skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a friend who says: "when you invent more efficient lightbulbs, people do not consume less energy, they just get more light"

Every time we did a milestone performance improvement in our infrastructure, e.g. search used to take few seconds, we reduced it to few milliseconds. One year later our colleagues were doing machinegun-like queries and the search was back to take 1 second, and it is just a matter of time to go back to few seconds.

One thing that helped a lot was hard limits, e.g. InternetExplorer9 having hard cap on css size was literally the only thing that forced people not to push megabytes of css.

I wish Chrome does something similar, like 'you cant have more than 500kb of js code evaluated per page' or 'no more than 200kb css', it will do miracles in just one year, and I am willing to bet that we will have the same features we would without the limit.

EDIT: I did not mean to undervalue Chrome's 49% improvement in one year, which is just extraordinary work!
HPV is extremely common, usually asymptomatic, and already known to contribute to other reproductive cancers. Why is it "implausible"? It seems this study at least shows it is plausible.
Indeed, documents show a pattern of promises US negotiators made to their Russian counterparts as well as internal policy discussions opposing NATO expansion to Eastern Europe.

"In the current environment, it is not in the best interest of NATO or the US that [Eastern European] states be granted full NATO membership and its security guarantees," according to a State Department memorandum in 1990, while those states were still emerging from Soviet control as the Warsaw Pact disintegrated. "[We] do not, in any case, wish to organize an anti-Soviet coalition whose frontier is the Soviet border. Such a coalition would be perceived very negatively by the Soviets."

https://m.dw.com/en/nato-why-russia-has-a-problem-with-its-e...

A large contingent of the western media is pretending that the documents referred to above by deutsche welle simply do not exist partly because A) Gorbachev apparently doesnt remember the assurances and B) because the repeated diplomatic assurances were never codified into a treaty.

Also the phrase "purely defensive military alliance" is a lie. A lie viscerally disproven by bayonet thrust up Khafaffi's backside in 2011 by NATO allies after he was "welcomed back" into the international community.

Neither of these facts are popular, but they are nonetheless still facts.
First step: stop watching the news! It’s designed to make you stressed and angry and unhappy.
I prefer Tilix to iTerm2 honestly.

That said both stay out the way and cause me no issues but I'll pick Cinnamon/Linux over MacOSX ninety nine times out of a hundred anyway.
I wonder how much all this "get more light" movement is an instance of the "Rebound Effect" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)

I mean, LED lights made it practical to shine 10.000+ lumens from a single socket. It would have been to hot/expensive with filament bulbs before that.

Result : we end up with 100 watts bulbs, same as before, even though the initial intention was to reduce energy consumption. The bulbs are even pricier and need more ressources to manufacture than before.
Well, Japan lost WWII and treaties among the victors gave the Kurils to Russia.
My refrigerator, which is from 2020 and replaced a failed 1979 unit, uses about as much electricity as your flat. So does the pool pump. So does the network equipment. And if I were to run the heating system, it would too.

Using a toaster oven to bake a meal for two would consume roughly 15-30% of your home's daily energy budget.

I used 18.85 KWh yesterday, which includes running a load of laundry through a resistively heated dryer. 14.07 KWh of that came from my solar panels.
I was talking explicitly about electricity only. It's clear that I depend on so much more for all the surroundings to work. But the figures I pulled out are for electricity only and our country has 26% of its electricity generated by gas, which we could get rid of if people would use less electricity, which I believe is totally possible.

I haven't talked about anything else. But even this tiny area can make a difference. This is where people have most or even all the control.
Here's the thing: batteries only work for day-to-night storage. The math is simple: if you buy a Tesla megapack and charge it daily and sell the energy every night, then you need to charge 10 cents/kwh every single night for 10 years to break even. If you want to charge and discharge it only once a year (i.e. summer to winter), then you need to charge $35/kwh. The average cost of the kwh in the US was 14 cents in 2021.

That means we need hydrogen.

