skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm so glad that you brought up TRIGA. For those who don't know, the story of TRIGA is quite fascinating from our perspective. The pitch was rather simple, "Build a reactor that a teenager could play with" (without supervision). And they succeeded.

The reactor was designed in the span of a few months. They started in the summer of 01956. The first one was commissioned and built in May of 01958. And it ran until 1997, steadily producing 250 MW with occasional "pulses" up to 1,000 MW, the entire time.

Let's take a minute to appreciate that. They went from design to implementation in less than 2 years, that's lightning fast even in startup terms. And their design has never malfunctioned, ever. AFAICT, there are 66 of these reactors out there in the world that have operated for nearly 7 decades with 0 incidents. Some of them are even true to form and are operated by teenagers!

And I suspect that's the real reason why nuclear power is so expensive. While regulatory burdens, subsidies, and general corruption do indeed explain the exponential cost increases for nuclear power, the truth is that these are proximate causes. The distal cause is simple; the reactors suck. We've been designing them wrong for decades now, and we need to make rethink them from the ground up.

Luckily, I'm not the only person who thinks that. Far more smarter people have been bringing the fun back to nuclear engineering, and we are finally getting a series look at concepts like pebble bed reactors.

I hope that someday we'll have forever batteries and power sources that are small, self-contained, and can be carted for use anywhere, including space.

Achieving this goal requires everything from the kinds of modular designs NuScale https://www.nuscalepower.com/ and Terrapower https://www.terrapower.com/ are working on to Zeno Power's radioisotope systems, https://www.zenopower.com/

I am excited for the future again.
An AI called Dragonfly is helping design faster-charging batteries
Sorry, I wasn't precise enough with my language. I was saying if it is that easy to determine who has a legitimate asylum claim, then why don't the courts do so?
Recommend reading: the beak of Finch. scientists detected evolutionary effects during one year period! this book published in twenty years ago. evolution work quickly sometimes,but don't towards same direction.
I really doubt it's "discretionary".

They're probably running scripts on the content and likely not basing decisions on human review of any kind.

If they have any human review, it's probably contactors, reviewing only the 3 second clip of the 1.5 hr video, the tiny part that was flagged by the algorithm and understanding very little.
I thought it was a fascinating and well produced history of Project Aurora and how it went down at Google. It was a massive attack, and the reason Google pulled out of China.
Don't waste your time. These are neither puzzles nor convincing. What they do is exploit the ambiguity of the word "dependence" to provide illustrations vaguely from tech you'd understand that somehow tease out the various context-dependent definitions of "dependence".

"If a depends on b, but falls back to c if b isn't available, does a really depend on b?"

Come on, we're not context-free parsers. Ambiguity and subtlety may be an annoying part of communication but they aren't all that important to focus on like this.
Spain’s Largest Telecom Company Telefónica Now Accepts Bitcoin, Crypto Payments
Including a package that solely provides a deque "specifically optimized to perform when used by Microservices": https://github.com/ef-ds/deque

Sounds like a big red flag of unnecessary depedency bloat.
As I understand the article, and the response, it’s talking about changes to mens’ brains caused by fatherhood. “Men who have kids are dumber” isn’t a prejudice anyone meaningfully has to worry about. Your point is fair—fathers definitely face headwinds if they try and take on more caregiving roles—but that’s directed to a different thing.
I have made through 2/3 of the article and could not figure out what problem the author is trying to solve or what he is trying to achieve. Seems like someone from a consulting firm, who does not write software, making a presentation about how to write software.
> Drug dealers make tons of money, but it doesn't really entice smart or ethical people to the profession in large numbers.

Assuming the ethical premise as given, you are really glossing over the difference in potential consequences between doing something unethical and something illegal. Specifically the part where the latter can leave you locked up for life.
it's amazing how much I just end up using apple notes and a paper notepad every day. everything else ends up being too heavyweight over time
This is ridiculous. Never in my life have I read someone say "Build nuclear, but not MSR!!" My problem with MSR is that I do not have a productive one I can point to and say "There! It works!". But by all means, let's build some!

