skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
S&P announces new indexes, including one tracking more than 200 cryptos
The way I currently pin packages is to just import a specific commit hash of nixpkgs as a variable. Niv[0] is a tool that makes doing that and updating very painless.

[0]: https://github.com/nmattia/niv
Ack, I know of those. Isn't that the same thing as carbon capture? It also uses more energy to capture the carbon than the fuel will produce after burning. Just that the output is usable fuel (yay put it back in the atmosphere ^^' but better burning circular than burning fossil fuels) rather than rocks like Climeworks and Olivine output.

I never actually saw anyone compare the options. Anyone know if it's cheaper (or less energy-intensive) per ton of CO2 to turn atmospheric CO2 into rock and continue using fossil fuels for another century until oil really starts playing hard to get, or if it's cheaper (or less energy-intensive) to use this air-to-fuel technology?
Richard C. Lewontin, eminent geneticist with a sharp pen, has died
Why not just turn CO2 into a currency directly then? Your "proof of work" is the CO2 you sequestrated and can sell to someone else.
That makes sense. Feels like a stretch to advertise it as a feature. I would think the use case for this would be to charge up battery and have it in your backpack to slap on when you need it. It is nice you can charge both at once. I suppose that it can charge the iPhone up to 15 watts only if the brick it is attached to is of a sufficiently high wattage.

I think they are stretching to include that as a feature bullet point.

Overall, I actually like the product quite a bit. Not sure how justifiable the price is when The competition sells a very similar product for less than half the price, but it is nicely designed and would be a convenient piece item to have in a bag.
You’ll probably want to install it in a Toolbox [1] container. This is the recommended way to set up development tools; you’ll generally want as little as possible layered on the OSTree file system.

1. https://github.com/containers/toolbox
The more reputable source: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/12/biden-covid-vaccina...

> Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages. The goal is to ensure that people who may have difficulty getting a vaccination because of issues like transportation see those barriers lessened or removed entirely.

> “We are steadfastly committed to keeping politics out of the effort to get every American vaccinated so that we can save lives and help our economy further recover,” White House spokesperson Kevin Munoz said. “When we see deliberate efforts to spread misinformation, we view that as an impediment to the country's public health and will not shy away from calling that out.”
3. Fooled my parents again HAHAHAAHAHA
The more I learned about the Japanese judicial system, the more I found myself cheering for this guy. The system seemed like it was designed as a can't-lose process for the prosecutors, and if arrested, you're guilty until proven innocent. I'm more sad that the guys who helped him are in hot water.
IMO this case is not just about the price, the perceived fairness plays a central role. From the article:

> Benoit and the team at Electrified Garage are huge proponents of Right to Repair and say that this is a lesson on that very subject.

I also think that it’s still a good case. The owner wanted an alternative to just throwing away the $16000 part, and found a shop that provided a legit way to do that (until proven otherwise at least).

Hopefully getting punished for choosing alternatives to Tesla to service it would be prohibited by right to repair clauses.
Countries and Governments *LOVE* Inflation. Australia's official policy is inflation to be between 2-3% pa

Most other countries have similar goals. The means prices double every 25-30 yrs
You can view BBC programing by setting up Tor to go through the U.K.
So if I was a dominating business, and you're an opensource more ethical solution, all I need to do is make a generous donation to you and publicize that I did, then people like you will say what you just said in every public comparative discussion to try to lower the value of my competitor for me. Investment well spent I say.
...and "solutions journalism" itself sounds like an interesting topic. There are lots of posts on HN discussing journalism in general, challenges faced by "serious" news orgs, and fresh takes. Searching for "journalism" (search box is at bottom of the main page) turns up lots, such as [0], [1], [2], [3], and [4].

And now I'm off down the "Blendle" rabbit hole...

[edit] Arggh. Homepage blendle.com, subhead "To our Beta users": "Today Blendle starts its beta in the United States..." -- undated, and "... Continue reading on medium.com"

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14020950 Social media's effect on journalism is greater than shift from print to digital

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146086 Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12611377 Best practice examples of data journalism and visualization projects

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11343822 Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds you for clickbait

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453821 Blendle: A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later
The "so what" is that I don't expect incoherent gibberish to have similar statistical properties to actual language. If the book is written in a language (or constructed language or cipher) then we have no more reason to expect its author was mad than we have to suspect any random author of any text we can't read is mad.

And maybe coherence isn't binary (not that I ever wrote it was) but TempleOS is clearly an example of something that is coherent though done by mentally ill person for an irrational purpose.
Ask HN: List of Carbon Neutral Companies?
I am creating a list of clean tech companies on https://cleanm.art
You're using reddit wrong if you only use "popular". There are thousands of subreddits and it's easy curate a subset of ones that fit you rather than whatever tiktok does (and then probably ships off to China for cataloging)
I love Cornel West, but he's left Harvard in a huff three or four times in the last twenty years.

