skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Naval reactors are tiny, inefficient, use high enriched uranium.

Tiny? Virginia-class submarines use an S9G reactor [1], which produces 210 MW thermal, very close to NuScale's SMR (250 MW thermal).

Inefficient? Take the A1B reactor that powers the Gerald Ford carrier. It has a thermal capacity of 700 MW thermal. Out of that it sends 260 MWt straight to the propellers, and it also produces 125 MW of electricity (from the remaining 440 MWt). That's an efficiency of 28.4%, which is below the 32-34% of commercial nuclear reactors, but not by that much.

Uses highly enriched uranium. That's the case of the American reactors, so the reactor either is not refueled at all during the lifetime of the vessel, or it's refueled only once. French naval nuclear reactors use 7% uranium, which is only slightly richer than the uranium used in civilian reactors (that can go as high as 5%).

> and are ludicrously expensive even compared to Vogtle.

Incorrect. Production costs of naval reactors are classified, but you can use this CBO report [2] for an educated guess:

The Navy would use one of the twin A1B reactors that will power the new Ford class (CVN-78) of nuclear aircraft carriers to power the LH(X) amphibious assault ships [...] Thus, CBO estimated that the acquisition-cost premium [...] would be about [...] $0.9 billion per LH(X).

The A1B generates 125 MWe out of 440 MWt. If it were to convert all its 700 MWt to electricity, it would be 200 MWe. That would cost, according to the CBO report about $0.9 billion (actually somewhat less, since this is the difference between the "acquisition cost premium" i.e. the difference between the nuclear reactor and the conventional gas turbine). So that translates into $4.5 BN per GWe.

Vogtle 3 and 4 by comparison cost $28 BN for about 2.5 GWe, or $11.2 BN per 1 GWe, which is two and a half time more than the $4.5 BN per GW of the naval reactor.

>Chinese program would be accelerating rather than failing to meet targets

The Chinese program is accelerating. See for example [4]:

It was reported in November 2021 that China planned to build 150 new reactors at a cost of $440bn (2.8trn yuan), which is more reactors than the rest of the world has built over the past 35 years.

> Civilian nuclear reactors are for keeping fresh plutonium on hand and making countries without enrichment dependent. Once they are doing that the military support dries up and programs stop expanding.

Absolutely not true. There are many more countries operating nuclear reactors than countries that have nuclear weapons. In Europe alone there are 11 countries other than France or the UK that generate more than 25% of their electricity using nuclear power plants [5]. None of these countries have nuclear weapons or secret plans to acquire nuclear weapons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S9G_reactor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1B_reactor

[3] https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/112th-congress-2011-...

[4] https://www.energymonitor.ai/sectors/power/weekly-data-china...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country
Discussions from 2, 5 and 9 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24745563 175 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15252426 50 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135261 118 comments
Calling it "Etherium" to mock blockchain advocates is extremely immature and not appropriate for Hackernews, no matter how deserving of ridicule blockchain advocates are.
I just checked and if I needed to get a sheet of plywood from Home Depot, it would be about $50 for a pickup truck from U-Haul but at least around here, you can't usually leave your car at the rental place, so I would need to enlist someone to drop me off and then of course after the pickup and dropoff of the payload at my house, another ride to pick me up. I probably need the bed of my pickup once a month on average. I'm not sure how much I would pay to avoid that hassle and time sink, but probably more than the savings of having a small car.
Oh my gawd! Nao aim infected!

Probably because I deactivated all that scanshitsafesitenannythingmading in my utter ignorance.

But seriously, are you sure that this isn't just some 'misfire' because that sites IP has landed on some blacklist for whichever stupid reason, which has nothing to do with the actual site itself?

Like it has happened countless times before, and will happen again, as long as countless masses/corporate policy continues to mandate such stuff?

Edit: Furthermore I fully approve of the subtitle/caption ;->
For certain definitions of understanding.
It's going from $49 to $69 for iPhone 8 and older, and from $69 to $89 for iPhones newer than 8 but older than 13. 13 is remaining $99.
Why couldn't they design and offer alternatives similar to the French tax services (alongside many other French online services) [1]?

[1] https://franceconnect.gouv.fr/franceconnect
Maybe things are different now, but several times between 2000 and 2007 in the USA I was denied a lunch because my lunch debt was greater than $20.
The World Economic Forum have stated in a white paper that Corporations and Governments will be expected as part of climate action to help move more people into cities. So that "15 minute cities" legislation can be implemented world wide. This appears to be nothing but a long term climate lockdown. I personally think that to have everyone working locally in these 15 minute zones in each major city and to have them never leave the zone would require that remote work is the norm beforehand. If people think that remote work equals freedom they are in for one hell of a shock.
Whether or not prompt injection is genuinely harmful entirely depends on what developers build with this stuff.

