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So much this. The anti-Corbyn smearing was practically Soviet in its intensity, and directly contributed to the appalling political situation the UK finds itself in now. You expect it from the right, but when it's also coming from the supposed left - in sync with obvious social media astroturfing - it's impossible not to question what's really going on.

I know a number of people who will never trust the Guardian again. Unfortunately I know more who simply believed the lies.

I'm glad Graeber said all this because he confirmed what a lot of people suspected was the case.

So an especially sad loss, as well.
>> Justice Dept. plans to file antitrust charges against Google in coming weeks (nytimes.com)

> I read this story just now and I found it incredibly frustrating -- it reads like a gossip column. Lots of details about who wants to do what and when and who objects, but incredibly light on actual details.

That's the actual story here, which doesn't appear to be the story you want to read.

> What laws are they going to claim Google has broken? Vague hand-waves about "advertising" and "Google is involved in your life" doesn't cut it for me.

You will find out when the DOJ files the charges in a month (if the deadline reported here is accurate). They probably haven't even finalized the details you want to know yet (otherwise they probably would have have filed already).
I think the difference is that the one in Finland can still be entered like a normal tunnel. The deep borehole is literally just a vertical shaft that goes 5-6km down, you put the waste on the bottom and fill it back up. No geological process is bringing the waste back up in any conceivable timescale, and even if the entire civilization collapsed no primitive society can dig to 5km depth, so there's no need for much long lasting signage, no one is going to stumble upon it by accident.
The amount of javascript used for the simplest of websites is getting out of hand. In 2025 we'll be back at "server-side rendering", aka mostly static sites, I promise.
What's the radius around a reactor where a critical core can trigger fission in the next reactor over?
Classic misunderstanding and caricature of the Darwinian argument and Dawkins' book. For one, he conflates genes and organisms.

> all biological entities were best conceived of as “lumbering robots,” programmed by genetic codes

Either this is just physicalism (which is quite well accepted among most scientists) or assumes the straw Darwinist is a genetic determinist and denies environmental effects, which is misleading.

> ruthlessly expanding their territory in an endless desire to propagate themselves

When Darwinists say something approaching this, they are talking about genes and not people and indeed it is merely a metaphor.

> that science demands a rational explanation, that this means attributing rational motives to all behavior

No, quite the opposite. It's not about rational motives, the whole point is there is no intelligence behind it, no "intelligent design" no reasoning. The whole thing emerges from natural selection and the fact that gene proportions will change from generation to generation and this process is not fully random: some genes succeed more than others through the properties they lend to organisms.

Again, let's not conflate social Darwinism as an ideology with Darwinian evolutionary theory, of which Dawkins' book is merely a popularizer. Also, at the time of writing The Selfish Gene, Dawkins wasn't so obsessed with being a militant atheist as in the last ~15 years or so. The Selfish Gene is a pretty uncontroversial in a scientific sense, but it's quite unfortunate in its title and many people don't want to put in the mental effort of thinking about evolutionary mechanisms. It's the type of thinking we use for math puzzles or a hacking, and it's unpleasant to most people so they jump back to arguing about politics and "surely they actually mean XYZ, let's not bother engaging with the actual words in the book..."

And just on the side, I don't particularly like Dawkins as a person, I find his books on atheism quite dull and weak-manning religion, his tweets annoying and provocative in a cringe-inducing way, and his intellectual output over the last decade disappointing overall. Doesn't mean I feel the need to caricature the scientific arguments.
Apple has a massive user base now, I imagine they are preparing to make sure users stay in their ecosystem for everything. I won’t be surprised if they eventually use their own Siri search service instead of google as the default. Once they have all of the users locked in to their ecosystem I think apple’s own ad network will eventually be touted as “secure” and Apple will avoid antitrust scrutiny because everyone opts in to this ecosystem, voluntarily paying higher prices for access. It’s pretty genius really.
Primary care doc in MA here. I can tell you that we run into a lot of trouble with getting insurance to pay for these tests in people who don’t have a deficiency or insufficiency on record. I’m glad you haven’t had any problems with yours!
like any other person, he had his misgivings.

yes, it's a bad look, but one of his few (another one was the infantile Occupy movement).

but, to be factual, anti-semitism in the UK Labour Party has been a thing since the 20th century, and culminated with the recent leader Corbyn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_UK_Labour_...
I'm confused, this seems unrelated to ABI. It's entirely up to the caller whether to subsequently destroy the moved-from object or to skip doing so. Whether or not the caller does so is irrelevant to the call or how the parameter gets passed, and it wouldn't affect the moved-to object (whose destructor always runs). The destruction of the moved-from object (if not elided) happens long after the call has returned - at the end of the object's scope.

