skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIU most synthesized tritium is from TPBAR rods (and also separated from drained reactor fluid); so it is possible, there just aren't many research institutions or indeed any production operations that do isotope separation from water?

FWIU evaporation doesn't work because Tritium/He3 crawls up the walls of the container it was in, because gravity.

Presumably nuclear research scientists have already considered centrifugation, titration, pressure / heat / boiling and other phase state transitions, Laser Nuclear Transmutation (*), reuse in a reactor with TPBAR rods designed to collect Tritium for later processing, and as fuel for peaceful civilian e.g. a D-T + (He3, He4) nuclear fusion electricity generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Bar_Nuclear_Plant > Tritium production (w/ TPBAR rods and waste casks that aren't yet repurposed for fusion research)

Fusion that takes heavy water as an input e.g. at a first stage facility that processes radioactive material and yields nonradioactives for a 'second stage' (?) facility would be great.

FWIU, that is what Helion does; though there aren't yet separate stages.

Do old casks of heavy water (dangerous nuclear waste from an old-gen nuclear reactor) contain significant amounts of recoverable Helium-3 due to the 12.3 year typical (*) half-life of Tritium?

Again, Helium-3 is a viable nonradioactive input to nuclear fusion reactions.
> I don't think they actually have to come up with a replacement for "something the person knows," they just need to prove it's already not there to be replaced.

I don't know what this means.

Once you've identified a person, you still have to authenticate that they aren't masquerading as someone else. The replacement I asked for is not "how do I identify who I am talking to", it's for "Right, now that I've identified them, how do I verify that it really is* them."*

If you want to do away with passwords, tokens are no replacement.

> With password managers, the password becomes more like something the person has anyway.

Maybe. The user still has to both identify and authenticate themselves to the password manager anyway, so you can give access to the password manager as a "something they know" anyway.
I don’t think this would suffice since the regulations would apply to EVERY iOS device, not just a specific iPhone.
Deltic – King of Diesels [video]
Because PG&E buys wholesale energy at 2-4c/kwh and distributes it broadly for 28-50c/kwh. why should it cost that much for delivery on the local set of wires?
No, this still allocates a new string array per each line.split call. It's not really a problem with variables. The variables are likely on the stack anyways, but they only store pointers to data on the heap. If you call any function that allocates data on the heap you cannot get away with that by moving the variable declarations.
Hey, I can shout-out my place of residence: Melbourne has one of these :-)

http://melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au/
Yeah I bet if they could do without the LOX they'd do it too. But for the oxidiser there is no choice but to use a compressed gas, obviously.
Looks neat. Do you guys plan to allow the use of custom AI models down the road? Especially for the enterprise use case.
> “free market” in the US gets more corrupt by the day

The US has a strong history of antitrust laws and splitting up companys for free markets sake. The globalization as well the digital markets change this, and its perfectly rational for the US to do nothing. Breaking up big tech would be in the interest of the consumer due to increased competition, but its not in the interest of US citizens. In the digital world we live in, competition could come from within the EU or China and that's worse, also due to geopolitical interest of the US. It is just smarter to live with the few oligopolists, as long as all of them are American.
Everyone already have built in browsers. If chrome was shutdown tomorrow its not like people would all go offline because they cant access the internet.
Libavif 1.0 Released with Stable ABI, Experimental AV2 Support
I suspect some fine tuning could solve this, or perhaps somehow train on 17lands.com pick orders to establish power levels?
From my experience, Apple prioritize recent iOS versions when issuing security fixes. Affected legacy iOS versions will get them too, just later. The previous security update landed on my old iPhone one or two weeks later than on the newer one.
I think disagree with every single point you brought up, having seeing exploits that involve all of them.
DHH removes TypeScript from Turbo framework
My understanding of we work issues is that they didn't have a problem with their office not being awesome, that had a problem with 1. covid and remote working effectively punching their business in the face, and 2. the board letting the ceo/founder being the owner of the real estate that we work then rented from him, and the rates of renting being what he wanted.

softbank woke up one day realizing instead of owning a ton of real estate, all they had was renting contract, and that's worth a lot less.
Yes of course, there are at least 2 ways. You can install from source or you can download the engine directly and install it without the launcher, this is what I did in my linux computer.
The sounds of my childhood, standing on the platform at Edinburgh Waverley, Ian Allen book of BR locos in my hand. 22 of these mighty bears, 23 if you include the testbed in the science museum London.

I believe the deltic and mini deltic lived on in marine and power engineering outside of trains.

The engine had a tone peculiarly its own. Almost a song.

