skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you didn't actually address my comment, which had nothing to do with solar working at night or similar. It's useful to keep separate arguments separate since jumping around if something doesn't suit your liking is not a sincere discussion style.

> If you believe that carbon emissions are an existential threat to human survival

FWIW, I don't believe that. Humans will survive, unless we do something like a nuclear weapons armageddon, but that's not because of climate change. Not directly at least. Those of us in privileged will have an easier time adapting to a changing climate, the rest of our species won't have it so easy. And later generations will need to live with the consequences as well. But they will adapt too. If they've never seen a frozen north pole, it will not be odd to them.

Even if it was an existential threat to human survival, I wouldn't care. Why would I? It's a species that mostly doesn't care about other species survival. Did you recently check how many species we have brought to extinction? Over 90% of large predatory fish are gone (shark, tuna, ...). Buffalos almost went extinct. Gorillas, sea turtles, .. I don't think the human species has much moral ground to argue it should survive and I won't move a finger to help.
That’s an accurate but misleading description of what’s going on because Ontario is part of a much larger grid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_power_transmiss... It’s like saying a town next to a nuclear power plant is 90% nuclear, that’s “true” but only works because other areas don’t rely on 90% nuclear.

Just like the town, Ontario exports power to other areas and imports non nuclear power. If everyone used 50-60% nuclear there wouldn’t be anyone to export that power to on low demand weekends etc which would drive up prices. The area also has a great deal of hydroelectric power which reduces the need for peaking power plants.

Nuclear has already played a significant role in reducing climate change, but it just can’t economically scale to supply nearly as much power as wind and solar. And much worse when you have a high percentage of Wind and Solar adding Nuclear to the mix just doesn’t work very well because base load power becomes less valuable.
Exactly why I chose it!
1) both

2) 200% of current demand, to account for the rise in demand caused by climate change

3) whatever we can build now

4) Only governments genuinely have the ability to build nuclear reactors without any outside intervention or help. Even when they are built supposedly privately there's government involvement to make sure radioactive material isn't diverted or dumped. I can't imagine anyone but the most extreme libertarian wants private unregulated nuclear reactors.
Of course there is.

Incandescent lights have been banned for years in most European countries to speed up the adoption of led-lighting. Street lights are being replaces by leds. Tax cuts and subsidies are given for energy efficient housing.
I've heard a lot about how mis-aligned the internal incentives are at Google along these lines, but there is usually also some kind of plan on the business side. If what is happening is really that these projects are killed because all the engineers quit...that seems like a big problem!
How do you define the geolocation of data?

If my website is hosted in EU but a company scans it from the internet in the US, how could they possibly know it is hosted in EU?
Creating a popular website by ignoring IP rules and cultural and social norms, and misrepresenting what you do and how it works may not be a "violent act of force," per se, but it's absolutely something that can be criticized and punished.
False endorsement is definitely annoying, yes. It's also illegal.
I look forward to a world where we have 80 acres of housing rather than 80 acres of human hamster wheels.
Probably a good idea to read the rest of the article. They explain why.

> Whereas nuclear power accounts for all materials through the decommissioning phase—and surprisingly, 90 percent of all materials from a nuclear power plant can be recycled—compared to old wind and solar platforms, which generate millions of tons of waste
>Other countries have suppressed tenure in the past, Denmark comes to mind

I could be wrong but I don't think it's correct

https://employment.ku.dk/tenure-track/tenure-track-at-ucph/

any links on that?
You're right, and funnily enough, that's the same sort of advice that the article's author got. Start slow, focus on avoiding single-use waste, you can't do it all at once.

But that was an example, plastics are only one small part of the problem. Production of energy, metals, wood, food, etc. Disposal of the toxic byproducts. Nothing we do at a large scale is clean or sustainable, and there's almost no accountability for any of it. Individuals don't have the ability to meaningfully influence all of that, outside of large-scale political action.
We should bet on the technology that always 20 years in the future?
PHP popularity is decreasing because there are better tools for the same niche today. The same happened for Perl in 00s. The same is happening for every web backend language, as JavaScript is becoming ubique due to it being the de facto and only choice for the web frontend.

Maybe PHP can be made better, but it would need some radical changes and then the question is that if it’s worth the effort and maybe to pick up some of the new tools instead.
Russian jet accidentally drops bomb on Russian city of Belgorod state media says
Professionally I work with python and node a lot, but everytime I need a backend for my personal projects PHP is my go to language.
There are many, many industries that could benefit from electricity being “too cheap to meter” that could suck up the excess production.

