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Some of us were paying attention.

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My 4th grade teacher (1978) was brain washing us into being tree huggers. Conserve water while brushing our teeth was "magic". Turn down the heat. Recycle. Etc.

I recall hippie flavored propaganda in the school library asking if we wanted Earth to become a Red Planet (industrial) a Green Planet (farming) or Blue Planet (natural ecosystems), or some combination.

My (much older) cousin was a physicist studying submarine acoustics. He's always known, patiently explained the whatnots to us younger skeptics.

I worked at a civil engineering firm while still in high school (1980s). All the adults seemed to know what was happening, even if we didn't yet know all the causes. I vividly remember my boss (from Canada) telling me his childhood neighborhood lake was no longer safe to play hockey on.

I volunteered thru the 1990s at an org trying to save the PNW salmon. The staff scientists knew our local snow packs were shrinking. (Need the melt for salmon runs.) Now our mountains are bare most of the year, of course. Terrifying.

Maybe because I read a lot of sci-fi, I've always "known". Most memorable to me have been John Brunner's Shockwave Rider, The Sheep Look Up, and Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia. But of course, post-apocalyptic is a popular storyline, so there have been zillions others.

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PS, for the down voter(s), one of the minor plot lines from the TV show Dallas was Bobby Ewing's renewable energy efforts, in opposition to older brother JR Ewing's doubling down on carbon. In debating with Bobby in front of Daddy Ewing, JR's money quote was "We've been running out of oil since the first oil well." So, ya, climate change was part of the (most) popular culture too.
The video I refer to shows the sea and some coastline, with the fireball far offshore. Good comment, but no.
Spending money is taking money out of your bank account. Any event where more money leaves a bank than they have reserves to cover it is a run on the bank. I think what you may be elluding to is that digital transfer of funds makes the effects of a bank run different than than when cash is involved, since real money in hand cash is much more limited than a bank’s total reserves.
Insert Pentagon Wars Scene Here
Yes, but

1. in reality only a tiny tiny tiny fraction of the population has such permits;

2. the majority of permit holders are probably members of police/ICAC/correctional services;

3. if I remember correctly, you’re supposed to leave your gun at the gun club anyway, not take it home.
If you think crying has any psychological benefits whatsoever, then shaming only men who access that benefit is absolutely misandry.

If you're shaming yourself it's internalized misandry but that's still obviously a form of misandry.
From another perspective, you could say Westerners are people who don't let others have the best of them and bring them down. That they have incredibly high expectations and standards. That they don't take no for an answer. And they will assert themselves and their rights strongly, vocally and openly. Or in other words, give me liberty or listen to me ask for it until I die.

Now the question becomes, how much is this attitude responsible for all the richness you described? If it is partially or fully responsible, then others should adopt it as well, and they'd be better off "whining" as well.

Let's give a scenario, two kids at a table, one shouts "I demand desert". The other responds "Stop whining, I didn't even get to eat anything, at least you got an entree". Whose most likely to get what they want? Maybe the other should have whined instead: "And I demand a full meal!"
Vegan. In the morning steel cut oats with soy milk nuts and fruits. Lunch smoothie with nuts, seeds, fruits, protein powder. Dinner stir fry veggies with tofu, maybe a homemade bean/barley chili. Dinner varies.
> United States already arms Taiwan

Sales and recognition are restrained to avoid inflaming China. The risk of pissing off China doesn’t balance well against the risk of them invading.

If Xi moves on Hong Kong, however, the latter changes. That makes the former risk more palatable.
True, but there are a ton of cool things you can do just in ISM. And depending on where you are, your local repeater may not be the most welcoming place, especially if you're not the typical middle age white male.
That's really hilarious that the article title is completely in rejection to the conclusion. I don't see many articles that do the same in the medical field.
My read on this is that this is really "price simplification". If you want to run Windows on the big public clouds, you used to have three options:

(1) rent a VM with a license bundled into the per-minute/per-hour rate

(2) bring-your-own-license on "dedicated hardware"

(3) pay for software assurance

Looks like Microsoft is now phasing out (2), so now basically anyone who isn't large enough to have software assurance has only one price: the all-inclusive per-vm per-hour/minute rate.
An authoritative regime cannot allow open resistance to its power. Idea extracted from [0]. It signals to less-than-loyal supporters of the regime that they can take a bigger slice of the available resources, leading to instability.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11612989-the-dictator-s-...
You can explain both of those by moving up a level from individuals to systems.

Suicide is a consequence of shame. Human beings have evolved an emotional mechanism that lets them function as groups; this mechanism functions by giving each individual an unconscious sense of whether they "measure up" to the standards of the group around them. One consequence of that is that some fraction of individuals won't, oftentimes with tragic results for the individual. But groups that have this mechanism killed or absorbed all individuals that don't (well, not quite - psychopathy is the absence of shame, and it's usually maladaptive but some high-functioning psychopaths can blend in among normal society), and so the world we live in includes suicide.

