skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I’m not sure I buy it, because I’m not sure what additional effort applied to tax administration looks like.

Perhaps we could be optimistic about people and assume the amount of real, legitimate tax fraud and evasion is pretty low. If we took the latter scenario you present—increasing efficiency means the same amount of people will do more work—and assumed this effort is instead applied to decreasing the number of random errors (which might result in someone overpaying or underpaying), we wouldn’t necessarily expect to see a change in the expected value of the taxes. But, it could be “better” in the sense that it is more fair.
How Did America Lose over 41M Miles of Fiber Optics Since 2007?
Money, at that scale at least, is pretty good at calculating business cases. And the money is on renewables, especially solar. And the solar Wp cost for modules is, with some special cause exceptions, following Moores law. Nuclear not so much, all those plants have is delays and cost over-runs.
Italy: How to Counter SLAPPs?
In the face of this kind of threat, it's pretty obvious why Apple treated Beeper as a security risk and took appropriate measures to secure iMessage.
The legal liabilities of the training data they use in their flagship product seems to be a thing the CEO should know.
For that to happen in the US, (1) we need to focus on more numerous, smaller modular reactors, (2) the NRC needs certification timeliness requirements forced on it (and more funding if there's an actual lack of resources), and (3) specific project requirements need to be frozen before construction (no more up-requiring mid-construction).

Modular reactors are the solution to not having enough capital or a long enough timeframe to launch and fund megaprojects at a pace that creates economies of scale anymore, which is exactly the US problem.
I have head that molten salt is much safer but also more expensive. Would there be a reason not to go with molten salt?
extremely poor title editorialization. hoping dang or a mod can set it to actual article title
The dates are correct. They expect it to be operational in Q1 of this coming year.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Vogtle-4-start-u...
Regarding swimming, you could get prescription goggles
I was taught about isotopes and radiation in elementary school by a mostly retired teacher who was involved in radiation safety during nuclear tests after WWII. It stuck with me, even if I didn't understand everything about the types of radiation and how atoms work. I still don't understand it all!

But he was very good at explaining something he was passionate about to children. We learned about other things, is some ways it felt like some years of middle and high school were learning an expanded version of what he taught us. It took several years before I realized how fortunate we were to have that experience.
The difference is that there are many cheaper viable alternatives to the firm power that nuclear provides, including renewables+batteries ($60/MWh and dropping) and enhanced geothermal ($80/MWh and dropping). Heck, even natural gas combined-cycle + carbon capture/storage is cheaper on an LCOE basis (~$60/MWh) than nuclear ($180/MWh and rising) [1]. It would be great if nuclear could be cost competitive for equivalently firm power, but its costs are increasing, not decreasing.

In contrast, the only real alternative to air travel for high speed transportation between Northern and Southern CA is high speed rail. The "Hyperloop" has been exposed (charitably) as a failure, and personal vehicle travel (even electrified) is not an equivalent to HSR in a state as big as CA.

None of that is to say that the CA HSR project has been well planned/executed or that the costs have been well estimated. But that doesn't obviate the need for high speed ground transport in the state.

1. https://www.lazard.com/media/2ozoovyg/lazards-lcoeplus-april... (pages 2 and 31)
To be specific it's airplane engines, 5th gen turbofan engines. China started building COMAC airplanes too, probably with questionable maintenance and serviceability story, that they can push with govt airlines. They are still having trouble with modern turbofan engines though.
> you don't get to tell people what they meant.

If I start saying "apple" to mean the orange colored citrus fruit, I'm just wrong.

Saying there are no ads, when there were ads, is just wrong.

> I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too.

Probably doing too many to notice all the ads on cable in the 90s then I guess. Because they were there.
Grid level solar has batteries installed on site. The site acts as a power generator that sells energy to PG&E, they don’t manage it themselves.

If anything a solar field requires much less operation expertise and staff to manage than a nuclear power plant. And when it goes bad, it might leech some acid and heavy metals into the soil over years, not leave a 10k year radioactive exclusion zone.
Did this back in '99 with a program called x2vnc.
There are tons of places like this in the SF Bay Area and Singapore (these are just places where I have been involved in investigating them, they are in many more places than that).

There’s even a startup company that will rent you space for running it.

https://cloudkitchens.com/locations/san-francisco-bay-area/

You’re not missing anything. Just bear in mind that demographics drive restaurant delivery businesses intensely and a big part of the business is related to regional demographic trends (and those vary globally quite a lot).
Great work and I'm glad to see coverage of the Persian language!

