skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Uranium used to be cheaper (adjusted for inflation) per gram than it is now, because there used to be more of those facilities online than there are now.

This is both false and entirely irrelevant. The costs are driven by capital (and require supply chains that don't exist) not fuel. Minerals get more expensive to extract after you extract the easy stuff. Building out 100s of GW of new nuclear would require extracting the stuff that costs several times more than present -- to the point where fuel costs would be equal to the LCOE of solar.

What is relevant is the entirety of world reserves are not enough to provide even US electricity + transport energy in PWRs. Loading 800GW of reactors uses almost all of it. Reprocessed MOX and what's left might buy you 20 years of operation. Mines take quite some time to come online so the pace of production of new nuclear would be small compared to even the torpid rate of US renewable production.

The PWR industry is nowhere near the scale of renewables, and it's impossible for it to get there.

If you want to blow a trillion more dollars on trying to make it happen, put it into liquid sodium FNR research. At least that kinda-sorta works. You'll be quite disappointed when you finally get a design that is safe and scalable and see the price tag though. And even if you do go all in it will take decades to breed enough fissile material to make a dent.
Don't think you looked hard enough, there was a massive thread on an article against GitHub Copilot around 15 days ago [0] [1].

[0] https://githubcopilotinvestigation.com/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33226515
You can already reply in most if not all social networks.

This sounds like a feature that can and will be abused.
In my experience of knowing alcoholics, I'd say 6 a day really isn't that bad; it's the bottle of liquor a day types that I find impressive. Also, if they were the kind of people who could get access to professional help, they probably wouldn't drink so much to begin with.
Yes, but it's pretty hard to definitively say that a particular work is not copyrighted, given the life+X years term, and that works don't have to be marked as copyrighted. I believe that's why books have had fewer illustrations these last 20 years: authors can't afford to indemnify publishers against copyright suits over illustrations, and it's really hard to make sure either you have the correct permission or it's out of copyright.
DxoMark is always good for comparing cameras: https://www.dxomark.com/smartphones/#sort-camera/device-Goog...
Add to that the sensible date and time primitives baked into the language as well as the super powerful and ergonomic cldr library for i18n.
Scientists tend to talk about greenhouse gases' global warming potential (GWP). A common figure used for methane is it has the GWP 20x that of CO2 over 100 year period. This takes into account that the methane at first traps a lot of heat and then it breaks down to CO2 and traps less heat.

Another consideration is that as the concentration of methane in the atmosphere rises the rate at which it breaks down slows.
I wonder what the cross-section of the population is smart enough to be worth making sign a non-compete yet not smart enough to do a basic Google search on their enforceability.
If you can't stop the bots, might as well monetize them?
Mayyyybe. LFE is still much closer to Erlang than Clojure is to Java.
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Source: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/methane-super-emitters-mapp...

Project site: https://earth.jpl.nasa.gov/emit/
Massachusetts also now issues SMART cards
It will be nice when screen readers get more Ai driven to the point where accessability is automatically provided by the browser.
Cook shortage threatens to sink U.S. Coast Guard operations
I think it’s a little harsh on Ruby. But, yeah, I agree.
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Posting tweets may be lame, but it is also the entire value of Twitter!
Referencing public code in GitHub Copilot
Related discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33401480
This helps, but it's still unintuitive that the "standard unit drink" is not the same as the actual standard drink that most people consume. 330ml @ 4.5-5% abv (a fairly typical mass market beer) would make way more sense to me.

A lot of people are going to assume that 1 standard drink === 1 glass of wine/beer. They're not going to read the fine print on government messaging.
> But do to accessibility correctly you almost ALWAYS need to use aria-*

What? No... Screen readers do best with standard elements and you're supposed to avoid aria labels where possible, and only as a last resort.
Good. That's the point.
Legal content is highly monetized.

I have had trouble finding similar content. Often these are buried in PDF reports by state agencies. There are some federal resources out there depending on what you need. But those are often hard to navigate too.

For something like what you want you may have to compile the date separately to compare it.

But yes, attorney SEO is a huge business
It's the hypocrisy of it all. Multi-billion dollar corporations whose empires were built on copyright, violating the licenses of other people's code. Why do they get a pass for that while simultaneously shoving DRM and trusted computing down our throats? I hope they get sued for ridiculous sums.
There’s a few other self antonyms just in English. “Cleave” immediately comes to mind
Distros have different goals from upstream software, and upstreams all have different policies too.