Banks serve financial markets. It's okay for individual banks to fail as long as the market as a whole continues to function; in fact, proper functioning of the market requires some banks to fail.

It's the same as ant colonies or human microbiomes. When you step on an individual ant, the colony doesn't care, because the unit of survival is the colony. When you crap out intestinal bacteria, you don't shed a tear, because the unit of survival is the individual human and not the bacteria within them. In fact, the perspective with which you look at the world says a lot about the degree of interaction within the system. We think of a human as an individual entity; it took us a long time to think of a cell as an individual entity; and unless you're a dedicated biologist you probably don't think of a mitochondria as its own entity, despite them being independent bacteria at one time.

You could look at global capitalism as being one super-organism, much like an ant colony, and individual humans are, well, workers. Capitalism doesn't care if it chews up and spits out human lives, because there will always be more of them. Its prime directive is to sustain capitalism itself.

(Note also that global capitalism doesn't care if ExxonMobile lives or dies, and it's highly likely that it'll die. It'll just get replaced by some solar energy company. This conflict between levels goes all the way up the hierarchy - the interests of your cells are not necessarily aligned with yours, your interests are not necessarily aligned with your employer, your employer is not necessarily aligned with the market.)
On the other hand, there was the big bang of the internet in the 90s which changed everything for me, but post-2000? social media, uber & airbnb. The consumer internet of phones is not that major technology-wise, even though socially it was very disruptive.
Or the third choice or sending in covert units disguised as protestors, hk police, the triad or whatever else other than PLA troops. Plus a shit ton of modern crowd control equipment china has been working on
Why is a European company at the center of this? I thought EU was pro open access.
Grand Schemozzle: Spectre Continues to Haunt
> My current policy is to allow zero tech debt

I was in an office that had such a policy - it didn't go well. Perhaps it's a matter of definition, because:

> I hadn't heard of tech debt being something so subjective/invisible that it just creeps in and you have to discover it.

Tech debt is _inevitable_. Any decision will eventually be debt - rot begins before the code is even finalized. Focusing on avoiding short term gains at long term cost is totally fine, and I think that's the point of your "zero tech debt" strategy, but that's not zero tech debt. And even when maximizing for the long-term, you're picking between options, which means you're picking the FORM of your tech debt, not the existence of it.

To return back to my (admittedly anecdotal) experience with "zero tech debt": What happened was a language shift. People would avoid the phrase "tech debt", but still dealt with the reality. The decisions were being made, uncovered debt (such as a paradigm shift in the industry, or a change in dependent technology, or just an anticipated business flow that turned out to play out differently) was hidden. Basically, it seemed fine for a while, but management was getting out of the loop because management had decided an unachievable purity was more important than frank and open communication. The result was what happens any time management pushes themselves out of the loop - at some point, the compound interest on the debt came due. By then, multiple devs had left because in an industry with so much choice, why choose to work somewhere that refuses to face reality?

Not selling the long term for the short term is a great approach, but if you're trying to enforce "zero tech debt", I suggest you talk with your devs to see what they think that means and make sure that you're all on the same page, because tech debt is maintenance costs, and those will never be zero. If you're being told they are zero, then there may well be a disconnect.
Now that IBM owns Red Hat, we should get used to these hilarious/tragic "success stories".
That suggests a 2021 deadline, but many military projects have been 15+ years late. A 15 year old fighter is already in need of updates.
> Blowing up the bridges would help too

Hong Kong can’t win a war against China. It’s too vulnerable to blockade. Barring a Berlin airlift, their strategy would be waiting out Xi with urban guerrilla tactics.
I ran the examples in the article through gzip. The long one is 789 bytes compressed, and the short one is 266 bytes compressed.

The reality is that while text compresses well, gzip doesn't know what data is relevant. It keeps it all. So for this example, the original long svg contains things like inkscape configuration (the window height, the current layer name, etc.) while the shorter one omits all that. So not emitting that information will always be more efficient than emitting that information and compressing it.
Question for fellow non-Americans. Is it just me or is anxiety rarely a condition someone would describe themselves as having? I only ever hear about it in relation to Americans.

I'm sure the difference not physiological. Perhaps anxiety is just rolled under the more general heading of depression?
Yes because the past is a great indicator most of the time.

And the idea that civilan nuclear power can 'wipe out the ecosystem continent-wide' is just total and complete nonsense. Please actually inform yourself about the dangers of nuclear power.

