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>Just last month, the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation approved the design for a new nuclear power plant to be built in Bradwell, Essex<

The nuclear reactor design is from China General Nuclear (CGN), the Hualong Pressurised Water Reactor, which looks like it will have a big export market. So, pivot away from Russia hydrocarbons, for Chinese nuclear.
The idea that the product is disconnected from the state is laughable at this point. I mean, we have military jet flyovers and gargantuan flags. But that's football--baseball, America's old pastime, relies on big families, open spaces, and too many games to be effective propaganda these days.
Just picking a passage from the top of the article:

> There's a vague plausibility to that kind of statement, which is why it's a debate I've often heard come up in casual conversation, where one person will point out some obvious company inefficiency or product error and someone else will respond that, if it's so obvious, someone at the company would have fixed the issue or another company would've come along and won based on being more efficient or better.

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This sounds like the question whether the market mechanism that ought to remove grave inefficiencies is actually working because there appear to be many examples where it looks like it's not.

My explanation for why the market actually works and we can _still_ see those inefficiencies:

Complexity.

The reason why - even though the mechanism of the market making efficiency a necessity (to not be replaced) is working correctly - we often see inefficiency, is that a complex world enables niches for inefficient unnecessary complexities to exist, where they can consume resources without being easy to remove.

The more complex the environment, the higher the number of possible/existing additional overhead and inefficiencies.
Their Flexbox and Grid guides are the best. I've been using both since pretty much the start and I still look up syntax from them at least once a week.
Good point.

I don't know what "pumping" means in this context.

Should we take this as an indication of community interest? Community members are using JavaScript, but interested in Rust and what it can do.
I'm so happy we are finally getting an easy to use library to use Tor. I've wanted to use Tor in some of my projects but I didn't like having to install it or expecting the user to have it installed already. Time to re-learn rust...
How can we get these vendors to do versioning of their products that we can relate to, or atleast somewhat grasp ?
Gen-Z mode would get me more excited, interested to use the app for its intended purpose. Shouldn't all apps aspire the same?
Perhaps you’d like the Gruntwork reference architecture diagram made with CloudCraft:

https://gruntwork.io/reference-architecture/
I'd really like the author to ask the same question to their friend again in 8 years. That'd be a nice experiment.
The city can't own a sports team but Nintendo can own the Mariners.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/features/that-time-when-...

The Green Bay Packers ownership style should be encouraged, not forbidden.
That is one of the appeals of rust for me. I want one language that I can flip from

- Native

- Web

- Distributed

- ML

- Service

programming without having to switch toolchains. Rust is surprisingly close to achieving this.
You're right but just to explain where I came from there were a lot of "just use this default.nix" that had arguments and could not "just be used".

I understood that an argument was needed, that error was clear and when I googled it I found the solution that I wrote.

I supposed it's meant to plug in to something bigger maybe and that's why there are arguments without import everywhere.. maybe? But I've given up now, so I'll never know, we're just gonna suck it up and keep using brew and try to make it idiot-proof somehow.

It just feels like a shame that nix is so unapproachable. It's just as much apple's fault though - if xcode has some open command line tools I'm sure there would have been ready-made formulas for everything we needed. At least I got to vent.
> You can imagine outlawing processing some crypto transactions in some area. Miners have no choice but to comply, leading to at least a fork and massive confusion, at most to actual enforcement of the rule.

It is not a geo-location issue. The enforcement measures in question either manage to control 50% of the hashrate or they don't. If they don't, the protocol will ignore their censorship. Yes, they could continue mining a minority fork chain, but you would need to convince Bitcoin-users and services to use the fork instead of the uncensored version. You could imagine this being done by force: ISPs block the download of the software, exchanges no longer trade it etc.

The point is merely: <50%, the power is not with the miners at all; it is the users that need to be controlled.
Sometimes the folks on this VC-funded tech forum sure do love to demonize making money. Half the comments in this thread are some flavor of "it's horrible that this person is making money from something that was subsidized" or "even if they make money..."

Professional sports is incredibly lucrative, and college sports are incredibly lucrative for the coaching staff and some college administrators that don't have anything to do with it. I would much prefer tax money to go toward endeavors and projects that aren't completely self-sustaining and profitable, but until localities are legally prohibited from negotiating tax breaks in this manner, it's not going to happen.
> that part of the operation is almost certainly profitable

Profitable against variable costs, not fixed + variable costs. Those shows are still receiving a taxpayer subsidy and in the vast majority of cities, wouldn't be performed in nearly as nice a building without it.
Hi, great work releasing this! Trying to explain vim concisely is always an interesting challenge and I had a great time reading your attempt in this book. I always find it really interesting on how people try to group certain vim functions in a way that makes sense to people that don't use vim.

