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If tenure goes away, then you have to pay more to compensate. If you're getting rid of tenure while keeping wages low, you'll still have bad teachers but for that reason instead.

A lot of people want to have their cake and eat it too: No tenure AND low wages. It won't work out.
Fire is healthy for the ecosystem. What if instead of fighting the fires, we hardened our dwellings in some way so that they are mildly annoying instead of community ending?

Buried utilities, thick brick walls, bunker designs, breaker areas around infrastructure, drone tech to identify and, if possible, cull tumbleweeds, etc.
This is what I call "The Fishtank Graph" (for obvious reasons).

It kinda says it all...

https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programmin...
As a non-web developer I was also confused about the generic terms like "monitoring" etc. and had to scroll a bit before I realized it's just for web stuff.
No, we can't have a bit of both, because despite heroic efforts with tens of billions of dollars being dumped into nuclear since 2008, it hasn't produced.

We tried four reactors back then, using a new regulatory process that was supposed to speed construction and reduce costs. Instead, costs and timelines ballooned 3x. Two of the four reactors were abandoned half-way through construction, resulting in rate payers holding the bag for billions of dollars and no Wh delivered to the grid. Executives are being criminally prosecuted for fraud.

The other two reactors are supposed to complete late this year, but I don't think any honest person should rely on such timelines when they inevitably slip every single time.

Nuclear is not something we can realiably build. We are bad at big construction jobs to begin with. But when you add in training up massive new workforces for extremely specialized welding or concrete pour skills, it's hugely inefficient because we don't know how to utilize this labor effectively. People sit idle for months, waiting for their chance to work. Just a gigantic clusterfuck of logistical (mis)management.

And construction productivity has stagnated since the 70s, while manufacturing productivity has gone through the roof. We should use our limited construction capacity to build factories to manufacture things, not spend it on nuclear reactors. $15B spent on solar or battery production facilities will churn out many many GW year after year of additional capacity, whereas it only buys a single GW of nuclear. And that's in the best case scenario where we actually finish the damn reactor...
He's also responsible for a lot of urban atrocities in the former soviet countries, with endless rows of commieblocks lined up on extremely wide avenues / urban highways.

At least it can accommodate some form of mass transit, but it's even more anti-individualistic, soulless, and dehumanized than the US sprawl.

In both cases, those mistakes were the result of central planning. Most of them were fixed with the Aalborg charter, which reverted from central planning to a more organic, spontaneous growth with a bit of regulatory oversight.
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> Every person on this planet has the power and responsibility to change and act now, we do not need to wait for government and corporations to change.

Acting responsibly makes us feel better, but little else. The fact of the matter is the problem is not individuals, it's government and industry. What can any individual do to stop the burning of fossil fuels? To stop deforestation? To curb industrial agriculture? To stop the concrete and glass industries? To clean up shipping?

I'm not being cynical, you're just focusing on the wrong people. Every individual on earth could begin to reduce their carbon contribution to nothing, and it wouldn't make a dent on Climate Change, It isn't us, it really isn't. We can only elect so many liberals and environmentalist conscious politicians, because the stupid is very strong in our country. To fix the problem, we need to focus on the problem, of which more than 99.9% are the list of major carbon and greenhouse gas contributors. I think we need to start with energy production, and silence the entitled energy hogs insisting on more and more energy no matter the consequences. Then work down from there, agriculture, construction, glass, shipping, etc. And that will make a difference if we could just target the top 10 greenhouse gas producers.
I don't care why they're doing it. The case I witnessed involved a generously wide bike lane with excellent visibility, and bikers deliberately riding outside it and blocking traffic. Do they all do it? No. But it happens.
> and if it weren't for the RTX graphics cards setting the precedent, there would probably be more research into making things prettier without having to "brute force" things.

Not really. A lot of this research included making rudimentary versions of RTGI that could run on hardware of that age(see SVOGI). Of course you can bake everything and make amazing looking levels, that are completely static. But that doesn't work with open-world games, especially if they have different times of day. And it doesn't work in highly dynamic scenes. We basically hit the end of the road for scaling graphics without RT. And now we have hardware that can do realtime path-traced rendering of major AAA titles, and it looks miles better than anything smoke and mirrors could've ever delivered.
It's true. I've seen tons of games use basically uncompressed audio, badly compressed textures, etc...

People often repack video games, making programs to compress and decompress them so they are easier to pirate. It's not uncommon to see a 2-3x reduction in size, for bit-identical results.
Energy is always politics.

