skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a drop of 10-20 mph

> the vehicle speed changes slightly

20mph is not a "slight" change. That's easily a full third of your speed in a freeway (or a quarter if you're speeding), literally the difference between a street and a freeway. And that's easily half your kinetic energy you'd be losing.

> The only way this would result in an accident is with someone else speeding and tailgating

Surely you can't pretend you've thought of every possible scenario this could turn into an accident?

If nothing else, people can momentarily miss the fact that the car in front of them randomly slowed down 20mph, especially when other cars are maintaining their speeds. Doubly so if they're glancing somewhere else to change lanes or watch out for other dangers or whatever. A million things can go wrong that I can't pretend to think of, and I'm shocked you just so confidently ruled them all out. As I see it, just because some of us are mortals, that doesn't excuse letting small mistakes bare our mortality in the middle of a highway.
Government says you can't have powerful laptop because the American government is becoming untenably corrupt.
It's amazing to me that you prefaced "750-800" with "only".
Why do the electric bills keep increasing?
Careful, according to the activists on my street in Portland you're literally a Nazi. We must eradicate this misuse of terms to silence people.

You are right. We cannot fight racism and sexism with more racism and sexism.
Yes, Signal is a messaging app whose whole reason for existing is privacy, but it does not actually guarantee any privacy features; it just tries its best. Despite this "who cares if it works" premise, they have raised tens of millions of dollars.

I dream of a world where commercial software is held to the same standards as even the lowest quality commercial hardware.
If it was about inefficiency there would be regulations about efficiency, not raw power usage.
> If someone took some new laptops with them in their carry-ons or checked luggage when they flew from one state to another, or even acted as an official courier, would that be illegal?

If their plan is to sell them when they arrive then it probably is illegal.
> Why can’t the role model be of any colour?

Because that's just not how it works. You're assuming that the important thing is the role model's race, gender, sexuality. It's about having a character that is like you. How they look is just one small part of it. If you have a movie script where the main character is a white suburbanite man and once it's fully written make his skin color black it doesn't suddenly become good representation.
bread -> broad
I remember the first time people debated if you should need a license to use the internet. This came up again during the Obama years,

https://www.govtech.com/security/Drivers-License-for-the-Int...
Honestly, now that SSDs are near universal why are we bothering with sleep mode anymore anyways? Can't full hibernate be made fast enough for no-power standby?
I'm tired of "activism" to restore my freedoms.

I've allowed politicians to get away with a lot of bullshit, but if they come after my PC and homelab, it's time to water the Tree of Liberty.
Computers Will Require More Energy Than the World Generates by 2040 (2016)
That is a good question. I don't know offhand; it had not come up in the cases I was dealing with.
Yeah, but for me its more about it being illegal than actually being a good laptop.
I guess the rest of the Australian MP's were too busy lobbying UNESCO not to give the Grand Barrier Reef a "in danger" tag.
The world's most powerful country that constantly trumpets freedom and free speech, and regularly trashes China and other places for lack of press freedoms locks up a journalist for exposing US corruption.

This is hugely important and not a pet agenda.
Not every person wants to continually climb the ladder.

In general men are more likely to value social status because a man with a high career title is more attractive to women, whereas a woman's title does not increase her ability to find a husband.

In fact, women by and large prefer men to have a higher career title than themselves. Is it any surprise men want to climb the ladder more.
Easy with so many people living in tents and cardboard shantys.
How much of that is due to the mild climate and how much is due to the energy efficiency programs?
Yes that is what saddens me. I haven't seen those pole vault videos and find it disappointing that people would go to the trouble of making them.

Anyway, the fact these athletes have the choice to wear a competition uniform they find comfortable in the olympics without being penalized is a good thing.
These overzealous "green" regulations crack me up. Don't get me wrong, I'm very pro-green-energy: I think my own country should stop building coal power plants and start investing heavily in solar and wind. However, a lot of these consumer-targetted rules are just ludicrous bureaucratic overreach that cause more issues than they solve.

