skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>A very big issue is that they assume a linear correlation between transferred data and power use.

Right, so they do have to make lots of assumptions (same as all reports I've seen that are trying to estimate carbon footprint) - e.g., about the type of network, the device, the energy mix supplying DCs etc etc.
For instance, only 2% of networks in a country like Germany go over fibre, rest is copper. In Italy lots of people outside major cities use LTE for regular Internet access - absolutely insane in terms of energy use.

>>any report that tries to tell me Google or Amazon, who spend millions on DC energy improvements, are wasting orders of magnitude of energy more, is not a serious report.

You're talking past the point here, seems to me. The report is _not_ claiming that any specific technology is "wasting energy" in terms of efficiency - it poses the question of whether this energy is spent "wisely", seeing that supposedly the world is trying to reduce global emissions, and the consumption of say DCs or online video is growing constantly. Surely, not an unreasonable question to be raised, don't you think?

Amazon may be efficient but their energy comes mostly from non-renewable sources. On a scale of 1-10 how important do you think this use of dirty energy is?
This is a ‘slippery slope’ fallacy, and your example even demonstrates its unlikelihood. Cigarettes have been around for a very long time, and the act of smoking them long-term is basically terminal behavior (which we’ve also known about for quite a while). Many countries have banned advertising or limited it, but even in many ‘progressive’ countries (eg Germany) cigarette advertisement is still alive and well. And I don’t know of a country where smoking is entirely banned.

So I don’t see any risk at all of sugary drinks going the way of schedule 1 drugs (which, themselves, are also experiencing international wave of decriminalization). Is it impossible? No; but that’s no reason to fear de-advertising as a step towards a ban.
Of course
Sugar is bad news, it destroys focus in boys and makes them more aggressive.
That's been proven scientifically for years going back decades.
In Firefox, shift+right-click brings up the browser context menu.
Article on the London experiment: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/16/the-tube-at-...

It's a long escalator, so few people walk (40% according to the Guardian article). And then during rush hour there's a crowd in front of the escalator.

This blog post estimates walking is 26 seconds and standing is 40 seconds: https://www.capgemini.com/gb-en/2016/04/would-standing-on-th...

The optimal policy is to have everyone walk 2 abreast as densely as possible, so this about debating two suboptimal policies. Presumably if it was actually a problem they would just build another escalator.
These problems were very late, mostly after ITA had got into developing an airline ticket-booking application that had to interact with badly managed airline companies who thought Java was actually a good idea. Extreme algorithm design skills were not so valued then, and a person who liked that kind of thing wouldn't enjoy interfacing with corporate servers.
Also check SSD wear level if you use one.
Yes. I currently have an FP system where in dev and test the interface kicks to an in memory multi state machine, and in lab and prod it goes to libvirt (which has costly network transactions) the modules implements the same API, and are swapped out at compile time....

It gets even better, in test the implementation partitions over checked out sessions so that acceptance tests can be concurrent with each test having its own view of the universe in spite of having a single state agent.
Why specifically the statue? Wouldn't it make more sense if you are going after a push back on an icon, to e.g. remove the T-shirt? Much easier to wear a T-Shirt than to carry a statue around to display your affiliation I would guess.

So I'm inclined to doubt that is the reason for the removal until some solid evidence shows up.
Good riddance 1950s
I think the demographics are closer to thinking the data belongs to an app (the first group) vs. believing the data is its own thing (the second group).

