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Cut down construction costs still won't solve fundamental problems like final waste storage [0] or a lack of proper epidemiological studies into the effects on people, particularly children and pregnant women [1], living near those plants.

Imho the way we've handled nuclear fission so far is far too reminiscent to other environmental disasters that took humanity decades to even recognize and finally act on, even when we had plenty of warnings from the very beginning [2].

[0] http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/looking-trash-can-nuc...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2757021/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Controversy_and...
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It doesn't really add anything.

It does however, break things.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/503481/why-does-apt...

I would steer clear of it unless it actually provides anything other than a default nvidia setup.
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What is core revenue? Because you are excluding cloud, gaming, hardware which altogether very likely make up >50% of their revenue.
To add another rebuttal to this comment.

I think Nuclear energy also represent situations that are both hyper rewarding and hyper risky.

An oil tanker can spill millions of gallons off the coast but that can be cleaned up and the damage will repair.
Meanwhile Chernobyl and Fukushima are still abandoned and under constant surveillance and there are still no firm dates for when it will be "safe" to live there.

People who study Nuclear Engineering tend to be targets of assassination / surveillance by sovereign nations (The US and Irael has an active history of eliminating Iranian Nuclear Engineers for example [1]) in an effort to avoid the creation of nuclear weapons or require levels of security and bureaucracy that you don't see elsewhere in the energy industry, scaring off potential candidates.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nucle...
Not all adoptions are "official" and "have papers," especially adoptions by people who are fleeing their country. I would argue that most adoptions in so-called "third world countries" are probably unofficial.
> It's funny that 15 years back I was so anti MS and pro Google and now I think it's the other way!

You should be pro-neither. Microsoft used to be against FOSS because they thought it would make them more money; Microsoft is currently friendlier to FOSS because they think it will make them more money. Does that make them bad people? No because all businesses are that way, even the vaunted "don't be evil" Google.
Ask HN: How do you prioritise what to do daily/weekly?
Working at Earnest Capital (earnestcapital.com) our founders and mentors have been discussing ways to decide what to work on...

Between product features, customer support, help docs, admin, marketing etc etc.

What are your frameworks?

(One I saw from founder of Coderpad was it has to hit 2 out of three: be easy to do, make money, make customers lives better.)
Too simplistic reasoning here,if aliens are actually here, motivation and drive could also be completely alien to us. Toying with hardware near some primitive military infrastructure could be just about anything, tests for an invasion or maybe they are just collecting samples from the jets exhaust or anything
> one that's seen more than a century of improvements

Ah, I have tried quills a couple of times. And dip pens. It was interesting. ;)

> movies [...] can't help laughing about the ergonomics of it

Yes. Though they do seem to have an "outreach" role, raising awareness and interest that improvement over the familiar is possible.

And moving while working, like shifting from sitting to standing desk and back, and walking, can be nice.

> minimize cognitive load, eye strain and arm strain

Nod.

> focusing on a screen a couple of centimeters [...] eye strain

The focus distance is usually either around 1 m, or infinity. Downsides include being fixed, creating vergence-accommodation conflict. Prototypes, and the new Microsoft Hololens 2 (which paints the retina), variously improve on this.

> minimize cognitive load

One thing I've played with, is taking a downward keyboard-cam of hands on keyboard, and overlaying it on a 3D monitor. Raising it slightly in Z seemed to allow focusing past it, making it merely bothersome, rather than untenable. Upside is it reminded me of an old Lisp Machine, with the screen telling you what various keystrokes would do in your current context, so I don't have to remember them all.

> less hand movement

Yes. I really like the idea of keyboard as multitouch surface. Stroke a keycap, rather than moving to a touchpad. Touch a modifier key keycap, rather than having to actually press and hold it. And optical finger tracking allowing subtle hand gestures to be commands.

> read and write documents [...] 3D space or are projected in thin air in front of me is uninteresting to that end

Hmm. Sometimes it's useful to print out a document, and put it up on a wall, so you can see the big picture, or talk with someone about it. If one has a task which fills the available monitor space, it's easy and common to remember what it was like with a smaller monitor, and not want to go back, but harder to imagine whether the same might happen again with further expansion.

More generally, one thing that cheaper real estate might do is lower the barrier for tooling to provide speculative assistance. You're writing for an audience including someone from Great Britain, using a phrase that has different meaning there than in the US... checking that with a keystroke, or as part of a "I'm done, check it now" report, seems less attractive than "comments are available off to your side - glance if you care". Grammarly meets VR.

