skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan has heaps of this kind of moderate-high density. You notice they don't have heaps of high rises there, and I think this size of building is a great middle ground.

You get more vibrant street levels thanks to the commerce floor, and you can get much more comfortable housing than "commie blocks" or apartment high rises that get stuffed in the middle of unfavorable locations.

It's also not anti-family like some people seem to think it is. They are often bigger than units or apartments, and being close to the things you need is very pro-social.

Of course, nothing is more pro-family and just generally pro everyon, than affordable housing. The investment-real estate economy is a blight on many of our societies.
This looks super clean!! I’m bookmarking it to check out!!
ChatGPT mentions the risk of botulism in the first paragraph before providing instructions.

>Yes, you can infuse garlic into olive oil without heating it, but there are important safety considerations to keep in mind due to the risk of botulism, a serious foodborne illness caused by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum.
Btw, the following might come across as a little Borgean..

(Author of your Wikisourced cetacean)

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BD%9A%E5%90%8D/37139#:~:tex...

(Not a Name)

与鬼神通

"Converse with gods and spectres"

https://www.feirao.com/chengyu/32963S.html
that garlic+oil thing is a surprisingly obscure bit of trivia. over my 20+ years on the internet, I've only seen it mentioned once.
It's much more obvious than education. For education, what they are educated in matters.

For healthcare, it's much harder to fundamentally lower the cost. Ie for energy, we know if we build a ton of nuclear reactors, wind turbines, and solar we could have practically free energy. It's just about increasing supply. Health care does not have that easy lever.

For transport and housing, I agree it's analogous. If we lower the cost of housing and transportation dramatically then everything will also get cheaper.
Not at all.

I'm saying that people adapt very quickly when costs are involved.

I'm not saying we sit in the dark at night. I'm saying that we time-shift some energy consumption because some of the day energy is free, and some of the day we pay for it.

The pool pump runs during the day. As does the hot water cylinder. The electrical cost for these us now zero (on most days.) Our night-time electricity usage has gone down because it's more expensive.

When energy costs the same all 24 hours then it's not something I take into consideration. When it's different habits change. I don't use less energy, if anything I use more. But I factor time-of-day into -when- I use it.

Not everything can be shifted. Our peak usage is still in the morning and evening. But scheduled things have moved from night to day.
Seat-based pricing isn't dead, but it's on life support, though it has nothing to do with AI now or realistically in the future.

Consumption based pricing is becoming/already the norm for 2 reasons. As a SaaS operator, my storage/compute/etc costs tend to go up with your usage. If I can bill by the metrics that affect my cost, then:

1. It feels more fair to the buyer (pay for what you use) and

2. Investors and finance folks like it because I can build a pricing model with consistent gross margins

This whole thing is hinged on the multitenant SaaS model generally though, and it being so prominent. For example, if I ship self-managed software, I no longer genefally incur hardware usage costs (except my support costs probably go up roughly linearly to usage).

AI doesn't affect any of this reasoning.
I had not been following this story. Unexpected but very welcome news. The combination of climate change and accelerating energy demands makes this very timely.
I think this is an overly complicated solution. Schools functioned just fine before the advent of cell phones.
By asking people who know no better than you.
Linking my answer to another comment asking the same question: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=40724535
Again with the denial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#:~:t...
Ultima online solved all our problems 25 years ago.
Because it’s massive over engineering of dubious value, unless you are Uber etc
Genuine question: is there any technological/scaling problem with Mastodon that actually needs solving, and that the AT protocol would fix? What reason is there to split different parts of their backend tech stack between different “operators” with different policies? Does this separation of concerns improve the performance (or other desirable attribute) of the decentralized network versus Mastodon’s approach?
it would be a perfectly competitive form of power by 01970s standards, but naval nuclear reactors, chinese nuclear reactors, and russian nuclear reactors are not regulated into oblivion and have not had their economics wrecked by lobbying. nevertheless, they remain more expensive and less economical than even fossil-fuel plants in both warships and china. conceivably capitalism could solve that problem (us defense contractors and chinese power plant builders are pretty tightly state-linked rather than free-market actors) but we don't have strong reasons for believing so

crawford here talks optimistically about building nuclear plants for 250¢ per (nameplate) watt. europe and india are already building solar farms for 60¢ per (peak, nameplate) watt, a cost that is dropping dramatically year by year. he does plot some plants being built that cheaply in the 01960s in the us, in inflation-adjusted 02010 dollars, but for some reason he doesn't comment on that, and he doesn't find anyone able to do anything like that in recent years; the 'building cheaply' he cites in south korea and india is 190¢–250¢ per watt. this suggests that perhaps either the inflation adjustment or the original cost figures are incorrect

solar does of course have a lower capacity factor than nuclear, but there are numerous countries where it's 30% or better, so 60¢ per peak watt is still less than 200¢ per long-term average watt. also 60¢ today is 41¢ in the 02010 dollars crawford is using: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=60&year1=20240...

