skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Was this due to a sudden increase in reactor construction?

Mild delay in a mine opening. A sudden increase in reactor construction would be much worse.

> This is a distinct advantage over wind and solar that do not directly produce thermal energy and have to be converted from electricity to thermal energy.

CSP exists and is going down in price rapidly.

> Sulfuric acid is widely used for plenty of things like fertilizer production, hydrocarbon refining, and car batteries. An 8x increase in nuclear power wouldn't substantially affect the markets for these resources

1kg of Uranium from inkai or husab uses 50-100kg of sulfuric acid. And this is high grade compared to the 600,000 tonnes per year you are proposing using. Doubling world sulfuric acid production is about the right magnitude.

> uranium seawater extraction has been successfully performed

Make up your mind about what is possible and what is impossible. If doing it once to publish a paper and then pencilling out the costs of raw materials counts then we can all just use AlS batteries and go home.

> This is not how seawater extraction works. The same mass of adsorbent won't collect larger quantities of other elements. The 6 grams of uranium collected per kilogram of adsorbent doesn't turn into a 6 kilograms of material per Kg of adsorbent for a material that's 1000x as concentrated in the ocean. It will fill up faster for a more concentrated element, but you're still retrieving similar amounts of material for the same amount of adsorbent. You have to make 1000x as many trips to collect 1000x as much material, regardless of concentration.

> The cost of this extraction is entirely comprised of deploying and retrieving the adsorbent material - letting a buoy sit in the ocean for 2 months instead of 1 week costs nothing. This is why seawater extraction is prohibitively expensive for most applications, uranium's incredible energy density is what makes it a viable application.

Natural Uranium in a burner reactor is not very energy dense in the scheme of things. Much higher than coal, but about the same power output as a similar mass of silicon in a photovoltaic cell (but at 75% CF for 6 years rather than ~15-25% for 30-50).

At ~3g/kg the uranium only has about 10x as much energy as you'd get by burning the polymer or 5x in the current nuclear fleet (wonder how much it takes to make?). There goes the much vaunted EROI unless you get quite a few reuses (hint: you only get a few).

Also what I said is exactly how sea mining works. Please at least try to understand these technologies before pushing them. You get more vanadium than Uranium in any realistic use case https://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/1234341

The longer you leave it, the more Uranium gets displaced by Vanadium. At 2 months you get 5x as much.

1kg of natural uranium has a power output of about 1-2kW for 6 years and then it's gone. 1kg of vanadium can store 350-650Wh.

Such a simple plan with so few completely deal breaking oversights compared to building sodium ion factories which is already happening and building more pumped hydro which we know how to do.
Heh, gotcha. Thanks!
A macOS tool to convert SVG to Apple Keynote documents
I have listened and to me it always seems to come down to “you make reasonable points but it’s not a problem for me so it’s not a problem”.

And I think there’s a lot of implicit bias when people who like APL say it’s perfectly readable. Given how readability hits you in the face first thing when you see APL and how it’s not a widely used language, only the people enthusiastic about it and willing to overlook the readability issues will end up learning it. Of course they don’t find issues in practice, if they had issues with that they’d have probably abandoned the language quickly.

> and trust that for some people who do learn array languages, they do find it useful + productive, and a lot of the things you've raised are not issues in practice.

I’m not saying it isn’t useful or productive. That’s not the discussion. The point is that they’re languages that they’re hard to use and hard to read. I don’t see how it’s such a controversial point.

For example, I like LaTeX a lot. I’ve done quite a lot of things with it, it’s been very useful and I’ve been very productive with it. I have no problem reading that code. But the fact that I have no problems doesn’t mean there aren’t actual problems with LaTeX. LaTeX will always be hard to read and quite a bit messy no matter how used I get to it.
They were arrested on the 3rd, not today. It's just that the indictment was unsealed today.
This suggests people are being harsher with Twitter than they should be. Hah.
There is a "populist renegade leader" persona, that violates rules, social customs, and even laws, to signal their independence. The populist appeal is that the rules are seen as being meaningful only to the elite, or too technical to be believable.
ETH is a meta scam: Very useful for delivering scams, not much else.

