skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is only true to some extent, having myself been on a fair number of hiring committees.

While the institution and national agencies measure impact in terms of number of "level 1/level 2" papers, colleagues don't care at all about this value. What's important is number of single-author papers, number of papers without their advisor, number of different small group collaborations, and most of all, having papers accepted in the top venues.

A person with 50 shit papers will not even be considered for the job.
You're also reaping the advantages produced by the boomer generation in technology, medicine etc. to which they themselves did not have access (or had, but much later in life).

In any case, it's disappointing to see how people are so quick to jump at any opportunity to stereotype and hate a group of people, this time not identified by their skin, but their date of birth...
The XReals are also fantastic for your application.
> ... a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won't change the world for the better

What about the financial instrument that brings this to people:

- Argentina and Turkey inflation in 2022: 72%
- Venezuela : 186%
- Lebanon (which used to be called the "Swiss of the middle east"): 171%

People in these countries who managed to buy gold or Bitcoin have, so far, managed to dodge the damage.

Satoshi's message in Bitcoin's genesis block wasn't about bringing out the worst in people: it was a huge middle finger to politicians making the money printing press go "brrrrrrrr" (as the meme goes) to try to bail out their failing economies.

To me it looks like an experiment which may or may not make sense: "Oh you like to print infinite amount of money? Here's a currency which you cannot print indefinitely".

It may not be a viable currency for a country's economy (an eventually deflationary "thing" is probably not fit to be a currency), but it is a statement.

And I'm not sure all those who own Bitcoins are greedy: I'm pretty sure quite some own some in the same way some people hold physical gold, as a subversive answer to the various states... "Try to mine more physical gold / Try to break maths/cryptography and mine more Bitcoins".

People buying physical gold aren't saying "Have fun staying poor". They're saying "Fuck your money printing machine".

Note that there are people who also own next to nothing in USD / EUR and have nearly everything in stocks. It's also a way of saying "Fuck your money printing machine".

That's really how I see people holding Bitcoins: people who haven't drank the state kool-aid and who think "Stick your money printing machine where light doesn't shine".
You shouldn’t need to have an empty space to support a 65 inch or larger tv to feel immersed when you’re watching my a show/movie. Similarly, you shouldn’t need to buy a big desk to support 3 big monitors just so you can multitask better.

If you’re looking to replace furniture in your house and you can overlay a new sofa over your current one using AR glasses to compare the size and how the color fits with the rest of your things, wouldn’t that be great?

Imagine you’re assembling a toy or furniture and AR glasses can guide you through which piece to connect where.

There are so so many new possibilities as AR/VR matures.
Most likely that printer blew the capacitor by the power feed. It smoked its 'bunch of pixie dust' and was dead. Just the air needed to clear. But yes never go into a burning building, unless you're willing to die trying to save something or someone.
> they’re hardly “opaque”, at least not any more than any other publicly traded company is

Publicly traded companies are required to report certain financial facts about the company, but they’re still extremely opaque.
I think part of the problem with NuScale was that the nuclear industry was misfocused. There was a lot of effort on making reactors safer, under the misapprehension that safety concerns were the obstacle to be overcome. NuScale's design has passive safety features (immersion of the vessel into a larger mass of water). But these features mean the reactor is larger than it otherwise might be. They traded higher cost for higher safety when the actual problem of nuclear was cost, not inadequate safety.

I think the attitude of "we're being held back by public opinion, because the greens have convinced them nuclear is dangerous" did not do nuclear any good.
So yes, currently we only support infrequent deletes for GDPR reasons mainly.

It's possible to add updates/deletes to Quickwit, but this is a lot of work, and for now, we have not prioritized this development.

Do you mind sharing your use case?
This is also a speciesist position for making human-like reason and self-awareness the selector for moral status, which selects out non-human animals.
Have you ever been on public transit in DC? There are billboards all over the place (or were a decade ago when I was there last) that are clearly sales efforts targeting like 4 people. It's not that weird.
So we are about to cool down Earth's core?

Climate changing v.2.0 due to Earth loosing its magnetic field ...
To add to what other commenters said: Your app sounds very interesting, but the use cases and use scenarios remain a bit unclear. Personally, I would love to be able to just try it without having to sign up. Right now, the copy leaves the user experience very much in the dark
> A friend of mine did work in a small town hard-hit by the changing economy, and multiple times had offers of sex (more commonly oral sex) in lieu of payment (or partial payment).

There was a thing that made the news maybe ten years ago in Washington, maybe a little more. Woman offering "a year of oral sex" for a truck. "No funny stuff, no relationship, nothing else. You give me the truck, we meet once a day, I give you oral. On day 365 I give you oral and you give me the title."
I've had over ten of each.
6) I think the threshold for visual display in AR will be 4k in each eye, and 120Hz + USB-C (with mac air m4?) - is where the game will begin.

