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Whitebox solutions can be adopted by corporations that can afford to have dedicated teams to maintain the software stack. For others, it can be quite risky.
>a 1.5ft rise in sea level

It won't, precisely because New Orleans already has many places below sea level. It's got a head start.

It's spent billions of dollars over 100+ years making the outer boundaries water tight, and building the infrastructure to support all of that, including the ability to pump 100% of rainfall out.

To New Orleans, the cost of any sea level rise has essentially already approached the marginal rate.

No where else in the world, with the exception of probably the Netherlands, is better prepared for rising waters, whether it's storm surge or sea level rise.

Everywhere else has to pretty much start from scratch.
its unfortunate that we are entirely reliant upon enterprises to custom craft defensive tools for us, that it's near impossible to defend ourselves.

but still, sounds like- finally- there's some potentially good news on the moderation/defense front, somewhere on the internet. still, just a pity we are so entirely reliant on services, so incapable of establishing & developing our own defenses. i fear what happens if we remain purely reliant upon the large powerful entities to moderate our traffics.
I remember that Ultima III for the Apple IIe (apart from a fondness for Roman numerals) had a cloth map of Brittania. I remember this because I wanted to start a small business copying the game, and the map, and distributing in repurposed shoe-boxes. The box art was copied by hand and glued on.

Note that I was like 9, and neither myself nor my parents were aware of the (il)legality of this. I also never got further than making my prototype, which objectively sucked, so I never pursued it.
I suggest pasting each of the items I mentioned into a search engine like google.com or duckduckgo.com, and spending a minute reading about each one.
I'm fine with Proton treating my data as a liability. Give me the tools to take away that liability by only sending them noise through an anonymous email address. I will pay for that.
How does Arc make P2P connections from a Service Worker? IIRC WebRTC isn't available.
Not a terrible thing to have happen. From a consumer perspective, it’ll be another factor for those who choose to buy rooftop solar and batteries. From a nation state perspective, it’s signal to ramp domestic manufacturing capacity for critical infra. 80 week lead times for high end transformers isn’t a terrible deviation from the norm (usually a year), but with the electrification of everything, it’s no longer acceptable for these lead times to be the norm (or not have strategic stockpiles of backups).
"No one defends(with claims of free speech) about phishers scamming older people with lies about being a Nigerian prince etc. but why is there so much push back against actions on fake news?"

Because it's easy to prove intent when they don't return the money (fraud/theft). It's harder to prove intent when it's just information without any sort of first order gains.

That said, suppression of information can lead to a dangerous situation. It would be better to provide substantial proof to refute it. Of course some people won't listen to reason.
The bigger economies have bigger budgets is just fine, and the investments would be proportional to size their respective automotive sectors. Sweden for example, has an outsized auto industry, but they can afford the investment.

If the EU wants to do this, they should be building the factory in Spain.

Failing that, France, Germany, Italy and possibly Sweden could each build their own, that would work an be 'fair'.

The worst option would be to use EU money to centralize it in Germany, with a large cohort of foreign workers. It exemplifies the systematic centralization of wealth and power in Germany which is literally the opposite of what the EU is supposed to be doing. Since France has been ailing, and the UK is out, the very original objective of the project is now turned upside down.
This is not a new debate by any stretch, there always was a slice of gamers that didn't rely on any specific shop, got their info through magazines/events etc. and didn't need any support outside of returns and repairs.

But as in the olden days, store staff have a role in solving "I wish I knew X or Y" kind of issues: basically the less verse a user is in the field the more the store can step in and help.

There's recommendations, but there also will be small info that is not obvious, like Switch's dock needing special USB chargers, or how language switch works, or what kind of violence there actually is in a game etc. All that info is available somewhere online, but for people who didn't/don't want to spend the time to get up to speed, knowledgeable staff is a boon.
Solid points. A report card for various privacy policies would be useful. Seen anything like that?
FTA:

> NSW, South Australia and the Northern Territory have ruled out the use of the check-in app data by police.

I'm curious about Victoria though.
Y'all want an Alphasmart.

The basic models like the classic iMac Themed 3000 were the best models for this but the Neo gets you a better screen and keyboard.
Sometimes I wonder if we just have too much democracy. What if we could move more to an indirect democracy? (I use the word 'we' loosely as I could be talking about any modern democracy, not a specific nation)

What if instead of electing the leader of a country, we elected the group that hired the leader? Like electing the board of a company rather than shareholders voting directly for a CEO.

