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> Not enough was invested in nuclear.

The Manhattan Project cost, adjusted for inflation, $22B. That was just to blow something up. Had the United States and Great Britain not subsequently developed nuclear energy, it is likely it never would have been developed because it would have been impossible due to cost. Only a nation can develop nuclear energy, it is not something that could have been developed privately, again, due to cost.

When factoring the cost of the energy produced by nuclear fission, the cost of that electricity, the cost of the development of nuclear energy is never factored in. If it were, it would be clear there has never been a more expensive way to generate electricity than nuclear fission. Nuclear energy development was a freebee, and the biggest freebee in the history of civilization: nuclear energy development, paid for by tax payers, was given away and the tax payers' investment never had one penny of return. "Electricity too cheap to meter," never materialized, and not even close. The tax payers were bamboozled.

When all is said and done, the treehuggers have the weaker argument. Sure, nuclear energy has some environmental concerns, but these kinds of arguments pale in comparison to the economic argument: nuclear energy has never been and will never be economically viable. There are reasons, but they can be ignored, because we can see the result, no investor will touch nuclear. And complaining about the type of nuclear plants serves no purpose because the fission plants we built are the cheapest designs there are. Seeder reactors would be cool, but, you see, they're even less economically viable than the fission steam turbine plants.

We could invest everything, every dollar earned, every possible value society could produce, into nuclear energy development, but even if we did, nuclear energy would remain economically unviable.

Again, if we could just invest a small portion of what we wasted on nuclear energy development into solar energy development... well jusT look at how cheap solar has gotten in 20 years with private development. Imagine if it was 80 years instead of 20 and included massive, mind-boggling, government subsidies. Forget any government investment in solar, if solar subsidies could merely match nuclear subsidies, dollar for dollar, no one would be talking about nuclear power anymore.
Or maybe you and your wife don't funge with every other pair of individuals in the whole world? Some people truly aren't compatible and make each other miserable.
You're sending cryptocurrency from a wallet belonging to an individual physically present in country A to one belonging to an individual physically present in country B. It's not so much where the wallet is, obviously, but where the people using it are.
Me too, I've heard rumors of like 80% of an engineering team disappearing.

How many times can that happen before we end up in a situation where there's no work capable of being done lol.
Of course they will. They have to keep shoveling dollars into Zuck’s mouth or he will get angry.
> Those trip reports are almost never done in a therapeutic context.

> Psychedelic therapy is what research has shown to be very helpful with depression.

Exactly right, which is why I mention it. A lot of people are going to read this thread and head off to do some self-experimentation at home, alone. We need to point out that the research and therapy environment is extremely different than DIY.
False. Not a single one of them used any external lens at all, according to the page itself. This may be true for the campaign as a whole, but it's not true for the page under discussion in this thread.
Option 2 has many unforeseen consequences.

Business wants to run a query across customers? In most DBs you need either custom code or to create a stored procedure to iterate across schemas.

Every table that you create is multiplied by the number of customers. This has implications for some database systems (like PG's vacuum).

Your migrations will take _forever_ to run.

Etc.
> The USA are the good guys

That kind of reductionism doesn't really forward the discussion. The USA is a complex system of interconnected organizations run by constantly churning groups of people. It's a topic that needs to be approached with some level of nuance.
An accurate title might be, "A dirty dish by the sink can reveal a big marriage problem". That is, a succeeding marriage includes strategies to deal with such things, and provides compensations for minor issues that can't be resolved, but a marriage that can't resolve them and does not offer sufficient compensating value will fail.
> can sue the Federal executive in Federal court.

How does it work the other way around? Does the federal court sue Texas?
I think the (unstated) idea is to use an arc furnace, during peak solar/wind output to heat graphite and recover the energy later using their fancy new TPV cell. That's going to require some really good insulation, since your heat source is intermittent and your temperature difference is huge.

My first thought was let's use it in fission (and later fusion) reactors.
That's complete bullshit. Look outside of your bubble, you have lot of movie production in Europe, India, East Asia and none match what you describe.
Must have taken the Google approach and already terminated the product. /s
> being the CEO of a major corporation requires you take privacy more seriously

My privacy is as valuable to me.
A good summary of what they did wrong: https://space.stackexchange.com/a/58854/5793

(Basically everything, it seems.)
That's CFR, which is meaningless.
> You'll find that for many vehicles, the brakes alone will not be sufficient to stop if the motor is attempting to accelerate;

Maybe in 60s cars with 4 wheel drums. But the brake force on even basic modern cars is sufficient to overcome like 800hp. Go ahead and give it a shot in your own car and see. I have a 400+hp car with shitty brakes and it will still stop completely and readily if I hold down the throttle and brakes at the same time in second gear.

