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It doesn't matter how much I support nuclear, my "support" does absolutely nothing to make it economical or buildable.

It's all a fantasy. The only reason that nuclear gets built is so that a country can support their nuclear submarines/aircraft carriers.

Nuclear energy is not a realistic solution to anything, because building it is not realistic.

>Solar and wind would also be expensive if they hadn't been subsidized.

The entirety of nuclear has been subsidized as the technology has been created, just as solar and wind have.

What matters now is what can be built. Nuclear can not be built without spending 3x-5x what we'd spend for equivalent wind or solar. And that's ignoring the cases where billions of dollars have been spent and then completely abandoned.

Your doubt of solar and wind are at least 10 years out of date. As are your nuclear ideas, because they were the same things being said in 2008 during the "nuclear renaissance." It all proved to be completely false. Westinghouse was given a shot, and it continues to end up blowing up Westinghouse's parent company, Toshiba.

If you can not address the specifics of Westinghouse, Toshiba, VC Summer, Vogtle, or Hinckley, then you are just spreading outdated propaganda.
Indeed, and at the time I was surprised that they got him for so little. There's so many design decisions in C# that resemble Object Pascal and Turbo Pascal, that it's pretty obvious that Anders=C# (not to take anything away from what are surely some of the best compiler engineers in the last few decades, I just don't know their names off-hand).
There is no Hub in the article.

The problem with Git decentralization is that you need a publically accessible endpoint (meaning there is an eventual central host). Even when you are using email for patch files, your email becomes the central point of failure (even if you host that yourself). So far as fetch goes, this is why git.kernel.org exists.

Git behaves like an mp3-sharing website with multiple mirrors, where-as gittorrent behaves like magnet URLs. This protocol effectively obsolesces the requirement for remotes.
Yep. I'm astonished that otherwise capable engineers accept the reasoning that since so many of the $4/hour lowest bid Indian devs they've worked with are subpar, it must be that Indian devs are just generally bad.
This is the standard HN effect. I also love when I think some startups are killing it based on what I read here; but then they end up shutting down soon after due to a lack of any real revenue model.
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>Wipro, Infy etc aren't able to hold quality senior technical talent because they cannot pay as much. The better senior developers leave to product development firms that pay better and have better quality work and work life balance, leaving behind newly joined junior developers who know less, but will accept what Infy/Wipro pays and work ungodly hours.

And that right there is the issue. Happens in Sri Lanka as well although to a lesser extent (smaller population). The companies that have been most prolific in outsourcing are the ones who are responsible for the current stereotyping of India's IT industry.

Those same companies are also the ones bidding with lowest costs in order to win more contracts. I submit virtusa as exhibit A where India and Sri Lanka are battling each other for contracts and India generally being able to offer lower rates.

Which then feeds back into how those projects actually get completed, and as per the quote and the article, it involves 18 hour workdays 6-7 days a week with poor compensation against 8 hour work days. And this ends up churning out humans who know their worth and know what jobs they can get now that they've got that first job on the CV, aka the foot through the door.

This then restarts the cycle where companies have to complete projects and keep bidding on new projects to maintain the hired workforce and on and on and lower and lower it goes.

This part of the industry has been a shit show for a while. I will be sad for the people who lose jobs. No one deserves that unless they were knowingly malicious. At the same time, the software industry has to mature, and I don't see how this business models will be sustained with such maturity.
No no no! Snap chat filters with a donkey or an elephant!! XD
Something I've noticed about Hollywood bias. When there is a Republican President, the villains tend to be corporations ("Rollerball") or government ("No Way Out"). In other words, Republicans are the enemy. When there is a Democrat President, the villains tend to be aliens ("Independence Day) or natural disasters ("Twister"). In other words, Democrats are the heroes. Just anecdotal, I've never seen a study on it.
I dont think talking about the nazi regime is a depressing topic anymore in Germany and it hasnt been for a long time. It paved the way for people to define themselves as not just as the descendants of the German empire but people unwilling to be quite about their forefathers misdeeds. It empowered a lot of people to disregard the excuse for horrible deeds as people "just doing their job". It empowered the point of view, that the government can be wrong and should be opposed if so.

Between the Gestapo and the Stasi, the German executive has to lobby hard for support outside of their state employed peers to be viewed as a force tasked with their job by democratic mandate. As little as that is the case in reality, it still is a great development historically. Just the part alone, that soldiers are meant to be citizens in uniforms has done a lot to root out any possibility of the military having a say in politics.

Just to point it out, I dont think that shift happened with the end of the war or shortly after, quite the contrary. It is sadly clear, that warcriminals were protected by large parts of society. The change happend two decades later, when people were willing to speak up about their parents beeing mass murderer who got away.
He has 92 patrons giving him $596/month.

