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> It's not tricky. There are already disposal sites that have enough capacity to accommodate nuclear waste for centuries.

It's ironic how the "centuries" mentioned are in fact not enough (by a long shot) for 100% of the waste to decade.

If the more accurate "millennia" was used, it would be unrealistic in a very obvious way (at least, to prudent engineers/managers) to talk about maintenance.

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Software project, 20 years after: "This project sucks. Nobody knows it. It's undocumented. There are bugs unfixed for years. There are no tools to work with it. We can't work on it without breaking something. It's a disaster."

Nuclear waste disposal project, 10.000 years after: "EVERYTHING IS PERFECTLY FINE".

Sure. /sarcasm
I'm well aware that money moves all the time but giving it away removes the burden of making "good" and rational decision, especially if you have a lot of it.

Or Maybe you don't like hanging out with rich people, when you're very rich you can't hang out with poor people. You can but you have to probably lie about your wealth.
After all these years, how is deploying solely on AWS still worse than Heroku & Render?
They would likely compromise the device via its baseband, and patch the operating system to give the illusion of a complete shutdown when the user attempts to power it off.
Choosing a Legal Entity for Your Business
Are you going to put the same post under Facebook's, Google's and some other news... or does this "It's all new!" cop-out count only for Apple?

Remember, they plastered "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone" ads all over CES this years while they kept transcribing Siri audio. And they did that until they got caught. Just like they throttled iPhone performance until they got caught and THEN they finally told users about that.

Why would they get a benefit of doubt?
I wonder if they'll get around to fixing this miscompliation bug: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90348
Those are unfounded assumptions and opinions. It also doesn't change the fact that that is the current definition of vegan. You can use the word however you want, but the way I'm using it is correct based on the dictionary definition
The pricing is way worth it if you do the math on the number of engineers you won't need anymore
I was about to try this out (migrating from Thunderbird 60.0.8 in Ubuntu 19.04)...

And it seems the Cardbook-extension is no longer supported.

Without that, what is the preferred way to get remote CardDAV support for contacts?
Our culture still (and even more so a couple of decades ago) has a strong undercurrent of hating sluts and loving studs. This is where men are expected and encouraged to “conquer” many women and women are expected to resist it.

The following is how it gets interpreted by a lot of people and has no connection whatsoever to my own opinions of these two people:

Clinton having an affair with an intern was seen as bad because of the infidelity, but at the same time it makes him look virile and manly. It’s a mixed bag but he comes out looking pretty good overall.

An intern having an affair with Clinton is bad because it makes her a slut and she should have resisted her carnal urges. And she had an affair with a married man, so she’s a home wrecker too! There’s no positive aspect to this at all, and it’s all her fault for not behaving. And then her misbehavior gets plastered all over the national news, and she gets the shaming she deserves!
I believe NaCl and PNaCl analyzes machine instructions (NaCl) or 'bitcode' (PNaCl) to sandbox binaries.
If anyone wants to try this themselves: https://godbolt.org/z/j4YJ0c
Vaguely related fun fact: “awful” used to be a synonym for “awesome.”
Michael O'Leary being incredibly rude is a key part of Ryanair's branding. If you're paying £19 for a two hour flight, you'll always have the sneaking suspicion that the airline is skimping on maintenance. O'Leary makes it absolutely clear that they save money by treating their passengers like cattle. He carefully cultivates the image of a man who utterly despises his own customers, but is far too miserly to allow an aircraft to crash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O%27Leary_(businessman...
The Rust community definitely believes in the idea that if you repeat something enough times it becomes reality.

At least the Rust subreddit figured out that there's this other language which fulfills the same requirements of being a higher level C, except unlike Rust it has a massive ecosystem, mind share and vendor support - including from Intel. It does have worse PR, but this is mostly because Rust is unbeatable here.

It would be interesting to also hear from Josh's colleagues which work on a large number of C and C++ projects. Do they agree that Rust is the future? And does that mean that all of Intel's money-making software is essentially obsolete? Is Intel the company aware of that?
The implied sentiment was "You're poor and I've been treating you as a joke."

The previously implied sentiment was "I'm selling you upmarket glamour at an affordable price."

Branding isn't about the product, it's about buying a relationship with an entity that has more power and charisma than you do.

If you change the implied terms of the relationship, you damage the brand's value.

It's why people get so furious when Apple stiffs them with products that fail and then fobs them off with poor after-care.

Apple's implied sentiment used to be "You're an important and unusually gifted person with excellent taste."

