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>that aren't available for actual productive work instead of overhead.

That’s a very biased view. Another view would be that improving the efficiency of the largest markets in the world have a much larger positive impact on society than the vast majority of the “productive” work you refer to.
I think it is a very achievable goal in the USA, if the USA took the money to achieve those goals directly from the military budget, it would still have the largest military budget in the world. And on health, it would actually save money.

But also, I think this was not meant to be US specific. The real political challenge is trying to do it for everyone. Doing it for the US is easy.
That's what I was thinking while reading: the author is just describing economics while ignoring the fact that

> The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex conditions order, and adaptation to the unknown, can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions and that a division of authority will actually extend the possibility of overall order. Yet that decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account (FA Hayek, The Fatal Conceit)

I agree that we don't need a new field, but it seems also that the idea of designing progress is a fool's errand.
It is not a technical problem. Tossing the fuel into space is just as much a politcal problem as tossing it into an old mine. Technically we have solutions, the problem is politics.
Or just treating people with the drugs and doing normal pain/sensation tests with them
The article briefly mentions fast reactors, but I think dismisses them a little too quickly. Waste from fast reactors would be short-lived.

Most of our waste is uranium, mainly U238 plus a little leftover U235. This is barely radioactive.

There's also a fair amount of plutonium and other transuranics, made when uranium and heavier atoms absorb a neutron without fissioning. This is the really long-lived waste that needs to be stored for thousands of years.

About one percent of our waste is fission products, the smaller atoms left after breaking apart uranium and plutonium. This is highly radioactive, but only for a couple centuries.

Fast reactors can fission the transuranics, and both isotopes of uranium. Their waste is almost entirely fission products. Encase them in glass, bury them, and in three centuries it'll be back to the radioactivity of the original uranium ore.
I’m the author of JSON Formatter [1] with 989,000 users.

I probably get a couple of offers a year for it. Of those that have offered specific sums, they ranged from from $10-20k. I always reject them, because it’s pretty obvious they want to turn it into malware.

I’ve had a couple of cases where I felt they went to some effort to schmooze me first, presenting themselves as having benign intentions, almost like a carefully crafted con. But as far as I can tell, there is no legitimate, ethical reason to want to acquire it, and I won’t sell out my users like that.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-formatter/bcj...
So basically, let's just offload the nuclear waste problem to future generations. That's exactly the same line of thinking that caused climate change.
A day in the life of Oscar the cat (2007)
Major Themes in China’s 2019 National Defense White Paper
Why spend money on leaving our lovely planet when we could spend money on reducing emissions so we don’t have to.
I’m pretty sure it’s because it’s harder to detect individual stars the farther away from us they are. So you’d expect the stars they found to be clustered around us. We are in the center of that group. The simulation goes back in time to imagine how the stars got to be where they are today.

If the earth was on the other side of the galaxy the group would appear there because the stars we would find would be there. I think the article writer misunderstood the astronomer about this and mismatched responses.
Actually, that is 0.000022 km3 of solid material.
ASCII table and history (or, why does Ctrl+I insert a Tab in my terminal?)
Google to allow Android users in Europe choose default search engine
What about atmospheric refraction splitting up the spectrum? Is this affected by it, or does the telescope's focus only work for very narrow bands, so exposure times have to be even longer?
> To put it in another way, by switching on nuclear power, instead of handing out next generation a warmed/messed up planet with dangerous levels of green house gases, we would be giving them a pile of dangerous radioactive waste several miles under the ground. Not sure whether it can be argued if it is really a better alternative.

You probably didn't intend it this way, but this reads as a powerful argument for switching to nuclear, at least if you realize how much "a warmed/messed up planet" we're talking about, vs. how extremely small a "pile of dangerous radioactive waste".
Of course you are allowed: you just did it here, and nobody prohibited it.

What you seem to request is that nobody is criticizing your stance. But why would you be entitled to that?
You can use part of it as fuel, it's just does not economically make sense to do so right now. And what's wrong with storing it exactly?
Haven't seen PHP4 code in a decade (and even then, it was a desperate last stand of an Anfient Monftrofity), and I'm immensely glad I didn't.
Is there a document that explores the backwards compatibility of these (and related) changes?