Whenever I try to explain vim to other people, I always start super abstract, i.e 'vim grammar is all (count)? verb then object. Learn actions and then the movements to apply the action where you want'. I think you cover that idea pretty well in your 'Vim philosophy and features' section whilst not making it overly abstract and keeping it relatable.

Some things I noticed, you mention registers in the insert mode section before explaining what they are. It seemed odd to me that you used the word before explaining what it meant, but maybe it is unavoidable?

I also noticed you completely left out folds (z, :help fold). Personally, I aggressively fold code I'm not working on so I think they are super important :D. There was a plugin posted recently thats a cool alternative to folding though (similar to emacs narrow) [0] [1].

[0] https://github.com/hoschi/yode-nvim

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30305011
In Europe they all used to be compared to the standard scale railcar which was kept in Paris. Recently standards have been updated to only rely on universal constants. So now European freight is measured in terms of the speed of light.
you could also use Twilio to build an SMS inbox API and do it without any hardware.
Normally the EU is always up for making life complicated for big tech but we are currently... indisposed.
I absolutely understand where you're coming from here, but in practice and reality, the point of the title really is to make sure people click the article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games#Raid_by_th...
Many years ago, the San Francisco Giants were looking for a new stadium to replace the decrepit Candlestick Park. They settled on some land in the south bay on the outskirts of my town. Local town officials approved a plan that would implement a utility tax on residents that would pay a portion of the costs. However, it required the approval of the voters. In the next election, the approval vote appeared on the ballot where, to my pleasant surprise, it was massively rejected, 70% to 30%. Ultimately, the Giants built a fine, new stadium with their own funding on land provided by San Francisco. For us, it was fortunate we had the opportunity to vote on it unlike so many other cities where they're given no choice. (See Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Glendale, New Orleans, Chicago, ...)
Remix looks cool, look forward to hopefully trying it on a small personal project sometime this year. The main issue with React is the things it doesn't give you, and these frameworks are beginning to solve that quite well.
At work, I wanted to use google sheets for our schedule because it just works: can have view only links, and it handles multiple editors at the same time gracefully. Got asked “well what if google goes down?”, so back to our problematic system of excel sheets it is :(
Take 10 minutes to learn how Super Nintendo graphics work
Here is a link to the case study, Hot Yoga Tallahassee: A Case Study of Misogynistic Extremism.

- https://www.secretservice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/20...

And their accompanying news release:

- https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2022/03/secr...
It might also have something to do with that Santa Barbara incident in 2014 that killed 3, and the Toronto van attack in 2018 that killed 11 (and injured 15).
To the featured article's point, it's gotten so hard to be able to judge which products will be any good at all that buying expensive things expecting lasting quality becomes a huge gamble.

There's also the huge mental barrier of getting over the sunk cost fallacy. If you buy an expensive thing and a part of it breaks in such a way that it still remains mostly functional, it's really, really hard to admit that it should be replaced. You end up living with a broken thing for a long time, just because you're mentally depreciating the thing.

I've been through this with a lot of furniture. It doesn't seem to matter whether I pay $100 or $500 for a bookshelf, it's a crapshoot whether or not the listing lied about it being made of solid wood and not particle board, or whether the screw holes will align correctly, or been tapped correctly for the screws to actually engage without crossthreading, or even use proper screws and not those damn "lock"-bolts (that never actually lock, so given enough time they always work themselves loose).

My wife and I built our children's bunk bed. It was an expensive, time-intensive, physically painful endeavor, partly because this was the first time we were building something so large. It's not great. But it easily matches or exceeds the quality of any of the other furniture we've bought. I'm very proud of the work we did, but at the same time, I'm furious that I can't count on just buying things.

It's also gotten hard to trust people's recommendations on things, which goes back to the featured article's comments on cultural expectations. Most of the people I know just live with broken furniture. They think IKEA is great stuff. It's not. It's just that it's so impossible to find anything better that you might as well buy IKEA.

I might switch to only buying antique furniture, i.e. use survivorship bias to my advantage. Find the stuff that has survived taking a beating already.
Take an atom that somehow only has two energy levels, 0 and 1. Connect the atom to a heat sink at temperature T. At very low T that atom almost always has energy 0. We know the energy of each atom very well, they're (almost) all 0. People say: there's very little entropy. At very high T the atom has expected energy nearly 0.5, and the probabilities of energy 0 or energy 1 are nearly equal. So that's maximum entropy. We're as ignorant as it's possible to be.

At negative temperature the expected energy of each atom is >0.5. But as the expected energy approaches 1.0, we know the energy of each atom very well. They're (almost) all 1. That's weird. It's weird enough that you can't assign a positive temperature to these atoms.

Physically, you can get to negative temperature by sneaking atoms into the 1 state. Pumping a laser is an example. But you can't get to negative temperature by just heating with finite-temperature heaters.

