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I have an electric scooter and it has significantly changed my life in London. True, it is a legal grey area in the UK and tarnished by those dangerous hoverboards of yesteryear but I find that as long as I keep to quiet roads and cycle lanes I can happily scoot past police with no problems. I've been riding mine for little under a year and clocked up 1100 miles already. Here are some points the article missed:

- They don't work so well in winter because batteries don't work well in cold weather - so less range
- They don't stop as fast as bikes but you can always hop off to avoid a collision.
- You can squeeze through much tighter gaps than a bike.
- Thankfully I have never hit anyone but I imagine that colliding with someone would be the same as running into them. This is very different to spearing them mid torso with a bicycle. A typical electric scooter weighs a little over 10kg and, like the article says, has a low center of gravity so it will unlikely be involved in the accident at all. A person's weight is a much larger factor.
- I thought it was dorky to ride one but that's not the case at all.
- You are higher up than on a bike (you sit on a bike but stand on a scooter) so you are more visible to cars in my opinion.
- You can transport grocery shopping with ease
That'll be why you found it so hard. It's not really a book you can 'skim through' at all, but if you pay attention, maybe take some notes and reread the sections you may be having trouble with, you'll start to get the idea.

The great thing about GEB is that Hofstadter basically assumes no prior knowledge from the beginning of the book - he just asks that you pay close attention and exercise your analytical mind. You'll then soon start to notice the patterns, jokes and puzzles in the writing, and how they all relate very closely to the ideas presented in the book.

Note: the book isn't necessarily out to prove anything, and if you're looking for a massive 'aha!' moment towards the end of the book, you'll probably be disappointed. It's just an incredible journey down the recursive rabbit-hole that ties together mathematics, formal logic, linguistics, biology, computer science and loads more all through the extremely deliberate use of language throughout.

It still blows my mind, but requires a good amount of concentration, re-reading and note-taking - which seems fair enough as I can't even imagine how long it took Hofstadter to write!
Right, CAP_SYS_ADMIN has been described as the new root. It gives the sandbox more rights than what a normal user process would have. Well, capability checks are often carried out against a resource. Their namespace does probably not own many resources.

So I would like to see a detailed analysis what doors CAP_SYS_ADMIN really opens. But I am very skeptical that this the right thing to do.

I wonder why they need CAP_SYS_ADMIN. I have used unprivilegded containers before. We needed to make some ugly compromises to have them do useful work, but CAP_SYS_ADMIN has never been required.
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I ride one in London (Soho) and it has never been an issue. You just get off and walk it when you are near people.
The photo is so unrealistic that it made me laugh.
Sure, nothing is permanent - but the question is can the recovery happen in enough time that it doesn't have a devastating effect on the ecology and on the humans that live around there in human-time?

Say we push too far and endanger our species - we're doomed, but the planet will recover just fine. It has plenty times before over billions of years.
Once again, you quote isolated incidents when I'm talking about the entire programming industry. I never said it wouldn't work for some people.

It might have been Tarver talking about the Lisp curse. Lisp is so powerful that everyone kind of does their own thing while devs of C++ and Java have to band together and make massive libraries. This is a different argument, but I think your discounting the usefulness of some of the gargantuan libraries and frameworks out there. I'm not saying fundamentals aren't good, but a data scientist doesn't need to know about homoiconicity...they need Numpy/Scypy.
China makes some of the best electric scooters out there, but they are forbidden from being driven in most of China...

One nice brand => https://www.niu.com

Edit: I meant proper scooters, not these folding and portable types
I can't imagine any use for #6 on.
I just bought one this week for my daily commute. Getting on it is a highlight of the day. It's still working on its first charge.
1) All of Robin Sharma's books - especially The Monk who sold his Ferrari

2) The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell

3) Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

4) The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

5) Barking up the wrong tree by Eric Barker

6) This might be strange - but Harry Potter series also teach us a lot, especially about Courage and Conviction.
And, there is an asterisk.

* Rooftop solar only

Why?
Berkshire Hathaway buys only when the price is right and they are the opposite of VC investors. They make their best investments when "there is blood in the streets" and other investors are out of money.

News always lament the lackluster performance of BRK before major stock market crash. "Has the Oracle of Omaha lost his touch?"

If you compare BRK stock to SP500, you can see that when there is major correction in the stock market, BRK acquires permanent lead over SP500.

Just go to any finance site and set starting point into

* 10 March 2000 dot-com bubble crash,

* 11 Oct 2007

* or even start of 2011 bear market

and look how the BRK diverges from the SP500.
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Hunger is not an efficiency problem. Hunger is a political problem. Handwaving that away to propagandize for an industrial food corporation is… not good.
https://www.sciencealert.com/gamers-massive-experiment-shows...

