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My beef with power level settings on microwaves is that they usually don't tell you what they mean. Say I want to microwave something in my 1250 watt inverter microwave but the instructions are based on an 800 watt oven. What power setting in closest to 800 watts?

All the manual tells me is there are 10 power settings, 10 is full power, and 3 is best for defrosting. It would be nice if it said something like "When following instructions written for an 800, 1000, 1100, or 1200 watt over use power level 7, 8, 9, or 10 respectively".

I did some measurements of heating water on my Panasonic inverter microwave, and based on that it looks like the power levels 1-10 are roughly 140, 230, 300, 380, 620, 720, 800, 960, 1140, and 1250 watts.
oh bitcoin, ethereum and any such crypto"currency" (even the name is chosen to evoke certain emotions) is pretty solidly established to be scams. Read

https://ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-pon...

https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2021-01-16-yes-pon...

or if that's too long then consider how any of these crypto"currencies" with transaction fees are negative sum games and such they are scams (and no, stocks, gold and cash are not such).
Is the 2gb limitation from the browser? Since this is all clientside, I imagine it could be infinite if the browser allowed.
Point taken, but it's still illustrative - could you do that photo now? Without safety harnesses and so forth? In the mid 30s you could.
A tax by any other name... is still a tax. That it's levied by our financial elite and not by the government is the more concerning part.
> I've always avoided Cabs (largely because of lack of trust), while Uber basically fixes cabs' problems for me.

I can say with confidence that I don't trust an Uber driver any more than a car/cab driver. Sure, ive been in sketch cabs and cars with intoxicated drivers or some dick who runs the meter up after you fall asleep - those are rare and I can count them on one hand.

Uber gives you the illusion of being abetter cab service while being markedly worse in some ways. Okay, you voted out a shitty driver with one star - there are a 1000 more waiting to fill that position. I've been in numerous filthy Ubers, drivers who are possibly intoxicated, drivers who got their license in a cereal box, and cars who's mechanical status is questionable (severely worn suspension, squealing brakes, etc.) You vote one out and another scurries in.

Don't get me wrong, I use Uber and Lyft mostly because its tough getting car service as many went out of business. But its no utopia and the safety and quality of the rides is not better in any way.
One could imagine a sufficiently advanced AI coming up with drugs which are designed to appear harmless in drug trials despite still being dangerous, either because it legitimately wants to murder us or because its learning function will be incredibly biased towards passing drug trials. I mean, we already sometimes do that (see the Thalidomide Tradgedy), but presumably AI can do it faster and more efficiently in ways that we would struggle to anticipate.
I used to teach computer science to kids, and I had middle school kids setting up their own website with GitHub pages and buying their first personal domain. Firebase is also pretty amateur-friendly (although certainly more bloated than its early days) and I've seen novices deploy real-time apps with authentication, storage, server-side functions, etc.

For professional software work, the dominating reason I favor a decoupled architecture is so I can have a frontend team and a backend team. I want the frameworks and existing libraries/processes/tools to lean on, so I can minimize how much engineering time is spent on reinventing wheels.
No, it's pretty common practice to provide support for extraordinary claims. It's actually a normal behavior-- people usually don't respond with gaslighting, but given the level of other responses you've provided, this fits.
FedNow site looks like SIM City
Sorry, but you've just noticed it?

Wars about semantics have been standard fare on geekdom since the dawn of time, and on Hacker News since the dawn of Arc.

What appears as "Obnoxious Contrarian wilderness" is good-old hacker "well, actually" pendanticness (with some sprinkling of on-the-spectrum focus on details and semantics).
Do you have a point or did you just feel like inserting your homophobia?
Toggles Suck
Those are non-intermittent kilowatt hours, though (and the maintenance that does need to happen is known in advance). One energy demand at peak production is saturated, intermittent sources become a lot more expensive since storage needs to be provisioned. Some markets are fast approaching this scenario: https://reneweconomy.com.au/california-duck-curve-now-a-cany...
And if you pay attention to how you actually respond to caffeine, it actually has a HUGE effect on your state of mind and how you react to things. Not always in a bad way, but it easily can affect you as much as weed.
The function of the IRS means it is more efficient to use IT than to not use IT.

It is more efficient for a covert program of a few hundred (dozen?), people who have perfected their mechanisms over 90 years to not have IT.
"The Boom Times Are Over."
Oh, the author! Great work on the article, and thanks for the answer!
As much as I absolutely hate this, this (or something like it, like the many examples discussed here) is probably the easiest way to create a secure and profitable web-browsing experience for the non-technical mainstream.

