skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look to NuScales near collapse last autumn for a recent nuclear power example:

NuScale has a more credible contract with the Carbon Free Power Project (“CFPP”) for the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (“UAMPS”). CFPP participants have been supportive of the project despite contracted energy prices that never seem to stop rising, from $55/MWh in 2016, to $89/MWh at the start of this year. What many have missed is that NuScale has been given till around January 2024 to raise project commitments to 80% or 370 MWe, from the existing 26% or 120 MWe, or risk termination. Crucially, when the participants agreed to this timeline, they were assured refunds for project costs if it were terminated, which creates an incentive for them to drop out. We are three months to the deadline and subscriptions have not moved an inch.

https://iceberg-research.com/2023/10/19/nuscale-power-smr-a-...
It feels odd to refer to an actual historical event as a "spoiler"
Why Are Domains Impersonated? Understanding the Threat
Europa Clipper is literally the largest thing ever launched to the outer planets (so big that Falcon Heavy can't be reused for this mission, they have to throw it all away in order to get every last jot of performance out of the rocket- so this is not an "abundant rocket launches" situation- this is a fully expendable rocket just like an Atlas V). And the size is not for fun, but because going close to Europa (the entire point of the mission) means going through the second strongest set of EM and radiation belts in our solar system. Even with this size- meaning it can have a lot more shielding than normal- the probe can only survive a few months of the radiation from Jupiter's van Allen belts. The plan is to break that few months of exposure up over about four years of calendar time, by having it do highly elliptical orbits so it stores a lot of data during a close flyby of Europa and then transmits that all back to Earth while it is far outside of Jupiter's radiation storm, then it can head back down and collect more data. And that lengthy transmission time is because it is sending information from so far away- and has so little juice that the effective bandwidth is tiny.

It is possible for a swarm of small satellites to fill niches in space exploration. Closely studying Europa isn't really one of them with today's technology.
I got into EE because I wanted to build a mech suit and powered prostheses.

Now I make web apps.

But a funny turn of events means that I myself need 2 hip prosthetics, so I will become a mecha/cyborg myself anyway
Anon dev makes good on $10K bet with Carmack
> Why do you care?

Not OP, but I believe in the rule of law, and in a republic governed by elected officials.

It's not OK for powerful actors, especially companies, billionaires, and government officials, to willingly and knowingly break the law.
Isn't that partly or largely due to Musk's influence? Like many powerful influencers, Musk can reliably rally supporters to even an unreality.

Compare the responses to a failure by Boeing or SLS and to a
failure by SpaceX.

Also, SpaceX hasn't had a serious non-experimental failure yet (?). I'm sure their PR is preparing for that eventuality, but when non-fans are upset over a bad outcome and then learn about the risk tolerated, they will swing from admiring risk to condemning it. Imagine the Congressional committees.

Even if SpaceX is super-conservative when flying humans (which we shouldn't assume - cultures tend to be consistent), if someone dies then all that risk-seeking behavior will be attacked.

(To be clear, as long as SpaceX can manage risk in production - i.e., with high-value payloads such as people and NASA flagships - I think they and everyone else should use risk efficiently.)
To have a thought, you have to be able to represent the objects of that thought in your brain. One of the first answers you see in the thread is somebody making an argument related to mathematics: "N+1 is greater than N" counts as a thought, for any N (therefore there are infinitely many thoughts). But umm, for very very large N, I don't think anyone is actually representing N in their brain (practically or even theoretically). Some numbers are so large, so as to take days/months/years/decades to recite. Why should those thoughts count?

edit: looks like people are talking about that too.

I think when we alias numbers, we're not necessarily representing them cognitively.
Back when RMS was writing the GNU utilities, if you weren't willing to have an occasional chance encounter with him in the same building, you were limiting your options for a productive computer science career.

I'm half serious when I say he's the reason so many women at MIT went to biotech instead, and so we can thank him for mRNA vaccines.

