skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
75w - 1hup sounds good to me. I could power a computer, a light and monitor with it going into sleep mode when I stop pedalling. This is the level of power I like to use most of the time anyway.

I might not be able to power a kettle, keep the fridge on and all those things that take 10-20 x 1hup but, most of the time I don't need those things.

What I would like on the bicycle is a general purpose recharegeable battery that works off a dynamo and powers the lights on the bike. If it can charge for free on re-gen braking and give a feeble power assist if need be then that would be helpful. But not something actually heavy.

The problem with batteries is they always come in boxes that need other containers that need housings and brackets and even more mounting hardware.

I would like a battery to be practically structural, so, in the bicycle implementation the battery would use the frame tubes, to be more like an internal layer of paint than something big and heavy.

Anyway, it would be great if a bicycle could harvest electricity and store it in a way the EV cars are talking about, but to return electricity to one's personal grid of USB powered devices so, even if you did not have mains power you could always get everything charged.
> Some of the people I work with are really smart but manipulative and generally not great human beings.

It was really shocking to me to learn how disgusting some very intelligent people can be. It rewrote some of my philosophies of life in the first half of my twenties. Turns out we don't all have cathedrals in our heads when we have the tools to build them.
Mmm — all our RCS traffic going through Google servers by default, sounds like a great way to gather data. Next time you see weirdly specific ads based on a text conversation you’ll have to wonder — how much of this is actually encrypted.
What opened my eyes beyond UNIX was having a great library at the university where I could dive into alternative realities.

Luckily many of the same books and papers, now live on as facsimle copies on bitsavers, archive and many other Internet and Faculty repositories.

Burroughs, Xerox PARC, ETHZ, TI, Genera, VMS, Lisa, Constellation, SOLO, SPIN and plenty others are available for systems programming archeology.
How to talk to your conservative brother-in-Law
Wherever the car is built only for racing, like LeMans or Formula*, it typically doesn’t feature a stick.
I find this is a fair point. No need to do another rant about Apple.

The one thing to consider (I am sure you do) is just what kind of non-Apple-hardware you could get for the same amount of money you are willing to spend. The difference is the entrance fee for Mac software. I am not a Mac user, but both Linux desktop and Linux-on-Windows got quite mature in the last years
ISTR that the avionics code is written in Ada, and runs on top of Intel i960 processors, and that the Ada compiler for that target only runs on VAX/VMS (not even OpenVMS, but specifically VMS on the VAX).
I’m an engineer, have a degree in Gamedesign and turned UX/UI designer. Many lessons from adventure games/level design are very useful to apply when designing SaaS products (not talking about “gamification”. Dead ends is particularly an interesting point in the experience.

One way you could apply lessons from game design into crafting better software products is by breaking down what a game is. Think of it as 3 layers.

- 1. Set of rules (ex. Finish before opponent)

- 2. A story/shell around those rules (ex. Race car/horse riding/athletics/etc)

- 3. Rewarding Experience (ex. Real-world Monetary reward/nice video/animation with your character holding a trophy etc)

——

3. Is the reason people use your product. What real-world benefit are they seeking?

2. This is the UI of your product. A race game has a different vibe and audience than a horse racing game. Even though they have the same underlying ruleset. So make sure you tailor your UI to your audience.

1. This is the UX of your product. Here you’ll get core lessons from gamedesign (like dead ends discussed in the article)

You Can always contact me with Ui/UX questions, find my contact details in my bio.
As a counterpoint: I live in Germany where we have such a system in place. When I went to the US for a few months not having such a system in place actually felt liberating. Suddenly I didn't have to worry about storing bottles, how to get them back to the store, etc. I just threw them into the recycling bin.

This might not be a problem for families or people that actually plan their grocery shopping and go there by car to buy for a whole week. But for me as someone who just stops at the store every day on the way home to get whatever I need it's really hard to bring empty bottles back to the store (I won't carry around empty bottles all day).
>I used to run a Gaming LAN Center in 2005 in Neshaminy Mall.

