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It's not managed by the government, it's a Royal Charter.

In the UK, parliament is sovereign and can ultimately do anything so they could vote to change this arrangement. This is the case with anything. Parliament could vote to execute left handers.

The fact remains, what you said is false;

1. The BBC are not on the government's payroll

2. They regularly hold the government to account

Your criticism is nonsense Libertarian speculation that is refuted by the real world.
> Coal is dead. The competition is PV, and to a lesser extent wind.

Coal is dying but it's still ~20% of US generation. The natural gas share of US generation has gone up.

> Yes, and you use odd bits of land close to consumption sites, many of which will have simultaneous use for other purposes.

Until you run out of those and then your costs increase worse than linearly because you have to start using more expensive land.

> the linearity is an advantage in that it enables mass production, and gets the benefit of the manufacturing learning curve.

Anything you're going to use for a large fraction of the power grid is going to be mass produced.

> Quadrupling your construction costs.

This is the opposite of how economies of scale work. If you make something bigger, the variable costs scale linearly and the fixed costs stay the same but are amortized over more units.

> Also, making your generators much bigger than current practise increases project risk and therfore cost.

This is no different than needing twice as many turbines to generate twice as much power. It's a variable cost, offset by you getting twice as much power without increasing your fixed costs.

> Quadrupling your construction costs again, and decreasing reliability, capacity factor and productive lifetime.

You keep saying "quadrupling your construction costs" without evidence. We build oil platforms in the ocean on a regular basis. They cost some tens of millions of dollars. Existing fission reactors cost some billions of dollars. The difference from being on the ocean is evidently not the dominant cost. And then you don't have to pay for land.

> Seawater is nasty stuff.

Many existing reactors are situated on coastlines and cooled by seawater. It's not some kind of insurmountable problem.

> It will be used for productive farmland, though.

The price of "productive farmland" compared to the price of land near a city is multiple orders of magnitude less, and high density power generation doesn't need that much land.

> Again, why aren't fission or CCGT plants being built in those places? How is fusion different?

New fission reactors largely aren't being built at all because of regulatory suppression. CCGT plants can't afford to spend fuel generating power which is then lost to long distance transmission.

> It's about time to cashflow for utility finance types, and they also tend to want a longer track record than "it worked once".

If it worked once but is now generating ten times more power per unit of investment capital than any of the alternatives then investors would be lining up, and may not even be needed because the plant operator could use revenues from selling such a large amount of electricity to build more plants with.
I dont think parent was refering to web as in "web sites you can open in Safari", but apps built with web technologies, as in Ionic or similar.
> Working with SQL in X (any language) usually has a poor developer experience that is why ORM or query builders are popular.

I believe that you're partly right. In my experience there's also a large number of developers who simply have no SQL training, and don't actually care to learn.

We've frequently have customers who complain about the performance of managed database (either managed by us, or a cloud provider). When we look at the queries it's clear that they use a ORM, without giving the schema it will generate much thought. It can be extremely hard to help make optimizations, because you need to figure out how to wrangle something like Hibernate into generating efficient queries and schemas, while not breaking the object model for the developers.

For my own Go projects I normally just stick to sqlx. I like that I can design the schema the way I need, and just create the queries that will map into my structs. Then it's just updates that are annoying.
> s any benefit other than reduced oxygen flow.

Oxygen is smaller and easier to pass the filters than COVID-19 particles. It's possible not to have reduced oxygen flow but protect against the virus, but physically impossible to do the reverse as you suggest.
yea but chromium has been ported to everything so your app will work exactly the same on any device chromium runs, that's the issue with writing native apps.. you then have to port it to all the devices and update on OS changes.
>But IMO they are too model-heavy and this is probably the reason they never caught up or even worked as well as connectionist systems.

there are countless of model based / symbolic intelligent systems at work right now. I'd go so far as say that there is no fully complex 'end-to-end' learning system in place anywhere in the outside world.

Self-driving cars say use learning systems for perception but they still deploy human expertise, routing algorithms, the software at an engineering level is a designed architecture, and so on. I don't think any autonomous car has actually learned speed limits which would be a rather risky endeavor.
What methodology would you prefer?
> More likely, services that are easier to automate will survive while those that aren't will not.

This seems like the most likely thing to happen, and there will probably be many more of the later than the former.

None of this though is obvious to me that will lead to broad based wage increases wrt cost of living out side of those exposed to sectors that are going to become increasing automated and we'll continue to see downward trend in LFP from those exposed to the later.
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This is interesting for the complex game theoretic interactions between the realtor, seller, and buyer. Buyer and seller are focused on the price of course, but also have varying amounts of time pressure

But the most interesting case is the realtor. The realtor obviously gets a fee, which is probably a percentage of the closing price.

