skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely you must be aware that the point of an action like this is not the single action itself, in isolation, but the setting of a trend?
> That sounds amazingly dystopian. I mean, that’s literally a money built on an oligarchy. By design.

IMO, it's a small step towards a better direction. The "validator" consensus (oligarchy) is a much more transparent/inclusive solution compared to the closed financial ecosystems of Wechat/Alipay/Paytm/Grab. If Libra is an oligarchy, closed financial systems are dictatorships
> Change power pricing to be cheaper at off peak times

That's already the case. But with 2 million or so cars sucking juice at night, that will no longer be "off peak" and of course the grid needs some downtime which will be harder to do then.

Ireland's electricity is quite dirt. Coal and peat are being phased out, so they already need to replace existing grid generators and now top up with lots of new generation too.

As said, I'm sceptical about it all until I see the grid plans.
I enjoy the authors "question/answer" style of writing. I often find myself asking questions just like this when reading an article, and find that when the author isn't "question focused" they never get answered. It seems that when the entire writing style pivots on the idea, the author forces themselves to consider more Q's to pad out the content and, incidentally or otherwise, provide more A's.
That's really stupid. Whatsapp is proprietary and controlled by a single giant corporation. I refuse to use it even though everyone I know has it.
Hence whitelisting as a primary strategy.

W/G/B is still the best policy: white/grey/black.
The lack of acknowledgement shocked me. I had to do a quick search to make sure I wasn't mistaken.

It surely makes me wonder about many of the claims in the piece.
> "In the rare event of unauthorized fraud, you will receive a full refund."

How?
>So these days I just say "if you don't want to even think about some problem or issue, you should just come out and say 'I don't want to think about this' instead of saying something so obviously and unambiguously ignorant. That just makes you look bad". Then I move on.

That seems overly dismissive and presumptuous.
i doubt most americans travel outside of state by car that often
You are not getting over ~500W continuously for more than half an hour, an hour maybe if you're really fit.

An alternator gets surprisingly hard to turn when it actually has a full load connected to it. I'd compare it to biking uphill.

Still useful for getting a laptop and two smartphones fully charged when you exercise, though.
Well, at least in that case it seems like a conscious design decision. Not sure how much of the state of the art design and tech was driven by "I like the colour" or "the supplier is in my state".
You're claiming the argument is wrong, then supporting it again.

The person(s) who go over or under the threshold are the ones that make a difference. If thresholds aren't breached by the amount of people changing route, then there is not a very significant difference.

As you indeed state:

"but you can still very much say the climate footprint of each passenger is (total plane print/passengers)"

You can indeed say as much, but "this is oversimplified".

Just to be clear - I am not arguing that we should not pick routes responsibly, with the environment in mind. I am merely trying to ensure we are clearer about what impacts we are actually making and that we are considering all the impacts and not just doing a simple calculation that actually misses out the many complexities of transport.
I really wonder whether cryptocurrency would have been better received if it were named differently. From inception, I’ve only heard it pitched as a currency replacement. This immediately marred it with all of the currency “counterculture”/conspiracy theories. But it seems better suited as a way to trustless-ly track and verify transactions in an actual, traditional currency. That there are ultimately finite amounts of crypto coins available for transaction better serves this purpose.
It doesn't use mining, so energy use isn't a concern.
There already is, largely because VRT[1] ends up limiting the kinds of models of car sold new in Ireland.

[1] Vehicle Registration Tax, a tax that's illegal under EU law, but the Irish government have never been seriously dinged on.
SkyWalking: An application performance monitor system
They do, it's just encrypted. But they still know when you sent it, to whom, how large it was, and the cadence of typing notifications, among other things.
With Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Stripe, Facebook already censoring conservatives I can't wait for them to build an "inclusive" currency.

