skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greenhouses get warm because while the sunlight warms them, the cold air outside doesn't mix with the hot air inside. The hot air stays inside. Which is why ventilation is very important in greenhouses, you still want some cooling or it would get too hot. Ventilators in greenhouses bring some cold air from outside. Convection is just a word saying transfer of heat by the hot stuff moving around. That's how most cooling works because it's much more efficient than cooling by radiation. When you turn on fans, you cool faster because the cold air coming to you is moving faster and the hot air which was heated by you moves faster.

So greenhouse is like staying in a closed room with closed windows but when sunlight gets in. It gets warm and you want to open the window to let the warm air go out.

Minewhile, the greenhouse effect is a misnomer. The way that works is that CO2 absorbs thermal radiation. Most objects in room temperature radiate heat in the infra red. (Much hotter objects, like hot metals, radiate in the red wavelength, which is why hot metals look red). Even without any contact with the environment, like an object in vacuum, still radiate thermal radiation. Since earth is in vacuum, the only way for earth to cool is to radiate. And CO2 absorbs thermal radiation more than other components of the air. It also emits thermal radiation, just like everything else. The greenhouse effect is the prevention of cooling by radiation.

And this description is quite simplistic. Because actually, CO2 isn't reflective of CO2, and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_law_of_thermal... means that at the same temperature, CO2 absorbs and emits the same amounts of radiation.

There's also the fact that CO2 cools with convection faster because it has higher heat capacity. So the whole narrative isn't as clear cut and obvious as it is presented. And remember that CO2 is just 0.025% of the atmosphere so you're measuring a very small effect to begin with.

You could try to do detailed calculations, but the climate models are incredibly complicated and still oversimplify by treating kilometers of earth as uniform material. Anyone presenting you with a picture where the results of CO2 should be "obvious" is intentionally misleading and skimming all the points that would contradict it.
.. not to mention the impressive apparatus that was applied to make people think that the Cuban missile crisis started with Soviet missiles showing up in Cuba ..
- I recently bought a monitor and plugged it in. Sound stopped working until I rebooted. Figured it out easily with pavucontrol of course (just toggling things) but only after reboot. Annoying but fair enough.

- Connecting/disconnecting monitors is flaky, sometimes it requires a few toggles in arandr (which already helps a lot). Maybe there is a better tool I could use?

- Some wifi networks sometimes dont' work out of the box even though I'm just using the easy nm-applet.

- Like one friend's hotspot that I needed to use one time, didn't work and I gave up

- Some "exotic" public wifi networks like libraries require more effort.

- or even simple public wifi networks that simply require a web portal login (I've learned to just open nmcheck.gnome.org to access the portal easily, since accessing the default gateway IP address doesn't always work)

Obviously it's all a question of how much effort you put into it. I try to keep things as simple as possible to avoid spending time on this stuff. Would love to get any suggestions or ideas :)
And while I'm here, we need a better "standard" of reporting MPC on EVs based on the manufacturer's suggested daily charge rate (80 - 90%), not the maximum that could be achieved in specific scenarios.
Such a "smh" opinion.

AI is useful. The vast majority of crypto are just scams and unregistered securities. Crypto mining is wasteful.

Are you going to tax whenever people who use the neural engine inside the iPhone? Makes no sense to tax AI energy use.
> I still find that ChatGPT in this regard is still more like a Google or an improved StackOverflow/documentation search…

I agree. And for that reason, it is an excellent tool.
Huh, they really went all the way with it. Pretty neat. Really looking like one point shop for everything trucker/trucker company might want.
> Nope it’s ad hominem

Demonstrate exactly how it's ad hominem. I couldn't care less about you in the first place. You haven't refuted anything I said neither regarding the whataboutism, nor any other point I made regarding the conflict, so please do elaborate how exactly my points about your whining of whataboutism is ad hominem?

> you could discuss the merits of Ukraine on its own but instead you had to try to obfuscate and distract by expanding to Yugoslavia.