Oh damn, I remember that. Was it called Ultra Zone or something? I lived in Jersey but I'd meet my PA friends there sometimes.
Thanks for the links, so from Bruce Schneier, the problem needs to be taken care of by citizens (politic) like it was done for many industries (car, food, pharma...). Except that this is going to be much more complex in the information era where everything is a computer. Hence there is a need to have tech people in the public sector to help decisions to be wisely made. Enforcing the rules is the only way to make the industry to change, in this case, in terms of security and privacy.

However I tend to think I have more power as a consumer than as a citizen. I spent dollars everyday while I vote every 2 years. It seems that since there is no other way, the last resort is to go through the political way. I'm happy we have governments but still, I'm convinced there is a way to convince consumer. Do you ?
Everything You Need to Know About Date in JavaScript
Everyone always has terrible stories about contributing to wikipedia, and will never give us a link. I don't doubt that the stories are substantially true, but it's a really inappropriate way to criticise a project which values citations so highly.

So anyway, here's my story: i added a paragraph about huge earthworms to the page about the Isle of Rum, and it's still there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B9m#Other_fauna
That seems pretty clear cut. Thanks for clarifying!
Unfortunately there is still need for libraries like underscore.js, which also covers some jQuery functions (which are not DOM-related).
Currently 404 for me, was the site up ?
Good. Measures like this are finally starting to approach the level of urgency required to have any realistic chance of averting the worst climate disasters.

Obviously Ireland is a small country and won't have much impact alone, but at least it's dawning on some policymakers that this isn't a problem for "the next generation".
Libra Core
https://github.com/libra/libra and

https://libra.org/en-US/

Built in Rust. Interesting. Nice choice.
That is something Germany should have done years ago. They have an industry to shift.
Didn't now the concept but they're tv's without tuners?
Just keep people from having physical access to your computer and 0/10 terrified.
Libra White Paper
As a high-tech (electrical tech?) geek, i love low-tech magazine. One thing that this article (and many of their other ones) does is to highlight how incredibly wasteful our lifestyle is energy wise. Sure we can be impressed by 95% efficiency motors of new electric cars, it is still +150'000 watt used to transport 70 kg of human flesh. Compare that to 75 watt of pedal powering your transport. Not saying we are going to replace cars with bikes, but it's good to remind ourselves how much energy we actually use in real numbers.

It's like we all have our own army of personal slaves by the thousands that run on ancient sun light to power our excessive needs..
Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
Good to see another big one embracing Rust.

Interesting to note that their smart-contract language Move [1] also borrows from Rust:

> Move’s bytecode verifier uses a “borrow checking” scheme similar to Rust to ensure that at most one mutable reference to a value exists at any point in time.

[1]: https://developers.libra.org/docs/assets/papers/libra-move-a...
Yay so we can switch to batteries that produce more carbon emissions in their production than the fuel the vehicle is spitting out. Ultimately just make the problem worse if you think about it.
Pretty much, yeah.

There's a good range to choose from as well these days: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=monplas
It was for around 17 mins and then everything is returning is 404. The website, link to WP.

Edit: Well, it's up now!
DOORS the standard tool for requirements management that combines the worst technologies IBM has to offer in order to provide you with a way of entering hypertext into a database.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOORS
Won't happen. Automobile companies are so deep into our politicians, you sometimes see them looking out from the throat.

For example the federal state of Niedersachsen has more than 20% of the shares of Volkswagen. They will not do anything that might harm VW.
I agree this is good. But 11 years feels to long, I wish it were sooner. Remember this is only the sale, not usage.
Didi opens platform to rival firms as competition heats up
While I doubt this will go into effect, this is simply bad policy.

The economic shocks that will accompany a hard ban make no sense when compared to the option of a gradual phase out (gradually increase fuel taxes? gradually increase taxes on the sale of new petrol vehicles?)
You mean projectors? Because that would explain why I rarely see youtube ads on chromecast hooked up to my projector. As soon as it plays on my tablet ads show up.
Won't really make any environmental difference since they'll have to produce more energy. Since germany utilizes gas and coal you will basically shift to that from petrol since they shutdown their nuclear power plant
Do you have a source?

