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The USA hasn't built a sizable number of reactors for 40 years. We haven't completely lost the skills, but they've sure atrophied.

It takes China 10 years to build a reactor, and they've built lots of them in the past 20 years and don't have the regulations you decry. There's no way that the US can do it in anywhere close to the same time frame that China can.

It's not just the rules and attitudes about nuclear making things slow. We can't build a subway station in any sort of reasonable timeframe or budget.
You're conflating coin count with their relative size.

This is not the main pattern in either BTC or ETH.
Or he wanted to hire his own team and now doesn't have to pay severance.
What's the concentration of Pu in the output of a modern high burnup reactor? What is the ratio of that to the concentration of fissile products needed for fuel?

Cs137 and Sr90 lasting 'mere' centuries isn't helping your case any. Especially when existing MOX programs spill more than Fukushima and TMI combined as standard operating procedure.
How did you find all these product market fits?

Have you made more than a typical SWE?
TL;DR: Communicating clearly is HARD. It requires effort and training. Not everyone has had the training or is willing to put in the effort. Some people don't realize it. It's not something that comes naturally to most engineers (or people).

Though it has a terrible misnomer of a name, the art of "Business Writing" is basically about reducing the number of useless words you use in emails/conversations.

Some good resources:

* The 2-page "Business Writing" section in Scott Adams' "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big"

* https://www.coursera.org/lecture/management-leadership-english/4-8-business-communication-concise-language-PfBKs

UPDATE: The "Business Writing" section from Scott Adams' book is available here: https://bestwriting.com/book-notes/how-to-fail-at-almost-eve...
"A journey to the site of the Nord Stream explosions" - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-63636181
From the point of view of Apple, Swift is also a systems programming language, it is even part of its official documentation.
For some reason, this article really resonated with me. Every time a group commits an atrocity against another, there's always someone in the abused group that facilitates the horror for a small payment or benefit. I read about it in the Holocaust and I'm would not be surprised if it happened in Rwanda, Cambodia and other places.

To hear that it happens in the animal kingdom too kinda crushed me a little bit.
No, it’s not. In fact, if the fanciness of your code is the only thing that contributes its salience, that’s a negative.

10 lines of salient code could be the entry point into some subsystem you wrote, or where you integrate with another system. It wouldn’t look fancy but it’s salient.
Re the article and PCloud, the way the crypto folder works is that you get a mapped PCloud drive similar to OneDrive, DropBox, etc., and within there you get a "Crypto Folder". When you try and access that, it's empty. You then unlock it. However the article is wrong in that you are not prompted every time. You are prompted until it locks again, and you are in control of whether it locks automatically or not.

I've used PCloud for years now. I only unlock my Crypto when I need files from inside it, keep it unlocked and accessible for as long as I need, then lock it again. It's actually a really good way of working. Less valuable files are always available in the main mapped drive so working with them is easy, but the more secure option is available too.

It also supports Linux properly, and whilst not as fast as DropBox is certainly faster than Google Drive and OneDrive. And it allows multiple synced folders in addition to the mapped drive.

I moved on from Google Drive when I found that some of my documents, which I'd specifically requested be mirrored locally, were found to contain http links to the online version rather than an actual local copy. Meaning some of my local backups contained useless stub files. And the total inability of the web UI to give me simple folder size details was annoying - almost like they were encouraging me to keep filling the space I had.

I moved on from OneDrive when it wouldn't let me store files it thought might be dangerous (including `.js`, though I suspect they fixed that years ago). I also stored some older PHP code files in there (old enough to predate my git usage). When I looked at them they had an extra line of text added to the top of each file. I can't remember if it was a hashbang, comment, or text, as it was too long ago. I just remember my shock that they would change my uploaded files automatically.

Conclusion: after trying all those the article did (except, oddly enough given the article, NextCloud) I found PCloud to be ideal. For me.
In the early days of rails I wrote a monkey punch for Active Record that'd raise a fatal exception if any query lacked a limit clause or returned more than a couple 100 rows. Just a couple lines of obvious stuff, but you wouldn't believe how much impact committing that to a repo back then would have.
You'd think what they want is a solution to switch over to renewable energy sources that can meet or exceed current demands at comparative costs.

No, they just want to get rid of fossil fuels. It doesn't matter if the new system can meet the demand at all, or how much it will cost.

Look at California. Banning lawn mowers and ICE cars. Their power grid can't even support EV charging, and they're sending out notices asking people to charge their cars at off hours.

It doesn't have to work. It just has to disrupt oil at any cost, even if the cost is human suffering.
This is fairly liberal use of the term "decentralized." Building many more nuclear plants is still "decentralized" in that some of them can be offline and the system still works.