This group would be perpetual campaigners, always out and about to understand the needs of the community. This is a full time job and a skill set that is quite different from managing a high level team or creating legislation. They would relay these to the President and discuss issues regularly with them. The President would be a normal employee in a sense (in the way that a CEO is a 'normal employee'). They wouldn't have to campaign for their role, nor run for re-election. They would be appointed by the elected group and also removed by them should their performance be poor, or the dominant ideology of the group change.

I'm not mad enough to think this would be a perfect process. There would still be lobbying and deal making but my hope would be that it is one step removed from the leaders themselves. Let them actually do their job with some dignity rather than forcing them to always be running for the next election and being trashed by opponents in the media.

Can we normalise the jobs of our leaders to encourage higher caliber applicants? What if we could have a leader that wasn't hated by 49% of the population before they even started?
"Inventory" (ideally), "Overhead" or "Waste". Raw materials can at least be resold in concept, but half-assembled gear (i.e. "work-in-progress") can easily end up in a sort of parallel universe where it's not easily sold without the additional investment of time and effort (either to break it back down into components or finish it for sale) but you have to pay each month to maintain it properly until it can be finished.

It's important to remember that in traditional manufacturing at the time, each work center wasn't graded on its ability to contribute to customer sales, they were graded on things like local efficiency on a per sub-assembly basis. The "customer" wasn't the end user, the "customer" was the plant manager or the PMO or some other stand-in.

The work centers were structured around functional tasks like "heat treat" or "machining" rather than an end user product, so your "high priority" customer product had to make it through multiple independent backlogs before it could be shipped, even in theory. God forbid rework would be needed! Quality issues were the job of customer service to address, not the work center that introduced the defect (as after all, it might be years before the sub assembly finally ends up in a user's hands).
Did not know that about Mercury, still thought it was tidally locked. Thanks for pointing that out.
Was there any evidence that the acronyms were a major cause of people not accessing the programs? Did anyone reach out and ask one of these people from "certain communities" about why they weren't making use of the programs? Did anyone actually look at the people using the program and verify that the "certain communities" were even underrepresented to begin with? Did anyone compare the makeup of people in the program after the name change to see if it increased representation?

Or maybe people just took a preconceived notion like "people who clean toilets for a living are probably too dumb to look up what an acronym means" and then made a pointless change that affected nothing and patted themselves on the back for how nice and progressive they are.

I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that if you're working (probably multiple) low wage jobs to support your kids, your biggest hurdle to getting them into an Arts program is probably not that it has a confusing acronym.

I agree that referring to something by an acronym and never explaining what it refers to is bad communication. That's why it is a common practice (and basic common sense) to spell out the acronym the first time it's used in a document. If the website for your organization refers to the name by an acronym only and never says what the full name is, that is a terribly designed website and you should fire whoever wrote it. That is the sort of thing you do when you care about communicating clearly. Changing the names of things every 5 minutes as you denounce the previous name as horribly offensive is not about communicating clearly. It's about moral posturing and virtue signalling.
Blizzard was literally actively marketing its games to imbeciles. I'd love to know how common that type of buying decision gets made and if it carries over to online game buying - Amazon lists the weight of items.

Rockstar Games takes the cake for the best material included with physical copies, every PS2 era game came with a booklet packed with material about the in-game world and GTAs also included a full-size poster and map. Any advertisements or leaflets included were always brilliant parodies that would lead to real sites. I've never seen this level of quality and depth from anyone except Rockstar.

Valiant Video Enterprises Winter/Spring Catalog and Preview Guide
https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Sony_Playstation_...

The companion parody website, password's not needed:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070225094519/http://www.valiant...
And I only use New York City as an example, because of the argument about spending money on investments and infrastructure near sea level.

People aren't currently avoiding New York because of sea level rise. And are spending far greater amounts on business investments there.
The enormous trade between China and the West is likely to mitigate some of this isolation - along with how exactly can you bring down the "western" internet? plus the chinese internet seems to be built on the same tech and protocols as "ours" - it's just the companies that are different ?

I am happy to be corrected but interested at the counter point to such doom and gloom
Broken_hippo, your response seems illogical to me. I am comparing a savvy person (Alice) and an un-savvy one (Bob) to show an example how even in a hard situation, being thoughtful about your finances is worthwhile.

You respond with a list of generic hardships but the points remains that one can navigate them poorly or well. For example:

> Alternatively, most banks in his area charge fees to poor people

One example of being savvy is being aware of things like that. The fact that most banks do X doesn't matter as long as you have the savvy to use one which does not. So 99% of people might go for these rip-offs but the 1% of the people who doesn't is better of.