You got a chance to pay for a real world service in ETH. Did that make any sense? Any utility over using money? Perhaps dodging taxes....
Microsoft's own FAQ suggests it's on users of Copilot to avoid infringing, and that without a clue of where and how the suggestions came to be.
First Came the Crypto Crash. Now Comes the Taxman
Vanuatu: Hackers strand Pacific island government for over a week
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I posted this because I'm curious what the minimum personnel requirement is to just keep Twitter up, and whether the company right now is at risk of falling below that. We're in a bizarre situation where a site that remains massively popular and influential is at risk of disappearing from the web for no good reason beyond one man's capriciousness.

My offer to take Twitter off of Musk's hands for $30K remains open.
The engineer who was summarily terminated after publicly pushing back on Elon's tweets about app performance responded to the news that he had been fired (also via tweet) with the salute emoji. Seems like it's become a meme among Twitter employees headed for the exits.
I'm very disappointed in my Framework/PopOS!

Ships with Linux, some good marketing. I think PopOS! has lost the thread on why they exist, in that it started as an 'it just works' version of linux, and it seems to be managed as yet another enthusiast grade linux. It doesn't take much time over at r/popos to see this sentiment spelled out.

I'm not leaving the linux ecosystem, but I can tell you i'd be shocked if I go with either Framework again. Majorly disappointed for what should have been a top tier system when I bought it. I'm on the fence about PopOS. I need an OS that works out of the gate and doesn't break things like audio and bluetooth down the road (both of which are borked in the current version).

Idk. Hard time to be committed to FOSS, but the options aren't better.
> I can't see stealing some poor author's work in the same light.

Thankfully, the topic is book "piracy", which is something completely different from the above description, so you're right in some sense.
Honeycrisp as #2? Nahhhh …
The biggest mistake Evernote made was not looking at how their customers used the product.

They insisted on this to emphasize privacy (fair enough), but never stopped to consider 1. If their customers even cared 2. How they would learn how the product they were building was actually used.

The result is a note app that tries to do everything good, so it does nothing well.
Republicans have won the House. Now, they're promising to investigate the Bidens
But they are all basically the same. They have the same properties.

Some difference in unimportant details.

The central feature is the vector for scam delivery!
Mystery Hole
That's probably the vibe you are giving off. We all have "micro" non-verbals that we give off all the time.

If you feel generally uncomfortable in Southern California, or anywhere else, but feel "at home" and happy in deep south rural areas, you probably give off unfriendly or stand-offish non-verbals in California and more relaxed friendly non-verbal commumication in the deep south, and people respond accordingly in each place.

I'm in Southern California and I get along great with people I meet. There's a convenience store clerk across the street from work, always have nice things to say with her - a couple of times their register went down, she said to take whatever I want and pay them back the next day, which is strange for a 7-11 big corporate-type organization. I hang out with my auto repair mechanic.

People are people. You get back what you put in. People always repeat the trope that everyone in SoCal is "shallow" but I've never once had this experience, but I've had it a lot of other places I've lived around the country.
Just to give you my two cents, for me it improves productivity massively because, while suggestions for actual code are very hit and miss, it is able to get me 90% of the way there writing tests with just the name of the test and context as prompts.

This might not be that big a percentage of my actual work, but in terms of motivation it enables me to work using TDD without the friction of writing boilerplate, which in turn makes programming much more fun.

Also, and this is a big one, you can directly ask questions and it replies. I find that fascinating.

This morning I asked him “why didn’t you test for [specific thing]?” And it replied “because I don’t know how to properly mock [name of a library I was using]”.

