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I work at HSX and “produceability” is really a set of three or four constraints. Picking their relative weights in optimizers is still in the “art” category because we simply don’t have the computational resources needed to search all spaces with all simulated plasma parameters. A flux surface is optimized with the preferred model of the day, then coils are optimized to this surface. A few good candidates are chosen then the realized flux surfaces are calculated and plasma parameters simulated. It’s very far from the ideal plug-n-chug that it could be, but these models are also incomplete and benefit from people understanding them. We simply need people tending the machines if we want to make a better stellarator.

On that front: keep an ear out for an HTS stellarator in the next decade.
Derek Lowe (In The Pipeline) is great for pharma/biotech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultracrepidarianism

> Ultracrepidarianism is the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge.
Intel has the tiniest advantage in single threaded which results in close to 0 noticeable improvement. Having double the cores on your cpu results in a massive noticeable improvement. When performing CPU intensive tasks like compiling code, AV1 encoding, etc, its all about core count. AMD also manages to have so much greater performance with a lower power consumption.
This is what I’m talking about with developers not understanding users. I even said “users don’t care what’s behind the scenes”. Any normal user who is looking to leave Facebook wants Facebook The Product but not Facebook The Company. They don’t care about hosting or asserting identity. They don’t want options, they want a product.
I have the same experience. Often I have some complete mispronunciation in my head because I never bothered to look carefully at the character name.
This is a very typical response on HN in response to articles/blog posts about issues raised by the Google business.

When these sort of comments rise to the top of HN threads, I am at a loss how to interpret the meaning.

1. Does it mean the commenter and HN voters do not care about the issue (e.g., anti-competitive behaviour)?

or

2. Does it mean they normally would care about anti-competitive behaviour but because they "like" this particular company they do not care?

If the commenter means #2, then it seems like there are some assumptions being made. For example, one assumption might be that if Google is held accountable for anti-competitive behaviour then it will affect the commenter's "web user experience".

However, I cannot see how to arrive at that conclusion. In fact, the commenter states "Build better alternatives and I'm on board."

What if anti-competitive behaviour was an impediment to others seeking to "[b]uild better alternatives"? If holding Google to account for anti-competitive behaviour would remove such impediments, then it seems that the commenter is more likely to mean #1.

The commenter appears to desire the most convenient and quick "service" he/she can get, and is impartial to who provides it. He/she acknowledges that others could build better alternatives to Google. If holding Google accountable for its conduct helps others build better alternatives, this would meet the commenter's needs.

Without further clarification from the commenter, I am going to assume that #1 better represents his/her meaning.
As somebody who has sadly had to make hundreds of candidates write on a whiteboard, here are problems I’ve run into getting the candidate a laptop:

* IT just fails: they’re unwilling to supply it, there aren’t enough, the current laptops on hand are junk, or the default password is wrong. These all happen with HR buy-in and funding.

* Recruiting just fails: they “have to move the candidate fast because of a competing offer,” they tried to work with IT but IT blocked them, they got laptops themself using their own budget but then ran out.

* I failed: I didn’t make time to prepare a non-whiteboard question, I didn’t tell my manager in each and every 1:1 that candidate experience sucks, I had three laptops and I forgot to bring my personal spare to the interview.

In general the core problem is there is zero incentive for hiring managers to do anything but shotgun candidate pools like they do today. There’s also no feedback loop to evaluators to help them improve. False negatives are completely tolerated despite there being a huge gap between CS jobs demand and CS graduate supply.
The same way as they validate the serial UART: by validating its application.

Does the CPU fail if it’s close to an x-ray machine or an MRI? Intel isn’t going to tell you that.
You think this would be a good book for a non english native kid or is very 'english' specific? I can't find any good books in portuguese about teaching kids to read that doesn't use the 'visual' method (since it is what is used in schools). I wouldn't mind translating the lessons myself to portuguese and present it to him of course, but if 50%+ is english specific (grammar rules, etc) than maybe not a good idea
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> A major issue is that they require candidates to have free time outside of work to complete them.

Just like onsite interviews. Any interview process will require candidates to spend time outside of work. The only way to fix that would be a true, universally recognized certification/diploma that would prove that you can write software, but I don't see that happening any time soon.
They don't see it as injustice. They see it as protecting workers against management, as solidarity between one another.

