skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because maintaining a military at adequate readiness doesn't seem to be at the top of the list.

I think Yamamoto Isoroku gave the answer to this challenge: just keep a booming manufacturing industry. When he was trying to convince the Japanese government not to have a war with the US, he said that he saw so many chimneys when flying over Philadelphia. All those factories would turn into a giant war machine if a war ever broke out.

That is, the economy of scale matters. When the US had its entire supply chain domestically, replacing a special screw could cost a few cents. When we were in good terms with China, it would cost a few dollars as we had to order the replacement overseas, but well, it was still cheap. Now that we are trying to cut China off, then what will do if we'd need to get a replacement? Setting up a shop from scratch with little expertise and no supply chain to back it up? Well, such replacement would then cost a few thousand dollars and we would be screwed.
This is great, well done :)
The failure of that limit when real world "collecting" is the Hallmark of having a problem hoarding...
> Sure, but it's pretty obvious that fish and chicken are very stupid animals, and those mammals are much smarter

Does "smartness" carry inherent moral worth? That would be an interesting principle to hold, given what it might entail for humans.
This particular design has a very low burn-up indeed, but that's not because of the TRISO fuel. The Chinese HTR-PM helium cooled reactor, that went live 2 years ago, has a burnup of 90 GWd/ton of uranium, which is enriched at 8.5% U-235 [1]. That is an exceptionally high burn-up rate.

The eVinci reactor has an exceptionally low burn-up rate: about 4 GWd/ton, despite using a much more enriched fuel,at 19.75% ([2], but note that this is just an estimate, Westinghouse did not disclose the actual burnup). Why? That's the price you have to pay to have a micro-reactor. The square-cube law says that for such a reactor the surface of the core is very high compared to its volume, so the neutron economy is extremely poor. The only way to make it work is to use highly enriched uranium. Uranium enriched to more than 20% is considered weapons grade, so commercial reactors need to use fuel below that limit, and 19.75 is basically as high as you can go.

TRISO fuel is actually a miracle of science. It addresses many problems of the current generation reactor fuels. Fission results in transmutation. By the very nature of the fission process, you end up with fission products in burned fuel. Some of these products are gases (like Xeon) and they create pressure, and when you have hundreds of thousands of fuel elements some will burst, resulting in fission product discharge in the cooling water. Nasty stuff. The fuel in TRISO is encapsulated in some poppy-seed-sized granules, and it can withstand immense pressures, so this bursting scenario just does not happen. In addition to that, they can withstand immense temperatures as well, and they are surrounded by graphite that has an exceptional heat conductivity, and is also a very good moderator. From the point of view of reactivity control, graphite is actually the best moderator out there, ahead of hydrogen, deuterium and beryllium.

> is difficult to re-process

That's not a problem. You just don't reprocess it.

> it has quite low utilization of enriched uranium

This reactor will have low utilization, as discussed, but not because of the TRISO fuel.

[1]https://aris.iaea.org/PDF/HTR-PM.pdf

[2] https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1501599
It sounds like in this case “exposing CUPS to the Internet” means “running a Linux desktop on the Internet” which while not something I would do doesn’t seem crazy. I would hope that a default Debian desktop installation would be secure enough to set up without a firewall.

I certainly expect that a Linux laptop shouldn’t be highly vulnerable to every other device on, say, an æroport’s WiFi.
How the U.S. Military Plans to Tackle Its 'Forever Chemical' Problem
> How so? (I agree that the readonly category doesn’t work for iA, but drive.file should be fine IMO.)

Arguably, I'm not as familiar with iA as I should be, having only tried it briefly a while ago, but IIRC it basically mounts your file store as if it were a filesystem and allows you to completely manage files. Add, rename, delete, etc. And it's not just limited to iA's App's data. Part of the sales point is to be able to go between iA and Google Docs.

And it allows you to search for a string in every file in a folder. Sure, it has to download every file to do that, and that can be a bad idea, but it if you have a folder of 100 files, 100 KB each, that's reasonable. But with drive.file, what are you going to do? Show a picker for each of those 100 files?