Yesterday, while bored in a meeting, I asked copilot whether a coworker’s proposal for an OKR was good and it replied “it’s ok, but keep in mind that it’s a lagging metric”. It’s scary.
You can try GetHuman [0], although you've probably heard of it and I guess it wouldn't work for this situation where you need to make multiple calls instead of just waiting on one.

Is the office local? You could always try a more direct approach...

[0] https://gethuman.com/
I have a corgi and that tracks for me. To people who don't have corgs, they're sweet kind friendly cute delicate beautiful creatures. The those of us who have been blessed with corgs in our lives, we know they're really the Frank Reynolds of dogs. And I love my corg for it. She's a trash dog, a scrappy little scamp, and knows that everyone else she meets will never, ever know it.
This is all true but as an American (I grew up speaking a different not European language), Europeans' ability to switch languages is interesting/fun.

Once I had a business meeting in Switzerland. It was all in English (for me, the American), but at one point they were speaking German to each other. And later in the hallway, they switched to speaking French with the lawyer who was there with me. And at lunch in the restaurant attached to the office, the Swiss German host ordered his food in Italian.
I don't know anything about the topic, but there may be decimal standards that are part of IEEE 754?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal64_floating-point_forma...

"formally introduced in the 2008 version of IEEE 754 as well as with ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011."
My X201 has no battery and a charge cord. Infinite runtime.

It's easy if you change the parameters.
Hey look at that! Someone was actually using the Metaverse, and for a financial auditing business no less! Zuckerberg should be patting himself on the back over that milestone achievement.
The offered value was simply not worth what they were charging. I would venture to say that it would be difficult to sustainably charge anything at all for this. For most people, the alleged slowness of Chrome is good enough. Why would the normal person go through the hassle of paying for an experience that was only marginally better than something that was available for free? Their best bet was an ad-based model but that comes with its own set of drawbacks.

In general all alternative browser products that charge money face the same issue. Netscape already tested this business model in the 90s.

For this reason and for many people this app was DOA from the inception. The founder should have carefully considered this criticism instead of disregarding it and using it as "fuel" https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1196458286347776001

Sadly it seems his new startup is jumping on the trend of generative AI. This is another product category that is doomed to failure yet has tons of tech industry fanfare (similar to web3, which is on its deathbed). For most professional artists, it's not hard to do the actual drawing, the difficulty is coming up with the subject matter / concept for the drawing. Generative AI may have a market for low quality yet high volume content creators that auto-generate content on YouTube or other social media for a modest living.
How different the world would look if Neanderthals had prevailed
general ledger?
It’s a cost-minimization strategy. I’m sure one of the 300+ economists at AMZN had to write a 6-pager on this question.

Layoffs are labor level reductions amid ongoing or expected periods of excess labor capacity. It’s almost a classic supply chain/operations management problem. Classically an Amazon core competence and problem at Amazon [1].

There are both shortage and excess costs to labor levels (ie. labor inventory) vs labor demand, combined consider as a supply-demand mismatch cost. To minimize this cost is to create a perfectly coordinated supply chain/inventory system through minimizing shortages and excesses.

Statistically speaking, it is incredibly difficult for a company to perfectly return to that optimal level of supply in 1 single action because the optimal level is difficult to measure in the short run. Therefore, by monitoring supply and demand of labor over time, you are able to make more precise adjustments to return to optimal level of labor.

Sadly, this strategy implies Amazon likely used a lower percentile estimate of required labor reductions for initial layoffs, meaning the mean/median estimate of required labor reductions is likely higher than already announced.

[1] https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-wareh...
> Nor is structuring every module even if it's completely stateless as a class, just to benefit from IDE driven development a reasonable price to pay.

That's a question of language.

object SomeModule:
def someMethod(someRandomNumber: 42) =
s"The answer is: $someRandomNumber."

def someOtherMethod = someMethod(42)

@main def entryPoint =

val someTheory = SomeModule.someMethod(23)

import SomeModule.someOtherMethod
import StringExtension.*

(someOtherMethod :: "No!" :: someTheory :: Nil)
.fold("")(_ + _ + "\n")
.printLine()

object StringExtension:
extension (s: String) def printLine() = println(s)
// Because methods compose better in a fluent style…
// You don't need to read your code backwards!

https://scastie.scala-lang.org/Zt6xTucJRyK1IEQQgFNRLQ

That's Scala.

