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A problem here is that you seem to be viewing the equation as zero sum - as Temporal above and a glance at my comment history might suggest, many nucular proponents on HN are cognizant of potential drawbacks yet keen on the distribution of the industry alongside wind and solar and other renewables.

Legacy III generation's nuclear's a worst case scenario, but still worthwhile as a transition to full electric, never mind the developments in IV, V, travelling wave or fusion beyond.

Frankly, the idea of using fission to somewhat stupidly boil water to drive turbines seems a bit daft to me, but dafter still is the fear of pushing it forward into better technologies.

- ed

We're going to need a LOT of electrical energy in future. It's got to come from somewhere.
Haven't these pro-Beijing students ever tried to access uncensored information online that was denied to them until they arrived in their host countries? Why are they content to continue believe in the propaganda? You'd think that even a casual search for a subject like Tiananmen Square would be a wake-up call.
> inserting unblockable ads directly into the video stream.

In a sense, it's already kinda happening with Twitch. A few months ago, they rolled out Server Side Ad Insertion [1] which broke ad blockers. Now, ublock origin and streamlink can still block them though but the arms race will continue. I don't think it'll ever come to reencoding the video to incorporate ads because most ads are dynamics but maybe future encoders or hardware are really fast.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/media/tech/what-server-side-ad-insert...
Doesn't that fall apart over time? The consultant quickly becomes the monopoly provider, and the large amount of previously investment means that the customer can't afford to switch to another provider (since anything from the previous company will either go away (if there's a bad contract) or just ends up being very difficult to maintain. And the consultancy has incentives to create this rather than fight this.

I'm not saying every consultancy is bad/evil, and it is entirely believable that they might choose to be a "good" player and bank on getting a good reputation to make up for any business they lose by doing so - but the overall trend looks like such "good players" lose in the larger market or stay in a small niche.

As I said originally, I'm biased, having seen a few BAD relationships, but I'm trying to remain objective and look at incentives and counter forces. Totally open to hearing counterpoints.
I don't think the parent disagrees. Type inference is great for just about everything except dependant types which are all kinds of undecidable unless you help the compiler.
What kind of academia? Because the traditional PhD -> post-doc -> prof track is absolutely not a good place for work/life balance. Or are you talking about being a programmer for a university?
Actually really true. Not sure what Max endgame is here.
Maybe news (and other) websites will stop auto-loading megabytes of scripts, images, auto-playing video etc because because they can no longer fund it.

Maybe we'll get a resurgence of text-only websites.
> I'm 50 and still programming. Programming is all I know how to do. If that was taken away from me, I would just rot to death.

Interesting statement. Someone recently told me the biggest problem with US Presidential Candidate Yang's Universal Basic Income plan is that people who have had a successful career in one field their whole life often do not want to learn a new career even if you help them financially while they transition. For reference, the discussion was about winning an election more than solving a problem.

It's very interesting to hear the above statement from someone in tech vs a different industry. Reminds me how similar people across all industries are when often some of us tend to feel unique for some silly reason.
Here's an HBR article that addresses some of the misunderstandings in maligning buy back programs: https://hbr.org/2018/03/are-buybacks-really-shortchanging-in.... They comment that:

"... when we look at CAPEX and R&D as a percentage of revenue ... over the past 25 years, we see that the overall investment intensity of S&P 500 firms, while quite volatile on a year-to-year basis, has been rising over the past decade, and is now near peak levels not seen since the late 1990s."

If you had $25B to start a company what idea would you tackle?
What if we worked less?
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>One study is hilariously small at 69 women. The cancer study is from self reported information. He specializes in alternative medicine, including homeopathy.

>There may be something to fasting diet and findings warrant further research.

You do know Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 2016 for discovering and elucidating mechanisms underlying autophagy right? There isn't really any debate that Fasting/caloric restriction triggers autophagy only in mice not humans, or that autopaghy and its benefits are limited to mice.

What is your standard of proof?
Some of the newer schemes are much faster. The recent progress feels like deep learning in 2010, right before everyone realized it worked
I am currently in the middle of my 3rd 6 days fasting.
Every time it gets easier.
The benefits are obvious for me.
I was never so relaxed as after the fasting.
The mind goes clear, there is no better time for deep thinking. Energy levels are going up. An insteresting journey to myself and my body.
Agreed.