Maybe they train GPT-25 only when the demand is low enough the power producers basically give it away?
1. Imho, Florida is just leading the way for other states (many of which are actually more conservative than Florida). One reason Florida might be taking the lead is because the current governor is making a run for president in 2024, and this is establishing his bona fides. Florida is definitely not a “lonely island”.

2. Liberal states seem to be going extreme in other directions. Some examples are how “equity” policies (in general, not a bad idea) are implemented. Gifted programs, ap programs, accelerated programs and the like are being cut because the participants don’t have the proper racial ratios (Asians and Whites tend to be statistically over-represented). Equity is not an unreasonable policy to pursue, but doing it by holding back others is regressive, imho. Holding back high achievers also addresses the problem at the wrong level — that is, the origins of academic inequality typically happen at a much earlier age.

Interestingly, in most states (blue, red, or purple), teachers are almost forced to teach to the bottom 25-30% of each class, since schools are evaluated by how many people meet the minimum standards rather than by overall or high level achievement.
My hot take has always been that the emergence of the Front-End Developer role came about backwards and that the correct expectation was that designers learn to code.

HTML & CSS seem a world apart from traditional programming (and computer science, etc.) and were initially much more about things that were the designer's realm--another tool for layout, format, hierarchy, etc. I remember so many frustrated PHP et al. devs who really didn't love writing HTML being thrilled when I would ask to contribute to the UI layer of a given CRUD app. I was happier doing it that way too (still am).

Javascript--especially before being engineered into its current oblivion--was fuzzier territory, but I'd advocate that it should be a shared responsibility between the designer and [back-end?] developer, meeting somewhere around accessing the API.

The ability to both design and implement the interaction layer of a website or application is a superpower and, on average, results in a higher-quality product. The current division of labor makes for weird silos and loading spinners everywhere that one layer of responsibility ends and the next begins.

Note that this is the path I took and prefer (dev who designs; designer who devs), which I suppose makes me both less-common and very biased towards it. :)
It also creates a world where developers who have created code and specifically protected it with copyleft licenses to ensure that derivative works always remain a public good are having their rights laundered away via LLMs. I fully expect the FOSS community to fold if their rights are not respected and it could lead to a software dark age.
To cover the drop in generation for the night of April 15, even 400% wind capacity would not be enough.

It was a rather regular, quiet, night in a nation of 80 million people in the middle of Europe. Which means that it was a quiet night across much of Europe.
In the US we're replacing nuclear plants with renewables at a 6:1 ratio.

The only people who think we need more nuclear power plants is the nuclear power industry and the politicians they're heavily lobbying to stay relevant.
Richg42 is great & his pieces are fun to read.

I do think in this case he misses a bit of the point, goes too far:

> They are designed for fast loading and streaming off SSD's. Who cares about saving off a few hundred ms (or a second) when it takes hours or days to download the product onto the SSD?

Most games will have only one two or three downloads over the user's lifetime, and it'll never be instant, will always require some wait.

But we load textures many times if we keep playing a game.

Rich's overall point remains, but I think some balance of optimizing load speed is also very appreciated & very necessary.
Kubernetes 1.27 Arrives
I did address your first remark in the end of my comment:

> All those factors are usually brought up in detail for things like solar and wind plants. It's just disingenuous not to count them for nuclear power.

I did not talk about how much energy is provided or what to do about freight haulers.
> I can't believe that modern nuclear plants wouldn't be dramatically more profitable.

I can.

First, nuclear doesn't always get cheaper. Chernobyl happened, how do we fix that? Containment building. That costs money. Fukushima happened, how do we fix that? Better backup plans. That costs money. Renewables skip this completely.

Second, renewables also benefit from progress, but a lot more. Solar and wind are mass industry production. Each iteration is cheap. Experimentation is cheap and safe and done all over the world. Production is highly amenable towards automation. Nuclear isn't.

So we have factories pumping out millions of solar cells, but we don't have factories pumping out millions of nuclear vessels, because nuclear plants are rare, one off projects that don't justify mass production, and are too rare to have a robust industry and lots of competition.

> Even if they weren't, it would be worth government incentives to prevent grid destabilization as wind and solar take over as the main sources.

Yeah, but there are other options that can be used. Eg, yeah, we can spend decades building nuclear and waiting until it starts to work, or we can do things like improving the grid transmission which works out to simple tasks that are doable much faster and amenable to mass production.

