skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recycling of spent thermal reactor fuel doesn't extend things much, since the breeding ratio of today's thermal reactors is much less than 1. CANDU might do a bit better.

The point is that existing nuclear reactors provide only a small fraction of world energy demand. A nuclear powered world has to power everything via nuclear energy, including transportation and industry. To ballpark this, we look at the primary (thermal) energy used by the world, 18 TW, and equate that to thermal energy produced by nuclear (3 GW(th) for a 1 GW(e) power plant.) This would be 6000 1 GW(e) power plants. These would use in excess of 1 million tonnes of natural uranium per year.
Bad waitress: Dying on your feet
This is also the reason why self-improvement, changing any behaviors no matter if it's about procrastination, sports or mental health takes so long and is so tiresome.

If the brain could be changed easily it would be very unstable and humanity might have died out very fast.
In addition to the other suggestions, you can create different files for (e.g) each machine and use common includes for your apps and settings.
> Why the lawyer didn't go the extra step and check the actually real legal databases ChatGPT pointed out is beyond me.

Because that's work and takes effort. He gets paid the same to delegate the work to AI.

He did the absolute, bare minimum amount of verification needed to [hopefully] cover his ass. He just didn't expect the system to lie (sorry, "hallucinate") to him more than once.

> [...] the lawyers did not act quickly to correct the bogus legal citations when they were first alerted to the problem by Avianca’s lawyers and the court. Avianca pointed out the bogus case law in a March filing.

This is what fraud looks like. He's so checked out he even ignored the red flags being waved in his face. It stopped being a cute case of a student generating a common essay about Steinbeck when he started getting paid $200 an hour to cheat an injured client.
This should not be flagged? @dang ?
It's not your job to keep their spirit up.

But it's not necessary your job either to bring them down.

Just tell them honestly if they take a big risk that you see a risk and why.
The "Kubernetes is actually not overcomplicated" crowd, I presume?
Is the difference mostly syntactic?
"Of course you couldn't use it as a source when writing a paper"

Why not?
Try Filling a Pen Before Throwing It Away [video]
The Apollo dev is Canadian
It’s hard to grasp the scale of this.

The top 100 pension funds have $17T (trillion) in assets: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-100-biggest-pension-....

The total money supply is estimated at $48T:
https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/economy/how-much-money-...

While in theory LPs are “hands off,” in reality you don’t get to raise another fund if you aren’t giving them annual updates that they like. It’s similar to the level of influence VCs have on startups - much more impactful than you’d expect till you are sitting on a board as a founder & realizing you are constantly having to lobby for the direction you are taking the company in.

There’s not a taxpayer-base on earth that can bailout all of their pensions. That’s some clever financial engineering & debt transfer to money printing, but as we are all now aware those global limits have been hit.

Everyone answers to someone.
> It was a read the whole thing deal. So much random knowledge.

Me too. And it taught me a skill that I think was the key to my professional success: learning how apparently unrelated things can give you the key to solving problems or understanding things that are important to you.
What does "less woke" have to do with "positive male hero"? Do you think there is no woke media with positive male heroes? Do you believe all non-woke media has positive male heroes?

The best positive male representation I've seen was on very progressive (what you'd call "woke") shows.
I strongly disagree with this. It only makes sense to use floats if you want time to have increasing precision the closer you get to 1970. From a symmetry group perspective, that makes no sense; the amount you care about the incremental precision of time measurement is invariant with respect to the present date. (Translation invariance). This means you want uniformly distributed time samples, hence an integer format.