Few things to consider:
- linters to help move away from code style comments
- Peer code reviews (if possible)
- inform your team/boss of bike shedding
- use a tool like reviewable.io where comments can be marked as blocking or not. I’ll often comment on preferences and block on issues.
What are those alternatives?
Yes, I was referring to programmer (or related) for a university.
Let me preface this by saying this is for weight loss purposes, and not recommended as a generic all purpose diet. That said I started eating one low calorie meal (under 1000 cals) every other day. Once i got used to that I switched to two days fasting and one day eating (again the same under 1000 kcal meal). On days I’m fasting I make sure to consume electrolytes (basically sodium and potassium). Those help out with the general fatigue experienced on pure water fasting (which tends to drain your electrolyte stores). But nothing other than that.
Could have been a lot sooner if the languages that first implemented type inference also focused on the more pragmatic aspects of programming. 'Type inference' is a small consolation if the tooling and ecosystem are impoverished and you can't find affordable developers. :)
"Are there chinese influences in australia?"

Does a bear shit in the woods?
>I'm a communications professor at a small liberal arts college

Stop reading + its vice.
How does computation on encrypted data relate to voting systems?
As someone who's worked on (and drafted!) several schematics in the aerospace industry, I have to say: there's no reason it has to be that way!

The places I've worked have pretty rigorous style guides, and I personally try my best to make schematics readable and understandable. I suppose this is the same thing as code quality guidelines: you can set expectations and examples, but folks don't necessarily have to follow them.

My cooler projects are all stashed away somewhere in a company drawer, but here's one that I did early on:
https://bitbucket.org/cyanoacry/ee91/raw/5d934fdc18e556938dc...
That’s just western propaganda /s
If they keep that name it will be a dead end.
They'll be well primed to consider the Tienanmen Square information available to be anti-China propaganda, won't they?

This is hardly unique to China. Go to a Trump rally and see how many people respond positively to an AP fact check of one of his claims.
But for example the crypto market has no goods or services - only the market trading aspect. Yet it's value swings wildly anyway.
To increase appetite you’ll want to increase your hunger hormones (ghrelin in particular), and minimize your satiety hormones (leptin, cck, peptide yy etc).

Sugar has the least satiety of any of the macros (protein has the highest satiety) so if you’re looking to simply pack in calories, sugar sweetened beverages are good (I saw an interesting study that discovered that carbonation increases ghrelin response, so most soda will give you a twofer).

Something like a donut (sugar and fat in combination has been shown to be particularly obesogenic) and you can get some of the hyperpalatability effect.

Kevin Hall recently published a study showing ultra-processed food increased ad libitum food intake by about 500 calories per day: https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdf/S1550-4131(19)30248...

Also eating/snacking throughout the day will keep insulin high and increase hunger signals and driver fat storage in your body as a result.

Of course, this basically sums up the Standard American Diet and explains why most people have the problem of putting too much weight on.

Also, as a caveat to all these “interventions,” while they are effective for weight gain, they are almost all also generally terrible for your metabolic health, and will drive MetS, diabetes, CVD, cancer, etc (basically the things killing everyone eating the SAD).
Good. China has every right to control its territories and this includes Hong Kong. If the KKK were to stage an anti-Black protest in an American university they would be rightfully similarly attacked and persecuted. China is only defending its rights. Those HK protesters need to face justice.
I'm curious about the logical fallacy that you can objectify morality. I would like to do more reading on this subject, could you direct me towards the proof for this? I'm genuinely interested.
Hardware asymmetry is one of the things that secures your advantage. 10th generation chips vs 5th generation chips gives you asymmetric advantage, just like 5th generation fighters vs 3rd generation fighters are no contest. The ability to design and manufacture your own chips guarantees supply and the control to optimize and scale production capacity as demand requires.

We invented the microprocessor and SV has 40+ years of accumulated knowledge and hard-earned experience built into every chip. When an adversary is 40 years behind and has not yet developed the capability to make their own chips, that's significant. We rode that curve from beginning to end, and catching a ride on an exponential rocketship gives you a massive a head start -- a secure long-term advantage, one that's almost insurmountable if you don't give it away. So let's not do that. There's an optimal path. Let's find it.
The article specifically calls out css usability and rendering fidelity as things they are interested in.

Pre-web, a content layout shop could apparently do about 20 designs (in three form factors each) per seat, per week. These would be done to best-practices, and also be aesthetically pleasing.

I don’t think that is true for modern web design. If anyone here has that sort of design throughput, I’m guessing a lot of people on this thread would be interested in it.
To address the inevitable “what is this useful for” questions, my go-to example is cryptographic voting mechanisms.

The idea is that you segment a large integer into a couple of different bins by its bitwise representation. So you have a 60-bit integer and you segment it into four 15-bit bins. You use one of those to randomize what the encrypted versions are going to be, and you use the other three for different vote tallies of three candidates for some office.

