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Agreed. The point of the HBO series was to depict what people experienced during the catastrophe, not to debunk the misconceptions, misinformation, and bad science that was present at the time.

To get upset that they didn't make a 'debunking Chernobyl' documentary is to miss the entire point of the series.
I dunno, that’s a decision you make for a mass-market show like this. If you have to watch subtitles and you’d likely have lost 3/4 of the audience before the end of the first episode. It makes the show more accessible.

Absolutely the right move IMO.
What, precisely, is "natural" about Google?
>Since when did people get their authoritative facts about science from a dramatized TV show

are you kidding? always

edit: making this comment, in response to the person to whom i'm responding to's disbelief made me realize something: it's a really silly thing to sit around and think you're above being influenced by narrative. how much of our indignation at others' naivete is simply privilege? if i couldn't afford a doctor, to whom i could outsource the cognitive burden of figuring it out, i would probably believe all sorts of things about health that had been suggested to me by way of narrative.

edit2: it's fun to watch the score on this comment. up down up down. on the one hand it's glib and snarky - HN loves that - but on the other hand it implicates privilege - HN hates that. i probably should've used a word different from privilege but i can't think of one that wouldn't trigger people just as hard.
That doesn't answer the question. That just says historical markers are reserved for state highways. I'm asking 'why are they reserved for state highways, or any highway at all?' Why put a historical sign on a road of all places?

It's like they stuck the sign on an elephant, and I'm asking why, and your answer is 'because it's an elephant sign'. Yeah I get that... but why is it an elephant sign?
> Everywhere I've lived and cycled, buses are the most predictable vehicles on the road.

living in a midsize US east coast city, this does not match my experience at all. city bus drivers have the same mentality as truck drivers on the interstate: I'm bigger than you so you better get out of my way. it's a common occurrence to see a city bus pull all the way over to the right for a stop, then cut across four lanes of traffic to turn left at the next light.
Self driving car approach has to be different because whole idea is different than airplane automation. You want self driving car to be autonomus without need to rely on trained and disciplined human element. End goal is totally different and you cannot make progress to have fully autonomous car if you would come from: "yeah human will be in control all the time, not being stupid or drunk".
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>Of course this also assumes that an abortion is some kind of harm.

Depending on the person and how late term the pregnancy was, it can be both psychologically and physically harmful.

edit: Pregnancy and childbirth can also be psychologically and physically harmful so net harm is more difficult to talk about.
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Or, more tersely: We're not all brilliant enough to disregard others, but we all still inherently wish to disregard others.
Apart from the frankly horrendous political views of the founder, they have claimed to collect donations for creators who have never signed up for this.

And, the business concept of blocking other people's ads and showing you their own is pretty despicable in its own right.
> We didn't even have navigation all that long ago

Yes we did, even if it wasn't an electronic system built into the car, and it wasn't unheard of for people to pull out physical maps and reference them while driving, or pull over and stop in unsafe locations to reference maps. N
Electronic navigation systems are what make people less likely to do those things. There's a difference between introducing a digital tool and introducing the activity it supports.
"Or your business will exist illegally."

True.

In the context of this particular case, I was assuming that nothing the current size of YouTube could exist illegally, as that would imply that whatever authority was declaring them "illegal", but not capable of doing anything about it despite it nominally living in its jurisdiction, must be anemic and impotent to the point of being nearly non-existent.

There's already an underground proliferation of video sites, spreading copyrighted content out of the bounds of what the rightsholders want, so it's pretty much assured we'd end up with illegal alternatives. :)
https://youtu.be/yIflLxNyPBo
But why... why do they make their historical signs also highway signs? In the UK we put them on the relevant building, not out on the road.
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My Rolls doesn't have a touch screen, which is nice because it helps from distracting my driver during trips to the yacht club or the occasional polo match.
I mean, even before getting to not responsive the choice of colours is annoying: two not so distant shades of blue, a joy to watch on mobile, especially with the blur shadow added to headers
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I've also tried my best to avoid purchasing any Sony products...ever since around 2005 [0]. While i do acknowledged that some of their products historically have been good quality...I've tried my best to use my wallet to vote my conscience.

[0] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
That is interesting; I did something like this decades ago for a former employer. To give an idea of the era, all the developers worked on green-screen dumb terminals (PCs were still a fairly expensive thing for a small business like this one - we had a few for training purposes, and our sysadmin had one - and that was about it; our main dev machine we hooked up to was a IBM RS/6000 workstation running AIX).

