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They are ignorant, but nuclear power proponents have most done a terrible job of selling their argument. They keep selling the benefits while downplaying the safety concerns. The correct strategy is to treat the safety concerns as being of primary importance and treat the benefits as an unfortunate necessity.

It does not matter what the actual risk incidence and hazards are. You do not overcome bias by talking people into submission to the evidence. that works great in peer view and in school but it does not work in the real world because the population you need to convince does not have sufficient spare intellectual capacity to process that.

If you want to sell nuclear power you offer reactor designs that are new, you over-engineer for safety, you say you're taking profit out of the equation, you fire anyone who makes even the smallest mistake, and you drink a glass of any wastewater (or equivalent depending on reactor design).

The public believes, with some reason, that anything nuclear either explodes or contaminates things. No amount of reasoned argument is going to change this perception. The way to change it is to make the plants look different and have the operators and sponsors of the plants live next to the nuclear plant with their families. Not say that it's perfectly safe, show that it's perfectly safe.
One podcast that I learn from not mentioned in this list is http://www.writingexcuses.com/

It drills down into the nitty gritty of how to write stories and I learned a lot about writing while listening. They tend to cover a different specific aspect of writing in each podcast. So one podcast may focus primarily on the uses of spacing while another might focus on how to write a pitch for a book.
My understanding is that the glasses were little more than a gimicky way to get more use of their platform. Felt kinda CueCat-ish to me.
I get where you are coming from. It is worth keeping in mind that not as many folks see it in a political manner, so if their viewpoint is a choice between "working hard to release free research/tools and getting people angry/complaining in response" versus "working hard and getting a decent salary to do what they love" then it makes some sense as to why people would go that direction.

I'm in agreement with you regarding Developer ID. I have no idea why Apple would want to limit that, I know they recently relaxed restrictions on NetworkExtension though (except for Wi-Fi helpers) - Are you referring to the old "e-mail here to apply for the entitlement" process they had in place? Or do they still not allow the entitlement for free developer IDs now?
I did no such thing, and smarmy statements like this are not a "discussion".
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A friend of mine used to be a QA at a prominent children's hospital. The departmental interoperation was terrible[1], and every department used its own software. There was no hope of unifying the software, because every head of department had their own preferred software (often because of vendor kickbacks), and the hospital CEO was more interested in PR than managing. So any time an interdepartmental solution would be proposed at the heads-of-department meetings, any given head of department would nix it with "if we use that software, children will die". Of course everyone knows that was a lie, but that head of department was the final authority for it.

[1] A different friend was trying to get his son in for an appointment. The relevant department asked him to fax some forms to get the appointment; the phone was not enough and email wasn't an option. Fax! Forms were faxed... they asked them to be refaxed all in one stream! Faxed all together... they asked for the forms to be faxed in a particular order! At this point, he went to another hospital.
I saw Mark43 a while ago and haven't been able to stop musing about it since - I think it would be rewarding work knowing if you excel at your job you're helping save lives and reduce risk!
I'd at some point drawn up a proposal for this, back when Rust started having problems with this. At the time I think we didn't really have the budget for such testing either.

bors' rollup support only lets one mark things for rollup, which show up differently in the queue. It's effectively a priority=-1. This is for things which probably won't break the build, and contributors make a batch rollup every now and then (bors has a button for this). Generally when I do rollups I go through these and ensure they're green on travis.

I've considered giving homu (the engine behind bors) better support for automatically doing this (at least automatically showing travis statuses) but I don't have much time.
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I feel like the author has felt obliged to include the full results, which is noble, but it's mostly obscuring the interesting results.

What does it matter if the "cheating" versions are faster, since they're doing something completely different? (OK, in principle it could be the same with an unrealistically magical optimizer.)

Seems to me the key point is that a bunch of high-level constructs in both Rust and Haskell are very nearly as fast as a tight loop in C. That's great!

The versions that are much slower don't seem very surprising, as they involve boxing the ints. (Edit to add: OK, reading more closely, I guess 'Haskell iterator 5' is interesting to dig into.)
> * The manufacturer making full schematics and service manuals available on the day a product is launched.

Reasonable on the surface, but what about trade secrets?

* Making all parts and specialised servicing tools available to anyone who wants to buy them.

That’s reasonable.

* Not using unusual fixtures, fastenings or glues.

What about when those special glues ARE needed? For example: water resistance (IP67).

