skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is flooding a problem for nuclear waste? It's hard to imagine it being stored in a way that it could contaminate water.

Schacht Asse II was never a sound choice for waste storage because of several incidents of water ingress even during the time it was an active salt mine. Water ingress became worse after the facility was reused to dump low and medium level waste into it. This wasn't some orderly storage either. Drums of waste were unloaded into caverns by dozers and then closed off with salt. It was accepted that drums would crack open right there and then.

Saltwater is highly corrosive and it will eat these drums in short order. Waste immobilized with concrete will also not resist for long. The current plan is to extract the waste out of this mine again before it floods and widespread nuclear contamination will result. This cock-up will cost the German tax payer an estimated 4 to 6 billion EUR.
The parents are informed if there are lice in school. So then you check your kids hair more often and by special shampoo for it. The information about lice is accompaigned by ask to do exactly that - check kids hair and if they are found work to get rid of it.

The result is that not everyone goes through live, only few unlucky kids do. Basically, it prevents spread. The lice themselves keep existing, cause spread is not zero.
Are you talking about `time.Duration`? Because you can definitely do that.
I can (and did) also think that, but that's not relevant here.
Capital is insanely cheap right now, and trying to get a good return on your investment is not easy.

Yes, you could be a silent partner in a business.... but you likely won't get great returns, and you risk losing it all of the company goes under.
Taiwan already officially considers itself an independent country, and maintains a large, sophisticated military for the purpose of defending this status.
You can still make bombs https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html#myth3
God forbid Germany exports its nuclear waste.
Luckily we soon have Facebook's Supreme Court deciding whom to censor or not. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/inside-t...
Yed has been serving me for almost 15 years.

I think yed's layout algo's are the best in the industry. Also, the extensibility is great (even in the free versions).
> When you have dynamic pricing, variable supply works out, as nobody is obligated to produce any fixed amount of power.

No, thats not really how it works out.

Baseload should actually be called baseload demand. The idea of baseload demand, is that there is some minimum level of electricity, that will always be demanded, almost no matter how high prices go.

Or, in other words, there is some about electricity demand is very inelastic.

So no, you can't just increase electricity costs. Because then electricity costs will massively spike, and cause huge amounts of problems.

You are massively underestimating the amount of problems and costs that it would put in people for demand to be as elastic as you want it to be.

It would be way cheaper and better for everyone, if there was simply enough baseload supply to meet the baseload demand.
Regardless of US public opinion, if an invasion starts then the US Navy will likely get involved. It might be very limited to start, but inevitably there will be an incident with significant US casualties. And then we'll retaliate and the conflict will escalate.
*VPS
>> The main issue with nuclear power in Europe has always been the storage of nuclear waste, for which many countries still don't have a long-term solution.

Sold problem for decades. This is an economical question. Can we store nuclear waste in reliable manner for a long time that we can afford when operating a nuclear power plant.

Yes we can. Case closed.
It's unrealistic. Policy based on everyone living in Neverland doesn't work.
We have a mechanism for this. It’s defining protected classes. I don’t see an argument for putting Maduro’s speech into a protected class.
Amazon is the company that knows its drivers are peeing in bottles to meet their quotas[1], but then tweets things like this in response[2]:

> You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us. The truth is that we have over a million incredible employees around the world who are proud of what they do, and have great wages and health care from day one.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2021/03/25/amazon-drivers-pee-bottl...

[2] https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1374911222361956359
> Not even the American government officially recognizes Taiwan as a sovereign nation.

Kinda sorta. The US treats Taiwan as a de facto sovereign nation, but doesn't give it de jure recognition because of the complications caused by the PRC's conditions for diplomatic relations. So focusing on "official recognition" is pretty misleading in this exceedingly weird case.
There's a lot of conflation of US domestic politics with Chinese domestic politics. Xi's comment on TW during his Fujian trip this week:

> “We should focus on promoting integration by means of communication, benefit, and emotions, and have the courage to explore new ways of cross-strait integration and development.”

There's no PRC pressure to make military moves on TW for a while. Not until after 2035, post military modernizations, most of which do not suggest focus on invasion at all. The two sessions trolling of highway / bridge to Taiwan is 15 years away, after which timing and politics is much better for US/PRC since TW silicon shield would have evaporated.

