skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are actually all converted to heat eventually, just with more steps.

Moving an electric vehicle causes motion, but that motion is absorbed by the air and ground via friction with both, aka heat.

Light is just energy in a photon — when it hits a surface that absorbs it, it becomes heat. And it can be quite a lot actually! If you put your hand in front of a really bright flashlight, you’ll notice a warm feeling. If you turn off the flashlight, it goes away immediately, proving that is the light itself causing the heat.

Approximately all of the energy we use as electricity is just changing something into heat with some useful work in between
Well that's still a conspiratorial explanation, just a different conspiracy.

Though we do know these agencies have broken laws and done some pretty nasty stuff like MKUltra over the years.

So they really have no stock and should have been broken up a long time ago. No conspiracy theories needed really.
It was not an "award for marksmanship" by any definition and it requires far less effort than learning to drive a car or ride a bicycle. What's the point in being obtuse here?
The huge size of the US market has led to internationalization of the inch to some extent. In Japan televisions are sold with a size in inches even though inches aren’t really used for anything else I’m aware of.
I don't think the dichotomy exists because the TS ecosystem is autonomous. You can use TS with any JS library through type declarations and the definitely typed repo. What the js community thinks about typescript honestly doesn't matter. The only practical difference it makes for me is having to do `npm add @types/{library_name} -D`
A really interesting example here in a PBS doco of someone's experience of time 'stretching out' in a dangerous situation. It includes footage of the entire event, the individual's recollection, and a possible explanation:

https://youtu.be/7eCniXtM__g?si=26Gbd2w8PEozKL0i&t=2768
It’s not scary when it’s done properly. And done properly can look like an incredibly tedious job. I think it’s for a certain kind of person who loves the process and the tests and the simulators and the redundancy. Where only 1% of the engineering is the code that flies the plane.
What would be wild (and probably wildly impractical) is an inductive coupling between the motor (inboard, unsprung) and the wheel.
Moving an electric vehicle turns into heat. Because routes are cyclical all of the potential energy turns into heat in the end. You buy a book case and haul it to the top of a hill, eventually that book case is going to the dump, which will be downhill.

Manufacturing products via endothermic processes does not turn all of the energy into heat, but then again exothermic processes can exceed the energy used.
But how would you even start to define something as stochastic as trading activity as “not looking right”?
It's amazing how many different games you can play with one or two standard decks. It's also an amazing conversation catalyst as it takes off the pressure to constantly talk and introduces opportunities for unusual spontaneously arising subjects. Current favorites are Spite and Malice and Gin Rummy - pretty much everybody seems to enjoy those games. Cuttle I haven't tried, yet, and it's obviously not a game you can learn within ten minutes and just play. But I keep it on the radar.
I never heard that projection before. Because demands will plumet?

Then It might just be not cost effective at all to go dig deeper or use more complex process to get it.

How does that works with current recent trends? Globally we consumed more oil in 2023 than 2022 for instance.

If demand plumet somehow … can we still support a extraction industry ? Recently ( pre 2019 ) shale gaz was worth it because of high prices… then it switched again to lower price and extracting it made little sense ( till next time )
... because the shore never waves back.
Disappointing that this test doesn't report on how well suspend/resume works.
But the implicit goal is that _Google_ now owns fingerprinting in Chrome, versus the various other actors and tech in the space. Same as Apple owning fingerprints in iOS (and thus disrupting Facebook).

For anything “privacy tech” you must divorce the adversarial case (an actor maximizing an attack vector) with the average case (a monopolistic company using the tech to control overall opportunity costs). The latter has under-funded public study because Google et al will both throw gobs of money against it and throw shiny privacy tech problems out there to distract researchers.
> Most jobs do in fact contribute to the well being of humanity, however little.

No, they don't. A lot of jobs hold os back, actually. Salespeople selling things people don't wanna buy, finance and tech bros vampirizing third world countries without the safeguards that western countries have on their capital markets, etc.
> Though, this is likely to be a cat and mouse game for the foreseeable future. Detection will get better, and attackers will change tactics.

How do you see detection ever getting better to the point where it isn't a game of cat and mouse? Isn't the whole point of these security threats that go undetected is that they are novel attacks? Or even popularized attacks with different parameters?

In these trust but verify models of a central registry, it will require some heavy lifting like AI security detection to even keep up with. That seems like a new problem in itself if introduced.
To be honest, such numbers in the millions and trillions are totally incomprehensible to human experience regardless of which units are used.

It's equally silly to try to convey the size of a cubic mile of water in gallons, just as much as it is to convey the size of a cubic kilometer in liters. The numbers are just round in the latter case.

In other words, both:

1,101,117,147,000

and liters in 1 km^3:

1,000,000,000,000

are equally meaninglessly large to any lay reader.
It annoys me whenever I see a single hose AC unit period.