Why would I discuss the merits of Ukraine on its own if your argument is wholly based on the idea of morailty and ethics of actions (the ones you call disgraceful, unjustified and indefensible) that are supposed to be applied equally to everyone? I want to see how you apply it universally across the board, and until that happens I call you a person with an agenda to propagandise.

But let's entertain the idea, let's see how you cover "the merits of Ukraine on its own". What's happening on this video and who's receiving the medals? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwpBvJziSs&t=365s
You're implying this does happen. Where does this happen? I've never experienced it.
There is nothing wrong with a healthy appreciation for the past.

It's a modern phenomena to disregard everything that has gone before as "outdated". The tech industry has had a good long run of not looking back, but we are far enough along that a lot of good ideas that have been abandoned or left fallow are sitting around waiting to be re-implemented or reinterpreted.

Two examples I'm involved in:

- https://htmx.org is building on the idea of hypermedia and has a distinct 90s flavor to it

- https://hyperscript.org is a re-imagination of HyperTalk, the scripting language from HyperCard, for the web

I like the idea of building organically on the ideas of the past. Lots of people way smarter than me just happened to be born at a different time in the arc of the computer revolution. Why wouldn't I look back at what they did, play with it and maybe think about how it might apply to today?
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If anyone is interested in playing around with dithering, I built a tool for it.

https://doodad.dev/dither-me-this/

I actually wish I had Surma's article before I made it — would have given me the knowledge to add blue noise and Riemersma as options.
My wife's recipes are ALL tested by me. Multiple times. I even used her recipes to cook myself (rare).
Her cooking blog and vlog didn't get any attention other than lots of hate for the Borsch vs Borscht debate and others.
Her blog: https://www.rednumberone.com/
Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/@rednumberone1

I really wish she made more of these so I can test interesting food - sacrifice man.
Tell her to make more.
All made real, all photos are made by her and the videos too.

It takes a lot longer to make a recipe for photos and video.
Preparation for photos and video recording gives you a strong reason to make-up recipes 10 / day and hope they go well.
Microsoft and friends
Its mainly meant Vanilla as in the UI.
> iii) The fact that the present is shrill, exhaustively hyped, manipulated and in a sense damaged. Tech is no longer a force for good and we long for the time when this illusion was available.

I agree with this sentiment to some extent. Yet, I am struggling to identify if it's "just me getting old" or if there is more to it.
> I agree that removing some human interactions from my life is good. I vastly prefer self-checkouts in shops.

Curious example. Personally, I hate self-checkouts machines, and consider them an example of stores abusing their "stickiness" to profit at the expense of both customers and employees, and get away with it.

First of all, like most "self service" solution, it's basically making the user/customer do the work that, before, was done by the service. Secondly, it's just plain less efficient. You need some 3-4 self-checkout machines and a dedicated person to watch them (to e.g. approve alcohol purchases), just to replace one clerk and their station, while keeping throughput more-less the same. What the stores do instead is, install 2 stations per replaced cashier, and have existing employees do the "watch duty" - which is why half the self-checkout machines end up being stuck for 5 minutes at a time, waiting for the overworked employee to finish resupplying a shelf, and walk all the way to the checkout arena to swipe their card a few times.

The queues get longer, people get more aggressive, everyone is doing unpaid work for the store. Madness.
Black mirror is a prediction
I have experienced exactly the opposite, I feel my work has become a lot easier today than two decades ago.

Back in the day remote access to customer infrastructure was non existent, so you had to travel a lot and spend countless hours on the phone.

Working with teams overseas was also challenging, there was no Teams, Zoom or Discord, the best you could hope for was Messenger (then Skype) or trying to get everyone on a call.

But most of the stuff was done over email, which is a terrible tool for synchronous communications.

Documentation has become easier to maintain as well.

I agree that many companies are overwhelmed with technology and many of the processes have become redundant, but that's mostly due to poor design and implementation.

A good document management system, good standards and training really improves documentation.

