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You're saying there have been 1000 deaths from Chernobyl in Sweden? That goes strongly against the UN-sanctioned scientific consensus of the radiation effects of the accident [1].

[1] https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html

The "Russian roulette" hypothesis is unsupported at dose rates near natural background radiation. For example, the natural background dose varies widely around the world, and we have not found a statistically link between high background areas (like Denver) and low background areas.

Radiation at low levels has been around for billions of years. Life evolved with it and can handle it to a degree. So the idea that a tiny bit more radiation is dangerous is wrong because of our repair mechanisms.
That's how every company rationalizes the mass collection of user data. "Oh lets collect many terabytes of every user-action in case we need to one day discontinue a feature".

It's a book. You don't need to collect and track every fucking action I do to find out if your stupid highlighter is being used in Poland.
It’s one of those words that used to have a different meaning but then a bunch of people started using it “wrong”, which is annoying to some people. It used to connote a legal or other official authority to do something.

Kinda like how some people don’t like hearing that their plane will be taking off “momentarily” or when people use “begs the question” to mean “raises the question”
"....caused an internet BACKLASH!"
As a freedom-concerned citizen, I always completely understood the policies and methodology of dictators and tyrants, and how what they do is useful for them.
It may be your opinion, but after having used Godot I think Unity is horrible to develop with.

It all depends what you are looking for in a game engine. If you want to be fast at having something nice looking on your screen , then yes Unity + asset store is great.

If you care about clean code, maintainability, elegence of concepts, abstractions, architecture, long term, etc. then Unity is very bad for that.

> video game engines move and change all the time, that is the nature of the video game industry.

No, a fast moving field is not an excuse for having a messy architecture, half abandoned features , a unintuitive UI, no planing, and puting all your budget in shiny features and marketing instead of long term robustness and coherence.

Look at Blender, they maintained coherence in fundamental concepts, architecture and UI over time yet they are in the top most amazing 3D softwares (and now 2D with grease pencil)
There's no indication in any reporting that the money was sent with a note or memo saying "this is to pay the full Revlon debt". To all known facts, they simply sent the money.
Silly and totally impractical. What works in a relatively small missile will not scale up to a larger drone. Powerful attitude thrusters are too heavy and take up a lot of space. Aircraft don't have weight and volume to spare. They would be left with insufficient capacity for fuel and weapons.
I did say "whenever they want" didn't I? Oh yes, look at that, I did. There doesn't have to be a constant stream of visitors for a house to serve a purpose as a status symbol. An occasional visitor will do, as long as they'll tell others what a fine place you have. Holidays are the true test. Magazine photographers are also welcome, but won't be allowed to spend the night.

BTW, I live in Massachusetts. When you assume...

Edited to respond to parent's context-changing edit:

> The kids run their own Instagrams. The interior "design"

If that's the milieu you're thinking of, you're talking about something very different than what either I or GP were.
[video] Brazilian IT firm promotes a home-office pod. W/ isolation/surveillance
I never thought that the ethics of medical research could risk falling prey to the same traps of reasoning that cause short-sighted decisions in business - namely that easily measurable short-term concerns trump greater but less measurable long-term concerns.

But this is probably known to people who are in the field. You have to defend your decisions the same way you would in business or investing, but instead of people shorting your stock, you will have people trying to cut your funding, accuse you of causing harm and ultimately trying to destroy your reputation/career.

It’s fascinating how this trap of group fallacy has the potential to affect different fields, like there’s some universality to the human behavior behind it.
Bench-pressing 20 lbs dumbbells seems to be perceived as being cooler than but is also typically easier than doing pushups on your knees.
> So, the solution is to dumb everything down to the least common denominator?

Essentially, yes.

Using words most people are familiar with will afford a lot of people nearly instantaneous cognition [0] of the information you are trying to convey with your writing.

This applies to both ends of the reading spectrum: highly educated people who do a lot of reading than most; and poorly educated people who probably had to drop out of school to make ends meet.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing
Well, I don't comment on Reddit without reading the article, but I notice that, on contentious topics, by the time I've read the article there are 2000 comments already and there's not much point posting a comment after that. If you want somebody to read your comment, you have to post on something nobody cares about, or post REALLY fast.
My favourite ebook reader is:

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e2WoVRsap9Q

No drm, suppported all formats, held a charge for a week. No internet. Fits in jeans pocket.

