skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we all say "we're doomed, there's nothing to do but think of excuses" then we're _definitely_ doomed. (We might be doomed regardless, but who knows?).

So instead of worrying about whether it's a lost cause, you can start doing something.

1. In US, at least, local government has quite a lot of power over transportation policy and zoning, both of which have a large impact on carbon emissions. Impacting local government is a lot easier than national government, and eventually it percolates upwards. There are local groups pushing for moving away from cars, and for switching to green energy, and for better building codes (e.g. requiring net zero). Join them.

2. Support politicians who support doing something (local or national) with money and time.

3. Support activists organizations who are trying to shift things (e.g. Sunshine Movement in the US) with money and time.

Don't have time? You can negotiate a 4-day workweek (https://codewithoutrules.com/2019/01/25/4-day-workweek-easy-...).
I drive 100 miles a day, and park away from my house but could still have an electric car, if only my workplace installed chargers. Isn't that the answer? I work on an industrial estate with 450v (minimum) 3 phase power in every building. There is a huge amount of flat roof space for solar too.
it also helps investors (who held the stock) in that share values go up a little bit, tax-deferred.
Yea, exactly. The bill leaves this part of it in a grey area. What are "reasonable" costs that an HOA can impose? Getting a lawyer involved would have been very costly. I eventually sold the stupid place and moved on.
> I wrote up a list of "things I wish python would fix but I think probably never will"

What else is on your list? I'd be interested to see what other parts of Python you would wish to change.
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If I recall well, Trump immediately undermined this report. 'cause he knows best.
Sure, happy to oblige. I usually add the disclaimer to my posts, but forgot to add it here. Added to my HN profile as well. Thanks for keeping me honest! If you refer to my comment history, I don't believe I've ever mentioned "paid short sellers".

Disclaimer: TSLA investor, Model S/X owner. If I ask you to buy a Tesla, it is not to help my stock, but to help move the world to electric transportation faster. If you find a better EV product, I encourage you to buy it regardless of manufacturer. I will hold my Tesla stock all the way to zero, and climate change keeps me up at night (seriously, it's terrifying; Rome is burning and the band plays on). Any sources I cite regarding Tesla have been and will continue to be from reputable online publications.
If you don't live in Auckland, your reckon your taxes are being spent in Auckland on expensive roading projects, and you can see that work isn't getting done on your local roading problems.

Regardless of how optimal for the nation that might be, or even if everyone is actually better off, you can easily end up with many unhappy people outside of Auckland (a political problem).

Edit: strongtowns on cost/benefit analysis (half good, half not): https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2010/12/21/best-of-blog-...
Something like this image, but with your slogan/sign on it?

https://imgur.com/UgEs6va
Addition: This weekend's mosque shooter in Norway is reportedly a 21 year old (NOK) millionaire. Fortunately, his antisocial behavior was finally corrected when he got a beatdown by a 65 year old. It would surely have been better for him and everyone else if he was more gently corrected and put on a better path long ago by family, friends, and society--someone tried to notify Norwegian security police but they didn't take it seriously, alas.
In Stuttgart, Germany, Daimler piloted a rent-by-the-minute electric car program (which is proliferating with normal petrol cars elsewhere, called Car2Go). The Smart ForTwos that they use are all electric, and the cable is bolted into the trunk of the car, so it takes its cable with it. The charging unit and car's "fuel port" are both receptive sides of the connection, and both the car and the charging station (the city installed them so anyone with the right cables can use them) has a lock that keeps the cable from getting removed when it's in use.

Works pretty well and this sort of model would likely work fine, with you keeping your cable yourself.
Not really. As an investor you get more tax-flexibility with buybacks, since you can decide when you sell your stock. Lets you defer taxes, unlike dividends, which get taxed even when you reinvest them.
I'll confess that my last visit was in 2015, but I've never felt crowded there during my many visits. And of course, a "zero limits" model is not what anyone wants, nor what I'm advocating.
PEGs are already so simple and easy to use that as a practical matter you don't gain that much from relying on packrat parsing. LPeg, the standard PEG library in Lua, doesn't implement packrat and I don't recall anybody ever complaining about that. In fact, LPeg provides exceptionally useful extensions, like match-time captures, that I think might be incompatible with packrat memoization. Those features make it possible to write grammars for things like ASN.1 BER (with a TLV syntax), which otherwise would be impossible (or at least impractical) for PEGs to parse.
https://serverguy.com/case-study/cloudflare-seo/ . It is well known in the SEO arena that your neighbors affect your SERPS. Cloudflare has an open policy on who they allow on their service where AWS, Akmai, Fastly, etc have acceptable use policies banning services like online gambling, online pharmancies, etc.

