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> It is clear that they won’t hire anyone who doesn’t express beliefs identical to their own.

That's not really what's going on here. First of all, you're not really understanding the faculty hiring process. The DEI aspect is just one of many considered, and the people who have most direct impact on the hiring process are the department and college dean, not the DEI office who produced this website.

Secondly, to the extent that DEI statements/rubrics are considered as part of the application, they are done so because they relate specifically to the job. It's a faculty's explicit purpose to teach and manage a diverse classroom. If you look at the rubric, the low scoring results would indicate an applicant has no working knowledge or experience in diversity. This is a job requirement because the student body is diverse. This is not a purity test or an ideological test. Notice the rubric says nothing about beliefs. This is about knowledge and experience.

Experienced teachers will be able to speak cogently about DEI issues, and they will pass this with no problem. Applicants who never taught anything, and who believe the job is to do research and treat teaching as an afterthought will not to well. That's just how it is. But it's not a litmus test or a purity test or an ideological filter. It's about ability to do the job as it's advertised.
I already use C interfaces on C++ code to interact directly with Swift without objectiveC. What I’m curious about is if I can actually stop doing even that for many common types? It appears the compiler supposedly already supports that.
That's not hugely secure, though: IPv6 is only 128 bits, which means that the hash is would only provide 64 bits of security if it provided all the bits for the address. And I assume that the IPv6 address is not _only_ the hash, but instead some bits are used to put it into ULA space or similar. ULA uses 7 bits, which means that only 121 bits of the hash are usable, which means it provides 60.5 bits of security, which isn't nothing, but isn't really good enough for anything you care about.

In 2022, 128 bits is the bare minimum, and frankly 192 or 256 are often preferable.
I am much more afraid of my data being grabbed by EU / my government surveillance apparatus.
my guess is that this adds stuff to the global object which has backwards compatibility concerns.

And with every public API: Once you add it, you can't really hope to ever change it and even bug-fixes could be breaking some user's code (because they relied on the bug), so you have to be very careful to ship your public API as bug-free as possible.
Harald Bluetooth built some amazing fortifications for his period of time:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_ring_fortress

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263286349_A_Palisad...
Unfortunately we don't hire only good teachers.
What is it with framing this in terms of nuclear power. Many of the nuclear plants are being shut down because they are either end-of-life or were recently shut down because they were uneconomical.

Sure we can argue that we were not prepared for the recent uptick in energy demand as well as exceptionally low wind last year. However, one can just as well argue that this was a failure not to build more wind and solar capacity.

The bigger issue is that nobody wants to build nuclear power without massive subsidies, because it is simply not economical. So shouting now, "you should have build more plants" is easy, but that would have meant higher electricity prices, because that's what would be needed to economically run nuclear power.
Criticizing democracy because of majoritarianism is like criticizing programming itself because of how Perl, Ruby, or any other particular programming language works. Democratic governance can be implemented using consensus, majoritarianism, majoritarianism with a 60% threshold, or whatever other rule or stipulation. A constitution is of course also possible; then the people would decide on some ground rules which will be very hard to change for the foreseeable future. Which might be a blessing or a curse for the future people.

> Just saying, 'the will of the majority controls' is a recipe for mob rule — which is exactly what 'democracy' means.

You are not saying anything. Mob rule is indeed a pejorative term which is often used as a synonym for democracy. What of it? I could call you by some insult or other but I wouldn’t be making a point or an argument.
Strangely, one of the image is okish: bloated-lxdm.png is 216Kb.
Vanced even has SponsorBlock, which is insanely good
yes, yes, yes.

This was a huge pain for us. We develop an SDK that needs to work on Node, browsers and React Native.

I am super happy to hear about this :)
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"Perma.cc helps scholars and courts create permalinks of the web sites they cite"
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ironically, that same could now be said about our gas crisis in Europe, where we handover immense leverage into the control of Russia.
Your typical car only uses about 20-30 horsepower when going down the road. However when coming off the line at a light it can use hundreds of horsepower for the 3-10 seconds it takes to get up to 60mph (for non-US readers, in the US all car reviews make a big deal of the 0-60mph times, and many magazines have tracks where they test that themselves. I'm guessing you would see 0-100mph here, which is only a slightly different top speed by I have no idea). Thus for car applications a motor that can deliver a lot of power for a short amount of time is useful and light weight is important. If this is light enough it might be worth the unsprung weight issues to put this in the wheels (particularly front wheels to get cheap 4x4)

Automobiles are rather unusual in wanting and using a high amount of power in a burst and then needing a much smaller amount most of the time. Most equipment (including trucks when used as a truck) tend to need a lot more power all the time.
Maybe, but those of us who grew up in the wake of Chernobyl are likely never going to support nuclear power regardless of the facts. You can ignore that fact, but that doesn’t mean society is somehow magically going to readjust to what is “right” or “scientific”.

