skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Been there, in China, with Alipay. Absolutely no way for an EU person to pay with it: doesn't accept European phone number for sign up and since the end of 2018 one can not get a proper Chinese SIM with a passport.

This is not true.

I got a "proper Chinese SIM" and new bank account two months ago in Shenzhen. Both Alipay and WeChat pay work fine. Whole process took under two hours, including getting the sim and I had bank card in my hand by the end of it.
Please provide your sources.

Referencing your fellow students' ideology driven groupthink doesn't qualify as such.
or, it might actually be true - you're just stuck in the mainstream media bubble.
Well this wouldn't be a problem if you didn't shutdown your nuclear power plants. Now Germany is polluting more than ever.
What I have noticed is that these spam calls follow my geolocation as well. I recently took a trip to Washington DC and within minutes of checking into the JW Marriott downtown I get an insurance spam call from a DC number. I have a Georgia number and I always get spam calls from Georgia numbers. Coincidence? Maybe but, this tells me that either 1) they spam call phones in a LAC with some sort of SIGINT equipment , 2) my Gmail calendar is compromised or my Gmail data is being sold and purchased by these folks so they know where I am or 3) JW Marriott is compromised. I may sound like a conspiracy theorist but I think there is something to it. Honestly I would not be surprised if it was 1 or 2 since it would be easiest to target a large set of people.
Oh, wow, that can actually be played? I saw it when I was looking around for one and thought it was just for decoration.

Thanks for pointing it out, I think I might actually give it a try. Cheers! :D
Surely not easier than locating, reclaiming and resealling a house... yet we had a housing-bubble-inducde crisis 10 years ago!
It is, certainly, but unless you want the human civilisation revert back to stone age, there's no way around it. We can only minimize the impact right now (e.g. with more taxation that's better aligned with actual externalities), and improve technology to reach that goal in the future (again, taxation/subsidies but in the limit they're essentially the same).
Really? Apple “stole” the idea of cut copy and paste? That was a criticism from day one on the phone. The other was not supporting MMS.
>Do not outlaw cash

As much as I agree with you, cash is unfortunately already well on its way out: in many EU countries (Italy, France), cash transactions above 1.5k euros are illegal. For example, buying a car cash is illegal. The US won't be far behind, imho.

For small transactions (eg buying a loaf of bread), something flipped in small business owners minds: they used to hate plastic for small stuff, and I can increasingly feel that today, it's the exact opposite: people let out a small sigh of annoyance when they see you pull out your coins.

This is a freedom almost as important as free speech that's slowly and silently being choked to death by big govt and not a single so-called freedom fighter out there, be they on the left or on the right of the political spectrum is picking up on the significance of the issue.
Open access? NO

Decentralized? NO

Censorship resistant? NO

Fixed monetary policy? NO

Unseizable? NO

Transaction fee market? NO

There's no point in FB using a blockchain for their digital payments network, other than touting it as a 'cryptocurrency'. A centralized or federated database is all they need.
To be honest, looking from outside I cannot put anything on that page into context (didn't read everything). Was there as specific instance of what prompted that ban? I don't even understand the role of these admins thoroughly.
Hello from the south island!
The 262 number was for total trip there and back. So about 5 hours of flight time in total.
OMeta was here
Many years ago when I was a student I had a summer job working in one of the huge industrial scale maltings that supplied quite a few of the popular whisky brands - I can't remember if they produced peated malt but I do remember their analysis lab having gas chromatography equipment for analysing such things.
I don't watch TV and I do listen to radio news occasionally. I do read newspapers.
The flight is 1.5 hours but one has to be at the airport 2 hours before, do the security and all that blah, blah. Plus, as you said, getting to and from the airport.
Last that I was in China I used my standard Danish phone subscription from 3. Fast, flat rate data and full access to Google etc. in mainland China.

