skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not directly related to solar-powered-servers, but rather power-involved-in-computing ... I have a solar powered van (not the engine, alas), and it has been amazing to understand how a day of my kind of computing (edit/compile/debug cycle with C++) uses more power than the 12VDC refridgerator in the van. The computer is a small custom built direct-to-12VDC miniITX with an i5 processor.

The refridgerator literally has directly observable physical effects on the world - chilled wine! - and yet it uses less power than a device doing symbolic operations all day.
Do you know this for a fact? Because it could’ve been some executive told the designer to make a Union Jack blinker. And the designer dutifully did their job, even though they thought it was stupid.
Or accept our puppet dictators and our NGO "help."
I think there is beauty and wisdom in making a commitment (through good and bad, till death do us part) and then actually keeping that commitment regardless of how my personal desires are or are not met over the years.

Once the commitment to honor my wife and word is most important, it becomes an anchor in my life to the waves of wants and desires which are ever changing. Feeling lonely in my marriage, well, I'm in this thing for life, how can I productively address this with my wife? Or, maybe my expectations of her are unrealistic, can I find friends or interests elsewhere while still honoring and remaining committed to her? If our romance becomes dry, then I work to address that with her. If I notice she's not happy or unsatisfied, then I need to care for her and help if I can. If I can't, then I'm just going to be there with her, walking through dark times, because that's my commitment, and it's loving and honorable.

My desires are often fleeting and dishonorable...selfish and wanton. It's good to deny them and pursue more honorable things with my life. The best things in life, the best stories, are those that come after trial and sacrifice. So much of our modern culture is empty and destructive because we've put self, our wants...our desires, in the place of utmost importance. Not having the wisdom to see that philosophy is like dedicating oneself to getting water from a broken cistern.

Furthermore, one of the best things a father can do for his children is to love their mother this way.
Sure. I have a couple eink devices, if they're not powered they just keep whatever image they had.

They're not exactly the best possible displays for all art though. The "whites" aren't all that white is the biggest problem. It's perfect for a book, and I even really like it for comics, but it's probably a bit limiting for art.

That's not even mentioning that the good ones are only grayscale. Color ones exist, but the colors look _badly_ washed out.

They're also pretty small and/or expensive.

Basically you'd be better off in every way with just a printer, any kind of printer.
Can confirm this is how UK spec Mini's behave.
> But the elephant in the room? What about LISP?

My input on lisp:

I think as far as "practical" programming is concerned, lisp kind of missed the critical window. There have been three phenomena occuring simultaneously:

- Computers become so powerful that it's now justifiable to use inefficient languages. Ecosystem develops around said languages (perl, ruby, python...)

- The web becomes the primary way to ship software. The OS C API isn't something you necessarily have to keep in mind at all times.

- Mainstream languages incorporate 'academic' features.

The combination of 1 and 2 made it so that up until the turn of the century (and realistically well into the 00s) C and to an extent C++ were first class citizens, and everything else was at most ancillary. The most efficient Lisp compilers out there produce code that's within a factor of 3 of C++. That's amazing by today's standards, but if you're programming Pentiums (and earlier 486s, 386s) you don't really have a factor of 3 to spare.

As for the capabilites of the language itself, even around 2000, lisp really was secret alien technology. But by the time you could actually either afford the performance penalty on the desktop or to be web-based, the "inefficient" bunch is now also an option, offering more expressivity than C/C++ and better libraries/batteries than lisps.

> My guess is that (too?) "advanced" technology (at some point in time) doesn't get any traction on the mass market.

The point here is, IMO, that IT in general and programming languages in particular are very hard to innovate. PL innovations by definition don't offer more features than the status quo ante. Once you have a programming language that's sufficiently high level and with a sufficiently efficient compiler (in our timeline that was C), programming languages are effectively "feature-complete", there's never going to be a language with a feature that can't be replicated in C. In other words, the leap from ASM to C (or Fortran, Cobol, whatever, I'm using C for the sake of argument) is a 10x improvement, but everything after that has significantly diminishing returns.

What you're really doing is improving developer productivity: not every project needs C, so maybe write Python and be done in a tenth of the time, with a tenth of the bugs and without buffer overruns.

However what the market is after is "total" productivity: if my codebase is already in C, it's a huge productivity loss if we move to $NEW_LANGUAGE, regardless of the new features, and because language innovations has diminishing returns, it becomes increasingly difficult to justify switching.

> If something is called "academic" that implies "not pragmatic enough for use" for a lot of people, I suspect.