A quick example: My apartment block was just "upgraded" to meet some new energy-efficiency building codes, and the result is that the car park now looks like a cave. The new LED lights turn on and off automatically, but they turn on seconds after you drive past them. So you're basically driving along in the darkness, but followed in the distance by some lights. It's a lot like the glowing trails of bioluminescence you see behind dolphins sometimes. It's insane.

A more IT-focused example relevant to this article: I have made a name for myself running around to various customers doubling the performance of their core business applications by turning off dynamic power management on their database servers. There's a literal turbo button (in software) on every piece of server kit sold for about 15 years now because of some stupid regulation that was started by some hippie moron in California.

Think about how absolutely crazy it is that to be "energy efficient", companies all around the world are buying servers twice as powerful as they actually need, just to save $50 in electricity per annum. The amount of time, money, and resources wasted waiting around for CPUs running at 50% of their rated clock speed is just mindboggling.

This extra computer power they've been forced to buy isn't energy neutral! More chips have to be made, more assembly is required, etc... It burns up an unbelievable amount of resources in order to save a negligible amount of electricity, which is now becoming increasingly clean anyway...

I'm not making this up. A large telco here kept doubling down on the scale of their new LOB application server platform because the performance was bad. The irony is that the more hardware you throw at something like this, the slower it gets because the percentage load drops, which lets the power management kick in more often and more aggressively. Last I hard, they were planning on buying another 100 blade servers, despite 5% or lower loads on what they already had.

PS: Some cloud platforms like Azure leave this on the default settings at the hypervisor host level, so now there is nothing I can do to improve this situation. The control has been taken away from me, so I guess everyone just has to learn to live with 3 GHz CPUs running at 1.5 GHz forever...
This sounds like what you need:
https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

I don't know anything about ansible, or much about docker, or self hosting. And I was able to set it up and it's working quite well for my family and friends. You don't have to enable federation.
Set federation_domain_whitelist to an empty list, and poof, federation disabled.

DNS settings are pretty easy too - especially if you can allow your instance to take control over an entire domain (and don't have to host other web services other than what the playbook supports). Don't need the SRV stuff here:
https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/b...

If you just have a private server for < 100 users, 1 vCPU and 2GB RAM is enough. I also use it for bridging to IRC using heisenbridge (which the playbook supports) and it's no problem on the tiny server.

Updates are very easy, pull the latest playbook, and run setup again. Done.
gotta pay for all that wildfire liability somehow!
The objective is presumably to incentivize increased electrical efficiency in devices, by banning inefficient electrical devices. The goal wouldn't be to decrease consumption; it would be to increase the amount of useful work done while holding consumption constant.
Automakers shouldn't be caring about gas mileage.

YOU should.

If you want to drive a 50 MPG Prius, do it. If you want to drive a 12 MPG PowerStroke Diesel V-10 Ford F-350, do it.
Yep. According to Natural Resources Defense Council via NYT, "about a quarter of all residential energy consumption is used on devices in idle power mode" in Northern California [1]. Huge opportunity for efficiency improvement through regulatory action, given idle power consumption is otherwise an afterthought for both manufacturers and consumers.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/science/just-how-much-pow...
Only eat animals that are already dead

That's pretty much the only way I eat animals. It may be anecdotal, but supermarkets near me sell all of their meat pre-killed in neat little packages. I've never had to grind the beef off of a live cow to get my burger meat. Lobsters are an exception to that rule, but still generally seem dead by the time people eat them.
It depends on if you have time to aim or not. If you don’t, you’re dead.
> the difficult task of enacting even more wealth transfers is the only solution there

What? Haven’t you heard of tax brackets? If you are so keen to tax electricity more than it already is , and are concerned it would affect the poor, then use tax bracketing just like income tax does. The poor pay less by being in a lower bracket.

