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> Changing directions: Steering science, technology and innovation for the Sustainable Development found that research and innovation around the world is not focused on meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, which are a framework set u­p to address and drive change across all areas of social justice and environmental issues.

https://globalgoals.org/ #GlobalGoals #SDGs #Goal17

Each country (UN Member State) prepares an annual country-level report - an annual SDG report - on their voluntary progress toward their self-defined Targets (which are based upon Indicators; stats).

Businesses that voluntarily prepare a sustainability report necessarily review their SDG-aligned operations' successes and failures. The GRI Corporate Sustainability report is SDG aligned; so if you prepare an annual Sustainability report, it should be easy to review aligned and essential operations.

GRI Global Reporting Initiative is also in NL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Reporting_Initiative

> Critically, the report finds that research in high-income and middle-income countries contributes disproportionally to a disconnect with the SDGs. Most published research (60%-80%) and innovation activity (95%-98%) is not related to the SDGs.

Strategic alignment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_alignment

https://USAspending.gov resulted from tracking State-level grants in IL: the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Funding_Accountability...

Unfortunately, https://performance.gov/ and https://USAspending.gov/ do not have any way to - before or after funding decisions - specify that a funded thing is SDG-aligned.

IMHO, we can easily focus on domestic priorities and also determine where our spending is impactful in regards to the SDGs.

> Illustrating the imbalance, the report found that 80 percent of SDG-related inventions in high-income countries were concentrated in just six of the 73 countries

Lots of important problems worth money to folks:

#Goal1 #NoPoverty

#Goal2 #ZeroHunger

#Goal3 #GoodHealth

#Goal4 #QualityEducation

#Goal5 #GenderEquality

#Goal6 #CleanWater

#Goal7 #CleanEnergy

#Goal8 #DecentJobs

#Goal9 #Infrastructure

#Goal10 #ReduceInequality

#Goal11 #Sustainable

#Goal12 #ResponsibleConsumption

#Goal13 #ClimateAction

#Goal14 #LifeBelowWater

#Goal15 #LifeOnLand

#Goal16 #PEACE #Justice

#Goal17 #Partnership #Teamwork

If you label things with #GlobalGoal hashtags, others can find solutions to the very same problems.
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Also there are tiers of ice and if you've never consciously paid attention to the fact that restaurant ice is so much better than your freezer it's because they use a different process making it, it's called "nugget ice" and you can just buy one of the machines that makes it. I feel like it's weird saying it was a noticeable quality of life improvement but it really was. I munch on ice constantly now.

Do be prepared for the sticker shock, it comes in at "major appliance" prices because ... well it is.
Will LCSC sell me a single $6.76 board?

https://lcsc.com/product-detail/Microcontroller-Units-MCUs-M...

Amazing the CPU is priced at $0.10 and clocked 2-3x higher than the Macintosh computers I grew up using.

The available memory on these is a lot less than those old macs, though. They tended to have 4-32MB of RAM and 40-120MB discs.

Anyone know if this thing can run a simple Python app?

e.g. https://wiki.python.org/moin/EmbeddedPython

My guess is there probably isn't sufficient memory. Curious what the development workflow consists of for these boards. The lack of a network or display output port seems a tad limiting.
We are amid a similar switch from Azure to Fly.io and it is a smooth sailing so far.

The best aspects of fly.io are 1) effortless multi-regional deployments 2) technological freedom 3) price. For example: Azure = $140, Fly.io = $10 for the same deployment. We are in love with those guys and gals.

But it's not all sunshine and roses. Some fly.io users have intermittent problems during deployments (see forum). I believe those issues will be rectified and improved with time.
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I don't have MS but I know someone who was recently diagnosed.

They have responded very well to monthly infusions of Natalizumab (Tysabri)

We are lucky to have some of the best doctors in the world for this: https://www.nslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/Services/Pages/ms-rnsh.a...
I fail to see how the Apple M1 is a SBC. I suppose a Macbook may technically be a single board because it's all soldered together to prevent people from upgrading their RAM and that sort of thing but it's not like one can get it as an actual dev board.

