skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3kWh/day so around 1100 kwh/a seems to me on the low side. Two person household in Germany uses 3600kwh/a electricity. Do you have sources?
Or maybe this is just scala. I guess the issue is, is it possible to add "operator overloading" and get something sensible without adding a whole pile of other definitions?
You can't enforce a DMCA claim against an entity without ties to the US. You can enforce a copyright claim against an entity in a jurisdiction that respects copyright, but you're going to need to use that jurisdiction's procedures.

I'm sure these companies don't throwout local court summons, but a lot of copyright holders (or their agents) send out DMCA claims and don't follow through beyond that.
I hope you and your family can get the Covid-19 vaccine soon, in whatever great place it is you are living in!
Python has had the property decorator since early in version 2.
There should be informed consent and there should also be revokable consent

There should also be transparency of who has the consent right (data licensee and sublicensee)

And there should be a way to make easy consequences for people not having it

Release forms and licenses are used this way, data should inherit that. (Both systems should be better)
(electric tumble) dryers are an interesting point. They're getting more common, but most people I know in the UK either don't have one, or have one but don't use it for normal washes (they use a washing line or a clothes horse).
I have seen a Java code where a "senior developer" (a guy hired a few months before me, therefore considered expert by the management) reinvented an associative array. Two lists (one for the keys, one for the values), with methods to add an item and get an item. Not even encapsulated as a new type, but a separate pair of lists and pair of methods for each associative array... there were dozens of instances in the code.

On the positive side, fixing bugs in his code was often easy. First I refactored hundreds of lines of code into ten lines, then I added the missing "if".
> The comment said that solar powered trains would only be able to run at night if wind generation is sufficient to power them in the absence of solar power

To be perfectly fair, while that's presumably what you meant—and it's a sensible point—what you said was, "making it so that trains only run at night and on windy days".
"I assure you, disabling one's transportation and, thus, reducing one's likelihood to arrive to work on time does not reduce delinquency."

You are correct, of course, for any one particular borrower.

However, I suspect the aggregate delinquencies drop as marginal "delinquents", aware that their car is going to cease functioning, adjust their behaviors throughout the month, etc., to make absolutely sure the car payment is made.

I'm not defending the practice, I merely suggest that your (correct) observation about individual borrowers doesn't negate a net-positive result for the lender.
What would be the definition of such "Number" class? How would it prevent any abuse?
The author released this originally way back in the Tcl 8.3 era, this release is part of a refurbish and update attempt. No relation to the quadcode compiler.

The author claims it's a full-featured Tcl-to-C compiler, with just some bugs and updates to take care of. I'm looking forward to setting aside some time to evaluate it. I encourage others to do likewise.
Stock market could double by 2030 because Covid changed the policy environment
That's a question of interface design. You can also create ugly, ambiguous interfaces with functions (10 arguments, it mutates some of them, etc), or any other language feature. If a library designer uses operator overloading well, then it should be obvious what "a+b" is doing if you know the types involved.

On one hand it's a question of philosophy -- do you provide the user with tools to better express themselves, if they might possibly shoot themselves in the foot and create a crappy interface?

On the other hand, it could be an engineering issue. Maybe it's not worth the technical challenge or the increase in complexity for the language designers. I'd be more sympathetic to this reason. Then again, Python and C++ manage it.
You’re blaming Microsoft for Google’s near technological monopoly?

Then choosing not to play anymore doesn’t have to be a “blame Microsoft”-worthy event.
If the loss amount is adjusted to 33%, then on average over time individuals will make a net profit. A 50% win will more than compensate for a 33% loss (0.67 * 1.5 = 1.005).
No, mDNS it is not really the issue.

Even most VPNs won’t, by default, allow mDNS packets across, without adding a relay server and some additional configuration.

But, yeah, letting any application basically go into ‘server’ mode on your home network at-will is not the most secure setup.
The blog post says

> migrating to Linux is fine, but don't expect a better experience than the Mac.

It seems that depends on what you do (and like). If you spend most of your time in Mail.app and previewing your files with Preview app and you like those apps, then perhaps Mac OS is a good choice for you.

I personally don't fall into those categories. I care more about the software development experience where Linux is a better option for me. In fact, I was a bit surprised that the blog post was from "Engineer, developer, entrepreneur" and there was no coverage of software engineering/development tools.

Here are things I prefer on Linux (not in any particular order): docker actually runs without taking over half to all of the system, window manager behaves the way I configure it, Kate works better, it's closer to what's in production - I don't need to run another docker container do/test simple things or fight with Mac OS workarounds, most tools/packages I use are a simple command away - Linux package managers are better and have a lot more packages than Homebrew, all/most installed packages get updates automatically, GUI file managers and file open dialogs are better than the Finder app, app menus belong to their windows, fonts aren't extra blurry on external monitors, most software stack is open source - if I find a bug I can troubleshoot or even try fixing it, etc., etc.

