skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were both also late and over budget though. Less so than the two European units, but still.

https://archive.is/MT9fA#selection-2255.0-2337.266

> CGN Power, the listed unit of state-owned China General Nuclear Power, China’s largest nuclear power projects developer, has announced a 17 per cent capital increase at its Taishan nuclear project, raising concern cost overruns and commissioning delays will continue.

> The company will inject 2.94 billion yuan into its 51 per cent-held unit Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture, which will see the unit’s total registered capital to 28.6 billion yuan from 24.4 billion yuan, the company said in a filing to Hong Kong’s bourse late on Tuesday. Provincial government-controlled Guangdong Yudean, the province’s largest power producer, owns 19 per cent stake, and CGN’s French technology partner EDF holds 30 per cent stake.

> CGN said the capital injection serves “to enhance its financing ability so as to meet its fund requirements for engineering construction.”

> The project, which CGN said on track to become the world’s first third-generation nuclear reactor built on the European pressurised reactors (EPR) design to achieve commercial operation, was originally expected to have its first generating unit come online in December 2013 followed by the second in October 2014.

> The timetable of the two units subsequently slipped to the first and second half of this year, and further to the first and second half of next year after “comprehensive evaluation on subsequent engineering construction plan and relevant risks,” said CGN a year ago.
http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-236-alex-tabarr...

the current state of the argument, pretty interesting.
Totally agree. Some would point to elementary OS/Pantheon as being that, but it’s only really “maclike” superficially and brings some unique annoyances that don’t exist in macOS.
Surprised to still see that included on here. Apple removed support for it over a year ago since it never gained much traction and ironically can be used as an additional variable for fingerprinting.

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/06/apple-removes-safari-do...
This is already a gross misunderstanding of Amdahl's Law and what it means pragmatically, but you have it things completely reversed.

Optimizing something to run 100x faster avoids needing more servers, thus avoiding the synchronization from splitting things up to them.

That synchronization by the way is not actually done by the servers, it would be done by dedicated networking hardware. Even on a single computer, for web server programs the synchronization is not really happening in the user space programs, it is happening in the in kernel for the IO to and from disk and to/from the network.
> much worse

"Much worse" like what? I can't really take his access away, and I can't watch him 24x7. He's 16. I'd expect the brain to turn on by this point.
Gavin Newsom Can Suck My Fucking Dick Fuck You Gavin
The biggest thing we're going to regret looking back on the early Cloud era is the foolish notion that you need 100x as many servers to do 100x as much work.

Servers don't scale linearly. It's more likely you'll need, at a minimum, 107-110x as many servers. Between 100 + log(100) and 100 + sqrt(100). So making your code 100x faster saves you more than 100 servers.

I think the arguments never end because it's all fuzzy math. Get too attached to running the whole thing on one server, and your architecture starts making irreversible decisions about where the source of truth is, and you get locked into a single server.

Give up too early, and you spend a lot of energy herding cattle instead of building features. And speed is something you outsource to the guys who write the checks. That's fine if you lock in your vertical, but I've worked on projects that lost out to a more responsive or financially efficient competitor. It really, really sucks.
Look, I think there's room for nuance. I agree with most of the specific examples you pointed out, and generally agree that big blockbuster films / network television shows are trash, for more reasons than just the recent diversity push. I 100% agree that token black / token gay characters are problematic.