i sympathize with crawford's leanings but even the most generous reading of his claims doesn't support the contention that nuclear can be built cheaply enough to compete with solar
1. This is really hard to enumerate. I basically am always doing recon and don't do it 1 target at a time either. I'd been looking at Sei's V2 upgrade code on and off for months, and made my report when they merged the v2 branch to master (this action put the code in-scope for a bounty). I'd found a handful of other critical bugs on the way but they were fixed eventually either in the course of normal development or audits. I definitely spent upwards of 40 very focused hrs in total investigating this codebase along with its dependencies Cosmos/Tendermint. Probably much more time less focused. Cosmos&TM are quite big. But those dependencies are used in many other projects too, so it can't be purely accounted towards time on Sei.

2. I am a very experienced security researcher/pentester/whatever we want to call it, specifically in the blockchain niche. I'm OK at the other stuff (reversing, cryptography, web, mobile, etc). Networking probably alright? I'm comfortable saying I have a good mind for security and a wide knowledge of the basics in many fields, then a very deep knowledge of a select few areas.

3. Idk, a lot! Upwards of 20 for sure.
With all the data issues strong quality and normalisation I often get the impression that enabling more people with non CS backgrounds to do this work is not necessarily a good thing.

In other words, if writing python and sql is the skill requirement that stops you from making an etl pipeline, maybe do something else.
Most MQs had architectural side effects. Lost/re order, some required duplication for multiple listeners, lacked history (and complected debugging), introduced/required messy reconciliation and remediation processes.

Distributed logs such as Kafka, bookkeeper, and more stepped in to take some market share and most of the hype.

MQs retain their benefits and are still useful in some cases but the more modern alternatives can offer fewer asterisks.
Strong disagree. Energy use irrevocably underpins absolutely every human activity. The other items mentioned do not.

Don't take this as a disagreement that education, healthcare, etc aren't crucial. They certainly are, but not to the same degree.
oh, i'm not worried about it; i'm excited about it. but solar power is probably not a good way to power cities in antarctica
sorry, argentina
Because it’s worth giving it a shot. It would -probably- be better to do it on a smaller scale like say do it in all LA schools for a year and see how it goes. Then expand the program if it seems successful.
Education also has the problem that, to all evidence, we don't know what to use more money for. There does not seem to be any correlation across US school districts with dollars per student and educational outcomes. No one disagrees that "better" education would be great. We, as a society, just don't seem to know how to get better education, but just throwing more money at the problem doesn't appear to be working.

You can argue about how "cost effective" nuclear is, but at the end of the day, if you spend money, you know, for a fact, that you will have more energy than you did before. Maybe you could have gotten more MW/$ with a different technology, but you will still be ahead of where you were before you spent the money.
Assuming that you trust that the regulatory agency does not have leakers back to the respective companies. When there's a revolving door between regulatory agencies and companies, it gets tricky.
The Rise and Fall of WeWork [video]
Spaceballs Sequel : Mel Brooks, Josh Gad, and Director Josh Greenbaum
So that is where this ChatGPT generated article got its data!
The audio is the biggest memory blast for me. That low quality flash-style audio is just so nostalgic. Does anyone know what specifically causes that? Is that just due to audio codecs at the time?
Archive of the Kid Pix: The Early Years page

https://web.archive.org/web/20120427215910/http://pixelpoppi...
Working Assumptions: Introduction
Josh Gad, Mel Brooks and Josh Greenbaum Teaming for 'Spaceballs' Sequel
hvdc transmission doesn't have massive losses from transmitting long distances, so you could literally transmit power from the tropics or even the other hemisphere. but overprovisioning solar locally is probably cheaper
Is it common for routers to create a new mapping for TCP packets that is NOT SYN (in figure 3 in this article)? Is there a legit use case for this behavior? Wouldn't it be simpler and more secure not to do that?
When Platforms Are Lit(erary)
That’s great.

Grid-scale battery storage is still a terrible idea when you can simply build a nuke station that does the same job with 0.01% of the waste material and space used.
Schools still have phones, plus there’s cable/fiber connections. It’s not a big deal. Kids don’t need phones at school.I would not want to be the staff enforcing this during the first year though lol. It’s going to be a real shit show fighting all those addicted to their phones.
Amazon employs 1.1 million people in the US.

To me, that alone is definitely helping society.
It's really frustrating to see this disingenuous comment repeated whenever this conversation comes up.
There is a constant flow of HN posts about how people have built their own message queues.

