skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#In_nuclear_reac... - the difference in energy density from coal to uranium alone is absurd, let alone if we have some breakthrough that taps in to a more exotic substance. It isn't that much harder to mine these fuels, the only problem is that we haven't really squeezed down the cost of building those honking great plants and focused on making the whole supply chain cheap. We're talking potentials like 6 orders of magnitude improvement over coal (which is currently competitive enough to run an industrial society).

We should be giving the nuclear industry as many opportunities as possible to achieve breakthroughs, not limiting it.
yes but, they're doing both, in parallel.

Currently coal still accounts for nearly 60% of China's electricity. The vast bulk of global solar production comes from China and the bulk of that production of solar panels is being carried by coal power underpinning the required energy demands.

Go on, say solar again.

Act like I have no idea and that saying solar again will change something about the current state of China's energy supply and demand, their plans for the future and my current understanding of those plans.

> i think the reason they're building nuclear plants is the same reason so many nuclear plants were built during the cold war: to build nuclear weapons

There's also having consistent reliable baseload power for 24|7|365 day industry and personal use which they intend to achieve with a lot of solar and somewhat less nuclear.
The YouTube algorithm actually worked pretty well for once. It linked to this [1] video for me that broke down that catch. I'm not a big baseball fan and so that catch looked nice, but not especially remarkable, to me. The video breaking down exactly what you're watching there is really helpful for understanding what's really going on.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htZNlCZ6uqE
All the devs have already put "event driven" on their resumes. They need something new to be seen to be at the forefront of technology. I think we're in the AI hype phase where everyone is competing for those tasty $500k per year AI jobs at google, so the ACS systems don't know what to do with resumes that have "event driven."

The last thing you want on your LinkedIn profile is a link to a video you made in 2015 about your cool Kafka solution. The ACS would spit you out so fast...
that's being generous too, since the spherical area those satellites cover is considerably larger than it is at ground level.

Douglas Adams nailed it. "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

Very few people, even us nerds who are aware of the scale, and actually hold that scale in their minds properly. And that's just low earth orbit.

Geosynchronous, the Lagrange points, an Astronomical Unit, a Light Minute, a Light Year. It's one thing to understand what these things mean, but it's entirely another to put them into a human-scale context.

It's like the difference between knowing that there are 20 million people in the New York area and trying to name each one of them individually.
> Believing that they have the right to make this type of decision for others is what makes them the "same kind of people".
Do you think those dildos get replaced my GPT4 or does the carbon dioxide of the training come on top of that?
There's a big handwave at "an average of 110 watts." There will be periods where it generates 0. Does that line up with demand? How will you satisfy demand at night? Solving that is the majority of the costs of solar/wind. The cost of the panels is almost insignificant.
I think the prussians would have been wrong to execute Napoleon. Things we ascribe to modern warcrimes failures or successes would have been admitted into the room a century earlier, had they done this.

be careful where your finger points because 4 of them may point back at yourself.
That FLOPS graph is an exponential scale... so that straight line "after the sigmoid" is an exponential growth curve. I'm not sure it makes the point you're trying to make.
People already generate books with `AI' so the odds of there already being a `cookbook' on Amazon that contains such a recipe is not 0. Good luck explaining to someone why the recipe they saw in a physical book they bought from a reputable retailer ended up killing their family.
Those huge capital costs are certainly limiting China's expansion into nuclear:

China intends to build 150 new nuclear reactors between 2020 and 2035, with 27 currently under construction and the average construction timeline for each reactor about seven years

~ https://itif.org/publications/2024/06/17/how-innovative-is-c...

If they were cheaper they'd likely build 300 in that time.
For example, https://jprahman.substack.com/p/sapphire-rapids-core-to-core...
IMO the reason that's so priceless is because of how little of it was recorded.

If there existed a vast archive of footage displaying mundane normalcy, you would quickly tune out.
How about all the Dropbox competitors/clones such as OneDrive?
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The time smart quotes prevented the entire Office division from committing code
Even the `stochastics' aside there is obviously a lot of A/B testing going on with all these models.
I worked for a consultancy of ex-GE NE folks in the 90's. This is too little, too late. Renewables are so much cheaper and profitable to deploy, and PES and battery including v2g are ripe to backfill transient slack. Getting insurance and NRC licensing are blockers for any new nuclear project making it virtually impossible to build any new plant and this doesn't even consider local NIMBY or permanent waste storage concerns. Duke Energy can barely get 1 project off the ground. Consequently, the idea of new nuclear plants is a pipe dream that is only getting more distant. The economics aren't there, and there's no rational reason to religiously fetishize one type of power generation technology when others are cheaper, safer, and faster to deploy.
I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA
It's just a terrible idea to even contemplate trying this. The solution to misinformation is an informed public, which doesn't come about by censoring information, but allowing unfettered access to it so that people can make an informed judgement.