I say this, not in defence of the anti-nuclear generations of Europe but more so to explain why the political climate is how it is.

Beyond this comes money. Our technology sector is invested in basically every sort of green energy, except for nuclear. All our advantages in making money lie in things like wind and solar power, and if we were to truly adopt nuclear power, it’s very likely that all that money would leave Europe and go into Chinese or Indian technology. Which may be great for the planet, but you’re just not going to see European politicians stand in line to transfer energy sector jobs in the hundreds or thousands out from Europe.

It is what it is, but this isn’t likely to change in the next 40 so years.
Dangerous toys: Anything to ed25519 (SSH Keys)
Those problems can be a real toothache.
If I made public speech and I was terminated over that (or even if it could be proven that it possibly had an influence) that termination would be unlawful.
This. We need nuclear to keep the base load green. Wind and solar need batteries to be base load providers. Building out both battery and renewable infrastructure at the same time is a tall order.
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"Several accounts of how he originally defined his scale exist, but the original paper suggests the lower defining point, 0 °F, was established as the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride (a salt)."
Please don't say Imperial, the unit system you are talking about is US Customary. Volume units are different in the two systems.
Unsupervised machine translation works by distribution-matching embeddings on the corpora you want to translate between. If the corpora are large enough, their distributions can be estimated robustly, and if they have sufficient overlap in the topics they cover, it's likely that words with similar distribution have similar meanings.

So if there were a large amount of undeciphered Linear A inscriptions on a guessable range of topics, unsupervised machine translation might be worth a try.

Unfortunately, there aren't that many Linear A inscriptions, and for those where the kind of content was known, the distribution matching has already been carried out by hand. E.g. from the article: "the word AB81-02, or KU-RO if transliterated using Linear B sound-values, is one of the few words whose meaning we do know: it appears at the end of lists next to the sum of all the listed numerals, and so clearly means ‘total’. But we still don’t actually know how to pronounce this word, or what part of speech it is, and we can’t identify it with any similar words in any known languages."
> This is a recurring theme on HN, so I think you all have very good opinions on this topic: why does modern software seem so unpolished, slow, bloated, unprofessional?

Major software companies rediscovered that users will tolerate crap, so they've adopted processes and mindsets that serve the company at the expense of the user.

Also, in many ways the web sucks compared to native software, and the modern impulse is to web-all-the-things. So what was once a relatively slim desktop app is now some bloated website in a can.

The mean is now some shitty website or shitty website in a can. And no matter how good a software company starts out, it's run by businessmen and most of them will push it back towards the mean ("Why are we developing this fast, slim native app? We can reduce duplication and cost by shipping an Electron app that just repackages our web version).
By that standard, no energy source is carbon neutral since wind and solar also require mining and construction.

To our best estimate, the footprint of nuclear is a bit higher than solar and wind, but much closer to them than fossil fuels.

e.g.: https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-wind-nuclear-amazingly-low...

Edit: see page 539 here for a better comparison https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...
Pretty sure they started out being opposed to live nuclear weapons testing. Not sure what there exact position is currently, but calling them wolves seems unfair.
there are also differences between lib/interpreter versions (str differences, use of Byte arrays) and stuff like Unicode/crypto support, the c-lib used (e.g. musl).

The "provided that" is exactly what I'm sceptical of - if the language is general use, not everyone will play ball unless the language/language-derivative is for the explicit purpose of maintaining this compatibility, and this is somewhat enforced. Python packaging would also be great if it shipped with an unambiguous and bulletproof/portable solution, but it didn't, and then the wheel was (partially) reinvented several times.

This is before we even consider bad-actors purposefully attacking (python packages are also susceptible to this I believe).
That did not happened to me. Not even once. Also, the one who had 30 min delay shift reset after 12 hours. Which was sufficient literally every time. Also, you can turn it on and off which resets delay to 0 too.

I mean this 100% seriously: this is super easy to configure. No reason to fiddle with wifi, phone, app nor website.
I appreciate the reply, but I think we’re slightly talking past each other in that you’re discussing anyons as a source of the emissions from the structure, while I’m saying that the emissions are from a classical source aligned to an anyon — the overall structure the radiant gases you’re describing are attracted to, and source of filament shape. That the emissions match synchrotron radiation doesn’t distinguish, in that we’d expect electrons flowing along/around a loop excitation to emit precisely that, right?

