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I don't think the military angle plays a big role in the British case. Hinkley C uses mostly foreign technologies and expertise, not domestic one. There were even talks about building a plant using Chinese technologies! Also submarine and power plant reactors are two very different beasts, so building the latter does not help much with maintaining expertise for the former. Plus Britain is quite dependent on the US help to maintain its nuclear capabilities.

But I think it's true for Russia, maintaining full nuclear cycle does help with supporting its military nuclear capabilities. Thus the substantial political support which the industry gets there. For example the floating plant [0] is based on reactors used in icebreakers, which in turn have roots in submarine reactors.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_power...
Music is not a theory although there is a theory of music, but not a very good one.
Oh god I wish. I cant even afford the equipment for many non-research projects, assuming they would sell it to me in the first place.
Thanks to long-standing agreements with the US, British submarine reactors are largely copycats of the American ones. And everything about them is super-classified, hard to see how they could use any of that knowledge for civilian reactors.

At most one could argue that if this civilian reactor project succeeds beyond the wildest dreams, they could use that knowledge to design indigenous submarine reactors rather than relying on the Americans. If so, one hopes they could, as the French have already done, switch to low enriched fuel and reduce proliferation risk.
This was my immediate reaction too. Seeing those chairs, I chuckled immediately. It's basically Apple marketing's idea of a HW lab. :) Just like computer hacking, Hollywood style.

At least I hope so.
> Apple has a small piece of the smartphone pie.

An iPhone is the single best-selling phone on pretty much any given year.

iOS is also 50/50(or more) with Android in a number of countries.
You may not need Redis with Elixir
It could be done but companies rather want you to buy a complete computer again and again. Same with cars. That way they sell more stuff and earn more. With proper environmental marketing tricks like the recent one with chargers and recycling robot lies, environmental impact is hidden.
Apple Takes Chipset Matters into Its Own Hands
I'm of the same notion, just because the basic combinatorics of various features of even the simplest self-replicating life forms are so exceedingly unlikely that to me the idea that they were developed stochastically in relatively rapid succession in the first billion years on earth just doesn't add up.

It will become clear that I'm no expert, but this has fascinated me a bit and I've seen a few articles about simplest self-replicators. In a lab they've constructed enzymes [1] that are able to do some replication with as few as 160-190 bases of RNA, but they aren't self-replicating, they spew out some subset of themselves.

RNA is just half of DNA with each base in a particular sequence being one of four possible nucleotides (A, C, G and U). In the smallest case above, you have 160 nucleotides giving the entire string of RNA a molar mass of ~ ~50kDa [2] (approximately 50kg per mole of that RNA string). There are ~4^160 combinations of just this extremely short and as far as we know insufficient string of RNA to build even the simplest self-replicator. 4^160 is approximately 2e96 combinations. If you wanted to try every one of those combinations, you would be assembling (2e96 / 6e23) approximately 3e72 moles of RNA. To do it in one shot you would need more mass than in the observable universe (closer to a billion universes). To do it with just the mass of the earth (forget surface/hydrocarbons/biomass) in four billion years you'd have to recycle at relativistic speeds.

Obviously it happened, and the above 'needle in a haystack' assessment has many problems as well. But the numbers are so big that no matter how you slice it I can see a scenario where it plausibly only happened once in the history of the universe. Either that or the stochastic parts of the explanation of abiogenesis are incomplete.

1 - https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1200752

2 - https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/files/Nucleic%20Acids_Siz...
I found pycharms "find usages" to be extremely useful. Im assuming the jetbrains ruby version would have something very equivalent.
Me.

Granted, it was a quarter century ago. And while I think it was rewarding, I'd never say that it's without risk, or that doctoral education isn't in need of substantial reform.
The article is a little thin on breaking news. I think that Zuboff’s book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power is the definitive and scholarly material on AI and data driving people’s actions. Control of behavior at scale. Neoliberalism. All the right topics for understanding where we are headed.
How much would it cost for wind capacity plus enough battery storage capacity to make the whole setup functionally equivalent to a 440MW nuclear plant?
I also think 16GB is a perfectly reasonable amount of memory (and even 8GB is fine on a low-end machine), but the fact that it's the limit is... troubling. I assume it'll be fixed in time, but, still.
Isn't that also because you have a really expensive bike? (just making a guess here)
Videos for this course?
Python Packages – with their popularity and how they're commonly used together
> practically ensures that third party software will either not exist or be shit as well

I don’t see this at all. The Mac has long had a culture of extremely dedicated developers who have fully acculturated themselves into a design-oriented, performance focused culture that presents a stark contrast to the cultures of Windows or Web development. Third party software in the Mac has generally been extremely thoughtful and well designed.

There is plenty of shitty software on iOS, but that has a lot more to do with the amount of shovelware thrown into the store than anything inherent to Objective C.
This is pretty good, 10 sales!