I think you're confusing my proposal with the pass-in-register proposal? Or maybe I'm missing something.
> The most common by far are basal-cell carcinomas and squamous-cell carcinomas, which are almost never fatal.

My grandpa died due to complications from a basal-cell skin cancer. He was almost 90 years old. The cancer itself was a few decades old. He served in the Navy during WWII, and likely got it from years of tropical sun exposure with no sunscreen.*

So, yeah, as far as cancers go, that's one you'd rather get if given a choice.

* (Well, and the additional years of fishing and other outdoor activities. Obviously the cause can't be pinpointed like that, but it must have contributed)
There is a bizarre school of thought that goes as follows: The company has a fiduciary duty to its shareholders, which forces the company to do anything and everything to maximize profits at all costs. Anyone working for the company who fails to do this can be sued by shareholders for violating their fiduciary duty.

Of course this is nonsense. As far as I can tell, "fiduciary duty" simply prevents self-dealing and other unethical behavior by company employees. Such as, for example, a VP selling company-owned real estate to his brother for $1, and saying "well it seemed like a reasonable price".
Much like "Western civilization", it sounds like it would be a good idea.
Maybe you'd like the Vue version which doesn't have those problems. I'm not sure how they implement it however.
Great, and ideally gravity can be used to move it. Remember, at Fukushima power to the pumps was lost.
Indeed. There are terrible owners out there and animal welfare organisations sadly exist for good reason.

I personally have zero belief that's the case here.
I'm 28 and got it mid-March (from a roommate, I was already isolating at home but just sharing an apartment was enough). Last week I tested 60% of the expected level of gas diffusion at the Boston COVID pulmunology clinic.

That's about it. There's no treatment, there's no medication, and if it were to get worse the only option is a lung transplant. I have to learn to breathe more deeply and my heart will wear out significantly faster due to the higher arterial pressure and faster pulse. I've got to be careful exercizing; 50% diffusion is considered the point where a light jog drives you into hypoxia. My o2 sensor says I drop down to the low 80s if I miss a breath at the wrong time. That's just going to be the new normal for the next 50 years, should I be so lucky.

Honestly the oxygen is the least inconvenient thing. Each breath gets me a bit more air than a normal person would get on top of Mt Ranier, but I've already pretty much adjusted to that. Low oxygen is hard to notice and adjusted for quickly, but nobody talks about the CO2. CO2 is being locked into my blood by the same scars/thickening that are keeping oxygen out. Many people can relate to extended altitude sickness (and how much it sucks) but very very few people my age have elevated CO2 like this. The closest you can get is sprinting until you're sucking air, and you can't catch your breath even if you take the biggest breath you can, until your ribs creak. I have been living in that moment for six months. I highly recommend against it. At the best times I'm anxious and forgetful; at the worst I'm just lying down for hours trying to breathe as quickly and deeply as possible with an intense sensation of being on the verge of passing out. It sucks, its cutting into my lifespan and it's very seriously affecting my quality of life.

Long hauler effects like this seem to be in the double digit percentages, which puts the number of people around a hundred times higher than the fatalities. Seriously, it's very not fucking worth it. Even if I recover partially -which is unlikely, at this point- or even if you "only" get a less physical impact like postviral syndrome, its going to severely fuck up years of your life, FAR worse than whatever quarantine is doing to you.
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Part of me (the emotional part) agrees with you. But without offering a human-nature compatible monetization mechanism to replace ad monetization, I'm sure you'll lose many things that you deeply value without acknowledging or understanding how they depend on that money.

It could probably be argued that "people in general" are willing to pay for services they value and that a few current generations have just been irreparably "mis-trained" to expect free services, but in any free-ish market economy businesses will be incentivized to offer services with costs as hidden from the user and as externalized as possible.
That question is psychotic.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be true though. Post viral fatigue has been a thing since before COVID it just never got any attention because it affected too few people.
Ask HN: Struggling at Google. What can I do?
I recently joined Google after previously working at startups mostly. The first few months were great but then the cultural issues started to show.

There seems to be a crazy rat race for promotion. Doing you work doesn't cut it and my manager seems to want some mythical outcome. The "optics" seem to matter more to him than work. I constantly feel like I might get fired.

How do I navigate a career at Google? For context, I am a mid-level IC
It wasn’t just related to criticism of Israel.

