skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is whether it really is the right answer to invest enormous sums of money and infrastructure into enabling rich people to have electric vehicles, or does it make more sense to just... not. Don't upgrade onstreet parking, take the money and build a bus service, a train service etc. Cars are fundamentally a non-scalable solution for dense urban areas. They're just really inefficient and if you're living in a city where you can only get onstreet parking you're probably better of taking a bus or a train to get around anyway. It's also a massive bonus for everyone between you and where you want to commute that they don't have to deal with your traffic anymore.

London has already made this decision - they go out of their way to make it uneconomical to drive in London. Why suddenly unlearn everything about public transport.
That seems like a disingenuous question. The correct set of questions are:

1. Do electric cars solve an existing problem in a more efficient way?
2. Does BTC solve an existing problem in a more efficient way?

The answer to #2 seems to be a clear no. The problem of payments is solved much more efficiently without the artificial proof of work requirement.

The answer to #1 is perhaps debatable but at least there's something to debatable.
Unless pentagon is engaged in a disinformation campaign, the data made available this year make this debunking article very data-poor.

Even Obama came on record in an interview saying there are real videos, which show unexplainable movement and trajectories [1].

Of course Obama could have been misinformed, they could have been unable to better analyze the images.

1 - https://wgntv.com/news/barack-obama-talks-about-ufos-again-o...
That's how it started yes, preteens and teens doing dances and lip-syncing to songs. But the kids have already fled to other platforms.

The amount of content produced by people in their 30s and (a lot) over is staggering. You can easily spend hours just scrolling the front page and get stuff you like. And you'll never see any one under 20 unless you specifically go look for that stuff and engage with it.

I do see scantily clad people, but they're mostly in their 30s or 40s. =)

The TokTok algorithm is scary good, it makes Youtube and FB suggestion engines look like someone's high-school project...
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> Technical prowess from a foreign gov? Super cool!

... and depending on your viewpoint, super scary!
> All of your examples seem very contrived for how crypto won't work.

I'm not saying crypto won't work. I'm saying every single idea that's been proposed won't work.

And the base problem is that the whole point of these coins is disguising "I want to create a world problem" as "I want to solve a problem".

"It's hard to get around [AML, KYC, tax, etc.] laws" is not a "problem" that needs to be solved. Yet again and again, this is what coiners propose as a potential "killer app".

> When you're talking global interoperability and value exchange, conflict resolution is off the table anyway.

Huh?

> What court am I supposed to go to if I wire money to a guy in Nigeria and he doesn't fulfill his end of the bargain?

Your bank makes it hard to do this, to make sure you're not being scammed.

And what problem exactly are you trying to solve? If you send BTC to Nigeria and the guy doesn't fulfill his end of the bargain then BTC by design doesn't allow any recourse.

Our current system may or may not be able to help you, but BTC goes out of its way to say "fuck you, you should just never have made a mistake".

But also, if someone moves $10B to Nigeria, you can bet your ass they'll find a way.

C.f. when one of the Pirate Bay founders, while living in Cambodia which doesn't have an extradition treaty, hacked some banks. VERY quickly that whole "doesn't have an extradition treaty" did not matter at all, and he got arrested and put in prison.

He should have bought bitcoin/monero. Noob. :-)

It's actually telling that he had full access to the bank's mainframe, yet still only managed to steal like a couple of thousand USD. The rest of the transfers were blocked or reversed.

So the system worked as intended. And as we've seen time and time again (cough, Mt Gox), bitcoin just doesn't work even as intended.

> One example might be

For many years now we've heard hypotheticals, but no actual solutions. The time for brainstorming should have been over, considering the HUGE environmental and crime impact.

At this point it all sounds like "it's not worked so far, but can we just continue setting fire to children? I think it'll do something good one of these days".

> decentralized lending that can provide better interest rates because there's not a huge meatspace banking infrastructure to support.

But can we have an actual solution, not just handwaving, here?

How are you going to solve the intersection between lending contract and laws? What about bankrupsy? What about court ordered child support? What about inheritance, death, etc?

These blockchain things are trying to solve what is actually the EASY problems, not the hard problems.

Like, what do you think will happen if you say "can I get a better interest rate, if I agree to be excluded from chapter 11 and chapter 7 laws?". Likely no, no you cannot. Your "math" doesn't magically make the government, judicial system, and police just "go away". And for good reason.
> this argument is dead and nobody will ever go back to native apps again

This snippet has really lit the touchpaper. A long time ago, I predicted that the world was course to deliver insta-compiled applications through a browser, as though we'd have a Visual Basic runtime environment plugin. However, we're now there, essentially, with XHR and many-megabyte JS bundles, manipulating the DOM through the browser's "widget" engine.

