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Cycling commuting distances/speeds, especially European-style, only counts as exercise for very sedentary people. Walking is barely exercise at all.. in the same time one could drive and also do some real exercise. Reading does make transit less bad, but usually only works on a familiar (no need to check for stops), transfer-free commute that's not very crowded. Otherwise if you time overhead vs reading (I've actually done it once in a place with bad traffic and relatively good buses, sadly I had a transfer) you can maybe get 30-40% of your commute as focused reading time and driving will still be faster in most places. Interestingly I think for that, transit is actually better on long inter-city trips, like someone I know commutes from Tacoma to Seattle during rush hour, it's I think 1:10 by train with no interruptions, or a 50min drive from hell. In that case I'd prefer transit :)

I think people just don't realize on gut level how fast driving is... someone mentioned Edinburgh as a place where it would never occur to them to drive. As it happens it was 5:30pm there when I plotted a random trip out of the city center to some residential area, it was 25min in "red" traffic vs 43min by transit, not counting overheads of waiting of course - so realistically x2 faster and that's from a city center. That was also my experience almot everywhere I lived or visited... you'd look at "terrible traffic" and wince, then you look at transit directions and drive/call a cab cause it's way faster anyway :)
I thought the same thing, so I went and looked at the paper, and unfortunately, the paper itself has some of these kind of speculative claims as well.
When did they roll it out? From what I can tell, this was in 2016? Why is there a shortage now then if it takes 3 years to get to captain?
>Can they afford more? How much more?

Apparently not then. Expectations of quality of life will have to be adjusted downwards (has already been happening).

Of course, society could stop giving healthcare to people 90+, or 80+, and reallocate some resources from there. It all depends on who has the political power in society, but generally, with a stagnant/decreasing younger age population, the fault lines will increasingly show along various age groups.
Absolutely, ultimate failures to replicate are generally multiple labs across dozens and dozens of attempts and continuous communication with the authors. And yeah, it's a thing in science in general, materials science is just particularly susceptible because of the nature of the work.
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Except it doesn't actually do that, because the game has all kinds of rules to prevent the functioning of the market.
Instead of dabbling with the windows API directly, a better option is to use the .NET WinForms API. You can use any CIL language like C# or VB.NET. Granted that it is a framework or toolkit like many others but one of the most efficient and relatively easiest to use that I've found so far. I've tried hello worlds with many other frameworks like Java Swing/AWT/SWT, Python Tkinter/PySide, Electron.js framework, etc. and none came close to WinForms API, especially when it's powered using the super efficient Visual Studio Community Edition.
I think user has to test by themselves. Vectorbenchmark support you to run the test by yourself on any cloud serivce or opensource deployment.
One of my guess is qdrant tune their parameters crazily on their benchmark.
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Ah yes, the three essential building blocks of electronics: NAND, NOR, 8051.
Quasi Technical users, unfortunately there are many, feel superior to ChatGPT for all wrong reasons. They actually feel empowered when ChatGPT responds with an apology. I think, this design is aimed at them.
The prof who taught us computational chemistry during masters basically said 90% of published results cannot be trusted and most people in this field don't really know what they're doing. Results can look seemingly good and stil be way off from reality, even for very simple molecules. This is a crystal lattice. I take dft and other computational results with a big grain of salt.
It's https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/model_doc/vivi...

I'm doing the most naive implementation possible at the moment though so it's likely I could improve it.

> UForm

Looks interesting. I'll have a play, thanks.

I'm surprised there aren't more options in this space actually
How can you replicate it before the paper with the stuff to replicate is published?
On one hand, yes, a new family will be discovered. On the other hand, high temperature superconductors like YBCO are very brittle and it does limit the applications. Traditional liquid helium-cooled superconductors still have to be used in many places.
Absolutely, Came to say this.
Yes, there was a paper published on an unsuccessful reproduction attempt from a Chinese team
It's the claim they're making, I don't know. Nature hasn't commented publicly at this stage.

If it was a flat-out rejection, the spin on the story may be an attempt to smooth things over and leave the door open to collaboration with Nature in the future. It comes across as the opposite of vindictive, and there's really no way this story makes Nature look bad with the authors saying this. On the other hand, if Nature had rejected it outright and then LK-99 is the real deal, I think that could have been embarassing for them.
Can you describe what an internal contour is. As far as I can tell from reading the article and linked pages, it's just an edge with a sharp drop off in depth map?
I think your exaggerating by saying it has nothing to do with science, even if most scientific thinking isn't focused on falsification.

