skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, remember that energy = power * time. Yes a kettle 13A kettle pulls 2990W in the UK and 1560W in the US... but it would take twice as long to boil the water in the US.

For the energy consumed the voltage is close to irrelevant.
> Yes, they are more sustainable but they are in no way replacements.

Yes, they are (source: am vegan).

> a bean and rice burrito with salsa. It's delicious. That's the type of replacements that should be pushed, not fake meats

If you're not vegan, please don't pretend you know what you're pushing for. Beans are superb, but a little variety won't harm anyone. If you'd eat burgers all your life, and then stop eating meat for the animals/health/earth, you might crave a burger now and then. Then you'd welcome all new "franken-meats" in the supermarket/burger joint.

Making a plant based meat that's not ultraprocessed is in fact a very simple thing to do. DIY plant-based meat may have minimum ingredients (protein, water & vegie-stock) and costs a fraction of the store-bought stuff.

And please stop pretending that omnivores don't eat processed crap, because they do.

Meat/dairy is full of harmful things (pesticides, herbicides, bacteria/toxins, antibiotics, all animals are scared/stressed for hours/days before slaughtering ...). If you're eating it, you're not eating healthier diet.
Yeah. I want the 'surveillance utopia' along with a good leadership. The latter is a must for it to be useful, else more bads will happen than good.
And so? I need a KW of power for the next hour, I'll buy from whoever will sell it to me at the cheapest price. Why would anyone sell it to me at less than the highest price (gas) - 0.01€? As long as demand is inelastic I believe that it's unavoidalbe that price will settle up to the price of the most expensive unit sold.
If I recall correctly didn't Yahoo used to provide the BTinternet.com email service? I seem to remember some announcements about BT eventually moving off it but not sure if the backend MTAs changed.

https://home.bt.com/pages/email/index2.html
They are imperial units. The trouble is that US Customary and imperial units are often very similar but rarely the same. The US pint (and gallon) are different to the imperial one; the US pound mass (lb) and UK ones became the same after the 1950s, but the "hundredweight" or cwt is different between the two – the US 100 weight is 100 lb; and in the UK it is naturally...112 lb. Of course, both systems are in rare usage in both countries (in the US, I understand in some industrial contexts; in the UK on some road signs for weak bridges). It is for this reason that "ton" is different, because, naturally, in both systems there are 20 hundredweight in a ton.

The whole thing is absolutely mad and most efforts to standardise the systems historically lead to the adoption of the SI unit system for "important" things, as well as a few good intentioned bits of legislation, like the International Yard and Pound agreement [1] which standardised those measures between the US and other former imperial users. Don't get me started on the survey foot, or the hell that arose when the units of classical mechanics, electromagnetism or similar scientific systems had to meet imperial or US customary units...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_yard_and_pound
It can be enforced when complaints come in.
Covid app can detect virus from people’s voice
I like monochrome film and photography, but removing color from an already shot movie is troubling. Generally both mediums have their merit, but black and white scenes aren't usually shot in the same way as color ones. For example, go look for color photos by Ansel Adams, who was typically a B&W photographer - he often even used the same subjects and angles, but it's clear that he was shooting for a much more dramatic lighting for his monochrome works. He'd pick the weather and time of day to add as much shadows, contrast and texture, but would avoid all of that for his color scenes.
Yeah, tree based models are great for tabular datasets that are primarily numeric, with only a few categorical variables. But as soon as you categorical variables have a 1000+ potential values that need 1-hot encoding or if you have any natural language text associated with your rows, deep learning almost always outperforms, especially if you have over 50K instances in my experience.

The major downside of DL is the slow training, and therefore slow iteration feedback loop. Couple that with an exponentially growing number or hparams to tune, and you get something very powerful but costly in terms of time to use.

But if you want the best possible accuracy, and data collection isn't expensive, DL is the way to go. Just expect to spend 10x the amount of time tuning it vs trees to get a 10% to 20% reduction in error.
Hexdump, xdd, Binwalk, Binary Ninja, and Ghidra, along with a good text editor that supports hex, I use vi like this:

$ xxd /bin/ls | vi - /to open file
: xxd -r /to save files

for gzip files, extract those, that is the best representation of what’s inside IMO, then look at those binary individually.
Good luck!
Wildly addictive!

Bravo. What a nice piece of software!
That's what those doing discrimination had historically claimed in many ocassions tho: that the other group is not actually discriminated, but that they are "rightfully curbed" (because they stir up trouble, they have the wrong views, and so on).
There’s also billions going into commercial fusion reactors, which haven’t turned net positive yet. The goal of the investment is to build that capability tho, same (I think?) as with quantum computing. Weird critique imo.
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> Suppose the team needs to start a new web service like a private Gitlab, add new type of CI to the testing pipeline or something similar. Could you explain the exact steps needed to get it fully operational?

