skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Volkswagen is investing 80 billion euros in EVs:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-electric-insig...
Not sure how they're going to overcome KYC/AML.
In Germany, cash is still king
I don't have nor intend to have kids. That will be far more beneficial than any of the measures that you propose.
Everything, pretty much.
You know, I too really dislike the investment focus of most people. If it's not usable, it's just a bigger-fools-game. And price volatility is a definite concern.

Yet many do use it as a currency, volatility isn't a showstopper. Just look at the use in darknet markets, most serious VPNs and VPS services offer it and you can buy all sorts of stuff on for example Webhallen or Inet (two of the biggest Swedish online computer stores).

> So it's built on nothing, it does nothing and underpins nothing

And this is wrong. It's secured by cryptography and game theory.

The big thing it does is fairly simple: It enables digital payments without a trusted third party. It's relevant for businesses who cannot accept credit cards and there are thousands of stories where startups gets their accounts frozen, for arbitrary reasons, which may tank their business.

I wrote about this and more here: https://whycryptocurrencies.com/

> it wastes huge amounts of otherwise useful energy

Actually most of the energy comes from renewable sources, which would be wasted otherwise. The Bitcoin mining industry is so competitive, it wouldn't be profitable otherwise.

I don't want to wave away the concerns as nothing, because it is a valid concern, but there are tons of other things we waste much more energy on.
That's orthogonal to the issue. GNSS gives you a fix anywhere; wireless triangulation gives you a guess in some populated areas (note all the three qualifiers). Moreover, GNSS gives you a 4D fix: [X,Y,Z,t]; triangulation gives you 2D at best: [~X, ~Y].

Worse, easy contribution to a database is still way off from ease-of-use: now the database needs to get to the end devices, which brings in a whole tangled ball of dependencies.

Also, last I checked, OSM doesn't deal in wireless maps.
A few years ago I published a large list of mental models I find repeatedly useful (https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-use...), discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12040707.

I've spent my spare time since (day job is running DuckDuckGo) with my co-author (statistician, researcher, and wife!) turning that list into this book, which weaves the 300+ mental models into nine narrative thematic chapters, paired with 150+ illustrations. Here's the full list of models from the book (in order): https://superthinking.com/download/MentalModels.pdf

Happy to answer any questions about it and/or the process of getting this published. It's my second book (first is Traction).
"We will implement cold wallets and multisig wallets that allow Libra users and association members to add extra security for their Libra coin and Libra Investment Token holdings."
Facebook unveils cryptocurrency, Libra launching in 2020
Dutch (and other European) census data was used by Nazis in transacting the Holocaust. And IBM processed much realated concentration camp information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Net...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_in_World_War_II#Ho...

https://ibmandtheholocaust.com

Gerrit van der Veen, Willem Arondéus, Johan Brouwer, Rudi Bloemgarten. specifically destroyed municipal records in a moonumental act of defiance to the Nazis:

https://medium.com/@hansdezwart/during-world-war-ii-we-did-h...
Do an electric conversion. Here are two examples:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-16/vintage-rolls-royce-c...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PREftlfZuXA
This seems like something that could be brought back through legislation instantly, and I cannot understand why we're prioritizing the freedom to make your own unique bottles over this. There is 0 reason why all beer cannot be sold in identical bottles - after all, the label can still be unique and identifying your brand. Then the bottles just get washed and reused.
On top of that it's likely that they'll run a fractional reserve scheme, meaning that only a small portion of the coins will be backed by real currency at any given time. I haven't found any reference to this in their paper, I wonder if they'll provide transparency on this topic.
It's not any particular section, rather the tone and the breadth. One easy answer to such a letter is "please read our privacy policy and come back when you have more specific questions". Your company's privacy policy should cover almost all of the "concerns" covered in this letter. Bad faith comes from the fact that a sender of such a letter has, quite obviously, done zero due diligence. The spirit of GDPR is not to fuck with everybody around, it is to force companies to be more responsible overall.

This is why those OATH and similar dialogs are so jarring, the correct implementation should be opt out by default without being bothered every time one visits a website.
Maybe. All uploads could be padded with the maximum buffer size so you can't tell the difference. The buffer could flush only small amounts at a time. Some compression algorithm could be used that becomes more efficient with larger recordings.

What you should be asking with any "smart" device is "can I prove this device will do no harm to me".

Honestly I have never understood the value proposition of any smart device. Why would I want any of that functionality? Never once in my life have I ever wanted to talk to my TV. I'm beginning to (again) question the wisdom of carrying a smartphone.
This is orthogonal. Yes, my UK giffgaff worked, but UK - or Hungarian - phone numbers are not accepted by the Alipay app for registration.
One thing that constantly puzzles me about PKD is how far ahead his societal and philosophical imagination was, but how backwards his technological views remained.

