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> “There has been a subtle but very significant shift in power in favor of the tech companies,” Professor Mittelstadt said, with algorithms created to benefit the bosses at the expense of workers. Bike Angels face “a very fundamental problem with the gig economy we have now, which is the lack of fairness on behalf of the people who are doing the work,” he said.

> That a handful of sweaty hustlers have managed to take back some of that power qualifies as a win, Professor Mittelstadt added. “It makes me smile.”

I get that there’s legitimate criticism of rideshare companies, but this is such a frustrating position for a “professor of ethics” to take.

This is basically public infrastructure that has been contracted out to private companies for operation. Lyft has already been rumored to be trying to exit the business of bike shares.

If Lyft exits the business, and the city has no choice but to directly manage Citibike, will the professor change his tune? What’s fundamentally different about scamming the government directly vs scamming the company the government has hired to deliver a necessary city service?
I’m not the person you responded to, but have an honest question here since we are specifically talking about NIMBYism: How much less of NIMBY is there against coal power plants? For example are there examples of people rejecting NPP in their vicinity while accepting CPP?
except the electron app running the powerplant cant respond fast enough to the nodding duck
Crypto created a trillion dollars out of thin air (well, slightly thicker air from more CO2). AI is poised to do the same, but also has already polluted the entire internet with worthless slop.
To be fair it’s less bad than what some other vendors are doing, which is stopping to provide updates. Not saying apple is an angel, they intentionally generate ewaste by withholding such features…
Another alternative would be to not build the datacenter...
https://josh-berry.github.io/tab-stash/ (I see that OneTab is on the list and IMO tab-stash is a much better answer to the problem OneTab tries to solve)

EDIT: I see tab-stash is already on the list :D
Yes, I feel like this hits the nail on the head. It's completely understandable that something had to be done. This might not be the ideal solution, but it's extremely good that it happened and is happening to stop women from being the under group.

If the alternative is doing nothing, this is definitely the preferable outcome.

The solution might be to transition into more programs that explicitly tell everyone they are welcome, but that is probably easier said than done.
I've been able to see a Dr on the day I've called several times in the last couple of years. Operations happen reasonably quickly if they are "required", it's the non urgent ones that now have ridiculous waiting lists. The economy/wages issue, seems to be worldwide since covid and the various recent wars.

The new Government has had no real time to do anything yet everywhere on twitter/fb I see hundreds of people complaining, who didn't do enough complaining in the last 14 years. What happens with the current Government is yet to be seen, but it's certainly difficult to make any meaningful change in a single term.
It's insane because killing people is the modus operandi of fossil fuel power - and I'm not even talking about climate change. People often die on oil fields and in mines, toxic waste from coal plants leaches into our water supply, and ash enters our air and causes asthma and heart problems. Coal alone has killed about 460,000 Americans in the 21st century: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/23/coal-pow...

Nuclear power plants, in contrast, very rarely have issues: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
Just rebrand it to Five Kilometer Island.
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> "Worse" in what sense?

Worse as in not compressing as well. As I said, at high fidelity or lossless. At lower quality levels, AVIF files are smaller and JXL files are bigger. At higher quality levels, JXL files are smaller and AVIF files are bigger. At lossless, AVIF is worse than PNG, while JXL is much better.

> Like implied I'm not an expert, I'm just wondering why AVIF can't have faster loading with a preview function like JPEG has.

JPEG is fast to load regardless of its progressive loading feature. So there are really two things at play, speed of decoding, and whether partially loaded files can give you a preview. The slow decoding of AVIF is inherent to the design of the format, but different encoding choices can lead to different decoding speed. IIRC, the lower the encoding quality, the faster the decoding can be. And as for progressive display, that simply wasn't considered when AV1 was designed. You can do something funny and store two AVIF frames, one low quality and maybe lower resolution, followed by the full image, but then you're storing two images just to get a preview.
Am I the only one having issues (Win 11)?
- Drag/dropping from the Shapes panel does not work every time
- I can not delete an object on the page
- New page (+ character next to Pages) just clears existing page

Can I report this somewhere?
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That's just 500k Americans - far more people have been killed globally.
You have sudo access to your colleagues computers?
If the recommissioning requires 20% of the work of new-build (in time and money), I'd rather have the "normal" 50-100% overrun in costs and time happen on recommissioning vs new-build.

The delay is usually heavily on the permitting/legal challenges/etc. stage, not actual concrete-pouring and equipment installation, so an already-once-permitted site will probably do better relatively, too.