For myself, writing documents is often preceded by a lot of graph drawing, as I figure out the structure of the domain, concept space, and presentation alternatives. I very much look forward to moving that into direct-manipulation 3D.
I'm pretty sure these approaches were considered AI from the very start. If anything, algorithms stop being referred to as intelligent over time, as our expectations of what is possible grow.
You've somewhat missed the point I was trying to make. Let me try to walk you through it in in a different way:

* The original argument is that the US military spending is abnormally high, when considered as a raw dollar amount.

However:

* The US military spending is not actually abnormally high when considered as a percentage of GDP or Government budget.

* There's hypocrisy in only considering the military in raw dollar amounts, but considering health care and social security as a percentage or per capita expense.

* If you also consider social security and healthcare by their raw dollar amounts, you also end up with absurd levels of spending.

* You should be pinning spending for health care, social security, and military to the same per capita or GDP metrics, and only then be objecting to them if they're abnormally high.

* It's unethical to pick and choose what spending you personally object to, and then cherry-pick the method you judge that specific spending by to support your personal decision.
Wait, many more people have college education nowadays than at the turn of the century, so you should expect the overall value of a college education to drop a little... simple demand and supply.

On top of that, there are a lot of college education programs that have close to no market value (i.e. leading to no actual jobs or already in saturated job markets) so you should expect this to impact the median earnings, and lead to adjustments to take place over time (instead of seeing a linear growth).
Personally, I'm more impressed by the company's President, Brad Smith, who seems to want real change in terms of digital rights. He's the man behind every single "pro user rights" Microsoft announcement you've seen in the past few years.

Meanwhile, Nadella is the man behind every single user-hostile and user-tracking feature you've seen introduced in Windows 10 (pretty much).
Sharing private information public either intentional or unintentional that leak customer data and weaken the software security is illegal in any country as far as I know.
The time you need to send out counter-information is the same, though. If your information dissemination is slow then so is you correcting some fake news piece, or uncovering some government propaganda - if it's fast, then so is your ability to combat it.

Since there's very little (besides actual lynch mobs which don't happen in Western societies any more) that has a very short time window, I don't see the momentary emotional uproar as a problem. Terrorists aren't attacking some target because they read a rumor on Twitter 30 minutes ago, they are immersed in an ideological framework that doesn't require real time communication. Remember, McVeigh didn't have Twitter.
Cool, you also just described Gwyenth Paltrow.
I feel the same way. Although in my case it is also due to age. I‘ve lost patience with the linux ecosystem a long time ago, it’s all fun and games when you are in control, but being forced to use a Linux cluster or custom Debian installation without admin privileges is so much worse than working on an administered windows or macOS could possibly be. At least there you have sane defaults.
They erased the Software Developer in Test role, and moved to a 'Quality' role.

The 'Quality' role implements Telemetry for the working product which turns into metrics that PMs/Dev Managers look at to determine shipping.

I used to be an SDET, and re-interviewed in order to be a Dev after the big switch. I could have rolled right into 'Quality', but I didn't find that as interesting. As a result, the automated Testing that used to be done by the SDET team is moved to be the responsibility of the Dev teams. Most dev teams knew little to nothing about the automated tests that were being run every day against their code (Upgrade tests, BVTs, integration tests).

SDETs also created tools and internal frameworks which were created to reduce cost; for example, I implemented a Code-Coverage based test-pass to reduce the 24 hour automated test suite that was running every day on Windows Phone main branch.

The previous SDET role's responsbility has moved 100% to Dev Teams, none of which had to ever think about that facet of development before. As a result, you get me implementing automated test suites for 5 different teams in 3 years (WSL, Ink, Text, Touch input, kernel sec) because I know the frameworks more than 25 year veterans of Windows internal development. Some of these teams had 10-15 years of built in collatoral that is now attempting to be revived because management realizes that they've dropped the ball quite a bit.
I keep waiting for butter coffee to take off in San Francisco. Maybe if you had to wait in line for 20 minutes?
Practicing mindfulness and meditation helps me redirect my energy towards less impulsivity and nagging thoughts of cheap dopamine sources (Facebook, Instagram etc)
The topic you are answering to is about health care bills.

It is only reasonable that people answer on topic (abusive medical billing in the US)

You are going off topic (wealth distribution) to try and prove a point. This is called whataboutism (when one topic is discussed and someone says 'well what about this other topic') - it's generally frowned upon as it degrades communication for those who like to find the truth and further understanding. Whataboutism is generally classified as a sophist technique (persuasion) vs what most rational people I know value: dialectics (inquiry and understanding)
Million dollar question - how are the remote stripes going to be compensated? Are they going to be compensated pegged on their geo-locale (which then just makes it like international offices without the office)?

