skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Higher minimum upload speeds will be more impactful than cranking download speed even higher.

100/100 is way, way better than 500/20.

Upload speed is what enriches the two-way internet - servers, content uploads, high quality videoconferencing, cloud backups. Prioritising download speed is keeping us in the broadcast era.
Cutting the strip at the 10 years is a good idea to avoid the Zombie Simpson problem. https://deadhomersociety.wordpress.com/zombiesimpsons/

(It's easier when it's just one man job, and you must not fire all the team.)
Before air conditioning, there was the rise of central heating.

Is the total energy used for the combination of heating and cooling greater in a warm climate or a cold climate, given the same floor space and appropriate insulation and construction?

I was under the impression that less energy would be needed in Dallas than in Chicago, but I don't have actual data.
Great point. It's also hazardous if your interviewer does NOT know the specific tech you suggest. They may reject it with "Sounds suspicious, if that's any good why haven't I heard of it?"
Years ago, I read of a sheriff simply collecting people in a courthouse elevator and leading them to the clerk. I think the state was southern. This would have been about forty years ago.
"Apparently not your case"

My friend, I lived most of my life in India. Trust me. I know everything there is to know about heat. I KNOW the engineers who're in this field. I see them every year at the same damn conference, where they talk the same damn talk all the time.

Hypothetically, sure, one can do both. Improve efficiency AND reduce. But please, tell me where we've done that? CPUs? Electricity usage? CO2 emissions? Nowhere.
I only know Mafalda through its cartoon; it was broadcast on Canal Famille in Québec in the 90s.
It's a thing in the nicer parts of India too, but I agree. I remember going to NYC when it was quite hot and seeing Toy Story 3. The cinema was so cold, each seat had a huge AC blasting on it at an arctic temperature. I'm not sure what the intention is. It does seem to me, as you say, that the greatest desire of americans is to live in the southern hemisphere, whether unconsciously or consciously. My guess? Americans have a strong erotic lust for both power and the subversion of nature, so it is almost sexually arousing to demonstrate enough power, even unnecessarily, to totally reverse the seasons. See also: guns, massive cars with 10 cup holders, huge interstate roads with 5 lanes in each direction, extremely consumer-engineered foods, etc.
My grand mother stopped eating horse meat after WW2, because rwally bad horse meat was the only meat she got during the war.

Horse is actually among the stuff I want to try one day, along with swan.
if honestly people think AC is bad for the environment people could switch to water based cooling systems. these are known as "coolers" in India and are used widely during summers as they are cheap and use really low amount of electricity and have zero effect on environment. it just costs like 30$ when compared to 300$ AC systems and have many advantages both economical and environmental. not sure why it hasn't picked up in developed nations?

link : https://www.amazon.in/Symphony-Diet-12-Litre-Cooler/dp/B00IY...

how it works : https://kenstar.in/blog/post/how-does-an-air-cooler-work
https://archive.ph/oDsg2
From my understanding - the more significant factor in global warming is GHG emissions

Sure, moving the heat outside makes the environment slightly warmer, but that's nothing compared to the significant amounts of solar energy getting trapped because you made the energy to run your a/c by burning coal or any other fossil fuel

(Also - the volume of every place where you could reasonably want A/C is negligible compared to the volume of the earth's atmosphere, so that isn't as much of an issue)
> That is completely unsurprising, attributes suck ass for data,
> what would XML-RPC even have used them for?

Instead of this:

<struct>
<member>
<name>faultCode</name>
<value><int>-123</int></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>faultString</name>
<value><string>some fault</string></value>
</member>
</struct>

It could have been:

<struct>
<member name="faultCode"><int>-123</int></member>
<member name="faultString"><string>some fault</string></member>
</struct>

or even:

<struct>
<int name="faultCode">-123</int>
<string name="faultString">some fault</string>
</struct>

--

> An issue which, which very much unfortunate, is not exactly shocking.
> Json would have the same if it had integers in the first place.

