skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll chuck in another "yes please" anecdote:

A house I was renting took about 50,000+ BTUs worth of two large AC units to maintain around 90F during the summer. Our electricity bill would get pretty close to $500/month if it was hot (and down to <$20 other months).

It was a house with a large, north/south-facing roof, with black roofing tiles, zero roofing insulation, and poor airflow (but lots of leaks) so we couldn't just open windows/doors. It was utterly absurd construction at even a glance (outside of fashion), and our utility costs were far more than it would've cost to improve. But the property owner lived elsewhere and had no interest in improving anything, only basic repairs.
I reject the premise that the nervous system has "bandwidth" in a sense comparable to digital communications. Yes, nerves fire in discrete action potentials, but every step of nervous transmission also involves a processing step. Let's not forget: a huge benefit of neural nets is dimensionality reduction, which is at once compression but also the extraction and abstraction of salient information. Does this represent the gain or loss of information? It's a basically meaningless question; the question is how does the system as a whole work, and how well?

Nor is it clear what the endpoint of a communication is. This is another issue. Does information get counted twice if it's used by both unconsciously by the brainstem as well as rising into awareness and is used by the neocortex? The list of questions can go on.

This bandwidth thing is one of the questions I find frustrating, on par with people wondering if a simulated piece of brain has feelings (the answer is NO). Why is left as an exercise for the reader.
Search queries reveal a lot.
Einsten's?
How the Soviet Union Led and Lost 'The Space Race'
So, the point of this is to reduce competition from smaller companies?
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I really question the hearing one, at least.

Shouldn't this basically just be the bandwidth of a headphone signal which is at the lowest quality where you can hear degradation if it goes any lower?

For me that's something like 3MB per minute, per well-compressed ogg files, or 50KB per second. Yet that answer says my hearing bandwidth is actually 600x higher than that.

I can imagine some small difference, but to say my ear has evolved to transmit 600x more sound data than I can actually perceive sounds off.
Can we use this to help join VPC flow logs from AWS?
That should only be required for an interest-bearing account and only if the interest exceeds the reporting threshold. It should at least be possible to have an account without providing the SSN.

They could still withhold the interest until you provide the SSN in the uncommon case that both of those are satisfied, but that should be very uncommon indeed because if you have enough money to reach the reporting threshold, you would make more investing it in even low risk securities, so only foolish or extremely conservative people should ever have done that.

(And if we want to go into a different policy discussion, you wouldn't need SSNs at all if we would switch to VAT+UBI, because then there is no income tax, the UBI handles making it progressive, and the VAT is handled by the selling business, so there is no need to track anyone's personal dealings whatsoever.)
At my job at a local college we had Deep Freeze installed on all our systems. Students and everyone was told to bring their own thumb drives or backup files to the cloud. It worked out just fine.
I am not “cross-examining” anyone.

I am curious what this referred to, because I have never heard such a thing, and it doesn’t match my understanding of human color vision, a subject which I have studied fairly extensively. It was stated authoritatively, without any elaboration or evidence.

I am asking for a citation so I can understand in more careful technical terms what claim is being made.

(P.S. Having site moderators step in to discourage basic good-faith questions is a bad show.)
All the 'cool' kids on Twitch vape these days, it's pretty good marketing for the activity and my guess is that alone accounts for a few percentage points at least of new vapers.
It's also still not clear to me what the fine was for. What did Facebook do incorrectly and what law did they break?
Finally something reasonable and bipartisan. Here's hoping it passes and gets signed into law...
> If we magically went to 100% nuclear fission for energy (which is not reasonable for personal transportation, at least)

