skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to be very clear, are you saying this paper looks good to you? You are not seeing any red flags?

Like, for example, the fact that the 7th entry of Table 2 contains 0% Uranium, but still has a K_eff of 1.095. What does that even mean?

Or like the following sentence on page 15:

> The MCNP6 modeling and calculation of the moderating ability of the fuel projectile that evaluated the uses of Lithium-6, Lithium-7, Boron-10, Boron-11, Carbon-12, and H2O

Why would you even consider Boron-10, which is one of the strongest neutron poisons? Maybe it's a mistake, right? Well, 3 of the rows in Table 1 contain Boron-10, and one (the ninth row) is the "champion" at the amount of energy production. A funny champion, considering that again it does not include any Uranium.

As for the iron not vaporizing, I suspect you are basing your conclusion on this statement:

> Because the projectile heats up so fast, there is no time for conductive heating of the iron. Since all the naturally occurring isotopes of iron have a thermal neutron absorption cross section less than 2.5 barns, direct neutron heating will not dominate. Therefore, it is highly probable that the iron sheath around the bullet will remain a solid far deeper into the barrel.

That "highly probably" is a bit vague. What exactly happens when the iron sheath disintegrates? Will it change phase instantaneously in its entirety, or from the inside to the outside. And if it's the second, will shrapnel hit the barrel? If It does, it's kind of a problem, isn't it?

> Power generation in the barrel is approximately 1/25th that in the projectile.

Does this mean that after firing 25 projectiles (i.e. after 25 seconds) the power generation in the barrel is equal to the power that is sufficient to vaporize the projectile? You could say it's not a biggie, because the barrel is much more massive, but it's finite. What happens after 250 seconds, or 2500 seconds? And more importantly, what happens to the neutron economy in the whole system after a good amount of the uranium in the barrel undergoes fission under this neutron bombardment? Are we going to have Xenon poisoning at some point?

I could go on, but you get the idea.
Prop 13 is factually a CA Constitutional amendment, the reversal of which would require following the process to amend the state constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13

https://www.dgs.ca.gov/Resources/SAM/TOC/6000/6920#:~:text=A....

Zoning control changes could (as far as I can tell) be done via legislative action alone (and probably fading some resulting lawsuits).
It was an April Fools thing. Still annoying, but temporary.
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You're comparing income tax to a sorta wealth tax. CA properties tend to be worth more than in other states, so even if the % property tax is lower, it can be a higher $ or % income amount.
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Meh, these are potentially the kind of crimes where laws don't apply.
https://johnvilla.substack.com/p/next-thing-loadingread-this...
“Existing modern languages already provide an excellent developer experience: Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, and many more. Developers that can use one of these existing languages should. Unfortunately, the designs of these languages present significant barriers to adoption and migration from C++.”

Hadn’t heard of Carbon, very cool. Super telling line with the “Developers that can use one of these existing languages should.” Thanks for sharing!
Largely archaeological finds that yield tons of forensic evidence. Plus there are actually plenty of written records that have survived, albeit with major gaps. The Akkadians wrote on stone tablets, thousands of which have survived. Mostly they are banal transaction records (which still tell us a lot!) but there are many others, including some court records from ancient Egypt and elsewhere.
The original Pentium was the first superscalar x86 CPU. Superscalar just means you can execute faster than scalar (one instruction at a time), and the P5 could theoretically sustain 2 IPC. Of course it was in-order so cache misses would likely prevent you from getting there.

The Pentium Pro was Intel's first out-of-order design. It's also superscalar.

StackOverflow has a really funny post by Andy Glew, who worked on the Pentium Pro, noting that a scalar out-of-order machine could make sense in some corner cases. (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10074831/what-is-general...)
Sounds like (another) good reason for IPv6 - your box can have many, very obscure addresses :)
And then there's class decorators (as in, they're a class, not a function). Which are fun, there's two separate paths for args vs no-args.
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I think it’s because piracy at launch is the most important. Stopping it right at launch is key. Also I do believe it’s a subscription.
Any software process is for management. That said, you don't need sprints for that. It just looks like a monthly meeting with your manager, where they say they're disappointed in what you have so far. Then weekly meetings, and then daily micromanagement.

You can micromanage in any process.
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This makes sense in closed source products where you'll never get to audit the source for such exploits, but little sense in open source projects where anyone can audit it.

That's to say an enterprise router or switch would likely have secured exploits put there by corporate and national security agencies, whereas open source exploits would benefit from the probable deniability.
> I think this is just propaganda that you've accepted.

It's just logical inference. Your point of view shallowly considers everyone as consumers without thinking about the fact that if "things get cheaper", that means that labour has also gotten cheaper. You assert that people won't "sit there" while employers reduce their wages, but that's exactly what would HAVE to happen in this system. Otherwise the company would go under because their product or service gets cheaper each year, but labour stays the same or increases in cost. Especially under capitalism which demands constant growth.