Having said that, higher taxes on electricity may affect businesses in a way you don’t intend.
Exactly! Sleep mode is known to have issues. On off over the years multiple different operating systems have had issues with sleep modes. Hibernate just always works and it's quick.
Its not hard - its bad. Do better.
Perhaps reports like this one were one impetus for the law passed by California that restricts power consumption by computing devices? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27954946
> were responsible for 73% of global emissions from *electricity generation*

Misleading headline.
> ”I believe this is a case where self driving software should be default illegal until proven safe.”

You have to remember that human drivers are extremely dangerous, and cause millions of deaths and serious, life-changing injuries worldwide every year.

Any regulations that hold back the development of self-driving software would likely be counter-productive. It’s a bit like arguing that we should have held back Covid-19 vaccines because a small number of people had blood clots or heart inflammation.
KaiserPro says >"You can use propane for the refrigerant. The half-life in the atmosphere is pretty short. Its cheap, non toxic and fairly well understood."<

Also pretty fucking explosive. Propane, when released, flows to the ground and seeks the lowest level. Unlike natural gas (which rises), propane settles in valleys, nooks and crannies and waits for a spark.

www.bing.com/search?q=propane+refrigerant+explosion

Propane has been tested and, in the past, rejected as a refrigerant for these reasons. Once again, the fools of industry make another attempt to roll back nature to save a few dollars. We won't see the end of this until a few Whole Foods Stores and convenience stores explode with large number of deaths, whereupon the U.S. gummint will step in and say that they didn't mean it all along, that propane should never be used as a refrigerant and that industry is to blame.

I'm not stepping into another Whole Foods Store until well after this entire R-290 refrigeration scheme blows over (or better said, blows up):

https://bpnews.com/feature-articles/propane-refrigerant-what...

Is R-290 (refrigerant composed of CO2 and propane) flammable/explosive?:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=r-290+flammable
The relevant regulation here seems to be for laptops, that they must have net consumption of of 30 kWh/year or less. That comes to about 3W constant power, which is a lot.

Basically the law says Thou Shalt Not Ship a Computer Without Working Idle.
Be fair, the headline says "almost"
87% + PSU efficiency at 100% and 20% load.
90% + PSU efficiency at 50% load.

Power factor of 0.9 at 50% load.

(Monitors must go to sleep within 15 minutes of no input)
Define the duration of a weekend, in the simulation controller's dimension.
> Consume power less than or equal to 10 + 0.03 * C, where C is the system memory capacity in gigabytes minus 32 gigabytes (see Table V-6 in Title 20 Section 1605.3(v))

Umm what? Who came up with this? Is there any scientific basis behind this?
The headline, to me, implies 75% of all carbon emissions. From a quick search, electricity generation is only 25% of global carbon emissions.

Obviously, this is still a significant source and seems like a low hanging fruit we should absolutely address, I just would like to see more.. precision of language when talking about it
You have to copy things for hibernate and you don't for sleep. Also because you can go into/out of sleep quickly you can periodically wake back up for notifications. MacOS and some Linux distros do this.
This is legally codified horizontal scaling. Blue state legislators know that taping together a bunch of cheaper computers is better than a single expensive high powered device. It's very considerate of them to force this on those who might make the classic mistake.
yeah, as someone who has worked on both ends of the stack, that was confusing as hell. if you only need backend dev's on a 1:2 ratio with frontend, then your product ain't complex to begin with to warrant a separate frontend team.

but then having vc money contributes to decisions most of us, will never understand.
My dinner deserves to know that it wasn't an easy choice

I hope my dinner knows how delicious it is before I eat it. I would tell it if I could. Although that could get pretty awkward if it's something I don't like much:

"Listen, can we just agree that neither of us is really going to like what is about to happen?"
Hibernate has to persist all used memory, and RAM just keeps getting larger too.
exactly the problem. In the replies on the thread you constantly see: "luckily there was nobody close behind me"
I'm surprised that an A record for a .tk domain was even possible. If I remember correctly, those .tk domains were actually a webpage that displayed an iframe of your choice.
I assume SaaS=SaaS-App like iPhone App. Because you can also build serious technology as SaaS.
I've heard that some financial institutions use a YARC supercomputer with 256TB of RAM to do daily "full market watch" of client activity to determine insider trading for compliance purposes.