Can someone from this physics community please disentangle this claim, and explain exactly what Einstein was allegedly wrong about?
> There really needs to be a 2nd grid of roads to handle scooters, bikes, and pedestrians. Bikes and scooters should be allies not competitors.

Pedestrians already have their 2nd grid of roads, it's called the sidewalk. Problem is that bikes also don't fit there, so basically they need a 3rd set of roads.
> Is there a compelling reason to allow such spoofs?

It makes telcos money. That's reason enough, since there are no economic downsides to the network operators that enable these crimes. If companies like AT&T and Verizon were also being subject to this $120M fine, we might see them decide to make caller ID trustworthy so that it could be used to block robocalls.
Fair enough argument here, although you could probably still argue that it is easier to setup most of those languages than use emacs. That's a non-starter for a lot of devs who aren't open to the long-term benefits.
It took me about five years of slog, but was at the same time a constant joy and absolutely worth it.
Audits and fines. i.e. If you cheat and you get caught cheating, you get a punishment much larger than the cost of following the rules in the first place.
A lot of people here are offering up books with life advice (though I saw a recommendation for Sapiens which I can also highly recommend) which may or may not help depending on what your problem is. Why not just practice introspection daily through meditation instead? For some motivation and evidence on what it can do for you, I'd recommend "Why Buddhism is True". In spite of its title, the book aims to give some logic behind mindfulness meditation. If specifically you have been dealing with chronic low mood as a result of your life shattering crisis, I'd also recommend "The Mindful Way Through Depression". If that isn't an issue for you, I personally enjoy Jon Kabat Zinn's writing in general so I'd research and pick up one of his books. Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg and Jack Kornfield are some others in this field who have a lot of experience teaching mindfulness meditation in a Western context and have a lot of very useful advice when it comes to practicing mindfulness meditation. There is another popular "how to meditate" book out there called The Mind Illuminated which I see recommended on HN every now and then, though I personally feel it is a bit overkill (it is more of a textbook). With regard to Alan Watts, I've only read "The Wisdom of Insecurity" and personally found it to be a waste of time and money, though I guess you can read it online for free so that saves you the money at least :).
To generalize, it's not easy to judge what pixels on a browser's rendered webpage are trustworthy and legitimate.

For example, every time I see a "Are you sure you want to leave this page?"[1], I hesitate for a moment and wonder if that dialog box is being spoofed. That dialog shows up for many scammy websites but also legitimate ones too. Yes, one could try to learn which dialogs can't be spoofed[2] but there's always paranoia because you can't keep up-to-date with all unknown future exploits.

Chrome makes that dialog box scarier because it is modal and you can't click outside of the box on the browser's tab [x] to close the window. (You also can't use the keyboard Ctrl+F4 to close it either.) In contrast, Firefox let's you avoid clicking the dialog box by letting you click on the tab's [x] or press Ctrl+F4.

It's easy to replicate these differences in behavior on website regex101.com.[3] Type a few characters there and then try to navigate away from the page. Chrome forces you to interact with the dialog box but Firefox lets you click
[x] on the browser tab.

It's nearly impossible for any combination of CSS and Javascript to "escape" the browser window and hijack the [x] button on the browser's tab so it feels "safer" just to click there.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=google+chrome+%22are+you+sur...

[2] https://superuser.com/questions/639084/malicious-confirm-nav...

[3] https://regex101.com/
If you activate Siri and say nothing you’ll get a list of examples. Or you can just ask Siri ‘What can you do for me?’
I'm sure PMD covers many different kind of devices (scooters + segways, for example)
Indeed, Nim also offers a lot of control over its GC. You can disable it or control precisely when it runs and for how long.
> I won't even recognize what I lost

Alzheimer's victims know what they lost, until rather late in the disease. It's part of what makes it a hell.
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959) [pdf]
This is useful to know for counting the bits set in a word.
"Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics" by Henry Stuart Hazlitt.

The title doesn't do it justice because it sounds so cliche, but once you read it, you'll actually agree that this DOES cover everything you need to know about economics (although heavily biased towards austrian economics than keynesian)

Also an important side effect: You'll realize how economics is not just some boring, esoteric, and impractical stuff that you'll never need to deal with in your life, but actually essential in designing complex systems.
> I remember being very moved reading this, but I can't quite remember why.

I think it's the unfolding of someone who sought knowledge and enlightenment throughout his life and the feeling of impotence he felt when sharing knowledge that can only be transmitted/obtained through life experiences.

