skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is simply not true and repeating it all the time does not make it more true. There have been several analysis posted here on HN which showed that compliance with regulations is not a major cost factor for nuclear power. In fact nuclear power operators have often lobbied to be exempt from regulations that apply to other power generation schemes. Solar and wind often have significantly higher compliance costs as percentage of their budget than nuclear.
Yep! I had an HP 48 (48SX, I think) in high school. Everyone else had TIs.
“If you do a good job on this film, you won’t ever have to work for me again!” has got to be the best quote from a producer anywhere ever.
You may enjoy CS Lewis’ Abolition of Man, and Alisdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue. Nietzsche too but I reckon you are familiar with his work. Not necessarily endorsing these books fully, just sharing some things that bounce around in my head alongside some of the ideas you mention.
Average tenure does not indicate how long someone lasted before leaving the company. If you double the company size in a year you've almost certainly suppressed average tenure to below a year.
This- the barriers to solo founding and funding a brand new business working with physical assets are insane in much of the US.

For the most part you’re required to deal with all the same laws that a multi billion dollar incumbent is, and often times even more (zoning, permitting that are hard law for small players and easily flexed by local government for dubious jobs claims by large players). Many areas charge fixed annual fees for incorporation that are notable for an individual but irrelevant at scale. Rigorous accounting and record keeping standards. High salaries even for uneducated manual labor work. Building any modest physical structure requires what amounts to most middle class individuals entire expected lifetime earnings and you largely aren’t able to legally do any of that work yourself.

There’s a good reason California startups exist in the way they do, and if you aren’t doing software or running an unlicensed pop up fruit stand or flower shop you often look elsewhere.
In terms of cost per ton moved, trains and semi-trucks outperform taxis. And yet taxis still exist. Turns out cost per vehicle (or per reactor) is important in some situations.
wikimedia's git repo for this extension

https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/future-audiences/citation...

edit: the readme build instructions are incomplete and i don't think hotreload works. use `npm run build-dev` to get a working build.

it's not obvious to me what prevents this from being a firefox extension as well - it might be the sidebar/sidepanel api differences, but i haven't played with those much
Nuclear isn’t great for ‘peaker’/infrequent usage. The large up front capital costs means they require running at 90%+ utilization to be economic, and the way the radioactive decay chains work means they tend to take awhile (hours) to stabilize at their high power outputs, and hours to days to ramp down in actual effective power. Even a scrammed ‘hot’ reactor takes half a day to a couple days for daughter products to burn down to the point it doesn’t produce significant thermal power (hundred of megawatts to even half a gigawatt thermal).

That’s what got Fukushima btw - when they shut the reactor down and then the backup generators got destroyed, they lost their ability to pump water to cool the reactor (which requires significant electrical power), which proceeded to start to melt down the core, and causing massive hydrogen buildup, eventually blowing up the reactor building.

Some new designs allow more effective emergency passive cooling, but the issue remains - nuclear plants are great for baseline power, but they aren’t good for sub-day, hourly, or finer grained peaks. Both economically and technically. Think ‘fully loaded container ship’ or ‘multi-mile long train’.

Pumped storage, battery, or fossil fueled turbines are great for those faster reactions - and often can provide useful sub-second grid stability too. Think ‘speed boat’ or ‘passenger car’.
Which can have a passphrase and an agent, all sorts of MFA. One benefit to wireguard though is it's using UDP with a much less noisy handshake, you will never even know if the port you tried connecting to runs it (if your firewall is configured correctly). It's much more stealthy, an ssh server will pronounce it's version banner and public host key to literally anyone.
The opportunity is for the site to become the bots, and silo each user to their fake world of LLM posts tuned for them to engage with. It’s a site with of perfect knowledge of bots, which would be a perfect advertisement environment.
What makes you think anything about military construction is cheap?
Can someone ELI15? Does this work claim that because galaxies fly around each other, potentially around some bigger center of mass, rather than in straight lines, their rotation curves look differently/are actually different, and nobody checked before?
Have you even clicked the link?
Canada is very dispersed/low density in many areas. Think ‘US if it wasn’t so crowded’, outside of a few cities close to the US border.
> That enormous solar price is obtained by a not very well described adjustment procedure for variance in supply.