And then, you nicely suggest that all pro-nuclear people somehow _must be shills_ (as if, uhh, nuclear people just love destroying the world, I guess?) that really is ridiculous and not a too charitable reading of the opponents.
I couldn't help but laugh as the video kept on going on and revealing more and more inconvenient facets that are synonymous with AR. The tiny glasses, the top band, the cable, etc.
What about Google do you think makes working there comparable to pushing drugs? Legitimately curious.
I'm curious as to the main reasons you believe that Google is an unethical and bad company. Is the tracking of all its users are doing the main reason or are there other things?
Also as you grow older the number of viable paths the keep life looking worthwhile really shrinks because there's so much less opportunity. If you're 50 and your retirement is entirely reliant on housing being wildly unaffordable most people will fight to keep housing unaffordable because the personal cost is too high (e.g. dying poor).

In your 20s or early 30s financial shocks are generally a lot less scary because you can still pivot, life will just be a little tougher for a while. At 60, it's usually utterly terrifying.
Weird, it's not letting me promote my pawn even though it looks like a valid move (unless I suck at chess and it's not valid for some reason).

The first challenge was fun, but I'll probably stop there since I really don't have the patience to do the more complex stuff (at some point debugging computers just feels like work even though I don't work in security at all haha).
...are you forgetting basically everyone involved with Stadia takes home >$100,000/year? These are not exactly coal miners here. Everyone with any kind of software career has worked on a project that got canned.
"Java is the new COBOL" has always been either a glaring sign of idiocy/ignorance or a bad joke signifying... idiocy/ignorance.

COBOL is exotic syntax and runs on fringe/exotic hardware (mainframes, minicomps, IBM iron).

Java is a c-like syntax that runs everywhere people are shoehorning in Go and Node.JS. Syntax arguments are bikeshedding, but it was a "step forward" for non-systems coding from C and has fundamental design, architectural, breadth of library, interop, modernization, and familiarity advantages over COBOL.

Go is a syntax power stepback, with possibly some GC advantages, and Javascript even with Typescript is still a messed up ecosystem with worse GC and performance issues.

One thing that was interesting was watching the Ruby on Rails stack explode in complexity to encompass an acronym soup nearly as bad a Java as the years moved forward and it matured. Java isn't as complex an ecosystem as it is due to any failings or language failures. It simply has to be as a mature ecosystem.

Syntax complaints I'll listen too, after all I do all my JVM programming in Groovy. But if you complain about java syntax, why would you think Go is "better"?

I think a meta-language will emerge that will have Rust power and checking underlying it but a lot simpler, kind of like elixir and erlang, or typescript and javascript, or, well, Groovy and Java.
So people would still die because of the passage of time, but would stay healthy? But if they stay healthy without any age-related conditions, what would they die of?

This whole idea that forced death is necessary is stupid. We need to let go of it.
Silly question: why do you use 5-digit years with a leading zero? I have never seen this format anywhere else...
What's almost as bad as the increased powers of government surveillance is thinking about the people who will be jailed, waterboarded and/or shipped to Gitmo for horrific tortures because our benevolent overseers in government make a mistake and think they are someone else due to the flawed algorithm fingering the wrong person.
TIL this exists in text form. Here's the same thing but as a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY
Taking VC money is just tool. It good tool for some cases and bad for others.
I dunno, didn't he also say there was an imminent water crisis and that index funds were a bubble? Who knows, dude very well may be right in the long term but I don't think they panned out as investments.

Ultimately, he may very well be right but I don't put much more weight into his opinion than any other prognosticator. I feel like the subprime bubble was uniquely suited to his expertise, but stuff like this requires both a deeper understanding of jobs and technology than he has, and is less of an inevitability.
Cf. https://github.com/abrochard/emacs-todoist
> Mostly cost of materials and cost of labor, but also difficulty of apportioning costs, lack of demand, and prioritizing other things.