If you're going to give a LLM-driven program the ability to execute functions that can change state in the world you need to understand prompt injection, so you don't accidentally build something that you really shouldn't have built.

The first public prompt injection vulnerability was a Twitter bot which started spam-mentioning people and threatening the president. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/twitt...
Would be nice if you could paste images to it, instead of having to save the screenshot as a file and then upload it.
Fully agreed. Starving to death or dying of thirst isn't a "compassionate" approach to dying
>Adding communication doesn’t change it as long as each player can’t see the other’s choice before making their own.

Saying that communication doesn't change the prisoner's dilemma so long as each player can't communicate is a contradiction. The only difference is you used the word "see" instead of the word "communicate", but "see"ing is a form of communication.
Exactly. Where I grew up, you had to either burn or bury your garbage in your back yard or haul it to a collection point every week. No one wants to put leaky trash bags in the back of their Civic.
You should try code review, it’s a great tool.
At the same time, it's definitely the case that SV was built on Shockley's "traitorous eight" and its generational successors. Big waves of change erupt in the wake of past layoffs and signs point to the same occurring this time. I think it can be the case both that the big firms don't take startups seriously but also soak up talent that would otherwise form those startups, simply because other competitive dynamics motivate doing so, and the talent in question ends up with a paycheck that diminishes personal motivation.
>Then at the exact moment "fiat money" has a spike of inflation at 8% to 10%, the value of the "sound money" inflation hedge plummets 70%.
>Now, at the exact instant it appears "fiat money" inflation is moderating, suddenly the "sound money" jumps up 35% from its lows.

Because a devaluation of the dollar is not what's actually causing the price of BTC to appreciate as much as speculation about the future monetary policy that could come as a result of lower inflation numbers (i.e less hawkish Fed). Which is funny because the way the CPI is calculated has been very controversial and subject to change. One common narrative is that the Fed will be forced to pivot to avoid a major recession.

It's not just BTC but the stock market in general behaving this way.
Code reviews aren't unique to FAANG or other large tech companies.

Might want to look into Github to see all of the many open source projects that are doing code reviews for every PR.
Disliked the article because of it's lack of substance.

But on this topic, what are companies supposed to do with lots of money? There's way more downsides to paying somebody too much money. Higher salaries past 200k means that people can retire sooner. Paying somebody 10mn is generational wealth - as in it's more money than someone can spend in their lifetime. They're much less likely to put up with bullshit and take important institutional knowledge with them.

Also at some point it does become neccessary to hire more people. It's not a good idea for the gap between salaries to be that huge.

Paying way above average for labor means a greater chance for a competitor to bridge the gap.

And the previous point is important because past a certain point, people are unlikely to work that much harder. If a company pays in the top 5% instead of top 1%, they'll still get lots of people that are willing to work very hard.
I think it's a brinksmanship game. The company that does the least amount of layoffs and survives will be in the better condition coming out of the recession.
U.S. Aims to Curtail Technology Investment in China
I find it interesting that so many different groups of people around the world are advocating all sort of "compassionate" ways for people to commit suicide! Isn't it better to arrive at ways of helping the person do better or have greater joy than condemning them to these methods so that they stop living?
This guy gets it.

You pay the board big bucks, to not have to worry about their conscience when they cut the labour force to make a short-term win. If you're in the set of people who are just along for the ride (make money, no other buy in to the outcome) then you don't ditch a board until the aircraft is within inches of crashing, and you have another one to jump onto.

Google isn't looking for Victor Kiam to replace Sundar. Mind you, it would be "extremely entertaining" if they did. Emphasis on extreme I guess.
What are you talking about? When people say the "XDG spec", they are usually referring to the XDG Base Directory Specification, but there are other specifications from XDG - are you talking about a different one?

Because the XDG Base Directory Specification does not dictate about how files should be saved - whether in Pictures/, Documents/, or anything else...
The one against flamebait for starters.
Def interested in how you got swipe nav working! Everything we tried felt junky, so we just turned it off.
While I will say that our Ubiquiti AP seems to work, configuring it was hell. It involved the management app installing its own nginx instance on my laptop, and then it makes a weird differentiation where if something's a guest network it asks what URL you want to redirect them to when they connect, but if it's not a guest network it doesn't have client isolation. (I eventually found the tickbox to enable it on a non-guest network, it had some weird Ubiquiti-specific name). It was just an ongoing series of problems.

I've been meaning to give out different DNS servers via DHCP on the guest network vs the internal but I just can't face trying to configure that thing again.

I'm glad you're happy with yours but replacing mine with Mikrotik kit is super high on my home-network todo list.
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I agree, effeciency is only a concern as a function of space available.