Major solar and wind installations are typically concentrated in similar generating stations as nuclear plants are. Many more people will likely have solar on their homes, but it's not like wind and solar is going to lead to a purely decentralized grid where every small community is generating their own electricity. There will always be large scale generating stations for the bulk of grid electricity.
For point #4 (about sleep) and point #5 (about delusions) - these are probably related. If you don't get enough sleep you get rather paranoid.

Having been in the ICU with various family members I notice they check on you A LOT and that often will wake you up. This lack of consistent sleep (either from injury, illness or checks) make people rather paranoid. Further, sitting still and waiting often makes people a bit stir crazy.
China is also where most of the solar panels are built
If we were to start that now, it would add only 1% generation capacity, and that's assuming that all projects finish within 13 years (unlikely) and that none of the construction projects are abandoned as unfinishable in any way that makes financial sense (which happened to 50% of the reactors started in the US in the 2000s).

There's an assumption that we can simply rebuild what we built in the past, but technology has changed quite a bit, construction costs have risen quite a bit, and the lessons we have learned from prior reactors means that we dont want to build the prior designs.

Nuclear is a technology without a solid track record, and which has failed in the US, and in France, and in Finland. In these latter examples, we can't blame regulations or public support. Personally, my hypothesis is that construction productivity has been so stagnant compared to manufacturing productivity growth, that nuclear no longer makes sense for advanced economies. Economies at earlier stages of development with lower labor productivity and therefore lower labor costs, may be able to build nuclear cost-effectively.
I think there is a massive clash between Musk and Twitter's internal culture and so beyond any changes of external business strategy he is attempting to change that internal culture to fit his. He must know that this implies an extensive change of staff but at the same time it must be paced to ensure continued operation and transmission of knowledge, and that seems to be the tricky bit.
I forgot to mention the most "exciting" part of this hack. My (UV) EPROM programmer was an ISA-based peripheral and the 386 was my only PC (with an ISA bus), so I booted it up and then removed the EPROM from the socket on the motherboard, put it into the programmer to get an image (because I did not have confidence that the copy in RAM hadn't been altered), then reversed the image and burned a new EPROM. (If I hadn't used a new EPROM, I would have rendered my computer useless with no way to revert.) Fortunately I had a UV eraser so I could give it another go when the first iteration didn't work.
> We fear death

In the US. It's perhaps the most striking difference that hit me during my stay overseas. In the Old World we occasionally get people completely panicking about their own death. In the US, seemingly _everyone_ is like that.
> The hallucinations stopped happening as soon as I was moved to a normal patient room for the rest of my recovery

To be fair (and this is also true for the article itself), it might be difficult to distinguish cause and effect here. Being moved into less intensive care means that you are more stable which might lead to other issues becoming better in the following days regardless of whether you are in the ICU or not.
Agreed. _Someone_ has to deal with the drift between astronomical time and earth time, better the class of software that deals with space than every time critical system in the world.
Thanks, I have put a non-trivial amount of thought into making the interface friendly. I appreciate the compliment :)

I've got a staging environment at dev.parabible.com with other versions (it's a bit rougher and can break, but it supports searching in Greek along with a bunch of other translations). I've also added Apostolic Fathers there (which, I believe, is the first place that Ap. Fathers have been available in English and original language in parallel for free anywhere).

I'd love to get versions like the ESV, NIV, NASB... but they're all copyrighted and when I've spoken to publishers about licensing they want me to pay (and I'm a grad student with no income). There are some other free translations I could add (like the KJV, etc.), but I'm aiming at a scholarly audience, who I think don't care about most of the translations that you'll find for free (the KJV is one exception there, tbh).
To clarify for the sibling comments - Firefox active users hasn't grown.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

Revenue has grown, though. While I worked there, it fluctuated mostly based on how well Google was able to monetize ad clicks. Mozilla is selling more of their own ads since I left, and that seems to be paying off.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. We eventually have to ban accounts that do this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ugh, speedbumps are so dangerous.

Sure, they make you slow down for them. But drivers now want to "make up" for that slow down. So they drive even faster between them.
yes... at https://mywebsite.net/recipes/ ... where I get a directory listing of txt files each containing one recipe (usually copied and pasted from the print-view version of the recipe found at your favorite recipe website
really? Do people hire PAs to do their actual job? doesn't that conflict with the concept of what an assistant is?

not saying the idea isn't great, but if we focus on those, it's harder to focus on what is achievable and helpful right now (considering where AI capabilities are)
Elected officials might just do their jobs instead of watching feeds and checkmarks
I know how crooked some of the Republicans are and some of the conspiracy shit that's going around. But, it's not like Democrats are clean, this is what is cooking in the progressive circles, especially in colleges and academia:

https://twitter.com/LPofDelaware/status/1583078489430798336

What would be helpful is if you try to, with good faith, head over to r/conservatives and see what the discussion is like. They will welcome progressives and disagreeing views. They'll upvote you. The same cannot be said about the reverse. Conservative opinions here are completely unwelcome, not even downvoted but flagged. Turn on the show-flagged filter on HN and I'd wager atleast half of them are totally legit, not rude and not bigoted. They're just offering a different perspective.