Extra reactors at exising operating sites would make even more sense, though. Putting 2-4 extra AP-1000 at ~1GW/ea at each of the 54 facilities operating today would be huge and minimal incremental risk, and if there were a shortcut one time permitting process for it...
Michael Valentine powered a lot of transcontinental runs (Cannonball) including Ed Bolian's landmark 28:50 run.

He will be missed; he's a hero in my social circles.
> No battery farm can protect a solar/wind grid from an arbitrarily extended period of bad weather.

I don’t understand why wind solar is subject to absolutes devoid of probability - “what if the sun and wind stop simultaneously for 2 months?”

We know the probability that the sun stops shining and the wind stops blowing for N days, we can calculate it from historical data.

You can absolutely build solar+wind+storage systems that deliver 24/7/365 energy with many nines SLAs, on the real earth with real statistics on weather.
Worse: Clippy running a nuclear plant.
I want to search from multiple cities. I have often saved a lot of money by flying out of an airport 1.5 hours drive away from home.
How is that a valid comparison though? Fighting against a coal plant makes sense, fighting against a nuclear plant doesn't - that's the key difference.
> I teach CS, and oh we know but I don't know what to do about it.

You could give students larger projects and have them present their homework.

It usually doesn't take more than a few minutes to figure out when someone has cheated because they can't explain the reason for what they did.

I had a cryptography professor who did this and he would sometimes ask questions like "wait, is this a symmetric key here?" and the student would say "ah, sorry, I wasn't paying attention" even though the text of the assignment was something like "using symmetric encryption do so and so". Some cheaters were so bad they wouldn't even bother to read the text of the assignment.

Also, people who cheat tend to equivocate when asked questions. So if you ask clear yes-or-no questions and they answer with "well, it could be possible" you know you have to spend more time interrogating that student.

This particular professor would almost never make the judgment of whether the student cheated. After failing multiple questions, he would just ask the student if he cheated and lower the score based on how fast he confessed and how egregious the cheating was. Most cheaters would fold quite quick, but some took longer.
Accidents will happen daily. Those accidents are extremely well controlled. You are providing an excellent example by jumping to that insane NIMBY conclusion. I think MS can successfully bulldozer these extremely weak arguments about catastrophic accidents better than I could. Stay tuned.
A couple? A vuln like this is worth >$1M very easily on the market.
While greed, short term vision etc are universal, Asia is not (yet) as bad. Take banks for example, say Singapore. How many Singaporean banks have failed vs American? Asian banks are way more conservative (relatively at least) and don't play aggressive with their customers' money.

My fear is that it is only going to get worse (both in the west and in Asia).
I have a Dodge Ram. Last night I had a 400km drive to do after a very long day. I wasn't exhausted, but I certainly felt like I did not want to drive an extended period of time.

I have a Comma 3x in the truck and felt way more confident, alert and comfortable for the entire drive. OpenPilot/Sunnypilot/Frogpilot are not FSD, but they are hands off driving assistance. The 2020 Ram performs incredibly well. The latest driving models are very smooth as well, no ping-ponging and they handle passing and traffic extremely well.

A legacy car maker would be smart to acquire Comma if its for sale. They would be extremely close to a viable assisted driving capability with it.
Main problem with systems outside the NHS and I'm really talking about the US here is if you have a major accident or a terminal illness you can easily be bankrupted if you make a wrong decision around insurance and that's not cool. I see far too many GoFundMe's for people with illnesses in the states and that is no way to run a country.
This ignores some serious edge cases. A family member requires Lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse). They are unemployed. Their out of pocket cost without insurance is $400/month. There is no generic. There is no price concession from the manufacturer. They cannot go without this medication.

Cheap generics are fine. Who pays for them if people who need them who cannot? And what about people who cannot access a generic and cannot afford the brand name drug?

(i cover the cost of this family member's prescription drug needs until they're employed again; this does not scale)
They get a fairer run than nuclear - it is conceivable that a coal plant gets built and is allowed to run. However I imagine the US followed the same broad trends as everyone else in the 90s and started restricting infrastructure construction for environmental reasons so it is probably quite challenging to get a plant built.

There is a reason all the growth is happening in Asia. Their focus is on improving their wealth and material standard of living.
I think the GP knows that. That's why they said "out of action for half a decade".
At this point in time I'm just jaded about the whole political discourse - it seems that 90% of the discussion is devoted to "what they did" and "what we could do", with almost none about "what we did, and here's how we believe it actually affected your life"
Given how many accounting systems don’t use relational tables but use a relational db (like sap b1) and do joins manually, it would be a big step forward.

I have seen more than a few accountants dream about learning sql instead of their excel tai-chi.

I taught some to see sql as a sentence that was an instruction to join the columns they wanted.

