skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tl;dr luke perry died and was buried in a mushroom suit that didnt do anything to his body

why? wrong article
You're right- your submission was earlier. It's a bit random which version of a story makes the frontpage, so a lot of luck is involved. I'm sorry that a later thread ended up capturing the attention—there's not much we can do about that, but I've removed the "[dupe]" flag from your submission now. I hope this helps.
Systemd means replacing your at least somewhat standardised shell scripts with an underdocumented, underspecified, opaque scripting language. It's not an improvement.
That is not a realistic or sensible option.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/14/andreessen-horowitz-backs-...
Can comets deliver prebiotic molecules to rocky exoplanets?
How is the headline deceptive? If you can trust the source, the statistic holds for individuals aged 1-17, as is written in the first sentence:
"In 2020 and 2021, firearms contributed to the deaths of more children ages 1-17 years in the U.S. than any other type of injury or illness"
Part of it is the hype cycle.

The other part is that everyone working on them is very confident they will get a lot better at what they are doing today, and will gain new abilities. The kind of programming from the video, conversationally building software, is something that seems to have a high likelihood of happening within the next few years.
Something like 20 tons (!) of fuel rods, almost the entire load, melted. [https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graphic_TMI-2_Core...]

It took years to find that out though.

The containment vessel held, and most of the radiation released was in the form of xenon and krypton gas vented from the reactor.

“ It was later found that about half the core had melted, and the cladding around 90% of the fuel rods had failed,[21][76] with 5 ft (1.5 m) of the core gone, and around 20 short tons (18 t) of uranium flowing to the bottom head of the pressure vessel, forming a mass of corium.[77] The reactor vessel—the second level of containment after the cladding—maintained integrity and contained the damaged fuel with nearly all of the radioactive isotopes in the core.”

Definitely not Chernobyl, but it was a significant amount of damage to the reactor. It was totaled.
Mediterranean Lingua Franca
@dang paywalled to the point that even archive can't get through to it.
I think it is more relevant to learn how the technology that will take over most junior tasks works, before it takes over everything and the only job left is being LLM Architect, like in those offshoring projects, the difference being those offshore folks aren't there any longer.
Im not sure they'd complain if I put up a small wind turbine. If I was in a more rural area I doubt theyd object to a big wind turbine. (The extent of their worry being noise, and danger if it self destructed in bad weather.)

Clearly a coal-fired plant would be an issue, to the degree to which they pollute the neighbours. There are diesel generators here attached to factories etc, and nobody really cares.

Objection to nuclear though is more visceral. With diesel I can hear the noise and decide if I don't like it. With coal I might notice the smell. But I don't think either would silently kill me. Nuclear leaks are invisible, and accumulative, so it can be (disproportionately) scary. Certainly those who are opposed to it will use fear to rally other people to their side. Fear is a strong motivating emotion that is easily manipulated.
> One of the largest outliers is vehicular accidents. Americans drive from an early age and drive a lot of miles.

Australia is kind of big and kind of sparse (check map) and has cars; I live in a state 3x larger than Texas and drove 40 km to high school 5 days a week (and back again in the afternoon), and travelled > 1,000 km to reach the nearest university.

It's true that USofA citizens have more fatalities per driver mile which does prompt a 'why?' - poor signage, no seatbelts, chronic attention deficit ??

Indigenous Australians haver lower life expectancy and higher fatalities at younger ages.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? I don't want to have to ban you again, but you've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
The original paper is here, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1420890 and it's one of the masterpieces of science. The blog's author makes it seem quite ridiculous, but these experiments were done for a very important reason — it was hypothesized that the body's internal clock was chemical, but it wasn't known for sure that was the case.

If we told time via a chemical process, then clearly that reaction rate must be temperature dependent. How do you figure that out? How do you tease out what is an error due to a small sample size v. a noticeable effect? Thus the experiments began.
This is trivial maintenance I do in my driveway in 20 minutes. Frankly, I forgot to consider it.
"Cryptocurrency has proven a disappointing alternative to fiat currency, a poor alternative to conventional securities, and a lousy store of value. But it has helped plenty of people to launder money and avoid taxes."
I am sure it’s deliberate. Think for example, the classic Patriot Act.
Aren't languages like C notoriously difficult to parse? I've read that they're actually context sensitive. IIRC much of Go's syntax was designed to avoid parsing complexity.
US tech professionals seeking new jobs despite 'tech recession'
I have never stayed at a job for longer that three years. I always resign early.

I learned a tough lesson when I was a 17 year old apprentice. I was very keen and started work an hour early every day. I loved my job. One day I was 15 minutes late and was called into the managers office. He said that he was going to dock 15 minutes pay for being late. I tried to explain that I had started early every day for that last year with no pay, surely this alone created some sort of balance as I had worked for free.

