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Nuclear is over. Regardless if you're for it or against. It just is, at least in democratic countries.

After Fukushima it is political suicide to promote nuclear. The politicians will not vote for it. You'd need supreme political capital to expend on lobbying for it and the ROI is just not there for them.
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Thank you for posting this. This makes a lot of sense compared to something like the Hacker's Diet. (Quick summary of hacker's diet: weigh yourself each morning, use app/spreadsheet to calculate moving average, count calories and adjust amount based on current vs desired trend.) Also it makes a lot more sense than a thought I had: plot a trend line similar to the one in the article but only compare the daily weight to that trend and don't eat on a day that is above the trend (terrible idea).

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but:

Do you use a very accurate body weight scale or does it not matter as much over time? Mine can show pretty large fluctuations by weighing twice when there should be no change (weighed twice in 1 minute without eating or excreting). On the other hand, maybe it doesn't matter too much since the noise might be smaller than the difference between starting and ending weight for the day.

How do you measure the food and drink throughout the day? I have a good digital food scale but I'm picturing I'd have to probably carry it with me at first. Trying to picture how to do that at a restaurant. I suppose you would eventually know what works for lunch without a scale and then weigh yourself before dinner to see where things stand. I eat out at lunch a lot so I'm thinking about how to make this work.
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part of that optimization is also disease prevetion, if we maximize "product" but produce more expenses in the form of diseases, we'd be losing money, not making any.

the meat industry is a horror show, tbh, and they don't maximize product extraction because they want to save every last piece of protien, they do it for the cash.
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If OS X is supported for a tool but Linux isn’t, that’s just poor planning (or, more likely, rectal-cranial inversion on the part of the marketing department [a far too common problem in my experience]), as “under the hood” OS X is BSD Unix, so with a tiny bit of care it only takes a few minor tweaks and a “re-compile” to make it work under Linux (https://phdify.com/).

Unfortunately, I’m still forced to use the Evil Empire’s (M$) products all too often. My XP laptop has recently started having problems, so I’m migrating to a MacBook. I intend to put a VMware XP onto it, but a broken wrist is really slowing things down.
I'm sorry but I think your replies are incoherent.

It's nothing but specious, self-referential and circular statements and you just seem to reword and redefine things as you please, and modify things established prior whenever convenient.

I unfortunately cannot debate with someone whose arguments rely so heavily on retroactive editing and reinterpretation of what was said.
The legibility tab is more generally applicable though. " tuning the 0.3%" could be significant then that 0.3% are people with significant vision problems.

You still don't want to be spending more than a moment on that in early design, but with a tool like this covering the issue might only take that moment so you don't have to make alterations later when early design decisions/accidents are baked in and harder to change.
Hey folks, founder of Activation Hacks here. I'd love your feedback on the site.

I've spent a bit of time collecting as many behavioural nudges as I could find in the tech/product space. The goal of the site is to highlight these tactics used by some of the best product psychologists in the business to retain mobile users.

It's basically like a product onboarding teardown but from a behavioral economics point of view. Hope you like it :)
I think GP intended it to mean something more along the lines of "cliché".
I was going to say, I might look at simply reducing consumption. If everyone cut 1/3rd of their meat out, that'd have a huge impact.
This is very simple, but something most of the HN people won't be able to do.

STOP FLYING!

Passenger numbers have gone up in a step change with CO2 count over the last 50 years, contrails compound the effect. The sad thing is - you will all look at this message and think. Why should I have to change? Why me, surely someone else must fix this?

Don't wait for governments, don't wait for industry. Make individual choices that affect the output now and we will see a reduction (eventually).

The psychology in this tells us not to lose hope, but to look to technology to solve the issues. But we must act responsibly in the meantime.
I'd change the labels a little, since I think those terms are overloaded:

I think 'authority' is 'agency', or 'self-determination',

'accountability' is 'direction'/'awareness'/'sensitivity'/'comprehension',

'Responsibility' is actually 'motivation': It also might matter if this is 'pride', or 'avoiding blame', and to what degree it is 'reactive' and 'proactive'. Obviously, knowing what you are responsible for, and having every are have a point of responsibility is important too; 'accountability' seems similar to this to me.
This seems to be a thin wrapper for the actual Lua VM implemented in Go:
https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua
Reminds me of Datsun. The story goes that they invited a highly paid PR consultant to visit. On arrival he was told that there is a board meeting that evening and he is expected to attend and come up with the best name for their cars. Apparently, his reply was: "that soon?"
> That Chernobyl wasn't(/isn't) a bigger problem is partly due to reasonably effective intervention by an international team.

