skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People will write complex moral and legal reasoning.

I'll tell you the simple answer. They don't want to pay for the books because they can get it for free. Simple as that.
It's a large 800MW reactor that is used to produce commercial power. I think it does qualify as an industrial.

> Moreover it only runs MOX now (far from a complete closed cycle), just as many classic REP do (for example in France).

It's right now the only commercial reactor that runs _completely_ on MOX. French reactors can work at most at 25% MOX fuel load, I believe. CFR-600 in China will be the second commercial reactor capable of 100% MOX fuel operation some time next year.

This is a step towards the closed fuel cycle. MOX fuel in BN-800 uses natural uranium (not enriched) and plutonium. It does not _breed_ enough plutonium to sustain itself, though.

> Therefore Russia doesn't decline those 'BN' reactors, and it isn't because they aren't interested in industrial breeding because they are back to the drawing board with a small (lab) reactor of another architecture (lead-cooled)

I know :) I've been following this for a decade. BREST-300 is developed by a competing organization, but they are even further from the actual reactor construction.

Right now, Russia just doesn't need more electricity, there's an excess of generating capacity. The plan had been to export electricity and technology to Europe and other countries, but "something has happened". And now all the financing goes towards "other needs".

Sigh.
I would guess for EMI isolation. Their PCBs are not shielded, nor are the coils of the heater. So it's just simpler to put metal stickers on the case at select points to pass the EMI inspection.
Spotting Silent Pod Failures in Kubernetes with Grafana
In basic economics, you have a supply curve and a demand curve, and where they meet is the price. If there's more demand than supply, the price goes up (think about an egg shortage from avian flu). If there's more supply than demand, the price goes down (think about halloween candy on November 1st).

To ask "how long" you have to ask when will the demand decrease or the supply increase.
I think (neo)vim has many years ahead, but also think the market overlaps with vscode. I believe that, for the average users, defaults, including a default plugin marketplace makes most of the difference.
It would be interesting to see some proper data about user editor preferences
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
1. It's almost as long as the abstract.

2. Yet it manages to leave out all the details mentioned in the abstract.

3. Some of the text is wrong, e.g., "The idea was that sticking to a strict 6-hour window". Instead, the idea was "circadian rhythm by dietary strategy," which follows as a logical step from the very first sentence. 6 hour TRF was an arbitrary step in this process. It also doesn't mess with the cancer's body clock, as the summary says, but with the host's.

4. The concluding remark, "by controlling when mice ate, researchers were able to slow down the growth of lung cancer," suggests hope (as does "the findings were promising", which does not have relation to the article) when in reality they found a small effect in lab cell lines and mice, and a very artificial diet. It also omits that chemically induced cancer had less chance on the diet, as well as the cautions at the end of the discussion.

5. Given the statistics, it is uncertain this can be reproduced fully.

6. And I think the last sentence "combine ... better chance" is an unnecessarily emotionally charged misinterpretation of "Combining TRF with TIM inhibition further enhanced the anti-tumor effect." The effect of this treatment is worse than chemo-therapy, and the combined effect is unknown.

It simply does not do a good job. It's as bad as superficial science journalism, i.e. click-bait, but nobody even looked at it, let alone thought about it, before pasting it on a publishing medium. Nobody is responsible for this text. It could have said the opposite, and no-one would have batted an eyelid.
Long live the Fireball checker-retirement unit and its double clocked pulse generator logic.
I'm less comfortable with buttons on steering wheel. I'm left handed and I drive with that hand, leaving my right hand free to change gears or handle controls, which I do by feel, by knowing where each one is. Knobs that you can turn and push, and provide feedback are great for that.
OK, not liked. But why?
Is that phrase used commonly? And would it normally be used in private, or is it more socially acceptable to say these things?

Where I live, wishing anything bad happens to your neighbour or even a stranger would be plainly understood to be unkind, unreasonable, and generally mean to some degree (depending on the severity of what you wished on the person).
AI Song Contest 2023
The representation for uncomputable functions will be uncomputable, of course. There's only a countable number of computable functions, so most functions are uncomputable, but that usually doesn't stop mathematicians from proving theorems about them.
> Like most ordinary folks, my threat model is the use of TPM for DRM.

TPM is pretty much useless for DRM.
Demonstration of bias in AI-generated images
summary of https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/a...
The paper only gives a representation result, so no method is known yet for constructing the component functions `g` for the discontinuous case. See the last paragraph of the Conclusion.

It may turn out that the correct representation can be constructed using an alternate method than backpropagation. But this is still an open question.
That makes sense, thank you for your great reply.

As someone without much mathematical ropes, this might also be related to non-integer algebra and the distinction of "smooth" (edit: or differentiable) and discontinuous functions, no?