If you think microsecond precision is good enough for anybody, then you could consider using an integer where the LSB represents 1 microsecond. But don't use floating point time, unless your specific application cares more about time scale invariance than time translation invariance.
Ask HN: What are long-lasting tech skills?
It seems like every day or week there's a new software, framework, OS or skill that tech workers need to know in order to stay relevant. What are some skills that can be learned and be perfected over many decades without having to reinvent myself all over again (akin to a journeyman's path to becoming a master)?
I wish Nixpkgs were available over peer-served networks, like bittorrent.
This talks about two bodies, but would the Halo Drive (https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03423) also be one such thing? I mean, I guess the photons are the other bodies?
A lot of people prefer being laid off than forced back to the office.
No, because times before 1970 exist. With signed timestamps, you have to figure out weird ways to represent when you need to talk about times in the past, with signed 64-bit timestamps you can represent any moment since well before big bang.
Would a decentralized storage option work to reduce some costs incurred by the centralized storage companies (ie, P2P via torrents)? Offload the bandwidth and storage to community members willing to loan out their unmetered home connections for hosting the nixOS packages? Even corps or startups can loan out their infra to assist on an as needed basis and use the depreciation as some sort of tax write off.
You can prevent doxing yourself by deleting an account.

If someone becomes suspicious that they know an account holder, watching recent posts can lead to doxing. Deleting can be a safety mechanism.
Apparently compression and intelligence are synonymous:

https://mattmahoney.net/dc/rationale.html
MIPS Quine
I share your view - good luck on your adventure!
Wait why is this consistently getting pushed down below things that have been up longer and way less relevance or upvotes?
Even if Canadian laws applied here, which they don't, its not clear there is any libel here.

I'm no fan of spez or what Reddit is doing, but it seems like the Apollo guy made some not clear messaging as well. He's only human, I probably would have made the same mistake, but it gives plenty of leeway for spez's comments.

Reddit explicitly doesn't care if Apollo dies, they have already done their calculus there, but they don't seem to be in any significant risk of libel.
Literally impossible to look at historical data over an area and calculate the size of system needed for reliable power as well as the amount of storage needed as well?

Utilities do that everyday. You should be careful saying something is ‘impossible’, more like you don’t understand.. that’s ok.
Show HN: AI art killed an indie book cover contest
The military took many lessons from Vietnam that didn't work in the Middle East.

As one example, at the start of the war in Afghanistan, Marine scout snipers would operate in two-man teams. This was a Vietnam-era SOP that favored stealth over firepower--two men can't lay down much heat, but they don't need to if the enemy can't find and engage them. It's pretty easy to hide a couple guys in a jungle, so it worked well.

The problem with that doctrine in Afghanistan is that hiding even two men is difficult in arid environments. A team is far more likely to be seen regardless of its size and needs to be able to defend itself if compromised, which happens far more often in a desert. By 2010 the SOP was 8-man teams. At least one bloody incident was the cause of those numbers being bumped up.

There's a saying that rings true, "The military is always fighting the last war".
I also get annoyed when I see missing comments, but I don't think this is a good reading of the situation. Reddit is restricting access to its API. It's not good for the world if a company can say "look how much value you're giving everyone, you're morally obligated to them to let us keep abusing you." Users aren't obligated to play into that trap. I mean, if I'm going to treat content on Reddit like it's a public good that I'm morally obligated to provide, then maybe it's bad for a for-profit business that fights with its community to be in charge of that public good.

Particularly in the context of the current API decisions, the thing Reddit is doing is closing off access to that data. A user saying, "fine, but if you're not going to allow open access then I'll stop treating my content like it's open access and I'll remove it" is I think a pretty reasonable response (both for the user and for society). The alternative is Reddit gets to lock down that data, but because it hasn't gone all the way yet and completely locked it down, everyone is still obligated to let them keep that data? It just doesn't make sense.

It was brought up above, but Reddit archives exist. So it's not necessarily like the content is entirely lost. But it's less convenient to access, and that's purposeful, because it's bad for society if we allow commercial gatekeepers in front of communities to guilt users into making it easier for them to lock down and commoditize that data. It can be a difficult line to draw, but there are situations where it's worth just ripping off the band aide and saying, "if a site is not being a good steward of its community, then the site doesn't get to keep using that community's stuff as a way to attract users to the site."
I suspect that most Redditors just had rapid expertise emergence (REE) in the subject of international law, with a specialty in Canadian libellous extradition.