Same goes for say, pumped hydro and battery storage. Those things can already be done, and you can start doing it much faster than you'll get nuclear built.
"We know that light can create gravity"

I've never heard of light creating gravity, where did you learn this?
Wonder what the tradeoff on connection overhead would be? I've never been around a connection pooler that would be anywhere near this load.
The redact server is an open source application that runs locally on the client.
Oh! Well that weakens my point then doesn't it.
what are some uses for this more efficient approach? I suspect you can do more hacky things like preloading next vid on mouse over to bring fast video switching to web player like puffer (https://puffer.stanford.edu/faq/) tried to do at the server level.
I feel like the oil industry has astroturfed nuclear energy, and NIMBYs love it because they know there can not be any significant nuclear capacity that will come online until 2030 at the earliest. Which is my biggest problem with pro nuclear arguments.
Game size is a perennial talking point and some games earn it and some games don’t.

There was a phase of games shipping with uncompressed audio in every language they support for no good reason that ballooned file size (Titanfall)

Some games have gotten around this problem by having higher resolution textures or additional languages being optional installs within whatever ecosystems DLC implementation is. I think this is the smart way to do it.

Examples of games shrinking I are hard to come by but special credit to IO interactive and Hitman 3.

The install size with all the content of the previous games included (If you own them) is less than the install size of the first game. That is impressive and commendable.

Games are weird and some people will look at the file size and think it means the game is better, just the way some people think games with more hours are better. The psychology of people who play video games is weird.

Duplication of assets on disk was a very weird byproduct of HDD file access conventions, but we shouldn’t need that anymore. There is still a shrinking, but valid crossover window between devs being able to assume all storage is solid state. I think things will get better but the debate of file size vs average/expects storage capacity vs Network speed will never end but there is certainly work to be done.
That said, it is not easy being Zuck. How do you steer a huge complex company like Facebook? He has had 3 mega mega hits (Fb, WA and Insta) and the company has produced tons of other useful tech and trained professionals.
Building a Sega Mega Drive hardware dev kit from scratch
Shouldn't you be embarrassed, though? It's like tattooing "I'm an Elon fanboy" on your forehead.
Datel didn't come out with an Action Replay cartridge for the Amiga until the A500 (ie, a few years after this). I still have my ARII- a truly amazing piece of hardware. In addition to letting you freeze a program and dump memory to disk, the cartridge had a ripper option that let you graphically pan through memory to look for images to save (another option searched for music trackers).
I think you mean 1M of RAM, not 1G.
Even if that's true, it's hard to criticize while doing the same thing.
Except you won't have enough solar and wind alone to generate the needs of the world's power demands. I don't get why some people like yourself are so against nuclear when combined with solar and wind its the best of both worlds? We're all in agreement that coal needs to go, but switching to just solar and wind is not the sole answer and never will be. You will run out of land at some point. No one wants to look at fields of spinning turbines and solar panel arrays when you can get the same effect in a much smaller footprint.
A dangerous sociopath with functioning moral compass? That sounds like an oxymoron, don't you think?

And no, fulfilling the very bare minimum is not virtuous. When virtuous person stops being virtuous, they fall to "average", not to the lowest possible.
Most industry positions are much better than adjunct positions. Adjunct faculty are temporary part-time workers who teach one or two classes per term. They are paid $1000-4000 per class without benefits, which is less than minimum wage when you count time to prepare for class, grade, and interact with students outside of class. A quarter of adjuncts depend on public assistance programs like food stamps to survive.
It's clear that nuclear power is superior to gas, coal, wind, solar, etc. However... nuclear power plants are expensive build, they take a very long time to build, and many countries are in the process of retiring their infrastructure [0].

The vast majority of active nuclear power plants in the USA were built in the late 60s to late 70s and typically took 10 years from the initial construction before they became operational [1]. Which means that almost all of our nuclear power infrastructure in the United States is ~35 to 50 years old. Optimistically, we can only hope that most of these plants will operate until ~2040.

Given how long it takes to build a nuclear power plant we really should have been building them all throughout the 80s, 90s, and 2000s- but we stopped building them in the late 70s. The only nuclear power plant that I'm aware that's been built since 1978 is Plant Vogtle which started in 2013 and is expected to be finished sometime this year.

Still, there is some hope for nuclear energy into the future with the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP) [2] and the recent advancements in fusion power [3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_phase-out

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

[2] https://www.cfppllc.com/

[3] https://twitter.com/ENERGY/status/1602679966163906561
Police: Wi-Fi jammers disabled security system in CT home burglary
As an experiment, I just asked ChatGPT to "Please identify the open source projects that contain the following code" and pasted the sample from the article. Sure enough, it pointed me at the SuiteSparse library, which is correct (but not exactly where ChatGPT thinks it is). This means Codeium (and others) could theoretically use AI to identify possible attributions that should be included in a project.