And this is for a native app. It would have to load up a web view to show the picker.

> With S3, you only get access to your app’s data, not everything user has.

This is incorrect. With the S3 API, you could implement the search every file in a folder feature I mentioned above, no pickers required. Just use ListObjects (or ListBucket) along with GetObject.

And again, Google is locking this kind of access behind a CASA review, and while I don't want to insult anyone's intentions, CASA review is fairly useless. Even the paid option is more security theater than anything else. And it's a burden put on developers that other services don't require.
Dupe (72 points, 13 hours ago, 52 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41657833

Source website (275 points, 12 hours ago, 177 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41658733
"That was child's play for me"
Which is why I said

> I suspect this is why Google took away the free option and are requiring a review by a security lab.
> The issue you have to surmount is this reduces the value of the licenses in the short run. Which means less cash for the seller (the public) now versus a recurring productive asset.

Well, that assumes the public isn't really benefiting from the products and services that can actually take advantage of that spectrum. Making less in license fees is probably a good trade-off if your phone is faster or you get interesting and affordable satellite services.
The Internet's AI Slop Problem Is Only Going to Get Worse
This is a really dumb question that will get you a lot of subjective answers.

Nothing protects you from logic bugs, but design by contract can help reduce undefined behavior.
I just found out today that WPEngine is not the same legal entity as WordPress.

So yeah, from my perspective there's a real case for confusion of marks here.

I have no opinion about the drama one way or the other, just providing a datum.
This is a fascinating development, especially for type 1 diabetes, where autoimmunity is such a challenge. Using the patient’s own reprogrammed cells to avoid immune rejection is promising.
Amazing what a rounding error in the federal budget can do for humanity. More please.
Looks like it only affected a small number of United’s fleet but the defective part may be in planes used by foreign carriers
How to Stop Self-Obsessing and Be Happier
Hey, he's in competition with his old mate Elon. Clearly this is what he's referencing.

Tesla has made about 34bn in income over the last 3 years, with stormy waters ahead, yet Elon pocketed himself 56bn under the guise of saving humanity, which is a "vibe" OpenAI also needlessly projects.
Wordpress, the thing keeping PHP alive!
He does strike me as the kind of guy who would eat Fido in one gulp if he saw any monetary advantage in it.
When did he say that?

In 2019 his position seemed to be this. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sam-altman-says-openai-still-...

> Altman said OpenAI's long development time-horizon ultimately meant it had no choice but to abandon the nonprofit model if the company intends to survive.

>

> "In spirit, we still view ourselves as working for the world," Altman said. "But I think you have to sort of play the field as it lies. And we just need so much capital to do our work. I think we'll need more capital than any nonprofit has ever raised, probably, and so this was sort of a reflection of reality."

Did he make statements counter to this at a later date?
The price of that feature (constant tracking of your vehicle's location) is not worth it in a world where entities who sell or give away that location data without the vehicle owner's explicit, intentional, actually-informed consent do not go to superjail forever.
You adapt. Ukraine is emptying the US armories to kill Russians at scale.

You get smarter/more accurate with the constrained supply of shells, adopt drones etc.

In the 80s, expensive Maverick missiles were the primary airborne tank killer. Now the Ukrainians are dropping mortars into tank hatches from cheap drones.
Dupe (15 points, 1 day ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41648397
Trigger warning NSFW..

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>The Mugwump slips the noose over the boy's head
and tightens the knot caressingly behind the left ear.
The boy's penis is retracted, his balls tight. He looks
straight ahead breathing deeply. The Mugwump sidles
around the boy goosing him and caressing his genitals
in hieroglyphs of mockery. He moves in behind the
boy with a series of bumps and shoves his cock up the
boy's ass. He stands there moving in circular gyrations.
The guests shush each other, nudge and giggle.
Suddenly the Mugwump pushes the boy forward into
space, free of his cock. He steadies the boy with hands
on the hip bones, reaches up with his stylized hiero-
glyph hands and snaps the boy's neck. A shudder passes
through the boy's body. His penis rises in three great
surges pulling his pelvis up, ejaculates immediately.