> The functions maximum and minimum are arithmetic functions as important as addition and subtraction. The only reason for which they have not been counted among the basic arithmetic functions is because when computed by a human they required much less effort than even addition
I hope you don't drink bottled water... it's just tap water from some exploited municipality
I don't want that. Cloudflare's customers want that. Cloudflare was embarrassed and needs to listen to the feedback they're receiving.
That sounds like something that's easily fixable with battery saving options. Basically, when in battery, don't do that. That would be a good default.
Anthropic has a recent paper that talks about this [1]. See figure 16 in particular. The larger the model, the more it generalizes between languages.

On the other hand, no matter how large the model they struggle to generalize between sentences of the form "George Washington was the first US president" and "The first US president was George Washington".

Clearly generalization behavior is unintuitive, you can come up with a post hoc explanation (weights are independent between early and late layers) but I doubt anyone would have thought ahead of time that models would have an easier time generalizing between languages than between slightly different ways of saying the same thing in English.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.03296.pdf
There are at least 400 of the S&P 500 companies that I don’t meaningfully understand what they do, how exactly they make money, what their defensible moats are, etc.

I still invest in S&P 500 ETFs and believe that to be prudent.
I’m not really sure what point you’re trying to make. The people in the US are linked to each other by history, culture, language, and a million other things that they don’t have to a random group of people halfway around the globe. I don’t know what is so complicated or difficult to understand about this.
I always thought it was a trapezoidal prism
I am not sure as I was a software engineer on those and it was a few years ago. I would like to say cost constraint but I do not really know. But the mechanical engineers seemed way more confident with the single motor.
Hah, I really like how light the steering feels on my car, but I only started to drive recently. It is certainly more pleasurable to drive than the car from the driving school.

As for touchscreen, although the car has one, I can control music and volume through physical buttons on the wheel, and there is a panel with physical buttons for AC/heating.

I always feel a bit confused when people complain about new cars, my experience has been great.
By the sense of the word "elementary", the maximum and minimum functions are exactly as elementary as addition and subtraction.

Most textbooks define a set of elementary functions which does not include maximum and minimum only because they use "elementary" as an abbreviation for "elementary and differentiable", and they do not bother to explain this to the students.
I’m on ios16, can’t update for unrelated reasons, perhaps it’s that. Other than this, I’m on 13 pro max.

To elaborate, the website loads, I can click “sandbox mode”, I see background being drawn, a sprite appears and then the page reloads.
The restriction is that it requires an activation function depending on the function it is approximating. Hence, if you want the NN to emulate an uncomputable function, the activation function probably has to be uncomputable as well.
I've made a JSON parser which works like this too. No dynamic memory allocations, similar to the JSMN parser but stricter to the specification.

Always nice to be in control over memory :)

https://sr.ht/~cryo/cj
I know not to hope for it to ever catch on, but my dream date-time format would be:

year/day/hectosecond.second(.millisecond and so on to the desired precision)

The current date-time, to the second, would be 2023/308/342.65

The days, like the years and second-based units, are 0-indexed.

There are 100 seconds in a hectosecond, and normally 864 hectoseconds in a day.

And to go with it, I'd advocate either a "3-on, 2-off", or "6-on, 4-off" work cycle, depending on the nature of the work, or even just personal preference. This way, today(308) would obviously be on a "weekend" either way.
> misinformation

Take your comment in this thread as an example. You criticized other auto manufacturers for their role in a “horrific” mess of charging standards for not adopting what was until recently a Tesla proprietary charging system that they had no option to use.
Damn that non-replacable watch battery which keeps the real time clock going when unplugged. I've had to almost completely disassemble a couple of Zojirushi rice cookers to replace that.
Yes, but you'll need to enter a long password on every boot.
a lot of heat pumps in usa are air to air and have an electric heater in the heat pump to generate the heate when temperatures get so cold that air to air is not effective. without a geothermal system to extract the heat from, they get very expensive to run in very cold Temps when compared to gas hearing. Hensel why the myth that they don't work. no one thinks they don't work, they just think it's a worse solution than natural gas.
Does this work well with the latest Plasma desktop? It was last updated three years ago and there is a comment from two years ago asking "With all the visual changes in the Plasma iterations will you update the theme a bit to incorporate those changes?"

At the very least, I'm thinking that general improvements in Plasma and KDE in general would improve some of the font rendering, consistency, and other nitpicks some other comments here are bringing up.
Shows the superiority of the software artists at silicon valley
Some kinds of mushrooms take up lead And other toxic materials.

I only found this out because edible mushrooms grew in my yard, but they are warned in literature that they may contain heavy metals, as my well water contains 3ppb lead I wasn’t confident to eat them.

I also found this article for you, https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2019/03/05/mushrooms...

