skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not quite like that.

> An atomic bomb is a prompt fast supercritical system.

Yes, it is, but more precisely it is a fast hypercritical system. The difference is this: in a supercritical system the ratio of neutrons in a new generation vs the old generation (generally denoted by k) is higher than one. For example 1.001 qualifies as supercritical. In a hypercritical configuration, k is higher than 2. In nature things generally evolve in a continuous way. To get to 2 you need to first get to 1 and 1.001, for example. For a bomb, it is very important to get to 2 extremely quickly, so that the assembly does not start the chain reaction while k is 1.001, or 1.1. To do that, you use either a gun or high explosives, to quickly reassemble a subcritical configuration into a hypercritical one, before a stray neutron has a chance to start a barely supercritical reaction (also known as a "fizzle").

With a reactor, there's no way to get an atomic bomb effect, because you go through the point of k=1.001. When you get there, there are plenty of neutrons around that this results in a "fizzle". Heat is produced and the core dilates and the ratio becomes low again. This results in "prompt excursions", each one lasting less than one second, each one some sort of a "bomb fizzle". These excursions are annoying, but they are not Hiroshima.

> I will not be surprised if their approach ends up being unlicensable in the US because safety cannot be assured by analysis under accident conditions.

What you are saying is a Catch-22. NRC can't approve a new design because it doesn't know how it performs under accident conditions, but then you can't know how something performs under accident conditions if you don't build it, and you don't build it if NRC does not approve it.

The fact is, Russia has been operating the BN-800 sodium-cooled fast reactor for 10 years [1], and the smaller BN-600 for 45 years. So sodium-cooled fast reactors can work, and Russia likes them enough that it plans to build a bigger version, BN-1200. They don't explode. You could say "not yet", and sure thing, this means that the NRC needs to work hard to cover all the bases. But this is not impossible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-800_reactor
The context of the 1988 charter is a better start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Hamas_charter

The later charter removed the strident stuff which was in the context of defence against oppressors and invaders.
Are the Palestinians in the West Bank supposed to love their armed illegal settler neighbors?

It feels like almost ever day that I see a video of a Palestinian's home in the West Bank being demolished or a Palestinian family being harassed by armed settlers
Id take it with a grain of salt.. I used to work with Dream It Do It in western New York. There were many schools with machine and carpentry shops.
> This movement to 小红书 is also, surprise surprise, not some spontaneous movement. The people at 小红书 have intentionally be working on becoming a TikTok replacement for awhile now.

Provide literally one source for this. literally any source.
I find this especially-concerning because LLMs will often serve up plausibly detailed incorrect answers, a failure-mode which requires the very same human skills and habits which the product is busy destroying. (Or at least suppressing.)

Kind of like those viruses which directly attack your immune-system.
> I would argue that incompetence is a form of not caring.

It is not.

It can be a product of not caring, and what is actually not caring can be mistaken for incompetence, but incompetence can coexist with dedication (the idea that it cannot seems is a face of the "effort is all that matters, there are no real differences in capabilities" myth), competence and concern are not at all the same thing or inherently linked such that either necessary implies the other.
This is exactly it - its filled with phony garbage but its a new and exciting kind of phony garbage that people lap up.

Also people are getting really good at making content seem real.
>the logical next step is for payers to vertically integrate and bring more care in house where they can better control cost and quality.

…except you skipped over the part where UHC billed at higher rates for the clinics they own so they could screw customers with premium hikes, take a bigger percentage of of the inflated bills, as well as profit from whatever costs they didn’t cover and people were forced to pay.
Ukraine refused it because they couldn't trust the Russians especially after the Bucha massacre. How is it a proxy war?
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The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. The market will tolerate infinite BS for arbitrary periods of time.

Which also means being careful of short selling. It can put you at unlimited risk even if you are absolutely right.
Yes, and it's exactly those "smart definitions" that are the Standard Model. The whole goal is to produce even smarter definitions, including showing that as much as possible of it couldn't be any other way, preferably.
How do you get along with communicating to others?
Can you claim to be working if you're browsing the internet for random articles?
It's a stretch to call Screams Without Words debunked. There were fierce attempts to poke holes in it and frame it as debunked, but no real evidence of any inaccuracies. The NYT stands by it: "We remain confident in the accuracy of our reporting and stand by the team’s investigation which was rigorously reported, sourced and edited."
What if there was something that communicated the company’s top priorities and helped everyone align and stay organized without so many meetings, and give concise drafts for your to-dos? Would that be something you’d try?
Wouldn't a significant restriction on what you can host for free move it further from being dumping? I don't understand your logic.
It's mostly an issue with English cursive. A lot of styles are just not great.

In Eastern Slavic countries, you are expected to learn to write in cursive and use it in typical writing. Writing in block letters (outside of official forms) is considered to be a sign of illiteracy.

