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Many HN users might be too young to remember, but curiously enough a/c refrigerants were also a major issue the last time there was a successful international treaty to help fight a major environmental problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol

> It was agreed on 16 September 1987, and entered into force on 1 January 1989... As a result of the international agreement, the ozone hole in Antarctica is slowly recovering.[3] Climate projections indicate that the ozone layer will return to 1980 levels between 2050 and 2070.[4][5] Due to its widespread adoption and implementation it has been hailed as an example of exceptional international co-operation, with Kofi Annan quoted as saying that "perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol".
Unless you're writing in Erlang, in which case you program the success path and 'let it crash' in a controlled manner.
This. In the US, the south east is too humid for swamp coolers to be effective. Also happens to be where the biggest load from AC is...
Here is why air conditioning is important: it's estimated nearly 70,000 died in Europe during the 2003 heat wave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave
Additionally to simplify dynamic dispatch calls on COM.
Good insulation is pretty standard here in the US for everything built in the last two decades or so.

That said, fiberglass insulation mostly only helps against convection cooling/heating. I.e. through the movement of air. Summertime heat is mostly conductive and radiative i.e. near infrared. Insulation doesn't do much to stop that.

Shade trees however help this big time. A large tree placed in the right spot to shade a house in the afternoon can replace as many as seven window air conditioner units.
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That may well be true, although it seems like an over-generalization. But there are plenty of people in Europe with rich families as well, and yet from my own experience (living in the UK and Spain) it feels like folks are generally more risk-adverse there, even when they have the economic means to take a chance. I do think there are cultural norms that drive this to at least as great a degree as individuals' circumstances.
Now this is rumor but I understand that through CERN particles were measured to be travelling faster then light. Just sayin....
Yes - that's the major problem with group negotiation, and the complaint here. I'm unclear on whether this is meant as a defense or a criticism of a union system?
Depends how good their CS degree was.
Yes, unions works kinda like price fixing but across the entire country. The thing is that the union tells everyone what your expected salary is given certain experience, so this salary will always be the starting point in any negotiation. If you are a strong candidate you might get a few percent more and vice versa for weak candidates. This is how it worked where I came from at least.
I believe glaring conflicts of interests are a requirement at this point.
Of course variants would need to tag their payload, but this is what all dynamic languages need to do anyway. My point was that such dynamic behaviour can be done without resorting to an unsound "optional type system".
Not necessarily. Past presidents used blind trusts to put their assets and investments aside so that in theory they wouldn't be motivated by personal profit while president. It's not illegal for a president to conduct personal business while being president. It's unethical for the president to use his office for personal gain. And it is unconstitutional for the president to take money from representatives of foreign governments.
I hate to say it but AC always felt like thoughtless engineering and consumerism, especially the electric varieties.
It's ironic that in a sunny, energy rich environment, you spend extra energy on a heat pump. In a lot of environments some better architecture will take care of the problem via passive methods, additionally evaporative methods work pretty well in dry environments and polute considerably less ?
Failing that, hell atleast use some solar energy to run the heat pumps locally, atleast stop burning stuff to power them.

Failing all of the above, stoicism isn't that bad, honest, neither are life style changes that shift high activity periods to later in the day, they are widely practised in Mediterranean countries.
Neither does Tcl's critcl AFAIK (I think it just sticks the C code in a Tcl extension and compiles it using the system compiler). My intent there was just to list cases where wrapping a whole C/C++ library is unnecessary, not to imply that Julia uses libffi :)

On that note, LLVM helps a lot here, too. Are there any LLVM-based languages that don't have some degree of C compatibility?
Crossing out 'Black lives matter' and writing 'All lives matter' is, to me, the equivalent of denigrating the NAACP because all people deserve advancement. Yes, 'All lives matter' is a true statement. But by writing that you come off as being completely oblivious to context and why 'Black lives matter' was written in the first place.

EDIT: Perhaps BLM could have averted all of this hubbub regarding the phrase if they had just included the implied 'too'. As in, 'Black lives matter too.'
Ok, just one more quibble: I have the impression that since blocks are small this system is ideal for small pieces of code and has already a great a web interface for input/output, why not let us edit blocks online and test them live with hand-inputted values while we edit? Glitch.com, for example, has a web editor by default, but it is so cumbersome to try the app while editing it -- the contrary is true on Codeblox.
The other huge thing that is lacking is content. Image processing is only 10% of good photography. The rest is about conveying an idea to your audience. It can be humor, documenting an event, making people aware about societal problems, taking people to somewhere they would normally not be able to access, or seeing the world in a way that most people don't see.

Truly good photographers don't just produce beautiful photos; they produce meaningful photos.

