skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Togetherness and family are idols at least as wasteful and environmentally damaging

Sorry, but you are dead wrong. Together and family is just what we need.
> It's kind of funny just how much complaining about AI hype and bad coverage there is (on Twitter, and on this very subreddit)

I think your copy and paste script broke here. Please put some effort into promoting yourself.
Sorry, but what people expect doesn't matter. What is true is that digital identities are intrinsically linked between sites where the same username is used.

You can't hide behind, "but no one expected that" and expect to live a happy, unsurprising life. There is no law you can pass that will fix this, no matter how much you complain.
I really like oilshell and chubot for that. He has some really great posts on the shell language and parsing.
I think that lies in the art of developing the API in the first place. It should give you enough primitives that it gets the job done balancing the responsibilities it advertises with the cognitive load on the developer to use it correctly.
I have purchased domain on namecheap based on yc feedback. Looks like i have to rethink.
We’re talking about AI here. And deep learning is AI. If you go to university and research or study AI that’s what you’d currently be learning. AGI does not currently exist and is a word used mostly by laymen and the media who don’t understand the current state of AI.
One warning - tea isn't necessarily kosher, because some artificial flavors are made from non-kosher ingredients.
I think this is why it's not per-program:

Say you have 16GB of RAM. You disable overcommit for your database, and you run it, and it allocates 14GB. But Chrome has overcommit enabled (why are you running Chrome and a database on the same box? Dunno, never got an answer from that engineer...), and it happily allocates 23GB. Later, Chrome uses up all the available memory, and the database is sad. But it's not Chrome's fault, it didn't know it wasn't allowed to use it all up! So then you redesign overcommit so there's a "no-overcommit pool" with priority, and an "overcommit pool". You end up with only 2GB of overcommit pool for the kernel + userland + Chrome, so Chrome just gets killed early and often. Might as well have just disabled overcommit entirely, if random apps are going to die anyway.

(Incidentally, cgroups allow setting soft and hard memory limits, so you can impose particular memory limits on arbitrary applications to have more determinism)
Chinese students paid to rort Aussie universities as government tackles cheating
also, once you open a web browser with the website, it keeps an open connection to the server. Their servers handles all the open concurrent connections
I think with steel you can guesstimate about 4-5kwh per kg. The energy has to come from somewhere. Right now it comes from coal and nat gas.

Reducing the carbon intensity of steel and also concrete production are things that being worked on. Companies in those industries aren't willing to be martyrs but unlike fossil fuel companies they aren't hostile either.
The title should be changed, he's saying literally the opposite of what the title implies.
> 99% of its dietary weight loss effectiveness is because fat is filling

This is pretty easy to disprove. It's not at all that fat is more filling.

Once your body starts to burn it's own fat you no longer feel like you're starving. Anyone whose fasted could tell you that, never mind been on keto.

The starving feeling comes from the period in between where your body is waiting for more carbs before finally switching to fat burning mode.

So it's not that fat is filling. Carbs are filling, too. It's just that when carbs are burned, there's nothing to replace them with, but when the fat you've consumed has gone through your system, and your body is already in Ketosis, it doesn't feel bad because there's weeks and months worth of food already on your body to burn.
Why the free upgrade to Windows 10 still works
Deciding whether and how to influence the way people use a tool or product.

Do you say "you're holding it wrong", or do you adjust to what people seem to be like?

I mean, it's insoluble if treated as a single binary decision and not contextual.
Not really. The CPU generates 5W of heat which needs to be removed or it will throttle itself down. The way the default Raspberry Pi 4 chooses to remove heat is by interfacing the CPU directly with air inside a closed container. This does not work well.

As an aside, the reality is that the Raspberry Pi is not a particularly speedy computer even when not thermally throttled. It is close in non-graphics performance to x86 computers from the 2000s. Though using only 5W to do that is a huge improvement; that was the era when CPU heatsinks started getting so big they broke the CPU socket off the motherboard ;)
You can count me in the camp of believing in the power of vitamins, minerals, and getting the right requirements met. And matcha tea (just a little). The positive effects on my energy levels since just picking out a good B complex impress me every day. Plus other stuff, too. It’s enough that I think it should be a common basic societal good like indoor plumbing and AC/power.
PHP 7.4 Just Came Out, and So Did Our PHP Version Switcher
70% of hog processing controlled by 4 big firms: impact on farmers and our food
You really like leaving in commented code? I used to prefer that too but then at work we had a policy of taking out unused code. I actually think it's cleaner so I've been doing it in my own code and rarely regret deleting something. But when code (my own or someone else's) is more chaotic I do find it to be useful to leave bits and pieces lying around.
Studies are finding waste heat from thermo-electric plants may not be insignificant. In this study [1] "energy consumption" is a shorthand for all human heat emissions from combustion engines, industrial processes and thermo-electric plant generation / consumption, etc. A large portion of human heat release can be attributed to thermo-electric generation. Electricity consumption accounts for 18% of energy use, with generation around 30% efficient that means coal,gas and oil power stations account for somewhere around half of global fossil fuel burn. [2]