And it really is faster, once you get some practice.
Or you could read his (short) message properly, and see he mentioned more than just finances. People have lives. Not everything is about money
> The legal system is too slow and private companies have a dubious record of what they police. What’s a good model to follow?

Get the legal system in shape. Yeet everyone above pension age out of public office so that we finally may get people into power who grew up with smartphones instead of old farts who let their secretaries print out e-mails and type audio recordings into letters. Then, do the same for police leadership and DAs, yeet the brawns and get the brains. You can't prosecute IT crimes if your average police officer doesn't even know what a proxy or a money mule scam is or if the DA is too goddamn lazy to file a subpoena because the damage is less than 950 dollars.

Then, crack the whip on domestic telcos, ISPs and hosters. Whoever hosts anything connected with more than 200 users has to have a 24/7/365 abuse hotline that has the manpower and authority to investigate abuse claims and remediate them (i.e. disconnect whoever is causing the problem until this party has remediated the issue on their end) in less than four hours.

Then, crack the whip on manufacturers of smart devices. Mandate that every Thing sold with an internet connectivity get at least security updates for a decade, and that the full source code for everything in it including signing keys for firmware be submitted to Library of Congress or whatever archive and released when the manufacturer either goes bust or declares end of life for that Thing.

And then, get the State Department into shape. Countries from which malicious traffic operates or where money from scams gets exfiltrated to get half a year to get their shit in order and be good netizens, or they get cut off from Western nations. No SWIFT, no Internet, no SS7.

The Internet at its fundamental core (cough BGP) runs on the assumptions of a high-trust society, which has led to issues all over the place as the world has shifted towards a no-trust-at-all lawless society and as it is impossible to uproot probably trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure, drastic action needs to be taken to restore the Internet to a high-trust place again.
You're cherry picking only the benefits of welfare programs and ignoring downsides.

Ask a person if they would prefer to be taken care of when sick and of course the answer would be yes. It isn't that simple.

Welfare programs require taxes to fund them and larger government bureaucracy to manage them. Not everyone agrees with that, and not every government is actually trustworthy to manage the programs well.
"Safe" for the FDA means the benefits outweigh the potential risks, not safe in absolute terms.

If the FDA actually required every drug to be proven safe at any dose for everyone, we'd have no modern drugs.
Germany has a much stronger reason to want Russia to lose then the US does. Germany is closer to most of Russia and other EU countries are next door. Germany is still in the EU and claims a sort of leadership role in the EU
I guess I don't know what proof you require me to provide. I have several children. Only one has a visible correlation between artificial food dyes and abnormal behavior. The others do not. If I had confirmation bias because of food dyes alone, then wouldn't I have the same observation across all my children?

At some point, as the adage says, "Doctor, when I do this, it hurts! What do I do?" ... "Treatment is simple. Don't do that"

I assume that you would agree that allergies are real and afflict some people but not others -- if your son or daughter entered anaphylaxis shock after eating a PB&J sandwich, would you sit there and scold the child- "but double blind studies show, Chunky Skippy is a safe food! This is just confirmation bias!" Why is it so hard to believe that, in this case, artificial food dyes could cause adverse reactions in some people and not others?

It took £750k back in 2007 to administer a double blind study to explore the link between hyperactive behavior in children and artificial food dyes [0] - a study that included Red 40. I don't have an extra $1MM+ burning a hole in my pocket just to prove what I already know with my own kids. Believe what you want, but if consuming neon red food is that important to you, God speed. I will not be feeding it to my one child who has a reaction to it. I avoid it for the others, because.... even though I know they won't have an adverse reaction, what's the point? The dye doesn't make the food taste any different/better.

[0] https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2007/09/hyperactivity-in-...
Canola was also originally a trademark (name comes from "Canada oil low acid") - it's made from rapeseed that was specifically bred for low erucic acid. It definitely made it easier to market.
AI is changing search in ways that upend SEO.

I would limit or eliminate spending on it.
Does funky things to the back button.
A lot of people are simply pessimists and will dismiss real authenticity because they don't have the tools to recognize it.
Show HN: I built an autonomous general AI agent that can access your computer
Considering that my country has a history of CIA sponsored coups and election meddling by the US, China definitely has been better to me
People who aren't competent to do a job also generally aren't competent to teach themselves the job. That's why we the whole idea of qualification, competency testing, supervision, training, etc., exists.
mostly 1 ai company in the middle east last I heard
"lookup table of similar technology and services to help ex-googlers survive the real world"

https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg
Exactly. They keep fear mongering about China stealing our data but when these companies leak every single piece of sensitive data about hundreds of millions of americans they get a slap on the wrist. Tells you exactly where their priorities are.
Take a look at Scorpion Capital.
You probably don't want a nuclear reactor (of all things) to be built in sprints of two weeks, according to the tenets of Agile.
I can sort of intuitively see why that's the case, but any concrete or specific reasons on why "popular" companies don't pay?

