skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, our datacenter does use heat generated in server room to run heat pumps for our offices. Except there is much more heat in data center and we must still waste energy on cooling.

The premises nearby as far as I know were not much interested in harnessing this heat as that requires doing fair amount of infrastructure.

But I know that a nearby waste plant grows tomatoes and cucumbers by using electricity and heat from biogas (apparently when waste degrades it produces methane gas?!) - sorry for off-topic, just some green thinking went in my mind :)
Mmmm, majority of vector thrush is heat-based atmospheric pressure wave.

How much of that vector got reduced when operating in near vacuum?

So it becomes more a game on how fragmented the asteroid can become upon a nuclear detonation ... in near-vacuum condition.
Highway self-driving is mostly a solve problem (except maybe Tesla which will occasionally fuck it up). Urban areas are where the problems are at nowadays.
For electric heating: modern heat pumps have a 1:4 to 1:5 energy input to energy output ratio. They spend energy to move heat. Which also means that they can be used in reverse.
You are reading my comments with the most uncharitable perspective possible.

I don't advocate that we legalize blackmail or theft. I also don't advocate that we punish either with a life sentence.

My point here is that he wasn't even charged for the theft or the blackmail. He was charged for the hacking.

My criticism is directed at the justice system itself. Reading secrets should not carry a life sentence. Ever.
Let's not forget COBOL on COGS

http://www.coboloncogs.org/HOME.HTM
It has been a long time since I read Borges, but I vaguely remember a story about a man about to die by firing squad, who pauses time and lives in an eternal moment by looking at a bee or something? I'm probably way off, but I really liked it.

My favourite Ted Chiang story is the Tower of Babel story, what a rich world and satisfying pay-off.
Heat pumps are more efficient than that.
Sure, but if you're gonna have a space heater (and people do) there won't be any difference in efficiency between any possibility, including computers
So what's the practical solution to this issue? If you focus on the long-term but have no short-term impact, you will not be there to see things play out (As Milton Keynes famously said "In the long term, we're all dead").

My guess is you need to figure out some small wins along the way that make people feel good and stop them from panicking and tossing you (and all your long-term plans) overboard.
I have an Acer Ultrawide that takes an absurd amount of time to wake or mode switch. Literally enough time for me to say out loud "I hate this monitor, it takes an absurd amount of time to wake"
An interesting question in general, not just for children: Is it desirable at all to see videos of graphic violence, even if they are accurate? Does this improve anyone's judgement?
Datacenter heat reuse is a thing. Mostly in European countries with cold climates. Notably, Finland has a few datacenters like that (Remov, Telia). I believe some countries might even mandate the feasibility study for reusing the heat for new datacenters.

I have no idea why it's not everywhere, but I see some issues right off the bat:

- you need a district heating system to dump the heat into, and to be really close to consumers

- the integration into the heating system isn't free

- heating supply doesn't match demand well (not seasonal; datacenter scaling depends on computing demand, heating is just a byproduct)
I use a resistive heater. A heat pump would be about 1000 times noisier, and I live in an apartment, so I couldn't put the heat pump where I don't have to hear it.
I’m sold. I work with municipalities for solid waste discarding, is there a practical design or reference that we can use ? How about using sterling engine for energy production?
> But if content providers do not want to give me their stuff unless I watch their ads, I think that's fine. It's your right to do that. Just don't think that I am going to turn off the adblocker for you as a consequence. Much more likely, I'm just going to go somewhere else for my kick.

To me, I think this is the more salient set of points. I accept that a company wants to show me ads to pay for the content they're serving. I accept that they may refuse to let me access content if I don't first view/consume the ads. And I also accept that if I am not happy with that specific arrangement, I am free to go elsewhere.

