skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently living this lifestyle. Luckily there's a set of level 2 chargers in a nearby parking garage that don't see heavy use, so I just charge there.

But I still have to pay a premium, and walk half a mile there and back, so it's not exactly as hassle free as just plugging in when I get home. Also need to plan ahead significantly if I'm driving anywhere far.
Interesting that you mention the difficult problems being around CI/CD and operations. I had to get our Python application’s CI/CD pipeline off the ground and it was much harder than it would have been in Go, for example. Notably, figuring out how to manage dependencies and run tests in a way that was reasonably performant was a massive challenge. We made the mistake of using pipenv, but downloading dependencies took half an hour. We should use something like Bazel to solve those problems, but it doesn’t support Python3 (allegedly some folks have hacked things together to get it working, but I haven’t managed to reproduce it). Further, packing dependencies into a lambda function is tough because Python libs are often bloated and static analysis tools are lacking, making it hard to trim the tree. I’m sure they’re are solutions, but they’re hard to find relative to Go. Not sure about Java or other languages.
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The ratio doesn't count for the planet. Only the total impact. Having "less impact per unit of resource" doesn't help when resources are exhausted.
Would this be an example of a bug that could have been detected with contract-style testing?

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ContractTest.html
Is this just another example of Skeuomorphism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

I can see where this would drive adoption. From the user standpoint, familiarity is a selling point. The more the electric car can be seen as a drop in replacement to the internal combustion vehicle, the less the potential buyer has to consider. If the Tesla were steered by two sticks instead of a steering wheel, it probably wouldn't ever appeal to more than the enthusiast.
I've also heard a similar story of a Finnish man who got a ticket in the UK, and on closer inspection found his name on the ticket listed as Mr. Ajokortti Körkort. Thats "driver's licence", first in Finnish, then Swedish, and is written at the top of the driver's license card.

That said, I find these stories a little hard to credit, since you'd expect police officers in the EU to be fairly familiar with the standard EU driver's license layout.
When I visited Thailand the tour guide said "Don't go around talking about how cheap things are because 1) it's priced for the locals who don't make as much as you do and 2) it may imply that you think they're inferior to you".
And of course it was still the first thing many people said, chuckling with glee...
There are good reasons why those early Leafs are so cheap. Namely battery packs that lose effectiveness very quickly due to lack of cooling. Stay away.
Maybe the PNW is different, but there are chargers everywhere here. Charge during work, while you shop, etc.

Charging will be an incentive or even an expectation. Imagine if your employer said, "We'll fill your tank with gas while you work", people would love that perk. Having free or subsidized charging at work seems like an inevitability to me.
Sounds like we need a new search engine, a better search engine. One that returns the things you're actually searching for.
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Roundabouts are making a comeback.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-03/rounda...
Being a "high school hacker" myself, I'd like to offer a slightly less dreary perspective.

Some time back, I found multiple critical vulnerabilities in the most used school database system in the Czech Republic. The whole software is a mishmash of native Windows apps in Delphi and Visual FoxPro and an ASP.NET web interface built in a combination of VB, C# and WebForms. The desktop apps access MS SQL Server directly and security seems to have been done by a very uninformed person (the functionality is only a little better).

I first told my school's network admin, who contacted the developers, who fixed the issues relatively quickly. Everything went relatively smoothly for me, but I know this depends mainly on the individual people involved.
With how these systems seem to be written, absolutely.
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Cloudflare is hardly an obscure service. I'm confident that Google's search quality team is aware that Cloudflare exists, and that they have taken steps to avoid penalizing sites for using it.
It could compile two versions of every function on demand, but there's no need to (although it could be an implementation choice). AFAIK, every compiler in the world already compiles functions into state machines that are suitable for delimited continuations. What would the other version be for?
The sale of location data, and the utter insecurity of APIs (eg, no enforcement of consent requirements, simply passing the paper trail obligation them through several layers of corporate agreement) really aught to be considered a national security issue at this point.

With enough money, an organization can monitor the movements of political opponents. Not just the politician, but their entire staff. This can fuel further vectors of attack in turn.
You can have a look at the calculations if you'd like. There's a deceptively high amount of emissions with jet kerosene, even with the planes loaded up.

https://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx
Also the Moon landing was at least as much defense spending as it was science spending. The Soviets derived a lot of national pride from holding all the major space achievements and beating them had great propaganda value. Also without knowing how useful the moon would be it was deemed unacceptable to risk the Soviets gaining a foothold, exploiting all its resources and defending it as their territory.
There was a time when I was renting a room in a house in East Oakland. The home owners had a traffic cone, and I used one of those cable-covers to cross the sidewalk. I never had a problem, other than overhearing a young woman who lived next door call me, "That douchebag with the electric car."
I do buy they best eggs I can find.

