skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if we presume all points are true, they fail to bring up any of the positive points of nuclear power and they don't have anything to compare it to. How does it compare to say wind power? How expensive and slow is to build up an equivalent wind power farm?

A proper comparison needs to take a look at positive and negative of all possible solutions. For example that "clean" hydropower has massive consequences for the nearby environment. Or that we cannot be 100% reliant on wind and solar power, since they are unreliable (there might not be any wind for example). Which means we need to have other alternatives (hint: not use coal as a fallback!).
In the UK the contract for hinkley c nuclear station was signed at something like £90/GWh, which everyone seems unhappy with (CFO of edf resigned saying it would bankrupt them, while opponents are saying it's too expensive).

Meanwhile we have new offshore wind going in at £50/GWh

If cost of nuclear isn't a problem can you contextualize those figures? Is it a fair comparison, net of subsidies etc? I'd like to know.
Thanks for posting this. I can't believe there is support for these things. I don't know that else to say. The description is so stark.
Yes, you're not forced to use it so well-meaning advice to stop using it is welcome.

Also, Google isn't exactly a randomly sampled spying $service. It is probably one of top two offenders in this regard.
At least Perl 1 claimed to be a sort of replacement for awk and sed, and it worked great. Also Larry Wall was already known for his patch program even at that time.
If they do manage a full sweep, the world is one step closer to spyware-free consumer hardware ^^
Is there an alternative to Chrome’s profiles?
The article provides a source for the estimation and you don't. And the reasoning why the source is underestimating the true costs sounds plausible to me. Given the harm meltdowns can cause, why is there no mandatory insurance?
Yes, both during WW1 and WW2, but to a much lesser extent than Japanese-American: only a few thousands were held, most of thoses deemed German enough were only required to register at their local police station. So not really the same level of collective punishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans
They wanted the tld for tourism.
Catalyte.io
The old world was mostly stateless. Power = function.

That said, even CRT had 'boot' time. The screen would need a few seconds to finally warm up and be fully on. But it was still a mind free system, you knew that your were done with the boot process and could enjoy 90% of functionality.
1. Long Time Lag Between Planning and Operation

I guess we should stop doing everything that takes long based on this. How do you define long? Compare to what?

2. Cost

Nuclear energy is the cheapest source of energy once you take into consideration all the aspects of an energy grid. This is why Germany is buying energy from France instead of building renewables only.

3. Weapons Proliferation Risk

Most nuclear power plants do not consume or produce plutonium.

4. Meltdown Risk

Passive safety systems are the norm. The safety requirement to any new nuclear power plant is to have a potentially life threatening accident with 10^-6 probability. Meltdown is not a realistic scenario of non-Chernobyl type power plants (90% of power plants).

5. Mining Lung Cancer Risk

So does mining coal. We can make mining much more safe.

6. Carbon-Equivalent Emissions and Air Pollution

I guess producing a wing mill does not need to use any energy and the production does not have the same impact as producing a nuclear power plant. Not sure if the author understand that this applies to anything produced. In fact producing renewable power plants probably produces much more CO2 than a nuclear power plant because of energy density. He fails to mention that.

7. Waste Risk

This is actually a solved issue, there are special nuclear power plants that sole purpose is to "burn away" nuclear waste by producing elements with less half time.

"To recap, new nuclear power costs about 5 times more than onshore wind power per kWh (between 2.3 to 7.4 times depending upon location and integration issues)."

This is extremely stupid observation. Leaving out crucial facts (like having base and peak power plants) and comparing apples to oranges.
Circular Altruism (2008)
Exactly my thoughts.

To fully neuter MAD you would need to be 100% sure and then some that you got everything that the enemy had. Even a single missile getting through would be mean multiple warheads get deployed. That's too high a price to pay. And I am fairly certain that the decision to launch would not be obeyed without resistance.
Area in obviously linear vs PV power, not exponential. Yes, the difference vs nuclear gets exponential because nuclear reactors are 3D, but in practice the reactor core size is always so small that it takes trivial space in the land use sense.

There is no dearth of space in most countries to fit village / farm sized solar arrays. 1 hectare per 1 MWH approx works out to good numbers considering you can use the non arable land. You can google around about how land owners bargain about leasing land to pv farms, it's pretty obviosu that even at the current artificially low energy prices[1] it's working out well.

[1] meaning fossil plants mostly don't pay for externalities so electricity price is largely determined by just fossil plant fuel / equipment costs.
"Aren't they already obsolete?"

Yes.
http://www.johntreed.net/sittingducks.html
I think you are confusing the "passive" here. It refers to heat insulation and minimizing the need for generating either heat or coolness; the house is not "passive" in the sense that it would just sit there.

