skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they should have made the decision

Yes, at least in the interest of their own kids. But we are just humans and we fail for human reasons.

> The fact is, a large number of people don't believe / don't care (enough). That's why you need peer pressure.

The peer pressure works both ways. There is also peer pressure to have these fancy things.

Peer pressure is, in a way, a neutral thing. It can work against action or for action. However, without effort it will just pick a high-entropy state of inaction.
Thanks for this punchline which starts better than a long an laborious argumentation.
First Taste of DragonFly BSD
I suspect a market for „used” imported cars with under 1000 miles will emerge to circumvent this law.
Except again: the problem was they were willing to kick down doors and murder people and no one was stopping them.

If it gets to this point, being anonymous won't save you.
Libra for Developers
That’s very nit-y. I’ve used several different emacs-like editors, including Hemlock, Edwin, Alpha, and Epsilon, and while I’m happy that they exist, the current state of the world is pretty much divided between GNU Emacs plus close variants, and editors that copy parts of the emacs UI but not its core extensibility.

In most cases, the key (I claim) isn’t “is it GNU or not?” but rather “can it run a large fraction of the Hugh mass of elisp?” - and unfortunately the answer is either “no” or “hopefully in the future”.

If that’s changed, please do let me know. Is there a better Common Lisp emacs these days than Hemlock? Is anyone making progress on a cl-capable guile emacs anymore? Thanks in advance.
Cell manufacturers have been reducing the cobalt content of their cathode material for years, with "NCM811" (80% nickel, 10% cobalt, 10% manganese) being the current aspiration for many. Tesla claims it's cells already use significantly less cobalt again.

Other cell chemistries, like Lithium-Iron-Phosphate (LiFePO4) use no cobalt at all.
Ireland don't make cars so most of the economic shock will be felt outside the country. I seem to remember they already have high purchase taxes on cars.
> This is a violation of OOP.

and this is because of that that OOP has a bad name.

It's ok to violate "great principles" when writing software. What I have never seen pan out is dogmatic application of principles.
So do you have any recommendations for specific stuff to read for the rest of us... Pretty please? :)
My statement also applies to modern PTP servers, e.g. https://www.heoldesign.com/T108-GPS-GLONASS-BEIDOU-GALILEO-T... If you are in the market for one, IMHO nowadays multi-constellation should be a baseline requirement.
iPhone is far away from a monopoly in Europe--in fact I can't think of anybody who uses iMessage at all, and I own an iPhone myself.
This is going to leave Ripple a dead duck.
Rethinking Open Source: The Challenges Behind Establishing a Modern Emulator
More precisely, construct a graph with vertices (u, v) where u is a prior state and v a possible successor state, then there must not be a node of out-degree zero unless it is an end state.

As far as complexity goes, this should be linear in number of vertices. In fact, you don't even really have to construct the graph, just count out degree.
The only way to carbon neutrality with ICE cars is synth-fuels. Making those consumes a lot more energy than manufacturing and charging batteries. It doesn't help that ICE have terrible efficiency.
Well, I'm forty and sadly not yet able to retire and spent some considerable time working on VMS clusters. I even run one at home for fun, very civilised operating system.
While it still is definitely worse than other compiled languages, using pre-compiled headers, with incremental compilation, incremental linking does help a lot.

And making use of binary libraries as well.

Eventually with C++20 modules the situation will improve, and maybe by 2025, those that still care might finally enjoy Delphi compile times with C++.
Re the escalating price of universities, why do we treat the issue like it’s totally a mystery? Aren’t the budgets and costs of large public universities (E.g. the UC system here in CA) public? Weren't these choices based on specific choices by specific individuals who are public employees? Can’t we pinpoint precisely who raised prices and why? What should cost substantially more today than 25 years ago (after inflation)? And why don’t we just demand that a system like UC just go back to the precise budgets of, say, 1995 (again inflation adjusted)? It seemed to be working ok then.
The climate impact would be limited in Germany because of the large amount of electricity produced from coal. But it would still make an environmental difference: German cities have a big problem with particulate matter, which seems to be a major cause of lung cancer and other resparatory diseases. Moving pollution out of the cities into electricity plants would be very beneficial, even if there was no climate effect at all (which there will be because the power mix is consistently changing for the better, with coal becoming uneconomical).
After Dieselgate VW has been the most committed major auto-maker when it comes to EVs, problem is there have been some hiccups [1]

