skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, nuclear fuel rods certainly have much higher energy density than any battery. but they're only a small piece of the power plant, and i wasn't talking about the energy density (joules per liter) but the power density (watts per liter or, since we're talking about land use, watts per square meter)

a 10c 2000 milliamp hour 18650 cell produces 20 amps at nominally 3.7 volts, which is 74 watts. if it occupies 18 mm × 18 mm × 65 mm that's 3500 watts per liter. tepco's kashiwazaki-kariwa nuclear power plant is 8 gigawatts, which is 2300 cubic meters of 18650s. if you stack them two meters high, that's 1100 square meters, an area 34 meters square. maybe you have to double that so you can drive a forklift in between the racks of batteries, plus you need some space for things like fireproof bulkheads, wiring, and inverters, but we're talking about maybe 50 meters by 50 meters, 0.0025km². kashiwazaki-kariwa is 4.2km², 1600 times bigger. (also, it's more than two meters tall.) the hypothetical 8-gigawatt battery bank uses 0.06% of the land area. even if you scale up the discharge time from 6 minutes to the usual 4 hours, it's still only 2.4% of the area of the nuclear plant

you can get better batteries than that, too. and if you're worried about land consumption, as you have to be in japan, you can put your batteries in a building with multiple floors
Sorry, but Brexit so soooo long ago, I really dont care anymore about the british whining. They kept the EU hostage for far too long during negotiations, I am glad its over, and I really really dont care anymore. Move on, its over.
The real cost (including public money) of it is mind-boggling, and a serious accident cannot be ruled out. If uranium becomes difficult to import France will badly suffer. Then problems induced by real decommission costs and waste long-term management will hit.
This may be the future of crime. To feed llm-s with text like this which seems legit but may harm later.
Slight correction: the well-informed nerds of today know this, but average person doesn't have the interest, math background, or software development experience to really grok it. What a time to be alive! Haha. Things keep getting weirder.
I think it's funny that people always complain about LLM guidance, yet here we have an example of an accurate answer without any of the typical disclaimer language and the headline is "the LLM tried to kill me". This kind of sensationalism is why they do it.
Well, exactly. The difference between heating the garlic/oil first makes a world of difference.

The questioner deliberately asked "Can I infuse garlic into olive oil without heating it up?" The only appropriate answer there is "No, not safely", not some long, plausible recipe with perhaps a bizarre caveat on the bottom (as some other commenters have reported seeing) along the lines of "However, some say this recipe may kill you, so you'll probably want to refrigerate it."
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0...

Note the gender, as well as the Korean

Mudang,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_shamanism

Chinese tongji (manifestly not gendered)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongji_(spirit_medium)

(& Old nordic seiðkona apophenically

Proto-tungusic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism#Terminology
Kafka is still used heavily, but the barrier is very high.

if you are running truly global (as planetary scale) distributed service, and have multiple teams developing independent components then it makes sense.
Timely reminder to sell nVidia stock timely.
You're making assumptions here though that children having to do schoolwork after dark is a fundamentally good thing. The same goes for the assumption that society can't function after dusk - what did society do before the lightbulb was invented?

Taking modern norms as a basis for why we need the tech that allows the modern norms is a logical loop. People did learn things before electricity, and electricity didn't predate society.
it's the opposite of congress
Microservices also introduce the issue of maintaining schema compatibility for messages between services which usually leads to additional code in order to maintain backward compatibility

From a technical POV they are good for horizontally scaling different workloads which have a different resource footprint

From my experience, when a company decides to go the microservice route, it's more for the sake of solving an organizational problem (e.g. making team responsibilities and oncall escalation more clear cut) than it is to solve a technical problem. Sometimes they will retroactively cite the technical benefit as the reason for using them, but it feels like more of an afterthought

But in all honesty: microservices are very good at solving this organizational problem. If microservice x breaks, ping line manager y who manages it. Very straightforward
Batteries are getting cheaper by the day too. Price per kWh halved in China in the last 2 years according to BloombergNEF (https://x.com/colinmckerrache/status/1800901575214514475).
Could you elaborate a little on the traceability part, please? If the different steps of a processing chain are distributed via queues, you rather have an overhead in collecting the information in a central place, I would think.
Similar time frame. Slightly smaller capacity, Northfield Mountain was brought online to store power from the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Interestingly the pumped hydro facility is still functioning as a grid battery, even after the nuclear plant was decommissioned for no longer being cost effective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northfield_Mountain_(hydroelec...
Indeed. A battery is a battery of cells.
I am extremely skeptical of this Gemini response, and it might be just some redditor farming upvotes.