I can't even imagine the power draw of such a system or the heat generation. Fucking galaxy brain engineering. At that point you need like custom motherboards and special buses, right?
at a startup with less than 50 people, the frontend engineers will typically manage "frontend services", which includes the backend that directly serves the frontend. basically full stack, which was't included.
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All those people were exactly in the situation you are in right now at some point in their lives. You don’t have to learn the whole thing in one go: start by understanding how your C code works and you’ll slowly come to understand more and more low-level code as a side effect.
A few months of wildfires with brownouts where only half the population can have power at a given time will save a bucketload, too.
Well because it's usually accidental. This idea that every death, including accidents or understandable mistake need to be met with criminal sanctions is just dumb. It's a good way to unnecessarily ruin more people's lives.

Bikers should realize they are driving a more dangerous vehicle. Bikes have no protective covering, no crash cage. Your body is exposed directly to the road...

If you want a safer bike, build a human powered car.

And yes I bike or walk most of my life so don't tell me I'm some evil driver. I'm just realistic and not vindictive.
Why? Because it’s cool to break the rules? Does it matter to you that these rules are trying to protect our civilization from dissolving in a heap of wildfires, floods, power outages, droughts, storms, etc? This stuff is not just hypothetical any more.
> We also have no control group to tell us what percentage of humans would stop short of that dummy.

IIRC, Subaru and other companies pass these simple emergency braking tests 100% of the time.

That test was a Chinese test IIRC, but the software doesn't change between countries. Similar tests have been done here in the USA by insurance groups to set insurance rates, but a government-mandated test for what "emergency braking" really means (before you "sell the feature to the public", lets actually have a government-mandated test similar to that video).

You shouldn't be allowed to call your stuff "autopilot" or "full self driving", or "emergency braking" or "pedestrian avoidance" (or some other set of words) unless you can... you know, avoid pedestrians and emergency brake in a well-controlled test.

Avoiding balloon people is enough. But its a well known fact that Tesla repeatedly fails at these simple tests, when other groups (ie: Mobileye group / Mobileye hardware) manages to emergency brake in time.

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IIHS test: https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/performance-of-pedestrian-c...

The issue is that 3rd party non-government groups (ie: IIHS) are the ones running these tests. There's no advocacy group for US consumers as far as I can tell. IIHS is primarily about serving their master (insurance companies).

Don't get me wrong: IIHS is doing good work here. But its not their job to protect the consumer.

EDIT: I got my sources mixed up. Tesla apparently passed the IIHS test.

It was the AAA test they failed: https://insideevs.com/news/377427/video-tesla-model-3-failed...
How many unwilling people are sacrificed because we won't ban alcohol and all impairing drugs without exception and then enforce those bans with immediate, Judge Dredd-style summary execution?

I bet you that'd reduce traffic fatalities dramatically too.

How far do you want to go to 'save lives'.

I guarantee you with 100% certainty I can design a society that will 'save lives' at every turn for every single activity, and I can guarantee you with 100% certainty you wouldn't want to live in it.
The Army ran out of Native Americans to massacre, so they arranged another indigenous group to terrorize for the next several decades. (It really was the same racist officers doing the same racist shit.) Some Filipinos had thought USA military would join them in overthrowing Spanish tyranny, but they soon discovered the actual intent was to replace Spain. Decent Americans like Mark Twain were horrified, but the war media was full of lies about subhuman savages who needed American government so most Americans had no idea. Plus ça change...
Letterboxing
yes: https://re.kv.io/index.xml – I'll add a more prominent link to it. (edit: added on the About page, thanks for bringing this to my attention).
what data, exactly?
"Moms demand action for common sense computer control"
If you buy a Tesla and they give you a certain driving mode for Free for X months, then Tesla disables it after X months unless you pay for it that’s not a scam.