https://www.3.dk/abonnementer/fordele/3likehome/
For what it's worth (and this was in 2018), I tried to buy a SIM in Changsha, and was told that I had to go to a specific China Unicom shop - apparently only one of them was allowed to register foreigners' details.
when less people pay for things it becomes less profitable.
It's just marketing. Of course if you really want to you can bend a blockchain for this purpose, eroding it as much as possible, with the central validators and what not. A rose by any other name...
FT Alphaville's Libra cheat sheet
What makes a cryptocurrency “real”?
It looks like for the end customer this is no better than a closed payment platform(think of visa network or ACH) unless they provide at least read access to the blockchain ledger/database. If that's the case it's not worth the name of crypto currency.

They also say in 5 years will provide full(r/w) access to the public clients/nodes...I wouldn't hold my breath.

It has "fraud" prevention built in, charge backs, compliance etc...how would that work on a public blockchain? I believe they lie and they know it will never be released as a public/permisionless blockchain.
They replace the incumbents in the industry by providing a faster and more consumer-friendly solution.
Interesting bits:

"target launch in the first half of 2020."

"“Founding Members” upon its completion are, by industry:

Payments: Mastercard, PayPal, PayU (Naspers’ fintech arm), Stripe, Visa
Technology and marketplaces: Booking Holdings, eBay, Facebook/Calibra, Farfetch, Lyft, MercadoPago, Spotify AB, Uber Technologies, Inc.
Telecommunications: Iliad, Vodafone Group
Blockchain: Anchorage, Bison Trails, Coinbase, Inc., Xapo Holdings Limited
Venture Capital: Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Initiatives, Ribbit Capital, Thrive Capital, Union Square Ventures
Nonprofit and multilateral organizations, and academic institutions: Creative Destruction Lab, Kiva, Mercy Corps, Women’s World Banking"
So Apple should have thought of every possible rule when the App Store opened in mid 2008?
Did you pay using Alipay? If so, are you a Chinese citizen?

I'm asking because I have never been able to use Alipay at retailers or web sites outside China. When I tried to pay with Alipay at Uniqlo in Japan, the transaction failed and I received an SMS explaining it was because I don't have a Chinese national ID card.
Developing Yoti's e-sign platform
I fully expect China to take over the Congo now.
More tech-y resources:

- https://developers.libra.org/docs/assets/papers/the-libra-bl...

- https://github.com/libra/libra

- https://developers.libra.org

- https://developers.libra.org/docs/move-paper
To be clear, I don't think parent commenter is a horrible person. I think they are misapplying their talents and hurting society.

I do understand your concern. Dialog is critical. But dialog only seems worthwhile if it is honest and open.
Bah, what a shitty article. Why can't journalists learn basic "causality" ? =/

It's of course possible that the dip is caused by "fewer Swedes are willing to travel in a way they see as harmful to the environment" but it's just speculation and should be labeled as such.
So LFE will reign http://lfe.io/

LFeO even ;)
AWS is putting a lot of VMs on their 16-core Cortex-A72 chips :)
For the love of God and all that is holy, ”Tagskryt” means nothing. Tågskryt on the other hand is a actual word.

TLDR: Please include å, ä, ö and other umlauts dear journalists.
Aha turns out the quest to build an AI dictator is just a desire to have a mom look after your stuff again.
"pull apart the fabric of society”
The fact that you made yourself believe this doesn’t make it true.
It literally does negate all the purpose of a blockchain though. Blockchains do no not provide any value if you have a trusted party, they only make things less efficient.
Build something better that will get more adoption then?
I think this coin is a really bad idea. Its just centralizing a crypto coin and then removing the laws around money because now a dollar has a libra coin wrapper on it so it's obviously totally different than a dollar.

