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you can request to the admins if you really need to
Update for a game that made their introduction Show HN about 8 months ago. They've come a long way since then (better tutorial, optimized performance, other new features and quality of life improvements), and finally the game also has blueprints!

You can see the initial post here, lots of interesting discussions around the internals of the game:

- Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released - 1157 points by iliketrains 8 months ago | 282 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31586833
After years and years of dubious, "anonymous sources" literally making up claims, I have come to doubt the truthfulness of nearly anyone who claims something from an anonymous sources.

Even if it is from a well regarded journalist. This is a consequence of how far the profession has fallen.
i don’t see the problem supporting something with both words and facts

if you think that nuclear is an awesome energy source why shouldn’t you work for increasing its adoption?
My cousin used to collect and restoring old electromechanical pinballs. They're actually pretty neat to look inside up close.

If anyone is interested, I searched up this video that explains the insides of an electromechanical pinball machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBI1taVj3tI
I don't know if I agree with the "organized civilian protestation" entirely. While NIMBY did play a role historically, this seems out-of-touch when I consider the mothballed & troubled builds which are currently in South Carolina.

I do believe regulators have their foot on the brakes, and there are some really telling stories from people in the actual industry. The level of paperwork and scrutiny are hard to fathom for people in other industries. But right now, in the US, that is more of a Federal political issue. The AP1000 lost crucial time due to added missile shield requirements. That doesn't scream local on-the-ground public resistance. You can pin some of this nearly directly to anti-nuclear views from (let's be honestly) Democratic senators (not from the south). Federal policy both encourages and discourages nuclear, but the domestic industry was too weak, and the regulatory policy took critical hits during a formative time.

I care very deeply about addressing carbon emissions. I want nuclear to work, but that's not an argumentative hill I should die on when solar has seen costs go bananas. Maybe another human generation will change things, but from lived experience, I would bet not.

As an engineer, I admit that either nuclear or solar COULD HAVE become the backbone of our energy system. But time is out for climate action. Solar is modular, proven, and roaring. Further deployment will create a new engineering problem of storage, but we don't have time to turn that into a delay tactic. There will be solutions to energy storage, just as there are solutions to nuclear waste. Neither are cheap, but either are a drop in the bucket compared to the climate damage we face.
Remember when you'd use a company just because they provided a good product or service? I guess now they have to align with your political views.
"About" and "less than" are lovely weasel words for the ideologically committed.

According to this graph, the truth is more like 1% after 100 years, 0.1% after 10,000 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spent_nuclear_fuel?useskin=vec...
I have never driven a work truck more than 100 miles in a day. I recognize that some people need to but if I can get 100 miles of range out of a Chevy Silverado with an EV drive train that could be very appealing to a small business. The EV premium just has to be less than the expected lifetime fuel costs.
> Additionally, making unsupported claims is just that. Anyone could anonymously claim anything, but we don't give the same credence to every claim

Right, and these claims are being made by an award winning journalist with a proven track record who has a source. That deserves more credence than just "anyone" making any claim. Not enough to accept it as truth, but far more than claims that can be outright dismissed as you initially claimed.
There's a lot of misinformation about nuclear energy. I used to tell people that a quick way to get kicked out of the nuclear program in the U.S. Navy was to accidently forget to take off your thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) before boarding an airplane. The Navy uses TLDs to track radiation exposure of sailors and has a strict program in place for managing it. Turns out, hopping on an airplane is the quickest way to exceed your annual exposure limit.

It helped people understand the safety protocols we have in place and that it's not this big scary thing waiting to give you cancer at any moment. Of course, it _is_ dangerous when handled incorrectly, but it's not the doomsday thing the media tends to make it.
Why is it less inclined to censor?

Also, true. They do have more control over their payouts.
Yeah, I guess if you only read the headline before commenting it makes sense.
I cant speak to europe, but in the US yes you can freelance still. It helps to setup an LLC to work under for various reasons, and it takes a lot of time to build out your network, but theres definitely enough work to go around in terms of agencies vs independents.
"Because, you see, bugs are a way of connecting people to the real world. Reminding them that, at the end of the day, it is just a game."
— Matt Jablonsky, Head of Bug Creation Department

Quote from an Aprils Fools video for The Witcher 3.
And for those who aren’t Catholic, or any religion or spirituality that doesn’t have this interpretation?
Why does that happen? Why can't Medium allow writers to publish whatever they want without being worried of censorship?
Roundabout; Cars in the roundabout ALREADY have the right of way. Everyone entering is yielding to the street they're T-ing into. Exit, in theory, is from right of way into a dedicated path.