What I do refuse to accept is that once they have sent me the data that they have any right to control how I consume it. If you want to prevent me from accessing your site unless I view ads, you have a very simple way to do that -- have your webserver return an error code unless I have viewed the ads. But once you have sent me the bytes, in my eyes, you lose any right to dictate how those bytes are processed or blackholed.
Even if the web was on an even playing field it has to worry about being disrupted by other platforms that allow ads. That could take the form of Web2 which is the web + ad supported sites with backwards compatibility with the original web or it could take the form of mobile apps where users can get useful ad supported apps.
same here, I remember reading a random reply on here about it and then getting Claritin-D or whatever at a CVS near me when I had a cold and then covid. Both times I experienced huge relief.
A lot of these studies are observational including every single one of the cancer studies cited, and it's very difficult to separate high-calorie intake from high-protein intake. In the general population the group who eats a lot of protein overlaps a lot with the group who eats too much food in general and that excess in caloric intake is much more likely to be the cause of health problems than the protein intake.
I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with me, or amplifying, but to be clear, I am specifically referring to strength. Not endurance or any other sort of "toughness".

Can't have it all. All in all it's a good trade when you have "tools", which includes "weapons".
I’ve been weight training consistently for more than a decade, keep up to date on the science, and I don’t find this that surprising.

mTOR is stimulated by a rising plasma concentration of leucine. It can only be stimulated to a certain extent at a given time (known as the “muscle full” effect), but if the leucine level remains chronically elevated until after the refractory period, it makes sense that another bout would trigger.

You can even see in their results that the smaller protein feeding produced a larger percentage-wise incorporation of that protein into muscle protein (17% vs 13%). If the subjects consumed that 25g four times across the 12 hours, I imagine they would have produced a larger net accumulation of muscle protein than the 100g group. This is because each discrete feeding could produce other anabolic effects, such as stimulating the release of insulin.

You can also see that the 25g dosing was insufficient to saturate even short-term muscle protein synthesis rates from figure 6C. Based on that graph, I’d guess that about a 40g bolus would have been sufficient.

So, no groundbreaking practical implications, IMO. Single bolus is still suboptimal, just maybe less suboptimal than the researchers thought. When evaluating practical implications, it is also worth noting that most humans do not fast after consuming a single protein shake, or after consuming four protein shakes. Our diets are typically a little more complex and varied than that.
Industrious and persistent, will give him that.
My Subaru from 2018 can do this. It's not rocket system and most cars nowadays have a collision detection system. This is not a slef-driving capability by any means.
I think the fact that different drugs work differently on different people is criminally underrated.
Classic..!

I wonder how it feels now, 20 years after reading it for the first time. I remember how revelatory it felt.
Yeah no shit!

EDIT: in Australia you can still buy pseudo you just have to show ID. Everyone knows PE doesn’t work.
I think we need like three or four different certifications escalating in terms of difficulty to get:

0) generally recognized as safe and free of containments - it won't kill you and you get what is on the label. This should be applied and enforced through some kind of mandatory batch testing. Supplements desperately need this because you really have no idea about what you're getting.

1) Plausible Efficacy - this is 0 plus a plausible efficacy for the marketing claim. I.e there is some mechanism of action or reasonable amount of evidence this could work. Marketing would have to make this clear. Most OTC medications should be under this standard.

2) FDA proven efficacy - this is the highest standard of proof, basically the current standard. Prescription medications should be held to this standard.

maybe 3) YOLO/Emergency/Terminal illness authorization - can't be marketed, only listed in a government index and you need a DR co-sign and acknowledge that it may kill you, is unproven and the outcome is recorded for the purposes of later study.
> This is something quite striking in US where there is a full aisle of "cold medicines", "headache pills", "back pain reliefs", "muscle ache aides" etc, and they are all the same stuff (ibuprofen/"Advil" or paracetamol/acetaminophen/"Tylenol") in different packages

Some years back, Reckitt (British-Dutch multinational) got in trouble with the ACCC (Australia's competition and consumer protection regulator) for doing this. Selling "Headache Pain", "Back Pain", "Period Pain", etc all next to each other, despite all having identical active ingredients. The ACCC took them to court for misleading consumers, and won.

