skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With synthetic fuels I don't mean biofuels, which I think are a terrible idea, but instead something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-diesel
Agree with it or not, this is already normal practice. San Francisco has a "Cigarette Litter Abatement Fee" of $0.85 per pack.

https://sftreasurer.org/cigarette
Reminds me of this thread: Corn is not a food, it's a platform.

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/10748100434957967...
Get a friend with an iPhone 11, the G3, and compare. No need for this whole word duel. I think you'll be surprised.
I got a suggestion. Pick up a late model MacBook Pro, then go down to your local used PC shop and pick up two PC laptops (300 bux each), and install Linux and Windows. At that point, you have all 3 platforms covered and don't have to choose sides.
> It would be seconds for a city with a few million people...

Australia only has two of those.

If you get picky enough about what counts as a city, then the problem solves itself; they become irrelevant compared to the bulk of the population.

You don't need one facility to feed an entire city.

What matters are the per capita numbers. $1000 per head, lasts an entire hour.

Install 300 of those batteries and it will cover the entire country.

And "seconds" is still wrong.

Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide. 3rd, 4th, and 5th largest cities in the entire country. If you feed one of them off 129 megawatt hours, it's somewhere in the low hundreds of seconds.
Delivery trucks run during the day mostly. Cities may prohibit deliveries at night for noise reasons. Deliveries at night might be more likely to be stolen, etc. Could be able to fix the first issue with the quietness of EVs perhaps.
Any plans to make this less technical and more user friendly (like users not knowing even about lightning network). I think this has a lot of potential if you make it more mainstream by abstracting away the tech stuff.
Technically, storage is a solved problem. It's not even hard, and y'all keep saying it's impossible. The unsolved problem is cost. And it's a simple formula... how much grid storage is needed to account for variations? And what does that storage cost? The moment the combined wind/solar + storage cost drops below the cost of coal/nuclear, it wins.

And intermittency for wind is completely overblown (no pun intended). Tower-height winds are much steadier than surface-height winds, due to lack of surface-related turbulence. And we have a couple of decades of measurement of large wind installations, so the expected variation isn't exactly a surprise unknown.
I make it 9 years since the first release and 4 years since the first stable version (aka 1.0).

Either way it's a short time in which to gain acceptance anywhere near the level of C++ so it's not surprising it hasn't. Although companies (including Microsoft and some Google teams) are just starting to take it seriously.
Awesome! However:

> The crypto is stored in the place where all crypto is stored: in mathematical mist, behind long keys held only in the memory of someone who is quite good at storing such things in memory (with paper backups in the hands of a priest I met 35 years ago who never sets foot in the West).

That could be pretty bad news for the priest, whose identity and whereabouts could surely be ascertained by a sufficiently motivated criminal actor, and it sounds like there are tens of millions of motivational units in play.
Another reason why Glassdoor takes down negative reviews is that often the 1 or 2 star reviews don't follow their content guidelines [0].

- [Your review should be truthful and constitute your own personal opinion] -- Any review that contains false information that the company can easily prove is wrong can be removed.

- [Each individual is allowed one review, per employer, per year, per review type.] If the company can prove a review is a dup, it can be removed

- [We do not allow reviews that include negative comments about identifiable individuals outside of this group.] - A review saying "My coworker Alice was a real A Hole." can easily be removed

- [We realize talking about work can get emotionally charged, but we don't approve reviews that include certain profanities] -- Anything that's aggressively worded "I worked at this company, it fu* sucks" will be removed

I'd guess than 90% of Glassdoor reviews removed blatantly break their guidelines. There is probably another 10% that consist of companies trying to game the system, but it's impossible to know for sure.

[0] https://help.glassdoor.com/article/Community-Guidelines/en_U...
I have been using a 5th gen X1 carbon 1080p with Linux for work for over a year. I would say it's slightly inferior to the mbp except in the weight category.

The screen is dimmer (maybe the 4k is better), the webcam/mic/speakers are worse, the battery is slightly worse, and the trackpad is much worse. The trackpoint is nice, and the proper keyboard is nice (though karabiner on Mac os enabled me to get productive with fewer keys). The USB-A ports are nice, and the HDMI is nice. The build quality is great.

Software is great. I just miss the trackpad gestures.

It's a different form factor. Slightly lighter, smaller screen.
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Airbnb going public: IPO date in 2020, revenue over $1B
Is there any cost reduction of using this method, compared to buying bitcoin from a regular exchange? As I recall taking money in and out of the LN channels still costs the blockchain transaction fee.
I use STRIPE as my payment Processor for my 1 man shop. They are great. Stupid simple. They even offered me a cash advance. All i need now is for stripe to be my bank to keep all my money in there and pay my business bills from it. One stop shop to run my business, would be great! What would even be more useful to me then lending me money, is if they help me build my v2 and take a slice from my business. Finding engineers is hard and very expensive for a small online business like mine.
That would require relatively complete "Theory of human" and also understanding the variety of human behavior. Human are also chancing their behavior. Different generations respond differently to same signal.

