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The overwhelming problem with nuclear reactors is not safety, but extreme cost to build and to operate.

An inherently safe reactor design might be a little cheaper to operate, but might be even more expensive to build. Or might be a little less.

But for any reactor to be worth building today, it would have to cost a lot less. That is unlikely, particularly since the regulations are written for inherently unsafe reactors, and this new safe-ish one would still need to conform to existing regulations, strictly needed or not.

Even relaxing regulations, it would still cost much more to operate than alternatives we now have available.
For a CS person transistor design would be useless, but for EE it’s still core knowledge. But CPU design constraints are still the same now as they were in the 90s: speed of light, cache and coherency architecture, Amdahl’s law, pipelining. You’re way ahead of most coders if you understand even the basics of memory hierarchy.
Hot dog. I dreamed of writing something like this, and this guy actually goes and does it. Mad props.
You can get wildcard certs from Let's Encrypt, but in order to do so you have to use DNS challenges.
> The other large-scale use has been in the Syrian Civil War, by the Assad regime against both military and civilian targets (but mostly civilian targets).

False propaganda unfortunately according to the OPCW inspectors who actually went to Syria, including the director of the OPCW. But you can ignore them and take the CIA's word for it instead like the author of this article did.

https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2020/02/a-and-b-resp...

>Quite frankly, we don’t use chemical weapons for the same reason we don’t use war-zeppelin-bombers: they don’t work, at least within our modern tactical systems.

Also false, we used white phosphorus extensively in Iraq and elsewhere.
> What happens when you have a NN that understands how to integrate new physical input and render usable actions for creating outputs without human intervention?

You're going to have to define "understands" and explain how to get there from where the technology is right now, because a model is a statistical artifact and doesn't "understand" anything, including its inputs and outputs.

> How about recreational drugs designed for specific kind of Overdoses - like crumple zones on a car?

Why would anyone want an overdose?

> Or using AI to find the best cocktail of psychedelics that allow us all to work stoned and to maximum benefit all day long without diminishing returns?

Who benefits from this? Because it doesn't sound like it would benefit the people doing the work.

> We really are very close now.

Just a few more puffs and I'm sure you'll have the solution.
Consider text fiction. Like, reading a book. Just a few kilobytes is enough to create a plausible narrative. And my brain fills in the pictures, sounds, smells etc.

Manufacturing fake reality is trivial. Therefore it happens all the time.
Honda's collision mitigation system uses a millimeter-wave radar mounted in the front bumper on the driver's side.

https://www.hondapartsnow.com/genuine/honda~0~36803-tbe-a04....
As others stated it's to avoid letting smugglers free who were likely working for Mexican cartels. In many cases they were only able to be charged with possession.
> nothing anybody says after this will make me think

This is clearly wildly emotional and (hopefully) hyperbolic.
A couple thoughts. I generally agree with your post, except maybe a couple implications...

1 - Children under 13 are way, way different than a 16 year old. They both do 'stupid' things, of course. Middle school age children are probably most susceptible to about everything.

2 - Kids don't need the internet to become responsible adults. We have thousands of years of examples proving as much. I think it is perfectly reasonable to raise kids with heavily restricted internet, or no internet at all if the parents so choose.
Hmm, I haven’t really had issue. The teams that were already async seemed to have figured it out. Perhaps having a smaller team is key? I can see how larger teams may be more difficult to stay on top of.
Good to see this posted again. I see a concurring example in aerial bombardment policy of the US and the UK throughout WWII. I even wrote a paper regarding it in college.

Both the US and the UK wanted to target the war making capacity of the Germans. The Americans sought to achieve this with strategic precision bombing. The UK sought to do so with mass bombing campaigns targeting industrial workers. The disparity for example manifested in the reluctance of the US to fly bombing missions at night which for obvious reasons was preferred by the British.

Near the end of 1944 however, Allied High Command became concerned that the war might stretch into autumn 1945 and they were hoping the Soviet winter campaign could end the war early. So they initiated their own indiscriminant bombing campaign. In his autobiography, James Doolittle wrote that he opposed the bombing campaign of Berlin because it would , “...violate the basic American principle of precision bombing of targets of strictly military significance...”. In the end, the US adopted the UK's bombing regime and would pursue similar and even more liberal approaches later in the Cold War.