With that said, you are correct that there is sometimes a knee-jerk reaction. See for example the unreasonable pretense that "monad" is some kind of black magic.
I have had this same thought myself - a 99-year lease, with reversion at its end to the commonweal. I mean, who came up with the intellectually suspect idea that land can actually be owned ? Did some hairy sky thunderer mandate it ?
This is exactly right. Marriage is a commitment to deny yourself so you put the good of the other first.

When I hear people talk about marriage (or any commitment) these days, I sometimes wonder if they're from a distant planet. When any long-term commitment is some form of oppression from which we must be liberated, bonds like marriage cannot work. This is justified in the pursuit of happiness. Ironically, those who seem happiest are those willing to make (and keep) binding commitments.
Speaking of terrible turn signals, Technology Connections on YouTube did a very informative (though a bit ranting) video on them in the US. Worth a watch and really interesting.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=O1lZ9n2bxWA
“The British are turning!”
We live in a finite world. Equilibrium will happen. Given enough time, the rabbits will run out of food and start to die off. Or a predator will be introduced (or evolve) that will feed on the rabbits and flourish.
I also inspect my car pretty regularly in a quick "walk-around", and check things like tire pressure at least monthly, if we're out here collecting anecdotes.

And I don't drive anything fancy..
I'm sure their mummy could patch them up.
This is pretty standard in the UK, most higher end cars even do it automatically.
It sounds like you have a personal anecdote that you have seen?
I'm not really sure what you mean by higher level, but I'm still not sure that's the case if one is assuming you mean works that are more introductory in nature.

For example, from the introduction in the first chapter, titled "Consistency", in Wilfred Hodge's Logic:

> Logic can be defined as the study of consistent sets of beliefs; this will be our starting-point. Some people prefer to define logic as the study of valid arguments. Between them and us there is no real disagreement, as section 11 will show. But consistency makes an easier beginning.

> Logic is about consistency – but not about all types of consistency. ...

> The type of consistency which concerns logicians is not loyalty or justice or sincerity; it is compatibility of beliefs. A set of beliefs is consistent if the beliefs are compatible with each other. To give a slightly more precise definition, which will guide us through the rest of this book: a set of beliefs is called consistent if these beliefs could all be true together in some possible situation. The set of beliefs is called inconsistent if there is no possible situation in which all the beliefs are true.

Note that this is identical to the parent comment, and this book is originally from the 1970s.
How many accidents would have happened if those people would have done all of that driving manually? If you count accidents that FSD would have caused without a human driver, then you have to also count accidents that human drivers would have caused without FSD.
How has Peter Daszak deceived us?
Thanks for the advice. Somehow, I never found (Although I never tried) it interesting. May be I will give it a try. Could you tell me which are some of the best places?. Recently I got to know about toptal. Is that good?
European sugar is from sugarbeet.
The Meaning of Yusuf/Cat Stevens
> So in your experience, people don't read movie reviews, don't listen to sports commentaries, don't read amazon comments? People don't listen to TV personalities telling them that malaria medication is good against COVID? In your experience, people read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer all day long, and discuss existentialism, rather than watching Netflix? Etc.

Your words, not mine. The question I'm trying to get your perspective on is: despite all this (movie review, amazon comments, TV personalities), why do people make bad decisions? You keep saying that they do (and I agree with you) and I'm asking you why you believe that this is the case. Why do they make bad decisions?

And a follow up question: why aren't people more hungry to learn (e.g. reading Nietzsche and Schopenhauer all day long and discussing existentialism if they want to)? Why do they instead watch Netflix, etc.?

Am I misunderstanding you somewhere? Please let me know.
Patents are by definition anti-science and anti-reality, it’s a blight on our society.

Why did anyone, anywhere, at any point in time, believe that it was reasonable to criminalize programmers for writing the correct solution to a problem?

Every single lawyer that has ever defended software patents should be immediately disbarred, and forbidden from ever practicing law again.
I’m a long way from understanding international law, but I thought one of the principles of Westphalian sovereignty was that the highest power of a nation was its own government and never a different government?

It might not be illegal under US law, but London isn’t in the USA.
With bad enough P.R., users could turn away from it. There are incentives and disincentives for miners quite apart from legal issues, regardless of decentralization.
Sowing discord within the group seemed an easier route to success

2017 fits the period in which one hacker of the group was publicly accused of sexual harrassement by a female employee of the Tor project
Scientists complete starch synthesis from CO2, revolutionary for agricultural
Not quite right, the Wii uses a GL based API similar to GL 3.3.

Not all Nintendo consoles do so.

And the switch has even GL 4.5, Vulkan and NVN to chose from.

