skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on whether the downstream only ever consumes upstream changes, or also often contributes changes to upstream. Rebasing in both directions can result in a messy history, too, especially if upstream isn't very careful in how it accepts pull requests.
God I'm so conflicted.

On the one hand, I'm glad we're finally slowly letting go of the BigOil(tm) propaganda against nuclear. The fact that we're still burning dead dinosaurs to power our society and relying on windmills is insane to me.

On the other, a nuclear startup, presumably some VC-backed monstrosity who will only care about making the most money (aka cutting every conceivable corner there is to cut) possible, sounds like a recipe for fucking disaster just waiting to happen sooner rather than later.
That's not in CPS form as cont returns into explode. Even if we treat the for loop in explode as an implementation detail, cont should take the next continuation as a parameter.
Not covered, but I can get the shot at nearby pharmacy for 15€.
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> this sort of generic ideological argument isn't the intellectually curious conversation we're looking for here

Do you have a concrete advice on how to deal with ideological tangents like the "late stage capitalism" meme? Flagging obviously doesn't work. Answering it is frowned upon (it's "feeding it").

Finally just ignoring it would leave a HN full of leftist ideas and anti-capitalism snark. They are already here, heavily upvoted. Is that something you want? HN is a gathering place for hackers but it also educates and inspires. An HN where businesses are the bad guys and capitalism evil is not an HN that inspires startups and founders. So my question is: what do you want and recommend?

Thank you!
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I sincerely hope life starts treating you better than it clearly has.

I also hope you see the irony of your ways.
There is no code in nanosleep that converts it into a yield, and in fact a nanosleep(0) is a nanosleep(50µs) with the default timer slack value. If you want to yield, call sched_yield() …
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Quite happy paying £26.80 / £73.50 for all of that.

It's in a country's interests to help maintain the public's health, and that includes subsidising their dental costs (otherwise, they end up taking up primary care time instead).
Go on then
A lot of vendor tools (think firmware flasher, diagnostic tools) for older hardware used DOS boot images (CD, floppy, USB, netboot, etc) because it gives lower level access to hardware. Some software/hardware combo is also "real time" which was "easy" in DOS compared to higher level managed operating systems. Shipping those tools as a boot disk required a DOS license. So this is a market FreeDOS took over a long time ago (like parallel port CNCs). Another niche is the emulators for old games. They still need "a DOS". Until recently there was no open source release of MsDOS, so using it was technically piracy, which make some otherwise legal things hard to redistribute (think a legit website selling roms). I have seen it "in prod" in small business when I was younger where they would have it in a VM to access their old accounting and CRM from the 80's when they had to look up some things because the file formats were obscure and proprietary (think 5-10 employees shops which have been doing the same thing for decades, like food processing or wood mills)

Retro computer enthusiasts tend to use the "real" MsDOS or other era correct DOSses, so this isn't really a market where FreeDOS is used much.

Also, you don't need a different DOS for newer computers. As long as it has a BIOS compat mode, most flavors of x86 DOS will run just fine. This might change is the 16bit mode gets finally removed. If something can't run DOS, then it's technically not a spec-compliant PC.
The "legislation against playing conkers" is demonstrably false.
You're absolutely right, not sure why I dumbed down my example to a single instruction. Correct way to estimate this number is to feed and keep the whole pipeline busy.

This is actually a bit crazy when you stop and think about it. Nowadays CPUs are packing more and more cores per die at somewhat increasing clock frequencies so they are actually coming quite close to the GPUs.

I mean, top of the line Nvidia H100 can sustain ~30 to ~60 TFLOPS whereas Zen 5 with 192 cores can do only half as much, ~15 to ~30 TFLOPS. This is not even a 10x difference.
So well known that it was even famously used in an advert for a kid's chocolate bar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC9BBLSZZdQ
Thanks for the answer! I feel that we can meet in the middle. For example, the distil paper says:

"In particular, we focus our efforts on knowledge distillation (Hinton et al., 2015), which replaces the one-hot vector seen at each token with the distribution of potential next tokens computed from a large model. [...] Concretely, we use a large language model as a teacher to train small models, namely 2B and 9B models, on a quantity of tokens that is more than 50× the compute-optimal quantity predicted by the theory (Hoffmann et al., 2022)."

Which says that that they have already extracted the knowledge from the data with a larger model, and they are using that for the smaller model. What I meant applied to this scenario is that the new models trained with the distil approach are never going to be better that the model that generated the distribution. Of course you can get better with a change of architecture.

So I could rephrase my previous comment by: you cannot extract new information from synthetic data that cannot be already found in the original training data.

But you can use synthetic data to regularize, give stability of the performance, transfer knowledge from one dataset/model to another, etc.