Why would anyone question the reason these corporations just threw 10 mil at this, it's clearly to help people in poor countries who have no access to banking and rely on payday loans.
Got a source on that? Seems like an interesting read.
Make Trains Great Again
> No it doesn't. If I print out my payment QR code, you can scan it and pay me even if my phone is off. When I buy vegetables at the market, the vendors have their Alipay and WeChat QR codes displayed on stickers.

That's fine for very small amounts like groceries in a market but this is very easy to cheat with a fake client app on the buyer's device.
Made for Each Other: AI and Talent Acquisition
If it becomes a trend, that will be good if indeed the efficiencies are true. As stated earlier, it is unclear how the calculations are made and whether the actual total emissions cost was lowered.
(...)a recently graduated researcher at Harvard who set out to test the privacy paradox.
His conclusion: We do care about our privacy, even if we don’t always act in our best interests.

FYI: This is the privacy paradox. The author seems to assume it means that people just don't care...which wouldn't be paradox. No, the idea is that people rate privacy very high or even place a lot of value in it in sandbox behavior experiments, like the one described in the article. Thus it is surprising how people then behave "in the wild", There are a lot of theories about the Why, which I recommend you to read up upon if interested.

It would help and also show professionalism IMO if the author wouldn't just link other oversimplified articles from NYT when quoting science...
You don't need to ask Facebook permission to transfer the money, but they reserve the right to intervene if you commit fraud. That's why they are using a blockchain.

The governments will love it because it allows for perfect surveillance, the people will love it because it makes international payments seamless, it can erase the predatory remittance business out of existence. If they can convince merchants to accept it, they can also improve on credit card UX.
What could possibly go wrong -_-
> Tried to do the same in a tourist city (not a tier 1 city), beginning of May, didn't work. I wanted a full SIM, not a data only SIM though, which one did you get?

You just got unlucky... I bought one recently at China Mobile (Shenzhen). They do ask for passport and it takes about 10 minutes.
Big news. Nice to see more details.

- They have GAS fees. (unlike say EOS which is free).
- Not sure how they will make accounts anonymous? Knowing an account lets anyone query the account balance?
- They will start with permissioned chain and transition to non permissioned
I agree with your first point. Calibra without the "cryptocurrency blockchain" keywords would still have the same utility.

As to your second point, may I ask why you consider it a moral imperative for developers to stop this?
Wonder how many are posting in this thread
Graphiti makes RESTful Resources a first-class concept in Rails
I've been asking myself this also. We have the ability to be more productive(vastly). The question is how much more productive can we be without reaching the asymptote that represents environmental death.

I think we have reached a critical junction where we must pause and consider our environmental and social impacts first and foremost. We evolved divine conscious to protect diversity of all kinds. Our failures and successes will lead to further propagation. Before we were the dominant species on this planet biodiversity was thriving. Our goals should be to seek further diversity in information, life, and living systems. Success is not guaranteed in our lifetime, but guaranteed in infinity. We should do our best though.
The very history of these neighborhoods involved race. They were built for white people wanting to live in a nice, white place. These places didn't serve "two or three generations very well" as the article states. The first generation would have been a white one. At lest part of the second generation served would have been white through inheritance. And the third generation was (is!) still recovering from the racist policies that made Levittowns possible in the first place.
Neither Bitcoin or this should really be used to buy drugs with.

On the other hand you have an immutable public record of all your transactions (Bitcoin) and on the other hand you have bastions of privacy (Facebook) who is guaranteed to sell your info.

Bitcoin is still better... Known drug transactions will probably be blocked here outright, while in Bitcoin you might just get caught after the fact.
Disable JS.
The Prosthetic as a Service (PaaS) model uses a pay-as-you-go approach.
> When someone complains loudly about censorship, you may be certain they are up to no good.

This one has a weird USSR vibe to it.
Presumably by giving your money back to you.

That's generally how a refund works.

Did you have something else in mind?
So, you're arguing that the straw that broke the camels back is the only straw that matters at all?
> If a plane has 200 seats, and 400 people are willing to fly a given route, the airline sends 2 planes. Make it 401 people, they'll send three a day.

