skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arduino C. He's probably running it on a microcontroller that likely needs about 32mA full throttle, maybe 80ma depending on what type.

They're not efficiently designed usually, and there's probably a wiznet using another watt at peak. All in all, 1.2 to 1.5W would be my guess.

That is 36 watt hours per day for 24/7. We have, in a fairly dark ish winter, probably 2 hours of equivalent peak sun(Every square meter gets about 2KW per day of raw energy, which a good solar panel can get 18 to 25% of last I checked).

I would probably only want to by a 25W panel for this just for cost and size. That's about 1 square foot.

50Wh a day in those 2 hours. Lose half for non optimal placement, 25Wh a day. Lose 70% for cheap electronics, and another 70% in conversions with more cheap electronics(One can do way better for not that much more), and we should get about 12Wh per day.

This is, assuming it's not running full time and the Ethernet module has power save or sleep features, possibly enough to run all day if it's lightly used, but will almost certainly be enough for 6-8 hours. even a dark day.

If you are in Arizona in the summer you will of course be getting 3 to 4 times this. And if you have good electronics and placement you could probably double it again, but good electronics are hard because most MPPT controllers use 25mA sitting idle, you'll need a decent sized panel to keep up with idle loads.

I could also be wrong and they could be using an ESP32 with WiFi, or the Ethernet module could be better than I thought and use green ethernet modes for short range.

That would mean the power could be about a quarter to a half of what I imagined depending on load.

Of course, this doesn't account for the modem and other network gear in his place. But even then, an ESP32 can host it's own wifi, so if you just wanted a pure server for people right nearby, power usage can be very very low.
I tried my old retromini (RS90, I think) with (the surprisingly still updated) retroarch, but the core seem to crash when loading content.

And I don't want to figure out how to compile the stand-alone emulator (retro8) for it.
>For games, why not just have a console

which is even more locked down than a PC and probably sends even more telemetry?
Quality of life is pretty damn subjective isn't it?
Previous improvements are brushless DC motors with VFD, and using less water thus less heat required. Although one can argue that water usage has been similarly MBAified, either across the board, or at least for many crappy models that fail to get the job done.

A possible future improvement could be delayed start that communicates with time of use metering or something, although this would have to be implemented in such a way that the software itself wouldn't turn the machine into a piece of junk in 3 short years (eg libre software).

I suspect there are also many sensor-based improvements that could give machines more intelligent processing, but anyone who has repaired appliances knows that BOM cost rules all. So those would seemingly rely on less time-based manifest-destiny "innovation" and more on designing machines with more value in the first place.
Well, it's true....you don't need Firefox...and Edge is better. In fact, now that they've switched to Chromium, it's better than Chrome

Anyway, Firefox is just a de facto Google subsidiary that's allowed to continue to exist to preserve the illusion of competition in the browser space, so who cares
Replit Community Round
Jless – CLI JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching
Might be the "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" syndrome in USA. Because Microsoft is very rich, some people will automatically side with it and think that people who oppose Microsoft must be losers (which is then equated with whatever is a loser in their mind).
https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/01/144958/if-youre-...
> Personal income per Capita went from ~$30k to ~$63k in the last 20 years

At an inflation rate of 3%, the value of money decreases by half every 25 years.
> There is that one Windows-API-compatible OS

lol don't have to be coy about naming it, it's called ReactOS. It's an OS project that attempts to be a clean-room implementation of the Windows API. The latest news about it popped up yesterday for being able to run some old Battlefield games: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30888799

Progress is understandably slow but since Microsoft has significantly lowered investment in Windows itself and are pivoting away from it to Azure, I can imagine a possible but distant future where Windows allows Wine & ReactOS to catch up because little beyond surface-level UI changes happen on Windows anymore.
A significant portion of kids inherit clothes from their older siblings when I grew up, and I still see it happening today. If clothes are more durable more items will survive to be inherited or re-sold.

Also, second-hand markets here are already large and could become even larger. Searching for "used kids clothes" on Ebay shows 350k results.
The Eigen library (https://eigen.tuxfamily.org) has great attention to numerical robustness and accuracy in it's implementation.
The documentation is good, but for the numerical discussions, you'd have to read the source code.
https://archive.is/NPZWB
> it's the "you should organize your life so bikes work for you".

I never said that. I'm Dutch, but my work is further than biking distance also, so I take a bus to work. Previously I worked even further away and took a shorter bus ride, then switched to a train, and walked five minutes on each end. That was a bit further than is comfortable to do >1 year, but in the train I could relax for an hour and in a car you can't relax and read a book, code something, nap, etc. for even thirty seconds without running into some barrier. Audio books kinda work but that's about the limit.

