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No bad reactor designs get built or have been built in the West in many decades.

Better designs would have been here long ago if we actually had continued with this technology, but its not that current reactors are truly bad designs.

The problem with them is more that they don't fit into how energy markets and energy investments are made and have been made. That goes for both the US and Europe.
Clever PR at work here.
i want to go to there
For the longest time I just couldn’t see what the fuzz (about Git) was about. But after finally switching I don’t think I’d ever go back.
For the first time there is a chance for Mickey Mouse to be free, I mean "In-the-style-of-Mickey-Mouse", his new name. When did we ever get such a chance for information freedom?
> maybe if you're a really big company with petabytes of data but I wouldn't' say its worth the operational complexity for 90% of tech companies out there. Seriously, design your schema so you can have tables optimized for aggregate functions. you can use materialized views or have them populate via triggers. Either is still going to be an order of magnitude less work that dealing with all the edge cases that are ging to come up when you try to build a distributed data pipeline. Thats a death by thousand cuts for any small to medium startup that doesn't already have a team of engineers experienced in making such systems work.

Funny, my experience is the exact opposite. Materialized views and triggers are death by a thousand cuts with all their edge cases. Whereas if you just use Kafka for everything from day 1 then everything works consistently and you have no problems.
Just wanted to mention that I love this. Checked it out yesterday and am back today for actual use.

Ah, I should add that I came to HN first because I couldn't remember the name. Carefulwords.com
There is a big difference between "did not adopt a different CoC" and "removed all the other maintainers from the project and unilaterally deleted a CoC which had been around for a long time".

As far as I can tell, your message is itself misinformation.
Just eat well and exercise! Exercise is hugely important for maintaining cognitive health. As is eating well. Beyond those things you don't have to do much else!
There's a sizable fully adult cohort in tech who are young enough to, at best, have vague memories of Microsoft's antitrust troubles and not get why this is such a big deal. Tech history education could be better.
Oh, so you're saying Copilot doesn't actually go far enough. It should not only give you code snippets but enforce particular licensing of the code it is helping you create?
> A lot of work has taken place in the Kafka, Flink, DataFlow ecosystem but that still leaves a lot of work for the developer over a simple subscribe to query results.

Personally I find it much easier to write the code explicitly than try to understand what a query planner is doing, especially if performance is relevant. (That's not to say there's not plenty of room for improvement in the streaming world - but I'd rather have a helper library that I can use on top of the low-level API, than have to go through a parser and planner for every query even when I know exactly what I want to do) But I seem to be an outlier in this regard.
It doesn't, it's just a very easy to relate to argument.

Generating snippets of code has nothing to do with a fully functional software package/product/service and an organic community around it.

One might argue that a community could be more easily formed thanks to co-pilot because it increases developer productivity and lower the effort to contribute so OS projects actually benefit from co-pilot. If this sounds far fetched, then probably the first case is also similar.
The entertainment industry is built on fictional stories, his overarching theme is "victim". I'm sure the people that benefit from being associated with Kanye in even the slightest way are perfectly happy to support the narrative he tries to spin, they might even believe it.
The piece was meant as a brief behind-the-scenes look for people hesitant to adopt K8s, sorry if the title is misleading. I'm not the best writer, but working to improve.
Does that mean we'll find those missing airliners that disappeared in past few years?
suicide squad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHk2RSMCS8
Yes, that's the other outcome, which is the industry getting GPL'd to death for using this. But I don't think there is an established precedent when it comes to this.

I don't know much about AI/SL but I think the logical outcome is that using a transformer to generate source code is going to result in an over-trained system that produces sections of code verbatim because of the relative size of the space of all valid programs vs the space of all possible programs. It's not like art where you get soft failure if a single pixel or word is wrong: the inclusion, exclusion, or replacement of a single instruction or symbol is enough to introduce fatal bugs into a computer program. If the system doesn't have the capacity to understand programs generally (which it probably won't if it's just a transformer), then you're going to end up with a system that spits out samples from training data that do work.
> Soil doesn't stay where it is, it moves with water and wind. You have to fix it, somehow.

If (enough) so, it is spread across the globe so it become negligible. Those lands are highly polluted so it can't be live.
Seems like it would be completely fine to eat, even regularly. With mushrooms having 1000 Bq/kg at worst, according to samples by BfS.