I think we are getting there...
I get plenty of hacking done in bed with 'em. I don't even bother with the multi-display stuff AR.
I'll take the consistency of a "Fisher Price UI" over the absolute current horror any day.
Hey that combination is also not found anywhere else in this discussion.
They seem to care, with official macOS Sonoma support extending to devices sold in 2018.

I suspect that high on the list of reasons is "services". According to https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101212/services-revenue..., Q4'23 services revenue accounted for almost 25 percent of the total.
Total extinction of all life on Earth isn't also the worst case worry about AI? Anyway, both seem highly unlikely, that's why we shouldn't compare worst or best scenarios, but rather real, more probable risks, i.e. AI being used to develop advanced weapons. In that regard I'd say AI is worst, but it's mostly a matter of opinion, really.
In some instances (like suburbs) need for distance is increased by cars.
Don’t forget that oxygen is useful for breathing too. Semi-important, I hear.

ChatGPT estimates that if we converted all of earth’s atmospheric oxygen into water (via burning with hydrogen), ocean levels would rise about 3.7 meters: https://chat.openai.com/share/c9c8ce51-6070-49b6-a092-86e4a4...

I don’t have time to check this math, so take it with a substantial grain of salt.
This is a disingenuous claim, because many of the comments at the linked thread indicate that it not only is a breach of the RFC requirements, but is also liable to malfunction, so any provider/software that permits it, is going to have trouble supporting it.

I stand by what I said: it's impossible, and is simply not done [by anyone who cares about adhering to standards or interoperability.]
And the author slightly joins on on that with his off-the-cuff characterization of the two 737 Max 8 crashes (at Lion Air and Ethiopian) as

>two preventable crashes at unready airlines in developing countries

Ethiopian is a large and by all accounts modern and well-run airline which has been operating jets since the early 1960s, and performs maintenance for other airlines. While it was originally set up as essentially a branch of TWA with American staff, it hasn't relied on foreign staff since the 70s. It's been an early adopter of new Boeing aircraft since the early 80s (with the 767) and was the first airline outside Japan to fly the 787 commercially.
Try it again if you have it in a drawer, its funky to get use to like re-training a muscle. Maybe try the Ergo Plus instead, I don't like the rubber material on the top but the added angle has my hand resting on it naturally.
It’s like working on a projector. Having 3 projectors in front of you is amazing compared to a small laptop, but it’s still not bettter than a proper desk setup.

I do find it annoying how isolating the glasses are. It’s hard to look around and daydream
This data probably already exists, though. Fingerprinting is more than good enough to identify an individual. Porn sites can easily aggregate this information already.
Anything is possible when "limitless energy" is part of the equation.
No not really.

Yes there are two approaches, but you can switch between the two with 98% of the code intact.
> I do dislike the 'fourth generation' category in nuclear.

Do you mean the term or the actual reactor technology?
I recently had the pleasure of migrating a legacy server 2008 app to a brand new server 2022 box.
One of the requirements is a local smtp server for sending mail so I looked up how to do this in windows.

To my shock and horror, smtp service has been deprecated since server 2012, you can still install it but it comes with an extremely old version of IIS as a dependency and it’s broken out of the box.

To get it working you have to dig into some xml files and add parameters.

I really wonder how anyone can take a server OS seriously that doesn’t have out of the box first class functionality for smtp, one of the most ubiquitous protocols on the internet.
It's a slimy company with one very slimy founder in particular.

That we fund this company with our taxes is repugnant.
Barely any relative to car accidents.

What is your point?
Anything is certainly possible on the internet, if or when that happens I'll intervene.

Implementing authentication and or authorization is not beyond my ability, and could have been setup, but it would have severely tarnished ease of access to the platform, and hindered the amount of people who already tried out the service.
This looks really cool! I tried to sign up but it doesn't seem to be sending out verification emails right now. Will give it another go a bit later
What's Minecraft and how do you tame a horse in it?
It was a "sequel" in name only. In reality, a kickstarter cash-grab with neither attention to detail nor significant effort put into it. Not as bad as the utter fiasco that turned out to be "shroud of the avatar" [0] but still a solid FU to those who backed it.

It's more than clear that old school gaming pioneers have completely ran out of ideas and are taking advantage of a nostalgic playerbase in order to keep the cash rolling in (I hear Garriott's latest NFT game has vanished), cratering their reputation in the process.

They are not the ones to push the medium further. Fresh ideas will require fresh, young, unknown visionaries.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMxjwtxn6NI
>I assumed visa officer is the only and highest authority an applicant can approach. How can an applicant counter a rejection?

