skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same situation here in the UK.

- 2018: 16.75p/kWh + 5% VAT

- 2021: 20.9p/kWh + 5% VAT

- 2022: 27.99p/kWh + 5% VAT

And there seems to be no end in sight. To add insult to injury my energy supplier also bumped the "Standing charge" from 30.61p/day to 53.45p/day.

There isn't a lot of choice at the moment to try and reduce costs due to the idiotic state of the UK energy market right now.
The telemetry is built right into the security model of the OS - thus the security model is broken. OS that betrays me by telling someone what I'm running is insecure.
> Tor is an open source project and I very well expect that, in some jurisdictions, what Tor is explicitly trying to do... on purpose... would be considered illegal.

But that's something the user wants, as a feature. It may be the user who is deemed to be doing something illegal.
FWIW the face of the statue of the "the typical woman 'Norma'" at https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...

resembles Dana Scully of The X-Files.

I also enjoyed Todd Rose's book, which examines the history of (mis-)interpretations and (mis-)uses of the "average":

The End of Average

https://www.amazon.com/End-Average-Unlocking-Potential-Embra...
Not sure I can agree with most of this. Perhaps it's my own perspective, but I can't help but detect a latent undertone of "just tell people what to do so things get done" in this article. The first example is particularly egregious - assuming the problem being discussed was something legitimately complicated, how is it a bad thing that the leader helped the team determine the correct solution? Is the leader expected to dictate implementation of the first idea they had instead of allowing the team to explore other potential solutions?

While it's true that a leader usually cannot be effective without providing adequate direction to their team and "making the call" when an indecision point is reached, in my experience it's equally true that a leader cannot grow their team without being in touch with what they're working on. There's a reason that people are universally happier when they feel their manager _could_ do their job (note that the manager should not actually be doing their job - the capability to do so is the important part).

I feel that the author of this piece either hasn't experienced or hasn't yet found the way to lead a team without dictating. It is a difficult thing to do, but the proper balance will allow a leader to grow their team's skills and decision making capabilities far beyond what's possible otherwise. It is completely possible to "deliver results" while also remaining primarily collaborative and "participating" with your team - you just have to know when it's time to short-circuit and make the call.
Worth mentioning Jupyter Lite in this context too.

Warning: This link will open a Jupyter notebook in your browser:

https://jupyter.org/try-jupyter/lab/

It's worked pretty smoothly for me so far. I can't vouch for how it handles big data sets or obscure libraries, but seems like a pretty good starting point for those who are learning Python. It has become how I prefer to share simple notebooks with colleagues too.

But either of these options is nice for dealing with the situation of getting a beginner through the Python installation process. Another is WinPython, which is my preferred environment for local installation.
This is a good observation. One trend I'm noticing is that the "old way" (PHP, Rails, etc.) of doing things is making a comeback. Go is very well positioned for this but lacks the frameworks.

I'm hoping to add something like Phoenix to Copper. It should help with the "heavily API only side" problem. I've already added integrations for Tailwind and added some utilities on top of the templating (going to add more) to fix the lack of good templating.
A fantastic game, engrossing story, handpainted graphics and real world locations.

The non English editions have fantastic voice acting too.

Heck I even travelled across Ireland motivated by what I experienced in the game. The game story was very on point with regards to Ireland :).
Paris is factual too.

10/10 would recommend.

I for one am replaying it for the third time in a third language, challenging but not a waste of time for learning, as it is so well done.
I'm very skeptical of this poll and (especially) the article:

1. Only 1000 people? I'm not a trained statistition, but is that really enough to generalize about the American public as a whole?

2. The question is worded way more softly than the headline would make you think (actually, to be more specific, the headline is a straight up lie - the poll asks nothing about respondents 'readiness')

3. Any crazy answer will always get some minimum number of responses, whether it be from people filling in the poll at random or intentionally trolling - I highly doubt the true number is 25%

4. Who was even surveyed? Was it all college students? I read through the entire release from UChicago but all it said was "voters".

5. Are there any other polls backing this up? You can often find a poll for almost anything, I would love to see what other polls asking a similar question show.
Sunscreen is a scam. Sun is good for you unless you aren't able to tan.

"Nonsmokers who avoided sun exposure had a life expectancy similar to smokers in the highest sun exposure group, indicating that avoidance of sun exposure is a risk factor for death of a similar magnitude as smoking. Compared to the highest sun exposure group, life expectancy of avoiders of sun exposure was reduced by 0.6-2.1 years. "

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26992108/
You forgot voter registration laws, the fact that voting is done on a regular working day, and the lack of density of polling stations in some areas.
It's the banks, not the state.

But it's partly due to the Bostadsrätt system where you own like the right to an apartment in a co-op rather than the actual physical building.

