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One thing this article doesn't cover which was a big part of this decision was nuclear waste. Nobody wants nuclear waste sites in their prefectures. There was a plan to use breeder reactors, but that hasn't gone anywhere, and the waste is just piling up at the reactor sites with absolutely no place to dispose it. When the mayor of Osaka even hinted at making an underwater waste site the backlash was huge. I doubt any other politicians will step up after that (nor will their parties allow it). So with waste being in this deadlock state for decades, there's just no way forward for nuclear here.
Something doesn't add up here.

Why would Japan, who is facing a declining population and hardly has a growing manufacturing industry require twenty new coal plants?

Seems like there might be a conspiracy involved here if this is true. Maybe someone in the Government has a vested interest in pushing this ?

Right now Japan runs on very little Nuclear, I can't imagine it would take 20 new plants to replace a few older dying reactors, they seem to be coping now just fine.

Once the Tokyo Olympics is a disaster from the extreme heat waves and one strong typhoon after another, people won't be happy about this policy. People in Japan are really starting to get concerned about climate change after the lack of snow this season which has seriously affected tourism and is an obvious wake up call for many people in the country side.

How backwards and disappointing this new is.
The official claim is that China is a socialist country with Chinese characteristics. It's not really true but that's the official claim. And yes, the Chinese government started to cover medical costs for coronavirus-infected patients a few days ago, which was also mentioned in the interview. I think the real problem is that with some many patients, there is simply not enough resource. I can only hope that things will get better soon.
Grew up near an inner-city school district that underwent multi-decade federal court supervision. Ordered per-pupil funding was the highest for any district in the state, careful monitoring by nearby University personnel, etc. The overall effect was somewhere between minimal and non-existent.

No idea how this gets fixed, but it's not money. If the culture among the cool kids is that it's not cool to learn, not cool to try, you can pour in an ocean of money, and it won't matter.
FreeBSD dev here — I don't like this line of argument. It is always used to rationalize any defect in FreeBSD. Sometimes we just have defects! That's just the truth of things; we don't need to pretend we're defective on purpose. Many developers run FreeBSD on their daily driver laptops or workstations because it is (perhaps tautologically) one of the best platforms to develop FreeBSD on.

Our wifi support isn't 100% and this is a weakness. I believe that desktop usability is a large part of why Linux is as successful as it is today, and the modern laptop is so similar to the modern server that it's a bit of a moot distinction.
Any suggestions on how to do zero-downtime deploys with a Rails app running on Docker?

I guess an obvious one is to use two running images, pull incoming requests from one of them, take it down, update, bring it up, start traffic flow again. Repeat for the other.

But is there any other method?
Space tends to be at a premium for cruisers, and modern cruisers are increasingly embracing electricity for powering everything.

Charge efficiency is a big one, but it's also just maximizing energy capacity in the available volume.
It'd be a boon for renewables if energy consuming plant costs were less dominated by investment in equipment.

Imagine doing shift planning at such a site though. Eight days from now, there's a 60% chance of wind in excess of 5m/s between 22.00 and 06.00. But labour costs would be 130% higher than 06.00 to 14.00 on that day. On that morning shift there's a 50% chance of clear skies ...
That was very informative and tempers a lot of the fearmongering out there.
Sure, but why 25mm? Where is that number coming from, and why is it better than 36mm?
Perhaps. But there have been repeated exposes of the UK's torture exports, with less public reaction than you'd get for a bad football ref decision.
I know, the idea that somebody could link to something useful and then be compensated for the value of their recommendation is so awful. It should be illegal for people to make money for doing things online. It should all be free. If we could get farmers and ranchers in on it, then municipalities and auto makers- heck- lets get the whole government on it- everything will be free and everyone will work for the common good. What could possibly go wrong!
Ask HN: Is 123 TV now illegal
It is a website where you can stream live tv. I am scared if it is illegal because my coworker uses it all the time. Can someone tell me if this is legal to use?
This is my mindset about commuting in LA. I could drive 30 minutes to the nearest train but where am I to park my car once I'm there?

I live on the west side and it's a joke.
This isn't true though. There used to be light rail in LA, it was bought up and then shuttered by Ford and the like.
And that's not to forget the large quantities of contaminated water that are rapidly increasing at the Fukushima site. Now they want to release them into the ocean...

Meltdown is scary, but so are the thoughts of dumping radioactive water into the oceans (and we eat a lot of seafood here in Japan!).

Scary.
>Earthquake hasn’t caused any problems in nuclear plants in Japan

Earthquake caused the Tsunami.

>A tsunami that killed over 10,000 people caused some minor problems. That’s like saying you got a puncture in a multi car pileup.

