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They're different markets with different motivations. SpaceX is in the get-shit-done market. Musk personally wants to get off Earth ASAP.

NASA's contractors are in the corporate pork market. They're strongly incentivised not to get shit done.

But this is no different to the equivalent in the private sector - especially B2B software, where the game is about locking corporate customers into insanely exploitative contracts while providing a service that mostly sort-of works, more or less.

This a solvable problem in at least certain circumstances. Kennedy fixed it problem in the 60s by giving NASA (+contractors) a deadline and by framing the project as a patriotic race. Under those conditions they did at least as well - possibly better - than SpaceX is doing today.

It would be harder to do the same today in aerospace because the political conditions are so different.

None of this has anything to do with some vague handwaving about "resistance to technology." Most people are just fine with new technology, as long as it doesn't blow up in their faces - literally or otherwise - and offers real and obvious benefits.

What they're not fine with is being sold crap that doesn't work and makes their lives harder. And IT has always been a mix of good stuff with a lot of crapware tagging along for the ride.
> On 2, I mean these (feeds, topic lists etc.) are probably not worth indexing at all, esp. since you keep all old content in the index.

Yeah indeed. A better implementation for now would be to let people save single posts, or sync with likes, shares, tweets and retweets, so people can search with those facettes.

> Is your code all home-built, or you're using some FT engine compiled to Wasm?

For the search we are using dexie.js, the rest is home-built.
Our storage engine is: https://github.com/worldbrain/storex
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Articles like this should discuss how the impact it does have contributes to the whole, climate change is a feedback loop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_feedback
You are right. Particularly because red light works in tandem with other lights at the crossing.

When light turns red, it does not mean other light in the crossing turns green immediately. At the crossing for sometime all the lights should be red, to cover the case of signal change after a vehicle has entered the crossing.
When you say "we" - are you speaking as one of the many who have puts years of work into these matters? If not shouldn't you at least say "they... do not have good models" etc ?

I don't mean suggest that you/we have no ability to look over experienced shoulders to cast judgement on their works, but to speak as them without having their full experience seems problematic.
I hear stories like that, and then I see my own experience with serial cheaters allowed to keep selling and racking up negative ratings. I am wondering if Amazon gave up enforcement, or just changed its practices/loosened the rules.
I meant the precautionary principle. Fixed, thanks.
the douchebag one is a strange one unless you're going for management :/ where do you see yourself in 5 years though seems a reasonable question; do you want to lead a team, be certified in something, gain experience in x, etc, just pick a career goal from the hat surely
It's anecdotal, but a friend of mine with cancer switched to a keto diet and he had one tumor shrink, to the point where his doctor said they could (and should) now operate on it.

The large increase in sugar and starch in our diet does contribute to fast growing cancer cells and there are studies that link being overweight/obesity with cancer.

We weren't this fat decades ago. Some may blame more office work, but the biggest factor is the amount of sugar/carbs in our diets. It's grown tremendously and yet no one seems to take it seriously, discrediting things like Adkins/Keto as "fad diets" when they were closer/more consistent with American and Western European diets for several decades.
> Anyone remember the global cooling scare? Or the nuclear war scare? Or the acid rain scare?

Are you suggesting that because we happened to avoid disaster in some instances that the risks were never real in the first place?
I haven't seen anything useful

For example, this looks like it was designed on the Apple II

https://www.climateinteractive.org/tools/climate-bathtub-sim...
I find it curious that the 'climate change industry' is a powerful, unwavering monolith in your mind and yet you don't mention the petroleum industry's deep pockets and incentives to maintain the status quo.

I got a degree in climate science but took a job writing code because the pay was terrible unless and until you become a professor. My chemical engineer buddy went to work at Exxon Mobile and started with a salary 4x greater than my best climate science related offer.
Alternatively: "I don't want other people's pain and suffering to ruin my good time. Please suffer quietly and out of sight."
On the cellphone side, most carriers will sell your identity and real time location to websites that your visit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15477286
You are replying beside the point when you keep focusing on that point.

This is a reasonable approach and it is a general approach. Now, about 5G, again the question is what we know or don't know about any risks.

If there are no or very few studies about the effect of mmWave then it is indeed reasonable to ask whether precautions should be taken.

You seem to suggest that there are indeed no such studies but that it can be assumed to be safe because emissions in a different part of the spectrum are safe.

Whatever the reality is, this is simply not a scientific approach and does suggest that you have no factual reason to believe that mmWaves are safe (or dangerous actually, you simply don't know).

