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> people living in towns near military bases do not walk up and down the local creeks with Geiger counters any more than they compare soil samples against lists of plausibly leaked toxic chemicals

Not quite true. There are pretty big and active citizen based radiation detection projects [0,1,2,3]. The reason for this is that radiation monitors are quite cheap now and the same people who build weather systems often connect a geiger counter. They're cheap and sensitive since the gov spent so much money trying to detect radiation from space, across borders, and even the smallest traces on people (to detect spies, scientists, etc) all from the Cold War. There are also citizen based communities monitoring water and soil, but this does require more work from the participant. They have to go out and collect samples. Processing can be both expensive and quite a bit of work. This isn't the same as hooking up a $100 device to your weather station, which is a leave and forget type system.

We should note that both these communities are far more active in regions where there are greater dangers (history of nuclear sites/projects, oil facilities, military bases, etc). I'd also like to thank both these communities and others like them. They're all doing important work.

[0]https://www.radiationnetwork.com/

[1] https://jciv.iidj.net/map/

[2] https://cemp.dri.edu/cemp/

[3] https://www.epa.gov/radnet/near-real-time-and-laboratory-dat...
Dang, wrong link: https://www.vesselproject.io/essays/a-different-kind-of-ark
Apple does a lot right. However, I find their insistence on keeping their teams in an office to be strange. My experience with Apple internally was an overly positive and optimistic culture, to the point where they had a hard time identifying, or discussing, what did not work well.
The vibe from Austin has always been weird to me. "Thanks for visiting, don't move here" or whatever their saying is to that effect. Yet, so few people are from Austin. To me, Austin has always been that poser city trying so hard to be cool and noticed by the other cool cities, but when you try to get to know the city it's just a facade of cool and the rest is just empty and hollow
> The answer to this is that if every plane crash created a 50-mile diameter exclusion zone that had to be kept off-limits for 50-100 years without extensive decontamination, then we'd think twice about flying

I'm not sure we would if planes only crashed once a thirty years. Especially if crashes were limited to experimental or old planes with known design flaws.
Anticholinergics are associated with an increase of risk of dementia, and diphenhydramine is a pretty strong one, considering its OTC nature. I still use it occasionally myself, but I agree that it's a good idea not to take on a regular basis.

Here's a paper from 2019 that covers this:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
Would it have?

Now a player named Wi is still the subject of conversation on at least two major online discussion forms over 20 years later.

From what I've read, it introduced quirkiness and a bunch of unintentional community involvement, with likely much hilarity.

The goal of playing a game is to have fun.

Dealing with frustration can also be fun, in fact the Dark Souls series recognized this brilliantly.

This bug, while undoubtedly frustrating, sounds like it was also a lot of fun for a lot of folks.
They went from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 5 and a yearly release cadence. The idea with .NET 5+ was also to unify the platform with support for building Windows desktop apps (WinForms/WPF) and mobile apps (Xamarin/MAUI).
Airlines are also weird in that at times they're more than willing to compete like crazy and eat brutal losses. And then suddenly not ...
Exactly. Besides, these layoffs seem confined to the FAANG and well-known SV companies. During the dot com bubble it was every company throughout the U.S. having an IT department who was laying off. This doesn't have anywhere near that global feel.
I don't understand this comment. Do you have a problem with the terminology? Or with those investors in particular or with how they actually made their money or... ? To me it reads sort of like gatekeeping on who should have access to the market based on the lack of trading 'system' or whatever that means. Reminds me of the hedgies touting about the 'fundamentals' during the GME saga.
That's actually pretty cool.

My post was a bit cynical, but the network effects would make it. The community would make it.

If it ever happened, I hope the contributors have fun.
For me (2 kids, 1 under 4 years getting stories before bed each night) a big part of it is having a routine. Into bed, lie down, covers on, a few minutes of storytelling, calm child, kiss good night. The story is part of the routine and the routine helps.

The storytelling is a five minute period of not jumping around, lying still, relaxing - an integral part of getting the little one into a sleeping mood.
In the case of OSS libraries and open-source distributors, there's no sale happening.

What I see emerging is a dual license system where you can buy a supported version that's compliant with whatever European law or get the one hosted on an American mirror (where thankfully European law doesn't apply).
This reminds me of the souper computer! Except with better efficiency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soupercomputer
Wow I had to go on a nostalgia tour and I found a Rookie classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwpujtVM6R8

Bugs really made this game one of a kind, it's sad it would be so hard to replicate. The way he uses strafing and delay casting on corners to fight odds is amazing.

I still remember my hands shaking when I was in PK fights like this in my youth. The consequences of death made fighting so much more intense in this type of MMO.
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I think as a general statement it's true, however the causal reason for that is not because they're heat pumps, it's because of the market for heat pumps is different.

