skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CO2 is not a significant problem compared to quite literally millions upon millions tons of persistent, bio-accumulating chemicals that are dumped into the rivers and oceans by large polluters.

That is to say: actual poison.

They love setting people on quixotic quest against fairly harmless CO2 while they continue dumping actual toxic poison into ecosystem.
> Chinese and Indian servers

Was this distinction necessary to make your point? Last I checked, the Chinese and Indian population do not have a duopoly on ad fraud/malware. Your racist projections conveniently sidestep the elephant in the room. Said monopolists:

1) are aware of ad fraud on their platforms,
2) enable this fraud,
3) have been caught in their own lies about ad metrics, and
4) are wilfully ignorant of said fraud because $$$.

Specifically calling them out for something everyone does is irresponsible and backward. This will have to change.
Hey dnautics - we just launched the alpha of dDrive - a consumer level storage system implemented on top of the Diode Network - https://support.diode.io/article/irhluyq82j. No promiscuous replication, all peer-based, so availability is solid. Many similar applications are easily enabled with Diode tech.
Solana. It powers Audius which has ~300,000 monthly users.
No respect until they sanction polluting nations.

It's all just empty quixotic platitudes until then.
Will the project offer a matching program to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check? :)
You could have temporary progress information that (by default) gets overwritten when in an interactive terminal.
I read a fascinating article about Newton's studies in theology[1], particularly Jewish sources and the Jewish Temple. It's based on papers currently in Israel's National Archives[2]. He very much used the same scientific techniques for all his studies, whatever the topic.

The most fascinating thing is that, based on these methods, he predicted the return of the Jews to the ancient Land of Israel starting in the 1880's (correct), and that a great misfortune would befall them in the 1940's (also correct).

I do not know how many things he got wrong, or if these were just coincidences. But the article was an interesting read nonetheless.

[1] https://iyun.org.il/maremakom/newtons-theology/ In Hebrew, and unfortunately Google translates it very badly for some reason

[2] https://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/collections/Humanit...
Slightly connected: Does anyone found a good way to distribute HLS segments to multiple servers in almost real time? Let's say you have a setup with Nginx managing input RTMP and producing HLS segments in a local directory and you want those distributed to different "edge" servers. I can think of using inotify + rsync or pushing into an object store and let in handle replication (not sure if it would be fast enough?).

For various reasons (and for now) I would like to skip pushing them into S3 and use Cloudflare/Cloudfront.
There seems to be a random distribution of what's acceptable and what not. Driving an SUV? Sinner. Owning a dog? Acceptable, despite higher CO2 emissions. Getting a daily newspaper on paper? Perfectly acceptable. Eating takeout? Irresponsible waste of resources, despite a family of 4 eating at a (European) McDonalds needing less paper than needed for a newspaper.
Original author here, this is exactly right. Hierarchy and contentless annotations don't mix well. This is the main disadvantage when compared to xml/html and the like. On the other hand, using annotations with offset pointers to the main text make things like overlapping annotations and multiple sets of annotations possible, which are difficult to pull of in xml/html.
Clang is definitely not better for ARMv8 yet, in fact clang doesn’t even have an optimization profile for the M1 yet.
How do archaeologists know where to dig?
> new programming languages including some flow & graph based paradigms and no-code visual builders.

Does dressing up Turing-complete programming as visual graphs change anything, fundamentally? Does it make software easier to understand and maintain?

In my experience, when people not trained as programmers (or perhaps even programmers) start using visual programming tools in real-world projects, what results is often unmaintainable spaghetti. For example, see https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/

But perhaps I misunderstood what the author meant with the above blurb.
I think more and more people are caring if their life story is recorded, but the majority are not there yet. And, for the folks who care, there are no viable places to turn. It is a driving force behind Diode (diode.io) - most of our tech is open source and we are looking for collaborators who want to grow local and connect global.
Certainly was behaving as one or maybe the German banking / & regulators are just that arrogant.
This may be marginally relevant: the latest post on the Digital Antiquarian [0] briefly talks about "Sid Meier's CPU Bach", a procedural music generator that (the year being 1994) does not use ML in any way and only relies on music theory.
It's not so famous because it was a 3DO exclusive (!), but there are some YouTube videos that showcase its output [1].
It may or may not fall into the "bland and samey" category. After all it just tries to emulate the style of one artist. You be the judge.