> The consumption of 200 grams of mushrooms with 2,000 becquerel caesium-137 per kilogram results in an exposure of 0.005 millisievert. This is considerably less than the radiation exposure during a flight from Frankfurt to Gran Canaria. However, if adults eat such a mushroom meal each week, they will receive an additional annual radiation exposure corresponding to about twenty flights from Frankfurt to Gran Canaria. Expressed in numbers it is 0.27 millisievert.

https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/environment/foodstuffs/mush...
If Copilot was just a "copy and paste" tool very few people would find it useful and you wouldn't be here whining. So don't worry, Copilot is not just copying and pasting.
You still get printed bills with the bank account number to send the money to in Germany; only big change in the past decade is that that bank account number is a long IBAN number with the bank’s ID and a checksum rolled in.
Because issues aren't automatically symmetrical, and impact of actions isn't equal in both ways, especially when there's power difference between the sides of the conflict, e.g. it's not hypocritical to punish a bully punching their victim, but not the victim for punching the bully back.

Disney used its power to distort copyright laws in a self-serving manner. As an individual you don't have equal power to oppose them (you were supposed to have in a democracy, but lobbying is legal and corporations are people).

Disney is a huge corporation that won't even notice if you pirate a movie, which you may not even have been able to pay for anyway, because of their region-locked twisted maze of distribution and DRM.

OTOH you may be screwed if you're a creator making a living from your work, and a big corp can just take it without paying, launder it through "… in the style of $YOURNAME" query, and say they own it now, because unlike your copyright, their Terms Of Service apply.

Even people who think copyright shouldn't exist may rely on using copyright — against itself. You can't unilaterally say "I don't believe in copyright", because the law doesn't care, but if you license something as copyleft, then the law does care about your anti-copyright license.
absolutely, because if there's one thing WE KNOW TO BE TRUE.

It's that the state has never, ever, been used against the poor.
$400/month hardly seems sustainable. That pays for hosting and not much else.
> Another person is trying to solve this problem in some commercial software. They find your code, copy-paste it into their project, then sell their software and don't release the source, or even acknowledge you.

Let's be honest, copy-and-pasting happens all the time. In software, in engineering, in marketing, in everything. Whether people acknowledge it or not.

Everyone looks at Stack Overflow all the time. You do it. I do it. Nobody reads the licensing terms. We all produce software with reskinned and taped together functions. A collage is still unique, creative, work despite being glued together with other people's art.

Most songwriters will write a song with a part like someone else's song.

The products you buy at a store are rip-offs of someone else's product.

Everybody stands on the shoulders of giants before them. Such is learning, such is life. Get over it.
With my current MLB tickets I can take a screen shot of the ticket and text it to somebody else. Much easier than a ticketmaster transfer. The world cup is using a time base code to prevent any transfer of tickets.
I’ll say it out loud. Erlang is cool, but so are loops, types, a whole bunch of common punctuation, idioms, packages and so on. Esoteric languages may have core killer features, but otherwise are weak and pointless in a sense of general-purpose business programming. Even LISP is less odd than Erlang. What’s with [,.], =<, #[], symbol/n, -etc? As if they wanted to win an obfuscation contest and succeeded.

For some reason, great tech often comes with “strings attached”. Relational engines - SQL only, no direct api. Concurrency - Erlang. Symbolic computing - Haskell. Embedding a dynamic runtime - Lua. Controlling desktop - AHK, AppleScript. Why can’t we have these things in mainstream, “day job”-grade languages with a human face.
I foresee licenses that contain 'upon training an AI network with this code, you give us an irrevocable license to your source code and IP' clauses.

Assuming they will even get off the ground with their copilot system not suggesting vulnerabilities and license traps already.
> Tell me how ML is different than the mind of a toddler ravenous for new information.

Well, I can't keep a toddler in a data center, pumping out work on demand. Or copyright it and limit who it chooses to work for when it grows up.

For instance.
You're missing the big picture, first you create a lot of licensing violations littered throughout internal code and next they can sell you an Azure hosted open-source licensing annotation AI to fix it.
Suppose you wanted to do what some code does, then you see this LGPL code. What can you do? Adjust variable names and play with line spacing and comments until it feels different?
Update: I switched back to Textra because Simple SMS lacked a way to see timestamps for arbitrary messages. It will show occasional times when a message was received with some lull between it and the previous message. Otherwise, the timestamps are a mystery. I don't like that.
> silly excuses like this are a red flag about any kind of tech project

> My personal impression is the author is doing this from some mix of demonstrating how clever and low-level they are and nostalgia for earlier days of computing.

That's some armchair psychology right there. I think it's a neat project and I think the concepts are fairly reasonable. Why continue to create software for hardware that's capable of running anything. Making use of alt boards/otherwise scrap hardware is quite admirable in my opinion. Adding a little post-apocalyptic flavor to the project is likely the difference between frequent shares and dusty obscurity, so props to the author.
FWIW, in this case I was trying to feel out what I think is a good fit for copyright in general. I think the same test could be applied for books, music, art, etc.
hot take: traditional design is using an old vacuum cleaner style motor fan arrangement, as seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVrmyYXVXSU. Contraption presented by Moxie is a quiet squirrel kitchen exhaust fan.