Thanks again for your very appreciated references!
In my hometown in Istria you can find the lion of Venice on many buildings. And pretty much everyone to this day will rather speak in the Venetian dialect, than Croatian.
Doesn't Waymo also require manual mapping everything out in detail before it will get to drive there? Street signs etc, etc.

So it is Lidar + manual work for each area.

While Tesla is trying to go for a solution you can just drop in anywhere.
Elon Musk was insulted over the internet by an emergency worker during a deadly rescue of children trapped in a flooded cave, and he responded by accusing the rescue worker of pedophelia. Elon doubled down repeatedly on the claim, such as by later clarifying that by pedophile he meant sex with young Thai boys.

He also hired an investigator to try and find any dirt on the rescue worker. Now he says this is just his way of having fun.

Anyways, you mentioned something about being disturbed. Please do continue.
> cutting every conceivable corner there is to cut

Do you think SpaceX cut every conceivable corner to make money? Nuclear (and space), are heavily government regulated. It isn't perfect a safety net but it works.
And even then, it took a string of extreme circumstances for Fukushima to happen, and compared to Chernobyl/TMI wasn't nearly as disastrous. A strong earthquake AND a tsunami AND people once again ignoring the safety instructions to shut it down early.
That's pretty insightful comment for someone of post-USSR background as well. The important difference here is that all the institutions in question were founded by Stallman himself. And there are plenty of open-source communities that don't involve Stallman at all, and the barrier to create new ones is low as well - as soon as people are willing to follow you.
I firmly believe that iteration is the key to good engineering. SpaceX has got where they are (partly) due to running flight after flight with incremental improvements each time. The problem with the massive reactors is that you get to build only a couple of them, so you never get to take advantage of learnings to make the next one better/cheaper/quicker.
Yea I always try to block off at least two days a week (ideally 3) of complete focus and move meetinga, conversation etc in other days. Both are useful and are needed
Not directly related to the topic at hand, but it amazes me how Dutch healthcare insurance does not cover dental care by default, and you have to get an extra package for that. As if dental health is not part of my regular health? Why are teeth treated differently from the rest of the body?
Burying radioactive waste in places unchanged for hundreds of millions of years is probably safe enough.

(Sadly, we have to consider that long because the current climate change is also unprecedented on these timescales.)

I am appalled though that anyone is seriously considering the idea of container-sized reactors, for which we can be nearly certain, if this seriously takes off, and we make million(s) of them, that hundreds if not thousands will end up abandoned in random places, and weathering will pierce them before they become radilogically inert.
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Agreed. This is dumb AF.
We'd heat it up on the gas hob and then burn a hole through the conker.

That's brilliant. Why did this never occur to me? That's going on the list of things to tell my younger self when time travel becomes possible.
In video games a lot of these are considered AI though. Even racing cars adapting to a trajectory with some ability to overtake, correct, etc.
It shall be noted that there is no need to recompile everything, when a library's patched: you only need to relink the executables and rebuild the packages

Still, this requires a somewhat bigger infrastructure
Agreed, and in the wild I've indeed seen rebasing used significantly more often than merges for this purpose.
This is probably devops. A single team talking full responsibility and swapping oncall-type shifts. These guys know their dogfood.

You want the defensive team to work on automating away stuff that pays off for itself in the 1-4 week timeframe. If they get any slack to do so!
is there an alternative mascot people could prefer?

on a mascot rating puffy is easily the best imo... what could freebsd have?

any ideas?
Ofcom urged to act after US firm claims Roblox is 'paedophile hellscape'
I assume you could amortize the cost if you made it an apartment complex. Maybe zoning is preventing it though?
you're right, LFO and VCO are digitally implemented..
B.b.b.but.. you won't recognize it from the outside if you're not a professional (and in this case maybe you have the big devices anyway). In contrast to the Volca, NTS or comparable devices you don't have a tact, scale, harmony or anything else which makes it easy to create "music" out of the box, but you have oscillators, inputs and outputs and create connections using wires..
As far as I know, CPS is supposed to be an intermediate form for compilers and a theoretical framework to understand control flow and concurrency constructs. The second part is I think a very good reason why most programmers should learn about CPS; but I don't think CPS was ever meant to be something you were supposed to routinely program into, in the same way you don't routinely program in assembler.
I think this is a well-known thing, being apprehensive about having the measurement being taken can influence the result - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_coat_hypertension
You can avoid that if you save only per-user encrypted content (expensive, I know). That way you just should have to revoke that key to remove access to the data. Advantage is you cannot forget any old backup etc.
to be fair, evidence-based medecine in general is only just starting to take over
Add a cable with red/green status light for home office door
Can it be compiled with libre tools?
Indeed, it was still popular in the 80s and 90s. I assume still is, given the Guardian is a national newspaper.
That's easier, thank you!
The volume of nuclear waste is completely overestimated by the man-on-the-street.

https://ukinventory.nda.gov.uk/the-2022-inventory/2022-uk-da...