Not quite so fast. A nuclear power plant under the hood of a car may be unfeasible for a long time to come, but what is becoming feasible is electric cars. Right now, a Tesla is still powered by coal in most places for now, but as more renewable energy sources come online, they magically get switched over to being solar powered, and then they become "nuclear powered", if/when that time comes.
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You can also do it by using the web page here: https://snowflake.torproject.org/
Looking over my library I’d have to disagree about that. :)
Where do you think the nicotine in ecigs comes from? For the first time in decades the industry has consumers who would rather be inhaling nicotine than be informed. Why would they be unhappy?
And because you can never know what your API provider wants to expand into next, you effectively shouldn't rely on third party APIs. Strava could very well see that some product using their API is doing well and decide to fill the same niche themselves. Once Strava's product is up and running they can just kill off access to the other one.
What's funny is, watching Star Trek, how obviously Vulcan "logic" isn't (usually?) logic. I've assumed that was intentional.
Regexp::Debugger was a cute one.
Yup, I had to look it up too. Best reference I found:

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/glossary/web-applic...
Sadly, this story is wrong and stems from a misunderstanding of how this feature works. The OS bootstraps these suggested apps from a configuration hosted by Microsoft servers, not anything present in your ISO. (e.g. https://twitter.com/thurrott/status/1122847063312613377)
Usually this handled via a stock loan or triparty agreement. A stock loan is an OTC (over the counter agreement, e.g. not on an exchange) when firm A "borrows" the shares from firm B and then after a term, either need to return the shares, or possibly offer cash compensation. This helps to cover the short. Versus a naked short, where you don't actual have possession of the shares you're selling. In my experience, naked shorts are rare, but I dont know how my experience plays out to the industry et large.

A triparty agreement is somewhat similar, but well, involves 3 parties instead of 2. Who gets what isn't always immediately clear to a casual observer. These can get quite nuanced and difficult to understand.
Why do you believe this isn't already the case?
The US has 2 sunk Nuclear submarines (129 and 99 lives lost). With at least USS Thresher being related to a loss of propulsion and thus at least indirectly the reactor. Considering how few where in service and none being sunk in wartime that’s not a great safety record. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_subma...

The cause of USS Scorpion’s sinking is unknown so it may be related to the reactor or it may not.
Nope. This feature bootstraps from the web and it's still in the latest update post-fresh install. This article is incorrect.
Pricenomics covered it a few years ago:

https://priceonomics.com/post/30393216796/what-happens-to-st...
On HN, it's not ok to ethnically interpret someone's name, map it to their national or racial origin and cast aspersions on them. People can't do that here no matter how strong their political passions are, and we ban accounts that use HN for nationalistic or racial or ethnic battle.

Speaking of that, your account's submission history clearly shows an agenda of nationalistic battle. That is not what this site is for, so please don't do that, regardless of which nation you're for or against. Also, please keep the language of the online shaming culture off HN, even when addressing moderators.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Even better than ToU is having it priced minute-by-minute based on supply/demand, just like gas prices are. After all, a cloudy day may reduce solar output, and prices should rise accordingly.
There's some work on enabling larger stuff to run (slowly) via oversubscription. Maybe pytorch will get this capability eventually.

https://developer.download.nvidia.com/video/gputechconf/gtc/...
Does mirth? I've been perusing the code and haven't seen anything like that so far.
It was too bad WAF took down their entire network. I don't use it but things went down too.

Maybe it's better to separate damage zones for different features.
Unrelated, do you speak Ithkuil?
TLDR for those of us who aren’t about to read this strange cult-like document?
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Indeed. memcpy_s is certainly the definition of stupidity (as I heard someone once say, "that's what the _s stands for") because there is nothing "unsafe" about memcpy() as oppposed to e.g. the infamous gets(). It copies exactly the number of bytes you tell it to, no more and no less.

The length calculation always has to be done before the copy. Introducing an extra check in the way memcpy_s does is futile if you didn't get it right in the first place, and if you did, like you should, then it's nothing but bureaucratic bloat that can even make "safety" worse (because now there are two length checks, the one that actually does the work and makes the decisions, and this implicit one that someone in the future updating the code might miss.)

