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> The inherit risks are supremely low and the catastrophic failure mode for nuclear plants isn't a nuclear winter, in the absolutely worst case it's a contamination of the area where the plant was built.

Well, not really. While the probability of an accident is indeed low (but not super low by any means, as near misses are often not publicised), the damage/cost of an accident follows a heavy-tailed distribution. As a result the average cost is extremely high.

So high in fact, that there is no market price for it. As a result no nuclear power plant worldwide is insured - the risk is directly born by the society. If we re-distribute the risk to the private sector there would simply be no nuclear power plants.

Regardless if you are pro/contra nuclear - this 'market view' is strong indication that the risk can't be easily dismissed.

Of independent interest: Some studies even conclude that this is one of the rare cases where we observe a distribution without a first moment in real life.
The problem is consumer views of "owning" things. Today if I go buy a new Tesla Model X Long Range, it's got a 400+ mile range. It's a brand new battery that'll be good for a decade.

However, if I go get the battery swapped out, then the "new" unit I get might be a battery that's 5 years old and is down to only 70% max life. Rinse and repeat. I never know what battery I get and it might significantly effect my possible range. But I paid for a brand new battery... so that's not fair.

A bunch of EV companies have looked at this and run into this problem of consumer sentiment. Also the system for swapping batteries needs to be automated and totally bullet proof. It cannot fail to swap a battery, ever. Which is not easy when you're talking about some sort of robot that needs to move a thousand pounds of battery.

Also what do you do with cars of different makes and models? The charging infrastructure is already challenging enough. Would you have a Ford battery swap station, separate from Tesla, separate from Rivian? If not that, you need to get every company AND every make/model of vehicle to be totally standardized.

For battery swaps to be really effective, it needs to be faster than charging - so almost as fast as filling gas. And have just as much range. So it can't be a 100 mile swap, it'd need to be at least 300. Otherwise someone driving slightly longer distance would need to be stopping to change battery every hour. Also it needs to be no more expensive than what consumers already have.

At the end of the day, battery swapping technology makes sense - but not for the average consumer. It's a great solution for fleet vehicles. Typically they are standardized single model of vehicle, the drivers don't care about the battery age (it's not their car), vehicle downtime matters (depending), and they have a central depot. Think about taxis for example, the depot can change the battery between driver shift changes.
Code is at https://github.com/maxfrenzel/SampleVAE

From the Github description:
Deep learning-based tool that allows for various types of new sample generation, as well as sound classification, and searching for similar samples in an existing sample library.

For the comment asking about audio samples, I'm guessing that would be relevant only to the sample generation part of the tool. The rest seems to be more for organizing and finding samples.

There is a Jupyter notebook with examples: https://github.com/maxfrenzel/SampleVAE/blob/master/Examples...
This is both clever and stupid on their part. Clever because they get to scalp without calling it such. Stupid because everyone will see this and lose them whatever goodwill they still have, if any.
If I'm right about this: D-Wave, please fire your marketing team. This is beneath you.

At the very least pay for an actual journalist to put their name to a thing.
Copying my reply downthread to here:

> The vaccine makes the death complications less likely. You might still get Covid after being vaccinated, but you probably won’t get the full vascular infection if you were vaccinated beforehand. That’s all I mean.

I have no idea why this is a topic of debate, no doubt there's some wording error, hooray English. I don't really have anything else to say so I'll leave y'all to it.
It's political. Taxes on carbon pollution are inevitable, but for the time being there is still political blockage because of the power of the cartels.
Whatever you think of Fauci, he's amazingly well connected in elite circles. To the point he has people making fawning movies about his life and career.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fauci
>What claims? There are so many denominations of protestant Christianity alone that I don't think you could even go so far as to say that "Abrahamic religions make claims." Maybe one specific sect makes a claim.

Creationism is pretty much de rigueur for all Abrahamic religions.

There are others, but that one gives the lie to all of them.
Actually, no they haven't they lost contact with people. People started to be able to find each other when Facebook took off. Remove Facebook and people will suddenly not be able to do that.
What? This infographic is proving the point that nuclear generates a BUNCH of power and a single plant would require vast amounts of renewables to replace it. Did you actually read it before ranting?

> No wind or solar generator can do this and before you say batteries, no battery in existence can power a medium-sized city for more than a few minutes.

This is a silly argument. The only real limiting factor on the capacity of a battery, at this point, is manufacturing capacity. That is changing very quickly as more than a few companies are looking at expanding their battery production capabilities.