If you have a flat roof then all the space is available, and depending on your latitude flat can be a good orientation, especially in summer.

Pompei roofs do not appear to be flat, but they do seem to be very low pitch, and the panels are curved, so the whole roof is likely in play.

Back to your main point, effeciency in itself doesn't matter. If you have enough space, you just install more. That drives up the installation cost though, and things like cleaning them etc.

Of course ultimately everything is space constrained, but generating 11% is better than 0%.
The AI calling people rude and aggressive sure will be popular when going mass market and replacing search for my grandmother!
They incentivize it, Managers get promoted when they have big teams.
“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.” ― Oscar Wilde
Equity is supposed to be the counterbalance to this. That is, if you have a very significant stake in a company and every person you hire you need to also give a significant stake, and every person they hire, on and so forth, you would think twice about just trying to throw more people at the problem of creating value. Of course, in reality the early folks just try to get fools to become bagholders of illiquid options that probably don't have a chance of being worth much once you factor in the liquidation preferences of VCs and that they are priced at absurd valuations once the VCs have gotten involved.
Finally SEC is getting its act together. Probably triggered by FTX fiasco. Good to see SEC go after the larger players for a change rather than no name exchanges.
IIRC the two URLs pointed to articles with identical or nearly identical content.
VC's and Private Equity in particular, and Silicon Valley in general needs to decide that if there is a war, do they want to have the political and social blowback for helping with the technology that kills American soldiers (assuming we aren't all dead by the end of it).
If the antiquated view is that people in one country don’t have to compete in a global marketplace but rather are owed a higher-paying job by virtue of birthplace, I’m OK with the new view (even though I had the good fortune to have that birthplace).
I am not talking about intra country flows though but specifically kleptocrats laundering dark money in the west.
This looks like something Peter Norvig would write, and that’s about the highest compliment I can give.
Then a lot of people get fired. Then a lot of people get hired.
That one is a special case which somehow got completely infested by flamewar drama for reasons that I haven't stuck my head into the beehive to observe.
They'll be fine. Their business model can handle this. It's opportunistic to timing, less downside PR because all IT sector worldwide is shedding, because "reasons" and they can avoid opprobrium by being in the same fleet.
Or salaries come down to match the simplified workloads.
I hope tomorrow is better for you!
I think the article has some points (I wholly reject the heavy handed political shit in there) but agree with most of what you say. As with most Vice articles it's got a heavy slant to it. ChatGPT, and LLMs more broadly, are a semantic bullshit artist machine and while a lot of what he says is stretched, there are some core points that are being missed in the nascent enthusiasm for the rise of LLMs.
One thing is for sure. Google proved you don't need a helpdesk.
Blind people still have bodies and other sensory perceptions to relate visual meaning to. Temple Grandin is a high functioning autist who describes how visual thinkers translate words into pictures, because they think pictorially. LLMs don't have any embodied, grounded contact with the world, so their only understanding can be statistical/symbolic pattern matching of text. Which isn't how language works for humans, since we use words for our experiences as social animals moving about and manipulating the world with our bodies.
Stockholm syndrome, or cargo culting, take your pick.
Toxic gaming tackled by Ubisoft's unique police alert system
This engineer will have nasty shock when he meets European economic area warranty laws. He claims: “ WARRANTY? RETURNS?
30-day warranty from the moment you receive the part. I am not responsible if you break something while installing the part.

No returns”

He must provide 2 years warranty selling to regular consumers. That’s how the big players killed hardware startups in Europe. That’s why every 20€ BOM gadget has a retail price of 99€.
> The first public prompt injection vulnerability was a Twitter bot which started spam-mentioning people and threatening the president. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/twitt...

Sure. But also, so? Seems like a storm in a tea cup. "Our twitter got hacked", the end. There are countless such examples that have nothing to do with prompt injections. If anything the phrase "all publicity is good publicity" comes to mind.

I remember in the mesozoic era of the internet (early 00's) there was something like a KFC promo website where they put a guy in a chicken suit and had him respond to chat suggestions directly from users 24/7. Hilarity, as you can imagine, ensued. Shenanigans even.

If some user submitted content (even if it is sieved via a model) ends up "inappropriate" you can just delete it and move on.

I probably wouldn't hook it up to a shell running commands but the same generic advice as with all untrusted input applies..
Naive? Where did I say it'd be easy? I said that's the only way. These technical workarounds only prop up and help the bad government, which crypto fans vehemently ignore.
Not sure, but my wife bought a number of stands that look very similar, made of 2mm metal with some rubber pads to protect the desk and the phone. Will probably put some heat shrink around the metal arms so that they don't inadvertently come in contact with the back side of an exposed SBC.
HHV6, the virus that causes roseola in children, does this. The daughter viruses have a longer latent period than the parent.
Yahoo Japan is now completely separate from Yahoo US. Yahoo Japan was originally 33% owned by the Sunnyvale Yahoo but when Yahoo US was sold, Softbank/Yahoo Japan bought back its shareholdings from the US Yahoo.
How would that excise the viral sequence from the already rewritten dna in cells previously infected, rather than just slow further new uninflected cells from being infected?

