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> Look at Fukushima. Not only is the whole area a mess. No one knows what to do with the mess.

As someone who lives in Toronto, Canada, which is ~50km (as the crow flies) to a nuclear plant, I have no qualms about nuclear, and wish we'd build more in the province.

As for waste, they have an entire episode called "What About the Waste?":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2t2tYQsK94

At the end of the day, we can just bury it:

* https://globalnews.ca/news/10191441/site-canada-nuclear-wast...

It's currently not economically viable to reprocess it because uranium is so cheap, but having it available for possible future needs would be nice.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident

You are comparing apple to orange: the above was a tiny module. Nuclear "waste" from reactors is stored in cement cylinders that weight tonnes.

And we need radioactive materials, like the one in the above incident, for many applications, including medical treatments as well as for things like sterilizing things. Canada, which has a nuclear industry, provide a lot of the world's medical isotopes:

> The deal to produce the isotope at Darlington will ease concerns about access to the raw material for TheraSphere, which has been provided to more than 100,000 liver cancer patients worldwide, said Peter Pattison, president of Boston Scientific's interventional oncology franchise in Ottawa.

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-darlington-nu...

* https://www.canadianisotopes.ca/isotopes-in-canada/

* https://natural-resources.canada.ca/our-natural-resources/en...

Unless you wish to deprive people of possibly life-saving treatment options?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_therapy
:D One of my late friends was a core XEmacs dev.

Edit: I intended to make a quip about systemd being orthogonal to UNIX philosophy, and how churn novelty and platform-specific idiosyncrasies break the contract of robust, portable, stable compatibility, but I'll be over here mumbling to myself in the corner instead.
Unless done alone in a windowless, lead-sealed basement, almost anything we do affects others. It's too easy to take away freedom that way.

I wear seatbelts; I could understand insurance contracts not covering costs if the insured didn't wear a seatbelt; but I don't think government should mandate it. I'm not anti-regulation; I agree with the table saw safety requirement.
Jonathan Haidt, the author of this article, was on Real Time w Bill Maher recently, and has some simple recommendations with respect to phones and social media:

1. No smartphones for kids before high school — give them only flip phones in middle school.

2. No social media before age 16.

3. Make schools phone-free, by putting devices in phone lockers or Yondr pouches.

4. Give kids far more free play and independence, including more and better recess.

I can't argue with any of the above.
I wouldn't bully a person for a name they were assigned by their parents or something culturally common. But a name they chose for themselves to be unique and expressive seems like fair game.
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That’s honestly a bit heart-breaking I remember he was on some programming podcast years ago and is how I heard of genius.com

He seemed like such an interesting founder, with a lot of technical knowledge and big opinions…
That just means the tech is not ideal, not that I want table saws without it.
It's not just a lazy narrative. It's a profitable one. That narrative could help save their ass. I wouldn't be surprised if legions of paid "social media analysts" are barfing this out 24/7 on the grams and the twits.

Think about it. What's going to have a better impact on your disgruntled workforce: 1) the idea that someone ratted out big Ma B, got sidelined, got sad, then killed themselves? or 2) the idea that rats get murdered? I don't know about you, but with 2 I'd be definitely be thinking twice before calling the FAA or anyone else.
the interface, that I'm needing to load multiple adapters, and that I don't have a language model at the same time. LM Studio is way better for language models only at the moment.
this is a great write up! i was curious about the verifier and planner agents. has anyone used them in a similar way in production? any examples?

for instance: do you give the same llm the verifier and planner prompt? or have a verifier agent process the output of a planner and have a threshold which needs to be passed?

feels like there may be a DAG in there somewhere for decision making..
> Didn't we learn federalism doesn't work when the states fought each other over pandemic supplies.

