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by pjscott 6y ago
A few workarounds spring to mind: 1. Run challenge trials, but don't pay participants in money. Talk up the danger and risk, and publicize the heroism of the people who volunteer. Make a spectacle of it. If you ask for fifty heroes, is
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by pjscott 6y ago
The end of an outgoing president's term is a fairly common time to grant pardons or clemency in potentially controversial cases.
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by pjscott 6y ago
Greek philosophers whose works are still being read today are probably not a representative sample. It's tempting to look back at a few exceptional people from past societies, compare them with typical people from ours, and find our so
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by pjscott 6y ago
This was published in an open-access journal called "Scientific Reports", one of many Nature-run-but-not-Nature journals currently diluting their brand. I'm not sure if the domain name confusion is deliberate or not. https:&
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by pjscott 6y ago
The first Falcon 9 launch was a success -- maybe you're thinking of the older Falcon 1 rockets that exploded during launch?
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by pjscott 6y ago
> the other is dubious, it seems to be the one that combines with hydroxychloroquine "standard of care". I believe you're referring to this one, the RCT run in a hospital in Spain, with a startlingly huge effect size: htt
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by pjscott 6y ago
I looked a bit at what Charles Koch has been saying recently, and this doesn't look like a change of opinion; it looks like a change of tactics. He's de-emphasizing the partisan tug-o-war stuff, which looks less promising now than
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by pjscott 6y ago
Since so much of the OS is shared with iOS -- kernel, most base libraries, etc. -- there's probably not much code that hasn't already been running on ARM for years.
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by pjscott 6y ago
The approach here can be used to process strings in chunks without too much added complexity, and it has low setup/teardown costs. The lookup tables fit in three 128-bit SIMD registers so there's minimal cache pollution, which is
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by pjscott 6y ago
It's not clear what "zero-emissions" should mean, but in the context of California environmental regulations it refers specifically to vehicles that don't emit any pollutants from their onboard power source, e.g. elect
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by pjscott 6y ago
An issue here is that Earth and humans are very interesting parts of the universe. The AI knows from personal experience that this tiny little planet is capable of creating something at least as dangerous as a universe-colonizing papercli
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by pjscott 6y ago
> (even if limited to 26 letters and 8 characters that's over 200 billion different passwords) Of course, if you're using a fast cryptographic hash function then someone with a good GPU can throw a surprising amount of brute
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by pjscott 6y ago
Yep, the same thing happens in both public and private sectors. As a company gets older and bigger, there's a strong tendency for it to accumulate the kind of semi-parasitic costs you mention, get worse at changing things due to bureau
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by pjscott 6y ago
Those look very specific to using employee-only prediction markets to guide decision-making within a single company. Which objections, if any, do you think apply to Hanson's proposal for tradable archaeology prize obligations?
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by pjscott 6y ago
On the one hand, that sounds plausible on the face of it. Underhanded political shenanigans aren't rare. On the other hand, I hear this used as a fully general explanation for every messed-up public service, including ones in places
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by pjscott 6y ago
MIRI was, until 2013, called the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Apparently the name change was part of a deal with Singularity University to avoid brand confusion. Announcement here: https://intelligence.org&#
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by pjscott 6y ago
Sounds like this essay, "Economic Inequality": http://paulgraham.com/ineq.html And here's the HN thread from when it was first written: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10826838
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by pjscott 6y ago
Regarding your first paragraph, consider these two claims: 1. Progress comes from people who are willing to ignore conventional wisdom and social norms. 2. The conventional wisdom is mostly wise, and social norms evolved in ways that are mo
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by pjscott 6y ago
I remember seeing that posted often, back when email spam was a big problem, and it always bothered me. Whenever people were discussing possible fixes, someone would post that checklist -- and you could always find some way to apply the c
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by pjscott 6y ago
The TRISO fuel particles are very small -- about a millimeter or so in diameter. The "billiard ball sized" fuel pebbles designed for the Xe-100 reactor are graphite balls with a bunch of TRISO fuel particles embedded in them.
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by pjscott 6y ago
It should produce amounts of waste similar to other once-through uranium fuel cycles, e.g. most reactors in use today.
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by pjscott 6y ago
The article is (confusingly, and a bit confusedly) discussing a type of fuel, not a reactor design. The type of fuel in question can withstand very high temperatures, whether from fission or from decay products, without letting the fuel out
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by pjscott 6y ago
These very small fuel particles are embedded in larger graphite structures with whatever geometry is convenient for handling. (Pebble bed pebbles are one such possibility, and PBRs have been made which use TRISO-based fuel pebbles.)
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by pjscott 6y ago
To clarify: molten fueled reactors (like LFTRs) trivially can't have their fuel accidentally melt, because their fuel is already molten. (And there are some nice options for dumping their fuel into a subcritical passively-cooled config
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by pjscott 6y ago
Because the article isn't clear: no, this isn't about pebble bed reactors. This is about a type of fuel where a little bit of uranium has been encased in a number of protective layers, such that the fuel will remain safely contain
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by pjscott 6y ago
When some software I was responsible for started melting down under a load 10x bigger than it could handle, I was able to fix it by doing an emergency rewrite of the data storage part using Redis with Lua scripting. This was back when that
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by pjscott 6y ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding your post, try something like this: $ log stream --level debug --process MyProcess > mylog.txt For lighter-weight logging, replace "debug" with "info" or "default". If your p
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by pjscott 6y ago
However, you can get all this information with the `log stream` command.
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by pjscott 6y ago
In reply to an inquiry about rural broadband, one of SpaceX's sales engineers told the Nebraska state government about a year ago: "Service levels of 100 Mbps down / 40 Mbps up would generally be anticipated, but depends on h
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by pjscott 6y ago
A GWAS will use significance criteria that correct for the millions of multiple comparisons. (This paper does.)

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