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> need hundreds of nuclear power plants built in the next 25 to 50 years

2040s will be a turning point.

Americans born before 1970 are the problem with nuclear [1]. They should be clearing by the late 2040s [2], which suggests political decoupling starting in the late 2030s.

Unfortunately, that makes nuclear a poor contender for 2050 goals. Moods changing around 2040 means plans by 2050 and effects beginning in the 2060s. Unless the younger generations’ support massively increases, or the older generations begin disengaging quicker, nuclear is probably not a viable solution.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1011716/climate-policy-i...

[2] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
If thieves are offended at having their behavior identified as stealing, they could stop stealing.

The problem, as I see it, is entertainment is being seen as a "good" and not a "service." Physical dvds and vhs has conditioned us to think that it's a physical good, so there is no harm in replicating the digital product. In fact that emotional state derived from viewing the entertainment is the service that is being paid for.

Taking the value of receiving that entertainment without providing the cash value of that service is stealing.
> First-class functions, lambdas, and closures are mostly unheard of in the top 20 programming languages. Aside from JS, you're pretty much out of luck.

uh, what? plenty of popular languages have all of those things.
Fair enough. So judging by resistance alone may not be enough….

Needs additional forward facing sensors then? (For both long and short distance object detection?)

Earlier on in Autopilot/FSD beta testing it was easier to overlook edge cases like this but I think we’re several years into this now and I’m starting to feel that at this stage it should be almost impossible for these cars to be driving into stationary objects.

I’m a proponent of what Tesla are doing but they need to solve this ASAP now, whether by hardware or software, before it erodes too much more confidence (especially as it’s all too easy for people to extrapolate from these documented edge cases and believe these vehicles to be less safe than they actually are).
Sorry but did you just say one of the reasons you left google was the memegen moderation team? I can't imagine that being a legitimate worry that would impact my employment decisions.

It seems there's a group of people who are too far in the other direction too. When I heard that it's preferred to say "allowlist" instead of "whitelist", do you know what my reaction was?

"Sure, whatever."

And I moved on with my life. It has zero impact on my day to day. The pushback reminds me of people who deadname others on purpose. Like, who cares? Bob wants to be called Sally now? Sure, whatever.
> I've tried browsing for others but hate browsing on Netflix.

Is this Netflix or do you hate browsing on other streaming services as well?

Regarding UI IMO Netflix is still top. Disney+ is somewhat close in handling but noticeably slower and you notice its focus on movies. Series are not as easily navigatable as on Netflix.

Amazon Prime is abysmal. They don't even group different seasons of a series together. Here in Switzerland, it's even worse, I get a mix of French and German stuff recommended.
There has been a number of cases with people using a francophone name vs. An anglophone or allophone name in Quebec yielding different success in initial hiring stages. People are tribal.
I think most of the gaps in our understanding of biology stem from the scale at which we exist. Most biology takes place at the cellular or even the molecular level, we only see the very far removed macro-scale effects of a myriad of intertwined processes.
In the context of IP filtering, I would assume those lists would differentiate one-way traffic instead of the regular all or nothing.
Treasure trove laws, as applicable in the UK and US (and previously in Roman law), are laid out here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_trove
Exactly – if anything, research suggests that there might be some underlying mechanism affecting both ends of the political spectrum. I found this to be a very interesting read on the subject:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-...
I think for a lot of people there's a pretty big difference between these two business models:

- We use cash to buy circuit boards, screens, enclosures, etc, write software, and sell mobile phones.

- We use cash to rent a building, order pallets of inventory, and sell that inventory locally to walk-in customers.

- We use cash to buy shares, hold onto them for a bit, and sell those same shares and make money off the spread.

I'm not making any kind of comment at all about the value of market makers, just... those three businesses feel like they're different models.
>And once the personal computer became widespread with computer game culture arising and a culture of harassing women until they leave became common enough to be an issue, why wouldn’t one expect that those who developed an interest in computer programming (ie from contact with computer games, etc) to be predominantly men? (And I love computer games, but there is an insane amount of harassment. Everyone who plays knows this.)

I'm sure this is a part of it, but I think you're overselling how impactful the harassment part is. The skewed ratio in CS has been something going on for decades. Online gaming, especially with voice, is the primary offender of online sexism in games. These types of games weren't that popular until early/mid 2010s. If you were interested in other types of games and largely avoided online games, sexism wasn't nearly as bad. That's not to mention a sizeable portion of CS graduates have no interest in games, let alone online games, as a whole.