Methinks you don't understand how Patreon works.
I think most people mirrored instead of closing. Spin.
> That update going out immediately OTA is going to save lives compared to if Tesla waited for the cars to be serviced like other manufacturers. I don't think you can legitimately argue against that fact.

There is again no evidence to support this fact. There is evidence that Tesla's OTA software updates have introduced safety issues with Tesla cars. That's a fact.

Better braking distance is of course a good thing but if anything, the fact that Teslas were on the road for so long with a sub-par braking distance is more evidence of a problem with Tesla than it is evidence of a benefit of OTA updates.

The other factor in that brake story is that it took mere days for Tesla to release an update to "fix" the brakes. This isn't a good thing. The fact that it was accomplished so quickly means that the OTA update was likely not tested very well. It also means that the issue was easy to fix, which calls into question why it wasn't fixed before. It also highlights the fact that Tesla, for some reason, failed to do the most basic testing on their own cars for braking distance. Comparing the braking distance of their cars should have been one of the very first things they did before even selling the cars, but apparently it took a third party to do that before Tesla was even aware of the issue. This doesn't inspire confidence in Tesla cars at all.
Yes according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Duo
> I try my best, at minimum, to star anything I use on github as a way of supporting it , and in addition to other factors you mention, take this number as an indication of the likelihood it will continue to be developed.

I don't understand how these are correlated. Do you mean that it's likely that one of the starrers will fork it if the original project team disappears?

There are much stronger metrics for whether a project is likely to be maintained in the future. The problem with stars isn't that it's a metric, it's that it's a bad metric.
Great PR move? Amazing build of trust?

Microsoft bought GitHub for over seven billion dollars. You don't buy something for that kind of cash unless it has that kind of value. Saying they 'should' do something as though there is a problem is silly. Engineers here on HN are so quick to say what someone "needs to do" something... but in response to what? What problem are you identifying? A vocal minority of engineers have complained about the acquisition, meanwhile GitHub has 28 million users. Most of those users don't care that this happened.
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PUBG's Freefall, App Store Gaming, FaZe Legal Issues, and the PLG E3 Predictions
Some folks in Brazil did something like that, IIRC it's called project Serenata de amor, it uses machine learning to process public government data in search of weird and suspicious expenses and flag it.

Link: https://serenata.ai/en/
So is Defender. The scanner runs as NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM without any sandbox. One flaw in the scanner is a widespread and nearly wormable exploit. You can infect an entire company by just spamming them if you found an exploit in the file type parsers it uses.

Here's a bug found by Project Zero. The researcher had trouble getting the test case to Microsoft because Defender was running on their middleware boxes and would automatically scan it and die from the exploit testcase.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...
I wonder how much of the Hangouts drop-off is a result the increased focus on smartphones over desktop/laptop for a lot of users.

In the mid-late 2000s it was super common for me to chat with everyone this way. It was great on my phones back when SMS were often still limited and expensive and I could continue in the Gmail tab that was perpetually open on my PC when at home or at work.

Practically everyone I knew had a Gmail address so we could keep a running set of conversations going even at work or other places where we might not have been able to install something like AIM in earlier years.

With the shift to mobile-only (or at least mobile-mostly) for a lot of people, it wasn't a given that you would have GChat or, later, Hangouts. iPhone people might not bother to install it. Android people might gravitate toward Facebook since everyone was on it already.

Google's tendency to make good services but fail to pitch them or stick to a focused strategy can't help either. Even though I tend to like their products, I can't honestly claim to appreciate the way they seemed to be finally integrating Voice, SMS, and IP-based chat into Hangouts...before then splitting them all off into multiple similar-but-different products.

Now I still chat with plenty of people on Hangouts and have multiple years-spanning group chats still active. But I can't say I'm enthusiastic about the service or optimistic about its future. It could've been the cross-platform iMessage/Facetime competitor I wanted but now it feels like another wasted opportunity.
I’m more willing to believe the openly viewable GitLab migration tracker, which shows several thousand projects migrated. Just another way Gitlab is nice is the openly viewable statistics versus a generalization.

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/03/movingtogitlab/
What is the diff between “in memory” and “in-your-app's-process-memory”?
It's dead. If Email would only work between the same vendor, I would call it dead too. So dead means technologically dead. I would not recommend anyone using it. It doesn't allow cross vendor communication.
I don't know about that. As a freelancing expat, you could probably avoid truly being impacted by South African politics. The politics of much of the Midwest aren't exactly stellar. Especially in the most affordable parts. Lastly, as cheap as the Midwest is, bang for the buck in South Africa is far more exciting. I'm not an expert on S.A., but I have been there. And I spent the first 21 years of my life in the Midwest.
Then they've been doing a very shitty job at it, compared to their deals with corporations.
I substituted 'them' for 'those'. According to the interweb, it's grammatically acceptable in informal English.

