skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Since 1993, sea levels have risen about 0.5cm (0.2 inches) per year, according to a 2011 Australian government report."

That's 14 cm of elevation on sea level alone.

Coastal erosion can be mitigated, but I don't think Tuvalu has the resources to build and deploy the required amount of breakwaters required to protect the island themselves. Climate change is something that has to be addressed at a global level.

edit: math correction
IMO this was already evident in some goods like vehicles. We are already living in the era of the 100k pickup truck. You can hardly buy anything new that is decent under 40k nowadays.

Unless we see commensurate rises in wages we are in for some real difficulty if this continues.
You don't even need those sorts of justifications, because government investment is historically how things got built.

The Great American Giant (Intel) could never have existed without massive R&D spend in the post-war period, not to mention the fact that it more recently had its ass completely whipped by a government-funded company (the aptly-named Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited).

But, anyways, the answer to your question is: because government ==== bad.
VRML is still used as an input format for colour 3d printing, eg. https://www.stratasysdirect.com/resources/design-guidelines/...
Yeah, I agree there's some waste and boondoggles. I'm just arguing that they're necessary in order for government to function.
I mentioned that companies shouldn't decide what is budget for people, and your response is to list a lot more companies and what those companies consider budget?

>real life people looking to buy "cheap" phones are looking to pay ~<$500 for it.

A good portion of the world must not be "real life people" to you. I will hazard a guess and say that you must have lived a life without much financial difficulty.
> iOS devices do full backups to iCloud

Right but that functionality dates back quite a few years now, back from iTunes and before cloud computing. I'm not sure they'd build that functionality today.

Exactly as you say - what is the point of a full phone backup when you don't normally store any files on your phone? They could back up the metadata of what apps you have installed and where you've put them on your home screen. I'm not sure it's worth doing much else?
You're the one who made the assertion - curious on your sources. If you're simply looking at fiscal stimulus spending that's a pretty naive view of economics.
You are not alone : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusive_thought
Twitter web is done with React Native.
They add up. Don't forget that Google was also fined 4.3 billion euros and 1.5 billion euros in two other instances.

And there's other places on Earth that may impose their own fines.
Typography Crash Course by Henry J. Perez
The Amiga (EA) IFF format was adopted by Microsoft as RIFF (essentially the same format but with little-endian numbers for x86), which is the basis of WAV and AVI, among others.
That doesn't really change much, it's a rounding error in the calculation. The actual number if you compare to the pre-recession peak is 29.7%.
My MacBook Air M1 (Big Sur) has crashed twice when watching Netflix.

Both times it was when I moved my mouse after 20 minutes or so of watching fullscreen via my USB-C monitor in Safari.
Bunch of MBAs come up with idea of how to increase profits, aha! let's outsource some parts to China.

next batch of MBAs, hey we are having too much expenses and issues with assembly and logistics, let's outsource more parts to China so we can assemble there cheaply and ship ready product to warehouses globally directly from China!

next batch of MBAs, hey why do we need those bunch of old grumpy engineers? let's decrease salaries and get rid half of them, we operate as a franchise/brand operator now.

next batch of MBAs, hey we are having high employee attrition rate of engineers in our Chinese facilities, let's increase their salary or outsource to Urumqi, doesn't matter if they are having human right issues, its cheap anyway.

CEO, Hey government we need bailout, we need your money, we are creating jobs (not here), we can't innovate fast enough (yeah sure, we don't have hands on talent anymore), China is leading now (yeah of course)

I wonder will China make same mistake in the future when outsourcing jobs to USA, thinking it has cheap labor?
In other words infrastructure.
LIGO is a huge milestone. Turning it on is like the moment Galileo pointed his telescope to the moon. This is a new class of instruments observing the universe in a medium that was never utilized before. Using gravitational waves can observe things that cannot be seen before, like stars behind the dust clouds.

