skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Breeder reactors are something like 100x more fuel efficient than conventional reactors, and produce much less waste.

According to wikipedia, we already have enough fuel to produce enough energy for the entire planet for 5 billion years (assuming 1983 global energy demand):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor

The main issue is that they produce and then consume weapons grade material as part of the reaction, and you have to periodically re-refine the reactor's contents. That makes it hard to prevent people from stealing the weapons grade material.

I've long thought that we should build robots to maintain the facilities, and a second fleet of robots that stay near the plant and shoot anyone they see on sight.

That reduces the security problem to programming the fuel-handling robots.
I would be skeptical of such figures. Asian populations tend to have a lot of abdominal fat despite normal BMI, resulting in a lower FFMI. of course ,this is common with whites too, but body compoistion matters too. Obese whites and blacks in the US tend to have more muscle too. Regarding exercise, why does walking in the context of commuting or 'daily life' have weight loss properties, but going to the gym does not? Gym attendance in the US is at record highs but this is not enough to stave off obesity. People eat too much, I guess.
To make people nervous about doing it, whether they are somewhere that they are somewhere they are being heavily monitored like a parade, or out with friends some night on a side street. Telling people there is a chance they could get caught goes a lot farther than catching a few in secret.
I’d recommend starting with the appendix of the original hippo paper.
Ah the rabbit hole of HN.

From Wikipedia about the largest dam in the world: 3 georges dam in China.

Mind-boggling size:

"Terrestrial impact
In 2005, NASA scientists calculated that the shift of water mass stored by the dams would increase the total length of the Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds and make the Earth slightly more round in the middle and flat on the poles.[104] A study published in 2022 in the journal Open Geosciences suggests that the change of reservoir water level affects the gravity field in western Sichuan, which in turn affects the seismicity in that area.[105]
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afaik I've never followed or unfollowed anyone. I just let it load and do it's thing. I guess I could unfollow him but I don't care that much to actively customize it.
I flag most (not all) Musk-related articles because they're flamebait that isn't intellectually thought- or curiosity-provoking. This makes them unsuitable for HN, and therefore exactly what the flagging system is for.
This is referenced in the article:

> The big downside with a “full” JIT is that the process of compiling once into IL and then again into machine code is slow. Not only is it slow, but it is memory intensive.
Section 174 usually is more of an issue for smaller/private companies. On the contrary, when I worked for a bigger company, we specifically tried to capitalize as much software development costs as possible, because it makes the company look more profitable. We (all of the software engineers) hated this because, for an internet-facing company that does continuous deployment, bucketing "new work" into CapEx vs "maintenance" into OpEx is nearly impossible when you're just adding new features to an existing product over time.
Modern Hurricanes Have a Surprise Ingredient
One of the most common reasons to “mark a record as deleted” rather than deleting it is so you can undo deletes without having to fish data out of a backup. I.e. soft delete is effectively a recycle bin. It might not be a user-facing recycle bin, but it’s a recycle bin nonetheless.
I'm not surprised a bit given how hostile Twitch has become to users. Completely irrelevant ads, ads playing at worst times (who the hell thought it'd be a good idea to show an ad before the actual stream??), apps abandoned(at least apple tv app). I literally stopped watching some streamers because of Twitch itself.

This is in-line with Amazon's departure from "customer obsession" overall. I can't wait for bigger tournaments to move to a better platform.
Only for subtropical climate? is this also suitable for tropics? like 0-15 degree N and S? How about termite?
As far as I can tell most streamers most times are, or would be, fine with having roughly 3min of ADs per hour. If it's at an predictable time they can slightly shift around to match up with their content. It's a amount of time perfect to standup, stretch drink, something and similar healthy things you really should do every hour. (You can setup twitch that way.)

But that's just 5% of ads.

And if you change that to 10% it is, as far as I can tell, already in a area where most would seriously consider leaving the platform for good and at 15% I think hardly any streamer would still be on twitch.

