skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generalized headline that might apply better: Humans used language to describe new phenomenon
That is a strange argument. Are you too responsible for all the flights you don't take?
Really high end sheetrockers will put up 2 sheets of drywall

That is the way I used to do it years ago back when I was hanging sheetrock as a summer job while I was at university. My boss at the time used to tell me that it's what should be done in high-end construction; the reason they don't elsewhere is to cut corners on the budget.
Your comment is meaningless. Cryptos in general are a cool, top 25 Silicon Valley are the opposite of cool.
> You need to "fight" only in poorly designed systems;

So pretty much most systems, especially general web Dev and frameworks
Something hilarious. Maybe a notice that the image in question has been taken down by the internet police.
I can't believe any good will come of this
It makes sense that domestic flights are dropping. They already mostly disappeared decades ago for individual/pleasure travel. Taking the train, bus or driving is just better value. So it's just business travel left. I used to occasionally travel between Gothenburg and Stockholm (the two largest cities) for work for a while. Flying was slightly quicker, but only barely. There are non-stop high speed trains that take you directly from center to center. More pleasant too, and you can get some work done on the way.

An airline ran TV adds pitching that flying gets you home to the kids earlier. Basically pitting peoples guilt about spending time with their kids vs. guilt about the environment. I guess it didn't work. The same children will inherit the planet after all.

I'd be surprised if international flights have dropped much though. Taking the trains any further than Copenhagen doesn't really work, unless train travel is the main point of the holiday.
Thing is... I really enjoy flying. At one point in my life I travelled for business a lot and I only got tired when the travel become useless, so I changed my job. But I always loved the feeling I get in the skies, even through the small airplane window. I don't even mind airports that much, they have a vibe I like. I'm a giant aviation nerd.

During my lifetime, I wouldn't like flying to become something decadent. I'm hoping aircraft manufacturers will come up with something that will make it greener than ever and bring more people to the skies.

The thing I like about aviation is that there isn't so much a "petrolhead" attitude where as in cars only petrol/diesel is real driving for real men and electric is often looked upon as "girly". I think lovers look forward to anything that will bring them above the clouds.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunkohlebergbau

In Germany they have relocated some 100.000 persons over the years, just to mine and burn lignite (not peat - corrections) for electricity. I think that's crazy. (The irony is that the Green party is currently the strongest political party in Germany, but the energy sector seems to have a stronger influence, go figure)
That's also how apple made great devices. You do have to protect yourself against the average mediocrity if you want something to remain great on the long run.

It's a hard balance, and a hard one to keep without sounding like a jerk.
Average journeys are incredibly short, but also not really relevant. If I get a car that can only travel my mean trip distance, half of my trips can't be traveled without refueling during the trip. Even the 95th percentile, as analysed by the linked article, isn't very useful. A car covering 95% of trips still can't make 1/20 trips. The car needs to cover at least 99% of trips, making me refuel only during 1 out of 100 trips. Some people will even demand covering 99.9% of trips.

The borders of an island simply cutting off the long tail of trip distances does a lot to reduce required range.
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That is certainly the implication :-

"Environmental website ecopassenger.org calculates that Greta’s train journey to Davos, Switzerland, emitted just 44 kilograms of CO2, compared to an expected 262 kilograms had gone by plane."

They are trying to suggest that she chose this trip, because it is environmentally better, but actually irrespective of her choice, there was most likely a total of emmission of 306kg of CO2.

There could certainly a benefit, if the aim is to just fund transport that is more efficient and less pollutant. However, as mentioned earlier, it is unclear how the calculation is made and whether it is actually true when considering the wider requirements for the services - e.g. maintenance.
An aside: AFAIK there is still not a way on an iphone to block all "unknown" calls without at the same time using a contact white list (e.g.: putting the phone on "do not disturb").
Yes, but you can turn it around and tell that people that use cars mostly in cities would have little to no incentive to be more efficient, because this externalizes harm to areas far away from them.
I can't speak to what's up with the BIOS versus 5.25" drives, beyond to say that I'm confident somebody out there has this working without writing device drivers.

For the USB to IDE thing, my guess would be that the USB interfaces you tried want to do some newer incarnation of ATA than the drive supports and so they can't communicate, at the extreme that could be LBA48 (48-bit logical block addressing, which is from this century and so obviously isn't going to work on say a 20 year old hard disk) but it could even be DMA, which was optional in early ATA specifications and might have been skipped by cheap manufacturers back in the day.