Theories are the explanatory part to explain why a law or correlation occurs. The law can be falsified, but I think you're right, that it's very hard to falsify the theory portion.
My understanding is that the production process hasn't been fully figured out, even by the original lab. I saw some charts suggesting it took 332 tries to produce 2 similar samples.
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Sooo, a 770 GHz processor? Do I understand it correctly? Jesus.
Y'know, that's surprisingly on-brand for the company that owns tumblr, a website full of socially anxious introverts who would rather perish than make a phone call.
Sure and all of that is coming out in public with people's names and reputations attached to it. So we're certainly not behind on any of those issues. I say there are very real benefits too.
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And EDF learned the hard way at Olkiluoto about saying they can build something at a specified price.

The only way for nuclear or be built in advanced economies is to have some government provide subsidies far beyond what renewables have ever reviewed. And at least with renewables there was the goal of making it cheaper for the next round of production. We don't that get that benefit when we throw an extra $10B at a nuclear build.
Can I ask how you described the situation to a therapist? And how long did it take you to get up the energy to go to one?
What is with this webpage, it appears to be blocked by pretty much every browser?
Sheesh, I’m glad you’ve never interviewed me. What an odd trap to set.
I think we need vectordb bench on 100M level.
If you don't have 100M data, and you don't care about things like filtering and streaming insertion, I vote for PGVector since SQL is convenient enough.

However, for large dataset deployment, cost becomes more critical since vector search is computation intensive. Anything like es, mongodb and redis can not even share their results in the benchmark.

Also, if you are looking for more fancy features rather simply ANN, purpose built vector database has faster iterations than traditional databases
I disagree. The law of gravity is what you describe, masses attract, and is falsifiable. The theory, that masses are distorting and curving space to cause that effect, is very hard to falsify.
The City Museum in St. Louis https://www.citymuseum.org/ is a wonderful counterexample to this: there are tunnels, sky-tubes made of rebar, slides, and a school bus hanging off the roof, and pretty much everything there is designed to be climbed-on, explored, and experienced.

...at your own risk. There's a feature called the Big Pig. It's a huge bucket that fills with a few hundred gallons of water and tips over, pouring it all out. In doing so, the bucket slams into a stop. There's rebar between where people go and the bucket, but there's enough space to get under the rebar, and to the bucket, and right in the way of the water. A woman did that, and put her hands on the stop. The bucket came down, she lost the fingers on one hand.

And she's not the only one. Multiple people have demonstrated lack of good sense, and injured themselves, at the City Museum. The ticket booth has a sign crediting a ticket surcharge to multiple law firms that have sued the museum over the years.

If you're ever in St. Louis, The City Museum should be near the top of your list of places to visit! Just don't climb on the Big Pig!
One of the reasons it is so brittle is because it is still very cold even though it is high temp for a superconductor. Many materials will become brittle when cooled down that far. This is one of things people hope for with higher temp superconductors: that they will be less brittle. But less brittle usually also implies that a material changes shape easier and that in turn may affect the superconductivity. For instance when a large current runs through a superconductor that leads to strong magnetic fields and those strong magnetic fields will actively push against each other trying to destroy the conductor. A non-rigid superconductor would behave in ways that are not really helpful for instance by pushing it out of its superconducting domain (which would result in some pretty spectacular fireworks because suddenly all that power is available to heat up a small segment of the no-long-superconductor). So there is some chance that all materials that exhibit (useful) superconductivity will end up being somewhat brittle, and will need to be mechanically re-inforced.
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Who pre washes vegetables before putting them into the fridge? Wouldn’t that significantly decrease shelf life?
The people purchasing the top of the line, best in class Imperial refrigerator marketed toward postwar suburban families were not going to the small market nearby, they were going to a supermarket in their car to live the American Dream.

See the difference between the normal[1] and top of the line[2] friges.

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"Hiding" a file as a raw blob with a tag pointing to it, isn't bad if the thing should be able to expire.

If a thing is truly expired, then why have it fill-up the commit graph.

That said, a public key - even an expired one - may have value in keeping around: Verifying older historic releases.
Do you imagine that a human kidney cell in a dish has very different properties than a human kidney cell in a kidney?
It would be a variation on what's already out there right now. And the whole problem is that the recipe is vague, in other words even if they have a working sample they don't know exactly what goes into making it.
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It doesn't need to be through the web UI, it can be done through the cli.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...

Google Cloud has a similar gcloud compute ssh instance-name command, and I imagine there's a similar one on azure.
Al lot of people are hyped about this. Why? What, in a practical sense, does a room temperature superconductor enable for humanity?
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Transmission losses aren't really a big problem for the grid. Cost, geopolitics, and resiliency matters more. I don't expect superconductors to change much here.
I don't think most philosophers would agree with you.