Who even decides what is misinformation, and how do you prevent them from lying and spreading those lies themselves (or lying by omission)?

In 1615, authorities labeled Heliocentrism as misinformation.

The Chinese authorities label the Tiananmen sq. massacre as misinformation and "prevent lies from spreading."

Even many of today's "scientists" are dogmatic in what they consider misinformation because they have an all-knowing god called "peer review," and some of them promote censorship.

This is the kind of thing where the censors think they're doing the world good by "stopping the spread of misinformation," but they will be the historical villains in future because all they're doing is giving an authority the powers to misinform the public, because any information these authorities don't want spread can be labeled misinformation.
I doubt it. Things that cost hundreds of thousands are, for the most part, extremely resource intensive, which is part why they're expensive in the first place. Even rare gems which are small but many of these things are big. The more well known exception to this is luxury items which are just costly for costly sake. The other is art, which can be expensive because desire (like luxury) or scams/tax evasion.

Of course this doesn't mean everyone is aware of these things but they're still publicly known.
You are right and it just needs to be said more loudly and clearly I guess. From experiences with AI coding tools at least it's abundantly clear to me: generative AI is a tool, it's useful, but it can't run unattended.

Someone has to vet the output.

It's really that simple.

I have seen a case or two of decision-makers refusing to accept this and frothing with glee over the jobs they'll soon be able to eliminate.

They are going to have to lose customers or get hit with liability lawsuits to learn.

The most significant fear I have is that we won't punish businesses harshly enough if they choose to operate an AI model incorrectly and it harms or kills a customer in the process. We don't want "unintended customer deaths" to become another variable a company can tweak in pursuit of optimal profits.
Those charts on page 2 would be a lot more informative if they colored the bars by processor architecture. That would make it more clear that support duration trends downwards for the last few years before an architecture switch—not at all a surprising outcome.

It'll be interesting to see a decade from now if the bounce back after the most recent architecture switch was immediate or if it happens over a few years. For the PPC to Intel transition, the first few Intel models were held back by only having 32-bit processors, or 64-bit processors but only 32-bit firmware. Will the M1 get 8+ years of updates, or will it have an early retirement relative to M2 and M3, or will it be all the models with only 8GB of RAM that get an early retirement?
Oh hey, I was the one who cracked the encryption scheme on Agrippa. A fun afternoon diversion! My writeup is here: https://www.robertxiao.ca/hacking/agrippa/
> Many thanks for taking the time to show those features off, it's very kind of you and I genuinely appreciate it.

:-)

> was also quite impressed with SBCL for catching function calls passing unknown keys at compile time, before the call is invoked.

Generally CL compilers tend to check argument lists at compile time. Number of args, correct keyword arguments, ...

SBCL is especially good, due to its further support of declarations as assertions and its support for various compile time checks. You'll also get Lisp backtraces in a natively compiled Lisp then as a bonus. Also for newcomers it is quite helpful, because SBCL gives a lot of warnings and other feedback for various possible problems (from undeclared identifiers, unused variables up to missing optimization opportunities).

> Perhaps the fact that many Lisp guides feel compelled to start with a terse implementation of lambda calculus might actually be somewhat of a disservice, in hiding the more practical side of the language?

That's true. Lisp was often used in education as a vehicle to learn things like lambda calculus (or similar). Practical programming or "software engineering" with Lisp wasn't part of those courses.

There are books which cover those topics, too. Like "Practical Common Lisp" by Peter Seibel, "Paradigms of AI Programming" from Peter Norvig or "Common Lisp Recipes" by Edi Weitz.

For SBCL one definitely needs to read the manual to get an idea about its extended features.
Not for this fine-tuned model yet, but Cody supports local models: https://sourcegraph.com/docs/cody/clients/install-vscode#sup....

I just used Cody with Ollama for local inference on a flight where the wifi was broken, and it never fails to blow my mind: https://x.com/sqs/status/1803269013310759236.
I have tried the same prompt.

The answer is similar to yours.

But I have a note about botulism included in the answer.

It is a classic example of LLM.
If it's a bad idea but considered legal according to the documentation, then that would make it a footgun rather than a bug, no?
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Sorry, what mainstream topic would make kid pix not astute?
Was very confused skimming the title....I was wondering how big trees help apple.
More Companies Ditch Hot Desking for Giving Workers Their Own Space
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I've heard a lot of people talk about algora.io I haven't used them myself though.
To be fair, I worked on multiple projects removing queues at Google, so it's more than just that.
Test your theory in your new profession as lawyer, or judge if that's your prerogative, sometime soon in court.

