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in india at least, there are actually more "new" newspapers and magazines that are primarily print coming up. this is interesting because while the world over the opposite is the case.

On observation, it was found out that the government has to take out public notices of tenders and they are mandated to do so by print newspapers in local language and local area. enter small papers who print 10-20 copies, show a 1000, employ a couple of guys and take all the ad revenue. works out nice for them. the bigger ones with bigger readership have pages upon pages of government ads and they churn out employment for people.

its really not about "truth" any more than not offending the reigning government because doing so would cut off their revenue stream so everything works out smoothly
The 2018 worldwide levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for offshore wind was $134/MWh (https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication...).
Which is why nuclear reactors in the west all have safety confinement domes.
This situation has come up before. The answer is that it depends.

Let's say I do a diligence on behalf of PE Firm A (and the deal falls through) and PE Firm B wants to use that diligence because they're looking to buy the company now. Legally/contractually I cannot let that PE Firm B see the diligence report I created, however I have seen situations where PE Firm B would purchase the report from PE Firm A, or the target would purchase it and give it to PE Firm B.
I worked in a Cell Biology lab for my graduate work and we did quite a bit of business with this company. They would send us really cool, informative posters, but these examples are really next level. I would love a large, high quality print of one of these, I’d frame it and put it up in my house.
I had not realised that Rolls Royce the car manufacturer was now owned by BMW and not Rolls Royce
Any technology will have deaths, that's inevitable. Without advocating for one versus the other, we should consider what will be number of deaths/diseases/etc versus costs/climate impact/energy produced over the lifetime of a solution
It's not hard to understand their argument, if you make the attempt.

More CO2 is avoided per unit of currency spent with renewables than with building nuclear plants.
I don't want to use VMs every day, but I often have to for my work. I suspect it's the same for a lot people here.

In several jobs in recent years I've also had to develop on very resource heavy Java applications which absolutely cripple my MacBook Pro 16GB when running a browser with several tabs open, Spotify, an IDE (sometimes two), Teams, Slack, and occasionally a VM for testing.

Granted this isn't a typical workload, but I'm frustrated enough that I have been waiting all year for this new lineup of 13" MacBook Pros (although I was hoping for a 14" model honestly) so I could finally upgrade to 32GBs.

I also assumed that 16GB would have been minimum amount of RAM Apple would ship in a professional laptop released at the end of 2020, yet they seem to believe there are some professional users who can get by with just 8GB just fine which confuses me even more than the 16GB limit.

It's also worth noting that the upgrade to 16GB is $200. That's $200 for 8GB of RAM! I know this isn't out of the ordinary for Apple, but that's just an outrageous price for what should be included in the base model anyway.

So yeah, I'm pretty disappointed. I was almost certain I would be buying a new MacBook Pro yesterday, but as it stands I really have no reason to upgrade from my 2016 model.
> By working from home, people aren't paying for public transport or eating out at restaurants near their places of work, while expensive offices remain virtually empty.

If there's a large-scale shift to working from home, I'd imagine you'd see an eventual rebalancing of cities & suburbans in both directions:

— more cafés and restaurants in suburban commuter towns or residential areas that were previously ghost towns during the day. (Personally, if there were more cafés and restaurants around my home (and we weren't in the middle of a lockdown) I'd be happy to frequent those while WFH to get out of the house & as a change of scene.)

— if offices do end up vacant longer-term, a conversion of some of this 'down town' space to residential.

In the interim, you'd probably want to support people and businesses along the way, but I don't think introducing taxes to chivvy people back to the existing (old?) status quo is the way forward out of all this. This could be an opportunity to make city centres a lot more livable.

On the issue of public transport — at least here in London, the network was struggling for funding even before the pandemic nevermind now. I think it's time to bite the bullet and make public transport free at the point of use — I'd happily pay an extra tax for that and would go some way to reducing day-to-day expenditure of people who depend on it most. Plus (again, when we're back to normal), it may encourage more people to reduce single-passenger car use if they're already paying for the train/bus.
Don't mention nuclear on HN if you value your karma ... but in the UK, at least, civilian and military nuclear have never really been independent.

See, for example, the UK government's otherwise incomprehensible willingness to pay extraordinary sums for new nuclear capacity such as Hinkley C[1]:

"it is difficult fully to comprehend the persistent intensity of official UK attachments to nuclear power, without also considering aims to maintain nuclear submarine capabilities". [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/21/hinkley-point-c...

[2] https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=2016-...
No risk of flamewar, I genuinely want to know your view, not defend ourselves in public. If we messed up, knowing where and how helps not to repeat it.

