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The No Nukes infiltrated the design of the EPR from the very beginning to jack up the costs. They don't need to protest it's construction because in the process of construction anybody involved will come to conclusion that they never want to build an LWR again.
I think I've seen it pointed out several times how absolutely bizarre the use of landlines and lack of cell phones is to young readers of Neuromancer - even leaving them wondering whether there is some deeper meaning behind that.
I seriously can not consider putting 45k Euros myself to a car, when I can buy a mid size sedan or a hatchback for 20k Euros less (unused!).
Comparing their current metrics, no.
People in general are hugely sensitive to perceived unfairness. This is a critical thing to maintain in any organization.

For example, you can take a group of five billionaires. Give the first four a little tax break for something, which totals up to only be a million each. No big deal, right? All these people are the 1% of the 1% of the 1%, the pinnacle of wealth in the world. There's no way that little tax break would prevent the 5th billionaire from buying the private island he always wanted, or whatever.

In practice, though, that 5th billionaire will be pissed he didn't also get the tax break. He will spend a lot of time either angry at the situation, or spending that time also trying to get a tax break. Is that a good use of his time? He would be happier driving around on his 80ft yacht... if he could focus on that instead. But that's not how our brains are wired.
Good question - TikTok generated $176.9m revenue in 2019, but it's still in its infancy in terms of generating revenue.

Instagram, acquired for $1b in 2012, had $0 revenue.

WhatsApp, acquired for $19b in 2014, had $10.2m revenue.

Based on TikTok's usage-per-day and active users being comparable to Instagram, they could presumably generate ~similar revenue if focused on it.

With these types of apps, growth comes first, and profitability comes later (and the profitability step seems to come easily, unless FB cannibalizes you).
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> How do we measure that it is really worth $30,000?

It is not a question of what it is really worth (which is rather meaningless as nothing has some kind of absolute worth that is written into the cosmos), only what people see it as worth and are willing to pay.

> Maybe that's true, but TSLA stock has been worth anything from $200 to $1400 in the past few years.

Of course. The perception of value of a given thing is naturally going to change from person to person and from moment to moment. In this case we're talking about moment to moment. Because it was worth $30,000 to someone last year does not necessarily mean it is worth $30,000 to them today, as their knowledge has changed.

But, if the perception of value has declined, the question is: What has changed?

> But the cost to produce it should be lower

Even if it were free to produce, if it is worth $30,000, then it would be logical to charge $30,000. Input costs are irrelevant. To emphasize that point, it could cost $30,000 to produce, but if people only want to pay $20,000 you can't charge $30,000. You're going to lose money. People lose money producing things all the time. Input costs are irrelevant.
That's indeed probably a bad idea if the author wants the repository to last, embedding unlicensed content is always a risk. Morally I'd argue that it's absurd that such old software isn't in the public domain yet, but legally it's pretty clear that this can't be redistributed freely, although I doubt that Apple is likely to enforce it.
"Best case" is that you then follow with a challenge trial and demonstrate actual immunity much faster than a conventional vaccine, leading to months shaved off the time needed to immunize the general population. That clearly has value, particularly given that people are still dying at a high rate in the US and much of the developing world.

Now... does that mean this is going to work? No idea. But these folks aren't dummies either. I think it has a shot and is worth trying as long as everyone involved (e.g. these are all university scientists) has a clear and solid understanding of the risks.
It's not strictly necessary to remove all the similar characters, as you can treat any of the similar inputs as being the same. eg. you could include 8 or B in the output, as long as you accepted 8 and B as being the same character you chose for output at input.

If you want to avoid the possibility of accidental profanity in your "random" strings, it is definitely worthwhile removing the vowels, although that may not apply to other languages than English!
> At the same time, for me, Facebook was the first example of the internet becoming more samey, centralized and where its users became more consumers of a platform instead of individual creators.

This is partly because Facebook introduced "the internet" to people who would otherwise never create anything on the web.
To be fair, the reason we have governments is to make our lives better. Legislation to help citizens is the point of government.
Considering fabs take so long to build and get processes functioning well, it's likely they have another 5-10 years to blow their lead entirely. Rome didn't fall in a day
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> A disproportionate number of poor readers become high school dropouts and end up in the criminal justice system

That escalated quickly.
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This seems kinda nuts to me. I don't think I would leave a stable position for a probationary position, or accept one if I had more stable offers. "It's ok, we probably won't use it" - uhh, what? No, that's what legal protection is for.