Entropy can be measured in bits. If we have 10 two-level atoms at extremely high temperature, that's 10 bits of entropy. The state might be 10 1100 1110 or 01 1101 0111 or any of 2^10 possibilities. On the other hand if we have 10 two-level atoms at extremely low positive temperature, the state is usually 00 0000 0000 and the entropy is close to 0 bits.

"Entropy" in bits is just the size of the random number you need in order to represent the system.
Haha, touché. I will set a reminder to do that.
So it isn't a minor open and shut case then as you said? Surely something minor should have been sorted quickly no?

And most people actually support the motion to stop accepting them, despite the division it is the correct decision.

I only hope that Tor does the same.
I can't help, and I do not absolutely want to being rude but IMVHO it's about time anyone start thinking about personal IT autonomy.

I mean: first computer for the (wealthy and educated) masses was desktops, designed to work in a decentralized network of desktops, It's about time to rediscover such concept:

- can you afford a small homeserver? A simple celeron/8Gb ram/storage as needed? Well for most people that's more than enough to have with public IP/dynamic DNS with a not-so-crappy connection

- do you know how to set it up with FLOSS tools?

If the answers are yes I see exactly ZERO reasons to use someone else computer. I can understand a student that live day-to-day, I can understand someone who do not have enough knowledge to deploy something personal, but in other cases well... We are in 2022...

It's not just a matter of ideology, convenience etc it's a matter of civilization: do we really want to arrive at 2030 owning nothing as the WEF want? Because owning contracts with third party services already means owning nothing. If software side something lack it's about time for FLOSS devs to look at it, perhaps instead investing time in creating stuff on top of proprietary cloud APIs witch is by nature wasted time since those APIs can always change dropping all works on top of them in a snap.
> Many of us (myself included) really want to see the Ukrainians win, so it's tempting to pick and interpret news in a way that makes the Ukrainians look smart and effective and the Russians look dumb.

There are no winners in the war. Personally I am not siding with any side, I understand UA's right to defend themself (though it seems kinda pointless just wasting human lives and resources for some pride and borders on paper) and I would be their huge fan, if it weren't for their obvious propaganda uncritically parroted by western MSM calling anyone doubting it Putin sympathizer. With such propaganda it's difficult to side with any party. I can also see last 8 years and don't think the attack came out of nowhere without reason as they try to push.
Modern society is over sexualized, "coomerpilled" in incel terms. Reduce onlyfans, self-objectifying gamer girls, and other bait, and the problems will disappear. This cheap surrogate dopaminogenic entertainment will wither away along with the maladapted behavior it causes.
The article cites Buffalo as paying for the stadium, but isn't the public portion ($1B) coming from New York State and not the city itself?

The stadium isn't even located in the city of Buffalo but well outside of it.
The author uses a lot of examples of industries they seem to have only passing knowledge, e.g. geely's involvement in Volvo's daily management. I can tell you, it's non-existant. Same for Tata in JLR.
I had no idea that that's how the EFF started. Interesting fact. Thanks.
I agree, I am not much younger than OP, but I think the GenZ version he posted is much more engaging. His default one is definitely lacking soul. But I dont think you have to give up Minimalism to gain that soul.
> Check your monthly recurring expenses, do you really need NetFlix, Disney+, HBO AND Youtube Premium?

So, I agree with checking and pruning even the little things, but the cost of all four of those combined come to 0.4% of OP's income. Whatever monthly recurring expenses are eating up $110k, it's likely more the daily $15 coffees or five-nights-a-week food deliveries for $100+ a pop, not a monthly $15 bill for Netflix.

Some things are more expensive in NYC. Netflix is the same cost everywhere.
It's weird that London 2012 did reasonably well trying to avoid Olympic white elephants with facilities that could be downsized, use of existing sites etc., but really messed up what to do with the main stadium itself.

I think the only other major team stadium involving government stuff in the UK was the Coventry Building Society Arena (previously the Ricoh Arena) that used to be partly owned by Coventry City Council alongside a charity. But that was more notable for a long rent dispute between Coventry City FC and the stadium owners and various threats to move / build new stadiums etc., so was presumably less of a gift to the team financially. It's now owned by the Wasps rugby team, who also ended up in some sort of rent dispute with Coventry City FC leading to them playing at Birmginham City's ground for a couple of years.
It's not really the same thing as spaced armor. The hope with statistical slat armor is that the tip of an RPG, where the detonator is, passes between the slats but the rest of the wider warhead behind that detonator is destroyed by the slats, which are too narrow for the warhead to thread through. The aim is to destroy the shaped charge warhead before the detonator has a chance to set it off; it only works some of the time, hence 'statistical'.