What does this question even mean? Like implementing a new CI service? Or creating a new ci/cd piepeline for the new application?
It's simple, SpaceX, Tesla and Starlink are evolutions of existing technology.

FSD, Hyperloop and such would be revolution like out of a Sci-Fi movie.
They fail all because Musk like would like to have those things but in reality these things are much more complicated as he says.
Can you give an example of a non-metric unit that is more practical than it's metric counterpart outside of familiarity?
So what software actually uses this / what compiler supports this if it's neither supported nor documented by Apple?
Except engineering/architecture. Making design software for architects and civil engineers in Europe then (trying to) introduce it to the US market is a b**h!
I did not remember that one… great suggestion!
The problem isn't that you're too busy
> It's essentially the only sensible way in which the rich are clearly different from the middle class these days

So it's private jet or you're middle class? That's a ludicrous statement, really.

You conveniently forget the universe of luxury amenities that wealth grants you, and more importantly the power you get as a consequence. Being able to move fast on private jets is just a small fraction of the benefits.
> 5. Prompt the reader to evaluate how their thoughts had changed after reading the expert version of the article.

Basing the perceived quality of an article on an appeal to authority doesn't make much sense either.

The Royal Society's motto is literally "take nobody's word for it."
Because its boulevard clickbait designed to enrage and upset.
It's pretty handy that 1 A4 sheet at 80gsm weighs 5 grams

(A4 sheet area: 1/(2^4) = 1/16 of a square metre) * (standard paper weight of 80 grams per square metre) = (5 grams per A4 80gsm sheet).

Would have been useful for calculating postage.
Yeah, the linked comment says it pretty clearly

> I will say that I've never written a line of Rust in my life and certainly can't be described as representing the Rust community in any way.

If this is the best example out there then it does feel like GP was arguing against a strawman.

But even otherwise, please let’s acknowledge that in any large community there’s going to be a minority who are loud and rude. It doesn’t advance the conversation much to point it out. They don’t represent the whole community any more than the comment I linked to represents the whole HN community.

All I can say is that whenever I’ve seen such rudeness it’s moderated out pretty quick, whether here or elsewhere.
I have a friend who is a pilot for a privet jet charter company, he has not only had a very busy summer, they have been super busy since covid hit. They were restricted from taking any (none required) time off for the last few months.

On the other hand another friend who flys long haul for a large national branded airline has had a fairly slow few years.
The risk about self-hosting that still worries me the most: what happens when you piss someone off, they email you highly illegal images, and then they alert the authorities? It's in your mail, on infrastructure you own (for the moment), and possibly in your home or on your personal devices. With a larger provider, they would at least have a chance at blocking the content, and hopefully be involved in any investigation that happened. They probably know how to deal with that well because it probably happens from time to time. If you self-host, it's probably going to be a very direct, unpleasant, and harmful matter between the authorities and you, and the authorities will probably not be willing to understand your hacker ethos if they can just assume you're an evil scumbag.

EDIT: I'm assuming here that, if you use e.g. gmail, you would be suspicious of any unsolicited attachments and not sync them to your personal devices.

EDIT: If you're not worried about this happening once, what about if it happens once a month for several years?
> There is almost never any valid reason to block an entire ip address. Single user accounts (e-mail addresses), maybe, if compromised.

I'm sorry but that's just very naive.
Find a french startup and come over on the tech talent passport.

Most remote friendly tech jobs I've seen offer a 90k euro base, at which point you live like royalty in most cities.
No, probably it just drives the cost of housing even higher.
In the process of getting rich you will one day discover that your interests align now with those you once opposed as you are now part of the club. Welcome to the ruling class! (That is if you even get the chance to make it up.)

As for crowdfunding, the wealth distribution is such that even if the bottom 50 percent of the population in the US all united, they could be outspend by the top one percent 16 times overs. On a global scale it is even worse.
Well I've gotten blocked from being delivered Outlook-hosted mail because my primary MX is on a Linode block that at times get listed with UCEProtect (level 3 even!!!)

Why can't the big ones just check SPF and DKIM etc and let us responsible self-hosters do our thing
> California recently asked electric car owners to not charge at certain times of the day.

California asked its residents to save electricity (so, among other things, not charge cars) between 4 and 9 pm - during the evening peak.

That's not when most people charge their EVs.

This has been sensationalized by some media outlets.
As a Brit, I completely support the US giving up imperial measures for Europeans giving up decimal commas.
Chiswick gym-goer has bank account emptied after locker raid
> The same with the plant burgers take more water to make than meat.

