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Student loans are stupid unless taken for CS or Medicine. Otherwise the military or community college is just fine. Don't follow your passion unless you have a trustfund with >1mm and can pay for college.

It's not that hard, you put 23k/yr total in the roth IRA & Roth 401k in VFIAX. I do not work in the tech industry anymore and am still doing this, just stop eating out, live cheap.

Compound this over 40-45 years and you and I are multimillionares.
What do software engineers do after retirement?
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You've been posting a lot of unsubstantive comments to HN, and not just in this thread. Please don't do that from now on.
Yeah. Because we didn't already have 60+ years of time with actual smart people trying to find a solution.

I am all in for nuclear and much more so for doing ground work and heavily investing in research on nuclear recyclability. But doing the math this will not get as anywhere.

We would non the less need to add 1GW of power to the grid nearly every day to fulfill projected demand over the next generation. So this would mean to add ~1 plant every day somewhere on this planet.

I am not sure on how much nuclear fuel would be needed to even do this. Then estimate the costs - and the amount of storage needed for the radwaste (not only the fuel, but also the material plants are build of and such.

So even being pro nuclear the math tells me, that this is at best a in between solution to buy us some more time until we figure out a better, longterm solution.

And no - I do not believe in the fusion singularity to come in my lifetime.
This seems like a pretty big deal, parents and kids listening to a lot of the same music, watching the same kind of television/series. Its interesting, many parents actually expect their kids to rebel nowadays, because they themselves did, but this expectation is of course counter to the whole idea of rebelling.
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Make a cheap ultrasound device for non-medical use, and let people use it at their own risk. This will still save many lives, especially in poor countries.
>I'll even allow for the high, high likelihood that more people will die installing roof-top solar than will ever die in the lifetime of all nuclear reactors combined.

And this could be virtually zero with proper safety harnesses. (Amateurs almost always neglect them.)
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> I wouldn't want a plant from the 60s

Me neither. Unfortunately, that's all we have, since we're not building any more :(
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"No matter how detailed your design, or solid your physics and mathematics, they cannot win an argument with someone who is simply afraid of the concept."

Yes, politics muddy the water rather badly for fission. Let me offer a much more rational drawback: Time.

Nuclear plants take a decade to build (on paper; in reality they miss deadlines constantly and you're lucky if it's done within 20 years). A PV solar farm takes more like 2 years to build. Per Swanson's law, you can expect the price to halve by the time a nuclear plant with today's technology is built. Nuclear plants of today's tech are competing with the solar plants of (today + 8years)'s tech.

More importantly, you don't get the return on investment until after the plant is built, So the same money that was dropped into a 10-year project needs to be a lot more profitable than a series of 2-year solar farm projects that bring in more money to be invested constantly.

Hell, by the time we build our nuclear plant, battery tech might well have matured enough to make PV a cheap baseload power source. That makes nuclear even more financially risky.
> Yeah. Because we didn't already have 60+ years of time with actual smart people trying to find a solution.

My point is that it's an artificial problem, not a technical problem.
Thanks, quite a lot of libraries I wasn't aware of (probably coz I haven't needed them yet! I still prefer perl for quite-n-dirty scripts, but one of these days I should try to do the same with python instead).

Anybody want to volunteer to start a resource page for python, kind of like this one for elasticsearch? https://github.com/dzharii/awesome-elasticsearch
The original comment referred to exactly this database, so it is relevant
The new containerd: An open governance driven embeddable container runtime
Seems like you should have gotten more than $5k. Great work and nice write-up.
Off Topic: What will you advice to someone who writes code in Python(scraping, mining) and have a done of ML by wathing Udacity courses, how can I polish myself to get into position for a job?
Please don't post outrageous, unsubstantiated generalizations about other people's countries. It's uncivil, and spawns worse.
Google cut its 2015 tax bill by $3.6B using the infamous Dutch Sandwich loophole
I don't think this is true. The average Tesla costs what, $75000? $150 is 0.2% of the purchase price. People buying Teslas aren't people who are bothered by a $150 bar tab, let alone a $150 permit. In addition, many of them have emotional buy-in at this point (aka they have drank the Elon Kool-Aid) and driving a Tesla is as much a part of their identity as anything else. They won't be bothered by paying for a permit or having to go to the DMV to get one.
Is deep learning overhyped?
> That is ONE reactor that was of a design many years out of date at the time of the failure, a failure where the people at the controls turned off the safety controls, then turned off the back up safety controls, then intentionally put the reactor in an unsafe state.

Yes, reality exists. The existence of reality and all the flaws that come with it is another argument of many against nuclear fission.
Could be a demographic thing. Increasing Asian and Mexican population have stronger cultural ties to family and saving habits?

They should Plot it by race.