He has androids being run by punctured cards (i.e this story), advanced civilizations relying on advanced typewriters using paper (i.e. The Little Black Box if I remember correctly the name), and mass communication based on telephone boots (i.e. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep).
Around here, quite a few employers also provide charging stations at work.
Charging still takes time, a lot more time than putting the hose in.

With the current lithium-ion technology, high speed charging (over-volting) causes battery degradation due to extra heat. I suppose batteries can be actively cooled to mitigate the process.
Where to store time series data for further analysis? It is possible to use Prometheus for this - see https://medium.com/@valyala/analyzing-prometheus-data-with-e...
Ah, the sweet smell of language wars in the morning.

Seriously, though, I wonder how much of golang adoption is due to it being a shiny new thing relative to Java and how much is due to it actually solving a problem. Bray outlines several areas where golang functionally outperforms Java (deadlocks, truly WORA).

I have used golang a bit and found it ok. Because of my background I'd prefer to write code in a dynamic language but I get that there are times when you need to have better performance, and you may want that without the baggage of the JVM.
So we’ve from government issued inflationary currencies to multinational scrip backed by government currencies. Sounds like bitcoin is a better hedge than ever against today’s economic environment.
Radioactive waste is doing real damage to the planet. After decades of evaluation storage facilities germany has no option that is considered safe.
We have a responsibility towards the following generations. This includes not warming the planet beyond no return and not polluting it with deadly waste.
Both can be achieved with a shift towards renewable energy sources.
Stopping African fertility is the world's number one priority. Much more important than climate change. Waiting one generation may mean 1-2 more billion people we can't afford.
This is one of the major cause of the destruction of the environment we're seeing globally.

All forecasts predict another 60% (!!) increase in global population before it stabilises.

Forget about banning plastic straws or flying less (which are feel-good measures more than anything else) with such numbers... We need to take dramatic and effective steps.

There are 80 years left until the end of the century. This increase is far from being inevitable! But, again, we prefer to ignore these key issues and focus on marginal, feel-good measures instead.
It’s funny how one of the core believes of cryptocurrencies has always been that (a) government will fear and attempt to ban it, and (b) that the technology would make such attempts impossible.

Yet what we have seen over the years is really more of a bemused interest from existing institutions, with targeted and rather effective interventions only where actual harm was done, such as ICOs.

It’s almost as if these conspiracy theories about the FED or Credit Card companies’ lobbying power, or the “International Banking Elite” weren’t exactly right.
During World War II, we did have something to hide (2014)
Are you thinking Quake III Rocket Arena?
The sensors are nice, but sensors+camera improve on that by an order of magnitude - you do not see behind your car, no matter how much you think you do. Especially small people aka children are completely hidden from the driver's point of view by the rear of the car - which is exactly in the camera's center of field.
Well yeah but the problem is that since energy production needs to be constant, the only real alternative to nuclear is coal,gas or hydro.
Nuclear and hydro is the only option that doesn't lead to extinction due to global warming
Look at Java. Look at Spring and look at all the other junk out there. Every corner you go around you see smart people trying to outsmart each other rather than solve problems.
Go makes that harder.
Why USV Is Joining the Libra Association
It seems like it has the table-stakes features without anything new. And certainly not anything ethereum or a handful of other crypto's don't already offer.
The argument here seems to be "to raise capital, tell investors whatever they want to hear, irrespective of how true it is. Pass DD by covering up your lies, then cover up the coverups".

This is supposed to be a curated list of VC pitches. I honestly don't understand how Theranos, a company that raised and grew solely by spreading lies and then covering them up, can end up in a list like that, except if the authors of said list think that this is a good way to raise money.

I don't understand how it is that everybody agrees that stealing a painting from a museum is bad, but when you steal billions (!) from investors then suddenly it's "inspiration".

EDIT: I hadn't yet realized you're the author.

> but from my end it's more of a "This is how you should not do it"

This is a good point, and with that I think it makes more sense. But IMO it needs a much bigger "fraud alert! don't do this, these people are evil" note :-)
Tesonet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17254113
I wonder if you could get a similar effect from using a mouse. We know how compelling computer use can be and if that could offer a similar benefit then that would be amazing.
what happens at companies where there a LOT of math. Like fintech, AI, etc companies.

Are there equivalents of numpy,pandas, etc for go ?

what happens when you need to deploy models ?
David Marcus' thread about Libra launch
Sure, but what I'm saying is: the largest value is in having won the hearts and minds of their customers (brand value). Amazon are often more expensive than competitors, but customers still prefer them because they know and trust the experience they will get.