My idea of representation is: Let people with interesting stories tell their stories. Modern audiences don't really care if the protagonist looks like them, so let's push for interesting stories rather than a specific character archetype. Invite writers of all backgrounds to the table, and allow their experiences to shape the story.
Anecdotally, I've worked with developers at Redhat and Canonical, and the Redhat developers had passion. They really believed in open source and the linux community. In comparison Canonical seemed like Just Another Software Company to me.
I have no idea about “the final destiny of humankind”, but I’m pretty sure anthropogenic climate change is a real phenomena.
PCG has had no peer review of its author's claims at all, and some of those claims are dubious. PRNGs are serious things and require serious deliberation.
Hershey’s buys cocoa futures as tensions with African producers grow
I see you’re being downvoted but as someone who lives in Japan and had the misfortune to agree to doing a survey this week on tourism which entailed my looking at around 57 tourist websites that made me viscerally angry at how bad they were, I can say you’re right on the money. To say so is not racism or any such thing other than the ability to correctly describe a situation.
“Rocky Horror” Unproduced: The Lost Sequels
Fun little bit of computer history: the Atari game "River Raid" (available on some flashback consoles) uses "randomly" generated landscapes and obstacles, but it's exactly the same every time you play it.

It uses the same seed on its LCG when you start the game, so everything else is deterministic. As far as I know it's the first procedurally generated video game.
I will have to make an effort to give those a go. I'm always interested in finding new ways to make self study more worthwhile instead of just a memory game. Thanks!
Yes, it[1] is[2] a[3] real[4] issue[5] which leads to privilege escalation bugs. It also doesn't help that most containers that Docker is responsible for managing is supposed to be unprivileged, and Docker itself is commonly used as a component for a multi-tenant container runtime.

[1] https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2019-15752/

[2] https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2019-14271/

[3] https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2019-5736/

[4] https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-15664/

[5] https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-15514/
I think the problem is the term 'game.' If you made 'The Schindler's List VR Experience' that would be reasonable, but if the same software was called 'The Schindler's List Video Game', that would sound crass and disrespectful. Games, computerized or not, are generally understood to be for amusement (maybe unless you're talking to mathematicians.)
If a "cruddy" cell divides, then the two new cells will each have less then the original one.
This brings back memories from my abstract algebra class in college when we had to derive similar rules. Of course I've completely forgotten how most of the theory works now.
Delightful UX Design
Yeah we need to get rid of it. Once people need to pay for it themselves insurance companies can in no way stay charging $30K per year.
It isn't. I've worked with a company in past that has the most advanced tech available. It can uniquely identify iPhones of same model/make/year/os/safari version in the same region under the same ip address.

They promised that the tech would always give a stable and unique id from the browser. And it worked too, but it wasn't public and not for ad tech purposes.
> Then I accidentally yanked a cable. And the SSD was bricked. I was able to unbrick it again with the long-powerup-without-data-cable trick, but plainly this setup is too fragile.

What's the nature of this phenomenon? Why does it happen to Raspberry Pi but doesn't happen to classic x86 systems?
Interesting but what’s the reasoning to commit facts like this to memory when I have a calculator one swipe away?
New GitHub feature will blow your mind
...or simply redirect Facebook.com to this EFF page.
https://gitrate.herokuapp.com/
Chrome/Chromium on Wayland: The Waylandification Project
I can second this with the addendum I'm on an X1 Yoga and the touchscreen works out of the box, it took me about 2 minutes to get the screen auto-rotating as well using this script. https://gist.github.com/mortie/e725d37a71779b18e8eaaf4f8a02b...
I'd say it's not only a tautology, it's plain false.

Cheap optimizations that are known to work (compiling in release mode, enabling HTTP cache in your web server, using a fast sorting algorithm on large arrays...) are good even if you don't need them right now.
China's nuclear industry and the way the government interacts with it is just... very different from pretty much any other country. This is true of some of their other sectors. Yes, they can do some things incredibly quickly by more or less ramming them through at top speed using a combination of government and state-affiliated corporations. But the ways they achieve those results at speed are not necessarily transferable to other countries.

I also get a bit nervous about how fast they've scaled their nuclear sector and pumped out plants. It reminds me a bit of the big historical push the USSR did into nuclear tech -- which culminated in the Chernobyl incident because they overlooked issues they should not have in order to keep things moving fast.

A lot of technology and engineering lessons have been learned since those days... and so far I haven't heard anything specifically concerning about China's nuclear reactor fleet. But there's always going to be a little doubt in the back of my mind.
using throwaway for this.