First, literally 100% of the blog posts, reddit replies, recipe books, and so on, will always list botulism as a potential danger of canning just about anything, but especially the common "garlic infused oil" (just do a Google search). It's unlikely that the model decided to trim/ignore this dangerous caveat (again, found in basically every corpus mentioning garlic infused oil). Maybe the LLM would've mangled the (very important) step of roasting the garlic to dehydrate it, but I very much doubt the health disclaimer would've been omitted.

Second, note that there's no actual conversation link, just a screenshot, adding to my skepticism. Is the screenshot doctored? Who knows. Sure got a lot of attention.

Third, in my experience, LLMs tend to be overly cautious, and not the opposite. I remember a few months ago where getting ChatGPT to teach you "unsafe rust" had a disclaimer if you told the language model you were under 18. Maybe if it was something more obscure, I'd believe the poster, but botulism and long-term storage/canning go hand-in-hand. Like raw eggs and salmonella[1].

[1] https://gemini.google.com/share/999e6fd3a84e
No, but why would anyone care? Just heat it or acidify it first.
All of those saw active use during WW2, many up through the cold war. Letterman was used in every 20th century US foreign conflict. Sure, most of them were decommissioned during the Clinton era. But if it only took three decades to bring back segregation perhaps the military didn't bring lasting integration in the first place.

And if you look beyond the military towards support folks, the Bay Area saw a huge influx of immigrants during WW2 (e.g. for ship building). One look at Marin City and you'll notice the white immigrants got out ASAP.

Quite frankly I'd be careful calling San Diego "integrated". Perhaps the city proper is, but in my experience the burbs aren't necessarily (especially the more posh ones). Once you hit north county it turns in to duelling banjo country right quick. They don't call it Klantee without reason.
I remember the first of the London Series games. Yankee v Red Sox, and what a perfect, iconic baseball matchup it was.

The first game was 17-13, which is quite high. Bugs Bunny baseball slugfest.

I was hoping after the London visitors got a taste of that extreme game that the next day it go the other way and would be one of those grinding, 15 inning, 1-0, pitching duels.
Hot take: LLM's are the best surveillance ever if you forget that they hallucinate:)
can you explain how event driven is getting out of sync?

my understanding is that you pipe data change events right into queue, after each and every change, so in theory your application should reflect all changes in near real-time.

it will only go out of sync if your kafka consumers lag behind producers really really bad, and cannot process what is being produced fast enough
I'm still utterly boggled by why Google thinks it's a good idea to serve generative answers to "give me true information about the world" type questions. It's stupid in the same way that it would be stupid to have Maps serve output from an image AI trained on real maps - output that resembles truth just isn't useful to somebody who wants definitive information.

And even the "somebody using AI hype to pad their promotion package" answer doesn't really make sense, because "project to use AI to find and summarize definitive sources" is right there :D
Even "We know that" in "we" are a minority it would seem. The majority is convinced about scaling laws and an acquired deeper meaning in LLMs and that LLMs already exhibit sparks of AGI and what not.
That's generous
You don't always have to check the LLM output. You can use it to satisfy bureaucratic requirements when you know that no one is really going to fact check your statements and the content won't be used for anything important. So a plausible but somewhat wrong statement is, as my father would say, "good enough for government work."
Ubiquiti has all of this as part of their Protect product line. No subscriptions.

They were/are the answer for me once i didn’t enjoy having to play troubleshooter anymore on the less polished type setups like Home assistant.
Libraries are a great way to manage separation of concerns. Any dependency you add has to be explicit. There's nothing stopping you from adding that dependency but you can't just do it accidentally.

The graph of dependencies between components makes for explicit separation of concerns just like you would have a graph of dependencies between different network services.
My understanding was that noone really use these nowadays for networks as error codes are cheaper and you can just retransmit if there’s an error. But maybe RS is still used for storage memory?

In any case it’s used massively in zero-knowledge proofs to construct all sorts of hash-based schemes (see FRI, ligero, fractal, vortex, etc.)
The Odd Couple: Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene
Not at all. This is only a problem when doing formal verification due to how the theorem provers work (based on lambda calc).

N is the set of zero and all its successors.

Z is N extended with all additive inverses, which means it includes all of N.

Q is Z with all multiplicative inverses, so it includes all Z.

R is the set of Q plus all supremums and infinums of all bounded sets of Q.

R is only not Q when you define R with dedekind cuts, which is a nice formal construction, but doesn't change what R is, up to isomorphism.
you can do your schoolwork with a 1-watt led, a 10-watt smartphone, or a 30-watt big-screen backlit laptop. if your nighttime electricity costs are a ridiculous 40¢ per kilowatt hour, abstaining from 30 watts 4 hours a night will save you 43 kilowatt hours per year, almost 18 dollars. even in like lesotho those aren't the kinds of loads you'd have a strong economic incentive to shift to the daytime

it's more things like baking dinner in an electric oven, demolishing concrete with an electric hammer, welding with an arc welder, heating the water in your hot-water heater
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Actually the first hit [1] on Google I got for “is it safe to infuse garlic oil without heating” is this article from OK state saying that it’s only safe without heat if you use citric acid.

