skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenGammaProject / Open-Gamma-Detector
> There is no "extra safety systems" because it's already there.

No. Every time we have an accident we think of what could have prevented it, and invent more safety systems.

Eg, Fukushima wasn't just "account for tsunamis", which is a local problem. One resulting requirement is "Ensure that the required parts to keep the reactor said can be made available and brought in by helicopter within 24 hours even if the terrain is impassable".

So that added a nigh universal requirement to store various replacement parts and to ensure some way to deliver water, as well as the availability of helicopters to bring that in. That increases the price of every nuclear plant out there. Maybe not by a huge amount, but it does.

And renewables escape that because nobody cares if something knocks down a wind turbine, so long it doesn't fall on somebody's head.

> As a contrast to nuclear power components - where nuclear plants are the only market - so a tenfold increase in the production of nuclear plants leads to a tenfold increase in the production of pressure vessels.

10X of approximately nothing might still not be enough to bother automating anything, and you'd have to convince those companies that demand is going to stay and make the investment worthwhile. Meanwhile we're not about to stop needing gearboxes and generators.

> Correct, and the solution to intermittency that we've found is to burn fossil fuels.

Fair, but again backs up my view that nuclear isn't going to happen.
In addition to the completely unfounded and false claim that AI is unbiased, there's this:

> This is the key to a trusted news company - complete transparency and the opportunity for anyone, anywhere to contribute.

Why do I want anyone, anywhere? What does that have to do with news? I want to hear from the best, not from the entire range.
> I wonder what accent you have and which ones you’ve regularly heard spoken

Not parent, but I have the same experience as parent. I am from CA and have lived in PA and DC as well. I also studied linguistics in college and so have a reasonably well-tuned ear for this.

It is absolutely not "hysterical" to say that people do this to sound superior. The vast majority of Americans who say "an historic" on a regular basis that I've come across are historians. I have hung out with plenty of other well-educated and pedantic folks (in linguistics, economics, and law), and even they don't do this. YMMV, of course. From where do you hail?
> It's just as easy to find confirmation that all the problems you listed are the result of neglect and politics of the past 20-30 years.

This is always my objection to Nuclear. Nuclear's biggest drawback is that it requires proper maintenance and a stable regulatory environment to be safe.

Our world is too political and tumultuous. You have to manage too many externalities. This is only going to get worse as our climate continues to change.

I just don't see decades long nuclear projects helping us in the short term, and the disruptions on the horizon make long term governance of them problematic.
Technically it's NUCA so treating CCXes as NUMA nodes is kind of misusing the concept. Cluster-aware scheduling might be a better way to handle it: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Linux-L2-Cluster-Scheduler
I know everyone is sick of hearing this but that may be a good use of ai agents, to interface the web over sms
The delivery complied with the determination of the Justice that, on Thursday, demanded the data within 24 hours under penalty of suspension of Telegram in the country and a fine of R$ 100 thousand per day.
I never thought about Hawking radiation in this way! How is the Feynman diagram??? [Ok, there is no Quantum Gravity theory yet, but is there a good guess?]
Airman Shared Sensitive Intelligence More Widely Than Previously Known
Surprised they didn’t mention Guinness beer.

https://www.toadandco.com/blogs/blog/10-reasons-why-guinness...
What part of the design is broken? What design?

This looks to me like a bunch of individually broken pieces of software that have a common failure mode.
Completely bizarre post
I enjoy it as ext4++. Would I trust it for RAID? Not particularly.
There seems to be a decent amount of foot-guns still and I would greatly prefer just using ZFS.

Granted, I do trust Synology using btrfs but they are also subject matter experts on the topic.
It can also be solved by the people who don’t want blue ticks stuck on their account involuntarily simply joining the exodus of people departing Twitter.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22883548
Windows is younger than Unix, and Unix filesystem evolved has "evolved less" due to getting it right the first time, removing backward compatibility issues.
It looks like HN successfully killed the server, I'm on my way to investigate. Thanks all (:
Some are though. Sean Carroll immediately comes to mind.

https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral...

I don't have an opinion about the bill, but thought this anecdote was relevant.
Ballblazer received several releases across multiple platforms, including cartridges for 7800 and Famicom.

