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> Has the US Navy worked out what no one else has yet? What to do with all the toxic waste?

I don't know about the Navy, but we do know what to do with the toxic waste. I didn't realize people still thought it was a problem.

Nuclear fuel reprocessing plus breeder reactors can almost completely burn up all the nuclear fuel, leaving only short lived elements behind, and no long term storage issues.

The only reason we don't do it today is economic plus arms control.
"Hyper-palatable" is probably a better label than "Ultra-processed". The problem isn't the processing, the problem is that its just hard to stop eating food like Doritos, chocolate chip cookies, etc. And while I love simple food like lentil soup, yet feel no compulsion to eat more than a serving.
Also, it's very strange that you can imply The United States started a war with good intentions with a straight face.
you need to experience it yourself or see someone close to you going through a burnout to understand how crippling it is.

Some people I know where unable to get anyway near code for years after a burnout.

Another person gained deep seated anxiety that they are unable to get rid of.
I know of no technology that would allow a plant operator to simply walk away. Even spent fuel rods have to be cooled for years in a swimming pool (with constantly added fresh water) or they too will heat and catch fire.

Care to explain your "carefree" nuclear or give an example of a plant that has solved this problem?
I don't get the point of this. The SAT is never used by colleges outside of the context of the applicant's background. I have full faith that there's nothing College Board can add to knowledge of an applicant that admissions committees don't already factor in.
So I think that it is OK to be taking these factors into account at the college admissions level, but I am not sure if the "neutral test administration organization" is the correct place for this to be at.

This is a very thorny issue, and I am uncomfortable with a centralized organization influencing it to such a large degree.

Whether, and how much, to take into account these factors should be a local decision made by the college itself.
Yeah. I'm very much in favor of affirmative action and similar measures, but this really seems like the wrong place for it.

This move feels almost as though it was intended to stir up unnecessary controversy.
no, but if you come from a wealthy family that can afford private tutoring, you're at an obvious advantage to your competition
They do control for that when they study the correlation between the two, so none.
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Isn't that the point? Calories are calories, ultra-processed or not. But people eating processed foods will end up eating more calories over all.
WTF? Where's the actual study?

If you go here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...

Once again there's no link to the study. And if you go here:
https://s100.copyright.com/AppDispatchServlet?publisherName=...

"Read the article" isn't an option! Now the question is: Were public funds used in the study? If so, we own it and should have access.
Well, most managers at any pay scale definitely act like they don't know better.
The remote controller can not only watch 10 vehicles at the same time, but also go home at the end of a 6 hours shift and handle the vehicles to another driver without even stopping.
Tech is never really deprecated; instead, like the setting sun, it simply departs to rise again another morning (when a web developer independently re-discovers it).
I was referring to the motivation of the downvoters. I would be happy to consider any valid motivations you could raise for downvoting a question (for clarity: a question is generally not an assertion, this one certainly wasn't.)
There's a Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-processed_food

That links to a report from a United Nations organization that also uses the term:

http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4690e.pdf

On page 30, there's a section titled "Group 4: Ultra-processed food and drink products" which describes what an ultra-processed food or drink is.

That PDF also has 10 references to papers that use the term in their title.
Linguists will say that Christ didn't have a /k/, hence "ch", and then religiouss fanatics (what a pleonasm) will join in and give their versions of heavily revisionist history, a few serious scholars will admit that nothing worthwhile is known about either as a living being, and the debate will be desolved by the notion that the onus of proof is on the claimant, who will be called wrong, if not lunatic, until proof is advanced.

For one, dating of the stories does not really match, I believe.
We already regulate dangerous, addictive products like cigarettes. Why not regulate dangerous, addictive products like potato chips or soft drinks?
This seems fine if you wanted to use the SAT to measure an outcome for a given level of inputs. If all you actually care about is the actual outcome though, then this doesn't actually help.

I guess there could be both use cases for test scores, given that higher education might actually find itself more concerned with showing improvement as an important metric. They might prefer students that show more aptitude for a given level of input, moreso than the total aptitude achieved.

I constantly hear employers mentioning that same desire - to have "lifelong learners" are employees. I have to believe at some level that there is some desire for a measure of absolute capability, too.
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Contact a lawyer who will organize more people like you and hopefully do a lawsuit
I feel that "put it in a mountain until we figure out what to do with it" is a better solution than "fail to figure out decarbonization and watch the collapse of society as we know it"
Point of the study was to show that "eating a diet made up of ultra-processed foods actually drives people to overeat and gain weight compared with a diet made up of whole or minimally processed foods".
This seems likely to end up being ugly. For example wealthy people could buy or rent addresses in "adverse" neighborhoods, or charter schools might locate offices there, in order to attempt to improve scores on this metric. At the same time this won't be able to identify many adverse life circumstances like abusive parents, cancer, etc.

