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Nuclear can not compete against cheap renewable for dynamic power load and cheap fossil fuel for base load. For base load in particular the convenience and agility to spin up more gas burning power plants based on weather conditions and demand is impossible to beat, and as a resource, natural gas can be found in many geographical places and gathered through multiple different methods.

We will not see nuclear plants in the future as long as fossil fuels are burning to power up the energy grid and warm up homes. Maybe when the coral reefs are all gone in 20-30 years, water levels has increased a bit to be inconvenient enough, and enough people are displaces because of drought and other humanitarian disaster, then maybe the cost of burning fossil fuels will finally be applied to the operators of such power plants and alternative sources become more competitive when the sun is down and the wind is not blowing.

I do judge people for burning fossil fuels. That my country has a set date when nuclear should be all gone but no date when fossil fuels can be banned is a pretty good sign how bad the priorities are.
I did mark those two as such, so I won't argue that and I was just mentioning them for completeness. I'd note that this was just within the NBA, I recall quite a few gaming companies also banning HK-related stuff, though I don't have links handy. Some of those games had ties back to Ten Cent, a Chinese company, if memory serves.

With regard to fans, I haven't seen other political slogans restricted in any comparable way. The NBA, for example, is very happy to say that Black Lives Matter and I've never heard of anyone getting kicked out a ballgame for wearing, say, a MAGA hat despite both slogans causing some very strong political sentiments. So the fact that HK is somehow more of a concern to the NBA than these hot-button American issues seems like something that demands an explanation.

> Aren't we talking about a public capacity?

I think bans can be troublesome in either capacity, honestly, but I'm more disturbed by restrictions that hit people in their private capacity, even if either realm can create a chilling effect.

> I'd expect some severe US backlash if some foreign company was very publicly opinionated about gun control.

For the record, that has actually happened (I think it was MasterCard restricting certain gun sales & some sporting goods stores dropping guns, e.g. Dicks), but it wasn't government-driven and there was backlash. That's a wholly separate issue and may touch on monopoly concerns. I think some of it got shot down due to running afoul of banking regulations, but I don't know the precise details.
Very refreshing and inspiring. Reminds me of that well known quote: "done is better than perfect". It could be rephrased as "good is better than extraordinary" to summarize that post.
This. The stuff I am working on is mostly glorified ETL. Some sheets of course are user facing and will have a nice sheet inside the workbook where everything is summed up.

Generally it looks like this:

1. Get data from a central source (data warehouse/other departments)

2. Transform/combine different sources etc. (mostly with pivot tables)

3. output to a sheet

4. add some sort of automation so it runs on its own the next time
Anything is a deal breaker if the user expects to pay nothing. That is why going from free to $1/month will have a much larger user dropoff than, say, $1 to $10.
Have you considered using change streams to keep a "view" up to date? Do you have a good cluster-key defined?

Very curious about your performance issues?
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Exactly.

It's hard enough to save money as it is.

News websites blow my mind with this - if I forked over $5 to every news outlet I occasionally like to read, I'd be spending at least $500 maybe more per year JUST to get access to some random person's biased recant of what's happening in the world. If there were a news source that did the opposite of this, and basically provided a bullet list of objective, non-biased events boiled down to exactly what I need to know, that might be something I'd pay for. Hell, it would save you time over filtering the opinionated BS out.
Well, if the AI turns out to be benevolent, it could end aging and disease, enable interplanetary or interstellar travel, end all relevant forms of scarcity, and liberate us to focus on artistic or hedonistic pursuits for our 10,000-year lifespans.

If the AI turns out to be malevolent...well, I have a different take than most on this. Conditional on me dying, I've always thought that the two best ways to go would be: 1) falling into a black hole or 2) liquidated by the AGI. It's a lot less prosaic than dying of cancer and at least you could content yourself, while being reprocessed into paper clips, that you have (possibly) died giving birth to the next phase of evolution.
- ... the mockery made of academic standards when, after donating $200,000 to the psychology department, Epstein was appointed as a visiting fellow there despite a complete lack of appropriate academic qualifications.

Can we take a moment, and just laugh at the fact that for some reason it's cheaper to buy yourself a visiting fellowship in the Harvard Psych department than it is to buy your kid a seat in the undergraduate psychology program?

Edit: I guess the most most eyebrow-raising revelation for me is that these positions are, in fact, for sale.
To my knowledge the 2015 was never given an official version, though my information could be outdated.
I think the parent is saying that the only value add for Nvidia to purchase ARM itself rather than just purchasing an architectural licence is to use ARM in an anticompetitive way.
Look at Service Now.
While better than Jira in UI, I haven't been able to like Asana as a product for some reason. In my previous company we moved away from Asana to Jira because it seemed PMs and higher management found Jira easier to work with.
> But ISA still matters. Switching from Intel to AMD likely isn't much of a switch, but switching to a different ISA in the datacenter will continue to be an uphill battle.

