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Apnews.com Is Wonky
A couple weeks ago the https://apnews.com/ site started deleting all the content on their home page after I scrolled past their "Top stories" div and showing me a message that says "The AP News site encountered an error, please click the AP logo above to reload the site." when using the Firefox web browser.

I reported the issue but it's still not been fixed. It was still working fine in the Brave web browser though so I just switched to using it, but now it's not working on that either.

This morning I loaded their site in Brave and after scrolling down the page a bit the entire page refreshes after just a minute or so and I'm back at the top of the page. I can't even skim the headlines on their page before it does that. I've not changed any of the default settings in Brave so it's not me that's mucking that up.

Is anyone else having issues with that site?
Governor Tarkin:

Princess Leia, before your execution, you will join me at a ceremony that will make this battle station operational. No star system will dare oppose the Emperor now.

Princess Leia:

The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

Every government and central bank in the world is tightening their grip around the tiniest transactions of their citizenry. In the meantime, they are printing Trillions and shovelling it to their sycophantic corporate and political elite buddies.

And then, they wonder why people are being driven to use Cryptocurrency...

For those of you who are offended by this characterization; how does burdening 8 billion law-abiding Citizens with impossibly complex and arduous KYC/AML requirements make sense -- when just one FTX incident exceeds the value of all legitimate remittance transactions on the planet for the entire year, and KYC/AML doesn't affect the likes of FTX, Tether, etc. in the least?

Perhaps you feel like you're "doing something". You are -- making every law-abiding free Citizen feel like a criminal and expend countless hours of life-energy, to do precisely nothing to solve the problem, while crippling the legitimate small business and personal enterprise of the entire planet.

Congratulations!
Or maybe the bug was closed as a duplicate of one they were already aware of? Still impolite of them, of course, but we shouldn’t assume the worst.
Two thoughts:

* This is ridiculous. Why would you do this? Which made think of this quote: "Which is ridiculous and unnecessary but when has that ever stopped programmers?" from one of my favorite Tom Scott videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8

* How to Write Unmaintainable Code: https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. Until the Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act gets repealed, the nuclear industry can take a hike.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nucle...
Russia also has that capability.

And one of the pipelines remains operational.
Yeah, I'd be really curious to know where the hangups are. My understanding of that field – in which I have no direct experience — is that there are a lot of hard edge cases to deal with and it would make a ton of sense to roll that out on a small scale first. I wonder what the tradeoffs are for something like the Apple Watch – the device is simpler in the sense that it does less than a phone but the battery constraints are quite tight.
You should be worried about this company. These "scrumbags" are useless political roadblocks. They detest every developer and make them look like idiots so that they can never be considered for management, why, they cannot beat a manager who can also code.
> The fossil fuel industry is funding pro-nuclear PR because they realize that renewables do pose a major economic threat to their business in the short term, since they are now cost-effective enough to replace vast chunks of their business (even if not 100% of it.)

I wonder if it's not even more cynical than that because it doesn't seem right. We still need an alternative controllable* source of energy when renewables can't cover the demand (no wind, no sunshine), and it needs to cover peak demand... For now aside from hydro it's mostly fossil fuels: coal, gas and oil.

As far as the current tech goes, my understanding is that "renewables" are much more compatible with profits from fossil fuel than nuclear power is.

* is "controllable" the right word in this context in english?
Sure, and never ever would a company cut costs to raise profit and ignore safety standards.

Just visit Asse in Germany and hug some of the rotting barrels with nuclear waste.

The problem isn't technology but greed and stupidity.
Really didn't expect to see AC at the top of HN. Asheron's Call was the first game I worked on and I remember all the times we'd joke with Wi about it and watch monsters beeline for him. It seemed like one of those "Haha sure, player perception" problems and not something that was actually real. IIRC someone did a very cursory look at the code at one point but it never bubbled up as important enough to assign someone to to actually investigate.

Wi came to one of the player gatherings with little printed out cards and would hand them to people and say, "You've been Wi flagged!"

The fondest of memories.
The US was always opposed to Nord Stream and for good reasons. I'm in fact glad it's gone.

Many people already speculated it was the US, because Biden himself literally says "we will bring an end to it": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4O8rGRLf8

With a smirk. Even when pressed how he is going to do it.

For me, Hersh' story is the secondary corroboration.
I think 10k/month from a product and 10k/month from FAANG have a vastly different value quality of life wise
I hope that is the case, but I am doubtful of the overall success. My reasoning being looking at the lack of success of decentralized competition of big tech for search and social media. Other than crypto currency, these other web3 attempts just haven't been largely successful.