From: Nature - A new global gridded anthropogenic heat flux dataset with high spatial resolution and long-term time series (2019) [1]

> For example, Zhang et al.5 found that energy consumption could lead to increases in winter and autumn temperatures of up to 1 °C in the mid- and high latitudes across North America and Eurasia. Ichinose et al.1 found that the maximum anthropogenic heat flux (AHF) in central Tokyo, Japan, was as high as 1,590 W/m2 in winter, resulting in warming to a maximum of 2.5 °C. Moreover, anthropogenic heat can affect wind speed because it reduces the stability of the boundary layer and enhances vertical mixing. In view of the effects of anthropogenic heat on climate at local and continental scales and the increasing consumption of energy worldwide, the potential significance of anthropogenic heat as it relates to global climate change over a long-term period should be further studied using techniques such as global climate models.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0143-1

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#Elect...
These governments aren’t stupid; they’re correctly representing the interests of the majority of their voters who a) are homeowners and b) strongly prefer suburbia.

Renters and people who appreciate density need to show up if we’re going to counteract that.
It's the common use-case: you don't know whether to trust someone. If you ever know anyone who is in danger of being hired by a friend, your friend will ask you how it was working with that person. This is usually a high-signal source because you're not going to lie to your friend, your recommendation or anti-recommendations are things you want to be meaningful, and because you have direct evidence.

They want to scale this. I've discussed this same thing with friends before but we couldn't find a way to keep it clean.

This is also a powerful advantage of a good network. You hear someone's leaving some job through the grapevine and if it's accompanied with positive feedback you hire this person. Or you're looking for a person and you ask your network for the guy who can do it.

That's how I got my current job.
I just learned about autophagy (literally self-eating) this week reading about fasting and the Prolon Fast Mimicking Diet. This is why fasting is popular with cancer patients, your body maybe will start eating the cancer cells.

https://greatist.com/live/autophagy-fasting-exercise#definit...

https://prolonfmd.com/fasting-mimicking-diet/
Thanks, unlike the linked article, this argument gets at the core of the matter: if the scan was not an artistic creation, it is not eligible for copyright protection.
Here's a summary of Meshworks v Toyota: https://www.intellectualpropertylawblog.com/archives/meshwor...

Interestingly, I wonder if you could make the argument that the "illicit trench coat scanning" would have been an artistic creation falling under copyright, but a higher grade commercial scan (as this now appears to be) does not. It thus makes me wonder if this might have been part of the reason for the cover story.

Are there more exact cases where a court has ruled that a 3D scan is not artistic? I've been surprised how low the threshold seems to be for photographic works, with "cropping" sometimes seeming to qualify. I wouldn't find it impossible for a court to decide that human decisions on how the raw model was cleaned up might deserve similar consideration. But you seem confident that they will not?
I do, but it's not a popular opinion.

POSIX, and by extension, the classic 1960s-1980s era UNIX way of doing things just needs die a long overdue death.

This stuff was designed at a time when every CPU instruction mattered, everything was optimised to death for frugality, and commands were abbreviated from "copy" to "cp" because ermahgerd two bytes is a huge saving! That mentality got us Y2K. This is an era where latencies were not the bottleneck, CPU cycles and memory bytes were.

A lot of stuff in filesystems is just plain stupid. For example, why do applications install their files. one. at. a. time? Like... what the fuck? How does it make any sense for an application to be partially installed? Who actually codes their application with 500 modules and dynamic libraries to be able to handle the scenario where one of them is inaccessible due to an ACL or a mismatched version because of an overwrite by something or someone else? NOBODY, that's who. Meanwhile, I can make a cup of tea while Adobe Lightroom launches on an SSD drive because it is 99% OS API overhead and 1% usermode action.

This is why Docker is popular. Not because Docker is good, but because OS APIs are retarded.

Every application install should be a union fs. This union fs should be entirely user-mode, so that if an application has 10,000 files, it doesn't take 10,000 round-trips to the OS kernel with the Intel mitigations, context switches, and cache flushes that all brings with it.

