skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reasons for the HGT-reactors is the extremely high temperature. Helium is a lot better than water for things like that. The extra high heat means you can have a higher efficiency while having more heat left for industrial processes.
> I don’t see why you’d need to normalize for the type of cars sold.

Pickups and large SUVs are known to be much more profitable vehicle segments than mid-sized cars and SUVs. That's why Ford stopped selling cars domestically (except the Mustang).

https://slate.com/business/2018/04/its-logical-for-ford-to-s...

https://www.siouxfallsford.com/blog/2023/august/25/why-did-f... ("Profitability and Production Costs")

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/ford-stop-making-all-...

Tesla's strong demand has shown the go-to "evolving consumer preference" line was more about consumers avoiding Ford cars (which were indeed awful), not cars/crossovers in general.
If it can't be self-hosted, I have no interest. Thanks, anyway
> Page limits force you to focus.

This can be solved in better ways, which is, in fact, reviewers. I'm okay with a soft requirement but a standardization is what I'm getting at as being problematic. Some papers are noisy because they should be 3 pages but are 10. Some papers are noisy because they are 10 pages and should be 30. There is no universal rule, and that's what I'm getting at.

> It's also easier to find reviewers for short papers than for long ones.

That's a separate problem that needs to be addressed, but is not easy.

> Some the issues you mention are specific to CS conferences.

Yes, but the author here is CS and we are on a CS focused website. But in general what I said isn't specific to conferences. If conferences are the problem then let's abandon them in favor of good science instead of keeping them around (or turn them into being meetup focused). Certainly the lack of back and forth between authors and reviewers is not a meaningful review process (most author rebuttals are limited to one page and often reviewers are not aligned in critiques). Are we all on the same team (better science) or strictly competing against one another?
SelfExtend Attention for Mistral
Late 2010s sounds about right, the EU directive PSD2 became effective by September 2019, which banned most of those machines accepting payment without a PIN or magnetic stripe. There might have been some extended timelines in some member countries and also some providers that just didn't implement it in time (and might had to pay a fine).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive#Rev...
How Did Netflix Win While Being Criticized for Becoming 'Unwatchable?'
> No, that was not the issue, and "crashing" was never on the table.

That’s the difference it makes. They were preventing “crashes”. Apple want to you have a working phone so that they can sell you services. They extended the lives of out-of-warranty phones with degraded batteries. They are known for having industry leading support periods for their phones and this is no different.

People like my wife didn’t care that her phone was slower. She cared that it worked. She never bothered to change the battery. She just upgraded when she would have anyway.

I noticed today that her iPhone 8 is in a throttled state. She doesn’t care.

Should they have told the user? Sure. Should they have to pay enormous amounts of money for extending the lives of old hardware? No. Especially when the other manufacturers let their phones rot. Literally doing nothing would have made apple better off and driven more sales due to rebooting handsets.
Everytime I see complications with copyright I think that it should be similar to patents. Short length of time with an optional renewal if the work is valuable enough. I don't think it would be too much to ask for rights holders to be required to apply for copyright (for a small fee, let's say $5/work) and provide a central authority with a copy of their work. This would solve issues such as

1) when copyright ends for a work and a source to compare claims against

2) Orphaned works without known owners that are nearly unusable until expiration

3) Everything under the sun is copyrighted for absurd lengths of time. Does a macaroni art piece I made when I was in 1st grade need copyright for 70 years after I'm gone? I don't think so, but I understand that the newest movies need some protection.

4) Archiving of expired works would be easier
How about be a responsible parent instead and educate your kids about the dangers of internet/tech? Why limit the curiosity of teens? Let them explore, but do it responsible/under your supervision. Otherwise they will do it anyway but in the worse possible way and you'll have 0 say in the matter.
Ah bummer, no LFS support.
I remember predictions that cable TV practices (bundling/ads/high prices) would eventually get into the "easy/cheap/fast" streaming tech and undermine its newfound value.

Even if streaming prices were just as bad as cable TV, you have to admit that the lock-in effects are minimal and that's pretty great on its own: no hardware, no-contracts, no brick-and-mortar, no service appointments or technicians, etc.

With that in mind, I don't mind at all if companies are implementing these tactics. The barriers to compete are now way lower and the situation is much better for consumers (compared to ISP entertainment).
But the reviewers can reject if it isn't enough or reject if it is too much. What I'm arguing is the alignment mechanism already exists. The page limit is over constraining
Too much of anything can be a weakness. If you blow up whenever someone makes a mom joke at your (mom's) expense ... that can be used against you. It takes a cool head to prevail in these situations and defensive thinking. He could have asked the kids to back up, ensuring he had enough space and time to react if they tried something.

