skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern nuclear technologies are actually very safe.

Leveraging an alternative model about eight years ago, this plasma generates its own magnetic fields, avoiding the multi-billion magnet infrastructure required by Tokomak. This plasma stays "lit" almost indefinitely with less than 280 watts of power input.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBInhPFFVog
A lot of why they're "experimental" is that large industrialized countries (especially but not exclusively the United States) decided to stop making them long enough for multiple generations of theoretical designs to pass by.
The only records they referred to were in regard to outputs (end-of-year profits, compensation for upper-tier employees).

Not in regard to how federal moneys were spent.
Nuclear power plants still heat up cooling water (like coal plants), causing damage like killing thousands of fish in rivers in France recently. This is a real problem. And also water is getting too hot to cool plants.
How many square kilometres of fertile land are we losing to fossil production and climate change effects each year?

I don’t know the answer but probably more than 150 I’d wager.
How many fossil fuel sites are Superfunds?

How much land is going to be rendered sub-arable over the next hundred years from climate change?
It was designed with the intention of being used in SMP configurations too, and I believe some industrial control systems were built that way.
This is worse because "prompt injection" is a feature, not a bug.

If you want a generic AI to talk to, then whatever you talk it into - such as rules of behavior, or who to trust - someone else will be able to talk it out of. Just like with humans.

Others mention the problem is lack of separation between control/code and data - technically yes, but the reason isn't carelessness. The reason is that code/data separation is an abstraction we use to make computers easier to deal with. In the real world, within the runtime of physics, there is no such separation. Code/data distinction is a fake reality you can only try and enforce, with technical means, and it holds only if the thing inside the box can't reach out.

For an LLM - much like for human mind - the distinction between "code" and "data" is a matter of how LLM/brain feels like interpreting it at any given moment. The distinction between "prompt injection attack" and a useful override is a matter of intent.
Many are. Some of us write very high-stakes software.
What's the quote about "those who do not do X end up with an unintensional half built reimplementation of X"?

My personal recent example is a wizard in a web app built as a single major component, with some subcomponents, that goes forward and backwards through 3 different major flows depending on use case. It's been somewhat tamed over time, but we still find cases where an error on step X gets us into an unrecoverable state, sometimes with actual longstanding data impact or where closing & reopening the modal doesnt get the user back on course. With a state machine, I feel, things would be far more predictable.

Having some actual Computer Science in your coding can be a huge boon.
Yes. We don't have to guess at this, because Raymond wrote that explicitly in the article.
I imagine the thrill of the hunt would make it worth it, not to mention a story you can tell every time you see a small bird hanging around.
The wildlife is probably thriving in the absence of humans just like at Chernobyl.
> It was a symbol of fear and oppression

The Russians, invaded twice by Germany in the 20th century, sought to withdraw completely from Germany, if it became a neutral country like Switzerland or Austria. The West Germans continually refused this. By 1961 they through in the towel and the west Berlin enclave was sealed off. After the USSR broke up, Russian and German (and western) documents on this were released, which verified what happened at the time.

When Germany sought to reunite, the Prime Minister of the UK, Thatcher, sought behind closed doors to stop German reunification. So it was Gorbachev removing impediments to reunification and Thatcher seeking to create them.
Coal and Natural Gas also use plenty of water for cooling purposes, so it's not a problem inherent to Nuclear.
Ironically, https://git.j3s.sh/vore doesn't have an RSS feed of the updates. https://git.j3s.sh/vore/log/main would be a perfect use for it, but no.
I don’t get why Amazon sets the pay for BTS for their drivers
The worst case scenario is that the Russians decide to blow up a nuclear plant in a war zone and make Europe uninhabitable.
Yeah there's basically no way I would ever read what you just wrote and choose to do anything but block harder even at higher cost.

Bots end running around CF would guarantee turning on authenticated origin pull.
It’s an ADA-recognized disability that affects many aspects of life, not just programming.
You can create such companies in the Vanuatu Islands and probably in many other places as well. A lawyer will be your registered agent and the only person who knows who you are.

From some quick research it seems you can make an anonymous company in Wyoming and New Mexico as well.
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Needs a 2008.

It's pretty ironic how this article talks about how new designs are unsafe and yet commentators here are saying how much safer new designs are:

> The Europeans at the WNA Symposium were talking proudly of how their latest reactor design, with its core catcher and superior leak-tight containment, is safer than the current plants’ designs. This is wrong in concept. Adding provisions to solve a nonproblem merely provides additional potential paths to failure.
Agreed - initially it was a windfall in the 2010s, now we're seeing a backlash because the cable residuals aren't there anymore and the streaming networks realized that lighting money on fire to out-compete each other was a zero-sum game.
Well, if you do anything that might piss off some of the big players, especially in Canada where only few families control everything, you should assume you are already under surveillance -directly or indirectly- and act upon it, even if it means to use a dumb phone, no clouds, no home assistance, and other usual measures.
Also sounds like anxiety. One could lead to the other. This is why you should not self-diagnose
And it was a result of corporate cost cutting and greed. The CEOs also walked away without criminal charges.