That's the point I am making - being poor but able to navigate this puts you at a massive advantage compared to others, all other things equal.
In the twitter screenshot linked to in this post, there is a discussion of the authentication logging feature in the immediately following paragraph (the screenshot discussing IP logging).

https://twitter.com/OnEstLaTech/status/1434576598418796549?t...
There's no universe in which the answer to that question doesn't piss a lot of people off.

On one hand you remind people just how un-impaired various BACs are and that pisses them off.

On the other hand you make mildly sick people look like drunks and it becomes a potential pretext for denying people freedom of movement.
How did such an empty, ill-researched, ill-backed article even make it onto Hacker News?

"Drivel" is putting it charitably.
Use the OBS virtual camera to send whatever image you want over.
The trade war is going to be long and painful. Furnaces that can’t be replaced in the winter… brown outs that can’t be fixed for a year…
> No, reading code is far easier than writing it.

I'm gonna say I think that's flat out wrong in most cases.

Obviously there's a grey area for trivial stuff.
Looking at it from above, wouldn’t one way be a clockwise rotation, and the other be a counterclockwise rotation?
Saved me a click, thank you.
Review and approval of 3 agencies is apparently not even a speed bump.
i have no background, but i suspect you could try to flip it to your advantage.

that is, see what they're doing better than you, and copy it.

another option is to ping them and offer a deal - you let them sell it and take a cut, all legal.

another option is keep selling your version and they sell theirs and just try to concentrate on building up your brand - which maybe the real purpose of selling an e-book/etc. - so that you can build your email list, etc.

just some ideas. must suck.
An interesting argument. Is it a moral question, or philosophical, to extend life as long as possible? To further complicate that, what is a reasonable extension of life? Is it to replace the heart, lungs, all of the major organs? Is there a dividing line between the extension of life and the creation of a “ghost in the shell” ?

I don’t know. It is a hard question.
I was actually thinking of that last line about refunding for a sale but that doesn't quite apply. But if you read in to the first line about removing risk, that would imply trying it out with the intent of purchasing if you like it which is the purpose of a demo.

I have refunded about 40 purchases on steam and never had them denied if you fit in the 2 hours / 2 weeks rule.
One of my first major creative endeavors was that I wanted to design the successor to SNES. Not like… games. I mean games were my motivation! But hardware was how my brain interfaced with that as a smol.

In perhaps (absolutely) my most commanding leadership role ever, I rallied anyone in earshot to spec out SNES (physical dimensions and inputs, we had no idea what the actual electronics did) and dream bigger.

Obviously I wasn’t creating anything new at the time, but it’s wild how much I look back to that as the moment I started finding my footing.
That sounds like what table row partitioning is for, I thought all the major databases supported that?
...and the landing party always lands in the northern hemisphere.
A large amount of the marsh reduction is due to oil company activities. You're not wrong that we need to let the river shift, but that alone isn't going to save the coastline, and it's not the primary cause of the loss of the marshlands. Also, it should be noted that the largest lobby group against fresh water induction isn't environmental groups, but the commercial fishing industry. The second largest lobbying group against it is the recreational fishing community. Both of these groups have the support of environmental groups because fresh water induction would indeed kill a large percentage of anything living in that induction area, and those living things are part of the ecosystem that keeps the marshlands alive.

I don't think OP is wrong in that a Harvey situation would be disastrous. A decent percentage of the pumps in the city are broken for most of the year, and without those pumps, a storm like Harvey would likely result in levels of flooding similar to the levees breaking.
The levees can be raised.

And the buildings are on piles already. Relatively simple to raise, if needed, compared to what other coastal cities will have to do.

With extra stress on the word relatively.
quit job.

6 months off.
Some of these are deliberate artistic choices, but often they’re just included without even being thought about. That seems to be the value in a list like this: even if you pick the same thing as almost everyone else, at least you’re aware of it enough for it to be even a choice.
Yes, we would branch from upstream again and apply the patch set against the new branch. Normally it is trivial but once in a while there are manual changes necessary.
Upvoted, but I don't get it. What, exactly, were you doing?
while i definitely love a little push away from ecocidal insanity, this is not the right goal & not the right direction.

manufacturers should be able to do whatever. they can keep devices secure as long as they want, support as long as they please.

but once they stop being the agent of support for a device, right to repair needs to kick in. consumers need to be given the means to run their own software on devices, need to be granted access to the hardware, to the degree they purchased the device under. unlock the bootloaders, provide some kind of modifiable kernel to run the device, and let the world begin to pick up & maintain the post-market rubble left in capitisms wake. right to repair.
I have refunded plenty of games for just not being fun. You are right that they are awesome value if they are good but I don't see why I should pay $20 if I don't feel like I will ever pick up the game again and got less than an hour playtime.