Google doesn't release any information about how they rank sites but it is reasonable to assume there is a network/IP reputation score similar to what email providers use to combat spam.
A while ago I saw this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY is about "The first 20 hours" and there is a book as well. It's surprising how much could you can learn in just 20 hours. You can't be an expert by doing so little but you can learn some tricks for fun.
Insurance is for the victims, not the perpetrators who can just declare bankruptcy and go work for their brother's replacement company.
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There is, of course, a potential conflict of interest anytime an investor gives advice about other investors. But not as much as you'd think, when the investors specialize in different stages.

The rounds typically go:

seed - angel - series A - series B - series C ...

YC only does seed and series B onwards, so it can give unbiased advice about angel and series A. By the time a startup is doing series B, they should have in-house experts.
They did that in Madison WI when Uber first showed up. The police would call an Uber, complete a trip, and issue them a citation when the trip was complete.
Edited: took a comment out about France which I realized was baiting some people the wrong way.
Somewhat surprisingly, the main PHP implementation has made huge performance improvements since Hack was released in 2014, and has actually become one of the fastest mainstream scripting languages.

Speed + ubiquity in shared hosting environments + a huge corpus of existing frameworks and code make it pretty attractive for web applications, especially of the CRUD/CMS variety.
It doesn’t help when those rules result in you getting a ticket for going through a red light 0.1s after it turned red.

And not because you were driving, but because you let someone else borrow your car.

Or you end up in some bureaucratic black hole where the law says you can go to either of these 2 agencies for a service, and both agencies (in)directly tell you to go to the other.
Case in point: Pandas, the foundation of data programming in Python, does not provide the Series or DataFrame (that's a table) types in a way that MyPy can use.
It's mentioned elsewhere in the comments.

> This issue will hopefully be transient; once charging speed is comparable to filling your ICE vehicle with fuel.

> Until then, the lack of fast public chargers combined with the relative slowness of charging makes this a major downgrade from ICE.

In other words, the only reason most people are OK with this one attribute of EVs that is inferior to ICE is the fact that they can charge at home (and/or work.) But there are plenty of people that do not fit into that category.
Filling your car at the gas station is a five minute stop on the way home. Filing your electric car is at least an hour if you have a DC fast charger and that gets you only 80% full. To get totally full, it would take a multi-hour stop.
I was vaguely familiar with all the concepts in this, but I hadn't been exposed to a clear explanation in laymen's terms before. This makes a lot of sense to me now. Thanks!
I live in a high rise apartment with three shared level 2 chargers in the garage. I would say there are ~10 EVs in the building and sharing the chargers has never been an issue. It's like shared laundry; you really only need it once a week or so for a few hours. Once it's easy to make people pay for electricity, adding lots of chargers will be a no-brainer for garage owners.
Alexander Rhatushnyak -- the first, second, third and fourth winner of the Hutter prize -- is the main contributor to JPEG XL lossless mode. Perhaps we all will eventually get practical benefit from his ability to build amazing compression solutions.
The Target in my neighborhood has like 10-20 charging stations. Its packed to the brim with Teslas with even a waiting line at times. I'm not sure if they are people trying to save money or apartment dwellers.
Special characters in passwords were highly recommended when rainbow tables were an effective way to attack password hashes. See this old Coding Horror blogpost for an idea what it was like at the time: https://blog.codinghorror.com/rainbow-hash-cracking/

Salted hashes have made rainbow tables less effective. Password managers have made single-use passwords more tenable.

Not knowing how a system will store my password, I still prefer to include special characters where available. Anecdotally, I tend to see the systems that are most averse to special characters are also strict about character limits, so simply increasing password length is not possible.
Not in the US. Section 230 gives Google civil immunity (for any information provided by another information content provider), and even without it, they'd be protected by the First Amendment.
I'm pretty disappointed by this. I definitely trust what I see a lot more when I see the legal entity name in the URL through an EV cert. I don't really understand why it's being removed. It's more difficult to get an EV cert because of the additional legal process, and it makes it clear to the user that the website is run by that entity, which is exactly what we want...

With Google removing https:// from the URL and EV being gone, I don't even know what to trust anymore.
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Based on the description in the article, it's a separate system that is actually entering "NULL" in the license plate string field, probably for things like red light camera violations. Chances are it's a human doing this according to a procedure or the system is setup to require entry of some text in the field, so they have to enter something and opted for "NULL" if the actual plate is unreadable / unreliable / not present. This is unfortunately how a lot of things in the real world work, especially on legacy systems.
Still, I think the fact that the range goes from $0 to $400k for degreed programs in the US means that assigning a particular number is fairly meaningless.
Why are we all paying a tax to credit card companies?
>you suggested 50 miles a day

/s/suggested/calculated using data provided by parent comment/
Yes it was wrong, which will become clear if you spend any time with the people who were involved. Which you can very much still do, because the coalitions and communities formed during that movement are still active today, struggling against the rise of fascism in the US.
They don't have the equivalent of the ADA?
That used to be how the USA worked.
isn’t this one of the classic reasons monopolies are bad?

