skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we're talking modern high speed rail speeds, aka 360kph or ~220mph and ~400 miles between Minneapolis and Chicago. How the hell did you arrive at 6-7 hours between them?

And what is the door to door time? 1.5 hours to fly + how much waiting in line, going through the tsa bs, having to go from the airport to downtown...
I've ranted about this here before, and I'll rant again. Up and down the coast of CA there's a tremendous amount of public beach made inaccessible by wealthy property owners. Malibu is awful in this regard, with (bogus) no trespassing signs and gates everywhere. I spent a month there, for a conference in LA, and made a point of stomping around on every "no trespassing" beach I could get to, and some of them are hard to get to. But Malibu is not alone.

The thing I don't understand is why police don't simply cut the lock every time Khosla locks the damned thing. It's gone to court, he lost (as he should have), and now he continues to blatantly violate the law. Petty criminals have been shot and killed (thousands of times) over less blatant disregard of a legal order, but a rich guy can get away with a massive theft of a public resource for years without any consequences. Money may not buy happiness, but it certainly buys the right to be a truly awful human being without consequence.

Why can't a citizen simply call the police every time a gate is closed and locked? Send Khosla the bill for a locksmith or whatever it takes to restore access. Cities do it for overgrown lawns (which is harmless, IMHO), and this is causing actual harm to the public good.
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This man does not have the personality of Warren Buffet or Charlie Munger.
Newer tech stacks might also indicate chasing the newest/hottest thing without regards to long-term sustainability of the platform, however. You don't always want to be bleeding edge, as bleeding edge can easily be dead five years from now, whereas if you stick with a "boring" mainstream technology it'll still be around in five years.
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The trick they use in my ex-communist country is to make a really really nice beach, and charge exorbitant fees for services like chair and sunshade rental. Oh you don't want that? Too bad, beach is covered in them, no room for your towel unless you wanna invade people's personal space I'm afraid. Maybe you should find a different beach eh buddy?
It is funny to see this article today. Overnight, I was considering the question again of "Is the map the territory or not?" JadeNB refers to this in their comment.

What a lot of people do not see, including many theoretical physicists is that mathematics is a "map". It describes reality in a simplistic way, but is not the reality itself.

twlevechairs26 refers to the quote "All models are wrong but some are useful". This highlights the fact that all models are maps, incomplete, simplified descriptions that leave out specific parts or include things that are not part of the thing being described.

When we get arrogant enough to claim the "truth" in mathematics or science we have moved into the realm of religion. Mathematics and science helps us get a handle on trying to understand the physical universe around us. But it will NEVER, and I repeat this, NEVER give us perfect understanding of the universe around us. For that perfect understanding would require that we become greater than the universe around (in effect raising ourselves by our bootstraps to be God or gods).

So, in may ways, the first question here, "Is the map the territory or not?" before asking "Is the Universe made of mathematics?"
If you adjust the numbers in the graph at the bottom of the article for head of pop in the countries, China's still overshadowing everyone else, but suddenly France, Spain, and Italy tower over the US, and the US is still a flat line at 0.
I'd be skeptical that it can teach you a moral reaction in the sense that after taking this course you'll leap at any injustice, but what it can do, and what is important, is furnish you with an ethical vocabulary and number of frameworks of thought to consider when a potential ethics issue crops up and stir that discussion/consider the situation from multiple angles--yes it won't force you to do that, but it will give you the tools you need to do so should you encounter that situation rather than leaving you a sitting duck while your superiors or whomever decide it's okay for you not to fix that bug in your self driving car code that you're aware could prevent the car from ever ceasing to accelerate (or some equivalently ridiculous and dangerous issue).
Azerbaijan is not rich, wtf.
> Elon Musk's efforts to break us out of the simulation [1] will be much harder if he can't find a suitable buffer overflow to exploit

It's astounding that someone as obviously intelligent as Musk believes in creationism.
> A static language can have an "only known at runtime" type that lets you do the same thing as the default in a dynamic language, when it is needed.

In almost all cases runtime "holes" in static type languages provides a sub par development experience that's worse than both dynamic and static typing, it's definitely not a strategy for developing the same class of software on and it's not comparable to using a first class dynamically typed language. The places where it works is in static type systems are used to annotate a dynamic runtime like TypeScript, Hack and (less so) Dart.

> All I'm "throwing shade on" is the idea that users don't care about quality, and that static languages have no inherent quality advantages over dynamic languages. I disagree with either idea.

Suggesting dynamic languages are "slow, unstable, drains your battery, is constantly offline, or has major security flaws" is throwing shade with no basis in reality.

> why can't that model be used in other statically-typed languages? I think it's only a matter of time, personally.

