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There is no equivalent to our college athletics in the whole world and anything that comes close to the scam that the NCAA is.

If you want to become an athlete in the rest of the world you skip schooling after high school and go straight into professional sports. The academic sports complex is a massive scam that is two-fold. It makes money off the (mainly blacks) “student” athletes either from the sports (and NCAA) or the alumni contributions in division 1 schools with men’s basketball or football. The students get nothing in return (not even an education in most cases - many examples of them being “graduated” whilst being illiterate and innumerate - see link at bottom). In the division 3 schools that are ranked competitively academically they are used as quota systems to let more whites into the school with esoteric or “elitist” sports like the aforementioned tennis or fencing or squash.

The rest of the world has the equivalent of our Minor League in Baseball for all competitive sports.Any sports in college is strictly intramural and for “fun”. Schools do not recruit athletes, as entrances are often based on exam results or some form of academic testing system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_League_Baseball

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_athletics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_athletics_in_the_Unite...

My favorite story on our academic athletic complex is the bond issuance of over 60 million dollars to build a high school football stadium in Texas:

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2639092-texas-town-appro...

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https://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/07/us/ncaa-athletes-reading-...
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"Confirmed" versus "Re-confirmed" and some UI way to interact with that perhaps
That problem doesn't seem any more significant for wind and solar than other powers sources: mountain top removal for coal, transporting tons of coal in diesel trains, building (and eventually disposing of) giant power plants, etc.
You can ask what CO2 tax would be needed to make a particular non-fossil source feasible.

For nuclear in the US, CO2 taxes would have to be $300-400/ton for nuclear to compete with natural gas combined cycle. This number is from the president of Exelon, which operates 20 or so power reactors in the US. Exelon has given up even planning for new nuclear power plants; they are too far out of the running.
As you elude to, I think it speaks to a bigger problem which is that Universities don't really know what they want to be or what their main purposes are. Are they places of learning for the sake of learning and scholarship? Are they job training and placement centers? Are they social clubs and camps for young adults? Are they sports franchises? Are they centers of basic research? Are they centers of collaborative industrial research? Are they incubators for companies? Are they political entities that want to shape public policy? Are they centers of social justice? They seem to want to be all things to all people but that's not possible when pursuing mission A inherently puts them in conflict with mission B.
There were maker spaces before TechShop (Noisebridge) that still exist and new spaces do open up, for example Maker Nexus https://www.makernexus.com/our-story
Perhaps not caring so much about HN karma will help. Not like it means anything.
> Lithium mining is an insanely tight bottleneck in LI battery production

If anything lithium refining and production into high quality is far closer to the bottleneck.

> mostly outsourced to countries where we don't think much about it (Australia is a big one right now, but in terms of untapped reserves, Chile Argentina and China are all huge)

This is also very questionable. Lithium exists basically everywhere. Basically one of the most common elements. Pretty much in every desert you have tons. There is tons in water brines all over the world. There are huge hard rock reserves all over the world (US, Wales, Canada, Australia, Czech Republic and so on). There are even larger clay reserves, Nevada alone has lithium enough for all US needs. Mexico has huge amounts of brine as well.

South American brine is losing market share quickly and they will never get it back.

> They require complicated manufacturing processes that are centralized into maybe four or five advanced manufacturing companies around the planet.

This is true but many more companies are currently working on it all over the world. It is difficult but not its not some totally crazy technology.

Other technology have a place, but I don't know if gravity battery is one of those. Liquid air batteries, liquid metal batteries and others might be better solutions.
Feels very empty when there are so many current humanitarian crises that the USA chooses to sweep under the rug due to various interests.
> In a way yes, but I think the issue is largely caused by those up the chain that make it hard to deal with.

> Doing a search on ... answers are:

Sorry, "Google search results" are not "up the chain". That's your first mistake.

There's a tonne of misinformation in Google search results. It's real hard to identify what's good and what's not if you're not a specialist in the field, so it's easy to fall victim to this and just believe well meaning well written blog posts.

Don't do this. When you don't know something, speak to someone who does know about the subject matter at hand. Not anonymous people on the internet, but someone in reality that you can have a conversation with. If it's a topic that's vaguely within the remit of someone you work with, that's a good place to start.
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Life isn't 'the wire', your standard dealer is a dude with a medium-grade connect and some friends.

As far as 'move fast and break things'.. in one sense, preserving the status quo is conservative, but it is also continually breaking things all the time. Glass, ribs, lives, etc. Compared to the status quo, we could break fewer things.
Your source doesn't support your assertion, but I suppose you're free to ignore that little problem if you want to.