[edit]
please let me clarify the reason i wrote the above is because examine.com basically has no recourse but to appeal to google since they are basically a monopoly in search results, which is one of the reasons people consider a monopoly to be bad... they can’t just “pay more to bing” and get all their lost traffic back can they?
I never understood this one. It doesn’t even take me any extra time to do it.
Any of them can constitute an offer. The point is that they don't automatically constitute an offer.

For there to be a contract there needs to be a meeting of minds. To rely on a unilateral offer then, the terms stated needs to be such that there is no need for negotiating unstated terms - e.g. the other side has stated a sufficiently complete set of terms so that it is only down to accepting or rejecting it on your side.

When an offer is made in an open ended way like that, the court points out that in past cases leaving out things like what will happen if you run out of stock makes the "offer" sufficiently indeterminate that it is not reasonable to consider it binding. You can solve that by adding a statement such as "first come, first serve" or "as long as stocks last" or similar. The point being that until you have confirmed that there is an actual intent to offer you something, whether you specifically or any taker without qualification, you should not rely on an ad as a guarantee of an offer, but as a statement of a willingness to issue an offer or accept an offer, and if you need a definite offer you will need to contact the entity stating the intent and obtain a clear offer.

> What would a consumer have to verify when they are placing an order to ensure they are not submitting to a practical joke?

That there was an actual intent to enter into a binding agreement.

In this case, the catalog set out specific terms and may well have qualified as an offer for the other items that were mentioned in it, assuming they had suitably specific language. When then seeing there was no jet listed the step to take would have been to contact Pepsico and ask for a confirmation that there was an offer prior to relying on it. At which point you'd have been told no.

> I'm not sure how this individual came up with 7,000,000 pepsis worth of points; maybe that's not worth a harrier jet, but surely this individual wouldn't have bothered gathering them if not for the commercial.

He sent a check. He didn't bother gathering them. The rules allowed him to buy them for 10 cents per point.
This was treated by the court as him making an offer, and Pepsico rejecting his offer by not stating any acceptance of the order form and not cashing his check, given that Pepsico had not made an offer in advance, so sending back an order for with extra stuff written on it and a check could not constitute accepting an offer.

If he had actually spent a lot of time or money on this prior to suing I'd have been slightly more sympathetic, but he kept his money until he started burning it on lawyers.
Because freedom. Try it, it's wonderful.
Show this thread to your wife then and see what she thinks.
>How many two-pizza teams would you have to have before you start having duplication of effort — or schizophrenic implementation of differing interpretations of standards?

Steve Yegge wrote a rant on Amazon[1] which paints a different picture of Amazon documentation culture inside the company.

Even though they have a large number of teams, they seem to have well defined standard for API Documentation as far as my understanding.

[1] https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
The rise in the popularity of self-checkout is shown to also spike incidents of shop lifting from people who were unlikely to shop lift given that defrauding a machine can feel quite different to defrauding... well, a person. With all the discussion on HN about Amazon Go and shops using CV to handle self checkout, thought this would be a great share.
Recent college grads couch surfing and trying to make a career of blogging/youtubing? Are we counting the beach/ski bum sort? Migrant farm workers?

About 3% of the US workforce seems way high not to be including a bunch of stuff one wouldn't expect.
40% of american families can't even afford a $400 emergency. Most people live paycheck to paycheck, regardless of their income. Retirement funds are a HUGE problem here because 25% have ZERO saved. Zero. Not to mention the 1.5 trillion in education debt.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/pf/emergency-expenses-house...
> Don't worry, given the option between a citizenship in either I'd bet 99% of people would choose to live in the US instead of France.

To challenge your made-up statistic, I'd bet that isn't even true of Americans if they were offered a choice and a work permit for France.
Is the government recommendation of $25k/yr per child accurate? To answer this:

> Make a budget for next 2 years. This will show how much money you might actually need.

How much does one need for a child?
Can you explain what you mean by seeding?
Is "garage orphan" really a commonly used term? It sounds really weird & needlessly emotional to me.

Just saying "people without a garage" seems perfectly adequate to me & does not require manufacturing new terms.
Ohm is really a nice system — I’m using it to process text extracted from pdf documents.

Lots of regular expressions were used before and without control of the documents (which change over time) this kind of code was just unmanageably difficult to maintain.

Being able to use negative look ahead with lists of grammar symbols provides an incredibly large amount of power to resolve ambiguities and makes it relatively easy to arrive at an explainable grammar capable of handling “every sample we’ve seen so far drawn from an only partially observable language” ...
There should be a follow up article "Why I don't work for Julien Kervizic"
there was a good The Daily[0] on how the current administration plans to weaken this (mandatory) report. IIRC, for instance, projections are most dire after a certain timeframe (like 40 years). Subsequent reports just won't include those timeframes anymore.