It just makes no sense to me.

First, you are now pumping air from inside the building to outside. You aren't creating a vacuum inside, so all that means is somewhere else in the building the air is being replaced from the only place it can... from outside...

Second, the air you are pumping outside contains some of the air from the inside space that you just spent electricity cooling...

I use a mobile AC unit like this because it's really the only type of unit that will work in my apartment, but I use a dual hose unit. The unit has 2 air loops. Air from the room is drawn in from the back of the unit, heat is absorbed by the heatsink, and then cool air is blown out the front of the unit into the room.

Then to dissipate the absorbed heat as well as the heat from the electricity being consumed, air from outside is sucked in through 1 hose, runs through the other heatsink, and then is expelled back outside again from the other hose.

It just makes so much more sense, and if you can stick 1 hose in your window, it's really not that hard to stick 2.
I didn’t see it live, it was on a news replay minutes after it happened. I remember thinking I have to tell my brother and my dad, but what will I say? It felt a bit like when you stub your toe and it doesn’t hurt yet, you know something bad has happened and this is the pause before the impact hits when you tell everyone. I seem to remember them asking what exactly had happened, and I struggled to explain what I’d seen on the few seconds of replay I’d seen, and couldn’t really describe it.

Years later we discussed it and they were both adamant we all watched it live on TV. Am I misremembering, or them, or all of us? Tough one.

With 9/11 I seem to remember one of the impacts only being seen from the explosion, but you couldn’t see the plane itself. Maybe that was the second one?
I loved the Cobalt Cube! Such an awesome bit of hardware and software.
My take is the public defenders office should have to ability to call grand juries to indict officers, prosecutors, and judges for breaking the law.
The only scenario I can imagine is some interactive game installation at Disney/etc. But there'd still be no actual benefit over an architecture more lenient to timing deviations.
It says that this does for driving what Stable Diffusion does for images, ChatGPT for chat, AlphaZero for chess. And that they're finding it to be a profound improvement as in the other domains. From Walter Isaacson that evaluation makes me bullish on competent general self driving real soon now.
Inverter refers to the power control system.

Your typical AC unit has a single solenoid that physically makes or breaks the connection across your 240v line. That's the big clunk you hear when the compressor kicks on. This type of control is either all the way on or all the way off.

An inverter topology uses a bunch of electronics to convert your incoming 240v to a lower voltage or even frequency. This gives the electronics very fine control over how the motor works. You can start up slow, or run the motor at 50% or anything you want.

This doesn't really have anything to do with whether the motor itself is brushless. All brushless motors require advanced drive electronics. This usually ends up being pretty similar to an inverter topology, but not necessarily. A brushed motor doesn't care, you can just jam some electricity in and get motion out.

What you think of when you say "brushless motor" is categorically -not- the kind of motor in an AC unit. AC compressors use larger induction motors which may not have brushes, but they are not 'brushless motors'

A brushless motor specifically refers to a particular type of DC motor which uses phased, stationary coils to move a rotor with a ring of magnets. An AC induction motor may use either an iron core in the rotor, or a coil of wire that produces a magnetic field for the stator windings to push against.
I highly suggest people go watch "inside the book Depository" [1]. It's long but it gives a good overview of the sequence of events and the discrepancies.

Thing is, it's not a conspiracy theorist video. The best part of the video is the last segment where the creator uses all the examples to show just how unreliable eyewitness testimony is, even when fresh let alone decades later. They go on to say that pretty much any conspiracy theory relies on cherry-picking certain details as irrefutable while ignoring others and this is esentially an arbitrary decision based on whatever narrative someone is pushing.

Additionally, the details supposedly changed never make sense for a conspiracy that is supposedly powerful enough to arrange all this.

Lastly, people often see things through a modern lens. Presidential security is a big one. JFK used to stop his motorcade and go into the crowd. Anyone with a handgun could've ended him. These people weren't all frisked and vetted. It was a different time. JFK's assassination is probably a big part of why presidential security changed. So the idea that you needed to have or be a sniper (or a team of snipers) is a silly one and based on modern assumptions.

Myths in this area persist too despite them being debunked. One that springs to mind is that you couldn't fire Oswald's rifle fast enough. CBS and the FBI tested and debunked this in the 1960s [2].

When this happens you'll often find the conspiracy theory moves the goalposts from it being "impossible" to "very hard". I'm sure it was hard but Oswald was also irrefutably a Marine-trained shooter.

Personally my theory is that any mystery surrounding JFK is much like that of 9-11: intelligence agencies caught with their pants down, not wanting to upset allies and/or not wanting to expose intelligence assets.

The last point I'll make is a study was recently done on the link between narcissism and conspiracy theories [3]. Now this has a lot of relevance to why who gets sucked into QAnon and their political leanings. But it's relevant beyond that.

