skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that the new hot take after "costs are too high because scale is too small"?

There are many issues with the economics of nuclear power but too much safety isn't one of them. The Chernobyl comparison conveniently ignores the liquidators by only looking at residents. Residents that have been evacuated, mind you. Even if radiation is not as harmful long-term as the LNT model makes us believe, which might very well be the case, we have to keep in mind what the forced evacuation of, say, New York, or Singapore would cost.

On top of that, nuclear power needs a lot of water. This means they can become less reliable, especially once they age.

And while coal power plants are on their way out, it is important to note how they have improved in terms of exhausts. Filters are a thing nowadays.

Finally, we have to compare NPPs with the alternative and that's not coal but PV and wind power combined with a large battery storage. Such a system is so much easier to deploy and starts production pretty much immediately. Whatever the economics of an idealized NPP are, that last fact alone will be hard to beat.

All that being said, it's important to note that NPP are an option to combat climate change. Like hydrogen, they are a technology that doesn't look as good as renewables, but that doesn't mean we don't need them. In the end, we need to put a price on a ton of carbon dioxide and then done everything that is cheaper than that price to avoid it.
Also not to mention that we’d have an additional 26 exclusion zones around blown up nukes.

I’d like to see the authors back-of-the-envelope maths for the economic impact of the two or three in the UK alone.
> I’m still pissed I can’t use Inkscape as my IDE.

You can always fall back to MS Paint: https://ms-paint-i.de/
I replaced nearly all bulps with WiZ bulps more than 2 years ago.

- I don't see flicker on any of my cameras. The light is actually really nice for filming too.

- The price is way less than hue (I own a few, and don't think they are any better)

- I get way more light per watt than with any other bulp type. Not sure what you mean with luxury.

- I love that each of them has an independent API on their own IP. Works perfectly for my smart home design.

I've had several cheap (in build quality, not price) bulps fail on me meanwhile. Not a single WiZ had failed so far. As said I own some hue too, but I wasn't willing to spend over $1000 just on bulps for my house but then I found the WiZ brand.

Not sure if am just lucky. But I really enjoy multicolour plus warm and cold LEDs in the whole house.
Author here.

I'm late to the party but AMA :)
Playing with numbers is fun!

I'll do it too:

Republicans have won 8 out of the past 14 elections, and won the popular vote as well as the electoral college in six out of eight [1].

Or, looking at it another way, of the past 14 elections, republicans won the popular vote by an average of 7.42%, while democrats only won by 5.28%, which if you took that pointless cherry picked data seriously could convince you that on average republican candidates are significantly more popular than democrats.

The fact is, this country is split fairly evenly along the nonsensical left/right axis.

A more interesting evaluation would be along the authoritarian vs antiauthoritarian axis. I think a much larger percentage of Americans fall along the antiauthoritarian axis, and that the noise in the left/right false dichotomy is a result of that more than anything.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presid...
Regulations are also hitting coal hard, at least in Europe. UK got rid of coal.

The article is making it sound like coal plants can do whatever they want, while nuclear have it worse. I don't think the way is to lower the safety for nukes, but to raise the safety requirements of coal. This article sounds like someone claiming that airbags are barely used, and removing them is a good way to get cheaper cars for all at the low cost of a few thousand deaths.

Friendly reminder that half french nukes are plagued with leaks since the last year, and we would never know how serious they are or how close we were to a disaster. With current safety standards.
yeah, the pope thing just drove way more traffic than they were prepped to handle
I've had similar issues a while ago and I was able to resolve them.
Of course everyone is different but in case you want to check: for me the cause was that my bite was off, not balanced across all teeth and my jaw was being pushed back.
I Resolved it by re-aligning the teeth, moving jaw forward and having special retainer that I can clench on at night without issues.
Someone either doesn’t like bush or Obama hah
That seemed really low to me - I've itemized pretty much whenever I've had a mortgage. So I've always assumed for most people with a mortgage it would make sense.

Looking here it seems you're pretty much right - https://taxfoundation.org/standard-deduction-itemized-deduct...
Imagine two or three 30km radius circles taken out of the UK and how much that would cost.
By that logic, we should have never broken the sound barrier because we're under the same physics constraints as other biological organisms. The key difference is that this new intelligence is not constrained by having to slowly pump ions across cell membranes in order to internally generate power for computation.

Silicon transistors are much more efficient at computation than the human brain just as a jet engine is superior to to a peregrine falcon.

ChatGPT could absolutely generate thousands of words per second on existing hardware.
If you flip it to capturing revenue of competitors, instead of profit, then sure the profit increase is explainable by typical market rules but it's no longer backing an alternative hypothesis they were "reaping the benefits of that effort by capturing the profit that would have been distributed across other operators" you're back to the original hypothesis of the article "profits were increased" just now you've explained how (revenue increased faster than expenses for a given product volume). What price gouging asks is if that profit increase is ethical not how it's explained to have occured. That is price gouging is a question of opinions of policy, one of which could certainly include "anything that follows the expected market behavior is ethical".