You can still help people and remain wary of them.
This is a nicely in depth and enjoyable read, especially as a long time software engineer, who's recently become interested in raspberry pi's and microcontrollers.
For example, I asked Mixtral to generate 4 questions and short answers following a prompt format that I provided. Then I used that output as the prompt for LiteLlama along with a new question:

Q: What is the capital city of France?
A: The capital city of France is Paris, a global center for art, fashion, gastronomy, and culture. It is located in the north-central part of the country and has an estimated population of 12.4 million in its wider metropolitan area.

Q: Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
A: The first person to walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong, as part of the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. When he stepped onto the lunar surface, he famously said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Q: What is the chemical symbol for gold?
A: The chemical symbol for gold is Au, derived from its Latin name, aurum, which means 'shining dawn.' Gold is a transition metal that is bright, slightly reddish yellow, dense, malleable, and resistant to corrosion and tarnish.

Q: What is the tallest mountain in the world?
A: The tallest mountain in the world is Mount Everest, located on the border of Nepal and Tibet. It has a height of approximately 8,849 meters (29,032 feet) above sea level. The first recorded summit of Everest was achieved by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.

Q: What is the LHC? What has it accomplished?
A:

And this is the output I received from LiteLlama:

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. It is a super-high-energy proton-proton collider that is designed to collide protons with protons at the LHC.

Q: [Omitted since I don't care. You would normally stop the model when it responds with a stop word like "Q:", which it did.]

Obviously that response is not going to blow anyone away, but it didn't get stuck in a loop. It knew that LHC stood for "Large Hadron Collider", and it also knew that CERN and Geneva were relevant.
They have and didn't find anything conclusive (two small samples not matching any known suspects). The hobbyist researcher wants access to the tie so he can test a specific adjustment pin that is concealed in the knot of the tie, which he interviewed FBI agents and learned they were unaware of.

Judge will not release the tie under a FOIA request, because it is not a document. No surprise there.
Ask HN: Recommendations for an alternative native chat client? (Slack, Discord)
Looking for a native desktop chat client that consolidates other chat applications into a single, efficient, native desktop client.

It's okay if it's _only_ an alternative client for Slack (as that's the one I use the most), but support for other services would be awesome too.

Happy to pay for this, Linux support would be ideal.

Any ideas?
The report recommends:

> 1. An increased focus on using proven project/ construction management practices to increase the probability of success in the execution and delivery of new nuclear power plants.

> 2. A shift away from primarily field construction of cumbersome, highly site-dependent plants to more serial manufacturing of standardized plants.

> 3. A shift toward reactor designs that incorporate inherent and passive safety features.

> 4. Decarbonization policies should create a level playing field that allows all low-carbon generation technologies to compete on their merits.

> 5. Governments should establish reactor sites where companies can deploy prototype reactors for testing and operation oriented to regulatory licensing.

> 6. Governments should establish funding programs around prototype testing and commercial deployment of advanced reactor designs using four levers: (a) funding to share regulatory licensing costs, (b) funding to share research and development costs, (c) funding for the achievement of specific technical milestones, and (d) funding for production credits to reward successful demonstration of new designs.
Some of your points stand. Though, in the iron triangle of speed, quality, scope, it turns out that quality and speed are linked. Quality is a requirement for speed.

So, it seems more akin to making meringue with yolks. Eventually maybe it will work, but if you knew what you are doing and cared, it would be done better faster.

The criticism though of losing sight of the goal is valid. That happens.
Do you know the original use of the "Don't mess with Texas" slogan? Do you think if people didn't repurpose the phrase it would have kept its original meaning? By leaving it alone you're ceding that the phrase belongs to Trump - who stole it from Ronald Reagan's "Let's Make America Great Again" 1980's campaign slogan.

I'm saying don't let him own it at all. It isn't his to own - it's a cliché English snowclone that he gave popularity to. It doesn't deserve to be a powerful slogan that makes people think of Trump. It deserves to be a generic, overused snowclone devoid of any significant meaning where the average person no longer remembers the original phrase or meaning.

