skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers initiates infinite recursion... Specifically, the section on the 'audacious claim' that small modular reactors generate more long-term waste (per unit of energy generated) than much larger traditional reactors does seem to have some support [1], based on issues like irradiation of the support structure (possibly more support structure is needed for many small reactors vs. one big reactor, plus the small structure might get a higher net flux of neutrons), and cases where sodium metal coolant is used as it becomes lowishly radioactive. The tradeoff I suppose is less risk of meltdown in the small modular designs?

The latest pebble-bed SMR designs avoid some of these problems as they use helium as the coolant, but similar efforts in South Africa failed several decades ago as the graphite pebbles broke down and graphite dust (and fuel particles) clogged the system. Now several plants in China and Canada using pebble-bed are currently in the works or operational (notably the one in China passed a natural-cooldown-after-loss-of-power test, i.e. no need to fire up a diesel generator to keep the coolant flowing to prevent meltdown[2]). However, there could be other catastrophic scenarios, as graphite is flammable and when hot reacts with water to form hydrogen. Loss-of-coolant >20% seems bad[3].

[1] https://thebulletin.org/2022/06/interview-small-modular-reac...

[2] https://www.modernpowersystems.com/news/chinas-htr-pm-reacto...

"Three-dimensional modeling and loss-of-coolant accident analysis of high temperature gas cooled reactor"
[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03064...
When was this published?

The heading says 1.1.2023 but the article URL says 2024/5 ?

Also, in the first sentence "A little over 51 years ago" (referring to Apollo 17 of December 1972) would indicate that that the article was indeed written in early 2023. Yet some of the links in the footnotes seem to postdate this.
It's not a fraudulent website. I'm familiar with the blog you linked to and frankly I think it's run by a bunch of snobby conformists who pose as free-thinkers. Therefore, I don't expect much. But I may look over the post when I get time. Thanks for trying, I know what I asked is a lot of work. It's just not as clear-cut as you think, and it certainly wasn't at the time everyone came out against it.

Just look at the low depths the media went to in order to smear Ivermectin, a Nobel-prize winning drug for humans with minimal side effects, and that should tell you there is more to it than we were officially told. As I said before, they literally tried to connect the Joe Rogan thing to horse Ivermectin, and fabricated a hoax about an ER not treating gunshot victims because of people falling ill with the veterinary stuff. Meanwhile in Africa, people routinely take inexpensive Ivermectin that they buy with great ease. It all sounds fishy. I can't ignore the official lies, even if I do find some research that claims no benefit is there.

If you dig into this stuff more, you'll find that pharmaceutical companies fund studies to cast doubt on established medicines that they can't make money on, such as those with expired patents. If there was a simple silver bullet solution to covid and big pharma couldn't monetize it, they would surely bury the results. The huge investments in vaccines could not be allowed to fail, as many elites were heavily invested in the producers of those vaccines.
I resonate with this a lot. There is a time horizon beyond which the work we do doesn't really matter. No code I wrote five years ago is in production today. A vanishingly small number of products I built are still around. The act of building is a pleasure, but once it's built, its success and impact are pretty much out of my hands. Once I accepted that, I enjoyed the process a lot more, and ironically my output got better, too.

These days, I take the most pleasure out of building careers and mentoring younger engineers. I remind them of this lesson. I think, when I die, I'll be more proud of the people on my teams and what they went on to do than any software we shipped.
IIRC this is a fee they charge you in order to have access to the vehicle's EZ pass, not for making actual trips across EZ pass bridges or the like. So if you're going to rent a car for a week and need to cross a bridge on one day, you have to enable the charge for the entire trip, or somehow prepay the charge via some website for the bridge. This is basically impossible for a tourist to figure out, of course, so they just profit from the complexity with an all-or-nothing system.
Google remains focused on its long quest for your eyeballs
As a software developer I find artists' obsession with random() a bit baffling. As an artist (a photographer creating visual/fine art photography) I am missing a story and a movement in generative art. There is no human connection, no story, no (however wacky) artistic manifesto that would drive efforts of a group of artists. I am frankly embarrassed when artists talk about coding or the results of feeding the output of random() into an image generator.
What if they're finding happiness in the chase, rather than what's at the end of it?
and the author of the article has 23 years of unused stickers in an envelope in a drawer, illustrating why its good for the author that apple is stopping
Interesting piece of history, thanks for sharing.