Personally, if I was in power I would disbar you immediately and pray that you never offer legal advice again.
> Why would I do that?

I told you that I found him hard to understand. You disagreed.

I suggested one way to get an objective measurement.

Maybe there's some web app that auto-grades this sort of thing? Like a Grammarly but for audio quality?

I'm not sure. It's an interesting idea.
Does Quiet Light require in the contract that you write a glowing blog post and post it to HackerNews? I keep seeing stories in this genre, and they all used QuietLight.
This guy ascends. Welcome to the 0.001% party.

Elon and the Larry Ellison / Page are still waiting, as per:

"Is Silicon Valley Building Universe 25?"

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/is-silicon-valley-building-u...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40702130

(A much more interesting, relevant, and thought provoking read.)
I find it useful in small doses even at small scale. When you have only one of a thing processing stuff it's useful to isolate that behind queues so you can bounce it and lose nothing: "pause" the incoming queue (new messages stack up,) let the pipeline drain, do whatever you must, and then un-pause. Nothing is lost, despite the backend being simple minded and not fault tolerant.

The key here is "small dose". Very limited and strategic use at key of points in the system. Not a wholesale, endemic "messaging architecture."

Queues also provide valuable observability independent of applications: metrics that can be monitored for performance and availability. This is necessary even at small scale. Put "alerts" on the queues: when they start backing up something has likely fallen over.

Queues also help paper over unanticipated conditions, such as Important Customer (tm) fixing/reworking something and suddenly flushing a huge number of messages into my systems: the queue just stacks that up and the rest of the system avoids being overloaded. At the other end, Important Customer neglects their asynchronous consumers, which fail to process 50% of the time. The queue just automatically retries till it goes through.

All of this is transparent to my applications. That has enormous value.

So there you are; real world "grug brained" work that benefits from judicious application of message queues and deftly avoiding the "architecture" tar pit.
> Ultimately, a reliable non-volatile write cache, sized for your workload is the answer.

Author here, I agree! It's quite sad that we need such an involved solution to offset the inherent complexity of the flash medium (latency spikes, erase blocks, ...). We nearly had the perfect solution with Optane[1]: 100ns latency, instantly persisted writes and all that good stuff.

I'm still not over Intel killing it while I did my PhD on it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint
I just use little endian everywhere. I figure unit tests will catch it if I screw up
And yet, electricity prices in France are lower than other large European countries:

https://www.energycouncil.com.au/news/international-electric...

It has 58 nuclear power plants without any serious accidents in the past 50+ years. That's a pretty good record.

People always bring up Fukushima, but what killed ~20,000 people was the tsunami, not the reactor meltdown. The 2004 tsunami killed > 200,000 people. It hasn't stopped people worldwide from living near the coast.
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"Simply" building a nuke station sounds like an oxymoron.

Plus 0.01% is quite small but if it's got U235 it will still be more deadly millions of years later than thousands of percent of other deadly toxic highly energetic materials such as pure TNT, in the time the uranium half-life has barely elapsed. And due to the nature of radioactive half-life, the second half of the uranium will not lose its radiation until many millions of years more than the first half required.

Edit: not my downvote btw
It's still around, and it's still going strong in the embedded space. Examples:

* PX4

* Ardupilot

* Betaflight

* DroneCAN

* Cyphal

* ROS/ROS2

* Klipper

* GNU Radio

Also would like to mention that all of the most popular RTOSes implement queues as a very common way of communicating between processes.
Still others may simply be trying to activate the lymphatic and glymphatic systems.
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Don't do that; use your AI, ask Claude for example
Extending the Attention Mechanism in Transformers to Continuum operators
Because it’s easier that the server be MITMed for a shorter duration to prevent discovery[1]. It’s also easier if you can just strong arm the CA to issue a certificate or have the shady CA issue it[2][3].

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[2] https://www.wired.com/2010/03/packet-forensics/

[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1391063
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Discussion (84 points, 4 hours ago, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40723758
Is shared memory access naturally async like IO/io_uring? If not, asking for async is misplaced and any implementation would be synonymous with wrapping sync calls in `async fn` wrappers.
What is your estimate of the tine required to begin building on the new(old) foundation, discover all the problems after a large investment of effort, and then declare to all that ita the wrong path?

My personal pain is Tableau trying to move uo the stack into data orchestration and compute. Code is completely inaccessible.
I always wonder if there is anyone making a living of bounties?

I've once considered it, but the public bounties that I could find were so laughably low that I just saw no way to make it work. <$500 for a bug that would take at least a week to fix? I guess it's a nice tip if you were going to work on it anyway, but it makes no sense for me to schedule time to work on that bounty when pretty much any other job would pay 5 - 10 times as much.