If you poll the current installed base for HVAC, I suspect you'd find that the (vast) majority of systems are minimum SEER rated (i.e., least efficient) systems, so SEER 13/14 (just became SEER 14 this year).

In comparison, if you're already paying the premium for the heat pump system, likely you also pay an additional premium for a higher SEER unit. Also, what I've seen when doing some online shopping that most heat pump systems marketed seem to be higher SEER. Likely, because the cost associated with additional heat pump stuff drives into a higher end market where you 'might as well' make them higher SEER as well (with inverter compressors, variable fan speeds, etc).
Been working on a html over the wire library in Go: https://github.com/livefir/fir. It mostly works but still work in progress
(1) You already admit that you keep my address for future use.

(2) Whatever you consider annoying is most certainly different from what I would consider annoying

(3) I need to trust you which I don't because of (1)
Idk man I dont get how this is different for retail vs pros.

Its not like you have to have a certain amlunt of money to invest : we have nano options and fractional shares now. Theres no barrier to entry. E.g. you can run the same strategies as pros with the same risk of losing your bank roll. Having more money doesnt make it inherently less likely that youll lose all of it
The thing about fair use is that there’s nothing a license can do to prevent it. After all, that’s the whole point of fair use: to say that there’s valid reasons to use pieces of IP without regards to their licenses.

So, if the courts find in Microsoft and OpenAI’s favor (which remains to be seen despite the many armchair lawyers here), your license would mean jack squat.
I lived there for a while twice, not much in the burbs either, but there was a lot to like as far as music, bars and interesting food. But yeah, getting around wasn't convenient, all of texas is like that, first time I visited I was like "why are there so many toll roads?" plus the frontage roads feel like a carryover from when the population was 1/5 what it is now, the whole city feels like a failure of city planning, but especially the roads.
Electromechanical as opposed to video, not meaning 'no computers'.
Scatter plots are good when you can't exhaustively test.
But it seldom snows in Seattle, so they don't bother to invest in any snow-clearing infrastructure - the city just shuts down for a day or two after a mild snowstorm.

San Francisco is known for its hills, but Seattle has some pretty bike-unfriendly hills as well, unless you've got an electric motor attached to your bike.
Turbine blades at least can't really be recycled, just search for "turbine blade landfill".
However day rates in excess of £500 are normal outside of London (£750 in London) so if you can deal with all that it can be lucrative.

Of course that depends on the type of work you do, your skill and experience level, and the type of client you work with.

In the UK what that day rate is worth also depends on whether you are working inside or outside IR35 and if inside whether you're working through an umbrella company or the client is paying their own taxes. Your £750 and your friend's £750 might give you very different amounts of real money left after taxes and costs.
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See also open source Fotowall. Not mine.
https://www.enricoros.com/opensource/fotowall/
I guess I misunderstood your point. I was thinking you were saying that you thought most people walking into a dealership and getting loans a on 30k+ new car could afford to pay cash instead. For the same car.
I'm the one who created this incident on our status page. I've been overly cautious in resolving this incident, but at this point I think it's causing more harm than good to keep it unresolved on there.

I think it might've prevented users from posting on our forums or sending in an email (premium support). I can imagine users looking at the status page and mistakenly thinking their problems were related to the current incident.

I've interpreted "Monitoring" as essentially meaning: "this is fixed, but we're keeping a close eye on the situation". We do not yet have a formal process for incidents such as this one (but we are working on that).

If our users are having issues, that's a problem. Looking at our own metrics, the community forum and our premium support inbox: I don't believe this to be the case.

Perhaps we should've done a better job at explaining the exact symptoms our users might be experiencing from this particular incident.
> It really cannot be overstated enough the wealth divide that pandemic QE created.

:s/\<created\>\.$/exacerbated./

The underlying causes go back further than Roger & Me.
Misuse of the term “electromechanical” in this context and honestly rather simplistic pinball playfields.
Your second link doesn't even address porn addiction at all.

And I think your third has the cart before the horse--porn use is a symptom of relationship problems far more than it is a cause of them.
"[t]he Wireguard peers are intended to get you development access to your network. We didn't really build them to handle inter service communication that affects uptime"

Huh, such a strange response, shouldn't matter what my use case is (development vs service communication), if it's running it should be up.

Also, losing development access to your network seems like a weird thing to be OK with losing. Even if you just used it for development, wouldn't you want it to be accessible?
Similar place. I find over time I find I appreciate the lighter euro-lagers or pilsners most, and periodically some belgian non-trappist ales and german beers. Ales are heavier so I don't usually go for them, and "craft" beers generally disappointing.

Have shifted more to wine, but owing to being conscious of my health, I buy infrequently.
> constructed in the United States before 2026

Looks like it's going to expire soon anyway.
Haven is open source. Last updated 2019, but works.

https://guardianproject.github.io/haven/
Apparently Germany had capacity to power France just lying around.
I can't read the article because it's paywalled but I've lived in NYC and SF for several years each, and have now been in Austin for 2. I'll just say one thing which I like about it a lot.

