skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"burnt" is a pretty intuitive way of saying the usable energy in the fuel is released. It's a nuclear reaction, not a chemical reaction like combustion, but it's a pretty descriptive term that's also used inside of the nuclear industry itself (I heard a talk from a nuclear engineer about rotating fuel rods to achieve an "even burn", in his own words).

Storage remains a big barrier to wide-scale deployment of intermittent power sources in a manner truly independent of a fossil fuel grid. While costs may be dropping, scale and competition with electric vehicles means grid storage isn't growing all that quickly. Many solar plants that are employing storage are only installing 2-4 hours worth of storage, which isn't sufficient to even out the duck curve let alone seasonal variations. Wind also has big swings in seasonal production. Even with significant overproduction, most grids are still looking at several days worth of storage to account for a string a cloudy or less-windy days.

Another factor is that wind and solar have significantly different output depending on geography and weather. Nuclear's only geographic requirement is a source of water for cooling - and that doesn't have to be potable water, it can be salt water or wastewater. And since human beings need water, too, this is rarely an impediment to deploying nuclear power plants near the population centers that use the most power. By contrast, wind and solar often need to be produced hundreds of miles away from population centers. This tends to overload the transmission capacity of rural power infrastructure [1], sometimes halting wind and solar projects.

1. https://www.vox.com/videos/22685707/climate-change-clean-ene...
The problem with encryption is that it discourages interaction between hams (which is already pretty bad, tbh). Yes, you’re supposed to announce your callsign, but my bet is that unsavory characters would take advantage of that. I think it’s pretty cool to listen in on different protocols and see what people are trying out (M17 is an excellent example).

FHSS is pretty trivial to “decrypt” these days with an SDR.

While you’re not wrong about experimentation, I feel like ham radio should be focused more on the radio side of things rather than encryption implementations. Implementing the hardware and software encoding/decoding is the hard/fun part (at least to me). Encryption should come as a piece of cake after than if you can achieve a given bitrate.

And again - there already are bands that allow encryption. A couple hundred bucks and a few applications, and you’re free to go nuts.

And I completely forgot, but ISM bands do allow encryption, are free, and there is plenty of hardware out there readily available.
Very cool, kind of reminds me of Ocarina of Time or something
You need to provide links to the content you claim exists. Otherwise your claims seem foundless.
We used to build fanless computers. This tech will be very useful in environments that have wide temperature ranges throughout the year from extreme cold to extreme heat. I just took a red eye flight so my brain is scrambled but this tech could also be useful to help dampen rapid temp changes (thermal shocks).

On the extreme cold side, you can use heaters to warm up your components to boot temperature, however if said component is connected your heatsink you are fighting a losing battle.
Oberon is used in microcontroller programming, medical device programming, railways in Switzerland use Oberon, atomic power station in Rostov (Russia) use it, a power station in Kaliningrad also uses Oberon.
> You may provide input to the Services (“Input”), and receive output from the Services based on the Input (“Output”). Input and Output are collectively “Content”. You are responsible for Content, including ensuring that it does not violate any applicable law or these Terms.

This is not new, but something I didn't know they tried to push onto you. So if you make it generate a CSS flag or otherwise reproduce such an illegal number, that's on you (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number "possession is claimed to be illegal in the United States")
Making Content Is Worth It
Thinking about outreach and content marketing.
And there go the last vestiges of the concept of ownership.
Yes, this is my whole point. Mypy by default will silently allow blatantly incorrect typing which is worse than no types IMO.
I highly recommend https://github.com/sdiehl/write-you-a-haskell as it is very developer friendly. It’s not complete, but it really gets the gears turning and will set you up for writing your own Hendley-Milner style type checker.
LLMs almost never write good senior quality code at first in niche disciplines. You need to finesse it a lot to have it produce the correct answer. And that makes it unusable for when you genuinely do not know the answer to the question you’re asking, which is kind of the entire point.
Exactly this. There is quite a bit of hubris to thinking to that you can consume the media of a propaganda state and be intentional about understanding what is and is not propaganda. It works because it’s subtle. And it works at individual, population, and network levels. So even of you identify and maintain the noble truth, you will have no one in your network to meaningfully corroborate it.
Okay, so at what value will the Unix timestamp equal the human population? I should start a pool…
...I don't know what to tell you dude.

