skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(pulling random data points from around the internet)

It takes approximately 255 liters of water to make 250ml of milk. So 1020 liters per liter of milk. There's 3.78542 liters per gallon. So that makes about 1930 liters per half gallon milk.

510 gallons of water for 0.5 gallons of milk.

It takes between 2500 and 5000 joules of energy per liter of tap water depending on the water source (2000 times that for bottled water). So up to 9,650,000 joules of energy per half gallon of milk for the water(about 2680 Wh).

1.25 to 1.44 kg of feed to produce a liter of milk (0.2645 gallons). To produce 1kg of wheat requires between 500 and 4,000 liters of water. But then you need to transport the feed to where the cows are...

Then you have to transport the milk. How far is it, and what sort of fuel is used? What sort of bottle is used? If it's come across the country via truck in a plastic bottle, that doesn't get recycled, that could be a lot of fuel. How long was the milk refrigerated before it reaches a home fridge?

There's 4 million joules to make a PET 1 liter plastic bottle. So about 7.5 million joules for a half gallon one(2 kilo watt hours). Often the transportation uses more than that for the bottle, but varies greatly. One amount mentioned is 4 million joules per liter.

That's 4 kilo watt hours just for the bottle.

There's lots more to it, but I guess 1-2 days of solar power production from a 5kW solar system for a half gallon of milk.
Kudos to the author! The best thing about this project is that it does not require any tricky mechanical modifications to the fridge itself. Mucking around with wires, inverters, and panels is scalable - I could build this myself using parts I already have in the event of the Apocalypse.

Some of the comments about heat pipes, heat transfer between freezer and fridge compartments etc. miss this point.

I got trapped in a fascinating rabbit hole like this a while ago trying to create hot water without (significant) batteries. The best solution seemed to be coupling the DC from the panels more or less directly to the heating element of the hot water cylinder.

Once you have a few of these lash-ups powering your new age off-grid sanctuary, it sounds like divvying up the power from the panels becomes the next major challenge.
I've never understood this part of the vegetarian argument. Cows and pigs wouldn't exist if we didn't eat them. Is it better that they not exist at all, than that they should suffer briefly?
Right, the GP comment should be: "I wish there were an iPad-quality tablet that ran GNU/Linux" (which I too wish for)
yes, thank you. Fortunately I no longer work for employers like that, but as an entry-level low-level employee, you are automatically looked at with suspicion by most employers. If you need a sick day, you have to get a doctor's note, which is an outrageous waste of everybody's resources.
I'm trying to understand your objection to this name a bit better, but I can't quite agree with the things you've stated as problems. You seem to be arguing for increasing the ambiguity where there really isn't any:

1. That's an email address, not an email.
2. That's a noun-ed verb - context generally makes it obvious when verbs are used rather than nouns. "I can email you" is a shorthand for "I can send an email to you".
3. That's fine - a mail client / server would never confuse these as the body is very obviously a property of most any representation.

In the same way that I'm not concerned that my postman has never delivered a fence to me, or written on a bulletin board system, I think we can cope with this name being the appropriately sensible one.

Have I misconstrued your argument?
You can use the pictures for documentation/private use but unless you have an explicit agreement you can't use the pictures for commercial purpose. Otherwise, Nike could put up a sign 'All images here belong to us' in their store, photograph the next celebrity walking into their store and then use the picture of the celebrity in all promotion material without their endorsement.
I'd like to agree with you, but I have to insist that there's some difference between, say, CloudFlare, Patreon, and Twitter.

Twitter is the most straightforward regarding freedom of association: they are literally providing you with a platform to say things, and to broadcast saying things. They're a private company. If they decide they hate everyone born on May 4th or something, fuggit, they've (legally and philosophically) got that right.

