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I've got frontier models doing pretty sophisticated nuclear reactor design and analysis using open-source nuclear fission reactor tools using open-source reactor designs as baselines. It is WILD how good they do.

Nothing could go wrong

Doing AI assisted enggineering to explore a space and then using classical methods to validate a point design for licensing is a good approach. In licensing the vendor and the regulator check things and then also verify many times during startup. The overall safety remains good.

Up front: I totally believe you are doing your level best so please don't take this as trying to take you down, I just want to understand. In the hypothetical case that in 10 years time it turns out that that design was flawed who will be on the hook? You, the AI vendor, the regulator, the device vendor?

Nuclear liability is always 100% held by the owner/operator by law in most countries. All manufacturers of equipment and components demand and are given indemnity.

Yup just going through the anxiety here. I even self-host my personal e-mail! This is not going to end well.

Firefox reader view is made for this issue. Adjust the content width slider a bit and it's great.

I've been maintaining an emulated Pentium Pro 200 MHz Windows 95 machine on 86Box for some time with all my favorite old software from childhood. It's great for nostalgia, and if friends come over they have fun showing their kids things like SkiFree, Jezzball, and Encarta 96. Still holds up great for kids.


Yep, I showed my little ones Odell Down Under in the browser at one point, they loved it. A certain amount of that old software I copied to .iso from my physical CD's, but not sure where I could grab something like Encarta 96. Legally.

Had also been thinking about asking Codex to boil the oceans in an attempt to fully decompile or reverse engineer that OG of 1990s 4X games, 'Stars!'*, which I have a copy of, so I could have something modern and native for MacOS that kept all the mechanics. Maybe I should just do this instead, will have to investigate.


IANAL and I have no idea where in the world you are, but downloading (as in with an http client) an ISO[1] is often treated rather dramatically very differently than distributing an ISO (as in a p2p torrent).

Alternatively: eBay. Encarta 96 CD-ROMs are available for about $20 in the US, delivered.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/ENCAR96ENCY


This is the second time on HN this week I've seen someone reference Stars! It was such a fun game to play back in the 90s. I've had a similar desire to have Codex decompile a pet 90s game of mine for further modification. Not sure how far one could get before Codex complains about reverse engineering software.

EDIT: Here's the other Stars! thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755378


Codex had no problem developing a big plan for me, but I didn't ask it to proceed. Maybe you're right and it'd of got shy at some point along the way. Thanks for that other thread, I must've missed it. Definitely going to fire up Stars! this weekend one way or another.


Many of those ISOs end up on archive.org if you dig around.

Memories of the ISO mounting program I had; so nice for all the disks to live on the server and just be mounted when needed.


Cinemania 97 was a big part of this era for me too, though it was far less widespread than Encarta. Fantastic resource for classic film, and into the 80s and 90s, though it was bit quirky watching it get further and further out of date, like the big 1999 films that defined my youth (The Matrix, American Beauty, Fight Club, etc) all completely unknown to it of course.


Yes that was also packaged with my Gateway 2000


I think part of the reason it holds up still is things had to be designed for newcomers at the time, since people largely were.


59 different companies including mine responded to MARAD's recent RFI on nuclear powered merchant ships. Many people are realizing that wind, hydrogen, ammonia, etc are falling short for global scale shipping.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/07/2026-09...


TBH this makes the most sense. Nuclear for large scale shipping + battery electric or hydrogen for smaller distances, rivers etc.


Nuclear power is expensive enough on land. At sea it’ll never compete with any other energy source. They’ll be pulling hydrocarbons from the air before they do nuclear ships in earnest. Yes I have heard of nuclear carriers and subs, the only two useful applications of nuclear power at sea.


Russia has been using nuclear icebreakers for civilian purposes since the 50s, and has also used nuclear propulsion for other vessel types, as has the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker


Thanks, I am pretty knowledgeable about nuclear ships and they’re only used in specific situations because they don’t care about cost for those situations. It’s too expensive for cargo and there is no training pipeline for civilian naval reactors so this idea is dead on arrival.

I’m pro nuclear tech but the economics and systems will not support nuclear for ships right now. We are barely making headway into nuclear on land these days, let’s focus on that for now.


Yeah I want this on my Pebble time 2 sq!


Oh man I have to try this on all the legacy Fortran nuclear reactor simulator codes originally written in the 1960s


I thought that's what "legacy weather simulation code" was!


Yeah it's for simulating how many neutrons are going to be in the air.

And what fraction of electromagnetic waves and particles are going to absorbed by those neutrons and other things in the air.

Pretty much weather!


*necular


How many tokens/second you getting? I have the same CPU but a 5070 and only 64 GB of ram. I just got llama.cpp built and am now hitting a whopping 5-6 tokens/s.


Frigate is so amazing. The lightweight object detectors plus home assistant automations and notifications are way too fun and powerful. I keep setting up new systems for family members after they see mine.


Which cameras do you use with it? Frigate + Thingino has been a constant source of stability issues for me, I've given up on it. Finding the right combination of parameters that had <2s latency, working audio, and didn't cause the stream to crash constantly seemed impossible.


Their FAQ says they use Public Domain Registry to actually buy the domains. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of The Endurance International Group, who is owned by Clearlake Capital, a PE firm! So while it may shield you a bit, if you're moving from namecheap just to avoid PE then that may not be the most obvious choice.

https://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/difftos

https://publicdomainregistry.com/about-us/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearlake_Capital


Thanks for digging into this. Somehow I'd never checked. I moved my domains to porkbun since I wasn't otherwise using NFS for anything else.


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