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I believe the argument is that it may be the lesser of many evils, not that it's harmless. I think it's a matter of evaluating our remaining realistic alternatives. Like:

1) Re-embrace nuclear power, do our best to safeguard the waste, knowing that someday (50? 100? 10,000 years?) from now, it will be an issue we'd have to deal with. It may be at a local, national, or global scale... hard to say. Could leak naturally, from unexpected disasters, terrorism, warfare, whatever. But it buys us some time, and can help slow down climatic impacts so the world has a few more years to adapt. It still won't be pretty.

2) Pretend like the world is suddenly going to get behind renewables and clean energy and drastically cut emissions AND recapture much of the carbon we emitted already. One, this isn't going to happen, and two, it's already too late. Best case, this makes the future decades a bit better for first world countries, but it's already too late for most of the rest of the world.

3) Do nothing: The mostly likely outcome, with or without more nuclear power. Life carries on, many humans will perish from climate change domino effects (draught, floods, desertification, habitat loss, whatever) and the resulting international instability. Many more other species will perish. The remaining life will adapt and carry on, and the world keeps going, but it's gonna be a painful few decades/centuries and our kids will hate us, but on the plus side, we've been saying that for decades now so it's already an intergenerational norm. Each generation leaves the world a little worse for the next, until enough humans die off, the planet recovers a little, and we do it all over again.

Arguably embracing nuclear power is the least evil of these realistic remaining options, though it's highly unlikely enough people and nations could be convinced. People in the aggregate are phenomenally bad at evaluating risk, especially long-term, whether it's nuclear or climate impacts, so absolutely nothing will get done.

But the advocacy isn't wrong in and of itself... nuclear is a measure of last resort, especially now that the IPCC has proven completely ineffective at persuading countries to take other meaningful measures. Nuclear can't save us, but it can lessen the pain to come a little bit, kinda like hospice for the planet.
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I am from autocratic country Belarus, and over years I actually came up with, maybe unpopular, opinion that it is good to forcefully impose democracy on other countries. Please do it on my native country.

Because after some point, autocratic government goes against people's will, and can even resemble occupation of its own nation. Like literally 3% of the population repress the other 97%. All means of overturning the government and are violently suppressed at their roots.
More likely it is just that they have a bad manager not willing to go through the process of firing them. I know as a manager firing people sucks but you sometimes need to do it to keep the rest working the best together. Companies do make it really hard sometimes.
Considering that Europe/Japan haven't completely collapsed it is a solvable problem. Increasing automation, moving people away from agriculture an d moving low value labour intensive work to South East Asia and Africa are obvious steps.
What if Commodore hadn't gone bankrupt in 1994?
Theory-curious but mostly workaday programmer here. Does this have any application to detecting spaghetti code in conventional codebases, or is it specific to the Busy Beaver problem?

“Cyclomatic complexity” is as old as the hills, but attempts to count the paths through the code from a begin state to and end state. According to Wikipedia it’s similar to “circuit rank” which is the minimum number of edges to remove in order to break cycles. That smells like it’s related to this graph reduction thing but I lack intuition into this problem.
I can't agree enough about invasions being bad. You acknowledge the issue with the US so I'll abstain from Pot-Kettle analogies. Although, I would ask that your awareness of current conflicts the US is engaged in actually become part of your radar. If what you claim you want to happen you truly want to happen, you would acknowledge that those negative repercussions should be happening right now because we have never stopped violently interfering in other countries and their affairs. We're literally dropping bombs as I type this. So check your false pearl-clutching and feigned concessions.

I'm not 'pretending' to be concerned about the telescope. I am absolutely concerned about the progress of things that work to unite us instead of dividing us. Based on your previous comment you should be as well.

Thanks for just avoiding the issue I raised and attacking me though. Functional discourse at it finest here on HackerNews.
You're welcomed to do so- see my signature for email address.
@throwaquestion5, thank you!
"surrendering" is really not aanywhere in the spectrum in USA, historically.

And, even though the "splitting and surviving" compromise seems almost inevitable to me, I have no idea how long it will take.

And I can't blame all parties (Russia / Ukraine / EU / NATO) for trying to "buy time" and reach the négociation table in the best possible situation.

I can imagine Putin would have preferred rolling over Kyiv, then negociate. But now all he has to do is bomb, turn kyev into "Alep on Dniepr", and wait it out.

Europe has six months of warmer weather to wait it out, before gas reserves become a problem again.

I don't if Biden will prefer entering midterms with or without a war abroad ? Can't say it will really bother him more than whatever domestic "October suprise" comes up.

Again, i don't know. But I would not book an Airbnb for a barbecue in eastern Europe this summer, If I were you.

