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> There are plenty of climbers - and if all that mattered was being good at climbing, boards would work to save millions of dollars by hiring cheaper "climbers."

Are there though? By nature of that kind of climbing, they get thinned out quite quickly, plucked from the wall by those more adept at hyper-competitive climbing without rules and sheer randomness. Here's a short overview with a few links pointing to studies that suggest that CEOs aren't having the impact common perception attributes to them, and whether they succeed or fail often depends on luck: https://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/study-luck-looking-the-par...

> I'm sure you trust a plumber of 15 years over his journeyman of 4. Is it some secret evil cabal working against the plumber? No, it's just common sense.

Especially in tech, we don't see a lot of old CEOs though, and if we did, that still doesn't explain why any one in particular is chosen: the pool for any age group is large, they'll all have roughly the same number of years in experience. If luck is a large part in whether they succeed or fail in their role, if you continually test, you'll end up with people who rolled the dice and got lucky multiple times in a row, or you'll end up with people who manipulated the dice (or your perception of the dice).
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No, you can't distribute a binary under the GPL if it's been linked to GPL-incompatible (e.g. closed source) code. Unlike the LGPL, it doesn't make any difference whether/which part of the program is included from a library.

However, the Amensia devs aren't distributing the compiled game under the GPL, they're only distributing the source code, which doesn't include FBX. You're free to distribute code under the GPL which can't actually be compiled/linked.

That said, what you wrote doesn't make sense to me anyway, maybe I misunderstood it.
Those are not under western safety regime.
Cars with new drive trains being ready for sale in 5 years for legacy manufacturers, in addition to the supply chain to produce the batteries? I think that is too ambitious.
> Yeah, it's kind of like the classic "break one law at a time" rule. If you're hauling drugs, don't speed. Getting away with just the one thing is hard enough.

I wonder if not speeding is enough to give police officers a reason to make a drugs search in some places.
Apart from a war or a government collapse, in the long run the stock market will go up if the economy is expanding. Likewise, it will go down if the economy is contracting. (Eg, Japan with more people dying than new people coming into the country.)

imo the fallacy is assuming the economy will continue to grow at the same 7% in the long run, when the more mature an economy becomes the less it will grow and from that the less growth to the stock market will happen. imo 6% long run for the future is a safer number.
There's also ForkAwesome[1] which has 744 icons. My main gripe with many icon sets that they often miss an icon or two kinda breaking the set, with fork awesome I hadn't had that issue just because of how massive it is and much easier to extend as it's still actively maintained and worked on.

https://forkaweso.me/Fork-Awesome/icons/
Everything other than FOX and OANN are propaganda arms of the DNC though, and they are _actively lying_ to the people about literally everything, all the way to "austere religious scholars" and "revered military leaders". If you were only watching CNN you wouldn't even know there have been riots in Portland nearly every night for almost 4 months.
Because renewables don’t help reduce emissions as much as nuclear does.

Renewables need fossile backup plants.

Go on electricitymap.org and see how Germany has among the highest emissions in the electricity sector in Europe despite 50% renewables in their electricity mix.
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I used Eclipse a long time ago and it had horrible performance. But IntelliJ quality had been really bad in recent years. Minor updates causing major performance regression, taking massive CPU when nothing is being worked on. It was way more stable product in earlier versions.
Several things the articles says are happening in the Chinese camps are happening on the southern US border.
Indeed.

They should start with a better prediction of the zoom level and single/continuous page rendering modes when opening a PDF document.
It may not be obvious to HN'ers who grew up this century, but while some of the images (such as the illustration of film holes for the opcodes, K1.§4) and underlining was done on the typewriter, many of the graphics and special symbols (e.g. K1 hero image, or I/O, K2.§6) would then be added by hand in a second pass, à la MathJax.

Am I reading K4.§1 correctly that intermediate values were kept to about 80 bits?

I am fond of the hack of K3.§5.4. We unroll loops, they rolled them.

Especially important: K5.§1: bugs and workarounds!
>There is no reference if it was a man who became a woman or vice versa

Maybe that also isn't intentional and is merely poor grammar, but that certainly reads as if you are using "it" to refer to the person.
Why wouldn't you use the more powerful chip if it's readily available, cheap, and efficient?

Much better to update the hardware when you have a chance than to stick with an obsolete part until the rug is pulled from under you and it's EOL'd.
Plants can operate well beyond their planned lifespan:

> https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/whats-lifespan-nuclear-re...
At the risk of being too traditional: coin and courts.

For coin, you start with Estonia's electronic signature infrastructure. You have the government work to maintain the sanctity of signature chains, the flow of money, and the visibility of the flow of money, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature_in_Estonia or the use of RSS feeds in the TARP-2 bailout fund.