And are you saying that production of electric cars produces significantly more emissions than petrol?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_aspects_of_the_e...

It appears to be quite a nuanced picture.
part of the IBM suite of bullshit job creation tools

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYQBZ_9.5.2/...
I suspect this is much easier for a government to demand when they don't have a car industry to support.
LinkedIn exfiltrates local extension data from the browser
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wolves
No. Every serious study shows that this is not the case. Especially when NOT talking about Teslas and their giant batteries. And even if electric cars would NOT be emitting less carbon emissions, they would still have positive health effects as cities will be quiter and have less polluted air. Even without any CO2-discussions, electric cars make sense (and who says there will be no fuel cells in the future).
Technology alone isn't enough - you can't just switch ICE cars to EV cars and solve all transport and envrionmental problems.

It needs to become normal (and desirable) to walk and cycle short journeys, and to take public transport - especially in urban areas that currently suffer from poor air quality and congestion.
>And you can use cash for sensitive purchases.

This isn't always a viable option.

For example, in Sweden, we have stores that are kontantfri (cash-free) and it's projected that almost all of Sweden will be cash-free by 2023[0] to 2025[1]. (Sorry the links are in Swedish but you should be able to use <your chosen provider here> to translate them to your language.)

Given that the nordics tend to trend together, I imagine that Denmark is relatively along the same path to being cash-free, as well.

I think a better (but more complicated) alternative would be to use two different SIMs for separating those apps from an every-day number; however, that comes with the problem of carrying a second phone. Dual-SIM would just present a surface to tie the two numbers together but so would the two phones being in the same area (in proximity of each other) almost all of the time.

In other words, I don't really know how to solve this problem because it depends on everyone else not jumping on the bandwagon; however, to your suggestion, cash will not be a viable option for any purchases - much less, sensitive ones - in the very near future.

[0] - https://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.690197/kontanter-slut...

[1] - https://www.compricer.se/nyheter/artikel/24-mars-2023--da-ar...
Do you have data to support that statement?
Not anymore, most store bought laptops will have bitlocker enabled and all enterprise laptops will probably be using bitlocker too.
From my limited experience of setting it up the complexity is not in the configs files (also not with OpenVPN as you usually just copy paste some template anyway) but in setting up the routing, iptables etc.
Gentlemen! Start your virtue signalling!

Seriously, though, have they even found enough proven reserves of cobalt to make enough batteries to do this?
City-Scale Observability with Andrew Rodgers
Practical Paradoxes When Resisting Reduction
Can not open in Firefox :( but works fine with Chrome.

> ReferenceError: requireLazy is not defined
Facebook confirms it will launch a cryptocurrency called Libra in 2020
Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency: All you need to know
I'd bet the inverse, folks pulling in the huge compensation packets have no reason to want to advertise this via a self reported site.
Libra (Facebook blockchain) launches testnet
Introducing Libra
The sensible way to deal with bit flips is a gratuitous amount of ECC.
Facebook Libra
I think announcing a ban is part of a phase out policy. The problem with relying just on gradual mechanisms is the "boiling frog" effect acting against you. A drastic announcement spurs people out of complacency. By the time you get to the deadline, the ban might not even be needed.
O.J. Simpson Denies Kris Jenner Romance and Shuts Down Rumors He’s Khloe’s Dad
Looks like the actual testnet code is at https://developers.libra.org/
It is not only what the data is currently used for (mainly ads), but what it could be used for in the future: once collected, any data will be kept forever.
And that is much more frightening.
The ban is on new vehicles. ie: New vehicles sold after 2030 must be zero emission.

Not that all existing petrol and diesel vehicles must suddenly be scrapped.