I'm not a huge fan of garlic in eggs, but I do like onions and scallions.
Yes. I actually do. People have been saying communist can’t survive, but look what China has achieved and continues to achieve. It’s scary but saying dictatorships can’t survive dismisses any possible understanding that it might.
Might seem cliche (?) but Python.

Ignore all the java lipstick that went on after PHP5; PHP doesnt work like a static language and C#/Java really quite different.

Python fits the mental model of PHP far more closely, in that everything you expect to be able to do easily (dynamic dispatch, OO, closures, etc.) are easy. And everything hard (mixins, metaprogramming, etc.) is about as hard.

Most things are easier.

C# may seem more "grown up". From a PHP-culture perspective "Java OO" is grown up, and "procedural C" is babyish. That has more to do with PHP3 vs PHP5 than either Java or C. The latter of which, as with python, includes the best programmers in the world.

From a web job-market perspective I can't say. I got into data science a few years ago, and haven't much contact since. C# may make more sense; it would have back when I was in the area.
why cryptocurrencies?
Workplaces need to install solar panels and chargers for electric cars. A large percentage of cars are parked for 7-8 hours at work and 8-10 hours at home. Charging car batteries with solar energy in the afternoon is the most optimal way to decrease carbon use as charging at home at night means you are using the most carbon intensive electricity.
Roundabouts seem to bypass American NIH and get straight to our native anti-intellectualism. Probably the most common comment I hear from people encountering them for the first time is that they are too hard to figure out. To be fair, signage can be very poor, but still.
Thru-hiking is also as popular as ever.
Our reputation is pretty damn solid - that's what makes this even more perplexing.
The folks at Examine.com should also analyze what inbound links they have scattered on the web.

An easy way to sink your competition is to place their links on shady websites. It's common SEO practice.
Thanks for your question. Indeed, ipdata is a competitor. We have published a recent blog post that compares them with our solution:

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As a summary, you get responses in less time (our API is at least twice faster), more data points (company name, domain, IP type, security field is_cloud_provider). Our client libraries have support for caching. We provide a dashboard to check your usage and edit settings. Last but not least, you pay only for what you use lookup by lookup!
If someone can't do FizzBuzz, I'm not going to waste an hour interviewing. I get a surprising number of non new-college grads failing to do it.
Just limit tourist visas to a level that's comfortable? It just becomes a simple wait if you want to see a place. No different to waiting in a queue to go inside any attraction. And maybe invest tourism dollars to conservation of these places/landmarks?
Based on the man page it captures the 'screen' for all monitors unless otherwise constrained by options.
Oh damn - will check into that.

With that said - we've been using CF since April or May. The hits happened well before.
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To me, reading examples in a syntax I’m familiar in helps me much more than reading them in a language where the concept might be elegant to express, but hard for me to get into.

I think it’d be best to include examples in a number of languages with a lanugage selector, actually. That way, people who are fluent in functional languages can read that version, and others can read the one they are more fluent in.
Much of this kind of thing is written up in pretty terribly-written documents that come from government/law enforcement. Here's [0] a report I helped to put together which circles around some of these issues.

[0]: https://ocean.csis.org/spotlights/illuminating-the-south-chi...
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> ... Perl existed; nobody thought of it as a real interpreter that could be used to construct complicated things any more than Awk was ...

I can't help but to gently interject here. By 1997, I'd been programming for some time, and there certainly were people who consider Perl suitable for programming in the large, and there were certainly big projects so written.

While I disagree with the specific word 'nobody', I agree with the sentiment: Perl was widely considered to be only useful for 'small' things at the time. Widely, but not exclusively.
I mostly wanted to point out that baseball cards are a natural and historical point of comparison, but I agree that loot boxes are have moved past their predecessors. They've rolled together the tactics of CCGs, MMOs, and casinos into something thoroughly unholy.

From CCGs and even baseball cards, we obviously get artificial rarity and the basic Skinner box experience. From MMOs, we get scheduled rewards to draw players back, player-bound prizes that can't go to an aftermarket like cards, and unconstrained on-screen purchasing. From gambling, we get secondary currencies for fluid spending, the lights-and-sounds opening experience designed to make bad outcomes feel rewarding, almost-got-it visuals like a one-off reel, and banned-in-casinos tactics like scheduling wins based on money spent.

