skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nuclear fuel: nuclear rods can last about 3-7 years, lets say 5 on avg. 150 rods per 1 GW reactor. so its like one or two rail cars of fuel - extremely compact footprint.

how calculate yourself how much fossil fuel you need to power 1 GW power plant for half a decade, and how much CO2 emissions will you generate?

How many rail cars of coal Germany will need to generate 1 GW 24/7/365 for 5 years reliably ?

it is just unfair comparison, nuclear is several orders magnitude better in all aspects compared to fossil fuel and renewable - just due to physics of the process. Nuclear is capturing strong and weak forces, while combustion is capturing electromagnetic force with piss poor thermal efficiency and losses abound.

The only reason countries fumble nuclear energy is because they dont invest enough into new designs and constructions and still employ old design plants.

If there was as much investment into new nuclear plants as it was in renewable tech - we would have solved many of our energy needs long long time ago.
He also does a very good history podcast, 'Empire':
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/empire/id1639561921
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I had to do a double take and confirm the article's date.

It talks about, say, restarting servers(implying downtime) and going to each one of them and updating one by one.

If in 2024 you are still treating servers as pets, you are still subject to outages if a single machine dies, and you are still manually configuring them, you are doing everything wrong.

And that's before we consider that most of the advice would not apply or have to be done very differently if the app was running in, say, Kubernetes.
Are there safer plants still, that focus on eliminating the daughter nuclei?

I understood that one benefit of molten salt reactors is that the fission products were easier to process or burn.

Edit: "MSRs enable cheaper closed nuclear fuel cycles, because they can operate with slow neutrons. Closed fuel cycles can reduce environmental impacts: chemical separation turns long-lived actinides into reactor fuel. Discharged wastes are mostly fission products with shorter half-lives. This can reduce the needed containment to 300 years versus the tens of thousands of years needed by light-water reactor spent fuel."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor
I agree. "Atlas Shrugged" isn't "Mein Kampf", but if someone told me MK was their favorite book, I'd back away slowly without stopping to figure whether they were making some clever commentary on open-mindedness and subtlety of thought. Now, if you told me you'd read Atlas Shrugged or Mein Kampf and found a nonzero set of ideas worth thinking through, at least to evaluate whether or why your own personal philosophy was able to determine they were bad ideas, let's have that conversation! But your favorite? Uh, I think my wife needed something in another room.
When I’m asked about best book I always bring up „The Last Ringbearer” by Yeskov.

It’s a fanfic in LOTR universe, and it wasn’t very interesting when I was reading it but it revolved around a twist that helped me develop critical thinking skills.

In short and without too much of a spoiler - it’s about relativism of everything, including history and importance of narrative in shaping perspectives.

Somewhat similar to much later Indoctrination Theory in Mass Effect games.
Working at a startup that deals in large data (our storage is measured in PB), egress is the only thing thing that matters if we're going to choose a new storage provider. And an automated class management system a la S3 or GCS.
Perhaps:

> You can authenticate users through any identity provider, like Google or Apple, and set per-user request or spending quotas. You can also define an allowlist for endpoints and models. To monetize, you can apply different quotas for various user tiers.
IMO a piece of fiction works better as a “badge” in this sense if it can be defended as a really good work of art in-and-of itself, without the message behind it. Part of the game is that being the one to obviously introduce ideology into the discussion is a bad opening move.

Like what if the other party doesn’t take the political bait and starts talking about train sex or whatever?
Can you add BCAAs or at least make a distinction between sports protein vs other uses (high greens, etc). This is great though, thanks!
US civilians aren't subjected to them though.
I made the same error when I first read it years ago. It certainly felt like an academic reference.
I read books that have contrary opinions to mine so I can understand their ideological underpinnings and mistakes.

People who only read things they agree with means they're blind to the problems with it, and fold like wet cardboard when they try to argue it.
I've always preferred to use classical "fine" artists as an metaphor for development language preferences. Artists don't just pick up any medium at a whim, most have specific mediums that they excel in and ignore the others. For example Van Gogh produced his most famous works in oil paints. He had worked in other mediums but his talent definitely seemed to shine when working in oils and when he first found oils he took to them quickly and adopted them as his primary medium.

Most people definitely seem to have specific preferences built into their talents. I don't see why programming or programming languages would be any different from any other medium or art form.
I'm midway through my second reading through the Discworld series. Several years ago I discovered that they were just the right mix of interesting enough to read yet sedate enough to not raise my adrenaline that I could read them and reliably fall asleep within 5-15 minutes of going to bed. This was a godsend because prior to discovering this, it took my brain anywhere between 1-2 hours EVERY night to settle down enough to actually fall asleep, if it ever happened. Lifelong chronic insomnia solved!

(I'm not sure this is the glowing review that most authors aspire to, but here we are.)