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/full-federal-court-ord...
This was likely always the path forward for Isovalent. Thomas Graf was at Cisco prior to building Isovalent (where I believe he was working on eBPF stuff too). Their series A had Cisco in it: https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/covalent-io-series-....

Cisco has this idea of spin-ins, that they executed on for sometime, although I believe it's no longer fashionable: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-ciscos-star-engineers-def...
Capital costs matter, especially for anything that's only run part-time. Buying servers that sit idle for half the year (during summer) would effectively mean they take twice as long to pay for themselves compared to servers that run all year. So that's at least twice as expensive.

Maybe the numbers would still work, but you have to actually do the math.
Exactly. Heat pumps work by concentrating and moving heat, which is cheaper than generating it in the first place. There's still heat in 0°F weather if you concentrate it.
The android app sign up page seems to want me to enter my Google username and password _inside the app,_ in what looks like a web form, but as a user I have no way to tell if the app is snooping on my password.

It seems like Apps usually navigate away to a sign in, and then navigate back. Is that pattern hard to implement? Is the issue about cross platform support? Thanks
This is a bunch of crap. Autistic people are not "crazy", we just don't follow the same asinine logic you "normal" people do.

What he did isn't even some great big evil thing, he just hacked some corporations. There are plenty of neurotypical people who do the same thing. Governments too. A decent chunk of the world holds these entities to be pure evil and view attacks against them as totally within reason.
> It might be about that but that kind of about is off topic on HN as you can see in the guidelines and numerous moderator comments.

I don't see any moderator comments. Though isn't Daniel (dang) the only mod left since Scott departed?

> If you want to write about some broad sentiment, just write about it without attributing it to the forum or thread as a whole, it avoids all the tangential umbrage and counterumbrage.

I do appreciate your point of view, I honestly do. But it feels the only issue you take from my comment was that it had two letters in it: "HN". I could write my comment in a way that infers the subjects without saying "HN" but it wouldn't change anything about the tone nor content of the post. So I don't agree with your interpretation of the guidelines on this occasion because Hacker News isn't like Voldemort -- it's ok to say "HN" in a comment on HN. You just can't be derogatory about the HN community, which I wasn't. And the high quality of the discourse that followed should demonstrate that.

Anyway I don't wish this to become a tangent. Perhaps it's better to agree to disagree. Your point is valuable generally speaking though. That much I do completely agree with you on.
Well I guess then they should let other people interop with iMessage directly, so the E2EE can be kept.
Instead of the dark areas being dark gray, they are pure black. To me it looks worse tbh.
Not published yet sadly. I'm close to signing a contract with a publisher that would see it get released in the summer. I've contemplated self-publishing though so it can see the light of day sooner
I am aware of zero propellant less drives. My Prescence on the internet and news sites is not what it used to be but I'm sure I wouldn't have missed Newtons laws being upended.
Nope. We'll keep having accidents if everything is self driving as long as we keep Tesla in the mix.
He's not crazy. He's autistic. That makes him very valuable (as can be seen from his exploits). If you can work out what makes him tick, you have yourself a very powerful weapon.
This could get prove useful for autonomous navigation systems as well.
This is one of the special ones so you're not allowed to; Apple picks for you per app.
Baseband blobs are isolated with IOMMU (at least on GrapheneOS https://grapheneos.org/faq#baseband-isolation, but maybe that's also true for stock Pixels idk) and Google spends a lot of effort on baseband security: https://security.googleblog.com/2023/12/hardening-cellular-b...
I just switched to Apple Maps and have been pretty happy with it. Uninstalled Google Maps. Telling me that in 2010 would make me laugh at you.
You would normally use a library to create the PDF so you don't need deal with the complexity of the format. A library would likely provide a function for drawing circles that translates the circle into Bézier curves.
I believe it refers to casual multiplayer browser-based games.
I can actually see the movie now. :)
It's a bit like being in an HOA where you think the president would tell you to take your specific flag down vs putting up a flag and having them tell you to take it down. Regardless of whether the flag is actually right or wrong in the law (or should/shouldn't be) nobody can take the HOA to court about it because they think the HOA intends for such a flag to be taken down... but they can easily bring it up if it's something the HOA has explicitly done and explicitly messaged about.
I think automation is a particular motivation of this project.
I lived there too. When I was at school, our morning break was timed so Concorde would take off while we were out of lessons. Every now and then we'd have an extended playtime because of delays at Heathrow.
I can use the tube amplifier from my grandpa as a heater :-)