In the source code, in comments I'd put in a varying number of spaces to spell out a copyright phrase; that way, if some comments were removed, it would mostly still be present. It was later used to defend a case of stolen code from what I recall, though I had moved on from that company by then.

It wasn't as sophisticated as this, though; IIRC, mine was just a number of spaces to indicated basic symbols to spell out the phrase and nothing more. At the time, I was 19 years old, and hadn't been doing software dev for very long - young and naive, though that had its advantages back then.
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> The author of this piece is the President of Environmental Progress, a pro-nuclear lobbying group. He's posted multiple articles to Forbes to try to discredit the Chernobyl show....

I’ve seen this pseudo ad-hom rolled out every time one of his articles comes up on HN. Is he really a nuclear lobbyist? Does that make anything he is saying not factual? Can we engage with the facts of the article rather than just attack the author?

In this case it’s an article about what a doctor who treated some of the Chernobyl patients is saying. Is that a lie? Is he not a doctor who treated the Chernobyl patients?

> which is a TV show meant to entertain people. Since when did people get their authoritative facts about science from a dramatized TV show?

That’s probably how a majority of people learn things especially about topics they otherwise would never engage in or dig deeper on such as the true details of a nuclear accident.
In one of those cases, the US themselves deployed weaponry to protect the population's own right to self-determination, so at least to US audiences it should read as uncontroversial, surely.

Catalunya is still a bit fresh, but I think it is uncontroversial to say that quashing such demands has historically resulted in bad things happening that we probably wouldn't want to see happening again. In the age of the internet, you don't increase legitimacy by deploying batons.

I say this as a natural anti-independentist - I think the real challenge of our time is scaling government up, not down; and when one starts dividing and drawing lines, one is playing an extremely dangerous game that might well end up in Balkanization, ethnic cleansing included. But it is a fact that not all nation-states are as cohesive as France, and self-determination demands are legitimate when they reach certain numbers. The nation-state itself is a concept borne of very different times, which might be nearing its sell-by date. It shouldn't be scandalous to concede that a line on a map could be thicker in one place and thinner elsewhere, if that means a more peaceful existence and better cooperation at a higher level.
> Which is why they should pay someone.

What we should do is pay a small boy to go around town breaking windows, and then grandmas should pay someone to either replace their windows, or to install some sort of decentralized window-protection hardware. This would create a lot of low-level ok I can't keep typing these words anymore.

What we should do is stop cramming processors and networking hardware into everything willy-nilly just so some advertising company can make 1/20th of a cent off my eyeballs.

Your suggestion that the solution to the problem should be handled downstream, out of my grandma's wallet, is frankly insulting.
> American media runs the ideological spectrum

Very few of them are openly against using the military, cultural, economic power the US has to force others to bend to their will. They may disagree on what direction to push others in, but they agree that they have the right (or even duty) to push them. Which is totally understandable.

Very few people see themselves as villains, pretty much everybody wants to make the world a better place. What "better" means and how to get there, that's where they part ways.
Just now I embedded an amqp client into my app. To do that, I had to create a configuration class that instantiates necessary queues, exchanges and binds them to eachother using builder syntax and beans. The spring boot app lazily handles rmq client initialization and I didn't have to think of object lifetimes. That kinda sorta simplified my job. However, your point still stands, I had to learn new syntax (I learned to type @Bean) to do all this.
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Most UI designers don't care about accessibility either. In fact, I would say that many designers have aesthetic preferences that are actively hostile to accessibility.
I used one of these for years. I bought it with 8GB of RAM, and never knew bigger modules could be used. I used an 80G disk drive.

As I recall, it took a couple of hours to compile Gcc the normal way (i.e. 3 times over).
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Then why do i keep hearing that germany has been producing a lot more pollution since they stopped nuclear power because of coal and gaz being used as a subsitute source of energy ?
I wonder if it would be easier to just whitelist Netflix. But I suppose you've got the same dragon-chasing problem then, just inverted.
if a bike hits you at a typical walking speed, how much worse is it than just bumping into another pedestrian?
I hate the touchscreen on my Honda SUV. It's not even Apple/Android but something Honda half baked a couple of years back. I have been working on UIs for a long time and it's just a disgrace of UX, design, and performance.

Plus it's pretty useless. Other that Bluetooth pairing it serves no real purpose. 99% of the time we control the music player and volume from the remote on the wheel. That's it.
So why did the Soviet authorities bury many of them in zinc coffins under a layer of concrete?
> Of course this also assumes that an abortion is some kind of harm.

How is a killing of a person not considered harm?