Being a blue city in a red state, the public's approach to policy seems more reasonable than in a lot of other places where it only goes one way.

For example, a few years ago they had a ballot measure to allow homeless camping on the streets more easy to do and less punishable. In short order, the city became swamped with it. At one point city hall downtown was even entirely surrounded with tents. I mean straight lines down all four sides of the block. It looked like somebody had gone to Walmart and bought 100 of the same 3 tents. The situation wasn't very good.

So 2 years later it was put back up for vote and people voted to undo it, and now the city is much cleaner than it was before. Yes, there are still homeless, and I bet lots of people are gonna have opinions about whether undoing it actually helped homeless people as that's a hot topic today, but having lived in NYC and SF, that was something I'd almost never seen before.

Vote to try something, and then actually vote to undo it when the results are not good? It was incredible to me. In the other cities things only ever go one way, which seemed to be doubling down. I admire Austin for its ability to experiment and undo when things don't work out, it seems rational.

Other than that, well, it's a medium-sized city in Texas. That means it's very hot in the summers and it is not as connected as the continuous coastal sprawls of the east and west coasts. If you don't like heat or simpler cities, come say hi and have fun for a week, but it might not be for you for living. You don't have to throw shade on it though to decide it's not a fit for you for the long term. It's a great place to be.
You and I may have crossed paths a few times (grew up around there in the mid 80s-90s)--Salt Creek beach was our go-to. I had no idea what Clark Foam did until I was much older (I wasn't that into surfing), but the 'Clark Foam' name on the brick wall on the corner is one of those indelible childhood memories.
Why limited it to old devices? If I buy it I should be able to run my own software if I want.
At some point it will, but has fossil fuel use actually declined so far? From what a I’ve read, the Arctic is being looked at as a new frontier for oil and gas exploration as the ice retreats.
Maybe we need to invent some sort of server-side MVC framework? lol
All companies using Elixir / LiveView, there are quite a few
Local markets vary, but I regularly see ~$1/bottle as a promotion price for "mid-tier" (aka premium) beers, or to give examples of brands: Corona, Stella, etc. (I'm not talking about stuff like PBR here). These mid-tier's can be had for $11.99 12-pack, 12 fl oz. The non-promotion price is closer to $18. Both the promotional price and not-on-sale price began noticeably ticking upwards in January. I haven't bothered with crafts unless I can get it on tap when I'm out. Paying craft prices for at-home enjoyment isn't the right value proposition for me.
>"Conflation" means (or at least implies) that one thing has been mistaken for the other.

Yes, and the word is being used correctly here.

>Nuclear reactors have been entwined with nuclear weapons production since the very beginning.

No, they have not. While it's possible to get civilian power plants to produce (breed) nuclear materials, they aren't designed for it. Almost all weapons production at places like Savannah River and Hanford was done with purpose specific plants that created plutonium and U-235 by design.

Iran is under sanctions not because it's feared they'll use power plants to make warheads but because they are working on enriching nuclear fuel to a level useful for weapons. IE, they're taking the same stuff that powers power plants and trying to concentrate it so they can make a weapon.
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Show HN: GoodQuestion: A job interview note taking and collaboration tool
Hi HackerNews,

I have created a note taking app designed to make the panel interview process more efficient and less painful.

The app allows panel interview members to collaborate on questions to ask in the interview, share notes and scores and even has AI input to suggest interview questions. It's all designed with the interviewer in mind as from experience, this is often a messy and mostly handwritten process that doesn't scale.

I'd love your thoughts!
This is definitely the reddit or twitter style take I would expect from someone outside the industry.

I worked in the industry for about a decade on nuclear, solar, wind, coal, and natural gas. I mostly worked in capacity planning and did some light industrial engineering.

There is not some massive split between 'Big fossil fuel' and 'big renewable'. Most of the generators are diversified in a blend of all different types of power plants. It's ridiculous to advance these conspiracy theories about companies running marketting campaigns against themselves.

This claim that every statement about nuclear power is some 'industry shill' narrative is really ignorant and misinformed. Then there is the lines-on-the-corkboard about what organizations they belong to... trying to infer that this is some sort of nefarious pysop.. when in reality most people in the industry are part of organizations that span every power source.

I did alot of work with SCE and Nextera which are both incredibly diversified and have a variety of power plants.

Even the infamous Duke (typically considered heavy on fossil fuels) has plenty of renewable and nuclear generation.

There is also a complete lack of knowledge about base load versus peak load, and other aspects of power generation in the thread below. The commenter in the thread claiming that 'Renewables are ALWAYS cheaper' is not correct and is running an interesting theory that energy companies want to create pollution so badly that they will throw away potential profits and lose money.