Also interesting that the Pi 4 running in 32 bit armv7 mode outperforms itself in 64 bit mode by up to almost 2x.
> The major difference being home construction, remodeling, and repair are routinely performed by untrained laborers who are high out of their mind.

One would have to be out of their mind to hire someone who is untrained and high out of their mind to build a house (or anything else for that matter).

For starters, you wouldn't let them anywhere near power tools because they are a bad accident just waiting to happen. Secondly the quality of the work would tend to be horrendous.

> Some folks weren't raised to work and are apparently very comfortable with a level of helplessness that I can't fathom.

I'm a big advocate of trade schools as an alternative to college, and think we should take steps to bring societal recognition and pride to the trades as found in places like Northern Europe. And certainly a basic set of mechanical skills is very helpful to anyone and should be encouraged.

That said, if you pick the right set of filters to look through, anyone can look helpless in a way that is unfathomable to someone else, so to judge anyone on such a basis is at the least misinformed.
Thanks, that was a solid read.
> But it turned out that those reasons (which you avoid explicating) were not so good for some people after all.

I lived through part of that transition - I'll try and explicate through my own experiences.

The biggest thing automated deployments solved was human error. No more "oops, you forgot to FTP the JPEGs in binary mode" or "accidentally unploaded into a nested www/www folder". The transition was initially to tools like Ansible and Fabric which automated the transfer steps but had to be triggered manually. This also saved me a lot of time and pain.

However, this still left a gap where it was still possible to push broken code into production, so Continuous Integration (and/or Continuous Deployment) became fashionable. The benefits of these were you'd never push code that fails tests to production, the depth and breadth of tests being left up to you.

Incidentally, these developments coincided with my working with ever growing team sizes. There's no way I could have worked with 5 people with everyone S/FTP'ng stuff to prod. Neither would have Fabric + git been sufficient for four 5-engineer team working on the same software product. That's yet another benefit of the new way of doing things: it scales.

I think the additional benefits of checking-in your configuration and deployment steps into a version control system are self-evident.
32-bit RISC core with 64KB RAM (ECC would be nice) would seem more interesting?

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804164096177.html
RNC sues Google claiming campaign emails being sent to spam folders
Maybe we are simply not meant to be their customers ? No need to suppose they wanted our money in the first place
I get calls, messages, emails on my phone. I don't tell customers I will sit in front of my screen 24/7. I tell them one hour or less. If they need faster response than that they will have to plan for it and pay for it. I'm guessing you have a f/t job with on-call required. Do you really need to have your laptop on-hand every minute?

I have had jobs in the past with managers who told me I would have to do on-call duty. I told them no, my kids and personal life mean more to me. I agreed to carry a phone or pager, and get to problems as fast as I could, but not let on-call intrude so much I was effectively working extra hours for free. I never got penalized or fired for setting some limits. I never knew a manager or executive who was on call 24/7 or carried their laptop around at the golf course.
Email me (email in profile). I'm a philosopher working on emotional issues in tech. I can give you advice that works for you.
What's the definition of "better"?
WCH sells a ton of general purpose microcontrollers and microcontrollers disguised as single purpose peripheral chips. For example all USB to UART chips are 8051 inside. Same for "USB Controllers" like CH375 http://www.wch-ic.com/products/categories/63.html?pid=1 used in https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/Lo-tech_ISA_USB_Adapter Afaik all WCH chips to ~2020 were 8051 cores. They started experimenting with ARM and RISC-V two years ago https://special.wch.cn/en/mcu/

Edit: btw the company might even started as a bootlegger doing counterfeit FTDI serial converters.
yah, as i noted in my other reply, tab in that post seems to have been trying to solve the problem of sharing css across regular dom and shadow dom, rather than focusing on regular dom css and trying to remove the need for js and css preprocessors (which is what i'm more interested in). i could be wrong, as it's been a while since i read it.
You might try the beta, it’s changelog references fixing memory leaks
Thank god for the clueless, who keep the world running.

