skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows and Office are both mentioned as products that are leveraged to do EEE on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

They are not extinguishing their own products, but using their products to extinguish alternatives. The example I mentioned actually fits the wikipedia definition quite well in my opinion.
There's no particular machine advantage to any human-readable format over an equivalent binary format, sure. However, if you look at human-"readable" formats that predate XML (like HL7[0]) you can appreciate the advantages of a tree-like structure with labelled fields when it comes to human comprehension. I think XML is often difficult for humans to read, and certainly to write, and since this is the only reason to use either language it's an important factor.

I guess you could argue we should all use Protocol Buffers, pickle, Thrift, etc.[1] and only switch to JSON for debugging. I wouldn't disagree. Protobuf is apparently faster than JSON in the browser.

[0] See https://www.interfaceware.com/hl7-message-structure for an example message

[1] I missed Corba and spent the early years of my professional life trying not to touch the SOAP, just in case I dropped it
I can give him a pass for Digimon -> Summer Wars, since it's understandable why he might want to explore the same space again with full length and without the restrictions being part of a then-major kid's franchise brings.

I haven't seen Belle, so can't comment on that one.
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If they're on Whatsapp, then they've got their number. Surely everyone can receive an SMS? If its an emergency, you're not going to care what app you're using, just so long as you can communicate.
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Oh, thank you for that link! I’ve been struggling to find exactly that FCC filing :)

I’m not surprised that GSM uses higher transmit power than Iridium/Globalstar actually – GSM phones were basically portable microwave ovens compared with modern mobile radio technologies.

But if you look at the table closely, the 5G C-band frequencies have even higher power outputs than Globalstar/L-band too! That's presumably because they are so wide, though (channels in band n77/n78 can be up to 100 MHz wide; compared to > 2W for 0.2 MHz wide channels for GSM, that's nothing).

Also, for bidirectional communications path losses are usually symmetric, and since satellites are usually severely power-limited compared to terrestrial base stations, blasting dozens of watts of transmit power from the mobile device wouldn't help with receiving the satellite's response.

> Also, I'm not suggesting that the antenna is a "reflector dish" as you specified.

Ah, I misunderstood then; I thought that's what you meant by "foldable antenna". I thought phased arrays are mostly solid-state (at least they are on comparable last-gen LEO satellites). But it makes sense for Starlink to do that; every bit of antenna aperture presumably helps when trying to talk to unmodified 4G mobile devices from space.
So, very energy intensive either way!

I was thinking, surely they couldn’t be distilling air in large quantities in the early 20th century. But, yes!

The other, copper reduction method also sounds pretty intense.
Tangentially: Vancouver has has an empty home tax for almost 5 years, this year the cities director of finance published a fairly long report that gives some insight on how it's going, including an EY report attached at the end. It's a long but pretty interesting read:

https://council.vancouver.ca/20230510/documents/cfsc2.pdf

(two things I pulled out, they've put $115MM toward affordable housing directly from the tax, and, empty properties fell 20% 2020-2021 and the same again 2021-2022 - worth reading the report)
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It’s hit and miss with GPT3.5 I think.
It got it wrong on both iOS and website.

https://imgur.com/a/a9FOyFL
They said they found it difficult to configure, not that they found it difficult to use afterwards.
> It works, but the benefit isn’t usually to the consumers despite that being the intention.

That was never the intention. The intention of the current iteration of EU electricity markets is to allow wind and solar electricity to be sold at the same price as power-plant electricity.

Wind and solar producers have virtually 0 marginal costs and make electricity at an unpredictable schedule. If there was no market and they had to negotiate long-term contracts with utilities and consumers, the price of their electricity would have been quite a lot cheaper than thermal and hydroelectric plants that produce electricity on demand.
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Configuring git send-email is trivial, definitively faster than creating an account at some web UI from a "source forge" – it's literally setting a handful of properties in the `.gitconfig` – and those are not specific to a project, but just your mail server settings you can reuse them for any project that accept patches over mailing lists.

And using it for a project that accepts this workflow is such a joy, no need to figure out weird merge request that make me re-enter all the information I had in my git commits already.

If it's only a few patches, say three, I can do a simple `git send-email --to mailing@list.example.com -3`, maybe throw in `--cover-letter` for some meta info if the changes are even big enough to require that, and be done.