Two cute stateless modules. Nicely wrapped in singletons.

Not quite sure why I had to add the handy `printLine()` method to the String class myself, after the fact…

But as extending arbitrary classes with new methods without touching them is trivial, who cares.

(Frankly it does not compile. It says something like `Found: (23 : Int); Required: (42 : Int)`. No clue)
Twitter just announced to employees via email is closing offices until next Mon
Twitter just announced to employees via email that it is closing offices until next Monday and disabling badge access for folks.
SRE Transformation: Our Thoughts
It isn’t even that high.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate
Started switching from lz4 to zstd on my ZFS datasets and have seen good results so far. Good stuff.
I have purposely configured my laptop with a maximum cpu performance target of 30% when on battery. No more fan noise, much longer battery life, performance difference is barely noticable (except in tasks like gaming and video transcoding which I don't do on battery)
Absolutely offended by the ranking of my go to apple the humble Granny Smith
These are all handy, but I’ve never met a designer who’s content with the default behavior of input validation and have always been required to smooth out the interactions with JavaScript.

In some cases, I actually agree that the default behavior is rough. For example, type a single character in the email input in the example in the article and notice that the field immediately transitions to the error state even though you’re still typing.

It’s not a friendly experience—at best it’s pedantic—and I’ve never met a designer who hasn’t requested that the error state only be used when the user removes focus from an input. You could perhaps use a sequence of pseudo classes, but in practice, it’s typically much harder to follow that logic in CSS vs JS.
This is a reference to the common saying "Beatings will continue until morale improves" and indeed a variation of it includes my version above, apparently said satirically in 1964.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/15/morale/
Yes I saw that. Was he first, and others followed? Or was he just following an already established tradition?
Elon has made it abundantly clear what he thinks of these people and their work. Why would anyone stick around to help bail him out? Let it burn.
Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter staff
I'm not especially interested in seeing Musk cashiered as I am in the potential for his carefully dissected and doumented downfall to deliver a much-needed crippling blow to the Great Man Theory itself.
Have a look at https://fibery.io

You might be able to build your perfect todo app with it.

Don't like workflows? Don't add a workflow field.

Just you and no team? Don't add an assignees field, etc.

Want unlimited nesting? Set up a relationship that lets you do that.

Need recurring tasks? Set up an automation that reopens or clones tasks with a recurring field you've added, every week or day or whatever.

Want to know which tasks are "available"? Set up a formula field for that which looks at start date, the task statuses of any blockers, and whatever else you like (time of day even).

It's very cool.
Is there a list of open source PDF libraries for various languages?

And related: the best tools to generate PDFs from HTML.
A 3080 costs nearly as much (on its own) as an M2 air. Not surprising that SD is slower without a discrete GPU.
Should be a cakewalk given FTX’s campaign donations.
I love the idea, but this needs to be usable locally without an account (on mobile devices). Or on Apple devices, just sync via iCloud.
If you get death anxiety like me, try focusing on the fact that the alternative to death (living forever) is actually way more scary. Somehow it helps.
I really much doubt humans write and talk like that. This is probably AI again and your query wasn't "clever" enough IMO.

Perhaps introduce some typo that will AI take on literary and human wont...
I find it misleading that they do not mention it, then. Something like "Our Clevo-based laptops are assembled by us [...]" would suffice. Laptops with Linux[1] does it, why not them?

[1] https://laptopwithlinux.com/
Personally I only like sour apples so this list is totally wrong for me.
Don't worry, the vest is back loaded and he'll get pip'd before that kicks in
Macoun NOT LISTED.