I am not saying that he is right, but scientifically we cannot just counter his argument by "no, you're wrong".
5G is also fundamentally different in one important way. We are moving a way from fewer high powered towers, to a lot more low powered cells. Yes this existed in 4G, but 5G is taking it to the next level.
EDIT: Re: the chemistry, I do think that it might be a big subject, see https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04960 , which somehow is not very surprising because of the Algorithmic Chemistry (aka ALCHEMY) of Fontana and Buss.
1 Fahrenheit degree is .555... centigrade degrees.
> climate change has turned into a religion where any sort of criticism or questions are not appreciated and you are immediately treated as a heretic.

Except it's supported by a plethora of scientific evidence. And yes, since questioners are usually pushing for inaction, it's quite reasonable to be treated as a heritic. If I came out and said "I support something that is likely to cause mass deaths in the next 50-80 years", I would expect to be pilloried for that.

> Anyone remember the global cooling scare?

Global cooling never had a scientific consensus around it. It basically came out of one Newsweek article, which was later retracted[1]. The fact that you're even bringing it up shows that you're reading too much media in circles that use very specious reasoning. People are lying to you and you're repeating their lies.

> Or the nuclear war scare?

The USA and Russia had enough nuclear weapons to end current civilization armed and pointed at each other, and had several incidents where they nearly opened fire.[2]

> Or the acid rain scare?

Acid rain was stopped by government action. In fact, there are many parallels to global warming, because it was corrected by an emissions pricing system analogous to modern carbon taxes. Basically, emitting sulfur dioxide (which causes acid rain) was taxed and the tax raised over time, which created a market for scrubbers. [3]

[1]https://www.insidescience.org/news/my-1975-cooling-world-sto...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

[3]https://blogs.ubc.ca/lisatam/2013/03/08/reducing-acid-rain-e...
_Concrete Mathematics_ by Knuth et al is a dense but joyful overview of discrete math for CS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112243.Concrete_Mathemat...
Did you read my last sentence?

China needs to be dealt with. The world has ignored its crimes against humanity for too long.

But that doesn't change my position on Blizzard's actions.
This never goes over well when I say it but, on my most recent trip through America driving across 5 States, much of what we drove through did not look like what I would consider developed. For hundreds of miles the only towns we'd come across had nothing but fast food places a gas station and usually multiple churches and then just houses, no schools, no grocery stores, no hospitals or doctors, though usually a pharmacy, and not much else for at least a hundred miles in any direction from these places. Between these would just be highways dotted with billboards telling you not to kill yourself or smoke meth. You could always see the 'towns' coming about 50 miles away though, first you'd see the massive McDonald's sign in the distance, then maybe a Burger king sign or a gas station sign, a massive monolith spiking 100m into the sky. A lot of it felt really bleak.
Cigarette smoking has fallen a LOT in the US in the past few decades, though there does seem to be a resurgence lately with "vaping".

Pollution is lower too (again, in the US): cars used to pollute a LOT more. Smog used to be far, far worse in the LA area decades ago, so even with more people and more cars, pollution is lower, particularly localized pollution that affects people more. Of course, global warming pollution is certainly higher, but that isn't localized and shouldn't have any effect on you (it's just CO2).

Obesity is significantly worse, however.
Stop saying that. Many companies could completely afford to abandon the Chinese market. They just don't want to.

I have slightly more sympathy (from a practical perspective) for those with significant supply chains in China - that extraction will take time.
You are saying that if UBI fails in Saudi Arabia you can’t extrapolate the failure in any other country. And it’s exactly the same thing that people say to defend communism. They assert that communism failed because: “Russia seems like the worst candidate to see if communism works in practice - due to the very specific political, cultural and economic climate in Russia, communism failing or working well won't be any indicator whatsoever about communism's viability in another country.”
or it's the same company ;)
The disappearing trades of rural enclaves
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Somehow I managed to miss that, sorry. I hope that came after I asked via email. ^^ Thanks a lot for the clarification!
ok, so they have been rejected. Now what? I still would like to read my email... which is where VPN's come in handy.
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> Scientists have assumed that ice cliffs taller than 90 meters (about the height of the Statue of Liberty) would rapidly collapse under their own weight, contributing to more than 6 feet of sea-level rise by the end of the century — enough to completely flood Boston and other coastal cities.

If I understand correctly, these are icebergs. I don't understand how melting icebergs should impact the sea level in the first place. If I melt an ice cube in a cup the water lever remains unchanged. Don't the icebergs already displace as much water as they would contribute? Is there something about icebergs that mean they displace less water, or am I somehow misunderstanding what is going on?
The pulsed nature of the newer technologies is different enough.
No idea.

Yesterday I saw a discount with an extremely cheap 3-year plan (under 30$ and no data limit, iirc). The price didn't offer confidence that the service would be available for all three years.
Climate change is nothing of the sort. There is plenty of healthy debate about what exactly the scale of the effects will be, what kind of timeframe these effects will be felt over, and what the most effective ways to slow down, halt, and/or reverse our current course are. You are literally—in the original, literal sense—replying to an article wherein scientists are questioning whether some component will be as bad as predicted.