Let's review the facts: Spez is an American citizen in the United States - a country famous for its Freedom of Speech. Good luck to anyone who wants to make the case that because he may have been slanderous to a Canadian citizen he should be extradited to face Canadian courts.
I wish this kind of thing would be rejected outright. There's no reason to disable useful functionality like this when it doesn't even result in getting to remove any code.
> The fundamental argument is that war is less profitable than economic competition, which is exactly how the Cold War progressed, and why the US won.

So for countries that lose the economic competition, might war be a 'better' option?
Intelligent tiering was released after 2016 and is fantastic at reducing prices?
I think the "subreddit" form being the decentralized aspect to a greater hub would be a better format than lemmy, which is basically a whole reddit that can attach to other reddits. Want a community? Run an instance equivalent to a subreddit for your topics. Want an offtopic or a circle jerk sub? two more instances.

The only real censorship power the main hub would have would be a de-listing, but it wouldn't take down the instance entirely.
A gravitational assist/slingshot is just a transfer, think of cogs in a machine - by using axles and cogs you can change the speed and direction of the forces.
source: KSP player
GPT comments are genuine too. Don't hurt our soon-to-be-developed feelings!
Sniff ...
The typical cooking uses to which a skillet is put season it automatically, because it spends its life being oily. The polymer coating known as "seasoning" forms naturally from long contact with oil (even without heat). So the idea of seasoning being something you have to put on the pan and then maintain is wrong. You can explicitly "season the pan" as a sort of bootstrapping to get that layer started off quicker and protect it from rust in the early days, but it's optional and doesn't need maintaining afterwards. An alternative to protect it from rust (and encourage the formation of the polymer) when it's new is to brush it with oil before putting it away. Once it's broken in (you'll know) it doesn't require special care. You can scrub it, use washing up liquid, whatever.

If you do season the pan, the most important thing is to wipe off all the oil after applying it. You brush the oil on and then wipe it completely dry. It should be dry to the touch and matt, not shiny. You should not be able to see ANY oil. The microscopic invisible bit of oil left is all you want. Only then do you heat it. The temperature doesn't matter much. 180 C or so in an oven is what I've used. The kind of oil used also doesn't matter. For best results do the whole thing 3 or more times. If you bake a visible layer of oil onto your pan you're not seasoning it, you're just covering it in burnt crap.

And it's optional!

Note that the above is for skillets, which self-season because they're used for frying. (Hence "seasoning" - i.e. using them for a while.) The story is very different for some other things. For example, we have a dutch oven used for baking bread, which is not an oily process. For that you really do have to season. Ours came pre-seasoned but it rusted after an unfortunate baking mishap and I had to electrolyse it and then give it 5 rounds of oven seasoning (as described above), after which it has been a zero-maintenance workhorse.

Griddles are absolute fucking bastards and will ruin your life.

If you ever do electrolyse any cast iron (it's great fun and will restore anything), A) pay a few quid for graphite electrodes (overgrown pencil leads, available on Amazon), rather than using an old stainless steel knife and producing hexavalent chromium (Erin Brockovich's favourite chemical) and B) use a bench power supply because nobody sells the kind of car battery charger all the online tutorials tell you to use any more (they're all pulsed ones now, completely useless for electrolysis).
Yeah.. that's not something they should have done.
Also worker protections, public safety nets, and a general desire to not let corporations chew up and spit out people as if they were iron ore.
personally, the way I do it is:

/etc/nixos/roles/foo/default.nix has config for the 'foo' role (eg, I have a desktop role that enables all my GUI options)

configuration.nix and hardware-configuration.nix in /etc/nixos/ are symlinked to the actual files in /etc/nixos/hosts/<hostname>/

in the imports section of each machine's configuration.nix, I import /etc/nixos/roles/foo for each role the machine should use. for your graphics card example, I have 'nvidia' and 'nvidia470' roles that pull in their respective nvidia driver (due to an old gaming laptop that requires the legacy driver version)

I have a 'core' role that all machines import, with the global config I want on every host

this allows me to version-control my entire /etc/nixos directory (managed as a private git repo, replicated using syncthing rather than pushed to Github/Gitlab/etc). the symlinks in /etc/nixos are in .gitignore because they're machine-specific, and the actual per-host config files are able to be tracked in their own directories.
The Apollo developer is Canadian.

