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Sellafield is a large site consisting of many facilities [1]. These include Magnox reactors [2] which were historically used to create weapons grade Plutonium and are much "messier" than typical commercial power reactors. The Sellafield site has been and is still home to a very large spent fuel reprocessing plant that handles spent fuel from numerous UK reactors. Reprocessing plants are an entirely different beast. And a lot of the activity at the Sellafield site is generally from older, messier technologies as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnox
I love watching Game Dev channels on Twitch! I hope they get that as a category soon!
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wrong + wrong != right
The problem here is that someone once did some cocktail napkin math with regards to dumping farm waste into the Chesapeake Bay and determined that the ocean is so enormous it was stupid to think some agro-waste would change much about it.

I can't find a source at the moment, my apologies. But suffice to say humans have a knack for considering their needs insignificant when in reality our Spaceship Earth looks ever more fragile the more we learn about it.
Sure, if nuclear ends up cheaper per kWh than solar without backup.
That doesn't even close to solve the problem!

Lithium-ion batteries are still at least $100/kWh (probably more like $300/kWh) and assuming a useful life of 1000 charge/discharge cycles, you're talking between $0.10 and $0.30/kWh just for the STORAGE! That doesn't even take into account the cost of generating the energy to begin with, nor the losses that come with charging and discharging the battery, nor the capital cost on the inverter that absolutely isn't free and definitely doesn't last forever.

Until storage can be had for a few cents per kWh storage is an unsolved problem.

I suspect that it will continue to be an unsolved problem for quite some time. Not because it's impossibly hard, but because getting oil or gas or coal out of the ground is so easy and has such large energy gain (output energy / input energy) that you have to be very clever to beat it.
P.S. I'm not an expert, but this has been in news media in India for a long time.

The reason that China and India are the only countries going after fission is because of a singular element - Thorium. Both India and China have huge reserves of thorium that can be unlocked with molten salt reactors that are unviable anywhere else in the world (including the US, which gave up on this a long time ago[1]). Australia does have large reserves of thorium, but its projected energy needs are dwarfed by India and China's.

China is way ahead than India on this front with more than a billion dollars managed by Jiang Mianheng to conduct research into these new reactors. And which is why India is bending over backwards to sign the India-US Civil Nuclear Energy treaty.

Interestingly, a US company, Thorcon [2], has built a "hackable" MSR - though I dont know if it is any good.

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/02/02/doe-china-molten-salt-nuclear-...
[2] http://fukushimaupdate.com/thorium-molten-salt-reactors-to-g...
I think you misunderstand my point. I'm saying that modern industry produces a vast amount of poisons with an infinite half life, because they're chemical poisons rather than radioactive poisons. And despite the fact that they last essentially forever, we don't worry about things like deep geological repositories, we just construct reasonably contained landfills and toss the stuff in.
I immediately thought it was Boulder when I read this, based on what I know of the Bing office here(Boulder). Seattle would make more sense if there's a mapping team AND Uber already there though.
The separate stdlib one of the easiest parts of Elixir to take for granted but is nonetheless a really nice part about the language. I find Elixir's stdlib to be small and yet it still covers a huge amount of your typical needs when writing Elixir.
> From other documents, it appears that the NSA has the ability to listen to phone calls on French networks. As most of the "targets" use Orange, the historical telecom operator, and that collaboration from Orange with the NSA is unlikely, it would mean that their IT systems are owned.

It's probably much worse than that. France, Germany, and most of the rest of Europe are vassal states of the US through cooperation among intelligence agencies. In other words, France is being sold out not only by Orange and/or employees of Orange, but by their own intelligence services who have a stronger allegiance to their links with Five Eyes intelligence services than to French interests.

This is another reason "everyone does it" doesn't hold water as a justification. The situation is massively asymmetrical.
If so, "that should always be a compile error. Period.” is IMO a poor way to express that idea.

On top of that, the C compilers I know more or less have that, as they give warnings for basically cases where Java (with its stricter rules) would refuse to compile equivalent code, and have a flag that turns warnings into errors.
And the purpose of this is...
So how small a reactor? And what sort of cost, what sort of setup time, what sort of safety constraints (ie, current reactors are generally water-cooled and need access to large bodies of water)? It's possible to trim the cost of reactors from the billions to the millions, maybe, but how many millions?

Certainly, solar with batteries is a lot more expensive - but to my point, startup cost is low. Latency, or bandwidth? The long-term cost/kwh may be higher for solar, but the short-term startup expense will be much lower, unless you can get the factory-built reactors down into the thousands rather than millions of dollars.

