skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also worth pointing out is that one of the key reasons for keeping all those "green" biomass power stations running is that they supply heating for most urban areas via "communal heating". This heat is tax-free since the heat is a "waste product", keeping the single biggest energy use sector at an artificially low price (energy use for heating is bigger than transport and consumer electricity).

It would be political suicide to start taxing the energy for heating, leading to all kinds of weirdness such as:

- Denmark _paying_ to export electricity when the power stations need to run to produce heat (because if the power plants used the electricity to provide heating, the heat would not be a waste product)!

- Big data centers cannot sell waste heat for heating, because they would need to run heat engines to raise the temperature to usable levels, again rendering the heat "not a waste product".

(TBH, The last one is so clearly stupid that a workaround in the rules is in the books)
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> replace the original password for "password" and pixelate that, if it really must look like a real password

Or replace the original password for "password" and leave it at that.
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It should, yeah, but if it can safely assume there will be no nulls, it will save a nontrivial amount of defensive programming checks for each cycle. And IIRC, the Linux kernel uses tons of linked lists, millions of items per second sometimes; any operation that can be removed will make a big impact. Relatively.

But for general purpose code, e.g. libraries where performance isn't super important but stability is, more defensive programming would be a thing to do.
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From a french to another, a glass of red wine spiced up with benzos absolutely is substance use, and an extremely dangerous kind.
> I agree with you that use of blockchain on its own is not fully secure, but that can be mitigated for the most part through the same sorts of proof-of-work and proof-of-trust mechanisms and entities that Etherium, etc. use.

None of that does anything to prove that the energy consumption data you are submitting is true.
How about just enforce a standard which all companies have to follow through legislation?

(See: Open Banking)
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As far as I can tell, the only difference is that he names names.
It has to start at some point!

See Open Banking, that's taken many years to implement but we are starting to reap the rewards.
I'm a random docker user but that is the same feeling.

podman just doesn't work like docker and podman-compose isn't even at a usable state when RH deprecated Docker which seems completely rushed.

And when you see that it's actually not so easy to install docker anymore, you get the feeling RH has another intention such as trying to control container business by themselves by trying to move people off docker.

If it was purely from technical superiority, then it should've had a smoother migration path.
> The idea being that otherwise it's not fair to the owners of the top level containers, which have a higher chance of falling off than the bottom level containers. Everyone's share of the boat is equal.

In general, being able to charge different prices to different customers is very beneficial to the seller. So should we expect this to change as ship operators figure out more sophisticated pricing models?
> I guess
> most of the time

Two terms that would not fly in kernel level programming; with kernel programming, low-level libraries, you want both optimized speed and predictability.
The added benefit of this would be wasting the time of a would-be hacker
Linus' point is that this way of thinking produces this "edge case".

There is no "head case", all members of the list are the same. The head isn't a special element.
Depends if you are willing to have some support from Verbraucherschutzzentrale or not.

I can tell you that my almost impossible to resign contract from Vodafone got quickly sorted out with their help.
Yes, perfect.

Minor feedback:

1. The presentation is not very obvious as it is lacking player kinda UI

2. Arrow in black background is also not obvious (I was keep clicking for sometime)

3. Player UI with fullscreen option and ability to hotlink (especially without external hosting) would be awesome
So you’re scared of bank accounts that by your own mesure haven’t harmed you. In fact since the creation of the FDIC after the Great Depression, not a single American has lost a single penny to bank failure - even though numerous economic calamities have ensued in the interim.

Instead you dumped your life savings into something that’s demonstrably wrecked you a few times, at one point leaving you with 20% (?!) of what you started with? If you don’t care about what’s in there, as you mustn’t to be ok with that, why do you care about putting it into a bank account? Because of the Cypriot banking crisis of 2012? On a tiny island in the Mediterranean split between 3 countries (the Greeks, the Turks and a pair of British overseas territories serving as military bases from when the whole island was under their administration) known for its shaky financial system? 4% of the land mass of Cyprus is a UN buffer zone between the various belligerents!

I mean you know how that reads right? It sounds a bit like the anti-vaxxers of finance.
I don’t like Word but it does accept Latex math and is easy to use.
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Any day now the Semantic Web is gonna solve all our problems for us...
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Love the concept of reviewing your own code first. I’ve been doing that for the longest now and usually find something I missed when reviewing my own code. I think I have taken this for granted and assumed everyone does this.
I think you're getting your hostile answers for implying that unsafe rust is equivalent to C. It's most definitely not. Using unsafe grants you certain powers, but it does not disable all of rusts features - for example the borrow checker is not turned off by unsafe.

See https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-01-unsafe-rust.html#unsa...
It's still illegal in many[0]. And there are good arguments it should be illegal in more[1]. Picking "we made porn cummies more widely available" .... not the best example of your country being responsible for human progress. Great way to pacify your population though.

