skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really open for any feedback and pointers on the below calculations:

The average citizen of Chad emits 60kg CO2 per year, according to World In Data 2020 [1]. Of which roughly ±3% are current Facebook user [2]. Facebook is pushing hard on the "Open Internet" initiave to capitalize on this market, too [3]. If they succeed in doing so, and say, reaches 80% market penetration in Chad, I'm really curious to hear what percentage would be attributable to rendering javascript advertisements. I tried to look up some numbers but they vary widely and it becomes a heavy guessing game. One could argue to simply divide the amount of active users by the total power consumption:

The energy consumption of Facebook has grown somewhat exponentially over the years, reaching 5.1 TWh in 2019. While there users are growing too (9% from 2018 > 2019, it seems there energy consumption is growing more quickly). Regardless, they counted a rough 2.5B active users at the end of 2019. Giving a rough power consumption per user over 2019 5.1TWh / 2.5b = 2Kwh.
To put that 2 Kwh in perspective, according to Forbes a phone uses on average a year 2 Kwh of power.

Looking up the average Co2 emissions per Kwh I find 475gram of CO2 / Kwh [6].
Adding that up gives a rough 1kg of Co2 emissions per Facebook user.

Given the extremely low emissions from Chad (DRC is even lower with 30kg / capita, but strongly doubting that). The market penetration of Facebook alone in Chad might be able to bump the actual emission from 60 > 61 kg, a near 2% increase per capita, just for Facebook. Which is a rough 30% of the advertisement market globally at the moment.

That 1000kg vehicle hauling for a rough 1000km is equivalent to a year of a Chad living, too.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

[2] https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats1.htm

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/01/facebook-free-...

[4] https://www.statista.com/statistics/580087/energy-use-of-fac...

[5] https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...

[6] https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-co2-status-report-...
“ An Introduction to Statistical Learning” even if it is with examples in R and you don’t care about R.

It’s also not aimed at complete beginners, but if you have a very solid grasp on high school math and some blood on your teeth, you can totally do it.

There’s also a coursera course and the book is free as a pdf
> Symbol versioning

I know that glibc uses symbol versioning to remain ABI-compatible within versions. What I meant was ABI compatibility between 32-bit and 64-bit time_t with the same glibc library. Looks like it uses something like aliases for that (but self-implemented using asm):

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=misc/sys/se...

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=misc/sys/cd...
If the customer has nuclear weapons, then the customer has magnitudes more money in their couch cushions than would be required to pay to have this functionality implemented. For that matter, they’re probably paying Bill Long’s employer some significant chunk of change, and it would be easy for them to offer to pay for this functionality. But it’s free/oss software, so let’s just keep bugging the maintainers instead.
VC: "The key innovation is this new database!"

Points to slowest / lowest throughput / most expensive database ever designed

Sigh.
Wait what’s this about monitoring and record By files and secrets?

Also I think you might be mistaken about the Xbox DRM, they mentioned they’d be requiring always online prior to the launch of the Xbox one but as far as I know they never followed through after all the backlash they received.
Ask HN: What is Web3? How the business model works?
What happens when I the company create a databse (let's say facebook) and Developer A create more compelling application that facebook company?

1.Where is the controlling part.
2. what facebook internal advantage/motivation to create and hire more engineers and give dopemine to more people?

Saying company facebook own coin which has no value what does this even mean?

Explain to me.
Serious question from a German here: why are school boards democratically elected in the first place, and why the f..k do they have the power to censor books from a library that violate no laws and have been selected by the administrative staff responsible for maintaining the library?!
If the Wikipedia article is misleading, it probably shouldn't be linked in the license…
I like using Emacs because it does everything. Sometimes not well and you have to let it go, for example I wouldn't imagine managing Java projects in Emacs. But there's a world of discoverability and learning in Emacs that's unmatched in my opinion. The writing experience is especially excellent, I write all my notes and presentations in Emacs, they can be linked together, compiled to PDF or Word, use interactive code blocks and much more, it's fascinating.

It also made me interested in subjects I didn't know about like knowledge management and the history of Lisps, thanks to its community.
The world in 2022: another year of living dangerously
I got around that one place by just writing up a bug report and a it seems like line x of file... this wasn't government and so they wouldn't have cared anyway so i just avoided figuring out the paperwork to contribute.
One Square Minesweeper
I am an atheist and definitely care a ton about religion. Because what people believe highly influences their actions. A mind that can believe things without good reason or evidence can believe anything. Often these things are nasty, awful things. People then promote these things in government and society, and because they are couched in 'religion' get some sort of exemption from criticism at large. Is there anything you COULDN'T believe based on faith? If i do not need to provide evidence, is there anything i couldn't deeply hold and promote, that is offensive and problematic to a society? If i don't need to provide evidence, how can you question me when my supreme being has told me that men are better than woman, that people of my religion are better than others, that cis people are better than lgbtq+ people. That white people are better than people of color. It's my supreme being, i don't have to prove him to you. "It's true for me", and you need to respect me for it.

