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> But are articles like this good or bad?

Articles like this make me want to sniff glue. What should be written — and disseminated widely — is the truth that climate catastrophe is on our doorstep.

Who gives a shit if Norway is warmer and warmer, or if some other place is colder due to the chaotic nature of weather? The point is, "global warming" is rapidly destabilizing — no, destroying — ecosystems that we depend upon for our survival, and unleashing feedback loops that we are helpless to stop.

It's only going to get worse. Most articles don't go far enough in explaining the severity of the situation, because it'll frighten the neoliberals and trigger the neocons.

If Hacker News is still around in the next decade, I can't wait to read all the comments by the people here who love to bikeshed about "optics" and bullshit when actual widespread famine is beginning to rear its ugly head. I'm afraid most of you will turn inside out with all that navel-gazing.
I run Ubuntu MATE 18 on three different Thinkpads and they all work perfectly with zero tinkering. The only issue is they chew through the battery in no time, but since I’m almost always plugged in I’ve not bothered to investigate a fix.
But which metric do you use for "percent of damage" ?
Professors have been teaching and getting student course evaluations since forever. At institutions and roles where the admin knows little about the subject, they rely more on the course evals. At institutions with more engaged faculty and with more serious teaching, course evals are less prominent and defer to other forms of assessment (faculty observations, teaching statements, etc.).
There's a theory that most people sand-bag on activities as an ego-protecting maneuver. That we are terrified to know, with absolute certainty, that we are just rubbish at a particular task.

I think we'd rather see ourselves as lazy than incompetent. Even though objectively speaking, "lazy" is probably just as damaging a hit to your self image. Because admitting to yourself that you're a shit basketball player isn't necessarily going to dissuade you from learning piano, but feeling stuck certainly will.
They also usually try to find a way to weasel out of the payments that were promised to be paid for the excess electricity generated by residential solar, so that the return on investment is much worse than projected when they are installed.
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The F1 engine is interesting from this PoV because the thing as it is documented does not work (and even the documented design is full of weird design decisions that nobody today knows the reason for) and it worked by combination of luck and institutional knowledge of the actual machinists who built it not exactly to specifications.

In fact if you take various “high tech” designs from middle of the 20th century you will see a pattern of things that cannot work if built as designed, but work because of random effects that are certainly outside of what the original designers thought of (I have seen large amount of instrumentation electronics where voltage sag on supply voltage is part of feedback loop and it will not work without it. I highly doubt that the original engineers consciously designed that.)
Yes :) apple did not swindle people, they just did not INFORM them how they were swindling them.
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Earlier today I was sitting in a presentation by a faculty member who included a slide with an email quote from a former student who did exactly what you said right before the presentation. It absolutely made his day. And I know the former student and have a hunch he reads HackerNews.

This also made my day because I saw the real-world impact of something on HackerNews. And perhaps it will make your day to know your comment has influenced more people than the poster you were replying to.
If a company raises their prices and commits to spending more on software updates, users are going to buy a similarly spec'd phone that's cheaper. Their perceived value of software updates is "free".

It's arguable that many manufacturers already have wide enough profit margins on their devices that they could easily spend more on software, but choose not to specifically for the reasons you mention. Artificially accelerated obsolescence is a key part of many manufacturers' business models.

What needs to happen is for consumers to start looking at devices in terms of cost/lifetime rather than just the up-front cost. This would necessarily involve placing value on repairability and software updates that don't degrade performance. Phone designs are practically runway fashion now though, and seem deliberately designed to frustrate such a shift in consumer sensibilities.
Why even bother making murder illegal? People will continue to murder. Even ooga booga Chinese people. There is not a problem.
The change is as follows:

>> Verisign and ICANN may agree to amend the .COM Registry Agreement to permit an increase to the price for .COM registry services, up to a maximum of 7 percent in each of the final four years of each six-year period (the first six-year period commenced on Oct. 26, 2018).
cyclists are more likely to run red lights than scooter riders

E-bikes are lumped in with bicycles, so those stats became meaningless to me at that point.
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We arguably can't go for entirely different reasons - lack of motivation.

There are things to do on the Moon, right now. Basic science ought to be enough; but applied things like material extraction and tourism would add to that. However, we consider those things lesser priority than some others - and we're getting a lot of short-term bang for our bucks, just not so much of foundation for future developments.