[0] example: https://www.worldnomads.com/travel-safety/southeast-asia/sin...

[1] https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/
Markets are very efficient, but if there's no cost to pollution then there's nothing to optimize or compete about. If companies had to pay the actual environmental costs of what they are doing then they would find better ways to do them in an instant, just like they have come up with incredibly efficient ways to spin yarn, build cars and everything in between.
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I'm not familiar with how EU/UK differentiates "personal liability" from "3rd party liability" and what all that entails. The parent said:

> $50 a month for liability

...so I presumed a resident of the US.

US car insurance policies vary from state to state, so I'll just say how I understand it in layman IANAL terms.

In my state, personal injury protection (PIP) and property damage liability (PDL or commonly just "liability") coverage are the minimum requirements to legally drive a vehicle. There's also bodily injury liability (BIL), but since my state is what's called a "no-fault state", it's not a hard requirement unless you're a taxi (although my coverage bakes it in; I understand this to be applicable towards passengers).

The parent also said:

> Pleasantly tolerable fee for a day where my car hits black ice and physics takes the wheel

In this case, liability coverage as I understand it won't cover damage to the insured's vehicle while driving, which falls under "collision" and is entirely optional for a vehicle that is outright owned (i.e. no lien on the title) in any US state, as far as I'm aware.

So PIP would cover your injuries, PDL would cover damages to the property of others, "collision" covers your property while driving, and this other thing called "comprehensive" covers your property when not driving...and if that doesn't cover all the medical/property bills, then involved parties are free to sue each other.
Grandfather once talked a commercial pilot into giving him a hike while traveling the USSR. Just walked on the airport field and asked while everyone else was boarding, no bribe needed lol. Got to sit in an extra crew seat. Was also around the 70ies I believe.
The rules only take effect if the loss was reasonably incurred. So declaring General Average opens up the operator to an investigation of the question, "was the cargo stowed according to industry standards".

See:
https://comitemaritime.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/YAR-20...
None. These are cold emails.
If you already know how to program, I'd recommend to just install SBCL and start a project with https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/ as a companion.

Forget about the perfect editor setup, idiomatic code and all that fuzz about becoming enlightened. (Common) Lisp is first and foremost a productive, pragmatic language to get things done, so just start hacking.
And our new president says that state should be used as a model for housing.
Most of this we have had in the UK for years (e.g. Monzo).
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It's a name, just like Tommy Chong's name was used to sell water pipes.

Woz is huge in hacker circles, a legend in his day. But as you say, the last decades have been pretty unremarkable.
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That sounds awfully reductive. While it's obviously true that many blockchain-based businesses are/were just trying to cash in on hype alone, that doesn't mean that ALL ideas involving a blockchain are bad.
I'd also add that in this particular case, it's not so much cleverness as performance; readability should be a priority for "business" level code, but performance for, well, performance level code.

Think of how often the code will be executed; this particular code, or kernel level code, will be in the order of millions in a regular working day. Most code that I for example write will be tens, maybe hundreds; it's mostly glue code between a database and REST api for a relatively low-traffic internal management application.

But it runs on a Linux machine which, for every HTTP request between the browser and my back-end, will run thousands of lines of code and iterations (I guess?). I really don't mind if the code looks clever if it means it's ten times faster than the readable code.

Besides, clever does not exclude clarity.
For the first point, I agree that _legally_ the Stewards rules depends on Gondor being a Kingdom without Kings. But legality and legitimacy are two different things. We can only speculate whether the people & the nobles of Gondor think the Kingdom part matter or if they would still think the Stewards ought to rule even if they did not put up with the Stewards waiting for the King charade.

Perhaps people think it's just ceremonial and the reason Stewards and their lines ought to rule is because they have done so for time immemorial (well, almost) and they've done a great job at it. A wannabe King arguing that _akshually_ they should be the ruler would be met with scorn - a random nobody bereft of any lordship that presses ancient and irrelevant legal rules.

Or perhaps the waiting-for-the-king part is essential, and people think that Stewards ought to rule because they've been appointed by the Kings and are doing a great job keeping the Kingdom ready for the return of any King.

I do not think we have much evidence whether it is the former or the latter. Aragorn - as a leader of the Great War, with the Steward dead and the heir of the Steward owing his life to him - has much more going for him than just being technically the heir. The fact that he is acclaimed does not tell us how important was being the legal heir vs. saving the kingdom vs. being installed by the Steward heir & Valar operatives. Perhaps a random noble from Gondor would have been able to claim the throne in the same conditions, à la Bonaparte. We do not know.

