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I admit i don’t know much about the coal burning radiation output. And im even further away from knowing the perfect solution to the worlds energy needs. So i have many questions, driven by the wish to live in a intact environment and leaving it to those who come in a good state.

Where and how exactly is the radiation release of coal plants happening?
I can imagine its maybe a difference if a smaller dose of radiation is put out slowly and spread more (in time and space terms)than if it’s concentrated on one point? Radiaton is anywhere thats clear... but we rarely get strong radiation caused illnesses from just catching cosmic radiation do we?

And how exactly are politics preventing proper storage?

I definitely don’t wanna promote coal, but
where are these numbers proving coal killed and harmed more people than Fukushima and Tchernobyl and the many smaller incidents?

Also i often wonder - where could science of reusable energy and reduced consumption be if the billions invested in nuclear research were invested there instead?
This needs to be said, and I’m glad Vox is finally saying it. The nearly 100ish nuclear power plants in the US generate almost 1/5 of the total electricity output. It irks me beyond belief when environmentalists try to close them down just for existing. There have not been any major incidents in the US (apart from Three Mile Island), and if Congress got its shit together and sacrificed a single mountain in Nevada for waste disposal we could finally stop all of the actual damage that the coal/oil industry has inflicted over generations.
> we show that n variables cannot be multiplied using fewer than 2^n neurons in a single hidden layer.

I don't know, but it just feels like this should have been known in CS earlier than 2016. Circuit complexity has been studied for a long time.
Several Aleutian Islanda were taken over by the Japanese, as were Wake, Guam, and the Philippines.
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> The population is rather segregated, if a kid needs to be bussed an extra 30+ minutes each way it's not nessisarily worth it.

Yes, decades of redlining and other less explicit policies have created a situation in which residences are somewhat segregated.

That's not an argument against the goal of desegregation; it's a statement of what the causes of the current problem are.
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Doesn't mean the rules of making money don't cause it to drift to those who already have a shitton of it.
There is another bias where things that are free must be lower quality or there is some catch so I would be careful with that.
> That’s not a sustainable way to run an industry though.

Sure it is. Just because nitpicking is possible doesn't make the basic idea impossible. For example, of course the new owners would know what they were buying.

> Who decides what constitutes wildly successful? Who decides how many percent

Just as an example, it could be "more than 4x the expected revenue cited when doing the original negotiations", and 5%. (Or if "wildly successful" is too likely to get cheated, make it unconditional.)

> and who gets what share of it?

Plenty of ways to do it, just pick one.
> The single biggest problem with reparations, is that it would bankrupt several of Europe's leading economies, those that were responsible for hundreds of years of slavery and the forced transport of millions of African slaves to North and South America.

Yes. To add to that: the mere fact that the current European economy cannot exist but for the spoils of centuries of imperialism and exploitation should itself give us pause.
I am pretty sure that 16 character random passwords are safe from dictionary attacks, and I suspect you and I are using the same process for protecting these passwords. tptacek is leary of our process while you and I are leary of the certs getting out of our control without our knowledge. Security is a handful of trade offs.
It is until it isn’t.

The market is still willing to shrug off news like that because we’re not in a recession or a bear market yet.
天之道，损有余以补不足；人之道，损不足以奉有余。

It is the way of heaven to diminish superabundance, and to supplement deficiency. it is not so with the way of man. he takes away from those who have not enough to add to his own superabundance.
> members of the neighboring Dahomian tribe captured him and took him to the coast. There, he and about 120 others were sold into slavery and crammed onto the Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach the continental United States.

Even repeating a sentence about this that appeared in the original article gets downvoted and reported. Why is this such a sensitive thing to talk about?
Money spent on building new services and infrastructure is not profit, it's expense. By either GAAP or dictionary definitions.
Not trying to imply that at all, I'm just one person! And not even a real party animal.

I believe the timing was purely coincidence.
Dispassionate people don't work 20 hour days for weeks on end for hardly any money, digging into a story that they know might not ever lead anywhere.
You either did not read my comment or understand it, because I said the exact opposite.
Wow that's quite a depressing list, how long have you been curating it?

Assuming you won the birth lottery (no terminal illness, overall healthy, work in tech given you're on HN), then you are in the top echelon of society and success.

There are many things to be happy about e.g. volunteering to give back, settling down with a significant other, starting a family (or not), traveling the world, cooking, fixing cars, shooting guns, etc. While you partake in these activities (hobbies?) you can get lost in them and for brief moment, nothing else in the world matters i.e. your list. This gives you something to look forward to and a routine away from existential ideation.

Humans are social creatures and we've evolved this way. Generally speaking the majority of us derive happiness from the ones we care about in this weird thing we call life. Thanks for sharing the list!
Cumulative advantage has always seemed obvious to me and not terribly intereeting. I'm more interested in why it doesn't dominate in a completely out-of-control way.