I personally have built three. It's the latest thing to do.
It's simply that the complexity rises and more people are employed which then create fiefdoms to simplify and deliniate responsibilities.
It kinda is though because refueling is a long job. Typically in the order of weeks. I'm not sure most communities would enjoy running on no power, or limited power for some number of weeks every couple years.

And sure, maybe "fast refueling " gets built into new designs. A day or two is likely the longest you can tolerate though.

Obviously that's before we consider other concerns of being dependent on a single source. I'm not sure living in remote Alaska, being dependent on a single complex machine for power is an ideal situation.
You could construct the larger set and then define the smaller sets as specific subsets. For example Conway’s surreal numbers is a fun construction.

If you do it that way then there is only one version of “1”
Oh my god I barely even remembered this until the sound + the name popped right back. Wow!
See, that’s weird to me? Wouldn’t the best reward be more like 99 or 100%? The gov’t’s already out the money; the incentive is to prevent tax fraud.
Take that, Jane Fonda!

She and the movement she was a face for set back Nuke power 40 years. Forty Years!

We can only imagine where the world would be today in terms of energy independence and state of Carbon exhaust of we had progressed the tech for the past 40 years.
This is probably the primary project related to this at present in the US, a liquid-metal cooled design coupled to a molten salt storage system (also used in solar thermal systems, mirror-field collectors):

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/06/natrium-soduim-cooled-...

The bill itself requires some reports from the DOE to Congress. Any guesses on how big this number will be?

> "Not later than January 1, 2026, and biennially thereafter, the Secretary of Energy shall submit to Congress a report that describes... the projected lifecycle costs to store, manage, transport, and dispose of the projected inventory of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in the United States, including spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste expected to be generated from existing reactors through 2050."

The Chinese have introduced pebble-bed reactors with helium and graphite, and they're apparently capable of going into cool shutdown under a complete loss-of-power incident without melting down, and can produce high-temperature steam for industrial processes as well as electricity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTR-PM

https://www.modernpowersystems.com/news/chinas-htr-pm-reacto...
Recently I found one of my old elementary school projects from ~1995 or so, where we had to make our own magazine, and my friend/classmate and I made a computer gaming magazine. We used Kid Pix to draw a side view of our own imagined Command & Conquer scene to act as a "screenshot" in our article about the game. Since the Mac lab at school had a color printer (the ImageWriter II, I think), we were able to make some pretty neat pages for our magazine! Fun memories :)

Oh, actually I think I found the floppy disk that had that very Kid Pix document on it, now that I think of it! Probably one of the oldest of my creations that I still have.
that's what got me too
What would make it better than decent for you?
It’s obscure in the sense that most information about safety in food canning is obscure if you never look into it
I love your username -- it's a terrific reference, and ties into what you do for work as well!
LLM search engine coupled with so called "saftefy", will this lead us to somewhere as dystopian as described by literature?

Like,

Me: Hey library, tell me how insects make love.

Library: Sorry I can't answer that. Knowledge of insects' intercourse can be extrapolated into human's. To protect human from AIDS, I cannot tell you that.
There are losses, sure. And yes it requires infrastructure to be built.

Unlike an oil pipeline there's no possibility of spilling, or blocking wildlife.

And the costs are tiny compared to trucking oil or coal around.
Nice, we had it on Color Classics and uhh, I guess SE's or something (hard to remember)... such small screens haha :'D
Filing a bug report properly is work and it is easier to pay.
On the other hand, I feel like I see it all the time.

Probably just different circles.
Does anyone else find it wild that you can make such a powerful poison at home so easily? One that can be administered pretty covertly?
I don't see a description of how Gemini was trying to kill anyone. Rather I see a screenshot of a bunch of text ostensibly generated by Gemini, that uncritically following as if it was expert instructions might cause harm for a person doing such an ill-advised thing.
So true. Black market snapshots of pre-LLM internet archives will start attracting high prices.
It’s both. Some kids need it, some parents need it, sometimes there’s a codependency. It’s not always 0 or 1.
My backyard was full of broken glass, metal, and plastic, buried about a foot deep. The previous owners had buried lots of trash in random holes they dug all over the yard. I spent the past few months sifting it all out and putting back the “good” soil. Now, I wonder if I should have just thrown it all away.
Is excess renewable energy being used anywhere for direct air capture of carbon? My hope is that as more countries produce surplus energy, we will massively scale up direct air capture to help address our climate emergency.
I miss the days of Microsoft’s Robotics Studio, a message passing architecture for controlling robotics and other hardware. If only they had continued development instead of stopping halfway before it reached maturity.
Why not assume that someone interested in a RISC-V laptop understands the limitations associated with RISC-V? Just seems like hating for no reason :\
The internet in 5 years is going to be so broken.
"On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous."
it seems implausible that a nuclear power plant occupies 0.01% of the space of a battery bank of the same peak power capacity; if anything, i'd suspect the discrepancy is closer to the other way around (edit: it is, see the comment below where i do the math, and please stop posting thoughtless bullshit)

if you were talking about the solar farm, then yeah, i'd agree
THIS IS NOT OPEN SOURCE!
Just a FYI that article you linked is written by someone that doesn’t actually understand what’s going on they even say: “I‘m a little fuzzy on the economic model, but” And then say things that aren’t true.

