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It's politics that prevents research into improved nuclear, and it's politics that prevents the waste problem from being solved. Politics, namely the structure of licensing fees, is also the reason why NPPs come in one size only, which is "hyuge", and why everything used in an NPP is much more expensive than the same part used in a gas fired plant.

Meanwhile, my home country is phasing out "expensive" nuclear and building up "cheap, easy" renewables, and electricity gets more expensive every year.
It was YYZ4. YYZ3 doesn't do tours.

If you're interested in helping make it better, Amazon's got an office full of developers here in Toronto[0] working on these problems. It's a lot of fun, the pay is better than most in Toronto, and the 7 years I've been here have almost always involved me being mentored by really great folks. Feel free to reach out[1].

[0]120 Bremner, between the ACC and Rogers Center.

[1]This alias at company name dot com.
I should go back and read some older books on the wondrous future of automation. The idea always was, of course, that machines would do the boring part of a job. What people actually bring to the picnic is a subset of a job that is hard to do with a computer and/or machine manipulation, so you end up with deskilling of supermarket cashiers or bank teller gigs.

It always seemed to me that you could wipe out far more jobs than Amazon is likely to by simply removing the need to weigh items in grocery stores (like our local discount market). Generally, supersizing retail and the underlying supply chain has changed matters far more than laying off some warehouse employees.

I suppose that outsourcing has already 'automated' scads of US jobs in any case. The interesting automation will hit people who type for a living. Dunno how it will all it turn out, but I've got my comfy chair and a cocktail waiting.
Non-snarky hypothesis?

Increasing wealth concentration in certain desirable areas where prices will continue to skyrocket because the people there can afford it (those that receive the most return on capital vs. those just working on return on their own labor). Meanwhile the majority of the population decays alongside them, but at a distance that can be kept by well paid security forces.

There is the possibility of some philanthropy, perhaps. Maybe even some government policies that help change this, but I'm not sure if those are the most likely outcomes.

I guess there's always the guillotine / riot approach to bring things into check if it gets really bad, but typically that requires some sort of middle class to get things going. We also have not seen this occur at large scale in places where this already happens on earth.

EDIT: Please do not mistake my use of the word "labor" and "capital" for me identifying as some form of communist. Those are actual terms used by reasonable people (including economists!) I'd say most students of history and present day sociology might agree that this is a possibility for how wealth manifests in the future given large scale automation and no public policy changes.
In C, the commas are also used in macro definitions where you need multiple statements to be output by the macro, but can’t use semicolons because the macro might expand in a context where only one statement is expected. In both the OP and this one,it comes off as clever but tricky.
Wow, I guess I still hadn't grasped how big fortnight was, not having much to do with children and all... I guess minecraft either attracted a younger audience or the lack of competition removed aspects of bullying?
If . was included then .. almost certainly would be as well. But an empty string at the end like you say and as explained by the sibling comment makes sense.
Into investment assets that get swapped amongst the wealthy ad-infinitum, and generate enough capital on their own to feed the poor.
A UBI in the salary range of an Amazon warehouse worker would be on the order of 1/3rd GDP.
Gabriel Weinberg of Duck Duck go recently released an entire book devoted to mental models. A few years ago, he also wrote a good article that gives an early idea what he was thinking about here:

https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-use...
That's certainly one way of looking at it but I would worry if your answer to "those workers are being abused!" is always "make them redundant via automation".

Amazon's warehouse workers were abused because Amazon, not because those jobs should have been automated. They could have had more break time. They could have had lower targets. Pay them more. Paternity leave. So many things you can do to improve working conditions.
How do you proceed from there? Are the parts of that sub-bubble sufficiently interlinked?
It works fine as a vim emulation layer, but as a full replacement for vim it does no better than other vim emulations, like IdeaVim. For example, in vim I can hit : to open command line mode followed by ctrl + f to open a mini buffer for ex commands that can be manipulated like any other vim buffer. I use this feature all the time in vim and it isn't available in any of the vim emulation software I've tried. Now, I'm sure there are plenty of ways to accomplish the same goal in emacs, not disputing that. But the idea that evil mode can simply replace vim and all of its built in functionality? Just not true, at least not currently.
From the release notes: "Parchment and vellum are made from animal skin so change material composition and color for spellbooks with those descriptions from paper to leather; eating those books now breaks vegetarian conduct" (emphasis mine)

There is something heartwarming about the attention to detail in some games. NetHack, Dwarf Fortress, ... I wish more games would be made with this mindset. Many modern games seem to overemphasize the "gaming" aspect, and sometimes forget the "playing" with all its joyful intricacies.
I worked with a person like that, in a Security Incident Response role where we were interesting enough that the attacks always started when 'The Americans are celebrating another of their silly holidays'. It meant working through Thanksgiving, Xmas, New Years, and Easter.

