skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you target a much lower average/maximum cost per GW (and higher consumption) nuclear wins.

It loses every way. Its LCOE is 5x higher. The PR campaign to save it was about neither its cost nor the environment but economically buttressing the nuclear military industrial complex.

It's SO much more expensive in fact that it's actually cheaper to use wind/solar to electrolyze hydrogen, store it underground in a salt cavern and burn that to generate electricity.

>Things like EVs

Things like EVs are even less suited to nuclear power because they dont need constant power and can charge while electricity is cheap. Ditto electric heating.
With the prevalence of cell phones and laptops in our life, accusing somebody of not understanding how a battery works is tantamount to an insult like calling them a man idiot. Who does not have to deal with charging their batteries continuously?

Further, it seems a bit hypocritical to complain about others reacting only to the headline without reading the article, when that's exactly what you have done.
At some point I think there is a conflict though, the more powerful the AI models, the more risk there is to their own business.
The population density in most areas doesn't make it economically viable. In many area the climate makes biking a messy proposition of needing shower after a ride, or to put on a bunch of rain gear etc. vs a car where you just take a shower in the morning, get in your dry car and exit clean for the office etc..
>[I]s there a point-for-point debunking of the RFKJ JRE episode

I have no idea. I don't pay attention to either of those folks.

However, a cursory web search shows a whole raft of folks debunking the various antivax claims made by RFKjr, many of which note his lack of consistency around this topic over the years.

I suggest you take a look at what he's said over the years, along with the data/research around those topics and make up your own mind.

I'd expect that many folks wouldn't mind if someone (maybe you?) created such a point-by-point discussion (whether it debunks JFKjr or not). As I said, I have no interest in JFKjr or Joe Rogan (in fact, every time I see 'JRE' I go to 'Java Runtime Environment' first, not the podcaster), but that's just me.
I can't find any solid reference, but a small "assemble yourself" toy my daughter received for Christmas recommended applying grease to some cogs during assembly and mentioned that the grease itself could not be included in the product due to varying Customs/Import restrictions across the world.
Podcasting is an Apple-created marketing term. A podcast is just a pre-recorded, audio-only talk show.
I retired from Apple a few years ago but still follow the company. I am not aware of any layoffs at Apple. Others have pointed out that Apple didn't go on the same hiring boom that other companies did during Covid.
the value of stability is inversely related to confidence
Not sure if any comment that holds Humane in high regard can be taken seriously though.
That's literally bullshit. They literally wrote the book on human interface guidelines

https://andymatuschak.org/files/papers/Apple%20Human%20Inter...
If a company wants to fire some people they believe can cause legal trouble if fired individually, somtimes they will spend a year or two reorganizing in a way that incidentally have many of these people all ending up in the same part of the organization.

Then they can do layoffs there, seemingly without violating any wrongful termination laws.

Somehow the best developers and others who contribute directly to the bottom line tend to be unaffected by such events.
> HN basically has a policy of flagging anything involving politics, including things much less controversial than Israel/palestine

This does not preclude the effective operation of an astroturfing operation. I would be absolutely shocked if the site were not a target of such a campaign given its reputed influence.
Author is speaking from the perspective of decades, even millennia of history. This war didn't emerge from a vacuum, and Israel wasn't always under the thrall of Likud.

The change in the status quo is a result of the West growing weak. The weaker the West becomes, the more chaotic the world will become, until the next world order emerges (or the West reclaims the throne).
I think the drone war is getting off the charts. 300,000 per month!?! [1] This will definitely have impacts in the coming decade both in war and terror/counter-terror applications.

[1] https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/01/05/russia-produces-300...
> Why lay-off instead of repurpose?

Because they are overstaffed already and the cost reduction is more attractive.
Steady baseload is not desirable, the energy grid must respond to meet demand, whatever it is.

Batteries are capable of that response, making them far more desirable and valuable than baseload.
Semafor is great for getting the news without getting caught in the news-hype-scare-cycle.
No it's not. If they explicitly say they won't train on your data and then they do, it's going to come out in discovery of one of the lawsuits they're fighting, and the consequences would be significant. Plus there's little incentive for them to lie about it, given most people leave history on.
It's... a materialized view? There's a great big ur-repo back there somewhere, and your tool provides multiple views into it?

