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> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. [0]

e: in any case, there are a number of ways of telling this story I can think of that'd be far worse than Twitter, even if I do agree that a series of tweets doesn't feel like the best way of communincating a small blog post. Plus, I feel like you end up with more engagement between the author and commenters on Twitter, such as in [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://twitter.com/PierreDeWulf/status/1508476780583206918
I understand what you are saying, and I'm saying it's a pointless argument which doesn't add any value to the discussion.
Apparently, Mr Cash hates Montana
Small wars are better than big ones. NATO getting dragged into a big war wouldn't be better so the "at the expense" bit is doubtful, these things would still happen but be orders of magnitude worse.
"The agreement is "tacit" you agree simply by participating."

Yes, but you are also forced to participate in order to pay your taxes. Even if you, for example, only conducted trade via barter, the gov would still require you to pay taxes in local currency.
I was wondering about this too.
Came to say, I love a hint of yeasty flavor in my pizza crust. Especially if it's with beer.
It’s oddly reassuring to know that we’ll actually have some time to stay a spacefaring civilization after the sun runs out.
And because we have hundreds of running reactors, virtually all of them older generations than what we'd build today, and yet by statistics it's still one of the safest energy sources. Safety is just not a reason to reject fission energy.
While Android users still tinker within their steadily shrinking degrees of freedom, their desire for software freedom has an escape route within the Android world. But what if Google succeeds in using Fuschia to lock down the consumer mobile ecosystem ? With nowhere left to go, won't users focus on some new space entirely outside of Google's reach instead of just fleeing Google around Android ?
Is there an english version of the game?
We need tons of coal and plastics to capture the sun shine.
> it seems to have 48k lines of Rust source code.

Yep, we are much smaller than Google and when you're fitting stuff into an embedded space, you need things to be much, much smaller. We couldn't fit the output of all that code on the chip even if we did write it.

If you do `cargo vendor` to make the comparison equal in that sense, loc (which I use instead of tokei for no real reason) says there's... 100MM lines of Rust? That seems like quite the bug, lol.

> Is an OS that an ....

Yep, agree 100%. It's part of why I found it so interesting you chose "serious" as the term; not that it's bad of course, but made me think of exactly this question. I have no idea what the answer is. I do think it's a good word to describe a difference between something intended for production and a hobby OS, of which we both know there are many in Rust.
This is the best comment in the thread and it's somehow being downvoted.

Physics grad student here and I agree with this comment whole-heartedly. I love the idea of nuclear power but I also understand that it requires enormous CapEx and that the time to get a reactor up, running, and carbon neutral is much too long to address the climate crisis. We absolutely shouldn't be shutting down nuclear plants but any money spent on new plants is money that could otherwise be spent generating lower cost Wind/Solar in a shorter period of time.
Yeah it's very unlikely that companies are going to start to want to share their source (which they paid good money for) with competitors for free. I don't think there's anything pointing to this being a trend, and anyone who believes in it is probably just mistaking the expanding software world in general for an increase in open-source (remember, even the population of earth has gone up 20% since 2000).
> Why? Why is competitive advantage the only thing that matters?

Because unlike the real world, we expect games to be inherently fair and meritocratic. In a competitive game, we expect that no matter how somebody looks or what they may say, the only thing that matters is their ability to perform. This is comparable to why people get upset about, say, the speed-enhancing swimwear for the Olympic games but don't have any problem with that swimwear existing.

One of the central functions of games is to level the playing field, or at least to reduce the dimensionality to such a degree that it is possible to be focused on all influencing factors in a game within the confines of that game. A closed-system, when we're usually all stuck playing in an open-system. Since all real-world closed-systems actually exist within an open-system, of course there could be external influences, but gamers generally have an expectation that attempts will be made to make a game as self-contained and closed as is possible. Pay-to-win games break this contract to make those unwilling to pay into unwitting tools for the enjoyment of the paying customer. They are open-systems under the guise of being closed-systems.

Granted, the category referred to as "Games" now includes many different things, including "Experiences" that aren't really games at all. And there are so many games today that it's pretty easy to find games that are actually games at their core. But there's also plenty of games that are marketed as games but turn out to be significantly about art / fashion to such a degree that they can no longer really be classified as games.

I've got call out Roblox for playing the meta-game here in a way that all gamers frustrated by pay-to-win will appreciate. It takes the idea of a closed system being broken into an open system, and makes that (making F2P games) into a closed system that breaks into an open system: you get to pay-to-win at creating pay-to-win games. A beautiful pyramid scheme that even your 11-yo child can enjoy being exploited within!
> How is it treason to support (as in cheer for not support military) a country in a war your country is not fighting?

