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> Ever since the very first model, sub-par, underrated power supplies have been responsible for a good slice of tech support issues with the Pi. It wouldn't be a real Pi launch without power issues.

Except this time the issue is not with the power supplies by the Pi itself.
This isn’t quite right. High current at low voltages can start fires, too.
Another potentially problematic aspect of it is that, if it does take off with the people on my street, my inbox is going to hurt, as I receive all posts.
Almost 5? years later and it’s not gotten much better from what I can see.
At least American Express automatically changes "Christopher" to "C" so your first name is abbreviated rather than just cut off.
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Mr. Musk?
I'd usually say jokingly "what are you gonna do, call the police?" but that's an actual issue these days so whatever
The predominant NIMBY strategy is to request a new impact study every 6 months so as to insert delays and restarts into the capital-intensive, highly coordinated construction process, bringing it from merely arduous to nearly impossible. Pre-fabbed reactors would reduce both the attack surface and the per-hit damage considerably.
Everything works for me except my Apple charger. I blame Apple.
Apple really is good about taking care of problems. It's easy to complain about the price, but when my Samsung screen stopped working, I had to buy a new phone. When my iPhone screen started glitching, I got it fixed for free in less than two hours. Things like that make paying the "Apple premium" a little more palatable.
I read and understood your original point, and that is what I disagree with. You have made a general point about responsibility, but my point is that if we look at the specifics of this particular issue, one cannot expect software testers to anticipate the particular risks that MCAS presented. On the other hand, there are other roles in the airplane development process where the people involved are expected to have the requisite knowledge to identify and judge such risks, and these are employees of Boeing or the FAA (if it turns out that these roles were farmed out to low-bidding subcontractors, that's a separate issue.) These domain experts ruled that MCAS was acceptable as designed, apparently largely on the mistaken grounds that MCAS failure is just like any other trim runaway excursion, a mistake exacerbated by the failure to properly communicate the increased power of the redesigned MCAS among the domain experts.

No sound root-cause analysis will come to the conclusion that the crashes resulted from Boeing contracting out software testing to low-bid contractors. You are making the fallacy of arguing a general point that does not apply in this specific case.
Farming is all about inputs, yes you can grow alot of fly larvie in a small space if your trucking in many tons of spent yeast or organic waste from other places, just as a 1 acre feed lot can fatten up many more cattle than a pasture system. I think there is certainly benifits to using soldier flys to breakdown waste but there is no way you can get 130 tons of protien from 1 acre without taking it from the soil or trucking in waste to feed them.
My support experience with Amazon Fulfillment involved several months of going back and forth with what I think were humans whose native language was not English, bound by a script, until I learnt that the shortcut to getting an actual human who is allowed to deviate from a script is sending an email to Bezos.
The opposite engineering philosophies of providing use cases to support theories, versus providing generic arguments are incompatible; I'm closing here.
I don’t even understand the not a real language critique, R:

- is based on scheme, a HN favourite;

- integrates very well with C++ through RCpp allowing you to do whatever you want. 9/10 times someone already went through the trouble for you.
> Would you hire someone who you know is an open racist,

ofc not, I think some people are just terrible and no amount of good will is going to integrate them anywhere. But my point is that a strong team can absorb some people that don't seem 100% fitting on the first impression. From my personal experience many people I got on fine with initially afterward turned out to be terrible team players and turned out to be wolf in sheep clothing (and no amount of screening could have prevented that). Others were questionable but given a chance ended up holding everything together when it mattered.

IMO there is no silver bullet against weeding out toxic individuals and there is likewise no guarantee that with a binary approach by putting people into the good/bad camp some won't be thrown under the bus.

Also the most creative teams I worked with were often totally crazy mix where it's natural egos rub against another. Reading the post all my alarm bells ring. The author would be labeled under my definition of toxic, yet I'd still give him an interview knowing that he'd be surrounded by people more mature than him and potentially 15-20 years older. He wouldn't stand a chance in a group where he was the most senior from a knowledge or age pov.
Like yucca mountain?
I enjoyed your https://wordsandbuttons.online/fortran_is_still_a_thing.html
It's called martingale strategy. The same strategy is embedded into incentives in the wall street compensations.

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The physical contacts are different though. You can look down into a USB 3 plug and see the new 5 contacts just as you can look at a USB 3 socket and see the new contacts right up front. Also I don't always see blue in new USB 3 cables and sockets, sometimes it's just black.
Listened to this a week or so ago on Making Sense. David Krakauer from the Santa Fe Institute expands quite a bit on this idea in his interview/discussion with Sam Harris. It's a fantastic discussion if you find this dialog interesting (and the article links to the reference at the bottom).
Now now, many of the British have far more varied and refined palates than you suggest. Since we actually have some of the leading chefs in the world our cuisine has actually stepped up it's game. It's not been the bland stodge we built a reputation for since I was a kid.
Because anything you give them to fool them (such as fake passports or fake documents to comply with their initial demand), they will turn around and use on innocent victims.

