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> Nuclear is almost as non-dispatchable?

That turns out not to be completely not the case. As in not even close.

First, modern nuclear power plants can do load-following just fine, you often just don't want to because their variable costs are so low that it just makes more sense to keep them running.

Second, the problem with intermittent renewables is that they can't provide power when you need it. Even when you don't load-follow as much, that is not the problem of nuclear.

> As soon as you've ramped up a nuclear reactor to full power, the weather has changed

That's a problem of the intermittent renewables, not of nuclear. You don't make the clown-energy the primary and force everything else to adapt to that.

> Those who plan to use both nuclear and wind/solar don't do it for the dispatchability.

Yeah they do. Dispatchability in terms of grid demand, not in terms of compensating for intermittency.
In many contexts Ctrl+Shift+V will paste without formatting, but I’m still a bit hazy on exactly when it does/doesn’t work
Laws such as these will be selectively applied on people law enforcement will not like.
It has its own share of issues, but I’d argue that we have a lot fewer issues than most places. It’s part of our legal system though, that our police officers have a lot of discretion. I’d argue that strictly enforcing the photography laws would be a huuuuuge waste of police resources though. I mean, how would you really police it? They do in London due to anti-terrorist reasons, but only if you’re taking photos of thing some people might want to blow up.

Of course it has issues though. Not so much in the way you seem suggest here though.

They do occasionally do coordinated operations on usually enforced laws. Like set up control points at universities and check if all bikes passing by are legal. But they won’t regularly pull you over if you’re missing a reflex or similar, unless your bike is extremely unsafe.
You're not up-to-date. ALL of them do, except for Germany. And now that the consequences of this strategy are bing felt in Germany, opposition is rising.

https://www.energy.gov/articles/cop28-countries-launch-decla...

And you're wrong about nuclear. Brief intro:

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2021/ph241/lecroy2/
> yet the real-world impacts remain modest so far.

I second that. I remember when Google search first came out. Within a few days it completely changed my workflow, how I use the Internet, my reading habits. It easily 5 ~ 10x the value of Internet for me over a couple of weeks.

LLMs is doing nothing of the sort for me.
:) very glad to hear that
The metric I'm interested in is mostly system performance, not CPU performance.

How fast can a system compile my projects that is.
I tried in FireFox and Chromium on Linux, and get no matches in both browsers.

On Windows in Chrome, it indeed works.
more surprised that they made it this obvious tbh, somebody is probably getting shafted for not obfuscating this
.. but I am thinking about if from the other direction.

From the perspective of the non-Inuit Eskimos.
Getting People on Board
A new f150 base is 36k, hilux is 25 base, they both go up to similar highs.

The interest rate thing is wrong, you can finance them for lower interest rates than most houses and educations. They're even often at 0%.

The other thing to factor in is resale. If you factor in the resale the total cost of ownership for many American trucks is less than most other vehicles.
This prototype of real see-through augmented reality solution (not using cameras to re-project the real world) seems promising.

This could be the catalyst that enables AR solutions with regular looking glasses.

In layman's terms, it uses holographic optics to disperse light all over the surface area of the custom-built lenses. It then uses AI to learn how to modify the image it projects on the lenses, so that the output matches the original image.
What if I am using Stabble Diffusion to recreate an image? Tall guy, cca 1,90m,30 years, dark hair, umbrella, standing near cross road...
ISLisp has macros. (I'm looking at section 16 of the latest 2007 working draft.)
I've been a happy Rhasspy user and now even more excited for the future because I'm hoping the conversational style (similar to what OpenAI demo'd yesterday) will eventually come to the offline world as well. It is okay if I gotta buy a GPU to make that happen, or maybe we get luckier and it wont? Ok, maybe I'm getting too optimistic now
> specifically targeting regenerative organic, where fertilizer is not used

That seems restrictive given the argument that liquified worm castings are organic: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-21/worm-healthy-benefits...

(and similarly that pig waste (urine+feces+time) from pig farms makes good starting soil .. although there are understandable objections to pig farms and to shit in dirt when growing some types of food).

Is "regenerative organic" that tightly insistant upon an immediate closed loop that not even an adjacent worm farm can be mixed in?
Some people treat FLOPS as “FLoating point OPerationS”.
We buy used recent Corollas (4-5 years) at around $25-30k in my country. If it’s cheaper than that, it’s probably a salvaged vehicle or it a stolen vehicle from Canada or something. New Corollas cost around $40-50k.

The Chinese vehicles are now replacing those used cars. They cost $20-25k new and come with all the bells and whistles you wouldn’t get from Toyota.
They are also assembled locally so, supports and parts are not a problem.
Why would that encourage sand or grit?
> I'm not confident that I'd be able to distinguish GPT-4o from a human speaker in the best of circumstances and I'm almost certain that I could be fooled if I'm hurried, distracted, sleep deprived or otherwise impaired.

