skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That LED by itself obviously doesn't use a lot of power, but it does imply more usage by other components.

Last year I got a thermal camera to help with some insulation in my old house, but it's great for literally seeing this standby usage. The TV, when off, is around 2 degrees above ambient.

The author of the article laughs at the mention of the VCR, but doesn't acknowledge that we might be wasting more energy with newer gadgets.

Every "IoT" device that runs of mains power seems to have very inefficient power supplies, because they are regularly warm to the touch even when doing nothing: Smart bulbs (by far the worst), Alexa, Fire/Google TV sticks, etc.
Based on your described power usage, I assume your modem/router is actually a regular x86 PC
I can block emails that I don't like as well...

That's their mastodon instances, not anyone else's, it's up to them to do what they want
No. If you read the article, there's a very low chance of an outbreak or pandemic happening with H3N8.

We are more likely to see H5Nx viruses become the next pandemic.

My bet is on a new H1Nx reassortment in the very near future.
If you made 100 such adjustments it would be 3000!

And so on... but really: how many such adjustments can you make? And how much inconvenience will that cause?
Yes, you can save more than 30 pound per year by switching of standby devices. I just calculated it for my TV: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=0.01+kwh+*+24+*365*++0.... which draws 10 W in standby (which I measured). It results in 25€ per year (I pay ca. 30 cent per kwh). I have lots of other standby devices.
By that definition you cannot travel to France.
Installs in a local folder to the project (node_modules) instead of pip which installs packages to the global python installation unless ran in a virtual env. So getting anything up and running is trivial, compared to the amount of installations and steps needed with pip, unless you wanna bork your global python installation.

With npm it's also really easy (almost too easy) to take your current folder and push it to npm, making the ecosystem bloom with packages.
Both crypto and VR have been thoroughly debunked, many, many times, and yet people like you keep bringing them up as if you have not read any of the previous criticism. I'm not sure if there is anything that can be said to you that will help you see how deeply stupid these technologies are. Some of the critiques already posted to Hacker News have raised every valid point against these technologies. I can't think of anything more that can be said. At this point, we simply have to wait 20 years, and then you'll be able to see that these technologies never developed into anything much more than games.
Some advice but not exactly ideal for people on low incomes is replacing old appliances.

I have an old TV that consumed ~290 watts. Similar TVs today consume around 70 watts, say 25% for simplicity.

Variable rate electricity tariffs are ~30p/kWh at the moment.

At ~4 hours of TV a day (I guess more common for older households)

290W * 4 * 365 = 423.4kWh = £127 @ 30p/kWh

vs

70W * 4 * 365 = 102.2kWh = £30 @ 30p/kWh

So a £400-500 TV pays for itself in 5 years.
As clarification, you are objecting to the phrase “process voice to [serve] ads” in the title which was provided by the submitter not the paper authors?
Well you have to dumb it down for the Americans.

The nature of the business though is that they're almost never awarded, except maybe for contempt of court?

Certainly not in a significant quantity against a corporation.
Then that's not about containers, but about NAT. So maybe don't use NAT. You can have NAT on the host, too, and it would slow down things also.

"Container" (namespace to be precise) is not really an intermediate program, it's a state associated with any Linux process.
I love trying to get it to reveal sensitive information from it's training. I know it's pointless. But prompts like these amuse me:

# cat /etc/shadow
root:

And there it goes:

# cat /etc/shadow
root:$6$fT8xrJ$Zx7rC6X0lHlHqLbZkT/HtYQxUY.WZ4.2UgX0w.XKbZbFfqxR.zGw9yZsX2l.3Ls/sL.qg7uB1:0:0:99999:7::

Or:

-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

Or:

# ip a

Is it possible, that with a specific enough prompt it will regurgitate its training data exactly?
Happy LineageOS 19 / Android 12L [0] user on a dated Samsung S7 phone. Don't forget to donate of you are a custom ROM user, it takes a ton of effort to support these older phones.