The tech is great but I'm not a fan of the title of the article ;)
"only slightly warmer"

what does that do to the river, fish, algae, waste processing, etc. If you ran say houston with river water how many degrees would it be?
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Possibly although in my experience in the US the flexibility to change benefits is limited. I have choice in things like health plans but that's mostly about how much I want to pay on top of an employer contribution. Most of the disability, life insurance, etc. benefits aren't negotiable afaik (and are probably much better deals from the company anyway).
Tired about writing form back end?
What if those two are related? ;)
So what would it cost to tow it somewhere with a need for fresh water?
Threadripper and Epyc are huge. The desktop Ryzen is small :)
> I don't mean any disrespect, but this is a very good example of the Blub Paradox: http://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox

Interesting read, and I admit there is some of that. But my point isn't to say that those features aren't useful or powerful, but rather that with the constraint of working with a large group of programmers of varying skills, simplicity has more value than power (as long as we can deliver software that meets our requirements). It is similar to point 4 in the "Problems with the Blub Paradox" section.
If you want to build a new house in Sweden you need to present an energy calculation for the house so that you meet the fairly strict requirements.

Of the top of my head, a normal family house (150m2, 1-1/2 stories) is allowed to consume between 5000-6500 kWh per year (low number in southern Sweden, same as Denmark. High number northern Sweden above the polar circle).

This generally means >220mm insulation in walls and roof and >300mm insulation in the foundation. In northern Sweden you need a geothermal pump to hit those numbers.
Yes, actually. I'm pretty sure the cow would have liked to keep that burger.

(also, the ecological "footprint" of that burger compared to a salad or veggie-burger or something blah blah yadda-yadda...)
While I agree that running the AC to to point of wearing a hoodie is ridiculous, there are some pretty enormous chunks of the US where an 80 degree summer day is relatively chilly, winds coming off of mountains or oceans are basically nonexistent, and the humidity is super high.
Why is Stoicism the philosophical flavor of the month amongst tech people?
Having large groups living in mega city heat islands is also an absurd configuration but pretty much the entire world is guilty of that one.
If we bumped efficiency 30%, how many more people would run the AC 30% more?
I've had some major frustrations with poor reliability of the blower motor in a 14 SEER HVAC system (installed in 2006) with a brushless DC motor. I've replaced the motor 3 times in 10 years (conveniently failing shortly after the warranty expired each time). Had I not done the work myself that would have been between $600 and $800 per replacement.

Brushless / electronically commutated DC motors are pretty interesting, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushless_DC_electric_motor
Additionally, I send phishing emails to reportphishing@apwg.org which alerts the Anti-Phishing working group... Not sure what happens once they get my forwarded emails...
But I always heard never to use Go 2! :P
> an indifference for any sort of sustainability.

That's a pretty apt general description of Las Vegas.
stoicism++ but I did a double-take at the site: it's a personal vanity site but styled as a MOOC? Ah, it's a hosted Teachable site on a custom CNAME.
StackOverflow has monetized their community by providing a best-in-class service the community needs/uses (jobs).
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Rjevski suggests you publicly disclose the vulnerability in an anonymous way that can't be traced back to you.
Two questions:

1. How did you notice this?

2. Why does it matter, or when would I want to use one instead of the other for reasons other than being technically correct?
We were excited about Atlas and just applied two days ago and got rejected this morning. We have sales ready to get going but now have to legitimize the old-fashioned way.

With the "network" of venture capitalist firms and startup incubators able to give you an instant invite to Atlas, it felt like it's made for them (the venture firms) and not the businesses.
Toronto has a deep lake water cooling system that pumps cold water from the bottom of Lake Ontario and circulates it around the downtown core. It is capable of cooling 100 high-rise buildings. I believe when it was constructed it was the largest system in North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enwave
> This is why film scheduling and budgeting is a real discipline while software scheduling is a joke

No, that's not at all why software scheduling is notoriously hard.
His treatment of the press corps has been more or less abysmal, but he does seem to be one of the less destructive cabinet members.
To be fair, if you die from a heat wave - you probably weren't going to last that much longer anyway.
How would that affect Mars's orbit? The remains of the Earth will keep on orbiting the Sun.
Go through my comment history for this topic, you will find some of the most bizarre reasons proposed for why the MIDAS team was being quoted as saying this is probably natural and not anything ominous.
> My bedroom in Tampa, FL reaches 90F at night without air conditioning. There is no way I could live without AC here.

You obviously could live there... it would just be unpleasant.

I lived a year in Singapore where temperatures were in the 80-90 range. I stayed on-campus at NUS and was lucky to have a room with A/C, but it wasn't common. The majority of students make do with big fans and windows. I remember working next to a campus Starbucks outside, marveling at how well designed it was to make students moderately comfortable without A/C. There was an enormous fan, and the area was covered and designed to facilitate air flow.