There were plenty of examples [0] of unpleasant statements coming from people on a Labour party platform or at their events, which were not dealt with sufficiently quickly or seriously by the Labour Party. They could’ve made this problem go away by just having a proper policy and dealing with these cases swiftly and appropriately. They didn’t.

[0] https://news.sky.com/story/12-shocking-claims-of-abuse-in-le...
This article estimates that the cost of seawater extraction would be roughly 10x the current market price, although not much word on the energy consumption.

[0] https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2017.04...
Concentration camps.
How is nuclear compatible with variable renewable energy sources? It can’t ramp up or down quickly, so it’s not good for filling the gaps in the day when the sun is not shining. And solar is now so cheap during sunny days that the excess power is curtailed or at a negative price.
I initially misread the title as "optimized to be acquired [..]"

Maybe my serendipitous reading explain your observations of what happened to the company.
Ours is upset we don't watch more TV [1] - amazingly good cuddle time for her and I'm not sure she isn't also watching.

[1] TV watched when we should be playing with cat results in frustrated and distracting cat.
Commute has pretty much not been on the negotiating table as far as I understand for most positions. The only time I've seen commute being paid is for workers who need to travel to the job site.

Even then it's generally that you travel unpaid to the office, then you are paid for the travel time from there to the job site.
The way I see it, this is not a particularly surprising move by Apple. There’s a clear financial gain from taking this ad revenue. The discussion should be focused on whether they should get away with it from an antitrust/market dominance perspective. Not giving them great PR because they found a way to spin it as good for privacy.
> there is a lot of observational evidence that people with low vitamin D have the worst C19 outcomes. Obviously, correlation by itself doesn't mean causation. But it is a hint.

It's a pretty useless one in this case. Old people are much more likely to have vitamin D deficiency. They are also more likely to die of COVID. The low vitamin D is a marker of frailty, not a cause.
According one of their videos[1] by the time the water has boiled away the reactor will be cool enough that it can be air cooled.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h--FAVoAQvk
Here's the technical detail that everyone seems to be missing: IDFA is an Apple API.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/adsupport/asidenti...

"The advertisingIdentifier is an alphanumeric string unique to each device, that you only use for advertising."

Apple created an API for advertisers that gives them a unique identifier, specifically for the purpose of tracking users. This has been available since iOS 6, released in 2012.

Shame, shame on advertisers for using the thing that Apple made for them to use!

If Apple cares so much about privacy, why did they make this in the first place? Where has Apple been for the past 8 years?
Ah alright. Thanks.
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A lot of people need to have control of their lives.

One manifestation of this is when they look at people that have bad things happening to them, they come up with a list of how they can avoid that thing happening to them.

Sometimes those things are very reasonable - I'll avoid these dangerous behaviors, I'll engage in these good behaviors, I'll avoid those areas, etc. But sometimes the threats are not the kind that you can really avoid. Sometimes people respond by blaming the afflicted with having poor intrinsic attributes, as opposed to their own superior attributes. Sometimes people respond by simply disbelieving the afflicted, discounting evidence that they would have considered otherwise. Because it is simply too taxing to really consider the risk.

I don't know you from Adam, I have no idea if that's what's motivating you, but what you said reminds me of what other people say in that situation.
Why not? Because an Internet article said it might, possibly be a bad idea? I never said cats were human. I don't wash my cat. We don't shower together. What makes you think I wrote any of that?

None of the items listed in that article have happened in my experience to an actual real-world cat that I have seen. The article is full of suppositions. There are no actual facts listed.

The first thing that I noticed in that article were all the pictures of toilet paper that cats had ripped off of the toilet roll. All one has to do is turn the roll in the other direction, and cats no longer do that. But, the writer seemed less interested in information than in filling words for a story.
Shameless plug: my company Weights & Biases (https://wandb.com) has tackled this in a different way. We make tools to keep track of results across your pipelines regardless of how you choose to orchestrate execution. This is one of our big selling points: very simple on-ramp to reproducible tracking, and infrastructure agnosticism. These have led to broad adoption across companies and academics. We also have a pretty cool UI.

Pachyderm makes different tradeoffs and we're excited to see their launch. Seriously congrats to you all! This is an invigorating space to say the least ;).
It's there for me on iOS 13.7: https://imgur.com/gJyId5P

It was on by default - I toggled it off.
We have lots of users who develop pipelines in R. Here's the standard iris example in R (example also include Python and Julia) if you're interested: https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm/tree/master/examples/...
I don't think this solves that problem, or intends to. You can run R in pachyderm via Docker, but that's unlikely to be a good way to test R out.

If you like Docker, try the images from Rocker: https://www.rocker-project.org/. The one with RStudio server is especially useful for local experimentation.
>I don't think it makes sense to worry about intermittently going through someone else's exhaust plume.