Why isnt it build like that now? Because squirrel fan is most likely $0.5 more expensive to manufacture.
I'd say it was far more private and secure, but not any more after the recent changes in their business model and privacy policy where they have decided to integrate it with a users Facebook data and other external data they collect.

A simple example to illustrate this is WhatsApp Business ( https://business.whatsapp.com/ ) that allows businesses in India to use WhatsApp to communicate, market and even sell to other Whatsapp users. Businesses who use this service are now sharing data of their customers with meta / WhatsApp (without the permission of their customers in many cases) and so now they are able to collect data of retailers and businesses whose services users use (and in some cases even know what they purchase). Ofcourse, a common issue (that anyone could have predicted with such "integration) is that WhatsApp users now face a new issue - spam (WhatsApp now a spam factory, 1 in 2 Indian swamped with promotional messages: report - https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/whatsapp-now-a... ).

(Note that Apple iMessage is indeed insecure if you use it on multiple devices or iCloud backup, as in such use cases Apple stores your message unencrypted in their cloud).
Your assertion thst copyright doesn’t matter and that people should “get used to it” is… pretty incorrect on the former (surely there are still pending copyright suits on earth circa 2022) and ill-conceived on the latter (I’ll just rob your house while you sleep and you should just get used to it)
Why do poor Americans eat so unhealthfully? (2018)
What are “the fundamental axioms of mathematics”?
Twitter became de-facto a part of public square. Especially since appointed and elected officials started using for official and non-official communicate. The US court of appeals said it pretty clearly here: https://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/local/4th-circui...

Censoring individual twits is one thing, but banning entire account is a different thing, because now it restricts your ability to interact with elected officials.

Besides, equal time rule demands that TV and radio stations(private and public) give equal time to competing politicians. There are exceptions, but logically it should extend to social media and video hosting sites, because they are today’s version of radio and TV stations.

On top of that, I would argue social media became the only mean of public assembly, which is a protected right, during Covid lockdown. Politicians pay attention to twitter, you can’t assemble by the city hall with banners to express your opinion, because you are to stay home. The next closest thing is to swarm twitter and facebook, given how closely they watch trends there.
I think that future has a lot of really cool and cheap tools that will help all those artists, photographers, programmers, etc get even more out of what they love doing. I think there will wind up being some job markets that shrink (not with the tech we have now though) for small-medium things in all of these fields (think logo design, stock photos, client libraries, simple out-of-the-box applications) and my hope is that those job markets that shrink cause others to grow due to the increased levels of productivity that these tools will give us.

Ultimately my argument is that these tools will allow human beings to accomplish more things with less and that these tools should be distributed to as many people as possible for as little cost as possible. Part of that belief comes from the fact that I think these tools are coming no matter what and I'm slightly concerned about the potential (although unlikely-looking) future where a small number of large corporations are the only ones controlling these tools and they just rent-seek on them.
Exactly, sensor fusion is so important.
They might as well just move to MultiMC
For example, let’s imagine that the timestamp set by the transmitting ES is close to its wrap-around value. After performing the required calculation, the receiving ES obtains a timestamp that has already wrapped-around, so it would look like the message had been received before it was actually sent.

Isn't it surprising that modulo arithmetic, as already employed successfully in TCP sequence numbers and the like, still seems to be incorrectly implemented today? What's more disappointing is seeing all the other incredible systemic complexity they've added, and yet the plane appears to have no mechanical backup instruments?
Not sure how you could deny that it's complex. It adds additional moving parts that weren't there before, and takes control of things that once operated autonomously.

Whether or not that extra complexity is necessary or beneficial is what's debatable.
Did not know that detail. Will add to the post, thank you.
Isn't copying a poem and releasing it under your own name (i.e, stealing it) the same as referring to it in a footnote, using proper attribution?
A "100 Watt equivalent" LED bulb uses 13 actual Watts. Let's be generous, and say it's 10W of light, 3W heat.

Let's be generous again, and completely wrap the bulb in 50% efficient photovoltaic, feed that into a 50% efficient battery charger.

You now have 2.5 Watts.

It just doesn't add up.
Sounds like you just want the ability to swap in a charged battery with minimal downtime?

Pretty sure those exist already, I know Steelseries produce some headphones with that feature.
This example is one of those rare pieces of code that is special though. It's the product of years of deliberate work by professor-level academics. This is exactly the kind of person who would have the least to fear from copilot if it really was just automating the boring plumbing parts and not shamelessly copying high-value, creative, insightful code.
I've read that for some parts of the world, ocean floor maps are still based on data from 18th century surveys.
Right now it’s unlimited*, where the * means that you’re not allowed to abuse it by doing things like Bitcoin mining. So far the model seems to be financially sustainable (they release quarterly financial statements).
Candace Owens on the home page. If that's not enough to convince you, I know too well that I don't posses the skills to convince you otherwise.
Technical progress takes precedence over pitiful intelectual property discussions. If you don't believe that, I am not sure what you are doing in a community like this.
No its not actually highly toxic and not actually very dangerous at all. A false level of danger has been assigned to radiation and its risk, mostly because of bad science in the 1970s.

