> I say this as a former Beer and Whiskey nerd by the way.

That is really interesting.

So, what do you do now instead of Beer and Whiskey?

Edit: Don't tell me it's karma.
Any GPT-3-level fully-opensource models yet?
> Beer might be one of the few things you can drink that won’t kill you

... Because the process of making beer consists of boiling the wort!

But if you can boil water to make beer, you can just, well, boil water to drink.

People have known since antiquity how to make water potable.
Is there anything holding back an OpenWrt-style project for TVs? I can imagine something like that becoming popular among hacking communities if TV manufacturers ever resort to installing SIM cards.

For now I just don't connect my TV to the internet and it works just fine. My laptop, an HDMI cord, and a Logitech K400+ makes for a much better experience than any smart TV interface.
In the current system the government essentially forces you to choose between overpaying, wasting a lot of time reading up on the arcane rules, wasting a lot of time and then overpaying (because the rules are never that easy), or ponying up $$$ to a private business just so that they can prepare the forms in a way the government finds acceptable.

How is this any less of a conflict of interest?
Relying on booze to have a personality is where a lot of alcoholics start out. Not saying this is you, but it's worth keeping in mind if one beer starts becoming more.
We’ll then cinema wasn’t much of a sustainable art form then since it didn’t even make it a century.

The lessons learned and art created during that time will remain and enrich the “video” or whatever you want to call the replacement for cinema.
Quite interesting but I don't really understand the framing with self-signed certs

It can and (often does) go poorly, but the only thing you really gain from an external CA is a [minor] reduction in responsibility
Touch screen? Probably looks like crap considering picture quality is not the primary concern.
Question from a 10+year last.fm user: how does last.fm stay afloat? I have to assume that the vast majority of users are like me and mostly in it just to have a scrobbling server endpoint. It's been years since last.fm had the radio/streaming components for advertising revenue, and I have no idea what percentage of your userbase pays for the Pro subscription.
The process for licensing a LWR is well established. Commercial LMFBR (Fermi 1) and HTGR (Peach Bottom 1) reactors have been approved in the US but those were a very long time ago. Anybody who wants to license a new reactor type is going to work through an extensive process with the NRC to determine how exactly it is done.

They built an MSR in Wuwei, China and just got approval to start it.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chinese-molten-s...
Sony could face £5bn in legal claims over Playstation game charges
You think spammers want a reply?
It was certainly an unintended consequence of the data being hosted on Firebase. I'm not saying it isn't a valuable feature! And if people are doing interesting and useful things with it, I'm open to implementing something to keep that going—as long as it's simple and there's a clear line between it and "reimplement Firebase", which would be a foolish thing for us to try to undertake.
Completely agree. Advertising is NOT okay, ever. There is no acceptable amount of advertising. I couldn't care less how much money it costs them.
This is absolutely epic and terrifying. Just moving my mouse makes it play the noise. It's not too dissimilar to a Geiger counter, it's most radioactive when you do a google search!
the construct you described allows one to invalidate others' beliefs as being "wrong" because they don't adhere to the same reference point as yourself

Belief based in empirical evidence is at least bound to that evidence.

Belief unmoored from empiricism --- blind faith or revelation --- suffers no such limits. Your criticism would apply all the more so to same, with the further failing that others' beliefs are "wrong" because they ... are simply revealed or adopted faiths. Which is frequently observed.

If my evidence-based belief differs from your evidence-based belief, then we can compare evidence. Evidence does not have to be directly experienced (though for various reasons of psychological evolution we tend often to more highly weight that which is); we can also rely on evidence presented by other trustworthy witnesses. There are numerous social institutions dedicated to precisely this (science, courts, journalism, politics, ...)
A public API will be implemented long-term. Releases are all fed from MusicBrainz database (2.6M releases atm), so I'd say that chances that you'll find what you're looking for are high.

And if not, then you can add a release by providing a Spotify/Discogs/Bandcamp/Mixcloud URL in the search box, and it will fetch the proper metadata.
I wholesale reject the following:

1) Big tech colluded with government, and got nice advantages for their participation with the surveillance system -- they're getting raked over the coals at dog and pony show anti trust hearings.

2) completely immoral act of gathering very private information without consent -- you literally gave these websites this information, and there's legal privacy policies that no one reads describing how it's used. If you don't want them to have your info, simply don't give it to them.

3) Authoritarianism can creep up on you -- ok and? The fact that Google's ad auctions are more efficient isn't going to cause authoritarianism.