It simply would not make sense to pay someone the same price for a bushel of wheat when the cost of bread has reduced to a fraction of its original price. I don't know why you say that it is propaganda to acknowledge this extremely simple logical inference.
Advanced fabs take at least a decade to spin up, and maturing a domestic fabrication capability takes decades. There's hardly a threat here.
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I suspect that given it was rejected in 2020, which was not that long ago, in an election where Prop 19 (the other one you're referring to) passed, the powers that be have divined that revisiting the question now is a little early.
Worth noting that most of the homeless population in California is from California: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/california... (https://archive.is/gm1wq)

It seems our problems with homelessness stem mostly from high housing costs and our dysfunctional homeless industrial complex.
It was introduced in the era when families regularly shared computers. It was meant to hide history from people using the same machine, not from the internet.
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> I'm not seeing how [...] favors your description over mine.

The difference is that I am speaking economically, you are speaking socially. We already covered this quite some time ago. Both are linguistically valid, but the gap is in that it's not clear what meaningful information is obtained by taking the social perspective?

The best we've been able to come up with is that it comes from an emotional perspective, where "There is a shortage of housing" ≅ "I feel housing is too expensive." I can gain information about how you feel in that, but why would I want to know how you feel in the first place? It doesn't really tell me anything. I mean, why not say "Housing, it makes me feel tired"? Because nobody cares if you're tired, of course. And they equally don't care if you think it is too expensive.

> It affects rent too. Keeping a roof is getting unreasonably difficult.

Pack in the people as tight as a plane and you'll be fine. It "is not important", so they say...

> Fixing the price or using a lottery to allocate "is" supply and demand?

Broadly speaking, yes. When observing supply and demand, things like price fixing are all part of the conditions that make up the (in the case of price fixing) demand you are able to observe. Again, supply and demand isn't a thing that exists out in the world, it's observance of the world. As said earlier, you can even observe supply and demand play out in animal populations. It is not a human invention. It's a fundamental property of the universe, so to speak.
He also did a great presentation on this, which is on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4&pp=ygUSZXJpYyBoI...
Every graph I’ve ever seen of video game sales from people who distribute via Steam etc typically has an initial spike if they caught on and got featured, and then a few spikes for things like holiday sales.

Maybe the devs of the game you mentioned decided that after the initial spike had passed, and they are in a long tail period, it is cheaper to remove Denuvo.

Or they just used Denuvo to protect the game during early time when most sales happen and they removed it because they want better performance and also they want people to be able to play the game 20, 50, 100, and 1000 years from now.
Plot twist:

It was a psyop to increase the scrutiny around OSS components.

Kidding. Mostly...

But given the amount of scrutiny folks are going to start putting into some supply chains... Probably cheaper to execute than most company's annual security awareness budgets cost.
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Supposedly there are 40,000-70,000+ homeless in LA, depending on city or county level. Are you sure that none of them should be counted as unemployed?
I feel like homeowners in California are giving more than they are taking overall.
What's the name of the layout recorgniser model? I did not have a good experience extracting layout from tables, especially those without column boundaries (space instead of lines to demarcate boundaries)
this is probably the right answer. hacking group getting a 0day to sell to nation states on a per-use agreement.
At that time, lots of the civilisations wrote on clay tablets, and as their cities burned their clay tables were baked and hardened and so managed to survive the destruction.
Yes, Denuvo has recurring costs to the developer, it's not a one time payment.

In the case of Lies of P though, the developers accidentally included a debug build .exe without Denuvo in an update, only afterwards was it actually removed entirely because there was no point in including it anymore.
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In the lede "Rising Unemployment". But in fact broader federal numbers show unemployment near historic lows, surely CA can't be that far off, right? Let's google for some data:

https://ycharts.com/indicators/california_unemployment_rate#....

Yeah, article is making signal out of noise. Unemployment was ~4.1% before the pandemic, spiked, recovered, and indeed has inched up to near 5% since. The graph shape indeed looks basically identical to federal data at FRED: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE

So... are we supposed to trust the rest of the article? Not sure I'd bet on it. People love articles that confirm priors, and those are the most dangerous kind.
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Why have you not covered the elements that make it look very thoughtful/intentional?
A sure sign of an inexperienced programmer in numerical computing is when they check for equality to zero of a floating-point number as

if (x == 0) ...

instead of something like

if (abs(x) < eps) ...

where eps is a suitably defined small number.
Developers like being involved in decision making processes. Probably more than they should be. Definitely a lot more than non-technical people think they should be.

Bring a couple of your senior developers, tech leads, or
eng managers into the process early. Let them participate in things like project ideation and prioritization. It might feel unnecessary to you but it will go a long way towards the developers feeling empowered.