[0]: https://www.filfre.net/2020/12/ethics-in-strategy-gaming-par...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QLQ_mYXf1I
Original author here, hope is an old experiment and I hadn't updated it to avoid mixed http/https content. This solved now in the online demo.
Why would I care about the damage done to my car if I'm knowingly paying for liability only on a sub $2000 car? When physics takes the wheel, I can't control who else I hit and how fast
I don't know, I find the name pretty accurate – it is a particle simulator, after all.
Bob Dylan Sells Entire Catalog of Songs to Universal Music Publishing
Why is it worthy of respect to go against your own interest?

By making energy energy more expensive all you have done is taking a step further towards ex keeping 1 billion people in energy poverty because you are making it more expensive for them.

Denmark have invested heavily in wind over the last 40 years, as a replacement yet it only covers 8% of it's energy needs.

We don't need to curb climate change, we just need to control the consequences of it which we have done historially using fossil fuels.

The idea that the climate before the industrial revolution was some perfect equilibrium and that our emissions are a grave danger to the world is simply not historically true.

What is true is that what used to be a dangerous storm today can be a setting for a romantic dinner because humans have been able to invent ways to control the consequences of climate leading to much fewer people dead from it.
> It needs some kind of pattern that is created with the same font.

If the goal is to de-pixelize some text in a public website (login form, username, phone, etc.) this is as simple as right click > inspect > input the sequence > screenshot.
>>Source on this? I've always understood you only needed third party insurance, and the EU website [0] seems to back this up.

Sorry, I suppose I worded it incorrectly. The minimums mandated by the EU are 1 million euro for damages to property, and 5 million euro for damages to persons, and actually, having found the document, even that is not entirely correct - it's 1.2 million euro for damages to property, and 1.2 million for damages to persons per victim up to 6.2 million euro per claim

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM:2016...
Coinbase Is Airdropping Spark Tokens on December 12th
Proof of stake has been a thing since 2013 ...
I see. I read that article. It was interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Having said that, I wouldn't be very surprised if say the president of Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality has stocks in a company which has come up with a material which could replace rubber in tires.

Again, it is you who see corporate PR schemes as inherently bad. I think a lot of good things happen because of hard work of people working in corporate PR. People having economic incentive in what they are doing makes capitalism work.
> By 2017, 60% of the Libyan population were malnourished. Since then, 1.3 million people are waiting for emergency humanitarian aid, out of a total population of 6.4 million [0]

I'll cheerfully point out I don't think that Libya is economically competitive, and the slave trade is a big symptom of that.

Banning slavery won't make them wealthy - they'll still probably be starving. Make them wealthy and the slave markets probably go away.

Them banning slavery will impress me less than a policy of general liberalisation to get some economic success happening. Economies don't grow big by banning stuff; banning stuff happens after the economy is strong enough to handle the damage bans do.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya#Economy
For storage, My Cloud and other centralized systems (e.g. QNAP and Synology offerings) give some usability, but they are limited to storage and still use a central server. We are trying to get Diode tech widely adopted - it is a network that enables N to N private, fully trustless, tunnels. We implemented dDrive (https://support.diode.io/article/irhluyq82j) over it (in Alpha) that can map any storage (laptop, server, NAS, etc...) so that peers can privately access, or so that you can easily share files without having to use centralized storage / email. Telegram group at https://t.me/diode_chain.
Ask HN: Best resources to learn Elixir/Phoenix
Hi! I'm a front-end developer but I'm interested in diving into a back-end language and Elixir/Phoenix caught my attention due to LiveView.