You have to live life in order to be enlighted. He always "knew it" in reality, but he didn't have the life experience to really know it.

Elders knowledge won't do it - you can't live/experience life through others experiences/knowledge.

After some age, I think we tend to relate to this because we recall people trying to pass knowledge to us and it never clicked until we lived such events. After that, everything gets a new dimension.
* Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig

* The miracle of mindfulness - Thich Nhat Hanh

* Letters from a stoic - Seneca

* Amusing ourselves to death (Neil Postman) (combined with 1984 by Orwell and Brave New World by Huxley)

* Zen mind, beginner's mind - Shunryu Suzuki

* Walden - Henry David Thoreau
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Me to I owe my life to DND as my commute home would normally have taken me straight into the heart of the fire - luckily I had left early to play DnD.

Good job that my parents had not watched the news that night as I didn't get home till 12 and they would have been worried sick.
Hi David, UK here. Do you mind if I ask what scooter you purchased? Also how is maintenance? Keep being a pioneer!
As someone who is using Linux (on/off Desktop, continously on servers) since root.tgz times:

Frameworks and window managers did their share to splinter and prevent Linux Desktop, why shouldn't we try again to prevent Linux mobile becoming a thing?

But if this is a phone for Linux enthusiasts, why not?
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The thing you linked to isn't what the article is talking about. Why did you post it? I'm confused.
Same reason Segways were never really allowed here, AFAICT. You can ride any/all of these things on private land, just not on public highways or pavement.
We saw this exact thing not too long ago with CrowdStike and the DNC. One thing that still baffles me is why did the DNC choose a for profit consultant over the United States Government. I guess when it's a private company that you are paying you can cantrol the narrative.

When your job is to hammer nails everything starts looking like a nail.
well, if you have to implement a non tail-recursive function and want to have control of the max recursion depth (i.e. not get killed because you have exhausted the stack) it is an option.
Care to explain how to do that?
Because they saw the cash mountain Apple was sitting on.

After Apple announced $100 Billion stock buyback it was self evident to everybody why BRK did what it did.
RDS already has PIT restore, and yes there is a UI for it. This is different. They would not be making an announcement for PIT restore.

A good question is, how is it different. With PIT restores, they create a new instance from snapshot and play back the logs up to the relevant point. With this Aurora-only feature, they take advantage of Aurora's storage capabilities, and rewind the same database to a previous point. No new instance, no cold recovery from snapshot, no long log replay.
Don't forget about buses, they need their own road section too!
I'd say on the contrary. They chose it even while knowing they'll gonna need to hack generics. (Same in k8s, generics hacked together in a few different ways)
Seneca - On the Shortness of Life

Although it can be read in an hour or two, it completely rewrote the way I approach life – particularly by reframing procrastination and idleness.

"You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire"
I don't think there is a rationale; they just haven't updated the law recently. In their defence, they do also have things like Brexit to worry about.

Apparently it is currently unclear even whether and where roller skates are legal, and it is occasionally claimed that wheeled bins are technically illegal on pavements, even though they are provided by local authorities and people are expected to put them in front of their houses on bin days.

Of course, it's unlikely you'll be stopped by the police for using an electric scooter in a considerate way. But the lack of official approval is bound to prevent widespread use.

Meanwhile, feral youths, without helmets, ride unlicensed, uninsured pit bikes across roads, pavements and other people's private land and the police have no resources to do anything about it. On the other hand, a middle-class middle-aged gentleman on a scooter would be much easier to catch, so do be a bit careful if you decide to defy the law. If you see the cops coming, run for it. They almost certainly won't shoot you.
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I really want to get one in London, but I'm concerned about the legal situation. Particularly, what would happen if you were to hit someone. Is this a concern for you? Do you feel nervous going past police? What model do you ride and how have you found the range varies over winter?

I'm considering getting an electric bike as they're clearly legal, but my preference would definitely be a scooter. So much more portable!
While I am not sure this would work in every situation, I appreciate the main thrust of the article: treat the interview as audition, come in prepared to talk about how hiring you will improve the business, differentiate yourself from the other interviewees.
No robot should have any rights considered until it is self aware
Energy Efficiency and Programming Languages
“The Myth of Sisyphus” by Albert Camus, if you find yourself worrying about existential nihilism then this is the book for you. I found it extremely useful after an intense psychedelic experience. The School of Life has a good overview of his brand of existentialism here https://youtu.be/jQOfbObFOCw
Yeah, that’s a bit of an odd way to write it. I guess it’s intended to be easy to compare to 16:9, 21:9, etc.
Actually, as far as I know, Microsoft is using Go in a few places in Azure.
What I find most interesting about this is the productivity boost coming not just from people working more, but also from fewer sick days.

