skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Moreover, Marcus insisted that the $10 million buy in would not grant validators exclusive access to users’ transactional data.“

So they don’t get exclusive data. That’s an odd statement, it just means that data can be sold to others as well.
Now: if you buy a car made from batteries produced with electricity from coal etc. then the CO2-break-even of the car is a long way into the lifetime of the vehicle. And that's bad. But manufacturers will keep building battery plants and they will build them to take advantage of cheap and renewable energy. Hydro is already cheaper than coal in most cases, and the manufacturers avoid the risk of future fossil fuel taxes by using renewable. So manufacturers will place their battery factories in locations where cheap renewable energy is available. For example https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northvolt-funding-electri...
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It is pretty polluting for the amount of energy you get out of it but I don't think it necessarily follows that because it occurs in national parks in Tasmania that it is important for biodiversity on the other side of the world in Ireland.
Additionally, her environmental impact would only really be true if her flight was cancelled as a result of her taking the train. Is there evidence that this happened?
From the FAQ:

> Question: How will you prevent fraud?

> Anwer: All accounts and transactions are verified, and fraud prevention is built in throughout the app. Accounts are verified with government-issued ID, so you know people are who they say they are. Facebook and WhatsApp account information are also used when available to verify identity and prevent fraud. Calibra also has in-app reporting and dedicated customer service. In the rare event of unauthorized fraud, you will receive a full refund.

How can they refund the money? Would that mean that they have full control on the currency? And if they do, doesn't that defeat the purpose of a blockchain?
I had a vision once – Facebook invented true AGI and life as we know it is a simulated reality thanks to that AI.

Oh well.
Doesn't this ban just apply to new cars? I would think the used car market would keep going mostly as it always has...
I've heard it many times, and it's great, but I think it must not be true. Planes had hardly any armor at all and all I've ever seen was put in very logical places. Protect the engines, fuel, pilot, and other crew.

It's not like they welded a piece of steel into a random place on the hull because they'd never seen it get hit before.
I think this is the thing - it will take some lifestyle and leisure changes to make that happen, and individual freedom is simply not as important as fixing this - given that not fixing this is equivalent to losing all individual freedom via horrific means.

Where I live cars are already somewhat unwelcome - and everyone bicycles or takes trams, metro, buses and trains. They are removing parking spaces by the thousands. Cities are gradually ceasing to be built around cars.

The notion of high car ownership in the future seems questionable at this point full stop.
Interesting because Stripe CEO is behind XLM too, no?
I'm Irish; many of us are ashamed of how we treat our bogs. We have tiny peat-burning power stations which:

* Are extremely polluting
* Destroy a unique ecosystem
* Are loss-making

all for the sake of "protecting" a few local jobs.
If they have interest in it, by all means. Programming is a very slow learning curve, which can be frustrating for most people.
I would personally start with very highly specialised / abstracted programming environments.
If they like video games, using things like construct or, harder, Unity might be a good inbetween. Because of scenes editor and such, you can create something nice just with a series of drag and drop, and just write a few simple scripts to make it a bit more alive. It's also good to start on existing tutorial and try to customise them.

If they aren't interested in video games, it might be harder to sell programming as a hobby. I guess there is something a bit more magical to "hey, I managed to make this cube move when you press the joystick, and then when you press A it jumps" vs "hey, I have a sign-in form for my app".
Duplicate, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20210667
You can use Bitcoin in Iran today, can't you?
I'm biased as I'm working on this project. But I'm super happy it's finally out there :) There's a lot of really cool cryptography and tech on this project and there's still a lot for people to discover!
Most European countries will be working towards a ban around the same time, or shortly after. So there won't be a ready supply of such vehicles for Ireland to import.

Besides, given the economic advantages of electric (especially if petrol taxes are gradually ramped up to discourage their use), there won't be much demand for combustion technology past 2030 anyway, except amongst vintage enthusiasts.
It's ok for the middle-classes to not fly anymore, we can use domestication for that (as we used back in the '60s and '70s in order to convince them to fly, we were telling them that flying was one of the coolest things imaginable), but the rich people of this world can still fly at will, apparently there are no shame words that can make them stop.

Case in point the last episode of the TV series "Billions", where at some point two female characters (one of them a billionaire) are taken off with an helicopter from outside of a bar out in the wilderness, just because, and we are intrinsically told that what they were doing was pretty cool (related or not, a real-life billionaire, Mark Cuban himself, appears in the same episode interacting with the two ladies, I think he was also brought in on set via helicopter). Again, if you are rich shame words don't apply to you.
It’s going to be interesting.
“Unlike previous stablecoins, Libra will not be issued by a central party. Instead, Facebook has enlisted 27 fellow Silicon Valley titans—among them PayPal, Visa, Spotify, Mastercard, Uber, and eBay—to operate as preliminary “validator nodes” who will each share a transparent copy of a vast ledger of transactions reflecting all the activity on the network.”