I'd expect datacenter to be far easier than in a laptop or such; datacenters run a lot more software that's either open source (and already working on multiple architectures, most of the time) or in-house (in which case the happy path is "add an extra build job that builds for the new systems"). It's not like consumer space where most users are tied to proprietary software that they couldn't port if they wanted.
> I had no idea there was a Canadian Digital Service - I'm glad to hear that it not only exists but that it's a relatively efficient government organization.

Canada is kind of... weird, in this regard. I knew about the CDS, and was on their mailing list (they talk about pretty neat stuff and it sounds like a neat place to work), so this didn't surprise me, but...

So a while ago, we (the company I worked for at the time) had some servers hosted at a hosting company based here in Vancouver, though the servers were in Seattle.

Well, we got an e-mail from our host, forwarding some automated e-mails that they had received from the Canadian government (possibly the CDS, but I don't think so) notifying us that we had open memcached ports (11211) on some of our servers.

I went and checked the configuration, and sure enough we'd had a configuration error, where memcached would only accept one IP address to bind to, but our script had provided two (because the servers had an internal and external), creating an invalid config which was never deployed, so memcached was just listening on [::]:11211, and since it wasn't supposed to be open we didn't have any ACLs on the access routers. We fixed the configuration issue and switched to a default-deny policy and all was fixed, but it was surreal that an e-mail from the government was what tipped us off.
And now we are trying to fix 50 years of memory corruption bugs being fixed multiple times per month.
Terrible piece.
First off, the majority of people with D levels of ~80ng/ml are fine, even quite healthy. Her problem was too much calcium, which is related but they (at least not in the article) don't address what her calcium intake was. Probably she was supplementing that too if the original reason for her supplementation was osteopenia. It's not clear if she would have had any problems if she had just dropped her calcium to low-normal intake. Quite a large fraction of Americans consume too much dairy.

Article that cherry pick a single example are terrible when they pick the example that is 100x less common than the other side of the story.
35-40% of the US has D < 20ng/ml. That's probably 100x greater than the number that have D >= this woman's levels (~80) and probably only 1% of folks who have that level have any kind of medical issue with it the way she did.

I completely disagree with the idea that D should be thought of as a medication in the sense of being careful with it. The problem currently is not enough care to make sure to get enough.
19 organizations (all the big important ones) consider 4000 IU/day of vitamin D to be a safe intake without the need to consult a doctor.
The Endocrine Society and a few other orgs consider 10,000 IU/day safe.
At the level of 5000 IU/day that she was taking, a very large % of people will remain clinically deficient. Many, many more than will have any kind of adverse issues.

The right dose for society to advocate as a default is not the dose that causes huge amount of harm on the low end only to avoid any kind of harm on the high end at all. That kind of asymmetric health optimization is poor public policy.
But it's the way doctors think. Cover my ass and make sure to do no harm. The Hippocratic oath is a terrible way to optimize net health of society and it's unfortunate it has become entrenched in public health, not just the actions of individual doctors.
Well, OP was talking about billions of dollars of DARPA funding going towards military AI research. I presume they would be trying to get much closer to cognition.
You may be surprised to find out how much Chinese citizen opinions matter to the Chinese Govt. State-sponsored censorship (like the one in RPC) exists to meddle with public opinions. Denial of access to information is a mean, not an end. Artificial consents are being manufactured via the media on both sides. Just done differently, largely because one way is more cost-efficient and cost-effective than the other in terms of the place’s GPD per capital.

$10,262 [65th in the world] vs $65,111 [7th] (IMF, 2019)
Yea, I don't mean it to say there's no reason for it. That underlying issue tracks with what I'd expect.

This comes back to another point that's been made elsewhere in this thread - it's always going to be easier to design and build things for a community that's smaller and more homogeneous. A lot of the countries we think of as being good at building things are also fairly small.

There's probably a term for it, but it's almost the inverse of Economies of Scale. It's easier to make good country-wide standards when most of your country wants the same thing.
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How is it compared to Sonatype Nexus?
If people are worried about scientific donors having undue influence, a much cleaner route than trying to stop donations or screen every person is to simply require that donations be anonymous. That way, everyone still has the freedom to sponsor whatever they want, but nobody gets bribed to overlook sex trafficking.
Just adding some additional commentary based on your post.

