skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do those cost estimates include the absolutely insane over-engineering for safety that has been forced on the nuclear power industry and _only_ the nuclear power industry? I'd be shocked if a single other power generation method didn't double in price if it was forced to meet the same standards as nuclear. I guarantee you that the coal plants in Germany are killing more people every year than every single one of their Nuclear plants has combined over it's lifetime. And likely more than every single nuclear plant on the planet with the possible exception of Chernobyl

To be clear, I'm not saying there should be no regulations, and that just anyone should be able to build any kind of reactor they want anywhere they want with no concerns for safety etc. But I do _very much think_ that when you are considering a technology that increases safety and also increases cost, you have to consider what the alternatives are. Are _they_ safer than whatever the current thing is? If you force it to be more expensive and more safe, are you going to get less of it and instead get the other, cheaper, more dangerous thing?

That calculation has never been done (in the US at least) and the result is thousands to millions dead over the past 80ish years a result of continuing to burn coal instead of nuclear.

The US nuclear safety regime (which is what makes it so expensive and so impractical) has no concept of tradeoffs. It imagines a hypothetical perfect power generation that never kills anyone to which nuclear should be held. That standard is ridiculous now and was ridiculous 50 years ago when nuclear was _already safer than coal_.
> The vast majority of healthcare is....

...entirely unnecessary procedures done for profit
Would you like to work for the Garbage Collection Company of America?

Would you like to work for the American Garbage Collection Company?

Would you like to starve?

Aha, you've volunteered to work as a garbage collector.

I think this isn't what people think of as voluntary. Sophie's Choice is a better description.
Every media and entertainment format is catching up to where video games were in 2007. Basically discovering Steam.
Interesting.

There are lots of A from AI but zero I.
This makes me sad. I once saw my nephew looking at a dino book and I joined him, and for some reason he ended up telling me that they exist in some part of the world. Stupid me laughed at him and told him that they no longer exist, and this has haunted me for years.

I say this, because there was a photo of blue teddy-octopi's legs hanging from a tree on the site, and I started imagining a dad telling his kid how this is something real, that he/she should watch for them to see if he/she can spot them occasionally.

Hurts my heart, but the site is nice, like a cherished thought which someone wanted to keep alive.
There are much faster IR Links for industrial application. They are for example used in automatic crane application. I don't know the data rate just now, but we have a crane with a such Profibus link since over 20 years in our factory.

https://www.leuze.com/en-us/products/optical-data-transmissi...
You might want to try out MessagEase, which is a flick syle keyboard like the Japanese ones mentioned above.

There's room for a lot of punctuation on the same layer as the alphabet, plus support for ctrl/alt/F-keys. I find it great for working with ssh.
I was asking about some details from some of kafka's stories as I hadn't read them in a while and wanted to check but search engines seem useless nowadays. It either said how it is not mentioned or significant and when I say it is mentioned it will just make stuff up
> So when I see an upstream gatekeeper accusing someone of not understanding what they are proposing, I am skeptical.

Your comment reads like a textbook example of an appeal to authority.

Google engineers don't walk over water, and what Google accepts in their internal networks considering on Google's tightly locked internal security infrastructure might not map to real world security environments.

It also boggles the mind how you somehow presume a Linux kernel maintainer who repeatedly pointed out the failures of the proposed patch does not know what he is talking about. Unbelievable.

> The thing that is “dead on arrival” here is probably the ability of the general public to enjoy something that google already uses.

I'd wager that what the general public enjoys is working code with an excellent security track record thanks to the outstanding work by Linux kernel maintainers, who repeatedly stop broken submissions from being accepted.
Tech was present in California in the mid-late 20th century; in fact, Silicon Valley was founded by an ex-Bell scientist named Bill Shockley, who shared a Nobel prize for the transistor. His company didn't do well, but ex-employees founded Fairchild Semiconductor, whose ex-employees founded Intel. This brought along many other tech companies, such as Atari, Apple, and the like.

Though Bell labs continued to innovate into the 70s and 80s, the AT&T monopoly was split up, which left Bell Labs with significantly less cash to invest into pure research with. IBM also lost the PC wars, ironically even though the PC became the international default for a microcomputer by the 80s and 90s.

So, yes, while tech moved west, the existing eastern behemoths had their own troubles which led to their downfall, independent of California. At the same time, Stanford became a major hiring location for these tech companies, and its engineering departments gained nationwide recognition. Companies moved to California to get access to Stanford talent.

Source - The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
> the useful energy consumed was in the kinetic energy transferred by the motor into the bit.

This doesn't solve the problem, because the final machined part is not moving, and thus has no kinetic energy.