It was good that I did it...so that I can recognize the parameters and never do it again.

But the person I worked with is still there, still defined by that job, still running scared, and damn...that's just all kinds of messed up.
Define “eventually”. What’s your dosage history, etc? Do you take magnesium, zinc, or anything else to combat tolerance?
In Switzerland it definitly would not count as rape by Anna (men cannot be raped here, only sexually abused (same max prison time, but rape carries a mandatory minimum of one year)). But she would be liable for the financial damage caused to Bob (child support, lost income, anything you can think of).

There is a famous case before the highest court, where a doctor, after forgetting to perform a sterilization a patient requested together with the caesarian birth of her second child, was deemed liable for the financial loss incurred by the existance of her third child.
> ... If all the capital could be distributed.

The capital is already distributed, to international shareholders.
We could also reduce the work week and increase taxes to distribute the gains from automation, instead of relying on the goodwill of billionaires. It seems the current political populism environment is best suited for this outcome.
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Stupid is consistently making poor choices and not listening to advice from others when those poor choices run amok.

Not smart is not intuitively knowing what to do in a given situation - this can be learned away - it won't give you the intuitive answer, but at least you'll know not to do something in a given circumstance.
Candidates are discussing immigration, tariffs and outsourcing because that's actually affecting jobs in the US and people who work on the factory lines know it.

Automation is a scary specter off in the distance but it's not as actively harmful to people's livelihoods.
Playing and Recording Sound in Python
They have to strike a balance to optimize between shipping costs, time spent packing, packing material costs, claims due to damage during transit and insurance/theft costs.

If items are usually/never ordered by themselves, packing in a larger box might still always work out to be cheaper than paying for shipping for two boxes.

There's already enough of a problem with theft of generic 'Amazon'-branded boxes -- can you imagine if things were regularly shipped with $high_value-brand labeling on the outside (if not just glossy full-color retail box)?
All of Fortnite is crafted and tuned around in-game purchases. It's also a very centralized game. Minecraft online gaming is a very different experience and there are thousands of independent servers.
Why limit it to penetration? Sexual contact without consent to that specific form of contact immediately preceding the contact. That is the law apparently. But as a poster above said, laws need to bend to humanity, not the other way around. If I ask my wife to ride my morning wood, then charge her with rape when she tries to divorce me for being lazy, we can all agree I think that the law is no serving justice.

Also whatever Assange did or didn't do, the handling of the case seems highly suspicious and Swedish resident have standing to request an investigation.
a lot of incompetence at the state level is protected behind Sovereign Immunity should it have negative affects on others and rarely does it ever reach criminal prosecution.

law enforcement falls behind the false state of qualified immunity, which can apply to every person in the confines of law enforcement, and that derived from a bad court ruling that perpetuates till today.

worse, people do not understand the full import of many laws and instead focus on how they negatively affect a disliked group. this allows politicians at all levels to protect themselves as well as punish those they don't like all with public support.
I can believe the CIA has all sorts of assets in obscure places. Believing the CIA is directing its assets to have sex with a target then wait several days until a chance conversation with somebody else about his alleged sexual indiscretions before making a crime report so tentative the case was only reopened on appeal is a step much further. If the CIA wanted to honeytrap someone, which certainly wasn't the most obvious route to going after Assange, they'd have made the case stick.

Similarly, believing that everybody who has ever interacted with an anti-Castro organization (the only "evidence" presented of CIA involvement) is a CIA asset is a step beyond which I'm willing to go.
The humble receipt gets a redesign
Pretty much every link on HN for head-fi.org is about Schiit, and mostly by the same person.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=head-fi.org
EROEI of fossil fuels is pretty pathetic. It has been going down over time for the last 100 years. It won't take more than 30 years until oil hits an EROEI of 1. If you had followed any of the trends of renewable technology then you should be aware that economic collapse and deindustrialization are easily avoidable. Maybe there will be 10 days in a year that the most energy intensive factories will have to shut down due to a combination of low wind and solar but this also means on 10 other days in the year there will be an excess of energy.
So, the gist of it is that while the court decisions are public, things written about the court decisions, like news articles, may be copyrighted. The state of Georgia claims that this is the status of the annotations written by Lexis-Nexis.

Clearly, this shouldn't be possible: a work contracted by the state is a work by the state (ie a work for hire), and should be public domain. But there's money involved, and that tends to be the deciding factor in legal decisions in the US.
In a nutshell, in developed countries, the deforestation happened a long time ago, so it doesn't have a big impact on the continuing CO2 contribution from meat production. In other words, no new land is being cleared for livestock in most developed countries. In developing countries, unfortunately, deforestation for livestock production can be a big contribution to CO2.
It does matter. Tremendously.