Similar to saying "Look at them eyes" or "One of them developers will get to it eventually".

ref: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/them
Based on the picture, "pulling it up" looks like a fairly intensive task, requiring boats, persons, etc.

That kind of thing eats directly into the ROI for a datacenter. I doubt it competes with a static building with a bunch of solar panels on top.
I wasn't aware that ProtonVPN was not run by ProtonMail, even though I happen to be from Vilnius, Lithuania myself and even have a close friend working at Tesonet. If this is true, that makes me question how much anything branded Proton* can be trusted in general.
Can you confirm that the end result is no longer a PDF, but content hosted on your site?

Or rather a PDF hosted on your site that the user doesn't copy to their computer but views on your site in their browser?
The drinking of soda also strips the body of magnesium. If you're a heavy soda drinker (or coffee), try supplementing with Magnesium Glycinate and you will feel a world a difference in your calmness.
https://www.iherb.com/pr/KAL-Magnesium-Glycinate-400-400-mg-...

(try to get 1000mg a day)
If producing gasoline requires extracting CO2 from the atmosphere, then providing enough H2 to make the fuel, then it may make more sense to replace your car. Bear in mind that H2 is mostly produced from natural gas today, and electrolytic production is somewhat more expensive.

I think it will depend on how the prices for batteries and electricity evolve as well as advancements in electrolysis.

There are also other advantages to electric vehicles, such as no particulate and NOX exhaust, which may encourage taxation / regulation of combustion vehicles.
I can't wait to live in that future, glasses that let you know if you bumped into anyone famous
In the early days of computing there were a small number of highly technical early adopters who were easily reached. Now, there’s a vast market of almost the entire population, supporting technology companies worth hundreds of billions.

Product categories that worked [for tiny startups] in the early days don’t work now, but there are vastly more opportunities (especially in vertical markets) then ever before

By the way - cryptocurrency is one area with primitive tools and a similar user base to the early days of computing.
Nothing changed. It had traction for more than a decade.
> adultery or other similar crimes

Adultery is not a crime.

(You can argue that it's an indicator of a person's character, or lack thereof, sure. But that's something different.)
You just confirmed what I was saying the parent.
The alternatives to Google's service don't necessarily offer any distinct advantage in terms of hiding your location whereabouts. https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/mozillanlpbackend-vs-apple-...
They specifically note it is still end-to-end encrypted. But I don’t have the details.
This is a terrible article and I am a fan of The Atlantic and would probably be considered a climate hawk.

The new science that Climate Engineering did has nothing to do with making gasoline from CO2. There is technology to do that and a number of companies working on it, its in the $10/gallon range. Some have estimated as low as $4, if they can get their process to scale up, which they haven't been able to do.

There is already plenty of CO2 available for much less than $100/ton, this is not a barrier to making products out of CO2.
Machines that suck CO₂ from the air might be cheaper than we thought
Gas can't cause itself to combust due to physical damage. It needs a spark of some sort. Li batteries can self-combust from physical damage.
iMessage has been doing Group Messaging with end-to-end for years without much issue.
America can't afford universal health care - doctors get paid too much. The average doctor's salary here is over 300k USD. The average doctors salary in Europe is almost one-third of that..
I have yet to replace my 19 year old low mileage car. I'd rather have a 1000 spiders and 1000 flower flies and a 1000 bees than another gallon of gasoline. Of course what organisms originally died to create that gallon of gasoline that you buy today?
I simply don't know what to say to you if you are going to legitimately argue that shaving 20 feet off of braking distance will not make a car any safer.

EDIT: The comment I was replying to was heavily edited after I responded. It originally said something along the lines of improving braking distance is good but there is no evidence that it would improve safety.
There is another book written by the same author specifically aimed at Data Science problems, called 'The Data Science Design Manual'.
Check it out at its dedicated website: www.data-manual.com
I didn't realize this behavior was so common but I have noticed it in a few Indian tech people I have worked with state-side. Extremely frustrating when the answer to "Do you understand what you need to do now?" is "yes" then a few hours later you find them standing around looking confused. I had assumed it was a language barrier thing.
Really happy to see this kind of transparency - it's a seemingly rare thing in the industry right now.
You can use this trick against 100 duck sized horses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae
> The butcher, the brewer and the baker have no ability to alter my biochemistry so I can't consumer other people's meat, beer and bread.

Yet. :-)
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I am generally against often-called "excessive regulation," but the regulator -- perhaps FTC -- should aggressively prohibit the misleading marketing message here.