(Unless, of course, you're some sort of extreme psycopath.)
Natural gas plants are frequently peak load plants: They’re expensive, but they’re cheaper than a brownout or blackout.

Wind is intermittent. Solar is too (with the exception of solar thermal). Nuclear is, was, and always will be about base load the same as coal.
I'm no expert, but it looks like you have a virus hijacking your traffic. What's with the .xn--org urls? Or maybe it's just a super overzealous adblocker.
One of many articles...
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
There is nothing inherently wrong with touch screens. Just use physical knobs and buttons for anything you want when driving (heat, for example) then use touch screen for everything you use when not driving. Entering a navigation target, setting the clock, doing any car setup etc. Typing in a destination with voice or a knob and button interface is infuriating.
> Press a button and the screen would push back and/or buzz

What do you mean by "press"?

"Pressing" a button (ie. pressing down on it) requires a bit more force than just touching it, so this seems like bad UX to me.

Even if you only were to have the device buzz as you touch any interactive control, I feel like that would start to feel real gimmicky real fast. There's probably a reason that technology didn't make it past CES.
"Nuclear poisons" refers to neutron-absorbing substances produced through transmutation. When the reactor shuts down, it will continue to produce these for some time after the shutdown -- Xenon-135, particularly.

This proves problematic during reactor startup. Since it's absorbing neutrons, the controllers would need to retract the control rods further out than during steady state in order to achieve a replication rate of 1.0. However, xenon-135 stops being a nuclear poison after absorbing its neutrons... which means the replication rate will increase, and the reactor might run away.

This is part of what happened in Chernobyl, though they'd also disabled most of their safeties. (And dismantled the others.)

Regardless, nuclear poisons are something to keep a very careful eye on.
For one thing, plant life is merely repeatedly recycling the mineral content of an only slowly-varying topsoil, while coal-burning is adding new sources.
We do the same in Germany. It's so you get interesting buildings and other things pointed out when driving through an area you don't know well.

There are many interesting places between A and B. You know about A, because you're living there. You know about B, because it's your destination. Typically, you've never thought much about the in-between.
Yeah, if we want to talk about influencing politics let's start by comparing the number of members of congress that hold duel citizenship with Russia, Ukraine, Syria and Iran versus a particular other country.
NOTE: The following may not be correct...

I might be wrong, but IIRC, CR used to be a fan-sub type of site; I don't recall if they hosted stuff, or just linked to it. When I first found them, though, that's how they seemed to be. But since then, I think they license all of their content now or something like that. I may be totally wrong here, keep that in mind...
Just fyi, the primary endpoint was safety, so to pass it just needed to not be toxic. The secondary endpoint was a biomarker of mitochondrial health. So no clinical effects are included here.
Really, is that a thing?

I'm completely unable to redo a nontrivial GPS route without the GPS after a handful of times, but I can definitely redo routine routes. At first I'd expect so can anyone else.
Or at least shield the iot device. Kinda hard with a tv though.
Generally it's not too hard to find something in a picture that is from another country, but the actual request text should really be localised. I usually go for the audio ones now though rather than the visual ones.
It turns out that this can be a substantial problem, resulting in wasted loop flows: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/18/10/1...

Generally systems try to avoid too much loop power in the first place for this reason, setting up a directed but acyclic graph with some redundancy links carrying zero or near-zero power as standby.
Nope. The main driver was austerity:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-auste...

Also: What scandal? I mean, there's the occasional small one, but no major ones involving Europe that I'm aware of.
Yes, but unless all cars have speed limiters in them at those speeds, the drivers go faster regardless.
Coal is so bad that we'd have to have one Chernobyl nearly every week all the time to catch up with death rates.

Coal deaths per energy: ~ 100k / PWh

Coal consumption per year: > 40 PWh

Coal deaths per year: >4M

Chernobyl death estimates: 4k to 93k

Which gives 4M / 93k = 43 Chernobyls per year to catch up with coal (best case estimates).
Isn't CarPlay exclusive to iOS devices? If so, what you're describing might be viable with Lexus. It'd be somewhat pointless with the Toyota brand, where iOS users are a rather small minority.
Completely agree, not everyone is as passionate as others (I am much like you). But there is a large community that IS very much passionate. I still recall a fellow classmate at school who if given half the chance will talk about cars till the next morning.

But as they always say, to each their own. But especially in non-utility cars, there very much a level of passion associated with owning a car.
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I'm not sure what you're proposing instead. If you built self-driving cars that required pilot-level skills and training to operate them, who would use them?
That's mentioned in the article, alright:

> If temperature monitoring or visible deformations tip maintenance workers off in time, structures can be saved. Thermosyphons were installed to cool the soil under the apartment block at 36 Nansen Street when temperature probes showed warming there, for instance.