And it is not as if urban bombing wasn't a subject of moral discussion. In WWI the dropping of a grenade upon Paris by a pilot had made it clear that aerial bombardment would probably become a thing. There was a great deal of discussion through the interwar period. In the end though, it seems practicality will triumph over ideals given enough stress and time.
I'm pretty sure (having read the same two paragraphs as anyone else) that the pulses were caused artificially in the experiment. The pulses let them demonstrate that the spores can passively soak up potassium to a certain threshold, then activate. The interesting part being that the process doesn't cost the spore energy.

This is more like measurement than counting, imho. Something of an osmotic thermostat, ionostat perhaps.
Coal is being phased out. There is no point in talking about coal.
I think this is mixing up the mythology of Zuckerberg with the reality. There's no indication that he is exclusively or even primarily driven by money or power.

Go watch any long-form interview with him, such as with Lex Fridman. It becomes rather clear that he wants to be more like how Steve Jobs is seen by the wider public: as an innovator and pioneer, not as a power-hungry moneymaker.
When has providing for a family of eight been the norm in america? I assume you're thinking something like two kids plus all four grandparents living under one roof? That's never been the norm.
Probably for the best until at least when/if he's released.
I don't think there's anything wrong being this 1x engineer. In fact, the 10x engineer is probably only being paid a touch more for doing a lot more work and having a lot worse work-life balance.
They embed full-text indices into the .zim file these days, but they used to be separate originally. IIRC at that time the index for English wiki took up around 12 Gb, with the actual data in the ballpark of 65 Gb
Wat? The Wolf was a classic solver. Also see Mike from BB/BCS series
Someone higher up in the tree said there wasn’t a single person sitting in federal pen for this. I’m not sure, but I can’t imagine it’s frequently charged federally
Ask HN: What content/knowledge is most important?
Let's assume you could store a computer along with a few terabytes of external storage inside a faraday cage. In the event of a disaster, you also have the ability to generate enough power to use the computer.

What content/knowledge would you choose to store on the device and why?
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
‘I’m disturbed’: Harsh crackdown at top Iranian university shocks
It would be ageist to say any old guy must be past it, but not ageist to say its a relevant consideration. I knew a few professors who were outstanding figures at their peak, but who continued teaching into their 80s. It was obvious to everyone around them that they needed to retire years before they actually did.
Then they introduce purple, magenta, green, chartreuse, ... proving that their own classification doesn't actually hold up. At this point I got confused about what their point was (or maybe they did?)
How many same-office-colleague-years do you think you’ve had in your career? How many fatal heart attacks in the five across all those? For me, it’s “tens of thousands” and “zero”.
Exactly, I have to honest I think I am being fooled.
Young people loved dystopian Bladerunner cinemaphotographic futures but don’t want to live in them?

Voight-Kampff fail.
> Hi-Point is the same price and works way better

Ok, so the reasoning here is that the price is ~equal, and one is more durable (not necessarily a good thing when you're using something in a crime, but I'm willing to entertain the notion) and effective.

This is, reasonably, fair. But the price of a 3D printer has been trending down for, at least, the past decade (and quality improving).

If the price continues to drop, do you see this being a reasonable thing to continue doing? If so, at what price do you think would be the inflection point?
Even if this were possible, the value of starting over in the problem domain would require considerable starting investment. In the meantime, your competitors will continue to iterate and improve. Depending on the domain, it might take many years to get to feature parity, even with vastly increased productivity. Many companies or industries will also shy away from such an investment because the benefit might not actually be worth the cost. Also, I think Joel Spolsky's lesson will still apply -- it's human nature to think it will be better the second time through: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
I thought he campaigned on this. If I'm remembering that right, then this isn't so much the case of someone doing something just to try to get reelected (is he even planning on running again?), but rather someone fulfilling the promise they made to the people who elected him the first time.
To be honest, it's closer than you'd think. I find very few games now that I can't run through Steam+Proton, to the point I forget I'm not on the 'Native' OS for them.

And what I've also found is that issues that affect my games on Linux Steam are usually also reported for Windows (i.e. black screen on loading, certain freezes).
WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking via Tailscale
What can I say, I enjoy living dangerously.
It won’t change in the US for a very long time. There’s simply too many readily available guns. Criminals in my area simply take a jaunt around the neighborhood at 3am checking for unlocked pickup trucks. It’s in our local news regularly. “Thieve robs a string of neighborhood cars at night, steal cash and a handgun”

And I don’t see any easy solution to straw purchasing on the horizon.
I love Linux systems. My daily driver, an MSI GS-66, runs Ubuntu as the primary OS. But despite the fact that it's 2022, I still have to spend at least a few hours every month fixing things.

