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Will fusion produced helium be cleaner than fission produced one?

The answer looks very simple until you remember it is produced inside a container, that may of may not contaminate it.
OUTSTANDING observation.

The paucity of variables and the lack of imagination in problem solving lead to this 'sky is falling' alarmism that does little to incentivize new ideas.

The future is nuclear energy. Without question.

The current oil companies are complicit in supporting 'green' initiatives because solar and wind will never be powerful enough to actually move humanity forward. They get to look good by investing in 'green' energy and continue to make a profit off oil, coal, gas, etc... when all that new tech fails to produce enough energy.

Nuclear energy is the true unlocking of all potentials, and its suppression due to fear, especially in the public, plays right into people who promote solar, wind and electric. In reality it's a cash grab for half-baked technology that comes with glowing PR recognition and convenient tax write-offs.
This is nonsense. It's true; but nonsense nevertheless. Because it gives the misleading impression that you can only prove the consistency of a formal system using a "stronger" system. But that's quite wrong: it only needs to be a different formal system.
And though the idea is tricky, commercializing our genome is no longer about "hey, the next R&D breakthrough will come from your genome." It's about making sure that the first humans to create such breakthroughs can get rich off the money it pays for them.

This is why it's so important that companies refrain from selling our genomes to biotech companies.
Unfortunately, zoning laws in American cities segregate residential from commercial areas, resulting in transportation problems.
A year ago in my development VMs, it was the difference between like 40MB/s throughput and 200+
Perhaps this better-formatted version is preferable: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1206989954984894464.html
For $20/m ($5 for a droplet and $15 for a managed DB instance) you can have that peace of mind on DO.
Life expectancy is somewhere roughly in the 70s-to-80s. So it's not entirely surprising that if you tell someone "statistically, I have as much remaining time to live as you've been alive" they're going to think you're old.

Now if you actually step back and move the early part of life where you can't do much you can see it's much closer to middle-age than it is to death.
R. T. F. A.

That isn't what happened.

A notification was created that drew attention to a relevant portion of an existing policy.
You're right; Google is the only big tech that takes insider risk seriously.
I've used https://simplenote.com/ for ~5 years because it's clean, fast, cross-platform, supports Markdown, has decent search and tagging features, and it's free & open source.

Every day I open a new note named #[YYMMDD] Scratch, and use it as my daily scratchpad. That makes it easy to search for notes by year, month, and day.

In my experience, simpler is better.
In one corner, I have the good experience of you, a semi-anonymous internet commentor.

In the other corner, I have the dozens and dozens of blog posts from HN front page from people who have gotten shafted by Google "support". And those are just the ones who had their ticket escalated, i.e. got lucky and made it to the front page of HN.

I'm not saying you haven't gotten great support. Hell, there are people out there who are happy with Comcast support. I'm just saying I've read too many horror stories to risk our business.
> I think this is perfectly healthy and a stance you should take everywhere.

There is tons of value for non-VPS: serverless functions, messaging queues, object storage, managed databases, CDNs, monitoring infrastructure, load balancers, etc.

Unless of course they aren't going to disappear or gouge you in a couple years. But AWS is very unlikely to do that.
I'm not an expert, but would this be fixable by installing a new root certificate on the computers who want to use the caching server, and then having the caching server sign the pages it transmits using the new root certificate?
Art and technology helped bring faces of the dead to life
> There can definitely be value left in someone else's trash.

Many many years ago I put a piece of scrap butcher block on top of the yard waste pile near the street in front of my home. Later that day a Mercedes drove past, stopped, a woman in a suit got out, examined the butcher block, put it in her trunk, and drove off.

I hope it's still serving as a really nice cutting board or some such in someone's home in Miami.
> corporations can be held liable for damages in case its advertising misleads consumers, after the fact.

I don't see the distinction. It wouldn't make sense to pay penalties for violating regulations before the fact.

> It'd be pretty hard to make the case that voters who experienced an ensuing tax increase could sue the US government for damages.

Why would the US government be liable? It is the campaign that is liable. It would be straightforward to penalize a campaign in proportion to the amount of money spent on the misleading ad and hold the proceeds in a fund for use by other campaigns.
This may have been a product of Erlang's 'let it crash' philosophy: https://wiki.c2.com/?LetItCrash
In France, dying at home can mean a long wait for a doctor
Check this example - https://github.com/WLOGSolutions/RSuite-examples/tree/master...
The Big China Chip Hack was never actually debunked.

It was refuted, yes, but every company always does that, right up until they admit in a court settlement that the allegations were true all along. Despite the supposedly slanderous statements, none of the supposedly slandered companies has sued over the article, even though in several cases they suffered material impacts to their stock prices and financial results.

