skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These Web elegies are starting to become a real drag to read. And I don't mean to come across as flippant in saying this. I feel a sort of concern for the spirit of the authors of these kind of pieces, which are becoming more and more commonplace.
It's a first customer, and guaranteed revenue if the generation is able to be built and operated. It's huge for the nuclear startup company, and can be used to get the financing lined up.

Agreed that Google is taking on very little risk here, but it's still a good action and moves the space forward.
> although if the coolant lost and replaced with air you would get a nasty Chernobyl-style graphite fire

Or alternatively, radioactive dust could be released into the atmosphere such as THTR-300 did.

INL did a gap analysis in 2011 between what was known and what needed research. The german AVR reactor had technical issues that weren't expected -- dust being one of them.

https://inldigitallibrary.inl.gov/sites/sti/sti/5026004.pdf

From what I can tell the dust issue is still a point of contention.
I can understand 0 and 2, but what's 1? The "I don't know how to count" answer?
Nothing is surprising after it has been discovered.
Your comment is misled.

This is a systemic review. A RCT would absolutely find a difference. The whole point of this satire is to point out that there's not always studies on what you want to know. "No randomised controlled trials of parachute use have been undertaken"

Flossing has absolutely been studied. Professional flossing seems effective at combating gum disease. Telling people to floss doesn't seem to be. It's unclear why (is it just compliance effects? are people educated on how to floss still ineffective? etc.)
`not too hard a problem`
- just hard enough that it hasn't been progressed for decades.

but the great thing about next gen reactors is that the waste solution does not need to be addresed; any waste from next gen reactors will simply go wherever the final solution for existing waste engines lands.
I have great memories of competing with a college friend to solve these problems. Since I last seriously did the problems, probably 15 years ago, they have added a lot more.
They are incredibly expensive homes, even by my California standards.

First hit on Zillow: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4207-Marina-View-Way-Cort...

$1.9 million for a 3 bedroom, 3 bath, 1600 sqft.
Here is a web site that defends Stallman:

https://stallmansupport.org/richard-stallman-honors-and-awar...

I take no position.
Right now, 1X and Tesla use entirely different mechanical architectures, don't they? Do you think that Tesla will end up with compliant robots?
This opinion might be a bit controversial, so correct me if I am wrong.

Going by the Think Fast Think Slow, most of the people who were great at what they did, could be categorized overall, in terms of how they put in their effort, where they put in, and when they started from. (Apart from luck)

I think of this in terms of traits. Big tech companies, they would want to avoid any form of engineering silos, giving so much power to a single/single set of engineers, that would halt their business. Which is why they have this process.

They want a whole lot of easily replaceable engineers, who (might work on different projects), but overall have the same kind of mentality. This way they know, if the candidates have done what they need to do, and talked about things a certain way, they on a fundamental level would be the same.
So even if the person leaves, the style of work for the next incoming engineer wouldn't change, and everyone can go along with minimum friction.

Also, thinking a bit more, /^[FAANG]*/ companies would obviously try to cross-hire. Same as BIG4, same as /TCS,CTS,Infosys/ and likes.
A good chunk of people who work in MNC's stay in MNC's. Infact sometimes the projects are transferred from one MNC to the other, and then the manager or TL or whatever leading the project is hired first, and then he/she brings his/her team from the previous org.

Although end of the day, there will be a few hits and misses, but given the plethora of people working there, on a large scale of things, it doesn't really matter. I mean in a group of 20 people, 2 leaves. Its barely anything to make a dent.
> OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o, for instance, dropped from 95.2 percent accuracy on GSM8K to a still-impressive 94.9 percent on GSM-Symbolic.

In other words, ChatGPT continues to dominate. A 0.3% drop might as well be noise.