* Allowing people to downgrade any software if the feel a newer version slows down their otherwise perfectly serviceable device.

The problem is that users are stupid. If you allow people to downgrade, you open them up to security holes. There’s a reason Apple doesn’t let you downgrade iOS, and it’s not money (what money do they make from preventing downgrades?), it’s security. People are gullible and could easily be tricked by some scam site to downgrade their device in order to “win”.

> I don't see a problem with letting people buy non-repairable devices, so long as they pay a levy for the waste it will produce.

What about Apple? If you recycle your device through Apple, they attempt to recycle as much as they can.
I've got news for you... you already have government price floors on all hospital procedures.
What do you find impossible about the results?

While the blog post you linked to claims that the work finds "implausibly large effects", it doesn't clarify what the author finds implausible about them (and the author admits to only spending 30 minutes looking at the literature).

I would agree that the graphic in the PDF linked in this HN discussion, and in the paper referenced by the blog post you cited, uses alarmist labels (e.g., "dysfunctional" for performance scores at 25th percentile and below). However, the full version of the report, as linked by post, states that the percentiles are based on the reported scores from 20k other administrations of the test.

Therefore this report simply implies that some of the reported variation in some of the historical scores might be explained by variations in room CO2 concentrations. What's so implausible/impossible about that?

Disclaimer: I know several of the authors of this report, and have good regard for their scientific integrity, so my gut-level reaction to an undocumented accusation that their results are implausible, was skeptical.
I have been adding more docs to:

https://github.com/iogf/crocs/wiki

It would be interesting to hear comments :)
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This is actually very false...

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-33....
That's probably good advice. The extra $80 for a cleaning is cheaper than many of the dental procedures that many folks will need.
Most bars (in my experience) have a pretty good selection of sunglasses/hats/umbrellas that have been inadvertently left there in the past.
I can't speak for other regions, but for Vancouver $120k CAD is about the upper end of the middle. Most truly senior developers in the $150k-$180k range.
A fixed percentage for a fixed number of years (right now 2 years), unless you meet a dollar cap (right now $30k). Any recruiting fees we get are deducted from what you owe, so they pay for your tuition. And if you make less than $50k/yr you don't pay anything.
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It would seem to be balanced out by the opposite scenario:

>>Leave yours at the door when you enter a store...if it's not raining anymore when you leave, just leave it there.
Ok a better argument would be that GPU companies put driver priority on Windows drivers and don't do too much for Linux.

Some popular games like Civilization VI have been ported to Linux but they run better on Windows and faster for some reason. I suspect the Windows drivers are better optimized. I triple boot Linux Mint, Windows 7 Pro, and Windows 10 Pro. Linux Mint seems to play the Civ 6 game slower than 10 or 7.
The facts that they are the primary beneficaries of underpriced IPOs (ie, the biggest reward for the smallest risk) and that they are the all-powerful gatekeepers of the process and that most of these IPOs shoot up in price on day one (meaning that their customers are leaving huge amounts of money on the table) is a pretty good indication. If you don't count fully aligned incentives as evidence, it's at least very clearly a process ripe for collusion and corruption, and should be handled with extreme care and skepticism.
RIP and condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. RescueTime looks like a product I should've gotten several years ago.

I wish I heard of it earlier from some other news.
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I wasn't aware of it but Robinhood did offer SNAP IPO: https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000902306...
I think it's simply stating the obvious: rather than using a market-based mechanism for price discovery, they pick a price to sell at. For a bunch of people who are such big fans of markets, this looks really dubious. "Markets for thee, but not for me".
> Are you referring to the old "e-mail here to apply for the entitlement" process they had in place? Or do they still not allow the entitlement for free developer IDs now?

I really do mean the latter: they still block this entitlement from use by free developer IDs. If you try to activate it you get an error #9999 with the following message.

> The 'Network Extensions' feature is only available to users enrolled in Apple Developer Program. Please visit https://developer.apple.com/programs/ to enroll.
(rather than just design some stuff for boring corporate companies)

Picking a company you can believe in and going to work for their design department is probably the best way to make a positive difference in the world while also being able to pay the bills. Plenty of companies are doing "good work" in the world. The world would be a vastly worse place without business as usual for all kinds of products. Improving some of those products can make a meaningful difference.

There is plenty of time to think about how to make a really serious difference. It doesn't have to be solved today. After you get a bit of experience, you can pivot to something that you feel fits that criteria.