So the "passive" houses are not at all passive in terms of technology (to the contrary, they are quite dependent on technical solutions enforcing airflows and exchanging heat up or down, to the point of being vulnerable; the point is just that this is not done through windows because humans intuitively don't do it so well or optimize for the whole building).

Some years ago, there was an electricity outage in the area where my office was. The basement floor had our server room with plenty of blade and rackmount servers, and some 30 kW of UPS capacity - which had been unused for years because electricity outages are extremely rare here. UPS is all very well to keep servers running, but this happened in the summer and the server room cooling system was not behind the UPS like the servers were. Thus, we suddenly have a 30 kW unbalanced heat load to the basement floor... Result was some frantic running up and down. None of the windows could be opened. We could open garage doors in the basement floor, open all the doors to stairways and halls, and run the the top floor which has the usual sauna compartment with doors to a balcony - opening all these, we could create a chimney effect to get airflow through the premises and prevent our servers from melting on the spot while we were shutting them down gracefully in priority order.
This has been going on since 1985?
Why wait then.
somewhat related (sorry for going off on a tangent) ....

the lyrics from the Datarock's song "True Stories" are entirely made up of Talking Heads song names.

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

Also the lyrics of the song "Seed (2.0)" from The Roots have hidden meaning[1] that kind of blew my mind (huge Roots fan here):

"I interpret the song to mean that they are attempting to unite the rock and roll and hip hop genres. In this case, they are trying to plant the seed of hip hop within the womb of rock and roll. He's having to do "fertilize another against my lover's will" because hip hop is resistant to integrating other musical styles. This interpretation is supported by the lines in the first verse that go:

"She don't want no rock-n-roll
She want platinum or ice or gold
She want a whole lotta somethin' to fold"

The lines are describing the hip hop culture obsession with money and "bling." Whereas, "I lick the opposition because she don't take no birth control" signifies that rock and roll is open and willing to integrate influences from other genres.

If you're still doubtful, just listen to the beats underlying the song. You have the heavy beats that are commonplace in hip hop and then the distinct guitar riff."

https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858522508/

The crazy thing is that Mos Def (now Yasiin Bey) takes that idea one step further within his own lyrics by fusing every (hip-hop) song of his album "The New Danger" with a different genre showing that Hip Hop does lend itself for fusion. E.g. his song "The Rape Over" actually sounds like a song from "The Doors". The whole "The New Danger" album is full of examples like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srx-Wf5KrzQ
Well, yes, I mean, in most CPU-intensive benchmarks, I expect V8 to outperform CPython 3.
Czechoslovakia has not been a thing like 25+ years, look it up.
I've read that good isotopes emitting alpha and beta are slowly decaying and transforming into isotopes emitting gamma radiation. This is why old lenses can become dangerous after 40-50 years.
Google and a few other gigantic corporations are clearly aiming for a much larger power grab in the future, with their own money, hardware, complete control of the software stack, the web, messaging, transport, etc. In this future, a corporation becomes indistinguishable from a government and this is the long term cost. It's hard to see if you're only paying attention to immediate cost on the scale of a year or few.
Is this everything, or just a primer that comes with reams of additional documentation?

I think I remember reading that game programmers developing for new (or not yet released) consoles of bygone eras had to contend with sparse documentation, shifting specs, and inadequate access to real hardware... It would be wonderful if someone with experience or knowledge from this era could elaborate on what it was like getting a black box in the mail and trying to stand up some working code.

I'm imagining lots code written by trial and error under intense time pressure, that nobody on the team really understands and that nobody wants to touch. I'm a sucker for this kind of folklore of ancient programming heroism. :)
The hate for nuclear is just ridiculous on HN
What happened is that thanks to miniaturization, devices of a similar form factor were combined. The camera, GPS, phone, music player, and so on are can now fit in device.

There was an element of timing too. For example, the cell phone camera didn't replace the standalone digital camera until it was "good enough".

A similar trend is bound to happen with tablet form devices. We've got laptops, e-readers, and tablets.

There's no reason we should be lugging around all 3 if a tablet-like device can be made light and versatile enough. This device will probably have internet with built in SIM cards.
And if you don't want to switch, there are things like privacy badger[1] and ghostery[2]? Although, strangely Privacy Badger does not seem to mention their chrome extension[3].

[1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

[2] https://www.ghostery.com/

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-badger/pke...
> They denied they had it then, too. They deny it now.

There's no evidence they have nuclear weapons whatsoever. Israel on the other hand still denies the existence of nuclear weapons everyone knows they have.