Though Reddit is an American company, and I'm not sure what the rules are for cross-region lawsuits.
Niceness is largely a result of high agreeability in the 5 factor psychological model. The goal is not to change your personality but instead the substance or modality of your communication.

First understand what agreeability is. Low agreeable people know what they want and have no problem telling that to you. Highly agreeable people don’t tend to know what they want with any clarity because their eagerness to please provides mixed goals.

The solution then is to become more goal oriented with your spoken words. Begin with the end in mind and then step back as necessary.

Another important thing is honesty. You can be honest without being rude so long as you are constructive and/or purposeful. Most people perceive that as a strength called tact. Deception for the sake of niceness, even if subtle or just rhetorical, is generally viewed as a major personality flaw akin to cowardice.
3D printing will get there but at the moment it is much worse than GW’s plastic on basically every metric. They look great in renders but are very disappointing in person. Details are not that sharp, things get warped, printing leaves a lot of imperfections that are often difficult to hide or remove.

GW’s minis are expensive but they are good, fantastic even. They don’t have a monopoly, several other companies also sell very good minis, but injection moulding is expensive so scale matters here.

So sure, printed minis are better than Warhammer minis from 20 years ago, but none come anywhere near the good recent ones. The main thing going for printed minis apart from price is that it’s easier to have different poses and add some variety.
I feel like that's not even a sure thing going forward. Consider the present generation of adults. They might have grown up on early reddit, or forums, or even usenet. They have an expectation of how these things operate.

Meanwhile, take the new generation. Some of them might go on old.reddit.com, some of them might only get exposed to the new version of reddit, some of them might not go there at all. As a whole, I'd say a higher percent of online discussion users in newer generations are on a platform like a walled garden, than a self hosted forum or niche subreddit today. This affects their expections and what they understand the internet to be going forward. It affects what sorts of websites or services are able to exist going forward as well. Our concept of the internet will likely die out along with our generation.
I've used the arrival time on Google maps and it seems accurate enough but the A train run so often it's not really an issue so I rarely if ever look. Plus I use mta.info for updates to check for delays.
I agree that making Luke turn out better would have been one of many keys to its improvement, but I don't think that was done to be woke. If anything it was more regurgitation. They felt like he needed a hermit phase like Obi Wan.

Also, there were supposed to be positive male heroes in it, right? Finn, even Kylo Ren in the end, and the guy whose name I forget that's the pilot.

Having one of the key characters be a female hero goes back to A New Hope so I'm not sure if this is actually a good faith complaint.
I did some poking around with IPA way back in 2020 reasoning that if the phonetics were explicit maybe that'd be fine, but I didn't get anything that looked like a big improvement: https://gwern.net/gpt-3#ipa-rhyme-annotations My guess was that it doesn't see enough IPA to use it that way zero-shot, and the erasure of information by BPEs damages its learning fundamentally enough that you can't easily prompt your way into anything better.

I speculated that because it's memorized so much, it shouldn't be too hard for it to learn to rhyme properly if you finetuned it on an IPA-encoded or non-BPE-tokenized poetry corpus, but I never got around to it and AFAIK no one else has tried that yet.
Because of daylight savings time and time zones.
Does anyone know if the new Safari web app stuff means you can connect a web app to a widget?
Ask HN: Why is that Apollo thread being obfuscated?
It seems all day efforts were made to keep the Apollo post from #1 and now it is not on the front page?
> I believe the stats still back up that overall fatalities from military conflict have been at historic lows.