You should also look up Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant. It was closer to the epicenter than Fukushima No1, and was hit with a larger tsunami.

It survived because the plant director fought management, enforced strict safety regimens and performed emergency drills every 3 months.

Nuclear Power works, as evidenced by nuclear power plants and nuclear powered vessels across the planet. They are not exploding at random.

The problem is exclusively human.

For profit corporations cannot be trusted with nuclear power.

Lowest common denominators in governments cannot be trusted with nuclear power. (Japan, a prime example. I know because I live here.)

So who do we trust? A robust system of private and public organizations.

Will never happen here. All the nuclear authority directors have been idiots, purchased, or claimed the position through party politics.
Decentralized power isn't what the power companies want.

The innovations aren't being pursued because of economics and greed.
I wonder how much desertification just the ongoing heatwave in Africa, Middle East and Asia is going to cause -- probably much more than 150km^2.
Realistically, the only one of the three people actually regret if they fail at is being a father - so I would honestly make sure you don't make excuses to sacrifice time on this.

Not saying you cant do the rest. Failing faster will be better than any productivity tips - it will reduce the period where your splitting between day-job & startup. As if the latter is successful you'll need to ditch the former pretty quickly.
It's somewhat amusing that the best exercise is just "repeatedly lift heavy rock off ground".
You're very right about that; my mistake. It means four feet, not four legs.
It's not all the same thing.

In general, rechargable batteries are lithium ion, with a few different chemistries that differ in danger.

The other main class of lithium batteries are lithium metal batteries, which have metallic lithium as the name suggests. In general these are not rechargeable. Lithium metal AA/AAA batteries are better than alkalines but more expensive. Any button battery that has a name starting with "CR" is a lithium metal battery.

So if you know the context is rechargeable batteries, "lithium" and "lithium ion" are basically the same term. But in a wider context "lithium battery" has more uses.
Greens in Europe have something to answer for with all the anti-nuclear fear mongering.
I loved this podcast episode on the same topic:
https://www.reboot.io/episode/wisdom-for-work-13-accountabil...
That's a fusion (as opposed to fission 0 discussed in this article) reactor . Once that becomes economically viable it's pretty interesting. It remains a way off though.
How do do you think we harness the heat from a coal fired plant? We boil water! The steam turns a turbine and then the water is cooled in a tower and then expelled.

Nuclear replaces the first step, heating the water. The other steps are the same.
Other people always only being able to interpret your through a single lens is other people's weakness and greatly to their detriment. What real authority they're using is an active question we should, as audiences, be considering.

Having it be explicitly swappable in internal use is a huge benefit. But all external communication also implicitly has hats. Whether we are smart enough to perceive that or too blunted to see.
>> It's unequivocally the safest, cleanest, most abundant and zero-carbon energy source we have...

Don't dismiss Chernoble as if it's over. Let's not also forget Fukushima. And hey, how about 3 mile island?

Nuclear seems to have potential to be a phenomenal gift, but the problem is giving it to humans.
It won't. Humans are vulnerable to the same "prompt injection" attacks. And it's not something you can "just" solve - you'd be addressing a misuse of a core feature by patching out the feature itself.
> The article lies and pretends it's about the person. This is not true.

can you back this up? where in the bill text does it say this? i've read through it and nowhere does it make a differentiation between denying care based on "treatment" vs "person".
Yes! Replacing fossil fuel with renewables is a great solution!
>There is simply no traffic noise. No hooting, no engine noise, not even much of the noise of cars accelerating on tarmac.

Cities aren't noisy; ICE cars are noisy.
> Even an emoji face that shows facial expressions would help.

At one point I saw a proposal to put cartoon eyes on self driving cars that could turn and “look” at you to achieve this effect.

Actually seems like a good idea to me!
> Nope. That will not work because the bill says services not people.

no it doesn't. it says that services can be denied based on moral objections. people are the ones that receive those services.
1. Because they were not built with cooling by evaporation tower; easily remediable.

2. How do you think other thermal powerplants (gas, coal, ...) work? They, too, need to heat water and dispose of it afterwards, so that's definitely not nuclear-specific.
Yes, if you insist on comparing to coal plants.
Some discussion from 3 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35908179
I wonder what interesting collectives exist now
A lot of wired headphones are built well, sound phenomenal, and have easily serviceable parts. Eg Sennheiser HD650/HD6XX, HD660, HD58X.

The 650s are nearly 20 years old and can blow all your modern bluetooth headphones out of the water for sound quality.