Quite a nice cab, if you could persuade them to let you in at Haymarket depot
If it weren't illegal, we'd have better supply chain transparency, and your friend would have been less likely to have been sold a dangerously mislabeled substance.
Japanese has a lot of words for mother and unlike in English with mom, mommy and mother, they aren’t related.

The most common are okaasan (with a few variations of its own), haha and mama.

But mama is written with katakana suggesting it is a loan word. Which I find interesting in terms of the babble word theory.

It could also be katakana because it is considered derived from a sound like how onomatopoeia are often written in katakana, which would really support the babble theory.
Nation-state actors are just illegal criminal organizations, authorities, backed by governments. Above the law, with large budgets.
A quarter sounds about right, and that's a quarter of our debt that could've been used to rebuild decaying infrastructure, increase medical care, housing, etc. Aside from the monetary cost the country will loose out on the dividends those sort of investments would've yielded long term.

Sure the US may still have a higher quality of life than many others, it doesn't mean that Americans lives couldn't have been better. Also I believe the US recently actually had decreases in both life expectancy and younger generations prospering fincially. So we didn't collapse, but we're not healthy either.
Anecdotal. I've gone back to eating foods as you'd find them in nature or as close as I can get. Almost anything that requires refinement or processing I've completely cut out of my diet. Inflammation and injuries down, sleep is better and I've dropped 28kg whilst eating more and being less hungry. The modern diet pushed by governments and most health professionals didn't work for me and, after considerable study and making the changes I have no regrets.
> having 25 Node.js instances running for three hours to parse 200GB of data seems like an indication that something isn't quite right.

That’s about 700kb/s.

I’m all for playing with rust, but this post strikes me as engineers being distracted by shiny new things because they are only able to parse a TSV at 700kb/s?

You should be able to understand why your current system performs so absolutely terribly before you decide to rewrite it in any language.

Hand-waving at the garbage collector whilst seemingly doing very little to understand what’s happening doesn’t convince me that there isn’t another, possibly pretty obvious issue going on.
Just set parental control on your mom’s devices.
Okay I looked up the team and agree they are brilliant, but I still don't know if I trust them to make this open in the longterm. Why can't they open it on Github but just not accept PRs?
My theory is not just giving people a browser but giving them the best possible experience. Chrome has an enormous market share given every OS and device comes with a free web browser. Further the developer experience using Chrome is also superb!
The grid has maintenance costs, especially in California, where there is a lot of deferred maintenance that needs to be done. Distribution costs (which don't really scale with usage) are about 50% of the average monthly bill. Is the grid worth $50/month to you? It certainly is to me, and a $30-50/mo grid bill would be in line with the monthly connection costs for Gas and Water, which don't use the silly usage-only billing method that Electric does.
The summaries and comments need spacing/line breaks. I think right now the original HN site is still way better. Maybe have it produce bullet points or explicitly ask for line breaks in the relevant places. It's just not pleasant to read unbroken walls of text once they're more than about 1-2 sentences (yours appear to be at least 3+).
Two words of Finnish origin seem pretty universal: sauna and rapakivi.
The interesting thing about Japanese is that, unlike most other languages, it writes loanwords differently than native words: they're written in the katakana character set rather than kanji (Chinese characters) or hiragana. So "pan" is one of these, since it was borrowed from Portuguese.

This rule isn't absolute, though: coffee has a (rarely-used) kanji version, and tobacco ("tabako") is written in hiragana, as is tempura. Sometimes if the word is old enough, it gets treated as a native word.
Setting to null doesn't release the memory. It only erases the reference. You still need to wait for the GC to complete.
It also prevents user from installing apps that the government doesn't approve off.
I think all drugs should have licenses that can be obtained and taken away. I think it’s ok to require IDs and a certain level of test performance. Heck, I wish alcohol was the same (at least for 18-20 year olds).
The majority of consumers at home would against spot pricing like that. California already has time-of-use pricing. Peak hours are 4-9pm when there's no solar. Peak usage is people coming home from work, turning on their lights, stoves, hot water, ovens, air conditioning, etc. Are they supposed to not do that?

Raising those rates too much would just be raising rates for everyone, just so those who are rich enough to afford solar panels and batteries make more profit.
It works but it shows phone numbers rather than contact names and you can’t assign a name to a number without giving access to your entire contacts … it ticks me off.
Wouldn't you then end up with code suggestions based on the style guide of a single company and limited set of languages?

It probably would not be a very desirable product in the end.
There are isolated instances of this, but it is not all that common. Nearly all Californians can go off-grid, if they want to and can afford the costs.
Google can also use people's IP address since so many use Gmail, Android, YouTube or Google Sync.
On the most important level,...yes.