I feel like this is the second news cycle for this departure, even.
Gentle reminder that it's against the rules to accuse someone of not reading the article. Please see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think it's for the same reasons we tend to abstract currencies away from their underpinning scarce resources. Convenience, scale, efficiency.

Most mining devices don't actually ever successfully win a single bitcoin. But they get paid pro rata for their contribution to the combined hashing power, which did.

For miners in a pool hashing power is the saleable commodity. Perhaps this was the point you were making.

Even if it didn't fulfill its potential (yet), we must remember what made bitcoin so special: eliminating the double-spend and central authority problems. How do you intend to sell your sequestered CO2 and prove that it's still yours to sell?

This is all hypothetical anyway. To my knowledge there's no scheme that satisfies those criteria wrt proof of sequestration.
And that man/woman is the CEO.

Cash flow is the actual movement of money - paying payroll, paying vendors, receiving cash from clients (not just sending out the invoice). Lack of cash flow is what makes companies go bankrupt.

Allocations are methods to attribute income and/or expenses to groups. It may be something simply such as dividing up an enterprise software license for email by the number of employees and allocating that expense to their department. It can be more difficult / squishy such as how to attribute brand marketing spend to various product lines. Generally, companies use allocations because they are trying to understand the profitability of something (a product, geography, client, etc).

Your example of the million dollar spend is a good one. Very easy to see where the cash flow went (Developers, Sales people, rent, etc) but the important question to assist on future investment decisions is how much should be allocated to Project X vs Y vs Z. One would also need to understand how much cash was generated by Project X, Y, and Z so they can determine the ROI (Return On Investment) for each project. Knowing the ROI is important in making future investment decisions.
It means “I recognize your humanity, and we all feel bad at times. It’s ok to grieve. I hope you feel better soon.” That’s what I hope it means when I send condolences to coworkers.
Yes. But I believe FF is slowly catching up in this update. There was a post about it here a while ago
According to wiki[420], Prime Video has 4 nominations in total: 2 for The Undreground Railroad and 2 for The Boys

But official Emmy’s website shows 6 nominations for The Boys.

[420] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/73rd_Primetime_Emmy_Awards
Yeah, but it's got a much smaller set of packages available and, last I checked, had a lot more issues with broken packages and things like that (I assume because there are fewer eyes on it, and way less total time spent on maintenance of it)
They can't out engineer Google on dev tooling, or the dev ecosystem. They just don't have the resources.

Chrome dev tools is vast and very rapidly evolving. Google has large evangelists teams dedicated to explaining dev tools or web tech in general. They are everywhere, on Twitter, Youtube, blogs, conferences, in web standards proposals.

It's Google all the way down. If I'm not mistaken, Mozilla doesn't even have any evangelists anymore.
Nushell 0.34
i've wanted to like nix, but both times i tried it i got turned off by the config. not the language per se, but how it's used. i was expecting some ocd space church dream where all the configs for the packages had been coalesced into nice clean abstractions on top of this language, what i found was that it felt like most config was kinda random and arbitrary. the naming of settings wasn't consistent and that older alternatives felt more consistent. (whether it be --with flags in autotools or the use flag system in gentoo).

i really like the reproducibility goals and the separation and gnu stow like structuring of installed packages, i just had a hard time with the inconsistencies with how the nix language was used to express configuration for packages.
And more downvotes, still not surprised.
Disregarding memory models, OOPSLA is not a good source for PL research.
In fact, if you consider the in-universe explanation of ‘holodeck creates fake matter that can't actually exist and function outside of the holodeck’, then things may possibly be even more impressive. So, presumably people discovered some kind of a different matter, with which we could interact, but which exists only temporarily on the holodeck thing. Since it flips in and out of existence when the holodeck activates or deactivates, it sounds like some kind of energy that masquerades and works as matter. But how much regular energy would you need to expend to hold this matter-energy in place and make it work? All discussion of teleportation and ‘transporter’ devices comes to conclusions that disassembling and assembling human-scale objects would require huge amounts of energy, like on levels of Kardashev Type II. But a holodeck pretty much does about the same kind of thing continuously, all the time while it's in use. Imagine, at the vague minimum, running a present-day country's worth of energy supply to power your VR box.
Event-based architectures, for example: https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html For some types of applications moving to a model with a stream of events as the source of truth can solve a ton of hairy distributed computing problems.
USBC is becoming standard pretty quickly isn't it? Most major Android smartphones are already using it. I even recently bought a small electric fan which is powered by USBC.
a lot of people (and I mean a LOT) hate the "new" reddit website and will look elsewhere if they limit the API (or do away with it entirely) for clients like slide, RIF, apollo, Sync, etc
Ask HN: How can I get basic astrophysics knowledge?
I’ve always been passionate about it, so I would like to get a decent minimal knowledge on astrophysics, maybe to get into (amatorial) computational astrophysics.
I used to be of the mind that ad tech et. al. weren’t really hurting anyone, and that the more extreme examples of privacy offenses were simple edge cases.