"The disaster was the most severe nuclear accident since the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the only other disaster to be given the Level 7 event classification of the International Nuclear Event Scale."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
I've taken my learnings and rebranded myself as a hands on process and transformation consultant
You'd be amazed how much value a truly agile workflow provides to the client relationship when centered on the principles of knowledge and relationship building and based on mutual investment
What's killing me is how many young minds are devoting years of their lives chasing grades in university only to enter the workforce and fall in line with the false corporate stereotypes when there is a wealth of knowledge and joy to be had with much less stress and way more quality of life

I have so much to write it causes me to choke on my words but I'm telling you people are wasting their lives away and I'm sure not having it

It's cool you've also branched off into something a bit off the beaten path I'd love to compare notes if you'd be up for it
The important issue is to let customers know. I just turned off the throttling setting on my iPhone SE, and I couldn't believe how immediately faster and more snappy my entire iPhone was.

I'll see if it starts shutting down while on battery power, I want that power and control over something so basic about my device. This HN thread has done what Apple should have in the first place: disclose.
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Why is a technology that makes shoes faster at the expense of their durability something that will the average joe’s life “better, more efficient”? That’s quite the claim.

If technology doesn’t improve (and maybe decreases) affordability, barrier to entry, or safety, why is it better? because it’s more performant in competition? It just seems like inflation to me.
Phrase it how you will, but this chart shows it clearly.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...
> Regulations are worth the downsides when it's a matter of life and death.

I am in disagreement specifically with this absolute quote.

Regulations may or may not be worth the downsides, even when they save lives. The economic costs matter and should be calculated and a reasonable tradeoff should be made.

You can't make a statement like that and then turn around and complain about my hypothetical 300% price increase for a 900% safety increase.
I'm truly surprised you've seen Windows containers in the wild - across dozens of engagements with very firm Microsoft shops, I've never seen them, nor seen the need. Gods, even MSSQL runs on Linux these days!

I'm also very surprised you'd claim that not all Microsoft shops are buying into dotnet core - I've seen the very opposite; every client I've worked with has known dotnet framework has been superceded by core, and has been eager to move. A decent portion of this is driven by certain containerisation, which (realistically) means dotnet on Linux.

The only real limitation with dotnet core has been the lack of managed C++ support - a niche use case, and only relevant on Windows, but even this has been resolved in dotnet core 3.1.

Considering the not insubstantial performance improvements in dotnet core, and of course the benefit of cross-platform code, I'm really interested to hear about the limitations of dotnet core you've found (the switch for me and all the enterprise clients I've worked with has been great)?
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Going after big offenders first is just common sense. France did right to go after Apple first since that would make the biggest splash.
Lead-acid is still better, it's 1/10 the cost for equivalent usable amp-hours. Most boaters use deep cycle golf cart batteries, they're produced at such scale that they're cheap as hell. Lithium is a waste of money and dangerous to boot. They only make sense if you're extremely space limited, which most bigger boats aren't.
I always really liked Dr Mario for the combos. It was satisfying to have so much potential building up on the board until I got that red-blue pill I needed, and watching the whole thing cascade. Two player is even more fun.

This is maybe different from what you’re seeking, but SPL-T is a very engaging puzzler that can lead to flow states where you’re slicing your way through perfectly balanced stacks of blocks, watching their countdowns halve each time. It’s turn-based and iOS only. Fully deterministic, very simple, but my preferred strategy is still evolving every time I play.

http://simogo.com/work/spl-t/
There might be some lag time, and your browser location probably has to be in France
In 2010 Japan had 54 nuclear reactors.

In June 2011 Japan had 0 working nuclear reactors!

In early 2019 Japan had 42 reactors (12 were closed) and of those 9 were working.

A single earthquake caused the shutdown all those reactors for many years.

And you tell us "Earthquake hasn’t caused any problems in nuclear plants in Japan". In reality the single earthquake caused massive economic damage and a huge loss of electricity production capacity.

I would expect (just my guess), that several of the 33 shutdown reactors will also never be restarted - adding to the economic damage.
Yes, ok, it's not fully uniform, but gain and offset is the same for the whole image.
Heh, I actually spent nearly a whole day's time trying to figure out why I couldn't get more than ~300Mbps to my desktop from my Nighthawk AP via my Nighthawk USB wifi adapter. On Windows 10 Pro.