Lets be honest the only reason normal TV got away with 20% is because it had no alternatives, and often anyway just ran in the background.

But most funny because how few companies buy ADs on Twitch you might just end up seeing the same 3 ADs in a loop for 20 minuts. As far as I can tell at least outside of the US twitch is sometimes even incapable to run a 3-5min AD break properly due to the lack of bought ADs...
Screw hoverboards. When can I buy my Mr Fusion?
I doubt it. even if this drug were free, about 15-30% of people do not lose much weight or any. A 300 pound man who loses 30 pounds is still fat. Others stop due to side effects.
Thanks for clarification, will look into it
Yeah, similar in Polish. Some really decent ones (well known but truly unique) but also some with easy dictionary translations ("zepsuć"), with bad translations on the site or just no translation at all ("no" - why bother putting it there?).
Where do you get 80% success from? Reducing the score on an assessment by 80% on average is not what most would infer from “80% success [rate]”, two very different measures.

The headline author also has a very liberal definition of “banishes”
I wouldn't mind being advised by someone who created a business and sold it to Amazon for a billion dollars, lack of profitability notwithstanding.
You don't need a control group at this stage to see there's something there that's worth further investigation. What's the control look like here? Do some elaborate ceremony, sit around in a circle, pretend to get high and see if the PTSD goes away? In the name of science, sure let's do that.
Couldn't have said it better myself -- thanks!
Because of the square-cube law. The volume of an object goes up like the cube of the dimension while the surface area like the square. So a large block of ice melts more slowly than a small block of ice. You don't need to ship it by plane because time is not that crucial. Before the invention of electricity people used to store ice from winter to summer in ice houses [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_house_(building)
Hm. Let's think about what your goal is here. Isn't it to communicate with an imagined reader? What would be the point of cranking out the content if it's basically... borderline unreadable, and therefore not fulfilling the purpose you want it to?

I would say that if you slow down, learn more about how to communicate technical content, and consciously practice those skills, then you'll achieve both your immediate goal and gain a really useful life skill. Just my take! Best wishes on the journey. Oh and GPT4 could massively help with this stuff now too, so you may be able to just keep cranking it out like you already do, but get the bot to rewrite and properly structure it all. Many options.
When someone buys a sub ($5-25 depending on tier), Twitch gets half the money.

Bits are a little more complicated. Donators have to buy bits ahead of time and then donate them. 100 bits is worth $1 to a streamer. But 100 bits will cost between $1.18 and $1.26 depending on how many bits you buy at once. Buying a larger block means paying a little less. (Side note: Once the streamer has received the bits, they can't be taken back, even if the credit card charge that bought the bits is reversed due to a fraud claim)

If a streamer with <100 viewers was getting hundreds of dollars in a single hype train, then either that streamer is very lucky and has a rich viewer that doesn't mind throwing around money, or I'd suspect something fishy is going on. ie, bits being bought with stolen credit cards, or the whole thing is a money laundering scheme.
Doesn't this imply that Twitch needs to cut payouts then?

In the long run it seems like streaming as a career that is solely funded by the platform is dead. Streamers will need alternative sources of revenue (patreon, OF, etc) to keep things going.
There’s more employees than just SWEs. And you don’t need to be generally famous, you need influence in key niches.

Twitter has historically hired people with large Twitter followings into roles that are more external. Some of them have been interviewed by the news media (eg The Verge). I’d be surprised if it didn’t have an impact on advertisers.
Maybe we’re being desensitized to layoffs but I agree that that’s a big number.
Also believe the first unassisted powered flight (aka airplane) was by Alberto Santos Dumont.
$3.50 per ad view is a very different number than $.20-$.40 per video view.

I wasn’t aware of the “one-time” aspect of TikTok creator monetization, but I just find it hard to believe anyone is going to make good content without being paid for it.
Has there been a discovered way of treating obesity at a population level? As far as I can tell, only Ozempic and stomach surgery has succeeded in leading to any meaningful long term weight loss for an entire cohort.