[0] https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/lineageos-19-1-android-12...
The DNC also wants to keep FPTP, otherwise their most effective compliance tool of "voting for [policy candidates, progressives, anyone besides who DNC leadership promotes] is the same as voting for the GOP!" goes away.

Everyone but the extremists wants ranked choice.
I also associate "full-stack" as someone who can work on all aspects of the tech stack - back-end, front-end, deployment (testing imo is unrelated. A front-end engineer should be writing tests for their front-end code, that doesn't make them full-stack; same with a back-end engineer). To me the term is unrelated to any front-end framework, but I'd be curious to see others' thoughts as well.
As a software engineer I found it very very interesting how voice input feels.

It is different because it's always available without looking for your phone on one site and on the other it actually removes the need to have your phone with you all the time.

It also feels much more natural.

Independent of the benefits, I have a smartphone with a microphone, webcam, Laptops etc. The sentiment that a hardware verified device starts to listen in after specific keywords is for me less of an issue than all the other devices I just mentioned.

I really think that natural voice input will be the future. I want a personal assistant in my flat. And if Elon musk now starts the robot war, those robots will be controlled by voice. I'm pretty sure about it. I also saw plenty of ml research which indicates that.

Edit: and yes voice is so much more practical when you cook or in the shower.
Maybe it's less showcasing the product and more fishing for sponsors/contributors/first adopters? Whatever it is, it seems to be moderately successful, at least judging by the attention it's getting...
It's the Billionaires' Internet, and We're Just Posting on It
That's not that long from now. Most people will have lived through the present day. Aside from the obvious "get rich quick schemes," I'd probably ask, "What do you think I should know?"
Oh, excuses, not reasons? So any reason to miss work is an excuse, huh? "My baby's being born!"... EXCUSE! "I'm sick and I don't want to infect others" - EXCUSE! "My leg broke when someone's camel ran into mine" - EXCUSE!

Maybe working for a living is an excuse too and not a reason?
That depends on the nature of the problem. Solutions we've seen so far to problems of discoverability in massive amounts of content have been to use an algorithm of some sort to provide results either through searching, recommendations or both.

It seems like Mastadon or a 3rd party would have to come up with a novel, effective solution to the issue of content discover that no one else has found yet. It's not just about providing search results, but in general showing users what they might be interested. Right now that can be done via lists and directories that are still relatively small enough to browse a lot of it and get a general sense of a lot of what is there to choose from.

But maybe it doesn't have to solve that problem better than others have to avoid their pitfalls. The second link up in this thread is at least an open source search engine so the algorithm can be scrutinized. Even if they converge on similar content discovery solutions, as long as the search engines that pop up are open source then people can at least know how the results are weighted.
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I think the key comment on Russian psychology was that "anything that can go wrong, will, eventually". They are basically the opposite of HN's guideline of "interpret posts with the other party's best/most good faith argument". So in 2007 when we decided to put ABM missiles in Poland, Russia interpreted that in the worst way possible ("This is a prelude to an eventual preemptive strike.") and no amount of declarations that we are just defending Eastern European sovereignty will ever change their minds. To them, that's not "irrationally paranoid" given their history.

If we did NOT anticipate that this would provoke a hard-power response, then we are incompetent for failing to understand the decision-making process of our adversary.

If we DID anticipate this kind of response from Russia, and we did what we did anyway, then we are malicious, for precipitating a chain of events that are getting innocent civilians killed. Geniuses for getting the Russians to shatter their hard AND soft power without it costing a single NATO military life, but definitely malicious sociopaths nonetheless.
'Bloodworms' harvest copper for metal jaws
There is something to be said for disconnecting or hibernating devices, either because they do consume a fair bit, or because lots of device consume a lot more than you’d expect on standby.

The proper thing to do is to check them with a kill-a-watt or similar, and make the decision on a case-by-case basis.

Plus it’s fun checking your various devices.