It is this brand: https://ms-vint-audio.de/kleinhummel-ks-57-restauration-eine...
Disappointing that the article and headline use the term "reunification" uncritically.
Shame people are having kids later than ever (thanks to college debt), and moving to where the jobs are, so the grandparents are older and further away than ever before.
Sure, that's annoying but I cannot understand how syncing up to an HDMI signal can take 5 to 10 seconds. Frankly, I can't understand how it's not measured in milliseconds. WTF are TVs doing? Is the protocol so bad at getting a picture to the screen quickly, or is it the TVs? Just switching from SDR to HDR blacks out the screen for multiple seconds. Come on.
IO game is a catch all term for these types of mechanically simple, multiplayer, web-based games . The name comes from the fact that many of these games are hosted on .io domains. Well known examples are agar.io and slither.io.
I hung out with cousins sometimes as a kid and honestly am glad I don't have to anymore as an adult. It was always awkward and uncomfortable feeling. There was just no reason I wanted to be around them and ultimately I still had to be because they were _family_ as if that actually matters.
The (main) criticism of the Mastodon model is that your identity is still centralized. The federated model is fine, but the whole thing still depends on domain names which can be seized.

And this issue is not just about moderation. Let's say that you have been a model citizen on a server, but one of the moderators woke up in a bad mood, found something they don't like about you and kicks you out. Now you are locked out of your account and can not even migrate it away. FYI: not an hypothetical, this happened with some of my friends who were working with crypto.

> the biggest problem with big tech is that they're just haphazardly censoring ideas they don't like

To me, the problem is that they are too big, plain and simple. Too big, too powerful and too far removed from their actual customers to even care about the individual customer or anything that slightly deviates from the norm. I don't like them much like I don't like the EU-style of bureaucratic government.

What (I hope) nostr is trying to build is something where the centralization is outright impossible first, then come out with the mechanisms to tackle content curation/moderation.
Plastic is just highly refined oil. It's merely going back where it came from ;-)
> Personnel in data organizations are notoriously stubborn with adopting change.

I think you could remove the words 'in data organisations' and get a sentence that is even more true.

It is very rare to find people in an established organisation who are up for change without significant management. I suppose that is inevitable when you think that someone has been doing a job for years and suddenly, here you are saying that things need to change. What they hear is, naturally, that they are doing a bad job.
Google doesn't have "messaging things" anymore. The default messaging app supports SMS/RCS and that's it.

They tried the unified SMS/proprietary message protocol approach with Hangouts but that was short lived. I'm not even sure if it was ever at any point installed by default on a majority of Android phones.

After Hangouts, they tried Allo which did not support SMS and was not a replacement for the default messages app which did support SMS.
It’s only transparent for types that already implement copy-on-write. For custom types you need to implement it yourself, using reference typed private properties.
Did it prevent meth usage? Meth production just moved to Mexico and became more potent as the production was industrialized. Overdoses increased, addiction rates increased.

Poor law with no thought process behind it. I think there is still push to make prescription only as well.
A big issue is that sticking an FPGA onto the CPU die itself doesn't really make sense. Those are some really expensive transistors, and you're essentially wasting them when they are not being used for cores or cache. Besides, you'd be spending significant amounts of money building a niche product.