But all this does not mean that macroeconomics is useless or that it's not getting results. They are just relatively modest.
I don't agree with this at all.

Part of copyright is maintaining a degree of artistic control - for instance a band not allowing a certain political party to use their song at rallies.
While those are the "theoretical" reason for IPOs, let's not ignore a primary reason for an IPO, which is to let early investors and employees cash out (though these days many companies, e.g. Slack, are just doing a direct listing instead).
I'd hate to live in the authoritarian minded society that applied this maxim universally.
> "How do we close a statement.... errr. Let's spell it backwards".

That's on the original Bourne shell and its author's evident love for Algol 68. Wikipedia has a fine summary.
That's essentially what a rental is. You're stuck with having to stream it, but most people don't care or even know about quality differences from that.

But if you're buying the disc it's not just $20 for 2 hours of entertainment. I bought Spiderverse on 4k and have watched it at least 5 times since buying, sometimes solo, sometimes with friends.
What you're seeing is the low budget of ethical community-based FLO software rather than an actual bias toward developers in the design.
> Hasn't most of the "American Right" distanced themselves from the white-nationalist/neo-nazi organizations as well as the Left?

Maybe, but I was referencing that the notion of a substantive association between Nazis/fascists and socialism (or the left more generally) was never taken seriously by any significant group until the last couple of years, where the American Right decided that their existing pejorative labels were losing their sting and they needed to label everything they disagreed with “fascism” and seriously try to sell the connections; Jonah Goldberg's book Liberal Fascism was a notable point in this trend.
I went through the math and indeed - in Wyoming, where land is $660 per acre, assuming water and structures holding it are free, the break even point is at 17cm in potential energy.

That's actually amazingly cheap, because the absolute worst land in my country is almost three times as expensive.

I guess then it's the structures and labour here that potentially are the deciding factor.
"Cars in my country get taxed directly or indirectly (through fuel) based in part on emissions"

Unless these emmission taxes are calibrated to the cost of climate change then this argument is missing the point. Taxes and subsidies are often instituted in response to negative and positive externalities, but that doesn't change the fact that they are different things. This is important when trying to draw policy comparisons which is our situation here.

You seem to want to argue that subsidizing a business and not taxing them on an externality is somehow morally the same thing, and that's an entirely different discussion, but it doesn't mean that they are factually the same thing. There is a practical difference in terms of how things are measured and how policies are compared across industries and governments and that difference matters.
Is it time for the world’s first vulva emoji?
I started programming (like a lot of people) after I bought one of those "Learn C++ FAST!" books (I don't remember the actual title).

A large chunk of this book was about the object-oriented part of C++, and comparing it to the equivalent version in C, and acted that since the only two paradigms that exist are OOP and imperative, you should always use OOP. (NOTE: I'm paraphrasing, that was the tl;dr as I remember it from 18 years ago).

Later, when I was 19 (around 2010), I was on an IRC board and someone was talking about how cool Haskell was, and when I asked him to explain why it was better than C++, he went into elaborate detail about how "C++ is total bullshit because you have to mix your types with your functions". He then went on elaborate detail (that went completely over my head at the time) about how Haskell's typechecker made C++'s look like "dogshit".

Maybe I am too suggestible, but at that moment I agreed with him, and have kept that mentality ever since. I fundamentally do not like attaching methods to my structs/records/whatever, since I think that forces strong and unnecessary coupling. I do really hate the type systems of Java and C++ because I think they're restrictive and don't actually help.

Obviously opinions vary; a lot of very smart people really like Java and C++, but I seriously cannot personally understand why. I feel like I get more done quicker with Clojure than I ever could with Java, and I have trouble comprehending anyone who says otherwise.

I'm not trying to start any kind of flame war; if you like OOP we can still be friends, I'm not judging you as a person, I just disagree with your language choice :)
> goldilocks flavored

Sadly true of far too many "influential" books. Although I did enjoy reading it, I finished it in an afternoon - if that's possible, it's probably not hiding any real deep wisdom.
Well, Stripe still isn't available in like one quarter of the European countries.
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How do you handle ACH clawbacks? What your business models needs to protect against is... hackers steal a victim's private information enough to be able to submit the ACH to you. The victim reports it to their bank several days after the theft. The bank does an ACH clawback from your banking partner.

Where is your time gap to get past ACH clawbacks?
https://medium.com/@MidwesternHedgi/teslas-driver-fatality-r...
Now explain like I'm five :)
Unfortunately, we cannot afford to pull all of the fossil fuels out of the ground.

