skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The link gives a figure of 700kwh saving a year.

This [1] gives the embodied energy for a fridge as 5900 Mj which equals 1600 kwh.

So broadly speaking you new fridge 'pays' for itself in 2 years. I suspect its worse that, but even if its 5 years, my point still stands.

[1] https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Appliance
Here, English: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...
> We make buildings accessible because it's the right thing to do, and because society has decided that excluding people (who are already greatly disadvantaged) is wrong.

Is it the right solution though? Does it make sense to spend 1% of GDP on something that helps 0.5% of the population (I'm making up numbers here)? Is this really the most cost effective solution? Wouldn't it make more sense to e.g. give disabled people a Basic Income (social support) enabling them to not work, instead of forcing every employer to spend time and money on making the workplace accessible (even though 99% of that effort will be wasted)? It might be cheaper to hire 2 musclemen to carry a disabled person around, rather than renovating each historic building to add ramps and/or elevators... Yeah, I agree that there are non-monetary effects as well (people socialising and/or feeling useful) but there's probably decent solutions for those as well...
While I've seen a few places where goto made sense (as in, "goto fail" in C), a goto that lead somewhere out of a function has never been one of them.
It is dated, just not on the page itself:

https://srlabs.de/#bites "27.09.2019"
Late to the party, but it would be trivial to use `git rebase -i` and a decent editor to fix the Requests commit history. I just gave it a go locally and got good results with less than a minute's editing.
Look at the current political landscape: Johnson is trying to force a hard Brexit via shenanigans, Trump is hinting at civil war if impeached, China and Russia are headed by "presidents for life".

Basically, significant parts of the world leadership are increasingly tyrannical, leaning fascist and mostly all from the boomer generation.

Until the boomers, who don't care because they will be dead, are out of power, this won't change.
You pretty much do in this case, since propaganda writers will adapt around your filter. Furthermore you have the problem of determining objective fact to filter on, which is a massive problem itself, as can be seen from the need for a filter in the first place.
The fact 4 pictures weight 10MB ;retty much tells a lot about the webmaster.

In some sites/blogs it's good to put many pictures. It really depends on your readers.

In HN people look more for content based articles and they don't care if an article is mostly text without pictures
People don’t want to commute; they just don’t want to miss out
Yeah, since that is NOT an attack against the SIM card (and code stored / running on the SIM card) but different issue completely.
Some of those changes are note very expensive. often times reliability is compromised for minor savings.

The question is that of marketing.

Can we make a marketing page that shows an easy to repair washing machine - and shows us that over 10 years, if we do the repairs ourselves - we'll save some money ? And the hassle of replacing to a new machine often ?

At least some segment of the population, the DIY'ers may buy such machines.
Yet workplaces are allowed to "discriminate" against unskilled and stupid people...
In theory*

In practice if you've got no presence in the EU, what can they realistically do? Extradite over GDPR?
You don't just use the bangs (g!)? Or is that what you mean by switching back?
This used to be a feature of Opera. If you enabled it, it would run all webpages through the Opera proxy, which would downsize everything for you.
It didn’t happen to be this site? https://www.dwellito.com/modular-homes/cover (example home)

Only asking because it’s a friend’s site and I helped him build the quote modal which you currently can’t zoom.
> This is an infinite benefit. So to model that without getting nonsense out you have to use a discounting model where you arbitrarily consider infinite future value to not be worth more than, say, 10 billion dollars, and there's your answer. But that's a paper exercise, why bother? You could choose values that say a trillion dollars or $9.99.

It's really not that arbitrary. There are many ways of valuing this, sure. Here's a fairly straightforward one:

Say it costs you A per year to maintain current levels, and the yearly cost of capital to eradicate is X amount of capital * y% yearly cost per year (e.g. if you borrow X at y% interest, or if you have X but sacrifice y% returns by spending the money instead of investing it), and the lowest viable cost to save at least as many lives as the infection currently claims is B, then it's a question of whether A+B or X*y% is lower. Whichever is lower will allow you to divert more funds to other targets, and so save more lives (or do something else). Of course there are risks here, in that any of the variables can change, so if they're close it may be worth it to eradicate simply to eliminate the risks that the alternatives get more expensive going forwards.

But this is not a very hard thing to model. The reason we don't do that more often is that often there are many other factors involved, such as politics and emotions and who fights hardest to get funded.
In this case we don't even know if it was his idea. For all we know he's paying a lot of money to a really good PR company.
Imagine a factory. All those moving things, power tools, conveyor belts, cranes, pumps, etc. are driven by electric motors.
No - it isn’t strange. This is Hacker News. We are here to talk about the technical aspects of the alleged search manipulation, not your political beliefs. It’s well known that political opinion isn’t on the table for discussion here. If you want that kind of discourse, check out the politics subreddit, where you will find oodles of children spouting their uninformed political opinions.
Politicians are now also under the Google algorithms.