When I register a domain with Godaddy and they charge me $12.99 for the first year and then $18.99 for subsequent years it’s not a scam.

But when Freenom give you a free domain registration for up to 12 months and then makes you pay for it to renew after the free registration period or to transfer to 3rd parties it is a scam?

Note, I do actually think the Tesla thing was a scam and fraud because they never disclosed to buyers certain software features were temporary as part of a trial period and would cost thousands of dollars after the trial period. Freenom on the other hand discloses the limited free registration period and the $10 annual registration fees, like Godaddy discloses the 1st year discount.
All that the rules say (yes, I read them) is that a workstation with 32G RAM (formula is 10 + 0.03 * RAM_GiB) must not exceed ~ 11W in sleep mode and a desktop with 32G RAM must not exceed 6W in sleep mode (5 + 0.03 * RAM_GiB).

Basically, these desktops probably have very ancient/buggy motherboards with broken ACPI. Good riddance.

Fun fact: Desktops/workstations shipped without an operating system at purchasers request are exempt from the rule. So technically, if they don’t insist on shipping with OEM Windows, then the PC can be shipped just fine.

In any case, hopefully this rule will nudge them to use half-decent motherboards that maybe better supported under non-Windows operating systems.
I’ve found it super useful, personally, and am really glad both that it’s a feature and that it’s not on the cloud.

They have had a similar feature since iPhoto in maybe 2010, but it has only been on the phone since recently.

I reference photos of people I know all the time as well as use photos to track wiring of projects I work on, etc.

The same infrastructure allows searching for all kinds of different objects as well, which is pretty cool.

Especially interesting to me is to search for “art”. It shows things I’ve tagged, as well as what the model calls art which is often actual art (I’m an artist among other things) but sometimes is weird photo angles and interesting color schemes.

I think it has decent taste, even.

I’m pretty sure this blog article is just about one specific feature. I suspect that they use ML for other things in iOS but for clarity may have focused on one thing here.
Same people who also consider voter id to be "racist".
Mollie: Effortless Payments
I'm absolutely positive that the total carbon emissions from mid-grade retail gaming laptops outpaces the carbon emissions from super high-end luxury sports cars by a couple orders of magnitude at least. I'd be shocked if the ~25 Bugatti Veyrons in existence drive a collective 250 miles per years, compared to how many tens of thousands of wannabe streamers drop $1-1.5k on a shitty Dell every year?
Nay ghost rider. Looks interesting though.
You are asking if people think the propaganda has become less true. It's a nonsense question, as if people ever think the US is/was spreading democracy the propaganda has worked.
Yup, a shotgun. And difficulty hitting your target depends on what your loaded with (slug or shot shell). And you’ll hit your target just the same with a rifle. Will you be as accurate as aiming down the sights? Certainly not. Will you hit your target center mass? Oh yea unless your eye hand coordination is real off. And the original argument was that pistol grips make you more accurate than firing a weapon without. There’s still rifles and other long guns without pistol grips used in service. If this were true of pistol grips then we’d retire these guns out of national security.
> This isn't new, we've always had programmers who programmed by "recipe" rather than first principles, and DRY paints that as a feature

No, it doesn't. Programming by recipe rather than building the recipe into a reusable abstraction is the exact opposite of DRY.
the link isn't broken, its just chrome blocking the pdf because its not on https but the src site is.
Works out to ~19%. Definitely not 75%, definitely still a big chunk.
> ”Teslas seem to rapidly and suddenly brake for no explainable reason”

The reason is widely known. Phantom braking is caused by rogue radar reflections that confuse the car into thinking there’s an obstruction in its path, activating the AEB automatic braking.

The real question is, why does it happen more often with Teslas than with other cars equipped with radar AEB? Maybe Tesla’s is just more sensitive.