But the means to it matter as much, because they bring their own sets of consequences with them (and that is more than often ignored or overlooked, for "short term benefits").

The justification of an action is as much in the fruits, as in the roots. Both come hand in hand ultimately.

(edit to add the following:)

Then, as to judge/discern, I can't say I have a definite, certain receipt. I fear and keep away from those who say they do have one.

I don't mean to advertise the "basis of my morality". I'm not that good. I have a set of principles, that come mostly from my (Catholic, practicing) upbringing (but that don't match at all what most "Christians in the US" showcase, if that can give an idea) + an inner desire for peace, balance and truth (as hard and harsh it could be) that many take for naiveté, + an acute critical look for bullshit, I guess.
But that's not very telling, is it? :p
> That sounds like quite possibly the least effective method of learning.

It maybe less efficient, but in my experience, practice has consistently been the most effective way to learn something.

If you're looking for efficient, then you'd want a well-structured mix of theory and practice.

> All you have to do is pick up a book, learn their models, then stand on their shoulders as you develop your own.

Rarely does this work for any complex topic. I can't imagine learning math, or languages, or coding by simply picking up books. IMO, these models are very similar -- they have a ton of depth that can't be internalized without practice.
"You might play in the NFL one day!"
First of all, the base fried chicken is usually much better than you'd get at a fast food chain.

Second, it's legitimately spicy. At higher heat levels the chicken is dark red from all the cayenne. Eating it is more akin to eating a raw pepper than eating something like Church's spicy chicken.
Also it kills parasites. Parasite load is a significant fitness parameter.
This seems to simply wrap each item in a cardboard shell, is that protective? Also whenever someone complains about receiving a tiny item in a large box, the answer is usually that Amazon does so to optimize the filling of its trucks so that all the boxes are densly packed (no room for them to fall), wouldn't having each item its own custom sized box hinder that optimization?
I mean, they probably don't have the market power to do that. Online retail is still only ~10% of total retail (in the US). Amazon might be dominant within online retail, but they still aren't quite enough I feel.
These "low skill" customer-facing jobs are also considered important and held in quite high regard in Japan, something we seem to have forgotten in the west.
you lost me on the second bracket :D
I don't know much about the dirty fuel, but if it's so bad we could tax its use such that no one wants to burn it.
Just FYI, their IKEv2 isn't likely to work, and Wireguard isn't necessarily available on all device types.

My standard process is to spin up a Streisand instance before I go there and give me multiple options (Shadowsocks and Wireguard are my main two).
> Tell me one thing about that script that's easier in bash than in Python

It's free of Python dependency hell: easier on the downstream consumers.

Python would be a nice language if it were more like Awk: a single executable with a few satellite files and no goddamned "ecosystem".

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/python_environment.png

In all other regards, of course proper data processing in one language is vastly superior to some awkward string chopping through external processes.

> You should invest more time using languages with docs you can actually read, and with syntax you can actually remember. You might like it.

Didn't grandparent say: "I've written more Python than I have Bash (by a substantial amount)".

People who aren't stupid and know other languages still whip out little shell scripts; we should try to understand why that is.
Can’t you use `self` to refer to the global object in both client and server contexts?
It has become fashionable to paint everything in black and white. The solution to workplace abuse is removal of jobs? Really? Automation is not bad inherently, but it's socioeconomic impact has to be ascertained.
Elon Musk offers sneak peak of SpaceX’s internet satellites
No, this is just a subversive form of union busting with more deleterious effects on the workers.

As a society we need to find a balance between the firm and the worker. Automating jobs away isn’t always good or always bad. But unilaterally automating workers out and them not getting something in return is bad for the worker.
> those buying from Amazon

Only if there is enough competition.
It is interesting that with climate change, the public debate is mostly about 'is it man-made?' as if it'd just become a non-issue if it was. It's debating a fundamental point while we need practical solutions or even just concepts to cope with all sorts of interconnected problems on the entire spectrum of what we as humans are able to address - from microorganisms to geopolitics. While at this point, nobody is sure what will happen, societies will get a clearer picture of the imminent consequences over the next decades. At the moment, everyone seems to be waiting.
Weinberg books are full of wisdom. Systems Thinking is at the core of his ideas. You can find almost all of his books in LeanPub at a very accessible price: https://leanpub.com/u/jerryweinberg

If you are outside the USA, probably the kindle edition will be cheaper.
Fighting climate change is not an all or nothing thing where we either stop at 2C change or achieve no benefit at all. Every degree beyond 2C makes the problem even worse.
> but there are also other ways to share code. And these alternatives might not be that well known to us developers in the western world.

