skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The newest AP1000s in Georgia cost 34B (and counting) for 2.2GWe.

As usual, horrible ROI and massive cost overruns:

> During the construction of Vogtle's first two units, capital investment required jumped from an estimated $660 million to $8.87 billion.[7] ($18.3 billion in 2022 dollars[8])

> Two additional units utilizing Westinghouse AP1000 reactors were under construction since 2009, with Unit 3 being completed in July 2023.[9][10][11] This last report blames the latest increase in costs on the contractor not completing work as scheduled. Another complicating factor in the construction process is the bankruptcy of Westinghouse in 2017.[12] In 2018 costs were estimated to be about $25 billion.[13] By 2021 they were estimated to be over $28.5 billion.[14] In 2023 costs had increased to $34 billion, with work still to be completed on Vogtle 4.[15]

So why bother? Because base load? I mean damn, why not just toss in a couple Moss Landing type tesla Megapack installations instead?

At 2.2GW, even if u wanted to store power for 12h, thats 26GWh. Moss Landing is 2.8GWh and it cost $560 million. Ten of these is 5B, so an entire solar+megapack installation still ends up at half the cost of nuclear.

And you don’t need to store 12h of solar. And the rapid response of Megapacks is incredibly helpful for grid stability. And they can be spread out making the grid more resilient to natural disasters, attacks etc
Wait you on hacker news and don't use Firefox?
I very well balanced article. My biggest quibble would have been mentioning the self-synchronizing[1] nature of the variable length instructions that make RISC-V easier to decode in batches than x86.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-synchronizing_code
> Okay? That has nothing to do with it.

You missed the whole point. The point is that having psychos in charge is not a characteristic of an economic system. It's a characteristic of forming organizations manned by human beings.

It's terribly disingenuous to use that as a pretext to bash an economic system as if you don't have the exact same problem affecting organizations that are not ran based on that economic system. It's like claiming that the fact that water is wet is a precipitation of capitalism.
They even secret messages that makes the victims liquify the only resistance structure they have left. A miracle of nature..
You are not allowed to falsely shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater. That famous line from Schenck is often misquoted to drop the "falsely".

Schenck is no longer good law, but this metaphor captures how some classes of speech fall outside the First Amendment. Specifically, false speech.
What many people ignore from Ahrens description of Luhmann's Zettelkasten, is that it isn't an indexing system to find pre-existing knowledge/texts. It is the place where he stored his own insight, his own summaries, his own formulation of ideas he found somewhere. The book quotes Luhmann even before the table of contents with "One cannot think without writing." Strictly speaking, this is obviously not true. Metaphorically speaking it is something that many proficient authors have concluded as well. They need to write in order to make progress. And then Luhmann used this one space of notes, the Zettelkasten to work on all his publications. This allowed him to find shared ideas between different projects of him.

I've got the impression that many tried Zettelkasten as the one true note taking system just dumped stuff they found in blog articles into pages in their storage system for later retrieval. Nothing is wrong about that, but that is not Luhmanns idea of Zettelkasten.
The way I imagine it (sometimes spot on, sometimes hilariously wrong) large companies could eventually have really good company representatives that answer phone/email/chat immediately and are deeply familiar with the company and the customer. Many complaints can be converted into polished product/feature proposals and bug reports. Eventually they should be able to have smaller constraints, draw up plans, fill agendas and make decisions within their budget. A bit like algorithms are trusted to trade stocks.

Seems funny, have a bot from acme inc, give it a list of job descriptions, assign a budget. acme then figures out how to extract as much money as possible.

In the end, humanoid robots running the company, doing meetings and interviews all over the world simultaneously.

Walking around the factory, hey Jim, how is the wife? Oh, things are slow today, I'm going to give you the rest of the day off. Not real empathy but simply the most profitable manipulation.
Yes, but normally you have a fairly high bar to cross before you would resort to such an act, and it would be in the context of self defense or something equivalent. To kill your wife in a premeditated manner is not something most humans can do, even given the 'right' circumstances, most people would resolve a conflict at that level in a different way.
Bitwarden supports them natively, integration is clean.
Sure, feel free to email me at the address included in every commit in the repo.
As near as I can tell, and older used car. Most of the the ones made in the last decade or so are problematic, and new cars are simply unacceptable (to me).
IBM conveniently does not seem to offer bug bounties. Granted, it's possible that they have a private program.

https://hackerone.com/ibm
Brave blocks ads on pages you browse, and then sends ad notifications to user who opt into their earning program (disabled by default). It pays them in BAT, a crypto coin they developed. If you want to, you can use these earnings to contribute to sites who have signed up to accept their crypto coin.

It does not replace ads on pages with it's own.
I don't think they file patents because of their incentive program.
Companies really, really want their employees to perform specific behaviors that they desire, except they don't want to compensate them extra.

