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Your statement is nonsense.

I agree that anti-vaxers are brainwashed to deny science and basic statistics. Comparing anti-vaxxers with people who dislike nuclear power for rational reasons (like me) is disingenuous.

I have two big problems with nuclear power. Both are externalities that are never priced into the true cost of nuclear.

a) we don't have a way to deal with the waste.

This is not a real solution, but it seems to be the best we've got: burying it for tens or hundreds of thousands of years, hoping that it won't be disturbed and won't leak and won't contaminate the area. Of course we can't even agree on a place to bury it, because nobody wants nuclear waste in their backyard, or even in their state...

Pro-nuclear people somehow just gloss over this. They claim the waste is not dangerous 'for very long' (tens or hundreds of thousands of years...). Or that there is not so much of it (there are 140 million pounds of spent fuel rods in the US alone, and that's just a fraction of all the nuclear waste generated by nuclear power plants).

We have nuclear power plants that can take 60 years to be decommissioned, after producing power for 46 (e.g. Pilgrim, cf. https://www.patriotledger.com/opinion/20181110/our-opinion-d...). The article states that a company claims they can do it 8 years, we'll see how that goes.

All of this is expensive and not priced into the cost of nuclear power. The Pilgrim plant has a fund of just over 1 billion USD to deal with the decommissioning and waste. There is no way that fund is going to cover thousands of years of storage of the waste until it becomes safe. The long-term treatment of the waste is effectively an externality.

b) The theoretical risk of accidents is small. The risk of a nuclear accident may be small in theory, but we've had two major nuclear accidents in 25 years. And there have been several near-accidents. The consequences of accidents are extremely grave: people get cancer and die, and large areas of the world become uninhabitable for many human lifetimes. Again, not priced in, a massive externality.

I know there are many different nuclear plant designs, and that some are much safer than others. So, ideally, all plants would be the safest possible design, and be maintained perfectly. Then, presumably, the real-world risk of accidents would be small just like the theoretical one. But that's not the case.

Fukushima happened because the electric pumps that were needed to pump coolant failed, because they lost power due to being submerged during a tsunami. Three nuclear meltdowns were the consequence. Chernobyl's meltdowns were caused by reactor design flaws and operators not following their checklists properly during a routine safety test. This is what happens in the real world.

In summary: it is conceivable that we might solve the problem of nuclear waste with new technology. That would be very welcome, and it would certainly help me become more pro nuclear power. I'm not sure what can be done about the accident risk.
It reminds me of this guy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wnDxHTaeNX0
You've got to be trolling with your statement:

>>Why should china (or any country) have to subscribe to an IP system under which they don't own as many patents.

Is is fine if I steal from you because I don't have as much money as you do?

Or, would you prefer that I don't "subscribe to" your notion of money in your pocket as wealth because I don't have as much and therefore it is perfectly moral to take yours?

Come on - let's have a rational discussion here.
I don't even speak the local language and if I leave I have to reimburse all the relocation and visa costs. I don't want to talk to my family because I don't want them to worry and I'm honestly embarrassed to talk with my friends. I don't really know what I should do because I was never treated this way in my entire career. I'm feeling just miserable.
The thing I like best about HN is that when a headline looks a bit clickbaity I can just read the first few comments and confirm my suspicions.

No need to actually read this one. Thanks guys.
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That still sounds quite stressful. Are any of your devs able to complete the task or similar in n hours/3 tim
> "militant Catholics [...] solemnly disavowed modernism, monism, masochism, vegetarianism, and Esperanto"

But they were totally on board with sadism.
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It sounds to me like maybe you should consider a hybrid of solar and wind power. When I lived in Northern Ontario (where winters are brutally cold) whenever we did not have sun we had plenty of wind. Once the wind generator was up we never needed outside power (in our case: a generator).
That's what I hope for. MS stopped being lock-in jerks on the Web only when they practically lost the browser wars. They need a stronger kick in gaming too, to start using cross platform technologies.
Not really, I'm a software engineer.
The current expected result of children running into a road in front of a truck is for they to die.

Roads are a much more controlled environment than city streets.
> They want LDAP/AD and other pluggable PAM modules to work out of the box without too much tinkering.

PAM works fine with musl even though the main implementation of PAM is horrible for security. Also PAM isn't tied to a libc so I don't understand why its mentioned, the glibc implementation of NSS tied to libc but there are other implementations of NSS.
This implies some sort of standardized assessment, which is seldom true. All sorts of bias is at play under the guise of culture, personality and team fit.
Having an office with a door that closes solves that problem too. I have one and take naps on the floor with a yoga mat and a pillow I bring from home on my lunch break. It's sad that most workplaces are still "open." Even when I was a grad student I took naps on my library cubicle. Cubicles would be a step up from the warehouse setup of most workplaces.
There seems to be something much deeper about nuclear fear. If ones concern is 'worst case scenarios' then they should be at least, if not more, afraid of hydro power or dams in general.