That is just wrong.
I don't have a rational answer for this, it just seems that such a simple task, would need a simple solution.

Just downloading and installing this took minutes and kind of stressed my computer and when I finally tried to launch it, it asked me to sign up before I can use it, so I abandoned and uninstalled it.

I can't recommend this to someone else, when it has such a barrier to entry.
Is it not fraud to claim a scientific backing behind the concepts, when no such backing is provided, and likely doesn't exist? Is it not fraud to claim to be an "expert" in a field in which you have no formal training and likely no practical experience?

Those two points above are what I walked away with as the claims along with as much proof as they could muster. Because they can't prove that there's not something that scientifically credits DiSC, but they can say that they did not find anything. As a bonus, they're also clearly intellectually honest in asserting that they could also not find anything discrediting DiSC. They also conveyed what they could not find regarding the author's education and experience. I'm not quite sure what more you are looking for here?
We are talking about France not the EU. Look at your own numbers: “ Figure 2 - Subsidies for different energy sources, as percent of GDP and in billion euros in 2019”

France is a rather large anomaly even though their nuclear reactors have been built and paid for. This is exactly the time period they should be most profitable, yet still a significant subsidy. More, that’s in comparison to all energy consumption not simply the electric grid. And further, their subsidies for wind and solar are actually paying for new generation to just continued production.
I have little doubt if it weren't for the decision in Lawerence v. Texas in 2003(!), Texas would still be enforcing anti-gay laws against consenting adults.
It isn’t applied quite like that though.

The bible is likely in the library and kids could reach it, and violence is acceptable to an arbitrary point which changes based on the media.
Surely kidnapping a child for over six months if not sensible financial planning in any way. You're just spending more money to kept the child fed for the same amount of ransom.
I'm no tax lawyer but it would seem like a kidnapper wouldn't meet the criteria for having legal custody of a person and wouldn't qualify for any relief of their tax burden. But given that a large number of those type of kidnappers are family members, it's likely they already have the information needed to file them as a dependent (which in the case of a kidnapping, seems like it would be cut and dried tax fraud).

The question that lingers in my mind is if your dependent is kidnapped and gone for too long (but not dead... let's say they're kidnapped on December 31st and returned 366 days later conveniently removing custody for an entire calendar year), are you ineligible to claim them as a dependent while they're missing? Seems like strictly and amorally speaking your financial burde has been lessened and you wouldn't need the tax relief for caring for that person.
I feel like this and most of its sibling comments are missing the context of the thread: I agree with the viewpoint that "not always online" is a feature. The problem is the lack of "some things available when returning from offline".

From this perspective, the "always online" approach just makes IRC like Discord et al, where you receive everything and have to choose what to read when you get back.

Snapchat is the closest, with its "messages disappear after 24h by default, but can be saved by members of the group".
The novel doesn't start with a school shooting. It starts with a school blowing up due to a natural gas leak (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion)
If your conclusion from that is that it’s ok for the school to enforce one group’s values on the children of parents who disagree, then I don’t think you can have a principled objection to the “banning” of books. Sometimes you eat the bear…

Personally, I would look for solutions that maximize the chances of everybody getting what they want. Maybe parents can sign a waiver for their kids to get certain books, maybe this is all an argument for school choice. Just because government funds the schools doesn’t mean we have to put parents in this zero sum position where they’re fighting over who gets to present their values to the other side’s kids.

Personally, I think it’s good for kids to be presented with a lot of different perspectives. I’ve read several of the books on these lists since they started going around and haven’t found one I think is inappropriate for a high schooler to choose to read.

But I wonder how many books raising explicit concerns about trans issues are stocked in these libraries? If they stock How To Be An Antiracist, do they have books that are critical of that?

Also, I think it would be helpful if the people defending these books focused on a substantive defense of the content instead of trying to invalidate the opinions of their critics based on identity characteristics.
Stewart Butterfield, one of the founders, then went on to give the MMO thing another shot, starting one called Glitch in 2009. In 2012, it was deemed unprofitable, and they pivoted, re-developing their internal communication tools into Slack, which was wildly successful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(video_game)
Honestly, the linked article about NFTs in Video Games was what really helped me with my articulation. It's long, but I really recommend it.