I also did a bit of math to estimate the cost of shipping from, say, Australia, to Asia. Assuming LNG carriers can be converted to liquid H2 carriers, with similar operating costs, then it comes out at about 2 cents/kwh.

If Australia and the US build lots and lots of solar capacity, then making H2 in the summer and shipping it to the other hemisphere sounds doable.

I think that multibillionaire from India is up to something [1].

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3165314/mu...
Crimea could turn into an independent, mostly Russian speaking, fully demilitarized country living off tourism. Possibly joining the EU later.

I bet they would be much richer than today. Being a part of Russia sucks from the economic point of view. IDK if Crimean Russians are so nationalistic that they would rather live in a semi-starved, heavily sanctioned, economically isolated country.
Truly, the only winners from this hell. No matter what is the outcome, China comes out on top, specially with all post-WWII international institutions now "weaponizable" by the West (even Central Banks!) and thus leading more countries to diversify away from them, giving China the leeway for esablishing its institutions in lieu.
I think that the probability of Russia losing this war is negligible. They are using just a tiny fraction of all their personal and power.
Some of that is industrial use, but yes the US also very inefficient at multiple levels.

For example in other contexts you'll see mention of a preference for single family dwellings. Unavoidably all the external walls of that property lose heat in winter. Even if they were well-insulated, which they usually are not, they're losing. Britain has a lot denser housing, with terraces (most properties share walls on each side with another home) or at least semi-detached (sharing one wall) being popular layouts. Obviously if the far side of the wall is just another home you're not really losing heat.
Industrial consumption dwarfs the rest of us. We can fool around with 'energy theatre' turning off lights and walking to the market. But unless we can do 'big industry' more efficiently then it's all for show.
"newbie", maybe get a look outside, MongoDB is used by very large and successful companies.
Fortnite which makes multiple $B a year is heavily using MongoDB.
Key thing to remember: While China & Russia are "buddies", China has long-term interests in Europe in their fight 'against' US: they don't want to be seen as Russia-backers necessarily because Europe is a gold mine for them: They still want their Silk Road train route from China to Europe, which moves from Kazakhstan & other Asian countries.This is also besides the obvious chinese play for Taiwan, which people should stay focused on.
Yes, digital currency (not necessarily "cryptocurrency") is a no brainer --- as various studies have already shown, it will happen eventually.

The doom and gloom prophecies are just misinformation. Most of the economy is already running on digital currency transactions --- they are called debit/credit cards and ACH/wire transfer.

A CBDC (central bank digital currency) would just cut out the middle men like Visa and Mastercard. It's insane in the modern era that digital transactions often carry up to a 3 percent fee. Centralized accounting software is just not that expensive to run.

Cryptocurrency is often even worse in this regard due to the time/effort/energy needed to process transactions. A CBDC would stifle the crypto market based on nothing but simple economics and functionality. "Proof of work" simply will not work as a basis for common widespread currency use.
No, 100W is without heat (I should have mentioned that) and without hot water.
They don't cover it that well, doesn't mean people across the World stopped despising Russians for what they are doing right now.

edit: actually even Western media aren't doing good job, reporters are scared and shit themselves afraid of Russian fire strikes and don't go into areas where most of the fighting happens, some Czech media and other small nations do but that's it.
We’ve consciously prioritised P2P over account portability. If the internet gets turned off, first step is for P2P to work. If each node is a separate user account that’s not a disaster (just “invite your iphone” into the conversation, for instance). meanwhile, p2p is looking promising and we are prioritising it currently.
Lyrics in ogg/vorbis and MP3 files
Yep, I leave the fan on all the time to circulate air in the house. The levels seem to range from 450-550ppm. I was surprised at how low that is considering this is a newer house.
Cryptocurrencies: The Power of Memes
This goes back to my pet theory that Humans do Not Scale: because we treat others as anonymous, the entire pork producing industry feeds waste plastics to their pork, and this is considered ordinary behavior.