If Israel is so hell bent on going to war with Iran, (perhaps because the current administration is so corrupt that doing so would be a nice distraction), they should do it on their own and bear the consequences. The US and the EU should not go to another devastating war in the Middle East on doctored Israeli intel.
No, Israel publicly shared a few new details about the program they stopped in ~2002.

Iran has so far been very restrictive in how they have reacted to the USA violating the JCPOA, which Trump broke essentially because he is an idiot the listens to assholes, and complaining that the cross a line in a treaty you’ve killed yourself is obviously not a very convincing accusation.

Lots of states in the Middle east have ballistic missiles, and they use them to shoot large conventional explosives at each other, like Iran and Irak did during their war.
And the fun part would be to make the cooling system self-powered yet magically more efficient! I'm surprised I haven't seen any hard-core tech geek nerd out on trying to optimize their home installation like this.

The various experiments by the Low Tech Magazine people come closest, I think.
I would say

- The ABI is not stable yet

- The compiler is not the fastest

- Doesn't work on all architectures (compared to C in the embedded space)

While those are potential downsides, they don't have to be. It all depends on what you're using it for and the language you're coming from.
I would ignore the "learning curve" comments as they're (in my opinion) irrelevant. You learn it once and then reap the benefit for the rest of your career so a couple of months of investment doesn't sound that bad.
Can’t you link the existing C code by Intel, linked above and BSD licensed? There’s also GPL licensed one by IBM if you prefer that, linked in my other post.

No need to use the worse solution, which is dec64, unless you have some very specific goals.
"Israel’s intelligence assessments of Iraq’s prewar WMD capabilities were based mainly on speculation, an Israeli parliamentary committee said in a report released yesterday (see GSN, March 24)."

First paragraph clearly states that this was based on speculation.

“Why didn’t we succeed in laying down a broad and deep (intelligence) framework so we could rely on reports and not speculation and assumption? That is the central question,” said inquiry head Yuval Steinitz of the governing Likud Party.

Also included.

https://carnegieendowment.org/2003/12/11/israel-s-intelligen...

"The failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has led to a close scrutiny of the role of intelligence agencies in both the United States and Britain. As Brigadier General (ret.) Shlomo Brom, points out, Israeli intelligence, which was in full agreement with American and British intelligence estimates, has, however, remained "in the shadows." General Brom, a senior research associate at Tel Aviv University's Jaffe Center, calls for an inquiry into the performance of Israeli intelligence agencies. In an article titled "The War in Iraq: An Intelligence Failure," first published in "Strategic Assessment," General Brom makes three key points: (1) Israeli intelligence agencies failed because they did not realize that Saddam Hussein's main goal was survival; (2) Israeli intelligence tends to adopt the worst-case scenario; (3) Inflated threat assessments exact a heavy price."

I'm not sure if you are unaware or not but there were no WMD's in Iraq. These are facts not allegations. The US, Israel and Britain were primary nations selling the American people a war based on bad intelligence and it can happen just as easily today as it did then.
Brave is built upon Electron, which is built upon Chromium (not Chrome). Electron and Chromium are both open source, unlike Chrome, although development is still concentrated in Google and GitHub/Microsoft. So I imagine it's fine unless something egregious happens with those projects and there isn't a strong enough community to maintain a clean fork.
Antifa's Secret Weapon Against Far-Right Extremists (2018)
> Nuclear, though, doesn’t just have one problem. It has seven.

My main gripe with this article is that it limits the problems with nuclear to 7, I can think of at least a few more:

8. Centralized source of energy: nuclear requires that a few plants supply a vast network of energy consumers: this is one of the inherent problems of the current setup which makes it highly sensitive to disruptions. Many renewables on the other hand enables resilient local grids that can operate independently if the central grid fails for any reason, and thus keep extend the availability of such basic things as food supply during times of blackout. The need for such a setup is starting to dawn on decision makers.

9. Terrorist or wartime targets: Nuclear power plants scattered round your landscape is the equivalent of offering adversaries free access to your self destruction, not to mention the irreparable harm to the environment it invites.

To name a few.
> they're closer than ever to "projecting" those weapons in the general direction of Israel

I wish they did. There is serious need for some MAD in the area, especially with regards to Israel, that is way too happy to project its own overwhelming power with complete disregard for the legitimate interests of its neighbors.

To be clear: I don't wish Israel harmed or victim of any attack. I wish it contained by a matching power. Which is exactly what Israel doesn't want, and the reason for its pressuring the US to attack Iran or strangle it with sanctions.
These aren't really a replacement when the browser itself is compromised and the corporation behind it is leveraging it to try to take control of the web standards.
I don’t know what to tell you. Every time I launch CS6 on my Mac it tells me that it won’t run on Catalina.

I have no reason to believe that’s not true.