Particularly for open source software it's hard to just say "from next version well use 7.4 min" so anything that can be added and fallback gracefully on older versions is handy.
We have seen this in many places in Japan - otherwise unused spaces around railway corridors, factories even seafront now host solar panel installations.

Also you can see it when going to Narita with Skyliner over the old unused shinkansen corridor - Skyliner fits in just about a half of the corridor & the rest is solar panels:
https://www.google.com/maps/search/narita/@35.7981082,140.10...
Because Matrix has terrible UX and its apps have terrible GUIs. And because Signal has this weird hangup about federation, requiring a closed server, being super paranoid secure on one side and expecting that amount of "trust" on the other. (I call it a weird hangup because I've only read bad explanations and evasive answers about why this is)

Give me Matrix with Signal's UX, and I'd be all over it :-)
Trying to wrap my head around auctions in an applicable manner.

Say I am looking for a contractor to renovate my house. I don't know the actual cost or the skill of any of the contractors who are applying for the job.

Is it best to say, whoever will give me the lowest price is the person I will choose, and I will pay them the second-lowest price?
I had never known about this password site, thanks for sharing!
But those two months happen to be the months where everyone was buying. That's what made the price rise so dramatically.
I mean the classic Java > Lisp decision that Paul Graham is always talking about surely fits the bill.
So, yeah, the source post is in Dutch. I'm linking to a comment; not the news article specifically which is about AMD.

You can use a translation service and/or read my summary.

The source is the 10-Q form as linked here [1]. On page 27, Intel's numbers show their enterprise sales have shrinked with 33%. Yet, if you look at sources from analysis, these claim the market will grow with 12% [2] or 19% [3].

The main problem is their claim of

> DCG experienced challenges as cloud customers absorbed capacity and the enterprise and government TAM declined.

Instead of simply admitting the competition caught up with them (or surpassed them).

[1] https://s21.q4cdn.com/600692695/files/doc_financials/2019/Q2...

[2] https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/4745419/enterpris...

[3] https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/44-billion-worldwi...
You might enjoy this news.yc discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18698651
> browser extensions only impact a very small part of their userbase

Third or even half of the userbase is not a small part.

> Please remember that not everyone has a problem with ads, 'privacy invasion' and targetting.

Everyone has a problem with this once they understand what's going on and how it can be used against them. It's just most people are not software engineers and security, privacy related issues are hard for them to understand.
Nuclear waste is not really waste. WE should not dispose of it at all. It is literally ZERO problem to keep nuclear waste around easly accessable with no danger for the next couple 100 years.

By then we should really have the technology to consume most of that waste. The tiny rest of it can be stored, we know that this is geologically possilbe and facilities have already been built in Finland.

This is really not a technology problem, but rather a political problem where any progress towards a solution is systematically stopped. So that the 'you can't manage the waste' argument can be used against the nuclear industry.

The US even has a huge pile of money already collected to handle disposle and for decades US sientiests have found the best place to put that stuff. Guess what, its not where the governmnet currently wants to store it. But they can't move it to another place because of politics, and they can't actually store in the place they have selected because politics has greated essentially impossible properties that they need to insure.

This is a political problem, not a technical or financial one.
Many free-market oriented people would disagree that we've let the free market run amok, as measured by the percentage of the economy that the government spends directly or controls through price controls.

I would agree that a stress on philosophy in economics would be helpful, but people like Hayek wrote in a philosophical way having seen the societies that adopted ideas of Marx and found even further dysfunction.
I'm happy to see more languages with optional typing.

Prototyping stuff without bothering with types and adding them when your code matures to root out some bugs and make it more futureproof seems to me like the best of both worlds.
Hey man, I'm working on a solution to this! It is annoying to go through a job description and the very last mine is 'Must Have CS Degree.'

You definitely don't need a degree these days. You can check out some folk that are doing great without one: https//www.nocsdegree.com
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It just depends how much you're willing to spend. You could put it in the sun or on a solar system escaping trajectory if you wanted to. Gravitational slingshots can be used to do so with a lower delta-v than naively required.

With reusable spacecraft, the cost could conceivably approach that of the propellants required, making such disposal permanent and cost effective.