Renting in Sweden is completely terrible (unless you're lucky enough to get a first hand contract - mandatory rent-controlled rents), so it's nice to have a middle-ground where you don't need a lawyer, etc. and deal with building issues and property tax, at the cost of paying the board maintenance. This has also helped to control prices a little (until COVID) by preventing absentee landlordism being profitable (or even possible in most cases).

The first hand contract system really sucks though, as it means you're always kind of subsidising those lucky enough to get a first hand contract. For example you might be paying 40% income tax (and 25% sales tax, and then your mortgage) which is then used to bring in unskilled, uncooperative criminal "asylum seekers", which the government then provides a subsidised first-hand contract to in your neighbourhood so they can commit crimes in your area - and you've paid for all of it!
20(euro)cents used to be average price in my country. I actually have much lower price (about one third of that) because I don't have other energy source.
It does not really matter where that price came from, as it can nicely serve as reference point and you can easily scale it according to your price of electricity.

Also, $400 mini PC have performance nowhere near workstation, since RAM only costs more, not even thinking about gaming GPU or price of decent SSDs and HDDs.

What did I do with excess heat? Opened window and turned off POWER8 energy hog.
I’ve built the same thing. Fractal Define case with Be Quiet Dark Rock, Be Quiet PSU and 120mm slow fans and it was inaudible under full load of a Ryzen 3700X.

Without water cooling.
It isn't dead. New games have been coming out ever since it's proposed death back then and all the way through to today.
It sounds like they hired a 19 year old Twitter influencer to be their Chief Marketing Officer.
I hear the term "threadset" in other discussion about structured concurrency, i think "threadset" would be a better name.
This is the service I was trying to find but couldn't remember, thanks
That's the thing though, burning coal works fine as well and doesn't cause any more gripes than hydroelectric or solar. Without voluntary moves to other products, or regulatory changes, it would have taken likely much longer before we stopped doing it. It's not an exact analogy, but there are parallels – the linked article is suggesting voluntarily stepping away from Microsoft code hosting, and others in the thread have suggested regulatory controls.

> because burning garbage for energy when the alternative is a US style landfill is literally better in every way.

Now that you say it, I do remember reading that Sweden burns garbage for energy. I would have thought that the main problem would be arbitrary emissions from the plant, but from the plan of a typical one, those are trapped and/or filtered [1]. I still think that in the US this would be harder, since people are probably prone to throwing more things in the garbage than they should; and don't recycle as much as the Swedes do.

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[1] https://www.americanprogress.org/article/energy-from-waste-c...
Schools burn cash in a “it’s expensive to be poor” kind of way. The desks in the schools I worked in were practically consumable, only lasting a couple of years before needing to be replaced. It’s impressive in a frustrating way: manufacturers have finally figured out the exact minimum amount of material and exactly how shoddy and few the welds can be to produce a desk and still be able to sell them. There is absolutely no bracing so sitting on them bends everything out of tolerance until a weld fails or the 4 legs are splayed out flat against the floor.
Something like that. It really is tragic. Our 'leaders' seem to have no ideas beyond a relentlessly expanding, relentlessly interfering state.
In practice you can issue DCMA requests for any reason and there are zero consequences for lying.
Religion isn’t a veritable trait, but the correlation is strong.
$400 mini PC gets you an i5-11500T with NVME SSD that will take 128Gb of RAM. Some of them even pop up with NVidia T400 in them. New with Lenovo warranty on eBay.

The i5-11500T has better single and multi thread performance.

Sure you won’t get an RTX in it but that’s a 1% case really when we’re talking software engineering.

That’s a hell of a lot better value proposition than a 5+ year old Xeon which is what we’re seeing suggested here.
Nor does Australia, 5 years max usually and the interest rates are fairly punitive.
I wish you were right, but russia appears to be marching on, the ruble is not that low, and there is no sign of regime change. It would appear that it all backfired on germany and by extension the eu, just as the prophecy has foretold. Anyway i dont want to delve too much into arm chair politics as i dont think this forum is the right place for it. What i want is for germany and other eu countries to acknowledge mistakes - albeit the situation points to deliberate action - and for the eu to sort out this mess. And most important for the war in ukraine to end so that ukraine will finally join the eu and develop as much as other east eu countries.
How are you going to have a single Chess Grandmaster alive on the planet? Who will they play against to learn? Whom will they compete against to get really good? Where will the enthusiasm and education come from to get them interested at all? Who will their peers be to certify them as any good? If you need two people to lift a heavy weight, it's not possible unless their lifetimes overlap enough that they are both strong and healthy at the same time.

Insects with individual neurons alive for a billion years didn't produce a single technological invention.

