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Apple sends invites for Oct. 18 launch event, where new MacBooks are expected
> Thousands a year die in coal mines

And that's only counting direct casualties. If we were to count long-term illnesses/deaths or consequences on the population like the people reaching gazillions of deads at Tchernobyl do, it would be up to one death out of 10 (https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution).
No one said they weren't
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'knowledge silos' in a one person team are real: Me today and me from 2 years ago when I set a thing up are different people, and I don't remember that any more than a team mate in a multi-person team would know it. This is where 'professional' approaches can help considerably: using 'standardized' stuff, instead of bespoking everything (even if bespoking is much easier), or making sure you write a TON of documentation for anything you don't do daily...
I'm not trying to be flippant when I say that it's good that they will not trust government again, as long as that leads to greater public vigilance against government's creeping excesses and self-serving propaganda. If it prevents the next Iraq war and the next Japanese internment, I'm all for it.
China actually has a couple of French-built nuclear power plants. There's been a long standing cooperation in that domain.
Maybe the general public should spend more time electing MDs and PhDs to run the government then? Instead we get bullshitters and grifters who defer to life-long bureaucrats with an MD of a PhD who suck-up to the right people to get the job, regardless of their actual competence. People tend to mistrust government "experts" because the feeling is that if they were better at their jobs, they'd obviously be in the private sector. This isn't always true but many people feel that way, like it or not.
I don't think it's an issue of seeing illness as a personal failing - that's just dismissive and an unhelpful characterization.

People I know that choose to not get vaccinated yet are largely resistant to the 'do it for others' push because we've been told that the vaccine is so effective that the 'others' should be safe anyway, unless they've chosen not to get the vaccine too. That leaves these people with a risk assessment based solely on their own health, age, etc.
> tell everyone that masks weren't required in stores if you weren't vaccinated.

I assume you've got a typo going on here?

You mean "were vaccinated"?
> vaccine hesitancy will impact vaccines for HPV, measles, HEP B, etc. etc. for generations

This will be geographically--and, over time, economically--isolated.

Nearly 80% of American adults and over ¾ of eligible Americans have taken at least one dose of a Covid vaccine [1]. In the 65+ population, the figure is 95%. This simply isn't a big group of people, noisy as they may be. (Caveat: the group of people who are philosophically against vaccine mandates, but will get vaccinated anyway, is larger.)

[1] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-...
Isn't that the main challenge of being a programmer? Anyways I don't find it hard to read, but I write TS like that every day
You increase the usage of the lambda, sure, but not by double unless all this lambda does is respond to the search. There's a point where this is all semantics when running cloud services with regard to how you've deployed your code behind gateways and lambdas, but most applications have obvious triggers that could warm up a lambda at 10% or less overhead.

And even then....lambdas are dirt cheap.
I'd be surprised if doing this wasn't considered illegal in some states. At the very least, the interviewing company might be able to sue you or the original candidate for fraud.

Laws or not, this also sounds completely unethical. If English is a requirement for the role, faking that you know English, or other critical skills for that role, is just wrong.
>Nah, that's what the far right propaganda machine has tried to tell you.

Nah, that's what facts and being a data driven adult have told us. Apparently they line up with the far-right. Looks like reality had a right bias.

>You're told to believe that Group X is bad, and when you find that you actually believe in the core tenet of Group X, you have trouble reconciling that.

Except Group X is bad, and sharing common beliefs is immaterial. Hitler/Nazis believed smoking was bad for you and excessive drinking was a blight on society. I agree with them on that, but there's obviously no issues reconciling the fact that they were bad.

>You want black lives matter supporters who don't actually fight for change.

If they wanted that, they'd be OK with all the neurotic performative virtue signaling at work LOL!

>In short, you love the status quo, and you're scared that giving marginalised groups a better shake might take away some of what you have.

In short, you believe "you're either with us, or against us." Facts, nuance, and logically considering problems are systemic White supremacy culture in your eyes.

>you're scared that giving marginalised groups a better shake might take away some of what you have.

He supports egalitarianism which definitely helps marginalized groups along with everyone else. You're supporting institutional racism.
i think advanced modular small nuclear reactors are the only viable way forward if we are to have a predominantly electrically powered future society.

'The term “modular” in the context of SMRs refers to the ability to fabricate major components of the nuclear steam supply system in a factory environment and ship to the point of use. Even though current large nuclear power plants incorporate factory-fabricated components (or modules) into their designs, a substantial amount of field work is still required to assemble components into an operational power plant. SMRs are envisioned to require limited on-site preparation and substantially reduce the lengthy construction times that are typical of the larger units. SMRs provide simplicity of design, enhanced safety features, the economics and quality afforded by factory production, and more flexibility (financing, siting, sizing, and end-use applications) compared to larger nuclear power plants. Additional modules can be added incrementally as demand for energy increases'.

https://www.energy.gov/ne/advanced-small-modular-reactors-sm...

