skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I rarely see that here. What I tend to see are people who don't like the idea of nuclear power making misleading or false statements about nuclear power. (Like in the original message of this thread where the claim is made "After 70 years of trying we haven't built an economic traditional nuclear reactor.")

I think it's just easier to notice "misleading or false statements" when they contradict what we like to think rather than when they are going in the same direction.

For example, are you 200% sure of your sentence "The only issue with consumer roof-top solar is that it is the most expensive form of power ever created"?
Is that true everywhere, all the time? Because if not, how is that not as much as "misleading or false statements" than the original sentence you quote? But of course, this sentence of yours does not strike you as misleading, because you truly believe it's not misleading.

Also, while I don't think the anti-nuclear are less numerous or less idiot, the pro-nuclear usually are also very very prone to think they are smarter when they are not, and start using bullying method to "fight the infidels", which, at least in my circle which are neutral, is really starting to make that side looks bad.
In Oregon, Kei cars are specifically illegal, they cannot be titled or registered. Other states are following a similar path so definitely make sure you can title it before you buy it.
Ugh.

I watch A LOT of YouTube.

When it's just a video of someone talking and waving their hands, I move on. (As opposed to diagrams, different shots, close ups, ect.)

Why? If it's just someone talking, that's better presented as a written blog entry. Written blog entries can be skimmed instead of focused on.

A video like this needs close ups of the matter at hand, at a minimum. (IE, a close up of how the shock happened.) Diagrams, which could either be hand-drawn or "professional," are also nice too.

I know that everyone has different production values on Youtube; but merely sitting on a stool for 13 minutes without any kind of demonstration is a poor use of the medium. Switch to a written blog in this case.
The article lists as bald eagles and Sasquatch as natural predators…
>Save your complaint for when Google makes it a product.

or save yourself the trouble and find alternatives to big-G.

It's entirely their own fault that people now view all Google news as temporary and fleeting. People don't want to put time into things that'll get thrown away in a year.

Reading G research papers seems like a shortcut to me, know what will be thrown away in 2 years before it's a valid product in 1 year and someone gets huckleberry'd into devoting time and effort into implementing the dead-product-walking API.
This was a US company. Another fun thing that happened while I was there is that they had to throw out a major codebase and start from scratch because of security compromises, i.e. people working on it that shouldn't have been allowed to.

I suppose in the end they achieve a kind of security with this behavior, but it would be a lot better to avoid such incidents in the first place - which would be perfectly possible, with good decision-making.
>Increased risks of what? Getting hit by a car?

You can't just pull part of my comment out from that part of the sentence. A few words back you will see I was writing about sub populations for whom riding is riskier. Of course you would think what I'm saying makes no sense if you are getting caught up on one phrase and interpret it to mean I'm making a broad, general statement that riding a bike is dangerous compared to cars.

But that is not what I wrote.
>Is it OK if the thing is imaginary, but everyone just pretends it has value?

Yes it's okay. When people pretend something imaginary has a value then it has a value. That's how money, bonds, deeds, loans, contracts, equity, etc work.
> (uncontrolled) in most of the world, that means you need radio contact with FIR, radio license, training etc

That's not true in the US, at least. You can easily still in be class E at 15k, which doesn't require radio communication if you're VFR and not in the vicinity of an airport.
The difficulties inherent in this and the simplicity of the product itself make me wonder if there's some car equivalent of the "80% lower" of the weapons industry.

Some kind of partially assembled new Kei truck that counts as "car parts" during import, and can then be assembled to create a "kit car". The kit car process is almost equally onerous, but at least you could get a new car on the other end.
People are free to do as they like, including complain about unrealistic licenses.
The real problem is presuming the profit model for news is a good idea.

It's going to always tend towards quick-turn around, low-effort sensationalism because that's the most profitable configuration.

