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Why not use hydrogen instead of heavy batteries?

Why not use jet engines instead of propellers?
I was just trying to dig up a bookmark on your example but couldn't find it. You don't have an article handy, do you?
If you don't want to speak Ukrainian, why do you live in Ukraine?
Only the stuff mentioned in the blog post. I've written the content for arewep2pyet.com; need to just get it live.
First of all, they do not only whitelist/blacklist by race. They also whitelist/blacklist by other characteristics (gender, sexual preferences).

It seems as if the Canada Research Chair is funded by the national government of Canada specifically to increase diversity in Canadian academia. It just so happens that UBC is hosting one position for quantum computing. Presumably there are other Canada Research Chairs available at other universities. Presumably, the government of Canada also offers funding for positions that does not discriminate based on the designations that this particular funding does discriminate on.

Maybe the overall allocation of national funds to academic positions is not as biased as we may think just by looking at this job posting.

All I'm saying is, if the source of the funding is the national government, then a knee-jerk reaction against UBC is irrational without because it doesn't take into account the national effects of higher education funding by the Canadian government.

(Also, how is this different from any number of fellowships offered in the US higher education system to women and minorities?)
Hadn’t thought about doing it at the CDN level; guess that would work for backgrounds too, huh
> How are people using this flexibility to get things done in practice

Um... to loop back to the upthread point: Docker. People are using Docker, and docker is using this stuff.
These last two years have been some of the hardest years of my life, as a person who normally travels and works internationally with large groups of people, I have been inside the same house for two years with just my parents, one of whom went through chemo and a heart attack while covid was happening. So I feel you on how these past two years have seemed like purgatory, feeling stuck and watching life tick away.

I also wish the various levels of government would have responded differently. I'm assuming you mean in the US, but that's where I am so I'll go with that. I wish the Trump admin would have responded differently, the Biden admin, the US Senate and House (2020 and 2021 members), my governor in Michigan, the senate and house in Michigan, the county health department, my local mayor, and more.

At least in Michigan, they didn't ask me to donate 2 years of my time, much of that has been my choice, frankly against what the Michigan Congress voted. The governor pushed for strong closures in the beginning and the Congress overruled that. Many of the people here have been acting as if there is no pandemic, doing almost exactly what they did before covid-19 existed. Frankly, even many elements of the Trump admin and US Congress have told us to live our lives as normal.

So if anything, I think the government, at its various levels, have provided mixed messages on what we should and should not do. From complete and total lockdown, to open but wear masks, to complete and total return to normalcy. At least in my experience, I haven't heard a coherent "donate 2 years of our short lives to their cause," but rather a mixed message, coming from politicians, who, just as the public are people with human behavior.
> This might be too low for some high risk customers to be able to get credit at all.

We're living in near-zero interest rate land. 36% is usury, even 20% is that.

Maybe the US should not only put a hard cap for any kind of loan at FED interest rate + 10%, but also force through an actual livable minimum wage so even the poorest classes don't have to choose between ridiculously expensive credit card debt or starving/dying because they can't afford healthcare.
Backed by guns, no doubt.
> consistent enough

you want the opposite, if it's consistent, then it's more difficult to gauge it's motion just by finding similar zones. think on mouse on glass or metal, it's too uniform for the sensor to detect motion.

anyway: paper https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.1/6298/2/AIM-476.pdf

lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BVZDyRrYtQ

usually circular motion is used, but linear works just as fine
Thanks for the answer ! I'll continue the debate because I think it's worth exploring.

The problem is effectively nuclear proliferation. And in my opinion the two links you provided are embryos of solution.

In the future, it will be legitimate for any medium size city in a developping country to have its own nuclear reactor. At that point the whole procurement process becomes a matter of national security for every neighboring country. Like who is deciding which design is better ? Who gets to pick the winning offer ?

For exemple let's say Germany propose a safer design to a small country with the one time refuel feature, but Turkey propose another design and the buying country has better relationship with Turkey. What standing do you have to make them pick what you deem the better design ? The only recourse is to extend the legal framework and coercition power we use for arm sales. Same regarding nuclear material smuggling.

Except those framework work at the moment because, few country have any use for nuclear material and even fewer want to make a go at it. Once it becomes
business as usual to trade nuclear material, it will simply exhaust the monitoring capacity of any international framework. ( At least that's my opinion )

As for the second part of the argument:
>> Consider this bad metaphor: as we are writing more and more software, some of them are increasingly critical to users, therefore, we invest in different levels of guaranteeing software is working as intended (e.g. formal methods, etc.).

