skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We all have access to Twitter and can see its downfall with our own eyes.
It wasn’t tampering, the rhetorical skills of the attorney and the dumbass ADAs failure to rein it in bamboozled a poorly prepared expert.

In fairness, the guy was there to talk about a camera, not to describe how NTP on the cellular network works. The defense had the judge questioning the nature of time and space!
I dropped out of Physics back in the day, because I loved computers a bit more, and now that I'm kind of fed up with computers I'd like to remove the thorn and do something like this.

But I find that so much time has passed that I would need to brush up parts of my high school maths first, and this kind of discourages me before even starting.
Funny enough there's a correlation between income inequality, rising rents, homelessness, and Rising crime.

it's almost as if people could easily afford a home, food, some leisure activities, and their monthly bills they find they have enough and don't need to turn to crime.
So all the things we've actually made in space are good and all of the things that we haven't made but which inspired the people who made the real things are bad?
Microsoft signs nuclear power deal with Constellation for Boydton data center
> If you have contributors in a sanctioned country they are not cut off from the project and their accounts. By pushing for GitHub you are signalling that you don't want free software, you only want "free for western countries" software

People affected by this could take up arms and rise against their dictatorships. Pushing them to do so is the entire point of sanctions.

In any case, the list of affected countries is pretty small anyway [1]: North Korea, Russia, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and Iran. NK'S population is locked out of anything anyway, nothing to be gained or lost from there, everyone who can has already fled Syria. We can debate if the sanctions on Cuba are worth it or not (and I lean towards the latter option), but Iran, Russia and Venezuela? Whatever needs to be done to push their population must be done, period.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions
Article is paywalled and archive.ph is in an infinite CAPTCHA loop so feel free to reply with their numbers.

Global Electrical Consumption = 25,000 TWh
Data centers @ 2% of global usage = 25,000 * 0.02 = 500 TWh
Cryptocurrency estimated usage in 2022[1][2] = 100-140 TWh

Crypto uses 100 / (500 + 100) = 16% of the power usage of data centers + crypto. Surprising and disappointing.

[1] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/03/climate/bitco...
> mmWave is a dying tech. It will suffer the same fate as WiMAX. If this is the trade off (and it shouldn't be), I'll choose the SIM slot every time.

I think mmWave has a lot more staying power than WiMAX. WiMAX as deployed was an alternative network to general purpose cell phone networks. As a third alternative to CDMA/GSM and upcoming LTE, it didn't make a lot of sense in the market.

mmWave is deployed as augmentation to a network, mostly to increase capacity at hotspots like stadiums and maybe transit centers. Additionally it provides beneficial marketting, because network providers and handset makers can claim their network/device does huge bandwidth even if it's only true when you're the only person in a stadium.

Given that US iPhone 12 and up support mmWave, and that spectrum management is a challenge at stadiums, it's pretty likely we'll continue to see deployments in that space. Even if mmWave doesn't live up to the marketting, moving half the customers to it frees up traditional spectrum for those customers that don't have it.

Is it going to expand much beyond those situations? Maybe to airports and NYC train stations, but probably not beyond that. Is it ever going to be more than a small fraction of time connected for people other than stadium employees? No. Does that mean it's dying? No, it's just a constrained niche. Should you prefer a phone with or without mmWave? Depends on how often you go into situations with high person density.
Sure, in the same way that busses and porcupines are expressions of the same underlying process. There are also some key differences, or else we would expect a similar prevalence of autoimmune disease as allergies, no?
https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/confronting-duck-curve-...

In the industry the "duck curve" drives a lot of decision making and messaging around the grid in California.

Energy use late at night is not as bad, because there's less of it used. It's the 3-9pm (Usually I hear 4-9, but same thing) hours when solar supply drops off and demand peaks at the same time that they are speaking about. People plugging in cars to L2 chargers when they get home, lights all go on, AC on, etc. It's usually just talked about in the context of grid availability, not so much with GHG emissions, but things are changing in that direction as regulations continue to change.

Shameless plug - If anyone is interesting in developing in this field, we're hiring at olivineinc.com for C# and node/react developers :)
Were seaside towns in the UK in the past particularly dependent on tourism though?
And has a similar phenomenon occurred in other cooler-climate countries, in Europe or elsewhere?
Tasmania's climate isn't so far off the UK's, yet I'm not aware of any hollowing-out effect among coastal towns there (Hobart has roughly the population of Blackpool, and was doing just fine last time I visited).
Not to much of a leap between rotating drum brakes & rotating drum memory :)
That seems... fine. For the energy:gdp ratio it seems to have worked out well in all honesty.
Please define “corporate fascist”.
It's perfect as long as we agree to use Chinese pronunciation for the first letter.
Alan Kay said Bob Taylor found a way to get all these "lone wolves" to work together. Did you see anything like this at PARC?