But the realtor is particularly conflicted, because they can use an attractively low starting price to attract more customers for their business.

For example unsuccessful buyers might still go on to buy a different property from the realtor.

The realtor can also use the price negotiation to alter the buyer and seller's expectations about what is a reasonable price
http://www.csdp.org/research/shafernixon.pdf
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> "Enterprise" is notorious for not actually getting anything done, even though many of the individuals may feel stressed most of the time.

Enterprise is also way more driven by personal egos and certainties about being right. I doubt too many scientists would say "I'm going to reform the department, let's throw away the last 5 years of work and start again" – but decisions like that are commonplace in enterprise software.
If you're saying the point is moot because it's hypothetical, I don't find that terribly convincing. We conduct thought experiments all the time.

If you're saying immortality shouldn't be allowed because it could lead to negative change, well...feel free to opt out should the option arrive. To paraphrase Cory Doctorow, no one need convince you...simply outlive you.

However, I don't think you would. I think you'd opt in and deal with the consequences later, since at least you'll be alive to experience them. We accept change all the time without considering consequences if the individual gain is strong enough.
That's true, but in distros based on Archlinux you have AUR packages. It has practically anything you might need, even strange things that you won't find in any other distro.
I personally recommend Garuda Linux.
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Its even worse than you describe, its by name. It doesn't have to be the same IAM user, that user just have to have the same username as the original creator. Support told me this when we got locked out of our cluster and the creator had moved on to other things.
Robot mowers work on most lawns. If it's very bumpy or hilly you just need to go up in price. This summer I visited a farm with a huuuge lawn with trees, hills, rocks and what not. They had two Husquarna 4WD robot mowers and the lawn looked pretty nice.
Some people say that the Taliban have won after the inevitable defeat in Afghanistan. I think they won 20 years ago when we introduced a massive billion dollar security theatre while cutting down our liberties some people hate so much, terrorists and domestic actors alike. That was an incredible victory.
Definitely a question to use levels for; I have done both FAANG and Fintech in London and am not going to bother posting this info to HN when levels is available as an option.
Wind Turbines induce lightning…

There is a potential difference over that height. Lightning strikes are quite overwhelming, but perhaps additional power could be gleaned from diffusing the pd across that height.

“Two types of lightning can occur, he says: one that starts in a thunderstorm and then propagates downwards, attaching to the turbine tip – called downward initiated lightning – and another, ‘upward lighting’, that happens when the turbine gets very tall and itself starts to generate lightning that wouldn’t otherwise occur.”

It would be interesting to see pictures and videos of lightning strikes.
You are brilliant.

The disinformation has been so effective it created zealots constantly defending the side of pharmaceuticals, government measures, systemic control of movement and ultimately even how to treat our own health. Always using reverse accusations, especially when proven wrong or suddenly disappear, refuse to continue the argumentation, or minimise the gravity of their falsehood.
>> Neither the laboratory findings nor the mask-trial findings have been peer reviewed.

> Then why are Nature reporting on them in such conclusive language?

Given Nature has very well-regarded peer reviewers, it seems likely that this is an earlier report on something they expect to publish as peer reviewed. Why report it now? Because people are dying and this could help them.

Are they arguing over comma locations? Waiting until the next publication date? Who knows.
Yeah, this part is crazy. There's vast parts of North America which are frozen solid for 5 months of the year. The fact they'd ship it all the way to Antarctica without testing on snow is just crazy!

I guess it's the waterfall method in extreme.
> the commentary was absolutely atrocious and did nothing but state the obvious.

I've always assumed that how sports fans like their commentaries - vacuous, uninformative and shouty. If fans wanted intelligent commentary, surely broadcasters would hire intelligent commentators, rather than ineloquent retired sports stars?
Of course nihilism is bad for society but it’s the undeniable truth. Meaning is a made up word. It’s a random cocktail of hormones as a reaction to a story you tell yourself.

I don’t even know why people need a “meaning” or purpose to life. Just waking up and existing is incredibly fun.
Hehe, we have something similar did bicycles where insurance gets really expensive if you have a bike valued above $2300.

I sort of get why too. I had an early long distance ebike, that cost me $3000 that I didn’t buy the extra insurance for because I always locked it in the basement. The one afternoon I didn’t, it got stolen. Right outside our apartment building in plain view of like 120 apartments, and basically in the middle of the university of Aarhus where we have security patrolling the roads every 30 minutes, a 23kg bike got stolen. :p

Anyway, the police and insurance process was basically a webworm that told me directly that the police wouldn’t spend time on it and then paid me my insurance money right away after I signed in with our national ID. When it’s sort of a free crime to steal bikes, it makes sense that insurance is hefty. On the flip side, I guess expensive MacBooks are stolen less often in Denmark than in Australia.
Relevant recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28462298
> thats basically what uber did to the taxi system and it worked.