That is until I switched to iOS and was given the option to hide my true email address, tell an app not to track me, and otherwise get visibility into just how much my data is getting sniffed for stupid reasons that have nothing to do with the service I’m using.
>companies that use cross-site tracking for things like website optimization

OK, I was hoping someone already addressed this, but apparently not. What "website optimization" requires cross-site tracking? Is there any real application for cross-site tracking besides advertising? I honestly would like to know.
The brain needs animal fat (2019)
Thanks for the suggestion, but, pragmatically, it's not an option. My colleagues and I haven't written data processing, distributed systems, NLP/ML/datasci, or web tier code in Java since 2006, and we don't plan on starting now.

We've used Python at scale on petabyte-sized production data, multi-billion-request API tiers, and high-concurrency low-latency data processing all the while.

Java is the right tool for writing system-level code in some isolated contexts, but Python is the right tool for the job for a huge number of important use cases, with those use cases growing by the day.

I love Java (and appreciate Kotlin and Clojure), but with parallel compute power cheaper by the day, Python's focus on code simplicity, open source ecosystem, and programmer happiness continues to win the day.
openSUSE MicroOS Desktop is another distribution exploring this space. It’s a neat idea, but the SUSE folks are still working out a lot of quirks (the firewall had to be disabled in recent builds, for example). How mature is Silverblue? Can it be used as a daily driver with minimal fuss?
Where is your proof any of it worked. And saying “chilling at home in safety” shows extreme privilege. Like, it boggles my head how privileged and detached people in this industry are from ordinary people. The privileged work from home class who posts here all gets to work “safely from home” on the backs of an expendable lower class workforce who takes all the risks.

What happened over the course of the last 17+ months was the largest generational and socioeconomic wealth transfer ever. The rich and privileged got more rich and privileged at the expense of those not so privileged. The old got to feel “safe” by completely screwing over the young generation, a generation who is, mind you, not at all at risk for covid.

I find it deplorable how dismissive people are about the costs of this and how intellectually lazy they are when it comes to answering if all this even had an effect worth mentioning.
Do you know if the metadata is available via a free, open resource? For others, here are some very interesting looking links I just found:

* https://kb.ddex.net/display/HBK/Technical+Description+of+RIN

Recording Information Notification (RIN) standard, used by DDEX. See the samples at the bottom for a good sense of it.

* https://jaxsta.com/

Jaxsta is said to aggregate DDEX metadata, but I'm not sure what exactly that means or if it's publicly available.

* https://www.sound.credit/

Sound Credit calls itself "The Next Generation of Credits, Liner Notes, and Album Art" and seems marketed toward industry, but uses the RIN standard (and DDEX metadata?). Someplace said the metadata was freely available, but I don't see it in a brief look.
This look amazing! Thanks for sharing, sounds like yarh (yet another rabbit hole) that I wanna pursue! :-)
You may send POST /events instead. It also breaks “REST”, which is just a sort of obsession rather than a requirement here, but more importantly it wouldn’t break idempotence and proxy caching that GET implies.

Edit: from the network point of view, it’s either call-back or a persistent call-wait/socket, or polling. The exact protocol is irrelevant, because it’s networking limits and efficiency that prevent everyone from having a persistent connection to everyone. A persistent connection can’t be much better than any other persistent connection in that regard, and what happens inside is unrelated story. Or am I missing something?
How do they say plan managing disinformation sent over SMS? This seems… alarming? Do people get disinformation text messages about vaccines? I can’t say I have.
Maybe this is more advanced, but just going off the screen shot it looks the same as Trusted Advisor https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/trusted-adv...

If you have Enterprise Support, your TAMs can also help with cost and can arrange meetings and resources to address cost concerns, as well (including architectural reviews)

If you're not large enough for that to apply or don't plan for huge growth, personally, I'd strongly reconsider AWS. Amazon's APIs and infrastructure automation can give small teams a lot of leverage to run massive amounts of infrastructure and quickly scale, but things with a small, fixed set of infrastructure might be worth a look on VMs, etc
Corporations are obliged to their shareholders, not their consumers. Furthermore, if the service is marketed as free to downstream consumers, those same consumers are more likely in some way the product. Therefore, any action that increases shareholder confidence in the company is liable to be taken. Harming downstream consumers can sometimes be damaging to shareholder confidence, but isn't necessarily.

