skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unsafe blocks can be removed one by one as time goes on. It's no different to any other legacy refactoring project: get the old code on a new platform, instrument/add unit tests, refactor piece by piece until the end result is acceptable.
If you don't mind me saying - poor naming and post title.

This is much more interesting than the keyword phrases "particle simulator" and "physics" would suggest!

Can you not cram something ALife related in there?
That's not what downvotes are for (unless you're on Reddit). Downvotes are for wrong or misleading comments. If something is against the rules it can be downvoted and flagged. If you disagree, just move on, ignore the comment. If you support/like a comment, upvote it.

This is at least how I see it on HN.

Edit: Downvoted, sigh.
You replied with something that has absolutely nothing to do with:

a) the Soviet Union

b) TV shows and movies from the Soviet Union

c) the KGB

What is it you seem to think you got right?

[Apparently my post about the CIA is so important/controversial I am now "posting to fast" AKA banned or at least prevented from replying with my account. What a fucking joke.]
Interestingly, that figure seems to be disputed.

From an article pointed at by another commenter:

https://www.yachtingworld.com/news/could-a-floating-shipping...

Yet finding reliable data on how many containers actually
fall overboard is a challenge. The widely quoted figure of
10,000 containers lost every year [1] was the basis for
reports by organisations ranging from Friends of the Earth
to the US Congress.

But the World Shipping Council (WSC), a trade body that
represents 90 per cent of the global shipping industry,
disputes that number [2].

Based on surveys of its members the WSC reported that for
the years 2011, 2012, and 2013 there were around 2,683
containers lost each year [3]. Combining that data with
surveys going back to 2008, the WSC reports that excluding
‘catastrophic events’ the number of containers lost every
year is a mere 546.

Hmmm, the wikipedia page says the same thing too, just after the initial 10k quote:

A more recent survey for the six years 2008 through 2013
estimates average losses of individual containers
overboard at 546 per year, and average total losses
including catastrophic events such as vessel sinkings or
groundings at 1,679 per year [.]
Reminds me of a Nassim Taleb talk I saw at a blockchain conference in 2018, where he talked extensively about Hammurabi's Law.

See:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da0aXfshlxM and

- https://fs.blog/2017/11/hammurabis-code/.
I'm wondering about the token allocation:

Private Placement 45%
EFFORCE Ltd 20%
Incentive for Mining 20%
Ecosystem and Consultants 15%

So to start with, 35% of all tokens in the pool will effectively already be allocated to EFFORCE? Is this a normal practice?
Shit post. I have millions of reasons to delete WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram spy app
.
Don't see how Woz's involvement here makes this any more likely to succeed. The guy was a 1000x engineer 40 years ago and is obviously still smart, but hasn't really needed to keep any particular skills sharp for four decades and he is one of five co-founders. Sounds like some dabbling to me.
That means spending time to figure out what you don't need. It's far better to just spend those extra 5 gigs than waste time on this.
There's no new information here, and some of these problems have been solved such as the group identification that happened during the HK protests. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-telegram-exclusi...

End to end encryption is a known trade off for cloud-saved chats, and the article makes out like the German police were intercepting DMs rather than what is more likely, having infiltrated a group.
For me it was easy to configure and use. But IMHO is a big game changer for Emacs, so was surprised not seeing a talk about it in the conf.
Markup und plaintext are seperate entities by nature, and by seperating them physically, tools which don't understand the markup would work better with the pure plaintext.
Yes, pretty much every educated person realizes that.

When people say "stop using oil", it really means stop using it for fuel because that is the vast majority of usage, and if we eliminate that then what's left is not a significant problem. The worldwide demand could probably be satisfied by a handful of drilling rigs instead of the thousands we have now.
Will you say it is ok for a complete new person to lisp to learn sugar? Example is someone who has never learnt lisp in life?

