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Italy makes constitution greener, environmentalists call for action
Things I Hate About Kubernetes
A few elementary calculations reveal how feasible this might be. A typical ICE produces a few hundred horsepower using 4-8 cylinders rotating at a few thousand RPM. 1 HP = 745 watts. Figure out how much energy is released per cylinder on each cycle, and compare that to the energy released in a typical fusion ignition. Also note the cycle time of an ICE rotating at a few thousand RPMs, and compare that to the cycle time of a current state-of-the-art fusion reactor. (Hint: the former is measured in milliseconds, the latter currently in months if not years.)
Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?
They think the car's body is made of clay, not fibreglass, because they only watched the first minute.
This is how it is where I work, too. We offer first-class support for Firefox and Chrome, but we really only have one person ever testing anything on Safari, because we only have one person with a Mac.
Do people really ignore this? The entire VC industry seems dedicated to these exact bets. The guys at Sequoia for example are approximating the kelly criterion and likely don't ever think about it explicitly.
It doesn't matter - the company is American, thus it can be "convinced" into cooperating.
They expand under the article (not the clearest visual design though, I thought it was an ad or some "related" section)

The record is for energy generated. They generated the most energy, however they did not generate the most power (unlike the previous record which generated both the most energy and most power) because they were focusing on sustained generation

The sentence "59 megajoules of sustained fusion-energy", where fusion is the source of the energy, doesn't make sense

I think they meant it as "59 megajoules of sustained-fusion energy" where sustained fusion is the focus of the experiment (not sure I managed to get through what I meant and it's worded awfully on the website)

I hope / expect the actual paper/technical reports which will come out will be worded more clearly
Seems pretty clear to me. Boris did something that offended a certain segment, so he makes amends by creating the perception he is going to do something that segment approves of. At least that seems to be what is implied.

The noted point here is it likely won't happen, but the underlying goal of creating such perception may be achieved.
I too had an m105. I used it in school growing up. I was really proficient with graffiti, I could write just as fast on the graffiti system as I could write in print. It also meant I had very well formatted notes for all my classes backed up on my computer. I would also write up a lot of rough drafts on my pilot to be cleaned up and finally edited on a desktop for all the papers I had to write for classes.

I later upgraded to a used CLIÉ PEG-SJ22. It was an awesome upgrade. with the high-res (320x320) color scree Just having an actual USB port on it made it so much more useful as then I could easily transfer things from school computers to home.
There are plenty of such tradeoffs... For example, the government could start a helicopter service to help people cross a river today, or they could build a bridge across the river, which will help far more people, but won't be ready for 5 years.

I assume governments have models to make decisions about utility now vs utility later, and the way that trades off with cost now vs cost later.

I don't see why this decision shouldn't just use those models and spend the money on whatever the models say makes sense.
Gotcha doc, thanks for you insight. But what about the millions of Americans that just go over and over to the same doctor to get a refill on their Lipitor, metformin, or beta blocker (metroprolol)? wouldn't it be easier to cater to that sector of healthcare with an AI that could automate the checkup process? just a thought.
50x is not orders of magnitude off. It's one order of magnitude
Thank you to post about this important issue. The demise of diversity in news sources is that local politics will lose its Fourth Estate (media) that acts as a check-and-balance. National politics will continue to be closely monitored by national papers. To all readers of any nationality: This issue will affect any democracy that sees a sharp decline in local news sources.
Love the Caterham 7, one day when the kids have left home the plan is to convince the wife building one is a good way to keep me out of the house. Amazingly our house has an inspection pit in the garage crying out to be used.
When discussing nuclear power plants we can all debate aspects of the bikeshed.

When discussing fusion power, we can all debate how many kettles we can boil.

Kind of funny :)
I think it's too late for that. If we tried to ban TikTok in the US, there'd be a public outcry.
That part was more about us being detected by others, really. The portion of the galaxy within which aliens could theoretically have noticed us since we developed radio technology and responded in a way we could have noticed by now is tiny.

As far as us noticing other civilisations is concerned the second point is the major one: the signals involved would just be really, really tiny. The "prematureness" is relative to our development of technology that could detect them.

You can of course posit that really advanced civilisations would produce massive energy signatures but I'm not sure that makes sense. The visible night time glow our planet produces due to our presence is a signature of inefficiency and light pollution. I'd hope that with better technology and politics we could make our planet look dark again from space. Efficiency, lack of wasted energy seems at least as likely to be a hallmark of a very advanced civilisation as huge, catastrophic energy releases. And even if those energy releases exist and really are spectacularly huge they'd still be massively hard to spot.
There was literally an executive order which banned TikTok if the Chinese parent company did not sell the platform[1]. That's a pretty real "tried to ban tiktok".