Of course, if someone figures out an algorithm that does that, people could use the same algorithm to identify missing attributions and plagiarism in other projects and throw lawsuits around. (Sigh)
1)Global. Proliferation risks aren’t as relevant to me as solving the reliance on fossil fuels. West+China probably needs to prove out wide scale usage of it first though.

2) However much is necessary to create a stable grid with as minimal an amount of electricity coming from fossil fuel usage possible. I do prefer renewable to nuclear, but I think society scale energy storage isn’t going to be a solved problem in a reasonable time frame. If we only need 20% nuclear to phase out most fossil fuel plants, great. I don’t know the exact point where experts expect that renewables without storage would stop being able to create a stable grid without the existing plants.

3)Ideally MSRs, but given they’re still not completely proven out it’s probably best to start building traditional immediately and switch if the currently in production MSR plants do in fact work out.

4)Start nationalized at least, since they’re more expensive than private ownership allows but necessary for the public good (also, yeah, don’t really want private ownership of traditional reactors). If MSRs work out and economies of scale kick in a little as we build out more plants, maybe private ownership will be viable at some point.
Federal lawsuit filed against members of Antioch, California
But Medicare and Social Security are unconstitutional.
But removing tenure will only increase the incentives of chasing those things.

And I don't understand how others in this thread are saying academic freedom isn't necessary anymore/doesn't matter. The entire purpose of the republican party attacking tenure is so they can explicitly attack academic freedom.
And, besides, his solutions aren't really good. Radical solution would be shipping image generating model with the game and generating textures on the fly. That's how all texture-related data goes from being measured in hundreds of gigs to being measured in hundreds of megs. So basically becomes non-issue.
Celebrate!
> Nuclear power supplies about 50 - 60% of electric energy in Ontario, with 18 reactors currently operating, built 1970s - 1990s.

Cf, "Supply" tab:

* https://www.ieso.ca/en/Power-Data
Games want to be more photorealistic and the hardware to fake it is getting faster and cheaper.

I remember in 2008 when Intel demoed ray tracing[0] for Quake Wars. It ran on a quad-socket (4 CPUs x 2.7GHz) at around 25 FPS, and even Intel admitted that ray tracing is just "brute forcing" the complex optical physics of a scene.

Considering between then and now, we have much prettier looking games that do NOT require ray tracing for their visual effects (and can run on much fewer CPU cycles), thanks to much more "clever" techniques and algorithms (DoF, bloom, subsurface scattering, PBR, etc), and if it weren't for the RTX graphics cards setting the precedent, there would probably be more research into making things prettier without having to "brute force" things.

Nowadays, you can drop a 100gb mesh into UE5 Nanite[1] and skip a lot of the work involved in making things pretty. You don't need to generate or even understand displacement maps if you can just add more polygons to the model. You don't need to billboard the mountain way in the distance if Unreal does it on the fly. Who cares if that means including a 250mb mesh in your assets, versus a 5mb HDRI.

So yes, producers have either become lazy or are simply unable to meet the demands of the hardware by coming up with better algorithms. That's unlikely to change until either hardware stops advancing and either A) can't run the latest games or B) games become too large that they're impossible to download.

[0]: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/sponsored-feature-...

[1]: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/nanite-virtualized-g...

[2]: https://twitter.com/mariobrothblog/status/163604089376436224...
Oh absolutely. I was speaking only about the comment I replied to.
MSFT got their fingers burned on Tay but were still willing to do a chatbot.

Google didn't even bother despite having all the tech in place.

and i can't believe I'm saying this but it seems microsoft has the ability to at least deliver innovation.
thank you. I as well was interested to read something new interesting on the energy future. This, however, was not it. The author is "working on a three-year grant for the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration focusing on a value chain study for the advanced nuclear technology sector"? Seems like a waste of money if this is the kind of output we're seeing.
One city is turning to ChatGPT to help run the government
For greater detail, see my responses at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35657217

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35657036

I don't know specifically about Springer and Elsevier. From elsewhere in this thread, I learned that they expect the editors to do all the work recruiting reviewers and do it for free. I don't support that model. For publishers that assign internal staff that get paid a salary to help Editors recruit reviewers, it is far from unreasonable to spend $3K recruiting reviewers for 15 papers, even while the actual work of reviewing is unpaid.
"Lent"?
I am curious what are the radical changes you are thinking about that PHP needs.