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Bottom line is that bikes are efficient because they’re slow and light, not necessarily because they’re human powered.

In both cases the energy use is lower than lots of things that we don’t think of in terms of energy.

By way of comparison, a hot shower used about 300 Wh (a full charge on a smallish ebike battery) every minute.
The Citicorp tower design flaw that could have wiped out the skyscraper (2014)
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> If the TPM or other hardware or software protections were compromised by a malicious or unqualified repair vendor, those security protections would be rendered ineffective and consumers’ data and control of the device would be at risk

Then make it so the consumer can always tell if the security became ineffective.
FWIW, this is part of why Amazon's product identifiers (ASINs) are obfuscated the way they are
It's time we also remove the "Windows"-button (edit: the branded concept, not the physical button) from all the keyboards. We should have the right to repair in the form of also removing corporate advertising from our devices.
No, that was an example, not a requirement. Google has this history they associate whether or not you have a Google account. The account just solidifies it. You're still being tracked and identified without the account.
Any recommendations for such stores?

I know of https://www.downpour.com for audio books and I get all my audio books from them since they are DRM-free.

Would love to know of such a service for ebooks, but for fiction.
And what about the hours of effort put into reading, annotating, and jotting down notes on the ebook? (Typical of serious reading/research) That is worth way more than $25 -- MS is robbing people of the value they tried to create/store for their future selves. What use is a "platform" if it can't support that?
I don't fully understand how China works as a country and economy:

* It is not a democracy.

* Citizens lack certain social freedoms that people in other developed countries take for granted.

* Properly speaking, it is not a capitalist system, as there is a lot of investment, including by state-owned enterprises, that seems uneconomic (extreme example: ghost cities).

* According to numerous media reports, its financial system has been plagued by bad loans for many years, so far without consequence (a quick Google search for "China bad loans" can verify it).

* Its national accounting figures (e.g., GDP) are reportedly "managed" (or less charitably, cooked) and therefore cannot be taken at face value.

* Its money supply, e.g., as measured by M2, appears to be much greater than levels that would be considered ludicrous in other developed economies.

It remains to be seen whether this latest "pinch" of liquidity in the banking system is the proverbial canary in the coal mine.
Hello, creator here!

I originally conceived this as a simple, static CodePen clone, but I felt the "publishing" of pages as URLs was an interesting idea. So I decided to present that aspect of it front and center, even though it wasn't really the point of the project at the beginning.

About a year ago, I had a proof of concept version that I ended up using fairly frequently for sharing quick HTML/CSS/JavaScript experiments (never as a means of seriously publishing and sharing censorship-proof content). I found that if its use is limited to that case, it is actually very handy and robust!

Lots of interesting feedback in the comments, largely more positive than I expected. I was expecting criticism of code quality since I have minimal web development experience, but instead the (valid) criticism is coming from people who are taking the project's applications and use cases seriously, which I appreciate.
It's really good to have GLPK & Open Solver (COIN OR Project) available for the public.

The commercial solvers (CPLEX, GUROBI, XPRESS) might be significantly more robust and fster, but they are unbelievably expensive even for a non-commercial license.

Open-Solver allows me to prototype on small models without getting a loan.
The altruistic answers have already been posted, so here's what the devil on my shoulder recommends: I'd start a darknet web service, paid in crypto currency, that decrypts RSA.

I'd adjust the price regularly to maximize my profit. The world would go crazy and very rapidly upgrade all software to not use prime factoring based encryption. I'd retire early to some lovely place, and never, ever, tell anyone how I got all this money.
My impression is that 37 is a similar outlier if you ask for random numbers from 1-100.
Performance is crucially important for a lot of applications. It profoundly affects the usability of a site if performance is too slow, and many studies over the years suggest direct losses on the bottom line as a result.

It may be a controversial opinion, but I think part of the problem today is that young web developers look to people who work at high-profile places like Facebook and Google as role models and for examples of best practice. And yet, a lot of Google's and Facebook's own web properties are... less than exemplary... in terms of performance, usability, design, and other factors that are important in most situations, and have been getting steadily worse rather than better over time. I humbly submit that the reasons for the runaway success of these giants have really very little to do with the quality of their sites any more, and that up to a point they can get away with things because of their dominant positions and lock-in effects that simply wouldn't be acceptable for most of the rest of us.
I would not claim to have solved factoring. I'd simply set up a web site where you can submit a large integer and hashes of its prime factors. The site would return "YES" if the hashes of the factors of the number match the submitted hashes, and NO if they do not.