For instance, we know small companies often win against much larger ones.
"I’m Danish, but it’s like this in all of Scandinavia"

Here in Finland the figure you referred (86k$) would be equivalent to director level pay in the public side. An engineer with the package you described would be above average in compensation here. We get 4 to 6 weeks of paid vacation.

The average wage in software engineering here is around 40k$ - 57k$ (i.e more or less what you referred). In software engineering, depending on the employer, the degree does not necessarily affect compensation though. Top of the line engineers are well compensated (in the Finnish scale) regardless of their degree.

Of course, Finland is not strictly geographically speaking part of Scandinavia (although it is a nordic country) :)
Not sure why, but I see the raw markup rather than a formatted article. Interesting content nonetheless, but difficult to read on mobile.
Aqualung was an old vinyl record my dad gave me, and I distinctly remember the cover.
Klang, Ton, Schall, Geräusch... it's like Eskimos and Snow!
Weren’t the most outspoken abolitionists Quakers? They’re far from Christian fundamentalists.
I totally agree here, that 'culture fit' in team work is a real thing. Usually a thing that you discover some month later, after the person feels they can be "themselves" and don't need to pretend being nice. If the whole team finds a person toxic, this is very real case of 'culture unfit' and it should be dealt with.

However, I also once faced with a case, when manager didn't want to hire an engineer, because she thought he wasn't 'culture fit', although he was a great engineer. Technical members of hiring committee managed to convince her otherwise and then this person became in a sense the heart of the team, everybody liking him more than anybody else.

So, in my opinion 'culture fit' should always come from within the team a person works in and it should be a collective opinion, not an opinion of a single manager.
By that logic, solar, wind, and hydro aren't clean either; they all generate some amount of pollution and environmental side effects. And since nothing is truly "clean", I guess we can all just use coal, right?

Sarcasm aside, "clean" in this context has a very specific meaning, which nuclear meets. The fact that it isn't an entirely magical source of side-effect free power is not relevant.
> And how exactly are politics preventing proper storage?

Basically, NIMBY. Even if it's perfectly safe, some people will always worry about "but what if all physicists, seismologists etc. etc. are wrong (or lying)"?
Bad example. Zuckerberg himself was hired to code the first version of HarvardConnection.com.
Here's a solution: You take the nuclear waste, and then you put it in a small pile somewhere geologically inactive, and then you don't touch it.

Problem solved.

The issues with nuclear are almost entirely related to cost.
There's too much noise out there. I don't think it's purely market advantage. People are buying from authors they already like because they can't read all the books, so they look for books that are from an author they already like or ones that manage to breach their noise filter. Same with music, there's probably thousands of bands you would love and songs you would list among your favourites, if only you would give them an equal chance of listening, but that's not how we usually behave.

Yes the market recognises this behaviour and tries to push past success because they get a great return, but familiarity and noise floor are powerful.
Not surprised, the stories of artists signing for X and getting never properly compensated (either for X or X-extended-to-anything-else) are countless.

And there's little you can do, unless you can nail down the exact culprit to a specific court.

For example: Apple is selling my music, without my consent or without paying due royalties. If I go to them they say "we pay royalties to the distributor", the distributor says "we only deal with labels" and my label has gone bust. Another label now has the rights. They don't know me. They don't have a contract with me. They have a contract with a deceased label that sold them rights they never acquired. So... yeah, it's never going to be fixed.
Like implementing mini jobs at 450/mo?

http://www.bmas.de/EN/Our-Topics/Social-Security/450-euro-mi...

Mini jobs in research:
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/224824
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That wasn't what I took away from that publisher's statement. I heard it to mean that in the beginning getting your name out was very important. And while the Oatmeal famously lampooned "exposure" as something that might be valuable, building one's "brand" is a thing.
Bryan Caplan is a libertarian, and thus somebody who has not mastered basic critical thinking.

Why would we be interested in such a person's views on learning?
Oh, how I love old HP calculators. My HP 28s is 30 years old and still working great. - I learned programming in a Forth like language (stack based) with it. And it inspired me to learn Scheme and the Mathematica language. Love it. Although these days I rather use a version for my iPhone (HCalc)
I've been trying that, but so far I don't find a big advantage, but it _is_ a bit annoying to have to annotate all types that could be null.

This is to say: it could be good, or it could be another "exceptions in Java" moment
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*the New York Times of almost 30 years ago
I read an article quite a while back (might be a couple of years ago now) that did the math and concluded that, unless some serious "magic" happened, Tesla was going to lose major coin on every Model 3 sold. Then I read an article just a couple of days ago that said that, in fact, Tesla IS losing major coin on every Model 3 sold. Who knew?
That's still pretty high if we're just considering raw transit costs. The highest rate I would be comfortable paying for a CDN would be $0.015/GB ($0.03/GB in Asia), that's still way above market rates for most IP transit right now.