Only self driving cars, or better licensing tests for drivers can save us from this. Every N years drivers probably should need to re-test, including a physical practical test in a standard unit (from the DMV) for parking and to see how the driver responds if driving a rental car that they aren't familiar with.
Surprised to see this here! But awesome. I’m in a parallel, but much smaller industry of canoe building. I’ve made a few boards for fun and I’m honestly so impressed with anyone that makes a living building boards. It’s a skilled craft, super dependent on builder skill, and yet requires decent volume to make a business out of it. Hard dirty work. Some is automated, but not to the extent possible. I have probably the most advanced private composites shop in Hawaii, sometimes think about making boards, as there may be room to on shore some production. And who wouldn’t want to make surfboards. But also can’t imagine not loosing money and canoe building already does that well.
I used to host my blog on Medium because it was the easiest way to get a simple, attractive blog available with a minimum amount of work.

Then they started adding various annoyances, which I'm sure they thought would help with financial goals, but it eliminated the "simple, attractive" part. As a reader, seeing that a link went to medium.com used to mean it was easy-to-read and text-focused, and afterwards, it meant that it would be full of intrusive crap one would have to deal with before reading. To the point that people started making [special browser extensions](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/make-medium-readab...) just to remove them.

As a writer, whose main interest is in people reading my stuff (rather than, say, monetization), I wanted to move it somewhere where the readers would not be annoyed and maybe refuse to click on the link in the first place because of the domain.

I'm sure the above describes many others' experiences as well.
>I'm sure there's a term for all of the de-personalization, but I don't know what it is.

Let's see ...

marginalisation? disenfranchisement? alienation?

Just throwing some words out there to see what will stick ... like the big Jee ... oops (covers mouth, runs away)
Foolish to generalize backlog’s as a useless technique because the author has had bad working experience from them.

As the author found, if you tune your backlog processes they can be quite helpful. The only part of agile I use today is the backlog. If you keep engineering details to a minimum (or limited until it reaches the top), items brief and to the point, and have it groomed regularly so it is always bounded to a size it works well.

I find that on multi year projects you can “archive” the bottom 20-50% of tasks and no one will care. So it cleans itself up quite nicely.
ChatGPT can mentor, using humans isn't scalable
Indeed. Scubabear the employee is still limited to the same 401(k) contribution limits as everyone else, but Scubabear the employer LLC can have some very generous employer contributions for all of their employees (which happens to be just the one).
> If you sell it for $5 on the App Store, you keep $3.5.

Try $0. Look at the App Store charts. The 200 top grossing apps are ironically all "Free": https://appfigures.com/top-apps/ios-app-store/united-states/...

This is the real problem, the crApp Store race to the bottom. Apple's cut was never really the problem. The cut is obscene, but only because the prices are already obscenely low. I'd be happy to give Apple 50% if I could sell my software for higher prices.

> And you sell 100,000.

Good luck with that.

> You also have to set up a server to serve the downloads and pay hosting, storage, and bandwidth.

Cheap.

> As well as shipping updates to all of your customers. As well as ensuring updates are compatible for any iOS version your customers might be using. There's going to be some level of customer support required.

You have to do these things anyway.

> Finally, how are people going to discover your app? You aren't on any app stores, so you have to advertise. You'll need to market. And -- convince people that you aren't going to infect their device with malware.

You have to do all of this stuff regardless of whether you're in the App Store. As an App Store developer myself, I can tell you that Apple absolutely does not do these things for you.

Notice how many Mac developers, given the choice, choose to distribute themselves rather than via the Mac App Store. They don't see the App Store as a win like you do.
IMO that's quite misleading. It's true that the amount of radition will dramatically decline. But it does so unevenly, and certain isotopes last much much longer. That's not really a problem if the waste stays contained in one location, but if that waste somehow leaked into water sources or similar then it could have significant consequences. Even a very small amounts of these isotopes can be dangerous if inhaled or ingested.
Ethanol production isn't carbon neutral either so there is that to consider with flex fuel.
The financials don't live in a vacuum though. Nuclear is only so expensive because there is a lack of supply chain on reactors and absurd regulations.

The average nuclear reactor is over 40 years old(!) and well past due for replacement. So the cost is skewed by unrealistic maintenance demand on reactors that are 3 generations old because we can't politically replace them with anything other than a Natural Gas plant.

Meanwhile, renewables enjoy fast-tracking and subsidies. But keep in mind renewables currently only benefit places that are either windy or sunny. There are going to be diminishing returns as they fill up our power diet. We are still going to need power supplies that can keep New York powered in the winter. Or power that can be turned on/off to meet seasonal demand. So unless we want to keep natural gas and coal plants around indefinitely, we are going to need some amount of nuclear power in the mix.
Phones without an active sim can still dial 911. Risky to give to kids, unless they're older.
Criticizing someone hacking hardware for fun on Hacker News... bold move!
Condescension is never "deserved", you just decided to apply it.
In 2010, I tried to use callgrind to profile a project on Arm, after having used it to great effect on x86, and discovered that because of the variety of ways to return (and call!) functions on Arm, callgrind was unable to reliably identify function call and return sites. It created cycles in the call graph and even failed to record a function's self measurements correctly (because it could not tell when you left that function).