Since everything is actually related tables.. it would be possible to just hand them something like metabase to start for all reporting since it can traverse and build up queues no problem.

The parent-child relationship I ran into as well as being an issue. It gets increasingly out of control and more complex that I wonder after a certain level of complexity whether sql is the best or sole way to go. I don’t know if this can be avoided at the cost of the user needing to know how to to do complex queries. Maybe there’s a way to simplify it with invoking stored procs somehow.

From this parent-child complexity side of things I explored graph databases for this and it seems to off some potential advantages, particularly for some complex use cases and queries. Keeping it postgres specific, PG can be extended with Hasura and then graphql is be available on the underlying schema. It really is something.

Beyond this, I’m spending more time with a knowledge graph databases outright.

If you haven’t had a chance, I highly suggest checking out TypeDB and a few demo videos. Chances are you will get to see some things you won’t be able to unsee and how it can help the Postgres design.

One of my use cases (non accounting) is sufficiently complex on the parent-child front that I have a basic interface between Postgres and TypeDB working to allow much easier querying and reporting via TypeQL.
I did a quick check on a 2016-era Xeon E5 v4 (AVX2), and sha512 is much faster per openssl speed.
IMHO a infamous reactor such as Three Mile Island re-starting, if successful is only good publicity in the resurgence of nuclear power.
Thank you! My name is Roxy. https://www.zombiezen.com/blog/2024/07/my-name-is-roxy/
I’m surprised to see so many people disliking Open Pilot on HackerNews. I have one of these, and it’s a total game changer on long trips. I drove from Texas to California using my Comma 3 and I didn’t have to overtake it a single time on the interstate.

Sure you have to actively be alert your entire drive, but it’s still significantly better than actually doing the work of driving.
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Presumably all the things that have gone wrong have been fixed? I can honestly say the micro reactors and pebble beds look far more fail safe than the typical PWR/BWR that must have power and a pump running as I understand things to prevent catastrophe.
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The worse impacts of coal plants disproportionately impact disadvantaged communities that don't have the resources to be effective NIMBYs.

Coal also has a much wider low-level impact: for instance, it's not safe to consume more than small amounts of fish from the great lakes because of mercury levels, largely due to coal power plants.
Infrared quantum ghost imaging of living and undisturbed plants
People ride passenger rail where it makes sense. The acela line being a good example. But if they built a high speed rail between Texas and Ohio, nobody would ride that, because flying would still be faster. We could build some HSR between major cities in Texas, Florida, California, and the Northeast corridor, but it would account for a handful of straight railways. There are major problems with building these (California is several billion over budget on their high speed rail and I don't think they've even started building), so the criticism of US overregulation is valid, but the main reason we don't have as extensive of a passenger rail system is because it wouldn't be economically viable in a country as sparsely populated as the united states
The issue of dunkelflaute is measurable and you can approach it the same way that storms are rated as being 100,1000-year storms. Not that I wouldn't appreciate more nuclear.
The climax of this system where the wealthy control everything is that the wealthy grab literally all of the wealth, spending that wealth in their endless competition with each other, leaving only scraps for the rest of us. And then the rest of us fill all our time stressed out and squabbling over crumbs with no time to do something better.

That's Britain.
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> You can absolutely build solar+wind+storage systems that deliver 24/7/365 energy with many nines SLAs, on the real earth with real statistics on weather.

Once you start adding nines, nuclear starts to be become attractive again. Hence these deals.
The composition of the court is subject to change, as always. In any case the court made Chevron Deference so it can obviously unmake it. Congress is free to amend the Constitution to change the rules, of there is a political consensus, which there isn't.
In this specific case? Sure.

But power needs are increasing whether this datacenter is built or not, so the discussion regarding nuclear has to happen in some context regardless.
A corporation getting its way, irrespective of the democratic will of the people, or rather, those "insane NIMBYs". Corporatocracy truly is a beautiful thing.
Hmmm, is the jpeg xl data inside the dng not demosaicized?
Germany has been closing tons of nuclear power plants because of protests. They've recently also moved an entire town and a highway to make space for digging up more coal.

I'm not really answering your question, but it does seem like nuclear NIMBYs are more effective than other ones.
Are you just "thinking" or do you have real life stories to back this up?
> Constellation, which plans to spend about $1.6 billion to restart the plant, is awaiting permits and expects the facility to come online by 2028 [and] would provide Microsoft with 835 megawatts of energy.

I don't quite understand how this makes sense financially for Microsoft. A 1 GW offshore wind farm costs about 1 billion [1]. The Gemini Solar + Battery Storage Project in Nevada is about 1.1 billion (690 MW + 380 MW battery). [2]

With solar, wind and battery prices continuously trending downwards, how does it make sense to invest in nuclear which nearly always has cost overruns, bad PR and unknown potential future costs?