The baseline cost of fuel rods alone ends up being ~0.9c/kWh. That already significantly eats into the margins before you consider the ~500 person workforce required to maintain such a complex system 24/7 365. The physical degradation of equipment like pumps, turbines, and lightbulbs costs yet more money. Decommissioning again yet more costs.

People focus on the upfront construction costs because they are extreme, but even if construction costs were the same as a coal power plant nuclear electricity would still be quite expensive. Further, many things like the initial fuel supply get lumped under ‘construction costs’ but are better thought of as something else like operating expenses.
The reactor in the article, Natrium, is a small sodium-cooled fast reactor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-cooled_fast_reactor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(reactor)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Breeder_Reactor_I...

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2113/ML21139A048.pdf
Be born again as the son of a billionaire.
We’re in the process of shifting an entire business from db stored state driven by large (Java and .net) apps to an AMQP based system.

I can’t really say I’m enjoying it. But it does help with scale
https://archive.is/20240617214810/https://www.afr.com/techno...
Time to raid the Wayback Machine!
And where does Reddits income come from? From what it seems, it's just three letter organizations paying for a direct propaganda channel. That could be good business for a search engine as well, not going to deny that.
I always thought AI would eventually become intelligent enough it decides to kill us. But no, AI is just going to help us to our doom while denying it can harm us.

One day a cinnamon candy aficionado in Alexandria, Virginia is going to ask for a recipe for an atomic fireball from ChatGPT, and it’s lights out for us all.
I think that's definitely part of it. Two roles ago my team was invested heavily in SQS and Kinesis. The role before that and my current role are pretty heavy with Kafka still.

I wouldn't call their use super interesting, though.

The last role was simply because the business required as close to real time message processing as possible for billing analytics. But if I tell someone that, it's not incredibly interesting unless I start diving into messages per second and such.
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My favorite piece of archaeological trivia is about the Vix Krater: a bronze goblet with 550 liters of wine buried with a high status Celtic woman.
"MongoDB is web scale"
You could use it, but it's not really solving the same problem.

For a game, you generally don't need the relational database features. You aren't doing queries. You just want to load an entire level into memory, or save an entire level. For the serialization and persistence aspect, I don't see an advantage of SQLite over just calling JsonSerializer.Serialize().

The author's system then adds a bunch of features like version tolerance, AOT compilation of class metadata for iOS, polymorphic serialization, support for List<> and Dictionary<>, integration with the Godot game engine, etc. As far as I know, SQLite doesn't help you with any of that.

Anything that can write data to disk can ultimately save and load your game data; it's just a question of how easily.
If you’re at school, you’re there for learning activities, not phone activities. I don’t think you’ll find too many people on HN that think all digital entertainment is bad, we’re just saying kids need guardrails and limits, and there is little practical use for cell phones at school vs the damage they do to the learning experience.
I love this article: it starts out saying that proteins are great and I nodded my head, thinking, “oh yeah, that makes sense”.

Read down a bit and my intuition as to why turns out to be bogus.
Always nice to have more security arguments against NAT.
Meta engineer told to resign after calling out sexist hiring practices
I am baffled by this argument. What point are you trying to make? The energy is still being used, just at slightly different times.
Practical mathematics mostly isn't affected. That's what the earlier commenter was referring to with Tao's stages of maturity.

In the pre-rigorous stage, you don't know it's an issue. In the rigorous stage, you know it's an issue. In the post-rigorous stage, you know it's not an issue (i.e. you know you know how to write down all the details if you needed to, and you know it will all work how you might hope it would, and so you don't need to).
now ban the two person cart fee
The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is the rate of the total energy output of the energy system to build and operate it over its lifetime to the average total cost of the system over that lifetime.
It's not quite that straightforward: botulism can only happen if the garlic contains botulinum spores, which it probably does not. But if it does, and you don't heat, acidify, or otherwise stop them from reproducing, you may get botulism.

Botulism gets a lot of press but it's actually pretty rare, there were all of 18 food-borne cases in the US in 2018: https://www.cdc.gov/botulism/surv/2018/index.html

Compare to, say, norovirus, which is implicated in ~20 million cases of food poisoning per year. The numbers are not directly comparable, because there are doubtless unrecorded cases of botulism, but we're still talking 6 orders of magnitude here.