You can then hand people three numbers each corresponding to a different candidate, and ask them to commit to one as their vote. Public authorities can then aggregate votes which they cannot actually see, and we don't decrypt until we get to some large enough context where your vote has been anonymized among ten thousand others, and you can check that the random seeds have been properly added, or other such things.

This also allows you to create a big online database where anybody can see their vote was counted, but nobody can figure out who someone else voted for.

There is a slight difficulty in that you cannot see directly what your numbers are actually voting for, so that the machines you are using to vote with need to be able to decrypt a ballot for you and then immediately destroy it, to verify that it was what you thought it was, so that you can trust that your three numbers do not all happen to vote for the same person because if someone tried that on any scale that could affect an election, even if they only poison 1% of ballots in a 500 person district, if everyone burns one to test the system then the fraud gets discovered
at least once with 99.3% certainty. But the point is that all of these other issues can be handled “out-of-band” once you protect the important stuff.
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If you've unknowingly been fed propaganda your entire life, it's easy to dismiss the truth as propaganda from the "enemy".
Development skills are absolutely 100% more portable than management skills, because a) basic math says that everyone hires way more devs than they hire dev managers, and b) many dev managers get promoted from within so there are even fewer hires out there than there are positions. The further up you go, the more true this is.

Having closely watched someone go through a director-level job search vs. having jobs thrown in my lap as a developer, empirical reality matches theory here, too.
Yep. I've worked on great teams that did all those things. And not-so-great teams that didn't. The latter is really draining.
But what will the universities do without all that nice Chinese student revenue?
Just piling on with similar sentiment. Corporations aren’t people, people are corporations.

Saying friends shouldn’t discuss their life’s work is weird, but of course benefits profits and nation state power structures.
Kids will be kids, but the consul generals words do frighten me. It’s whistle blowing to Chinese kids that it’s okay to incite violence. Patriotism is never an excuse for harming others.
The (global) market is the whole world itself. I very much doubt you can identify an useful Nyquist frequency.
> They must take a good, hard look at the quantum computers they are building and ask how will they make them useful.

Plenty of people in the field are working on exactly this. For example:

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.041...
I do intermittent fasting. Stop eating around 4pm and start eating around 9am. (no food around 17hrs/day).

The first two weeks are the hardest (hunger pains during fasting hours). Afterwards, hunger pains still occasionally occur but are a lot less severe, and sipping a herbal tea is enough keep my mouth busy.

I also find that cheat days (pigging out due to social occasions) don't really mess up my cycle on following days, which I found very surprising.

The only problem I have is when doing lots of physical activity. This summer I'm working on my house and gardening a lot, so I need to be sure to pig out before my 4pm cutoff or I'll be at a super calorie deficit and make the labor miserable.
Their government incentivizes this behavior. They will be willfully ignorant to those events so that they can maintain social standing back home.
Interesting, it seems this could explain why a ketogenic diet has a cleansing effect, as it also reduces insulin production which may trigger autophagy.
A very casual (layman's?) introduction intro to Homomorphic Encryption - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13450015
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That doesn't serve as a rationalization for doing the cheating for pay, it doesn't excuse it; it could serve as a rationalization for not telling the school about it.

I think it's also not at all an implausible suspicion.
If they achieved Plank Time Resolution I don't think they would need to be in the finance industry to make money :P
Sure, but there's a huge difficulty range between Fizzbuzz and that "come up with a dynamic programming algorithm on the spot" crap that Google and friends like to do. (And that range includes problems that are actually relevant rather than algorithms class homework.)
Well, my actual thought was more that adjusting tips based on perceived delivery driver performance is somewhat unfair based on all the things beyond the driver's control. (I'm not sure if the downvotes I got are from people who think I was arguing "never tip drivers" and are mad because they think I'm a jerk, or people who realized I was more arguing "don't undertip drivers" and are mad because they think I'm saying undertippers are jerks, and fair, I am.)

Anyway, yes, actually: I think there's a good argument to be made for a higher wage for delivery drivers -- and all waitstaff -- that makes their earnings less dependent on tips. If people want to tip for exceptional service, that's fine, but there are a surprising number of people who treat tips today as if they're only for exceptional service, will cut tips in half or even to zero for things beyond the server's control (e.g., the restaurant will not accept your clearly expired coupon), etc.
>Especially with all the information accessible online these days, plenty of it from experts in the field.

How would information online from experts in the field helps someone determine their cellular hydration levels or their various levels/requirements of sodium/potassium/calcium/magnesium? These are things that should be monitored over a 5 day water fast not guessed at based on information read online.
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1. The KKK regularly conducts perfectly legal marches, typically receiving police protection in the process.