What it does do is outsource components of admissions decisions the colleges may want to distance themselves from and wrap it up in an opaque package so that they're not actually considering anything legally risky in their admissions decisions. This is potentially valuable to institutions that want to have affirmative action style admissions without risking the ire of state legislators.
He just used the terms correctly. Is your response to losing an argument to gaslight their vocabulary? That is not very sporting, even for hn.
One of the most interesting things I've learned this past week is that Ukraine generates almost 50% of it's electricity from nuclear reactors.

I think it's impressive a country can suffer the worst nuclear accident but still overcome the fear of using it.
The problem is scale. Today's nuclear plants are just big scaled-up versions of the Navy's original small reactors for ships.

Unfortunately, scaling the power output also scales the risks and consequences of an accident.
> but few people who are actually willing to step up and do work. That's the limiting factor on getting stuff done.

That's why waiting is also an option. Feel free to excuse it however, but removing i18n here was a pretty big mistake on the rust team's part. For what? Rust 2018? I didn't contribute to the website, but I also didn't force anyone to change it either.

> There are a lot of people willing to get extremely mad about the website online

I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. It's rare to see actual i18n for open source projects, and it's absurd to see it get removed arbitrarily when it does exist. I believe the Rust team is capable of delivering much better quality updates, hence my writing here. I'm also sick and tired of i18n being considered an afterthought by people who do have the resources to accomplish it to at least a basic degree.

Also, just because something is open source doesn't mean "well why don't you just go do it then" is a valid argument. It isn't.
You can make bread from scratch that pretty much feels like store bought. As far as light and fluffy. But it definitely won't stay soft and fluffy for nearly as long without the preservatives.
It is calories in calories out, as always, but the point is that the processed diet drives more calorie consumption. The same people were given both diets and told to eat as much or as little as they wanted. They consumed more calories when given the processed diet, and thus gained weight.
Presumably the SAT is meant to indicate a student's likelihood for success in a university setting; surely bumping up the scores of students based on how likely they are to be unprepared is counterproductive? This seems like it's going to set underprivileged students up for failure and deprive well-prepared students of an opportunity, no?
Colleges can already access this information in other ways. This is just a proprietary weighing of these things into one number. Given the information the SAT has access to, the number seems likely to be based around the student's address and school, rather than unique challenges to that student, like how present parents are in the student's life and if they have to care for younger siblings or need a part time job to help out. I don't remember having to give the SAT any sort of income or family data, but that sort of thing would be equally, if not more, relevant to the discussion of experienced adversity.
I, for one, was hoping for 7MB of inscrutable, minified JS to be prepended to the main text, so that it could lag the page load and display a blank, white page, unless you update your operating system, upgrade to the latest version of Node, and let your RFC viewer connect to an S3 bucket to retrieve 750MB of SVG fonts and images over a broadband 5G connection.
Genuine question: In terms of getting from Network A to Network B, is there anything that Wireguard does special that OpenVPN cannot/does not?
Why is hiding it in a mountain not a solution?
I've noticed a bit of an ebb and flow of vegetarian options at restaurants here in the mid-west US. There were not a lot of options when I went vegetarian/vegan in the early 2000's, but gradually that got better and better and then peaked sometime in the early 2010's when it was super popular to be vegan. I feel like that popularity has dropped off and I've begun to notice less options than before.

Couple that with the insane number of breweries that have been opening and you'll see their food options are very, very meat-heavy. Most in my area (and there are an awful lot) will only have an option or two, and a lot of the time that will be grilled cheese or macaroni and cheese, not exactly what I'm looking for when I eat out.

Of course, this is just my perception and it really only applies to the area I live in.
The cost of nuclear or the cost of wind/solar/storage? Solar is dirt cheap for 2 hours out of the day - how much does it cost at 10pm? This isn't a dennard-scaling problem - it's Watts, and it won't necessarily get cheaper the more we need to store - if commodity scarcity kicks in, it could get more expensive! Storing enough energy to supply 3TW of power is daunting. I don't think we can do it and I think we'll need to just use less. Then what's the cost of using orders of magnitude less power?

"You can't commute to work anymore because your car will be too expensive to charge. Or, rather it will be a luxury to use a car."

"Ok, I guess?"

"You'll have to live within a few miles of work"

"Well..."

"If you have a two income family and your workplaces are across the city, one of you will need to leave your job."

"That sounds difficult."