Chernobyl was about the most dangerous thing you can produce with that level of enrichmnet. Nothing in the West even comes close. And Fukushima was about the most dangerous thing that can happen with civilian reactor in the West and its not even close to 'wipe out ecosystesms'. In fact nobody died from radation because of Fukushima.
Same. Mine is mild and high frequency. Mostly not annoying.

Tried this and it works well. Sometimes I get hours.

But, one strong jaw clench, and it comes back.
It is interesting that its possible to produce chips at this price for more than a short time period. Also that they are all basically PIC clones or variants speaks to the core competency of these companies is manufacturing and operational efficiency, not MCU design.

I think a fascinating experiment here would be to invest some time in an unencumbered scalable design that could be implemented very inexpensively (say less than 10K gates). Would these manufacturers pick up that design and run with it, making variants and parts that people could buy? It would get Microchip off their back (several have been sued apparently).
In general the world is infinitely interconnected and any tool can be used for good or evil. Don't sell powerful technologies to oppressive governments, but it's also pointless to lose sleep over nth-order relations to bad people doing bad things.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-7715

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-7711
Taiwan as Taiwan, or Taiwan as the Republic of China?

There is only one UN Security Council seat for China.
But the result of that success is a public backlash that I think they would today prefer to avoid.
Is there something of interest to point out?

(other than it being a link to the plot summary for Toy Story 4)
I meant catastrophic in the way it is commonly used for aircraft failures: engine disintegrated and not repairable.

Same term is used for a shattered turbine disc. It destroys the engine and is not contained so there is a risk to other components.
Look no hands: self-driving vehicles' public trust problem
> Modern warfare hasn’t figured out urban insurgencies.

Only in a sense of US rules of engagement.

However, look at other less scrupulous countries dealing with urban combat and you will see that while bloody they can pacify quickly.

If you know that resisting means death of your family, you're less likely to resist.

If your neighbour's best way to safeguard his family is to expose every guerilla fighter he knows he will do it.

The thing is, it won't be pyhrric victory, it will be a full and near lossless victory for PLA. Most HKers will lay down their arms because people generally dont want to die in a hopeless struggle and collective punishment will flush out the remaining guerrillas.
Yeah, I’m not sure Tiananmen Square was a miscalculation. When’s the last time you heard about a serious mass democratic movement in China?
I identify as hypersane (though I've been using the term hypernormal for a few years).

It's hard to put into words because it's a very personal shift from society. Everyone I've met who is like this has got their own path, approaches life differently, and seems to have shed some unique subset of society, while still carrying some of humanity's codependent ways.

To me, rhe article seemed to be trying to introduce a new idea to the mainstream without a clear grasp on what the idea is. I imagine the author either isn't hypersane and/or doesn't have many collaborators looking at the subject.
Do you mind naming these startups?
That's the 'give in' option.
”the LG UltraFine 5k monitor which I had bought for my MacBook Pro (2017 USBC) machine was not entering any kind of sleep mode, drawing a ~1.4 Kwh every day”

I don’t think that’s an issue with that monitor model.

https://www.cnet.com/products/lg-ultrafine-27md5ka-lcd-monit... says it has sleep and standby modes, and uses 1,2W in them.

So, I would think that unit is broken, or the PC it was connected to didn’t make it sleep.

Also, https://ec.europa.eu/info/energy-climate-change-environment/...:

”A wide range of equipment – computers, TVs, audio and video equipment, dishwashers, microwave ovens, and electric toys – can have standby and off modes.

Since 2009 these devices are required to switch into a low power mode (such as standby) after a reasonable amount of time

Since 2013, they must not consume more than 0.5 Watts in standby or in off mode”

So, it seems this monitor can’t be sold in the EU.
The fact that they are already planning on making changes seems to run counter to the idea that they would be taking a "Berkshire Hathaway" approach. In my understanding Warren Buffett's current philosophy is to buy companies that need his capital, potentially his name, but definitely not his intervention.
> Not Fixing All the Edge Cases

This can also be a part of tackling very complex tasks. To prevent getting overwhelmed when implementing something huge, I sometimes do what I call, "Implementing something stupid." Want to build an MMO? Build something that manages to send sync information to a multiple clients, but ignores auth, security, being cheat-proof, robustness, etc... Then once there's something running, start addressing those issues.

So instead of not fixing all the edge cases, it's not implementing all the edge cases all at once.

If the quick hack is well documented, written in a very encapsulated and removable way, who cares about removing it later.

When it starts causing "lava flow" then it's time to remove it.

http://antipatterns.com/lavaflow.htm
1) Was 89 a miscalculation? It went down basically as the CCP leaderhsip thought it would and accomplished the goals that they thought it would.