The problem boiled down to the valgrind frontend code that splits things up into basic blocks being incapable of having an instruction be both a conditional jump and a function call / return at the same time. That never happens on x86, but of course this is possible (and totally normal) on 32-bit Arm. Sadly, I ran out of time to try to re-architect this code and had to move on to other projects.

Over 12 years later, it looks like it never did get fixed: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252091
> Extinction rebellion have a page on her (NSFW warning for some nudity in the banner image

Controversial opinion: by scaremongering about nuclear power—which the west could have started adopting in the 1970s like France did—the naked tree huggers did as much to set back climate change mitigation efforts as the oil lobby.

At least with the oil folks, they were pushing a status quo that was likely to stand until today anyway, because renewables have only become cost competitive relatively recently. Even without lobbying by the oil industry people had powerful incentives until now to stick with the technology that didn’t require them to put on a sweater or pay more for energy.

The anti-nuclear movement by contrast knee-capped the last best hope for climate change mitigation. A technology that could have been deployed—and catalyzed electrification and energy storage efforts—decades ago when we had more runway.
Oh my god, I haven't thought about Digg for years. It's still around, apparently, but it bears no resemblance from what I (hazily) remember.
Not all preservatives are created equal: nitrates, nitrites, benzoates, and propionics. But in this case probably just salt.
I grew up very anti-nuclear, but a lot of it was conflation of nuclear energy with nuclear weapons which, back in the 80s, felt like they could fall any moment.

But the technology has changed (though most reactors are not new), and more importantly, when compared with the effects of fossil fuels on climate, nuclear is by far the lesser evil. Sure, solar/wind/hydro renewables are important but they're not practical or feasible everywhere. I'm now pretty convinced nuclear needs to play an important part if we have any hope of significant emission reduction. So in that respect, as well meaning as the anti-nuclear green movement has been, they are wrong in opposing it today (in terms of power generation; nuclear weapons are an abomination).
Or solar plus CAES. Or pumped hydro. Plus some loads can be shifted.
Can't Medium generate revenue through ads? They have the network effects so they should be able to place ads on the website to keep it running like the other social platforms do. They could even split the ad revenue with writers.

Just ideas.
Edit: My point was mostly that top 70th percentile or a little over 300k isn’t US retirement money but it is third world retirement money. It’s the bottom threshold for unlimited food and shelter being guaranteed as long as you keep expenses low enough. Meanwhile the bottom 1/3 is basically trusting on borrowing for their capital, they simply need to work. A pension is just another form of wealth.

As to 0.1% vs 0.01% I am mostly talking about staff. You can own and operate a boat at relatively low wealth. The UK famously has a lot of people living cheaply on narrow boats but there are US equivalents. The 0.1% wealth level owns a much nicer boat while the 0.01% owns a boat with it’s own staff.

That’s the tipping point IMO. People of most income levels can go to the beach it’s mostly nicer versions of the same basic thing. From living in a tent to a large mansion you’re cooking lunch or eating out until suddenly the option for a private chef becomes normal.
Yes. I'm aware of this. My point is, not everything that starts a process is an interactive shell (or a subprocess of an interactive shell), and even when you do launch things from a shell, you're not necessarily in the directory of the thing you launch. Examples would be automatic builds on code commits, cron jobs or whatever.

So in the end the magic of direnv is only helpful in special circumstances. Outside those circumstances, you'd have to treat its directory local configuration file like an .env file anyway, and a more complicated one at that given that it's likely to contain shell keywords (such as unset) which your parser has to be aware of - so now you're worse off than with regular .env files.
Georgia Tech's OMSCS master's degree program used to use Udacity for all of its lecture videos. I personally liked Udacity. A couple years ago, Georgia Tech moved everything to their own platform on Canvas. I heard there were issues with it not being easy to make updates to videos on Udacity. Plus, the Udacity app never supported Georgia Tech logins like the website did, and it was a pain to view videos on mobile devices. I'm not sure of the exact reason for the move though, since it may have been a business decision.
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GnuPG is a large C codebase and CVEs are readily found simply because of poor testing, poor abstractions, etc. C codebases are also very expensive to review for things like memory safety. As just one example I filed CVE-2018-9234 myself which allowed me to violate key usage restrictions which is pretty fundamental and just did not have a test.

