skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kairos is using FLiBe coolant with TRISO solid fuel.

While this has some advantages (low pressure, no fission products in the FLiBe), it also some issues.

First, the fuel cycle costs are higher than a LWR. The fuel is dispersed as small encapsulated grains in graphite spheres. Manufacturing the fuel is more expensive, I believe the enrichment needed is higher, and the volume of the spent fuel is considerably larger. All that graphite needs to be disposed of along with the spent fuel.

Second, FLiBe require isotopically separated lithium. Li-6 has a ruinously high thermal neutron absorption cross section so it must be rigorously excluded. It also produces tritium when it absorbs neutrons, which would permeate through the reactor and beyond. But there are no large scale lithium isotope separation plants in operation, and the technology that was used for this in the Cold War (to make Li-6 for H-bombs) has been shut down and cannot be restarted because of mercury pollution (liquid mercury is an inherent part of the process and much escaped down drains at Oak Ridge.)

Kairos has announced operation of a FLiBe purification plant, which sounds promisingly like an isotope separation plant, but it appears it's only a plant for removing other impurities (oxygen, sulfur, iron, etc.) from FLiBe. Isotopically pure Li-7 fluoride would be an input to this plant.

Third, FLiBe is about 11% beryllium. Annual world production of beryllium is just a few hundred tons. There's a limit to how much FLiBe could be made for these reactors (or for fusion reactors, for that matter.)
I will review
tiktok is bad
china is bad
tiktok algorythim is bad
so china must sell tiktok to USA ,with the algorythim,because that is good
Would be interested to read, but the page does not load.
Yup, last place I was at I had engineers begging me (PM) to advocate against this, because leadership was all "We're going to form a SEAL team to blaze out [exciting, interesting, new, fun idea/s]. Another team will be on bug fixes."

My team had a bunch of stability work, and bug fixes (and there was a lot of bugs and a lot of tech debt, and very little organizational enthusiasm to fix the latter).

Guess where there morale was, compared to some of the other teams?
I'm getting "page doesn't exist"
this is still the experience in less developed places like italy
Even a small start would be useful, like "user-replacable battery".

not bike related, but say airpods would fail, 12v car battery would pass.
It's astounding how easily people slipped from defending Red Hat owning so much of Linux with their giant labyrinthine subsystems to literally defending IBM ownership. When Google or Facebook buy IBM, they'll be calling everyone purists for even mentioning it.
I'm not going to switch to a firefox fork over one line in the configure script invocation. Forks have their own problems with maintenance and security. It's not useful to boil it down to one "adversarial relationship" boolean.
Cookie banners were not mandated. That was malicious compliance.

That I keep seeing this bullshit repeated it tells me that "technical people" are not as smart as they think they are.
Nostalgia. All those Sunday mornings spent in the uni library reading back-issues of Byte.
This is awesome! Over the summer I wrote API clients for both Go [1] and Rust [2] as we were using Play in my job at the time but there was only Python and Node SDK.

[1] https://github.com/milosgajdos/go-playht
[2] https://github.com/milosgajdos/playht_rs
The blog post that prompted the author to start this project:

I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser (September 2023): https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2023/09/22/browsers.html

HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37608580
Are you working with any external lithium ion battery safety specialists?
> and never could have

I could just as easily assert the same of nuclear or gas. It doesn't make it true, although there seems to be evidence that nuclear cannot scale as fast as batteries/solar/wind.
I misread the title as "Scala Ruins Everything" and was very confused by the comments.
AirBnB rentals are not making it criminal to build supply, local zoning regulations that benefit incumbents at the expense of everyone else are what make it criminal to build supply.