Things I liked better on a Mac: giant click anywhere touchpad (though tap-to-click feature was inadequate).
I don't think anything is "going on" given that my consumption is about average for my area. I do have 3 fridges which are all pretty old at this point which is certainly some ongoing load. I also have at least the usual number of electronic devices consuming at least standby loads. Then there are the usual intermittent things like electric dryer, dishwasher, etc.
Yeah you better believe that if I can't pay off my car and you disable it. It'll make it an order of magnitude more difficult to now pay for the car. People don't miss payments because they have the money but choose not to pay. They miss payments because they can't afford them. Preventing job access is a quick ticket to poverty town.
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Qt Wrapper for Libssh2
Many of the robo-DMCA-claim firms simply search for the string of a movie title. If the page in question is determined by their poorly written software to include the content, a DMCA takedown request is spammed. No human confirmation is involved. One wonders who the abusers and spammers are in this situation.

Of course some will claim that provisions exist for damages to be claimed in the event of false takedowns, but it is hard if not impossible to collect. Typically you need to provide all of your personal data to respond.
Not the ISP supplied ones i guess.
We average 400-500 in the spring, fall, and winter. In the summer with AC however we'll double that. We are in a northern climate, I have to imagine in the south it gets pretty spendy for AC.
Html pages in a folder also satisfies the "headless CMS" description. Adding RSS feeds satisfies the subscription needs too.

This seems way too overengineered.
I didn’t check what permissions it was given by default but hopefully not too many and with those not much spying. It would be nice to have a clear map of what data can be obtained with what permissions.
Hmm. But that flies I’m the face of the entire premise of this article. If I’m a drug kingpin and have millions of dollars in illicit profit. Suppose I simply pay tax on it. Why should I then care if I get audited? The whole point is that the IRS just cares about you paying taxes. In the audit you’d simply state that it’s drug income and show that you’ve fully paid your share of taxes. The IRS supposedly doesn’t work with law enforcement to report the illegal income. How would law enforcement find out?

I’m seriously missing something here.
The Mac Needs Shortcuts
No, no, the world is 25 times bigger than the US, by population. So it's ridiculous to equate houses with US houses, especially when reading a British publication.
I think there is an inaccuracy in that comment. Double check this: wire guard encapsulates L3 IP packets, not L2 Ethernet frames. This means ARP is handled locally instead of being transmitted over the wire (or the need for an arp responder)
I wonder if they could have used Smallvec, it sounds like the best of both worlds for performance: stack allocated up to a size.

Off-topic but the JVM will be the second platform to get const generics support ->
https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/m2dfb5/parametric_jvm...

Are there other languages than rust that supports it?
Duty free shops put your bottles in a sealed transparent bag with the receipt, everything is perfectly visible.

You're not allowed to open the bag on the flight, obviously.
I feel mac touchpad is very topnotch but other than that I totally agree with the points you made about the linux
As guy from Finland I'm not going to subscribe to Irish Times to read it.

As for the title, I agree. There should be EU wide syndicated model were you can subscribe one thing in the EU and get access to everything or almost everything.
It appears that when push comes to shove, humans on average return to selfish and vile behavior.

There have been accounts of divers, for example, losing their oxygen source and then in survival mode killing their best friend trying to obtain life-giving breathe.

This type of behavior seems to be the norm.

There are also many horrific accounts during hurricane Katrina along these lines. Some of these were covered by NPR.

It goes to show that if shit ever really hit the fan, you might have to be prepared for zombie-like behavior.
Your neighbour is stealing power. 15kwh/day means you are permanently using 600 Watts. Do you have a stationary (desktop) computer? Or do you underestimate heating. You can burn through your whole years budget easily in less than two month. What about the oven, I mean do you bake?
STUN is not a relay.
I get that, and my setup is definitely not beginner-friendly. But I think we need to agree on what beginners actually do, because I wouldn't say customising power settings falls into that category.

The problem as I see it is that even people who really are beginners sometimes want to reach for more advanced functionality, and different systems expose different advanced functions in a user-friendly way.
No magic photon teleportation happening here: it moves. Just not with gears.
Thank you! That's... well, beautiful isn't the right word, given nature of example... But I was hoping to find a simple non-ergodic example.

The situation the article explores was interesting, but made the jump to something mathematically complex before I sunk my teeth into the fundamental bit.
> The [python] scripts are much faster...