There are trillions of barrels of unconventional oil shale (confusingly, not the same as shale oil) in the Green River formation in Wyoming/Colorado alone. If it was all extracted and burned and put into the atmosphere (assuming none makes it as ocean acidification, etc), it'd raise the CO2 level from the current 400ppm (about 3 trillion tons of CO2 in the atmosphere right now) to 500ppm. Just a single formation.

And there's 5 trillion tons of coal in Alaska, equivalent to about 15 trillion tons of CO2. Even if just half of that made it into the atmosphere (the other half going to ocean acidification, weathering, and biomass), we'd have something like 1400ppm in the atmosphere, which is a very stuffy room. And that's just one state. Assume Siberia and Canada has just as much or more.

I think if we extracted every last bit of fossil fuels in the ground, we'd have a CO2 level on the order of 10,000ppm and will have measurably reduced oxygen levels as well.
> Suzuki Mehran dry mass is around 550kg

That's a Pakistan-only car with no safety features [0]. (From the Wikipedia description, "a car with everything manually operated, and with no safety features. The car lacks airbags, ABS, rear window defogger, side air conditioner vents, seat belt reminder and even rear seat belts.") So yes, it's light. You'll also immediately die in a collision, but you get what you pay for I suppose. (The Alto is sold more broadly, but it's still obsolete)

Not exactly comparing like to like.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Mehran
I remember when we launched our Japanese tea service [1]: we wanted to switch to Stripe so badly that I was emailing them at the very least once a month, until we made it in their beta program. I'm not sure the youngest remember what the payment landscape was before Stripe, but it wasn't great. Stripe lifted the whole industry up from mediocrity.

Around 10 years ago I had the pleasure of setting up payments with a French bank: instead of a web API we had to use an opaque binary installed on our server. In terms of setup it took many weeks and several in person meetings to get approved. There was a (big) setup fee and a (not so small) monthly subscription. And then of course transaction fees.

In Japan for startups targeting foreignland it was even worse: only PayPal supported payments in anything other than JPY! [2] Interestingly it seems that with Stripe Japan everything coming from outside of Japan goes through USD. I have many customers being charged in EUR, and on our end we of course get JPY. So I would expect an EUR/JPY transaction to occur in the middle, yet oftentimes the USD/EUR exchange rates ends up leaking on our customer receipts... I wonder how it works behind the scene...

[1] https://tomotcha.com for those interested.

[2] Maybe banks were offering this service directly, but for what was only an experiment at the time, I was expecting the setup cost to be prohibitive (at least in time, if not in money).
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Hmm, they are quoting a population of 20,035,455 for Beijing. That's the official number based on the amount of residency permits. Locals estimate the actual population to be at least double that..
I agree it can be hard to read at first, but after learning the syntax, it's not hard to read. It's also about what the language allows you to do (or prevents you from doing) that determines, to me anyway, the utility. I love Objective-C but it allows you to do a lot of things that can lead to bad code (mostly related to state and hidden side-effects). FP overall is a paradigm that helps prevent you from doing that and helps you rethink and describe problems declaratively.
- Goldman has to rewin their business every year. Very little recurring revenue and they are one recession from imploding.

Haven't they weathered a fair few recessions already?
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I wasn't aware Apple ever required source code submission? Not at least in iOS projects I was involved with or know about.
I think the better question is why hasn't someone in State been arrested. If I contract a lock smith to break in a door I don't own and provide a bunch of misleading information about it I'm pretty sure I would be the one facing charges in the end and not the lock smith.
> Yeah their API is a little bit... bloated for simple needs since they're covering for many different use-cases

You're right. We're fixing this. Stay tuned.
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Yeah bought a Huawei tablet & thought same. Good bang per buck on hardware even with questionable associations.
> ... most likely what GP is talking about the new payment intent APIs, even though I don't think there's a real way you could implement them any better given the PSD2 requirements.

Yes, definitely this.

Payment intents is so much more complicated and convoluted than the previous "Charges" API. Stripe went from one of the easiest bits of my app to develop to one of the most difficult, to the point where I'll admit it even temporarily killed my motivation to work on my app solely due to Stripe's API. I stopped working on the checkout process just to take a break and work on other parts of the app and it pains me to think about even touching the checkout flow again even though I know I have to in order to release my app.

For any real app that's beyond the most trivial case you're likely going to be stuck using the "manual" payment intents workflow. Just figuring out which method to use was a huge ramp up of difficulty vs the old Charges API.

I went as far as even emailing their support for advice and even they weren't able to give me a straight answer. Their primary advice was to recommend not using it and instead use their new Stripe-hosted checkout system (which will not work for most people since it's so limited) or continue using the old Charges API and lose out on payments due to authorization issues that will come with not being able to deal with the new user verification strategies that are required by some banks and cards.

