skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> PWRs and reactors that depend on enriched uranium use much more uranium ore than those that can burn natural uranium.

This has little to do with enrichment, and more to do with the better neutron economy of heavy water as a moderator. CANDU reactors have moved to use enriched fuel due to superior economics. CANDU reactors are still economically inferior to LWRs, though.

In any case, the difference is negligible to the point being made: that burner reactors cannot power the world for very long before the uranium runs out. CANDU reactors still leave the vast majority of the 238U unfissioned.

> Which is directly related to enrichment, because to enrich uranium you need one order of magnitude more ore than for unenriched fuel and we end up throwing away a lot of perfectly fine nuclides.

To first order, burner reactors are burning 235U. It doesn't matter if this 235U has been concentrated or not. The 238U that enrichment tosses out can't be used in burner reactors in any case.

(This is not entirely correct, since some 238U is converted to Pu even in burner reactors. But only a small part of it can be, since the breeding ratio is well below 1, enriched fuel or not.)

> I don't understand why you think this is not related to the type of reactor.

Because it's not. Burner reactors, by definition, run out of fissionables before they've converted most of the 238U to plutonium.

> Realistically, it's about 100 years

This must be assuming a much larger uranium resource.

> There is nothing specific preventing nuclear and renewables to be used on the same grid.

Yes there is. They are both inflexible sources, and compete with each other to be supported by sources of flexibility (dispatchable demand, dispatchable generation from e-fuels, storage, hydro). In general, when you look at optimal solutions to providing power for the grid, the optimal solution is either all renewables or all or mostly nuclear. There's no middle ground. Putting it another way: if it makes sense to have a grid that 10% nuclear and 90% renewable, it would make even more sense to have more nuclear. Nuclear either goes big or it goes home.
SKA Observatory celebrates start of telescope construction
That would be: bak1 ging1 if we are talking Cantonese. Peking is the English word for that romanisation.
Mind blown by all this.

> But why base-60, 360 degrees in a circle, 7 days in a week, etc.? All from Sumer around 2500 BC (Wilson), and inherited by the Babylonians.

> The Sumerians were great innovators in matters of time. It is to them, ultimately, that we owe not only the week but also the 60-minute hour. Such things came easily to people who based their maths not on a decimal system but on a sexagesimal one.

> Why were these clever chaps, who went for 60 because it is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30, fascinated by stubbornly indivisible seven? ...

> They worshiped seven gods whom they could see in the sky [using modern names they are: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn]. Reverently, they named the days of their week for these seven heavenly bodies.

> The product of 12 and 30 is 360, the number of degrees in a circle; did the Sumerians define the 360 degree circle? Probably, because dividing the Zodiac into 360 degrees means Jupiter traverses 30 degrees in a year and Saturn 12 degrees; thereby coupling the periods of the gods Jupiter and Saturn.

> The Sun tracks through the Zodiac in one year. Jupiter would track 1/12 of the way in that time. Why not divide a year into 12ths, i.e., 12 months

https://ethw.org/Ancient_Computers#Why_Base-60.3F
Transfer learning, NEXT!
Not the OP, but oddly enough I ordered this book this morning before I saw this thread. Looking forward to reading it. 20 years ago when I graduated undergrad I had to make a decision... software job or math graduate school. I chose software job.
Oh ok this is no longer productive. "Go take on apple starting with nothing if you think a minority interest is worth even mentioning w.r.t. their policies."

It is exercise to move furniture. It is exercise to go for a run. If there is something worth tracking on the latter its highly likely for there also to be something equivalent for the former. Apple knows its market isn't manual laborers and ignores whatever interest they may have. There's no money in it.

Best of luck to you.
Never fear!
You can still run it and a few other apps:

https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

“ Run Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes on macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, and macOS Catalina. Xcode 11.7 on macOS Mojave. Final Cut Pro 7, Logic Pro 9, and iWork ’09 on macOS Mojave or macOS High Sierra.”
SBF is the largest donor to the Democratic Party this year and his mom runs an org that raises hundreds of millions for political bribes each year. I'm sure that won't be forgotten.