Both sides are equally consumed and spineless. Republicans caved into Trumpism and the liberals caved into woke ideology. Both sides instead of rejecting extremism, adopted it and dug their heels in. We lost truth and rationality in the process. At this time in history, centrist republicans are the most rational.

and...instantly downvoted. Care to please comment below? What do you disagree with what I just said here?
Not kidding about fast... If I read it right it is less than 2 ms to parse and layout a 20 page document!
Languages alone don't matter.

Swift's ecosystem is on Apple's platforms, and it is ok, plenty of jobs there.
Hmm, why would you mix 1e12 terabytes instead of saying 1e24 bytes? Why do we talk about 200k USD salaries instead of 2e5 USD? Or why isn't a US postage stamp marked as 6e-1 USD?

Also: in the past 25 years, "tera-scale" (TB and TFLOP) went from a prognostication about future high-performance computing into something you find in affordable consumer products. When campus computing centers are now deploying hundreds of petabytes, it seems myopic to think the PB threshold is anything but a signpost flying by the window...
That's easy

"Entropy"
Yeah I’d venture a guess based on what we’re hearing that they just wrote up whatever they wanted it to look like.
Here's GitHubs docs on finding projects:

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/exploring-projects-on...

One of the things you can do is find people who are interested in certain topics. Then you can look at their project, what they've starred/followed/forked, and follow them to see what they're starring.
Confusingly, that's what all the free speech absolutists spend their time yelling about. The right to not speak in the public square but have a megaphone.
I think it's more likely that the more sophisticated investors knew there was a lot of handwaving going on and they thought they'd get through the exits with principal+profit before they became clogged. Sometimes people are known to just not ask if they think the details are odious and they want to maintain plausible deniability about knowledge of source of the profits.
We're usually direct when we're positive, so long as it doesn't cost us anything.

Try to get a direct negative response in USA, good luck.

I only realized the indirectness of my second sentence after I wrote it.
If they are my 'favorite' I cook them all the time and can get the proportions close enough out of memory.
Thanks, you're right yeah, I've oversimplified things a bit.

Re: macOS and the Network Entitlements shenanigans: if I understand correctly, it is possible to just run tailscaled unsigned [1] via /dev/utun instead of Apple's APIs. Would it be possible to get this into the GUI so that if you want, you can compile it from source and don't have to do the Apple dance?

[1]: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/wiki/Tailscaled-on-ma...
The Mojolicious homepage https://mojolicious.org actually looks almost like the Mojo.js homepage (or the other way round). So much that I first suspected some kind of parody until I realized they were indeed the same people.
Hopefully by the time they need to make an hour's adjustment, we'll have done away with the anachronism that is DST. So then they'll have to learn to do it all over again from scratch.
> The first case is at least documented that it's the programmer's responsibility that the view should not outlive the object pointed to.

This is the problem with naked pointers in the first case. We've had I don't know how many years of experience to tell us that relying on programmers to not make mistakes is a terrible idea. If documenting requirements fixed these issues we would still just be able to write C.

The problem with sanitizers is they're an opt-in addition, and like static analysis tools they have a tendency to be have some false positives, which causes people to distrust then and say "but I'd never make that mistake". Compiling with asan enabled would cause our CI build times to double, as we'd need to build with and without (and we have 4 configurations over 3 platforms. My previous project had 3 configurations over 9 platforms).
Unfortunately it's not always socially appropriate to do this, no matter how annoying the other person is being.
I've built a platform that helps furniture factory hire workers. Given that the typical factory worker is not that tech savvy, the platform did not see a lot of users, around 5k the last time I checked. Nevertheless some people found job using it. Everything using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS and JS.
I don’t think the problem is cost cutting. I think the problem is just the same problem that every human enterprise has.

Most people just don’t give a shit outside thier immediate responsibility.

Looking at the global view and actually making changes that require persuading other people is a hard and often thankless task.

Many people who do give a shit get this crushed out of them early in their career by the negativity you will face if you try.

Much easier to just accept the status quo.

Occasionally you get a group of people who really care and come together determined not to let things be crappy and they can form an organisation that is significantly more effective for a time. But once the rot of “We can’t fix things” sets in, it’s really really hard to turn things around.
Because EA is about overall impact. (At least that's one strand of thought in EA, for those that lean more towards utilitarianism.) He hurt so many people and caused so much distrust that his overall impact is negative. It is therefore against the principles of EA. That's not the No True Scotsman fallacy.
Sounds legit then, like FTX and Alameda.
I think those investors got all the paperwork they wanted and it looked good.
I make a point of being forthright when I don't understand something, or am not familiar with what someone's talking about, both at work and among friends. As far as I know it has never hurt me, and I've often had people follow up with sentiments like, "oh thank god, I thought I was just dumb since everyone else seemed to get it".