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Via https://www.electroniclibrary21.ru/literature/burroughs/nake...
There is a group of people that believe getting less money than the maximum they can is too little. Let's not base business models on extremes. For example, Humble Bundle has shown there are other ways.
Have you looked into Anki/Supermemo? e.g., https://jmcavanagh.neocities.org/ankiforscience/ankiforscien... provides a great example of using it to remember scientific facts, derivations, algorithms, etc
There is an approach that works, see i.e. the Islamic Judicial system. Hudud (Penal laws) are immediately waived with an ounce of suspicion.
Neuroimaging researchers pen statement protesting UK Biobank data-access changes
The community should fork Wordpress so that is no longer controlled by Automattic, thus eliminating the conflict of interest. They would have to pick a different name, such as LibrePress (just like LibreOffice vs OpenOffice), in order to avoid copyright or trademark claims by Automattic.
I think the Navy is mostly obsolete and they are focused on key assets. Ship acquisition seems too dumb.
I've been eyeing this project for quite a while now, but as mentioned in its FAQs, I usually get scared off by the idea of pulling in a large dependency.

If anyone's made the leap to use it in a project, I'd love to hear about your experience.
Hey now, he spent at least 15 hours a week telling various groups of people at OpenAI petty lies in between dinners with Saudi Princes and sundry well-heeled, gullible, low-lifes.

That time is worth money!
> We use mostly guided munitions dropped from planes and rockets fired from the ground, whereas Russian doctrine has always focused on artillery.

Thanks for the specifics. I don't know about guided munitions, but I'd imagine a million dollar a rocket will be quite expensive for a prolonged war. Also, the US debuted a killer zone, Rogue 1, a few months ago, and it cost about $94K. $94K! I'm sure the drone is more advanced than DJI Mavic 3 Pro, but is it really 50 times more advanced even if we take the cost of military-grade into consideration? It looks to me the only explanation is that without a healthy manufacturing sector in the US, the cost of anything would go through the roof because we have lost the economy of scale.
Do you even know what the pi calculus is? Like, you can implement the pi calculus (or the lambda calculus) by explicitly rewriting names but that's rarely done in practice. Any practical implementation would have a set of channels possibly shared by different processes and that's not very different from the free threading model with channels. By disallowing any other communciation methods you effectively end up with the actor model, was this what you were arguing for?
Yes the joke is that this is the whole state of Florida.
It's not wasteful to buy more shirts because they will then last longer overall - you're unlikely to make a few shirts last an entire lifetime unless you want to end up with repair patches everywhere. Only if you change body shape significantly or style significantly will they get wasted. I have dress shirts that are ten years old.
I want Chuck Palahniuk to write the book. It would be dark and amazing.
Double whammy - I was found via a 6-year old HN "who wants to be hired" post (much to my disbelief) and in my initial reply, I suggested they view my blog site. Not long after, I was a member of the team!
yeah i thought it was going to be something in tcp stack
Some time ago i was playing with a Raspberry Pi and wanted to write some code in there. The Gtk3-powered Geany was WAY too slow (like, type and wait for the letter to appear slow). I recompiled it to use Gtk2, it was much faster but also it was buggy (the code display was getting messed up).

Nedit (based on Motif) on the other hand was both very fast (faster than the Gtk2 Geany) and bug-free - it worked perfectly. But i wanted Geany because of the file browser sidebar.

So i wrote a small Tcl/Tk script to display a list of files using a filter in a directory and call Nedit to edit them when you doubleclicked. Also added a few buttons to call make, make clean, open a terminal, make a new file, etc and worked perfectly.