A bit like all the world's gold would actually comfortably fit into an olympic sized swimming pool.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21969100

Nuclear waste is a bit larger because it's not pure radioactive elements, but it is still a tiny volume.
What happens when EV charging stations pop up next door
Someone born in 1996 ± 2 years or so would easily have played conkers in the 00s and consider themselves a zennial.
> You do realise

Yes. Not only that, my car had the matrix led hardware for 2 years before the matrix feature was enabled in a software update. TBF, I was never sold matrix leds so there was no marketing let down.

Also the auto-wipers on my 2003 Saab were working better than the Tesla ones of the current generation.

That said, it's also funny to think that the only things I could complain about owning a Tesla are: wipers, self-driving marketing and Elon being a nutcase.

Before the last one is solved, I would not buy another one, but other than that it's a very good car.
> Slightly worrying that evidence-based dentistry wasn't the default position

I see what you mean.

But I'm a computer programmer, and if someone asked me to find a top quality academic study proving, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it's a good idea to indent your code - I couldn't point you to one.
Reasons against the rural doctor quota
A robot in a cow carcass is not a cow, it's a "robot in a cow carcass". Someone might believe it's a cow because they lack crucial information but that's on them, doesn't change the fact.

A cow-horse hybris is not a cow, it's a cow-horse hybrid.

A cow with a genetic mutation is a cow with a genetic mutation.

A cow created in a lab, perhaps even grown 100% by artificial means in-vitro is of course still a cow since it has the genetic makeup of a cow.

The word cow is the word cow, its meaning can differ based on context.

Things like this is why philosophers enjoy zero respect from me and why I'm an advocate for abolishing philosophy as a subject of study and also as a profession. Anyone can sit around thinking about things all day. If you spend money on studying it at a university you're getting scammed.

Also knowledge is finite based purely on the assumption that the universe is finite. An observer outside the universe would be able to see all information in the universe and they would conclude; you can't pack infinite amounts of knowledge into a finite volume.
Yes, Germany is targeting a 80% renewable electricity mix by 2030 and 100% by 2035. They have no illusions about being perfect today. Their current status is 65% renewable for 2024.

Maybe stop looking at instants and start looking at the larger picture: keeping our cumulative emissions as low as possible.

Starting a nuclear construction project which won't deliver any decarbonization for 15-20 years is accepting large cumulative emissions.
I don't think we are being dismissive, it's just that a mathematical theory is more convincing than a philosophical one in terms of what can and cannot be achieved with data.
Depends what you mean by busy. I use the "free" designation option to plan work in my shared calendar. I am busy but I am also free for a meeting if needed. In server parlence this might be an async batch processing job.

Peope who do 0.8 hours work and collect a full time salary while playing golf and pretending they do 8 are rare I suspect.
Tesla should have R&D in Europe as well. Then they probably would have gotten matrix lights right earlier.
Watch YouTube videos on the album artwork of Windows music control bar
It's bit hidden but once you enable `git rerere`, it will remember your fixed up rebase conflicts.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rerere
Bayesian epistemology is indeed one of the developments in the field that avoids Gettie.
I guess it just wasn't worth the effort to check, compared to how easy googling is. Lots of things were like that back then.
Not to mention his politics. I see space exploration as progress, which doesn't really mesh with conservative, backward politics.
My dentist gives me x-rays every two years, and I have checkups every 6 months to check for things like newly forming cavities, inflammation, decay, etc (nothing ever found so far, apart from some minor cavities as a child). It always struck me as prudent.
There was a podcast on history of dental insurance that explained it from US perspective.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/dental-insurance/
I use an app called aTimeLogger on Android that just pins a little notification with a play/pause and stop button, and a little time counter. When I start working, I hit play. When I take a break, I hit pause.

Been doing this for years. It's great to help me focus on working when I'm actually working, and doing other stuff when I'm not actually working.

Looks like the app is available on iOS too if you're an iPhone user.
I am not sure the two are mutually exclusive.

I mean, a highly technical subject will have highly technical jargon. but I am not convinced that the amount of subtle nuance in the language has a relationship to the complexity of ideas you can express in that language.
This is cool. A question for others, what's a solution that I can use if I want to also link images ? I understand a free solution like this will not work for it.
A study recently found that a nuclear powered grid to be vastly more expensive than a renewable grid when looking at total system cost.

Nuclear power needs to come down by 85% in cost to be equal to the renewable system.

Every dollar invested in nuclear today prolongs our reliance on fossil fuels. We get enormously more value of the money simply by building renewables.