The question is who the we is ? Energy plant maintenance is closer to server farm maintenance than software building. To twist your metaphor, if many countries were to handle the data infrastructure their economy depend on, they would collapse. That's the crux of the issue, and one of the subliminal teaching the public got from Fukushima.
If Japan, the country of the famed six sigma, made a serie of decisions that led to an accident, chances are it's bound to happen to most other (developping ) countries, given long enough time. And I am intentionally not delving into the specifics of those decisions.

With these two sides of the issue in mind, it feels unreasonnable that so many commenters on the web at large are rooting for Germany to fail in the nuclear free direction.

Edit:
>> Unpopular opinion: I do not think it is possible to get rid of the inherent risk of nuclear proliferation, even without building nuclear reactors in non-wealthy countries.

I just wanted to add that I commend you for that (blunt) sentence and it really should be part of the standard issues discussed when talking about nuclear.
Weird; the reason we haven't prioritised it is in that in practice it doesn't seem to be a big problem? You don't get push notifs while you're active in the app itself, and the fact that i get push on my phone while also reading on desktop almost feels like a feature (I often read the msg first via push on phone before then going and hunting on it desktop, especially as Element Web's notification panel needs love).
If you find the subject interesting and would like to read more, I recommend Jeff Hawkins' A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, which was released earlier this year and covers a theory that a large part of your brain is made of 150,000 near-identical subsystems called "cortical columns." It's geared toward people who have little background in neuroscience. You might also follow up with Anil Seth's "controlled hallucination" theory in Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.

If you prefer to pay for this knowledge with just time rather than also money, on YouTube there are three videos from Numenta that cover Jeff's book, and then there's a Ted talk by Anil on consciousness.
Some of these places have like 400 ICU beds in a region of 17 million people. You absolutely could 10x that or even 50x that given the fact you have asked hundreds of millions of people to put their lives on hold.

Vaccination was the end goal because it would mean we could reduce all that emergency capacity we were supposed to build up. Non pharmacutical interventions like masks, social distancing and lockdowns for healthy people are extreme asks and should be used for extremely short durations while you pour your nations entire pool of resources into building healthcare capacity up.

What amazes me is somehow we managed to do exactly this back in march of 2020 with hospital ships and field hospitals. The fact that all of these were shutdown virtually unused after a month but we continued with all these stay-at-home orders shows exactly how little respect these "experts" and government officials have for the general public. The day those things closed was the day we should have gone back to full normal. That these "experts" doubled down on this crap is so immoral and unethical it amazes me people continued to support it.
> relations (does that mean that edits are in cleartext??), etc are completely unencrypted.

The text/content of the edit itself is actually encrypted, you can check in Element by viewing the event in de/encrypted form
One of the most difficult programming challenges I have encountered is calculating and displaying automatic drag and drop alignment guidelines/rulers (like those in Figma and PowerPoint that show up when you drag two element close to each other or near certain ratios) efficiently. They are not documented anywhere despite being a very common pattern. Most drag and drop libraries and framework don't have out of the box support for it as it requires deep low level integration.
That's only true if you're using your credit card to buy stuff. If you withdraw cash from your credit card at an ATM you start accruing interest immediately; at least on every credit card I've ever owned.
I'm saddened that we're comparing a degree in CS to a subscription to Codecademy.

I am curious if you've gotten a degree yourself, and whether that degree was from a reputable school. My CS degree is one of my proudest and most difficult accomplishments in my life.

The difference in someone with a 4 year CS degree and a bootcamp graduate is jarringly apparent and one that I have uncomfortable experience with.

My following statement will cause me to be downvoted, because the truth makes people uncomfortable. Computer Science education is a rite of passage, like getting a black belt, becoming a priest, doctor or anything else that requires intense study with peers for extended period of time.

The CS degree at a top school is more than a signal, its a badge of honor and respect. You may choose to ignore it to your own peril.
I've had similar experiences on many projects. You start out thinking something is going to be super simple and you provide estimates that match your naive design and later find it'll take 2.5x-5x longer than you wanted. It's definitely humbling.

Nowadays when I have new work that has a lot of unknowns, I try to jump in and create a proof of concept as quickly as I can, even if it requires a ton of hacks. I want to know right off the bat if there's something obvious that's going to make the task take much longer than I wanted.
ps. The tweet in question is still there, with no apology yet from this individual:

https://twitter.com/RossTeixeira/status/1471249559879929861
Is this comment supposed to be some kind of threat? It seems wildly out of place for HN.
I contributed to it in 2015
Precisely what happened to Latin
I became alarmed about covid since it first appeared in Wuhan, but these days I am more alarmed about people I meet saying that the unvaccinated shouldn't be admitted to hospital, etc
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We shouldnt forget that something like 80% of them were already old people with a variety of health issues.
US intelligence organizations openly state that a common way for them to operate in a country is to give their agents cover "jobs" at the state department. When state department employees or "employees" work at an embassy they are diplomats. Apparently this is common in the intelligence world.