What are their overhead costs on the hardware unit?
> Doesn't Debian sometimes go so far as to split software apart into multiple packages?

IMHO, this is the correct thing to do.

I've spent a considerable amount of time as both developer and systems adminstrator. Not quite DevOps, but I've been doing both since before that was a term.

Programmers don't often have that systems level view that is necessary for systems administration. It leads to myopia like this Ubuntu patch, and packaging is usually an afterthought to many programmers. It's that difference between a "project" and a "product."

So honestly, complaining that Debian splits things would be like complaining they don't deliver tarballs, because back before GitHub, that was how upstream "delivered" "packages" (how many people remember "tar -xzf package.tar.gz && cd package && ./configure && make"?). And before you bring up "missing files", you can do an "apt-file" to search for things and then install the associated package, assuming that it wasn't installed already as a Recommended package or in many, many cases, you are using a metapackage which contains the "full" package anyway.
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I did say "relatively good" :)

I would agree that collaboration is a little smoother in G Suite, however in my experience this is mostly about ease of sharing. Once you've gotten another Apple user to understand that they can "receive a shared document from you" and work on it, then usually collaboration itself is smooth.
Edit: 'Professional Scientist' as we understand it is a little bit of a modern concept. Historically it was an interest, not necessarily always profession per sey although I guess by the time of Darwin it was more or less starting to be that [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society
Case in point, try looking up Linus Torvalds' workspace video on youtube. :) There's quite a bunch of stuff in there, incl. home owner's association paperwork, addresses, etc.
> You are only one smart agile thinker-in-a-pinch away from stepping away from the discipline and creating really tricky complexity and far more negative trade-offs.

I love this sentence. That seems to be a common pitfall, regardless of framework or pattern, which ironically puts a hero aura around the person who did it.
> Let's write unit tests for unit tests!

Tests for tests exist. One such technique is called "mutation testing" [1].

I don't know of any job that actually uses them, but they make sense to me: the tests need checks too, otherwise how do you know they are adding value? It's too easy to write worthless tests, see them pass, and get a false sense of security. Techniques such as mutation testing check how sensitive your tests are to actual bugs (or program changes): do they detect them? If not, they aren't useful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing
Or it requires going to the library (in both cases). There are reasonable arguments about what level of friction is acceptable. Certainly no one's buying a newspaper to read public notices. The only thing that probably comes close to universal notification is postal mail to individual households.
>> These lec­ture notes — in­clud­ing fig­ures — are made while at­tend­ing the lec­ture and have not been edit­ed af­ter­wards.

This is truly incredible to me.
How is this going to work with games and GPUs?
I would have wished that Apple had been the ones acquiring Realm. They really had the best API for building apps with live collaboration I have ever experienced. Instead they went to MongoDB, so who knows how that will end?
That is not the best choice of example, since “Hey Siri, navigate to City Hall using Google Maps” LITERALLY WORKS ON iOS [1].

[1]: https://9to5mac.com/2019/09/19/google-maps-waze-siri/
While I agree that hyper-local news is absolutely vital to discovering and highlighting corruption and ineffectiveness (my local city board screwed up on a grant for transportation, because one of our elected officials is incompetent and lazy. A complete lack of local news ensured he could sweep it under the rug, to the detriment of the elderly and rural poor around me), I don't understand your last paragraph.

How is being for profit inherently against being fair and honest? If they are up-front with their funding sources (like how NPR makes clear whether they have donors who are involved in any story they report at the start of the story), then what is the harm? Bias would be clear, at that point.
We'll see third party benchmarks in less than a week and then this discussion is moot.
Pope Francis urges followers to pray that AI and robots ‘always serve mankind’
No, they're not. They're resources operated by a private company. They're not public property, nor are they regulated as a utility.

Wishing it were true doesn't make it that way.
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But I want their integrated ecosystem much more than I want to "own my hardware". If you take that away, I lose instead of gain.
We have a military service (because defense is crucial to our nation's wellbeing), a postal service (because verified communication is crucial to our nation's wellbeing), and so on. I don't understand the resistance to things like a healthcare service or a local news service. Those things are necessary to the stability of our society, loss or profit be damned.
For me not.

I like the randomness of things I get to see and do not want to make another bubble for myself.
No, REST puts the Resource at the forefront, and normally you use different verbs on the same resource: you PUT/POST to create a new resource, you can then GET that resource to read it, you PUT/PATCH to modify it, you DELETE a resource to delete it.

CQRS usually means that Commands (modifying the system) are handled differently than Queries (checking the current state of the system).

Of course, you can absolutely create a REST API where there is one set of resources that you can modify but not read (Command resources), and one set of resources you can read but not modify (Query resources). But that would definitely not fit the general idea of what people expect from a REST API.

