skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and a 1930s GE Monitor Top uses less than 250kWh/year, with ones from the 40s and 50s also in that range. Frigidaire truthfully advertised its "Meter-Miser" compressor (which is 1/8HP, or ~93W) as using less power than a 100W lightbulb. Having done most of the restoration of one, I can confirm that power usage. If it ran 24/7 that would still be ~800kWh/year, but it doesn't run continuously so actual consumption is far less --- at a more typical 50% duty cycle it would be closer to 400. Once I get it completely back together and reinsulated I can check.

Energy consumption shot up in the 60s and 70s with things like automatic defrost heaters and thinner insulation (because power was cheap and it made for more interior room), and then decreased again gradually after that due to environmental regulations. But the ones before that are a lot more efficient than most people think.
Yes. It's called a "quote".
Not a typographer, but this is by no means an inferior typeface. You are correct that it is not suited for large bodies text, but this is shared by almost all geometric typefaces.

Geometric typefaces are typically used to communicate minimalism and modernism.

> it would not pass the mustard for any serious candidate for text.

Many typefaces aren't designed for text but for identity. This one is very suitable for, say, asides and highlights in magazines, branding, poster copy, etc.. That it's amenable to modification because of the way it's coded points to its utility for these purposes.

A google search gives me these: https://creativemarket.com/blog/geometric-sans-serif-fonts
I think the 2008 Recession will be just as memorable as the Vietnam War or the fall of the Soviet Union. It has amplified a lot of problems that we will probably still struggle with in the future.
And C would blow his foot, like it does for everyone at some point ^^.
There are, it should be noted, places in the US where there are not readily-available supermarkets. But those tend to be urban and rural, not suburban:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
Right next to St. John's!
what is the purpose of this question?
IPtables/netfilter can already filter traffic by process. I don't think you need namespaces.
IMHO author is a US 'China expert' ripoff, source: I sought a quote from him and his rates were (even by lawyer standards) absolutely atrocious.

His interest in writing this article is clearly in removing HK in client minds as it's effective competition for him.

I can recommend alternative law firms by email.
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My current glasses say "handcrafted in Japan" on them, so I guess I qualify as a Japanese glasses owner. They cost 600 USD (bought in the US) a few years ago. I like the way they look, they are light weight, and extremely durable. They have been stepped on, sat on, bent by hand, and seen years of constant service and are still in perfect condition.

I wear my glasses pretty much all the time except when I'm in bed. I even wear my glasses in the swimming pool unless I'm swimming laps. When I last looked for glasses I looked very hard to find something I liked the asthetics of, were wearable, and durable. The price is much less of an issue given that glasses are such a constant and important part of my life. It makes sense to spend to get good glasses to me. Compromising on some aspect of the glasses may save a few hundred dollars, but it would degrade the quality of my every waking moment.
Michael Shellenberger’s sloppy Forbes diatribe deceives on Amazon fires (commentary)

https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/michael-shellenbergers-slo...
Shipping containers are pretty terrible as homes. By the time you insulate them, install windows and amenities, you're better off buying a mobile home.
It didn't help that Barnes and Noble bought Computer Literacy and seemingly had no idea what to do with it.
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No, that was MicroCenter, in the West end of Mercado. There has never been a Santa Clara Fry's Electronics. All 3 Sunnyvale locations were around Lawrence (Lakeside, Kern, now Arques).
I fully agree with you that certain uses are by far the worst, but something that smartphones in general have done is remove boredom. And I think there is a reasonable argument to be made that boredom is/was good for mental health, intellectual health, and potentially much more. For instance something my friends and I would do when we were bored kids was to play a sort of homebrew dungeons and dragons with one another, creating impromptu 'choose your own adventure' tales to each other. I'm certain such things were phenomenal for our mental development. Of course that boredom also at times led us to engage in some less wholesome ventures, but it's all part of growing up. But what about now a days? If we were bored and had phones instead we could just go turn on our phone and watch some funny videos, or go play a "free" video game.

I'm certain such arguments were probably made at the advent of radio, television, and other mass media. 'But this time its different!' No, really. The big difference now is that, even as an adult, I could browse YouTube for hours without ever getting bored. Television, radio, and all previous forms of entertainment were all much more limited in their dynamics and content, even with a gazillion channels, meaning boredom was inevitable and often sooner rather than later.

