skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Glad to see 'at all costs' isn't a thing in the military.

Well I'd be wary of making that conclusion based on 1 anonymous comment on hn. Especially since news that come to public often contradict that view.
Remember, P=IV, Power (watts) is Voltage (v) by Current (a). Things like toasters and kettles tend to use around 13 amps, though voltage differs by country. In the UK, we have 230 V, so that's 2,990 W. In the USA 120 V so 1,560 W. In comparison to something like a laptop that may use 3 A but at 12 VDC it's only 36 W.

One of the best things people can do to save money from energy consumption is optimise how they use the high-power devices -- swap your conventional oven for an air fryer, for example. Trying to optimise the smaller items, as we all here know, rarely returns the investment of time and (human) energy.
I was interested in that some time ago, as I host a datacenter^H^H^H^H^H^H the upper shelf of a cupboard is the place where I self-host.

I bought a wattmeter and plugged it between the UPS and the power socket. In addition to the UPS there is a 7 years old tower computer ("the main server" - without a GPU but without any optimisation either, and a few disks including platter ones), a PoE 8 ports switch, a RPi and a ER-4 Ubiquity router.

I was really surprised that the draw is a consistent 60 W. This is about 100 € per year in France.
Coz the solar farm cant match supply to demand whereas a gas plant can.
Apple AMX instruction set (M1/M2 matrix coprocessor)
> That is a term invented by the far-right

Really? Somebody should sort out this wikipedia page then, which evidently is far-right propaganda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation

> The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest citation for the phrase was a 1945 essay by Arthur E. Christy which discussed Orientalism.

Amusingly, that essay turns out to be a rant about weebs opportunistically picking and choosing aspects of asian culture to suit their own needs. Maybe you're right after all.
Sorry, I think "system" is an overloaded term. I'm not talking about "thread X changed my state", I'm talking about a scenario where the physics system wants to move the player collider, but you want to control its motion with hand-tuned code, so you set it to cinematic, which now causes everything in the scene to go flying when it touches it, because it has effectively infinite inertia. Or maybe you have a system that regenerates your health and an area where healing effects turn into damage and your health regen is now draining the health bar.

These types of interactions exist at a layer where Rust can't help you. Even outside of gamedev, I would claim that most software bugs we run into every day are in this category: too high-level for the borrow checker. (Button not connected to anything. Scrollbar hidden, but the page is too long. Microservices that upgrade independently without API stability.)

> [2]: Rust type system (and overall coding conventions) is really good at building things such that it will only compile if you check for all cases or, at the very least, leave some explicitly unchecked cases.

I invite you to try to teach Rust's type system to level designers.
Rare to see square foot only, but 108 square foot sounds bigger than 10 square meters, 2.7 acres sounds bigger than 1.1 hectares, so obviously salesmen are going to include those numbers.
Here's the GitHub link, not just the blog post (although it mentions it): https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver

And the container image: https://hub.docker.com/r/mailserver/docker-mailserver

I'm also using this solution very efficiently myself! So far I haven't had many issues with receiving or sending e-mails and what's especially nice is that I can easily set up as many accounts as I need, for example, one for Zabbix, one for Drone CI, one for OpenProject etc.

Even a cheap VPS is enough to run this setup (though you might need to selectively disable certain components) and the administration could be web based, but frankly the scripts that are present are simple enough and there's nothing unusual about, say, connecting Thunderbird to it.
Isn't this DKIM bh= ?
Enclosed suggests fairings which suggests better aero.

Aero drag really kicks in at 20+ mph so I would have thought it would be doable.

Plus capable of 30mph and actually doing that all the time are 2 separate things. There's still going to be the slow pootling. So you can still peddle then. Plus you could hear it to actually pedal at 30mph
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Your subjective experience of temperature has three digits of precision? Because mine sure doesn't.
Perhaps in terms of micromanagement software tracking velocity metrics, but the concept of velocity, and the practice of getting rid of obstacles to getting things done is an essential part of engineering management. It involves identifying and replacing poor tooling (easy), and fixing broken culture or processes (very hard), specially at the interface with product management and support.

This is a qualitative process, though, and using velocity metrics from your project management tools is like looking for your lost keys under the streetlamp because that's where the light is brightest.