Also, such an API would be relatively hard to make HATEOAS-compliant, for those that care about "ultimate"/"true" REST.
Tests that test nothing useful are surprisingly easy to write, and lead to a similar result -- even in cases where you do run them! That's why it makes some sense to test the tests (or at least, check their bug-detecting quality).
Also this post on the campaign may also attract investors.

I just booked a call.
OP here. Thanks for the questions! We are a licensed ISP so we've got the regulatory aspect covered pretty well. The best part of our laser system is that it uses so called 'free space' which doesn't require government approval. We're confident in our superior technology and lower costs when competing with telcos and ISPs.
Would you still continue to go to the office then, just working on a different team/project?

Seems like a really great idea, but I completely agree, five years seems like an eternity at a tech company.
It’s not without some overhead though, so there will be performance issues.

Fortunately those performance issues will probably only affect games released in a fairly narrow band of time, new enough that they’re still resource intensive but predating the transition. It would maybe be a 5 or 6 year span I guess depending on how performant the ARM system in question is?
I've seen replaying events as patterns on how to handle this case.
But in a monothlic architecture, there's no concept as "replaying", isnt' it ?
I'd love to see similar handler in a distributed environment.
Are we supposed to be surprised by this? That's like saying sex is at the front and center of virginity loss.
How about LIGO? Are there some 4km interferometers I can rent for a few years of gravitational wave observations I want to do? Has Elon Musk launched an orbital X-Ray telescope like Chandra I can get some time on without breaking the bank? If I want to do some bleeding edge radio work, where do I sign up to decide where the next Arecibo is pointed?

I’m taking you at your word that you have experience with astronomy research. But that makes it impossible to take you at your word when you appear to lack the imagination to come up with observational astronomy you can’t do without institutional support.
The point is more that before computers, you could at least make a somewhat reasonable claim that it's useful to know the formula in case you need to solve a quadratic - even if you don't understand the formula.

But nowadays, you can just feed the equation to Wolfram|Alpha (or Sage, or Mathematica, ...), so there is no point in blindly memorising formulas.

And I don't think I've ever had a formula sheet in one of my maths exams in school...
Nice.

I have few technical questions if you do not mind:

How strong are those lasers how many watts?

What is wave length and what is optical spread over distance?

Lastly, how does system handle flock of birds or any other optical barrier?
Well they couldn't have this because of the human malware that is going around.
I guess they could have a big facetime call and answer questions or something?
About the average or random parent, no. Mine? Yes, 100% sure. My parents aren't native English speakers though. Plus, they never experimented much with that type of drugs (it was tobacco, alcohol, and a few joints during teenage years). I've been a tad more naughty, and that was a period in my life. It was after that period that I brought it up to my parents.

Found yet another reference (also brought up in the PDF), in Brave New World:

"Huxley took the name for the drug used by the state to control the population after the Vedic ritual drink Soma, inspired by his interest in Indian mysticism." [1]

Folklore has an abundance of drug references.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(drink)
I always liked Realm but have not heard anything about them lately. Where did they go, and is the current work as powerful as the early stuff?
I've always thought of HN as a minimalistic, completely open platform that you can and should customize as you see fit.
Also good luck recovering data from a watter-damaged laptop. I have also seen some macbooks with broken SSD on eBay, sold for cheap. Soldered SSD is a ticking timebomb for your data.
Is it really $200k in sales if the people that are buying are guaranteed a rate of return? When I looked at the site a month ago it looked like these PoPs were being marketed as an investment. Given the capped upside, it looked as if the buyers were not buying equity, instead providing more of a loan with an expectation of getting their money back and more.

Don't get me wrong, I think this is a very cool project. I just find the marketing confusing.
The beauty of EVs is you don't need guaranteed supply. If you only have power half the day you can charge during that half the day. Most EVs already support time mode charging and price based charging exists in a few.

For always needed power we can just over provision and for variable power we can just turn it off if it's a particularly calm night. A surprisingly large amount of electricity use can be adjusted by a few hours. For example see how car charging locations are now adding batteries to allow them to avoid high demand charges by time shifting loads.
"Chips not available from Mouser can be purchased from a variety of sources in China"

Good luck figuring out why your code doesn't work on your "genuine" 8051.

From my experience, as soon as there is some demand (this has hit HN after all) the resellers start selling fake or inferior chips. Doesn't really matter how common or cheap they are, its just hope things work now.

Edit: when we really have to buy from China, I always create a test rig to verify component characteristics. Easy for transistors and opamps, not so easy for CPUs.
Nobody broadcasts PAL or NTSC anymore.
Lecture 7 seems to have gone missing. Lecture 13 is blank. Actually, I think lecture 14 is actually lecture 13 and so 14 has gone missing.
Most of them are tier 1 countries.
"The parts falling out of this pressure vessel are of the finest British manufacture."
Not without exploding with contact with the non-antimatter.
I think this requires both a desktop environment to be installed, and local access to the server to be exploited (in most cases: X server is configured not to allow remote access by default in Ubuntu afaik).