Speculation, accusation, defamation, and conspiracies will always get more eyeballs then careful balanced well researched reporting. Lying about something now is cheaper and more profitable than sending a reporter out and getting the facts tomorrow.

Especially after the rise of the modern citizen journalist where the costs of video hardware, production, and distribution are near zero. Naturally people doing near zero-cost content production quickly flooded the market and Bullshit will always be the cheapest content to produce.

There has to be a model where such manipulative lying doesn't pay off. We have to somehow separate how we've structured news from how we've structured entertainment.
Here's my take on a monad tutorial: https://lobste.rs/s/7cllte/monads_part_six_really_what_is_mo...

TL;DR: Monads are Promises and async/await, but generalized to different implementations of `.then`.

You are right to be suspicious; it is _not_ that hard! I think people just get confused and overwhelmed because (1) there are many separate different concepts that are all being introduced at once, and (2) you need to learn a new debugging methodology at the same time. I think the vast majority of this problem is the huge deluge of bad teaching materials (especially monad tutorials written by people who do not use Haskell in production) and the shortage of good teaching materials.

Re: 1 - some separate, orthogonal concepts that I have seen people mix up while trying to teach Haskell:

1. Effect tracking (which is a thing that we _do_ using monads, but is not intrinsically tied to monads - this would be better served by being taught as "dependency injection but stricter")

2. Non-eager evaluation (which is a language runtime evaluation choice that Haskell has made, and which motivates the usage of monads where most languages have function bodies, but is again not intrinsically tied to monads)

3. "Purity" (a more confusing way to explain 1)

4. "Mutable state" (another thing we represent with monads, but again is not intrinsic to monads)

5. Monads the math / category theory concept (don't bother with teaching this - it will not be helpful until you have intuition for writing and operating the programs themselves first, which takes at least a few months to build, and even then it is mostly useful as a source of advanced techniques for library writers rather than application writers)

At work, we've developed our own set of educational materials for teaching folks the language. I'm working on externalizing them in my spare time.
Amazing read, convincingly explains a lot of confusion around the aftermath of the search operation. And kind of mind blowing that IUSS exists primarily to detect submarine movements around the world.

I would love to learn more about the technology — are these wireless transmitters? Undersea cables all around the oceans of the world?
My use is way up and I hit the quota frequently enough that I’m thinking about writing a client to use GPT4’s API directly. It really shines for some use cases, so I suspect people want more than they can get from it or have become aware that its outputs still require a lot of legwork to verify and make useful.
But Aurora RDS is a separate product - it's not sold as standard Postgres which you can also get. It's not like they are trying to pass off aurora as the same thing.
Airy Beam
If by "they are absolutely everywhere" you mean "I've seen one of them in 25 years of living here", then I agree.
And that really sucks in Windows because every absolute path contains a colon. Not that absolute paths are common in makefiles, but it's not something that should break on a major platform.
The difficulty is that this idea is not new and the regulations are written with that in mind.
That's my read as well.

Interestingly, having early adopters won't kill your product. It can (rarely) cause it's success.
Divekick ;)
> I, on the other hand, work as a software developer and use ChatGPT as a discussion partner to get a better understanding of problem and solutions spaces. I don't expect ChatGPT to be correct but gladly take any inspiration or argument and use it to improve my own thinking process. And for this use case, I consider GPT4 absolutely invaluable. It's like a polite, knowledgeable, never busy, untirable colleague that is ready for my questions 24/7.

I often use ChatGPT as a starting point when researching new topics (usually in the software space). In the paragraphs of lies it generates, there are usually a few keywords you can put into Google to find accurate and reliable information.
'Yet you participate in society! Curious! I am very intelligent.'

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...

PG's comments here are trite and shallow. This isn't even an essay arguing his case, just a clickbaity aphorism. The low quality of the replies speaks for itself.
The point is that it is a false dilemma. Something superior exists, choose that.
Grav is a modern open-source flat-file CMS
No, AFAIK the fund sells shares to buy Bitcoin and sells Bitcoin to buy shares.
Transcript: https://pastebin.com/v9TTLkYZ

(No formatting as the video does not offer captions.)
> I can't be the only person on this planet that feels that way, but you certainly make it out to be.