The argument can't be about overall fatalities, but about overall conflicts (and the numbers/proportion of people involved in such). Medical and sanitation technology alone has dramatically decreased the human-life cost of war, at least in proportion to total population.
Then you missed some incredible television. Everyone is grumpy for a damn good reason, and they do something about it. It's a story of ordinary people pushed to the limit fighting back against an evil that seems impossible to reason about, much less fight.
Nix will refuse to accept any cache substitution that it doesn't have a trusted signature for. And if you distrust their cache, you can always disable it entirely or replace it with your own.
It's like writing a blogpost in a conversational format. A way for you to share your thoughts with the world. If you only want to share them with a single person, a phone call would probably be better.
Yeah, with 64 bits we can go into 1/32768 of second precision and still not get any problem.
https://old.reddit.com/user/spez/comments/ still works well, of course.
I fear you might be right. But somehow, HN is a counter-example?

I rarely even see a bad joke, because we’re a self-selected sample of people who care about the edges of professional computing.

So I say, why not?
Animal fats. Not vegetable oils. Vegetable oils polymerize to a sticky substance. Animal fats carbonize and protect the metal. Also using a metal spatula is a must in cast iron. The metal spatula keeps the surface smooth which enhances the non-stick property. Also wash after use and spread a little fat in it to prevent rusting. Don't scour. Just wash with soap and water.
Chat Notebooks
Here are 20 in Europe: https://www.outsourceaccelerator.com/guide/top-medical-billi...
> What I hate about airports and hospitals is that they now force you to relinquish total control over your own sphincters in order to be there; that, I think, is why so many people die in hospitals. The loss of control.

Well, no.
I once bought a 32 core ThreadRipper and tried to get along with using a cheap £200 Windows 10 laptop to remote into the threadripper while in coffee shops and use the ThreadRipper to do my work.

The £200 Windows 10 laptop wasn't powerful enough, it was too laggy. Even on Wifi.

I love the idea of the X11 protocol. And I still love the idea of a web desktop. Something that is supremely well integrated and allows me to move workloads between client and server seamlessly. This idea I really like. The ability to outsource computation and storage seamlessly. A process can be moved between machines seamlessly.

This could be modelled in Javascript and promises that can be sent around. Microservices in the desktop environment.

I looked at tools that would bring up tmux sessions with everything preloaded. (https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator)

ScrapScript has very good ideas in this area of distributing dependencies and storage. (https://scrapscript.org/) There is also val town.

I never use KDE Plasma widgets or the sidebar widgets that Mac provided.

There is so many exciting ideas that could be tried out but I worry they're all too big ideas to be implemented.
The customer base was alienated because Bud Light made one (1) custom can of beer. Not one kind of custom can, literally only one can.

Strangely, Bud Light has made special cans for pride month for years now and no one much cared. Strangely, people are boycotting Bud Light specifically and Anheuser-Busch is largely ignored. Strangely, major beer companies have had much more prominent partnerships with trans people with no similarly hysterical reaction.

This is not a story that makes sense. Even from the perspective of the modern American right it doesn't make sense. It's just a herd of people freaking out for no reason.
Selling a product.
You can even go to nanosecond. The largest uint64 is

18446744073709551615

and epoch time now in nanoseconds is less than a tenth of that i.e.

1686340765688397824

You can go for another 500+ years safely on nanoseconds-as-uint64.

I fully disagree with using float64. It wastes bits on an exponent and you cannot safely use == to compare timestamps that have math done on them or have been converted to/from a string (including e.g. sent as part of a JSON).
If you are drinking before lunch, then you might be an alcoholic.
PrivateGPT in SQL
Other "KDE for" pages:

- developers: https://kde.org/for/developers/

- kids: https://kde.org/for/kids/

- creators: https://kde.org/for/creators/

- scientists: https://kde.org/for/scientists/

I really like this approach of presenting their apps and others through defined usage / user profile. It's a good discoverability mechanism for such a rich ecosystem as KDE.