XDR (used in Sun RPC) was defined in the '80s and had 64-bit integers. The DEC Alpha line had been out for 5 years or so when XML-RPC was published. It's not like 64-bit integers were unusual at the time.

> Nul is a perfectly valid UTF8 character.

NUL is not permitted in XML documents. The XML-RPC spec's explicit directive to allow NUL puts it at odds with standards-conforming XML parsers.
You don't think the jurors might take an unfavorable view of the criminal justice system? They could be just what the defense attorneys want.
What year would you suggest time-travelling back to in order to enjoy a higher quality of life?
The Book of Shaders (2015)
> The most obvious thing that we already know we're missing out on is video streaming quality. You've possibly already noticed…

I only pay for the lowest tier of Netflix which does not give me HD, and I have literally never noticed a quality problem watching on my TV (which I have no idea the resolution of, honestly).

Apparently I don't care or notice much about quality. I actually have no idea if i'm the majority or you are.
Yes, where did the mention the culprits- Bernanke/Yellen/Powell. I still can’t fathom why they kept buying bonds even as far out as they did. They could have easily raise the rates in 2011, they didn’t.

For example, why did the Fed went out of their way last year calling it transitory?
Ah nice. Yes, I’m not aware of full translations, though I often have to translate things myself (with a bit of help). In this particular case for Fludd I mainly used secondary literature on his use of the inverted flask experiment and (spoilers) weatherglasses, which also sometimes translate some significant sections.

Very interesting on resonance - I’ll check that out. I seem to recall there was a PhD thesis I skim-read that was all about the relationship between music and weatherglasses in Fludd’s thought.
Guard clauses are great, and when used appropriately clean things up.
This is pretty much my only use of the pattern.

(Ending boolean-returning methods with a ? is also a great convention in ruby.)
Firefox recently started stripping out tracking URLs [0] and the most prevalent one is Facebook with it's ?fbclid= so it looks like they're encoding it straight into the URL now to bypass that, Medium does similar also.

[0] https://www.engadget.com/firefox-can-now-automatically-remov...
> then remove everything that was unused when the test suite ran

What tooling does one use to determine this? How can you see what files are being hit or not? Ptrace?

Edit; I RTFA and think that’s the product they sell. But how would one go about this without their product?
Is anyone running mission critical software on this rather new platform?
In my experience every added cloud service becomes another potential weak link in your chain. A distributed DB for your data, a CDN for static assets, a couple of lambda functions for background processing. With every move away from the monolith your surface for potential downtime or "elevated error rates" increases.
The memory usage won't change massively, so check your current usage for a good idea. Just remember to ignore the buffers / cache usage.
Thanka for the suggestions!

Rightly or not, I'm always a little cautious about synchronisation - I worry about stuff getting overwritten, and this has bitten me in the past. But I've not used syncthing so I'll take a look at that.

Movies: I remember when Microsoft dropped PlaysForSure, and i think that over a long enough timescale "my" google content will go the same way. No easy solutions there, unless i go back to physical media. Ideally there would be a backup solution like Kalibre for Kindle ebooks
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My favourite moment of corporate dystopia was during my first job after finishing my undergrad...

December 18th, they asked us to put up a Christmas tree.

To ensure an efficient return after the Christmas break, they made us take the tree down on December 23rd. :-)
birth rates are falling. our society needs children. working mothers especially bear the brunt, effectively having two jobs. it is absolutely not reasonable that children become a disadvantage in getting a job. already in many places it is illegal discrimination to ask employees if they have children. technically, asking for side projects, or being rejected because you don't have any side projects can result in the same kind of discrimination.
No I read it that way too.
Horse basashi is popular in a few cities of Japan. Kumamoto is especially known for horse dishes.
Germany is poised to move all heating for buildings to electrical heat pumps in the foreseeable future (with some exceptions). With some minor differences it's the same tech, just used for heating instead of cooling. Not long ago everyone made fun of "the Americans" and their ACs. Funny how times change.
While watching 50 Hz content, just need to set monitor to 50 Hz, 100 Hz to eliminate jitter. (Unless you have something like 240 Hz screen.)
> Anyway, I think Bill absolutely made a most excellent decision. Not only for himself, but for us.