Not sure where you got that impression. I was taking issue with how universally useful/better you were making crypto out to be.
https://archive.is/J0GER
There are a few parties (called Authorized Participants) who are allowed to mint ETF shares by handing the fund the underlying, or redeem ETF shares in return for the underlying.

These APs are chosen carefully, and have the express job of creating liquidity. They make their money on arbitrage, thus keeping the ETF price closely matched to that of the underlying.
The Indian test used weapons-grade plutonium produced in the low power CIRUS research reactor, much like how we were making plutonium in 1945. It's thought that Carter banned civilian reprocessing because a nuclear test in 1962 showed that a weapon could even be made from what the DOE described as "reactor-grade" plutonium: https://permanent.access.gpo.gov/websites/osti.gov/www.osti.... https://npolicy.org/greg-jones-americas-1962-reactor-grade-p...

A bomb with an actively cooled pit probably couldn't be miniaturized enough to be MIRVed but it would be compatible with old school single-warhead ICBMs or air delivery.
Is that for safety or market protection reasons?
i take it this guy isn't big on critical theory
The goal, alluded to in the quote I provided, is to compare it to cleaner alternatives.

The article I linked ends as follows:

> "For all these reasons, nuclear energy, even though nuclear power is emission-free, is not a relevant solution for profitable, climate-friendly and sustainable energy in the future." According to the researchers, nuclear energy as a solution for climate protection is "an old narrative that is still as inaccurate as in the 1970s."
I'd be happy with a Spotify model for news if instead of paying out to broad publications, it paid out to authors. There are some freelance journalists whose names I can recognize when they pop-up occasionally in Vice, CBC, etc. Although Spotify is notoriously misery towards independent artists and the whole thing would probably collapse under clickbait trash.
From what I've seen, it's a no. On contrary, mixed with the summer slowdown I've noticed that hiring is pretty much on hold across the board.
This sounds like a really good idea... if you want to hide subtle backdoors in innocuous-looking code.
Critical thinking is hard. Stay vigilant.

The photoshopped image of an octopus and a sasquatch hand was what first tipped me off. I wanted to believe this was a real animal, octopuses are magnificent creatures.
The rules are in https://eliben.github.io/lsystem/rules.js and the evaluation is in https://eliben.github.io/lsystem/lsys.js It looks like f and g are special rules for moving with the pen down or the pen up.
This is brilliantly interesting. However, I lack a taxonomy for understanding nuclear power. What’s outdated, what’s just old, what’s new and promising, what’s just nonsense, and what are the ways we expect to deploy nuclear energy?

Finding reliable and accessible sources is tricky. Does anybody here have a good starting point for a technically minded non-expert outsider?
You have to decide whether the complexity and cost of a fully redundant system is worth it and consider it against what your SLA is, especially if your redundancy increases the risk of something going wrong because of that extra complexity.

From personal experience in B2B web apps, a lot of sales/business MBA type's will say they need 100% uptime, but what they actually mean is it needs to be available whenever their customer's users want to access it, and their users are business users that work 9-5 so there's plenty of scope for the system to be down (either due to genuine outage or maintenance/upgrades).

You've possibly also got the bonus of the people that use the app are different to the people that pay for it, so you've also got some leeway in that your system can blip for a minute and have requests fail (as long as there's no data loss), and that won't get reported up the management chain of the customer, because hitting F5 30 seconds later springs it back into life and so they carry on with their day without bother firing an email off or walking over to their bosses desk to complain the website was broken for a second.

