skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You were sleeping on a pillow right? Shove tablet fully between two pillows or seat cushions on floor, place a table leg over it to absorb any sound and put heavy stuff on top of the table.

Problem solved.
Very interesting concept. I always find it surprising that people run online meeting as they would run off-line ones.

I think you are onto something, video-call summarizer + transcription will make off-line call so obsolete that they probably won't exist anymore in a few years.
You get what you pay for. I would blame companies first for asking fast deliveries of features at minimum cost. When you are not paid enough you have no reason to care about the performance of the software. I would go as far as to say that you would be an idiot to do so.
The idea that what’s essentially a regular sandwich shop (and not one particularly notable for pushing “chips” or “sugary soft drinks”) is in any real way contributing to obesity in the UK is laughable.
Gandi[1] and Namecheap[2] are the only ones that I trust.

[1]: https://www.gandi.net/

[2]: https://www.namecheap.com/
They're not required to apply for a work visa if they're already in the UK. The process is infinitely easier to receive pre-settled/settled status.

https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/eu-londoners-hub/settle...
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET is the registrar I use. They're a web hosting company, so domain registration is not their only service, but they have an excellent company philosophy and customer-friendly policy set.

I've been using them for about 10 years now, and they have been extremely reliable, zero-maintenance; and the web-interface is very easy to use and logically organised. (no javascript!)

Their prices aren't too bad either, since domain registration isn't their main priority.

Only downside is that they don't support all domain types, only the legacy GTLDs and a small list of new ones: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/domains
Well, you basically started with the worst one, so things are looking up for you!
As always, it's complex.

Most freight ships will burn marine fuels such a 'bunker fuel' when they are offshore not near ports, largely due to the health risk of increased PM in the air near ports.

The issue with fuels as unrefined as 'bunker fuel' (the thing is practically crude) is that they emmit a really high concentration of other gas other than CO2, namely SO2 and NO2.

> "SO2 shipping emissions are projected to increase and by 2020 exceed SO2 emissions from all land-based sources such as power plants in the EU, which over the past several decades have been reduced dramatically at great cost to industry." [0]

CO2 is obviously our major pollutant but Sulphur dioxide (SO2) is a major green-house gas contributor. The frustrating thing about bunker fuel is that it is used offshore purely because it is cheaper and there is no regulation curbing it. As with almost all things environmental related we go back to the hidden long-term costs of having something cheap in the short-term.

[0]https://www.transportenvironment.org/publications/sulphur-ma...
Article seems to be by a cherry picked outsider to allow the powers that be dodge their requirement to support neurodiverse students.

Also the article is using decades old definitions of dyslexia as difficulty reading and an average or high IQ

And the journalist doesn't have a background in disability reporting "Sirin Kale is a London-based journalist specialising in women's rights, politics, music, lifestyle, and culture"

Having a non expert waltz in and comment on say the BLM / Institutional Racism would not be acceptable in 2020.
Barring biases for the outlet itself for a moment, Vox did a pretty good video on this issue within the context of electricity consumption.

https://www.vox.com/2020/9/10/21430916/2020-presidential-ele...

Even policy makers struggle with this. It's very hard to make a comprehensive, understandable model that connects all the dots across the board. So, that's what this piece is about.

And here's the actual graph from the video:

http://energyliteracy.com/

The argument presented here isn't to reduce consumption - although, in absolute terms, that directly impacts carbon emissions - but to strategically replace fossil fuel sources for clean energy (solar, wind, water,...). It's an interesting perspective because it avoids turning the discussion about "consumption reduction" into a debate about token use cases such as "millions of web pages need to consume less energy."

To put it more succinctly, it's more interesting to consider the origin of the electricity coming out of the socket in a datacenter or housing then how it gets used by hardware plugged into those sockets.

I'll give you a for instance. Suppose you have to pick a host for your personal website and you're mindful about energy consumption. So, you're considering Digital Ocean: What type of energy is powering their datacenters? Turns out they don't really communicate about that, but intrepid users have figured it out (data februari 2020):

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/what-kind-o...

So, if you choose NYC1 as your region when you pick a droplet, that's assumed to be powered by 100% wind energy.

Same with people who visit your website. Suppose, in some utopian way, 100% of your visitors have solar, batteries and are off the grid, then their daily visits to your website will have a reduced impact as well. Why reduced and not net-zero? Because the intermediate network infrastructure between NYC1 and, say, a visitor living in California, needs to be powered as well and there's no guarantee traffic won't be handled by fossil fuel powered network nodes at this point in time.
> because imperfect automation still has absurd economy of scale

That's what FULL AFK botting in games taught me, kinda random % values, so in my experience it was

Automating 80% of stuff is easy, can be done in 1h

90% is starting getting tricky

95% requires you to spend days of testing and writting various scripts

100% is additionally limited by BOT API and would require you to write your own stuff and talk to bot via e.g file system and try to handle things like client/bot crashes, networking maybe, damn...