The US learned between 1776 and 1789, under the Articles of Confederation. That's why they made a new constitution with a stronger centeral government.
It does make ripping pressure treated wood a little dicey. Whenever I have to cut wood that is wet I will disable the flesh detection feature temporarily. That's a minor inconvenience though. I will never go back to a saw without the feature.
This just as easily describes the rise of AOL when I was around that age in the 90s.
I think this is too far, but you should have to be 18 to post on social media, except chat rooms like discord.

Frankly, social media should maybe be highly regulated like prescription drugs. A lot of people can't handle social media and it is tearing democracy apart.
At scale the cost will come down. The actual tech is remarkably simple (which is a compliment to the design and engineering). The saw blade is wired up in such a way that it becomes a capactive touch sensor. When tripped a sacrifical brake is blasted into the blade that causes it stop and drop into the table.

It isn't going to cost 10x.

https://www.sawstop.com/why-sawstop/the-technology/
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I'm saying the omission of the disclosure of an obvious conflict is a bad lapse. It's bad whether it results in bias or not and independent of what I think. The OG commenter was right to point it out and you're not right to suggest it only counts if there is evidence of bias.
Once you remove the "jin" from "jinrikisha", the vehicle can be electrified with substantially less irony.
Unfortunately no, had no use case for it in an industry dominated by Python and C++. Wouldn't be surprised if Lazarus is very fast and pleasant to use, and I think the problem with more popular IDEs lies in underlying technology: C++ is traditionally very slow to compile and analyze, and many popular languages are too dynamic for reliable autocompletion to be feasible. When I briefly worked with C# and Java in 2000s the IDEs were very much fully functional (compared to C++ at the time), but sluggish enough to be unpleasant without a powerful PC which I did not have — and Delphi ran fast on cheap hardware.
Worth noting that GPT can be accessed both through ChatGPT and via the OpenAI API. The link in this thread is pointing to documentation for the OpenAI API.

Vision means the model can see image inputs.

In the API, GPT with vision was previously available in a limited capacity (only some people, and didn't work with all features, like JSON mode and function calling). Now this model is available to everyone and it works with JSON mode and function calling. It also should be smarter at some tasks.

This model is now available in the API, and will roll out to users in ChatGPT. In the API, it's named `gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09`. In ChatGPT, it will be under the umbrella of GPT-4.
Influx used SQL, then deprecated it and made everyone use Flux, then deprecated that and moved back to SQL. They are definitely not "doing it correctly" when it comes to query language.
If these had pass-through audio I would buy them instantly.
I get the opposition, but this is a huge savings in the long run, both in terms of sheer money, and pain and suffering. The math on table saws is staggering (as pointed out in this comment section.) It's hard to stomach allowing several amputations a day to save people $50-100. I know a table saw is as safe as the user; I am so terrified of mine that it's probably commercial air travel level of safe. But stats have consistently shown the average user isn't, and there's no reason to expect that to change.

I think we can expect added costs to come down a lot when every table saw has one. They will be more expensive than they are now, for sure, but I don't think it'll be 3x. And I'm not worried about beginners being unable to afford one. There's a thriving used table saw market that'll still happily amputate your digits, these things live forever. You'll be able to get one of those really cheap when every new table saw also has anti-mangling tech built in, as nobody but the knuckle draggers will want the old ones. In fact I'd expect a flood of people (myself included) selling their crappy old table saw without brakes for the first affordable table saw with them.

And if you just really don't like your limbs, I saw a radial arm saw at Menard's for pretty cheap.
FWIW, Pidgin is still very much alive, we even had a release in February... Also not sure what "very open Pidgin" means as we're 100% GPLv2 but whatever.
This is what I'll do for my kids, but that's my own choice.
Is there any reason Windows couldn't add an equivalent of execvpe for arguments and environment to be passed as arrays, which newer programs could then use directly? The OS could handle safely re-quoting as a string for older programs that need compatibility, rather than leaving it up to the language or programmer to hopefully do right. Which seems pretty difficult, based on the fact that seven major languages got a CVE today - plus a possible exploit in every C application that is doing this by hand.