It came out in 2009... I wish they still made them.
Or "It's all fine and dandy today, but what about in x years when there's a new person/group with different incentives in charge?"
It looks like you don't understand Powershell, committee did know and consisted of unix professionals.
I don't think the UN team was able to attribute any child birth defects to increased radiation. The horror books with pictures of them are shock collections of deformed children. It's possible that the rampant alcoholism of the latter Soviet era was the likely cause.
I thought this article was going to be about Houston's hilariously bad drainage infrastructure for a coastal city on a coast prone to hurricanes. IIRC, Houston's drainage system maxes out at a 1/2 inch an hour for an event that lasts a day. Rainfall totals that wouldn't phase New Orleans' drainage system are life threatening in Houston. Covering everything in asphalt and concrete leaves you with a ground that is unable to absorb some rainwater. Green spaces are more useful than just allowing cities to look pretty. They are a necessary part of a flood mitigation strategy.
> If you're JITting then those costs you claim will not go away, they're just passed on to your suppliers

Except your suppliers are JIT'ing, too, just as you are, for all the same reasons.

The savings may seem small to you, but if you are in a price competitive market (as is the case for most physical goods) your percentage markups are typically very small compared to what software developers are accustomed to. The grocery industry, for example, is famous for making about 2% profit margin. That means if you can shave 1% off your costs, you increase your profits by 50% in that industry. Very small optimizations can have phenomenal impacts on the risk and profitability of physical product and supply chains.

> What's [shrinkage]

Shrinkage is an industry term for items that get lost in physical supply chains. It's often hard to know what is theft and what is loss of products due to other processes like things getting misplaced, lost in shipping, accidentally shipped to the wrong customers, discarded by mistake, etc. If you run a large enough physical logistics system, you will inevitably have some amount of unexplained loss in the system. That unexplained loss is known as shrinkage, and it's a real and measurable cost in all physical industries (in the grocery industry shrinkage is about 1%, some fraction of which is theft and some fraction of which is other processes).
Chernobyl was not their first round with that sort of disaster. It was however the first 'public' one.
Do people use PowerShell for interactive use a lot?

As a Unix person my impression of PowerShell is that it’s more robust for scripting than the Unix shells, but that the Unix shells are more suitable for interactive use. And for anything of sufficient complexity and/or size I’d personally reach for either Python or I’d write a program in Rust.

I guess in the end it comes down to personal preference and what you are familiar with.

Incidentally, when I started at the university, when I was still using Windows, and PowerShell had recently come out I actually started with PowerShell and was getting comfortable with it. But we learned about Linux at the university and a friend I made at the university was showing me Linux stuff, and I started using Linux and FreeBSD instead of Windows. If it wasn’t for that then I’d probably have been a PowerShell person today.
>This case was also made by the Netflix "Chernobyl" series.

You're talking about a TV show meant to entertain and generate buzz and word of mouth. It's not meant to be taken as an actual explanation. The theories of a TV show, no matter how grounded in reality, shouldn't be trotted out as examples when we have the actual reality and facts the TV show is based on.

In a time when facts are freely available to everyone, people are pointing to entertainment as data points into how we should make policy. It's embarrassing to see.
IP address, country, goodread account details, each page turn, exact page location, etc., seem unnecessary for that.
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> don't seem particularly invasive to me, and collecting that data seems perfectly appropriate for the purposes you mentioned.

Fine. So you allow them to collect it. However, don't decide for others if it's "invasive" or "perfectly appropriate" for them or not. Do it opt-in such that people who wants to share their data could do that.

Oh yeah, and offer them payment for that. They deserve it.
From the article:

> Each request also isn't sent as soon as it's generated. A number of these records are created and stored locally, then uploaded (note the sequence_number field). Even if a person is offline while reading, this data is stored and sent when reconnected.

That being said, if you leave airplane mode on permanently and sideload books, you should be fine.
As many people here have echoed - this boils down to the fact the data is being captured without an opt out.

I don't doubt the developers are using it for 'morally acceptable' purposes, but I don't trust Amazon not to abuse that data later down the line!

I really don't feel that anyone needs to know precisely what pages I have viewed in a specific book.
Looks like a book ad.
I'm not versed in the finer details. Initially it was difficult to get into the Xbox store but then Microsoft started catering to Indie developers and smaller games.

They've rebranded the Xbox Store and Windows Store to both just be the Microsoft Store and content you purchase them (e.g. Movies, Music, TV) is shared between the two. Some Games are "Xbox Play Anywhere" which means you can play them on Windows 10 or Xbox (e.g. Forza Horizon 4) but others are exclusive to either platform (e.g. Flight Simulator). Some games can be purchased for either platform individually (e.g. Halo).

Then you have the weirdness that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is published by Xbox Game Studios but only available on Windows 10.
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I always find it weird that English texts and speach tend to emphasis different word in sentence that I am used to in my mother tongue. In Polish it's simple, just like in your example, the word that is in bold is the one you are trying to get attention to.