Of course, the incorrect Gemini answer was listed above that still.

[1] https://news.okstate.edu/articles/agriculture/2020/gedon_hom...
Well, I guess we're both not really into sailing: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/halsen

But I agree, fugel is just a botched invention.
It's possible it's fake, but you can type in the exact same prompt into Gemini and get very similar results.

2/3 generated drafts include a "safety" disclaimer about botulism, but 1 doesn't.
LLM's cannot be deployed at scale (doing things independently) and cannot operate without supervision. Their most appropriate and effective use case is as an assistant to a human who recognizes their limitations and acts as a final filter on their output.

It is ironic that after decades of technology taking on more and more independent roles and functions, this most advanced form of technology, this culmination of decades of research and engineering across multiple domains, is almost entirely dependent on human guidance and handling to be of any use.
"LLMs are basically designed so that wrong answers look as close as possible to right answers"

I work in the robotics field and we've had a strong debate going since ChatGPT launched. Every debate ends "so, how can you trust it." Trust is at the heart of all machine learning models - some (e.g. decision trees) yield answers that are more interrogable to humans than others (e.g. neural nets). If what you say is a problem, then maybe the solution is either a.) don't do that (i.e. don't design the system to 'always look right'), or b.) add simple disclamer (like we use on signs near urinals to tell people 'don't eat the blue mints').

I use ChatGPT every day now. I use it (and trust it) like (and as much as) one of my human colleagues. I start with an assumption, I ask and I get a response, and then I judge the response based on the variance from expectation. Too high, and I either re-ask or I do deep research to find out why my assumption was so wrong - which is valuable. Very small, and I may ask it again to confirm, or depending on the magnitude of consequences of the decision, I may just assume it's right.

Bottom line, these engines, like any human, don't need to be 100% trustworthy. To me, this new class of models just need to save me time and make me more effective at my job... and they are doing that. They need to be trustworthy enough. What that means is subjective to the user, and that's OK.
Willie Mays was the mystery guest on the gameshow What's My Line in 1954, 70 years ago: https://youtu.be/XoQOIf7utlY?si=FGMF0kZ5AFq86nuh&t=1021

Nearly all episodes of that show are available on YouTube. Much like that one, they're all time capsules.
When you have a lot of them it creates community. There will be more demand for specific types of shops and businesses, more space for parks, and more pedestrians so generally safer.

But that requires planning and time.
Would you be able to share some links to these techniques? They sound related to something I’m working on but in an entirely different field.
Usually you open those cans outdoors and underwater because the smell is beyond gross.
This is a construction. The notion is the same. Not all math need be constructive. This is an implicit bias in most theorem provers.
In the 1940's Fermi already saw it as the future. Then many projects, in numerous nations, progressed towards the most promising path (a sodium-cooled 'fast' breeder) architecture and sailed OK... in the lab.

Then, since the 1960's, many (some huge) projects aimed at obtaining an industrial ready-to-decline reactor. In vain, and most projects are now abandoned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Notable_reacto...
if you read william kamkwamba's autobiography, you will gain a major appreciation for what a huge improvement functioning after dusk can be. his 12-watt windmill revolutionized his family's life, for the better, even before it made him world-famous
The bubbles are from other organisms. Botulism is anaerobic. That's one reason why botulism is tricky - your jar lids can still appear to be sealed.
Based on coursework I did years ago. I could've given you more information back then but it's been a while.

You would definitely need to look into the lead coming out the chimney; if it does, you just dry the material and accept less concentration. (Or use a more complex technology like a molten salt reactor to keep it from escaping the chimney, but if it's eg concentrating in the leaves, drying it out is probably almost as effective as burning it.)

You only need to kick people out of their homes if the soil is so dangerous they can't live there anyway. You're not disturbing the soil more than gardening would.

There would definitely be huge challenges, my main point is that it's a naive assumption that you necessarily have to relocate people to remediate the soil. It doesn't necessarily have to work quickly as much as steadily. If you can do it in 10 years by relocating people and 100 years without, it probably makes sense to go the slow route and the soil will get less and less dangerous all the time.

If you're curious, you might look up bioremediation and biomining.
> If we don’t hijack privacy in messaging, how do we fight crime happening on a message platform?

Compare it to: if we don't put cameras and microphones in everybody's houses, how do we fight domestic violence?

You can't control everything, and you shouldn't want to. Giving a certain small group control over a much larger group is not a good idea, because you can never know that that small group will handle their power responsibly.