Vehicles tend to last about 15 years, so even with a ban coming into effect in 2030, it'd likely be around 2045 before the vast majority of fossil burners are off the street. That's pretty gradual.
We're working on something like this: https://causal.app :)

I think just having proper names and descriptions for entities (variables, charts, etc.) will be a big improvement over unnamed cell references (E5, AA2) when trying to understand how a model works, and being able to document + audit changes to the model/data is the next piece on top.
Yeah, not buying it until I see the plans on how they're going to increase the national grid to power this.
Why is everything virtue signalling? Maybe these things are to force the conversation to shift. If it proves unteneable we can extend deadlines etc. These bans are causing companies to take non-ice vehicles more seriously. It is making cities think about public transport more seriously.

I'm pretty sure at this point anyone who uses "virtue signalling" seriously should automatically written off, because it is basically saying "I don't like that you are doing something which may be positive".
This is only a proposed policy, it is not a law, it hasn't even been voted on by parliament.
> I don't understand why anyone who actually cares about security uses Bitlocker, and not one of the systems that ask for a password before booting Windows.

Bitlocker also supports using a password at boot.
Harvard denies admission to boy once they discover he’s a racist troll. That seems quite reasonable to me.
If data is being buffered and only sent after the trigger words wouldn't the data transmitted vary depending on how much was said before the trigger word?
For Ireland this makes total sense. It is a small country on an island, so 99% of the cars do not travel the distances we do in larger countries/continents. Almost every electric car in production in 2019 can cover any city pair in Ireland. Looks like a smart move to me.
Works for me using Firefox for Android, version 67.0.2
Government investment in charging infrastructure, increasing fuel prices/registration fees on ICE vehicles, etc., those are approachable and realistic options, and things we can do right now.

I personally believe, that come 2026, car manufacturers will sound the alarm, that they simply won't be able to produce enough EVs come 2030 to meet demand. The policy will then likely get postponed till 2040, and so on for a couple of decades.
Brb while I move to Vatican city, I look forward to my salary going up significantly.
Somewhere in there is a game theoretic analysis involving corporations and populations, not individuals
Only so far, no fighter planes are going to be able to match the range of a 777, without a prepared dedicated fleet of in-flight refueling, and in that region only really japan practices in-flight refueling - Indonesia has since (last year) expressed interest in buying some tankers, but still not committed to it.
Are you blocking some Facebook CDN domains perhaps?
Libra: Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Whitepaper
Sweden has invented a word to encourage people not to fly
I have the same experience with my LG. It's perfectly fine as a "dumb" screen. I have an Apple TV 4K and a surround receiver connected to it, and CEC works as intended: when I turn on or off the Apple TV, the LG and the receiver do the same.

I was very weary of buying a "smart" TV, but I wanted a 4K HDR one, and the public display market didn't seem interested in providing that.

Happily, the LG boots (or resumes, or whatever it does) very quickly and the only time I have to touch its remote control is if I've had the TV on for so long without using the remote that it thinks nobody's watching and turns itself off. I suppose there's a setting somewhere to change this, but it happens seldom enough that I haven't bothered.
Go Creeping In
I like the shapes problem because I actually encountered it and it made me think.

I'm not sure about the switch approach described in the post:

function area(shape)
switch shape.type
case "square": return shape.side ** 2
case "circle": return 2 * PI * shape.radius
case "triangle": return ...
case "segment": return 0
case "polygon": return ...
...
case "oval": return ...

You can have a lot of cases, some of them requiring non trivial code...
Eventually you write a function for each case and it's more work than adding a method for each shape because you still need to write the switch...

Classes seem work better than structures here.

But then you want to handle intersections

The switch approach doesn't seem realistic:

function intersection(shapeA, shapeB)
if(shapeA.type == "circle" AND shapeB.type == "circle")...
if(shapeA.type == "circle" AND shapeB.type == "square")...
if(shapeA.type == "square" AND shapeB.type == "circle")...
...//uh oh you have nShapes**2 cases to handle

But java classes or not better: where do you define Circle-Square intersection? In Circle? In Square?

