skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel you! OTOH it seldom matters to me, because I mostly watch tech and docu stuff that do not require crystal clear or hifi video. Kind of like illustrated podcasts. I do see the need for a better experience when watching feature films, though, which you can also get on YouTube. But being a bit of a film buff (and one who's also shot film for cinema I might add), I don't even enjoy Netflix. Instead I try to watch films where they're supposed to be watched: At the movies. ;)
The importance of ` font-face` source order when used with preload
>state subsidies for renewables

It's not a subsidy for renewables because it's integrated into the price. The EEG is a subsidy for energy intensive industry that is paid by retail customers. The electricity bill of other people shouldn't be on yours. However, buying electricity at 0€ and then paying 0.08€ in EEG is the same as paying 0.08€ in the first place. The only difference is that renewables get feed in priority.
I grew up poor in Eastern Europe. Very poor, in fact. Without piracy I probably wouldn’t ever have been able to learn English, find my passion and make it in life. And not just for monetary reasons but due to access as well. Ironically enough the Internet never mattered too much because we were able to get what we wanted hand to hand. The 56k modem was completely useless when your friend had a zip drive with the games you drooled over. But it taught me to appreciate things. Even today I love physical copies of things, it is like a little trophy to the thing I love.

My biggest problem nowadays is not that I can’t afford the things I love but that there is hardly anything I actually want. But when I do I often get multiple copies, whether it is on different platforms or to share the joy with friends.

That being said the effects of piracy are both severe and negligible due to the quality. While it probably doesn’t affect big corporations at all, the small indie people sometimes suffer catastrophically from it.
Who to blame for the Covid-19 pandemic (Journal of Global Health)
... That is why I predict that in the coming decades we will continue to be exposed to the dangers of pandemics and that in time something even more dangerous and devastating than the seventh coronavirus could hit us. Thus, even when science protects us from the threats from COVID-19, this is unlikely to mark the end of our fight against pandemics in the 21st century. It will only be the end of the beginning.
No one said that building the dam is not their rights but devil is always in details. The problem lies with two things

1- An agreement about the dam and how it operates because when it is in full operation and something happen this will be catastrophic to sudan and Egypt

2- Reduce the impact of water shortage to egypt ans sudan by extending the timeline for fulfillment

Again these two points is always the core of negotiations not the idea of dam existence itself. So saying this is not even something for a discussion.

* the agreement between sudan and Egypt is about how to share their percentage or what drainage countries get. Do you say that all other countries get 0 drops of water from the Nile?

* In 2015 Egypt had agreed that Ethiopia can build the dam and continue negotiations about the reducing impact and agreement about the dam which Ethiopia evaded this for 6 years? What can you say about that? People who wants a military actions will not negotiate for a 10 years. Take isreal and their indirect and direct attacks on Iranian nuclear program because they see it as a potential existential threat ( which is something doable that they will have). If Ethiopia is refusing all the diplomatic solution to cooperate and wants to do what it wants only, what do you think a US will do if it was in Egypt place. Taking US history into consideration I doubt they will negotiate before paralyzing Ethiopian army at least.

* regarding treaties, Ethiopia took the land from sudan with an agreement with British against Sudanese will, it is a colonial era agreement that Ethiopian ignore when they talk about their rights and how these treaty about nile was forced on them. So extend the logic and get the land back and then negotiate a fair deal with all nile countries.

Hint: Until a couple of months ago, Ethiopians were occupying large area from Sudanese land ( even without an colonial treaty) and they said they will act by military if sudan didn't withraw from their lands.
https://www.reuters.com/article/sudan-ethiopia-int-idUSKBN29...

And thanks for down voting.
> Where is a country like Ethiopia getting all the money for such a mega-project?

The major source:
For most of the decade, for each bank loan, 27% of it goes to the construction of the dam. And then, most employees have given at least 1 month of their salary to the dam.
> "Let it crash" is largely about restarting systems to known good state in an expanding scope.

This phrase has always thrown me for a loop in the context of most web development.

Mainly because if an application were coded in a way where it's crashing chances are it's never going to get itself back into a working state.

For example if your web app throws a 500 because your code is syntactically invalid or is doing something wildly wrong it doesn't matter how many times you restart the web server or spawn another process, it's not going to work. It's going to fail until someone updates the code base to fix the human mistake.

Most modern web frameworks can also handle the case where the /oops URL throws a 500 but the home page and everything else works. One page throwing an exception doesn't bring down everything.

Now if you're talking about things like retrying a database connection at startup until either a timeout hits or the DB becomes available, that type of stuff is very useful but this is something I've seen included in a lot of web frameworks in a lot of languages. It's essentially a few line while loop that looks for a specific type of exception and then calls the connect function until it works or times out.