Then I'd enjoy watching people try to figure out if I'd solved factoring, or broke the hash function, or both, or something else.
In this context, you are implying the platform is the browser? Assuming you produce your own content and own the domain for which these URLs are being produced then, yes you are left to trust the clients that actually render the content.
Another favourite of mine is mpsyt – a terminal interface for youtube-dl. I stream music for hours without ever getting ads or even having to have Youtube open in the browser.
I assume it's the same for elevators?

"Save the environment, take the elevator"?
>I think I am not capable of summarising his thoughts as I am also trying to decipher and get.

If you are not able to summarize and explain someone else's point, then you don't actually grasp it intellectually. You only have a sense for it emotionally, and that is the fundamental problem with Jordan Peterson and his bread and butter. He preaches, not makes logical arguments, and is attractive to an emotional audience. Which is ironic given his premise.
Seriously. It’s hard to understand why Microsoft has been getting so much fanfare from the OS community recently.
That's nitpicking. When someone says they're banned from Twitter it means their account can't be used to make tweets, not that they cannot read Twitter while logged out, or that they can't make a new Twitter account.
Disappointing that the article doesn't mention the fact that the non-CGI'd version of the movie does exist on DVD, but not Blu-Ray. That scene was beyond-R rating at the time, but in the 20 years since it's certainly not.

Along with the International cut of The Shining, I wish we could get, in the US, what are certainly the best versions of Kubrick's work. In the case of EWS, the CGI people covering the sex is distracting and silly. The movie is meant to be erotic and surreal.
Bought a Surface Pro 5th generation. Less than 8 months later the battery barely holds a charge. (<5 minutes) You're basically stuck because everything is glued together so you don't have any options other than to buy a brand new device. Feels a little like the forced Windows 10 updates. Good luck running Linux unless you are willing to live with all kinds of fail, due to poor camera support.

In the end it was far easier to just switch over to a Thinkpad.
I had use of a Nissan Leaf for a couple of months. It made a loud chirping noise when in reverse. Anytime I'd back out of my driveway early in the morning, I knew I was annoying my neighbors but there wasn't anything I could do about it. It would have been nice to have the option to turn it off and just be more aware of my surroundings while backing up.
tor is a scifi/fantasy+adjacent publisher that famously offers drm-free ebooks

https://www.tor.com/
There discussion today that addresses this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20317168

"a reliable electricity source, and that's _always_ fossil based"

Hydro, bio fuels?

And don't forget that big nuclear reactor will need maintenance, so you'll need overprovisioning just like wind and solar.

Ps
"be able produce N GW of electricity with a 10% variation over a 60 year timespan"

I know you're attempting to compare like with like, but there isn't any inherent reason why this should be the case. Just because the grid has been based on a certain model in the past, doesn't mean we can't use a different model in the future.
Florida city pays out $500K Bitcoin ransom
The one year warranty should have covered your surface

I do support right to repair for the record. I just think this isn’t a great example of how the right to repair would have actually helped someone
Would you provide AppImage[0] package for Linux?

[0] https://github.com/appimage/appimagekit
If Bitcoin was broken it would instantly become worthless.
China's state-run media reports Bitcoin is a safe haven
> The community did not have systems to handle the situation so the WMF stepped in.

The community does have systems to handle such situations though (e.g. the arbitration committee which has produced this letter).

Of course, these systems may or may not be adequate - I am not qualified to say, but it seems to me that the chief complaint here is that the WMF did not involve any community systems without having previously expressed concerns about them.

This suggests that either the WMF does not consider the systems adequate, in which case the arbitration committee is quite right to request that the WMF communicate this to them, or the WMF has some genuinely top-secret reason to ban someone that even the arbitration committee cannot be trusted with (which for a matter as light as a 1-year ban due to community reports doesn't seem likely).
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Well, from where I sit, it's a huge difference in terms of how much I should care about it. I have a limited amount of outrage and try to ration it to the issues that are the largest societal problems.
I feel like this is similar to the induced demand argument: "If you provide more supply then people will just (mis)use it and you won't have excess anymore so it's not really worth it"

And the implicit response is that people using available resources for whatever they want is fundamentally a good thing.
Coming from a free speech country I'm kinda curious about this. In the UK can they arrest you for peacefully protesting? I'm looking at the law the paper cites that he was arrested under[0][1].

1) I'm ASTOUNDED that "insulting" was in there from 1986-2014. 2) This is extremely vague and seems like it could be used to arrest any protestor.

> (b) displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening [or abusive],

> within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby.

Seriously? Causing people distress is a crime? Distress with words? We're not allowed to make direct threats of violence either, but this seems like a substantially lower bar.

So from [1] the lawyer has to argue that the conduct was reasonable? This is extremely subjective too.