Well, the price is irrelevant when solar supply (and wind supply) goes to zero:

* https://www.ieso.ca/power-data § Supply

> […] Canada has large amounts of hydro.

Some parts of Canada have large amounts of hydro. Others do not.

I'd rather use hydro to reduce/eliminate gas plants:

* https://www.ieso.ca/power-data § Supply

Looking at the variability of renewables, I do not wish for the grid in Ontario (where I live) to be more dependent on them.
I'm not sure that nuclear is that expensive per unit of energy delivered, compared to rooftop solar for instance.
In Europe (UK and Germany) one might get 1000 kWh/year from 1kW of panels. Last year I helped a family member install 6.4kW of solar for around £7000 (VAT free), so £1.2 per kWh/year = 1.4 USD/kWh/year.
Vogtle 3 & 4 cost around 30bn USD but has a 90% capacity factor on 2 x 1117MW = 17612856000 kWh/year = 1.7 USD/kWh/year. I believe the AP1000 reactors have a 60 year design life. In addition the reactor design (lacking at the start of the project, and cause of many delays) plus underlying skill-base now exists to construct more.
In addition nuclear power now attracts the Inflation Reduction Act Investment Tax Credits for up to a 50% rebate once a reactor comes online. Which puts nuclear at 0.85 USD/kWh/year before we account for reduced construction cost and time now that the AP1000 is Nth of a kind.
I’m not using anything about “learn” to justify what’s copyrightable and what’s covered by fair use. Those things are defined by the output, not the process that produced them. The point is that LLMs are very effective at extracting non-copyrightable facts from the words and other creative choices made by an author.
I see Teslas daily I’ve never even seen a Waymo.
So in the context of a class name `JavaBadAbstractFactoryObjectFactoryException` your problem is on a human side, your colleague using bad class and var names. Language has nothing to do with it. Ruby and C# also have VERY long class names, yet we don't talk about them so much.
“If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will” - Steve Jobs
No rain in winter, the snow won’t melt until much later.
A site that contained a single NuScale reactor would have unacceptable fixed costs per MW. The UAMPS/NuScale CFPP was planned to have six reactors to amortize those fixed costs (like personnel) over more output.

Note also that the cost figures NuScale gave for that was the cost after 40-50 reactors had been built (and with federal subsidy), not FOAK costs.
The United States Navy, which operates 83 nuclear-powered ships, demonstrates that small reactors are clearly a viable energy source.
Ultra-high density battery vests give next-gen soldiers twice the energy
Of course!

My experience is people who have the attitude of doing the bare minimum do not have “works competently and efficiently for eight hours a day” as a target in mind when they say that.

For a lot of engineering work, competent and diligent for 30 hours per week could easily out-perform 40.
Can the AI future work for everyone?
Yi-1.5-9B looks like new king of the small dense models by quite a way, I guess llama3-8B was only a toy for meta since they don't bother with neat 34B sizes anymore.

Yi-1.5-Large (<99B?) was not released today as it is reserved for their upcoming API. The claim is solid llama3-70B/Gemini-1.5-pro superiority and probably big context they are known for.
I don’t understand what you’re arguing
I don't believe you're correct. It seems like the option that Debian decided on _will_ remove those features for users who are upgrading a package.

Users who already have the keypassxc package will need to explicitly switch packages if they want the full one. That's not the same behaviour as described in my quote comment.
https://archive.ph/Ablnl
I think the suggestion was to use a type of beacon that the automation could lock into for positioning, just replacing the GPS part of the location service, not the driving part. I imagine that would be technically possible, but not worth anyone's time for such an exceptional circumstance.
Envelopes and Letter Folds
You can produce significant fractions of a large modular reactor (e.g. AP1000) in a factory.

