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> The issue of atrocious public education through high school in the USA, such that often students have to spend one or two years in college on remedial work developing acceptable math and writing skills...

I want to call this out specifically: it's a real and widespread phenomenon.

You can expect any given student to be strong in some areas and less so in others, so it's perfectly reasonable for the first year, or semester, to have a significant component of "leveling up". However an increasing number of students need this kind of leveling up across the board.

I only have direct exposure to this phenomenon in two cases; one is a "top 5" ranked university, the other is a large "top 25" school. The students appear to emerge just fine, so this implies the admissions department is selecting the right students despite these issues, but at a cost that for many amounts to missing out on a year's worth of university class education because they need remediation in what should have been taught in high school.
In Wittgensteinian fashion, if you can use a word, you know it.
> though this experimental reactor will not produce electricity, it is used to evaluate the main components of a future fusion power plant
I can't meaningfully distinguish this from "Trying a free sample at Costco with no intent to buy the product."

Aka, who cares?
In my experience as an Asian American, yes but very uncomfortably.
This headline is just the best.
As a cyclist, I view self driving cars as one of my biggest wins in terms of safety relative to the easily distracted monkeys who drive them now. Sad to see Tesla doing damage to the overall effort with their GSD approach to it. Hope they don't salt the earth behind them.

Seems like Google, Cruise and co are doing well enough here to make it look like a tesla problem as opposed to a self driving car problem.
Next: correlate with college admission test vocabulary, see how biased they are.
Got it back up now, but via Cloudflare I'm still seeing millions of POST requests per hour. Thankfully they aren't hitting the backend anymore.

One point I had made was that for 13 years I've served the site from a VPS without having to use Cloudflare. Now, apparently a few people (or one person) decided to point some sort of little botnet at it, and I have to use Cloudflare.

Gone are the days when I could smugly remark my website was still up when Cloudflare was down :(
This was a test to validate what will happen with ITER. ITER will really only start, by their own planning, that has been consistently delayed, only in 2035.

They will start in 2025, then will stop for a few years then will really only start in 2035. ITER is a scientific experiment not the first commercial prototype.

Assuming it succeeds you are looking at a procurement and construction process of 20 years for the first commercial prototype by 2060!

At best, you will start constructing commercial power in 2060 and making in impact in 2080. If its even commercially feasible and not an incredibly expensive toy.

Fantastic achievements from the SPARC (MIT) project are not likely to impact this. Conclusion: Forget about Fusion as a solution to help with the current climate change emergency. The planet will be here, but Gaia will clean us up as parasitic extras, if we don't do something in the next 5 to 10 years.

And no, you wont be allowed in the Belt.
It was tongue-in-cheek, but born from my own paranoia and despair. The last few years have made even the concept of "Europe" feel kind of shaky.
The breeding blanket does slow the neutrons, but there needs to be a first wall material that does not ablate into the plasma. You need very little of non-hydrogen material in the vacuum to cause a density collapse. If you made the wall out of liquid lithium then there would be a lot of lithium in the plasma.

Tungsten is a good choice for a first wall material because of its uniquely high melting point, low rate of embrittlement in high neutron flux, and short-lived radioisotopes.
We generate electricity with fusion the same way we do with many other technologies.

We heat up water until it turns to steam which moves a turbine to spin some magnets to generate electricity.

Fusion’s advantage over solar is it can theoretically generate unlimited energy in a relatively small footprint. It also doesn’t go out 8-12 hours per day.

But I think the reality is that we need to pursue many options for clean energy.
Ha, I spent a few years around 2015 building exactly this for the first 50 or so largest US utilities on what eventually became https://www.arcadia.com/arc. Curious how you plan to compete. Good luck with the insane number of account edge cases that start popping up at scale and extremely finicky utility sites for scraping, it gets old fast.
Interesting. Yeah, I grew up in the 90s, so in addition to tamagotchi and pokemon, I became aware at some point about the Japanese mob.
The problem isn't new but the previous best practices involved giving the tool super user. Usually through an installation process. See most other VPNs. UserMode TCP/IP stacks aren't very common in practice. This is why what fly.io did is interesting.
In addition to what others have said, the sun isn't always in the sky.
I largely agree. My grandfather grew up on a farm, graduated 8th grade, then continued to work the farm while mining coal with the other men in his family. That wasn't uncommon in his time.
Two Issues Styling the Details Element and How to Solve Them (2021)
Are you referring to how the words "feel" in your mind (≈ average of a cluster of associated words) or about the sounds in the words?