It opens a new window to the world. We might finally be able to “see” dark matter. May be able to see the gravitational imprint from before the Big Bang, the gravitational leak from extra dimension or other universes.
It used to be the same for me, when I started with Tiger until Snow Leopard, I never had crashes. Uptime was months.

Then I started getting some crashes occasionally but still relatively rarely. This increased a bit around Sierra then reduced again with Mojave.

Then Catalina happened and with the new 2019 mbp retina, I started having crashes about once every two weeks. Now, I have an mba m1 running Big Sur, and I think my average uptime is around 2-3 days. Crashes are now something typical, I no longer expect my computer to run for long stretches of time. For a few months, my mba couldn't even go to sleep with crashing, couldn't restart without crashing, this was only solved once I updated to 11.6.1 (I tried reinstalling mac os x before to solve this, it didn't help)

So, yes macs used to be very stable but not anymore, I don't know what happened with Apple's QA but it seems there's now major issues. I didn't change the way I use my mac, if anything now I don't use SIMBL or kernel extensions (which I used to use back when my mac didn't crash) so things should be more stable not less. Yet, despite having ever more control over our machines, being more restrictive over what we can do, Apple somehow is making their system less stable, more flaky than before.

Of course, this is anecdotal, I might be very unlucky but in the past year, I've had quite a few coworkers drop out of calls or be temporarily unavailable, telling me that their mac crashed and they needed to reboot. So, it does seem to be widespread.
Honestly I just press the unsubscribe button in apple mail or the link in the message and if those don’t work, mark it as spam.

I also consider having to make any extra action on the website as the link not working.
And since the student taking the quiz very frequently has no choice over whether or not they have to be there or take the quiz, their desires and goals are entirely irrelevant.

Edit: are you intentionally or unintentionally trying to justify any and all cheating as a means to get the highest grade possible?
I mean that is the game right?

They are two heads of the same beast, moving back and forth very rapidly and calling it progress.

Meanwhile popular policies like universal healthcare[0] and marijuana legalization[1] are never addressed. ( To name a few, there are many more ).

And the reason is clear. Tying healthcare to employment keeps people from organizing effectively. If you have a family, and you are on strike, your employer cutting off your healthcare is a brutal move. Also, people get fat off the bureaucracy.

Similar for marijuana legalization. Need to keep the prisons fed with new "forced customers" so the gravy train keeps rolling.

0: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/29/increasing-...

1: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/14/americans-s...
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Geo-tiffs are the go to standard in GIS integration of any property map. Photoshop works really well with tiffs.
Translating a dose in mg to the equivalent amount of dried mushrooms you would likely come across recreationally is quite difficult, but I believe 25mg equates to something like 4-5g of dried mushrooms which would be a full on trip beyond surfaces flowing like water :sweat-smile:
This was my first thought. Writing is incredibly slow. I can barely even operate a pen anymore. I don't see any reason why this mechanism couldn't be used on any thought patterns. If the subtle motions of typing aren't high-fidelity enough to be differentiated, I still wouldn't have chosen normal letter patterns; I'd design a new motion alphabet that is much easier and faster to "write" by thought.

The article alludes to this:

> the researchers say that alphabetical letters are very different from one another in shape, so the AI can decode the user's intention more rapidly as the characters are drawn, compared to other BCI systems that don't make use of dozens of different inputs in the same way

The fact that it works so well on these complex motions means it can probably work better and faster if they use an alphabet with simpler--but still distinct--motions. Probably lots of lessons to be learned from shorthand and other rapid transcription techniques.

Losing the ability to communicate scares the hell out of everyone. This is amazing progress. And it'll have plenty of applications even for able-bodied people.
Care to elaborate as to why you think Uber is still sustainable, beyond simply telling others to put their money where their mouths are?
> O/0 and I/1/l are confusable characters within ASCII.