Much better deal (and probably way better CDN) than AWS provides, but AWS egress rates are suicidally bad, especially for high bandwidth stuff like video. If you're doing any serious streaming, avoid AWS like the plague unless you like livestreaming yourself filing for bankruptcy.
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Pretty much the same Fox News and CNN do.

Think about it.
FreeBSD was close or even ahead of Linux maybe 15 years ago however now Linux too far ahead. Heck Linux gets driver support for hardware before the hardware even exists.
This is a case of 'contract regret'. If there was a legal case then for sure it would have been litigated and he might have won but as it is all that you could say is that it is really sorry that he got very much hung up on that one painting when instead he could have used its success to significantly raise his prices for other commissioned works with hopefully better contracts.

On another note: whoever made Jethro Tull's cover for that particular album could have felt that way because it was their music that people were buying, not the album cover.
> You mean, we ended it in the United States. Other countries ended slavery before we did.

Sort of? The major European powers "ended" it at home by outsourcing it to their colonies. It's not like Britain, France, Belgium, etc. weren't still practicing explicit chattel slavery well into the 20th century.
You have Windows :) lol
I just wish they added a "live" presentation feature like the unmaintained "play it again sam" (https://github.com/rfk/playitagainsam) had.
All your points are true and I agree with them. When I raise similar viewpoints to some people they tend to regard me as pessimist, but I actually feel quite stable and happy with my life. I'm curious how do you feel or deal with the facts you listed here?

In my view, searching for happiness is a bit pointless in a world where everything is temporary and brutal in many ways.
But there are things which you know you can avoid to not make your life a living hell(Peterson's words) such as doing excessive drugs and alcohol. As Charlie Munger used to say once is much easier to try to not be stupid than trying to be smart. I totally agree with that. After avoiding things which will make you miserable for sure, it all comes down to probability: it's still probable that life will f*ck you up in a grand way no matter how many good things you did. Just hope for the best and be very grateful if you're life is not a living hell now.
Meaning is very important. Life itself is meaningless but we get to decide what it will mean in the end. When I decided to leave a good career to move back to a poor country because I wanted to be close to my family I gave a meaning to my life, which is "family is important to me and I will prioritize it no matter what".

Lastly, Peterson book is not about searching for happiness, is just a readme manual about dealing with chaos. Some ideas are not necessarily mind blowing, one can find good tips in stoicism, buddhism or whatever religion or philosophy. But his book can be a start.
Off topic but thanks for sharing this - it looks awesome!
It's an IPython Notebook that you can use with http://jupyter.org/
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But where can you find such a place? In Germany people believed to found such a place in an old salt mine, now they have to get the stuff back before the mine is completely flooded with water and will contaminate the area around it. And that wasn't high radioactive waste. You need to store is from 100,000 to a million years and you need to inform people about it. Which isn't easy b/c we couldn't really understand the writings on the Pyramids in Egypt which were build just a few thousand years ago. Nuclear power is also dangerous because you can't easily tell apart if a country use it to generate power or build a bomb.
I've seen mediocre to really bad people getting paid $3000/day for their mediocrity and not delivering results.

Increase your rates.
It would be nice if an approach with such a humanitarian tact used in the OP's article were used back then. Hopefully we continue to grow in such a way.
It's hard for me to imagine this comment having been made in good faith. Do you have any credible affirmative proposal/suggestion to preserve the essential qualities of the Internet that government-mandated net neutrality achieves, or are you being willfully ignorant and myopic? When "independent hacker culture" finds a way to fund an 'independent' alternative national/global Internet infrastructure to the tune of hundreds of billions (trillion(s)?) of dollars, please do let me know. (Perhaps you've forgotten or never realized that that the Usenet/Slashdot of old you so wistfully refer to would never have even existed without ARPANET, a government-funded project.)
Metal album cover or band logo t-shirts were a huge fad in Japan amongst young people, even those who didn’t like or know about the music. A metal head friend of mine said that he finally understood cultural appropriation!
Wow. Bullying, sexual harassment, all the usual stuff.