No. They will send one with 400 seats in the first scenario, and possibly two with 300 seats or one with 400 and one with 100 seats in the second scenario.

It's a very common scenario
As customary in these threads, if you’re planning a rail journey (especially in Europe) your best bet is to consult The Man in Seat 61 at https://www.seat61.com/
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Plus, the air inside the train is at nice ground level pressure, instead of the 1500-2000m ASL of typical cabin altitude.
An "on behalf of" feature would be far more robust.
> Greta’s train journey to Davos

a journey that took around 25 hours
> [The airline industry] says the annual 860 million tonnes of CO2 the industry currently generates is only 2% of world emissions.

Is that correct? I have always heard that flying was one of the absolute worst things you could do as far as generating CO2 and that a single international flight is like the same as a year of normal living in terms of generating CO2.

If that's the case, where is the bulk of emissions coming from?
Do they show an interest? Same as playing an instrument you can get them one, teach them a few tricks, send them to classes and then, well, they either want to pursue it or not.
It really does feel like cryptocurrency is how the technical industry will learn/is learning about the financial industry.
> compared to an expected 262 kilograms had gone by plane.

I still very much doubt that 262kg is per person. There's no way a plane emits tens of thousands of kilos of CO2 on a trip.
> "Given the rate of failure and failure modes inherent in current battery technology in things like Teslas and such this market simply wont exist"

It's true that batteries degrade over time, and might even need replacement in 10-15 years or so. But the rest of the electric drivetrain will last far longer than combustion counterparts: Tesla claims they're designing for 1,000,000 miles.

Now, suppose it's the 2030s and you're in the market for a cheap used vehicle. There will very likely be a thriving 3rd-party industry upgrading the battery cells in old used EVs using the latest 2030s technology. And batteries will be much cheaper by then, too.

If anything, electrification will mean better and more reliable used vehicles!
I personally have no vested interest in this as I'm personally quite afraid of flying and because of that I don't fly that often, I was just pointing out the hypocrisy of it all.

And this was not about politicians, I get it that at some point a politician has to get from point A to point B as fast as possible in the interest of us, the public that he/she is supposed to serve, this was about the rich people who apparently have more pressing concerns than middle-class people. They don't, we should be all treated the same.
The Red Book
To sell, yes. Not to buy with it.
I couldn't rent a bicycle in Hangzhou because if this.
People are talking about it in France too. I've read the equivalent term "avionte" (or "avihonte") but not heard it yet.
In the currently debated "Law for mobility", two amendments by members of the parliament are attempting to close airlines between french cities when a train is, respectively, only 2h30 longer than the plane and absolutely less than 4h.
They won't pass obviously.
Modern is relative. F-22's first flight was 1997. F-35 development started in 1992, first flight of X-35 was 2000 and F-35's first flight was 2006.

There is absolutely noting wrong with using old technology. Being modern just for the sake of being modern is wasteful.
There is more to Sweden though. Lot of people still air-commute between Umeå and Stockholm. I'd argue that a proper high-speed train with a _few_ stops along major hubs running from south to north would be a great boon to the country. Then you'd be able to take slower trains to get to these hubs, as opposed to having the train stop so often that it becomes inefficient.
Both Beijing and Shenzen are Tier 1. And again, a full SIM or a data only SIM?
This category: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=monplas
Yeah, I was like "what did I miss?"
China's 'Thought Transformation' Camps [video]
I envy you. It's the other way around in the third-world country where I happen to live. As the people climb out of poverty they deem it necessary to buy bigger and bigger cars. I think easily half of transport on the roads are giant SUVs, which are built like tanks and take 1.5 lanes. Each car takes ten times then space of one fat-ass behind the wheel.