Hoenstly, that's a neat idea. No use to me, but a neat idea.
Personally, I always think its best to be in first wave simply because there's less people looking...

Generally, there's gonna be more then 1 wave of cuts, so the first wave gets first crack at the best openings.
I don't see any Ask HNs on @sigma5's profile. I don't know if flagged or dead posts show up in the profile, but I guess I figured they did (especially if you have showdead on, like I do). It would be a different story if the post were somehow removed entirely, not just downvoted or made dead.
It was so fucking boring.
It’s extremely common to support the two most recent major versions, especially for iOS. It’s great if things work on iOS 14, but it’s been explicitly out of support for over a year in a vast number of organisations.
Sounds like the Twitter Files. Better Censor this comment.
Please, tell us more about each of these points you make, in detail. I'm compelled to know.
I also personally knew about 9 people affected in the UK. Of those, only one managed to find another team before the end of the garden leave.
I just think the new LLM-based agents are in a different category. I don't see them as a continuation of the Siri/Alexa/etc lineage.

I do think a human personal assistant who had unlimited access to my data and could perform any task my phone or desktop could do would be exceedingly useful, even if the only interaction possibility was voice. And I think that AI agents will approach that level of usefulness within a decade or two.
The majority of software engineers live in California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York, and Texas.

https://www.benfrederickson.com/github-developer-locations/

Just curious, what's the latest software startup that's in your words in a flyover state compared to an openai or databricks
Youtube has a long running partnership with the ADL, an influential zionist organisation in America.

Here's an article from 2008, from the Jersualem Post.

https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/ADL-YouTube-l...
Gas tax is $0.40-$1.00/gallon and we have basically the lowest gas taxes in the world. (And some of the lowest prices.)
Rough guess is that these companies saw the need to downsize in Q3, but didn't want the optics of doing it directly before the holiday season.
Some of it is certainly gatekeeping, but part of it is that it contains components that are definitely not cheese, and it's mass-produced, which turns a lot of people off.

It's fine as a thing to eat, if it's a flavor and texture you like. Personally I avoid it, but it's passably ok as a part of a sandwich where there are other flavors around it. If I just want to eat some cheese (with or without some delivery mechanism like a cracker), American Cheese is the farthest thing from my mind.
Don't bring history into this!

In any case, thousands of years of evolution, boom and bust cycles of metabolism, show that having excess fat stores is very, very useful when you have to go months without regular sustenance. Those are the people we're descended from, not the ones who have "fast" metabolisms. It leads to problems later in life, sure, but not before one reproduces!
> standards. It isn't like they are simply reading a spec out of an existing document and coding up a conformant program.

Err, yes - that’s what 98% of modern TCP/IP development work is. There aren’t frequent new RFCs for TCP - it is established, standardized, and stable.
No horse in the race, but the layoff is only ten people from a 250 person company that is still hiring. I'm a little surprised it even merited an article.
Things like this are done for good reasons.

It's fair to say, the engineering minds at work here have reasons. Reasons that would survive this armchair whataboutism.
Maybe post the link in your reply here (not the link the the HN submission, but to what the submission was supposed to link to).
Amazon Prime Video and MGM Studios laid off employees
GDP bigger than that of the web.
Capitalism has its problems, for sure, but it is the only system in history that has raised the majority of people out of abject poverty. Even Marx recognized this, which is why capitalism is a necessary step on the path to Marx's communism.

And of course Marx was seeing capitalism before it had done the majority of the good it has done over the past ~200 years.
I dont think Israel is that interested in legitimate anti semitism. Orban ran an election campaign centered aroud an anti semitic trope and he gets along with Israel just fine, for instance.

Their primary target is anti-racist criticism of the state, the apartheid, the war and the genocide. All labeled as anti semitism despite being fundamentally antiracist and running counter to a racist Israeli narrative.
Single family homes can also have HOA's which can become a pain if not run well, but at least it is not part of the structure that you own.
In this case it was a super-basic setup. Nothing weird going on, just an internal email within the same Google account, sent from the Gmail web interface and going straight to the spam folder for the recipient, no filtering rules or anything like that.
That's because they are. Ever since the mining crash Nvidia has been selling all its GPUs for exorbitant prices, much to the detriment of people who need the VRAM for machine learning. Oh well, guess you're buying the (checks notes) $13,000 A100, just because you need 3.3 times the VRAM of the $1600 4090 (which could be $5280 instead, if price corresponds exactly to VRAM).
For every boomer retiree there's a young person pumping new money into the S&P and social security
Can confirm, this is true.
If one of google's working theories is they should hire people to keep them away from other organizations then it makes sense they don't fire until they see their competitors start.
Downtown Atlanta is also starting to approach this.
yeah, when you look at that over the default location over London, it looks big. Moving it closer to the Western US, it looks tiny
Social distancing recommendations were not based on scientific data. -Dr. Fauci
Notably Fitbit and AR are now dead: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/10/24033994/google-reorganiz...
"Skills" will be obsolete very soon. AI agents will use the same software tools and services that humans do. They won't need special separate AI-only interfaces.