Dam failures are nasty, the Banqiao Dam failure killed ~200,000 people alone. While nuclear may be more 'complex', both are subject to human failure and I don't think the protection systems for dams are nearly as automated as they are for nuclear. IMO with modern nuclear power the most likely cause of a major incident is a natural problem (earthquake) leading to failure which I think is also true of dams (rainfall). With climate change looming I'm actually a little more concerned about dams, there were several fairly close calls in the last few years alone caused by rainfall amounts the dams were barely able to handle. e.g. Oroville Dam had 180,000 people in danger, the dam in Lynchburg, VA, Bell Falls Dam in Quebec a month ago, etc.
King's Landing Was Never a Nice Place to Live [spoiler alert]
How is that Google streaming gaming thing not Google being "lock-in jerks" then?
Apple is not doing a game streaming service.
It still is IMO and rejecting someone because their .NET code didn’t work on Linux without specifying is like doimg the same for a Ruby developer whose code fails on Windows.
A lot of this is about moral philosophy, which doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in causality. But I don't see why determinism would mean you can't be held morally responsible, or "free will" would be necessary for morality to work. Sunni Muslims don't believe in free will, and certainly believe in moral responsibility.
It is a lot bigger deal than you think, including for those very engine developers who work on Unity and etc. Having to deal with all extra lock-in APIs doesn't come for free. It takes time, resources and slows down releasing features to their users.
IIRC, that was when banks first were allowed to operate across state lines. Before that you might have "national associations" (banks that were connected to banks in other states), but the banks in each state were separate corporations.
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==They know this perfectly well. The US has a tremendous leverage in this negotiation.==

You are leaving out how Donald Trump wants to be re-elected in 18 months and Xi has no such pressures.

==China's main sticking point is they want to remove this leverage and make the deal unenforceable. Yeah, that might have worked with Obama (who was, IMO, too eager to please), but the current administration knows better than to sign something like that.==

Like that "deal" we signed with North Korea? I think you are giving the administration a little too much credit as they have engaged the same types of tactics with our allies (Canada, Mexico and the EU) who are not in the same position as China.
>but if no longer made to do so

And that's the key. You're positing that the disadvantage magically stops in university.

I work in law school admissions prep, and you see these disadvantages all the way down the line: SAT, college grades, LSAT, law school grades, Bar exam passage rate

There are some cases where it stops. Maybe the college board can identify which variables may indicate a poor correlation. There might be some factors that indicate transient issues and some that indicate worse lifelong expectations.

But I'd be cautious about too readily assuming that a cause of a lower SAT will vanish in later life.
Imagine a perfect SAT that preparation can't affect; for the purposes of the hypothetical, the test just stares into your soul and measures pure scholastic aptitude.

If (a) scholastic aptitude has a significant effect on your lifetime income, (b) people tend to marry people of similar social and economic class, and (c) scholastic aptitude is fairly heritable (through genes, environment, whatever)...

... then you would expect the Perfect SAT scores to correlate pretty noticeably with family wealth. This wouldn't be a sign that anybody is doing anything wrong; it's just as natural as water flowing downhill. And these are reasonable premises, with strong empirical evidence for each of them.

So, question: just by looking at the correlation of SAT scores with family wealth, how can we possibly tell how broken the test is? How can we know how far the real SAT is from the absolutely un-gameable Perfect SAT?
If I have a Wireguard server at home, can I use it on my phone in "always-on" mode? Would it cause problem when I connect to my home's wifi?

It's been a while but I tried to do that with ipsec or something like that in the past and I think it was causing problems. With the routing maybe.
This is not how radioactivity works.

There’s lots of construction material that has isotopes with a long half life. But the long half life means it’s barely dangerous (less dangerous than background levels of radiation in many habited places in the world).

The stuff that’s actually dangerous for humans are isotopes with short half lives. Those isotopes, by definition, don’t last long.
I don’t really see how nuclear power is helping you to replace all the fossil fuel cars on US roads with electric ones. Extending mass transit could be done in smaller timeframes given sufficient political will.

Even then power generation for electric cars is really not a major issue with renewables: most cars will be charged during the day when for example solar power is quite abundant. So I don’t recognize the argument for nuclear power here.
Skimmed over the whitepaper and did not notice any mention of ILS monitoring systems. Modern ILS has continuous automatic monitoring that triggers alerts or shuts off the whole system if disturbance of beam characteristics is detected.