I think you're talking about the difference between an "experience API" - that is, an API with the sole purpose of being support for user experiences/clients - and a "system" or "process" API, where the latter is for application or process integration between many systems. These are terms borrowed from Mulesoft, but I do like the terminology, I find it helpful for segregating concerns.

There are a lot of reasons people need separate experience APIs to power specialized UI/UX - especially with the needs of different client platforms (ex. chat bots vs phones vs desktop browser), separate from system/process APIs.
Author here. This article describes my note taking methodology and how I've used it to amass a corpus of +10K notes. AMA :)
As if RationalWiki has any business calling people cranks
The classic dogfight can only persist in the hearts and minds of old pilots. A modern state of the art unpiloted fighter, with no human pilot or the burden of life support, and G limitations will be lighter with the same engines, capable of 30-50+ G maneuvers(for which is has been specially designed), with modern long range standoff weapons and suitable radars, will slaughter any human if faces. The high G ability will leave any standoff missiles fired against it in the dust by active evasion.
It will be vulnerable to high grade stealthed missiles. as well as hard ballistic stealthed rounds shot from afar - unless it detects and evades. In fact, any modern robot craft will perform high G random jinks to make path prediction difficult. The soone the USA realizes this, the better. You can be sure Russia/China have learned this lesson.
Thanks for the quick reply. Works now!
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C++ is hard.

The available learning resources for Unity are much better than they are for UE4. I want to add X to my game, I Google it and find ether an asset or open source project within minutes .

For my current project I found a half dozen templates to start from. Everything in UDK was ether half done or abandoned.

Of course both , or even rolling your own , are fine.
> The other side of the argument is that if the facade is not there, if they only admit rich people…

I believe the point was that these schools don't need to accept subsidized student loans or other forms of federal funding. That doesn't mean only admitting rich people; they have enough resources to offer student aid to bring in the academic overachievers on their own, thus maintaining their reputation without federal help.
No Docker-in-Docker would generally refer to running a new dockerd inside of a container.
> Things like this gives "rules are rules" a flavor similar to "boys will be boys" for me.

Not having rules is also how we wound up with exploding food trucks.

The main problem is inflexible bureaucrats--and I don't have a good solution to that. Their continued employment depends on not fucking up enough to get bad press--not on getting anything accomplished.

And, to be fair, a lot of people are trying to pull a fast one on inspectors. So, default "no" is not automatically a bad starting position.
A concentration of valuations in a few large companies is not a healthy sign.
Based on a few of the comments on this thread, I wanted to point out that filing an S-1 is not something that you just do overnight. When companies decide to go public it's a lot of work usually involving multiple dedicated teams on the business side. It takes many months and can take over a year.

So while the timing here is interesting, nobody decided on Friday that many well-known tech firms would declare their intent to go public on Monday.
Dow Jones Reshuffle: Salesforce,Amgen,Honeywell Replace Exxon,Pfizer, Raytheon
I am assuming that's on purpose. For them the number of people on project is proportional to the money they can earn. Why would they cannibalize their revenue by allowing shadow profiles.

Edit: re-read your comment. It seems like you clarified or I missed about the five person being the minimum thing for that.
I assume in one case the money goes to the department, in the other only a small fraction of it does, so the department is okay with it.
> It is better to be efficient than polite. Better to be predictable than "nice".

At work, efficiency is polite and predictability is nice.

Watercooler talk excepted, of course, and my company has a couple "watercooler" Slack channels.
You're right; on further reading I can see guix making packages the actual output of functions. I do maintain that the use of a whole functional language to build packages raises the barrier to entry, but my precise criticism was incorrect.
> The AMA doesn't restrict the number of people in medical school, you're thinking of residency slots, and they don't restrict that either.

There's a very simple solution to this problem that requires nothing other than the stroke of a pen: allow residents from OECD nations to practice medicine in the US.

There's nothing magical about an American residency. Countries like France, Britain, Israel, Korea, New Zealand, Czechia, Costa Rica, Chile, and Portugal have better health outcomes than the US. Obviously there's nothing deficient about how doctors are being trained in Prague or Santiago or Seoul.

Yet American doctors have by far the highest compensation of any country in the world. Demand meet supply. Let's open up our borders and let doctors from qualified countries come here to practice. Many would flood our shores for significantly higher wages. We'd solve the doctor shortage over night.