Most people are still thinking last century enormous reactors. Electricity does not travel well and a network of modular reactors provides enormous opportunity for housing development in areas that are hard to get power to.

I am no longer enthusiastic about solar or wind power except for fringe augmentation of grids
It seems worth talking about the fact that it appears to be the vendor of the phone putting this kind of snooping in place. Blaming Android is missing the real culprit. Like they say in the article, we need stronger controls on people's data for whoever happens to make the phone's OS.
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> they did know that it was better to wear a mask

U.S. health officials say Americans shouldn’t wear face masks to prevent coronavirus https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-cdc-says-americans-don...

> In fact the U.S. surgeon general recently urged the public to “STOP BUYING MASKS!” “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus...The CDC said last month it doesn’t recommend people use face masks...

> “The virus is not spreading in the general community,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said in a Jan. 30 briefing. “We don’t routinely recommend the use of face masks by the public to prevent respiratory illness. And we certainly are not recommending that at this time for this new virus.”

WHO stands by recommendation to not wear masks if you are not sick or not caring for someone who is sick
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-r...

> “There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there’s some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly,” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program, said at a media briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday.
Solar Panels on Half the World’s Roofs Would Power the Planet
Even crazier - attacking the power lines doesn’t even require bolt cutters. A ballon or toy drone and some aluminized string or thin wire is more than enough to have it blow itself up.
But that's not really 'broken' and needing to be 'fixed'.

Maybe a better marketing angle is that it's going to save people money since minutes used for CI is a cost? As a user I'm seeing this and saying 'well my github actions work just fine' and moving on.
This didn't go so well for Docker Inc. when they tried to do this with Docker Hub
> This new type (called Ensure) will be equal to the union of two types

You mean intersection, right?

EDIT: link to docs on intersection types: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/objects.html#...
Any experience with Cloudflare workers? They are supposed to have 0 cold start time: https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-cold-starts-with-clo...
> The loss of national cohesion,

It may be you have the causality backwards here.
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WSJ has a commentary piece in today's paper that is similar but also important. The jist I get out of it is that science is ever evolving and there is no "trust the science", as it just gives us data and is not an absolute truth. Science can provide varying levels of certainty on given part of a subject, but running around and invoking science for policy decisions is a bad plan when there isn't solid data backing it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/partisan-science-antiscience-fa...

Mirror: https://archive.is/GwRw1
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Maybe. I never owned a credit card, however I also basically didn't use cash for years, only debit card
In my opinion the biggest example of this was the poor mask guidance early on in the pandemic that was subsequently reversed. Zeynep Tufekci had a very good piece in the NYT on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-...

The real fear was that there would be a run on masks by the public, making them unavailable for hospital use. Also, at the time, there wasn't clear evidence of the effectiveness of masks by the public (although there was some evidence with earlier respiratory infections that mask use by the public is beneficial).

But instead of just saying that, the message from the vast majority of public health officials (and media types like Sanjay Gupta) was that "masks don't work for the public". It's not hard to go back to March 2020 and find lots of videos to this effect. This all spectacularly backfired a couple months later when health officials told everyone to wear masks.

And what made me slightly angry was that many officials tried to say something like "well, we have new data now". Which was somewhat true, but also conveniently swept over the fact that there was never data that said "masks don't work for the public", but health officials didn't have a problem saying that in public earlier.
I'd even go higher up the value chain with something like Vercel or Netlify if your stack fits in their offering. Heroku is a definitely a good option if you need more flexibility. The costs won't be a bottleneck until you actually have enough scale that you can afford DevOps staff.
> Nuclear power has inherit risks that are not present in other forms of modern energy generation. You can claim that todays designs are 99.9999999% safe, but there is no such thing as 100%

You're breathing coal and gas byproducts every single day, byproducts which are taking years of life expectancy, and it doesn't seem to bother anyone, but oh god "Chernobyl bad, let's close perfectly safe and working nuclear reactors". Germany is firing up coal plants because they're decomissining their nuclear reactors in favour of intermittent energy sources (Germany kwh price is 2x compared to France), we simply don't have time to do both at the same time

> Nuclear waste is difficult to deal with.

Intermittent energy sources produce a huge amount of waste and are a pain in the ass to recycle, not even talking about how to store that energy for later use.