There are arguments that for a small modular reactor the civil works that happen onsite (e.g. foundations) could make up a larger proportion of the costs than for a large modular reactor!
If you’re mostly using Apple phones and computers, why not use iCloud’s Photo Library?
While "common knowledge" says small can't compete with big when it comes to price/unit due to economies of scale, this article reads as very partial and anti-nuclear so I would trust the things that were said and the facts that were left out.

From the outside, this SMR situation looks a bit like monolith vs micro-services where there is a great deal of non-technical reasons why SMRs are a route being taken and it appears it's mostly political and organizational ie. approve and build the damn thing.
16 * 8 / 14 = 9.1
History has repeatedly demonstrated that it is not easy. Simple diligence is clearly insufficient.
That has a cost both to the compiler and to the developer.

It's not a free win.
Well that's good news as he's not great at predictions.
Not sure about the C64 one but I've seen the Apple ][ one on the software archive sites before sites before. It's The Visible Computer, a reference to these educational models:

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_214319

'Visual 6502' is the name of the modern gate and transistor level 6502 simulators:

http://visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html
People in rural places have supplemented their incomes selling things from flowers to honey to moonshine for ages.
John Deere, again. A system that doesn't even warn when accuracy is reduced, and instead just acts as if all is OK, recording incorrect info for future use.

When I bought my lawn tractor(mower), I made sure not to buy John Deere.
To what extent does this replace mosh? https://mosh.org/

It seems like it could do some of the same usecases.
Yes, but _you_ can protect yourself against this by simply not over leveraging.

Instead of buying the 250k house, buy the 200k house and put 1/4 of the mortgage payments away. After a year you have three months buffer, after four years you have a year.

The key is simply to live slightly below your means.

Re housing crash: the banks are not going to foreclose en masse on people who are paying their mortgage payments regularly simply because they are in negative equity. They are not incentivised to do so.
Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47221-8
Interestingly, if you said that “The Federal Government” should build and run small nuclear reactors, I bet you’d get a lot of pushback; I’m always fascinated by how “the military” is culturally considered very different from “the government” in the US. The military is perceived as able to do most anything while the government is considered lazy and wasteful.
When I worked there our estimates were that running costs came to about $5 per published paper compared to $5000-$20,000 at commercial journal publishers. It is still a lean operation but I think it’s a bad sign they moved most operations out of the Ithaca campus and right into high-cost NYC.
1-based array for JavaScript/TS
Indeed, the selling point is probably that a single entity can build an SMR without risk of going bankrupt.
Perhaps this speaks to the problem of building consortia of like-minded companies. Currently EDF are being stung for a large chunk of money now that CGN are refusing to put any more cash into Hinkley Point C construction.
> That said, I think the fundamental problem of such tools is unsolvable: Out of all possible analytical designs, they create boring existing results at best, and wrong results (i.e. missing confounders, misunderstanding context ...) as the worst outcome. They also pollute science with harmful findings that lack meaning in the context of a field.

This doesn't seem correct to me at all. If new data is provided and the LLM is simply an advanced tool that applies known analysis techniques to the data, then why would they create “boring existing results”?

I don’t see why systems using an advanced methodology should not produce novel and new results when provided new data.

There is a lot of reactionary or even luddite responses to the direction we are headed with LLMs.
You're talking about the adjusted wage gap, not the wage gap. The adjusted wage gap measures sexism on an individual basis — all else being equal. The wage gap measures sexism on a societal basis, this is where the "explained" parts fall away.

If 10% of the gap is explained by women having lower paying roles then that's good. Women aren't getting paid (that much) less for the same work. But it doesn't fix the issue of women systematically working lower paying roles or roles typically held by women being seen as less valuable.

The straight wage gap has never been in favor of women. "Men and women make the same when you control for the variables that cause them to make less" isn't as applicable when you're talking about group dynamics.
The batteries would not be Li-ion NMC cells, but more likely Li-ion LFP cells. The latter use iron and phosphate, both of which are available in very large amounts. Availability of other chemistries (like Na-ion) would only ease any constraints.