But in practice I hear often in English media and books something completely else, where a word next to it has the accent/emphasis, not the one that is CLEARLY arising from context.

I tried to consult that with local English teachers and people coaching others in communication in that language, but they just had no idea what I am talking about.

In your example it would be:
"i didn't SAY he stole the money" when it's perfectly clear from context that the person denies such situation ever had place and was not involved in it in any way.

In TV it's just weird, but maybe I'm dumb, or person speaking is weird. But in books it's stated with bold font or "<<word>>" and the context is clear. I saw that espacially in books from 1940-1970, modern reeditions from UK and US have all those bold text left intact.

Very awkward for a non native speaker.
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We absolutely love this validator!

We use is as a central part of a workflow to validate the returns we get from internal graphql queries.

Validating the returns for correctness allows a much simpler use of the data that does not require checks and guards all over the place.
The military understands this. The f35 is designed for long range kills.. not dog fighting.

But the ability to control the plane is the minimum capability of an AI. And in combat, controlling a plane includes the capability to deploy countermeasures and take evasive action to avoid getting shot down, and defend itself to stop an attack.

I doubt the purpose of this was to create a great dog fighter... but rather it was to prove it's minimum capabilities work so they can continue developing it to operate in more dangerous/common situations... like taking out ground assets in the initial wave; or adding it to existing drones so they can take some defensive measures automatically; etc.
One of the HN rules, though, is to not accuse someone of not having read the article. Of course, few people read the articles here. (A lot of the posts are people complaining that a linked source is subscription only, then going on to comment based on the title!)
You don't need internet connectivity on the Kindle to look up a word in a dictionary. The Kindle supports dictionaries in Mobipocket format, so the dictionary lives right on the device. It is easy to find .mobi dictionaries for major languages freely available from torrent communities.

Using the Kindle's Wikipedia function actually requires going through Amazon's servers and is a privacy violation, so I would not recommend users do that.
Maybe file an issue?
That seems like a concession that people who currently enjoy the first-party-only app store situation may indeed lose something if third-party-app-stores become a thing.

You can argue (as I think you are) that those losses are outweighed by the gains of a more open ecosystem, but to many users they are meaningful losses.
Surprisingly?

Legitimate or not, it seems obvious that Amazon would be heavily monitoring device use, especially with the ad-supplemented devices.
Inflation has been most focused in assets and investments. The government has gone at great lengths not to count these in their inflation measures, but all that QE going into stocks and housing bidding wars can’t be a good thing in the long term.
I love reading physical books too, the user experience of them is so much nicer.

I also like to go back to re-read books.
With non-fiction I'll often want to go back to reference or quote something, and with fiction I love reimmersing myself in the worlds the author's create.

I've amassed quite a little library of books that I still enjoy having access to and it's lovely. But it's also /terribly/ inconvenient to move to a new apartment.
It's also quite annoying when I'm visiting a place, and I'd love to pull up a favourite story but didn't think to bring it with me.

I've started moving to a hybrid solution - My absolute favourite stories I keep in paper because I enjoy the feel, but for most books having them digitally much nicer.
That's why i brought up the Ceph example, but counts for databases etc too, actually the early databases had all their own fs/data-structure on the platter.
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Not comparing Unity to React. Comparing Unity's culture, management and engineering to the ones of React.
This is the same company that declared s3 has 11 9s of annual durability. They might have enough objects that they can verify that number now.

In the ebs outage of 2011, volumes were unable to remirror after losing 1 mirror. That increased the probability of losing both mirrors, possibly reducing the durability below the designed rate. I.e. the designed rate assumes everything is working as designed.
I'm sorry for your family's health problems. I'm also sorry if this comes off a bit crass considering, but this mysterious thought process of radiation is exactly why we need to focus harder on epidemiological studies of radiation effects. By your exact same argument it could easily have been the successful reactor safety test in Idaho that happened 2 weeks before Chernobyl that caused your mother's health issues. It's far to easy for any of us to magically attribute something with another without looking at the big picture. The scientific method offers us a way to tease out which hunches like this are real and which are fantasy.

Fact is, we use epidemiology to understand these things, and the jury is in [1].

[1] https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html

Anecdotally, my college girlfriend was a child in Gomel Belarus during Chernobyl. Her father had a Geiger counter and took readings around here. There was lots of elevated dose rates. She is perfectly healthy to this day though!
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You don't. You have 100% freedom to not work for Amazon. Don't buy a kindle. Don't use a kindle.
As a shareholder, this is disappointing to read.
You're completely missing the point. Please calculate how heavy an airframe would need to be in order to handle a few seconds of 30G without cracking. After accounting for airframe weight how much useful capacity so you have left for fuel, sensors, and weapons? How many pounds of thrust do you need for a 30G maneuver?