In truth, a base pay + bonus structure that is commensurate with the outcomes the company desires is the best solution.

Leaders shouldn't trust folks who go into HR to come up with these.
A sailboat typically flies about 5 - 8 square meters of material in the sails, pulling 3 - 4 tons of material around the world ..
Sorry, but "integrating it into your story" sounds a lot like forcing victimhood down yourself unnecessarily. It is unfair - both to the present and future you, and to everyone around you who had no hand in the tragedy. Wounds heal and leave behind negligible scars that don't hurt the same; they don't shape your body and mind unless you keep "processing" them and make them fester.
> The tests may be quite accurate, we do not know from just that number.

Be careful as this might go against exactly what your prior concern was. It's the Bayesian Trap.

FWIW, the article says there's 773k arrests each year and gives around a 4% bogus rate. I'd say that's too high for something we all can admit comes at a great cost.

> The question of whether the tests should favor reducing false positives [or] false negatives is a policy decision that must take into account public safety risk

We have a written code that says innocent until proven guilty. Clearly false positive rates is of grave concern. There are many references to Blackstone's Ratio[0] by the founders and the premise is that it is better to err on the side that a guilty person go free than a free man lose his freedom. But Bayes is critical here too.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
I think the part of this that will be interesting, and that the legal system will have difficulty addressing, is what “inaccurate” means.

At any point in history, I could have written an article about why I believe that a prominent public figure worships the devil and is engaged in a plot to blow up the moon. As long as I didn’t attempt to back up my story with undisclosed facts (“I was allowed access to his email inbox, and now it’s clear to me that he’s trying to blow up the moon”) or lie about a hard fact (“he told me that he is going to blow up the moon”), I would be fine.

The gap for faked media is that you can blur the line between what I am saying about someone and what it looks like they’re saying themselves. So if I make a fake video that appears to be Obama cackling while he describes his plan to blow up the moon, and post it to my YouTube account… am I presenting it as if Obama said these things? Obama doesn’t generally publish content on random tech dudes’ YouTube channels. There’s a line somewhere where the presumption is that the content is faked, but I don’t know of any firm answers so far from the legal system on where they plan to draw that line.
The problem is avoiding "surveillance capitalism" or even generally "privacy" isn't a selling point for the mass market.

Things which matter to people:

- Do you like moderators in a foreign country being paid $2 an hour reviewing your personal photos?

- Do you agree that your personal messages to a friend can be retroactively edited if you sent something that was "disinformation"?

- Would you like files on your computer's personal hard drive copied in to a commercial cloud service and deleted locally because you accidentally mis-read or mis-read on a single pop-up message?

- Would you like to read advertisements and news articles when launching your favorite application?

- Would you like those ads and news articles to become more invasive over time based on which ones you looked at last time?

- Would you like the owners of the app store you purchased your favorite app from make more net profit from the sale than the developer who built it?

- Would you like your favorite app to run differently than it did yesterday, without choice or warning?

- Would you like your favorite app to no longer be usable or downloadable because development ceased?

Even someone who broadcasts their personal life publicly, with strong signals of their wealth and where they will be to rob or kidnap them, will have issues with things in this list.
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I don’t think you can make a kite that can last a decade of load. We just don’t have materials strong enough. Also you need a sophisticated algorithm to fly it and never crash
Or you get distracted and move on to a different project. Thats the biggest reason I never followed up on my future work ideas in papers.
ReiserFS is the only Linux file system that has lost me data. Back in the day it had performance advantages when dealing with small files. But now I'd be very surprised if ext4 isn't superior to it in every conceivable way.
I'm of the opinion that 'surveillance capitalism', as described in this article, is a problem of policy/legality, not technology.

Technology minded individuals keep looking for a technical solution to this problem. I'm hesitant that a technical solution exists.

Unfortunately, I also don't expect Congress to promptly pass new legislation that competently addresses the problem. (I am more optimistic about the efforts by the EU and individual US states.)
Being a computer scientist in prison until death must suck so hard. Jesus Christ.
It's not a fair response. It's a consistently obnoxious response to people actively searching for a better world. Like, no shit your computer is produced under capitalism...that's the active and dominant mode of production. If you want to escape it, you don't escape the things produced by it, you actively work towards changing the way those things are produced.

There is nothing meaningful or useful about the above response.