(On the other hand, if you're into Nordics or Baltics, visit finland and Estonia NOW, they're next in line.)
Yeah, this is why I don't miss living in the US, like, at all. Sure, you can make mad cash and all, but the overall infrastructure is just way-below-third-world.

My particular moment of truth was when I noticed that my Pacific Bell cell phone bills stopped arriving. The first month, the USPS could possibly be to blame, but the second month, I called Customer Service to figure out what was going on.

So, first question, last 4 digits of your SSN. Answer, as ever: 1234. Eh, no, WRONG, try again!? Eh, yes, my SSN ends in 1234?! No, sorry, it does not, I cannot talk to you, bye!

Eh, yes, okay... So, try again the next day, hopefully that agent will be more clued in? Nope, no way, disconnected again.

So, visited the PacBell store near my office. Same thing, the person in the store is, like, visibly shaken after checking my account. can't do anything to help me, can't tell me what is wrong.

TL;DR: my cell phone got disconnected (most likely for nonpayment) after another month or so. Tried to sign up with AT&T, but got denied, because my 'nonpayment' was already recorded on my credit file, so, yeah.

Ended up calling every number in the PacBell SoCal range, and finally got through to someone who took pity on me and was willing to listen to me, and got my account and credit restored.

A few months later, PacBell drained my account by issuing hundreds of direct debit orders for my monthly cellphone bill. They eventually stopped doing that, but never reimbursed me for any overdraft fees. I was almost evicted due to bounced checks because of this, but nobody cared.

I've lived most of my life therefore and after in the EU, and while life here definitely is not perfect, I've NEVER had trivial issues like the above almost cause me to be homeless. So, I guess there's a startup idea in there somewhere? /s
Anyone have a favorite guide/blog post/whatever for getting started with UEFI applications?
The bittersweet aspect of this scenario in my experience, is that time heals some wounds only. With time, the friendship may survive. But it’ll never be the same of course. Neither party will want to revisit the topic of the exit from the organization, because it makes them both uncomfortable. On the sad side, there’s no chance of closure. But on the bright side, your friendship overcame some serious challenges, which speaks to your character and helps restore confidence. (I’m not assuming your friendships will survive in some form in your case, but am hopeful for you)
>Not to put too fine a point on it: he was a metaphysical dullard!

or just hedging his bets.
>It isn't a question of political nuance,

Here is what the crew of the international space station was doing one day after US ground forces entered Iraq:

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/station/2003/iss03...
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A short bookmarklet that adds a timer and JavaScript console, especially for mobile browsers.

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Future enhancements might include using the game's localStorage to figure out the regular expressions.
When you chunk it you have problems about what happens if that process is interrupted. So it's not trivial (though solvable) but it's the kind of atomics you want the new engine to do.
Cool tool, didn’t know it existed but there are so many variations on UEFI bios’s that I can’t help but feel it will not universally work, and it depends a lot on things being compartmentalised.

I also draw your attention to:

> UEFITool is only meant for the advanced users who have all the knowledge needed to modify the UEFI BIOS files. Because of you make any mistake and flash the faulty file to your motherboard, it can turn the motherboard into a dead brick.

Which is more worrying when you look at what is presented (just a bunch of UUIDs). Not exactly usable for average person who wants to minimise the attack surface of their machine.

Given that average people aren’t networking booting, wouldn’t it be wiser to have it enableable? Instead of on by default.
Something tells me in the anecdata above, the unfirable characters involved picked 1 _at most_:

The teflon engineers don't seem smart and probably can't get things done on time if at all.

While the sensitive engineer seems unpleasant to work with, while not contributing at all.

Neil Gaiman has a knack of saying immensely compelling stuff, that's all there is.
Forcing the Russians to use their veto power at the UNSC is not "useless" at all. It's a meaningful signal, and very much worth doing.
Hilarious how they go to the trouble of obfuscating email addresses, but phone numbers and postal addresses are right there.
No, you asked why Phiser did things. I explained why. I haven't expressed any of my own opinions here other than the fact I think this document doesn't provide evidence of your claims/concerns. You might be right, but this document isn't what you want it to be.
Because the russian media mafia (tacc, rt, sputnik and the like, which are all either directly state-owned or via the state-owned tv novosti) are about to be banned in all EU countries where they are still available, and the ISPs might have banned them pro-actively.
If you just look at excess deaths, thousands still seems correct. The Economist doesn't have recent numbers (I'm sure they are lower), but their last numbers showed ~16k excess deaths in a week.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...
Asianometry is quickly becoming one of my favorite tech information sources. Rapid, in-depth information that's very clearly explained. Always happy to see it showing up here.
I hope that's sarcasm. Enjoying that sort of thing is not healthy. Unless the person being fired is a literal enemy of yours
Adults don't look at it and call it BS immediately, either. If anything kids are better at it. e.g. we all knew that the moral panic over violent video games was a bunch of BS.
Code quality can be a religious issue for some people, and some teams have somewhat strange ideas on the subject that they've agreed to agree about despite the ideas not being reasonable or valid.