The API could even be a more modern pointer+length interface rather than null termination, to sidestep that class of mistakes/exploits (CWE-170).

https://www.daviddeley.com/autohotkey/parameters/parameters.... is a great read on how fragmented this all seems to be.
How reliable is mail delivery ootb with dmarc, spf and dkm in your experience? (I guess it really depends on the reputation of the IP and not the mail server)
Why 16 specifically? Apparently the brain doesn't stop developing until much later, around 25.
Why is this true and not just more elder moral panic like Seduction of the Innocent[1], outrage at books, DnD, comics, etc?

Different context but why is this not just driven by generational fear of change?

It’s trivial to pick a data set that supports a conclusion.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent
And the mega corp requires use of a fork of vscode with a limited number of plugins, including ones that run completely client-side that would increase productivity greatly.

Next, they'll demand RTO, Colemak keyboard layouts, and faded 13" 4:3 CRT monitors.

Nooooooooooooooooo.....
Exactly, I just saw a post today about someone's grandpa barricading himself in his house and fearing the eclipse would kill him. On the comments section everyone was insulting him, treating him like an idiot. I couldn't help but feeling this was not a result of poor media choice as everyone was suggesting but an underlying medical illness.

I really hope mental illnesses would be better treated and that people in very edge cases would spend more time in counseling and maybe less time on the internet.
This news piece is, first and foremost, about the Model, not the ChatGPT System. (More about the difference between “Model” and “System”: https://ndurner.github.io/antropic-claude-amazon-bedrock). Not sure what their upgrade policy/process for ChatGPT is like, though.
The actual contention isn't whether an actuator-based solution would work, its if an actuator-based solution could stop the saw without damaging it (and therefore not give credence to the claim that SawStop is intentionally designing a poor solution in order to sell more blades).

As far as I can tell, REAXX also damages the blade.
id say wait until the Putin issue is sorted out
Statistically, the mental health of gay kids is worse today than it was when there was a lot more real world persecution.
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This seems more like a gap in the windows API than in the programming languages.
Hopefully you’ve read the Polygon article and seen the videos with Andy Gavin talking about the underlying tech. I was going to do part two of the video series but COVID killed it. Maybe we’ll revive that; it would be fun.
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WebHID is related

Everything is related to everything somehow. You can't start dumb flamewars on HN and it's especially bad form to start them in people's Show HN, that's all.
Is there any benefit of using a JetBrains IDE for Rust over any other editor with rust-analyzer?

Their IDEs were always slow for me, even on good hardware.
It's not outrageous that a business's investors are rewarded for an innovation that benefits humanity.
But what if they said “unexpected complications arose” and “the release “got delayed due to a legal situation”?

Easy.
I was able to understand it roughly around when I entered my teens, in part because he was transferred to another country, where the embassy was a lot smaller and the country more insular, so it was common to get kids involved in embassy stuff to get the otherwise lacking sense of community.

It's hard to say if I would've been a diplomat if I had known earlier. I feel like being a diplomat is harder to innocently romanticize and turn into hobbies for a child in the way that 'scientist' can be.
I’ve never heard puberty described as making kids “a lot less social”, so not sure where you’re getting that from. A source would help your argument.
Are Chinese people happier then Americans or Europeans?
Writing down “distorted thoughts” to visually recognize them as a bit out of whack (or not) and measure the level of distortion is the one of the premises of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
It was never a nice idea, but there is nothing better for the moment
Direct link to PDF:

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~zubair/files/jetlaw-chrome-antit...
There's no source I'd believe on this. Kids don't become shy when they turn 13.
The brain never stops developing, why 25? Where does everyone get this darn 25 is when you're grown number from?
Chrome is doing amazing work with these WebAPIs. Here's a quick list of things enabled by Chrome being open-minded and allowing WebHID and WebUSB APIs to exist:

- Turn your Stadia controllers into bluetooth controllers: https://stadia.google.com/controller/index_en_GB.html