The prototype "Ballblaster" was widely pirated, though, as well as "Behind Jaggi Lines" (Rescue on Fractalus) - I had both as a kid. Key differences between the prototype and the final release are the addition of the company logo in the intro, more developed opponent AI, and the "endless solo" in the music(my recollection is that the prototype only has the bassline and chords).
I went to hippie boarding school where I had no science and one math class between the ages of 11 and 18. Most of my time was spent doing other stuff. Now I have a PhD in physics and work as a research scientist. School is a joke and prepares you for nothing. Although I suppose you could say I was prepared for the path I wanted. Perhaps the deeper take away is that educational preparation is much more complex then simply exposing young people to content they will learn more deeply later. Who knows.
Thanks for this, it reminded me of working with WAP (Wireless Application Protocol)[1] a long time ago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol
But does non-boiling water not work well with lower-grade tea? I drink that stuff all the time and find it best with ~180˚F water. Seems like it's reasonable to just never use boiling water for green tea.
https://archive.ph/iGq3f
Pixel Fold leak details full specs, free Pixel Watch perk, more
I did not think about the cars being stripped for parts quickly. I figured the fake license plates are harder to come by, but that could be an issue too.
Yeah, I haven’t trusted opera since they got bought out about a decade ago or so (time flies). Really wish there was a hostable option. Your work is still awesome, I’m gonna give it a go next time I travel overseas!
The vaccines were shown to reduce infection rates, which will reduce transmission. This was known in the trials used to gain emergency use, though reduction of transmission specifically was not part of the studies, it was understood that because infection rates were reduced they would reduce transmission. The subsequent results confirm that.

That said, it sounds like you are conceding the point that the vaccines reduce transmission and are effective at preventing illness, which is good, and contradicts your earlier statements:

> there was never evidence these vaccinations prevented infection/transmission.

> The evidence is that they suppressed symptoms, which people misunderstood as preventing infection/transmission

(emphasis added by me)
> Renewable energy is growing faster than expected, and population growth is slowing faster than expected

It will be decades before we can see the results of those actions.

> We do not appear to be on track to meet worst cases scenarios from the IPCC

The worst as in reaching +5ºC on average around 2100? Maybe not, but we're 100% going to shoot beyond +2ºC global avg in the coming decades.

But it gets worse.

Europe is warming at 2x the global avg.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/02/europes-...

The Arctic is warming 4x the global avg.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00498-3

The Arctic has a huge influence on the climate of Europe and NA. Also the warming will trigger climatic feedbacks (arctic ice, methane, etc) if that hasn't happened already. There's no human way to stop feedbacks. It's like trying to stop an earthquake.

Etc.

So yeah, things are looking pretty dire.
I feel somewhat similarly but rather than the (reasonable) “fuck off” explanation I don’t mind explaining my reasoning which is that any impactful change will have to be at a systematic, not personal, level. Remember how plastic recycling turned out to be mostly a lie? [1] I sure do. Now let’s do the cruise ship industry, a pure luxury. A single ship generates more emissions in a day than my estimated lifetime driving mileage [2][3]. So while I am broadly supportive of any and all efforts to improve the future I also acknowledge that no amount of personal sacrifice on my part will matter.

Given that, I prioritize my comfort and convenience over any of the low efficacy virtue signaling that certain faction in this discussion seems to demand. In practice, this means that I sometimes throw dirty plastic in the garbage rather than washing it for recycling. It’s not clear that washing would be making effective use of potable water given the vanishingly low chance that my plastic will actually be meaningfully recycled. And I don’t have a grey water system available for that kind of task. I didn’t own a car from about 2011 until 2019 because I was lucky to live in areas that supported that lifestyle choice. I have two now because I have relocated somewhere that requires one and I like having a high capacity utility vehicle available. Does that make me the problem? In comparison to another individual in Ghana, sure, absolutely yes. In comparison to a whole multitude of industries like cruise ships which have been allowed to leave their emissions externalities unregulated and unaccounted for? No, I don’t even show up on that chart. So yes, I will be using my air conditioning to stay comfortable. And yes I am also very, very fucking angry that I am trapped in a system that gives me little opportunity to address the systematic problems I observe around me every day. So, op, I see you out there but don’t be afraid to engage in the discussion and push back on the virtue signaling requests.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...

[2] https://www.geekyexplorer.com/cruise-ship-pollution/

[3] https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/18351/emissions-from-crui...
https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-academics-stink-at-wri...
Thanks for the reference, I wasn't aware of those changes in Win 10 (I run mainly Linux and have been weaning myself off Win for some years).

"...(this value is commonly 255 characters)."

I think the word 'commonly' in those notes confirms my point in that it's changed slightly over the years. Also, I recall the internal processing was once 16k and not 32k, come to think of it this may have been with the previous version of NTFS (can't remember which version of Win that was). My interest is now piqued so I'll search it out.

That we're even discussing such matters confirms the thrust of the article.
Yes. My comment is about the activity, not Kenyans. Kenyans is simply the context of the original post.
Tenure is like the jury system, in that it has a political and an administrative aspect. The administrative aspects have drawbacks (patent cases in certain jurisdictions, bad teachers unfireable). But I don't think that the legislature has the improvement of undergraduate teaching in mind.
They can definitely mess with the sequence metadata (date submitted, date published, authors, etc) - but they primarily host NGS sequences which can trivially be verified against the original sequencing runs maintained by the researchers, so it's pretty unlikely they've ever tampered with actual genomic data.
Scroll through the emails you haven't bothered unsubscribing from yet

They all sound like that. It's bland uninspired copy - probably with some emojis
> > 1. Use more whitespace

> This depends on who you are designing it for.