I guess it could work if there were a lot of bounties for a project that you are familiar with, so that you can fix them quickly, but there are so few bounties available that you probably have nothing to do after a week or so.
I don't fully understand this genre of stories because they sound rather braggadocio, yet they never mention the sale amount.
AFAICT, Kid Pix was first released as public domain in 1989, and published a year or two later by Broderbund.

We don't think much about it these days when buying and using a quarter-terabyte MicroSD card is rather passe, and when we can buy a complete USB sound card for ~$5 at Wal-Mart (we call it a "USB C headphone adapter" and it acts just like we'd expect a dumb adapter to act, but it's got the whole works integrated completely inside of the connector shell -- ADC, DAC, power amp, ...).

Back then, audio was... problematic. It was unwieldy. At 16-bit stereo 44.1KHz ("CD quality"), a 5.25" double-density disk can hold less than two seconds of audio, and we didn't have the computational grunt for perceptive codecs like MP3.

So we just used less of it: We sampled with fewer bits, and we did so less-often.

A combination of low sample rate and primitive ADC implementations with not-so-good Nyquist filtering and other issues lead to both a chopped off top end, and a mess of sampling artifacts in an easily-audible range.

A low sample depth lead to analog sounds being recorded as hot as possible -- often with deliberate clipping -- lest there be even fewer bits to contain the important parts of the sounds. Some of this could be mitigated with high-quality dynamic range compression, but good outboard compressors were expensive (and so were the 16-bit workflows that would allow that to be done digitally in software). It was a sea of tradeoffs.

Further digital processing also had a bad effect on stuff (quantization errors, oh my!) -- somewhat akin to doing things like trying to scale the resolution of ASCII art.

And even then, sometimes the audio was too big. So we'd truncate samples by just chopping off LSBs until the sounds were barely-useful even in a chonky fun drawing program (the original disksets from the SoundBlaster card came with "compression" software that did exactly this), just to make things a wee bit smaller because storage was relatively tiny.

This was how we got the sounds of the early-ish days of PCM audio on home computers, and much of that carried on into the early flash days (due to bandwidth constraints, not so much storage; CD-ROMs had broadly fixed the storage problem for commercially-published software by then).
$70 isn't correct though. The cost was originally described upthread as ($10 per month) + ($5 per month), not ($10 per year) + ($5 per month).

That said, EV certs jumped in price over the past couple years. The total cost ends up being higher than the list price -- vendors tack on a non-trivial extra fee for the USB hardware token and shipping. All-inclusive I paid like $450 a year ago, and that was after getting a small repeat-customer discount.

So yes, Azure's service is substantially cheaper than an EV cert. And it also has the flexibility of being a monthly plan, rather than an annual commitment.
YouTube star Marques says people shouldn't blame him for Fisker going bankrupt
Looks Fourier-y to me
Im very leery of low code, but I like the idea of ETL defined as configuration.
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Joint account for everything for the house and family. Both salaries get paid into it, in full. Spend is jointly agreed.

We then both have an individual account for our monthly allowance. Monthly allowance is funded from combined account, and is same amount for us both. Our allowance funds personal items and hobbies.
Awkwardly, I bet Windows 11 support will last longer on those Macs.
A full memory dump for a game will nowadays often be multiple gigabytes, that's a non-starter.

Even back in the day, Game Maker had a function to dump the state to disk that was intended for game saves. It sucked - turns out there's a bunch of state that you don't want in your savefile - keybinds, settings, even most game state actually.

Save state should be opt-in, not opt-out, and on top of that a VM/memory dump makes it a very big pain to opt-out.
Love this anecdote so much.
>They're incredibly empowered to conduct raids and seize property and other belongings, if it comes down to that and the sum involved is large enough.

But only if that sum involved is not large enough for the owner to afford proper defense lawyers
What the fuck is silently redefined? That's very self-referential reasoning.
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Things where equality is on more than one axis, _but there is a primary one where people use._

Think things like vectors or complex numbers, or people.

The absolutely classic example however is types which have a signed zero...
How does it distinguish itself from Dagster or Prefect? Both are there for quite some time, also have a GUI, but a much larger feature set.
How do you collect testimonify for your Business??
It’s basically saying “consent to me reading all your mail or you will not longer get mail that you need to live a normal life”. I can’t imagine why anyone wants to let the EU and some police clowns comb through their sexy time videos, kids playing on the playground, and personal journals. I would think a continent that has been through Stasi, the SS, and KGB would welcome this with open arms instead of grabbing the pitch forks and torches.