Of course the AMA absolutely knows this. That's why they vehemently lobby against any change to the residency requirement. The AMA is a self-interest political lobby, just like any other interest group. They look out for the interest of doctors at the expense of patients. The issue about residency expansion being blocked is just a red herring. There's no reason the US can't outsource its residency training to other, much lower wage countries that are already producing superior physicians.
That is not what I'm referring to, you're concentrating too hard on the specific example rather than the idea behind it.
Ask HN: Is it possible for me to change the color of downvoted comments?
My eyesight is not what it used to be, I know I can set the "Top Color" in preferences but would really like to change the color of down voted comments as I can barely read them and feel that this should be my choice on how well I see these, not the mob. After all, I didn't post the comment why am I being forced to strain my eyes?
They might not be #1, #2 and #3, but they're certainly in the top 7 (there's also Facebook and the three huge Chinese internet companies). It's well known that those companies (sometimes called the 'Super Seven') account for a majority of Intel's datacenter revenue.
The road to the Mount Baker ski resort looks pretty similar often in winter. If I remember correctly they get around 20 meters of snow every (the list a world record of 29 meters of snow during 98-99)
I don't think that works in practice. If you donate money with the goal of advancing some agenda, and it's officially anonymous, you'll find a way of letting the right people know it was you.
Article's details don't truly deliver on headline.

Epstein funded his pet research areas, yes. But all sources of funding including government grants do the same, one way or another. And across all rich funders, the variety of interests is very large, and include areas other more institutional funding bureaucracies ignore.

Also, despite Epstein's (somewhat still-underexplained) wealth & largesse, his money was a drop in the bucket. When the article points out that "more than two thirds of Epstein's donations—$6.5 million—went to PED director Martin Nowak" – an already well-funded researcher, it actually undermines its case. Epstein gave less than $10 million total? And to established programs? How does a tiny bit of funding, from an extreme-outlier bete-noire, to some not-even-fringe programs, make any negative general case against private funding?

That such private funding picks a different mix of researchers than the Harvard Professor writing this article would pick is the point - don't send all funding through the exact same credentialed-panels of established academia. Accept some curve-ball initiatives from other uncorrelated piles-of-resources.

The article's one tangible example of some favors flowing from a Harvard academic to Epstein's defense – Epstein's lawyer Dershowitz getting some linguistic advice from Steven Pinker – doesn't involve research funding at all. Someone's high-end legal counsel is being paid specifically to marshal resources & expertise for their defense. There's no distorting quid-pro-quo with regard to other payments: it's a totally up-front fee-for-advocacy relationship. (And that's even before considering Dershowitz's other alleged entanglements in Epstein matters.)
We live in a society where tech conference organisers, far from being biased in favor of white men, are actually desperate to shield themselves from accusations of anti-female/poc bias. Derive from that what you will.
Ask HN: Podcasts Based on HN?
I'd love to 'listen' to the front page of HN in a podcast. Can't seem to find anything like this though.
I really don't understand how Asana excels at anything, let alone is a '10x'. They probably need to spend a fortune in marketing just to get people to sign up.
I've said the exact same thing in other threads. You can do fakeouts a human can't possibly do like corkscrew at 500rpm and pull 50gs randomly and repeatedly when a radar is trying to predict your path.

If the engineers in charge of designing these crafts around an AI pilot think outside the box we could see some pretty wild tech.
> It’s not minded, it’s not any different in than alphago or alphastar or the OpenAI dota bots

Aside from, like, the guns 'n' stuff.
In many parts of scientific research, researchers are, to stay in your metaphor, more travelers using a map, than map makers.

Of course, it is a difference whether you make a clinical study on drugs, and use a pocket calculator to compute a mean, or whether you research in numerical analysis, or are presenting a paper in how to use Coq to more efficiently prove the four-color theorem or Fermat's last theorem.

In short, much of science is not computer science, and for it, computation is just a tool.
Excellent read! I enrolled in my second bachelors for Computer Science because of Cal Newport's influence on me: Choose something that is valuable and get good at it (competence). Then, use the career capital to get autonomy and relatedness. It also reminds me of why I want to become a part time software developer instead of full time, because I want to have the autonomy associated with being part time!
This is also how the UC system works: the top 9% (IIRC) students are eligible for guaranteed admission, but they are not necessarily admitted to the campus or program of their choice, so you might not get to go to eg Berkeley.
Ah good catch. I don't know then.
> I’m an excellent problem solver.

Don't mean this to be a mean comment but how did you assess this?

I think i am good problem solver but i don't know if i am better than anyone else.
I think it's best not to think of human or non-human intelligence as a quantitative labor pool, since that sounds like coercion, but rather qualitatively consider what would non-biological intelligence want to do?
The thing is, avoiding usage of certain functions - like Find, Invoke, SendMessage, etc - does not have to be done at the IDE level. In fact, it shouldn't be, and the fact that Rider has to do these things is kind of a kludge already. These methods should be marked obsolete - or at the very least, they should have docstrings saying not to use them. Observe how the docs for SendMessage don't even discourage its use, for example: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.SendMess...