Upon inspecting the training dataset, I noticed almost all of the text is in "formal" Persian, which is fine if users want to talk to the model to write letters, website articles, etc., but what about "informal" Persian? Do you think the model could respond to users casual questions phrased like

به نظرت کدومو بخرم بهتره: این گوشیه که اندازه ی صفحه نمایشش ۶ اینچه یا اون یکی که یه کوچولو کوچیک تره ولی ۲ تومن ارزون تره؟
> But with a stone tool made out of something such as granite, isn't it correct that the only requirement is that the tool is not unduly compressed/crushed for it to survive 10s of thousands to millions of years?

Stone tools were made mostly from flint due to the way it cleaves with sharp edges. Granite and other stone tools weren't used until the neolithic as ground stones.

In order to survive for that long, stone tools mostly just had to avoid moving water. Anything that fell into a river or ocean would be worn away quickly (like beach glass).

Unfortunately, until the end of the last glacial period (~12,000 years ago), the sea level was much lower than it is today and most human habitation has long since been flooded by the melting glaciers. Underwater archaeology is a new field that's growing in importance but it's slow going and the ocean is much more dynamic that dry land.
Nuclear is extremely dependent on long distance power transmission. Nobody wants a reactor in the middle of a city, and 1-5 GW of power needs to be sent long distances before it’s used.

Solar on the other hand scales down to 50MW instillations just fine so you can put it near substations etc. Huge solar parks make sense in locations with lots of sunlight and cheap land, but they aren’t the only option just a trade off in terms of transmission costs vs generation costs.
https://archive.is/Zvnrl
I'm not the original commenter, but moving from nomadic tribes to stable settlements, moving from hunter gathering to agriculture, moving from almost everyone subsistence farming to the introduction of money at all, to most people working unrelated for money and trading money for food[2], moving from multigenerational homes to nuclear families to sending kids to schools and daycares, moving from tribal lands to countries with a national identity of their own which you are supposed to have some kind of loyalty to - over and above the king/warlord you trade protection with.

As well as those, the change from food and goods being scarce to abundant roughly corresponding with the industrial revolution (abundant textiles and clothes) and the early to mid 1900s (factories), labour receding from sunrise to sundown changing to a working week with days off (various, but early 1900s official 5 day week[1] and 8 hour day), changing to the more recent thing where both parents have to work to get enough income while the child is away all day, massively increased free time (particularly household chore automation - electricity, light, central heating, food mixers, washing machines, mostly early to mid 1900s).

Compared to those things, the internet gets you something else to read or watch (instead of TV, newspaper, book, radio) and some other way to talk (instead of letter, telegram, postcard, telephone). Yes the organisation of things happens quicker and information comes from farther away, and can be more up to date, but you spend your time sitting in a chair watching or reading (office, home, school) like you did before, you buy things and have them delivered or go collect them (like you did before), you consult maps and directories and consumer advice and government documents (like you did before), you take and share holiday photos (like before). It's different, but it's not all that different.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zf22kmn (1932 in America)

[2] https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN03... - the UK had 1.7M people working in farming in 1851, down to 182k today while the population has roughly 4x'd in the same time.
In short we're saying:

Market forces responded to lower taxes by sharply increasing the cost of living.
Fuck anyone who thinks that wealth should enable one to willingly endanger other road users.

I don't care if people want to drive dangerously (handsfree or otherwise) or if they want to test experimental features. But the minute they become a danger to other people, they can fuck right off the road. I'm sure Elon can afford to build a private road somewhere where he can do whatever he wants.
same here - some people just have a 'peasant mentality' mindset that will cause them to make bad decisions/self-sabotage themselves their entire life because they identify themselves as someone that struggles to survive, even though they wouldn't have to if they just got with the program even a little bit.
Nuclear power seems like a good option for non-military boats too, like container ships and oil tankers. It's already a very well proven maritime technology.
Anybody know a good IRC client for MacOS?
This cost premium has always existed. https://ballotpedia.org/Historical_state_electricity_prices
Getting to the bottom of how red flour beetles absorb water through their butts
I believe you are referring to patents. We're talking about copyright though, which is a different thing really - but related I suppose.
your approach is a lot more complex, but they satisfy a lot of optimal criteria with a simpler approach, which i actually think is more impressive and also a much better target to hit. in fact i think they could have even achieved the same results using a much simpler exploratory method.

a lot of biology, as well as where its been exploited, relies on specific binding, along with this comes the hope that what you test won't inadvertently show off-target effects. Through looking at what's already available for information you can actually use the lack something existing within a human system as a probabilistic edge over the future success of their application. in a regard its like an artistic rendering that makes use of negative space, its an impressive direction.
Tech jobs have had massive layoffs in the last few years. I've literally seen couples at the same employer laid off together. Certainly I've seen many colleagues with young children laid off and scrambling. My coworker literally told me a few weeks ago that her husband was laid off and as a result they had had to switch to our company insurance which was less generous. Tying your family's healthcare to the whims of your employer is one more risk that Americans are expected to endure.