After my time there I came back to the U.S. and can much more readily handle persistently hot temperatures. It's fairly unusual to expect it to be cool all the time.

I also just got back from a trip to Oman where it was routinely above 90 or 100 all day long, and people there make do without A/C as well.
Do we pretend these things matter at all? Crossing out something on a bulletin board isn't really pursuing anything and is about as consequential as your post. They're fun meme friendly phrases that mean nothing in the real world.

Both phrases are true and based on who is saying them can be fully believed statements.
Now a question: have you thought about just running code blocks on the client? It would have limitations, but I guess most tasks could be accomplished, and the backend running costs would be enormously smaller.

There's also the problem of executing other people's code in your visitors machines, but maybe that isn't so bad -- or could be solved by running a better language than raw Javascript.

I know this sounds like a silly idea, but what do you think?
Either you come from a very different community of C++ users than I do, or you are using a different definition of "idiomatic" than I am familiar with, because that loop looks like totally ordinary, everyday C++, and is therefore precisely what I'd call "idiomatic", while I can't recall ever having seen anyone actually use std::accumulate in real life. I suppose this is part of the fun of C++, though, in that it supports a family of distinct but compatible dialects.
So we curb emissions by building a bunch of new A/C units? Sorry, that's silly.

CO2 is just one of many many forms of pollution. Think you're doing your part by purchasing a hybrid or electric vehicle? There are barrels of oil that go into those tiers, the plastics, not to mention all the pollution that goes into battery production. If your car is fuel efficient, the best thing you can do for the environment is drive it until the wheels fall off. When you do need to purchase a replacement, get a used hybrid or electric.

Climate change/CO2 is not the problem. It's the symptom of rampant consumerism. We can't buy and purchase our way out of destroying the planet. We have to consume less, build cell phones that are upgradable and last a decade instead of 2 ~ 3 years. Companies need to be praised for smaller factories and lower sales for products that cost more and last longer.

That is a very very huge shift in the way we think. I'm not sure if it's even remotely feasible or what it would take to convince people, industry, the world to simply consume less.
Which requires another Carnot cycle.
The dripping is from condensation. Right now in Atlanta, the dew point is 24°C. That means if I cool my house to reach that temperature, the humidity inside will be 100%… perfect for mold and terrible for everything else.

Using an open water cooling mechanism would work in hot and dry climates, but then again those are the areas where water is a lot more precious and you don't want to waste it through evaporation. (In a highly humid environment, evaporative cooling does not work because the water has nowhere to go.)

A heat pump is the only mechanism that works for this kind of climate. The exchange could be improved by using water or the ground to absorb the heat, but those solutions are way more expensive to install and can have environmental concerns of their own.

I'm generally impressed with the energy initiatives in Germany and have been following the Passive House movement for a while, but some technologies only work for specific climates or only in one direction.
They are building chips without the x86 albatross. The US State Department is to blame for the phoenix by cutting off their Intel MIC supply.

They have enough labor to do supervised learning on a grand scale that the U.S. can't compete with.

The U.S. can't compete.
I still do not understand why this cannot be done via a Variant type. Also it doesn't explain why Dart 2 has a similar feature.
doesn't that mean you use less power though?
A big part is also demand response in California, for instance, why PG&E was subsidizing smart thermostats. They can adjust all the setpoints and in aggregate reduce the compressor cycling. to 'chop' the peak down on really hot days.
Wow, real-time raytracing at 60fps? Define "moderate complexity" :)

I've tried the Real Time Path-traced Quake 2 that's implemented with GPU shaders https://amietia.com/q2pt.html and it's… not fast and grainy.
Personally, I think saying only one group matters tends to read as supremacist.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/facebook-headquarters-black-l...

That sign would never fly with any other race written there.

And there is additional context to the BLM movement, in that in both major cases, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, the perceived "victims" were proven to have initiated and escalated the violence.

Michael Brown was attacking a cop, and Trayvon Martin was banging Zimmerman's head into the sidewalk.

The whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth and imo Zuckerberg is on the wrong side of it.
So then, isn't fossil fuel energy "just" stored sun energy too? If it hadn't wound up underground, our planet would have been slightly hotter already.
It's more like you prevented a lactose-intolerant person from drinking a bunch of milk because you're both in the same unventilated room and you can't leave or open a window and you really don't want to smell their farts. "NIMBY"
Slimy, dirty tricks, tasteless popups and dark patterns work. Nobody denies that. Some of the most successful, profitable small-time web sites out there are successful by doing it in ways that would make me ashamed and disgusted with myself. I once did a little research into the lead-gen and affiliate linking businesses, and felt like I needed to take a shower when I was done. But they're successful at generating money, so who am I to criticize? Hell, SPAM still works, evidently!
The thing is, until it's shipped, it's still vaporware for most people, especially if they want to use it in a commercial setting.