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13942
I know that account balances were just a "motivating example" here, but please, I beg you: don't handle accounts this way.

Double-entry accounting predates computers by many centuries, and solves a problem which computers still have. Use double-entry accounting internally if you're handling money! This means both the liability and the asset side of the equation are balanced when written, and can be (should be, must be) balanced across both entries as well.
If you are going to do it "that way", then don't elect to participate in the TweetDeck Preview, because that nerfs Twitter in pretty much the same manner you are escaping.

It is a losing battle fighting for Twitter against... Twitter.
> Laws and regulations have done more to enable morally and ethically questionable behavior, via regulatory capture, than anything good.

I don't even know where to start with this, but let's take things that have come up here, like the Boeing MCAS, or WV Diesel-scandal, etc. These were due to lack of regulation. They certainly wouldn't have been avoided by laissez-faire capitalism.

> The point is that this behavior is a bad human problem, not a capitalism problem. And historically, capitalism has lead to a massive reduction in bad human behavior on an unprecedented scale, largely due to the economic and moral foundations upon which it is built.

Sure, I actually agree with that. The point is that capitalism doesn't solve any of those human problems. You mention in passing that they do, due to "moral foundations". Please elaborate on these.

Without "bad human" problems, any economic system ever tested in history would work fine, including the ones you don't like.

The only reason modern "capitalist states" work is because they have a functioning state enforcing the playing field so game is fair.

Can it be abused? Yes, exactly like every other system. Is capitalism abused when no rules or referees are present? Of course, just like any other system.
Yeah this is how my Hyundai Kona (2020) works and I think it's a good bridge between both. Touchscreen for CarPlay navigation, knobs on the dashboard, and additional buttons on the steering wheel (volume up/down, skip, mute, answer call).
AI driver can beat some of the best players at Gran Turismo
> considering Marx was a literal man child

I must ask. Why, according to you, was he a "literal man child"?
I think they use the SIM card country ID and also the ad audience categories to suggest content.

For example swapping the SIM card with a fresh installation of TikTok shows different "local" videos. Even if the public IP address is unchanged like when using WiFi instead of Data.

I've also think they use ad categories to suggest videos. Using a fresh TikTok installation and then spending some time navigating a subreddit of a topic, would likely show videos of that topic the next time you open TikTok.
This makes me unaccountably sad. And yet, it also feels inevitable, with all the changes to the UX.

Bah.
I would like to emphasize, since I did not already do so, that I make no value judgment. It is the public that does not want the US government to do "socialism", but there seems to be a real need for it so politicians do it through the back door. How well that works is another matter. It's not wrong for politicians to pay attention to try to keep jobs, or to keep certain industries alive for which there only is infrequent real need, which the short-term business management outlook would leave rotting.

I think independent of how well it works, or how terrible, to me it's an example of the "life finds a way" meme. Some great need exists, but also some great constraints, and a large amount of irrationality, so the outcome is what it is.

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> Just imagine where we'd be if the US had a similar "Focus here" initiative for semiconductors since the 1960s.

You may want to buckle up and watch the excellent talk https://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo

> Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private venture capital and peopled by fabled entrepreneurs. But it wasn't always so. Unbeknownst to even seasoned inhabitants, today's Silicon Valley had its start in government secrecy and wartime urgency.

> In this lecture, renowned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank presents how the roots of Silicon Valley sprang not from the later development of the silicon semiconductor but instead from the earlier technology duel over the skies of Germany and secret efforts around (and over) the Soviet Union. World War II, the Cold War and one Stanford professor set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. The world was forever changed when the Defense Department, CIA and the National Security Agency acted like today's venture capitalists funding this first wave of entrepreneurship.
But more expensive (4 plane tickets instead of two, for example).
It 100% depends on what you like. I've been using tiktok forever and a day and all I see is funny stuff that is relevant to me. Very obscure niche things that have 1000 hearts - it's scary good at recommending relevant content.

If you are seeing political content, it's just because you told the algorithm that you enjoy interacting with that type of content.
On the flip side, are there dangers of "low status, high-wage" jobs?

E.g. certain blue-collar jobs can pay as high as any white-collar jobs.

Another example would be programmers can be seen as a low-status, high-wage job. They are paid a lot and trusted to do their job, but the main high-level decisions are still made at higher levels above the programers.
You're sort of on the right track if you're familiar with URL/percent encoding, actually. I have no idea why, but paraphrased comments by the podcast hosts from the code author (they contacted him) suggest that he was attempting to decode all incoming strings as if they were percent encoded[0] without any failsafes in place. Since "% I" isn't a valid character reference (or even hexadecimal), it chokes on it.