The point is, in the presence of a retrovirus with its reverse transcriptase trickery, an organism is a chimera, populated by dna-distinct cells (for example, never infected cells vs cells previously infected and thereby holding modified dna, who would send out new virus during their own replication).
So, informal mathematics? Intuitive mathematics? What's the goal?
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs273/refs/umeyama.pdf
If you want happiness and instant gratification try Ruby.
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

If you want reliability, perpetuity and still some fun try Rust.
https://www.rust-lang.org
One example of the kind of song I think you're talking about is "That's What Love is For" [1] by Amy Grant. I once read someone describe it as being like a quaint little Michael Bolton song (can no longer find the link). But the chord progressions and the way it moves between keys are fairly sophisticated for pop music.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLVV2TaI4Wo
> How do you judge whether 20,515 is a large number or a small number?

It’s a trade-off between false positives and false negatives, and the budget you have to investigate alerts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteris...
At the same time, those are all reasons large corporations could be vulnerable to a 3 person startup.
Agree with all these points. The 80/20 rule is alive and well at big companies. In aggregate, customers want all 100% so you need to do the 20% work that takes 80% of the time whereas startups likely write it off as out of scope.
But for us a cat is a living creature we interact with, not simply a description. We understand people's reactions to cats based on human-animal interactions, particularly as cute pets, not because of language prediction of what a cat description would be. People usually have feelings about cats, they have conscious experiences of cats, they often have emotional bonds with cats (or dislike them), they may be allergic to cats. LLMs have none of that.
You know government, the sector that has the same needs as the private sector economy but is one hundredth the size.
>We’re Rebuilding The Thunderbird Interface From Scratch
Again!?
Make Thunderbird work with Outlook/Exchange without paid plugins ffs...
Funnily enough, having humility is one of the best ways to remain teachable and perhaps one of the fastest ways to grow and continue to have a growth mindset
I never had competing offers either. Always too lazy to interview for more than one a time. I just always happened to only interview for companies that I'd actually want to work for, and eventually I'd get one, so it generally worked out. Probably missed out on some income over the years though.
In aging China, a call for 'bold' steps to cut cost of having babies
Anything calling itself Safety” without indicating what it provides safety from is probably a restriction on freedom. What gets me about the UK is they use euphamisms so much it ends up sounding more sinister. In the US we’d just hid it in a farm bill or something though, not that much better.
I think the point is to establish some precedent that what Kraken was offering actually was an unregulated security, something that might not have been completely clear before this. I doubt that the Fed is deeply concerned about Kraken beyond that.
I'm pretty sure I get paid to take everybody's collective best guess at what requirements should be (sometimes with way too many people involved giving their concerns/opinions, or just not being able to get anybody's attention and everybody rubber stamping it/half-assing it), put it in QA/CAT/UAT, let somebody else bang on it, then we all figure out in our effort to try to not miss anything, we missed a bunch of massive design flaws. Then we go back to the beginning or scramble to fix it really fast, and the whole design repeats itself.

At least that's what it feels like I get paid to do...
> “Once you know you’re not flying anymore,” Dr. Ksepka said, “the sky’s the limit.”

Truly.
Do a thought experiment and understand that if there was crypto at that time to prop up the bad government it would never get better.

(And before you start, don't equate crypto with cash. Cash that scales without physical and geographical boundaries is not cash anymore, any lessons you can draw from cash being used throughout humanity's history won't apply.)
Maybe I am too old, but I don’t want cheaper products. I want high quality ones. I am tired of thrash where every possible corner was cut to save fraction of a penny.
Hope it move to like open go ai version. Alpha go comes and goes. We need one and open sources we have one. Hope this is the same.
It's an historical site. The whole point of these tiles is that they visually fit in with the ruins.

These are not tiles you would use for general solar production.
I actually started using Thunderbird recently again after not using it for 5 or so years… honestly they have cleaned up the UI a lot I found!

I don’t really need changes at this point, and find the UI is a pretty good local optimum. Information density is nice!
TLDR - by using tax loss harvesting . At the end of the year, sell your stocks which are down and then buy them back. Then you can use the losses to offset the gains. Although this is also available to masses .
This is how most initial disclosures go, then a few weeks on the third-party security firm investigating notifies them they got completely pwned.