Perhaps Bob was an engineer with a long record of success in other teams, who was surprised and justifiably defensive when his colleagues weren't happy with his work and demanded he do things differently for vague reasons that didn't make sense.

He's probably much happier now that he's in a more compatible team. Perhaps he's the guy in the photo.
IANAL but here are California's rules for example.

https://moskowitzllp.com/what-is-california-source-income

Wages and salaries. Wages and salaries for services performed in California, regardless of the location of the employer or the employee (or where the payment was issued), are taxable to nonresidents.

Of course, people widely don't follow these rules and many states have minimum cut-offs of various sorts but a lot of states are starting to crack down.
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It's easier to store a highly dangerous thing for a decade than a slightly dangerous thing for millennia, though.

Chernobyl and Fukushima have been interesting studies in what low-dose long-term radiation can do to ecosystems (not much? things seem to adapt ok), but we should still take what precautions we can and not just irradiate things willy-nilly...
Oh, yes! I should have added that to my links. Thanks!
Russians can’t fight against proper army; they hadn’t tried since 1945. Their only skill is terrorizing civilians. That’s why we are seeing such a pathetic failure in Ukraine.

See also this thread: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1502673952572854278?s...
I can't imagine that Russia has planned to take over such a large country.

It only makes sense if they only planned to bomb Ukraine into handing over Donetsk, Lukhansk, recognising the loss of Crimea, and agreeing not to join NATO.

From this perspective, it's hard for Russia to loose. A destroyed Ukraine won't fight for their lost territories and won't be accepted into the EU or NATO.
Oh, but it does mitigate - just turns out it don't mitigate enough.
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Russia's primary problem is going to be the instability that comes out of the reveal that Putin is a typical incompetent authoritarian and Russia's military is weak (and there's nothing they can do about it, clearly, or the past decade of 'modernization' and spending would have). To the extent Russia has had some limited stability under Putin, it has been built on the image of Putin's competency as a command & control operator of the Russian state and Russia's supposed potent military strength in particular - the projection of strength generally, all the fake imagery the propaganda machine has dished out regarding Putin over two decades. Naturally, as it turns out, the truth is closer to the opposite. It always seemed a distinct aberration that Russia would manage to somehow maintain a competent, potent, relatively well-organized military while everything else was so subpar and rotting. Everything makes sense again, their military looks like the rest of the nation.

The knives will come out for Putin now that everybody knows he's weak and fragile. His recent moves to punish powerful internal figures will force him to go even further. Being likely paranoid as dictators commonly are, Putin will likely do as much damage to Russia's internal functioning as sanctions do from the outside to its economy. Putin is likely to elevate the fascism to the point where their system stops functioning much at all, including their domestic economy. Purges, gulags, genocide, things typical of later stage statist regimes, it's all on the table if Putin's intention is to retain his present power. Putin only has two choices: give it up, or kill lots of people to try to fend off the sharks that will inevitably come for him and challenge his position. The considerable, fake image of strength was previously making it largely unnecessary to go as far as most dictators do to retain control, that luxury will now vanish and it'll dramatically damage Russia. People fleeing Russia are making the right choice, get out while you can.
Thanks for this perspective, I agree that financial literacy is far bigger topic than what we cover in Stock Unlock. Further, we definitely don't cater to every person today, we have a lot of users who love us but I know that there's also people that we don't appeal to right now (and that's okay). Daniel Pronk's Youtube I believe is a good way to understand what crowd we are catering to today.

In my personal experience there is a need for a better way to learn to get into long term investing, my hope is that we will continue to expand into other areas of financial literacy as well, but right now we are focusing on getting one thing right.
> Students compare grades and talk to each other.

That works for multiple choice. Given the ".5" I'm assuming partial credit is discretionary. So you can just discretionarily choose to give +.5.

> For example, suppose that the class you took was graded on a curve.

It wasn't. Also I'm pretty sure I still failed the test because cheating is hard, I couldn't really read much of what the person in front of me wrote.

> You'd be surprised.

I would be, yeah. My school took that very seriously.

> t's sadly rather easy to get away with cheating at university, even if you do get caught.

Yeah, my CS degree had a hilarious amount of cheating going on.