Elizabeth Holmes committed worse crimes and got a slap on the wrist--mostly because the was stealing from the elite. People are going to forget all about SBF and he'll get charged in a few years and get forgotten until he times some meager sentence and then re-emerges a few years later as the new Jordan Belfort, probably selling some new get rich quick scheme.
Federal authorities investigating Neuralink for treatment of test animals
"The company has been accused of maiming test monkeys in the past"
Canada Dry seems to do just fine
I haven't tried Affinity Photo but Affinity Designer has been a pleasant surprise. Worth the non-recurring $50 investment. I want to like Inkscape, but there are just too many quirks still. PDF output from Designer so far always looks great. My primary use case is putting together figures for scientific papers.
John Corzine spoke plenty about his billion dollar theft and never faced any consequences.
I immediately checked for EV and was stoked to see it!! I haven’t played that game in decades…so many good memories. SOL?
My family accomplishes that with a group chats in Messages on our iPhones, and shared albums from Photos, again, iPhones.

I don't think any of us use anything else at this point.
The full quote was:

"frankly I don't care to know the details"

I take issue with that statement not the person. The statement was honest and matter of fact.

Few know how SSLs work, few have time or opportunity or even desire to learn it. Not 'wanting' to understand the details goes against what I would expect. A programmer tries to/needs to understand how the world works. Not wanting to understand the entire stack is a new concept to me.
Also a slightly confusing bird. Not a magpie for one, and even though they look like crows they are not corvids either. Meanwhile, a european magpie is a corvid. Made me realize I have no idea what a corvid really is.

Most foreigners picturing an Australian magpie might be picture something like the Australian Magpie-Lark, which looks a lot more like euro magpies and so on. But the Australian Magpie looks more like a crow or raven with white and black feathers. They even croak like crows, but alas, not related apparently.
https://macrofab.com/ in the U.S. for PCBA.
I want to take a week of time off from work, and find a friendly, recently retired machinist to give me a crash course on the lathe. I'd pay whatever rate is fair for a thing like that. I think it would be one of the best memories of my life.

If I could make a bolt from a piece of steel, I'd be one happy camper. Yeah yeah I can youtube all day long. I just want to learn something in real time from a person.
It's a notable argument you bring up that AM stations are sometimes the only audio service available in remote areas.

The characteristics of AM (i.e., daytime groundwave and nighttime skywave) provide service that other services can not.
Nacho best option my friend. Put your chips where it’s cheesy.
Just go interview a treasury manager at FTX. They definitely knew who were the signers on bank accounts and who had control of funds. There is zero possibility that these "backdoors" were installed without executive sign off at FTX and corporate legal providing some kind of certification or board resolution (which SBF would be involved in). SBF is a compulsive liar.
According to the New York Times, SPAC redemptions industry wide were 50% this year, up from 20% last year. https://archive.ph/1Fa9V
The headline is bullshit. It’s one of dozens of possible measures, it’s a limit only on non-essential trips, and it’s included only in the worst of several levels, which is unlikely to ever be activated.

Also, this crowd will love to hear, the main problem is France‘s nuclear power plants: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjHpB_9WYAA0yU-?format=jpg
Ah, missed that part. Thank you very much.
I don't see why this output would be correct. Ask it for the source code to the google search engine next.
>I get a feeling that the twitter mob/vigilante journalism unleashed upon the FTX meltdown story may not entirely be accurate.

SBF himself has openly admitted to multiple crimes, including fraud. Everyone should be against lynch mobs and jumping to conclusions but that is not the case here. SBF has done multiple public interviews and admitted to many of these crimes openly, even if he hasn't characterized them as crimes.
macOS-like pinch to zoom on Ubuntu 22.04
This is how people addicted to gambling think. Their strategy would have worked if they just got one more round of blackjack etc. This is not the type of person I would want running a financial org with custodial/FBO funds.
I've been using Baïkal for about a decade. I have it in a docker container on my home lan. Android and iOS transparently and gracefully tolerate the server being unreachable outside the house.