It is also important to recognize the importance of keeping slack in a system and not over-optimizing it, as explained in Tom DeMarco's excellent book Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency.
It seems to me the author misses a purely practical reason to have respect for a variety of religions: peaceful and happy coexistence. Historically a lot of blood has been spilt over religious differences and a lot of people have suffered oppression because of their religion. This was straightforwardly bad, and we are not free of these conflicts or their causes yet; so it's wise to try to keep things smooth and tolerate a variety of religious practices (dietary restrictions, days off, prayer times, etc). Obviously the exact level to which this respect ought to be enshrined in law is up for debate. But "respect for religion" can be an instrumental rather than a terminal value.
Another fun fact: meter was originally defined as a length of a pendulum whose half-period is one second.

But wait for it. If you look at the pendulum formula [1] you will realize that g ≈ π^2 (i.e. 3.14^2 roughly equals 9.8) is not a coincidence, it's a consequence of the original definition of the meter!

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=pendulum+formula
Thanks for that. I rarely take much notice of PSU's, other than desktop computer builds, where the received wisdom seems to be aim at using around, or just under, 1/2 of the spec'd capability of the PSU.

Seemingly this is optimal for efficiency of the device, and I've never really thought about how or why this claim is made -- opinions are consistent, pricing is rarely significant, etc.
Indeed. I suspect the driving and oil lobbies are keen to keep it that way, to help obscure the cost per unit distance and thus keep us all driving as far and burning as much gas/petrol/diesel as possible.
My daily experience absolutely fits into the 0-50 range.

0C outside means the ground is hard to work with. 32F is such an arbitrary number when dealing is concrete reality outside.
That sounds good and all, but at the end of it somebody has to run it, and I don't think there's any person or (kind of) organization I'd like to entrust with managing _reality_. (And if I had to make a list, Meta is probably close to the bottom.)
The good thing about our universe is that it doesn't care what we do with it, and it doesn't have any incentives.

But once there's a company in it that needs to maximize profit, things are going to get sticky. Democracy isn't perfect either and can turn bad.

And what about the potential for technical malfunctions? What about hacking? What about abuse? What about those who can't afford the hardware? What about those who don't want to join?

Building that utopia is going to require rebuilding half (or all) of society first, if we don't we have a near guarantee of getting a dystopia real fast, and even if we manage to avoid that there are too many intrinsic ways for this to turn horrible.
I guess kWh counts as metric, as W is SI and h is accepted by SI (as, for example, in km/h). The Imperial unit is maybe the calorie (I'm not sure though).

EDIT: According to Wikipedia [0], the Imperial unit of energy is ft⋅lbf.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-pound_(energy)
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It's much better than coal. Most places don't have enough hydro, biogas or geothermal, and nuclear ran out of favour. There is currently nothing else that can deliver a base load.
There is a huge difference.

Ask an average American to give you the length of their car, size of their kitchen or weight of a brick in metric and they'll have no clue. The average British person can do this, because education has been metric for 50+ years and the least-technical industry (e.g. construction, DIY) is metric.

(See e.g. https://www.diy.com/, the largest consumer-facing DIY shop in Britain. It's 20kg of 10mm gravel, doors in millimetres, paint in litres. I can't even see a button offering an imperial conversion.)
If it gets to that point they will start bankrolling far right militias. They'll bring them into the mainstream with slick propaganda, decent salaries and support from the middle-of-the-road media (which they own).

Think Proud Boys, but made respectable, the backing of a few senators and armed with top of the line hardware.

This is essentially what happened in Ukraine.
Heat pumps are more efficient than space heaters though
Do people actually directly measure boiling water? I've never seen that. It's a self-apparent phenomenon. I've never heard of anyone measuring anything while cooking where it matters which temperature scale they're using.
It comes down to familiarity, but -20 to 40 degrees Celsius isn't that weird a scale, either. You're going to remember more or less arbitrary values for certain things anyway (too hot to be comfortably outside, cold enough to need a jacket, cold enough to need gloves, cold enough to need multiple layers, etc.). In that sense, yeah, Kelvin would be impractical, as would be a theoretical temperature scale that compressed most human-relevant temperatures between 0 and 2 or so. But that's not the case and degrees Celsius is perfectly viable for everyday use, as is (I imagine and you say) degrees Fahrenheit.
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The non-metric energy measurement in current discussion in Britain is the therm, 100,000 BTU. It seems natural gas is sold in this measure at some of the London exchanges.

It's sold in MWh in the rest of Europe.
That's a beautifully short definition, I think.

"Base-size has 1sqm area. Halving does not change ratio of the sides."
>> Almost none of the things linked there are run by serious isps that are responsible for other peoples' mail in quantities of tens of thousands of inboxes or more.

If you look at Haraka in the list, it is used by craigslist to deliver a lot emails every day, they switched to it from postfix to save cost.