Mostly due to the fact the most people will opt for features and convenience over privacy and liberty. The people using Brave, Minds etc will likely use non gated AI, but I suspect the most everyone else will not. Hope I'm wrong.
> 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.

I've always hoped they're secretly funded/friends with the oil lobby, because otherwise that's just pure sadness.
How are renewables more competitive with fossil fuel than nuclear when it comes to storage and transmission? At least nuclear can keep producing when the sun is down and the wind isn't blowing. It's also more energy dense, so it can scale to cover demand. We're not decarbonizing the economy without those factors being accounted for.
I've flirted with USDC as a solution, but AFAIK it's only received attestations not audits. In that case it might as well beonopoly money.
One of the pipelines is still operational. Weird, eh?
- Sure, at least when it's not super cold. Electrical grid may be a "problem that has to be solved" but it's one that carries staggering price tags and will have to be gradually transitioned into over decades. Natural gas will likely still be used as a heat source for many well into the late this century if not longer.

- Gas boilers are far simpler units. Less moving parts, simpler electronics, all in all fewer points of failure than a cutting edge heat pump that can actually produce heat when it's below 20f (-7c, i.e. the only kind of heatpump that might stand a chance at heating throughout the cold winters most of the northern US gets).

- Be that as it may, heat pumps at this time are cost prohibitive - making them largely something only "wealthy Americans" can afford. Many people still run old 80% efficiency units because of similar reasons to boilers: they're cheaper, simpler, and less likely to fail.
The KSP community has lore about the Kraken. They will joke about anything.
(C++/Windows) Teylogger – A tiny and complete keylogger for Windows
The amount of wasted quarters this make me remember...
What you don’t know is that in the 2010’s the left wing had a agreement with the Green Party to stop all nuclear by 2050. That’s why we stop financing and maintaining a lot of nuclear plants. It turned out it was a bad idea..
USDC is not audited to the best of my knowledge.
As others comments said, it depends on the climate :
The problem is that the power/performance of the heat pumps decreases with the cold weather and the necessary increase in the temperature of the heating water, which obliges to keep the boiler for the cold weather.
This is a problem for the heat pumps without probable solution and little progress to wait.
The solution is to insulate the house very well so that its needs can be covered by the heat pump with less hot water. Divide the losses by 2 at least.
Layered Kubernetes Seucrity Is a Pita
In what sense would such a world be dysfunctional?
> While these are reasons to be suspicious, they do not counter a single point she made in her article.

True.

> her logic and her facts were solid.

I came to a somewhat different conclusion after reading that article: I felt it was sufficiently blatant, manipulative, and simply wrong that no one would fall for that. Ah well.
A big reason 1-on-1 mentoring is so much better than almost any other form of education is that the teacher is able to build a mental model of what the student knows. You can get close to this with a tight pedagogical track where the teacher can say "You've all taken classes X and Y, so you should already be comfortable with the concepts I'm going to talk about." But Software Engineering is a young discipline and the topics discussed in TFA are nebulous, opinion-laden, and specific to individual companies, tasks, and languages. So precisely-specified pedagogy is not possible, and the only remaining option is 1-on-1 mentoring. Every other option (online tutorials, videos, presentations) doesn't allow the teacher to build a mental model of what the student knows and adapt their lesson based on that. It's not really about being right next to the person or being available right now, as TFA says. It's about being able to understand what the student already knows, which lessons are sinking in and which aren't, and why.

Then comes the extremely hard part for the teacher: having the deep self-awareness to be able to separate out what really matters from what is simply their opinion, or what they're comfortable with. When a company tech lead is mentoring juniors, it doesn't matter as much, because her preferences can basically become mandates without causing any real issue; that probably increases the overall consistency of the codebase. But if you want to set up a website where experienced mentors share real grains of wisdom without the chaff of personal preference, prepare for a lot of religious wars.

There's a reason the master/apprentice model has persisted for thousands of years. It doesn't sound like TFA is advocating for some mass-scale solution, but rather just pointing out how valuable mentoring is and how it should be a priority for senior developers if a company wants a healthy engineering culture. Totally agreed. We're probably not ready for a mass-scale solution to this problem yet.
It’s not about “making them feel better”. It’s about wage theft from workers.

If you pay me N extra hours, where N is less than the hours I worked on call then you stole from me. Plain and simple. This should be pursued by rabid labor lawyers and interest at the prevailing 30 year rate should accrue on those dollars hourly until they are paid back.

The problem is, of course, the law dictating “exempt workers” was written in a time where the only people that would be exempt were executives with actual million dollars golden parachutes. Now, white collar labor is almost universally exempt allowing the state sanctioned theft of millions of dollars a year by corporations who lobby to keep the laws the same, and promoted by “grind culture” immoral bottom-barrel blood-suckers like PagerDuty.