Now, if you ride the brakes, they will overheat and lose stopping power. So you're going to want to actually try to stop the car.
Jira's big feature is being widely known. It's the modern version of "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."
Tech nerds (like myself) tend to think in terms of software and protocols. "If the server responds with a 200 OK to your request, then that means by definition that it gave you permission!" But this is a reminder that that's basically absurd. The government can actually just lock you up for violating the law and it doesn't matter what the stupid protocol says.
> before you know it, you’ll get a favor like that back on something you really care about.

That is not at all guaranteed. Personally, I'd by surprised if it were commonly correct.
Honestly, it feels like most people here aren't reading the article.

> The researchers then decided to see if they could use data collected on mute from that app to infer the types of activities taking place in the background. Using machine learning algorithms, they trained an activity classifier using audio from YouTube videos representing six common background activities, including cooking and eating, playing music, typing and cleaning. Applying the classifier to the type of telemetry packets the app was sending, the team could identify the background activity with an average of 82% accuracy.

How is this not extremely concerning for anybody who cares about privacy?

How about we not make the default that companies can do whatever they want and users have to take steps like a hardware-muted mic (which isn't always an option) to ensure a basic expectation of privacy?
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I have had to correct this too many times already. Server is the name of the deployment type of their on-prem. It means single node non-clustered. Data center is their deployment that supports clustering to multiple nodes (and used to support a few extra features). They are retiring the Server deployment type licenses and pushing everyone to data center or cloud. So no, they aren’t EOLing their on-prem.
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The reason is because the real things that are happening in the cryptocurrency space are overwhelmingly negative.

People are getting their wallets hacked, losing their savings by investing in pump-and-dump schemes, using "custodial" crypto wallets that defeat the whole purpose of crypto, raising "ICOs" that skirt securities laws, starting underground markets that sell heroin and guns, quitting their jobs to make a living in "play-to-earn" schemes that can't possibly last. It goes on and on.

If you have an article about how crypto is positively affecting people's lives (not just the lucky ones who made some good trades and profited), then please share it on HN!

I read somewhere that a large number of Ukranians are currently holding crypto as they flee the country, as they view it as a good way to transfer funds in the midst of a lot of uncertainty. If so, I view that as a positive (assuming many of them don't end up losing their funds one way or another).

I wouldn't be surprised if most in the HN community thought some form of "blockchains are a really neat idea." It's just that the technology is in its infancy, and so far it has attracted a lot of criminals, fraudsters, and speculators. Not much to write home about.
> actually, resolving the argument itself is not even the issue, but knowing that we still love each other is what matters.

So much this. Having been taking classes and reading up on intentional/effective communication strategies for relationships one of the key aspects is having a way to say "i love you and acknowledge your grievance however i do not have the time, energy or emotional strength to discuss this now" this can be distilled down to a phrase, maybe just "pause" or a gesture followed by some kind of display of affection.

It's also critical that the other partner respects it. There's very little that's more damaging and less productive than continuing to argue with someone who has mentally checked out.

My ex would yell at me (red flag) until i just couldn't anymore, not listen to any requests for breaks (another red flag) then physically prevent anyone from leaving the room until she was satisfied (huge red flag) - even if you had to go to work.
Ah yes, should have guessed. WMA was pretty big in the early 2000s. Around 2004 I even had access to the official wma source from Microsoft.

Spent about 4 months porting and then optimizing the wma decoder on a proprietary very-low-power dsp. It was hard work, but I got it down to about 12mhz for real-time decode on the dsp. The product this was intended for was going to be powered by a watch battery - hence the extreme optimization requirement. The source code, as received, used to consume ~400mhz on an athlon iirc. But with a lot of assistance from the dsp hardware and 4 months of elbow grease it could decode in less than 12mhz - for some profiles. Insane codebase!
I like the concept. What happens if a company claims to have removed their recommendations yet has not? Would this even be enough to cause a scandal with real consequences?

In the western world the vast majority of people I know already have zero issues being tracked, advertised to, recommended to, and generally manipulated for "engagement" and profit. A weak law, passed too early and without widespread cultural significance would serve only to give a tighter, more insidious grip on a typical used's view of media, music, and reality in general.
Even 'topology' is a little confusing to those more familiar with the term from maths.

For the 'CATH' hierarchical classification, the 'Topology' level is something like the organization of secondary structure in an 'Architecture'. This has some relationship to topology in the general sense, but is a narrower definition.