Anyway, MOST Discworld books are well worth the time. A few are difficult to follow because Pratchett tried a bit too hard to rely on context. And he often reuses major plot points. But the narration and dialogue are more than clever enough to make up for any of these.
Out of curiosity, when did you read it?

It's one of those books that everyone's heard about, but I find not many people have read. I myself hadn't read it until about six years ago (in my late 30s). I was underwhelmed by it. Maybe the book hit a lot harder when it came out than it does in modern times?
I want to answer this question as if you asked which book had the biggest impact on me, that I remember with the most fondness, the one I wish I could forget so I could experience again from zero.

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Long and sometimes tedious, as his books can be, but the characters are so memorable. Bobby Shaftoe is one of my all-time favorites. The book takes place on two timelines, involving two generations of characters, that have interesting parallels. The audio book narrator does a great job, if you're into audiobooks.

Runner-up would be Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. His best, IMO.
The internet needs strong provenance to ensure content is created by trusted parties.

It has to be done in a decentralised way to ensure no enterprise controls who is trusted and who isn't.
Oh you work in tech and never heard of the strong influence of the FAANG (Fila, Adidas, ASICS, Nike, Gucci)?
Television delivers people (1973) [video]
How much one likes Atlas Shrugged may depend on age as well. When I read it at age of 20, it was the best book I had ever read and almost a Bible for me. At 25, it had some great points that were worth adopting. At 30, it was mostly a fantasy, but entertaining. At 38, it is just not worth the time.
>obviously [the atomic bombs] actually did bring about immediate capitulation

Not at all obvious:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-stone-kuznick-hi...

(this op-ed is the first thing that popped up on a quick google but it has been covered much more thoroughly elsewhere - the short of it is that having a city bombed to oblivion wasn't actually a terribly novel thing for Japan at this stage of the war, whereas the Soviet invasion of Manchuria was a Big Deal)
I find this to be the case with most primary sources, not just for court cases. A couple days ago, an American WWII bomb exploded at a Japanese airport and the article linked on HN didn't even show or link the video.

Legacy media really sucks.
AI tools on the search page: sure, cool. I use perplexity a lot, actually. I'm in favor of this.

Search results that are full of content mills serving pre-genned content: no thanks. It's in the same category as those fake stackoverflow scrape sites.
So you’re using a book as a political filtering mechanism. I don’t see how that particular book has any relevance to this discussion then. You might as well just switch it out with “The Turner Diaries” or something similar.
That seems like the right direction, but even for 20 kg bags I don't know how to evaluate Chinese suppliers of bulk foodstuffs

Are there companies who take care of the sourcing + importing + QA for retail veggie protein brands? Some actor in the supply chain just before flavoring is mixed in
The dark forest was one of the most popular Fermi solutions long before Liu's books, people just didn't refer to it by that name. Take a look at Fermi paradox Wikipedia article revision history.

I don't think Dark Forest is a good explanation, though. If you were one of the first space-faring civs and meant to avoid competition by striking younger civs preemptively, you could spread von Neumann probes all over the galaxy and either keep new civs at some technology level cap or destroy all the planets right away.

Also, there is no stealth in space, so you can just send a relativistic kill missile to any worlds where civs pop up, without having to step foot outside of your home system.

Isaac Arthur has made many videos I like on these topics, but admittedly they are pretty long. E.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlhHE2VA1ic
Well in Serbia first aid kit is not only compulsory, but has expiration date (!) which is checked on annual car inspection.
I'm glad you had a laugh. That's what I was going for - and normally how the interaction in question plays out.
In Cambridge we have recently had both our first Dutch roundabout and our first few Cyclops [0] junctions and I have to say I actually prefer the cyclops. Yes, you lose momentum if you want to turn and the throughput doesn’t match a roundabout but you can use it as a normal cross roads if you want or use the protected turn with lights around the ring without worrying about whether cars have actually seen you and understood that it’s your right of way. My opinion might change if I lived somewhere where people were used to Dutch roundabouts.

[0] https://cities-today.com/uks-first-cyclops-junction-opens-in...
> how awful of a language Dutch is to learn

Curious, why do you think so? As a Russian I found Dutch to be much easier to learn than Japanese, and English knowledge helps. The largest problem by far is Dutch speakers falling back to English almost always.
Interesting. But if this is important, why doesn't Postgres do it invisibly, automatically? Surely there's a most-correct sequence, with the longest values first, and the shortest values last, and then (probably) the variable-length values?

It could then happily report back the data in the order that the DB Admin/developer expects.
When Ukraine attacks Russian sites, they’re often finding starlink terminals in the debris. They know they’re using them to control drones and other equipment. They’re supposed to be sanctioned under US law.

What’s wrong with lawyers ? Is Musk some how above all lawyers ?
What is the MIT course that covers this book? Many thanks!
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I second this – it’s a much bigger project but this is the criteria that I care about most.
Is the attack helicopter dead?
The old https://webassembly.sh/ and the new https://wasmer.sh/ came a long way already.