I share some of the author's cynicism, but the thesis is a bit flawed.

There's a very key mistake, often made from a populist perspective (those who have never had power) that somehow the people at the top are able to 'freely move' through society. They cannot. Most often, they are in a gilded cage, and they are never as rich, powerful or as mobile as we think.

Execs are often sociopathic and skittish precisely because they are in a precarious situation. Do you really think that most executives can just pop off to another, massively high paying job? No. They are mostly stuck. They have public profiles and have to be careful of what they say, who they interact with. They have to 'socialize' with the right groups. Their wealth does not buy them that-that much more and that slightly nicer cottage, ski vacay, private school etc. drain the accounts really fast.

Almost anyone who is 'working at a firm' - even as an executive - is not that powerful. If they could, most people would just retire. If someone chooses to work instead of retire, well that's probably a sign of commitment and integrity which is the opposite of sociopathy.

Exec layer is definitely full of whacky people and cynical Machiavellians who are protecting their power and nothing more sure, but they are not 'mobile' and not there by choice.

Also, from a populist perspective, a lot of corporate actions seem Machiavellian, but they are not. Just realist. Made by possibly an entitled class, who make mistakes. But when you have to move people around, hire and fire in large numbers, some people will get burnt, and sometimes in a way that doesn't feel or is not nice, and that will happen even with the most competent, well-meaning leadership.

So yes, if we look at the world purely through the lens of self-interest (and for some, there's no reason to fathom anything more, which is sad), then even with the above characterization it still seems pretty bad. Except thankfully, most of people don't share this cynical view, and usually find much more purpose in what they do than their salary. Teachers are perhaps the best example of that.
This reminds me of the People's Book of Records in the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEBLCPV26LE

Which includes the record for pulling socks off pensioner's feet with your teeth.
Not just the rich. I was an immigrant kid, and knew plenty of other immigrant kids. None of our families had much money, but we all had a do-or-die attitude about education and the SAT. You can bet we all knew about prep options, scholarships, etc. and we milked every advantage for all it was worth.
Well if this is true, seems to be another indicator of the US Race to the bottom. 40/50 years ago ,this would have been a big scandal in the US. Since a certain US president in the early 80s, seems the US has been slowly slipping into third world country territory. And the massive "defense" spending another indicator if this.
Do you mean getoutline dot com ?
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I'm so tired of seeing this 70% number. There is a lot of available evidence against it. Why is it so widely quoted by western media?

The poll is from Nevada, same poll company that said 1% support Navalny as a politician. Navalny got 27% on Moscow mayor election in 2013. Tens of thousands of people were on demonstrations in his support in 2021, risking getting beaten up by police and jailed.

Out of ~100 people I know, maybe a couple somewhat support war.

In Moscow, none of civilian cars you see on the streets have Z/V/military symbols in support of the war. If war has 70% support, at least 1% would put it on display.
Lovely implementation.

There are a few of these about, having started playing around with making websites in the late 90s I have fond memory’s of “Matt’s Script Archive”. He had both a Perl CGI script for this and a separate paid hosted version. Just checked, and it’s still running 25 years later! https://www.formmail.com/

Looks like you are going for roughly the same price point as that old classic.

http://www.scriptarchive.com/
There are a lot of issues with this argument which any administrator should immediately see the issue with.

GPA: Schools weigh GPA differently. One thing I saw was that some schools with honors / AP you can get above a 4.0 to the point of a 5/4. Also GPA can be messed up when someone has a bad home life, or works a job.

honors/ap/ib: These are often related to which school you go to. Poor schools have few to no AP classes available. My school had 2 AP courses available, 0 IB. I was shocked when I went to college and talked to people that had 10 or 20 AP classes. Sure anyone can just take the AP exam, but I didn't know that at the time.