Almost all of the _s shit is just pure paranoia-FUD propagated by basically clueless "security" experts, mainly at Microsoft. To see the depths of this insanity, consider that they even have a "safe coding" standard where memcpy() is "banned", but memmove() is not, and there is no memmove_s() --- despite the fact that with the exception of overlapping areas, memmove() behaves exactly the same as memcpy(). You could simply search-and-replace all occurences of the latter with the former, and suddenly code that is considered "unsafe" is not.
U-235 is the only naturally occurring fissile isotope of uranium. In raw uranium out of the ground, it makes up about 0.7%, the rest being U-238. U-233 is also fissile, but only really made in thorium breeder reactors.
Is it a hard robotics problem or a hard radiation-hardening problem?
I think that's a separate interesting application of the principles involved, but interesting as well to be sure.
Nobody dies from Marijuana overdoses but having smoke in your lungs is having smoke in your lungs whether it comes form a cigarette or a joint or a campfire and it's pretty much equally bad each way. Users tend to spend less time smoking joints than cigarettes but I'd be very surprised if the incidence of lung cancer from marijuana was zero.
Users need to follow the site guidelines regardless of how ignorant someone else is or how strongly you disagree. Maybe you don't owe the author better, but you owe this community better if you want to post here.

The online calling-out and shaming culture is particularly unwanted on HN. It has a degrading effect on the community.
Yep. My use case for scooters is when the bus will take too long to get me to/from work, or running errands, or when I'm too tired/it's too far to walk. I decide that I need it at the spur of the moment, and don't want to plan to have it with me.
They probably had a consultant do it for them.
> The people I know that grew up in multicultural cities had so much richer experiences and opportunities to grow and explore their beliefs and ideas without their parents ideologies infecting them as much.

I’m from rural East Texas and would agree with that statement 100%.
Oh boy, I was briefly involved with the EFFF standard ( Belgium extension on UBL), where they wanted to include an xml file inside the PDF. This pissed me off that much.

My simple suggestion of using a new file extension with a zip and xml was disregarded.

The president of the organization had a side business, where he was the first to implement everything before it was on the table.

Ugh, politics
It's not like people didn't tell Mozilla about the potential for problems like this when signing was added.
agree.i didnt mean to seem like i thought he/she/they said only big companies.

but isnt it sufficiently common public language to focus on large /corporate/capitalism etc? i only hoped to offer a note to support thia this conversation from falling into that.

thanks for following up on that, good catching!
The situation was much different 5 or 10 years ago.

One year was the best you'd get, 90 days was common.
Is it 100% manageable?

If the malware author manages to infiltrate your network and quietly starts infecting files and devices on your network over 6 months, even if you restore from a 7 month old backup, what about all of the files that were created between then and now -- are they all going to be recoverable even if you can find and remove the malware? Can you reliably detect all of the malware or will the attack sprout again from your printer in a few months?
How many basketball courts exist vs how many ice rinks exist?

Practically every high school and elementary school has a basketball court--that's probably 10,000+ in Canada. It doesn't count any associated with public parks, etc.

Contrast that with ice rinks which are probably about 1000. You have at least a factor of 10 differential--probably more. In addition, ice rinks are vastly higher outlay to keep running.

So, that means real money to use the rink when using a basketball court is, at worst, a nominal fee. Longer travel to play against another team if you're in a league. Fewer coaches which need to be paid more. And, your practice times are in the "dead zones" from 11:00PM to 6:00AM in the morning as the ice rink is looking to make real money from 3:00PM to about 11:00PM.
And by then we will have many better alternatives
This says a lot about a certain space within our current politics...

Homelessness is a product of mental illness and shouldn't be criminalized... but let's not actually bother to treat these peoples' mental illness, either

I don't know if this is just wishful thinking or a product of shortsightedness and unthinking hostility towards "criminalization" and all it entails, but yes, this is where we end up.