In order to get an efficiency number, we would have to know what 100% means. Maybe it's possible to calculate the minimum energy required to break the chemical bonds spanning a given cross sectional area of solid aluminum?

I imagine that you could (very theoretically) recover this energy by cold welding the aluminum back together a vacuum.
Announcements often get played repeatedly -- "Train 101 to Lisbon is now on track 5". Why do you want to torture station's workers with that?

Instead, make an effort to start a conversation with your fellow travelers, or graciously respond to such effort from them. Apologize if you already do.
lol, it happens.
That’s a good point, I do not have a rebuttal.
This sells me further on the model, actually.

I would be 100% for paying a monthly fee on Twitch that gets sliced up proportionally to how much I watch each channel. While it seems to work for them, and clearly lots of people pay to be part of a club and get noticed by their streamer, there’s no way I’m paying $7.50CAD per channel. So I end up paying nothing at all.
When people are invited to become partners, usually they needed to write a check, but also buy-in over a number of years using a percentage of their earnings, as well as the firm potentially providing financing to buy their partnership interest. On retirement, partners were bought out (in many cases, getting paid out over a time until they were fully bought out)
LLMs aren't great and can't be relied upon in business setting or at least I would not.

But think open world games. GTA VII for example where all NPCs have their dialogs auto generated in real time but also converted to audio in real time.

That's going to be a world which would be a lot more spontaneous with lot less effort.

Right now, If memory serves me right, GTA V dialogs alone are 5000 pages or more, hand written.
I don’t think they changed anything drastic. I’m still able to do the terminal simulation prompt and pretty much anything else from before. I think they improved the guardrails around the responses so you have to try a bit harder, but I wouldn’t say it’s worse.
The number of existing old yubikeys is absolutely miniscule compared to the number of people who aren't using any keys yet.
I'll always remember when the company I work for now went full remote.

I was already a remote worker, hired as a senior. Attended all my meetings over zoom.

Suddenly, when the company went full remote, meeting load about doubled.

My role/responsibilities didn't change. So either I was missing plenty of important meetings, or, there's a lot of useless meetings.
IPv6 when
The well have been poisoned already.
Sounds very similar to Optus breach in Australia.
Consider an alternative game

1. Pick a door

2. Monty asks if you want to switch to both of the other two doors

3. If you switched, Monty will remove a losing door from one of your two doors

I think it is easy to see that this game has the same odds as the original, and also that switching increases your odds from 1/3 to 2/3.
While the issues the article mentions could certainly be real, I'd wonder how much of it is just the novelty wearing off. People are way more forgiving of the flaws in a new shiny thing; for an example read the early reviews of Windows Vista (they're generally quite positive, but with benefit of hindsight it's remembered as a bit of a disaster, and with very low adoption).

(Personally I played with it (ChatGPT, not Windows Vista) for 30 mins when it came out, then never went back, but then I'm a grumpy contrarian.)
Pigeon: AI is better than you at figuring out where a street pic was taken
Some people find this helpfully confusing: it allows them to remain in denial of the obviousness of how horrendous the ruling class is.
Those that believe the I in AI actually exists might.
Usually I avoid making any improvement that is not directly related to the tasks at hand. Even adding a missing semicolon risks bringing this to the attention of an overzealous reviewer that will then make me follow a rabbit hole of legacy fixes.

I’d rather create issues silently so I don’t forget instead of even adding a FIXME or TODO. I think this part of reviews is broken. Resolving tech debt should not be a requirement for completing a task, it should be planned.
If you wonder: How does it write itself? Isn’t it just the ability to write functions?

In a way, yes, but it's a bit more than that. Many programming languages allow you to define functions or methods, but Forth takes this concept further by allowing you to define new "words" that can become part of the language itself. These words can be used just like built-in operations, and they can even change the way the language behaves.

Also, because Forth is an extensible language, you can create words that define new control structures or modify the language's syntax. This is a level of flexibility that's not commonly found in other languages. In this sense, Forth can be seen as a language that "writes itself" because it allows programmers to customize and extend the language in a very fundamental way.

The ability to extend Forth by defining new words is somewhat similar to the macro system in Lisp. Both provide a way to extend the language and customize it to suit your needs.

In Lisp, macros allow you to define new syntactic constructs in the language. They work by transforming your program at compile-time, essentially letting you create your own domain-specific language within Lisp. This is a powerful feature that makes Lisp highly flexible and adaptable.

Similarly, in Forth, you can define new words that become part of the language and can be used just like built-in words. This allows you to extend the language's syntax and functionality, making Forth highly extensible and customizable.
So that it's shaped more like a page of text than a telegram.
Introducing linting in the test stage (flake8 with python) solves so many problems.