Meanwhile, this doesn't answer the gender-equality paradox. At the same time, these "less gender-equal" countries definitely don't have a shortage of misogynist messages on their online boards, gaming communities, forums, etc. Still as misogynist, but more women entering CS: what gives?
Your points are true, but you're responding to a response to a comment condemning superhero comics as infantile, rather than a response to the OP, which condemns modern superhero comics as not childish enough.

And I think the latter point is fair but it's just the cyclical nature of the medium. In the late '80s comic books grew up and got all serious with Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, and other works that deconstructed the genre. And the early '90s had an unrelated trend where heroes had to be all gritty and edgy, overly-muscular and toting tons of ammunition pouches and automatic weapons. But the genre swung back from the excesses to more optimistic and child-friendly versions.

So maybe we're at a moment in history where superhero comics are a certain way. But it's just a trend that will change.
Is there any evidence of this, at all?
Interesting. A teacher I had a lot of respect for in high school was a male teacher (black as well if that matters). He was BY FAR the most strict of any teachers in the school. He stood at his door and locked it when the bell rang, you had to sit in the hall if you were late for his entire period. His standards were super high.

Interestingly, he ALSO organized large group events (including community / school events). I always thought he was strict because when you deal with huge groups of kids - you kind of need to be to keep things going in a good direction. He was loved.

He did get run out of the school though because he was supposedly "racist". Not worth getting into, but I had to laugh out loud as an alumni. He put on cultural events in the school cafeteria during lunch. I'm sure the twitter army that came for him had no clue about his actual background or teaching. He landed on his feet (thankfully)!
DNA study of human cancers offers new clues about their causes
Workplace culture is a weird thing.

Sometimes a group's workplace culture is ... not a lot of culture. Depending on how things are going, that might not be bad.
Brings up an interesting question. Say you couldn't donate due to tattoos, needle use from steroids or IV drugs ("have you ever injected anything not prescribed by a doctor"), gay or paid sex, etc

Are there services for bloodletting?
You bring up the really good point that this type of dry conversation to obtain answers only is a terrible environment for curiosity and learning. Relating interest, abstract Concepts and gasp opinions not necessarily specific to the problem at hand is an important Avenue towards growth.

You thought the Europeans were the dry ones?
You misread what they're talking about.

They're saying that nominally, what diversity efforts care about are people being underrepresented relative to the general population. That's the bar they're using, yes, but they didn't choose it.
> In some quarters, folks consider the mere idea to be communism.

And in other quarters, they believe we have permanent, irreconcilable differences based on race, sex, and sexuality making the whole idea of "out of many, one" unthinkable.
You're imagining wealthy enough not to need to work. There is also homeless.
I would like to push back against this, because They/Them also has plenty of risks that are usually never thought of by people who don’t use they/them or other nonstandard profiles. Many companies, especially startups, don’t have HR departments to begin with. Of those with large HR departments, many don’t have a reputation of not protecting abusers (see: Uber, Google). Most HR software, payrolls, health data, etc also assume M/F sex === he/she pronouns (this problem also happens to people with nonstandard names to some extent). Additionally, there’s no guarantee your co workers will actually use they/them around with you or somehow believe you’re less technical or less skilled purely because of your choice in pronouns.

Overall they/them isn’t really worth progressive points unless you actually are non-binary. But that comes with a lot of bullshit, see above ignorance.
It seems like a lot of employees left the company because of this.
Same problem with nearly every bridge in the US: It's really old and past its design life and should have been replaced ten years ago.
For one, most people don't equate indentured servitude with slavery. We generally think of lifelong service when we say slavery, which isn't part of the penal system. The penal system also isn't generational and people aren't born into slavery. There's grounds to call it slavery, yes, but the context you're bringing it up in is in comparison to the African slave trade and you're diminishing the suffering those people went through by saying that what happened to them was just like what we do to prisoners today. What happened to them was much worse.
I think all companies realize they have a large amount of "sway" in the actual work that gets done, and things like TPS reports and content moderation get in even if they're a net productivity loss.

Once you stop thinking of companies as single entities and instead as large kingdoms containing many fiefdoms it starts making more sense.

You can see it even in this thread, there exist Lists and tools that can be used as weapons against other groups, even if sometimes they're not currently being used because they're not currently at war.
Google served ads on websites contained in the US Treasury’s sanctions list
I'm super sympathetic that someone is not paying for you for the time you spent making the content (me, also a content creator) But, just a suggestion, you need to find a better way to put your message. As long as you call it theft / stealing you're going to get lots of push back because copying a movie is not the same as stealing/theft so instead of making your point you'll mostly get arguments about definitions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
This isn't an exact answer to your question, but I have to say macros.

Going from CL (and scheme probably too) to macros in any other language is like going from a lambo to a tricycle. It's one of the things I miss most about CL.