The entire problem manifests from calling this lane keeping mechanism "Autopilot." Tesla should be prohibited from using that language until they have achieved a provably safer self-driving level 3+.

The problem is exacerbated by Musk's aggressive marketing-driven language. Saying things like we're two years out from full self-driving (first said in 2015) and the driver was warned to put his hands on the steering wheel (15 minutes prior to the crash) makes Musk look like he is plainly the bad guy and attempting to be misleading.

"Provably safe" probably means some sort of acceptance testing -- a blend of NTSB-operated obstacle course (with regression tests and the like) and real world exposure.
It is on Medium, so it shouldn't have been such a surprise to you.
Why Do You Want to Be a VC?
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I think your reading of my comment is confused: I would not be installing cameras in my house (where I have a reasonable expectation of privacy), but outside my house (where anyone can get a clear view of the entire block and what's happening there.
Even with the evilest scheme, it seems unlikely to come up with something harming the rentability of renewables, or of solar in particular. It's basically free electricity from sun, which is plenty in Australian deserts. You pay only the installation, which price is determined by the tech market.
I'll use it while comparing multiple projects to guage community support and how "alive" the project is. Stars are obviously not the best representation, but it's a nice way to see how many other people have evualuated the project and are either using it or at least thought it looked good in some way.

This past weekend, while trying to choose a JS framework for a webapp, stars played a decent role in my choice when it came down to two that seemed to have similar features and comparable commit activity. One project has ~200 stars, while the other had ~13,000, which definitely helped push me toward the latter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
Great idea, but let's drop the crypto and drop the gambling. Instead, crowdfund dirt that would constitute grounds for impeachment or recall for politicians.

Credible whistleblowers have additional incentive, and it would serve as a good yardstick for just how much folks detest a given official.

Alternatively we could take the crypto and go full Weimar Republic with a Kickstriker[0] clone for politicians!

[0] - http://kickstriker.com/
This is brilliant, totally stealing this. Reading the other threads found myself agreeing with both "design UI first" and "design DB first" and couldn't reconcile the two. But if you split it into design and develop it makes total sense.
If there's any misunderstanding, it's probably mine. :) I'm reasonably familiar with Rust, and I understand your argument; but I only read about Zig a couple weeks ago, so my knowledge there is based only on a little reading and experimentation.

My reading of the release notes:

https://ziglang.org/download/0.2.0/release-notes.html

...is that error sets can be inferred (at both call-site and in the function declaration); and that inferred error-sets on return types are exact, in the sense that an inferred set will only include the actually-possible errors encountered in the call-tree.

To be fair, I don't know whether a function can declare that it may fail with a given, explicitly-declared error-set, where that error-set includes errors that the function actually cannot produce. (E.g., I say I can throw a network-error code, but I perform no network calls.) If this is permissible (i.e, the compiler doesn't complain), then that undercuts my argument a bit. :) On the other hand (again from the release notes), most functions are encouraged to simply declare their return type as !T, where the ! represents "the inferred error-set for the function," and this seems to support my claim.
I've ABSOLUTELY read the fabled financial report [1]. Things get even more suspicious if one nit-picks on it. Software development cost Mozilla $225M in 2016 and other expenses $135M. An unacceptable amount of expenses go into non-core activities!

If you're a software engineer @ Mozilla and earn less than ~$190K/annum ($225M/1200 employees), your boss is exploiting you. OR Mozilla routinely pays actual engineers far lesser than what their top brass spend on whims.

[1]: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2016/2016_Mozilla_Au...
Yes, but there is optional possibility to allow for downloading the file, which we can't track in this case
And ES6 classes were designed long before they were implemented, around the time people were making class hierarchies with backbone and AMD modules were the future.

The rise of Java and the OOP revolution isn't that far behind us (2 decades seems like a lot in the tech world, but its still within a single generation of humans).
"Developers are independent thinkers..."

He seems to be playing the typical corporate lackey role. His comments are all full of condescension, platitudes, and corpspeak. He sounds more like a PR person than a principled leader. He's saying exactly what he thinks his audience wants to hear. It's not surprising that he thrived as a Microsoft exec.

That he's willing to make promises about GitHub's future is also telling. He's the "CEO" of a company owned by another company. He can be fired and replaced at the first hint of disagreement with Microsoft execs. He can't afford to rock the boat at all and he knows it. So he's being dishonest or naive when he makes these promises. A more honest or aware person would make this distinction clear.

Microsoft ruining GitHub over the next few years will be a good thing for open source. There was never anything ideal about relying on a highly centralized proprietary service. GitHub made it work but Microsoft will reveal the inherent weakness of this situation.
You can create a token right outside of securities law. DAICO seems like a good candidate. The ambiguity is extra risk, but the SEC says they are only going after ICOs.