In general I find in Elixir you're also dealing with error handling on a per function basis because it's common practice to do the ok / error tuple pattern. This is defensive programming to ensure you have an understanding of the system you're developing, just like you would do a try / except in other languages.

For example if you were doing token based authentication you'd want your function to return ok and the data you want when it successfully verifies the token but you'd also want to handle the 2 failing cases individually, one error / message for when the token expired and another error / message for when the token was tampered with.
One benefit of the "let it crash" mentality - provided the language and runtime has the right set of tools - is that you can focus on programming the happy path.

Simplified example, but if part of your app is a parser, you can write functions that parse known tokens. If the input contains bad data, your parser will crash. Its supervisor will detect this and be able to restart the parser,and can pass an error back to the user.

Now, should you add on code that handles known errors more gracefully and provides more info? Absolutely, but you don't have to, and imo that enables a very pleasant programming experience
Sorry to disappoint you but GNU/Linux is definitely not a third of the way to compete with a Windows 11 desktop, and the best it will ever manage is to run on top of Hyper-V.
What job is that? Long term studies showed it’s no more risky than ibuprofen for long term use. I’m not sure there’s a pain killer we’ll ever have that isn’t bad for you when taken in high dosage for years at a time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rofecoxib
Yeah, but you probably have roads, rail, and ports.

It wouldn't be impossible to move vats of molten salt at scale to different locations from collection for usage via HEX and typical Rankine power cycle systems (i.e. steam).
> Not sure what to do about that.

Biggest things you can do are the basics:

* Sleep as close to eight hours a night as you can

* Cook healthy food

* Maintain a low waist circumference and maintain muscle mass

* Have some combo of low intensity cardio (walking etc) and higher intensity stuff. A 7 min strength training circuit is good here

The basics are surprisingly hard, the majority of north american adults flunk all of these. From your description you may be missing at least the majority.

That’s ok, you have a clear priority in your life. The point is, examine that list and your own life/work schedule, and see if one of those can be improved within your existing framework.

Usually this is possible for one of them and they actually work together. Improving any of these gives your body its best shot at maintaining itself over the long haul despite work stress.
I can't for the life of me find the quote nor remember where I originally saw it. I thought it was something like a ted talk or at least a review of a ted talk, but I can't find it now :( that sentiment certainly stuck with me though, the idea that this girl assumed that, if they could, someone would have come to help, but that they had actually been abandoned which was a harsh realisation she came to later.
I'm developing software for industrial machines - those machines can be used to produce parts for defense applications on one hand or for civil products/research on the other, things that enrich and save lives (e.g. cheaper high-quality components for medical products) ...

It does not bother me that much to be honest - I've become cynical enough to believe that everybody refusing to work on something because it may feed into defense is a pipe dream. Our economies and professions are just too tightly coupled and can almost be turned on a dime to produce components for weapons - weapons aren't very complicated compared to many products we use in our lives.

I would be more bothered by working for a bank or insurance, training models for agriculture-trading or for a multinational company dodging taxes (I work at an SME), helping to build the systems that control lives.
We could use that same logic for renewables.
"Crash" can mean a lot of things, and in Erlang, a crash occurs whenever your functions are unable to perform their task (for instance, there were no functions that match your input data), or when process calls time out. More obvious crashes exist as well - a remote connection hangs up, a computer catches on fire, etc.

You could also use a variety of supervisor strategies or methods to detect what caused the crash.
Means the volume of water and flaw rate, in the Nile is much less than the Amazon river.
> What's crazy is how things still are in such disarray so long after they retreated.

I think it's adorable that you think they "retreated".

Perhaps in another forum I can give you a "low-down" on why the African former colonies are an economic mess, why France and England left physically but not politically or economically, and ofcourse why African leaders visit European powers as one of the first things they do after elections. I may also wax on and wax off about China in Africa. Maybe Libya and the crisis there too.
I think you missed the point. To look at two Muslim countries and say one has slower population growth because the other is Islamic is not racist. It is nonsensical.
Well done! IMHO producing the feed on site is the ultimate sustainability move because it makes aquaponics truly autonomous. In the past I tried soldier fly larvae but I wasn't able to produce enough to sustain my fish, it was just a supplement for them.
Renewables also keep facing more and more restrictions, regulations and bureaucracy redtape in Germany. I don't see the difference except that nuclear has greater technical challenges that require even more of what you mentioned.
We extract hydrogen from water using thermolysis or electrolysis. Either way requires using a lot of energy.

Nuclear provides an answer to capturing hydrogen in a carbon friendly way.
It is strange we don't connect flooding the system with liquidity/bailouts and the creation of billionaires.

For my personal risk preferences I should mostly be a bond investor but we have basically made that impossible. I have to own equities to get any return. Practically everyone does so the people who own giant equity stakes in successful companies are making out like bandits.