Beyond that, grid batteries are good for any grid configuration. Batteries have rapid response to demand surplus and deficits. They are a grid stabilizing technology. Even if we had a 100% coal grid, you'd still want batteries for when the coal plants max out or to smooth out the cooldown time for the coal plants.
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As ever, worth noting that self-hosting maps can be a very viable option.

You can generate OSM-derived vector tiles for the whole world for €15, using tilemaker running on Scaleway bare metal. It'd cost more like ~€100 to run it on AWS but still very doable.

That gives you a big sqlite database file (.mbtiles) to host wherever you want. Use Maplibre, the open-source fork of Mapbox GL, in your app or site.
Plants require dedicated space that cannot be used for anything else. Plants also require security barriers and other obstructions that take up more space.

You could (potentially) put a full solar array, enough to power your house, on your roof right now, and not take up any additional space.
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By... getting vaxed himself? Why aren't the vax campaigns leading with Trump's action – and his repeated verbal endorsement of choosing to get vaxed – to overcome resistance in his followers?

Such over-focus on Trump is a pathological scapegoating to deflect responsibility on the part of both the professional permanent bureacracies, and the current administration.

Trump did awfully, yes. But the mistrust & errors spring from far deeper cultural issues, and repeated failures by the public health officials - in their mixed-messages, manipulative exagerrations, & arbitrary punitive actions. Vax resistance is at some of its highest levels in urban minority communities with no love for Trump.
> It's not a full sized aircraft. 1 small autonomous plane is cheaper than 1 small satellite in general - in almost all respects. The article didn't claim anything beyond this:

From the picture in the article I'm not sure what else to call it other than "full size". Wiki claims it has a ~90 foot wingspan^[1]. Wiki also claims it has an 11 lb payload capacity, so one imagines a practical version of this concept would need to be be substantially larger in order to carry a useful telecom payload.

(A Starlink satellite is a couch-sized slab weighing over 500 lbs, and one can only assume how much of that is telecom equipment, but it's probably a lot more than 11 lbs. So it seems plausible that you'd need on the order of 10 aircraft of this size, or a single much larger and much more expensive aircraft, to equal the throughput of a single Starlink satellite. None of that sounds cheap.)

Being a UAS doesn't necessarily make it cheaper, either. The MQ-1 Predator, a borderline obsolete ~1500 lb airframe pushed by a ~100 hp air-cooled Rotax, seems to cost governments on the order of 10 million dollars to procure. I'm sure there's a lot of pork in there, but it seems far from obvious that relatively exotic UASs like this one can be procured and pressed into production use for, say, two orders of magnitude less than that.

> This is fairly obvious and uninteresting, what is interesting is cost per GB/user/km2, in other words the end result, which is hard for anyone to say with much certainty at this point even with a thorough analysis because nether business has reached scale yet.

Starlink is already a service you can buy and use, subject to whatever "beta" rollout scheme they're using. They still have a long way to go to realize their scale ambitions, but I think their economics are far more settled than other schemes (like this one).

I do agree that cost per user is the interesting number here, but--as above--it seems far from obvious that this UAS scheme can even be competitive with Starlink, let alone cheaper in any reasonable sense.

^[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Zephyr
Here’s something funny about the discourse around distrust of the government. The problem is often framed as a being about the distrust per se: “we want the public to trust the goverment but they don’t. Why is that?” But this provokes the question: how trustworthy is the government, objectively speaking?

At first it might seem like there is a hidden premise: yes, the government is trustworthy. But there’s also another alternative: that’s besides the point.

Are Corn Flakes really healthy? Well that’s not a concern for the marketing department. But it is their concern if people don’t think that Corn Flakes are healthy.

So, the funny part: the discourse around distrust-of-government might betray a manipulative agenda. The talking heads want people to trust the government but they don’t seem concerned with whether or not it is rational to trust the government. But any honest assessment of trust has to compare two things:

1. How much the thing is trusted

2. How trustworthy it is (by some standard)

How rational (1) is is based on how much it differs from (2) -- there is no way to assess trust in a vacuum (without (2)).

The old phrase “manufacture of consent” comes to mind.
That's also utility of the "core catcher" component of some gen III reactor designs, that are specifically made to cool down corium in case of a core meltdown.
For SMR, the risk is mitigated because the reactor isn't sufficiently powerful to melt itself.
Without off screen canvas and threading your UI and logic are all being done in a single thread, causing significant lag problems that every other kind of application has resolved since the 90's. Threading is am essential part of any user facing application, and browsers outside of chrome have continually squandered the ability to put out good quality UI that does intensive background work. Something as simple as a video player in wasm requires at least 1 other thread.
> very hard to lose it even as your body degrades to the point you cannot see.