He went onto say that he was doing me a favour by employing me. Now, I am usually a quiet, thoughful man but this statement enraged me. I told him I was leaving immediately and told him to prepare the wages I was owed. He told me that I could not leave and that I had to work two weeks notice.

I said "Who on earth do you think you are? you don't own me, you don't control me, I am a free man and will do as I please, when I want and how I want".

Now nearly seventy and retired I realised early on that to progress through the working world it was about using the employer to get what I wanted. Not to be used by them to get what they wanted. Once I gained enough knowledge, training and experience to expand my CV I was off to a new job with more money. Sometimes I left as soon as the training I was promised at interview had finished and expanded my CV even more.

I never started a job without a letter confirming all the training promised at interview.

The word employ means to use. Employers are using us to earn them money so I decided to turn that tables and use them instead.
I wonder if it is somehow possible to use an open source battery management system to build a car like this. See https://foxbms.org/
Its complex.

Basically when bidding for contract, SpaceX was able to submit a whole list of milestones. Each milestone is associated with some amount of money. NASA and SpaceX together negotiate these milestones and the associated payments in the contract negotiation.

Since this is a contract for a moon lander, and not a rocket, the launch itself is only a small part of the money. So a successful launch to orbit is very mostly likely to be one of these milestones. Successful reentry is another potential candidate. So if successful it would result in some payment from NASA, but since we are talking about a moon lander, launch will not be the primary milestone.

We don't know the list of milestones, that secret between NASA and SpaceX. But things like doing orbital refueling, landing on the moon are likely the most important milestones.

Its pretty certain that if they don't reach orbit, they will not be able to clear any milestones and thus not receive any payment. Unless they have some milestone for things like stage separation, but that sound unlikely.
and HTML also gets a bad rap for some of the <issues> same </issues>
This isn't exactly on topic. A claim about the apple's color is attributable to the apple and vice versa. An apple can contextually help someone understand the color red by example.
There is no "therefore" in such a claim, and in fact the algorithm is simply gauging context statistically. Claim 3 in the syllogism would statistically be selected against, because a "therefore" that is false obviously weighs it in the opposite direction from truth. That's not the case for the apple.
Essentially it's not difficult for the LLM to win on this one, just as it is not difficult for a human and for the same reasons.
I can relate. I have a Dual 1.25 GHz Mirrored Drive Doors machine that is insanely fast in almost every use-case besides the web.
I always suspect that they don't tell me the actual temperature. Maybe I am totally wrong but I suspect. I need to get my own physical thermometer not the digital one in my room and outside my house and have a camera focussed on it. So that later I can speed up the video and see how much the weather varied the previous night.
Some relationships like parent child are quite reversible.
That comment is hilarious considering that nuclear has recent several multiples of the subsidies that renewables received and is still much more expensive. And we are not even counting the military (the nuclear industry would likely be in a much worse state if it wasn't for the militaries demand for nuclear engineers and scientists and financing much of the R&D).
Thanks for the clear answer. If I understand you correctly, text alone cannot provide any justifiability, but text in addition to other sensory evidence (location, seeing the radiometric device's results, etc.) can provide justified knowledge.

Let me protest against this broader point.

If I'm a historian, do I have to find the physical text in the original place myself, or can this information be supplied to me in the form of text? Do I have to actually see the radiocarbon dating machine work myself, or is it enough that the operator sends me an email with the results? What you describe doesn't really strike me as evidence that cannot be supplied through text - you mentioned that it's recorded yourself. It's still text about the past, maybe even with an extra level of indirection (it describes the ~present which has some information about the past).

It follows that some of LLMs statements about historical artifacts should be justifiable - those coming from the written word that our hypothetical historian would study. Is that not correct?
Because while you and I rightfully complain about web development bloat, normal people who use the products made with those tools don't care, as long as it does what they need the product to do
Monocrystalline silicon panels last >30 years at near-initial production unless subjected to physical damage.

Yes, investors in the uranium fuel rod production pipeline will feel a lot of pain as a result of what's going on right now, but it's not like they weren't warned. Like Theranos investors, they failed to do their due diligence.

[edit] Just to add, the metric you want is ENERGY not $US, because what really matters is the amount of energy you have to put into mining the ore, extracting the uranium from the ore, enriching the uranium-235 in the ore to the point where it's useful in a nuclear reactor, and then packaging that refined product into highly expensive fuel rods made of fairly expensive materials. By the time you do that energy calculation, per-year, for the reactor (on top of ridiculously high initial construction costs), the whole thing looks like a massive long-term liability.
"For Americans age 18-45, the leading cause of death is fentanyl overdose."

https://www.getsmartaboutdrugs.gov/media/dea-administrator-r...