Or will you recommend learning sugar after learning some other lisp?
Edgewalker, a DIY VPN Server
Ethereum, which this project operates on, will eventually fully transition to Proof of Stake. In any case it's possible for the energy for Proof of Work to come entirely from renewables.
Another scam in the space, yay.
> If you build something that’s too difficult to learn, but very productive you’ll turn a lot of people off.

Counterexample: C++. To a lesser degree, perhaps also Rust? (Disclaimer: I don't know Rust.)

> The problem is, within a few weeks of using any paradigm developers usually have built a repository of habits that keep them from making mistakes.

No, developers constantly make mistakes. Even after all these decades, C programmers are still writing code with buffer overflows. The way to solve that is to have better tools: use a safe language, or formally verify the C code. At this point, we know that it's not enough to hire brilliant C programmers and have them exercise care.

> Things have been getting better. The growth has just been in the ecosystems and not the paradigms themselves.

I don't think there's a bright line between these two.

Good progress is being made in making formal verification more approachable, for instance. This is no small thing, it takes hard work in computer science, but doing so lowers the barrier to the paradigm, making it more practical for more developers and for more problems.

Merely thinking up the paradigm, it would be neat to have tooling to verify that our code matches our formal model, is only the first step. In a sense the paradigm only really exists after the hard work has been done.

In a similar vein, recent advances in low-pause concurrent garbage-collection might broaden the scope of the problems that can be solved with garbage-collected languages.

> The legacy is the value, it can’t be thrown out.

I broadly agree. See the classic blog post from Spolsky, Things You Should Never Do, Part I, on how throwing out working code is very often a mistake:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
I have some questions for people in this field.

Is there a good way to broadcast to Twitch, YouTube, and Reddit simultaneously? Is it a bad idea to target multiple communities?

How expensive is it to run your own single-tenant stream on your own website? Is that a bad idea?

Are users revolting on Twitch against the ads and RIAA take downs? Or is it unlikely to ever be unseated?
I have the same i9, and I run it 24/7 with two 4K monitors attached, so dGPU always on.

Fans are always going, and with the crapware installed by IT, CPU averages 70C to 90C

Throttles a lot, not a great developer experience.

Hope the successor Mx chip can drive two monitors without taking off, and still compile as well.
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It seems this token runs on Ethereum which is in the process of moving to Proof-Of-Stake, dramatically reducing the power consumption of the network. Which doesn't mean I'm a particular fan of this solution, but it is different to running it on top of BTC.

https://docs.ethhub.io/ethereum-roadmap/ethereum-2.0/proof-o...
Well I also questioned whether they should be given as much power, since it can lead to abuse. Would be as simple as changing a law so they can no longer abuse their power. And if it's not that simple, maybe you have to question why.
When I bought a 40gb music player in 2005, I stopped downloading songs and started downloading discographies of entire artists and labels. The change that came with streaming services wasn't the first one.
Opening line of the linked paper:

"Modern medicine relies on petroleum, particularly to transport patients, staff, and supplies"

That part is largely 'solved' problem and the rollout of those solutions over the next 30 years will probably be significant. As far as plastics and pharmaceuticals are concerned the paper puts it at "an estimated 0.2% of petroleum used in the United States was for medical plastics"

As for plastics in general the current number seems to be in the 6-10% range globally depending on who you ask. With a combination of reducing, recycling and misc. technology improvements I'm sure we can get that down further in the next 20-30 years. And much of that oil can probably come from sources other than pumping it out of the ground.

So on the whole I think winding down the petroleum industry as we know it today over the next 30 years to a fraction of what it is today (no one is seriously suggesting 100% shutdown) is absolutely doable, from a technology point of view. The reasons why it won't happen are political.
One of six co-founders even.
That's why there's 'most' in the title. Noone here assumes that more commits = better, but the article simply points out a correlation that MOST top performers, tend to have most git activity, and I see a similar thing in my professional experience. That doesn't mean I think that anyone with a lot of PR reviews or commits is better than other people...
It's why some people equate a lot these new coins (ICOs) to pyramid schemes.
As a dane, I'm slightly offended by all the posts dismissing this as something that doesn't really matter.