Also, I personally know a guy who makes a decent living from knowing (and applying) how to circumvent pollution controls on many car models. He has a large wait list from locals who want to up their fuel consumption by 20-30% to be able to make that 100 km/h one second faster.

Absolutely nobody I ever talked to gives one flying fuck about environment pollution. They don't even care if it affects them personally (and it does, judging from the constant cough you hear from everybody all day long, and my sore throat, which has been sore every day for the last I don't know how many years).
> For journeys under 1000km, high speed train makes so much more sense than flying

That depends on the availability of a direct high-speed connection.

I'm flying STR - MAN a lot, which is about 1300 km. Flight is 3 hours with checkin. Train ride is more like 20 hours with four train changes.
End-User Probabilistic Programming [pdf]
University Representation
This was my third time doing big-N style interviews in the last few years, so I didn't have to study as much as the first time. YMMV, but my process is to solve the classic expository problems in CLRS - like lecture hall scheduling, max subarray, and rod cutting - without consulting the textbook. Of course, I fail horribly at some of the problems and end up consulting the textbook :-)

After I reread the things I forgot about - implementing things I was hazy on, like Dijkstra, on the way - I solved a handful of leetcode questions, read a few system design analyses, attended an onsite at a "practice company," and finally scheduled my big-N onsites. All told, I studied about 4 hrs per day for five days. But I think it's really important to be honest with yourself; this process seems to work well for me, but your ideal process might be different.
I'd work on nukes before I'd work at Facebook. Nuclear weapons have arguably prevented WWIII, at least so far. Conversely, if WWIII ever does come, I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook has something to do with causing it.
I live in Malmö and it’s definitely been a thing here…
Web Single Sign-On, the SAML 2.0 perspective
Wrong problem. Only needs to determin intent and spamminess.

Most calls are known. Good calls can be classed at aggregate (for crowdsourced tools). Bad or suspect calls are either known or unknown and can be subjected to workfactor remedies.
This is their custommer commitment document which specifies some details about how they will maintain user privacy and Libra's relationship to Facebook: https://scontent-ams4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.2365-6/65083631_3...
No, I'm arguing that the calculations for emission per person are simplistic.
Why renewables can’t save the planet – Michael Shellenberger – TEDxDanubia
Every kg less that's carried means less fuel burnt. Sure each one person reduces the fuel usage by only a small amount.

But, you can't have less air travel without people stopping flying. It's going to happen incrementally.
Yet GDP per capita is strongly correlated with energy consumption:

https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/correlation-...
> in order to say "processing power", the only correct way to say it would be "processeringskraft"

Wouldn't that be "beräkningskraft"?
from the whitepaper:

The Libra Association also serves as the entity through which the Libra Reserve
is managed, and hence the stability and growth of the Libra economy are
achieved. The association is the only party able to create (mint) and destroy
(burn) Libra. Coins are only minted when authorized resellers have purchased
those coins from the association with fiat assets to fully back the new coins.
Coins are only burned when the authorized resellers sell Libra coin to the
association in exchange for the underlying assets. Since authorized resellers
will always be able to sell Libra coins to the reserve at a price equal to the
value of the basket, the Libra Reserve acts as a “buyer of last resort.” These
activities of the association are governed and constrained by a Reserve
Management Policy that can only be changed by a supermajority of the association
members.
Quake? That's your reference point? That game came out in the 90s. My Samsung washing machine could probably run that.
I use Clozure CL and LispWorks, which have CL based Hemlock variants.

> “can it run a large fraction of the Hugh mass of elisp?”

Most of that runs only in GNU Emacs and less so in forks (Xemacs) of it.

Remember, Mezzano's goal is not to be a GNU or Linux compatible thing. There are already lots of that.

When one writes a Lisp system like Mezzano, it's probably better not to use GNU Emacs anyway, since the compatibility to GNU Emacs isn't important and the Emacs UI isn't that great anyway, and there is no GNU system underneath.

If it runs McCLIM, one could also port an McCLIM-based editor (also a variant of Emacs) to it and use that.