The results are genuinely alarming. I used to think these fears were overblown and 'whales' were mostly people with spare cash, but then I started to see kids interacting with freemium games. It's a distillation of decades of cash-extraction tactics, aimed at children or at distracted adults, and delivered by a vector that's constantly accessible. Honestly, it's one of the best arguments I've seen that people can be systematically harmed by access to products even without physical addiction or health damage.
The PHP base is huge, I've known many good PHP developers who prefer stricter implementations, but work with PHP because they get paid to, and because they know the language and libraries end up using it for new projects. This proposal provides a gradual migration path for those users, and makes adoption a lot more likely.
While there are better practices and worse practices, there's also just a tradeoff between convenience and how thoroughly identity is vetted.

Imagine you forgot your 15 digit randomized password to Google and their response was either a shrug or a requirement to come to an office in Mountain View with multiple forms of government ID between the hours of 9-5 weekdays. (And 2FA doesn't change the basic equation because smartphones, keys, and one-time pads can all be lost.)

That's a somewhat nonsensical extreme example obviously but using physical mail to addresses of record and things like that have often been used to enhance security for certain types of reactions. You're a digital nomad, are just traveling, just moved and didn't update records, or are actually homeless? Too bad.

And this is in a country where pretty much any sort of Voter ID law is controversial because they do disenfranchise many voters.
I don't have a garage, and the work charger charges by the hour.

So if one has an EV, and it doesn't charge quickly, you'll be dinged through the nose.

Had the charger been charging for the kwh + a margin, then sure. But as is, EVs are off the table for me.
> Nobody likes state run agencies and everyone loves defunding them.

I think you've hit the nail on the head. Ever since Saint Reagan said, "Government isn't the solution to our problem; government is the problem," people believe that any sort of dedicated government oversight is "bad." But the reality is, unless you carve out an agency/committee/trust to manage long-term projects, the oversight for it falls to the whims of whoever happens to be in office at the time.
> "If the participants are told exactly what is being measured, do the results stay the same?" If the answer is "No" you should question the validity of the study.

What is your basis for your assertion? This does not match with what I understand about experimental design.
Where i am from the ticket is issued to the vehicle owner, doesn't matter who was driving. On the plus side it means that you can get a photoradar ticket for driving 300km/h and not lose your licence, just pay the fine.

P.S. If the driver must be recognized does it mean that motorcyclists are exempt from photoradar fines?
Yeah, that's the point. Python doesn't have it. It'd be better if it did.
Well, most comparable (and equally healthy) greens are 1/2 to 1/5 the price.
The article is about how people can't charge while they are at sleep. There's going to be a huge portion of people who can't charge at work. I guess you have to charge at groceries, which you'll need to go to every day. Though the grocery store will need to be dramatically refitted to support that, and will need to justify having a power grid the size of their parking lot increasing their power bill just because it's convenient for people. It's hard to justify why a grocery store would want to do that.
I've done a little experimenting and found that the best results for me come with the eggs well cooked on one side (with small browned areas) and runny/custardy on the other side. I fold it so the runny part is in the middle.
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To be fair, blocking the sidewalk with your car is pretty much the definition of a jerk move.
Do you buy their guides or use it to individually research compounds?

It doesn't appear to be much different than other health websites, except they sell guides, which may change the incentive structure away from marketing and towards research.
Smart piece of price anchoring from the budget airline Transavia
Right on! Was just driving Oakland to Sacramento last week and lamenting the fact there isn’t a semi-high speed train tracking the freeways all the way out there. So much of our exurban sprawl puts people on 2 hour commutes along that route, seems like a perfect candidate for an incremental rail system.
Maybe? It's too early to tell. So far they've survived that way, but they haven't been a first-world economy for very long.
+1 for this book. Such a pleasure to read and to work through the samples.
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I've been at some tournaments where a couple of the kids had the last name "Bye". They picked up a fair number of forfeits during the season.
Now you can use Android phones, rather than passwords, to log into Google
That's right. All my neighbors use the excess solar power during the summer, and during the winter I use more grid power than I create. I get credits in the summer and use them up during the winter.

A giant leap in solar efficiency doesn't solve the storage problem, and the storage problem doesn't need a magic physics solution, just large scale heads down engineering. My point is: solar is efficient enough now, and a sound economic choice. I make enough power in a year just with my roof for my house and car. I do need a storage solution to do power leveling, which is what I use the grid for now.
I've never hit any paywall on Medium. But I'm also running an ad blocker, so maybe that's why?
Sure, and the point is that every older generation complains about an upsurge of this behavior in the younger generation.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20171003-proof-that-peo...