Patreon and PayPal, on the next hand, are payment processors. They're not the only payment processors. Patreon also provides you with more publicity for yourself as a payee than PayPal does. Still, these digital payment processors are the cash of the internet. Before we had them, or just when we were teenagers, the best you could do was ask for Mom and Dad's credit-card number, or maybe send a money-order (remember those) by mail to some dude for stuff. It was a damned shady way to do business and we all ditched it the first thing we could.

Next comes CloudFlare. They literally just provide mirroring and maintenance for your web-servers. You supply the software and the content, yes? They don't even publicize you; in fact, they try to avoid publicizing you by keeping your site visible and their service invisible.

At what point does any of these things become, ethically speaking, a common carrier, providing something like unto a public utility, requiring some degree of common carrier protections to make sense as a business?

Are we really going to insist that once you're selling nasty porn or passing out Nazi pamphlets over the Internet there should be no equivalent of payment in cash or a private copy machine that lets you operate a deeply unpopular, even immoral, enterprise without asking the permission of a major advertising firm? In the physical world we have public spaces and legal tender that guarantee us real spaces in which to carry out our legal rights to do things everyone else despises. We should have some equivalent of that over the web, too.
Unfortunately most people will never encounter such a manager.
India Curbs Power of Amazon and Walmart to Sell Products Online
> Cobol is already OOP for several years now.

I think that was supposed to be a joke, mocking Cobol's verboseness (compare "C++", which adds 1 to C and which extends C with OOP).
That's very true, so I guess at the end of the day manual verification is needed for just about everything where you absolutely need a user to be able to recover their account.

A scheme like the above still helps cut down on the number of times that manual verification will have to be used, and hopefully can be made rare enough that you can spend the proper amount of time verifying each one to do your best to prevent "stolen identities" from being used.
Is it possible that management felt that most development work on the thing you loved was done, and your talents were wasted on maintenance? Did they move you to projects at an earlier stage of development?
> If you have access to a Mac, VoiceOver is built-in and supposed to be a pretty good screen reader, though it's not as popular as the expensive ones.

Yeah, that’s what I used. I haven’t had anyone actually try to use my website, though.
If I hire someone to paint a portrait, and pay him it's mine isn't it? $5 or $5 million, that was the price agreed.

Why is the tattoo any different?
Can you recommend a few resources on idea history, hermeneutics and rhetoric?
Do you really not see how your comment was flamebait?
Paraphrased as: "I can't disconnect from FB or I wont' be able to communicate with anyone. No options exist!"

If everyone thought that way we'd be in sorry shape. Oh, wait...
cli mail, finger and talk could be a great initiation to traditional tools!

As for the random ubuntu laptops, try to do the dhcp on wifi using a debootstrap of a minimal debian on a separate partition, then configure wpa_supplicant to start dhcp by systemd dependancy, and detect wifi card to start wpa_supplicant@wifi_card_device_name. This could give you a great introduction to modern tools! (bonus points if you setup a native wayland)

Understand the old and the new ways gives a better picture of the overall system, and will help you make education decisions.

(And it's not forbidden to setup CLI mail on your modern system, or a systemd-based classic unix! mix and match to your tastes!)
He probably thinks that he can get (relatively) FU money by suing.
My understanding is that Firefox offers LTS (the ESR versions). I don’t think the chrome team offers anything similar. In my mind the evergreen nature of browsers for the average person is a great thing, but I understand the desire of businesses in particular to have things be consistent.

In this case my understanding though is that nothing has functionally changed in the UI. The browser UI got a paint job, not a redesign. To the average person chrome upgrades don’t actually change much visually.

To keep up the car analogy, the security race is like if the Ford was aware of safety defects so in the middle of the night every month the came and silently fixed them. Occasionally they’d also replace the bumper or the speedometer. It’s still a speedometer and still behaves like one, but it appears slightly different.
U.S. Grip on the Market for Higher Education Is Slipping
Thanks for the background and information.