Honestly though, video games and vr. Who needs your own place
> What happens in a few decades when all these adults who lived with their parents and hardly saved for retirement due to lower salaries and student loans are too old to work?

Simple - they die early... barring a massive electoral shift in governance priorities.
Why not? Poor people tend to be more generous on average (http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/99/5/771/).
Posting like this here will get your account banned, so please don't do it again. Instead, please post civilly and substantively or not at all. Also, please don't use HN for ideological or political battle. That's not what this site is for.

It's good to (re)-read the following to get an idea of the kind of discussion we're hoping for here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
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Then many of the doctors/lawyers burdened with extreme student debt and unable to find work will put pressure on the insurance companies and ultimately charge lower prices. That's likely decades out though.
Maybe we should let everyone vote but weigh the votes on a bell curve by age.
> I can't think of any other corporation that so blatantly acts in the manner of, "we don't like that law, we're going to ignore it or flaunt it".

Then you aren't thinking hard enough.

A couple recent ones Volkswagen diesels and Zenefits. Uber stands out as they seem to use it as PR tool, while most other companies tend to use PR to downplay and cover up their law breaking.
Well, I think experiences like those described in your second paragraph would certainly encourage the behavior described in the first...
Thanks. This helps a lot even though I don't use Elixir or Erlang.
China claims to have successfully tested an EM-type drive
A naive reading of that law excludes from the definition of autonomous vehicle any car that

1. is monitored, and

2. is under the physical control of a [natural] person.

A driver is in front of the steering wheel at all times, ready to take over.

What am I missing? I haven't deconstructed the statute, it could be plenty.
How many greenhouse gasses are created from manufacturing batteries?
Ever tried cleaning a school? Students can even be heard saying things like "It's their job to pick up after me so it doesn't matter that I throw garbage on the floor".
> Erlang has this sort of huge cognitive overload with it's syntax, making it take longer to learn, for no obvious benefits.

Actually the adoption is quite good considering there is no industry giant backing it. There are plenty of companies using it in production and there is a job market for it.

Comparing the adoption with Go/Swift is a bit unfair.
I don't understand this article. From what I gathered, they want more interplay between their iOS devices and macOS. Is that a bad thing? Is restructuring the engineering teams to reflect that a bad thing? I really don't think so. This is just clickbait.
I've seen the details of quite a few B2B SaaS and Govt SaaS deals as of late, and most dev orgs are just not supporting anything other than evergreen browsers. If you don't have the latest browser version, your ticket will be closed since supporting browser based GIS with IE8/9 is a giant waste of money.
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> GitHub Pages sites have a bandwidth limit of 100GB or 100,000 requests per month.

Wait, does this mean if your open source project is popular enough to get more than 100,000 page views, visitors will just see nothing? Is this a new policy change? Or was I just not aware of this?
* > Why doesn't it work? By whom was it never intended to happen? Why should it not even be possible?*

It doesn't work because it's incompatible, and so it's complicated. If I build A with B1, and you build C with B1.1, and the user wants both A and C, they need both B1 and B1.1. Which is fine - IF they built B* with unique symbol names, and built their apps against those unique symbol names, and if everyone else in the world follows exactly the same convention. Of course, if anything else changes (cpu architecture, features, ABI, whatever) everything may break anyway. But in general the biggest problem is not everyone builds software the same way.

Both the software developers and the package managers never intended for incompatible software to be installed at the same time. The software devs could make it handle these cases, but they usually don't, so it doesn't work. The package managers could package their software uniquely every time, but that would be annoying, cumbersome and not very useful for managing systems ("do i need to remove db3 before i install db4? what are all the packages called? what's the order? what else will be affected? do i rename everything and rebuild everything with names specific to this one library package name?" etc).

It shouldn't be possible to install conflicting software because the package should be built to fail to install if conflicting software exists, or remove the conflicting software before install. But sadly there also exists the ability to remove all these safeguards, or to install unpackaged software.

Containers are just a wrapper around existing tools, such as package managers. They don't add functionality, they just simplify it. With Docker, you aren't linking to multiple versions of openssl within the same process: you're running one process in one environment with one version of openssl, unless you intentionally get really fancy, which really isn't easy. Package managers never failed, they simply weren't being used right.

Containers won because someone finally realized users don't care how they do what they want, as long as they get to do it without having to know how it actually works. Devs get to pretend they know how to deploy software or manage systems and Ops people get less responsibility because they didn't build the shit so they don't support it. It's a win-win, but it's still a mess, and none of it is new or novel.
Ooohhhkeeey, "manzanilla de la muerte" slept under one during a hot afternoon in a nature reserve in ecuador. Great shadow at that point, had some red dots on my arm and back later... And yes, there were huge signs not to touch the tree and eat the fruites, but it was the only shadow around.
> If so, how would I go forward with asking the people about this without seeming high risk?

to a business owner/landlord, asking how much it costs to exit the lease does not mark you as high risk. it just means you know what you're talking about, and they are free to set that value to whatever they want in the contract.
> Every American Muslim I have met believes in the 1st Amendment.

