skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sodium is such a nightmarish coolant. Yes, there are advantages in building and engineering a sodium cooled reactor, but from an operating point of view... oh boy.

Sodium catches fire when exposed to air.

Sodium reacts violently with water (used in some designs as secondary cooling cycle).

Sodium absorbing a neutron creates a strong gamma emitter with a low half time.

Sodium reactors have always had low availability times, caused by constant technical problems.

However unlike lead as coolant, no advances in material sciences are required to get an operational Gen 4 reactor. On the upside, you can pretty much use Sodium (fast) reactors right now... but maybe you shouldn't?
Regardless of what evidence you show people some of them always insist on yelling about how the vaccine is amazing and everyone should be taking it.

Its not even the point of the study but REMEMBER EVERYONE SAFE AND EFFECTIIIIIIVE
It's more that all the instructions you'll find assume raspberry pi os as it is the hardware. If there was more diversity of OS in everyday use you might see more fragmentation.
I wake up with songs in my head. And as a professional musician in bands of different genres, and fills in for other genres, the "languages" are far removed.

My banjo player recently told me our mandolin player describes things in flats because he's originally a trumpet player. My best friend is classically trained with a masters in vocals and couldn't jam with rock musicians because of the way they call out keys.

And Western music is an established, though often debated, language.

I just don't see the difference between any of this. It's still language. Whether, as in the article it's the language a kid invent with their imaginary friend, how I think about and remember the songs I wake up with...language conveys information.

And I don't understand what the author of this piece is trying to convey about language, except perhaps a connotation of the word language I don't understand.
I have found with GPT4, this isn't an issue, but you do have to watch it and let it know if it makes up some new syntax. Scolding it will usually get it to correct itself.

The bigger issue for me has been hallucinated libraries. It will link to things that don't exist that it insists do. Sometimes I've been able to get it to output the library it hallucinated though.

It also makes more syntax errors than a person in my experience, but that is made up for by it being really good at troubleshooting bugs and the speed it outputs.
TBH, programming has lacked creativity since complilers got within 90% as good as hand-rolled assembly.

Hand-rolled assembly wasn't really fun because you could type it and get a response instantly, rather than the creative good old days of mailing in punch cards and waiting weeks for a result.

Punch cards weren't fun either, because using a computer wasn't creative. Doing math by hand was.

Ad nauseum.

If you think that really fucking excellent portal-opening tools don't enable creativity, you just have a dim view of what creativity is.
Hold the line music is absolutely copyrighted in a way that you can’t post a conversation containing that music to a channel that you are monetising, without compensating the creators of the music.
> The article also has no data supporting it. Only feelings. It's very typical for these sort of articles.

My company disbanded its employee productivity research group after they started providing data to the contrary. It's not about facts, it's about forcing the peons to fall in line.
Gmail Signature Parser (Chrome Extension)
Automatically extract contact details from email signatures using AI within your Gmail inbox and send them to Google Sheets, webhooks, Airtable, Zapier etc.
What would a map of your career look like?
Once you run out of free "credits", they give you a tiny image and you have to pay to get more for for full-res. For a while that was all I had as far as AI bg removal goes and it was quite frustrating.
> Bay area also has historically mild climate

Bay Area yes. San Francisco less so. Sure it doesn’t get snow but it is often rainy and foggy.

Beyond that, the drivers are very aggressive along with pedestrians and cyclists. It is not a very easy place to drive.

Are you suggesting that they should start development in a more extreme climate right off the bat?
Not the OP, but I found out about mmm.page through Kinopio: https://kinopio.club/

Both make me happy about the next evolutionary steps in the world wide web :)
QWPython: QuakeWorld dedicated server with game logic translated to Python
I don’t agree with that framing.

You can absolutely hide behind security to justify actions that are hostile to users. Companies do it _all the time_.