I don't think logical addressing itself was ever optional, but I guess it's possible that a _really_ old IDE drive might not implement it and yet work anyway in DOS which didn't originally use LBA mode. Doing CHS mode really would be asking a lot, compared to PIO (the alternative to DMA) which really a competent implementation of that USB adaptor ought to be able to do, slowly like a real PC.
It’s really not about the technicals but that they will handle billions of wallets
Braunkohle isn't peat.
Not only they built it in Rust, but they also built Move - language clearly derived from Rust, which uses ownership as a way to manage monetary resources. Regardless of trust issues with different companies involved, that's just beautiful engineering.
What evidence are you citing here?
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> Some people may need a car for their livelihood but simply cannot afford anything better than a polluting clunker.

I think we can agree that no one _needs_ a sport car for their 'livelihood'. There are plenty of affordable new cars, they might be small and slow but at least they're safe and meet the current solution standard.

And yeah people need trucks to tow or move things around, but that's something other than "entertainment".
> In C#, you create a class when it's an object, and a struct when it's a data structure, or am I missing something?

Yes and no. Due to the technical limitation that (unlike in C++[0]) structs in C# cannot derive from other structs, DTOs in C# are often implemented (or rather: generated) as classes to allow derivation from a base class that has certain behavioral hooks (say, for misc. custom serializers).

[0] See https://www.fluentcpp.com/2017/06/13/the-real-difference-bet... (the real technical difference between struct and class in C++ is just that the default visibility modifier for a struct is public and the default visibility modifier for a class is private; both can use inheritance and have virtual methods)
> The only way I’m able to have a reasonably nice car with good handling and entertaining performance

> I’m sort of disappointed that my personal hobby is going to disappear

Imagine if everyone was as entitled as that. The period of "we burn coal and gas for fun and entertainment" is over and we have to get over it. "Save the planet !" screams the dying ape, "as long as I don't have to personally do something".
>The entire field of quantum consciousness is often criticized as pseudoscience, as detailed on the main article thereof
Peat == Torf
There's a difference between Libra (the Swiss-based association) and Calibra (the US-based FB subsidiary making the first wallet).

> "Calibra will do its part to facilitate the efficacy of international sanctions regimes. We will administer and
enforce applicable sanctions programs including, for example, U.S., EU, and U.N. sanctions programs."

https://scontent.fbhx3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.2365-6/65083631...
That is certainly true, but from the scale of the calculations, I am assuming that ecopassenger.com is not just calculating that difference, but the overall emmission cost as a ratio of flight.
How to kill your economy 101.
Their next efforts will probably be lobby like crazy to ban any other coin that is not "Approved".
Huh, as a Swede it's the first time I hear about it.
Because of robocalls I normally ignore caller IDs I don’t recognize, which is a disaster when my home alarm goes off and they notify me. The alarm company has some numbers I haven’t noted yet.
Hey, we got a lot of coal in Australia, maybe Ireland wants some!
From the description, it’s a pseudonymous network with publicly observable transactions. I get that Facebook doesn’t have the best track record in regard to privacy, but it’s not immediately obvious which exact aspect of privacy should we be worried about when using this network.
Bureaucratic banning of technology is the beginning of the downfall of civilization.
That is not what I am arguing at all. I am merely pointing out that it is unclear as to what the ecopassenger.com website is calculating and what we can gather from this information.
That's wrong.

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. That means each person who flies or doesn't brings the count closer to the next threshold, where the number of planes flying changes.

Of course, this is oversimplified, not as instant as I described it, there are price politics and what not, but you can still very much say the climate footprint of each passenger is (total plane print/passengers). The idea is not to make super accurate global calculations but to quantify individual behaviour without employing a super computer.
The perfect example why looking at only one metric is sure way to disaster. Should be part if every lecture covering KPIs, ideally more than once!
Is it still possible to buy HD TVs that are not smart? That's a niche that may interest HN readers; I prefer smartness through a peripheral...
Is all peat created equal? How are we going to make whiskey when the peat is all gone?
Bogs can play a major role in capturing and storing carbon. I think it's safe to say that they play an important role in the ecosystem no matter which side of the planet they're on, and should remain unmolested.
What evidence are you citing for environmental cost?
What do the U.S. and other world governments think of this? The way they're pitching it seems like they want to directly undermine the global financial system.
Libra is "pound" in Spanish, so it will be pretty confusing because that's how we already refer to the pound sterling.
Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe is an advisor to Stellar
How is this going to fly with the constant flood of (justified) hate that Facebook is receiving the past year? Apart from the technology, I feel like they have more chance if they'd brand it without the Facebook name on it.
> I think we can agree that no one _needs_ a sport car for their 'livelihood'

That's why I considered the "old clunker" case. But even the sports car part is debatable somehow. Look around you now. How many of the things in your line of sight are actually needs, and how many are wants? How many things have changed inside each layer of Maslow's hierarchy of needs over the past half a century or more?