It doesn't do much good against javelins, TOWs, improvised EFPs, etc. These sort of weapons aren't impact fused, the slat armor never has a chance to disable these warheads before they go off and the slats themselves won't do much to stop or deflect the penetrating jet created by the detonation of such warheads.
Would either of those things genuinely put other companies off? If I were looking to expand into that market then it wouldn't put me off. They're manageable hurdles to purchasing rather than reasons that buying ARM would be bad business.
MITM isn’t common, but the big problem with SMS for 2FA is that mobile numbers are portable. If your number gets ported without your consent then your 2FA codes gets sent to a device you don’t control.[1] NIST stopped recommending SMS 2FA half a decade ago for this reason.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam

[2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/nist_is_no_lo...
Considering Vortex86 is still currently produced, are x86 compatible and free from IME and PSP, could they qualify as modern processors for fsf's ryf certification?
IP packets contain 20 bytes of headers, the rest is data. Theoretically you could create the world's worst VPN by stuffing the 140 bytes of an SMS absolutely full of binary data, with some compression of course.

So I went looking for "IP over SMS" and actually found this: https://github.com/spandanb/ipos but it's for web browsers only. This old HN thread talks about the same concept: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8304409

You could possibly port something like https://github.com/PiMaker/Teletun to SMS instead of using Telegram. The Python TUN API seems quite elegant to work with, if you can get two SMS capable devices running Linux you can probably set up the world's worst wireless AP.

Some students had the same idea and built a proof of concept: https://www.thomasclausen.net/en/nice-student-project-at-eco...
Yeah but that wasn't the original statement, the argument was that a Chinese person would be more likely to recognize the LA Lakers than a London pro soccer team. So popularity of the NBA specifically is quite relevant.

Also, you see people wearing NY Yankees hats globally. Some of them don't even seem to know anything about baseball and just think it is some sort of NY merch. But still there are absolutely American sports teams that have recognizable brands more globally.
IBM open sources a $300 fully-functional Lego microscope design
A Repository Full of Open Source Bots
I lack the statistics to really get into the cause of this but perhaps this is caused by the winner takes all economy on dating apps. Perhaps sex is easier to acquire for the majority of women than ever before and increasingly difficult for the bottom n% of males or alternatively it feels this way for those men. A lack of empathy for the challenges that women face (both during their daily life's but also during dating) seems to characterise the incels as a group more than anything.

Add to that a COVID crisis and uncertain economic times and this might get worse before it gets better.
But, to add, sim swap attacks are a known issue and anything of value becomes a target. The main issue is that retail employees in 'authorized reseller' locations are allowed to make changes to accounts with the PIN of the account holder, but that is often easy to guess or is easy to figure out by anyone that does enough digging into someone's life.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/tech/sim-hack-million-dollars...

https://youtu.be/caVEiitI2vg?t=145 (tldr he got cold called to set up 'extra security', gave the attacker a PIN number, and the attacker used that to impersonate them within a T-Mobile store and swap the sim card from the phone into a new phone, thus receiving SMS 2fa codes for their accounts).
> a service can always be made more robust

It can, but I don't think it's too hard to make it robust enough that pages become a rare occurrence. At my company (a small startup with <5 developers - so we're not exactly flush with development capacity) we've managed to reduce outages in a previously quite buggy app to almost nothing over about 18 months (while also developing new features). I don't think we've had an outage in the last year which wasn't due to either:

- An outage at our underling hosting provider (which we can't do anything about anyway)

- A code deploy (which we can plan and control the timing of)
Ask HN: Thoughts on PWAs (Progressive Web Apps)?
PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) promise a single codebase for building cross-platform mobile and desktop apps.

Does the promise live up to the reality?

Or are PWAs an oversold, underpowered and disappointing technology?

If you're not familiar with PWAs, here are some links about PWAs from Microsoft and Google (could not find anything from Apple):

Microsoft: Overview of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/progressive-web-apps-chromium/

Google: Progressive Web Apps https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps/
Quick question, are you on any hallucinogen right now?
> Further, spaces like the Kennedy center (or amphitheaters) play a revolving set of shows which makes it difficult for any private entity to have enough skin in the game to fund it.

It's really difficult to fund it when you have government backed competition which doesn't answer to the market.

I'm not sure if this applies to the Kennedy Center, but it certainly applies to the mega stadiums which double as concert venues that seem to be popping up around here. It would be impossible to compete against a government owned venue which will certainly have at least a conflict of interest in the development of supporting infrastructure and other legislation.
Thanks for the link; I glazed over when the article said "Confined point vortices are a system with bounded phase space as their canonical momenta are not independent degrees of freedom from their canonical position coordinates."

It's like I understand the individual words like phase, canonical and coordinates, but the combination is... an entirely different field of study.
Interesting! Well, I would not complain. The phones get a bit less sexy. Fine by me.

To deal with battery issues, I run those cases containing one so I can reduce wear in the difficult to change battery.