Maybe this. It's a fallacy.
As was seen recently in Sri Lanka when the corrupt ex-president tried to run away by plane, you can't if the people hate you because the plane doesn't fly itself from nowhere - it needs mechanics, air traffic control, passport control, pilots, etc. He managed to escape with a military plane, but that's unlikely to be an option for your random rich person not ex-military chief.

And Europe, especially France, has a rich history of getting rid of upper classes on occasion.
This is an interesting way to do it. Very simple, and like units we've got in the UK but I like how simple this. Might give it a go
The main argument for imperial units in aviation I have seen relate to the fact that one nautical mile is almost exactly one minute of latitude on earth, and one knot is one nautical mile per hour, and therefore an aviator who may experience a total electrical failure and is left with his "six-pack" of unpowered, passive-only instruments could navigate with a wristwatch and paper chart relatively accurately.

I'm not saying I agree with it, but it is at least understandable!
A key distinction tends to be whether a value is mostly used for internal comparison.

E.g TV sizes are mainly compared with each other, and so the unit used doesn't really matter, and if you want to know the external dimensions it'll typically be given in metric in countries which uses it.
Data from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)

Wikipedia: a satellite-based sensor used for earth and climate measurements. They capture data in 36 spectral bands ranging in wavelength from 0.4 μm to 14.4 μm and at varying spatial resolutions (2 bands at 250 m, 5 bands at 500 m and 29 bands at 1 km). Together the instruments image the entire Earth every 1 to 2 days.

I looked this up because I want to know fires too close by. Updates every 1 to 2 days is not very useful for that.

In Portugal there is https://fogos.pt/ which is updated very frequently.
This is true, I have friends 10 years younger than me who were never taught imperial units at school. These people are in their early 20s now, give it another decade or so and they'll start to be the people making decisions. We'll finally be able to rid ourselves of the anachronism of imperial measurements.
> It's almost all defending against the pro-Fahrenheit folks making strange arguments promoting it, like somehow you can't measure your life unless it's in F.

I didn't make that argument. Fahrenheit is more natural in a lot of cases because of the range and delineation between whole number temperatures. Celsius is slightly less so but not all the time.

My entire point, which was lost in the bikeshedding is that it is not "shocking" that the metric system isn't used everywhere in daily experience because non-metric systems were literally invented to be useful and practical. Are they perfect? No. Neither is the metric system for daily human use.

The U.S. is a big place and thus has wide-ranging temperatures, and that probably contributes to resistance to getting rid of Fahrenheit, amongst other things and other measurement systems. The U.S. built a huge amount of modern infrastructure before anyone else and has never experienced a "rebuild" period. For non-engineering purposes, there's no downside to using non-metric units, and a lot of downsides in converting. As the back and forth here shows, there's probably a strong argument to be made that the measuring systems don't matter at all in an ideal world where it's free to convert entire countries back and forth between them. But for some reason, a lot of the world feels very superior for using the metric system.

Again. Not "shocking" as the original comment I replied to mentioned.
Sorry for the little hijacking: An alternative to using "regular" dumps might be MySQL Shells dump utility. Contrary to mysqldump etc. it doesn't save data in SQL but some CSV-like format. This won't solve the "@gmail.com" case but avoid the repetitive "INSERT INTO tablename VALUES (" for each record and what isn't there doesn't have to be compressed to begin with. (And then is paralizable etc., downside might be that it is not using a single file, but a number of files)
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-shell/8.0/en/mysql-shell-uti...

Depending on your needs you could also look at the MySQL clone plugin, which gives you a simple way to clone the data dictionary as physical backup, avoiding the textual representation, but has its restriction.
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/clone-plugin.html

Disclaimer: I work at the MySQL development team at Oracle
When is this ever left to chance? Why would a system randomly decide to try decoding a stream as brotli if it isn't?
Yes, it's Microsoft (the author confirmed in a thread on Twitter).
The speed of your windows program was much lower. More so if you needed to use the mouse.
Well, I don’t think an employee who fantasises about sinking the ship by leaving is still a “good, well motivated” employee
> But it isn't impossible, remember the government broke up Standard Oil, ultimately they do have the power to change laws if the political will is there.

I can't confidently say that you're wrong and that such change is impossible (I honestly don't know and have made the choice to be optimistic), but I think it's fair to say that our political system and the environment it operates in has changed dramatically since 1911. Many of the changes we've seen since then were orchestrated by industry with the specific goal of limiting the possibility or effectiveness of the government interfering in their activities. The brake up of Standard Oil, or even Ma Bell, may not be a very good indicator of what is possible today.
I agree: Quantum computing = Quantum quatsch!
Seems like it's less of an issue for their applied research and more to do with ethics or policy researchers.

From my point of view, most of these folks would have to be deluding themselves the moment they apply for the job, or incredibly ignorant of google's past.
> Well I've gotten blocked from being delivered Outlook-hosted mail because my primary MX is on a Linode block that at times get listed with UCEProtect (level 3 even!!!)