Do you need HN? Imagine if someone told you it's going down because you can save xxx KWh. :) I agree that a sports car may be a step too far even for this line of thinking but the point stands.
"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. The volatility of low-volatile assets still contradictive in the long term (I mean just ~5 years) So I don't see any innovative approach in the terms of social order and decentralization.
Its pretty simple. Change power pricing to be cheaper at off peak times and have car chargers wait until the price drops below x before starting charging so everyone's car charging is spread out overnight when the grid would be mostly unused.
It's not the length of a single trip, it's total travel between chargers. Even if you're lucky enough to have a locked private garage, that might be a full day of commuting and errands.
WhatsApp tells you when someone changes it’s phone number.
> The idea that all plastic recycling is "pretend" recycling is false

It is a pretend _solution_ to plastic polution, because it is incomplete to say the least (like all types of recycling)... and while that is ok for other materials, it is not acceptable for plastic .

For most other recyclable materials it is merely unfortunate, a lost opportunity to reduce sourcing of virgin materials: most metals, glass, wood, cardboard, paper - if they go in the ground it is at least not toxic and even biodegradable short and long term, (and some quantity will always go in the ground, to say otherwise is wishful thinking).

> , damaging and encourages adoption of environmentally damaging alternatives or use of virgin plastics.

No, the idea that it is "pretend" allows us to break the delusion that we are ever going to stop plastic pollution by recycling and move forward: acknowledging that the current solution is woefully inadequate due to the nature of the material means environmentalists and policy makers can focus their efforts on the source of the problem.

> We should either use more bins and pre-sort everything (which will result in lower recycle rates, but much more economic streams) or subsidize processors to sort streams out and turn them into useful material to be re-used.

You keep doing that, for the few parts of the world that have the luxury to care about sorting their rubbish with more granularity, and can afford to actually recycle some minority of it... globally we will continue dumping vast quantities of it in the ground and ocean, the world will never be able to recycle even 50% of plastic waste (honestly 50% would be an incredible feat), so yeah... stop pretending this is going to work, if even 10% of plastics keep going in the ground each year we have failed.

Alternatively imagine what might happen if all the effort focused on attempting to recycle plastic went into forcing packaging manufacturers to switch to biodegradable alternatives. Subsidize manufacturers materials research into viable alternatives, that's an investment that will eventually eliminate plastic pollution, not just stem the flow by subsidizing plastic recycling.

TL;DR Plastic is pollution, paper isn't, keep recycling what paper we can, but don't pretend recycling plastic stops pollution. Plug the hole in the boat and stop bailing out water... otherwise we will definitely sink because the hole is much bigger than any bucket you can make.
Not a big difference to the environment, is there?
It's funny because it's true. It's also sad because it's true.
I'll do this for my next "TV", however I might never buy a new one really. Unless it dies I don't really feel the need to upgrade it.
veteran cars are not new petrol or diesel vehicles, so they are not impacted.
It was already tried. It was called Bitcoin. It failed spectacularly. At least this looks like it could work.

I trust my government more than I trust these companies so I will keep using fiat, but this may be an option for other people.
Of course, it all depends on definition.

What I am implying is that "Flight shame" and "flyskam" are entirely identical entities. That is, to consider "flyskam" in our various nordic languages a word, one must also consider "flight shame" in the English language a word.

As a local, I would not perceive "flyskam" as a word outside of trickery attempts to construct hilariously long words, where our languages should really be disqualified due to unfair grammar.
What is the economic value of having a livable planet?
I've always wondered, the people who work on this project do they understand what cryptocurrencies and are they secretly embarrassed?

Apparently you're not embarrassed...
When organisations or government names include words like freedom, liberty, democratic, etc they usually aren't :)
What do you mean with "public displays"? I researched a little bit before buying my TV and couldn't find decent options in terms of cost, size and quality of the panel.
> You can see the chisel is backwards, but I didn't actually get to removing any wood until Lily was done helping.

Classic.
But then you're a mainstream consumer. Most people use WhatsApp because they want to send pictures/videos/voice memo's which isn't possible over SMS. So it does provide benefits for most users.
When you need to make a backward incompatible change, do it in three steps:

1. Add new stuff to API in a backwards compatible manner (without removing or changing old stuff). When you need to add fields it is usually safe to do it within existing functions. When you need to modify fields, I recommend simply copying and pasting your API function and exposing the new one with a number suffix, e.g. get_messages_2

2. Update the client code to use new versions of functions and to stop using old versions.

3. Once the new client is deployed, wait a while longer and then remove old versions of functions like get_messages_1

You can also use a single global version which will allow your client to detect when it has gone stale and reload.
A TV set never turns off! It is well known in the industry. Standby usually just turns of the LCD, backlight and changes LED colour.

