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> If nuclear could compete on cost, we should go for it, but it can't without a major tech breakthrough.

Fusion perhaps. But fission, patently untrue. The price of existing nuclear fission power plants is artificially high because politicians want weapons grade nuclear material, ill-informed "public opinion" and regulation.

And to qualify my "ill-informed public opinion", Chernobyl's direct death toll was 31. Fukishima was zero. Yet nuclear is held to some different standard to all other energy. A nuclear accident, with zero deaths is front page news but the millions of people that have died world wide from burning or mining coal, or drilling for oil, isn't.

The design of nuclear reactors is uranium based, and over 50 years old.

There's no commercial incentive to make better, cheaper nuclear fission power plants because Governments won't let anyone try. Search for 'nuclear startup' and they're all fusion. Making France (EDF) or Japan (Hitachi?) compete 'on tender' to build the UK a new power station is not really competition unfortunately.
By one-liners I meant things like Perl one-liners:

perl -pe 's{<b>([^<]+)</b>}{<em>\1</em>}g' < foo.html > out.html

Python would never let you get away with treating it like an improved sed.
Life on Venus may suggest life in the universe is common rather than rare or unique? Unless life there came from the same sources as Earth?

I hope in my lifetime we explore Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, and Europa, a moon of Jupiter (and other moons of the solar system) as much as we do mars; they have more chance of having life.
Shameless plug, but that's exactly the aim of https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug.

It's a distributed bug-tracker: it stores issues (and one day, PRs) within git. You can work offline and you always have a full copy of everything. It also has bridges for Github, Gitlab and Jira.
SEC paid a record $114M to anonymous whistleblower
Rust parallism guarantees are only applicable to threaded code and internal resources.

We have already learned to scale down from threads and go back to processes for security and stability reasons.

Here Rust doesn't help across IPC and data races of external resources.

One way that Rust compiles way slower than C++ is its Gentoo approach to libraries. With C++ I only compile my own code.
Some fun idiosyncrasy going on

> It's written in Python, so the code is short and easy to change. But we automatically translate it to C++ with custom tools, to make it fast and small. The deployed executable doesn't depend on Python.

Love it ;)
It is fascinating that there is probably life on some of those stars and its sad that humans will never able to explore places far into space.
I think it depends on the musician. A couple of friends of mine struggle against their absolute pitch in historical pitch contexts (especially a notorious 19th century organ tuned to A450) and have to think in microtones, others just dial in and deal with it.
Hi, dejan from Migadu here. Thank you for your comment. We are happy to correct ourselves, but your comment does not prove us wrong to the reader.

I would appreciate to hear the technical reasons why we are wrong on security topics, and less of personal sensibilities. This will contribute to the discussion better and potentially to the email ecosystem :)
He's a [redacted] yield engineer, and property owner. Not sure where poverty comes into play.

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Copyright included fair use and the courts ruled that a balance for fair use must be maintained for the monopoly rights of copyright to be enforced, but congress wrote the DMCA and said "nah"?

Yeah I'm gonna need to hear that from the courts, my assertion here is that the DMCA unfairly skirts around this provision of copyright, not that it superceded it outright.

Those fair use rights are not an optional provision of copyright, (although many opinions have stated that copyright provides the author may refuse to allow copies if they technically can, unless you have relevant case law that superseded Sony Betamax, in that case I believe it was the minority opinion), I am not aware of any decisions that say anything other than "copies for fair use may be required for there to be fair use."

But I am not a lawyer, and just because I haven't heard of the case doesn't mean it didn't happen...
Genuine question, how viable is it, if we (code monkeys) created some sort of a blacklist of the entities that are not allowed to use our open source projects?
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something like "We don't support Internet Explorer" but a bit more aggressive? like "These entities don't understand the Internet, we don't support them, they cant use our software"?

Maintaining that list would be a ton of work and edge cases tho :/
> It's same issue as in C# and many others: someone has to write and support the bindings, which adds cost.

If C was on the table anyway then you can use bindgen to generate the bindings.

But yeah, safe/native-feeling bindings require someone to go through and annotate everything.

> In VM-based languages which don't use unsafe code, vulnerabilities like this are impossible by design:

The VM itself is still going to have unsafe code at some point.
I believe the landlord feels compelled to make it happen because he's already told people that it is for sure happening.

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Let's put it this way: A technical issue is at the core of the problem (the practical inability to "just create" a new browser), that is then exploited by companies such as Google for their own interest. I wasn't familiar with the legal issue of Web DRM, but that just represents an additonal problem.

> From a technical perspective, Firefox already keeps up pretty well with Chrome.