Btw in the article, "implicit ally" links to pre Biden Cato article during dramatic time that Pompeo could grant Taiwan security guarantee. That never happened. Alaska meeting last week reaffirmed "one china" framework, both parties seems to be fine with not dealing with potential TW conflict in next 4-8 years. People need to remember no one, not US/PRC/EU likes TSMC having semi dominance, it's pure happenstance due to bad industrial policy on everyone's part that TW semi could cause this much friction. It's bad for all factions, no one wants to rock the boat until semi moves out of TW... which is happening.
> China forgot about Taiwan, treated it as part of a foreign country and even regarded its people as part of a separate Taiwanese nation. This remained true for almost half a century, from the loss of the island in 1895 until the “rediscovery” of the island by China’s Nationalist government in 1942.

Anecdata: A Taiwanese expat coworker told me that Kai-Shek’s arrival, with the remains of his KMT army, felt much like an invasion to the natives — such as his own parents. This was not because they had CCP sympathies, rather because they felt historically closer to Japan. This despite his family being of Han ethnicity themselves.

A turning point came when a non-KMT candidate won the presidency. If Taiwan’s internal rift continues to heal, Beijing will feel more urgency than ever.
This sounds like "we don't need unions if we mandate unions". Many countries do this, and with success.

The actual only way that capital and workers can have a non-adversarial relationship is if the workers are in control of the capital. Otherwise capital will always be leverage used to extract surplus value from workers. That, on a large scale, is socialism by the way.
Former US Director of cybersecurity: Crypto ransomware ‘running wild’
To add onto this, widespread and cheap is way more effective at generating terror.

The current trend in Kabul are bombs that get stuck onto vehicles by passing motorcyclists using magnets. It’s quite terrifying, since the ease essentially allows terrorists to enact a widespread campaign against civil service and civil society. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/world/asia/afghanistan-ma...
I don't think a lot of people in this thread seem to understand the gravity of what this would mean (perhaps because many here didn't live through the Cold War), but this would not be Crimea all over again - it would be a standoff between two nuclear armed powers.

The US at one time (up until 1980) actually had an explicit mutual defense pact with Taiwan, guaranteeing that either would go to war if the other were attacked. The policy since then has been 'deliberate ambiguity' [1] but it's generally understood that there would be some kind of intervention.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_of_deliberate_ambiguity...
The alarming thing is her thinking that power is required to be able to heckle senators.

Anyone should be able to heckle senators on twittwr! From Mark Zuckerberg to the homeless man in the nearby park!
>> iching to go prompt critical

Are you kidding? What kind of nuclear waste has even the remote possibility to go critical that is produced by a VVER reactor that is pretty common?
My bad but that's the impression I have had from international media. Russian forces didn't face any significant resitance and the local russian speaking population wasn't too keen on continuing with Ukraine. Happy to hear from a crimean what really went down.
Counter point. We must learn how to responsibly manage extremely dangerous materials and technologies. It is the only way we can avoid inevitable extinction at our own hands as technology advances. Atomic weapons are no longer the only existential threat we are capable of wielding, we are rapidly approaching the ability to engineer de novo viruses and eventually self replicating cells. We already possess the means to create autonomous weapons systems and are improving upon them daily. As access to space becomes commercialized it will become increasingly trivial to deliver un-interceptable payloads to anywhere on earth and they needn't be explosive since a large enough mass travelling fast enough is more than capable of demolishing any building. Extrapolate further into the future and if we master high enough energy density batteries or capacitors then we start having to worry about directed energy weapons, imagine a hand held device capable of generating an instantaneous lethal dose of X-rays. I'm sure we're also capable of thinking up a long list of even more deadly weapons let alone beneficial technologies that could be mishandled. We can't turn back to a simpler time, we have to take the bull by the horns.
In the meantime in Google we do have dev and SRE... And for bits in scope of SOX a separate Release Engineering org. Go figure.
You should check it out, because its actually the other way around. Framer is basically React you can tinker with and use actual React components, it just happens to have a great UI on top that makes designing with no code seamless, and whatever you design is React behind the scenes.

Page builders in my experience aren't efficient to design, this on the other hand makes designing easier (as I have access to interactive components, real client data, etc).
From the same article:

"Dispatchable generation refers to sources of electricity that can be dispatched on demand at the request of power grid operators, according to market needs. Dispatchable generators can adjust their power output according to an order.[1] Non-dispatchable renewable energy sources such as wind power and solar photovoltaic (PV) power cannot be controlled by operators."

https://www.nmppenergy.org/feature/dispatchable%20resources

"Dispatchable fuel resources include nuclear, coal and natural gas. These fuel sources are highly reliable because each fuel is a constant supply. These are known as baseload resources."

https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-stands-out-a...