Copying a file shouldn't require a user-mode buffer to feed the data through, forcing it to come down WAN links just to go back up the same WAN link again on the way out.

Overwriting a file shouldn't require more than a single API call, because it's nearly 2020, and we should have long since realised that kernel transitions are expensive, so we should optimise to minimise the number of round-trips. open(), write(), write(), write(), flush(), sync(), close(), poke(), prod(), jesusfuckingchrist(). Just take a buffer bigger than 4KB, or better yet, standardise an API to take a stream from user mode.

Just take a buffer and a filename, and atomically replace. Done. Bang. No lost data, not torn writes, just DO IT. How hard can this be? Is it impossible to do this? Are we forever stuck with POSIX, which was created in 1988, before most of its modern users were born?
The MLM point is good but not quite right. It's not like his whole audience is there mainly to try to be an "influencer" like him. Some are probably just more passive readers.

I certainly share all your views about real human connection, and I especially hate the ad-driven economy described in the story.

We want to have curation as a specialization. There's value in that. We don't want it merely algorithmic or wisdom-of-crowds only. So, it's complex and I see points in defense of this stuff.

But the constant newness, quantities of daily updates… that stuff is where I feel this is most destructive. It plays into addiction on all sides and has no healthy balance.
The problem is that userland has to be really clever because of overcommit... that's what the whole thread is about! The reason people want complex things like fsync and barriers is that the OOM killer has normalized the bad idea that applications should behave well when suddenly SIGKILL'd, and this is way harder than looking at the return value from malloc. When a program I write has elevated permissions, which fortunately is often, I will always write -1000 into my oom_score_adj, but not everyone has this luxury.
My friend I am so sorry to hear of your spouse's medical condition.
Kyle wants to add a new API called barrier() which will improve consistency and remove the need for fsync.

Linus makes the point here is that the file system API is already complicated to the point that few use or implement it correctly. Further complicating the API will likely create more problems than it fixes.
The key thing in this article is that the problem involves a new geared engine design. So besides being a engine type, IndiGo had been deliberately stressing it.

Some other aviation "Ooops!" moments:

Mahalo Airlines in Hawaii ended up shutting down after their inexperienced pilots did hot engine starts, each one taking an ATR turboprop airliner out of service.

The AA587 A300 accident over New York was caused by the pilot applying maximum rudder travel until the vertical stabilizer broke off. Apparently one of his instructors taught him to fight the controls.
Ask HN: What is the maximum number of lines a function should have?
I'm specifically interested in C# and JavaScript if you require that distinction.
What do you mean? it's already in production.
Blue Wave was the first piece of shareware I registered. I still have the floppy.
Perhaps stepping out of the "alpha" concept, and redefining what it means to be a man, is worth considering. Humans are not boolean, nor do they exist as a point along a singular axis.

To me, a "man" is someone who listens, who elevates others, who fights for others, and is relentless in doing so. We need less "alpha" in this world, and more "fierce gentleman". We need not warriors, but collaborators.
It is not a canard. The purpose of a corporation is going to be specified in the corporate charter, and while some corporations are non-profits or have explicit charitable requirements, most have a charter that focuses on maximizing shareholder earnings. Almost no company has a charter that focuses on maximizing taxes paid.

That charter is a binding contract that governs the behavior of the officers of the company and shareholders, when they buy shares of a company, do so with their rights and the obligations of officers encoded in that charter. They are not buying blind -- they are buying into that charter. That is a contract that they expect to be followed.

The idea that a corporation can do whatever it wants and ignore shareholders is a fashionable myth in some lefty circles and has absolutely no basis in reality or corporate law. If you want to found a corporation whose charter is to help the poor, or to provide high paying secure jobs to workers, you can certainly do that, but then it goes in the charter and if a corporate officer were to start turning the company into a for profit venture she could get sued by the shareholders just as an officer turning a for profit company into a non-profit can get sued.

In addition to the legal obligation of abiding by the charter (in the sense that it is a contract and you can get sued for breaching it), most corporate charters are structured in such a way as to allow shareholders certain operational control: to replace board members who they don't believe are acting in their (the shareholder) interest, require shareholder approval for major things like executive pay, issuance of corporate debt, issuance of more stock, etc. This is another way that corporate officers are bound to serve shareholder interests and again these rights are all promised to the shareholder in the charter before they purchase stock, so that a shareholder knows what they are buying and what rights they have.