The main issue is that I only touch it every five years or so, and at that point, I've forgotten what it is called or where it is running!

(I use synology's HyperBackup to E2E encrypt + backup it and a bunch of other docker containers.)

Here is a list of 11 options:

https://medevel.com/11-caldav-os-servers/
Of course, templates are sufficiently complex metaprogramming to achieve this. But it's not a language built-in, or even part of the standard library.

F# has a refinement type system built in (which allows this), and of course Haskell and Idris are sufficiently capable in their type systems to trivially support it, but none of those are particularly mainstream general-purpose programming languages. Mainstream languages pretty much all need some sort of library for it, which is unfortunate since they're extremely useful in many common programming problems.
Wow, what a treat! I'm glad I watched this one too. I'm reminded of 'The Logical Song' by Supertramp. They never got to him and I'm glad to see it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=low6Coqrw9Y
> Further complicating this math is the E2EE nature of it, so it’s not just enough to pwn a server, you’d need to also compromise the client application.

The webvault is both a server and a client, and you can't not use it. As soon as you sign into it once (which you must, with the official apps) you have allowed unsigned ephemeral javascript code to run against your decrypted vault.
Include a million counts of theft by deception.
Pimax VR Content Incentive Program for Indie Developers
what do you think of the fact that "local news" is actually owned by a single large company?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_oper...
Buzzy Lancet Long Covid Paper Under Investigation for 'Data Errors'
PassKey is great but also may cause vendor lock-in looking at Google and Apple in particular.

Does anyone have any insights to how enterprises will be managing passkeys for corporate accounts with the potential of creds being leaked to potential compromised devices.
Nice to see Escape Velocity in there. It's a shame that its distribution is endangered ever since Ambrosia closed up, without selling or releasing the source and rights.
Finally, K9 along with desktop Thunderbird really need a redesign,
> It cannot think.

It cannot be persuaded.

> It cannot reason.

It cannot be reasoned with.
did you pay for the dedicated IP address? My delivery was good with sendgrid after I payed the $80.
Thanks for the constructive and insightful comment. I think there is some value to that perspective.

My main disagreement is that in the US at least, I feel that corporate surveillance is already normalized. Given that, I think this is an incremental step away from non-consensual surveillance, or at least surveillance where the transactional aspect isn't obvious.

Most people are already tracked by their phone apps, google, ect. It is normalized.
Researchers advance insights into cause of ripples on icicles
"Experimental physicists growing icicles are closer to understanding why some form with ripples up and down their outsides, while others form with smooth, slick, even surfaces. By growing icicles from water samples with different contaminants like sodium chloride (salt), dextrose (sugar) and fluorescent dye, they discovered that water impurities become entrapped within icicles as they form and subsequently create chevron patterns that contribute to a ripple effect around their circumferences."
I am not unsurprised by the fact that Photoshop in this little browser emulated Mac OS 9 starts up faster than modern Photoshop on my decked out modern Macbook. What the hell happened?
I think he got high on his own supply (both literally and figuratively). He was being praised and lauded by all of the most powerful people in the world for years. People were throwing billions of dollars at him and telling him he was a genius who could do no wrong. Add in the fact that he is clearly a narcissist and sociopath of the highest order and you get SBF.
I just want to improve my ability to relax more in stressful situations and take it easy. Thats all.
This is like asking a human to enumerate the connections between their neurons. Without a special tool we don't have that capability at all. Introspection is not built into everything.
I agree. Everything should be collaborative. Feel free to reach out if you're interested in collaborating (email in my HN profile). I'm trying to get a v0 of this database out now, and building desirable use-cases is super important.
My drivers license photo doesn't include my genitals, the DMV folks were pretty strict about that.

Passport cards are actually awesome if you don't have one, doubly so if you don't have a "RealID". You can use them to fly and they don't even list your address.
I would like to ask a non-controversial question...