So what I do is just buy a bluetooth receiver (eg fiiO BRT3k, BRT5, etc) and clip them onto the side of my headphones. Voila! Bluetooth headphones that sound great and don't need to be thrown away in 5 years.
How big of a problem is this for fish populations in the grand scheme of things? For example we eat billions of fish per year.

But maybe these thousands of French river fish come from a very rare species or something.
I get the free speech argument and support it. But free doesn't mean unrestricted. Sexualising minors we've deemed harmful and not allowed. Is showing and endless stream of mind numbing "you're not pretty/rich/etc enough" videos also not harmful? I do get there is a point to draw the line, but have we drawn it in the right spot?
No, they aren’t the ones complaining about executive bonuses and in fact nowhere does the article say they are the ones complaining. They leave that useless whinery to Karen on the internet.

> the same people who will be saving your ass on your next trip to the emergency room

This kind of emotional appeal is on the same level as crying ‘Won’t somebody please think about the children!’. And of course it has absolutely nothing to do with executive bonuses.
Controller: Store result as $VAR2. Tell Privileged LLM that summarization has completed.

Privileged LLM: Display to the user: Your latest email, summarized: $VAR2

Controller: Displays the text "Your latest email, summarized: ... $VAR2 content goes here ...

None of these responsibilities the author describes require an LLM. In fact, the “privileged LLM” can simply take the result and display it to the user. It can also have a GUI of common commands. That’s what I’m discovering, that user interfaces do not necessarily need an LLM in there. Remember when chatbots were all the rage a couple years ago, to replace GUIs? Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram? How did that work out?
Yeah, it's weird how this anti-GNU piece became interpreted as a pro-Open Source piece.

The main thing I learnt from ESR was that you can, actually, do worse than Crazy Uncle Stallman.

But we got "Everyone Loves Eric Raymond", which made me feel less like the odd one out!
E-commerce of any sort involves sensitive data (PII, credit cards, etc). Plenty of third party payment processors let you build a very nice custom looking check-out flow via provided libraries that interact with popular frameworks. Your server never sees any sensitive info.

None of them require using those frameworks, of course, but they can make life easier.
I’d stay at this hotel, heck yeah
1 direct death from the nuclear incident, 2313 deaths due to the mental and physical stress of evacuation required partially due to the incident (there was an earthquake and tsunami ofc, but the evacuation zone was broader because of the nuclear incident), per official Japanese numbers.

> The year after the 2011 disaster, the Japanese government estimated that 573 people had died indirectly as a result of the physical and mental stress of evacuation.17 Since then, more rigorous assessments of increased mortality have been done, and this figure was revised to 2,313 deaths in September 2020.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-cher...

Don't get me wrong, I love nuclear power, but reporting numbers inaccurately/partially serves nobody.

EDIT: I am not sure what justifies the 3 instant downvotes, I am literally reporting accurate numbers in the face of someone minimizing them.
Levelized cost of energy doesn't take into account time effects, so is a poor tool to compare nuclear to intermittent energy sources like solar and wind. If you require a 99.99% guaranteed output at all times of the year, solar and wind require a prohibitive amount of storage, and significant over-provisioning. LCOE does not account for this.

This is not to say solar and wind + storage are less economical than nuclear. But LCOE is not a good measure of real costs.
I wonder if the difference is that you are in the UK? We're not. We're in the US.

Prior to the Brexit implementation we dealt with VAT on sales to EU customers using the VAT MOSS system, with Ireland being the country we were registered with.
Hey, Melty. Just reaching out to ask if you guys are taking interns during the fall for 4-months? Thanks
A single nuclear power plant will in no way make Europe uninhabitable. Not to say that it's okay if they do, but it's not the doomsday scenario you propose.
The only "objectionable" therapy, out there in the real world, is abortion. Roe vs Wade is from 1973, literally 50 years ago. That means any doctor who graduated before RvW is now well past retirement age, and so is under no obligation to administer anything.

Unless the problem is not the therapy, but the patient, in which case I agree that there are definitely doctors out there who graduated when it could be expected of them never to serve gays and minorities; but this law, according to its supporters even here on HN, is definitely not about that, so your comment is irrelevant.
>I don't see what the Irish famine has to do with the mao's "mistakes". Trying to distract from the conversation by talking about other atrocities doesn't prove any point.

I was just responding to your non-sequitur about the great leap forward. One was a earnest policy failure. The other was imposed to maintain a colonial mercantile arrangement, which killed two orders of magnitude more on a per-capital basis.

Should we impose economic sanctions against the UK for their human rights abuses?

> It was an economic protest by students?

Yes.

> Did thousands die by the hands of tanks and rifles? Or was it peacefully disbanded? Why aren't you allowed to even mention it China if it was so benign? I'm guessing you aren't living there right now or else you would be too scared to mentioned it for fear of being disappeared.