This is assuming that the mainstream web browsing experience these days (in the US) looks something like this:

- 65% social media
- 25% mandatory work websites that made you wish you were spending time browsing within aforementioned 65%
- 10% other

And that almost all of this is being done on a mobile device that is already locked down relative to a true desktop (i.e. no Dev Tools for you!)
I love the idea of the programs in that book being used as the basis for a kind of Rosetta Stone.
We can only hope that because they're so well documented, we can work around any "dead hardware" or "dead media" issue. Like, I hope the Voyager manual doesn't say "see disk 2 for firmware", and disk 2 has turned to dust 10 years ago.
Then go ahead and use a VPS…
Time Australia fined India for littering. NASA paid a fine when Skylab crashed in the outback years ago.
As you've stated the oath, it's certainly glib, but it's not table stakes because it's not a mere commitment to good intentions or a kind heart. Engineering ethics are not a commitment to good intentions. To take that pledge seriously, you need to be able to trace all your requirements and consequences in order to analyze, prevent and verify you've prevented potential danger without breaking what you've built. Most people in society would not succeed at this.
You can host them at apple if you have iCloud+, the cheapest of which is 0.99.

MS charges you about half of Gmail (through resellers) if you don't want the office programs installed and about the same if you want that included.

Zoho mail is about 3 dollars a month and then there is that service I can't remember (just email?) that will let you host the entire domain for 10 a year.

Neither of which is very expensive.
>When Queen Elizabeth died it would have been “the queen is dead, long live the king”, as the dead thing is the predecessor and the living thing is the one that follows it

And if a freshly dead king is replaced by a new king, it's "the king is dead, long live the king".

The predecessor and the living thing doesn't have to be of the opposite sex, or use a different term:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_king_is_dead,_long_live_th...!

It's a very famous idiom.
Legally? Ethically?

You’re always free to sue apple, assuming they haven’t forced you to sign a contract which allows them to deal with issues through binding arbitration in the jurisdiction of their choice.
> As we know…

this was the moment.

or was it? no, it was earlier.

> Of course, when confronted…

of course…
How things have changed since FLAG (https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass) which instead of being owned by hyperscalers for their never ending desire to monopolize all the things, was owned by telcos looking to open new markets in Africa.
I don't think that Python was designed for this. I found it largely unsuited for such work. It is much easier to saturate IO with (random order) F#, Rust or Java (that I have used for in scenarios you mentioned).
> They just look at the sticker price + features and call it a day

This thread makes it clear most people think all models are unreliable or that a consumer can’t search based on reliability.

If you accept everything is equally unreliable or unreliability is equally unknown, what else but price and features would you use to make a decision?
I haven't seen any such acknowledgement in her twitter feed?
If some Remarkable 2 person is watching I would buy in a pinch a 2-color version. No need for the whole RGB experience but having, say, red and black available when I take notes would make a big difference.
One time a farmer-turned-software guy told me a wild claim once that Earth could carry about a billion humans tops, until someone figured out how to suck nitrogen from the air and make ammonia.

I wonder if we're fertilizing all these new trees we wanna plant with air manure.
Always cool to see mainstream orgs get involved with the Fediverse and their explainer is good, but there is no way to ascertain what they will consider a successful experiment at the end of the six months. It leads me to believe there is a good chance the whole thing will be scrapped in a few months, which makes me less inclined to engage with it (which in turn increases the likelihood that it will be considered a failure, etc).

I suppose it's better than silently subjecting it to a six-month probation period, but I can't imagine it is so expensive to maintain (and use as a mirror for their Twitter etc) that they need the probation period at all. And if in six months the BBC publicly pronounce that they don't see the value in Mastodon it will probably be a net negative for the Fediverse.
That may be true, but I'm not seeing 999 other people with geeky interests reporting their failed attempts. We are, however, starting to see actual labs reporting negative results.
Like fetching the n-th element from a linked list by starting at the first node.
> if they could

Are you sure, even Microsoft had the decency to not extort their business users this much back in the 80s and 90s.
I've had chemo, and this was one of the worst aspects. I could feel myself starving and dying through the process. Had to discuss with family what to do when I died and saw the pain that put on them. I can say with absolute certainty that I don't fear death, I fear dying. If I were exposed to a lethal dose of radiation, the anticipation of the pain and death would make me want to kill myself. I don't have words to describe the psychological effect waiting for a seemingly inevitable death has. I can't imagine how much worse that is without the sliver of hope I had.
That might be a good first step, but certainly isn't sufficiently robust.

What happens when when the /path/to/my/failure_alert script fails?

What happens when your backup job returns success but didn't generate any output?

What happens when you turn off the systemd timer for a while and forget to turn it back on?

What happens when the server stops running, has a full disk, or has a networking issue?