It feels like a federal reserve moment where a bunch of rich folk get together and again dictate the future of currency. Crypto was supposed to change that trend. Unfortunately the want of convenience will probably win out over any sort moralistic/idealistic standing and unless government steps in, it will probably be widely adopted.
It is not unclear how their method, they explain it quite clearly and in detail [0]. In general, you are correct that road and (especially) rail require substantially more infrastructure than air travel. For combustion vehicles, however, such infrastructure is less than 10% of the total impact of such travel [1]. As energy source get cleaner, the relative impact of road construction and maintenance will increase. However, we run into difficult questions of allocation of burden, as essentially all damage to roads is done by heavy transport (damage goes by something like axle load to the fourth power), and by weather (irrespective of how much the road is used).

It is rather difficult to determine the actual impact of any one person's decision to fly or not fly. The state of the art considers the aircraft, the average load factor of the operator (or even load factor over a specific route), and the demand for urgent freight on that route (i.e. an empty seat might be compensated by more freight). Moreover, the marginal impact of one person is not the same as the marginal impact of e.g. a new travel policy for a large institution. Do to low data availability, we often take the average impact instead of the marginal.

For those actually interested in helping making open source and open data tools to help others make informed decisions, please check out BONSAI [2,3] (I am affiliated with the BONSAI NGO).

[0] http://ecopassenger.hafas.de/bin/help.exe/en?L=vs_uic&tpl=me...
[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.8b00261
[2] https://github.com/BONSAMURAIS/bonsai
[3] https://bonsai.uno/
This situation happens in EDs as well. For example: ED attending thinks admission is warranted but patient does not meet criteria (“please come see the patient because he/she looks worse than labs suggest”). This is why the ED exists and the correct move here should have been for the NP to send the patient to the ED for evaluation instead of relying on the opinion of an MD over the phone. The physician at the hospital should have suggested this as well—but to think that the MD is culpable for malpractice without laying eyes on the patient is lunacy.
>Libra’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure [...] This document outlines our plans for a new decentralized blockchain,

The "decentralized" can be parsed different ways. Facebook Libra is decentralizing the transactions but it does not decentralize the currency creation. (This partial decentralization happens because Facebook wants to peg Libra to stable asset reserves.) This is different from Bitcoin's idea of decentralizing both the currency creation _and_ the financial transactions.

We can see this distinction in its list of partners...

> Members of the Libra Association will consist of [...]

The bulleted list includes:

- transaction processors such as Mastercard/Visa, PayPal, Stripe, etc

- ecommerce marketplaces such as ebay, Uber, etc

- telecomm such as Vodafone

We see the industry that's noticeably missing: no banks mentioned such as JP Morgan Chase, Citi, HSBC, etc

That's because Facebook wants to be the "bank" in this new Libra economy. It wants to be the "Federal Reserve" that creates bank notes.

If I misunderstand Facebook's intentions and how it wants to position Libra in the financial world, please correct me.
People have been buying drugs with Venmo. So what?
Certainly not. Responsibility is a very complex issue, especially if you devolve it to the users, rather than keeping it in the hands of the managers/operators.

But even if we assume a large part of responsibility rests in the users, then the responsibility would clearly be only held by those planning to make the trip and deciding which form of transport to use (potential users).
"it will be backed by a collection of low-volatility assets, such as bank deposits and short-term government securities in currencies from stable and reputable central banks." from the whitepaper: https://libra.org/en-US/white-paper/#the-libra-currency-and-...

It's like one to one copy of the traditional monetary system with speed of transactions improved. Low volatile assets they rely on are not real and therefore not guaranteed to stay low volatile. It may be decentralized technically but not socially or ethically.
Whilst it may not have been Blackett or his team doing the research, research in this area does seem to have been done(1), and there are books and papers written about it(2).
1- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kyZgEKzZZtJQTCSG2/examine-yo...
2 - https://people.ucsc.edu/~msmangel/Wald.pdf
Why shouldn’t Go have a place i new code? You talk about Rust, but why does that make Go a bad choice? Is it technical reasons or politics?
financial aid is such a tiny portion that it effectively doesn't exist for the vast majority of university goers.