Plosives (PaT), sibilants (Sassy/SHow) or glottals (CoCKpit) sound "sharper" to me than their voiced equivalents (BaD, Zoo/menaGerie, GooGle). Fricatives (FaVorite, baTH/baTHE) or nasals (NuMber) or taps (RoLe) tend to sound longer and softer.
So your solution is take home coding. How is doing an assignment for every company I apply for better than practising coding questions that can be used in interviews at any company?
Work hard, don't be a jerk and you'll be fine.

A lot of ambition these days is misplaced in my opinion. Why don't you try crossing over some of these diversified interests? Some very interesting things can happen when you mix disparate interests and before you know it, you could be one of the authorities in something new.

Or if not, then at the very least just keep being a great employee. There's plenty of room in tech for people that are consistently good but average. Remember "average" means you're already better than half the people! Rockstars are way overrated but they get all the attention. Don't buy the hype. Right now in tech (and the economy in general - speaking of the US here), employers would give their right arm just for a solid worker that shows up consistently and on-time. Showing up is half the battle.

Also maybe lean into the boredom a little. Sometimes boredom can be a great motivator into doing something different, wacky or new.
In context - using solar energy to extract atmospheric CO2 and manufacture methane - yes.

We're not discussing "massive deforestation" here. Germany's biofuel mandate does not affect rockets in Texas.
I am waiting for the revolution to start. Seriously. I know this kind of talk borders on sedition and risks a visit from the powers that be, but it's a risk I will take to defend my principles and those of our Constitution.

I do not see a way of reforming society. I see our governments continuing to devolve into ineffective squabbling and pandering, until the final straw lands and their backs break. The pandemic came wonderfully close. If it had been a little worse, many governments would have had to institute martial law, as they would be forced to institute policies would that actively choose who gets to live and who dies. You can imagine how things would go from there.

The 10th Amendment has been effectively dead since around WW2. The big turning point was Wickard v. Filburn [0], which grossly expanded federal powers over intrastate commerce. Similar efforts have succeeded in castrating the power of the States on many other fronts.

That treasonous status quo alone should be cause for revolution; however, all of our fundamental civil liberties have been curtailed in similarly countless ways. For anyone doubting the veracity of this assertion, I recommend the now-dated-but-still-pertinent book by Naomi Wolff, "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot". Read it and start sharpening your pitchfork.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_America:_Letter_of_...
In civilised jurisdictions these rules apply to unmarried couples too. The amount of economic violence, historically, perpetrated by men over women has been huge.

The worm has turned
In one large segment it has turned into a streaming platform like twitch, as in a side screen and additional chat people keep up while also streaming on twitch

I dont see a vine-like fate for tiktok

Bytedance is so much better positioned as well and already monetizing it
The crisis, if there is one, is that society has less use for males who have IQs between 90-105 or so, who cannot cut it in STEM, and who are finding it hard to cope with increasingly competitive economic conditions and higher overall costs like rent, and is why many men are delaying family formation or moving back with parents (but also due to careerism for women). Men are just dropping out rather than doing low-paid work and having to deal with political correctness at the office and other inconveniences.
I've coached high school sports teams, both boys and girls, for the last two decades. I've seen some of these trends unfold over the years with my student athletes. My observation is girls are just more motivated than boys, even for something fun like sports practices and workouts, girls in general will show up more consistently than boys. The teachers I've spoken to at the school where I coach have confirmed the same thing with school work. What I've seen is the boys that are successful at school or sports have at least one parent pushing them at home, and from my experience it's often the mother. I'm not trying to downplay the role of positive male role models and their impact, but what it seems like many boys are missing these days is motivation and drive, and that can come from anywhere. I don't know what it is but it just seems like girls are much better at thinking about the future and putting in the work to get where they want to be, boys often need the guidance of an adult to steer them that way, and fewer of them are getting it now.
I was an engineering hiring manager for several small startups. I never asked for coding on a whiteboard. I asked some work style questions and then concentrated on a collaborative exercise where I laid out a problem and important applicable technology. Then I'd answer any Google-ish questions in realtime. This technique found good collaborators and also which people were good problem solvers. Never made a bad hire from this method. I only wish I had discouraged others from "code on the whiteboard" type bs.

Great article.
While I personally wouldn’t do it, I could see the argument that tying up resources of a morally repugnant company is a worthwhile act because it prevents them being as terrible for a day?
The comment you replied to was talking both about the negatives of hidden allocations and about purity, so I thought you were addressing both.

If you are only talking about purity then okay I have no comment.
No, fusion power plants will likely need helium to run: it's necessary to cool the magnetic coils. Unless there will be a breakthrough in room-temperature superconductivity, helium will still be needed and consumed (through leakages) at a faster rate than the fusion reactions can provide.

source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2013.01.059
For Node folks interested in a postgres-based task queue, I find graphile-worker[1] to be pretty terrific. Docs make it sounds like it's only for postgraphile/postgrest but it's great with any Node app IMO.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/graphile-worker
> Do you enjoy continually learning new things and getting satisfaction from exploring new ideas? Do you enjoy the act of building something new from scratch?