Batteries would best be used for diurnal leveling; don't overestimate demand by assuming they are used for (say) seasonal leveling.

The batteries used by electrified motor vehicles would exceed those needed for the grid.
> Solar+battery gets you there today, is getting cheaper every day

Solar + battery cannot be sufficient for most Europe except Mediterranean countries, it's not a matter of cost, there's just not enough sun in Winter and you need months of electricity worth of storage which isn't happening in our lifetime.

In general, talking about energy price ($/kWh) only make sense when you have fossil fuel as a near majority of your mix (because you have practically unlimited power as long as you spend money on fuel), but cease to make sense without it, because nobody cares about energy (Wh), what you (and the grid) need is power (W). With either nuclear or renewable, energy is practically free, but power is what costs money, and as we move towards a decarbonized mix, we'll need to change how the economics work to adapt to the underlying changes (including how we price electricity to consumers and businesses), because when you don't align the economics with the how the supply works the system collapses (like it did in Texas as few winters ago).
jfc i sure hope this doesn't go mainstream
Revolutionizing HTTP Requests in Python: Httpx vs. Requests vs. Aiohttp
There is a lot of empty practically free land in the world.

Also, it is estimated that it would take about ~7 million acres to power the US entirely with solar.
The US currently uses about 40 million (!!!!) acres for corn for ethanol.

Land is just not a problem, at all.

https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/how-much-land-power-us....

https://frontiergroup.org/resources/ethanols-outsized-place-....
Thanks much for these thoughtful comments and ideas.

I can’t but fully agree: pre-registered hypothesis is the only way to fully guard against bad science. This in essence is what the FDA is doing for clinical trials too. And btw lowering the traditional and outdated 0.05 cutoff is also critical imo.

Now, say we are in a utopian world where all science is pre-registered. Why can’t we imagine AI being part of the process that creates the hypotheses to be registered? And why can’t we imagine it also being part of the process that analyzes the data once it’s collected? And in fact, maybe it can even be part of the process that help collects the data itself?

To me, neither if we are in such a utopian world, nor in the far-from-utopian current scientific world, there is ultimately no fundamental tradeoff between using AI in science and adhering to fundamental scientific values. Our purpose with data-to-paper is to demonstrate and to provide tools to harness AI to speed up scientific discovery while enhancing the values of traceability and transparency and make our scientific output much more traceable and understandable and verifiable.

As of the question of novelty: indeed, research on existing public datasets which we have currently done cannot be too novel. Though scientists can also use data-to-paper with their own fascinating original data. It might help in some aspects of the analysis, certainly help them keep track of what they are doing and how to report it transparently. Ultimately I hope that such co-piloting deployment will allow us delegating more straight forward tasks to the AI and letting us human scientists to engage in higher level thinking and higher level conceptualization.
Wow that brought back some memories! I knew I had gone to a pizza place with an animatronic band, and it definitely wasn’t Chuck E Cheese. I’ve never been able to figure out what it was.

Yup, it was Showbiz and the Rock-afire Explosion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock-afire_Explosion

Thank you!
Why does this seem to be a uniquely GCP issue? Smaller companies posted on here about this issue with GCP yet none/very rare with AWS/Azure.
Where I’m at (Saskatchewan) everything is very flat. We have some hydro but all of the “economically viable” hydro resources have been tapped. I worked out the math once on doing pumped hydro storage and the best siting I came up with involved building a massive reservoir in the middle of one of the most beautiful provincial parks we have and putting the downstream low point 80km away.

There’s a really interesting nomenclature thing in Canada with respect to electricity. Every province (except Alberta) has a government-owned power company. If you want to tell whether or not a given province has good water resources for generating electricity you just need to look at the name of their power company: BC Hydro, Manitoba Hydro, Ontario Hydro, Quebec Hydro… all good places for hydroelectricity. SaskPower? Not so much.