We stopped using network shares for documentation about three years ago.

All of our development,dms,collaboration and communication tools are on Azure.

Not all are perfect and we miss some functionality by being locked out with MS but they all integrate pretty well for the most part.

We recently got rid of the last few line phones in our offices and we are all now 100% on Teams for external communications as well.

As for the human part, that's something really subjective.

I keep my social life almost completely disconnected from work, and although I enjoy the monthly happy hour with colleagues and small talk in the office sometimes, I don't have any personal desire of having human interactions at work.
We have a better abstraction of this process in general:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment
> - A replacement/substitute for a therapist? I doubt even GPT-4 can do that job better than actual therapist

Maybe if you qualify that with “unusually good” therapist. IME even Eliza in Emacs is better than most therapists. ChatGPT surely leaves them in the dust.
From the maker of the truckla!
Then issue is that gnome 2 was actually good. Gnome 3 was not.
The problem is that any talk of additional taxes is unnecessary if governments can’t do their jobs with the money they have.

Just recently, my small town had their roads paved. It cost $35,000 to bring a miller in, and the county engineer made a mistake where only 1 of our roads were being milled. It took another $35,000 to bring it back to do the rest.

Adding taxes can’t fix government inefficiency, in fact they make it worse.
Welp I've read 4 or 5 comments that give plausible yet different explanations. So I won't add my own but just ask: do you think it's a positive or negative thing? I prefer to not have the old stuff in the headlines. It's more interesting when someone references an old article in the comments.
My wife is a professional recipe writer for magazines, books, restaurants, meal-kit services, and companies.

She absolutely tests the recipes. A huge part of her work is testing for other people in addition to writing them etc. Testing itself is a HUGE industry.

I don’t want to say anything bad about a family member, but please treat your comment as a reflection on her, and not of recipe writers in general.
Show HN: Understand Android classes faster with framework support in Tumbleweed
> If we start feeling (something akin to) genuine human connection to a service

I don't. I see it as a tool, and I treat it as a tool. I don't have with it any more of a human connection than I have with IntelliJ where I type my code or the Linux Mint where it runs. Meaning - I like the tool, but that's about it.

On the other hand, I also don't have any genuine human connection with the random humans I happened to interact on the internet. In a sense, they are just text on a screen, and could be bots for all I care.
That sounds more like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caiman
Top productivity tip I recommend if you feel overwhelmed by lists
Love the idea of setting one minimum 'must complete' task for the day. Once I've ticked it off the list, the feeling of accomplishment and success makes getting through the rest of the list much easier.

It's the one productivity tip I recommend if you feel overwhelmed by lists.
Show HN: YouTube Summary CLI
This simple tool was born out of a personal need for a more efficient way to consume YouTube content.

It provides you with a short and segment-wise summary of a YouTube video. Each segment is printed with a link to that part of the video.
I know there are several Chrome extensions that do this, butI work with different browsers so I wanted a simple CLI app for that.

Hope this helps anyone else. Any feedback would be much appreciated
Refreshing to see a counterexample to betteridges law of headlines[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
I've had this conversation with people many times, a consequence is that some of them have no idea what caramelised onions actually are - they think it's the state you get to after 10 mins.

Thinly slice 10 onions, dump them in a big pot with some oil on a medium heat for 10-15 minutes stirring frequently. Then turn the heat down to low and cook for a further 45-60 mins, check on it and stir every 10 mins or so. When it gets dry, add water and use it to deglaze the bottom of the pan to prevent burning. It's finished when the onions are a deep brown colour and their volume has reduced to about 1/6th of what it was to begin with. Store in fridge, enjoy with every meal in the following few days.
New 'Max' Streaming Service Launches, Replacing HBO Max
MusicV
The source and documentation for Max Mathews MusicV, the synthesis program that started it all back in 1966 and led us to Csound, PD, Max/MSP, Cmix and countless others, even updated to run on modern systems.
We're haunted by the spectre of futures past. Dreams, promised futures, possibilities, lost never to be.
Sounds like a joke maybe?
I’d really like to modernize Simcity 4. Throw some AI on it for simulation. Stable diffusion for one of kind buildings. I just realized you can do so much with AI to make old games interesting now.