At a previous company we deployed each customer on their own VM in either AWS or Azure, with the app and database deployed. It was pretty rare for a VM to fail, and when it did the cloud provider automatically reprovisioned it on new hardware, so as long as you configure your startup scripts correctly and they work quickly then you might be down for a few minutes. It was incredibly rare for an engineer to have to manually intervene, but because our setup was very simple we could nuke a VM, spin up another one and deploy the software back onto it in and be up and running again in under 30 minutes, which to us was worth the reduced costs.
1 - why didnt this happen before? Thwre was never this much of money created in the system, and Capital was never this cheap.

2 - its usually employees, and sometimes even customers, who are non equity shareholders but long term beneficiaries of the health of the company. Workers usually are not organized well enough to repel a a saavy PE firm. But careful, in some cases, PE may be liberating a firm being sucked dry from low-productivity workers or richly paid pensioners. Its hard to know which is which unless you are diving into the details.

PE is not wrong, just like unions are not wrong, but what matters is what is their management style. Parasite, or builder?
Just curious: what’s the difference between the past and today? What changed for you?
the eternal dilemma of the min-maxers and the roleplayers.
the productivity cult are the min-maxers.
living cannot be min-maxed.

even productivity cannot be min-maxed, save for the short term, for the simple reason that we don't know what productivity is. technological revolutions are the prime example of this, where each turn of each revolution shifts the entire idea of what being productive is.
When I tried to convince my buddy, a major Toyota truck fan, that really _this_ was the kind of truck evryone actually drives in Japan, he didn't want to believe me 8-)

This kind of thing is just obviously not allowed in the US, right? I mean, where's the luxury? What happens to all that social status that comes from needing a small ladder to climb into the cockpit of your rigg?

I was also mildly entertained by "damn metric system" 8-) Yea...

I have to say though, it's encouraging to see news of someone in the US coming to grips with the advantages of such a vehicle.

I've always liked the 1/2 tilting 3 wheelers like the Honda Canopy:
https://wonderfulengineering.com/honda-has-introduced-a-new-...
Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode
Narragansett Beer Spearheads Efforts to Save Anchor Brewing
Not to pick on you, but every time this discussion happens on HN, someone argues that the nuclear power industry is burdened by far more red tape than other industries (probably true) and that if we simply reduce the red tape, we could profitably build new nuclear plants (probably true) and they would still be safe (probably not true). This isn't an engineering problem. This is a social problem. Suppose you offer to let people build with minimal regulation - the most profitable plants are going to be the ones that cut the most corners on safety. The great engineering team that made a safe but slightly more expensive reactor than the minimum allowed by regulation will be out of the market.

And unsafe nuclear is really unsafe in a politically terrible way. You are doomed to either have Chernobyls or a lot of non-optimal regulation, or excellent regulation in the world of spherical cows and frictionless planes.

Perhaps one of the new nuclear startups can find a solution to this, but it'll have to be by finding a way to mass produce nuclear within the existing heavy red tape regime. And in the real world, that's not a bad thing.
Keep in mind that most CS graduates feel like they don't know what they are doing. CS is meant to give you a background that you can build on. The computer field is too broad for anyone to know it all. There are countless of SWEs that are very good at their jobs but don't have a CS degree. There is also the down side of a CS degree. You will be required to learn subjects that are nice to know but they will never be useful in your career. You have a job and you can do it. Now you just have to focus on the subjects that will enhance your abilities in your job and in your future career. My advice is to read the requirements of the types of jobs you are interested in and focus on those. Stay away from the trendy new computer languages. Also, contact people that are doing the type of jobs that you want and ask for their advice.