Is it really that common? I'm sure many companies try to hoist this on propsective employees but I'm surprised people accept it.
TikTok will serve the purpose to Chinese government that Hollywood served for America's elite. It's worth every penny for softpower.
That would be true if we were looking for life currently alive on mars, but this is a search for fossil life, life that once existed but died off perhaps a billion years ago. Fossils would survive a million-year trip just fine.

There has only been one serious attempt to detect current life, the labeled release experiment on the Viking lander. It came back positive. If we are seriously interested in detecting current life we don't need a sample return. Any rover can dump some rock into a nutrient bath and put the results under a microscope. If anything is growing/moving, life is detected. Viking didn't have the bandwidth for such things. Lets do that a couple times first.
Two points:

1. The "job emphasis" of higher education is out of control. That is not the primary purpose of higher education. The proper end of education is the education of the human person, not the production of a workforce. We are savages with a pinch of technical savvy perhaps, but nonetheless savages. Of course, savages make good slaves, even when they're rebelling. Of course, one must know the end of human life to be able to know the end of education. From this observation, we are led to, the second point...

2. Sadly, most universities are wholly incapable of implementing a sound curriculum . Sure, the humanities are being measured by their industrial utility, but the humanities aren't blameless. If you thought the amount of garbage the STEM fields put out is jaw-dropping (it is), then I invite your to meet the humanities. The humanities have been slipping into decadence for some time and have become victims of ideological corruption.
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The "scissionnez moi" (fork me) on the top right really made my day. I would have translated it with "fourchettez moi" because the first time I read it some 10 years ago I immediately thought of food. :^)
I was trying to find a rational and intellectual way of explaining this very stark reality that I've consistently run across but... for now I'll just upvote this.
I'm tempted to vote for Aeneas, though I know that's not what Virgil had in mind for him.
I assume that in this case it indicates a direct quote.
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Good point, that is true
Is that something returning from Mars _orbit_, or returning samples from the surface?
Those two things don't sound mutually exclusive to me, and I'm not sure HK's actual stance is relevant to the larger discussion.
Someone made a funny, novel toy, and they are seriously talking about "harm" it brings?

We seriously need to reevaluate the nature of communication on the internet. Something about it just facilitates the social contagion of oversensitivity and hurt feelings.
I had a good friend who was talking to his boss once. His boss said, "we can be friends, you know." And my friend replied. "You can fire me. Can I fire you?"

I don't think this means that personal relationships at work are futile, just that there is another component to them. The business and structure of the business come first. Coming out of college, this is a bit confusing because when you're young nearly everything is personal, there is no professional life. Kids have to learn these boundaries, and, I'm sorry your lesson was harsher than it should have been.

This is a bit unrelated to the point you were making, but not unrelated to the story: the truth is that a lot of executives become executives solely (or at least primarily) for the prestige and respect the positions attract. Although I might not think there's anything impressive about being an executive in a company, many people do. And enough people do, that it effectively becomes the truth. It's something to look out for in future jobs:

- Do the executives use their captive audience to inflate their egos?

- Are employees afraid of the executives?

If so, you're not in a business, but in a social hierarchy. And one where people enjoy that they have power over others.

This was part of the point I was originally intending to make: why would the executive care that you left during his story? You'd think all he would care about is that you were an effective employee. But in your case he did not become an executive to improve the business. Likely he became one to attain status. This is what I mean: his status shouldn't have anything to do with the effectiveness of the business. But of course, the effectiveness of the business is not truly his primary concern. (if it were, he wouldn't hold a bunch of employees hostage talking about his stupid fishing trip.)
One legend surrounding the name of the Coq programming language is that there was another theorem prover called Bit -- a word that, in French, sounds a lot like bitte. So the French researchers behind Coq, in ironic tribute, named their theorem prover with a French word that soumds like an English word for the human anatomy part that bitte describes.
Not sure if it is the original but the source where I first saw this rain effect was on ShaderToy - The Drive Home by Martijn Steinrucken aka BigWings[1]

The accompanying video tutorial[2] is super interesting too as well as the HN discussion at the time [3].

[1] https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdfBRX

[2]
Link to first part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKtsY7hYTPg

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15564148
> not stepping outside of your house for 5 months is way overboard

Why? There's no magic number for risk. The more you isolate the fewer transmission events you see. The more people willing to do that, the faster the spread will stop.

I mean... just look at the virus curves in the rest of the US. We're CLEARLY not staying home enough. We need more people "going overboard", not less.

Stay home.
In my personal experience, Instagram ads are shockingly good (they often hit me with something that I actually want) and Tiktok ads shockingly bad (I've never seen one I didn't swipe through immediately).

