skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not true.

Nuclear power output expected to break global records in 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/24/nuclear-...

And that is before any of the turnaround past 2022 has had a chance to take effect.

And the turnaround after 2022 has been massive. If you haven't significantly updated your priors since before 2022, you are vastly behind the times.

1. We already had the COP28 declaration to triple nuclear output.

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

2. France

Until March 2023, expanding nuclear power in France (the "poster child" for nuclear) was actually prohibited by law. Absolute capacity was capped at current levels, and the law mandated a reduction to below 50% of total.

This law was repealed in March of 2023. With something like a 75% majority, so overwhelming cross-party support.

Which also largely explains why Flamanville was such a disaster. France knows how to build reactors quickly and cheaply: you build lots of the same design in an overlapping fashion, and you do it continuously, so you maintain the industrial capacity and workforce know-how. Flamanville was the exact opposite on all those counts. And the EPR is apparently a bad design. I mean, good once you have it, but way too complicated to build. Which is why it has been discontinued by the manufacturer. There will be no more EPRs, the successor EPR2 is vastly simplified.

3. UK

While the anti-nuclear lobbyists "know" that Hinkley Point C proved the non-viability of nuclear beyond any doubt, the UK government apparently didn't get the memo. They announced plans to quadruple nuclear generating capacity in January 2024, so well after the HPC problems were well-known.

4. Poland

Is getting into nuclear, in a big way. 2 Westinghouse AP-1000 (the Vogtle disaster) have been ordered, contracts are signed and site preparation work has commenced.

That's just the tip of the iceberg, the paperwork for 2 more reactors from South Korea is apparently being finalized and there are a bunch of SMR projects, in part by private companies who want them to directly power industrial processes (process heat?)

5. Japan

Was going to get out of nuclear. Now reactivating plants and will build new ones once the existing ones are activated.

6. USA

Has identified the need for ~200GW of new nuclear capacity. Is currently figuring out how to create the industrial policy required to make that happen.

7. Netherlands

Wanted to build 2 new reacts. Voted in early 2024 to build 4 instead.

8. Sweden

Was getting out of nuclear. Now wants to build 10 new reactors.

9. China

Tripling of capacity with just what is in the works now (20+ building, 70 planned). Currently accelerating the build out.

10. India

On track for tripling of capacity by 2031.

11. South Korea

Was getting out, now expanding.

12. Italy

Got out of nuclear late 80s. Government policy is to have the legal framework for new nuclear in place by the end of this legislature.

I can go on...and on, but I think you get the picture.
The only one I can think of is DraftKings.
I think if you listen to the way it answers, it seems its using a technique trained speakers use. To buy itself time to think, it repeats/paraphrases the question/request before actually answering.

I'm sure you'll find this part is a lot quicker to process, giving the instant response (the old gpt4-turbo is generally very quick with simple requests like this). Rather impressively all it would need is an additional custom instruction.

Very clever and eerily human.
Just like that bullshit about today's "censorship" being in any way comparable to what happened in Eastern Europe. Tell that to my father who was banned from schools or to my grandfather who was in prison, both of them would punch you for it.
Couldn't agree more - It's probably the app I miss most when I'm on windows. It's an absolute sleeper.
>with little time left on this earth

sadly there's at least a few more decades minimum, pending sudden turns of health or an abrupt event. 20 years is a lot of time to destabilize a nation.
Methanol might be more practical. Theoretically, you could put floating wind turbines onto the sea in places that have almost uninterrupted wind (they are mostly far from land, though), let them produce methanol and use it as a e-fuel. It is much easier to transport and store.
Except that with a gun, you have a binary input (the trigger) so you can squarely blame a human for misunderstanding what they did when they accidentally shot someone on the grounds that the trigger didnt work.

A prompt is a _very_ different matter.
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The USSR comment is even less funny.
No environmental protection exceptions would be necessary if they just used nuclear instead /s
I couldn't answer since I have no idea what you are talking about.
Creating profiles in some civilized markup (yaml?) in which human expectations may be explicitly laid out from which automated systems generate their solution.

Not everyone remembers that all this will forever relate to actual human expectations and requirements.

We will not evolve if we cannot correlate behavior and requirements, and it is obvious that LLMs who do not know make up convincing bullshit.
Whenever I have a chat with someone about recruitment, I get the same statement:
"Recruitment is a very big problem, big that it's unsolvable, why do you think it can be solved?"

And here's my response:

Firstly, let's discuss why recruitment is a very painful problem.

The objective of recruitment is to hire superstars to drive a company forward. This is usually done with some kind of building, tech people building products, salespeople building pipelines, HR people building awesome teams, or leaders building strategies.