Whether these particular people were spies, it seems like proper counter-intelligence to track all diplomats pretty closely because at least some of them are going to be intelligence operatives.
I have linked some papers in a response to another comment, but here is a youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RIskTMLV40

I feel the research is lacking on this because there is a large genetic component. I do not feel LF-EMFs are a danger to everyone, but certain people, like me, with gene changes in CACNA1C, might be more affected by LF-EMFs. It is no coincidence that CACNA1C is also linked to pretty much all the mood disorders.

And I am in no way saying that LF-EMFs are the cause of all mood disorders.
Maybe. There is a lot of reinfection/breakthroughs going on from alpha/delta to omicron. Does conferred immunity to omicron protect from alpha/delta? I don't know enough to say.
Banks should not be allowed to automatically ban people without a human in the loop ffs.
I can highly recommend looking at the router database of OpenWRT. I had bad experiences with DD-WRT. Mostly stability issues. According to my research, OpenWRT doesn't have as much functionality or router support. But, it's very stable.

My favorite feature is both is that you can easily add virtual APs. E.g., I have one virtual AP with net isolation (no access to other networks, Internet only) and clients can't see each other.
lol are you all just repeating scaling buzzwords? back-pressure, load shedding, whats next horizontal scaling or maybe blockchain?
The point is that once you make it revenue neutral, most companies would rather pay it out to an employee rather than pay it out to the government.

Yes, there would likely be a few obtuse companies (maybe make paying it to the government 10% more expensive than paying it directly to the company), but most would simply grant their existing benefits directly to the employee once they couldn't make any money off of not doing so.
The old reactors were intentionally unfunded for years to make them so expensive that it looked better to decommission them.
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One German bets on nuclear while another German bets against nuclear. Time will tell which one was wise (maybe both?).
I know you’re just making a joke, but the premise is a off. The queer community is a community because we are all sexual minorities. Asexual people obviously fit that description.
The issues will start arising at some point.

Things like banning porn simply don't work unless substituted. People have already turned to amateur recordings instead. That's things the elderly rulers don't want to or can't understand. Ultimate control is not possible with human beings, especially in the 21st century.
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Did they mean to say empire? :P
The complex numbers are the closure regardless of dimension. When I was writing that I was thinking of the Quaternions, which are the 4 dimensional analog of the complex numbers, in 2^N dimensions this is the Cayley Dickson construction.

The fluke is this: Euclidean space of dimension N has N(N-1)/2 rotational dimensions. If you plug 2 into that you get 2x1/2 which is 1 dimension. i.e. the rotations in 2D space look like a circle. If you add an extra dimension (the radius) you get the polar form of complex numbers.

In other dimensions this doesn't always work. In 3 dimensions we have 3x2/2 = 3 rotational dimensions, so we need a space with dimension 4 (the quaternions). In 4 dimensions we need a 6 dimensional rotation space. We just established that Cayley Dickson algebras only come in powers of 2, so it doesn't fit at all.
Agreed and noted.
I think we're probably in luck somewhat: if something actually serious came along, I agree that people would be much less disagreeable, and perhaps we'd have enough actual problems so authorities wouldn't have to engage in make work projects.

That said, I think massive numbers of people (likely the majority still, although the tides seem to be shifting extremely quickly lately) would strongly disagree with us on the degree to which covid is a "major" problem. I am very worried that the inability for people to even mutually agree upon a way of discussing (let alone agreeing on anything) culture war topics, and our inability to take such phenomena seriously, is going to be a gift that keeps on giving for decades into the future (just in time for the climate change culture war).
goodluck!
Last week tried to compile and run Io on the GraalVM but was stopped by a com.oracle.truffle.api.dsl.UnsupportedSpecializationException: Unexpected values provided for LLVMNeNodeGen#1: [false, 0], [Boolean,Integer] error.

coming from:

at <llvm> CHash_at_(Unknown)
at <llvm> IoState_symbolWithUArray_copy_(../../../../Desktop/io/libs/iovm/source/IoState_symbols.c:44:1123)
at <llvm> IoState_symbolWithCString_length_(../../../../Desktop/io/libs/iovm/source/IoState_symbols.c:75:2141)
at <llvm> IoState_symbolWithCString_(../../../../Desktop/io/libs/iovm/source/IoState_symbols.c:79:2268)
at <llvm> IoState_retainedSymbol(../../../../Desktop/io/libs/iovm/source/IoState.c:245:8336)
at <llvm> IoState_setupQuickAccessSymbols(../../../../Desktop/io/libs/iovm/source/IoState.c:251:8564)
at <llvm> IoState_new_atAddress(../../../../Desktop/io/libs/iovm/source/IoState.c:106:2910)
at <llvm> IoState_new(../../../../Desktop/io/libs/iovm/source/IoState.c:240:8195)
at <llvm> main(../../../../Desktop/io/tools/source/main.c:37:599)
at org.graalvm.polyglot.Value.execute(Value.java:839)

Waiting for the day when I can embed Io on Java projects.