After Cook it's more like "We've taken your money. Why are you still here?"
This is complicated by the fact that Marie Curie's workshop is a historic site, and many of the contaminated items are things like notebooks and lab equipment that you don't want to just throw away, because Marie goddamn Curie used them.
Well they can perhaps also stop doing business with Chinese government and then continue preaching about privacy. They've proven flexible with their morals when it came to money too many times to be trusted. Just like any other corporation.
Thank you for the RTP information! Had not heard of it yet. The fees look very reasonable ($0.01-$0.045 depending on type of transaction) and they provide a level playing field (flat-fee, no discounts for volume)

I also heard someone say at some point that Americans are very wary of having people transfer money to their bank account. Not sure what the rationale is (maybe taxes or afraid of criminal money?) but I was wondering if you have heard this and if so, whether RTP has some protections or safeguards against this?
> Everyone understands that she may have been a victim in it.

You believe Lewinsky was a victim of what, exactly? She might have been extensively mistreated by the press but that's it.
The top story on HN changes around 10 - 20 times per day so it is nice to get a notification in Slack (or Discord, text, email, or your preferred method) when a new story hits #1.

My version of "Google Alerts" for Hacker News runs a cron job every five minutes that sends me a new Slack message each time a new story hits #1.

I know there’s a lot I can improve here and so would love any feedback, ideas and/or opinions.
I'm supportive of this. Children should not be held accountable for "the sins of their parents". My parents started charging me rent when I was 18 and told me I had to pay for college entirely by myself. I don't see why their income should be held against me.
I've been freelancing on the side for over a decade, but when my first born was around one I started really pushing it, I currently try to work between 10-15 hrs on the side when my kids are sleeping. It takes time to find a pattern that works for you, your clients (if you have clients), and your family.

Communication is key for this, your spouse has to be 100% on board or there is going to be resentment on one side or another.

Unfortunately, when you have a family, any time you put towards work will take away from your family - there is just no way around that. Even if you're with your family, if you're on your phone then your kids and spouse will notice that.
Stating how I felt about my discussion with a user to another user is not ganging up. He seemed to be defending the company as if he had a personal stake and was acting willfully ignorant. That is an important thing to be aware of, particularly in discussions such as this
Some of that seems OK, but a lot of it still seems unacceptable to me. Particularly, I disagree with these assertions:

> It is reasonable for the browser to relax its identity-sharing controls within that expanded notion, provided that the resulting identity scope is not too large and can be understood by the user.

> It may be OK for a site to learn the fact that a user has earned trust on another site

But, as always, my attitude about this sort of thing as that everything hinges on informed consent. If I have not given my explicit informed consent, then there is no sharing of data about me that is acceptable.
Compiler engineers are a smart bunch :)
> I drink milk because it makes me nostalgic for my childhood and hey, it's calories, baby!

Nostalgia, huh? Is that worth the environmental damage and severe ethics concerns? Not to mention, uh, you're drinking a cow's milk that should be for its children. We're the only species that does that. It's so odd.

Soy milk tastes great, has a nice nutrition profile, and is actually good for you (and the environment, and the animals).
The solution is simple: make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy, just like every other kind of loan.

Otherwise there is no incentive for banks and colleges to not charge infinity for college.

The current system is like a legal modern form of slavery or mafioso.

It's mind boggling how people don't see this simple explanation.
I'm curious why you think that? The origin is absolutely the usual exploitation of UB in the sense that the compiler supposes that code paths that are past one can be elided (because programmers never write bugs, that kind of interesting reasoning...)

Except it has a bug (the irony :p ) in the logic that computes that, and actually elides more code paths than it should. That shows that their architecture to do that kind of dangerous transformation is fragile, and they are not able to guarantee that that kind of transformation is really restricted to buggy source code (which would even then still be a bad idea IMO, but that is another story).
The environment described is pretty standard for SCIF/SAPs. The White House has different rules, primarily because some of the people there are Too Important™ to be bothered. The one time I got to visit the White House I got a tour of the situation room I was physically uncomfortable about the fact that I was allowed to bring my phone even though there wasn't a meeting in progress (though I did get to spin around in Obama's chair so I got over my discomfort).
100M Android Users Installed App with Malware Inside
Great work on the paper!
For the record, I'm wrong. Hydrogen peroxide is H2O2, so it's just adding an extra oxygen from the air to the water molecule. I was thinking about Hydroxyl which is OH and would cause excess hydrogen gas.
Both SNCF and DB are in the midst of an ongoing process of privatization, pursuant to an EU-wide directive: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-france-reform-sncf-explain....

It’s obviously a process to go from these big state owned enterprises to private companies without disrupting the apple cart. There are degrees of privatization: from the US model of an organization running a “public service” to the Singaporean model of a hands-off government that owns the equity as a passive investor. And the government may have an interest in supporting otherwise “money losing” operations.