Currently I'm using an udemy course (https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix-bootcamp-and-tutorial/) and although it has been great, I fear that I might be missing something important along the way.

I've also looked into Elixir School for documentation and Exercism for, well, exercises, but I was wondering if you guys suggest any other material.

Thank you in advance!
As a Dane, I am slightly offended by the dishonesty of our politicians, especially concerning our energy policy, which makes no sense.

Yes, this is a big deal, but only because of the publicity value of the decision, as the environmental impact will be negligible. But this is the root of the problem: Denmark's energy policy is almost solely about publicity!

Since the end of the 1970s, our neighbours in Sweden have consistently followed an energy policy, that deliver cheap[0] and stable energy from hydro- and nuclear power, while emitting much less CO2 than us. Check at any time of day, and I can assure you that the emmissions from our electricity consumption will be higher than in Sweden[1].

While Denmark has almost phased out coal power, we've replaced it with "biofuel"; imported wood from Brazil, Estonia and the US. This is especially neat, as a technicality in the IPCC emmissions ratings views wood as a sustainable fuel, as the forest can be replanted and the emmissions will be stored in the wood until this is cut down and burned anew.

Our strategy was described as "accounting fraud" by IPCC scientist William Moomaw and "climate fraud" by Daniel Kammen, professor at Berkeley and a former IPCC lead author and Obama advisor. Denmark's seemingly incredible track record has even fooled our population: 78% of Danes believe that our primary source of renewable energy was windpower, when this was actually just 22% of all renewable electricity generation (biomass being 68%), which accounts for 35% of total electricity consumption [2].

This is problematic to say the least: Not only are our energy prices among the highest in the world - how does 40 cents pr. kWh sound? - we aren't making any real difference. The Danish strategy has always been sold as "a job creator" and "an export adventure", but isn't that just the same type of corporate greed, now in sheeps clothing?

Danish wind turbine manufacturer, Vestas, was the primary recepient of billions of dollars in state aid, tax excemptions, etc., but every downturn resulted in layoffs, which always struck Denmark first.'

As CO2-levels have risen to a record level, we Danes keep on burning wood, straw and trash, while calling ourselves a "green leader", while our strategy has also left us wholly dependent on electricity imports from Germany, Norway and Sweden.

The inability to act sensibly is depressing and I hate how the entire issue of climate is being politized in such a way, that a civil discussion is close impossible, while lobbyists are having a field day.

So please spare me the praise of Denmark's policies. If nothing else, our deceptions are making things worse.

[0] Electricity prices in Copenhagen are ~ 50% higher in Denmark, than in Sweden. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
[1] https://www.electricitymap.org/map
[2] https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2019-09-06-danmarks-klimaregn... (Google Translate should be able to translate most of the article pretty accurately)
Yeah, sure, I mean, if you spend
all day shuffling words around, you can make anything sound bad.
Why there is no legal remedy for Covid
The sailing catamaran TS5 Hallucine hit a "UFO" (unidentified floating object) and sunk in November this year. One crewmember died. https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f158/ts5-hallucine-caps...

During this year's Vendée Globe non-stop single-handed around the world sailing regatta, three boats (of 33) had collisions with UFOs and had to abandon the race in the first 4 weeks.
Thanks for the encouragement, I will do just that.
How Startups Reach New Levels of Growth
CPUs are progressing with more cores. Today a program should utilize 100+ cores to fully saturate modern server CPU (or 32 cores for consumer CPU).

GPU computations are a thing for many years and their hardware drastically differs from conventional CPUs.

