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> Fukushima cleanup costs will be between $470 and $660 billion.

Germany's nuclear phase out costs the country $12 billion per year plus 1100 additional deaths due to air pollution:

> https://haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/WP304.pdf

> And, EVEN INCLUDING that, nuclear is about 3x more expensive than solar and wind.

Except you are comparing levelized costs of electrity with the total system costs. Wind and solar need backup and/or storage, nuclear doesn't.

> Nuclear is only competitive with lavish subsidies beyond those it already has.

Nuclear was *never* subsidized in Germany:

> http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/14/080/1408084.pdf (p. 16, answer 27)

> It's about nuclear arsenal maintenance at this point, with decarbonization as an excuse.

It's not. Please compare which countries have nuclear weapons and which have nuclear power. North Korea has nuclear weapons, they don't have nuclear power. South Korea is the opposite.

Anyone who claims that nuclear power is a step towards nuclear weapons has no clue about the history of nuclear technology and has no clue how Uranium and Plutonium for nuclear bombs is made.

Hint: It's not made with BWRs or PWRs, that would be way too inefficient and expensive.
Regarding the access token...

> the server does not have any secrets or passwords to compare with the submitted data, which means that it is implicitly trusted

The access token should be signed right? So it's not implicitly trusted. The server must of course validate the access token using the public key indicated in the token, and of course only accept tokens from trusted providers. Maybe I'm not reading this right.
Samsung's SmartSSD comes with a Xilinx FPGA accelerator that can be used to execute code without having to move data outside the device. And their open source SDK includes domain-specific routines including databases.

See https://xilinx.github.io/Vitis_Libraries/ for details on their software stack.
It's not just governments: one of the (major) banks I deal with supports many types of account -- such as mortgages -- only via their apps, not on the web. I think that's appalling.
Yup, and everyone says nuclear is safe but that's only technologically speaking. The technology is safe, but it's the human and regulatory aspect that has glaring red flags...

This first link here makes me absolutely furious. There's too much to quote from here, but this succinct excerpt touches on loosening safety tests. It goes into more detail in other parts of the article. The post has numerous example of very concerning issues.

> When valves leaked, more leakage was allowed — up to 20 times the original limit. When rampant cracking caused radioactive leaks from steam generator tubing, an easier test of the tubes was devised, so plants could meet standards.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43455859

> The proposal comes as most of the nation’s nuclear power plants, which were designed and built in the 1960s or 1970s, are reaching the end of their original 40- to 50-year operating licenses. Many plant operators have sought licenses to extend the operating life of their plants past the original deadlines, even as experts have warned that aging plants come with heightened concerns about safety.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/climate/nrc-nuclear-inspe...

> The nuclear industry is also pushing the NRC to cut down on safety inspections and rely instead on plants to police themselves. The NRC “is listening” to this advice, the Associated Press reported last month. “Annie Caputo, a former nuclear-energy lobbyist now serving as one of four board members appointed or reappointed by President Donald Trump, told an industry meeting this week that she was ‘open to self-assessments’ by nuclear plant operators, who are proposing that self-reporting by operators take the place of some NRC inspections.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/153465/its-not-just-pork-tru...
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Here is some feedback for Microsoft regarding security, the Azure Sphere security story would be more interesting if C wasn't the only option to actually develop for it.
https://www.arcanus55.com/

Arcanus 55 is the complete personal security stack. Your passwords and private documents are kept safe on a portable encrypted USB drive. A Waterproof Capsule shields your USB from physical damage.
Democracy in the workforce would be giving employees an option to join a union, or not.
> some of which already had issues with flooding

Is flooding a problem for nuclear waste? It's hard to imagine it being stored in a way that it could contaminate water.

Either way, that's a minute detail. A straw man, if you will. Even with the occassional accidents, whether it's kaboom or something more benign, nuclear energy is cleaner than fossil.

Plus, that used fuel will likely be reused in the future. I think having to store a lot of nuclear fuel is a much better problem than having to extract carbon out of the atmosphere, or building difficult to recycle chemical batteries out of scarce resources.
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> A problem you might not notice initially is that CMake has no namespacing. This means it gets littered with pre- or postfixes like ${PROJECT_NAME}

It is 2021, and we still have C++ developers program in a language which lacks namespaces, types and relies heavily on generated variable names.

How did we end up there?
I'm 30 odd and I struggle with all this!

Shiny and new is not necessarily better than easy and works.

UI designers are mad, mad I tell you!
Modern nuclear power plants such as the German Konvoi or modern Russian VVER survive plane crashes. Some German plants even have military defense systems on site.
I hope that in the future we will seriously consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power

Compared to current methods of producing nuclear energy, thorium:

- produces significantly more energy per ton

- produces significantly less waste

- the waste is significantly less dangerous (cools down in x00 years, instead of x0000 years)
You're not wrong, but I honestly think most don't really even understand the difference between power and energy. If you don't understand that, trying to explain base load is an uphill battle.
2 emails in 3 days is too much. This is why we don't want to sign up for things. You spin us some crap about why you need it, and then use it to spam us.
> Of course they are, because they already are compensating them plus contract management overhead on both sides of the contracting arrangements (which are usually made even greater because they have different contractors for different phases of an effort), plus contractor profits.

They have the budget for it, that's sure. But more often than not the municipal workforce is heavily unionized and has paygrades that are below market rates.
This is not true. The most sensible place was intentionally overlooked because one of germanys larges political parties (CSU) has all her voters there, and the next best place (Gorleben) was politically and ideologically fought over for decades until we gave up and said fuck you and everyone, lets just store it where it stands.
Jokes aren't well tolerated on HN to begin with, and that comment seems a lot more obnoxious than funny.
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Natural gas or biogas? Same gas but the first is fossil while the other is made from fermenting sewage and hence renewable
Maybe there’s a dependency that prevents them from using core animation there.

In which case not animating may be the correct response.
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Survivor bias. If it didn’t accidentally draw that shape, it wouldn’t have been shared and we wouldn’t be hearing about it.
I don't think buses and rail systems should be phased out in cities. In every city I've seen, buses and rail carry a lot of people in a much more cleaner and efficient manner.

Most, if not all rail is electric. Buses are transitioning to electric in Europe. Geneva has a very nice battery-less (supercap based) bus fleet which carry a lot of people continuously.

No car based transportation can reach the same density.

Taxi has its uses (speed, precise location, etc.), but is no replacement for mass transportation.
> It's true

No, still completely untrue.

> When you write a file larger than the contiguous available space after its starting point, a file system must break the file

And why would having a 10TB file system force you to write 100GByte files, whereas a 10GB file system would write 100MByte files instead?

Because that's the topic you're responding to... GP said it doesn't matter whether it is a 10GB file system or a 10TB file system, it "gets badly fragmented" when you get to "99% full".
cperciva is the author of spiped and a security expert [0].

But your question about an audit is still a good one! Tarsnap has bug bounties, but the top hit for “spiped security audit” led to a sort of amusing flame war on HN [1].

[0] https://www.tarsnap.com/about.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7539903
> And, EVEN INCLUDING that, nuclear is about 3x more expensive than solar and wind.

Where can I find a source confirming that ?
Personally, I refuse to work for Google no matter how many $100k's or flexibility in role design and department choices they throw at me. This is because "don't be evil" was only an ostensible mission statement that has long since fell by the wayside since it obviously never was a primary value.

Of FAANG, Apple and Netflix aren't nearly as evil as the others.
>you don't know which system or team is responsible for the 'cop reporting' part.

you also don't know if they have any information given regarding possible workflow deviations, or if it was made when they had one workflow and workflow was changed without paying for changing the system. If that were the case it would be an example of shitty management gets people harassed by the police and potentially killed because getting harassed by the police at the wrong moment, or looking like the wrong person, in the wrong country can get you killed.
> Nuclear energy without subsidies is not sustainable at all

And yet we seem to be doing just that here in Finland. The for profit companies operating and building the plants have been trying to get permits to build more (and very likely are going to get another one soon). Even with the "failure" of Olkiluoto 3 they seem to find a way to do it in a profitable enough way that they (2 companies TVO and Fennovoima) want to build more.

There are no subsidies for nuclear power at all in Finland.

Also our permanent spent fuel storage site is almost finished and should hold around 100 years of spent fuel. Though there have been now some talks to not really use it for most fuel as it makes more sense to build breeder reactors and just burn that fuel into much smaller amount. If that happens it will fit much more then 100 year of spent fuel.
Teaching was mentioned and is always great.

Or: You could build an app which does something useful for small businesses who can't afford and need full ERP systems.

Small businesses don't have a good process automation and stuff like "Scanning an document into a directory which triggers a python script which sends an email to someone" is a quick win.

There was a HN post about someone who built a simple invoicing app that she hosted on her own server, in the cloud or "on premise" on a raspberry pi. IIRC it was all open source and she made good money off of it.

To answer your question about creative content, the creative business is tough. It's kind of a winner-takes-all market. I am fairly creative myself and play a music instrument on semi pro level, but the competition is massive and some people have just godlike talent + years of skill honing and outshine everyone else. No one is going to buy your art if they can buy the art of someone who is doing the same thing as you but with better skills. And there's all the stuff about being dependent feom platforms such as youtube or steam who can cancel you or change revenue models... I wish you success, but I won't bet on it. It's about finding a niche and an audience and that takes years of eating the sh*t sandwich.
We should move to breeder reactors. However, there is one unsolved problem: As the fuel is repeatedly refined/recycled, there is a step where it is trivially easy to skim some weapons grade material out of the process.

I think this can be solved with a 100% automated (robotic) facility, that’s completely transparent to outside observers, and where no humans are allowed.

Alternatively, pay people 10x market rate to not steal material from the line.
Science has been changing on this as the research becomes more nuanced for the current pandemic

For example: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8
They said this to Thatcher back in the 80s didn't they?
> Diagrams are one of the only ways I can reason about some things that I cannot otherwise visualize in my head

It’s very similar with me.

When I’m grasping a new concept I spontaneously get a pen and paper and start drawing block diagrams to visual cause/effects, sequence of events/actions etc. Also when I’m trying to recall a concept, I have to draw a block diagram.

Same when I’m explaining it to someone. I have to draw, otherwise I lose my chain of thought within a couple of sentences.
I can't shake the feeling that buying anything with Intel today is like buying already obsolete technology.
Did I get myself too much under influence of advertisement etc. or is it valid to an extent?
My laptop is currently 3 years old so I am looking for a replacement and it seems like there is no point to buy anything right now apart from M1 and AMD is out of stock everywhere. But even latest AMD processors are not that great of an upgrade. So I am left with M1, but I cannot support this company politics and my conclusion is that I am going to stick to my old laptop for a time being...
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Integrity is worth more than money. It's not the cash but the principle. It made the news, so his moral courage clearly had an impact. You can't buy integrity but you can sell it.
You can make your own thorium battery. [0]

[0]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optoelectric_nuclear_battery
It's trivial to fix if you catch it early, and perfectly fine for a tool you run yourself. However if the problem is discovered two years later in production, there will be a forth-and-back until you get at the correct error message, possibly downtime, and if there isn't one you'll be instructing them how to install debug symbols for libX.
As someone that's spent multiple decades living on the command line for almost all my file management... sometimes I still open the GNOME file manager because a GUI makes a select few tasks simpler.

It's all about the right tool for the job. Some people are more comfortable with a GUI for the majority of file management tasks, some people are more comfortable with the CLI for the majority of file management tasks. It's just a bit silly to be a zealot and put yourself through a lot of pain if one of these isn't optimal for whatever you're trying to do.
So basically back to SCSI.
> "His exact words: ...."

what fauci said was true (given tolerance for the natural ambiguity inherent in speech). in most cases, masks have been, and continue to be, primarily a palliative and signaling device, not a mitigation. for healthcare workers, it's actually an augmentative mitigation used with other imperfect mitigations in controlled circumstances to get the best possible outcomes from their use. masks are poorer mitigations in most general circumstances in comparison to the easier alternative that is (context-specific) distancing.

at various points, he's buckled to the prevailing political winds to keep his job, but that particular statement was a moment of lucidity and frankness. it threatened the dominant mediopolitical narrative, so he eventually backed off.
In fact, there id say that the huge majority of oauth flows on the web are used for authentication at this point.
Sites of nuclear accidents can't be remediated. They're essentially lost "forever".
The Cebras prototype was about 0.86 PFLOPS (?) for a whole wafer (1T transistors) so this Intel chip looks like a potential viable competitor at 1PFLOP for only 100B transistors (even if just FP16). I'm sure Intel will want to chase NVidia but Cerebras is also a threat given it already has software support (Tensorflow, Pytorch, etc). Maybe I'm making an unfair comparison but looks Ponte Vecchio would put Intel just above where Cerebras was a couple years ago.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2020/11/cerebras-trillion-tran...
Lets not forget all of the Intel backdoors that were exploited and forced us to use patched hardware with lower performance than what was advertised.
There is a solution to this; the union has become a parasitic entity between the labour pool and the employers right, so you can just legislate their ostensible raison d'être out of existence. That is, enforce fair conditions upon employers at a government level. Then encourage every person to leave their union, because they have no need anymore. Obviously, requires a high integrity government, actual fair enforcement against all parties etc.
Very cool, I like that! I went there once, it's overwhelming how large it is. I was frustrated only EU folks could get a student discount, when here in the states I don't think anyone's threat model is someone faking a student ID to get a discount on entry to a museum.
My personal opinion is that after reaching a certain size of audience, the rules should be different - e.g. Facebook should be required to keep all points of views, even if they disagree with them, as long as they are legal. But until the rules are not changed it is what it is.
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The big problem with recycling spent nuclear fuel is that the required reprocessing is much worse in terms of safety than the nuclear power plants themselves. Lots of lovely, toxic, highly radioactive solutions which are practically iching to go prompt critical and ruin everyone's day. I think the only reprocessing program which managed not to be a safety train wreck is France's, and I half-suspect they might have just been better at covering up because it's so unusual (and in keeping with other aspects of their nuclear program).
huh. I haven't heard of this one. Seems like it's been around a while? Why might I use this compared to something more well known? haproxy doesn't seem to do generic udp, but maybe linux virtual server or something like that?
Yeap. It's entirely possible some angel investor-types and foundations could throw even more coin his way than he turned down. I praise him for his moral courage.
> and ops may be labeled 'devops' because they seek to build automated processes for deployments, rather than manual deploys

Ok, but that just seems like one of those useless definition switcheroos no?