I don't see those as issues. Cost - charge for energy + x% to cover costs. Apportioning costs - usage solves this. Lack of demand - do N spaces at a time leaving space for expansion depending on usage. Prioritising - if they want tenants in 20 years, it will become a natural priority.
What makes you think that the aging process is somehow fundamentally irreversible?
If a minor version number is bumped in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it break your build?
The ads on this site cover literally half the screen and open when you click "skip". Just pure gross and terribly inhumane.
Marching ever closer to Idiocracy in real life.

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/idiocracy....
I think there's more to it than that. Good for some and bad for others. A few rough off the top of my head:

Good:

* Better privacy from the intrusive ad motivated JS shit hole the internet has become.

* Faster internet for those on slow connections

* Protection from ISP MITM. Many countries now have mandatory data collection laws that ISPs have to follow.

* Better than a lot of shady 3rd party commercial VPN providers.

* Is opt-in (for now)

* Potential to reduce Google's dominance

Bad:

* Obvious MITM choke point, as you mentioned

* Potential control / monitoring by two large corporations

* Business goals usually override users.
He artificially constrained refterm to use DirectText specifically, because that's what the Windows Terminal team was using, and Casey wanted to prove that this could be made performant. The specific argument the Microsoft guys were making was that DirectText/Direct2D had inherent limitations that fundamentally prevented certain scenarios running fast, such as a mix of many different colours. Casey proved them wrong, but to do that he had to use the same underlying libraries so as not to be seen as somehow "cheating".
"Let’s also ignore the fact that the “cheaper” flight the tool makes you book is several hours different timing to the one you wanted, meaning you’re now losing nearly 8 fucking hours of productivity…

Yeah… but you saved $50 on the flight…"

How does a cheaper flight lose productivity, I have never been flying or in a plane before.
Can someone explain what either of these two companies are actually selling, beyond the cryptic marketing messaging on their respective websites?

Someone in this thread indicated that Citrix was the original developer of Microsoft Remote Desktop, and later licensed it to Microsoft. All Citrix's website seems to offer is "One digital workspace platform to empower secure hybrid work".

And what's the deal with Tibco?
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Rust can compile to both easily, and I use a single FFI function that pass JSON between the UI/Rust logic. There I model a Request/response that is similar to HTTP, and the rest is pure Compose/SwiftUI stuff.
This is the whole point of the book. It explores the various possibilities. Of which this is but one.

Living a miserable dementia-ridden existence is another. Who could know which you’re going to get?
Yes, thank you, I can read Wikipedia as well. This does not support the articles statement that emoji and/or emoticons were invented and popularized by women, or that emoji/emoticons are specifically feminine.
There's a bit that comedian Bill Burr does where he observes that referring to someone as "that fucking $XXX" is considered racist while "that $XXX motherfucker" isn't and it has to do with the former talking about the group $XXX as a whole and the latter very explicitly (uh, no pun intended) referring to an attribute of an individual.
I just honestly don't think the average person wants VR.

I suspect headsets will become a thing when they're cheaper than TVs - just because the the display will be much better. Combined with ear buds - I think it'll just be a way better budget TV experience for some.

Other than that - I don't ever see it going anywhere near mainstream like cell phones or even smart buds.
Tbh i didn't read the article but the headline makes me think about synaptic pruning. When you're young your brain is actually a bit bigger than your adult brain, but then you go through synaptic pruning. A lot of extra neurons die off and your brain in turn re-wires in a more complex way. I wonder if it's something similar to that. I see a lot of people jumping to "smaller brain=less smart" but that's not always true.
I wouldn't care about this VPN if it weren't for the fact that I can't ignore it. There's an option to hide it from the toolbar, but every time I open an incognito window it pops back up again. It's incredibly annoying.
Trevor noah leaving daily show
Elon Musk Unveils Humanoid ‘Optimus’ Robot at Tesla’s AI Day
anything not behind a paywall?
Probably more like general magic - lots of hype, promised more than what they could actually do. What they made was underwhelming and poorly timed.