Did you also ask them my follow up question, if making fun of Mohammad is allowed. I guarantee you almost all of them will say no.
If it's possible to get some frames (partial or whole) out of partial torrent downloads (I don't know), then you might have the proof.
I found Github pages pretty limiting as you can't use Jekyll plugins, or you build your site using a different CI system and have it push a branch with your static content.

I've always found it easier to host your own. Most services like Linode, Digital Ocean, etc. give you plenty of bandwidth and the prices are not unreasonable.
Once productivity increases through bio hacking becomes possible, we may see the day when hacking yourself to be competitive for employment becomes an ethical problem.
There are well-known problems with fMRI studies and particulary with how they are interpreted, see e.g. http://www.edvul.com/pdf/VulHarrisWinkielmanPashler-PPS-2009... (PDF) for a good critique. It's an intrinsically low-resolution tool as well, "there seems to be a lot of blood flow in vaguely this area of the brain", that is sold as if it were high tech and the only/best way to learn about human cognition.
Just anecdotal evidence but I've been running Elixir in production for half a year now for an app called Sleeperbot (95% of our backend is written in Elixir)

Our websocket endpoints, our app servers, and other services all run on Elixir, and pretty much without any incidents.

Erlang/OTP is battle-tested and it's really the first time I could comfortably sleep at night without worrying about stuff going down. Personally I think Elixir past the point of just having "potential" and is my default go-to language to solve any problem as long as it makes sense to solve it with Elixir.
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Agreed.

I thought it worth clarifying for people like those I regularly meet who aren't aware of the LP role in the industry. There's a misconception that the VCs are just investing their own money.
> until you execute that line of code to make sure there wasn't a misspelled variable name or something

But isn't it the purpose of tools such as IDEs? PyCharm is pretty damn good at it. Of course, it's not always possible or convenient firing up an IDE. But I suppose editors such as vim should be fully capable of doing this via plugins as well.
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In the USA, I recently met a random nuclear power plant worker at a bar. They claimed that many currently operational nuclear plants have trouble remaining competitive in today's market. Apparently expanding or refurbishing an operational plant to extend it's useful life also requires a cost prohibitive retrofit to make it comply with current nuclear codes. For example, a plant opened in 1972 might still be running on 45 year old building codes that mandate the ability to withstand a 5.2 magnitude earthquake, and current building codes mandate withstanding a 7.something quake (guessing what old and new regulation might be).

Can someone comment on whether the above claim sounds true? Is it common for the true price of a nuclear plant to significantly exceed the costs of initial constructon plus normal operational costs? If yes, what are thoses costs and how do they compare to the estimated total cost?
If managed correctly, it's far far cleaner than coal and oil.
23 year old Indian developer here. The concept of 'moving out' of your parents home is baffling for most of us. I now live in a different city and I share a decent apartment with friends. I can afford to live alone in the apartment I now live in - the rent is 30% of my monthly income and the apartment is 15 minutes away from where I work - but living alone would be just awful. So I'm now paying 11% of my income for rent(electricity, water and a maid included) because I stay with friends. Eventually, most of us would want to move back to our hometowns if we can get a job with similar pay - and live with our parents. Not because it would be cheaper and mom would cook yummy food - but it is just the way it is. In our society, NOT living with your parents when you can is frowned upon. "These are people who raised you and know you well and care for you, why would you want to move out?" is how the society thinks. Also, in a way it is nice. You are NEVER alone. You ALWAYS have people waiting for you when you come back from work. 'Being alone' is seldom a reason for a depressed Indian - the family is always there.

However, compared to the west, we have little to no privacy. We are raised to not expect much privacy in the first place so we don't really miss it. Kids do NOT get a room of their own - never ever - they bunk with siblings. I was around 15 when I got a room of my 'own'. There's no pressure to move out once you grow up - parents would do their best to KEEP you home in fact. I would not have had to 'move out' if my college was not 200 km away. There's one big trade off with the whole set up though - no sex till you get married ;)
There is a difference between proof and evidence. It's important to distinguish the two.

Ozy, if you're interested I'd be willing to keep corresponding with you. Drop me an email at immortal@coderpath.com

I'll leave you with an old apocryphal story that I hope drives the point home that matter how much we achieve as human beings, it will never be enough:

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A scientist approaches God, and says to Him, "Look, God, we don't need you anymore. Nowadays, we can do all sorts of things that used to be considered miraculous. We can transplant organs, giving new life to a dying man, we can cure almost any disease, and we can even clone animals. It won't be long, and we'll be able to clone humans, too. So, I'm sorry, but you are just outdated".