Alongside what's mentioned from this article, there is also now evidence of decreasing IQ in developed nations. And yes, that is after controlling for immigration and other obvious potential confounding factors. [1] This started in the mid 90s, just about the time the internet explosion started making boredom quickly become a thing of the past. What we're seeing in modern times: decreasing IQ, decreasing testosterone, decreasing fertility, increasing obesity, increasing depression, increasing anxiety. It's hard not to see a connection between these and the end of boredom.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...
> You want to add all your contacts in Gmail who are in skype

Never once in my lifetime I wanted to do that. For any two services.
Ah, the beauty of a powerful mind. As our high school dropouts are setting in their labs adding lithium from used cell phone batteries and Sudafed from wherever they can get it to cook a batch of methamphetamine for some quick cash, our most esteemed scientist are setting in their labs adding zeros from “zeroes unlimited” and “fuzzy” words from “scientific thesaurus” to cook up another grant for some quick cash.

After rereading the above paragraph I thought it to be too negative, but then I thought, “If indeed this is only a projection of a 2D reality then 3D movies are not really in 3D and I just paid way too much for the popcorn”.
Sure, don’t take media criticisms seriously, that’s almost a constant, their content is of course heavily editorialized with a focus on sensationalism. Still a lot of people who aren’t living in South America wouldn’t know that the Amazon region has fire issues without the current media trend.

The Amazon forest won’t die right now, but the fact that forest fires are a common occurrence since decades is definitely an issue given that they are mostly caused by human activities (with help from the local climate).
there's a rich literature in birdsong. also projects at wustl and i believe mgh in human vocalizations.
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Was hoping for more usage of `curl`.
I find this behavior on Reddit annoying when I’m reading a long comment and the thread suddenly collapses because I left my finger on the screen. There’s pros and cons to the approach.
Limonine is a terpine, and it certainly causes lipid pneumonia, or something much like it...
Variable fonts are amazing. The font distributor Im working with is making a huge push to provide a large library of variable web fonts by the end of this year.
Hmm ok.
I thought it was remarkably similar to 9/11. And was declassified only 5 months before
For a more pragmatic alternative to Markdown see Text with Instructions (.texti) that gets you the best of Markdown, Wikipedia Markup, LaTeX & Friends. See https://texti.github.io
Then why is there a "Program Files" and "Program Files (x86) folder. I believe the second one is for 32-bit ABI apps for some special reasons?
I would like to add on that Roboto is a bit special in that moreso than most other typefaces used for body text, it is excellent when used for for text at very small sizes.
> If it is a typical software engineering role at a FAANG company, then yes. The competition is too fierce for BSc or nano-degree holders and I wouldn't risk applying without one.

As someone who worked for one of those companies for 5 years this is completely wrong. Most SDEs there only have a Bachelors degree and as someone who was involved in the hiring process most of their new hires were also those with just a bachelors degree. On all the teams I worked on I only worked with 3-5 people who had a masters that I knew of in my 5 year tenure at that company.
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An in-between is Warby Parker - I like being able to try on the glasses in store (or shipped to door). Roughly $100-$150.
> A wildcard at the end can use a regular (btree) index.

depending on the locale your db is in, it might be a little less "regular". recently fell in that trap.

http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2016/08/pgsql-text-pattern-ops...
Try to avoid the use of ‘IN’ or ‘NOT IN’. By doing this you are performing a full table scan as the query engine looks through every row to check if the condition is met.

It's not clear to me why IN () can't do an index scan or hash join?
>you get into ethical questions very quickly where it’s not always so clear what the answer is

Bullshit. The line is very clear. Nobody has the right to initiate the use of violence. You have a right to defend yourself if someone is trying to punch you. You do not have a right to attack someone for being a Nazi, or a Commie, or a BLM-er, or a Trump supporter, or a slut walker.
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CSV's are a data structure. They do not contain any logic.
True. These days we get all these kind of recommendations. We are not aware but we are granting access to our resources from one service to other services.
Good set of tips, however "Not NOT IN" is not true in general, as a single counterexample:

EXPLAIN (costs off)
SELECT relname, relpages
FROM pg_class
WHERE relname IN ('pg_class');

QUERY PLAN
---------------------------------------------------------
Index Scan using pg_class_relname_nsp_index on pg_class
Index Cond: (relname = 'pg_class'::name)
(2 rows)

In general, I'd like to echo other's comments, learning how to use EXPLAIN and how to interpret query plans is the single most important tool, as it allows you to verify your hypothesis instead of relying on rules-of-thumb.
Sweet, now I can visit duckduckgo lite in firefox lite. Thanks!
It's the increased prominence of languages with garbage collection that is ruining children. They need to learn proper memory management!
For me, the only formatting issue is the code blocks that people use for quoting from linked articles - it doesn't wrap properly on mobile.

Other than that I like the minimalism. I even think the lack of automatically quoting the parent comment is a good thing, as it forces the user to think about the part of the parent they want to quote instead of wholesale quoting it all as the lazy option. If auto-quoting existed the comments would be 40% quotes of each other, and much harder to read.
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My comment isn't agreeing or disagreeing with anything about that.