It's a defect at the intersection of capitalism, property ownership, and democracy.
VW, BMW and Mercedes Are Getting Left in the Dust by China's EVs
Also, the ham bands as a whole cannot be used for profit-motives or any financial gain. People often forget this rule. Not to mention the (kind of absurd, IMO) rule against any form of encryption.
High-speed rail in Europe (TGV (France), ICE (Germany), AVE (Spain), Le Frecce (Italy), Eurostar (UK-FR-BE), Lyria, (FR-CH), Nightjet (AT-DE-CH), etc. are generally up-scale transport. Ticket prices are not exactly cheap. The ultra-wealthy might use private jets, but rail is fast enough for inter-city travel, generally less problematic than commercial flight, enables work en route, and tends to have better dining amenities aboard.
Ah, ouch. I have two Baofengs as well, I think they're a bit better, but probably not too much better.
Well, technically it's still the case today
These nuclear reactors are literally being built to optimize advertising algorithms.
It seems to me that the purpose of this report is not to say "look, that guy is a weirdo". But rather, to point out in excruciating detail how he is enabling vile behaviours (like normalizing possession of CSAM, pretending like making out with 14 year olds is not sexual abuse, etc) in the FOSS community, by being a very visible figure head that some people look up to.
I never thought Matt's unhinged behavior would make DHH look sane, and private equity look reasonable, but here we are.

I guess it's a good thing I moved to Hugo a year ago.
I've been using this to OCR some photos I took of books and it's remarkable at it. My first pass was just a loop where I'd OCR, feed the text to the model and ask it to normalize into a schema but I found out just sending the image to the model and asking it to OCR and turn it into the shape of data I wanted was so much more accurate.
That's per year right?
The least accurate part of this is that the elements are all too quick to respond vs. IRL where every action takes multiple seconds to load
This is what my thought was reading this as well. I used it early on and it was great but I don't know if it got updated or what but anymore I feel like it can barely generate anything useful from a prompt. "Oh good, videos of random weird blobby things now"
This shouldn't be downvoted.

If you're +-7 in your reading, don't panic yet. If you're there with a stage 1 or 2 hypertension diagnosis (130-140+ systolic), the margin of error discussed in this article isn't necessarily meaningless, but remarkably close to it - you need to address an issue there.

More as a PSA for you hardworking programmers and IT managers out there: if you have chronic hypertension, address it sooner than later. If you think to yourself that you'll start jogging daily starting next week, and your doctor is giving you the option for meds, just get on the damn meds. If you start an exercise regimen that can quantifiably manage it without the meds later, great. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Hypertension is the silent killer, and before it kills it contributes to all sorts of other bad problems and conditions.
Equational Theories Project
> it was predominantly just used as a cross-browser selector function and some standard library augmentation/fixes before JS itself caught up.

Do not forget jQuery.ajax, making cross-browser JS HTTP interactions possible in the first place.
It's a better experience for sure, and that's why they got the viral start that gave them the opportunity to eat the world, but presenting that as "worth it" seems pretty dubious considering:

- Tons and tons of users buying vehicles they can barely afford to drive for them

- Tons of restaurants already struggling to get by saddled with needing an iPad or two at their counter to intercept online orders, and needing to charge more and anger customers just to break even on the fees

- Huge amounts of sexual assaults because Uber didn't vet drivers

And lest we leave it merely implied: Uber is worth what Uber is worth because it's a taxi company that owns no Taxis and pays no taxi drivers a proper wage. That's why it's a billion dollar unicorn. Same as AirBNB is a hotel chain that owns no hotels, UberEats/Doordash are food delivery services that don't own restaurants, Instacart is a grocery chain that doesn't own grocery stores.

Honestly if you want to really be cynical about it, the true path to finding the next tech unicorn is figuring out how to be a $business that owns none of what a $business normally does, and hires no employees that $business usually does, and then wrap that up in an app, and convince poor people to do the work for you because they have no other options. Boom, unicorn.

The way taxi companies had languished in obsolescence was definitely a problem, but I struggle to consider if Uber was the best way to solve that on any front.
Assuming only batteries are used for storage is one of the common bullshit arguments against renewables. It's bad strawman engineering.