A few years since then i made a few improvements and modifications to this script and use it on my main PC whenever i want to work on C source code - though i use Krita instead of Nedit here (Krita has its own file browser sidebar but i find the way it works annoying - and doesn't have all the extra stuff i've added over time to the script).

The neat bit is that it reads a Tcl file from the home directory for "global" configuration (e.g. which editor to use, how to run terminal commands, etc) and then a Tcl file from the current directory for project-specific stuff, all of which having access to the main script's own procs for things like calling terminal commands, showing a few dialogs, etc.

I've uploaded the latest version of the script to my website a few days ago[0]. I've been mainly using it with Linux but a couple of years ago i also used it a bit with Windows using MSYS2 (with Notepad++ for the editor) and worked fine.

There is a screenshot on the site.

[0] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/projfiles/
Why are they still on SourceForge? To me, SourceForge feels like one of those scammy download sites that installs spyware.
Generally, CUPS on a Mac is bound to localhost. It is highly atypical for a Mac to make it so any computer on the internet or even local network can make requests to its cups server.
That’s really not a fair statement from him given:

1. Based on their github orgs, there is effectively no separation between wordpress.org and Automattic.

2. The core WP contributors trac has a long history of not really being welcome to new contributions. Outside of the design decisions coming from Automattic, third party contributions either die in multi-year deliberations or get directed to the plugin system.

3. The development culture around WP, which largely revolves around the plugin ecosystem - has always trended towards paid plugins over OSS software.
Sounds like a good idea really. If consumers are dumb enough to buy such machines, then that's what they should get.

It's just like the inkjet scam: people have been buying these stupid things for decades, despite the ready availability of far-superior laser printers, just because the inkjets have a slightly lower initial price. After this much time, it's really hard for me to feel any kind of sympathy for the people scammed by the inkjet printer industry.
Most libraries mentioned in the GP are less than 10 years old, except for perhaps stb libraries (dates back to early 2000s). Single-header libraries are definitely a recent phenomenon, possibly inspired by stb libraries after all.
Why not merge this with the existing thread on the official post that it references? This is a dupe. An after-the-fact submission talking about the source.
I'll answer this as someone who has spent some decent chunk of time on icebreakers. It's hard to really picture what travel through sea ice is like if you haven't done it. Breaking ice isn't that hard... at least if you only have to do it once. But breaking ice for hundreds or thousands of miles is really really hard. Articles like this one tend to gloss over just how specialized every single icebreaker is. And when they build new ones they often try new things to make it easier. My favorite thing I've seen is a set of compressor nozzles that attempt to make it easier for the ship to glide through the ice.

FYI, people hear icebreaker and they imagine that the ship literally cracks the ice like a wedge. It's very much less graceful. Icebreakers work like a beached whale where they propel themselves onto the ice and smash it under their weight. When they get stuck many of the ships have the ability to roll to try to break it further.

All that said, a projectile system could surely be made to work kinematically if it were effectively a large caliber gun. But carrying enough ammunition to functionally break ice at that scale would be its own challenge. And if you wanted to bomb or nuke ice or something at a much larger scale then I hope you don't need me to respond to the social or environmental considerations.
AI! But seriously, there's probably no substitute for having a human watch the entire capture to ensure it came out right. "Acceptable quality" is subjective. To really be sure it came out right, you'd have to watch it side-by-side with the original, to tell whether glitches in the capture are in the original, or a result of a faulty capture.
Try and use this system if you have the resources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41664109
Deleting your repository or changing its visibility affects that repository's forks.

Sure, but this only matters for 'private' repos. See <https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-...>.

Github does some cute things behind the scenes to save space, but for all 'public' or 'internal' repos, what Github calls a fork is (from a Github user's perspective) identical to what happens when you run 'git clone' on your machine.
I am one of the authors, Nobuyuki Umetani from the University of Tokyo, who implemented all the codes. I am delighted to see so many good discussions here!

I fully understand that the quality of the result is low for the architectural standard. This research does not mean computing a perfect floor plan ready for architectural design. It's more like it gives the architect some rough design choices in the very early design stage.