> The study finds that investments in flexibility in the electricity supply are needed in both systems due to the constant production pattern of nuclear and the variability of renewable energy sources. However, the scenario with high nuclear implementation is 1.2 billion EUR more expensive annually compared to a scenario only based on renewables, with all systems completely balancing supply and demand across all energy sectors in every hour. For nuclear power to be cost competitive with renewables an investment cost of 1.55 MEUR/MW must be achieved, which is substantially below any cost projection for nuclear power.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626192...

Which is confirmed by Sweden continuing its renewable buildout with both the cheapest electricity prices in Europe and no subsidies on the books for new renewable production.
They're not only covered by the gesetzliche Krankenkassen (German public health insurance providers, mandatory if you don't meet the criteria for private insurance), mine gives me a little bonus if I prove I've gotten various vaccines, including annual COVID booster and flu.
So basically it's one economy of scale (making something bigger means the costs for safety, maintenance, personnel etc. are proportionally lower) vs. another economy of scale (making more of one thing decreases the costs per "unit"). Place your bets...

About your comparison to SpaceX: the approach of building a rocket, launching it, letting it explode and then using the gathered data to make the next one explode later (or not at all) is fine for rockets, but I wouldn't want to see it applied to nuclear reactors.
Reminded me of a similar story:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120104013009/https://monster-i...

Which reminded me of Bill Hicks:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=I1_6FlQfbho

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oyWzSDg0pc8
Just doing a wee bit of economic risk analysis seems to be beyond this publication.

We can absolutely engineer a home to be resilient against <pick your sigma> natural disaster short of a tsunami, volcanic eruption, or meteor strike, BUT it makes zero economic sense to do so beyond <pick your sigma>.

The rational approach is to build to <lower sigma> and insure to <higher sigma>.

Many Roman civil engineering structures still exist today and they really shouldn't. They were extremely over-built due to the ignorance of materials science and structural engineering at the time.

Just 'cuz we can doesn't mean we should.
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Plenty of of want-to-be competitors, but not so far with the amount of capital behind Musk. And space remains capital intensive, if not for hardware, then for people.
I played conkers in the 90's, my kids (7 and 10) play conkers now. We even have debates on whether applying nail polish is considered cheating - it is, it totally is! What's more, I was brought up in a poor area of Manchester, they've been brought up in quite an affluent area of Oxfordshire - so couldn't be any different!
If SpaceX cuts corners, some rockets fall over a field in Texas/the ocean somewhere. Not a great thing to have happen, but the damage is pretty minimal all things considered.

If a nuclear power plant-owning VC-backed startup cuts corners because their shareholders expect 3 cents more of profit YoY on their earnings report, we get a nuclear meltdown that shuts off an area the size of a small city for a century.

These startups can barely keep passwords secure, I don't trust them and their VC psycho buddies for a second with something as potentially powerful as nuclear energy.
I just called it a red herring or a false signal and everyone understood what I meant.
Yes, my experience as well. That's why having an alternate small display (8" or smaller) for your laptop/desktop is better. You can then drag any application on it and use it as a timer or busy sign or whatever. It's way more convenient than an extra device you have to reach and fiddle with.
Not sure which country you're talking about, but in Germany, the public health insurances cheerfully pay for annual flu and COVID boosters for everyone.
I believe the thought is that the cost of regulatory and safety measures do not scale favorably with reactor size. You don't have separate facilities so much as 10 reactors on the same site, so you don't need to increase personnel 10x.

Actually proving this with a deployed design seems to be the challenge, though with strong headwinds against nuclear across the board, favoring proven designs over newer ones is at least a little faster. That's not a flaw of the design, but intrinsic to the social and political environment.
> Is this game well-known enough in Britain and Ireland that readers will know what on earth is being alleged just from reading this article?

Absolutely. Very well known.

My Youtube-fu is not with me, so I can't seem to locate this video on Youtube, but see this BBC Archive footage from 1971 that was posted on Instagram[1] from a BBC News Report entitled "Conkers is no longer a kids' game."

[1] https://www.instagram.com/bbc_archive/reel/DA7zkmkAShz/
However that comparision misses that C++ is reaching 50's, while Rust still isn't allowed to drink.
Cool! I mean, I don't think I'll ever use it, but it's pretty cool nonetheless! :)
You can also `git fetch` and `git reset --hard origin/force-pushed-branch` to get your local branch up to speed with remote one assuming you don't have any local changes.
I jog, cycle, other light sports, work is walking a fair bit, and i eat well - zero trash, and even with meds I'm still way above 120/80.
Heredity seems to play a part (my guess).
California would like a word with you. Gas generators are increasingly being forced off the grid with storage.

https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batteries-apr-2024/

Storage costs are today lower than the most aggressive projection for 2050 according to one widely cited US DoE study from 2023.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-149971818
I like how you talk about as if this was an exciting new feature, when in reality this is something that ublock had for at least five years.