This just seems weird to me, coming from a country where freedom of speech is so highly regarded (and here it has been a little controversial lately). It just feels undemocratic to me.

I understand my neighbors across the pond may not feel that way and I'd be curious about their thoughts. Is this just an abuse of that law? Does that law also feel undemocratic? Other more nuanced position?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_5_Public_Order_Act_198...

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64/section/5
For audio books I buy only from Downpour.com because they are DRM-free.

Any recommendations for a site selling DRM-FREE ebooks for fiction?
There has also been a lot of backslash but anti-Microsoft people are called tinfoil-hats and similar condescending stuff. Just like before PRISM all the people saying NSA surveilled everyone were called conspiracy theorists.
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I think so. A big part of the reason Microsoft looks friendly is because the rest of the industry caught up to their scale of evil. Worryingly, now that technology's effects on society are widely appreciated, the clueless control freak "lock everything down for security" mindset is better poised to enforce their broken paradigm. See: all that whinging about Huawei devices, when they're all insecure by design.
"Avoid large inline scripts" should be 'Avoid all inline scripts' in practice.

Inline scripts prevent using CSP 'unsafe-inline' therefore increasing XSS risk. Performance is only a secondary problem here.
I wanted to start meditating for a while but I keep putting it off. How can I stop procrastinating?
> current factoring algorithms would require enough energy to boil all oceans on the earth, that's a lot even compared to the US's energy supply.

Interesting. For what algorithm & key size?

I'd love to quote this. I've heard it before but I don't remember the source.
Come again? The “Windows”-button is just a super/command key that exists on many other keyboards and OSes outside of Windows.
Since X is now officially deprecated, we're gonna need a Wayland compositor version of this.
> Just to avoid that confusion: "certain" is not the same as "so incredibly sure that it would be world-shattering to discover otherwise", even though the former often is used colloquially to mean the latter. I'm pretty sure that that is some equivocation that's going on here.

I don't mean "so incredibly sure that it would be world-shattering to discover otherwise" when I say certain. I mean "Known for sure; established beyond doubt".

> So, you are saying that there is a claim that you are absolutely certain about?

Yes. I've already said so. Consider re-reading my previous comment in light of my response "to avoid that confusion".

> There is nothing in not being absolutely certain about anything that prevents you from still coming to conclusions and acting on them, and in many cases at least locally successfully so.

Agreed. Those conclusions have less basis, but our knowledge can wind up aligned with the truth without us being certain.

> There is nothing in reality, as far as I am aware, that guarantees that you can be certain about anything.

Then we are done with our conversation. If you can't be certain of anything, then all of logic is suspect.

This flies in the face of a comment you've made previously in two ways, both regarding logic and your awareness: "Which you can't [with your senses, demonstrate that the claim "our senses have at least one way in which they are reliable" is false] because it's a logical contradiction to show that a tautological claim is false."
I'm sorry, but your claim is simply not believable. A 340 pound man cannot maintain that weight with only 2000 calories a day. That would equate to a metabolism that burns less than 6 calories per pound. MAYBE if you were bedridden your metabolism could drop that low.

It is true that metabolism varies by individual, and it's also an unfortunate truth that people who were obese and get their weight down to a level that the medical community deems healthy will have a slower metabolism than most naturally skinny people. But there is no chance that you were maintaining a 2000 calorie diet before you started losing weight.

What is also true is that most people do not properly estimate the number of calories they consume each day. I certainly have a hard time doing it - the only real way is to prepare all of your food yourself, or buy prepackaged food that you can measure accurately. I guarantee you were eating much more than you thought you were.
I knew Microsoft had become openly contemptuous of tinkerers and power users then they removed granular control of windows updates.
> ...the software...

I thought it was already bad when our DVRs, TVs, cars and personal electronics take time to 'boot' because they're running OSes. Now were at the point where we'll put software into just about anything and deal with the fallout. The IoT age is about to be a very inconvenient one.
It's a very interesting concept in the current climate. The idea of sharing content as atomic and self-sufficient units of data, much like you would share the raw idea itself, but with the ability to have layout, rich content and possibly even interactivity. A web of ideas rather than ideas on pages with servers. The disintermediation of the web.

I suspect that's why this item is so popular.
The subject is well trodden now, of course. But, ask me in 1981 and I wouldn't have had much in the way of clue. My first intuition is that they should have bought him out at a nice premium at the time he left.

On the other hand, it is so bad a cool guy won a 100x lottery? Worse things have happened.
It exists on many keyboards outside of Windows, but always has Windows's branding (except with macs basically). It's anticompetitive to force such branding.
How the heck is this faster? What's going on underneath? This violates the hell out of Principle of Least Surprise lol
I implement the Bayesian solution in pymc3 at the end [0].