By completely removing any personal preferences and disagreements on style, the whole team just gets to hate on and berate an inanimate tool instead.

We all just seem to equally dislike flake8 and move on with our lives.
They ran a case study at a school, you can scroll down and see their overview setup which did what you're talking about, a room full of them providing a connection: https://www.purelifi.com/case-studies/lifi-in-the-classroom/
I've been sent to nationstates.net and I think I'm lost forever.
A problem with both nuclear-bros as well as anti-nuclear folks is that they tend to get their information through armchair experts who oversimplify extremely complex topics. Neither group tends to understand the real reasons for costs, the risks and dangers of technologies (including other than nuclear, for proper comparisons), or even the complexities of simply emissions which is far more than electricity and transportation and includes daily and seasonal fluxuations across an extremely non-homogeneous landscape.

FWIW, the IPCC advocates for a diversified portfolio which includes nuclear, and this is the general stance of most climate and energy researchers as the simplified version of reasoning (I know, ironic) is "don't take it off the table." When to use it, how much, and where is more controversial, but this gets extremely complicated quite quickly. It's rather problematic when the people disseminating information (i.e. science communicators; both on youtube as well as news) are not actively aligned with scientific consensus.
Also, I'm curious whether it takes more energy to fill the tanks from 60 to 80 psi vs 80 to 100 psi. Filling the tank until its full is not really a useful metric, would be more interesting to learn how much pedaling continuous operation requires.
Wires likely permit too much side-channel to be safe.
> five radiation monitors detected a 2-km-long size gamma-ray glow, which suddenly terminated with a lightning flash

Wow, does that mean you could predict where lightning might strike? I suppose it would only work with ~seconds notice?
Non-paywalled version: https://archive.vn/fELsN
a lot of them are, like ceran cooktops
It's telling the the landing page is actually HTML so links fucking work. If you want to go super minimal with "plain text", which has a variety of meanings, go ahead. Minimalism is fine. I just find the "plain text" fetishism silly.

The web won out over FTP and Gopher because documents could link to others for reference. Those systems could only link through menus (if at all).

HTML is actually pretty awesome. If you want minimal HTML just make minimum HTML. You don't need JavaScript or CSS. You can include a single meta tag with a viewport directive and get a magically responsive page perfectly readable between desktop and mobile without having hard line breaks.

Plain text on the web sucks. If the browser gets a header of "Content-Type: text/plain" what's the encoding? Good luck figuring it out. While ISO-8859-1 is defined as the default for text/plain I really hope you don't use any high ASCII characters or a European keyboard. A lot of web servers won't automatically add a charset to the content type. With HTML you can define the document's charset in the header of the document itself. Plain text also has no semantic elements so the browser can't make good formatting decisions in absence of explicit formatting instructions.
Yeah, this is kind of what I'm suspecting here.

Chatbots tend to come across as impressive until you explore more and hit their limits.
It definitely helps me write more and better software
What city are you in? It will get better if more and more people ride.
The problem with the income tax was actually Article 1, Section 9:

No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

It explicitly bans direct taxes except for a fixed tax per person. A income tax which directly taxes individuals almost certainly constitutes a direct tax by any reasonable interpretation.

The 16th amendment directly repudiates that section and grants the explicit power to levy a income tax.
> the interplay between ... coalgebra and algebra

If you have not already seen it, you may be interested in Squiggol (to get an idea of its age, it probably had some indirect influence upon Python)

cf Charity: https://prism.ucalgary.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/756b50a...
Most of the time (with many notable exceptions), Hacker news comments are interesting and insightful, clearly written by intelligent and thinking people. However, in a number of AI threads, it seems like so many commenters are wearing the hype goggles when it comes to this technology.

Large language models have their uses, but calling them AI, or thinking of them as AGI, seems like a mistake. I'm no expert, but insofar as I can tell, these things are just complex stochastic parrots; pattern matching algorithms at a massive scale. They really don't seem that useful outside of more narrow use cases, like language translation and other forms of data analytics.

Just playing around with GPT/Bing chat for a while makes this obvious. The LLMs can't reason and have no actual awareness of the information they are regurgitating. A moments consideration of the output from these things shows them to be vapid and useless; a glorified parlor trick for the VC-funded tech industry to build hype around and make money. It's the next block chain/ crypto / NFT.

There are great uses for block chain tech, same with machine learning / AI. But the scope of the claims made about these technologies in their hype cycles is just insane. Crypto is not going to replace fiat currency anytime soon. NFTs are stupid. LLMs are useless stochastic parrots. Maybe people are just wising up to that fact, now. Good on them.