Ultimately, some of the other answers are better. You should have a separate system monitoring this. And that separate system should track every time a backup happens, either by checking the backup exists at the target location (good), or checking that the backup system sent a "Yes, I did a backup" message (ok, but not as good).

I use Telegraf for data collection, InfluxDB (v1) as a time series database, and Grafana (v7) for graphing and alerts. I'm using an older version of InfluxDB and Grafana because they just work and keep on working. Many other tools will work just as well as these do. I'm just giving them as an example.

Such a system may seem like overkill to just keep track of a few things, but you need something that'll tell you when you get no data. So at a minimum you'll want something on a separate server and you'll want it to send alerts when an expected event doesn't happen.
Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of users (2021)
All of the world's "great" civilizations come from places with strong seasonality. The ones that didn't have winters had flooding seasons and dry seasons. Some of them had both. It also doesn't need to be bitterly cold for winter to have an effect on crops.

Sumeria and Egypt both had seasonal flooding. Italy and Greece have winters that are cold enough to disrupt agriculture. The Aztecs and Mayans had seasonal floods. The ancient Chinese empires had both. Japan has winters. The list goes on.
Why is this surprising? If someone accuses of you a crime anonymously, you need to know their identity to sue them for damages. Otherwise, anonymity becomes a license to libel.
Can you answer the question without moving the goalposts?
I don't navigate any dark alleys in order to perform piracy. I pay a service to host/run torrents, and I browse the available torrents through their associated torrent aggregator.

The only danger involved here is in the actual downloaded content. There have been a few codec/filetype vulns for video files in the past, sure, but one that deploys through the browser through a local Plex instance would be pretty interesting, to say the least.
The good news is that after it is paid for, it will cost about $20-$25/MWh. The bad news is that at least for the few decades it will cost $75, which is about the same as solar+battery LCOE today.
x86 would be dead if ARM ISA offered like at least 20% perf boost or energy savings.

But since ISA doesn't imply perf. characteristics itself, then x86 will be alive.

The hard part in changing hardware's stuff is getting software to adjust.
Am I allowed to share links to piracy websites on HN or are you baiting to get me banned?
Where? I haven't seen that in her twitter feed.
> 4 cents per kWh.

For comparison: I live in SF Bay Area and pay 42 cents per kWh.
It's more realistic to say that covid caused logistics issue two summers in a row. The first summer was presumably 2020 when almost every country locked down. In 2021 things weren't much better and the various polar programs were dealing with both caution and a backlog of issues from the previous year.

The actual downtime may have been significantly less than 24 months but still could have killed progress for 36. There's a pretty small window that you can deploy for these sorts of operations.
It's nice to have a captive customer base. Georgia Power serves more than a million additional people now than it did when this thing broke ground. And somehow all the pre-existing customers, plus the million+ new residents, all have to pay $4 extra for the power generated here. This, in addition to the fees they pay for electricity.

Vogtle isn't going to be a good sales pitch for expanding nuclear.

It's no wonder Georgia Power doesn't provide a calculator to let people know how Vogtle coming online affects the per-unit cost to consumers.
How would you compare those two to Application Insights?
The fall of Stack Overflow, explained?
Who knew, drilling is O(N^2)
Yes, everyone has addictions.

For example, smiling can be addictive. Now, most people aren't "problem smilers", but for some it becomes a crutch and takes over their personality.
I think it is, yes. Whether or not it was intentionally allowed to fall back to earth doesn't make refuse suddenly not refuse.
I spoke with a rehab specialist and he mentioned that since cannabis is oil based, there is no physical withdrawal symptoms as there are with other opioid products. This is due to taking weeks to get cannabis out of your system. Thus, it is often argued that it is not physically addictive but rather psychologically addictive.
There is also such a thing as subtlety and nuance. Words borrowed from physical objects do not need to have, and in general do not have exactly the same meaning when applied to software.

I would love to see a picture of your computer pulling itself up by the straps on its physical boots the next time you press reset. Bleeding when a process is "killed".

Even something as superficially similar to real-world behaviour a "queueing" is implmented in a very different way in software, for the most part.
> 1. You can't cache anymore.
> You can, if

IF you completely ignore the actual problems I listed and invent a different problem to solve and pretend that you're correct?

> 3. Encryption is being used as a planned obsolescence lever.
> Choose better software.

First, it isn't better, it's just newer, and second, it doesn't matter whether or not you want better software. It matters whether a user or use case wants to continue to use an old device or software. If you start deciding for the user what they can or can't, should or shouldn't, do with their computer, now you've become an authoritarian/paternalist, which is objectively a bad thing to be.
I run a content website for a living, and I have a personal blog.

