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> I just don't trust governments or corporations to maintain, inspect, manage and operate nuclear power plants at scale.

What can they be trusted with then?

National defense. Social programs, healthcare systems, tax collection, regulation, various infrastructure & safety matters.

You'd have to abolish nearly all governments on the planet if you applied the standard across the board to their responsibilities and the innumerable ways they can - potentially - severely harm the people of a nation.

Whether Europe, the US, Asia, Latin America, Africa, corporations already provide nearly all of the world's food from start to finish, and are (typically) overseen / regulated by the governments of the world. But they can't be trusted to operate nuclear power plants? That doesn't make sense.

So who else is going to manage the global food supply if not people? (small businesses, large businesses, governments, whatever the case)

They're also charged with overseeing drug regulations around the world, which can easily kill large numbers of people if it's not done correctly. Who should regulate and manufacture drugs if not people? (small businesses, large businesses, governments, whatever the case)

Besides, nuclear power plants as a risk have nothing on good 'ol fashioned war. Would the plan be to take all national defense and all military control responsibilities away from governments? The point being, applied fairly, the actual replacement standard you're suggesting at is anarchy.
Invest in small-scale, distributed breeder reactors. Store waste (the little amount that there is) in old oil wells/mines. Use the resulting power to charge electric vehicles. Use excess power to capture CO2 into artificial gas/diesel/methane to power vehicles that cannot be electricised (planes, rockets, cars far away from civilization).

The solution is right there. People just refuse to take it.

As my Zen teacher used to say: The best time to invest in nuclear is 50 years ago. The second best time to invest in nuclear is today.
Consider that there aren’t really any good guys here. Other manufacturers have done similar things. It’s like doping in sports — usually only the flagrant or stupid cheaters get caught, and the cleanest racers are the ones who got caught last time.

“In May 2016, German transport minister Alexander Dobrindt said that Volkswagen, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Opel and Porsche would all adjust settings that increased emission levels such as nitrogen dioxide in some diesel cars.” — https://www.bbc.com/news/business-36112333
There is the OpenComputers mod https://ocdoc.cil.li/ but that’s Lua.
> Funny how people who think the earth overpopulated always think is other people who are overpopulating it, and not themselves.

I would assume that most of these kinds of folks would be childless?
I have been sent word documents that I’ve been totally unable to read.

I’ve never been sent a markdown file that I haven’t been able to read.

I’ve been sent a PDF that looks correct, but I’m not able to easily edit. I’ve never been sent a markdown file that I’ve been unable to edit.

For a document format to be able to be widespread it needs to be interoperable and work on all systems. Markdown is popular because plain text works everywhere.

I’m not convinced that markdown is the ultimate format, but it has more good properties than most other available formats.
Wireguard and the usual tools for file search and retrieval works fine.

Do we need all that comes with IPFS? Not just technically, but the user training and pivot of technical doers?

So many of these projects feel like programmer vanity projects, there’s really little difference between them and a guy on the corner telling me why Protestants are wrong, join his flock.

That it’s a technical project not entirely ephemeral nonsense doesn’t matter; solutions exist already we just don’t implement that way.
How to keep the O3 goodness without pessimizations: Use likely/unlikely liberally, unreachable(), and PGO.

If the code slows down, it's usually because the compiler has generated a bunch of code because it doesn't know what hot path to schedule for.

They will generate hundreds to thousands of instructions for factorial if you let them because it turns it into a loop, then vectorizes the loop.

Undefined Behaviour pub quiz question in there ^^
I mean, imagine Apple making iOS users less opaque to advertisers so that consumers can finally get what they want — more footing for FB and Google to deliver relevant, exciting ads, just when you need them.
> But the authors writing down their best guess of the importance of their results helps others judge the minimum importance of the results, and decide whether they want to read the paper in the first place.

In many cases it will be unlikely that the authors even know the importance of the results. Forcing them to come up with an explanation would be useless at best, and an unbearable burden at worst (e.g., when a student has proved a theorem proposed by his advisor).

There are mathematical reviews, where mathematicians with a higher-level view on the field point to particular papers and explain their importance. Also, many journals have an editorial column that explains the papers on each issue.
The Takoma Park station of the Washington Metro system has or anyway had such lockers, but very few.
Fertility rate is already decreasing fast, worldwide. The environment problem today is due to the carbon footprint of the rich, not of the majority.
That's exactly it. All of our decarbonization plans rest on electrifying everything. Even many chemical feedstocks, like hydrogen for ammonia fertilizer, will be produced through electricity.

> Clean electricity is the plate at the decarbonization BBQ. Everything else gets loaded onto it. Without clean electricity, things get messy.