I grow my own turmeric and ginger with reverse osmosis filtered water indoors, perfectly lead free, and it tastes amazing when it’s fresh
Andreas Fredriksson demonstrates exactly that in this video: https://vimeo.com/644068002
I thought that was normal at least when writing or saying things.

Use of either mechanical displays or on computers time selecter widgets does mean that 24 is not shown anywhere,
Apps vs. Platforms
If you came to this conclusion, then you definitely did something wrong. Such a definition is useless in practice. You need a definition that allows you to cathegorize information and sources of information, to deal with them in different ways.

What I can agree is any information shift your beliefs. I can agree that any update of beliefs is beneficial for some entity. I can probably agree that any source has an agenda and tries to shift your beliefs for someone's benefit.

But if we conclude from that that everything is propaganda it would be a loser's thing to do.

Facts are meant to shift your beliefs. Beliefs are meant to be shifted by facts. The trouble when your beliefs are manipulated so they lose coherence with a reality. While they reflect reality without major mistakes, they are good.

So I'd say that propagandness of a source is a measure of my cognitive efforts needed to not let my beliefs to slip from a good enough picture of a reality while consuming information from that source.

It is not rigorous enough definition, but it is a good starting point.
So "The guy running this site" should be "The people running this site" then.
Faster than Rust and C++: the PERFECT hash table [video]
Architecture doesn’t matter as much in the cloud. If the backend servers are running storage, kv store, load balancers, etc it doesn’t matter if it is arm or x86. Arm is lower power so you can cram more compute into the same 480V chassis. If architecture doesn’t matter and density improves at lower cost , there’s an opportunity for arm to swoop in. If ampere executes to plan they will succeed where cavium failed.
In my opinion, Musk used to have the golden touch. But his Twitter takeover and its aftermath shows he has lost it. And it looks like he’s becoming more and more like Howard Hughes in his later life in that his oddness and eccentricities seem to keep increasing. We’ll see if that happens or not.
You'll have the same issue even with hand written code? I'd say the solution is that we need semantic diffing to show GUI changes.
That’s how the fossil fuel industry describes it, yes, but that’s just them trying to avoid competition. For example, the 2021 winter outages were caused by power plant operators not wanting to spend money making their plants more robust. During this summer’s heat dome, solar was reliable on days when gas, coal and nuclear power plants were offline due to the heat.
A funny/sad aspect of it is that I get the impression that violation of the /^(?<first>\S+) (?<middle>\S+) (?<last>\S+)$/ custom isn’t even all that rare in the USA because it’s still moderately common to reuse names and add ordinals, a practice which has largely fallen out of practice in other English-first countries (so that violation of the convention has become rarer in them, though certainly there are other deviations—e.g. I have a great aunt with no middle name).

Poor old John Smith Ⅳ (pronounced “John Smith the Fourth”) probably gets turned into the initials “JI” (because let’s be real, he actually wrote “IV” rather than “Ⅳ”).
Here's a little something to give you nightmares then: https://www.edn.com/toyotas-killer-firmware-bad-design-and-i...

"[The expert witness concluded that] Toyota’s electronic throttle control system (ETCS) source code is of unreasonable quality. Toyota’s source code is defective and contains bugs, including bugs that can cause unintended acceleration (UA)."

There are details in the article. It's horrifying stuff. My personal favorite aspect: "The Camry ETCS code was found to have 11,000 global variables."
Ahem..his name is Billy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bladerunner
> Most companies would consider "the upgrade sometimes bricks the device" to be a release-stopping bug

I've run into such horrific bugs during pretty normal use that I don't think this anymore.
a + b + a * b
Forgot to say: everyone's welcome to our community Discord server, which we opened a few days ago. There's anything about devops, Kubernetes, GPUs and cloud computing in general.

https://discord.com/invite/wt8GzF8aG4
Typical "pseudoscience speak".
But it's still not helpful with AM/PM. If I see 12 and it's dark outside then I know it's midnight, otherwise it's noon, and that's what I will say to someone who will ask "what time is it?". I still don't know if it's PM or AM.
How exactly are you proposing he tests this without access to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of compute? Toy models don't work for this kind of thing, small language models behave qualitatively differently from large ones.
I was aware of that, not sure what it has to do with the conversation here though. Nor what a failing visiting your mum on weekends is.
My elected representatives are too busy enriching themselves to do their jobs.
Because they are pretty annoying to implement and most are quite fragile
What other protections might you expect it to provide?

Being unable to retrieve the data on protected drives (which could include cookies, passwords, ID, photos/videos, etc.) is the value.
There’s nothing about the stock market that AI models are going to be able to expose that is not already known. An AI in this context is just an overly complex bot. It’s only trying to take advantage of the margin, as you say, but the market is not predictable enough to gain more than that. So to me, AI doesn’t really have use case in trading.