What works much better is a combination of batteries and an e-fuel like hydrogen. Batteries handle most of the stored energy flow; hydrogen handles the rarer long term storage needs. They complement each other, in a way like cache memory and RAM complement each other.
They're thinking about when you sample from the same noise distribution, averaging gives an unbiased estimator of the mean. But when you know one SNR is higher than the other, maybe this doesn't hold? But maybe if you transform the distributions to look the same, thus taking a weighted average? I'm not sure.
Cool list. This seems to be your stigma:

Single founder discrimination

Do like japanese do and get fake companions. I'd hire actors.

If you are still around it means you have been successful, as in haven't been crushed yet. You still haven't suffered bad partners or vultures.
most of these are legal immigrants, so the country decided to accept them, and yet failed to build enough to keep up with demand that they allowed.
I'm an aspiring ham myself :D For me, I'm interested in emergency communications, others in the club are DXers... truly fascinating.
This is great. I see:

- Cookie acceptance overlay

- Email prompt when switching away from tab

- Push notification custom UI prompt

- Push notification browser prompt

- Subscribe to our newsletter prompt

- Ad blocker detected modal

- Please subscribe overlay

- Continue reading overlay

- Ratings prompt

- Floating feedback button

- "How can I help you?" chat popup

- Email prompt when scrolling

- Create an account footer

- Interstitial ads

- Social media share buttons

- Click to play video overlay (one that isn't available in your country)

- Tab closing prompt

Thinking about this problem technically, most of these obscenities are vying for top level. In the early days, browsers could detect when a popup was trying to launch and block them. Could we do something similar but for top level DOM?

Alternately, could a browser have a quiet mode? No prompts, banners, overlays, etc.

Just thinking out loud.
Again we’re not talking about an agreement to built a wind farm or solar or a big LNG turbine. A bank sees a PPA for any of those and knows if it cuts a check, it’ll happen with high probability. These tech PPAs are not much more than mutual handwaving by comparison.
Look at the compiler-generated instructions yourself if you don't believe the source that I linked; in the cases I've seen all the extra new stuff just adds another layer on top of existing functions and if the former are faster the latter must necessarily also be.

The standards committee's purpose is to justify their own existence by coming up with new stuff all the time. Of course they're going to try to spin it as better in some way.
That battle has been lost. I've header about pomodoros for years and not once about a shitty copyright holder. It's generic now, thank you.
I thought the Chicago School had already proved blindly applying "policy recommendations" from on high was a receipt for disaster and misery, but sure, let's do the same with AI, this time it will surely work.
CA/Browser Forum SC-081: Introduce Schedule of Reducing Validity Periods
Nuclear is absolutely not necessary to complete the clean energy transition. It's dubious that new construction nuclear power plants are even useful for it, compared to alternatives.
That struck me as mostly reasonable until the 'playing god' bit which upended everything. For one, that term almost never means the same thing to any two people. For another, from the context up to this point you seem to have unrealistic assumptions that this is all part of a broader cosmic give and take that balances itself, or stands over us as an indecipherable mystery.

I think that temptation to stand in awe before a cosmic mystery is a common one and, in many cases a laudable one. In this case, that temptation is getting in the way of some very-knowable facts which are spelling out doom. "Not playing god" in this context seems to amount to standing by as an extinction event unfolds, and I don't think the desire to get lost in existential ditherings is an acceptable reason to stand by and let that happen.
Do you lament e.g. Uber knowingly breaking laws, and then in the knowledge that they are knowingly breaking laws and under scrutiny for doing so, also actively building functionality into their systems that helps them criminally evade scrutiny?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...

This is a level of deliberate, optional fraud that goes a step beyond, is it not? It's organised crime.
Unfortunately this isn't a new problem. My 20+ year old bike, that doesn't have a single electronic component on it, has a single special crankarm bolt because the crankarm is "integrated" with the spider, presumably to shave off a few grams. Four normal bolts and one special bolt that may be hard to find today.