Set a memorable verification phrase with your friends and loved ones. That way if you call them out of the blue or from some strange number (and they actually pick up for some reason) and you tell them you need $300 to get you out of trouble they can ask you to say the phrase and they'll know it's you if you respond appropriately.

I've already done that and I'm far less worried about AI fooling me or my family in a scam than I am about corporations and governments using it without caring about the impact of the inevitable mistakes and hallucinations. AI is already being used by judges to decide how long people should go to jail. Parole boards are using it to decide who to keep locked up. Governments are using it to decide which people/buildings to bomb. Insurance companies are using to deny critical health coverage to people. Police are using it to decide who to target and even to write their reports for them.

More and more people are going to get badly screwed over, lose their freedom, or lose their lives because of AI. It'll save time/money for people with more money and power than you or I will ever have though, so there's no fighting it.
Because you'll end up with lots of "if (user.isPaidUser) {...}"
Ask HN: Energy cost per AI request higher than using StackOver/Google or lower?
DFS Channels in 5 GHz
In the UK, a lot of publicly accessible places are owned by local, regional, or national authorities who can draft their own bylaws, see https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/about-us/photogr... And they do go after photographers https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/wedding-photographer... making it difficult for photographers to produce and make a living off their photos.
Probably it will be used for many things. Just like computers, electricity, iron
> Having educators is essential for the health of any society. Educators who constantly revise the material, learn it themselves, and teach it to others

I’m not sure a lot of our educators really fall into the latter category. But even if you’re not corporation for the lecture part, at the very least our own educators could do video lectures and make those available. Maybe that might even make some of them improve their teaching styles. When they get to see themselves teach.
After looking at the introduction, there doesn't seem to be much of an update in OpenAI's features: https://aidisruption.substack.com/p/ultimate-ai-gpt-4o-your-...
That doesn't imply that it's GPT-5. A GPT-4 training run probably doesn't take them that long now they've acquired so many GPUs for training GPT-5.
Its almost complete. Only multiplayer is missing, but they are now replacing modern renderer with one closer to the original one.
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but they're not. They're building luxury condos because they pay out the most and they need to do that because the cost of construction is so high. if the cost of construction was lower, then it would be affordable to do non-luxury non-condo
construction.
Birmingham is way off its peak population. It’s under 200k now (still falling) and was 340k in the 1960s. There is probably a lot of hesitancy to build in a place where the population is shrinking.
I completely agree with you but my point stands as is.

I'd only change 'never have' to 'almost never have' and most probably won't again.
Since we’re talking about Linux support, the iPad benchmarks seem irrelevant. It’s a completely different kernel.

Asahi Linux benchmarks on an M3 MacBook Air would be the closest thing here.
Google teases new camera-powered AI feature one day ahead of I/O
If they sell it in the EU, yes - again, for consumers, not B2B. If you import it into EU yourself, then none of that applies.
A law in which country?

Well, GDPR showed a bit that rather global impact is possible.

If you offer an open service on the internet you need to be prepared that users and misusers will cause costs.

However, if you block it for public access you as a customer are not offering a public service. It's the cloud provider offering a public service so it seems just a basic legal principle that it's the cloud provider who pays for misuse (attempts to access something that is not public). But of course big corporations are not known for fair contracts respecting legitimate interest of the customer before legal action is on the horizon. I wonder what made AWS wake up here.
(am Australian) this is how we treat all whistleblowers here. There was an entire investigation kicked off by this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brereton_Report.

Literally this guy, the whistleblower, is the only person to see jail time because of these war crimes.
Yeah. I’m not going to defend x86 segment registers and real-mode DOS too vigorously. (I programmed in x86 assembler for many years.) But I’m pretty sure the right approach wasn’t to say Screw it. Let’s wait until a 32-bit flat address space processor and OS come along at the consumer and individual business user level.
The hardware is nice though. Wish we could run open source assistants on it.
I feel sorry for you; not knowing what true love between family is.
Google Maps generally shows my location inside of airport terminals pretty accurately, so it stands to reason that the network of iPhones in a terminal could plot a tracker's position pretty well. If someone has your bag and you know which direction they're moving, you could possibly catch up and get close enough to either spot it or (assuming you have an iPhone 11+) get a Ultra Wide Band fix to finish pinpointing it.