AR makes sense if the hardware is possible, I’m not sure we’re there yet.
Wow that's a great live demo of a simple state machine.
Never said React was imperative.
Here's a question to terrify the AI ethicists.

What if we took a much larger language model and far more invasive brain scans.

We train it on what the person is thinking and doing and their senses too. Pressure sensitive suit for touch, cameras in glasses for sight, mic for sound, voice recognition for what they're saying and in depth mo-cap for what they're doing.
We can now train the model on a good chunk of actions a human could take, and a decent chunk of their sensorium.

Now we take a lesson from the diffusers and apply noise to the brain scan data until the AI can do a decent job simulating a human on it's own.

Is a model good enough at that an agi? It still has no memory, but could we repurpose what is now noise but used to be brain scans to retrofit memory back into this model? Maybe a vector retrieval on the models old attention outputs? Could the mo-cap data be finetuned to a robot body? The voice to sound synthesis?
Yes, that is done on purpose. The goal of the project is to be used in HF/VHF voice communications so it makes sense. That low bandwidth usage allows it to be employed from ordinary HAM gear down to cheap LoRa modules, a feature that opens huge possibilities like building point to point or multipoint encrypted communications with portable devices not tied to cellphone towers, which in some areas of the world would be so useful these days.
Those who didn't have access to a PC as a kid, how did you learn to code later?
Hm can you explain more? Go into debt and do what with the money?
Isn't this thread discussing a very specific orbital range? The 450k-800k range is big, but I'm not sure I'd classify it as "incomprehensibly big".
And I don't want anything on my head or face.
it's way easier to revert the merge commit than potentially every commit that was included in it.

having everything squashed into one commit can be annoying if the commit is too large, because it can be hard to identify why a specific change was made via git blame.

With a merge commit, I can make individual commits for logical changes, potentially rebasing, or squashing commits together. that also gives an opportunity to write more intentional and informative commit messages. once i have a good changeset, I can publish a single PR for review.

I've only really taken to this approach lately, for a long time I just didn't care. As the years go by, I care more and more about what git blame can tell me. I've been maintaining some projects for a long time, and I've had to pick up many projects that don't have their original authors available for consultation. In both cases, having a quality git commit log is just a time saver.

I don't care about preserving the history from when the code was initially typed, I care about the context the log can provide me about the change sets that have been applied. I've been debating starting to include it in my code reviews: "this commit log needs more details: can you edit the commit message and do a git push --force?"

If you're dealing with a more junior team, or people that don't care about the log, it's really a toss up for me. Roll your dice on maybe an informative message helping you, or sift through 15 commits saying "poke", or squash an enormous commit and get a single sentence about it.
I think we are all working toward the same goal of making this our reality:

http://milweesci.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/4/13247648/mannapd...
Or perhaps welding goggles — hard to say. ;-)
Not a finite set of concepts per se, but a finite set of patterns that hides behind the near infinite set of all possible concepts.
Yes, this is technically true, however this is pedantic nitpickery that's besides the point.

1) The article specifically mentions emoji.

2) Emoticons and emoji are extremely related concepts and emoticons influenced the development of emoji.

3) Neither emoji nor emoticons were invented or popularized by women AFAICT.

Pointing out that they are not the same thing doesn't mean that emoji or emoticons were invented by women or for women, which is what the article basically said outright.