Sure it will not run the zillion lines of Emacs Lisp, but I guess that was not the main interest for this 'exotic' Lisp OS project.
I agree that demand is there but one interesting challenge is tax revenue: many people moved to suburbs because the taxes are lower, and many will move again if they’re raised to the level needed to maintain city services & infrastructure. Toss in an aging population with many people unwilling to pay for services such as schools which their grown children no longer need (or climate change hardening which they won’t live long enough to need) and it’ll be an interesting fight in many suburbs across the country, with some finding a viable balance and others falling apart.
As far as I could tell looking around the project a bit, they configure the boot sector of a USB/CD/DVD/ISO to jump directly into a pre-built lisp image, no assembly/C code required. At the very least least, the paging system, IO, GC definitely seem to be written in pure Lisp.

They do compile the initial Mezzano image using SBCL, which is partly written in C, but it seems that they don't depend on any SBCL/C code on the machine that they control.

I'm definitely not an expert though, I may be completely wrong about this :)
How Gratitude Saved My Marriage – and My Life
Making the scenario more complicated doesn't change the fact that there are thresholds which everybody (not) flying influences!
Legibility-as-weakness.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call...
As mentioned in another comment, iOS doesn't allow extensions. But Firefox Focus works quite well, and comes with a content (ad) blocker. Any content blocker you enable in Settings.app is used by all browsers.
Also cash is the only thing that works if your system gets unfair in some way. It's the only thing that allows a hobo to stay in touch with society, paying in a gay bar without trace, setup a political group that the state would deem immoral, experiment with banned drugs, buy censored books and journals, etc

If you like democracy, you need a small, but resiliant grey zone. You need to allow a few people to take the risk of doing what's condamned. It's not sexy, but it's necessary.

Do not outlaw cash.
And LSD and so many other safe (relative to e.g. alcohol) psychotropics are still illegal, all because of some moral panic decades ago.
Full SIM. I'm fairly sure you got unlucky with that particular shop. I've been living in China for about a decade and never heard such a thing (passport was not even required a while back).
I didn't read the text but have a special approach for this type of writing:

You click on user contributions, if/since there are to many talk page entries filter down to article space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contribut...

Years and years of arguing without any article writing.
How good can the judgement of someone still working for Facebook be?
Could you elaborate on what Bitcoin failed at?
Since when are these companies "content creators"? They operate platforms such as Twitch and YouTube that the content creators use, but you wouldn't call Wal-Mart an "electronics manufacturer".
The author read the bible first (or maybe he was read to as a child), then subconsciously recited stories from it in his writings. That's my explanation. No the Biblical mysticism he proposes.
So the GAFAM wants to get independant from the banks. Great.

But they don't want to be controled by anything, or share the power, or make it fair, or good for humanity.

So they call it a cryptocoin, yet it's locked in and centralized.

I'm all for taking power from the bank, giving more power to the Silicon Valley is a terrible idea.
In the screenshot of the notes app one of the bullet points said “....don’t allow me to open Facebook more than 5 times a day”
Can someone give something like eli5 how this works? Is the currency pegged to some currency? How is that peg supposed to hold? Is facebook a bank? Where are the assets supporting the currency ( if they exist) invested?
Many (most?) CL implementation compile to native code, so you "just" need to have the boot part not to use any part of the runtime. You will have to use lower level functionality; I don't know if there is anything in the standard, but many implementation do offer them
https://www.greencarfuture.com/electric/2018/12/12/are-evs-h...

The actual production of an EV _can_ result in more emissions (along the whole supply chain) than petrol cars, yes.

Although the vast majority of car manufacturers (and supply companies) are geared up for producing petrol cars and not EVs, so it's no real surprise that _right now_ electric cars aren't as efficient to build.

The more that electric cars are produced, and the more that Li-ion/solid-state batteries are developed, the better the picture will be at the building stage.