- Android Flash Tool: https://flash.android.com/welcome

- fastboot.js - FastBoot API but entirely though the web: https://kdrag0n.github.io/fastboot.js/demo/

- WebADB - Android debugging interface through the web: https://app.webadb.com/

and here's my favorite (because I used it in my RX-8)

- Node-Carplay - Carplay interface through a USB dongle in your browser with no external dependencies!!1! (https://github.com/rhysmorgan134/node-CarPlay)
I started taking a beginner woodworking class which actually had a bit of a waitlist to it. After the first day (all safety), I decided it wasn't worth it for just a minor hobby. Improved safety gear may have changed my mind.
The Moon needs two sets of timezones:

The first set is a universal Lunar time like the Earth's UTC. The same time all over the Moon, and sounds much like what NASA is planning on.

But the next set are the local timezones, probably this could be one Lunar-Hour per every 1 degree of Lunar Rotation. At 360 degrees, that would be roughly 2 Earth hours to every Lunar-Hour. Then again, if we made each Lunar timezone equal to 0.5 degrees of rotation, the Lunar-Hour would be similar to an Earth hour: 28 days = 672 Earth hours = 40320 minutes. Divide that by 720 (360 degrees x 2) and we get about 56 Earth minutes to the Lunar Hour.

We could have a niche market for Lunar-Time watches! I believe the guys who work on the Mars Rovers have watches of some type syncronised to the Martian Sols already.
Absolutely. Being "online" changed from being a place you go (your computer) at a certain time (after school/work, a couple hours a day max) to becoming an always-on experience. It's a qualitative change.
we could regulate feedback loops, "the algorithm"
Same here, though I only had about three quarters of a bitcoin.
I've been using Bluetooth for at least a decade and I really believed this active connection was actually needed.
If the effect you're testing is that throwing away a piece of paper subdues anger, then those who don't are the control group.
I mean, a bit more searching did seem to turn up a few notch beamsplitters near the required frequency (not quite the same frequency though)

I am wondering if part of the reason that finding these at the frequency of sodium vapour lamps is partly due to those lights no longer being common. Or perhaps that those just aren't frequencies common to laser optics, which seems like the biggest market for these kinds of devices anyway.

Though, I see no reason why you couldn't use a laser for this process anyway, with matching notch filter.
Ask HN: Turn off automated Time Machine backups for the sake of SSD health?
In particular, I am worried about the local snapshots that it makes.
The location themselves are encrypted with a per-device key and google can't read it. I don't see what the issue is.
I admit this is a bit outside my wheelhouse so I’m probably still missing something.

Isn’t this just a table with 5bn rows of timestamp, page_type, page_views_t1d, page_views_t7d, page_views_t30d, page_views_t60d, and page_views_t180d? You can even compute this incrementally or in parallel by timestamp and/or page_type.

What’s the magic Chronon is doing?
I wrote more on this topic here https://dev.to/grim/why-is-there-no-mobile-version-of-pidgin...
Yes, and the point I was making is that some safety interventions make sense and are not at all analogous to trying to cover everyone in bubble wrap.
Yep, it's a DAG, though that only occurred to me after we built this so we didn't model it that way at first. It can be the same LLM with different prompts or totally different models, I think there's no rule and it depends on what you're doing + what your benchmarks tell you.

We're running it in prod btw, though don't have any code to share.
Honest question: how?

Their event pricing would require you to log something on the order of tens of millions of events to get at a 10k monthly bill. If you were turning it on in a high-volume environment, how did you unexpectedly run up a 10k bill after doing the math in half a day? Something about this doesn't add up.
Most people would rather go bankrupt than lose a finger. Fingers are kind of important. If I can choose to keep my house or my finger, I’m definitely choosing the finger.