Also the original, allegedly more expensive GPT-4 (can we call it ChatGPT-4og??) is conspicuously missing from the report...
What can be used to run it? I had imagined Mamba based models need a different interference code/software than the other models.
There could be an allowance for time spent not playing music. Keep the timer going for a few minutes after the music has stopped. Require a minimum ratio of music playing time to overall time. So, after a lengthy silence, only playing music will advance the timer.

But, yeah, it may or may not be helpful.
I mean, that should have been obvious to anyone after calling it: [0]

The 'fake it till you make it' fraud will just make everyone building so-called AI companies look bad and heavily faked with events like this.

But there is still time for the Theranos of AI to reveal themselves. (It is not Tesla Inc.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41805764
Honestly, I don't know why I bother continuing to engage here. HN community, is this the quality of discourse you want to encourage?
Many countries--United States being an easy example--fell for the meme of putting women (the historical and biological primary caregivers) in the workplace and demonizing and denigrating men as a demographic.

Compounding all of this, we've made distractions more omnipresent while lowering the quality of relationships and wrecking the onboarding process for either of the majority genders/sexes.

We've destroyed our future so that we could drive down the price of labor, signal how progressive we are, and play pretend about how children happen and are raised. At least two entire generations have been damaged in this way, and the people that aren't are not the people one probably wants to take over society (full quiver folks, etc.).
Yes, it gives them some firm future revenue numbers to work with. They can take this agreement and get financing to pay for the actual construction needed.
I gave up a few years ago and decided that I was willing to deal with any drawbacks of buying and playing games on consoles rather than dealing with Windows. I only have so much time to sit down and enjoy myself and I would rather not fiddle if I just want to play a game. It turns out that you can buy a PS5 and a Switch for less than the price of a decent midrange gaming rig.
Have you looked into the niche CRM Space?
Hey Chris, thanks for your continued diligence. This is actually a recent and related discussion, as the duplicate status suggests the same article has been posted twice (e.g. slightly altering a URL parameter to escape the HN dupe-detector).

P.s. If you found the content in one article to be better than another, it would be helpful to steer folks towards the more informative one. In this case, the above Bloomberg article is pretty substantial compared to the one you've linked as a "dupe". Take care.
> It is a critique (in poor taste if you ask me) that everything does not require a double-blind study.

I think the real point is that systemic reviews often will have a pretty tilted set of included studies, because they are influenced by what things researchers choose to study.

Indeed, you probably couldn't publish a study saying that parachutes work; it's not an interesting enough finding for publication. So the only stuff you'll find, in many cases, are studies that buck the prevailing wisdom.
Tesla is getting closer with tendon-based hands in the next generation of Optimus. Who knows where they will end up.
If you purchase it on Google Play you can use mcpe-launcher on Linux to play.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1g0pjl9/is_th...
I know many lawyers, they all loathe it.
Yep. But we 'all' want infinite growth (of things mostly bad for the planet), which doesn't happen (at least until full robots and agi etc) without infinite humans.
It's available as a free ebook at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ernest-shackleton/south

(The name of the book is South!, the subtitle is "The Endurance Expedition.")
> ...and the information in the document is old and out of date?

Not just old and out of date. Plain wrong, like referring to internal systems, processes or intranet URL's that are (often poorly done) duplications of enterprise standard services, processes or pages, and should be deprecated instead of incorporated into training data.

Or the unstructured data sits within structured data. Some development teams stick giant strings with their own internal, proprietary formatting into a database blob column because...I dunno, they thought it was expedient or whatever for Very Good [Undocumented] Reasons. Invariably, these fields hold all sorts of nastiness you either want to tease out, or do not want to exist at all because they expose what you wish they wouldn't in cleartext. And even though your company pays the vendors of these monstrosities (oh yes, my PTSD suppressed memories of multiple vendors committing these same terrible, no good, very bad software sins) three commas a year of "support", they adamantly refuse to share their precious proprietary format with you, much less give you the courtesy to update you when they change the byzantine format that gives the three body problem a run for the money for a deterministic solution.