To be clear, mental illness shouldn't be criminalized, but a lot of these people need either intense, voluntary support or in some cases to just be committed for their own good and the safety of others, especially when their mental illness is making them violent.
Except that forcing use of memcpy_s does nothing to actually fix the real problem. Enforce arbitrary rules, get arbitrary results...
Same. I've been messing with Xlib/XCB/Cairo/etc for the past few weeks and it's all I've been thinking about lately. I guess if you use the Xlib/XCB backends for Cairo surfaces then you would get some sort of GC on the Xorg server side.
Reminds me of this poetic data visualization: https://www.theatlas.com/charts/HJFYm4uQ-
But here's the thing: It's my browser, not Mozilla's.
Drive across the southern tip of Nevada sometime. It's becoming wall to wall solar farms. PV, molten salt, and I don't know what else. Acres and acres of panels.
I don't mean to be negative, but we've been hearing fusion is 5 years out for how long?

Point is: you can't really put a deadline on R&D. We won't really know when it works, until, well it does. And who knows how long it will to take commercialize once we do get it working.

I mean, Musk said fully autonomous vehicles in 2015 were easy and would be solved in 2 years. 4 years later, Tesla'd are killing people by driving into highway barriers or broadsiding a semi trailer. Ambitious? Yes. Are we there yet? No. I think autonomous driving is a worthy goal and we should keep working at it. Same with fusion. But do I believe the projected timelines? No. Doubt that I'll see fusion as a power source in my timeline. Maybe never fully autonomous vehicles (I mean trully fully). And I'm still under 40. Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but I think a lot of people underestimate the true difficulty of some of these projects.
Where do you think the nicotine in any of these products comes from? The whole damn thing is the tobacco industry, not merely the parts of it wearing the legacy brands on their sleeves.

The reputation of the tobacco industry is well earned. Vigilant regulation is necessary to keep it on a leash.
Very low cost and effective way for thermal insulation is to apply limestone powder on the roof, easily lowers room temperature by 2 degrees Celsius, even 2 degrees makes a big difference in hot summers. Did it at my native place home last summer, made heat a bit bearable with temperatures going beyond 45 degrees.

https://youtu.be/t4OET7b4ZgI
Thanks for the suggestion. I'd previously added the tutorial linked below, but that clearly wasn't cutting it, so I've now added an example diagram for first-time visitors. If you already visited, click on the top object (probably the help text), press shift-D to delete all items, then refresh the page.
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Exactly. Just look at the numerous twitter apps that are no longer around but we’re very useful to twitter at the time.
It's not allowed to foment generic ideological tangents with indignant rhetoric.
"Socialism starved a couple million people" is a classic example. All of that has been repeated countless times. It is predictable, therefore it does not gratify curiosity, therefore it's not what HN is for, and that means it's off topic.

If you have something genuinely new to say, that might be ok—but then an internet forum is not a good medium for that; you should write a book or a scholarly essay instead, and maybe link to it here.
Ethanol is highly corrosive,
damages engines and fuel lines, is hydroscopic which exacerbates above and more problems, has even short term storage problems let alone long term, thats why its only ever used blended and is very toxic, in fact it is a nightmare fuel really.. bio diesel on the other hand has none of these problems.

https://www.government-fleet.com/157454/storing-dispensing-u...

https://www.cfact.org/2014/07/21/killing-marine-life-with-et...
Seems pretty narrowly useful, but I'm not sure I've ever been in a situation where this did what I wanted-- usually I would either have wanted things like q-in-q, or I'd want client_id, etc.
Engineers having to abide by the crazy ineffective coding style

This is usually a sign of "metrics-driven management". They are then surprised why all their measures of "code quality" and "compliance" on their awesome dashboards and analytics are showing 100% while the actual product continues to spew forth bugs and disappoint their customers.