If you need a civilisation where some group digs iron ore, some group processes it into steel, some group processes that into sheets and pipes and tools and valves, some group processes those into chairs and desks, some group uses those to build computers, some group uses those to build wind tunnels, some group uses those to build rocket engines, some group uses those to build rockets, some group uses those to build satellites ... it wouldn't work if your only source of plate steel was 1,000 years old and your only source of valves was some weird pile of leftovers from 500 years ago when they didn't understand your use case at all, and if you're plans for your rocket are that someone will fly it 200 years after you die...
The nursery concept is being added to core Python 3.11 asyncio as the `TaskGroup`.
A Dell T110-II with a quad core xeon and 4x4GB RAM and and a 3.5" HDD idles around 21W. It really depends on the systems.
https://youtu.be/sI1SLHEC98I
Why there are more close-up shots in movies than before
A broken font that does not accurately represent expression.

Seems pretty useless to me.

Edit: Joke or Art font. Got it!
Anti-establishment SF coffee shop that invented avocado toast has closed
While I share your dream of no longer needing to eat, we still can't really live on Soylent. Our understanding of nutrition is growing, including what we consider as nutrients and how they're absorbed/interact.

One of the hypotheses for the obesity epidemic is a reduction in essential nutrients, resulting in a lack of satiety.

Understanding of prebiotics, phytonutrients, and ultratrace minerals are relatively new, and we're still learning how different forms of fat have different impacts.

In the meantime, improving existing yields could be really helpful.
I mean, on the scale of things, typical computer usage is just not that much energy, right? Compared to stuff like air conditioning and transportation.

My server, which is old and probably somewhat power-hungry, uses ~125W. A house-sized AC unit is in the kilowatts range, that's 10x more (of course, the AC is only on for parts of the day).

If I operate that 125W computer for a year, that's ~1,000 kWh. EVs use around 0.3 kWh/mi, so running that computer for a year is the equivalent of driving an EV 3,333 miles. (Most people drive 10,000 miles a year or more.)

And if your gas gar gets 34 MPG, then it gets (via MPGe) about 1 mile per kWh. So using the 125W computer for a year is like driving a gas car 1,000 miles - and that ignores, of course, that the gas car spews pollution, while electricity can be gotten from renewables or nuclear.

So it's not like the energy usage of computing doesn't matter, but it's somewhat insignificant. Like someone else said above, it costs energy to manufacture new chips and computers too, so you might be better off just staying on old ones.
The only way to verify any of your results is to actually grow your selections into people. That would be incredibly unethical.
It is highly ethical to buy used clothes, wear them for multiple years and then return them to the flow as the OP suggested. It is morally dubious to fund greenification projects that pretend there is environmentally friendly cotton that is very expensive, etc.
Thanks a lot!
I hoped i'd be able to boot from PCIe, but boot partition on a SATA drive is quite ok too.
Very nice to have an open access version. The paper version is really expensive if your salary isn't in dollars. I've regretted to by the print Brazilian edition. O'Reilly is my favorite technical publisher, but the non English editions are crap. My book didn't have an index, making it useless as a reference.
Keep me out of jail hopefully.
Not a criticism, just a curiosity; why abbreviate "month" as "mon" on the pricing page?
Because I can? Its an open forum...
Sorry if I offended you :)
During space age, in the 60s, "astronaut food" was all the rage: lyophilized/freeze dried food, nutrient pills, ... people thought the future of food was tech-food.

60 years later and the greatest market trends in food are organic, all natural, whole foods, "terroir" and origin certified foods, ...

Moral of the story: people just don't trust in techies for gastronomy.
But also if the leader does not continue to sharpen their technical skills they will become less effective over time. I wish I had the reference at hand but up-to-date technical skill is very important for leaders.
Gunslinger Effect
Hmm but when people use the term “evil” they’re usually not referring to petty political grievances du jour.
The only business that works that way is retail. And even then most will negotiate on bulk orders. Almost everyone else will have a price list they negotiate off of.
To me it sounds like a 70 year old talking the way they think 19 year olds talk.
When I shopped in person that's exactly what I would do and oddly enough I was not even aware of that rule of thumb at the time. I was only aware of what good food was.

I'd load up on fruits, vegetables, salad components first. Back of the store was meats, milk, eggs. Other than spices, oils, and coffee there is not much reason to ever venture into the center aisles.
-- having been through a fair share of business lawyers over the years - i've finally figured out what I like about the guy I settled on - risk assumption & mitigation - my lawyer explains the risks of different approaches - as well as the potential costs - many lawyers I've used in the past are expensive & cause a lot of issues - I'm not a lawyer - I understand business law at a basic level - if my lawyer says: do it this way - I'm inclined to follow that advice - sometimes that advise is exce$$ive - much prefer a lawyer who says: these are the ways it could be done - a sensible & seasoned lawyer is one of more powerful tools a startup can have - interview lawyers till you find the one --
Nerve-cooling implant relieves pain in rats
Mobx solved all of the state problems properly a long time ago.
Right. The point of the cookbooks and the shows is to teach (and be entertaining). You don't need to teach anyone to spoon garlic out of a jar, so they're doing everything from scratch using fresh local ingredients that you might not even have access to.