There is now an ethernet cable running across my living room.
There's a great talk by David Beazley[0], which I don't remember its title right now, where he bashes all previous python versions except the latest at the time[1], which was 3.6. And he says "since I'm not a core developer, I can tell you this: rely on dicts being ordered so much that eventually they'll make it official". Guess he "won" in the end ;)

[0] Well, he usually gives great talks anyway

[1] Alright, he literally started many talks doing that
Ding ding ding! Attack one and get them all. Can't wait for the next DNS attack that takes down the internet from this.
You don’t need to take your old app down or update during your cutover. Your new app will be a new docker image, so just run an instance ahead of time.

When it comes to deploy, just repoint your load balancer/proxy.
They joined the Chromium project.
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One more time for the people in the back: WE. HAVE. A. FASCIST. IN. THE. WHITE. HOUSE. I don't know how anyone sleeps soundly knowing an orange buffoon is tearing the country apart by the seams.
Not disingenuous at all. Apple themselves removed the VLC app from the App Store[1] because the GPL is not compatible with their terms and conditions. Apple will also reject applications if they're made aware that they're GPL.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/no-gpl-apps-for-apples-app-sto...
It might seem 'obvious' that salad is just salad when grown in space, but you don't know that until you try. Understanding how various foods grow in space would seem to be a pretty basic necessity if we're going to attempt any kinds of long-term settlements or research stations where regular resupply from Earth is dicey.
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The problem is not how much they cost, it's the clear and demonstrated competitive advantage. Basically, unless you use these shoes (or competition catches up), you are disadvantaged, unrelated to ability. And before you say 'but bikes,' cycling has always had a mechanical element.

You might say that's just a competitive element, but then there needs to be a discussion about the point of the sports, human athleticism or human+technology?

Sure, better shoes have always provided some advantage, but it's now clear there's a point where the capability of the athletes peaks and it moves (further) into a technology competition.
I feel like we're heading towards transhumanism discussions, perhaps it's time to do so.
Well it's scary in the abstract. Which is why to make a rational assessment you need details (of relevant half-life, volumes, ocean dispersal directions & rates, etc). Hard for us laypersons to assess, so it's easier to be scared (if you're anti-nuclear inclined) or complacent (if you're reflexively pro tech).
As of [Dec 9, 2019], there are nine reactors officially in operation.

Another six reactors have made improvements to meet the new, post-3/11 quake safety standards and have received NRA approval to restart.

What about the future for nuclear power in Japan?

The government’s long-term energy policy for 2030 calls for nuclear power to make up around 20 to 22 percent of the nation’s energy mix, and it is pushing hard for the restart of as many idled reactors as possible.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/reference/japan...

Has there been a new development where the Japanese government "abandoned nuclear energy" sometime in the last two months?
Here you complained that farmers were not paying for certification, because you had not checked the facts. Your gov is involved because it has authority to enforce accuracy of labeling. Organic standards are "safety-related", not in everyone's "theory" but to those who believe much stricter pesticide regulation than government standards is better for health and environment. We are all entitled to accurate labeling.
Windows 10 search is a weird beast anyways. Sometimes it finds things, sometimes it doesn’t. On my work machines it often doesn’t even find items from the start menu.
Actually, a solid fueled Saturn V first stage was considered with multiple prototypes built and fired:

"The largest solid rocket motors ever built were Aerojet's three 260 inch monolithic solid motors cast in Florida.[18] Motors 260 SL-1 and SL-2 were 261 inches in diameter, 80 ft 8in long, weighed 1,858,300 pounds and had a maximum thrust of 3.5M pounds. Burn duration was two minutes. The nozzle throat was large enough to walk through standing up. The motor was capable of serving as a 1-to-1 replacement for the 8-engine Saturn 1 liquid-propellant first stage but was never used as such. Motor 260 SL-3 was of similar length and weight but had a maximum 5.4M pounds thrust and a shorter duration."

and

"Between Sept. 25, 1965 and June 17, 1967, three static test firings [of the AJ-260 rocket] were done. SL-1 was fired at night, and the flame was clearly visible from Miami 50 km away, producing over 3 million pounds of thrust. SL-2 was fired with similar success and relatively uneventful. SL-3, the third and what would be the final test rocket, used a partially submerged nozzle and produced 2,670,000 kgf thrust, making it the largest solid-fuel rocket ever."

For more see:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerojet#Florida_facility_and...
It might sound arrogant, but yes, it should apply to everything, to a degree.

I'd say that YC is probably the highest value among the "seed" things that exist out there, and therefore it would apply to it less than this Carta initiative.

Would you agree?
That is completely wrong.

The only natural right you have to keep them honest is to utilize your power as a customer or consumer.

As a worker you have the duty to do what you're told, and if you do, you get your wage. It's a quid pro quo, nobody owes you more than you deliver.
The solution seems straightfoward to me. Slow down the phone, and output a message saying 'this iPhone is being slowed down due to an old battery. Replace the battery to restore performance'. Then have a warning sign on the battery screen with a similar explanation.