- Costa Samaras
I honestly don't buy into the nuclear proliferation objection to fission power for several reasons:

1. Uranium is abundant. There are parts of the US you can walk around and pick up rocks that contain Uranium compounds that can be extracted without anything complicated;

2. Enriching uranium is relatively trivial. You basically need the ability to make UF6 and to make and operate centrifuges. That's it. This is 80+ year old tech; and

3. The design of an atomic bomb as was dropped on Hiroshima is likewise "primitive" and easily reproducible.

There is really no substantial barrier-to-entry to nuclear weapons. The only thing that's missing now is the political will.

The biggest factor in nuclear proliferation is nation-states seeking to guarantee their future existence (ie North Korea, Iran). Foreign policy by the dominant developed powers is far more significant than any imagined or real technological or industrial barrier.
On the contrary, remote places are some of the best served by solar and wind because shipping fuels is expensive.
People who claim the world is overpopulated probably live in a big city and never really travelled the world. Because there are vast remote places thousands of miles across without anyone living. I believe the world can easily hold 100 billion people without issues.
And besides, downscaling the world is not an option. Every organic structure needs to expand indefinitely. The only reason you would have decrease in population is world scale war. Sure we don't need that.
And let's not forget political hurdles. In my Canadian province of Québec we are trying to sell our hydroelectricity for some time now and one of the major hurdles were disinformation campaigns by energy companies and their lobbying of politicians (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-hydro-quebe...). Fortunately things are starting to turn around: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/hydro-quebec-new-yor...
It doesn't cost 2x. Yes you go from two apps to one, but that one app is more complex than either of the original two.
Hackernews, the new antivax central. This tinfoil hat forum needs exposure on reddit.
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The newer types of reactors - gen 3 are way safer than a Chernobyl. I.e. a meltdown could not happen
The Chernobyl exclusion zone, terrible as it is, doesn’t hold a candle to the realities of climate change.

Geological repositories are the solution for long term storage. They are not only technologically feasible, but actually constructed and waiting for use.

Ignoring the solution is not the same as there being no solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
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>Johannes says:

>The whole story is even worse. Despite the fact that they have no added value over normal tests, the Biden administration signed a deal over 232 million USD for just 8.5 milion tests (nearly 30 USD each), giving the product legitimacy, and then later on the company had to recall basically all tests ever made due to false positives.

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Note that the system requirements are way out of the league of the average home user (32GB RAM, 8 cores, several TB disk space). Plus, if the chain is growing at 38GB/day (as the Filecoin website suggests), that’s a traffic average of 3.8Mbit/s 24 hours a day.
This is mine: https://publish.obsidian.md/davidgasquez

Recently moved to Obsidian.md and couldn't be happier!
I know exactly one family that lives off the grid. I also know exactly one family that lives entirely on solar panels and batteries.

It shouldn't be a surprise that they are the same family, solar is really the only electricity generation solution that scales down nicely for remote places.

Solar fails at high power density applications, like airplanes, not remote ones. I suppose it also fails at "remote and north of the arctic circle/south of the antarctic circle" ones, but that's a pretty tiny rounding error of energy usage.
Wow. Haven’t seen this articulated in writing recently (maybe ever) but it is real because I hear it from senior mgmt. at my firm - “you can’t rotate to this position or try this other thing because you are very valuable where you are. Happens to many employees.
This is the reason I switched from Roam Research to obsidian.

If Roam goes bust, so does my data. If Obsidian goes bust, I'll just have a bunch of markdown files I can import elsewhere.

Not to mention Obsidian seems to try to add as few weird syntax as possible
The vast majority of people who want to pull a television out of the box, log into netflix, and watch their shows.

For them, technology is a means to an end. Nothing more.
1/ UF6 is not a necessary byproduct (only if you go through gaseous diffusion or centrifugal separation). Laser-based enrichment methods are, while not industry ready yet, very efficient. If we had more research and weren't forced to sleep on it for years, we could have made more progress.

2. We do. It's called breeder reactors (The Phenix and Superphenix projects in France for example, were used for research, produced energy, and were closed because of political maneuvres). As for the rest... Burying is legitimately the best option. 150 years of nuclear waste (planning for future use) can easily be buried in underground complexes, with the ability to pull things out should research advance.

3. Modern reactors designs need active energy input to keep the reaction going. Said input it decoupled from the reactor itself, preventing things from going wild. Your only example is Chernobyl 40 years ago, as the USSR were swaying their dicks around and trying to show who has the biggest. And before anything, no, Fukushima is not a disaster. Yes, people were evacuated (as a matter of safety), but as it stands, you get more radiation taking a flight than being next to it.