[1] https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/audi-recalls-model-year...
Power plants are much more efficient in converting fuel to energy than the combustion engines in vehicles, so, even if we use fossil fuel to generate the power that electric vehicles need, we will be in a better spot than the one we are right now.

(And I'm not even considering the energy that we need to expend to refine the oil to make fuel that vehicles can use).
Do tell us all about the huge labor savings Tesla is running away with[1].

It blows my mind away how you can even begin to compare the predicted reliability of a complex touchscreen interface stuffed with active electronics to dumb buttons and wires with a straight face, let alone what fielded production units only a few years in have clearly demonstrated.

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27989/teslas-screen-saga-shows...
> Imagine if cash became digital.

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.

Don't touch cash. That's the only fallback we have for outages, when someone is without data connection (ghasp!) or for scenarios where politics or decisions make it impossible for foreigners to use it, like above.

EDIT one additional thought. One of my technical issues with Alipay is that it requires data connection from both sides. With POS terminals it's only the seller who needs to have some kind of a phone line. In a foreign country, with the current state of roaming charges, this is a serious problem. I don't know if FB plans to address this issue.

EDIT2 responding to some comments - even if a foreigner could/can get a full Chinese SIM, for spending 2 weeks there the need for a second, dedicated SIM is an overkill and an additional, tricky round, especially if you're not going to a Tier 1 city. Even if you succeed adding foreign bank accounts and debit cards could get tricky if I understand correctly, but I never actually got to test it.
You can pass the fines the other way. Maybe some VoIP providers decide they do want to be good citizens after all and stop spammers using their service, maybe some decide they like the robocall provisioning business and they'll eat the fines. Adjust the fines until the problem is reduced to acceptable levels.

"Hi, thanks for your enquiry about VoIP. Yes, we have a No Questions Asked policy and it'll be $5000 pcm plus $0.01 per second calls, we need the first $10 000 up front and you need to stay $1000 in credit or we pause service. OK?"

"What! That's crazy, we can't pay 1¢ per second, your competitor is ten times cheaper"

"And my competitor doesn't like spam. Either 1¢ per second is fine or you are wasting my time, get off the line. No questions asked is what you need, and that's what it costs. I paid $25 000 in fines just last week, that's a lot of seconds at one cent per second"

"I'll have you know we're a market leading direct sales business and every one of our calls is based on a legitimate sales lead, but I see your point, the $10 000 will be in your account first thing tomorrow".
can anyone tell me if people in Iran can use it?

this doesn't really answer my question: https://libra.org/en-US/security-privacy/#overview

> Working with Law Enforcement

> As with any currency or financial infrastructure, bad actors will try to exploit the Libra network. While the network is open and accessible to everyone with internet access, the network's main endpoints will need to follow applicable laws and regulations and collaborate with law enforcement. In addition, because transactions on the Libra Blockchain are pseudonymous, it is possible for third parties to do analysis to detect fraud and illegal activity.
No, you just need an FCC that's not a joke. This whole robocall shit is only a problem in the US. On my German phone, 100% of incoming calls are legitimate.
While I absolutely agree with the goal of reducing our species carbon production and associated impact on the environment, I have a more personal and selfish concern with these proposals. The only way I’m able to have a reasonably nice car with good handling and entertaining performance is by buying a used car from probably 10-15 years ago. The sorts of cars that have nice leather seats, a sunroof, maybe a v6 or smaller v8, think the 2004 Subaru Legacy.