4) Could it be that you can not understand the harms because you actively took part in creating this reality? -- lmao no
BLOOM and OPT are both GPT-3 sized models that are open source and similarily sized (175B parameters) but a) text generation is not as good as GPT-3 for whatever reason and b) getting them to run in a cost-effective manner is not easy and with this new price decrease, it may be more economical to use GPT-3 for deployment despite that.
It’s easy to point out ways leaving in foot guns look predatory. But that’s not always the case.

I work for AWS in billing, and the way we calculate bills is to try to et the customer the maximum discount.

Things like calculating savings plan coverage from smallest to largest to maximize utilization, or turning on Reserved Instance sharing on by default within an org.

I would say that the seemingly gouging behavior is more often than not technical or time constraints.
For those of us using the metric system, a standard drink is 14 grams of alcohol. Which is for instance one small beer with 4% alcohol volume: 330mL * 0.04 = 13.2 grams of alcohol.

Good luck with these calculations if you’re using imperial units. And you’re tipsy. But for metric countries it’s not too hard a calculation.
Sure, if they optimized it for Firefox and it runs natively there, that's fine and all. But what about all the other browsers? My point still stands.
This is it. It would almost drive ye to drink.

"Alcohol - the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."
Hitler's Wehrmacht did some studies (on unwitting human subjects, naturally), and concluded that as far as waging illegal war is concerned, methamphetamine is great for productivity: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/methamphetamine-dictat...

U.S. Air Force, being tasked with a somewhat similar job, came to similar conclusions: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7661838/
> So i modified my remote, put tape underneath the buttons to disable them.

This is genius - I will do this for the footshoot buttons in my remotes!
The core claim of this article, that Snowflake doesn't implement optimizations that would reduce usage, is not true. Search optimized tables, partitioned tables, and per-second billing are all counterexamples.
I think you're probably right that it's better to call this a prediction rather than evidence, but there's no consensus on this. Right now I don't think it's reasonable to say this article is making a mistake using the term in this way. It's not wrong. Maybe it should be? Sure.
I dunno, that screenshot does look rather conventional and cheap. It looks like a still from Doctor Who or something.
Fully concur!

However what you describe - effectively novelty seeking, which is very human - is a far cry from the chronic alcohol culture that permeates society.

The former is healthy exploration, what we have however is chronic dissociation.
Couldn't find the point of this article, like others have claimed. But I did find it interesting they messed with the aspect ratio in The Sandman. I watched the trailer and it's incredibly obvious. A weird creative choice if you ask me. It would annoy me so much to watch that. Reminds me of my dad. Going to his house and seeing his nice large 16:9 TV showing stretched 4:3 content. And me being too polite to tell him that he's being uncivilized.
I had been drinking more or less since I was a teenager (or pre-teen?), and I live in a drinking culture (i.e., Wisconsin), but I decided to quit drinking entirely 2 years ago when the pandemic got bad. I do understand why a lot of people went in the opposite direction, drinking more during the pandemic, because it's a natural coping mechanism, so I don't criticize that. I just personally felt it was important to keep my body as healthy as possible, especially before we had vaccines. It also helped the pocketbook in economically uncertain times to not spend any money on alcohol. Now, I don't even miss drinking anymore. (I definitely did miss it for a while afterward.) I think I used alcohol too much as a crutch, in order to "have fun". I'm rewiring my brain to stop thinking I need chemical supplements in order to have fun.

I'm not trying to preach, other than to say that it is possible to break from a habit of drinking and leave it behind, if you've considered that. To be sure, I wasn't ever technically an "alcoholic", just a... normal Wisconsinite LOL. (For a laugh, here's Lewis Black on drinking in Wisconsin https://youtu.be/9m-cQin1qKE )
TIL TPMS works over RF. The blog mentions that it's at a super low power, and not that I'd ever want this, but I can't help but wonder if it's possible to set up well-placed sensors at a fixed position on a road to capture IDs going by -- effectively tracking vehicles themselves.
UK is not europe anymore :x. European north and center is highly insulated. By law in most coutries.
They built their businesses on Instagram. Then the platform changed
Alcohol doesn't help social anxiety except by social convention.

Society believes alcohol changes personality, and that drunk people are less themselves. Thus, they judge drunk people less harshly (including themselves).

But alcohol doesn't actually change personality. It only makes your brain work slower. It doesn't make it go anywhere it otherwise wouldn't, you just get there later.

What we've developed is a way to split up when we're accountable. I promise you that split is zero-sum: the more leniently they judge your social behaviour when drunk, the more harshly they judge it when you're sober.
Sedentary lifestyle is a known carcinogen in the state of California. /s

edit: for the non-Californians, this is a reference to proposition 65.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/07/opinion-californias-j...
> We have 5–6 very good open-source data warehouse alternatives. We have Redshift, DataBricks, Firebolt, BigQuery, and likely a few other enterprise offerings, yet it is surprising how little training most companies have in negotiating and re-negotiating vendor contracts or in pushing for heavily discounted pricing.