What there is no room for any more are: denial that global warming is happening, denial that it’s happening as a result of greenhouse gases, and denial that it’s happening primarily as a result of greenhouse gases being emitted by humans. There is no more room for these denials because the matter is settled. Without incredible new data that contradicts existing data or future models, or without a compelling theory that both explains current warming trends and explain new phenomena, any such argumentation is flatly unwelcome.

This is not unique to climate change. Similarly, nobody is going to debate you on your new theory regarding gravitation unless your approach agrees with Newton and Einstein while also solving existing unanswered questions.
You have lots of visitors that's impressive you should no doubt monetize them. Probably I can guess you have fear for ad-blockers, that's okay I had them also. But I did bypass ad blockers with a few simple tweaks. when you check my site here https://www.nmmapper.com that pages you visit even thought you have ad-blocker you will still see my ads from my advertiser.

and I did even write a post about it here https://www.nmmapper.com/blog/2019/05/04/bypassing-all-adblo....

The original article was here show how to track adblocker users. But I moved that knowledge to bypassing adblockers and show ads.
https://gist.github.com/paivaric/211ca15afd48c5686226f5f7475...
You are correct. I am assuming most marketplace sellers are low-volume sellers, therefore 5 negative seller reviews/ratings is enough to justify a red flag. If it's a high-volume seller with many hundreds or thousands of reviews in a 1-month period, then it's not as big of a concern.

For the example I cited earlier of a 22% negative rating in the previous 30 days, that represented dozens of negative reviews.
I've just read the official statement and it seems that the data center was compromised, not the VPN traffic, it wasn't affected by this
IPCC reports are inherently conservative - they reflect the known and agreed. It's not surprising that reality tends worse as additional effects, tipping points and surprises are reflected in reality but not IPCC reports.

There has been criticism that they are too conservative.
That's what we have in a lot of teams here, and we have to look for an alternative now that Microsoft is dropping support for local storage in Onenote.

The last version to work with local storage (not cloud) is Onenote 2016, which is supported until 2025.
And yet... I still manage to produce award-winning breakthrough software.
Nothing personal, but this kind of comment really grind my gears. When I read a claim like the one made in that comment, I take that as a lead and am grateful that someone brought light to that POV so I can explore more, e.g. freaking google it.

The [Citation Needed] approach would make all comments boringly long and harder to write, all conversations white-paper like, which isn't bad of course, but has its place.

How many times I felt lazy and just dropped my comment because I knew that the [Citation Needed] comments were bound to come, and while I have a good insight about the subject, I had no will to spend more energy on that nor any inclination for taking flak from lazier unconstructive commenters.
It's worth noting that even we fall into the best case of the ranges depicted here, which there is no reason to believe we will, such a rise in sea levels would have deleterious effects. There are already climate refugees who were forced to relocate because their homes are now below water, and there are millions more living at or near sea level.
Sperm counts are worth considering.
Not the worst paper, but I had to get to the bottom before the author regains partial sanity. Of course we shouldn't really blame K&R(&K) for the _mistake_ right? (a little backhanded argument, IMHO).

Except, um, it wasn't a mistake. It was an on-purpose. They were fully aware of the pros and cons of the approach they picked, and the long term success of their systems is testament to them balancing those trades, and a hundred others, very effectively.

The author even goes on to explain he had no information about why they choose that option. Which undercuts the whole argument. Still, a sensational headline though!

Furthermore null-terminated strings are not the cause of any particular problem. They work fine. They are merely a contributing factor to the bugs. The enable a certain class of common bugs, but do not cause them.

I'll tell you another not-a-mistake they made. Making things like string handling part of the library, written in the high(ish)-level language, not part of the compiler and language itself. You are completely free to use whatever kind of strings you want, if they are better. Like http://bstring.sourceforge.net. Which I have never done - why? because C-strings work just fine for what I need. But the library is just a toolbox and C-strings are one of those tools.

It is a poor workman indeed who blames his tools.
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I am not arguing anything, I am stating my opinion.

I spent my time in Purism cleaning such false claims about laptops and I was open about where we stand with it. That said, laptops have less issues than modern phones regarding freedom part and people just need to be aware and honest about it and not say "no binary blobs" when actually you will use binary blobs for crucial capabilities of modern phone otherwise you will have a brick in your pocket.
"Polyfill" itself is a word that was invented by some inexperienced people who had never programmed anything outside of the browser that needed per-platform conditional code to isolate itself from missing or different functionality.
Humans kinda need sunlight to generate enough vitamin D. So if you live in a cave, that's not going to be good for you either. But sunlight causes cancer too, so what should you do?