I tend to not like these types of questions because a bunch of internet strangers are generally speaking not somehow magically more qualified than you are to decide how to make a "real" difference in the world. The short list of people with such answers are typically working on them in some way and it often doesn't pay the bills.

Best.
The rookie cop his first day on the job has more power over you than Bill Gates does.
Don't Medicare and Medicaid pay fixed prices? And aren't they generally below cost for the provider? So they have to "make up the difference" by charging private insurers and cash payers more?
Our brain can understand that a cartoon-picture of a cat is a cat. Also, our brain can understand that a picture of a cat taken from a hugely different angle than seen before is a cat. Deep learning cannot do those kind of tricks.

A related problem is "one shot learning", [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-shot_learning
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RIP -- he seems like a great person.
A digital product designer is basically a UX designer with knowledge of product management. While UX rely only on the user experience and the constraints of the user environment, the P.D. have to incorporate (and understand) business requests, production workflow, ect.
You are right, it would not make sense to reply now. But at the time of my reply, the user account was 44 days old and the comment was at the top of the submission. I presumed the user among other people were not aware of HN guidelines.
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I would actually have no problem saying that a podcast that stretches your critical thinking muscles makes you "smarter".

But do any of the listed podcasts do that? To work a muscle or your brain, you have to actively...well, work. I haven't tried all of the podcasts they listed, but of the ones that I have tried, they're all passive entertainment. (And again, nothing wrong with that.)
I didn't say it actually stopped, it was just the first chip that sprang to mind as an example chip, for good reason. Guess I should have seen this coming.
In Canada, you pay for that healthcare via taxes, so pre-tax salary shouldn't be different. If you're on a high salary, you can get income protection and healthchare insurance.

Though I'll note that the US puts a higher percent of GDP into public healthcare expenditure than Canada (yes, Americans pay more taxes for healthcare than Canadians, despite not having much public healthcare), so I guess the US is just bad at doing healthcare efficiently. Source: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PUBL.ZS
I listen to a lot of history podcasts, and though they vary a good deal in quality, the ones by experts in the field (people with a PhD in History focusing on the subject) like The Fall of Rome podcast, the Ottoman History podcast, or the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean podcast are an excellent source of information. If you look for them, though, keep in mind that a lot of history podcasts have similar names. For example, the aforementioned Ottoman History podcast is different from The History of the Ottoman Empire podcast.

The one by amateurs vary a lot in quality. Some - like the History of England podcast - seem to be done by amateurs who are extremely well informed (though skip the first 20 episodes of the History of England podcast if you give it a go). Others seem to be about the same quality as someone giving to you a synopsis of a Wikipedia page they just read. When in doubt I'd stick to the ones by experts in the field.
Thanks for that link. I'm looking forward to reading about Bevan and, in particular, finding this book.
Think about what the static background actually is. It's probably either an image (which is already just a static GL texture, no need to cache your bitmap in another bitmap), or it's something like a round rect which can actually be rendered faster than sampling from a texture (since it's a simple quad + a simple pixel shader - no texture fetches slowing things down). In such a scenario a GPU layer just ends up making things slower and uses more RAM.
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What exactly are you doing when you get to starbucks? Are you trying to follow a tutorial? Read a programming book? Watching a video on programming?
If so, try doing the same thing you're trying to do but with any other topic, like reading a fantasy book, or watching a documentary on the laptop. If the latter is more interesting then the former, then really you're interests aren't as strong as you'd like yourself to believe.
Ultimately, there really isn't anything that can be done - you can't kick someone out because they look or smell a certain way if they're using a public utility the way it was meant to be used.

There's lots that can be done. How about more computers, for a start? If they're monopolizing 100 computers then how about 1000? Install public showers and laundry facilities, too. Add in a volunteer job training center. Run free programming classes and job interview tutorials. Resumé review classes would be great, too.
I think the basic idea is to show through your profile that you're a competent developer. The project you pick doesn't necessarily need to do anything new and amazing, it just needs to be your work. You could make a task-list app (which has been done a million times) but if you do it well then you've achieved your goal.

Of course, the best outcome would be to make something that other people want to use. This would get attention and further validation. So if you find a project you're passionate about---the "I built it because nobody had yet" thing---then that would be best.

Good luck!
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Feels like there isn't a solution using current OSes.

