skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I agree, here we are, getting angry at bitcoin because it uses so much energy, but if I would need to guess, could it be that Discord and Slack _alone_ use more energy world-wide than the entire bitcoin network? Those are on 100% of the time on most PCs.

No. The answer is clearly no.

Lets do some quick back of the napkin math to see why...

Discord reports ~150 million monthly active users. Lets assume they're all on all the time.

Lets assume most of these users are hardware that's running in the 50watt range (very high for mobile, high for a laptop, lowish for desktop) - Further lets assume that discord uses ALL of it (and we know this is false - it's likely under 5%).

So we have 150 million machines, using 50 watts. This is ~7500 megawatts of power for discord.

Now we run the same numbers for Slack - we'll keep the hardware estimates the same, but use the latest slack numbers of ~12 million active users.

So we have 12 million machines, using 50 watts. This is ~600 megawatts of power for slack.

So combined, for discord and slack, assuming they use the ENTIRE power budget of the machine they run on, they represent about 8100 Megawatts of power usage.

The best number I can find for bitcoin puts the usage at about 150 terawatt hours a year.

If we take our 8100 megawatts and run it for a year - we get... drumroll: 70.956 terawatt hours of annual consumption.

Or roughly half the power consumption of bitcoin, even when we assume discord and slack are literally consuming the ENTIRE power budget of the machines they're running on, and that they're running literally all the time.

A more realistic guess might be that slack and discord use roughly 1% of the electricity that bitcoin uses. And personally - I think they're providing a boat-load more value for the watts.

Fair caution - All my numbers are back of the envelope, and I did the math quickly and without paper. Feel free to point out if I missed something or dropped a step in a calculation.
Having lived/worked thru the off shore craze, I've never heard a good outcome from it for a large company...

I know several startups/small companies in the 0-50 range that have had awesome outcomes - but nothing larger then that...Between time zones and cultural differences, it just doesn't seem to work for large groups.
if you are right, on vacuum, a heavy mass should fall faster that a light mass...
I'm 62, and was 'discovered' to have high blood pressure at 40. Mind you, I'd never even visted a doctor for at least 20 year prior to that, so who knows when it began. I've been waiting for a visit from the silent killer for some time. Maybe your post will delay that day! Thanks again.
Once you remix it, it's no longer reliable. So, you don't want it signed if it's modified.
The Chicago crime narrative is mostly a bad-faith political football.

By the numbers, it's safer to be a professional in Chicago than it was at any point in the 1990s, where this wasn't part of the national conversation.

But a movement towards criminal justice reform (which started out bipartisan, with Koch support!) elected a bunch of high-profile reformist prosecutors and shifted everyone's attention towards police oversight at exactly the least congenial time, on the eve of a bunch of exogenous shocks (the pandemic, the economy, the full flowering of a disastrous anti-gang policing strategy) that juiced violent crime.

There's political hay to be made of the crime numbers (Chicago's are far from the worst of all the metro areas in the US, but we're such a large city that the decontextualized numbers are easy to sell on TV), and easy sides to take --- the defunders on one end, the "tough on crime" conservatives on the other, here to make the case that Chicago (and Philly and San Francisco) fucked up by electing reformist Democrats to prosecutor posts, and so now crime is the first word out of everyone's mouth when it comes to this city.

Notably, none of that attention has anything to do with improving the lot of the people who live in Lawndale or South Shore; the national conversation basically boils down to whether we should create National Guard cordons around these areas, or whether we should instead abolish the police departments in these neighborhoods. It's a joke, not a public policy debate.

We're not going to resolve any of it on this thread. It sounds callous to say this because it is callous, but it is also, non-normatively, the descriptive correct answer for professionals wondering about how crime in Chicago would effect them: if you don't live in the hardest neighborhoods in Chicago, it's unlikely to be meaningfully different from any other comparably dense urban area.
It's a cult.

While I agree with you I don't think it's particularly worse in k8/CNCF than in other parts of tech.
Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)
Mostly because of overlapping indexes. Then if there are include columns it may get out of hand. Not too difficult to achieve. Just blindly follow recommendations from a tool or a cloud service.
I'd hope it's a pretty non-controversial thing by now that software shouldn't silently fail without indicating something's wrong?

If I saw the latter Python code in a code review I would squirm. I would scrutinize it very seriously and if there's some really odd case where you really want this, I'd require at least a logger line or a comment to explain why in the world this is desired behavior.
Separation of concerns and improved testability could be an incentive for such modularization.
Google’s powerful AI spotlights a human cognitive glitch
I concur. I've been using GNU/Linux on the desktop (and server) for 20 years, I don't think I ever used blkid or lsblk.

fdisk, on the other hand, was a thing in the DOS/Windows world, too, back in the day, and dealing with partitioning is something you are going to do regardless of the OS you are using.
I switched to this a week or so ago after getting annoyed with Pocket showing up in my Developer Edition install.
I've been remote since I graduated from college about 17 years ago, and I didn't get a dedicated office until 8 years ago. Before then my computer desk was in my bedroom. Sometimes a rather small bedroom.
> How scary would it be to be in one of those 1,400+ horsepower supercars and to hit the gas just to immediately see all four wheels start spitting smoke

Not very, unless the car suddenly gets a patch of grip and launches you into a tree.

> to hit the gas just to immediately see all four wheels start spitting smoke as they spin in place and start abrasively cutting through the asphalt?

You'd have to wear down the entire tyre first, which isn't going to happen unless you're already at the thread (though supercar tyres do wear down very quickly).

Tyre rubber is much, much softer than asphalt, and for good grip you want pretty soft rubber. By the accounts I've seen, even cold F1 tyres feel sticky. And drag tyres outright crinkle on takeoff.
>OP is trying to describe Chicago as crime-ridden - when in actuality they would have never lived anywhere near the actual crime epicenters of Chicago and are only operating on fear-mongering.

Besides being a pretty low-quality, racist comment overall (e.g., "I pointed out that this person was obviously white(the culture comment, growing up in Evanston) and lived in Lake View"), this specific bit of reasoning is particularly poorly-reasoned. Two things can be true: north-side Chicago can be crime ridden compared to other places and also it can have less crime than South-Side Chicago. The latter doesn't refute the former.
Pikes peak doesn't present any challenge to it in terms of length at all. Its designed to do ~30 minute track sessions and Pikes Peak is only 8 minutes.
I feel like there's an opportunity missed here with the transition to clustering for us to build a small kernel for running simple services and moving things over to run on top of these things.

Give me a tight, highly coherent API, with a culture of avoiding feature factory work. At least get "Make it work, make it right, make it fast" to not skip "make it right" anymore. That's sort of the core illness in software today.

Open source doesn't have to be pushed by business concerns. There's a degree of regulatory capture, but the biggest problem is that we just don't know any better. We repeat what we see, and make sure our own pain points are handled. I've seen this play out in API design where an awful API is introduced, and each person who fixes it only fixes 20% of the pain, and so it's 10 years before we get from a mediocre library to one you could actually call 'good', because nobody made 'good', they made better than better than better than ridiculous.
No one is following you around. It's more like you keep sending letters to advertising companies. You are going to them, they aren't coming to you. If you go to Hacker News there is no way for them to follow you here.

You aren't being sold to private cooperations. Facts about the universe which relate to you are being collected. If you learn George Washington was born in 1732 on Wikipedia do you think Wikipedia sold you George Washington? These are just facts that exist in the corpus of knowledge about the world and the people who live on it.
Ask HN: Founders,Besides Cash, what about startup programs have been beneficial?
If you look at https://4stats.io/ you can get a rough idea why. Pol is by far the biggest and it's not a fun time.

I disagree with the generalization too since I'm very fond of the DIY and photography boards.
Wouldn't variable speed systems alleviate some of the issues with short cycling?

It seems like this is something that automation could help. A variable speed system could learn what the neutral setting is for different indoor-outdoor temperature gradients and cool the space slowly enough to avoid short cycling. But then I dropped out of thermodynamics when I was in school, so I really have no idea what I'm talking about.

Edit: After looking, I think everything is already in place. Our thermostat also measures humidity, so there's no reason it would run the A/C at a level that would make condensation a problem.
this comes from a culture of obscurity and cryptic writings.. thirty character variable names? no way ; single character variable names? terse no context variable names ? variables used in differerent local blocks with the same names? really, clueless ..
The GP said they didn't like it but did it anyway. They stopped because the developers they mentored would leave when they got good. My point is that it's better from them individually to mentor someone and have them leave because it builds their network.
Many people who could be watching kanopy via a public library probably don't know it, more marketting would be helpful, from either libraries or kanopy.

But...

> Stream thousands of films for free, thanks to the generous support of your public library or university

Kanopy isn't non-profit is it? Either way, libraries and universities are paying fees to kanopy for licensed access. This is an odd way and potentially misleading way of putting it, "generous support". Will Elsevier start telling users they are getting "free access thanks to the generous support of your university" next, as if universities pay elsevier it's enormous fees out of "generosity"?
Totally agreed but at the same time there were many obisidian users who needed cloud support. Please have a look at this obsidian's official forum thread - https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-for-web/2049

It was one of the most requested feature. We totally respect obsidian's vision and at the same time we also think there could be a solution which could benefit and grow the community together.
I don't think I've ever seen an argument from the hardcore "WFH or nothing" contingent saying that nobody should be allowed to work in an office if that's what they prefer.

But I have seen arguments from the hardcore "Butts in chairs or nothing" contingent refusing to acknowledge that a great many people thrive outside a typical office environment and may be even more productive that way.
I'm really confused. I actively use Firefox as my default browser on my iPhone running iOS 15.5.

I don't think Apple has banned other browsers at all.
My usual approach is to point out the problem I'm trying to solve rather than suggest a specific solution. I also like to phrase as a question about practicality. Sometimes the answer to that question is "No", and I want to make sure that even someone very junior is comfortable giving me that answer.

- This code looks pretty similar to this other code; is there a way it can be deduplicated?

- I don't understand this code; I think it's because there are too many conceptual steps. Is there some way to structure it for better readability?

- Is there a way to unit test this specific behavior?

Sometimes this style doesn't work (e.g. correcting a comment that has become incorrect due to the change), and in those cases I usually just say "Please do this." I also try to point out things I like when they are present.
You're on about regular Firefox, not iOS Firefox which is just a UI wrapped around a WebKit component.
This is quite cool, I'm just having a hard time imagining when I would use it.
Misrepresenting open source for business benefit
Technology to detect fakes necessarily lags a bit from technology to create fakes.

In general, you need to have examples of a type of fake to detect it.
> disable autoplay feature.

Sort of. They require you to dig around in about:config (where settings go to be hidden, then removed) to toggle some obliquely named and unnecessary exception to their autoplay policy, which is if your "gestures" trigger autoplay. This can mean simply mean that you scrolled the page to video was on. The setting to disable autoplay is therefore only reliable on unselected tabs.
So the potential contamination is because the product isn't pure enough. Presumably some of the other additives have the same issue.
I wonder how some snakes' ability to atrophy and regenerate internal organs (including the heart) is related to aging: https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/-/how-pythons-regenerate-their-o...
It's really quite frustrating to find that out from experience. Things like operators, anything Cluster*, named resources, etc.

If you're doing relatively simple things with the cluster, then you can do namespaces. The more custom shit you do, the better off you are with true isolation.
It is also the last line in most episodes of Red Green, so I've never been sure if he's just making a general Canadian Cultural reference or specifically a Red Green reference.
Another method: prepend "nit: " to comments that improve the code but are not calling for changing the main logic. As a reviewer, you are simply acknowledging that this is a nitpick :)
Yes

Video cameras really flatten out slopes.

This is especially so where snow or consistent surfaces are involved. I've raced on yikes-steep hills that later you see the video — and it doesn't matter if it's just some coach's camera or network sports coverage — it just looks like barely a notch above the novice slopes. A cameraman needs to really work to show the steepness anything close to being there.

The only situation where the slope might really show up is where there are dramatic changes in slope like a sudden drop-off, flat, crossroad on a slope, etc. Then you can sort of see a good comparison, but it still doesn't rival the reality. And the Goodwood course is a fairly consistent grade with no sharp features like that.
This is not a correct measurement. You should also account for memory used by shareable data like binary and libraries, and memory swapped out.

On Linux, one can add PSS to get more or less accurate number.
That AI is much less harmful than the posters who created the original posts.

There is no anonymity if you connect to 4chan using a Silicon Valley designed processor.

The "facts" that wannabe shooters are fed there are highly tailored to what they are predisposed to believe already, because the ones posting have complete surveillance of everyone (including of you who reads this - you can thank Eric Schmidt) and know exactly what to post to create a shooter.

Silicon Valley has blood on their hands. 4chan is just one of the places used for these operations. Taking it down doesn't matter, because as long as Silicon Valley continues to spy on everybody and give the data to terrorists, innocent people will continue to be murdered.
Why America Can't Build
Much better would be to eliminate the high blood pressure.

Most high blood pressure, at least in UK and its former colonies (US particularly included), is a product of uric acid poisoning, itself caused mainly by the massive excess of sugar pumped into stuff sold as if it were food. (Excess alcohol has identical effect.) Cut stuff with sugar added from your diet, and take up exercise, and your blood pressure comes down.

Excess uric acid also causes most type-2 diabetes.
in my area the problem is they shut down a bunch of coal plants because the government made it impossible to justify spending money to modernize/maintain them and wind/solar rollout isn't producing anywhere near the projected amount that was supposed to fill the gap
> T-Mobile uses network-level tools to track the apps that people use on their phones

How does this work? Does it use heuristics to associate traffic patterns or server IPs with apps? Or packet inspection for apps that don't encrypt traffic?

> Should every tap on your phone be tracked and monetized? I would hope not.

These articles always treat implementation details so infuriatingly casually. There's a vast gulf between analyzing traffic patterns, and installing spyware to report on "every tap", as this sentence implies.
That would be cool but can I ask what makes you think it's something that will ever actually exist? Or do you just mean that regardless of whether or not it ever exists, it's the only thing that would result in you getting a tattoo?
> Just because they told you to have fun staying poor on the way up?

I mean, yes? The level of hubris so many crypto bros exhibited was truly incredible. And if that weren't enough the negative externalities (the truly shockingly wasteful nature of proof-of-work mining, the diversion and scalping of GPUs) should make anyone glad that the bubble burst.
Sure, but compared to lenses it's like writing in gotos instead of function calls.
> They have a hate symbol on their site, LOL.

Care to elaborate? I see one graphic on the 3ac website, and it's not one I'm familiar with so I assume it's a corp logo?
If you are curious what kind of films they have available you can check out the listing on JustWatch: https://www.justwatch.com/us/provider/kanopy

One thing to keep in mind is that the selection is dependent on your local library, so the listing is a sum of the subsets but you can get a general idea of the content that's available there.

Disclaimer: I work at JustWatch
It's been confirmed, and an NFT of prehistoric turtle blood is on the blockchain.
Mozilla is the Hiroo Onoda of browser makers. They should decommission Gecko and adopt WebKit, or just move to Blink and stop pretending to fight for web standards.
Beyond this refugee camp, life goes on
Is 'Not performance bound, and dot knowing the future shape of your data' a valid reason? Less overhead on initial rollout to just Toss it up there.

> choosing something else is rarely the right decision

I think this is a little bit of a 'We always did it this way' statement.
The #1 Period Tracker on the App Store Will Hand over Data Without a Warrant
I found tower fans are a game changer. They are fairly quiet and move a lot of air.

I prefer them to ceiling fans plus no installation and you can keep them when you move.
NATO to put 300k troops on high alert in response to Russia threat
Longhorn is honestly pretty easy to get up & going for backing a PersistentVolume, which you can then mount however you want.

K3S has some local storage options too, but that's of mixed usage. Or you just do a hostpath + NFS if you want something that has as little Kubernetes magic as possible.
Nope, human one hundred percent of the way through. Same with RGME, which is an absolute wonder dive into (currently) the operation of the SNES from a very approachable position.
I think they pretty clearly dont since iOS is definitely more than 5% of the mobile market.
Did the Chrome installers install themselves? Besides, if users were already using other browsers, installing Chrome wouldn't have affected their existing browser's functionality. It was their choice to try out the new browser, and they could always go back to their old browser if they so desired.
I mostly only ever use the form: "This should be ... " with a possible explanation why. We're all mature enough to not take it personally, so I'm not going to beat around the bush by writing a lot of proza.
The imperative of the last example ("Do this") leaves no room for argument (because I might be wrong).

Either that or I ask for clarification of a piece of code: "Why did you do this instead of this?".

Like already stated by someone else; your approach really should depend on the team you're in. I'd take a less direct approach with junior devs who tend to be a bit more insecure (and stubborn).
How do you know someone eats up USA propaganda?

Easy, when you tell them “USA did a bad thing”, their response is: we’re the good guys, we’re exceptional, so we can do whatever we want to do, but you must do what we told you.
It was just an example. What about a pdf editor/viewer like acrobat?
> "Scale of data often works against you, and balanced trees are the first tool in your arsenal against it."

An ironic caveat to this is that balanced trees don't scale well, only offering good performance across a relatively narrow range of data size. This is a side-effect of being "balanced", which necessarily limits both compactness and concurrency.

That said, concurrent B+trees are an absolute classic and provide important historical context for the tradeoffs inherent in indexing. Modern hardware has evolved to the point where B+trees will often offer disappointing results, so their use in indexing has dwindled with time.
"Word golf" has different rules than code golf. In word golf, highest score wins.
I guess that makes more sense. But then you're only 4x exposed to BTC (god help you). Why not borrow USD and do the same and get 5x leverage

What's that thing about if you owe the bank 10k you're in trouble, but if you owe them 10m they're in trouble? :)
Presupposing that I'm a materialist, I would not hesitate to replace any program with any living being. Some humans seem magical, some don't. I treat them all as living persons.

Magic is irrelevant here. If I could understand a human's inner workings, tweak and rebuild them, would that make the human no longer a sentient being?

Not to mention that humans produce absurd outputs in some circumstances (drugs), and adversarial inputs work on humans, too: https://www.insideedition.com/15350-street-artist-painted-a-...

Or maybe we're agreeing that you can no more prove that AI is sentient than that a human is, and I just misunderstand what you wrote.
Chrome runs on all 3 major platforms. Safari does not. I think I'll side with Chrome and its dominance, because I don't want to be stuck on Mac.
FB/Google/etc. don't actually need to make correct inferences, they just need to provide infographics that say they are correct so that marketing departments can report to their superiors that they are responsibly spending advertising dollars and getting "impressions" from the right people

it's a multi-tier confidence game
Why do companies need so many different database technologies?
There are some of us who give advice to prospective college grads that they should do some volunteer work if they can't find any professional experience prior to graduation.

Lots of hobbies still tackle basic human problems like communication and organization, and getting any exposure to these is not only good, but it might take some of the pressure off by not mixing multiple things you struggle with at the same time.