That said, we're still not sure we want to get rid of high level nuclear waste; it's potentially a valuable source of fuel if some reactor technologies are developed.
From my limited POV, this seems like collateral damage from overblowing the trivial bug they used to beat the DarkMatter CA over the head.

I didn’t find the arguments of severity convincing then either. But the gist was that they need to be completely consistent and rigorous so it does make sense even if it is a massive inconvenience for people. Again.
I've found this as well. I used to never apply to jobs if I didn't meet every criteria and then I just realised, well what do I have to lose by applying?
Our nuclear reactors are essentially the beta product. There are alternative reactor designs that create much less waste like LFTR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...) and others like TWR that cab consume our existing spent fuel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor).

There are a lot of reasons we predominantly use solid fuel light water reactors, most of them being the decades of sunk costs + commitment inertia that was created by the government investment in the technology... because it was good for the military (submarines, maybe bombs).

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/the-s...

There are some companies trying to address this like Flibe Energy, who is working on LFTR designs (https://flibe-energy.com/) and Terrapower with TWR (http://terrapower.com), of which Bill Gates is Chairman of the board.

Nuclear could be great. We need massive investment in these alternative technologies.
Out of all the problems we're offloading to future generation, this is by far one of the smallest. It's a tiny amount of tightly controlled substance that can be reprocessed further to reduce both its volume and half-life - we know how, just this stupid FUD doesn't let us build the actual reactors to do that.
I have a hope of remembering about:performance. I can bookmark it, and it's there in autocomplete. You can make a link to it in your webpage or in a nice plugin (which, once it gets a couple thousand users, you can sell to an honest businessman for tens of thousands).

Shift-Escape? what? I'm supposed to just randomly press every key combination till something happens?
Imagine this headline 30 years ago: you'd think it was word salad from someone with mania (politically incorrect now but not then).
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Why can't we just use the waste to heat homes? Is there a magic ratio of isolation that allows enough heat but not enough radiation to use at home?
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Both of your points are factually wrong.
Nuclear is much less carbon intensive than fossil fuels but loses to wind and PV, no?

Edit: I misread the graph, the ranges basically overlap, wind might be slightly ahead, solar behind but probably too close to call based on the numbers in that report)

https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-wind-nuclear-amazingly-low...
What's with this gatekeeping attitude?

Big-O notation is a useful tool in a programmer's belt, knowing the math behind it in details is less useful. What's the problem? It's the same thing as not needing to know how an engine works to be able to use a car
The sector exists because people willingly give it money in exchange for services. If you can’t imagine why that’s happening, maybe read up on why people pay for financial services rather than assuming something as stupid as most of financial services not providing benefit to society.
That gives these mechanisms way too much credit. Markets can benefit from a more accurate valuation but ms-response times are not needed for this.

The real reason are competitors. You have an advantage if you have the faster line. In the name of fairness there are lines of the exact same length* in many trade centers precisely for this reason.

There are bots that feign transaction so that others react in a specific way. In the last moment these are canceled again, too late for competitors to still react. This is an example for when you need a faster line.

To suggest this arms race in high frequency trade has a serious economic benefit is ridiculous in my opinion.

* I do literally mean cable length. Yes, they have become that crazy
I'm sorry for the confusion, I should've reviewed my post before submitting - I have edited that section extensively for, hopefully, greater clarity of thought.
Tesla has overheat protection - cabin won’t exceed ~100f
> All types are allowed, except void and callable

Urgh. It baffles me that 10 years after their introduction, anonymous functions (closures) remain useless when assigned to instance properties.

class Foo {
public $var;
}
$foo = new Foo();
$foo->bar = function() { echo "Hello World\n"; };
$foo->bar();
Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method Foo::bar()

Callables work perfectly fine when assigned to standalone variables or array members: e.g. $foo[0](); But they become nonfunctional when assigned to instance properties. I understand that using closures as instance properties would make them hard to distinguish from methods, but blurring that distinction is just so damn useful in JavaScript!
IIRC NSS (/etc/nsswitch.conf etc.) needs dynamic linking for anything beyond the basic files backend. But, again IIRC, musl has never supported NSS anyway so that's kind of a moot point.
Once upon a time someone posted the amount of nuclear waste generated in a person's lifetime assuming 1st world electricity usage. It was like a golfball or apple or something like that. I ran the numbers for volume and multiplied by 7 billion people it came out to be like 1-3 of the worlds largest container ships worth of waste.