We were the first country to legalize porn, and homosexual civil unions, and although we're not the biggest country, I think it made an impact.

Maybe the actual savings in terms of CO2 isn't the largest, and maybe the closing could've been more aggressive - but I still think it sends an important message to other countries who are larger producers of oil.
Why do you think it's a scam?
This is a good question. I could say, "an artificial tree won't make the house smell as nice", but I think this would be dishonest.

Ultimately it's because I like the tradition, if we had children I would have queued up for 8+ hours to get one as decorating the tree is one of my fondest memories from childhood.

An artificial tree just wouldn't spark joy in the same way.
Forgot to add: obsessively writing things down helps immensely. The act itself + the written artifact are a potent combo
I don't usually associate blockchains with saving energy.
I don't see anything that hasn't been know for a while. Telegram is convenient but not secure or safe. At least not by default. Is it actually possible to make it as secure as something like Signal?

Use Signal if you care about security and safety. Threema is another alternative I hear people talk about although I have not used it personally.

I got my family off WhatsApp for our family chat last year and it has been great. Excellent video and voice call quality imho.
This is really low quality.

3 of 5 are known and uncontested, made up to be a big deal while they are not. Most of my friends use Telegram (a few hundred). None of them mention security as a reason for using Telegram.

Writing it this way is equally stupid to making a big deal out of of the fact that everything you post on Twitter is by default public: yes, everbody knew in the same way everybody who needs to know knows that Telegram is only point-to-point encrypted, not e2e-encrypted.

Then there's the two last ones:

- According to the article Telegram tolerates nazis: here Vice makes a mess in at least three ways:

1. If contents were encrypted the way they wished further up, Telegram couldn't even remove it.

2. Telegram bans open groups and channels that promote illegal content. They just haven't AFAIK been caught nosing in private messages. IMO this is a goodnthing.

3. They also mix a lot of unrelated stuff here: I can disagree all I want with all them, but COVID-19 deniers, neonazis and QAnon doesn't belong together in this paragraph.

- According to Vice Telegram refuses to talk to journalists.

Because of the mess above I support Telegram even if they refuse to speak to this journalist.

There are journalists and there are journalists. Some will follow a story wherever the facts lead them, others will go wherever as long as they can sense the sweet smell of clicks.
I couldn't really care less about Trump before he was elected. And mind you I'm from Europe. That said once he became president it quickly became apparent what a danger he presented not only to the US but also to the rest of the world. I'm seeing political echoes all around Europe. Not looking forward to seeing claims of election fraud here in a year or two... and this is just the most recent outrageous thing he's done.

His whole political career has been full of facepalming moments. He is not fit to be a businessman (he's failed at it miserably) and definitely not to lead a country and I'm shocked to see anyone who doesn't realize that. I don't care if the US is run by a republican or a democrat, just let it not be an illiterate moron.
This seems like a sour grapes piece from Vice because Telegram ignored their reach-outs.
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I think they've been ok generally. I think it's only a couple days from new jersey by boat. The main issue this year has been strikes on the docks.
Do you honestly believe he's written a single line of it himself? Those are the policies written by the party. He doesn't really care as long as people love, support and praise him.
Maybe he was working cash in hand while in the UK.
Yeah, I wouldn't trust it with any real money.
Lots of buzzwords to gather investment money?

I mean, it totally sounds advanced and futureproof.
>The standard rate for charging up at a Gridserve electric forecourt will be 24p per kilowatt hour of clean electricity, which beats the current lowest ultra-high power charging rates. This means a typical charge for an average electric vehicle – from 20% charged to to 80% – would cost under £10

This is one of very few articles I've seen on electric vehicles which has actually put a price on the cost of a recharge. Most such articles don't even mention money being involved and would almost leave you with the impression that in our magical zero carbon future [0], the motoring fairies will let you top up for free, wherever you are.