It just sounds like you're projecting your poor interview experiences onto me.

If you can't take a statement as unambiguous as "feel free to ask questions at any time" at face value, then why even bother interviewing?

And for the record, I've been the candidate in plenty of interviews. I've done the 5-hour FAANG interviews and know how shitty they are. It's why I specifically designed the coding interview process at my company to be much more candidate friendly.
Is that a realistic threat with AES-256 and randomly generated keys?
No, but it helps legitimize the hobby for people making covers or gamer presidents.
I agree, going to a cashier can be way faster, especially if you pack items the same time that the cashier scans. The cashiers also have memorised codes for fruits etc, so you don't have to use the search function on a kiosk.

I have to add that I have basically always had poor experiences using the garbage web-app menus that restaurants use. It is also much slower to get an overview on menu items on a small phone screen.
Good. I don't want any of that shit to come to me anyways. Please give me more reasons to not use an iPhone.
Free Oberon is used as educational tool (since 2016).

I also use it in production code for web-development. It serves as a backend for a high-load interactive website (langauge courses with exercises).
"A UCLA-developed thermal transistor uses an electric field to control heat flow, as shown in this illustration."

Uhhh, that doesn't look like an illustration to me? It looks like AI-generated nonsense that has little to do with anything.

The actual paper (linked in another comment here) does have some real illustrations.
That seems less likely than rapidly self improving AI, or AI that just doesn't work too good.

Why do you think AI will be able to do most tasks, but not improve itself? Unless you have a different understanding of "most tasks" than I do.
Why would M$ pay for what it gets for free?
> What stops the Google's of the world from simply ignoring every dmca takedown request?

They become liable for copyright infringement if the work in question is actually in violation of copyright.

You’d want to be very sure that a work you were hosting wasn’t in violation of copyright before outright ignoring a DCMA request.
I highly recommend Doomberg's substack for energy related analysis. His article "Angels on a Pin" explains how storing nuclear waste is not as scary as people make it out to be.

Direct link here: https://doomberg.substack.com/p/angels-on-a-pin
I wouldn’t really equate Ukraine with Hussein or the Taliban, but yes, the US bears huge responsibility for the mess there.
>You're arguing against urban policies in cities from the point of view of rural areas.

Keep in mind that a "city" can be more rural than most people realize.

For example, the town that's 5 minutes' drive away is legally designated as a city (it's the county seat, in fact) despite the population being just under 40,000 and the surroundings being as rural as it gets. In terms of physical size, I can drive across the entire city in 5 to 10 minutes assuming I don't get stopped by traffic lights.

A neighbouring city in the same county, and I believe it's the second-most populace city in the county, has a population of just over 2,000 and can be driven through in less than a minute. Yes, it's legally designated as a city.

>A heavier vehicle is only safer in a crash when crashing into a smaller object. All you're doing is increasing your own safety at the cost of everyone else's.

Yes, and I have no qualms about that fact. We all take steps to better our own place in life, sometimes at the cost of others. I'm doing it to someone, and someone's doing it to me, no big deal.

It's not like bigger and heavier cars are restricted only to the wealthy either, so you can't even argue this is wealth inequality.
The CO2 released by fossil fuels also can have century spanning impacts.
Well fuck those people. Glad I don't know any of them. They sound shallow as fuck.
> Sometimes people don't want to talk, and that is easily noticeable.

That's nice to see.