But that is no longer the case. Refusing to be in the same room as him will in no way retard your progress in computer science nowadays. If anything, it enhances your prospects.

So I don't see a problem with having a space marked "Beware the RMS," where he can keep on with his work and the people who can put up with him, do. I don't see a problem with that space being marked "FSF" either. Namespace is a large space.
> Don't be stupid, stop saying stupid shit like "python instead of lisp".
Just a personal perspective… no problem with the logo but the headline

“The Gateway to Optimized Search and Unlimited Browsing”

Doesn’t really mean anything to me and does sound vaguely scammy. Anyone promising me the gateway to unlimited anything gets a raised eyebrow, two if it’s something I already have unlimited access to.
You don’t live your day to day life listening to soft music, lying down ready to doze. If your BP is elevated due to stress throughout the day it’s elevated, you will accumulate the harms. Idealizing conditions also gives a misleading reading.

> Now if you want to see I'm right, get up and walk around some and then sit back down and take another reading.

This doesn’t prove you’re right, just demonstrates normal physiology. Kind of like saying when you dyno an engine you should do it at idle. That is a valid measurement, just not the one that’s interesting.

In a healthy adult you will see a more significant increase in systolic pressure, but mean pressure shouldn’t rise nearly as greatly.

What you’re trying to observe is not the minimum ideal (your method) nor the short term maximums but an average of normal activity.

There’s a reason why ambulatory BP monitoring is the gold standard for diagnosing hypertension.
"More room for us to grow."
To the people pooh poohing this, do y’all really work with such terrible coworkers that you can’t imagine an effective version of this?

You need trust in your team to make this work but you also need trust in your team to make any high velocity system work. Personally, I find the ideas here extremely compelling and optimizing for distraction minimization sounds like a really interesting framework to view engineering from.
I hope Instagram dies and a Fediverse alternative takes over. Pleeeeaaase let me decide how I get user updates from your platform!
Or the idea of an "interrupt handler". OP may find other SRE concepts insightful, like error budgets.
I've replaced a couple and the conclusion is that this definitely has economies of scale since you will very rarely use the tool. Better to go take it to a bike shop. It wasn't hard once I had the tools, but I'm not going to use the tools that often. And I'm more likely to lose the bottom bracket adapter tool than reuse it, if I'm being honest.
My favorite Amtrak dining car "meet your neighbor" experience: taking the Southwest Chief between Chicago and (in our case) Santa Fe/Lamy, and having dinner with a couple of guys from LA, one a fashion designer, the other a rapper/beat producer.

So there I was, a late 50s anglo-american white programmer having a polite disagreement with a mid-30s african-american rapper about why Kanye West was either shit or a genius. For the record, I was in the shit camp.

Amtrak - bring America together, slowly.
The `Overwrite` Trait and `Pin`
Glass has a tensile strength more than an order of magnitude below mono-Si. The elastic modulus for soda-lime is within a factor of 2, but that's not usually what is meant by "strength", rather "stiffness".

You're right that fracture toughness is comparable, but that's not usually as relevant in a MEMS context: for one thing there's less potential for unanticipated collisions, but also crack propagation is significantly inhibited at microscopic length scales.
Compression! Vortex can easily be 10x smaller than the equivalent Arrow representation (and decompresses very quickly into Arrow)
Human nature in most big culture seems to be trained to demand more (even if not always money). If there was any group of people that were "content with what they had", they were outpaced in development by the ones that "want more" so there will be minor (or inexistent) now.

I do wonder if there is any smart solution to this issue.
I doubt you are going to change anyone's mind on this who is already convinced that computers can think and reason and all that's required is the right sequence of numbers. Moreover, the internet is awash with bots and AIs working on behalf of governments to spread political and economic propaganda. HN has moderation to avoid it but the moderators are human so they can't foil all attempts and notice all AIs and bots.
Wearing a waffle pattern shirt can also make the reading high. My blood pressure is 20 points higher if I wear a waffle pattern shirt than if I take it off.
The challenge is that you actually want your entire team to benefit from the feedback. The 4 of you are going to benefit IMMENSELY from directly experiencing every single pain point- together.