2. Hong Kong has rights, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Basic_Law
>Their CEO, Sundar Pichai, gets a huge stock-based compensation

I'm as cynical as they come, but I'm skeptical that all people at these levels are that driven by their compensation. They are ultra-wealthy, and forever will be; a few extra million here or there isn't anything compared to what they stand to lose in wealth and reputation in the face of negative public sentiment.

But I could be wrong.
Chinese territory doesn't include Australia, though...
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That’s not how propaganda works, I assume the vast majority of these students haven’t left the country until close to adulthood. I completed elementary school in China and the teaching begins in grade 1 for students to believe in communism and patriotism. When you have been raised in that belief for your entire life, changing your belief system is not as simple as “look what other people with a different view say!”. Same goes for how people in other countries have a hard time understanding the need for civilians to hold guns, and yet no matter how many logical reasoning you throw, a large portion of Americans still believe in guns.

Edit: my comment was downvoted, unsure if it’s because the comparison for gun law in the states provoked someone, but if that was the case it just goes to show how difficult it’d be for someone to change the belief system they’ve been raised with
Maybe Autotrader has hundreds of thousands of template, CSS, and JS files with those paths hardcoded. Imagine the hell it would be to work on that website.

Even so, you could fix everything with a one line Perl command.
Uber and Lyft don’t belong on any “Big N” list until they show a profit rather than pissing away billions a year.
It’s possible that OP meant multiparty computation.
Their sense of loyalty and identity is the reason. People are hesitant to absorb information that questions their identity and they're even more hesitant when they feel that that identity is being threatened. Their sense of identity in this case is not just something random but something instilled in them since a young age by the Chinese government. They feel a loyalty to the Chinese government and so are willing to propogandize themselves.

Bear in mind, if you are a Chinese national studying abroad you are probably well off as far as Chinese nationals go. This means that you are probably a strong beneficiary of the current Chinese regime. So you're likely to be very attached to it, unlike people who are not well off or are repressed. Those people probably aren't studying abroad.
Cloud Computing. Use the compute from a big company, without that company possibly knowing what they are computing on.

Machine Learning. Apply neural networks to encrypted data and avoid privacy issues.
Why not just play the middle man and enable others to do the writing. They get paid and you get a cut.
Oh man, so you equate peaceful protest to KKK. What justice is it by the way? Seems like you are trying to define the law to your own definition.
It's needed for Bonjour/avahi/mdns.

It's also needed for systemd dynamic users.

If you have either of those, you will have an /etc/nsswitch.conf that requires dynamic linking :)
“Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.”

This is off-topic.
Tools like the ones I mentioned weren't meant to allow a layperson to build an UI, they were meant to allow developers to build an UI. The experience hasn't degraded much for people who don't write code for a living, but it has degraded significantly for developers.

FWIW, it's part of why I moved away from all this stuff, more than 15 years ago. I discovered a lot of other fun things computers could do (I got into embedded programming, operating systems, security etc.), and web development stopped being fun when we seriously continued digging the hole we were into instead of climbing out of it.
The history of breakfast cereal preceding that is even more bizarre, being driven largely by John Kellogg’s desire to stamp out masturbation. Also by the Pricenomics guys: https://www.forbes.com/sites/priceonomics/2016/05/17/the-sur...
I feel like we do know how much liquidity is too much, in the sense that the HFT traders are siphoning profits from value-seekers to rent-seekers. The total of their profits is the amount by which there is too much liquidity.

It's not necessarily clear whether it could be reduced to seconds of liquidity, or minutes, but it's clear that milliseconds is too short. The money isn't remaining in the market long enough to provide value -- especially when the market has already been made and they're just trying to figure out who gets the surplus between ask and bid.
> if Google thinks its company is significantly undervalued, in which case buybacks are smart

Honest questions here, as my stock understanding is fairly limited: Why does a company care if it's "undervalued"? How does a buyback actually change that valuation? (doesn't the market cap remain the same after the purchase?)
At some point, for popular sites, the strategy will flip from filtering to scrapping.

We'll need some clever strategies to counter the arms race.

Image side-by-side visual diffing. Some process renders pages with and without ads. Ads are progressively identified and removed until it renders like the "print" or "reader" view.

Temporal diffing. Snap shot popular websites over time. The meat (content) will likely remain the same. Everything else is chrome or ads.

My other ad detecting notions are even more harebrained, so I'll stop there.
> you can always pull it from radio over the air

and with Project 25 radio systems being implemented, that is becoming much more difficult.