The linked Wikipedia article doesn't really explain the reason behind it.
What city are you in? Or state / general region, if you'd rather not share.
There is a crate that can handle regex over non contiguous data. It had some weak points, but overall is really good

https://crates.io/crates/regex-cursor
Matt Levine always has the good stuff, but he had commentary on a profile of Jim Chanos (the lesson not necessarily being specific to Chanos) that always sticks with me.
The profile that discussed the idea that the real sort of 'secret sauce' was that the combination of Chanos' main funds were like 190% long, and then 90% the short stuff he wan known for.

On its surface, nothing crazy for long/short funds, the notable part was that basically all the effort was on the short side, and the long side was implied to be very humdrum. And the short book had like negative returns over a long period.
It just struck me as a really elegant (if extreme) example of what uncorrelated returns can do if you do somehow have some edge over time.

And I'm not sure what Hindenburg's holistic picture is, but whether rightly or wrongly now I usually assume most of the kind of very public shorts operate similarly.
I was never really on board with the "short sellers are evil" train of thought, but I did believe, "oh these very public short sellers only short things, they just go around all the time thinking everything is awful".
And my assumption now is that they are like, kind of really theatric long/short funds.

Matt had some line like if you extremely good at something, you can get rich doing it, even if it loses money. As long as it's not correlated.
Overall, certainly. There are some negative things people talk about that you might agree with, but look back at what the market was that they disrupted and continue to disrupt. I think that without Cloudflare your registrar would be GoDaddy and your SSL certificates would be from Verisign and your rents would be huge. Backbone wise, that would depend on your region.
> You cannot learn everything. Is good penmanship worth spending time on?

There are some really good arguments that penmanship (actually, any fine motor skill) ultimately improves intellectual capacity.
Someone comes in with a gripe that the bottom quintile imposes negative externalities on their education system. Your response is that the same people impose positive externalities when they grow up. These are not the same. If they were still imposing negative externalities when they grow up, I wouldn't want them to exist around me, and sending "non-average" people to space or some similar dystopian project [or jail] would be the correct game-theoretical response.
Someone needs to launch a rover up there who’s sole purpose is to rescue other landers.
> Not gonna happen.

I’ve had insight into a bunch of businesses in multiple industries putting stupid money into trying to find a use for this, caught up in the hype and worried about falling behind. While also being sold AI features by every vendor, who’re all doing the exact same thing.

Every single one is floundering and very unlikely to think this was a good use of resources a couple years from now.

LLMs and associated tech are here to stay, just like search algorithms and autocomplete and machine translation programs, and the clone tool. The hype will fade, though. They’re neat tools but, no, turns out we’re not on the verge of inventing Skynet, we just fooled people into thinking we were because a prominent hype-man/grifter was saying so as a sales tactic (Altman) and because the output is human language instead of numbers or whatever.
Use horrible quality embeddings and get horrible results. No surprise there. ada is obsolete - I would never want to use it.
Libvirt 11.0 Released for Open-Source Virtualization API
This looks really interesting. I've been using a similar tool called spr https://github.com/spacedentist/spr for the last six or so months at work. I really like the stacked diff/PR workflow. But spr has a lot of rough edges and im on the lookout for a better alternative.

Do you happen to know how your tool compares to spr? How production-ready is it?
As a native Chinese I can assure you 小红书 and 红宝书 are as close semantically to each other as the words constipation and constitution. Few would relate those two.

Even the most leftist Chinese entrepreneurs avoid having their brand names associated to politics; it's just common sense.
> All the guides on decoupled Django seem to choose hybrid

For someone ignorant (me), can you expand on what you mean by "Decoupled Django" and "hybrid"?
Marxism is a western ideology
Something positive about Trump? Must be "Russian disinformation" or whatever we're saying these days...
We don't need farms in Phoenix. Farming in the middle of the desert where there's already limited water is pretty stupid.
From their About page

"...Hindenburg Research specializes in forensic financial research.

...we believe the most impactful research results from uncovering hard-to-find information from atypical sources. In particular we often look for situations where companies may have any combination of:
...
• Undisclosed related-party transactions..."

I would love to see whether Bayesian inference can be applied to quantitatively establish when "there's a there there' in any given situation. When is the unlikelihood of a coincidence transcend beyond the level of background noise?

https://hindenburgresearch.com/about-us/
Because the Ottoman empire was already long gone at the moment of the founding of Israel (and also Palestine had been a relatively small region within that empire, not a state on its own).

GP made it sound as if there had been an existing state in 1948.