Nuclear has been expensive in Sweden.
Go look for it on the maps Facebook renders for a fun Easter egg.

https://imgur.io/a/zjzZjhQ

I wonder if anyone will recognize it.
There's no excuse for Jedi Survivor not to compress it's assets. Respawn is skipping last-gen consoles with this game. The modern consoles have significantly more CPU power at their disposal, and dedicated hardware for decompressing texture and sound data.

There is no excuse for them to be shipping a 150GB game on the PS5 when so many cross-gen games are 40-60% smaller on PS5 than PS4
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If you're not trying to make your programs as close to logic as possible (that is, support as many modes as possible and make it so you can model your program as a logical expression) then what's even the point of using Prolog? Settling for having to reimplement the same logic in multiple directions completely defeats the purpose, you're just writing imperative code at that point.

I think "pragmatic therefore non-logical" versus "ivory tower therefore useless" is a false dichotomy. In my experience it's nearly impossible to make green cuts, and once you know a few tricks and rules of thumb, you can get pretty far writing logical code.
Maybe not for that particular game, but a lot of games have been shown to use uncompressed assets. It's not just speculation.
Quality problems are not because of money, and more money doesn't really solve quality problems.

Making the car cheap depends on batteries, motors, electronics, wires, controllers and so on. Tesla tends to be quite good at that stuff. These things are where you make a car cheaper.

Final assembly quality issues will not get worse because its a smaller cheaper car. And on cheaper cars you have way less competition in terms of quality anyway.

If they can really bring out a car with the kind of price performance/range intersection that they are planning, and build millions, final assembly quality issue won't matter.
The only people I meet who argue in favor of nuclear also spend a ton of time arguing against solar, wind, and storage. They also actively promote outdated incorrect knowledge of these technologies.

YMMV, of course!

For an example in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35658964
Sure, but if that's very leveragable control, isn't "hire conservative faculty members who are protected from future changes in the political winds by tenure" better than "make all faculty easier to fire"?
right but that's a cmd.exe thing, not a Windows thing.

Windows supports it, CMD doesn't. programs that you run from a CMD prompt support other options flag syntaxes, so it's just a cmd.exe feature.

CMD.exe is its own thing with its own backwards compatibility requirements and the case could be made that cmd.exe is "Windows" as much as anything else is, so I get it.
So, what’s your alternative? Python with its god-awful package management situation? Node with its „here’s a bazillion libraries for the same thing, good luck figuring out how to combine them“? Ruby with its 90ies-grade performance?
Finland seems to have no issues launching nuclear without russians.

But you are right, Russia is big on nuclear. They are authoritarian but are not stupid.
I typically write ruby but I’ll grab PHP for simple web stuff because it’s really easy to throw nginx and php-fpm on a server and start coding.

There is no app server or MVC to worry about. Every page is a template.
Where's windows doors 2, man
How important is teacher performance for students though?

What are we even measuring when something is good/bad for students? Obviously anything akin to directly abusing students would be bad for students, but I imagine we're talking about the quality of the education they get based on the quality of their professor's teaching ability.

If we are just talking about learning qualities, isn't the selection of students in higher level academic programs already heavily curated and biased towards students who have proven they are good at learning? Shouldn't this cohort of proven learners be resistant to any fluctuations in the teaching quality of professors?

Forgive me if my question shows a higher level misunderstanding, but I stumbled into my career in tech without any post-secondary education - so I don't have firsthand experience with any real academic settings.
Express and it's spiritual successors are the node "hello world" answers you're after, I think.
> How is this related to IP?

It’s an analogous situation demonstrating how hard it is to unseat an incumbent, ubiquitous technology with another, and how long it takes, even if that alternative is superior.
Have you ever seen software that correctly deals with error conditions in all circumstances? I sure haven’t.
>Sometimes the computer is stupid.

Then the police SWAT teams need to take this into account before they go making life and death decisions, don't they?
Even if there weren't any technical reasons not to use Java or better alternatives, the elephant (or lawnmower) in the room is Oracle.
Reminder that the same applies to use of crypto. Just because it's use for some illegal activity (it's actually less % than fiat), doesn't mean it should be made illegal as I've seen some comments here advocating for in the past.
Jedi Survivor isn't shipping on any platforms constrained by an HDD, so it would be odd if they were making any optimizations for spinning rust, especially when they come at the cost of precious SSD space.
This.

Anytime you see "unlimited", you can be sure that it's just marketing nonsense.
But cars can't drive in bike lanes. Therefore cyclists enjoy EXTRA privilege at all taxpayers' expense, which I'm fine with. But if cyclists aren't going to use them, they should be removed and the space reclaimed for ALL vehicles (including bikes).
In the past I've just called myself a full-stack designer (+/- extra words like UI/UX or developer) or some variant thereof. The hiring process isn't really aligned to finding such folks though for sure. Neither are internal progression systems at some companies.