So just divide the average net worth of a saw operator by the cost of a saw to get how many saws a finger is worth.
I don’t think that’s why we mandated seatbelts. I don’t see any particular reason to believe either way, that seatbelts save money or cost it—if people die quickly they don’t cost the medical system much at all.

I think we mandated seatbelts because they prevent tragic deaths and cost almost nothing to manufacture. Sometimes we actually do impose on people’s liberty in the interest of preventing them from doing something stupid, and there’s no reason to pretend otherwise.

I mean, if we did look up the data and found that they actually do end up costing more, would you be in favor of banning seatbelts? I certainly wouldn’t!
I don't get how phones became acceptable in schools. Imagine bringing a GameBoy into class in the 90s. It'd be taken away instantly.
Why are capital gains not passive income?

In the US, we even have a lower tax rate (the capital gains tax rate) for dividends if you have held the asset for more than a year.

Even step up basis when assets get inherited is a bad incentive, not to mention the $13M federal gift tax exemption.

If you want people to swing hammers and perform surgeries, then don’t tax swinging hammers or performing surgeries (or tax it less).

And if you don’t want people living off their or their ancestor’s hoarded wealth, tax it so they either do something with it or dump it so someone else can. This segways into significantly higher land value taxes.

In the US, we even reward people who just sit on unproductive real estate by deferring all taxes via 1031 exchanges (you sell one property and buy another, and there’s no tax). And on top of that, you pay excessively low land value taxes for this store of wealth that the rest of society maintains and protects for you.
> It's quite amusing to see someone talk about a 10-100x reduction in the cost of intermittent sources so confidently, yet discounting the possibility of cheaper nuclear power despite the historical precedence.

Sure, find it amusing, but your own sources demonstrate a 5x difference in the past "cheap" era of nuclear to its more expensive current era. Even if we could somehow go back to knowing less about nuclear, or get to an era of cheaper labor, then we are only looking at a 5x decrease. And the trend is for higher costs, now lower costs with nuclear.

TMI is a completely irrelevant event in the ordering of new nuclear, the real problem was that too many reactors had been ordered, too many of them got behind schedule, and there was a massive oversupply of electricity, and not enough demand. In 1985, a Forbes cover story by James Cook called this misprediction of demand "the largest managerial disaster in business history.”

https://rmi.org/insight/nuclear-follies/

>Unfortunately, renewable costs have largely flatlined and started to increase

In order to make such a claim you have to really cherry pick, which is why you are using an out-of-date image during a global supply crunch. There have been several points in history where solar power had a year or two of stalled or even increased prices, only to drop precipitously soon after the supply-chain crunch had been solved.

So are you predicting both a reversal of nuclear cost increases, and even decreases to the point of a 10x drop? And that the trend of the past decades for renewables will stop? To predict two such very large reversals, without evidence, is not atypical in the nuclear fan crowd, but I do not operate with such faith, and prefer data.
I’d tend to agree with you, it doesn’t track to anything I’ve heard either.

As someone who happened to hit that inflection point at the summer after high school I consider my cohort extremely lucky.
That's too bad. My parents were farmers and my dad brought some home one day, even though we no longer had cattle when we lived on our ranch. He thought I'd like to play with them, and he was right! Even my friends who weren't from farm families thought they were cool. I'm going to order some for my kids. These were the classic ones in the 1980's: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_disease#/media/File...
Is that before or after non-beta FSD (https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/)?
To be honest, I sort-of-expected a lot more conversation around the mechanics of the ceremony (after all, with a lonely funeral, you're the director!), which is a fascinating topic on its own.

Instead, reactions were more like those to a viral video: how dare you pay attention to someone who clearly doesn't deserve it? I did not manage to complete all responses I started typing out because of, well, feelings, but that strangely helped to justify the handful of hours I spend on this particular project every year...
It means you don’t have to be as sketched out if you’re looking for something that requires basic math. Imagine generating the correct result of a unit test or something. I wouldn’t trust it either way, but I think this is a believable example.
don't forget + Vision
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