Given the rate of failure and failure modes inherent in current battery technology in things like Teslas and such this market simply wont exist leaving me with a choice between keeping a petrol powered nice car going with whatever tax and fuel increases are decided, or buying the absolute cheapest electric car available with whatever comforts, safety features and plain enjoyment I lose in the process just being part of the deal. I’m sort of disappointed that my personal hobby is going to disappear soon and what’s left for people like me will be the Hyundai i10 of electric cars forever more.

I’d still prefer that to not having a planet to live on though...
> C++ is still painfully slow to compile, and seems to get slower every year.

oh come on. I can get a full build of qt5's main libraries (core, gui, widgets, network, xml, etc) in 15 minutes on my laptop. It took an hour a few years ago. Compilers are getting faster all the time.
I wonder how much was driven by them missing all their 2020 EU targets, and the prospect of ever bigger €??bn fines on the way to 2030 targets...

Still, the whole plan is reasonably well thought out. They have considered that the need to retrofit most existing buildings to bring them to acceptable standards, they are suddenly keen on community heat and power, and that business will be reluctant participant and so on.

Going from 30% to 70% renewable, and closing all coal and peat in ten years might be a challenge, but it's in the plan.

A couple of glaring holes around plastic and agriculture, but a bloody good start.
It's also a risk in case of theft or loss of mind if the hardware is misplaced/lost. Any org with laptop deployments should take a hard look at this bug.
I feel the opposite way. When I was studying at university, I found it quite hard to motivate myself to do boring assignments, but after joining a BigCo and talking to customers who are direct beneficiaries of my work, it is much more rewarding and I feel more naturally motivated.
His openheartedness about the startup myth and the downsides of accepting VC money. What I really liked as well was his growth as an entrepreneur and how he valued his team. All in all it was a really relatable honest story about his journey.

It definitely made me more aware of the pros and cons of VC and what the relentless pursuit of growth above all else does to an entrepreneur emotionally. And it made me do a second take of the “Why”. I think about his story quite a bit actually, more than most of the bio books I’ve read.

There’s no chestpuffing or sugar coating at all :) Refreshing read.
Yeah I know, been focussing only on client projects but luckily we finally got someone to rebuild the frontend.
I was here. Miss you Toma.
I have some serious concerns about the security chops of the author, who recommends using the Syskey startup password feature, which is trivial to crack, mostly used by support scammers, and removed in recent versions of Windows 10 because it is like having a screen door on a submarine.
? Of course there is - it's called a PAC code, and it takes at least 1 working day with the fastest operators, in the meantime you get notified that it's happening.
Stem teachers are most in need of additional pay
Best case NTP is in the order of millisecond precision. Completely inadequate for this case.
One step closer to dystopia.
Communicating Between Go and Python or R
Can I use it in Iran?
PCPs for everyone! (joke, but seriously I think this is what they expect/want)
> "The weighted average trip distance is 9.4 miles. Vehicles owned by urban households averaged 8.5 miles and rural vehicles averaged 12.1 miles." [0]

In the U.S, a considerably larger country than Ireland, greater-than-EV-range journeys are outliers.

The same purchasing decisions that are applied to vehicle capacity will get applied to range. People don't own large vans for the once-in-a-decade they move house with all their furniture. Owning an EV that can do 200 miles might be the norm, but the regular journeys are <10% of that.

[0] http://www.solarjourneyusa.com/EVdistanceAnalysis7.php
First I think we need an offering that is at least as good as the original you are trying to replace. How long can the best electric car go with one charge? Germany is a bit bigger than Ireland and you might want to drive 600 km in one go. Not saying I do not agree with you I am just saying in certain cases we are not there yet. The other question is about electric cars: what is the source of energy? Germany owns 7 out of the biggest CO2 production facilities in Europe.