So, today we don't see the reason to apply efforts to get there. Those few who could justify going "in small", are to few and far between to mount a concerted effort. So we're slowly developing such things as cheap LEO launchers and lunar landers - the precursors to return to the Moon. We'll get back there - in the future, not in present. In present we still can't.
Yes, just looked it up.

I was (partially) wrong about the un-synced frequency though. The synchro's for the docking radar ran from a different power circuit than the AGC, and whilst they were frequency locked they weren't in phase; resulting in timings getting thrown off and the priority issues.

Edit: Superb deep dive on AGC in Ars from last week
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/a-deep-dive-into-the...
Iodine: Verifying constant-time execution of hardware [pdf]
I wonder if you can write fast C for the 6502, though, but you'll have to constrain your use of the language considerably?
> it suggests that wealth is the be-all and end-all of human progress

You misunderstand. The point is to quantify economic power. ...because economic power is the ONLY way fix global warming.
Windows XP and Vista have a market share of less than 0.1% if we are to believe steam stats. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

Either that, or steam doesn't work on these and the missing 0.1% are Windows Server OS. Turns out, software does stop working for real.
I'm not sure this is one of those new-things-under-the-sun:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=*_NOUN+capital...
It's not about population but rather density. LA's big public transit problem (outside of the driving first culture lobbied for by American car companies) is actually one of zoning and building.
Now we just need to engineer ourselves an organism incorporating a nuclear reactor. Are there any absolute showstoppers thermodynamics wise that would prevent such a thing?
I wonder if an intelligence higher than ours were to figure out exactly how our brain worked. Every neuron, every synapse, every hormone and neurotransmitter.. How memories were made, stored and retrieved. Would we appear to them to merely be "simulating" consciousness through the use of these mechanisms.
I wrote a program that read in a proprietary data format, ran a few transformations, then outputted CSVs. Using an ordered map was super-useful, because it gave me deterministic output between runs. Otherwise I ended up with CSVs with differently ordered rows...
Ahh, sorry yes you're right. 'Psychiatrist' was what I was after.
> a curated collection from a chef

Good point. In fact, with the risk of vandalism, this could be a recipe for disaster. On Wikipedia, vandalism may lead me to believe that the president of Russia is Taylor Swift, something usually harmless. Here, someone may vandalize a recipe to add 1 cup of arsenic. Okay, more seriously, I wonder if there are subtle ways to mix normal ingredients into poison. I suppose this is already a risk on WikiHow, where someone could tell you to clean your house by mixing bleach and ammonia.

What about a web of trust for some wikis? Instead of letting everyone edit a page, begin with the wiki's founder, who can delegate editor rights to people he knows, then they can grant the right to their friends, and so on. I have always loved the wiki format and prefer them at work over more draconian tools with complicated workflows. So I am surprised to hear myself saying this. But recently at work I have also been dealing with server certificates. So a web of trust is on my mind.
In the centre of the Pyrenees, my local ski resort will not open for skiing holidays, for the first time ever (the resort is just a bit older than I am, and I am nearing 45 years old). Not opening for Christmas is not unusual, snow is often lacking then, but for February, that's a first... There is no snow, most of the time it doesn't even freeze at night. It is also pretty dry. Down in the valley, we didn't have a single strong frost night since the beginning of the autumn and winter, just some 0/-1/-2/-3°C.

It comes after an incredibly hot and dry summer. My place is supposed to be very green and wet: this year it rained only twice in 3 months! And those were not even summer rains, those two rainy days looked like small November rainfalls. When I was a kid we had short summer storms several times a week (in the end of afternoon / early evening), especially in August (less so in July, but still there were a few). The system has completely changed over the last 2 decades.

And then the autumn was dry too, except for 1 month. And now the winter is warm and dry.

And that comes after a similar year the year before, which was just a little bit softer.

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That's not just anecdotal: the long term measurements show huge changes, and acceleration. Short term measurements too: monthly records get beaten all the time those last 5 years.

Wetter and colder places have been impacted more by the warming, apparently.
Why wouldnt Apple let people change the battery?
> Those of us that are part of the Java world since the early days, have been through this multiple times.