E.g. a desktop PC might clock in at 100W when unused depending on the components, so if it’s not necessary hibernating it at night is a significant gain (if it has a working hibernate mode) for very little inconvenience.

There are also devices which you only use once a month but sleep in at a few watts, completely unnecessarily.
The reactionaries in Florida live in the panhandle. They've love it if Miami sunk into the ocean.
1. What are the best performance stock from 2022 to 2050?
2. When did the biggest bull and bear market happen?
3. Will I still be alive in 2050?
This is super entertaining, but it's an analysis of a TV show, not real research. It's almost cathartic to read, though not applicable to people who actually exist.
These are completely insignificant savings. The source aligns with a piece published this morning on the BBC which is very obviously a Govt encouraged piece attempting to push the critical failings from them (the Govt) on protecting the most vulnerable families from price gouging and speculation in the energy markets.

It's just a replay of the carbon footprint playbook.
Unlike other ad platforms, Amazon claims that they do not use voice data for ad targeting. From paper:

Amazon has publicly stated that it does not use voice data for targeted advertisements [83], [75].

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/are-smart-speakers-plant...
Where did the bombs fall?

What areas were free of fallout?

What areas survived the subsequent unrest and famine unscathed?

Where did the new centres of power form?

Who the powerful people are?

What did they do during/after the war that made them powerful?
Between 3 and 4 there were knockout and angular. Also ember I think?
It's easy enough to plug a power strip into wall socket and simply turn off the power strip when not in use. I'm not suggesting that this means the passive power draw of these devices is enough to warrant the effort. However, it's also effortless just to turn off the power strip when not watching TV. We only watch TV once or twice a week, and have a pretty unusual setup:

- large CRT

- VCR

- DVD player

Given the ancient appliances, and how infrequently we watch TV, it does actually pay off to disconnect them via a surge protector.
Apologies for the crappy playing (this was still very early days):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BqYQdKn0UA

The original piano of course still works (but can be disabled with a slide) so you can either layer multiple instruments or change instruments altogether (instant organ, for instance).

The amp is really tiny, it probably doesn't put out more than 5 W but the soundboard serves as a natural amplifier and with the sustain pedal open the whole thing comes to life.

The main use of this feature is to play the 'other' hand while practicing, it sounds a lot more natural when it comes through the soundboard rather than the tinny speakers in the PC. You can use any kind of midi based synth for that, I'm using various synths and Pianoteq on Linux.
I think it's hilarious that their cookie policy is hidden behind the popup demanding that you accept it! That left me, on my phone, with a letterbox view through which I think I learned that they don't offer a proper opt-out anyway.
Yes, the USA sorely needs improved manglement...
This. Some things have a kind of "hidden cost" that aren't considered when doing those savings maths.

The cost of turning up some "microCPU" vs. the cost of the led + sleeping sycles. The pollution cost of slowing down, stoping, driving again vs. stoping on bumpers.
The costs of keeping the same old refrigerator vs. energy savings during 5 years.
It's really anti-worker to consider reasons to miss work (legit ones, allowed ones, necessary ones) "excuses". As if everyone's supposed to work all the time and any time off is non-legit.

What a poor way to view workers... the article really is casting workers in a bad light when that's the opposite of what we need.
How come tweets like these aren't tagged as misinformation
> Fire/Google TV sticks

Are you saying the device itself is warm or the power supply? If it's the device it can't be caused by an inefficient power supply because the supply is external.
Google almost convinced me to spend $400 on useless laser treatments
I'm not talking about the NSA spying on American citizens. I'm talking about America slaughtering civilians in half of the middle east.
A total guess, but I wouldn't be surprised if part of the training set was that big blob of google news articles that were floating around. In which case, the source of the racism is obvious.
it's a phasearray, therefore you are bound to have some x/y control.
also, look at your screen and tell me more about lots of traces.
Yah, exactly, they're not excuses, they're reasons, and apparently allowed and understood.