To be clear I don't consider this price gouging personally, I'm just not seeing why this is an alternative hypothesis to price gouging instead of a take on what qualifies as unethical or not.
Not sure how drug checkings looks where you are but this is exactly what 15yo me and his peers did.
Those statements (not yours) are quite surprising, and seem falsifiable. Anyone have the expertise to judge whether the factual claims are true?
Why does he link to his lame fork of musl for the official FreeBSD sources for libm, taken from Sun, used by musl?

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/lib/msun/sr...
or at least
https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/math/__cos.c
I have an article planned solely on imports.

It saddens me to say, but imports are indeed a complicated topic on Python. The PYTHONPATH is not something people know about, and once they do, it's not intuitive.

The weird handling of namespaces or relative paths doesn't help.
Do you do any entrepreneurial activity at all or is your entire income salaried employee work?
I suggest you do your research about fallout.

It decays about 1 order of magnitude for every 7^n of time.

That’s the idea behind fallout shelters, you wait until the fallout is no longer dangerous.

The atmosphere is a very harsh place for radioactive particles. We’ve gleaned this from real world testing.

Please don’t be afraid of made up things. Be afraid of real things like climate change.
RF Diffusion now free and open source
As expected, you are merely a "Islamic Apologist" with little knowledge of History and the usual twisting of facts to suit your agenda. There is so much to be said here that entire books have been written on the subject (i.e. on its backwardness and destructiveness) and enlightened individuals from the Islamic community itself are calling for reform if it is to stay relevant. Instead of regurgitating the details from the many sources, i will list a few sources themselves for you to study and educate yourself.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Islam

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_critics_of_Islam

3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_critical_of_Isl...

4) https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/on7aok/everything...

5) Tons of Youtube videos on this subject which you can search for yourself (start with Pervez Hoodbhoy). If i start listing them here it might go against HN guidelines and get me banned.

Finally, coming to your specific comment i will just highlight a few points;

>Conversions occurred for a variety of reasons, but being force by the sword is definitely not a major factor.

Absolutely wrong; it was the single biggest factor in the spread of Islam; even today forced conversions are a reality in Islamic countries.

>Even still today many places retained their minority religion populations.

Laughable! In every Muslim majority state, minorities have been persecuted/forcibly converted almost to extinction. You just have to look at the data for some Islamic countries.

>Next you sell Buddhism as perfect at peace, yet there is well known infighting between various branches in Buddhism.

Nothing close to what happens between sects within Islam and between Islam and other religions.

In today's world and times, Islam has become a byword for Extremism/Terrorism/Intellectual backwardness/Lack of Scientific temper/Lack of development in all factors and in general everything negative. Many Muslim intellectuals are themselves fighting against this and you would do well to read their works/sayings instead of living in a fantasy world.
See that's exactly my point. If these kits aren't even legal there simply is no drug safety culture to even build on.
In some way it's kind of poetic.

The mental overhead of producing softwares shrinks more and more. It will sure be at the cost of understanding and/or see errors as you say.

I already looking forward of being that graybeard. And show off to my neighbors or grandchildren
> The loss of the mouse and keyboard as primary input devices is an underrated part of why everything feels worse now compared to the flash era.

It's okay to say "please visit this from your computer" when someone opens something that requires a keyboard from a phone.

> Anyway nowdays we have Godot and Unity which are both very nice. But there were definitely lost years where amateur gamedev was less accessable.

The barrier to entry is considerably higher with these things. They require programming from the beginning. The coolest part about Flash was that you could get started without writing a single line of code. Then you could build up your understanding of the thing iteratively. You could build a simple quest-type game with just one line of code that you copy-pasted from somewhere, `goToAndStop(frameNumber)`. And then you go from there — variables, flow control, all that. Flash got a sizable number of people interested in programming. This ease of use is extremely important and it's still unmatched by any purported modern replacements.
Maybe if it were designed today they wouldn't stop at 'good enough' and actually commercialize a design that is fail safe.

Current reactors around the world only have a limited amount of backup time, days/weeks, before the spent fuel pool boils off and the fuel burns resulting in a massive disaster spreading radioactive ash across wide swaths of land.
We see again just how fearful and critical the situation is around Ukrainian plant... with climate change conflicts in the world will likely increase. So yeah, call me fearful, we don't need that and could have been long into enough multiple better alternatives. They are no option for most of the world.
Same in most countries.

The US was a weird model where they ask you to resubmit the same information they already have in hope you will declare more income than they know about.

In part, because the US taxes you on your global income, not only your US income, which means that there will be income they won't know about unless you declare it.