Bury the tracker somewhere too inconvenient to locate and remove quickly, and they'll count on not removing it until later (or they'll just ditch it once it starts beeping).
It'd be a more fair comparison to take into account Windows 7's EOL which was just a year ago IIRC if you coughed up Extended Support money, its broad install base, and it being the last actually truly decent Windows that had a consistent UI across the place and no ads.
For pictures of public buildings, at least in Germany, "The exception generally applies only to works on permanent public display" does a lot of heavy lifting imho. So much so that I find the table headed "Freedom of panorama by country (Must include commercial use)" to be misleading and should highlight that any public use, including on social media, may require a license.

My Christmas lights are temporary. I demand a licensing fee from street view and all social media uses where my house is visible.
I'm not sure why you say so? To me that seems obviously literally just swapping/weighting between a set of predefined voices. I'm sure you've played a game with a face generator - it's the exact same thing, except with audio. I'd also observe in the demo that they explicitly avoided anything particularly creative, instead sticking within an extremely narrow domain very basic adjectives: neutral, dramatic, singing, robotic, etc. I'm sure it also has happy, sad, angry, mad, and so on available.

But if the system can create a flamboyantly homosexual Captain Picard with a lisp and slight stutter engaging in overt innuendo when stating, "Number one, Engage!" then I look forward to eating crow! But as the instructions were all conspicuously just "swap to pretrained voice [x,y,z]", I suspect crow will not be on the menu any time soon.
Couple of issues with that, how does this plugin know that this wasm-blob is together with a certain source? Since wasm is often the compile target and don't have comments afaik how do you really tell the plugin what license it is?

I guess what I am really asking is how would it say so? Because even if it is free software I assume this plugin would block it anyway since it don't know.

You could write an html comment just above it but how will I as a website owner know that this plugin:

1. Exists.

2. How to respect it.

There are plenty of plugins but this seems just like a plugin if you like to suffer when you really don't have to. I can kind of understand the goal of the FSF and I do hate some modern software today and companies trying to remove ownership but I have never thought the way FSF is doing stuff is a good way to reach their goal.
Mixing rayon and Tokio for fun and (hair) loss
I miss the simulation games of that era. They’ve pretty much faded away. At one point I dove back in a bit but everything was so janky trying to run that I quickly lost interest.
I was a 90s kid, and was totally head over heels for Origin Systems' games (Ultima, Wing Commander, etc). Par for course, I had a selection of DOS boot disks to set up the right operating environment for each game. Ultima VII featured a memory manager[0] based on 'Unreal Mode', which made getting it running even more precarious. The quote at the bottom of that link from the developer is really telling.

0: https://www.wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Voodoo_Memory_Manager
"How I make extra cash fixing my neighbours' nuclear reactors with a can of WD-40" YouTube short ready to be published in 3... 2... 1...
Immutable systems like this are great in a lot of educational setups where a lot of different students work at potentially many different workstations while always needing access to the same tools and in general having a "unified" experience.
I TA’ed a Haskell course for four years, and I came to the conclusion that what made it so difficult to learn was the apparent implicit mixup between newtype syntax / overloading and purpose of even using them. (The newtype syntax is necessary to differentiate between multiple instances of the typeclass; if you threw away the newtype syntax and overloading, >>= could only mean something for one thing, making it comprehensible but less useful — taking both steps at once loses most people.)

Motivating the use of monads in FP requires solving a bunch of problems without, and realise your life would be so much easier if you abstracted out the commonality at the function composition level. But there isn’t time for that.

When you skip the motivation, the explanation becomes “Welcome to FP. We’re gonna jump through these hoops because math is beautiful, also, most of the syntax you’re typing gets thrown away at compilation, good luck and fmap fmap fmap!”
It's astonishing how few people actually seem to realise this.
it is hard to imagine the economics of humanoid robots

Their video gives subtle hints at the capabilities they're selling. Once you catch on it's quite startling.

What department of every municipality in the United States would love to get their hands on these?

Law enforcement will be chomping at the bit to get these on the budget. Learned repetitive movement, taking punches, crushing "walnuts", easily packed away in a trunk..
If (litteraly) everyone parked all their money in Microsoft stock and spent nothing in the real economy the system would collapse. Economically we all stand on the shoulders of consumption.
Benchmarked Llama2 and mistral across popular inference engines and precisions
Checkout Benchmarks v2 https://github.com/premAI-io/benchmarks

It benchmarks Llama 2 and Mistral v0.1 across all the popular inference engines out there, this includes TensorRT LLM, vLLM, Llama CPP, CTranslate2, DeepSpeed etc etc. Total 13 + inference engines and still counting. For each engine benchmark is also done across four precisions fp32/16 and int8/4. Benchmarking is done on the following parameters

throughput (token/sec)

GPU consumption

Quality degradation (empirical checks)

All the observation are summarized here in this blog: https://blog.premai.io/prem-benchmarks/

The why of doing all this is simple, we have so many options right now, when it comes to choose right deployment ways, so benchmarks helps to see the nuances associated with different engines across precisions and helps to helps you to choose the right one based on your requirement
You have economies of scale (size) squaring off against economies of scale (production).