As someone who uses fullscreen magnification, all the excessive negative space that is trendy in a lot of contemporary UX design (e.g., in Microsoft Teams) is difficult to deal with. The more space there is between everything, the harder it is to tell 'where I am' when I'm zoomed in. Higher information density is easier to navigate spatially when your visual window of context is smaller, whether that's because you're using full screen magnification or because you're physically moving closer to your monitor and concentrating.

Similarly, the more screen space is wasted on negative space in windows whose main function is to present something to me (PDF viewer, shared screen or PowerPoint window during a video call), the more I have to rely on external magnification software instead of in-app zooming or scaling, which makes everything blurry (pixelated) and ugly.
Comment in question concerned what the poster personally experienced, which clearly wasn't a pleasant/positive one. If you want to demand he prove he met Feinstein in person, well, that's certainly within your power as moderator and owner of this space.

But as far as what he owes to the community, I think he doesn't have to explain anything of his experience interacting with someone. He interacted with Feinstein, his takeaway was she is a "senile moron". I for one won't fault him for that, but you obviously have a different take and that's fine.

As an aside, the fact you flagged my comment as well implies very dark things. It is perhaps better I take my leave because I have no interest in enabling such matters. Though it does sadden me, in a deeply ironic way, that an American entity subscribes to such things. People have died to protect the right to speak ill of those in power.
With five eyes, the assumption intelligence remains in safe hands meets transitive trust at scale.

I'd say at this point, no intelligence shared inter agency or inter economy can be assumed to retain its secret status.
It's the other way around. Running multiple brands on a single platform is a huge cost advantage.
Nothing I ever say is investing advice or legal advice. It I’m not worried.
> You got it. We just canceled Netflix and Hulu and I don't see why that money shouldn't be redirected to your project.

I would love that thank you so much!

This is all great stuff to post on the forum! It is hard for me to engage with everyone about the project because I am doing so much stuff, but I also want other people to see the enthusiasm our project generates.

> what about a scenario where you provide me with one of your kits (free or at cost maybe?) and I agree to give you, say, 15% of gross sales of produce raised with your machine?

Thank you for the suggestion. Our project is moving slowly. It will be some time before we are able to ship kits, and even when we do the plan is to ship them without tools. Its going to be a long but worthwhile road to profitable farming with these machines.

I love everything you're saying tho. Welcome to the community!
This. You won't see New York Times articles written by ChatGPT, because the articles are condensed from a mountain of data. However, news articles that take a tiny fact ("celebrity x and y are dating again") and extrapolates 3 paragraphs of fluff from it, yeah, if you're writing those, your job is over.
Log storage is a standard use case for ClickHouse and has been for years. Our company (Altinity) current hosts or supports numerous online services that store and query logs. The standard implementation approach is to store log messages in one column and use the others as indexes on interesting properties such as time, service name, transaction ID, host name, etc. You can then build a log viewer that implements slicing & dicing queries to locate interesting messages. ClickHouse is much faster and more cost-efficient than competing solutions like Loki or ElasticSearch.

Log messages often compress very well (> 95%) so storage is not as much of an issue as you might think.

Disclaimer: I work for Altinity
Very cool, great work!
Personal Information Protection Commission, Japan
A bit of clickbait. Brief explanation of why that huge perf gap on a well-solved problem:

1. The `memcpy` idea is trivial. I know it's there to serve a different argument. But saying "professional" can't think of `memcpy` is clickbait.

2. Having a bad char table makes a totally different algorithm. A "professional" should at least finish reading their textbook, instead of writing the naive algorithm in Version 3.
Nobody has heard of the vast majority of companies? Hacker News just spends an outsized about of time talking about the same 6.
To my mind, another problem is the one-sidedness of this effort. Why is someone privileged to scan my data but I can’t write a scanner and parse theirs? There seems to be a fundamental injustice here.

Completely ignoring privacy as a concept for a moment, a fair trade should be like for like, value for value.
I think it checks every box except “minimize the number of functions exposed”. Also, if your reasons for minimizing number of functions is about usability and complexity, then many functions that are all easily understood at once (and easy for the compiler to type check) might not substantially fail there either.
They should just attribute code, like how amazon is already doing.
For those who are lost, ClickHouse is a column-oriented database. This person built a Docker container that can copy logs into that database.
> a set of sprinklers that ring the house and cover the roof/deck. They are not designed to fight the fire, instead I can activate them before a fire arrives to get things good and wet. This perimeter reduces the available fuels, reduces the heat load on the structure and reduces the risk of ember cast. It was a fun project with an ESP controller to sequence the valves and provide remote control.