...But also, Adobe invests a LOT more in developing proprietary, highly customized and specialized, highly sophisticated software in-house and from scratch. The Grindr app seems much
closer to the "built with generic open source lego blocks" side of the spectrum, no? Maybe it is not so clear-cut and drastic, as they probably also have a lot of custom tech - e.g. matchmaking / trust&safety algos? - and Adobe IS using lots of OSS building blocks as well, I expect. But still, I do think there's a difference.

But going back to the first part - I appreciate your implicit point, but most any company is best served by thinking about itself first and foremost as an [its function] company. So yes, Adobe IS an artist tool company more so than / before it is a "tech company".

If the companies that dominated the artist tool market before computers had had the good sense to think of themselves in this flexible, adaptable, big-picture way (instead of as paint-chemtech companies or whatevs) there's every chance one or more of them would have the $$$ that has instead gone to Adobe. They already had the customer & vendor relationships, the brand awareness, etc - i.e., the hard parts.

If you are a poker player, it's likely that it currently makes sense for you to play NLHE almost exclusively. That doesn't mean that it's correct or in your best interest for you to think of yourself as a NLHE player rather than a poker player.
I actually made a small hobby site that generates Magic cards using gpt (you can choose 3.5 or 4): https://mtgcardgenerator.com

You'll need to log in though so I can keep costs under control, but it's a lot of fun to play around with :)
Out of interest, when was the last time a company was split up in the US? I can’t think of one in the last ten years.
The maintainers can be compromised though. Is every single version of every single "vetted" package / maintainer also vetted?
But one swimmer worked really hard to beat out the other billions.
It's useless to me as I cannot share teams desktops (at least the last time I tried). Game over totally.

The idea that it's fun for some developers because they get to try things is of no use to users like me. I also question that fun if people are trying to get important features out and cannot because someone doesn't accept the use case.
There are nice spots, but a lot of them do not want you organizing events inside them. Like many things this is all pretty funancialized (it doesn’t help that new constructions are almost all filled with chains staffed by part-time staff).

On top of that parks don’t tend to have that many tables (Yoyogi exists but Yoyogi is one park).

Community spaces kinda work but you need a quorum of people who live in the ward, so there’s some startup difficulties there.

Chess isn’t that popular but it’s a hell of a lot easier in many places to just take over a space during sleepy weekend AMs.
If anyone from Apple marketing/leadership is out there... as a tech savvy but plain jane iPhone user - I really do just want a bubble wrapped, walled garden iPhone experience where everything just works and I don't have to read every scary sounding "iPhone has been hacked" click bait article in breathless suspense only to read the fine print to find the end user in question was dabbling in some sketchy third party app.

I feel the same. However, Apple has been playing with fire with their 30% cut and people have been warning for years that this would be a likely outcome in non-US regions. Now the outcome is worse for both Apple and users who prefer the security of the iOS ecosystem.

I really think that Apple could have/could still head this off by introducing a separately branded edgier "dev" phone for people who want to live on the cutting edge.

That ship has sailed. The new EU regulations require that both phones have side loading.
Gender comes from french genre, latin genus, same origin as generic and and means class/kind/sort it just shifted in meaning and now doesn't fit that well anymore.
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This is only tangentially related to the post, but one thing I feel sore about is the lack of consolidation of computer algebra efforts. A computer algebra system is one of the most difficult pieces of software to build and make/keep useful, yet it continues to be reinvented decade after decade. (All while Mathematica in the background continues to improve unboundedly.) Seriously, it's easy to pour person-centuries of time into a CAS and still not achieve state-of-the-art. We have Maxima, Axiom and its two (!) forks, SymPy, REDUCE, Symbolics.jl, Mathics, SageMath, FORM, Yacas, Xcas, etc., but there's been no clear leadership to really make for a clear and unequivocal open-source success story. Symbolics.jl is the latest one to join the pack, starting in 2021, while Maxima began its life in 1967—a whopping span of five decades. From this blog post and its predecessor, it's clear that SymPy needs an overhaul at its core. (I personally believe building a CAS on Python is a mistake and predestined for eventual failure.)

If I could wave my magic wand, I'd have Axiom (or one of its forks) be the "winner" that everybody rallies around, with a change in leadership around it. It has the most advanced math, and it was built by the titans of computer algebra research. To this day, despite being developed by a skeleton crew, it does math no other "more modern" CAS can do. And it's built on a sane language that will never die.