It's just the HN guidelines are clear that you're meant to use the original title unless it's clickbait or misleading. It's been part of the guidelines for at least as long as the guidelines have existed in their current form (over 5 years):

https://web.archive.org/web/20140702092610/https://news.ycom...

There's a very good reason for this: when people construct their own title to highlight some aspect or angle they think is important, they often get it wrong and imply something about the article that isn't actually reflected in the content - much like clickbait headlines themselves often do.

I'm not commenting on whether or not you did that, but there's a simple way to ensure you don't make that mistake: just use the original title!
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Wasn't the Lakeside store a converted Fry's grocery store?
I am not talking about funerals, which are weird one-off social events. I am talking about the typical crowd going to a cemetery. When you "have something to do" there it usually involves mourning and a trip to memory lane. You want some peace and a meditative atmosphere.

It is not about the deceased, it is not about the magical fluff around the funerals, it is about the living and their grief.

Bringing kids to play in the middle of cemetery is to me like bringing them in the middle of a library with a lot of people deep into their books.

If you do that, you are an asshole. It is not about religion. It could be about culture, but I want to believe that what I am saying is pretty obvious to most Americans as well.
IN () definitely does use indexes in most cases on Postgres. The article is wrong there.
> Myth #11: Instead of merging / into /usr it would make a lot more sense to merge /usr into /.

> Fact: This would make the separation between vendor-supplied OS resources and machine-specific even worse, thus making OS snapshots and network/container sharing of it much harder and non-atomic, and clutter the root file system with a multitude of new directories.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseFor...
Why aren't they replacing the mumbling with closest match words in the synthesizer?

Anyway, putting electrodes inside the brain is not for common public, is this at all possible without those intrusions?
I can build (and have) a fully decked-out intel-based 1U server for $1,800 USD, so this Talos thing can't compete: it's not cost-effective no matter how one slices and dices it.

This company is repeating the same mistake IBM, hp, SGI and Sun before it made.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat mistakes of those who came before them.

Have you bought one of those Talos systems?
> Poettering and Dan Walsh come to mind with regard to the elitist attitude in their respective corners

Don't forget Drapper
If you uncheck that box though, you will always be taken to old Reddit unless you specifically go to new.reddit.com
So far my absolute layman understanding of dark matter is: "Well, the observations do not fit the theory. But if there was this huge amount of matter that we just cannot see, it would work out well." Whereas the alternative theories boil down to: "Well, we do not know how gravity works over there, so maybe it just works like this." Whereas the usual answer is: "No it cannot work like this, because [OBSERVATION/FORMAL ARGUMENT]."

Did I get this (roughly) right?

So from my perspective: Is there any prediction that would prove the existence of dark matter? Preferably something that could be invoked repeatedly?
> marginal cost to the bom

and far from marginal cost to engineering
I think the data from voyager kind of sinks the whole thing... unless it's just not far enough away....

...
Basically, from the "derivation" in the page:

1) Two point-masses at a distance subtend a sphere with the radius equal to the distance

2) That sphere has a radius and a maximum capacity for holding information (in bits) depending on the area and the Planck constant

3) If we treat the bits as particles in a gas, we can derive the temperature of that gas based on the mass of one of the two point-masses and Einstein's equivalence

4) Assuming that the temperature is due to Unruh effect, we can calculate the acceleration that would cause it

5) Lo and behold, this is the same acceleration due to Newton's law of gravitation
i wonder if there was a general feeling in the 80s or so that the shrinking of the world - through the internet or whatever else technology people of the 80s may foresee - would cause the world views of different communities around the world to become more syncretized, in the same way you have various diaspora e.g. Chinese-American, Italian-American, Chinese-Indonesian cultures having plenty of cultural and religious adaptations, in addition to vestigial features, compared to the ancestral nation they left.

It certainly didn't feel like the world turned out that way by the '10s. Now more than ever I think it is unlikely that two different cultures are likely to blend, never mind two massively different ones like Buddhism and Islam (the zensunni) or Buddhism and Christianity (OC) as imagined in the Dune universe. You see gradual extinction/diminishing of a lot of cultures around the world - the disappearing toisanese communities of american chinatowns, arabization of south-east asian muslims, or the fading of austro/polynesian cultures as a dominant culture takes root. nothing truly merges unless there is a strong top down effort to ensure the survival of a marginal culture, and by corollary, religion.
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Looked up Crossmeta just now and it appears that there “threw in the towel” just on their fork() emulation, not on the whole project that does quite a bit more.

http://crossmeta.org
Yes simple linear interpolation eased with a cosine ! Sometimes I make a param of the function vary though
So you're a scientist. And you think you need more understanding of algorithms/data structures and what's actually happening underneath the code that you are writing, right? It does help.