There is room for both of these to be true.
I have zero respect for Bull Gates' opinion, ideas, and beliefs.
No it isn’t. Electricity has to be delivered the instant it is consumed. You can pile up capital.
OTOH since this scheme eliminates scalpers tickets may be significantly cheaper, which is a good experience. I imagine it is a net positive.
checked their website and their pricing page still says "free forever"
Only promise what you can deliver.
Metaverse in the coming years for e-commerce
The Bride of Frankenstein lettering looks surprisingly like the Jurassic Park typeface!
Unfortunately this leak seems to be for Intel-based boards only, not the AMD ones :(
I did read the article, don't make assumptions.

The article discusses the problems of a hamburger menu but doesn't address why its used, and then goes on to suggest a solution which does a worse job of what the hamburger menu is actually designed for.
> Making videos taking time away from actually making stuff and making the projects take 10X longer. So I stopped.

Isn't that why a lot of YouTubers (or content creators, whatever the name is), hire a videographer to do that work for them?
Wouldn't such cases result in bad ratings for the drivers?
For some reason "reasonably possible.
Sounds a lot like "economically reasonable".

Which should absolutely worry anybody who has the faintest ideas about how insidious Sodium is as a cooling material.
CodeSage: Assistant chatbot to help you code
I'd expect a multiplicative temperature comparison to refer to Kelvin, not Celsius.
The curse of the high IQ is that statistically you wont find a lot in common with the average Joe. Too bad just deal with it.
Get married and raise children.
Go to church.
Spend time in your local library.
Volunteer at a local CSA (community supported agriculture).
Take long walks.
Go hiking.
Ride a mountain bike in the woods.
Go to the gym and lift weights.
But dont spend your life online and staring at computer screens.
Wanna grab some pie later?
Have you filed your concerns with the FTC? Have you contacted your congress person?

These seem like real concerns and failures of the market. I know Upwork has strong network effects, so this seems like a justified government intervention
he is asking for clemency without requesting it - i mean that's the point of quoting Matthew at the end of the letter. But I agree, this is an amazing piece of language...
I was sincerely admiring vgr until he went off the deep end into crypto and now AI.

The basic meta mistake in many similar arguments that I since heard from others in the space is exemplified in this:

> That’s… not how technology works.

It's... not about technology, tech is not the end goal, human is. Tech serves human, and if it hurts human guess who should take precedence.
BBC "More or Less" podcast is always good but this one surprised me. I assumed from the title it would be something about elderly and medicare but ... six times more likely to die in car accident in USA than UK!
Iron Maiden was one of the first bands that I got into and they had (and presumably still have) incredible visual imagery and graphic design. But, today I learned that the typeface for their logo¹ was not original. It’s very similar to the The Man Who Fell to Earth² which came out in 1976 (the only letter that looks different is the ‘E’).

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iron_Maiden_Logo.png

² https://reaganray.com/img/blog/sci-fi-logos/the-man-who-fell...
IANAL, but for a contract to be legal, at least in the US, it requires consideration from both sides, which means both sides have to give up something. What consideration is given from the free user?
Why are they still afloat? Last time I checked you couldn't find any work there:

- You could only find jobs if you were ready to underbid everyone else.

- The disproportion between the amount of work and job-seekers was abysmal.

- The platform did nothing to protect the workers from untruthful or exploitative clients (from anecdotal evidence).

- Upwork attracts clients who can't find contractors any other way, mostly because of unrealistic compensation expectation, unreasonable requirements, or poor reputation. This leads to the average job being an underwhelming experience (to put it in generous terms).

Moreover, being on Upwork is a sign of desperation. You fear the day any of your regular clients notices and asks why are you there or just starts to doubt you.

The proposition of the service is very attractive, but I'm not sure if it brings more value than harm in practice. It's very hard to find clients nowadays, but I'm still fighting the urge to restore my account there.
Can you educate me a bit here? If you do it in a single take, what do you do in your hour of editing?
I still haven't figured out where the canonical place is to put modifications to $PATH. Now I just source ~/.profile from .zshrc and .xsessionrc and ignore that some directories sometimes appear multiple times in $PATH.
What you're missing - and what the point was - is that entities that have no business presence in the US are not subject to that.