There's really a tipping point for each application, where the application's functionality determines where it is better served. For instance, no one's going to make a web app out of Logic Pro any time soon. However, if someone comes up with a stateful protocol to implement in current browsers, then that tipping point flips to the web for a whole bunch of applications.
This is an essay that more closely reflects my experience.
This article makes the most sense. Occam’s Razor.

TLDR: hypersonic drones. If it truly was E.T. they would be much faster and could easily evade basic radar technology from the early 1900s.
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Car charging can also be scheduled to happen off peak if possible.
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Single unit, Limit to 3 unit(s) per customer.
https://www.cytron.io/p-raspberry-pi-rp2040-dual-core-microc...
I would hate to be an influencer. People pay you to be cool, but one day you won’t be cool anymore and then what?
Sort of unrelated but I wonder if this could make certain kinds of latitude/longitude calculations easier.
> Also, due to it being a livestream, the supercharging stations were a liability because of the time needed to charge and how "fans" could locate and cause security problems.

Ahh yes, a problem that will certainly affect the majority of Tesla owners.
Nobody was spending much money last year.
That was never a goal, just an engineering limitation. If someone builds a 2000 mile EV it's still an EV and nobody is going to shout that it has too much range.
I think some of the people behind the current "disclosure" are definitely pushing that angle.

Russians have flying saucers! Fund us plz & thank.
I hope this is the start of a nation wide trend towards better work life balance. Production output has gone up over the past few decades and we’re expected to work the same amount of hours. I think the future probably looks something like 4 6-hour work days each week. Life is way too short and precious to be spending so much of it working for somebody else, even if you mostly do love your job.
> people who are underrepresented in tech

Sorry for the off-topic question, but why would you want to focus on people from _groups_ that are underrepresented? Wouldn't it make more sense to focus on _individuals_ that have had a hard time and need help getting into tech, regardless of demographic?
I have no idea if it will work for your case or not but if you can try it out at a store (many will fit you with things) there are nose models that both go underneath ("pillows") as well as that go over the nose kindof like a full face mask. But then the one I'm currently using is the ResMed F30i whic his a full face mask but doesn't go up over my nose so it's not as.. face enclosing.. which is why I like it. But the entire thing is like a bouncy silicon which seems to put less pressure on my face than some of the other full face ones I tried so may be worth a try.
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You're definitely right to bring up Gimbal lock [1]

One of the benefits of knowing about it is to know when it doesn't matter to you. In that case, you can just use Euler angles, as you say. If you just need to express a rotation in terms of three angles, or convert back from three angles (e.g. yaw/pitch/roll [2]) to a rotation matrix, then you don't need to know about quartertonians at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal_lock

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_principal_axes
> you just have the government deciding what will and won’t be available

That's not how Bittorrent works, fortunately, but i see your point. I'm not a fan of government either. I stand for the abolition of government and copyright at the same time (among other things).

I'm merely pointing out that alternative proposals do exist (most people are not aware) and it's really disgusting that a private company is making business out of people trying to access culture... and gets to decide what albums to remove at what time.

> if someone comes up with a better way to get paid while giving artists and consumers a better deal they’ve got a chance of displacing the existing model

That's not how monopoly works. In a capitalist economy, you basically need a billion euros (or at least 1% of that) on the table before you can try and maybe change something. Otherwise, other companies will not even start talks for a contract with you. See copyright mafia, telecoms/ISP mafia, large retailers mafia, social netowrks / advertisement mafia, etc... Hell, even for running a simple mail server it's so hard to reach gmail.com or outlook.com users ;)
I fully agree with you. We also tend to stick to old paradigms, like "the grid will not take it", ignoring that you could build a much more flexible grid and distributed electric generation infrastructure.
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I find it strange governors didn't tell bar/srestaurants that if they had mitigation in place they could remain open. Lockdowns hurt those the most, and good ventilation/filtration would be cheap and easy. It would probably make enough of a difference as to be worth it.
Public Transport outside of big cities: a problem that shows that we have to look far beyond the question electric vs ICE cars. Back when nobody owned a car, even small villages had their own schools, shops, government offices. When everybody got a car, those were considered ineffective and consolidated in bigger cities. The long term solution is a return to decentralized structures.

Vacation: hobbies that require hauling a lot of gear to remote areas only became feasible with a car and might become a thing of the past, like hunting from horseback. Maybe you can rent a SUV only for those time you need it instead of using it for bringing kids to school.