The rest of us just happen to call that accountability.
I agree, i find the style of writing this article uses endlessly frustrating.
What's to like? He's Garrison Keillor by way of a podcast.
Perhaps you should consider that characters are not images but consist of distinct groups of strokes. When I learned about 20 words suddenly I realized that some of them have sub-words embedded into them.

So it's a bit more complicated.
> As we innovate more than SK

Not in my field, where superannuated faculty members in the late 70s rehash ideas from their postdoc days. Nobel laureates are few, but every tenured faculty member can hang on forever. The pace in SK and the research authority given younger scholars is invigorating to those few outsiders who sample it.
I don't remember exactly how I learned to read, but it seems very strange to me that anyone would try to teach someone to read English without teaching them the sounds that the letters make.
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>Just one thing you should take into consideration, that is, as ESL I am not going to put that much effort on writing comments on HN to check for every grammatical error. I simply don't have that much time and energy.

Yeah, I had a hunch that might have been the case, but didn't want to make too many assumptions. I can't string a single sentence together in another language, so I can only guess at what a pain it must be to deal with on a day-to-day basis!
The signal can even be diluted by well-meaning people. For example, Washington did have a set of teeth that included those of slaves. However, his financial records include the purchase of teeth from "Negros" for the purpose, which at the very least indicates he didn't have someone hold his own slaves down and rip teeth out of their heads. It doesn't preclude there being an element of racism and abuse in the path those teeth took from their origin to their purchase by Washington, but it does show there may not have been, and that Washington wearing slave teeth is not a mark against him personally.

The whole "owning slaves" thing is of course, but that's a separate issue from the dentures.
> I'm pro 2nd Amendment, but anti-gun.

I'm a little confused, aren't those positions a bit contradictory? I would be interested in reading a bit more of your views here.

> With the equipment a modern military has at it's disposal, I fail to see how the right to own small arms is going to help keep our government in check.

After seeing various militaries (is that the right word?) fight for the last 19 years in Afghanistan (and spending some time there myself), it seems to me that availability of superior weapons and equipment isn't the only factor.
All large companies already have large contractor workforces that work on the non-critical products, I don't really see how that's different from employing highly qualified candidates with probably better resumes and referrals than those who are employed at 3rd party contractor companies.
Well let’s explore the app package.

Electron Framework takes up 174 MB.

Past that, the big one is “disk” in Contents/Resources/app/src/ — which I will be completely honest, I don’t know what that is exactly. Is it a disk image? If so, does it have to be set to a reasonably large size at build time so you don’t run out of space in the emulator?
I'm not a client of the publisher, and therefore cannot download the full report, but I would like to see what they define as "self-made" for the reasons you mentioned.
Is your dad, aunt, or grandma going to create a self hosted mail server?

Seriously this is exactly what I’m talking about. This is a textbook example of what I’m talking about.

No end user hosts their own email service.
Can confirm that I "smell" through one nostril at a time. I can smell more sensitively than others (for example, realise that milk is rotten before others do). I have noticed that when I try blocking one of my nostrils, my sense of smell is considerably lower, and it is not always the left nostril or always the right nostril. It kind of alternates, and I don't know the pattern. It might be that both nostrils alternate doing the task of smelling at different times.
David Sedaris is, in the article as everywhere else, a metonym.
> I read all that morbidly curious about actual D/S relationships infesting the work culture.

This is why #MeToo is a thing. I say that as someone who has mixed feelings about #MeToo.
Uber is only “profitable” if you ignore a lot of expenses.

I’m purposefully not choosing the latest quarter that looks worse. I don’t think it’s fair to judge whether a company has a sound business model based on the effects of Covid.

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...

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And in the opposite direction, how does this work in a language like Chinese where "spelling" isn't a thing at all?

In Japanese, they start by teaching the kana syllabaries (which are phonetic and very regular), and then from 1st grade onwards they start the grueling task of memorizing the 2000+ kanji characters you need for basic literacy. But in Chinese it's all characters from day one, with a few crutches like pinyin/bopomofo for annotating readings.
When MVC front-end frameworks were taking off (back in the Ember.js days) I imagined a future where you'd have a combined backend + frontend framework and you could interact with data objects from the frontend directly like you'd use an ORM on the backend and all the communication, synchronization, data serialization, etc abstracted away (obviously with security restrictions enforced on the backend).