There is tons of hype and investment regarding Ai, but little for food engineering, such as making food that is less calorie dense but still filling, or other solutions to obesity, save for these drugs. I wish there was as much enthusiasm for solving obesity as there is for making smarter language models.
Like many things, I think it's important to tread carefully, both in engaging in mind-altering actions, but also in how we think about and frame questions like this.

PTSD is for many people incalculably and incomprehensibly life-ruining. The smallest things, like someone casually saying just "hey, what'cha doing?", that anyone else thinks nothing of, lead to explosive aggression or crushing panic or explosive aggressive crushing panic. It's not good, and it's not worthwhile, and nobody should ever be made to feel like erasing the pain would be bad. IMO, as much as it maybe sucked to conclude that you didn't love your girlfriend, there isn't a good feeling on earth that feels better than not being in anguish anymore.
The radio program This American Life did a program on ibogaine a long time ago. A former addict kicked heroin through ibogaine and made it his mission to help others do the same. Great listen.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/321/sink-or-swim/act-two

I have heard many stories of people being cured via ibogaine but the experience is not for the faint of heart. To me it sounds a lot like you die and are reborn again (you don’t literally die of course).
Take it from someone who has made meaningful code in JS since 2005:

- JS as a three week project is amazing

- JS as a lingua franca for web is a disaster in the same league as null pointers. It is like if backend had decided to standardize on PHP early on (if you disagree, try to mention one thing except syntax that isn't as bad in JS as in PHP, and the syntax is actually a blessing in disguise, if JS had looked like PHP it wouldn't had become a standard)

- The fact that people has made a very productive ecosystem on top of the collection of footguns that is Javascript is of course equally impressive if not more

Please note that this post praises both the inventor of JS as well as the JS ecosystem.

But that does not mean that Javascript is a good language.
I believe the "run an ad" button is for partners.
> All had, of their own accord, sought out ibogaine from a facility in Mexico, where use of the drug is not restricted.

I really hope this drug helps. But, it's possible that selecting high-intention patients played into the results.
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It's very confusing to me that you are praising the authors of a published scientific paper for almost making their work reproduceable.
Hollywood accounting. First off, remember they're paying themselves (AWS).

Large streams are more expensive but those get the subs. Ad revenues they are also splitting but they play 3 minutes of ads that interrupts the entire content every 10 minutes.
https://archive.ph/KVi0a
The 737NG has a known issue with the nacelles being insufficient to contain engine failures. This actually happened in 2018 and a woman was sucked out of the plane and died.

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/faa-mandates-boeing-737ng...
Agreed, and we see in this in particular with the fervor to try and create “non hallucinogenic psychedelics “
> I never wrote software for OS/2, aside some playing with the C compiler whose name I can't recall now...

Was it Watcom C++? I may actually still have a CD with that on it somewhere.
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Hi HN,

As a mechanical engineer between jobs with a lot of interest in computer science, and a little less than halfway through my career I find myself needing new skills to stay competitive.

Some thoughts I’ve had are:

R programming
Project management professional
CompTIA certs
3D CAD Certs
Amazon web services
Python
Satellite communications
Robotics
Blockchain
C++

Really not sure where to focus right now and would love some input and feedback about what’s in demand. I’ve enjoyed following HN for many years even if a lot of the posts are over my head I still find it fascinating.