My first internship was as a designer, then I freelanced for them as a dev, then when I graduated and it came time to join full-time, I was asked to pick one track or the other. :)
you should definitely move to a state that suits your political background, its fair to say you might not like florida. but that "don't say gay bill" is really just a "don't teach sex ed til 4th grade" bill. i'm understanding of people who don't like it nonetheless but there's other place for you to go, there's plenty of blue states and big cities that support left-wing agendas over right-wing ones, just go there instead, no?
Developers are more than 14% or 20% of the salaries paid out. They are not being laid off at a rate that's consummate with their monetary cost
America has affordable higher education; state schools and community colleges are generally very affordable. The problem is when naive highschool students get lured into taking on huge amounts of debt by expensive private schools that have no intention of teaching undergrads well, but nevertheless assert that pretense to lure in more suckers.
If you're going that approach, I think a lot of databases have facilities for extending outside plain SQL. Afaik Oracle can bind to Java and Postgres has an extension interface

I do tend to agree with API-outside-the-DB pattern. I guess Oracle supports some form of QoS but I don't think MySQL and Postgres do. That means having multiple apps hit the same schema can cause starvation issues

Also not sure how hard it is to monitor user resource usage. That's more important for billing (even if it's "fake" money from 1 department to another)
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Ask HN: How prepared are we to rebuild civilization from scratch?
Considering the potential consequences of global conflicts, how well-equipped are we to restart civilization from the ground up? What resources and knowledge would be essential to transition from a hunter-gatherer society (assuming this as the default human organization) to a technologically advanced civilization? How can we ensure effective communication of agricultural knowledge and what key steps would be necessary to progress from basic survival to innovations like digital computers?

Is there any literature around this? Are there organizations working on this?
> GPL was a clever hack to use copyright against itself with an infectious license.

This is a naive understanding and interpretation of GPL, in all its flavors. Or maybe I misunderstand you argument.

The copyright owner of some work is free to offer that work under multiple, different licenses in parallel, to their liking.

They can leverage GPL strategically for e.g. providing a free, easy-to-evaluate library with the "if you use it under GPL terms, you have to GPL your work as well" condition/caveat.

For any library user / customer that does not want to be bound to the GPL terms (e.g. a closed-source software which a company does not want to share for free with their own paying customers and competitors), the copyright owner is free to offer an alternative proprietary commercial license.

This is only one way how GPL can actually leverage copyright and use it financially beneficially to the owner, rather than use "copyright against copyright".
That's why things like www.touchbase.id exist - to make it easier to find the online presence of someone that THEY want to share - so you're not stuck defaulting to the big platforms, or ignorant to the other places they're using.
> What's troublesome for the public is that the culture does not instill a healthy level of individualism when it comes to interpreting information; we are encouraged to trust experts

To be fair, the have been a lot of people with a lot of claims about experts being wrong & awful & lying, and a very large number of these people seem pretty batshit crazy.

The not-trusters seem most likely to fall for your wonderfully stated second idea, which I love,

> People don't believe they have time to understand things on their own, nor do they believe they have the capacity to do so.

The most vocal mainstream resistance seems extremely quick to accept & deeply believe alternate portrayals, ones that happen to fit the constructed narratives they want to believe. I think the mainstream actually does a much better job of having skeptical takes, but wow, our tolerance for the dreck demagoguery trash that people adopt has worn real thin.
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It was though cause there is leaked windows kernel code on github
We've been laundering licenses on code on Stack Overflow and the rest of the SE network (whatever to CC (which can then be GPL'ed)) for a decade now.

Consider https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2695...

The source code is GPL'ed, but that page is CC BY-SA 3.0.

It's also fairly easy to assume that a fair bit of material on SO that was copied from employer's codebases into SO (and thus now CC) can be included in GPL code now too.
Skepticism re teaching is fine, but tenure at this point is not given or denied based mainly on teaching but rather on research. Yes, UT Austin and TAM teach a lot, but tenure is driven very strongly by research performance and promise.
Sorry, I am not interested what a nuclear shill posts on twitter. Here is the source for my numbers (which are the official ones). Sorry, in German but I assume you can guess the labels:
https://ag-energiebilanzen.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/STR...
I went from a WP/Laravel dev to .NET Framework and now .NET 5+. For me PHP has always suffered from two primary camps: ancient codebases that people don't dare touch, and poor tooling.

The former came mostly from the PHP camp. The lack of OOP where it was pretty desperately needed was unproductive at best, and at worst yielded a codebase that was so unmaintainable we had to double any time estimates for backend work.