I consider D and C# nowadays the closest languages to Modula-3 in features.

There is still some folks keeping Modula-3 compiler going.

https://github.com/modula3/cm3
M4 iPads may contain 12GB of RAM, despite sold as 8GB
> toxic behavior of its maintainers towards Chris Lattner

Did I miss something?
Might be something regional. But where I live it’s just a prevalent weed that most homeowners want to kill off. I’ve never eaten it like some of the other comments. Never heard of anyone else around here eating it either.
Doesn't it seem logical, given we have spent millions or years evolving in the sun?
What results? "People who go outside live longer"? "People who can afford to leave Sweden to go sunbathing live longer"? I agree with the point about single studies, but even if you have multiple studies they still have to be good studies that answer the actual question you had (which in this case is probably "should I wear a hat and sunscreen?").
I just had a conversation today with someone who had a friend who ate poison oak for immunity. I brushed it off as bro science.
What a crazy coincidence.
Nope, that would be FreePascal and Delphi, fast compilation, without paying for a spartan language.
Supreme Leader is like Charmain of the Board.

President is like COO/CFO.
Delphi is still around.

Kudos to FreePascal folks though.
I agree the ffmpeg command line requires a postdoc, but that's why we have (deterministic, predictable) GUIs.
> Is there no other way to make this a source of income other than NFTs?

If you really enjoy generative art I think this shouldn't distract from that enjoyment. It's a way to create unique digital outputs that can be owned by collectors (ie its not just right-click saving PNGs), so in a generic sense it's a natural fit. You don't have to get caught up in a crypto frenzy or spend hundreds of dollars to collect NFTs from a generative artist whose works you really like. The author of this article has many wonderful projects available in a reasonable price range (for art) on both Ethereum and Tezos blockchains.
There was a proposal to design an improved F-1B which would be much more simple due to advances in technology and produce 15% more thrust at sea level. From what I can tell the designs got rather far along but NASA ultimately decided to stick with SLS and shuttle derived hardware.

SpaceX is all about reusability and they have determined that having a large number of smaller engines gives them better control of the rocket during boostback and landing burns. F-1 style engines seem best suited for big disposable first stages and no one in the private sector seems to want to do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrios
Canada having only one road is a southpark reference.
Honestly doesn't seem too different from non-ev cars. Anyone that's lived anywhere near a car factory has seen thousands of them sitting in the huge parking lot before they get shipped out. Tesla doesn't have brick and mortar dealerships so the cars gotta sit somewhere.
Prediction markets
There used to be a happiness cap of 75k earnings that everyone considered, but there seems to be a happiness inflation with a cap today 500k [0]. But the correlation also seems to be that it depends on the mindset of the people. In the end it might be easier to change your mind than your salary.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/money-happiness-study-daniel-ka...
Insurance industry already has a lot of experience dealing with fraud of the similar type, and yet insurance companies still like the insurance business.
Yes. This is the secret to Netflix's success too. They don't need a CDN, the ISPs do that for them. (Net neutrality what?)
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And Apple Stores will have them available for those who want them.
Whatever reality is, humans have sex and make new conscious agents all the time. If they can be created by birth, why not by building?