This research presents a new shape representation (differentiable Voronoi) for solving layout problems. These challenging problems typically involve geometrical and topological constraints. Existing shape representations are classified mainly into explicit (mesh) and implicit (using an implicit function) representations. While mesh representation is challenging in handling topological change, implicit representation is problematic because the boundary is not explicitly defined. Thus, it is difficult to compute the loss function based on the boundary shape. Differential Voronoi representation has both implicit and explicit representation properties (the wall is defined explicitly while the distance function from sites determines the shape) and is suitable for optimizing geometry and topology together.

Thank you! I am happy that our research reaches such a large audience!!
Can confirm, only issue to me sometimes is managing updates.
The exploit allows an attacker to overwrite your real printer with their fake printer.
I have no idea about these circumstances, but speaking generally...

It is really easy to make money from an irresponsible insurance company if customers have confidence in you. You take in a large amount of money from people insuring their stuff, invest it, make lots of money in the stock market, distribute the money back to the company owners as profit. Good times.

Then the highly predictable crisis that "nobody" predicted happens, the insurance company goes bankrupt, the customers get no payouts and the company owners don't really lose anything because they got their profits out years ago. Sucks to be a customer.

Under modern theory there is a Phase 3 where the government steps in to pay the insurance company extra money and keep them ticking over. It is an optional step and depends on political connections.

The basic idea is that insurance companies are paid to assume risk. But if, when the risk materialises, it turns out that the risk was actually held by the customers or government then it is a bit like the insurance company was making free money in the intervening period.
You're welcome:

https://github.com/urxp/drally
It is Microsoft after all. They are quick to put out press releases and imply or even promise functionality, but you can spend your entire life waiting for them to actually deliver.
Fashion is for sure not one of mine.

I pretty much only have shorts and tshirts that could all be replaced on amazon for $100

1 pair of jeans and 1 nice shirt, neither that I have worn yet this year. I do have a nice suite but even to a wedding or funeral I would probably just wear the jacket, shirt and jeans.

Beyond that I just don't care. There is such freedom that comes with being able to replace my entire wardrobe that I actually wear on amazon in the next 5 minutes for $150.

In the same regard, I don't notice people's clothes either. Not only do I not notice if someone is wearing something expensive vs cheap but the thought wouldn't even cross my mind to try to do some kind of wardrobe valuation.

I would suspect people really into fashion highly overestimate the degree the average person is into fashion.
Ask HN: Is there a way to disable "Chat With Gemini" on Android?
My Android phone just sent itself a text message talking about it's "Chat with Gemini in Google Messages" functionality. Tapping "No Thanks" doesn't seem to do anything. Anyone know if there's a way to completely disable Gemini on my phone? I receive customer confidential info on my phone and am obligated to take "reasonable steps" to avoid third party disclosure. Sharing the contents of text messages with Google's AI seems like a problem.
It looks a lot more fun to use than C, but it seems like any application that couldn't use C++ or Rust due to some project policy or something, probably could't use this either, and I'd generally take C++ over C any time if available.

Maybe I'd try it on a platform that had no C++ support?
> We have prioritized high wages for workers in the US

I'm not sure if this is the dominating factor. Russia fired around 10,000 shells a day, and each costs about $1000. So for a year, Russia would have fired 3.65M shells that cost $3.6B. Let's say we need 100 workers to produce these shells. Then, he wage of the workers would cost merely $10M a year, if each one earns $100K a year. $10M over 3.65M shells, and that's just $3 a shell, or 0.3% of the cost of a Russian shell, or 0.075% of the cost of a US shell.

What the US lost was not advantage of labor cost, but the economy of scale. By the way, this is also what Tim Cook said. He said that Chinese labor not cheap anymore, but China has so much scale and expertise so that the output from China is still cheap. Again, economy of scale.
Yikes. This is more of an incredible claim than the counter. I'm shocked that you are willing to make it so confidently.