The job market is tight right now but that won't always be the case. SWE jobs are well paid so the competition to get them is high. You just have to continue trying until you can get the job you want.
GIF maker that generates images from real-time weather radar data
Same. More than half is bullshit but it's a form of rubber duck debugging and very inspiring to find a solution yourself.
If the business is still viable with the debt load, the bank continues to get paid on the loan but whoever owns the company doesn't get much profit. There are plenty of businesses or there that exist but don't thrive or grow, the PE sucking of vitality just moves businesses that might have thrived into that category.
The difference is that the lobbyists that the billionaires hire is an expert on policy, and your average broke homeless has never looked at the text of a law. Hell, do you think that any legislator who spends 90% of their time virtue signaling or politicking has read the ~1000 pages of the CARES Act or ACA before voting on it? They outsource much of this work to lobbyists. Voters demand things like free antivirals and lower gas prices, and they shut up when politicians superficially satisfy these demands while doing the minimal due diligence, so corporate lobbyists can take advantage of this. When people genuinely care about things after than virtue signaling about caring, they are able to using lobbying as a force of good, which is how we got Civil Rights and the Clean Air Act.
In these cases, you aren't writing for people; you're writing for search engines and the airbnb search / ranker. So I think the llm text expansions help.
Curious, what concrete progress have professional linguists made on deciphering Linear A?
I wasn't talking about eastern Europe.
Ah, zero trust by another name.

Sure, makes sense. Agree that level of continuous authorization makes sense. Defense-in-depth to the max.
Sounds like you read half my message then replied, i think its confusing due to the confusion with email.
> significant fraction of GPT users are students, many/most of whom are currently on summer break

What does this imply for how ChatGPT is being used by students?
I would argue that this form factor could absolutely replace the vast majority of trucks use for delivery and contractor duties in many cities and towns in the US.

Edit: flat bed pickup trucks that is, not lorries.
It's more boring to say LLMs trained on output from other LLMs fail to build viable statistical models of language.
> However I only really see nuclear proponents (and those of fossil fuels) attacking renewables.

The reverse is pretty much true too. It seems like both renewables and nuclear proponents should be taking turns bashing fossil fuels, but since both see each other as a competitor for "the future of power", that's where the banter goes.

> And I only really see fossil fuel and nuclear proponents making widespread demonstrably false statements.

You don't have to go further than this thread to find false statements about nuclear.
"We built Turbo with this question in mind, and streamers continue to earn revenue from ads that Turbo subscribers miss. For streamers – revenue you receive from Turbo subscribers who watch your channel is reflected in your “Ads” revenue estimate in your payout analytics." Source: https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/twitch-turbo-guide?language...

Disclosure: I work here, but I'm not close enough to the Turbo folks to do anything but quote public materials.
I think demographic shifts on platforms is a lot more elastic than we give it credit for.
This attitude is so stupid. You could:

1) milk a dumb problem you've already solved, making very moderate profit, or

2) solve it and move onto more interesting problems, continuing to make money
Anything that interacts through gravity creates gravity waves. It's not just DM - black holes, stars, planets, even you create gravity waves.
The legalization of pharmaceutical advertisement in 1997 was the start of the corruption of our news. If you pay attention to virtually any of the news orgs, such as CNN, or MSNBC, etc, you'll see pharma ads and / or sponsorship logos during the broadcast. In many cases, the pharma company account for 70% or more of their advertising revenue. They can effectively crush any story they don't want making the mainstream, while also pushing whatever health narrative they desire to drive profits. It's truly disgusting.

I've pretty much started watching Glen Greenwald's online newscasts, he is one of the few remaining true investigative journalists out there.
Dusk OS: 32-bit Forth OS. Useful during first stage of civilizational collapse
It takes time and resources, which cost money. Ads can't pay for it well enough. The article rightly points out that subscriptions cost way too much relative to the number of sources people consume. Everyone left and right screeches about government influence if taxes are used to pay for it. What's left, wealthy patronage paying for it? People working for free (e.g. OSINT twitter)?
Thanks! That setup is actually my backup plan if I start to run out of memory.

Maybe it’s my imagination but it seems like CL isn’t as suited to sharing code and read-only data pages across processes (e.g. in shared libraries). Or maybe there’s a solution I just haven’t found yet…
Looking for additional maintainers on a few projects