Same goes for files that can crash your computer, they can send that to non-complying victims. Key is to waste as much of their time as possible while giving them as little value as possible.
Housing has been captured by people seeking a return on capital. There needs to be a recognition that housing prices rising faster than inflation and wages is overall bad thing.

That owning a home is sometimes the only way for middle and lower classes to build wealth (and even then, only in a handful of markets) is an indictment of a economy that's not robust and not working for the majority of people.

However, there are too many people making too much money off of housing that I would expect things to change soon.
This has been solved on a theoretical level for a long time. All it needs is financing and political will to build the storage facilities.

Despite a long-standing agreement among many experts that geological disposal can be safe, technologically feasible and environmentally sound, a large part of the general public in many countries remains skeptical. from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository#Pri...
I don't understand the title. I expected it was a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fan%27s_Notes, and either the blog author doesn't know about the book, or I'm too thick to see the connection. Honestly I suppose it could be either.
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The goal of their diagnostics is to
a.) upsell/make you pay up for "repairs" you may or may not need
b.) avoid doing work under warranty

Same shit for car dealers and other places involving consumer goods.
This all driven by corporate setting quotas for employees to meet (knowing full well they can't be met unless certain non-spoken shortcuts are taken...).
This is an important topic but given that the absolute emergency at the moment is to reduce our carbon footprint I think that handling radioactive waste is a lesser evil. Most of us spend our days in cities, breathing toxic fumes from cars and factories, yet many of us draw a red line at any kind of radioactive risk, no matter how small. For me this is the equivalent of people who are afraid to fly in airplanes but drive their kids to school every day. It's understandable but obviously not very rational. An airplane crash makes the news for days, sometimes even months. A guy crashing his car in a ditch barely registers. Obviously one of these things is massively more common than the other however.

Look at Germany quitting on nuclear and using coal power plants instead. Look at France producing relatively cheap and low-carbon energy using mainly nuclear power plants: https://www.electricitymap.org/

This is one of these conversations like GMOs, like vaccines, like herbicides, like so many others where it seems that rational conversation is impossible because only extreme viewpoints can be heard. Nuclear is incredibly dangerous when it goes wrong but the risk can be managed and when it works well it's very competitive. Of course the costs of properly dismantling the reactors and storing all the radioactive waste needs to be factored in. It's a tough engineering problem but compared to rising sea level and massive perturbations in the climate it seems a whole lot easier to manage.

I'd much sooner live close to a nuclear power plant than next to a busy highway.
Doesn't SpaceX sidestep a bunch of this stuff by achieving reliability via redundancy instead? Like, put three valves in series when it needs to fail closed, and three in parallel when it need to fail open, that kind of thing.

I wonder if there's potential for a similar approach here?
Low-IF journals are easier to publish to by definition. You first try to publish in a high-IF journal, if they reject you then you try one with lower IF, and so on. I'm all about not taking IF as face value and don't need a n-th reminder about the metric's issues seeing how rehashing them is something of a favorite pastime among scientists, but in this specific case other more qualitative assessments don't line up either:

-Journal is completely obscure to the genomics community

-No causal genetic mechanism is shown, everything is shoved into a "heritability" black box that some people seem to think is like your video game character starting stats or something

-Authors don't have a genetics background

-It's not my field, but there appears to be a wealth of literature on how fertility rates decrease in history, none of them involving "heritability" and little is done to address, reconcile or unify that

-There does seem to be darker political overtones that are exacerbated by commenters, leading me to think the arguments are not being made in good faith

Journal IF is just a (flawed) heuristic but in this case it sets a low prior and the "updates" didn't help
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They're the only nation with operating fast breeder reactors than can handle this type of waste.
Without knowing your OS: a text editor of some sort and an FTP/SFTP client.

Then just get shared web hosting account - there are lots to chose from and they are super cheap these days. You can go a long way with that without having to mess around with maintaining your own server (unless you want to - I do :)
Can’t this happen with regular bank accounts too? Cheques and transfers can be reversed or altered long after they’ve entered your account without any approval from you or even notification to you. Sure the PayPal support process here sucks, but I don’t think they did anything wrong by reversing the transaction.
I'm not trying to score points in favor of a political position (please follow HN etiquette of giving posters the benefit of the doubt).

The filtering you refer to may be useful[1] when looking at bulk lists of papers (e.g. when sitting on a hiring committee), but this is an example where the article has already been curated for our attention, namely: by being upvoted on Hacker News. You can still choose to filter it out, but it's silly to write comments attacking the paper based on the journal's impact factor. Better to grapple with the paper's actual scientific content.