Which gives Google unprecedented power.
We are halfway to the first doubling of co2 right now. 280 is preindustrial, 560 is the first doubling, 410 is where we are. Now emissions are rising exponentially. If things turned around on a dime and emissions fell as fast as they went up, then the total co2 would be about 1 doubling. If the climate sensitivity is 3 degrees, then that’s 3 degrees of warming right there. Holding it to 1.5 or 2 would require emissions to go down substantially faster than that.

But my money is on nothing getting done, and emissions continuing to rise exponentially for the next 20 years at least. That means probably 6 degrees or more of warming.

I will fight to try to stop that from happening.. but that’s where we’re at.

The real problem is that the worlds fossil fuel deposits and infrastructure represents at least 6 trillion dollars worth of someone’s private property, and they will fight to the end to make sure that that investment pays out. That means using all the worlds fossil fuel deposits, no matter the cost to society.
And in all fairness, this isn't just a web thing. Most newspapers have historically used all manner of graphical techniques in addition to images to break up text blocks such as subheads, callouts, graphics, lines, etc. (Although, also to be fair, historically newspapers also tended to try to include images that were directly relevant to the story rather than picking random stock imagery.)
Thanks. Unfortunately, I can't edit the story link to point to the English language version.
In a certain sense, you didn't "vote on" the sanctions, but, when the system works as it should (prior to the current US administration, for instance) these kinds of decisions that affect international infrastructure are made with broad consensus---including the approval of people you _did_ vote for, or at least the approval of other nations whose interests are broadly aligned with yours.

This alignment of interests has reduced the transaction costs of building global systems like payments infrastructure, because of the assumption that parties with the technical ability to control their functionality will be constrained implicitly by international norms. I wouldn't dismiss this outright as "hegemony"---it worked well for a long time---but it's natural in the current political context to wonder if assuming good faith from all parties involved will be as reasonable in the coming decades as it was in the past.
My God, It Never Loads

Edit: it did finally load. Its an interesting article and worth the wait, I thought
Babies in the womb have lizard-like hand muscles
no, wait, I did not mean that Italians wants to skip pension contributions, I said that that specific fund ("Gestione Separata") is a scam.

In the UK the amount of money that you have to pay for your pension is almost nothing (of course you have nothing in exchange, as a pension, but you are free to choose your own pensione scheme, mainly private)

So, once again: if an Italian working on IT moves to the UK, he will save 27% of his income, and (most of all) does not feel to be abused. :)
I agree. Unless there is an actual law telling them to hold the cash. I would let go of it. Cut out future transfers as you said. Why PayPal like companies can just steal cash like that is beyond me. They should be legally liable for the laws broken if they keep someone elses cash.
Err, no. That describes one (relatively new) attack called Simjacker.

This article / link describes this and a possible other attack (also an applet on the SIM card, calle Wireless Internet Browser (WIB)) AND a way to test if your sim card is vulnerable plus mitigation measures (hint: do not allow MSL (Minimum Security Level) zero).
Shit, my company is in a 8 million+ people suburb and we pay $5k/month just for guaranteed 50 mbps internet. And we are saturating it too easily as is :/
A gigabit connection was quoted at ~ $80k/month. (The line is already fiber, it's literally just throttling). Which is insane considering that's 12 peoples salary in a year.
Part of the reason is because that decouples the content from the presentation format. Give me a .txt, .md, or even a .tex file, and I can load it in my editor next to the code I'm working on, and I can efficiently jump around, search, and copy from it, all via a keyboard. At any point I can easily print it out and have a stab at it with a highlighter. Give me the super modern web documentation, and now I have to pick up the mouse, I have to install a tiling WM just to stay sane, I only have the most basic search available (which is broken half of the time because of bleeding-edge webdev bullshit), and if I try to print it (God forbid!), every page is 50% header and sidebar.

Techies like plaintext because it's free of superfluous bullshit. It's efficient. It's flexible.

As for interactive simulations, I'm all for them. I love the work of Bret Victor, or Nicky Case, or other stuff in the category of "explorable explanations". Those people do it well. But if it's not executed well, it's worse than not being done at all.
Does it make sense to spend 1% of GDP on something that helps 0.5% of the population (I'm making up numbers here)?

Some not made up numbers for you:

Roughly 15-20% of people self-identify as handicapped. At least one study suggests that up to 60% of the population has some degree of impairment and would benefit from more accessible design in the world generally.

This fits with my observations. Most people who are only mildly impaired actively distance themselves from the label as it is stigmatizing. People only embrace the label of being handicapped or disabled if they need so much accommodation that it is worthwhile to put up with the bullshit that goes along with having a stigmatizing label.