Because geography?

Do you still not get that if Ukraine falls, those countries are next? Do you still not get that while Ukraine fights for its existence, its western neighbours are hoping all to god this gets resolved before it reaches them?

Do you still not get that Europe is sending billions of euros of military aid to Ukraine, so that the fight stays contained within Ukraine?

And do you still not get that the further this spreads, the higher the risk of nuclear war?

This isn't a game anymore. This isn't Keyboard Warrior Happy Time, where we all get together and meta-talk about a variety of fallacies on the news du jour that might happen years down the line.

People are fucking dying by the thousands, and if we don't stop it, it'll be by the millions.

The pandemic was nothing compared to what we're potentially facing if we fuck up.
A Tor exit node will get you banned absolutely everywhere, and your VPS account terminated if it isn't. It's pretty irresponsible to suggest people run one if they aren't aware of the extremely high risk involved. Despite the screenshots (why is there no screenshot of what this actually runs) this only seems to run a Tor Relay, but similar caveats apply.
I have a concept in mind, but have no idea yet whether it's going to work out: My idea is to require relationships between geometric objects to always be explicit.

For example, you're not allowed to define a point that happens to lie on a surface. You must instead explicitly define the point in terms of the surface. By extruding from a sketch that lies in the surface, or by saying "extrude until the shape hits the surface", or by specifying some kind of constraint.

I hope that it is practical to design CAD models in a way, such that these relationships are always explicit, and I hope that this will enable the CAD kernel to not have to rely on messy floating point stuff comparisons. But as I said, not no idea if it's going to work out like that.
I think there's a huge potential for Software Archeology. Maybe not 5 years but within 50 years this will be huge.

You could come at it from two fronts. Bottom up there's a need for tools that better help you investigate "what the hell is all this, what's in it, and where is it?" for software artifacts. Top down there's a need for an interactive dashboard executives could use to get a view (on their terms not the programmers') what the software that runs their business actually does.

If I knew how to implement this I'd quit my job tomorrow to work on it. Unfortunately I have no idea. I can only see in vague terms what it might look like and the hole in our current way of interacting with software that drives this need.

Or I could be wrong: in general other people consistently don't care about the things I think they obviously should care about.
I want to own a luxury mansion in the metaverse for $2,400 about as much as I want to own an expensive link to auto-generated image of an ape.
The nearest one is 5 hrs south, near Morro Bay: Diablo Canyon. It's being shut down soon. There was a nearer one at Rancho Seco but it was shut down. There's another one in SoCal at San Onofre but that one is shut down too.

Oh and I remember that Berkeley is a "Nuclear-free Zone" (you'll see the signs as you enter) but that they once had a research reactor :D
the av ticket is only a few months old yet. in this env a typical IT ticket needs 6 months. esp. when you are not allowed to talk to anyone. a windows shop.
"Nuclear is super expensive!" they keep screaming as I've been living in places with primarily nuclear power for the vast majority of my life. The only 3 years when I didn't, I really felt the price of dinosaur-fuel even though it was at rock-bottom prices for all 3 years. Illinois is majority nuclear and is one of the cheapest stats in the USA when it comes to electricity rates all because of nuclear. And I grew up in Cleveland which was also primarily nuclear and electricity was so cheap there, the power and gas company was paying people to switch their entire homes from LNG heating to electric heating for about 3 decades.
This was a fun read, but I think it came to the wrong conclusion. The real issue imo was "I had practically only weeks of runway". You just don't have time to make it happen.

As a fellow start up founder, I see most of my job being just buying time for the business. Buying time to make, to talk, and to think.

It wasn't like the tool had no value to Susan, maybe with a booth at her go-to annual expo, mentioning a few past lawsuits the tool could avoid, and an affinity partnership with her industry association, the tool would have become a fact of life for her.

It's a lot of work, I'm not denying that. Yet, this is the sort of thing YC's idealized startup stories often fail to say. If "instant Product Market Fit" is so good, then how come practically every new high flying SV startup is using loads of VC money to "bend the market to the product"?

Exciting Startups have to venture far, it's not about "we let you buy your potatoes online" anymore. Chances are you won't get deals by talking to people once. I wouldn't say that means your idea is bad.
This happened to a lot of songs, including a bunch where the famous version is basically the only song anyone knows by the artist who popularized it (a "one hit wonder" but for a song that wasn't even an original). I may be way off, but it seems like this doesn't happen as much these days but did all the time in the 50s-70s. Not sure why that would be.
Yes but that's the point. That's all external and cannot be blamed on the game, or taken to mean the game is incomplete without. Extending on that, there should then also be a ban on fashion and luxury items in any shape or form IRL, as they do the same things to kids (and adults). And a ban on violence in videogames, as I'm sure there's someone out there who's been pushed over the edge by it and committed a crime they otherwise wouldn't have.