Like you I have no idea how to implement it any better, it's just the reality of the situation of the world we live in today but the bar has certainly been raised to consider accepting payments with Stripe now.
I believe the answer to your question is that stability is maintained by a balance of pain and pleasure.

By analogy, imagine a tower with guy wires only on one side. The tower will remain upright only as long as the “right” magnitude of force comes from the “right” direction to balance the force of the wires. But stability is achieved by balanced opposing forces, such that any reasonably expected deviation (in any direction) is countered and stability is maintained.
But if my kids get free WeGrow branded Yoni eggs then what’s the problem?
"How is it a massive cognitive load? Just write a bunch of tooling to enforce your rules!"
Comcast raised prices after promising lifetime locked price in 2016
Transitions take time. We can't just flip a switch from one technology to another. What we are seeing is that the cost drop over the past decade for wind/solar/gas is so drastic that coal and nuclear are simply shutting down, because it's cheaper to shutter the plant than to keep it running. Electric utilities are taking multi-billion dollar writeoffs, because that tech is obsolete.

Nobody is building coal plants now, period. Most of the nuclear projects on the drawing board are getting canceled before ground is broken, because they can't hit the necessary price targets.
My larger point is that there could be fewer paying roles and less willingness to pay for anything. A society of a few owners, few paid workers, and everyone else without much/any influence is not a balanced or healthy one.
I was underwhelmed by this book. I think that so many of the practices (like version control) have become so popular that reading an argument for their use seems superfluous.

That also makes it really jarring when it recommends something that decidedly hasn't taken off, like the blackboard design pattern.

I had the same experience reading "The Design of Everyday Things". To some extent, these books seem most valuable as historical artifacts of what the tech world was like thirty years ago, rather than current references.
Then they wouldn't be externalities.
As a lisp programmer who never wrote in Haskell the snippet you quoted is crystal clear to me, while with explicit loops I always have to double check, because I am pattern matching the code "ah, a map or reduce was meant" but I still have to double check assignments and the abort condition (off by one, incrementing the wrong index etc).
>Someone paid a lot of money for a chunk of stripe so thats what its “worth”

No, someone paid a lot of money in order to make even more using greater fool theory.
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I really don't understand why am I being downvoted. The drug in question is Carbomer 974P which is bioadhesive (a glue) and is used in spermicides and eydrops (e.g. Oftagel). Similar drug that is recently being put into everything is hyaluronic acid.
Second that for having all of the API be public. Being able to purge test data via API in a single call is long overdue too and would be a delight compared to the process now - sign in and navigate to the delete page and wait however many hours it takes to finish deleting records individually or silently crash. During this time the API credentials are blocked too.

It would be really nice if there was a freeze on breaking API changes that amount to tweaking grammar too.
> Is this book worth reading

If you have a day to kill, it's an entertaining read, and if you're an experienced developer, you'll find yourself shaking your head or nodding along throughout. But it's mostly just entertaining, well-written anecdotes - there's not really that much to _learn_ there.
I moved back to aps-c after I noticed my EM10 was giving me nearly zero benefit over the iPhone in terms of quality or resolution. The 16MP vs 12MP is barely noticeable, and the iPhone was actually sharper and had better tone in side-by-side shoots.

That was with a 6S!
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That's if you're the type to watch movies over and over again. There's only a few movies that I'd ever bother to re-watch.
There's nothing interesting here.

China is not a liberal democracy and is guilty of many human rights violations.

If you want to use Huawei devices, go ahead, it's a personal choice, but preferring Chinese devices for security or privacy reasons is just plain stupid.

And the parent's argument is textbook whataboutism.

Yes, the US has active spying agencies. Irrelevant for the topic being discussed.
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After seeing the iPhone11 Pro, Pixel 4, and the Mate 30 Pro I have to say that the Mate 30 implemented the 3 camera the best. Its less of an eyesore being in the center of the device instead of the top left corner.

Also, the bezel around it makes it look like a device that's a phone and a camera instead of "hiding the fact" that its a phone that happens to have photo capabilities. I really like the design.

Too bad for the lack of Android/Google apps, for I would have considered getting one.
Hence, climate change is about doing these things without carbon (or only with carbon that's already in the atmosphere), rather than not doing those things at all.
Here's what I find interesting, and maybe slightly disturbing: there was a time when if you took a highly techie focused site like this, and posted an article on this topic, a significant portion of the responses would include variations of: "how do we hack these things to disable them?" or "How can we avoid being spotted on camera", or "How about we get together and start physically destroying these things" or "Let's vote out the bums who allowed this to happen", etc.

These days? All we get is pedantic quibbling over what counts as "surveilled", and what's the most appropriate metric for calculating how surveilled a place is.

I'm not sure exactly what that says about our society and culture, but I'm pretty sure I don't like it.