Chernobyl wasn't a bigger problem because of the personal sacrifice of the thousands of liquidators that cleaned it up. I strongly recommend watching "Chernobyl 3828"[1], a short (~30min) documentary about that cleanup, by people that were involved in it.

> The potential here is frightening

Which is why the danger - even at Chernobyl - is usually severely overstated. I'm not saying the situation at Chernobyl wasn't a huge problem (see [1]). It just wasn't the insane danger that many believe it to be. For example, many of the liquidators involved in the cleanup are still alive, fighting Russian bureaucracy for the healthcare coverage they were promised in the Soviet era. Cancer is a long term consequence of working as a "bio robot", but modern medicine is making that increasingly survivable.

Fear tends to suppress rationality, so remember to stick to the facts, and remember that reputable sources can be hard to find for any topic.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV45AFCwcUc
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I suspect many emotivists aren't even aware of the concept's existence. So, as a practical matter, I suppose the onus is on those who are aware of it to modify their approach if they wish to persuade such people.

I've noticed a few older, more experienced 'intelligent-rational' types who have developed techniques to deal with emotivists. For instance, they tend to couch criticism or disagreement in words like "Now it's probably just because I'm not as well acquainted with this issue as you are, but..." To my ears, this sort of language sounds disingenuous and insincere (and talking this way doesn't come naturally to me). But it's hard to dispute the results. I'm constantly amazed at how effective this approach can be.

I suspect this approach is effective, even though it feels like it shouldn't be, because people who are tied up in their own emotions don't pay close attention to what others are saying, and how they're saying it. The way the language 'feels' doesn't activate their heuristic-defensiveness and usually manages to slip past.
My SF02 server went down 4 hours ago too.

Also, I used to have my primary load balancer on SFO2 and removed it a while ago because of another network failure, interesting to see SFO2 failing again within a few months.
Fair enough. But people will decide not caring even slightly about binary size is admirable (move fast and make users buy new phones, I guess) and eventually everything will be huge. Already the number of sub-60MB apps is dwindling and the 100-and-up club is growing, if my recent updates list is any indication.
yea you didn't get it. the author is talking about self-publishing, not self-hosting.
No, it's no good blaming the poor for a problem the rich world has created.
Still the most educated form of trolling to be seen around here. Beautiful and always worth a few good snickers.
Totally agree with turning off all notifications on the phone. This simply makes the phone experience so much better. Knowing you only reach for it when you need it, instead of getting dragged into checking other things while already looking at the screen due to the notification, really calms one down.
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I lost an average of 400-500g a day (went from 100kg to 90kg) by eating only once a day (dinner - usually fish or chicken with vegetables) and no regular change to my activities. I did usually have 1 or 2 "cheat" days though, usually over a weekend when we had family dinner and/or when I went out drinking. Sometimes I had an apple for lunch.

I suspect that my body was just "normalising" and after a certain threshold it would probably have become harder to start losing weight without exercising. After I traveled for work my diet got totally screwed up and I went back to 100kg. I'm now on day 3 of the same diet and am currently at 98.5kg. As for my mood, well-being etc, nothing's really changed except for the mild hunger pangs (which I got used to quickly) and that I seem to get drunk quicker when I drink.

This is just a personal anecdote. Don't take it as medical advice of any sort.
Short of a customer service agent taking pity on you, or your bank/credit-card company letting you off the hook, I don't think it's really possible.

If you really feel that strongly about the incident where you don't even want to be on their planes, then likely the only option you have is to spend more money on a second ticket for a different airline.
Consumers do buy Synology & Others NAS. Right now 1Gbps is the bottleneck for accessing a NAS.
That's assuming the on-disk compression deduplicates. ZIP does not and 7z only does in 'solid' mode. Compression is not a silver bullet for this either - if you have a repeated 8MB sequence in 8 different parts of a 250MB file, whether or not the sequence gets deduplicated depends on the compression algorithm, dictionary size, speed setting, etc.

The solution to all the duplicated files is to dedup at build time.
"Ultimately it is the lack of spirituality in people that's killing the planet."

Bad accounting is killing our planet. Neglecting important parts of the balance sheet creates perverse incentives.
I do not understand why AAA would be lumped together in such a soulless bag. Like superhero movies, some are done by the numbers, some are done without inspiration, some without talent, and yet some are brimming with soul, passion and dedication. That outcome is usually defined by their leaders and context; AAA games, blockbuster movies, and large productions in general, by nature don't let most of the individual developers' souls show visibly in the final product, but that soul is very much in there.