I know Haraka is smtp only, however by using ZoneMTA like what wildduck is using, it will be a complete email solution.
Max Headroom

Both the original film '20 Minutes into the Future' and the US drama series. All very 80s cyberpunk. Mega corps and dystopia

Serial Experiment Lain

Lain explores 'The Wired' communication network and reality and the digital bleed together.

Strange Days

Noir styled look at abuse of power. A black market seller of recording of people emotions and memories tries to uncover who committed a murder.

Cyberpunk documentary

I know you said no documentaries but this covers many of the films and TV shows mentioned

Part 1 - https://youtu.be/sttm8Q9rOdQ

Part 2 - https://youtu.be/0VoX3vr6CCM

Part 3 - https://youtu.be/KczJNtexinY
That’s surprising. I used both a “Satechi” hub, and a Dell dock at work when I had my last x86 MBP and both worked fine for an external monitor and devices. Did you have some particular need re. thunderbolt or something?
Try 3 week sprints. Or 4. ShapeUp by Basecamp recommends 6 weeks. Sticking to the same things everyone is doing is counter agile, and you should be experimenting and see what works for your team
>EDIT: Perhaps kWh counts as metric, even though it's not SI?

No need for perhaps, unless it's btu (or some horse power/hour) it's metric.
> The extremely wealthy would do well to remember that they are human, and therefore _extremely_ vulnerable to physical violence. Because this is going to be the only outcome if they keep this up.

I don't think that's likely. The dominant ideology of the world, propped up by education, entertainment and other media is that the rich deserve whatever they have, because they are better people than the poor. Going against this dogma is heresy to most people of the world, they would gladly hurt themselves to help the rich.
If the power usage is correct on my UPS, my whole setup draws about 70W for:
- USG Pro 4
- Cloud Key gen 2
- Two basic POE Switches
- 4 access point
- 5 cameras
- 1 raspberry pi
- 1 VSDL Modem
Yes, you are right! You, just like the Catholic Church of 1610, are intolerant of those with differing opinions or for those that question authority. Absolutely amazing how the mere act of you scoffing at my Galileo reference actually proves my point.
A4 is so ubiquitous around me (Europe) that, no matter its merits or not, it's really a major PITA when you get documents that are not A4. They don't line up nicely with the A4 stuff. They don't go gently in the A4 folders / sleeves / pockets / ring binders (files) / etc.

Typical offenders in my case are medical bills printed on dot-matrix printers.

I don't even know if there's perforated continuous stationery/form paper with tractor holes that, once you strip the holes, is A4 sized? I guess it's really uncommon if it exists for I don't ever recall seeing any actually used.

Now don't get me wrong: hearing the song of a dot-matrix printer makes me happy (brings back lots of memories as my first printer was a dot-matrix one) and it's nice that that tech is still in use here and there. I just wish the dot-matrix printers in Europe would use A4 continuous paper (which may or may not even exist).

And don't get me started on oversized continuous paper that is not perforated: this is the kind of stuff that can trigger obsessive-compulsive disorder!

I guess all this rant to say that even in Europe, where A4 is ubiquitous, you still have places using other sizes than A3/A4/A5 etc.
Imagine having all the money in the world to afford a private jet. And you choose to go to Ibiza.
> nullptr, null-terminated strings

Any system that lacks them will have to hack them back in at some point, in one form or another.

Option<types> are not an option for C, and sentinels like NULL work just fine.
IPR are not natural rights. In theory at least, we (the demos) give artificial monopolies on the basis that they encourage creativity and innovation.

If you sell or publish your work, and especially if people buy it from you, then it becomes part of the culture of our societies. It is right then that you lose some control, especially if you've made enough money to support you for a period long enough to make a new work/innovation -- it would be stupid of us to make IPR so strong that people who had been supported to become creators/innovators were then encouraged to stop.

Culture works in a space where shared experiences are remixed, where past cultural experiences are reworked.

We need to respect the givers of those IPR rights and respect shared culture a little more IMO.

This is of course my own personal opinion and in no way relates to my employment.
How does this size have anything to do with the metric system, it could have been any units of length with same ratio.
Like USA will begin in 2023!? I could hardly believe it when I heard it, it is barely three centuries away!
display sizes are in inches everywhere (like in the world) indeed - mostly b/c they are produced in such a way...
I learned C in the late 1970s (although most of my programming back then was in FORTRAN, Assembly, and Pascal). Around the same time I was using a ones-complement system, a CDC 6000 series machine. This was an important machine at the time. The CDC 6600 was the first “super computer” and was three times faster that the preceding fastest computer.