"Oh, you don't like air pollution? Why do you keep breathing then??"
Mistakes if you want a high performance design but certainly the right approach for both academic projects and for the embedded systems where RISC-V has seen most of its commercial adoption.
A friend's startup competes with Maximo, and IBM's "in-place version upgrade" has not yet been completed for a client with less than a year-long consultant engagement to fix changes that are both forwards AND backwards incompatible. Might as well be a new system.
This even has a catchy name: the Swiss cheese model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
'Rehabilitation" means a few different things, depending on context. In the context of penology it means "giving a prisoner a way to integrate back into society and reduce their chances of recidivism". This is not only useful for the prisoner, but useful for society, since most prisoners are eventually released.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation_(penology)
He mentions her by name in the first paragraph (after the cover letter):

> I don’t post directly because I am in prison for killing my wife Nina in 2006.

He doesn't get into whether/why he is sorry:

> I am very sorry for my crime–a proper apology would be off topic for this forum, but available to any who ask.

Hans Reiser has previously explained why he believed the murder was justified. It is not clear to me, from this letter, whether he still believes so.
> I don't recall anyone talking about the possibility of the two pilots fighting each other for control. It was just inconceivable.

Suicidal pilot?
Psilon in this case means plain or simple (as opposed to compound or two-letter), as in spelled with one letter, because when the name was coined in the Koine Greek period, υ was pronounced /y/ like οι (but not like ι as in Modern Greek yet). Similarly, epsilon (ε) was pronounced like αι (as it still is).
Abolish IP, enforce NDAs, and the problem is solved.
Setback in the "American Chestnut Project"
Fully agreed.

We also have to remember that a lot of the historical figures we glorify through their great achievements were terrible people in many respects. And that often goes undiscussed.
People generally overestimate the short term effects of new technologies but underestimate the long term effects.

I've heard the exact same things about smartphones in the past and now even my small village of 500 inhabitants is communicating with an app. It took a while though and suddenly, it was everywhere.

The previous generations of AI (translation, text & image recognition...) are already widespread and there's no reason to think it won't be the same here in the future.
This isn't some crackpot theory you have the burden of debunking, it's well known that EV batteries do not last. Browse autotrader.co.uk for EVs and you will see almost everything around 10yr has a severely deflated range and limited future, that's why some end up being sold at absurdly low prices - because without an entire new battery it's effectively become a milk float.

I'm not saying that is inevitable, but the evidence from simply browsing the second hand market for EVs show that's it's current state. I want to get on the EV bandwagon, but it's not economical enough yet, I understand that's probably not true for most of the HN crowd.
Some lock flights have pumps to keep the ponds at the top full of water because they are near the highest point in the area so they can't refill naturally fast enough or simply to avoid depleting the upstream water source. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caen_Hill_Locks
I've just listened to the latest Numberphile podcast, and one of many surprising anecdotes from Donald Knuth was that as a kid he'd been disillusioned by maths when he "proved" that 1=0 and his teacher couldn't find the mistake.

> meanwhile ChatGPT just bullshits endlessly with no possible way to punish OpenAI for it

Sure there are, and more importantly there's also ways to "punish" the models themselves — that's what the "thumbs down" and "regenerate response" buttons in the chat UI are for.
Rather than saying: "aviation threads on HN" have you considered using the usernames to identify the individuals with negative comments and positive comments and determine whether it's a small number of accounts saying the same thing repeatedly or a large proportion of the users?
1. Type safety for generic interfaces such as qsort.
2. Language interoperability. Then you need to have a dynamic framework for constructing types and function calls.
More importantly it's available for Firefox.
Dual inputs is there for redundancy in case of a jam in one of them, or in case one set of cables is cut. Everything is dual.

The reason pilots are there is to diagnose problems and take the right corrective action. This also means they can misdiagnose problems and take the wrong action. This is where pilot training comes in.
Awesome, thanks for the follow up.
> fully competent crew who got to the point of missing an approach and declaring an emergency

I think you need to re-read the PDF. My reading of it is that the missed-approach decision was made by the PF on the basis of the unstablised approach, and that it is what happened after that decision that is under investigation in this report. Undertaking MAP due to unstable approach is pretty standard stuff that occurs all day, every day.

The report states there were zero force inputs by PM prior to the missed-approach, which correlates with the other note in the report that the PM ghosted the controls in the period following the missed-approach and that is when the apparent reflex action occured.
Two things:

1. It's history and naming haven't been consistent and has probably caused a loss in momentum for adoption. It started off with ReasonML out of Facebook back in 2016 driven by the creator of React (messenger.com is written in Reason). Reason has a JS like syntax on top of OCaml which compiles to JS or OCaml. It was connected to a project called BuckleScript which was an OCaml to JS compiler. BuckleScript wanted to adopt more JS only features (like async/await) and drop OCaml's standard library to make it easier to interop with JS. In 2020 the projects split and Reason continues to compile to OCaml and JS and is part of the OCaml ecosystem using OCaml's package manager. ReScript is a rebranding of BuckleScript that has dropped it's interop with OCaml and only compiles to JS. It uses NPM (or yarn, etc...) for a package manager and it was able to adopt syntax and features that are only feasible if you target just JS.