Extracurriculars: Bad and poor schools have fewer extracurriculars.

When you compare good schools (which are in wealthier more exclusive neighborhoods) with bad schools, not even accounting for private schools, its absolutely astounding the differences.
Everyday I drive among a bunch of Teslas in Texas and I haven't encountered any asshole Tesla driver yet. I think they might even be more careful given the long wait times for repairs in case they get into a fender bender.

The pickup truck drivers on the other hand...
ERD wells are very long (laterally) but not necessarily deep (vertically). The vertical component is the important one when assessing geothermal heat gradient. "Total measured depth" includes the lateral component, and so can be misleading when considering vertical depth. The wells you've referenced are very long, but less than 3,000 meters in vertical depth. https://www.drillingcontractor.org/erd-advances-push-limits-...
I agree. That would have changed the meaning completely.
I used kinesis advantage for about two months. Ended switching to Ultimate Hacking Keyboard and have never been happier - haven't switched the keyboard since - about 4 years now. Coding on Kinesis was just such a pain in terms of usual keys - braces et all: weird, up down arrows: weird. I thought I would adjust after two months, but did not happen for me. YMMV
Why is that? What can you do there compared to this lil' guy?
That is exactly what they did originally, and it did not produce enough paid customers.
Were they at least paid?
Beauty in the machine: Post-industrial design
I can get used to a pain and touching it doesn’t really help but an itch oooh boy drive me mad, probably because I knew it’ll feel so good in the short term at least!
I’ve been an Advantage user for almost eight years and I can’t imagine using anything else. I type with it on my lap and it feels perfectly comfortable so I probably won’t rush to buy this model. But if I did, the portability would be an immediate win. The original Advantage is massive and its comfortable typing shape makes for an awkward size in backpacks. This would be a huge win for any Advantage user who likes to work from different desks.
That's just it though, we're hitting those diminishing returns after the i5 not the i7.
> The point of saying children can't consent, is that they can't do it alone.

Yes they can, for some jobs. Not every job. I don't have a full list of which ones allow it and which ones don't, but it's not difficult to infer this if you look up the relevant laws and regulations, since they sometimes explicitly mention things like "minors working until 11 p.m. on nights before a school day are required to have written parental permission" [1], for instance.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/child-labor
> What I mean by "test prep" is learning how to game the test

You'd also be wrong here. Let me give you a simple example, that might not be immediately apparent to someone who doesn't know the rules of these tests.

At one point in time, on some tests, there was a "guessing penalty" for getting a wrong answer.

Having a basic understanding of how that works, and different guessing strategies, can increase your score.

EX: questions like should you guess? Should you rule out answers, and guess on the remaining?

There are even other things to think about, such as one's strategy for how long to spend on a question, and if/when you should give up on that one.

A person not experienced in test taking, might make a mistake of spending too much time on one single question, for example, when instead it could make more sense to skim the test first, for easy questions, and answer those first, so you don't run out of time and miss easy points.

Just learning the material doesn't automatically prevent you from making this mistake.
Maybe p(keyhole) = 0.25, and so it takes about 4^7 tries before getting 7 in a row. They only filmed the successful try to avoid viewer boredom :-).
Also, regarding why I specifically compare the number of victims of Spanish inquisition and Aztec sacrifice rituals: these both are religion-related death tolls. I think it is appropriate to talk about that in a thread about child sacrifices.
> Whether the new approach works remains to be seen

True, I hope it does.

> but it likely burned a lot of community goodwill

That also remains to be seen. And would it burn less community goodwill to stop developing the project at all?

Also it doesn't really matter if this move burns community goodwill. It's the author's decision to make. Any member of the community is free to fork before the license change, and any member of the community is free to not submit patches upstream.
Is RNC a recognized protected entity? Or is this more of a noisy political rabble?
> The HN community 1) likes building and hacking, and 2) has nostalgia for old technology. This makes them feel a lot of affinity toward "doing things themselves" -- server infrastructure, running desktop linux, avoiding dependencies in their code.