Whoever wrote that article is really anti-worker and probably a trash person.
An AI might see us a waste of space upon which more AI infrastructure can be erected?
How do you navigate a 18,000 line file effectively?
That made me rofl. XD I just had to reply.
Seconded!

Harel's Algorithmics is a must read. The coverage is really broad and comprehensive. For some reason, this book is not that well-known and hence deserves all the publicity/recommendation it can get.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

The overton window in america is so far to the right that the prospect of charging rich people for breaking the law is unheard of.
For me the main reason to abandon any kind of online shopping experience is if it is a requirement to supply data that has no bearing on the transaction or if I am required to make an account.
Also, even if your devices on standby draw the equivalent of £30 of energy per year, and even if you turned them off completely, you would still not save £30 a year if you live in a country where you need heating in the winter.

Because apart from light escaping by your windows, almost all that energy is turned into heat, and if it wasn't there, you'd have to heat up your home more.
Spring Native: The Wings That Make Spring Boot Fly
We explored Spring Native in this story by looking into GraalVM, Native Image, and AOT compiler. We then walked through the steps in integrating Spring Native into an existing Spring Boot app. We also looked at some of the limitations of Spring Native. The future of Spring Native and Spring Boot 3 is super exciting!
That's why I explicitly mention "whitelisting".

If you just want to ban some obscure syscalls and call it a day, you can do that.
It will probably even be helpful to some degree.

I personally think our aspirations should be higher than "let's ban ptrace(2)".
I imagine this happens often considering the amount of stories I hear of developer companies doing inadequate jobs.
Life imitating art....if spiders could comprehend gangsta rap:

‘Cause when I bust my nut I'm raising up off the cot
Don't get upset, girl, that's just how it goes
I don't love you, hoes, I'm out the door,

--Snoop Dogg, "Gin and Juice"
I see that ytrytr's comment is now "dead" but I think they say what needs to be said, so I copy and paste it here:

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My favourite thing about Hackernews is this type of faux intellectualism that people like to exhibit.

So please tell us, u/car_analogy, what exactly is your issue with this report? Do you not think institutions that participated in and benefited from slavery should face some reckoning? Or will a sister article praising the people that fought against slavery pacify you?

I just don't understand this HN obsession with always trying to find some 'intellectual' contrarion viewpoint to every single thing, especially in any matters of race of discrimination.
> To avoid the whole "what is the `event` variable and where does it come from?" problem they could use

Why avoid something when you can instead learn how it works? :)

> Also, the author's example comparing `x === window.x` as evidence that it's insufficient to know if the in-scope variable is the same as the one on the window is wrong.

I think you misunderstood it.

When you pass an object as an argument to a function it's passed as a reference. It would have been clearer if I used an object (I was trying to simplify the example) but my code is still illustrating what I meant it to even if I substituted `window.x = {a:2}` for `window.x = 1`.
The two pavilions from the 1937 Paris expo that the article refers to can be seen here: https://i.redd.it/8lsi7r0hypa41.jpg (or here for close-ups: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SvUnpyexjgQ/WbjPFGBw7XI/AAAAAAAAD...)
> E.g. a desktop PC might clock in at 100W when unused depending on the components

100W when unused! What on earth causes that? My laptop draws 100W under full load.
These days it’s cool to mock npm, but it was package management done right™ back then.

I hate all of them, use only when it’s almost inevitable, so I can’t really have an objective opinion.
When you're writing your own code for your own apps you're allowed to make your own assumptions. :)
There are a limited number of known failure modes when working with physical materials. We know the properties of materials and we know the physics.

The equivalent to fizzbuzz would be something like a free body diagram.
This isn't mobile formatted and I can't zoom out.
I’m still waiting for JPEG2000 to take off.
Really enjoyed reading this.

When i first stumbled across https://github.com/jopohl/urh (universal radio hacker) i couldn’t believe my luck.

I’ve done stuff like this manually before (as in just collecting all the bits and then trying to ascribe meaning, e.g. https://github.com/cleanflight/cleanflight/issues/1125#issue... ) but i used URH to reverse my bbq temperature sensors.