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/plastic-pig-feed-tiktok/
(not the only source, this video and issue has gone viral)

This is why we can't have nice things or a nice life: everyone treats the anonymous other as disposable. That makes everyone disposable, and our society a degenerate hellhole.
I get your point about different sets of regrets, but I really doubt anyone on their deathbed regrets not leaving behind more money. In this case I think you made the right call from a deathbed regrets perspective, trading money for a more enjoyable life.
Oops. I did. Thanks.
Can you give examples of reporting from Ukraine, or on the Ukraine situation being censored in the western media? I was watching an RT broadcast on the 'not a war' yesterday and the major news sources Ive been following regularly report on the Russian media position.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60571737

As I pointed out, we're actually discussing the Chinese narrative, which we have full access to, right now.

If that stuff was more popular and people freely chose to give it more credibility it would be more widely distributed. That's how that works. This isn't new, back in the 80s I occasionally bought a (cut down, translated but uncensored) copy of Pravda in my local newsagent here in the UK. It was hilarious, and usually right next to Marxism Today which was also highly risible.

What doesn't fly well over here is the sort of flat out lying seen on Russian media. Audiences over here are understandably sickened and revulsed by what is happening and what Russian media is saying about it. Hence RT getting dropped from channels all over Europe, but if you still want to know, you can easily find out.

As I said, the "western narrative" completely includes and involves discussion and evaluation of all the narratives.
This whole mess started because Russia can't abide Sevastopol being in a NATO country. They won't accept losing Vladivostok either.
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> Tuva (ironically, where Shoigu comes from) is a Buddhist nation that fits into the Mongol-Chinese cultural sphere better than into Russian one.

Mongols/Buddhists have a long history in Russia.
Why can't they remain part of Russia like they historically were (well, I mean since Russia took over form the Tatars, of course) and seem to want?

It's not because Russia has taken Crimea back in a rather cavalier way that they should be split again just to weaken Russia. This can only perpetuate resentment and problems.
That’s always shared among the family. Don’t know where you are from.
I was under the impression some were actually destroyed, so you'd need wings.
The silver lining here is that it make energy storage economical without any subsidies. Looking at local Finnish spot prices - one could charge for 30e/MWh and discharge at 500e/MWh. Companies like GridScale tout 60% round-trip efficiency at a price of 60e/kWh. With such uneven prices, the installation pays for itself within a single year, which is crazy high ROI
A Russian Cyber War may not boost security stocks much further
What the Syria war tells about Russia's use of humanitarian corridors
And yet you see all these tanks destroyed in Ukraine-Russian conflict.
We’re working on a kickass native macOS+iOS Matrix client btw (SwiftUI + matrix-rust-sdk), to buck the trend in the OP :)
Barcelona’s superblocks ended up a little different than planned: https://failedarchitecture.com/behind-four-walls-barcelonas-...
Like I said I’m not Catholic. I suspect my view on this is strongly shaped by Islam, as a matter of acculturation rather than theology. The way I see it, America isn’t morally different from a Bangladeshi village. Our efforts are more specialized and allow us to subsist in greater comfort. But the history books won’t talk about 99% of people involved with Facebook any more than they’ll talk about Bangladeshi rice farmers. For all but a few of us, our kids are the only legacy we’ll leave.

I’m not taking aim at “elites.” Living life to maximize personal self-gratification is pervasive in American culture. I’m mad at the elites only insofar as they’re fishing for moral justifications for this practice, where I think non-elites at least are a little beholden to traditional socialization and feel a little guilty for “not doing what they’re supposed to do.”
Let's not forget all the territories Russia invaded and currently occupy: Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia, Easter Ukraine and Crimea in Ukraine, Transnistria in Moldova and so on.
Independent countries are one way to go. A mostly independent region within a federalized republic could be another.
Spun another way, in poker, although you're dealt an unplayable hand most of the time, the key to success is (a) patiently not playing bad hands and (b) recognizing the good hands and capitalizing on them correctly.