But building a company forward is usually a very sensitive task. It requires a very high, detailed, and precise fit between a candidate and the vacancy. But that's very difficult to achieve.
So, the building won't be done the right way, will cost the company more time to reach its milestones, and a lot of a limited resource: money.

But Today, companies are giving up 3+ months of time and thousands of dollars in salaries, only to "find" the right builder.

So at Tapflow, we're not trying to re-invent recruitment as a whole, build AI recruiters, or genetically iterate on a whole generation of talent to cover the needed supply of builders.

We're only trying to help recruiters and hiring managers "find" the right builder. Sounds too simple to be convincing right?

Let's ask a question: if you had unlimited time, could review 1 million profiles an hour, and a database of everyone in the world. Will that recruiter solve the "finding" problem?

I guess trying Tapflow is the only way to get those superpowers to try...
> 'd rather an attacker see my IP address and the server I'm trying to reach than that they be able to see all of my communications with a server.

Are you sure the attacker is not able to see "all of my communications with a server" ?

Do you trust CAs with your data ?
Listen does hold a connection, but that doesn't mean it defeats connection pooling.

That's what I was trying to convey in this blog post: you'll keep a fixed number of connections open for use with listen, but as few as possible by reusing a single connection per program to simultaneously listen on all channels that your application cares about (with the notifier distributing messages to each internal component that subscribed).

With your dedicated listen connections accounted for, the rest of the connection pool can operate normally, with programs checking connections in and out only as long as they need them.

So the net-net is that you have a handful of connections dedicated for listen, and the remaining ~hundreds are part of the connection pool for shared use.
I don't see that kind of macroengineering as plausible.
Feels like this might be an invariant in computer science. I once worked on an IBM/360. The majority of the compute was taken up by a single person who did weather simulation.

An IBM/360 has laughably less compute than your phone.
There was a post awhile back on here of someone that couldn't get bard to write c++ as it said they were too young. I thought that was funny, then had like a week where what I assume a specific iteration(It stopped after that week) where chatgpt would refuse to elaborate on anything around unsafe rust.

I'm pickign rust up by porting over a bytecode vm, so I kinda need to use some raw pointers. It would gaslight me about the risks and how it would be irresponsible to help me as it could lead to possible violations of the integrity of user data.

I had to explain to the AI that it is a personal project that has no users data, the only risk was the program crashing and it was a personal project that would only affect me. It still would try to revert or tell me other solutions, I finally just went and read up on it elsewhere.
Teachers should explain this point to students. When I was in secondary school, the teachers called the practice tasks "problems". But they obviously already knew the answers, so the problematic nature of the tasks was entirely artificial. The name felt like they were gloating about being permitted to force you to do pointless work. Calling the tasks "exercises" and explaining the analogy to physical exercise would have been much better.
U.S. orders Chinese-backed crypto miner to sell land near nuclear missile base
Yes, let's take very seriously every joke random people do online. Dude come on, been 300 years, you should have discovered humor by now.
This is true for water cooled reactors, which these are, thanks to a regulatory environment going back to the Nixon administration that mostly makes other designs unavailable, as the cost of safety measures is quite high, but comes down with scale on a per-watt basis.

The exciting thing about small modular reactors is with alternative designs, such as molten salt designs and alternative fuels such as thorium, where the risk of meltdown and hydrogen explosion are not an issue, so this cost-of-safety factor falls away heavily. Molten salt DOES bring with it issues of corrosion, so it's not a panacea, but the idea is that some of these alternative designs can bring the power generation closer to where the power is used, which raises a variety of benefits, including being able to potentially use the heat generated in a useful manner in addition to the electricity, rather than solely as something to be safely dissipated. Also, of course, you get rid of the big single points of failure and end up with a more resilient power grid.

I can't speak to this particular company's offering but I am glad to at least see some interest in the technology growing, as nuclear at this point is the only realistic way to both even consider replacing existing fossil fuel use as well as powering the increased energy demands of the future particularly in light of rapidly developing emerging markets and much heavier power draw from technologies such as generative large language models (so called "AI").
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But segmented memory isn’t a requirement, that technique works just as well with linear address space. You use a single 32-bit base pointer and then store 16-bit offsets for your data. We used that all the time on 68K and other architectures.
I get the feeling but what altenrative would you prefer?

I do want my phone to just go again without complaining without a crash, after all.
It was not supposed to be funny.

Ridicule is not supposed to be funny. I was ridiculing the the parent posts and their nihilistic language.

ps. Since humor is subjective, "that's not funny" is either subjective statement or attempt at grandstanding.
On my work MacBook Air, I installed a FOSS app.

https://github.com/artginzburg/MiddleClick-Sonoma

Works well, but I miss the physical middle button on my Thinkpads.