For court, you want to have speedy trials, heavy on the jury. I mean trials like the 1920s where people sue each other over almost everything and most trials are concluded the day after they are filed. You should probably consider mandatory jury duty (or significant fines) streamed to cell phones. Let locals shape and enforce the law.

The goal of coin laws is to create a single system. The goal of jury trials is to have everyone buy into the system.
I did not put justice as a goal.
I don't know, a daily cup of tea in my local cafe is an opportunity for some social contact as I work from home all the time. If I didn't do that then I would probably end up spending more to work in a shared office space.
I don't think you can know for sure what exactly they did. Does the crime merit death?

You raise a point that they weren't acting in a purely defensive capacity - for all we know, "did Russia harm" could mean they were a counterintelligence agent that successfully sounded the alarm on a Russian intelligence operation on US soil. From that perspective, wouldn't Russia be the aggressor now?
I suppose you could fire a proton beam and an electron beam so that they would intersect before reaching Venus.
Does `del -rf /` do a lot on Windows?
Isn't monopsony also handled by antitrust rules?
It will be interesting to see if they reach the price for batteries they are aiming for. I think the batteries being that cheap will have more effect on ROI of powerwall/batteries for home solar than on cars. As the battery in cars though expensive they are not majority of the cost anymore. Where as they are for powerwall so a $7000+ powerwall could go down to around $4000.
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The delusional narrative is that we can outlaw maths only for the baddies.

Someone needs to explain to them what TLS is and what it's used for.
What people call "obvious biases" are typically what they themselves are choosing to select out of the statistical cloud of posts that get made here. The bias at work in making such a selection is one's own, but we project it onto the community, and then create a superior image of ourselves by posturing above it, which is what I mean by supercilious. This is a drama between oneself and oneself, which has nothing to do with real conversation. It's a way of changing the subject to oneself. To be fair, you're hardly the only one doing it; it's quite common, but I have to tell you that it tends to be low-quality commenters who do this.

It frequently comes with labels like "echochamber" and "groupthink", which are also ways of elevating oneself as the noble freethinker standing against the mob, or some such image. Actual noble freethinkers never behave like this, so the whole thing is incongruent—it's simply a way of flattering oneself, which (ironically, because we all feel so unique) is one of the most repetitive and tedious things that people do. That's why we shouldn't do it on a site that's trying to have interesting conversation.

Another angle: people seem to posture above the community when they feel like they need to defend themselves against it. Presumably they want to defend themselves against some claim of i-am-very-smartness that they feel is emanating from the community, so they puff themselves up and put the community down by way of compensation. In reality, though, no one is making such a claim. HN isn't making such a claim—HN isn't a person to begin with—and certainly the people running HN are making no such claim. It rather arises in the psyche of some readers, for whatever internal reasons. The internet can be crazy-making that way.
That is 500 cycles without mitigation for CPU bugs, and without considering the non-local performance effects.

Non-local performance effects arise from TLB and other cache invalidation, which is required when changing from one task to another. You can't avoid that without putting everything in the same address space, which would make the system a fake microkernel. Fake microkernels have the less-readable code of microkernel design but without any benefits other than buzzword compliance.

CPU bugs like Meltdown and Spectre mean that every IPC now needs to blow away all sorts of caches and prediction. For example, you wipe out branch history. The cycles spent during the IPC call are only a tiny portion of the cost. The loss of cache content (TLB, branch history, data cache, code cache, etc.) greatly slows down the CPU.
Germany has 50% renewables in its electricity mix, France has 70% nuclear.

France produces 50 grams of CO2 for every kWh, Germany 400 grams.

If Germany hadn’t shutdown 11 nuclear power plants since 2011, emissions in the electricity sector would now be 50% to 70% lower.
You can run the Fischer-Tropsch process and make any hydrocarbon fuel you want. Fuel efficiency of engines could exceed 50% in the near future. Remember, you're creating a scenario where we never figure out hydrogen, and therefore we'll be forced to make synfuels in vast quantities for a number of purposes. If you follow the nature tendency of capitalism, this will end give you hydrocarbon fuels so cheap that it wouldn't make sense to go with electric vehicles at all. At best, hybrids for that regenerative breaking ability.
Yeah well, keep electing republicans and nothing will ever change.

You think republicans and people like trump are anti-monopoly? Lol.
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I’ve heard the same claim, and the reason given was that microlensing surveys would have found more of these black holes. The article gets into this near the end:

> For example, perhaps the strongest constraints on primordial black holes come from microlensing searches [...] In these efforts, astronomers monitor bright but distant sources, waiting to see if a dark object passes in front of them. These searches have long ruled out an evenly dispersed population of small black holes.

