skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
human: 1.2 (0.9) kcal/floor ascending (descending) [0, 1]
elevator: 2.5 W•h/floor [2, 3]

Let's assume 15 floors since otherwise you'd probably save time walking.

The article suggests a grid efficiency of 50% and a motor efficiency of electric e-bike motors as 75%. It looks like elevator motors are actually more efficient (increasingly so as more people are loaded) [4]. It's only about 5 percentage points higher, so for simplicity let's keep 75%.

Ignoring the transportation and manufacture cost of the elevator assembly (not totally unreasonable since it has a long lifetime), elevators have an energy ratio of 2.5:6.7 or 1:2.7, which looks far better than the 1:28 that the article quotes for humans.

Gee, that kind of upends my worldview... I guess I'll just wait until bodies are deprecated in favor of high-efficiency cybernetics.

[0] https://captaincalculator.com/health/calorie/calories-burned...

[1] https://www.livestrong.com/article/301539-calories-burned-cl...

[2] https://www.quora.com/How-much-electricity-does-an-elevator-...

[3] https://fatknowledge.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-much-energy-do...

[4] https://www.me.ua.edu/me416/LECTURE%20MATERIALS/MotorEffic&P...
That is a good question. but if I had to guess,

Judging from the scale, the "Generator" would have to be a power plant? I.e It is not feasible to have generators to operate at this Scale?
Doesn't matter. Right now the evil portion seems to be in control of policy advocacy and that should rightfully be punished.
>X is now officially deprecated

Can you provide a source on this? I can’t seem to find it with a cursory DDG search.
He did the same thing as Linus, he didn't mince words when he showed the door to people who persistently wrote crap articles. It's the intersection of academic entitlement (students really believe that just showing up and making an effort should be rewarded with good grades, no matter how good the outcome is) and American discourse (no rude words, hurt feelings are more important than substance).
Blockchain would be silly, there's no need for a globally-consistent view just to have search.

Distributed search has been around for some time, e.g. eMule uses Kad[1], Tribler[2] has a solution based on Tor, but the most appropriate here is probably YaCy[3]. Of course, all of those are technically "hosted", insofar as p2p involves peers acting as servers. But I bet someone has made a f2f[4] version, meaning you'd only serve to a few, hopefully trusted peers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia

[2] https://www.tribler.org/

[3] https://yacy.net/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend-to-friend
That's still showing the dark side of DRM. However it is also Microsoft handling that dark side in a professional way.

If a game developer shuts down their game servers, do they release the binaries? Some do, I guess. I've even seen some software companies release the source if/when they shut down.
Canada upset China recently and China reacted by arresting some of our people for espionage and executing a suspected Canadian drug dealer. I imagine our next election will have some cyber attacks against the liberals but we’ll see
Palmitic acid consumption is also associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease.
Perhaps for a large company with multiple offices etc, sure.

For a smaller company though, other than as a search tool (previously asked questions) I don't see what advantage it has over just using Slack/Teams etc. in a relevant channel to your question.
Fram (wiki mod in question) is apparently the Linus Torvalds of the old-guard Wikipedia community. “He’s a prolific genius!” vs “He’s a toxic asshole!” and much like the Linux community there have been no effective systems to deal with someone like that.

It’s telling that the Wikipedia community’s response is “How do we deal with WMF” and not “How do we deal with this admin”
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It’s not the dark side, it’s the designed in primary side.

The ability to view drm’d content is almost just an optional side benefit.

I still think legislation should require any product sold with a buy/purchase button should be required to continue functioning even if the “product” is shut down.
That’s a descriptive argument (describing what is, based on technicalities). I’m making a proscriptive argument about what should be. When DRM replaces an entire market, it’s reasonable for customers to have similar expectations. Eg when I die, I should be able to bequeath my library.
Technology needs an immune system. 'Tamper evident' is the right approach, but achieving this in a way that consumers can use is hard and requires building blocks that don't exist yet.