Without refunds I would simply not purchase one unless I was sure it was good value, but with refunds I will buy something based on a few pictures on the store and see if I like it.
> Except neither of them make enough to pay rent, so that 'extra' never gets invested.

The only way to properly compare things is on an "all else equals basis" and focus on changing the variable you're discussing.

In my example, Bob "makes do" with the $6/h he gets to keep. Alice can chose to live a lifestyle identical to Bob despite "making" $1.5/h more due to her smart finance management. She can then invest (vs, if she was unsavy like Bob, she would be forced into the $6/h lifestyle anyway and not have the option to invest.)

You can tell yourself whatever you want, but there are lots of poor people who are no longer poor (or at least have some savings) because they DON'T allow themselves to think like you're suggesting.
This article definitely made me feel like my lifespan was shortened.

This author does not, in fact, say why we shouldn't. There is merely a hand-wavy comparison that in countries where life expectancy has increased also have more years of declined health.

In the last two sentences of this mess, the author asks whether it's ethical to increase the lifespan of richer countries without attempting to answer. Then, asserts that fairness would mean we focus on extending the lifespan of people living in less-developed countries. I'm still trying to figure out how this got from "living longer is bad" to "we should help under-developed countries live longer."

Save yourself the time of reading this. You'll live longer.
Temporary tables in cockroach exist, but the implementation was done largely to fulfill compatibility rather than for serious use.

The implementation effectively just creates real tables that get cleaned up; they have all the same durability and distributed state despite not being accessible outside of the current session.

Getting something done here turned out to be a big deal in order to get ORM and driver tests to run, which is extremely high value.

A better implementation would just store the data locally and not involve any of the distributed infrastructure. If we did that, then temp tables wouldn't run into the other schema scalability bottlenecks I'm raising above.
> Because primates are a universal deterministic outcome of evolution on all worlds

In all fairness, if you think of the constraints required for a species to become space-faring, you're going to be hard-pressed to make it work with an organism which isn't at least a bit like us.

1. You can't be a marine organism, because developing advanced technology requires combustion, and water isn't something you want to be carting into space with you.

2. You need a musculoskeletal system which can support a large brain. For non-marine organisms, this implies something with a big head on top of an upright stance.

3. Having a surplus of limbs is contraindicated for large organisms. Large limbs are expensive to build, and larger organisms are more constrained by gravity than surface tension, which makes multiple limbs less useful.

4. You need appendages for manipulating tools, and voices to debate and share ideas.

5. To develop non-trivial intelligence, you need to be multicellular, and multicellular organisms need to be able to reproduce. So, there is probably going to be sex involved, along with all the complexity that goes along with that, such as sexual competition and selection, caring for the young, and all the politics that arise from these kinds of interactions.

Putting these constraints together, you don't have too many options for aliens which are both realistic and interesting enough to build a story around. Your aliens are either:

* Bipedal politickers.

* Robots.

* Not capable of building something we would recognize as technology or civilization.
Me and a bunch of 7-8 year olds traced the physical contours of an SNES console and then furiously drew our imagined version of what would make games more fun.
i think the title is misleading.

better: "Ask HN: HOw can I get a job I really want?"

or, it sounds like you want even more than that.

which is fine.

but that's very different than 'how do i get a job?'.
Majority of the research at universities is powered by graduate students, most of whom are in turn internationals. This makes a lot of sense- which US/Canadian citizens with bachelor degrees in their right mind would do graduate research for less than minimum wage (international grads are paid for max 20 hours of work in the US), when they can make double or more by flipping burgers at McDonald's? So yeah, do your best for "primary" student population, this is pretty much how you give up scientific leadership and technological supremacy (to China).
> We already live far longer than our hunter-gatherer ancestors, who invariably snuffed it before the age of 40.

Not only does having an average lifespan ot 40 years not mean that everyone dies at 40, but it's also severely distorted by infant and early childhood mortality, which is higher than adult mortality, and increasingly so the farther back in time you go. When compared to our hunter-gatherer ancestors older than 13, we may not fare so well.
Yeah, I don’t get why some people cling to buying physical copies of every game when some of them are literally just outdated clients to pull the latest state from a server