It’s bullshit. You’re suffering from Stockholm syndrome. You’ve somehow managed to say stealing from you is okay because they put some nominal amount of unrelated dollars in front of you.
Control/operation of nuclear plants has already been a target of brinksmanship. And while your point about dams is a good one, disasters like a dam collapse (which just happened as a result of the Turkey/Syria earthquake, and is adding to the already catastrophic devastation), are more localized in time than nuclear incidents which present long-term environmental challenges. Sometime I'd like to visit Chernobyl, but I'm not sure I'd live there.
And you hope the stock doesn't go down by 30 percent after 6 months.
"Nobody" wants to spend 20 minutes configuring at that granularity: apple's is more than sufficient for 99.9999% of all use cases. All the supposedly superior Android features in this entire thread are things only a minute fraction of tinkerers actually care about.
> a project that makes money isn’t a hobby anymore

It all depends. There are plenty of people who have hobbies and engage in some sort of low-level commerce in order to fund them. They aren't intending to profit by them (and don't), but are looking to reduce their loss.
Do you mean to imply that you're not supposed to throw your dead car batteries into the ocean to help charge the electric eels?
Funny you should cite those two examples, both notorious for being faked by the US government to justify military action. It’s amazing how many times some people can be convinced “this time is different” in one lifetime.
> If you want the cheapest power, then burn lots of coal and don't hold power plants accountable for their emissions.

That's not the cheapest, because the price for the emissions gets paid (whether or not we choose to account for it).

The cheapest is the source of new power capacity that provides the lowest total levelized cost - including its externalities - at a given level of reliability (firmness). Right now, that's a race between renewables+storage and combined cycle natural gas.
I mean... have they considered one possibility?

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Hm. Nope.
You have to be careful how you do it. I was punished for turning it down.

I was told that all I needed to do was work one extra hour per day (in addition to normal support, elevation, etc). Why would I take a position with higher expectations for a 7% raise and a 13% increase in hours - a rate cut? Plus, if I'm a high performer in my current role I should be getting bigger bonuses.

I have a skip level where the department head asked what my career goals were. And my answer was to stay in my role. After all, I worked as a tech lead for a year and a senior dev the year after, with no talk of advancement until what I previously mentioned (which would be a rate cut).

My manager got me from my desk the next work day and you could tell he was pissed. He asked me why I would say that sort of stuff and said that was "stupid". I generally tell the truth and am pretty honest - I guess I'm stupid that way.

I heard through a friend thst they wanted to get rid of me for those comments and I managed to switch teams in time. My career has been in a downward spiral since.
The sheer number of rhetorical fallacies employed in the opening of this "takedown" inclines me to believe that Hersh's reporting is a largely accurate and truthful account.

For example, stating that you could write "an entire post on the reasons why sounds entirely made up by someone with no real grasp of what that suggestion would actually technically entail" is a clear-cut appeal to ridicule[1] fallacy with no further elaboration.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_ridicule
Wrong, it made a pass after the explosion. For a good reason.

But here you are proclaiming that they used a plane, with its transponder on, to activate the bomb. A very very very secret operation indeed. Cloak and daggers! So much covert.
> 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 works when the patents is some simple thing anyone can understand. Nothing is like that anymore. Every interesting line of research requires a specialist to understand it, and every specialist represents a high opportunity cost. In practice only a few people could hope to benefit from the publication.

Throw into that the fact that it's actually lawyers who write patents, and thus they are written in legalese.
I'm missing something here and it has nothing to do with math.

Why couldn't they reproduce the problem in testing? For what was it, years?
hm, maybe the crowdfunding platforms like kickstarter and indiegogo? as far as I know those haven't started down the curve yet. but I would guess it's inevitable once you take vc money and are beholden to your investors to squeeze out every drop of revenue you can :(

it would require a really strong mission statement baked into the company to say "we are here to provide value to our users and everything else has to come second to that". if nothing else you eventually get acquired, e.g. tumblr, and everything goes to hell then.
If this guy wants me to believe him he needs to stop insulting Hersh. I appreciate the deep dive (get it) of this piece, and I appreciate his calling out what he believes to be bullshit. But I DO NOT appreciate the ad hominem attacks on Hersh.
<< And I agree, tax hikes but targeted at the financial system which makes money in parasitic ways. In short, the economy needs to be optimized to the benefit of the lower and middle classes, the working class, and no longer to the 1%. This all probably requires heavy nationalization of banking and major industry. I dont see this as an evil and mistrust those that tell me to fear putting the power back in the hands of the people and away from the elite.