That sounds amazingly dystopian. I mean, that’s literally a money built on an oligarchy. By design.

I understand people trust these services ( to the extent they keep using them), but the playing field should be flatter in crypto. Unlike the article’s suggestions that Ripple is toast, I can imagine it’s putting such coins in a position to be very competitive, more open, and not run by the companies above.
"since the end of 2018 one can not get a proper Chinese SIM with a passport"

I took my passport to a China Unicom shop in Beijing a few weeks ago, to get a SIM for a visiting relative. The process took about 10 minutes.

"Alipay is that it requires data connection from both sides"

No it doesn't. If I print out my payment QR code, you can scan it and pay me even if my phone is off. When I buy vegetables at the market, the vendors have their Alipay and WeChat QR codes displayed on stickers.

Some vendors have cheap bluetooth devices which announce the amount of each incoming payment, but most vendors trust the customer and don't bother to check whether a payment was made.
I don't have the logs anymore but I remember it being several thousand requests for the image files every month, but I assume it's fairly worthless traffic - interesting though.

Lots of links to random forum posts, where the images are just broken.
They also said they'll stop renewing the NCT (annual license required for cars older than 10y) after 2045.
refund => reverse commit forward

Refund is not necessarily reversing a transaction.
This is Facebook's attempt to cash in on the cryptocurrency hype with a high tech type of bank before real cryptocurrencies can scale and become mainstream.

I consider it a moral imperative for developers to stop this. In fact I will probably make some comment like that at some point on their GitHub pages. Which I expect to be removed. But this is the good fight. It's what Star Wars is really about. Defeating the evil empire.
Small MSS is often IoT devices which only have a kilobyte or so of RAM, so often have an MSS of below 256 bytes. They won't be rendering a webpage, but are totally capable of doing REST API requests.

More and more are moving away from $0.25 microcontrollers, and up to $5 SoC's running Linux, so the problem is going away gradually...
Is it just my misplaced optimism, or are many countries suddenly now 'aware' of our climate change issues?
It's a whole bidirectional cascade of misrepresentation I think: every time the materials change hands, the output side passes on the quality/purity promise from upstream, but more optimistic within an almost reasonable error margin. In the same transaction, the input side passes on the responsible handling promise of their downstream partner, but more optimistic, within an almost reasonable error margin.

How many intermediate subcontracting steps would it take to allow the original source tho pay for (supposedly) perfectly clean full reuse recycling of a toxic mess, and the final sink to dump (supposedly) perfectly harmless materials into the sea?
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Spot on, especially in cities where you really only use a car on weekends or other ‘special’ occasions. If I could rent a nice electric car for Saturday and Sunday for a reasonable price, that would largely offset any potential lifestyle changes that such a law would introduce, as well as encouraging more people to reconsider personal transport during the week if possible.
how do i mine it?
>1000 tx/s

Nice try Zuc. But BSV can do 10k tx/s already AND it supports tokens as well
I hope it crashes and burns. It's the opposite of what crypto was meant to achieve. No central control.
Ireland has been burning peat as a source of heat in homes for hundreds of years. It's the only abundant fuel source in Ireland. In recent years much of the raised bogland has been protected for conservation, and stripped bogs being converted into solar and wind farms.
So we can take it down from the inside, trojan-horse style!
Can it be used without a Facebook account?
I recently watched The White Diamond by Werner Herzog, which gives a glimpse of an alternative i.e. airships (although it's more of a typical Herzog meandering human story, and a long way from any commercial realisation of airships). Flying is currently a hateful activity in my view, both for the experience and the environmental cost. Of course, it is often unavoidable.
I can spare $500 if the book is good . can you DM Me ?
Considering the track record to date why would anyone want to handover financial transaction data to Facebook?

I may as well cut out the middleman, save time and punch myself in the face.
reading the whitepaper , it seems everything will be managed by the swiss company. facebook is just one of the partners.

[As another user mentioned, the company that makes the wallet is US based and will enforce sanctions. But maybe that means that another of the partners can make a wallet to use in sanctioned countries?]
If it's based in Switzerland why would US law apply to it?
I would assume they have full control of the currency, but it doesn't negate the purpose of blockchain, but perhaps the purpose of proof-of-work, so I hope they use something different.