If you make a Generative AI sort sense out of that, then you can practically segment the market by "how much before the customer starts to put away the blank check" and you'll make bank. Everyone I know of in this Data Loss Prevention (DLP) or adjacent spaces are deer in the headlights when the conversation turns towards these operational realities and what we might do with their solutions to put a dent in these multiverses of pain. No one has roadmaps talking of iterative pipelines, search outcome behavior analysis and automated training thereof, or really much beyond various degrees of pattern matching, whether that be regex's or LLM's.
How to fork
ChatGPT o1 seems to understand the problem correctly but doesn't get far: https://chatgpt.com/share/670dbe0e-087c-8000-9856-996c3fbaa9...

o1 thought for 105 seconds, cycling through many relevant-sounding status messages like "looking for patterns," before writing a collection of thematic but flawed thoughts. The "Calculation Steps" approach is incorrect, but correctly implemented by the code.

It flubs a basic calculation that it correctly implements in python:
"10^16 mod (10^9 + 7) = 49" (it's actually 930000007)

but succeeds in a seemingly harder calculation:
"the modular inverse of 12 modulo 10^9 + 7 is 83333334"

Finally, o1 claims the code prints "0" when it actually prints "982790507" (both wrong answers).

Note: input was copied from the html-only Project Euler url since the formulas in the human-optimized url are not copyable: https://projecteuler.net/minimal=912
Adobe unveils AI video generator trained on licensed content
> I suspect that we as a society should adopt the general rule that anonymous attacks on the reputation of a person should be ignored.

That policy would have allowed Richard Nixon to keep the office he stole.
I have no doubt, I was just pointing out the account seems fishy.
how does this compare to lance?
You just copy and paste the url, so that the referrer is unset.
...which would benefit from more frequent updates.
> So you're saying democrats are lying?

They are not lying. Trump is literally saying that he's going to use the military to suppress his opponents, after all. I just happen to think that the US has far more resilience built into its political system than it seems.

E.g. Project 2025 is terrible and if it's implemented, it'll result in pure hell for the regular people. But a hypothetical Trump administration won't be able to implement even a fraction of it. It'll need many dozens of new laws passed, and probably even new Amendments.

And then there are also individual states that hold a lot of power to sabotage the laws that they don't like. For an example, look at the "sanctuary city" laws in California or Washington.

Mind you, it doesn't mean that a hypothetical Trump administration won't hurt a lot of people. I'm just saying that it won't be able to totally monopolize the political power.
More NPM Packages on Cloudflare Workers
Yes.

Thoughts are formed through constructive and destructive interference, not linear logic (as in conventional computation.) In this way thoughts are more like chemical reactions.

The infinite nature of thoughts are similar to infinite infinites existing, though anyone will only ever have a finite number.

Most of your thoughts are in fact rubbish, and your brain filters them out unless they meet some learned threshold for normalization.
Waymos have some very advanced teledriving features, and it's not clear to me how often the human is involved when you ride a Waymo.

I sort of hope that it's not that often, but I also thought the amazon store was automated.
MS Flight SIM 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of bandwidth in flight
It's a good awards list, but I'm not sure industry and ecosystem awards are the right way to judge something like this. Compare and contrast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein#Awards_and_ho...
> If China had a super cheap nuclear design they would be very happy to export that

China "plans to export nuclear power reactors in the future" [1]. It's early stages, but being done through Belt & Road [2].

[1] https://www.iaea.org/bulletin/how-china-has-become-the-world...

[2] https://www.cipe.org/resources/chinas-nuclear-dragon-goes-ab...
What are you looking to work on?
"business is about compounding unfair advantages"

clipped into my book of quotes
It’s compelling because his emotional affect was a factor in the investigation and the jury’s consideration.

These type of situations are often complicated by the fact that many innocent people are not good people. With the additional context, a DA may charge with manslaughter or decline to prosecute.
I finally have a chance to watch now ...