My point was that however the subjective reality I perceive came about, the laws of it still seem to allow for the creation of new non-biological conscious agents.
haha imagine the manufactured outrage when "developer tools access" or "CLI access" is hidden under _Accessibility_

(It's a pretty clever idea though)
Clickbait title worked :(

Saving you a click

> The company is phasing out those iconic Apple logo stickers
The plugin system was literally an internship project, and in that context putting together a working proof of concept for out-of-process plugins which can perform simple tasks is a great success. They just never bothering scheduling anyone to work on making the other 90% of a useful plugin API, which makes me wonder if they even realized that they shipped a basic prototype as a headline feature.
Obligatory Mitchell and Webb sketch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
I've occasionally wondered if there are any production cars that have original manufacturing/design documents released. Feels like those could be really cool to see for some classic cars (911 comes to mind...)
> Wellp, if this is accurate I’m truly a dead woman, but at least my skin will look great!

Have to admit, your username choice at sign-up was awfully prescient. Don't suppose you want to give me your guesses for any upcoming lottery?

:-)
Hey is simply a mystery. I don't understand why their blog exists; the CEO never questions the common consensus, offers a differing viewpoint, or arrives at a worldly or broad conclusion. They just want to yap and drum up traffic/relevance for their... checks clipboard IMAP-as-a-service subscription like AOL never died. It's bizarre.

And I mean good grief, if I ever write prose this bad I hope I'm removed from my seat at the business. This started as a fairly basic inquiry on the nuance of segregation and ended by relating the situation to compartmentalized lunch boxes. He's inventing new forms of self-destructive rhetoric!
And how do you do that when the bullshit is in some new direction where there is no truth?
Yes, exactly this. Helium 3 isn't naturally occurring on Earth, and is very expensive.

Nasa are already running challenges for the best way for rovers to process/mine the moons surface. https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/lunabotics-challenge...

And how do we deal with the boundary issues of who gets to mine where. Let alone the political issues I'm sure will arise.

Theres so much fascinating discussion to be had, but I guess rockets win the cool badge.
I usually come up with an Oberon fan, although I also dislike Wirth's pursue for minimalism that started with Oberon, ending with Oberon-07.

I also feel that Active Oberon is the best Oberon that came out from the Oberon linage.

Yes Oberon is like Smalltalk and Lisp Machines, without the environment, it misses a lot.
I started getting something a bit like that with bread. My whole mouth would go numb. I've eliminated it from my diet - was a bit of a wrench, but I've got over it now, and no more numb mouth.
There are lots of other occasions to receive unhealthy doses of sunlight. And there are some activities that are like sunbathing, but people might not regard it as such, like reading a book, waiting at a bus stop, drinking a coffee outside, or walking at the beach.
> This is a very popular stance to take for every millionare out there.

Also, many non-millionaires who are older and have the perspective common to the old like Wozniak too probably. Their kids are grown if they had any, they’re probably retired and no one expects them to change the world and they’re unlikely to have any ambition to do so. They know more people in the cemetery now than those who are alive. Because of that they know that life and its struggles are a passing thing and you have to enjoy it while you can with others while they’re with you. That is a legitimate kind of moral enlightenment that even the young with their whole life and its struggles before them can benefit from contemplating.
Designing a Scalable OCPP Server
Humorous
Yeah, that is my experience as well everytime I try Wayland. There is always something that makes it unusable for my use case - be it remote desktop or user experience due to issues like you describe, or some other reason. I have resorted to sticking with X11 for as long as possible, I will try Wayland again when X11 is not an option anymore.
Units came from UCSD Pascal.
The article mentions prototyping, maybe they sent a connector for testing before making the Very Expensive Molds.
Fonts have supports for that. I know that the Urdu Jameel Noori Nastaleeq font, has hundreds (maybe more) of complete words hardcoded into the font.
Wouldn’t quite go that far. I’ve only met one anime fan in my entire career.
"In NZ now - going to beach without protection even for an hour is suicide. Also avoid even going outside from 11am till 3pm at peak summer months."