It's merely one factor among many, I'm sure, but don't the results, ever decreasing fertility, speak for themselves?
Maybe but then again what’s another secret when at a high level these firms are already very secretive.

It’s not apple but I think a lot about how Eric Schmidt of google was directly meeting with US military officials and talking about how important US defense was.

You can end up with a situation where the chip designer and some higher up both know what is happening and the higher up is there as a check to provide cover in case the chip designer is caught up in suspicion. (“No we asked for this for the manufacturing team.” Kind of thing.)

Of course this is all conjecture with no evidence and I understand why we don’t want to spend much energy on discussions we can’t confirm, but at the same time it is frustrating when the default assumption is that apple had no knowledge about this. The truth is that we don’t know and likely will never know.
Sure, let his companies blow up a few to learn how to build them. /s

Rockets and cars are one thing. But that risk equation doesn’t work for nuclear.
I'm not sure how that matters. The commercial companies also subcontract.
Really? Solve it a different way? Do you realize the kind of tech we are talking about here?

This kind of mentality would have stopped the internet from existing. After all, it has been an absolute copyright nightmare, has it not?

If that's what copyright does then we are better without it.
This is an interesting point, because they are kinda infinite spaces but they also impose a structure on the space, which I would assert is a part of why they are so successful, in contrast to the "infinite structureless blank paper" that the OP is talking about.

The trick is getting the amount of structure just right, not too much to be too restrictive and not so little that users are lost in the way the person you're replying to describes.
That was tried, nuclear reactors on civilian ships, and found to be a stupid idea. Too expensive and no real benefit over ship engines. By the way, tha vast majority of military ships and boats are not nuclear powered.
Safety and bureaucracy are orthogonal. Bureaucracy is a slowing force, which is sold as being correlated with safety. The more layers of abstraction needlessly added, the more likely there will be systems engineering failures.
Interesting. I've been wearing Royal Robbins pants for years and actually ended up with a pair of 5.11 pants that I think are excellent. I'm not surprised that there is a connection.

Screw the branding, but I spend a whole lot of time being active outside and really like clothing that is durable and moves very well.
> This text is is derived from observation. Yes, that weird stuff is real.

Observation of what, exactly?
Alternate title:

> Employees that spent many years contributing to a company that rewarded them with stock are enjoying the fruits of their labor.
In Deutschland, the iodized salt is nearly always iodized+fluoridated, whereas the only other option is plain salt with neither.
I was a nuclear engineer for eight years and I left the industry because I felt like I was taking crazy pills. Every time someone says "nuclear is the only practical solution for climate change, it's not possible to build solar or wind fast enough or cheaply enough", you can point them to this press release. All the nuclear supporters I know deal heavily in magical thinking, completely ignoring the factual reality of the industry.
It’s reflected in three properties on that block, the Chrysler building itself and its neighbors (it's BBL 1297-23, 1297-27 and 1297-33). Oddly it only shows up on that block, blocks to the north and south don't show the outline of the road.

Not sure if this will link correctly: https://propertyinformationportal.nyc.gov/parcels/parcel/101...
One kilogram of uranium-235 (50 cm^3) can theoretically produce about 20 terajoules of energy. One square kilometer of solar panels can theoretically produce the same amount (as 50cm^3 U235) in a day. I'll take this bet.

Edit: Tried to edit the edit but somehow deleted the rest of the edit. It was something to the tune of how a big problem with renewables is the fact that peak solar production does not match peak energy consumption, and storage is very difficult, so realistically we'll need a wide variety of energy options to fully transition to renewables. Nuclear is reliable and to some degree adjustable, helping to alleviate the storage issue. Basically, it's my opinion that nuclear works well with other renewable sources, and a full renewable transition will certainly involve more of it.
I think capitalism has plenty of solutions for this. We can allocate government funding for research, pass new laws that create tax incentives, create prize funds to incentivize development of specific drugs, or make advanced market commitments where institutions commit to buying a portion of a certain type of drug after it's produced.

The underlying problem is the lack of political will and cooperation to implement these solutions.
Thanks for pointing it out. Still early enough to change the name if need be, but I do not think there should be too much confusion.
> You could say the same about memory protection and isolation, and yet, here we are.

While it also serves as a security mechanism the most important benefit of memory protection is that it protects against processes *accidentally* corrupting other processes due to mistakes, invalid pointers, etc.

If you want to intentionally mess with other processes memory most OS give you the means to do it in a controlled way, with ptrace in Linux or WriteProcessMemory in Windows, because sometimes it is a useful thing to do.