But yea, having to do something once a day for 10min instead of playing 10h is great enough

Just to clarify: those are private servers where everybody's botting.
That's not a solution; making simple stuff is harder than doing complicated stuff, and it costs much, MUCH more.
PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation
The other major factor is fault tolerance. Software has bugs, and hardware breaks, but that's accepted. Programmers in industry have invested a lot of time in routing around the problems. That buys time for human operators to get paged and fix things.

For every major outage that makes the news, there are thousands of smaller problems that users never notice because of CDNs, failover, graceful-ish service degradation, autoscaling and/or overprovisioning, and fallbacks. Services can be reliable even when the software and hardware that backs them is not.

In other words, "reliability" is a property of the whole system, including the human operators, not just the code. The code can actually be pretty bad, yet the entire system can still be reliable in terms of being available and functional when the users want to use it.
Eh, why waste time on that when major polluters are oil, meat, packaged fast food etc.

Look up Saudi Aramco, Chevron, Gasprom, Exxon, Coca Cola, Nestle, Bayer, JBS, Tyson etc. Many of them are owned by investors. Why can't we punish investors which are very few compared to the number of web developers out there?
That's awesome to hear!

You can still use ffsend for now, it still works and uses the Send instance I'm hosting (send dot vis dot ee). Some generous users started sponsoring me through GitHub, so that'll definitely help keep it alive longer.

I haven't found a great alternative myself yet.
What Wildfire Archaeology Tells Us About the Burning American West
Can you rule out that those people they are supposedly reaching don't simply have different values than you and you're currently seeing circumstances that make them alter their stance because it hits a fault line between your values and theirs?
And you are right to not trust Autodesk:
https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/changes-to...
There's a great way to get added to a national watch list if the deconstructed alarm innards were found or you were googling some specific keywords for the pin out schematics lol
Same here, that came off as really privileged.
iwantmyname
> Nuclear plants want constant power output, they are ideal for base load. Solar and wind production vary during the day, and they don't always meet demand. That problem is called the "duck curve": too much is produced during the day and too little just after sunset. That's the reason why the best plants to complement solar and wind are those that can vary their output on demand. And unfortunately, that's typically coal (see Germany). Hydro would be ideal but its capacity depends is limited by the terrain.

Modeling suggests there is a place for nuclear, or more generally, dispatchable (firm) low-carbon resources in deep decarbonized electricity grids. See e.g. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2018.08.006

As for the duck curve, you can flatten it with solar panels that are angled to the south-west rather than straight to the south, and some moderate amount of battery storage. That still leaves the problem of how to deal with the baseload. Nuclear could be a good candidate for that.
Happy to do so!
It's interesting that this execution speed optimization technique has adopted the name traditionally used in altogether other meanings (like the quote about a program's data structures being more important than the code, or how FP and programming with immutable values is actually data-first programing).
Its not just dyslexia as a single thing any more dyslexia is one of a group of neurodiverse conditions.
Problem is free trade & WHO itself, it is easier to go back to tariffs, by making things more expensive people will consume less, you can also increase quality & add requirements that a product must reparable.
Amazon Route 53.

Doesn’t rip you off, automated renewals, integrated with DNS etc.
Who owns Cloudflare? And what are they valued at?

I mean, these deals make them look cool and altruistic, but what happens when BigCompany offers them enough money to sell?
Dyslexia is fake
And FreeCad has a OpenSCAD workbench too...
I do a lot of woodworking, from timber framing to small furniture and I have yet to find a convenient software to design projects.

Woodworking may not require the same set of features, the same level of precision ... For me, doing one shot projects, it is all about "test fitting" the design, the joints, the cut list, etc.

I find 3D modeling and CAD tools usually complex, time consuming, expensive with stupid plans and they also take the life breath out of creative projects. Were I a professional, I may rationalize the time spent and their value if I had to repeat the same jobs.

I get most of what I need from paper / iPad sketching app (I recommend concepts app). I had to learn to draw and sketch, but it feels more related to building than modeling.

Freecad is definitely complex to use (I spend hours learning by designing dovetailed drawers). Openscad was a better fit for me. I could even integrate it in org mode :)
When we nitpick,

"country" = geographic unit, "state" = political unit.

The United States is itself a state, albeit a federation of smaller states.
I regularly use three different providers depending on needs.

- Gandi for general usage, free and hassle-free https://www.gandi.net/

- Njalla when my privacy is needed and don't want to risk the domain from being taken over/down because of moral/ethical issues (nothing illegal, but for "frowned upon" websites) https://njal.la/

- dnsimple when needing absolute control over as much as possible, flexibility in using APIs for controlling the zone and for really important domains, costs 5 USD per month minimum though https://dnsimple.com/
Porkbun

1. No questions asked 48 hour cancellation
2. Free WHOIS
3. Cheapest in most TLDs
4. Most user friendly Dashboard and processes
5. Plethora of payment options (crypto included)
I am using Google domains. Haven't had any complaints, neither from friends nor from here at HN.
> We have lost our minds: the ability to freely and discuss literally any topic was an American staple.