4. Cool, that's why countries don't give that up to governments. Taking France as example, the ASN is a fully independent entity. They have the ability to unilaterally shut down reactors at the most minimal event, and every single event is listed for everyone to see. They are the very reason our EPR is taking a super long time to build, because of the insane security requirements.
I love the idea of IPFS but the last 2 times I tried using it, it simply didnt work. There was no "there" there. The simplest use cases like "I want file X from the ether, make it happen" like you could do with torrents -- nothing ever happened.

I read the docs and tutorials but no luck. Felt like docs were missing some special incantation or setup step, or precondition. Or the CLI wasnt giving me feedback on some blocking error, and it was failing silently. Dunno. Gave up. Hope to revisit some day. Because in theory it would be useful tech to have in my toolbox.
This feels like the argument about weather the self-driving car should hit two grandmas or the guy in the car. The discussion is not productive, because the answer that saves the most people is to get self-driving cars on the streets as soon as possible.

As for the answer to your question, just go for best wellbeing for the individual. Happier, healthier, less obese, fitter, non-smoking people are also a net benefit to society.

Assuming the technology works at all.
From what I can tell from a quick google search, China has over 1000 coal plants, and is building almost 200 more [2]. The fact that China is building 15 nuclear plants instead of 150 feels like they're only dipping their toes into nuclear, not fully adopting it.

And it looks like the US has about 50 nuclear plants, with only 2 more under construction [3], so they're doing better than us, but that's a low bar.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/859266/number-of-coal-po...
[2] https://www.canadianenergycentre.ca/commentary-china-is-buil...
[3] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=207&t=3
did your own research huh? was facebook one of the tools you used?
It really depends on where you're at and who you're with.

In the US, I remember the insurrections following the trials related to Rodney King, the Branch Dividans being burned to death, and the milita movement blowing up an FBI building (among many other kinds of things).

That doesn't touch the reworking of former areas of the USSR, the first gulf war, and the various issues with asian economies.

I was in high school; it's much easier for me to think that the feelings of stability I felt at the time came from my parent's professional success and the various booms in markets that they were able to capitalize on rather than some more systematic stability...
You mean the Czech Republics dial up prefix?
You say the Chernobyl failure mode is "huge", but I would argue the opposite. If you compare the number of deaths across types of energy, nuclear is only slightly higher than solar/wind (about 2x) but when compared to deaths due to fossil fuel it's effectively zero. The big picture must be kept in mind. The other thing to note is that nuclear reactor design has improved a lot since Chernobyl, so it's not honest to say that the probability of that incident occurring again hasn't declined substantially. You can also build the plant far away from cities and send the power via lines fairly efficiently, if you must reduce an extremely small risk to a zero risk situation.
Matter and why big tech signed up to follow the upcoming IoT standard
It's missing the fact that central banks don't create money:

> A major reason for the increases is that central bankers around the world — including those at the Federal Reserve — sought to compensate for Covid-19 lockdowns with dramatic monetary inflation. As a result, nearly $4 trillion in newly printed dollars, euros, and yen found their way from central banks into the coffers of global financial institutions.

Central banks create reserves, which are only good in the inter-bank system, and never enter general circulation. Money is created by private banks via credit. See Roche:

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625

And no, reserves don't determine credit creation. The 'money multiplier' hasn't been true for several decades:

* https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/page1-econ/2021...?
Isn’t that true for many drugs?
> Given that (unlike foreing languages) math can be explained WITHOUT having to teach a new notation, then why don't we do it?

Can you explain, say, orbital mechanics, without math notation? In a way where someone can determine where a satellite will be at a particular time given its position and velocity at a prior time taking into account disturbances to the ideal orbit caused by the Moon and Sun (we'll stick with just those 2 and pretend the Earth itself is a perfect sphere).

I don't mean explain in a pop-sci sense. That's actually feasible with very little math (though you will probably want some diagrams), I mean explain in a way that the audience can then apply this math-but-not-in-math-notation to solve real world problems.
There is also the fact that the "small, cheap" nuclear reactor has never really happened in a commercial context. I have literally heard about those since my childhood and one has actually yet to happen.

The current very large nuclear plants are expensive to build (the ones that have opened on time and on budget are the exception, not the rule).
The older I get the more I feel that the point of living is experience, not meaning.

The stories we make up inside our fish bowls most likely have very little to do with reality.
Large shared state is basically always the answer. You can cop-out and say use a database or Redis if that’s fast enough but that’s just making someone else use many threads with shared memory.
This is something I’ve been experiencing in my quest to switch from IT to SWE.

Entry level jobs are for new grads, and absolutely nobody cares about personal projects or professional experience that doesn’t have “software engineer” in the job title.
Is the productivity you see, quality? I see stationariness in higher level problem solving. Code does get written, but the fundamental goals you are all trying to solve are very hard to communicate and progress on, with this type of worker. Their busyness makes it hard to get attention focused to where it needs to be.