...But nothing.

Despite supposedly defamatory statements, nothing was done by any of the companies mentioned in the article.

Comments here have mention the Streisand effect as the reason for inaction, but the Streisand effect does not apply to defamation. The concept behind the Streisand effect is that efforts to censor information just result in greater dissemination. However, in a defamation lawsuit with potentially billions of dollars of damages at stake, you want greater dissemination of the defamatory statements, because that increases the payout at the end of the road. And because with enough money you can recover from the negative PR (see, e.g, Tylenol, Ford, Toyota, Tesla, BP, etc.).
Great blog post. It's been wonderful to see rust take off in the space and the approaches the folks in the embedded wg and ecosystem have come up with. The cortex-m starter projects, embedded-hal tying the ecosystem together, and various intro books like "discovery". I never would have thought I would explore anything this "low level" but rust has opened those doors for me.
> However, what you're proposing seems to imply that either (1) there is a vast conspiracy of climate scientists, who are engaging in that conspiracy for ultimately very little gain or (2) climate scientists are incredibly stupid, and keep repeating incorrect things as fact to each other while being blind to other evidence.

It may seem this way to you, but you have formed an incorrect conclusion (a behavior which I argue is the very core of the problem). Please see my other comments in this thread for clarification.

> There's nothing scientists love more than attacking each other's interpretations of data, to prove that they're smarter than the next guy.

Agreed, but this does not logically preclude my concerns that it is possible that this competitive behavior takes place within an overall "overton window" of acceptable discourse and study. To be clear, I am not asserting that this is in fact what is happening, but I am very much asserting that if you are saying something along the lines of "this is not happening, at all, and I know it", then my reaction is suspicion due to an obvious lack of epistemic humility.

I am also not recommending my beliefs to others, I am simply trying to provide some insight into how I think, and that the underlying reasons for my non-compliance are other than those you and others presume. What I will recommend though, is to observe how willing yourself and others are to even consider the possibility that us "deniers" (yet another comically simplistic belief) are not actually motivated by sheer stupidity. Disagreement with the proposal isn't even attempted, but rather the response will almost always be silence.

I proclaim that something very interesting is going here.
According to my handy amortization calculator,

$3000/year = 250/mo starting from 0,
10 years = 120 months,
3%/year (S&P500, after taxes and inflation),
gives $34,935.36.

20 years gives $82,075.50.
I went old school and asked for a filing cabinet as a gift for the holidays, never been so organized in my life!
A tip from me would be dont sort by categories in files but by the periods of time you worked on stuff, like the clusters of work during an entire month for example helps me recall what was happening and find files I need/ an old idea.
Raises concerns with MMT and inflation while not once mentioning how proponents of MMT address inflation. How convenient.
I'd recommend getting something that can do HF, because that's where things get interesting.

For 500, maybe you can get a used FT-857D. You'll need a power supply, too. And an antenna.

If you have a local club, talk to the folks there and tell them you're interested in getting started. Someone might have stuff to sell or give to you.
No, because the data affects the data subjects but the names of the companies just affect the companies and gives their customers a fighting chance at limiting the damage.
A cursory search of her name reveals no evidence she participated in any engineering activities, and this whole story is considered substantiating evidence. Sad.

Look, I'd much prefer to see her boss fired than her but obviously Google is not going down that route.
"Google brass" are basically Alec Baldwin's soulless asshole character from GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS:

"We're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody wanna see second prize? Second prize's a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired."
If you think the 1st Amendment protects you from the SEC universally then you're in for a shock.
Don't give em ideas man. Next thing you know, your premium goes up by X% because you're predisposed to having an addictive personality and deemed at risk to becoming an alcoholic/opiate/etc. addict.
Had a similar experience. The end was bitter sweet for me. Could not put them down till the end .
Religious organizations should be held to general disclosure requirements for other organizations with charitable status.
I'm not sure what you mean -- generally, the smaller the audience size, the higher the CPM.
Gun ownership decreases liberty via death.
Yep, that's about right, except that Amazon is filling your swimming pool.
Since at least as of this writing, nobody else has mentioned this, and it's always someone's day [1] to hear something the first time, this is a variant of something that goes very far back in our industry called the Osbourne Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect

The traditional Osbourne Effect that earned the original namesake is to announce your v2 product a long time before it's available, thus trashing your v1 sales and eliminating the resources needed to make the v2 in the first place. But this is fairly similar; by announcing at what point Google is planning on throwing in the towel, everyone is going to think twice about going to GCP, because now everyone knows that everyone else is going to think twice about going to GCP. Consequently, the odds of this article actually creating the future in which Google pulls the plug on GCP are quite good.