For the majority of people that only have income from salary, it's an unreasonable burden and Intuit has lobbied the government so that it continues to be a burden.
but it is indeed difficult to eval chatbots and LLM esp. considering most of them have actually seen the Internet data at least once.
There’s a strong argument that regulations and punishment should be increased with power and authority. Those who are in power should behave exceptionally well.

When I worked for a bank we had to undergo quarterly insider trading training. When we were and weren’t allowed to trade stock, should we come into possession of material information. Of course that kind of stuff was way above my pay grade, but we were instructed to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

And yet Congress is allowed to day trade during classified hearings.
We used the "burn all" strategy I/O during the 2 to 3 transitions.

People were not impressed.

Hence the previous article (https://bitecode.substack.com/p/relieving-your-python-packag...) advocating to go back to the basics yourself.

See the reddit thread to witness exactly this in action:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/124hktv/comment/je5...
That is called 'fixed point', and it is useful for some applications. What makes floating point interesting is that it can represent values with very different magnitudes; your 64-bit fixed point number can't represent any number greater than 1, for instance. Whereas a 32-bit float can represent numbers with magnitudes between ~2^-127 and ~2^127.
Welcome to the age of the unbenchmarkable product. You say one thing, someone says another, and here we are...
This is Numerical Analysis, not "programming". It's a topic in Applied Mathematics that you would need to study separately from programming. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-330-introduction-to-numerical...
> Every person in the US is guilty of some baseline level of criminality, and the more “interesting” your life, the more crimes you are likely to have committed.

What's the point of having these laws if they're not enforced?

Yes, yes, and yes. Every little legal infraction should be prosecuted, no matter how small or who you are. If they don't matter or shouldn't matter, the law should be changed; keeping them on the books and selectively enforcing them when it's convenient isn't fair to anyone.
It should be. It's no magic, 10 years ago you needed a little bit of Linux skills to get it off but it was well documented. Pretty sure it got easier in that time as well
> Surely lack of hardware acceleration and poor implementation are incidental, not fundamental issues.

Of course not. These are just some of the many many needles of crap that broke Flash.

> I expect the same would have happened for Flash eventually.

Perhaps you underestimate just how complicated "Flash" is: It's 2023 and despite everything you can do in a modern Web browser with HTML5, SVG, JavaScript, Video and so on, we still don't have a second full reimplementation of Flash. No emulator or converter that preserves all of the authors intentions, not even with a server-side-helper to cover the differences in networking policies between the web and Flash. I still think it would take serious cash/time to do this.

And for a large company to do it would risk being sued by Adobe. They promised. I think if Adobe couldn't fix the crap-needles for whatever reason, nobody else could either. Adobe made sure of that. And nobody wants to pay the Adobe tax when Flash hurts users so bad.

PDF on the other hand, is easy enough to implement on screens in a month or less, spec-in-hand. Users who use Adobe's PDF reader deserve what they get.

> We have WebKit and Gecko, and the latter barely exists on mobile. I'm not convinced we're a lot better off in practice.

I do feel a little better off. I remember a time when every flash bug was an opportunity to airdrop malware, just buy an ad and get on every desktop PC in the world for chump change. I had to browse the Web in a VM, back when VM's on workstation PC's were still painfully slow, because I needed the ability to rewind state so often. I really don't miss that.

A small number of players working (largely) openly (i.e. we have webkit and gecko's source code!) allowed features to the Web be deployed relatively quickly, and problems fixed fast and usually with the smallest-possible harm. And I think people are sufficiently suspicious of closed-source infrastructure that people (mainly purchasing VPs at big enterprises) will be able to resist any attempts to change that.
Alcohol is still extremely heavily regulated.
Hi everyone,

I’m building hosted large language models at www.lalamon.us*. Think ChatGPT, except that you’ll be using an open source model and running it on a private cloud instance only accessible by you. We’ll launch soon and would love to hear your thoughts. Sign up for waitlist at www.lalamon.us!

Some more background about the what and why:

Like many of you, I’ve been amazed by the rapid improvement of language models like ChatGPT in the past few months. However, there are potential concerns with directly sending sensitive information to ChatGPT. In response to these concerns, the community has developed a variety of open models. When I tried running these models on my laptop, I encountered a few major pain points:

- Larger models usually perform better, but they don’t always fit in memory

- My laptop doesn’t have a GPU

- I’m currently in a location with slower internet speeds, and downloading gigabytes of model weights takes hours

In response to all this, I decided to build my own solution, with the following key features:

- Pick the latest, best-performing open models

- Run the models on powerful cloud instances with newest-generation hardware

- Put user data privacy first. Chat sessions are strongly isolated from each other. Chat data is never used for training models or harvested for corporate gain.