I also love the live-editing aspect of CL. When I was doing game programming with it, being able to replace functions while running was incredibly useful. You don't have to re-create all your state, you can jsut live-edit a function and boom fix a bug or add a new feature right there. Very good for exploratory programming with lots of otherwise-hard-to-replicate state.
If your job is to come up with banned words and they've stopped using the banned words, you've got to keep looking for more if you want to keep your job. I don't think anyone's real job at Google is to come up with the banned words, but some people see it as their big impact and have been commended for it in the past (by leaders looking to bolster their DEI cred in the fakest, easiest ways) so they keep going even when the words seem less and less ban-worthy.
> I would never ever describe anyone else's work as such.

But someone reading your commit message doesn't know that. Someone new to the company might see your change and think "That looks reasonable to me", but see that you called it "stupid", and start to doubt themselves.

Although it makes technology more boring, I think there is some value in using precise words over emotive words. Perhaps using the word "pedantic" instead, or "no-op", would have conveyed more information, without disparaging the amount of intelligence that went into making it (or into the design/configuration of the linter).
Not that one should need to qualify statements on here, but I happen to also not be a Trump fan.

To say that there is no "Let's Go Brandon" equivalent on the left, though, is just false: there are plenty of similar phrases on the left as well. Let me offer a few that pop up where I live:

* ACAB

* Defund/Abolish X

* Black Lives Matter (as a political statement, that is; if anyone disagrees with this at a values level, then that's something different)

* Drumpf / Cheeto / "Orange Man"

These are also buzzwords which are used to quickly communicate group membership. Another method is to dehumanize the opposition, e.g. calling President Biden "sleepy Joe" or "senile", or calling Trump a "mentally deficient fascist".

There's nothing wrong with not liking a political figure. There's nothing wrong with seeing tribal behavior and calling it out. If you can't even put yourself into your opponent's shoes long enough to see any such criticisms of your own tribe, though, you're willfully remaining ignorant of a whole world view.
It was meant as a goal to strive for, not an end already achieved.
> what's the best-paid department/position in a tech company?

In our company specifically: sales. And like every non-engineering department at the company: female dominated.

Also, just a few months ago there was a downsizing of the engineering department in order to stack our sales team. We've also lost 20% of the remaining engineering team since then from attrition/austerity.
It didn’t take long after Silicon Valley was no longer on the air for the entire industry to become more absurd than its parody.

I really don’t think any of this is sustainable either. Latinos in particular seem very opposed to this stuff & given that they are part of the fastest growing demographic in the country I don’t see how political support for policies like this can be maintained.
> "he is over qualified" etc. Most of the times, they were more than qualified.

What's the difference between "over qualified" and "more than qualified"? ;)
Would be interesting to compare this across areas. My impression is that eg Finance (another popular destination for mid-career switches) is far more open in that regard. Experience, even if it's in a different field (as long as it's a technical role or one that will give you a rich set of contacts) seems to generally confer seniority. Would be interesting if someone could weigh in.
Researchers: Black Hole Lifetime could be shorter than Hawking predicted
Which completely loses that for many people, their mother is NOT the woman who gave birth to them.
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> During my career, I've seen enough discrimination in the name of DEI as well.

At my work recently, we interviewed a white male and an asian female for the job. To my knowledge, this is the first female applicant we've gotten because they generally get snapped up by higher prestige/visibility roles. I've interviewed many people before, and the manager will request feedback about the applicants and use whichever had the highest score on a rubric. This time, the manager simply asked "please tell me if anyone has an objection to hiring [asian female]". I was shocked at my manager's language, as it implies the default action is to hire rather than to not hire (the latter being typical in companies). The white male was not discussed at all in my presence.

I'm strongly considering tipping off the white male applicant that he was discriminated against and that he may want to consider legal action. This is one of a number of what I consider discriminatory behaviors my employer (large company you've heard of) has displayed. Companies need to be fearful of engaging in all types of discrimination, not just ones that are culturally-sanctioned, and follow the law.
I didn't understand that at all. Speak plainly.
The same stuff that happens when you don't comply in other ways in prison?
Ask HN: What would happen if Russia decided to deploy tactical nukes in Ukraine?
What would occur from a geopolitical standpoint? Would the Western NATO alliance countries react, with nuclear weapons or with conventional weapons? If this happened, what would be the best way to neutralize further Russian action without escalating into a WW3 nuclear holocaust scenario?
Adding to your point, people have been arrested for similarly offensive tweets in the U.K. too. Yet I have not seen much concern for free speech rights in the Grauniad. Why is India being singled out here? It looks like old colonial attitudes resurfacing again, where exotic colonial dependents are always stereotyped as "backward".
To me, the framing of pro/anti technology does not seem useful.