Yes, but Firefox has to follow Chrome at whatever they decide, because the "regular consumer" just wants a working browser. So Google ends up making all the decisions, either way.
>If Governments allow commercial development of nuclear power stations that cannot be used to produce enriched uranium (thorium being one of those), then free market forces will push the cost of design

Nuclear plants have always been uninsurable without an explicit liability cap (currently set at $200 million).

The "free market" would never have let it happen in the first place without that subsidy (& several others).

Nuclear only ever exists and will only ever continue to existing because of subsidies.

The desire for subsidies is probably why this article exists, in fact.
My brain always thinks of Orion being orientated with Betelgeuse in the top left, it's really weird seeing it 'sideways'
Most video games do connect to the internet these days.
> For the life of me, I cannot understand the disconnect in thinking for people who recognize the need for bold action on climate change and then in the next breath fret about money.

Whilst I agree with your broad point, climate change is a systems problem and requires systems thinking and systemic change.

If you make nuclear available, but it is not competitive with fossil fuel energy, then we will continue to use fossil fuel energy. A relatively small number of oil company executives with a profit motive are going to make this decision for everyone, directly and indirectly.

'Doing stuff', as you say, involves governments of the people heavily regulating the most powerful corporations on the planet to ensure they can't make this decision in the wrong direction.

Government action in this direction hasn't happened for the last 30 years, and doesn't look close to happening in the present.

As such, it's reasonable for climate change activists to make plans to meet the market where it's at and prioritise competitive renewable products above nuclear.
You'd at least know what jurisdiction the service is located in. If you run a company like that that wants to take care of people's private and most valuable data you should put as much information of you out there to gain trust.
It sounds like the opposite, to me. He's a man whose moral compass only aligns to his own self-interest, what's going to enrich him more at any cost, which happens when people lose empathy.

In general, poverty makes humans kinder and more charitable, not crazy and dishonest, while selfishness and apathy for others scales with wealth and resources.
True, yet Frama-C and MISRA-C do exist, and certified compilers, which Rust is yet to have.

To prove how hard it is to replace C, even Microsoft with its security speech and "we don't need C on Windows" has given up to market pressure.

The Azure Sphere device whose marketing message is all about secure IoT, uses C as its only language, despite endless requests for C++, Rust, C# support.

The new MSVC version will support C11 and C17, minus the C99 features that became optional in C11.

Language evangelism without market understanding doesn't go far.
The C based programs I use most are probably various databases (mysql, postgres, redis, sqlite etc) and the linux kernel. Certainly for the databases they have been rock solid. It's possible to crash them by running the server out of resources of course, but I have never had them outright crash with a malloc problem. The kernel has more bugs perhaps, but that too has been rather stable for me.

C might not be perfect but it's clearly perfectly possible to write stable and secure programs in them.
I think we use Python now because it is a language of choice in US schools, colleges and universities. Python is a new Basic.
I have, perhaps, the privilege, to have grown up in Germany in the 80s and at that time there was a really big societal discussion around nuclear energy in general and breeder technology in particular. A focus point was the breeder project in Kalkar, the SNR-300and many physicists and technicians chimed in into that discussion. I say privilege because it was a discussion unlike anything I've seen in this decade, people went very much into the details how such a technology works and what as a society we want from it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNR-300

One main point of the discussion was that such a breeder reactor uses fast neutrons and this has the effect that it is far less controllable. Normal fission power plants use slow neutrons, that is neutrons which come from a nuclear reaction, and are slowed down by a moderator, which is water. Breeder reactors do use fast neutrons and need a far higher energy density. One consequence this has is that they need really exotic and difficult to handle coolants, such as liquid sodium. I therefore call bullshit in that there is nothing complicated in them.

Also, such reactors have a different safety behavior. A key task of any nuclear technology is to keep the chain reaction of atoms and neutrons under control. This happens at the microsecond scale, and some chain reaction needs to be going for the reactor to not fizzle out, so it is anything but trivial.

If the reaction in a normal pressured-water fission reactor becomes too strong, this has the effect that immediately the water heats up. This makes the water less dense, and this reduces the effect of its moderation, which makes the neutrons faster, which reduces their potential to react with uranium atoms, and therefore it slows down the reaction. This achieves self-control. What happens when this self-control is lost, is perhaps best illustrated by the Chernobyl accident.

A fast breeder reactor does not have such an inherent control via the moderator and coolant. It was therefore judged by the public to be more complicated, and more dangerous.

A funny thing is that during that discussion, the proponents of nuclear energy said again and again that nuclear power plant's are safe and that they in particular can't explode.