For instance, plenty of upstream software never even releases security fixes in older versions, yet distributions might be committed to supporting them for 5 or 10 years in their LTS releases.

The only universal solution to this is back-porting: it reduces the risk of exposing LTS release customers to backwards compatibility issues, but increases the risk of a bad patch slightly.

If upstreams cared about the things distro customers cared about too (don't break my stuff I haven't changed), it would be much easier to put the blame solely on distros, but they don't.
Doc here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267984252_CEO%27S_R...
I agree with you but it shouldn't be overlooked that industry makes shortcuts which are disastrous for the environment to pad their margins very slightly so the executives can get a bonus.

The crux of the problem is the costs we allow to be externalized and the arduous legal process involved in getting a small fraction of the real damages paid. You shouldn't need a lawsuit to make a company pay for every penny of damage they did.
How the new, darker YouTube look compares to the old design [Gallery]
Such as Microsoft with Copilot
Dropbox admits 130 of its private GitHub repos were copied after phishing attack
IBM v Papermaster was a pretty high profile one.
Between these and GDRP cookie crap plus all the different kinds of ads these days, the internet is the least usable it's ever been. Even with AdGuard Home DNS servers, UBlock Origin, and aggressive blocklists, it's still not great.
Exactly my experience coming out of school in 1986. Only for me it was microcontrollers (Intel 8096 family).

Thanks for bringing back some great memories!
Your mistake is looking at what twitter has been in the past and not what it could be with a fast moving entrepreneur driving the ship.

Twitter has been too complacent in the market of communication apps. By all reports, including from Elon himself, big changes are on the way.
Tractor/trailers, locomotives, heavy construction equipment, ships, and boilers for residential heat don’t run on gasoline. Without diesel, the economy stops.
This can also be trivially circumvented:

Step 1. Hire some outsourced artist in the rest of the world, where people don't care about AI art regulation.

Step 2. Watch as those outsourced artists outproduce the domestic artists, since they have the twin advantage of lower costs AND better quality due to being able to use insanely powerful AIs.

Step 3. Watch as the domestic art industry gets wiped out, just like manufacturing did.

Politicians can understand this 1.2.3, therefore they'll never ban art AI.
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The usage I've generally seen is that they keyboard is just the row of keys. An analog or digital piano has one, an organ perhaps several. The pianos, an organ, a harpischord, they're all kinds of keyboard instruments.
Heck, I can't remember how old I am. Pretty sure I'm over 21 though, and most authorities would agree after a cursory visual inspection. There are also folks who:

* Can only guess at the day, month, and/or year of their own birth.

* Cannot currently tell you their date of birth (e.g. incapacitated, incommunicado, unconscious, absent, or forgot. what year is it?)

* Cannot prove their date of birth (e.g. records destroyed)

* Mix up their relatives date of birth (the probability of this approaches 1 asymptotically as the family size increases)

* Use a different date format to you, with consequently ambiguous interpretation

Similar impedance mismatches between information and permission exist in almost all authorization domains. Consequently, the only credentials with general applicability are those capable of asserting a right or validating a claim, not those that merely sign data.
If these guidelines are implemented, I predict "Town Square" apps like Twitter will decline in favor of sub-networks like Discord or Substack.

> We will protect any speech that is protected under the First Amendment.

This will likely include speech that people and advertisers find objectionable, and will consequently want to disassociate from. There is a lot of First Amendment speech that people don't want to have shouted at them when they're trying just trying to go about their lives, or keep up with the media. Think about what HN would be like if the mods allowed all First Amendment speech in the comments.

> We will double down on our authenticity rules and procedures.

It's not clear if this requires people to use their real names + verify their identities, but if so it's dangerous for free speech. Pseudonyms can be a valuable way of enabling people to speak freely. Forcing people to use their own names also increases the risk of their being targeted by harassing speech (which defenders will claim is protected by the 1st Amendment). Again, people will likely leave for more curated communities or anonymous communities rather than endure it.

> We will provide users with the tools they need to curate content for themselves. For instance, we will give users the ability to hide or delete offensive comments to their posts.