The situation makes me sad, because I think that Web3/NFTs/etc. are some really interesting technologies, and I really align the aims that they _claim_ to be supporting (whether all proponents actually _do_ support those aims, or are merely claiming to do so in order to make a quick buck, is a different question). But the implementations that exist, and the environmental damage that they currently cause, make them utterly unsupportable to me.
Have you tried hooking self-insert-command to the modes you'd use it on? Like prog mode and fundamental. The only corner case I can think of is if you'd like to tab-insert in org-mode and also expand headings using tab.

Edit: Try this:

(defun indent-for-tab-command ()
(interactive)
(insert-char #x20 4))
adafruit.com sells and also builds nifty components for Arduino and other SBCs like Raspberry Pi.

Coincidentally, they happen to sell adabox, a gift box for $60 https://www.adafruit.com/adabox_get_started
Your defense there is to file depreciation of the asset for the 363 days you used it; you could even steal devices to farm tax credits which can offset your regular income tax this way!
They still can. A government doesn't have the need for first mover advantage because they have the power to make the official version. Also, the technology is very mature and best practices are better known. The userbase has been trained. And it's cheaper for them to do it now.

Though an official united states citizen email address has its own pitfalls for abuse, scams, and fraud.
>It really depends on the threat you are planing against.
What about oppressive let's say Russian government while you travel let's say in Ukraine and then occupation occurs. Not a fantastic scenario by the way ...

It really doesn't depend on the threat at all. It's about the model of the society you wish to have and what values you promote.

It's about who you wish to be responsible : the 'big company' caring about your safety and taking your freedom on the way or you caring yourself about own safety and preserving freedom on the way. I do not really think there is a choice here because the first option will always be abused at some point.

Freedom does matter and it comes with responsibility. THIS is the main issue here. THIS is what separates society with responsible citizens from the society with 'irresponsible people' who wish to trade their freedom for 'safety' resulting in loosing both (and democracy itself after some time).
This is why "both sides" is bunk:

On one side you get abstract arguments about "freedom" but no specifics. You get no specifics because the specifics are mostly bad, like taking bodily autonomy away from women.

In this case, white parents took offense at a book about a romance between two minority children at a relatively recent time in history that makes readers think about society not being done with the work of dismantling racism. There is not a way to defend that. It is about racists being made uncomfortable. There are not two sides to that, except to engage in whataboutism.
I guess it depends on how you define womanizing. I take it to mean pump and dump of naive women. My recollection of Bond is that the women may not have completely appreciated who Bond was, but they didn’t think he was going to settle down and marry them. They knew he was a philanderer.
Congrats on launching!

I've wanted exactly-this for years. I've sketched a few versions but it stayed on the back-burner for me, partly because friends/etc didn't see the appeal.

I'm really excited to try it out.
Flickr out-Myspaced Myspace.
No, I am not. I'm saying that if the 'demographic skew' of a large percentage of the population actively practicing one religion prevents meaningful political discourse, that would have prevented it in the places I mentioned.

The other stuff about this specific religion having 'irrational' beliefs I think extends to most religions generally so I don't think is that useful as a differentiator.
Why would you believe that claim? Have any evidence to provide that it is true?
I don't think your analogy is completely valid as one is the state and the other a private company. Freedom of speech and information are not required of non-state entities. If people really want such freedoms, they should move away from Facebook and into Mastodon etc (as I and many other have)
In my experience, the best school districts are the affluent suburbs just outside the big cities.
By some amount proportional to the damage caused, of course. The more times you cause damage, and the higher the damages, the higher your rates go over time.

I think my point is pretty clear without me coming up with a precise formula: instead of predicting rates, just adjust them based on history instead. After all, someone likely to cause repeated damage in the future is also likely to have caused it in the past.

The only major difference between the two approaches is that mine doesn't require someone to make predictions - which might be biased - in exchange for mine maybe under-charging someone with no negative history who is about to cause a huge amount of damage and then stop paying into the system (death, etc). But in those (rare?) cases, the fact that everyone is part of the system means that the single rare loss is amortized nicely and without bias.
>I don't understand why this doesn't come up more often in all the blog posts about transitioning to/from Emacs.

Because most people who use Emacs like this behaviour.

Also considering that this post promises a relatively vanilla editing experience, you shouldn't expect a solution to your particular problem.

> And in 5 years I can't for the life of me configure this!

It is not that hard to solve this. It is extremely easy to map any key in Emacs. You can just map Tab key to insert a tab if that is what you want. It will be like two lines of elisp.