https://www.statista.com/chart/17582/megatonnes-of-co2-equiv...
Official site: https://developers.libra.org/
Whitepaper: https://libra.org/en-US/white-paper/
How about veteran cars?
Good, and I'm also not sure that EVs are the answer anyway, because I don't think cars are the answer.
Calibra from Facebook
Peat? Seriously? Peat in Tasmania (Australia) is protected, because it occurs in national parks. This suggests it is a big deal for biodiversity. Yet apparently people are burning it for energy...
Cars is but one small measure of their pretty comprehensive - and challenging - 2030 plan. Not sure they could go much quicker.
And also - even with a coal power plant you are producing electricity outside of major cities, so areas where people live are less polluted by cars driving through them. Everyone who has ever had a taxi driver idling their shitty diesel outside of your window at 2am should immediately understand how energy production moving to outside of cities is a good thing no matter how that energy is produced.
Why, of course I trust Facebook with my financial transactions. Why would they lie about privacy? This can only be an altruistic course of action
Thank you guys for useful article!
> both the text and video make it clear that a passenger recorded the video

Guess I missed that part
> The author is not using "data structure" with the standard Computer Science meaning, but as C language struct.

The text would have been a lot clearer if that would have been more explicit from the beginning!
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Being Facebook, they probably don't have to worry about the China market, but other countries also want to have some degree of control over money crossing their borders. It will be interesting to see how Calibra plans to handle that.
It's based in Switzerland. So maybe yes?
I seldom fly anymore. I was very lucky to see a lot of the world when I was growing up so I don't feel the need to travel much, and I don't need to travel for work.

I take public transport to work and walk most places.

I have a car that I use on weekends for pleasure but otherwise I try to walk as much as possible. Some trips to the supermarket however require the car when doing occasional larger shops.

Aside from the car and enjoying both driving and car ownership my biggest contribution to pollution is without a doubt consumerism. Computers, phones, games consoles, clothing, and so on ..
Interview with Facebook's Blockchain Lead David Marcus on Libra Coin
Cool! I seem to have been wrong. I wonder how those numbers compare with reuse? One would have to look at TOC including transport (e.g. transportation of wine bottle back to growing regions).
P2 sounds about right for Quake2
> While I absolutely agree with the goal of reducing our species carbon production and associated impact on the environment, I have a more personal and selfish concern with these proposals.

Congratulations for summarizing one of the main challenges of climate policy. Everyone's for it, except if it affects them personally.
I keep hearing this from OOP proponents, but I just don't find it to be true in my experience. Programs written with DOD in mind have very clear data flow and only pass on and use data that is relevant. Programs written with OOP in mind primarily care about some notion of beautiful code and abstractions, which I find to be highly subjective. As a result they generally have very muddy data flow where e.g. unrelated data is passed around that isn't even required to implement a feature. This creates all kinds of poor modularization, dependency hell, huge monoliths, difficult testing (mocking, fakes, etc...), among many other problems.
Whenever I have had to rewrite large parts of a program, I have always found it to be easier to do this in a DOD program rather than an OOP program. The biggest reason why DOD is used in video game programming to begin with is flexibility in mixing and matching functionality of game objects (entity-component-systems etc).
this is giving the power of governments to tech companies, and im not sure how i feel about that, at least bitcoin is truly decentralized
Ah, a little lesson about languages from up north: We compound words.

For example, in order to say "processing power", the only correct way to say it would be "processeringskraft" (processering = processing, kraft = power). That does not make "processeringskraft" a word on its own, as it is simply a compound required by our grammar.

Likewise, "flyskam" is a compound, and simply how we'd say "flight shame". While it might be a newly invented term growing in popularity, it is not a newly invented word.
How does this compare to the TunSafe windows implementation?
How is GLR more general than CFGs?
No. The way the text is written obfuscates the point the text is trying to make, IMO.
It seems to me, that rather than using the maildir or mbox formats, they're utilising sqlite for the backend, which, depending on how the schema ends up, may be much faster.
And Stellar, Nano and many others.
They used Spec. Indeed wise use of a tool like this does make a difference, but then the onus is on the developer to be disciplined enough to apply it appropriately. Humans do not by default have this discipline.
Wikipedia destroyed the entire encyclopedia market and now is the only encyclopedic platform for political information.