Why does CPU locking exist? I'm sure this is pretty technical question but if anyone has a dumb answer for me... Is this something impossible get rid of? Can it be scoped to a core and not the entire CPU?
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If that was the case, Canadian employers should have the upper hand in competitive salaries, because they don't have to cover healthcare, and corporate taxes are also cheaper. This happened in the auto sector, where Canadian plants have enjoyed a few decades of favoured status compared to American plants due to lower employment costs. That's now changed since the UAW has caved in so much to the automakers and workers in the U.S. South will work for peanuts, on top of state government offering massive subsidies to attract new plants.

What happens is simply that many Canadians like Canada and don't want to move south, and the Canadian economy is poorer than the American one (in particular, there is way less VC investment per capita), so companies have less money to fight over developers, and many developers (like myself) are content with this market.
AR is unfortunately such a broad label, covering an enormous variety of implementations from dedicated headsets to phone cameras.

I'd argue Snapchat delivered one of the first mainstream AR 'hits' - many of my friends can't get enough of their AR photo filters. To be fair, many of them are extremely impressive tech demos, fluidly augmenting the user's face in real time video. Whether that's a meaningful strategic advantage is another question!
Kind of, kind of not. It is true that the language of Copyright law calls out 'facts' as something that is not being protected by copyright, how you get the facts has a large bearing on whether or not you can reproduce them.

There is a lot of case law around this stuff as you might imagine. I certainly haven't followed all of it but my interest in information economics has lead me to read fairly extensively about it. And I'm not a lawyer, and especially not a Copyright lawyer so it is entirely possible that everything I have come to know is pure bollocks, consider yourself so warned :-).

Generally in reading about these things there are 'facts' and 'how you got access to them' that come out. There are lots of cases where the "collection" of facts has been upheld to be protected. So for example the "Machinists Handbook" is a collection of facts about machining and the handbook is protected by copyright, even though the specific dimensions of various thread pitches are just 'facts'. Perhaps more interesting has been cases involving national sports leagues against companies and fans who do things like "live tweet" a sports event. They have argued successfully that by buying a ticket to the event you have agreed to the terms of that admission which expressly prohibits you from reproducing those facts in any form. So while it may be a "fact" the Buster Posey just struck out, if you learned of that fact by sitting in AT&T park at a game you can't legally "tweet" it without violating your agreement with Major League Baseball that you agreed to when you bought the ticket.

It has similarly been held (look at a lot of CraigsList vs a bunch of people) that automating access to a web site through scraping is an access that you have to be explicitly allowed. That allowance comes in the terms of service of the web site and is expressed by the robots.txt file (and the available terms of service contracts on the site).

What it boils down to is that the collection of facts in a web site ARE protected by Copyright. Further, in exchange for granting you access to the information, the Copyright owner CAN put restrictions on how you may further use the facts you discover there. If you wish to use the information in a way the Copyright owner objects too, you must get the 'facts' through some other source and not the Copyright owner's collection.

And yes, getting it out of Google's cache of the pages does not count. See the Craiglist vs 3Taps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_Inc._v._3Taps_Inc.) dispute to get a feel for how the court views things. The simplest interpretation I can make from those events was that Google's caching pages counts as fair use (it makes results faster) but people taking the page from Google's cache is either a CFAA or Copyright violation and thus disallowed.
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If I just said "it would be better to behave more honestly", what would the response be? More often than not, something along the lines of "I know why it would seem that way, of course honesty should be used whenever possible, but diplomacy being so complicated and humans so mean, what actually would happen when you're too honest (or don't have double standards, etc.) is blah blah blah".

If you disagree, make an argument against it without any such invalid comparisons [It doesn't matter if you say the word "compare", if you don't want to see the woods for all the trees you'll always find excuses anyway and I for one don't need to hear them] because otherwise, there isn't even anything there I need to argue against, and anything beyond pointing that out is just a bonus for someone who doesn't get or doesn't like the point to get hung up on, if you will. On HN it's usually silence or responses like that, bleh, look for the least generous reading, squirt out a one liner. Oh well, you do you.
I once worked at a place where a few of the guys organized an informal "bring your gun to work day" each week, where we'd go target shooting after work. Well at some point corporate got wind of it and, of course, freaked out and banned it. We had enough people who objected to the ban to make a stink of it (I hesitate to say we were "up in arms over it"), and eventually after negotiation we agreed to keep everything locked up in our cars in the parking lot.
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