In the meantime, we should be talking about how best to make storage happen, because anyone who isn't busy playing semantics games can see that storage (critically: paying for storage) is going to dominate the back half of this transition.
Even AI.
Prog rock and punk rock are, yes, both music. She was formerly an art major, I was in electrical engineering, although she was forced to drop out before I met her due to financial issues. So, obviously not complete opposites, but not "almost exactly alike".
Good point, but, here's an anecdote to serve as a counterpoint:

When I was at a US three-letter department from 2013-2015, they did in fact use non-private IPs for their internal datacenter networks, and even for their office space LAN DHCP lease ranges. It blew my mind when I looked at my laptop and saw a public IP on it's ethernet interface. Watching the realization dawn on my InfoSec peers' faces there was amusing as well. IT personnel way up in the hierarchy blessed with institutional knowledge confirmed to me that using public IPs everywhere is one thing they did to justify sitting on that many public IPv4 addresses. They seemed confident that their firewalls and routing configurations were enough to protect their self-drawn boundary lines, and in many ways, they were right. It also made inter-agency connection agreements quite simple.

So the distinction of public vs. private may not actually matter quite as much in the context of IP ranges used on JEDI.
That suggests that debuggers should let you write visualizers and they should be so easy to write that you don't hesitate to write them.

That seems to be the idea behind Glamorous Toolkit https://gtoolkit.com/

I'd be curious what it would take to add any of those concepts to existing debuggers for other languages.
I love Kim Zetter's tweet:

Must have been a turnip truck
https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1384936715769503745

That's a dig at the turnipesque savvy of Cellebrite, which royally stumbled into this.

cf. https://www.dwt.com/blogs/privacy--security-law-blog/2015/03...
> FCC chair Wheeler said the FCC “didn’t just fall off the turnip truck.” Through CALEA, CPNI, and CSRIC, Wheeler said the agency has been working to protect consumer privacy.
I personally use a range towards the end of the 172.16/12 reservation for my home network for exactly this reason. Ever since I made the change five years ago I’ve never suffered any conflicts when running a VPN in or out.
Autocomplete and jumping via tags are built in to vim. No plugins or “arduous” setup needed. Search YouTube for tutorials.
I loved the complexity of his thoughts, and the nonlinearity of our conversations. The way I could plop down next to him, ask him what he was doing, working on, or thinking, and he always had the time and inclination to talk without a hint of condescension. I'll miss his infectious excitement, the way he could weave narratives from lines of code, and his goofy sense of humor.
It’s not really ‘standard’ because instructing expert witnesses and going to trial is beyond the financial capacity of most criminal defendants, as well as the legal aid system which needs to carefully ration funds that could be allocated to other cases. And even when the funds are available, it’s unlikely that a defence expert, in the time it would take them to bill an average person’s annual income, could understand much about a sprawling enterprise accounting system that cost millions of pounds and has thousands of daily users:

> Defence accounting and IT experts were instructed. Detailed disclosure requests were made in respect of Horizon and its underlying data … On the other side of the scales, statements from Fujitsu employees attested to Horizon's reliability. Ultimately, the issue of Horizon's unreliability was not pursued at trial – possibly because the defence experts had struggled to understand the Horizon system.

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Hamilton...
Yeah you're right. But, tracking solar (and solar with fixed positioning that maximises energy output later in the day) largely applies for more sophisticated sites such as commercial and industrial. I've seen such setups that forego around 20% of solar energy production to maximise production during more expensive time of use windows (including offsetting time of use demand charges).

Residential installations are usually setup to maximise the total output, and often the positioning is constrained by the geometry of the roof. Residential solar installers are really in a race to the bottom.

One up and coming trend which might have a significant impact on this is for residential retail tariffs to be directly linked, at 30min resolution, to the wholesale energy market prices.
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That wasn't your original claim.

> can
Where did you hear this? The first Google result shows that many schools are making fortunes off of their football programs (also it's kind of common sense based on the fact that men's football coaches get paid millions and other sports coaches get paid normal amounts)
In the meantime, seems like a VPRI system that just runs on a standard virtual machine would be pretty nifty.
We don't fly like birds. Evolved designs find local maximums and stop.
Out of materials from a university archive, I know that this kind of image plays well.
definitely varies by region according to cost from local utility and solar efficacy.

- SoCal Edison is $0.23 / kWh. https://www.sce.com/residential/rates/Standard-Residential-R...

- Entergy Arkansas is $0.074 / kWh. https://cdn.entergy-arkansas.com/userfiles/content/price/tar...
Unmentioned is Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk ... the standard for academic mathematics.

You know your seminar's well prepared when there's a box of Hagoromo chalk on the tray.
I’ve felt the same way about IDEs in general.

We need more tooling to help people understand and mitigate necessary complexity, not tools that help one muddle through or — I shudder to think — extend complexity.