If nuclear is cheaper than solar in a decade or two, but costs ten times as much in the short run, there's a tremendous advantage to solar, battery cost or not. Opportunity cost matters tremendously.
The cost will vary significantly from plant to plant - this range is likely due to plant-to-plant variation - not uncertainty in the cost for any single plant. Do you have a citation/reference for that?
I can't speak for ISIS, but al queda absolutely (and frequently) uses that argument when they blow up a mosque full of innocents.
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"40% is owned by foreign governments. Being indebted to foreign countries isn't so bad. It means they have faith in you and are rooting for your success. It supports peace and cooperation."

"As for "rich people" mutual funds and banks own together about $1.5 trillion. A lot of those are pretty average folks. Even then this is only ~%10 of the $18 trillion debt."

Ok so still that's 9 trillion in debt owed to people who get to collect money from the U.S taxpayer. A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money! The annual payment of interest on the debt is 430 billion dollars[1]. So rich people get roughly 43 billion a year totally risk free for doing absolutely nothing courtesy of the tax payer. Meanwhile, in China, whenever the government needs some money they just print it up at the PBOC and hand it out, usually to bail out bad debts to state owned enterprises, but at least they aren't sticking it to the taxpayer like we are.

1.https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/ir/ir_expense.ht...
Nice read. I don't mean to derail the discussion, but I wonder what sort of developers they were looking for when recruiting for the program. When I applied to the US Digital Service, I received a message back - "we are seeking candidates with skills tightly matched to our current projects. Members of our team reviewed your application, and we don't have the perfect match for your background right now". I'm mostly a web developer, so perhaps they were looking for a different background.

I have many of the same thoughts as the author (feel like my dev skills could be used to help some greater causes), but not sure where else I could make an impact. Particularly in government where I have alot of interest.
There is actually a lot we could do in terms of promoting passive solar -- i.e. a lifestyle and design-based approach that uses less energy to get the same results. In a finite world, I really wish passive solar got a lot more attention than it does. There are serious costs involved in burning ever more energy. Passive solar brilliantly sidesteps that inconvenient physics-based fact.
Espionage is standard practice in the world today. So are isolated assassinations, torture, coups, and state sponsorship of terrorism. The United States participated in all of the above.

Domestic citizens in America feel as though their government is 'clean' or 'noble'. This is a myth propelled by Public Affairs, PR and supported by the media (at worst, the media will say, the US made blunders and mistakes).

The United States is in the boxing ring with every other nation. It's a heavyweight.

What's happening right now is that the United States is 'short of breath'. It's overextended. Long term plans haven't worked out. The US is finding itself reacting to other nations rather than keeping them on their toes. It's dropped in its financial, economic, and technological development capabilities. It is having trouble facing challenges brought by new technology. It is losing the support of its closest allies.

It's a difficult time for America. Not everything is decided. It may yet remain a unipolar power.

But to do so it will need to get in and scrap.

The hawks want to scrap. They want to fight for continued supremacy. There are no doves that are serious contenders for president and I don't know if the system would allow a dove to be elected, even if the candidate had majority support from citizens.

In this turbulence, we have to think about what we can do as citizens. The clearest answer is to get quality information and to be informed. Taking the Snowden and Wikileaks documents as a list of things that the US does that are bad is not the best way to read them.

The best way to read these and other documents is to better understand dog-eat-dog realpolitiks of global power games.

No matter whether you want to support the United States in this moment or demand it change course one thing is certain: you must be as educated as possible about the tradeoffs, the current investments, the challenges and the nature of the Great Game. Read across different sources of information and focus not only on domestic news but good foreign policy sources. Talk with neighbors and friends about your and American ideals and how and whether to negotiate and achieve those goals in a world that is 96% non-American.

Wikileaks is a great place to start. The reason for this is not that they have 'the dirt'. It's because they have primary documents. When you read, prioritize information that isn't summarized or filtered.

Muckrack is another great source. Washington Thinktanks another.
Among many other contributions, Greg was one of the brains behind the eXpress Transfer Protocol (XTP), and in my direct experience he was really one of the first experts in "computication". No one I know could integrate so many different aspects of networking theory, physics, computer science (many aspects), and chip technology as well as Greg.
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It is strange that you recognize the bank's right to remedial action in taking your house, but don't appear to apply the same logic to the Greek situation. You even recognize the fact that the bank suffered due to their mistake of giving you money, but you don't see the rest of the EU eating the shit sandwich that is the Greek financial crisis? Your personal story, while interesting, is certainly outside the norm. We don't have debtors' prison, but this sort of thing can have multigenerational consequences.
Sellafield isn't an ordinary nuclear power station. It was part of the UK's nuclear weapons program and contained some of the UK's earliest (maybe the earliest) nuclear reactors.