The peculiar vagueness of the early C standards with respect to integers was probably due to the variety of hardware we used in the 1970s. For example:

The CDC 6000/7000s had 60-bit words, ones compliment arithmetic, 6 bit chars (but machine addresses were only of the 60 bit words).

The peripheral processors of the CDC machines (responsible for I/O) had 12-bit words as I recall.

IBMs very popular 360 mainframes supported several native hardware number formats: twos complement, unsigned, zoned decimal (one decimal digit per 8-bit byte), and packed decimal (two digits per byte).

I believe C was first developed on the DEC PDP-11. This was a very popular computer with 16 bit words and 8 bit bytes. It was twos complement, but mixed endianess (big endian for the 16 bit words making up a 32-bit long and little endian for the bytes in the 16-bit words).

Other DEC computers of the 1960s used 12 bit program counters and accumulators; I did some assembly language programming on the PDP-6 (it cost $300,000 back then and 24 were sold).

I seem to recall using a system with 18 bit registers and 9 bit bytes, but I can’t remember the details.

One system that I did assembly language programming on for a year was the TI 960. This machine was notable because it had two separate 64KB address spaces, one for data and one for instruction, known as a Harvard architecture instead of Von Neumann architecture. The advantage of the Harvard architecture was that a program couldn’t inadvertently modify the code it was running, a frequent and difficult to untangle occurrence when programming assembly. The Von Neumann architecture became dominant because it didn’t chop the available memory in two and partly because self modifying code was believed to be sometimes useful (yikes).
Thanks, that is helpful to know. However, a switch-mode power supply is quite different from a reactive load. Cheap ones tend to draw power only near the voltage peaks, whereas better ones improve on that. See [1] and [2]. So the question remains how well these cheap power meters cope with such a nonlinear load.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched-mode_power_supply#Pow...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor#Power_factor_corr...
Rackmount an Intel NUC (2021)
> therefore _extremely_ vulnerable to physical violence. Because this is going to be the only outcome if they keep this up

This is an immature reaction. We’re talking about Europe, not sub-Saharan Africa. Those same planes would have the wealthy safely out of harm’s way, likely with a good portion of their capital, while the idiots who threw away their peace are left to squabble over remains.
Let the rich spend their money!

They had an extremely hard time two years in a row buying at 0.5% interest and speculating on the boom of the housing market, they need to relax and enjoy now!
"The Ministry for the Future" (book) covers this quite well. It only seems more prescient by the day.
American workers need lots and lots of robots
The author basically reimplemented the Source renderer from scratch:

https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/tree/master/src/So...

Same goes for every other game.
2x4 is a name of lumber that's not 2 by 4 inches at all.
No it wasn't a complete shut in, and I consider getting on an airplane a major achievement. Re Omicron, my simplistic explanation is that its spread is mainly caused by people eating in restaurants. At least irrationally I felt protected by everyone wearing high quality masks.
> pointer decay

This is an issue? Works fine for me.
I'm my above story, speed limit was generally 100/110kph and involved constant hill climbing. It would have been a test for any Tesla. Lots of point-of-no-return driving where the links between chargers was more than 1/2 of total range, which is scary in avalanche/fire/flood country.
DIN 5008 should be required reading for anyone ;-)

I do care, though, and use ISO 8601 almost exclusively in writing. And I do know a few others. Perhaps things will change eventually.
The article sadly misses the root of the An sizes. A0 has an area of 1m^2, setting its dimensions and defining the rest of the sizes. Quite genius!

The B sizes start at B0 with a length on the short side of 1m, then follow the same pattern. The C sizes, often used for envelopes, are defined as the geometric mean between the equivalent A and B size.

As a child of an architect, when I was a kid my dad would bring old A0 drawings home as paper we could draw and paint on the back of. Loved it.

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Edit: it does mention it, I skimmed it too fast…
And that's what I wrote, they were indeed taken from other disciplines. Thanks for expanding it.
No one really does it any more, but "half-pound" (halvt pund) in Danish means 250g, which was the common way of ordering butter before the supermarkets took over (and why butter used[0] to come in packages of 250g). Similarly, in Sweden, one mile is 10 km.

[0] These days, and selling butter in 200g packages to keep the prices seemingly low.
Surely it’s part of the fun in an otherwise dull work day? Like bouncing a beach balloon at a concert.
Temperature near 0°C is very important when we travel (meteo, ...).
Temperature near 100°C is important when we cook (eggs, pasta, rice).

We can leave hands in water at 50°C. Above, it slightly start to cause burns.

This is a range that make a lot of sense IMHO.