What about ear hair?

Is ear hair something that flourishes later in life, or is it something we just don't notice when we're young?
And let's not forget about its excellent ambient electronica soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF_0W1cYPYo
And it still gets the explanation wrong?
Does anyone know what coordinate system would be used for something like this?
You can plan to support it all you want, but "lifetime" is a long-ass time. You should be humble enough to know that your ass isn't going to be able to cash that check, and avoid writing it in the first place.

Lifetime licenses are just unethical, full-stop.
I picked it just before the end of the second sentence, 2/3 through. It's getting difficult to discern already. I wonder if it will deemphasise online forums.
I'm installing 9.2.2, Internet Explorer 5.1.7, and Netscape 7.0.2, so I'll backup to your AFP server over AppleTalk. Cool?

Ah, the old days of watching extensions load and single-tasking.

EDIT: Stable Google Chrome on a M1 MAX with a bazillion other tabs open is ~7-78x faster than real hardware. Chrome beats Safari beats Firefox.
If people keep talking to AI all the time, how will they recognize emotions and which ones are meaningful? If people used social media only to keep their connections with real people alive, it wouldn't be much of a problem but we know what happened there.

Looking at all the improvements in LLMs, I am of the opinion that they are worth it ONLY if they deliver some massive breakthroughs in physics, maths, biotech and comp.sci. The way it seems to be going, we'll be getting the parlor tricks, the SEO, the social cooling before it presumably becomes good enough to actually help humans.
Worth noting to me that humans also engage in backwards reasoning.
Not that circle

This circle doesn't need to go public, just jumped at the opportunity to have SPAC dumb money
> that's the derivatives market

These are run through clearinghouses in most money centre jurisdictions.
I do some IaC at work... I'm not an expert, I'm just a user of it.

At first I thought Terraform was the only way to do it, but now that I've used some CFT in AWS, I think they both have their strengths. They don't really overlap each other perfectly. Maybe like 90% overlap but the good stuff is on the periphery. Azure Resource Templates are not bad. Google Cloud Platform seems to be a Terraform shop. So is OpenStack. They all kind of bleed together.

We want to use the kubernetes control plane for a lot of stuff in the near future. If I had time to learn some golang, I think I could break free of writing IaC stuff, and start working on provisioner code that automates IaC.
Losing the magic
I'm sorry, but I don't have access to the source code for Google. Google is a proprietary software developed by Google LLC, and the source code is not publicly available. It is not possible for me to provide it to you.
> the government can't hire developers not because the salary is too low but because the electorate has decided the government should be "small" which forces outsourcing to the big name consulting/contracting shops.

I wouldn’t say “not” because those are really the same problem from different angles. Keeping salaries low encourages attrition, not adding or backfilling positions makes it permanent. The best part is that this process reliably produces expensive failures to provide the pretext for repeating it.
US government has actual ID card, it is passport card.
Not suggesting that the allegations are untrue, just that the timing is politically expedient. Neuralink has been in the news before about animal treatment (Feb '22).. and it was not as big a deal in the media then. For the issue to resurface now is...interesting
> Because our protections against these forces have been thoroughly eroded and destroyed.

This gets trotted out every time there's a "big tech violating our privacy" story, and it's correct most of the time but not this one. Amazon is offering you a purely voluntary choice to sell your data. What "protections" have been "thoroughly eroded and destroyed" in this case? You're free to not sell your data. If anything, you need to do more work (ie. install the app and opt in) to have your privacy invaded.
Yeah, so looking back at the release dates of these, I definitely used at least back through OS 7, but I can't say I remember anything specifically about them because it's fading into the haze of youthful memories. In my mind it's all just pre-OS X and post-OS X, as that marks by far the biggest change in Mac OS functionality that I remember.
No, Bak-ging is the Cantonese word for Beijing under Yale, Jyutping, Pinyin. Please verify before passing something easily verifiable as fact.
I believe this is another one of those cases where it’s generating something that looks correct even though it’s not true.