The hype curve is definitely in the past, but Groovy is living on
quite well as a small but viable option in the plateau of productivity. In
some ways that is more important because while in the hype phase it is really
hard to judge the true value of a technology. The true value emerges when
the hype is over.

The problem is, there isn't really a better scripting option for the JVM. While
in theory lots of JVM languages (JRuby, Jython ... etc) could fill that gap,
they all have ugly impedance mismatches which Groovy doesn't, so companies
continue to deploy it as a scripting and DSL implementation still. I tried to substitute Kotlin for a bit and went back to Groovy because Kotlin still lacks standard scripting constructs such map and list literals etc.
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Hmm, says it was reported Jan 4th, and "the DoD quickly controlled the system and had shut it down by January 21"...quickly??

That doesn't inspire much confidence, especially combined with a password-less server
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> The only reason software needs constant updates is because new features are constantly being added to stay competitive.

New features... or just a redesign of the UI to make it look "fresh"
Because there is a cost to not using that common good and pursuing an alternative energy source.
You're correct, the oil change is actually a high-stress event for any engine. Doing an oil change every 3k miles is actually very wearing because--even for a split second--there is possible metal-on-metal contact as the oil pump reprimes itself.

But engines are very different today than they were 15-20 years ago. They are machined with blueprint accuracy such that clearances are very fine and the resulting break-in period is very short if its needed at all. Additionally, most new vehicles use synthetic or synthetic blend motor oil which is much more durable and retains detergents for much longer service intervals.

I use the best oil I can find and do two oil changes a year unless there's a more driving than usual during a period. Generally, the service interval on my car is ~ 7500 miles, though 10k would not be a problem.
Why is everyone objecting to the one correct answer? Apple throttled the CPU to prevent undervoltage shutdowns. Throttled is better than an abrupt unexpected shutdown.

Now, it's possible Apple throttled more than they needed to but the basic issue is very real.
The problem is only partly with slow OS. For me the real culprit is inability to downgrade OS and apps. I have iPhone 4S. It was amazing phone when it was running iOS 6. Now it's slow as molasses.

May be it should not be one-click, as it causes security issues and user must understand the implications. But there must be a way for official downgrade.
It's definitely more apples-to-apples for some statistical comparisons, but as a New Yorker it really does feel ridiculous to include Beacon and the Hamptons in to the equations when considering density for a subway system. Those places are hours away in the suburbs.

Density of city limits would maybe be more appropriate when talking about subway service or LA's light rail. So that'd be about 8,092/sq mi for LA and 28,491/sq mi for NYC. Maybe MSA would make sense for things like commuter rail, which runs something like every 20 or 30 minutes (hourly on weekends) for Metro North.
If memory serves me correctly, ever since dicts became ordered the OrderedDict simply became a subclass of dict, so it will have exactly the same performance characteristics.
Looking at how wealth and opportunities to create it are distributed around the world and among different people, I'd say we are on the right track for a reality with all the disadvantages of no government paired with all disadvantages of too much government.
That depends on the abstractions you build on and who's maintaining them. If you have a stable abstraction to build on, it's due to having common standards at the OS and instruction set level, along with device drivers hiding the churn. At the hardware level, suppliers discontinue components all the time. I wonder if most cell phone manufacturers could even build one of their designs from four years ago due to parts that have been discontinued since then?
Exposing the Graceless Degradation in DNN’s Under Hardware Fault Attacks [pdf]
> Just like we're all exclusively eating Chinese chocolate,

- Not chocolate, but I was amazed when I saw a bag of dried apples came from China.

> drinking Chinese beer,

- I'd be more worried about it skunking...

> driving Chinese assembled cars,

This actually reminds me, I forgot to see how that spat where GM didn't want to have to pay taxes on Chinese assembled cars they sell in the US wound up finishing.

> and watching Chinese movies?

Someone made a rather convincing argument that the influence of Chinese financiers in the film industry has contributed to shifts in the movies we get.

Now, there are those who may say 'But were any of those Megacorps?' The Apples were Dole, the cars were GM, and the movies (in question in the argument made) were Disney.

My counterpoint to that is that one has to consider that China in this case is the megacorp, due to the level of involvement/oversight they have over the companies that operate in their country.
People on denial will always find a viewpoint that suits them. I've witnessed discussions demanding emission limits per square kilometer of land. Unsurprisingly by people from sparsely populated areas.
> I think what I am trying to say is that cooking can never be standardized, nor should it.