In this particular situation, the two-party consent laws revolve specifically around capturing audio in audio form, not writing.
Guess everyone got a nice bonus this holiday season jeez
Hum,

> The lftp mirror subsystem allows you to break up batches of files, or even a single file using p-get into multiple streams.

I do not see any particular benefit from that... Network reliability is still a bit needed or you still have to restart...

On restricting rsync on the other end there are many guide so again I do not see much benefit and that's not true that you can't encrypt the transfer otherwise with classic ssh transport this is an example

https://sixohthree.com/1458/locking-down-rsync-using-ssh

but you can do many more things, for instance with cryptcat or ncat in the middle to transport... And they normally run faster than ssh tunnels...
Thankfully one needs no morals to eat meat. Only ideologues require morals for eating.
Thanks for the clarification on your stance and for sharing the link. Although I know a lot of people think Dawkins worships on the alter of rationality, I think some of his stances on this issue need to be taken with a grain of salt because he openly admits that he occasionally makes emotional arguments when it comes to (non-human) animal rights.

I think the assumptions that need to be called out in Singer's argument (and possibly yours, given the little bit in your post above) are 1) we know how to define sentience and 2) we understand the link between sentience and suffering. These points may be a departure from Singer in part because he's making a philosophical argument and not necessarily a scientific one. The science part being relevant to this thread because I think part of the discussion is how strict definitions are necessary to avoid the moral relativism aspect of the conversation.

There doesn't appear to be any scientific consensus on how to define consciousness or sentience. Some, like Sam Harris, define it simply in terms of information processing. In that case, what suffers can get murky fast. Are mollusks more conscious than, say, a venus fly trap? I don't know, but as a layman, I haven't come across a good definition to parse that question effectively.

Even if we have an understanding of sentience, there doesn't seem to be a definition on how this translates to suffering. You seem to imply it is a given that sentience leads directly to the ability to suffer, but I haven't found a good consensus on this either. Some people like Gerald Edelman take the stance that suffering is dependent on complexity of the nervous system, so there's nothing morally wrong with killing lobsters and less complex animals. There's others like Vilayanur Ramachandran who go further and don't think more complex animals like cows suffer because they don't introspectively experience pain the way humans do.

The above is a just a long-winded way of saying that I think we need strict scientific definitions to make some sense of the topic or we'll just be endlessly entangled in relativistic arguments. I'm not convinced we have made sense enough of the problem to define it this thoroughly.
I'm highly fascinated between Haiku and ReactOS, but I havent had a chance to use both in a while. I want them to become available. I really appreciate that Haiku was meant to be a remake of BeOS (iirc) and it does a fantastic job. I feel like we don't do enough OS research like we used to. We've started to dive into making new languages like Rust and Go, but I guess the next wave I'm waiting for is new and interesting Operating Systems.
It's not new, but I do believe back in the day there was such a thing as public-access television, and anyone could in fact start their own newspaper without being somehow banned from taking cash payments.
Watch this video, it might help you: https://www.ted.com/talks/emilie_wapnick_why_some_of_us_don_...
Call me paranoid but if I owned a bunch of btc I wouldn't go around announcing it on public forums, there are have been targeted attacks against people who own a lot.
Are you @ PixieLabs, sytelus? The link to 'PixieApp' in "Introducing PixieDebugger" is 404'd (https://ibm-watson-data-lab.github.io/pixiedust/pixieapps.ht...)
Not my first experience, but I still have a fond if faint memory of prairienet. Out of UIUC (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IIRC.

Back when connecting the world was viewed as (and often experienced as) a good thing.
In India I got a Vodafone sim. Data was dirt cheap. $1.5 for 6GB of data.

However Vodafone would spam the shit out of everyone. Getting 10+ spammy calls in a day is very normal. They come from different numbers so you can’t block them.

Any phone that has a serious robocall spam filter mechanism built in would be a huge seller.