(Not disputing however that the zionist project of establishing a state there and the entire conflict go back far longer than 1948, to a time where the Ottomans definitly were still there)
Water rights in the western US are mercenary. There's a healthy market in prior appropriation rights.

Just because people don't like what the water is used for doesn't mean the water isn't priced appropriately. You'll still get farmers growing thirsty / pricey crops in the desert if it covers the cost of irrigation.
Do I have to adopt the government line of the country I was born in if I want to maintain citizenship? Am I not allowed to think for myself?

How exactly is that different from a dictatorship?
Curious which countries you think are net positives. China?
Apathy is death.
One would assume because it's part of the reason for buying the AirPods in the first place. "Off" mode literally turns off all the ANC/Passthrough and other functionality and turns your AirPods into a basic set of in ear headphones. If people aren't expecting to use them with those features turned on, they are vastly overpaying for an experience they can get with any number of other cheaper non-anc headphones.

I suppose there are probably some people who buy AirPods for the better device to device bluetooth integration but otherwise don't use ANC, but I suspect they don't even approach a significant fraction of Air Pod owners.
It sounds like you’re talking about what you want, and I’m talking about how I think things are. I don’t see a wealthy country being able to do anything other than some form of universal care with heavy government involvement in the industry to make it happen. There’s nothing preventing it in terms of economics or technology, I just don’t think people will accept it.

Most of these systems do allow that sort of patient agency for those who can afford it, though. Maybe you had a weird specialist who didn’t want to see you earlier, but there are plenty of doctors who will go beyond your insurance coverage in exchange for cash.
> "What product has "blue raspberry"?

Blue raspberry is a standard slushie colour the world over, in my experience.

https://www.7-eleven.com/products/slurpee/blue-raspberry
Precisely. Ranking is a "smell" in this regard. They are using ada embedding which I consider to be of poor quality.
> people now recognizing Israel are the bad guys and Hamas are the good guys

Hamas kidnapped and tortured innocent civilians, and has help them in captivity for `~18 months, and you think they are the good guys? There are no good guys.
So you're saying that "an ask" is "an order" or "a demand", rather than "a request".
Why not use those words?

I don't understand what "an ask" means.
I don't know what the speaker intended with it, and I wouldn't know how a receiver would understand it.

It's just communicating badly, using words with no fixed shared meaning.
Or somebody too afraid to be confrontational to phrase a demand as actually demanded.

And "learnings" is just somebody too lazy to say "lessons learned".
They definitely have 4 corner radars and rear ultrasound. They indeed seem to have removed front long distance radar on Veoneer camera setups.

They don't mess with shipped cars and so they don't care about legacy compatibility, that makes it hard to keep track of changes
I recently used the system to order a bunch of chicken nuggets for my four kids. When my order came out, I got a bunch of spicy nuggets. If you have young kids, you know that this is a disaster. Anyway, I said, "Uh, spicy nuggets? That's not what I ordered." The supervisor sighed and immediately said that I could keep them if I wanted to, but he'd fast-track a new order of regular nuggets for me (on the house, of course). Then he started complaining about how the kiosk UI confusingly puts the spicy nuggets as the first choice, so this happens all the time.

Meanwhile, an old man was hollering about how he wanted to pay with cash, but the kiosk wouldn't take cash, so another employee was trying to figure out how to transfer his order to the register at the counter to take his payment.

So in addition to being a horrible experience for customers, this whole thing appeared to be a disaster for the company in terms of both employee time and real money.
A subtle comment, which may be misunderstood.

The point is that they are NOT starting with Israel proper first, where Arabs are and have been citizens for a long time. Palestinians have been elected to the Israeli parliament, and there is an Arab Justice on the Israeli Supreme Court.
Intel Capital to Become Standalone Investment Fund
I'd definitely love to learn about better designed justice systems. A lot of the systems in the USA work to an extent, but there are better solutions. The fed judges often speak about how the 50-state system in the USA should allow experiments in different areas of law and allow the best ones to win, but it doesn't work as effectively as it should.
I know an idi*t who claimed, in a code review, that there was a memory leak just by looking at the code (turned out there wasn't). Clearly it was a bullying attempt to stop someone else's progress. Unfortunately it was successful because of people like the ones downvoting you.
It doesn't sound like the number of refills is the real problem if you're worried about someone staying for 12 hours.

If the rule was "you have to leave after 2 hours" or "after an hour, you get one last refill", that would solve the problem and affect almost nobody else, while being nice and explicit about expectations. (Or cut those numbers in half if you want, it's just an example.)
A UN envoy says there are ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe Hamas committed sexual violence on Oct. 7

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-un-rape-oct7-...
Honest question, but why haven't there been "I will sacrifice everything to wipe [country]" generations sowing havoc on neighbors after Dresden, Nagasaki, Nanjing or others?