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> Why do we have to have nuclear?

It's a good question. Really.

The reason why is that current renewable tech cannot handle our energy needs. Technology for a "well connected `super grid'" just doesn't exist either. The battery tech isn't there.

But don't just believe me. Look at Germany[0]. Many point to it as the leading example of adapting renewable technology. They have some huge advantages places like the US, India, and China don't have: being small and more dense. This means you can have less power loss in transit (theoretically). But you have to ask yourself, why is Germany's use of renewables skyrocketing but their carbon footprint is relatively stationary? Hint: What are they replacing their nuclear with? It isn't just renewables, and there's a reason why.

Remember, no pro nuclear person is anti renewable. We just believe we need to act NOW and not when renewables become advanced enough. Personally I just don't think we have the time.

Edit: Wanted to share a link I was sharing in another thread. France, which has about 75% of its energy produced from nuclear also has one of the cheapest electricity costs in Europe. [1]

[0] https://www.worlddata.info/europe/germany/energy-consumption...

[1] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...
>>I much prefer what TV has become, to the point where I now prefer the medium over feature length films...something I never would have expected 20 years ago.

Same here (Although, I'm not sure we should continue to call it TV since a lot of us are no longer consuming this content on a TV but rather via streaming services on a computer device. Also, a lot of new serialized content is created specifically for streaming services and not TV. TV, the way we knew it, is dead , in my opinion.)

It is way more enjoyable to watch a long sci-fi series in one go than to watch a single two hour film. The plots and characters have more time to develop in a series. It is in essence a really long film. Almost like reading a really good book.
> The combination of the preceding checklist followed by an MCAS Trim Runaway checklist could create a situation where manual trimming after a Trim Cut-Out would be difficult to impossible and would require non-checklist actions."

This is a talk by Professor Nancy Leveson that describes exactly this type of problem. Dangerous interactions between systems. I posted this before when a lot of people were engaging in low grade racism by blaming the Indonesian and Ethiopian pilots competence and training. Seems very topical at this point tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBktiCyPLo4
But still they are able to subsidize EVs because they heavily tax the oil and make a ton of money exporting oil. If Norway wasn’t oil rich there was no way these subsidies would be economically feasible.
> think the electric trim cutout switches should be repurposed as "automation trim cutout switches" so that pilots can continue to use the yoke trim

Those trim cutout switches were actually first put in place long ago to cutout the electric trim on the yokes for situations when they get stuck or otherwise runaway.

So really what’s needed now is a different set of MCAS disable switches.
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The objectionable part is not the factual mention of a caste system. It's the facile generalization you make from it, and then apply to a specific person. The comment somehow managed to combine several kinds of nastiness: racial glibness, psychologizing glibness, internet glibness.

You singled out the racial/national background of a CEO who is simply manifesting generic CEOness. Google is obviously no more of a "caste system" than the hierarchies of other corporations. Criticizing "people like this" for implicit bias seems, to me, like implicit bias in its own right.

I don't mean to come down so hard on you as that sounds. I don't think there was malicious intent behind your comment—it was just a speculation of the kind many of us might make over beers or whatever with friends. In such a context, such a comment is probably harmless. The problem is, on an internet forum like HN you're broadcasting to an audience of millions. You can't simply import intimate conversation into this context: it doesn't survive the transition, and sometimes it turns out nastier and more harmful than you intended. In this respect the medium is the message and we all have to live with that.
I kinda know what your saying OP/ I've always had the idea that when you're playing Gran Tourismo you're actually providing a computer with detailed input at very high speed. (Rocksmith also but it;s a bit crap). You're going to want to look at Tensorflow.
No argument here - I'm just saying we shouldn't lay off the emission reductions BEFORE we have any technological answers. Likewise, we should research such options rather than assuming someone will.
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So, it's a non issue? Nothing to worry about?

https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2017/12/14/communities-fight...

https://www.thelocal.fr/20180807/why-do-some-people-in-franc...

https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/al-maiorino/just-how...
I heard once of a small business that was in a remote and scenic location. It added a live webcam to their website. It showed the weather for their scenic locale. It eventually ended up with a crazy high amount of regular traffic.

They eventually sold ads for big money to a couple of big name companies. IIRC, Disney was one of them.

People were visiting the site for the live view from the webcam. The value they found in checking the live view from the webcam was not inherently harmed by having Disney ads on the site. (Those ads probably paid the business owners more than they made all year at their mom-and-pop shop in the middle of nowhere.)

There's also Everyday Carry. They interview people and do photos of the things they carry every day, then have links to where you can buy whatever these people carry -- their brand of cell phone or pen or whatever. I think it's brilliant.