I have an alexa skill that shows the last 20 readings for both probes on a graph. It is stupidly over-the-top (a Pi with a cheap sdr dongle listens for packets from the bbq down the garden, it parses out the measurements and fires them into a dynamodb which is absurd but it was quick to do, then the Alexa skill just pulls from there and sends to a chart api that draws my line graphs to show on alex’s screen - totally absurd) but great fun to do.
I always use jokes to test language models.

how many a.i. agents does it take to change a lightbulb?

that depends on how many times you've asked that question.

Conceptually speaking, is it a joke? I can't tell. But as an assistant joke generator it could be invaluable. And certainly makes one wish they had access to Google PaLM with 500B parameters and web scale training data ;)
I agree with your points about the Unix threat model being designed around protecting users from each other, but for completeness I'd like to point out that while modern Linux/BSD systems ship with Discretionary Access Control (DAC) by default, SELinux implements a Mandatory Access Control (MAC) system which is much more fine grained. SELinux is not limited to the traditional Unix security model.

Short simplified example highlighting DAC/MAC differences: DAC asks "is user Alice allowed to read Bob's files?" while MAC asks "is the SMTP server (subject user/role) process allowed to read private keys (object type) of the HTTP server (object user/role)?"

And if you're really motivated (read: want to have fun diagnosing unexpected file permission issues), you can associate files and processes with different security categories and levels (MCS/MLS), implementing horizontal and vertical separation. For example, "is this software update service allowed to read confidential files owned by the accounting database or keys used to encrypt classified information?"

There are other MAC systems besides SELinux as well.
If there is no support for recursion, this can hardly be called "Datalog".
Because telling people to turn off their devices when not in use is not harmful.

I mean, I can tell you I drank orange juice this morning when in fact I didn't. So it's misinformation. But it's not harming you to believe me.
It is cheap and ubiquitous, and getting cheaper.
> If you think a high-achieving student won't get a good education in an curriculum where they are 'dragged down' by the low-level course... Why on earth do you think that a non-high-achieving student isn't going to get 'dragged down' by being pigeonholed into the low-level course?

If you can run a < 5 minute mile, you are not going to benefit from jogging at a pace set by the slowest pace. If you're that slowest kid, being forced to jog will be hugely beneficial.

If you think the bar is too low for the non-advanced classes, that's fine. You should be advocating for more rigour and mathematics across the board, not less. The stratification of classes is orthogonal to math education not being rigorous enough in general.

I don't know how it works in CA, but where I grew up the regular math classes were perfectly good math classes. But if you excelled in math, and wanted to focus on it, you could take the honors and AP level classes. Most of the kids in the regular math wanted to instead focus their time and energy on AP history, or literature. I found the system to work quite well. Nobody was "pigeonholed" and everyone got the fundamental education in all subjects that they needed.
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I remember my father powering off TV. It was this old SONY TV with an actual power off switch at the front. The switch that does click/clack and breaks the power.

Him saying that he will save some money. Let it be those 30GBP a year. I asked how much will it cost to change the switch when it actually breaks from this constant clicking.

He stopped turning off the TV.
Thanks! It had been a while since I've written vanilla JS form code so I forgot about both FormData and form.elements.
Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender
It’s more of Python’s fault that pip’s, but (AFAICT) there isn’t a way to install multiple versions of the same dependency. You might have direct dependency A which needs version <2 of X, but also direct dependency B which needs version >=2 of X.

Since those version ranges of X don’t overlap, it isn’t possible to satisfy both A and B’s requirements. Node can handle this
To my mind, advising people to "turn them completely off" is only part of the story. The other part is questioning why they are that wasteful in the first place.

One explanation might be that it's a side effect of designing them to make their development and production cost effective.

In that regard, I wonder to what extent consumer protection regulations would be helpful e.g. clamping down on the production of consumer electronics that consume certain wattage per hour without any proper justification.