The OBR report says RHDI (real household disposable income – one measure of living standards) is rising at a record slow rate – less than 0.1% per decade. That means, by the end of the decade, it will be just 1% higher than its pre-Covid level, it says. double quotation mark Our central forecast represents a continuation of the historically weak growth in RHDI per person since the global financial crisis. Chart 2.7 shows the rolling 10-year average annual growth in RHDI per person. This slowed significantly in the aftermath of the financial crisis, due to lower growth in productivity and real wages. Growth reached a historic low over the 10 years to 2025-26, averaging just ¼ per cent a
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submitted by technocrit to science 28 points | 2 comments https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03446-9 In recent weeks, some of Brazil’s leading scientific organizations, including the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in Rio de Janeiro, circulated an open letter endorsing Lula, a leftist former labour leader. It received more than 20,000 signatures. “It’s hard to express just how happy the scientific community and the Brazilian society is with Lula’s victory,” says Paulo Artaxo, a physicist at the University of São Paulo. Many worried that, if Bolsonaro were elected, he might slash support for Brazilian science and undermine it in the way that his father, Jair Bolsonaro, did. Jair was
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US civil rights leader Dolores Huerta has died at the age of 96, her family has announced. Huerta campaigned alongside fellow labour leader Cesar Chavez for farm workers' rights in the 1960s and 1970s, founding the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) with him. Through her foundation, Huerta had continued her activism work addressing immigration and voting issues. "As you can imagine, this is an incredibly difficult time for us, and we ask for privacy as we grieve this incredible loss to our family," family spokesman Erik Olvera said on Wednesday. Earlier this year, Huerta said Chavez, who died in 1993, had "manipulated and pressured" her into having sex and on another occasion forced her in the
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It’s time to see how Apple rethinks the Mac for touch support, years after criticizing touchscreen laptops. Apple has already had a busy week. On Monday, it announced a new iPad Mini with an upgraded OLED display , and on Tuesday, we got M6 chip upgrades for the MacBook Pro and iMac . The Macs are the definition of iterative updates — they’re quiet refreshes that look just like their direct predecessors. But today should be a whole lot more interesting. At an event in Los Angeles, Apple is expected to debut a revamped MacBook Pro with a touchscreen display . This would be the first touchscreen on a Mac (not counting the beleaguered Touch Bar ). Touchscreen laptops are something Apple
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Dozens of people have died following and other have been injured after two high-speed trains collided south of the Spanish capital Madrid. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said it was "unacceptable" that Spain had suffered its second fatal rail crash in a year.
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Several Mississippi homes have been purchased near datacenters and one resident said realtor outlined target to buy more than 400 People in a Mississippi neighborhood, many of whom dislike a nearby power plant central to Elon Musk ’s artificial intelligence ambitions, have received a stark offer – to sell their houses to his company and make way. Real estate agents have been going door to door in Southaven, Mississippi , on behalf of xAI, touting a deal to purchase houses as long as the owners agree to not join a lawsuit against the company over the power plant’s noise. (Musk’s AI company officially became SpaceXAI in July and has lately been rebranded as SpaceXSI but to neighbors of the
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It grows differently every time, with falling petals, wind, weather and rain. Click it to shake the blossom loose. Runs in your browser, and you can add it to your own website with npm. Its about 16KB.
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I recently started writing C again for the first time since 2018, and handling errors has been an especially difficult adjustment coming from languages like Go and Zig that coddle me with their wonderful defer and errdefer . Then I read some emails from John Carmack on inlined code that gave me an epiphany on writing cleaner error handling code, and now I want to share it with the world. I write Go all day at my dayjob, and error handling is pretty trivial. When there’s an error we wrap it and bubble it up, and let some top dog up the call stack figure out what they want to do with it. If there is resource cleanup involved, it’s made easy with defer : Sometimes there’s more complicated
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See how Legora uses OpenAI models, ChatGPT, and Codex to accelerate legal workflows, expand contract analysis, and free lawyers to focus on higher-value work.
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Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November | Hacker News Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November 47 points by curiousaboutml 5 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 59 comments Text too big for this (limit 4000 chars), so I'll post in comments. How to join the strike: You simplify inform your employer that you are going on strike. Feel free to send them a link to this thread. Inform them how you feel about your specific situation. There is no need to debate whether you can do this or not. If enough of us do this, it will work. help 10111001 2 hours ago | next [–] > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271809 I
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Meta does ‘not plan to make policy changes without a full consultation with industry groups and leaders.’ Meta says it may push the implementation of its new business terms past November 20th as it faces backlash from publishers over concerns about AI training. In a post on X , Meta communications head Andy Stone said the company does “not plan to make policy changes without a full consultation with industry groups and leaders.” The new business terms, which were supposed to take effect on October 30th, initially appeared to give Meta permission to train its AI models on the news sites that use Facebook and Instagram. Meta later changed its policies to remove language indicating that it
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sanitation @lemmy.today to Programming · 5 hours ago Python jettisons the native JIT, at least for now lwn.net external-link message-square 1 link fedilink arrow-up1 4 arrow-down1 1 file-text cross-posted to: python programming
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Sony has a collection of colorful, translucent cosmetics for its PlayStation consoles and controllers. Announced Wednesday, the Prism collection brings three new, gorgeous color options that conjure a nostalgic, transparent tech feel. They come in Flare Orange, Emerald Green, and Graphite Gray. (Based on the pictures, the gray looks more like a blue to me.) You can get Sony’s DualSense PlayStation 5 controllers in the Prism design or opt for PS5 console covers. On the controllers, translucent plastic wraps around almost the entire device’s frame, letting you view the components inside. On the console cover version, the transparency is more limited—you can see only the fan and a few other
Wired3h ago
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Nick Owens, an attorney in Brown County, Ohio, stands at the edge of a Mt. Orab neighborhood next to farmland that has been sold to a data center developer. Owens is leading an effort to halt the buildout of hyperscale data centers in communities like this one. Andrea Hsu/NPR hide caption MT. ORAB, Ohio — The data center mystery in this rural exurb of Cincinnati has consumed Nick Owens. The lifelong Republican and self-described small-town attorney has spent countless hours trying to figure out what's going on with 1,000 acres of farmland and trees that property records show were sold to a data center developer in 2024 and 2025. In a few spots, the data center property runs right up against
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