Especially for us. It has remained special all these years later as it hasn’t been supersaturated or made overrated by virtue of being commoditized.

I’m guessing whoever inherits his estate sells the license and rights for untold millions. You can only hope a billionaire super fan buys it and buries it.

At some point in the future it will all be public domain anyways. So enjoy it while you can.
Makes a lot of sense— thanks!
How? I’ve been writing Ruby and Rails for over a decade and I can’t really say it’s ever been a problem for me.
To generalize a bit on this, I've been using MBA's (11" and 13") as my personal laptop since about 2012 alongside my blowfish desktop and the work laptop (which in the same time has varied only little, just further iterations of MBP's), while I've also spent considerable time with a Thinkpad x230.

I have to say, the Airs are hands down the most handy, and in particular the 13" one. It strikes a perfect balance between screen size, weight, and responsiveness, and the battery is always much, much better than anything else. In all, I feel the least amount of internal resistance when I have to reach for the Air, lift the lid, and start typing, while all other computers have one or more practical or psychological barriers.

Disclaimer: I'm not an Apple fanboy or anything - far from it. But I'm a huge MBA fan...
I think there's actually a lot of people who are okay with pushing people into mass starvation and poverty in order to achieve their xyz goals, as long as those people are not them and theirs. Most who think this way will never openly admit it (and that's assuming they actually recognize what their policies will result in). You can see this with the current energy crisis and brewing food crisis (I've seen journalists and others welcome the increase in prices as they believe it will help achieve climate goals).
Yup. Even the "What's new in AppKit?" talk pushed using SwiftUI for things like Settings due to controls only available in SwiftUI.
Ask HN: Why do so many spam emails start with “Greeting Of the Day ”
Does anyone actually say this in conversation?
We at n8n created the Sustainable Use License (https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/blob/master/packages/cli/LICEN...) and started https://faircode.io/ which could be interesting for you to look at. It is based on the amazing Elastic License 2.0 (https://www.elastic.co/licensing/elastic-license) which you should also check out. Apart from that are there multiple great licenses here:
https://polyformproject.org/licenses/

All are obviously not OSI approved.

Hope that is helpful!
Walking away when there is diminishing return from the effort is common.

Walking away from opportunity to earn 1000X with little effort is not that common.
Yeah.. hem tiktok youtube facebook hem instagram snapchat twitch.. This whole thing being discussed in the thread is not some abstract destiny, it's just that the social media lobby, ie the mass advertisement and marketing lobby is crushing everything on it's path since 20 years because they are now tech giants and have data crunching tech. It's not "the spirit of the time" or some other naturalization or whatever, there are active forces behind this (and i absolutely don't mean this in the "evil hidden goverment" way, these forces are fuzzy are multiple, but still, it's a school of thought that recognizes itself).
I suppose Firefox could remove this new encoding too
+1 this is likely the situation. I would bet that the rest of the url resolves to the old format with the search param after some decoding.
*Stony Brook (can't fix typo due to HN's aggressive comment freezing)
Not sure what do you mean by "visual note taking". Maybe mind mapping?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map

https://www.mindmapping.com/
The Circulation of the Elites: The counterrevolutionary ethic of the PMC
As far as I know, modern appliances use gasses without this problem. It also holds for fridges.
> The slow start is due, at least in part, to the fact that 1.1 million doses have been stored in a Denmark pharmaceutical facility while the Food and Drug Administration has taken almost two months to approve their release here, according to people familiar with the situation. FDA officials only began to inspect the facility last week.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/07/a-...

Apparently an effective avoidance strategy is to avoid group gang bangs, too.
>There was a vibrant community of independent publishers,....