A lot of bikes are often designed for racing, the equivalent of exotic cars. So new standards that have very marginal benefits are routinely being created and then abandoned when it gets rejected by the market or there is a new, better standard. But things that are mundane and standard today were cutting-edge when they first came out, and likely emerged from several competing standards.
From the post:

> At the end of the cycle, we swap.

They swap teams every 2-4 weeks so nobody will always be on team defense.
Underutilization of land as a result on speculation on the growth of land prices is a major reason, even Manhattan has massive chunks of real estate that are vacant, a land value tax would fix this.
"If you hang around alternative health Twitter"

That's your problem right there.

You know what they call alternative medicine that works?

Medicine.
As soon as nvidia was mentioned in the article a chill went down my spine reminding me of my treacherous experience trying to use ubuntu with the nvidia drivers back in 2007. Every second reboot the drivers would break and I would wind up having to reinstall it trough a VT. Re-installing the system multiple times didn't matter, following multiple different guides didn't matter, following nvidias own instructions to the teeth on a fresh system... didn't matter. Those drivers on Archilinux would also constantly break, but at least it was as a result of the system updating and not just rebooting. It took many years but I've been nvidia free for 6 years now and my system couldn't be more stable.

I haven't seen Fedora break in the last 2 years I've been using it, aside from a beta release upgrade I was curious to test that went wrong. I really think it's silly to put all the blame on shared libraries when there is a 99% chance it's the nvidia drivers fucking up again.
This is a very far cry from the claim, which is that the American aviation industry would not exist were it not for some orders by Britain and France.

That one is hard to support, given that the American aviation industry was the first such industry, anywhere, and was doing quite well for itself prior to the outbreak of the war.

Did the orders help? Um. Yes? I mean they stopped paying for the planes after Lend-Lease so, mixed bag there, there was a war on and all. But I don't see how the gulf between "Without Britain and France paying for a few planes before the war started" and "$50 Billion in materiel provided free of charge with most of the debt written off and most of the production destroyed in combat" gets bridged. I'm calling shenanigans.
What a beautiful response
Regular subscribers to Patrick Boyle know that his channel is not really about finance - and certainly not about crypto. Most of the time, the channel is meant to be a place to talk about rap music. It's very subtle.
You didn't read the article did you, they swap every 2 weeks between being on offense and defense.
Why doesn't battery production scale fast enough? Be specific on what limits it.

I firmly believe battery production can scale up very fast. Indeed, that's exactly what's been happening.

Realize that to replace all the motor vehicles in the US with BEVs would need enough batteries to store at least 40 hours of the average US grid output. This is almost certainly much more than would be needed for the grid itself.
Zipp
Whatever your plan for a nuclear grid without burning fossil gas is (massive overprovision, syngas production, batteries, demand response, just ignoring the issue) it'll work better and cheaper with renewables.
Sort of, they are being built to power AI models which do all kinds of things, but yes definitely advertising is part of it. Ads are mature now though, these mega corps have fine-tuned their products and squeezed every last advertising penny out of their audiences that they can, there isn't as much new stuff to build in that area now.
> fractional scaling in X11 applications

Very real, no solution either. The only solution is Wayland.

> broken hibernation

This is broken on Windows, too. Basically, suspend to RAM just doesn't work properly/reliably on a bunch of laptop manufacturers firmware.

> device driver support

Pretty much not a problem on x86 and commodity hardware. It becomes a problem on ARM because ARM is a hot mess, but then again that's the case on Windows, too. Some laptops have strange hardware, unfortunately. This is becoming less of a problem as time goes on.

> supports Linux but actually doesn’t well enough

Getting better with containerization deployments like Flatpak.
https://archive.today/pO7CA
Similar paper[1] without the paywall.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.22.590623v1
Your insistence that we leave China alone is puzzling. More data is always good. China can do what they want with the data, and historically they have made enormous progress in de-carbonizing their society to the point that they are the largest users of solar power in the world, by far.