But there is broad consensus, not just in the developed world, but in the competitive Asian economies like Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore which are in many ways ahead of the curve, that the goal should be to privatize as much as possible, within the constraints of things like natural monopolies. Those calling for not just nationalization (the government being the shareholder) but active government involvement in operations are on the wrong side of that trend.
ACH transfers aren't expensive or difficult, they're just relatively slow. The US banking system revolves around reversible transactions and pull transfers (check writing). If some business wants to buck the trend by taking in money via a pull and send it out via push, they're doubly on the hook for fraud.

Which is why services like Zelle have a bunch of things in their terms to make you more responsible for fraudulent transactions - so they're in a better position of not having to roll back as many. For that same reason, I think it's a terrible idea to sign up for things like Zelle with any account that handles more than petty cash

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16899944

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16033455
From reading the article, I think the point is that these kids aren't actually supporting themselves, they're just made to seem that way on paper.
Plenty of alternatives. Paw[0], Insomnia[1] to name a few.

[0] https://paw.cloud/

[1] https://insomnia.rest/
ACH is a file format. You generate an ACH file and then SFTP that to the Federal Bank (or another central bank... I forget which). In simple terms, the file contains a header and a bunch of batches. The header has the account info whomever generated the ACH file (a bank, usually) and the records in each batch the account info of another party.

The federal bank iterates through all of the records in the file and attempts to perform each transaction using the pair of account info, the type of transaction, and the details in the transaction record.

To answer the question about why it takes so long?

Generally it doesn't actually. Most companies will tell you it takes 24hrs to send you money, and that's because most companies generate and submit an ACH file once a day, and the federal bank will process those files at some point after that.

Why does it take weeks for a deposit to be marked invalid and reversed? Well, analytics, fraud detection, and those kinds of activities are not all real-time. More than you think are actually caught _remarkably_ fast, but many take time to find and often include collaboration with multiple banks, government agencies, and policing organizations from multiple countries. That means geo-political concerns, international treaties, timezones, communication problems. You name it.
I think it has to do with the bootlegging maybe?
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care
Machine Learning for Systems and Systems for Machine Learning (2017) [pdf]
> Is it selfish to have kids?

With respect... at no point did you even describe the impetus to have kids as a means of gifting someone else an existence. You describe your reasoning as being entirely for your own gain... So how can you not see it as selfish?

Does that mean it's WRONG? No. I'm not saying you're a bad person, or that you did the wrong thing. You're 100% right when you say that it's "natural". I'd even say that for the community at-large, NOT having kids is more detrimental than otherwise.

I just can't bring myself to do it though. When I think about having kids I immediately see my hypothetical child, in my minds eye, being born with cerebral palsy, or childhood leukemia, or bi polar disorder. How could I look them in the eye and say, I'm sorry? I'm sorry, I knew it was a risk and I still chose to roll the dice. I'm sorry that I struggled my entire life with finding meaning, and true happiness, but I still chose to bring you into this to fill a void in myself. Now you get to suffer, like I did, until you choose to bring another life here.

No. It stops here.

Clearly, I disagree with the natural state of things. I don't think it's fair to subject someone to a life they didn't ask to live when you simply can't guarantee them anything. Their life isn't, or rather shouldn't, be in my hands. I'm not god.

Someone should assess whether they want this or not. Life is one big dice roll, and they should be able to assess the risk themselves before taking the plunge. Obviously that's not possible. Obviously the world I describe isn't the one we live in.
You get that flexibility from renewables the same way you get it from nuclear. You build too much and when you don't need it you just throw it away. Then you can magically increase or decrease production to match demand. No storage needed. Though we already have some storage and more on the way. But it'll always be cheaper to overbuild and "waste" some unless some radically cheaper storage is invented.
Metallic plutonium is far rarer and more tightly controlled than gold. There is no civilian market for it. Building a new plutonium separation-and-metallization facility for processing spent civil nuclear fuel is more expensive than a new gold mine. Plutonium is also easy to detect by its radioactivity.
The choice between 1) maintaining status quo, and 2) losing one or more professors who are bringing money in, if we push through the charges, for potential reputation gain. I think most business administrator would choose former.
If a judge approves a search warrant, what's the issue? Your constitutional rights are not being infringed. I am afraid of the police (or CIA, etc) acting illegally but if the judiciary I'm probably ok with it.
I was comparing more with the NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg, all of which have broken major stories that were critical of Beijing. I haven't seen as much of that from the BBC. Fox I consider mainly to provide domestic entertainment, so whatever China bias they have wouldn't be that relevant.

It sure would be interesting to someday learn about how all these decisions of what to block get made.
Actually OP gave the exact reason ECS does not work for them:

> The rate at which we can start tasks restricts the parallelism of our deploy. Despite us setting the MaximumPercent parameter to 200%, the ECS start-task API call has a hard limit of 10 tasks per call, and it is rate-limited. We need to call it 400 times to place all our containers in production.