Of course, that's always existed. By 'commercial' I meant mass market. It's always been possible to break through, in IT Apple and Microsoft both started out with two techies hacking stuff together. Richard Branson started out trying to grow Christmas trees. Those are all a very few extreme outliers compared to the tens of thousands that would only ever have a chance of making it big by reaching the mass market.
Class (and income) in the Netherlands are very heavily education based (unless you have inherited money, but even then).
Wouldn't be the first time they implemented direct anti Facebook features.
Surely the alternative is to deploy on ARM? Graviton demonstrates the benefit pretty nicely - substantially lower cost per unit of performance, and better achievable density because of less heat.
how does 40C in UK compared to 40c in the tropics? is it heat directly from the sun? Or is the atmosphere hot? or does the ground radiate heat? these three different types of 40C have different mitigation strategies but will be given the same number (40C) by weather report sources. All heat is not the same. humid 40C is completely different from dry 40C. Each of these various types of heat will have different effects on our health and efficiency and have different strategies to mitigate it.
How do you know that Musks strategy is to delay or renegotiate? As far as I know that is speculation from your end, so you're basically saying you understand your own reasoning.
We all share the internet. Introducing features that make the internet work faster in an open standards body seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do, to me.

Domain isolation is important for security on the web (think about the problems CORS solves) and domain isolation right now requires using multiple connections, which is not great for performance. To me, this is just aligning security and performance, so that you don't have to choose.

> I don't see the point of adding to TLS 1.3 when the crypto scheme seems to be moving towards another protocol anyway

The authors of QUIC followed the same principle as the authors of this draft, and borrowed the handshake from TLS 1.3:

"For those familiar with the TLS protocol, QUIC replaces the TLS record layer with its own framing format, while keeping the same TLS handshake messages."

These changes go straight into browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) and servers (nginx, caddy, etc), so you're going to benefit from the performance gains whether you like it or not!

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-road-to-quic/
Carciofi alla giudia, but I think the season for artichokes has just ended. Check for the right restaurants well: there are thousands of Professionals, yet also the complication and noise of the temptation from tourism (i.e. literal customers ("customary customers") mandate and, conversely, fleeting visitors tempt into laxity and "for the stakeholders" business ways).

The City: walk around a lot, with pace, enjoy the corners. Notice the palaces. Enjoy the big and the small. Most of the City is an open museum.

Notice: what about seeing in the evening an artist with a canvas under his arm in conversation with the antiques dealer in front of his shop, the living Culture physically moving in the streets? Were Italy properly managed, Italy would be everything.
I think Thomas Sowell has some interesting scholarship on the topic, with regards to the roots of lower class culture in America.

If you look at this from a class perspective instead of race (hard in the current media environment) it makes sense.

Rather than focus on the white in “white trash” think about the word trash.
I remember a skinhead moralizing to me about a Calvin and Hobbs pirate t-shirt I was wearing (sone local guy made it) back in the 1990’s. Was ironic to say the least.
If you want to visit St. Peter in the vatican, it's free, but there can be significant waiting time for entry. But you can rent an audio guide (online in advance) and skip the line.

Similarly, if you want to visit any museums, especially the vatican museums, book in advance and skip the lines.

Ostia Antica is worth a visit. It's the lost and "sunken" harbour city of ancient rome. You can roam there freely and explore a ruined city and discover 2000 year old mosaics and wall art.

Romans (and italians in general) like to eat late in the evening. So if you want to go out for dinner, but have no reservation, you can try to arrive early (6pm) at the restaurants or pizzerias and tell them, that you are just interested in some quick dinner and will be gone before their "regular" patrons arrive. That usually works.

If you need to drive a car in Rome: Don't. If you must, avoid the oldest parts of the city with the narrow streets.
I find it amusing that Intel MacBooks were slammed for being overpriced compared to Windows and Linux boxes, but now Mn Macs are being smashed for not running Windows or Linux.