I'm not saying "organise your life so you live next to your job". At this point I'm saying "wtf is wrong with a bike lane", though, reading back, my original point I guess was more about "what is wrong with more efficient transport than >1 ton metal box transportation with an occupancy rate of one point something"

Of course, you do have to be okay with spending time around other people. That seems to be a tough sell for the rich that can afford other options
Half the jersey shore folks came from where I grew up and I apologize when I’m wrong.

I’m definitely a strong presence and being able to apologize when I’m wrong helps me be more forceful when I feel I need to.

Not apologizing is a sign of insecurity IMO unless you really feel like there’s no possibility you could’ve been wrong.
Right but we're beyond that point since those companies also do business in the US.

At the end of the day we need to accept that this is just how superpowers act. They go in, kill millions, and nothing ever changes.
I've heard of that service before, but I don't personally trust it. As an alternative, you can just download the installers before reformatting. Personally, I keep a folder ready with up-to-date installers: any time a program updates on my current install, I copy the installer into a folder on my second hdd. Whenever I reformat, the folder on that secondary hdd is there ready to go.
Was with someone who was a some people are professional victims. Offended at everything, forcing apologies over every perceived slight. Particular if they were at fault.

A no apologize rule is sometimes a defensive measure to shut such people down.
Doesn’t mean it’s healthy at all. But I’ve found it critical to survival
Unlikely, seems like it would be a huge antitrust issue. Google can't dictate what OEMs install either.
I guess the point about the tabacco industry is really resonating with me in the sense that the possibility to generate life long revenue by advertising to minors really is a problem. In the end it is about getting children to use drugs.
You're adorable, is what you are. Try not to embarrass yourself too much before you grow out of it - no one else will remember, but maybe you can save yourself a little cringe five years or so from now.
From the about page:

> The Valve Archive is a fan-run repository...

https://valvearchive.com/about/

Hopefully, it stays, but I wouldn't want to bet on it.
We haven't really built that society, that was just the trade off people made.

I have several friends who made the trade off the other way. They live with extended family, kids can wonder around and explore the neighborhood on their own.
Washing machines pull considerable power and the power scales with the water usage: They use warm water, either from a tap or using a heating element. Heating water is energy intensive, and the hot water quite literally goes down the drain. Current machines use about 50liter per cycle, heating that from 10 to 30 degrees consumes around 1.2kWh, to 60 it’s ~3 kWh. Doubling the amount of water obviously doubles the energy needed. A machine for a small family may see around 100 cycles per year, so the savings are substantial.

This doesn’t take into account the savings in drinkable water which has most likely been through an energy-intensive process as well.
Aren't you handing that data out for free by using their servers?

Seems like you aren't happy with the price they charge for access.
For gas-only cars this is mostly true, but what if that 2012 car is gas powered and the 2022 is an electric or hybrid? (And compare the efficiency of electric or hybrid cars in 2012 vs in 2022)
Bletchley Park on Google
I am using an app called Glasswire, similar to Little Snitch for MacOS.
Does mataroa, or a similar platform, offer syntax highlighting?

I'm on month 80 avoiding setting up a blog to capture my occasional thoughts and frequent side project adventures – mostly because I'd rather fiddle with the side projects than set aside time spinning up some blog platform (which often begins with promising I'll use asciidoc, and ends in frustration trying to render asciidoc _juuuuust_ right). I would love to have a dead-simple interface (for writing and reading) to collect words. But since most of those words will be about code, a lack of syntax highlighting will take residence in my mind.

(Tangentially related: I _love_ reader mode, because I like to read an article or two while rocking my baby to sleep, and reader mode offers dark mode, even on websites in stunning retina-burn white. The only downside of reader mode is how it kills syntax highlighting.)
Brute force problem solving is a technique like any other. Has its pros and cons, places it excells and places it doesn't.

I can only expend so much energy learning a problem domain so many times a day, sometimes, using instinct and learned heuristics to find a fix without building a mental model of the wider picture is good enough.

I should also add it depends greatly on your codebase. Some code bases are so rotten your heuristics won't work but if you have clean abstractions or even just code that generally limits the amount of weird and unexpected shit it does you should be fine brute forcing a few things saving brain power for later in the day.
The Bookmarklet (pop-up) injects itself into the page and sometimes the website security policy doesn't allow that and so for this purpose extension is better since it gets only the page URL as required info. For most cases the Bookmarklet is OK, I use it more often because it sticks to the account which means the short URL will be assigned to you so you can track clicks when needed (the extension will do that too in the upcoming new versions).
Bernard: They can't stop us eating the British sausage, can they?

Hacker: They can stop us calling it the sausage though. Apparently it’s going to be called the emulsified, high-fat offal tube.
We already have tools for this. Important work should be in version control and application authors who want more out of open have sqlite. People need open/read/write to work with the file directly and I don't want shell tools scattering backup files everywhere.
You follow convention because the other developers have to read and work with your code. You also follow the formatting conventions of the language and of the project.