I would say that galactic anyons solve a problem:

The toroidal knotting you’d expect around some kind of active black hole would produce effects we see, and connects them via the same mechanism —

1. Why galaxies have weird filament structures everywhere — gas is settling into loop excitations around the black hole;

2. Which is also why the galaxy seems unusually bound, because pulling it apart places additional strain in many, many anyons we can’t see or readily interact with (due to scale);

3. While also explaining the same features at a higher scale, eg galactic clusters or why so many things like Great Attractor look like the intersection of a toroidal knot.

My last paragraph is that it’s my understanding some tiny amount of energy goes into being the anyon, and hence it has mass. So the “braiding” of any system would contribute a (small?) mass to it — and I wanted to see the calculation.

I assume I’m off on a wild chase, but I want to see where the math fails for my own education.
Not just nuclear, the Netherlands is stopping all it's gas production.

Europe is a very diverse continent. Something that tends to be forgotten in American perception. A country like the Netherlands has practically unlimited amount of money to import oil and gas from abroad while people in Greece are reduced to burning wood to keep warm in winter.
I still wonder why Apple has not dropped Bluetooth already. Bluetooth sucks, period. It helped shape many creative ideas, but it cannot meet the expectations in 2022 anymore.

Bluetooth was, and still is, the most widely used means of file sharing, esp. between Android devices. When Apple decided not to support file sharing over Bluetooth in iOS, that was a good decision, albeit being an inconvenience to users. But Apple then introduced AirDrop which work’s way better than Bluetooth. Meanwhile, there’s still no reliable way to wirelessly transfer files between Android and Windows devices, and your have to use Bluetooth for that!

Bluetooth also sucks when it comes to wireless headphones and other wireless accessories. I’m seriously surprised that Apple kept using Bluetooth for their AirPods.
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Heh. My inlaws have a "hobby" farm. It is the worst damn hobby I've ever heard of. It is a ton of goddamn work! And they can never go anywhere because the animals need constant care and feeding. It's expensive and endless tasks to do. They're fulfilled and they like it, but they're also trapped by the farm. I enjoy visiting, but that lifestyle aint for me.
I am perplex. Solar energy for example don't take into account the cost of renewal of the panel (every 20-30 year) and the cost of recycling / storing the toxic photovoltaic liquid [1]. The IRENA projects[2] they can fully recycle this toxic waste and recreate value from it, which is bold imo.

[1] https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/12/23/solar-panel-waste-a-d...

[2] https://www.irena.org/publications/2016/Jun/End-of-life-mana...
I liked the concept, but the execution was ... lacking. Some aspects like language (hopefully not spoiling too much) seemed to me treated very naively.
The latter case is related more to 'writing something down [on paper]' than to a standard up/down usage that implies directionality.
It's not officially allocated, either. You can squat something that is not available for use.

I see that they don't use ULA after all, but their approach still spends 7 bits on the prefix.
I was thinking about all of this while writing my question. I agree: I can just switch to another app. IF I find a better app, but can you find such a better app at all? I think that my question is more about this (which is resonated in many other comments): in general, the incentives given to developers by companies / society does not align with better quality software. At the contrary: quality costs time and money, it feels like it's not motivated financially.

Still, I think that this is somewhat corrupted. A beautiful, comfortable, durable chair is better than a ugly chair that breaks after 1 year. Still, probably the ugly chair will have a way larger financial margin. Guess what companies are going to produce?

I guess it's yet another demonstration that no matter how perfect a system is, it won't set people free from morals, from taking their own responsibility to make the world a better place. Beauty and good will always need to be fought for.
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First: not a stupid question - the release cadence, multiple release lines and other minutia of a project like Node are not something I'd expect users to be intimately familiar with!

This _just landed today_. You can get it by building from master:

```

# there is more details in building.md

git clone https://github.com/nodejs/node

cd node

# may need to pass --openssl-no-asm

./configure

make -j12

./out/Release/node --experimental-fetch

```

Otherwise - wait a bit for the next v17 release to land per the normal release cycle :)
From my point of view, it's not about a competition between nuclear and solar/wind/etc.

It's about the choices that led to shutting down nuclear instead of coal, oil and the green-lighting of gas projects.

If we were serious about our co2 predicament the conservation and refurbishment of nuclear capacity would be as high as a priority as taking fossil fuel plants offline.

And then after electricity production related emissions has dropped to virtually zero we could have a great discussion on how to go forward.
Hmm, I know car seats weren't always as big a thing, but I think it's pretty rare these days for a 3 year old to be in the front seat. Am I the only one who would instinctively feel it was unsafe? I feel like this would have been obvious even before I had kids and was basically clueless about their safety.
Germany did not return to coal. That's simply not true. The coal under Hambacher Forest isn't even needed and it won't be used up either.
For sure it is needed, and you know it. You won't be protected by law from being "canceled" if you say something against what is understood as the "norm". Specially in the university world, we were reaching a situation where we couldn't scientifically study/discuss any controversial theme.
Hi, author of the post here. Happy to answer questions.
That's cute, I have no idea what window the GOP is looking out of...
Nuclear costs so much because we haven't built reactors in decades. If we had been focused on nuclear innovation and deployment consistently since the 50s, then (a) we would have smaller nuclear facilities by now that are much easier to deploy and can't melt down and (b) operationalizing and deploying nuclear in general would be much cheaper.