One framing of determinism is that you can only choose from the options in your head, weighted by your preferences. Both your preferences and those options were acquired through your experience, so how can choose anything other than what your experience already influenced you to do?

It's fine to disagree, but do you find that "incoherent" and "self-evidently false"?
McDonalds employs the most cooks. They must have the best food.

Staffing count doesn't guarantee quality.
Also check out the excellent animation of this story in Love, Death & Robots. There's some other good Scalzi stories in there too, and other great stories (don't miss the episode Helping Hand[1] either).

[1] https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/helping-hand/
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None propagation. It such a pain to constantly check for None when accessing very deep nested structures (as I had to do often with JSON data).

There is a PEP for this[1] but it is currently deferred.

[1]: https://peps.python.org/pep-0505/
That's how they're exercising their free speech. Andrew Tate uses a similar strategy to coerce and limit his adversaries speech. It's absolutely fair to criticize and expose things you don't agree with. You're doing it right now. It's societal debate.

What's not good is when the government does it. Like Republican book bannings, show censoring, etc.

If you say something controversial and people band together to call you idiot is fine. If the government puts you in jail, not fine.
got an email address i can hit for this, I've started collecting notes and that would be better way to send them as I progress.
> near as I can tell from the photo there is no obvious bypass.
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Perhaps across the bridge the photographer is standing on .. ?

Can't see that? Nor can I.

Point being it's such a tight shot there could be any number of alternative routes, jumping across the stones needn't be the only path.
I like the idea of per merchant account numbers. Even better if we used some kind of cryptographic binding between the merchant account and your account, so it would not work for anyone else.
Or the n+1 "broker" sites that will sell you every chip under the sun, but don't have datasheets or any info for them.
> maybe 50 early deaths due to cancers

No long term deaths have been recorded yet.
But it isn't used for its predictive value here, it is used to verify that which is already known (or at least, strongly suggested to be known). That's different than coming up with a compound based on some hunch, this is modeling a compound with a known structure to check that for properties consistent with the expectations.

That's radically different from searching for a compound with particular properties, that is a much more error prone process.
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Damn! 2M dimension dense vector is huge. Maybe you need to do some dimensionality reduction before attempting ANN. Something like PCA should help.
> The very concept of “evidence” requires free will.

Interesting idea, I'm a bit sceptical but would love to learn more about this argument. Where does it come from?
No, though as a country we're still heavily skewed towards the"adventure" end of the adventure tourism scale, and you can only sue operators for the most egregious violations. (Not that visiting a wildlife park should be considered adventure tourism). For example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Whakaari_/_White_Island...
There is no doubt that NRC needs to be completely revamped. Maybe we can use a more productive model like the French have.
"Interviewing well" isn't just a matter of getting along with me. I pick resumes similar enough to what we already do (as most places do). If you can describe the day-to-day of what we do without much prompting that's a very strong signal you're a good fit. You don't need data for this beyond the experience of making a few bad hires and lots of good hires.

Like I said, the interviewing process is not much of a science. I'm nowhere close to the only person who does this. I've been on the candidate side of the interview process too you know.
Most of "The Road" absolutely kills me. But Scalzi wrote something that's etched forever into my brain:

“For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War
I mean it makes sense, if the Atomic Energy Commission already licensed the plant site, why shouldnt they be able to reuse it?
Indeed, the first theory of gravity was proven wrong.

Einstein's theory of general relativity falsified Newton's law of universal gravitation.

If you want to take this even further (which is a leap that would certainly upset most people's sensibilities) - Einstein proved that gravity doesn't exist. What does exist is the curvature of spacetime which explains all the phenomena which we used to attribute to gravity.

Einstein falsified gravity.
By default, most things assume that tags are immutable and won't check for updates to a tag. So tags aren't great for things that can expire or otherwise need to be changed.
Arguably if someone can google the “answers” to your interview questions in 20 seconds they aren’t good questions to ask anyway.
Cool! Induction is amazing.
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Effective communication and collaborating with a team is important competency to almost every role, while a few of the candidates may have technical skills and it was hard to identify in the interview, if they severely lack basic communication skills then it is likely they will not succeed in the job.