For one-offs, the economies of size win, because then the economies of production don't actually get a chance to do their thing. So kick-starting is a problem. However, the problems with the EPR and the AP-1000 hint (do not prove) that we may be hitting size limitations.

The strategy that Rolls-Royce is pursuing seems promising: factory-built microreactors (so economies of production) that you can plop into existing coal-powered plants to upgrade them to nuclear. That way you reduce the issues with the non-factory-built parts.
If you get off the internet you'd not even realise these tools exists though. And for the statement that all jobs will be modelled to be true, it'd have to be impacting the real world.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was at least a full magnitude more expensive energy wise, due to it uses a much more power hungry component for much longer
What I don't get is why nobody seems to have done the work to reverse engineer the onboarding workflow, and why Apple doesn't allow onboarding on Mac devices. I had to buy a (used) iPhone just to onboard AirTags, despite onboarding Mac devices works without one.
Now that I see this, here is my wish (I know there are security privacy concerns but let's pretend there are not there for this wish):
An app that runs on my desktop and has access to my screen(s) when I work. At any time I can ask it something about what's on the screen, it can jump in and let me know if it thinks I made a mistake (think pair programming) or a suggestion (drafting a document). It can also quickly take over if I ask it too (copilot on demand).

Except for the last point and the desktop version I think it's already done in math demo video.

I guess it will also pretty soon refuse to let me come back inside the spaceship, but until then it'll be a nice ride.
I read Make It Stick [0] recently, and it seems to agree on almost everything on the science side that the top answer here brings up, if anyone is interested. It discusses many of the mentioned themes (spaced repetition vs. "blocking", mixed practice, testing effect, desirable difficulty) in more detail.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Make-Stick-Science-Successful-Learnin...
raku (raku.org) was implemented by a team who were encouraged to cut their teeth on Haskell. The first complete implementation of a raku parser - PUGS - was written in Haskell. This tradition shows in that raku offers a natural path for Haskell coders to come to raku and still use many of their familiar Haskell idioms. Here is the Haskell -> Raku guide: https://docs.raku.org/language/haskell-to-p6.

Raku balances imperative, functional and OO styles in a unified syntax. Functional programming primitives include currying, lazy and eager list evaluation, junctions, autothreading and hyperoperators (vector operators).
No, I think there is more to it then people what to admit. For example, there is a lot of comorbidity between ADHD and narcissism. There might be less social stigma about being the quirky inattentive ADHDer rather then the selfish narcissist but they are both attention disorders in some way. MRI scans of people diagnosed with NPD show that there brains prefer their dreams over reality. Meaning, there is a pathway in your brain for sensory information (exteroception) and a pathway for predictions your brain makes (interoception). For people with ADHD and NPD their interoception will often overwrite their exteroception when there is a conflicting signal.
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I’ve used Word since the early 90s (before the GUI version) and one thing has been consistently true for all that time: the defaults for many things in Word are not what I would intuitively assume them to be. Paste and “Paste Special” are perfect examples of this. And don’t get me started on “bullets and numbering”. How a feature used so often can remain so functionally broken for so long in such a popular piece of software just does my head in.
I was introduced to it, if I remember correctly, via a post on The Dark Mod forums (a Thief-like mod engine). The pattern in question was "positive outdoor space", on the importance of creating places between buildings, rather than just plopping discrete monoliths onto an empty plain.

(Funnily enough, the way the original Thief engine worked was beginning with a fully solid universe which the level designers would carve air volumes out of to create the level. This was due to how the engine prioritised sound propagation. So Thief levels had to have positive outdoor spaces!)
He's not fat, the law says he's divine.
...are you new to the internet or something?
The anecdote about taking 50k IU of vitamin D is really dangerous. Above 4000 daily IU is already putting a lot of people in hypervitaminosis (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21646368/)
0% where? The lowest I see is like 4.99%. Aside from the Tesla Model Y which is de-facto on sale right now.
Maybe if you like DEX you should just buy DEX? I love the iPad I have and I don't need more ways to shoot myself in the foot, I have a computer for that
Depends on what you're trying to track if it's stolen. A compartment in something like a car or an eBike that allows removal only by using an actually high-security key (i.e. something that LockPickingLawyer can't pick) or power tools that would seriously compromise the structural integrity of the thing in question would be something I'd pay serious money for... but no manufacturer of anything I'm aware of has actually gone that far.