Such monitoring systems date back to 1960s: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1049/ree.1967.0009
This is the safer bet. The host should offer to restore from their own backups, but some customers may have already taken care of their own stuff.
Uber is trying to disrupt the road-freight business
What particular grounds do you have for blaming Reagan?
It sounds like we pretty much eat the same way, although I also eat a lot of eggs. Every Sunday, I make a huge beef/random meat stew and eat it all week, sometimes three meals a day. I put it into glass containers and freeze them.
“I have ridden the mighty moon worm!” —Al Gore
Have we forgotten to make heat traps? (2012)
Start looking for a new job.
Storage is not there generically for seasonal power demand. But it's used in national grids for balancing, and short demand distribution already out competing the previous gold standard of natural gas peaking plants. The costs are dropping following a fairly predictable volume manufacturing expansion curve - and that ramp up is much more viable than the very specialized logistics support needed for expanded nuclear plant construction.

While I'm very skeptical of fossil fuels with carbon capture being any sort of all-around solution, for seasonal use - nat gas storage with fuel cells or turbines with carbon captured outputs seem like a possible mid-line seasonal solution.
> Materials and knowledge about the language leads to more people potentially discovering it. I can far more easily persuade someone to use Rust, if I share the website with them in their native language.

That works for more 'end-user' facing projects, (GIMP, Mastodon...), but for programming languages not that much. As someone who speaks 3 languages, (including English), let me assure you that (most) non-English programming materials use a very tortured vocabulary in the target language, which actually makes it considerably harder to learn.

Also, prior to me learning English, I've always found it extremely disappointing when the main website of a project was in my language, but then you click on any important link, (like a guide), and it's English only. It was a bigger let down that if a site was English only from the get go and I knew every link it's going to be English. I actually learned English because of this.

As for general info about a new language etc. there are usually dedicated "IT/programmer" community portals with news and some basic tutorials for the new hotness in the target language, which is usually how non-English speakers learn about new tech, not really from the project website, at least in my experience.
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In their context, lock-in could happen if they'll start pushing exclusives. But in technology sense, they are advancing common stack (Linux / Vulkan), unlike MS and Sony who use tools lock-in to discourage platform development by making it more costly.
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I'm in a similar position with regards to tinc. I'm willing to grant that wireguard is vastly simplified, easier to configure, and likely better performance. But it doesn't appear to currently support routing through intermediate hosts with opportunistic NAT punching, meaning the presented network won't actually be fully connected. Which I might accept and work around if I didn't already have a better option set up...

If you've got a working OpenVPN setup, then it probably makes sense to just stick with that. I'm guessing the real gains are only to be had when you want to overhaul your setup anyway.
There is a typo under the 'optimal performance' section. "A zero cost _abstractoin_ ought..."
Well yes, that's kind of the problem.

Our monkey brains go mad for energy dense food ie sugar and fat. That's a good motivator to stick your bare hand in a bee hive, or hunt down a Mammoth with a pointy stick. Doesn't work so well in the modern day, when a salad is what we should really be eating.
The title ignored the first few months of sideways, but still is not wrong. The 3-Monthly change for Bitcoin is up 120%+, so anyone who bought during the beginning of the year & hodl'd is up more than the title says
You're anti-old-nuclear. It's like being anti-old-aeroplanes, which isn't an interesting position. The article is about depoyment of new plants. You've replied to a bunch of different threads with empty comments like this. You shouldn't do that.
And OpenGL and Metal, and even the web! With a sweeping generalisation I'm going to say that a games company is either too small to care about the graphics API, or too big to care.
> Has the US Navy worked out what no one else has yet? What to do with all the toxic waste?

The answer is inherently the same thing we do with what we already have. We've been generating electricity from nuclear power for sixty years. Nuclear waste is a thing that already exists. The question of what to do with two hundred thousand tons of nuclear waste is not fundamentally different than the question of what to do with one hundred thousand tons of nuclear waste. It needs to be answered independently of whether we build new reactors, and then the answer is the same for the new reactors as the existing ones.

Moreover, we already know the answers. The big one that nobody seems to talk about for some reason (?) is that the stuff is made of commercially valuable commodities. The short-lived isotopes are used in medical imaging. The longer-lived isotopes can be used to build RTGs and generate power.

You can also build fission reactors that run on it. Ironically the problem is that people keep complaining that we shouldn't build new reactors because of the unspent fuel which dampens investment into the new reactors that can do something about the existing material.
So does coal waste. Handling nuclear waste is not improving because humanity gave up on using tis energy. There are reactor types which “burn” nuclear waste from traditional plants and make them less dangerous. All of the problems you mention are solvable: safety, radioactive waste etc if we commit to it. Fire and burning is 400.000 years old, nuclear power is 70-80. We have technology ready to make it safe just as we did with fire.
In London, there are two Tibits locations, which are owned by Hiltl. They share the buffet concept and some of the menu items. Pretty delicious!
Note:

> "But is it something about the highly processed nature of these foods itself that drives people to overeat?"