I agree we could have done that better, however an announcement was made via email and site, taken it reached you via notification address in account.

Nevertheless, my apologies on behalf of our team. We will take your criticism to improve. None of us were born doing this and we are learning as we go.
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Chernobyl won't be habitable in the next 20.000 years. I doubt there's a hydropower disaster comparable to that.
> the Apple events alone can make Apple's market value jump or fall by hundreds of billions

The stock price is down since Monday, so I guess they screwed up?
It's a good thing their Intel machines go all the way to 28 Xeon cores and 1.5TB if RAM then...
There's a reason the anti-nuclear people want to talk about radiation and not mining. In terms of pollution from resource extraction nuclear is inconsequential (relative to our other available energy sources) because it requires an infinitesimal amount of stuff you actually need to pull out of the ground. Oil, coal, minerals for solar panels, minerals for batteries, etc. require orders of magnitude more environmentally impacting activity per output because you need so much more of them for the same capacity.

Disclaimer: Wind might be better than nuclear in terms of mining impact. I don't know enough about the supply chain for those materials to make a good estimate and I haven't read any analysis of it. Hydo is obviously the best in terms of mining but it F's up watersheds and river systems for different reasons so it's kind of hard to make a comparison. Geothermal is good too but we can't all live in Iceland.
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The problem I see with the PlayStation 5 at least is repairs, if the solded SSD kick the bucket you will probably need to: buy a new chip from Sony and resolder the fault one (or even worse, resolder the entire SSD chips because you can't rely in which cell is physically the data and swapping the cell will probably corrupt the entire disk), or buy a new PS5/Motherboard

You can't just swap the hard disk like before, I'm sure this you be a major headache with repairs
The weighting is lower than the model M, and the action is smoother. It is however louder.

I like the Fs a lot more, but I type very lightly. Model M is almost too stiff for my pinkies. I thought about ordering a new model F. The repairability is amazing. The firmware as well.

But then I realized: I don't want a keyboard where I might have to open up and solder something back in. I just want one that works. Currently I rock a silenced MX brown, which I find OK, but the MX switches have lousy tactility. Topre keyboarss, or even a regular rubber dome keyboard, has a lot better tactility and almost no noise.

Had the Matias keyboards not had their quality problems I would definitely have used one of those. They are, IMO, the best modern switches feel-wise.

Other than that: I don't know why there aren't any topre-ish "opto-electric" keyboards out there. You would get the smoothness of opto-electric, the silent tactility of a rubber dome, with key register before bottoming out. MX brown is a lousy tactile switch, but the easily available competition (apart from topre) is even worse.

So: no. Unless you really love your model m and would like it smoother with the caveat that you might have to whip out a soldering iron in a year, I would not buy the new model F. The guy is doing a great job, and QC seems to be a high priority, but they haven't stood the test of time yet.
Not really no. A single person can no longer know, grok even the whole of biology, or even the whole of molecular biology. Just having a detailed understanding of all the proteins on a mitchondion is a tall order.

Yes, you can look it up. But that's not the same as having an intuitive feel for all of science at the deepest level.
My base model macbook pro from 2014 had 8GB of RAM. So, yeah, they've been selling laptops with the same base amount of RAM for at least 6 or 7 years.
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Lock free means that at least one thread is guaranteed to make progress. You might be confusing this with atomics, which could still be used in a spinlock and would then not be lock free.
It wasn't designed by humans, which means it's alien, in a sense. IMO "alien technology reverse engineering" would sound much more badass than "biological research".
32gb l4 cache + however much normal ram?
Note that the problem was that there are legal limits on how much a nuclear plant can warm up the river.

The nuclear plants themselves had no issue and could have continued to operate.
Interesting.

For comparison, I have exactly the same MBP mid 2014 15" with 16GB.

As I type I have Slack, IntelliJ (with large Scala project), VSCode, Spotify and Chrome with plenty tabs open, and sitting comfortably at ~7 GB.
I'm wondering if a DisplayLink docking station like the Dell D6000 would support more, if they manage to get the drivers working for it (or if Apple integrates DisplayLink support natively, which I doubt will happen).
And there are calipers on it on the scale of what you would use for woodworking. I can't fathom how you would use those in that lab but they look "sciency"
Like MELF diodes. But they are supposed to.
That was an initial thought of mine about a decade ago. The energy densities don't work out.

At present rates of per-capita energy consumption, population, and rates of plant growth, there is either not enough primary productivity, or too large an environmental impact. Humans simply use immense amounts of energy.

Other sources, lower per-capita usage, and/or fewer people, are the options.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/tag/biofuels/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A102639131768...

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2cvap7/the_int...