>The problem that I’m having is, I don’t know, I don’t exactly have a goal for the rest of my life

I can attest to this. I grew up in a very middle class family in a third world country and had been chasing my dreams - become a successful entrepreneur in silicon valley. I worked insanely hard for this, compromising on personal relationships, health, everything. And then, one day, I become successful. Very, very successful. I am quite wealthy now and the wealth will last generations. I am well known in the industry I work in. But it had been a struggle after I achieved success. I found myself depressed. And just last month I was put on medications.

Turns out, this is very common problem when you had been chasing your dreams all your life. Like climbing a mountain. Once you have climbed to the top, that's it. You enjoy it for a while and then you start thinking ..now what?
It's particularly confusing since the "earlier generations" were the people who wrote the unreasonable search and seizure clause in the Bill of Rights, almost 150 years before the Soviet Union even existed. The Supreme Court ruled in Katz v US that warrantless wiretaps were unconstitutional so Congress passed laws creating wiretap warrants [1] for law enforcement. Congress didn't ban wiretaps without a warrant, they passed a law to create such warrants in response to a Supreme Court decision that banned what police had been doing for decades, Soviet style.

[1] https://it.ojp.gov/PrivacyLiberty/authorities/statutes/1284
How to start this $6.6k MRR user feedback tool
There is a European site (swedish? Danish?) That mistranslated this information. And then the information came full circle back into english.
Our app ran on a set of 100 servers!

Sounds impressive until you hear that it’s serving maybe 300k requests a day.
btrfs is depreciated in redhat distribution
Check eBay for corporate standard desktops which are dumped on there regularly. Dell OptiPlex is a good starting point, scale the price with age and you'll still wind up with a lot of compute for not a lot of money.
Igalia Open Prioritization First Experiment Wrap Up
Community Communication: Which methods do open source communities use?
The size of the register file, the decode and fetch widths, the reorder buffer / retirement queue size... Everything about the M1 is bigger than its competitors (except for Power9 SMT8)
I agree. And it didn't even seem to be aware I was already running Privacy Badger. And inside Privacy Badger I saw no obvious options to decrease my browser footprint. Sort of lame.
Xahlee.info
FYI, the suggested workaround posted by amazon staff in the article doesn't work either.

You are supposed to be able to do a full GDPR data request and that should contain your orders. I made my request a week ago and have not yet received the data, so can not verify if that works.
*deprecated

On the other hand isn’t btrfs becoming the default in Fedora 33, thus eventually making a comeback in RHEL?
Being a small and light application I thought the new Occulus Quest would be a great platform for SolveSpace.
I have a gen 3, while the screen could be better, it’s not bad. Trackpad of course isn’t anywhere near Mac level but the system is pretty good.
Wait, what? Does Steam bake in some kind of automatic virtualization support for Windows games these days?
Sure, some professors manage to do well at both research and teaching! It's great that some professors like her care about education and are experimenting with new classroom formats! My point was that traditional lectures are not always the best way of teaching.

And, I did not say it is impossible or even uncommon for research faculty to be good at teaching. However, being good at research does not automatically make one good at teaching, and there are other factors like time that prevent those who do care about education from giving their students a good experience in class.

In my own personal experience, and that of my classmates, the vast majority of research faculty simply do not have either the interest or the time to teach well. Out of the 30 or so math courses I took as an undergrad, I would say only about 4-5 of my professors put real effort into teaching.
> Brodersen, the survivor, was fortunate to get to Ketchikan’s PeaceHealth Medical Center when he did. He’d had a heart attack, and was suffering from hypothermia and cold-induced rhabdomyolysis — a kind of muscle death.

