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But most people believe some people should be eliminated, the only thing that changes is who depending on your political alignment.
"SR similarly wasn't required to explain anything important"

Wasnt it the case that no one was able to explain Michaelson-Morley experiment? That speed of light was measured to be the same irresective of observer speed? Ppl came with all sorts of explanations (ether/lorentz tx etc), but it was Einstein who had the creativity to suggest that maybe time itself was slowing down. With that insight, the rest was beautifuly derivable.

And this is also why, Hilbert was able to (and otherws were racing to) derive the field equations before Einstein, since Einstein needed help from mathematicians (Grossman?), and Hilbert was an already excellent mathematician. SR and GR is derivable from beautifuly simple insights (time slowdown, gravity/acceleration equivalence).

One could say Einstein came with this insight out of the blue, but Poincare was also investigating time dilation, but stopped because it was too counter-intuitive.

Edit: typos
Oh, well- just a dumb idea :)
> A typical example that most handcrafted Makefiles will fail is that changing a build flag should only rebuild the files affected.

If you change a build flag, how aren't all the files affected?
So is it the fault of Uber and Lift that the gig economy has become a thing?

I have a friend who fled Assad's genocide in Syria, has an accounting degree, and is currently looking for a job. Guess what he's doing in the meantime...
I wonder are the scooter users (or the companies renting them) going to pay for changing parking spaces into scooter parking spaces - or is general society going to fit that bill if it ever comes?

Likewise, something I rarely seen is the indirect cost of the reduced safety/increased accidents/collisions related to scooter use brought up as part of the big picture; who's paying for that depends on each country's current state of healthcare.
They probably aren't. Aren't most Lyft and Uber drivers using non commercial insurance policies as well?

What are your personal protections in an instance where you're a passenger in a commercial vehicle insured only for personal purposes in an accident where your driver's at fault? Would your medical bills be paid for?

It's not something I'd considered before but seems concerning.
Thanks, I will try to reproduce this.
It’s also pretty reasonable to not hire color blind people for roles where color is critical to doing the job safely.
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Uber limits the number of hours a driver can drive per day.
I also have gibabit internet.

Trying it out with Chromium, it loaded the direct link after 3.88 seconds. Trying it out with Safari, it loaded the direct link after 6.27 seconds.

Firefox is pretty fast most of the time. Google's web apps are the only things that performs so poorly on it. I don't understand how they can have such a drastic performance disparity between browsers. Maybe they're just not testing enough on Firefox.
"Homeless drug addicts = Losing money"

Imagine drug dealers actually cared about using some of their profits to take care of people, and hoping that they maintain the use of their drugs - helping the user become more productive, have more money, therefore be able to buy more drugs.. I suppose that's what legalizing drug use is all about, bringing it into the public eye, and allowing government and other health services more access to people to help them.
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That’s pretty easy to fix directly by customers. If the driver doesn’t match the photo, then rate the ride 1 star and explain why.

I’ve done this a few times and gotten a personalized response from Uber every time.
I don't know. I did some lessons in the Alexander Technique, which apparently inspired Moshe Felednkrais. More recently I have been meditating and hearing about walking meditation sounds very similar to concepts in the Alexander technique - awareness in every movement.

Its probably fair to say there is some overlap.
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..and, as is common practice with all these FUD articles originating from ddg, not a word about Bing's tracking practices. Incidentally, Bing provides their search results.
That's a pretty fair accusation I would say, they both do borderline illegal tax planning and manipulate search results for their own benefit.

They also have deployed a hugely broken ip management system on youtube, and of course (like everyone else) they use workers on short term contracts to moderate all the violent shit that gets posted with little regard for the psychological impact on their workers of reviewing if something is child porn all day.
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Riding consistently enough to gain speed is strongly correlated with being a better rider. I don't want to share the bike path with a bunch of 14-year-old kids traveling 40kph on electric bikes that they got for Christmas.
It does not teach vanilla pytorch but the fastai library is build upon pytorch.

Nonetheless I would recommend the fastai courses
The casual sexism in those statements popped out to me, too. I found the post overall interesting (although in some ways it felt like an advertisement), but those comments in particular were jarring and took me out of what I was reading.

A 'wall of porn' is unprofessional and unacceptable at just about any conference other than a porn conference. The goal of the network team should be control of the network, including the WoS. If they weren't able to do that, I probably wouldn't find much value in attending. All that is irrespective of whatever gonads I possess.

On the other hand, it doesn't take much empathy to understand why a woman might be put off by these statements that imply she is so delicate that the visage of porn 'hurts' her in some way. Nor would I be surprised if she were to find their actual sexism offputting and decided not to attend.
> You're reading in some stuff that isn't intended.