[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/podcasts/the-daily/trump-...]
Charge while you go grocery shopping? While you're at work?
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Yet another reason the real answer to the climate crisis isn't EVs - it's public transit, bicycles, e-bikes, scooters, e-scooters, walking, etc. All these other modes are much lower impact on the environment than purchasing and operating an EV, much less an ICE.
Perhaps I should have added inverted commas to the 'Nigerian' bit also, I envisioned them getting tried in a western court.
Sure but I'm not talking about a vacation or retirement. But a choice to live your life in either. Just my own estimation, so take that FWIW

Not trying to trash them or start a flamewar. The French people and government do have a reputation in the Anglo world, probably equally as much as the US does in Europe. The country-side and cities are very nice there no doubt.
There's a good chance it's some text file in CSV or fixed-width format being shipped around.

JOHN,DOE,NULL,08-12-1983
JANE,DOE,FX9-80Z,01-23-1960
I switched from PERL & ColdFusion to PHP back in 2000 and stuck through every version up to 7 for web app development. I've built apps in both Python and C# (mostly game projects) but never got comfortable with either as a web development language.

It was only when I started working in Go a few years back that I was able to completely walk away from PHP. There is literally nothing I was doing with PHP that I can't do in a more satisfying way with Go and I like compiling everything into a single binary when I'm ready to deploy.
Agreed. Looking for typical costs like median or average (not atypical extremes).
Any time two or more different parties enter into any sort of business relationship, they need to spend tons of money on third-party service providers tracking who owns what. If DLT can reduce the cost of that by, say, 60 - 80% then that's a savings of several trillion dollars per year.

If you read a book about the impact that double entry accounting had on the world then I think it's easier to imagine all the ways that triple entry accounting (DLT) will transform the economy.
meh. try driving in India.
http://archive.is/qBHXl
I feel like this is still how it works. If something is unregulated, you can do what you want. It's just that we've added so many regulations for everything that pretty much nothing is allowed anymore without going through some kind of approval process.
Instead of having a trillion build steps, you write PHP right in the HTML.
Yes but none of those issues are fixed via extended validation of TLS certs. Extended validation was simply a cash grab and a human component to validating you are who you are beyond a domain name mismatch. EV process was the same as any other cert process, what ever company out there issues the EV was just doing extra leg work and making sure business registration paperwork was legit, etc. etc. It didn't make it more safe, it just added extra steps to validate ownership of a domain.

MITM TLS proxies and shady root CAs are and will continue to exist in the enterprise and for state actors for the foreseeable future. EV does not challenge this, in fact EV certs like any cert that's intercepted properly, the end user will never know that it happened.
You’re worried about keeping up appearances with a neighbor you never met? Call the local police it’s their job to sort that out. If your neighbor confronts you deny or avoid the question if it suites you. Respond with “Oh, you were the guy blocking the sidewalk.”
This article IMO describes the concepts and what they entail pretty well: https://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/the-master-and-slave-m...
A bolt vs a 3-series is probably the same situation as the detailed comparisons we've seen from limo operators comparing the Tesla Model S vs MB S-class, BMW 7-series, Lincoln Town car, etc.. In those comparisons the Tesla proved to be 1/5-1/4 the maintenance cost per 100,000 miles.

Nobody buys a BMW in the US for good value when you factor in maintenance costs & overall TCO. The only reason you buy one is cause you like the driving dynamics. That's a perfectly fine reason IMO.

It doesn't seem there are any limo operators who are going to operate a Bolt and rapidly drive it to 400k-500k miles to find out just how reliable it is. But I really suspect a Chevy could be less of a hassle to maintain than a Tesla.. since GM is a much more established manufacturer and has a long built out dealer/service network it's hard for me to believe it could be worse than Tesla.
It is certainly holding me back at the moment. I have allocated off-street parking under my apartment that is actually owned by us as part of the lease, but I doubt the building management will let me install a charger, and I don't think the law in the UK means I can force them to let me.

In London there are a few public chargers dotted around, but they are fairly infrequent. I don't have any data but it feels like there are perhaps 2 public on-street chargers for perhaps every 10 to 20 residential streets.

The nearest one to me is about a 15-20 minute walk away, and if I get there and it is full or broken, then what? Try the next charger that is 30-40 minutes walk away?! The contention ratio of homes to chargers is insane - it must be in the 500-1000:1 level (guessing)

There are however lampposts everywhere. There is some talk of adding charging points to lampposts but I think there are only very small-scale trials at the moment. If I could rely on every lamppost also being a charger then I'd buy an EV literally today.

Sadly, right now it feels like PHEVs are a more sensible option until public infrastructure catches up.
Does it work in app-extensions such as custom iOS Keyboards?