Manipulation of the market is already illegal. Whether that’s effectively enforced is a different question.
I haven't read him, but Vernor Vinge was also a mathematician.
mods: typo in title ("srategies")
A little different, but Fallen Dragon by Peter F Hamilton scratches the same itch for me.
Last time I compared the performance of various json parsers the simd one turned out to be disappointingly slow.
> competing against them is prohibitive

Can you explain this part? Do you mean it's prohibited, as in the FTC's actions/policies mean small companies are not allowed to compete? Or do you mean that it is difficult, as in small companies are not able to compete?

Part of the reason big tech does so many acquisitions is to reduce the amount of competition they face from what they see as competitive threats. We might not see startups with broken/unsustainable business models anymore, but that's a good thing.

If big tech can't buy out their competition, they will need to actually compete. History has shown that entrenched monopolists can't compete with smaller and more innovative companies. Consumers and the economy will benefit more from those types of companies growing into their own things rather than merging them into the existing big tech behemoths.

What would the world look like today if Facebook (or any other giant) wasn't allowed to acquire Instagram? Instagram could've continued to grow, they could've acquired more funding, poached users from Facebook, etc. That could've inspired some other social media startups, and they'd be fighting it out with Instagram/Facebook too. Everybody (except maybe Facebook) wins in that situation.

Alternatively, imagine where TikTok would be right now if they were an American company and Facebook actually had the opportunity to buy them out early?
If I could edit the comment after a few hours, I would fix the spelling. Apologies! (Ante meridiem & post meridiem)
Yup and if your implementation uses a hashmap for object key -> value lookup, then I recommend allocating the hashmap after parsing the object not during to avoid continually resizing the hashmap. You can implement this by using an intrusive linked list to track your key/value JSON nodes until the time comes to allocate the hashmap. Basically when parsing an object 1. use a counter 'N' to track the number of keys, 2. link the JSON nodes representing key/value pairs into an intrusive linked list, 3. after parsing the object use 'N' to allocate a perfectly sized hashmap in one go. You can then iterate over the linked list of JSON key/value pair nodes adding them to the hashmap. You can use this same trick when parsing JSON arrays to avoid continually resizing a backing array. Alternatively, never allocate a backing array and instead use the linked list to implement an iterator.
Yeah, but this is the problem - why noon is "afternoon"?
Itanium succeeded in one area: giving armchair “experts” a chance to sound smart on forums like this.
It’s more direct than that. Most obits in the paper are paid for.
I had tried getting into a vim about a year and a half ago, I used chris@machines LunarVim and I think that about after about a month I quit. I struggled with learning vim motions and how to configure it. Granted, I may like it more now that I know more.
But, this video got me to try neovim again and I have not switched off for a few months now. I daily drive now and it is thanks to this video. The configuration is simple to understand and a lot easier to come to grips with. The video is a little outdated in that some parts don't match with how the configuration is set up now, but it was easy to figure out how to work with it (sorry my memory isn't great on what issues I ran into, skimming through the video it seems like Packer->Lazy is one).
This is very neat, I love the idea of using the syntax tree to guide what can be parallelized vs. not.

As some additional background, there's a very good reason why the F# language typechecks files sequentially. Because F# supports type inference at every scope, a single change in the body of a function can result in cascading type changes across an entire project. This kind of change can not only affect other files, but other files inside of other projects in the same solution.

A way to curb these kinds of cascading changes is explicit type annotations and/or signature files, which "lock" the type signature for a given construct/file. And the F# compiler has had optimizations in place when signature files are used to know when to re-check stuff based on this. However, these didn't extend to the sequential typechecking of files, and for the large majority of codebases that don't use signature files, these optimizations didn't really kick in anyways.
welcome to the warner family, bro
It’s not accurate to call keto well studied wrt cancer or that it doesn’t work. It’s an active area of research and there are many studies showing positive effects, but most/all study designs are limited. It’s also true that without a clear path to making a drug, big expensive studies like large scale human trials are not likely to be funded.
Those are just cases with no proven causation. Show me a randomized controlled trial with multiple subjects. Persisting in delusional beliefs is not a path to health.
> I didn't pay anything for it

You paid 6+ presumably stressful hours of your time. That sounds like a crazy high price to me that you should be able to bill them for.

I wonder whether they could've done it faster if they were required to reimburse you for the time and nerves you had to spend to get them to fulfill their (assuming you were within warranty) law-mandated responsibility of providing you with a product that works as described.

How did you even get to the point of talking to them on the phone? When I last had a problem (extreme instability up to full crashes when RAM pressure is high, which is apparently a problem with every single ARM Mac out there) they wanted me to come into an authorized store as the first thing.

I eventually caved in and just bought a machine with bigger RAM. My god, I can't imagine spending several hours over several days turning the device off and on, resetting NVRAM and re-installing the system ...