How can you verify that the motherboard you sent out is the one you get back and it doesn't have extra hardware inside the case?

msft isn't wrong that creating a trusted supply chain for hardware is difficult, but I think that 'how can I trust the repair shop' and 'how can I trust MS' are the same problem.
> Maybe at some point web developers have to accept that the web was simply not built for the things they're trying to do with it, and that comes with a cost.

So what's your proposal? To have one browser for "web documents" and another just for those things built by web developers that you dismiss with straw men, yet still acknowledge as having value?

If they have value, but they incur a cost, shouldn't we be looking at why we have that cost and how to drive it down? That's exactly what the post you're replying to is trying to convey.

Yes, not everything has to be animated or an SPA, because some things are good enough as just simple "web documents". But others gain in usefulness, usability and cognition by being augmented (e.g. data visualisation, business apps, games, et al). Not every web content is created for the same purpose. We still end up with the same crippled DOM/JavaScript combo. That should be the focus of the conversation.
Thank you. That gives a bit more information about the scale.

Two bureaucrats (out of 20), 18 administrators, an ArbCom clerk has already resigned, and now 4 out of 9 members of ArbCom is planning to resign.
Has that been decided by the courts for the various digital product types (software, books, music, videos, etc.)?
There were the infamous raids on the ball bearing factories in Schweinfurt. (At the time the allies didn't have escort fighters with sufficient range, and the bombers suffered heavily.)

But AFAIK those targets were selected based on pre-war "traditional" intelligence what the likely bottleneck resources would be, not statistical analysis of captured equipment.
root vegetables keep longer raw, do greens keep longer cooked? I wish someone would sell freeze dried greens and roots. we wouldn't ship around that water and it would keep forever with no refrigeration. drop it in the stew and go
My, my... That's some legalese thrown in there. What a contrast with the declaration of the independence of the cyberspace.

Snark aside, it really looks ugly from the outside.
I have thought about this before but with even higher stakes - finding a polynomial time algorithm for a NP-hard problem - because this would not only affect encryption algorithms based on factoring.
So does the first sale doctrine not have any teeth at all? What is to stop companies from throwing a license on everything they sell, making the first sale doctrine meaningless?

Could a bookseller add a license to a physical book, and suddenly you can't sell it or lend it out?
Wasn't Galileo first to observe them with his telescope or were they mentioned somewhere before? I assume back then the skies were darker and people probably had better eyes so if they are observable I would assume somebody would have mentioned them.
Well, the story doesn't tell what the dad was thinking when he was buying the shares. Maybe his idea was to support his son and sell the shares back to Sivers when he has made enough money, for modest profit. And maybe he considered any profit scenario unlikely^1. But then he forgot about it and maybe Derek forgot about it as well. However might be weird that Derek didn't know that he was selling shares of his company. After all company shares/stocks are a concept that even 10-year olds understand at some level.

[1] In my experience people consider starting entrepreneurs likely to fail. So it might be as well that FFF round is considered a gift from the investor.
It's incredible the amount of research and brainstorming it took to develop this solution. Does anyone know more about the author? Is this a hobby project? Either way, these optimizations [system design] are super impressive.
The problem when an extremely popular person (in some circles) needs to be held accountable to the rules.

Like when OJ was on trial. Or Bill Cosby and Louis CK were found to be creeps.

So this Fram gets a few warnings about his behavior crossing the line, but continues on. Who's going to take him on?
The planet is on fire because we consume to much stuff.
We should have the right to repair things we own.
Corporate lobbying is not in the general democratic interest of the people and should be forbidden.
No need to launder, this money would not be illegal. Just convert it and pay your taxes. When you will have to justify your revenues, everybody will have migrated to different cryptography anyway and you will not be in danger any more and you will be able to use this money as you want.
Forget sale doctrines, DRM effectively prevents a consumer from leaving to a competing service. It seems to me to be more of a matter of antitrust law since it gives a company way too much control over how a consumer, well, consumes.
I don't know but Since QBasic since I used it there.
The dark side of physical books:
sometimes you buy a book and then you lose it.
That’s what’s so infuriating about DRM. Lawyers may argue that we clicked OK to some fine print somewhere, but the product is advertised as something you buy, not something you lease. That’s why I feel like the right of first sale should be legally protected.
But did they use the word 'buy' in their online store? Did they list the item as 'book title' instead of 'book title license'?