Obviously Tiktok and their advertisers will be doing a lot of work on this, and they've only just begun, but I really wonder about the efficacy of the medium for ads. It seems like a much more difficult forum for that. Even youtube ads I've heard are often cheaper than fb/google ads, perhaps because the video format is so challenging for advertisers to get right (plus it's expensive to produce good creative).
> Everyone young uses tiktok. It's much bigger than snap could have ever hoped.

Interestingly, you'd think that, but it's dead wrong. I'd say about a quarter of people actually use tick tock, compared to almost all using instagram or snap chat. There's a "subculture" of people that use it and are massively active, and most others don't use it at all. This strikes me as a massive impediment to tick tock's growth in America: it's entirely captured a specific group but has made essentially no inroads with any other.

> It's not a monopoly.

This is a straw-man; no one is saying it is. People are saying it's a national security risk.

> Virtually all of its "privacy violations" are the same violations done by Google, Facebook.

Well, I'm less sure of what tick tock does with data than either of those, so maybe better the devil you know? The concern is that at least at least FAANGs can be sued in a court of competent jurisdiction, whereas tick tock is based in an autocracy that is deeply opposed to the concept of freedom and means to make itself the foremost world power by any means necessary.
Good luck nitro.
If you look at the graphs in this article on the use and explosive popularity of TikTok you can see that TiKTok currently dwarfs all other social media in the US market wrt. downloads, time spent in app pr user, user growth.

https://www.ft.com/content/c6a8b9bc-dd6d-46a7-b008-825568982...

TikTok’s rampant growth strikes wrong note with US
Forgive me if I’m out of the loop but are we really considering gab and mastadon to be the “big players now”?
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> I'm not sure why you're being downvoted.

Easy. It's a highly politicized thread, and in those sort of thread, driveby downvoting isnt uncommon, even on HN.
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> Petitioning the Government (aka lobbying) is a civil right in the US, guaranteed by the first amendment to the constitution.

And some people are obviously more equal then others when exercising that right.
It depends. I'm not a big eater but I've at times ordered a 45 cm pizza. While I wouldn't finish it all at once, I'd probably finish it in half a day or so. Usually this was after not eating for at least 24 hours, or after enjoying a particular substance. It definitely did not leave me feeling happy in the longer term though.
Once in a while, Ticket Masters shows up in the news because they if you buy tickets through them, you can also resell them from their website. Needless to say, a lot of people do exactly that, for a profit - Ticket Masters "unwittingly" facilitates scalping, which makes popular events far more expensive than they should be.

Scalping is one of the laziest forms of racketeering-lite that there is.
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> I don't see why you would even mention it

Because empirical results trump theory. I think you vastly overestimate how much we actually understand about the human body.
If you don’t mind sharing, what are the specs of your ClickHouse cluster including Zookeepers? Also, how large of a dataset are you working with?
Nah, some LC hards are extremely hard. Most FAANG interviews don't use hards
Society defined controversial, as it always has, and always will.

And "globalist" as opposed to what, exactly?
>This is depressing

Only if you really have to use modern software (which, admittedly, we all have to from time to time). Vim, my terminal, grep and GCC are faster than ever!

To really enjoy computers the trick is to run old software on modern hardware.
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WHO SOLIDARITY trial (aborted due to lack of efficiency for hospital patients, still running for prophylaxis)
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

HCQ as prophylaxis trial:
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Snapchat is growing revenue at over 30% a year.

Vine was bought by Twitter and shut down. Tumblr was bought by Yahoo and suffered the same fate as everything Yahoo buys.
Yes, that's the way science should be done. But look at the number of negative result papers that get published, et cetera. How much push does a negative result give your career vs a positive one? Who's interested in spending ten years of their career pushing a test for a hypothesis that most people (and likely themselves) think is negative? And of course the microscope cannot prove the negative hypothesis, nor does it really help the negative hypothesis much.
Its funny you mention that because I instantly thought of Japanese. I spent a few years there and learned to speak fairly well, but never learned to read much beyond the phonetically based character systems (hiragana and katakana), but never more than a hundred or so of the commonly used kanji. And while kanji are technically associated with specific sounds, there are tens of thousands of them, and they all can have different sounds in different situations. Since returning from Japan, I've been trying to do some studying of kanji with mixed success, and I find that it virtually requires the type of thinking here: trying to determine what the word would be based on context, as well as connecting the symbols in the kanji (which often do have meaning) words.
> We just don’t want our lives that we’ve worked hard to build, destroyed.