What ways are that? We do know about sneakernet and emailing tarballs, but I guess it has to be something else? I'm curious.
Following that argument (which is beside the point), how does calling this guy a terrorist further their copyright case? The point is that this is poisoning the well.

Now every time this guy is googled, his name will be associated with terrorism, thanks to this suit, putting doubt on his work, which is meant to balance the power between the state and its citizens. You don't see why the state calling this guy a terrorist is reprehensible?
Certain segments of the agriculture industry seem promising, since smaller scale operations could benefit from efficiencies in logistics and distribution that were traditionally drivers of consolidation.
This depends on the product. Significant amounts of FFP are meant to reduce waste and not require overboxing.
Apple Loses Bid to End App Antitrust Case in Supreme Court
I mean, some of the other journalists include Wikileaks members and Assange supporters who've personally assisted Snowden in escaping to Russia. If it's an intimidation strategy, it's clearly not working.
I'm not seeing any parity built into this.
I don't think static type checking is a matter of tooling,
getting Julia to perform well amounts to either a lot of
trust in the compiler (is static type inference for the Julia type system even
possible?) or manual type annotations as far as
I can tell. And static types are not there in a large program
to make them necesarily faster, but to automatically enforce
contracts. For this to work they have to be mandatory, not
added on as an after thought. I don't want to be able to run
a program only to discover it crashes because a method was
not overloaded with this particular combination of parameter
types.

Swift has clearly an advantage in that domain, as
has C++, C#. In an enterprise setting such as Google no one
actually wants speed and dynamism out of a language (C++
programmers are not allowed to use rtti for example), rather
consistently boring, predictable, statically guaranteed results
with as minimal fuzz as possible (Go, Java, C++) and enough
competent programmers in that language.

I agree that it is neat that you can hack the Julia
compiler in a library to do compile time
automatic differentiation, but my point was that if you
build it into the language like the Swift for Tensorflow
authors are doing this will result in a more conservative,
if inflexible, but potentially more performant solution.
In other words precisely because you need a team of people
to implement and integrate this feature in C++ you will
get a stable "single source of truth" implementation
in the language, not several (Flux, Zygote)
constantly changing libraries.

Well I've tried DiffEqFlux.jl with Julia 1.1, it works
well enough, but the stack traces are ridiculously long
if something goes wrong, a ~200 LOC program takes seconds
to compile and the library and package management story seems
immature compared to rust/swift/python/c++.
Think of pro and anti civil rights laws switching in and out of law, divorce, women's rights child labor, workers rights. If these hard fought civil rights expire they wouldn't come back automatically in today's world of ALEC.
> it's when you CONSTANTLY struggle to follow what others are saying in a meeting, even when it's an important meeting

Sort of. I have no problem paying attention in a meeting in which I might be called on because of the terror of getting called on and not knowing what was asked (that happens to me a lot).

I find it very difficult to listen to podcasts. My mind drifts off and I realize I haven't heard the last 20 minutes, so I rewind. On good days, I can make it about an hour before I start drifting off. On bad days, I'm lucky to make it through 10 minutes.

> How many times have you booked and airplane ticket with the wrong dates?

Never. I'm hypervigilant when traveling by air. I only board the wrong bus if I'm really distracted, like I'm in a conversation either in person or online and I'm focusing on that instead of where I'm going. I'm the kind of person that really has to focus on where he's going. Even when I'm driving, I'll miss turns if my passenger is talking to me.

> It's on the level of the pot head in your team telling you "Dude, you're my hero, I've never seen someone not give a fuck like you" because he noticed you were not paying attention during a meeting.

I've had people tell me that after meetings before.

> Have you ever tried stimulants?

I've never tried stimulants stronger than red bull. I have noticed that large doses of caffeine calms me down. It's a fairly common occurrence for me to drink an espresso or red bull before bed and having no problems sleeping.
In the words of the great Caitlyn Johnstone:

"No. No no no no no no no no no. No.

No no no no no no, no no no no no no no no no no. No no no no no no? No! No no no no no no no, no no no no. No no no no no, no no no no no no no no no no.

No no. No no no."
It amounts, at an individual level, to choosing to focusing my attention on more productive goals. At a group level, it argues for focusing economic output on better economic goals.

Being forced to defend a belief that is not your own is a common malicious debate tactic (not surprising), so I do not defend the beliefs of position 2. If my conversation partner tries to make me defend those beliefs, I do not.

Also, because very few people make meaningful lifestyle changes to fight climate change, the people that believe position 2 are rarely any worse in their actions than anyone else. Shaming those people for their beliefs while taking the same actions as them is the peak of left-wing virtue signaling.
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