I can count on Apple to make such a bold move. I remember when Telcos used to block personal hotspots and Apple just gave them a middle finger and made iPhones only available to providers that would play by their rules and not the other way around.

We need more bold and human centric companies.
If your rent is doubling in a week that means demand for housing is sky high and supply is low. The solution is to build more housing.
I don't think I should be downvoted. This is just a fact. Hell, sometimes it can mean the mode.

https://www.google.com/search?q=average+definition
I'm currently building an internal Authentication service with Hydra. I have some questions about its use in production do you mind if I send you an email?
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Coin flipping is a canonical example that has historical, theoretical, and practical relevance--it's definitely a bit much to call it "extremely bad & misleading". Mathematically idealized coins do behave in this way, because you have the freedom to define the probability of the events however you like (so long as you do not violate the axioms of probability).

Also, there are lots of (abstract) mathematical nuances to explore around coin flipping once you get into stochastic processes (there are special aspects of Bernoulli RVs with p=0.5).

Besides, sometimes an imperfect example is a better one--it can stimulate thought and discussion about how well concepts--like modeling a coin flip with a random variable--map to the real world.
The Minor Ailments Scheme does not provide free calpol for all, and you don't need to see your GP to access it.

https://www.nhs.uk/news/medical-practice/minor-ailment-schem...

The reason the NHS keeps pushing the "are you in the right place" message is because they cannot provide the services peple need in the places people go to (eg, providing GPs in A&E departments), and people get better care if they go to the right place.
> Personally, I find the idea that the photographer has more right to a photo than the subject ethically repugnant.

I guess that totally depends on the type of shoot. If it's a studio shoot with a paid model signing waivers/releases/etc, then of course the photog owns it. They put in the time/work/money to produce the image. Street photography is definitely where it starts to get fuzzy (to me, not legally). If the person in the image is the entire point of the image, then I definitely feel like the photographer should have a conversation with the individual. Ethically speaking. Especially if it's an image that the photographer could be making money from later. A release form should be made available. If the people are just part of the image giving "life" to the image, then I have no issues.

It is pretty annoying at times. I have taken studio portraits of family members, and then gave them digital files to make what ever prints they wanted. These were clean images meaning there was no watermarking or any type. One CVS refused to make prints without a release form. Another place hemmed and hawed about it, but the third place never even thought of asking. I just wanted to do a nice thing, and made it as easy as possible for the family. It never occurred that someone would question it. Lesson learned, I now always provide a signed release granting permission for creating prints.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis and Power Sequencing https://en-support.renesas.com/knowledgeBase/16978575
Tim Sweeney is a good person, good for him
He most likely does not have the right to sell the pictures without the bands consent - thats why you have to have "model releases". But this doesn't matter, as he didn't try to sell the pictures. The case is based on unlicensed commercial usage of the photographers pictures.

If I were to translate "Harry Potter" into a different language, the copyright of the translation would be clearly mine. I would not be allowed to sell it without an agreement with the copyright holder of "Harry Potter", neither would Joanne Rowling be allowed to use my translation without my agreement.
Usually you can delete for up to two hours, so long as there are no comments. Delete your reply, then I'll delete mine, and you should be able to delete the original.

If it's not in time, don't fret.

PS: I would have emailed you this to get it to you more quickly, but you don't have contact details in your profile.

PPS: Too late.
Man this is sad... I just moved in SF a few months ago and I’m starting to get used to it... my parents want to come visit but I don’t want them to see all of this. I’m thinking of just meeting them in san diego and touring california while avoiding SF.

This is not a SF problem. This is an American problem.
Remember Bitcoin? Some Investors Might Want to Forget
> unlike Google alternatives etc. which are not as readily available.

Happy to say that duckduckgo is getting really good.