Both are built with Ursus, a static site generator I created from scratch.

https://github.com/nicbou/ursus/

It has been rock solid since January, and a significant improvement over Craft CMS. I wrote about my use case and why I solved it this way:

https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/ursus

The general idea (generating a website from content + templates) is fantastic, especially if you do it all day long. Text files are much easier to work with than database records.

For editing, I use Sublime Text with MarkdownEditing and a slightly customised colour scheme. It was stupid fast, even on a 12" Macbook from 2017. I use Sublime Merge to verify what I'm committing.
According to the article 38% see a correction in the near-ish future.

Also,

> Unlike during the dot-com bubble of the 2000s, AI isn’t entirely based on speculation.

I'd say the dot-com bubble was backed by a revolutionary product: the Internet. That doesn't change that expectations were too high.
We don't use BLAS. Why? BLAS helps with matrix-matrix multiplications, if you feel lazy and don't want to write the matrix tiling code manually.

They bring essentially nothing of value in vector-vector operations, as compilers can properly auto-vectorize simple dot products... Moreover, they generally only target single and double precision, while we often prefer half or quarter precision. All in all, meaningless dependency.

What do we use? I wrote a tiny package called SimSIMD. It's idea is to utilize less common SIMD instructions, especially in mixed-typed computations, that are hard for compilers to optimize. It was also a fun exercise to evaluate the performance of new SVE instruction on recent Arm CPUs, like the Graviton 3. You can find the code, the benchmarks, and the results in the repo: https://github.com/ashvardanian/simsimd

Still, even without SimSIMD, USearch seems to be one of the faster implementations of vector search. You can find the benchmarks in the first table here: https://github.com/unum-cloud/usearch#memory-efficiency-down...
kee.so: Your home screen on internet, link in bio tool made in future
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5 Invite links:

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I mean that is two fucking big ones to get wrong, no?

Would maybe be interesting to see some data to look back and see how correct they are in general, but to be practically useful it would have to be quite a lot better than chance.
FreeBSD doesn't have a "Founder/CEO" leading it, like the other examples above.

Now, sure. For a long while I'd say jkh came close to being a BDFL.
You might get a laugh out of this. Cheers. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
Ah, so you're equating mild dissatisfaction (and truly, it is incredibly mild, that's some beige entitlement alright) with demand and a sense of entitlement. I see what went wrong now! Thank you.
> Having a computer and touchscreen and wifi collecting data 24/7 and sending it to samsung can't be cheap power-wise.

I would probably estimate that those additional components consume about as much power as a typical low-powered laptop, or about ~20W. You're likely not going to be paying more than $1/month for that, electricity wise.
Here’s an ML project I’ve been working on as a solo dev:

https://github.com/williamcotton/chordviz

Labeling software in React, CNN in PyTorch, prediction on app in SwiftUI. 12,000 and counting hand labeled images of my hand on a guitar fretboard!
I Googled "most efficient refrigerator 2023" and landed on https://shrinkthatfootprint.com/most-energy-efficient-refrig...

I then Googled "refrigerator annual energy consumption 2000" and landed on https://blog.arcadia.com/much-electricity-refrigerator-uses/

BTW, your link [0] is to a mini-fridge (without a freezer section), not a full-size fridge. It claims 132 liter capacity, while a full-size fridge tends to be 550 to 700 liters (4 to 5 times the size). If you're going to compare a mini-fridge to a full-size fridge/freezer in order to try to win an internet argument, enjoy your trophy.

[0] - https://ao.com/product/rl170d4bwe-hisense-fridge-white-80358...
> This is the first major "name" to have set itself up in the FediVerse

In the news space maybe, but the European Union and the Dutch government already have their own instances.
Would you mind explaining? It does read a little differently to the version we rattled off growing up in holy catholic Ireland. I didn't know there was a remix out there
Oh. Its not even deleted yet: https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1686037774510497792

But I dunno... The big customers still advertising on X must have strong stomachs.
There's oodles of references to this online but nothing really I've found so far explaining whether it was ever intended to be taken seriously in the first place. It's hard to imagine anyone doing so.
Looks so 1990s. I was disappointed to click on one of those buildings and find a window in a window that was a little too small for comfort.
> This is fundamentally at odds with pip

It's at odds with everything. I leave the system versions of any language alone and use language manager tools or docker to be able to run the exact version that any project of my customers require. Asdf is my favorite because it handles nearly everything, even PostgreSQL.
I remember "graduating" from Atari 8-bit BASIC to QBasic on an i386, and being blown away at how much more you could do, including switching graphics modes. I know a lot of people like to say that BASIC teaches you bad coding habits, but I think it also got young minds hooked into programming. If you had a deep interest, you unlearned those bad habits, but still kept that love of writing software. I still wish I could go back in time and feel what it was like to first gain a grasp of seeing your code perform some task, right in front of you.
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