My wife's iPhone got throttled, and it felt really bad to use. This wasn't some small hit to performance that you can just do without informing the customer.
I don't think the person you responded to was claiming or implying that FreeBSD's wifi support is incomplete on purpose. Rather giving a reason for why resources have not (yet?) been expended in that area.

I have FreeBSD running on my home desktop workstation and everything is working fine, but I wouldn't try to install it on my laptop. Laptop hardware is just too variable and non-standard. Touchscreens, esoteric Wi-Fi chipsets, fingerprint readers, brightness controls, bluetooth, power management, suspend on lid close... I'd be quite surprised if FreeBSD supported all of this out of the box, so I stick with Ubuntu.
Doesn’t matter. Auction vehicles are sold as is.

If it needed repairs, it would have been the buyer’s problem. If the seller auctioned something for too low a price, or unintentionally gave the buyer more than intended, too bad.

Once it is the new buyer’s property, they have no right to revoke what is legally owned by the winner of the auction.
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Snapchat’s $306,000 Median Paycheck Is Most Generous in Tech
This.

"Open Source" in this context would be largely meaningless, because there's so few people that contribute at that level.
"Sometimes I'm too focused on creating shareholder value."
Were they fired because they testified against the President? Do you have any source?
> [...] We have ample proof that Avalanche Software was already upset about homebrew and emulation thanks to a crude message found hidden in the data of 2007's Meet the Robinsons, however it's very unlikely that this is anti-emulation behavior.

Can't find more about this by Googling around... anyone knows what the crude message was and where it was hidden?
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I don’t think it’s correct that most do. I think most people have mild symptoms. I’ve seen statistics that up to half of the people that end up in the hospital die, though.
On HN, we go by article quality, not site quality. Most major media sites are penalized on HN, but most also produce the occasionally interesting article.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Funny how quickly this Bloomberg article manages to segue into "Bernie Sanders doesn't want poor people to have electricity"
Did Apple turn the "check engine" light on?
I'm surprised that some people can't do it at all. I learnt to read aloud first, then read silently which I always remember doing by sub-vocalisation. I would have thought if you could read by sub-vocalisation then you could talk to yourself. Possibly, other people read without sub-vocalisation which I suspect would allow you to read faster.
I think the core problem is having one universal metric. Take Uber or Lyft as an example. Some people like silence, some like conversation, some like music. If the ML models were better or if it were based on a web of trust we wouldn't need to have a score that treats a 4.5 as universally better than a 4.6 or similar.
I think your Y Combinator is defined wrong, the behavior is correct but the definition usually takes another function as input too.
I wonder what the difference is between this poll and this other poll from last month, with a writeup by the same author:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/276503/happiness-not-quite-wide...

EDIT: It seems the primary difference is in the question:

Asking "are you satisfied with your personal life" garners much more of an enthusiastic response than "are you happy", apparently?
Beyond the actual mortality rate or possible sequelae (which seemed to occur in post-SARS survivors), the real danger lies in what the actual percentage of cases requiring hospitalization due to severity of pneumonia is (serious + critical condition). Some believe it to be a much higher percentage of the total # of cases than something like the flu, meaning if the infection spreads as much as the normal flu, we may see a shortage of ICU beds and respirators.
> I asked them for a couple quick points on what I could have done better.

I feel your pain, but doing this gets them nothing and costs them effort.

It might also be harmful. If the advice is "we needed more experience in X", and your reaction to it was either not apply for jobs asking for X (because you are unlikely to get them), or to get more training in X then that would be wonderful outcome for both you and the company. But as someone who has hired people, the most likely outcome is you are training someone on how to lie better about their expertise in X.

That makes this a win for you, a lose for the company doing the hiring. In my experience that means it ain't going to happen.
1. seconded

leaving a job early is already tough, leaving a big profile name over politics even more so

2. didn't their datacenter carbon neutral though ? or is this Apple ?
If only there was some form of programmable electronic computation device that could be used to solve such complex sets of constraints modelled as equations :)
Nothing like the UK. The UK had very high levels of income inequality. London has both a lot oft he richest people in the world and some 50 000 to 100 000 homeless people (they’re everywhere ).

And the opportunity to bridge through that income inequality (social mobility) is pretty low. France and a lot of Continental/EU Europe is far more equalitarian, better social system.
Deeply moving and most courageous. Kudos for a direct, thorough exploration of motivation and conviction.

So glad I never went there.
There's an app that let's you do a few things like remotely tell it to make extra ice or notify you if the door was left open.
There's some useful information here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/ewwmem/have_a_q...
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