> But if primordial black holes exist at a range of masses, and if they’re packed into dense, massive clusters, those results could be less significant than researchers thought, García-Bellido said.

I heard about this most recently on Sean Carroll’s podcast:

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/05/11/96-l...
> Perhaps the efficiency to produce methane is not so bad, but a chain with 6 or 7 carbons like gasoline is very complicated.

The Fischer-Tropsch process is almost a hundred years old, and has been used on an industrial scale. E.g. Nazi Germany used it to produce a non-trivial fraction of their liquid fuels during WWII. Similarly South Africa used it during Apartheid. Now FT itself is better suited for producing mostly straight hydrocarbon chains like diesel or jet fuel rather than the branched ones seen in high octane gasoline.

The efficiency of traditional FT is around 40%, but by adding extra hydrogen to the process it can be increased by around a factor of 3 (the efficiency meaning the energy content of the carbon carrying feedstock vs the output, so over 100% is possible as hydrogen provides some of the energy in the final product).

The problem is to get the CO needed for FT in a carbon-neutral manner. Biomass is limited, capturing and reducing CO2 is expensive and requires a lot of energy.
Highly unlikely. And as you may have read in this article, this isn't about "moving parts" but making the monolith itself more modular. The monolith is close to 3 millions lines of codes last I read, and they don't want a micro-service architecture.

Also - would Elixir have really scaled 3 million lines of code that easily? Maybe Shopify would have gotten the "Umbrella app" from Elixir for free but would have had to implement a tons of other functionality themselves. I read over and over Elixir has missing libraries. If they went the rewrite in different language route I'd argue something static like Java is a much more sensible fit for this specific problem than Elixir.
Perhaps because solar and wind are orders of magnitude less complex. So they are less likely to go massively over budget. Because most of the work streams can be bought at fixed cost from reliable contractors.
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Daily 3$ latte is most absurd example of saving strategy I seen and it gets repeated all the time. I don't even know people who would buy 3$ lattes daily. Most people get coffee in the office for free.

Also, you cant invest your saved 90$ to investment fund. Those require higher initial capital.
> The infrastructure has no multiple use

Hydrogen solves long term storage for electricity generation and heating (winter time)

https://model.energy/
Hey man, hope you don't mind me asking, but what's the problem with telling someone who stutters to slow down?

Background: my son is diagnosed with TA, and he has a peculiar speech pattern, not sure if it's a kind of stutter. In my interpretation, he struggles to find the right word, and he goes back to correct the sentences he's speaking. The only advice that I can give him is to slow down and collect his thoughts, but the last thing I would like is to somehow make him feel bad.
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A single nuclear reactor produces electricity worth 1 million dollars per day.

Nuclear power plants are money printing machines, not money pits.
Yes, but right now there is no technique not making use of Deep Learning that is remotely competitive. It really is that clear a distinction.
And a prayer is said for rare earth elements. Folly into folly.
Nice start.

1. Make a single button for common sentences, e.g., "8 characters with one or more digits and one or more punctuation."

2. Grab your vocabulary from a selected corpus, e.g., StarWars, Shakespeare, Victorian Romance, Software Buzzwords.
That's essentially the leading theory. They're called WIMPs.
Giving road directions, especially if you are sitting in the passenger seat navigating for someone, is an example that comes up in my life fairly frequently. It gets awkward to talk about things that are between 0 to 1/2 mile so I find myself trying to do the mental math to convert to feet for someone else. These days I usually give verbal directions in meters. Most people in the United States seem to have some conceptualization of what a meter is so it usually works quite well as it’s also easier for me to estimate meters instead of feet.
>IDA is great but Ghirda is the new hotness on the street.

Ghidra is great but its got a long uphill battle before it dethrones IDA as the choice of professional malware analysts.
> XFA forms are inherently XML rather than PDF, and are incompatible with conventional PDF files.

> XFA forms are not yet fully supported by third party PDF viewers’ vendors.

From https://appligent.com/what-is-the-difference-between-acrofor...
> at least it would prove to work here- it's not like the US is in the exact same position as the EU

The EU and Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Bahrain, Brunei, Australia, and New Zealand. It works all over the world. Research on the US system accords with the overwhelming evidence from all around: it would work.

> eg, I'm not sure how they're connected ... medical research

Let's clarify. The repugnant gouging in the cost of hospital care, doctor's visits etc redounds mostly to the profit of private insurance who provide no social value in return. The exorbitant cost of medicine does indeed flow to pharmaceutical companies, but the particulars of how they would be affected depend on the details of how universal health care was implemented.