The concepts you propose only work in cartoons, not in the real world bound by laws of physics.
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I'm not sure how you concluded that there are only two features listed. Going back through the page I see:

* calendar-based navigation (Agenda)
* gantt/timeline display
* image collages
* non-linear organization
* command line
* dedicated tasks tab
* global search
* customizable colors, fonts, icons

I'm not saying that Clover is incredible or that your "proprietary cloud silo" paradigm is incorrect, but saying the app mentions literally nothing else is a bit of a stretch.
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1200 "compromised" apps in appstore for more than 6 months (I can't find when 5.5.1 of the sdk was released, it was before 3 March), and you really want to spin this as a "success" of the enlightened-dictator model...?
Um... because there are no chemical plants of any sort in Florida...?

I dont know what fantasy image of Florida you have, but we have refineries and nuclear plants here too sweetheart. It's not just shacks and gator swamp here. I live nearby NASA too. As much as I love them, we aren't exactly talking about an organization known for working with 100% organic, safe for the environment compounds. Dorian freaked out most of the county when it was originally bee lining for the launch pad.

In truth, if you live in a somewhat civilized and populated area, you are in a severe danger zone if a natural disaster strikes. The amount of "toxins" that make the modern work are vulnerable to those types of shocks. No one is actually safe from that, ever.
No joke. 4 out of 5 times I open a news article on HN it is some kind of novella I have no interest in.

In our age of short time spans and competition for attention you would think news magazines would be concise and to the point, I would even say, lapidary. But for some reason they became an outlet for graphomania?
I'm not quite sure that was fearmongering, so much as people operating from limited information. It's reasonable that people will make mistakes.
Remarkable is open and hackable.

https://github.com/reHackable
Is the Java tool directly connecting to the site for the checks or it uses some kind of local database? Is it updatable?
Dunno if there is a name for it. See https://www.quora.com/Why-are-newspaper-headlines-written-by... (although this is incomplete; it omits the narrative pushing).
do you have a source for Norway and Sweden's herd immunity? From one day ago:

> Critics say even Tegnell’s most optimistic forecasts for Sweden are still a long way from the critical 60% to 70% goal required for herd immunity to have a chance at working, and save the lives of the elderly and those with underlying conditions — those most vulnerable members of the population. [1]

you should be careful of your information diet.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sweden-has-developed-herd-...
It would be quite interesting to know how this data is actually used on Amazon's servers. It reminds me of the criticisms of government data collection programs, that they just hoover up every bit of data that's available without actually knowing what to do with it. Suppose you train some AI to predict what pages in a book will be most engaging to the reader. Since your interface to the book is still just going to be something where people can turn the pages what are you actually going to do with that information? It's a massive sacrifice of the privacy of the user for small gains at best in getting insight into the user's behavior. I wouldn't be surprised if this information is sitting in a database somewhere at Amazon completely unused.

The philosophy of Amazon appears to be to do as much as possible in the hopes that one day it will be useful. This is at odds with the principle of philosophical skepticism, that because we can't be sure of the consequences of our actions we should strive to do as little as possible. The data could be hacked and leak out, for example. There is tremendous uncertainty around things like that.
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We shy away of those kinds of experiments ever since Dr. Mengele had his way.
I had the same response as you. I’ve come to accept that not everyone’s brain is wired the same.
It is insurance in the sense that it pools the risk.
The risk here is "aging" ("Social Security" in the US only covers base retirement, whereas "Social Security" in France covers 5 risks), it only happens to be a risk that realizes 100% of the time, unlike fire insurance for instance.
> Edit: Oh no, Amazon removed KindleGen! When did that happen?

We know where this is going, don't we? Offering interoperability in the beginning and then gradually taking it away - the old bait and switch trick. We consumers fall for it again and again.
The same way polluting industries just dump their shit around: nobody sues them until it's incredibly egregious.
I've actually found it quite challenging to purchase books to put on my Kindle that aren't from Amazon, since they use a proprietary format.
Not sure if this qualifies as evidence, but a quick search shows there are papers exploring the topic of whether type inference is a "big win" or not.

Benefits of Type Inference for an Object-Oriented Real-Time Language

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220391749_Benefits_...

EDIT: Granted, this particular paper may be more claims without solid evidence.
Re-reading my comment I can see how it could be interpreted that way, I meant it more as playful jab but such are the woes of a textual medium...

I just thought it was amusing to present that theory in that way, when it's been brought up by Mr СССР himself.
Yes, that gets close to the cold war vibe (and fits my question as posed modulo the source), but if I'm reading properly, the Dyon Corps are mercenaries. In "Top Gun", "Rambo III", etc. the antagonists were regulars.