But from my experience from hiring coders, most science oriented people already had better understanding of the basics than your average coder. That's because they want to understand more deeply what's happening and what they're doing.

It sounds like you have a decent background and I doubt these side projects went to waste. Even technologies that go away in a year still build some abstractions in your brain that you may not even be aware of that make learning much easier in the future.

Also, remember that with the stack nowadays it's really rare for somebody to have a decent grasp of what's actually happening down to the hardware. Plus you can do some great science using a microscope without having any idea about optics.

So to me you just sound like somebody who you want to hire. "I know very little" because you keep exploring and want deep understanding so you know about vast amounts of knowledge and experience to be had. Many coders would say "I know a lot" just because they know how to achieve goals they had in the past.
In my experience the majority of people seem to be drawn to magic, mystery and mysticism and the so called "One Percent" is no exception. Most people are just not curious in my experience, and it's quite alien to me that most people apparently enjoy questions more than answers. Just see the average popular science magazine for an example: Tons of mumbo jumbo about God particles or World Formulae, not many real explanations. That's just what the majority of people enjoys.
The issue with atmosphere escaping can be solved by building transparent eco-domes that would allow sunshine in, but prevent the air from leaking out.
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New Zealanders – the myth that keeps on giving
I had been led to believe for some time - impressions gleaned from the wide-eyed testimony of many of its (male) natives, with whom I worked in Japan - that NZ was a utopia of rustic charm and fairness; a people who were not afraid of a hard days' graft, and scoffed at the rest of the world and its obsession with rampant consumerism and greed. As I said, I worked alongside a group of (yes, they love nicknames, probably an offshoot of their sports-oriented culture) "kiwis". During this time, I found them increasingly duplicitous, cliquey (again, nicknames: they all had nicknames for each other, but non-"Kiwis - of whom there were many - were clearly unworthy of this distinction. They back stabbed regularly (relying on their numbers to thwart the department head (which, for my sins, was me）; and they were certainly worthy of (some of them) their Presbyterian heritage (stingy as...) I was once invited to one of their get togethers - they all brought guitars(!) - and I was clearly the outsider (they barely spoke to me all evening, even although we were in a Japanese home). They seemed on edge when the host (a Japanese middle aged man) sat with me and spoke at some length ...... It was really uncomfortable. Another event (my last) involved a game of pool. However, everyone (NZers) started betting......and suddenly my opponent (a NZer) was being roared on by everyone (NZers) there. Basically, it was NZ against non-NZer. I hated it. I received hate male from them after I maintained a distance from them (however, it was they who marginalised me). They have all since returned to their NZ womb.
One very powerful "trick" is to use partial indexes where useful. For example, a pretty common pattern is to have tables where most rows aren't actively used most of the time, eg when you have a status column, and most rows are in the final status which you usually don't touch, so most where conditions include statuses which are not the final one. If you create a partial index WHERE status IN ('s1', 's2' ...), the index becomes a lot smaller and a lot faster.
These mechanisms you mention are all mechanisms that have historically been used, but there is a widespread consensus that it's not the right thing to do. Best practice is that a central bank should be independent of government and their mandate should not be to meddle with the valuation of a country's debt but to keep the value of the currency stable. For example, for the ECB it would be completely impossible to make monetary policy to suit the fiscal needs of all Euro-area countries since they are in wildly differing situations as far as their debt-levels and fiscal policies are concerned. Fortunately that's not part of the ECB's job description, though. Their job is: Keep inflation at a target that's close to but not exceeding 2% over the medium term. In theory the Fed should be just as independent from the U.S. government as the ECB is from any European government.
This was just as true 30 years ago also
Now let's add attributes, some stylesheets and perhaps some small script language for basic interactivity and we are done
I had an E61 BMW 5, I think the nav/system/display was good. Now I drive the 4 series and the nav/system is not much different in terms of functionality, it's just a bit more pleasant on the eyes and higher resolution. Overall, it's the same story: I don't rely on it, and when I do use it it's an amusing reminder of in-car software, but it doesn't bother me. I've sat in the newest generation cars in BMW dealerships, and it seems like it's going to be the same story [ignoring things like CarPlay].
Centrally or publicly planned. E.g. by the Soviet or Chinese communist parties, or in this case the Venezuelan government.
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The myopathy required to think change that doesn't benefit you personally is therefore useless both astounds and bores me.
This is the case where batching is significantly better than streaming, both in term of time and costs.