I live in Western Australia, which is much sunnier than anywhere in NZ, and this sounds hyperbolic to me.
Arc Forum must be running an old version. It doesn’t scale properly on the phone.
Not to detract from your main point, but there are various shades of “happiness” and quite a few of these are available and are indeed enjoyed by the poorest of the poor.

It can be vacuous rich people speak, but there is definitely something in untangling happiness from material circumstances (any kind).

Note: I’m definitely not a millionaire.
He does indeed seem like a laid back normal person. But I must admit that I find it pretty easy to have such sentiments if one has or had a net worth that's basically infinite money to 99% of people out there. Would this post have the same upvotes and discussion if it was from an unknown gas station attendant or school teacher?

It's good to take note of his positive attitude, but I do also think it's healthy to take anything multimillionaires say with a grain of salt.
> I think encoding and storage are both quite expensive. You want to encode videos that are likely to be watched in the most efficient ways possible to reduce network bandwidth usage, and every video needs at least some encoding.

The minimum possible expenditure on encoding is "we require videos to be encoded like so; here's our help page on how you can do that".

It's not even slightly expensive.
I really don't understand what makes people complain about ffmpeg options so much. The only problem I ever have with it is that I use it so rarely that I usually need a refresher every time I use it for anything that isn't trivial, but that would still be true with any parameter style.
My understanding is you can get sent to collections for basically any reason and debt collectors will hound you without regard to whether it is something you should be obligated to pay or not
Not really, since evolution doesn't optimize organisms for longevity, but for reproductive success.
No, it’s a relativistic flyby.
I just had this in Hawaii (Big Island). Dollar car rental dude checks my car when I return it and decided some scratch on the fender was new (I'm pretty sure it was not). I had full insurance and I told him he can figure it out with the insurance company, that I was in rush to catch my flight, and he can do whatever he wants. They didn't do anything. They're just looking for some sucker they can charge extra on some random thing.

I've had a lot of rental car experiences. Usually it's fine. Taking photos sounds like a good idea.
What causes new engineers to "sink or swim"?
If you suffer from the "arrival fallacy" (discussed in the article), then you will find out only after reaching the top that there's not much hapiness in there. Woz kinda saves you the trouble of many years working towards an illusory goal ("when I acommplish this, everything will be great").
Because the evidence strongly indicates so: we haven't found a single instance in the entire universe of a conscious entity that wasn't also a living being.
Getting buy-in to get things done
> No code I wrote five years ago is in production today.

This is wild! How can you be so sure?
It was published today. I've fixed the wrong heading date.
Many people call that "sneaky sun"
"Stuff like this is easy to charge back with your credit card company."

That sounds like what someone who's never had to waste hours getting 'stuff like this' charged back, with varying levels of success, would say.
Of course not. I'm not sure why this scenario is such a popular straw man. GenAI in the programming domain is augmentative. There's a whole bunch of cognitive work that isn't necessarily _reasoning_ that nonetheless needs to be done for a given task. GenAI is fantastic at yak shaving. Used skillfully, GenAI is good for shortening the distance to understanding. Is this worth the energy costs and downstream environmental and social impact of the technology? I ... I'm not sure. Probably not. But it's here, it's useful, and it's not going back into the bottle.
You don’t have to have single payer to get more transparency in pricing, for example.
Or just remove the limited liability. In sense of not going after assets, but at least that any fines or prison sentences apply to anyone who had at least single stock at the time. Company you own commits fraud, you go to prison. Simple and effective to force stock owners to police board and thus employees in the end.
Dialects of Green
I must say I find your comment off putting.
> But one big live event can blow you out of the water, and push you over into very expensive tiers that will kill your economics.

But if you're broadcasting something live and what's killing you is that everyone wants to watch it at the same time... wouldn't you serve it P2P so that everyone is downloading it from each other rather than you?
Well you can do systems programming in F#, doing AOT compilation to embedded systems.

https://www.wildernesslabs.co/
Also "contamination".