I’ve changed my mind on this recently only because some IDEs have indeed become good at the latter.
Great point and totally off-topic, but I wonder if there is someone who reads the NY Times each and everyday in full.
the universe is huge and time is long, there could be millions of civilizations and we could happen to exist at a time that doesn’t coincide with a single one
> He's had to walk with a cane, or a walker on a bad day, since his 30s.

If instead of destroying his body playing sports, someone had come and broken his legs with a crowbar, would he be better off? Don't get me wrong, I hate the NCAA, but there's a good reason why amateur sports exist.
This could happen, if someone came up with a better learning algorithm that took 1/10th of the time for the same accuracy, then others improved it while computing hardware kept flowing inward because it was now worth doing things that were previously seen as infeasible.

The hardware isn't likely to get faster at more than Moore's law, but the way we use it, and connect it, might.
If you look at some of the earliest Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems, you'll find that they used exposed film (i.e. light) to perform some serious fourier-style computations using diffractive optics. I.e. you can use physical processes to perform useful computations. It's not entirely out of the realm of possibility... it's just that silicon & Moore's law generated a lot of deterministic, general-purpose compute capability -- whether CPU or GPU.

it's kind of akin to certain compute jobs using quantum effects: There are a class of algorithms that can benefit from that kind of co-processor.

Off the cuff, I don't know of any compute jobs where optical "computers" give you major speedups compared to standard digital processes. But it's not altogether crazy.
But a beautiful one nonetheless
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be as great as they say,
but it wouldn’t be missed
if it didn’t exist.”

-Piet Hein
> Bike shares that use stations are simply too annoying (if you haven’t got the map of stations memorized)

I’m not sure this is true everywhere. CitiBike is so dense in NYC that you can almost always walk about 3 blocks and see a station.
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It can really depend on how much air circulation you can get. In a high rise, you will need AC, but if you’re in a house you can easily manage with open windows and ideally a fan in your roof that can pull air up and in. There are very few days even in Portland where the temps don’t fall into comfortable as soon as the sun sets.
You don't have a notepad anyway?

although I've never personally understood the advantage password managers have over just using AES encryption that most text editors have.
JetBrains products, Eclipse, and Visual Studio for Mac all have vim plugins.

You will probably have better luck on StackOverflow if they still permit questions about tooling and SuperUser if they do not.
I’m one of those people who never knew you. Ironically, Your death brought forth your achievements for me. I’m impressed and I wish I had interacted with you. RIP
Yup had the same thought. Thought they were gonna have to charge 150 or something for it.
Our system generates about 10 MWh per year (10 million watts of electricity). Our house isn't that big (1800 sq feet) and we have all LED lights and the highest energy saving appliances. We don't use anywhere near that many watts in a year. Our surplus credits easily cover our energy costs during Winter.
This article suggests at least some are making quite a bit of money: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2018/09/11/college-f...

What is that article missing if your assertion is true?
If it was government plan to phase out cash then it sounds it’s working as intended. I thought there’s something unforeseen like new types of problems or scams emerging.
It’s not a lie. They just need to specify what kind of work that is.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26925914

Our study identified that public funding accounted for 97.1-99.0% of the funding towards the R&D of ChAdOx and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. We furthermore encountered a severe lack of transparency in research funding reporting mechanisms.
A galaxy is very tiny on the scale of the universe.
Gotta incentivize the loyal users who upgrade every year to upgrade the accessories as well somehow, I guess
Unfortunately after the initial honeymoon period it seems like the scooter companies have jacked up their prices. Uber costs about 50% more per minute than Bird. However most trips Uber will require fewer minutes.

Last time I flew, I thought it'd be fun to take a scooter home from the airport. I would've had to walk about a mile to the nearest scooter which based on my experience with Bird would have maybe a one in three chance of being broken. I ended up getting an Uber for $6. I guesstimated that the scooter rental (assuming nothing went wrong) would've been around $8

That said, when the prices were lower and the density was high enough that you could count on one being nearby, they were a fun way to get around
> It almost sounds like "legal told us not to go after you guys, but I personally really want to" at this point. It just doesn't add up.

Because it really seems that way. Legal might have explored this possibility and found no viable path, so this employee (or his team) thought they could bully the creators into submission. They must have thought that bringing legal into the equation would have led the creators to lawyer up and prepare for a defence, which would not have been their desired outcome.
EOS blockchain contracts are compiled to WASM.
I heard conjecture about it. Possibly more realistic is high pressure gas storage in salt domes. Or hydro power based on filling and draining deep mines.

