skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the sentence after the one you quoted? It then says

>On an annual scale with a conventional central A/C, this could result in energy savings of up to 11 percent.

That's basically what the poster above was claiming (though they seemed to be under-estimating the effect a little). Obviously turning the AC off will reduce the amount of heat leaving the house, but the point is the gains are not super large, even with an inefficient AC and a poorly insulated house. If you have an efficient AC and a well insulated house then the difference could be even smaller (it's even possible that the trend could reverse at some point, if the efficiency of the AC goes down when it is pumping more heat to cool down faster as opposed to consistent low-power heating: you can actually see this in the charts if you look at the mini-split system: it actually uses less energy to turn run the system all the time than to have it off for 4 hours a day, though 8 hours off time is still more efficient). Add in the effects discussed elsewhere in this thread where not all energy consumption is equal from the point of view of the grid and it may even make sense to do the opposite: run the A/C hard during the day while you're not home but green electricity is cheap so you can have it off when you get home and elecriticy demand spikes and solar power is falling off, flattening out the dreaded 'duck curve'.
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32672534
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Wordle is a bit of fun. Solving it is a few minutes journey. I play from a randomly, different, 5 letter starter. And without a shadow of a doubt, the most enjoyable days are when I take 4, 5, or 6 guesses. When I get it in 2 or 3, it's somewhat deflating.
There's plenty of tools available for customers when companies lie to them.

Those tools are applicable in many situations. Eg when Amazon doesn't send you the stuff they promised. Or when your shoeshop sells you knock-off Prada etc. It's a common problem with standard solutions.

Those standard solutions apply (or should apply) to airlines as well.

Eg when the airline gives you less legroom than they promised etc.
That's what is so sad about this. Cloudflare is NOT a utility, and they don't lobby to be one. If they were, then their arguments would have some merit. Instead, they're saying "look, we're a utility! We have to act like one! But we're going to keep the benefits of being a private company; we're just not going to exercise our private discretion because then we couldn't pretend we were a utility when it suits us."

As a dev who was once entirely on board with CF and recommended their "workers" environments to anyone that would listen, I'm very sorry to have to terminate both my business with them and my evangelizing of their services. But I'm certainly not going to stay in business with or recommend a company that would rather hide from their responsibility than to take the political heat for sensible business decisions (like removing poisonous clients).
You need an apple account to use their store or? You can also use a different Google account (or account generally) for every app, on non botched stock android at least. You can also remove all apps with stock android, also Google apps. Samsung really skewed the view by shipping the worst possible android.

My Google account for my phone is just for that nothing else. My last phone cost $120 and lasted 6 years, it still works but doesn't run my banking app anymore. my current one was $250 and last for 2 years without issues already.
It does seem focused on apps and extensions, but they can already get that data for the latter from the extensions portal (both popularity and actual installs). And the installed app stat is questionable, because it doesn't include any usage information.

I just think they could have gone way broader with the set of reported data, and the people willing to help wouldn't mind.
I received the Inbus Flow today. The continous/smooth/stepless (or however you want to call it) ratchet meachnism is very interesting. You can hear almost nothing and resitance in the open direction is very low. I am not sure if I prefer this or the conventional meachnism which gives feedback through "clicks". The handle is the same width as Linus' tool, which is a bit too large for my taste. Unlike Linus' screwdriver it can hold 12 full sized bits, but the shaft looks a bit cheaper. Looks like a comparable tool for half the price.
But you have to know that as well for C - there are for example several Linux system calls you really should not call manually because that would fuck up the internal state in LibC. Yes, the runtime is really small, comparatively speaking, but it is still a runtime.
People who aren’t doing their job are not quiet quitting so I don’t think your example applies to this discussion.
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A few, but honestly it's mostly gotten me removed from some recruiter lists.
iPhones aren’t even that expensive anymore. You can get a like-new iPhone SE 2020(which has the same CPU as a 13 Pro Max) for a mere $200 online. There is no Android phone that comes close to the price:performance ratio. Even the cheapest Android phones any prepaid carrier sells retails for $150. It simply blows every other comparably priced Android out of the water.
Anecdotal, but I don’t know a single person who uses WhatsApp. Everyone I know with an iOS device uses iMessage here in the US.
So? You can start an airline that doesn't bump anyone off, and charge more money for that service, if you think that's what customers want.
I don't think Google is serious about stores.