As a polyglot developer it feels a little weird but it can't be helped. The mix of camel cased and snaked cases languages in the same project or in the same file is inevitable sometimes. Think a JS script tag and Ruby <% %> inline code in an html.erb file.
The best part is giving them away to friends and family, if they have kids few years younger it tends to work well for the higher quality clothes. Higher quality materials (and seams) does help preserving them too.
OT but perhaps interesting: When WP started Akismet perma-banned users from posting comments for adding links to comments. There was no appeal mechanism, when I got a hold of an employee they were unable to see if comments of mine got rejected nor why. It seems like something you would want to fix. The community (of about 50) that we moved to the platform died pretty fast and the bans are still in place.
Propulsive landing, derived and coded up
Well shit, better change the nuclear launch codes...
To build a (bad) analogy to human cultures... There are two things we lock up tight. Things that could cause damage if freely accessed or openly roaming, and things that it is vital to protect and must not be changed.

My rough read of biology is that it could use the same mechanism to lock down both.
Thanks for sharing my demake, @tosh

Seems most ppl are appreciating it for what it is, which is nice to see/hear :)
Because of how floating-point numbers are distributed, you should expect a random number drawn uniformly from [0,1] to basically never hit the smallest floating-point number: hitting something in the range [0, 2^-n] should happen with probability 2^-n.

I agree there is much more one could want out of a uniform random float generator than just k/N where k is a integer drawn uniformly from {0, 1, …, N}, but hitting arbitrarily small floating point numbers is not on this list.

If you are intending to sample numbers in the range [0,1] such that each float occurs with equal probability then that’s fine, but it’s certainly not uniformly random on [0,1].
Weezer's self-titled albums are distinguished by background color of the cover art.
> Why Visual Programming Languages have failed...?

I wouldn't say that is the case, because Scratch is quite popular (for example) and hangs around 20th among programming languages on the TIOBE index. If you look at the RPA world, UiPath promotes itself as a Visual Programming tool, and it's quite popular as well.

However, there are some who complain about UiPath's "boxes on top of boxes". It tends to obscure being able to reason about the code and see important details, which gets hidden under other boxes. And you have to do a lot of typing anyway.

The criteria for what it means to be a success as a VPL, is arguably inappropriate, if you are saying it must be in the top 10 of programming languages. VPLs can and have found various niches, which might be the best they can do, for now.

The problem with VPLs is often "visual overload", where at a certain level of complexity, you are dealing with an entangled spider-web, twisted spaghetti, or straight up clusterf*ck.

Also, not quite sure what the insistence on little lines for many creators are all about, which only makes devolving into eye burning spaghetti only faster. People usually don't want to deal with such a mess, thus rather read or type out the code, so they can have greater clarity and readability. In addition to that, many of us are used to reading and typing.

Consequently, it might be argued that an collapsible outline is a better way to represent code. After all, we often do this when typing (books, PowerPoint, etc...). Particularly when dealing with the imperative or functional styles, which may lend themselves better to being represented in that way, where names can be headings. Probably you want to be able to easily hide or expand to more complex representations.

It seems to me that any VPL will not be able to beat typing out code for the majority at any time in the near future. Still, at the simpler levels or for the younger, Scratch shows that certain VPLs can be usable and find a place. Maybe the way forward is to build on what has had some success, and figure out how to make it more visually manageable.
It would be great to be able to add this podcast via RSS. Seems like it's only available on Apple or Spotify
I hope it remains that way for a while! Up to about 2010 Berlin had a lot more available housing than demand but it caught up and resulted in the current housing shortage very quickly.
Filson quality has dropped, and they make lots more of their stuff in China now.
Ask HN: Change Work as a Slow Learner
I am a slow and deep learner. I write software 30 years now and changed jobs only twice. Last time I changed from semiconductor to computer network, I romanticized changing industry was just to learn some new libraries, the transition was quite tough, yet I made it successful eventually.

Now the company's new leadership team is making changes I really hate and I am thinking to change job, given that most job openings are cloud and related, so likely it will be an industry change again.

I can see the following options:
1. Switch career internally. The Product Marketing group has opening and they are in my area. But writing slides daily seems not that interesting.

2. My company also has cloud engineering positions, I can apply. But that's still under the same management team of which I hate.

3. Just change job to a cloud company and see how it goes. This is the option I think of most, just that my heart sinks when I recall the painful transition 10 years ago.