I disagree. The only way to even begin thinking about selling it to the public, which happens to include moneyed interests is 'shared sacrifice' ( similar to how a war effort would be sold ). In pure mathematical terms, we really should be doing both already. We don't because things did not get bad enough yet, but once it starts, it will be a little hard to stop. Shock therapy is necessary to get things under control. And the longer we wait pretending it can be 'managed', the worse it will be later on.

<< I think more of a re-allocation of where capitol is going is the cure.

From where to where? I don't automatically disagree, but 'entitlements'(depending on how you define them ) are somewhat protected from touching and 'defense' is even harder. Re-allocation is not going to happen, because even current allocation was a result of heavy compromises.

I disagree based on the information provided so far. If you have math to back up either point, please share. Right now, we are still running US on continuing resolutions suggesting that balanced budget now is just not possible. Something is wrong and it needs to be corrected before it gets much worse.
A better way is to assign some internal salt to the feature at creation time and use that, that way you are not dependent on something external that user (the creator of the feature flag) could change.
I bear the scars of this design mistake from when I worked for a company that provided feature flagging.
It was not my initial mistake, but I drew the short straw trying to work around it.
I can't believe you're blaming "tree huggers" for this, when the clear beneficiary is the global fossil fuel industry, who've been lobbying against nuclear power since the 50s. Shit, many anti-nuclear groups have been funded by fossil fuel industry for decades. At best, their protests were political cover for governments to do what the oil industry paid them to do.
What exactly is the bottleneck here? What is it about ChatGPT that makes it better than Google's stuff? Is it more compute power? Better algorithms used in the models? More talent? Better work culture? Some proprietary technical innovations? Quality of data? Quantity of data? Some combination of all of these?
I just always have 5 gal of apple wine going. Apple juice, sugar, and EC118 are cheap and produce something that tastes good. Just throw it in a carboy with air lock and in 2 weeks you are done.
The QA 7-way is nightmare fuel. I hate it. I hate going through it every-single-time I'm forced to.
What I want doesn't really matter. What I'm saying is that solutions must be possible to implement.

So say somehow I've got $10 billion burning a hole in my pocket. Would I build nuclear with that? No, it'd be stupid, because chances are high I would never see a profit.

So I would build solar. It's not reliable and troublesome for the grid? Well, not my problem to solve, I'm merely a power provider, balancing the grid isn't my responsibility.

Ok, say there's a really well intentioned politician, will they use lots of tax money to build nuclear? But why would they? In modern countries such things are achieved by consensus, which means one person can hardly take credit for it, and they may never see it actually start operating during their term.

A political party then? Power tends to switch back and forth, and the next power in party is fairly likely to sabotage their predecessors legacy. Since the plants take a long time to build the chances are slim for a party in favor to see the benefits.
You mean criminals like drug dealers on the dark web? Or criminals like the people protesting against Lukashenko's rigged elections? Or even criminals like the endsars movement against police brutality on Nigeria?

I'm really sorry if this offends you but I think your opinions on tech and what constitutes a crime are really narrow. Perhaps you should check your financial privilege?
Our family has been with GoDaddy for over 17 years and both my husband and myself have personally loved working for the company. Our whole marriage, the birth of our children, we ere there and we are deeply rooted in the company and have been treated very well. Which I guess makes this that much harder honestly. The last few days have been tears of both fear and sadness that this is no longer a part of our life.
Where this logic irritates me the most is in the housing market.

Similarly to those who blame companies for over hiring to meet pandemic demand, I've seen some people suggest the average home buyer was being reckless for buying a home during the pandemic, because "they brought the bubble!"

I guess it's strange to me how the Fed can pump every asset class to the moon, force companies to over hire to meet demand, and cause a huge inflationary problem for consumers – all while promising not to raise interest rates – then rug pull everyone but get no blame for any of it.

Instead I find I'm invited to blame the average business or home owner for being "reckless" for hiring to meet demand for buying a home for their family, while praising the Fed for "doing what's necessary"? Give me a break.
France was strongarmed by Germany and by shitty election related deals to elect Hollande into massive nuclear power closures and reductions, coupled with presidents unable to see more than 5 years ahead means that nuclear plants both do not get renewed and also get closed for absolutely no reason. See Fessenheim.

The issue with construction isn't that it's hard to build a safe power plant, it's that there's been no will from anyone, or active harm from incompetent shitheads.
Personally, I start by not trusting platforms - pw manager and 2fa all the way, never re-using passwords. I also use bitwarded - open source ftw.