The problem with Wayland is that they veto useful features they aren't interested in (that admittedly if misused could be a security problem or at least a nuisance) and they don't give any alternative way of doing them, choosing instead to punt the problem downstream to the compositors, who will each do them (or not) in a different way making the whole thing a mess.
aren't most languages invented and initially developed within a private company? Go, Dart, Java, JavaScript, C#, F#, VBA, Kotlin, Erlang, C(at AT&T), Rust (at Mozilla). The list is probably very long
> I'd say Nintendo have a pretty bad history of writing secure format parsers.

Those examples are very old at this point. You may be surprised to learn that Nintendo have learned from these, and are much better at this than they used to be.

The Switch is only hackable via hardware; no software methods work, and the only one that did was caused by a hardware problem on Nvidia’s part.

The original Wii exploit was to use tweezers to short two circuits at a special time. The software that revealed led to the software exploits which are used today.

The Wii U was exploited by its backwards compatibility with the Wii.

If marcan wants to tell me I’m wrong, I’ll believe him, but until then I’m convinced that Nintendo is far better at this than they used to be.
They claim that the maintenance costs are being underestimated while the future revenue is overestimated, making operations economically unsustainable, and that the tower might have to be closed for the Olympics next summer.
I've tested giving the JSON schema to the model (bigger ones can handle multi-layer schemas) __without__ grammar and it was still able to generate the correct answer. To me it feels more natural than grammar enforcement because the model stays in its "happy place". I then sometimes add the grammar on top to guarantee the desired output structure.

This is obviously not efficient because the model has to process many more tokens at each interaction, and its context window gets full quicker as well. I wonder if others have found better solutions.
One of the things I don't like about the Julia ecosystem is the monolithic libraries that have tons of dependencies. DiffEq is one of those. I think its fine to write a script but if you want to develop something more sophisticated, you want to keep your dependencies lean.
industrially farmed cattle are often fed iodized salt, which can make their dairy products a good source of iodine. depends on the farm's practices though

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29221567/
> I find irony in the newspaper suing AI when other news sources (admittedly not NYT) use AI to write the articles.

That isn't ironic at all, newspapers have newspaper competitors and if those competitors can steal content by washing it through an AI that is a serious problem. If these AI models weren't used to produce news articles and similar then it would be a much smaller issue.
For years that was how delivery operated in NYC, and in fact, in NYC there was Seamless.com which was an aggregator, but deliveries were handled by the restaurant.

That model was vastly preferable, as delivery people were familiar with the neighborhood and you wouldn’t find yourself accidentally ordering from a restaurant on the other side of Manhattan that will essentially guarantee your food will be cold.

As far as the number of engineers required, I think you vastly underestimate the tech and infrastructure required. Sure a few dozen engineers could build the core matching and routing engine and the restaurant and delivery person apps, but all of the scaffolding around that is huge. Who does customer support? How does the customer get ahold of the delivery person? What happens when an order gets misdelivered? How do you deal with the various regulations in different municipalities around pay? Heck, paying people is a few dozen people alone.

And then you have to think about supporting all of these things in places where the delivery models might be totally different- car delivery is totally different than walking delivery. What about users whose orders are late? In some places they have health regulations that preclude delivering food that has been waiting for over a certain time. The list goes on and on.
Well, if he sits behind the wheel of a car like he runs Twitter... maybe time to change a few things for my 2024 bets.
We need before, during, and after studies. There's no reason to throw out the ones made during the pandemic, they just need to be put into a greater context and compared with what happens next.
> Social media is not one thing.

Fair enough, but science journalism is not just one thing.

> You've got multiple people in this thread who know the subject, in detail, telling you that the headline is wrong.

That appears on every HN discussion of anything. It's not a signal of wrongness or rightness, any more than the color of the banner at the top - if it's orange, the OP must be obviously wrong!
OK, a Django update from me.

I heavily used Django since version 0.96 (2007) until 1.5 (2014) (with Python 3)! Then came a long break with lower-level infrastructure work: linux kernel, perf tuning, some C, some Go and zig.

Last week I picked up Django again. After 10 years (!!!) of not even looking at it. It felt like meeting a good old friend: they are the same, but older and more mature. Conversations are the same. But better.

Things change in the tech world, often for the worse. Django changes, as it matures, for the better. The website layout, tutorial, colors, excellent release notes, `./manage.py runserver` are all the same as I remember them.

Except today it's easier, since I am much wiser in deploying and maintaining things than I was a decade ago. :)
There are puzzle levels like the round table, where you must retrieve the grail from the center of the table (>= ~14 tiles in) and return the way you came-- a deceptively tough task for the unprepared