Certainly to each their own workflow, and once can get accustomed to a lot of needless tasks and workflows, but how one can look at the bloated interfaces that try hard to add vendor-lock-in and say "this is so much simpler and easier to grasp" can IMO only mean they never tried this way in good faith.
In the end sending a mail is trivial, and code changes are text (most of the time), it can hardly be beat in simplicity.

Anecdotally, most of our new hires from the last years had no experience with the email workflow, and a few weeks in most of them find it way better, while the rest finds it at least as good as the alternatives (and here they mean gitea or sourcehut, not the monsters that GitHub/Lab are).
I've had it since childhood. I just ignore it, and months can go by where I do not notice it. But if someone mentions it then I notice it's presence and that it's quite loud. So thanks for that :)
I have tinnitus in my left ear, caused by Meniere's Disease. It's fairly quiet most of the time, really only a single note (more like a squeal), and I only really notice it at night when it's quiet. It's been permanently ringing since October 25, 2019. I've been unable to hear silence since then (I'm 30).

Except for a single night: November 12, 2022. For about 8 hours I had no tinnitus. (Sadly, it came back the next morning.)

The only unusual thing about that day was that I'd had an MRI (Brain and Cervical Spine, with contrast) for unrelated (and thankfully pointless) reasons. But somehow it fixed my tinnitus for a few hours??

Back in 2019 I had a Meniere's Protocol MRI and CT Scan to diagnose my Meniere's Disease. Gadolinium contrast. No effect on my tinnitus.

After a bit of reading I came across rTMS as a possible mechanism for temporary relief of tinnitus - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3563643/ - which the MRI that day would have induced. (Can't explain why the previous one had no effect, but the paper suggests that the literal motion and direction of the magnetic resonance matters).

A Uni nearby where I lived was even doing clinical trials. But I was dealing with another health issue at the time, and life got busy, and I've since moved interstate. I have no idea how it works or if it's just some incredible coincidence. But one day soon I'll go exploring down the rTMS path and see if I can consistently get tinnitus relief.

Like others in the thread, I've heard of plenty of other snake oil things. And my tinnitus is really not bad enough that I need to consider anything right now. But if tinnitus relief is a real thing one day, my money is currently on rTMS. Just far too big a coincidence for me to ignore.
I think globalisation is very much reversable and in fact is being reversed at a rate of knots by things like Biden's green deal
Yeah but all that is wishful thinking
Funny you should mention Annals. A journal famous for publishing two papers in three years by the same author, one proving some theorem, and the other disproving the theorem. Sure, tons of other journals have done so, but Annals is definitely the highest profile one. Maybe take a look at https://mathoverflow.net/questions/282742/endless-controvers... or https://mathoverflow.net/questions/35468/widely-accepted-mat... It's also a nice way to pad your CV if you manage to get the wrong theorem published - you get two Annals papers for the price of one.

It is of course true that published papers have been vetted. But very often, it simply means that 1. an editor glanced at it, 2. (optional) a peer provided a positive quick opinion on the paper, without checking the correctness, 3. one or two independent referees presumably read the paper and produced a report on it. It's not nothing, but it doesn't mean you should accept blindly as truth everything published.

For context, I'm an associate professor of mathematics at a large research university.
> For centuries English kings thought they were the descendants of King Arthur because of what a cleric wrote in the early 12th century.

Stories of Arthur uncontroversially predate the 12th century, and it is an open debate as to whether Arthur was based on a historical figure or not. (I vote yes.) Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

> he Swedish 16th century king Erik XIV proclaimed himself the 14:th (hence the suffix XIV) king of Sweden

Some kings assuming a different regnal number on the basis of a semimythical history is not the same as convincing an entire population to change their origin myths.
Ctrl+F Newfoundland ...yup!

Atlantic Canadian here Newfoundland is famous for that. Not so much here in PEI but I think there are some bright buildings near the shore of fishing villages.
This is known as a "reductio ad absurdum" argument, and isn't contrived at all. It's easy to make a general rule that applies in the majority of cases. To test whether a general rule has flaws, and to improve upon a general rule, it must be tested by applying it to edge cases. The same way that you test a datetime library by picking potential edge cases (e.g. Leap Day, dates before 1970, dates between Feb. 1-13 in 1918 in Russia, etc), you test a philosophical theory by seeing what it predicts in potential edge cases.

This also deliberately avoids introducing irrelevant arguments. By framing it as a mugger who wants to gain money for purely selfish reasons, we deliberately exclude complicating factors from the statement.