So where do we stop? This is just one more way, in addition to the thousands we already have, in which peer pressure and status symbols manifest.
None really, relying on labelling IP space as originating from X country doesn't really work when adjacent IP addresses can be on the other side of the planet, it works for most domestic isps but that's about it, also consider expats who might want to be returning to the UK (like me) and are browsing from correctly flagged foreign IP space, better would be to just ask for confirmation of residence (or target residence) without actually checking. If ineligible persons apply then that isn't really your responsibility and easily gamed by vpns anyway.
or hospitals
Capitalism is absurdly inneficient for maintaining long term humanity interests, e.g. the U.S became a third world country since they let westinghouse dies in darkness. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/westinghouse-tos...
> Do you have a source for that?

an interview with https://twitter.com/wolski_jaros Sorry, not in english.
Uh, I think you're the uninformed one here. People catch TB from milk that comes from a cow that also has TB, regardless of how 'fresh' the milk is.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5424a4.htm#:~:te....

EDIT: This is exactly the problem that I am trying to point out. You (likely an otherwise very educated person) assume that pasteurization is intended to preserve milk because that is the (unscientific) tone of these comments, when in fact that is very far from the reason (you can preserve unpasteurized milk as yogurt/cheese, we've known how to do that for centuries, but it will still potentially give you TB).
What about the right congressman? Find whichever one's constituents are most likely to vote based on health related legislation, and try to suggest they get it adopted by a government agency. Through political ads people can see they immediately support the idea, visit the platform as-is, and that will influence their vote. Even if legislation doesn't ultimately get through that's still a lot of attention. Goes for any elected position whether it be federal, state, or even some smaller board of some kind. Pitching voter influence is a much stronger drive than simply suggesting people pay for something.
Crusher Supercomputer Comes Online with New AMD CPUs and MI250X GPUs
> Proliferation would be a concern though.

https://whatisnuclear.com/non-proliferation.html
These docs don’t render great on mobile just FYI
Wow I will have to look up some of those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_centric_networking
we should take comfort in the fact that nuclear power is one of the few industries that designs for the worst case scenario and that is actively regulated in most western countries. The quality of that regulation can be improved but it is far better than the other use case of nuclear technology - weapons. We have no idea how effective or functional the safety systems in place for the world's nuclear arsenal are or how antiquated they are.
ADTs are indeed powerful, but they are one solution to the Expression Problem [1] among many. Just as OOP has limitations, so do ADTs. Until you spend time studying each one and absorb the lessons they have to offer, only then will you realize that all solutions have tradeoffs, only then will you finally achieve enlightenment.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem
Here's the same text in a single post:

https://typefully.com/PierreDeWulf/mN1NgeKp1r6I
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The US Navy builds new nuclear reactors every year. It takes 5+ years to build commercial plants because of government bureaucrats, endless regulations and every new nuke plant is a new, non-standard design.
You don't need to make sequencer - they are exists now and some even affordable to buy for personal use, and exists industry, which run hardware progress.

But their software not good, because they just make first steps into gigabytes world, they have not worked with so large data chunks before, and this is really stellar opportunity.
> wind and solar power

More people die yearly from wind and solar power during manufacturing and installation than have died directly due to nuclear energy in its entire history as a power source. And yes, those direct numbers for nuclear include the entire supply chain for it if you weren't aware.
> It's a bit crude to use a different user per application, but it's effective & robust.

This is how I run services on my home server. Plex runs in a rootless container under user plex for example.
From a certain extreme perspective, there is some truth to what you're saying, but wow, this is so one-sided, extreme, partial and damaging. What decades of neo liberal brainwashing has done to people.

This is so sad, really. We are NOT companies, we're not robots only driven by free will, we don't live in an economy.
We are hardcore social animals with huge biological & affective needs, this is scientifically proven.

I hope young people don't read this and blindly believe it.
> The other article on the front page about video games being boring and predictable should try this game.

How though? It's in Mandarin.
Last year, the 44-year-old nuclear power plant resumed generating power. But most of the nuclear plants are over 40 years old, and even worse, some of them were built on active faults.