I'm sure there's a "licensed, not sold" line buried somewhere in the EULA, but why would that take precedence over the prominently-displayed "buy"? Is the "buy" a lie? If so, how is a consumer supposed to know which statements are lies and which are not? For all they know, the EULA could be the lying one.

This is all from a US point of view - Europe has disallowed using such shenanigans to rob consumers of their rights: https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/3/3134867/eu-court-of-justic...
It's increasingly looking like our two options are either

1. Turning the browser into an OS (what Google is working toward)

2. Downloading an OS on each page load (What webassembly is working toward)
Jony Ive made the entire tech world care about design
This sort of of statement is one I made back in the lates 90s and early 00s. As an absolute statement it was wrong and still is wrong, and I think the enthusiast tech community's adoption of it has done a huge amount of harm. We reflexively opposed things like TPMs at all, rather then recognizing that the real question is who controls putting keys there. It would have been (and still would be) better to fight to make sure the standard is that the end people in charge of the device have the right to control the master keys on it. By going for a blanket "no chains of trust at all" we gave up a lot of useful capabilities and left the door open for companies to come in making use of them but with unpleasant and unnecessary extras tacked on.
Being able to lose the paper trail is a feature, not a bug, so a system like that would never be implemented.

The police exist to protect the property and station of those in power. It's why New York City was able to function without a police department until the 1840s while the New York Fire Department can trace its history back to the 1640s.
>Fram is also known within the community as an asshole. “He’s like Inspector Javert,” one Wikipedian wrote of Fram recently, comparing him to the ruthless and inflexible antagonist of Les Misérables. “Brusque, bordering on rude sometimes,” another longtime admin, Floquenbeam, told BuzzFeed News. “He has a reputation for almost always being right on the underlying merits in a dispute, but going about it in a fairly obnoxious way.” Over the years, Fram has clashed with other admins, with editors, with ArbCom, and with the foundation itself.

Fram explained that he had received two previous “conduct warnings” from the foundation’s Trust and Safety Council for his incivil style toward other Wikipedians.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/wikiped...

Personally, I'm reminded of Linus Torvald's "voluntary" leave of absence.

With great power comes a great need to act with civility?
Yes, great analogy. Took quite a while for Linus to come to the realization that "I could be better".
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Buy a laptop with the button you like.
Alternative exists. It might not be usable entirely without them, but it can on a certain point.
We’ve separated the list into multiple categories, so that way, this could be easier to block some majors parts of their services only. And well, We´ve indicated the domain to whitelist in case you have issues with reCaptcha´s.
If I upgrade my phone every 12 or 18 months, I shouldn't have to pay extra for a 3 year warranty. It should be optional to purchase that warranty, just like it is today.
Remote GLX only works for really old versions of GL (such as the versions used by CAD software). X11 already effectively gave up on it a long time ago.
Author here. That's an open question, since we haven't been using this enough to see what people need or how it plays out. My hypothesis is that we'll need editor tooling to propagate the changes easily for you, including potentially adding the conversion functions (which we may be able to create automatically or semi-automatically).
If you can do Xlambda with Guile, that's probably preferable to doing it with Racket, for purposes such as getting it into GNU/Linux distros. This is exactly one of the kinds of purposes for which Guile was intended. I'm also very happy to see the recent energy put into Guile, including your project.
Sometimes Barnes & Noble break and enter my house and take off with my bookshelves.

