skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been involved with large scale nuclear construction projects of different designs in multiple different countries and different regulatory schemes. I have a hard time squaring what I’ve seen on the ground with the summary of this study.

To respond to your exact point, big parts of the nuclear-qualified workforce in most places really do move from large job to large job (assuming relatively static demand), so you do get that transfer of knowledge on sequential jobs.

Also, don’t forget the design and manufacturing that happens off-site, which can be significant and often is a huge driver of risk and cost. (10 MW vertical motors! Big safety-related pumps! Mega-sized forged components! Specialized custom fabrications!) The back office engineers and subcontractors and factory floor people who make them remain pretty static as long as there is work to be done. By the Nth unit, there is know-how and known problems are worked out; some of this is translatable into drawing updates and schedule resequencing but really a lot of it is expertise that stays in peoples’ heads. Once everybody is demobed and scatters, that is all lost.
Sure there are reasons this is a bad idea, but there are certainly reasons it's a good one. It seems like building large plants the way we typically do backloads tons of risk. And it's not really working.

How does the risk of nuclear meltdown scale down with size? Both in terms of likelihood and how catastrophic?
Sadly, the facts don't seem to have changed that much.
> Can you tell all the companies to stop obsessing about TypeScript and to allow developers to use JavaScript too?

I don't have that much influence. Most of those companies have come to their own conclusions.

At my company, the reason we wouldn't allow that is that it makes the codebase more difficult to approach for a new developer. Knowing the types accepted and returned is helpful for reading unfamiliar code.
Attempting to redefine "religion" to include "all the values people have" is a poor trick in distraction. Exactly in the Western world "religion" really means the belief in a number of supernatural deities, at least one much more powerful than the others, and/or in some form of life after death and supernatural punishment, and the institutions and organizations supporting such beliefs, dependent on their active believers.

Everything else is simply not "a religion." And I also have a whole book to cite:

https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Versus-Fact-Religion-Incompatib...

"Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible" by Jerry A. Coyne

"Evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion—including faith, dogma, and revelation—leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions."

Also, Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/religion

"Definition of religion

1a : the state of a religious (e.g. "a nun in her 20th year of religion")

1b(1) : the service and worship of God or the supernatural

1b(2) : commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance

2 : a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices

3 archaic : scrupulous conformity : conscientiousness

4 : a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith"

If you think "4" fits with the bad attempt to redefine the real meaning, it in to explain the use in the sentence like "rock'n'roll is his religion."
USB3 to M.2 adapter?
An upcoming image format war?
Many years ago it was possible, not recently. UPU rates used to be lower before 2015 or so.

Also, for small, light products, it's absolutely possible to ship below $1. Full 5-digit pre-sorting and injection for a 1 oz flat costs 43 cents to deliver currently. Presorting but with no injection costs 81 cents.
I used to order shit from China for like $0.65 with free shipping back around 2008-2010, which I definitely couldn't do from vendors in the US.
That's based on PR statements alone. Unless I missed it, they still haven't released any data.
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The Business Source License does that. I'm not able to find a site for the project but Sentry's got a blog post about it: https://blog.sentry.io/2019/11/06/relicensing-sentry
> I would never attempt to implement something like this in Qt or GTK

In fact, you can write GTK apps in JS. A year or two before Electron came along, the Gnome folks had the foresight to declare that JS would be the language of choice for promoting GTK and Gnome app development, with the option to drop back to C otherwise. This caused a minor controversy, where the community decided to rage against this effort and essentially rejected it. Here we are then, instead.

Rather than the "default" toolkit of choice in 2020 being GTK, which is cross-platform, provides an opportunity to get closer to "native", and has the roots and traditions of pre-GitHub FOSS, an vacuum was left wide open—unfilled due to the internal revolt/denial of the Linux desktop crowd. So the NodeJS and web developer community swooped in and filled it, with their dubious sui generis practices pushed to the forefront instead, and the world is shipping apps in browser runtime containers.
Do you have the homepod code or are you just going by what a trillion dollar company that does plenty of shady things advertises to you?
Can I get a link to the Medarxiv paper? Would be an interesting read.
With the growth expectations that come with the funding amount they just collected, I'd count on it. There is just so much more demand for data visualization and notebook-style projects in the Python community compared to the JS community.
Not sure why you’re downvoted. The Pi boards are terrible and the majority of the market objective appears to be trying to undercut them.

Commercial embedded stuff is better but not without warts. A former colleague of mine sent me a rant a couple of weeks about one which I won’t name, but the board vendor couldn’t even get a Linux kernel to boot reliably on it when it was shipping to customers.
If it’s patented the sequence would need to be public.
Not sure how that might work. I'm unaware of any foreign companies hiring in India directly. Or did you mean something different?
I believe you can also filter by semantics as well.
In my experience, people who threaten to get the police involved usually won't. It's usually a threat to cause the exact type of response you are considering - just giving in. The only situation I can think of where they might have a chance is if the customer never used your software after purchasing it. If you have usage data that shows the customer continued using it after purchase, and a communication history that shows no refund was ever asked for, you will likely be okay even if they somehow get this to court. Please note: I am not a lawyer and I am US-based, so this advice may not be useful depending on your location and the legal rules in your country.
That timeline makes sense. Ten years ago the UPU rates were lower than in recent years.
> the financial necessity of aging out existing plants and the time it takes to shift from one dominant source of power generation to another.

Yes... but we just undertook the capex to do this with coal -> natgas in the last decade or so. So the barrier is not just the financial cost of overhauling.
[Disclosure: I used to work as a customer services rep for a global oil & petroleum org as a 'Shit got escalated to Third line level' of stinks].

Short answer opinion is - Just refund him the money and be done with it, your life will be easier. Not saying that the customer is right (they certainly aren't imo) but for 200 bucks to have that a-hole out of your life? A bargain compared to the stress and hassle it has already caused you.

Some people have nothing going on in their lives (or live in the alternate world of keyboard warriors) and will just keep on and on since it gives them a target to take their misdirected rage and frustration out on.

TLDR; Refund the A-Hole and be done with him.

Sure, it is not right that they are doing this (and 200 bucks is a lot) and also bullies and idiots need to be stood up to but on the other hand think of what it has cost you so far in terms of stress, PayPal disputes etc.
Falcon 9 had been an amazing success, which kind of defeats your point. Of course you need to perfect the technology (or close to it) before you deploy it. People are easily defeated by repetition. To paraphrase, if you have one reactor and it fails, it's a news story. If you have one million reactors and one fails, it's a statistic.
Your charity is fascinating and admirable.

It's also funny to me because elsewhere in the comments people are arguing what the nature of religion is, and here you are tithing.
For me the goal is 'how do we produce open source software and compensate the creators'. It's certainly worth casting a wider net than just "businesses", but there isn't a lot of funding otherwise, besides universities, and those aren't oriented towards providing and maintaining end-user friendly systems.
The MacBook Air is again the benchmark by which other laptops will be measured
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I'm not sure this article refutes those people? Every time I've heard someone say "Intel uses RISC internally", what they mean is that the decoding logic used to turn x86 instructions into uops (and thus get the benefits of RISC) takes up a fixed amount of transistors on the board that RISC doesn't need, and this penalty becomes proportionally larger at lower power levels, hence why x86 is still a good performer on servers/HEDTs but got crushed in mobile. Which is pretty much what this article says as well.
That’s fine, as long as you don’t expect other people to limit their lives in lockdowns because of your choices.
> non-proliferation concerns

We're already entering into runaway proliferation.

Pakistan and India are our allies, but I don't see them keeping a stranglehold on the tech. Iran will have them. The Saudis will probably have them soon.

If a dysfunctional nation like North Korea can have nukes, what's stopping the rest of the world?

We're not even preventing ICBM capability from spreading!

What gives? This is way more of a nightmare scenario than climate change and nobody is batting an eye.
If you're working on code for most of the day, you will absolutely be making decisions that enhance your experience.

Could be an editor, monitor, chair, etc. It might not seem like some of those little things matter -- if I can sit in the chair, it works for me! -- but they do to some and typography is one of those things.

I don't understand folks who don't understand this. I get it if you don't personally care about typography but every developer is making QOL decisions.
I'm less concerned about Pfizer mishandling it than medical facilities and doctor's offices which may not be used to dealing with doses that are temperature sensitive to such an extreme.

You know, the nurse who queues up a few doses at a time and then gets delayed in actually administering them.
> The term arose because a brick cannot be transformed into functioning electronic equipment.

I've got a dictionary full of terms for you that arose from one concept to mean something else. Literally. Also figuratively.
I would argue that a volume manager is just one of many parts of a good file system. Managing physical devices at the file system level has advantages: the file system can balance its data automatically in the background. Linux LVM can't do that.
Yeah what if it were similar to patents, they have a standard shelf-life of protection.

With software I feel like a much shorter timespan would be better as systems become obsolete much faster.
"Continental philosophy" isn't useless, either, except by the definitions of those who made up the term "continental philosophy". They have a very limited notion of what "utility" is.

The things targeted as "continental philosophy" are mostly meaning-of-life questions. Those aren't "useful", but they're important to people. It's no more useless than literature or video games or skiing, which you don't need but are exactly what people do when they're not doing things that they are required to do.

Not all "continental philosophy" is done well, and the vagueness of the question means that it's hard to distinguish rigorously between "well done" and "not well done". But that doesn't diminish meaning, or value, that people find in it.
I played Catacombs way more than Wolf 3D when I was a kid for these very reasons.
The dual license strong copyleft/commercial seems to be validated for software infrastructure (not necessarily products).

I've noticed it reduces support costs immensely, when your paying users are developers and they have unbridled access to the source alongside developer forums.
How is it an open source business model?

It is a closed source business model that decides to open source legacy product. It worked so well that the open sourcing stopped when Id was acquired by ZeniMax.
They look like reasonable bookcase speakers to me, not enough hard gray plastic with yellowing from heat to be vintage OEM like these:

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/z/Bi0AAOSw5cRZICJN/$...
I don't agree with your uncertainty here.

If Google imposed a seriously strong penalty against bloated websites, people would promptly stop making new bloated websites, and would invest in lessening the bloat of their existing sites.

I can't think of a more certain spur to action than Google imposing a threat of going undiscovered. It's perfectly normal for web companies to flout the GDPR, say, as it's laughably unenforced, but Google rankings are no joke.

edit: a few tweaks
You may be right although I have a hard time seeing that happening politically. IANAL, but the relevant case law seems to be Jacobson v Massachusetts (1905) upholding mandatory smallpox vaccinations which AFAIK has never been superseded. [1] That said, the US Supreme Court also upheld a Virginia law that authorized the involuntary sterilization of “feeble minded” persons in state institutions in 1927. It's hard to imagine similar laws passing muster today, probably for 14th Amendment reasons.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449224/
This is an irrelevant distraction. There's no reason we can't do both. And, since life on Earth is powered by the sun, everything is fusion power if you zoom out far enough.
Static Typing for Ruby: Adopting Sorbet at Scale
Newsflash. The problem isn't open source. Running a successful business is hard.

But there are success stories. IBM spent $37 billion last year to buy Red Hat. Microsoft has invested a huge amount into open source. Oracle keeps on buying open source products.

Most of the best successes are not pure open source plays. What you do is invest in open source for the complements to your main product, then charge more for your product. Companies and people start with a problem that they are willing to pay about $X for a solution to. They don't care about how that $X is divided up. So if some of the pieces are free, then others can cost more.

Oracle's investment in Linux 20 years ago serves as a demonstration. They invested in making Oracle run well on Linux, and pushed Linux over Sun. But if you tried to run Oracle on Linux, your license fee was higher. However it was cheaper than paying for Sun and paying for Oracle. The result? People switched to Linux and Oracle made more money.
NuScale's small modular reactor (SMR) seems like a good solution to this problem.

https://www.energy.gov/ne/nuclear-reactor-technologies/small...
> it does not follow that by adopting the ethics, one is also adopting the religion

Those ethics were created from within a theistic worldview, they weren't born from reason. Adopting the ethics of a religious culture while denying the underlying assumptions is pretty unreasonable.
Yes, pricing depends on supply/demand and open source insists on infinite supply, all the time.

You can't make the price be anything but 0, unless you constrain supply - that's how economics works.
The second part of this two-part blogpost is here: https://shopify.engineering/adopting-sorbet
The != notation has become pretty standard in most common programming languages. What exceptions are there in the top 20 development languages? VBA?

But, taking your point, a ligature ≠ would be overloaded in representing != and ~= and /= and <> and becomes potentially very risky.
Your logic checks out, but are there peer reviewed papers that back up your argument? This isn't my field, so I'm not aware of any.
One example that comes to mind even here in the US would be getting emergency info out (evacuation orders, contact info, etc.) during natural disasters like wildfires and storms. A lot of rural areas are still stuck with dial-up and low-bandwidth cellular data at best, so every kilobyte matters. This also applies even in places with abundant cellular coverage; congestion can and often does cause issues with thousands or millions of people trying to get info or reach out to emergency contacts all at once.

Min's rationale further brings to mind things like disseminating info on hospitals, shelters, etc. in war zones, often to people who at most have an ancient (by first-world standards) phone with expensive and slow network connectivity.
I use a great little Windows program called WinCompose[1]. It turns Alt Gr on my keyboard into a “compose” key, so I can press that followed by a short sequence of other keys to quickly type numerous common symbols. As a result, I can type “ or † or ≤ almost as easily as I can type " or * or <. Similar functionality is available on other platforms, and I expect anyone who was typing the same symbols frequently, as programmers do, would internalise the shortcuts for them in a matter of minutes.

[1] http://wincompose.info/
I know your goal isn't to actually browse the site but you can get around the sign up modal by adding ?hide_login_modal=true to the URL
> This is roughly equivalent to the 5-digit DNDC option, which currently costs $3.56 - maybe slightly more because I don't know the exact details of how China delivers to the US.

China the country does that, but that cost is not borne by the shipper in China. The shipper in China just drops the item off at their post office.

But regardless, China then pays the US $1.90 to deliver that package for them. You will not find any service available to a US mailer that is only $1.90.
Put in other terms, the Western world in 2020 likes to act as if it reinvented itself afresh in the 1700-1800-1900s, but in reality, everything about "secular" knowledge has been formed in thousands of years of Christian culture.

That makes sense only if you redefine "Christianity" to mean "respect for universal human rights". By that logic most everyone is a Christian. Most Hindus and Buddhists would be Christian too.

The problem is that changing the definition of a word does not change boundaries in reality. I can call my automobile a "Leaf", but that doesn't mean my car does photosynthesis. Similarly, you can say that Christianity just means "respect for human rights", but that doesn't mean that everyone accepts the divinity of Jesus Christ.
It is also my favourite. It's just narrow enough for using with multiple columns, but not too narrow that it affects legibility for me, and it's event customizable, for my nitpicky preferences.
I have a viable open-source solo business, so I'd dispute this.

I've written about this in more detail in the past (https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/free-as-in-beer/) in short:

* It's a freemium desktop app, with advanced features behind a paid subscription.

* It's 100% open-source - including all the paid parts.

* Although the paid parts are open-source, the code does include the implementation of the subscription checks. You are fully entitled to fork the project and remove all those to get everything for free, but if you do then you now have to maintain a fork of the project yourself. The product is not that expensive - for anybody with a salary, even having a meeting to discuss doing this is not worthwhile.

* All the core product code is AGPL, to avoid proprietary forks cloning the whole thing and breaking this model (many of the smaller internal libraries that are generic & generally useful are Apache 2 though).

* All open-source contributors get free subscriptions, so if you're willing to get involved in the project it acts like any traditional free open-source project for you.

So far it's working well - there's a few hundred paying customers, including a good few team subscriptions, and it's been making good steady growth for over a year now.

This model wouldn't work for everything (you need something product-shaped, rather than a standalone library) and I have no idea how it would scale out as a larger business, but it's been a very functional model for me to make an open-source project that's financially self-sufficient as a solo developer.
I clearly have christian and western values instilled in me, I grew up in the US.

But that doesn't mean I practice or believe in a religion or deity?

Idk, this argument seems pretty facile and I've spent a lot of time reading philosophy of religion.
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Here's an example of scheduling pipelines to execute automatically: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/schedules.html

Here's an example for running pipelines manually (can even be triggered through the UI): https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#whenmanual

I believe the other comments address some of your other concerns as well.
Where is your source for the $1.90 number here?
Yes, and no doctor is 100% error free in his/her judgement. We can sue if a doctor amputates the wrong limb.

How is software any different?

It's simply a matter of making companies pay for externalities. If you pollute the environment with your business, you need to pay for that. If you pollute the world with buggy software, you need to pay for that. But all companies have externalities?! Yes, and they should all pay for their externalities and if the cost is high enough that the business is no longer profitable, it needs to close.

Software without bugs isn't some pipe dream - the people writing software will simply be elevated to the level of a surgeon. Do you want your surgeon introducing 'bugs' during your operation? I don't, that's why surgeons get extensive training and are highly compensated.

People want to pay people peanuts for software that barely works, so that they can capture and monopolize as much of the market as quickly as possible. Uh, that's not my problem that people who want to get rich will have difficulty, I want shit that actually works.
What are the average age demographics between Roblox and Minecraft?

It feels like, anecdotally at least, most people switch to Minecraft once they get older as it's a more difficult/mature game with a higher skill ceiling.
Playable online forever ;)

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Hovertank_1991

"You're first assignment is to rescue a bunch of scientists who have barricaded themselves inside the Langston Research Facility. They were working on a new, clean fuel until some big oil corporations decided to buy Langston out. Now insiders say the corporation is going to nuke them"
There is a known zero day in the current version that is being actively exploited in the wild. If your system is sufficiently air gabbed waiting is probably fine, but otherwise would you risk it?
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ZFS on Linux supports encryption. Very few symmetric algorithms are known to be backdoored - the AES implementation available to ZoL is thought to be fine.