Cannot say it is better than Google, but for most queries it is equally good and it feels a lot better. Also, retrying with Google is as simple as adding a !g to the query.
I'd recommend old In Flames. Not the mostly-"nu"-metal stuff they've been putting out since Reroute to Remain. EDIT: And the new stuff is fine, but it's definitely not the fantastic melodic/progressive death they helped pioneer.
Yes, I meant including downloaded updates both from Microsoft and from hw manufacturers. Hopefully most of them are automatic but in some cases they are not. Without internet connection I wouldn’t even bother switching on a new laptop, it’s usually a race to get a new firmware before the machine bluescreens. As you say the whole process hinges on the fact that network adapters both wired and wireless usually work out of the box (in the literal sense).
Yea, I'm really frustrated with this situation as it relates to racing games. Apparently it's ok to shoot photos and movies with real cars in them, but you need to get a license to sell a game that models real cars? Nnngh. I think it's insane. And these games vanish from stores as licenses expire.
Hopefully this shows others that you can make successful games without pay to win mechanics.
One could have frozen 1 gallon milk jugs in the freezer and manually put them in the fridge compartment as needed.
cool man. i lived in nyc too and rode the A and C all the time never witnessed anything but white glove service.

>otherwise just take it as the impression from a fellow HNer.
on the internet everyone is a dog
If you want to avoid being hacked, the best first step is probably to avoid posting to a technical forum the fact you have 2000 bitcoins, using a non-burner account that includes your gmail and other personal info.

In all seriousness, if you really have that many bitcoin (I suspect you may have meant $2k worth of bitcoin), seriously consider your opsec. Make sure you have 2FA on your gmail and other important accounts, with no phone number linked (i.e. software 2FA only; people are porting phone numbers and then resetting 2FA).
I observe a tendency to post articles against bitcoin on HN. But these are as bad as the other extreme. I think we should welcome tech-focused articles on the blockchain and avoid useless fluctuation based articles.
Tell that to the doctors that have to save malnourished vegan children.
Totally, and talking to friends and family helps, but they are the least critical (typically) of your ideas because they want to be supportive. So finding people that are really the target audience and talking with them is critical.

Personally, I find it is always hardest to start the first few conversations for any new project, but after that it seems to get easier for me. Good luck!
No, I did not infer that he/she got upvoted by an army of bots or some such.

I just thought, like I wrote, that the mass of karma per time unit was (for lack of a better word, in all friendliness) impressive.

The posts are certainly informative. However, some details are not factual. To claim that the "provocations of the French" somehow made the migrant influx to Europe happen is wrong, the influx was due to the Libyan civil war collapsing the Gaddafi regime. The French did not start the Libyan protests and neither the civil war. Of course, one could argue that the French and NATO method of weakening Gaddafi's troops did not play out so well in the end, since it did not succeed in creating a stable new government, but this was mainly due to the effects of the Syrian war spilling out to Libya.

Also, claiming that the rise of Boko Haram was due to the Libyan civil war (and by some, perhaps imagined extensions, the French "provocations") is wrong, Boko Haram were already on the rise before the protests in Libya even started.

As for the Chinese building infrastructure left and right: the roads and rails can transport people or resources. I think it is mainly to do the latter towards harbors and mainland China, but supports the former as well. Is it good for the African nations? Certainly, more infrastructure that works will be a boost to the economies of the continent. However, to be a realist: building roads, rails, harbors, airports and such is not done as a gesture of goodwill or some kind of a gift or a form of help. Thinking so is very naïve. There is always some catch, with everything. Some catches are win-win, some are not. Time will tell what this will be.
I answered that in the following paragraphs: It gives you a huge amount of potential for reuse -- essentially for free.

(Alright, this is C++ so there's a little bit of cost due to a tiny amount of extra 'syntax' where C++ imperative syntax is "free", but that's trivial for any but the most trivial of examples.)
Homelessness is a legitimate crisis that needs addressing, it is severe in every west coast city.

There is no 'opioid crisis', it is a new moral panic fed by hysteria from media and politics. There have always been drug addicts and drug users, and there always will be.