By ceding it to Trump and wishing to discontinue usage of it you're choosing to give it power and continue a legacy that it doesn't deserve.
And if people are waiting for you to replicate, when will there ever be any trust?
Took me a while to parse this. Not sure what the relationship is here: 1/ you clearly do think the source tells you something about the credibility (in your case you now think NYT is not highly credible), 2/ the laptop story was given to the Post, it's not like they gumshoed it, 3/ the hospital bombing was about a current event which typically carries a lower bar than something that can be verified over days like the laptop story or the DB Cooper heist. This isn't a defense of the NYT, they definitely lost credibility with that debacle which could have easily been fixed with tighter headlines and more circumspection in the initial reporting.
I've had fairly good results using gtkcord4, though it takes it little finagling to get up-and-running: https://github.com/diamondburned/gtkcord4
On a not so serious note, most political careers seem to be built on public utterances that seem to be generated by a rule set that could fit into 3 pages, triggered by a handful of keywords or trigger phrases, also known as talking points. With the advent of the so-called culture wars, most of this is also increasingly context-free and doesn't require much of world knowledge. Users, err, voters will fill in the gaps eagerly, each according to their respective phantasies and understanding. To the point that Eliza may eventually become a worthy contestant. An approval rate of 27% is certainly a good starting point…
My dad told me that when cable TV first came out, one of the big selling points was that, since you pay for the subscription, there will be no ads, unlike broadcast TV. Then one day someone in cable decided to run an ad....
Puretext is a free UWP app in the Microsoft Store for format stripping. The author is/was a MSFT dev, iirc. With it installed, WIN+V does a format_clear() paste.
I left bigco to a -much- smaller company, like <50 people. I recognized it as a career speed bump and slight pay cut, but it’s in the tech I like to use and I am actually writing code. Three months in I’m more than happy with my situation.

For most people the comments are correct, stay at bigco unless you’re sure. Far more stable and career-forwards.
So do you know how to buy W10 LTSC license? Should it via MS Partners? Can we buy it directly from MS?
> he was asked by tankie friends to keep quiet about the USSR's crimes because they were the best chance for Communism.

I have a lot of empathy for the tankies of that era. It was clear that people like Stalin were truly evil, but it was also clear from centuries of evidence that capitalism was exploitative and needed upheaval.

On PAPER, Communism sounds great. I do think people genuinely believed there were simply growing pains and once through them something what today's generation thinks of as the "Star Trek The Next Generation Utopia" could be achievable.

There are still people that think it might have succeeded if given a genuine chance, and not undermined by the rich in the west.

In retrospect we now know they were wrong, and probably Russia was the worst place for communism to succeed. A society like China is probably the one in which it has the best chance, and even there we see that successful communism requires some free market economics and some pretty heinous repression.
Not going to counter you. In related examples, I will pick ClickUp from your list. It is the closest to this one in terms of trying to combine a database, (multi)composition, and communication (Notion is more specialized than that.)

I would say that in this arena, the 2010s started with Quip and ended with ClickUp. Quip was sold at $750 million, but Salesforce never let it bloom. ClickUp is now worth 4 billion dollars.

Just one critical thought: Consolidation must transcend mere visual modularity and deliver deeper usefull integration to compensate for the absence of features of dedicated tools.
This report is repeating a line of BS I've seen before from MIT.

They say renewables + batteries for the entire grid becomes very expensive without a "firming source". They then say nuclear is a firming source. They then at least imply, if not outright say, that nuclear is needed to supplement a renewable grid. (See page 10 of the full report.)

But this is bullshit. There are other firming sources that would work better than nuclear. In particular, green hydrogen, produced by electrolysis, would be a great firming source. It would be much better than nuclear for this, since a simple cycle combustion turbine power plant has just 1/20th the capital cost of today's nuclear power plants (combined cycle, just 1/10th the cost.) For a low capacity factor firming source, minimizing capital cost is all important.
Netflix disc had everything in a much smaller universe of content. The amount of money spent creating content over the last decade is staggering as is the number of shows/movies coming out.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/444870/scripted-primetim...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/187122/movie-releases-in...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/str...

Total media industry content cash spend rose 14 percent to $134.6 billion in 2022 after a 25 percent jump to $118.4 billion in 2021, he noted, citing company reports and his firm’s estimates and analysis. For 2023, he forecast a 1 percent gain to $136.4 billion. Content spend in the coming years was likely to be “relatively flat or even decline,” he argued.
when i said 'snake oil' i was quoting dijkstra, who continued to hold that opinion of 'software engineering' (yes, including xp, perhaps especially including xp) until he died in 02002. so the logical implication of what you're saying is that dijkstra was ignorant—compared to you, apparently?

if you think six paragraphs is a 'wall of text' you'd better stay away from libraries; if you ever saw a book you might die of shock

parnas did actual software work. don't insult him by lumping him with boehm
I mean an evolutionary tree where intelligence features are added in some branches makes sense.