All you need is a virtual filesystem of some sort, a way to download, a way to upload, an editor, a compiler, and a VT100 JS library. We already have WASI for the rest.

If the JS is too undesired, then perhaps go the old framebuffer graphics mode (e.g. a region of the WASM memory that is interpreted as an ASCII screen, or maybe even as a full bitmap buffer). Then JavaScript side just needs to forward keyboard/mouse into memory and that screen region out of memory.
Feedly has some sort of AI feature but I don't think it summarizes your feed.

You kinda need to fool around with the sys prompt and model (in gemini.py) to get the type of summarization you want. pro-002 follows instructions best and does quite a good job of summarizing but it takes longer.
> "How do you scare a Bellhead?" he begins. "First, show them something like RealAudio or IPhone. Then tell them that right now performance is bandwidth-limited, but that additional infrastructure is being deployed."

You'd scare anyone like an amazed rural tribesman if you showed them an iPhone in 1996.

I know, IPhone was a Cisco thing, but my mind went there for a beat ;)
5G has a broadcast option, but I’m not sure if that’s supported by any commercially available phone yet.
The thing that people strangely still seem to not get is that these systems will continue to improve rapidly.

This baffles me as well. So many low hanging fruits to pick, we literally just started with these large models. One obvious direction is predicting the next video frame. Infinite training data is available.
45ACP has isn't much more better than 9mm (or even .380acp) at one shot stop.

http://www.activeresponsetraining.net/an-alternate-look-at-h...
As someone who also hates extreme non-nuanced views, and seeks people who are thoughtful and emotionally level, I don't think I would be put off at all.

In fact I'd guess that if you really did talk with tb for a while, you would probably pick up that Ayn Rand is not a fit for the beliefs they convey.
There's a difference in reaction I think. Two people can hear "I love Atlas shrugged" from a new acquaintance and one would start arguing that it's a bad book and anyone who likes it is dumb, etc. Another would say OK, but will think that the speaker is dumb.

Basically there's no way to find if someone would "tolerate ideas they hate" or not if they refuse to engage with the idea altogether. The second guy in my example looks like he would tolerate these ideas but he won't.
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> "The best book I've ever read was Atlas Shrugged in 8th grade. Changed my life."

The obvious followup question is how did it change your life? Under this gambit of yours I wonder how you'd respond?

I'm not interested in Ayn Rand or her bizarre fanboys but I think if someone said that to me I'd honestly be curious enough, not out of empathy but out of anthropological interest, to ask the question
High profit income is already taxed in a cumulative way (at least where i live).

Profit equals revenue minus costs. It is financially relatively interesting today to have a high cost (typically going to machines, buildings, energy, advertising, financial services and business trips), because it makes the (tax on) profits lower.
Ah good to hear, I just downloaded some episodes last month and need to get on that :)

And bought his new book!

Do you have a fav of his?
No, even before the current AI era classical computer vision was not considered to be "AI"... because it isn't. That's just a fact.
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They don't have to pay for it all this year
>The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Amazing books....

+100
This response doesn't get me there. I want specifics about where the anti-nuclear pressure comes from in Taiwan. A brief hunt for a description of the situation in Taiwan led me to this[1]:

"Fast forward to the present day, and the energy battle lines have not much shifted, with most pro-nuclear advocates also representing the Kuomintang (KMT), the party of Chiang Kai-shek and whose candidate drew just 39% of the vote in the 2020 presidential race. Meanwhile, the DPP, which has grown to become dominant, remains heavily anti-nuclear. Over time, the distinctions on nuclear have become less about anti- or pro-authoritarianism; rather, the DPP is widely seen as the young, pro-environment party, while the KMT is seen as pro-business (and, paradoxically given its origins, too cozy with China). This leaves very little political space to advocate for nuclear energy on the premises of eco-modernist environmentalism."

Ok. That's gets me there. The pressure is coming from environmentalists -- imbued with the unassailable virtue -- so any discussion of the matter carefully conceals the prevailing parties and positions and names go unnamed, by both journalists and the participants in this thread. Exactly what I suspected.

[1] https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-18-fall-2022/taiwans-...
'CS50 changed my life': professor David Malan reflects on his path to teaching
product X vs Y are not really any worse now than pre-GPT (i.e. they were absolute crap long before GPT came on to the scene).
I suppose another alternative use would be for trans people and women born without uteri to have biological children.
Not sure how I feel about the on-going vanishing of efforts to create The Glass Bead Game as a computer interface/programming methodology.