* The argument could be framed around donating to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, rather than a mugger. With the controversies it has had [0], it could be argued that these donations may or may not increase total utility, but donations to charities are part of the best possible path. However, using the Susan G. Komen Foundation as an example relies on accepting a premise that it isn't using donations appropriately, and makes the argument dependent on whether that is or isn't the case.

* The argument could be framed around allowing tax exemptions for all self-described charitable foundations, with Stichting INGKA Foundation [1], part of the corporate structure that owns IKEA, playing the narrative role of the mugger. The argument would be that the tax exemptions provided to charitable foundations are necessary for bringing about the best outcomes, but that they can be taken advantage of. Here, the argument would depend on whether you view the corporate structure of INGKA as a legitimate charity.

* Even staying with purely hypothetical answers, we could ask if the mugger going to starve should be mugging be unsuccessful. These could veer into questions of the local economy, food production, and so on, none of which help to test the validity of utilitarianism.

I've heard this described as crafting the least convenient world. That is, whenever there's a question about the hypothetical scenario that would let you avoid an edge case in a theory, update the hypothetical scenario to be the least convenient option. What if the mugger just needs a hug? Nope, too convenient. What if the mugger isn't going to go through with the finger-chopping? Nope, too convenient.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_G._Komen_for_the_Cure#Co...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stichting_INGKA_Foundation
Excellent, thank you. I really enjoy these types of lists and will spend some time looking through them all.

[Edit] Huh, I'm surprised to find lichess.org in the <512 kb club!
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> Why would Apple support something that appeared two years later than Metal?

Because Vulkan is Open Standard? It's similar to how EV car manufacturers other than Tesla are now embracing NACS even though it was born at Tesla. It's also similar to how Apple adopted USB C given Lightning was already a standard before USB C.

You can't blame community or Khoronos either. Khoronos and developers did their best with best effort Vulkan-> Metal translator with Moltenvk and you can now not worry that your Vulkan apps won't run on MacOS(exceptions are heavy games and there are still many Vulkan extensions not implemented thanks to Metal).

And note that it's not you or I who is losing because Apple didn't support Vulkan. It's Apple themselves whose Mac devices have started losing share in Gaming Market. Day by day, Developers are ignoring MacOS as target. If this isn't a warning call to Apple, i don't know what is.
Ok. Books from your personal collection. For many years I’ve thought of the public library as my personal library—I don’t need to store, and I can borrow (practically) any time. I love my local library.

But I’ve had this belief shattered by de-acquisitioning practices.

In response I’ve been imagining a website where library patrons could sponsor particular items from the catalog, and in turn this would inform the staff about what the local patrons want to be physically present in the library. Something of an art project, because I don’t see the library ever adopting this into their actual online catalog.

I believe if actual local patrons sponsored individual assets, then there would be less capricious or statistical deacquisitions.
> I think that still the best way to understand statistics is to start with the mathematical theory and to grind 1000+ textbook problems.

Are there any books you'd recommend for this approach?
You left out the entire configure SMTP step. Honestly I’m not even sure how to do that if your SMTP server requires 2FA and does not allow legacy app specific passwords.
Well.. There are lots of roads that closed totally for cars over the years, and quite a few after COVID.
I haven't been keeping up with Wordpress, but do they still support pingbacks as a first-class construct? Those could be interesting in an ActivityPub context; they're arguably the progenitor of things like quote tweets.
> So you want to ban AI for 30 years, that's just completely impractical.

Yeah I'm sure there was a legion of corporate whining when they said the same thing about banning children working in coal mines. We'll adjust.

> It's also the government insisting that they can know whats good for you better than you can.

I mean most AI researchers seem at best unsure about the technology they're building. That being said, I don't know if AI is bad for us long term, but I know damn well AI driven by profits is terrible for us right now and I'm cool with banning that for eternity.

> All of your complaints may be valid but you are living in some sort of fantasy land if you think that is going to happen. That's just not the way the world works.

Just because you can't imagine a better world doesn't mean everyone else can't.
Citations? I remember the prescriptions and Doctors' notes for the diet itself. He had to endure through IV drug treatments at home, was not able to sleep for 17 days because of the given drugs.

I remember cooking everything without salt (then buying reduced sodium salt for some time because he missed the taste of it to a certain degree), stop buying sparkling water, how my father tried to cope with the remaining tinnitus after the hearing loss mostly reversed (>95% IIRC), and how it increased and decreased over time.

He still doesn't drink sparkling water, we still cook with reduced salt. If we deviate from this, his tinnitus increases, yet he tries to hide it from us.