I guess part of what I was trying to address is that we like to think of intelligence as what people do and are the pinnacle of, and discounting anything that is not covered by that.
Not as many as Go
No, the current free alternatives to the YouTube frontend are too compelling to me.
Probiotic L. reuteri in autistic children improved social functioning
I think that it is thought (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riffle_shuffle_permutation) that seven riffle shuffles randomize a deck. So you may be misremembering that eight returns it to the original state.
It only becomes better when you know the backstory of the author and the context in which it was written. John Milton was a talented diplomat who spoke multiple languages and was very well respected by his peers who admired him for his intelligence and good character. He supported a popular uprising against the incompetent king of England out of a sense idealism. The revolution was initially a success but the democratic government that should have replaced the king turned into an even more unpopular dictatorship. The monarchy was restored, most revolutionaries where executed and Milton was banished to the country side where he lived out his final years in poverty going blind due to cataracts growing in his eyes. He dictated the story of Paradise Lost to a scribe to explain how hard it is to change the word for the better, "To serve in heaven or to rule in hell" as he would put it. This was his final act of rebellion, to cast satan as a personable anti hero.
People occasionally posit how they would deal with situations were they to arise. For example, that they would have fought back if they were on one of the planes which was hijacked on 9/11.

It’s really hard for anyone to say how they would handle themselves in a situation which they have not encountered before.

As a side note, people who continually lecture other people are generally not great people to be around.
Actually, it is not obvious, especially if you’re acting independently.

Once there’s a critical mass of people in society that can’t operate in high trust, you’re basically waiting for the generous people to be fleeced.

~There was a cute simulation web app on HN 6 months ago…I can’t find it.~ Found it!

https://ncase.me/trust/
Not sure Apple is targeting your market segment then. Clearly they are doing something right considering their revenue, value and performance. The 13 mini has an oled display, not sure what you’re disagreeing with.
Sol Reader is available for pre-order for $350
The relationship is the GP, was wondering if there is a more 'reliable' source than 'the-sun', i.e. a bigger name paper with credibility - I think the person you were responding to is just saying these days it really doesn't matter who reports it - big name, little name, there are no guarantees ... so even if the NYTimes ran the article, there is no guarantee it is any more true than 'the-sun'
The linked page claims that LiteLlama scored a zero on the GSM8K benchmark, so let's just say math probably isn't its forte.
I'm wondering if the loyalty really is with the cheater, or if they are instead trying to protect weaker parties like the students and post-docs that can be largely or event entirely innocent. The latter option is possible and hard to discern from the outside.
There is also a Rust implementation based on Pion that is active: webrtc-rs/webrtc
> Anna Karenina: Talks about rural and urban life, faith, and social change in the 19th century

Yes. But does not talk that much about politics. Unless for you the above things somehow count as politics?

> The Idiot: Centers around society's treatment of those perceived as idiots and/or socially inept.

Have you even read it? It's about someone so good that people treat him as an idiot. It's about morality, not politics.

> Crime and Punishment: The entire novel is a critique of nihilism, very much a cultural and political part of Russian society at a time, with thoughts on utilitarianism and rationalism. It's a deep dive into the radicalization of people. It also criticizes Western ideas.

Again, this is philosophy, not politics.
I do something, it just doesn’t involve YouTube or other streaming services anymore.
Even more so in Modula-2 (as the name suggests), where you can compile module definitions separately from their implementations and already have the compiler perform syntax checks against APIs defined therein before they are even implemented.
Pardon, but wasn't DB Cooper's identity already solved by his surviving kids a year ago?

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2021/12/19/pilot-says-hes-solve...
Does Apple have developer relations engineers? Surely they must have some engineers that participate on social media, and they could be asked directly.

It's honestly baffling that we have no mechanism by which to increase accountability within technical domains from these large corporations.

And if you reach out to Apple, you're more than likely to get either radio silence or a canned PR response that doesn't answer anything.

It makes me wish that we had powerful technical figures willing to hold other tech figures accountable in public. Why isn't there anyone capable of setting up an interview with the Apple CTO and questioning them directly on the importance of developer tooling and relations?
A lot of those 50mb will probably disappear if you statically link your binary against the library.
My fuzzy understanding is that organizationally, the teams / org that was originally responsible for writing good documentation at Apple became the App Store review teams. And thus never again was there time for writing good docs.
Yes, an anti-résumé listing only what one has not studied or experienced but limited to things that one has even the vaguest aspirations of one day studying or experiencing would be a great thing to have.
Modern computing is a line of middlemen, each one in turn saying "let me help you with that" in a patronizing tone.

At the end of the line you are handed an iPad and told what you are allowed to consume.
in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38899328 you deprecated achievements like oberon as 'mere software' so any effort spent on understanding your comments is wasted effort
I can't imagine they didn't A/B test which of those statements would drive away more customers. A lot of people would balk at a $3 raise, but only a very few will immediately cancel because of the ads. I expect they'll start with a few ads and boil the frog slowly.
Pretty sure your computer can calculate 10+10 without an LLM.
That's because there's no competition, you are building an app? Then you need both an iOS and an Android version, no matter what. Their docs can be as broken as they want, you still have to target the duopoly.
Maybe they'll tell me what's going on next time. That'd be nice.

It's also nice that your wife doesn't mind. That doesn't scale, though.
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