In essence, companies are incentivized to be "assholes" when it furthers their valuation. Unfortunately, being an "asshole" is very often a lucrative move as long as it's done carefully.

I don't believe everyone who works at a large corporation (example being Amazon) is evil and immoral. However, collective action taken by the company on large scales has shown in many cases to have "asshole" effects. Also, fuck Jeff Bezos.
If anyone is interested in this era of comic books and the society they bred, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon is a smart, excellently written novel.

It covers the comic book culture in NYC in WW2 and the years after, and covers a scenario very similar to this report.
GPU Runner on GitHub Actions via Cirun.io
old.reddit.com + reddit enhancement suite is a fair superior experience. If they kill that off they are toast and I think they know it. It will be a repeat of the Digg fiasco.
'More reputable' is subjective based on your own bubble and frame of reference. The OP's link is 'right biased' your link is 'left biased'. I generally try to read a little bit of everything, with a huge grain of salt, and there is no way to read this action as anything other than 'oppressive' imo. Just look at the whole lab leak fiasco for a very recent example of why this type of censorship is awful for both truth and science.

Sadly I've not found a news source that simply reports known facts.
Trees are valuable too. The problem is we don't understand and/or appreciate that value.

For instance, trees essentially power the entire terrestrial water cycle. Without trees all the water rains out within a few hundred km of the coast. Trees (far moreso than simple evaporation) are responsible for pushing that water back into the air-stream. Isotopic analysis confirms that 80% of the rainfall on land is caused by transpiration, and most of that is trees. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11983

This explains why deforestation causes desertification. Cut down the trees and you get a continent-wide desert.

These dynamics aren't well-captured by the present economic system, which only sees "valuable real estate" being "taken up" by trees.
> government that was willing to 'let the bodies pile up' to 'keep the economy going'

First, the UK mortality rate was only somewhat higher in 2020. In fact, it was lower than it had been in any year before 2009.

Second, even if that were true, you vastly overestimate the efficacy of such tactics in persuading people.
Point taken.

Your statement is equally factually unsupported and I have apparently taken the bait.
Good advice, but maybe it's hard for people to follow, especially in companies/orgs where people focus on their own promotions so hoarding knowledge = job security
We can agree they’re both fucked up in their own specific ways, along with many other systems.

We can hold hands at the bottom of the pit, no need for a winner.

> litteraly lie to you

BTW in a lot of countries they are basically immune to perjury, so this is just par for course
Does anyone here have any insight into what these “anti-Palestinian prejudices” are, other than the recognition of Israel’s right to exist that is shared by almost all Americans?
Google has the majority of it via legal means..., we need to get a handle on our governments before we even try to protect our digital info...
For what it’s worth I am a solid democratic voter my entire life. My political party betrayed me… I’m a little ticked about it. But thanks for making snap judgments.

And even if you take the person from Florida who was arrested’s claims as true, it doesn’t change my argument at all. The shape of their curve matches everybody else’s curve no matter whose dataset you look at. If lockdowns worked in any meaningful fashion, why does New York, California, Arizona, South Dakota and Florida all have the same curves?

I assert the lockdowns and masks did very little. Mere rain dances performed by frightened people who fooled themselves into thinking mankind could somehow control an airborne respiratory virus. It’s peak human arrogance.

If that makes me a right winger in your eyes, so be it.
When designing something like this as a service, the biggest question is what other developers will find easy to use. Every cheap host supports inbound HTTP requests, and most web developers know how to receive them.

Stripe needs to be usable by both the developers building intense, scalable, reliable systems and the people teaching themselves to code in a limited context on a limited platform.
I love how your reply (which mentions that you use NixOS) is at the top because it indirectly confirms my experience with Nix. I tried Nix on Debian only a couple of weeks ago, and the main issue I had with Nix was that whenever I searched for an answer or other info relating to Nix, most of what I found was written by users of NixOS, not standalone Nix. It seemed that the overwhelming majority of people sharing info about Nix are users of NixOS.

For example, notice how there are 4-5 times as many results when searching the web for "configuration.nix" (which is used with NixOS) than there are when searching for "config.nix" (which is used with standalone Nix):

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22configuration.nix%22

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22config.nix%22

I got bored of wading through irrelevant search results, so I uninstalled Nix. (My experience with Guix was even worse, but in a different way.) When I want software that isn't in Debian's repos, I'll stick to installing it from source like I've been doing forever.