People bring this up often. As far as I can tell such people are not heavily represented in car crash statistics.
> What's interesting though, is that in reality, <canvas>'s prevalence in the the HTTPArchive isn't so far behind <video> (63rd/70th most popular elements respectively). It's considerably more widely used than many other standard HTML elements.

> Amazing, right? I mean, how could that even be?!

> The short answer is, it's just harder to recognize. A great example of this is maps. As a user, you recognize maps. You know they are common and popular. But what perhaps you don't recognize that it's on a canvas.

I’d posit that the majority of canvases in the wild is tracking and fingerprinting, not something that ends up visible to the user.

Unfortunately, privacy-conscious users are best off blocking canvas by default, like Tor Browser does.
> Because nuclear is the only one with multigenerational risks that can make entire regions inhabitable.

I'm glad to know climate change will be a solved problem for my children.

> Hiding waste is not a viable solution to dealing with it

Why? Is just dropping it in the atmosphere better?

> and you came safely use the land underneath for farming or other uses.

Not really. There are safety margins, noise regulations, concrete platforms, electrical connections, ...

> Not to mention the ecological devastation related to ruining a square mile of land permanently for centuries

They don't remove the foundations either when windmills are done.

> I said solar.

So the energy for which you would require dozens of millions of square mils of surface, a cleaning system to prevent them to lose 30% of their efficiency in a year, whose construction process is incredibly polluant, and that doesn't work for half a year in half of the world? That sounds like a great large-scale solution.
I've had Apple Maps route me to a café that was temporarily closed, while Google Maps knew it was closed, for example

Both Apple and Google rely heavily on the business owners to self-report their hours.

In my company, we have one of our social media people assigned to this task. Each week he has to check all of our locations on both platforms to make sure the hours being displayed are correct.

Usually they are. Sometimes people will report a location closed because they're just mad about customer service, and he has to change it back. Sometimes our hours will change, and after he's changed them on Apple or Google, the hours will mysteriously revert to the old hours a week later.

The problem you encountered is a mindshare problem. Small businesses like cafes, and even some very large businesses, think Google=Internet. So they only update their information on Google.

COVID made this a lot worse because business owners closing their stores either temporarily or permanently don't really care that much about notifying Google or Apple. They have much more important things to worry about.
Can you give me an example of the type of meetup you're attending? Will look for some in my area. Ty!
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"Usually" is a bit of sticky word here. Your usual is not my usual, hence my questioning of it. My experience is US centric, so I'm assuming non-US but non-US is a really big place.
Until Democrats' start supporting it, at least :/
If something is 99.9999999% safe, it's not going to have a catastrophic failure. It will have some rare minor failures, whose effects are mitigated by a cascade of multiple safeguards.

> Our current strategies include finding a secret underground cave

Let's ignore how radioactive minerals are already found in caves.

Just don't ventilate your above-ground cave, and you've got radon gas.
Did you actually read the infographic? It is saying that you'd need a lot of renewable resources to replace a single nuclear plant.
The big problem is what to do when "Be Right" is vague because information is poor and you're dealing with a society where black and white thinking is rampant. Combined with a largely complete lack of understanding of the actual messiness of the scientific method.
This is a great question and I agree with you entirely.

Ultimately, Framing (thematic vs. episodic) is the most important consideration for these articles. It's important for articles to discuss road design, safety initiatives, etc. in order to equip readers with the knowledge necessary to get governments to act.

However, Framing is also the most difficult pattern to detect simply because there are so many different thematic elements you can discuss, and many different ways to say each one. Here are a few examples:

- This is the 3rd pedestrian fatality this year.

- Residents have long complained about people racing down their street.

- Washington St. has had a long lasting problem with weather-related crashes.

- According to the NHTSA, there are X crashes per year related to prescription drug-induced drowsy driving.

- Street width directly correlates with driving speed, which in turn increases the time needed to react and brake.

I'm relying on manually annotated articles (700+ so far) and a custom-trained spaCy model to detect these elements, and the accuracy of that model depends on having enough training data. Since thematic elements are so rare in real-life articles, I'm having a difficult time providing enough training data. Hence why the tool emphasizes the other editorial anti-patterns, for now, but this will change once the Framing reporter gets better.

Anyone have any suggestions for augmenting my training set for thematic elements?
I remain a supporter of democracy but do have serious doubts regarding the ability of the majority of humankind to maintain a sufficient understanding of the increasingly complex world they control.