Prime lock-in is not innovative or valuable as a concept in itself, it's just a way of capitalising on the loyalty of their customers, which would not work for many other retailers.
Really? No problem in providing massive sums to build solar and wind power stations alongside the fossil fuel stations that already exist and will have to be maintained 24/7? As an example, difficult to see how huge swathes of EU country Romania would survive as habitable zones. Who will inject the cash needed? Moreover six months of winter conditions are not exactly conducive to energy production via solar and wind. What the heck do people do?
I find it interesting that Facebook banned cryptocurrency ads last year, citing safety from “financial products and services frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.”

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/30/16950926/facebook-mark-zuckerb...
That sounds pretty grim! Which country are you in?
Is it nonsense? Makes perfect sense to me. There are programmers who don't get excited about languages as a topic and would rather just get on with it. "People who are sick of programming languages" seems like an apt description for that crowd.

I personally dislike Go, precisely for many of the reasons why those "people who are sick of programming languages" would like it!
Sure. I still couldn't do KYC in China and get an wechat wallet but global mobile roaming and internet connectivity is a first step ...
It's not pegged to a dollar. It's pegged to a blend of currencies and assets. So it's not a dollar wrapped like Tether or USDC.

I don't understand how they plan to make it work across jurisdictions. There are so many laws and rules when it comes to transmitting and storing money or derivatives.

Like I can transfer a billion dollars worth of BTC, no problem. But if I try to wire even $100K between two of my accounts in US and EU, all kinds of red flags go off and phone calls need to happen.
Because people (especially here) have been underestimating crypto by (maybe) a Trillion Dollar margin.

There are many legitimate uses for a cross-border currency that has a strong backer. There is a ton of services (like Skrill) that try to bridge the gap for a big portion of the world un-banked.

I say "legitimate" because the uses are fine within the US/EU (holding a "hard" currency like the USD). But many countries around the world prohibit that. If Facebook currency ignores that (given their size), they can access these markets.

This is, maybe, a trillion dollar market.

People here have been ignoring crypto because they don't understand the effects on closed economies. Small online-banks have failed because of difficult regulations and name recognition. Facebook might make it because they have a strong brand, big audience and can battle whole countries.
Weighing would only be slightly better than a simple parity check (a one-bit hash). It misses common errors like transposing two adjacent characters.

However, you can get any number of additional bits by suspending the punch card from various locations along its perimeter, and measuring the angle at which it hangs.
> They are literally designed to make it take longer to reach your destination than an elevator.

What makes you say that? An escalator is about delivering a constant flow of people between two fixed floors. An elevator delivers bursts of people between a choice of floors.

Which one is faster depends on availability and the journey you want to make.
Anyone who still has doubts about the extent of Facebook's undemocratic power is clearly about to be fully convinced.
Well they'll already know everything about you...
Thank you!

Touch screens require you to look at them to use them. Physical knobs and buttons do not. You're supposed to look at the road, not at a touchscreen.
Libra: The Path Forward
Running without root is totally viable, it is in fact encouraged. Take a look at: https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/userns-remap/

I think the concern should be around what environment variables are required to run, what was in the base image, what volumes are mounted between container/host thus persisted through run's and don't mount /var/run/docker.sock! You should assume the container can be breached and make it as hard as possible to break out.
He writes this paragraph that may explain your observation:

"So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in such a way that they do not fall apart two days later. Or at least that is what my editors hope. However, I will reveal a secret to you: I like to build universes which do fall apart."
async/await is async io, this is something js is known for since it doesn't actually require parallelism.

Getting concurrency _with_ parallelism right is a lot easier in rust than it is in go. You need to write thread safe code in both of them, but you get zero support from your compiler in go.
Is there not value to be gained when someone is struggling to get past a problem? I've seen what happens when people too quickly phone a friend whenever they hit a problem, the end result being they don't round out their knowledge.
Value and it's underpinnings act in very bizzare ways, and people might assign value to something just because other people do as well. Regarding Bitcoin, one of the reasons people assign value to it is because it offeres a way to keep track of value in a way that is almost impossible to manipulate. Cyclical reasoning right there. That property is not unlike gold, but besides gold also offeres some extra advantages (and disadvantages) like being able to transfer it across the world in 10 minutes or pass it across borders without any hassle.
You’re asking how Facebook, the largest surveillance machine in the history of mankind, is going to avoid Know Your Customer?
Simply explained: Blockchain scalability solutions past, present, and future
> A transatlantic bank transfer will cost you over 30 euros

Not will, but can. I did a transatlantic SWIFT payment recently and it cost me $9 in correspondent bank fees. I did another one and it cost me $0 in fees. I did another and it cost $18.