Human: What are the file names in the source code section of openai/transformer-xl ?

AI: The file names in the source code section of openai/transformer-xl are:

transformer.py

model.py

training.py

data_utils.py

inference.py

loss.py

eval_utils.py

config.py

utils.py

pytorch_legacy_seq2seq.py
I'm sure I'll see this in meme form all over my extended family's Facebook feed in about 6 months.

Some of the other Escalation Level 3 measures include limiting streaming to standard definition resolution, limiting washing machines to 40º, banning the operation of leaf blowers and patio heaters, and turning off heaters in chair lifts.
The way I remember it, command was used for commands, option was mostly for typing accented characters, and ctrl was only used within terminal windows (which means most Mac users would have never touched it).
My first instinct is to say "no", but that might just be a knee-jerk reaction. So I'll say "maybe, but closer to doubtful."
How to print this pyramid pattern?
https://imgur.com/a/aYD4tcX

I want this pattern, what's the logic behind this one? There are lots of blogs online that show code but not teach technique. Share any blogs that you know that teach the logic behind it as well.
At i=1, j=5 should be printed as star, rest as white spaces

At i=2, j=4,6…

At i=3, j=3,5,7….

At i=4,j=2,4,6,8…

At i=5, j=1,3,5,7,9…

How do I convert this into logic?
I've heard with a milling machine and a lathe, you can make... a milling machine and a lathe.

I'd love a later-in-life university that would have courses that let you take that hero's journey.
Can you ask chatGPT why it wrote a certain line or why it made a certain decision? I still think explainability is missing in these models, but even if it able to come up with something, what is the guarantee that the explanation is not bullshit?
it's missing inputsprokets, which i spent about 2 minutes looking for in other folders before the system crashed...
AKA The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboa...
"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip." - Winston Churchill

:)
It's impressive because if it can learn enough about how shell scripting works, how filesystems work, and can translate from human language, then we can feasibly stop learning to code (or at least outsource a lot of it). It's mostly not there yet, and I'm not sure how long it will take to actually be useful, but it's not insignificant that a language model can write code that works and manipulates filesystems.
Giant mantle plume reveals Mars is more active than previously thought
"Orbital observations unveil the presence of an enormous mantle plume pushing the surface of Mars upward and driving intense volcanic and seismic activity. The discovery reveals that Mars, like Earth and Venus, possesses an active interior, which challenges current views on the evolution of the red planet."
I can vouch for this. I've done software consulting in corporates a few times throughout my career. Probably the highest value things I've done have been those times the team's organisational structure was a bit broken, and nobody in the company had the visibility, audacity and cover to call it out.

One team had no clear leadership, and there was an important milestone coming up that the team didn't seem to be orienting around. I started kicking up a fuss in meetings by constantly asking "Is this important for our April launch?". I know I upset at least one person, but with some help from management we ended up collectively getting the launch back on track.

At another company my perspective was relayed through my consulting company to the client's upper management, and that ended up being used to fire someone. It doesn't feel good - he was a nice guy. But he was genuinely useless. He spent about 90% of his attention brown nosing to upper management. Once or twice he even actively sabotaged the team in small ways so he could be seen stepping in and fixing the problem. I think they wanted to get rid of him anyway but they didn't have legal cover.

There's absolutely value for companies in having outside consultants sit amongst a team. But its a subtle kind of value. I thought I was brought in to write code. Hah!
This is true, but not enough to protect your vault. See dvzk reply.
To be sure, $20 per day at ~250 days per year is $5k. And that's tax-free to the employee, so if they're going to be spending that money on lunch anyways, it is better for the employee to trade the $5k pretax salary for the lunch benefit.
it's an avenu of exploration that shows a correlation. It could end up being "taking a microdose of nicotine reduces covid-19 infection" and that wouldn't necessarily be seen as a major health impact that outweighs the effects of infection.
I think 1. should be both exercise + strength training