Oh wait, nevermind, that's never actually happened.
If you live in the US and have a library card, try Overdrive. You can check out a huge catalog of eBooks for essentially free (since it’s paid via your local library).
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Ma...

(I don't know if it's officially deprecated, but here's a related article)
Some genres and themes have to be current to be enjoyable, and since the authors are living it's worth supporting them. So Gutenberg is awesome, but not sufficient for one's full literary diet.
You should look at the firefox decentraleyes plugin. Would be nice if pihole implemented something like this.
This did not occur to me but is obvious now that you have said it. Interesting!

I wonder how many such tweaks it would take it to be worthwhile for companies to add it as a build step
It doesn't make sense to me that eBook retailers can claim they're selling licences to view books, instead of the books themselves. If I were to look for 1984 for a kindle, I'd:

1. Search Amazon for "1984 George Orwell"
2. Select the first option (paperback)
3. See the "Format" selector
4. Select the kindle edition
5. Click "Buy with one-click"

Notably, between 4 and 5, reading the entire page gives no indication that the kindle format is fundamentally different from the paperback in regards to who actually owns the copy after purchase.

There may be a notice buried in a EULA that you agree to when setting the device up, but it may be hard to argue that it means they can tell you at the time of purchase they're selling you a book while actually selling you a licence.
I'd be willing to close all of my accounts instead
sorry no. riot and matrix are both NOT e2e. I wish people would stop repeating as facts what is somewhere on the roadmap
I saw a bunch of avatars over the map and was worried it was sharing my location with other users. Got a google wave-esque chill. Couldn’t find anything in settings to disable. Uninstalled.
This is a perspective I’ve not heard before and helps me take a less dim view of the SO rules.

While Im pretty sympathetic to the “RTFM” style rules, the one that really annoys me is the prohibition on question that will elicit answeres which are opinion based. It appears to me that experts often love to answer such questions. I don’t see how this fits into your framework of making things better for the answeres. Would you disagree?
Video-hosting website alternatives as YouTube are indeed, pretty difficult to use in hope to replace entirely that service.
I’ll say that peertube is going into a great way, but if it actually continues to gain success, it will surely take too many longs.
You can however, if its mainly for telemetry purposes, use something else like invidio.us which i’ve been using alongside it, since i’ve deleted my Google account.
So instead of just not grabbing junk food, you leave it to make more work for the store employees? Unless you restock the shelves yourself, that is incredibly inconsiderate. Also, if an item is frozen, refridgerated, or fresh produce it likely ends up in the trash as spoilage, since a busy cashier won't have time to restock abandoned items.
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The button says buy and purchase. Not rent or lease.

If it was honest and said that I suspect fewer people would buy them. Sorry, license them.
> There is no distinction here.

Yes there is. The question is now "how does MSFT decide _who_ gets the right to repair their devices?"

If it's a reasonable and non-discriminatory process, then that might be fine, if they're arbitrarily deciding, then that's likely an issue the FTC _should_ investigate.
throwawayMUSE is clearly right. These firms are playing the same game as used car salesmen--selling you junk that won't make it off the lot, all for $9/hr. It's true even for non-critical .NET apps that the business is getting ripped off. In mission critical systems, it's literally life and death. Sounding the alarm doesn't warrant dismissive sarcasm.
Sure, but 99.99% of devs don’t need to know this and probably shouldn’t know this lest they decide one day “this will be faster so I’ll just do it this way” not thinking of how awful and confusing it will be for everyone else.
do you mind sharing it?
You can run Windows in KVM. I haven't used VirtualBox for years so my knowledge is out of date.
You are deluding yourself if you think cryptography can be the solution to an attacker with access to the physical machine. No crypto in the world can help you if I simply bug the fricking physical keyboard!
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That makes sense! I never knew, wow!
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I keep hearing complaints in the US that EU regulations strangle companies, but as a consumer I’m wildly envious. When I vaped, I tried to get a new disposable part in the EU. I had to upgrade my whole mod because the parts on the market in the US were illegal in the EU because they leaked. The US is sold products that force you to buy more “juice” and make messes. And in the EU, the juice flavors must each pass tests to show they’re not harmful. In the US that’s considered an undue burden.
This is where other solutions such as the Q&A plugin for Confluance have their place. The Q&A plugin for 1k users is $1000/year (on top of the $24k/year for the 1k users)... but that's a small fraction of the price for the enterprise cost.