> But sometimes changes come too suddenly. A brick office building on Komsomolskaya street cracked like an egg one September morning in 2009 and stands empty to this day. A top corner of the building pitched forward 70cm, sending jagged fissures up the middle of its facade and squashing windows.
> I am dumbfounded that uBlock Origin, arguably the single most important extension in modern web browsing

Also it's recommended[0] to install uMatrix[1] or eMatrix[2] side-by-side with uBlock Origin.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17361827

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

[2] https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=21561
Something can be "not about UI" and "the most successful UI platform in the world" at the same time.

Many such cases. :)

Point is, HTML is a document format, not a UI toolkit. That's how it was designed and that's how it continues to evolve.

This is probably not a ideal situation, but trying to change it now probably won't do any good.
GNU's C linter is GCC warnings. For C, making a linter isn't a big deal, but for C++ writing a robust C++ parser is so hard that the linter will need to use the compiler's parser anyways.
Yeah, there’s no reason a sane person should choose either of those.
Thanks. I suspected the redirect I saw might be related to that since the domain name above obviously wasn’t the same thing I was seeing.
In the past week I've taken a better look at the work of John C. Lilly, who actually writes on the subject: the earth becoming encased in machine intelligence, which eventually exits the solar system, in search of its own kind. He's not as far as I know a fiction author, but merely recorded his floating tank visions.
It's why I wrote "Whiteboards are for throwing around ideas; not for solving problems."
He has a point in some contexts.

Touchscreens will never replace real keyboards for people who make their living typing but can easily replace a scroll wheel for mindless browsing.
Thanks!

I kinda suspected this would be the answer really. I'll have to be more proactive about communicating these things. I'm generally on top of other communications.

Setting myself a 4 week advance notice period seems like a good idea.
There is the problem of pre-history and people not writing stuff down. So the topic is always going to be open to interpretation.

People in the 60's did the hole in the head to get high - more oxygen to the brain. Not everyone but a few people. It could have been a thing like that fashion a few years ago with people getting their tongues split in two - detestable as a thought for most people but with some people who get into it.

I thought that there were also necklaces with the bone discs, not seen any stories of that recently.
>CarPlay is amazingly good, and only really works well with a touchscreen.
>At this point, it would be very hard for me to buy a car that didn't have CarPlay integration with a touchscreen. I've seen implementations without touch, and they're much, much less useful.

Well, maybe the solution is to make apple carplay and android auto to work well with a dpad and buttons configuration, those interfaces have been working perfectly for videoconsoles and tvs, and a car system is more similar to that than to a phone.

Actually the system works well, and it's designed for that, And as the test confirm, using the touchscreen while driving is dangerous. The same that you can't use a video app while driving, the touchscreen should be disables while the car is moving.
>Most of us are used to being able to adjust the AC without looking, and that's only possible because there are physical controls we can feel.

My Tesla allows me to adjust the AC without looking, using the scroll wheels built into the steering wheel.
Unfortunately it's very easy for the uninformed masses (especially with topics such as nuclear power, not the most accessible for most people) to pick up on some of the more unrealistic details and build on their preconceptions or misconceptions. And the "entertainment" part tends to leave a more lasting impression also because they are more dramatic. And then there's that misconception that shows based on true events are somehow more documentary than art. So in such cases movie fiction easily turns into urban legend "facts".

The fact that the author of the article is part of a pro-nuclear lobbying group doesn't automatically contradict or discredit the opinions of the doctor that's featured in the article. They come from the actual guy who was there for real to treat the people.
I should have been more precise, because even I don't understand what I meant anymore, & now can't even delete it.
WSDLs will tell your tools how to build the SOAP XML for you. It will even give you things like required fields and field lengths. When you need to update something just update the WSDL and regenerate your messages.

I love REST and JSON. The WSDL is one of the only things I like about SOAP. I’ve had issues where people didn’t give me the correct JSON or they update their scheme without notifying everyone and it breaks. You still need to notify people about WSDL changes.
Der untergang is a german movie so they speak German.

So are you saying only ukranians should be allowed to make movies about Chernobyl?

So Americans can only make historical movies about events in America and only Scandinavians can make movies about Vikings?
There are all sorts of historical markers on various things and in various places all over the US. (Though I'm not aware of any at Dartmouth College regarding the computer-related events that occurred there.) These particular markers are ones put up on NH state highways where they're fairly visible even to people not actively looking for them.