It would be interesting to do some comparisons to find out the kind of distance this £10 for 60% worth of charge would allow you to travel, compared to, say, £10 worth of diesel or petrol in a similarly sized ICE vehicle. Back of a braincell calculations suggest I could get somewhere in the region of 80 miles on a tenner's worth of diesel in my ancient VW van. A modern efficient ICE engine should easily be able to double that.

[0] Don't take this to mean I'm anti-environmental. I just think a lot of the press gives the impression that electric vehicles are produced, charged, run and disposed of with no environmental cost at all.
Was anyone else hoping by the title that this would be a company that researches ways to save energy on technology like blockchain?

I am a bit disappointed that it is not.

Actually after doing more reading, I'm not really sure what this is. Landing pages with almost no tangible information are the worst kind.
Blockchain and energy-saving in same sentence sounds like oxymoron. But yeah "relatively" it probably would be.

edit: checked out the whitepaper, its not even about the blockchain saving any energy itself. instead you save energy somewhere and record it on blockchain... for ... ?
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OTOH, there's the hypothesis that people who're in it primarily to advance their programming language or other tool are bound to never advance the state of the art, or create something original really. I think this phenomenon is cast well in terms of Keirsey temperaments [1] used to this date by partnership agencies. In particular, the different characterization of The Engineer vs The Operator (or The Architect and the Artisan) comes to mind.

There are obviously other psychological and sociological phenomenae associated with adolescence, such as peer group pressure [2] and self-righteousness [3], at play as well.

It's nothing new; the "100% Pure Rust" rhetoric is strikingly similar to 90s/00s Java developer attitudes.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keirsey_Temperament_Sorter

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_pressure

[3]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-righteousness
Thats both great and hilarious that you showed up to answer in person. Nice work!
You could use their Finnish dc. (no idea if Finnish laws are any better in this regard)
It's curious that Apple have been more successful in inspiring this kind of zealotry than have the FSF. The power of good marketing I suppose. As I indicated in my other comment in this thread, I think such 'corporate fanboyism' can be considered a kind of immaturity.
Has cryptocurrency actually ever provided any actual, legal value for anyone other than as a speculative trading platform (i.e. glorified lottery)?
https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro...

WebKit compile time:

"2020 13-inch MacBook Pro with Intel CPU:
46 minutes and 10 seconds

M1 MacBook Pro:
20 minutes and 43 seconds"

And even more fascinating:

"2019 Mac Pro (Intel 12-Core 3.3GHz CPU):
20 minutes and 11 seconds

M1 Mac mini:
19 minutes 32 seconds"

Some other measurements of some other compilations show the advantage of many core Intels but with more cores and much more electricity spent:

https://build2.org/blog/apple-m1-compilation.xhtml

"time sh ./build2-install-0.13.0.sh --local --yes ~/install

163s"

"As the first point of reference, let's compare it to my workstation with an 8-core Intel Xeon E-2288G (essentially i9-9900K plus ECC). It does the same build using vanilla Clang in 131s. While E-2288 is faster, M1's performance is nevertheless impressive. Especially when you consider that during the build the workstation is belching hot air and screaming like an airplane about to take off while M1 is whisper-quiet with barely warm air coming from its exhaust."

It seems that in the comparable power envelope M1 remains better:

"CPU CORES/THREADS TIME

Apple M1 4+4 163s

AMD Ryzen 4700U 8/8 222s

Intel Core 1165G 4/8 295s"
Isle of Wight residents baffled as latest alien monolith appears on beach
> I don't see anything that hasn't been know for a while.

But known by whom? It seems Telegram has a fame for being secure and trustable enough that the "underdogs" of society who think they have reason to ensure their safety are using it en masse. Spreading education about their misbeliefs might be not so wrong.
Steve McConnell
Check all homeless everywhere for this. Team please assist!
GitHub repositories to improve your programming skills
I remember reading somewhere that many of the intelectuals of the time (including Newton) would likely have suffered some degree of mercury poisoning (from alchemy related experiments). This could well explain the paranoia and odd behaviour later in life.
Chop up wood an inject it back into the oil wells to be recompressed over millions of years ?
Having small kids I just went to fact check.