As developers we like to focus. But there is vast difference between "manager time" and "builder time" and what you are experiencing.

You are creating immense value with every single customer interaction!

CUSTOMER FACING FIXES ARE NOT 'MANAGER TIME'!!!!!!

They are builder time!!!!

The only reason I'm insisting is because I've lived through it before and made every mistake in the book...it was painful scaling an engineering and product team to >200 people the first time I did it. I made so many mistakes. But at 4 people you are NOT yet facing any real scaling pain. You don't have the team size where you should be solving things with organizational techniques.

I would advise that you have a couple of columns in a kanban board: Now, Next, Later, Done & Rejected. And communicate it to customers. Pull up the board and say: "here is what we are working on." When you lay our the priorities to customers you'd be surprised how supportive they are and if they aren't...tough luck.

Plus, 2-3 weeks feels like an eternity when you are on defense. You start to dread defense.

And, it also divorces the core business value into 2 separate outcomes rather than a single outcome. If a bug helps advance your customers to their outcome, then it isn't "defense" it is "offense". If it doesn't advance your customer, why are you doing it? If you succeed, all of your ugly, monkey patched code will be thrown away or phased out within a couple of years anyway.
I was literally just looking at that today, and the best one I came across was F5-TTS: https://swivid.github.io/F5-TTS/

Only thing missing (for me) is "emotion tokens" instead of forcing the entire generation to be with a specific emotion, as the generated voice is a bit too robotic otherwise.
The thing we are trying to achieve is to be able to experiment and tune the way data is groupped on disk. Parquet has one way of laying data out, csv is another (though it's a text format so a bit moot), ORC is another, Lance has yet another different method. The file format itself stores how it's physically laid out on disk so you can tune and tweak physical layouts to match the specific storage needs of your system (this is the toolkit part where you can take vortex and use it to implement your own file format). Having said that we will have an implementation of file format that follows particular layout.
You can't find that proof because Linux does the opposite. Unless your task is SCHED_REALTIME, all timers have a little bit of slack at the end that allows the kernel to group wakeup events. You can configure this (for non-RT tasks) with prctl(PR_SET_TIMERSLACK).

https://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v6.7.1/kernel/time/hrtimer.c#L20...

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/PR_SET_TIMERSLACK....
You are defining valid steps in understanding of software, but attaching them to job titles is just going to lead to very deceptive perspectives. If your labeling was accurate, every organization I've ever worked at would at least triple the number of staff engineers than it does.
I like the example of seeing a clock as you walk past. It says it's 2:30. You believe that the time is 2:30. That seems like a perfectly reasonable level of justification -- you looked at a clock and read the time. If unbeknownst to you, that clock is broken and stuck at 2:30, but you also just happened to walk by and read it at 2:30, then do you "know" that it's 2:30?

I think a case can't so much "disprove" JTB, so much as illustrate that adopting a definition of knowledge is more complex than you might naively believe.
React was a library before hooks. Now it is a framework and decides when your code runs, not you. And now it is a terrible framework with server components.
Would you consider using a _bot username for automated and automation-triggered comments?
If a vulnerability in a single library can cause security issues in more than one package, there are much more serious issues to consider with regards to that library than the need to recompile 1000 dependents. The monetary/energy/time savings of being able to update libraries without having to rebuild dependents are of far greater significance than the theoretical improvement in security.
By theory and - especially these days - by practice, private business is there to enrich its owners.