That said, no matter how well you play, the game does end eventually. I like to think that, like poker, despite the variance, you have some degree of influence on how well the game ends.
I'm intrigued by your number. That's less then 1000 kWh per year. Given that you say you do use 'modern appliances' like dishwasher and a washing machine it seems extremely low.

I have a fairly small house, with only 2 adults, that's full electric (appliances, cooking, hot water, heating). We have a dishwasher (used every other day) and we also use a washing machine (and sadly often the heat pump dryer because there is no space for a drying rack).

We use, all in, about 4000 kWh/year. About 750 to 1000 of that is for heating the house and hot water. My idle usage is higher then your average, which is somewhat crazy. I have about 30-40W for the ventilation system, about 20W for modem/router/wap, 10W for home server and the rest is for fridge/freezer I guess.

Even just cooking on the induction hob, or using the (electric oven) will already blow your entire day budget. Let alone a dishwasher or washing machine cycle.

I'm fully aware that the biggest improvement can be made in being aware of your usage (which I am, I monitor it carefully) and try to be more mindful about it. Yet it's not easy to lower the numbers significant.

Some years ago, as a single, I also was (well) below 1000 kWh/year. But that was without a dishwasher, or dryer. And generally cooking less often/fancy then my wife currently does. Work from home with 2 adults (with big monitors, a beefy desktop, etc) also adds energy usage.
Better.com is reportedly set to lay off 4k more workers this week
I think these are less examples of "fantasy" and more reminders that we live in a human-constructed reality. This is a healthier way to look at it because it acknowledges that these systems have been evolved and implemented, often with clear intent, over the course of thousands of years by humans in order to solve human-related problems. They are not merely accidental byproducts of some shared mass-delusion.

Rather than being illusory, this "agreed game of pretend" actually does, as it turns out, have far reaching and marked effects over the physical ("real") world (which is also largely human-built at the present).

For me, the big epiphany from dabbling with LSD, was that this built environment (both physical and social) is malleable by me and other humans not because it's imaginary, but because it's literally our creation successively replacing more and more of what was here before.

I think there is a danger in viewing human progress and social mores as pretend because it can lead to a subject questioning deeper aspects of reality that start to tread into pink elephant territory which I think might be more common in normal LSD users than you are giving credit for.
Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [video]
I guess it depends on how you define "losing". I don't see any scenario where Russia actually "wins". Thus, in turn, I think it's ok to say they will definitely lose this.
Drinking water is good for you, but drinking too much water will kill you.
Hydrogen is one of many available solutions. Don’t make the mistake of getting too focused on one thing. Anyway the USA will have have such a percentage of solar any time soon that we need the more radical solutions imminently, though now is a good time to start planning
You cannot install "cheap" memory into older laptops. Battery life doesn't matter for laptops as they are mostly used at home.
But those mini factories have gotten much cleaner over the years, yet we still see a 30% increase in young adult cancers over 1970s levels. So while it's a potential contributor, it seems there could be more at play.

Edit: why downvote?
They are using the fraction of their power that they are capable of supporting and supplying, and that is not needed to guard their long borders and coast.

Five million reservists called up into barracks are useless if you cannot transport them into the theater and keep them supplied.
The context here is the price that Russia will end up paying and by analogy the price China may need to pay for a similar adventure.

The legal details are of lesser importance I think.
Yesterday there was a story about a rector who was arrested for preaching against the war during a sermon - pretty courageous but that kind of courage is apparently not too common.
> "They tried to depict the U.S., the West and NATO as not trustworthy, and people in Taiwan as delusional to think the U.S. will protect Taiwan at all," Doublethink Lab CEO Min Hsuan Wu told Axios.

Let me kindly remind you that secretary Hillary considered selling Taiwan to China, it's a real thing, you should google it up.
I don’t think it’s a drab outlook.

I spend my days shitposting here and on Reddit. This is what my world is, not traveling or doing something “wonderful” and “meaningful.” If I keel over right now, would I be discontented or upset about how things ended? Not at all.