Modulo any discernible path to profitability.
Corrected URL 0: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35051753-developer-he...

Doesn't work with the space before "developer". :-)
News at 11: Apple aftersale parts are extremely expensive. Be prepared to pay for two third of a new iPhone or Macbook if their mainboards go south in the case they do not fall under Apple warranty program.
Friend of mine was denied entry for six months because she was born in Iran. Her family fled to Britain when she was 2. At the time she'd been living and working in the US for 10 years.
yes, this sort of objection is always fake
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Why do you think it’s reasonable for the government to be deciding how much private citizens can drink? Would you support a country wide policy like this regardless of whether someone is in lockdown or not?
I'm a developer in my mid 20s with a few friends who are software engineers. None of them worked with C for years.

The jobs here are JavaScript, Java, Python, etc.
The fusion equivalent of Ballmer’s infamous “developers developers developers” line is “materials materials materials”… and we’re getting there quickly!
Please don't take downvotes on innocuous comments personally. Someone will come by and randomly downvote. Why? Who knows? A few minutes later someone else will restore the balance. On the other hand it's really annoying to read complaints about downvotes.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe I’m wrong but fission also don’t need extreme cooling utilities. And fission seems to be way more secure than fusion. So, while I do agree on the « new tech » costs, I’m pretty confident we’ll be able to build this plants anywhere in the world and not only near rivers.

But maybe I’m too optimistic :)
Maybe, but I think it’s more the fact that all our non web-technolgy software is just really, really bad.
What if it is damaging in other ways that are not detectable by tissue heating effect?
I sympathize with going full electric in the home with modern appliances, but honestly the hydrogen thing was all supposed to be for automotives.

The cheapest hydrogen fuel is a byproduct of fracking so that's why it was pushed. It was never sustainable or made sense, obviously.
There are still fundamental problems with fusion reactors that are unlikely to make them economically viable, or even carbon neutral.

Most notably, the extreme temperatures, hydrogen pumping, and high-energy neutron bombardment mean that, even with liquid metal blankets, the reactors will very quickly become brittle, probably not lasting more than a year or two. Since neutron bombardment also turns any material radioactive, not only do you need to tear down your fusion plant (or at least the expensive reactor part of it) every few years, but you have to do it with radiation-resistant robots, as human workers can't get close to the reactor after it's been operating for a while.

https://thebulletin.org/fusion-energy-nuclear-fusion/
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>HTTPS can absolutely run on devices from 25 years ago.

This is largely not true, if you want to talk to today's servers.

Unlike HTTP, SSL is not cross-compatible with older versions.
solar needs sun and massive batteries to handle base load. fusion base load + solar + wind + batteries sounds like the end game.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is privately funded and aiming to demonstrate net energy gain in 4 years. It's not like the lumbering ITER project.
They don't enjoy it. It's mandated, and the cost isn't itemised on the ticket fare.
If each and every traveller knew the cost of airport security measures put on them, more would complain, the most drastic airports may start to be avoided on principle. But we aren't in a capitalist regime where transparency and obligation to inform accurately is enforced. It's authoritarian capitalism. Pay up, or find yourself excluded from the show.
Dumb question potentially, but this sounds incredibly dangerous to the layperson. Is it?
> This seems absurd to me.

To me too, I didn't mean to endorse that view, but it is the ruleset a lot of policies are based upon.
Yup, not in the UK. And nope, home insurance for an owner-occupied apartment.
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Lying to a local LEO is not always illegal. My (non-lawyer) understanding is that lying in ways that misidentify you is always illegal in California. Especially during a traffic stop. Basic Googling suggests CVC 31 (or CVC 20 if it's a state trooper)
Except we didn't need to invest money in it...
Let's complete the sentence of your quote and see who's playing word games:

"Currently, mRNA is considered a gene therapy product by the FDA. Unlike certain gene therapies that irreversibly alter cell DNA and could act as a source of side effects, mRNA-based medicines are designed to not irreversibly change cell DNA; however, side effects observed in gene therapy could negatively impact the perception of mRNA medicines despite the differences in mechanism."
Better compatibility. I have a machine that still runs Windows 7; and electron apps rarely have issues. Many native apps no longer work on my OS.
Dalibor has a YouTube channel where he publishes super interesting videos about the production and R&D processes. Highly recommend.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0IY1BQiMehWMvezqWLyk4g
Sometimes during interview rounds you can detect that someone has already rejected you. Obviously you can only try to guess why but my gut feeling is that this is often political (I.e. it wouldn't be good for them if you were hired).