"You can't have a detached house in the suburbs. You'll bankrupt yourself heating it".

"I have to move? Hmm... what was that you said about nuclear?"
But part of the point of electron is a fixed base that you control. You only have to validate against one specific version of electron. Forcing people to use the same electron is directly against part of the value proposition to using it in the first place.

Like, I say this as someone who hates the electron-ification of the desktop.

Additionally there's some pretty good arguments when you're not in a dual interpreted/compiled world and can LTO fully like a pure Rust app is, that the benefits of having everything shared between processes are outweighed by stripping everything out that isn't necessary.
> The use propaganda to make people support the war effort against the Middle East.

Didn't realize Democratic congressmen/women were taking orders from Fox News.
We have accumulated a lot of stories that can be a bit hair-raising. But looking back, the actual rate of casualties is much higher for coal, oil, & gas. Which makes this feel like obsessing about airline fatalities (0.2 deaths per 10 billion passenger-miles) and ignoring automobile fatalities (150 per 10 billion vehicle-miles)

I mean, look at it from the other angle. At San Onofre, a vessel was installed backwards. It then proceeded to deliver power for 25 years & was decommissioned. Additionally, we're reading about all this mismanagement as a result of regulatory oversight. Not as a result of a post-catastrophe investigative report.
> CEO dad drops salary to $20k for a year and instead gets stock vesting equivalent "poor family"

Colleges are pretty wise to this trick. You aren't the first to think of it.

Relatedly is legally emancipating a child so they have "no parental support" and get a bunch of grants. That doesn't work either.

I suspect the colleges would get good as sussing out all those other tricks too.
It's not like the tech industry is exactly new to using competing companies products.

Microsoft using Mac (not even discretely).

Apple using AWS, Google Cloud, Azure

Amazon Selling competing products

etc, etc

This may be a bit of a specialized case, but if you run a cloud hosting provider that is not your primary (or original) business you will need to accept that likely be involved in running a competing service. (I am sure AWS hosts a fair number of retailers and related technology)
That's proto germanic, which means after the first soundshift. Do you know how old early yiddish might be? I don't.
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Banning fossil fuels would also set society back 100 years. They're literally the basis of all of modern life. I don't think you'll get many takers for that argument.
"No one is forcing them at gunpoint to take the deal."

The Trump administration did choose the "nuclear option" just one day later.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/trump-s-h...

I think the above bloomberg article explains just how extreme an action it is; and also sprinkle it with comments from american politicians which seem to reveal that this is about more than "reasonable guarantees".
SAT adds 'adversity score': lets colleges track a student's wealth and privilege
>This move feels almost as though it was intended to stir up unnecessary controversy.

"Adversity score" is precariously close to "diversity score" which would certainly store up controversy.
Storage? You have to generate the energy to store it. Where is it coming from? Renewables don't come close to fulfilling the USA's power needs.
This is nice. I've been working on something like this for a while but never finished(only time to build mocks and gather research). Good to see what could be.
You can now request a quiet driver when requesting your Uber Black
> When you buy something from Amazon, is it an exchange between individuals?

Yes. You exchange your labor, divided into an unseen number of customers for another one's labor, divided into an unseen number of customers.

Remove individual interactions and see everything disappear. Its the building block of society.
population of Anguilla: 14,764; 2017 tourist total from article: 68,000

Using absolute numbers for this sort of list doesn't work.
If you miss bread occasionally I can only recommend this recipe
https://nordicfoodliving.com/stone-age-bread/
"Level the playing field" is an over-used and under-defined expression. Do you level the playing field before you start or in the middle of the game?

What is the purpose of college admissions -- to award a select few or to match students with colleges where they are most likely to succeed?
It would, however the focus is on tech companies that are an arm of the Chinese government and have access and control over systems around the world. Specifically in this case, the concern is around Huawei having control over 5G networks.

Here is a podcast that goes into more details: [1]

[1] - Rogan Talks to Futurist About Tech Battle with China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XgS5wUiCIU
> let me preemptively say that if a system allows you to be an ass, it still doesn't have to support you beyond existing.

The issue is not that, but the old "who defines what's that". I do have an instance of Mastodon. Conservative, liberals, social democrats and a few communists debate about some issues. My promise is that it will be a space where no controversial idea is shut down, but low-effort posts are not welcomed either.

Now two scenarios can be laid out. One, one of my conservative users have issues with laws that affect trans people.

Two, one of my leftist users is against some trans theory because it's contradictory to his feminist worldwiews.

Will it be transphobia? Who says so? Is being against bill C16 in Canada transphobia? Because it can be interpreted as so, as it has been done.