[0] https://www.eadan.net/blog/german-tank-problem/#probabilisti...
Good, because antibiotics do nothing for a cold which is viral. Antibiotics only work on bacteria. Anyone who demands antibiotics because they have a cold is completely unqualified to make even the most basic decisions about their own treatment.
That's not the case. With compartmentalization as a core organizational design, the people with the crack won't be saying anything to the operations and infrastructure folks.

A key portion of an advantage like this would be who to share 1) derived intel and 2) capability with.
You can get little Linux themed stickers to cover the Windows logo. Also Linux distros use the button for things...
What is this "special internet time protocol"?
New generation of programmers, many of which would have been very young/not alive when Microsoft were at peak (anti-OSS)/EEE?
The right sale doctrine doesn’t apply to products like these; these are licenses to use. If they were first sale doctrine products, you could sell your goods on secondary markets, which you cannot.
Not sure if this is news to you but the Chrome browser on iOS (as well as ALL other browsers on iOS, by Apple stipulation via app-store rules) uses WebKit underneath
I've read similar stories about lost police documents. A public blockchain could be useful to prevent that.
I think it's interesting how many people worry about factorization. A second preimage attack on SHA2 would be at least as dangerous, and nowhere near as many people know or care about its assumptions.
Recovery is greatly enhanced by getting good sleep, and taking medication at night to suppress symptoms so you can get a good night’s sleep is far better for your recovery than toughing it out. It may not entirely reduce the duration of the illness, but it will certainly help reduce the severity.
The context of that was a mass message sent to all administrators that appeared to say that all administrators "must" enable two-factor authentication or the Arbitration Committee would disable their accounts. Some administrators were rather angry at this.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/MediaWik...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Com... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Com...)
It's actually fairly straightforward to derive the estimators by hand [0]. It's just a bit tedious to do in a blog post.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_uniform_distribution#...
You can buy keyboards without it or pop the button off. I don't think this is a great example of being unable to repair something.
So no one going to comment how those Democrat politicians could scale back their taxing agenda and pull in those farmer votes?
Is there a way to replace board firmware with a hacked one that hides its alterations ny emularing ROM accesses? It could then also patch the secure boot checks out of the OS during system boot. Such a firmware would only be detectable by desoldering the flash chips and using a dedicated hardware reader.

If that is the case, every computer could be fundamentally compromised if you left it out of sight for long enough.
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The first time you compromise your principles is hard. Extraordinary circumstances, a special request in a special relationship, etc. The second time is easier…
That's why I let that part of the project be the focus!

I also hope the interest it has generated will inspire others with more knowledge and experience to make better versions or variations that are more practical.
Then how would you handle connection pooling, if every class which interacts with the database has its own instance of the database client?
You can use the button, but it shouldn't be "the Windows button", we should remove the branded concept.
I am "one of them" Microsoft still has some old corporate people still in charge versus some of the new projects which are not managed necessarily by the same groups. Until all these types leave it will feel like Microsoft is passive agressive.
Microsoft isn't a monolithic entity. Within orgs of that size and legacy there can be (and regularly are) business units at extreme odds if not open philosophical and economic combat with each other.
There are also (now-deleted) hints elsewhere that the matter which even the arbitration committee cannot be trusted with might have something to do with Gibraltapedia, which is... not a good look, given that was a particularly famous example of a Wikimedia trustee's personal financial interests and those of Wikipedia conflicting, and of this being handled badly by the Foundation.
You're going to have to launder a lot of money. What's your strategy there?
People have used a similar strategy to estimate iPhone production [0].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2008/oct/08/ipho...
Well, gay marriage has been legalized at least, so that's a start
In the context of computers, though, I want to decide what to spend the RAM on, it’s not great when random third parties decide to take advantage of my RAM just because it’s there.
This is why i crack the drm of all ebooks i buy and convert them to pdf.
There should be some crackdown on selling licenses over products. It is abused to absurd extends.
Antifa has repeatedly attacked Any Ngo, a young, asian, gay reporter. This is just the latest attack.

He's not the only reporter assaulted by antifa.
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The argument they're making is obviously true, both in theory and in fact (look up how Best Buy repair technicians act as informants for the government).

>if Microsoft wants to make devices that nobody can service and repair without breaking their security model, they’re entitled to do that. They can make Surface Pros so hardened and tamper proof that merely opening them will destroy them.

>What they can’t do is make devices that are repairable, and then lock out everyone but their own service technicians.

There is no distinction here. The tamper proofing is what locks out everyone but their own service technicians.