I'm friendly and comfortable talking to strangers but usually avoid it because folks tend to draw it out.
Hey, I worked on that bridge! (I’m the Brooklyn guy).

I highly suspect that they’re doing a sort of Matrix hosting thing and can then claim E2EE because Matrix encryption or whatever. But based on how the bridge works (or used to? it’s been some time), then yes - there IS a point in time in which it has to be a plaintext string. Unless they somehow managed to reverse engineer iMessage’s encryption - in which case, well shit, there’s bigger problems now - eventually you have to tell IMCore/imagent and/or ChatKit what it is that you want to send, and who to send it to. And thus it can’t be E2EE otherwise it would be unintelligible to the recipient.

Curious to know if they’re actually talking to imagent and using chatkit (and thus have iMessage features ie typing receipts, sending reactions) or if they’re just using AppleScript and reading the sms db…

God I should go back and rewrite Brooklyn. Now that I’m more than halfway through a CS degree and know how to make a binary search tree and how to not leak memory. lmao
It came fast, I’m barely done celebrating 1696969420
Please don't make things up. Parent never said a) they own an Android or b) they own one for ideological reasons.

>As someone who cares little for the ideology of consumer choices, I don’t think we’d get along

This means you actually _do_ care about the ideology of consumer choices, no?
35 VC firms have signed the voluntary Responsible AI commitments
It’s saying a lot about the toxicity of the world around us that our own bodies are toxic waste…
I’ve always wanted to see something like that. I always wonder if forecasts are a coin flip beyond a window of a few hours.
Beyond Memorization: Violating privacy via inference with LLMs
wield*
Oberon is perfect for teaching purposes. It is understandable from the first glance. On the first lesson, even 9-year-olds start writing graphical programs! I've been testing Free Oberon as an edutcational tool since 2016. Kids in a sport summer camp use it.
What would be the key attribute that makes or breaks a crab cake? That is, what distinguishes a Maryland vs Virginia crab cake?
> Don't you ever have one-off (or once-a-year) things you have to do that each time you have to invest a lot of time refreshing in your brain, and then basically forgetting for lack of use?

Not really. In AAA game programming, you mostly own the same systems you specialize in throughout the production process.

For example, someone in Rockstar North might work on the minimap for the entire production of a game.

In smaller AAA companies, a person might own vehicles or horses, or even the entire progression system. But still, programmers are rarely working on disconnected things.

You rarely step out of your expertise zone. And you are usually expected to perform much better than GPT would in that zone.
Well a couple of sites that offered string searches but went the way of the dodo after certain companies got their way, the old computing.net of early 2000s essence before it took its unfortunate path, and tehparadox.com (which though a warez forum and yeah it was bound to die, it had an interesting and diverse community that someone would answer those tricky technical questions in regard to tv media, etc.)
> Isn't not 'burnt' by any reasonable interpretation of the word

It actually is. Spent nuclear fuel goes from 3-5% of U-235 at the start to 0.3% at the end of the fuel campaign. There will also be some fissile plutonium, but not much.

Having just 1/10-th of initial fuel left definitely qualifies as "burnt".

That's also why reprocessing isn't economical right now. You just won't get that much new fuel.

> If the fuel rods were left in the reactor, they'd probably swell

That can't physically happen. Nuclear fuel is made of tablets of sintered oxide powders, and they are permeable to gases (helium is the main one produced as a result of fission).
These are important typographical features and I'm fairly sure this is handled by font rendering libraries, not the browser (other than handling the CSS rules), so I can't imagine it's that difficult to implement? Correct me if I'm wrong!
Thanks, I have never been to China, but have driven in big US cities so any basis for comparison is helpful.
It literally does. I'd imagine the kind of people that they don't want to associate with are exactly the kind of people who wouldn't like them anyway. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Humans are also vulnerable to the reversal curse! When you learn languages you have to learn both directions (chat is cat and cat is chat), anybody who has built an anki deck will know this, otherwise you will be better in one direction than the other.
I modified the title slightly to use language from the subhead. (Submitted title was "Effective GPT-4 Programming", which does have the advantage of being a phrase from the article itself, but is more of a section heading than a description of the entire article. For the latter purpose, it's probably too generic.)
> OK, I don't think so.