[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-2.1
> Being on par with what other popular browsers implement.

1. There are no "other popular browsers".

There's the dominant Chrome. There's Safari. There's Mozilla which is rapidly declining into obscurity. Maybe there's MS Edge?

2. What's on par? Define this "on par"

Example: Safari doesn't implement "Add to home screen". Neither does Firefox. Is this on par enough? Same for Background Sync API etc.

So. What is this "proper PWA support" you're talking about?
TLDR: The oldest Airbus A350 models have paint flacking issues due to different thermal expension of its main body composite material and the copper shell surrounding it to dissipate electric surge due to thunder strike. The issue is real, has been affecting multiples companies and is acknowledged by Airbus which has apparently improved the paint on its newest models and offers a touchup or total repaint as a solution.

Airbus says the issue is purely cosmetic and that the planes are airworthy despite the flacking. The European regulator agreed and at least one European company flew the planes until their scheduled maintenance where the issue was fixed without issue.

The Quatar aviation authority didn't agree and grounded the planes of Quatar Airways. Quatar Airways is therefore asking a compensation from Airbus for its grounded planes of 700 millions euros. Airbus refuses to pay and canceled every Quatar Airways orders when the company sued. The situation is murky. Quatar Airways is the national company. Airbus thinks the national aviation authority grounded the planes disingenuously to allow Quatar Airways to claim a compensation as these planes would have been empty anyway due to the pandemic.

The situation is interesting because it used to be unusual for plane manufacturers to fight back customers. This underlines a shift in the power dynamic between Airbus and the airlines and highlights how strong a position Airbus has in the duopoly it shares with Boeing.
Any chance those Tampermonkey scripts are available to others?
It's true, we all start somewhere. I ran a (very minor) storage service a while back while learning to code and the maintenance and risk profile is a much bigger liability than you might initially realise. Good luck with it though!
I think parent was commenting on the "China bans US tech, we should ban TikTok", which is just reflexive poop throwing between two countries. GDPR is totally different: it's a level headed statement of principles for how ALL tech companies should treat user data.
I did not say it was a requirement but you must concede that cultural understanding is greatly expedited by actual experience. The best I can do to summarize my thoughts is this. If you can replace the verb travel with the verb go, you are missing the whole point. The point of traveling is not to go to museums in a different place. This correctly encompasses the feeling that business "travel" is not "traveling". No one cares for doing the same thing in merely a different physical location. Things get confusing when people use the word travel as a means of experiencing something new. For instance, "we traveled to Costa Rica and went ziplining. It was fun." The part about Costa Rica is irrelevant to the experience. While these uses of the word travel are grammatically correct, it lacks, in my opinion, what many proponents of travel mean as there is no single word that encompasses the emotion in English. It is a great shame that exchange students and spring breakers get clumped into the same bucket as the two could not be further apart in terms of motive and outcome. At the end of the day, traveling is a deeply personal experience and there is nothing wrong with these other forms of travel (Mexico has great beaches!) but if one finds traveling to be empty, stop treating travel as a commodity that one gains. I end with a quote from Good Will Hunting:

> So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that.
the flu going to zero , without a significant task force or public initiative to determine root cause, was one of the major moments undermining public trust. it’s so outlandish and yet was embraced on face value as “see lockdowns work” . if an accountant has an account go to zero one day, he’ll get to the bottom of where the funds went

even if the hypothesis was true , the lack of any meaningful evidence or due process itself should worry people . and the hypothesis is preposterous
Some people might see it that way, but most people see ice on the roads and really narrow shoulders as a literally deadly risk to biking outdoors. There might be some hardos that’ll still bike in these conditions, but for the other 95% of people who want to get some bike exercise, indoors is the way to go.
It also misses the other rather obvious factor: newspapers have owners, editors and readers. Owners often are very open about their agenda, editors have owners to please, historic reputations to uphold and their own politics (which is often a bit more firmly established than a twentysomething first jobber's) and the subset of the population that actually pays for newspapers has their own opinion of the sort of content it wants to read.

Most of the stereotypes about bubbles of young underpaid, overeducated middle class status-chasers living in the capital and associating mostly with other young people, journalists and politicos/intellectuals could be applied to the UK, but our mainstream print media leans right (with a couple of very outspoken exceptions, whose journalists live in the same bubble!), as you might expect from the personal politics of their owners, and newspapers are bought in much greater numbers by older, more right wing people
Ask HN: Is anyone working on anything cool in remote schooling/learning?
It seems that during the pandemic we crossed some invisible line with regard to remote working, certainly in tech adjacent fields. Remote schooling has been a much tougher nut to crack for a variety of reasons. My own kids, jr high and college age, have seen their instructors just abjectly fail at running online versions of their classes. One would think that two years in things would improve but there’s no sign of that from what I can see.