[1] (Useful in the same tragedy-of-the-commons way that it's "useful" to leave a picnic ground without cleaning up after yourself.)
You can just dump it into the ocean floor with little consequence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_floor_disposal
This is pretty surprising to me, as AFAIK the current "autopilot" isn't designed to work in urban areas. Anyway, thank you for the update.
I think this is an important distinction that the parent comment failed to address and which destroys the premise of their entire argument.
This is especially needed as with so many possible variations full feature cable can have problem listing all the features.
In using the search function through the article it seems the exact opposite. Perhaps you have some bias you weren't aware of when reading the article?
This is such a weird comment, reversing of transactions happens for mistakes on checking accounts too, such as a deposit to the wrong account.

On top of that the vast majority of people don't get a notification every time a transaction happens on their checking account. Some banks are implementing a notification feature for some transactions nowadays, but it's rare, new, and opt-in. The general case is money just flows in and out without much fanfare.

Some banks show you transactions that are pending. If a transaction never goes from pending to settled then it literally just disappears without a trace. Standard behavior.
Honestly? I derive pleasure from hard work. I'm somewhat of a masochist in that way, I guess. I shun convenience and choose the hard path towards personal enlightenment.
What I’d like to see is a geocities but with: database, server side scripting, caching, memcache, and https free for limited use with a performance and availability guarantee. What would it take to get this on a massive scale?
If you don't care about the default telemetry and ads, switch to Windows 10 with WSL. I was a die hard Mac user for a decade and since switching I haven't looked back. Windows is a different beast than it was 10 years ago, and having the whole ecosystem of hardware and software at your disposal is fantastic.
Stockholm has good parks, but absolutely no public toilets. So better don't drink anything while you're out.

There are lots of European cities with lots of parks, like Warsaw, Budapest, Prague.
0) Get a cheap virtual/dedicated machine.

1) Install docker and docker-compose

2) Setup traefik, a reverse proxy, in docker (good starting point: https://docs.traefik.io/user-guide/docker-and-lets-encrypt/ ).

3) Run $docker container (ghost, wordpress...). I typically use one docker-compose file for each domain. "expose" is not necessary because the requests are proxied by traefik.

Here's a docker-compose sample for a website available under my-website.com:

version: '3'

services:
web:
container_name: my-website.com-nginx
image: nginx
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
- ./data:/usr/share/nginx/html
labels:
- "traefik.docker.network=web"
- "traefik.enable=true"
- "traefik.basic.frontend.rule=Host:my-website.com"
- "traefik.basic.port=80"
- "traefik.basic.protocol=http"

networks:
default:
external:
name: web

There are probably more elegant ways to do this, however I found it quite effective for my setup.
I think the same thing is happening in Python for data science due to Pandas. It’s a great package, but many data scientists are only able to manipulate data using Pandas, and know little “base” Python.
I personally would have been a lot more comfortable with a different DNS protocol if

1) the companies pushing them didn’t limit it to just their product (and instead added it to the C runtime resolver)

2) didn’t limit it to their servers (that’s honestly pretty concerning)
You mean Google Cloud and AWS?

If you're looking for a WYSIWYG website editor, you probably don't need caching/memcache, etc.
Where would the funding come from?
The problem with this "cheap cable" standard is that "cheap cables" can be the same price as "good cables".
I said the "other" reason. I am not absolving the RPi team here...

The fact that they shipped this reveals significant gaps in their engineering and QA processes.

That doesn't change the fact that USB-C is a mess, and that mess contributed to this failure.
Trains aren't that great either, unfortunately. Airports are a stain on a place, but railways cut huge stretches of habitats in two. Wildlife passes can help, but it's expensive to build a lot of them, and they're not a panacea. Plus, in some places you have to destroy valuable natural areas if you need to build more rail.

Still, until we have planes that pollute dramatically less (both in gases and in noise), they're the best we have.
A lot of people keep declaring the web needs to be more decentralized. I don't think they really have a plan for making things better, though, because decentralized doesn't really mean anything except 'not centralized'.

It doesn't mean 'privacy-focused', because the internet is decentralized, and your privacy isn't inherently guaranteed by it. It doesn't addess how to fund online products, which is what drove the systems we have today. It doesn't describe how we're supposed to convince the world to build products that don't exploit people, and aren't used by the powerful against us.