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1wo2hl/boeings...
It's plenty professional, just not portable. The problem is that just like with the iPhone, the pro line has just become the high class line so people buy it for the bling factor. They need to make a dev or nerd line or whatever marketing decides to call it. This would be more configurable and not thin and light just for the sake of being thinner and light that last year's model.
Most food comes from only 15 crops. That's a problem
16GB memory is completely fine for me. I have had it the last 5 years and never had even close to saturation. But I do use two screens every day.
Unless it’s HTTPS-only, which is most sites these days....

(I’m definitely not arguing that that’s a bad thing; it just makes Telnet more annoying)
We can build hydrogen turbines and storage caverns (and renewables to make the hydrogen) much faster than we can make nuclear power plants. Electrolysers are being built at gigawatts/year rates now, and factories can be scaled up rapidly.

The speed argument comes down strongly against new nuclear power plants.
>What's with stoicism being super popular on reddit and here lately?

The question comes from 'What Does Religion provide that gives it so much power?'

If religion was just stupid songs and prayers. It's content would not let it stand to survive mostly unchanged for thousands of years. There is fundamental non-religious tenants that give it value. Community, mental health from religious leaders, moral guidance for those who need it, etc. These are all things that have nothing to do with religion but because Religion offers these things that's what gives them power.

Reddit for example, which is anti-theist, has lost its access to what religion provides. They have lost their community, mental health benefits and moral guidance. Ironic because reddit could have been exactly that void. In fact I suspect many people flock to reddit looking for community and discover the exact opposite. Likely getting trapped in the echo chambers.

Now apply that same logic as to why stoicism is becoming popular.
Sure, but even if those ideal conditions only existed in a few cubic KM of ocean for a few million years, and life occurred there once, were never going to replicate that.

If it really was likely to happen in a few litres of chemicals over a few years, once those conditions arose in the early oceans we'd expect it to have happened trillions of trillions of times, not just once or a few times.

On the other hand if the conditions were so rare that they only occurred once in a few litres of ocean for a few days, those conditions must be so specific and unusual that we might never figure out how to create them.
Although the majority of people consider evolution to be a fact, Darwin himself labeled it a "Theory" of Evolution, not empirical.
At work (consulting/development shop), we went far down this path a few years ago. Conclusions:

1. CQRS+ES works great, if you implement it carefully, which requires discipline. We ended up creating our own framework (ugh) to make it easy to go down the right path.

2. There are trade-offs, of course.

3. 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.

4. There is very little market demand for this approach among the typical enterprise business solutions we work on; though as I understand there are some sharp peaks in certain areas of financial services.

(The odd thing is... we have financial service customers, just not in the particular domains where there is demand for CQRS.)
It's almost as if someone anticipated this phenomenon and created a section in the guidelines to further clarify and provide examples of disallowed behavior...
I’m sure you’re aware that astronomers use instruments other than terrestrial optical telescopes, many of which you cannot rent any equivalent of. My point was that you first dismissed needing to get a PhD to do research out of hand, and then refined your dismissal to astronomy and cryptography. Whichever scope you choose, there’s a wide body of research you can’t do without either institutional connections or a very large trust fund, no matter how much of an autodidact you are.
If you compile a NIF you probably will not go out of your way to write "panic = abort" in your project. Unwinding is the default behavior.
"One of the best" assumes that nuclear power generators are competently run and fuel competently disposed of. Which organisations do you trust more to be more competent than the Japanese (Fukushima) and Germans (who ditched unknown, unrecorded, probably large quantities of nuclear waste in an incompletely built facility)?

We have better, anyway. The combination of wind, power, burning things that have grown in our lifetime and time-shifting power usage seems to be good enough AFAICT.

By the latter I mean that a lot of big power users don't really need to run all the time. A company like BMW needs a lot of electricity to produce a car, but the factories are built with capacity to spare (building extra capacity while building is cheaper than adding if a car sells well) and most the power-hungry bits can be shut down for a while if the power grid really needs it. Unless a car model is really, really popular and the factory runs at full capacity, but in the case competing factories don't.
All the issues of big nuclear but none of the economies of scale.
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Also ensuring the legitimacy of the random process (which is not really about technical features, but about social consensus): just how much easier is to claim a PRNG (or a rabbit that chooses a box, or paper slips inside cookies) is rigged.
Intel Tiger Lake machines are already being sold. XPS 13 9310, for example.
> I also await their on dGPU solution.

Genuine question from someone who doesn't know hardware architecture that well:

It seems clear that we'll see non-PoP variants of their SoC's, for instance to support multiple RAM configurations in the high-end models.