I'm in Austin and Google has a sizable presence here. They have offices (I've gone to seminars they host), it's a Google Fiber city, lots of schools use Chromebooks and Google Classroom, and it's become a tech hub.

There are Apple stores in malls and those malls all have lots of vacancy. It's a no-brainer that if Google were going to have stores anywhere, they would have them here.
>The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary.

>Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a foreign country will know of instances of sensational items of news—things which on their own merits would get the big headlines—being kept right out of the British press, not because the Government intervened but because of a general tacit agreement that ‘it wouldn’t do’ to mention that particular fact. So far as the daily newspapers go, this is easy to understand. The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics. But the same kind of veiled censorship also operates in books and periodicals, as well as in plays, films and radio. At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Its crazy how many left leaning socialist types are on here, yet everytime apple, the second most profitable company in the world and largest by market cap is brought up, they come out of the woodwork to defend their disgusting lock-in and infantilization that they force down the throats of their mostly unknowing consumers, who then use it as status symbol against poor people and tech literate people who understand apples lock in and don't want part of it. What upsets me is the HN also takes part of this even though they are tech literate. And some of these people even claim to want to "fix capitalism" or whatever. Apple fanboys will respond something like "we don't like lock in but android is just to yucky for me" or "we don't like lock in but my grandma might be scammed otherwise." Back on topic im disgusted to see this trend continue in the US, though I am not surprised
In a better world, each social app would know its place and would hone that to a fine edge. But there's no incentive to do that, there's no infinite growth there. Social apps should be narrowly focused tools that do their job perfectly, with very little overlap between. For what it's worth, I don't think any app can expand much past its original focus anyway, but the fact that they try spoils the experience.
A cheap way to do it is to use Nativefier. It's not perfect but it's like a 80% solution.
Simple leet code questions are good to find out who can think algorithmically. But once people catch up they are not longer useful since you can study them and memorize them. Then the leet code questions need to be more difficult and it becomes a race. Now you are obligated to study them even if you are already a practicing Software engineer.

Same thing would happen to these questions. People would memorize them and answer not on experience or intuition but on memorization.
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If money is your sole goal, then you might be happiest working for a FAANG company, engaging in investments such as real estate, etc.

Starting a business is probably not for you. The odds of you making bank in a relatively short period of time are very low. The odds of your business failing are very high (regardless of your motivation for starting a business).
Utility natural gas is obviously pretty widespread across Canada. I've never seen nor heard of a single person with a gas dryer.

Based on my (obviously limited) set of data, I'd certainly argue against "most" dryers being gas-powered.
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The fact that you think you know what’s best for all parties involved is exactly why we protect/value free speech the way we do in the US.
Turbines are internal combustion engines. But I guess the comment I originally replied to meant non-turbine ICE only?
Seems like a good idea! If she wasn't happy there, find a new place to work. Win-win!
We don't need a debate you just need to provide a technical reason other than you opinion on how popular something is. As far as I am concerned you are providing incorrect information based on what is popular and promoting one-size-fits-all security planning. You picked one product and made it into a debate about it because it deviated with what you saw as popular vs what bigcorp uses.
I think we'll start to see more and more Progressive Web Apps (PWA) in the future.
"You gain nothing by waiting."

That can depend on vesting.
It hasn’t received updates, not even security updates, for years. It’s unacceptable for me to use a phone that doesn’t have security updates. On the other hand the other day Apple released a security update for the iPhone 5s, released in 2013.
re: (e), they can't. I don't mean they cannot physically operate the sequence of events (even a properly incentivized chimpanzee could do that), but that they lack the programmatic sense of problem solving that is assumed (quite arrogantly) by the programmatic crowd.

In the same way people take their cars to mechanics when they can do the job themselves, or call triple A for a flat tire when the spare and jack are in the trunk, or reach for the phone instead of a plunger when the toilet backs up, people don't lack the specific skillset, they lack the openness to problems being solvable. They are in perpetual search of answers, not solutions.