Why are you and other big names hanging out at HN? I thought Quora (and occasionally Reddit) attracted the big names. (I'm not complaining. I just thought people of your stature had their own "exclusive" watering holes on the Internet ;)
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way to completely miss the point and turn this into a weird pissing competition (btw your "simple" awk example is super complicated and opaque to someone who doesn't have the awk man page open in front of them)

The script package looks really cool and I'll definitely try it out, cause honestly even though I do a lot of bash scripting it's super painful for anything but something super simple.
I’m saying it is not a given that apartments are noisy and it’s not a given that houses are quiet. As you say, it depends on soundproofing not on the form of housing.
A lot of this is for cooling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_usage_effectiveness

https://www.nrel.gov/computational-science/measuring-efficie...

> When the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) was conceived, NREL set an aggressive requirement that its data center achieve an annualized average power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.06 or better. Since the facility opened, this goal has been met every year—and the data center has now achieved an annualized PUE rating of 1.036.

> Studies show a wide range of PUE values for data centers, but the overall average tends to be around 1.8. Data centers focusing on efficiency typically achieve PUE values of 1.2 or less. PUE is the ratio of the total amount of power used by a computer data center facility to the power delivered to computing equipment.
I got 4 invite codes a few days after joining. I guess it just exponentially exploded.
CMB is produced by atoms, right? We see darker/lighter regions in CMB, so we should see a transition somewhere. 300M years is very short period of time, unless everything cooled very very uniformly, which is not the case. Sometimes, somewhere there must be a galaxy past CMB.
Certainly if Germany requires a PUE below 1.3 that puts every datacenter except the big hyperscale clouds out of business. This will be yet another European regulation that shuts down local businesses and drives customers into American clouds. If such regulations spread I don't see how makers of traditional datacenter junk can survive. Operators with PUEs < 1.1 are not using UPS, managed PDUs, redundant hot swappable power supplies in servers, CRACs, or any of that crap.

Of course I think regulating the PUE is a terrible idea. This is yet another aspect of the economy that is better-regulated by a carbon tax.
> “These dams provide no irrigation for agriculture, are not operated for flood control, and generate very little power,” explained KRRC Board president Brian Johnson.
That's only for a react type of application if I'm not mistaken?

If so, that doesn't handle the general case (native apps for instance)
Perhaps trans women should have the right to a safe space as well, hence be able to block people?
The author is aka Susan Fowler and author of three books and has a degree in physics.

The Post is basically about how to get a degree or at least the equivalent and would require an effort of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Rigetti
You could cut on any frame if your container and decoder supported decoding two tracks at once, then switching the active track. You could decode two tracks in parallel, each from the last keyframe, then switch whenever your want.

Scope-creep would of course require that to expand to include dissolves, transitions, etc until you've got a whole editor/compositor engine running just to playback a single composition.

However this would be quite possible with technologies like WebCodecs+WebGPU.
> And it will probably get better and you should hop on.

Nothing advertises desperation more than seeing someone begging people to use the service while dismissing problems with the service in a thread that is literally about a huge problem in the service (but one of a long line of threads about newly-introduced problems with the service).
Using math to model a system instead of learning math qua math does wonders for ease of understanding. Derivates and integrals become easy if you're using them to model the relationship between position/velocity/acceleration. I don't think I really got linear algebra until using it to learn quantum computing.
It’s not the optimal outcome for the tribe. Also I’d be interested in who benefits from having all this newly uncovered cleared land next to a river
> someone younger and less well compensated

IBM has more employees in India that the US. Given the how much USG contracts they have, that's shameful.
After a couple decades of doing this… I’d pin it on an explosion of complexity and scope in the frontend.

It used to be if you could find a solid engineer with some vague aesthetic sense they could efficiently carry something through from conception and design to completion.

These days the scope of frontend development has increased to the point where learning and staying on top of it has become too large (in my opinion) for most people to do while also becoming and staying highly competent in everything else.

A “full stack” developer these days is supposed to understand frontend development, backend development, systems administration, cloud operations, and what else? All of these are massive areas that are constantly shifting.

By way of analogy, we used to have the town barber handle haircuts and shaves but also surgery because the main skill to master was precision with a blade. Then as the scope of being a surgeon expanded to include things besides being able to cut precisely, that became its own specialization. Further on, even within surgery each area of the body started to require so much specific knowledge that we further broke that down into all the different surgical specialties (heart surgeon, podiatric surgeon, brain surgeon, etc).
This was true in the Nineties, when I lived there.
See also this 1991 video "Adobe PostScript, the Language of Business" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayb-KF32uWk
I am sorry as I closed the Incognito window and lost the previous account. I have no way of proving I am the same person. But I will answer your question.