Doesn't matter what you think. It's a fact. No revolution swept the old guard from power. The system didn't change. I explained this to you.

> When the Berlin Wall fell, which direction did the foot vote move?

The wealthier side. You seem to mistake wealth with goodness.

Using your logic, because poor north koreans migrate to china or poor egyptians migrate to saudi arabia, it must mean china and saudi arabia are the good guys. That's the dumbest logic I've seen.

Between the soviet union and the US, the evil side exterminated a continent full of natives and dropped nuclear weapons. I'll let you figure out which side was the evil one. Anyway, thanks for your service killer.
Yes, but a few of the cousins/nieces I asked are in England.
I'd argue that knowledge for its own sake was valued more in the ancient world than it is today. It was one of the ways the elites could show their superiority over the lower classes that had no time for such pursuits. In particular, the liberal arts tradition favored by Western elites over millennia can be traced back to formal education in ancient Greece and Rome.

Also, your mention of religious rituals reminded me of one of my favorite comments ever:

> Roman religion was purely about ritual and not at all about belief. Indeed, the Romans viewed belief as a matter of philosophy, not of religion. They would have viewed the Pledge of Allegiance as clearly religious, but the Nicene Creed as straddling the boundary, and Buddhism as clearly philosophical.

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/55197/what-is-th...

That attitude is still prevalent around the world, and it explains why many people are opposed to religious freedom. If religion is more about the society than individual belief, rejecting your religion means also rejecting your friends, family, and the entire society.
Compare it to all of the other things people use as status symbols: it’s a tiny fraction of a car, less than a decent suit, and wouldn’t go that far at a nightclub or nice restaurant. Google has been intensely marketing this idea that green bubbles are discriminatory as part of their PR push but I’m skeptical that even if Google got everything they wanted from the EU, the shallow people wouldn’t instantly move on to some other signifier.
I can think of dozens of use cases for this.

Transforming wireframes into UI / graphics is top of my mind right now.
Australia's top science agency faces scrutiny over industry influence
> I don't think that's correct. I have no sources on me. But I think historians generally agree - son of god or not - he did exist.

PSA:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

With regards to the idea of "no contemporary sources":

* https://historyforatheists.com/2018/05/jesus-mythicism-3-no-...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_silence

It should be noted that while Jesus was still alive he was a nobody: just another itinerant teacher in some backwater Roman province. It was only after he was executed (and supposedly resurrected) that that he perhaps became more noteworthy. And the 'cult' around that grew only later was when people started to notice.

We only care about [Hh]im now because of what that 'personality cult' became, but then (between 1AD and 32AD) why would anyone care to write things down about him?
I was reminded that Karate borrows the term Shoshin (beginner's mind) from Buddhism to express overcoming this dialectical.

In the world of martial arts this is expressed essentially by the fact that you work with the same people so this tends to a false sense of generality in ones understanding. Within any particular discipline there's confinements because there's a core focus and rubric of things you do with is necessarily exclusionary and reductive because of the constraints of time.

Serious martial arts practitioners (think career professionals) claim people will plateau indefinitely, as in for the remainder of their lives, unless they effectively practice shoshin. This can go in odd directions. Take George Dillman for example, who has developed a mechanism that he, and maybe nobody, really understands and as a result he's considered a fraud although he and his students experience it as genuine.

True shoshin demands an open investigation as to why, where, and how people feel a mechanism and a good faith assumption that there's something poorly understood there.