On NASA's broadcast someone says, 'we believe ocean worlds are the most common type of planetary body in the universe.' That surprises to me due to the lack of atmosphere on most bodies, the lack of liquid and moisture in space, the prevelance of gas giants, etc. How does that come to be true? Possibly, speaking live, they omitted some qualification and it's not literally true.

Also, looking at the rocket, I wondered about their optimized forms. We're accustomed to their appearance, but why not an even smaller 'forward' (i.e., direction of flight) cross-section? Most of the air resistance has to be on forward-facing surfaces. The rocket might need to be taller for fuel capacity, but so what? ... My question really is, what limits reducing the cross-section? An engine component? Vertical height for some reason? I'm assuming air resistance has a major impact on speed and fuel consumption, but maybe it's just not that important?
> If these people succeeded in their apparent goal of making RMS less popular, do they think the world will love them for it?

Sometimes one does the right thing not because the world will love you, but because it is the right thing.
Is Silicon Valley still like how the author describes it? I ask this as a Canadian considering moving down there. I want to go to a place where I feel understood.
Will One Amazon Employee Tank the Tech Giant?
Sounds right for a panic co-founder.
Advent of Code is great for this.
Who gets a babysitter off the Internet?
Slightly off topic, but does “techbro” mean anything other than “male that I don’t like who works with computers”? I feel like it initially had a real meaning, but now it’s kind of a catch all term.
I have to track my hours at my place because the client loves to micro optimize their budgets. It's a huge pain so I'd love something to make it easier than what I have now, which is essentially toggl.com + wrapper scripts which categorize hours by JIRA feature. However, this page has done relatively little to sell it to me. What does automatic mean? What is the tool able to do? How much does it cost? etc
Moving the Pi Searcher from Go to Rust (2020)
ϕ-3 isn't in the 7B league.
It's also pretty disheartening that certain famous 'tech' podcasts are hosted by people who've never written a line of code in their lives. Like who are you to comment on where AI will be in 10 years? You don't even know what back propagation is.
“This is a respectful debate” in paragraph one. Okay that’s good.

“DHH has a toxic personality” in paragraph three. Uh oh.
That's really strange. I don't see any planes in gates at LGW either, but spot checked other airports that have planes in gates.
So these robots are not supposed to be autonomous?
ADHD and oppositional Defiant disorder are not quite the same thing. The former is a lot more common than the latter. Sure they could be comorbid in some cases…
I mean, it works in the sense that if you keep your calories out higher than your calories in you will lose weight.

Studies show that it's basically impossible to know your calories out without indirect calorimetry (and updating it regularly, no less, since your BMR + NEAT can vary significantly over time and in direct response to contemporary efforts to lose weight) -- and studies show that humans are dreadful at estimating their calories in.

So yes it works in a lab setting where your CI is pre-portioned in the form of milkshakes and your CO is measured via calorimetry. In reality though it makes people hella hungry and your hunger tends to increase in excess of changes to body weight.

Which is why the average weight regain after loss is 80% over 5 years.

So naturally it would seem we would look to develop ways to reduce our CI subconsciously. Enter GLP-1s. This is literally all they do. They reduce your hunger so your CI remains below your CO which studies show almost nobody can do without help.

Yes some people are genetically going to lose 200lbs and become the head of Weight Watchers in the same way that some people are going to win the olympic gold medal in swimming. That doesn't mean that you are going to win an olympic gold medal in swimming and it certainly doesn't mean that if the average person follows Phelps' training plan that they'll get an olympic gold medal in swimming.

Ultimately a treatment that works but nobody can actually maintain is a treatment that does not work. Hence GLP-1s. The question is why they are unable to keep their CI below CO. Not whether that’s how they lose weight.
Scraping the Web, DeviantArt, YouTube, etc.
Why? Running an empty loop a thousand times a second is literally almost nothing to any cpu released in the past 20yrs at least
Remarkably preserved for having had the keel crushed by ice. Seems the icy waters kept the wood from decaying. Looks pristine.