For tooling Laravel, at least the last time I touched it, was pretty good with its scaffolding. Relying on Composer was also very welcome. Using IDEs like PhpStorm was pretty good, but took a lot of configuration.

The one thing that really burned me, however, was the amount of effort it took to get a debugger actually working. I am certain the climate is better now, but at the time almost no emphasis was put on actually using a debugger for development. You could get Xdebug running, but you have to know how to configure your local dev hosting environment properly. If you used a prebuilt package like your WAMPs or XAMPPs or whatever you, you got 90% there, but it's so bloated and didn't reflect your production environments. Vagrant was great... if you spent the time to configure your Vagrantfile with a lot of testing.

These days it takes about 30 minutes to reinstall Windows, install VS, clone my project, hit the run button and I'm off to the races. Is everything frictionless? No, of course not, but I can get to actually building my application without pulling my hair out.
Oh that's easy - just install 10 insecure npm packages that each install another 10 npm packages (some of which are even maintained!) then make sure you remember to bundle it up in a nice, heavy electron wrapper. Then you're all ready to distribute it via some random App Store - just don't forget to charge a monthly subscription while you're at it. /s
Dreck reinigt den Magen. Stellt Euch nicht so an, Ihr Weicheier!
An html file with a <script> tag
For those who don't know, this is an actual thing: a UK company had a name which Companies House listed as "[NAME AVAILABLE ON REQUEST FROM COMPANIES HOUSE]" until the company changed name to "THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD" before finally dissolving last month. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
What a weirdo. Unclear what sort of benefit he is extracting from this though, certainly not money. And if he wants attribution/fame so bad, why create a fake identity?
We recently had blog post closely related to the topic:
https://ph3at.github.io/posts/Asset-Compression/
I think you underestimate how easy it is for developers to disregard what the Corp lawyer said about AI code gen tools.

Manager: "we asked, legal says you can't use copilot", dev: "okay, so from now on, I'll not discuss how I use copilot and will remember to disable it when someone sees me working, gotcha".

I'm not saying everyone will do this, I'm saying some people will know that the corp doesn't always have a way to verify how the code was written, and they will think that a lawsuit cannot really happen to them.
Exactly! Those languages are working on their own cruft!
I can't find the thesis except "west bad and probably corrupt and stupid too."

Someone else creates a clusterfuck in Ukraine and its the fault of centuries of "Liberalism" whatever that means.
> then monetizing it for the profit of big industry players

Looks like LLMs are universally useful for individual people and companies, monetisation of LLMs is only incipient, and free models are starting to pop up. So you don't need to use paid APIs except for more difficult tasks.
TFA missed Darlington Electronics Inc. of "Real Genius."
>Tenure hurts if you happen to be teaching biology and have a bunch of people who want you fired because you teach politically motivated Critical Race theory.

Considering that CRT is a legal and historical theory, not a biology theory, I think that's a fair concern. Similarly, tenured European history professors should be called on the carpet for requiring reading and homework on perturbation theory in quantum electrodynamics.

Your first point is not really coherent. Do you mean to say that some professor should be fired for overemphasizing slavery's role in American history? Or underemphasizing?

An actual example that's come up: tenure hurts if a law professor is critical of a dominant industry in your state, and you want to fire her for saying so in a professional capacity[0].

I can't speak to the impact on STEM, but this will 100% hurt Texas' ability to operate law schools, and it will likely also impact its ability to provide basic general-studies curriculum as is generally considered necessary for a bachelor's degree.

0. https://www.hcn.org/issues/173/5582
With node, install express, and run `node index.js` and you have a full blown server.
Since I've moved back to watching all of my movies on DVDs again, this could be excellent for me.
You've buried the lede that the core framework does see homosexual behavior as "wrongful sexual desire", "regressive behaviour".

You can accept that or not, but it's disingenuous to equate asking gays never to have sexual or romantic relationships, to asking non-gay people just to curb excess.

That's not an equal imposition, it feels like self-equivocating ad-hominem to read "you're not being targeted here, so can you stop with the victim complex please?"

If you agree that it's better for gay people to never experience intimacy, please just say so, without labelling the concern (that gay people may feel less invited) as ridiculous
Textures are not compressed for size on disk, they are compressed to the format that can be directly loaded into the GPU.
I think that was just a side benefit. The main reason is that vacation days are an accounting liability; six-eight weeks per employee is a lot of money, and they company isn't fully in control of when they have to pay it out.

If employees took just as many days off with unlimited vacation time, it would still be a win, because those days don't accrue.