I really don't think Microsoft would ever touch that pile of shit, most likely your spammy neighbour got your neighbourhood blacklisted at both places simultaneously.

> Why can't the big ones just check SPF and DKIM etc and let us responsible self-hosters do our thing

Most of the spammers have valid SPF and DKIM. Quite a few have entire subnets of IP addresses to spew spam from. That's why a random IP and just those two aren't sufficient to just start blasting.
I don't feel like either Celsius or Fahrenheit are any more natural than the other in most contexts. It just comes down to what you're used to. They're both relatively arbitrary.

I'm not sure why 0f is a big dangerous milestone in outdoor temperature. Is -18c/-1f really that different to -17c/1f? If anything, there's a much stronger argument that 0c is the dangerous milestone because that's when you get ice.

Really the only temperatures I care about on a day to day basis are like, freezing temperature (0c/32f), room temperature (20c/70f-ish) and various benchmark outdoor temperatures, like 30c/90f being hot and 40c/100f being potentially dangerous. You can +- a few C either way on any of those (except freezing) and it doesn't really make a difference. Cooking, even baking, is usually fine within around 10c. Sous vide is apparently a lot more sensitive but I've never done that.

Very occasionally I deal with something something like a kettle thermostat or boiler thermostat, where I might choose something like 100c/212f or 50c/120f respectively. I also use an IR thermometer for cooking pancakes, pizza and monitoring my wood stove - but neither Farenheit or Celcius are any more useful in that context.
There is no point in not using the land tho. Especially as cows even play a role in keeping the Alps tourist friendly. The meat I personally buy doesn't contain any crops grown elsewhere. It's 100% from the land around here, there is no need for power crops in cow food if the grass has actual biodiversity.

I totally agree that this isn't sustainable on a bigger scale. I also realize that some people can't afford this kind of meat and the 'dirty' market is always way bigger.

But it's not about a global solution. It's about finding a sustainable way of living where you are.
If it’s not a personal submission then remove names and karma.
The biggest roadblock to serverless email is that it doesn't use the http protocol. Afaik all serverless providers only process http(s) requests, usually specifically on port 80/443 only, so SMTP/POP3/IMAP don't simply work serverless. You'd need at least a proxy that wraps them in http, or convince all email services to support a new http based protocol.

Arguably, a http based email protocol would be a good thing. Not only would it enable serverless, it would also enable all the features of http/2&3, like compression, multiplexing and better pipelining. Someone would just need to define it.
The downside would be that VPS providers can not limit mail spam from their servers by just blocking outbound traffic on certain ports, so you'd find all their IPs to quickly be blacklisted. So the protocol should ideally somehow also offer some form of spam detection/prevention that works better than simple IP blacklists to prevent that.
I will admit celsius 0 is useful for farming (will there be a bud-killing frost?), but I have no issue with the use of celsius in industry; there are merits for each system, and we don't need to eliminate one to get the benefit of the other. We can use each in their context, like we do with many other things.
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I have another strange issue.

The document attachments which come along with incoming email are still listed in "Documents" tab in Outlook even after they have been purged from secondary trash. The documents themselves aren't available (cannot be opened) but a list of all documents which have ever arrived (including JPGs/PNGs in signaturss) are still visible in that tab. I flagged this issue once but no resolution yet
Presumably first party software that qualifies. I’m thinking siri, or their AR stuff. It’s possible it’s also used by something like CoreML where there is a public facing framework that utilizes this under the hood.

I have no special info, these are just guesses.
Ask HN: Did you ever find it difficult to find your “voice” on the internet?
I've always been a lurker on reddit and HN. But recently I've felt that I need to contribute more but I still find it hard to write comments without cringing at my own writing. The same goes for tweets and any other social media submission.

Did anybody else feel like this? Did you have any strategies/tips/mindset-shift to become better at contributing?

(regular posting is what I'm trying atm}
> Several countries (e.g. France) use the word pound (livre) to mean 500g

Note that nobody I know below the age of 70 uses the "livre" unit in France. It's something you see pretty much only in old recipes
> If it gets to that point they will start bankrolling far right militias

They already are, kind of. The far-righest presidential candidate who was bordering on fascist in France was bankrolled to absurd amounts by one of the richest assholes in France, Vincent Bolloré. Bankrolling a militia isn't a far stretch from bankrolling someone advocating for banning non-French names and expelling everyone of foreign descent.
Private jets only average 448 hours a year? I'm surprised, I had imagined many of them to be either used a lot or rented out and not be grounded 95% of the year. Does that include "empty flights" to get the jet to the location of the passenger?

I guess we should also consider private turbo props (not really jets? but "private jets" is probably just short for "private plane" for all intents and purposes").