In the end, it's been 1000 years. Not many people support 1000-year-old claims. How many people care about the Byzantine Empire succession, or what the Capetians are up to?

For the second point, I poorly worded what I meant. What is painted as grand achievement and positive thing - the return of the King - is just one noble replacing another noble as the dictator, with a not so insignificant part of the story being about noble #1 campaign to depose noble #2. Hardly something to praise.
> This document is confidential and by accepting delivery of this document, you agree to keep confidential all information contained herein.

Sorry, we can't discuss it.

The massive "NOT FOR UNITED STATES PERSONS" disclaimer isn't exactly encouraging either.

> You may not, nor are you authorised to, deliver or disclose the contents of this document to any other person.

Very clear that we can't discuss it.

> EFFORCE Limited, a Bahamas based company limited by shares, formed for the purpose of issuing EFFORCE tokens on behalf of its controlling entity EFFORCE Ltd, a Malta company

Nothing says "I am not a crook" like using two different corporate entities in notorious tax avoidance jurisdictions.

While Malta is in the Eurozone, I'm not sure you could launch something like this in a country with respectable financial regulators. Mind you, those are in short supply after Bafin/Wirecard...
Still, it's not some universal right given by the wonderful democratic utopia that GP claims to live on, is it?
The idea has been around a long time, but making it work is really hard.
> The best example might be Apple 'fanboys'.

Visit some investor forums and search for TSLA sometime. They make Apple fans look tame :)

With that said, and it may be my own bias kicking in, Apple anti-fans seem way more passionate than fans. The anti-fan cannot understand why any rational person would ever use a product from Apple.

All of the above completely pales in comparison to the best example of adult fanaticism - political affiliation.
Get off these closed platforms now while you still can. The more time you wait and the more of your life you integrate the harder it gets.
As the article states, this is somewhat common in homeless populations. It should have clarified that it's spread by body lice [1], not head lice, which cause millions of infestations in the US elementary schools, but otherwise are relatively harmless [2].

PS. This is confusing in light of [3].

[1] https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/230294-overview (https://archive.vn/NSqa8)

Trench fever is a clinical syndrome caused by infection with Bartonella quintana; the condition was first described during World War I. Contemporary B quintana disease, commonly referred to as urban trench fever, is typically found in homeless, alcoholic, and poor populations.
The human body louse Pediculus humanus var corporis is the major vector involved in trench fever transmission.

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/lice/head/epi.html

In the United States, infestation with head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) is most common among preschool- and elementary school-age children and their household members and caretakers. Head lice are not known to transmit disease; however, secondary bacterial infection of the skin resulting from scratching can occur with any lice infestation.

[3] https://jbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/jbiol114

Head and body lice used to be designated Pediculus capitis and P. corporis but they are now known to belong to the same species, P. humanus x[16, 17]. Fifty years ago Levene and Dobzhansky [18] showed that head lice could be trained or adapted to become the rather larger body lice by attaching them to the body in small pill boxes.
[...]
Body lice, and occasionally head and pubic lice, transmit bacterial diseases: typhus (Rickettsia prowazekii) [29], trench fever (Bartonella quintana) and relapsing fever (Borellia recurrentis). The lice themselves succumb to typhus infection but pass the Rickettsia in their feces, which the human then scratches into the skin. Typhus is known as 'war fever' and 'jail fever' because it appears in conditions where lice thrive. At the end of Rats, Lice and History Zinsser [1] wrote "Typhus is not dead. It will live on for centuries and will break into the open whenever human stupidity and brutality give it a chance." Sadly, Zinsser's words were prophetic. Within a few years, typhus became the major slayer in the Nazi concentration camps; typhus broke out among Rwandan refugees in Burundi in 1994, in Bosnia in 1995 and most recently in Goma.
Why it does not sound apolitical to some:

* not exactly amenable to liberal democracy

* the pro-leniency movement

* has gone too far,

* all across liberal cities

* it's become a free-for-all

* absolutely devastating all parties involved

* the ordinary citizens who become victims

* rampant property crime

* the vulnerable who are predated upon by drug dealers

* who themselves commit vast amounts of crime

* feed their habits

* the taxpayer

* hard-earned resources

* thrown

* a money pit

* worse than neutral effects

This reads as a list of right-wing scare phrases used in any political campaign to motivate conservative voting. This doesn't read as apolitical to people who actually live in the places these phrases are applied to and it seems to be characterizing the people in these places, "liberal cities", as either fools or sub-human villains. Also, if you are one of the people demonized you don't recognize yourself in the description.
Thanks for reading!