Meteor.js was the only serious attempt at this but it was too different from the status-quo (for most projects, SQL is what you want - MongoDB will bring lots of problems down the line) and never caught on.

Instead, 10 years later, we still mostly have a mess of everyone reinventing the wheel and doing most of the API communication, de/serialization, error handling manually. MVC has never taken off on the frontend either despite it being a good fit for most projects in my opinion. We have things like GraphQL, websockets, etc and yet still nothing that takes all of those together and provides a no-BS development experience comparable to backend frameworks like Django, Rails or Laravel.
I can see why you would have that point of view living in your situation. If I may Let me share with you a different perspective.

I have grown up around firearms but with reason. I have spent the majority of my life living in rural areas, as a kid/teen I lived far out of town with acres of woodlands, swamps, forest, interspersed with occasional pastures for miles in every discretion. I have had multiple encounters with apex predictors in my backyard. I have had mountain lion in my woodshed, a bear wander into my yard, and other smaller predators such as coyotes bobcat, and feral dogs try to eat my pets/animals. I also enjoy many outdoor activities such as fishing camping and hiking in the backwoods, and have encountered more predators there (the above but also various venomous snakes and wolves). I started carrying .22 loaded with snake shot as defense against rattle snakes when fishing around age 12. But before I was allowed near my fathers guns he took me out to the range for safety training. The lesson I learned that day have stuck with me.

He placed a watermelon out on the range. He then shot the melon. Next he walked out with me to its pieces and told me to put it back together. I stared at him like he was insane, He then got down at eye level with me and told me that it would do that same to a person and to never point it at anyone, that it would kill them, that guns were deadly weapons not toys.
We spent the rest of the day going over gun use and safety.

While today I don't live out in the country I still own firearms mostly used for sport shooting and defense when in the wilderness. But I take gun safety very seriously. My firearms are kept in a locked gunsafe bolted to the floor, inside the case they are all kept unloaded and all have a trigger lock of are kept in a locked case inside the safe.
All for nuclear, but the amount of land used is higely exadurated. It is actually totally trivial if you run the numbers.

In reality >90% of worlds valuable land use is farming. Factories, cities, houses, etc. all hardly matter.
Hold on?

My software isn't version 0.x because it isn't stable. It's version 0.x because there's never been a breaking change necessitating a major version bump.
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I actually think this is a clever idea. While getting an advanced degree in humanities is a possibly laudable goal, the truth is that the vast majority of undergraduates with history majors or art majors will never enter into further studies in those fields. Rather, they will get underpaying jobs doing menial tasks.

Getting a degree simply to get a degree is one of the failings of our higher educational system and the high cost of tuition doesn't usually justify those degrees.

The perverse disincentive of doubling tuition for degrees with expected low workforce value might reduce the number of undergraduates who have such deemed unnecessary degrees in the workplace, but what then do you do with those post-secondary school students who feel that a college degree is useful, regardless of what that degree is in?

I think we need a renewal of trade schools, apprenticeship programs, and a movement to more practical degrees.

Of course if you truly want to study advanced art or literature or history or theater, there should be a path for that, but the future for those in those fields are not in high paying jobs, which means that the tuition will very rarely be returned to the student in the form of wages.
Brainstorming with a candidate is great, when you can get them to let you in to their thought process. It easily can turn a technically incorrect answer into a strong answer.
One readily findable list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unr...

There are 35 incidents listed from 2010--2020, inclusive. Another 25 dating to 1990, which for some of us is still recent history. Damages for numerous events (in 2020 dollars) is in at least the $1s to $10s of millions of dollars range.

Even the quiescent 1980s sees 8 entries, down from 35 in the 1970s and over 65 listed for the 1960s, suggesting relatively little presentism bias.

Going back further, one finds the behaviour throughout US history, though with some decades standing out especially. The 1860s & 1870s, 1910s & 1920s (often white-on-black violence, including but scarcely limited to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, but also other immigrant and anti-union violence).

The majority of the events from the 20th century onwards, but especially since 1990, are tied either to racial protest or incidents of police brutality or killing, Numerous others to white-nationalist or similar majority-induced violence.

Sufficiently aware?
Ah, yeah, I think I assumed correctly. In the emulator, the “macintosh.js” hard drive is 650 MB, so you must have to explicitly give it a big giant size to begin with, as it can’t dynamically increase the volume size on the fly.
A lot of employees in the US sign IP documents that prevent them from working on anything, or everything they code is owned by their employer, etc.
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I agree education of children could be the next big thing. Could being the word here.