You're mixing up two different ways that people use the word "confusable": things that look similar in some fonts, versus things that look exactly the same regardless of font. I want the latter to be banned from source files but not the former.
For me, the reason was that I had found out Obsidian is not open source as I initially thought.
Assuming they don't appeal and lower them.
Yep agreed. I tried to once wrangle together all the React frameworks to make something like what flutter offers, but in the end I gave up and used Flutter just because of how easy it makes it to run everything cross platform. Since the RN versions for desktop are third party, I didn't have much confidence in them being supported well, as you said.
When I think back to when I was a kid, getting around school internet filters and helping my friends remove parental controls from their devices, I can't help but think the Streisand Effect was hard at work in my brain. The adults was determined that I wouldn't see a thing so I was determined to see it because what could they be hiding?

Now approaching the age where the thought of having a family and kids is on my mind more and more, I always wonder how I will approach this problem. I can't think I would do it any differently than you. For young children sure, throw up DNS filtering at the router level and the kiddos' will be none the wiser. But if my future kid ever turns out like me, that will probably only work until 7 or 8 (when I figured out how routers worked), at that point I would think it has to be an honest conversation about all the crap on the internet. Even when I was a kid I knew when the adults were feeding me a load of crap.
... it was a joke about a "hardcore X Y problem."
Well, I'm Russian, so why wouldn't I argue on behalf of Russian people?

What you say about 'google employees threatened with arrest' is pure bullshit. On the voting app was removed from the Google Play, but everyone who were interested (me included) installed that app directly. No Google employees were arrested for that.

If Apple allowed the same functionality, nothing would happen to their employees, and their users would benefit. I know many Apple users who were quite outraged with Apple's actions, but were forced to comply.

So YOU are bargaining on behalf of Putin, to keep the user-hostile Apple policy that is so beneficial to him.
I'm not getting HDR output from the Firefox browser on macOS (but I am on Chrome and Safari). 'Color' field in stats for nerds shows bt709 in firefox (i.e. not HDR) and smpte2084 (PQ) / bt2020 in Chrome/Safari (i.e. HDR).

Also side by side the Firefox picture is flatter and less bright.
It's probably not "a few weeks and then never again" -- I'm not depressed, but anecdotes from people I know who've tried mushrooms at home for this suggest that one trip produces a noticeable improvement that fades over time.

It's possible that the full experience with a trained therapist who supervises the trip could produce longer-lasting changes, of course.
>Technological advancement and others are simply by-products.

lol - and what by-products those are! Before widespread adoption of capitalism look at the pace of technological and economic development. How many people were in poverty - and I mean real poverty, not the ridiculous definitions of "poverty" we have today. Freedom, self-determination, governance - capitalism was the grease that unlocked the true human potential - everyone working collectively towards their own enlightened self interests.
Search YouTube for Milton Freedman and the pencil - he does an amazing job of outlining just how remarkable the free market is when you think about it - even for something as simple as a pencil. Decentralized/cooperative beats the hell out of central planning every time - simply because there are far too many variables, even with todays modern technology.

Is capitalism perfect? Nope. It's simply leaps and bounds better than any other systems we have used before it. It's not even close!

>If technological advancement does not satisfy the return of capitals, it simply turns its focus elsewhere, be it making wars, dealing drugs or slaves, or whatever that brings about the biggest return of capital within acceptable risks.

How is war, killing your customers with drugs or even slavery remotely profitable? Especially since the capitalistic countries rejected slavery ahead of most other non-capitalistic countries.

You need to bone up on history a bit more and stop buying into political propaganda.
How does inflation help debt become more serviceable if incomes don't go up to match?
I guess it's this one?[0]

For me, as a tech-guy, rsync (or similar) _is_ actually better than Dropbox. :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18255896
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10186369/The...
has some more info:

"A 10ft-long projectile was rapidly accelerated to thousands of miles an hour in a rotating arm before being released for launch 'in less than a millisecond'.