These are something I do just for fun. But I never go deep enough to be good at it. That habit has cost a quite of opportunities!
This isn't necessarily true. I know a wide range of folks that work in union trade positions, and they make very good money. Now, sometimes, those jobs can be unpleasant for awhile (building is behind schedule, etc, etc), but they also last a finite amount of time.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that the trades are a gravy train for everyone, but the idea that you will barely make ends meet is also not the case.
This guy clearly does nuclear fusion.
I knew Jacquard because of Google's textiles/tech project https://atap.google.com/jacquard/
No one is "boring" with diversified interests. It's how to listen to others first, find common ground (human condition is easiest), and emphasize the highlights of one's own interests now and then.

If nothing done actively in work, consequences include:

Lower salary.

Fewer oppy's like management track.
One thing I would do if I were you is to find places of work that are pro-active about career development. Places like this typically reward managers for their underlings' success and career progression.

In those type of companies you don't, necessarily, have to be competitive/ambitious to move ahead, because the incentive programs would make it so that your managers would push you forward. You'd still need to be able to express how you'd like to progress and to then take steps to make sure you could achieve it (learn new skills, work on your weaknesses, etc.), but you wouldn't need to drive it forward entirely on your own.

In my personal experience managers who do this well are extremely rare, however.
It's obviously real because you decided to make this thread and be the way that you are being in a way to get stimulation from all of the users on Hacker News as a way to help you cope with your recent diagnosis that you may be struggling with the validity of and the cause of.
The economics don’t make sense. Everyone has access to the sun. Even in poor countries.
Not everyone has the luxury of having such an abundance of tech interviews that they can simply use some of them as practice for the "real" interviews
Tweetdeck's filters have given me manageable Twitter feeds (I have multiple accounts for different purposes), but I see "The New Tweetdeck" removes these. When that's out of beta I guess I'll need to find a third party app. When I have to log into Twitter itself I'm appalled; I couldn't contemplate using it.
That's because Jan 6 turned into a failed, and very incompetently executed attempt at a coup.

9/11 may have been devastating in many ways, but Jan 6 was an attack at the very structure of the American democracy. They tried to install a leader of the country who wasn't actually the one elected by the majority. If they succeeded, it would be a major blow to American credibility and founding story of a "democratic nation by the people, for the people".
I know you have to use available metrics, but I find it hard to consider number of patents a metric that describes the number of patents.

In some countries, like the US, it is typical for a patent to have many claims; in others, such as Japan, it's common to have one or a small number of claims, and to file several patents where in the US there would be a consolidated one.

Additionally, patents are really only useful in a few fields (notably pharmaceuticals) where in others (e.g. computing) they are mostly a waste of time.
> Ease in befriending and reaching real camaraderie with women does not depend on masculinity at all. It depends on seeing others as equals.

¿Por qué no los dos? A positive worldview and mindset makes it even easier to see others as equal. The negative 'woke' mindset is hardly conducive to true equality.

> ... Jordan Peterson ...

Jordan Peterson has never thought very well of seeking "comfort and justification". He's the "clean your room and get your ducks lined up instead of blaming the world for your failure" guy. I'm not sure you're familiar with his thought.
I did. It was great.

Until my children grew up and I rejoined the workforce. That has been a struggle.
"Simplified UI"? I think you mean the confusing UI that isn't the one I learned before I was trying to switch lanes on the freeway.

Some day, I hope a lawyer will team up with a UI researcher, and then sue car manufactures for "safety theater" features like this that endanger people.

One of my favorites? The click through legal disclaimer that blocks my view of the backup camera screen every single time I pull out of a spot in a parking lot.

A runner up is "we can't let the passenger type a destination into the navigation system because the vehicle is moving"
Exactly this! I believe global warming can become an inconvenience but nothing totally off the scale compared to the problems we face today (and especially have faced in the past). If there is even a 1% chance of a nuclear war that would be much more devastating (even in expected value) than climate change. I actually have grown to fear the opposite: We come up with an efficient cycle to capture carbon (like the one to create starch that was all over the news some time ago) and suddenly it becomes a race to the bottom where we need international treaties so people are not sucking all the carbon from the atmosphere. I have no clue about chemistry whatsoever so I can hardly tell if this is plausible but if it is, it appears far more dangerous to me than a couple degrees in global warming.
Thermodynamics is very good at sniping nerds. The first law is basically a universe builder. The second law is maybe a universe destroyer? :)
can you share the contents of your cols script/function/alias?
Mind... blown!
I agree with you but Google has helped me recover my personal gmail account multiple times. The form sends a request which can take them a few days to respond.
The only value I got from them, was knowing what the bar was at the highest level, and how much I need to prepare.