That call limit needs to scale with the cluster size
There are more companies being more successful using PHP.
You encrypt the message twice so that either the intended recipient or the government with 5 HSMs can decrypt it.
First, doesn't even look like it's a commercial product.

Second, the creator says they don't have the money right now for a domain name. You can't squeeze blood from a turnip. And they may not even live in a country that respects US trademark law.

Seems like a polite request from postman would be a good place to start.
Yeah, that's not what's happening with the people in this story...
The issue here is that perfect price discrimination doesn't actually seem fair to the vast majority of "normal" people. I was the youngest child of old parents, so we looked fabulously wealthy to the FAFSA. In reality, my parents were only mildly better prepared for retirement, which they were entering, than the average local government employee (both of their careers). This meant that my family paid full cost for flagship state university, despite much much wealthier people paying less. Similarly, my out-of-state friends were given "scholarships" that put them down to in-state tuition rates, but no lower. People do not generally pay the "full" price of these things[0].

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/18/private-colleges-costs-35830...
This is a possible solution, but it's not simple.

If you do this, the current system of student loans we have will collapse completely. Now, maybe that would be good...but it's not simple.
Sad part that I've seen... worked on an implementation of Visa push payments at a TPA/ISO (I think it was formally called something else by Visa [Visa Direct?]) - it was designed as a real time payment system to make small payments to vendors or contractors. In order to settle everything at the end of the day, we were using ACH and wires behind the scenes to re-balance the source accounts. It was really comical IMO . I know progress has to start somewhere but it just felt like we were adding layers of complexity.
The hidden power of Freemind for Business Analysis
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T29ybqjv8-U Manley goes over the exhaust color changes at the end.
This sort of situation is something I suggest people think about ahead of time. If you decompose it into the basic

"I just discovered that some one, or my company/institution, on which my livelihood currently depends, is engaged in fraudulent/immoral/illegal/unethical activies."

The next question is "Now what do I do?" It ranges from report it and leave immediately, to let the leadership know you are there to help. When I was at Intel I discovered that someone within Intel was selling memory chips that had 'binned out' (failed one of the edge cases tested post production) on the grey market. I took the path of reporting it, which ended up in this employee's dismissal. My manager at the time talked with me and said that while he admired my integrity he wondered if I understood the risk I had taken. We talked about it, and the number of people that had to be working together in order for this little scheme to work, and they only fired one guy. The implication was that there were still an unknown number of people at the company who knew (or suspected) that I had interrupted their gravy train. At least one of them had to be reasonably high up the management chain. So now I likely had 'enemies' where before I was just an unknown.

You might think, "Wow, are people really thinking like that?" and my experience suggests that yes, they really do.

So think about the consequences of being the "good guy" can be just as painful for you in a different way than they are for the "bad guy." It isn't an easy choice.
> The rate at which we can start tasks restricts the parallelism of our deploy. Despite us setting the MaximumPercent parameter to 200%, the ECS start-task API call has a hard limit of 10 tasks per call, and it is rate-limited. We need to call it 400 times to place all our containers in production.

From reading other comments it makes me wonder if you (Plaid) tried batching the tasks into N containers? Like if a task 50 containers, then you'd reduce the task call rate limiting by 50x...
Flip side is it’s easier to bypass campaign contribution limits, or to bypass disclosure requirements (think Brendan Eich’s donations)
That book brought me to laughter so many times. It's definitely one of my favorite reads.
I like that the Ring surveillance devices has a glowing indicator visible from the outside. It lets me know what neighborhoods I should avoid.
'Rich' is a relative term.

> living in a $1.2 million home and earning more than $250,000 a year.

In other words, you make enough to not qualify for any aid, bit not enough to have $60k/yr disposable income. I see where the parents are coming from.
Cool! Does text-to-speech require AI, or is there any active work in non-AI methods? Which bits are the AI bits? Do "deep" methods substantially improve over whatever classical methods we might have had?
yes, that is the real problem,

college shouldn't cost a hundred grand a year in the first place ...
Crypto is munitions for export purposes, I doubt you can get a ruling that it qualifies for 2A protection. The law is like that. The law can classify a thing as one thing for one purpose, and another thing for another purpose. If they want to ban crypto, they could classify it as a Schedule I drug and it'd make about as much sense as classifying it as a munition.
Also, this is Marie Curie's workshop.

I hope to god the goal of any remediation is in the service of conserving the site and the artifacts for their historical value. If Marie Curie's notebooks eventually end up encased in concrete somewhere "because they're contaminated"--
That sounds different from the usual way customers perform an ECS deployment, which is to replace the task definition of the ECS Service with a new one and let the control plane manage it. Only a single API call is needed, and the control plane can launch replacement tasks pretty quickly itself.