Same for emails.
Textbook fraud, yes. But it's a tool that also the big players with deep pockets would like to continue using. People look the other way, because the alternative is admitting, that there is a serious corrup.. lobbying problem.

A realistic long term solution, so we can stop worrying, would be another rebranding. Instead of "legal fraud" we should start calling it "clever scheme" and instantly feel better about the situation.
Wow 600 million. I don’t understand where that money goes. Aren’t they just a website that connects clients with developers? Maybe they spend a lot on advertising or business development
Right - quite surprising how long it takes to get one of these up and running.
Tesla's FSD had been very profitable for a long time already. To most of us that is not as impressive as operating actually robotaxis at whatever cost
>It also includes an energy storage system that will allow it to control how much electricity it produces at any given time.

Does anyone know more details about this? I'm thinking it's a monster flywheel. Which would be very cool.
Do you have a source for these claims?

> Toyota's or GM's advanced driving systems

What advanced driving system? Do you mean lane assist with adaptive cruise control? That’s not even remotely comparable.
“Researchers say certain strains of gut bacteria are the likely cause of Parkinson's disease”

This means we need to screen people then give people an antibiotic?

This is a costly disease.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7240660/

“Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common degenerative disease of the nervous system after Alzheimer's disease”
Yea I was interested in the article until seeing this. And then:

> and my content went viral several times

Clearly there is misunderstanding of the platform, its scale, and how to use it if you are seeing this as viral.

That said he seems to be off to a good start. It’s just a slog to get going unless you are going to go truly viral with shorts but that won’t happen with topics like software, etc
Write a paragraph describing the concept you are trying to communicate. Include sentences with each of the parts involved and their connections. Start your diagram by translating this paragraph into a picture. Then you can tweak the diagram as necessary.
We've been here before with object oriented programming which was supposed to introduce a world of reusable, composable objects, even connected by CORBA if you wanted to run them remotely.
Presumably he has a high paying engineering role as well
One time payment and forever free updates means the product dies when the growth stalls OR they create other services around it and sell those.

It can work for some products and often those turn into freeware once they find a subscription or consumables for which the users are eager to pay for.
I want this logo on a sticker.
How can a binary I provided possibly be trojanned by someone else?

Genuinely curious.
We will be going back. After the last binge, torching through piles of cash to do resume-driven development, companies are now looking to be lean. You can't really survive if you are doing microservices and trying to actually build something with a team cut by 75%.

I am already seeing this newly discovered love of simple, fast monoliths and the developer ergonomics they offer. What is old is new again - we are at the beginning of this cycle. The older generation learned that "complexity kills", the new generation is beginning to get it as well.
Me doing whatever I want with stuff I bought is the definition of ownership.

I'm starting to think that these sort of "CVE bro" posts are part of an intentional campaign by manufacturers trying to hold on to their rent seeking scheme. John Deere et al was definitely trying to use those arguments recently.
He's still talking down renewables, which is unfortunate, but we got to the tipping point despite him so it's less annoying than it used to be.

> fact, in terms of lives lost, nuclear power is by far the safest way to produce energy.

I don't think this is true anymore even if you skip the "by far" and if you include the "by far" it's not been true for maybe as long as this plant has been in planning.
> The challenge in monoliths is that the boundary is so easily breached

The biggest challenge with monoliths is the limits of a single process and machine.
Only for uniform probability density.

All that's needed is a tendency to sustain itself, instead of diminishing it. This isn't that unusual; consider waves. Structures also spontaneously arise, such as bubbles (foam), crystals, streams, rocks.

But if pre-life RNA existed, it would be hard to identify: very small, similar to life detritus, and quickly processed as food.
I don't. Whenever I come back to HN, I may click on my username at the top right and see if my latest comments were replied. If I have the time to reply then I reply, otherwise no reply is ever attempted.
> Since Bitcoin can't effectively be banned

What on Earth makes you think that?