What a coincidence, same thing I said to you! Why do you make a stupid reply when you know it's stupid?
It's a matter of perspective. Coming from Boston or Copenhagen, SF feels like an extremely dirty and grimy city. So does Berlin.

Parks in Berlin are littered with beer bottles and cigarette butts because smoking and drinking in public are acceptable there. In many US cities you are not allowed to smoke in a public park where children are playing. Some cities banned smoking in all public parks. Drinking outdoors is banned so you don't see many beer bottles.

The problem in SF is different. You can stare into a park in Berlin and see litter. In SF, a park may seem clean but if you stumble upon one hypodermic needle or human faeces, you may not feel like it's so clean anymore.

My neighborhood in Berlin (Mitte) has homeless people hanging around parks and subways stations, but they don't seem to suffer from mental illness at the same rate as the homeless in SF. As far as number of homeless, Mitte vs the Moscone area are comparable.
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Have you ever been here in Berlin? Baustelle (working sites) everywhere. Right now a huge complex for rich people is being built close to Alexanderplatz, while a Plattenbau (sort of prefab building) for good affordable housing is being built in front of it. There's a lot of space and a lot of socially oriented development. What you call, wrongly, Nimby-ism is purely the acknowledgement that we don't need to tear apart the fabric of social cohesion by letting random flying saucers (like Google's campus) land in areas which are not fit for properly welcoming them. There's plenty of places in still central but more depressed areas of the city where the Google Campus could have made much much more sense.
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I honestly wouldn't feel safe on an electric scooter, especially as scooter traffic increases. Likewise, there's a stat/research that was recently shared in another thread on HN referencing increase in accidents/collisions relating to a decrease in gas costs, meaning poorer people - who drive less and other factors would impact them too - get onto the road again, and this same demographic who can't normally afford to drive would then be able to afford scooters. Yes, this is good for accessibility - assuming they are fit to drive or "scoot."
I made this to scratch my own itch. I wan't to be able to tell recruiters that I am not interested, but instead of repeating myself, I now can drop the link.

I'll also add the link to my social media profiles (linked.in and xing).

It is a rather simple page, you are welcome to contribute translations [0].

[0]: https://gitlab.com/leipert-projects/no-thank-you
Shouldn't it be easy to see how many fatal accidents there were during rides? Isn't there some kind of tracking of this by Lyft and Uber?
>The SV people I follow on twitter don't seem too content.

Actions show that, not lip service.
In general I agree with this, but there's an extremity of ideology beyond which the principle no longer functions, and these people are, in my opinion, comfortably over that line.
Similarly, a white pickup/van with a ladder on it can be a pass to park nearly anywhere.
Yeah, your right, I have already been asked from someone at MS (not in an official capacity though) to take down the VB6 logo. Ok, good to hear that you found it similar to the old VB6 form editor. I guess I am on the right track then. I'll continue and try to make all the VB6 style controls in November
You mean now he is the EMPEROR of China...with no term limits and all
Same for me.

Someone - I don't remember who - made the analogy that life is like a fast moving river where you're pulled along by the currents of your thoughts, feelings & experiences. Meditation enables one to stand on the bank of the river and observe the current as opposed to being in the river and swept up by it.

I think a more accurate analogy is that you're always pulled into the river but meditation helps you get out of the river more quickly, stay on dry land a bit longer, before eventually being pulled back into the river again.
I do this too. Perfectly normal.
Rant seems extremely strong - how about we go with well thought through set of opinions that the CEO of Duck Duck Go is rigorously applying to his product.

I personally found his argument so persuasive I intend to set everything to DuckDuckGo again now.
One of my kid threw a temper tantrum in a restaurant, so I walk with her to go sit in the car together till she calmed down. She was screaming and crying while we were walking and a stranger with a concerned look asked if she was my daughter. I told them she was but that at that particular moment they could have her. They just walked not knowing what to do or say.

I was amused by my smart-ass answer and their reaction, but
later, when everybody had come down, thought it was a good question. How do you prove you're the parent? Who's business is it to ask anyway? Do you call the police to verify every time s kid's upset? Or is kidnapping an insignificant statistic that we just live with it?
What is your suggestion to make it not look like a "warez" site. I was not familiar with that term until you mentioned it
> but as a cis man I’d find a big public wall of porn in a conference disgusting.

Sure, but would you initiate a hostile work environment claim or try to get someone fired using Twitter because of it?
Not Feldelnkrais but The Alexander technique which apparently inspired Moshe Feldenkrais. Its often labelled quackery as well. BMJ did a study and found positive results.

https://www.bmj.com/content/337/BMJ.a884
Could you please tell me what exactly is "uncivil" in my comment?

Oh and by he way, I could not care less about some stupid "ban". First, it's not like I need anything from you or this site, second, I don't think it works. Not that I would have any reason to try to create new accounts, because seriously, who cares, I just find it frustratingly silly - STUPID - that you threaten me with a ban.

Furthermore, I don't agree that I was uncivil, not now, not in the past.
Right; I'm convinced that a basic income has to be paired with some social contract, to replace the feeling of being usefully employed. Else we get restless people. How about a requirement to be socially involved, as a mentor or club member or team member or something that gets you out and contributing. Event just to a team or family.
I can't remember whether it was a Banksy book or article, but I vaguely recall him saying they/he got away with a bunch of pieces (in particular the designated graffiti walls) by just pulling up in a white van in the middle of the day, wearing high-vis, setting up a tent around their work and getting on with it. No one would question because it was so brazen so there must be authority somewhere. I assume it's probably also how he placed the museum/gallery pieces.

Annecdotally reminds me of underage drinking. If you stood with a pint glass at your side looking shifty you got kicked out in 5 minutes. If you were brazenly smoking a cigarette, knocking the beer back and shouting like you owned the place the bouncers just assumed no one underage would draw that much attention to themselves and leave you alone...
This is terribly sad.
But then you don't have the simplicity of markdown.

If you are going to write HTML then I'd use a subset of that and convert to everything else (including markdown if desired).
I think the key word is “always.” It is probably true that an average humanities graduate earns less than an average mathematics graduate (I chose this instead of engineering where there might be professional qualifications involved). However it is less clear that an average law or mba graduate would earn less than an average mmath graduate. And for those degrees an undergraduate in humanities is required so surely that degree must be considered worthwhile.

There are also good government jobs which are full of people with humanities degrees, and plenty of people with mathematics degrees which they gain little from.

I suppose the point I want to make is that if American universities all stopped offering courses in the humanities then there would likely be complaints from government departments or industry about not being able to find sufficiently educated candidates. I suspect that if half of universities stopped offering those courses the effect would be much smaller.
oh he fled Assad, that makes it okay for him to offer professional driver services in a country where he just arrived with 0 assessment of his driving skills. and in the meantime if he ends up causing an accident or two by putting everyone's life in danger its okay because, remember, he fled Assad.
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Being public seems like such a distraction. Doesn't seem worth it.
The gyroscope responds to rotation and not gravity. It requires a ring (or two) for the light to circulate in so I don't think they will be molecular sized for reasonable wavelengths of light.
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Yeah, maybe special relativity...
In what way are they “objectively substantially more lethal?”
I can see how this might be a convenient belief, but I'm having a hard time imagining a more foul lie.
we added a “skin colour filter“.

What colour skin?
I’m referring to stuff zone. Most hospitals would obviously have public access areas.
It does intuitively seem like one gender would be far more likely to raise issue with it, and I'm pretty sure most would agree with this perception outside of trying to intentionally frame issues in gender neutral ways, which isn't necessary to conclude the content may not be appropriate regardless.
I think it's a good attempt at redefining a stupid term.
This seems to be fading due to overuse.
In my state, the phenomenon of attempting to drive while looking at and manipulating one's phone is absolutely epidemic. When a light turns green, the cars in front often don't move and the cars behind them often don't honk because they're engaged with their smartphones too. It's particularly disturbing when you're on a 50mph road with one lane in each direction and you pass a car by a few feet going the other way at a closing speed of 100mph and all you see is the other driver's eyelids and the top of their head.

The article mentions a 3% increase in deaths since 2011 despite cars getting safer, but 2011 correlates to the start of the total ubiquity of the smartphone as well.

On the other hand, I've had some very sketchy Uber/Lyft rides involving extremely late lane changes, almost missing turns/offramps and trying to dive in at the last second. The combination of often younger people who might end up driving for Uber/Lyft, often driving unfamiliar routes, relying on the instructions provided by a phone attached four feet away, while engaged in a conversation with passengers, is probably generally not as safe as you driving yourself along a familiar route.

But it would be quite a feat of analysis if anybody were able to disentangle the effect of Uber/Lyft from other changes since 2011.
Just inside of Europe the taste difference is super obvious. E.g. it's clearly sweeter in Sweden than Germany. That could just be a difference in carbonation though.

Also, for the zero calorie drinks the sweeteners used vary.
I think there's a problem with this model however. When the highest bidder wins, consumers and advertisers can lose, big.

I understand how DDG has to say this is the best and smartest way to do things because they have to live with their promise of not creeping on their visitors - so they can't use the same analytics that someone like Google has. It's just marketing.

But the ads that go to the top should be the most valuable, not necessarily go to the buyer with the deepest pockets.

I suppose you could say "car" ads cost $x per click, and then let all advertisers rotate, but that's not helpful either. You could measure which one gets clicked the most and have it move to the top, but that can be gamed. If you had any way of knowing how long someone spends on the advertised websites, or base it off of social media reviews or allow consumers with verified accounts to rate ads, that might work better.

I don't know, I just can't trust an ad format where I know the top click just spends the most money.
Insults, accusations and a strident tone. Those are uncivil. In case you didn't know what that word means. See, I can do it too!
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Not nonsense. Google isn't a search company. It's an advertising company.
Dang, this link was greyed out for me when I had not previously clicked on it. FYI.
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A few weeks ago a court in Sweden decided on a defamation case where a person had used the N word aimed at an prosecutor. The judges found that the accused was not guilty because culture has shifted and now it is the person saying the N word that looses reputation in public eye and not the person on the receiving end. Basically they proclaimed cultural victory in favor of the progressive culture.
Hahaha good point. I didn't even think about that. Jesus.
Well HSBC ( Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation ) was created by the british after the opium wars to launder opium money out of china to the west. If any bank is adept at procuring drug money, it's HSBC.

It's a shame how little we are taught about the opium wars in the US. It fundamentally changed the world. Some historians describe it as the greatest wealth transfer in human history. The capital extracted from china is what funded some of the largest banks in the world today, the industrial revolution in the US/britain and political dynasties well into the 20th century.

Of course it left china in shambles, but the opium trade was the true gold rush of the 19th century.

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/28/opinion/the-opium-war-s-s...
I’ll agree that motorcycle use drops off dramatically during the winter in WA. I did a gig at a large coffee comapny’s corporate HQ, and in the summer motorcycle parking was packed and finding a space could be difficult. In winter, there were days I’d be the only bike.

But one does not have to get soaked. It’ll take $1000 worth of gear, but I arrive bone-dry every day. Aerostich Darien, good boots, decent gloves. Finding a place to hang the dripping gear when you get there can be a problem.

In the end, gear or not, as what some consider to be a “hard-core” rider I will say it’s still easier to toss the bag in the car and turn the key on a rainy day. Which wraps us around to what I take to be your point: for all-round use and convenience in all conditions, it’s hard to beat a car. Unless one lives close to work in southern California, there are plenty of scenarios where one better be “dedicated to the cause” to use alternate transportation year-round.
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I am not sure what to think about this. What does porn have to do with gender? I suppose some women like porn, as well as some men do. Regardless, why would you display porn at an event that does not have any direct connection to it?
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Just because DDG makes use of the Bing API doesn’t mean that DDG users are being tracked by Bing.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18318788
> When the community revolts against it's own 'benevolent dictator for life' for wanting to better the language specification... It's most likely headed for doom.

That's Python's biggest strength. If you want a bug fixed or feature added to javascript, you need to pay $20M to join ECMA or whatever. If you want the same in Python you just post on the mailing list and argue your case. You might not win, but you're at least guaranteed your day in court. That's the most valuable 'feature' of the Python ecosystem, even if it gets a little heated at times.
> I don't know, I just can't trust an ad format where I know the top click just spends the most money.

Why? That's exactly how it works every where else: Radio, TV, Billboards. If two people want the same spot, the person who ponies up more money gets the spot.
Thanks for your interest!

It is indeed stored on an Edsu server. The data format is trivial and completely specified, so switching providers should be straightforward (an Edsu app to do the data transfer would be easy to write, and I plan on writing one). If you're using your own domain (which is encouraged), from there you'd just update an A record to complete the transition, if not, you'd set up a transparent redirect on your old host to keep all your old links/permissions alive.

It's pretty old school in that if your provider loses a server and they're not doing replication/backups then there can be data loss. If they are, then a failover should work fine, with minimal loss and no corruption (the important stuff is atomic).

With localStorage, how it's used is up to the app (generally it'd only be used for keeping a token and maybe a block cache), so I wouldn't expect a loss of that to matter in most cases.
I'm not sure why they're still doing the WoS. The goal to raise security awareness among attendees seems to have been achieved or obviated. Now it just seems like a game where people try to put funny, pornographic, or commercial images up. Expenses are up, benefits are down, where's the end point? I even think a case could be made that they're encouraging the display of porn by turning it into this sort of cat-and-mouse game.