As a preemptive rebuttal:
I don't think LLMs are useful for coding either. If you want lots of sloppy, poorly written code, sure they're useful. But to write good software, you have to think carefully about what you're doing and have a thorough mental model of what's going on. Relying on AI to generate that code prevents that from happening from the outset.
> It's been such a consistent problem for so long that it has shades of the Phoebus cartel about it.

Which wasn't what the general public thinks it is and, much like equating short-run in-device transports with lossy, room-distance ones, is a good signal that one is comparing apples and trailer trucks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY
We can cherry pick until we go green...

Here is the top result for me at: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Metabolic+health+share+of+healthca...

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/poor-diet...

Starts with:

> Unhealthy diets account for almost 20% of U.S. health care costs from heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, according to a new study.

Please help yourself to cherries
Can you elab on the legal crime by Fink's Blackrock?
> Unpopular opinion: The second hand is my generally useless in everyday life apart from short duration timing where a stopwatch would be superior. And it leads to unnecessary distraction by motion pollution in the visual field.

A sweeping second hand is handy for doing heart rate and respirations per minute, as you can just watch for 15 seconds, which is also mathematically and visually the same as the second hand sweeping 90 degrees, which is easy to dial in and count at the same time.

By multiplying these 15-second biometrics by 4, which is easy mental math. You also save the other 45 seconds per reading per patient over time.
So now you can buy bitboin without actually buying bitcoin... wow. Expose yourself to all the volatility, all the harsh swings and market manipulation by crypto whales, all while owning none of the currency. Sounds awful.
One other thought: if you’ve ever been annoyed by cargo capacity, flats, etc. e-assist is a great leveler. I stopped worrying about the weight of my lock, heavy duty tires, etc. because I have an e-cargo bike with a kid on it, which is liberating compared to sweating grams on a road bike. (Not that a good road bike isn’t fun but it’s way less practical)
sprintf(&CMD_BUF,"echo admin:%s > %s",pass1,path);
system(&CMD_BUF);

You've probably heard of useless use of cat, but this is a useless use of echo. Given that the code even opens the file in question several lines above, I'm surprised that the author didn't know about fprintf.
Interesting and agreed. Is it more secure (or less detectable) than Ethernet? I suppose Ethernet has some form of magnetic radiation. I wonder what all this infrared light bouncing around will do to us monkeys.
You're right. The invention of the transistor was a multi-decade effort by scientists working outside of regular hours, essentially inventing the field of solid state physics. It's hard to imagine such a technology coming out of a publicly traded company like Google or Apple, whose year-to-year or even quarter-to-quarter behavior is as sensitive to changes in interest rates and short term market conditions as a balloon in the wind.
People often ask why the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus has such a successful ecological niche that alternates between the rainforest and under the water.

The reason is that unlike humans and other land creatures, they are completely immune to the toxic effects of Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO). In fact, they require regular immersion in it.

This also explains why the octopuses don't migrate farther south. When on the land, they still require ongoing contact with DHMO, which on the Olympic Peninsula is found in abundance in the very air!

https://dhmo.org/
This is a nonsensical response. You know what is meant by “profit” in the context of this discussion. You argue in bad faith particularly since you deliberately left off the motive part of my statement.

Obviously what is being discussed is that non-workers should not reap monetary rewards from denying care or otherwise siphoning out money from the healthcare system. You may nitpick each word and be as pedantic as possible but none of that will demonstrate that having PE firms in charge of hospitals would be better than a government or nonprofit entity running things.
Medical insurance in the US has strict limits on profits. If they deny a little care, they can hit their cap, but if they deny too much, they have to send premium refunds. Really, the way to increase costs is to increase spending on care --- then they have more profit available, if they also increase premiums.
I wonder, does this pollute the IR on your apartment so that your TV remote would no longer work? Although with streaming set-top boxes, those are using RF most of the time these days.
Which country? 89 makes me think not Russia.. Romania?

It is worth pointing out your observation applies to lots of post-colonial societies, too. Socialism took Tanzania's literacy rate from about 10% at independence to 80%+ in a generation, and IIRC it also doubled its agricultural output in that time by organising farming along collective lines. Life expectancy rose substantially too, though I forget by how much.

(So much for empires being about spreading civilization, eh?)
Maybe Phind is missing, at least for programming and in some cases obtaining technical information about something related to programming is really useful.
Our python tooling enforces an 80 character limit and every time I run into it I make my code worse in some way to comply. Usually it's just less descriptive variable names, sometimes it's less readable autoformat. I've given up fighting it, just let it stink things up.
I’m not going to re-solve problems for users that already have a solution but refuse to use it.
I know a lead who uses their vacation to be able to work from home with a week free of scheduled meetings.