There are neural accelerators in the latest computers. I have no idea what they do, but may be they warrant new programming approaches as well.
Combining Progressive Delivery with GitOps and Continuous Delivery
Quite frankly it is not worth the pain and expense of leasing housing to people who are on section 8 or similar welfare programs, if you are an independent landlord. Margins are not great to begin with, and a tenant that trashes the place or refuses to pay, quickly wipes out any profits. It's not a very good risk to take in the current market.
I've played a little bit with Unison and it's definitely very interesting and a little bit of a new paradigm (some people compare their "images" to Smalltalk images, but I think they differ enough to be considered as distinct paradigms)... but they're still working on very basic things, like how to enable people to do code reviews when the committed code is an AST, not just text... and how to actually distribute such software (I asked in their very friendly chat but apparently you can't run the code outside the interpreter for now, which I think is written in Haskell)... also, the only help you can get writing code is some syntax highlighting, even though the ucm CLI can display function docs and look up functions by type, for example, similar to Haskell's Hoogle (but in the CLI!!). ... so just be aware it's very early days for Unison (and they do make that clear by "forcing" you to join the #alphatesting Slack chat to install it, which is a great idea IMO as it sets expectations early).
First of all, as a European, I'm not sure what you are talking about. Try cancelling your mobile contract in Germany early.

Secondly, I might want to buy/subscribe to things that come from companies outside of EU.
Hi, original author here. When I started out I wasn't trying to solve a problem. I was exploring a concept I was curious about. But in the end, we (me and a colleague) ended up building it into our WYSIWYG HTML editor as an alternative to the browsers execCommand editing API. When editing rich text, an API that is build around ranges for everything is a perfect fit.

The editor (https://simplyedit.io/) converts a contenteditable area's content to hope, we apply some markup (annotations) and convert the result back to HTML. I wrote the Hope-HTML conversion routine once, and all the range based manipulations are now one-liners instead of treewalking horror shows.
Given the behaviour of US police forces that has come to light (or ben more exposed recently) - its a reasonable position.
> frequent international flights

You probably mean frequent national flights for small Europeans countries? People are just flying less internationally because of COVID, not because of Friday for Futures thinking that's not cool.
Empty Promises
Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams
Show HN: Quarkly – Design tool to create sites and web apps on React
> I don't know of a gender-neutral term here. Fanboy implies an excess of appreciation, but fan means something weaker.

I would say "fanatic". Of course the word "fan" is derived from "fanatic", but perhaps the fact that "fan" is a shorter word implies less zeal than the longer word.
Is anyone on Earth not an immigrant?
I'd estimate that the more one rationalises this the less likely to actually switch away from Apple.

It's actually quite simple: let things run their course. When the iPhone becomes too lousy, don't buy another iPhone. When the Apple Watch gets broken, don't buy another Apple Watch. When the laptop won't work, get something else.

Step by step you realise all the Apple gear you have is just broken or old stuff.
When you're closing a cooler you're compressing the gasket. When you open it you're releasing the gasket. It's not a cynical marketing ploy like you describe - it's functional.
The centralization of core Internet governance functions are a key thing to do better.

decentralized PKI, decentralized DNS are part of the ticket.

The other aspect is a monetization scheme at the transport layer to enable ideas like "Web Monetization" https://webmonetization.org/

Diode has implemented both - it has a full deployed decentralized PKI and DNS, has mapped Web2 domains to dDNS (BNS), monetizes infrastructure at the bandwidth level, and is making other strides on the application front.

Check out the Diode dDNS / BNS: https://diode.io/prenet/#/dns
Ok, so this makes sense:

"So, contractors figure out how to make a company more energy efficient, and in return they get a cut of the savings they saved the company."

Which is why it is a real world job. And companies contract such people to either want to save money on their own, or because they have to, because of some law.