Any rules perceived as stupid will naturally be worked around. "You get what you measure."
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Do we consider people making search queries on Google to be non-users?
> It occurs no matter how great the distance between the particles is.

Well then set up two particles on opposite sides of the planet and send communications via this entanglement at the speed of.. light?

And yes, I have near zero knowledge of particle physics!
Then write it up in your native language first then translate or ask for help in translating.
Sounds like a failure of pschiatry. I don't accept the conclusion that faulty brains are 'unlikely to be the root-cause'.

This is like a systems engineer stating 'this issue is definitely not hardware-related'. Maybe you have zero proof that it's hardware-related; maybe you need to work harder at debugging.
I have been living alone for most of the past 5 years. I probably avoid loneliness by spending a ton of time on creative endeavors and artwork, and I am at peace with the solitude and do not need the comfort or attention of others. I have gone months only leaving the house to buy groceries and not visiting family or friends in person (working from home).

I do not think an average person would be able to live like this. It takes a certain type of driven, focused personality who can dive into their work or hobbies and be happy with their head below water for a while without seeing anyone. I suspect Aristotle and Nietzsche both had these qualities.
You can use things like broadcast-only CAN from the anesthesia apparatus to the network server. Now, you can compromise the network server, but the hardware link prevents your system from being able to do anything else.

In fact, if I had to design such a system, this is how I would do it--network server, GUI server, and anesthesia administration would be 3 very separate "instances" with hard communcation links in-between. The GUI->apparatus would be a bidirectional link (probably CAN for reliability) and the GUI->network server would be a separate, unidirectional link only from the GUI to the network server (probably CAN again).

It would simply be far too difficult to verify the reliability of a system that had the network, the console UI and the anesthesia administration apparatus commingled.
Once there's malware on the system you've completely lost, there's nothing Firefox can do ever, so there's no point in trying to provide any protection in that case.
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We're discussing safety record for nuclear power specifically, not lost ships for any reason. The USN has about half of all the reactors running by the USA. How is that a "few"?

If you read the page about USS Thresher then it clearly explains it had nothing to do with the reactor and was a "high-pressure water spraying from a broken pipe joint may have shorted out one of the many electrical panels, causing a shutdown ("scram") of the reactor, which in turn caused loss of propulsion" followed by other personnel and procedure issues that led to a sinking.
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Very interested in this. As a web developer and the owner of a coffee house, I have been planning to build something like this integrated with Square. This may save me time and money.
It’s funny because it’s inevitable that everyone will feel the effects of climate change. It will just take some areas—and some people—a little longer to feel it.
> Shouldn't this basically just be the bandwidth of a headphone signal

One issue with this approach is that it's very hard to tell the difference between data that was never sent versus data that is there but our developing brains were trained to ignore because it didn't turn out to be useful.

A simple example of this would be language differences, where certain important language features simply aren't noticeable to non-native speakers, despite having the same sensor-hardware.
> It looks like garbage

Sigh. Not like the garbage in the link above it doesn't. If this was the image in the link we all would have nodded and said "yup, looks about worth a doubling of byte count" and we'd all be in agreement.

Instead, the absurdist misencoded nonsense above gets thrown around as proof that BPG is some kind of revolutionary technology, and a bunch of us have to step in to debunk the silliness.

It's twice as efficient (roughly). Just say that and leave the spin.
I will investigate, but if you have a solid source for that it would save me the trouble. Thanks anyways. I’d really like for MS to stop doing this if they haven’t, I have a personal ban on running Windows outside of VMs until its over.

UPDATE:

Sigh... you are correct. Fresh install, Win10 Pro, same garbage.

https://i.imgur.com/zDWo4Hb.png
They absolutely are values. Just not good ones.
The utilities often don't want to buy this power - if they felt that they were underpaying, they'd want to buy it. Could you cite the "most research" you speak of? In fact I've read the exact opposite - that solar rooftop is economically possible only because the utility is often forced to buy it back at retail rates.