In Germany, a huge admin cabal at Wikipedia has been revealed that influences political topics: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://...

They white-wash politician’s profiles and controversial topics such as 9/11 or Israel-Palestinia conflict, etc.
It seems to be a very well-equipped propaganda outlet.

Some of the admins are said to post 50,000 and more article edits, literally night and day including Christmas.

The admins have a sophisticated method of badmouthing critics (including those who revealed the cabal) on both, Wikipedia and a side-project with heavy backlinks from Wikipedia. It’s called www.psiram.com - They invest a lot of efforts to maintain total anonymity by registering companies and domain in several countries.

Some investigators suspect, that this entire ecosphere (it’s huge) is financed by a secret service. (Not) surprisingly, no main-stream media is covering this topic of amazing importance, or they play it down by looking at irrelevant side aspects of it.

I would wonder if something similar does exist on the English Wikipedia.
That's a Snowden quote, isn't it?
I participated in similar communities and would kindly disagree with you.

The ones who raise this point 99% of the time _are_ up to no good.

It's the Occam's razor, again: there's no censorship conspiracy and if anything of such user's comments got deleted, it probably insulted everybody under the sun.

Reasonable people argue on the relevant points they disagree with, and can understand when to stop if their idea simply doesn't get traction.
> If you assume money is a reasonable proxy for energy

Everything points to money being a very poor proxy for energy. Part of our problem with climate change is that energy is usually one of the smallest contributors to cost, making incredibly wasteful supply chains economically preferable.
>Anyone can mine a gigabyte sized block on their own computer, but that doesn't make it Bitcoin

So you just pulling facts out of your ass?
Read the white paper then come back
It does not feel right, does it?
It says testnet only until early 2020. Coincidentally, Ethereum recently announced Ethereum 2.0 releasing in early 2020.

I consider Libra Coin an effort to cash in on the cryptocurrency hype with a type of bank, before real cryptocurrencies can scale and become mainstream and therefore block such an effort.

So I see it as a moral imperative for developers to try to kill the project. The fact that they are making it open source could help in that regard.
I can't wait to get me some Itchy and Scratchy Money
Has there been any announcement of third parties being able to depoly their own contracts or Dapps to Facebook's blockchain?
But this is only true because the Hotspot JVM just isn't meant to be used for high performance code. In theory with a good enough JIT, it should be possible to achieve high performance even in Java. One day Java might have value types and then these optimizations will be able to shine.
It is not exactly clear whether passenger flights are less environmentally friendly than various other options. Driving for long distances can be worse for the environment than flying commercially[0]. The article claims that Greta saved energy by travelling by train, but it is unclear how the method of calculation (ecopassenger.org) works, whether it considers that rail and road infrastructure requires far more energy and fuel for maintenance than the air and runway does and even the data entry is flawed, since you cannot change the load of plane and train separately, even though it is clear that flight operators often overbook planes, while trains often run with pretty low loads.

[0] http://www.umtri.umich.edu/our-results/publications/making-d...
I'm not familiar with Ireland's grid, but if it's anything like Britain, there is already more than enough capacity to power a fully electric vehicle fleet, provided a significant portion of charging happens at off-peak times.

This is something that has been studied in some depth in the UK:

https://theenergyst.com/millions-electric-vehicles-sooner-pr...

https://www.nationalgrid.com/group/case-studies/electric-dre...
So is Libra following Swiss law?

Does US law not apply to Libra?

Can Facebook still be associated with it then?
This is not Reddit. I know because I am often confused myself.
Here's the main thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20205566
A simple fix. 50% yearly increases in petrol tax. :)
Peat is a reasonably common domestic fuel in parts of Ireland and Scotland - also the "peaty" taste in whisky traditionally comes from drying malted barley using peat fires.

However, I agree that for a variety of reasons that peat should mostly be left where it is.