The first suborbital flight used about 20 per cent of the accelerator's full power capacity and reached a test altitude 'in the tens of thousands of feet,' Yaney said.

The vehicle used did not have a rocket engine onboard but SpinLaunch does plan to add one, as well as other internal systems, in future test flights.
"
Much of what you say is true. We could theoretically still avoid catastrophic change and stay below 1.5 degrees but I’m increasingly doubtful of that after COP26 and pitiful net zero (instead of net negative) commitments

Solar Geoengineering is something that could be considered. It is underfunded these days but we should do a better job of studying & modeling it’s effects if we ever hope to deploy it. Heck I think these island nations should deploy geoengineering techniques today. Albeit that last statement is partially in jest because the technology isn’t there yet. (It could have downstream consequences in the rest of the world, but clearly the rest of the world has geoengineered the climate using fossil fuels. These nations deserve a chance
to protect their homes even if the method is drastic.)
You can have negative inflation, but don't central banks work really hard to avoid that because (the theory goes) deflation will kill spending?
Yea, I was confused when I saw TIFF in the list. I get email attachment with TIFF occasionally through my job. I know TIFF is still common in other fields. It is possible the author is in the fields that don’t encountered TIFF enough and went with the assumption that it is forgotten format.
I think you're a decade too soon there.

Windows 95 & 98 would crash pretty frequently. Not as badly as win 3 though.
NT 4.0 was no bastion of stability either. Windows didn't stabilize until well after Win2000 versions.

MacOS 7 & 8 also not great. The first versions of OS X were also pretty flaky.

In my experience dependable reliability of workstations and servers didn't happen until the mid-2000s
where just software couldn't simply blue screen an OS, or lock it up forever.

If I remember rightly it was about that time that MS got serious about driver reliability, which seemed to
help a lot.
This was going well until point 6. Fusion isn't anywhere near practical in 2021, it requires lots of investment and research to do even a first prototype. And it is a high tech marvel that won't be cheap to operate. So the funding for it may eventually dry out in favour of boring tech fission plants.
There are cheap nfts and expensive nfts, and the only people who care already have nfts. Its not a general flex it's a flex to other nft memers which is a low status flex no matter what.

Its like walking around with a Gucci billboard on your forehead - you think youre flexing but youre actually just demonstrating clown shoes.

Nobody cares how expensive your nft is. They have no use anywhere. Its like having the fanciest clownshoes - you're still a clown.
>they can just let the union walk out and hire a bunch of different unskilled fungible peons. So it doesn't work for e.g. Amazon warehouse workers

there's no way Amazon could come close to functioning if their warehouse workers unionized and walked out. it would take them years to find enough people to fully staff their warehouses again and it'd cost them billions of dollars
you mean like what happened with bombadier?

these large coorperations and the nations backing them is nothing new.

Also, it is a strategic intrest of europe to protect airbus, especially considering it is the model in terms of being a multinational, truely european company[1], compared to a national one.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea
To be clear I’m completely oblivious to what Unicode identifiers are. As such I’m not talking about them, and they are out of scope wrt to my point.

What I am advocating is that identifiers used for symbols in the programming language (variables-names, function-names, class-names, etc), should be strictly ASCII-based.

That’s simple, understandable and should be a sane default anywhere.

My opinion is that since nobody without a doctorate in Unicode actually fully understands Unicode, having a rule-set for identifiers built on top of the already bewildering Unicode rule-set is a sure-fire way to engineer for unexpected consequences and/or security issues.

Sure. Allow it if you must. But you must opt in to use it. It should be a non-default feature everywhere where it’s available.
Printers are plug-and-play on Windows, macOS, and especially iOS (AirPrint) if 1. you're always printing PDFs at 100% scale, single-sided, black-and-white, and 2. you're printing against a printer where that particular configuration is its wheelhouse (i.e. a laser printer.)
If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying
Yeah. Here's an example. It's exactly the same as any other Algol file except for the lang declaration at the top.

https://github.com/racket/algol60/blob/master/examples/nquee...
FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults [Last updated: 09/27/2021]
Can this be used for interrogation technique?
> such as European-style mixed-use.