But long and short I think is that people don't want to have the possibility of losing their wallet, meaning someone else needs to have authority over it. I dislike the slowness and transaction fees of banks, not the state backed security.
Don’t we need to like more than double our current level of power production (+capacity of the power network) to be able to ditch ice cars? I wonder how more than doubling of the number of power plants is supposed to get funded. Is there some proposal that is grounded in technical and economical realities?
> whether it considers that rail and road infrastructure requires far more energy and fuel for maintenance than the air and runway does

This lack of maintenance is showing its signs. There are surprisingly many potholes at 10km altitude, and no one spends any money trying to fix them!
It really depends on what you consider a word. I haven't heard your distinction between a word and a term widely made. You could (and many linguists do) instead say that compounds in English can contain a space, that is, some English words have spaces (or hyphens). The reason for considering a compound as a separate word is that it can have meaning that is more than the sum of its parts. The linguistic jargon for a compound where the meaning can't be easily determined from it's parts is non-transparent.
This is a real dilemma because it's not always about choice in any reasonable interpretation. Some people may need a car for their livelihood but simply cannot afford anything better than a polluting clunker.

Sometimes it is about choices made unwittingly. Imagine people who buy an EV because they think it's the best way to do their part even if 99.999% of their usage fits perfectly for bicycle and public transport (increased efficiency + added benefits not strictly related to global warming).

In the end everyone will draw the line sooner or later. The point is to drop the bar and making it easier for most to take action. But people who expect everyone to be able to do it (usually based on the "I did it so if you don't you're just selfish" thinking) aren't very reasonable.
Here's the developer docs:

https://developers.libra.org/docs/welcome-to-libra
Crucial question for competing with Bitcoin, of course, is simple: will it be anonymous enough to buy drugs with?
That's just ridiculous and no-one thinks that.
As an implementation of Do Not Disturb, that sounds like the expected and correct behaviour. It is only lacking if you want to (ab)use DND as a technical solution to the social problem that there is no adequate legal protection against spam calls in your jurisdiction. In Europe, I get a spam call maybe once a month, slightly more if you see legitimate (according to the local interpretation of law) market research and opinion polling as spam.
Libra as in liberty? What a joke.
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My question was, what if I was already using the hand signal in your example and I refused to stop just because I learned white supremicists were doing the same?

Genuine question.
"He added that users would be able to remain anonymous or pseudonymous, at their own discretion—including the ability to keep their digital wallets separate from their Facebook profiles."

Imperial march plays in background, dark patterns flood through every interface.

"Indeed, that’s why Calibra, the wallet software that will hold Libra Coins, was made a subsidiary of Facebook—“to ensure appropriate separation between social and financial data and to build and operate services on its behalf on top of the Libra network,” as the white paper explains."

Is this some cruel joke? 'See! We made it a subsidiary! Can't get more arms length than that!' Being a subsidiary generally means that Calibra will take and toe the dictates of Facebook. There is no separation here.

It honestly feels like this is a last chance to pull away from the enlightenment value killing death spiral that is surveillance capitalism.
Genius move!

This isn’t much different than budget deficits - create a mess now and let future generations deal with the problem.

Effectively it’s nothing but a new tax.
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Honest question: energy use?
The whole definition of identity is ill-defined in this kind of context. Should your doctor have the same number on their work phone as on their desk phone as at the front desk as...? What about another doctor at the same clinic? What about your doctor's secretary? What about their personal mobile?
Well it is difficult because there are so many distracting things and programming environments are not very engaging for kids. My two daughters had great fun assembling Lego Mindstorms and Robotis Bioloid kids (with the smallish metal screws). We then downloaded the examples programs to which I did a few changes in front of them, and tried to explain stuff. But clearly they showed no interest in the programming activity. So I did not insist. I may try some time later with an Arduino: I think it is by far the less sucking programming environment for young people, and it basically works (and is text based).
> 27 fellow Silicon Valley titans [...] to operate as preliminary “validator nodes”

What could possibly go wrong?
Don't need to go up that far north. This is just a trait of Germanic languages including Dutch in Belgium/Netherlands.
> I took my passport to a China Unicom shop in Beijing a few weeks ago, to get a SIM for a visiting relative. The process took about 10 minutes.

Tried to do the same in a tourist city (not a tier 1 city), beginning of May, didn't work. I wanted a full SIM, not a data only SIM though, which one did you get?

> No it doesn't. If I print out my payment QR code, you can scan it and pay me even if my phone is off. When I buy vegetables at the market, the vendors have their Alipay and WeChat QR codes displayed on stickers.

So the vendor (receiver) doesn't need connectivity, but you (sender) do, correct? That's the polar opposite of POS.
And with elected representatives like this, I wouldn't be putting money on this becoming law any time soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2e-gOeN3DM or if it does become law, expect it to become a rolling target that gets kicked down the road rather than a fixed one.
There are two ideas which seem to arise more frequently these days:

1) Having a separate extradition treaty with Taiwan, which breaks the One China policy and recognizes jurisdiction independent of the CCP;

2) Acceptance of the fact that Chinese people can indeed thrive without authoritarianism. Taiwan and Hong Kong are prosperous, stable, and free.