As anyone with some graphic programming experience in cross platform knows, even among GL variants, being a variant is enough for shaders not to compile the same way and require code rewrites.
What marketing though?
The really stupid thing is we have these exact same design of lights on the UK delivered Mini's, however it's just the center horizontal bar that flashes orange.
> Mini has chosen the Union Jack lights to highlight Mini’s British heritage

Mmm .. designed by an American, built by BMW, much much bigger, I don't think there is any of the original Mini left. I see an original on the road now and again, and they are really tiny. A new Mini could eat one for breakfast.
Another example of Brexit Syndrome - put union jacks everywhere while saying/doing things that make everyone else in the world wonder if you've lost your mind.

I wish that was just a joke.
The "essentially no dependencies" thing always fascinates me.

Certainly, complex C code is a risk across OS versions but ... perl5 version 8.1 was released just over 18 years ago and after multiple years of annual major releases of perl we're now on version 34. Many of my chosen cpan dependencies produce the exact same output when on a 5.8.1 install as they do on a 5.34.0 install, and I can move them to a new machine/OS via rsync or tar of the local::lib structure (virtualenv like thing configured by setting a couple of environment variables) and it Just Works.

Am I weird here? Is the author? Is python unusually bad? Is perl unusually good? This all seems quite strange to me.
People going for fame as the goal, seldom get it. Unless they go radical and shoot John Lennon, just for getting some fame. (so lets never speak the name of that person)
I remember reading that basically people were paying 500 / month to live in mansions as a way for homeowners to avoid paying the vacancy tax
Yes and then anyone using said library would have to open source their work.
Very much has been written at a higher level. There are thousands of advanceds books and dozens of specialized journals.
There is a more modern demarcation between people who are discussing ideas and those trying to push products on you. Joe Rogan, on the other hand, discusses ideas but also makes fairly clear when he's trying to sell you a product to make him money. Would we regard scientists and philosophers as influencers?

Within tech I do know there are both types. I tend to aschew anyone who is pushing a product on me, versus those who sell ideas. I also have a third category, which is those that push their ideas without much self-skepticism or are too aggressive in their worldview. I tend not to like that category very much.
I did the exact same thing. My degree and college are there, but not the dates I attended, and my first two jobs have disappeared. I'm thinking about removing another couple of jobs and cutting my experience down to 12 or 13 years.
If you go back in time to age 17 and continue attending public school, I think you're doing it wrong.
When I was a teenager, and mind you, that wasn't too long ago, the equivalents of today's influencers tried to sign up for modelling agencies, or dreamt to be in movies or become sports stars.
In general, fame and money and what appears to be a sweet and easy lifestyle. Of course these sort of people have always advertised products, but at least they were.true models, real actors and skilled in sports.
This has been digitalized now, now every nobody can try to be an influencer, it's a bit of all the above, just digital.
Of course, it's oversaturated, most of them make nothing.
What if you're in foggy weather or bad rain and can't properly see the car in front of you, and you see a "arrow pointing left" flashing ahead... Not only is the arrow pointing in the wrong direction but you may incorrectly assume that the vehicle itself is to the right of that light when it is in fact to the left of it.

Signals are most important in reduced vision conditions, and this reduces the reliability of those signals.

Surely you understand this.
That’s the BMW X1 and x2 right? I feel the “correct” answer is that the X1/2 is actually minis not a proper BMW since they are built on the “mini” platform and are front wheel driven.
They do not follow the pattern if every other turn signal you have seen, because no other turn signal has an arrow pointing in the opposite direction of what it is indicating.

Can you really not understand how that might cause a moment of confusion? You see a turn signal like normal, but then you notice it is pointing in a different direction… you don’t think that might make some people pause for an instant and think?

We are used to both turn signals and arrows being used to indicate direction… when they contradict each other, it is going to get past our automatic brain and make us think, which is bad when driving.
I wonder if this could be turned into a legitimate way of supporting open source developers? Run their docker images that have an option to configure running a miner during your down time.
Yes, but the effect on coffee drinking preferences is not limited to those engaging in crime: plenty of ”normal” people have these gene variants, and it’s likely the criminal outcomes don’t manifest at all without childhood abuse, or they manifest in non-violent ways, e.g. white-collar crime or substance abuse.
Of course a source from Tesla would say that. I explicitly asked for ‘unbiased’ sources and instead you have given me this. The evidence needs to be from unbiased sources.

Might as well ask a Tesla salesman, which car brand should I buy?
I wish it was more standard where I live (Canada)..
Flashing the brake light saves a wire or two, reduces the bulb count by two, and avoids another bulb housing.

Plus it's allowed in the spec and makes your car look older and more dignified. (Remember when we had to blink our brakelights because times were tough? We're still tough!)