"Nuclear stands out as clean, dispatchable firm power, says Kwarteng"

You are confusing dispatchable with flexible.
They already did and it already has. (This isn’t new.)
Please forgive me if I misunderstand the Hong Kong issue, but I thought that it was just the more extreme people who support Hong Kong independence, and the main purpose of the protest was the "five demands, not one less?" I found this on Wikipedia:

> Reuters conducted polls in December 2019,[617] March 2020,[618] June 2020[619] and August 2020. The last poll showed that an increasing number of Hongkongers support the pro-democracy goals since the national security law was implemented. More than half of the respondents opposed the national security law. 70% wanted an independent commission of inquiry that looked into how the police handled the protests. 63% wanted universal suffrage. The support for amnesty of all arrested protesters rose to 50%. More than half of people still wanted Carrie Lam to resign. The number of people who opposed the pro-democracy demands went down to 19%. The majority (60%) still opposed Hong Kong independence, 20% supported the idea.[620]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_prot...
I trade volatility for a living. I scrutinize the smallest changes in rates. Of course bad mortgages are not great, however in dollar scale vs. The corporate bond market, they are meaninglessly insignificant. The cdos they are baked into being bought at leverage (again due to low rates) is the problem.
If you care at all about getting people to _use_ your language (which you might not, as with Haskell's "Avoid popularity at all costs" slogan) then I don't think this is good advice.

Both Forth and Lisp have seen less adoption than their aficionados think they deserve as a result of their offputting-to-muggles syntax.

In both cases, arguably the most important merits of the language actually necessitate the unusual syntax. That might mean that Lisp and Forth couldn't have done better with more conventional syntax. If so, what that means isn't that you should after all give minimal attention to the parser; it's that in some cases a syntax that's very simply parseable might be a good one -- but, unless you get very lucky, you will only discover that by thinking deeply about your syntax rather than doing something minimal and hoping it ends up having subtle merits like those of Forth and Lisp.
You need to include the units, else that doesn't make much sense - many physicists use units such that c = 1.

In this case the units (for speed²) you want are m²/s² = J/kg
I’m not educated on this topic at all, but wouldn’t birth rate be more relevant than aging? If this shark lives 400 years but has kids often, it could also go through 900 generations like the mice. Presumably if the environment isn’t favorable then the old members of the species would die off anyway.
CUDA is not as important as Tensorflow, PyTorch and JAX support at this point. Those frameworks are what people code against, so having high quality backends for them are more important than the drivers themselves.
What about Figma to Angular?
Aren't human rights transgressions also easy to determine? Or the harmful lies that Trump slung into the world during his presidency? Facebook is consistent on whom to censor as long as the censored don't hold too much sway over Facebook, like Trump did near the end of his presidency.
How are notification ads even a thing? Showing ads whilst I am trying to use the app is bad enough (particularly these full-screen ones that you can dismiss if you tap the tiny black cross on a grey background that shows up after 10 seconds), but actually interrupting me with a notification when I’m doing something entirely unrelated is a whole other level. I’m glad I never came across one of those.
Interesting how the test score is 80% in the twitter thread and 95% in the article.
OHM is also the acronym for Open Hardware Monitor, a great open-source project for monitoring computer temperatures, fan speeds, voltages, etc: https://openhardwaremonitor.org/
> It has a lot of unwanted side effects

So does literally every other power source. Nuclear is, if anything, among the least bad options in this regard.

> and it just does not scale to solve the problem.

It absolutely does, if we're willing to actually try.

Evidently, we'd rather just keep killing ourselves with coal.
Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy
They mostly live in Southern Taiwan, so I wouldn't be surprised if foreigners (and many Taiwanese natives as well) don't regularly see pro-CCP Taiwanese citizens.
The title copies the second sentence of their readme:

> You can use it to parse custom file formats or quickly build parsers, interpreters, and compilers for programming languages.
I'd rather put my hand in boiling water than develop a compiler in a dynamic weak typed language.
> An organization’s developers need to write the docs, obviously.

The developers need to be involved in writing the docs, but they don't really need to be the ones writing them. Often, it's better if the community that will be reading the docs writes them, so it has the information they'll be looking for (somewhat addressed by a template). Or, a technical writer can write the documentation (with input from the people who are likely to read it as well as the people who have the knowledge, of course), which often results in nice documentation.

As mentioned, a feedback loop and editing documents as they are used is very important. Cataloging interventions and working to reduce them is also important. Sometimes it's the right thing to keep things manual with intervention from the runbook; there are many things where it's easy for a human to determine the scope of an issue and take the appropriate action, but hard to automate. But frequent interventions should be automated away if possible.
In a nuclear rampdown scenario, hopefully it would not come as an overnight surprise. Usually there are plans on a 10 year timescale or more. But I'm not arguing against nuclear, just for dynamic electricity pricing.
It explains why OAuth2 is hard to use and does not solve login, registration, sessions, profile management, mfa, and proposes another solution. It’s all open source! :)
Get yourself a dog and regularly take walks, particularly through greenery (parks perhaps).
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/finding-new-home/201...