> Nuclear is centralized, and vulnerable to attack.

Sure, but if a country is bold enough to start attacking nuclear reactors you can be sure you're not too far from full scale war and at that point it'll just be a small detail in the vast amount of violence and destruction that will ensue.

> Nuclear plants take ages to build, and are insanely expensive.

There is no magic bullet here, solar and wind are also a major pain in the ass to build and maintain. We have 8000 windmills in France, we'd need 55 000 running at 100% to produce enough energy for our current use

> I cannot fathom why nuclear is preferred to a safe, distributed, clean grid of solar panels.

Because there is no such thing

Intermittent energy sources only work if we stop using more and more energy, but since GDP = energy we're fucked [0]. We can't decommission both gas and nuclear at the same time and keep the same quality of life / growth expectations with solar and wind.

[0] https://jancovici.com/en/energy-transition/energy-and-us/wha...
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> The insinuation that the only way I can have a different opinion, is because I am forced, is part of my critique

China doesn't have freedom of speech. Chinese citizens can be punished for posting innocuous things such as a cartoon bear who loves honey, so it's not a stretch to assume that you will write differently when inside the mainland vs outside of the mainland.
It doesn't help when politicians are lying or lying by omission. At that point those who don't know better don't know where to turn for information.

The UK has branded the official death stats as misinformation numerous times in the press and interviews to avoid getting into details of how they screwed up in response to all this...

It's not always the fault of those led astray and I'm sure there's a suitable parable about a bad shepherd or something...

Someone believing untruths is different to the nutters burning down 5G masts mind, but yes I worry about when misinformation reaches critical mass...
"That’s impossible, an RBMK reactor can’t explode."
Not really, house prices are insane and income taxes and sales taxes are much higher too.

I wish I had American citizenship tbh.
See "The Evolution of Trust" which was posted on HN a few times, simulating how trust is created and destroyed, with reference to game theory. I don't think it covers institutional trust, but is interesting nonetheless:

https://ncase.me/trust/
this is an oversimplified and thus misleading comparison. A nuclear (or any fuel-controlled generator) can generate power at-will i.e. on demand.

No wind or solar generator can do this and before you say batteries, no battery in existence can power a medium-sized city for more than a few minutes.

These comparisons are usually presented as an aggregated amount of energy over a year and completely ignore the fact that at some points in time, the power output of entire fleets of wind and solar generators is zero.
It seems you have the hubris of predicting how things look in the future :)

You dodged my offer of a waver for a 5 year prediction.

I’m super Bull on future Nigeria (and big parts of Africa) when it comes to 2200. That’s why I said that Nigeria could be what’s called first world in 2200.

But that’s not our point. The point discussed is that the first world is insulated over developing nations.
> and you start realizing that most modern software development is hard to beat for pointlessness.

Indeed. It's kind of like gradually getting the Red Pill and realizing IT is mostly a fashion game where the hammers and screwdrivers often change for the sake of change alone. It's hard to stay enthusiastic and motivated when you know it's mostly a buzzword game.
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I won't go as far as him being prosecuted, but yes, he was uncomfortably involved in it, and didn't call out how bad of an idea it is. Edit: Biden should have fired him when he became president ostensibly for lying, but actually because he's a polarizing figure who makes too many TV appearances. It doesn't matter that he's saying the right thing about the vaccines, when 40% of people don't trust him, he's the wrong messenger.

When the tech industry does a lot of self-reflection on what harm could come from various forms of AI, I'm honestly shocked that biologists are modifying viruses in ways that could be so disruptive (at best) that are just a few mistakes away from a pandemic.
I have the FB app but rarely use it. Why would it be phoning home when I don't have it open?
Yes. Depends on how big/long/tall/heavy the trailer is. If it's super small and light you might not notice much.

The heavier it is, the longer your braking time. When you start to stop, you can feel a heavy trailer behind you continue to "push" you along. Also if it's a heavy load and your vehicle doesn't have the power... it will be very very very slow to get up to speed.

If the trailer is long or wide, you've got navigate accordingly. At slow speeds, making turns, etc - you've got to drive like your vehicle is now potentially twice as long as it was before. Ever seen a semi make an absurdly wide turn? Yes, that.
SARS and MERS never reached pandemic status. Swine flu in 2009 did though, and Avian flu seemed like it was going to in 2012 but also fell short.
I guess I meant it in a kind of half poetic sense. I would like to write, or maybe do some kind of digital or video art.

I got into web dev around 98-99 and i've been doing it ever since.