Despite that, NERVA has been proposed for a number of missions, mostly deeper space.
>The scientific principle is based on proving thing by experimentation.

As documented in Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" there are periods where little progress is made because scientists get tunnel vision. It takes someone to come along and push things in a different direction, perhaps to the detriment of people with decades or lots of money sunk into a different orthodoxy, and navigating that turmoil can be challenging.

Who do you think decides which research gets funded, or published? If you go too far outside of what's acceptable to the establishment, your career is over. When there are billions of dollars on the line and your opposition can literally fund a dozen studies to "discredit" your take, it doesn't matter if your results can be reproduced or not. It could be many years before the truth comes out, if it ever does.

>None of that requires asserting bollocks on a chat show. Sure science outreach is great, but its not _really_ part of the method.

If you want to get funding for research then sometimes it is necessary to engage the public. If you hope to buck the well-monied establishment with hot takes, you might even need legal support. Besides that it's just interesting to hear what people are working on. I think people like to know what scientists think, and it gets boring to hear just a single opinion about things nonstop.
'Danger behind the beauty': More solar storms could be heading our way
The code is much more similar, in principle, to a virtual machine. The actual code, the bit that contains the logic which has the semantics we intend, is in the trained weights, where the level of complexity is much higher and more subtle.
There is a scene I like in an OppenHeimer movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0pCclxx5nI (Edit: It's not a deleted scene from Nolan's OppenHeimer) .

Their is also an other scene in Nolan's OppenHeimer (who made the cut around timestamp 27:45) where physicists get all excited when a paper is published where Hahn and Strassmann split uranium with neutrons. Alvarez the experimentalist replicate it happily, while being oblivious to the fact that seems obvious to every theoretical physicist : It can be used to create a chain reaction and therefore a bomb.

So here is my question : how do you contain the sparks of employees ? Let's say Alvarez comes all excited in your open-space, and speak a few words "new algorithm", "1000X", what do you do ?
> there’s a reason many engines are simply replaced when they encounter some kind of major malfunction.

Only a catastrophic failure[1] results in an engine replacement. For the p99 of car owners out there (especially in rust-prone areas), the engine will outlast the body by a large margin.

[1] And for some types of catastrophic failure, such as overheating damage, it's still cheaper to replace the head only.
A landlord is just going to check their address. Why would they brute force anything?
It's a good point, Maslow's hierarchy of needs is an important concept to keep in mind. However, most software engineers live well enough that their basic needs are well covered by their above-average income.
[edit] Oh. Damn. I now see I made a really critical typo/mistake in my question: I meant to say Wayland, not Xorg. :/

[original reply, based on a faulty interpretation of your response due to my not realizing I made the typo I had] Well, that would be my position for sure... at which point I would argue they in fact did know how to fix their issue: stop using Wayland. But like, people sometimes claim to have good reasons to be using Wayland, and so before I start going down that path I wanted to hear, from them, whether they actually cared about Wayland for a real reason.
The consequences already exist, but are not enough to prevent the fraud. The linked article speaks of criminal charges. And here is a CEO going to prison for similar charges of fraud over nuclear construction:

https://www.powermag.com/former-scana-ceo-will-land-in-priso...

Nuclear projects tend to attract fraudsters that are not intimidated by the possibility of jail time.
Found a sun avoidance advocate.
The key point is video streaming products are not impaired because of high cost of bandwidth, that only YouTube can only afford because Google subsidizes it from other revenue. YouTube is profitable by itself, the combination of premium and ads is more than enough to pay for it.

It is hard to directly compete on long-form video because of audience and content depth advantage Google has with YouTube.

There are successful niche players who are fairly large (like Vimeo or Twitch or even OnlyFans) who focus on specific markets that don't require social network advantage like corporate or smaller segments etc.

For general purpose media, creators are going to focus on the platform with most audience and vice-versa, very hard to break that.
the nitpicking in this thread is incredible lmao
Courts.