Is anyone here working on anything cool in EduTech that they wouldn’t mind sharing/describing? Any thoughts on how we could improve remote and / or hybrid learning?
Yeah, it is crazy! Crazy more expensive and wasteful than installing land lines.

People in the developing world are not going to pay a high enough price to float this business. The vast majority of people in rich countries have cheaper and better internet already installed.
To me an executive order doomed to fail in the courts really isn't a real attempt.
I don't think it's a bad thing, because it is what I expected. (Edit: what I meant is that it confirmed my belief in how things work, and did not assert a need to reexamine my mental model of politicians) And if this revelation goes some way to shaking people out of the naivety and blind conformity that were needed to support lockdowns, then that is ultimately a good thing.

For democracy to survive, people must sharpen their political antennae.

"Evil in the modern world is done neither by monsters not by bureaucrats, but by joiners. That evil originates in the neediness of lonely, alienated bourgeois people who live lives so devoid of higher meaning that they give themselves fully to movements" Helen Arendt after watching the Nazi trials.
I thought the most curious was the ratio of third:first party domains for magazines and news.

It suggests they control very little of their technical, revenue-generating infrastructure.

Which is interesting when the narrative is "The internet is destroying journalism." But another way to phrase it might be "All of these companies drastically underinvested in web/mobile, and continue to do so." (Although the NYT seems to have a higher ratio than most, but I believe they divorced themselves from Google and brought a lot back in-house?)
From Over Here: stutterer film short
Dressed with visual splendor: your food will be synthetic; your home will be abstracted; your leaders bathetic, and your soul distracted. Material austerity is coming.
Google account hacks dropped by half after pushing 2FA by default
This was no regular spherical cow, I tell you it was assumed to be time-independent while at the same time having an oscillatory frequency.
> I decided to build a nine-bit computer

Somehow I was sure that sentence was going to end with "... in MineCraft!"
The basic reproduction number of COVID-19 in an immunologically naive population is much higher than that of Influenza. Most countries stopped the first COVID wave using non-pharmaceutical interventions that should work against all respiratory diseases. I find it not at all surprising that this has completely crushed seasonal Influenza rates.

As far as I know, in the beginning of the pandemic, western countries generally relied on rtPCR for confirming COVID-19 cases. This makes it extremely unlikely that Influenza cases were mislabeled.
I'll say your statement seems strictly worse than the one you are quoting. She had a valid point and a way of characterizing those making the other point that doesn't even seem insulting. You, on the other hand, want to devolve the conversation entirely into irrelevancy.

It's not likely your post will change her tweet, but hopefully this post can salvage this part of the thread.

To that end: Chrome seems to currently be in a more dominant position than IE ever was. Even Microsoft was unable to build a competing browser, and they threw real
resources at it. The only thing that is holding the line is Safari (I use Firefox, but its a rounding error). I think it's vitally important we don't let Google keep leveraging their control until they own the entire internet. AMP seems to have imploded, which is good, but it won't matter if for 99% of the people it's opening Chrome or Chromium, going to Google and typing in where they want to go.
Can you tell me what sort of "workspace" you use when working with your child?

I have a 7yo that is starting to show interest in technology, and I'd like to do some visual scripting with her. I have laptops and raspberry pis (though no dedicated monitor for a pi), and she has a chromebook from school that may or may not allow application installations.

Do you sit side-by-side? Who drives? Those are the sort of details I'm curious about.

When we sit together on a laptop someone seems always frustrated by screen angle or lack of control, and that friction is something I want to minimize as much as possible.
Can the tool push policies to other OCI registries like docker hub or the GitHub registry? I mean, it's nice to have a dedicated registry for OPA policies but are there alternatives?
Tesla uses Qt.

Ford is using an HTML-based interface in the Mach-E (and vehicles which get infotainment systems derived from that new generation of infotainment system). I've seen rumors that Ford is using React to power that interface, but I wasn't able to pin down any real sources.

This explains to some degree how Tesla is able to have such a buttery smooth UI on such terrible Intel Atom hardware (until recently.. they're switching to much better hardware now). At the same time, the Mach-E interface is not very smooth at all, but it is functionally pretty good. I think Ford should have a leg up on rapidly improving their infotainment interface, given that I would expect React to make some things easier than Qt... but Ford has so far failed to demonstrate that they can effectively distribute OTA updates, regardless of early promises. Hopefully they get that figured out soon.