What if the one that comes to my instance to check if we qualify or not doesn't understand the context of the discussion? What if we are talking about something totally out of the US (or somewhere else) newscycle or kulturwars parameters? This a Spanish speaking place. Some of the users are from Venezuela, identify themselves as social democrats yet they're constantly labelled as right-wingers by US users because they are against Maduro. Some of my users may think that US Democrats are right-wingers too, while voting PSOE in Spain.

You know, this way more complex that "muh free speech", which is the standard meme I see in this debates. IMHO people should do the filter themselves. What's the point of being federated if there's a central server that does the filter for you.
Those killed by extremists have a right more fundamental than free speech violated -- their liberty. However, free speech did not cause their lives to be ended -- another individual's choices did. We have a system to deal with this. It's called courts, the justice system, and prison. It's worked for thousands of years to produce reasonable societies.
I would imagine that elite schools won't rely on this very heavily, but not every school has the resources to do a "holistic" admissions process, and not every student has the desire to go through such a process.
I can't wait to launch my Adversity Summer Camp startup
Ok. Let's stop the efforts into patching toolchains. We only need cloudseal to make sure software is reproducible.

Here is the catch: How do we bootstrap cloudseal in a reproducible fashion. We don't have cloudseal to do so. So we either can't reproduce cloudseal, because we have neglected to patch the toolchains it quite possibly it depends on, or we can reproduce cloudseal! But this is most likely because of the reproducible builds effort.

I would like to evaluate the solution it tries to solve. But the technical details but the lack of any code backing this effort and the spare details makes it somewhat hard. No information if the product is Open-Source as well.

>in our initial experiments we’ve achieved 100% reproducibility for over ten thousand unmodified Debian packages

Yes. Debian is currently doing this on all their packages where 96% is reproducible. How was this test done? What packages did they pick? Unreproducible ones, reproducible ones?

A lot of questions in general.
This is all that I could think of:

Privilege Points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM
> the US Navy has been doing so for decades with no incidents.

The USS Seawolf, Theodore Roosevolt, Swordfish, Proteus, Puffer, and Long Beach all had publicly known incidents involving the release of radioactive material... and given the navy's (legitimate) tendency to classify stuff I see little reason to believe this is the extent of the issues.

http://www.lutins.org/nukes.html#subs
Public funds were used:

>This work was supported by the UC San Diego Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program; the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy; the Electric Power Research Institute; and the Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making at Carnegie Mellon University, which is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (SES-094970).

Unfortunately I had to use a site available at a Taiwan hostname to view the funding source info.
Thank you. You probably know all anti-nuke facts posted on HN get downvoted. Happens to me every day. As the song says, "Lemee tell ya that we won't stop!"
> This move feels almost as though it was intended to stir up unnecessary controversy.

I mean probably not, otherwise they would let the students see the scores.

I think it was put there to help the elite colleges defeat the lawsuits against them by being able to say, "see, we used an objective measure of hardship from a third party!".
the article points out that even foods that you might not consider hyper-palatable but are processed, like sausage still seem to follow the pattern.
Favorite quote from the articles so far about BPF:

Gregg started with a demonstration tool that he had just written: it's immediate manifestation was in the creation of a high-pitched tone that varied in frequency as he walked around the lectern. It was, it turns out, a BPF-based tool that extracts the signal strength of the laptop's WiFi connection from the kernel and creates a noise in response. As he interfered with that signal with his body, the strength (and thus the pitch of the tone) varied. By tethering the laptop to his phone, he used the tool to measure how close he was to the laptop. It may not be the most practical tool, but it did demonstrate how BPF can be used to do unexpected things.
Past adversity is in the past. So if someone grew up in a poor environment but you're thinking of admitting them to a good college on full scholarship, they'll soon be progressing at the rate they're capable of without the adversity.

So the best predictor of future success in a good environment probably does include a correction for past adversity.
Just like they were able to suss out all the student athletes who didn't actually do anything?
This is already happening. The difference is that it's only happening at elite schools that take a "holistic" approach to admissions already. Now, less elite schools will join in the fun.
Chemicals can be filtered out of water. Radiation cannot.
This isn't typical startup origin story IP OPSEC. Aren't you supposed to say the idea came to you in the shower, the day after you and a couple coworkers quit your jobs?
Living Record (2018)
It also costs the company thousands of dollars in opportunity cost to interview 10 peolpe full days to hire 1.

But the company sees the value in doing it, and many people dont see the value in doing it for themselves.
In the US you would just get charged with resisting arrest. This is what happens when they ask for your ID and you refuse to give it to them. You wont be convicted but the fact that you can be arrested for resisting arrest without committing any crime is a problem