Who's "we" in that sentence? The people most in danger of actually having their lives destroyed right now are those whose opinions conflict with those being enforced by men in camo. How many supporters of the government have been sent to the hospital or disappeared into vans lately?
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Not really. It's a size. You can get extra large, large, medium, small and personal. It's something like 16 in diameter for an extra large, 14 in for large, etc. The personal pizza is around 6 in.
Does you have original thoughts? Are you simply regurgitating what you've read or can you actually put pieces of information together to make new ideas?

How can you prove that any of your or mine ideas are original?

From a previous article:

> Q: Who was president of the United States in 1620?

> A: James I was president of the United States in 1620.

Does it count like an original brilliant idea or an error?
Remember when Uber’s business got a little shaky so they started making a bunch of noise about a flying taxi project that would launch soon and be cheaper than a car?

Well this smells like that. Airbus knows that orders for commercial airplanes may be low for years as we work through the fallout of this virus. So time to go to space to give the investors something to think about.
> no measurable benefit won't

Then I guess you're not talking about hydroxychloroquine, because there is evidence of a reduction in mortality rate.

https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30534-8/ful...
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> there seems to be no modern forum software?

Discourse is pretty modern.
This made me think cyberpunk. I read that in the future some people will embrace technology such as implants and devices we embed in our bodies as well as some humans will be genetically modified in the future to give benefits we are not naturally born with. These are exactly the type of people that push these boundaries.
Here I was complaining about the 29C that I had to deal with this week in central Alberta, Canada. Yikes!
IMO you should have ended the interview the moment you detected that you were being treated poorly. Let alone not doing the homework.
Parent post was talking about 2 pizzas. But you're right it's 200in² per pizza.

And a 2 pizza team is the number of people you can feed lunch to with 2 pizzas.

Most people would do 1-2 large slices for a lunch, so 4-8 maybe 10 people is a 2 pizza team.

About the same size range as a rifle squad.
> > The most popular form of UNIX (Linux) got started in Finland.

> By a Finnish guy that moved to the US (and is a US citizen)

When he moved to the USA Linux was already a popular OS, and he didn't move here in order to develop the kernel but to work for Transmeta.
Also stress on the job isn't the same as stress getting a job.

One you are getting paid no matter what, the other you aren't and are 'performing' in the hopes of getting paid.
50B is low; only meaningful because the US government is holding a gun to TikTok's head.
A $33b company should take a $1b offer?
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> Being that this was 1971, it was probably more straightforward to repair the botched installation/repair rather than do the whole PCB over from scratch

As an extra data point I did a contracting gig in early '90s that involved building a diagnostic system for a specialised analogue circuit board that was used in the oil industry. The boards were held in place and an automated probe system took measurements at numerous places. A constraint satisfaction algorithm then modelled failing components in an attempt to match the faulty readings, and thus locate the failed component(s). The algorithm came from a three-year Ph.D project funded by the company concerned, and I was part of a team of five that were implementing it over a six-month period.

This was considered a small price by the company, compared with the cost of throwing away a specialised board manufactured in small production runs to high tolerances. The probing system already existed, and was used by electronics experts who were attempting to perform the same diagnostic process using their own (expensive) skill and judgement.
(Blogpost author/submitter here.)

It's a fair cop. It was only a blog post, dashed off on the basis of a FB comment that grew overlong. :-)

I do not have a coherent thesis that I was expounding; it was merely a passing thought.

I find it interesting, though, how the computer market has developed in my lifetime -- I first touched a computer keyboard in about 1981 and owned my own a year later.

In the early 1980s there were dozens of different manufacturers of almost-totally different and incompatible systems, and it was quite normal for the larger developed countries to have one or more indigenous computer makers, often with their own architectures. Most used one of a small number of CPUs, yes, and those CPUs were mostly American, yes, but I knew of English, Welsh, French, Spanish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish makes of computer, to pick the first few to come to mind. I'm sure there were many more.

Now I live in the former Communist Bloc, I've also learned of hordes of Sinclair clones and other copies of Western home computers that thrived over here, often after they were dead and gone from their homelands. I covet a Didaktik Kompakt. :-)

By the 1990s things were starting to consolidate but there was still a lot of variety, and major innovations came from other countries -- as other commenters note, from Denmark, from a Brit at CERN, from a Swedish-speaking Finn, etc. As I said in the piece, I used a Finnish cellphone with a British OS, and so on.

But when the world market consolidated down to a handful of companies and technologies, the winners were pretty much all American. The European software luminaries relocated their and often became American.

And yes, I think the overall design ethos has changed as a result, and I find that interesting. I have rarely seen it discussed. I often see people bemoaning modern bloatware, but I rarely see analysis of why and how it happened. This was my 2¢ worth on the subject.