True, it would be difficult to get every country in the world to get together and ban it simultaneously—but if converting cryptocurrencies to USD and EUR were banned, you just watch how fast they would dry up and blow away.
Google and Apple already have a huge amount of info on me that is almost certainly being shared with the US government. What's the diff between that and TikTok sharing my info with China?
People with impaired vision that rely on screen readers. They may not always have JavaScript disabled, but it's the same effect. They can't hear the navigation options.
It'll take 300 years to wipe out child marriage at the current pace of progress
I think with caregiving of any type, there can be a split between loneliness and isolation. When I was the the caregiver for my mom when she was sick, I had no time to feel lonely, but after a few months the isolation of the situation really began to play tricks on my mind. It felt like my entire world shrank to just that house, everyone I ever knew became text bubbles on a phone, and the rest of my life that had happened up to that point felt like a dream that may or may not have actually happened.
The fact we still have botched gamma compositing and scaling is one of my personal grievances. In 3D graphics people have mostly learned to use linear light space as otherwise lighting is really wrong, the more the simulation resembles how light really works.

But in, say, Photoshop the gamma is still wrong, unless you switch to 32-bit space, which produces huge files and removes access to most filters. You don't need 32-bit precision for proper gamma. You just need gamma correction when combining/interpolating/blending color values. Alas. Ignorance is pervasive.
Tap their arm/shoulder to get attention. And also I don’t live in a country where you have to think 5 hours about every human interaction lest you get sued.
that would be my hope too, but we might be taking the "hacker" component in HN too literally :-)

> what other products fit this category?

wristwatches and ball pens used to fit the bill but the digital age has not been kind. The algorithm to find more is: gadget that can be luxurised (made more expensive without adding substantial new functionality) with the sole purpose of helping homo sapiens groups stratify according to status / wealth

association with shiny, noble, metals (aluminum, silver, gold) is essential. our collective psyche is traumatized by the long exposure to the bronze / iron age and all that corroding crap we had to endure

you could extrapolate that luxury products are negative entropy markers: signaling that the bearer has the ability to manipulate society to strike a special thermodynamical contract with nature
Stunning if we confirm this finding and manage to change the lives of people
I've found the C4 Model to be a good starting point to create diagrams with an appropriate level of abstraction: https://c4model.com/ .
>It was more like handholding a fresh grad who had absorbed all of human knowledge but needed someone to tie various parts of that knowledge to create something useful.

10 INT but 0 WIS, that's a good mental model for LLMs.
I never heard of that content creator before and I wanted to see by myself as well.

I picked a video on the utility and challenge of test engineers because of all the thumbnails that the subject I had more familiarity with.

The content is good IMO. I can’t tell if great but it’s not garbage.

But you are right that it’s not educational per se. It seems akin to a podcast of Software lifecycle.
This appears to be a classic example of the Broken Window Fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_window_fallacy
perhaps to hide imperfections/rough edges and make it look nicer than it is?
Agreed. Once you start post-send changes for remote deletion then there could be further modifications to the spec by less than benevolent marketing tech companies for dynamic email. A/b testing facts. Workshopping layouts or grammar sentiment to see if you’ll click a link. Like some dumb video streaming homepage.

Keep email the same a printing to paper. One improvement would be encryption over wire but what can you do.
Lunch eaten as in OpenAI massively dominating the space?

I want open source language models to be good and succeed but be realistic.
Could you explain in simple terms (if possible) what is the similarity? For context, I worked for a brief time with ART before Y2K in BU CNS, and took a few courses there, but had to leave it for 'reasons'.
BTW, I was a beta tester of Photoshop at Adobe like 20 years ago and I kept pestering them about it. None of the engineers there, including tenured "fellows" could comprehend the problem. Extremely aggravating.
sometimes people can know just enough to make them stupider than they’d be if they knew much less
Trojaned installers by download.com were rampant back in the day. They would take your program and wrap it up in a nice little installer wizard and then also stuff a bunch of adware and spyware in there with it
Some Creativity can only be easily found in an office with other smart people, some Creativity requires being alone for a week.
> On the other hand, the behavior of null pointer exceptions and a stack overflows is SAFE.