2) In this case, I think it's likely that military action against HK would be a miscalculation. Governments make miscalculations all the time, though. I'd be curious to know what are the different internal groups and their preferred approaches, as factional politics often drive these miscalculations.
For inlining, you can even go further and remove that xmlns attribute to end with something around 50 bytes. I'd recommend keeping the viewbox though, since it's required for proper resizing.
Both replies to me earlier comment mentioned vendor lock in. Is there any greater vendor lock-in then integrating AWS thousand and one services? Is it really riskier to trust MS to not kill a product then Google? Is the answer really to write everything yourself from the OS up?

I don't disagree that MS could do any of what you mentioned but I'm not sure AWS/GCP etc wouldn't be as likely to as well.
Noise sensitivity is common in individuals on the autism spectrum so there might be some therapies in that field that could help with noise sensitivity.
"If you are not familiar with the issues here I can't be that helpful". So you are not familiar either ? Or is that you don't really feel like spending time actually answering the question instead of deflecting ? You do seem to have enough knowledge to dismiss a paper based solely on the "system they operate in"

"The quality of academic institutions and systems varies widely on a nation by nation basis. This is the issue I guess, a site like this and you are claiming no difference between countries."

I made no such claims. What I did however was question your reaction when seeing a romanian academic as the author of a scientific paper and that is all.

"and the issues with academic integrity in China, Africa and yes, Romania are reasonably well known".

Mind sharing some insight on this ? I'm genuinly interested. That seems like a very loose enumeration created strictly to get your point across, not being related in any way other than not being US.
Taking Your Robot for a Walk
Exactly. It is not really a dilemma. If the Hong Kong people want to protest, let them be. It's their own problem. Mainland may help them if they appreciate it (clearly they don't). If they want freedom, let them be. If you truly love and care about Hong Kong, give it freedom and leave Hong Kong alone. There will be absolutely no forces needed in Hong Kong.
The article links tech debt to financial debt early on, and this is exactly what the analogy is - it is best to be as literal as possible about it.

What is good debt? It's taking money from someone, promising to pay them back more money in the future, and using the original money to make even more money than that, so both you and the lender profit.

Good tech debt is just the same. It's taking shortcuts now to save time and get something shipped, knowing that it will cost you more time than you're saving now to fix it later. But by shipping now, you ensure there is a later, with a product that's out there and being used, a bigger team and therefore adequate time and then some to fix the debt and keep improving the product. Everyone wins.

That's the theory anyway. I think mostly where it goes awry in the wild is people forgetting the paying it off part. Part of this deal is you have to pay back your lender - they have to win too. It's just easily forgotten because you're the lender, so the incentives get a bit conflicted, and you'll keep giving yourself more time. But if the lender ultimitely doesn't get paid back and loses, you lose, and it's a bad debt.
I work at https://limejump.com and we have a platform which manages energy assets such as wind farms, batteries and diesel engines and helps their owners make money by trading on the energy market.

It's technically challenging because doing so requires a team of data scientists forecasting the performance of the assets using weather data etc, an IoT team working on devices which send real time data from the assets, a software engineering team building the software behind all of this and an electrical engineering team that works on the assets.

The description above is a gross simplification and I've only been here a few months so I'm still getting to grips with things but it's definitely full of technical challenges.
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Interesting point, I would say while they have attained their goals since 89, it doesn't mean it's done right even from a Chinese government perspective. 30 years is a long time for anything to happen and I would say most of what happened doesn't relate much to the events in Tiananmen.
If you don't understand or believe climate science at this point, it can no longer be written off as being uninformed. You are purposefully remaining ignorant and should be deemed unqualified to hold public office.

There has to come a point where a consensus is so solid that continuing to play devils advocate is a disqualifying act. We know the planet is changing, and we know we are doing it. This is no longer a subject to be debated, end of.
You can do this safely, just connect two SDRs together with an attenuator :)
Markets are also surprisingly happy to jump off a cliff. Over fishing and other tragedies of the commons often kill off otherwise healthy markets.

Private companies also take extreme risks and fail. People running companies simply don’t face the same risks as the companies themselves. A 20% shot at 10x returns can be completely rational.

PS: Suicide is not just about shame, some people are simply in a lot of pain and seek a way out. Evolution did not optimize for joy.
Your comment was downvoted by users who haven't posted in this thread, probably because groundless speculating about whether another account was "compromised or was constructed from the beginning to seem legitimate" is a soft form of the insinuation the site guidelines ask you not to do here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. I very much appreciate the charitability in your first paragraph, but that later part is unfortunately still poison.
Sure!
We are using Blockstack for authentication; it is a platform to have your identity safe with the help of blockchain.
Scalable? It is easier as all the works are done in the client-side, so no server pressure there, and your data will be stored on the storage provider of choice although we have a default one with 10GB free storage for all the news users. (Always encrypted!)
In the future, we will provide extended options like self hosting for enterprises.