One way it does that is to serve customers, another is to manipulate, cheat, and squeeze them of every dime the business can get, and then drop them for higher-margin customers. Just look at modern business.
No, it will most likely be an insurance company.
Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence
How do you get that from this title?
A rather ambitious claim considering the context!
"some" and "the" are not mutually exclusive. If I say there's some cake in the kitchen, that doesn't mean it's not the only cake in the kitchen.
What if you don't care about privacy and only care for search quality? For example, when you're doing work related searches at work on your work device. Is that allowed?
There ipads and there pretty restricted but like with anything you can find ways through the restricions thats how im able to talk to you today i use the apps they allow to hope through links untill i can find sites that work this one included
Which offers no relief to the predicament of coral, which was the original context of this convo.
'Anew' is an adverb: learn anew.

'Learn from a new' is missing an object.
> Phone numbers and others were read nicely

The phone numbers were not naturally read at all. A human would have read a grouping of 123-456-789 like "123", "456", "789", but instead the model generated something like "123", "45", "6789". Listen to the RVSP example again and you'll know what I mean. The pacing is generally off for normal text too, but extra noticeable for the numbers.

My hunch would be that it's because of tokenization, but I wouldn't be able to say that's the issue for sure. Sounds like it though :)
Because it isn't consistent after he took over, not even close. Additionally, dude complained about collusion with Dems/Left/People he can't understand because of laws and unleashed this nothing burger.

How many "Hrm", "Interesting", "This could be a problem" type tweets that link to absolute BS from him, while publicly jumping on-stage at a partisan rally, etc?

C'mon man. Twitter is now just a shallow shell around Musk's ego.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files
I think you're missing a key bit: taxi companies weren't interested in this sort of thing. In most municipalities, taxi service was a protected, government-granted monopoly. The reason taxi service was always so bad was because there was no competition, and no incentive to improve.

So why would they bother to adopt "Rebu"? It's nothing but downsides: their taxi drivers have to work harder, have to be more polite and drive more safely, have to have cleaner cars, and have to be more accountable in general. Not to mention of course Rebu is going to take a cut of all rides booked on their platform.

There was no way to make regular taxi service better without structural and legal reform that the incumbents did not want. The only way to fix it was to go outside the system and do something sketchy. And it worked! For all their issues and controversies, the ride-hailing app experience is amazing, especially when compared to old-school taxi service. Some legacy taxi services have stepped up and improved a bunch since then, and others have just faded into obscurity.
Web 1.0 (1999)
The other facts in the case are more compelling, possibly, than the fact he has autism. Are certain categories of people incapable of committing crimes?
Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
I enjoyed seeing starts orbit around Sagittarius A* (https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1825e/). Seeing it a little closer up will be exciting (2029 is a ways away though). Other astronomical time lapse videos have been good. Those of you that do astrophotography please do more time lapses. You will have an audience of t least one.
Lion cell electrolytes are nowhere near as toxic as those of NiCd or lead-acid. Flammability is the biggest risk. Toxicity is comparable to acetone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propylene_carbonate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethyl_carbonate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl_acetate
One of the questions all this raises for me is: what fraction of successful startups actually make society better?

I'm sure to get pushback here, but my suspicion is: most do not. Looking at companies like Facebook, Amazon, or Google, I'm kind of think they made it worse. Yeah, I know, some people benefited. But net-net, I preferred having more and better bookstores to Amazon. I don't like what google has become at all. And Facebook has never been good.
what is the relation. no one ever talked about more cars. I a merely asking why the mayor office is at the board of private parking companies getting paid for that while at the same time removing public parking space.
it was social cocaine, a lot of shiny results that made a lot of people high on numbers and progress fantasy

old is new, 2.0
I'm confused to the argument you're making as some of those are clearly ethically-problematic for Uber while legal challenges, government lobbying seems core to the business.