I'm pretty sure the dublin and singapore stripes are paid much lower than their sf counterparts. How are they going to resolve this for the remotes?

Not poking at stripe, but generally as I think of remote work, I think we're probably to going to think of true value based salary scales (you are creating X$ of value, therefore you are to be paid a fraction of that) as opposed to geo based scales (you may be an icpc world finalist living in Kathmandu but you will be paid 1/10th of a boot camper from SF because 3rd world).
OK. I'm 100% with you on this reasoning. I'd like to ask if the cost is worth it. I've seen speculation with 'build the wall' that it would be enormously expensive to build and then even more expensive to man and maintain. I've also seen speculation that migrants are actually good for USA (benefits the reduced birth rate, bigger tax base, migrant work willing to do labor americans wont do, the potential for children born to benefit the economy)...
Comparing Jack Dorsey to Gwyneth Paltrow is unfair because she made money by recommending Goop products. Dorsey, on the other hand, is being open about his lifestyle because people ask him about it.
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> HN "post" - Because that's the HN guideline.

I understand HN guideline here. I am talking about the Guardian's post.

Leaking private information to the public even unintentionally , that compromise the security of software and may cause public harm is illegal no matter which country you go. So the nationality of the one who leaked it is irrelevant as far as I am concerned.
Being an engineer probably ruins your back less than being a furniture mover or a ditch digger.

That said, you're starting to have problems. Now what?

First, pay attention. When you're sitting, listen to your back (and neck). If it's a bit off, do something. Change your position (posture matters a lot). Stretch. Get up and walk around for a few minutes.

Second, I stretch every morning, both my legs and my back. (I should stretch my neck, too, but I don't.)

Third, I go to a chiropractor every other week. I know chiropractors have a bad reputation on HN, and I don't buy the whole thing. Chiropractors are going to cure cancer? No thanks, I'll try an oncologist. I'll even skip the nutritional supplements they recommend. But for straightening out my spine? Yeah, they do all right at that.
Also, every new development is going to be branded as a 'luxury condo'. No one sells a 'boring old condo', ever

This is true everywhere. Builders are not going to build cheap houses. My wife and I were looking for a house three years ago. At the time, it was only three of us - including my 15 year old step son. We were looking at buying in a county in the Atlanta burbs. We had two choices - old small houses being sold by the relatively few people who lived their or buy in one of the many neighborhoods where builders were building new houses. We purposefully chose the cheapest, smallest floor plan offered by the builder - and even that was over 3000 square feet, five bedroom. I’m not trying to humble brag. It was less than 330K all in and we only needed 5% down. Any software developer with 5-7 years of experience could easily afford it - especially a dual income couple.
Software =|= Manufacturing, comparing the two looks like a fallacy to me.

EDIT: That Tesla is still treated as a typical Silicon Valley start up and not an automotive OEM might be one of Elons greatest achievements.
Okay, now tell me what’s wrong about not being fat and diabetic. Note I certainly don’t endorse veganism where you’re missing out on essential fats and proteins.
In 3 years, it's not terribly unlikely that SpaceX will be worth more than Tesla is now (with most of the value from deploying Starlink). And Elon is significantly more vested in SpaceX than Tesla. If Tesla has continued to face challenges, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that Starlink is spun-off as a highly profitable company (allowing Musk to maintain a majority interest in SpaceX proper) and Musk uses the capital from that to stabilize Tesla.

Of course, in 3 years, Tesla's situation could easily be vastly different in both directions. And Musk would probably prefer to fund Mars ambitions than necessarily Tesla.
This is no particular surprise. The BMW i3 is being discounted about the same. The real takeaway of the article to me is that "Tesla hasn't actually delivered any yet at that price point" (the $35K Model 3). Tesla's cash starved, as has been discussed here, and that could easily push any such deliveries far down the road. The industry shakeouts will be interesting to watch.
It's hard to say if I actually mind the low travel distance. I find these keyboard very hard to type on because of the increased key size/small gaps between keys, so I constantly make typos and can't seem to orient my hands correctly without looking at the keyboard. Because of this, it's hard to look at the key travel issue in a vacuum.

Also, please read the article. This entire teardown is focused on refuting the "dust intrusion" hypothesis -- the writer actually seems to think that issues are rooted in malfunctioning metal domes under the keys linked to either wear, heat, humidity, or a combination or each. Basically there's no need to mitigate dust because it can't get into the dome mechanism even in the 2015-2017 keyboards before they installed extra dust guards, and part of the reason the 2018 still has issues is because, surprise surprise, the issue isn't just dust.
Bolt is getting outdated, and I think for example the Kona EV is more competition. And I don't really see any good reason to get the Bolt.
Ha-ha-ha, tell it to the folks driving UWP vs WPF debacle.
Remember Nokia?