They don't want to learn to fish, they don't want to expend energy on process. They want someone else to do it. It's not laziness, it's not incompetence, and it's not entitlement. They are just of a mindset they cannot solve problems, and so they pick up the phone and abstract away the answer.

And I promise you, no 10 minute condescending conversation with someone is going to redefine their core attitudes about life. You're just going to have your well poisoned in the break room with your piss poor attitude because she called the plumber and he told her to fix her own shit (in a manner of speaking).
you can normally just disable/reenable the virtual network switch to fix that. Not elegant but does the job:

> netsh interface set interface "vEthernet (WSL)" disable

then run again with enable.
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I could get behind it, but would add a wrinkle that full random sortition from the populace should be used for the elected representatives. I kind of feel like an elected government service notice should be viewed the same way as a jury summons—an understanding that it is a serious and important duty, but one that comes with an “oh crap” attitude.

For me, with our current political system in the US, every candidate disqualifies themselves be simply having the level of narcissism needed to believe that they belong in office because they are the most qualified person for that office. Especially at the level of POTUS.
COVID was the example I had I mind, where they censored medical professionals, politicians, and journalists who said lockdowns were a bad idea, questioned the data supporting mRNA (eg, Robert Malone), etc.

But since you mentioned not covering a story — we also have the Hunter Biden laptop, which wasn’t merely not covered, but actively censored on social media during an election. (Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg admitted as much.) The whole point of freedom of speech is the censors are notoriously bad at deciding what is “misinformation”, as they were in that case… where they shut down a political story which hurt their preferred candidate but was nonetheless true.
This is awesome! Bookmarking this for sure!

I really dig your dj.app, it looks a lot like an app I sometime I use called Mixxx[1], which is open source[2]. But I think it's built using QT instead of wxWidgets. Anyways, now that I know there's a similar web-app available I might start trying dj.app out! thanks!

1. https://mixxx.org/
2. https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx
I had one of those crop up in the reels carousel and freaked out because I very nearly tapped it by accident because there's no way to undo algorithm views on IG*

I'm as disgusted with the managers who think it's ok to push that content to people as I am with the content itself.

* FYI on YouTube I've had decent success correcting the algorithm if you go in and remove the video that started it from your watch history.
Yeah, I just try to learn a bit of the high level "understanding" of how the experts say things like time dilation work, but that's about it. I don't try to extrapolate what little I know as it would likely all be nonsense without a full understanding of the math of all of this stuff: relativity, quantum mechanics, cosmology...etc. Not that it isn't good to think about this stuff.
Yes. Carnot's Theorem gives merely an upper bound on the efficiency you can achieve.

In practice, you can easily do much worse. Eg via heatloss as you say.

However, you can never do better.
Wow. I was seriously considering Drupal as an option for an lod-style minimal-JS site (with mainly news+comments, gallery, wiki, statistics and stuff). Previous CMS I used was quite allright, but maintainers dropped it :( Can you suggest something besides Dripal and WP? (pls not JS)
I think it's very dependent on the business. In a couple of minutes research I saw one site which estimated the average CC cost to be 2.08 USD versus 0.30 USD for cash, whilst another site estimated the cost of cash handling to be anything between 4.7-15.3% of the money taken in [https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180130005244/en/New...]

(I think CC costs are also likely lower in Europe - cashback credit cards are less common/rewarding, debit cards are a lot more common)
I’m assuming this is a joke, but if not - that’s not how Kelo worked. Kelo is bad law, and a horrible court decision, but it doesn’t mean any private company can just take your stuff…
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You literally just gave no reasons.

Edit: So to clarify, you could be saying "there is something better about Apple" or "Apple people are complete suckers." Which is it?
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The US has this capability too. It's an expansive power and largely unchecked.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/22/representatives-propose-bi... ("
Representatives propose bill limiting presidential internet ‘kill switch’")
The Louvre is a public institution and the art preserved and on display in such institutions is a public good. It's nonsensical to glue oneself to / destroy a public good - especially one that has cultural value (and other types of value) - when trying to make a point about the impact unchecked private property has on the world.