[1] https://businessnorway.com/articles/cost-of-wind-turbines
[2] https://commercialsolarguy.com/americas-first-gigawatt-solar...
What you didn’t mention is the effect that renewables have on the cost of nuclear power. When you get plentiful and nearly free solar energy at certain times of the year, the utilization of your nuclear power plant will drop. Because nuclear power has high up front costs, its economics are increasingly eroded as more renewables and batteries are added to the grid.

You’re totally correct that renewables and batteries aren’t yet able to bridge the gap in times of bad weather, but what they are excellent at is spoiling the economics of any other type of cheap electricity generation that comes with high capital costs.
It is also the view of the Brazilians? This is from their constitution:

> Any and all censorship of a political, ideological and artistic nature is forbidden.

They seem to be quite explicit and make no exemption for misinformation.
2019 was half a decade ago.
Or, just don't be a jerk when sending it back.
P(correct) converges to zero, so you get almost certainly incorrect, at an exponential rate. The original choice of terms is not the most rigorous, but the reasoning is sound (under the assumption that e is a constant).
What is shady about them? Are they criminals?
Yes, that's right. Compile and transpile are the same thing.
A $90B world bank plan to electrify Africa has started
GetElementId makes sure its a NCName and makes sure its unique regardless, you can view the source here: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/c4d7f7c6f2e2f34f07e64...
Similar points were covered in the recent Tyler Cowen podcast with Tobi Lütke[1] regarding economic stagnation in Canada & Germany (relative to the US).

The UK has a cynical view on progress, likely leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy. The US seems to have a contrasting view with an optimistic by default outlook.

1. https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/tobi-lutke/
But not cheap.

Gas peakers are cheap compared to nuclear, and arguably much more appropriate for the foreseeable future when it comes to making up for renewable energy's inconsistency problems.

I mostly disagree with your initial assertion as well. A sufficiently large and diversified grid will largely cover itself, and when it doesn't, that's what peakers and so on will handle.
The cost effectiveness plummets after one point.
It's not readily apparent, it's just FUD to lay the ground for the tories to come back. They're all the same, after all :-)
If the asset prices don't grow, how will the rich people get paid for being rich? Won't anyone think of the poor rich people!
> Yes. France has a better housing supply, and roughly the same area. But France has over twice the area, and under half the population density, even before you account for the almost uninhabited mountainous areas in Wales, Northern England and Scotland. So our populations are squeezed into smaller areas.

If you compare population density maps of France vs the UK, you can see that it's pretty similar - there are clusters of population in certain locations, and wide areas with barely any inhabitants.
This article says it will be the first restarted nuke. But there is also a restart in process in Michigan. Will this beat the Michigan one into full operation?
There are more 2nd homes in France because rural housing is relatively cheap and there are lots of land. However the way the employment market works in France has screwed the younger people, I think. It's easy to stay in a job once you have one but hard to get started as a younger person. If I had to guess, France, Italy, Spain etc are in way more decline than the UK as a whole and Germany is spending hard to prop up a lot of the EU.
Arc has a lot more than 17 users. It’s surprisingly popular.
Ah, thanks, I just found more detail here - https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/master/docs%2FSAFE...

They say it's required for ISO compliance with Level 2 autonomous driving
That's not how this works though, energy abundance means industrial abundance, more energy availability (for cheap) would simply mean that demand will scale to meet the output.

The only time it won't scale to meet output is if the price stays high, but if the nuclear energy is already on the grid and has elastic pricing, the rest will take care of itself.
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Less than $1 per month shared CPU and 1-2GB RAM for most of them. At that price I needs to pay annually.

Take it to account that I am not from US and even $5 is kind of large amount per month to spend on hobby stuff.
Oh, I misread. Never mind then
It’s cool to see that it’s possible to innovate sustainably, in a niche. So refreshing to see something stick around rather than become a bubble with a billion dollar valuation that either takes over the world and enshittifies or implodes and takes the product with it.

Make business chill.

That said: The larger they get, the more regulator attention they’ll attract. If some government entity wanted to, they could probably easily kill them.
I asked my friend who is in the cave search and rescue squad their thoughts, to paraphrase:

It's cool, but they don't see what problem it solves.
Yes the main flaw of this reasoning is supposing that e does not depend on previous output. I think this was a good approximation to characterize vanilla LLMs, but the kind of RL in this paper is done with the explicit goal of making e depending on prior output (and specifically to lower it given a long enough chain of thought).
Britain's 'broken' water system: a history of death, denial and diarrhoea