Who knows, maybe that will be a big trend in the near future.
However it was present in the release shipped to reviewers, who wrote their reviews which including saying how windows worked better on ms-dos
To my reading VARA only applies to living artists
People like me have an issue asking people questions specifically because people-related reasons. LLMs aren't people (yet), so those reasons don't apply. So in this context, the technology is making things easier for us.
>I elected the government in large part to protect...us.

Protect you from who?

>I want them to spy on our enemies.

Who are these enemies, and how did we identify them as such? Do we just spy until we found one?
Milks and Sausage are not brand names. It would be more like a company advertising themselves as "not a search-engine".
YouTuber home cooks make it “live”, so I generally trust those. Same for Gordon Ramsey, Marco Pierre White, Heston Blumenthal etc.

As far as YouTubers go you have the holy trinity of Adam Ragusea, Ethan Chlenpwoski and Joshua Weissman, although I dislike the latter and would sub (haha) him out for Brian Lagerstrom.

All of those YouTubers hit a good balance between: scientific basis, concise clear steps and taking reasonable shortcuts.
Back in the day, we'd never talk so much about the past.
"its not like after Munich, Britain and France invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia"

But Poland and Hungary did [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Czechoslovakia_(...
> Describing something as vegan cheese or plant based cheese, you know exactly what it is

No, you don't. One example is "pizza cheese". Before the big EU dairy-product-naming crackdown, there were brands of "pizza cheese" that were actually plant fat with aromatics and binder/emulsifier. In the cheese section, without any obvious labeling that "cheese" didn't really mean "cheese".
You're conflating transport encryption and E2E encryption. The OP article is only about E2E encryption, which is not fully implemented on Facebook to date, so not allowing them (and other VLOPs in the same position) to implement it just maintains the status quo.

My claim is that these platforms have a proven history of elevating CSAM on the web and are turning to a currently unused technology, E2E encryption of messages and groups, to crystalize the problem instead of tackle it.

This has nothing to do with theoretical beliefs about encryption in general, the value of transport encryption used by Facebook and nearly every other website, or personal liberties. Nobody needed E2E encryption on Facebook in its first couple decades. Nothing is being sacrificed if they don't implement it now. The sacrifice happens when the _do_ implement it. We sacrifice the ability to do anything about the CSAM influencers profiting on the platform.

I'm not even arguing for a blanket ban of E2EE. What I'm arguing for is that we don't allow VLOPs to use it.
It scales to "don't run untrusted code if you are concerned about security"
Disney begins third round of expected layoffs, cutting more than 2,500 jobs
Extreme lack of innovation in tech. Everything “new” is bland, corporate, rehashed, locked down, drivel. There’s still great stuff happening but it’s not universally interesting like things tended to be years ago.
Back in my daily GNU/Linux days, I even wrote magazine articles about Gtkmm.

Nowadays, I rather not use a desktop that requires extensions for basic stuff (written in JavaScript!), no longer supports window shading, and hates files on the desktop.
Just don’t allow that, it doesn’t seem to be a slippery slope at all. Is there any evidence people are getting fooled by oat milk or nut cheese?
They did it even before that with the game Love Plus for the Nintendo DS.
> Why should an agency be allowed to spy on non-americans more anyway?

Uh… how about we start with Americans
Mostly agreed, at some point it’s just false advertising. If carrots should not be labeled “vegetable sausages”, so shouldn’t be “this is not *MILK* : a vegetarian parody” allowed. It’ll be especially troublesome when there are nutritional expectations.
> I tend to disagree on that one, unless you are particularly experienced, or naturally gifted, measuring tools (timers, scales, thermometers,...) will give you the best results. At least for me, that's the case.