I still remember the twitter post with these pictures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lrJCqNpeZ8
Then it’s no longer open-source projects.
This is also an interesting case for github. youtube-dl is popular enough that this just
might annoy enough people to find an alternative way to collaborate on it. Meanwhile github becomes “that platform that might kill you project”
Not too long ago, probably earlier this year
You still get +1 for providing a pointer to the explanation while remaining clear and succinct.
Does anyone know if this affects the Android Play Music app?
I absolutely love my Synology NAS. The photos function and the Video one especially. Being able to access all the videos on my NAS from any computer/phone/tablet in the house and have them transcode in real-time to suit the device, and/or cast them to our TVs. It’s great.
You are speaking of an industry whose game engines would be a giant unsafe block, given some of the current practices.
Depends on the day (it's the day we're supposed to release new version!), size of the team, etc It's a devops platform, not just source control.

Disclaimer: we use self hosted gitlab at work.
I see .org and I assume there’s some element of Libre software at play here in terms of the spirit of what you’ve developed.

By that I mean to say that I looked at this and thought “great, an O/S backup solution for a NAS” as opposed to a paid-only service akin to a multitude of others.
For deduplicated storage you really want A=B <=> H(A)=H(B) to hold for all data you are going to see, so accessible constructions for collisions should already bar an algorithm from this application.
Your two examples at the top are both hardware, those work very differently. Websites used to do massive updates, but many have learned that it just leads to a lot of angry users. Slowly updating one component at a time works much better in my experience, and it's far less change for the user to adapt to at once.
> You weren't referring to HN, or any debate in particular; that's a rhetorical sleight of hand.

Reading someone's mind and then asserting it as what they are doing and knocking that down (a classic strawman argument) is the rhetorical sleight of hand (and also an innate capability that develops from a very young age, as far as I can tell).

In fact, what I was actually referring to was the particular angle I am arguing in this thread, here on HN, an argument that has been opposed by nothing other than rhetoric.

> Had you been referring to HN, you'd still have been wrong: "destroying" with anything, facts and logic included, is opposite to the spirit of this site.

Framing the argument via semantics (cherry picking one word, that was placed within quotation marks to explictly* indicate that it is being used in a figure-of-speech manner) to (again) turn it into a non-representative proxy of the actual argument and then sidetracking the discussion onto that, is another clever rhetorical slight of hand.

What remains, unaddressed, is the original argument.

The tactics are annoying, but I don't mind so much - seeing them on full, unapologetic display is actually kind of the point of the whole exercise from my perspective.
> The VM itself is still going to have unsafe code at some point.

Smaller amount of the unsafe code which is audited, battle-tested, and not extensible by either user nor third-party library developers.
It could be a good idea to diff it against this version though.
> Where Harbison had previously captured an image of the Nebula on a 10-11 pixel scale, using the QHY 16200 camera would change that to a 1.6-pixel scale of the constellation Orion.

Pixel scale here seems to mean how many arc-seconds a pixel covers. The full moon (or one's thumb at arm's length iirc) substend about 30 arc-minutes (half a degree)
I watched a horror movie once, the protagonist had hidden in a fortified escape room and was holding their breath.

Then, the scariest thing ever could be heard

"Click out of 3, nothing on 4."
I also hate XML, but there's actually one very fair use, where I'm really struggling with all other formats: User Interface Descriptions. HTML, Apple iOS (XCode), Windows Phone (XAML), and even Android XML (virtually all android apps) copied it for that exact reason, even though they could have started from scratch.
I have created the youtube-dl repo at Darktea, feel free to create your anonymous accounts and join the project, until we find a better/decentralized place.

For now this should be sufficient:

http://it7otdanqu7ktntxzm427cba6i53w6wlanlh23v5i3siqmos47pzh...

I will give the main contributors the neccessary access for reviewing/merging/etc.. or will entirely hand over the project if you can prove you are the maintainer.
there's nothing quite like owning your own data

Sure, but I already have servers and terabytes of storage. Also, I don't want to keep a server/NAS at home. I want it sitting on a big, fat pipe in some DC with professionals maintaining it.
Only because it has a npm style library.

The biggest chunck of ISO C++ is describing the standard library.

Just wait Rust to get 40 years of language improvements, while you try to link 5 different epochs on the same executable.
The US decided their laws, specifically the DMCA, applied globally back in 2001 [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd.
I don't want the option to completely separate my YTM likes from Youtube likes. I would much rather have to re-like a song again on YTM than have random videos show up on YTM. I don't want any of my Youtube content to be transfered.

If you think of it, before when I was on GPM, I didn't have any of my Youtube content and I was perfectly fine. So I'm not sure why I need any of it now.
That's a bad title, email can be encrypted at rest. We just chose not to do it at the very moment due to the very little added benefit we see in our overall setup.
@sergeykish this is fantastic! Please can you make it possible to hear the same note again?
Let's see what happens and whether indeed these lessons have been learned.