People taking on too much loans for higher education is a multi-pronged problem. Loans have a place, and if people choose to mis-use a loan to study an "unproductive" subject, i expect that the fault lies with them.

however, when the loans to study law/medicine is in the 200k range, i find it hard to believe that the fault isn't with the university and vested interests in making money with the loans.
As far as I can tell, FB wants to be a bank to print money. Their own money. For every country.

All full nodes on that blockchain are going to be owned by FaceBook. FB will be able to see all transactions and take money from people they don't like.
A transatlantic bank transfer will cost you over 30 euros in correspondent bank fees, in addition to the fees your bank and their bank charge. And you'll get no receipt for that, because banks suck.
Yes, but the evidence is required for this claim:

"Yet trains are far less emitting than aircraft"
Coal is the most deadly form of energy production. It's cause thousands of germans to die prematurly each year

It's time for germany to stop relying on coal and open up to nuclear like France and Sweden

https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy
https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/repor...
I wrote a lot of (and still occasionally maintain) a library called golearn [1] which tried to bring first-class support for the “traditional” ML algorithms, but it seems that Go’s compiler and toolchain just don’t optimise well enough for Go to be very competitive on performance for that application. That’s not a criticism of Go, it’s just that C/C++/FORTRAN have decades of optimising compiler support and most competing solutions are Python sugar over a nest of such C/C++/FORTRAN libraries. Go’s also concurrent, which is nice, but we found cases where being too concurrent also cost performance for most people. I’m still optimistic that Go has a place in ML, but it’s probably not right now.

[1] https://github.com/sjwitworth/golearn
I’m not disagreeing, but have you got a reference for your first paragraph?
Not if electric recharging stations are common because businesses expect large numbers of people to have electric cars.
I would argue that Go's opinionated style is what makes it elegant. It's a programming language for people who are sick of programming languages. It makes clear promises and delivers on exactly those - it belongs in new code for that reason.
So hire her/him.
Put it differently, banks have failed to implement something more efficient and the “bitcoin” innovators have also failed on practical aspects. As a result we have a void and it’s anyone’s game right now. Facebook is throwing money at it. A small chance it works but public trust is a big factor in currency isn’t it?

Here’s what I think: any alternative currency tied to the USD (meaning a currency without intrinsic value) is DOA. The next generation currency cannot be tied to resource constraints.
Not really, governments will regulate it, same as everything.
Of course it's dismissive. This is because "I don't have anything to hide" is not an invitation for some long drawn out discussion about the intersection of philosophy, technology, culture, and civil rights. It's a no-thought dismissal. Pretending it's anything else is a waste of time and fundamentally dishonest.
There is a way :) Don't forget that each atom of carbon combines with two oxygens from the air.
Are you opening vi with `vi` or `vim`? And does it behave the same whichever you use?
I would also like to add that FB is going to tie wallets to accounts so FB will know information about every transation. "Pseudonymous" wallets aren't going to be anonymous to Facebook.
"Facebook is enforcing a strict separation between users’ social data—their Facebook likes, photos, etc—and the financial data that will be available on Libra’s network. There will not, he insisted, be a readily available data trove connecting users’ transactional data to their Facebook profiles"

I find this extremely hard to believe coming from a company who's entire M.O. is building a profile of its users and tracking everything they do across the internet and beyond.
Ireland has some excellent wind resources. They already seem to have over 4 gigawatts of nameplate capacity.
I believe this is true since otherwise you would find a lot pf compound words in the dictionary. On the other hand there are of course some compound words in the SAOL.

Here is a word you probably wont find in a Swedish dictionary: flagstångsknopsputspoleringsmedelsflaskkorksetikettpåklistrare.
Yeah. I considered Umeå before I made the move to Sweden, and it would have been dramatically more difficult to get to central Europe / UK without flying. I can quite understand why flygskam isn’t a thing up north.
Famous people like actresses are more vulnerable to shame than normal people, since so much of their identity and wealth is built on people's opinion of them.
Almost: I'm a Dane.
That is not enough, since you may still get stuck in a loop.
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It's no different than paypal. I was hoping the public will at least have read access to the database/blockchain and API to create wallets.