Thanks!
But does it matter? Nowadays even my editor wants to run a server in the background to provide syntax highlighting. People generally don't seem to care and see it as progress.
GitHub: Subversion Has Been Sunset
Right. Who has the money to pay for a study to be done? The VA, for all its faults, can. Battered women and abused IT help desk employees can't, so we don't hear stories of big expensive studies being done with them.
I roughly remember that there was one for a time which allowed you to somewhat shift the scheduled hourly ads, but I think they might have removed it after testing. Through I think it also never worked really well either.
This does not surprise me much. It's so easy to overeat and get fat, especially as you get older and the pounds insidiously creep on. Even a small amount of food, like buttered bread, has 300-400 calories. it does not even have to be ultra-palatable modern food. Food overall is too calorie dense, and too abundant.
Statistically speaking, Max 737s have many many millions of miles logged with no incident. They are, also, very popular with most pilots.
Agreed. If it were a 'male' named bot, would that elicit the same responses? Why have a gendered name for a bot anyway, when there's tons of names without any sort of gender. If you've picked a 'female' name for a bot because you think it would get better responses, etc - that's something you would probably want to evaluate, but if people are thinking it's a human, then that's a you problem.
Emotional abuse can cause more severe PTSD than other forms[1] and help desk (really any call center) occupations deal with far too much of it. Sure you can be pedantic around the phrasing, but do not hand wave how crushing these kinds of jobs are.

1 - https://www.talkspace.com/mental-health/conditions/articles/...
> There are lots of reports about them.

I am kinda following this topic, and have seen maybe 2.

> the anti-armor 600 was stepped up

my reading of the news is that army ordered 100 units for testing

but the point is that despite claims of decades of intensive research, etc, US's only visible program is some small third party company with questionable quality, no other projects are visible, while other players (Israel with spike nlos, Russia with lancet, Iran with shahed) have several gens of battle proven tech already.
You should conduct research perhaps we are missing a new economic indicator.

Going back to the main point. While it might seem as a company stiffing you, it’s mainly for economic reasons at Aldis. They run on a very lean model and part of it are small things like not having employees collect carts.
The Steve Jobs quote was from the 1980s. Back then, you really did boot daily (at least; it wasn't uncommon on both Macs and PCs in that era to need to reboot multiple times a day because applications could and did crash the system often).
That's not what confusing means.
When is the spring sale?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dSkvxS2EB0 via

https://www.youtube.com/@YannicKilcher
No, it's fine, but the second vertical should be 14 = 21 - 7. Then the first vertical is 39 = 8 + 31.
No contact or thanks has been received back so far :)
I feel like you’ve never actually used twitch. What you’re describing in terms of how it works and “subscription costs” is very incorrect.
Cardinal [0] is a wasm-based web app. What on earth would the DOM have to do with a modular synthesis environment? You seem to be imagining that wasm-based web apps implies a fairly strong connection to existing HTML/CSS/JS "pages". This is not the case and is an unnecessary cognitive barrier to thinking about what wasm (in-browser) could make possible.

[0] https://cardinal.kx.studio/live
> pluggable plumbing and electrical

That's pretty interesting and while I sincerely hope it works as advertised, what is the repair process when (not if) the connections inside the wall fail? As the owner of multiple homes, a part of me is very skeptical that those connections will last for decades untouched.

In the US, code does not allow for splices and connections inside walls, period. In a pre-fab, I would like to see all of the cabling run inside tubes so that I can fix/add/replace easily myself in many years down the road. This is prohibitively expensive for residential mains wiring but not terribly unusual for low-voltage stuff like coax and ethernet that the homeowner can do herself.
I don't see it mentioned anywhere in the article but there has been some research on the therapeutic benefits of non-hallucinogenic ibogaine analog, tabernathelog (TBG) which is also supposed remove negative cardiovascular side effects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7874389/
The lilies sprouted from a stadium-sized cut-crystal vase, the Diamond Palace, which was open to the public. Tourists, aerobicizing pensioners, and ranks of uniformed schoolchildren marched through it year in and year out, peering through walls of glass (actually solid diamond, which was cheaper) at various phases of the molecular disassembly line that was Source Victoria.
How long was the stream? Doesn't sound unprofitable if it's 30min to 1hr (my uneducated guess), but then again idk how many streams get donations like that.
English is not my first language so this is going to be hard to get across.