Pipelines are performant; many algorithms can be expressed as pipelines. Bash has many built-in string manipulation mechanisms which do not require a sub shell.

Why do people who subscribe to the “avoid shell scripts at all costs” ideology feel so passionately about prescribing to others?

I like python, but if I am in a rush it’s shell.
I prefer Poweramp a lot more. It has a compact list view (a must-have for me which also seems to be a rare feature) with a fairly smooth UI. It also has upto a 32-band EQ.
100% agree. This article should just be "rewrite your script in Python". It's not the best scripting language ever, but it works fairly well and it's about 100 times better than Bash.
They've also got Tunisia in the list twice, and the number for the first instance is 39.5M, when the population of Tunisia is not even 12M.
The one that got me in trouble was

net send * "i know where you live"

on my school's network. If anything, I did them a favor. They didn't see it that way though.
That's fascinating as it's not really that different from myself.

I'm alone in a flat tough, I guess you are a family?
My actual phone number has net negative value. I mostly only get scam texts and phone calls.

Everyone I know uses messaging apps and contacts me that way.

I can’t believe Apple hasn’t offered a way to white list when your phone rings.
This sort of thinking is endemic in industrial networks; they finally internalized basic ipv4 concepts in the late 00s and never considered maybe the stateful tracking required for UPNP and other NAT tricks also might exist without it.

I've set up several private v6 networks to deal with renewable energy projects in which the integrator used the same ipv4 address blocks on every single one, and the whole 6to4 translation explanation landed like they had just seen a devil sorcerer graft a goat head onto a human.
Ah! I misread your comment entirely.

(As an aside 'dst' not being capitalized was the cause)
I couldn’t figure out how to do API calls, get tokens, etc. Stuff that is necessary for most applications today. Would love to see more example apps that involve networking
Right? They're masters at adopting the (supposedly) moral high ground and acting all hurt when others criticize them - you'll hear 'we need to be better' but there's this overriding sense of, how dare people differ from what we feel is best?
QE per se is not inflationary, the only thing that does is to increase the number of reserves in the system reducing the interest rate (cheaper lending) but that doesn't have really effect if nobody is borrowing.

Fiscal policy is the level that you want to use for increasing/decreasing inflation. Somebody have to spend more in the economy if you want to see inflation.
> Is there a way to disable that?

No.
Turbo Pascal, Borland Pascal and Delphi all suffered from the curse of units. Units were great, way superior to C/C++ compilation allowing fast compiles and efficient stripping of unused code. But they were version incompatible. If you lacked the source code for a compiled unit, you could never move to a later version with it.

But give it its due, the stuff you could do with Delphi for example COM made it probably the only Win 32 compatible language to compete with C++. It was the Betamax to the VHS of VB...
1% of the population, so around 3 million, would be a good starting point.
How did they ‘lump them in’? They both seem like things someone would prefer to spend money on than a car payment.
South Africa here.

Our house uses about 20 kWh a day during the summer, with some minor AC usage in one of the rooms when needed.

During the winter probably about 30kWh, and that excludes extra costs like wood for fireplace.

My house is fully insulated and all windows are double glazed, so that keeps energy usage more efficient. I also have a solar heater (aka "geyser") which lowers energy costs even more. So with that in mind, I really can't believe they're using less than this in Europe...
Yes, we need better laws, opt-in consent and alternatives to ad tech (such as better ways for supporting publishers). The issues are systemic, going deeper than ad tech itself (e.g. conflicting incentives even within same publishing org, metrics being mostly nonsense, Goodhart's law).

I think that the existing incentives can be moved, but we will need a chance in mentality that might require a generational shift, or who knows what how many fucks-ups. I'm becoming more and more pessimistic wrt to the latter.
I'm curious about the economics of that market segment.

How often can the seller repossess a car successfully (I assume these devices makes it way easier to do so). And how often is the vehicle in a good enough condition that it can be resold? Repossession has a cost, but how many months are required to be able to repossess and turn a profit by then reselling the car?
> I don't see it getting wide adoption

It will get it, eventually. It can produce native executables without cross compiling on ARM systems too, which is a huge selling point to me. Think Raspberry PI, other small ARM boards, etc. and the PinePhone too.

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=52217.0
This is important to keep in mind when you read articles and/or studies about how electric cars or wind or solar power is impractical. A lot of the data these studies use is just obsolete.

Say you have an opinion piece in a news paper that says that electric cars will always be expensive toys for the rich. It relies on a scientific paper published in a technical journal 2 years ago. The scientific paper does not perform original research but relies on a study published 2 years ago, which study relies on official data reported by companies six months before publication.