The real distinction lies in the stance towards handling of resources, i.e. space, energy, water etc.

The historically strong conservationist line of thought argues that resources are limited and that their use needs to be curbed. That can happen with or without technology, but the core argument is that current levels of demand are unsustainable.

The alternative, perhaps default/mainstream narrative is that technology will allow for further increases in exploitation/extraction.

I would argue that neither of the opposing perspectives negates the role of technology in increasing efficiency. The question is whether that in itself is sufficient.

Interestingly enough, there has long been a trend that completely went against the conservationist perception (i.e. we now have an order of magnitude more people on the planet than was though possible), but there seem to be shifts towards signs that true limits are nearing - i.e. with depleted aquifers that permanently degrade land use (because previously porous rock formations collapse and prevent further flow of water).

Perhaps we'll see some new S-curve enabling technologies that change this - at least I hope so. But the times are definitely interesting again (not in a good sense).
> in the opinion of many adults.

How many?
If you are in a position that you need blood donation, getting PFAS in your blood is the least of your concerns
In many states,[...] which is strictly defined as specific lists of races

Can you provide a specific example of a state where a protected class is limited to a specific "race" (as opposed to "race" in general)? There are states where minorities have a presumption of being discriminated against, but that's not the same thing.
Directional terms like that would be confusing in a lot of infrastructure discussions. An outbound firewall rule's "outlist" is the list of things that don't go out.
Creating instead of consuming.
To see Business Insider's coverage (paywalled): https://www.businessinsider.com/google-served-ads-sanctioned...
What is a C-drama?
I dont think this is up for debate at this point. The pandemic made this crystal clear.
If somebody was really good and presented themselves well, why the hell would they want to sling code for somebody else when they could go into finance or medicine? Yeah, being a tech founder can be amazingly lucrative but for anything else the non-tech roles are better respected and paid quite well. Think of a good quant or surgeon.
Hybrid with mandatory office days also leads to massive losses. A friend recently switched to a company that announced mandatory office days and his entire team has basically left.

Hybrid is the worst of both worlds, you're almost guaranteed to have someone calling in and you need to live close enough to the office that you can't really take advantage of cheaper house prices/more space.
I don’t know much about Roman coins, but in general cheap coins have the value of the metal they are made of. For more modern coins that’s actually quite common. There are fewer collectors because the coins are so expensive.

From quick look at a seller website you could find some gold Roman coins around €1000, no idea about how prices might vary in the US.
Even if someone else would get your PFAS its most likely they have them as well and its certainly better than dying of blood loss or not treating other serious issues that rely on various blood products.
A good point with a bad example. 9/11 really was plotted by Islamists who do actually hate us for our freedoms, since to them our freedom amounts to a rejection of God's law, the soul of heresy, for which the punishment is death. There are no "civilians" in a holy war, since every man, woman and child of the heretical nation are living in defiance of God's law.

Of course, this view is shared by every fanatic everywhere, of every faith, such that the jingo "They hate us for our freedom" applies to them, too.
You don’t want the employer to think you are the t-shirt’s original owner. The goal is to appear younger. :)
Those are just excuses to justify your piracy. If you have a decent 4k TV and are sitting more than 5 feet away from it, the 1080p stream will upscale to "retina" quality and you won't be able to tell the difference.
...while at the same time asking congress for more handouts to build its own fabs.
I appreciate you not pirating. You are only being screwed if you think you are entitled to the entertainment. You are not.

You have an option to pay for the service as offered, steal it, or move on.

Entertainment abounds in our society and is readily available at little to no cost all around you via local theater, open mic nights, libraries, etc.

The connivence of having that entertainment pumped directly on demand to your home is a luxury that has a certain value to it.

Currently that luxury is available via paying for the service or stealing it. The theft is relatively low risk, even by hilariously paying for a services that help hide your theft. That's the number one reason these services are being stolen.
>GabeN is not correct. Piracy is a money problem.

GabeN is partially correct: It's a money & service problem. It's money for some, service for others, sometimes a bit of both. During college I had no money, so the issue for me was money. Once I got a job after college it was service: I didn't want to drive to music store & hope they had the CD in stock that I was looking for, not when I could definitely get it in 5 minutes online. Similar issue for videogames: I didn't want to spend $30-$60 for a game I couldn't return, when my computer might choke on it & not run or if half an hour in I realized it was crap. On top of which I might have to drive around to half a dozen stores to find a copy. That was a mixture of service & money.

These days it's faster for me to pay $1 for a song than pirate it, and I can instantly buy, download, and return a game in an hour if it either doesn't run or I hate it immediately.

Free is enticing, but so is convenience & instant gratification.