The chording isn't really cumbersome, just unfamiliar. You get used to it quite quickly with a few tens of minutes of practice.
Yeah we have extensive use of eID here in Sweden and they all require device integrity. https://wiki.lineageos.org/quirks/snet/

It's kinda funny that device integrity is so important to them, implying evil maid attacks, but the most common attack on eID is simply stealing someone's code or convincing them to use their eID over the phone.

Of course, with the evil maid attack enabled stealing someone's phone would become much more common, rather like stealing someone's credit card.
Good to know! I will try with a VPN then!
Doesn't answer my question. I'm already aware that you ignore social and other factors.
You can select text this way too; once it’s in “trackpad mode”, tap the keyboard with another finger, and it will start text selection.
You can still use it nicely for terrorism.
Someone contributed an sconstruct file for a personal project of mine a long time ago. I needed a configure script to just set a few options a for a makefile but I got that instead. It seemed good at first but if you stray off the easy path it devolves into just a python script. You need to speak python because you start writing both configure and make in it.

Meson is another python based alternative which doesn't bleed into the makefile equivalent files. I don't use it myself because it lacked assembler support at one time.
the content of the release and the voice seem to betray that this "breakthrough" is now becoming about manipulating users (such as with a flirty voice) and gaining even more data and potential for surveilling and studying us later (why does the assistant need to be capturing video?).

Who really wants a video assistant? aren't video calls just exhausting anyway? does anyone really do video chats with existing human assistants aside from when truly necessary?

OpenAI keeps saying this is all for our good and then making choices that show disdain for us and what we might want out of this
So make the web garbage for short time gains.

That's why we can't have nice things.
Principle of least surprise.

If you need to write in the docs about a surprise that a user otherwise wouldn't have expected, may be it's a sign that the surprise should be fixed up such that it's not surprising behaviour.
No, a recovery email is an optional recovery method, and there are other options besides email that we offer: https://proton.me/support/set-account-recovery-methods
My application tends to open a single, extra connection to the database server (not through the main pool) just for receiving notifys. That connection then feeds them to whatever part of the application needs them.

Seems to work "ok" in practise. No real issues, apart from listen/notify not supporting 2 phase commit (2PC) which we'd been thinking of using but haven't investigated since.
You should be banned for this

- A german
expertise and funding to build a rocket, years of training to sustain and adjust to the lack of atmosphere,and the priveledge of being chosen to man these machines which only house maybe a few dozen astronauts at most. All solvable problems, though there's a huge policial/social slant which may obstruct your goal. Maybe you get filtered out for not having a degree, or simply because a director's son got dibs over you. Maybe NASA got defunded and no one gets to go.

I don't really know what the point here is. These are all solvable problems. Not by an individual, but it doesn't take as many key individuals to influence as you'd expect. Likewise, forming a treaty doesn't take as many key individuals as you'd think, but the political roadblocks and other internal incentives block a lot of this progress.
In a world where openAI exists, it really does require an almost breathtaking lack of imagination to be a skeptic.
That is what you get when people reinvent the wheel and lifetimes/ scopes are implicit. Docker could've used something like JSON5 [0] for their configuration format to make the lifetimes explicit. Another time when easy won over simple. [1]

[0] https://json5.org/
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
Yeah, Motorola (which are now a brand of Lenovo after Google bought and sold them a while ago) are good value for money. I owned the Motorola Milestone (Motorola Droid in the US), then the Moto X (smaller version of the Nexus 6), and finally the ultra-thin Moto Z - however I was a bit disappointed with that one because the battery management was totally screwed up after a few years - it used to shut down spontaneously while reporting 60% battery and I wasn't able to reset it.
The gradient might have been created using copper palette switching, which would cost no CPU time but only work with horizontal lines.
Is this normal? I’m only ancillary to security stuff like this but without details of the exploit it’s hard to say whether or not this is scandalous or not. It’s possible Apple made a mistake here, but is that a more likely scenario than the vuln just not being exploitable enough to warrant a bounty?
Only tangentially related, but I always thought it was rather silly that only a few years after opening their billion dollar headquarters—that was in the shape the only remaining distinctive feature on iPhones—they chose to get rid of the home button in favor of what everyone else was doing. It seemed really rather silly. I miss the home button.
My strategy is to ignore it. So-called AI is 90% hype and bullshit at this point. FOMO and companies trying to create markets so they can recoup the massive amounts invested already.

Worry if AI that can do your job cheaper and better than you can ever comes along. It shouldn’t be hard to stay ahead of LLMs — they are running out of useful training data and electricity.
We called it for 20 years, all geeks in the world singing in unisson that if you don't pay you are the product.