Saying we need the web to be more decentralized is like saying we need more transparency in politics. Sounds great, but even if it's more transparent, that doesn't mean more legislation is going to get done, or done better. We need more concrete goals, and to focus less on the means of getting there.
That is true. Which is why the alternative needs to be grass-roots, good enough, and not for profit. It has to be a mission, rather than a corporation. I am curious to see if this can happen....
I agree; which is why I generally get confused when I see that criticism. This is only an assumption though; maybe its just a vocal minority that don't like R or I only notice the negative comments. Who knows
One reason dplyr was promoted is that you can connect to different server backend like sparkr, sql etc, which is the enterprise direction RStudio aiming at. In the other hand, data.table is your friend when you are using your own machine. With more and more memory and cpu power available, its benefits are actually increasing.

I have been using data.table from almost day one, it does worth more recognition. The syntax is a little bit hard in the beginning but can be grasped after some efforts. I often feel that my exploration code will be much more tedious look if written in dplyr style.
Well, if you're "screwed either way", you could just as well choose the system that at least has a theoretical process for oversight in place (the public one) and not the system that does not even pretend to have oversight.
Ok, that may be true but you're still not really understanding my argument. I'm going to spell it out.

Assume: The land we're reforesting is land that humanity deforested. Hopefully I don't need to make that argument, it should be clear.

Assume: If reforesting land causes cooling, then deforesting the same land caused the same amount of warming.

Let A=the amount of warming you get by deforesting some land, also the amount of cooling you get by reforesting the same land.

Let B=the amount of warming you get from shoving CO2 into the atmosphere.

Let C=the total amount of warming so far.

Then A+B=C

If you're making the argument that A=C, then B=0

But B is not equal to 0.

Therefore A is not equal to C.

That means: reforesting all the land we deforested is not going to cancel out the CO2 we've put into the atmosphere.

Does that help clarify my point? Reforestation BY ITSELF cannot be enough.
If we have to decide our policy based on "Facebook X test" we're f*cked.
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There can be many reasons (house not being yours, etc.) but one of them could easily be cultural inertia.

During the first half of my life, very few people in my country (Italy) had AC in their homes. It wasn't until the recent high temperatures, which only became obvious 20 years ago or such, that everybody started installing them.

I can't find a historic chart specific to my country, but I suppose it wouldn't be too dissimilar from this:

https://www.telesurtv.net/export/sites/telesur/img/news/2017...
To both of you : solo-founding is thrice as hard. You could still team up and work on both projects. Of course, this requires serious commitment regarding the IP ( you should both become co-owners of each others IP ).
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Right, but it currently has neither, so the problem is for all practical purposes still unsolved.

In fact, not only are the dozens of needed DGRs not being built, in many cases fuel which has cooled enough to be moved into cask storage is instead still sitting in actively cooled pools. So not only have we not built any large DGRs (other than that under construction one in Finland), we haven't even taken the intermediate step of preparing spent fuel for any form of passive storage.
Is a decentralized social network really the solution?

I'd rather enjoy having a social platform managed for the greater good, by a not-for-profit organization. The Mozilla or Wikimedia of social networks.
What made you switch? I'm still using Ido-mode and is quite happy.
I think the problem is that people see a USB Type-C port and expect everything with a USB Type-C connector to work in it, which has and never will be the case with USB Type-C connectors.

If you think this is bad, go ask PlanetCom what the heck "Pump Express" is and why USB Type-C PD power supplies wont charge their phone ;)
> its intermediate scales are un-prefixable

huh? Mrd, Brd, Trd, ...

> it names adjacent intermediate orders of magnitude with only subtle mutations of the previous name

million and ten million are also rather close. So what?

> it's inconsistent with itself (<x 10^9)

Those are explicitly named for historical reasons, which is well in line with how names for numbers are handled: we generally work in a decimal system, yet have "eleven" and "twelve", followed by lastdigit-teen while everything above twenty is decimaldigit-y-lastdigit. (German has similar quirks, although the order remains the same. Still: neunzehn, nine-ten vs. neunundzwanzig, nine-and-twenty).

And let's not start with French (ten, twenty, thirty, fourty, fifty, sixty, sixty-ten, four-twenties, four-twenties-ten, hundred). [to be fair, Switzerland and Belgium fixed that in their dialects, using septante, huitante, nonante]

> in 2019 it's extremely ambiguous

It was ambiguous since the 17th century when the short scale was invented.

I'm not sure if the UK officially switched by now, all I see is a random statement by a Prime Minister 45 years ago that I'm not sure is normative (https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1...)

> in all languages SI prefixes have been around since 1960

Sure, and it's used sometimes, but are SI prefixes defined as normative numbering scheme anywhere? That is, which language and which country uses Gigagrams officially?
> That's supposed to be the promise / fix of SMR

I'm surprised the (US) military isn't looking into these more.

I would think it would reduce /simplify the logistics of hauling diesel for generators over hell's half-acre.
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