In each instance, I was able to get a SWIFT trace by asking the emitting and receiving banks to provide this. I didn't get a receipt for the SWIFT fees correspondent banks charged, but I did get receipts for the bank fees at either end.

Banks do suck, and the payment networks also suck, but sometimes they can suck less.
> to secretly spy on targets

Apparently everyone here thinks so much of themselves that they think they are important enough to be a target.
For starters,

Xerox stuff for Interlisp-D, Smalltalk, Mesa and Mesa/Cedar,

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xerox

ETHZ Research

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/...

"NEWP Programming Reference Manual" for ClearPath MCP (nee Burroughs B5000 in 1961)

https://public.support.unisys.com/aseries/docs/clearpath-mcp...

https://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Bur...

Check IBM's RISC research with PL/8, before they decided to create Aix instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/8

Then you can follow up on Singularity, Midori and Barrelfish for the more up to date stuff

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/singularity...

http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/barrelfish/

And their fruits into mainstream Windows

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/3-005

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-an...

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Inside-NET-Native

There is plenty more, however I think you can already lose yourself in such information. :)
I like it for sure, but let me take devil's advocate position! :)

You've got a value scale telegraphed through your essay: edgy and dangerous is much more what a human should be rather than safe, complacent, comfortable.

I think it's something you desire to be/have, and that's fine, but you wouldn't say that unless you felt that this is something far, far away from what you are now. You must feel that you are unimaginative and more of a consumer than a producer. I wouldn't blame you for feeling that way...one of the neat tricks of our system is that we are supposed to individuate deeply (dangerously, rowr!), however every single way to do it is co-opted by some marketing identity. Try going to do some yoga in just ordinary pants not branded as a "lifestyle."

If you feel like a non-entity in this way, it's good to have an enemy. A "man" to keep you down. This is the "they" in your essay. And indeed, he runs rampant through all of our thoughts.

But in reality, they is you. You participate in this internet economy. You take the "free" things that are offered. What I mean is that this system serves you more than you want to admit: it gives you a reason to fail to find out who you really are.

Because, be honest, do you really want to be this edgy and dangerous person you are putting forth as an ideal? Are those people the best dads to their kids, the best wives to their husbands? Isn't there also goodness in the individual who shows up at the median of all these increasingly insidious schemes to harvest data.

Maybe, just maybe, this character shows up as so bland and useless because her attention is focused elsewhere. She doesn't care that she's tracked. Her opinions are bland because she doesn't strive to "cut a profile" in a place which would be visible to observers in the system.

It could just as well be that true freedom is in that.

And further, who is more free: the one caught and victimized by one of these totalitarian webs you describe (and they are scary), or the one who is so savvy about avoiding the webs, the mistakes, the many trip wires that eventually lead to disgrace, prison, whatever.

So I have been caught. So what? Was that the purpose of my life? To adroitly avoid the traps of my enemies? I suggest it's possible to not care about them. About what they do every moment.

I think life may lie in a completely different direction.
How is their platform different in practical terms than libra? Libra itself is not a new currency. I believe it's pegged to the US dollar. In the real world you really pay with visa/mastercard, paypal or swift, not with "real" money.
To Hack or Not to Hack
Dr. Seuss ‘Lorax’ tree falls in San Diego park; it had appeared healthy
Bitwarden all the way.
Yeah, but only lately. They should have started 10 years ago.

Now it's probably too late. Not only for VW but all the others, too.
I know it's kinda trivial, but I strongly agree with this. For example, inheriting a set of Word/Google docs where all the formatting is applied locally without the use of styles. So I can't turn on the outliner or generate a table of contents. Or not including a proper footer with page numbers in n/nn format so that if I print them out and drop them I know how to put them back together. Or having decent metadata in so you can find them on file system searches. Ugh.

One time, I was given an Excel doc with a bunch of numbers and totals and averages in. I updated some values, only to find none of the calculations changed. The creator simply hadn't used any formulas, or had pasted it all in as plain text from some other place!
Can recommend DayJS[0] as a lighter alternative to MomentJS with an almost identical API.

[0] https://github.com/iamkun/dayjs
And what model of programming do you suggest it might be? ;-D
Last pass MUST be avoided. It is closed sourced and has been exposed to hacks before
They're capitalizing on existing concenpts, there's hardly any innovation here. The only novelty factor is that now you can run smart contracts on a stable coin, which is not possible with the existing stable coins in the market.
Yeah, try a screwdriver. Or a wood chipper.

Wear your PPE.
Having a German (as parent poster) and Spanish phone for many years, I have never had a robocall. It's really surprising to me that this is a problem at all.