Large portions of the US population seem to have problems with basic reasoning skills. I'm not sure the school system or western culture is capable of rectifying that anytime soon.
I was surprised by the quality of this one. That said...

Cold starts are a FaaS learning subject but they almost never matter much in practice. What workloads are intermittent and also need extremely low latencies? Usually when I see people worrying about this it is because they have architected their system with call chains and the use case, if it really matters, can be re-architected so that the query result is pre prepared. This is much like search results... Search engines certainly don't process the entire web to service your queries. Instead, they pre-calculate the result for each query and update those results as content CRUD happens.
Wine is only good if the relaxation gained (everybody is different) is greater than the documented carcinogenic effects.

My mom is diabetic. She definitely gets relaxed from it, but I wonder if it she should cut out the "glass a day" thing.
I'm using LineageOS with neither OpenGapps nor MicroG, and can confirm that Aurora works without. There are numerous apps available from Aurora that will not function, of course, and many other inconveniences of varying severity, but it's overall a good experience.
They are not exclusive.
I think all of those are not really true when we are thinking about modern plants that you would build if you were really serious.

If you really go into nuclear today you would try to use something like Terrestrial Energy Molten Salt reactor or something like that.

- Nuclear kills less people, that is worth some tiny risk

- Nuclear waste is actually a resource for the future. You can get things like nuclear batteries, medical isotopes and so on. Not to mention reusing the fuel in next generation reactors.

- Nuclear plants take ages to build because they are big, next generation reactors are 10-20x smaller

- Next generation Nuclear reactors are built underground and have a very strong defense on top. In war time you could reinforce that. That said, for most nation that matters, this is not a huge concern.

> I cannot fathom why nuclear is preferred to a safe, distributed, clean grid of solar panels.

Because its reliable and produces energy even if a vulcano covers the sun and you have a few days without win. It gives you power when and where you need it, no need for a gigantic storage and transmission infrastructure. Maximum reuse of existing infrastructure.

> Maybe one day when humanity is a space faring race we could look to nuclear to support us then, but using nuclear on earth today is a bad decision.

That crazy. Just based on first principle nuclear is the best and most dense energy source. We can use it with 60s tech, and we could do much better today. Why would we only use it in some far future when the technology exists now.
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I think it's also worth pointing out that even with them saying masks aren't effective for the public, there was still a run on masks. I don't have the exact date, but when I looked for n95's at my local hardware store in March 2020, they were all gone and this was definitely before we were told to wear masks. And soon after we started getting stories about hospitals running low on PPE.

I am not saying what the right messaging move was/would have been. But all I do know is that no matter what, masks were going to get run on. I also know that, at least from an American perspective, no matter what the government told people to do, there was going to be a contingent of people that would do the exact opposite because we are a stubborn and distrustful people.
Vercel has the best dev UX in my opinion, everything just "works" the way you expected it the first time, and if not their documentation is very straight forward.
What can be done with index access really blew my mind.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/indexed-acces...
Where I live now isn't very walkable anyway, but I am planning to get a treadmill and electric bicycle.
Interesting. I wasn't aware that safety in Ada had developed to this point. Maybe I'll have to take another look at the language!
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Solar panels aren't all that great at EOL, either. They've got some toxic materials in them and aren't, as yet, easily recyclable. They beat the shit out of fossil fuels as far as the environment goes, but they're hardly without their own problems.
Guess which Fortune 50 company won't make employees get vaccinated?
> “capitalism really only becomes legitimate when the greed of some is for the benefit of the many.”

> “Crypto, though, is about the introduction of scarcity; its payoff is decentralization, at the cost, at least for now, of convenience and speed.”

ergo, crypto is,

- decentralizing the “greed of some” away from centralized tech companies.

- decentralizing the “benefits to many” away from centralized governments.

if this is true, and this will lead the vanguard of the next revolution, then his closing point is that crypto is still in its installation period. and a turning point in ~10 years, and a widespread deployment in ~20 (if we follow the mac and mosaic timelines and shorten them by a bit).

society in 20y has the potential to have ridiculously different distributions of wealth than we can imagine!
It seems like a pretty big problem when the electorate is this misinformed on an issue that's so straightforward, and important.
You can stand up incremental solar panels at a very small scale and go up from there. Solar also requires almost 0 regulatory red tape, something that adds years onto the planning stage of a plant

You get no ROI from nuclear until the plant is active.
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Kamala Harris is on record(last summer) saying she wouldn’t take the vaccine if Trump told her to take it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAjCeMuXR0
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