Disagree. This is near-death for anyone, especially a 70-year-old.
How Developers Can Create Personal Brands Through Online Presence [video]
But your thermostat is not, and it probably needs a PRNG too.
For that matter Amazon and eBay are both pretty goddamn cluttered to. As long as you're comparing e-commerce sites there isn't that much difference.
My one and hopefully only experience with anything like this was as part of a delivery crew going from San Francisco to Santa Barbara. Racers, we left in a gale but we were going downwind and it was easy living. The skipper had bought a $100 genoa which eventually fully delaminated and shredded.

It was blowing 30+ which didn't seem that bad since, again, we were going downwind. But we needed to gybe to stay on course. Gybing was not going to be fun but I suggested that we just chicken gybe, a dinghy school maneuver, to make life just a little safer. We did and got it over with.

Still 30-40 knots had us racing down the coast and Point Conception was in our future. Translate Point Conception from Spanish to English and you get the idea. So we decided to radio in to Morro Bay. Channel 16 had been broadcasting Morro Bay is closed. Do not approach Morro Bay. That includes you.

In fact, Morro Bay did not even pick up but eventually Long Beach did. They said Morro Bay would radio back which they did.

Morro Bay was very professional. How many souls on board? Are you wearing life jackets? What is your sailing experience? Have you been in to Morro Bay before? ...

A note about Morro Bay. In normal conditions, it's easy peasy. But in a blow, the waves are rolling south directly into the breakwater, the rocks. You cannot go in normally.

They sent two cutters out. One was put in front of us and one behind us. We surfed down the waves. They timed it and said that when the boat in front turns left, you turn left. We did.

After that, motored up the channel, tied up at the YC and went to sleep. Pancakes the next day in Morro Bay and then Point Conception (I've been turned back by Point Conception going north several times) was easy + beautiful.

The Coasties? They do this every day.
I’m having some success remembering C++ with Anki because the language itself has such massive complexity and syntax. I am inputting Scott Meyers books into it right now. Its still really hard to write good prompts with enough context- akin to writing an interview type quiz. So far I think the main benefit is in understanding complicated template code I wouldn’t have a reason to write myself. I don’t expect to be able to use these features just recognize them though.
Net result of this action for most people: When traveling internationally, I would use this feature to call family in the US - for free (it only uses data). Now I can't do this anymore, as it will default to using cell networks (not data).

>New telecommunications regulations are being introduced in the EU and U.S. beginning in 2021. To comply with these new regulations, we need to remove the call phones feature in Hangouts. [1]

It appears that the change is due to new regulations?

[1]: https://blog.google/products/workspace/latest-google-hangout...
As the link argues, you have to look at the utility (value) of the website. When a phone call or checking the website stops me driving across town, that's 100 WH - half a gallon of gas + wear and tear.

If a review stops me from buying the wrong product, what's the footprint of that?
you can undergo a process of self-discovery and become a mentor to the people around you. and work on building back some of what you sacrificed to get here.

Congratulations!
Sunglasses and Goggles Were Used 1k Years Ago
I bought a nose hair trimmer for this reason. Then I switched to a Thinkpad.
This is pretty interesting especially since I just finished an assignment a couple of days ago for my proofs course that was all about proving the divisibility of large integers and the sums of their digits.

Modular arithmetic, pretty fun stuff even if i'm incredibly bad at it.
Stating the differences, especially the poor quality of the websites is normal. There’s a bunch of terrible web developers here, and they get paid to make terrible websites.

The racism starts whenever a foreigner starts explaining Japanese culture, and they will usually incorporate some old fashioned Japanese nationalism.

Japanese people are just people. There is nothing inherent to our culture, genetics, or soil that makes us like bad websites. We just have plenty of bad web designers.
So there is the ARM firmware and the USB host software. For Linux they provide a Cypress wrapper for libusb and some examples, that was straightforward.

For the ARM firmware, there is a short document called "Using the FX3 SDK on Linux Platforms"- it was pretty straightforward. It's arm gcc, plus a qt-based program called "cyusb_linux" to interact with the FX3's bootloader (you program it over USB).

https://www.cypress.com/documentation/software-and-drivers/e...