Try this: Switch TV to standby then turn on. Time how long this takes. Unplug TV for 30 seconds plug in and then turn on. It will take a while for the TV to boot from cold start.

Manufacturers have been doing this since CRTs.
This is whataboutism - just because Ireland hasn't solved all of its problems doesn't mean they shouldnt get credit for doing the right thing in other areas.

But yes, peat needs to go!
Now replace the human with an animal and we're back to pre-industrial times - but this time, it's environmentally friendly, not necessary!

Only half joking, because bulls and donkeys were used to power a lot of machinery and still are, and even dogs were used on hamster wheels to power rotisseries (their depictions were sad, indeed).

But I would like, and have thought about, a treadmill or stationary bike to exercise and recharge a power bank or two, for example. It wouldn't be much, but it's not hard to implement and I'd rather have several smartphone charges than just excess motion/heat.

On that note, it would probably be more efficient to grow crops, distill alcohol, quit drinking and use that to power a generator... That or compost it to gas, biofuel :D
Two centuries of rapid global population growth will come to an end
I think a cryptocurrency doesn't make sense if it's managed by a company.
Very interesting. I wonder if it's possible to get around by randomizing the element class after each reload - sounds like renaming it worked temporarily.
Yes, peat. Ireland does not have significant coal deposits, and our forests were chopped down for, amongst other things, our next door neighbour's collection of boats, which is part of how your ancestors likely ended up in Australia in the first place. That left peat as a fuel source up until recently.

We do not see the fact that we've been so dependent on it as a fuel source as a good thing.
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German brands have acknowledged it a bit, enough to make some cars and try the mainstream market too.

I know Porsche also made a version with gears so they can retain their high speed property.
Apart from the cool crypto and tech, can you tell a bit what you're ethical viewpoints are on what your work is going to do to the world?
I'm curious how it will work exactly. I guess people will need to buy this currency with real money, and then they can spend it on these services. But why would anyone bother to do this when they can directly use their debit/credit card? Or is the plan to someone push people to use this currency by either giving them discount initially, or by not giving any other alternative means of payments?
What kind of impression that leaves with your customer when your studies are so badly formated? And you need a lot of people to properly format the thousands upon thousands of documents...
...not having a phone number...

I know people who are already there.

When that notion grows, even slightly, it will be the instant death of PSTN (public switched telephone networks), due to negative network effects.

A huge question will be the fight over standards to replace this, and what capabilities (to communicating parties, initiator, receivers, carriers, vendors, third parties, criminals, law enforcement, intelligence agencies) are and are not afforded, intentionally or otherwise.
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X rich people flying around is a drop in the ocean compared to X *1000000 non-rich people flying around.

It’s a distracting tactic used by the vested interests: “ignore this politician/public figure, he flew that one time! What does he know about climate change, he’s practically causing it!”
There is still a problem with electric cars, the tires also produce particles that are carcinogenic.

"Electric vehicles emit no NO2 but do produce small particle pollution from the wear on brake discs and tyres and by throwing up dust from roads. A recent European commission research paper found that about half of all particulate matter comes from these sources."
Direct link to video the article is about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WdLV3YRMvw

Curious Droid is an incredible channel. Highly recommend checking him out if you have even a mild interest in aerospace tech.

He explains things clearly and concisely and doesn't try to become a cult of personality like many other YouTubers. Just a wealth of well-explained interesting information.
I recently traveled from Moscow to St Petersburg. There is a high speed train that travels the distance in under 4 hours. A flight takes 1.5 hours. Both cost about the same if you book the flight well in advance.

But the train is so much more comfortable. The station is in the center of the city, right next to prominent metro stations. There is just one security check for the luggage. You don't have to show up 2 hours before the flight. Nor do you have to worry about leg space and luggage.

As an added bonus, railway stations seldom charge the "wealth tax" on everything from water to food that you see at airports. A bottle of water at the station costs the same as it would out in the city, while the airport will inflate the price 2-3x.

For journeys under 1000km, high speed train makes so much more sense than flying
Indeed, German language is apparently the worst: http://www.learn-german-language-online.com/long-german-word...
Tor usage must be coupled with disabling of JavaScript. Otherwise, you will leak data regardless.
Ah, I didn't see that the article indicated that this only occurred on automatic reboots. Between this and the other article it's not clear if it happens on every reboot or not, but if that's not the case then this is indeed somewhat less severe.

Regardless, if you're willing to wait for Patch Tuesday, then FDE can already be bypassed by means of another bug: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/25/bitlocker_suspensio...