For me, I see busy teams that are nevertheless underperforming.
> Here, the Kwakwaka'wakw People built monumental rock walls, large enough to be seen from space

I can see a sidewalk from space by opening Google Earth. I propose we kill that expression.

The BBC also neglect to mention imminent climactic changes and the effect warming will have on local fish; rather important context looking forward.
Define “better”.

There are a plethora of alternate ways to represent knowledge. Each has its own set of trade-offs. Which do you prioritize?

Ease of editing
Interoperability/readability in multiple systems
Expressive styling
Optimized for configurations
Optimized for readable text
Etcetera

Fill out that list, stack rank it and tell us which format is better.
Ask HN: Have you noticed the increase of spamming on YouTube?
this is concerning.

but also a sanity check (my own). it could be that i am being targeted... which is a tad bit less concerning.

lately, spamming has increased on YouTube. and i see them in replies to comments. most have a nsfw character to them.

it concerns me because it brought back memories of them taking over Google+. imagine those cooking recipes communities on Google+ filled with nsfw spams. that's how the last days of Google+ were like for me.

spamming is what took down Google+ in my opinion.

have you noticed them on (premium/free) YouTube?
Maybe, but they make people feel a little better and cause no lasting harm in small doses, so why not?
I guess it would be hard to do chess-by-mail via Amazon warehouses/shipping. And I can't order a bank statement from Amazon.
Why is inmoral? It's just population orderly control, and it will at some point just get constant so wealth will be limited to that constant and it will not grow anymore, economy doesn't need to grow to improve human welfare.

It's completely sane to think and discuss how we can in someway "delete" population.
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Yeah, there were several manufacturers who produced soundcards that basically offered two channels of sound, but where elements creating sound on-screen could be positioned as in a 3-dimensional world. I had a Packard Bell with an A3D[1] card, and I remember being fascinated by the demos they supplied.

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureal_Semiconductor#A3D
Right now, usually 2-6hours of nameplate capacity. This is all that's really needed to meet the evening and morning parts of the duck curve, particularly since most grids have hydro and wind as well.

However, if there's need for more, then the storage side could be expanded. Personally, I'd like to see a ton more expansion of solar and storage behind the meter, at people's homes and at industrial and commercial sites, so that we can reduce the need for transmission and distribution. The US stats for electricity costs are something like $0.13/kWh on average, with $0.05 of that from generation costs and $0.08 from T&D. Even if installation costs are slightly higher at smaller, more distributed sites, T&D isn't cheap either. And having more distributed generation and storage as the potential to greatly increase reliability, particularly after natural disasters.
Approximately:

"It's funny to be criticizing user freedom and lock-in issues with other programs, above a link to buy your stuff from an app store."
Hackernews is quick at banning exposing tinfoil hat antivaxxers among its ranks. Whats the matter? Worried you’d be outed as a loonie forum?
> 1 We have no long term solution for the storage and disposal of enrichment byproducts. There is reprocessing but the results are simply less toxic (eg UF6 -> UF4) and are, to date, expensive;

We have no long term solution for the storage and disposal of coal mining waste.

> 2. We have no long term solution on the storage and disposal of fission waste products;

We don't even have a short term solution to the storage and disposal of combustion waste products.

> 3. The failure modes are huge. Most notably, the Cheernobyl Absolute Exclusion Zone stands at 1000 square miles 35 years after the fact; and

The failure modes of hydrocarbon based power are huge. Most notably cooking the entire planet, which stands at 197,000,000 square miles.

> 4. This it he big one for me: I just don't trust governments or corporations to maintain, inspect, manage and operate nuclear power plants at scale.

The US government and corporations have managed all of the nuclear reactors in the US so far without any significant failures (3 Mile Island is not significant).
And how did DRM get in the way of that?
What are you all doing to allow those of us that don’t want to be a part of your utopia to opt out?
There is also the issue of negotiating a contract and then trying to unilaterally override it.

Remember the executive order was for OSHA to study this and then come up with a ruling, and that hasn't even happened yet, let alone the inevitable court challenges once OSHA comes up with a new policy.

So action now means that the employer is just acting unilaterally, without any actual OSHA requirements, trying to amend a union contract - instead of waiting for the OSHA ruling to come out. That's not a particularly strong position to be in. If you are in a rush, then reach out to the union and ask them what it would take to agree to a modification of the contract. Unions will bargain with you if you bother bargaining with them instead of trying to impose mandates.

Now unions only cover a small share of employment, but they tend to be bigger in the healthcare sector, and in the current environment workers have a lot of options.
So they're helping bacteria gain function eating metal? Oh, this can't possibly end poorly.