It's a great dynamic language but suffers the same problems every other language with a small user-base suffers.
England had high prevalence during the Summer, so not even them, maybe Denmark
Owners of $1.5M artworks buy insurance to cover their theft or destruction for significantly less than $1M, and the insurers do not go bankrupt.

As the other commenter points out the expected value of the heist of a $1.5M painting is a lot less than $1M for potential thieves.
> No not quite, burning fuel for heat locally will always be at least twice as effective as ideal conversion to power

Except NOT having to heat is even more effective than burning fuel for heating locally. So the move away from gas heating to low-energy buildings is definitely stimulated by higher gas prices.

> Same thing for france.

I doubt that, since France seem to be actually using their interconnects. Can't comment on Sweden, though.
And with this one desperate and futile attempt to extract meaningful revenue, this photographer has all but guaranteed that all future photographers who approach people in the OSS community are going to get the terms and conditions scrutinized before the subjects agree to relinquishing studio-quality shots of themselves again.

I'd be downright embarrassed to have my public image be hawked as an NFT, and I'd be worried about other people assuming I actually endorsed it.
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No different than the fall of Rome, sans the extra 500 - 600 years of hegemony but that's totally offset by rate and reach of communication
For Cloudflare DNS servers the archive.md DNS server tells them the URL is not configured. It's configured to change according to which DNS server queries it by location/IP. It's not something Cloudflare can fix unilaterally. (or something like that)

edit: elsewhere linked is an explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
Sure, but many things don't retain value. Your thousand dollar smartphone will be worthless in ten years. Your car will probably be worthless in twenty. People make the mistake of treating them like cryptocurrency which they aren't, but just because they're stupid and will be worthless doesn't make them worthless now.
I think NFTs could potentially be useful, but the current main use case is effectively a worthless scam. Use cases that intrigue me:

- NFTs to manage licenses for digital works. Portable transferrable licenses would solve many of the evils of walled garden IP platforms (ex amazon video or itunes), especially if cross platform. I refuse to "purchase" digital content in a way that I'm subject to arbitrary platform rules and threat of my library disappearing: it's all effectively renting with fraudulent UI labels.

- Media use licenses: I'd love to be able to buy an NFT for use of a song, 'point' the NFT at a youtube URL and that makes the video live and youtube would exempt me from their content ID system destroying my work with erroneous IP claims. If I get bored with my video, I could resell that license to someone else. Performance rights and public viewing rights for theaters could also use a similar system. It's currently very hard for a third party to independently validate a license, would be sweet if it was just an API call.

- Cross platform game items: ex. someone could create a P2P MMO where people can host their own servers and items are durable. Would take some thinking to make 'drop' logic fair across servers (can't create a server that drops every item after killing any mob), but I think it's a tractable problem if smart people put enough work and thought into it.

But yeah, buying a pointer to a URL which happens to currently serve a given image is a brittle ridiculous system that will likely come crashing down within a decade.
it is quite heavily biased toward the tech sphere

This is why I use your search engine. Thank you
So what you're saying is that 30% of the people of Ukraine belong in Russia? Duly noted.
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I'm not so sure, living paycheck to paycheck doesn't mean you have no discretionary spending at all. Maybe you have $500 a month for one off expenses and you already used up this months on a laptop for you kid at school or something.
This made me stop reading:

> In such a way, the competing interests of the father (‘large strong children’) and the mother (‘survive pregnancy’) are balanced.

Citation needed. This seems unnecessary antagonizing. I don't think there is an evolutionary interest of the father that the mother does not survive pregnancy. Without nursing babies had probably very low chances in the past and are still at high risk in many countries.

When thinking about this across multiple generations this makes even less sense. Since all those guys who pass large strong genes to their children will have no children at all because the mothers die during pregnancy or birth. Which is a high risk scenario for the unborn children.

Additionally the mother also has an interest in large strong children. They are her offspring too.

There is more a balance between the fetus taking everything and the mother trying not to decay too fast because of that. This is completely different to this.
I don't think there is any panic surrounding omicron and deaths. The panic is around whether omicron has an extreme effect where lots of mild and moderate disease happens in a 2 week period. So saying "look it's mild stop panicking" isn't really correct. If Omicron has even a tenth of the cases the delta wave had, but concentrated in a smaller period of time, it could be just as bad or worse.
There is a section in Graphics Gems 3 that describes a layout system for an Atari ST DAW app.