Nobody should care what some idiots in the US think about this satellite or the data it produces, they aren't the ones that this data is for, their brains are broken, and they won't be the ones taking action.

I'm very happy this sattellite is up there, scanning every part of the earth.

And yes, the US definitely can exert pressure on offending countries through all kinds of measures. These greenhouse gasses don't just affect the country they are coming from, it affects the entire planet, and the first step towards fixing the problem is understanding the problem, and this data is a valuable tool towards understanding the problem.

Not sure what your agenda is, but your nay-saying is part of the problem.
If I can just hold out until some new local-maxima of Microsoft's wavering quality...

Between them removing administrative controls and the lowest-common-denominator tabletization of the UI, I need to look harder at putting it in a VM or doing plain old dual-boot. (For a gaming machine, so that imposes some minimal ties to the ecosystem.)
Here is the larger discussion about the Alice in Wonderland Paper on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40585039
I mean, usually if thing popular, make more of thing until everyone can have it? I guess we could go with your solution of deliberately killing demand with bizarre mechanisms so only a few people can enjoy a holiday instead of pointing the blame where it demands: locals fighting tooth and nail to not build more.

Nimbys are basically hukou advocates in disguise. After all, it's the only solution if you don't primarily place the blame on lack of construction.
I believe the impl you link to is not fully standards compliant, and has an approximate soln.

MSFT's one is totally standards compliant and it is a very different beast: https://github.com/microsoft/STL/blob/main/stl/inc/charconv

Apart from various nuts and bolts optimizations (eg not using locales, better cache friendless, etc...) it also uses a novel algorithm which is an order of magnitude quicker for many floating points tasks (https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu).

If you actually want to learn about this, then watch the video I linked earlier.
We reviewed our references to Minsky throughout the report and felt that we could indeed improve the presentation of the quotes which mention him, and we have done so.

However, I will state just for the record here that our researchers have looked into the allegations regarding Minsky and do not feel comfortable exonerating him or standing up to defend his reputation, as it were -- we find the evidence plausible, but not conclusive. But our report is about Stallman, not Minsky, so we have not made a point of it in the report.
DHH has replied in his blog (14 Oct): https://world.hey.com/dhh/capture-less-than-you-create-c30e4...
AI winter is coming and I wouldn't wanna be known as an 'AI' person then.
Looking forward to Linux for my gaming box
I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but what does "(externally)" mean ? A tariff ? In large enough trading blocs I would be concerned that manufacturing of the non-repairable part would just move within the bloc. I'm in favour of the idea but the mechanism might need some thought.
Isn’t 75 C already way too hot for any surface that you could accidentally bump into?

Which suggests the ‘poster’ should be a lot bigger too.
Definitely not mocking!

Just letting OP know, perhaps it'll help to communicate better with the German usership in the future...
AirBnB destroyed home ownership?

As far as I can remember AirBnB didn't cause the 2008 financial disaster that really sealed the fate of homeownership in America for the next decade for a lot of Americans.

AirBnB has provided an avenue to generate income for small business owners in rural communities. Urban areas are struggling because they aren't building more.

BUILD MORE. How difficult is it to understand that?
> there were no VoLTE implementations in common use other than stuffs on Android

What's wrong with the Android one - is it not permissively licensed?

I think the biggest problem of Linux phones is the community's obsession with trying (and failing) to reimplement (multiple times, in parallel) things that Android does really well and can be used as-is.

That's why the PinePhone or Librem 5 still can't even match the usability (at basic things like phone or camera or battery life) of a 2010-era Android phone, despite having similar hardware.

You want a Linux phone that actually works? Start with an AOSP-based phone and provide manufacturer-approved root and escape hatch such as first-party terminal and Wayland/X server app to run Linux apps.

Over time, you can slowly replace Android components with their Linux desktop counterparts when they're ready (or the other way around - the Android bits can just be the commonly-accepted solution to specific problems in Linux - even desktop - distros), but at least you're starting from a solid base.
A global dataset of 7B individuals with socio-economic characteristics