> Additionally (and incredibly), employee attrition decreased by 50 percent among the telecommuters, they took shorter breaks, had fewer sick days, and took less time off.
Not to mention, the rebound in local wildlife in Chernobyl, due to the simple fact that it's an exclusion zone for humans, show that nuclear accidents are bad for people, but, in the long run, great for wildlife.

The picture isn't all roses, of course, but this article is pretty interesting: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160421-the-chernobyl-exclus...
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Which isn't super helpful, because there is [a GCC `__builtin_popcount`](https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html), a POPCNT intrinsic if you're developing for SSE4, and [existing implementations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_weight#Efficient_imple...) you can look up at any time if you don't want to reinvent the wheel.
Read it long ago, one of those books that just sticks with you. Easily one of my favourite works of fiction. Hesse has such a bizarre writing style but it is a very deep book.
Starvation and malnutrition are political problems.

I find the argument 'if you don't support the food megacorporation that means you are killing billions of people' to be impossible, disingenuous, evil hyperbole.
That's totally crazy. What are the economics here, it would seem some of these companies are losing money in a big way?

That's paperclip maximizer insanity level. There is a bit in thhgttg where there is a planet that ends up experiencing a shoe event horizon. That was fun because it was fiction, this is roughly the same on a city scale but with bicycles and it is real.
> that focuses solely on predefined technical questions

Unless you have recruiters (or even engineers) ignoring your answer because it doesn't match exactly to what you were expecting.

And it's not impervious to yes men, you can have a technical savant and a yes man at the same time.
Seems to be the same principle as Occam's razor [1] or am I missing something?

[1] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
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What if everyone lived on the same street – Bill Gates
I think I agree with your sentiment, but I'd think you'd be surprised how much a click next salesfarce developer charges...
This is THE statistic that nuclear proponents love to cite. There have been articles blasting about nuclear’s low fatality number as long as I’ve been on HN. And just as long I’ve been pointing out it’s a bogus, stupid metric.

Solar gets a higher fatality rating because of folks falling off their own roofs. It’s a tragedy sure but does that mean solar is dangerous? Of course not. Climbing up on the roof of your house is dangerous and everybody knows that.

It’s also a number that tries to gloss over the worst parts of nuclear; the extremely long lived impact of nuclear accidents. The areas around Chernobyl and Fukushima are destroyed for generations to come. Finding responsible, safe ways to store spent nuclear fuel continues to be an issue.

Renewables are cheaper and cheaper all the time. More countries are finding they can power a larger portion of their needs with renewables every year. Frankly we just don’t need nuclear and it’s serious risks and downsides.
In EU countries they should be classified as light electric vehicle or something like that, along with things like skateboards, rollerblades and “hoverboards”. Hence, allowed basically wherever pedestrians are allowed, unlike the bigger and heavier mopeds and bicycles. At least this has been the case in Finland since the newest Eau directives of the sort were ratified.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt.

This book had a big impact on me; it definitely made me re-evaluate how I was approaching things like politics and religion.
Won't those be empty 99% of the time? Sounds wasteful.
Its interesting how people have weird biases!
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Nokia already tried this with Maemo/MeeGo, and they eventually bought Trolltech (and hence Qt) and went that route. Ubuntu Touch (although not a community project) also used Qt5. Sailfish OS (successor of Maemo/MeeGo/Moblin) also uses Qt. And both use libphys by Carsten Munk et al for the Android emulation layer (you are going to need backwards compatibility for your users). Why not follow the footsteps of giants instead of trying to reinvent your own path? Why not base your OS on either of these?
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To be fair, I want to do it (~30 min commute) because it allows me to live in a halfway decent place with stuff to do and still work in a laid back environment in BFE
Working from home is the product of only one person, the CEO. If the CEO approves working from home then the rest is history. Switch your CEO and the whole working from home policy in your company is in danger.
Yes, it's because people are falling of a roof while installing panels.
Vonnegut when read carefully. Slaughterhouse-Five, Galapagos, and Sirens of Titan are three of the better ones I have read. They all connect tangentially to the same universe, so reading more Vonnegut also has cool pay-offs and tie-ins.
"The Art of Thinking Clearly" by Rolf Dobelli: It explains some concepts that I've been thinking about but can't directly name.
It's very customary to let logging and such be done by a separate thread; this has also the benefit that the original (sending) thread can continue without waiting for the device.
Yeah I would love to know how you set that up.
The Evolution of C Programming Practices: A Study of Unix (2016) [pdf]
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Rebranded Chinese scooters are taking over San Francisco
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