It's not nostalgia, it's a cynical wisdom of surviving the "move fast and break things" mentality with which so many businesses shoot themselves in the foot. The more you can do in house, the less impacted you are by externalities.

> The reality, though, is that the steady march of progress encourages us to outsource what we can to people who are better at the thing that is auxiliary to what we do.

Outsourcing isn't progress, it's a business strategy that involves shifting responsibilities to a third party. Done right, it's an effective way to build on previous work to achieve an otherwise intractable business goal. Done wrong, it devolves into a shitfest as your success lies at the mercy of some entity whose interests are not necessarily aligned with yours.

> I don't grow food because I'm bad at growing. I don't repair my car because I'm bad at auto repair.

Because those things require serious investments in time and money. But there's plenty of things you can quickly pick up that make no financial sense to outsource. You can buy your own groceries and cook your own meals. You can change your own tires when you get a flat, or change your own oil when the dashboard light comes on. Not everything that can be outsourced should be.
I dont get it. The lawsuit is the warning shot; comply or pay.
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DHH’s preferred architecture is a rails monolith with a single database behind it that you keep scaling vertically. I believe both Hey and Basecamp are still using that architecture.
Hi,
Can you please tell me if the fun key (big roundish key) gets in the way when typing?

I really want one, but I'm not sure, I like resting my palm when typing.

Also, are the wells well curved/deep? I can't tell from static images on the web.

Thanks.
It is somewhat "decentralized" though. Not just Guinness.
Would you help Hitler kill Stalin?
Or just a slightly too high dose of fent.
Blocking in this case is referring to the CPU thread sitting idle whilst the operation is performed. This is what it means when your blocked on a network request, blocked on a disk operation, or blocked on a memory request. It's all blocking.

A cache miss and going to RAM is usually fast enough that we as software engineers don't care about it, and in fact our programming language of choice may not even give us a way of telling the difference between a piece of data coming from a CPU register or L1 cache vs going to RAM, but that doesn't mean the blocking isn't happening.

EDIT: to maybe make this a little clearer for those who might not be aware the CPU doesn't go fetch something from RAM. It puts in a request to the memory controller (handwaving modern architecture a bit here) then has to wait ~100-1000 CPU cycles before the controller gets back to it with the data. Depending on the circumstances the kernel may let that core sit idle, or it may do a context switch to another thread. The only difference between this process and say a network request is how many CPU cycles before you get your results. In the meantime the thread isn't progressing and is blocked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64K_intro & C64 code. Would assume compilers are able to "double" pack/vectorize 2 16 bit addresses into a 32 bit register, which would be the inverse of the 8 bit era of using 2 registers for 1 16 bit address.
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In search of a Local first Database
Drop a line if you have other links for building a local-fist application:
o TinyBase: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32871392
o Offline fist DB comparisons: https://github.com/pubkey/client-side-databases
o https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31887181

search continues...
Most 12 year olds can tell you if they like orange juice with breakfast when asked if they want some

Now who's blending "legal consent and practical capacity for decisions"?
Lets just say that Europe is a large and - still - fairly diverse place.
Experience has shown that often “worse is better”. Go does an amazing job of balancing complexity and power. I haven’t seen a ”better” language that isn’t either slower, harder to become productive, or both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
Reminds me of my preteen years when shooting rubber bands was a useful skill to have if you wanted to show off. We made up all kinds of competitions and would hit different targets. I even did it at home (practice). I felt like I got pretty good at it. The quick release method was almost always better for me. I had associated the draw and the aim as a fluid motion. If I drew then took time to aim, it was as if my brain would over analyze the situation trying to account for wind/gravity/etc and I had a higher miss rate because of it. I somehow accounted for these things intuitively better than intentionally. But it does take practice to get there.