The latest issue is that after updating the kernel and graphics drivers, I can't suspend the PC anymore. It dumps a bunch of crap to dmesg, then returns to the login screen. This is a known issue on the forums, and it's still broken.

I also have to deal with broken wifi semi-regularly, most recently last year, when an update took out the wifi drivers until I could roll it back (at home, since I don't have ethernet at work).

I love Linux, but it's a love-hate relationship. I still don't think it's ready for mass adoption until it can be as reliable as windows or MacOS for consumer PCs.
Wow! Why the downvotes?
Good news, the data in [1] shows its safety numbers have it sandwiched between wind and solar, and it produces significantly less greenhouse gas emissions than either (although all three are roughly zero).
The car no doubt first confirms nobody is tailgating before such an abrupt action
Now that you mention it, I'd give my child full free access to the neighborhood alone before giving them full free access to the internet alone. Not the whole town, though.
My guess is military.
I find the explanation that he's acting to be an even better explanation.
176 days too soon.
Feels like the typical extrapolation: "Look how fast we've done the 80%! It is only a matter of time until we reach 100%".

Except that it never works like that, does it? The further we go, the harder it becomes. It's impressive how fast they went from nothing to almost-fully-autonomous cars, but actually-fully-autonomous cars may never happen, who knows?

As a developer, I honestly feel more threatened by the energy crisis to come (end of fossil fuels in the next couple of decades) than with AI replacing my job.
Indeed! It does require to read more if you’ve got a wall of text as you wake up, but as things progress and people get in sync, communication tends to improve and become more efficient.
I'm suggesting, yes, as someone who was interested in magic tricks growing up.
Machine translation works pretty well though. At least into English.
From your earlier Wikipedia link:

“As with all articles of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, the provisions of Article 22 are only suggestions which do not override the domestic law of the member countries:

4. The provisions of this article shall be subject to the provisions of the domestic law of the Party concerned on questions of jurisdiction.

5. Nothing contained in this article shall affect the principle that the offences to which it refers shall be defined, prosecuted and punished in conformity with the domestic law of a Party.”
I taught at an academy where evaluators were different from the teachers and were anonymous. The system worked very well. It was originally implemented to get away from students trying to bribe teachers for grades, but it also made evaluation more objective, and gave better feedback to both students and teachers.
Shit's illegal and people are mad. Dude tries to cut some folks a break and people are mad. Conclusion: some people are born mad and gonna stay that way regardless.
My journey with Machine Learning so far:

:D Oh, nonlinear equations! This is something I know a lot about.

:) I think I see...so they use nonlinear equations in the activation function. This helps to create divergence, or sensitive dependence on initial conditions.

:| Wait it's a sigmoid function?? Wtf that's boring.

:( They're just trying to min/max a data set, and figure out probability as it relates to that min/max. But that sucks, because most of the interesting phenomenon in nature exists in BETWEEN zero and one! All the fun, cool stuff happens in the middle! You can't reduce it down to a probability, there's no way that's going to do a good job describing anything!
The app has been rated PEGI 7+. The fault doesn't lie solely on the parents there.
I for one would not be happy.

When I buy a storage device I usually have an intended purpose for that storage and would not like to have to delete all of the files that some manufacturer thought would be useful information but I would have to delete to make room for what I want.
There are a large number of different "whole points." One of them, supported by a lot of people, is "programmable money unencumbered by banking institutions." To a lot of people, organizations like Celsius is the point of crypto. And we keep seeing this kind of garbage happen.
They called them children and by inference incompetent to operate a business, because they took what the letter says at face value.

My question is a logical extension of that.
There will always be a specialization of CS when other segments splinter from it. It might not be as large but it will be there. The reference to programming being in a death spiral is a bit of a stretch. There will be common mechanisms for like process but business always needs customization so I would worry about the Linux kernel dying anytime soon. What I’d expect is that programming tools become even more forgiving than today allowing almost anybody to do programming tasks with computer aid.
weird how that wasn't the way the headlines (including OP) framed it. weird how that's not the way several other people in this thread alone interpreted it.
> Nothing on their homepage remotely proves your claim, and a quick search doesn't show anywhere they claim so

Because it's obvious to the community the website serves. ICCF having banner on their homepage saying "human + computer > computer" would make about as much sense as USA Track & Field having a banner on their homepage saying "Did you know running on your feet is faster than running on your hands?"