Jimmy Chin is the director. He just discovered some remains of Andrew Irvine from the 1924 Everest expedition. Seems he's been having a good year.
I'm not sure that grid batteries should compete with transport electrification. One reason I haven't moved yet on batteries for the home is that I'm still interested to see what alternatives to lithium emerge. It seems to me that transport prioritises size and weight, whereas home and grid might take a hit on those measurements to maximise efficiency, durability, etc
I think this has actually great potential for fruit transports.

Many countries export and import fruits from neighboring countries, because goods like fruits need a riping process and time, and storage space locally is more expensive than transporting them via container ship.

For example, almost the same fruits that are exported from Hawaii are simultaneously imported from Chile, and vice versa. Both nations grow those natively, but storage space on the ground is more expensive than shipment.

If this was part or focus of the airship freighting company, I'd see great potential there. Not even that, they wouldn't even need to transport anything, if they could invent a storage space in the air that's tax free, or maybe even offshore above the water.
Agreed. And they said that the (second?) stage was the same one that failed to ignite on a prior mission. How does the NASA administrator sleep at night with everyone's careers, the agency's reputation and funding, the future of planetary bioscience, research by so many scientists, all depending on that stage?

(What's the most valuable payload NASA has lost during launch? Apollo 1 wasn't launching, nor were the space shuttles.)
Biological systems have also designs that emerged through evolution. Although the complexity may seem at different scales, the main difference is the measurements you can do. Both biological and electrical circuits are dynamic systems that have designs that gives them emergent functional properties.

As the article describes imagine having the list of radio components instead only instead of their topology (wiring diagram). The problem of figuring out how a radio works with this information, if youbknow little about their design, becomes quite similar with how figuring out how a biological system works.

The absence of a design diagram and our inability to measure components at the molecular level without disturbing the state of a system is the main reason bilogical systems are so challenging to understand.
Please someone correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding of ML/LLMs is that this kind of hand crafting has been tried, but it is easier to train/less finicky to let behavior like this emerge from more data, see [1] “Bitter Lesson” and [2] “Scaling Laws”.

MAMBA as an architecture claims to have some significant gains performance wise, but to my knowledge there haven't been any really large models (>~100B params) with open weights/leaked MAMBA architecture been disclosed other than this (7B).

As mentioned by other comments, another dimension not to forget is the training data quality. Not only quantity but also quality really matters, is what we are learning more and more with LLMs..

[1] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
[2] see eg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5eqRuVp65eY&pp=ygUMU2NhbGluZyB... for a well made/easily digestable intro
there are real limits on time on funds: we can't really afford to spend those limited resources on non-solutions.
I've been thinking recently about how things like Project Euler, LeetCode, and to a bit less of an extent, Advent of Code, are so heavily focused on making clever use of math, data structures and algorithms, that it makes them suboptimal as a tools for getting familiar with a new programming language.

I know that that critique isn't new to anyone but it makes me think about how it would be cool if there were a code puzzler site that is specifically geared towards little self-contained tasks that are more to do with forcing you to get familiar with the common everyday tasks of software development.

Some example puzzlers could be like:

- open an http server on port 80

- open a file and write this data to it

- write temporary files to a location, deleting them when process exits

- query a database

- deal with such and such error scenario

- find a way to test this component

- bundle this code as an executable

- sanitize user input here

- make this behavior configurable

- take the config from environment variable variable and/or config file and/or arguments

- parse this data file

You do get a bit of parsing and file handling with Advent of Code but imagine a series of dozens of small problems that grill you on every corner of the python filesystem api. Would be a lot less dry than reading docs cover to cover.
Nikola (Trevor Milton) was busted for fraud for insinuating that trucks rolling down slopes were working models.
By some measure they all are very valuable, but it wasn't a NASA flagship mission or human beings, for example. Most importantly, the public didn't care.