I'm strongly in the second group. I don't object to an app using its specific file format if it's really needed. But I want to have the data in files, which I can independently move around without invoking the app, and possibly view and alter in software other than said app.
I found a strange bifurcation recently while collecting papers on a sub-topic of this question.. China-based authors quoting other China-based authors extensively, in English with math, of course. Meanwhile, the US and Western EU seem like "it" , in other words, all the papers referenced seem like the ones you would reference..etc self-consistant.
A friend of mine said their engineering processes came from pooling their knowledge about what sucked at other places. So maybe focus more on what not to do?
Man stuff I love stuff like this - what a trip. Reminds me a lot of Xerox's mother of all demos (in the same year 1968). These animations/graphics have such a wonderful feel to them that are still compelling and interesting in 2019 =)

What an amazing video.
This is like saying you don't get why some men don't always wear condoms. For some, riding without a helmet is vastly more pleasurable and thrilling.
Does anybody have a clue why it does not show up there? The Google team must have done something in order to circumvent what the Chrome team did. Horrible.
If a civil court lawyer wants to introduce evidence into a civil court case yes they'd need to go get evidence themselves.

They can expect to run into plenty of ass-covering, exactly as they would if there were no accident investigation authority. Plenty of people who won't talk to them, or at the least won't talk unless subpoenaed, and will bring a lawyer to shut down as much as possible.
These sort of articles about Japanese cleanliness and homelessness are intellectually dishonest if you don't mention massive factors like the fact that Japan eschewed the deinstitutionalization process that most wealthy countries went through toward the end of the 20th century

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation

and as a result, they have four times the rate of involuntarily locking people up for mental illness as the average:

> For the last 40 years mental health care has shifted from hospital-based settings to community-based ones in most countries. As a result the number of psychiatric care beds has fallen considerably internationally (Glasby & Tew, 2015:106). More and more people with mental disorders are living and being cared for in the community. In contrast, Japan still has a very high ratio of psychiatric care beds per capita among member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), with 269 beds per 100,000 population compared to the average of 68 (OECD, 2014:11).

http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S...
> So you could easily find many other Smiths to help you with whatever you needed.

I don't think that's accurate. The world expanded a lot since then, you can now buy online, order something from across the world etc, but you couldn't do that 200 years ago. If you were in bad standing with whoever sold what you needed, you'd have to go through a lot of trouble to source it elsewhere.

I'm with you that nation states/blocs need to make sure not to rely on foreign companies for key industrial needs. It's why I consider Europe's reliance on US IT companies a problem. The US will make sure they don't depend on China, so I'm sure that there will be at least two choices in the foreseeable future. Just make sure you don't piss off China and the US simultaneously.
I think it is important to differentiate between atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs which are orders of magnitude more powerful. My understanding is that most of the proliferation has been in atomic rather than hydrogen bombs.

I think that a terrorist attack with a nuclear weapon would be less likely to trigger a world ending counter attack since there is no state to target.

Therefore, I think it's possible that while the chances of a nuclear attack have gone up, the chances of nuclear Armageddon have gone down.

However, I am definitely not an expert so I may be mistaken.
Using ES5 is not irresponsible, but your justification comes across as petty. If you had claimed your workflows and toolchains all rely on ES5, and you don’t/can’t invest in changing now, I would understand.

Syntax? Get over it! Languages evolve. Syntax evolves. Refusing to update with the times ultimately hurts you more than your clients, as it dulls your skill set.
International Day Against DRM 2019 Focuses on Education
Similar to the ongoing trend of turning every product into service, both on-line and off-line. It turns ownership into relationships, which is something I consider strongly negative. Ownership doesn't require as much maintenance and is much more forgiving, and I can own a lot of things, but there's only so many relationships I can be in before my mind is no longer able to keep track of them all.
Anyone else annoyed by the random lines on both sides of the text? I don’t understand the appeal since they do not convey any useful information.
The Lesson I Learned from Steve Jobs: Marc Benioff
“Early drop”, thanks autocorrect.
> A company selling shares to raise capital is an alternative to other methods of raising capital, like taking out a loan.

Not selling shares. Having smaller dividends. That doesn't assume anyone is willing to loan them money.

> If their profits fall below the level that could be achieved by selling off those assets and then investing the money at the market rate of return, it becomes profitable for raiders to come in and buy the company and do that with it, so the company has to stay more profitable than that in order to prevent that from happening.

