China can build ten reactors for the cost of Germany running the appeals, environmental studies and neighborhood consultations for one

Any material that is still radioactive after a hundred years wasn’t that deadly to begin with. There is a strong link between ”hotness” and short half-lifes, fast-decaying extra spicy isotopes are..fast-decaying

Actually, those materials can be MUCH more radioactive in the beginning compared to 'conventional' nuclear waste, the half-life is just so short that you can let them sit for a couple of decades and then deal with it.

I wonder if there will one say be an autobiography that reveals the russian hand behind the naive EU fossilsmaxxing.

The metric for perfect is

-Does it drive more people to the app -Does it maximize time spent on the site -etc

Your idea of perfect is very different than the one LinkedIn is using

> Does it maximize time spent on the site

That one in particular is super dangerous.

It can incorrectly lead to a process that used to be a 5 second thing suddenly becoming a back and forth 2 hour nightmare, because the metrics show "user spends more time on site".

Though in reality it turned the user from a happy user into a frustrated one whose likely to exit the platform.

Oh, GitHub is probably using a variant of this metric... :)

HN is the only real support channel in tech. First level customer service is AI, second level is outsourced idiots who blindly follow a script, the third level is ”Issue has been closed”

The real escalation path is going viral. Things get moving once a grievance is trending.

100%

Every day Claude resembles human programmers more and more

Anything that even vaguely smells like security research, reverse engineering or similar "dual-use" application hits the guardrails hard and fast. "Hey codex, here is our codebase, help us find exploitable issues" gives a "I can't help you with that, but I'm happy to give you a vague lecture on memory safety or craft a valgrind test harness"

I feel like this is a very common attitude amongst people who actually have delivered software as a day job for a few years. The raging sports-fan-esque Linux vs Windows fanboy battles are mostly fought by unemployed kids who still have time to customize their desktops.

”If you use that installed Python version to start a web server and use it to parse pdf, you may encounter a potential memory leak”

Yeah so 1) not running a web service 2) not parsing pdf in said non-existing service 3) congrats you are leaking memory on my dev laptop

Having tried codex for some security practice, it is similarly terrible.

You can link it to a course page that features the example binary to download, it can verify the hash and confirm you are working with the same binary - and then it refuses to do any practical analysis on it