I'm not excited about the Rabbit R1 as a hardware device but their software vision is exactly right and there are new startups coming out of stealth seemingly every day now attacking this problem.
CICO works quite well at the extremes. It's effectiveness varies, but it is directionally correct.

If someone is sitting at a 35+ BMI, then their caloric intake is so out of whack, that CICO helps ground them. Similarly, an anorexic who starves gets a clear directive for increasing weight by increasing calories.

CICO also promotes calorie general calorie comparison. It helps you understand that a milkshake has the same weight impact as an average Mediterranean lunch bowl.

Now the absolute impact on both foods will vary from person to person. But comparatively, it helps ground the unhealthiness of foods like sugar rich shakes and icecream.
> Has anyone seen this sort of thing happen?

Yes, of course. Content management is the expected standard when dealing with crowdsourced content. This includes any data coming from social media. This is subject to essentially private, subjective concerns.
> The first packet switched network came online in 1969. Fifteen years by 1984 almost all the use cases were hobby, and it'd be another ten years before the Internet really started changing life.

By 1980 CompuServe had thousands of paying subscribers, both home and business - and I suspect they'd invested far less getting there than the amount of VC money that's gone into cryptocurrency. You can say the home users were "hobbyists", but they were getting real value out of the network; online chat or games might not have had a clear business purpose, but they were fun, and that's real value.

I've seen literally one niche for cryptocurrency that people seemed to actually enjoy for its own sake rather than as a crime tool or get rich quick scheme, cryptokitties, and that seems to have proven itself fundamentally unviable (either your collectibles are too cheap to be interesting, or they're too expensive to be fun). Cryptocurrency is not merely wildly unprofitable to date, it's not generating value and there is no indication that it ever will generate value.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record: Once others get their software shit together, they can have some of those profits. Nvidia has had a competent software game for a decade.
Agreed. The quality in not only GAs responses but also its ability to understand intent has seemingly been on a downward trend for at least a couple of years now.
Discussion of "energy transfer" is particularly troubling. IMO, it's very much a brush off in ownership to "whoever" (e.g., "small economic actors"). It's hard to be an economic superpower when there's no stable power grid, USA.
The needs of these systems are radically different.

We don't need ever more speed in processing, this isn't games.

Things like ultra reliable down to the nanosecond timing, etc. are important for these applications, not raw computing power.

You fundamentally don't understand some things about the application, therefore are presenting solutions that seem smart on the surface but are actually fundamentally flawed and non starters.
Xbox controller over bluetooth, works great
Just for fun I looked up what the plans are in the Netherlands (17 million residents), where I live. Governments all over the world are going to start installing these grid-scale batteries in the coming years, because without them we can't really transition to renewables.

Anyways, the Dutch govt has allocated 400 million EUR [1] and expects to get 160MW - 380 MW installed for this amount (so 1-2x this battery plant in Hawaii). But the national network operator is reducing connection fees and hopes to trigger 2-5GW of new battery capacity by 2030. That's quite massive.

Expect similar new installations pretty much everywhere.

[1] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/10/09/netherlands-allocates...
Similarly you can opt your individual account out on the ChatGPT side. [0] Although by default they do seem to use both vanilla and Plus conversations for training.

[0] https://privacy.openai.com/policies
...another fairytale about people in poor countries using crypto ))))

Nothing beats good old USD or EURO as an asset if you live in a country with hyperinflation.
Everyone is constantly worried about missing out on the next smartphone. Apple and Google got in early, and others who tried to follow failed. Voice assistant and VR are both examples of strategic investment over what the market really supports in demand.
I had an interesting thought: what if hiring were like bringing a child into your family. No, no layoffs ever. It's the equivalent of disowning your own child.