We have recently bought into the SMR idea and one of the questions I used to have was “why the hell didn’t we build nuclear 20 years ago here”. The problem, I understand now, is overall grid sizing. You don’t want to have a single power plant that provides more than about 10% of your grid capacity. In SK, our total generation capacity is around 3500MW; a conventional 1+GW reactor would have dramatically exceeded the 10% cutoff. Smaller 300MW reactors provide a much better fit for our grid.
One of the leading hypotheses for the Ordovician mass extinction, the second largest ever, was a stray gamma ray burst. Earth regularly goes through mass extinction events and probably will continue to do so until the day all life is extinguished for good once it's encompassed in our dying star.

The interesting thing about these mass extinction events is twofold. The first is that they are (1) extremely improbable and (2) will continue to repeatedly happen. And they will never suddenly become more probable. The day before the Ordovician mass extinction kicked off would have very likely been just like any other normal day, even with modern tech. Somebody always wins the lottery sooner or later. The same would also be true even if only one ticket was sold a day. And tickets for the latest drawing have been on sell for about 65 million years.
Right. Where may we see the debunking?
My ex was schizoaffective. They thought BP1 for a while, but then she started hallucinating while baseline. Anyway, I've seen her take all the meds. Some work sometimes. Then they don't. Most of the time we'd be dealing with symptoms of the meds, which are not easy. When she was completely manic even the highest dose of some meds would not work for her. Actually a side effect of one of the meds had the same symptoms as schizophrenia, so in that case what was even the point?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_sy...

Neuroleptic-induced deficit syndrome (NIDS) is a psychopathological syndrome that develops in some patients who take high doses of an antipsychotic for an extended time... characterized by the same symptoms that constitute the negative symptoms of schizophrenia

You're right, a lot of times it seems like they just wanted to give her a pill and strap her down to a bed. Good sleep was far more important to regulating her wellbeing, but that was very difficult with the side effect of akathisia, which is common of antipsychotics. So it became a matter of upping the dose until it would make her pass out after hours of writhing pain. A daily occurrence.

So I could see why taking the meds were difficult.

If you told me I could take a pill to cure my autism but it would have the same symptoms as an antipsychotic, no thank you I wouldn't do it.
Learning maybe, but thinking?

Where are the hoards of 10x programmers who use writing by hand to outsmart us mere typing mortals?
Don't accept promises, get written contracts with expensive penalty clauses.
Perhaps they're just focusing on the New Hampshire readers.
"Doomsayers"??

Optimists invest in stocks.

Pessimists invest in bonds.

I invest in beans, bullets, blankets, and bandages.
Most of Europe is more northern than the inhabited places of Canada[1], so it's far from insignificant either.

[1] Yes, really: the populated places of Canada are comparable to northern Italy in terms of latitude. The Gulf Stream really does an unbelievable job hiding that fact.
> One thing that these kind of studies usually haven't counted is comparison of graduate income with their parents' income

This particular study actually does try to take that into account:

> I estimate counterfactual earnings for each program’s typical students, based on their demographics, socioeconomic status, academic ability, family background, and geographic location. [https://freopp.org/does-college-pay-off-a-comprehensive-retu...]
> is of such a scale that it’s inevitable that something will go wrong that causes the budget to explode.

It's not just the scale, it's also how few there are in planning in the west. You work out the kink (both building and operational) by building more of the things, and that's also how your builders skill up. At the height of its buildup, France had half a dozen nuclear reactors being built concurrently.

Because SMRs are smaller and you need more for the same total output, more would be built, and thus there are more opportunities to work out the kinks in manufacturing and setting up.

An other theoretical advantage of SMRs is they could be built in factories and craned in, and when the fuel is expended they get craned out, a new reactor is dropped in, and the old reactor is moved to a refueling facility (which can be nearby a reprocessing plant), the site doesn't need to be offline for refueling, and it gives higher opportunity for automation.
I believe those two events differ in frequency by at least a few orders of magnitude.