The world deserves a robust, supported, high-performing CAS. Computer algebra could be as ubiquitous to computation as ordinary arithmetic, but everything non-commercial just falls short for general use.
Give every iPhone User the option to switch modes. ;)
Yes. Very commonly they change a feature, put the old behaviour behind a config setting (flag), then silently remove the flag later.
I am using git flow for a project that is around since 2012, I'm pretty much the single developer on said project. gitflow it keeps everything very orderly and I had no issues. Whenever I make a release I have to look up the workflow but that only takes a minute.

Due to the criticism that I came across over the past few years it's unlikely I would use it for a new project though.
Ask HN: Would you need a phone instant messenger with PGP encryption?
I am considering developing an instant chat messaging application that utilizes PGP encryption, possibly as an open-source project. One of the key features would involve enabling key exchange exclusively through in-person interactions, ensuring that keys do not traverse the internet.
Do you think this is needed or would used by someone else?
That decision would be an insanely huge monetary blow to Apple that is absolutely not in line with the few percent drop they might get from a slightly fewer installs on the AppStore. Even if the EU law is instantly reversed, that would still make a lot of people angry at Apple, or they might have already bought Android and won’t turn back for years.

The Brussels effect is very effective!
> The fact that buying big solid things like cars has typically, thus far, in our society, meant owning every physical piece of that thing, doesn't and shouldn't override what it says in the contract.

I think I'm not alone in saying that yes it SHOULD override what it says in the contract. You can write whatever you like in contracts, but that does not make it reasonable behavior.
Maybe not too cold, but definitely too hot to be in direct sunlight.

I meant chill in the “not caring that you are playing chess in the place”. Most cafes or restaurants here have express rules against playing card games or the like at tables, for example (for good reason)
But... I just want a "plain jane" iPhone that won't stand out, but does what I want it to do.

Apple could just introduce an extra setting to unlock the phone for developer mode, the same way Sailfish does. Then there's an option to install a terminal with easy SSH access, and away we go!

No need to spend time on new non-Appley designs. This fits right into their existing environment, and probably already exists in some form.
I never said that it got them via the play store. If an application has that permission in the manifest it should get rejected by Google if they don’t conform to their use cases.

They’re free to publish the APK themselves if they want tho
Many of the recent bannings haven’t been accidental combos though, they’ve just been power creep. Wizards is in a tough spot these days because Commander players and people playing cube want a constant stream of new cards that have to be usable in an eternal format.

One good result of this power creep, if anything, has been that Wizards is increasingly willing to _unban_ cards which are no longer overpowered.
"The crash dumps, which redact sensitive information, should not include the signing key. In this case, a race condition allowed the key to be present in the crash dump. The key material's presence in the crash dump was not detected by our systems."

The Windows maker said the crash dump was moved to a debugging environment on the internet-connected corporate network, from where Storm-0558 is suspected to have acquired the key after infiltrating the engineer's corporate account.
Unpopular opinion incoming: the move to legalize drugs is a society-wide experiment that will end very badly for everyone affected by it.

From the article:

> Criminal justice reform advocates said decriminalizing psychedelics is a step toward ending a war on drugs

This assumes ending the war on drugs is a good idea. In fact, it is a bad idea on an individual level as well as a society level.

On an individual level, it is likely that all of these drugs are harmful. We know all pharmaceutical drugs have negative side effects, and they are only meant to be prescribed by a doctor who weighs the costs and benefits. Why would recreational drugs be any different? Alcohol, the most common recreational drug, has terrible health effects on individuals. Are we supposed to believe marijuana or LSD or DMT will be somehow harmless?

On a society level, legalizing recreational drug use will contribute to the social decay. Recreational drugs are a way to withdraw from society. Even if most people do not become addicted, many will, and the addicts will wreak havoc on society.

Look at alcohol: alcoholism is a bad thing. Anyone who has seen it in their family or friends knows this. Alcohol is associated with drunk driving and violence. And alcohol is a substance with a long, long history of regulation and social conventions. It is the "best case" out come for a recreational drug, with a huge amount of mitigating forces.

Are we really to think that throwing in 10 new drugs in the span of a few decades is going to end well for society?
Option C. (shutdown unprofitable project) would be preferable for me ;)
Agree - the time to have launched a "dev/gamer" phone (maybe call it the xPhone with xOs) was probably 2 years ago when they first got a whiff of these regulations.

They could then have done a more controlled experiment on a subset of willing participants and had a much smaller blast radius if things got really hacked.

Now that the regulations are here its too late.
Midjourney is a limited set of models and (to me at least) much easier to spot than Stable Diffusion output, with it's giant array of custom models, LoRA's, textual embeddings and tricks like HiRes fix and upscale script.
Explain how a person who makes a mistake with mushrooms can render a neighborhood uninhabitable for generations?
Thanks for this info! I’m over near Asakusa so it’s a bit of a trek but seems fun