The taxi market, in the US at least, was a textbook case of regulatory capture to stifle competition. Google "taxi medallion prices nyc" for an example. Uber was clearly the 'good guy' in flouting those laws and later getting them repealed. The cartels that controlled the medallions had no interest in improving the technology until they had competition.
SHIS is standard headset identification

QR is quick release (as in wheels)

BB is bottom bracket

Dropper post is an MTB thing and so are flat bars!
> true, because it doesn't make sense to "know" a falsehoood

That's a problem right there. Maybe that made sense to the Greeks, but it definitely doesn't make any sense in the 21st century. "Knowing" falsehoods is something we broadly acknowledge that we all do.
LibreWolf is indeed very good.
I think this stuff is really funny when I find it and I have a whole list of funniest bugs like this I have found. Particularly when I get into dealing with proxies and reponse/error handling between backend systems and frontend clients - sometimes the middle layer has been silently handling errors forever, in a way no one understood, or the client code has adapted to them in a way where fixing it will break things badly - big systems naturally evolve in this way and can take a long time to ever come to a head. When it does, that’s when I try to provide consulting, lol.
The joys of modbus PLCs, I take it?
Weird, I ride my bike to the doctor, my heart rate is often elevated from the ride and my blood pressure is still normal (barely above low - though I've had enough different tests over the years to believe that exercise is having nearly zero effect)
Had the exact same thing happen when I was doing a Ketamine therapy thing a while back, and I definitely think the anxiousness about the reading had something to do with it.

I've always had perfectly okay blood pressure whenever I have it done at a regular doctor's appointment, so I think knowing that the reading actually matters definitely increases my blood pressure. Ended up getting a doctor's note saying "they don't actually have high blood pressure they are just reacting normally to possibly having to be sent home and reschedule" more or less.
I had so much fun operating APRS through the space station with a car 2 meter radio and a moderate mast antenna in a terribly hilly spot but be able to see stations in the South Atlantic and Midwest states. Also the time I was on a 2 meter HT walking in the woods and heard the astronauts talking to hams. And the time the computer told me it was just about to be visible and went outdoors and the ISS was huge and bright, more an airliner than an asterism.
Yeah, its not much I agree. But it is an agreement the company can wave that they at least have future buyers for their non-existing power generators if they were to build them!
Here is how Keybase works: https://book.keybase.io/docs/server

Then take a look at the HN profile, which leads you to the Keybase profile.
You would have thought we would have transcended physical locations by now. It’s a totally valid argument. A GPU doesn’t care if it’s in Japan or Brazil or New York you would have thought you could distribute training work load across the world.
Not all bad != good.
Services like Uber and AirBnB have also introduced a concept through technology that was previously almost unheard of in the private sector: a nationwide blacklist.

Bob Smith annoyed enough Uber drivers in Milwaukee that now he can't get a ride in Poughkeepsie. Maybe that's valid, maybe it's not. But it is pretty new, and I doubt it was in the slide deck when Uber hit up the VCs.

The social aspect of these sorts of things can't help but get entangled with the politics of social mores. Maybe Bob was giving the Uber drivers wet willies. A lot of people would think he caught that ban fairly. Maybe Bob was too politically incorrect for the Uber drivers. Not quite so sure he deserves to be sentenced to hoof it until the Sun burns out. How do we know the bans are of the fair former and not the latter? We don't. It's a private company, they can be as opaque about this as they want.

Good, bad, who knows, but it certainly makes for a completely different landscape.
I do understand that for you Emacs is a Lisp development environment first, not a text editor.

Can you imagine people enjoying the user experience of Emacs while simultaneously preferring languages that are not Lisp?
Iirc that thing was also AI generated. I don't like it, but here we are and have this sentence. Imo ChatGPT is for name generation not the... best
As long as "your assumptions" includes "I know what I am doing", then OK.

But most people tend not to include that in the "your assumptions" list, and frequently it is the source of the bug.
Looks nice. We should have known from the way it looks that it is either you guys or Teenage Engineering.
Its more of a way for them to make money then to stop the flow of phones as lomg as inmates have access to a fare amount of money there isnt anthing a gaurd wont bring for the right price im in a county jail right now and theres less contraband but in a ksp there are hundreds of contraband phones around