A lot of people are uncomfortable with the idea that random things happen. They'd rather believe it's all part of a plan. It's almost preferable if it's a nefarious force as some people love to LARP as being oppressed or even just being brave warriors standing up for what's righteous. But this shares a lot of the psychology with those for a predilection for religion. And narcissim is the definition of main character syndrome.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u7euN1HTuU

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_...

[3]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35816915/
> But GCP seems like a dead man limping

Sure is... https://www.statista.com/statistics/478176/google-public-clo...
It wasn't a bailout, it was investment money.

Bailout could imply government throwing a lifeguard
Alright, I might try it out. When the user cancel iOS the subscription is still payed and valid until the month ends probably. I guess one could delay the Stripe period the same amount of days or something.
Indeed. Dirty, expensive, and bottlenecked.
I’m thoroughly impressed how HN also buried this story so quickly; usually something so dramatic would stick on the front page for days. Speaks a lot about Google-biases in the content moderation of HN.
As this is a postmortem, it was proven dead code. There is nothing in the text that mentions that they didn't know what the code did (which then wouldn't be dead code).
Ignoring the default browser setting is shitty behavior, but it's a different problem to solve and it doesn't warrant requiring a browser select screen.
There are brushless car alternators.

https://www.delcoremy.com/alternators/find-by-model-family/3...
My personal experience is just one data point, but an activity tracker has been an important part over the last 4 years of improving my health dramatically. 4 years ago I was sedentary, and was experiencing some pretty nasty hip pain that was really starting to get in the way of even my sedentary life (standing or walking for an hour or two became amazingly painful for days).

This week, according to my watch, I have 870 "Activity Minutes", I use my treadmill basically every day, and I never would have imagined I would say this, but I enjoy jogging. My hip pain has much more manageable.

Part of that is definitely the encouragement from the fitness tracker. Part of it is also using the data from the fitness tracker to adjust my activity and sleep. Part of it is my health insurance has a gamification where I earn money for activity, and also get to low key compete with others. I think it pays me nearly a grand a year for activity, all told.

Honestly, I feel 20 years younger.
I’ll say I am a fan of “generative fill” in photoshop at least for routine things like adding an extra row of bricks to a wall or making a dust spot go away.
Alternative: apply for an engineering manager position. The tech part is quite easy (none or very few easy leetcode stuff). After some time (can be e.g. a couple of months) you can transition to software engineering position (same level) without any extra tech interviews.
I think the benefits from automated deployments are things that are just par for the course to be honest.

Sure, you can mess these things up .. but doing so would involve willful negligence rather than someone's absent mindedness.

Basically, I think the takeaway from the article is probably worth taking.
Hoping to see familiar problems isn't the best strategy; it can be stressful. A better idea is to focus on mastering common problem patterns like two-pointer, sliding window, DFS, BFS, and others. With about 20 of these patterns under your belt, you'll be well-prepared for most challenges.
> The success of canned coffee rests on two pillars – cans and vending machines.

I can think of a few more pillars: cheap energy, laziness, and carelessness for the environment
Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing?
Argentina. I'm pretty sure that gas installations wouldn't pass inspection with non-standard pipes. You could probably use whatever you want for water pipes.
I'm sorry I wasn't clear: I re-read my comment and couldn't think of a decent edit.

It was the author whom I was quoting as saying "why would someone have old code lying around." It seems obvious why that's a good idea and it seems commenters in this thread (including you) agree with me and not the author.

Sorry again if I was unclear.
If it provides no competitive advantage why would you build it indeed?

If there is something better, they will build it to sell newer phones.

> you badly overestimate how quickly legislation can be updated, especially if there’s resistance.

I think you underestimate how quickly legislation can be updated when there is a desire to do so.
Snagging Creds from Locked Machines
"If I plug in a device that masquerades as a USB Ethernet adapter and has a computer on the other end, can I capture credentials from a system, even when locked out (yes, logged in, just locked). (..or do even more, but we’ll save that for another time, this post is already too long)"
What You Say to Google Assistant and Alexa (Not Siri) Gets Used for Ad Targeting
It wasn’t a bail out, it was an opportunity for investors to get great terms on equity at a crucial juncture for the company.
It's a weird article because it starts with reporting and then slides into the author's personal view that he disagrees with the letter.

This does highlight that it's always a vocal minority with an agenda that sets the agenda for regulation, and it's rarely designed with majority interests in mind.
That's an interesting approach, and indeed I have seen it happen.
In some companies though, the interviews are very similar and include coding as well even for managers, so might not be a silver bullet.

