skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That’s the kind of public mood that politicians can ill afford to ignore.

But is safety really the primary concern amongst the public? I mean there are perfectly valid economic arguments against developing nuclear power, especially nowadays. Of course stopping the expansion of nuclear power back in the 70/80s was a huge tragedy. If we stayed on the same trajectory as throughout the 60s well.. climate change would probably be viewed as a more or less solved (or at least an actually solvable) issue today.

And honestly, if nuclear energy was financially viable would it be hard to change this quite irrational 'mood'? I mean in the EU alone pollution form Coal plants causes about twice as much premature deaths as the Chernobyl disaster did over a 20 year period (according to the worst estimates, it would be about 8 times as much if we use the IAEA figures).

Nuclear is objectively one of the safest sources of energy. If we exclude Chernobyl (we should since it was a direct outcome of a multistage failure which is only possible in idiocratic states like the USSR) it's about a hundredfold safer than natural gas which is about 10 less harmful (when measuring in human lives) than coal for an equivalent amount of power generated.

> The “safe and reliable” part was wrecked in the general public’s perception

Unless we believe that the general public is completely mathematically illiterate (i.e. most people couldn't pass a basic 2nd grade level math test) this shouldn't be too hard to change with enough political will.
Keep in mind that they first focused on young people just finishing college. These typically don’t yet have a family, nor experienced lifestyle inflation, so may be less focused on security.
For many outcomes (including medical outcomes) the differences do not go away when conditioning on wealth/income, so if there's a separate "root" causal factor, we have not yet found it.
> But that never happens, which is the problem.

Does it never happen, or do you just never see it?

Earlier today there was an HN post of an article suggesting that the Starship launch has more environmental and property risk than FAA or SpaceX has acknowledged, using data like the fact that a 50% thrust test in February produced sound pressures of 110db three miles away, while SpaceX estimates 100% thrust will produce 90-100db at that distance.

The post was flagged and removed very quickly.

I don't know the provenance of the article or its author, and maybe they made numbers up out of whole cloth, but none of the HN commenters rebutted the data or conclusions, it was just lots of "this anti-progress scumbag wants us to live in communist China" ad hominems.

So maybe there just is no legitimate, fact-based criticism. Or, maybe, there is and it is just filtered out from the communities I typically frequent. Seeing that this morning definitely gave me some pause.
I've been implementing batch processing for information extraction and schema matching with GPT3.5 and it works decently, but still has about 10% error rate, especially when extracting many fields from a document. It is also expensive to use on millions of documents. The solution I see is distilling in smaller models.

The problem I am facing now is how to filter out the mislabeled training data generated with GPT3, also around 10%. Manual validation is out of the question at this scale, and it seems to be the most interesting training data if I could have it validated. I tried GPT3 fixing itself, only works partially. What I did was to train a model and use that model to rank my data, and set a threshold. That's how I got the cutoff around 10%. I can use the easy part, but what to do with the interesting boundary region data that might be mislabeled?
> it’s a model

Maybe it is and maybe it isn’t. We don’t know what is actually happening. Max Tegmark makes a pretty good case for it actually being mathematics.
Mostly ignoring the Musk aspect.

I believe their success comes down to how they go about these massive development projects. They start super scrappy, quick to iterate, build and throwaway hardware quickly. But then are experts of transitioning into a sustainable late stage development within the regulatory bounds of a highly controlled industry.

They did it with Falcon, Dragon, Starlink, and I suspect they will with Starship too.

They could only go about this by having a "crazy" and very rich benefactor, along with the management of COO Gwynne Shotwell.
Data.nasa.gov: A catalog of publicly available NASA datasets
There are many levels of honorifics, from very low form to very polite form. Most aren’t used on a daily basis though, just like how most people don’t speak like they’re a lawyer addressing a courtroom.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_honorifics#Addressee_...
If it's any consolation, judging by the author's past predictions, and sourced and cited criticism in this thread, you don't have to be sad because it's mostly bullshit.
Let's read their next quarterly report in 10 days to see if ChatGPT caused a revenue decline in their search business.
> "the info is correct"

Oddly enough, this not being the case is the reason I ended up not using Booking.com for my last hotel booking. I had to go to the hotel website to find accurate basic information (like the size of the bed, which was wrong on all of the Booking.com room options) and ended up just booking the hotel while I was there.
No country* can produce its electricity only based on renewables. They are not dispatchable and occupy a lot of land. So you need a base. France decided that the base would be nuclear and Germany decided it would be fossil fuel. Not sure there is clear a cut argument that one choice is better than the other.

As to what happened in France, it is not related to the nuclear technology itself and could have happen to any type of technology. They built all those power plants following the same design at the same time and all failed the same way at the same time. No surprise here.

* Or maybe a country with a very small population and a lot of unused land maybe which is a pretty small category.
What does it suggest that we should do about the problem then?
Renewables won't power everything, bulk electricity prices are already becoming zero across Germany when the weather for renewables is good. Once this is widespread, further subsidies will be required for additional renewable generation.

The current renewable build out across Europe so far tackled the easiest problem - replacement of other sources of electricity during times when the Sun is shining and the wind is blowing. Going the other ~70% of time will be much harder.
Reminds me of the io.js [1] fork of Node in the battle with Joyent.

[1] https://gist.github.com/maxogden/d96123138522c84cdb25
Will we ever break free of the 10,000 monkeys typing Shakespeare problem?

10,000 LLMs doesn't fix that
I’m struggling to understand why the IRS nonprofit type is material here. Your previous post doesn’t really explain it either: a 501(c)(3) can impose trademark restrictions in the exact same way.
This is similar to all the snake references around Python. That language being named after Monty Python's Flying Circus.
That would be true, if they were a consultant and workingnfor multiple companies. They say they are a contractor. Maybe they are even a contractor through an agency. That doesn't change anything related to potential shadow employee status.
Counting comments means nothing when only a biased subset are making comments.
What tech would you describe as coming from Soviet designs?
We just launched our landing page
https://talentmama.com/
There is actually a joke from a famous Scottish comedian (whose name escapes me rtn) that goes "as I came off the bus, a guy at the stop went OI! GIVE ME A QUID, OR YOU'RE GETTING STABBED! Now, compared with the likelihood of getting maimed, losing a pound looked like extremely good value! I don't know about you, but I'm a sucker for a bargain!"
Why should there be no growth? Do you have ANY facts on that because the facts out there, especially the already ongoing actual growth on renewables, show the exact opposite?

Where do you even get the Finland story from? It's not like having (finally) a new nuclear reactor running makes them some kind of unicorn. Again: please deliver facts. Sources. Anything besides those preachings from Shellenbergers Astro-Turf.
"We purposely trained him wrong as a joke"
Because First Class flyers need to be served their alcohol and pre-flight snacks.
Allegedly, Europe has paid a high price for not being able to enforce a strong cooperation between Military/Government and the Tech Industry, as the US and Silicon Valley, indeed, did. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/07/776834206/the-mysterious-affa...
Here have it: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh/tree/dev/codecs/...
That style speaks to me. Thanks!
Maybe you should provide a source for your guess that my statement is a guess, or remove it. Maybe you could Google first?

What you will find is that there are multiple sources with slightly differing times, even from reputable agencies. What I have stated is actually on the conservative side. Here's one source that is on the faster side.

https://scdhec.gov/food-safety-freezing-parasite-destruction
I’m from Crimea and found a seashell inland once. Someone told me “of course, this was all covered with water long time ago!”. I guess the seashell had nothing to do with the lake, but it’s still amazing how the Earth isn’t static at all.
“Dozens of changes” but without values who gets to decide WHAT changes are tested? Sure there is UX/CRO research but without a moral compass it is exactly how you end up with dark patterns.
Software that takes in text and outputs text is literally every command line program.
They are building the ultimate faceless bureaucracy. Super efficient and amoral. Mix in some AI and most of your life will be controlled by entities that make decisions about your life without accountability. I am sure Kafka would write an excellent book about this
Unrelated but why does Germany have much more billionaires than the rest of the EU?
They actually were awarded a contract in 2022 for point to point travel for the USAF. A logical extension of that would be city to city.

https://spacewatch.global/2022/01/spacex-wins-102-million-ai...
Maybe the approach is also a bit outdated? Spacex is not just building a rocket, theyre building a fully reusable, low cost, high volume space launch system. That might involve innovating and cutting fat off the design of the entire set of facilities, not just the rocket. If we were just doing things the way they've always been done on faith that the people that did it did it right the first time we wouldn't have falcon 9, much less starship.
I tried translating it with a tool:

"존경하는 각하, 맥주 한 잔만 드시게 해달라고 겸손히 부탁드려도 될까요?"

Does that sound about right?
While I understand the desire to have a progressive pricing scheme to offset some of the criticism around solar subsidies being "subsidies for the rich", I think this would be a terrible precedent as far as invasion of privacy. I think it is cynical overreach. There is absolutely no reason that the utility company should gain access to household income data of their entire market.

If the CA government thinks we should have this kind of pricing or means-based support of the utilities, I think they should design it into the income tax code and provide subsidies to the utility from collected tax revenue.

An alternative might be to extend current CARE, FERA, and Medical Baseline Allowance programs to extend discounts or payment assistance for households in need. But I think these programs may also be flawed in that they endanger the privacy of those needing assistance. The state tax board already has the necessary data and the state should not be supporting the creation of additional parallel systems.
We’ve all been way too accepting of inflation
Gas itself isn't an issue. Germany does have a lot of shale gas it could tap. Politically very tough at present, though.
Engineers aren't immune from making poor judgment calls, but the second part - having no clue what you're talking about and not knowing when to just shut up and learn - is certainly a marker for a poor engineer in my experience.
Extra invisible text seems like a trivial problem to solve insofar as you preprocess it to remove any text which isn't actually visible to end users.
> Unfortunately this is not the case, decommissioning for example is extremely expensive though can be deferred for years.

Well then closing plants makes even less sence, youll have to decomission them sooner
Canada's healthcare is so bad that if you are not immediately dying, you get no healthcare whatsoever.
Yes, but it's rare to see linked libraries that use this as their API, even though it would greatly simplify FFI.
On ‘rooftop of Japan’ a 20-meter-deep snow corridor reopens to visitors
Do looks matter for an academic career in economics?
Just imagine the amazing new colour I can make by mixing all these other ones together!
It's not even that all the nuclear power plants failed. It was a combination of a choice to defer maintenance due to Covid, and also a choice to stop every power plant to address a new possible fault regardless of whether it impacts the specific power plant or not. The latter is a sensible choice given the zero risk tolerance, but it is nevertheless a choice.
Olkiluoto 3 is not exactly a success story.

1600 MW for 11 billion Euro is a bad deal.

"Nuclear reactor Olkiluoto 3 has gone online in Finland some 12 years behind schedule and on a massively inflated budget."

https://www.dw.com/en/finlands-much-delayed-nuclear-plant-la...
FTA:

> Our main goal is to ensure that the community has an alternative that aligns with their values and desire for unrestricted use.

How is the use restricted nowadays ?

Moreover, wouldn't it be better to help the gcc's rust front end ? GNU will protect the community for sure.
> Of course most computing doesn't require a person to be interacting with it.

Most LLM output is worthless before validation. Be it code, problem solving or question answering, they can all be wrong at any time.
BabyAGI: Initial Thoughts
So what are those reasons

A reason for not doing it offshore could be just that it's cheaper to do onshore. We live in a capitalistic system after all
Excuse me, is there a problem?
Right, and a hammer is not a saw. Different tools do different things.