Bi-weekly shopping: before corona, I walked to the nearby shops every 3 days or so. To limit exposure to mask-less shoppers I am now using a hand cart for bi weekly shopping. If you live farther away from shops, a cargo bike might be an alternative.
anti-Italian racism strikes again. this is just like when the communists tore down those statues of the first american, Columbus, to erase our founding fathers from history
I'd say maybe 75% chance of fine. Cops generally don't fuck around here, and sweet talking isn't something that would usually work. The good thing is, under normal circumstances cops never just stop random cars. Another good thing is, I actually like it - same rule for all, male, female, young, old, poor, rich.

If you cross the borders, you either are lucky and pass or when stopped, driver's license is always inspected. In that case expect trouble.

Really not worth the risk.
For me, the utility of being at home versus being at the office is massive. If I need a 15 minute break, I can start a load of laundry, or run the dishwasher, or do some other chore.

I can wake up later since I don't have a commute. I don't lose two hours a day due to the commute.

I can wear as comfortable clothing as I desire. I can delay my shower until after my daily workout (Which I can do since my workout equipment is at home).

I can control my environment so there are as many or as few distractions as i like. I can put on videos or audio that might not be considered work appropriate. I can use speakers since no one is around me to hear the sound.

The number and magnitude of inconveniences we subject ourselves to by heading to an office every day has been fully revealed. I will do all I can to work from home for the rest of my life.
Quit != leave the workforce.

Maybe they now have remote work options, or having tasted a year without a brutal commute, they take jobs paying less, but closer to their homes.
Vehicles are a very helpful tool for numerous aspects of human life. Bitcoin is nothing more than a speculative asset to make a few people richer. It serves no real benefit to human society that can't be fulfilled in a less energy consuming way.
Here it is, next to a coin, for scale:

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/clock-and-timing/at...
Unfortunately this has become a standard even for ICE cars and producers are considering this a selling point. "Hey Google, feed me with sponsored POIs as I drive through the city". Just imagine... an unskippable ad on the dashboard touchscreen.
I'm pretty sure you can opt to not pay the monthly fee to have an internet connection in your car, if you get a Tesla.
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These can help against GPS spoofing / jamming by identifying false signals and allowing rapid resynchronization:

https://www.army.mil/article/88361/Miniaturized_atomic_clock...

Also related, NASA has a spaceborne atomic clock in testing that, if it works, will make space navigation much more efficient:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/clock/index.html
IMO its not just about time, its also about repeating common activities with or without smoking a couple of times

Some things happen once a year, so it takes quite a bit to get around to repeating them, feeling the urge, recognizing that you're learning how to do the activity without smoking, resisting for a bit and treating it as an important new learning experience, and then proceeding to the next one.

After learning how well it worked for me for coffee (something I thought I could never ever do without smoking), I was confident it will work for everything else that causes a trigger.

Well, except for alcohol, since it removes inhibition barriers. I was very careful with alcohol for the first year.
>The implication of this article is that cat videos "should" get less than "real artists", for some subjective value of "real".

I was just stating that cat videos may get less per interaction then "real artists", the difference is the reach cat videos get that makes them earn so much.

The problem of the global tech platforms disrupting the barrier of global reach is that it's funneled to very few platforms. That's not good, it's what makes the mentioned cat videos explode and earn more, because one choice of one algorithm was enough to do so. How is that "fair" in the sense that was a low effort endeavor that got picked up and boosted to reach millions of people?

And then, like you mentioned, we're at the will of very few players and their decisions (political or not).

>Art has a good few decades head-start in content creation, so why are they losing a content war to youtuber amateurs?

Certainly there were other gatekeepers, but you never had single entities with so much reach. Distributors had to work with other distributors globally, no matter if it was for the film industry or music industry, no media alone company could reach more then a billion people and enforce their choices on everyone - which is what Youtube does in the end.

You can say that chain of players is just inefficiency and cost overhead, which is true. But also it was truly diverse. By being diverse I'm not saying it was fairer, it was just diverse and the act of competing with such small players (in comparison to Google, or Amazon, that have unlimited money) was still up for grabs.

> It's a similar question to "Why so little public funding for the arts?", and "Why do the Arts need so much funding?", and "Why isn't it the Arts job to find willing funders?".

Well some of those guys actually put some effort into things, and the majority are not trying to game a algorithm, hopping on a trend, or looking for some sort of "art-market-fit" (jesus, imagine that), they do things for the sake of expressing themselves - and this shouldn't be ruled by capitalism, much less ruled by Google or Facebook.
Sure. Don't deny that. I just question the wisdom that on the long run this is healthy or sustainable to believe that houses are always appreaciating assets when usually gains come from asset price inflation not inherent value increase.
The article mentions somewhere in the middle:

"A May survey of 1,000 U.S. adults showed that 39% would consider quitting if their employers weren’t flexible about remote work."