And domestic violence and crime happening on messaging platforms can still be dealt with in the traditional way: through our court system. And that happens and it works and it is fair (at least in essence, not counting corruption).
Backblaze (cloud backup/storage) uses Reed Solomon encodings.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/reed-solomon/
Oldest southern sauropterygian reveals early marine reptile globalization
This is likely an over simplification. Adding healthy soil, compost, and/or wood chips promotes bacterial and fungal activity. I'd rather people didn't bury garbage, and bacteria won't eat glass anytime soon, but it isn't as simple as assuming that covering waste in wood chipsakes it someone else's problem.
I think this is one of those examples where many people wouldn’t think about botulism because both garlic and oil are common and store safely out of the fridge uncombined.

Things like meat people might be more skeptical about, but imo this goes back to do Google, et al really trust their LLMs to give definitive answers on food safety. If it were me this would be one area I’d have the LLM refuse or hedge all answers like with other sensitive topics.
Had this open on three different browsers, and three different modes - for the adventurous.

"Trapping the balls", has never been so much fun.

Fantastic - thanks.
Yeah, I think people looking at just the upfront cost are not really acknowledging or addressing that solar panel installations degrade faster than a nuclear reactor. They also take up more space and as you mentioned will likely end up causing more damage to produce at planetary scale. They are definitely great when coupled with batteries for many use cases including decentralizing aspects of the grid for residential and smaller scale usages, but the raw performance of nuclear is impressive and exciting. So little inputs needed for how much you get, and for how long too. There are old reactors still producing after over 50 years…that is mind-boggling.

Who knows how far the tech can be pushed with modern advancements and less blockers on developing the technology further. It should be in the toolbox as part of a strategy for renewable energy needs on Earth and beyond.
These are all constructions though. They don't say what the natural numbers are.

The natural numbers is a set with a starting element and that has, for each element, a thing immediately following.

Things like 0 in 3 make no sense since 0 refers to the first thing in whatever representation you have, not a particular one.

I love formal theorem proving and provers, but this shouldnt lead us to believe that the natural numbers are fundamentally any particular representation

N is defined by its properties not its representation.
fractalforums.com is now also defunct, and the newer fractalforums.org is run by exceptionally neurotic and power tripping mods who've recently made it members only... There's a thriving fractal chats Discord community at least, with frequent meetups (one next month!).
Re SSH: sure, it can happen, but in practice I'd rate this pretty low with most SSH users...

(1) You need new host which hasn't been TOFU'd yet, and you need it to be exposed to internet with no VPN/mesh inbetween.

(2) You need password-based authentication _or_ agent forwarding, otherwise you won't be able to intercept traffic (with key-based auth, you can pretend to be the server, but that won't likely to last long). While I would not say that everyone uses key-based ssh, they should! It's an easy way to significantly increase your SSH security level.

As for HTTPs MITM, I don't see how this applies. They had to intercept traffic next to a server to be able to issue certificate - and I am pretty sure no one runs servers from the untrusted coffee shop connection! And you already have access to the server's datacenter, then there is no need to exploit public WiFi, you can intercept the server's traffic directly.
Fair enough, but I don't think "you can use it to generate output nobody will ever really read" quite qualifies as a ringing endorsement.
LLMs don’t get irony. That is not how they work. They simulate getting it.
The point is there are absolutely no guarantees about the output of an LLM being semantically sensible or logical. It's appropriate for brainstorming and discovery, but any ideas/plans/etc you get from it you need to analyze (either yourself, or relying on an expert). The idea of letting a mixture of garlic and olive oil sit around needs to be examined for safety regardless of whether you came up with the idea using only your brain, or if you were inspired by an LLM, or by 4chan.

I suspect if you haven't experienced how effective LLMs are at making coherent prose that is nevertheless utterly incorrect, you either haven't been asking very technical questions or you've been quite lucky.
> only need to kick people out of their homes if the soil is so dangerous they can't live there anyway

The article is specifically about unsafe lead levels.

> If you can do it in 10 years by relocating people and 100 years without, it probably makes sense to go the slow route and the soil will get less and less dangerous all the time

Versus just covering it up? What kind of cost-benefit analysis does that pass?

All kinds of toxic substances exist below the top soil. I agree it would be nice if we could poof away the problem. But given its scale, that’s not a real option. (For context, if we can do this we can solve the housing crisis.)
It’s all fun and games when it’s obvious the answer comes from a chat bot. So far this is not shocking at all.

Wait until the whole internet will have LLM content mixed with other seemingly legit content, without advertising its LLM generated.
This isn't even a canning recipe - there's no processing time at all. This is more of an infusing recipe and the model didn't understand that you can't just infuse with anything. I also wouldn't be surprised if there are humans with similar recipes on the internet.
Very few people have batteries with their solar in my neighborhood.
First result on Duck Duck Go has no mention of botulism on the page: https://amiraspantry.com/garlic-oil/