> complaints that our health care is 'too expensive' never seem to take into account that our (expensive) health care is the best in the world

I have no idea where you got that notion; the US is generally not ranked in the top 20.

https://www.who.int/healthinfo/paper30.pdf

https://healthcarechannel.co/how-australian-healthcare-ranks...
You need to be logged in for that, though :-(
Backup is important even if you're confident.
Thanks for the search term, I'll look into it.
I wonder why it was easier to build an image of this black hole at 16.4 million parsecs (53 million light-years) from Earth and not the one from the center of our galaxy which is at 26,000 light-years.
Those are the minimum requirements before you can apply. To actually get the Work Permit issued, you must justify your need to MoM.
That looks more like a container runtime than an os kernel.
Don’t blame nuclear for corrupt and incapable politicians in the US.

Nuclear plants are highly economic, at least outside the US. Every plant in Germany so far has already financed itself.
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You need to remove 30 gigatons per year to eliminate all the CO2 humans generate. This is the "what if humans disappeared" baseline you mentioned.

If we eliminated 30 gigatons annually, yes the earth would recover at the rate you describe.

If we increase above 30 gigatons or reduce emissions, we shorten the time dramatically.

Growing trees or grasses, pyrolizing them into syngas and biochar, and sequestering the char could, in theory, supplement natural processes.

It's a process that can be run with an energy surplus, but it does require a lot of labor and land.

You'd need hundreds of thousands of square miles wholly dedicated to the effort.

DACCS facilities are expensive, but achievable. You'd need roughly three major industrial DACCS facilities for every coal fire plant worldwide, which would be incredibly challenging but not impossible.
Its not broken, its just abused. PDF is create for printing, its not great for anything smaller than an A4 page. Other formats exist which do that fine. If you use pdf for what it was made for its fine.
This might be a good story, but the github ReadMe manages not to say what the package does, why its unique, or why its cool. I'm sure it says something much later in the manual.
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Well the answer to that is that it is not that simple. We know how synthesize hydrogen and scale it and what it will cost because companies are already doing that today. Synthesizing other fuels may be long term feasible but are simply not commonly done right now. More importantly, there don't seem to be many companies planning to do that right now. Airbus is not in the business of producing fuel so it would need such a company to step up and do it before they can start designing products for it.

E.g. liquid methane would be a good alternative for hydrogen. The appeal of both hydrogen and methane would be that converting engines to burn it seems doable and given that rockets can use either as propellant there is no question about their suitability as a fuel from an efficiency point of view. The difference of course is that with methane it would end up coming from fossil reserves which from the point of view going carbon neutral kind of defeats the purpose of making these planes carbon neutral. Swapping out kerosene for methane kind of just moves that problem. IMHO it's still worth exploring (and some companies have actually done that). Also, I imagine synthetic methane is eventually going to happen and kill the market for natural gas. Just not in the next decades.

The key here is a combination of becoming carbon neutral and doing it in a cost effective and timely way. Synthetic methane may or may not actually become a thing but the simple reality is that it's an industry that simply does not currently exist. Clean hydrogen production on the other hand exists today (at small scale) and seems to be on a feasible path to scaling in the next 15 years or so. Additionally hydrogen infrastructure is something that is attracting lots of investment currently. Airbus is targeting a launch in the mid to late 2030's. So they need to be targeting a fuel source that they can reasonably expect to have some supply for by then so they can actually fuel the planes where-ever they need to fly. So the supply and infrastructure for hydrogen are not a certainty but at least on a path where it could be there in 15 years. The rest is just solving engineering problems. They seem to believe they can do it.
There are no large scale storage batteries.

The only large storage systems are hydro storage and even those don’t have enough capacity to store energy for more than a few hours.

In Germany, all hydro storage plants combined can supply Germany with electricity for one hour at night before they’re empty (40 GWh).
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In my city I have seen people doing that. Usually they work 3-4 days a week. Typically they either teach at local university for the rest or spend time with some hobby and in one case do christianity related activities. So it is possible, but you have to ask and have to be careful and assertive while on the job. Because some managers try to abuse situation and get 5 daays for 4 days pay.

I think that the real difference is that our city has actual lack of developers, so the developers that exists can demand things.
Gravity still attracts them. They do have mass
It uses heuristics to convert existing documents in to reflowable versions.
As a general category of theories that's called "cold dark matter" — it needs to interact with something in order to clump up / cool off, but perhaps not in a way that's very visible to us. A wikipedia excursion will net you a handful of such theories and their pros and cons.
I've listened to his podcast for a while, and it's great, with a credible story and actionable information from those who have found success with their own courses (real courses as opposed to "course courses"). Quite a disconnect from the look and feel of this website (I shared it because I knew it was his canonical URL, and to be honest, I hadn't actually seen it)