It doesn't exist because it's simpler, requires significantly less effort and is more naturally suitable to implement in a dynamic language. In these classes of software choosing a static language is the wrong choice that will always yield inferior results due to their lack of dynamic capabilities and interested resources who naturally gravitate around dynamic language ecosystem. No doubt many devs will still try using their preferred static language but they will all fail to achieve anywhere near the level of success, featureset and penetration of equivalent dynamic language implementations.

Of course as it's software, given enough resources anything is possible, like Apple is able to do with Swift Playgrounds but they're in the unique position of being able to change Swift's language and runtime to introduce the capabilities needed to make Swift Playgrounds feasible - which is major strategic project for Apple which I still hold would require significantly less effort using a dynamic language. Google has the same benefits with what they're able to do with Dart where their flutter project offers a compelling live programming experience for developing native mobile Apps. Both would be considerably harder if they weren't able to change the language and runtime to make it easier for them, e.g. snapshots would be nigh impossible without language/runtime support.

Likewise their exists classes of performance and mission critical software that's not suitable for dynamic languages, but it's not always a mistake to start with a dynamic language first to prototype quickly then rewrite once the system requirements have been identified and solidified.
See https://ipinfo.io/pricing

Although I must admit, I'm a bit surprised as to why anyone would pay for this, as several HN readers have listed atleast 5 other free (and some self-hosted) alternatives here...
You don't need communism to have the concept of public lands and public rights-of-way across private land. A huge part of the western USA and Alaska, after all, is public lands.

The UK: https://www.gov.uk/right-of-way-open-access-land/use-your-ri...

Scotland, which has even broader rights than the rest of the UK: http://www.ramblers.org.uk/advice/paths-and-access/england/w...

Sweden: http://www.swedishepa.se/Environmental-objectives-and-cooper...

Norway: https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/travel-tips-a-z/r...

Public access is absolutely compatible with private land titles and liberal democracy - we just need the government to step up and implement it over the objections of the privileged few.
>the US should be doing the same with MagLev/hyperloop

In what way is hyperloop better than high-speed rail? I've never seen any credible study or report that argues it. Hyperloop also has massive unsolved (and potentially unsolvable) technical issues - like building a vacuum chamber of unprecedented size.
I had an ethics course. It was complete rubbish. It was shared with physics, and mostly about how global warming was a bad thing. There was a little bit about the philosophy of ethics, but there was nothing about general morality. I don't think the manhattan project even came up.

Worse, the course is so universally dismissed by students, they had to make attendance mandatory to get people to show up. Hence, no-one shows up with anything resembling good-will.

In the end, it is the most universally despised course in physics and maths that I know of. Heck, it made me care less about global warming that's how unsuccessful it was.
The functions which are called by objc_msgSend do not have to be methods compiled by an obj-c compiler. You can add functions compiled by a compiler with no knowledge of or support for obj-c to an obj-c class at runtime, and then call that method via objc_msgSend.

Obviously you could come up with other ways of passing arguments to obj-c methods which would make it possible to implement your message send function in pure C, but a message send function which passes the arguments as a va_list is not objc_msgSend(), and that says nothing about whether or not objc_msgSend() could be implemented for the design they did go with in pure C.
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>> "the penalties for ignoring the courts are not severe enough"
- This seems to violate state's constitution. How can this be something anyone can regularly get away with?!
Trying to see it from a cultural perspective, how common is it that female character "dates up" in books, TV and movies (and in particular, those targeting a female audience)?

Thinking back at the show Grey's Anatomy, ABC's highest-rated drama show, got a female lead, and was among the top 10 shows in the US. A recent joke the character made was that all of them married their bosses. While fictional, culture impacts perception regarding behavior and in turns causes behavior.
"Avoiding this situation is why I never meet women 1:1 outside of conference rooms, yet Mike Pence was roundly mocked for doing this."

The easiest way to avoid this situation is by simply not behaving inappropriately around women, including not sexually harassing them. Otherwise, you appear to be saying that you can't prevent yourself from behaving inappropriately around women in one-on-one meetings, which would be problematic. The men cited in the article very clearly and deliberately overstepped boundaries, not by mistake.
They're part of Eurovision/Eurosong. That's the only place I've ever heard of them.

Also their name as pronounced by our commentators kinda sounds like a joke country that doesn't actually exist, but everyone is in on the joke and letting them compete.

That's probably why Azerbaijan is going to stick in my memory forever. Even if I have no idea wherw it is on the map.
I guess I'm talking about connectivity for outlying urban and inner suburban neighborhoods ("the subway") more than regional rail systems like LIRR or, in Chicago's case, Metra.