People will widely agree with the concept of shoshin but when it's demonstrated with an example, that previous consensus disappears. It's not easy or popular.
There are some comments from Tesla developers in previous posts about what a shitshow the code is that runs Tesla cars and what the OTA process is.
How often do you hear about WFH directly saving lives?
In USA, more than 100 people die each day in car crashes and if %5 of the population is all remote vs non remote. That approx. means 5 people saved every day? Minus other driving. Back to office means some has to die. These stats are consistent for decades, but how often do you hear about it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year
The question is whether one or more of the seasonal storage technologies on the horizon, when combined with the seasonal storage we already have (conventional hydropower with big honking dams) turns out to give a cheaper electricity system cost than nuclear in a given location.

Also worth pointing out that a large fraction of the world’s population lives in places where seasonal storage is not nearly as much of a problem. Seasonal storage is much more of an issue for cool temperate and subarctic zones in the northern hemisphere, where maximum energy demand and minimum solar energy supply occur at the same time. Several billion people across South Asia, south-east Asia, most of South America, Oceania, and most of Africa don’t have this unfortunate misalignment.
Well they certainly do beat New York City in crime rates. So the financial companies would be right at home.
Lol, good way to avoid those people.
Oberon also has multiple RETURN statements. Only the latest Oberon-07 version does not. So before 2007 Oberon always had multiple RETURNs.

And these keywords can be said to be "screaming" only by a person who does not understand what a "habbit" is. People get used to "screaming" keywords very quickly. And turns out, the uppercase keywords are more practical. Typing them does not take more time than typing curly braces all the time in other languges (you also need to press SHIFT for that, you know). The big keywords allow visual separation of syntax sections, that Go lacks so much.
I.e. in Go, when you see a for-loop, it may not actually be a for-loop, but a while or a foreach loop -- to find out, you need to count the semicolons in the line.
Nice project! It work very well.

Anyway, I tried some weird cases like a double sun and the AI got very confused. https://imgur.com/a/BAH3666 I expected some confusion like a weird horizon, but the double palm is very strange.
"Cooling" and "heating" just means the inside coil is colder/warmer than the outside, it does not mean the inside temperature will be comfortable for everyone. Neither while cooling nor while heating.
> We really really need to get the long-term storage worked out.

We did.

And there's $52+ billion in the Nuclear Waste Fund.

Nevada is just really good at complaining.
Yes, it is good at summarizing things and regressing things down to labels. It’s much worse at producing concrete and specific results from its corpus of abstract knowledge.

I think that’s the case with every discipline for it, not only programming. Even when everyone was amazed it could make poetry out of everything, if you asked for a specific type of poem and specific imagery in it, it would generally fail.
Related. Others?

Show HN: Inko 0.10.0 – build concurrent software with confidence - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32811621 - Sept 2022 (3 comments)

Inko 0.5.0 released, featuring the first steps towards a self-hosting compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20988908 - Sept 2019 (7 comments)

Inko (a gradually-typed object-oriented programming language) 0.4.0 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19893035 - May 2019 (1 comment)

Show HN: Inko – A safe and concurrent object-oriented programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17702237 - Aug 2018 (45 comments)
Taken to an absurd extreme: https://www.motor1.com/news/583580/toyota-prius-gooseneck-hi...

(It’s a Prius towing a goose neck trailer.)
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iPhones are popular. I grew up when almost nobody had cell phones or even pagers, and remember the exact same thing happening for having the wrong shoes, jacket, Trapper-Keeper, Walkman, bike, skateboard, etc. or, in high school or later, car. This is why there’s such a booming industry in counterfeit clothes or rapid knockoffs because certain people really prize being able to fit a trend.

If Google gets everything they ask for, the shallow people will instantly move on to something else because that’s how people like that work.
Yeah thanks for defining evolution, very helpful. Why do elks have horns? You think intrasexual competition never existed? You think inter family and inter tribal fights never happened? You think violence doesn't happen today? That humans don't try to fuck each other over today? To put it nicely, delusional.
You can do that with type inference and a strong, static type system.