Do you need any more citations?

Mom also has tinnitus, but hers is different, not affected by diet. She uses an advanced hearing aid which counters it using sound somehow. She is relieved to a certain point with it.

There are different kinds, reasons. Need to understand each case.
Some tools that may help with software development in Malbolge.
http://zb3.me/malbolge-tools/
https://www.trs.cm.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp/projects/Malbolge/
https://github.com/esoteric-programmer/LMAO
This lookes well made and based on the great beartype. I wonder if there are packages that use this and if one could imagine a similarity interfunctioning ecosystem for Python as Julia seems to have.
I've lived in central Stockholm for 10 years with kids, it's amazing, but perhaps not for everyone. I also lived the car dependent life in the US and it made me mildly depressed.
If your system cannot relay mail correctly already, as most office setups are easy to configure to be able to provide that without extra config, at least for Linux setups, then the set up means having something like the following in their gitconfig:

cat .gitconfig
# snip
[sendemail]
to = default@list.example.com
annotate = yes
suppresscc = self
smtpencryption=tls
smtpserver=imap.example.com
smtpserverport=587
smtpuser=foo.bar@example.com

(only the ones starting with "smtp" are relevant for mail, the other ones are just there for convenience)

And that has to be done once, iow., in essence it's as hard a setting up an email fat client like thunderbird.
That's quite an expansive list, I'll have a good look. Thank you!
Sounds like something EU should change if EU don't like it.
> ownership over the land was disputed between Quebec

Still. Check that border map according to what Quebec thinks vs official maps of Canada.
The island town of Burano, Italy, is another place known for colorful houses. They were originally said to help sailors at sea, but they are now protected by law and to change the color you must apply to the government for approval.

https://www.untoldmorsels.com/burano-venice-colorful-houses-...
Let's say you had a 0% vacancy rate in an area. All housing units are full. Now let's say you want to move to that area, or you're a young adult moving out of your parents' house. How do you do it?

If this doesn't seem reasonable to you, what vacancy rate would you find acceptable?
Nature also does this, it can be rejected, but this is a suspicious sign.
Sure. Spanner is expensive, and your primary job as an engineer (if you work for an enterprise like most of us do) is to generate business value. So, if nothing else, you will run into the cost problems of Spanner. There are also other problems; iirc both DynamoDB and Spanner shard their key spaces, and each shard gets the same quota, and the key space shards all have to be the same size. This means that even though you might have paid for 1000rps, for example, that RPS volume is divided across all your shards, so if you have one part of the key space that gets way more volume than another you end up eating up the fractional capacity of that shard way faster than you intend and you have to either overprovision or queue requests, both of which are not ideal.

At a previous job, we ended up creating a very complicated write through cache system in front of spanner that dynamically added memory/CPU capacity as needed to prevent hot shards; our application was extremely read heavy, and writes were relatively low RPS, so this ended up working OK, but we were paying tens of thousands of dollars a month for Spanner plus tens of thousands of dollars a month for all the compute sitting in front of it. I don't think we ended up doing much better than if we had bitten the bullet and run clustered Postgres because our write volume ended up being just a few hundred RPS, even though the read volume was 1000x that. Postgres behind this cache system would have handled the load just as well and cost less than half as much.

The other thing that frustrates me personally about Spanner is that Google's docs are incomplete (as usual); there are lots of performance gotchas like this that exist throughout the entire service, and they aren't clearly documented (unlike, to their credit, AWS with Dynamo, who explains this entire problem very clearly and has an [expensive] prebuilt solution for it in the form of the DynamoDB accelerator).
The point is being able to discuss and archive things via email. Using a zip file makes this moot.
Well, lying down on a bed or a sofa, and putting a big bowl of ice water on the side. Then immersing the head slowly at first, into the ice water. The nose, is facing the sky. Then alternate between the two ears, putting them as deep as possible into the water. There is no problem in breathing, because the nose is always out of the water.

The first days of doing that, you will go right to sleep after the cold water and you gonna wake up with a heavy head, like drinking whisky the previous night. After some days it won't be like that, and the body will get used to it.
Thanks !
Sorry I overlooked this.
Did a little research and I think the most confusing in this is the ton. At least, pints, gallons and miles have a different name than the metric unit and are way different than their SI equivalent. Not close by around 10%, one more (the long ton) and one less (the short ton). A perfect way to get the wrong quantity of a thing without noticing it at first.
And if that’s not confusing enough, using « long » and « short » for a mass unit..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne