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> I think the standard response is “but what about a hypothetical future civilization somehow disconnected enough from ours to not know what nuclear waste is who find it and dig it up thinking it’s holy or whatever”

It is not. Why is it one straw man after another in this discussion?

The response is that countries like Germany have already spent a lot of time looking for a suitable place, and haven't found one. At this point it seems likely there isn't one.

If a place is found, by all means, go build nuclear reactors. But sort the waste problem out first. We've already done the "build first, figure the waste problem out later". Many decades later, here we are.
They just follow the laws... but also spend massive amounts of money to bend policymakers in a direction they like. For every "why not just fix xyz?" there is a ton of pressure to keep xyz broken.
The reality is FB has been bought by the pharma/vackz companies and deletes anything contrary to this program however factual it may be.

How about FB worry about itself and we adults will determine what is right and wrong for ourselves? As it always has been?

FB has "moderated" 100% facts and science that I have posted in the past just because the information does not suit the current narrative of fear and destruction.

This is wrong and should motivate you to find other platforms.
Handheld radio would work as a backup.
I think this is sad but true.
Teach others everything you know. Mentor people.
I'm fairly skeptical of cryptocurrency hype personally, but if you want to invest 6 figure sums in a startup company, that's a legal agreement, and you're going to be giving a lot more personal information than that to the entities involved. This is no time to be squeamish about who has a copy of your passport.
"Because on January 5th, the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys weren't considered a threat. That changed on January 6th."

This is not true.

"FBI alert about possible ‘war’ against Congress reached D.C. and Capitol Police on eve of attack, deepening security questions" [1]

"FBI, NYPD told Capitol Police about possibility of violence before riot, senior officials say" [2]

The FBI issued direct warnings to the Capitol Hill police and others, including such language:

"The FBI issued a report from its Norfolk, Va., field office on Jan. 5 that detailed specific calls for violence on Jan. 6, including those that suggested protesters go to the Capitol “ready for war.” [3]

Literally 'ready for war'.

“We did communicate that information in a timely fashion to the Capitol Police and MPD in not one, not two, but three different ways,” (FBI statement) [4]

There's clear evidence that the FBI made a stark warning + assessment and made every attempt to communicate it.

Former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund says that he 'didn't get the memo' but admitted his agency actually did, that he didn't see it himself.

It seems pretty clear that the Capitol Hill police and DC Government were informed of the severe potentiality and should have at least had reinforcements or communication channels open if needed.

It's hard to know what exact actions they could have taken, but at very least having supplementary support at the ready would have been prudent, rather than have to wait hours for DoD etc. to start moving gears.

FYI "True story: the general feeling in my circle of friends "
None of us really believed the Proud Boys were that big of a threat - but 'your friends' opinions (and mine) don't matter really, do they? When the FBI is submitting clear and stark intelligence information, that's what matters. It's not about 'how we felt' it's about the material and actionable information available.

Finally here is the DC Mayor's public statement indicating she doesn't want/need further support, and that they are prepared. Dated Jan 5. [5]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-riot-intelli...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/fbi-nypd-told-capi...

[3] https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/540081-ex-capit...

[4] https://www.rollcall.com/2021/03/03/capitol-police-chief-dis...

[5] https://twitter.com/mayorbowser/status/1346530358674792466?l...
Love it, this is great for teaching purposes.
> What really boggles my physicist brain is how we expect a bunch of volatile solar and wind stitched together with fragile infrastructure and lithium piles to ever become a stable base load alternative. I put my hope on the Engineers knowing better than me :)

I don't work in this field, but I'd have a bunch of basic assumption you could dismantle:

1. We need a solid power grid, anyway, you know, for transporting electricity where it's needed. So shouldn't that stitching be quite solid anyway? Also, at a national level, I'd imagine solar and wind probably have rather solid statistical patterns, and those random factors can be abstracted away to a degree (the whole "what happens when the wind is not blowing?" - kind of hard to have the wind stop blowing all over 300k sqkm, all at once :-) ).

2. Once that power grid is solid, does it matter how small and distributed those solar and wind patches are?

3. I don't think Lithium-Ion is the only/main energy storage tech being investigated/invested in for grid purposes. And why couldn't it become a solid alternative for base load? Are base load-capacity energy storage facilities not competitive with gas/nuclear/coal power plants, factoring in pollution or other risks?
Yes, as far as I remember it was really only in WfW 3.11
Show HN: Scrape any website without code, right from slack
Definitely a good business opportunity here, go for it.
A sauternes or tokaji is just about in its prime at that age.
The issue is not finding a place that's geologically stable now. But finding one that's geologically stable in 850.000 years.

And to find a place where no post worldwar 5 civilization accidentally diggs is up.

And to have a tracking chain where no fuel gets into the wrong hands.

Do you know how germany decided on the position of its long term nuclest storage facilities?

East germany choose the salt mine closest to the west german border.
And in retaliation west germany build theirs right next to it, in the closest saly mine that they had to the east german border.

Nuclear tech is awesome and great, and too dangerous for careless, political, corrupt, humanity to be trusted with.

So I'd rather spend that money on renewables, where the worst thing that can happen is someone hitting you with a PV cell.
The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
Someone please file criminal charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for that. That clearly 'exceeds authorized access'.
The actual answer is that we did improve on nuclear safety, and that all the regulations required to - for example - make sure that power plant designers didn't route all the redundant monitoring and control wiring down the same cableways and stuff them full of highly flammable foam are part of the reason nuclear power has become increasingly unaffordable. This is not some hypothetical example I'm making up, nuclear power plants in the US really did do that with predictable results and apparently the fire safety regulations really are a major cost. The Trump administration tried to fix this by giving more flexibility to designers, but of course that just made it proportionally harder to show the designs were safe and achieved nothing.

Because of this, one common refrain from nuclear proponents on HN is that we should just get rid of all those safety regulations and go back to 70s-era levels of nuclear safety because it's safe enough, which would be like if we'd just accepted planes were unsafe back when accidents were more common and not tried to fix it. It also misses one of the key lessons of airplane safety: this kind of normalization of deviance is a major cause of serious accidents. For every major disaster, there is a chain of less serious incidents where things just didn't happen to align right to cause lots of deaths, until one day they did... and nuclear power has the potential for some really impressive disasters. It also probably wouldn't be enough to make nuclear power viable again; it has a lot of cost problems.
If you're worried about nuclear waste, why not build small nuclear reactors way out in the desert and encase them in concrete for a couple hundred years once you're done with them?
The code performance of Joana Chicau
MATLAB introduced automatic broadcasting of operators over n-dimensional arrays and logical indexing nearly 40 years and it is still the primary learning language for applied mathematicians, engineers, and scientists, and also a popular prototyping language for numerical algorithm developers. And it provides a great interactive REPL with built-in plotting for exploratory data analysis.

Since doing this, the idea and basic syntax has been adopted by GNU Octave, S, R, and now NumPy and Matplotlib, which did it to make it easier for statisticians, engineers, and scientists to adopt Python. Specifically targeting these groups with familiar syntax is exactly why Python is so popular for data science, because data scientists tend to recruited from the hard engineering and science disciplines. It's a lot easier to teach basic programming to someone with a great background in applied math, experimental design, and research methods, than it is to teach all those things to programmers.

This is an area in which languages with operator overloading shine, creating DSLs that mimic the syntax and semantics of other languages. You might have a lot to learn because you're used to == only being defined for scalar data types and arrays only being indexed by natural numbers, but the people the language is designed for are used to broadcasted operators and logical array indexing.
Man has $250K vanish from checking account
take a vacation, it may help you find a purpose
If Warren tweeted that she was going to break up amazon because they were harming consumers and mistreating workers, etc, that would be one thing.

Instead, she is going after amazon as a personal vendetta because she feels 'heckled'. She is explicitly attacking first amendment rights. It's a textbook case of corruption / abuse of power.
If this project can maintain Go's fast compile times and ability to make reliable, concice binaries, those would be two big pluses in areas where Julia is currently weak. That would make this a good choice in projects where those are high priorities.
You’ll have to drag the external disk for your Time Machine backup out of the sidebar. Collapsing the section does not work, unfortunately.
> I don't know why, but this is the funniest thing I've read in a while. I can just imagine the monk explaining COVID to these cows, and just getting a "Moo" in return.

Funny because it's impossible to imagine that situation without the monk looking like Anthony Fauci in a robe? That exact same situation must have happened just about everywhere...
A benchmark with "better c" mode of Dlang would be amazing.
Where is somewhere actually geologically stable long term? Here is a map of seismic areas worldwide

https://www.thoughtco.com/seismic-hazard-maps-of-the-world-1...

Are there other instabilities to take into account? Finally there is also a question as to the political viability of burying waste at a particular location.
> but also spend massive amounts of money to bend policymakers in a direction they like.

Which is, again, made legal by the legislators.

But Warren certainly isn't going to to against her fellow lawmakers and remind the public that letting corporation lobby their ways is a legislative choice. Instead she chose to go after the easy target where she can whine... while still effectively doing nothing!
> burned out

Therapy first, and not from amateurs on the intertubes.
Yes, but compare their CO2 footprints to nuclear. Have you a source that shows Nuclear is better?
I hunted around a while back and got a large range of answers, but nuclear seemed consistent worse. Eg see page 29 of this link.
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...
The animation spins for as long as the backup runs, which for me was about ten minutes an hour.
Find a mountain and shove it in there. Doesn't have to be that hard.
Ah, classic selection bias blinders on. Sure, great benefits for those who have jobs. What about for the people who can't get employed due to the conditions on labor? The young, poor, already jobless? Not so much concern for them, you got yours.
If you're talking nearly 10 years ago, yes I saw that too, but WinSCP has long since improved dramatically.
> Hire one company to write the spec and the product. Hire two others, small firms, one in the problem space (tax, airlines, etc) to check the business requirements and one in the software space to make sure spec/dev/test processes are adequate.

Your projects will never succeed this way, but you’ll have plenty of people to blame for the failures.

Which is why it's already common for government IT projects to use a close variant of this approach, but usually separating out requirement writing to a firm notionally expert at doing that in the problem space instead of having it checked by sich a firm.
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Are you implying we've reached the pinnacle of human rights, and can no longer progress or regress?
> 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.

Nuclear waste isn't a problem. It's actually the best type of waste that exists. It's extremely dense, is solid and any leakage can easily detected.

And the best part of it, 95% of it can be recycled:

> https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...

> Proponents of nuclear power like to pretend the opposition exists merely on the basis of "but what if it goes boom!", so they don't need to face the reality that countries like Germany are sitting on a lot of nuclear waste right now that is just "temporarily" stashed away in various places - some of which already had issues with flooding, like Asse II.

Asse isn't a storage for high-level waste. It contain low-level waste that can also come from hospitals and such. Germany has no storage for high-level waste yet.

Oh, but Germany has a storage for highly toxic chemicals in Herfa-Neurode with already over 3 million tons of waste:

> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untertagedeponie_Herfa-Neurode

Compared to that, Germany has only 11,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste. An amount that fits into a single hall.

Just look at this photograph, it shows all of the French nuclear waste accumulated in decades:

> https://twitter.com/Orano_usa/status/1182662569619795968

Nuclear waste isn't a problem. It never was.
Germany is notably lacking in both deserts and anything reasonably considered "way out".
Yeah but wind and solar on a european power grid can.

A nuclear power plant that's finished in 10 years is not gonna provide you with the baseload to stop climate change.

That's only possible with expanding the existing tech we have.
Ridiculous Arm-chair Concept:

- What if we make a 1 meter wall thick lead / steel container and seal the waste in and leave it? Surely nothing can break it, not even an earthquake. Just make a giant tennis court sized containers and dump stuff in there. We know how to build bridges, surely we can build large containers.

Just want to learn, I am sure this is proposed and would love to know why its a stupid idea.
How to turn online SaaS reviews into headlines
GP here: I’m also ambivalent about autotools. It integrates in well with distro package managers. It’s ridiculously complicated, but at least it handles all the corner cases of cross-compilation, etc.
From a quick glance, it doesn't look like a protocol per se, but a user management system akin to Keycloak. Those solve a slightly different set of problems than OIDC or OAuth
Spore comes to mind.
Cassette History/Trivia: A series of fortunate events
Um, some unemployed rioters and burning cars in France every single weekend would beg to differ with you.
Sweden is nearly done with the environmental review of final storage of spent nuclear fuel. There is still scientific discussion regarding if the containers will last and remain intact for the 10 000 year goal. They hope to have a facility ready by 2030.

https://www.skb.com/future-projects/the-spent-fuel-repositor...
Well, at least once code was committed without being thoroughly reviewed. Clearly FreeBSD’s development process needs some refinement to ensure that the entire code is actually reviewed during a code review.
He really got under your skin didn’t He?

It was a joke my friend.
If World Wars 3, 4, and 5 all occur then I think we can safely say the global population has already been thoroughly irradiated.
That's not how it works :-)

I don't smoke but until they started banning smoking everywhere, plenty of people would sign me up for passive smoking without asking me anything.
It's an emotional response though, like how there are still more people with a parallizing fear of flight that don't have a problem hopping into a car.

Like I said, I'm not justifying being against Nuclear, but explaining the challenge with Nuclear's general acceptance, there is a fear response from people, and it'll need to be curbed and addressed. That fear response is due to the grandiose nature of a Nuclear failure which fossil fuel don't have, even if they kill you slowly and might lead to world ending catastrophies.
I was writing a comment on how hard/impossible it is to get politicians to understand the fundamentals of what makes an electric grid work - then I saw the other comments here and despaired.

It's like all the people who didn't understand grade 7-9 physics conspired to make us all miserable.
One-API focus too much on C++ (SYSCL + Intel own stuff), while OpenCL is all about C.

CUDA is polyglot, with very nice graphical debuggers that can even single step shaders.

Something that the anti-CUDA keep forgeting.
The opinions are by design. By removing flexibility, you can increase uniformity. Instead of having 12 different styles of code, there can be 1. It removes cognitive load, so you can spend your mental energy on solving problems.
> Where is somewhere actually geologically stable long term?

Well, I mean, a lot of the planetary and moon surfaces in thr solar system, compared to Earth. But shipping costs are high.
Speaking as someone who has been writing Android banking software for eight-odd years, requiring SafetyNet attestation is a crock of user-hostile shit so long as the same institution allows random desktop Web browsers access to the same APIs. I have a feeling it was invented for anti-cheat in games but it became a line-item in every security director's checklist because Google offers it.
Now they need to catch up with polyglot CUDA eco-system.
The solution to nuclear waste is to use breeder reactors extensively. Breeder reactors both (1) substantially reduce the radioactivity of nuclear waste, and (2) allow you to get up to 100 times the energy out of the same quantity of initial nuclear fuel.

A lot of the final breeder reactor products are non-transuranic general nuclear fission products (like iodine, caesium, strontium, xenon and barium, etc); and if a radioactive isotope, often with much shorter half-lives. Some of these are even useful in industry.

There are new kinds of reactors, like the Traveling Wave Reactor (TVR) which efficiently use fuel like breeder reactors as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor

There were challenges in the past with breeder reactor design (for example as this article outlines: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jul/30/fast-bre...), but this is an area that there should be a lot more active research in. The long-term benefits of doing so would be immense.
I hope dang is reading this.
95% of land owners don't have creeks running through them

The point is that you have to be as discerning as a homeowner or even more, and this can limit the supply of decent land to own or highlight how impractical it is or how it isnt a solution to anything

Even the other sister replies shifted the goal post, this is a thread about housing supply and people talk about squatting on land in urban environments as a rebuttal to just owning land in the vast expanse of space available, which further reduces the possibility of alleviating the housing supply
After solar and wind take off completely, the reality is that for 99% of people out there, they will be as centralized as nuclear is. Both because of industry consolidation and because of practical realities.
Nuclear fission produces spent fuel. All the spent fuel a plant produces in it’s lifetime fits in the parking lot.

But the fuel is not really spent. It contains vast amounts of energy that can be extracted at a reprocessing plant.

People who want to landfill spent fuel lack credibility. Perhaps they own shares in a uranium mining company?
> So one of the requirements for SOX compliance is that no one person can unilaterally push code to prod. [...] many risk averse companies who want to be certain to be in compliance is dev and ops are kept separate

Here's an example of compliance setting a user back for no real benefit.

I'm in an organization that did this separation before we were forced to put our socks on. What we realized is that only a dev can usefully check a dev. Gating of code into prod needs to be by a dev, and the gating of infra changes needs to be gated by ops people. But that individuals, and the role, are best as combined as dev+ops.

So we implemented the separation, but not by splitting our worked into two separate groups and putting a wall between. We had other teams so we moved the review inter-team. I develop, maintain, and manage my piece of my team's service, but also do release-review for pieces of an entirely separate project that I have no access to other than to read the code.
PostHog[0][1].

- [0]: https://posthog.com

- [1]: https://github.com/posthog/posthog
You would be wrong. I work with guys who used to do SoC design for both Seagate and WD.

This is how WD was able to jump to RiscV so quickly; they didn't have any suppliers they needed to negotiate with, and the market for CortexR style in order, single issue, fully pipelined real time cores is sort of a commodity.
Does every remote rural hamlet have a library? How far is it reasonable to expect someone to travel in order to access this solution?
Well I guess that worked... I was going to buy some but all sold out
Let me share with you one of my favourite pages on Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
I think macOS Finder is limited to read-only FTP access [1] though there are alternatives [2] that mount drives through a variety of protocols.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/network-address-for...

[2]: https://mountainduck.io/
Thanks you, nice link. The opposite side of this is biological immortality. This wiki has a good discussion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality
Is it grade 7-9 physics, though? I learned about power grid structure (base load, etc.) and such at the university.

To the down voters: just because you learn about electricity in secondary school, it doesn't mean that the second or third level effects are obvious and that you immediately understand what their impact on a power grid is. But hey, maybe some people were super interested in power grids or just super gifted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