It's pretty damn uncommon for me to have been the only one in the room who didn't understand, and surprisingly often it turns out some of the others thought they understood, but a little digging prompted by my question or chain of questions reveals they in fact did not, so speaking up helps avoid problems later.

It's worth noting that if you're the only one who spots some problem (or potential/opportunity) with an idea or plan or approach, that can feel a lot like being the only one who's not following ("why is everyone else nodding along? What am I not getting?"), but in fact it means you understand it better than anyone else present and really, really need to say something.
I wonder if there is a U-curve in the "code produced vs seniority" graph where once you get senior enough you have people under you who can deal with $immediate_situation for you?
> it's still highly radioactive for millennia

So it space and were actively trying to send people up there to live and colonize.
Yeah, neither deepfakes nor deepfake detectors will end epistemology. We'll need to use a multiplicity of tools, with strengths and weaknesses known and unknown, and come to a conclusion based on the preponderance of evidence knowing full well we will sometimes get it wrong.
I know a lot of people don’t like Twitter, but I actually enjoy it. I think there are a couple reasons for this:

1. I use Tweetbot instead of the native client. A lot of people gripe about the native client and ads, and using a third party client solves both (ack that this can change, too, at any point).

2. I use Twitter as an RSS feed only, not using it for anything social at all. I only consume updates for feeds I care about, so it’s not very noisy and not at all toxic (unless I go into the comments, which I rarely do).
So far most impactful thing I've built is web app for police in my country. When I had issues with police, I noticed that they used my app to look up my details. It was somewhat funny. Didn't tell them, I don't think they would believe me.
Yes. Renewables with no storage can cover 30-50% of world energy (not just electricity). Nuclear tops out at around 5% if we go all in now at around the same total cost. Storage technologies exist for the rest at about the cost of nuclear (but with actual ability to scale), but are not necessary en masse yet and are likely to drop in price by the time they are.
>It's an endless cat-and-mouse game

Yes, this is the way with anything software based that can earn people money.

See: video game hacks, SEO manipulation, etc
That page doesn't really describe how to fix the problems. Nobody really knows, and there's lots of speculations, but if there was an answer it's easily a trillion dollar reward.
> there will be more role reductions as leaders continue to make adjustments. Those decisions will be shared with impacted employees and organizations early in 2023. We haven’t concluded yet exactly how many other roles will be impacted (...) but each leader will communicate to their respective teams when we have the details nailed down.

So there will be layoffs but he won't give more details right now? I find the decision to announce it like this a bit strange. Can anyone with more experience shed some light on this - why say anything at all at a time when you can't give specifics yet?
It has been interesting watching this develop, if for no other reason that Express is somewhat stuck after TJ left to make koa[0] and hasn't changed much since 2014. Express 5 has had no commits for 9 months - it's not dead, but it's not exactly thriving either. While there are alternatives to Express, none seem to have huge amounts of traction or do far more than a backend framework (nextjs, sveltekit), so maybe there is room for another framework.

I'll never forget seeing this tweet[1] - what I considered a core pillar of the perl community discovered that after a short period of familiarization, a perl developer of many years could write code that is many times faster just by switching from perl to js. No deep voodoo, no special tricks - just write code in JS and handle 3x as many reqs/s. I'm glad to see that the rest of the mojo ecosystem is coming along - Minion is a really nice, simple job queue that can piggyback on your existing postgres database without depending on redis or anything. Would be awesome to see a dynamodb backend someday. Hmmm.

Unfortunately I'm not sure who the target market is - a typescript web framework selling itself as "Perl-grade" anything is not a good look for 99% of JS/TS devs. Maybe it's positioning itself as the logical migration path for companies moving away from perl?

[0]https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/2844
[1]https://twitter.com/kraih/status/1392405140406210560
Is there clear evidence that shadowbanning existed on Twitter? Misunderstanding eventual consistency doesn’t count. I’m not going to be surprised if there is real evidence, I’ve just never seen any.
Appreciate the graph in the article , this time the numbers actually are calculated by engineers from DoE , not by Journalists...

Even if the plan is there , without an “economy of war” and the implication of basically every single American it’s nearly impossible to reach those types of deployment.

Money is not the answer to everything , as pointed we are also going to reach “civilization” types of limits with land and ressource exhaust...

My humble opinion is we should simply consume far less energy and accept a much simpler lifestyle, that would be much easier ...