The exceptions are when the role requires and candidate has extraordinary (i.e. 10x) skills then most other typical requirements such as communication or behavior can be relaxed, such roles are not common and handling ( and interviewing) rockstars as a manager is special skill of its own.
Yes. 1000% yes. Individual cells in a petri dish act _dramatically_ different in innumerable ways. For 1 thing, they are much _much_ easier to kill or harm.
Something incredible to note: it took around 5 years from when the transistor was first developed, to when it started to get integrated into consumer goods. LK-99 appears promising (and at the very least, may lead to other tangentially interesting discoveries), and if this is “it”, we could see commercial applications far sooner, especially if the synthesis is relatively straightforward. We couldn’t be on a more exciting timeline.
Strictly speaking, plastics are only the polymers that can be used to make things by plastic deformation.

There are two kind of plastics, thermoplastics, which are heated until they become soft and then molded in the desired form. Besides the thermoplastic polymers, this kind of behavior is also exhibited by metals and glasses.

The second kind of plastics are the thermoset polymers, which are first made in a soft form, then molded in the desired form, and then they are hardened by various methods, e.g. by baking. Besides the thermoset polymers, this kind of behavior is also exhibited by ceramics and cements.

So while the plastics are polymers, many polymers are not plastics.

Most polymers that are made by the living beings are not plastics. Those that have a linear structure suitable for thermoplastics are degraded by heat, so they cannot be heated enough to become soft. Those that have a cross-linked structure like thermosets are already hardened and they cannot be reverted to a soft state.

So substances like wool, silk, leather, wood are not plastics, even if they are polymers.

One of the few natural plastics is beeswax, which has been used for many millennia as a thermoplastic material. Other examples are various kinds of pitch or resin extracted from plants, or bitumen.
It's open sourced. Why don't you take a look?
I disagree, what you are asking would just be a way to siphon information, and encourage that kind of rush behavior

Korea should protect its students and their work a little more if they want their own TSMC, Texas Instruments of Korea doesn't sound right
How many people have died in coal mines, had black lung, died from coal pollution etc. It's really no comparison. People are just flat out afraid radioactivity from nuclear because of movies and bad information campaigns. It -is- scary, invisible, can give you a death sentence in moment if you get a LOT of the right kind. I think human civilization dying out is a alot scarier to me.
Large infrastructure projects (and nuclear is certainly one) don't benefit from economies of scale.

If you do them regularly, then sure they do. You already have trained workers, an intact supply chain and contact with the regulators.
I'm not sure how serious you are with this comment, but feel free to look at the source code. It only has access to files you've explicitly added to the project directory.
personally onboarding folks seems to help a fair bit - they then tell their friends, and OnlineOrNot supports more use cases as a result
Coal miners are human too, they can adapt, people can pick up new skills.
Having both a bone to pick with socialism and using a “this time it’s different” argument in the same comment is more than a little incongruous.

Note that nobody in this conversation has disagreed about the virtues of building more nuclear power. The observation is solely that you’re asking for something that’s substantially harder than anything else humanity has ever done while handwaving everything else away. That just isn’t good argumentation.
Seems odd to me that you think I'm "bragging" or that 30 seconds is "a long time".

Most bicyclists can also easily maintain more than 5mph, that's a pretty slow jog.
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A constant load is only useful under limited circumstances, you would need to be either constantly starting and stopping your generator or wasting energy with a dummy load for this to work.

Could you do it? Sure. Does it completely negate the advantages of the turbine? Absolutely.
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Small nuance: I’m not offended by the restrictions but inconvenienced and therefore annoyed.
Thats already the plan for some coal sites. TerraPower (Bill Gates is the Chairman) wants to convert the first one in Wyoming.

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/doe-report-finds-hundreds...
> induction does not prove anything

Another benefit of a Bayesian approach is that you stop trying to "prove" things.
It is more reasonable to hypothesize that domestication cause this naturally, and livestock is only exempt because they are artificially selected the other way.
The point has always been that coal dumps far more radioative substance out to the environment that nuclear ever has, to tamp down illogical radiation scare information about nuclear power.
Nuclear is renewable and generates more than 50% of many countries electricity.
I had a similar experience. I'd been doing C++ for DOS with some x86 assembly for a couple years when I somehow got access to Visual C++ (probably version 5) with MFC. Just getting to Hello World took me a solid week. Eventually I wrapped my head around it, but moved to C#/WinForms as soon as that came out.
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I think about it from a “what would a hypothetical random person say”… it’s not intrinsically holding a view or set of facts, instead it’s holding a weighted average sum of what people have said and written, including all the conflicting viewpoints inherent in that.
Global warming is 100% snake eyes when you get down to the bottom line of "why nuclear?"
I see disinformation tactics more broadly as a long term effort undermining the idea that there is anything trustworthy. While there may be specific outcomes that an adversary might favour, the pollution of reasonable discourse alone is a win.