*Disclaimer: I’m an infrastructure engineer by training, sorry about the basic web design!
The anti-nuclear lobby won because nuclear has scary failure modes that have been hyped for decades and in general people aren’t good at assessing risk. Unfortunately, I don’t see that changing. But, the climate change luminaries almost unanimously have been behind that opposition to nuclear for decades despite nuclear being the only viable non-fossil-fuel option for cloudy and not very windy geographies. I cannot give a pass on good risk assessment to people whose mission is to spread awareness of climate change risk and who say that risk is literally existential and who do not promote nuclear regardless of the relatively small chance of failure. I can only conclude that they either don’t believe their own rhetoric or they don’t want/care if the decarbonization effort succeeds, or they are ignorant of suitable geographies for renewables. No matter what it’s a total credibility destroyer.
> It doesn't make sense at all that a revenue department purchases guns and ammunition.

Historically, it made plenty of sense. Financial crimes can’t always be solved behind a desk - there was a time when most tax evasion investigations were against gangsters running illegal liquor operations, for example. Al Capone was arrested by treasury agents, not the FBI.

Whether it still makes sense in 2023 is different question that I’d never really thought about until this moment, but my knee jerk reaction is…maybe it does? Hoover taught us what happens when you concentrate too much power in a single law enforcement agency.
Hungary has a VAT of 27% and a flat income tax of 15%. VAT doesn't replace income tax, it complements it. Then there are vehicle taxes, property taxes, and so on.
We also have iOS, Android, ChromeBooks, Tizen, macOS, GNU/Linux, games consoles, TVs, tablets, home assistants like Echo Show, and a dozen other platforms I’ve not thought of.

Whereas back in the flash days there was basically just x86 desktop Windows and the few other web enabled devices were niche and didn’t properly support Flash.

The Dreamcast had a browser (based on IE) but suffered from an ancient version of flash. PDAs were uncommon, also had a browser based on IE, and also suffered from a crippled version of Flash. Smartphones were a few years off and when they did arrive also had a crippled version of Flash (or no support at all).

Flash was a format for a different era. An era when Microsoft had suffocated the tech industry. The fact that we can now view basically any website on any hardware is a massive step forward.

I agree that the modern era of the web has its problems too (I’m looking at you Google, Facebook, etc) but having been a developer and early adopter of the web, I’d still take modern web technologies over Flash any day of the week.
I use GPT-4, it's like pairing up with a junior developer who read all the documentation.

I follow the same steps as always to design the code, but when it's time to implement something, I ask the bot to do it, then I review it and move on to the next function.
Exactly. but if you want some commercial use, still lacking good quality models.
>Fedora puked the bed when upgrading from 32 to 33 and again from 33 to 34

Not sure what you meant by this. Did the upgrades not go well and break your system?
Not being convicted by your own party is a pretty low bar to pass.
He says 'only' 26 more Fukushima/Chernobyl type accidents. Exclusion zones all around the world. Not many people died hopefully, but you can't go back to your home either.
and I do think this is a good effort
Had the same experience with chatgpt with gpt3.5, but gpt4 is wayyy better.

Also Github Co-pilot has been good for a long time.
Do you have a non-trivial example of this?

I tried to make GPT-4 create an algorithm for an enhanced tic-tac-toe game (think Wordle vs Quordle to somewhat visualize the difference) and it's failing miserably.
Do you need to take turns touching it for it to be mishandled, stolen, have some accident during transport, leak in the biosphere, the soil, rivers, or underground waters, spread as air particles, be used in a dirt bomb, and several other ways besides?
We have traded away everything that once made Britain a unique and wonderful place all in a desperate bid to make the line go up.

The line is as high as it has ever been and yet the future of the British people has never looked more bleak.
And then we'll have people praying to the Omnissiah with their prompts.
Exactly. You still have to command it.
I had a former coworker who bought a Tesla very shortly after getting her license, and relied almost exclusively on autopilot. I rode with her a few times when she offered to drive me home, it was legit terrifying when she had to drive in manual mode to eg get out of a parking garage.

Years later, I don’t think her driving has meaningfully improved.
Similar non-chalance and assurances about previous technologies is how climate change came about..
There are programming benchmarks though (data contamination issues left aside)
According to his bio, he works at Vercel. He made a hobby project called ShareGPT[0] and that's probably where the accusation came from.

[0] - https://sharegpt.com/
I mean, Mint is basically Ubuntu + Cinnamon DE with a few changes. Surely there exists many Ubuntu + KDE spins out there that are not vanilla Ubuntu. How about Kubuntu? Or KDE Neon?
(Eng at Retool Database) You can export your Google Sheet as a CSV and upload it to Retool Database. We're thinking about enabling to syncing your sheets to Retool Database but that also opens up a host of complexity in repeatedly parsing the sheet over time and maintaining it as a DB table. We'd hope after a one-time upload, Retool Database would be similar enough to a spreadsheet to allow you to continue operations there.