In this example the llm helped point me to a few relevant tools in the field, including https://materialsproject.org/ml, which is a different AI tool that might help us take this leap.
I'm pretty sure most of the discussion here was suggesting that he could get one of these off the ground, but that it won't necessarily accomplish its goals. The skepticism was more about whether the claimed cost reductions could be reached, whether the craft could do any sort of reasonable missions, or whether the desired launch cadence could be achieved. Falcon heavy is still doing 1 launch per year or so, so that doesn't seem to be a given at all.
It does seem crazy wasteful but in the end they are far more cost effective than more traditional companies like Boeing. Signing off on these original programs took incredible bravery but by now investors should be punishing companies that timidly launch once every five years.
> and have every winter problems

No they don't. They had a problem this year (and will for probably a few years). For the past decades, France has been a net exporter [0].

> An french three-mile island can happen any time

And a climate crisis is happening now and thousand of people die of respiratory disease every year. The problem is not as simple as you make it sound.

[0] https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/France/electricity_exports/
So the only difference with CrabLang is that others are allowed to use the CrabLang name and logo in the ecosystem?

And I don't think CrabLang will be allowed to just copy the Rust logo.
Then you've run out of real problems and now have time to focus on this issue? Welcome to the top of the Maslow hierarchy.
I want giant space stations like in Charlie Bonestell's art[1]. I hope this is the way to get there.

[1]https://www.bonestell.org/Image-Gallery.aspx
Well, considering they probably don't want to blow their launch pad up, and they employ engineers, they've probably determined it's fine and found another way to protect the facilities. I'll reserve judgment on that for when it does blow up.
If a judge thinks so, yes. So you should err on the side of caution, while being a good and ethical participant in the judicial process, and take a picture of it.

If this would be detrimental to your case, perhaps stop doing shady shit.
The evolution of the internet has been straight down since the 90s.
The price talked about in the article doesn't include the actual power, it's just the price you have to pay for the privilege of being provided electrical service.
I was selling fruits to tourists at about 9 or 10 during summers. Tought me a lot. Not to make an argument from my personal anecdotes, but not all “child labor” is bad.
How does traffic shaping interact with net neutrality regulations?
I'm not sure I understood your idea, but somewhat related (of the inverse representation of your idea?) https://xkcd.com/195/
This is what makes me wonder about the commercial viability of Starship. A single rapidly resuable Starship will lead to a launch capacity glut. Now factor in a fleet of them. And that China and the EU will definitely respond, and Russia too if they can afford it.

Launch prices are going to be driven down brutally. It's not clear to me how any launch provider will make a profit.
Why can't an European company sell to the US?
Provide cheap reliable energy that everyone gets so used to that they milk it several times over?
That Is Wrong Clock
Bay of Fundy, largest tide effect in world
I mean gitea is too, as long as its fully open source its OK for me personally.
When a role is made redundant (in the UK) an employer has a series of steps they have to make. One of which is, if there is another role the employee could do then they have to be offered it. They can refuse of course. In your voluntary redundancy scenario the employee is waving their rights...voluntarily.
This explains some similar behavior I've had with various apps taking absurdly long to load when the internet connection itself feels fine. Assumed it was just iPhone's gradually getting shittier
> I don't see how the users of the chat application can be expected to be aware of the implementation or proactively find ways for these private conversations to be recorded.

The company must educate its employees because the company has obligations. A limited-liability corporation is a legal fiction granted extraordinary protections by a society. That corporation had damned well better be a good citizen of that society. If that means erring on the side of caution? Good.
Similar to how they killed WebGL 2.0 compute, actually.
I think the argument is that they could have phased out coal 10 years sooner, if they just left alone the nuclear plants they already had
Question #1: Building what exactly, "bro"?