It may actually be a good strategy to live even further from the city if it lets you switch from a crowded urban transit system to a more spacious suburban one.
If the gate and trespass warnings are invalid, what happens to citizens who ignore them, and cut the lock themselves?
It's important to notice that any argument in favor of public access to beaches can be applied to any kind of desirable land. One could make an isomorphic argument about mountaintops: "The concept of a private mountaintop is backwards and unethical. Why should rich people be able to restrict others from hiking to the top and enjoying scenic views?" Should we ban private ownership of mountaintops?

Public beaches are a good thing, but it's wasteful to ban ownership of all 840 miles of California coastline. Some people want private beaches, even if the law doesn't allow for it. They'll lock gates, block roads, and otherwise shirk the law to get what they want. The state then must then expend significant resources discovering and sanctioning these people.

A better solution would be for the state to tax private beaches. That would collect significant revenue from people like Khosla while still allowing only a small fraction of the coast to be privately-owned.

Edit: I'm not saying we should ban public beaches. I'm saying allow something like 20 miles of private coastline and auction off the rights every year. The other 820 miles of coastline would remain public, and the state would collect millions in revenue to be used for social welfare.
Funny you say that, as I was just reading this: https://www.nrk.no/rogaland/motte-kenguruen-da-han-var-pa-ve...
(not Sweden, I know).
The video does show their interesting movement.
>Americans[1] owning American[2] companies, and employing 100% American[3] labor

Americans[1] is not the same as Americans[3], there is some overlap (in the sense that Americans can own shares in US companies) but Americans[1] are mostly aristocrats, and whether those aristocrats live in New York or Shanghai shouldn't matter much to Americans[3].

Besides that, "most of the factories have shut down" is false, American manufacturing hasn't shrunk, it just employs less people and more capital. Most Americans ([1] and [3]) work in the service sector now. This is a change that is orthogonal to the nationality of factory owners, and is coming to China soon enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazar_Islands
I was wondering about this too.

The answers on the SO question https://stackoverflow.com/q/409999/325521 that OP refers to (in his blog post)

also has another answer using freegeoip.net => https://stackoverflow.com/a/16589641/325521

From the comments on this answer (not OP's answer linking to his API), it seems like freegeoip is not all that reliable (i.e. it's down a lot).

Funnily enough, 1 of the comments on this answers links to another free service, called "freegeoip2" which seems to work just fine as of right now.
Even if we had high-speed rail the gov would regulate it to death like everything else - they'll make it just as painful as flying. Imagine the TSA salivating for the mission creep.
>But it will NEVER, and I repeat this, NEVER give us perfect understanding of the universe around us.

How can you be sure?

>or that perfect understanding would require that we become greater than the universe around (in effect raising ourselves by our bootstraps to be God or gods).

shrug
The profession is currently growing too quickly for any such community to form.

Any such community is going to exclude some people (the immoral ones). As morality and competency at programming aren't that strongly correlated, those people are still going to be able to find work.

Attempts to limit this by regulation will constrict supply of labour so much it'll never pass. Arguably, it should never pass.
Nice, but isn't this basically just dribbble.com lite? What sets it apart?
I got it out of what appears to be an unwillingness to hold these people accountable for their actions. All throughout this thread, including from you, I see an unwillingness to condemn these actions, and really, a call for a complete lack of real consequences. I see a lot of “Well, we can’t actually punish them; that’d be counterproductive.” Counterproductive to what? Actual punishment is how you send the message that these things are not acceptable. If someone can do these things, and when called out just say, “I’m sorry I got caught”, then the message is that no one really cares if this happens.
My CS degree program required an ethics course. It was an immense waste of time.
That was my experience with freegeoip.net actually, which is why I host my own instance of it.
Thanks for suggestion. The back-end is written on Go, the client talks to it via web-socket. I am wondering if Apollo can handle that.
> presumably the penalties for ignoring the courts are not severe enough

And this is the crux of it. Khosla is a multi billionaire. He could afford to pay a fine of $10,000 a day for the rest of his life.

At what point does this become contempt of court and lead to jail time? Unfortunately, in the US, the answer is likely "never, because he has too much net worth".
I think you missed this part:

"Public access to Martins Beach, and to all land seaward of the mean high tide line in California, is guaranteed in the state’s constitution and mandated within the Coastal Act of 1976."
Listing old, famous intellectual people that have retained their wits is poor a excuse for evidence, since we don't know the ratio between old and famous intellectuals that have lost their wits vs that have retained them.
> but you wouldn't know it because they disabled responsive view unless it's visited from an actual phone. No premature mobile view with hamburger kicking in when viewing it on desktop

Bug, not feature. If I'm viewing a site in a narrow window, I expect it to collapse responsively. That site doesn't.
I am from Azerbaijan, and I can say that having natural resources doesn't make a country rich. In fact, resource-rich countries usually end up poor.
This is only possible if you can precisely draw business domain boundaries. Micro-services add large operational overhead. If you slice you application in wrong way you will suffer...