That's basically nothing. We can find a place for that.

Edit: I invite anyone who doesn't think that's basically nothing to run numbers for the waste products of other energy sources.
An article titled "GS spending millions to shave millisecconds off stock trades" has nothing to do with HFT?

It isn't at all clear to me buying and selling at an auction even only once a day, let alone once a minute or second would make financial market end user worse off.

Grocery logistics is a terrible analogy for financial markets.
The fly ash from coal is radioactive. But we just blast stuff that in to the atmosphere for all of us to breath. I would rather deal with some irradiated slags.
How much warmer is your city?
So is that constant inflow from the sun at our disposal to use at ever increasing rates?
> take a cue from the biomedical research community and adopt an institutional review board

Some sort of "tech IRB" is absolutely needed. Unfortunately, when this idea was brought up after Facebook's infamous "emotional contagion" experiment - that any kind of human experimentation needs some kind of ethical oversight - the common response was "everybody does A/B testing".

A more practical idea is liability. Let the insurance companies handle the problem with a UL-like certification process that enforces bare minimum standards for data privacy.

> he data they're collecting

[slightly off topic] re: the industry's insatiable thirst for More Data... Negativland recently[1] return to us in our hour of need!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTWD0j4tec4
Remember to toughen up the panels. The goats will find a way to stand on top of them.
Try to guess what these buildings were before they were abandoned
Good idea(s), thanks!
He was right about funding the Trump campaign.
Put it in a sealed container and drop it in an abandoned mine, or even a pool. Keep an armed detail protecting it from getting stolen. There, done.

If you're talking about storing the waste long-term, on the order of "more than any country existed on the planet", then this is a problem only because the irrational fear of nuclear doesn't let us build reactors that could further reprocess the fuel.

(And if civilization collapsed now, then all you have to do is to burn the paper maps on which the storage location is marked, and nobody will find the waste before it decays to background radiation levels. If we fuck up civilization now, then the few remaining survivors will be stuck for a couple thousand years with medieval-era technology on a thoroughly broken planet. It's extremely unlikely someone would stumble upon the ruins radioactive waste storage plant. The planet is very large, the amount of nuclear waste is ridiculously tiny.)
That and safety/containment in the event of a mishap.

I should add also that generally it's not the super high activity waste like the fuel rods or the low activity waste million years half-life stuff that makes things problematic but rather the heaps of intermediate activity waste that's active enough to require special equipment and procedures, too irregular to easily streamline, too long lived to just wait out and too voluminous to just stick it in a very secure container container somewhere. For that, a deep geological repository is mihc safer, simpler and cheaper.
It is certainly subjective, but i am one of those developers who dislike inference in languages where it has them and prefer explicit typing out types - in fact i also go as far as to avoid type aliases (e.g. i prefer something like "const std::vector<some_template<some_foo>>" to "a_foo_vector" typedef for the former).

The reason is that i want to know "on site" what exactly is going on when reading and debugging code, especially outside a "smart" IDE, like when diffing changes via the command line, a web-based VCS frontend or some code review tool - especially since these tend to not show the entire code, meaning i need to switch back and forth. But even with an IDE that can show me the inferred types, it is almost always (while i say "almost always" i really mean "always" since i haven't seen any other, but there might be some IDE i haven't tried) done through some popup under the mouse cursor, meaning it is transient and slow.

For similar reasons i dislike features like operator overloading, placing non-self-initializing logic in constructors (and the equivalent in destructors), properties for anything that involves complex calculations (unless the language uses special syntax for properties that make them stand out when used) especially for getters, i prefer to use names that hint to what the code does (e.g. i'd use something like "get_foo" only if it doesn't do any calculations and give you a precomputed or cached "foo", otherwise i'd use an "action" verb like "calc_foo" or "find_foo" or whatever to hint that there is some calculation going on and isn't just a dumb getter), i avoid exceptions as they create hidden exit points for functions (and if the IDE/editor allows, i use a more visible - like bold red - font for "return" or the language equivalent so that explicit exit points are obvious), etc.

Yeah, these make code more verbose and you need to type more, but IMO the negatives are grossly overwhined against and while the positives way too overlooked.