Perhaps nobody in this propagation chain meant to mislead. But in the end they are using old data that assumes that battery costs are five times what they are in reality and twenty times what they will be in the near future (for example) and draws all the wrong conclusions.

Similar things are happening with articles and public comments about renewable energy. There are numerous arguments about how we will always need coal power or nuclear power, or natural gas and they all base it on old studies with obsolete high costs of batteries. These articles commit a further error by also neglecting the every decreasing costs of solar and wind power. These articles are even more egregious because while a car lasts only 10-15 years a power plant is supposed to last at least 30 (for coal or gas) and up to 60 (for nuclear). Furthermore, nuclear plants take 5 to 10 years to even build. In those years the costs of batteries and renewables will only go down further.

In the financial press there were many articles about how Tesla will never be profitable, how it is an extravagant way for shareholders to subsidize luxury car buyers, how it will always rely on government subsidies and will need more of them, etc. Well, guess what the federal tax credit expired and lo and behold tesla is profitable.

They weren't necessarily lying. But they were using automotive industry assumptions, and the auto industry with their internal combustion engines is a mature industry with few opportunities for cost reductions. But as far as batteries and electric motors and power semiconductors go ... well we are just getting started on them and hopefully we will have many opportunities for cost reductions.
Study finds video games benefit surgical skills training, especially in r (cont)
This is in large part due to the attacker having physical access of the asset. This complicates the security. Something like, how do you ensure the user is not running a modded app to send requests to the backend?
Whenever I hear stories of the 19th-century great English walks, I can only assume that that was a much more tolerant era where people could stop and sleep in the open air, or successfully ask random local people for a night's shelter. Today, England is so hostile to travelers who aren’t able to stop at formal accommodation every night, that bicycle tourers have to be very stealthy when free camping (as compared to Scotland, where free camping is still allowed).
I have used them in another language and in practise, itsnt really a useful feature. Say you implement a fixed point type or a matrix, more often than not you end up needing arithmetic ops between different "resolutions" or matrix dimensions. That blows both how many generic functions you write and the generic instatiations. In the end you are better of with moving the parameters in runtime.
Air conditioning isn't needed in many EU countries except for a few days a year (so it's not worth to even install it in private homes, modern offices mostly have them though for some reason).

Also depending on the country few people use cloth driers - you just hang your clothes on a cable and let them dry by themselves.

Houses in colder parts of EU are also usually better isolated than in US ([1] that's a typical Polish house for example), and more people live in flats in blocks instead of independent houses (so heat loses are vastly reduced because you only have 1 or 2 outdoors walls).

Homes are also simply bigger in US. Average home size (including flats) in my country is a little over 70 square meters. It's probably bigger in western Europe but not by that much.

Also big houses usually have 2/3 stories instead of being very "wide".

And electric heating/cooking isn't very popular, but I think that depends on the country.

It all goes back to electricity prices - in Poland in 1980s most houses had no isolation, everybody heated with coal which had fixed (and very low) prices. Then communism ended, prices were free to change with the market, some taxes were introduced, and suddenly everybody isolated their houses in like 10 years. Otherwise you burned money like crazy.

[1] https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/pressland-cms/cache/__...
Deposits, ID checks, regular checks, mandatory security guards?
We have lots of elctric furnaces or heat pumps in the southern and western states where winters are milder. The air conditioning is the real usage. The insulation in new homes is good, but the insulation to keep heat out needs to be in walls as much as ceilings which is harder to retrofit. Modern AC systems help quite a lot and keeping heat away from ac ducting in the attic by insulating them amd adding roof vents and radiant barrier to keep the attic cool. Lighter colors so your south facing wall doesn't fry eggs (literally) also help.
I recently reread Starting Forth simply with the hope of picking up some of the methods used. There is magic in the idea that you can teach someone concepts without hardly any time spent on the details.
Sequel comes out this summer.
Yup, I don't share my contacts with FB or insta, but I think that she did. I don't blame her, she's not a very "technical" person and the UX is not meant to help her make a conscious choice.
People might be happier with an equalitity of poverty (but has to be on a world scale).
Increased profits for water thieves, I imagine.
So the American government gets a cheque for every other nations citizens that use FB, or FB has to determine where each of their users reside?

Respectfully, I'm not sure either of these lead to outcomes we want
Not being a woman I can't speak from experience, but I've heard that it is totally possible to learn to do. Obviously not with a narrow necked drinking bottle, but with a Nalgene or similar. There was an interesting podcast on the subject by a mountaineer talking about the need to be able to pee without leaving your sleeping bag when on Everest (or similar climbs where the cold is a serious risk to contend with).

> Hiring people and then failing to plan an appropriate amount of time for them to take a break is wrong, and should be illegal.

Totally agree.