So in essence, the only value in failing at such an interview is knowing what to prepare to clear it later.
Doing that sounds “invisible error” prone. People may assume that master gets updates. I’d rather have an error be thrown, personally.
Universal healthcare, unemployment benefits, workers' rights, LGBTQ rights, prison policy, police behavior and control, social safety net, lack of religion in politics, free or extremely cheap education including higher education, and that's just off the top if my mind?

> ask any non-European person who has lived on both continents where he feels more welcome.

I gladly concede this, but this is just one element of social issues.
This is a very interesting take on activism.
Feedback, focus, efficiency.

I did about session a day for maybe two or three weeks. I'll compare it to trying to practice by doing real interviews. I got much more detailed and honest feedback from my practice interviews than any real one I've had. I got to practice just the interview type I wanted, algorithms, without doing other things that would come up in a series of interviews (culture, system design, etc). I also didn't have to contact and coordinate with >= 10 companies to get 10 sessions. I just booked 10 sessions.
Can you recommend a good set of docs and tutorials to set up mu4e?

I still use emacs and a separate (mutt) MUA and copy and paste
things between, I know it sounds awful... but hard to escape
entrenched habits.

What would you suggest as the best steps for a good setup?
Does everything go in the .emacs config? Do you need to write
much e-lisp or it it a tickbox type config?

Thanks for any pointers!
What are a terrible thing to say. I am deeply saddened by your experience and I hope you will find fulfillment somewhere else.

All the best.
For the less masculine (or clued-in) members of the audience, what was the code word? Something to do with shooting games?
winsoc.

Winsoc Is Not Settlers of Catan.

That way you throwback both to the old name of the game AND the old internet thing, but spelled different.

Eh, maybe I'm salty because I use the everliving heck out of Tinc-the-vpn-thing. :)
> Another thing is that it's awkard for breast-feeding women to be away from their babies for long times, and formula comes with its own set of problems.

True. But it is a short period.
What other examples are there of "single dependency stacks"?

This article is really about the versatility and reliability of postgres.

And I'm all in agreement.

Reminiscent of:

https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2017/04/30/why-postgres-five-...

https://webapp.io/blog/postgres-is-the-answer/

http://rachbelaid.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enou...

http://boringtechnology.club/

As much as HN could lead you astray with the hype of this and that tech, articles like the above are some of the most consistently upvoted on this website.
Kinda of reminds me of this fun video about a net zero desert house(/commune?).

They proposed/demostrated a cycle that is basically

Shower -> indoor plants -> toilet -> outdoor plants

New Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVp5koAOu9M&t=1m45s
The real question would be, what's the fuel consumption for a given, sustained, bhp, for both? The mpg numbers are often pretty unrealistic. [-1]

[-1] https://www.edmunds.com/fuel-economy/heres-why-real-world-mp...
>I can't meaningfully distinguish this from "Trying a free sample at Costco with no intent to buy the product."

Are you serious?

>Aka, who cares?

Surely the company would rather not waste the money.
This advice is specifically for the non-competitive types:

If you find yourself in a situation where your boss wants you to compete with your teammates and the outcome for the loser is getting fired or making a lot less money, then find another job ASAP!

Find places that reward teamwork.
The pricing feels really steep. For a consumer app where the API is called twice a day, it is almost 7 dollars per month alone. This is just for one user. At this price point it means this is inaccessible for anything other than enterprise apps.
I used to do interviews for interviewing.io, and it's a bit different. For my work, I'm not going to give any feedback, and will try leave early if it's not going well. When I was being paid for it via interviewing.io, I would give people fairly detailed feedback on what went well and what went wrong, and also answer any questions the mock candidate had.
Why do I care about their funding besides the point of whether they can pay me?

Recruiters do this all the time -

"Hey, here's a great position with a unicorn that just solidified another 100m in funding. But here's your below market offer. "
RFC: Add an LLVM CAS library and experiment with fine-grained caching for builds
There have been more women than men in college in the US since the 80s. It varies from college to college and from subject to subject (e.g. STEM is much more male, MIT more male, humanities-focused colleges more female).

A graph from a random internet search result: https://educationalpolicy.org/hello-world/
Regardless of gender, it seems rare that only one partner would be making more than enough to support the family. It's very difficult to make ends meet with a family on a single salary these days (without assistance; and what about saving for retirement? ).
And for Android, you have it on FDroid.