"Many older AAA games yet only a few current AAA games" I suspect is more due to rose-tinted glasses and survivor bias. There was plenty of crap back then, and plenty of greatness today.
That's really very useful, thanks a lot.
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Looking on twitter, people have failing droplets all over the USA, not just SFO. And the CP is back up, but not actually showing any info. Increasingly, statuspages/twitter accounts are mostly based on lies...
You can do it again :)
I am really curious about this last technique you mentioned (predicting when the user might be about to put their phone away and intervening at that moment with enticing content). If you remember any clues that might lead to it, or find it again, please post. Thanks!
I guess one question to ask is 'does it matter if the app is inefficient?' i.e. are these problems going to stop people from using Facebook? I'd argue that the platform is way too big and too sticky for this to be a concern; they could ship an app that crashes every hour and people would still use it.
"By hijacking the signal going into the transmitter, the hacker seemingly managed to trigger all of the sirens at once."

This sentence doesn't make sense, more than likely they figured out the system needed to trigger the sirens and broadcast it to trigger them. Reminds me of the old days when all it would take to hack a radio stations remote broadcast or a drive-thru order was an opened up vhf/uhf ham radio.
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Here is how you do it. Have a function p(r) which evaluates to the previous real number. Then your mapping function is:

f(r) = if (r == 0) { 0 } { else f(p(r)) + 1 }

If your objection is "You can't determine what the previous real number is." Then my counter-objection is "Please prove that you can't." Which I don't think is possible without first assuming reals are uncountable.
That too.

However most of us tend to be overtly optimistic about the possibility that something will work as expected. Also we tend to forget the secondary tasks involved[3].

Also the fact that there is usually an expected schedule/due-date that are presented before being asked for estimates, people tend to invariably try to fit the effort-estimate into the pre-determined schedule subconsciously neglecting the secondary tasks.

Its like when asked if i can cook a turkey-dinner in 2hours, i say - "looks do-able, i can try...". Completely forgetting the fact that i am being expected to raise it from an egg, and take care of it for a few months first.

[3] Slide 8 - https://www.slideshare.net/cvs26/effort-estimation-73647698/...
The writer means you should publish your content under your own brand/identity.

That is, your own domain name, website design/branding, etc.

The point is that if you create popular content but host it on Medium (or Facebook, or LinkedIn, or Google Plus, or any other branded content platform), you are giving that platform's brand free promotion, when you could be using that exposure to better promote yourself.

The trade-offs are the cost of professional hosting, ensuring that the platform you choose has enough capacity to handle any traffic spikes, and designing/maintaining a site design that is as readable/usable as the established platforms.
are you american or what?

That's really insane man. Take care of yourself. :)
I don't think so. Both bytecode and native evaluate right-to-left.
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Capital-A-Agile puts a lot of emphasis on very fine-grained collaboration and reducing the amount of time people are "doing their own thing". Some advocates are pretty open about this being a form of micromanagement[1].

Some people thrive in high-visibility, fine-grained-collaboration environments. On the other hand, if you've got people who are already doing good work without many meetings, it's hard to see Scrum-flavoured setups being anything other than intrusive.

[1] https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/ssssh....agile-is-...
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I have had good results with the Fast-5 diet, which is the same but in a 5-hour window.
What's the alternative? As an EU company, if I need to do business in the US then I can't say "let's schedule a meeting in a year while I go on a boat cruise". Virtual meetings only work to an extent -- they lack a human interaction touch. I suppose I can take a train if I go on holiday somewhere in the EU, but insane prices for international trains as well as other shenanigans are not making it an attractive choice.
I should, yes. I don't feel as good as I did then. Thanks
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> I've never heard of it.

Wonder why. Because it's not newsworthy.
I don't know. Personally, embedded programming is a hobby for me. As a long time unix user, I've no problems with complex development environment setups, but if there exists a scripted, tested, and mainained alternative, I'll probably prefer that, because I don't want to recall the configuration details for every platform I program on (esp. if it's non-daily activity).
[Similar disclaimers about not being a physicist go here]

Something that's going to be a bit tricky here is that electrons are really, really slow when we're talking about electricity through a wire. The electrons will bounce around very quickly at random, but the average flow caused by a current is slow. Really, really slow.

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

For a specific but not unreasonable example:

> Therefore in this wire the electrons are flowing at the rate of −0.000023 m/s. At 60 Hz alternating current, this means that within half a cycle the electrons drift less than 0.2 μm. In other words, electrons flowing across the contact point in a switch will never actually leave the switch.

That kind of speed means that any messages sent over a copper wire are not going to be sending electrons all the way for that message. The electrons that 'carry' the message "I AM A VIRTUAL SWORD" will not go from my machine to yours as a rushing block. Instead all I'll be doing is tapping the end of a very long pole connecting our two properties, so you can read the message by the patterns of the end of the pole in your house moving ever-so-slightly.