In that world, what has changed from before? When dev and ops were seperate, and dev and ops are still seperate?
Actually - regardless of the performance of this, and perhaps this is orthogonal to their GPU - with the global crunch in chips/GPU, would this be a natural market space for Intel, especially with the new foundry services, to compete? I would imagine there is a lot of business to be had from Nvidia/AMD for GPUs...assuming the mining boom holds up.
The structural mutation described in the study likely happened as “circumstances of their birth”: a gene insertion in the germline genome.

> This study suggests that's not the only way these genetic changes happen

The study says nothing about the transfer mechanism, only that it took place.
It's definitely showing its age & quite shitty in a lot of places, but no argument can be made that it isn't the "standard" :(. If it were showing up to the party right now as a new entry, it'd be laughed out of the room...

[libtool isn't even actively maintained! Like, seriously, I'd guess >90% of packages on any Linux/BSD systems use it in their build and it's essentially abandonware!]
I love the book ‘Back of the Napkin’. He talks about identifying what you are trying to present, and marrying that to the diagram you draw. I’ve used those approaches many times in tech/product descriptions.
If that’s true why would be this obstructionism be there? It does not make any rational sense if we can use nuclear to win us time until we have working fusion and/or wind/sun/etc energy implemented.
You can keep a list of different FTP connections in FileZilla and easily connect to one or the other. That's why I keep using it (although less and less these past few years as FTP isn't really a thing anymore).
Not with Enterprise software they aren't. The vendor contracts (as it's typically written on the vendors paper rather than the customers) have more than enough wiggle room to get out of virtually any scenario. It's only with smaller software companies where you may be able to negotiate these sorts of terms.
>And to find a place where no post worldwar 5 civilization accidentally diggs is up.

This is premised on the idea that some future civilization would dig kilometres deep in some random and remote location and just happen to come across some nuclear waste stored in a space that is no larger than a small house. It's also presumes that future civilizations will have no recollection whatsoever of humanity storing nuclear fuel, and thus take no measures to avoid it.

This seems really unlikely to me. Given that we're faced with the threat of apocalyptic climate change today, it's a risk I'm willing to take.
im worried about something managed to actually replace C, now every platform provides their lowest level sdk in C which is super nice, if you want to do cross platform native dev like games and ui, just using C can get you anywhere, i dont't want it to be like graphics where better tech came out but each vendor uses their own specs (OpenGL everywhere -> Vulkan / Metal / D3d / WebGPU) and makes it impossible to do actual cross-platform dev unless you can put up with some HAL bloat
> There is no easier way to program graphic IMHO.

You might enjoy https://github.com/kragen/bubbleos/blob/master/yeso.

/* Munching squares, generalized to TrueColor. */

#include <yeso.h>

int main()
{
ywin w = yw_open("munching squares", yp_p(1024, 1024), "");

for (int t = 0;; t++) {
ypic fb = yw_frame(w);
for (int y = 0; y < fb.size.y; y++) {
ypix *p = yp_line(fb, y);
for (int x = 0; x < fb.size.x; x++) p[x] = (t & 1023) - ((x ^ y) & 1023);
}

yw_flip(w);
}
}

I think that, in terms of accessibility, these 14 lines of C compare favorably to the 15 instructions (and one assembler directive) in the 31-byte mode-X demo Klappquadrat, for example. Yeso also has Lua and Python bindings, which are somewhat incomplete. I haven't written Pascal bindings for it yet, but feel free.

On the other hand, that won't give you the same kind of satori experience as the bare-metal C64 experience, because Yeso is running on top of some arbitrary stack of software you don't understand, and the C64 VIC (or VGA mode 13h, at least if you're using a real VGA) is really just circuits. Using Yeso won't stop you from feeling that what's behind the library calls is magic.
>while still effectively doing nothing!

So you're saying that to get something done, she should publicly berate the people she will need cooperation from? After all, they are the ones who believed the bullshit the lobby spent millions concocting, they're the ones truly at fault.
Yeah but i can imagine as we scale the hall like that will soon be able to contain only 10 years worth of material. Then 1 year etc...
I tend to think the innately slow compiler is basically a fatal mistake. Rust will never be able to be used for large projects. It's not so obvious now because everything it's used for is tiny.
Well, 56 tons in cold Russia is not AT ALL the same thing as 56 tons in Egypt. Maybe if you wait for winter?