If you’re baking then you usually must follow the recipes as it will yield the best results. Experience will tell you more or less water will result in what. More or less baking soda will alter the result in what way. Etc

But if you’re cooking dinners, you don’t really need to follow recipes. Soup? You can often just throw whatever you want in the pot and it doesn’t matter. If it said 1 onion and you added 4, just tastes more oniony”
As documented in the excellent book "Undocumented DOS", whose red cover I can still picture. (Noted in the article, but it was a good book that I still recall fondly.)
I was number 3 admin for two defaults back when there were only 20 defaults. Power mods are a cancer that got all the regular mods banned and then ran the places to the ground.
The use of "cheese" or "milk" is more about how you'd likely use the products than what they are made out of (with the exception of actual cheese and milk). I'd rather see "vegan cheese" on a product as that tells me what I want to know - it's vegan and it's intended as a cheese replacement (not that I'd pick vegan cheese over regular cheese, anyhow). Similarly with milk replacements - having "milk" on the label is a great indicator that it'll work in tea/coffee/cereal etc.

Edit: What I find disingenuous with UK food labels is the proliferation of "plant-based" on products that are typically plant-based anyway e.g. tortilla chips
I suspect that the frequent

“I apologize, an an ethical AI, I cannot discuss…”

will ruin the illusion.
I think cooking times assume the ingredients are already at room temperature.

If you cook chicken taken straight from the fridge it'll take longer and cook more unevenly than room temperature chicken.
After a miserable experience with Dyson 360 Eye will avoid this like the plague. It was impossible to buy any replacements or parts like worn-out brushes, etc. It's like they didn't care about people using their robot at all, like a half-assed attempt to just put something, anything out there to claim presence in that market.
Have a look at this gnome shell extension: https://github.com/forge-ext/forge
To be fair in the end milk is also just sugar water with fat in it...
Why do you think that your strange stereotype of Buddhism would have anything to do with actual Buddhism?
Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold
Thank you. I wholeheartedly agree that it can make things easier. Easy in the short term may not be beneficial in the long would be my only concern.
Or neither because it's a bad idea.
Hot take. Europe cannot compete without working closer with african countries. Same time zone, geographic proximity, many existing commercial relations, economic complementarity, logistics etc. This will allow this hypothetical Eurafrican block to become extremely competitive with East Asia giants (China & friends, India), and with NA (USA, Canada, wait until Mexico wakes up).

I believe the balance of powers will change when the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline [0] opens up, connecting all coastal countries of West Africa (already working to a certain extent together as ECOWAS [1], with a unified currency [2], not without its warts of course) and significantly bringing down the price of energy in the region.

[0]: https://www.gem.wiki/Nigeria-Morocco_Gas_Pipeline

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Community_of_West_Afr...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFA_franc
UK told it must double low carbon investment to meet net zero targets
Sounds like a win for N. America. A lose for Russia.
Guess they probably shouldn't have started the war then.
Seeing as Picasso passed away long ago, presumably there would be nobody to prosecute me under VARA[1].

[1]: "In most instances, the rights granted under VARA persist for the life of the author (or the last surviving author, for creators of joint works)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Artists_Rights_Act
Sim City 3000 was my most favorite sim game, while the sims (one) and zoo tycoon (one) follow close. That is until I tried Factorio, man that game got the title Cracktorio for a reason and elevated sim games to a new level. Since then I don't have any courage to try Rimworld, don't want my addiction to relapse.
There is something I don't understand (from a tech point of view). Why call it GirlfriendGPT if 99% of the code is generic code for a fancy whatever-you-want-it-to-be chatGPT? The only thing that makes the answers "girlfriend-like" is this file https://github.com/EniasCailliau/GirlfriendGPT/blob/main/src...

So, it should be tremendously easy to turn GirlfriendGPT into "BestFriendGPT" or "LinusTorvaldsGPT" or whatever by just modifying the prompt, right? I know, I know, perhaps duplication is cheaper than (the wrong) abstraction but my tech-side tells me: refactor the common thing out now! : D