Context for others: What you are referring to is the principle of consular nonreviewability <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consular_nonreviewability> in the US; I would have thought Canada has something equivalent, but I suppose not based on this case.
Ask HN: Stock Portfolio and Recommendations in 2024
Happy new year everyone!

I was wondering what kind of financial or stock recommendation service you guys are using and how it’s working out for you guys so for?

I don’t have the necessary knowledge to analyze and pick stocks for myself. And I am also not looking for a wealth management service.

A few of the services I was considering

https://seekingalpha.com
https://www.fool.com/
'Ethical considerations' is an academic term of art relating to the compilation and publication of the research, not to the subject matter.
> inaction is action so why not put some feelers out for possibilities?
> Evaluating your options may help you decide that what you have now isn't so bad after all or may lead to a new adventure.

True, sounds like a sensible thing to do. Maybe the grass is not greener after all.

> Now I have the perspective to know that it was a boring job that happened to pay well but I love what I do now and it doesn't even compare in terms of fulfillment and joy.

Thanks for sharing your experience. This of course is what I'm hoping for. But you are right: maybe proving the field to get an idea of what's out there is a good next step.
Reading this as a German feels really bitter. Our government has cancelled ALL research into nuclear reactors. We are completely out of the race, and there is probably no way back.
In Python one could use auto specs to be sure test would be broken on calling mocks with changed API[1]. I don't think it's hard to implement (if already not) similar feature for other dynamic languages.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.mock.html#auto-sp...
// came from BCPL https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/bcpl.pdf
I think your key point is this:

> Assuming Gates Foundation is million times better than burning money assumes that Gates is million times better allocating resources than "non-Gates" would be. I'm sure Gates isn't a million times better at this. I'm not sure at all he's even better than "non-Gates".

But I think it's actually pretty clear that it is a million times better. I think it's extremely clear that saving somebody's life, who would otherwise have been killed by malaria, is a million times better than somebody eating a nicer meal at a restaurant, or buying a nicer chair, or whatever.

Yes, governments could be funding more malaria aid but they haven't been. The point is that the Gates foundation identifies areas where there hasn't been enough help and goes and provides that.

I honestly am pretty blown away by your assertion that you're not even sure whether the Gates Foundation does any good at all. Your logic seems to question whether charities do anything at all and whether they should even exist, and I don't think you're going to find a lot of people on your side there.
A significant advantage of a higher temperature reactor would be if it could use the same steam turbines used in combined cycle plants. These are "dry" turbines that operate with high temperature (550 C) steam. In contrast, LWRs use "wet" turbines with saturated steam at temperature a couple of hundred degrees lower. They're about the only ones still doing so, I think, so the turbines are bespoke and do not benefit from the economies of scale of the CC steam turbines.

(550 C is the upper temperature limit for cheap steel against creep, so I think that choice of temperature is not a coincidence. It also makes me dubious of reactor concepts operating at higher temperature.)
What is PL?
Food delivery is a super-premium service for the well heeled, always has been.
No, it's not. There's a known bug where the Surface will not turn on/off the IR camera during the login process, resulting in either a "can't turn on camera, please enter PIN" message or worse: leaving the IR camera on after login significantly reducing its lifetime (it gets hot to the touch) and doing god knows what to your eyes.

Of course, everyone is quick to blame the manufacturer when it comes to drivers, even when the MS supposedly vets these drivers and even when the manufacturer is MS itself.
> The real solution to fast compilation is to have modules.

I don't agree. The real solution for fast compilation times is to not have to recompile things. This means onboarding tools like ccache, organize your project around independent subprojects which eliminate/minimize compile-time dependencies, and leverage incremental builds.

There's a C++ book somewhere that describes how the subprojects approach helps lower build times to a residual length which if my memory doesn't fail me was dubbed horizontal architecture. It consists of designing every single subprojects to be stand-alone and leave any integration to the linking stage. I've used it in the past on a legacy C++ project that took slightly over 1h to pull off an end-to-end build, and peeling out 4 or 5 subprojects following the horizontal architecture approach allowed me to cut down full end-to-end build times to slightly over 8 minutes and incremental builds down to less than a minute, without bothering with compiler caches. I'm sure that if I bothered onboarding ccache I could drive incremental build times to just a few seconds.

If you know what you are doing, you can do a lot without begging for magic.
My delivery could have been refined as well - I don’t mind criticism per se, only when it’s angry and comes off as mean. To some extent I do believe in public praise and private criticism, but less so when an author links their own work like they did here.
If you have hardware that is not supported no amount of complaining or forum searching will help.

So either you just like to complain about unfixable things or you are unaware that once you discover your hardware is not supported you should stop wasting time on forums and go back to your working Windows environment
You seem to be ignoring the human cost, or maybe you just haven’t thought about it. Under your scenario, millions will die and millions more become migrants destabilizing the governments in the temperate zones. Maybe you are fine with that, a lot of us are not.
Takes after its fouder. Apple doesn't fall from the tree.
I mean the term/categorization. I'll clarify in an edit, thanks.
You can't use mDNS in the browser.