For me, the 'fold' is what happens after 'folding' occurs, but I take the point that it is confusing.
This is some insanely cool history! I had no idea the Soviets had such a technical vision, that's actually pretty amazing. I've heard the term "cybernetics" but honestly just thought it was some movie-tech term, lol.

It seems really weird that control theory is in EE departments considering it's sooo much more mathematical than most EE subdisciplines except signals processing. I remember a math professor of mine telling us about optimization techniques that control systems practitioners would know more about than applied mathematicians because they were developed specifically for the field, can't remember what the techniques were though ...
It gets sluggish when scrolling through settings. I have an iPhone 12.
I have a theory I use that helps me with this, the "million dollar gun to the head" theory.

Would either of them stop fighting instantly if there as a gun to their heads or offered a million dollars?

If the answer is "yes", then it's entirely within their control to solve the problem.

The only people I think that fail this are psychopaths, and I think those are rare.
Is this is really important to you there is at least one solution: Wearable Microphone Jamming[0]

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28885739
I’d make a blog and post about my experiments.
50% is at the top of the retail markup range, but Facebook knows that won’t fly. What Facebook is doing now is “anchoring” so that, worst-case, they end up at 30%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias)
I think there have been a number of antibody cocktails for Covid. Their strength, as seen here, is that no immune response is required to make them. Their weakness, unfortunately, is whether they are still able to bind in a useful way to the version(s) of Covid being introduced.

It's a good technology, drawing on a large body of work for things like RA and other inflammatory diseases.
We're pointing out the issue isn't nearly as bad as what the headline states. That doesn't imply there isn't a problem.
I think of SLAs as how do we design this thing. Ask for a system without an SLA and I will give you a system that is well designed and almost never goes down. As soon as you ask for an SLA, I will give you an over engineered system that costs more, takes longer to implement and is slower to iterate but it will almost never go down either.
That's not really an algorithm usage issue but an administrative ones. Really. The issue does not arise from an ineffective/wrong system but for the absence of quick, powerful and effective human backup.

A small example: automated procedures, if well designed tend to be really effective *in means* witch means they are good. BUT they tend to have hard to spot (or even evident, but no one care up front) loopholes and corner cases that makes not them but their use a nightmare. In those case the solution is simple: a human that pick all issues not automatically treated.

The *administrative* issue is this: those who choose automation must know it can fail and so must be prepared for a normal and regular and effective backup.

Personally if a day my country tax agency ask me 100k euros for a clear error I feel no specific scandal, anyone can makes error, but I expect to have a phone number to call where someone pick the call quickly and in little time we can sort out the issue. It's not a life-or-death thing, and it's complex, issues normally happen and that's is. If I can't call because no one answer or they answer but they are powerless or there is no quick solution than it's not the erroneous claim the scandal, but the absence of means to sort it out rapidly.
Explaining how cryptocurrency works is itself advising a sanctioned country on how to launder money and evade currency controls.

Is Wikipedia liable?
Why would the municipality do that to homeowners, the majority of whom are not logistics warehouse employees but do want products delivered to them quickly and inexpensively?

Like, just the game-theoretic analysis here suggests municipalities will want nothing to do with this.
> The key is that they can look at the ledger, but not alter the ledger.

This is only true if you think governments are not capable of pulling off a 51% attack. It would absolutely be feasible for a few of the world powers to pull it off, if not a single world power.
https://c.tenor.com/enoxmmTG1wEAAAAC/heart-attack-in-pain.gi...
Measuring Goodhart’s Law
So how does it work? Where do I link my national ID to my wallet and how do I tell the government about it?
You don't even need a validator/node running in your country -- another standard node merely needs to hear about it, run the standard bitcoin-core code for tx propagation to its connected peers (happens automatically ofc.) and it will be included in the next block if network congestion conditions permit miners to do so.

Interestingly, this leads to a startling scenario if you use an 'advanced' client such as Electrum, where you have the ability to create & sign a valid transaction, before broadcasting it. During that time, which is ofc defined entirely by your decision to hold off broadcasting the TXO,
the transaction 'exists' but isn't recorded in the blockchain. In fact anyone who can get ahold of that transaction data (not to be confused with your private key) can send it off to the network, and it will be registered in the next block. So a valid transaction, once signed by the corresponding private key, is almost entirely removed from the signor, and the decision to broadcast it can be viewed as a seperate one altogether from signing.
I think the biggest 'positive' is that the government in control of the currency is unable to alter the value of it. It is clear that inflation is bad for the citizenry, yet that has been done throughout the ages by every dying civilization. I'm simply looking/hoping for a mechanism to stop it. It would be a 'positive' for you too!