In addition to the daily operational controls that shareholders exercise, the charter also specifies what is necessary to change it -- usually a shareholder majority of some kind. This means if you displease the shareholders, they will sell your stock, lowering your stock price, allowing a hostile shareholder to buy up the company and throw management out and also rewrite the charter. Maybe even take the company private so they become the sole owner of the entire company. All of that is hanging, like a Damocles sword, over management, forcing management to cater to shareholder preferences.

If you don't like the current shareholder focus -- and there is a case to be made that we are too focused on the shareholder -- then you can go company by company and propose a vote to amend the current charter, assuming you can get the shareholders to agree -- but what you can't do is pretend that the vast majority of corporate charters aren't structured in such a way as to force corporate officers to maximize shareholder value. They are.
This hits home for me right now. I'm currently in the midst of fighting Frontier (bonded DSL 12/1) and frequent disconnects every 2-3 min. They're the only terrestrial ISP available at my home and the DSLAM has been oversold for two years per a tech lead. They have 0 incentive to upgrade the infrastructure here. The area I live in isn't even very rural, and it's one of the fastest growing towns in the Seattle area. New neighborhoods in the town are getting fiber but they're not upgrading any outdated infrastructure. Why would they?
Another major user of reference counting is COM and WinRT. A major feature of WinRT projections over just using the raw C APIs is that you get reference counting implemented for you using whatever your higher level language uses for object lifetimes.
Somewhat related, a thing I found suspicious, though not surprising, the last time I tried it:

Try Googling for how to block all Google Analytics and related services in your Hosts file.

Does it seem harder to find a simple list of IP addresses + instructions than it should be?

While Google Search results quality has gone down across the board in the last 3 or so years, it seemingly tries particularly hard to pretend it doesn’t understand what you mean with queries like these.
So the fossil fuel industry is behind the green energy movement? Those cunning devils.
That’s how the E-markets in Beijing’s Zhongguangcun evolved, but eventually the physical stores are becoming redundant and the number of stalls have shrunk dramatically in the last few years.

Honestly, I think you have to go back to Akihabara these days to get the authentic electronic potpourri part experience.
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I agree. Taking "minutes" of meeting doesn't work well for me either. It's too much info with too much writing.
Oh man, I couldn’t disagree more about not needing to cook or make sure things taste good. That’s just knowing how to properly use spices, textures/temperature contrasts, and healthy ingredients. But I do agree that probably not many people know the sort of cooking I’m referring to here. Healthy food for me is nutritious, low to moderate in salt, and Whole Foods plant based. Portions matter too of course.
I worked in the wind industry for a number of years and I have never heard of anyone used the term "survivable speed" before.
I’ve done my share of shell tricks in the past and I love them, but I got very disappointed when I noticed that the performance sucks for anything more data intensive in the shell. At least in bash, which was the interpreter that I’ve used. I ended up porting my code to Python and gained at least 10x in performance.

But I prefer the shell code for tasks interfacing with system tools. I wonder if there is a shell interpreter around that is really fast.
Yeah, a lot of Muslims gain weight during Ramadan.[1] And I think they'd point out that the intent is spiritual.

[1]: https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/07/cairo-the...
This is how many grandfather intentionally killed himself after my grandmother died.. he got down to 110 lbs. / 50 kg at 6'2" / 1.88 m and died from complications.

Risks from extreme starvation /complete fasting include:

- Death

- Stroke

- Heart attack

- Lost bone and muscle mass permanently

- Organ dysfunction, especially heart absent electrolytes

- Gallstones

- Absence of appetite (as mentioned)
I hope part of this investigation revolves around AMP and Google's tracking and analytics on AMP sites...
I'm wondering why you think that would happen. Like, really, why do you expect that?

The goverment in Germany is fighting tooth and nail to keep Telegram and Signal from having actual end-to-end-encryption, trying to ensure that the government has some kind of side channel that makes it possible for them to decrypt everything in case of federal investigations.

So I'd love that but what is your reason to believe in actual federal instant messaging of any kind?
That approach did not work out perfectly for fluoridated water and mandatory vaccinations.
I'm so jealous. I pay $55/mo for 12 down and 1 up. It's the best deal I can get.
Agree. Your stomach will tell you that you’re full when it’s volume is expanded to where it thinks it’s full. Could be all water, carrots, or fried chicken for all it cares. The effects on your health though depend on what it actually was.
"without eating" != "without sustenance"...

> To compensate for his lack of nutrients, he was prescribed multivitamins to take regularly, including potassium and sodium, as well as yeast.