The fact that they print the money can only be good because that's how a stable coin is supposed to work, right?
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This system has resulted in issues in the "host" and with an unresponsive control plane for me the few times I've tried to use it. Compared to no issues with type 2s.

To say nothing of the madness of using it on a laptop with several network adapters when the guest OS only wants to acknowledge one.
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It's amazing to see more and more finding Go. For a lot of us it's been almost a decade since we started using it. Back then for me it was the perfect blend between C and ruby. Today I believe it's the language of distributed systems and the cloud. I personally think Go ends up with majority marketshare for all cloud native systems and its already going in that direction with the core tools like docker, kubernetes, etcd, grpc all using it. By extension of that I believe a signifcant number of backend systems and services in the cloud will also predominantly be Go based.

This doesn't rule out other languages, its merely an indicator of a trend we've seen time and time again related to platforms. Windows, Linux, Android, etc. Every platform has a dominant language. Other newer up and comers like typescript, rust, swift, kotlin, etc have their place but for their respective platforms.

Go's adoption will accelerate in the next decade but you'll also find it disappear into the background as development as a whole levels up beyond the languages of today.

Only us millenials and older generations will speak of it. The next generation will be preoccupied with an entirely different model of programming.
I'll attempt a lay explanation of kernighan's trick without referring to hardware logic.

1. Say your odometer is showing 146799. The next reading is 146800. If it is 146999, the next reading is 147000. Observe that if you run the odometer in reverse, all trailing 0's get flipped to 9, and the last non-zero digit is decremented. The digits to the left are unaffected. Let's do this in binary.

2. Take any bitstring x, and focus on the last 1 bit. By definition (of 'last'), the bits following that bit are all zeroes. That is, x is of the of the form

.....1, .....10, .....100 etc.

3. Now run the odometer in reverse. x-1 is of the form

.....0, .....01, .....011 etc.

Observe (a) the "...." part remains unchanged. Only the bits following and including the last set 1 are flipped. (b) the position of the last '0' in x-1 is the same position as the last '1' in x.

x = 10101100
x-1 = 10101011

4 Bit-wise & the two. The "..." part remains unchanged, the trailing zeroes of 'x' remain unchanged. Therefore, only the last 1 of x is set to 0

x&x-1 = 10101000

5. In a loop, compute x &= x-1. In each iteration, it sets the last bit in x to zero. Count the number of iterations until x == 0.
But but but atomkraft, nein, danke. I swear, these people are exactly like PETA, exept they are dealing real damage to the planet.
Sad to hear the mark was missed - I'm looking at it from the founder/s' perspective since this is a place where founders hang (less so investors)

They made a $84.2B company and started with that investment. Yes, the story is longer, multiple investment rounds were gathered but in a nutshell, we can look at it from this angle
There is this joke where you greet someone on the street by raising your hand to them in front of your face so that they cant see who you are.
Kudos to you! I couldn't fathom taking a 24 hour train from Sthlm -> Berlin over the 1.5 hour flight. Is that an environmental decision or do you have other reasons?
As I understand it Calibra is a custodial wallet. I'd guess that transactions between Calibra users never hit the libra blockchain, so reverting them should be possible.
Having a database of all their opponents had a big part in there being no one to stop them. Haven't you heard that poem of "First they came for the Communists..."?
Can you please DM me the title of the book?
Moreover, BFT algorithms do not solve BGP in a decentralized, trustless network, consensus remains subjective. Bitcoin relies on proof-of-work to provide objective consensus.

Whitepaper: "We did not consider proof-of-work based protocols due to their poor performance and high energy (and environmental) costs"

Right...
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