Sex, breasts, swearwords? As far as I can remember the American staple was and is to bleep every fucking thing that could potentially be connected to a nipple.
Quitting may make you feel better but it doesn't fix social problems. There's just too many people who can't afford to take a lower paying ethical job.
And you base your statement on what exactly?
If they have an unlimited supply of labor and we're living in a corporate hellworld, why do they pay so well and include so many perks? They sure seem to be acting like a company that's competing for a limited talent pool.
Teaching Reading (International Academy of Education)
> You have no idea how consumer packaged goods supply chains work

I fully accept that. However I cannot accept that we leave the current status quo as is. We are very literally killing ourselves.

If you have other ideas or better approaches please share them so that they can be discussed.
Yes, I use OnShape as my main driver and Fusion less frequently.
No, he's right. Nuclear plants are still just conventional thermal power plants. They "burn" stuff to generate heat and use the heat to drive a turbine. They can't be cheaper because burning coal doesn't have ultra high demands on how the boiler is designed. Meanwhile nuclear reactors can be arbitrarily complex.
Multi-Cloud Disaster Recovery
Correction: Why _you_ buy bad domain names. It's even in the URL and title on medium.com ;)

I got a ton of domains as well, but it's largely having a positive effect on me. Once I have the domain for a project I'm working on, I always end up at least shipping a MVP, as otherwise I feel like I'm spending money on something I'm not using. If I didn't get the domain, I'd probably end up releasing nothing, instead of something. Some projects survives longer than that.
So is this a good open textbook? Does any open courseware or MOOC follow this book or topics it covers?
Sure but a lot of reviews I noticed were not entirely positive. Not because the performance is bad but because they promised more.

They hyped it out of proportion.
However you put it there is a limit to how long you can wait. It’s never going to be risk free.

Of course incidents where 5% of the subjects of a drug test die do not happen ‘all the time’, if they happen it’s on the news. And it’s not on the news ‘all the time’.

Balancing risks does not mean attempting to avoid all the risks.
I love NearlyFreeSpeech! I've been using them for hosting for many years. I used to use WebFaction as well back in their glory days, but since they were bought by GoDaddy (ugh!) I've been migrating the few sites I had there over to NFS. The only straggler is one WordPress site I maintain for a friend, and I will move that one over shortly.

I had no idea that NFS also handled domain registration. I use Gandi for all my domains, especially since they have so many TLDs available and like NFS have a clean and simple business model. The only exception is a .to domain that seems to be available only through tonic.to. Ah well.

But thanks for mentioning that NFS also offers domain registration - I will have to check this out.
> For example: optimize PNGs, it's easy and a one time procedure.

And then that PNG is loaded by a webpage, which contains no HTML, but loads 28 megabytes of JS, which your browser has to parse, JIT and run, and then that triggers loading of web-fonts, and after that we create a virtual DOM, and then render that into a real DOM... (which is probably around 150kb)

And then after about 15 seconds of 100% CPU time, the browser finally has something to show... And then it loads that minified PNG.

You know what? That PNG isn't the issue. That PNG probably has a highly optimized decoder, written in native code, and the relative cost of a optimized/unoptimized PNG in this case is probably 0.0001% of the total energy we just spent getting and rendering that page, a page which more often than not contains basically static content.

If that page instead:

1. had been plain, pre-rendered HTML

2. had no JS, except if needed.

3. had no web-fonts, because the user already has 2000 fonts installed. (And you want to be green, right?)

4. And finally had that PNG.

Then optimizing that PNG would actually have an impact. On most sites today though? Not a chance in a hell.

Also: that page would render in a nano-second, so it's not just a greenification, it's an actual real world performance-optimization too.
Someone cue in the tired old discussion pointing out that the standards xkcd comic was about the futility of all-encompassing standards, not an admonishment against making something better.
This is a dangerous question but - why is that the case? Why is simple software so much more difficult to write?
No its a way to not support neurodiverse kids in schools and save £££ is why local authorities love this guy.
Ranking the domain providers I've used:
1. Google Domains (Simple and easy)
2. Namecheap (Pretty decent)
3. Gandi.net. Perfectly fine.
4. Godaddy (cheap/ubiqutous, a bit of a hassle)
5. Oneandone. Spammed me constantly.
> there is no question that it's done more harm

Not a great way to argument against someone who disagrees with that point
It's haram.
The paper examines DNA from several different sites - a viking settlement in Scotland, a viking raiding party in Estonia and several viking-age burial sites in Scandinavia.
Presumably Gwyneth Paltrow sells the crystals on her website
I know this is a difficult thing to raise, but I question the assumption that the technologies underlying web frontends themselves are optimal for energy efficiency. Mobile devices are where power management matters the most, and this is where you find web tech used the least.