Yes the internet gives us more of an ability to communicate and share idea. But how do you translate those into practical application in public education?
Why is it congratulatory when a company needs another round of funding? Shouldn’t they be congratulated once they have profitable business model that doesn’t require outside funding?
Most companies use sentimental versioning rather then semver.
Hi, author here! This is silly, but I'm allocating the entire size of the _virtual_ disk on your actual hard drive. There's probably a smarter way to do this, but that's how it is right now. PRs would be lovely!
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Is this a valid reason for not using Go?

I am a holdout.

(Not suggesting I am "smarter" than Go users, but I can forsee issues with Go being controlled by Google.)
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Justified text looks pretty, but why does that matter? Most books are bought to be read, not to sit there admiring the right edge justification.

There's even a plausible theory that justified text is bad for readability (perhaps because the brain loses that hint of which line is which). I haven't seen a lot of studies[1] replicating it, but I don't see any studies taking the other side. There's also the problem that it alters the inter-word spacing, which might also reduce readability since the brain can't rely on consistent word spacing.

I sympathize if you're conditioned to be annoyed every time you see an unjustified right column, but that's not a reason to recommend justified text.

Publishers (and authors, when they're considering text style details) need to understand that ebook publishing isn't the same as publishing print books. For print, decisions about font and styling have to be made, because otherwise there's no text.

For an ebook, unless it's a picture book or textbook with careful design[2] or some other kind of book where layout is the primary concern and readability is secondary, no features of the main style of text should be hardcoded. It needs to be left up to the ebook reader, and whatever defaults plus user customization it has.

[1] e.g. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.1986.tb00491.x

[2] These kinds of books, where publisher-dictated styling makes sense, shouldn't even be published as epubs; it often ends up as a disaster no matter how hard they try. They should publish the books as pdfs only.
https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&...

Looks like there has been (likely automated, nearly all of them are the same Italian phrase) mechanical legal complaints and it probably caused this instance of automated blocking going wild.

As an engineer I can understand the desire to automate everything, but please at least have some heuristics to detect this kind of easy-to-detect mechanical behavior before giving the model a full authority to block anyone it doesn't like.
Thanks for fixing! Now seeing the same issue on the organization page, can't click the button under the drop down.
That seems like an unusual interpretation of versioning. Version 0.x signals the product is pre-release and unstable. 1.0 is the first stable release.

If you’re saying your software is stable at 0.x, just drop the zero. Otherwise you’re likely giving the wrong impression.
Author here. You're 100% right, I do consider Basilisk and the Emscripten compiler to be the "real" work here. I added that in a Credits file in the repo, the app, and even _in_ the virtual machine - because I think that's important to know.
Sounds like a great idea. Increase liberal arts fees and decrease STEM fees.

What could be the consequences good or bad?

Less women doing college - but it's already empirically proven that women don't really push for STEM (and no, it's not only due to sexism).

Less degrees overall. This is maybe a good thing, since people are going to college without thinking what they really want to do (not having a plan).

More people doing vocational education, since it's not so easy to go to college for that arts and humanities degree that you'll be sure to pass.

Finally, waking up people to the fact that it's not so necessary to get a college degree for most professions on earth anyway.
Yes, it will fail to reach a wide audience on such an important topic.
Semver 0.x.y is by spec definition unstable & wild-wild west.

https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html#spec-item-4

"Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable."

There is no code change that makes 0.x.y turn into 1.0.0. This is covered in the FAQ

https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html#how-do-i-know-when-to-re...

It is a case of something vaguely along the lines of "0.3.5 has been running in prod for X time, I am now confident, I will now tag that same code as 1.0.0"
They dont have to be paired with batteries, there are several cheaper industrial storage systems like comoressed air and pumoed storage, or concrete blocks moved vertically
ICE's budget this year is $8800000000. Do you really think they separate families and gas their detainees with HDQ Neutral because they simply can't afford to treat immigrants like humans?
In other words the companies that 99% of the world's developers work for. What they are "resorting" to is a hiring process that finds good developers at a reasonable cost. "We can't pay you what FAANG pays but we don't put you through a shitty and lengthy interview hazing" is a pretty good proposition to the vast majority of us.