It would be a lot more viable to use a chiplet approach: bake the FPGAs on a slightly-cheaper node, and just glue them right next to the CPU itself. Unfortunately Intel is still miles behind AMD when it comes to chiplets, and their tech is only just now barely starting to ship.
Its all been poorly implemented, and would be supporters are invalidated for disagreeing with the implementation

Of course those days were numbered amongst organizations that have to focus on revenue instead of social justice
I suppose it's one of the aspects of living in a free country that the mentally ill also have the right to freedom of speech even if it makes those around them uncomfortable. It's controversial to force people to take a vaccine once in awhile, I can't imagine how hard it would be to force people to take psychiatric medications every day.

I don't think the police can treat mental illness or build houses for the homeless no matter how much money you throw at them.
Normally I use yy030 but I have been experimenting with this instead.

Seems to be slightly faster and smaller than similar programs from html-xml-utils.

https://www.w3.org/Tools/HTML-XML-utils/man1/

Compile:

links -no-connect -dump https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38727772 \
|sed '1,4d;77,$d;s/[ ]\{6\}//' \
|flex -8Cem;cc -O3 -std=c89 -W -Wall -pipe lex.yy.c -static -o yy044
strip -s yy044

Example usage:

# NB. not a real cookie
curl -H "cookie=user=santa&K7RGzmUtAoKv9OIRMfQ9bfwYpiDEuypp" -siA "" \
https://news.ycombinator.com \
|host=news.ycombinator.com/ yy044 r \
|sed -n 's/&amp;/\&/g;/vote/p'
I did that (used other features). This is how new papers are ranked here:

https://trendingpapers.com
> That public school should have a goal of instilling American values is one of the oldest ideas in American society

This is wildly untrue. In fact there was a huge battle to introduce a more "American" civics vs British/Eurocentric history in the early 20th century that wasn't really resolved until World War II when (for better or worse) American patriotism completely invaded public school curriculum.

Most people until ... let's say 1950 ... learned virtually nothing about the Revolution, "manifest destiny", the Bill of Rights (largely untested in court), or any other number of US cultural "values" unless they went to college.

Public school was the three Rs and the trades.
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That's not how it works. You may save some energy by gravity assists, but you're not getting a factor of even 10.
They'd need a goy on-call to flick the switch.
One thing to look at is ffmpeg in its encoders and decoders. At the bottom of the file there's a struct with pointers to functions (among other things). Anything that wants to do decoding can just call init(), decode(), close() on an AVCodec and the internal functions do whatever they need to do. Here's one from h264.c:

AVCodec ff_h264_decoder = {
.name = "h264",
.type = AVMEDIA_TYPE_VIDEO,
.init = ff_h264_decode_init,
.close = h264_decode_end,
.decode = h264_decode_frame,
... more fields ...
};
My theory is that the brain is temporarily using a lossy delivery protocol - you're receiving short-term memory packets out of sequence and its causing you to feel like you're "remembering" the present.

There is no basis for my theory and it's fantastical horseshit.
FUCK YES (excuse my profanity). I have a tool that converts HTML to Neural Speech and I always wanted to push arXiv papers through it, but couldn't be bothered with a PDF implementation.
iMessage is competing unfairly, as the default, pre-installed, SMS-integrated app on iOS. Being hardware-attested and limited to the dominant US smartphone OS exacerbates this.

Most other countries are using some other messaging app, so clearly these aren't super significant hurdles. I agree "lock-in" is strong wording that probably doesn't apply to iMessage. But you cannot argue that iMessage is competing fairly with the likes of FB Messenger / Whatsapp / Telegram / Signal.
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It's not necessary. Nouns-as-categories is a misunderstanding of language; an extremely common mistake that people make when studying language, but never when fluently using language. Half of philosophy is based on (and rendered completely pointless by) this mistake. It's just a case where people's own intuition about how they're using their own language is faulty. Perhaps I should have said "it's difficult to use language without being accused of relying on categories". Ontology came way way later in human thought than natural language did.
The unforeseen problems you'll face building product onboarding in-house