You can use Eclipse if you want (they have some kind of support for it), but I just used the Makefile in the example projects.

The ARM firmware uses ThreadX RTOS, but the actual application is pretty small (and the space is very limited as I recall).

The only stupid thing is that they have this thing called GPIF-II designer, which I think is a Windows-only tool. The final output is a table in a C header file. I think it's a .NET program, so I think it would be easy for them to support it in Linux, but they don't.
That would mean they aren't premature
The majority of spending goes towards pensions, healthcare, education, etc.

Education could be an investment but per student spending has tripled over 50 years, yet it would be hard to argue that there is a high marginal return on investment from the extra spending.

Same with healthcare. Plenty have noted that the US spends more per capita but has worse outcomes. Seems like there's simultaneously cheaper and more effective approaches out there.

Social security is just a transfer payment, but not sustainably structured.
Xoshiro and Xoroshiro are slightly different methods, named after the operations used.

xor, shift, rotate vs. xor, rotate, shift, rotate

Xorshiro is either a mistake or an attempt to be clever...
I am this way too. Often got more work done on days when traveling by plane than I normally would in a week or more.

Something about being in motion really aligns my creative and productive juices simultaneously.
My experience has consistently been the opposite.
In the case of Windows there were two (maybe three) different product lines all called Windows. The naming makes slightly more sense in that context.

* Windows 1/2/3.0/3.1/3.11/WFW3.11 - 16-bit (with 32-bit extensions as win32s), ran on DOS

* Concurrently, NT 3.1, 3.5, and 3.51 were marketed for servers instead of home users. They were fully 32 bit and separate from DOS.

* Windows 95/97/98 started naming after the year. This line eliminated DOS (from the user's perspective) and was 32-bit without the need for installing extensions.

* Concurrent with Windows 95 was NT4 which had 95's new interface based on Cairo

* At this point it was clear NT was the future for the desktop, so keeping with the year naming came Windows 2000 (which was really NT 5.0, but desktop users were by now used to year naming). But there was one more release of "old" Windows, as Millennium Edition (ME)

* The two names that dont fit are XP and Vista; these are NT 5.1 and 6.0, respectively. And now Windows 7 and 8 make more sense; we are back to the versioning we had starting with NT 3.1

* To make things more confusing, the server versions now started getting named after the year when previously that was the desktops. So we've got Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2011, and so on.

* Windows 10 is the oddball, skipping 9. I like to think someone at MS was poking fun at Apple, which skipped OS 9 to go straight to OS X, which two years later got the version 10.0. Mac OS 9 came after OS X but before OS X 10.0. I recall reading that 8.5 was originally supposed to be end of the line for classic mac os, but I don't have a source. So now there's 8.5, X 1.0, 9.0, and X 10.0, and everyone seems to think the X is a 10.
I am doing that and have been donating both time and money to various causes but it is not something that brings me inherent joy. I am just living each day as it comes, but this is nowhere close to the fanatic/adrenaline filled goal driven days I have lived.

moreover, I don't even indulge in anything expensive, so I don't even feel motivated to earn more money or spend it.
Jup, comes with a customized proton build, and the ability to select specific proton versions if you have them installed.

I’d say 50% of games works out of the box. And 25% more after installing some video libraries that are for some reason not automatically installed.
If you make lots of bikes available for rent then yes.

https://medium.com/the-fourth-wave/the-great-democratization...
The only products I use from Google originated somewhere else except Search and Gmail. Now I don't use Search or Gmail, either, Search started just giving me products to buy around the time they changed the algorithm, and I have lost trust in Gmail.
The perfect virus: two gene tweaks that turned Covid-19 into a killer
If you don't manage your own CI server then that is not an option is it?

I also never said that it requires two levels of Docker or that it requires DinD. I was responding to the general question of the parent who was asking a question of someone who was running DinD. I responded to the GP below that Kaniko also solves this problem so clearly I'm not advocating for running DinD or that this is even needed.