This is fine; the entire tradition of cooking is about adapting to your available resources and creativity.

Some people take this way too seriously. The author and his friend in the opening anecdote appear to have fallen into that trap.

I use fresh garlic, and minced garlic, and (gasp) garlic powder. In fact, I think garlic powder is a better tool for some jobs. Fight me! (I mean, don't actually fight me, it's just garlic.)

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One caveat: if anyone is curious, seriously try fresh lemons. Its such a different ingredient than the bottled stuff they should not go by the same name, and lemons keep well in the fridge.
You didn't even need a language, plain old shtml in Apache could do SSI from static includes. Classic.
What do barristers do. The author seems to skip the entire solicitor component of the legal profession.
> It's the banks, not the state.

Well, presumably they're subject to regulation that comes either directly or indirectly (i.e. quangos given a remit and some framework and direction) from the state? That's all I meant, I know the mortgage itself isn't issued by the state, that's a foreign idea to me too.
> Premium labels really go the extra mile.

Depends on the label, you generally have to go really premium to genuinely get something either well made or particularly interesting.
Partly heritable
Might be fun if you're not paying for the electricity or its cheap in your area. I have a Dell T410 and will likely get something a little newer, but it won't be powered on most of the time like I use my Ryzen desktop. They tend to be much louder too.

Having ECC, a SAS backplane and HBA is really nice to host a file server with though. I have a couple 10/40 Gbit NICs that can all work at the same time because it has enough PCIe lanes.
HVAC duct is out. I have a remodel that is just sitting idle waiting on a shipment that is TBD.
Just what the world needed
I access Reddit through the Teddit [1] proxies so my answer may not be entirely useful. Anecdotally I see the times for the proxies to fetch a Reddit thread appears to be getting progressively slower but that could also be them rate limiting the proxies for all I know.

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-to-ted...
I switched from pandas to polars[0] . I'm happy with the performance gain. You still need to use Spark/dask on "big" data, but polars give you more room before reaching to these solutions.

[0] -- https://www.pola.rs/
This reminds me of a professor who while reviewing a paper of mine, circled a word in red ink and said “not a word”. So I brought in my dictionary and pointed to the word, and said see?

They then told me that Merriam-Webster is shit, and I should be using the American Heritage dictionary: https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=shitake+&sub...
Who cares? Compared to heating and A/C (in the US and Japan), 10 Xeons probably aren't even a drop in the bucket.
> The point was that you _could_ verify whether a binary package matches the source if you wanted to on other platforms [...].

Which platforms?

From Debian wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds):

> Reproducible builds of Debian as a whole is still not a reality, though individual reproducible builds of packages are possible and being done. So while we are making very good progress, it is a stretch to say that Debian is reproducible.

Apart from Debian and NixOS, I'm not aware of any other large-scale efforts to make builds reproducible, so this something you have to assess on a case-by-case basis for every single piece of software you might want to download and install. Not IF the checksums match, but IF the project aims for reproducible builds in the first place.

By the way, if you download an iOS app on an M1 Mac, you can inspect its archive freely, including generating and comparing checksums of each file, disassembling the executable, and so on. So while not every iOS app can be downloaded on a Mac (the developer actually has to opt out), and not everyone has access to an M1 Mac, this is not entirely impossible.

> With iOS you don’t have that ability so you’d have to have complete trust in the developers.

This is not entirely true. I also have a certain degree of trust in the application sandbox provided by the OS, and in the app review process. I know neither is perfect but it's not like everything I install runs with full root.

> The threat model is someone publishing innocent source code but sneaking in something malicious in the version they publish on the App Store, of course.

What is your strategy for applications that do not publish any source code? Do you exclusively use software with source available?

Don't get me wrong, you raise valid and important points, but this is a way bigger fish and "if only Apple did X" is just the first step.
Just that 128GB DDR4 is more than 550usd in my country.

GPU with 2GB of VRAM is not much today, my 4k desktop consumes 1.6G vram and i'm not even running any game.
When trying to understand rsync and the rolling checksum I stumbled upon a small python implementation in some self-hosted corner of the web[0], which I have archived on GH[1] (not the author, but things can vanish quickly, as proved by the bzr repo which went poof[2]).

[0]: https://blog.liw.fi/posts/rsync-in-python/

[1]: https://github.com/lloeki/rsync/blob/master/rsync.py

[2]: https://code.liw.fi/obsync/bzr/trunk/