Neither regular no Duplo Lego bricks snap-fit. They all have very smooth friction-fit and at no point the force needed to bring them together changes.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that once there are enough of these things around the World that they will draw some kind of picture? One of my colleagues suggested a cat. I figured given natural human tendencies, it might be something else entirely.
Whitepaper: https://efforce.io/WP_ENG_V1.pdf. Please read at least some of it before posting harsh comments.

I think it would have been much better launched in EU. I can totally see this is as a platform for energy efficiency accountability and energy efficiency investment tracking for tax break purposes.

My problem with it is that (1) the whitepaper is too thin on tech details and (2) it seems to have a fixed energy project model connected to those EFFORCE tokens preventing it from being used on a national level where a country has its own legally mandated reward scheme different from EFFORCE vision.
I really like your post and it's descriptness. I wanted to add that the apple core is doing 2+2 in some kind of dual socket configuration. The x1 by arm in a dual socket configuration would be similar performance. So it's there in the specs. Apple has arranged their implementation in some kind of funky 2+2 plus two plus two arrangement in the fan so if theirs failures it just becomes an apple a series chip.
I love Wozniak, but is track record of founding companies after Apple hasn't exactly been stellar. Anybody else here remember WoZ? Woz-U? That VC fund he co-founded? Entrepreneurship clearly isn't his strong suit.
Flagged this one for being on edge of being a conspiracy theory. Others have already talked about the misdirection of certain points in this article. And honestly, the questions they ask about why not end to end encryption by default has also been answered by Durov in his blog posts. I can't get the link right now, but it's from August 14 2017. Overall, this article is just noise and clickbait.
Is geology a science?

They have most of the same issues as economics (modulo the political stuff), but everyone seems OK with it.

Also, Popper's falsification is a pretty unrealistic account of how science actually works, and it only really works as advertised where you can run effective experimental designs (which economics and geology, amongst other disciplines) have a problem with.
So we should be using services that only protect the privacy of those with acceptable views? Got it!
Was trying to figure out if this was a Deepfake.

If it is, they're getting good.

Otherwise, I don't see how they'll offset the carbon cost of the coin itself; which is a paradox I don't think they can overcome if I'm understanding this correctly.
I am pretty sure that there are CIA shills that's trawling through these boards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice
Your time must be pretty valuable! It only takes a minute or two, as it's pretty clear which of the ~30 things to deselect.
Ha, I will give this a try. My current setup: I have a Browni portable TV [0] from the 1960ies in my home office (20 EUR on Ebay 13 years ago, still working perfectly), hooked on a composite to coaxial adapter, hooked on a HDMI to composite adapter, hooked on an old Chromecast. Even the audio works perfectly. But using the build-in antenna of the Browni would be even better.

[0] https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/cbc_browni_transistor_tv_space...
A 1000 kilometer drive is easy with this battery
nginx-rtmp hasn't seen a commit in 3 years, kinda unmaintained.
Kaktovik numerals
Nobody of the hundreds of people I share groups with on Telegram does it for security.

It is all for convenience.

Articles like these make it sound like Telegram is somehow uniquely messed up while it is in fact a lot more secure than email (which can be accessed by at least your provider and sender/recipients provider).

Also unlike WhatsApp which has been hyped relentlessly Telegram doesn't automatically upload your messages unencrypted to Google Cloud and/or iCloud (unless you manage to convince your contacts to turn of automatic backups).
From some rudimenatary googling it's based on the value of the goods. So unless your cargo is expensive you wouldn't pay nearly as much. Unless there were expenditures there's no way you would be out more than its worth. Also because if this they'd likely load extremely valuable cargo in positions were it's not likely to be lost or jettisoned.