Life advise to own a giant equity stake in a successful company is pretty absurd. Why not add be really good looking too?
10 of billions of dollars of media can be cheaply dubbed and altered.
I understand your frustration looking at symbols which may not be straightforward without a certain background or a glossary of terms. However, do you realize anyone outside the UK similarly likely would need to look up what a P45 form is? It's like a USian saying "pink slip" rather than any Anglophone just saying "termination papers". We all like our own shorthand symbols and tend toward discomfort when we're the out group.
This article claims that we need more new programming languages. It supports their own solution, but it does so in a fairly nuanced way.
Angular directive to add “Ripple effect”
Recently I was looking for a directive to add ripple effect to my project, and all the solutions I found were very complex and cumbersome. Instead, I made my little guideline and wanted to share it with you.

Github link: https://github.com/bmarvinb/bmb-ripple

Demo gif: https://media.giphy.com/media/IyuXb64EHkyge2kH3v/giphy.gif
To err on the side of undecidedness is only possible if you have excess energy.

Soon everyone will have to choose.

But yes if the argumentation is thin because you cannot prove anything then making fun of things does not improve anything.
This complexity supports increasing functionality (i.e, the browser becomes an operating system within the operating system) and also legacy technology (i.e. Microsoft Windows), both of which have come to be expected by the customer/user.
The complexity itself is made possible by constant gains in hardware processing capability such that optimization is often a secondary concern.

AI's are now in the early stages of being used to write code and that's only going to increase.
One of the main problems is the Ethiopian PM is using this issue to his benefit to try and unify all people around him and make them ignore all things that he is doing in other issues like what happens in Tigary. That makes something like making compromises which is needed for any serious negotiations is a bad PR and making him looks weak.
Yep. Or one RPC call suddenly becomes slow because of a partial failure like a disk retrying sectors and that slows down the whole application to a crawl :(
€3 keys off eBay work perfectly fine and are legal since reselling OEM software has been explicitly ruled to be legal several times in EU courts now.
I use my seldom used 100A tractor battery for buffer. Instead of reminding myself every couple of months to keep it charged (I use it like three times a year), its now on purpose. I have a guard to prevent the lead-acid battery from a deep decharge.
On a similar note, my daughter and I share an iTunes account so she can have access to apps and music I purchased. She has her own Apple ID for iCloud.

One day, I receive a password reset notification for my personal Apple ID. I freak out, as I now have lost access to my Apple ID and imagine any moment now the attacker will wipe my devices.

Turns out my daughter was unable to download an app, so she went through (successfully) the password reset flow for my Apple ID! It’s definitely not obvious, but apparently you can reset the credentials for someone else’s Apple ID if that id is used for iTunes and the App Store on another device.
>The fact that e.g. Netflix offers different movies for every country is something that honestly does not make any sense yet everyone accepts it.

Do they accept it?
I go to great lengths to anonymize myself on Instagram (futile, but I do what I can), and as a result I get what I guess are 'standard' ads:

- gun modification products

- survival stuff: knives, para cord etc.

- conservative 'mens group' retreats

It's dark.
> I’m not justifying the coup

Painting both sides as equal, when one was democratically elected, and the other a military coup is extremely inaccurate, to the point where it suggests some strong biases. My guess is this is why it comes accross as you justifying the coup.
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With or without ads, Medium is the absolute essence of trash software.
They can however fail like any piece of electronics (source: I owned a panel that failed due to cell foil contact separation).
Modeling and Developing Systems Using TLA+ (2005) [pdf]
The CDC website states that only 6% of covid dead people were not already dying from something else

Definitely over counting just tagging them because at some point had symptoms or a positive test

So being picky about the reported 1 by 1 VAERS data is ridiculous
Where the Age of Consent is 12
SimulaVR is the leading project in that direction I think: https://simulavr.com

With a Oculus Quest 2 - which has the highest resolution of the affordable VR headsets - it's still a little too grainy for prolonged coding sessions. But I think they'll get there in 1-2 generations.
Why China is hobbling its tech sector
I just love the way Backblaze opens the curtains and shares what they learn internally. It make the company one I would consider for employment.
I think Bunz was talking about the internet of things but sure, media content has become increasingly noisy.
The FTC is reportedly investigating Amazon's purchase of MGM
Battery storage is on a steeper price reduction curve than CSP. So, Batteries + PV is on a steeper cost reduction curve than CSP. The cost of tracking PV + batteries is already cheaper than CSP when fitted to the current demand curve.

What’s kept CSP limping along is you can use natural gas to supplement CSP while calling the project green. But from a pure cost basis it’s extremely expensive.
> Nile river is historically and from legal perspective an international river not an Ethiopian property. Violating this always comes with consequences.