I do think though that if you are OK being a manager for at least a year, it's a very viable path!
https://archive.is/mCho7
A golden halo around the ELT (timelapse)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis

I forget where this is from originally, but the EMH holds if enough of people believe it to be false (and act to seek economic profit - thus driving profits down through competition) and falters if too many people take efficiency as a given. (Mind-this economic profit not the usual profit.) I wonder whether there’s something similar with too many people trying to develop “Fed brain” and acting as if they know what the Fed will do.

Maybe they stave off what the Fed needs to do by acting as though it already did whatever. Or maybe they prolong the equilibrium finding period by acting as a tertiary point.
There is also electronics (not just simple wire antenna) embedded in the glass. I have no idea what it's for.
That is precisely the assumption Putin made when he launched his invasion of Ukraine.

He was wrong.
i've never heard of any of those artists
They were probably worth much more than $400M before the failure so it was a good investment opportunity. They would have been a money printing machine aside from this one major fuckup.
She couldn't find a charger that would charge in under six hours. She was only here for 3 days. 12 hours of charging is most of your waking hours.

She plugged it into my house the first night. We realized the next morning it wouldn't hit 100% until after she was due to return the vehicle. She picked up the car at the next airport over and drove the scenic route to our house. All of the chargers on that route were adding miles slower than 1 per minute, which means one hour of charging per hour of driving. She barely got here before sunset.
Of course, there's a lot of evil things from that same time frame that have since been uncovered:
CREEP/Watergate, mkultra, cointelpro, or more recently Iran-Contra, Snowden.

It takes a long time for some coverups to be uncovered (Tuskegee syphilis experiment took decades) but I think we have to downgrade our expectations that an uncovering will happen as time goes on.
> There's no way (for most of us with finite resources) to verify the vast majority of history, even recent history, even history that happened today.

That's an entirely different issue.

> So who wanted JFK dead and why?

Again, Occam says Oswald.
It’s licensed under GPL3, where the developer suggests individually negotiating a license for commercial projects. I am not sure this is a good approach given the early stage of this project. Video game development is already commercially and technically risky enough.

I cannot see game developers lining up to even try out this unproven technology when they have no sense of what the eventual fees will be.
> It was only the good fortune of Apple management being utterly incompetent that gave him a second chance

Not only: before that second chance, he set up its sensibility, as he had the willingness to test the idea that there was a growing market for widespread unix 'workstations'.

his hardware was too expensive for a huge hobbyist audience, which I know as I had one, but NeXTstep and its tooling and resulting apps placed a solid foothold in a somewhat grotesque early 90s (from 1988 or so to even get that foothold).

I had one, had been using Suns before, and very early microsoft before that, and apple ][ and atari 800. I think his getting fired is something his brazen young self sublimed into a determination to prove an idea's viability such that an evolution of his NeXTstep effort not only brought him back to a hardware company better able to execute on the hardware portion, but such that his post-firing gamble is evolved into things ubiquitous now.
I agree with this approach. I cannot memorize solutions at all. I can however learn a few techniques and try to pattern match a given problem into those techniques.

I do admire folks that can memorize more than a few tens of problems though. It's a skill on its own!
No company is hiring an engineering manager who doesn't have 5+ years of management experience. It's not a role you can just apply for as an IC.
Glad number one was explicit. It might not be what you consider but for most others it is.
I think what drives much conspiracy-theorizing are two facts: 1) people have terrible intuition about physics outside a very narrow range of everyday conditions, 2) people are viscerally unaware of fact 1).

For instance, I recall sitting next to a table of 9/11-truthers meeting up at a coffee shop. Their discussions kept circling back to the sheer implausibility of a fire causing structural beams to buckle. People don't have intuition for jet-fuel-hot fires; nor skyscraper-high gravitational potential energy. Similarly, the dynamics of a high-speed bullet is so far outside people's intuitions that they derisively call its behavior "magic."

I'd like to hope that at least problem 2) could be ameliorated if good laboratory-based educational experiences were widespread enough; the terribleness of everyday intuitions smacks you in the face quickly when you try to do even a basic experiment. On the other hand, maybe the old dictum holds true that education benefits those most who need it least.
It's typical that prices change by different amounts in different areas. For example, if you go to https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ you'll see that the overall +3.2% for June is broken up into +4.9% for food, -12.5% for energy, and +4.7% for everything else. The more finely you slice, the more often you'll see something moving very differently from the rest of the economy.
You're confusing dry bulb temperature with wet bulb temperature. It's certainly hot (I'm in Bristol), but humidity isn't 100% which means that the wet bulb temperature is lower (i.e. you can cool down by sweating and sitting in front of a fan).
Sound and light are heat. Heat is movement of atmos. When the sound or light physically hit a surface, they cause the surface to heat up a bit.

It's all heat in the end.
Perth's come a long way then. I was therw for a few months over the oz summer. Coffee was broadly good and often great. It's spilled over, I suppose!
Is it an issue with forming memory, or did the person experience ten minutes worth of 11 seconds?