* https://github.com/Larry850806/youtube-downloader/issues/1

* https://github.com/Athlon1600/youtube-downloader/issues/81

* https://github.com/ZerioDev/Youtube-Downloader/issues/2
> Even the Dalai Lama got duped into supporting Nxivm!

Well, maybe the $1M he got for it also played a role.
Big Tech Breakup: Google Blamed for Running a Monopoly, Case Filed
> He can lay in bed and write out an arrangement, whereas most of us mere mortals would need to reference a piano or a guitar.

Why wouldn't that be the case with someone who can "only" hear relative pitch? I mean, you start writing a note and from then on all other notes are relative to that note, where the actual pitch (in Hz) doesn't really matter.
> Even something that should be as simple as piping output from one process to another in Python is a nightmare, and fraught with opportunities to shoot yourself in the foot with buffering deadlocks and other nonsense.

This is true, but when I am writing a script in Python I generally don't need to pipe as often as I do in bash. Python offer many replacements for things that in Bash you need to call another process.

That is, of course, if performance isn't necessary. When it is bash is still unbeatable because of the pipes.
edit: I misread.
If gmail did end-to-end encryption, how exactly would they scan your data for their ad purposes?

That would be the end of free gmail.
Yes, I agree with you that given the choice between some random company and a FAANG for cloud storage, choose the FAANG.
Depends on how they use it. HMAC-MD5 is not broken, for example. MD5 could potentially be a building block for password hashing still (but it has to be a _building block_)
It doesn't have to be marketing. You're showing by example how your app can be used, and one of your examples is to download copyrighted content.
> There are probably 10 guys like him for every person who actually is so broke there is no way out...This is what America's "poor" looks like, it is far more a mental state than concrete reality.

No, this is what poverty looks like in the strawman you've built up in your head. I guarantee you the person you describe exists, and is just as you describe - but they're also not representative of American poverty. But they're certainly the caricature of it that certain groups love to push for political reasons and have been doing so consistently for decades. In the 80s it went by the myth of the 'welfare queens'. A caricature that was demonstrably false - but that didn't stop it from becoming a commonly held perspective at the time (people have since learned the truth). And the process goes back further than that.
Sounds like what you are looking for is closed source software where you get to dictate precisely who your licensees are and under what specific terms they must use your software.

This is a model I have started to seriously consider due to increasingly prolific IP theft concerns. There is software that is so capable that it could be considered a weapons platform from some perspectives. I really worry about this stuff in context of China/Russia/India/et.al. and our willingness to relinquish our various competitive advantages.
Money is not the main problem here.

The problem here is that, if you prize security, privacy, or decentralization above anything else, you must make trade offs by increasing some friction.

The more centralized information you have, the better your UX can be.
A lot of the problem is often not the band is crowded, but that often one too many send out DeAuth packages. This is fixed in WPA3.
Wrt crypto, this is the LBRY [1] approach I believe, and seems to work quite well.

[1] https://lbry.tv/
Disrupt everything? Software eats the world?
[A study](https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09761) posted 2020-10-19 challenges the claim that phosphine was detected in Venus's atmosphere.

[The original claim](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4), posted 2020-10-14.
That's why I'm curious, it's more of a movement I guess, also there are multiple types license and idk if blacklisting a specific entity is possible or if it has any legal grounds
Sure, but it puts things into perspective. If we assume 1% of c is feasible - it's still a 10 Million year journey to cross 100k light years. That's much better - it gives 1 000 chances in 10 bn years.
Audible return policy is hurting authors and narrators
Since you can't even spell Rotherham, I'll not give much weight to your analysis of the reasons behind the police failure there.
They run supervised (if you exploited a game, can't infect the OS), and they don't quite need the reliability.
> As any physicist knows, an uncontrolled aggregation of fissile stuff can go boom. And this is what in fact happened in Fukushima

No, that wasn't what happened at Fukushima. There was no "boom" from a nuclear chain reaction there.
"...but elephants require in excess of 1.5% of their body-weight in food per day. Estimates for the dietary requirements of the Asian elephant can range from 135 to 300kg per day in a mix of grazing and fodder..."

It should be pounds, not Kg.
"Elephants eat roots, grasses, fruit, and bark, and they eat a lot of these things. An adult elephant can consume up to 300 pounds of food in a single day"

From: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/a/african....
> Plus, YTM lets you do background music or videos, which is not something you could ever really do with GPM.

I'm sorry, what? Are you saying that Google play music would only play music if in the foreground? That's flat out wrong.
I was looking for galaxies, and then I turned on annotations. There's a ton of PGC annoations (galaxy catalogue) and it helps you see many of them; however many of them don't seem to be visible at all in the picture (there's too many of those PGC annotations?)

Either way, very cool, that helps getting the eyes up for the galaxies scattered in the picture.