I think it should be pretty obvious that we can't avoid radiation, and we were evolved to handle a certain amount of it.
> Climate change are now a multi-billion dollar industry ... They have zero interest in changing opinion or even questioning if this is all correct.

I don't understand this argument as the fossil fuel industry is worth many trillions of dollars, so the argument is much stronger in favour of them being the ones not wanting to change. The climate protection industry is small in comparison. Industries like green electricity generation, resource use reduction and recycling also have benefits beyond climate alone, so are becoming the right choice even without that consideration.

There is also a big "industry" working now and historically on the link between tobacco and smoking. Do you think that they were just doing so to make money and there is no actual link? Who you believe is an epistemological issue: none of us can research everything ourselves so we choose who to believe based on our influence and internal desires.

Anyone remember the global cooling scare? Or the nuclear war scare? Or the acid rain scare?
The threat of nuclear war and acid rain were very real, they just got solved (almost). It's like the Y2K bug: people love to say it was a lot of nonsense and a non-event, but it was so exactly because a lot of work was done to avoid it.
Nuclear war is no longer a threat due to diplomacy; acid rain is severely reduced due to international treaties & technological solutions. These problems are perfect examples of a real problems being solved by concerted international action.
That's what happened with this guy (the guy in red). He was pre-screened, he wasn't selected at random. He was well known in the community as well, Blizzard already went with a safe crowd member. Short of embedding their own "paid-crowd" in the audience.. they couldn't have done much more.
I mean this[1] is pretty convincing and not directly from the accused company's blog. The only thing it gets wrong is framing ProtonVPN Lithuania as the main ProtonVPN company instead of as a subsidiary.

Regardless of that, there is so much mud being slung I recommend anyone to just search for 'protonvpn nordvpn tesonet', read a few articles on the topic and form your own opinion. Like I said, you can decide if you want to err on the side of caution or if it's a risk you're willing to take.

In case anyone wants VPN recommendations, I have good experiences with TorGuard and Private Internet Access and can also recommend Mullvad. Other people (that I trust) say iVPN and Tunnelbear are also solid.

[1] https://vpnscam.com/nordvpn-protonvpn-proton-mail-owned-by-t...
Well for one there's contradicting comments. First saying that there has been warming every decade, but then saying that's somehow cyclical (warming and cooling cycle) when it's really a trend (continuous warming). Then saying we need facts and not computer models, but then going on to saying we need computer models.
I've always thought about it this way.

A car factory in 1950 employed so many people to make X cars. The factory of today employs far less people to make the same amount of stuff. Up until now we've all bought every increasing quantities of stuff so we've been able to absorb that extra productivity.

What happens then if our capacity to consume extra stuff is met? Or what happens when some proportion of the populace is now unemployed due to automation. They're kind of 2 sides to the same coin. Once consumption capacity is met, productivity increases just lead to increasing unemployment.

Of course you could leave them to rot. Or you could distribute the benefits of increased productivity to everyone.

Are we there yet? No, but we're using more resources than we should so we should probably hope that we reach that limit sooner rather than later.

So to answer your question, there wouldn't be extra inflation, because there wouldn't be extra consumption.
Having empathy goes both ways. If one party has empathy and the other does not, it makes the relationship difficult.

If 'difficult' is the cut off point for a working relationship for a person, team or business, then that is ok. There are plenty of working environments where difficult relationships can work. But certainly not all of them.
Yes, it's not a perfect solution. You're basically deciding who you trust the least and avoiding just them.
>Anyone remember the global cooling scare?

This is a valid point. The media was wrong about this in the 70's

>Or the nuclear war scare?

I don't know what you mean by this. Nuclear war never happened, but it's obvious that the USA and USSR had enough weapons to wage war.

>Or the acid rain scare?

This was an actual problem that was successfully solved by preventing sulfur emissions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain#In_the_United_States
I'm sorry that this is what you got from my comment, because it wasn't my intention.

I was trying to say that the nuance in the article will be completely lost in the media. Even commenters in this thread who "believe in" climate change and claim to subscribe to the scientific orthodoxy are missing the distinction between ice sheets and ice cliffs, which was one of the main points of the article. And HN is one of the rare places on the internet where people actually read things, so imagine what the conversation will look like when someone posts it on facebook.

Ultimately I was trying to raise the question of whether it's even possible to communicate science to the general public. And this thread so far is answering that question with a big fat "NO".
> Blizzard is at real risk of losing this community they've fostered for the last 20+ years

I'm reminded of that image of people in a Call of Duty boycott on Steam, playing Call of Duty. Blizzard will lose some money over the next couple of weeks, but aren't at a real risk of anything.

https://kotaku.com/what-modern-warfare-2-boycotters-are-play...