MrEldritch

At least to me, your health and safety obviously override honesty, so long as that breach of honesty is not endangering other's health and safety.

It is especially not required to be honest to people who are actively working against your own health and safety. You are not required to let your captors know you are planning an escape.

Cops don't have to face consequences. Who would arrest them?

I think that the lesson of the Mill is that you can make an architecture much safer without paying extra as long as you do things in principle.

(as opposed to, say, in practice)

"shitpost engineering" seems like one of those wonderfully evocative terms (like "premium mediocre") that seems to perfectly capture some aspect of our age.

Given that literally nobody has ever needed, nor will they ever need, to talk about file sizes in millibits, there is no ambiguity involved.

If you think the best answer to predicting things is to just throw a neural net at it, you should probably learn more control theory. :)

(Less flippantly - neural nets are mainly for the case where you can't effectively do manual feature engineering because your inputs are too varied and complex, you don't particularly care about the mathematical properties or guarantees of the solution, and where you don't even really know what the solution should look like [so are forced to randomly initialize a huge nonlinear system and optimize it until useful behaviors pop out]. Something like predicting path saturation would be far better suited to traditional approaches.)

What on Earth are you talking about?

Yes, that's the reason - exactly 10 minutes is a sort of magic number for YouTube, because that's the threshold at which you can place more than one ad on a video and control their placement. Notice how the runtime is 10:02? That's a sure sign that the creator had to stretch their video out.

Yes, exactly analogous!

you are a large, warm object, and as such you decohere basically instantaneously. (In any case, far faster than the milliseconds required for you to perceive anything.) As such, the state-in-which-you-perceive-result-A is completely unable to causally influence the state-in-which-you-perceive-result-B, and vice versa.

Molecular biology and biochemistry has a pretty major replication crisis of its own. (It's not just social psychology - even classically "hard" fields like organic chemistry have reached the point where practioners are accustomed to never being able to get a reaction in a new paper to work as well as they say it does)

> "If people like me can't be sure our home life won't leak onto the sidebars of corporate presentation, or the recommendations of software our kids are using, we'll stop using it entirely."

What a fucking joke. You and I both know there's no escape, here; we're trapped here forever, and things will always only get worse and they will never get better, and there isn't a god-damned thing we can do about it.

Honestly, I also found Chrome's shrinking tab behavior infuriating. All things considered, I like Firefox's sliding behavior more.

This is the Internet. Everyone will have forgotten this besides, like, five people before this time 2020.

Thank you for finding a non-Daily-Mail source!

I do not, but I can think of a few off the top of my head - the muon g-2 anomaly, the Antarctic upward-moving particle anomaly, the Hubble constant tension, the proton radius puzzle was one until quite recently (but is now largely resolved), the (not statistically significant yet, but they've been in the data since 2013 and they keep not going away) hints of lepton universality violation at the LHC...

You're absolutely correct. The "mechanism", as I understand it, is that the mods just manually bump up threads they think are interesting and deserve a second shot at the front page. HN has quite a lot of manual curation!

> Eh you're probably ant fucking

I must admit, I'm unfamiliar with this terminology.

The main reason is actually even more fundamental: Supersonic aircraft have terrible lift over drag.

Here's a response to this article: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/11/11/to...

It's a bit disingenuous to be talking about a "cure" before you've tried something in a single human being.

This looks surprisingly neat, honestly. I've never used Perl, let alone Perl 6, but I think I see why people cared about it.

Neither beta nor gamma radiation will "activate" other parts of the structure to make them radioactive themselves; only neutron radiation (which can convert stable isotopes into unstable isotopes with more neutrons in them) can do that.

Nor will they weaken the structure.

So as long as people don't enter the reactor without proper precautions, there's really no reason to worry about radiation inside it. And this problem can be solved pretty well with a fence and warning signs.

Alpha radiation is easily shielded from external exposure, but for that exact reason it's also the most damaging; gamma radiation, for instance, will mostly pass right through you, while alphas will deposit all of their energy right into your cells. They're shielded by your dead skin, but if you ingest or inhale them, then there's no dead skin to protect you, and all that radiation goes straight into your cells.

In fact, according to the weighting system that converts joules of energy absorbed (Grays) to severity of radiation dose (Seiverts), a joule of alpha radiation is 20 times worse than a joule of X-rays, beta radiation, or gamma rays.

And it's ingestion or inhalation that we're worried about from environmental contamination; not that the environment itself would become so radioactive, Fallout-style, that you'd take rads just from standing around - but that radioactive dust from demolition might get into the air, or that contaminants might leak into the groundwater.

"Can anyone from Invenia explain how they make money or what they're trying to do?"

Whenever you have to ask that question about a tech company, you can generally assume that the answers are "venture capital" and "attract more venture capital", respectively.

Mastodon comes to mind.

I think you're seeing hypocrisy when it isn't there.

There's nothing hypocritical about US citizens not wanting US companies operating under US law to censor their US media for the benefit of the Chinese government, even if they may be perfectly fine with their own demands to censor their own media.

You may dislike it, but it's hardly an inconsistent position.

Mine is always good old http://zombo.com.

> "What were they hoping for, global thermonuclear war? US Civil War 2?"

Basically, yes.

I am unaware of any mainstream American news outlet that skews far enough left to be considered to have an Anarchist, Syndicalist, or Communist bias. Maybe Jacobin magazine, if you count it as "mainstream."