Even with multiple dispatch the solution is not ideal. You now have some things related to Circle (area, perimeter...) in the Circle.blub file, and intersection(Circle, Circle) wich only works with Circles is now in intersections.blub...

I don't see a good solution and sometimes I feel like the problem is more with our tools (code in text files) rather than programming paradigms
In theory perhaps: but by the description given in this article the keys are not permanent, and that means you'd need to wait for an automatic reboot, and cut the power while that's occurring, and you need to do that right on the very first try, because if the system fails to store the key for any reason, it's not retrievable without the user logging in (and if you could do that, this whole saga wouldn't have been necessary). The demo appears to require admin access anyhow.

I suppose if you steal a laptop that's on but locked, and doesn't use FDE, and then open it up and hook it up to the power, wait for patch tuesday, and pull out the battery/cut the power at just the right moment, this is likely reproducibly exploitable without access.

It's a risk, but a fairly far-fetched one. If you have attackers that determined and skilled, use FDE... and pray, because if you've got that kind of time, patience and physical access, there are likely over avenues to exploit.

Admittedly, the features gained for this crack in the security sound pretty limited - after auto-update lock screen apps that depend on DPAPI still display? Yawn.

Edit: https://vztekoverflow.com/2018/07/31/tbal-dpapi-backdoor/ this description is slightly different, and clearly states that the TBAL credentials-saving hack gets used every shutdown, which is much easier to trigger. Given the pointlessness of this feature in the first place, I'm turning if off.
Just saying, on your website, the trasparent buttons on the top right really do not mesh well with the background, once you scroll down.
Thanks, but it's not quite my issue - arrows work everywhere else but not in vi. Also, cmd.exe doesn't have that same problem. So far no .vimrc setting has helped me. I've resigned to just wait for Microsoft's new cmd.exe.
The impression I get is that DragonFly BSD is the most innovative BSD, especially in terms of HAMMER its filesystem. So where FreeBSD and Solaris/illumos have ZFS and people use those OSs to use a stable implementation of ZFS (e.g. Joyent), people might use DragonFly BSD for HAMMER. But is it just a research project rather than something practical? Is anyone using it or HAMMER in production? Why might people use HAMMER over ZFS or another filesystem? I'm saying all this as someone who uses Linux and is most familiar with OpenBSD when it comes to the BSDs, but that's about it, filesystems are really not on my radar when it comes to do the work that I do.
That table is interesting, it looks like we get the same benefits from switching to PHEV as going to full electric.

I've always been slightly sceptical about the claims, just because the costs are so high. If you assume money is a reasonable proxy for energy then the high acquisition costs imply more emissions.
Libra – A New Global Currency
Increasingly, not switching to EVs will harm VW, regardless of what German states do.
Last time I looked we are gradually shifting to completely renewable energies. It might yet take some time, but we will get there (hoping that we do not elect dumb politicians).
The headlines all seem totally wrong.

Uber: $1.25M VC capital turned into $84.2B

That sounds like the guys who invested $1.25M now own $84B worth of Uber stock. I don't think that is even remotely true. I would think there came many more investors who put in more money. And that's how the vast majority of the $84B market cap was created.
> I've noticed that you didn't bother to address the technical reasons whatsoever.

It's right there, bellow the "crappy, out of date, insecure, janky browser" unfounded claims, open the two links I've provided and you'll see that ALL the technical reasons are covered extensively.
The first thing which needs to change:

"Coal and peat continue to be used for power generation. In 2017 coal and peat accounted for 49% of carbon emissions from electricity generation, despite only accounting for 19% of electricity generated.The result of this is that the carbon intensity of the Irish electricity was the fourth highest in the EU in 2016, despite all our progress on using renewable energy."

https://www.seai.ie/resources/seai-statistics/key-statistics...
Agreed. I'd tax the fuel, personally, because if you taxed the sale of "new" vehicles then people would soon find a way of getting vehicles that are practically but not officially "new".