IMO it is better to start from monolith and then extract services.
They mean that they have in the past dealt with animal-specific issues, rather than a generic approach. I take it mean that they will have to write some roo-specific rules as they once did for black swans.
I don't think anybody owes you a job or any other sort of quid pro quo for that comment you made "in tptacek's defense" 6.5 years ago, and it's not because you're a woman.
The question here is wether math is just a description or the thing itself, independently of the complexity.
Black Swan Farming (Paul Graham)

http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html
I agree. I guess at least private lobbying IS visible, whereas governement lobbying is just business as usual for them ; hence more opaque
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14674805 and marked it off-topic.
Kids learn at a very early age to pay attention to what people do over what people say. "Do as I say, not as I do" is always going to be ineffective.
If I have a big, fast computer and I simulate a universe by randomly defining a set of rules and then hit "go" over-and-over-and-over again, if life arises in one of them is that creationism? Isn't it more correct to say I am exploring the space of all possible universes to see which ones generate life?
Commuter rail tends to be more expensive than heavy rail too.

It's a good question though (let's put aside costs for now): How much more time would you be willing to spend on commuter rail over heavy rail if it means getting a seat? I'm not sure. I think I'd rather be seated for 40 minutes than standing for thirty, but at an hour, I might just prefer the shorter trip. You can still easily listen to podcasts on crowded heavy rail, or get good at holding a Kindle in one hand.
I can't believe so much money was spent on this shit. Unlike alcohol, cannabis is less addictive and way more pacifying, it doesn't make people violent, at worst it makes them dumb, unmotivated and complacent - just like alcohol.

There's literally no reason to it being banned if alcohol is still legal. It's a better replacement, too.

I smoke every now and then, to relieve stress. I just go to sleep, I don't like the high and unlike alcohol I can still follow through on that thought of "nah, it detrimental" when I have stuff to do.

Alcohol is like "one drink, man, you'll be good" and then it's all downhill because one drink leads to half a dozen. Every. fucking. time.
Conflating two things here. Saying something exaggerated and offensive, specifically for effect and attention, is not the same thing as a power play for sex.
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What's wrong with inflammatory adjectives?
Ideally nothing, but I’m sure he tries to harass them.
HN users clicking through: take a look at reviews before installing. Appears there may be an issue with adware.

westoque - might want to check your code base, if the adware is unintentional.
CanCode program invests $50M to teach Canadian Kids to Code
This is not 165 billion to fix infrastructure, this is 165B to fix mass transit and that's plenty when you consider the leverage loans can provide it's closer to 500B per year.

Second US gets almost nothing per dollar from it's military spending due to inefficiencies. Slashing the budget for a few years is a critical step to separate the useful from the useless spenind. And realistically a 70% cut followed by a slow ramp up would eliminate vast amounts of redundant waste, and reduce many long term obligations. But, that waste is making people rich and 'bringing home the bacon' making such cuts untenable.
Russia is spending more of GDP, US 3.3%, Russia 5.3%, but Russia's GDP is so low that US spending is still nearly nine(!) times higher in actual dollars [1]. A Russian spent dollar probably gives more bang for the buck, but US military spending is still very high.

The single-pay system can be made to work. Others make it work, and a lot cheaper, but you have to accept that you need change. US health care is imo absurdly expensive and not that good (I have experienced it). But that discussion seem to always fall into the realm of doctrine rather than what is good and possible when it comes under discussion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
Never said it did. He was clearly attempting to use it for shock and attention.
Faster too, once you learn to cook some daily dinners. I can serve pasta, sauce, rolls, and salad in 15 minutes.
What about the private beaches for resorts and hotels?
The only reason why the country isn't rich is because all the gains from those natural resources are being siphoned off to fund the lifestyle(s) of corrupt public officials. Nothing more, nothing less.
>> You need actual distances to objects, not just fuzzy error-prone inferences.

Humans do pretty good with fuzzy notions of where the animal is. Exact distances aren't needed so much as reasonable estimates. If it is probably in the "need to brake zone" then the car brakes. Plus or minus a few meters isn't a big deal so long as you've got margins to work with. As animals are unpredictable, Volvo certainly has wide margins.
well thank goodness someone here on hackernews dot com is looking out for the interests of the wealthy property owners who want to violate California law.