There's realistic gravity based projects, but dropping ACME style anvils down mineshafts isn't one :)
It's hard to keep in mind just how many atoms there are even in something that is only a gram. Even if the impurities are 1 in 10^15, if you have 10^21 atoms, you'll have a million atoms of the impurity. Detection gets better and better as time goes on, we're going to keep learning a lot of interesting things.
I rolled the dice a million times in Baldur’s Gate
First off, I think even assuming this was a lie, it’d still be useful to continue telling kids it - we tell kids lies all the time, for their own goods.

Secondly, I dispute the thesis of the article (that education equality has become worse over time). The data doesn’t appear to concur with hat conclusion. The number of underprivileged kids at Oxford and Cambridge has increased significantly in the last decade. 68% of Oxford’s intake last year were state school students. When the author studied, the number might have been 45% at best (I don’t know his age).
Well, in this case everywhere else it stinks at best. Even /lit/ is full of antisemitism nowadays.
I beg to differ, you can easily add 1000+ calories to your daily intake by just drinking soda all day. You will also likely become a diabetic.

It does become a social issue when it comes to healthcare.
> Meanwhile, on a two-year-old computer, I still have frequent trouble getting Teams audio chats to work without stuttering and breaking up on a 50Mbps connection...

The difference is that back in the day people developed software to solve problems, where as nowadays software is mostly developed to "engage" customers, lock them in or provide job security to engineers by having them rebuild the same thing every year in yet more layers of Javascript libraries and frameworks.
Scala has strict evaluation by default. :)
Nope. That's still an in-context word.

The generic word will be whatever John Q. Public with zero knowledge or care calls it.
What is the state of the world with wasm at this point? It seems like it's been this huge tease for 10 years now, promising that we'll be able to build web apps in any language. But as far as I'm aware, garbage collection and DOM access is still nonexistent.
I totally agree about Yemen -- Biden made noises early on about ending support but so far hasn't done much, as far as i know.
That's not true. At least not where I live in the Portland Metro Area. Mid July - early September is pretty much constantly 35+C.
No.

Some people aren't going to like what you say some of the time.
Didn't read the link as I've already read the book, but the books amazing. So is his follow up. Really worthwhile and very though provoking for folks in tech.
As soon as the habitation of Mars picks up a little momentum, martians and Mars colonization will be demonized by the media. It will become a political debate that is fueled by the CIA and other entrenched interests. They will paint it as an ethical issue and focus on the immorality of disturbing the native habitat, or something similar to that. Mark my words.
The issue here is that people are forced to play sports as essentially slave labor to afford university. University tuition should be free or cheap for everyone.
Even 400 stories would be 600 kwh. Thats like 2 tesla battery packs. Way better than 6 but still not anything that can be realistically applied at scale.

There's not many deep mineshafts that aren't filled with water. And dewatering mines is insanely expensive. And 600 Kwh is nothing. Enough to power maybe 30 houses for a day.

My math is bad, but there's no math where this will ever work out profitably
That's exactly my point.

The "noobs" will always outnumber the knowledgeable in-crowd. They are the ones who will—ahem—coin the generic term.
> Feels very empty when there are so many current humanitarian crises (...)

I really don't understand this sort of goalpost-moving.

This formal recognition of the Armenian genocide, which goes against the interests of a major NATO ally, is not an empty or even small gesture. Going the whataboutism path does nothing to change the importance of this political position, specially as a clear signal that principles trump opportunism.
> Or something that looks like him.

Might be unnecessary if deepfake technology is used.
I can't say what would be a better way of doing things, but IMO, setting showdead to yes in the user preferences (so that dead comments are displayed) is the hallmark of a true HN user.
This is an interesting comment. What's the book that's like the Dragon book that comes closest to getting it right?
I see your point about economy of scale. I’d rather that rural land be re-wilded so other life can flourish on it, towards resilience as climate changes. The US used to be home to millions of beavers (per book “Eager”), the real heroes of the Yellowstone recovery story (where wolves were reintroduced). The Lewis and Clark expedition noted a hundred miles of continuous wetland in the Midwest. Beavers help prevent flooding, too.

Decreasing demand for energy feels like an important step on the path to a healthier ecosystem, and withdrawal will be tough for many. I also propose that more people do grow their own food, or at least be much closer to the farm and garden.
The panels cover less than half the roof. The house is a 25x50 foot rectangle. So... Maybe 15 feet x 40 feet of panels?
I am firmly against the NCAA. I get a lot of flack for this typically, but the NCAA as a system relies on basically slave labor. Universities are for education. If there are university sports they should be actual amateur institutions, more like our intramural sports and clubs, which some do travel. There should be no sports scholarships, coaches shouldn't be paid large sums, and there should not be millions of merchandise sold or tv rights. The idea of scholarship in exchange for being an athlete should be banned. Universities should be on academic merit, and then afterward people should play what they want. Tuition should also be affordable enough (or free) for any who are able to attend should be able to.