God listens patiently to the scientist and says, "I can see that you believe you don't need me, and I understand. However, I love you, and I don't want to see you make a big mistake, so why don't we make sure? I say we should have a man-making contest, just to be sure."

The scientist replies, "I'll take that challenge".

So, God says, "Ok, let's do it the way I did it in the old days, with Adam and Eve". The scientists says, "No problem", and reaches down to scoop up a handful of dirt.

"Whoa, hold on there a minute", God says. "You get your OWN dirt".

-----

:)
> There were no 'pro athletes' in 1930.

Babe Ruth, arguably one of the most famous athletes ever, played from 1914-1935.
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Why is this being downvoted? The parent poster complained about the article not presenting any evidence and then goes on to state that most people over 30 are extremely risk averse - without presenting any evidence.

Aren't we allowed to make any assumptions as to why that might be or if it is even true at all?
I think it's any commercial entity, right?

Clearly not. Any money you save by staying at your parent's home will be spent in other commercial entities. Even people who save eventually spend it. Conversely, all that cash going to landlords, grocers, insurance, etc is not being spent on something else.
Yep, that's a condensed version of the universal edibility test.

It's on page 103 in the FM 21-76 US ARMY SURVIVAL MANUAL: http://www.preppers.info/uploads/FM21-76_SurvivalManual.pdf
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I feel like it's maybe doable if you use that 4 hours for your "entertainment" time-budget for the day. Listen to audiobooks or podcasts. Then don't watch TV or Netflix or whatever when you actually are home.

That said, this is purely speculation. I have a 10 minute commute by subway+walking.
"renewables' are also highly subsidized"

Only this not true any more. Over the last decade Solar has become price competitive sans subsidies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmyrbKBZ6SU

Even before that the subsidies for solar have been dwarfed by the subsidies that are in place for nuclear power. Recently in Germany the nuclear companies' lobbyists managed to get rif of the problem of end storage of nuclear waste by shifting that burden to the general public. Great job!
If the cert is revoked, the revocation notice only needs to be published until the expiration date instead of forever.
I tried it and unfortunately no nested tabs :/
Is there any way to prove either way it's definitely corrupt or does it just seem that way? I'm likely to agree, but you know someone would have piped up and argued the opposite if I had have said corruption yada yada... To be fair, globalisation has been brilliant for me, the lobbyists, Apple and hundreds of millions pulled out of poverty worldwide. And it's destroyed the climate, the environment and hope for even more people, some even throwing themselves off the side of foxcon plants.

It's very difficult to say how corrupt a system actually is but there must be some research into it.
A lot of people are wondering why this is not the default. If you like this you should try Tree Style Tab ;)
> My software is specifically designed reduce the need for increased labor as the company crows.

That is either a very amusing typo or your employers are not nice people.
> solar and wind produce a smaller amount of power with no side effects

Without side effects? wind?

Have you by any chance seen what wind plants do to birds?
Or have you had the opportunity to live in a house near a wind plant? The noise is very annoying.

Water plants looks much better than wind plants.
I doubt they'd go this route. The two systems are not comparable. Development on an actual Android or iOS tablet would feel really limiting. There are lots of applications where you still need the features you'd find in a desktop OS. Not just for devs, but photographers, designers and film editors. Trying to deprecate macos would be silly.

The article does make some good points. MacOS 10.9 was the last version I liked. Once they replaced expose with that terrible mission control, I started looking at tiling window managers and got into i3. I went back to Linux in a VM on macos for like a year before just building a real Linux box. .. then I ran Windows on the mac for games. :-P

I like that the article mentions Final Cut. Final Cut X was terrible. I used it for two projects and then dropped it. Resolve pretty much does everything I need it to do, although it's sad that the codebase for Final Cut 7 is now gone. That was a good editor and Apple pretty much killed it.
Because AIXI_tl has failure modes (it doesn't model itself as being embedded in its environment so it can't ensure its own survival) demonstrating that any approach which is just a weaker version of it will have those same problems.

> That said it is also not computable with finite time or resources, so it is unclear what relevance it has to practical applications.

You can define it as space or time-bound and then it's finite but still intractable.
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In India, it is considered rather disrespectful to leave parents house once a person starts working. This is because, traditionally kids are supposed to take care of parents during their old age.
Apple has had deprecated on the OpenSSL headers for a couple of releases now...
"The downside of solar is approximately 0"
Don't think only about electricity in your home, think about some steel mill which maybe located in places with no sun, consume huge ammount of energy and has to run 24/7.