It's not going to be representative of the decommissioning costs of modern generation II or generation III reactors.
I haven't heard anyone talk about dmoz in a long, long time...
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Isn't it that if you write standard compliant C code, much less compilers come into the picture ;)
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Author here. The point of this work is not only the specific result (lots of VM edge cases, very hard to reverse engineer source of computation), but to promote this general class of 'problem' -- things that are typically not thought to be so complicated actually containing a Turing-complete executionenvironment. Other examples include ELF and DWARF binary files, PDF, etc. etc.

Once you need to evaluate a Turing machine to see what a file (or in my case, a set of page tables) actually means, you loose a lot of tractability.
Geez. At first glance you're just playing word games, but that really made me stop and think. It IS just like privateering.
I think you're right in the confusion of koan and kata, but unfortunately yes, I have seen a lot of that happening lately (perhaps due to greater awareness of the word from recent popularity of CodeWars[0]?). Interestingly I've only seen this mistake in this direction, I have not seen any koans mislabeled as kata.

[0] http://www.codewars.com/about
It takes hard work to make a living at $3/hr, outcompeting American factories.
I don't think taskrabbit do that any more. They've changed their model to focus on certain categories rather than you just posting jobs you want done.
Much of that high cost is because the waste is treated so delicately, while equally deadly non-nuclear waste is treated with much less care.

I imagine there have been a lot of places in your country (as with any industrialized country) that have been horribly contaminated with non-nuclear pollution, then cleaned up. While these events can certainly be used as an argument for taking more care, they're almost never used as an argument to give up on the whole idea of industry.

Nuclear waste is bad, but it doesn't seem to be on the level of "we must lock this up so securely that God Himself cannot access it" as people seem to try for.
Of course, they're very powerful engines. But my goal is to provide true retro graphics, with scanline rendering and raster effects in its core. No other engine can do this because all engines (even the 2D-only ones) try to make use of modern GPU acceleration, that has a very different approach for rendering graphics. Choose what you think it fits more your project.

This thing is about a month old since its first public release
port 25 blocking is just the beginning. In most cases mail sent from a consumer facing ISP (Verizon, AT&T, RCN, etc) will not be accepted if the destination server is implementing SPF mail authorization, which most are these days.
Well if you can pay for a trial even better, the credit card requirement is just another step below that,the next which is a free trial with no card. Whichever they offer is valid because businesses differ. To claim requiring a card for a trial is shady is just one small irrelevant aspect for the vendor.

The card requirement is a great way to filter out the less serious ones, if we miss one exception like yourself, it's no biggie, there's always someone who need the solution and willing to pay for it.

The only reason where I'd be reluctant to do a card trial is if it was difficult to cancel or they didn't offer a refund if I accidentally forget.

Plenty of shady people using fake cards to sign up for trial as well.
If you are running client side code on the server you use a very different definition of client side code than most other people, which is bound to be confusing.
>The sentence is so vague on its own so as to be true for basically any noun which represents an individual, group, or organization that you substitute in for casinos.

Exactly. The statement is irrelevant. Its use as the foundational axiom in the defense of casino's behavior is absurd.

Everything else (striking similarity to Nazi arguments) is bonus.
Yes, but it takes time to make the switch. It isn't like one build AWS over night.
Yeah, sure, it's linked above which is why I didn't reference it:

http://www.nrc.gov/waste/decommissioning/finan-assur.html

Cost does seem quite high right?
I support your plan of talking with people, and setting a goal for interaction is something others could also benefit from. Just a heads up: some people _really_ don't want to talk with anyone, some are busy, and some are just dicks. And that has nothing to do with your conversation skills or person.

I've been there, trying to hold a conversation with someone who's more interested in their iPhone. Sometimes it's OK to just cut your losses and find someone more interesting. (And no need for elaborate exits from conversations. A simple "oh look, free beer" will suffice.)

A tip I read somewhere: find two strangers talking to each other and see if you can enter their conversation. That way you'll help them out, and reduce your own workload by a third compared to talking to someone 1 on 1.
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If only we had some government agency that helped large companies be less vulnerable to industrial espionage, making sure that secrets stayed secret. Encouraging strong encryption, discovering and preventing software bugs, generally promoting computer security. Hmmm... A nation-wide security-focused agency. Maybe we could call it the National Security Agency?
Not meant to be snarky, but why does Mr Altman assume folks care what he's confident about regarding things outside his expertise in software and startups? I genuinely wonder.
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I think the rule is that you can only compare the values for equality, not find out what they actually are. (How one would stumble upon such a restriction is a different matter, but at least it's not a paradoxical setup.)