And towards the end it references a tweet that went semi-viral and got a lot of responses.

https://twitter.com/GenieShinobi/status/1389286585347235847

edit:
also here's a non-paywall link.
https://archive.is/Yc5UW
I am quite glad I can go to my office to work, having the separation is quite nice, I don't want to associate my home with work at all.

Though it does probably help that my commute is only 900 metres.
All the more the power to employees who have the fortitude to stand up against demeaning, demanding, power hungry bosses. They might think hustling is good, but does it actually produce anything of value?

Without productive staff, businesses can either change and thrive or resist change and become Dinos-R-Us Inc.
Or you become an insane person who people cannot resonate with or identify themselves in. It kind of sounds like actively seeking trauma.
The videos are real. But, just because we can’t explain it doesn’t mean it’s outer space aliens.

Any sufficiently advanced technology looks like magic (or outer space alien technology).
I'll get my medical advice from a board-certified MD who specializes in sleep medicine, thank you very much.
Yes, absolutely. The US invests heavily in aircraft carriers because they've worked so magnificently at force projection around the world, without any need for regional bases.

...but with the advent of hypersonic missiles, drones, small attack boats, I have serious doubt how long they would last in any modern non-nuclear conflict.
Of cause not! That’s preposterous. That should only be true for poor people.
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Creating an iOS app that can tell whether you’re breathing or not by listening to our breath in real-time via the microphone of our AirPods.
Why should it? It is the same in the EU. We had someone from the us live here with his family for years and he was outraged that he got a fine when driving with his us license after a year.

One of the reasons for not accepting us licenses is that the requirements for getting one are laughable over there
Interesting. I was unaware of that and thought it was a bizarre approach unique to banks in this so-called developing country.
Would like to see some stats, specifically what percentage of their yearly spending goes into clean energy. Also useful to know what they consider "clean energy", because there's no such thing as "clean natural gas".
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This has already happened, you can check the first people who were big on YouTube. Not many of them are still active, but some have actual lasting power. Casey Neistat still pulls 1-2M views for every video, but I think most of his income is outside of producing content for his channel.
Mainstream: I agree. We are reasonable, independent-minded Americans who are rightly skeptical of a highly experimental new..

Ohio couples vaccine jabs with a lottery

Mainstream: Hot damn I like them odds!
I think we could go a long way in increasing the efficiency of the design. A quick search shows a record holder with 14,573 miles per gallon. All electric seems like more of a possibility if we drastically altered the current designs. It's something that would take top down regulation like carbon taxes. Left to our own devices we seem to go for bigger and faster.
Hmm I have never gotten any of those - though I rarely allow notifications when installing an app. Maybe Apple native applications have their notifications allowed on your system?
Maybe you'd think differently if it was 2 hours commute each way in bumper to bumper traffic.
Not sure I follow the argument. You're saying that Tcl programmers don't have a place on the mainstream internet?

Also, I'm not sure I understand your argument about NNTP and IRC. Why did NNTP became obscure and why did its accessibility and visibility shrink, when the same did not happen to IRC? Given that NNTP is distributed and open and superior to many things that are not obscure, accessible, and visible, how could such a thing have happened?
I can’t take your comment seriously with all of the political biases in your opinion.
It is a drug. It makes you feel good when you use it. Being able to feel good on-demand is very hard thing to resist.
I'm by no means an expert in crypto, but maybe that makes me semi qualified to say why at least they feel different to an outsider - replacing gasoline with electric seems at least like a potential win in terms of cost analysis. I can (theoretically) power my car with renewables? Awesome, and it makes sense that moving a vehicle would require some form of energy. It is nowhere near as obvious that the power output of Argentina should be required for a currency, as evidenced by various other proof algorithms. Is Bitcoin so useful to humanity that the tradeoff of burning forests is worth it, when there are alternatives?

Further, because Bitcoin is a currency, mining wants to be profitable, so mining is not incentivized to pursue renewables if they are more expensive than e.g. coal. However, when powering my electric car, if I have the privilege, I don't defeat the purpose by paying my electric company more for wind power.

Edit: I'm slow, everybody else said it better.
> and could easily evade basic radar technology from the early 1900s.

Only if they needed to. Wasn’t there a story with the SR-71 that it could show up on some radar and have missiles launched against it but the evasive move for that was to just accelerate because it was faster than the missiles.
Electric cars will replace existing vehicles and will shift energy consumption. Bitcoin is creating new energy consumption.
The author's point of view here is somewhat undermined by his own article, in which he points out that the figure has been adjusted downwards over time in response to experience - in other words, it has been empirically determined. It might not be the most efficient or flexible way to handle risk, but it is not just a faith-based number, either.