It's still _overeating_ that drives weight gain. It's just easier to do with highly processed foods that are calorie dense and not "psychologically" filling....
For an entry-level fullstack iOS developer it's not that bad.

For context, for my first job as a developer the take home assignment I got was creating a web app that logged realtime CPU usage and created a graph of that CPU usage that was updated in real time.

And this all had to be done using a specific language, web framework, and database that I had never used before.
In that case you're judging HN by trolls, since that is one we've banned dozens of times.
Like gulags?
Who cares about adversarial attacks on vehicles? There are about a million different ways to attack any vehicle if that is your objective. You could also use a spike belt, a firearm, a projectile, or just ram it with a vehicle that has more mass.
Let’s revisit this in a year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor

This isn't just some theory work in academic papers. It isn't even "new", lots of research dating back to the 1960s.
/usr/ccs/bin/dump on solaris is great for shell scripts too.
Binary analysis and introspection tools.
One thing I've tried at my company is to present a complicated task with many parts and considerations, and then explicitly say that you are not required to complete all of it. Just do the the minimum required (which can be done in an hour or so) and the parts that catches your interest. Looking at which parts the prospective engineer completed, we could also determine which part of the stack he/she likely wants to work on.
> First, before of the Redis experience I never worked every week day of my life. I could work one week, stop two, then work one moth, then disappear for other two months

Interesting to read that and contrast with the 996 approach on the main page.
Quora still exists, and it’s now worth $2B
I expected Uzbekistan and maybe Georgia and Armenia.

I became fascinated with these places after watching their Lonely Planet guides in the 1990s. But they are so far away!
> The general outlook is that, OT - while being simple, they have this classic TP2 problem that would make it harder to arrive at a consistent state eventually - without a help from a central server. The alternative is to have a complicated system, almost as complicated as CRDTs.

Well this characterization isn't quite right. With regard to TP2, this is a solved problem, with or without using a server. Most of the conversations around TP2 seems to miss the crucial point that TP2 is not needed for convergence. CRDT academic literature has largely been responsible for propagating the notion that TP2 is a must for every OT system - without TP2, all is lost -- this is a myth. I wrote about it extensively here [1].

This article [2] gives an analysis of 7 coeditors based on OT, including the likes of Google Docs, showing that they avoid having to design transformation functions that require TP2. Some of the systems are fully de-centralized [3], others require a server.

It is also worth making a finer distinction between systems that do need a central server -- there are "transformation servers" and "messaging severs". Google Docs, for example, demands that its servers perform some portion of the transformation logic. Many other solutions rely on using the server only for message transmission/serialization, thus the server side logic is significantly simpler.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.01302.pdf

[2] Achieving convergence in operational transformation: conditions, mechanisms, and systems.ACM CSCW (2014)

[3] A generic operation transformation scheme for consistency
maintenance in real-time cooperative editing systems ACM GROUP (1997)
I understood that "right-wing tolerant platforms" are different from platforms as deplatforming anything right-wing, as in "not tolerating" it, and that this would be all good, but I might have misunderstood.
==violating human rights==

Kind of hard to take this stance when we are palling around with Saudi Arabia and Israel and potentially committing our own abuses at the southern border (and definitely droning civilians in other countries).
Indeed. Whoops!
Thank you for that link, it is more in depth than the OP and talks about noise pollution:

"He said that the ambition for an app-based on demand service would not mean “landing in every garden... You’d be working with regulation around the world, integrating with public transport systems where they have them. We’re coming at a respectful way of thinking how people live, how we create corridors and not just fill the skies with these things.”"
Major California housing bill from Sen. Scott Wiener put on hold until 2020
Which "deal" have we "signed" with North Korea? As far as I'm aware that negotiation is very far from over, although positive movement is evident (for which South Korean government gives credit directly to Trump: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-southkorea-tru...). There haven't been any nuclear weapons tests either. Do you think the Koreas can be reunited in a year after being separate for 50? Nobody has ever gotten anywhere near as far as Trump in all of this. Give credit where credit is due.
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> it's hard to change a test enough that it's hard to prepare for but not so much that scores can still be meaningfully compared year to year. even if kids go straight to college, there's a two year window where they could reasonably take the test and the test is offered several times per year. I don't see how they could accomplish this without severely increasing the cost of the test.

As an entrenched player, I'd love to know more about their operating costs. They have no need for marketing, have a constant demand and are essentially a monopoly (possibly part of duopoly) on the college standardized test market. If they had optimized supply chains and distribution (which I would expect to improve year over year) I would be curious as to where all the money is going.