I think what appealed to me about it about the time was the immediacy of it, being able to write these little js widgets and see them in action instantly. Trying to build these intricate table layouts to replicate the offline versions of various websites that came on a disc with internet magazines.

But the field has changed a lot over the years, first it was the iPhone and mobile-web, CSS animations, SVG, Canvas, Node JS, with JS on a server, React, Redux, State management, and now CI and DevOps, Unit tests, TS, - and the endless deprecations and changes that seem to occur faster than I can keep up with.

The things I used to enjoy are only a fraction of my job, and even those parts have become kind of complex - at least for me. I feel like, as others have said, front end is quite messy and the result of that is that I never feel satisfied that I can complete something and just "Get it right". Seems like the edge-cases are infinite, devices, displays, and other weird quirks...

- sorry for the rant.
This. Being a sales engineer can be just as technically demanding as any job shuffling protobufs in a big tech company. But there's a lot more 1:1 interaction talking to people and gathering information about the problem they're trying to solve.

Jobs like devrel can also have a good combination of being technical and talking to people and giving presentations.

Finally roles like "Technical Account Manager" can vary really widely across companies - in some cases these are basically glorified support jobs or sales jobs where you're dealing with existing customers instead of new customers. In other places it can be more like a solutions engineer where you're implementing a customer-specific solution using your company's platform. Again, a lot of 1:1 communication with customers.
100% this! Just curious--what's your business?
What separation of power? The country is run by executive fiat and every 4 years the law of the land takes an about face when the next guy comes along to rip up the old guy's diktats. The US legislative branch is kabuki theater and the judicial branch is disgustingly partisan.
It wasn't until I read The Histories by Herodotus that I realized the English word "meander" is based on the name of a river [0] in modern-day Turkey which was well known for its tortuous path. I had a similar realization when reading The Odyssey and I came across the character Mentor [1].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander#Origin_of_term

1: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mentor#Etymology
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>There is no experiment that can disprove all simulation hypotheses. There is always another hypothesis where that result is simply a valid part of the simulation.

>Similarly, there is no evidence that can demonstrably disprove the existence of "God." In fact at the fundemental level these two beliefs are basically identical; the difference is in language and emotional baggage.

The former is a claim that I made explicitly. The latter is also true to a certain extent, but a whole raft of the claims made by those who hypothesize the existence of a "god" have been shown to be empirically false.

The simulation hypothesis isn't falsifiable either, but it doesn't make demonstrably false claims.

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

All that said, both are metaphysics[0] at best, and to paraphrase Sir Peter Medawar[1], a "bounteous harvest of gobbledygook" at worst.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_metaphysics

[1] https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1064507
> We do people focus so much on the danger aspect of nuclear energy only?

Because nuclear = bad word / bombs / chernobyl

They don't mind living in cities and breathing cars exhaust all day long even though it shaves years of their lives though. Real world boiling frog situation
At this point CI is pretty easy to setup and monitor and it's integrated with practically every development/deployment tool, so I have to disagree about waiting to implement it.
> - Nuclear plants take ages to build, and are insanely expensive.

If you look at the list of reactors in the article, most of them took only 5-6 years to build. Between 1977 and 1987, a ten-year span of time, they added 45 GW of nuclear power to the grid. Do nuclear plants really take ages to build?
The tone here is much more patronizing than required.

> We do people focus so much on the danger aspect of nuclear energy only?

Because nuclear is the only one with multigenerational risks that can make entire regions inhabitable. A damn break is deadly, a nuclear meltdown is potentially significantly way worse.

> Such a way to waste my Sunday.

Hiding waste is not a viable solution to dealing with it, regardless of the risk of finding it. We used to be quite content with dumping regular trash into holes, until we realized that didn’t scale either.

> Ah yes, remind me how many windmills we would need to produce as much energey as a NPP?

Windmill vs nuclear powerplant space is not a 1:1 comparison. Windmill fields are very sparse, and you came safely use the land underneath for farming or other uses. Not to mention the ecological devastation related to ruining a square mile of land permanently for centuries. You cans just change an entire miles worth of drainage and soil without damaging the area around it.

Additionally, I said nothing about windmills. I said solar. We have millions of rooftops across the nation that have no solar yet would benefit. That land is free as far as space is concerned; it’s unused.
Nuclear is clean, it is safe but it is not cheap. It's safe and clean because of it's moderately priced. I stand by nuclear because it's cleanness and safeness which can't be compared to anything else.

What will we generate electricity with in non-windy cloudy days? Coal? LNG? ESS? Note that all of those options are more dangerous, more expensive and more dirty than nuclear.