> “We defy anyone who goes about with his eyes open to deny that there is, as never before, an attitude on the part of young folk which is best described as grossly thoughtless, rude, and utterly selfish.” - 1925

> “Parents themselves were often the cause of many difficulties. They frequently failed in their obvious duty to teach self-control and discipline to their own children.” - 1938

> “They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.” - 4th Century BC
Hopefully one day flow batteries [1] will be efficient enough where you can pull into an electrolyte station and swap out your discharged (liquid) electrolyte for charged electrolyte.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
That's a great question. Unlike with traditional payment platforms (Stripe, Paypal, etc.), we pay no fees for transactions made with crypto currencies. As a consequence, we offer 3% more tokens to our customers for the same price!
A friend of mine went to an African safari guided tour, lead by a professional, on a truck. It was extremely clear that everyone had to stay on the truck because wild lions don't give a fuck about the whole "murder is illegal" thing. From what they told me, halfway through someone on the tour noticed a rhino, and without telling anyone jumped off and started running toward it with a file to try to get some rhino horn powder (they had missed the memo that rhinos are not exactly gentle creatures) and almost got themselves killed as the guide screamed for them to get the hell back. Supposedly when they finally listened, they came back explaining they just wanted to file down a little bit of the horns without hurting the rhino.

Some people are seriously self centered.
> the people in charge of spending infrastructure money are not really incentivized to be careful

The citizens are the only ones who would have such incentives. They're paying for it & they're using it. They aren't supposed to be piggy banks to jiggle to pay for things, they should also be involved in what gets paid for and how. Expecting a bureaucracy to be efficient is like expecting a monopoly to be fair, so the citizenry needs to be more engaged.
Are you suggesting that studies or papers which have been published more recently are automatically more correct? I think that's an incredulous statement and suggests a recency bias in your line of thinking.

Dansgaard was the guy who discovered that isotopes in ice cores could be used to measure past climates.

In particular, when we are discussing climatic events from 300, 1000, and many millennia ago, these events have ice core records that have not changed. And unless you have evidence of Dansgaard's faulty measurements of said isotopes, you've got to accept this as scientific fact:

The climate has warmed as much as 8 degrees Celsius in less than 40 years in the prehistoric past.

See Dansgaard–Oeschger event:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dansgaard–Oeschger_event

See "Ice-core evidence of abrupt climate changes" (2000) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC34297/
That thing was the worst product in history. It was not a promotion for a product, but a product in itself, which I consider to be fundamentally different things.
One or two try/except is usually fine, but when you are nesting 3+ more try/except with the same error, the code becomes quickly unreadable.

Often you would be better off having a first look at the input to figure out which case you should tackle, decompose the nested try/excepts into separate function or at the very least keep it to two nested levels.
And, as an entity more powerful than any living thing on this planet (with the power to kill or support nearly any online business), they owe the world quite a bit of fairness: Otherwise, they can watch as their search business drops to nothing overnight. Facebook and Amazon and most B2Bs have quite a bit of lock in. But google, if they piss everyone off, we'll we're just one tab away from using something else: and once people realize that something else is equal or better, it's all over for G.

I switched to duck duck go a few months ago for search and the cost of switching was Zero.
My state doesn't allow for private companies to automatically mail you a ticket but requires an officer pull you over and cite you.
It didn't seem to work on my tablet (samsung tab, few years old).
Using CDN doesn't guarantee that users requests will hit your server only once.
When me and my gf got pregnant I was part of a startup and was contributing to random hacking groups for burning man, music festivals, etc.

What happened was that I stopped doing anything that did not pay me and started working all my hours on the most profitable and constant stream of work (in my case a 20 hours a week gig for $20usd an hour while working from Colombia where minimum wage was $2 usd an hour at the time). In my young mind this was the equivalent of kind of failing: not doing the most interesting stuff and just going for the money.

But this worked out pretty well, all of the sudden the Django skills that I had got in 2007 doing not for profit projects were in full demand in Enterprise by 2012 and onwards and I got to $60, $80, $100, $120 usd an hour as I did more specific projects for bigger clients.

Short version: Go for the boring stable job because the most important thing is providing roof and food for your family. It will work out, God permitting.
Totally disagree. In fact, institutional investors have for a long time resisted ESG considérations, and those who have adopted sustainable or responsible investment guidelines do so after a pretty thorough analysis of the investment risk/return impacts - understanding full well the potential impact on returns and communicating the implications to their stakeholders (pensioners, plan members).
With fleet maintenance, and other economies of scale it can be cheaper to meet those standards
That's the whole joke. Apple pushes E2E in advertising but fails to mention how by default it's all """backed up""" in their cloud where they hold the keys. It's ridiculous.