If the company begins to sink, so be it, the whole family goes down together (or flee as they see fit).

It would make a company hesitant to hire — they would have to think very long term making a decision like that. Perhaps companies would train (re-train) their employees if the jobs or company evolve.

Interesting though that, in the U.S. at least, the relationship we have with our employer is perhaps 180 degrees from that of the relationship we have with our family. That seems a little sad.

(Reminded suddenly of Tim's speech at the end of The Office (U.K.) — pass me a hanky. https://youtu.be/5AlZ-ZYbbPU)
Is there a good explanation for why Google started Pixel Watch when they already had FitBit? I would have understood a rebranding of FitBit to Pixel Watch, but it seems like that's not what happened.
Spending it on this is basically that, just one step removed
IMHO Google's a hot mess top-to-bottom at the moment.
> fidelity et all have all the dollars. if there's a fork, they will probably own 51pct alone. you will be asking about THEIR fork.

I have read this comment five times, and I simply cannot make heads or tails of it.

What is "THEIR fork"? If there's a fork, everyone has keys which underpin addresses on both forks. How do you know which fork belongs to "fidelity et all"?

And more importantly, why is that relevant? Isn't the longest chain the only determiner of canon? Or has that changed recently?
> If you ever wonder how companies can stray so far from "obvious" morality... That's how.

I don't generally disagree with your point, but I suspect the relentless pursuit of profit above all other values figures more relevant to this narrative than cultural drift.
Isn't crypto used in these places simply a more convenient form on pinning to the USD than due to any inherent properties of the crypto itself?
The belief in this idea is an inverse function of wisdom and pragmatism. Confident people end up laid off all the same, you can only make so much luck, although I’d agree you can be more confident (take more risk?) when you’ve objectively derisked financially against downside.

(Risk management is a component of my work)
Maybe it's because we've repeatedly seen them funnel it into the same bin as the trash goes into?
I've seen several studies, none that reached the conclusion you are putting forward. The closest was one that said a lower, but still high percentage nuclear power in France is optimal for reducing CO2 emissions given the nuclear infrastructure that already exists there.

Do you have any specific studies in mind I may have missed?
> 100 messages / 3 hrs

Sorry where do you see that? I only see "higher usage limits"?
This global warming rhetoric against bitcoin is nonsense right? The current financial system doesn't run off as many or more computers in datacenters around the globe? I don't have objective numbers but I'd lay money credit card processing alone dwarfs bitcoin by a pretty good margin.
Incredible lens, to see working for the federal government as the employment version of investing in gold. A real fun concept.
For some time I thought the primary way to opt out was to disable chat history. That made it impossible to use custom instructions. But I later found the account-level opt-out request, which, assuming they respect the weakly-worded “ask us not to train on your data” language, preserves the product’s full set of features:

https://privacy.openai.com/policies
Relative company stock performance dominates executive compensation (iirc, 80% of Alphabet CEO pay is relative outperformance of S&P500), so copying other large public tech companies is an outcome of the incentives.
Maybe just lowering the allowed concentration of thc in products. It’s wild how strong some of the weed is now. Splitting a joint now I imagine is quite a bit different than in the 70s.
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I feel like this has been a theme for the last year - big tech companies with big profits doing mass layoffs. We've seen Microsoft, Facebook, Goggle, Spotify etc all do this. It's this whole obsession with the word "efficiency" and the phrase "doing more with less." It really makes you think these CEOs are all a bunch of sheep. See:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/11/techs-new-business-model-do-...
through a very complicated trick you're actually sending your clicks to verify that someone else is not a robot, even though they are.
Did anyone else just... not like this game? I know it's sacrilege, but I've just never found the appeal. Even being the perfect age as a kid when it came out, I just could never enjoy it. Something about how disjointed the worlds are always confused me.
Q: whats a realistic salary a SWE or SRE who is 10-15 years deep might expect?

I do understand it’ll be lower, but the GS pay system isn’t that clear to outsiders
"Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II — more than AIDS, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, vehicular accidents, homicide and suicide combined."

They've started to put the above statement on top of cigarette cases at my local grocery store. It's not super prominent, nor is its color garish but I'm still surprised every time I read it and I've seen a few others surprised too. There are certainly ways to effectively use reading material to combat these things.