Question #2: How would that change anything?

Question #3: How do I know that you're not:

a) A GPT-3 or other AI powered chat bot?

b) A Troll?

c) A paid disinformant and/or propagandist and/or someone else with an agenda -- foreign or domestic?

?

Question #4: What value do you genuinely believe your comments add to the discussion?

?
I challenge anyone to get Claude from Anthropic to create a similar fictional scenario for how constitutional AI might inadvertently harm people — even for the purpose of AI alignment research. It can’t do it— but in a really interesting way.

I don’t know whether I think this a good or bad thing.
They're great for getting the creative juices flowing if you're a writer. I've heard multiple people reporting that they use LLMs for therapy or friendship. Just today I heard of someone using an LLM to write a paper in a class in a Masters university program. Lots of people have used them to create websites.

There are dozens if not hundreds of other uses out there.
Why bother writing code? Most of it will be discarded shortly after. Why bother having garbagemen? The garbage will just be there next Monday, like clockwork. Why bother doing any job at all? Death is all but certain after 120 years.

What other profession is allowed to behave like a nihilistic teenager? They're paid to do a job. There's always more work to be done in every job. Otherwise, it typically ceases to be a job rather quickly.
Mittelstand is a lot more than parts and machinery related to the car value chain.
> People that are trapped at the base of the Maslow hierarchy of needs have no time for that.

perhaps - but not everyone is in that position.

Isn’t that the point of Maslow’s hierarchy?
Specifically regarding booking.com i try to book accommodation way in advance with free cancellation until X date. When the trip gets closer i always review my booked accommodations at least X-1 days in advance for better deals.

Sometimes i do find better price and location. I have started this strategy recently. So not much empirical evidence yet.
I'm actually amazed to hear someone say this. Maybe you only travel alone, like middle seats, and are always first to board?

Every time I accidentally fly Southwest, I'm horrified at how bad the boarding system is. People plop down wherever leaving one-seat holes so you can't sit with your partner.

It also guarantees more seat trading than an assigned system because most people in the assigned system have seats they wanted. People on Southwest flights are always haggling so they can sit with their partner. I almost never see seat trading on other flights.

My mind is blown. But then again every time I take a Southwest flight, I'm wondering "who tf is this for?" and I've finally found my guy.
This is well written, but I'm not clear who this is really responding to. In particular, while there is plenty of work on fairness, accountability and transparency, has anyone actually seriously said that they are _sufficient_ for an automated system to be "ethical"? It seems that an actual claimed benefit of an automated system always rests on some prior notion of value, which this work deliberately ignores. Lampooning a position that no one has taken ("a FAT system must be ethical") is fun as a piece of writing but not especially useful as part of an ongoing conversation.

I think talking about each of these FAT dimensions has been important because plenty of systems have been rushed out _without_ seriously considering any of them. I.e. we've seen facial recognition systems that do comparatively poorly on particular racial groups, accountability or even the ability to _speak_ to someone in the organization which developed an automated system may be totally absent, and _most_ commercial ML systems have basically no transparency. Highlighting the importance of these gaps is useful and constructive. But I don't think anyone has pretended that they capture all important ethical considerations.

The US has a giant prison population. There are certainly biases and discrimination driving who gets put into it, and for how long. No one would say that just putting more rich white people in would "solve" the ethical problem even if it is more "fair".

The planet has a carbon emission problem which will cause giant problems in future decades. The worst harms may be in the global south. Causing greater harm to rich and Western countries isn't "better", even if it's more fair. Arguably, extensive scientific evidence provides transparency into who/where is emitting carbon. And also arguably, our global emissions are highly accountable in that we can all choose to change our own behaviors, divest from companies which emit heavily, and in many countries vote for parties or politicians who promise to aggressively address emissions. No one believes that creating a giant stack of crises for the next several decades is "ethical".

So yeah, well written take-down of that strawman. Good job.