Ugh. I'm not sure via what mechanism, exactly, but it should not be possible for a monopoly power company to just dissolve and sell off the trucks for a tiny quick profit.
I recently received a ticket from or security team to add "autocomplete=off" to all our password input fields.

I was pretty sure that it wouldn't do anything except make the security team feel better.
> It's sometimes difficult to quantify the negatives and positives of an activity

So from this you talk about banning them, right? Except you ban everything because everything has a risk, which is something no-one would accept. Alternative is you try and answer the question instead of asking it.

A utilitarian viewpoint.

A 'You-can-{smoke/drink/parachute/motorrace}-if-you-have-enough-money-to-cover-your-own-hospital-costs' approach.

An attempt to quantify where the line should be drawn, which is what I was getting at.

Or not ban them at all, as some people will propose, which certainly has some merit.

Hand over that decision to the government (which seems to be happening anyway) and wash your hands of it as an individual - the conformist approach.

And doubtless others.

Don't ask obvious questions, questions are easy, and this one is trivial to ask. Try to answer them instead.
There are web apps for every example you listed, so I don;t understand what point you're trying to make.
Because either the PCI standard says so, or the PCI consultant says so.

PCI compliance is about checking boxes, not weighing the options and making good choices.
Key position it’s something I never thought about! Interesting idea, that should be a thing.
Albert Einstein-The World as I See It (Essay)
I found this [1] list also, although this reddit post seems to have more information. I especially like how this reddit post includes updates and companies who made good choices like red bull

[1] https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina/blob/master...
Ran this on the Ithaca Intersystems Z-8000 based rig in the early/mid '80s - it was remarkably command compatible with V7 for the basics, even built a MicroAngelo based 3D graphics system on it.....the biggest problem the box had wasn't Coherent, it was the fact the socketed logic on the custom MMU S100 card kept trying to walk out of the sockets because of thermal issues
Dave is also known in some circles for coding Crash Bandicoot, a much-loved game of the period. I wonder of anybody remembers it today, and plays it on emulators.
Baobab: Disk usage Analyzer https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Baobab

Atril: Pdf Viewer, forked from Evince from the Gnome 2 days IIRC.

Base 16 Colors: https://github.com/chriskempson/base16

Unetbootin/TuxBoot: Creating bootable drives.

gnome-do: Alfred/Spotlight (MacOS) like quicklauncher. Used to use this but now I've just defaulted to using Alt+F2 (remapped to Super + Space keys) to launch apps. https://do.cooperteam.net

Zim : "A desktop wiki" https://zim-wiki.org
Great product, easy to use!
Hacker News, Reddit, and Twitter already do this for me. I have no need for another social network.
flameshot for screenshots - https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot

almost everything is perfect.
The evidence is completely airtight. The problem is with the precision of predictions, not the evidence for the mechanism and rough magnitude.
I don't mind my body being ground up and used for penis plumper.

I do want my family to get a big cut of that if it's selling for a grand per teaspoon.
While I agree with the sentiment, it’s a few years out of date.

Starting with iOS 8 - 5 years ago, Apple has had extensibility points where third parties like Dropbox and OneDrive could be used to store documents and used in the common places where you would want to save and upload files across apps.

- of course the Files app was introduced two years ago.

- there have been third party document providers that exposed an ftp server on the device that you could send files from.

- apps like VLC expose a web server from your device you can use to upload files.

- with iOS 13 you can connect a standard USB device or network file share and it appears within the Files app and any app that supports saving/loading files via the standard APIs

- it’s still a sticking point that there is no easy way to add music to your library without going through the iTunes app.
It's like an improved Soviet joke:

American: in our country we have the freedom of criticizing our president
Chinese: we sure have the freedom to criticize your president
American: no no I mean you need to have the freedom to criticize your president
Chinese: we can't, but can you?
American: well...
How many times did you repeat the test? 98% you had a youtube video playing in the background or some full text indexer was running or similar. As for the 2%, I find it hard to believe constantly flushing caches and rejigging page tables on every syscall could ever be faster, but there is always room to be surprised :)

The other obvious option since you mention it's a laptop is probably throttling. Worth at least checking dmesg output to see if the kernel logged any events during the run, but I'm not sure that's conclusive.