This is my life. Why would I be surprised that it ended how I lived it?
I'm not sure I really understand. I don't read the Verge (because consumer product journalism is deeply uninteresting and I don't want to rot my brain), but I'll take your word that it is a "left wing" site (I don't know what this means) on "the merits" (I also don't know what this means). I would expect this to show up on the Wikipedia page if it was a notable fact about the site -- if they had broken some "left wing" news story (again, I don't know what this means) or if they staked out some powerful "left wing" editorial (again, I don't know what this means). Overall, whether or not the writers happen to be "left wing", "right wing", or otherwise doesn't strike me as a hugely relevant thing on its face. The other thing is that given that I presume the site is not avowedly "left wing", the characterization of the site as "left wing" would have to involve either original argumentation or secondary sourcing.

I honestly wouldn't imagine the major editorial cleavage in tech websites is partisan at all, but rather the privacy-convenience cleavage. I would expect a consumer goods focused website to likely cater to people who are less privacy oriented. I am not sure this would be remarkable or something I'd put in an article. The "break up big tech" agenda is mostly a liberal consensus versus left+right angle, but even then I find it pretty unlikely that the site's coverage goes beyond relatively mild critical reporting; I know I've never in my life seen someone link a The Verge editorial as a contribution to a political debate. I think they published some of the mistakenly public financial documents from the Epic v. Apple case. I'm not sure which of Epic or Apple is meant to be the "left wing" perspective. I remain flummoxed.

I checked the article on Vox Media. It characterizes Vox Media as a company that was created to combine SB Nation and The Verge, and then added other not obviously related content verticals, all of which are named and linked. The only part of the article that really comments on inner workings is the "Corporate Affairs" section, which seems to be written in a fair and neutral way and notes that the staff of Vox Media unionized. Is this what a "lefty" business is? I'm not sure?

The main takeaway is that they run a bunch of websites I've never heard of and will never read. I did click on the Vox article. Vox is a politics website, and its politics are described as "left-of-center" (I don't know what this means) and progressive, the former citing a Poli Sci 101 textbook I've never heard of and the latter citing a WSJ attack piece. This seems reasonable to me, it seems to be what you're asking for.

I'm not really sure I find this to be wild or surprising. You might be right, again, I have no idea, I don't care about Vox Media and I don't read the Verge. But your point doesn't really strike me as obvious having wasted 20-30 minutes reading Wikipedia articles that are supposed to be evidently biased.
Just keep in mind that in the old Soviet Union if you had a public position or a position with public influence(like a rector) you were always expected to agree with the government, or (in the best case) you'd lose your job. So it could be very much a case of "sign this or you'll regret it".
Even if it's part of the browser chrome, it's completely inside the webpage, rendering that distinction pointless.
> Usage of cluster bombs is unproved.

You claim this is unproved yet make unsubstantiated claims yourself:

>The tactics of Ukrainian Army now is to increase death toll as much as possible, so western media can use it in propaganda.
This is inaccurate information, Russia fought both wars in Georgia, currently Abkhazians and Ossetians are Russian citizens (they grabbed Russian passports as soon as they become available) so they will go back to their motherland Russia, Georgia will re-absorb it's own historical territory.

Looks like you are spreading Russian propaganda in bad faith.
Let's say I have a cryptocurrency and I premine a thousand units and make a hundred available for use. Those 900 could enter the market at any time and drop the value, so for me, I'd price that in.

Same thing with cash in a drawer, it may exit the drawer someday.
I still can't imagine Lithuania agreeing to have a massive influx of Russians with an open border. In certain regions in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania the population speaks Russian exclusively.
I know, that is why I qualified my opinion with "better".
My utility charges about $0.30 per KWh right now and raises rates at about 4x inflation. Putting up solar panels is a no-brainer. The array I put up pays for itself in less than 18 months.

Until those economies of scale manifest as cheap electricity for consumers, the drive towards local generation is inevitable.