I also know of content producers who make t-shirts and mugs and the like with their content on it. The ones that are successful tend to be entertainers doing something humorous. Effin' Birds and Questionable Content both do some of this.

Some problem spaces are easier to monetize than others. The above examples of success in no way changes anything I said in my previous comment.

Maybe I shall someday figure out how to be funny and make a mint selling t-shirts with my witticisms on them. But, so far, that doesn't seem to be my schtick.
Things worked that way for almost 50 years. First Academy Awards were presented in 1929. Home movies didn't become available until the mid-late '70s.
Conversely, desktops and laptops can be upgraded much easier than phones, so I'm not sure the long-term environmental impact is necessarily positive, once all those millions of phones end up in landfills.
While I don't like the Alberta government, there's nothing authoritarian about them fighting for their own self-interest. Every province tries to do this. Some have more leverage than others.

And it's a beautiful province full of wonderful people, in my humble opinion. (So is B.C. I'm from Ontario, for what it's worth.)
No matter how enthusiastic the creator is about a “3D web” I doubt putting it as a top design goal does the language any good (I nearly stopped reading right there).

Perhaps as the language seems to be influenced by Rust it would be good to outline what specific differences it has to Rust in terms of goals.
That's really not the case, and plenty of utilities have come out saying that residential electric cars won't cause much issue for them. That's not to say there won't be some costs, but it's not nearly so dramatic.

The main issue is peak vs. base load on the grid. BEV charging affects base load, and with variable pricing, won't affect peak load much at all. When you further consider that most infrastructure has some margin to accommodate increased loads, along with on-site generation with rooftop solar and 'powerwall' batteries, you'll see that there's a lot of room for growth.

Even in cases where substantial capacity increases are required, it doesn't amount to a wholesale replacement of current infrastructure. It means adding more 'backbone' transmission capacity, some substations, and a few key distribution overhauls. The expensive 'last mile' stuff won't need significant changes.
I just recently argued this on HN, but this is a bad example because it ends up vilifying the census takers as if they were complicit in the crimes of the Nazis. Censuses are a hugely important part of the basic infrastructure of democracy and knowing the size and makeup of the citizenry is paramount to serving the needs of that citizenry. The remote possibility that this information can eventually be used by a totalitarian regime shouldn't be the sole reason that this information isn't collected. Instead there should be an assessment done on whether the value of having that information outweighs that potentially remote downside. I think the census is one area in which that is the case.

Blaming the census for assisting in the Nazis crimes would be like blaming the transportation infrastructure. Sure, it made things easier, but no one in the US would ever suggest we get rid of the interstate highway system because "What happens if Nazis take over the US?"
> However, the price for it is so low on a per user basis.

A user won't see much benefit in data profit sharing, but the companies will definitely see the costs. The effort to set up payout channels for every user would drive them to look at other revenue sources.

Plus, if all user data comes with a 50% cut, and their biggest income is based on user data, that's significant to the company.
I think you are confusing commutativity in general with commutativity of binary operations.
> Passivhaus does not mandate plastic based insulation... wood fibre,straw bales...

So, I presume that in the case of a fire, they go up like a match?
My favorite is this one, where a guy complained Facebook wouldn't let his extension export all your friends' email addresses.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-blocks-google-chrome-...
> There are a lot of rough edges that make it pretty janky to administer though.

That pretty much describes every security token system I have ever seen. Sadly.
Granted most of my time was with balanced scorecards, but, I mean just reading the wikipedia[0] page here I don't see anything about OKRs being moonshots?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR
Content-meant-as-public and content-meant-among-a-limited-group (friends, family, work, interests) are distinct sets.

Not all words are meant for all ears, and so long as the intent and/or impacts fall within socially benign grounds, this is a fair starting point.

Privacy is a much misunderstood and vaguely-defined notion, even among experts. I'll suggest that it is an emergent response to ever more effective and intrusive informational regimes, and consists fundamentally as the ability to both define and enforce limitations on information disclosure.

Much conflict emerges when information-made-public (literally: published) is asserted as under private control, or when information-meant-private is forced into public (or at least more widespread) view.
Exactly, coding is much less artistic compared to music, art, poetry etc.
Ok mr expert, please tell me exactly how much these two crashes have & will end up costing Boeing.
They have updated the article to say

> it contains plaintext (i.e. unprotected) passwords for 22,000 users

and

> The passwords are presumably for the “At the Pool” app rather than for the user’s Facebook account, but would put users at risk who have reused the same password across accounts.
re inquiries as to specifics: both cases involved treatment-resistant depression with acute suicidal crises. One is a family member, the other a friend-of-friend.