The standards are carefully defined in a way that creates server dependency. WebSocket outright does not allow connections to other browsers directly. WebRTC does, but you are extremely limited in how you could do discovery. I think both are intentional.
Why run Windows at that point?

I'm a hybrid person. I run Linux for my work and dev OS and Windows for gaming and day to day shenanigans. If you're just going to strip Windows down to this weird broken minimal thing tho why not just use Linux full time and get a PS5/Xbox for the AAA games you can't run under Linux.

I dont really get the point of the effort people go through trying to make Microsoft products something they're not.
Nice to see one in operation. Anyone know if they move the LCOE needle?

For reference, traditional nuclear is 4-6x as expensive as wind/solar, and wind/solar are still dropping. For baseload the gas turbine still beats the pants off of nuclear.

I think nuclear needs to get to 2-3x unsubsidized to be relevant long-term, but that's a long road.
> Britain and France had to steal chemical technology from Germany

In context this makes it sound like Britain and France had little or no chemical industry before the end of WWI which is obvious nonsense. Germany had a significant edge there, and the victors took advantage of the aftermath to get a leg up, but it wasn’t a revolution like the original US or more recent Chinese industrial buildout.
Is this done by a single dev? If so, that's a massive risk for anyone who might start using these tools.
Nitrogen cooled reactors produce copious amounts of 14C, unless you use isotopically purified 15N, which is quite expensive. Ditto for air cooled reactors.
B2B companies do this via LinkedIn ads on the regular.
> Journal papers are limited by length and so was our assignment

I have always thought this was a bit silly and that it creates really weird effects that also decrease readability. An interesting point is that reviewers are not required to read the appendix of works. So everything is required to be in the front matter. This is a bit silly when we do things like research graphics or do generative works and such. You want to include images and samples but then your space is eaten up. What if you want to discuss analysis on those images and explore some? You could easily do this on a blog but you're forced to throw this into the appendix. But then a reviewer can ask a question that's explained there and your work can still get rejected because it isn't in the front matter. Another weird incentive is that people end up padding works to fit page limits. This is because if you turn in a shorter paper reviewers will frequently reject your work the same way your boss might not think you're working if they don't see you at your desk.

We live in the 21st century and we still publish like it's the 15th. Computers gave us the ability to embed images, which is why there are so many more graphs and charts now, and it's not like more pages cost more. So just remove it. Some papers should be only a few pages and there's nothing wrong with that. Some papers should be far larger and there's nothing wrong with that. It's just weird to set these up considering they were likely created under other constraints but momentum continued and we back justify the continued decisions (there is something to be said about readability, but that can just be a reason to reject).

Side note: CS groups typically publish in conferences
far right, far left it's the same gestapo crap. going after porn is just a pretext. the real target (i think) is having dirt on people
How to Repurpose Your Old Gadgets (2020)
Aliens of NY – Banned from the NBA
Palantir offers a LOT of services to government orgs. So it's probably something akin to packaging more than one product in one.
They seem sketchy just based off their name from the LOTR object.

From Wikipedia:

"A major theme of palantír usage is that while the stones show real objects or events, those using the stones had to "possess great strength of will and of mind" to direct the stone's gaze to its full capability.[T 2] The stones were an unreliable guide to action, since what was not shown could be more important than what was selectively presented. A risk lay in the fact that users with sufficient power could choose what to show and what to conceal to other stones: in The Lord of the Rings, a palantír has fallen into the Enemy's hands, making the usefulness of all other existing stones questionable. Commentators such as the Tolkien scholar Paul Kocher note the hand of providence in their usage, while Joseph Pearce compares Sauron's use of the stones to broadcast wartime propaganda"
I didn't get the justification for the Trinity test calculation being within an order-of-magnitude of the actual value (putting aside, of course, the fact that it turned out to be very close!)

To me, this experiment would seem analyzable in the same way: suppose we have a loudspeaker with a line of microphones stretching away from it. The speaker emits a pop, and 25 ms later, we record how far the sound has traveled. Clearly, we are going to get the same distance for pop intensities varying over several orders of magnitude.

Given the knowledge that the speed of sound in air (though not necessarily that of shockwaves?) is independent of its intensity, this is not surprising, but what physical insight justifies taking the calculation given in the text as being an order-of-magnitude estimate? I would have thought it would require additional inputs, such as empirical evidence of fireball size from conventional explosions.

Enrico Fermi famously estimated the yield on the spot by measuring how far the blast wave moved small pieces of paper, but that seems to depend on more than just dimensional analysis.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/00295450.2021.1...