What I described, is true for the bottom 30-40% of the people. And many people who'd get treatment for one acute illness will try to suppress a chronic one.

People of course don't realize that they are very miserable. They take this as a given. You have a curable chronic illness that requires spending weeks in a hospital and 3-4x of your monthly income? You just choose to die slowly with locally sourced meds that suppress the symptoms. People become sad and gloomy, but are not totally lost unless they happen to be very young. Young people do get treatment.

If there is no illness, they just go by regularly with their lives. Domestic violence towards women is rampant and very common among the very poor. Negligence towards old people's health is comparatively more common. Child marriage is still common.

If you are asking if they become gloomy like Dostoyevsky's characters, then no. They are far away from that. They spend disproportionately in religious festivals. Although Hindu, their worshipped deities are not mainstream, for the lack of a better word. Poor Muslims fare worse. Muslims spend big, too.

They are happy, regular people. Very pious, except when it comes to corruption. Poor or rich, ~99% people will take the opportunity of corruption if they have the chance.

And the poor are less sensitive to social stigma.

But, I have seen a large number of people uplifted from poverty. Indian economic growth is not a dummy one. There are visibly much less poor people that there were ~15 years ago.

I live in an old neighborhood (thanks to remote work trend when I entered the job market in 2021). The neighboring locality is of poor people's. If you took a walk there (we all have amiable relationships and don't live in segregated manner), you will see brick houses (pucca), motorbikes, well furnished houses. If you took the same walk 15 years ago, you would have seen much more poverty. People are uplifted out of poverty. No doubts.

India is still power bipolar. Poor people have no power. And a powerful person (mostly politically) can get what you have. This, too, people see as a way of life. They don't know better. So, big fish eats small fish is still very true in India- unless you are a white collar middle class person.

Edit: these people are very patriarchal, don't believe in personal liberty at all, so, modern values that we hold dear are absent.

I belong to a old, upper middle class family, and can live my way, or otherwise I would be fighting to escape this place as soon as possible.
It’s a decent list but thermodynamics is introduced way too late in the list (after modern and quantum wtf) and fluid dynamics and fluid mechanics including aerodynamics is entirely missing.

If you have a physics education (I have an engineering education) can you tell me if you can really get a physics degree without bumping into Bernoulli or Navier-Stokes?

At least just to see the lay of the land.
Undergraduate physics hasn't changed much in the past two years.
the home of the "Legion of Skanks", a show whose self-proclaimed core values are "rape, retardation, and racism", and a club that regularly headlines "The Amazing Racist" Ari Shaffir doesn't have progressive owners? shocking, I know.

interestingly enough, Seth Simons was also the hack that got Shane Gillis fired from SNL[0].

just let funny people be funny.

[0]https://brobible.com/culture/article/norm-macdonald-ballisti...
Also electricity can be renewably sourced. Better to focus on which industries use the most hydrocarbons.
I lost colleagues and an acquaintance to mountaineering accidents and I do not understand what makes people risk their life doing that.
How about Twixter, as it seems the owner is a little bit of a twixter himself? :)
An order of magnitude more would be comparable to electricity consumption by households. Its utility feels to me at least an order of magnitude higher than the one of data centers, as sheltering, cleanliness and everyday appliances are much lower in the Maslow pyramid!
I had a quick look, because I know that immigration has definitely increased over recent years - both in terms of the acceptance of refugees, and those that chose to migrate here.

Wikipedia says:

As a result of recent immigration there are now also large groups of ethnic Russians, Estonians, Iraqis and Somalis in the country.

7.9% of the population is born abroad and 5.2% are foreign citizens.

I'll round up 7.9% to 10%, which basically says one in ten people in the country were born abroad. That's not a particularly homogeneous population - less than London, or other larger cities for sure, but given the small population of the country (5 million, ish) it's pretty impressive.

But yes, the whole American idea of "race" is weird as a European. Americans tend to mean "White" or "Black", but there's a lot of difference between a white Irish man, a white Scottish man, a white Italian man, and a white Bosnian man. Perhaps best not to really try to discuss that here, lest things get heated.
They are a direct response to the GP post's offhand quip about Electron. GP found the difference relevant, and I believe you're GP, but I am confused now given the change in interest.
Nothing stops feature-phone vendors like Nokia to implement e-sim on their newer lineup.
No, but LastPass is already dead so
Whatever. I just keep using Firefox on Linux, Windows and MacOS for browsing the web and development. Haven't noticed any impediments with the latter. Actually, as alluded in another comment here, I recently learned to modify requests inside FF so I didn't need to start Postman for just a simple test.
That would require corporations to be people, which, fortunately, they aren't.
This is only a problem if the computational power is sitting idle, or if there's reason to believe more efficient servers exist and are not being used effectively. Of course replacing millions of functioning servers just to reduce energy usage is very wasteful in terms of environmental impact too.