My point isn't "cheating good".
Why would China ever do that when they can have Russia as a client state at zero military cost? China can merely incorporate a weakened Russia into its belt-and-road neo-colonial strategy.
Btw, most waste is from #2 and not #2. #2 is where the dangerous waste is from but that's also only ~3% of the total waste. One of the issues is people report the total waste and treat it as if it's all the same.
The article fails to address when the firing is actually wrong and incorrect.

I work at anduril and I know of a new manager who 6 months into the job fired 2 people and had one person quit because he couldn't handle dealing with him.

The manager obviously is blind to see the statistical significance of that many people gone in 6 months. He likely views it as a performance problem of 3 people rather then the more likely 'him' problem.

Keep in mind if you're fired it has hugely to do with the perspective and the personality of the people judging your work. Sometimes that judgement is valid, but just as often it is not valid at all. Additionally keep in mind the political motivations and machinations going on in the background. Along with firing people for political reasons... Many people not suited to be managers.

If you find yourself in that situation where you are fired do not ignore the reasoning behind why your manager fired you but also be sure to weigh it against many other opinions because often your manager is making an unjustified decision.

A lot of the stories in this article are justified though. One person was judged and placed under several people so they could all make an accurate assessment before piling the plug.
my chef friend told me Italian grandma way is to stir and feel & hear the sound, fwiw.
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scrub is exactly the "zfs fsck" that people claim they pine for. It is part of the file system's design philosophy that every administrative action happens on online pools, which even includes correcting errors in the file system. Making it so you don't have to take your system offline is a feature, not a bug.
Any visionary attempting to restructure traditional learning should read this, and I say that with no ounce of malice or sarcasm - its a nice hazard map, and it at least one constructive change that should be enacted:

1. Grades should be a continuum (percentage), not bins (A, B, C,..). "When you are forced to discretize into a small number of bins, injustice is inevitable." Report cards have no rational reason for not being an aggregate of numbers rather than low resolution numbers (letters).

The crux of the justification given for enacting these policies students hate is that students need motivation; their human nature, even given a clear end goal, is not enough for most of them to learn at the required pace without intermediate and forced goals. Of course this leads into the problem of carefully interpreting assignments to do as little work as possible, and lowering the quality of all student's experience to make assignments painfully clear.

All this leads so naturally back into the temptation to loosen standards of the class. If students are going to lazily and disingenuously complete assignments, they will not learn, and it should reflect on their exam grades - but making every student perform the same problems every time will waste half the students time if your assignments are catered to the slowest learners - the fastest learners will feel completely patronized and waste the most time. Don't punish your best students.

The real solution is breaking up classes. One class as a monolithic, multi-month, atomic unit causes problems. Each intermediate exam should serve to split the class into many smaller classes, which can be failed and retaken modularily. In fact, students should decide when they want to take that modular class's exam, and can stay in or attempt to test out at their discretion. Now all of the sudden the relationship between doing assignments and performing on these intermediary tests is tangible, and need not be forced through forced assignments and over-specified instructions. Students can still be required complete a final exam encapsulating all material from each modular class (longer re-test periods could be applied if need be), and if they performed poorly students would have the option to retake those modular sections to build up a more robust understanding.

This has other benefits as well: pre-requisites can be much smaller, and more specific pursuits of knowledge can have constructed an express course of just the strictly necessary modular courses from each full course. Students wanting complete understandings can always go back and pick up where they left off.
I think so too, but it's much more gradual, and therefore, not uncommon that the age vs age maturity level heuristic fails for a given pair of people.
Yeah, stuff like that happens all the time. Warehouse parties, desert parties, forest parties, that scene is alive and well. Hell even the kandy-kid Happy Hardcore 90s raver culture is still going
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oh, that's interesting. I read the book. although I was young and I did not finish it because it was dreadfully propagandist. i remember I got the feeling the book was written by a committee under the pseudonymous fukuyama. so maybe the conclusion of the book is reasonable and that's what you are referring to. i'm going to reread it. thank you
A complementary proposition would be Teaching is a slow process of becoming something you love.
maybe elitist but I think popular search engines should not be neutral for most people who are not me or your typical HN user. I personally want warts and all results. ie a search engine to treat me like an adult
Yes, Pynq Z2 should work just as well (it's the exact same FPGA, just a slightly different board). We've been testing with Z1 which is why I recommended it in the tutorial.

For commercialization, the core technology will always be free and open source, but we plan to offer a “pro” version with extra enterprise features under a dual license arrangement, similar to Gitlab. We are also working on a cloud service for running our tools in a hosted setup, in which you’ll be able to run a search across all possible Tensil architectures to automatically find the best FPGA for your model. I'd love to hear your feedback on these plans!