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by atomic128 2y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42381637
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by atomic128 2y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42381637
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by atomic128 2y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42381637
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by atomic128 2y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42381637
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by atomic128 2y ago
Here's an interesting "lidar gem" from Hacker News a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33554679 Lidar obstacle detection algorithm from a Git repo leaked onto Tor This is a drivable regio
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GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house(cnbc.com)
384 points by atomic128 2y ago|655 comments
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by atomic128 2y ago
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42310873
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by atomic128 2y ago
The clean, dense, non-intermittent power provided by nuclear reactors is extremely valuable. Unless you are located near a hydroelectric dam, there is really no substitute. Here is a quote from Yann LeCun (Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist
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Meta announces they will fund 1 to 4 GW of new nuclear fission in United States(sustainability.atmeta.com)
8 points by atomic128 2y ago|3 comments
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by atomic128 2y ago
Here's an example: https://rnsaffn.com/cot4/ That's large-scale prediction of trader positioning changes in most of the big commodity futures and options markets.
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by atomic128 2y ago
As a customer of Linode, I feel like I'm getting a lot, maybe too much, for the money I pay. For $5 per month, I have a CPU running continuously near 100% utilization, training and retraining L1/L2/L3-CPU-cache-resident trans
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by atomic128 2y ago
Here's an interesting "lidar gem" from Hacker News a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33554679 Lidar obstacle detection algorithm from a Git repo leaked onto Tor This is a drivable regio
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by atomic128 2y ago
I type with the Advantage2 on my lap. The Advantage2 keyboard geometry gives you many landmarks, so even if you don't touch-type your hands can find the keys. In other words, even if you have poor keyboard technique (lifting your hands
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by atomic128 2y ago
Kinesis Advantage2, brown switches, look no further. From the perspective of a programmer using vim, the Advantage2 is mankind's peak achievement in the field of computer keyboards. https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards&#x
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by atomic128 2y ago
As a matter of national security, Centrus immediately received a waiver once the U.S. ban on Russian uranium was passed. But the U.S. ban waivers held by Centrus and Constellation are now moot, as Russia has cut supply off on their end. TEN
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Centrus confirms loss of access to Russian enriched uranium(reuters.com)
7 points by atomic128 2y ago|1 comments
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by atomic128 2y ago
See Russian media announcement here: https://www.interfax-russia.ru/main/pravitelstvo-rf-vvelo-vr... The U.S. ban waivers held by Centrus and Constellation are now moot, as Russia has cut supply off on their end. Russi
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Russia cuts off enriched uranium exports to the United States(reuters.com)
3 points by atomic128 2y ago|1 comments
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by atomic128 2y ago
Russia's role in the uranium market is primarily as a supplier of conversion and enrichment services. In contrast, Russia is a net consumer of unenriched uranium, not a supplier. Loss of access to Russian enrichment facilities (centrif
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Russia Halts Export of Enriched Uranium to United States(interfax-russia.ru)
6 points by atomic128 2y ago|1 comments
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by atomic128 2y ago
See discussion of "capacity factor" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41858892 It's the same as when we talk about the efficiency of a GEMM kernel on a particular piece of hardware. As efficiency app
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by atomic128 2y ago
Neutrons make hardware radioactive. Many on Hacker News fantasize about fusion (not fission) reactors. These fusion reactors will be an intense source of fast neutrons. All the hardware in a fusion reactor will become radioactive. Not to me
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by atomic128 2y ago
The clean, dense, non-intermittent power provided by nuclear reactors is extremely valuable. Unless you are located near a hydroelectric dam, there is really no substitute. The government will not allow the technology companies to "hog
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by atomic128 2y ago
The clean, dense, non-intermittent power provided by nuclear reactors is extremely valuable. Unless you are located near a hydroelectric dam, there is really no substitute. The government will not allow the technology companies to "hog
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by atomic128 2y ago
I agree.
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by atomic128 2y ago
This comes from a webpage where the challenge is to compromise the site, despite the fact that Go imports are disallowed (including unsafe). It's a puzzle game. To clarify, I think Go is magnificent and I use it for everything. The rac
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by atomic128 2y ago
Here is code to circumvent Go's memory safety without importing unsafe. get() reads a byte at an arbitrary address and set() writes a byte at an arbitrary address. This is excerpted from BUGFIX 66 ("Hack This Site"): func
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by atomic128 2y ago
Correct. TRISO HALEU. See discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41898377
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by atomic128 2y ago
The clean, dense, non-intermittent power provided by nuclear reactors is extremely valuable. Unless you are located near a hydroelectric dam, there is really no substitute. The government will not allow the technology companies to "hog
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by atomic128 2y ago
Agreed. But remember, this isn't the only time the population has been tested. This is just the test (from two years ago, in 2022) that I happen to have a link to.

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