Apparently low temperatures do not fully resolve the modern soap (which is thick and heavily perfumed), leaving behind a lot of residue. An occasional hot wash clears them.

I don't remember the name of the better soap, but basically what he says is that for clothes that are just a bit smelly but not really dirty/stained, modern soap is massive overkill. It also doesn't need all this perfume. Your clothes are fine smelling neutral, they don't have to smell like a day in the Alps.

Would really advise to talk to a local maintenance guy, they can probably explain it much better.
A major problem with current ICs, which gets much worse in 3D (stacked etc) designs, is keeping the transistors cool.

The transistor has a maximum operating junction temperature[1] which is limited by material and process.

Higher density chips make it difficult to extract the generated heat, in order to keep those junctions cool.

The heat is generated when the transistors switch from either on to off or vice versa, due to all normal conductors having some resistance, and switching a transistor involves sending or draining a small amount of current to its control element called the gate. Thus switching faster means more heat. More transistors in the same area all switching means more heat.

So either by making it easier to wick away the heat, or by tolerating higher junction temperatures, a different material to silicon might allow for higher density or faster switching before heat becomes an issue.

Of course there are other obstacles to increasing density and frequency, so just because a material has better thermal properties doesn't imply it'll allow for higher density or frequency.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junction_temperature
A sudden inrush of water from a dam overtopping can be much worse than a consistent flow even if the absolute quantity is the same.
I'm not opposed to psychedelics in any way (in fact very supportive), but not having a control group seems non-scientific to me.

Maybe this is the scientific method hardliner / rationalist in me, but to me, without a control group and proper statistical controls, there's no difference between this and say, alternative medicine, such as homeopathy or acupuncture, where people claim there are benefits without a true comparison.
> You can't have it both ways. You're trying to hold on to two contradictory points at the same time: you don't like the supposed lack of browser diversity (which is why you seem to detest Chromium), but you like the supposed security guarantees of the mobile app store duopoly, which is even less diverse.

Ok I get it.

Let me rephrase it just to make it clear: It is true that I don't like the lack of diversity (that would come from everything being webtech on top of Chromium), and it is also true that I like the security that comes from a managed app store. I do! I can have it both ways! Isn't that marvelous?

If you can't understand how this is possible, I think we can stop here. We won't get anywhere if you can't understand what I write.
For them the viewer may actually be the product if they are distributing malware, mining coins in the background, or hijacking bandwidth. One reason to pay for a service is avoiding being a product. Rich people will pay out the nose for discretion because information about them has serious value.
Or what's in it when you turn it on.
> Danger can spot email accounts that have just been created by scammers to use as temporary addresses.

> It does this by checking if the email is registered on 20 apps and services in real-time.

So if my email isn't registered on those, does it mean you'll flag me?

edit: yes, turns out it adds 50 points to your risk score, and not being in any breaches adds another 5 (breach check doesnt seem to work properly? i dont know what it uses as a source)

so my business email would be 50+5 points meaning high risk

also apparently having 5+ digits in your email adds 5 points to your risk score too, which I don't really understand the reasoning for

i tried a disposable email (from the top result from google) and it wasn't flagged, and 4 more from different high ranking sites and only 2 got flagged so you probably want to improve that

and my ISP is also flagged as a "known threat" for some reason, even though it's a completely normal large residential isp
Also not mentioned is the recent rise of Ad-Free ( yes completely AD-FREE as in not a single ad ever! ) platforms like KICK.com [1][2]

Amouranth used to stream exclusively on Twitch.com but now has moved mostly to Kick.com and streams the majority of her time there.

In this respect, Twitch's draconian content policing needs mentioning. People would receive week-long bans for unnamed reasons or super petty things. They rode the woke train as hard as they could and it was a sight to behold! They've recently slightly relaxed some of their disallowed content policies.

[1]
Kick - Statistics & Facts
https://www.statista.com/topics/11394/kick/#topicOverview

[2]
https://www.similarweb.com/website/kick.com/