If people aren't sympathetic to such protests, it's because cultural heritage helps shape a community's shared sense of identity. Gluing yourself to art is akin to compromising the integrity of that shared identity. If anything, that's the exact last thing you want to do if you hope to rally people around your cause.

Sure, maybe you're trying to signal the urgency to push a public action regarding climate change. But there are other, more poignant ways to do that.
The every day user, even on here, supports shutting down internet access for some - why wouldn't the government give them what they want.

You cannot simultaneously hold that - for the good of us all - we have to remove people from internet services (see 'paradox of tolerance') and then pretend that the government shutting people out from the internet is bad.

Too harsh? No. Check out the article on HN yesterday to see what your fellow users like and believe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32678501
Show HN: I made this free Chrome ext to view English football tables/fixtures
Oneplus is a good brand since when? They are a Chinese manufacturer like many others.
I googled a bit now and found several pages written by people who say that you can do a chargeback in these cases, and also found several pages by people who didn't manage to do it. Guess what I did not find.
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Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon
A couple of years ago, I had an interesting idea. What if there was a marketplace where all the underlying tech was open-source? The order management system, the storefront, customer support, etc.

The marketplace would simply connect to the seller’s infra instead of locking them in. If, for some reason, the seller is removed from the marketplace, their software stays with them and they can continue accepting orders directly.

This model can be used to disrupt any marketplace from AirBNB to UberEats: building tech for home renters and restaurants and later, leveraging that to build a competing marketplace.

In 2019, I started building the first piece, Openship, an order management system that lets you source orders and fulfill them from anywhere. Now that that’s in stable release, next up is Openfront (an e-commerce platform for storefronts) and Opensupport (ticketing software for customer support). Together, they provide the staples for any modern business: sales, fulfillment, support.

Let me know what you guys think of the idea and if you see any potential pitfalls.
I bought OnePlus 6 in 2018 and am still using it. It's still receiving updates.
I've seen some apps crash/hang occasionally, some always, some never. I believe the cause of crashing is in those apps rather than Android itself.
If getting a new phone, I will choose OnePlus or Pixel. I don't see what iPhone is better at, Apple ecosystem aside.
People are really fascinated with this game. I've never tried. I stink at scrabble and the like.
Same here. I checked it out because of this page. I also didn't know the explore tab was a thing. There's a social media aspect to github?
Calling out on what specifically?
It was declared on his 'declaration of interests' or whatever it is called. Was also published in Eco and Publico (at least saw in these two).

And from what I remember, a lot of the politicians in the Parliament also have multiple properties, and lets not even remember the 'Rubles' case.
I couldn't believe an Academic could be this ignorant, so I had to look it up. I found it but only basic french. I can't find a translation, does anyone know of one?
https://mobile.twitter.com/cubic_logic/status/15410902478613...
"Bulletproof Hosting" is what people might try to link. It doesn't exist. Ultimately all providers have uplinks to a network provider and each layer of reseller will protect those expensive links. Illegal material will draw the attention of people that can have the servers and network gear seized and the links terminated. There are providers that are friendly to hosting spam/malware because authorities don't really care about those things. There was a time when certain countries would be resistant to take-downs but those days are long behind us. The bigger the group of people you are sharing content with and the more money that content is worth will be a factor to how long it takes for the server to be disabled.

Your current method of using Tor might be temporarily working but with time if it gathers attention from certain people it will get DDoS'd and eventually blackhat security researchers may find a weakness that allows them to get your real IP address and location. You will see these attempts if you are logging the first few KBytes of the POST body and of course normal access logging.
The QEMU project and it's developers are responsible for making my research and hobby OS development on RISC-V and Aarch64 platforms possible, where I learned so much at a pace I otherwise couldn't. Thanks.
I think pretty much nobody stands by their principles. Because ultimately principles are a means to an end, and if the end is not achieved, they're discarded.

And this really makes perfect sense to me when you think of it. We're not logical robots. If whatever principles we hold backfire badly enough, we'll discard them or add exceptions because the reason for those principles is that we believe they make a better world. If the world is not made better, then the principles failed in their aim.

Morality needs a degree of flexibility to survive, or somebody will exploit it.