Is Bitcoin the ultimate answer? I can't say, but it is a good first step.
Afaik, the Data Center option still allows for on-premise deployment, incl. Kubernetes and cloud deployments [1, 2, 3].

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/enterprise/data-center

[2] https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/jira-data-center...

[3] https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/deploying-enterp...
The USA has a similar incarceration rate to North Korea, albeit with better conditions.
> I found it interesting that AlphaFold can't reliably predict the structures for mutations that disrupt structure

It’s not that surprising given the conceptual background of the method.
Since it’s relying on evolutionarily coupled residues, AlphaFold is looking at sets of complementary mutations that keep or rescue a determined structure, i.e. the complete opposite of structural disruption.

> The list of protein structures we know isn't a representative sample of all possible protein structures

And the same goes for protein sequences.
> the authors are explicit that your interpretation is incorrect. It's not the neurons themselves, it's some inflammatory process external to the neurons that is causing damage.

I never claimed that infection of the neurons caused the damage. That is a strawman you created.

What I said is that there was damage to axons in the olfactory bulb, which is part of the brain.

If there are people leaping to wild conclusions, why not respond to them rather than trying to foist their views off on me?
To be fair, far from resort land isn't usually where the cartels are.

And, my comment wasn't meant to be as negative as it sounded. I live at the border. It's well known that the cartel regulates/protects Tijuana. A well visited Tijuana is a profitable Tijuana. They're not idiots.
Agreed. This is a problem of scale in my opinion. When we have 10 engineers, it is easy to check in with everyone and know what they are working on and get a status update. When we have 500 engineers, making sure all their tasks are aligning (organizations are one big race condition) is not just hard but impossible without some sort of tracking system. We all want to grow big. To do so, your processes need to change as you add more people. The exceptions (Valve, Netflix, etc.) that can handle being flat or semi-flat are very unique.
If authoritarian governments can monitor and track the transactions, then arrest those people who make transactions that the government considers illegal, it seems pretty censorable.
> What am I missing?

Just guessing, but a heat pump that can actually output at least 1900°C of heat?

If we had those kinds of heat pumps I guess we'd use them in all kinds of industrial processes
> Does a state have no control of its international borders

States have very little control of their borders, either interstate or international or internal with Indian reservations, and that which they do have is what they are granted by Congress, to which the Constitution grants authority “[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.”
Insurance doesn't kick in when you're out of network.
I will say I absolutely preferred my 'farmer spec' base model truck that had, among other things, plastic on the floor rather than carpet. Much easier to vacuum and brush out the dried mud and dirt. Never did try to take a hose to it.
> but pretty sure you're just talking out your ass

This really isn't necessary. Assume good faith.
Same. 23 years and I don't mention it often because it feels like bragging, and we certainly didn't do anything to "earn" our relationship. I think it was just dumb luck that we fell into it and happen to be so compatible along so many lines.

But it always baffles us whenever we spend time with another couple (including our own parents) and they are so short with each other. As you say, harsh.

We come away from those gatherings wondering, is this really how people live? Seems to be.
Purism's laptops (and cell phone) all include hardware kill-switches for mic and webcam (and also the radios, bluetooth and wifi)

https://puri.sm/
https://2700chess.com/ (live ratings) has him over Radjabov and Duda currently
About five years ago when the mobile revolution ended.
I assume it's some form of functionality that allows serial number keyed equipment to be changed. You can't swap a large number of components on iPhones without locking yourself out.
I'm on welfare in france, and sometimes I wonder if the government is going to find some excuse to stop giving me money.

Could be "not applying to enough job offers", while most employers are always complaining about candidates not being skilled enough, which is why unemployment is so high.
I imagine this story was worth orders of magnitude more to the news network than the ticket would be worth to the man... I'm sure they could make it worth his while :)
The case where the school administrator was spying on kids - the macbook light would quickly turn on and then off and you had to look carefully to see it.
In our experience, this strongly depends on the services involved, as well as the scale.

For example, for our own service: If you have a hundred or two hundred licenses, you can drop our system on a linux box and usually you have to throw a yum update and one or two service restarts at it every few months and it just works. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if many of our small on-prem solutions have better uptime than the SaaS clusters, or be capped in uptime by some externality, rendering the system downtime irrelevant. If their VMWare cluster is down, our system is down, but no one cares.

This also mirrors a lot of our internal systems. At a small scale, you can just dump chef, jenkins, sonar, nexus, whatever on a linux box and forget about it.

However, this changes with high license counts. We have singular customers in our SaaS offering that are more than 50 - 100x bigger than the small on prem systems. At that point, our SaaS offering is better than anything the customer could to on-prem. I'm confident to say this about all of our customers, except maybe 2.