Small nit: Redshift isn't open source. I would also add Clickhouse, Citus, and TimescaleDB as majorly capable open source technologies with commercial offerings in this space.
Honestly why wouldn't they connect to for example a cell phone tower or wifi hotspot ex xfinity wifi to download ads? Just pay whomever happens to ferry the ad to your TV a percentage of the take. Seems like this may well not be the case NOW but if I were planning to use a device for 10 years then a software updating adding this feature seems like a distinct possibility.
As an academic that has published in, and reviewed for several MDPI journals, this total nonsense- they are a legitimate publisher. I haven't seen any signs of them being corrupt, predatory, or dishonest. Many of their niche journals are well respected in narrow sub-fields, and seem to be good quality. They also have very modern publication/typesetting/submission workflows that make them a pleasure to work with vs the older closed access journals. I would say they have lower standards for 'impact' vs more prestigious journals.... which means they play a valuable role in the field- they publish mostly technical methods, and other results that are interesting and useful to a narrow specialized audience.
Isn't that what a class-action lawsuit is for?
Amazon has had "free" cellular service in their Kindles for over a decade, I'm pretty sure TVs have more margin than that.
If you want to actually engage with the topic instead of trying to start shit with me, that would be a lot more productive.
> you're also asserting they're illegally subsidizing their search and maps business with... the revenue they generate from selling ads space on their search and maps businesses.

Yes, that is how these things tend to work! Seriously, read some books on antitrust, you have no idea what you are talking about. Tim Wu is a good starting point.
Great idea. I loved the idea of microloans when they first came about, and this feels like a similarly good social enterprise.

I don't see the usual investment disclaimers though... E.g. "risk" ... "May not get your investment back" etc. Where can I find that please?
I think it's a reasonable progression if the company refuses to accept that the exploit is valid and won't open up equable discussion about it. Trying to force someone to sign an NDA is not really acceptable behaviour when someone is going out of their way to help the company (and their customers).
Company wants to create artificial embryos and use organs for transplants
I don't think the city is writing them off.

The funding for the homeless in San Francisco was $600m last year and next year, with $1.1b this year due to some legal stuff.

With a homeless population of 7,754 (according to [1]), that $600m works out to $77,379 per person.

The median income in San Francisco is $54,549. They're spending ~41% more than the median income per homeless person per year, and I don't think that includes externalities like hospital visits or increased police presence, etc.

I don't think they're being written off. It's possible that $77k a year isn't enough, but it starts to beg the question of whether treating them in one of the most expensive places in the world makes sense. $77k would buy an awful lot of treatment in much of the state.

1: https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population
(I am not affiliated with Keebo, although I had a recruiting meeting with them earlier this year)

FWIW, Keebo (https://keebo.ai/) tries to solve this problem & reduce your Snowflake bill by using Data Learning techniques. It can be configured to return exact results or approximate results.
Apple isn't sourcing their repair parts from iFixit (which is where I assume you got that price from)
I use Double Wood for most of my simple supplements (Magnesium Threonate, Apigenin, etc). They (claim to) do a lot of quality testing and have great customer support.
OpenAI API pricing update FAQ
Please edit swipes out of your comments here. They degrade discussion and you can make your substantive points without them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
HN is not a marketing platform. You have been over submitting the same content. Please refrain and see the FAQ
Another problem with SFF: proprietary case and/or power supply designs. I got bitten by that one with an old Shuttle cube. Great-looking design, but it was not mITX, it was its own thing. When it became too obsolete, there was no upgrade path.
I myself wanted to mark mixes as listen later, among regular album releases. So that's why Mixcloud URLs are supported in the search box, and it will fetch the actual mix.

For example: https://digs.fm/releases/57246010-Monkey-Shoulder-DJ-JAZZY-J...
Any chance of this making GitHub copilot cheaper?
Thanks for sharing your concerns.

We do not own the rights, however, all these decks are open sourced by the companies that own them. They have made these decks available for free to use.

If any company objects, we would be happy to remove their deck. Our intention is to make it easy for entrepreneurs to browse these decks at one stop.
Besides what others have said, drink plenty of water while you drink alcohol. I go for a 1:1 ratio (makes you pee a lot though) but it’s what keeps the dehydration from alcohol and ensuing headache under control.

Or you could also drink less.
Neither Romania nor Bulgaria use the Euro as a currency. I meant literally the Eurozone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone