skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived for a while in Berlin. Coming back to the U.S. the first thing I noticed were too many billboards and ugly parking lots. Each store has its own parking lot. Largely underused. No nice paths to traverse the bleak endless parking lot landscape. It’s ugly and wasteful. It’s hostile to pedestrians and discourages people from going outside to just wander. Even in relatively walkable communities like the one I live in have far fewer people out and about. An endless stream of cars going from one ugly parking lot to the another. I wish I could move to Europe permanently.
Works now for me!
I live in an European city 60 degrees northern latitude, and the bicycle season is more like 9 months out of the year. That can be extended to 10-11 months with a bit of clothing/gear and bicycling the whole year is not impossible either (but most people who do have a separate winter bike).

I used to do 15+15 km bike ride to work and back almost every day for 9 months out of the year. Sadly I can't do that any more as I moved farther away from work.

There might be days of bad weather where other means of transportation is more convenient, but that's the case all year around.

For motorcycles/scooters the season is shorter because you can't get (affordable) insurance.
This is why gas/oil fuels most cars and will continue to do so unless there is a significant technological breakthrough in hydrogen fuel storage safety or battery efficiency/size.

People don't realize that a tesla sedan weighs more than an average sedan. And I laugh when people say you can keep extra tesla batteries and swap them to extend range. They think it's like changing smartphone or regular car batteries. They don't realize that tesla batteries weigh 1300 lbs. Good luck with that.

Once there is a real breakthrough by either the hydrogen fuel side or the battery side, society will steadily and gradually switch to one or the other and leave gas fuel behind. But who knows if/when such a breakthrough will happen. Either way, we are going to be using gas fuel for a few decades at the very least.
Ah my bad I think I replied to the wrong post. I’d delete but I stand by my points just not which post they were at, so will keep.
Even here in Germany many people ride their bikes all year around.
A huge disruption? It's managed without a fuss when traveling between the UK and the rest of the EU.
Good thoughts! Do you have a blog? :)
> as if a painter or a musician is going to see something different from a regular astronaut

It's very hard to see the world well enough to paint it. Anyone with artistic training will have techniques to see things more clearly. A painter will absolutely see something different than a regular astronaut.
There doesn’t have to be riots for China to succeed at this, they just need a large democratic victory. They know that the democrats will try and put an end to the trade war if they control congress.
I use Sparkpost to send emails, seems just like their links got a bad reputation, so in this case, it's just a false positive. I submitted a ticket
(Depleted) Uranium is a pyrophoric material - it spontaneously ignites in the right conditions (e.g. when it's shot at a tank and penetrates it), making a better job of killing said tank's occupants. This causes it to vaporize, and can now be breathed in - the exact set of circumstances where its nature of alpha emitter is dangerous for health.

While this is horrific, and I hope it stops, please keep in mind that any other use case which doesn't involve burning it or aerosolizing it creates no health hazard - you can build glassware with a high U content and drink from it.
Well, about 20 years seems about right, for the full potential. But it is possible that part of the potential can be achieved much sooner, my guess is that the transformation will start in full around 2025.

On monopolies: Look at the big companies coming out of the internet revolution. Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay, Uber and the rest are all near-monopolies in their core segments. As are older giants, such as Microsoft and Apple.

I'm not saying it is good, I'm just saying that the lesson from the previous wave, is that the winner takes it all. And as investors have learned this, they don't want to be late for the next party, hence the hype.

Of course, the risk that the bubble will burst at least once before the actual party, is pretty high.
Yeah, underground transportation is definitely one solution that can help solve the transportation problem. The Boring Company seems to be more US focused, so maybe it can help with the "bigger" challenges that the US is facing in de-caring their cities.
What about those for whom it is hell?

Maybe in tomorrow's edition?
Biking in autumn is perfectly comfortable. You are just wearing more clothes (which you would wear anyway if you're outside). It's not like people never leave their houses in USA, right?

Biking in the winter is fine too, as long as there's no snow (and the snow is usually only 1-2 months, depending on the location).

And some people do drive in the winter too (but that is harder and most don't).
>To all those concerned about mafia: mafia is also in Germany, driven by Arabic families. If you follow local news, you'll find out that they control all the drug traffics and robberies. In Berlin they can be seen driving big cars (all men driving Mercedes AMG, Lamborghini or Ferrari have Arabic origins).

Sounds just like the sort of "quality statistic" you would expect from local tabloids everywhere.
I’m sure they did lots wrong, including being deceitful with peoples private address books.. but also, wasn’t one of the novelties of Pty that you could only have 20 “friends” or something like that? That seems like a huge gamble and makes it that much harder to build, grow and sustain a network doesn’t it! ;-)
I’m genuinely surprised they’ve lasted this long.
Steve Jobs licensed Amazon’s one-click patent for $1M in one phone call
Your scenario isn't particularly outlandish. That is how a lot of economy services work. And also why you can usually get other deliveries while many other packages, e.g. from China, are waiting to be processed. Not that deliveries are much like the Internet.
No, but now I am.
Hahaha you’re definitely wrong. 3/4 if not all year, bike and sure, motorcycle is factible. (Spain and I’m sure the half of Europe)
CCleaner Did It Again: Users Forced to Version 5.46
It's because of the geography. Southern California and Arizona especially were impossible to live in until after Air Conditioning became cheap and widespread in the 1950s. At that time, modernism in architecture and city planning was at its peak: build it big, build it simple, and build it for cars.
It is still a beta so I hope that some of the bugs will be ironed out.

However, it is frustrating because everything now takes an extra click. Mulireddits, changing from hot to new, or top all used to be right there. Now each of them are hidden behind a dropdown menu. I mean is Big Mouse an investor in Reddit and trying to make our mice wear out twice as fast?
> But muscle isn't the body's first choice for fuel until you enter into a state of extended caloric deficit.

I'm honestly puzzled how people in this thread got the idea that I said that muscle was a preferred fuel. Literally no sequence of words I actually used imply this statement.
it is true that a lot good Italian programmers go abroad looking for better wages. Source: I'm one of them (Italian, not good, that is).
Ah, I was thinking of the UK. Finland has 50% more fatalities per mile than the UK.
Especially moderation ;-)
I have a 30 minute cycle to work in London suburbs and cycled every day last year. There were about 4 days when it was unpleasantly cold.
If you don't have any experience with Enterprise sales, you're in for a rough time with an early stage product. These customers are demanding, the sales cycles are long, and there are often many players you need to please. I would recommend finding someone experienced in Enterprise sales before chasing those customers. Otherwise, you'll probably end up wasting a lot of time and effort chasing deals that just aren't going to happen.
I was visiting a customer site near Miami, some years ago. I opted for not renting a car, I could easily go to the customer's site by taxi. But then some components got stuck in customs, and I had to stay the weekend. It turned out that the hotel was its own enclave if you didn't have a car! I couldn't walk to the shopping mall, or a nearby restaurant, I tried everything. Just couldn't get there. It was like being in a Kafka novel. Nightmarish, and utterly unnecessary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad

Excerpt above taken from this translation: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Iliad_of_Homer_(Pope)
> And the client/server model.. sure, nailgun and grenchman were a bit clunky, but none of these efforts have gained widespread adoption, afaik. Most people don't just go out of their way to tweak their build tool.

I was not thinking about these two, nor was I thinking about a patch for boot/lein.

That said the slow startup issue is only really valid for cli apps (and maybe CI), if your dev workflow relies on re-starting your repl all the time, it's a broken workflow.
Cannabis is now legal in South Africa
If it weren’t for the massive culture shock and difficulty, I’d live in Munich. I love the quiet city center.
Cities in the Nordic countries have bike paths that are kept clear of snow and are used for commuting year-round. People know that there is a way to dress to be comfortable cycling even when winter comes.
The cycle of gentrification will change that. In 10, 20 years, a new neighborhood will be the hip place to be, all the rich propel will move there, and prices will drop. It'd be nice if the development could happen in the low-income areas from the beginning, but it's hot hopeless.
Ask HN: Single book/video/article to give my developers?
I have a small team of developers with very diverse backgrounds and skill levels. We do simple web applications for internal customers that are database backed (basic CRUD work).

I would like to give the whole group one thing to read or watch to use as a common basis for future discussions.

In my head I'm imagining a book with end-to-end best practices for web development. Something that would provide a jumping off point for the lesser skilled and an area of focus for those more skilled.

I've found a lot of book recommendations but I guess I'm probably looking for that Holy Grail development book.
Maybe the £420 comment was a typo for $240 and his resent public meltdown are intentional in order to tank the company and buy it out cheap.

Ill get the tinfoil now...
If the goal is to inspire them to spend their days after they return producing works of art, then your suggestion would likely be ineffective. Had the astronauts wanted to spend their lives creating, they probably would have become creators.
I feel like we should be charitable on the actual wording of the statement as the speaker is being quoted in their non native language.

I read this as more that we can't just default to subsidising private cars in a public space. Roads, parking and other infrastructure that de facto subsidize and encourage private car usage but which often are considered "free".
And then Berlin is rather car-friendly by Euro standards..
Those who aren't are treating their customers like crap.

Imagine being a customer of such a crappy provider who cannot guarantee a minimum or maximum SLA... Thanks but no thanks.
I used to bike every month of the year in Berlin.
"people who seem to think that they are able to drive at full speed in the snow and complain about all of the 'out of town' drivers who slow down the roads because they 'don't know how to drive in the snow.'"

The most raged filled responses I've even gotten to a comment on the Internet (20+ years) was when I called out aggressive snow drivers on Reddit. Despite being from, and living in the Northeast, the rage from fellow Northeasters whom I was accusing of driving like assholes was intense.

I recently drove several thousand miles this summer across many states (towing a trailer). It was only when I returned to the Northeast that I encountered aggressive, asshole drivers. It never occurred to me that maybe ... we're the baddies?
Did your open source career begin with video games?
> I have a theory that we're not caring as much about performance and good software because we don't have to, because Moore's Law has led to machines that are fast enough to run our crappy and hastily written code with acceptable performance so the majority of users do not really care about it running more efficient.

Depends what you define as "acceptable" and as "users caring". The bloat does have actual consequences, like slow websites and greatly inflated bandwidth costs (which has direct consequences for users on metered connections).

I've heard complaints from completely non-technical friends how frustrating it is to work with slow, unstable software. But of course they can't identify more detailed causes because they don't know the technical details (or are interested in them).

Likewise, they can't stop using the software because they need it to do their job. So I think there is not much else they could do to indicate they "really cared".
Yes, they are not like Bild and friends.
Considering Paris is roughly 10 km across North-South, that's about 12 min/km at an average human walking speed.

So, this city is about 2 km across, which is very small, a village, considering smaller cities are more sparsely populated than an European metropolis.
> On a side note, this made me realise why there is so much conflict in some mineral rich areas in Africa. Honestly if we weren't peaceful people there could have been serious conflict.

Care to elaborate?
I totally agree, it basically is one of the few instances in programming where you really can't get around needing experience. At the time of writing the majority of top level comments were arguing against the pattern, but it's useful to at least know about alternatives instead of just declaring them as bad.
I really like the website and the concept. All the best for it.

Just one feedback. The font on the pricing section is too blurred and not readable.
Must be an old photo: Citibank retail exited Europe in 2014 (Citibank España was sold to Banco Popular in 2014)
I've struggled with this a bit as a new manager, and eventually came to the realization that I was so afraid of micromanaging that I was letting people struggle and fail more than I needed to, by not giving them detailed enough instructions.

If you could do the task yourself in an hour, then you could also probably give very detailed instructions in 45 minutes (which ends up with a written plan in a google doc or similar spelling out every detail of how it's going to be done), or even pair on it to get them started.

Maybe you haven't saved any time over doing it yourself (maybe it's even taken MORE of your time!), but you've ensured the thing got done right, and you've also helped level up the skills of the person who did it, so that next time they'll be more capable of taking on a similar task alone.
The original purpose of an EV cert is to provide a browser UI that tells a first-time visitor that they can trust the website they've landed on. This is a separate goal from TLS in general, which is just supposed to secure the traffic in transit.

Google in particular has no interest in providing such a browser UI. They want users to use Google Search to establish trust instead. "If you're not sure, Google the business name" is common advice to avoid copycat sites. Boy is that a good position for Google to be in! Why would they invest in an alternate solution with a distributed architecture and client-side UI?

Almost all the "best practice" security advice today is centered around protecting existing relationships with sites. "Use a strong password, a password manager, and two-factor-authentication" does nothing to protect a first-time site visitor from a scams. It makes sense for security professionals to focus on the lowest hanging fruit, but the result is web in which first time site visits are perilous and uses get no help at all with that.
Skyway?
I think of Elon more as a modern Nocola Tesla. (As does, it seems, Elon himself.)

The closest current analogy to Nietzsche would be Jordan Peterson, I think. Their problem definitions are very similar (ie to fight nihilsm), but it seems to me that Nietzsche's proposed path is more heroic, but also harder.
Yup. A LOT of businesses make this worse by having some sort of half-arsed single sign on solution where a single set of employee credentials work in a bunch of systems, but not all systems. If you show their users a site they've never seen before with a login box and say it's somehow related to the business ("Our company's partnership with Hat Box means you may be entitled to significant discounts on a range of hats, check them out today!"), they will type in the credentials they use for that business's core systems, not because they're idiots re-using passwords, but because they genuinely expect that might be what works and other systems they use have reinforced that expectation. You can get a LOT of valid user credentials this way without even really meaning to phish them.

As well as preventing confused end users from putting their site A credentials into site B, WebAuthn prevents idiots from designing a system on site B that expects the credentials from site A. It just doesn't work, you can't make it work, so you have to go back to the client and say "No, as well as being stupid that's also impossible". So you not only protect the users from the actual security problem you stop engineers building things which incur the problem in the first place.
Not sure. The old Dutch ones certainly didn't, but after t-mobile didn't care and went to the ECJ, Dutch laws were brought in line with European ones and this is what we have now.
“Lock-in” comes because others depend on the benefit from your services, not because you’re completely in control."

- this is hopelessly naïve. Lock-in occurs when you no longer can generate the capex to resolve the opex drain that a vendor squeezing you has created. If any vendor realises that you can raise the capex to get off them then they will raise the opex demand to the point of financial viability to maximise their returns and to ensure future returns (because by doing this they underline their control)

Vendors can't help doing this, it's natural. Also it's their duty to their shareholders.

Our responsibility is to NEVER get into this situation.
I have A/B'd my xar in the snow with and without ABS.

Its a trade off.

If I mudulate my brake lightly while threshold braking, I can usually stop 15% faster than similar application of ABS. However, when I mindlessly slam on the brakes, ABS wins by a margin of 20%.

This is not the full picture however, and better driving skills alone do not negate some abs advantage. The main one being control in Turns while braking on poor surface. Without a knack for sliding sideways around corners, ABS was clearly superior when braking during a change of heading.

That all said, I run without ABS, as it suits my personal driving abilities. This would be a mistake for most people. Fortunate for me, most performance cars afford me the option, while some others consider it a critical system, and will not even activate the power steering unless detected as working. As if steering somehow became less critical without abs.

Modern car engineering is still trying to turn a tool into an appliance, and it feels like a severe mismatch of values to me.
They might not have that reputation, but they surely have no-go neighborhoods, unless you happen to know people living there as safe conduit, including Berlin and Amsterdam.
Does using both internal openstack as well as aws externally count as multi-cloud?
In addition Ghent must have the most awesome bars and pubs per m2 in Europe with an absolute abundant collection of premium Belgium beers.
Italy has a massive brain drain problem. Many university educated professionals live overseas.
Clojure stack traces are usually long and somewhat leaky, they are hard to read without (and sometimes even with) preexisting knowledge about Java / JVM / Clojure implementation details.

https://ioavisopretty.readthedocs.io/en/v0.1.34/exceptions.h...

https://lispcast.com/clojure-error-messages-accidental/
I enjoyed this series of course and you can browse for free and see everything, you just won't get the certificate https://www.edx.org/micromasters/ritx-cybersecurity

There is also this, but I haven't viewed it yet
https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-cybersecurity
There's actually only one street with no cars (Kaufinger Str.) and lots of traffic around on the Altstadtring and such. It's far from a city without cars, to the contrary. Also you'd need to be able to afford the rent.
Lets not mention the ISP's either. Its like enforcing us to be third world no matter how much money we spend. #AmericanStyleCapitalism
Numerical code is usually the best case for VLIW machines. It is not surprising that Itanium did well there.
The good news is that droughts will forcefully solve this problem in places like Arizona and SoCal. The bad news is that droughts are coming.
Please send a note to the Dutch (and the Germans, the Danish, the French, the Belgians, …) to tell them to stop riding their bicycles in the midst of winter.

In the past five years there was one day when I couldn't cycle to work due to black ice covering most of the roads, and even that resolved itself in the afternoon. Snow just means you need a bit more dexterity than usual.

As for comfort; proper clothing means you are pretty much comfortable most of the time.
Adding bash completion to scripts
> They're not on the same timezone anyway, so it won't change much.

It would change the time relative to Ireland, which is in the same timezone as the UK and has very close ties to it. It would introduce timezone differences along the Irish border. It would also change the time difference to every EU country twice a year; those differences are currently constant.

> So yeah, considering the amount of hassle it would be to change

What hassle would that be?
Here's a fact: Pontevedra and the area surrounding is famous in Spain for really rainy winters and springs. Pontevedra city is facing directly to the sea.
I love Clojure. The JVM is a catch-22 for the language. Clojure is as successful as it is thanks to the huge JVM ecosystem. But it's true that some (a lot?) of folks won't try it, due to suspicion of Oracle, hatred of Java culture, perceived bloatiness of the JVM, etc.

I know a senior dev who loves Ruby and Elixir and won't consider touching anything in the Java ecosystem ever again after a terrible experience at a government consulting company.

So yeah. I think the best shot I have at convincing him to try it is to point him to something like Clojerl: https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl
dang is a HN moderator. This comment is about the HN submission, not about the original article.
Vasoline works fine. Affordable and available to even the poorest families. Lets not poke at cultural differences when its not relevant.
I was hoping to read about some cool crypto related art, like Kryptos [0] outside NSA. But no, its just another blockchain thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos
Cool, let me know how it goes. I'm really eager for some feedback so I can improve this.
Don't discourage them from writing lots of code fast. That's a good way to learn. In your mind you need to stack rank the places where they should have done it differently, and just address the most important ones.
In Europe 100 miles is... an anglicism :-)