... And lacking the integration with other systems, the enterprise version of SO (and for that matter, teams) really lacks a good price / integration / use pitch.
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I was recently hired as a Project Manager at a small company. I've only been on the job a few weeks when I was told an employee had filed a complaint against me for creating a hostile workplace. When I asked how I exactly did this I was told I said a curse word at a meeting.

Has anyone ever dealt with this situation before? What is the best thing for me to do? I dont want a hostile workplace environment on my end where I have to keep looking over my shoulder either.
I am reminded of when the “weboob” package was removed from Debian (itself a reasonable action)… by Debian’s Anti-Harassment Team, not by the Debian FTP masters or anyone who usually removes packages.

EDIT: I was misinformed, as geofft correctly point out in a comment below.
I’ve added your suggestion to our list, and I will try to see if I can make, a separate list mainly for those dedicated web services. For myself, I always block all JS fonts, and CDN domains, and I think, only really use Decentraleyes for that (Or LocalCDN as an alternative), and most of the time, It's usable, but not on the few cases when no content at all is being pulled from those domains.
Yep, this. I was 12 when the original Star Wars came out. The opening sequence blew my mind straight out the to the sidewalk (people invariably watched movies in theaters back then). But nowadays it doesn't look like anything particularly special.
> revenue from job postings (Careers section) and banner ads did not bring enough money

Actually, as per 2018 We Are Developers conference, Joel mentioned the Careers section (Talent) was making them the most money: https://invidio.us/watch?v=oUzUo8Jre8s @ 4m40s
God I hate this argument (even when I worked at Apple). There are many valid (eg remotely plausible) reasons, but “haxors cybering your security” is not one of them.

[autocorrect wanted to change haxors to hackers. I’m not sure if that’s good or not)
He lifted the ban on selling to them, not the ban on buying them
Wanted to ask for a citation on that last paragraph. I'd be very interested to read more first-hand accounts about what you're talking about.
Chronic nerve pain or lifelong paralysis doesn’t sound great
That is not what actually happens to stubs. It has never been the site's deletion policy to delete stubs. What actually happens to stubs is that they sit around for years. Some grow; a lot do not.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy?oldi...

Nor was it what Fram did. Fram proposed deletion, of newly created articles (that had not sat dormant, moreover), and put the articles up for community discussion. The people who actually did the deletion were other people. Here's one such stub deleted by David Gerard, for example.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone_national_cerebral...
Will look this up. And not surprised.

Anecdotally, I went to Best Buy for an iPhone screen replacement (a year ago in nyc), the tech wanted my pin code, I of course declined. Their reasoning was that they needed it for their test fixture to make sure the replacement worked. I declined again. The tech said that in that case they would have to wipe my phone, I said that’s fine and much preferred to the alternative.

When I came back a few hours later to get my device, it had not been wiped, and the new screen worked just fine.

I was always curious why the heck would they need my pin!

I imagine >95% give their pin.
Yes, rails is great, but would love more of the direction of a single page app. VulcanJS is closest but like I said not sure if its' still that active.
Loved your comment.

And before Boogie Nights there's a history of it in Cinema:

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-10-longest-unbroken-sh... the ones earlier than Boogie Nights:

Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983, 9m20s)
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948, 1h20m)

and this came out about the same time, so I'm pretty sure they had overlapping production:

Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma, 1998, 12m57s)
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