Also, note how this is all about perception, and people's beliefs about what other people believe. Arguments like "But GCP is really good!" or "But GCP will surely continue to be very supported by Google right up until then!" would be missing the point. The point is that you need to change not only what everyone believes, but what everyone believes everyone else believes. Easier in some ways, harder in others, but none of those sorts of basic arguments will move the needle one bit. You need different arguments.

So, basically, in our industry, with this sort of folk wisdom widely known, Google damn near announced their plan to shut down GCP after 2023. They didn't. Quite. But damn near. Yes, it's a sort of second or third order conclusion from the literal text of the article, but it's a very easy one that lot of people can make, which ironically is the very thing that makes it true in the first place.

(Also, since PR is pervasively dishonest, putting out a PR release that says "No, srsly, we love GCP and would never dream of shutting it down" will not move the needle anywhere near as much as they'd like. Also in the "what people believe other people believe" department, Google has a reputation now of just shutting things down. GCP would be quite a bit bigger than anything else they've shut down, but, even so, they've shut down some pretty big "all hands on deck" initiatives before, like G+, so we're all going to believe that everyone else is going to find the idea that they might just pull the plug quite plausible. If they had a reputation for supporting things and gracefully shutting them down with care and concern, they'd be in significantly less trouble now.)

[1]: https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
But are there access controls other than private channels?
Seems more like a tactical lawsuit, if they win they kill of competition, if they lose - they end up delaying competition and in a market in which things move fast, it may well end up killing this competition.
Those are names you own, and a CA will happily issue you certs for those names (but Let's Encrypt won't without a DNS record saying the name at least exists)

The grandparent was, as I understand it, talking about names they don't own, for which you've no assurance somebody else won't own them (on the public Internet) tomorrow. This used to be very common, decades ago Microsoft even advised corporations to do it for their AD, but it's a bad idea.
I think you misspelled "a very great deal of luck". How many rappers aren't Jay-Z?
> In Canada political ads are regulated so that they must always clearly disclose who they were paid for and by what party.

This is already the case in the US.
I realize, but those are the ones that you will hear about. The bulk of PE investments works out just fine, but quietly. You will find out about them in annual reports and such but because those companies are almost by definition now in private hands there are no reporting requirements in the same way that there are for listed companies or for venture backed companies that are trying their best to pump up their valuation.
??

They still have the GDPR-compliant Frankfurt and Berlin datacenters. [1] I've not see any announcement about closing them.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/germ...
Buy it from a data center sale? We nuked our drives and sold the rest to a liquidation company when we moved to GCP. It's trivial to pick these up.

It's Bloomberg, my dudes. That news source is the lowest quality trusted news source. I like that they can stay in business though. Made a neat 30+% on SMCI easy peasy. And that requires people like you to trust Bloomberg so that's good.
What strategic objective do you see american gun owners achieving against the american military?
I like
rome2rio.com
for help with interconnected public transport systems
Watchmen HBO and Twin Peaks: The Return Connections
>Guess what, my maternal granddad had Parkinson's disease. I hope to god the do something with our data. I knew that $99 was not enough to pay for the processing, storage and hosting of my data. This is the long game for 23 and me. They are a genetic research company.

Sadly because of the state of America, your insurance company once it gets your genetic data is going to make you sorely regret it.
Any definition of the middle class that doesn't include the middle of incomes seems wrong to me. Median means half above, half below, how would that not be the "middle" class?
Where is the incentive then? The difference in skill, responsibility, stress, workplace demands, etc between a cashier and a CEO are nuts. How do people do that for a few grand every month?
I work at Google, opinions are my own.

> I still lay claim that google is not hiring the talent that they think they are or claim to be.

Obviously I am biased. I don't think I'm particularly great or anything, but I find my colleagues to be by far the most capable I've ever worked with, and I did previously work at AWS, where engineers were also very smart.

> With such huge budgets and failed product after failed product one has to wonder what is the genesis of their failings.

Personally I think it's an issue with management structure rather than individuals. Frankly I don't think smart people matter all that much.. for the most part you only need sufficiently smart people to do their job, and good culture/management will make the team shine. I'd argue that engineers are individually significantly less important than product managers and managers.

That being said, I think the issue is that Google is just too engineering focused. This makes it a wonderful place to work, but I don't think it leads to great products most of the time. It's fine for products like search and ads, where you can literally measure if you are making improvements, but not so good for most products.

Engineers are more or less allowed to pick what they want to work on. Again, I enjoy this flexibility, but I think it also leads to a lack of focus, especially when product managers probably have a much better understanding of what customers want or need.