If it came out day 1 back in 2016 as ReScript from the creator of React and backed by Facebook I think we would see much higher adoption. As it stands now it appears to new comers that ReScript has only existed since 2020, when in reality it's as old as 2016, or 1996 if you consider that it's OCaml under the hood.

2. The vast majority of the JS community like JS and don't care about strong sound types, or features like pattern matching. There are other great compile to JS languages like Elm, PureScript, ClojureScript, and F# Fable. These other languages are fringe and probably always will be. While ReScript is (imho) a more practical language that is the closet to JS out of these languages, it will still suffer from being lumped in as "yet another attempt to replace JS".

Not having widespread adoption means that people are less likely to have heard about it or to consider using it. Most JS devs are happy with TypeScript's loosey-goosey type system and aren't bothered by seeing any or unknown types. Without major backing from a company like Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or Mozilla it will take a long time for it to gain adoption to the point of it not being considered fringe or experimental. I feel like anyone who truly uses it in a project and spends a couple months with it would have a hard time going back to TypeScript, but people aren't willing to put in that effort or time into something that isn't already mainstream. It will be years before the language shows up on something like The State of JS, or Stackoverflow's developer survey.
Then I don't see how it's fair to criticize YouTube for this. The DMCA process makes it so that YouTube doesn't have much choice in the matter besides by suing the fraudster for false DMCA[0]. If they make a determination that "we think this DMCA is false so we'll bring your video up" they'd take on a lot of risk in assuming legal liability for that video if it actually infringing. They have done this before for obvious abuse, though[1].

0: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/15/20915688/youtube-copyrig...

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/6em1gw/youtube_is_...
No we can't. Instead we can expect people to start dismissing it, despite the fact that it keeps steadily improving, so when it finally gets good enough it takes everybody by surprise.
The First Amendment does not protect:

- false statements (fraud, libel, defamation).

- "fighting words"

- true threats

- obscenity under a community standards test

- child sexual abuse imagery (obscenity per she)

- speech that incites imminent lawless action

There's always room to debate what AI has to contribute. But it is already illegal to defraud people with forged documents. Forged videos are still forged documents.
the US has been waiting for quite some time for reasons to destroy Iran. Iran's help to Hamas and now to obstruct the international economics by giving means to attack boats going through the Suez route... is all they need.

I would not be surprised to see Iran be sent back to the cave age within a few years. If not less.
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For lawful things that aren't targeted by major attackers, almost everything you said is fine.

For things that are high value or targeted by major attackers, you spend the extra effort on physical keys or a better authenticator system. I can think of a few methods that would make it quite difficult by adding multiple layers. A determined person with a gun might be able to get it, but even then, I have some 'traps'.
When for many years I had a long commute into London I appreciated I was lucky that it was on a train line without any train changes required. So that was a calm productive "me time" on the train for over an hour each way. Usually do some work on my laptop, some hacking on hobby apps, some film watching etc. Also a lot of snoozing.

But I also self-selected roles closer to the end station in London so the commute at the other end was short-ish.

Whenever I had to do any other commute: by car, bus, multiple changes, etc it was always a grind and shortlived.

However, I was able to stop even the not-so-bad commute long before COVID as I wanted to be at home when the kids came back from school as they are only young once and briefly so. Though I miss the "me-time".
Oh really? and just WHAT is the conversion rate between a PatentPoint and a BluePoint?
Thanks! I've been following promptfoo, so I'm glad to see you here. In addition to automatic evals I think every engineer and PM using LLMs should be looking at as many real responses as they can _every day_, and promptfoo is a great way to do that.
> When I started, I had very little idea about what makes a good ISA, and, as far as I can tell, this isn’t formally taught anywhere.

ISA principles are covered in Hennessy and Patterson's Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. But then they've been relegated there out to an appendix. In addition to not being formally taught, they're de-emphasized.
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I have the same problem, namely a constant urge to look up things while reading paper books. My personal solution to that is to copy whatever sentence that triggers my urge to look up anything and then set aside time to do the look up later. I think the value it brings is that I won't be distracted into deep rabbit holes while finishing my book.

I'm not sure what's the end goal here though. It seems like you would like to look up things as soon as you encounter them, but on the same device (Kindle)? Then the benefit is not switching devices?
I don’t see how it’s irrelevant. The EU has said what they find reasonable for payment processing, and AFAIK nobody walked away, and Apple ‘gives’ more.

Also, PayPal is more than a payment processor. It also is a broker (and, effectively, also a shop).
You're missing the point. We're talking about general systems here, not websites specifically, and the Slashdot effect is a perfect example that everyone is familiar with where queues do solve maintain availability if longer latency is acceptable.