Magnesium may help. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16542786/
Inevitably they must die of something. Probably would be human related with no other predators.
Because it is an unequal relationship to begin with. Finding consensus in a 100% worker controlled organization is already a lot of work. We know capital is pretty okay with propagandizing if you look at current unionbusting practices, and they likely have more capital (haa) to do it.
It's good for owners of defense industry companies. For the average citizen it's probably a net loss. The Iraq War alone cost about $6,300 per US citizen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
This claim was made for seven centuries. Claims can be surprisingly durable.
I understand what you are saying about copying someone to learn. I'm just not sure I agree it applies to digital media or bits especially in the exact same context (in response to the same article).
Me too, vol is the only true asset class.

I don’t disagree with what you say. But affordability can only be solved by increasing supply. Everything else is just shuffling the deck.
There are powerful voices working behind the scenes within the US military industrial complex who believe that an eventual conflict with China is inevitable. So they would prefer to provoke that conflict sooner rather than wait for China to grow stronger. (I don't agree with this approach, I'm just pointing out that it is one school of thought.)
The Finder is a bit rubbish though, for FTP. It never quite works like it should and likes to hang the Finder, if not the whole device, quite frequently. Transmit is brilliant, though.
Your face when people figure out that burning coal produces 100x amount nuclear waste than an average nuclear power plant.

Your face #2 when people realise that this nuclear waste goes to the environment unfiltered.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/do-coal-fired-power-sta...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactive-wastes-coal-fired-po...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.ih.gov/20005612/
Hell, I'd bet you could mix it into soft drinks and sell it as "Nuka Cola Quantum" and it'd still be significantly less deadly than coal.
There are so many issues with simply saying 'workers should own 51% of the company'. That statement and causes so many issues in every aspect of how companies are now run an financed, its hard to even imagine what such a regulation would mean or how it would work in practice.

> Short of having mandatory employee ownership unions are the next best thing, and one is far easier in the US.

Again, just saying this is easy but what is the meaning of union in this context? What a union is and what it does has been wildly different thought history, form country to country and form industry to industry.

What are the exact powers of that union mandatory union?

These discussions are always so abstract, union are almost an article of faith for some people.
So contracting with overseas factories with work conditions so poor that they need to have suicide nets is not as evil as what Google does as a search engine?

Did you hear about the most recent debacle in India where Apple factory workers weren't getting paid their $3 USD monthly wages on time?

The fact that this trillion dollar company does this is pure evil.
I find this painful to read. It's always about what Stephen Wolfram has done and how it is realised in Mathematica. If you are a true expert in a field you should have less trouble acknowledging other people's contributions. I missed, for example, the connection with Church numerals or the acknowledgement that substitution is not just defined in Mathematica.
Writing - really have the feeling it helps me to make my thinking clearer + publicly sharing has the extra bonus of kicking off interesting conversations and further projects.

https://curatedcuriosityj.substack.com/
covid crisis is really a wake up call for a lot of people in many countries regarding the efficiency of their administration in moments of crisis.

I've very often told myself during the past months, witnessing (my) french government : we're really fortunate nobody is declaring war to us, because we would be run over in a few days, judging by the time it take for any administration to get things done properly.
>Your reference [1] is pure slander that has debunked point by point countless times during the last two years.

Has it? Post the debunkings then, since there have been so many of them. Although it's simply a list of things Richard Stallman has actually written, in plain language, so I don't know what there would be to debunk.

>[4] Selam G. against her attackers because she is a young person that was not acting in bad faith, but was simply wrong in many things, and she should have the opportunity to realize her fault in the future

OK. I posted that primarily because it contains references to accusations of unwanted sexual misconduct by Richard Stallman, and was the article that touched off the current controversy around him. I suppose I could look for more, if that source is unacceptable to you.

The salient point, in either case, is that a lot of people believe Richard Stallman's behavior is problematic and has done damage to the free software movement. You can single out Selam G, but this isn't all about them, either.
"Who knows... perhaps in a few years we can dump the nuclear waste into space."

Please no. A launch failure with several tons of radioactive dirt as a payload is about as bad as it gets.
I like the traditional approach. Training a brain to solve a problem is all well and good, but with a BakeryScan-like system, you can see why, and change it if necessary. It's engineering, rather than statistics.