On my Dell it's possible to force fans to 100% through a third party utility, maybe yours supports similar
I hear this and I’m just curious, what would prevent CompanyA from bundling and requiring CompanyB’s product on the build?
You definitely should polish and update your game
I think deciding to not free your memory or use GC (instead of not) would count as having a different program.
Binary arithmetic in the TypeScript type system
That’s in one place, which is a particular bottleneck. The general rule is that two lanes are better.
That sort of cleanliness sucks. This is basically a step towards human extinction from the Earth.
The size depends on your Linux kernel configuration and user space application. My guess is that most distros will be a 5+ MB.
You were able to use an iPod as a storage device throughout its entire lifetime. If Apple wanted to “control and restrict you” it would have been a lot harder to reverse engineer the iPod indexing format and allow third parties to write software that could store and retrieve music from the iPod.
Five guilty pleasures only developers know
If it looks like clickbait and smells like clickbait...
Is there no desire to take the path that bankrupts them the least?

> It's not possible to get around "totally reliable, totally safe, inexpensive; pick two" by passing a law mandating all three.

Oh I'm not asking for that at all. They used to be pretty reliable, pretty safe, kind of expensive. After neglecting lines they got to pretty reliable, not very safe, kind of expensive. With the shutdowns they shift to not very reliable, pretty safe, kind of expensive. They need to go back to where they started.
That hasn’t been true for years - at least since iOS 5 in 2011 with iCloud.
Making Scrum work for non-development teams
and every other financial service

some of the largest public companies and hedge funds are incorporated in cayman islands. the obvious rebuttal would be that they too are vehicles for money laundering and tax evasion, but also everything else because the point is that you can't distinguish when a state doesn't use its resources demonizing transactions
It's not just erlang (though it's basically how I write my elixir)... It's also restful microservices.
Sure, but the C++ STL is to code as this [1] is to knives.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Wenger-16999-Swiss-Knife-Giant/dp/B00....
Almost every time I've been approached by a friendly, curious, Japanese person, they've been from Osaka. Regardless of age or gender, they are definitely the most outgoing and gaijin-friendly people in Japan.

While we're on the subject of Osaka stories, about 5 years ago in February I was walking with friends near the "Running Man" bridge in Shinsaibashi. Probably around 1am, and cold. A taxi pulls up close to the bridge....the driver pops the trunk, a passenger joins him at the rear of the vehicle....and they took a PASSED OUT Japanese dude outta the taxi's trunk and just laid him on the concrete. He didn't even have a shirt on. They reached in the trunk and threw a shoe at him. Then the taxi left. We're just standing there in awe thinking "No shirt, shoes off, probably drunk and lying on cold concrete in February? That dude is gonna die of hypothermia and whoever dropped him off doesn't seem to give 2 shits....man Osaka is wild."

Not surprising as this is about 2 blocks from the parking lot where all the yakuza park their exotics[1]. Look at that building in Street View and even in daytime there's a yellow exotic parked there.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/dyPU7rzM5QbkLtTEA
You're probably right, I probably posted this story too hastily... I want it to be true, but on the other hand, I really have poor insight into the "gaming world" so I've no idea of how reliable the source is (probably not very). Can't seem to delete the post though...
Higher-Order Function in JavaScript
Why would Amazon have incentive to deny the story if it were true? According to Bloomberg, the issue was discovered at an acquisition while they were doing due diligence, not in their own servers. If it were true, they should be screaming to anyone who would listen about how they're so serious about security that they go to these depths to find threats, and how you can't trust anyone who doesn't.
Singapore goes opposite direction as most countries. Personally I think sugar tax is way powerful. Those money can be used to educate people. Banning ads is not going to educate people.
“Humans will never migrate to other planets,” says Nobel prize winner Mayor
I wonder what kind of engine overhaul Chrome is doing to cause all of these strange breakages.
What men eat and drink may affect their babies’ health
There is zero talent involved in investing such that you beat inflation. Inflation rate hovers between 1% - 3% per year. Stock market returns hover between 5% - 10% per year for fairly conservative choices like an S&P 500 index fund.