EDIT: From the horse's mouth (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9801189), I'm wrong.
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Microsoft doesn't have the greatest support for OpenOffice/LibreOffice odt either, although they try (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Differences-between...).

The fact that 90% of the world is using Microsoft's format is certainly relevant for everyday use, but it's orthogonal to the question of whether an open source project can achieve feature parity with a closed source product.

File format compatibility is always hard and I'm not convinced MS does a better job reading odt than LibreOffice does with OOXML. But LibreOffice does have a reasonably comparable feature set, even if the UI is not as attractive.
I had the opposite reaction; TS was "eew, steam" for me.
Yet their stated mission, and the justification (at least to the public) of their funding, is:

>>> We will protect national security interests by adhering to the highest standards of behavior.

So by your own argument they're going beyond their own mission statement to fulfill a secret one in direct contradiction to the American public's wishes. i.e. Not doing what they are supposed to do
I'm currently keeping a list of companies actively using Elixir in production that you mind find useful: https://github.com/doomspork/elixir-companies
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The vast majority of interventions by both the US miliary and the CIA since WWII have been economically motivated, that is, designed to protect US company interests abroad. Those that weren't were politically motivated, that is, designed to protect US political interests domestically.
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Ofcourse Greece has full capital export restrictions so to buy bitcoin one needs pigeons that can fly from Greece to Europe with GPS precision to carry the money.
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Large dictionaries (set of words) can compactly be represented with tries.

For words with similar prefixes and suffixes directed acyclic word graph is a much better option (reuses prefixes and suffixes, not just the prefix as in trie), it's a little bit slower to build but fast to traverse if done right.

Any problem where there's a lot of suffix/prefix reusage benefits from a proper trie implementation (or suffix array/tree as alternative) - ex. lempel-ziv compression.
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Are you sure? That doesn't seem to match with the wording:

> There's no way to read the values from the array, only to set them and compare them for equality

(emphasis mine). That seems to me to mean literally what it says; that you can query two values for equality, but, either way, have no information about what the values are.

EDIT: From the horse's mouth (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9801189), I'm wrong.
I worked in technical risk management for a large market maker in the US. The latency arms race just drove things towards riskier and riskier practices in our systems.

Soft-realtime systems in C++ instead of safer garbage collected runtimes.

Parsing market data on FPGAs or Cell processors instead of in code written with emphasis on safety.

Distributed trading systems that couldn't afford the latency budget to pass everything through centralized risk management, and therefore not taking into account the entire order book before authorizing a trade. Instead a series of compromises and less optimal failsafes.

It also just lead to more expensive practices--communication between threads using spinlocks instead of the normal waking a waiting thread through a system call; basically converting the spreads we could capture into data center waste heat in order to beat out the next guy.

Artificially slowing things down a bit would have just reduced costs and increased safety for everyone.
The article ignores the elephant in the room: the problems he discusses are all more directly a result of too many humans for the closed system planet. Period.
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On what basis? They are not similar in any respect that I can think of.

3D printing has had limited impact for prototyping in the many decades it has been around, and in the expected quarters. That's pretty much what every analysis I've seen except a very few boosters have predicted, for what it's worth.

On the other hand ML has fundamentally changed: document processing, search engines, remote sensing, retail sales, e-commerce, etc. ; It has also strongly impacted areas of logistics and shipping, manufacturing, (e.g. computer vision & robotics), medicine, law enforcement, finance, defense, also etc.

It's also poised to find market advantages in many non-obvious industries as larger scale data becomes available... unclear how far that will extend.

Where's the parallel you see?
Perhaps it will in fact be destroyed one day and maybe a better system will replace it.
At 40% abv, isn't a drink 1.5 oz?

In which case it's 1280 drinks per year which is 3.5 per day.
This has been around since 1998.
> Basically all the data fit in the CPU cache

If Mb is used with its usual meaning here (megabit), that's only 175 kilobyte.
True and I bet that they pay more attention to detail on that but what proportion of googles SE's work on ad words billing.
> LibreOffice does have a reasonably comparable feature set

Pile up all the features Office has but LibreOffice doesn't on one side, pile up all the features that LibreOffice has but Office doesn't on the other. What pile's larger?

It's kind of a pointless argument over whether or not LibreOffice has ENOUGH features; enough features for who? It's a global question with local answers. It's pretty easy to count who has MORE features, though, and Microsoft Office wins there.
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