Many of you are aware that Ketamine has been used off-label for rapid treatment of depression and that one of its enantiomers, S-ketamine, has been (I think) approved for clinical treatment of depression.

In these two cases, it was not possible to quickly access either a ketamine formulation or a physician who was familiar with its use.

Google search showed that dextromorphan (yes, the OTC cough suppressant) has similarities to ketamine in its receptor targeting and is being tried in cases of treatment resistant depression. Combined with quinidine (as Neudexta, I think), it is used to treat a condition called pseudo bulbar affect.

All the papers on use of dextromethorphan for depression were paywalled. Thanks to Sci-Hub, I was able to access and annotate 23 papers that together gave enough information (side effects, med interactions, etc.) for the two treating physicians to try dextro with their patients.

Results are N=2, so obviously anecdotal, but both patients experienced recession of suicidal impulses within 48 hours and both continue to show decreasing depressive symptoms.

I believe that neither of them would be with us now but for Ms. Elbakyan's work. I'm deeply grateful for what she's done.
TBH, I'm not aware of this org. This org as well as many more out there may be doing genuinely good work.

I'm not an American but I'm skeptical about US politics, of which "Philanthropy" is a huge part.

So any thing that comes across as a philanthropy especially one whose goal is to solve a political problem, I'll be a little extra skeptical about it. Especially from a country that is known around the world to install democracy of their choice

I'm not sure which side of the US politics you are (I'm neither, since I cannot vote in the US), but it's kinda funny that Carter Center didn't monitor elections in the US, so all we have are the "collusion" stories flooding the news reports every day, in 2019.

If you take a look at the most hated personalities in India, most of them happen to be the darlings of certain US Philanthropies. (I hope that explains my skepticism about such orgs).
TFA lost me in the lead:

> As soon as you connect to the internet, there is a vast surveillance infrastructure tracking your every move. Even the most hackery of hackers have trouble moving in complete anonymity.

> For most of us, however, our brains assume our pre-internet intuitions are still accurate. That what we do in our own home stays private until we decide otherwise. We feel violated when we discover how much is known about our online activity.

I am not -- in an meaningful sense -- a "hacker". I'm a reasonably technical guy. And I know how to use a bunch of tools. But "hacker"? No way.

So, my first point. Assuming that "what we do in our own home stays private until we decide otherwise" is foolish. Unless you include implementing strong OPSEC in "decide otherwise".

And second, you need not be a "hacker" to avoid surveillance. You just need to learn some OPSEC, and how to use a few simple tools. The core point is never communicating (saying, writing, imaging, etc) anything without a studied awareness of who might be observing.

I have a few Internet-facing machines. One is plain-vanilla. Just a box with basic apps, sitting behind a pfSense firewall. But of course, with no WiFi. The others, each on its own LAN, run VirtualBox, and host various VMs.

There are some low-security VMs, which reach the Internet through nested VPN chains. Which are implemented with pfSense VMs as VPN gateways. That's what Mirimir, and some of his sub-personas, use. They basically just talk about stuff. And do some consulting work. But nothing at all iffy.

Then there are a bunch of Whonix instances, which reach Tor through those nested VPN chains. That's where I do whatever interests me, with no concerns about consequences.

All of these machines are full-disk encrypted. And they're on a UPS, with a kill switches on my desk, and in the kitchen and bathroom. Although I mainly focus on being hard to find, I am prepared for discovery.

I'm not prepared, I admit, for sitting in prison, after refusing to reveal decryption passphrases. I'll probably claim ministroke and memory loss, but that damn iffy.

And then there's my physical workspace. It's basically a walk-in closet. My desk faces the door, and there's a wall behind me. There are no windows.

I painted all of the interior surfaces myself, using black EMF-blocking paint (carbon plus Al dust). For the wall behind me, I applied a series of bright washes, using custom-mixed colors.

It's locked when I'm not using it. And I live in a multifamily building, in a very cohesive community. So there's very little chance that adversaries could secretly plant bugs. They'd need to enroll or compromise one of my neighbors. That's not impossible, I know. But hey.

Anyway, my point is just that you need to keep in mind, always, that adversaries are trying to snoop. And act accordingly.
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For the fridge: you use excess cooling in the freezer to keep the whole thing cool. Or a reservoir of compressed refrigerant. Or phase change materials.

The point wasn’t to be off for 7 hours, but to look at the current and projected prices and decide when to run at a normal rate or when to kick into overdrive (2C fridge and deep freeze) or when to run at normal rate (maintain 4C and -18C).

For the dryer, depending on electricity price, you run it at a slower or faster rate. Indeed, when I line dry, it can take a while, without the issues you bring up.