You have a headwind to doing an activity when you rarely engage in an activity.

Chernobyl really messed us up in this regard, sadly.
Yeah, I'm not interested in a world like China where people making an anti-establishment comment on twitter get removed from society. This type of situation and result is a jump in that direction.
Sure, but when do you need to do that?

What about if it isn't water you are calculating but some other substance? You use a look up table to find the factors - we need to look up a but more in the table, but it isn't a big deal.
Wouldn't that just give a different fingerprint though
> I'll repeat this until I'm blue in the face, has been responsible for smallest number of deaths of any form of energy generation and produce the lowest amount of CO2 (i.e. zero, other than construction).

Will you stop repeating this if I explain why it's false?

So first up, the stat is usually fatalities per TwH, since that skews things in Nuclear's direction, not just number of fatalities which would be won by some obscure but not very successful power source.

Second, even with the correct metric, solar and wind are now beating nuclear and projected to continue to do so, widening the gap over time. Comparing the very start of the renewable rollout gives misleading stats as the total power generated is low, and many stats that get quoted on this are more than a decade out of date.

You can build a wind turbine and ritually sacrifice someone on completion of the build and the fatalities per TwH is infinite as it's not generated any power yet, but with every year of operation it gets lower.

Basically the same applies to carbon output, nuclear does well, but wind/solar/nuclear have been basically tied on both metrics unless you're relying on some very, very old data.

Of course if you have a limited amount of money to spend, then you'll generate more energy and save more lives with whatever the cheaper form of energy is, so we should really take that into consideration too.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
I've lived a close-to-homestead life for over two decades. It came naturally as the work I wanted to do required me to live in a very rural area. I farmed as a kid, on a production row-crop farm, but this is wildly different.

The main thing people on the internet leave off is that you have to a) be okay with isolation/alone time, and b) you will work every day of your life.

We set out to make a plot that is as self-sufficient as possible (internet, water, and about 1/4 of our electricity come from the grid still, all other inputs are from our land). It took most of the two decades to get to a point where we can breathe. That doesn't mean 'not work' that means that we aren't doing backbreaking labor as much anymore.

It's the call of the pastoral. People have such rose-tinted glasses about the past and how people lived then. It was hard, dirty, and short.

If you don't find pleasure in the work itself, for the sake of itself, maybe consider a change. That doesn't make you a failure, it makes you practical. Learning is part of it. I learned that I like working with my hands more than I like working in an office. I also learned that it doesn't pay the bills.

If you're different, you're different. So what?

That being said, if it's just the social aspect, find people around you to do things with. We share labor with our neighbors. It's nice because it provides much needed help with the work, and it provides a social aspect. But one thing that holds true, is that, if you are in a really rural area, people tend toward being alone. That's why they live there.
Try "build nuclear powerplants to meet demand" - Bitcoin stops mining as much as. Ethereum switches to proof of stake. Other coins switch from proof of work too. Crypto energy demands drop. We are left with a bunch of powerplants hanging out providing surplus / super cheap power. Humanity levelled up, whoo.
Celsius isn't SI, though I can appreciate there are reasons for particular units in particular circumstances.
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Untenable? You kind of resolved it yourself by saying that “democracies” of today are just “so-called” but are effectively oligarchies. So it’s not an untenable statement.
The fossil fuel industry has had no better friend over the past 50 years than the "green" movement. It has worked so well to keep the dirtiest most polluting coal power generation viable that they could not have paid to get better lobbyists.

Following the money and principle of least surprise, you might even be forgiven to think it's very likely anti nuclear movement was funded if not founded by big coal.
In most American companies, having "Quality" in your title means you're never thanked, it was never your idea despite being mentioned and repeatedly shot down 9+ months ago, you're either tolerated or downright feared, and fenerally you can target no shortage of intrigue in the enterprise, but no one wants to acknowledge it.

Amusingly, my career actually started with a Quality bearing title.

Maybe I should try a Japanese company one of these days. See how the real adherents of Demings-san do things.
> I can't count how many times I've tried to track back a source from a wiki and end up with a 404.

Yes, that's really frustrating. I often have the situation where I click on a reference for a claimed fact and get redirected to the front page of a news website.
Brain lives 15 SEC 'in the past' to help you see the world with stability
Companies trying to lower wages: “Everybody should code”.

Now everybody does.