Even after two atomic bombings and the worst nuclear accident, we still don't understand the threat of radiation.
Set Package Written in Go
I wrote a set package in Go. It supports thread safety. Also, you can use is thread-unsafe. I tried to keep it as simple as possible. Besides some basic functionalities, I added a little bit more functionalities like Difference, IsSubset, IsSuperset, etc. If you could use, give feedback, leave a star, make a contribution to my project, I'll be happy.
So, gold is currently trading at $62/gram, and the Bank of Russia will buy it at $52/gram.
ha, nice idea. of course forbidden. this is high security code.
One of the oft missed benefits of seeking funding is you have someone less enamored with the idea who has to imagine how it can make money.

This might be a very useful filter.
I 100% agree. The issue at hand is that those insane people are a small fringe, there are many people who hold slight skepticism, and they are quickly labelled insane and grouped with the fringe. That's not a good thing for a healthy society.
The problem is that there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of these sort of bio labs around the world.

So, I would agree that suspicion is warranted. Perhaps enough for an investigation. But, IMO, that's about it.
I agree with you entirely, but while I would permit them to parent how they desire, they want to constrain me, so the relationship isn't symmetric. I have no problem with other people helicopter-parenting their kids. Just leave me and my family be. But that's not what most Americans want. They want to set the state on people like me.
Island: Browser you've never heard of is now worth a billion dollars
Reno touches the California border, so perhaps he was just over the line in Cold Springs or Verdi.

Or maybe he shot into California.
I agree - I think only a company with pockets as deep as Google could pull off creating a brand new operating system in today's world. I'm curious to see what comes of it.
> There are good reasons to be skeptical, it’s also evolutionary necessary. The majority can be wrong.

However most people that engage in this behavior do it for the reasons that have nothing to do with skepticism or critical thinking.

They do it for exactly opposite reason. People who are prone to it are generally less intelligent, less able to think critically, easier to mislead, they follow along easier, they more strongly bind with their in-group regardless of the crazy practices it performs.

This kind of behavior probably exists for evolutionary reasons, but it's not to help the species discover best truth.

It's more of a plan B for low fitness individuals, who are too flawed to compete with general population. They tend to look for or form smaller sub-populations of similarly flawed individuals in hopes that while in general population they are firmly below average desirability, in those smaller populations they might be above average and have a chance of passing their genes they wouldn't have otherwise.
Battling strawmen is a circuitous exercise.

Skepticism is not insanity. Questioning vaccine safety is not insanity.

Many of the anti vax claims were utter insanity (microchips in the injection)

As were the election claims
I am not sure what wiring to different jurisdictions allows you to do, but I was referring to the parallel books for the purposes of underreporting revenue for tax purposes or stealing from other business partners. The card processor always has your sales amounts available so come tax time or audit time, you will not be able to hide revenue, as seen on 1099-Ks.

https://www.irs.gov/payments/general-faqs-on-new-payment-car...

This is always a funny video clip about electronic payments making low level shenanigans more difficult. The game nowadays is to do it legally, and getting involved in the political machinery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gsz7Gu6agA
Roman Abramovich 'poisoned' at peace negotiations with Ukraine
An even bigger risk than being “banned” or losing your account would be mundane things like pricing changes that break your business model or the discontinuation of a service your product relies on at a deep level.
This is one of those "no idea what I would use this for, but I kinda want one things"...
Agreed. If I ran a SaaS startup with a team of three and $1m ARR I'd feel pretty confident that things are gonna be alright for me.
I don't particularly see a new large player come in the browser space, though. Creating a browser from scratch is a huge untertaking and the fact that everyone except Google, Mozilla, and Apply have given up is testament to that.

Edge (Legacy) was a decent browser, but keeping up even with still missing Web APIs proved too expensive (alongside fixing bugs). Safari may be in the same pickle these days with apparently a sizeable backlog of missing features and incompatible implementations. Granted, that may also be due to many developers assuming Chrome to be a reference implementation.

If a new player comes along I'd guess it will be based on Blink, but they would probably need more resources than Google can throw at Chrome. And a way to finance them ... there's probably too few people willing to pay for a browser these days.
It's more accurate to say it's accepted as a possibility. Back in 2020 it was commonly dismissed as pure conspiracy theory and just not even considered as an option.
I'm completely convinced that the voting in Redecor - Home Design Game[1] is completely random. What they've done is Skinner boxed their competitions in a way that more or less evenly distributes random rewards to maximize engagement rather than reward players based on merit. It has the veneer of a voting-based competition, but none of the real guts of one.

1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fi.reworks.red...
Especially when you see hidden opcodes at the CPU level - if you can't trust the hardware how can you trust the software?
It's possible; I haven't looked at Skia for some time. As far as I can tell, in the past, https://skia.org/docs/user/tips/#does-skia-shape-text-kernin... applied.