"> the company can use EFFORCE to look for the necessary crowdfunding to proceed with the energy redevelopment projects, in exchange for sharing the savings generated. "

But this and the whole need of the blockchain, sounds so vague and overly complicated and the outcome either, that I doubt, you find enough gullible people, wanting to do the hassle of studying it with enough detail, to not oversee some nasty catch, costing you even more in the end, than you could ever save.
Because Efforce ... wants to somehow make money, too.
Tell that to the dead crew member of TS5 Hallucine catamaran that went overboard during the collision with a UFO at night.
23m podcast
Are these actually successes? I don't know how you can become carbon neutral by avoiding flights, SUVs and fast fashion. You can reduce CO2 emissions a bit, but won't come even close to 0. I think they are distractions.
I don’t know what the actual odds are and certainly can’t judge for you whether insurance is good for you, but your risk isn’t only container loss at sea. The container may be stolen, they may drop your container from a height of a meter, the ship may lists repeatedly for 40 degrees, your container may get flooded with seawater for a few hours, it may get misrouted and lost for half a year, etc.
Where does the word fan come from? My guess would be: fanatic.
I have only hobbyist experience with ADA. It didn't seem nearly as hard as a lot of people said it was, and I was intrigued about in which ways it's safer than C.

My best guess is that people are unfamiliar with ADA, unwilling to learn, and most of all believe that hiring will turn into a problem if they switch to ADA. Also they bring up the brilliant programmer theory.

The hiring problem seems superficially compelling.

There are indeed fewer ADA programmers out there, which of course is a chicken and egg problem if companies are not trying to adopt it.

Now the fourth argument often follows the third argument. My problem with it is that most of the programmers I've worked with that I'd describe as brilliant are the first ones to tell you that we should use a safer language, because they know even they make mistakes. And a lot of the brilliant programmers wouldn't have trouble picking up ADA or learning something new.

So my answer would be that if you truly have brilliant programmers, you don't need to worry about hiring. If you don't have those brilliant programmers you really can't afford staying with C because you will have huge costs from debugging and being sued for the bugs you didn't find.
That's your use case, not mine.
> I assume also lack of libaries, etc.?

I think that's a part of it. Few GUI toolkits can easily be used from Ada, for instance. Ada has excellent support for interfacing with C code, but making decent bindings is never trivial.

I think lack of hype might be part of it too. Ada is seen as a stodgy and boring language good for writing autopilot software, whereas Rust and Zig are seen as new and exciting general-purpose programming languages. I'm not saying Rust and Zig bring nothing new to the table, of course, as they both do, but in terms of safety and programming with an emphasis on correctness, Ada has a lot to offer.
> Slavery started to fade away around the 1800s.

This is completely wrong. In the 1800 US census, it recorded 893,602 slaves. By the time of the 1860 census (the last before the Civil War), that had risen to 3.9 million slaves (the 1850 census showed 3.2 million, so it was obviously still rising).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1800_United_States_census

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_United_States_census
Agreed, you cannot edit one part without the other. But there are many situations where this is not a drawback. Nobody is writing Word documents in a text editor for example.

But I'm looking at a way in which you may be able to add annotations to a document that isn't under your control. If the document is either guaranteed not to change, you won't have a problem. Documents hosted on IPFS or a versioned URL to a Hyper document fit this bill.

If you want annotations to automatically change when a remote document changes, you need to be able to 'follow' the changes. Between when you originally 'linked' to the document and now, what has changed in the document. Which parts are deleted, which parts are added. If you know that, you can update the offsets in your annotations. So I'm looking into making a versioned document format to allow just that.
>The duo is notorious for using self-built tools that algorithmically generate the sounds, texture, and rhythms.

I didn't know that about them but now their music makes much more sense to me.
You've misunderstood me if you think I'm arguing philosophy has no value. I'm only arguing that studying it will not help someone develop a personal philosophy.
A detailed privacy check of the TikTok app and website (2019)
US points to China for why they shouldn't do anything. China doesn't care or points to historical overall emission where they are behind US/the west due to them starting earlier.

If everyone only points to each other and a "bigger real problem" you can hand wave everything away.
Declare your cargo as hardly worth anything, then actually send gold bars, and bribe the captain...
You don't have to: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5