No one is forcing you to buy a
Mac. Just buy the machine that best suits you and enjoy all the money you’ll save.
You guys took my comment way too literally. It was tongue in cheek :P
This is great. What are the current solutions that you find over complicated? You could reach out to posters there to get more projects onto your platform.
I suggest tutoring. Teaching CS to kids, non-CS students or other interested people. Lots of people pay good money for programming tutors and the experience will be very valuable.
Windows handles Unicode just fine. It’s just not UTF-8. The reason they used # is that it’s on the standard keyboard.

But hey, don’t let me get in the way of some ignorant Windows-bashing.
Love it. I can see the logic, but it's so Scroogey!
Rabbit isn’t common in US grocery stores but Duck and Lamb are, especially around winter holidays.
Paying tech workers to bail SV – Its working
What would be the gain for Apple? Currently a lot of Linux devs are already using macs and some are motivated enough to do the porting without any cost to Apple.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of this part thermodynamics. ACs only move heat, not produce extra ignoring GHG, the process is heat-neutral.
I’m fairly certain the principal agreed with the teacher but didn’t think the fight was worth it.
Their walled garden is so bad that I couldn't imagine paying that kind of markup.
I can't comment on technologies, but the user interface for a business user might be different from that for a home user.

As for fees, they tend to lure individuals with free this, free that, while taking kidneys and other organs from businesses.
I am sending messages to the posters, hopefully will get few listings by next week :)
A naive approach is to have a integer named "version" and a bool named "synced" beside each post/record/row. Then increment version and set synced=false when updating, and synced=true when synced. Or make the data/state immutable and just have the "synced" variable.

A more complicated approach is to have transform operations for state changes, with a version variable, then the version variable is incremented on on a central server each change and decide in which order the transform operations should be applied.
To get around regional access restrictions...

https://archive.ph/6hyVS
With a typical currency the answer of "how to get money" is to get a job. Trustless usually isn't a concern, in that paychecks are reliable and worker protection laws exist. (Not saying it's perfect, just stating the status quo). The lack of a bitcoin economy prevents or frustrates this approach.

With typical currencies, you can exchange at a currency exchange counter at the border/airport or use your bank/credit card which handles the conversion behind the scenes. I suppose the equivalent for bitcoin is a bitcoin ATM or bitcoin credit card.
I don't know why this was dead - this is how it works: trademark protection extends to whole classes of productd, so called Nizza classes.
First of all - yes, AC heats up outside as much as it cools down inside. But the temperatures get equalised over time (the moment you open windows, or hot air gets back in through poor insulation), so the overall balance is exactly zero.

But more importantly, even if we put all the energy produced by humanity into space heaters, we wouldn't be able to increase the planet's temperature by any measurable amount.

To give you a sense of perspective - Humanity produces 4 TW of electricity on average at any given moment. Sun delivers at that same moment 170,000 TW of energy.
Sounds like this calls for some browser extensions

Beyond privacy I'm interested in generally a browser extension that disables things that provide free labor to for-profit enterprises, such as hiding the moderation queue (which even has an annoying persistent badge) on StackExchange sites, the one that asks me to provide unpaid labor to private equity and has various rules that sound nice if it were a public utility but primarily work to improve their SEO.
It's a crazy question. Obviously she has just given birth. Why would we brainwash women into think they account to nothing if they don't ALSO have a "career"?
It’s not a lot of people but they seem to be those in control.
Oh I think they are! Gruber is by no means alone in his praise. And the technical details are impressive. (Plus the 14" and 16" are fantastic improvements.)
My point exactly was that I don't even necessarily disagree with his opinion. However, I would not trust anything he's writing either because of his bias. And with bias I mean the same bias a mother may has to her child if it's the brightest and most beautiful human being there is. Of course any good mother would think that. The same with him and the next new Apple product: Of course it's the best, most thinnest, most magical device there is. I cannot take it seriously. That's the point I was trying to make.