So, I guess I am transferring mass, but nothing that comes from me goes to you.

This also assumes a very particular direction. There's nothing, as far as I'd understand, that requires me to be pushing electrons at you. I could be pulling on the pole slightly rather than pushing.

I'd love any corrections or additions to this, purely my lay understanding of the topic.
> Consider: all of environment protection legislation that we take for granted now was once "hippie bullshit".

In part; I think environmental policies and technologies are very strongly influenced by economics and capitalism. I mean they managed to monetize CO2 emissions via emission rights. It's making money out of vapor. There's probably a few people getting very rich off of the emission rights market.

The other one is alternative energy sources. Solar panels are a good example; they're expensive, have a limited lifespan (10-15 years), and yet provide a huge amount of goodwill and feel-good. There's a lot of people getting very rich off of a product that, in the end, is not actually sustainable and does little to nothing to alleviate the emissions problem - not when the production of a solar panel costs more energy than it'll generate during its lifetime.

I'd argue the only environmental protection stuff that is still primarily motivated by hippie bullshit is things like the ban on whaling and the conservation of nature areas. Neither of which has much of an impact on the environment, unless it's on a huge scale (like idk, spanning all of the Amazon plus all of the deforested areas of the past fifty years).
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A few months ago, I was in the same boat as OP - bored of Android and iOS stuff. Thanks to the ex-Nokia and ex-Meego employees, we have Sailfish OS.

Bought immediately. Since then, I'm using less of Google's ecosystem. Phone is great and almost have every feature that you desire, sometimes better.

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There are plenty of forms of vegatarian: lacto-vegetarians that eat dairy, ovo-vegetarians that eat eggs, lacto-ovo-vegetarians that eat both, vegans that eat neither (don't eat any animal products), raw-vegan that only eat raw foods, etc

If you believe that factory farmed dairy is just as cruel, then don't consume factory farmed dairy.

I don't believe its in my rational self-interest

Unless you count the environmental impact, it shouldn't be about your self-interest, but rather doing something that some see as cruel and unethical treatment of other living creatures.

(PS: I'm not vegetarian either, so I'm not attempting to change your opinion)
tl;dr almost certainly not for you. Since there are economies of scale, mining naturally centralises. And what we see now is miners literally designing their own ASICs to compete.
I was with you until that last sentence. Are you saying RTMN's model is the same value proposition as all affiliate marketers?

Sites like Expedia, Wirecutter, and hundreds of other review or aggregator websites that monetize through affiliate marketing add way more value to the user than RTMN.
No, but there is still a big difference between a new language with a still-small community, but with ambition and some early attempts to apply it at "real" problems, vs a brainfuck-like, just for kicks language.
I don't get why is this on the homepage. They clearly have a button to unsubscribe from all the emails. And it works. I found it in maybe two days after registering for an account and realizing that they send an email about everything. Never received an email from them since then.

Even so, that's a crappy reason to hate a company that could be solved in so many simple ways.
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> I used to TA a freshman data structures class. I can't imagine ever going to a class of new programmers and trying to explain to them when to use Rc<RefCell<Vec<T>>> vs. Rc<Vec<RefCell<T>>>.

I'm interested - how do you teach it? I would have thought that the type system could make these things easier to visualise rather than harder, but then I don't have teaching experience.
> It just blows my mind that someone can create a successful space program from scratch and still people think "but he'll probably get tripped up by this tiny thing that even I noticed! Just waiting for company to go belly up."

(a) Elon isn't all of SpaceX, there is a whole managerial and engineering infrastructure there, which is primarily motivated by scientific, not aesthetic, needs. So, they choose the best design based on their calculations.

These solar panels are clearly designed for looks, an important business consideration, so the idea that they may have knowingly traded off on the engineering/science side is a real possibility. That is a real decision people can make and none of the parents claimed the company was doomed. It may even be a decision that makes business sense and results in more sales. Many decisions about how houses are built are based on aesthetics and not engineering concerns, which is why they don't look like warehouses.

(b) even in engineering-based organizations, misaligned incentives can silence science-based concerns. NASA, an organization that also successfully created a space program and had some of the best engineers in the world, ignored repeated warnings from an engineer about a tiny thing that would have prevented the Challenger disaster.
PKop, I'm afraid that deprogramming global warming people is a futile effort.

Logarithmic scale of CO2 forcing:
http://www.princeton.edu/~lam/documents/LamAug07bs.pdf

Failure of glorified climate models:
http://www.thegwpf.com/epic-climate-model-failure/