I have these tools available for SMS and email, but it's exhausting to manage, and they've been rendered useless by the sheer volume of spam. For the average user, this is forcing them to take on a lot of work to protect themselves from spam and harassment. Many will just quit rather than add another channel they have to filter and manage.

If a "public square" (and I'm not convinced Twitter is a public square in the sense people say) becomes unruly and fails to provide a well regulated commons, people will depart for communities that regulate the way they want (like Hacker News or amenable Discord Servers)
This dismissive attitude of "my nerds are better than your sheep" is why this federated nerd b.s. never really takes off.
Not in the article: a common sense explanation why rising interest rates, which haven’t been combating inflation, are supposed to reduce the price of food and gas (CPI) and clothes, furniture, cars, toys, electronics, and other junk (core CPI).
there is also the problem that in some locales the first day of the week is thought to be Sunday rather than Monday, so regardless of 0-indexing or not, we can't even agree on that IRL :-D
> [Y]our post reads like an apology for the behaviour.

I wager you are unable to explain how, because it doesn’t.
I hold neither of those opinions. My take is that agricultural civilization is being digested by technocapital and we're all along for the ride.

That said, the application of copyright to text, vs, code, vs images, has salient differences. The concept of plagiarism in visual artwork exists by analogy, but it's hard to call it coherent.

Music is somewhere in the middle, people have sued successfully over melody and hooks.

There are things like characters in animation, it's not unheard of, but the balance is more on the side of "great artists steal".
At this point, I don't think the law can stop it. We're looking at a technology that can easily become illegal but ubiquitous, like Napster in the heady days of flouting audio copyright.

If the entire Western copyright sorted of influence unifies on it being an illegal system, Russia and China are under no disincentive to ban the techs. Especially if it makes their entertainment industries more competitive with the Hollywood machine.
I guess it's better than the 7% you gotta pay to get an Orange username on HN.
The very nature of AI is that anyone can make their own model with enough training. There are already open versions of Copilot available, such as Fauxpilot, or GPT Neo for GPT-3, so I never understand the "only rich and powerful will have AI." I mean, sure, some will, but just like programming, the effort will eventually be distributed to open source versions.
> I made the mistake of joining the smaller mastodon.online rather than mastodon.social, which they claimed wouldn't make a difference, but it did.

This is a big reason why I never got into it. Different instances, different rules, etc.
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My piano tuner was adamant that all uprights need to be on interior walls, which I agree with. That lessens the temperature swings.
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A former Telsa employee who worked with Elon share inside information on Elon and how he will turn Twitter around
Seems like it's best supported on interactive elements and doesn't lead to unintended behavior.

https://www.w3.org/TR/using-aria/#practical-support-aria-lab...
Cool. But do most others want that?
That's the trajectory if we stay on this path. Artists would essentially become AI power users. The question upstream of that is, do you think this is a good path?

Personally, I think AI has done about as much as crypto, maybe even less. I can't think of a single use of AI that I couldn't do without.
How can I hear more when it’s ready?
I like those doors, i like variety.
The goal is to get these people to face reality. The fact is we are in the 21st century, the age of information. Their creations are just data, and data can be copied, processed and transmitted worldwide at negligible costs. There is no controlling it.

The goal is to make them stop trying to control it. Because their attempts to control it are ruining computers for all of us. We already have harmful stuff like DRM on every chip because of these people. Platforms are getting more locked down, our freedom as users and programmers is decreasing. They will destroy free computing as we know it if this keeps going unchecked.
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We don't have to even get to the point of extending copyright to artistic style. If using copyrighted art to train a model is found to not be fair use, the technology will no longer be above board. Companies in countries with these rules won't be able to ignore them.

What could happen if this interpretation of fair use comes to pass? Model trainers may have to license images from companies like Getty. In a sense, it should be cheaper than using an image individually. In some countries, music organizations deal with licensing large sets of songs, no need to negotiate with each label or artist individually. That sort of arrangement could come to pass. Perhaps there'll be a simple option on image upload sites to select the license for the image - allow or disallow model training. Or perhaps everyone will simply use below-the-board models surreptitiously.
I don’t feel like Elon is a racist, but he sure has made twitter way more racist.
Computers of Chernobyl: We got a Soviet PDP-11 DVK-3, never used in 30 years
If you rely on mTLS you highly likely run your own CA. You can probably say with confidence that no malicious certificates have been signed by your CA. So you mitigate your exposure by ignoring certs without a valid chain of trust, which you're doing anyway.