And people still accepted the ToS and fed the machine all their data.
Obviously, I'm exaggerating. But we have war in Europe. We have other problems. We have Hungary and other countries rejecting or leaving the EU. We have voters rejecting the prominent EU parties in favor of Russian-backed parties. We have economies stagnating or starting to go backwards! We have dictatorship countries like China catching up to the EU! And this is just the beginning of the slow degradation of Europe. The slow burning of Europe.

The Vize-President of Germany just recently said, "The State makes no mistakes." [0]

[0] https://www.nius.de/kommentar/der-staat-macht-keine-fehler-h...
Applied Rationality Camp for Young Adults
Yay ! More AI-generated sheet !!
We're getting there. Now we have Boeing whistleblowers dying suddenly. But let's not forget the fact that a president was killed in daylight and nobody knows what really happened even after some 50 years since the fact.
You can, and often do, reuse plastic bottles. Water dispensers are very popular in some places and they use recyclable 19l plastic bottles. Glass is just too heavy and fragile for transporting water and if I understand correctly metal still needs plastic lining so that it doesn't react with fluids.
TX will have a look.

I will buy a small farm this year (if I'm lucky) and I do believe your general approach is very interesting.

Let see how it continues.

Regarding sprinkler etc. I saw a bigger drown spraying stuff. If the autonomy is very reliable you could refill it regularly.

Sprinkler I'm really not convinced but we don't have a lot of sprinklers in field in Germany.

Might be a little bit waist full from a water perspective
Large companies with huge campuses have huge amounts of rooftop space that are usually perfect for solar arrays + storage. The only place this makes sense is remote areas at latitudes where solar is impractical. Or if it could be made small enough to fit on a few semi-trucks, pseudo-temporary military bases.
It does.

But again ancient greeks complained writing would make people deskill their memory abilities.

And it did.

Yet we don't regret it.
Expectation vs Reality (OpenAI and Sora)
> The transformation very obviously makes it be considered object code.

Congratulations, you've been shipping the built objects and need to provide the source now too for license compliance. ;)
German censorship is the best.
Just curious, why do you need a banking app on your phone?
Another YouTube to MP3 Tool
Great post!

Postgres.js does this implicitly through a simple API[1] mimicking the postgres way, thereby using only a single dedicated connection for listening per process.

Listen/notify is also super useful with triggers.

[1] https://github.com/porsager/postgres#listen--notify
The irony in this exchange is too good!
No, the data is very well defined. For example, “name, date of birth, key ideas,” etc.

The issue is with ChatGPT formatting a file.
>nobody cares how old you actually are, they want to know if you're likely to respond to an ad.

sadly, people will pay a lot to know the age of someone precisely because they just wanna sell you stuff. Which is the problem in and of itself. I'm glad governments are slowly starting to stamp down on this
«linux-firmware» is the goto place to dump firmware that goes to all linux distributions
Maybe between the two of them they’ll have enough smarts not to pull that BS they did with the Helldivers game requiring a PSN account to play even on PC.
Was there already a company that failed badly on this?
Found that running them and maintaining them, and dealing
with the increase of nuclear waste to be processed.
(Not more in terms of total weight but as a function of
power generated.
In the growing sea of "AI for X" solutions, how does your product differentiate itself from others? E.g. what's the benefit of using Fynk document analysis vs.
let's say vanilla GPT?
It's quite different from gpt4 in two respects:

1) It's natively multi-modal in a way I don't think gpt4 was.

2) It's at least twice as efficient in terms of compute. Maybe 3 times more efficient, considering the increase in performance.

Combined, those point towards some major breakthroughs having gone into the model. If the quality of the output hasn't gone up THAT much, it's probably because the technological innovations mostly were leveraged (for this version) to reduce costs rather than capabilities.

My guess is that we should expect them to leverage the 2x-3x boost in efficiency in a model that is at least as large as GTP4 relatively soon, probably this year unless OpenAI has safety concerns or something, and keeps it internal-only.
i tried LineageOS, shortly after i also wanted to try e/os (..because of my proprietary banking app...) and was amazed how easy the e/os flashing+setup was.
Also with e/os you have way more control over features like e.g GPS where you can not only enable/disable GPS but you can also provide fake GPS data for apps which force you to turn it on.
"People who don't want to read my bullshit are the real Nazis."
I use a Samsung S4 mini with it. There are unofficial builds for it, but it's not the most pleasant experience.
Conceptual Foundations of Formulas Stored in Database Fields
In a previous article titled 'Executing Formulas Stored in Database Fields with (Almost) Standard SQL,' we introduced the concept of storing formulas in database fields. This article delves into the underlying concept that makes it a secure approach.