At the dawn of the present mobile era, there was WebOS, which was built with web tech. The original iPhone unveil showed a phone that only supported web apps, and there was no App Store at all. Android came out of Google, a company that at that point depended completely on web APIs for rendering. Something clearly changed soon after that point, as web technologies were cast aside as the major mobile platforms evolved post-iPhone.

Many people ascribe this situation to nefarious motives on Apple's part, and I am aware of their artificial restrictions, including the requirement that other browsers use webkit, the click delay, limited hardware API/camera access, etc. Still, this alone doesn't explain why the other players (especially Google) ended up prioritizing non-web apps.

I hasten to add that something is definitely lost in the mobile app store model, namely the freedom of the user and of the content creator to put things on phones without filtering by reviewers. However, I think that issue is orthogonal to the energy efficiency discussion above. And I would be overjoyed to see this resolved in a way that enhances user and creator freedom, without any energy efficiency loss.

I have worked with web tech for years, before I quit writing web apps about a year ago. I have spent the last few months learning Swift and Metal, and I can see the relative strengths and weaknesses in both web and native app paradigms.

Given the above, I'd like to hear what you have to say:

- Did Apple deprecate web apps simply because they couldn't control them, or is there more to it than that, as the above suggests?

- Do web technologies have a bright future as a frontend application platform, or will they continue to be eclipsed on mobile devices by Swift and Kotlin, SwiftUI and Flutter? Will this trend continue as VR and AR adoption grows? Why or why not?
Freecad is, imho, a terrific project filling a huge void: there are very few free/open source solutions that are a substitute for the extremely expensive commercial CAD solutions.

Freecad lags compared to commercial, but gets you a long way if you're prepared to invest a little effort, and tolerate a few bugs.

I'm not affiliated with freecad in any way, but just want to remark if there are any students around (or anyone with a little time availabe) reading this with interest in both engineering and software development, contributing to freecad could be a very rewarding experience, and probably good basis for a project or thesis.
Darn, Firefox Send was excellent. end-to-end encryption, user-friendly, backed by a reputable privacy-focused company.. Anyone know a decent alternative?
you should look at this for Gandi - https://www.cbronline.com/cloud/gandi-outage-hardware-failur...
It's used to some extent in the aviation industry for flight-critical software. So maybe huge in some contexts.
Well, he seems specialized on a variety of attacks, but specialization is there nonetheless!
Yeah so make everything white on black.
I've been using Cloudflare Registrar[1] for a year now for all .com domains. No nonsense or extra fees.
Gandhi[2] for exotic TLDs (best price). For EU domain TLDs I stick to Vimexx[3] (in Dutch).

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/

[2] https://www.gandi.net/

[2] https://vimexx.eu/
At first I thought this was a JS port of Alpine Linux and got very excited! Then I remembered I already came across that before, so I shouldn't have gotten that excited... https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=alpine-x86-xwin.cfg&...
I’m thinking that they might implement HTTPS and SVCB records, once standardized:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https-01
R (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language) ) is kind of the successof of S. In certain communities (not only statistics, but for instance also biogenetics), there is quite some concurrency between R and (scientific) Python for data science.

For my understanding, the numpy syntax most closely resembles what would be possible in matlab. And matlab again seems to have roots from Fortran. Thanks to that, young folks nowadays can switch so easily between Fortran and Numpy, the syntax and call structures can easily be made to almost fit to each other.
It supports tags I guess?
Wow, amazing setup and interesting to see how it evolved over the years! Thanks for sharing
What is the current political climate? And is it static, will it not change?

Is providing food in supermarkets without political background checks "a political choice"? If so, then everything, including picking your nose with your left or right hand, is a political choice and the term "political choice" becomes utterly meaningless.
Play console games on the web – AirConsole
In The Netherlands, I use openprovider (https://openprovider.com/). They are actually a reseller solution for agencies and such, but it works equally well for personal domain registration needs. Pricing is competitive, service is excellent, and they are small enough to pick up the phone if necessary.

I also like to think that a registrar with a support desk that operates in my local language (Dutch) reduces the attack vector for social engineering.
GKE is a magnitude better than the other managed kubernetes services.

Observability starts with logging and metrics. K8S already puts out lots of events on what's happening which you can use to debug, and there are many 3rd-party monitoring solutions if you need more detail.

If you don't have this with EKS then use something like LogDNA and NetData to see the logs and metrics yourself.
By removing meat more people would starve. Now that can be a good thing because fewer people means less energy consumption, however you still need to make that moral argument that starvation is an acceptable solution for reducing energy consumption.