This mushrooms are still unsafe stuff is mostly a myth. What's correct is that these mushrooms still measure over the arbitrary level set government regulation during the height of panic about nuclear.

> We see low death and disease numbers, and somehow many people think that's because the disaster wasn't that bad after all, completely ignoring the literal tens of billions of dollars that the Japanese government

Actually much of those efforts have actually killed and hurt more people then it saved. Creating a panic and evacuating a major city because of some unfounded unscientific assessment of the danger.

I'm sure all the money spent on cleaning the grass has saved millions of people. The reality is that many of those efforts are political show making, security theater, like the TSA.

I'm sure there are some reasonable measures as well, but much of it is vastly overblown in terms of actual effects it would have.

See in Tschernobyl where very little was done, and people in the exclusion zone (where there is more radiation then in Japan) are totally fine.
There does seem to be more heat and noise then substantive discussions here.

Though that doesn't justify such a dismissive attitude towards ordinary HN commenters. As the way it's written implies that most are too stupid and overly emotional, which is more likely to fuel complaints instead of dousing them.
"maximizing the variety present." is new to me. Is this a common idea?
Larceny and copyright infringement are two distinct legal categories for two distinct kinds of crimes. One involves a taking of property and the other involves the violation of a government granted monopoly
It's not the same. Not even close. Those old Bell Telephone phones were military grade. That is they rare broke down. 100s of slam!!! hang ups and they didn't flinch.

But drop your mobile device and not only are you f'ed, you have to invest in getting it fixed. And until then you're a social outcast.

To say nothing of the "sorry, you MUST update or else."

Same stuff? Hardly.
There is a certain amount of irony that a likely possible outcome will be the strengthening of copyright laws and enforcement, at which point people will realize they won the battle but lost the war
> Is there some law that forbids this?

Yes. It's called the Sherman Act, and it's the basis of anti-trust enforcement in the US.

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...

<<<The Sherman Act outlaws "every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade," and any "monopolization, attempted monopolization, or conspiracy or combination to monopolize." >>>

I know lots of people here don't like it, but it is the law and that was the question; "this" in parent clearly meant "use dominance in one market to gain dominance in another" in grandparent, regardless of whether that's actually the central issue here or not.
Did anyone else find that hard to parse?

The odd thing is I can't figure out what it was that made it so tricky for me to read? Perhaps I just need more sleep.
Who cares?

The point being made is the legal system sometimes chooses losers, whether the fault of the system or their own. We remove the escape hatch for those losers.

If you really want to argue that the legal system makes no mistakes then do it in front of the graves of those who were wrongly sentenced to death.
Am I the only one that thinks Reverb Machine getting posted for the Kate Bush breakdown was interesting, but this second time in not very long with it just being another breakdown seems super iffy?
Such a service would make a great and fantastic service for stalkers to bypass the usual difficulties in locating someone who has done the best to excise them from their life.
This was a comment made to me in a previous, similar discussion, discussing case law around Google's use of copyrighted books in building a search engine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32654478

I'm not sure I completely agree w/ the comment (nor do I think it vindicates CoPilot), but I think it does provide insight into why CoPilot is violating copyright.
Is it just coincidence that he has a 'golden visa' for Malta?

> Malta, as a pioneer country in LGBTQ inclusion, is the most LGBT-friendly country in Europe. When you apply for a Malta Golden Visa a marriage or a civil union certificate will suffice. If you and your partner aren’t married, make sure you can prove that you’re in a relationship.

Maybe he thinks he can make money in one country and live in another.
SourceHut offers mercurial hosting, though it’s entirely community maintained.
not a misnomer at all. They are crypto ATMs, and that's what the industry knows them for.
Critics of intellectual property theft are "whining". This is useful information in the next Microsoft IP lawsuit.
There is absolutely nothing to stop fractional reserve banking from re-occurring in crypto. In fact it's already happening on a massive scale with stablecoins, which are pretty much doing all the same things as banks, but even less regulated. If you think the current capitalistic system is a fraud then it makes no sense why you would search for solutions in the form of unregulated "tokens" minted by random people and backed by nothing and it all can vanish in the blink of an eye. It's all the same scams but somehow worse.
Microsoft Flight Simulator lets you fly a plane anywhere in the world based on satellite images and 3D models of various cities.

I’d imagine that any other game studio would have trouble finding enough money to license the rights to satellite images or street view images from which they might build a world.