Much of the core development team of GnuPG left to work on the Sequoia Rust rewrite which is IMO already much better tested than GnuPG for the features that have parity. Also, it is rust, so memory safety you mostly get for free. They even went as far as to implement three different backends for crypto primitives to easily test they all behave the same way.

https://tests.sequoia-pgp.org/

Honestly once Sequioa finishes smartcard support and chameleon (gpg cli emulator), then GnuPG should be deprecated IMO.
I've found the CGO boundary to be quite slow for large result sets and have taken to just running commands that do SELECT and COPY to files on the system and then read those.
If you attain relative independence at 10 K per month, it might be worth it.

Personally, I am a very independence-minded person and I am not sure what offer would I have to receive in order to drop my current business (with a lot of small customers, so not a single chokepoint) and become a cog in some big wheelhouse.

Experience of my peers (I am soon to be 45) says that big wheelhouses can sometimes collapse with alarming speed and once you get used to the putative safety, the aftereffects can break your family, your mind (one guy I knew really fell into a bad alcohol habit after being let go from a bank) etc.
Sequencing and storing our DNA to be encoded into a future simulation
Self-professed Catholics are the Catholic church. That's what's meant by the phrase, not the bishops.
I thought that the job cuts is a conspiracy for battling inflation and overprice tech talent.
> The post quality has deteriorated, and it feels like I'm reading the same posts over and over again.

Not just that, but more and more writers are writing long-form analyses of events and topics which have been thoroughly analyzed elsewhere, long ago. Not really adding anything new.

Some of their most popular authors are legitimately regurgitating the same talking points over and over again. If you read a dozen articles from Umair Haque, you'll have read the basic talking points of every article he's likely to write.

But - it seems to work I guess. Lots of youtubers get popular the same way - by generating the same basic content over and over again, with slight changes. As long as they do so frequently, they maintain their viewers. Granted if you're a cute girl dancing, it's a lot easier to get away with than if you're writing 800 words about how America is a failed state.
I think you're technically correct, but there are a lot of other sources of radiation in our daily lives. I don't know how much radiation leaks out, but if it's similar to naturally occurring sources, I think it's fair to say there is no radiation leaking.
Top 10ish%? Yes. Top 1%? No
A lot of people say that new reactor designs will be a game changer but I can't help but wonder how much more benefit they'll provide over plain old solar and wind with hydrogen for storage and transport.

After the Ukraine invasion, I think it's also worth considering future political instability in reactor permitting and design. I believe the molten salt reactors negate a lot of the problems we've had to consider with the Zaporozhye nuclear plant being in a war zone, but I'm not sure it comes out to something much better than solar and wind.

The micro reactors sound interesting though.
It takes a lot longer to walk across a street when you have to wait for a walk signal. City streets can be 1.5-2 lane residential streets which you can cross basically on demand, making them equivalent in time to walking on the sidewalk. Based on an average walking pace of 1.33 m/s (3.0 mph), you can cover 40m in 30 seconds.

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6243731,-122.3250919,18.81z

The blocks in this section of Seattle are ~80m long, so one block takes 60s to walk. The "Mercer on Summit" apartments on this map are within 1/2 block (30s) from 3 restaurants, 2 bars, and 1 small grocery.
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Is there a OSS license that specifically precludes its use in LLMs or effectively does so?
When medium decided that, as a writer, you need to have at least 100 followers to be able to get paid, the rules of the game changed. All I saw was articles about how to get your first 100 followers and how somebody made lots of money writing on medium. Clickbait titles, follow-back culture.
When Medium instituted their paywall they enshittified the user experience.
While the Seymour Hersh story seems unbelievable to me, so does the initial explanation that was being thrown around, that Russia did this as sabotage, e.g., https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/28/nord-stream-....

The utter stupidity of that idea is along the sames lines as rhetoric, also present in OP, that Russia "weaponized" its gas pipelines. (To use that language, nearly anything can be a "weapon.") I'm going to just go out on a limb here and say that I won't take seriously anything that doesn't immediately address how insane those initial accusations, of Russian sabotage of its own pipelines, were.
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Zoning makes it so difficult for builders to meet America's demand for housing
- UI has progressively gotten more bloated

- too many articles that read like they were written by an LLM

- the service provided is easily replaceable

At least substack has a niche with conservatives. Medium, not so much
The proximate cause is that Substack was founded by people less likely to censor, who have so far kept control of the company. It may be more meaningful to say that Substack was founded in 2017, and Medium was founded in 2012, and the sort of censorship we're talking about was much more salient in 2017 than in 2012, so Substack was in some sense selected to be more against that sort of censorship.
It seems quite uncommon to write the statistical unit test for this sort of algorithm; I suppose most languages lacking statistical programming toolchain makes it less appealing.

I wonder if there’s a cheap Frankenstein approach to create a test-only interface into your code with a CLI / FFI and wrap it with some Python to easily test the result distributions.

Then you can use tools like scipy or newer probabilistic programming frameworks like pyro. Not sure what the FFI story is in R, maybe something similar could be done there.