The Nile is an international river. All of us accept that. But you should reconsider if you think Ethiopia will accept any treaties that Egypt signed with its colonial master (without Ethiopia being present).

As for consequences, We've been facing the consequences of this for all our lives in the form of food insecurity, famine, rolling blackouts. I will trade food and power for Egyptian military threats or American sanctions. So your consequences are not really that scary considering what's at stake.

* There are 11 countries in the basin. Of the 11, only Egypt and Sudan are using it for any development project.

* Since it's an international resource, we should all be using it.

* Since Egypt and Sudan gets 100% of the benefit, they will likely see a decrease. That's the physical reality

* Right now, Ethiopia gets 0%. We'll increase it.

The gotcha comments don't do much to address the reality on the ground. And it's not particularly merit-worthy for me to bother going point by point "debunking" you. And we're already deep in flame-war territory which is strongly discouraged on HN.

Good luck
Tar Update Fails on Magnetic Tape Drives
Two years after I moved countries, my credit card expired from my home country, so I wanted to use my new UK card, which requires changing your Apple ID country.

Changing your Apple ID country requires cancelling all your subscriptions, including Apple Music, which deleted my entire music collection (even my previously uploaded iTunes Match library). When faced with the prospect of starting from scratch, i just moved to Spotify.
Great, does it matter? I think GGP's comment's point was that some do want that. They said 'women' but I don't think it really matters (or affects the point) who it is.
The U.S. says it can answer cyberattacks with nuclear weapons. That’s lunacy
I have the mentality of a 13yr old, does that count?
This build would be simpler, better and probably cheaper overall with a server grade motherboard and ECC RAM
I'm curious how do you judge which memories are significant enough to put in your spaced-repetition program?
I think MSX-DOS can run CP/M binaries natively. Still, an MSX2 card for the Apple II, even if it’d be the über Z80 card, feels like heresy…
They really are a scary bunch. Moreover, it's terribly annoying how most people in Europe seem to have labelled them as harmless. They're very much considered "ah, those weirdos, I don't agree with them but surely we should just let them do their thing". It's frightening – the Steiner guys are dangerous.
LPT: go to ebay, search for windows license. You can get one for 3-4$ or so. You can even find dedicated sites that sells cheap licenses of Windows or Office.
There was a YC company called Plangrid trying to address this, until they got bought out by autodesk.
The USA for funding the creation of the virus
> Do graph databases predate relational databases? Do you have a source for that? I thought graph databases were a fairly new thing.

I believe they just called them "network databases" back then.
Excellent! Both your website and the original post. I think farming in Scandinavia needs a reboot, specially because of unfavour Clima. At the moment it relies heavily on buying food from other countries with better clima and cheaper labour. Unortunately this involves a lot of transportation/contamination.
This kind of project seems to point the right direction.
For more «normal» people I believe is important to try growing things outside when possible or inside. Then you really understand the real value of what we take for granted on the grocery store.
Gnarly website
Kerberos: Open-Source Video Surveillance
I'd guess that if your dispute has reached the level of kicking each other collaboration tools, then I would not be the target market either, in the sense that this isn't a common enough use case for me, that it would warrant optimizing for it. A workplace like that is just not very healthy.

Sure, conflicts happen all the time, and I guess it is good to be able to handle that, too. But it feels a bit odd to include this in the marketing material as a common case.

If I was marketing I would try to find a way to draw attention to this feature in a more subtle way.

The thing that you are trying to sell is that "all parties have access to verified decisions at all times", right? Maybe there is a way to word it that does not end up associating "loqbooq" with "disputes and projects falling apart".

While I am at it: I think I understand the technical background of Points 1,2,3,4,5 of "In Case of Dispute", but it's worded very technically. Maybe there is a way of describing the benefits of a (semi-)distributed verified log more high-level and then add an additional section "How it works under the hood".

And of course congratulations on the launch!
Maintain low muscle mass? Er no strength training has many benefits including helping to maintain bone mass but also losing muscle mass as we age leads to feebleness and all the negative consequences of that. That doesn't mean pumping iron and taking steroids but just maintaining a decent level of strength.
Telegram: A Beginner's Guide
All of these sound really good to me, I think your ear being trained on these issues has a lot to do with it. We're very close to the point of it being indistinguishable from human speech, in fact with a few of these short clips I wouldn't be able to tell if I didn't know it's artificial speech.
Germany built a new power plant in 2015 that they shut down this year. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/shutdown-complete-moorb...
Somewhat off-topic, but the philosopher Tim Maudlin conceived of a water-based Turing machine for a thought experiment.

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kk3n/80-300/madlin1989.pdf
Yep, aquatic beetles are able to do this, and snails do it all the time. Is a well known fact.