Makes me suspicious of the author. A fresh macoun will make you question everything you know about apples.
TIL: I am 5 years ahead.
For the font size, it's kind of the same, kind of not. The numerical value of the font sized used is typically the same, but Chinese characters fill the allocated space more thoroughly.

i 泳
Don't misremember the meaning of the word "colonize". It has no direct bad meaning to it.
I immediately went to look up the Cosmic Crisp, which was a research endeavor from Washington State University. It is an excellent apple for eating. I'm at a loss to understand these rankings, as the reviewer claims that the Cosmic Crisp has a thin skin and less-than-average flavor. This is completely the opposite of my experience - the Cosmic blows away every other eating apple on the market, including the Gala. It stays crisp, has a firm but not chewy skin (I'm looking at you, Red Delicious, or whatever they heck they did to you), and while not over-the-top sugary it is certainly a sweet treat. #GoCougs.
The succinct term you want is "anti-fragility". Cryptocurrency networks have anti-fragile properties, the same kinds that allow the Internet to be an unworkable mess that nonetheless serves billions.

And you're absolutely right. Bad actors use crypto to go to war with each other; the winner is always crypto. This time, with the FTX scandal, it's gone to places as high as the US Democratic Party. And you would think, "so now they'll just ban it." But it was designed to resist that; furthermore, when you are in the midst of a power struggle, which every government is, crypto is a loaded gun to scramble for - a way to avoid getting freezed out or silenced. The resulting internal dissent has helped to make crypto bans ineffectual everywhere they've been tried, globally.
Not surprising no. Tons of Western companies have fucked up, what with leaking AWS credentials, and leaking personal info online.

God forbid if an Indian company does it (see yesterday's post on Infosys), and all the previously suppressed hate (I still don't understand Europe's mind. Whether this hate is racial, or religious, or a mix) starts gushing out. You see this everywhere in the West (often to a greater extent outside the Anglosphere).

Even the reporting on India is the same - a PM who's not compromised to the Anglophone elites of India gets elected, and what do the "liberated, enlightened" cretins of the occident do ? Rush in to support their colonial garrison, regurgitating the same old tropes that were used to rape and plunder the "devil-worshipping heathens". You see this even with countries like Japan (god, these bitchy 'expats' are unbearable).
Debt reduction of ~$6B/year is rather minimal given trillion dollar annual deficits.

“CBO estimates that Public Law 117-169 will result in a net decrease in the unified deficit totaling $58.1 billion over the 2022-2031 period. That decrease in the deficit is estimated to result from an increase in direct spending of $50.6 billion and an increase in revenues of $108.7 billion.”

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58455
Neat. Another use case for which you might want to think about a sample is extracting data from filled PDF forms. (That use case is why I once had to write a PDF parser.)

Since you read&write, maybe also a use case of programmatically filling some form fields in an editable PDF form. Such pre-filling some of the fields for a particular Web site user in a dynamically-modified PDF form they download. But the source PDF form can be hand-crafted and maintained separately, like people often want to do, not generated from scratch by your code.
Interesting. I find death far scarier than living forever.
You can cycle 40GWh when it's full. Then you can get 350GWh out of it. Then put 240GWh back into it and cycle it a few times, then get another 350GWh out of it again in a month or two. The last 110 fills itself.

Trying to paint this as 40GWh is the very definition of bad faith.
Best of luck. You inspire me!
This really points to the complete ridiculousness of the project. The ASX is in the business of being a central market operator. The only advantage of a blockchain is to be distributed. So the ASX spent all that money on a project, that if it had worked, would provide no benefit to them. If successful it would pave the way to putting them out of business.
Or maybe an inside joke at Tesla about what their CEO is in most dire need of.
Sorry, I'm not embarking on a quest to learn APL because somehow the idea can't be explained.
I have what I have to imagine is going to be terrible news for you about how a lot of people engage with their printed books...
If you browse the "ask" and "show" sections more than the homepage then it seems a lot more hacker-centered :)