Am I missing something?
Makes sense, rise of CGI in the 90s killed movies I like.
We can try to evolve it, sure. I don't think that's an option that will interest enough people to matter.

While it's possible that these AI tools will leave some (certainly not all) artists without work, what I think is really going to happen is that artists will harness them to do new things that were simply impossible before, or to make their work easier. Technology rarely destroys jobs; it more frequently changes their nature. Just like how at some points animators needed to know how to use 3D tools when in previous decades they didn't, in the near future graphical artists will need to know how to use AI. It's possible that where there were previously two artists working there will then be only one, but such is life. Demand for art is finite.
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a browser that uses electron. looks experimental, pretty cool

uses bittorrent with updatable torrents too
It was put back in the bottle by Apple legitimating the piracy business model by cutting desks with the major labels to digitize their music.

The analogue here is AI art week be legitimized, and the artists who profit will be the ones who let their work be used as input for a cut of the profits. And nobody will be able to compete with them, and the owners of the machine will be able to set the profit rate as they choose.

... That does sound like a new stable equilibrium, actually.
Interesting to see Nix in the nice to haves!
Trail sense is awesome, and .... It is on f-droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.kylecorry.trail_sense/
I hate that on desktop they put view count into info box, and it doesn't stand out visually anymore:

old - https://9to5google.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2022/10/ol...

new - https://9to5google.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2022/10/ne...
I highly suggest checking out Natural Atlas (https://naturalatlas.com/) by the same small team who made the CoTrex app (https://trails.colorado.gov/) for Colorado Parks and Wildflife.

A really fantastic team building some absolutely gorgeous topographic basemaps from publicly available data. Hopefully they'll find time to add a slope angle overlay at some point.
If that becomes the norm then people will probably start caring a lot less about twitter posts in general.
As of 2015 it was estimated that methane made up 16% of the human contributions to global warming [0] So, significant but by itself not necessarily worrying.

However, there are a number of other factors that do make methane particularly worrisome. First, the concentration of methane in the atmosphere is going up much faster than CO2, this despite the fact that it decays into CO2 after about 10 years. Further, the higher the concentration of methane the slower its rate of decay, so it stays in the atmosphere trapping heat for longer.

Finally, and most worrisome, there appears to be a feedback loop with warming and methane release from permafrost.

[0] https://www.c2es.org/content/international-emissions/
Looks like a really convoluted way to add a "tracking disabled" mark. But I don't see any more than a bit of information on it.
Right, so instead of processes you have kernels, and instead of kernels you have hypervisors...

So like containers, but heavier weight and you need to pre-allocate ram for every ~~process~~ kernel?

It sounds like you've reinvented the multiprocessing operating system.
GCC Translation Validation 2: Verifying GCC optimizations using an SMT solver
So I should buy a third car for that one special occasion? That seems less climate friendly, not more.

I could walk, but that would take a nice chunk of the afternoon for multiple trips.
Without Let's Encrypt or something similar it would be a pain to get TLS certs for every user's domain.
> Language is important. There's a clear distinction between the left, leftists, and the Democratic party.

No there isn’t. There are localized differences. A leftist in Denmark is nothing like a leftist in Germany nor a leftist in Canada.

> We often call the Democratic party the left

Then why the fuck are you pretending to be so confused?
eye opening & intellectually challenging as always the hand of Carl Sagan exists forever in this another great act of communication. I appreciated reading it and - AND contemplating reality this way.

NO shame Mozilla - every - thing - happens :) if we accept without rancor we stay alive and well
Demand destruction mostly.

The thesis is that there is more demand than supply of basically everything (not least oil) causing a positive feedback loop on prices.

Crush asset prices, reduce labor bargaining power, induce layoffs - this all reduces demand for everything back to what we can supply today, which will cause lower prices in time. Prices have already stopped going up month over month in aggregate.

They don’t say it because it sucks.

Focusing on the supply side would have been far more palatable but there fed was backed into a corner where it needed to be seen to be acting, and they only have one tool to use. The fed can’t build oil wells.