Some pickup trucks are wired for either, and you can swap out the lenses and add a bulb to get separate signals.
These should have been shapes instead of all circles. Colors are soft too and it's hard to see the difference.
I've seen the European version on roads and the UK flag symbolics was obvious to me, haven't noticed it's an arrow as well... or perhaps the EU version has separate orange light panel for blinkers? Overall it's BMW, their trademark is to be show off and obnoxious.
This is a clever and effective marketing measure: it raises attention, is memorable, people talk about it and it is a statement in line with the brand.
> and Windows is kind of known for bending over backwards to maintain compatibility with old programs

Maybe they used to, but good luck running anything made for Windows XP on current version of Windows.
But you will have a better luck if you run it with Wine on Linux.
Basically point is that, yes, all celebrities can be influencers, but not all influencers are anything I'd classify as "celebrities". There is a whole section in the article on "nano influencers", e.g. think "popular kid in school", not "rock star". Being able to monetize that level of popularity is a new thing.
So we should do absolutely nothing to improve the safety of cars (both for people inside and outside the vehicles) until magic self-driving cars provide the solution for all our problems?

There's plenty that can be done to make driving safer. Traffic calming measures. Stricter enforcement of traffic laws. Redesigning dangerous intersections. There's no need to wait for self-driving cars, and I suspect that you'll save far more lives by actually doing that stuff instead of hoping self-driving cars might solve the problem for you someday in the future.
I failed my first driving exam for not doing this. Never done it once more in my life.
It just seems that bitcoin miners are starting to sound like Bond villains.
Not really, you can call any async function in JS in sync code. It is automatically scheduled, and it will return a result immediately.

This result is a Promise, that you can pass sync callbacks to, and keep the whole code away from async/await.

You can also decide that async/await is nice, and just use that instead.

I'm a Python dev, but that part is better in JS.
> The issue is that when people reply to my tweets, they are trying to use my audience to push their message. If they have their own followers, OK: that's them talking to their people. But they want to talk to my audience.

Your premise here is "I should be able to completely control the conversation that reaches my audience from my tweets".

I personally can't agree with this premise at all - and my suspicion is that a lot of issues with Twitter arise because the service itself is still figuring out whether or not it should adopt this as a goal or a non-goal.

The problem I see with the premise is that it leads to echo-chambers in which only the arguments permitted initial author are visible.

I don't mean we should permit abuse or brigarding, but basic criticism or counter-arguments to a tweet must be permitted. This is especially important for me as a follower, because it allows me to put a tweet into proper context.

I fear that full curation of replies could be abused by all parts of the political spectrum and also by completely unpolitical scammers: Political pundits could limit replies to enthusiastic agreement, MLM scammers to gleaming success stories, promoters of questionable cryptocurrencies could hide uncomfortable questions, etc.
Or the descendants. Humans live a long time for our body mass. Fukushima happened 10 years ago. For a human, that's 1/2-1/3 of a generation. For a deer, that is 5 generations. For a mouse, that's potentially 500 generations ago.
Maybe not climate emergency, but having lived my life in areas where is hot and humid as shit, I’d love to live somewhere with a more moderate or even cool climate.

My AC was out for a few days the other week and it was absolute misery. I was very jealousy to learn that even very hot areas of the country that don’t have the humidity have cheaper, effective options for indoor cooling.
The problem is that if you are trying to measure the effectiveness of government programs you can't exclude their value in your metric. In a very simple stripped down version:

* assume 20% of people need public assistance
* assume that that assistance has been provided via government programs

It is disingenuous to then assert that since 20% of people still need assistance (because you haven't counted the assistance in the metric) and therefore the government programs have not "reduced poverty" and need to be increased.

I do agree that you might observe that 20% of people still need assistance and want to think about ways to make them more self-sufficient, but you can't use that number to obscure the fact that the assistance has indeed been provided.
Packaging your software into a container-image accomplishes almost exactly the same thing, without the need to be using a stack that can create standalone static binaries.

I would point out, though, that even when you can just continue to use a single pinned version of a Docker image forever (because the program itself is stable, or is part of a stable system that only uses the program in precise ways), people still value regular releases, and see non-upgrading images as “rotting” — because they can contain vendored deps, and those deps can have security vulnerabilities discovered in them over time.
>He literally acted as a stooge for the Russian government

Based upon the talking points at the time, establishment Democrats very much wanted this to be true. This makes sense since the Russians are a convenient scapegoat.

>suppressing damaging information on Republicans.

They wanted this to be true but it didnt happen:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/5pmo25/debunked_...
To be honest I think the author is playing stupid pretending to be confused by a simple indicator light.
The last sentence needs a source/evidence.

Low and middle income investors rarely (if ever) use self-directed IRAs to invest in illiquid private placements and single member LLCs.