How are people still getting away with this for so long? Didn't they even notice the high turnover and Glassdoor reviews?
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Unroll.Me decided that if it explicitly told people what it was doing, it would be out of business anyway. I think that shows that people in the EU did decide for themselves once the information asymmetry was resolved, and decided no.
Of course with the Enterprise license you'll get support, meaning we offer you access to a free Web1.0 form, which is much better than an email address because it will completely ignore all your new lines, and we guarantee that we will answer within 24 hours that we are looking into it.
I’m not going to miss a chance to suggest watching the (excellent) movie “Pirates of Silicon Valley”!
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> numbers proving coal killed and harmed more people than Fukushima

The number of people who died from the radiation which escaped during the Fukishima nuclear disaster is currently zero.[0] Even factoring in the worst-case projections for every nuclear energy disaster, nuclear power is still the safest—or certainly one of the safest—forms of utility-scale electricity generation.

If you're looking for a form of energy which is normally safe but kills thousands in a disaster scenario, the answer is hydro. In one instance, a dam failure killed 171,000 people.

Solar panel installers and wind turbine workers occasionally die from falls. (Also, solar panel manufacturing can be a dirty/toxic process.)

Fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas, biomass) kill because miners, workers and citizens breathe in coal dust and smoke particulates belched into the atmosphere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
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Even then, I think it'd be unlikely that the time-cost wouldn't make it worthwhile. People generally underestimate how much time gets soaked up by managing a computer service.
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Counterpoint: the Nike logo was designed by an art student for $35. Phil Knight recognized her work’s role in the success of his company and later paid her a lot of money.
There should be another fines in the future. Also, there should be asset seizures and long jail time if we want to see these crimes stop their harassment on us. I have just read an article that also talks about robocalls at https://www.lemberglaw.com/what-are-robocalls/. Hope the law enforcement will think seriously about this problem.
Right - this trivial annoyance, the Python equivalent of a NullPointerException, is not actually prevented by the static type system in Java and some other popular static languages. (Kotlin does prevent it, though!)
Very cool indeed!
Doesn't work in Chrome 66 anymore, due to blocked audio:
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/chrome-autoplay-block-games/
Well, because the thickness on the soap bubble is on the order of the wavelength of visible light, which causes interference that we can see. Windowpanes are far too thick for this to occur.
This is why I think colleges should pay people who work in industries to give students the scoop on things regularly. Unless you have close family that works in a business, there's so much you don't know when you're in college or just graduated about the careers you want to join.
> I suspect that many schoolchildren in the South can also remember the echos of segregation

Remember? You can see it now. Not just in the South, but in every state. In fact, Oregon is probably the state where segregation and its effects are the most visible today.
It's possible to easily take the whole waste and safely store it until it breaks down (it takes a while, though) - that makes it clean as opposed to other kinds of plants that pollute the air.
The idea of reparations after x years seems insane to me. I can understand it if the people affected are still alive, because that would just be seeking damage from unjustly treatment. But when it's a about dead oppressors/oppressed then you are punishing someone for something they didn't do.

And then of course there is always the discussion about how to calculate the fair amount.
What about space? And we're talking about plants in the U.S., I don't think there will be the problem with bombs.
Just to be a pedant the FDA doesn't consider the value of a drug to society, just if it is safe and effective. It is up to the pharmaceutical company to decide if it is worth developing and selling a new drug.

One thing the FDA doesn't consider that I think they should is the cost of not approving a drug. Safety and effectiveness is not black and white when faced with uncertainly.
Wow, I took a CS189 course, was Wilensky’s “Artificial Intelligence”.

I have never quite followed the numbering of Berkeley courses. Whereas MIT’s numbers evoke a regular taxonomy, like Library of Congress numbering. Any ontology is eventually broken, I suppose.
This is very fucked up. What you're doing is unethical and rather nightmarish. Hope you get shut down by COPPA.
You have always been able to convert them with:

Array.prototype.slice.call(htmlCollection);

Which has been the canonical way to cast them. But it will still throw on null or undefined.
"[...] but the fact that all they did — as far as I’ve seen — was play a recording just seems off. It feels like a con."

Oh come on Gruber, it was a tech demo.

"How is what they showed, and the way they showed it, distinguishable from a fraud? The more I think about it, the more strange this “demo” seems."

Denialism of somebody who made a company part of his identity.
Emulators bundled in modern games are not new, recently Modern Vintage Gamer has a video listing a dozen of them [1]. Will the discovering of one open doors to anything? Should we be excited for it?

I think it's a cute discovery that deserves another minute on a youtube video, but that's all there is to it. You should always keep in mind that it is, firstly, an executable blob that no one could improve upon. Secondly, it is a binary that is not legally redistributeable. It's a dead end. I am even more excited about a project that doesn't even have a working code than this.

1: https://youtu.be/UVojVDI52Jk https://youtu.be/FsPLDSqVqSc
The zen is a target, but python fails to reach it very often. After all, duck typing is implicit, there are many way to format and the logging library is very much nesting.

We are not monks, we live in the real world.
And the result policies are with us till today. It was influential journal that shaped how people got treated and current culture, racial divisions, activism etc etc were influenced by that.