Lots of that computational power is also used to offset other energy consuming tasks. Like video conferencing instead of office buildings or travel.

It's not clear that even 5% going to servers is an issue in that framing. What matters is the value created per person using online services.
I didn't know Kris, but we had bumped into each-other at various times through open source work. I recall her being a very kind and also deeply technical. Once she was supposed to give a talk in Phoenix, and I was stoked to get to meet her in person finally, unfortunately it got cancelled due to COVID and so I never had the chance.

Rest in peace. I hope her loved ones are able to take the time to grieve and find solice
What do you mean by motion detection? Scene changes?

But whatever you mean, the answer is probably VapourSynth. In fact, you can probably do whatever you are trying to do inside VapourSynth instead of ffmpeg.
It’s not easy to tie two orthogonal yet equally-depressing subjects together.
And it wasn't self driving
Over here in Ireland the cost of staying in a B&B or “cheap” hotel is eye watering, to the point it is often cheaper to fly somewhere sunny for a longer stay.
Is it possible to run asahi Linux inside this or any other hypervisor on macos?
"We are living with covid" is no more actionable an observation than "we are living." People often, and you seem to, mean it as just carry on as if it weren't there. But "living with covid" could well mean masking, universal healthcare, paid sick time, building code changes around air circulation, mandatory testing and time out of school or work when ill with it.
A Database of 5k Historical Cookbooks Is Now Online (2020)
It could probably only be used with a neural link. It would read your mind, then emit code that matches your perception of what you imagine old compilers did.
I am writing my physics PhD thesis and I did not study fluid mechanics (other than the few chapters in the standard general physics).

It will really be dependent on what is your physics field but you can definitely survive in physics without deep knowledge of fluid mechanics except when your study require it

PS: I am a particle physicist.
tailwind works very will with this, since the CSS is scoped to the component. Arguably, its even better than MUI, all the context chatgpt needs is the component.
Headline - data centers consume massive electricity, more than whole nations; holders of google/AWS/Meta stock on centralization of compute power with self-referential economics -- "no big deal, move along citizen"
It's actually surprising to me how much value we're getting for so little electricity.
The linked github page says: "However, term and ansi-term do not implement all the escapes codes needed, so some programs do not work properly."
iPad + pencil
You guys are each partially right. What you need is MIDDLEWARE.

On the one hand, you have some data coming in format X.

On the other hand, you need the data in format Y.

What you need is to define how to map X to Y. And then when you request Y, a way to indicate what parts of X you really need, so the code getting X can optimize, if it needs.

In my experience, the real issue is how to cache the X - should we be caching all of it depending on the Y, or should we be caching parts and understanding how they fit together. I have had problems with updating caches, and I am looking for solutions!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36146520
I do feel that way about sports — negatively, that they're a waste of time and resources that encourage the worst tribal instincts.

But big sports make people happy and they're only expensive compared to individuals, not compared to economies, so I don't try to campaign against what (sometimes little) joy other people can get in their lives.

Films are kinda weird now Starship — a billionaire's vanity project that doesn't have any current reasonable economic purpose (given SpaceX is already 75% of total planet-wide tonnage to orbit not just US) — is getting close to the point that Moon (2009) could reasonably be filmed on the actual Moon for the film's original ($5m) budget.
Native's not crappy, it's the best and most supported. We just happen to be in love with the web aesthetic and cross-platform. And that decisionmaking is mostly made by MBAs who see tech as a means to a financial end and not for the joy of writing good code

Web shit is fucking ugly, it eschews platform native conventions, and it just feels cheap.

But when I load up a winforms-esque app with toolbars and a statusbar and all the nice accoutrements we're accustomed too behaving in the way we are accustomed to... now I feel like I'm going to get shit done.

Literally the only electron app that feels serious is VSCode and the amount of optimizing MS has had to do has cut into seven figures
> Seth Simons was also the hack that got Shane Gillis fired from SNL

It was abhorrent when Seth Simons held Shane Gillis at gunpoint and made him say slurs on a podcast. It is journalistic malpractice to allow somebody that would do such a thing to keep writing articles.
Some would say wikis mission is to be a global encyclopedia, but those people are also old enough to remember when not everything was politics
We haven’t been able to involuntarily house the mentally ill for decades in the US, though. I fear this approach would just exacerbated a stigma around mental illness
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Simply put: They enjoyed doing it. I wouldn't do it. But I would say I definitely see why someone would rather leave this world doing something that brought them joy over something like cancer.
Smell of rain on soil does have a name, though - petrichor.
Review of “Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry”
Great observation. The lack of density and weather unsuitable for walking is a big factor I’ve noticed as well