I think it’s quite possible that when Adobe says “64-bit” they’re not saying exactly the same thing that Apple means. I’m no expert with macho binaries and MacOS library linking.
Depending on your country you don’t. Paypal needs a bank or a card, and for instance in France cards can be prepaid (supermaket chains can make their own).

All of that will be tied to a real identity, but I am not sure Libra will also be completely free of these ties. There must be a point where to use your wallet you’ll have to justify your identity (i.e. above some amount or some kind of purchases you hit KYC requirements)
There are embedded Linux demos that boot into a GUI application in about a second. Linux systems don't boot slowly because "POSIX" isn't capable, it is a matter of boot time vs. flexibility and developer convenience / development time. There are also Windows CE systems that boot that fast. Linux demo: https://www.toradex.com/de/videos/fast-boot-demo-with-linux-...

I have a few moderate boot time improvement projects on embedded Linux under my belt. The typical low hanging fruit are hardcoded wait times in boot loader and drivers, unnecessary drivers, unnecessary features (did you know that PPP - yes, the modem thing - support takes a while to initialize?), slow to mount filesystems, bad choice of storing / compressing the kernel, and delays in the init system (run the application as soon as possible instead). More hardcore techniques are various methods to reduce dynamic linker overhead and reordering blocks on storage in the order they will be read at startup.
It's not. The XKCD is pretty solid, but if you like napkin-math, here's some. This is napkin-math quality only. I take no responsibility for personal irradiation choices.

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1988JBAA...98..309F...

Someone studied this back in 1988 and, if I read this right, if you're using a radioactive lens as an eyepiece (say, for a telescope) then the exposure limit for the eye back then was a cumulative 15 mSv per year.

This camera emits (rounding up) 0.003 mSv/h, so you must only use it for 5000 hours per year. There's 8760 hours per year, so in order to reach the 15 mSv annual exposure limit, you'd need to hold this camera up to a single eye for ~13 hours a day for 365 days in order to reach annual exposure limits.

TLDR: If you tape this camera to your skull in front of one eye for a year including while sleeping, you'd receive 26 mSv of exposure in that eye, exceeding the 1988 annual safe exposure limit of 15 mSv cited in a random paper from 1988. Most people will hold the camera up to their eye for less than this amount of time per year.

TLDRTLDR: Do not use this camera as a cyborg attachment and you'll be fine.
> How does it compare to say wind power? How expensive and slow is to build up an equivalent wind power farm?

From the article: "Utility-scale wind and solar farms, on the other hand, take on average only 2 to 5 years, from the planning phase to operation. Rooftop solar PV projects are down to only a 6-month timeline"
They aren’t, all their nuclear material is accounted for by monitoring.
Alternatively, booting is just an inefficient "resume from disk", using a generic initial state instead of one adapted to the device.
Last I check, Brave disables all of Google related services by default except for Safe Browsing, which check for malicious downloads and sites. Even search suggestion is turned off by default.
> in germany we do not have a long term storage solution that can safely withstand over 1000s of years for nuclear waste.

A much simpler problem to solve as compared to other challenges due to climate change.

You can build a storage big enough to contain all radioactive waste from current and future nuclear power plants probably in less than one year.
But what does "safe" really mean? Systems fail in unexpected ways; Chernobyl was operated in an improper way, which feels somehow "unfair" wrt risk assessment, but so it goes. Nassim Taleb suggests that we should minimize the maximum possible damage instead of trying to make precise risk assessments; looking at things this way, nuclear energy does not seem a very wise bet, because of the consequences of the worst-case scenarios. Burning things is not harmless either, but has a different risk profile.
They can. But the more software you need to initialise the slower it is. And modern machines run a lot of software.
There were reasons for FDR mistreating the Japanese more than the Germans, that have very little to do with the conflict. Basically, he was a despicable piece of shit in his views on people from Asia, long before war broke out. Here is FDR writing in 1925;

>“Let us first examine that nightmare to many Americans, especially our friends in California, the growing population of Japanese on the Pacific slope. It is undoubtedly true that in the past many thousands of Japanese have legally or otherwise got into the United States, settled her and raised up children who became American citizens. Californians have properly objected on the sound basic ground that Japanese immigrants are not capable of assimilation into the American population. If this had throughout the discussion been made the sole ground for the American attitude all would have been well, and the people of Japan would today understand and accept our decision.

>Anyone who has traveled in the Far East knows that the mingling of Asiatic blood with European or American blood produces, in nine cases out of ten, the most unfortunate results. There are throughout the East many thousands of so-called Eurasians—men and women and children partly of Asiatic blood and partly of European or American blood. These Eurasians are, as a common thing, looked down on and despised, both by the European and American who reside there, and by the pure Asiatic who lives there."