Developers hate having tickets thrown at them by non-technical people. They'll disagree with ideas, prioritization, etc. Getting them involved in that process helps reduce that feeling.
Firefox private browsing is implemented almost identically to Chrome incognito mode and will not offer any meaningfully better privacy. Both will not save cookies and browsing data locally, but both can be tracked by the remote sites you access.
nope, which i can say with confidence as someone who was physically attacked and mugged. alternative is to move on with my life and realize the incredibly small chance that the cops respond, decide to do anything, and are actually successful at catching the person, and im successful in suing for damages,they're even capable of paying my damages, and all of this is worth my time and effort. additionally i don't believe in causing harms to others, even if they've harmed me, and the non-zero chance that the cops just fucking shoot and murder the dude over stealing my wallet means i'm not going to call the cops.
I'm just reporting what I've seen living here. And I've voted democrat my entire life, but I won't this next election. After having kids and seeing how cops respond to 911 calls, I can't keep giving my vote to pathetic democrats.

Shoplifting incident yesterday: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/video/watch-group-of-th...

Stuff like this happens constantly, most isn't even reported. I used to work by the Salesforce tower and saw this happen a few times in 2018-2019.

If you make enough money and have a $2M house, you can insulate yourself from a lot of this. I unfortunately am not as insulated from it as I'd like to be. I live in a 'nice' neighborhood, but even I've had homeless people camp in front of my house, a hit and run on my car that 911 wouldn't respond to, etc etc. Like I said, people only have to have a few of these eye opening incidents before they start questioning the direction this state is heading in and who is steering the ship.
Should have called it "B$ DNS" hahaha
I believe Denuvo charges for access to the activation servers. [0]
While the pricing structure has likely changed, for most game companies the long tail end [1] of the sales doesn't justify continuing.
For example, Square-Enix(Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest) removes Denuvo 6 months into a release. For a counter-example, Atlus(makers of Persona/Shin Megami Tensei) are known to never purposely remove the protection.

[0] https://www.techpowerup.com/275158/denuvo-drm-pricing-struct...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail?useskin=vector
Here's the most simple definition of agency:

Agency is the ability to independently make and execute decisions in an environment.

This typically involves three components:

1. Perception: The ability to observe the environment

2. Cognition: the ability to process perceptions and arrive at decisions

3. Action: the ability to act on the environment

LLMs can process many kinds of perceptions and make decisions about them - often as well as a human.

That means that giving agency to an LLM is often just a matter of giving it an environment it can perceive and act on.

There are of course different levels of agency. A General Intelligence is a higher level agent that can handle many different environments and actions.

LLMs have two main challenges here. There are environments they can't connect to. And many environments require complex reasoning that LLMs can't do on their own.

There are two low hanging approaches here;

1. Adaptors. These are perception and action adaptors that can connect LLMs to many environments. Work here includes multimodal llms, LLM driven robots, single LLM agents, and communities of LLM agents

2. Accelerators: These help LLMs reason about complex environments like math, code, optimal planning, and knowledge bases. Work here includes tool generating LLMs (Toolformer, LLM+P), RAG engines, LLM-driven mixtures of experts etc.

Conclusion: Agency is easy

Overall LLMs have the cognitive horsepower to be agents in many environments. All they need is efficient and general adaptors and tools. We can modify LLMs to better work with these components, like multimodal LLMs or mixtures of experts. Or we can plug and play different adapters and tools to increase the level of agency, like tool use and RAG.

Future generations of AI will likely integrate these features in much more effective ways, achieving higher levels of agency. But even as it stands, LLMs have very real agent capabilities, needing only tools and adaptors.
Security engineer here. Your viewpoint is exceptionally skewed to the point of being wildly inaccurate. Being good at security work is like any other skill and has a payout distribution more akin to being a star performing artist than a 9-to-5 job. That is, everyone hears about the people that make millions, but they’re actually missing that most people make far less than that, even when they’re good at their jobs. And in your case the people who are not good at their jobs also end up in jail. And just like learning to play music, you can get really good at it if you practice for 10 years–but most people won’t, and even then if you’re in the top 1% but not the top 0.1% the difference in pay might be several orders of magnitude. Just being a software engineer is a far more reliable way to be well off.
Thank you for sharing your experience and insights. It would be fantastic if we could collaborate to make HeyForm better suited to your needs, as well as the needs of many others.

> Would an integration with Nextcloud be considered?

We are definitely interested in exploring this possibility. However, since I am not personally familiar with Nextcloud, it would be helpful if you could provide more details. Could you please open an issue so that we can discuss it further?
My brother, a famous Broadway actor, once gifted me a jar of $300 face cleaner scrub.

It was great.

When it was empty I read the ingredients and discovered it was basically a jar of wet baking soda.

Using .50 baking soda was just as great.

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A disclaimer is great, but like the prior post said, when you give something a name and then redefine the meaning of the name in a disclaimer, it feels dishonest.

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