It's very difficult to counter because you don't know the people interviewing you or the team's politics. You're discovering it as the interviews go based on cues, including the way they interact among themselves.
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Nobody said anything about intelligence. The person you originally replied to said skills. Just because I could spend a year learning something if I so choose, doesn't mean that I currently have those skills. They're called low skill jobs, not low intelligence jobs.
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I stumbled across this library a few months ago and also really liked the approach. Unfortunately I had to drop it temporarily due to this issue (https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc/pull/983)... which I now see is solved. Taking another look. :)
But when your iDevice breaks

Why should it break? These things have been out for a while now. They should be bulletproof by now. As in MIL-SPEC 810G. You can certainly buy phones that are.[1] They're less bulky than iPhones in cases.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVPku-xItv8
Probably different teams and a cast difference in developer experience. MS likely didn't care that much about teams.
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And yet, as Sartre shows us in No Exit, it is the very presence of other humans and our being forced to view ourselves from the perspective of others that causes us so much existential dread and pain. The mere presence of other sentient beings which perceive, judge, interpret, and conceive of us in some abstract mental model of our being, as opposed to the actual and/or self-perception of our being, causes untold psychic suffering.

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but attempting to create meaning strictly in relation to others is no panacea for existential dread and the fundamental nihilism of what I, and the OP, believe to be reality - that is, a strictly physicalist universe devoid of metaphysical or supernatural forces or beings.
Well, particularly early Christianity hero-worshipped martyrs, and seeing as how death brought about union with Christ, there is no tradition of prizing life in the body above death.
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Yeah, Docker nailed the UX right but screwed up the implementation and community building.

> Red Hat specifically “weren’t part of the community, they never rooted for the success of the Docker,” he said. “The mistake on our end was desperately wanting them to be part of the community. In retrospect we would never have benefited from that partnership.”

I understand how it seemed like other open source companies were dictating terms, but Docker's implementation was crap: one fat daemon running as root, no sandboxing, no cryptographic signatures, and a total lack of integration with the rest of Linux. Red Hat gets to define how containers should work on the back end because it pays for ~7% of all kernel development (compare that to Canonical's ~1%) [0]. But instead of cooperating with others in the Linux ecosystem, Docker only begrudgingly adopted interoperable standards while Red Hat, CoreOS, Intel, and others implemented fundamentally better solutions.

> We didn’t work at Google, we didn’t go to Stanford, we didn’t have a PhD in computer science. Some people felt like it was theirs to do, so there was a battle of egos. ... Kubernetes was so early and one of dozens and we didn’t magically guess that it would dominate.

Google had experience running containers at scale and was using K8s as an opportunity to retool their internal proprietary solution. It sounds to me that Google engineers tried to explain to less experienced team the best path forward ... and Docker took it as an insult.

Sure, not everyone needs all the features of K8s, but Docker could have built a simpler interface on top of K8s and benefited from Google's investment. Instead they built a half-baked competitor that didn't work well. Whoops!

Docker delivered a slick developer UX but their architecture was antithetical to how Linux developers thought it should work. Then they spurned offers of help from both the hyperscalers and the dominate Linux enterprise vendor [1] and chose to build inferior solutions for those markets. Now they are stuck selling their pretty UI because that's the only thing Docker does fundamentally better than anyone else.

[0]: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/linux-ker...

[1]: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-continues-lead-linux-....
A frequent schema in my country is to buy votes from local drunks. Go to a local bar with minivan. Grab a bunch of people, drive them to polling station, drive them back, buy beer and give some change.

This doesn't scale that much because you can't verify the vote and you're limited to few days. It's pretty easy to spot it too. Other politics' support is on the lookout for returning cars and scout cheap bars too.

Now move this schema to postal voting. You've plenty of time to buy voting ballots off drunks. And you can fill them in yourself. It's much harder to spot too.
According to HN submission policy the original article https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.... should have been submitted.

Disclaimer: I am not a big fan of phoronix, but honor to whom honor is due.
I don't know what you are talking about. Microsoft built a Linux compatible subsystem for Windows and also built (well, acquired) .NET VMs for OSX/Linux. It's trying hard to keep people on the desktop - any desktop.
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I for one was.
We have a platform whereby we need to expose logs and metrics to our clients, elastic/open search is a great option for this, unfortunately, being a non-opensource SaaS, elastic's license precludes it.
Different discussion as to whether we should pay elastic as we can't afford to, currently.
Oh. Wow. That is honestly insane.
Does this peer ranking network integrate with my Klout score?