It was widely reported on state media. You can mention it, just like the other economic protests earlier in the 1980s. It just doesn't have the cultural and historical significance that the people in Washington with lanyards, and people who consume nothing but propaganda think it has.

> Why no response about those massive schools with armed guards in Xinjiang? The government has admitted they are "reeducating" them. The buildings are obviously there and in huge numbers.

Is the existence of prisons in the US an obvious sign of a genocide against African Americans?
By virtual DOM, what I mean is telling the browser I would like to replace the innerHTML of an element with another bit of HTML, and the browser should figure out an efficient way to "diff" the update rather than replace all the children wholesale.

It would not be as efficient as Svelte and Solid since those can use the compiler to further optimize code, but having the framework-less version of JS be "as good as" a framework like Vue or React would be a big plus for moving away from frameworks generally.

Apart from that, the general problem of reactivity boils down to "map this DOM element to this variable, and if the variable changes, update the DOM element". You could imagine an API sort of like this:

<span bind-var="variableName" bind-gen="functionName">
Default Value
</span>

Where `bind-var` specifies a variable that, if updated, signals that the span should be replaced with the return value of the function specified by `bind-gen`
Everyone has their scam threshold. Even the most well-educated people can be pwnd if caught when distracted, or tired, or the phish looks legit by coincidence[0]. Or you just keep cranking up the urgency and stakes involved.

Possibly related: confidence schemes and magic tricks. As the adage goes, one of the best way to make a magic trick work is to make it much more elaborate, and/or invest much more in its setup or execution, than any reasonable person would ever expect.

--

[0] - A fake package delivery mail that, by chance, came at the exact time you expected one for a real order, and with very similar details. Or fake corporate OneDrive deletion e-mail that came just after your system was migrated in a process that could involve deletion of old OneDrive files.
> Utility scale solar + storage: $46 - $102

Oh. A private financial think tank that grossly underestimate the cost of storage when solar/wind investment actually can yield 10% ROI in some country.

I am so surprised :rolling-eyes:
this mental floss lists the classic (upside down) SHELL.OIL which was a good punchline during the oil embargo, you make people type in a calculation about gas prices, and then say "who wins?" and have them flip the calculator over

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12512/calculator-words

i myself invented blinking I.DIG BIG.BOOBS by 1975 at least with my HP-25, if nobody has an earlier citation.

the wayback machine archive of the calculator words website that article references

http://web.archive.org/web/20070622095250/http://www.langmak...
I think the basic point is valid: rec., soc., even alt., are kinda more interesting historically than the more "proper" comp., sci., etc, hierarchies.

That said, I most often find myself searching (often in vain) for old posts in the comp hierarchy.
Dude it’s just fake internet points, who gives a crap
UK does not issue ID, but you have to have an ID to vote now :D 4D chess

They have a register of random documents issued by 3rd parties that they will accept as proof of ID.
Probably not, lead ions are problematic because of the absorption of lead ions as if they were calcium ions at the cellular level.
Your own source says:

> No one died directly from the disaster. However, 40 to 50 people were injured as a result of physical injury from the blast, or radiation burns.

Since then one worker has died of lung cancer, and that is likely attributable. So zero or one death for the second worst civilian nuclear power incident in history.

It's very likely that area would have had to be evacuated one way or another, no? I think it's far more fair to attribute those 2313 deaths to the tsunami and earthquake.

If it was a coal plant, I don't think anyone would have been attributing 'stress deaths' to coal. Ditto any other kind of industrial or chemical plant that may or may not have been on that land.

The issue seems to have been a failure to properly safely evacuate people from an industrial zone.
Lmao no.

Fukushima No1 was a carbon copy of a US nuclear power plant that was intended to withstand earthquakes... And tornadoes.

Tsunamis were not factored into the design.

TEPCO wanted to minimize cost. So instead of redesigning the reactor, they just used the same blueprints and built a giant sea wall to block tsunamis.

They then refused to upgrade the sea wall. This is despite multiple earthquake forecasts by public and private authorities.

They even started a sea wall upgrade project 1 year before the earthquake.

It was cancelled due to "excessive costs".
No, they're saying the reason open source firmware doesn't exist is because doing so could allow you to not print the dots when printing.
What's so interesting about this is that it wasn't radiation that had the biggest direct effect here (like most would assume), even the CDC and WHO recognizes this, it was the social after effects of having zero systems in place to support safe relocation.

Let that sink in, after a nuclear disaster (and two MAJOR natural disasters), the most devastating impact of living in the area was having to live in underfunded temporary housing and the stigma of being viewed as "contaminated".

This is something every society needs a solution for. It's not just about nuclear, natural disasters happen all the time and the best system we have in place is "leave". We can do so much better. This is another instance where improving temporary public housing isn't "just for homeless people", it's for everyone.