Could it be true that the CCP cannot any longer rely on its classic claims to legitimacy?
Alipay appears to be available in Europe now, as the UEFA Nations League tickets could be bought using either alipay or card. source: I bought Nations League tickets.
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This got me thinking, is there any statistics comparing the carbon footprint impact of average yearly flights versus average yearly goods consumed that were transported on a shipping container?
There's a lot of interesting physics in building thermonuclear weapons. Doesn't mean you should do it.

Your talents could be used to help the world. Instead, they are being used to enclose common spaces and pull apart the fabric of society. Get a better job?
It's definitely working on me and my group of friends. It's pretty much taboo to fly now and you always need to justify it somehow if you do it anyway.
I'm very concerned this will give Facebook even greater control. I think it is likely Facebook will push Libra towards people in countries where their currency is volatile, such that it becomes the standard. I do see the positives, that they can now rely on a currency to be stable. But what do you think, could this be an issue and if so, do you think this can be overall beneficial for people from these places?
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A flight with 50% empty seats consumes less fuel than a full cabin. The difference is not huge, but it's there.
Considering that multiple companies have access to the data to find illegal transactions, no way. However it will probably be easily exchanged with other coins
I am pretty sure that ICE cars will survive as a hobby, that is: on the dedicated racetracks.

On one hand it might get prohibitively expensive (track days are, already), on the other: since it will be the only way to enjoy driving a V8, etc. – it might get way more popular, and cheaper in the process.
No. In the UK it's around a 30% increase on current electricity demand by 2050 for a near-100% EV vehicle fleet. But as a significant portion of EV charging can be done off-peak/overnight, in terms of new generation capacity it's
even less.

This is something that has been studied in some depth by the UK's national grid:

https://www.nationalgrid.com/group/case-studies/electric-dre...

https://theenergyst.com/millions-electric-vehicles-sooner-pr...
Buy buy buy! The secret to crypto is to buy high, sell higher! Upwards to Zucktopia!
As I shared with you on Twitter (1), I think the definitions of the terms might have been misleading. For instance, although the charts use the word "salary", in my blog post I defined what those terms meant:

> ...how much yearly revenue for a project goes to each “full-time equivalent” contributor. This is essentially their salary. Or, said better, this is how much their salary via donations would be if they were working exclusively on the open source project, without any complementary income. It is likely that a sizable amount of creators and maintainers work only part-time on their projects. Those that work full-time sometimes complement their income with savings or by living in a country with lower costs of living...

Later, when I specifically mention Electron, I say:

> This doesn’t mean the people working on those projects are poor, because in several cases the maintainers have jobs at companies that allow open source contributions. What it does mean, however, is that unless companies take an active role in supporting open source with significant funding, what’s left is a situation where most open source maintainers are severely underfunded.

In summary, this means that projects categorized in red or orange can be one of these cases:

- Maintainer is an employee earning fair salary, and nearly nothing (<10%) from donations: Electron et al

- Maintainer is independent, earns significantly (>50%) from donations: Sindre Sorhus (AVA), myself (Manyverse and Cycle.js), Paul Frazee (Beaker Browser) and others

- Maintainer is independent, earns entirely from donations: Titus (Unified) and others

The core message of the blog post still stands true, unless companies take a central role in sustaining open source (which is your case!), what's left is a situation of unfair compensation to open source maintainers.

[1]: https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/1139533257077338112
Don't even need to leave English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound
Do you really think the hobby of the automobile is going to disappear with EVs?

Most top-end sports cars have either implementated a hybrid system or have gone full electric (think Formula E). Car manufacturers will follow at the consumer level and the Subaru fandom with them[1].

Obviously the petrolhead generation will have to adapt to the new cars but you shouldn't worry about a sunroof and leather seats.

Right now the biggest barrier to entry is the capital cost of buying a new EV but 10-15 years down the line the second-hand market price shouldn't be much different than it is right now.

[1]https://www.google.com/amp/s/electrek.co/2019/06/06/toyota-s...
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I do 4x4-ing so a relatively big engine is often a must, unless you compromise in other ways. Since I don't really want to lug around a beast on mud terrain tires all day, I have a few other vehicles that I drive to offset the environmental impact, and also the fuel bill. My daily transport is a BMW 530d which is very efficient on diesel, although I wish it were gasoline to be honest.
A one-person switch doesn't cancel a flight, or change the world, just as a one-person boycott doesn't get Nestle to change a recipe.

Yet trains are far less emitting than aircraft, so the more people that join the sooner flights will be cancelled or routes dropped as unprofitable. Increasing carbon taxes are inevitable, so that will further speed any changes.
this reminds me of ~~ https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/objec...