For many languages only if the OS (sometimes with a bit of help from the runtime/ compiler) protects you against them. Not all language specs require programs to abort when they occur, if only because checking for them on systems without a MMU is expensive.
A truly 3D instrument, interesting!
Sail boat towing other boats (similar loa) should attach towing line close to her center of effort. Think like attaching towing line to the mast foot. Not on the stern. Not an easy task to do. That's why many sailors just use any stern cleat.
And the towed boat should attach towing line not to the bow, but also to the center of effort. Then both boats can manouver.
I also lost rudder blade, on the 10m sailboat, in the middle of Adriatic sea, 2005, during regatta, in 35kt NE wind and 3m waves. Not possible to steer anyhow. Tryed to improvize rudder, but we almost lost a crewman. We were on 2nd reef already. SAR came. Since there was no rudder on my boat, attaching towing line to bow was only option. My towed sailboat course was changing +-30 degrees every few minutes, and finally towing line broke loose because of the forestay chaffing.
cool tool. i think improvement in this area for non-shell-specific solutions is always good.

one thing i haven't seen yet (correct me if i'm wrong...) is an easy way to get all this stuff to magically appear on a new machine you've ssh'd into for the first time. i've hacked up my own in the past but that's got issues with tunneling and multi-hops. anyone know a solution to this? maybe a feature request?
Hopefully this turns out the same way ulcers were identified as being caused by h. pylori and not "stress".[1]

[1] https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-doctor-who-drank...
FBI Pressures on Social Media
Now that you mention it... there's probably something to that.

The 'kicking off' motion is pretty tricky, compared to say - standing normally, rolling down a driveway.

Instead of just managing balance side/side, front/back gets really important with only one foot on the board -- it wants nothing more than to shoot forwards/backwards, depending on where you're leaning.

Some familiarity with standing on it is key, mainly because kicking requires a lot of balance/control -- one leg/knee is doing a lot of work. It's holding you above the board, but it's also holding the board under you

Standing with one foot on it and rolling back/forth and getting a feel for it can help too. Finding how sensitive the shifts can be and how much 'locking' is necessary to make the transition from kicking to standing
Is there word of ane outside big co's getting access to 32k ?

I got 8k access pretty quickly but no word whatsoever about 32k (and my current prompts + context already reach 8-9k tokens)
Show HN: FTP and SFTP as a Service
$22/hr starting pay for retail is poorly paid? To essentially be a glorified cashier?

Come on. It doesn’t matter how much Apple makes or is worth. You get paid for the job you do.

I’m not discounting the workers or their positions, simply that retail, like fast food, was never meant in the history of the world to be a full time career. And if you wanted a career in that company, you would leverage your foot in the door at the lowest level to climb the corporate ladder through promotions and taking on more responsibility.
Somebody would have to report that to them first though
We do have some stickers available! https://notionforms.io/forms/user-stickers
> Linux is literally about user choice

http://www.islinuxaboutchoice.com/
I feel like there’s a sweet spot where I spend most of my time in a terminal but on a relatively small number of different servers, and that’s why I want things customized just so. It’s worth it because the number of machines is small.
Didn't the soviets use it on their fast attack submarines?
Yeah approx 1EUR/1000 views which I think is kinda "typical" from what I have heard - the ranges I've heard are approx 1USD to 5USD per 1000 views.
Eating is important. Life, is all about eating, and life gave rise to intelligence. /que dramatic music.
Not 100% sure how that could work, but definitely very interested in making it happen! I don’t think there’s an issue for it yet, so feel free to open