I searched a bit and couldn't find any smart home integrations that automatically hopefully turn the lawn and garden sprinklers on when a fire alarm goes off.

Are there any good reasons to not have that be a standard default feature if both smoke detectors and sprinklers are connected to a smart home system?
Related tangent: Something I don't fully understand (perhaps I just haven't found a project that facilitates it) is why there isn't a Windows extension (driver?) that allows for native mounting of ext4 partitions within Windows explorer.

Surely, given the Linux native file system is open source, adding the ability to mount ext4 partitions natively should be something people can add to Windows?

I have seen third party applications with custom file explorers that can open ext4 partitions (in the same way you open a 7zip file) and I also understand you can mount linux partitions via WSL to access them via explorer - I would just love it if there was a way to natively mount ext4 in the Windows shell.

Up until now I have been using NTFS as my "universal" format - for drives shared between Windows, Linux and MacOS. I think exfat has recently gained support in all three platforms but it's not reliable for an internal hard drive (I think?).
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/105116/the-girl-the-...
This is magical! Thank you!
> And the energy they require for flying is an order of magnitude than that required to drive stuff on the ground.

Take off requires a lot of resources, but maintaining altitude and speed are likely minimal additional energy.
The radioactivity mobilized by U mining for LWRs is about an order of magnitude more than that mobilized by coal combustion, per unit of work produced.
> Now, freelancers who are less experienced and don’t offer specialized skills stand to lose their gigs, according to five clients Forbes interviewed

And even then, I wonder if general writing quality improves, so that clients can't prompt-engineer good enough on their own and need to (you guessed it) hire freelancers to use GPT for them.

You can GPT's "voice" by explicitly prompting it, e.g. to be more concise and use less big words, which makes it nearly impossible to distinguish from a human. And GPT-4 genuinely writes very well, well enough so that (especially after changing the voice) you don't need to hire a writer. Mind you, writing is a task people were getting payed very cheap to do, and I still don't think GPT-4 can write a best-selling novel or blog post all on its own (it can come up with creative ideas, but IMO still not as creative as a human; time will tell).
> No. Every time we have an accident we think of what could have prevented it, and invent more safety systems.

And for the third time, the safety systems that would have prevented Chernobyl are already present in western reactors:

* Western reactors have secondary containment

* Western reactors also use dedicated control and moderator rods

We don't need to spend the money to invent more safety systems if we already have them.

> 10X of approximately nothing might still not be enough to bother automating anything, and you'd have to convince those companies that demand is going to stay and make the investment worthwhile. Meanwhile we're not about to stop needing gearboxes and generators.

It's not a question of automation, it's more of a factor of institutional knowledge and overhead cost of design. When building something unique like a steam generator a new manufacturer typically builds a broken first model and has to iterate a couple times before nailing down the manufacturing process. That overhead cost can be amortized over a larger production run.
Recording and screenshotting windows: the lazy way
I must strongly disagree with #3 at least:

> "People’s reasoning abilities are deficient with respect to the laws of logic and probability which obviously impacts their ability to be information or media literate."

My whole point, which most responses have ignored, is that the skills needed to test media claims for veracity are learnable, trainable, understandable, etc. I mean, not a single comment has addressed the notion of internal self-consistency, which in mathematical terms is called, 'contradiction'. A person who claims it's okay for them to steal from their neighbor, but not for their neighbor to steal from them, can safely be laughed out of the room.
Try bing then, gpt-4 but up to date.
Germany alone has 120.000m³ low and mid waste which needs to be stored. However only a small part of it is ready to be stored (in the safe and deep hole Germany still couldn't find).

2016 they had 15.000t of spend fuel.

When all the plants are gone, Germany will have 300.000m³ of waste which needs to disappear for a long time in hope that nobody will ever get the idea of digging it out again.

No nuclear company will want to have to do with anything of that. They paid some ridiculous amount of money for their subsidized profits, and the taxpayers will have to deal with it for the next thousands of years.

Nuclear technology is overdue.

There are better, cheaper and cleaner alternatives already out there.
> There are a lot of good arguments [0] that peer review doesn't work

That is not a good argument. It points out that research productivity has changed and then tries to correlate this with the rise of peer review, before admitting that the entire argument is confounded and pointless. Then it goes on to the standard non-practitioner approach and cherry-picks examples where peer review didn’t find flaws, which I mean, duh. Of course peer review doesn’t work perfectly to find all errors and fraud, nobody is arguing the point. You could write a similar post demonstrating that fire departments don’t fight fires, or that restaurant health codes aren’t needed to prevent food poisoning.