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815635
So this guys problem is that the new CoC requires him to respect peoples chosen pronouns? And it looks like this was that Monica person's problem too.

I think SE are totally within their rights to enforce a policy like this without negotiation, although clearly a miscommunication has occurred. I think the people who object to it are imagining a situation with a mythical SJW boogeyperson saying "Don't misgender me! my pronouns are xe/xem/xyr on weekdays and xi/hir/hir after 7 o'clock, unless I feel like a ve/ver/vis in which case you must read my mind and use those."

In reality, I think the likely scenario is more like "I'm a she :)", and unless you continue to use 'he' pronouns then there isn't a problem.

When put this way, it sounds like a much more reasonable policy and I think it would be fair to eject people who object to this from the community (with due process of course).

SE have failed to communicate this properly, and also have failed to react to this crisis in a reasonable way. However, from reading this blog post (which actually goes as far as to quote that "First they came..." poem), and Monica's one, I suspect this is not the root of the problem. Not all beliefs can or should be tolerated, as is touched upon in a quote in Monica's post. That is the purpose of a CoC, to set up a reasonable framework of rules upon which debate and discussion can take place.
Arctic tern?

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKQ6eoXfBKU
Apparently this is a known strategy.

https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/11435857618429...
Wireguard uses the new Network Extensions API, and that usage requries entitlement granted by Apple signature. There's no avoiding that. I've also used different VPNs that didn't require that - but they also didn't integrate so well as wg does.

For Xcode, there is another way - it is downloadable from the developer pages.
As Ian Hislop put it:

Boris Johnson, people always ask me the same question, they say, 'Is Boris a very very clever man pretending to be an idiot?' And I always say, 'No.'
We should probably pause for a moment and at least consider whether the true manipulator is the guy who originally posted it on Twitter. As far as I can see, no one has been able to duplicate his “results”. I’m not accusing, but would be interested in seeing confirmation from another party.
It's because there is a strong tendency for EU overregulation. This one sounds good to me in principle (I don't know about the implementation).

Recent examples: it will be illegal to have voluntary firefighters. In the Netherlands, 80% of firefighers are volunteers. The current system works very well, and this is new regulation is likely to cause massive problems. It will be impossible the maintain current quality, because it is impossible to maintain a huge paid workforce just for occasional large incidents. For example, in a recent large fire there were over a hundred firefighters active, most of them volunteers. Moreover many volunteers do it for fun, or to contribute something to society, and do not want to be a paid firefighter, or would not be able to because of their main job. Thanks, EU.

Another one: EU wants to register every single chicken. Not just commercial chicken farms, every single chicken would have to be registered, even for hobbyists having a few chickens running around in their back yard.
An idiot wouldn't get to be tory leader. He wants to be portrayed as a lovable idiot but it doesn't mean he is one. I doubt we ever see any part of his real personality in public.

Doesn't mean he can be a good prime minister though, being good at politics isn't the only thing that matters for the job.
Luckily there are solutions that don't require all countries uniting.

https://issues.org/climate-clubs-to-overcome-free-riding/
Okay, decent answer, upvoted. I think what I said still applies, if P = "shuttle is safe 9,999 launches in 10,000" then not(P) turns out to be true. I think that's bias by both our definitions.
Well, there's taste, and I agree with GP here - I too find such things distasteful. It's not much waste in the grand scheme of things, but it's still ridiculously wasteful, and the more wastefulness is accepted, the more it adds up everywhere.
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The via yes. That's attached to the pad on the other side which is what I'm referring to. The first "oh shit" moment is when you see the pad attached to the leg of the part.
Airbnb's business is the app that connects property owners to renters. Their app is the technology, their marginal costs are 0- you can add another property to the website trivially. Their value is in the network effects in their app just like facebook. Wework actually sign rental contracts and take on the risk of not being able to fill the properties.
Where's Tom Dwan in the ratings these days?
It's not a wash. A common cast aluminum 20-inch wheel weighs a whole lot more than a common cast 16-inch wheel. Also, only performance vehicles get fitted with larger brakes. Many vehicles have discs that would fit fine under a much smaller wheel because they are designed with the smaller wheel as standard, and the larger wheel as an option.

Also, a larger rotor weighs more than a smaller one.

Combined, a large wheel and tire will require more energy to move and to stop, and will add as 75 pounds or more to the weight of the vehicle. This has negative impact on handling and fuel economy.

The only reason why the manufacturers add a large wheel option is because people want them.
Interesting how challenging science is framed as "denial" rather than "questioning".
The wavelet-based image formats like JPEG 2000 were designed to make that sort of thing possible. They never really caught on, though.
I don't think that's even possible with the byte-ordering of a lot of the formats we use today.

