So why put a datacenter in Louisiana, far from the vast majority of people in the Americas?
You’re pretty close to Texas tech hubs, plus Meta was able to convince them to pass Louisiana Act No 730 so they save a ton on capex
Readit Newsgen3 commented on Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center fortune.com/2025/08/24/me... · Posted by u/voxadam
I'll never understand why tech companies choose some of the locations for their data centers. Considering a big thing with data centers is "keeping stuff cool", you would think they would build them in the northern states, closer to Canada versus the hot sticky swamp.
The speed of light is incredibly slow and data through a wire is even slower. Proximity is worth something
gen3 commented on Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge matthewnewton.com/blog/ar... · Posted by u/mattnewton
Incredibly cool work, and a great primer on diffusion
gen3 commented on Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US ft.com/content/e39390cc-e... · Posted by u/cempaka
Why would any country store it's own gold outside its own borders?
For any nation state, storage and security costs will be tiny compared to geopolitical risk and leverage they're giving away by storing it abroad.
Trade becomes easier. Metaphorically pushing the bar across the room.
Countries also keep cash funds at the NY Federal reserve too
gen3 commented on The vocal effects of Daft Punk bjango.com/articles/daftp... · Posted by u/qzervaas
Outstanding article, don't skip the youtube videos!
gen3 commented on Show HN: An interactive demo of QR codes' error correction qris.cool... · Posted by u/Xiione
Very cool work! I really like being able to see the blocks and directly interact with them. It's nice to feel out how the ECC works. I can see myself using this to draw custom QR codes in the future!
gen3 commented on Germany's Water Consumption Down 17% Following Nuclear Reactor Shutdowns vdi-nachrichten.com/techn... · Posted by u/42lux
Can someone layman explain why the water is 'consumed' if it's used for cooling?
Why can't it take the heat, be piped somewhere else to cool down again, and then be used again?
My understanding is that with most current reactors there is an inner loop that is constantly recirculating (reactor to turbine) that does not leave containment. This goes through a heat exchange with other water to jettison waste heat from the system. This waste heat can be something like taking water from a river and ejecting it back into the river, just slightly warmer.
I’m curious how much using less water actually matters. It’s not like the jettisoned water is dangerous or radioactive
gen3 commented on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/bakugo
gen3 commented on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/bakugo
One thing about the reply gives away why Claude is still basically clueless about Actual Thinking; it suggested me to move the HTML sanitization to the frontend. It's in the CF function because it would be trivial to bypass it in the frontend making it easy to post literally anything in the db. Even a junior developer would understand this.
You could move the sanitation to the front end securely, it would just need to be right before render (after fetching the data to the browser). Some UI libraries do this automatically (like React) and the dompurify can run in the browser for this task.
It could have done a better job outlining how to do it properly