If there’s a gust of wind, dial it up. When it’s calm, dial it down. Since wind goes in a direction, we have some idea of when turbines will put out more power that’s cheaper.

Hot water heaters here have thermostatic mixing valves, so as long as we’re not boiling, we have a lot of margin to work with without scalding anyone.

Finally, the nice thing about ice is that water is cheap. It’s already a commercialized tech, just not cheap enough for residential use.... yet.

The point isn’t to use these reservoirs for 100% of needs, but size them up to be fully utilized on a regular basis buying electricity at low prices to offset higher prices.

Sometimes that’s less efficient from a thermodynamic standpoint (the hotter hot water heater does shed more heat), but made up for in reduced op costs.
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I don’t think it has anything to do with intelligence, I think it has to do with experience.

Documentation can take some getting used to, and like I said, sometimes it really sucks, but I’ve found it to be worthwhile.

I mean technically you can probably google solve how to handle a bitmap in C, but that won’t teach you how the bitmap format works, so the next time you need to do it again, you’ll probably have to turn to google again. Where as I still have a pretty good idea on what to do, even though it’s been a decade since I touched C and even longer since I played around with bitmaps.

Don’t get me wrong, I say these things, not because I think I’m smarter than anyone, but because I forget everything I quick solve through google programming myself.
It matters how you pay for your your clean vehicles. If your money is from burning lots og oil, which is partially the case here, you may not eventually be saving any CO2 from the atmosphere. Which is the whole point of electric vehicles. I would love to see some numbers on these things.
I think that's true in many places in the US, not just SF. Mostly cities though.
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Aluminium production requires lots of electricity. Other metal recycling and heat treating processes too, not to mention extrudation processes.
For releasing, I wasn't thinking so much about the actual act of deploying the code. I meant getting code to a state where it's ready to be shipped and used by customers. It's important to break yourself out of the perfectionist tendency to just keep improving code and never releasing it.
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I agree that on the NG, IAS disagree and an uncommanded stabilizer trim are much less likely to occur together. But if you did have an uncommanded nose-down trim close to the ground, you still wouldn't want to reduce throttle because that would cause a pitch-down, so it's possible you'd still end up in the same place. You'd have fewer distractions though, I agree. Anyway, as far as I know, it's never happened, and the NG has a generally good safety record.
We have something at work that's very similar but perl-based for our VHDL source. It saves a lot of boilerplate for conversion functions, null types, read/write cpu functions etc. Vhdl has pretty awful templating so it's really useful, you just need to use it sparingly else it becomes unreadable very quickly.
> and targeting renewables are also turning up their coal usage.

Germany is actually turning OFF coal. There is a new plant right now which will never produce power. Others are being turned off. Coal is clogging the lines for renewable power.

Meanwhile costs for nuclear waste disposal and decommission of nuclear plants cost the taxpayer money because of failed ideas of a safe mine in the past and heavy lobbying today.
I believe the superpower is the ability to prove correctness of the program easily.

For most of us, this isn't a big deal. But let's say you're writing a subroutine that will control part of a pacemaker, rocket, fighter jet, satellite- anything where bugs are deadly or expensive- then this is a Very Big Deal.
The issue of administrators who repeatedly side with students even in absurd situations seems to be slowly reaching awareness.

There's a good short video here that explores what's been happening at Yale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK4MBzp5YwM

Trigger warning - it has clips of students attacking professors and acting in ways that are completely delusional. I found it almost physically hard to watch and from the comments, seems I wasn't the only one.

In a scene where a professor is literally surrounded by students yelling at him and having meltdowns, it's shown that one of the adults at the back of the group is an actual university administrator: he watches passively and does nothing to intervene. The presenter argues the problem is that the administrators are often just as extreme as the students and benefit from cowtowing to almost any level of immature nonsense because the students demands inevitably translate into growth of administrative departments.
I wonder if totalSoFar would be a good tradeoff of precision for conciseness. It's how you're consistently explaining it in plain English, which is a powerful indicator it might be adequate.

I do normally call this sort of thing acc or accumulator though. I feel like an understanding of what that specific term means comes with the field expertise, sort of like we can say "LinkedList" and not "ObjectWithPointerToNextObject" and know exactly what that pattern should look like. A lot of CS skill comes down to expanding simple standard names.

That's not to say that your approach doesn't have value. It might just be that the toy example doesn't show it off very well. But if you were juggling that 3-way partition, for example, your naming scheme starts making a lot of sense for naming the boundary variables.
> By what metric are they the best democracy?

I'm not sure what else you meant by that.
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