Like the pass extraction of PNG [0] would make it somewhat possible, but you'd need to be dropping packets which you might as well receive. I don't think you'd be able to break after the first pass.

JPEG is probably worse.

However, the super-modern formats that are still gaining popularity, like WebP absolutely do support this. At the core of WebP is block prediction, so a low-bandwidth application might actually assume the values of certain blocks so it doesn't need to fetch them.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/#4Concepts.Encod...
Hub motors make excellent sense in indoor forklifts, which are often electric anyway. The reduced weight is not so important there, because the forklift body needs to weigh enough, but moving to the wheels means there is more room for batteries. Size matters, in forklifts, which need to maneuver in tight spaces.

Trucks and trains are often not sprung, and can benefit from lighter, smaller,more efficient hub motors. Cooling is easier when the whole motor is moving through the air.
Yup this is normal, when I can't change the SSH port (e.g for compatibility) then I switch f2b to permanently ban, which should reduce any incurred load by black-holing instead of attempting authentication as the list grows more comprehensive over time (this wont affect other services e.g apache, in-case a user is unwittingly part of a botnet).
What if those disabled people want to work, though? Why should their opportunities be limited to basic income when you and I do not have the same limitations? Would you not find being carried around by two musclemen to be humiliating? Are these musclemen accompanying you to the toilet?

As you admit you're making up numbers... is there any evidence that these costs are killing businesses? Snap could most certainly afford to do it without thinking twice about it.
I like the approach. I’m curious—how do you define debt tech?
I think Ayn Rand and her writings were a pox on modern life and it is unfortunate she is held in regard by anyone, let alone intelligent people...

However, living off social security wasn't really ironic given that she viewed the social security payouts as reimbursement for the (what she considered unjust) payroll taxes she had been forced to pay.

Also, being selfish was central to her philosophy so this was in keeping with it.
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Why was it inevitable?

What's the point of removing content because its not accessible to some small fraction of the population? Is this meant to punish the professors who signed something they likely didn't fully read? It seems that it's punishing individuals who would find this information useful.
Agreed. It's a sign of functioning project management. Excessive team decisions and discussions are a sign of dysfunctional project management.
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You're looking for a neutral principle that doesn't exist. Why is the trajectory of society towards "evolving and improving" assumed here? Why is someone's view of what is "just and good" in the future automatically better? What if we wind up in a dystopia and reintroduce slavery? Is that automatically "better" because it's out there in the future?

At this point people usually go looking for a get out of jail free card where they can conjure up a neutral principle and say "no, I meant progress towards good things", which of course "begs the question" in the classic sense.
I also can’t help thinking that all the dom cummings business is boris lining up someone to take the fall for him when he needs it.

Boris has all the power and he can drop dc on a whim and blame him for anything he has done wrong.
At first I read it backwards, I thought he had had sex with a model just to hide a scandal about a "model of restraint" and thought " wow, that guy is really doing all he can to hide the scandal".

And then I remembered it was not France and having an affair could be a scandal, and I'm a little disappointed because I preferred my version.
I agree with your overall arguments.

However, I did take issue with one point. It's unfair to use Mafia bombings in Napoli as a reflection of all Southern Italy when Napoli is a notoriously dangerous area and has been at times even considered the most dangerous city in all of Western Europe. I'm sure you understand this, having lived in Napoli, but I think it unfairly characterizes daily life in Southern Italy for unfamiliar readers.
Would you be interested in such tool?
If you have any feedback or question, let me know!
Have you used styled components and what do you think about it?
Almost ready with a simple tool to translate CSS as styled-components that I plan to launch this week.
I just wanted to know what do you guys think about styled-components?
I know that Opera had this feature once and Google Chrome on Android does this via it's "Lite mode":

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2392284?co=GENIE.Pl...
These websites have money to gain for writing these articles targetting SEO keywords on things Boris Johnson says or does.

They will pick up on any term for which they can easily write an article and run with it to get ad clicks.

I don't think Boris Johnson even has to do anything to make this happen, even though he obviously has something to gain in terms that these articles turn the public attention from these issues.

I mean this can be applied to literally almost anything he does or says. At worst, he might be intentionally adding to his speech terms that are easier to apply this technique to.
Quite impressive knowledge of technology. Why do people think this is a bad thing? Certainly saves on PR costs.
Self-repair can be made tempting too.

If it can be made simple[1] and affordable - it becomes a nice home project.

[1]How easy it's to repair a broken drain pump in a washing machine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv-arx3FKRo
Definitely. Go look at new music video releases on youtube, so many of them are buying views to boost their numbers. The real trick there is to see how many up/downvotes there are in relation to the views, which seem to be the only way these days to gauge their true success from a consumer point of view.
It makes their arguments suspect. Money tends to have that effect.