You're welcome to think that. But it's based on faith, not evidence. I admit that I don't evidence to prove that it's dangerous to a specific level either. I just prefer to err on the side of caution.
This just feels like moving ssh auth to another port, using an obscure "authentication format" that nearly no one uses.

If you're using pubkey or certificate auth, have disabled password auth, and restrict what users are allowed to ssh in, this just feels like added complexity and points of failure (not to mention a possible source of crypto vulnerabilities) with not much added benefit.

Having said that, it's a cool project in general, and I feel like it could be useful to dynamically manage access to large groups of servers (perhaps not just ssh; you could use it to manage access to https interfaces or other things). Then again, if you have a large group of servers, you should have those ports blocked to the world and only allow access through a VPN and/or jump boxes.
I remember meeting Dan, the founding CEO of Optimizely, at winter 2010 YC demo day. I had just grabbed my name tag and was walking toward the building when he stopped me outside to give me the pitch. He immediately struck me as a smart, capable guy, but as a former software engineer I couldn't understand why companies wouldn't just build A/B testing themselves. What did Optimizely add? How was it defensible? Dan didn't answer the questions to my satisfaction so I thanked him and moved on. As the years went by and I saw them raise round after round, get great press, put up billboards, and build out a beautiful office that I walked by at least once a week, I felt terrible for missing out on the angel investment. I was a rookie investor (I think that was my first YC) and chalked it up to my inexperience. I even tried to extract "lessons learned" and apply them to similar investment opportunities. It feels bittersweet to see things end this way, with probably no return for the common and a haircut for investors. I had built them up and expected them to succeed but I guess it's good to know I was right. Lessons: It ain't over 'til it's over and vanity traction like press & billboards mean nothing. Don't build a big company on a bad idea, it's a waste of time and money for everyone, especially the founders & employees.
he didn't say which was his answer :-)
Well, yes, in the USA this is probably the case. The world is a lot bigger than the USA and encompasses a multitude of countries where protesting is best done anonymously. The 'black block' tactics by the likes of AFA/Antifa are another story, these are people who go out with the intention to harm those who they consider to be their opponents, i.e. the opposite of the term 'peaceful protests' which is bandied around so much. They are the ones I'd like to unmask or at least not have masked by any software made to protect the privacy of real protesters.

On the subject of that protester from one video being a murderer on another, not really. If you only have a single source this problem exists and is unavoidable, so much is clear. When you have multiple sources from different angles it becomes possible to correlate the person seen from the back in source A with the murderer in source B and with that identify that person in source A as the murderer.
Well, no, not really. You see, saying that it takes 10 seconds to add a dependency is really saying "I add dependencies by picking the first thing that shows up when I type '[problem] rust' and then I copy the example code in the README and tweak it until it does what I want", which is unfortunately how many projects are run but exactly how you set yourself up for all the problems that come with dependencies–licensing, transitive dependency bloat, quality issues, poor maintenance… The only way out of that problem is that you spend way longer auditing whatever it is that you're adding for all those things, at which point I think you'll begin to understand why I am asking for the standard library to meet my use cases more often. (And you will notice I specifically shied away from potentially controversial dependencies: no networking, no JSON, no databases…these are things that deal with information that the language implementers would know best about anyways).

Now, I fully understand that when something gets added to the standard library it needs to be supported. I'm saying "Do it." Rust likes to claim that it is backwards compatible and all, and I do understand that the work that is done for this is non-trivial. But still, it's mildly annoying to hear that because there's this little voice in the back of my head that says "well yeah, because anytime something comes up that would need to be supported it just never gets added, so it ends up in a crate that is 'no longer part of Rust' when it breaks". Nobody is saying that we need to make Rust another Python (well, if there are then I would be glad to argue otherwise). But please, expand the standard library; make it possible to use the language for useful things without having to commit to 37 transitive dependencies. Maybe see if it's possible to start working with the more stable and widely accepted crates and moving them under the umbrella of the standard. That kind of thing.
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Your question is answered in the link GP posted. All were tested for it.
Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big / meaningful problems?
Are there any well funded tech startups / companies tackling major societal problems?

Any of these fair game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_global_issues

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I don't see or hear of any and want to know if this is just my bias or if there really is a shortage of resources in tech being allocated to solving the worlds most important problems.

Ran into this previous Ask HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24168902) that asked a similar question. However, here I wanna focus on the better funded efforts (not side projects, philanthropy etc).

Only example I've heard so far is Tesla. Any others?