Edit: The reason most Emacs users don't find the tab behaviour a problem is: a, Emacs indents correctly more often than not and b, you can insert a literal tab character when you want using 'C-q Tab'.
With Google Photos you can't download uncompressed/original files and exif location tags are always stripped.
So, I was really pissed off when they said they'd start deleting pictures instead of hiding them like the old Flickr. I was never going to re-upload all my pictures if I decided to go Pro again in the future. So I thought Flickr was effectively dead to me.

However, in the 2 years since they announced that, all my 6000+ photos were still there.

I never checked to see how many were still publicly visible, though. I wonder if they exposed only the newest 1000 public photos. That might account for the "63% of images lost" stat above.

Finally, this fall I needed a photo-sharing site again and decided I still like Flickr with its shitty "new" UI better than most other sites. I particularly like collections of albums and the maps of photos.

Plus, the overall UI for browsing an album is simple. No annoying sales-catalog style layouts.

I have OneDrive for my camera uploads (habit carried over from Windows Phone) and other private uploads, but anything I want to share publicly will go on Flickr.

They had a pretty good sale on Black Friday, so I ended up signing up for a year.

Still keep backups of my photos locally of course and I am ready to bail if they change it to look like Smugmug :-)
Apparently it's to do with longnow.org and encouranging long-term thinking.
Ask HN: Recommended Reading on Web3 and NFTs?
I know there’s a lot of pessimism on HN about the speculative nature of NFTs these days. Are there any articles/books you can recommend that helped convince you about the potential and importance of these emergent technologies?
The background of the test is interesting[1], I feel a little better that I only spotted a handful I knew off the bat if 2 correct is considered 'a common score'.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_William%27s_College#Gener...
The argument is that certain people (fact checkers) have special powers from the perspective of Facebook. I'm not arguing that it should be illegal for Facebook to do this (which they indeed have the right to), but that it's morally wrong.
Can we stop talking about web3 unless we're talking about an actual spec, service or product?
Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
"Malone claims to be the inventor of mRNA vaccines, although credit for the distinction is more often given to later advancements by Katalin Karikó or Derrick Rossi, and was ultimately the result of the contributions of hundreds of researchers, of whom Malone was but one. ... Malone received criticism for propagating COVID-19 misinformation, including making unsupported claims about the alleged toxicity of spike proteins generated by some COVID-19 vaccines; using interviews on mass media to popularize self-medication with ivermectin; and tweeting a study by others questioning vaccine safety that was later retracted." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Malone
To my knowledge, that's possible because the Feds have jurisdiction over inter-state commerce. If they can connect the crime to any kind of cross-state-lines activity they can claim the jurisdiction.
Is it enormously expensive because of physics or because of bureaucracy and politics?

Like, serious question: how much cost are the raw materials for the fuel and spacecraft/rocket, and how much are the costs like human labor and ground transportation to the launch site?
Further, open databases will potentially make it harder for iterative change on that data.

Structures and versioning become harder when that is distributed at the protocol/standard level. Right now the web is already distributed, the protocols/standards are open and versioning data/content/apps/endpoints on top of that is easy, but updating protocols/standards takes time. Apps are a second layer to that, versioning is harder as you have to roll out updates and the OSs/standards they are built on are the slower changing part, web3 is even harder as updates and versioning of the protocol/standards AND the data/content on top will need to propagate and there may be pushback and splits/forks as we are seeing ETH being difficult to change core protocols/flows. There may be innovations on this as we go but also turbulence until that is realized.

For some areas like personal data and ledger data not changing much is good. For anything beyond that it makes it harder to change. Versioning and iterative change is already difficult in some cases when a company has full control over the structures. Getting multiple companies to agree on standards is harder, especially when that impacts revenues on those systems. The same will happen with web3 maybe more intensely. Right now even open standards are actively killed off because they share data. Right now "web2" could have shared databases, and there are some, but companies push away from that and actively look to own data which is a problem. However the same will happen with web3 at additional levels including the protocols/standards now.

What may happen is APIs public facades/interfaces/signatures are more atomic/stable and less changing which is always nice to have, with the guts of the structures being more keyed/document data formats. I am always a fan of iterative change that doesn't nuke the public interfaces/facades unless absolutely necessary. It may lead to "cleaner" more generic public interfaces potentially, but it may also lead to stagnate iterations and infighting like current web standards. In a way, web3 is more about standards than what is built on it. Standards can be flexible or not, both with their pros and cons.

In a way with cryptocurrency, the real goal of the investors of web3 is recreating the web with a sort of toll system, that can be good and bad but their aim is collecting on actions on new protocols/standards.

Taking control away from companies for important data like personal data and shared public data may be good, but there is also some trouble ahead and many things to work out. The same type of sharks that capture that data are looking to go lower in the stack and control that area, and extracting fees/tolls on the movement in that structure even if it is an open database. There are pros and cons to all of this.