Of course, Google is a massive company so I don't know how reflective my own experience is of the larger picture! This is just my personal feeling.
Depends what you mean by "wealthy". In these comments, it's a motorized goalpost on wheels.
What's wrong with developing AI talent within the US? It doesn't necessarily have to come from other countries. The US has over 300 million citizens and your telling me they're all too dumb to learn AI? Even, if just 10% could become AI specialists, I think that would be several orders of magnitude more then enough. Just teach it in high school, and develop some college majors that specialize in AI.

I think we have general tendency to underestimate what hard working people are capable of. All we need to do is guide them in the right direction and make sure the majors required are available.
Which gun ownership stats are you using for Europe? IIRC there's a ton of unregistered literally military guns lying around over there from the various wars.

Guns don't go bad, after all.

(And if you count things like the Holodomor, Holocaust, Cambodian Genocide etc as murder, I think the correlation between 'murder rate' and 'civilian gun ownership rate' takes a decidedly different slope)
The trolley problem always struck me as a super contrived problem when applied to self-driving vehicles. In what scenario are your sensors and computing devices functional to the point that you can decide who you want to save but also break down in such a way that you weren't able to prevent it.
None of that is the case. Microtargeting isn't cost effective and doesn't scale well, and it's usually more expensive, not less.

In 2013, I remember people were building Facebook audiences by ripping Facebook ID's from relevant open groups - that was insanely targeted audience, and while it wasn't general practice, it's definitely something advertisers were using. None of what comes from that is unexpected results. Your argument appears to be that Russian authorities with a $100k budget were 1000x better at manipulating Facebook's audience targeting tools than the people that had been paid to do just that for years - is that true?

I do not like Facebook, personally, and I don't like Trump. But this appears an unlikely scenario.
To be fair, my understanding is that Oracle basically went in the opposite direction that Kurian wanted to go on cloud strategy. With that said, yeah, nobody's thinking outside the box when hiring an executive from Oracle.
That's one 'kind' of PE, another is the one that will invest very large sums of money to repeat a play in new markets or to professionalize a company across the board and then use them as a cornerstone in a buy-and-build strategy.
Also repa and accelerate :)

> I much prefer the Go approach, where there is a single canonical concurrency mechanism which is baked right into the language and is extremely well-documented.

Haskell doesn't have everything but I'd prefer something other than channels for concurrency. Actually, I like the Rust ecosystem in that regard (though it's missing something like accelerate...)
The analogy Prof. Dubal uses is not apt. They seem to believe that the extension was some kind of public notice board where anybody could post something, but that is not what it is. Since they did not have sufficient context, I would be disinclined to trust their judgment on this issue.

Also, FWIW, this may provide some interesting reading: https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/are-employers-required-to-...
What publishing as a lead author has taught me
I wish this was an OS level feature on my phone and computer. I will often disable notifications from, for example, Slack on the weekends, and every time I do I silently wish there were a way to automatically control notifications per app based on time and day.
I was too so now I do it myself. I use an electric cutter that vacuums the hair as I cut. It takes me 15 mins at most and I can do it as often as I need. Interesting idea but how useful is a robot for that?
Court Orders FBI to Fix National Security Wiretaps After Damning Report
In Sydney, Australia, there is an annual "council cleanup" day. It rotates around to different areas each week. If I recall correctly, you can put your junk out up to a week early, and people definitely go around looking for good stuff, including professional junk dealers who are looking to fix things up for sale. We got some good things that way. Whatever is left at the end is hauled away by the council.
Other replies have mentioned C++. Personally, I think 5 seconds is a lot! I can live with rebuilds taking that long, but if I can make them take 1 second or half a second instead, I’ll be much happier.
> do people think that Amazon sells everything on their website?

No, but people hold Amazon responsible for everything on their site -- which I think is totally fair.
> a couple less mainstream languages

I'm curious: what languages?
Yes, his justification is nonsense.

1) The original creator of Make plainly said that his original choice of tabs over spaces was accidental, and honestly a mistake. He just learned about (at the time) new tools lex and yacc for writing parsers and chose TAB as a line prefix for shell commands. Not much thought given really.

2) Tab in the very beginning of the line determines that the rest of the line is a command. However, the rest of that line goes into shell pretty much verbatim (modulo a few substitutions). Because of that, you may have tabs in the middle of that line, no problem, and they will be passed into the shell to execute!

3) To my knowledge, shells treat '\t' and ' ' the same way as whitespace. If anyone knows such differences, please let me know tho, I will correct myself. On the other hand, ">" is an important shell operator.