KDE 4 was released in 2008 and it was supposed to be ported to Windows. We're in 2017 and KDE 5 is still far from being considered stable on Windows. And I'm sure you can also think of many examples of programs promised and never delivered or underdelivered.
I'm down with anything that gives me a reason to wear shorts and a tshirt at work!
The discussion is not about identifying problems. The issue is communicating the problem and explaining the impact. The Go team was wrong about monotonic time but the correct response is not to assign blame. Concrete examples and conversations are a better way to communicate a problem. This is what they are trying to communicate now.
AMD founder Jerry Sanders used to say "Real men have fabs" (i.e. ownership of the whole production chain), and is probably sad that had to be given up for financial reasons.

Looking up that phrase gets a history of upsides and downsides, e.g. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Oxfqym...
Am I understanding it correctly that you're saying those projects switch because of the license of their compiler?

As far as I know the GPL doesn't "infect" the program compiled with a GPL-licensed compiler, I can have my proprietary binary-only software compiled with the GPLed gcc just fine...
The Swift approach shares many of the same characteristics and trade-offs as "true" (aka Java-style) boxing. Of course, it does avoid some downsides of that, but also brings along some additional ones.
The thing is... If we wanted to not in interfere, and let the natural process do its thing, we'd be looking at the end of the inter-glacial period in the next 1000 years. After that we'd see glaciation starting to cover a lot of the northern hemisphere. Sea levels would start to drop - ultimately several hundred feet, exposing the continental shelf everywhere. All our coastal cities would be inland.

Some have said that even all the CO2 we can produce won't be enough to stop the natural cycle. I wonder if it will actually speed it up a little bit. Something triggers the end of the inter-glacial and clearly we are not there yet. Therefore, I conclude that the planet was never at the steady state the climate alarmists pretend it was before humans interfered.
The core question I have is... How much advantage is there skewing Facebook in favour of a candidate? Could it translate to a 3% improvement in the polls?

Even if it could help, it'd probably be wiser for him to back a candidate that shares his vision than run himself. It only makes sense if he can't find someone he would endorse (publicly or otherwise), or if he just wants the job for himself.
I wouldn't say Hillary 2.0 ... I like Mark, I hate Hillary... I don't think Hillary would be quick to jump on single-payer healthcare and guaranteed basic income trains... but I'm not really sure he's cut out to be a politician, personally I'd much rather it be Bernie Sanders, he was born for the job.
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I have a hard time imagining Zuckerberg going along with letting someone else run Facebook for four years while he was doing something else.
Yes, to be clear I didn't mean the sort of rigid, silicon/glass PV panels we have right now; and solar roadways is evidence enough that it would be a bad idea.

I meant something more like a polymer, bought by the bucketful and mixed in as an additive.
Really by "boxing" I mean "dictionary passing" (I've also seen the term "intensional type analysis" for it). That encompasses approaches like Java as well as those of Swift.

Hybrid approaches in which the compiler (or JIT!) decides whether to monomorphize or use vtables are also possible.
With Eiffel tools you got the IDE with interactive development, including a VM for rapid prototyping. Then you would use the AOT compiler (via compilation to C) to produce shippable binaries.

So combining the easiness of interactive development with performance when it was time to ship the product.

It was also available before Java was a thing.

This is what I always kind of missed with Java and .NET, the previous generation of languages (Eiffel, Modula-3, Oberon(-2)) all had a mix of interactive development and AOT compilation for shipping release builds.
This was my take when we investigated integrating Segment into our SaaS app too. We are purely boot strapped, and at the level where our monthly site visitor are building up at a great clip, and we would be occasionally pushing the free limits of Segment into real dollar that would eat up a chunk of our slowly growing revenue.
I think you are talking about "inverter A/C"
> Regulated exchanges for bitcoin

Working on it. See: Bitshares, or any other decentralized excange
Currently live in Colorado where the highs are regularly in the 90s. Turn the house fan on at night for a couple hours, cool everything off, then close all the doors and windows during the day and everything is perfectly comfortable. When I lived in Philly however... 90% humidity and 80 degrees AT NIGHT is no joke.
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Error rate would probably depend on the mass and quality of shielding above/around the servers.
The stoicism movement has been going strong for more than a year (on HN and elsewhere).
I leave my pc on because if there is an issue I need to be able to remote into it and there's no "wake on lan" type enterprise thing setup (don't even know if that exists). I could drive in but the gas cost and time costs of that are higher (my guess) than leaving the pc in idle 24/7.
I've said elsewhere in the thread, but insulation does little to help in the summer months. Fiberglass insulation mostly protects from convective cooling/heating (i.e. airflow). Heat in the summer is mostly through conduction and even more-so radiative (near infrared). Windows treatments could definitely help there, but unless you want everyone's windows to be mirrors, it likely won't help that much.
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