That is a sad situation, but giving up more liberty won't save those people. Freedom is more important than safety and I have no interest in living under an authoritarian police state.
I looked at the first graph and it got a ton of the values wrong.
Yes, live poker is still pretty soft, and since the players are worse, your winrate and edge should be better. But then again, I'm not sure you can get enough hands/hour to be as profitable as an online player--everything is just so much slower. You could have a year long downswing live where, if that happened online you are probably just a losing player. So you need to spend all your time at the casinos. You can't make a living grinding home games even if your edge there is astronomical.

Just my viewpoint as a solidly recreational player. Although I'm a decently profitable cash player (I donk my cash winnings away by losing tournaments), I'm not good enough to go pro online and I'm not patient enough or willing to spend my life in the casino to go pro live.
Exploring the OpenTelemetry Collector
I don't think that's right. I multiplied by average lifespan in my original calculation.

3 tbsp of Uranium is about 0.85 kg.

900 kg / 0.85 kg = 1060 US consumer lifetimes worth of energy.

Multiply by 79 (average lifespan) and you get 83,740 US consumer years worth of energy.
Meanwhile, in sources that are not the WSJ:

Aurora (supercomputer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(supercomputer)

New exascale machine is one step closer to enabling transformative science

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/argonne-installs-final-compo...

Intel Unveils Full Aurora Supercomputer Specifications: 21,248 Xeon CPUs & 63,744 GPUs For Over 2 ExaFlops

https://wccftech.com/intel-unveils-aurora-supercomputer-spec...

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility https://www.alcf.anl.gov/aurora
Which year 1?

There's only two calendars where it's been 2023 years.
Generation doesn't matter, the weakest link will always be human greef, changing the spec to save cost, changing safety tests to extend the lifetime past when it should be shut down, poor maintenance, etc
TikTok showing boxes of patient records in derelict hospital building HSE review
If you want cross-platform WPF, there is Avalonia. For many normal-ish applications you basically change a few namespaces and that should be bulk of the work to migrate.

I do wonder sometimes whether MS should just pick it up as a default-endorsed desktop UI toolkit for .NET, but I guess rivalries, internal turf wars and other priorities make that difficult.
I certainly do want to live in a world where people shows excess signs of respect than the opposite.

The same way you treat your car with respect by doing the maintenance and driving properly, you should treat language models by speaking nicely and politely. Costs nothing, can only bring the better.
The first memorable locality problem I ever solved, I had clocked a function at 10% overall cpu time. The more I looked at it, the more I realized we were calling it way too often. It wasn’t allocating a lot of memory, it was just crunching a bit of data.

A bit of jiggling of the call structure above it and it goes from 2 invocations per call to one. So almost exactly half as many calls overall. I ran my end to end benchmark again, expecting 4-6% improvement in run time. I got 20%. Twice what I would have expected to get by commenting the function out entirely.

Few years later, similar situation. Operation taking about 5 times as long as we were allowed. Function A gets a list from the database. Function B gets the same list. I don’t recall what percent of the overall time this was, but it was a tall tent pole and obvious waste. Something like 30%. As a first course for a longer optimization engagement, I changed the method signatures to take the list and return a result, looked up the list once in the common parent function. Best case I figured a 20% reduction, which is still slow enough I can use the stopwatch function on my phone to estimate the improvement at the UI. I didn’t get 20%, I got 90%. So I went from 5x over the target to half, in one change. Unfortunately even this result didn’t convince some people they were barking up the wrong tree with respect to performance problems.

Right about the time of the first experience I had been learning an ugly truth: profilers lie. They aren’t the floodlight people think they are. They’re a book of matches in the dark. They reveal part of the picture, and cast as many shadows as they do light. You have to fill in a lot of gaps yourself, and that takes mechanical sympathy and more than a little stubbornness. Hardware counters narrow that gap a lot, but they still aren’t perfect, and a lot of languages seem not to use them.
Maybe, but designs on paper are a small part of what it takes to actually build many rocket.

SpaceX is not using lots of part you can just buy. Its pretty much all costume designs by SpaceX all the way down. Up to SpaceX having their own materials. And the suppliers SpaceX does have are American suppliers that China can't easly buy from.

So if China steals everything they still have to reverse engineer everything and then also reverse engineer the manufacturing.

And the other thing is, China has its own existing Aerospace industry and government. These people are proud of their own things and NIH is very, very real. The idea that they would just throw away 60 years of China history to copy an US company and spend billions trying to reverse engineer the exact same rocket just isn't gone happen.