If you have similar experience, can you share?
I think that applies up to actual violence. I'm pretty sure the show would stop if there was a fight. Regardless the guy's reaction would have been very different and security would have hauled Will out.
ed is also the only command line terminal on plan9, which allows you to edit files in case Rio didnt start
This reminds me just how much they've made and how incredibly high their batting percentage is

I still remember HL2 running great on good settings on my potato laptop when it came out. They put most other game engine/graphics/optimization programmers to shame. Kings
I've never been as productive in anything as I have in this.

Whoever came up with the default key combinations is a genius.

I'd heard people talk about i3 and other tiling WM's, but it seemed like a big step to take to learn and take the time to configure it, etc.

I found out about Regolith, figured "Eh since it also comes as an apt package I can just install + uninstall it if I don't like it."

By the end of using it a single day I was used to the keybindings. They felt natural and my productivity was through the roof.

Bless the authors, this software brings joy.
Explaining social cooling might also work with your friends:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627363
Maybe they tried to send a second message, but it got blocked by a spam filter.
Mataroa offers syntax highlighting. Example: https://nutcroft.com/blog/building-mataroa-blog/
I would also add that even in 2022 (last time I had a Dell Linux machine) lots of stuff simply fails.

E.g. wake from sleep often doesn't, webcams often just stop between exiting one video call and starting another, Bluetooth often stops, CPU throttling often doesn't do anything so you have battery life of 1hr max, external USB keyboards often "disappear" etc.

This sort of shit never happens on my personal Windows machine, Chromebooks, or work MacBook Pro (that replaced the Linux dell). I trust the tech people at my place of work to not screw things up in terms of distro, and it has been something that I have observed time and time again over the years with Linux on different hardware, different distros and different corporate environments.

The answer if often "turn it off and on again" (much like windows 95) otherwise you are on an tedious trip down remote support sessions with dmesg/lsusb/blueman/pulseaudio command line messing about. I am sure someone will reply "ah you need to make sure you use foo instead of bar!" or "that version of Bar is not compatible with Foo" or " your distro needs to back port patch Quux" ... that is part of the problem and why "just use Linux" doesn't work (yet).
perhaps the best example i can think of was the gitlab incident.

and if we’re honest it’s because the engineer’s name is Yorick.
GM delivered 457 total in Q1 but their CEO is given credit by Biden for “electrifying the entire automobile industry.”

https://electrek.co/2022/04/01/gm-delivered-only-457-electri...
Thanks - not being familiar with OpenMW, but being very close from the Baldur's Gate license, this whole video and that final reference were all very confusing to me.
I am strongly guessing they have a fuckton of Excel spreadsheets
> Google's own devices don't have hardware support for AV1 playback yet.

The Tensor SoC in the Pixel 6 supports AV1 decoding:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17032/tensor-soc-performance-...
I remember playing this game in the early 90s. My main memory is hacking it by editing saved game files with a hex editor. :)
Laptop, the Gazelle. My only complaint is that the keyboard makes too many sacrifices in order to fit in a full numpad, an inclusion that I find unnecessary (laptop keyboard designers, a full-sized right shift key is more important than full-sized up/down keys, and both are more important than a numpad!). Software-wise it's been great; Bluetooth works better on this than it did on Windows, and I only had to do minor configuration to get the UI to my taste (and it was quite easy).
I recommend Incesticide as one of the hidden raw gems. The whole Nirvana discography is strong (maybe the mellow MTV Unplugged hits a different tone).
Including all the western european countries still buying gas from russia?
I'm not sure about the decision to put Kurt over there but I assume it's no coincidence that Albini's own band Shellac (who are amazing) literally puts the drummer front and center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i79f87C0M1c
To be fair it's pretty much indistinguishable from Chrome. To test this point I'm using it now for almost the first time. Aside from a few minor tweaks it really looks like a copy/paste of Chrome. Maybe there's stuff under the hood that i'm missing, but i really don't care.
My markdown converter is php. Parsedown
If Google serves you a page of ten results, but nine of them are ads, how is the blocker supposed block those nine in such a way that you see ten results?

I think you'd need a full-blown search scrubbing extension of some sorts that gets all the results and rearranges the entire UI.

A compromise is to simply crank up your results per page in the Google Search settings. The maximum value is 100. For most searches, that's well past the short head of useless info and into its long tail.
Chrome was great but they still bundled it with Java and other installers back in the day to increase adoption. I think you'd be surprised how well shoving things down a non-technical person's throat works.
> Is that a thing in the US

For the most part (ignoring old/damaged washers) it's just a holdover from the older generation. My parents and their parents did it, and I expect many of my cohort follow through by example. However, I do not rinse and the results come out the same.

The only caveat being that you will still get dirty spots if you over fill or place poorly certain shaped things. This happens regardless of rinsing, and I believe contributes to the myth
Mobile Safari's reader mode works for me on posts. It doesn't work on home pages but I don't expect it to; home pages aren't wrapped in <article> elements, it's not semantically appropriate, but posts are.