My original point was: if the article gets silly things like "emoji are feminine" completely wrong, why can I trust the other things it says?
Japan spent ¥2.84T in September intervention to prop up yen
Seems very similar to the https://killedbygoogle.com/ that I learned about from other HN comments, and maybe not as up-to-date?
"collaborator" or is it already out of fashion?
Myself I "grew up" in an X11 and Sun "the network is the computer" world. Have not used Citrix more than an hour, but my interpretation was that Citrix made a (huge) business out of Microsoft completely missing the network in the 90s. Both LAN and Internet. So yeah, they allow you to access a Windows computer over the net. Windows still exists so the business continues.

For Tibco I have no equivalent story to tell.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIBCO_Software gives an idea.
I believe that git bisect is a bit smarter when there are proper merge commits (it won't test a random patch in the middle of a patchset unless it's figured out that the issue is in that merge). You can also revert an entire merge in one shot (but this is also true for squash-and-merge).

However, given that you're comparing this to squash-and-merge, you might see most branches to merge as being something that is reasonable to make a single commit (in which case the above feature isn't useful to you because all of your merges are single commits anyway -- and in that case there is little benefit of having merge commits, though I also use them for tracking who reviewed a patch).

I suspect this comes down to the environment you are working in -- if you are working on an internal repo then it is much easier to make separate pull requests for smaller changes (and in that case squash-and-merge makes sense) but in open source projects where it makes more sense to batch sets of changes to reduce the amount of round-trips spent doing reviews, squash-and-merge would cause its own issues (you wouldn't be able to have small commits for logically separate changes). I regularly make pull requests that have >3 commits which cannot be reasonably squashed without making things more annoying down the line if we ever have to revert or bisect something (or even just doing git blame -- it reduces the amount of work when you're spelunking in the git history).
At $3200 you can just get a Simula One VR[1], which will do everything and more, with less bullshit, and an eye to real usability. I can't understand getting a Magic Leap anything for any amount of money, let alone thousands. They've outed themselves as absolute grifters lol.

1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3uN7d51Cco for the kinda cringe show video. But the tech is real and there.
>He added that he has a "hell of a dental plan."

Obviously he's an anti-dentite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yada_Yada
Also shipping is speeding up, I was scheduled to get mine Q4 this year at best but they shipped mine 2 weeks ago.
The "speed" of evolution is influenced by a multitude of things, time between generations and number of offspring being two of the major ones. For species like frogs where generations are quick and tad poles are plenty, there's a lot of shots in the dark for evolution to work with so it can happen quickly. For species like humans that take like a fifth of a century per generation and only really shove out 1 or 2 offspring and have a large steady population for genes to diffuse through, the process is a multi-millennia affair.

Fruit flies in a jar iterate fast enough if you want to try playing god for a while.
The beauty of software is that you can pretend the rest of the word doesn't exist while you are writing a single function. You can pretend that data is passed in, transformed, and passed out. You may pretend there are no side effects, or something like that.

But when you pretend this way, you make many assumptions. It is good to have a shared vocabulary for these assumptions.
I don't think this black and white thinking is really useful. There are inhabited places in the world where solar and wind face real challenges to practicality as the sole source of energy. I would be shocked if we're capable of building an amount of storage that will get the city I live in through the winter, for example. Certainly not for cheaper than a natural gas plant, which is the real competition.

Frankly, whenever this comes up the handwaving about storage just seems hopelessly optimistic even for places where it is practical, let alone places where you're lucky to get 4 hours of sunlight a day for a bunch of the year.

Nothing is ever that simple. If carbon zero is an imperative, then there will sometimes be need for something other than solar and wind, and it will inevitably be "impractically expensive" compared to the carbon emitting sources we're moving away from.

It's certainly important to improve the economies of scale of renewables, but doing so is not the goal. Saving money is not the goal. The survival of the human species is the goal, and we aren't going to get there by nickel and diming our way to it.
You're overthinking it. The first reply was basically a "go ahead and do what you think is right".

They're probably glad they didn't hire you either.
Well, I got the admin panel to show a completely blank page, instead of an Invalid Login message, so that's progress.
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