The core vulnerability is in gdm which means that you have to have that running as a system service.

Though on second thought, if one can easily set up X forwarding as an unprivileged user, it might still be trivially exploitable.

Anyway, the announcement means that Ubuntu has fixes in affected (desktop) packages. If they are installed on a server, they'd be fixed with next apt update/upgrade too: they use the same package repositories.
What laptop manufacturers sell $1200 laptops that don't come with a base 8GB RAM option? I don't know any. Not Dell, or HP, or Lenovo.

Apple still sells 13" Macbook Pros that go up to 32GB RAM, they're just Intel ones. If you need more than 16 GB in a Pro Mac, or a Mini you can still get it. So these options have not been taken off the table. The M1 machines simply offer a new tradeoff of smaller but faster memory if that works for you. Not every machine needs to offer every possible configuration.
I see no point to this when there’s a whole thriving ecosystem already available to those who want that.
"Who make up those networks if not people?"

??? Nobody in the Middle East is going to get to 'form' or 'control' their own Military Industrial Complex.

They may be able to 'assemble a crude drone' but they are not going to be 'creating their own GPS system' and 'air force' with 'global drones' and 'hyper guided weapons'.

"How secret can you keep an aircraft once it gets shot down?"

You can't but what's your point?

How many F22's shot down? F35s? Heck F18s?

If the Russians captured an intact F22 it would take them 15 years to copy it. There's an incredible about of know-how and knowledge in those sytstems.

And what are 'People on the Arab Street' going to do with an F22? Absolutely nothing.

And yes, the Chinese are 'very aggressively' pursuing their own Engine technology, they have been for 20 years.

There are literally only like 4 countries in the world that con produce modern, 5th Gen fighter engines - let alone the 'rest of the jet' which gives you an idea of how far away the 'Arab Street' is to doing anything with tech.

They are fighting with sticks and stones. If there are a million bodies there, they can have power, but aside from that, the only hope is political terror within their own borders against dysfunctional regimes.
Counterpoint: Try to run PPC software on a current mac.

“Keeps working regardless” is a great promise Apple has continued to make, but they only hold that up as long as it takes you to get the latest thing.
Unit tests are fine for testing side effects if you've written the code properly with proper interfaces, etc.

You need to test that you're using the contracts you've made, and integration tests verify that everything works as expected when both sides are complying with the contract.

I'm saying that if I've abstracted out the filesystem into an interface the distinction of asserting against whether a method was called on that interface and asserting a side-effect is somewhat trivial. I've made it so that side-effects must be handled in integration tests.
Testing Machine Learning Models
I know you're proving something here, but I'm not sure what. The first example they cite is a man who was convicted for multiple robberies (robbery is a violent crime, by the way), and even after a string of prison stints, he goes and shoplifts. What is he thinking? What in the world is he doing to his life!?!?!? As is typical of this kind of slant, all agency is removed from him. He is not responsible for going to prison, society is.

I understand what the arguments are, and I agree with the length of sentences ... to a point, but I'm always frustrated that victims are ignored in these arguments and the focus is always on the rights of the abuser. The context for 'three-strike' type of policy is the high level of crime in America and an attempt to protect and provide justice to law-abiding citizens who are victimized by these individuals.
Interesting product. Since this is kind of related what avenues do you guys (HNers doing SaaS) use for SaaS advertising nowadays?

I used to get good results from FB ads (AdWords never worked for me after 2012) but now FB ads are also a loss.

So wondering what other people are using for advertising?
> Arch requires more time to maintain, and more manual maintenance. So in order to justify that extra spent time a lot of times they will bring up minor stuff that happens in Debian/Ubuntu, like this bug from 12 years ago, in order to justify running Arch, which is more of a "learn Linux" hobby.

This is the feeling I get, and it's why I never bothered with Arch, or Gentoo before that. I started on Slackware, and while it was a great learning experience, I feel that's not a lesson I need to repeat.

Same reason for my move from RedHat (after an RPM dependency breakage) to Debian: Debian just works. It GTFO of my way and let's me focus on my code and my projects. Yes, there have been issues, no, Debian isn't "perfect", but like my preferred MUA "it sucks less than all the alternatives."
Well, the AWS tech is good news, the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel! Good luck with switching mental gears to the new stack!
Yeah my parents tried to kill me when I was 12. Why would I be happy for anyone? Why would I be happy for people I grew up with that failed upwards?
The Visual Studio Code team tweeted that they are targeting a release for the Insiders channel by the end of November.

https://twitter.com/code/status/1326237772860981249?ref_src=...