However, at this point, if Apple's own GPU scales well, should we except 3rd party dGPU at all? Can't Apple ship SoCs with multiple times the M1 core count and graphics units, package 8 or 16GB of fast memory (GDDR or HBM), and call it a day? They're going to push their own software stack anyway, why bother with AMD GPUs fabbed on a previous generation TSMC process.
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Agreed, but I wish I knew the numbers behind those statements.
There is no correlation between lines of code and performance. Longer code is often faster, while short, succinct code is often slower.
Funny, I bet the T3 and the T5 bits are trashed.
Hi, you can use hnrss[0] for this. It's easy to add that feed to your mail client, Thunderbird for example, and receive it as new content particular to that user gets created.

- [0]: https://hnrss.github.io/#user-feeds
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That's also why they updated their large sales volume, entry level to average hardware.

That will give them loads of data to smooth out the kinks out of Rosetta and the rest of software chain while having enough time to work on the M2.

I expect the first "real" Apple silicon hardware will be in November 2021 staring iMac and MBP 16.

Then 2022/2023 for the MacPro where Apple really goes all out, deprecate the last of their x86 line up but at this stage we are at the M4 and nobody cares anymore.
A group I worked with used to get a lot of work in the fossil fuel industry. We mainly worked on safety training applications for workers in industry so it didn't bother me.

What I can say is that there was an unspoken pressure to avoid lines of research we suspected may result in outcomes the industry sponsoring us may not be too happy about. So ultimately, outside of some safety applications, we had a huge selection bias in research we would accept so as not to upset the gravy train of funding that kept pouring in.
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I'm still on X because Mumble's push-to-talk doesn't work on Wayland (¿yet?).
That omits what I consider to be a key part of the insight: that the conditions might no longer be able to give rise to new life because today existing organisms would exploit the rich molecules before they had an opportunity to produce proto-living things.
> If there is no sun (or wind), you get no power.

No wind or sun? What are we talking about here, an apocalypse? I know you're exagerating, but sun AND wind tend to balance each other out. If there's a freak occurence where there's "none" of either for several days.. well running some gas power plants once in a while is a drop in the bucket when it comes to CO2, and at such a small scale you could probably create the fuel renewably (biogas or synthetic gas from electricity+H2+CO2). I think finding a way to reuse the gas power plants we have already built in a CO2-neutral way will be a big key to solving the climate crisis quickly enough.

> You either need to specify an an energy storage solution on a scale large enough to handle when there is no sun,

And/or just integrate the continent with more HVDC lines. Germanys main problem now is getting power from the windy north to the industrial south. But if they manage to construct some HVDC lines they should be able to get pretty close to 100% renewable. They could restart the nuclear industry too, but I don't see how that's an easier problem than building HVDC lines.

Getting more off-shore wind should also help, since the wind is more stable there.

And why just "AN" energy storage solutions? There are dozens of different ones being constructed commercially right now, and they each have their strong sides. Li-ion is better for fast frequency regulation, flow batteries for medium term storage, and pumped hydro, and possibly compressed or liquified air for long term.

> or expect us poor folks in the Nordics (for instance) to just migrate to the south. :)

If you mean the Scandinavian region, there's already two solutions that are working great: exchanging power with Norway (where you got tons of hydropower to smooth out long term energy fluctuations) and trash burning power plants (which also supplies heat to nearby homes and businesses). We don't need to move south, we just need everyone in the south to send us all their trash for us to burn during the winter ;) If we can move more plastics over to bioplastics, then it could even end up being renewable. Yeah, we should recycle/reuse as much as possible, but there will always be a huge stream of material that's just too mixed up or recycled too many times.

And finally there's deep hydrothermal. It has most of the benefits of nuclear, at possibly a similar cost if we scale it up. The great thing is we can re-use a LOT of expertise from the oil and gas sector, which I think will be important for scaling it up quick and to gain political support from worker in that field.

I'm not against nuclear, we should definitely use the expertise we already have to keep developing and building reactors. But I'm not convinced about a large scale global bet on it, and I don't think it's as essential to solving the climate crisis as some would have us believe.
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It works whenever it's configured to unwind, which is the default. Apparently one can force this by adding a few lines in the rustler Cargo.toml (https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2018/error-hand...), I'll create a PR.
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I don't know what makes you think Elon Musk was ever at the mercy of small-business incentive policy.

His first exit was funded by friends and family (allegedly including his dad), raised money from investors, and then caught the lucky wave of hysteria in the Dotcom Bubble.

After that, he didn't really need dribs and drabs of govt incentives.

The main reasons startups are so prevalent in the US is that capital and customers are here.