They had decades of experience in the industry and the software guys (Apple and Google) drove them to bankruptcy.

Also look at SpaceX - he’s not a complete novice at complex manufacturing, and knows how to assemble and motivate a good team, and is used to competing against even more entrenched incumbents.

I’ll be interested to see how this works out but I think Musk was just too early and trying to do too much at once; he’s not wrong that automation is the future.
"Not as bad as", aka The Fallacy of Relative Privation, is a "red herring" fallacy.

It is a distraction, a diversion, and, in so many words, whataboutism.
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Anyone who found this story intriguing should immediately go buy "Climate: A New Story" by Charles Eisenstein. He explores how we use "war language" when talking about environmental issues and how that undercuts our efforts... then he proposes how we get out of that conversational rut, with allies, people on the fence, and even climate change deniers.
The hability of coming up with high level designs that solve a complex problem does not always include the debugging/troubleshooting skills needed to make something actually work well.
No "core part" of Guix is hosted on Github. If you're referring to the daemon: it's being replaced with a Guile implementation (it's an ongoing student project). It's not fetched from Github; our old copy of the daemon is part of the Guix git repository.
> The NYT paywall is far more porous than the WSJ one (you might just need to browse incognito)

They started doing something recently that occasionally throws up a popover in incognito mode, so that might not help. I haven't bothered to look into how it works, but clearing cookies or disabling JavaScript still seems to reliably get around the paywall.

I really should subscribe, though, since they do a lot of good reporting, and it would be great if more online publications became less dependent upon ads.
So he should make his kids go to a bad school as a social experiment?
What data are the Amazon devices sending other than recordings of commands which need to be interpreted?
>The specific brands are usually country- or region-specific. It's just that you often don't notice the ones that have been genericized in your culture

I think branding to generic really depends on linguistics of target market, brand writers and brand saturation in target market.

A brand name that is hard to pronounce is less likely to be used and how often do you think about the Slovakian pronunciation of your brand?

The US being a large linguistically similar market would be more susceptible to this.
Is not it piracy ?
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Thanks for sharing. I would not have clicked if it was only for the title.
And by 'good jobs' they mean 'anything near a decent wage'... for dropouts. This is one of the most patronizing, anti-competitive articles I've seen in a long time. If you want evidence of coastal elitism, read this article as exhibit A.

As a dropout who learns faster on youtube than in a classroom, and making more than my state senator's entire family, let me give everyone reading this advice: Don't be scared away by elites protecting their jobs in large cities. Come in at 70% of the price, excellent work ethic, and give them a run for their money. Most Americans live in a country that values cost efficiency over credentials. We hold meritocracy above bureaucracy, and it should be celebrated not discouraged.
It also encourages people to buy the biggest house they can afford instead of the smallest one they can be comfortable in.

Very few people buy the nicest car or the best TV, because we know those don't have a return. But being bad at math, we can't seem to figure out that we only see 30% of every dollar put into the house (taxes, mortgage, upkeep, improvements) back and we conveniently forget about inflation.

Yeah, if your house doubled in value in 25 years that means you kept pace with inflation. You could have done better with CDs.
Not true. So called whataboutism is used to deflect a valid critique and defend an indefensible position.

I think people claim whataboutism because they lack an understanding of scope. Assange published secrets, ok. That is possibly a crime. But the secrets revealed far worse crimes.

Would you defend Jerry Sandusky by saying that an informant being convicted of shoplifting was the most important part of the Sandusky case?
Humans are weird.

Steve Jobs had some weirdness / bad choices.

I still wouldn't mind working for them. It's not like you have to do those things or are endorsing them by working there.

Weird folks come up with some good ideas sometimes.

I think of myself as very boring and normal, I'm not coming up with great ideas...
I don't disagree with that. I was trying to make a point.

I usually tell people "I program computers" when they ask what I do. I used to say "I do computers" but people are more used to computers and software now so fewer people ask, "so, you do computers?" so I had to change it up a bit.
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Decades later, it turns out those concerns were not completely unfounded [0].

[0] https://qz.com/1163140/us-nuclear-tests-killed-american-civi...
At 10k off, it might be a fine EV grocery getter. Right now a lot of people buy 4-5 year old leafs for like ~10k as EV grocery getters
Trusted execution doesn't need blobs, no? I.e. you can have secure boot with perfectly open booting. DRM is only used against the user, not for making things secure for the user. That's why DRM is relying on blobs.