Yeah, I had the same assumption for years. And then I started to realize that people would submit PRs to me where there's a ton of debug logging code left in or git merge markers they accidentally didn't fix. I thought, "Wait, are some authors not even reading this before they send it out?"
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You've hit the nail on the fundamental issue. Authenticity check at the Physical -> Digital touch point. Some efforts such as digital KYC for banking are able to solve this because the process involves a government issued identity, so the authenticity of the physical -> digital transmission is sort of embedded into the physical asset itself. Tampering the physical asset can be quickly reverified using several of the asset parameters (photo, DOB etc).

For aspects such as meters or constantly changing physical data, I am not sure if it will ever be possible to ensure the authenticity of physical -> digital touchpoint.

Is this something an embedded processor can help resolve ? In essence eliminating the possibility of fake data emerging from the meters ?
I saw that being featured on Edx and it caught my eye. I'll probably take it at some point next year.
People have tried. I knew someone who did a term paper on typesetting systems - wish I could find it - and the conclusion was basically "TeX sucks in a lot of ways, but the attempted replacements have always been worse." Knuth actually got a lot of things right and hence TeX's staying power.
> Anyone could have looked up Telegram on their favourite search engine and found all the information in this article anytime in the past year or two. It is nothing new.

That's not really how knowledge spreads. Otherwise we wouldn't have so many problems with fakenews and conspiracy bullshit.

> I don't think, and did not say, the article is bad. Just that it is nothing new.

Why does it matter whether it's new or old? I don't know much about vice.com, but it does not make the impression of a bleeding edge news-source, but just regular journalism. And with regular journalism it's common to take up old topics to bring back awarness or illustrate whether things have changed in the meanwhile.

I mean even here on hackernews most heated discussions are also around year old articles and topics, not just the daily fresh meat.
Is there any startups or companies in hardware acceleration solutions?
It seems like companies getting more challenges in maintaining performance in their business-critical computations. I.e. machine learning algorithms become increasingly used in a majority of industries and require well-designed infrastructure to provide fast calculation speeds. And solutions like GPU or FPGA accelerators become more and more used in resource-heavy computations.

I was wondering whether there are any successful startups in the field offering B2B acceleration services?
I've run into (multiple) compiler bugs in certified C and C++ compilers, I know how difficult this is. But still a much larger percentage of bugs I've seen was introduced by the developers. Which is why I said even now Rust would probably beat MISRA C++ in terms of total amount of bugs. I do think Sealed Rust has a bit of a way to go, but it would be a worthy investment.

Seen from the point of total risk, the compiler errors are much harder to find, but the developer errors can still kill you.

In any case SPARK is indeed even farther ahead in terms of having a reliable toolchain paired with a language that makes safe code easier to produce.
I wonder if it was always like this, where people were only willing to hear their own side of any argument. Some things get "decided", and then are no longer open for debate. Smacks of theism or monarchism in a way.
Eh, you probably should count what actually killed them, though you can make some arguments.

If you have let’s say two years left to life and COVID ends up finishing you off, that’s a death due to COVID.
Security by attrition.
I did my time with Java back in the 1.5 days.

It was not a good syntax. It felt, as they say, like a battle with the compiler.

I originally learned on Pascal, C, and C++ in college, so it's not like I was natively biased against C-like languages.

Discovering Python was like a breath of fresh air, at the time.
It conflates "deaths caused by pandemic" with "deaths caused by reactions to pandemic" with "deaths caused by random things that accidentally happened during the pandemic".

Imagine a parallel universe, where COVID-19 is actually just a flu, but for some reason the oppresive governments execute anyone who says so. In the parallel universe, they also have excess mortality (because of the executions) during 2020. So you cannot use the mere fact of excessive mortality to prove that we do not in fact live in this parallel universe.
Tax-paid lairs, serving god-know-whos interests.
* How is the "20% Incentive for Mining" reconciled with the supposed energy-saving goal?

* Does Woz have trustworthy advisors for whether to get involved in things like this?

* What does the EFF think about the big, thick block letters "EFF" at the start of this company's logo? The company also spells their name in all-caps as "EFFORCE" in text of their site. ("EFFORCE" sounds more like a commando unit of the EFF, which is arguably a better idea than a blockchain ICO&mining scheme with the pretext of saving energy.)
Then why hasn't this happened over the past 40 years? That's more than one generation of programmers over a whole lot of change from mainframes to PCS, the web, mobile devices and cloud services with thousands of programming languages and tools being invented over that time, but mostly it's incremental process. PLs today aren't radically different than they were in the 60s. It's something visionaries like Alan Kay have repeatedly complained about.
Yes indeed, and after had hit the reply button I was thinking about GPUs. But if you look at how a single GPU core is programmed, this is still served pretty well with the traditional programming model, just slightly enhanced for the different memory architecture.

With "radical changes" I mean totally moving away from the von Neumann architecture, e.g. "weird stuff" like quantum-, biochemical- or analog-computers.