> which is to be expected since you are simply wrong.

This is a shocking level of arrogance for someone whose knowledge of the computer-assisted chess scene was limited to a Wikipedia stub a few hours ago.

There is a whole field of "anti-computer strategy" in computer-assisted chess. Humans study the weaknesses of engines to figure out how to exploit them in their opponents' play (and avoid them in their own play). Here [1] is an article discussing the general idea. Here [2] is a post by an ICCF player discussing why human+computer beats computer and giving an example of one of his own games. Here [3] is a a traditional chess GM discussing what the human player brings to the board in a computer-assisted chess game and warning against blindly trusting the computer. Here [4] is an ICCF world champion talking about how the human player steers the engine by feeding it ideas and avoiding positions where engines are known to have problems. Here [5] is another ICCF world champion talking about how his approach is to come up with ideas himself and then see whether the computer refutes them, rather than looking at what the computer suggests in a position.

Is that enough for you, or are you going to stubbornly continue to argue from your position of ignorance?

[1] https://iccfworldzone.com/cc-anti-computer-and-centaur-chess...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/4av9fe/correspondenc...

[3] https://www.iccf.com/Message.aspx?message=225

[4] https://en.chessbase.com/post/better-than-an-engine-leonardo...

[5] https://www.iccf.com/message?message=833
At Caltech organic chemistry had a reputation for being particularly difficult. Those that took it knew the situation, and accepted the challenge.
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If I elect someone to lead the country for 4 years, I’d prefer they lead the country for at least 3.75 of those years, not for two 4-6 month stints in 4 years.

(Neither party has a monopoly on this BS.)
Then why did we evolve to only be able to see visual spectrum?
He doesn't have the power to change the law on his own. He's requested that the justice department reschedule the drug. I'm not sure what more within his power would allow him to "whole ass" this.
This is the situation I’m in. I’m in the Seattle metro and the mortgage on my 3 bedroom ranch is less than a 1 bedroom apartment in Seattle. I can commute if I need to but why would I ever give this up? I have 0 other debts which makes it extra compelling.
Obviously different laws apply to different groups. The police can also do things (arrest people) that would usually be a crime for soldiers to do. Tear gas use by police is either right or wrong, useful or not useful, justifiable or not justifiable, but it's not really related to why chemical warfare is banned in war. We also don't justify the ability and legality of police to kill based on the legality of killing enemy combatants in war, either.
In one direction perhaps, not many incels become lone wolf shooters.
To be honest, Meta seems pretty afraid of going out of business if their metaverse-pitch ends up failing - in fact, I'm pretty sure the whole metaverse push just happened because FB was (is) loosing ground fast.
Is it really true that the forging of the pressure vessel is a significant portion of the billions of dollars it costs to build a nuclear power plant? As your link explains, there are plenty of forges capable of pressing the required ingot size - located in the places that have modern steel fabrication capability. The US doesn’t have these presses because the US doesn’t have modern steel plants - not because the presses are super rare.
The government doesn't have to announce something for it to be so, and by the 'accepted' definition (two consecutive quarters of negative GDP) the US is in a recession.
The generous interpretation of what op said is that you don’t have to maintain a server in any way or shape which is indeed the case. You only write business logic while the infrastructure automatically connects it to handle inbound requests.
One-Page Reports on Seminal Cloud/Distributed Systems Papers
Over the past month, I've been uploading one-page reports on seminal papers in this field. The one-page reports are formatted in the following order: 3-5 lines summary, 1-3 major strengths of the paper (i.e., what's cool about this), a weakness, and future work opportunities. These reports are not intended to substitute the paper, but rather to peruse those with reports that spark interest. I intend to write and share more of these reports because it helps me absorb the material. My goal, other than writing better reports, is to start writing such reports on seminal papers from other fields too.
From what language? Do you speak two languages fluently, so you can compare translations?
50ms? I'm happy to get 50ms ping when I play quake/unreal tournament.

200ms is fine for a website.
Is your sample size small, though : 1 legal system with guns compared to 0 anarchists with guns?
What you are listing is specifically the "Penal Provisions" which are suggestions as the UN doesn't have the right to prosecute drug violations in member countries. They do, however, according to Article 6 of the Constitution (which makes all Treaties the law of the land), the right to challenge the rescheduling of drugs which conflict with treaties.

Broader authority rests here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_Agai...