I want it to be something workable which helps folks in their use of computers, but the more I work with node programming interfaces and so forth, the more I worry that the fact that there is no universally agreed-upon answer to the question:

>What does an algorithm look like?

and that such systems are strongly-bounded complexity-wise by screen size, that they simply aren't workable beyond small/toy problems and educational usage, i.e., Blockly.
Consider Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". A looong, socialist monologue takes up a big chunk of the book. It's the socialist version of "Atlas Shrugged".
Great idea. Whish this was also expanded to the UK, have exactly the same exact problem here. I keep looking at prices on Amazon and have managed to snatch a few great deals in the past, but having something like this would make it an effortless shopping
I think this is misleading -- geoengineering + social change will be necessary. You're not going to Scotty your way out of climate change.
No, I don't see the irony. GP is making a judgement based on a statement that paints him as a crass individual (to say the least). GGP is making a judgement based on how people react to his own statement that is actually made-up to sound crass on purpose.
Direct link to pre-order the kit: https://dkebuilds.com/products/dkebuilds-d64-rwd-rc-drift-ch...

It doesn't include the remote, battery, or charger.

Kit includes:
- N20 dual shaft motor
- 4 micro wheels
-2g micro servo
- Radiolink micro receiver
- Bag with steering components/ other parts needed to complete this build
- Wiring For battery
- Spare tubing and rods
- Unassembled D64 Chassis

Anyone have a cheaper fully DIY version of this?
> The more comments I read, the more tb_technical's idea sounds good.

Yeah, they're just doing a bit. A fairly tame bit for that matter. There's an expression "giving someone enough rope to hang themselves" that I think fits here.

Depending on crowd and delivery I might not clock it as a bit. But even someone earnestly answering Atlas Shrugged, they know what they're doing and that deserves at least a few followups. Probably a bit mischievous myself. "Oh, that's cool, because I always wanted to find someone I could ask why the statue is doing squats instead of shrugs?"
From the article: "if hackers gained access to service providers’ core routers, it would leave them in a powerful position to steal information..."

Sorry for the newbie question, but isn't most internet traffic end-to-end encrypted, these days? So what information would the hackers, or for that matter the "lawful intercept" system , have been able to steal? I do see how accessing routers would let intruders launch malwares, spoof other sites for phishing attacks, etc.
> Multiplayer games were self-hosted without a central corpo authority.

Losing "dedicated servers" was a huge loss in my opinion. It was fun to play on the same handful of servers and get to know the same group of people. Dedicated servers were also free from profit-driven "matchmaking" schemes since you ended up playing with whoever was on at the time.

I also miss the chaotic multiplayer of the era, where the priority was having fun and not improving your rank on the leaderboard.

Edit: Dedicated servers also each had their own moderation. So if you wanted to play on a server that banned anyone nasty you could. But you could play with a bunch of folks dropping "gamer words" as well.

Then there were custom sprays - something no company would allow in their game today. It's sad how constrained and censored online gaming experiences are today. In many games even dropping the "f-bomb" can get you banned and typing assassin in the chat window yields "***in".
Anyone have an easy summary of what all was dismissed? This story is surprisingly light on details. (Did I just miss them?)
I completely agree with you, and I have similar sentiments with my friends who hold different views.
> I guess using the correct terminology matters.

If people were actually searching up "peachick" that'd probably be SEO spammed to hell, too.
Few books are more indicative of people I'd like to filter out immediately than Atlas Shrugged. It's about as close to saying "screw other people" as possible.
> exhausted by all the lingo

I think that was my problem with Burning Chrome. Every sentence contained a new word or three that the reader is supposed to guess by context or conversation. Combined with something that read like stream-of-consciousness narration. I literally had no idea what was even happening after 30 or 45 minutes of reading.

But then I had the same problem with Shakespeare, so maybe I'm just dimmer than most folk.
If you’re gonna do just one, I hear Anthem is the closest to being a decent novel. But I’ve only personally managed The Fountainhead (oh my god, don’t) and part of Atlas Shrugged (after the priming of Fountainhead, I could not get far), plus way too many of the essays and enough of her book on epistemology to know I didn’t need to keep reading (“ok so the fiction is terrible as literature and is entirely unconvincing, but maybe the non-fic is better?” I reasoned. Nah.)
You should check out astro too!
Neither. Going by the parent poster's gauge, the most "expedient" is probably Lucid; better engineering, better range, and better service.
Before AI, product comparison sites were ramblings of interns paid by people who found out you could make money from SEO-optimized blogs.

And long before the Internet, people slapped random concoctions together and sold them as medicine, advertising them as cure-alls.
I was surprised I hadn't heard of this, or his related project JPEG-Clear. I have thought for years that the JPEG-Clear method is how responsive images should have been handled in a browser. A single-file format that can be progressively downloaded only up to the resolution it is being displayed at. If you zoom in, the rest of the data can be downloaded for more detail. Doesn't require complex multi-file image authoring steps, keeps simple <img src> grammar, and is more efficient than downloading multiple completely separate images.