Not that this is what is being attempted here, but rather than one or more recipes that each represents a particular set of curated choices, you could instead create a "recipe as multidimensional model" that captures the entirety of the configuration-space for "the food that is called X", where you can both adjust inputs and see how output parameters (e.g. saltiness, acidity, viscosity) will change, or constrain output parameters to find optimal input parameters.

In other words, something like https://hur.st/bloomfilter/, but for tuning your chocolate-chip cookies.
If say Budweiser increased their price by say 10c a can their overall profit would decrease even if their profit margin would increase.

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That's not neccesarily the case. The ideal price point for maximum profits is ever-changing.

Would Budseiser's profits increase if they lowered the price by $0.10?

The answer is the same: it depends.
Did that webpage change the colour of my scrollbar, or am I going mad?!

Haven't seen that since the early naughts.
What kind of hardware do pocket (/wrist) watches run? (Not smart watches) How much RAM/ROM/CPU? E.g. those famous Casios with LCD.
I understand what you're getting at but I think the relationship with a 'creator' or artist feels much more personal than that of a business. There's more to this than a simple repeating customer/business transaction.
Yeah, you're right, my bad. -_-"
It's very simple. If Country A reduces CO2 production by closing a few factories, and Country B increases CO2 production to replace that market demand, Country A will have spent economic resources in making that change, and Country B would simply be producing what A+B produced before.

It's a net negative for the world.
That's not the only change though, to be clear
No. The CO2 increases won't be at this level.
If you think American democracy is dying, have a look at my country - under the present fascist regime, India has slowly transformed into a mobocracy that will ultimately further evolve into one party theocratic dictatorship (if not checked).
I'm not an accountant, however, all the large corps I've worked at had 2 sets of books. The accounting group has its own set of books based on accounting rules. The tax group has another set based on tax laws and regulations. One difference I know about is depreciation/amortization. A made up example is: gov't gives tax incentive for certain investments by allowing the asset to depreciate over 3 years, but the accountants say the useful life is actually 5 years.
Everyone? No, no, they really don't!

I honestly don't care what people spend their money on. I may think it's a bad idea, or it's even stupid, but I'm far from arrogant enough to think that I should in some way, work to "protect them from themselves."
Great to hear! Please let us know how the testing goes!
You blew my Matrix joke, but fine, whatever...
Funny they always released software to slow down your phone the week before the new iphone released.

They also denied they were slowing down old phones for several years.
Great work! However, from what I understand, microcluster detection seems to be very similar to subgraph detection. Is there a difference between the two problems? And if yes, then how do their complexities compare?
This is too contrived an explanation (for the general climate change denialism), I think. I think there are two facets to it:

1) Some industries refuse to even consider it because it means they're effectively dead -- coal, oil, and a few other industries. They fuel propaganda because of this

2) Sheer ignorance

I say because it's very difficult and fragile to try and profit off a genuine catastrophe. We are indeed heading for a disaster (2C warming) even under quite optimistic assumptions about world politics and people accepting climate change and whatnot; if there is not enough action, if some technologies are not developed quickly enough, we are facing genuine catastrophe (I think there's far too much faith in a magical technological solution (rapid carbon capture) in current scenarios) -- 3 or 4C warming, where you start to talk about civilization collapse. This seems like a very weird thing to gamble with, specially since gambles require long term payoffs. If the economy and politics is a mess and there's general instability, how can you guarantee ability to monetize your bets?

No, I think most people are just genuinely not aware, willfully ignorant, don't believe humans could alter the climate, etc.

In a way it's good, because it means you can fight it to an extent with information.
By the way, you wouldn't happen to know of any that do this on Linux, would you?
I know that the examples are supposed to broadly exemplify the concept but imo that doesn't justify using statements that have no scientific backing. So we have to agree to disagree on that one.
I can attest that running on a thick plated pair of shoes like the Zoom Fly SP I had is exhilarating, especially after training in other "normal" shoes.

I see how the competition should measure athleticism and not a sponsor/athlete unit, but all recent records have been broken because of technology, let's be honest. I suggest you watch this TEDx for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8COaMKbNrX0