There is nothing luckier than being born rich. Treating it as some sort of skill to remain rich is part of the dysfunction in US society where wealth is equated with virtue & character.
Free organs . I wouldn’t want one of those. Maybe it’s filled with bullet holes.
The iPhone 4s and first generation iPad were capable of software transcoding video and playing it.
Short the Bankers, Traditional Institutions Are Embracing Crypto
OWASP Top Vulnerabilities List – You’re Probably Using It Wrong
Hair-splitting. The obligation is enshrined in law. Shareholders invoke it. The consequences are a change in leadership, not jail.

To quote the linked opinion:

> In nearly all legal jurisdictions, disinterested and informed directors have the discretion to act in what they believe to be the interest of the business corporate entity, even if this differs from maximizing profits for present shareholders.

This is a perfect example. Western companies are antagonizing their US market in favor of developing a future Chinese one.
Exactly this. Some of the checks _are_ valuable. We found a couple of real issues and made good security improvements. But we also ticked off more than a few boxes that made no damn real sense.
There really just needs to be a good way to run your browser in a horrible jail. Someone just needs to sell an arm on a USB stick that you run v8 on for chrome and nothing else.

Destroying the performance of the entire machine to enable the ability to run JS seems a bit over-zealous.
> One of the things I found helped most in making programs shorter was higher order functions. These let you get rid of variables, which are a particularly good thing to eliminate from code when you can. I found that higher order functions combined with intrasymbol syntax could often collapse something that had been a 4 line def into a 1 line set.

How do Bel's higher order facilities compare to Haskell's? E.g. https://wiki.haskell.org/Pointfree
3 Weeks of Shaolin Kung Fu in China
I was thinking back to when I worked in a data center. We used solaris zones(container) and crossbow(networking). Writing a custom PXE deployer, that bootstrapped our nodes. Then added them to a cross data center cluster. It felt like where we are now with containers. It always seemed a bit ahead, and now those features are more readily available.
I have a desktop PC in the living room, with an i5-2400 + GTX1050TI - still runs all modern games in high settings at 1080p@60fps. Literally no idea why someone would throw out a 3xxx series CPU at this point, it's all fast enough for daily use.
iTunes was the most popular music source by 2007 and had built in CD burning capabilities. You created a playlist and hit “burn”. Almost every computer came with a CD burner between around 2000-2010.
Some random server you have control over most likely doesn't run much hostile stuff. But nowadays a HUGE number of "servers" are really cloud-hosted VMs and on those every single thing is hostile from the cloud company's perspective.
In Monolinux there is a single statically linked user space application (the init-process). Alpine has the traditional approach of many user space applications and shared libraries, if I'm not mistaken.
For example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Singa...
Same, but I also like an SD card slot that can read a big gcode file.

Write file, insert, pick job, walk away, done.

For very long prints, SD is my goto. No failures.
I'd disagree with you on that. If the document can't clearly define the terms it's using, it cannot function as a formal specification of a language. The writing as it stands now is far too ambiguous to serve such a role. You have no reasonable retort to me except to say that the definition wasn't even a definition, and after that there is indeed no more abstract definition you can even point to. You're left using undefined terms to defend your interpretation as the "correct" one. That's not sufficient to defend the document as a specification. In fact, that's just further criticism of it.

Like I said, I'm confident your interpretation is the intended one. But you cannot prove it as such, and that's where we disagree.
>They consider the consequences of every action carefully.

I believe that is what Shintoism teaches.