This entire discussion is pretty much the peak of software engineers who can't tell the difference between a crescent and a ratchet weighing in expertise about an industrial field they do not comprehend.
> The most radioactive substances decay in years or decades, not millennia.

s/decay in/have half-lives of/

Some of the stuff made in a nuke is not made by any other earthbound process, and even a tiny amount of it is dangerous. Plutonium has a half-life around 20,000 years. At a stretch, European civilization is 10,000 years old (and we generally struggle to read texts that old - when they exist at all).
You described my situation exactly as it is. Is this a common case for product centric companies? Is it less prevalent in tech companies?
Just from reading ycombinator on this topic I would say ChatGPT went all in on productizing - so like they hired developers to solve tasks for it to get training data etc. Maybe Google treated it as a research project and didn't pour billions in to productizing it sooner because like you said - they had the same algorithms/hardware/developer/researcher caliber and didn't view it as a threat.

And then when ChatGPT launched they got caught with their pants down and rushed to save face.
unit tests are notoriously bad about testing n>2. I just ran into a problem with sorting recently that was caused by buggy comparators, but it didn't bubble up to the tests until the runtime switched to a different sort implementation. Most of the tests were doing n=2 so it was not visible under the old runtime version but was under the new one. This has been broken in production for months if not years. If the test had used n=5 I'm pretty sure the old tests would fail as well.
The great thing about patents is that they force people to publish the knowledge so it won't be lost to the sands of time when they close up shop.

That's a benefit that depends on the difficulty of reverse engineering the knowledge from working samples. As analytical instruments and procedures have improved, the relative disclosure benefit of patents has diminished. Worse, patents are increasingly written to hide the key insight in a hay stack of obfuscatory language and irrelevant examples. I can learn a lot from reading a typical 1970s-vintage chemistry patent. I can't say the same about present chemistry patents.
It can be a problem if you intended to make an embeddable search engine within applications meant to be executed by your end-users (as is the case with milli-py above).
Whatever that number is, it will be equal or less than the number already discussed. The network “hires” contractors to provide the services you mentioned and it pays a known figure for that. Not much else to it really. Since all we are discussing is whether the network is profitable or not in this thread we don’t need to dig into more specific analysis of the service providers’ internal costs (and indeed that would be difficult since they are globally distributed with different attendant costs and efficiencies). Just to note they are unlikely to themselves be making a loss is sufficient.
Some of my favorite memories as a kid were playing Asheron's Call. Incredible game.
Not a phone but my PlayStation vita got a whole new life after jail breaking it. I actually regret not doing it earlier. I can backup and play my games from a normal sd card attached to a cheap adaptor. I can play home brew and community patches and fan translations (I have some Japanese games that never made it to the west). I can emulate anything from the 16 bit era plus perfect emulation from ps1 and psp. I can even use moonlight to play my pc.

The poor vita rejected by Sony is so good I’ve decided to skip on a switch for now because it is that good.
> wifi devices like phones as mesh routers?

Unless your uplink is bluetooth, it only has one wireless antenna, so you can only either connect to an AP or broadcast an AP, not both at the same time (AFAIK).
I imagine the issue is just psychology,there's always a reason not to, another place to put that money that might help make more money. But then, you're never paid.
TikTok lays off all employees in India
It seems like every time I read about this company in the news it's about they weren't truthful about the severity and timing of their security breaches. For a company focused on secret credential management I am not sure I could come up with a worse set of events and conduct.
Bells and New Belgium six packs are $10-$12 here, a long with a bunch of similarly priced stuff from smaller regional breweries.

Are they not mid tier?
This comment, and a few of its siblings, kind of smell like: "Look, I'm not racist, but can we trust these guys with this technology?"
Some of them can read, you know. Event count.
Shenzhen: An Alternative to the American Way of Innovation (Andrew Bunnie Huang)
Liquor gets me drunker, faster, and usually with less calories. Beer and wine also have flavor profiles that, while broad, are still fairly specific. Liquor, OTOH, has a whole lot of options -- amaros, liqueurs, etc.
Aside from all the talk about the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, etc. I found Apple to be very conservative and buttoned up, which I found very reassuring. I've never worked anywhere else in the FAANG-sphere, but it seemed like the polar opposite of "Googley".
RSF – Marina Ovsiannikova – Comment j’ai échappé à Vladimir Poutine
My two cents, I just tried to show this free course on my site, because heat pumps are an interesting topic. There is also others courses like this : https://hvac-learning.com/courses/air-handling-units-technol...

Heat pump as every heating or cooling devices, have pro and cons.
This is where HVAC knowledge is nice to have, in order to have the best solutions. For example, the maintenance / obsolescence are an under estimated point when it comes to environment and savings
Oh, the logic behind the excused for ~/snap made me never want to use that program at all