Property prices in Europe are even higher than the US though (per m2).
> Google [...] market entrants

How did you draw a line from the former to the latter?
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"the market can remain irrational longer than... " you know the rest.

A high market cap does not invalidate any argument. Enron was highly valued, real estate funds were highly valued, Theranos was highly valued, etc... until they weren't.
Most of the IFF images produced on the Amiga were also ordered by bitplanes, but that's bitplanes of an n-bit number for each pixel, referencing a colour lookup tables.
> Ask people inside DOD...

DOD is a rural jobs program. It functions as intended.

Other branches of the federal government that aren't designed to be jobs programs (e.g., NSF) do tend to make good investments and get things done.
Yes! If you blindly do what any client says, you will waste a lot of your time and a lot of their time.
I think the next step would be predictive text. Have 3+ symbols that correspond to a screen that is in the subject's eye line. Basically just leverage the current tech to streamline this.
I see what you mean, thanks for pointing all of that out. I admit that the finer points of privacy are not really my area. We only meant that we as a company don't collect or store or use the data of anyone who interacts with us.

But I wasn't paying attention to embeds and also WordPress stuff that's going on. I'll probably roll a local audio player to address that. As for WP...maybe it's a plugin I'm using. I'll look into it. We really want all our interactions to be a pull from the user. Because as a user myself, I try to avoid services and products that want to be my friend forever.

Thanks again!
According to wikipedia (and I assume the linked source), the 6 new EPR will be done under the newer version called EPR 2. Great naming schemes and all.

Those 6 new one was the news from 2020. The one we see in the article is unspecified and could be a reference to the 6 EPR 2 or something else. Same is true for the 150 Chinese plants being planned.

The biggest fault in the old EPR design process seem to be the mid-construct patch that occurred in 2012 as a result of the Fukushima accident. Other issues seems to be related to goals like "world’s highest-output nuclear plant". They decided to use rather exotic form of steel, within the upper limit of what can be created. Given the decision of making the highest-output nuclear plants, and there are only a few places in the world that can create and work the kind of steel that the design require, the budget did not work. In addition, the exotic nature of the material makes it difficult to weld correctly.

The open questions I see is if EPR 2 also require similar exotic materials, if the exotic materials has improved in availability and price, and if the experience in welding it has improved to the point where fewer mistakes are done. It is also possible that by not trying to achieve new world records in plant size and output, the budget might be more reasonable. The world largest and highest wind turbine might be a nice research goal, but building one at the limit of current material would not be my first choice if costs were a priority.
Agree! Furthermore the reason we have such bloated and garbage software is a combination of this kind of feature creep and a complete lack of modularity.

Want pause functionality: write a small utility to provide an easy way to start and kill any program.

Want notifications: write a program to monitor any file and provide notifications when something it added to it.

Searching: grep or a GUI equivalent

Syncing: rsync/syncthing/Dropbox…

Someone will complain most people can’t use these tools. Firstly that wasn’t the initial question, and secondly that’s something I’d love to see tackled in a GUI tool. I don’t think it’s impossible, just misaligned with the incentives of people who make and overcharge for proprietary software.
I did some brief googling on the topic earlier, and the best I could find was "anywhere from 5-20 milligrams of psilocybin per gram of dried mushroom". Which is very unhelpful for working out whether these people took a strong dose by recreational standards. :D
I wonder if it will be an actual "repair", or will they just come and give you a refurbished iPhone and transfer all your data to it.
Biden is used by the D party and allowed a little leeway when he's clear. To be fair, I'm not sure Biden is worse than Trump, who ran amok. It will take decades to recover from the damage done to parts of the country and world (eg lifting the freeze on coal-leases, lift ban on personnel landmines, judge appointments, etc).