And of course given that SpaceX is a huge supplier to the US military, such an act could be a huge international relations crisis and the US could retaliate in many way. So China would have to hid the fact that it did so in some way.
You've described exactly what we're doing with Mathesar: https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar

Disclaimer: I also mentioned Mathesar in a sibling comment but this describes our vision so exactly that I thought it was worth mentioning again.
Pretty cool to see the github of Github, never occurred to me but makes total sense.
She said the Atomausstieg was a mistake: https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Closing-nuclear-in-G...
Because there was no good alternative until recently. The future is with the new "add-ins" model: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/overvie... Say what you will about typescript, but at least it's better than VBA.

My main issue is that unlike VBA, I can't program it from right there in Excel. Sometimes I don't want to start up a full-fledged add-in project that's meant to be reused. I just want to run a quick-and-dirty script once to fix something right now. I discovered Script Lab (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/overvie...) while writing this, so maybe that'd help.
> Imagine Ford paying someone to make five car-designs, ending up using one of them and ultimately losing full control over the remaining four...

Yeah this isn't a valid comparison in the slightest. Artists using work for their public portfolio doesn't mean that they can use the work for other employers or in other contexts. Not sure how you made such large leap here.
Since WFH became more common, it is easier than ever to automate anything that you have to reproduce. If my workload is light, I will often try to automate boring tasks so I can have more "free" time to expand my knowledge, refactor parts of codebases I find terrible to work with, or occasionally give myself some time to mentally rest (cook dinner early, watch something interesting on YouTube, browse HN, etc).
Partisan screeds from the likes of Vox (or analogues on the right or left) are explicitly against the HN rules. This shouldn't be here.
EV torque is insane, and it absolutely shreds tires. Ask any shop and they'll tell you they sell more tires to EV owners.

Which from a pollution/microplastics standpoint isn't good, we need an improved sustainable tire asap.
That's not how I've ever implemented OTA, but I'll grant that it's possible if it was designed by someone with no idea what they were doing. Certainly not a good OTA process though, for this among many other reasons.
I started my career like this, with a boring job where I inherited a gigantic excel with a few macros. Every day I had to download via ftp millions of logs from high speed trains from all over france (the logs themselves were retrieved manually via a serial cable on each train by maintenance guys every few days). I would then run a few macros that would do a bunch of geoloc calculation, spit out results in 2 tables, one for "pretty sure results" and the other one with "not enough data", and spend the rest of the day looking a google earth screenshots and comparing lat/long and using my brain to do basic visual "puzzles".
I spent a few days improving the macros but I felt limited so I learned python in a few months and created a piece of software based on graph theory that would do almost everything I was doing looking at google earth and bam, job automated.
When I went to see my manager to ask for more to do, he saw the potential but let me sit on my ass a few month because I was a contractor and the job was done, and then pushed hard to get me formally hired to be trained and work in embedded C on high speed trains ! Life changing carrer move, would do it again.
Correct, but they are certifying for 20. So that's the number I used.
Beeper can be self hosted, so you can use the gateways without passing credentials to third party. I think the iMessage bridge is using libpurple
https://home-assistant-shitlist.com

any takers?
I mean yeah, it's entirely possible that every time we fall into REM sleep our conciousness is replaced. Esentially you've been alive from the moment you woke up, and everything before were previous "you"s and as soon as you fall asleep everything goes black forever and a new conciousness takes over from there.

It may seem like this is not the case just because today was "your turn."
In Sweden power lines are buried, even in the very north of the country. I guess it's a cost thing.
Smart-City Digital ID Projects [pdf]
The linked paper about PyPy's homogeneous collections optimization is extremely interesting:

https://tratt.net/laurie/research/pubs/html/bolz_diekmann_tr...

Would be nice to have a collection of such techniques for increasing performance sorted by effort required...
However, tools like buienrader seem to have trouble in the recent months/years to accurately predict local weather.
This is one of the very finest comments I have ever seen on HN (or anywhere else, for that matter).
Really all that will happen is the site will get black listed as a credible source.

It won't be appearing again in my feeds that's for sure.
According to https://www.worldometers.info/coal/coal-consumption-by-count... Russia's coal consumption is notably lower than that of the US per capita.
SkiaSharp has some MAUI integration, but AFAIK it's not used to render things. At least not when I last looked. On most (all?) platforms native drawing methods are used (which fits well into how MAUI works on each platform, admittedly). This comes with the drawback that performance varies wildly across platforms, however. (NB: I've last looked deeply into MAUI about a year ago, so things may have changed.)
Is there a source for the largest privately held supercomputers? This article, for instance, claims that Tesla had a 1.8 exaflop cluster in 2021. It also mentions Karpathy claiming it to be the 5th largest at the time.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/tesla-av-training-supercompute...
Colloquially, "garbage collection" typically refers to non-deterministic automatic memory management (and/or stop-the-world), whereas ref-counting is typically considered deterministic

Not really correct in an academic sense, but this isn't the only language I've seen talk about ref-counting as something other than garbage collection